It will be opened in the Gallery of the Home of the Serbian Army on Friday, June 7 at 19 p.m exhibition  the renowned Belgrade academic painter Stojana Pačova (1934 – 2015) The installation will be on view for two weeks 55 paintings and works from the multi-decade oeuvre of the creator will be exhibited Stojan Pačov graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade and in 1958 completed his postgraduate studies in the class of Professor Nedeljko Gvozdenović he has been actively present on the local art scene He has been a member of ULUS since 1960 and participates in many joint exhibitions in the country and abroad as well as criticisms and reviews by respected art critics can be found in a recently printed monograph containing 200 color reproductions Renowned art critic and retired museum advisor Nikola Kusovac as well as writer and art historian Dragan Jovanović Danilov Serbian students repeated a hundred times that this is a marathon Similar to Adam Mihnjik in the eighties in Poland The government in Serbia is on the way to the end - you just need to be patient With the inclusivity created at the plenums students should continue during election engagement including the opposition at some point - whatever it may be © 2025 Time, Belgrade. Developed by cubes It has been an awesome weekend in Czech Republic as the 2014 Motocross of European Nations was held at the old school circuit of Pacov Earlier on Saturday an opening ceremony was held trackside where each nation was introduced the selection of nations for qualifying heat order was drawn at random by Chairman of FIM Europe Motocross Commission Eddie Herd the Italians lined up on pole today in both Motocross of European Nations and Women’s Motocross of European Nations divisions While they embraced the early buffer it’s a commonly known fact that nothing in motocross is set in stone especially when rain and weather becomes a factor Despite the early morning lashing of rain which lathered the hilly hard packed circuit of Pacov the Italians brought their ‘A’ games and were rewarded accordingly In the EMX125/250 division Honda Gariboldi’s Tim Gajser was out to show Europe what he is made of The Slovenian was super quick out of the gate snatching the holeshot in race one and checking out to cross the line half a lap ahead of Brian Bogers who was flying the flag high for The Netherlands in second Chasing Bogers home archrival Michele Cervellin pushed the Dutchman to the checkers but couldn’t quite find a way through meaning he would have to settle for third ahead of Frenchman Nicolas Dercourt and local hero Czech Vaclav Kovar It was an unfortunate state of affairs in the second moto for Slovenia’s high-flyer Tim Gajser as his day came undone when he buried his bike in a patch of deep mud Dutchman Brian Bogers took the reigns to bring home a comfortable victory for The Netherlands there was a mean battle for second as Frenchman Nicolas Dercourt went head to head with one of the local legends Martin Krc when the checkers were waved it was Dercourt who took the 22 points for second Coming home in a comfortable fourth the Italian Michele Cervellin held off the best finishing 125cc two-stroke rider of the day Frenchman David Herbreteau In the EMX85 it was a carbon copy performance of yesterday for Dutchman Roan Van De Moosdijk who soared his way to a convincing victory ahead of Italian Paolo Lugana A further seventeen seconds back from the top two Frenchman Calvin Fonvielle took third ahead of another Czech star on the rise Petr Polak Young Italian speedster Gianluca Fachetti rounded out the top five Roan Van De Moosdijk proved to be untouchable once again cleaning up for another win while the tiny Italian stallion Gianluca Fachetti had a brief run in with French wonder Calvin Fonvielle but soon shook him for a comfortable second Fonvielle settled in third while San Marino’s Andrea Zanotti and Italian Paolo Lugana rounded out the top five Italy topped the Motocross of European Nations charts with their team of Michele Cervellin while The Netherlands put in a super strong effort with their team of Brian Bogers Roan Van De Moosdijk and Rick Elzinga for second were forced back to third with their team of Nicolas Dercourt Calvin Fonvielle and Brian Moreau Strubhart Petr Polak and Daniel Stehlik edged out Team Slovenia for fourth who used the awe-inspiring performance of Tim Gajser in race one combined with the efforts of his young teammates Luka Milec and Jan Pancar and Miha Bubnic to wrap up this edition of the MXoEN in fifth  Download here FIM Europe Press Release 140/2014   | Copyright 2025 FIM Europe | Terms of use - Privacy statement | Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Pensions Committee hearing to examine an update on the ongoing Federal response to COVID-19 saying the waning of the COVID-19 pandemic was a good time to make a transition the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and an interim director wasn’t immediately named She sent a resignation letter to President Joe Biden and announced the decision at a CDC staff meeting “I have never been prouder of anything I have done in my professional career,” she wrote with a $12 billion budget and more than 12,000 employees is an Atlanta-based federal agency charged with protecting Americans from disease outbreaks and other public health threats previously an infectious-diseases specialist at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital had no experience running a government health agency when she was sworn in on the first day of the Biden administration She came with a reputation as a prominent voice on the pandemic sometimes criticizing how the government was responding She was brought in to raise morale at the CDC to rebuild public trust in the agency and to improve its sometimes-bumbling response to the pandemic and states were scrambling to get supplies of new vaccines The Trump administration had marginalized the agency with the White House taking over the government’s messaging about the pandemic and sometimes opposing or undermining what the CDC wanted to do “No CDC director in history inherited the set of challenges she faced coming into the job,” said Jason Schwartz a health policy expert at the Yale School of Public Health The CDC regained prominence in government messaging — although even under Biden the White House remained at center stage in the handling of the response She leaves at a time when the national COVID-19 death toll stands at about 1.1 million hospitalizations and deaths have all been trending down for months said Walensky “leaves CDC a stronger institution better positioned to confront health threats and protect Americans.” White House Chief of Staff Jeff Zients applauded her performance and pure grit were essential to our effective response and an historic recovery that made life better for Americans across the country,” Zients said in a statement Walensky said fully vaccinated people could stop wearing masks in many settings only to reverse course as the then-new delta variant spread the agency’s decision to shorten isolation and quarantine caught many by surprise and caused confusion a pandemic expert at the Brown University School of Public Health is worried that the proposed reforms won’t happen without Walensky there to drive them for three years with little gratitude,” she said “To have a leadership change in the midst of all that .. I can’t imagine that doesn’t take the wind out of the sails of change.” The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group The AP is solely responsible for all content Pacov Hill in the Tábor region (southern Bohemia) is an important mineralogical site of the supra-regional importance crystal limestone used for lime production was extracted there the Chýnov Cave was discovered on the southern foothill of the hill in 1863 detailed mineralogical research was carried out at both the sites: it confirmed high diversity of mineral parageneses and found the occurrence of rare minerals there 62 minerals have been known from a quarry on Pacov Hill and from the Chýnov Cave In permanently flooded parts of the Chýnov Cave chalcedone and particularly crystal limestone plates The Chýnov cave is the only site outside North America where the violet variety of the tremolite Other mi-neral forms newly found there include aggregates of the diopside and tremolite and microclines the aluminium rich pargasite and dravite were described from the quarry on Pacov Hill mi-nerals of the Alpine paragenesis in amphibolites have been found in the quarry The most remarkable findings include garnets incl skolecite and heulandite should be mentioned arsenopyrite samples from Pacov Hill are probably among the best ones found in the Czech Republic In addition to finding huge amount of minerals a cross-section of the rock rich Moldanubicum group has been preserved in the eastern wall of the quarry Pacov Hill was declared a Nature Reserve in 2002 Nullam in metus ac arcu pellentesque venenatis ac id lorem Nulla nec ipsum sed enim sodales blandit a sit amet ex The fifth annual Czech Architecture Prizes were awarded in a ceremony streamed from Prague’s Divadlo Archa. The main prize went to Jiří Opočenský and Štěpán Valouch from the studio ov architekt for the renovation and completion of the headquarters of glassmaker Lasvit in Nový Bor. The jury chose from among six buildings that made the final round, selected from an original total of 27 nominees presented in June. The contest is organized by the Czech Chamber of Architects (ČKA) The seven-member international jury was headed by French architect Henri Bava They met in early September to view and discuss the nominated buildings in detail The jury welcomed the breadth and scope of the submissions which ranged from large buildings to a parking lot imagination and sensitivity to wider relationships were evident in many projects,” the jury stated jointly “Our surroundings have a huge impact on our lives and how we live them Thoughtful designs that are carefully implemented to create places encouraging social contacts and allowing for decent conditions through a suitably chosen scale are the basis of good architecture the architects from ov architekti designed a sensitive renovation of a group of traditional 19th century North Bohemian wooden buildings supplemented by two new buildings of similar building volume "The awarded work is a combination of the original and the proposed the traditional with the completely contemporary It was the bravura approach to the given problem and the ease with which the final output operates in such a complex architectural environment that led the jury to the final verdict and the award of the main prize,” the jury stated adding that the complex signals a bold attempt at a non-standard five other works from across the Czech Republic received the honorary Finalist Award Two of them are from Atelier 111 architekti: a family house in Jinonice and a workshop in Opatov Both were appreciated for their simplicity The revitalization of Prague’s Náplavka by Petr Janda and brainwork was praised for its high quality installations and simple modifications to the walls of the waterfront Chybik + Kristof Architects & Urban Designers were recognized for their attention to detail in converting a brewery in Znojmo Vyšehrad atelier’s renovation of a nursery school in Pacov made it a pleasant environment for children The Ministry for Regional Development Award for promoting quality construction through architectural competitions went to Ehl & Koumar Architekti for a fire station and technical service center in Líbeznice The Ministry of Industry and Trade Award for a generous approach to new industrial construction was gained by ellement architects for the Pilana Karbid production and administrative center in Hulín earned the Czech Agency for Nature and Landscape Protection Award for inspiring solutions in the natural environment Chybik + Kristof Architects & Urban Designers took the Central Group Award for an innovative approach to new housing for their Vila Park Olomouc Progres Atelier’s Jára Cimrman Elementary School in Prague’s Lysolaje district won the Velux Award for working with daylight The Vekra Award for affordable housing with a timeless perspective went to Pro-Story for the Na Sylvánu housing project in Plzeň The Academy of the Czech Architecture also gave an Outstanding Achievement award to Czech Television for its Noisy Cities and Noisy Footprints programs Your morning coffee deserves a great companion. 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