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Ind vs Nz: New Zealand's five wickets fell on the third day of the game, 400 runs needed to win
The second test match is being played between India and New Zealand at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. By the end of the third day's play in this match, New Zealand's team has scored 140 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in the second innings and they still have to score 400 runs to win, while India needs 5 wickets to win. Earlier, Team India scored 276 for 7 in the second innings and gave a total target of 540 runs to New Zealand to win. For New Zealand, Henry Nicholls remained unbeaten on 36 while Rachin Ravindra scored 2 runs.
New Zealand's second innings, Daryl Mitchell's half-century
India set New Zealand a target of 540 for victory in the Mumbai Test, in response to which the Kiwis lost their first wicket in the second innings as captain Tom Latham for 13 runs. Latham was dismissed leg before by Ashwin on the score of 6 runs. Ashwin gave the second blow to the Kiwi team and he got Will Young caught by Suryakumar Yadav for 20 runs. It was Ashwin who gave India the third success by dismissing Ross Taylor (6 runs). Daryl Mitchell was dismissed for 60 by Axar Patel, while Blundell was run out for zero without opening the account. On the third day of the game for India, R Ashwin took three wickets while Axar Patel took one wicket.
India's second innings, Mayank's fifty
India started the third day's play on a strong note. Mayank Agarwal and Cheteshwar Pujara looked quite dominant with the bat. Meanwhile, Mayank Agarwal, who scored 150 runs in the first innings, completed his half-century in 90 balls. However, he became Ajaz Patel's 11th victim of this match on a personal score of 62 runs. Will Young caught Mayank's catch. In the second innings, India got the second blow in the form of Cheteshwar Pujara, who was dismissed after scoring 47 runs. He was caught by Ejaz Patel at the hands of Ross Taylor. This is Ejaz's 12th wicket of the match.
In this match, another New Zealand bowler got the first wicket, which was the third wicket of India's second innings. Shubman Gill was caught by Tom Latham off Rachin Ravindra's delivery on a personal score of 47 runs. Earlier, Ejaz Patel got all the wickets. Ijaz got the 13th wicket of the match in the form of Shreyas Iyer, who was stumped on his delivery for 14 runs. In this way, India got the fourth blow in the second innings. Virat Kohli returned to the pavilion as India's fifth wicket, scoring 36 runs.
India got the sixth blow in the form of Wriddhiman Saha, who was caught by Kyle Jameson for 13 runs off Rachin Ravindra. Ajaz Patel gave New Zealand the seventh success in the second innings. Patel dismissed Jayant Yadav on a personal score of 6 runs and took the 14th wicket of the match. Axar Patel returned unbeaten on 41 off 26 balls.
Talking about this match, Indian team captain Virat Kohli won the toss and decided to bat in the rain-interrupted match. India scored 325 runs on the back of Mayank Agarwal's century and Axar Patel's half-century. At the same time, Ajaz Patel took all 10 wickets for New Zealand. However, New Zealand's team was bundled out for just 62 runs in their first innings. Only two batsmen could cross the double figure. At the same time, R Ashwin took 4, Mohammad Siraj took 3, Axar Patel took 2 and Jayant Yadav took one wicket. In this way India got a lead of 263 runs on the basis of first innings.

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Q: NetBeans : Trying to create a class file to work with another program Having trouble compiling these two files to run together.
I get a "can't find or load main class" error or a "erroneous tree" error.
Never asked for help on here before, hope this works :)
    package savingsaccount;

    import java.util.Scanner;

    public class SavingsAccount
    {

public static void main(String[] args)
{
    double begginingBalance, deposit, withdraw;
    int months;
    double monthlyRate;
    double plus = 0.0;
    double minus = 0.0;

    Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

    System.out.println("Please enter the balance at beggining of " +
            "accounting period.");
    begginingBalance = keyboard.nextDouble();

    System.out.println("Please enter number of months in current " +
            "accounting period.");
    months = keyboard.nextInt();

    System.out.println("Enter the annual interest rate.");
    monthlyRate = keyboard.nextDouble();

    a7main accounting = new a7main();

    for(int month = 1; month<=months; month++)
    {
        System.out.println("Enter the amount of deposits for month " +
                month + " : ");
        plus = keyboard.nextDouble();
        accounting.deposits(plus);

        System.out.println("Enter the amount of withdrawals for" +
                " month " + month + ": ");
        minus = keyboard.nextDouble();
        accounting.withdrawals(minus);

        accounting.interest(monthlyRate);
    }

    System.out.println("The account balance is: " +
            accounting.getBalance());

    System.out.println("The total amount of deposits is:" + plus);

    System.out.println("The total amount of withdrwals is: " + minus);

    System.out.println("The earned interest is: " +
            accounting.getRate());

    }

    }

HERE IS THE CLASS FILE
I am trying to use the methods in this file to calculate and hold the values from the other file.
public class a7main
{
private double totalBalance;
private double interestRate;

public a7main(double balance,double rate)
{
    totalBalance = balance;
    interestRate = rate;
}

public void deposits(double deposit)
{
    totalBalance = totalBalance+deposit;
}

public void withdrawals(double withdraw)
{
    totalBalance = totalBalance-withdraw;
}

public void interest(double rate)
{
    interestRate = totalBalance*rate;
}

public double getBalance()
{
    return totalBalance;
}

public double getRate()
{
    return interestRate;
}
}

A: @Alex Goad -

Add package name in a7main class

You have created parameterized constructor and no default constructor.
a7main accounting = new a7main();

The above line will look for default constructor like
public a7main(){
}

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What is the balanced equation for the equilibrium reaction where the aqueous bicarbonate ion, HCO3(aq); decomposes to form
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What is the balanced equation for the
equilibrium reaction where the aqueous
bicarbonate ion, HCO3(aq); decomposes to
form hydrogen ions, H,
(aq), and carbonate
ions, CO2 ?
Chemistry	Sapo 6 months 2021-07-26T08:43:10+00:00 2021-07-26T08:43:10+00:00	1 Answers 2 views 0
quangkhai
2021-07-26T08:44:50+00:00	July 26, 2021 at 8:44 am
Answer: A balanced equation for the equilibrium reaction where the aqueous bicarbonate ion, ; decomposes to form hydrogen ions, and carbonate ions, is .
A balanced chemical equation is defined as the equation which contains same number of atoms on both reactant and product side.
Hence, balanced equation for the equilibrium reaction where the aqueous bicarbonate ion, ; decomposes to form hydrogen ions, and carbonate ions, is as follows.
Here, number of atoms present on reactant side are as follows.
H = 1
Number of atoms present on product side are as follows.
Since, there are same number of atoms present on both reactant and product side. Therefore, this equation is balanced.
Thus, we can conclude that balanced equation for the equilibrium reaction where the aqueous bicarbonate ion, ; decomposes to form hydrogen ions, and carbonate ions, is .
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I'm about to embarrass myself. Again.
Several months back, I stumbled upon Pinterest. Though I try (hard) to limit myself, I cannot resist wandering to this site several times a day.
Daughter makes fun of me for my addiction. But then Son, Daughter, Family and Friends make fun of me for nearly everything I do and say, anyway. Without me, they would have no entertainment.
Anybody who knows Daughter understands that it isn't ONLY a problem for Daughter. It is a PROBLEM for everybody in the house when there is a spider 'sighting' and said spider disappears. (The lucky ones live elsewhere…) Son and I CANNOT LEAVE.
However, I cannot understand why people post some of the things they post…especially the negative thoughts. To me, it is cowardly. Why not speak face to face with those who anger you? Hurt your feelings? That way, both parties can share their feelings, maybe understand each other better and find a SOLUTION. Also, why put personal 'business' out there for public consumption?
Really, this is a good rule.
Though being impulsive is being human. And we are all guilty of saying and doing stupid things now and again. Just no way around it. And social media tools make it easier to do and say things we later regret!!
And this weeks favorite. Has me re-thinking the daily walks on the beach. Maybe I should go back to hiking in the woods???
Why do I enjoy Pinterest so much?
The best part is that it gives me a place to organize photos, insights, quotes, inspiring words, pictures, furniture, crafts and more–Anything that I want to reference at a later date.
It's where I go for a bit of inspiration, and often for a laugh.
Special Note: I tried to properly link photos to credit the source websites. Hopefully I was successful. Do let me know if I need to correct a link/photo.
At what point are our personal lives personal?
A couple of weeks ago, I hopped out of bed and walked into my bedroom door. Hard. The impact of my forehead and nose smashing into the door woke both of my kids up.
"Oh that was me I was up late doing homework and jumped into the shower and I didn't want to wake you up so I shut your door…I'M SO SORRY!" my daughter.
"Whaaa waassss thaaaa?" Mumbled my son, followed by more unintelligible nonsense before he rolled over and was back asleep.
My day started with a bang.
Did I post this on Facebook? Absolutely not.
Of course, I caught my daughter snickering several times before she left for school—at least she didn't laugh in my (rather sore) face.
Bad enough that she went to school and told her entire French class—and many others. There are those that say she walked into school still giggling—and that she was laughing so hard as to be crying while relaying the story to the French class. Small town. Everybody knows me.
Heck, maybe I should have posted?
This whole 'privacy' thing goes back to elementary school. My mom insisted that grades were personal. When report cards were handed out, I was to bring mine straight home. No sharing with other students. You might think me a poor student. But most of those grades were A's. In my family, grades were considered personal information. And because I made good grades, my mother would have considered it bragging—which to her was bad form.
Does ANYBODY go on Facebook to say they got a Rockin' good deal on a pair of shoes at their local thrift store? Or that they spent the morning balancing a checkbook—and that they can't cover their bills? How about to say that they got an appalling review at work? Or that their teenager is grounded for turning up incapacitated?
I cannot leave out my personal favorite: "Thank you so much (fill in the blank) for being the most wonderful (husband/wife/girlfriend/child…) I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!" When did we stop walking from the kitchen into the living room to share these sentiments directly??
Maybe I don't get it.
It seems to me that many people are boasting. A lot. And sharing mainly "Good News" or tidbits they believe might elevate others perception of the seemingly Perfect life they are documenting on Facebook.
Yet every time I decide I am done with Facebook, I login to find that a childhood friend has just gotten married, or welcomed a new baby—complete with pictures. And I go back to the happy memories of good times spent with that person. And I melt a little. I'm sincerely thrilled for them.
Tagged in a photo. At my deepest core, I am a private person. The idea that others can post photos of me violates some sort of personal code I've got.


Home is a place where you can embrace your inner talent. A place where you can do anything and everything. It's also a place where you're loved by your family. And they help you up when you fall. They turn your forwn upside down. That's what's important. It has memories in it, it is just a house with walls and rooms. But with them, they are full of happiness and kindness. A house is important because there are people who don't have a house. No shelter. And whithout shelter, people are weaker. They get cold or hot. Then they get sick. then they pass away. And then it hurts their families and siblings. They get depressed. That is for me, why I think a house is important in someone's life. Anyone else think that too?


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●Event: bauhaus imaginista. Moving Away: The Internationalist Architect, Moscow
Artists Work
Bauhaus in Russia
Tatiana Efrussi, Yuri Palmin
The following material was produced during the photographic workshop Bauhaus in Russia: Haunted houses, which took place in the framework of the exhibition bauhaus imaginista. Moving Away: The Internationalist Architect at the museum of contemporary art "Garage" in Moscow. The exhibition focuses on the life and work of the Bauhaus architects who moved to the Soviet Union in the 1930s to work on the large-scale construction projects that were part of the first-five-year plans and the problematics this story raises today. Hannes Meyer, the second director of the Baushaus, and the former students who accompanied him—including Konrad Püschel, Philipp Tolziner, Tibor Weiner, Antonín Urban and Béla Scheffler—became employees of Soviet design and planning institutes and studios. They designed standard and individual projects for furniture, housing, college buildings, universities, kindergartens, houses of culture, and produced plans for districts, settlements and regions throughout the USSSR.
Through an open-call we invited participants from several Russian cities to take part in the visual research on both the visible and invisible legacies of the "bauhauslers": the realized buildings that do not necessarily fit within our expectations of what constitutes a signature "Bauhaus style" and often recede into the fabric of the post-Soviet city, as well as the unrealized projects and the after-lives they attained within local mythology. Every participant received historic and geographic information to assist in deducing the object of documentation (see extracts below), and then chose her or his own approach to how these should be treated.
Tatiana Efrussi
Yuri Palmin
Photo: Kirill Stepanov, 2018.
City master plan (Hannes Meyer)
In 1933–1934 Hannes Meyer headed a brigade of the Moscow city-planning institute Giprogor, where he was employed at that time, to design a new capital for the Jewish Autonomous Region—the city of Birobidzhan. The majority of the project was never completed. The brigade first suggested to move the city center from a swampy low bank of the river Bira to a hilly area on the opposite bank, but for various reasons this never happened. However, one can observe that certain planning proposals did become realized in the city structure: by the end of the 1930s the station had been moved from its initial position and a park of culture and leisure on the semi-island had been developed.
Kirill Stepanov (Architect, architecture historian):
The term "Bauhaus" has long been used by Birobidzhan's local historians, guides and representatives of the city's small intellectual milieu, while Hannes Meyer has become an almost legendary figure. Love for the "beautiful word" and admiration for this exceptionally talented architect in part derives from our nostalgia for the unrealized project of building the first Jewish socialist city in modern history, and for the time when Birobidzhan was not only the geographic center of the Soviet Union, but was also central to world events. Today, however, there are very few material monuments documenting that era left in the city.
The Bauhaus architects involved in the design of the "Far East Zion" (Дальневосточного Сиона), in the 1930s worked on issues distant from the global agenda, such as building a new society or creating a new aesthetic paradigm. The paramount task was to provide workers with a means of subsistence and to bring water to their barracks. This is why half-ruined barracks and their inhabitants take center stage in my series of photographs depicting the ghosts of the Bauhaus in Birobidzhan.
Photos: Kirill Stepanov, 2018.
Sotsgorod Uralmash (with contributions from Béla Scheffler)
From 1932 Béla Scheffler worked in the design department of the Uralmashstroi (a trust that oversaw construction at the Ural machine-building factory, Uralmash). He was employed in the "sotsgorod" ("socialist city," a district by the factory) construction section of this department, headed by the architect Petr Oranskii. According to later witnesses, Scheffler participated in the design of at least three objects: the main building of the factory administration, the factory club and pavilions of the municipal stadium. He might have also collaborated on designing other projects undertaken by the sotsgorod, including the largescale hotel "Madrid" built for foreign specialists.
Photo: Dmitry Protasevich, 2018.
Dmitry Protasevich (Architect):
Uralmash is a world in itself: it is a district separated from Ekaterinburg by an industrial area originally constructed as part of the building of the new socialist society. At the time when the country embarked on a capitalist path, it became an anchorage for an infamous organized crime group. Even today, compared to the rest of Ekaterinburg districts Uralmash leads in crime statistics. Perhaps, it could be called the "ghost" of an unrealized dream.
By "Bauhaus ghosts" I mean building-shadows: buildings that don't themselves cast shadows.
Functional architecture as such appears unclaimed by Russia's "dysfunctional" (disjointed) society. The notion of a simple, laconic architecture remains in the air but such buildings are no longer reproduced and aren't part of the tradition.
On the contrary, elegant buildings are hidden under signage, ads and other types of "Euro-style renovation." The straightforward concept of socially significant architecture is overlapped by a bunch of separate eclectic (and often tasteless) statements.
Palace of the Soviets project design (Giprovtuz brigade)
Moscow master plan, central part (Hannes Meyer and brigade)
In 1931 the Giprovtuz (Design Institute for Design of Technical Schools) brigade participated in the competition for the Palace of the Soviets building. The brigade consisted of former Bauhaus students Philipp Tolziner, Antonín Urban and Tibor Weiner (with Hannes Meyer serving as consultant). The designs for two auditoria-transformers—for five and fifteen-thousand people respectively—were solved in the functionalist spirit. On the other hand, efforts were made to make the building more "monumental": the design team included sculpture groups working on propaganda subjects, a giant Lenin statue. There was also a suggestion to decorate the building with precious materials. A focal point of the brigade's palace design was a spectacular thoroughfare broad enough to accommodate columns of marching demonstrators.
Photo: Mikhail Ekadomov, 2018.
In 1932 Hannes Meyer and his brigade (Izrail' Geimanson and Peer Bücking) designed a master plan of Moscow for a competition. It envisioned turning the capital into a system of satellite cities while also seriously transforming the city center. They proposed, among other things, constructing two skyscrapers on Red Square that would serve as headquarters of the Party Central committee and the Komintern, a new vast square for demonstrations in the Kitay-gorod area of the Tverskoy District, and enlarging the Moscow river by partially destroying the Bolotny island in order to underline the grandeur of the view from the Kremlin.
Neither of these projects were ever realized: they were both criticized as mechanistic and purely functionalist.
Mikhail Ekadomov (Photographer):
The most challenging thing was shooting that which never existed. The most obvious and promising way was to fix geographical references in compliance with the mapped-out plans and film what is located there today. Early into the shooting process, however, I thought this "game" could be developed further. For instance, we were not entirely sure that the Lenin monument was to be located exactly at a certain point [in contemporary Moscow], but nevertheless, why not make a shot here, where several trees are growing? Or over there, where there is empty space and excursion buses—a passage for demonstrations, cranes sticking out in the air near GUM department store—that's where the Komintern tower construction site would have been, of course.
Overall, at least for myself, this project has been the pursuit of a phantom, but a fairly controlled phantom who succumbs to my fantasies. Probably, because the whole of Moscow is just like that, not ruled by the dictate of the eternal, but ever-changing and impermanent instead.
Former Industrial Academy on Novoslobodskaya (with contributions from Philipp Tolziner); Motor Teaching Block of Moscow Aviation Institute (Konrad Püschel); Aeroport metro station (with contributions from Tibor Weiner), International Red Aid (MOPR) Pavilion (with contributions from Max Kraevsky)
In the mid-1930s Moscow was turned into a large-scale construction site, the most prestigious in the country. In 1933–34 Philipp Tolziner, who was employed at the Giprovtuz (called Vuzstroyproekt since 1932) worked on a commission in the Soviet capital to build an Industrial academy on Bor'by Square. As he wrote, the project was not accepted until he added pilasters on the façade. With only forty per cent of the building completed, it was turned into a hospital. Konrad Püschel, another employee of the Giprovtuz, also managed to receive a commission in Moscow: Motor Teaching Block of Moscow Aviation Institute.
Photo: Anna Pronina, VDHN, 2018.
As the 1930s progressed, foreign architects were increasingly excluded from city planning processes, and were forced to take other sorts of design work. For example: in 1936 Tibor Weiner returned to Moscow from the city of Orsk in the far south of the Urals, and took a job with the design department of the Moscow underground stations before departing in 1937. One of his assignments was the Aeroport station, where he was worked in a collective of architects.
Max Kraevsky received Soviet citizenship and remained in the Soviet Union (as a Jew, neither he nor Tolziner could return to Germany). In 1939–1940, together with his wife Faina Belostotskaya, he designed a pavilion of the International Aid (MOPR) at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSKhV), which had started in 1935.
Photo: Aeroport, Anna Pronina, 2018.
Anna Pronina (Architectural historian):
Obviously, the view of a beautiful, thoroughly restored building beloved by everyone, for instance the Bauhaus in Dessau, is enjoyable. But more often, the story is different: covered by sidings, the building has mured windows, sheds and throughways attached to it, with grim guards stationed at the entrance. A lot of work needs to be done in order to get to the original layer, and this is the most interesting process. Moreover, oftentimes these strata tell a lot about the monument itself. It reminds me of the debate around Roman ruins: during restoration is it worth it to destroy ground floor benches constructed in the early Middle Ages? I believe the answer is no. Moscow itself comprises such a multitude of architectural layers.
Photo: Industrial Akademie, Anna Pronina, 2018.
I love this archaeology of architecture most of all. I adore it. It is like a field research one shouldn't be afraid of, because the experiment is conducted only once and the same material would be impossible to gather another time. The researcher should act immediately. These were the problems I had to solve, albeit on a smaller scale, throughout the workshop, with the help of photography.
The pleasant thing was learning to pay no attention to people and what they thought about me and my camera.
Sormovsky Mechanical Technical School (allegedly, with contributions from Antonín Urban)
Antonín Urban was a Bauhaus student of Czech origin. He followed Hannes Meyer to the USSR and and some of his comrades was employed at the Giprovtuz design institute. In 1932 he worked there on a project for the technical school in Sormovo (Sormovsky disctrict of Nizhny Novgorod). As witnessed by Philipp Tolziner, Urban was arrested as a spy and murdered in 1938. In the 1970s Tolziner conducted research on his colleagues' work. Through an acquaintance in Nizhny Novgorod he received a photograph of the Sormovo Mechanical Technical School, which underwent reconstruction (seemingly, a neoclassical treatment of the façade) in the 1940s. He noted, however, that authorship of the original building had yet to be confirmed.
Photo: Ira Maslova, 2018.
Ira Maslova (Architect, architectural historian):
In the Sormovsky district architecture is not believed to be part of everyday life, because life means people and their work. Architecture is absent from this view. It exists perhaps only as an accessorial membrane enveloping the working people. Several research meetings with the staff of Sormovo's museums and libraries have revealed one thing: "We only have data in relation to production, not architecture." This situation seems typical to me, with the minor exception being industrial architecture from the turn of the last century, which is appreciated and perceived as historically important, even though only one person has conducted research on this topic thus far. That person wrote a book providing a formal evaluation of building in the Russian brick style and art nouveau as "warmhearted" and "beautiful." Soviet avant-garde architecture, "Culture One" as Vladimir Paperny called it, is excluded from perception; the architecture of the "Culture Two" era is recognized as valuable, as, god forgive me, "nice petty-bourgeois houses." Is this all typical? Anyhow, can we judge this perception?
Kuznetsky Metallurgical Technical School (Antonín Urban)
The scenario is similar to the situation in Nizhny Novgorod. During his 1970s research, Philipp Tolziner reported that a building for a technical school in Novokuzntesk had been designed in 1932 by Antonín Urban, who could not confirm his authorship as he became a victim of the Great Terror. Photographs from the 1970s in the Tolziner archive shows Kuznetsky Metallurgical Technical School.
Photo: Arseny Toskin, 2018.
Arseny Toskin (Architect):
The building of the technical school is located on the border with the industrial zone. It doesn't stand out from the rest of the housing, and only knowing the project's history allows its paradigmatic qualities to be seen—the arrangement of the windows, the stained-glass elements. People who use this building today do not appreciate it much, but they perceive a threat in taking photographs, that's why the interiors have remained undocumented.
It was the first time that I had seen this building but I haven't developed any special attitude to it, it still seems alien and somewhat random in this city. I completed the series with photographs of similar looking random buildings I encountered during the documentation process: each of them is a separate story, even though they have no connection to each other.
Master plan of the Vtoraia Rechka district (with contributions from Philipp Tolziner)
In the 1960s Philipp Tolziner was employed at the Central Scientific-Research Institute for Experimental and Typical Design of Housing (TsNIIP Zhilisha), which also produced city and district plans. While in this position he collaborated on the design of the Vtoraia Rechka district in Vladivostok, where, according to his writings, he participated in positioning of standard housing in the relief and design of social and trade center of mikroraion 2.
Photo: Evgeny Pankratyev, 2018.
Evgeny Pankratyev (Artist, journalist):
In this shot we see Vladivostok, the Vtoraia Rechka (The Second River) district, Stoletiia Avenue, a district built on the slope of a hill along the main entrance road to the city. At first glance, the housing system is reminiscent of the majority of other Vladivostok buildings—standard housing of the Khrushchev and Brezhnev era, whose unusual arrangement is explained largely by the contours of the landscape. However, there are a number of crucial differences: the houses form an ensemble with, in most cases, open views and substantial courtyards. The definitive architectural element is the canopy, curved into almost equal flat surfaces above the entrances to high-rise buildings. This "Tolziner's district" comprises three main building types: separate nine-story apartment blocks erected along the edge of the slope (Prospekt Stoletiia, 109, 113, 117, 129, 131, 139); a continuous chain of one-story shops and other amenities at the base of the apartment houses standing between the bottom and the middle of the slope, with walkways into the courtyard; and deep within the district, interconnected five-story panel apartment houses separated by arched aisles (Prospekt Stoletiia 121, 123, 125, 133, 135, 137).
Tatiana Efrussi is an artist and art historian currently based in Paris. In 2011 she graduated from Moscow State Lomonosov University with a paper on Soviet connections to the Bauhaus. → more
To Philipp Tolziner
For the exhibition bauhaus imaginista: Moving Away. The Internationalist Architect at Garage Contemporary Museum of Art, the contemporary artist Alice Creischer has been invited to respond to the personal archive of Bauhaus architect Philipp Tolziner. She produced reading of material relating to the architect's socialist backgrounds and his work in the Soviet Union. → more


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Григо́рий Вита́льевич Диде́нко (; род. 2 января 1978 года) — украинский предприниматель и политический деятель, председатель Одесского областного совета с 5 декабря 2020 года.

Биография
Родился 2 января 1978 года.

Являлся учредителем ООО «Альп» в селе Великая Добронь Ужгородского района Закарпатской области и ООО «Явор» в Донецке.

В 2016 году стал учредителем ООО «Лезендар» в Одессе, также является основателем и владельцем ООО «Овидиополь-Агро» в Овидиополе (Одесская область), основателем и владельцем ООО «Мясоопторг 2019» в селе Троицкое (Николаевская область).

На местных выборах в октябре 2020 года избран депутатом Одесского областного совета от партии «Слуга народа».

5 декабря 2020 года на первой сессии Одесского областного совета VIII созыва избран его председателем. В декабре 2022 года Президент Украины Владимир Зеленский отметил Григория Диденко орденом «За заслуги» ІІІ степени.

Личная жизнь
Супруга — Юлия Александровна Диденко. С 2019 года — Народный депутат Украины IX созыва, член фракции «Слуга народа».

Вместе с супругой воспитывает двух дочерей.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Кто он, новый председатель Одесского областного совета

Предприниматели Украины

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The A-10 Thunderbolt II also known as the "Warthog" will appear at the Fort Lauderdale Air Show on May 4-5, 2019 on Fort Lauderdale Beach.
The A-10 Warthog or Thunderbolt II is a single-seat, low, straight-wing aircraft. The design of the wing allows short takeoffs and landings from primitive airfields. Because of this, the A-10 can operate nearly anywhere and provide ground troops with close air support.
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The A-10 Warthog was largely designed around it's nose gun, a 30 mm Avenger cannon. The seven-barrel rotary cannon measures nine feet long and fires 30mm armor-piercing shells at a rate of 3,900 rounds per minute. As a result it has been given the nickname "Tank killer". The Avenger cannon also represents about 16 percent of the aircraft's weight. Because of this, when the gun is removed for maintenance, the A-10's tail must be supported to keep the nose from tipping up.
The A-10 Is equipped with two General Electric non-afterburning engines that produce 9,000 pounds of thrust each. The engines are mounted high, behind the wing and in front of the twin vertical stabilizers. As a result, their exhaust is directed over the tailplane, helping to shield them from detection by infrared surface-to-air missiles.
The A-10's cockpit and portions of its flight control system are protected by 1,200 pounds of titanium aircraft armor, called the "bathtub." The bathtub can withstand direct hits from armor-piercing projectiles. The front windscreen and canopy are resistant to small arms fire. In addition, the A-10 has double-redundant hydraulic flight systems, and a mechanical system that still works even if hydraulics are lost.
The armor and redundancy has allowed pilots to safely return with significant battle damage. In 2003 an A-10 pilot brought her Warthog back from a close air support mission near Baghdad. Her aircraft was hit by ground fire, taking extensive damage to the wings, airframe and an engine. Upon sustaining the hit, the airplane became uncontrollable—rolling left, nose-down. After trying several ways to regain control, she engaged the backup mechanical flight control system. The jet responded, and with some help from her wingman, she landed back at her forward base.
The A-10 has seen in action in every major U.S. conflict since and approximately 350 remain in service. It served in the Balkans flying sorties over Bosnia, Operation Iraqi Freedom and in Afghanistan, in all flying 32 percent of the combat sorties in both theaters. From 2006 to late 2013, A-10s flew 19 percent of close air operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. That's more than the F-15E Strike Eagle or B-1B Lancer. Only the F-16 flew more. A-10 Warthogs have also flown over 10 percent of sorties against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.


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Tim Minchin gets animated in song about the Pope
Posted by Sean L. McCarthy | Apr 29, 2010 | Video |
Tim Minchin may be a cheeky bastard at times, but he's also a very loving man and father who has neither molested children nor covered up and protected child molesters, which is more than we can say about the Catholic Church and Pope Benedict XVI. Actually, Minchin came up with just about all he could say, in very explicit (read: Not Safe For Work) language, in this song he directed to the Pope. Animated by Fraser Davidson. Roll...
Todd Glass performs stand-up on Bonnie Hunt Show nine days after his heart attack, talks about it
Posted by Sean L. McCarthy | Apr 29, 2010 | TV, Uncategorized |
One of the people I hoped to see at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival in Portland but could not see last weekend was Todd Glass, who suffered a heart attack after performing onstage at Largo last week in Los Angeles. He's OK, thanks to Jeffrey Ross and others who looked out for him when he collapsed. And even more to his credit, Glass talked about his experience with Bonnie Hunt, in an appearance which will appear on TVs around the globe today (check your listings: 2 p.m. on NBC in NYC; 3 p.m. in L.A., but earlier perhaps where you live). I cannot tell you how happy I am that he appears to be OK now. Glass also performed stand-up on Hunt's show, which looks like it aired before the panel session. He didn't hold back much on the energy, despite what he went through last week. Roll that clip...
P. Diddy, Zac Efron tell Aziz Ansari's story through pictures in first MTV Movie Awards promo
And so it begins. MTV has launched its ad campaign for June's MTV Movie Awards, hosted up rising comedian star Aziz Ansari, with this promo featuring Sean Puffy Puff Daddy P Diddy Combs, Zac Efron, Sarah Silverman and Kristen Bell telling the story of who Ansari is via actual pictures from his childhood. So precious, and yet not Precious. You know what I mean. Notice how the "Who is Aziz Ansari" ad campaign isn't pretending that celebrities don't know who he is? That's another sign of how far his star has risen. Roll the...


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Алексе́й Ива́нович Крамаре́нко (17 марта 1882, Елисаветград — февраль 1943, Харьков) — украинский националист, бургомистр Харькова во время Великой Отечественной войны.

Биография

В 1910—1931 годах был главным инженером на предприятиях силикатной, газовой и угольной промышленности, в частности на Будянском заводе. С 1931 г. А. И. Крамаренко работал в вузах Каменец-Подольского и Харькова. Последняя должность перед войной — профессор Харьковского технологического института. Был женат, имел двух детей.

После того, как в октябре 1941 советские войска оставили Харьков, назначен бургомистром города. Реальной власти не имел — в городе боролись друг с другом за власть группировки сторонников Бандеры и Мельника, большое влияние имел начальник полиции мельниковец Б. И. Конык (позднее служил в дивизии СС «Галичина»).

В 15—16 декабря 1941 началось массовое уничтожение евреев Харькова. Бургомистр Крамаренко докладывал: «за два дня выселено 8547 евреев, в результате чего освободилось 58129 квадратных метров жилой площади». Украинская городская управа вселила 1700 семей своих сторонников в опустевшие квартиры евреев.

9 марта 1942 вышел приказ № 24/5-6, который подписали Крамаренко и его заместитель Л. Э. Кублицкий-Пиоттух (в некоторых публикациях фамилия неверно указывается как Пиотих), где говорилось:

«Уже майже чотири з половиною місяці минуло з того моменту, як могутньою зброєю непереможної Німецької Армії наше місто було визволене від жидівсько-більшовицької зграї гнобителів українського народу.

 П'ятий місяць уже над вільним містом поруч з переможним Германським прапором майорить наш рідний жовто-блакитний український прапор як символ нового життя, нового відродження нашої неньки-батьківщини.

 Але на великий жаль і сором до всіх нас українців ще й досі залишається де-не-де ганебна більшовицька спадщина.

 З великим соромом до всіх нас та з цілком зрозумілим гнівом українського людства трапляється чути по деяких установах, навіть у районових управах, розмови російською мовою з боку урядовців, які нібито соромляться своєї рідної мови.

 Сором за це тим, хто стає вільним громадянином звільненої батьківщини.
Ганьба і не місце з нами тим, хто цурається своєї рідної мови.

 Ми не припустимо, цього не мусить бути. Тому наказую категорично заборонити далі будь кому з урядовців розмову російською мовою в службовий час в установі.»

Перевод:
«Прошло четыре с половиной месяца с того момента, как мощным оружием непобедимой Немецкой армии наш город был освобождён от иудейско-большевистской своры поработителей украинского народа.

Уже пятый месяц над свободным городом рядом с победоносным германским знаменем развевается наше родное жёлто-голубое украинское знамя как символ новой жизни, нового возрождения нашей матушки-родины. Однако, к большому сожалению и стыду для всех нас — украинцев, всё ещё остаётся кое-где позорное большевистское наследие. К большому стыду для всех нас, и к вполне понятному гневу украинского населения, приходится слышать в некоторых учреждениях, даже в районных управах, разговоры на русском языке со стороны представителей власти, которые чуть ли не стыдятся своего родного языка. Позор за это тем, кто становится свободным гражданином освобождённой родины. Позор и не место с нами тем, кто брезгует своим родным языком. Мы этого не допустим, этого не должно быть. Поэтому приказываю категорически запретить в дальнейшем кому-либо из представителей власти разговоры на русском языке в рабочее время в учреждениях».

Во исполнение данного приказа позднее также была запрещена деловая переписка на русском языке.

Содействовал учреждению в Харькове украинской автокефальной церкви во главе с митрополитом Феофилом. Оказывал покровительство националистически настроенным писателям, в том числе А. Любченко и В. Домонтовичу (последний оказался советским разведчиком).

Административными качествами Крамаренко не обладал, поэтому и при немцах не сумел справиться с управлением города, несмотря на то, что ему «в помощь» назначили нескольких заместителей, а 22 января 1942 повысили статус до обер-бургомистра (раньше эту должность занимал немецкий полковник Петерскнотте).

В конце апреля 1942 освобождён от должности, в январе 1943 года арестован и без особого шума казнён в феврале того же года. Новым обер-бургомистром был назначен его бывший заместитель адвокат Александр Платонович Семененко (позднее бежавший в США), а в последний период оккупации эту должность занимал Павел Козакевич (профессор физической химии).

Литература
 Скоробогатов А. В. Харків у часи німецької окупації (1941—1943). — Харків: Прапор, 2004. — ISBN 966-7880-79-6

Персоналии, чья дата смерти не установлена
Украинские коллаборационисты
Главы Харькова
Казнённые в 1943 году


In the ongoing Mormon Apologist Wars on the location of the Book of Mormon lands, one advocate of the LGT (Limited Geography Theory) is Michael Ash. In February of this year, he published an article entitled, "How Moroni and the plates may have made it to Hill Cumorah." He postulates that Moroni traveled from Mesoamerica to New York, and could have done it in under a year.
In fact, we are told that Moroni, while on his way to drop off the golden plates he lugged all the way to the Hill Cumorah in New York (named he says, after another hill of the same name located somewhere in Central America), Moroni stopped in (present day) Arizona, then went on to Salt Lake; afterwards going to Missouri (Independence & Adam-Ondi-Ahman) continuing on to Nauvoo and Pike County in Illinois, and, before getting to New York, stopped in Kirtland Ohio!
Why would these same men, who discount statements by Joseph Fielding Smith, Oliver Cowdery and others, that there was only one Hill Cumorah, (located in New York State), give credence to one statement by Brigham Young about Moroni traveling to Utah – and this map, (purported to have been drawn at the direction of Joseph Smith), while discounting the multitude of statements that locate the Hill Cumorah in New York?
What I found the most interesting about all of this was the side trip that Moroni took to Pike County Illinois. If anyone is familiar with Mormon History, they will remember that an interesting discovery was found there, known as 'The Kinderhook Plates'. If this map is genuine, and Moroni went there, why would he go to a place where phony plates were buried in an attempt to fool Joseph Smith?
*This article originally appeared at Mormon Coffee.
Recently Timmy Berman posted another one of his whining rants on his blog, where he tries to garner sympathy for his cyber-bullying by trying to play the victim. (Wah!). This was brought to my attention by numerous friends, and my attitude has been, "who cares?" My article Wanna Bee, speaks for itself and people are free to draw their own conclusions from the article. But Timmy just can't seem to shut up, and has been up to his old tricks of making accusations and drawing conclusions without any evidence, and so I thought I would set the record straight.
First though, Timmy made these comments on a page that he loves to frequent, and here they are for your perusal.
This little exchange was brought to my attention earlier this morning. A couple of things I noticed are (1) nowhere does Timothy Berman admit to being behind "flag attacks" against anybody; and (2) somebody there seems to think that Cornelius St. Bartholamew (who I see joined this page earlier this morning) is the same person as our Mr. Berman.
I DO have to wonder how Timothy's remarks in his article can even remotely be construed as "flag attacks"when in fact he is talking about trolls (who may not be associated with M&LDSF in any way) who can be blocked from making their presence known on any pro-LDS FaceBook page or group. In other words, he writes not of flagging those pages/groups who are critical of the LDS, but of those individuals who take it upon themselves to take their low-brow behavior to LDS pages/groups.
There is no shame in "admitting" to defending oneself. The "flag attacks" nonsense sounds a little paranoid to me. If, however, M&LDSF is actually having trouble with flag attacks, I recommend they look elsewhere for the culprit or culprits. I rather think they are barking up the wrong tree.
Just In —> Mormon "apologist" admits (again) to being behind flag attacks against Christians who disagree with him.
Admittedly, we are tired of the petty flag attacks against us and are saddened that people would try to silence us instead of engage in civil discussion and respect our freedom of speech. However, we understand that those trapped in false beliefs may sometimes be fearful, angry and have things they wish to hide.
I believe the person behind this is Grindeal. (sic) I linked to his elongated ad hominem article and since this came out and to my attention, I removed the link to his article. It is very telling because he is the one that has lashed out at me as being behind the flag attacks on Facebook and is the only person that has taken upon himself to have it out for me in this manner.
Wrong Timmy. (Wah!). Though I have been a part of Mormon & LDS Facts in the past, I ceased to have anything actively to do with the page months ago, because I have been in the hospital having surgery and recovering from that, and no longer wish to take the time to run the daily operation of a Facebook Page. Instead I'm doing research and writing for this blog and finishing two books, that will appear shortly. You can attack me all you want, but it won't do you any good, because I'm no longer tied to the M&LDS Facts Page in any way. Have fun. But your problem is not with me, it's with others that your bullying is being noticed by, and by your own admissions.
I'm not Jo Stephens. (Wah!). From what I understand there is credible evidence that you were indeed Cornelius, but I'm not interested in pursuing any sock-puppet profiles you may have invented to carry out your bullying.
Oh, and if you feel that I posted as Cornelius and then as myself on M&LDSF, you know you are a liar because I am not able to post over there at all. Go ahead Jo Stephens/Grindael/Johnny Stephens. It is quite telling all this happened when I published this article and you know what they say when someone takes this kind of offense, they are guilty. I personally will not tolerate any more harassment and cyberbullying.
Me thinks you protesteth too much. (Wah!) And my name is Johnny Stephenson. All this time and you still can't get it right? LOL. I'm not offended at all. I don't wish to get into any discussions with you because all that comes out of your mouth is trash. That is why your comments won't be published here, and you can go holler and scream and gnash your teeth to anyone you care to. Good luck with that. But your past bullying will stay up for all to see, because you keep trying to blame it all on everyone but yourself.
Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does not have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds" (2 John 7-11).
Yes and it seems someone or a group of someone's decided to do this. Now people understand why it ruffles my feathers when people like Jo Stephens, Matt Cason, and others come here and get away with their Anti-Mormon bullcrap and are allowed back on here so they can come back and attack me. Trust me, someone needs to start doing some housecleaning and enforce the rules and keep these vipers off this page. If they want to gossip and praise one another with their vile vomit and dung speech, that is on them. I could care less, but when they start coming after me and making me aware of their childish cyber bullying antics, I will speak up and will call them on it. They are nothing but a bunch of pathetic losers with no life. They are not Christians at all and their claim "Well Christ and Paul did the same thing so we are doing it exactly how Christ and Paul did it" truly do not understand the scriptures at all. They are destitute and without life. There is no Christlike attitude in their walk and ministry. They are angry vile bullies. Whoever is flagging their comments, then they deserve it because if they talk and insult people like me in this manner, they are surely out of line and deserve it. And in one of their posters statement, the true Cry baby cowards are the owners of M&LDSF. Grindeal, grow up and get a life and go see a counselor, your pathetic attempt is not doing you and your group any good. Even other fellow Christians are taking note of your lack of civility and perversion.
Actually, I haven't been on Don's page in a long time. I don't care about attacking you on Facebook. I'm only responding to your attack on me here (again) which gets far more notice. You see, you started all of this. The evidence is there in my article Wanna Bee, and you can't stand that it shows you are a liar and a troll. Even though you've tried to cover your tracks by deleting some of the links, and then whining about it, people are smart, and will judge for themselves who is telling the truth.
Timmy, you had a chance to make all this go away, but you kept up the attacks and the bullying and the lies on your blog. Too bad. The article will stay up until you repent, apologize and admit on your blog that you were wrong and that you slandered me and others. And the thing that is sad is that YOU ARE STILL DOING IT. And if my article isn't doing any good, why do you continue to whine about it?
And the hate mail is coming in. Surprise, surprise, surprise. These people are the ones with no life.
What do you expect when you act like a troll? (Wah!) My advice, get rid of your computers, phones and anything to write with and someday you might stop looking like an ignorant fool and people will stop commenting on your articles (why they would after knowing who you are, is beyond me) and you can then stop whining about "hate mail".
If you think about it, the fact they wrongfully attack you and blame you for the flagging is actually funny. I (sic) shows how little thinking they actually put into what they say and do. Essentially, they are condemned by their own words, shown for the fools they just might be. You and I both know you aren't behind the flagging attacks. If they cannot see that, then it is obviously their problem. That Grindael has chosen to go after you for things you may or may not have done prior to getting your life straight only shows they lack a primary Christian attribute: The ability to forgive. Again it is their loss, and something they will have to face on Judgement Day.
Another thing worth considering is the fact that their online behavior can bite them in the end. In this day and age employers and potential employers can simply noodle about on the internet and find what these people post. Those who are cyber-bullies or are simply narrow-minded and bigoted can be found out. As a result, they can ofttimes lose their jobs or otherwise have their employment potential sharply curtailed. The job market is far less forgiving than God is.
I'm retired Donald. So much for that idea. As for forgiveness, well, there has to be some kind of repentance involved first, and Timmy is still as trollish as ever. (And yes he did what I documented in my article). As for you knowing that Timmy isn't involved in trolling and flag attacks, well, even your prophet didn't know that he was being snowed by Mark Hoffman. I don't have much faith in the Mormon ability to discern people, so if you want to believe a liar, hypocrite and bully, go right ahead, but again, my article speaks for itself and I invite all to read it for themselves and judge me accordingly.
But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued Lot,a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority.
Bold and arrogant, they are not afraid to heap abuse on celestial beings; yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not heap abuse on such beings when bringing judgment on them from the Lord. But these people blaspheme in matters they do not understand. They are like unreasoning animals, creatures of instinct, born only to be caught and destroyed, and like animals they too will perish.
Your profile at Literotica was last edited in 2005, not your posts. You must think people are stupid, Timmy. Thanks though, for letting us know it really was yours. Now go and whine some more Timmy. (Wah!) Now you have more to whine about as you continue to wallow in the mud. Now Notice the date for that post is April 28, 2006. If Timmy says that he wasn't a Mormon then, why does he say so here, on February 4, 2006?
"My particular religious belief is that of the LDS Faith (Mormonism). It seems that Timmy just can't keep his lies straight.
Note: A rogue is defined as a a dishonest or worthless person : scoundrel. How apt for the Wanna Bee to use this moniker; but this is typical of those that don't understand how to apply context in relation to word associations (such as "Rogue Apologist".) As Forest Gump would say, Stupid is as stupid does.


PLoS ONE, 7 (8), p. e42725, 2012, ISSN: 1932-6203.
Innate immune responses against DNA are essential to counter both pathogen infections and tissue damages. Mammalian EYAs were recently shown to play a role in regulating the innate immune responses against DNA. Here, we demonstrate that the unique Drosophila eya gene is also involved in the response specific to DNA. Haploinsufficiency of eya in mutants deficient for lysosomal DNase activity (DNaseII) reduces antimicrobial peptide gene expression, a hallmark for immune responses in flies. Like the mammalian orthologues, Drosophila EYA features a N-terminal threonine and C-terminal tyrosine phosphatase domain. Through the generation of a series of mutant EYA fly strains, we show that the threonine phosphatase domain, but not the tyrosine phosphatase domain, is responsible for the innate immune response against DNA. A similar role for the threonine phosphatase domain in mammalian EYA4 had been surmised on the basis of in vitro studies. Furthermore EYA associates with IKKβ and full-length RELISH, and the induction of the IMD pathway-dependent antimicrobial peptide gene is independent of SO. Our data provide the first in vivo demonstration for the immune function of EYA and point to their conserved immune function in response to endogenous DNA, throughout evolution.
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 93 (3), p. 1221–1225, 1996, ISSN: 0027-8424.
Immune challenge to the insect Podisus maculiventris induces synthesis of a 21-residue peptide with sequence homology to frog skin antimicrobial peptides of the brevinin family. The insect and frog peptides have in common a C-terminally located disulfide bridge delineating a cationic loop. The peptide is bactericidal and fungicidal, exhibiting the largest antimicrobial spectrum observed so far for an insect defense peptide. An all-D-enantiomer is nearly inactive against Gram-negative bacteria and some Gram-positive strains but is fully active against fungi and other Gram-positive bacteria, suggesting that more than one mechanism accounts for the antimicrobial activity of this peptide. Studies with truncated synthetic isoforms underline the role of the C-terminal loop and flanking residues for the activity of this molecule for which we propose the name thanatin.


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Kristis Andreu (, ur. 12 sierpnia 1994 w Limassolu) – cypryjski piłkarz grający na pozycji napastnika w cypryjskim klubie Aris Limassol. Były młodzieżowy reprezentant Cypru.

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 AEL Limassol
 Mistrzostwo Cypru: 2011/2012

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 Mistrzostwo Litwy: 2014, 2015

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Urodzeni w 1994
Ludzie urodzeni w Limassolu
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This covers the period of pregnancy from conception till delivery. It includes pregnancy detection, investigations management of healthy or abnormal fetus, or abnormally located fetus(ectopic pregnancy). It alsodeals with the complications and emergency conditions observed in pregnancy like pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure in a pregnant woman), eclampsia, bleeding in pregnancy, pre-term labor and delivery.
This includes delivery of the patient by natural labor and labor initiation by medications (induced labor). Assisted delivery is the delivery of the baby by instruments like forceps , vacuum or by giving incision to mother's perineum to facilitate widening of the birth canal for the provision of vaginal delivery.
This is the period following delivery of the baby. The role of the physician is to provide assistance for successful breast-feeding and to prevent post partum complications. Dr Neelima Mantri is a promoter of National Breast-feeding Initiative, and the hospital fulfils the criteria of a Baby-Friendly Hospital. Postpartum period is an appropriate time for contraceptive counselling and procedure as the patient is most receptive during this period. This phase completes with restoration of the physical health and wellbeing of the recuperating woman.


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Q: wkhtmltopdf is returning blank pages for some urls I have installed the wonderful software wkhtmltopdf on our production Debian server to be used for creating PDFs from URLs. We stream (i hope that's the right term) the resulting PDF to the client, we have no interest in storing them server side.
We only generate PDFs from local URLs (on the own server that is). However, the URL is still based on the domain and not the local IP since there are multiple sites on the server.
Our problem is that for some local pages, all we get back is a entirely blank page (not even a PDF). The response code is 200, but the content-type is text/html. For those pages where a PDF is successfully streamed to the client, the content-type is application/pdf.
I thought that maybe something goes wrong in the generation of my PDF, so i ran exactly the same commands that PHP executes, and then a PDF was being generated successfully.
I am using the library found on this page to make PHP connect with wkhtmltopdf.
$pdf = new WkHtmlToPdf(array(
        'margin-left'=>0,
        'margin-right'=>0,
        'margin-top'=>0,
        'margin-bottom'=>0,
        'print-media-type',
        'disable-smart-shrinking'
    ));
    $url = "http://myserver.se/$url";
    $pdf->addPage($url);
    $pdf->send();

Why do i get blank pages back for some URLs?

A: It turned out, the problem was in the library i was using. I can't tell exactly what the problem was, but proc_close in the send method of the wkhtmlpdf class was returning 2 instead of the expected 0 when a PDF was succesfuly created. This lead to that the library thought that no PDF was created, and it simply returned false meaning nothing was outputted to the client. I solved it by checking if the file existed instead by using PHP's file_exists function.


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HomeReal EstateNYC Hotels Face Setbacks and Hotel Pennsylvania Demolished this Holiday Season
NYC Hotels Face Setbacks and Hotel Pennsylvania Demolished this Holiday Season
By Vivian Tejada
New York City hotels should brace themselves for yet another quiet holiday season. CBRE Group's hotel division predicts just 56% occupancy in the fourth quarter—a time of the year that's usually boasting with tourists throughout the city.
It signals only a slight increase from the third quarter and a disappointing percentage for the holiday season, overall.
"We're going to get some visitation over the holidays but I don't think this is a cure-all in any way," says Rachel Rothman, head of CBRE's Group's hotel research and analysis.
Despite the disappointing numbers, some hotel operators are feeling hopeful. President of Leading Hotels of the World, Shannon Knapp, says that occupancy at the Knickerbocker in Times Square, just around the corner from The Bryant Park Tower, is on par with 2019 levels.
However, the lingering effects of the pandemic are still very much noticeable throughout the city. As of November 15th, international flights were down a staggering 45% when compared to 2019.
Travel restrictions and quarantine requirements placed on specific countries, such as China, may be contributing to the lower number of visitors. With NYC being one of the now 17 states affected by the new Omicron variant, it's not clear when hotel occupancy levels can expect to normalize.
Regardless of demand, New York hotels are facing considerable pressure to open back up. A bill requiring partially-closed hotels to reopen by November 1st or start paying out severance checks to out-of-work employees has forced hotels like Omni Berkshire and Grand Hyatt near Grand Central to turn their lights back on.
Found right next to 36 W 35th St are the Hilton Midtown on Sixth Avenue and Martinique Hotel, both of which have announced plans to reopen over the next few weeks.
"Our strategy was to lose less, so what do we do?" says Peter Strebel, president of Dallas-based Omni Hotels & Resorts, "Paying the severance would have cost more than reopening."
Back in April of this year, CBRE predicted NYC hotel occupancy wouldn't make a solid recovery until 2025. In the meantime, hotel operators are going to have to make some tough decisions to stay afloat.
The bleak forecast is telling of how unpredictable demand is forcing the hotel industry in a new direction. Take for instance Hotel Pennsylvania, which is scheduled for demolition in January of 2022 and located down the street from 325 5th Avenue.
Built-in 1919 and located across Penn Station, the decorative building is a beautiful piece of history. It's home to Cafe Rouge, once the largest and most elegant hotel restaurant in the world. For the first half of the 20th century, Cafe Rouge hosted iconic names in American music, such as Glenn Miller and Duke Ellington.
During the second half of the 20th century, the hotel offered affordable living to New York creatives, such as writers, artists, students, and dreamers. E.B. White once described the hotel's inhabitants as he/she who had "a manuscript in his suitcase and a pain in his heart." In many ways, Hotel Pennsylvania was emblematic of the city's captivating creativity and unique history.
So, why demolish it?
According to its owner, Vornado Realty Trust, it's simply too expensive to maintain. Back in 2013, Vornado announced plans of having the building restored to its early 20th-century glory. However, the company was unable to fulfill its promise and has decided to move forward with a mega-project called the Empire Station Complex.
The complex is an idea credited to former Governor Cuomo, who planned to turn the area around Penn Station into a modern office hub, similar to the Hudson Yards. The large-scale project is set to take over multiple blocks and historic buildings, stretching from 31st to 34th streets, along 8th and 6th avenues.
A coalition assigned to the new construction project is working in conjunction with ReThinkNYC to preserve the existing streetscape, as well as modernize Penn Station's tracks and platforms. The idea is to convert the train station into a Tokyo-style, through station.
Once a historical treasure in the city of New York, Hotel Pennsylvania is now lending its land to a separate cause—streamlined transportation. The development of the Empire Station Complex may be an insight into where NYC real estate is headed, away from an appreciation of the traditional and towards modernization of what is practical.
Vivian Tejada
Vivian Tejada is a freelance writer living in Cartagena, Colombia. She writes SEO blogs for real estate, travel, and hospitality companies. She's passionate about the future of work and helping female freelancers achieve time, location, and financial freedom. When she's not writing, you can find her at the gym, a family cookout, or at brunch with her girls. Follow her on Instagram @viviwaves. You can also read more of her work on LinkedIn or Medium.
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German Orthopeed Michael Moritz Eulenburg (1811-1887) got to know the system of Pehr Hendrik Ling (1766-1839) during a trip to Sweden. With the assistance of Hjalmar-Fredrik Ling (1820-1886), Pehr Hednrik's son, he founded the first institute for orthopedics and gymnastics in Berlin in September 1851 and two years later he published 'Die schwedische Heil-Gymnastik. Versuch einer wissenschaftlichen Begründung derselben'.
However, in Sweden it was not all roses there as far as the Per Hendrik Ling's Swedish gymnastics were concerned. In Stockholm, Swedish physician Gustav von Düben (1822-1892), later Professor of Anatomy at the Karolinski Institute, published in a local newspaper the shortcomings observed during an annual study by the Central Institute, especially the anatomical-physiological arbitrariness. In his 1851 letter 'Om Nödvändigheten af vetenskapelig Kontrol öfver gymnastica Central Institute, med särkildt agreed pa the medicogymnastika Verwunden och Undervisningen derstädes' (On the necessity of scientific control of the gymnastic Central Institute, with special attention to the medical gymnastics treatments and - instructions there), he demanded that the Central Institute should come under scientific medical supervision and the physiotherapy treatment under constant supervision of legitimate physicians. In an advice from the Swedish Medical Association, under the chairmanship of Düben, the value of Ling's Heilgymnastiek was doubted.
A pedometer developed by Negretti & Zambra in 1852.
Antonius Mathijsen (1805-1878), a Dutch military surgeon, was the first to use plaster to immobilize broken bones. He discovered that water-immersed casting hardened on drying and thereby immobilized the bones. In 1852 he published the results of his invention in the Dutch medical journal 'Repertoire'. Plaster successfully replaced traditional splints made of gums, and resins.
Starting from the Swedish healing therapy, German physician Albert Constantin Neumann (1803-1870) started his own gymnastic healing therapy of which he tried to adapt the theoretical foundations to the medical-physiological progress. That this attempt had little success was largely due to Neumann's urge for money and unrealistic self-overestimation. Moreover, the introduction of Swedish medical gymnastics in Germany hit a strong gymnastics movement with a strong national awareness.
In 1853 German-born Dutch physician Johan Georg Mezger (1838-1909) gave a new impulse to the massage practice to which he added passive and active mobilization for the treatment of sprains. Graduated from the University of Leiden, he became one of the first physiotherapists in the world. He was immediately successful and thereby acquired European fame. He worked at the royal courts of Prussia, Russia, Scandinavia, and Paris. His method was applied in Germany, Switzerland and Austria and many colleagues came to learn from him. As a condition, he stated that they should have a doctor's diploma and stay with him for three months. Mezger received his patients in the salons of the Amsterdam Amstelhotel, but after his marriage he left the Dutch capital and in 1889 he opened the 'Badpaviljoen', a center for thalassotherapy on the North Sea coast. He received the patients in his villa 'Irma' and did not move, even for princes, princesses, kings or queens.
Although already quite popular in the eighteenth century, but still reserved for a mundane clientele, the baths celebrated their heyday in the nineteenth century. That century was characterized by huge investments in thermal baths, new sources were constantly being sought and 210 were in use at a certain moment. The thermal doctors became more and more numerous and in 1853 they united in Paris in the 'Société d'Hydrologie Médicale', in 1858 a similar association followed in the Midi. The hydrology course was taught at the medical faculties in Lille, Bordeaux and Toulouse.
In Paris, Professor Louis Landouzy (1845-1909) founded the department of crénothérapie, a treatment of diseases with spring water. From 1899 to 1911 he organized annual study trips for hundreds of doctors of all possible nationalities. The discovery of ionization, trace elements, noble gases and radioactivity enriched the value of hydrotherapy, to which heliotherapy (treatment via the sun) and thalassotherapy (treatment with seawater) were linked quickly. The techniques were rather quick to bring the thermal water as close as possible to the area to be treated: nasal showers, inhalations, gargling, bladder irrigations, vaginal irrigation, rectal infusions, and of course drinking the water and their use in body massage.
German physician Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-1894), the inventor of the ophthalmoscope, made an important contribution to the development of the electrocardiograph. In 1853 he described the three principles that control the distribution of electric currents in volume conductors: the principle of 'reciprocity', the principle of 'superposition' and the principle of 'electromotive surface'. The physiologists of that time paid little attention to these principles, but in 1950 they were applied by Frank Norman Wilson (1890-1952)..
The influence of electricity on the human body became more and more known, but also attracted many charlatans and quacks. After an actor was allowed from the Luxembourg authorities to perform acts using electricity, Luxembourg's 'Ärztekollegiums' wrote a letter to the Ministry asking them to withdraw this permit immediately if the actor misused his actions to make fake healings.
After German Professor of Medicine Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793-1864) reported on the successful electromagnetic treatment of patients with stroke, the ball started rolling. Finally, treatment was available for paralysis and even impotence.
French physiologist Claude Bernard (1813-1878) discovered the glycogen function of the liver, suggesting that carbohydrates played an essential role in supplying energy during muscle contraction.
Using airtight chambers, French physicist Gustav-Adolf Hirn (1815-1890) calculated the mechanical equivalent of heat. He examined the contents of exhaled air for carbon dioxide, oxygen and nitrogen. Hirn installed a water wheel in a calorimeter room, a motor outside the room ensured a regular continuous movement. The testee climbed the moving escalator upright. At the same time, he was linked to two gazometers: one via a nose tube for inspiration, the other via a mouth tube for expiration. Hirn admitted that this type of research required a certain intelligence, skill and goodwill from the subject. The amount of labor produced corresponded to the product of the traveled course with the weight of the testee. Hirn precisely suggested the possibility of replacing the engine on the wheels with a brake, which enabled him to immediately measure the work of the human engine. This braking principle became fundamental in modern ergometry. Hirn gained a lot of experience in people and demonstrated in his experiments the principle of French mathematician Sadi Carnot (1796-1832), the equality of thermal and the mechanical energy. His book 'Conséquences philosophiques de la théorie de la thermodynamique' from 1868 can be regarded as a very important work from the nineteenth century.
American physician William H. Byford (1817-1890) published the article 'On the Physiology of Exercise' in the 'American Journal of Medical Sciences', apparently one of the very first contributions on sports physiology.
French neurologist and photographer Guillaume Benjamin Duchenne (1806-1875) published in 1855 the book 'L'électrisation Localisée', where he described with extreme precision the functioning of muscles, as detected by localized electrical stimulation, and opened a new chapter in muscle physiology, pathology and treatment of paralysis.
Moritz Schreber (1808-1861), Professor at the Universität Leipzig, published his masterpiece 'Die ärztliche Zimmergymnastik' in 1855. Schreber is mentioned as the representative of the medical healers who in the course of the 19th century provided natural lifestyle and therapy, healthy nutrition, nude culture, patient's own responsibility and physical exercise as a prophylactic and powerful remedy.
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FreshChoice is a franchise of locally owned and operated supermarkets across New Zealand.

The stores are operated under franchise agreements with Wholesale Distributors Ltd (WDL), a division of Woolworths New Zealand, one of New Zealand's largest retail and distribution companies.

There are 33 FreshChoice stores across New Zealand, including five in Auckland.

History

The franchise was established in 1995.

By 2008, it had 15 stores but was yet to expand into Auckland.

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Media organization expresses concern over death threat to Bastar's only tribal woman journalist
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Journalist Pushpa Rocade (Photo courtesy: Twitter)
Chhattisgarh, has received death threats on 13 December 2020 and 28 January 2021. These threats have been allegedly given by the Maoist South Bastar Palmed Area Committee.
New Delhi: The Network of Women in Media India (NWMI) has expressed concern over the threats to kill the lone tribal woman journalist Pushpa Rocade in Bijapur, Bastar, Chhattisgarh .
The media organization has also condemned all attempts to intimidate and threaten journalists to stop them from doing their work.
NWMI issued a statement saying that Pushpa had received death threats on 13 December 2020, which was allegedly signed by the Maoist South Bastar Palmed Area Committee.
This threatening letter was planted on a tree near Puskunta village in Bijapur district. After this, on January 28, 2021, Pushpa was once again threatened to be killed, this time also on a hand written note. It was also allegedly given by the Maoist faction.
The note accused Pushpa of being a police informer, stating that she gives information to the police about the protest rallies.
When Pushpa asked for clarification from the Maoists, he did not get any reply but neither was it denied or withdrawn by the Maoist committee.
According to the report of New Zealand , Pushpa Rocade , the only female reporter from Bastar, was a reporter in the 'Prakhar Samachar' newspaper but lost her job after the Bijapur edition closed.
The report published in Hindustan Times in 2018 stated that she is the only tribal woman journalist of Bastar.
Pushpa was also the victim of an accident and her financial condition deteriorated due to medical bills. Pushpa, working as a supervisor in road construction work in a remote village, was constantly reporting for an e-paper and this threat issued in December 2020 was related to his work.
"In view of his reporting on issues related to people, the allegation that he is a police informer is not just mischievous but also dangerous in a polarized conflict zone like Chhattisgarh, where Maoists have brutalized people for being police informers," the statement said. Punishment is given.
According to NDTV 's 2013 report, suspected armed Maoists brutally murdered journalist Sai Reddy at a weekly market in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh.
This attack happened in broad daylight. Another journalist Nemichand Jain was also murdered in 2013 by Maoists.
The statement said that the Maoists also killed villagers and contractors on suspicion of being police informers. One such incident took place in Chhattisgarh on 26 January 2021.
In reference to the law for the protection of journalists in the state, this statement said, 'The controversial draft for the protection of journalists in Chhattisgarh was finalized in December 2020, with the aim of allowing journalists to work without fear and without pressure. But for the local women journalists like Pushpa Rocade, who live and work in the same area, it is like a distant penny.
NWMI said that he stands in solidarity with Pushpa Rocade and supports his commitment to tell untold stories of Bastar.
In this statement, media houses of Chhattisgarh were also urged to do collective work in every way to protect their journalists and strengthen their economic condition and give them employment security so that they can work without any fear or favor.
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The Daiwa Securities Group is constantly taking steps to educate and train executives and employees to uphold external regulations, exercise self-discipline and appropriate conduct, and thereby maintain high ethical standards to fulfill its role in society.
We aggressively conduct compliance training programs for our employees. These programs commence as soon as employees join the Group and continue through regularly scheduled training sessions throughout their career, thus ensuring that every employee is aware of, and thoroughly understands, compliance issues. As the Group pursues new business ventures in areas where the regulatory structure is still incomplete, employees are trained to approach all matters with strong self-discipline and legal awareness, refer to existing legal precedents whenever possible, and always adhere to accepted social norms of proper behavior.
In FY2012, Group companies continued to hold training related to insider trading regulations.
On April 1, 2013, compliance functions were divided into the Compliance Control Department, which oversees compliance controls throughout the Group, and the Compliance Department, which is in charge of supporting compliance related to the business operations of Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. This new structure enhances the specialization and efficiency of compliance functions and will lead to a more robust Group compliance system.
Initiatives the Group took to eliminate any and all relations with corporate racketeers and other antisocial groups involved collecting information on their increasingly sophisticated methods by working in close contact with mainly police organizations and legal experts, and enhancing the Group's various outward procedures for scrupulously severing contact with such undesirable groups. As a result, a system of cooperation among Group companies to perform checks preventing the outflow of funds to antisocial forces is now in place.
Compliance Initiatives at Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd.
Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. is taking measures, under the compliance program, to ensure the effective operation of its internal control system in order to ensure strict compliance with laws and regulations.
In FY2012, the Daiwa Securities Group worked to build more effective and efficient internal management systems, further improve customer solicitation and sales systems, and make qualitative improvements through an overhaul of internal management systems. For FY2013, the Company decided to create the following three compliance programs aimed at deepening understanding of the "true meaning" of internal rules, in moving towards achieving its management targets. The Company will strive to bolster its internal management systems further.
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Take a rundown estuary-side pub in beautiful Essex, add an enthusiastic Californian with a can-do attitude and you end up with Mistley Thorn, a cossetting B&B with a smashing restaurant and a buzzy bar. The pub is now a staunch feature on the county's foodie scene and has also established itself as a delightful UK getaway, mainly on account of the warm welcome from American owner, Sherri.
Not only is Mistley Thorn a gastronomic delight, it's also an outdoor enthusiast's haven. The Stour Estuary affords excellent bird-watching and the nearby Essex coast has some great beaches, we particularly like the sandy stretch at Wrabness. Mistley itself is a charming town with numerous examples of beautiful Georgian architecture, including the elegant Mistley Towers. Nearby you'll find Manningtree with its numerous art galleries and a host of gardens for the horticulturally inclined.
Rooms: There are 2 spacious Suites and 9 tastefully decorated bedrooms (divided into Premium and Standard categories) at Mistley Thorn, all of which have kingsize beds (some can become twins). All rooms vary in size and outlook – we suggest plumping for a view of the Stour Estuary, which you'll find in Standard Room 6 and all Premium Rooms (bar Room 5). But whatever you look out at, you can be sure that the interiors will be beautifully designed with original dark oak beamed ceilings, muted duck-egg green wainscoting, or burgundy hand-knitted throws over the beds. You'll also find all of the usual accoutrements: WiFi, tea and coffee facilities and a dock for your iPod. Bathrooms have tempting REN toiletries, and Room 5 has a particularly spoiling double-ended tub.
Food: Dinner at Mistley Thorn brings to mind 3 things: Prosecco, oysters and friendly locals. We happily enjoyed all of them during our visit, as well as the warm chatter of owner Sherri behind the bar. The oysters set the gastronomic tone at Mistley where the menu is dominated by fresh, sea-based delicacies such as griddled diver scallops with pea purée or Adnams beer-battered fish. The proximity to the veritable feast of Essex's shores also gave rise to 'Moules Madness' – a Thursday tradition where diners descend to enjoy the shelly sea creatures cooked in various delicious ways including Thai-style or perhaps a more traditional French version with frites. If all this has you 'hooked' you can also take part in one of Sherri's popular cookery workshops that she runs from her house next door. It's worth noting that, despite the reverence of the ocean's bounty, both lunch and dinner have a number of options for vegetarians and those less inclined to seafood.
A buffet-style breakfast of cereals and fresh fruit is provided for hotel guests, who can also enjoy a number of cooked options including full English. Homemade muffins and eggs Benedict make an appearance on Sundays, when the public are also invited in for brunch. If you want to head further afield for meals, there are plenty of options nearby, particularly of the gastropub variety, we suggest The Crown at Stoke by Nayland, or The Sun Inn.
Top Tip: Were we to visit again, we'd stay 2 nights and take a cookery class with Sherri in the Mistley Kitchen. The hands-on workshops can cover anything from Indian seafood to French bistro, and if the restaurant is anything to go by, the food will be utterly delicious.