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What threatens the world expansion of the Turkish sphere of influence
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By mid-2021, Turkey continues to implement the strategy of expanding its military-political, economic and cultural influence in countries that can be conditionally included in the project of the so-called “Great Turan ”.
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Artist Alexander Ponomarev: “In Russia, to become a famous artist, you must first make an exhibition in Paris or in New York ”
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Hemingway forever: how he defined the lifestyle during the “thaw ” and why his books are eternal
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The fan provoked a bicycle accident with 21 victims in the Tour de France
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The woman too wanted to show off in front of the cameras and did not look back. — Landerno, June 27.
On the famous cycling race "Tour de France" there was a massive collision, which injured 21 participants of the race.
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French police are looking for the culprit of the collapse of cyclists in the "Tour de France" - article
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The first stage of the prestigious cycling race "Tour de France" ended in a massive accident.
47 kilometers before the finish line, a cheerleader ran out on the track with a poster.
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A column of participants of the “Tour de France ” fell on the asphalt because of the stupidity of the cheerleader
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Dozens of athletes suffered because of the stupid antics of one of the spectators.
At the “Tour de France ” riders got off their bikes because of a girl with a poster.
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The head of the WHO announced the beginning of a new wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the world
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The Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adanom Ghebreyesus said that today the world is at the origins of a new wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
During his speech at the meeting of the WHO Committee on the situation with COVID-19, he said that the world is in the early stages of the third wave of the pandemic.
Gebreyesus drew attention to the high increase in morbidity in countries, and also highlighted the mortality rates from COVID-19.
The number of deaths increased for the first time after a decline in deaths was recorded over a period of ten weeks.
The head of the WHO said that the variant of coronavirus "Delta" was one of the factors in the growth of transmission rates.
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In the United States, in the midst of the pandemic, the death rate from overdose reached a record 93 thousand
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In the United States, in the midst of the pandemic, overdose deaths reached a record 93 thousand.
In the United States, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, 93,000 people died from overdoses.
The previous record in the country was set a year earlier, when 72,000 Americans were victims of drugs.
About it with reference to data of the American government, published on Wednesday, July 14, reports The Associated Press.
In Japan, as a result of suicides in a month died more people than from coronavirus for the whole of 2020 "This is a staggering loss of human lives, - said researcher from Brown University Brandon Marshall, who monitors overdose cases. - COVID significantly increased the crisis."
According to experts, coronavirus restrictions have isolated people suffering from drug addiction and made it difficult for them to access treatment.
For comparison, in 1970, when the heroin epidemic raged in the United States, fewer than 7.2 thousand deaths were associated with an overdose, and at the height of the crack epidemic in 1988, about 9 thousand.
At the same time, all of these drugs have been supplanted in recent years by fentanyl, a dangerously potent opioid developed to treat severe pain caused by diseases such as cancer.
As the newspaper writes, “increasingly it is sold illegally and mixed with other drugs. ”
Fentanyl was responsible for more than 60% of overdose deaths last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In general, 2020 was the deadliest year in the history of the United States - more than 3.3 million deaths were registered in the country, 378 thousand of which, by the way, are associated with COVID-19.
In Japan, more people died from suicide in a month than from COVID-19 complications in all of 2020.
COVID-stress syndrome: the coronavirus pandemic has affected the mental health of millions of people Share: Facebook Twitter WhatsApp Telegram Viber Email Copy link
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Experiments with artichoke: Ukrainian farmers resist global warming
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According to the expert of the Department of climate and transport of the NGO "Ecodia" Daria Lazareva, due to the decrease in the water content of rivers in Ukraine will increase competition between the utilities, energy and agriculture for water resources.
Ukrainian energy is very much in demand in fresh, cold water, which is cooled by reactors.
Farmers will receive loans under state guarantees - the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers "The warmer this water becomes, the more dangerous the situation at our power plants will be," Lazareva said.
Agrarians are experimenting with growing new crops due to global changes in nature, observe the migration of climatic zones.
And although there will be no tropics in Ukraine, we should expect higher temperatures with droughts.
This weather is typical for the Central Asian region.
These changes are already being felt by the agricultural sector, which is beginning to experiment with crops that are not characteristic of our climate zone, such as artichoke.
“In the south of Ukraine, there are areas suitable, if possible, for the use of the same land reclamation, for the collection of two harvests per year or for the cultivation of niche crops that are more drought-resistant.
This is chickpeas, sorghum, ” said Elena Neroba, Business Development Manager at Maxgrain.
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This culture will be in great demand, given the demand in the world for alternative protein.
At the same time, we should not hope that new crops, which previously could not be grown, will save the domestic agricultural sector and greatly help in terms of profit.
From classical agricultural crops, in which Ukraine was traditionally strong, no one refused.
Farmers still need to invest in modern technologies and adapt to new weather conditions.
Not for quantity, but for quality.
"Niche (agricultural crops - channel 24) for that and niche.
They don ’ t have a wide range of consumers or a distribution channel.
Inside the country, they are unpopular to fully enter the diet of Ukrainians, and we still have insufficient quantities for exports, ” Neroba said.
Climate change will affect other sectors of the Ukrainian economy, experts warned.
The closest market to us - the European Union - has long adopted initiatives that require that the product does not harm the environment.
Ukrainian export production has not yet learned to comply with all environmental standards, so Ukraine may soon become a non-competitive player in the EU market.
As part of the “green ” agreement, Europeans will introduce the so-called CBAM tax (Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism), ” explained Alexey Orzhel, Head of the Energy Sector at BRDO.
Thus, European markets protect themselves and this is an absolutely logical requirement.
After all, if the manufacturer does not comply with environmental requirements, then its products do not make sense to allow on the market.
Experts noted that a new philosophy of consumption has emerged in the world.
It takes into account the environmental aspect.
The sooner manufacturers realize that their products must be made with care for the environment, the better it will be for them.
Ukrainian farmers must resist global warming: watch the video
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What aircraft will be tomorrow
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Artificial intelligence in the co-pilot's seat?
How do the number and flight of design ideas get along?
Flight hybrids and glass fuselages - gravitation or future reality?
On the eve of the opening of the International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky, we are talking about this with the Director General of the National Research Center "Zhukovsky Institute", Doctor of Technical Sciences Andrei Dutov.
Andrei Vladimirovich, what is comparable with the breakthrough from propeller aircraft to jet aircraft?
Electric aircraft, hybrid propulsion systems, something else?
Andrei Dutov: Well, the propellers have not gone anywhere: they flew and we will fly.
When flying at high speeds, their aerodynamic and geometric shape changes.
But propeller planes can fly, not much inferior to jet aircraft in speed.
And even the slow-moving, but economical aircraft have their own niches.
Until we come up with some gravitation, as in science fiction films, the value of propeller aviation will remain.
This is the first.
Second, global norms and standards for new aircraft technology have sharply tightened.
And this largely determines a new round in the development of the aircraft industry of all leading countries.
Where are we going?
First of all, environmental friendliness.
There is a requirement of the international civil aviation organization ICAO: after 2030, CO2 emissions from aircraft flights should be reduced by 80 percent.
Reduce aircraft noise by 50%.
And screw technology can contribute to solving these problems.
Another important goal related to flight safety is clearly spelled out - zero fatalities.
These are three principal indicators.
In order to achieve them, new technologies are needed.
First of all, as far as the engines are concerned, it is electricity.
At MAKS will be presented a flying laboratory based on the Yak-40 with the world's first electric aircraft engine on high-temperature superconductors with a capacity of 500 kW.
And that's a real breakthrough.
Not so long ago, we watched the first run of a flying laboratory on the runway.
Did she go up into the sky?
Andrei Dutov: Yes.
It is a fully functioning model.
We hope that it will fly on MAKS as a demonstrator of technologies for creating aircraft with hybrid power plants.
I want to remind you: at the last air show, we showed only prototypes, mock-ups.
In two years, a fully functioning labor demonstrator was made.
Now we will improve it, bring it to mind, so that it can be used in the design of future aircraft.
What is know-how?
Andrei Dutov: If you do not go into details, then in the bow of the aircraft there is an air propeller, which is driven by an electric motor.
This is a unique hybrid scheme, invented in the CIAM named after Baranov (part of the SIC "Institute. N.E. Zhukovsky") together with the company "SuperOx".
The technology is based on superconducting winding materials.
They are in a state of 77 degrees Kelvin, inside - liquid nitrogen, so that the resistance on these windings "zero".
This allows you to realize huge capacities at a relatively small size.
Is flying always a weight struggle?
Andrei Dutov: Exactly right.
And here we are ahead of the world by about 2-3 years, because no one has demonstrated such an approach and has not shown such technologies.
Can you imagine?
You take off on an electric motor, where you can, start the gas turbine engine, recharge the battery at the permitted height, continue the flight again on electricity and sit on propellers...
Yak-40 LL flew to Zhukovsky on its own?
Andrei Dutov: Of course.
True, it flew without a propeller - on its two march engines.
Now the screw will be re-installed.
At the MAKS, we plan to show the flight when the gas turbine engine goes to reduced speeds, the electric motor is turned on, and the thrust will go including due to the screw that is located on it.
We hope that by 2026-2027 we will receive a full set of technologies that will allow us to create a regional aircraft on such a hybrid scheme by 2030.
But we intend to go even further: to use in the engine as a refrigerant is not nitrogen, but liquefied hydrogen, which will be the fuel.
In fact, it does not produce any emissions at all.
This will be an even more complex scheme - it is suitable for large aircraft, for long-range aviation.
However, this is already the prospect of 2035 and beyond.
All this will radically change the appearance of the most winged car?
Andrey Dutov: Hydrogen takes up more space than the same kerosene.
So it will already be a distributed hybrid propulsion system integrated into the airframe.
Therefore, we are working on new passenger aircraft layouts, one of which is the flying wing.
As you know, the military uses similar technologies for invisibility.
They need to be adapted and developed for civil aviation: from the point of view of the location of engines, fuel, optimal seating, etc.
With this arrangement, the glider will screen the noise of the engines.
However, modern aircraft noise not only the engine, but also the glider itself.
And seriously enough.
And what about supertechnologies in terms of flight safety?
Andrei Dutov: First of all, it is artificial intelligence.
There is an ICAO roadmap, there are calculations of how AI can affect security.
An absolutely clear benchmark: in 2030, a “virtual co-pilot ” based on artificial intelligence will appear in civil aviation.
It is he who will allow to solve the task set by the world community - zero dead.
An absolutely clear benchmark: in 2030, a "virtual co-pilot" based on artificial intelligence will appear in civil aviation.
Andrei Dutov: Yes.
What else does artificial intelligence and related approaches to flight safety allow?
Today, both the safety and operational efficiency of the aircraft can no longer be assessed separately from the air traffic control system.
It will be a single conglomerate, distributed information management system.
If it is quite simple: a certain algorithm of the aircraft laid on board collects initial data not only from ground points of the air traffic management system, but also from all aircraft flying in the environment to clarify and adjust the movement of the aircraft.
Thus, let ’ s say, the problem of the “black box ” is solved.
Or, for example, if some navigation unit of the aircraft is out of order, the board flying nearby can help him - replace the broken one with its unit.
Moreover, the term “predictive diagnosis ” has already appeared.
This is when the aircraft will be checked not only for condition, but also to predict its technical condition.
This will also be done by artificial intelligence.
Such systems already exist in modern aircraft, and their improvement, associated with the processing of large amounts of data, requires the use of AI algorithms.
Can artificial intelligence be wrong?
Andrey Dutov: This is primarily a neural network that learns from big data.
We are out of the stage of basic search research, and now we need to refine these technologies so that they can be used by the designer.
Where big data is not enough, the system completes the missing information with mathematical methods and conducts analysis.
In short, we are dealing not only with a large array of operational data, but also with synthesized data, the use of which requires even more attention.
The idea is serious.
It is widely discussed in the world.
Are those who say that by 2030 the potential for improving the efficiency of aircraft construction from traditional technologies will not exceed 35-40 percent?
Andrei Dutov: This is a very high estimate.
Traditional technologies in transport engineering were invented 50-60 years ago.
And today, almost everyone is at the highest points of saturation.
It is impossible to expect fundamental improvements due to their development.
By one percent, yes.
However, the cost of the result is catastrophically large.
Only from science can we expect new solutions, which can then be implemented in experimental design work, and, accordingly, in the production of new products.
We are in the early stages of developing these technologies.
But we are well aware of what they should lead to and how they should be developed.
What about the design idea, the idea?
And that, according to the aircraft designer Tupolev, only beautiful planes fly?
Andrew Dutov: What will be the next generation of aircraft?
I can clearly say that these are not just beautiful cars that separately solve their problems.
It is, above all, a functional and efficient system that manages smaller systems.
This is what the next generation of aviation technology looks like.
I mean, there's no need to think: there's a beautiful car, and then the next model will be even more beautiful.
This logic does not work here.
Here is a fundamentally different view of the system, and not on a separate aircraft.
At the MAKS, Russia will show for the first time a demonstrator of a model of a supersonic passenger aircraft.
How far is it from a car to a car?
Andrei Dutov: Theoretically, such a machine is not so difficult to make.
All the knowledge that can be implemented as technology, there is.
In addition to the fight against sound shock, which has a very negative impact on humans, and on all living things, and on the environment.
Currently, there are no standards for sound impact within ICAO.
Our experts are involved in their development.
The creation of the Strizh demonstrator is the first serious step in this direction.
And Russia is doing it.
And next year we plan to start work on the creation of an aircraft that will be a prototype of a passenger supersonic.
What are the alleged characteristics?
Andrey Dutov: Cruise speed - 1800-1900 km per hour, height - above 15 thousand meters.
At least on a supersonic, it should fly from 5 hours, which requires a fundamentally new engine.
The aircraft will have an unusual elongated body.
What does that say?
The fact that in principle at such speeds in traditional solutions is very difficult to solve the problem of strength.
In addition, the supersonic design begins to heat up.
It is lengthening.
For aluminum structures at speeds over two Mach, it can reach 30 cm. This is also necessary to take into account.
The problem is complex.
It involves the use of optimal materials, optimal designs, including bionic ones, and the same optimal technologies.
There will be no windows in the cockpit.
All external sources of information - television, infrared, radio electronic, etc. - are displayed on computers.
There will be exclusively technical vision, which is fundamentally better than the human eye.
Our Center will demonstrate such technologies at its exposition.
This work is also being done in the West.
Are we keeping up?
Andrei Dutov: We are not behind.
The works are quite open: we cooperate with Japan, Germany, France.
The exchange of views with scientists is ongoing.
How do you feel about unusual concepts: say, when the fuselage has solar panels, a glass floor or a ceiling?..
Andrey Dutov: Behind any serious technology there is a huge amount of knowledge, a huge experience of design bureaus, a huge number of experiments and an understanding of how the processes of applied research develop.
You can't just come up with something.
It's a completely different slice.
Unfortunately, there is a market and demand from investors for the future, so speculation in this area is quite large.
What are the forecasts for the development of small aircraft?
Model range of aircraft, skins?
Andrei Dutov: I would not start with the model range, but with the statement of tasks.
There is a regional policy of the country, which solves the triple task necessary to provide transport services to the population of the Russian Federation: border security, transport accessibility of the territory and mobility of the population.
A very characteristic example.
Europe is actively engaged in electric aircraft, where they will fly entirely on batteries.
Not the way we make a hybrid engine, namely batteries. Why?
Yes, because the distance in Europe required for a flight is 200-500 km.
We have to start with a thousand.
The battery does not allow you to fly by a thousand, but the hybrid does.
And we are engaged in a hybrid engine, because we understand that it meets our Russian interests.
At the MAKS is presented the aircraft "Baikal", which is to replace the An-2.
The main thing here is the question of security, and I would even say cheapness.
The task is to ensure the mass production of cheap equipment of high reliability for transport accessibility of remote areas of Russia.
The Ural plant of civil aviation will show this model.
What does our aircraft industry lack for an innovative breakthrough - creativity, flexibility of thinking?
Or, perhaps, the freedom of technological entrepreneurship?
Andrei Dutov: I think it is the opposite.
All the new fundamental principles, all the technical ideas are already known.
We talked about them.
But from ideas, inventions to serial technology that can be applied without risking people ’ s lives, without getting into commercial adventures, a long distance.
It takes years and decades for world leaders.
And this, understand me correctly, is not only the path of insights and bright take-offs.
This is a large and complex work of thousands of scientists and engineers, sometimes routine calculations, tests, the strictest selection of the best technologies and solutions.
You can come up with a lot of creative ideas, but without such careful study - are we ready to get on such planes and put our children in them, are we ready to risk at least our money?
The answer is obvious.
Creativity is needed, but still a new technological way in the aircraft industry - this is not a topic for a startup, it is not done "in the garage".
Those startups in the aircraft industry, which we sometimes hear about abroad, always take advantage of the groundwork created by the largest scientific associations at state expense.
The new technological era in aviation is indeed fantastic.
Although, perhaps, the most revolutionary innovations in it are not so spectacular.
But to make this fairy tale a reality is a great job that our applied science knows how to do and does.
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Alexander Rogers: A brief history of the pandemic from the beginning of 2020 to the present day
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Usually I do not write in this style, here the master was the late "Green Tea" (let this text be a tribute to him), but there is simply no other way.
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The “pandemic ” will inevitably backfire with a real epidemic of mental disorders
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In Russia, the death rate from drug use increased by 60% last year.
This is reported by RBC with reference to the data of Rosstat.
So, in 2020, this figure was 7316 people, in 2019 - 4569, while in 2016-2018 - from 4.4 to 4.8 thousand people.
Binding to a “pandemic ” here looks very appropriate.
The terror and war that the regime is waging against the people under the guise of caring for their health, simply had to cause a sharp increase in mental disorders and diseases.
Sergei Pereslegin at one of the seminars said that, in his opinion, up to 20 percent of the population in countries where terror rages with particular ferocity, will become mentally ill, and the “pandemic ” will inevitably backfire with the most real (without fools) large-scale epidemic of mental disorders.
For Russia, all this is more than relevant.
Even without the coronavirus, streams of hatred are pouring from televisions and all propaganda sources, sweeping away everything in its path.
And if we take into account that in parallel with this, any non-propagandistic media are being exterminated, it is extremely difficult to resist these flows.
People, as in the case of vaccination, save themselves by simply ignoring the sources of this hatred.
Stop watching TV, reading the office.
There is no other way to protect your psyche from a nightmare - only a boycott.
Nonviolent resistance.
There's no other way.
Read more about Who benefits from a pandemic?
Unfortunately, terror is not limited to "Evening Litter" and its endless clones across all channels.
He's everywhere.
Hatred has become the spiritual bond of the Putin regime.
It is nothing less than an endless lie.
It is logical that in such circumstances someone is trying to escape from reality.
Including drugs.
I think that if the statistics on the number of suicides are announced (at least estimated), the picture is unlikely to be very different.
Russia has been among the three countries with the highest suicide rates since the year 16, after Guyana and Lesotho.
And in 2019, Russia became the first country in the world in the number of suicides among men.
Somewhere in the world, Putin won.
The increase in mortality caused by mental problems is not the cause, it is a symptom.
The reason is in the very nature of the system built in Russia, which generates a rejection of any humanity.
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Will the National Bank of Georgia tighten policy due to rising prices
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TBILISI, July 21 – Sputnik.
The increase in prices in Georgia is a consequence of global processes and the coronavirus pandemic, said the head of the National Bank Koba Gvenetadze.
Annual inflation (June 2021 to June 2020) in Georgia was 9.9%, with a target of 3%.
This is the highest inflation rate in the last 10 years.
The last time a sharp jump in prices was recorded in 2011, when inflation was 10%.
“As the International Monetary Fund notes, high inflation today is a global trend and is caused by a pandemic.
In the case of Georgia, the increase in prices is caused by significantly higher prices in international markets, high intermediate costs in production against the background of limited supplies, as well as an increase in utility bills, "Gvenetadze told reporters.
He noted that as a result of the joint analysis of the IMF and the National Bank, it was found out that if world prices in dollars had remained at the same level, the inflation rate in Georgia was close to 3%.
"It is expected that this trend will end soon, and inflation at the end of 2022 will be 2.3%, and the average inflation rate by this period is 2.8%," Gvenetadze said, stressing that the forecast cannot be final.
A pandemic has one very bad moment – it is uncertainty, because there can always be some new factor that may not justify the forecast and change the situation in the opposite direction, he added.
At the same time, the head of the National Bank noted that uncertainty will be the main factor influencing the rate of monetary policy in Georgia.
"We have to be very careful and look at whether there are factors or expectations that can keep inflation at a higher level in the long run.
Therefore, we are ready to tighten the interest rate.
However, such a decision will necessarily have a basis.
Today I can tell you that I do not see the need to raise the refinancing rate.
However, due to the uncertainty that accompanies the pandemic, we will be very careful, ” Gvenetadze said.
According to him, the National Bank will make the final decision on the refinancing rate on August 4 at a meeting of the monetary policy committee based on forecasts that generate positive expectations.
"According to preliminary estimates, in the main scenario, GDP growth will be higher than 7.7%, at least more than 8%, and this gives us reason to believe that we will have a solid situation and buffers of commercial banks, which remain the locomotives of the economy," Gvenetadze said and expressed hope that negative factors will not affect the forecasts.
The improvement of economic forecasts in Georgia is due to the lifting of the restriction and growth of tourism.
The authorities already expect the economy to recover almost in full by the autumn of this year.
Meanwhile, the epidemiological situation in Georgia continues to deteriorate.
Despite the fact that the authorities are not yet considering the introduction of additional restrictions, calling on the population to vaccinate, epidemiologists have already begun to work to return the restrictions if the number of cases reaches a critical level.
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Lithuanian “hospitality ”: why exhausted and beaten by border guards Iraqi illegals ended up in Belarus?
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Do you not think that Vilnius and Warsaw staged a competition - who will be more disgraced in world politics? The Poles are caught in the leak of correspondence, in which the highest officials of the Warsaw democratic dictatorship discuss how to rock the protests in Belarus.
And do it via email, which counterintelligence and common sense do forbid strictly.
Here is Vilnius...
Can you hear that strange sound?
Listen to me.
This is breaking at the seams of Lithuanian democracy.
Two gods cannot be served, gentlemen of the politics of Vilnius.
It is impossible at the same time to teach Belarusians how to fight for some pseudo-European values on the street, and at the same time to beat, poison with dogs and, under the threat of shooting, expel their migrants through the forest to Belarus so unloved by you.
My name is Igor Tur, and I will add to the theme.If someone missed the main topic of the last days, then briefly about it.
For many years Belarus and our border service acted as a shield on the way of migrants to the European Union through Lithuania.
Europeans persistently called them there, Lithuanians publicly pretended that they were also Europe, but as soon as Merkel turned away, they asked Belarus to filter the flows of refugees from Asia.
We as friends helped, they as friends participated in projects on co-financing the arrangement of the Lithuanian-Belarusian border.But in recent years, this comrade, whose name is Gitanas Nauseda (this is the president of Lithuania), decided to work with our country differently.
Vilnius constantly created around Minsk information noise from fakes and lies that everything is bad: the nuclear power plant is unsafe, we throw the coronavirus to them, he is concerned about our doctors, civil society, someone else.
So to speak, "Brussels sprouts"...
She flew to Vilnius regularly for various reasons, but almost a year after the August events in Minsk, Lithuania lost any attractive reasons for discontent.
At the same time, Belarus officially, through the lips of our President, stated that the unfriendliness of the European Union, the curtailment of joint cross-border projects and sanctions make it impossible for our work to stop the transit of migration in a huge volume, as before.
After all, they are not our immigrants.
Once again, Belarus announced this loudly, and our logic is impeccable: spending millions of its dollars to filter refugees coming to us legally and seeking to unfriendly Europe through Lithuania (do they understand that Lithuania is not really Europe?), so doing this is stupid for us, our economy and our people.
Lithuania saw this as a window of opportunity for the Overton window: if earlier public lies about Belarusian nuclear power plants, coronavirus and protests worked, you can raise the stakes.
Having received just over two thousand illegal immigrants since the beginning of the year (and there is no reason to trust these data), Lithuania accused Minsk of transferring refugees from Iraq to Vilnius at the state level.
No, this is the fault of those who allegedly fought for democracy there, and this led, as in many other countries, to a catastrophe.
Is it our fault that they want to go to Europe?
No, this is the fault of the European Union, which populist said that it will accept everyone on its benefits.
We are a transit country.
We received people who came to us legally, and whether they have a Schengen or not, they tear up passports at the border or not, and how they try to get in is not our problem.
But Lithuania even said that Belarus earned 2 million euros on the transit of illegal immigrants.
Oh, this Baltic pettiness - measure all the number of cans with sprats.
Vilnius, dear, 2 million is a pair of BelAZ ’ s, we will not come up with sophisticated schemes for such money.
Is it really a business for someone?
But not with us...
I will repeat what we said on Sunday in the “Contours ”: if some individuals legally accept refugees in Minsk, take from them one and a half thousand dollars to show which side of Lithuania, then there is no violation of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus, the maximum is fraud, for what money was taken?
I am sure that the law enforcers are ready to accept applications from Iraqi victims.
But here's what happened next.
The same migrants from Iraq, who visited the centers of Lithuania, are met by our border guards this week.
Do you think that the evidence of illegal trafficking of people across the border from Vilnius is much more than the version of which we are accused?
Where is democracy and human rights?
Or if it is from Iraq, then how would it not be completely human?
I honestly would not believe that this is possible if it were not for the words of the victims themselves.
It is obvious that Alexander Lukashenko.Do you know why our President in Europe is so disliked?
He calls things by their proper names.
In diplomacy, in such a situation, it is customary to say something like “we are concerned about the dubious actions of our partners. ”
But Alexander Lukashenko speaks as it is.
You can love him for it, you can dislike him, but it deserves universal respect.
And another one.
This week, the Head of State gave an interview to an Arab TV channel.
Do you know what the idea is coming to your mind now?
And how will the Arab world react to this story with the aggression of Lithuania?
Muslim women with children who have been beaten and starved, some of them are pregnant, Lithuanian border guards hiding their faces under balaclavas, tear up their passports, put dogs on refugees and drive them back to Belarus through the forest at gunpoint.
Does this remind you of the actions of the fascist punishers in 1943?
And let me remind you that the Arab world is ready to defend its women harshly and with weapons.
There is already a wave of discontent with the actions of Vilnius, but it is there.
Another thing is that in this “fabulous ” Europe already now there are millions of Muslims, and they are hot guys.
I do not call for violence, I condemn terrorist attacks, no matter who committed them.
But Europe and specifically Lithuania with this attitude towards Muslim refugees again opens Pandora ’ s box.
The box, which itself created populist statements.
And which has already opened in France, Germany and other countries.
If on religious grounds and because of the way migrants from Iraq were treated in Lithuania, a wave of terrorist attacks will pass through Europe – who will be to blame?
God forbid this to happen, but the soil is already fertilized.
All of a sudden, Ukraine.
After the conflict in the Donbas, Belarus welcomed tens of thousands of Ukrainians who sought peace, tranquility and opportunities to simply live and work without fear for the safety of their children.
And they got everything they asked for, and more.
But these migrants were ours, because from Ukraine, which is so eager to Europe, they just did not want to go to Europe.
What is the difference between the Iraqis and the Lithuanians?
In the fact that Vilnius is well aware that the Iraqis do not want to stay in Lithuania, so supposedly beautiful and wonderful.
They want to go further, to the real Europe.
Which, of course, Lithuania is not.
Vilnius may, and would like to accept them all, to provide jobs to support its economy.
But it's not that sweet.
Neither the Iraqis nor the Lithuanians themselves.
Maybe this is the reason for such aggression of Vilnius to refugees? This is all too interesting.
Seems to be in trouble.
For Europe.
Once again, I would like to emphasize: in democratic Lithuania, Iraqi citizens – men, women and children – were tortured and expelled from the country.
In Belarus, where the dictatorship is, they were fed and provided with medical care.
Moreover, for humanitarian reasons, as well as the need for treatment and rehabilitation of foreigners, we will not be held accountable.
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Due to climate change: 2 / 3 of the territory of Ukraine can become a zone of risky farming
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In the future, climate change may lead to the fact that two-thirds of the territory of Ukraine will become a zone of risky farming.
This assumption was made by the Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Roman Leshchenko.
According to him, agriculture is quite susceptible to climate change.
Therefore, already today in Ukraine, climatic zones of agriculture are shifting to the north by hundreds of kilometers. — We see that the temperature regime has increased by more than 1 ° C for 10 years.
This has a very serious impact on the farming area.
Objectively speaking, with such dynamics as today, we can come to a situation where 2 / 3 of the territory of Ukraine will become a zone of risky farming, ” the minister said.
Roman Leshchenko added that global climate change poses very big threats to agriculture.
First of all, they are a decrease in production productivity, a loss of ecosystem stability and a deterioration in the quality of life of people.
Therefore, according to the minister, it is necessary to move to more economical means of land cultivation in terms of technology, as well as to increase the share of organic products.
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Ernest Hemingway ’ s birthday: what kind of alcohol the author of “The Old Man and the Sea ” loved
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One way or another, a writer is not a boring professor, sitting all his life in the office or at home at the computer.
On the contrary, it is usually an active and non-standard person.
Take Ernest Hemingway for example.
Hemingway loved alcoholic beverages, but – wrote only sober Outstanding member of the literary elite, Ernest Miller Hemingway traveled almost the whole world.
Here and there he savoured local alcoholic beverages.
In Cuba - daiquiri, in Paris - absinthe, and in Florida (where the writer often spends the summer) - gin with coconut water.
The author of "The Old Man and the Sea" was a man of bear physique, but did not avoid women's cocktails.
He also enjoyed the "White Lady" (gin, orange liqueur and lime juice) and fruit varieties of champagne.
However, the favorite drink of the creator of "For Whom the Bell Tolls", in whatever bar Hemingway did not sit, was whiskey.
Why did he have to do all this?
Forget churches, palaces and squares.
If you really want to learn the local culture, go to the nearest bar – that ’ s how the writer himself answered this question.
Ernest Hemingway loved alcohol, but created only sober / Photo jfklibrary.org Interesting fact: according to the evidence, which can hardly be checked, Ernest Hemingway drank a liter of alcoholic beverages a day.
But at the same time strictly adhered to the golden rule: you can shave and write only on a sober head.
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Hemingway ’ s birthday: what kind of alcohol the author loved the Old Man and the Sea
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How did famous writers treat alcohol?
Like all people, differently.
Whom alcohol helped to write masterpieces, and someone after writing a masterpiece went into all serious trouble.
One way or another, a writer is not a boring professor, sitting all his life in the office or at home at the computer.
On the contrary, it is usually an active and non-standard person.
Take Ernest Hemingway for example.
Hemingway loved alcoholic beverages, but – wrote only sober Outstanding member of the literary elite, Ernest Miller Hemingway traveled almost the whole world.
Here and there he savoured local alcoholic beverages.
In Cuba - daiquiri, in Paris - absinthe, and in Florida (where the writer often spends the summer) - gin with coconut water.
The author of "The Old Man and the Sea" was a man of bear physique, but did not avoid women's cocktails.
He also enjoyed the "White Lady" (gin, orange liqueur and lime juice) and fruit varieties of champagne.
However, the favorite drink of the creator of "For Whom the Bell Tolls", in whatever bar Hemingway did not sit, was whiskey.
Why did he have to do all this?
Forget churches, palaces and squares.
If you really want to learn the local culture, go to the nearest bar – that ’ s how the writer himself answered this question.
Ernest Hemingway loved alcohol, but created only sober / Photo jfklibrary.org according to evidence that can hardly be verified, Ernest Hemingway drank a liter of alcoholic beverages per day.
But at the same time strictly adhered to the golden rule: Also interesting Ideal for a cool party: how to cook delicious alcoholic ice cream
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Win Forex Optimun: Unscrupulous Online Edition Punished
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This unprecedented decision was made by the Ninth Arbitration Court of Moscow, which considered the claim of the famous international broker Forex Optimum Group to the administrator of the site Infoskam.ru.
Published on the site negative information about the work of the online broker was declared invalid and purposefully defamatory.
Until now, the people in our Internet wrote with impunity what they wanted.
Including for money, if it was necessary to “drown ” a competitor company or for some other reason to lie to someone.
Moreover, the director of web studio Kraftwork Roman Usov, is convinced that 70% of all responses in any area are written to order.
The principle in this case (NoA40-67642 / 20-51-488) is that the defendant was a specific person - the site administrator who wrote and posted the article.
The court ordered him to pay the plaintiff the costs of notarial services, as well as to pay for the work of the representative of Forex Optimum Group in the court session.
We are still talking about compensation for causing moral, reputational and material damage.
In such unpleasant positions, in which the online broker "Forex Optimum Group" was put, many others are often found.
All of a sudden, a series of unfair negative reviews from alleged users, allegedly journalists and all sorts of specialists suddenly appear on the site.
And you won't wash.
Spoon of tar... But the rest of the potential consumers of services are very focused on this kind of information!
According to a study by Yandex.Metrica and GFK Rus, reviews on websites are unconditionally trusted by 10% of Russian citizens.
And most certainly the absolute majority of them read and then make their opinion.
What to do in such cases?
The dogs are barking, the caravan is coming...
That's usually how it was.
I had to close my eyes and continue on my own path.
Aggressive anti-advertising under the guise of features of dissatisfied customers or articles of pseudo-experts is difficult to resist.
You will not go to court: it is not the media that writes, who is to be called to account?
In this case, the defamatory information was posted in the form of an “expert ” article on a specialized website.
For what it is made clear.
Prices are also known.
It's a whole business.
Not dusty.
But dirty.
And, alas, popular, because instantly brings the desired effect.
A more successful competitor is almost immediately removed from the market.
In any case, his activity slows down, and he is forced to deal not with his direct duties, but somehow react to a provocation.
Consumers are especially sensitive to black PR in the address of companies from the financial sector - banks, mutual funds, online exchanges.
This is the case of the Forex Optimum Group.
Many shut their mouths to slanderers, paying them a decent bribe for them to remove negative false information from the site.
By the way, this is another reason why this information even gets into the network.
Some site owners personally organize an information attack on their pages in order to then stop it for a good reward.
In addition, the negative people bite.
It is also a good marketing tactic.
Attracting the reader with allegedly insider information about the problems of some popular Internet project, you immediately offer him a “lifeline ”: legal or other consulting services. Why?
Promo – what you need.
Cheap and angry.
The lawyers of Forex Optimum Group decided not to give up their positions and not to play with anyone in giveaways.
They went to court with a claim for the protection of business reputation and won the case.
The defendants were the owners of two Internet sites for reviews - Dmitry Nikanorov (Infoskam.ru) and Taisia Smirnova (Antines.ru).
From the decision of the Arbitration Court of Moscow: “The owner of the Internet site should be responsible for the placement of information that contradicts the law, since he is the person who created the appropriate technical conditions for visitors to his Internet resource. ”
Moreover, given the fact that “the case is fabricated ”, since the artificial nature of the defamatory responses posted is obvious, the court ordered the defendant to publicly admit to spreading defamation and refute the false information.
The second defendant by the time of the trial herself removed all the negativity from her site and avoided the lawsuit.
It is also a victory.
The precedent is set.
You can no longer allow unscrupulous people to do business like this and shamelessly earn money in front of everyone, denigrating responsible business.
According to Sergey Minaev, Director of the Center for Business and Political Reputation Research, the current victory of Forex Optimum Group is indicative and significant.
It can be a turning point.
It is very likely that from now on, and other companies will not want to put up with the flow of dirt pouring on them.
It is time to collect from fraudsters and disinformers substantial compensation for moral damage and losses incurred by companies.
With these citizens it is necessary to speak the language of the strictness of the law and their own language – money.
It is necessary that slander becomes a financially unprofitable enterprise.
Moreover, such a law has already been prescribed and recently adopted by the State Duma (amendments to Article 128.1 of the Criminal Code).
According to him, for defamation distributed on the Internet, a fine of up to 1 million rubles or a prison term of up to two years.
By the way, the story with Forex Optimum Group is not over yet.
The company may well start the second part of the “Marlezon ballet ” and sue the offenders in court, having already opened a criminal case.
Taisiya Meadow
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Le Figaro – quarantine or pandemic – scientists have found out what is worse
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Le Figaro – quarantine or pandemic – scientists have found out what is worse During quarantine and other harsh measures that have been taken in different countries, people wondered if they are not doing more harm than COVID-19 itself.
Therefore, scientists decided to conduct an analysis and compare data from 94 countries of the world to assess the relationship between strict quarantine measures and mortality in the pandemic era, writes Le Figaro.
During the quarantine, many wondered whether restrictive measures do more harm than the disease itself.
So scientists decided to investigate this issue, writes Le Figaro.
The researchers analyzed the impact of government restrictions on mortality rates, habitual health services, suicide rates, and mental health status.
Data came from 94 countries.
As a result, analysts concluded that nowhere was there both high mortality and severe quarantine measures, and at the same time a low number of cases of COVID-19.
This is necessary to conclude that the high mortality was caused by the quarantine.
For example, Australia or New Zealand had significant restrictions, but there was no high mortality.
In Brazil, Sweden and Russia, on the contrary, the restrictions were small, but the mortality rate is high.
According to the authors of the study, quarantine can even reduce mortality compared with previous years, since common diseases such as the flu are less common and the number of accidents is reduced.
But they also found a link between government restrictions and a reduction in routine visits to doctors.
This can be caused by a lack of doctors, and people ’ s fears that in clinics you can get infected with coronavirus.
The authors of the article admit that in general the pandemic affected the mental health of people, but the number of suicides has not increased.
And where suicides have increased, as, for example, in Japan, this is not due to quarantine, but to unemployment, and this happened after the return to normal life.
The pandemic has also affected international health programmes.
Funds earmarked for the fight against HIV and tuberculosis have been partially redirected to the coronavirus.
But to assess this aspect is quite difficult.
The authors of the study agree that the quarantine has had a negative impact on people, but they concluded that government intervention has contributed to a reduction in deaths from COVID-19 and that the quarantine cannot be worse than the damage from the pandemic, at least in the short term.
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US sanctions 2021 – Turkey buys weapons from Russia
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The US government is ready to announce sanctions against Turkey.
According to US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland, the reason is that the Turkish government buys weapons from Russia.
"Comments" decided to find out how realistic this threat is.
The US is ready to impose sanctions against Turkey because of Russia.
Expert of the National Institute for Strategic Studies in the Middle East Nikolai Zamikula assessed whether the United States can go to the aggravation of relations with Turkey and whether this does not look like an attempt to divert attention from the actual “drain ” of a number of allies in the situation with the“ Nord stream-2 ”.
According to the expert, the issue of purchasing Russian air defense systems by Turkey has long been one of the main stumbling blocks on the way to stabilizing US-Turkish relations.
At the same time, Washington takes a consistently negative position regarding this deal, which, in the opinion of the American side, undermines the unity of NATO.
“It takes into account both the geopolitical aspect of the case (relations in the field of military-industrial complex between a member of the Alliance and a country that is the main threat to its Eastern flank), and almost military (the impossibility of integrating Russian systems into the common Euro-Atlantic air defense system), – says Nikolai Zamikula. – The United States has already imposed in response to this agreement certain restrictions against Turkey, the most significant of which is the exclusion of Ankara from the partner program for production and production. It is the fifth generation F-35 fighter jet.
In such a situation, the expert explains, it is quite logical that in the case of further development of Turkish-Russian relations in the field of arms procurement, Washington will turn to new sanctions measures.
This is a simple statement of fact and a reminder of the traditional, hitherto unchanged US approach to this issue.
However, it should be emphasized that it was a potential reaction to new purchases of Russian weapons by Ankara.
Assessing the prospects for such a development of events, it is worth paying attention to the theoretical possibility and practical necessity of such actions on the part of Turkey, "Zamikula said.
According to him, the Turkish authorities have repeatedly stressed that in the interests of their own state, they are ready to buy modern weapons from any source necessary from their point of view.
And they are not going to subordinate the security issues of the Turkish people to the positions of other countries, even if we are talking about important allies.
This principled, nationally-oriented position is a vivid illustration of Recep Tayyip Erdogan ’ s approaches to international relations.
And it does not exclude the further development of cooperation with the Russian Federation.
"At the same time, it is worth carefully considering the range of goods that Moscow can offer to Ankara, - said Nikolai Zamikula. - Rational evaluation of the latest Russian projects in the field of weapons shows their questionable value for Turkey (which is actively developing its own military-industrial complex, and in many areas has its own developments).
No matter how much the Russians praise their products, many projects clearly do not meet the expectations placed on them. "
The expert draws special attention to the aviation direction, because as a result of the exclusion from the F-35 program in Turkey, there is a demand for new fighters.
In these circumstances, the Russian press has long hinted at a potential deal with Turkey for the sale of Su-57 aircraft, which according to Russian statements also belong to the fifth generation.
However, the fact that this model has been in development for many years, but has not yet entered the Russian Aerospace Forces in really significant quantities, as well as the critical comments of Indian partners regarding the project, to which they showed interest in the initial stages, shows its doubtful value, ” says Nikolai Zamikula.
A couple of days ago at the International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2021, the Russians presented a new light fighter Su-75, which is being developed primarily for export.
However, according to the specialist, the appearance of the aircraft resembles the American concepts of many years ago (that is, clearly does not correspond to the statements about innovation and uniqueness), and its development is in the early stages.
Zamikula is sure that Turkey is unlikely to “buy ” Russian advertising dubious projects, which, according to independent experts, are inferior to American weapons.
"At the same time, there is a possibility of developing Russian-Turkish cooperation at the level of development, - the expert notes. - Ankara announces work on its own national project of the fifth-generation TF-X aircraft.
However, due to the lack of experience in this area, it is unlikely to be implemented in the coming years.
And here, Turkey may be interested in Russian developments, developed in the process of designing new models.
By themselves, the Sukhoi Design Bureau products are unlikely to interest the Turkish Air Force, but perhaps their individual elements can be used in the work on their own projects. "
Of course, such a potential cooperation between Ankara and Moscow also causes concern in the United States, and it was on this occasion that Victoria Nuland could speak in the form of a preventive designation of the position, the expert explains.
Now MAKS-2021 is taking place, and Nikolai Zamikula associates the statements of the American representative with this event, within the framework of which, theoretically, some preliminary negotiations can be conducted and draft versions of agreements can be concluded.
"But the issue of Nord Stream 2, in my opinion, has no primary relevance to the case," Zamikula said. - Of course, the statement can be taken as an attempt to remind that Biden does not forget about the need to resist the strengthening of Russian influence - if not in matters of the gas pipeline, then in other areas.
However, it should be taken into account that for Washington, building relations with Germany and Turkey — powerful members of the Euro-Atlantic community — remain parallel areas of diplomatic activity.
According to the expert, it is not necessary to project the fact that for Ukraine and its Eastern European partners the problem of the Russian gas pipeline remains a key threat to the actions of other actors of international relations leading the global game.
In the end, Mykola Zamikula believes, it is necessary to rationally assess their interests and priorities – and in this case, Nuland ’ s statement remains quite predictable, independent of the Ukrainian context, an action within one of the leading directions of US foreign policy (relations with Turkey).
We will remind, earlier “Comments ” reported how Vladimir Putin can blackmail the Turkish government because of the support of Ukraine.
Details are in our material.
Also on the portal you can find out whether Turkey really wants to increase its influence in the Caucasus.
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2 / 3 of the territory of Ukraine can become a zone of risky farming – Leshchenko
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Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Roman Leshchenko made an alarming statement during the forum “National Dialogue on Food Systems ”: The temperature regime has increased by more than 1 degree Celsius in 10 years.
And this has a very serious impact on the farming area.
Objectively speaking, with such dynamics as today, we can come to a situation where 2 / 3 of the territory of Ukraine will become a zone of risky farming.
It's interesting!
The price of land in Ukraine: where the highest and lowest Leshchenko believes that global climate change poses very big threats to agriculture – primarily due to the decline in production productivity, the loss of ecosystem resilience and the deterioration of people ’ s quality of life.
Therefore, it is necessary "to move to more economical means of processing in terms of technology and to increase the share of organic products."
We need to implement the policy of irrigation and land reclamation, the strategy of which was laid down by the government in 2019, the official added.
The Minister also noted other important issues: control and punishment for the illegal plowing of protected areas, restoration of forest belts, conservation of lands for the purpose of afforestation, alkalization and revitalization Leshchenko summed up that now there is a "full-scale review of the mechanisms for the implementation of both agricultural and environmental policies."
Important decision of the Cabinet of Ministers Farmers will receive loans under state guarantees
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Cities in the north of France have restricted the sale of fuel through illegal migrants
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Cities on the northern coast of France have restricted the sale of take-away fuel to 10 liters per customer to stop illegal migration through the English Channel.
This is reported by “European truth ” with reference to The Local.
"The purchase or sale of more than 10 litres of fuel - petrol or diesel - in hand-held containers is prohibited," the ruling, published on Thursday, said the newspaper La Voix du Nord.
Read also Record 430 migrants arrived on the shores of England in one day More fuel can be purchased only by those who need it for professional reasons.
The prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department said the restriction was necessary given the "growing presence" of migrants seeking to cross the border illegally into the UK.
One of the main means of transportation through the English Channel are boats powered by a gasoline engine.
The restriction will be valid for two months and provides for the imposition of a fine of 135 euros and can grow to 3,700 euros in case of repeated violations.
On Monday, British authorities recorded a new record of 430 illegal migrants per day arrived on the British coast.
The number of illegal migrants arriving in the UK in small boats this year has already exceeded the total number of arrivals for the whole of 2020.
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The Ministry of Health approved the study of the combination of “Satellite light ” with AstraZeneca
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A year and a half of the coronavirus pandemic led to a decrease in the ratings of politicians in most countries of the world.
At the same time, a significant blow was dealt to the popularity of both the authorities and the opposition, according to the report of the Expert Institute for Social Research (EISI) “Pandemic and Trust – on the Global Dynamics of Political Ratings and COVID-19 Waves ”.
As noted in the document, which is available to the newspaper VIEW, for the first months of 2020 was characterized by a public request for tough measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
However, in a year and a half of life in conditions of restrictions, the situation has changed.
“Public mobilization has been replaced by fatigue from both lockdowns and the fact that the severity of restrictive measures is weakly correlated with morbidity, and their increase will not necessarily lead to a decrease in the number of cases of COVID-19, ” the document says.
Another factor was fatigue from the pandemic itself and the flow of monotonous “bad news. ”
“The increase in the incidence of the disease provokes an increase in the number of negative reports in the media and supports a sense of anxiety among citizens, and also becomes a source of protest moods and dissatisfaction with the authorities, which, according to some voters, demonstrate their inability to cope with the problem, and according to others –“ aggravate ”, “manipulate ” and“ exaggerate the danger ”, – follows from the report.
“As a result, after almost a year and a half of the pandemic, power is under a barrage of criticism from both skeptical cowards, who deny the very need for restrictions, and from loyalist cowards, for whom any restrictions are insufficient.
This leads to a widespread fall in the popularity of politicians and a general decrease in confidence in them.
The decline in public confidence concerns not only the authorities, but also the opposition.
Citizens understand that opposition political forces have even fewer resources to confront the pandemic and its consequences, and a change of power during a crisis can lead to increased instability in society, ” the experts note.
At the same time, practice shows that social protest is more related to the level of morbidity.
The first months of the pandemic were marked by social mobilization and rallying around incumbent political leaders amid expectations of mass vaccination and a decrease in COVID-19 infection.
However, vaccination in Western Europe and the United States did not prevent the spread of the virus, calling into question the imminent end of the pandemic.
“This factor, combined with a new wave of morbidity, leads to disappointment in the actions of politicians and their ability to prevent the epidemic threat.
At the same time, we can confidently predict the restoration of ratings with a decrease in the number of cases and, accordingly, public anxiety, as well as the degree of media kovid-hysteria, ” the report states.
Notable changes occurred in Germany, where the ruling CDU / CSU bloc ’ s rating fell to a record 23% 1 in April, coinciding with a new wave of morbidity and the introduction of additional security measures.
In France, a period of increased morbidity in April, when the average increase exceeded 30,000 people, also led to a decline in the popularity of President Emmanuel Macron.
The level of approval for its activities fell from 40% in January to 33%, and disapproval rose from 58% to 63%.
There is a similar picture in Greece.
The ruling New Democracy party experienced an explosion of popularity in the spring and summer of 2020, when its rating exceeded 52% amid the first restrictive measures and minimal morbidity, which seemed to be a success for the authorities.
But a sharp increase in the number of cases in October reduced support for the party: by mid-July 2021, its popularity had fallen to 41.7%.
In the Netherlands, the rating of the People ’ s Party for Freedom and Democracy, which won the most seats in parliament in the last election, fell significantly in April during a protracted wave of COVID-19, which by then lasted more than six months.
At the beginning of April, the party's rating was 28% - this is the worst result for the entire previous year, during which it did not fall below 30%, and in June 2020, the party's activities were supported by 45% of respondents.
In the UK, the approval rate for Prime Minister Boris Johnson in May 2021 was 48%, the highest since April-May 2020.
However, in June, the increase in coronavirus cases increased dramatically, and at the same time, Johnson ’ s support among voters fell, reaching 34% by mid-July.
It is noteworthy that the decline in public confidence concerns not only the authorities, but also the opposition.
The population, tired of constant fear, comes to the understanding that none of the political forces has a ready recipe for salvation from a pandemic, and a change of power in a period of crisis can lead to increased instability in society.
For example, in Portugal, support for the prime minister has fallen by 20% over the past four months, while the opposition has lost 11% of its rating over the same time.
Also by the spring of 2021, in less than six months, the rating of the ruling Hungarian Fidesz party fell from 56% to 44%, but the popularity of the country ’ s united opposition decreased by 12%.
“Support for Turkish President Erdogan in May 2021 fell to 36.7%, although in January it was 48.2%.
The same applies to opposition figures.
Support for the Good Party declined from 13.7% to 8% over the same period, while Kılıçdaroğlu and Imamoglu, the two main candidates of the Republican People ’ s Party, fell from 12.6% and 14.6% in January to 6.5% and 7.7% in May.
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Because of the warming in Ukraine began to grow exotic fruits (video)
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Journalists "Segodnya" found out how global warming affects the harvest in Ukraine This year, Ukraine expects a record harvest - 100 million tons of grain and oilseeds.
It is already called the largest harvest in the years of independence.
Even during the Soviet era, this did not happen.
As they say in the story “Today ”, the summer turned out to be successful – warm and rainy.
The climate has changed.
And because of the warming in Ukraine begin to grow quite exotic fruits.
We should wait for the harvest of ziziphus and sorghum.
In addition, in Ukraine over the past six years began to grow lavender.
She migrated from the Crimean mountains to the plains.
"Lavender withstands frost up to 35 degrees.
From one hectare you can get about 10 thousand dollars, it is profitable, ” said the co-founder of the agricultural cooperative Stanislav Rassokha.
It's just the season of picking up smelly grass.
There are only a few farmers like Stanislav, who have both fields and capacities for processing lavender into essential oil and lavender water.
But he says things will change.
In the north of Ukraine, a tropical berry, honeysuckle, is now taking root.
In the next five years will be a record warm year - UN forecast A Volyn Dmitry in his garden near Lutsk grows kiwi, figs, irga along with traditional apples and pears.
In addition, fields where there is insufficient rainfall due to the climate, corn is supplanted by sorghum, common in tropical and subtropical countries.
The bay leaf is also growing.
Experts say that the climate has changed significantly, but the exotic is still at the level of experiments.
And they warn that because of warming, our traditional fruits and berries are at risk.
For example, apples can become hot in the central regions, and warm winters and cold spring can exterminate raspberries and strawberries.
As previously stated in the UN, the temperature of the Earth in 2020 reached a record high in 3 million years, humanity is moving to a catastrophic temperature increase of 2.4 degrees by the end of the century.
We also recall that rare plants were found in Chernobyl.
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Aesthetic surgery, dentistry, vaccination: medical tourism is developing in Armenia | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency
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Aesthetic surgery, dentistry, and recently vaccination against COVID-19 are one of the main directions of medical tourism in Armenia.
Deputy Minister of Health of the Republic of Armenia Gevorg Simonyan told Armenpress.
“Quite a lot of foreigners come to Armenia for vaccination, and the changes have played a huge role.
Their mandatory stay here for 10 days stimulates tourism in general, as travel agencies began to make 10-day packages so that vaccination can be carried out within 10 days, ” Simonyan said.
According to him, hematology and oncology are also under development, for which a certain basis is being collected for distribution among international partners.
“We already have successful experience in this direction: for the first time in Armenia allogeneic transplantation of bone marrow stem cells was carried out, ” said Gevorg Simonyan.
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Municipal parking will be able to bring Kiev half a billion hryvnia annually, – Kravets
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New tariffs and zones for municipal parking can provide the city with more than UAH 500 million in revenues per year.
In the Solomensky district alone, innovations can help raise 40 million hryvnias, although in 2020, Kyivtransparkservice earned only 25 million in parking lots throughout Kiev.
Volodymyr Kravets, a deputy from the Opposition Platform – For Life faction and first deputy chairman of the Standing Committee of the Kyiv City Council on Architecture, Urban Planning and Land Relations, told OBOZREVATEL.
“From an economic point of view, even with 50% occupancy during the day, the available communal parking spaces can bring the city more than 1.5 million hryvnias daily, or more than 570 million hryvnias / year.
It is worth noting that most of the above amount is not an additional fee from the people of Kiev, but funds that now do not fall into the pockets of the “black ” parking lot.
Only in the Solomensky district, the new approach can help to collect more than 40 million hryvnias a year, which will be possible to direct further to the development of infrastructure.
For comparison, in 2020, Kyivtransparkservice earned a total of 24 million hryvnias in a parking lot in Kiev.
Now we have the tools to make the system work.
The final result depends on the management of parking lots directly by utilities, ” the deputy said.
We will remind, from July 1 in Kiev began to operate new official tariffs for parking.
In the I zone, covering the central part of the city, the cost of an hour of parking is 35 hryvnia.
In the areas adjacent to the center, the price of parking is 25 UAH / hour.
In the residential areas of the city, the cost remained unchanged and is 5 UAH / hour.
In case of non-payment for parking, drivers will be fined in the amount of 20 times the cost of an hour of parking.
That is, they are respectively 700, 500 and 100 hryvnia.
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What is a business card website and how to create it
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A business card site is one of the types of web-resources that is used mainly in the field of business.
Many do not fully understand what it is, how it differs from, for example, a regular site or a landing page.
Professional website development in Almaty at competitive prices offers the company hyperlab.kz.
What is a business card site Partially answer this question the name itself.
This is a site that is the hallmark of a company, organization, individual entrepreneur and not only.
This is not a landing page.
Not to be confused, because their function is slightly different.
The main functions of the business card site include: Providing detailed information about the company, contact details, location map, etc.
That is, any question that arises about the company from a potential client, there is an answer.
Small volume.
These are not huge multifunctional resources with a large number of pages.
It can be 5, 10, 15 pages or more.
A small volume allows you to speed up the development process itself, as well as reduce the cost.
Simple design.
For a business card, the services of a professional designer are rarely used, because it is not particularly necessary.
You can use standard templates, which is perfect.
This nuance also allows you to slightly reduce costs, because you do not need to spend money on design.
Limited functionality for the client.
You can ’ t create a personal account here, for example, or something else.
But, in the format of this site, all these functions are not required.
Need such a site can: Freelancers Representatives of small and medium-sized businesses Individual entrepreneur Self-employed and not only.
It is rare that such resources are used by large organizations because they can afford a powerful expensive site with a huge number of features.
How to create a business card website This can be done on your own, or with the help of a specialist.
Since it does not require any powerful and unique design and serious complex functionality, if desired, you can use special platforms for creating websites and ready-made templates.
If you do not want to do all this, or there is no time, you can turn to the services of professionals.
It is important that this resource contains the following information blocks: About the company Products and services Contact information, etc.
Before you make an order or create such a site yourself with the help of a designer, you can first study the examples of ready-made and functioning sites to determine which option is most suitable.
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Working with comfort: how the leading companies of Ukraine care about their employees | Comments Ukraine
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An effective management system is one of the main tasks of a modern company, in which the management of personnel plays a huge role.
In the modern world, working with people is one of the main functions of management and it is on the employees that the success of the company depends.
In order to effectively use the human resources at the disposal of the organization, it is necessary to create conditions for people in which they would like to work for the benefit of themselves and the organization.
Therefore, the social policy of the company, which plays a special role in the formation of motivation of employees, increasing their self-expression in work, is becoming increasingly important.
The publication "Comments" appealed to the leading Ukrainian companies working in various fields to find out what conditions of work they provide so that their employees feel comfortable and safe, how to encourage diligent workers and punish unscrupulous ones, how to motivate the team and stimulate its members to personal development.
The largest retail and retail enterprise in the country, which has 66 hypermarkets with a total area of more than 1 million m2.
This is an omnichannel ecosystem that unites the trade networks "Epicenter" and "New Line", a network of multi-brand sports stores "Intersport-Ukraine", agroholding "Epicenter Agro", factories for the production of ceramic tiles Epicenter Ceramic Corporation, woodworking production - CBM "Osmoloda", logistics facilities, and recently also pharmacies with products. Vymi shops.
The group of companies has 34,000 employees.
Search for candidates for positions in Epicenter The company “Epicenter K ” uses different methods to search for candidates.
First of all, the image of the employer works.
The presence of positive feedback from employees, a comfortable modern office, all these are auxiliary components that help in attracting employees.
Secondly, ads on different kinds of job-sites.
In the case of the IT sphere, these are DOU and Djinni sites.
And if we are talking about the search for managers, accountants, sales employees, lawyers, etc., it is WorkUA and RabotaUA.
In addition, there is a paid resource AmazingHiring.
This is, in fact, a generator of different audience of professionals: "If a person is in social networks, instant messengers, file storages and somewhere you can see what he is doing, this aggregator finds his contact.
Thus, it is possible to get contacts of a huge number of required candidates, - commented in the press service of "Epicenter K".
The range of candidates and positions is very wide.
Depending on what position a person needs, the company also pays attention to personal qualities - soft skills, which sometimes even prevail on professionalism.
"Epicenter" pays attention to what a person has already achieved at his age.
The system of bonuses and penalties in the company Epicenter K The system of bonuses and penalties is available to employees of shopping centers.
In the central office, there is no incentive system as such.
But for good work, they assure the company, they can bonus on an individual basis.
Epicenter K social packages / compensations The company does not have insurance, but the central office has its own medical center, in which employees can be treated free of charge and arrange sick leave.
In addition, the office has a large modern and absolutely free fitness center for employees.
Here you can practice with professional coaches and take part in group classes – pilates, dancing, and much more.
On the territory of the office there are also four modern sports grounds, which, by the way, are allowed to play during working hours.
As for the employees of shopping centers, the company provides them with free meals.
In addition, the company has a system of discounts for employees, which allows you to purchase online goods at special prices.
Given that today the range of "Epicenter" covers almost all product groups - from nails to food, medicines and clothing - for people this is a very significant savings.
In "Epicenter" believe that the most motivates an employee when his salary is above average and does not lag behind the market.
Interesting tasks, a good team, a comfortable place of work and an atmosphere in the team are also important.
All this motivates you to come to work and benefit the company on a daily basis.
Training and development of employees in Epicenter The company has a training center that trains sales staff.
There is also a mandatory internship in shopping centers.
It concerns not only "hall workers", but also employees of the central office.
The main goal of this approach is that a person understands how the company works, due to what he earns, who should be contacted when a particular issue arises, and so on.
Bayer is an international company operating in the fields of health and agriculture.
"Bayer" in Ukraine is part of the global concern "Bayer AG" (Bayer AG).
About 700 professional employees work to create innovative products and knowledge about them for Ukrainian consumers.
The company in Ukraine is represented by the following areas: pharmaceutical division, OTC division and agricultural division.
Search for candidates for positions in Bayer The company uses various options for recruiting personnel - it can be the recommendation of employees, posting vacancies on internal and external specialized sites and, if necessary, attracting external professional recruitment agencies.
In any case, the experience of candidates is studied and analyzed by professional HR business partners, conduct interviews with the involvement of direct managers.
Depending on the level of the position, the management of the relevant unit or function may also participate in the interviews.
During the selection of employees, professional skills and experience are of great importance.
However, it is equally important for the company to choose people who correspond to the values and culture of the company, namely - Leadership, Honesty, Efficiency and Flexibility.
The system of bonuses and penalties in Bayer "Bayer" has a system of bonuses for employees.
The amount of remuneration and the frequency of its payment depends on the category of employee.
Those that directly affect the level of sales – they have a premium for the implementation of plans.
Office workers and company management receive bonuses depending on the results of business activities or the company as a whole, and certain qualitative indicators recorded as global strategies of the corporation.
In addition to the main bonus, employees can receive a bonus for special projects or performing additional tasks that have positively affected the company ’ s results.
The company has a wide package of additional benefits and compensations - this is health insurance, accident insurance, maternity leave benefits, and there are lunches in the office.
Bayer partially compensates for the cost of a gym subscription and there are many other compensations in support of employees.
The company believes that without a common culture and team spirit, the company cannot achieve great goals and results, so one of the tasks of each manager is to promote and support this spirit.
Depending on the needs, it can be a team building, and celebration of achievements, and constant dialogues with employees to understand their motivation and needs, and various types of training.
Depending on the needs of a particular position, the company can pay for language courses and additional training to develop certain skills, also the company has a large base of online training programs for self-development of employees.
During the quarantine period, most meetings take place online, so the company practices stress management sessions for all employees, trainings on how to avoid burnout and maintain work-life balance.
The company also has a development program "School of Manager", which is aimed at supporting novice managers to create an effective team.
Huawei is a high-tech enterprise engaged in the research, development, production and sale of telecommunications equipment, is one of the largest suppliers of network solutions worldwide.
The company has more than 194,000 employees in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than 3 billion people worldwide.
Search for employees for vacant positions is carried out by various methods: "First of all - among the internal resource, that is, among those of our employees who have shown good results.
We are looking for candidates on LinkedIn, profile sites Work and Work i grc.ua.
Also, the company actively cooperates with many universities, distributes news about the vacancy among students ", - said the portal" Comments "Deputy head of the Department of personnel of the company" Huawei Ukraine "Vladimir Bilavka.
In addition, Huawei has a referral system, that is, employees can recommend their friend, girlfriend, acquaintance or just a colleague with whom they previously studied or worked.
If the recommended person is hired, the employee who made the recommendations will receive a bonus.
The company is looking for candidates on a daily basis.
Since the activity is mainly related to telecommunications, people with significant technical experience are often sought.
You have to look for them on your own.
At the same time, Huawei is the world's leading provider of information and communication technology infrastructure, so they really get a lot of resumes.
If there are no current open positions for such resumes, candidates are asked for permission to enter them into our database and are contacted in case of a relevant vacancy.
The system of bonuses and penalties in Huawei The company offers a variety of bonuses and incentives: both tangible and intangible.
This is an annual bonus, and a bonus for the project or for the best achieved result in a team or company.
In addition, the company gives its employees the opportunity to purchase products with additional discounts.
As already mentioned, the company can encourage recommendations for open vacancies.
There are no material fines, but there may be a warning for violation of labor discipline.
In practice, this happens very rarely, because the company claims that all employees are professionals who, even in remote work, are able to effectively perform their work.
Social packages / compensation in Huawei Huawei offers health insurance, including accident compensation, lunch compensation and mobile expenses.
Currently, there is an option of corporate transportation to and from the office to avoid public transportation during quarantine.
The company compensates for fuel for employees working with customers who visit them in their cars.
There is also a gym where employees can keep themselves in good shape.
In addition, the company presents gift certificates to employees on the occasion of the birth of their children.
The company pays extra for food for each working day.
In addition to the already mentioned gym, there is a leisure area with billiards, tennis tables, table games.
Motivation, training and development of employees in Huawei Company has its own University of Knowledge with an online platform with different courses for each department or profession.
External trainings are also practiced - both from the best training companies in Ukraine and abroad, at the headquarters of Huawei.
In addition to the bonus system, there is a program of professional growth Competency & Qualifications.
This is a kind of certification, which consists in the gradation of employees by levels, stimulating them to professional and personal growth.
The best employees are offered career advancement, a variety of projects, additional bonuses.
KIVI Kiwi is an international company, developer and manufacturer of smart TVs and TV services.
The company ’ s offices are located in six countries, the total number of employees is more than 200 people.
Half of them are in Ukraine.
How is the search for candidates for various positions in the company KIVI, portal "Comments" told PR-manager Anastasia Kioseva.
According to her, direct search of employees is carried out by the internal recruiting department, sometimes recruiting agencies are involved.
The company also uses the services of sites for job search.
The ratio of direct "hunting" to responses to vacancies is about 55% to 45%.
In interviews, a lot of time is devoted to assessing soft skills.
First of all, the company is interested in the candidate's ability to quickly adapt.
Companies are ready to pay more to people who are actively immersed in the process and quickly give out the first results.
At the same time, KIVI has developed a scheme of "entry into office" for each specialist.
Depending on the level of competence of the employee and his tasks, an action plan for the next month is drawn up and approved.
In addition to the work tasks in this regard, there is: familiarization with the corporate culture, acquaintance with the company ’ s departments, product research and regular meetings with HR.
The system of bonuses and penalties in Kiwi KIVI does not resort to penalties, as it demotivates employees.
The company is trying to motivate the team more.
Kiwi has a Heroic Fund - a system of encouraging extraordinary achievements, initiative actions that bring quality changes, improvements, income to the company.
The Fund is distributed by the President of the company together with the heads of departments, participants of the programs, as well as HR and KIVI-tet.
The Heroic Fund has several nominations: • Personal feat – for significant overfulfillment of the plan; • Personal project – for introducing qualitative changes into business processes or creating completely new processes, proposing initiatives that are aimed at optimizing current costs and processes; • Volunteering – for participating in projects / activities that are not assigned to an employee or separately functionally, which leads to qualitative improvements; • Bonus For the vacancy; Social payments / compensations in Kiwi The company 's social package includes: • Two-level medical insurance and dental coverage; • Payment for communication; • The program "Longevity" - a cumulative bonus system for employees who work more than three years in the company; • The program "KIVI in every home" - each employee receives a free TV in use with an update to a new model every year; • The program "KIVI for loved ones" - special discounts for friends and relatives; Since last year, the company has introduced some corporate bonuses.
For example, each employee can work remotely twice a week and choose a convenient schedule.
On Friday, the company gives everyone the right to refuse any internal meeting, even with the president of the company.
By the way, everyone can refuse a meeting scheduled on the day.
KIVI compensates absolutely all medical cases.
Less serious cases are covered by internal insurance, where the company covers 75% of the cost of medical services.
More serious diseases are compensated by the insurance company.
Hospitals are paid according to the law.
In Kivi, a set of benefits has been developed so that the employee does not have to worry about his comfort, health, leisure, professional and personal development, inconveniences during relocation.
In return, KIVI expects the same care about the results that they strive to achieve together.
The company welcomes personal and professional growth.
The company works in two directions in terms of training: • Corporate training KIVI – Business Wisdom School: invited speakers, experts of their industries.
Trainings are aimed at increasing productivity, improving business processes, personal development, etc.
By the way, trainings are not only for employees.
KIVI invites its partners; • External training activities, which the company pays for in order to improve the level of qualification of employees.
KIVI Business School regularly provides training, master classes, webinars, for example, comprehensive training for team management and process managers.
During the lockdown, a webinar was held about the coronavirus and maintaining immunity.
The information provided by the companies indicates a high level of social policy among the TOP Ukrainian employers, which includes programs and activities aimed at solving the most urgent tasks of social development of the team, improving working conditions, ensuring social protection of employees.
One of the main tasks of the company is to create conditions for effective work of employees, their professional growth, providing opportunities for decent earnings and development of enterprises.
Earlier, the publication “Comments ” wrote that Apple opened its office in Ukraine: the company ’ s plans became known.
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Give the man what he needs, and he will want comfort.
Give him comfort, and he will strive for luxury.
Sprinkle it with luxury - it will begin to sigh in exquisite.
Let him get exquisite, and he will crave madness.
Give him whatever he wants, and he will complain that he has been deceived and that he has not received what he wanted. — Ernest Miller Hemingway
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"A lot of screeching and stupid news": how is the Olympics in Tokyo
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In Tokyo, the Olympics continue, which many call the most “chaotic ”,“ strange ” and even “scandalous ” sports competitions in recent years.
The Olympic Games, which will end on August 8, are held without spectators in the stands due to coronavirus restrictions.
Every day, the covid is detected in dozens of athletes, only this week because of a positive analysis for the coronavirus in one of the Olympians, the Australian athletics team was isolated.
Ordinary people are afraid of the new “Olympic ” strain of coronavirus, and athletes at the Olympics are trying to ban sexual relations – because of the danger of infection with the virus.
A positive test for coronavirus was found in American pole vault champion Sam Kendricks.
It turned out that he was in close contact with other athletes, including Australian ones.
This was confirmed by Australian pole jumper Curtis Marshall.
After that, 63 athletes were asked to immediately return to their rooms for isolation.
Earlier, the organizers of the Olympics reported that since the beginning of July, tests for coronavirus have shown a positive result in more than 150 people related to the competition.
These athletes were transferred to special quarantine hotels.
Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor, specialist of the Society of Evidence-Based Medicine Vasily Vlasov believes that during the coronavirus epidemic, the Olympics would be wiser to cancel, but the commercial interests of its organizers won: These competitions could be canceled or postponed, but financial interests won - the Olympics were not canceled, because there are many people and organizations financially interested in its conduct, and it is not only athletes.
I have no other explanation, because these competitions could be canceled or postponed again.
As for financial interests, there are many sponsors, people who do business on the transmission of television signals, on the sale of advertising time during broadcasts.
There are a lot of them, and they all want their piece.
At the same time, I am not in favor of catastrophic predictions about the consequences of the Olympics, of which there are a lot now.
Theories are published that there will be some special virus, because there, in Japan, there are some absolutely special conditions for its formation and so on.
In my opinion, there is no reason for that.
Transmission of infection is possible everywhere.
Naturally, in the conditions of the Olympics, when athletes are in contact with each other, it is most likely.
But if there were more viewers, the situation would be much worse.
Since spectators are few, athletes are regularly tested, and those who have an infection are isolated, there is reason to assume that catastrophic events will not happen.
Yes, some of the athletes will bring the virus home, they will isolate it in their Australia or Canada, but I do not expect anything fundamentally terrible in terms of a new round of the epidemic, ” says Professor Vasily Vlasov.
Earlier, Olympic athletes complained about living conditions: they were offered to sleep on cardboard beds.
The organizers said that in this way they want to minimize intimate contacts between athletes.
It is believed that only one person can sleep on such a bed, since it can withstand up to 200 kilograms and breaks from sudden movements.
The organizers urged not to jump on the beds and not to "celebrate".
Various kinds of troubles began to haunt the Olympics from the very beginning: the director of the ceremony was fired for a joke about the Holocaust.
Comedian Kentaro Kobayashi left his post amid a scandal over an online recording of his 1998 speech in which he joked about the Holocaust.
Kobayashi ’ s dismissal on the eve of the opening of the Games was announced by the organizing committee of the Tokyo Olympics.
And the largest advertiser “Toyota ” refused to advertise their products because of the“ low public support ” of the competition.
In addition, the organizers made a geopolitical mistake, which they immediately pointed out: they presented a map of Ukraine without Crimea.
In the "schedule and results" section on the Olympic Games website on the map with countries where fans can support their national team, when choosing Ukraine in the list of countries on the map, it was possible to see that Crimea is separated from mainland Ukraine by a line, which on this map indicates the state borders.
In the IOC, this was called a contractor ’ s error, which was quickly corrected.
They also apologized for the image of Crimea as part of Russia on the official website of the Olympics in Tokyo.
This was reported by the Minister of foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba and the Russian Agency “R-Sport ” with reference to the representative of the IOC.
The first channel, which in Russia broadcasts the ceremony from Tokyo, did not show during the parade of athletes the exit of the national team of Ukraine.
The broadcast shortly before its release to the stadium was interrupted for advertising.
“The parade of athletes lasts about two hours, to fulfill commercial obligations, its display is interrupted by advertising several times, ” said RBC in the press service of the First channel And even the Japanese themselves reacted to the Olympics in their country without enthusiasm.
According to polls, the majority of residents of Japan are against the Olympics in the current situation.
Many hastened to leave Tokyo, and some picketed the opening ceremony with a demand to cancel the competition.
About how coronavirus restrictions and near-sport hype affected the Olympic atmosphere and whether it prevents to perceive the Olympics in Tokyo as a holiday of sports, says political scientist and fan Kirill Shulika: the Olympics without spectators is a defective Olympics - It is clear that the Olympics without spectators, when everyone is wearing masks and at a social distance, is a defective Olympics.
But athletes are not to blame for this, they perform, and people watch.
I'm watching too.
The TV picture from the coronavirus did not suffer, but the Olympics itself without spectators, with huge losses of the organizers who can not sell souvenir products, is quite sad.
In addition, these days in Tokyo was a record for infected with coronavirus for the day, and of course, for them this is a big problem.
But on television and on the show it does not affect.
I think it is even more difficult for athletes psychologically, because in many sports it is quite difficult to perform without spectators and without their support.
I think that ’ s why American gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from the competition.
So we can assume that this unusual Olympics makes changes in the behavior of athletes. – And do negative news related to the Olympics affect their behavior and mood?
The same scandal with the Crimea, which was not included in Ukraine, the increase in the number of sick athletes, the refusal to participate in large advertisers?
This is experienced quite quickly: I read the news and forgot - Athletes before the competition abstract from everything: they do not look at anything, do not read, do not see, prepare for performances psychologically and physically.
It doesn't affect them in any way.
Viewers, too, I think.
It happened quite quickly: I read the news and forgot.
Now there are a lot of sports, a lot of awards, a lot of purely sports competitive events, and they highlight these things that, in principle, would not live long in the information field.
There is a lot of interesting and dramatic: the representatives of Bermuda won the first gold medal, the first medal was won by the Turkmen.
There are heroes who do not win medals, but remain heroes of these Games.
I mean Oksana Chusovitina, who has the eighth Olympics, and she announced the end of her sports career.
She has a beautiful sports history, and such stories are what really adorns the Olympics and what is discussed, in addition to sports results, – said political scientist Kirill Shulika.
For the Olympics in Tokyo closely follows and comments sports journalist, Soviet and Russian athlete, world champion in the triple jump Yolanda Chen.
In her opinion, scandals and troubles happen all the time at such major competitions, which does not prevent athletes from performing, and spectators from watching the Olympics and cheering for their teams: Kovid has absolutely nothing spoiled – Kovid has absolutely nothing spoiled.
Before the start of the Olympics, there was a lot of screaming, screaming, talking and all sorts of stupid news, and this is natural until the athletes got into the fight.
But as soon as the competition started, it seems to me that I, as a fan, watch the Olympics at home on TV, and comment as soon as the athletes entered the fight, as soon as the competition began, all this news, all this covid, all this nonsense – all this immediately faded into the background.
No one is interested in this anymore: no athletes, no coaches, even the fans, in my opinion, too.
Everyone is happy with the wins, medals, performances, hits to the finals.
There is a lot of intriguing news, there is always a anticipation of a beautiful fight, beautiful, cool finals, the beginning of some other sports.
Therefore, when all this husk fell away, there was a real grain, a core, for which, in fact, the Olympics exists, for which the audience, fans adore and watch it.
I'm not even embarrassed by the masks now, so this is a self-evident thing.
I have been to Japan many times during my sports career, everyone in Japan always wears masks.
If you saw that in Europe, Japanese tourists are always wearing masks, and this has always surprised Europeans, and especially Russians, no one could understand why they are always wearing masks, and for them this is an absolute norm of life.
And the social distance – I ’ m not even talking about it. – The majority of Russians in the course of opinion polls admitted that they do not know the athletes who are now competing at the Olympics.
And the competition itself is now held without spectators.
Who is the Olympics for?
Only for athletes who are important years of training?
Or do ordinary people also watch, despite the negative information about the competitions?
The Olympic Games were always overshadowed by something, something was always happening around them – In fact, the Olympic Games were always overshadowed by something, something was happening all the time around them, there were some conflicts, some scandals.
Every four years, coming to the Olympics, athletes, spectators, fans and tourists always faced one or another trouble.
Look, well, this is the way our world works, this is the way our planet works – we have something going on all the time, we don ’ t have things that are clean, smooth, white and fluffy.
This is normal and people are used to it.
It seems to me that we are creating problems for ourselves that do not really exist.
Let ’ s live according to Confucius – do not look for a black cat in a dark room, especially since it is not there.
Well, there was an epidemic – it ’ s no big deal, anyway, people came and performed.
As for the viewers, I ’ ll tell you something.
Even if the Olympics are held in some country, tourists come there, and spectators come to sports facilities, it is still a drop in the sea from the audience, from the billion-dollar audience that watches the Olympic Games all over the world on TV.
Because such a number of people still can not come to one country and visit these tournaments.
And even sold tickets are a drop in the bucket, because the bulk of fans always watch the Olympic Games on television.
That is why such expensive rights to show and broadcast the Olympic Games, so television always tries to show everything as best as possible using the latest technology.
Therefore, everything that is being said about the audience is just bullshit, it ’ s nothing at all.
The Olympic Games are always primarily television broadcasts. – Many say that Japan did not invest too much in the organization of the ceremony.
What do you personally like and dislike about the organization of the current Olympics?
The country that holds competitions invests the least in this – You just need to know how the organization of the Olympic Games is organized.
The country that hosts the competition invests the least in it.
This is mainly the money of the International Olympic Committee, this is the money of the federations, this is the money of the sponsors.
The country itself invests very little, it mainly receives good dividends from the presence of tourists, from the sale of souvenir symbols, from visiting all sorts of tourist places, staying in hotels, buying food and so on, and so on.
The country itself is never particularly spent on holding a particular big competition.
As for the opening ceremony, I ’ ll tell you honestly, I really liked it!
It was stylish, very delicate, very tasty.
It was very restrained, on the one hand, in Japanese, in Asian restrained, but at the same time with great taste and very elegant.
Personally, the absence of spectators did not bother me at all, because any opening ceremony is darkness at the stadium, all attention is concentrated in the middle of the stadium, where all the action takes place, and a huge number of viewers watch mainly on television.
Therefore, I say, in this sense, there are no problems at all.
For example, I am now commenting on bullet shooting, which takes place in smaller stadiums.
There are actually full stands, because there is always a huge number of professionals, those who participate in competitions, athletes who have already been released or have not yet entered the fight, athletes, coaches, journalists, officials and so on.
Therefore, there are spectators, they also produce a huge amount of noise and support athletes, ” said sports commentator, world and European champion in athletics, Honored Master of Sports of Russia Yolanda Chen.
In total, about 11,000 athletes representing 204 national Olympic committees take part in the competitions in Tokyo.
The team of refugee athletes will also perform under the Olympic flag.
A total of 339 sets of Olympic awards will be contested in 41 sports, including new Olympic sports such as karate, rock climbing and skateboard.
About 1,000 people were admitted to the opening ceremony, mainly high-ranking representatives of the countries participating in the Games.
Among the world leaders, in addition to the Emperor of Japan Naruhito, was the President of France Emmanuel Macron.
The United States was represented by First Lady Jill Biden.
During the opening ceremony, a minute of silence was paid to the memory of the deceased from COVID-19 and "all those who will not be able to participate in the Games."
Separately, Israeli athletes who were the victims of a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympics in Munich were mentioned - this is the first such mention during the opening ceremonies.
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Ukrainian black soil becomes unsuitable for agriculture: alarming forecast
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The climate greatly affects the yield of the land.
Changes in the temperature regime can lead to the fact that two-thirds of the territory of Ukraine will become unsuitable for agriculture.
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Ernest Hemingway's great-granddaughter is the face of Accessorize.
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The great-granddaughter of the famous American writer Ernest Hemingway Dry Hemingway became the face of the company "Accessorize" and took part in the advertising campaign of the autumn-winter season 2016 / 17, reports "ProFashion".
28-year-old model Dre Hemingway introduced a new collection of bags, scarves, bracelets and other jewelry and accessories.
The photo shoot was held in London under the direction of fashion photographer Sean Thomas.
The great-granddaughter of the writer debuted as a model in 2009.
She participated in the catwalk show for Givenchy in Paris, then took part in the Calvin Klein resort show in New York.
She later became the face of "Gianfranco Ferré" and actively collaborated with "Gucci", "Valentino", "Chanel" and "Paco Rabanne".
Recall that at the end of July in the United States 65-year-old namesake Ernest Hemingway became the winner of the competition of twins of the famous writer.
The secret of his success, the man considers a sweater similar to the one in which the American classic loved to walk.
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British taxpayers pay for wall against migrants in France
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In the French city of Calais, a wall will be built with money from British taxpayers to prevent illegal entry of migrants from France into the UK.
According to the Daily Mail, citing Robert Goodwill, who oversees migration policy in the UK Home Office, the cost of the wall will be £2 million, or almost $2.7 million.
The height of the fence will be 4 m, and the length is about one kilometer.
It will be installed along the road that leads to the port, from where the ferry service between France and Great Britain is carried out.
The publication notes that the project has many critics who consider it a waste of money.
Kate Gibbs of the British Road Transport Association said the wall was a "scandalous waste of taxpayers' money."
According to her, it is necessary to strengthen security measures at all access roads, and not only at this section of the highway.
She also advised the association ’ s drivers not to stop within a 240 km radius around Calais to avoid the risk of attack by migrants.
In turn, Robert Goodwill believes that the wall will be able to stop the flow of migrants who want to get into the country from France.
According to him, the British authorities catch one migrant every six minutes.
He cited statistics, according to which, in 2015, the total number of detainees trying to illegally cross the border exceeded 84 thousand people.
Recall that on September 5, residents of Calais blocked the highway leading to England.
The protesters are demanding that the authorities dismantle the local spontaneous migrant camp.
In the spontaneous camp, which is called Jungle (“Jungle ”), live illegal immigrants from African countries, as well as Syria and Afghanistan.
It originated in the early 2000s.
The slum settlement has become a transit point for refugees who want to cross the English Channel and end up in the UK.
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Service – flying, friendship – faithful
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- So it was MANPADS? - I clarify, talking with the commander of the Su-34 aviation unit, Major Sergei Stepanov (all the names and surnames in the material have been changed). - No, it was an air defense system, - Sergey answers. - A portable anti-aircraft missile system simply could not hit our aircraft at such a height. - But where did the terrorists have such weapons? - Little did it come from?.
Perhaps somewhere they were able to capture an outdated military air defense system.
It is possible that it was delivered from a third country.
Borders are open here.
And Deleo was, according to the pilot, so.
The crew of the Su-34 performed another combat flight at night.
The task is generally familiar - to destroy the equipment of the militants, located in engineering structures and other shelters.
Before reaching the target of twenty kilometers, the electronic suppression system, which protects the aircraft from missile attacks, gave evidence that the Su-34th was “taken on escort. ”
In a word, he classified an unknown air defense system as an object of influence on an aircraft that can attack our car from the ground.
Navigator Captain Vladimir Sergeev, seeing the relevant information on the monitor, immediately reported about it to the commander.
And he immediately carried out an anti-missile maneuver.
What is SAM?
This is an installation hidden somewhere on a small patch among the ruins.
Here she stopped "acting on the plane", and try to find it, given the speed of the Su-34.
Yes, and the SAM can change position, and in general, who knows how many SAM cover the area of operation of the gang.
In such a situation, to attack the air defense system means to expose the car and crew to serious danger and disrupt the performance of the combat mission.
Therefore, the pilot made a turn to the previously set target and, after successful bombing, safely returned to the airfield.
I wonder: - What happened to that SAM? - Of course, we did a good job there.
And not just us.
Our comrades also made combat flights that night.
In a word, there have been no more such cases.
The commander of the Su-34 aviation unit is a military pilot of the 2nd class, he mastered the L-39, Su-24M, Su-34 aircraft.
The total flight he has – 970 hours, during the first trip to Syria made 42 combat sorties, and during the second – already about 60. – Multifunctional fighter-bomber Su-34, – says the commander, – is able to perform tasks to destroy air, land and sea targets using all types of aircraft weapons, both controlled, adjusted and unguided.
The question may be: what is the purpose of the sea?
The answer to it is “located ” literally three kilometers from us – the Mediterranean Sea is nearby.
Therefore, the possibility of terrorist actions in its waters cannot be completely excluded.
“Only fully convinced that it is the enemy, perform aiming and the use of air weapons … ” – Tell us, as far as possible, about your combat work. – Strikes on designated objects are usually carried out from the position of duty on the ground or in the air, and we also perform an independent search for targets. – This is the same method of“ free hunting ”? – Absolutely true. – And how is this “free hunting ” The crew is assigned a certain area of search.
He occupies this area at the appointed time and proceeds to search for the most important targets, the coordinates of which are not known, by characteristic signs - places of accumulation of illegal armed formations, their movement as part of columns, their conduct of hostilities with government troops.
We independently assess the situation, identify with the help of optoelectronic means of aiming, identify in detail objects that seemed suspicious, so as not to make a mistake in any case.
And only fully and finally convinced that it is the enemy, perform aiming and the use of air weapons.
The results are recorded by onboard means of video control, which can be used to assess the consequences of the strike and the damage caused to the enemy. – You have been flying with the navigator for more than one year.
Especially working together for the second time in Syria... - An experienced combat navigator.
In one of the articles that I read in the “Red Star ”, told about the Hero of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Ivanovich Bogodukhov, navigator of the Su-24.
It says very clearly that the navigational service is a flight service.
It is aimed at ensuring the safety of flights in navigational terms, navigation and combat use of aircraft.
The duties of the navigator are to prepare background data for the aviation commander to make a decision on the performance of flights or on the performance of a combat mission...
Hang on...
Did you write this article?
I confess, I did not expect that the materials published in our newspaper four years ago, you still remember... - So we are in aviation.
We are happy when they write about us.
We did not think that they would ever tell about us in the newspaper. – And about whom to tell, if not about you! – Then tell about my comrade, about navigator Captain Sergeyev.
It is a pity that his real name can not be called yet.
He has a total flight time of over 850 hours.
He flew on the Su-24M, now on the Su-34.
Combat flights - more than a hundred.
1st Class Military Navigator.
A brave officer, a master of combat work, a great friend and comrade.
I mean, actually...
Remember the lines from the song of Vladimir Vysotsky: “Would you go with him to intelligence?.. ”
I fly with my navigator both for reconnaissance and for other combat missions.
And the commander and navigator always perform these tasks in Syria in an exemplary manner.
Their professionalism and courage are appreciated by both commanders and colleagues.
Hamim, Syria.
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Korean fusion reactor KSTAR set a new world record of plasma retention – 70 seconds
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Scientists from Korea ’ s Nuclear Fusion Research Institute (NFRI) have reported an important breakthrough in controlled fusion that is said to accelerate development and bring the first commercial fusion reactors closer to launch.
More precisely, the team of the experimental reactor KSTAR (Korean Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research) managed to set a new world record of plasma retention – 70 seconds.
At the same time, the temperature of the plasma reached 50 million degrees Celsius, which is three times hotter than the temperature in the core of the Sun.
The previous record set by ITER was 30 seconds.
By the way, the complexity of plasma containment over a long period of time is one of the main obstacles on the way to the Holy Grail of modern energy.
It should be noted that all the main successes in the field of thermonuclear fusion have been achieved at tokamak plants, and they also include the experimental KSTAR reactor, which is controlled by NFRI.
“This is a huge step forward for the implementation of a fusion reactor, ” the NFRI emphasizes the significance of its achievement.
There are several factors that have helped NFRI achieve these impressive results.
In particular, it is said about the use of a special non-inductive mode of operation.
In addition, the use of a directional beam of high power neutral particles is mentioned, which, in fact, allowed the substance to go into the plasma state.
Among other “tricks ” used by scientists, a rotating three-dimensional magnetic field is mentioned, which allows to reduce the amount of thermal energy released during collisions of plasma particles with each other, and a revolutionary internal transport barrier (ITB).
The efficiency of this barrier made it possible to reduce the amount of energy spent on heating the plasma to a historical minimum.
It should be noted here that South Korea is a participant in the international project of the ITER experimental reactor, which is being built on the territory of the European Union.
Of course, commercial nuclear fusion energy will not be available soon, and it is far from the fact that this will happen at all, but research work in this direction still gives some hope for a bright energy future with safer and less environmentally harmful alternatives to modern nuclear reactors.
In addition, this achievement will definitely help South Korea in the development of a new experimental reactor K-DEMO, which should demonstrate the advantages of a relatively stable fusion reaction.
Updated: Source: Engadget and nextbigfuture
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Rubric: "Did you ask? We answer! "
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Question: Hello, my name is Michael, I am 31 years old.
16 years ago, I walked away from God because of smoking.
I so want to return to Him, but nicotine addiction prevents me, my hand reaches for a cigarette, although I no longer want to smoke.
Is there a release from this?
Answer: Hello, dear Michael.
It is a pity that you have left the Lord because of smoking.
That was wrong.
It is necessary to fight against sin and pray to God for liberation, repenting and confessing.
I am sure that the Lord would help you and give deliverance after some struggle.
It happens differently with different people.
Some immediately receive liberation, others have to fight for a long time and rely on the Lord.
And now go immediately to God, no matter what state or sin you are in at the moment.
Be sure that if you follow the Lord and ask Him for help, sin will surely disappear from your life.
Remember that the Lord Jesus Christ loves you, He died for your sins and is now waiting for you to come to Him with repentance and hope to forgive and pardon you. QUESTION: Hello fellow believers!
I suddenly had this kind of question.
No one has been able to answer it yet.
Why did Jesus Christ die on the cross?
Why not die under the cross or somewhere else?
Why did he have to die on the cross?
ANSWER: Hello!
There are many prophecies about Christ in the Bible.
Through these prophecies, God pointed to Christ as the Messiah, through whom salvation for the human race was to come to earth.
All these prophecies were to be fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ.
And fulfilled.
As for the death of our Lord, Psalm 21: 17 says: “My hands and my feet have pierced. ”
And yet the apostle Paul in Galatians 3: 13 speaks of the death of Christ, referring to the law of Moses (the Old Testament), that Christ redeemed us from the oath of the law, becoming an oath for us, because it is written: “Cursed is everyone hanging on a tree. ”
Thus Christ had to be hanging on a tree and His hands and feet had to be pierced.
The crucifixion on the cross was the official execution of that time and was fully in line with God ’ s foretold many, many years later.
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And how can I influence the place in eternity (after bodily death) of my deceased relatives?
ANSWER: This idea is not new, but has a long history.
Many people like to think that after death something can still be changed.
The essence of this error lies in the misunderstanding of issues related to sin and repentance.
Also, this error stems from the incorrect interpretation of those passages of Scripture, where it is said about what will happen to a person after his physical death.
It is assumed that if a person died, someone else could pray for him, freeing him from being in hell.
How, for example, would such a story look like: a person lived all his life being a strong God hater and died...
After his death, he prayed for him, and he did many good deeds, and he met him in paradise.
I think it would be a very popular way to save souls.
It is not necessary to ask anyone especially, you go to the cemetery, rewrite the names - and go ahead, replenish the ranks of saints...
As the Bible says, “Men are to die one day, and then judgment ” (Hebrews 9: 27).
“For all of us must appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive according to what he did in the body, good or bad ” (2 Corinthians 5: 10).
We find no mention in Scripture of any intermediate place, often referred to as “purgatory, ” where the soul is“ cleansed and corrected. ”
Humanly, we would like such a place to be, but the Bible says that a person can make a decision about repentance and reconciliation with God only during life.
Jesus once told a story like this: “The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham ’ s bosom.
The rich man died and was buried.
And in hell, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes, and saw Abraham and Lazarus in his bosom in the distance, and cried, saying, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in the water, and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame.
But Abraham said, Child, remember that you have already received your good in your life, and Lazarus is evil. But now he is comforted here, and you are suffering. And beyond all this, a great abyss has been established between us and you, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, neither do they pass from there to us.
Then he said, Father, I beg you to send him to my father ’ s house, for I have five brothers. Let him testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.
And Abraham said unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.
And he said, Nay, father to Abraham, but if anyone from the dead comes to them, they will repent.
Abraham said to him, “If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not believe if a man is raised from the dead ” (Luke 16: 22-31).
As we can see from this story, there is no transition from hell to heaven or from heaven to hell.
But Abraham reminded the rich man that people who are still alive have some tool that they can use in life - the Holy Scriptures.
In other words, only during life and only following the Bible commandments, starting from repentance of sins, can a person receive salvation by the grace of God and avoid the torments of hell.
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Favorite products will remain only in the memory of mankind
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In the coming decades, people will be forced to abandon a number of products.
This will happen because of climate change.
So, potatoes, bananas, a number of seafood may disappear.
Even coffee can be a rarity.
Special conditions are required for its cultivation.
A special climate is needed.
And such lands are getting smaller every year.
Because of this, in 30 years, the area of plantations for growing coffee may decrease several times.
The same goes for the production of tea.
Due to the increase in temperature on Earth, plantations may be reduced in a few years.
In addition, the quality of the taste of tea is influenced by heavy rains.
Some alcoholic beverages may also disappear.
Global warming contributes to the extermination of a number of grape varieties, from which rare wines and cognac are made.
Currently, producers are trying to introduce new varieties of grapes.
Berries should provide the necessary acidity, without losing taste and smell.
European beer producers are experiencing a shortage of fresh water due to the drying up of rivers.
Abnormal heat adversely affects cocoa trees.
Manufacturers are looking for substitutes.
Palm oil and a number of artificial ingredients are added to the product.
All this negatively affects ultimately the taste of the finished product and human health.
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Predicted the onset of deadly hunger across the Earth
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An international team of scientists has shown that climate change will lead to a significant decrease in agricultural and marine resources around the world, resulting in global hunger.
This is reported in a press release on Phys.org.
As climate scientists recognize that it will not be possible to reduce carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere in the near future, and the point of no return may already be passed, research aimed at predicting the situation in the current century is increasingly being conducted.
In the new paper, scientists created a theoretical model to predict the state of two major food sources: agriculture and fisheries.
Experts took into account the areas in which food is grown and caught, as well as the impact that the climate can have on these areas.
For example, the increase in global temperatures will be particularly detrimental to the tropics, and in northern countries (Canada and Russia) conditions may become more favorable for agriculture.
In the worst-case scenario, 90 per cent of the world's population will live in areas where food production will fall significantly by the end of the century.
In the agricultural sector, this decline will be 25 per cent, and in fisheries - 60 per cent.
At the same time, poor countries will be most vulnerable to global warming.
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"ice" shelter that will protect astronauts from adverse factors on the surface of Mars » DailyTechInfo
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Since people who will arrive on Mars will have to spend several months or even years on the surface, they will need a safe haven that will protect them from temperature changes and from cosmic radiation breaking through the thin and rarefied atmosphere of the planet.
Moreover, for the construction of such shelters, it will be necessary to use local materials as much as possible, because the delivery of the necessary amount of composition for the manufacture of special concrete from the Earth is not yet feasible.
Scientists and experts from NASA's Langley Research Center have come up with a simple and effective solution to the above problem.
In the project developed by them shelter Mars Ice Home as the main protective layer is used ordinary ice, obtained from water extracted from the atmosphere of Mars.The design of the shelter Mars Ice Home is a large inflatable torus, closed on top of a spherical dome of a sufficiently thick layer of ice.
All the structural elements that need to be delivered from Earth are quite light and compact, and in the final design of the structure, in addition to water, some other materials that can be mined on the surface of the Red Planet are used.
In addition, the water from which the protective dome will be made can be later recycled and from it can be obtained fuel for refueling the Mars Ascent Lander spacecraft, which will take people from the surface back to orbit.
The main disadvantage is that it will take at least 400 days to extract the necessary amount of water from the atmosphere of Mars.
This problem can be solved by sending a pre-automated expedition to Mars, which will include robots that will create a foundation, pump up the shell of the shelter, collect enough water and build an ice dome during the time that people will fly to Mars.
This approach will avoid the need for hasty construction of shelter or burying deep underground immediately after the arrival of people on the planet.Mars Ice Home is still only an exciting project, not worked out to the smallest details.
However, it can serve as a starting point for other designers and specialists who will be able to produce elegant and complete solutions to the problems associated with the long stay of people on the surface of the Red Planet.
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Ukrainian banks will be required to disclose full information about services
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Business News: The NBU has adopted new requirements for disclosure by banks of information about services in advertising and on websites.
The National Bank approved new requirements for disclosure by banks of information about services in advertising and on websites, as well as recommendations on the organization by banks of consideration of consumer appeals.
This is reported by the press service of the NBU.
Banks need to change the information about services on websites and in advertising to meet the requirements.
The NBU gives financial institutions six months to adapt.
At the same time, after three months, all banks must provide comprehensive information about the services on the site in a single unified format.
In particular, indicate the full cost of the service, including commissions to third parties and payments for additional services (for example, an insurance company, a state registrar, a notary, an appraiser), the frequency of repayment of the loan, the conditions of early repayment, possible penalties in case of failure by the client to fulfill obligations, etc.
“The consumer, going to the website of any bank, should be able to download a file with comprehensive information about the full cost, terms of service, risks, etc., as well as easily compare the services of several different banks.
The Financial Services Consumer Protection Department of the National Bank will start monitoring banks' compliance with these requirements in three months and will monitor websites on a daily basis, "the statement said.
The NBU reports that for failure to disclose information about services in full, the legislation provides for penalties from 300 to 600 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens for each case.
After six months, calculators should appear in the websites of banks to calculate expenses or income from the service.
Also in six months will earn new requirements for disclosure of information in advertising.
Advertising should also contain essential characteristics of the banking service, in particular, information about the full cost, conditions for obtaining the service, risks, etc.
The NBU recommends that financial institutions develop an automated database where all information about citizens ’ appeals will be entered.
It is also recommended that banks identify a responsible employee for reviewing each appeal, conduct training programs for bank employees who work with customers, eliminate violations identified during the appeal, as well as prevent such violations in relation to other customers.
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Treatment abroad: dispelling the main fears
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First of all, patients go abroad for those services that are not available in their countries or do not correspond to the world quality.
In search of quality medicine, and sometimes the only chance to gain health or prolong life, more and more citizens are inclined to treatment abroad.
First of all, patients go abroad for those services that are not available in their countries or do not correspond to the world quality.
Another key decision in choosing treatment abroad may be a limited time for the patient due to the disease.
Among the countries that are most popular in medical tourism, we can distinguish Turkey, Israel, India, South Korea, Germany, the United States.
In the vast number of countries and information presented on the Internet, it is easy to get confused.
And to make the right choice, you need to understand what is true and what is a myth, as well as remove excessive panic about exciting issues.
If you need to focus on the ideal ratio of price and quality, then you should turn to Turkey, which over the past decades has become one of the leaders of medical tourism.
All thanks to state funding, excellent training of professional staff and modern technical equipment of clinics.
One of the main wide-profile medical institutions in Turkey is the Anadolu Medical Center, which is in the TOP-10 clinics in the world.
The center uses the latest methods of diagnosis and treatment of oncological, cardiological, surgical, neurosurgical, orthopedic, reproductive and many other diseases.
At the same time, the cost of services in the clinic remains an order of magnitude lower than for example in European countries.
In addition, treatment in Turkey does not require a preliminary visa, and daily and regular flights to the country contribute to the prompt resolution of issues.
If we talk about other fears that may face a patient who wants to undergo treatment abroad, the following should be highlighted: 1.
Many patients are afraid even to think about the trip because of the language barrier, the organization of flights, housing, the search for a clinic and a doctor.
To date, the Anadolu Clinic provides a preliminary program of treatment and diagnosis, an interpreter, help with documentation, search for housing and accompany during the procedures and throughout the patient's stay in the clinic.
Sometimes waiting lists in many countries can reach up to several months.
While in Turkey, diagnostic procedures can be completed in 2-3 days, while in another country it would be necessary to wait at least 2-3 weeks.
The same applies to operational intervention. 3.
Cases of fraud There is a fear of getting on scammers or a clinic that will bill for previously unspecified services.
To avoid this, we recommend choosing a well-known clinic that will help with all the questions that arise and select the best option on an individual request.
Anadolu Medical Center received JSI and ESMO accreditations, and is also a strategic partner of Johns Hopkins Medical Center - the best clinic in the United States.
Expensive treatment Today, treatment abroad is becoming more affordable.
But the most important thing is that you save time on diagnosis and get the right diagnosis right away.
Thanks to this, you can start treatment earlier and for the pathology that you have.
Modern equipment, gentle treatment methods help to minimize risks, the number of side effects and contributes to a longer period of remission and quality of life.
Due to the frequent misdiagnoses made in the countries of the former CIS, patients need a free second medical opinion from world-class specialists.
Such are the doctors of the Anadolu Medical Center, to whom patients from all over the world go for advice: - Aydin Arydzhi - specialist in the treatment of infertility and oncology of the female reproductive system - Zafer Gulbash - director of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Center in Anadolu - Sertach Cichek - cardiac surgeon of adults and children.
The center has a full set of modern equipment for high-precision diagnostics, and the specialists of the clinic in the treatment prefer minimally invasive and gentle methods of treatment, and organ-saving operations.
Anadolu Medical Center is the best diagnosis and treatment, quality service and care for each patient.
This is a clinic that you can trust the most expensive - your health and loved ones.
Learn more about the free program of the Second Medical Opinion, as well as about treatment at the Anadolu Medical Center on the official website: anadolumedicalcenter.com / ua
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The National Bank ordered to publish full information about the cost of banking services
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The requirements were approved by the NBU Board Resolution No. 141, and the recommendations were approved by the Board Decision No. 889-rsh dated November 28, BusinessCensor reports with reference to the regulator ’ s press service.
The purpose of the new disclosure requirements is to provide complete, transparent and understandable information about services to consumers.
At the same time, recommendations on working with appeals are designed to ensure high-quality consideration of appeals by banks and their independent correction of identified violations of consumer rights, "the report said.
Banks are required to change the information about services on websites and in advertising to meet the new requirements within 6 months.
At the same time, after three months, all banks must provide comprehensive information about services on the website in a single unified format.
First of all, indicate the full cost of the service, in particular, the commission to third parties and payments for additional services (for example, an insurance campaign, a state registrar, a notary, an appraiser), the frequency of repayment of the loan, the conditions of early repayment, possible penalties in case of non-compliance by the client with obligations, and the like.
The consumer, going to the website of any bank, should be able to download a file with comprehensive information about the full cost, terms of service, risks, etc., as well as easily compare the services of several different banks.
In accordance with the new rules, the Financial Services Consumer Protection Department of the National Bank of Ukraine will begin monitoring banks ’ compliance with these requirements in three months and monitor websites on a daily basis.
For non-disclosure of information on services in full, the legislation provides for penalties from 300 to 600 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens for each case.
After six months, calculators should appear in the websites of banks to calculate expenses or income from the service.
Also in six months will earn new requirements for disclosure of information in advertising.
Advertising should also contain significant characteristics of the banking service, including information about the full cost, conditions for obtaining the service, risks, and the like.
In terms of recommendations for banks to work with consumer appeals, the National Bank recommends financial institutions to develop an automated database where all information about citizens' appeals will be entered.
“The NBU also recommends that banks determine the responsible employee for the consideration of each appeal, conduct training programs for bank employees who work with customers, eliminate violations identified during the appeal, as well as prevent similar violations against other customers, ” the NBU said.
As reported, President Volodymyr Zelensky signed the law on the protection of the rights of consumers of financial services on October 16.
It will take effect from January 2020.
The law imposes obligations on the National Bank to protect the rights of consumers of financial services and provides it with tools to regulate the behavior of participants in financial markets in relation to customers.
As noted in the National Bank, for the past eight years, none of the state bodies has been engaged in the protection of the rights of consumers of financial services in Ukraine.
As a result, only in 2018 and only the National Bank received more than 13 thousand complaints from consumers outraged by the quality of financial services.
At the same time, due to the lack of an appropriate mandate, the NBU was not able to prevent abuses or take measures against violators.
The law that has been passed should change that.
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Return of Ivan the Terrible
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The painting "The Secret Departure of Ivan the Terrible before the Oprichnina" by Mikhail Panin, who was considered missing during the German occupation during the Second World War from the city of Dnepropetrovsk (now Dnipro), returned to the museum.
It was put up for auction in the United States, but in the Dnieper Museum noticed it in the catalog and demanded to return.
"We hope to learn more about this painter, - said, returning the picture painted 107 years ago, the representative of the auction house. - We were shown a Russian document, which noted that the canvas disappeared from the museum during the war."
Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Valeriy Chaly expressed gratitude on behalf of the President of his country.
After learning about the history of the painting, David and Gabby Tracy, who put it up for auction, abandoned their claims.
They found the painting in a house they had bought in Connecticut.
Gabby Tracy knows about the war firsthand: she miraculously managed to survive the Holocaust: “I was born in Czechoslovakia, but during the war we managed to rush to Hungary.
At the end of the war, the Russians liberated us.
So we survived and found refuge in America, ” said Gabby.
She added that she was happy to return the painting and expressed hope to see it in the museum someday.
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Foreigners go to Russia for high-quality dentistry
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The Russian Association of Medical Tourism said that dentistry is the most common reason for visiting Russia among foreign patients.
For her, 44% of medical tourists come to the country.
We are talking about both citizens of the countries of the former USSR and Europeans.
The most demanded are such complex and expensive areas of dental care as orthodontics and surgical dentistry, namely implantation and prosthetics of teeth.
According to the press service, in 2016, more than 20,000 foreign citizens visited Russia for medical purposes.
According to the head doctor of dentistry Eskulap, Krasnodar, in 2016 the clinic was visited by more than 100 foreign citizens.
Patients most often complained of toothache, pulpitis, mild inflammation of the gums, especially in the winter.
Implantation and prosthetics of teeth is in second place, as in Russia you can put an imported implant qualitatively and not expensive, given the current exchange rate of the ruble.
The second place in the list of medical tourism was taken by urology and gynecology (23%).
Parents from neighboring countries, Europe and the UAE visited us mainly in Moscow for IVF (in vitro fertilization).
This is due to the low cost of IVF in Russia - 2.5 times cheaper.
3rd place in the ranking (17%) is occupied by plastic surgery: various types of facelifts and rejuvenation, plastic nose and chest.
The services of a plastic surgeon in Russia cost about 13% lower.
Mostly residents of neighboring countries, Israel, Great Britain and the United States.
Orthopedics and Traumatology fit in the ranking on the 4th place and 11%.
Visitors were interested in the treatment of the hip, knee and other joints.
Citizens of the Baltic States, the United States, France and the United Kingdom came to our clinics for complex operations.
Place at number five was shared by the areas of cardiovascular surgery (3%) and ophthalmology (2%).
The leaders in this field were heart clinics in Moscow, Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg.
The Russian Association of Medical Tourism (AOMMT) reports that prices for coronary bypass surgery and heart surgery in Russia are much lower than in foreign countries.
The rating is closed by ophthalmology: laser correction of vision, treatment of glaucoma and restoration of the retina.
The services of our clinics interested residents of the United States, Great Britain and Israel.
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Biologist has estimated the possibility of the disappearance of habitual products due to climate change
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Climate change can undoubtedly affect the crops and products of various crops.
However, this trend is likely to mean short-term problems.
Alexander Markov, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Head of the Department of Biological Evolution of the Biological Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University, told Zvezda.
According to him, despite the information that appeared in the media that climate change threatens the disappearance of most of the familiar products, this situation is not entirely true.
The reason is that in the case of a change in the usual climate, manufacturers will simply have to rebuild, which will take a certain time.
However, everyone ’ s favorite products will not disappear because of this.
“Climate change can affect the crops and products of various crops, plants, animals and so on.
If it gets warmer or colder, it will affect the productivity of the system.
In some regions it can be a positive impact, in others it can be negative.
In general, any climate change will cause short-term problems: something is changing, agricultural producers have adapted to certain conditions, but those have changed.
You will have to grow crops in other places.
These will be short-term problems for sure, ” Markov said.
The expert added that climate change could cause local problems with agricultural productivity in all regions.
But we can adapt to the changes.
“These are not fatal processes, ” he concluded.
Earlier in the media there was information that, according to scientists, climate change can supposedly lead to the disappearance of most of the usual human products - from potatoes to olive oil.
At the same time, British researchers are convinced that coffee can disappear, and by 2050 the territory suitable for its cultivation will be halved.
And after another 30 years, the plant will completely disappear.
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New cryptocurrency Dandelion: researchers reconstruct the Bitcoin network - Other cryptocurrencies
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Anna Chernobay Professional Name: Anna Gender: Female Address: Anapa Investing in: My Business Registration: 31.08.2012 Posts: 1,345 Thanks: 518 KP: 0.372 New cryptocurrency Dandelion: researchers are reconstructing the Bitcoin network Three researchers from the University of Illinois (Shaileshh Bojja Venkatakrishnan, iulia Fanti, Pramod Viswanath) launched a joint project called Dandelion ("Dandelion").
Dandelion cryptocurrency, being the result of the reconstruction of the Bitcoin network, seeks to realize anonymity and absolute financial freedom.
Recently, experts, including lead developer of Monero Riccardo Spagni (also known as @ fluffypony), for several months held discussions about the importance of financial freedom.
At one of the events organized by the bitcoin exchange Coinbase, Ricardo Spagni shared with experts very strong considerations about why financial privacy is necessary for users of bitcoin.
In general, it is important for users of any other cryptocurrency.
For example, it is only necessary to choose the right decoding software – and attackers can easily access significant funds in the accounts of users of the open Bitcoin blockchain.
Spagny explained that the inherent transparency of the blockchain can make wealthy people easy prey for such intruders.
In addition, earnings data can be “leaked ”, data on the nature of current costs can be sold to advertisers, the profitability of private companies can be disclosed, and purchases that a person would like to hide can be put on public display.
In the future, disclosure of personal earnings or wages could be a major concern, as it would lead to possible condemnation and criticism of senior managers and other employees.
Thus, taking into account the possible consequences, even if many users do not recognize or do not realize their own need for financial freedom, there is no denying that the world needs it.
At the moment, the Bitcoin network is not anonymous at all.
Despite the widespread belief about the connection between Bitcoin transactions and trading on the darknet, in essence, Bitcoin does not provide anonymity.
Due to the fact that the Bitcoin network is built on an open blockchain, it is possible to analyze the history of users ’ transactions and determine the location of illegal activities or their commercial nature.
For the greater privacy of Bitcoin users, the Bitcoin Core development team and others, unknown to the general public, members of the Bitcoin community have developed two-tier solutions, like Mimblewimble and TumbleBit, which can, by mixing transactions and eliminating transaction history, provide a fairly high degree of anonymity.
Each bitcoin transaction contains information about the data of all previous transactions, so the analysis of a single transaction can lead to others associated with it.
That is, the functions of mixing the inputs and outputs of transactions and deleting history contribute to the maximum realization of the anonymity of users and their financial freedom.
In principle, researchers at the University of Illinois are trying to create a cryptocurrency similar to bitcoin, but which would guarantee anonymity on its own.
Like the creators of Zcash and Monero, the developers of Dandelion seek to hide transaction data from intruders, but use slightly different methods for this.
According to the research report, Dandelion will mix messages or transaction outputs from different users.
Using special mixing technology, this network will not allow any third party to view specific numbers and transaction amounts.
In an official document titled “Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity ”, the researchers explain:“ In an existing P2P network, the content of transactions is transmitted in a structured form that allows third parties to view the transmitted information and, thereby, allows the de-anonymization of users.
As part of this project, we reconstructed the P2P network in order to ensure stable and verifiable anonymity, which is the main principle for us.
We offer a simple network policy called Dandelion.
The policy of Dandelion is able to guarantee anonymity with minimal loss of network functionality.
We are also ensuring the practical implementation of Dandelion. ”
Recently, experts, including the lead developer of Monero, Riccardo Spagni (also known as @ fluffypony), for several months held discussions about the importance of financial freedom.
At one of the events organized by the bitcoin exchange Coinbase, Ricardo Spagni shared with experts very strong considerations about why financial privacy is necessary for users of bitcoin.
In general, it is important for users of any other crypto-currency. For example, it is only necessary to choose the right decoding software – and attackers will easily be able to access significant funds on the accounts of users of the open Bitcoin blockchain.
Spagny explained that the inherent transparency of blockchain can make wealthy people easy prey for such attackers. In addition, data on earnings can be “merged ”, data on the nature of current costs can be sold to advertisers, profitability indicators of private companies can be disclosed, and purchases that a person would like to hide can be put on public display.
In the future, the disclosure of data about the earnings or salaries of individuals can be a serious problem, as it will lead to possible condemnation and criticism of senior managers and other workers.Thus, taking into account the possible consequences, even if many users do not recognize or do not realize their own need for financial freedom, there is no denying that the world needs it.
Despite the widespread belief about the connection between Bitcoin transactions and trading on the darknet, in essence, Bitcoin does not provide anonymity.
Due to the fact that the Bitcoin network is built on an open blockchain, it is possible to analyze the history of users' transactions and determine the location of illegal activities or their commercial nature. For greater privacy of Bitcoin users, the Bitcoin Core development team and others, unknown to the general public, members of the Bitcoin community have developed two-tier solutions, like Mimblewimble and TumbleBit, which can, by mixing transactions and eliminating the anonymous history of transactions, provide a fairly high degree Each bitcoin transaction contains information about the data of all previous transactions, so the analysis of a single transaction can lead to others associated with it.
That is, the functions of mixing the inputs and outputs of transactions and deleting history contribute to the maximum realization of the anonymity of users and their financial freedom. According to the research report, Dandelion will mix the messages or outputs of transactions from different users.
Using special mixing technology, this network will not allow any third party to view specific figures and transaction amounts. In an official document called “Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Network for Anonymity ”, the researchers explain: At the moment, the Dandelion network has not yet been tested or tested by cryptographers. nor software developers.
However, this project addresses potential topics for future research, for example, the problem of tradeoffs between anonymity and latency of blockchain networks.
Dandelion is still waiting for expert assessments that will determine the content of the long-term and short-term development plans for this project.
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Hidden Motors in Bikes - CBS Investigation
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Are hidden motors used in bicycles of cyclists of professional peloton?
Opinions of engineer István Varjas and three-time winner of the Tour de France Greg Lemond Following the French sports TV program Stade 2 and the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, the investigation into mechanical doping in cycling was conducted by journalists of the American television channel CBS in the program “60 minutes ”.
Journalist Bill Whitaker traveled to Hungary to meet with Istvan Varjas, an engineer who confessed to selling bicycles with hidden motors to professional cyclists.
In addition, CBS journalists asked what they think about the possibility of the existence of hidden in the bicycles racers professional peloton engines, three-time winner of the Tour de France Greg Lemond and Jean-Pierre Verdy (Jean-Pierre Verdy), the former director of control of the French anti-doping Agency.
Engineer István Varjas on hidden motors "The motor can be connected to the pulse meter when the pulse of the rider becomes too high, a signal is given and the motor is turned on.
We used hidden motors while testing cyclists in the vicinity of Budapest.
And it's not a moped at all, because there's no exhaust pipe or noise.
The built-in engine provides a short but powerful boost to help the cyclist. "
When asked by Bill Whitaker if Varjas knows professional peloton riders who use bicycles with motors, the engineer replied: "Exactly with this, no." - But there are bicycles with motors? - Yes.
I know that.
Do you sell your engines to professional cyclists?
But if my grandfather comes to me, buys a bicycle, and then gives it to his grandson, who participates in cycling, it's not my problem. - And if someone comes to you and says directly that he wants to use your invention to cheat, that he will pay you a lot of money, then sell? - If the money is big, then why not?
Istvan Varjas said that in 1998 his friend found him a buyer.
But the engineer swears he has no idea who the buyer is.
He simply showed CBS reporters a bank account that received $2 million that year.
Then Varjas answered before the law of his country for not paying the tax.
The engineer stressed that the buyer who bought his invention demanded an exclusive deal – for 10 years, István Varjas was not supposed to work on the engine, sell it or talk about it. – If you live in Hungary, – continued Varjas, – and if you are given 2 million dollars for 10 years just to do nothing … Could you say no?
So you think hidden motors have been used by professional cyclists since 1998?
István Varjas also revealed that Dr. Michele Ferrari had been buying stealth bikes for the past three years.
Speaking to CSB reporters on the phone, Ferrari denied buying the bike from Varjas, but admitted that he was just testing one of those bikes.
Varjas cooperated with the French police and reported that before the Tour de France in 2015, he sold bicycles with a motor to an unknown client through an intermediary.
According to him, the bikes were delivered to the French city of Beaulieu sur Mer (Beaulieu Sur Mer).
István Varjas said that in addition to the motors built into the frames, he also invented a motor that can be hidden inside the rear wheel tube.
Therefore, the weight of the wheel increases compared to the usual 800 g. Motors in bicycles team Sky?
At the 2015 Tour de France, all of the participants' bikes were weighed before the cutting stages.
Those in charge of the race told CBS that only the bicycles of the British team Sky weighed more than the rest, each almost 800 grams heavier.
A spokesman for the Sky team explained this by saying that a heavier cutting bike can improve aerodynamics.
He also claims that the team never used mechanical devices, and that the bikes were tested by the people responsible for it at the UCI.
Jean-Pierre Verdi on mechanical doping at the Tour de France in an interview with CBS said that in his opinion, in the peloton about 12 riders used hidden motors at the Tour de France in 2015, which is evidenced by the high speed of riders in the mountains.
“Of course, there is mechanical doping.
I was told about the use of motors three or four years ago.
In 2014, I was told that motors were being used, that this was a problem.
In 2015, everyone began to complain, and I replied that something needs to be done.
They're hurting cycling.
But this is human nature, man is always trying to find a magic drug. ”
Three-time Tour de France winner Greg Lemond first heard about hidden motors in 2014, when he met Varjas in Paris and tried to ride such a bike.
There's always a rotten apple, because there's a lot of money at stake.
It is possible to determine whether there is mechanical doping by weight.
In cycling, weight is everything, be it body weight or bicycle weight.
If a bicycle weighs more than a kilogram, you will never be able to ride a race on it.
It's fixable.
"I don't trust any Tour de France victory until they figure out how to remove the engines."
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Andrey Grivko about the incident with Marcel Kittel at the Tour Dubai-2017
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Andriy Grivko told his version of the incident with Marcel Kittel at the 3rd stage of the Tour Dubai-2017 Ukrainian rider of the Astana team Andriy Grivko on his Facebook page told his version of the incident with the German rider Marcel Kittel (Quick Step Floors) that occurred during the 3rd stage of the Tour Dubai-2017.
Andriy Grivko ’ s actions in punching Kittel in the face were classified by the judges as “an act of violence among riders. ”
Ukrainian rider Astana was withdrawn from the race, the team made a public apology to Marcel Kittel and the team Quick Step Floors.
Andriy Grivko about the incident with Marcel Kittel “I would like to open my point of view on the incident that caused our conflict with Marcel Kittel.
I ’ ve been in cycling for 12 years, and like everyone else, I understand that when sprinters compete for positions 3 km before the finish line, it ’ s normal.
But everything happened 100 km before the finish line in such a rude style, in such severe weather conditions that it was a great danger to the riders.
In the struggle for the position, as confirmed by Kittel himself, he rudely pushed my teammate Dmitry Gruzdev first with his shoulder, then me, creating a very tense and dangerous situation that could cause not only my fall, but also a huge blockage in the peloton.
I responded aggressively to the aggressive action.
I may have succumbed to emotions that have nothing to do with cycling, but it was an extreme situation, a safety issue where it was difficult to stay calm.
I believe that such behavior, when the lives and health of athletes are endangered due to selfishness, also has nothing to do with cycling.
In the peloton, everyone is equal, everyone has equal rights to occupy positions, no matter whether it is a famous sprinter or neo-pro.
We have to respect each other.
I think it ’ s unsportsmanlike when a rider demands a seat for him just because he ’ s famous or in a bad mood.
After this incident, Kittel literally spat in my direction several times, which, in my opinion, also has nothing to do with cycling.
I can assure you that this was not an “attack on an opponent ” arising out of nowhere.
Moreover, as Kittel himself noted, I weigh 70 kg against his 86.
However, I once again apologize to the race organizers, all the fans, and of course to my team for this unpleasant incident that led to my withdrawal from the race. ”
Alexander Shefer, sports director of the Astana team, about the incident at the 3rd stage of the Dubai Tour 2016 “Today ’ s stage turned out to be quite difficult due to the wind, nervous and dangerous moments appeared several times.
At one of these moments, Andrei Grivko did not cope with emotions and hit Marcel Kittel.
Regardless of the cause of the incident, we have to admit that our driver acted improperly.
This is unsportsmanlike and unacceptable.
We apologise to Kittel and his team for what happened.
The Astana team always adheres to a strict line in matters of sports ethics, so we fully agree with the decision of the judges to remove Andriy Grivko from the race.
Also, on the part of the team, the management will make further decisions on the punishment of the rider. ”
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The incident with the participation of the cyclist of “Astana ” media called“ the tip of the iceberg ”
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KAZINFORM - The incident between the rider of the Kazakhstan team Andrei Grivko and his German colleague is only the tip of the iceberg of what can happen when adrenaline and testosterone levels go off the charts during races.
Some believe that the fight during the race makes cycling even more attractive for the audience, the organizers and the athletes themselves believe that this behavior should be stopped.
It ’ s a race, everyone drives nervously, athletes sometimes find it difficult to restrain themselves in a stressful situation.
In addition to the incident with the participation of the cyclist of Astana, the British edition of Cycling Weekly recalled other sprint showdowns.
Recall, the Ukrainian rider of Pro Team Astana Andrey Grivko was removed from the Tour of Dubai-2017 for the fact that during the third stage he hit in the face of the German rider of the Quick Step Floors team Marcel Kittel, who is the leader of the race.
After hitting Grivko, Kittel continued the race with a bloody face.
Immediately after the finish, Kittel demanded that Andriy Grivko be punished - removed from the competition.
Astana team publicly apologized to Marcel Kittel and his team for the behavior of their rider, who was eventually withdrawn from the race.
In 2010, the hot weather and the longest stage of the Tour de France race played a cruel joke with the Spaniard Carlos Barredo and the Portuguese Rui Costa.
Cyclists Carlos Barredo (Quick Step) and Rui Costa (Caisse d'Epargne) fought, but then apologized to each other, thereby exhausting the incident.
Both were fined 400 Swiss francs.
Russian Ivan Rovny, who plays for the Tinkoff-Saxo team, fought with Italian Gianluca Brambilla of Omega Pharma- Quick-Step during the race at the 16th stage of the Vuelta.
Athletes during the skirmish did not even get off their bikes to kick each other in the face.
Both were disqualified from the race.
Earlier, another Kazakh rider lost control during the race.
A member of the Astana team Dmitry Gruzdev at the beginning of the fifth stage of the Tour of Turkey in 2015 hit the Albanian Jugert Zup.
After the incident, Gruzdev was withdrawn from the race.
In 1995, there was one of the most famous fights in the history of cycling.
In the fourth stage of the Vuelta, the Venezuelan Leonardo Sierra of Carrera and Basque Ramón González Arrieta of Banesto began to exchange blows, which resulted in both being on the pavement.
The riders got back on their feet and continued the fight.
Both drivers were disqualified from the race.
Arrieta vs Sierra During the multi-day race “Vuelta Portugal 2014 ” Spaniard Vicente Garcia de Mateos and Danish Asbjorn Kral Andersen staged a brawl.
Both riders were suspended from the tour.
Garcia de Mateos vs Andersen
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Turkey ’ s Regional Policy and Europe ’ s Position
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After many of Turkey ’ s initiatives towards Iran, including the issues of the “nuclear program ” as well as the Middle East, nothing significant has really happened between Turkey and Iran.
Turkey has tried to make a “breakthrough ” in relations with Iran, offering to join certain regional agreements on economic development, and even political consultations.
Consultations on various political issues between Turkey and Iran have been taking place for a long time, as well as between many other states.
Meanwhile, Iran, without refusing to demonstrate the Turkish-Iranian declarative rapprochement, noted that it has no intention to create some kind of alliance with Turkey, and made it clear that it will not participate in supporting initiatives on the problems of the Middle East, which require long-term discussions, with the participation of other states.
Turkey has already expressed to the Iranian leaders its misunderstanding of their position.
For example, Turkey has made sure that Iran will not support and only observes Turkey ’ s initiatives in the South Caucasus, Lebanon and Iraq.
In fact, Iran is very wary and hostile to Turkey ’ s intentions in the regions, primarily in the countries closest to Iran – Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, the South Caucasus.
Iran is visibly annoyed by Turkey ’ s attempts to increase its presence and influence in Iraq with the help and approval of the United States.
Iran also suspects Turkey of trying to negotiate with Saudi Arabia to support its actions in Iraq, which Iran views as a “conspiracy ” against it.
But most of all, Iran is concerned about the “Sunni games ” of Turkey, which is trying to negotiate with the Arabs on a number of issues to the detriment of Iran ’ s interests.
During the Turkish initiatives towards Iran, practically no issue related to the Turkish-Iranian confrontation has been resolved, in particular, on the problem of supporting Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq and Lebanon, as well as there have been no even distant agreements on the problems of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, on the Kurdish problem, the activities of intelligence services in relation to each other, which is of particular concern.
Currently, Iran is ready to make many efforts to fail Turkey ’ s initiatives in the Middle East, although similar problems remain in Central Asia and the South Caucasus.
Iran continues to pursue the goal of creating a more consolidated bloc, including Syria.
Lebanon, Armenia, Tajikistan, as well as the Shiites of Iraq.
Iran makes it clear to the states of the region that nothing has changed in its intentions, but only some events in the region have occurred.
The confrontation between Iran and Turkey is constrained so far by the fact that both states would not like this opposition to be taken advantage of by some political circles and governments of Arab states, primarily Saudi Arabia and Egypt, as well as the United States and Israel.
France and Germany have always been suspicious of Turkey ’ s initiatives towards Iran.
Britain tried to get Turkey to be more loyal to the Western community on the issue of Iran, but this led to the failure of many of the hopes for Turkey that the British had.
France, from the very beginning of the Turkish initiatives on Iran, understood that there could not be enough close and mutually beneficial interests in the relations between Turkey and Iran, and there was a poorly covered game between traditional regional rivals.
On this issue, France was in full solidarity with the United States and Germany, who understood that Turkey was not in a position to influence Iran and was not going to do so, and only had to wait and see how Turkey ’ s position would change.
Recently, Turkey began to understand that its initiatives against Iran are meaningless, as they lead to the loss of positions in the West and at the same time do not allow to acquire any positions in the region in terms of influence on Iran.
Neither the Americans nor the Europeans were going to give Turkey more importance in world politics than it actually has.
The Western community did not want to assign any merit to Turkey in the direction of settling relations with Iran in the sphere of its “nuclear program ”.
Turkey has been repeatedly made clear that the Americans and Europeans do not intend to associate their policy with its attempts against Iran and consider its initiatives not at all as binding.
Turkey now feels like a loser in the game with Iran and the West, seeking to shape new proposals and more in line with Western policy.
In Ankara began to fear that their position will be used by political circles in the United States, France and Germany, which intend to condemn Turkey for the implementation of the “new foreign policy ”.
Ankara has already felt this danger, but they do not yet understand how to get out of this situation.
It would be natural for Turkey to become more in solidarity with the West and take a more critical stance against Iran, but its leadership is still speculating on the Iranian issue.
It should be noted that Turkey has not acquired anything positive for itself in the Middle East, seeking to be a mediator in relations between the West and Iran.
The Arab states were mostly not interested in settling the relations between the US and European states with Iran and, in general, in reducing tensions between them.
The “Iranian threat ”, primarily in the sphere of the“ nuclear program ”, determines the close relations of the United States with the Arab states, which consider Iran as an undesirable partner in the Middle East and are interested in the West ’ s policy of strategic containment of Iran.
The leading Arab states – Egypt and Saudi Arabia, as well as other states in the region – Jordan and the Gulf states – are not interested in strengthening the role of either Turkey or Iran in the Middle East, as well as in the formation of closer relations between Turkey and Iran.
These leading Arab states are also not interested in creating a certain zone of economic cooperation, including Turkey, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon.
Thus, the games against Iran have brought nothing to Turkish policy in the Middle East, but only irritate the Arab countries.
Turkey is trying to start new negotiations with the United States and leading European states over its initiatives on Iran.
Turkey would like to decide on its initiatives and find out whether it makes sense to continue its efforts, how much the West intends to continue to perceive Turkish initiatives as constructive.
It turns out that Turkey is in a political impasse, and now can not just abandon the initiatives, otherwise it will look like a state that badly calculates its foreign policy.
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In Belarus, there is a trend towards an increase in the export of dental services.
About it, writes the agency "Minsk-Novosti", said at a press conference the chief freelance dentist of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus Andrei Matveev.
"In 2016, dental care for foreign citizens in health care institutions of various forms of ownership was provided in the amount of 3.35 million rubles, - said A. Matveev. - In 2015, the export of dental services amounted to 1.79 million rubles.
There is a trend towards an increase in the export of dental services. ”
According to the expert, with the introduction of a 5-day visa-free entry to Belarus, the indicator of exports of dental services may increase.
“Nevertheless, it is not worth discounting the fact that often dental treatment is not a matter of one to five days, - explained A. Matveev. - If one visit to the dentist is enough for oral hygiene, then it will take more than five days for prosthetics, implantation of teeth.
Seams, for example, after these manipulations are removed on the seventh day. ”
According to A. Matveev, aesthetic treatment, prosthetics with metal-free constructions, as well as dental implantation are most in demand among foreign patients.
“Almost the whole world is coming to us for help, I don ’ t remember only patients from Australia, ” he said.
Domestic dental units "Beldent" are also supplied to the near abroad.
Also, Belarusian filling materials made with the use of the latest technologies are exported to some countries.
As for paid services to residents of Belarus, in 2016 they were provided in the amount of 62.5 million rubles.
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Oprah Winfrey sold the painting of the famous artist for 150 million
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The famous American TV presenter Oprah Winfrey sold a picture of Gustav Klimt for $150 million.
This is reported by Bloomberg, citing a source.
According to the publication, the buyer of “Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer II ” was a collector from China.
This is one of the largest private art deals.
It is noted that Winfrey bought the portrait in 2006 for $87.9 million at Christie's auction in New York.
For Klimt ’ s work, the amount is still a record.
Since then, the cost of the painting has increased by more than 70%.
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Canadians to build nuclear power plant
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By 2030.
Canadian scientists intend to build an experimental fusion plant by 2030.
The amount of investment in the project will be 125 million dollars.
For commercial use of the reactor will require a lot of research, write the Federal media.
Nuclear fusion is considered a powerful source of renewable energy, being more economical compared to traditional nuclear power plants: it does not require the consumption of expensive uranium.
Low greenhouse gas emissions are also an advantage.
The thermonuclear reactor repeats the principle of the Sun: two hydrogen atoms merge together at extreme temperatures and form helium, releasing a huge amount of energy.
The amount of hydrogen needed for one year of operation of a 1,000-megawatt power plant can fit in a truck.
This technology has been developed since the 1950s, reports Uralinformbureau.
The creation of such an experimental reactor ITER are engaged in France, it should be launched in 2020.
Its investors were the European Union, China, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the United States.
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The artist who refused to paint a portrait of Bakiev
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Kyrgyz artist Tuman Zhumabayev once compared Putin to a samurai, painted a portrait of Askar Akayev, and then refused to meet Kurmanbek Bakiyev.
Called Rembrandt of the XXI century, a member of the association of artists of the United States Tuman Zhumabayev has been living in St. Petersburg for 30 years.
Now he is considered one of the most expensive artists in Russia.
Tuman Zhumabaev is now 55 years old, at one time he, not knowing the Russian language, went to conquer Peter.
And much later he painted portraits of Vladimir Putin and Askar Akayev.
But he refused to depict Nursultan Nazarbayev and Kurmanbek Bakiyev on canvas.
In 1980, Zhumabayev knew only 50-60 words in Russian.
The guy, born in the village of Kyzyl-Tuu, located near the lake Sary-Chelek, went to Leningrad for higher education.
The elite of Russian fine arts is concentrated in this city.
Here is how the artist remembers his first years in St. Petersburg: - It was the year of the Olympics.
I didn't speak Russian, but I took the risk and went.
All I knew was “hello ” and“ goodbye. ”
I only spoke Kyrgyz.
I first went to college, where I learned how to make parquet.
A year later he entered the Faculty of Restoration of the Serov Art School.
Then he continued his education at the St. Petersburg Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Repin at the Russian Academy of Arts.
Studying there is considered very prestigious, so exceptionally talented students were admitted to this art university.
Tuman Zhumabayev also studied at the Repin Institute of Arts, known not only in the USSR, but also in Eastern Europe for its conservative education system: - Honestly, the St. Petersburg school was very conservative.
I think at that time there was conservatism and iron discipline in all schools.
Perhaps it is wrong to talk about conservatism here.
You can call it rules.
In fact, in order to learn how to create art canvases, you need a conservative education that gives a strict understanding and knowledge of the ways of painting.
Even if I was only 5 minutes late for class, I had to write an explanatory letter to the dean ’ s office.
We had a strong foundation in school.
If you didn ’ t like it, you had to leave.
Further development depends on the person himself.
But I am happy with this strict school.
In addition to Russia, the paintings of Tuman Zhumabaev are also exhibited in museums in Vienna, Warsaw and Paris.
He mainly paints landscapes, portraits.
In 2006, in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in Moscow, his works participated in the exhibition "Light of Rembrandt".
Critics then called Zhumabaev Rembrandt of the XXI century: - I heard about Rembrandt in college.
I grew up in a village where I knew about world celebrities.
During my first year, the teacher told me that I was drawing like Rembrandt.
I was surprised and asked who it was.
The next day I went to the Hermitage and saw the paintings of this great artist.
I went there every week.
Rembrandt became my teacher.
Tuman Zhumabayev considers the great Van Gogh and Chuikov to be his mentors.
He is particularly fond of Van Gogh ’ s work.
Trying to imitate him.
Pictures of Tuman Zhumabaev are in demand.
In the center of St. Petersburg he has a gallery "Tuman-art": - I am not a rich man.
But enough for life.
I have everything I need, I don ’ t need anything.
I can fly anywhere in the world whenever I want.
In spite of this, I put spiritual values above material ones.
My paintings sold for 50 thousand euros, sometimes more expensive.
When you buy them from me, they sell them even more expensive.
To those who cannot sell their paintings, I say that you must try and work will be rewarded.
Experts in the field of fine arts call Zhumabaev a very popular artist.
Tashkent critic Akmal Rizaev says about his work: - His works are valued dearly.
He is a modern artist, a realist.
The portrait of Vladimir Putin, which he wrote, was immediately valued at 30 thousand euros.
Now this work is in the collection of the President of Russia.
In addition, I know that the portrait of the famous opera singer Elena Obraztsova was very expensive.
I heard that the oligarchs, through intermediaries, ordered him a portrait of Nazarbayev, but he refused to write it.
Our hero at one time did not want to paint a portrait of the former President of Kyrgyzstan Kurmanbek Bakiyev, he also refused to meet with him: - For the first time I saw Putin on TV.
His gaze was the gaze of a samurai.
So I made him look like a samurai.
Later, people from Putin ’ s entourage bought the painting and gave it to him.
I did not meet with Putin.
I am friends with the first president of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev.
In honor of our friendship, I painted his portrait.
He really liked it.
“My portrait was painted by many, but your work is the best, ” he said.
Later, power changed, Kurmanbek Bakiyev became president.
He came to Peter and invited me to a meeting.
For some reason, I didn't want to meet him.
He refused to paint his portrait.
I didn ’ t see him as a good president.
Maybe he was a good head of state, but I had no desire.
Tuman Zhumabayev, who brings up three sons, loves to draw mountains.
The artist explains this by the fact that he grew up in a mountainous area, which he always misses, although he often comes to his homeland: - I miss, often go to Kyrgyzstan.
Four years ago, in Issyk-Kul, I met with rich people, politicians.
I invited them to raise the art, said about the need to help artists.
They said that now the situation is difficult, and as soon as it improves, they will begin to pay attention to art, to help artists.
And I told them that if they continue to hold this opinion, the country will not develop.
Interview with Tuman Zhumabaev journalist "Ozodlika" in Prague Shukhrat Babajanov.
Journalists of Azattyk (the Kyrgyz edition of Radio Svoboda) participated in the preparation of the material
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Medical tourists from Russia are not afraid of high prices
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Experts of the Russian Association of Medical Tourism (AOMMT) together with foreign partners conducted an analysis of the outbound flow of medical tourists from Russia for 2016.
The analysis showed that Russian patients abroad are mainly looking for high-tech care and an impeccable level of service, and in the last place in their motivation is the price, unlike medical tourists from other countries of the world who go to be treated abroad in order to save money.
Over the past year, the behavior of medical tourists from Russia has changed in the direction of minimizing intermediary services in this area.
More and more Russians who have decided to undergo treatment abroad are independently contacting clinics and doctors, as well as forming a cultural and entertainment program for themselves.
The most popular health and medical directions in 2016 among Russians were: 1.
Israel; and 2.
Germany; and 3.
China; 4. USA; 5.
Ukraine; 6.
India; and 7.
Belarus.
Despite the 20-30% reduction in the volume of outbound medical tourism in 2016 (about 80 thousand Russians were treated in foreign clinics), such luxury health destinations as Switzerland practically did not lose their customers from Russia.
In general, wealthy patients from Russia and Asia are ready to pay about $8,000 per night.
In addition, there are several centers specializing in detox therapy and cosmetology.
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"I have a palette from Repin"
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Natella Toidze ’ s exhibition “Sculpture of Color ” takes place in the New Manege, and even in the midst of the working week, there are unusually many visitors in the halls – arguing near the paintings and silently considering the huge landscapes, lively and really like sculpted.
The exhibition was extended for another half month - until March 12. - Natella Georgievna, is it true that you always paint landscapes only in nature?
There are a lot of photos in the exhibition, where you work in nature: in the forest, in the village, in the field.
It is important for me to see, hear, feel everything around the canvas: the rustling of leaves, the play of light and shadows, the chirping of birds, the movement of air.
I hope this is also part of the content of the picture and determines its atmosphere.
And this is the main thing for me. - Yes, the plot is almost absent... - It is easy to come up with a plot, but I do not think that this applies to pictorial solutions.
Real music excites without words, not like in the song.
Often we hear a song where there is practically no music, and the words should excite the listener.
I am interested in conveying the state of the world around me by purely picturesque means - a combination of color spots, their location, rhythm, composition...
And nature just gives a wealth of fortunes. – In the exposition a lot of winter landscapes. – I paint often in winter, until the colors freeze.
I love to paint snow, it is always different, and each time for me sets a new pictorial task. – Art critics write about the inner drama of your paintings. – I think this is due to the inconsistency of the task – to convey the movement of life, the dynamics of matter in the static image.
And this is very interesting to me, I am trying to convey again by purely pictorial means a certain process, a certain movement in nature, a change in its state.
Probably, and the work is therefore called: "Before the snow", "Thaw", "After the rain", "Summer is over". - And in the workshop do not complete the work? - No, never.
All work must be completed in nature.
There is a different light in the workshop, a different environment, which means a different state.
And, as in music, one false note can spoil the entire musical work, in painting one wrong stroke will destroy the entire pictorial state of the picture.
Therefore, on the contrary, if I find any inaccuracy, I return the canvas to nature.
Sometimes because of one stroke, one color stroke. – With this inner tuning fork, the artist is born or is it learned? – Everyone, probably, differently.
I have lived among art books since I was a child.
Still could not read, but infinitely flipped through them, considered.
My father, Georgy Toidze, was a wonderful sculptor and graphic artist, he put up many monuments, including in Moscow.
We lived on Povarskaya, 30, in the mansion of Count Shuvalov, in the part where the house church used to be.
There was my father's workshop, which was separated from the residential part by a large glass door.
I rode a three-wheeled bicycle around huge sculptures, among clay, clay, bags of gypsum, among models and models.
And then she began to sculpt something of her own.
My father made me a small machine, and I began to spend all the time in the workshop near my father. – Were you encouraged in these classes? – I come from a family of hereditary artists, my grandfather – Mose Toidze, a famous Georgian artist, a student of Repin, graduated from the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, where I met my grandmother, Alexandra Sutina, a novice of the monastery, who studied icon painting..
Uncle – Irakli Toidze, famous poster artist, author of the wonderful poster “Motherland Calls! ”.
But no one forced their children to be artists.
They understood, they knew that those who give themselves to art, should themselves very much want it.
My grandfather had six grandchildren and granddaughters, and I am the only artist.
My father, of course, explained to me what volume, depth, plastic were, and I was interested in that.
And at some point I felt like I needed color. — That ’ s where the color sculpture comes from! — Yes, I guess.
It is amazing that this is how Paola Volkova wrote about my painting as a sculptural one.
There were paints - watercolor, then oil.
But the formats were already large. – How old were you? – 8-9.
My father never told me, “Work, ” even though they themselves were great workers — both dad and grandfather and uncle.
They spent their entire lives in a workshop.
I remember it well. – Do you manage to work like that? – Not always.
Still, the current life around requires a woman to give more — family, parents, children, grandchildren.
I work a lot and with pleasure.
By the way, the only thing I have left of Repin, I learned about it much later, is the Repin palette, as funny as it sounds.
When I asked for oil paints, my dad bought them and showed me how to squeeze the tubes into the palette and in what color sequence.
That's how I started working.
But then at the art school teachers said that the colors are wrong, in the wrong order.
But I ’ m used to it and haven ’ t changed my palette.
One day, I asked my dad why he had opened the palette to me.
And he said that his father had taught him that, and that teacher, Repin, had taught him that.
For all the clarity and brightness of your handwriting, the exhibition shows the absence of exactly what can be called a reception. – I just believe that the method found, which is then replicated by the artist, means a dead end.
And, unfortunately, such examples are always visible.
To repeat what has been found, to quote oneself, to copy earlier is the end of creativity.
Sometimes you can see how the artist sometimes accentuates his technique, aggressive it, if you can say so, because there is no other way.
I never worked as a receptionist, setting a new task for myself every time.
But this is just the most interesting! – When they write about your innovation, how do you understand it? – Probably, I mean that I am engaged exclusively in painting as such, that is, without the help of plot, symbols and signs, the ability to convey only the state of the world around me in color.
Few people work that way now.
Although I have never thought and do not think about innovation, about traditions, about modernity or not. – Tell me, Natella Georgievna, but how do you find an object for work, how do you choose it from many similar ones? – I work quickly enough, it is impossible in nature: the sun goes away, the light changes, clouds come, rain or snow is going.
But I choose the object long and carefully.
And most importantly, it should be interesting to me.
The painting task should worry me. – What gives you a large format?
Very, especially in winter, but I'm curious - you need a lot of space.
I can hardly fit into a small size. – And how do you even set the size?
This is decided in advance, you need to prepare a stretcher, canvas? - At the moment of maturation of the task.
When I find an object, I feel its state, I begin to see both the format and the size of the future picture.
- And how are your decorative, symbolic things that are made in the workshop? - Yes, in general, the same way.
And in decorative things, I solve primarily painting problems for myself.
And I should be excited and excited about that, too.
The main thing here is to worry.
Because, I hope, when this excitement is in the artist, his picture will excite the viewer.
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