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ABC News: The Obama administration's UN ambassador today rebutted the assertion that UN sanctions designed to discourage Iran from pursuing its nuclear program are failing.
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The Obama administration's UN ambassador today rebutted the assertion that UN sanctions designed to discourage Iran from pursuing its nuclear program are failing.
"The sanctions that have been imposed by the United Nations and implemented by the United States and others have had some significant effect on the trade and the banking and the financial sector inside of Iran, and we certainly remain open to consideration of possible future measures," Ambassador Susan Rice said in an exclusive "This Week" interview with George Stephanopoulos.
"The aim here, though, is to marshal all of the resources at our disposal, diplomatic, economic, and other to try to make this choice as clear as possible to Iran, to give them a path to end their nuclear — illicit nuclear weapons program, enter the community of nations, or, if in fact, they ultimately choose not to do that, then to bring to bear the full force of the international community to put pressure on Iran to stop," she added in her first Sunday morning interview since joining the administration.
"The president has been very clear that Iran has a choice. Iran can rejoin the community of nations, it can halt its illicit nuclear program. It has a right to peaceful nuclear processing. But its behavior to date has indicated that it's not pursuing simply a peaceful program."
Israel has said it believes Iran is pursuing military nuclear capability. "We share Israel's very grave concern about the threat that Iran's illicit nuclear weapons program poses, not only to Israel and the other countries in the region, but indeed to U.S. national security," Rice said.
But she also said she does not think it's "productive to speculate about what may transpire … the president has said on a number of occasions, our aim is to use all of the elements at our disposal, including direct diplomacy, to offer Iran a path away from an illicit nuclear weapons program. But obviously if that path is not chosen, we have not ruled out any options."
Asked if she is confident that Israel will not strike without U.S. consent, Rice declined to speculate what the U.S. or others might do. "At this stage our focus is on steering Iran to the extent we possibly can towards a different course," she said.
Last week the U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, made brief contact with the Iranians at an international conference in Munich. Asked what will be the next step in engagement with Iran, Rice explained "we have extended, as the president said on a number of occasions, an opportunity, an open hand to Iran. And we hope Iran will seize that opportunity to take the steps that would enable it to be a responsible member of the international community."
Rice also offered some insight into her relationship so far with her Iranian counterpart at the U.N. "We've run into each other on a couple of occasions and I've had an opportunity to have some brief exchanges…no negotiations."
Reacting to the news today that North Korea tested a long-range ballistic missile, Rice said that the U.S. will review its assessment of North Korea's capability to launch a nuclear weapon towards the U.S. "Our concern is to prevent North Korea from pursuing and disseminating nuclear weapons," she said.
"We view North Korea as a proliferation threat. Its actions today underscore our concern about its development of not only a nuclear weapons capability, but the capability to deliver it. That's what we're most concerned about preventing, and preventing North Korea from sharing that technology with others."
North Korea's state media claimed the missile put a satellite into orbit. But the U.S. Northern Command says the satellite dropped into the Pacific. U.S. officials believe the missile was really being tested to see if it could carry a nuclear warhead over Japan potentially as far as Alaska.
Asked by Stephanopoulos if the U.S. is now convinced that the North Koreans now have a missile that could reach the U.S., Rice explained "what today's experience showed is that they did not succeed, according to our best assessments, in putting that space launch vehicle into orbit."
"That, therefore, was something short of success for North Korea. Our assessment is that their pursuit of a missile capability is of grave concern and that their aim is to achieve the capability to deliver a weapon as far potentially as to North America. I think we need to look at what transpired today and make a new assessment as a consequence," she said.
On the international response, Rice, who will represent the United States at an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council this afternoon, explained that "we have been in close consultation with our allies in Asia, in particular, Japan and South Korea about the appropriate response."
Japan has called for sanctions against North Korea. Asked if the U.S. is willing to co-sponsor a sanctions resolution, Rice said "the U.S. is working very closely with Japan and we will be in consultation with our partners inside the council, trying to get the most appropriate and strong response we can possibly get."
China, however, has opposed sanctions in the past. Asked if the U.S. is prepared to pressure China, Rice said "we're working very closely with China"
"China shares the same goal that we do, which is a de-nuclearized Korean Peninsula. China also is very proximate, on the border with North Korea, and shares our desire not to see this situation escalate, and to ensure that we can achieve… the long-term goal, which is de-nuclearization of the Korean Peninsula through the six-party talk process."
But will North Korea respond to any international pressures? "There have been steps that have occurred over the last years that have been progress," said Rice. "For example, they did take steps to dismantle the facility at Yongbyon, which was the principal reactor….The problem that we face now is ensuring that there is a verifiable regime to ensure de-nuclearization. And that's where the six-party talks have now stalled."
The challenge Rice said "is to convey with unity, as the president said today, on behalf of the international community that we will not stand for violations of international law which this launch today represented. That there will be consequences. And that, indeed, we will pursue together with resolve the goal of achieving a Korean Peninsula without nuclear weapons."
Rice also commented on the two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who face a trial and potentially ten years of hard labor after being arrested two weeks ago for allegedly entering North Korean territory illegally.
"We're very concerned about the circumstances of these two journalists," Rice said. "We are communicating directly through a third country that represents our interests in North Korea. Our concern for these Americans in taking every possible action that we can to ensure their safe and swift release."
While Rice explained that "of course we have no guarantees," she said "we don't have any reason to be certain that they'll put on trial. We remain hopeful that their release may be possible swiftly and safely."
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James Waugh (12 August 1898 – 26 March 1968) was an English footballer who played as a centre half. Born in the village of Chopwell in County Durham, Waugh began his career as an amateur with Durham City before spending a brief spell representing his home town club of Chopwell Colliery at  the start of 1921.

It was while at Chopwell that Waugh was spotted by Football League club Sheffield United who signed both Waugh and fellow defender Bill Sampy for a joint fee of £250 in April 1921. Waugh made a slow start to his career with the Blades and did not begin to feature regularly until November 1922, from which point he missed only one of the following 103 first team matches. Waugh was considered to lack pace and this caused him problems from 1925 when the offside rule was changed.  A neck injury prevented Waugh from playing in the 1925 FA Cup Final and after a run of games at the start of the 1925–26 season he lost his place in the side to Seth King. Despite being selected for the FA tour of Canada in the summer of 1926, Waugh was unable to reclaim his place in United's starting eleven and was eventually transferred to Darlington in January 1927 after having made 143 appearances for the Blades and scored three goals.

A success at his new club, Waugh was a regular member of the match day team until 1933, including being ever present during the 1929–30 season. Waugh was part of the coaching staff at Darlington for much of his time there and took up a full-time coaching position once he retired from playing. With his career nearing an end, Sheffield United played a benefit match for Waugh in April 1932 and he later returned to the club to act as a scout from 1934.

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Last Post By Koa'sMom 1 replies , He borrowed Fuchs' car and drove to Albuquerque where he sat with her for hours until she died on June 16, Feynman claimed to be the only person to see the explosion without the very dark glasses or welder's lenses provided, reasoning that it was safe to look through a truck windshield, as it would screen out the harmful ultraviolet radiation. On witnessing the blast, Feynman ducked towards the floor of his truck because of the immense brightness of the explosion, where he saw a temporary "purple splotch" afterimage of the event.
Feynman nominally held an appointment at the University of Wisconsin—Madison as an assistant professor of physics, but was on unpaid leave during his involvement in the Manhattan Project. His appointment was not extended when he did not commit to returning. In a talk given there several years later, Feynman quipped, "It's great to be back at the only university that ever had the good sense to fire me.
As early as October 30, , Bethe had written to the chairman of the physics department of his university, Cornell , to recommend that Feynman be hired. On February 28, , this was endorsed by Robert Bacher ,  also from Cornell,  and one of the most senior scientists at Los Alamos. Oppenheimer had also hoped to recruit Feynman to the University of California, but the head of the physics department, Raymond T.
Birge , was reluctant. He made Feynman an offer in May , but Feynman turned it down. Because Feynman was no longer working at the Los Alamos Laboratory, he was no longer exempt from the draft.
At his induction physical Army psychiatrists diagnosed Feynman as suffering from a mental illness, and the Army gave him a 4-F exemption on mental grounds. The letter was sealed and only opened after his death.
His work during this period, which used equations of rotation to express various spinning speeds, ultimately proved important to his Nobel Prize—winning work, yet because he felt burned out and had turned his attention to less immediately practical problems, he was surprised by the offers of professorships from other renowned universities, including the Institute for Advanced Study , the University of California, Los Angeles , and the University of California, Berkeley.
Feynman was not the only frustrated theoretical physicist in the early post-war years. Quantum electrodynamics suffered from infinite integrals in perturbation theory. These were clear mathematical flaws in the theory, which Feynman and Wheeler had unsuccessfully attempted to work around. For Feynman, it was his "first big conference with big men I had never gone to one like this one in peacetime. Bethe took the lead from the work of Hans Kramers , and derived a renormalized non-relativistic quantum equation for the Lamb shift.
The next step was to create a relativistic version. Feynman thought that he could do this, but when he went back to Bethe with his solution, it did not converge. Like Bethe, he made the integral finite by applying a cut-off term. The result corresponded to Bethe's version.
It did not go well. Julian Schwinger gave a long presentation of his work in quantum electrodynamics, and Feynman then offered his version, titled "Alternative Formulation of Quantum Electrodynamics". The unfamiliar Feynman diagrams , used for the first time, puzzled the audience.
To Freeman Dyson , one thing at least was clear: He was convinced that Feynman's formulation was easier to understand, and ultimately managed to convince Oppenheimer that this was the case. While papers by others initially cited Schwinger, papers citing Feynman and employing Feynman diagrams appeared in , and soon became prevalent. Computer programs were later written to compute Feynman diagrams, providing a tool of unprecedented power. It is possible to write such programs because the Feynman diagrams constitute a formal language with a formal grammar.
Marc Kac provided the formal proofs of the summation under history, showing that the parabolic partial differential equation can be re-expressed as a sum under different histories that is, an expectation operator , what is now known as the Feynman—Kac formula , the use of which extends beyond physics to many applications of stochastic processes.
By , Feynman was becoming restless at Cornell. He never settled into a particular house or apartment, living in guest houses or student residences, or with married friends "until these arrangements became sexually volatile. In an interview, he described the House as "a group of boys that have been specially selected because of their scholarship, because of their cleverness or whatever it is, to be given free board and lodging and so on, because of their brains.
Feynman spent several weeks in Rio de Janeiro in July In Brazil, Feynman was impressed with samba music, and learned to play a metal percussion instrument, the frigideira. Feynman did not return to Cornell. Bacher, who had been instrumental in bringing Feynman to Cornell, had lured him to the California Institute of Technology Caltech.
Part of the deal was that he could spend his first year on sabbatical in Brazil. They had met in a cafeteria in Cornell, where she had studied the history of Mexican art and textiles. She later followed him to Caltech, where he gave a lecture. While he was in Brazil, she taught classes on the history of furniture and interiors at Michigan State University. He proposed to her by mail from Rio de Janeiro, and they married in Boise, Idaho , on June 28, , shortly after he returned.
They frequently quarreled and she was frightened by his violent temper. Their politics were different; although he registered and voted as a Republican , she was more conservative, and her opinion on the Oppenheimer security hearing "Where there's smoke there's fire" offended him. They separated on May 20, An interlocutory decree of divorce was entered on June 19, , on the grounds of "extreme cruelty".
The divorce became final on May 5, Mary Louise Bell, divorce complaint . In the wake of the Sputnik crisis , the US government's interest in science rose for a time. Feynman was considered for a seat on the President's Science Advisory Committee , but was not appointed.
Edgar Hoover on August 8, I do not know—but I believe that Richard Feynman is either a Communist or very strongly pro-Communist—and as such as [ sic ] a very definite security risk. This man is, in my opinion, an extremely complex and dangerous person, a very dangerous person to have in a position of public trust In matters of intrigue Richard Feynman is, I believe immensely clever—indeed a genius—and he is, I further believe, completely ruthless, unhampered by morals, ethics, or religion—and will stop at absolutely nothing to achieve his ends.
Feynman's love life had been turbulent since his divorce; his previous girlfriend had walked off with his Albert Einstein Award medal and, on the advice of an earlier girlfriend, had feigned pregnancy and blackmailed him into paying for an abortion, then used the money to buy furniture. Feynman knew that this sort of behavior was illegal under the Mann Act , so he had a friend, Matthew Sands , act as her sponsor.
Howarth pointed out that she already had two boyfriends, but decided to take Feynman up on his offer, and arrived in Altadena, California , in June She made a point of dating other men, but Feynman proposed in early They were married on September 24, , at the Huntington Hotel in Pasadena. They had a son, Carl, in , and adopted a daughter, Michelle, in Feynman tried marijuana and ketamine at John Lilly 's famed sensory deprivation tanks, as a way of studying consciousness.
At Caltech, Feynman investigated the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium , where helium seems to display a complete lack of viscosity when flowing. Feynman provided a quantum-mechanical explanation for the Soviet physicist Lev Landau 's theory of superfluidity. This helped with the problem of superconductivity , but the solution eluded Feynman. Feynman, inspired by a desire to quantize the Wheeler—Feynman absorber theory of electrodynamics, laid the groundwork for the path integral formulation and Feynman diagrams.
With Murray Gell-Mann, Feynman developed a model of weak decay , which showed that the current coupling in the process is a combination of vector and axial currents an example of weak decay is the decay of a neutron into an electron, a proton, and an antineutrino. George Sudarshan and Robert Marshak developed the theory nearly simultaneously, Feynman's collaboration with Murray Gell-Mann was seen as seminal because the weak interaction was neatly described by the vector and axial currents.
It thus combined the beta decay theory of Enrico Fermi with an explanation of parity violation. Feynman attempted an explanation, called the parton model , of the strong interactions governing nucleon scattering. The parton model emerged as a complement to the quark model developed by Gell-Mann. The relationship between the two models was murky; Gell-Mann referred to Feynman's partons derisively as "put-ons". In the mids, physicists believed that quarks were just a bookkeeping device for symmetry numbers, not real particles; the statistics of the omega-minus particle , if it were interpreted as three identical strange quarks bound together, seemed impossible if quarks were real.
The SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory deep inelastic scattering experiments of the late s showed that nucleons protons and neutrons contained point-like particles that scattered electrons. It was natural to identify these with quarks, but Feynman's parton model attempted to interpret the experimental data in a way that did not introduce additional hypotheses.
These electrically neutral particles are now seen to be the gluons that carry the forces between the quarks, and their three-valued color quantum number solves the omega-minus problem.
Feynman did not dispute the quark model; for example, when the fifth quark was discovered in , Feynman immediately pointed out to his students that the discovery implied the existence of a sixth quark, which was discovered in the decade after his death. After the success of quantum electrodynamics, Feynman turned to quantum gravity.
By analogy with the photon, which has spin 1, he investigated the consequences of a free massless spin 2 field and derived the Einstein field equation of general relativity, but little more.
The computational device that Feynman discovered then for gravity, "ghosts", which are "particles" in the interior of his diagrams that have the "wrong" connection between spin and statistics, have proved invaluable in explaining the quantum particle behavior of the Yang—Mills theories, for example, quantum chromodynamics and the electro-weak theory.
John and Mary Gribbin say in their book on Feynman: In the early s, Feynman acceded to a request to "spruce up" the teaching of undergraduates at Caltech. After three years devoted to the task, he produced a series of lectures that later became The Feynman Lectures on Physics. He wanted a picture of a drumhead sprinkled with powder to show the modes of vibration at the beginning of the book.
Concerned over the connections to drugs and rock and roll that could be made from the image, the publishers changed the cover to plain red, though they included a picture of him playing drums in the foreword.
At the end of the year, Feynman was invited to give a lecture on his teaching experiences, and he agreed to do so, provided he could speak frankly, which he did.
Feynman opposed rote learning or unthinking memorization and other teaching methods that emphasized form over function. Clear thinking and clear presentation were fundamental prerequisites for his attention. It could be perilous even to approach him when unprepared, and he did not forget the fools or pretenders. He was not impressed with what he found. Elementary students were taught about sets , but:. I see no need or reason for this all to be explained or to be taught in school. It is not a useful way to express one's self.
It is not a cogent and simple way. It is claimed to be precise, but precise for what purpose? In April , Feynman delivered an address to the National Science Teachers Association , in which he suggested how students could be made to think like scientists, be open-minded, curious, and especially, to doubt.
In the course of the lecture, he gave a definition of science, which he said came about by several stages. The evolution of intelligent life on planet Earth—creatures such as cats that play and learn from experience. The evolution of humans, who came to use language to pass knowledge from one individual to the next, so that the knowledge was not lost when an individual died.
Unfortunately, incorrect knowledge could be passed down as well as correct knowledge, so another step was needed. Galileo and others started doubting the truth of what was passed down and to investigate ab initio , from experience, what the true situation was—this was science. In , Feynman delivered the Caltech commencement address on the topic of cargo cult science , which has the semblance of science, but is only pseudoscience due to a lack of "a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty" on the part of the scientist.
He instructed the graduating class that "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that. After you've not fooled yourself, it's easy not to fool other scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after that.
Feynman served as doctoral advisor to 31 students. In the s, Feynman began thinking of writing an autobiography, and he began granting interviews to historians. In the s, working with Ralph Leighton Robert Leighton's son , he recorded chapters on audio tape that Ralph transcribed. The book was published in as Surely You're Joking, Mr. The publication of the book brought a new wave of protest about Feynman's attitude toward women. There had been protests over his alleged sexism in , and again in It did not help that Jenijoy La Belle , who had been hired as Caltech's first female professor in , was refused tenure in She filed suit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , which ruled against Caltech in , adding that she had been paid less than male colleagues.
His interviews of NASA's high-ranking managers revealed startling misunderstandings of elementary concepts.
For instance, NASA managers claimed that there was a 1 in , chance of a catastrophic failure aboard the shuttle, but Feynman discovered that NASA's own engineers estimated the chance of a catastrophe at closer to 1 in He warned in his appendix to the commission's report which was included only after he threatened not to sign the report , "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Because of Strauss's actions in stripping Oppenheimer of his security clearance, Feynman was reluctant to accept the award, but Isidor Isaac Rabi cautioned him: Any virtue that a man has, even if he has many vices, should not be used as a tool against him.
In , Feynman sought medical treatment for abdominal pains and was diagnosed with liposarcoma , a rare form of cancer. Surgeons removed a tumor the size of a football that had crushed one kidney and his spleen.
Further operations were performed in October and October A ruptured duodenal ulcer caused kidney failure , and he declined to undergo the dialysis that might have prolonged his life for a few months. When Feynman was nearing death, he asked Danny Hillis why he was so sad.
Hillis replied that he thought Feynman was going to die soon. Feynman said that this sometimes bothered him, too, adding, when you get to be as old as he was, and have told so many stories to so many people, even when he was dead he would not be completely gone.
His daughter Michelle later undertook the journey. Aspects of Feynman's life have been portrayed in various media. Feynman was portrayed by Matthew Broderick in the biopic Infinity. Feynman is commemorated in various ways. On May 4, , the United States Postal Service issued the "American Scientists" commemorative set of four cent self-adhesive stamps in several configurations.
Feynman's stamp, sepia-toned, features a photograph of a something Feynman and eight small Feynman diagrams. In Gates made a video on why he thought Feynman was special.
The video was made for the 50th anniversary of Feynman's Nobel Prize, in response to Caltech's request for thoughts on Feynman.


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Blockchain Tables in Oracle Database 21c
Posted on January 2, 2023 by joda3008
Oracle 21c introduces a new feature called Blockchain Tables, which allows users to store and query data stored on a blockchain network directly in the database. This feature makes it easy to integrate blockchain data into Oracle-based applications, and enables users to leverage the security and immutability of blockchain technology while still using familiar SQL commands to access and manipulate the data.
In this article, we will take a closer look at Oracle Blockchain Tables and how they can be used to store and query blockchain data within the database. We will also provide an example of how to create and use a Blockchain Table in Oracle 21c.
To create a Blockchain Table in Oracle 21c, you first need to install the Oracle Blockchain Table Gateway, which is a separate component that provides access to the blockchain network. Once the Gateway is installed, you can use the CREATE TABLE statement to create a Blockchain Table, as shown in the following example:
CREATE TABLE blockchain_table (
id NUMBER,
name VARCHAR2(50),
BLOCKCHAIN ('my_blockchain_network');
In this example, we create a Blockchain Table called blockchain_table with three columns: id, name, and value. The BLOCKCHAIN clause specifies the name of the blockchain network that the table will be connected to.
Once the Blockchain Table is created, you can use standard SQL statements to insert, update, and query the data stored in the table. For example, you can use the INSERT statement to insert a new row into the table, as shown in the following example:
INSERT INTO blockchain_table (id, name, value)
VALUES (1, 'Alice', 100);
You can also use the SELECT statement to retrieve data from the table, as shown in the following example:
SELECT * FROM blockchain_table WHERE value > 50;
This SELECT statement retrieves all rows from the blockchain_table where the value of the value column is greater than 50.
In addition to standard SQL statements, Oracle Blockchain Tables also support the use of Oracle Blockchain Functions, which allow users to invoke blockchain-specific operations and retrieve blockchain-specific information. For example, you can use the BLOCKCHAIN_TX_ID function to retrieve the transaction ID of a row in the table, as shown in the following example:
SELECT BLOCKCHAIN_TX_ID(id) FROM blockchain_table WHERE id = 1;
This SELECT statement retrieves the transaction ID of the row with an id
Have a fun:)

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Q: What do nth prime of a number mean?
Given an input n, find out the nth prime?

MyApproach
What I understood
For Example,
For number 2 its nth position is 1
For number 3 its nth position is 2  // For this input I get Expected output 5.
For number 5 its nth position is 3
public int computePrime(int n)
{
    int c=0;
    boolean b=isPrime(n);
    if((b==true))
    {
        c++;
    }
    return c;

    //write your code here

}
public boolean isPrime(int n)
{

    for(int i=2;i<=n/2;)
    {
        if(n%i==0)
        {
            i++;
        }

    }
    return true;
}

For Input
Parameters  Actual Output   Expected Output
'3'          1               5

My Qn is Can anyone guide me what the statement mean.Am I correct in understanding the problem.I am not asking you to code for me.I will do it

A: You want to return the nth prime number, where "n" is the input given, so what you want is something like this:
boolean isPrime(int i)
{
    int j = 1;
    while (j <= (i/2))
    {
        if (i%j == 0)
        {
            if (j!=1)
                return false;
        }
        j++;
    }
    return true;

}

void main(int n){

    int i = 0;
    int numbers = 2;
    while (i<n){
        if (isPrime(number)){
            i++;
        }
        numbers++;
    }
    return numbers;

}

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Yay! The semester is over! Well, I have two more classes to go to this week, but the primary thing on the agenda for both of them is eating cookies. Don't get me wrong, I had a great time, learned a lot, did a whole lot, but I'm glad to have a break.
First up on the list of things to blog about is the only thing I have pictures of – a piece I made on top of all my school work for a competition. The winning piece goes into the permanent collection at the hospital. My piece was inspired by the stupendous view from the family lounge in the Palliative Care Ward, which is on the top floor of one of the few tall buildings in the city outside of downtown.
This was my original sketch. The black lines are where it is divided into panels. Because hey – why make one piece when you can make nine?
I decided to use one of the new techniques I learned earlier in the semester – direct application of natural dyes. I'll post more about that later, but essentially you make a concentrated solution of your dyes and mordants, paint them on your fabric, let it dry, and steam it.
After dyeing the canvas, I did free-motion embroidery to further define the areas and give it a bit of texture. And then . . . I was out of time. I wish they had given us more than a month's notice, there was tons more I could have done to this thing. Oh well, next time.
So. Want to see it?
The colours are much more vibrant than they look on my monitor. The detail shots are better, but you don't get the full impact without seeing it in real life. Sorry.
I'm still pretty pleased with how they turned out, and hopefully the judges will be intrigued enough to want to see it in person. I find out on Friday. Wish me luck!
Next up: Tomorrow I should get back my mammoth dye project, which means I can take pictures for you. It's far from finished, really, but I'll post the beginnings.


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On behalf of The Kaufman Law Firm posted in Employee Rights on Friday, September 16, 2016.
You may not have read your employment contract but you should. Employment contracts contain a multitude of terms. In fact, you may not even realize that you signed an employment contract. Employee handbooks are a type of contract that is just as binding as any other contract. This post will go over some of the more common clauses and how they may affect you.
Confidentiality agreements are standard fare in most employee relationships. The employer often folds these clauses into the contract or employee handbook. Confidentiality agreements prevent you from discussing any trade secrets, processes or other information gleaned during employment with anyone outside of the company.
Non-competition clauses are inserted into contracts to restrict the ability of employees to quit working for one company and get hired at rival companies in the same industry. These agreements are designed to prevent the poaching of employees solely for the purpose of obtaining secret information.
These agreements are limited as to the geographic scope and time during which they apply. If the non-compete clause is too broad, the court will invalidate or modify it to bring it into conformity.
Many people are often surprised that their ideas or inventions created on the job are owned by the employer, not by them. Companies, in particular for jobs that regularly invent things, often require their employees to sign agreements that affirmatively state that any inventions are owned by the corporation, not the person. But you often receive a share of the royalties in exchange for the ownership.
If you are trying to invalidate an entire or a portion of an employment contract, then you may want to speak to an attorney. Invalidating contracts are not straightforward, but it is possible. It is a complicated process that will require the attorney to review the entire agreement with you, including the particular circumstances surrounding the signing. There are a number of ways to rescind the contract, many of them not obvious. A lawyer can help you identify these methods to ensure that you present your best arguments to the court.


WITH interest rates at historic lows, the expansion of a federal refinancing program could help more homeowners who owe more than their property is worth move out of higher-rate or adjustable loans into something more affordable and stable. The biggest change to the plan, called the Home Affordable Refinance Program ®, or HARP ®, raises the debt limit at which such borrowers can obtain a new mortgage. Those who owe more than 125 percent of their home's value are now eligible; the previous limit for many government programs was 97 percent to 125 percent. The percentage ratio is known as loan-to-value, or LTV. The government also reduced some fees.
While homeowners moving into fixed-rate mortgages will have no ceiling on their loan-to-value ratio, those who are sticking with an adjustable-rate mortgage will have a limit of 105 percent, said Jack Guttentag, a retired finance professor who now writes and runs a Web site called the Mortgage Professor. (ARMs are allowed if the initial rate is fixed for at least five years.) The expansion could more than double the number of people who have refinanced under the Home Affordable Refinance Program ®, which in the first two years has helped 900,000 borrowers, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency. This could mean one million refinancings in 2012, and a similar number in 2013. The expanded program, dubbed HARP ® 2.0, could be ''a potential lifeline for people who are underwater,'' said Michael Bizenov, an executive vice president of Sterling National Bank, which has branches throughout New York and Long Island. But Mr. Bizenov and others say the program is getting a slow rollout.
2) You must have been current on your mortgage for at least six straight months and have had at most one late payment in the last 12 months. If you are uncertain, check with your servicer or look on your statements for any late charges.
3) Your loan-to-value ratio must be above 80 percent, and you cannot have previously refinanced under HARP ®.
The next step is to visit your current lender's Web site or office to start the discussion. ''They're the first ones who could help you if you're eligible,'' said Erin Lantz, the director of the Zillow Mortgage Marketplace, which has a tool that lets owners see if they qualify. Some lenders started offering HARP ® 2.0 loans this month, while others will not begin until January. John Forlines, the vice president and chief credit officer for single-family product at Fannie Mae, said it would be fully rolled out by most lenders by mid-March.
Bank of America, one of the nation's largest mortgage lenders, has already instituted the lower pricing and fees on HARP ® 2.0 mortgages and will begin making the higher loan-to-value refinancing in January, said Terry Francisco, a senior vice president. Wells Fargo, another big lender, said it would be some time before it started the expanded program.Both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will waive many closing fees for owners refinancing into a 15- or 20-year HARP ® mortgage. This could save borrowers charges ranging from a quarter of a percentage point to two percentage points of the loan amount, though banks are free to set their own fees.But going to a 15- or 20-year mortgage from, say, a 30-year mortgage or an interest-only one in an effort to build equity faster could set off a closer review of your finances if your monthly payment increased by 20 percent or more, Mr. Forlines said.


This study examines the relationship between empowerment of IS managers and IS departmentperformance. Data on perceived empowerment, leadership styles, and personality; departmentperformance were collected from 148 managers of IS departments in Taiwan. Information on organizational culture and structure were investigated to assess the moderating effects of these factors on empowerment and performance.
White, L. P., Lafayette, C. M. (2012). " Key Characteristics of a Successful IS Manager: Empowerment, Leadership and personality "Pacific Asia Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 4(4), pp.1-20.


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A multi-course meal from some of the best restaurants on the San Antonio Riverwalk: Acenar, Biga on the Banks, Boudro's Texas Bistro and Range.
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Attorney General-designate William Barr at his confirmation hearing.
Washington – After meeting with the President Donald Trump's candidate for U.S. attorney general Monday afternoon, Sen. Richard Blumenthal said he would not support William Barr.
During Barr's confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, Barr, a former U.S. attorney general in the George H.W. Bush administration, declined to commit to making public the final report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Russian interference in the 2016 election. Blumenthal, a member of the panel, had pressed Barr on the issue.
"At the hearing, I had a number of concerns even after his responses to my questions and others' about his nomination. I have differences with him on policies – for example, on women's health care and reproductive rights, as well as criminal justice reform and civil rights," Blumenthal said.
If confirmed, Barr would assume oversight of Mueller's far-reaching investigation, which is also probing possible coordination between Trump campaign associates and the Kremlin.
Despite Blumenthal's opposition, the Judiciary Committee, which has a Republican majority, is expected to advance Barr's nomination when it holds a vote Tuesday on the candidate.


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Seize the microphone. Just because they're bigger than you doesn't mean they're saying anything. So hijack the conversation. Bob Parsons at Go Daddy was stumped as to why his company, with the best product assortment and the best pricing, only had 16 percent share of the domain name registration business. When he learned that his problem was brand awareness, he introduced himself to the entire market, becoming the first domain name registrar to advertise on the Super Bowl in 2004. Now, his company ranks number one.
Win in the last three feet. It's a noble calling, spending other people's money - especially when it's your competitor's marketing you're hijacking. Oslo University reversed years of declining enrollment in the face of a competitor that outspent it 200 to 1 with a tightly focused guerilla PPC campaign, keying off of its competitor's well-advertised curriculum course names, reaching students in the waning moments of the school registration period. The results were a five-fold increase in admissions.
Fight dirty. When you can't compete on spending, sometimes you can compete on mindshare. Searle Canada's successful launch of its Arthrotec painkiller for arthritis sufferers swept away the resistance and expected slow acceptance of the medical community with a $1 million grant for the discovery of a device or protocol for early diagnosis of ulceration caused by normal pain killers - a fact known to everyone, but thought to be unavoidable. Arthrotec went on to become the top prescribed arthritis drug in Canada.
Create a culture of speed, rewarding those who embody evidence-based decision making and who thrive on winning. Intuit launches early versions of its products for intensive user feedback so that it can bring the voice of the customer - using both qualitative and quantitative metrics - to bear on its decision making. Its speed of decision making cuts no corners: they get to the right decisions faster because they come into the room with the best evidence.
Shed light on the inconvenient truth. Understand the power of pricing your product in a smart way. Dessert maker Kozy Shack competes with some of the largest food companies in the world, but has successfully carved out a 30 percent share in its category by careful management of its return on inventory investment, ensuring that its relatively faster inventory turnover and competitive gross margins to its retailers deliver a better financial return on every dollar its retailers invest in inventory. It's not just about being cheaper.


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Other side of the coin for personalised medicine and healthcare: content analysis of 'personalised' practices in the literature
Cesuroglu, T.; Syurina, E.; Feron, F.; Krumeich, A.
Bmj Open 6(7): E010243
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010243
Various terms and definitions are used to describe personalised approaches to medicine and healthcare, but in ambiguous and inconsistent ways. They mostly have been defined in a top-down manner. However, actual practices might take different paths. Here, we aimed to provide a 'practice-based' perspective on the debate by analysing the content of 'personalised' practices published in the literature. The search in PubMed and EMBASE (April 2014) using the terms frequently used for personalised approaches resulted in 5333 records. 2 independent researchers used different strategies for screening, resulting in 157 articles describing 88 'personalised' practices that were implemented/presented on at least 1 individual/patient case. The content analysis was grounded on these data and did not have a priori analytical frameworks. 'Personalised medicine/healthcare' can be a commodity in the healthcare market, a way how health services are provided, or a keyword for emerging applications. It can help individuals/patients to gain control of their health, health professionals to provide better services, healthcare organisations to increase effectiveness and efficiency, or national health systems to increase performance. Country examples indicated that for integration of practices into health services, attitude towards innovations and health system and policy context is important. Categorisation based on the terms or the technologies used, if any, was not possible. This study is the first to provide a comprehensive content analysis of the 'personalised' practices in the literature. Unlike the top-down definitions, our findings highlighted not the technologies but real-life issues faced by the practices. 'Personalised medicine' and 'personalised healthcare' can be differentiated by using the former for specific tools available and the latter for health services with a holistic approach, implemented in certain contexts. To realise integration of 'personalised medicine/healthcare' into real life, science, technology, health policy and practice, and society domains must work together.
Steele, R.; Tiffin, P.A. 2014: 'Personalised evidence' for personalised healthcare: integration of a clinical librarian into mental health services - a feasibility study Psychiatric Bulletin 38(1): 29-35
Crommelin, D.J.A.; Storm, G.; Luijten, P. 2011: 'Personalised medicine' through 'personalised medicines': time to integrate advanced, non-invasive imaging approaches and smart drug delivery systems International Journal of Pharmaceutics 415(1-2): 5-8
Golubnitschaja, O.; Costigliola, V. 2012: General report & recommendations in predictive, preventive and personalised medicine 2012: white paper of the European Association for Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine Epma Journal 3(1): 14
Kinkorová, J. 2011: European Association for Predictive Preventive & Personalised Medicine. Personalised medicine in the European Union Casopis Lekaru Ceskych 150(7): 402-404
Cutica, I.; Vie, G.M.; Pravettoni, G. 2014: Personalised medicine: the cognitive side of patients European Journal of Internal Medicine 25(8): 685-688
Horgan, D.; Baker, M.; Riegman, P.; Bernini, C. 2017: Personalised Medicine - Bringing Innovation to the Healthcare System Biomedicine Hub 2(Suppl 1): 16-21
Pokorska-Bocci, A.; Kroese, M.; Sagoo, G.S.; Hall, A.; Burton, H. 2014: Personalised medicine in the UK: challenges of implementation and impact on healthcare system Genome Medicine 6(4): 28
Vicente, A.M.; Ballensiefen, W.; Jönsson, J-Ingvar. 2020: How personalised medicine will transform healthcare by 2030: the ICPerMed vision Journal of Translational Medicine 18(1): 180
Miles, A.; Loughlin, M.; Polychronis, A. 2008: Evidence-based healthcare, clinical knowledge and the rise of personalised medicine Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 14(5): 621-649
March, R.; Schott, C. 2017: Personalized/Precision Medicine/Personalised Healthcare: the art of giving different names to the same thing? Personalized Medicine 14(6): 463-466
Abidi, S.S.; Han, C.Y.; Abidi, S.R. 2001: Patient empowerment via 'pushed' delivery of Personalised Healthcare educational content over the internet Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 84(Part 2): 1425-1429
Shyam, A. 2012: JOCR: Personalised Journal, Personalised Network and Clinical Decision Making (CDM) Journal of orthopaedic case reports 2(4): 2-3
Lauks, S.; Gee, A.; Wilson, L.E. 2014: Health Technology Assessments for Personalised Medicines: Are Current Methodologies Suitable for the Assessment of Personalised Therapies? Value in Health: the Journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research 17(7): A586
Lau-Walker, M.; Landy, A.; Murrells, T. 2016: Personalised discharge care planning for postmyocardial infarction patients through the use of the Personalised Patient Education Protocol - implementing theory into practice Journal of Clinical Nursing 25(9-10): 1292-1300
Burau, V.; Nissen, N.; Terkildsen, M.D.; Væggemose, U. 2021: Personalised medicine and the state: a political discourse analysis Health Policy 125(1): 122-129
Kaul, H. 2019: Respiratory healthcare by design: Computational approaches bringing respiratory precision and personalised medicine closer to bedside Morphologie: Bulletin de l'Association des Anatomistes 103(343): 194-202
Nishi, M.; Kelleher, V.; Cronin, M.; Allen, F. 2019: The effect of mobile personalised texting versus non-personalised texting on the caries risk of underprivileged adults: a randomised control trial Bmc Oral Health 19(1): 44
Horgan, D.; Ciliberto, G.; Conte, P.; Curigliano, G.; Seijo, L.; Montuenga, L.M.; Garassino, M.; Penault-Llorca, F.; Galli, F.; Ray-Coquard, I.; Querleu, D.; Riegman, P.; Kerr, K.; Van Poppel, H.; Bjartell, A.; Codacci-Pisanelli, G.; Koeva-Balabanova, J.; Paradiso, A.; Maravic, Z.; Fotaki, V.; Malats, N.; Bernini, C.; Buglioni, S.; Kent, A.; Munzone, E.; Belina, I.; Van Meerbeeck, J.; Duffy, M.; Jagielska, B.; Capoluongo, E. 2021: Bringing Onco-Innovation to Europe's Healthcare Systems: the Potential of Biomarker Testing, Real World Evidence, Tumour Agnostic Therapies to Empower Personalised Medicine Cancers 13(3)
McGettrick, H.M. 2019: Synovial tissue biopsy analysis: unlocking the hidden secrets to personalised medicine? Arthritis Research and Therapy 21(1): 90
Wurcel, V.; Cicchetti, A.; Garrison, L.; Kip, M.M.A.; Koffijberg, H.; Kolbe, A.; Leeflang, M.M.G.; Merlin, T.; Mestre-Ferrandiz, J.; Oortwijn, W.; Oosterwijk, C.; Tunis, S.; Zamora, B. 2019: The Value of Diagnostic Information in Personalised Healthcare: a Comprehensive Concept to Facilitate Bringing this Technology into Healthcare Systems Public Health Genomics 22(1-2): 8-15


Outstanding opportunity for someone to drive the business forward and help deliver excellent customer service the exhibition and event experience industry.
Skyline Whitespace is a busy, creative event and exhibition production company based in Wimbledon, SW London. We have a dedicated team of exhibition and event professionals who are devoted to designing powerful experiences for some of the world's largest brands. Through exceptional design, great storytelling and innovative engagement tools, we bring to life a client's brand and deliver real results, both for the client and their audiences across the globe.
Skyline Whitespace leads the industry in custom modular exhibition displays. We are a busy, creative and vibrant company with a strong customer focus. We are uncompromisingly dedicated to the quality of our service. Every member of staff should have the knowledge, skills and attitude to deliver a service that is second to none. We aim to exceed our customer's expectations and everyone at Skyline Whitespace has a role to play in that mission.
The warehouse team is vital to the future success of the Company and has its part to play in developing our service to our customers. they provide a vital link in the delivery of our business, interacting with staff at all levels and clients too.
Your job description outlines the responsibilities and tasks that you are expected to perform in your role as Warehouse Supervisor. The list is not exhaustive and other duties of a similar level and nature may be required from time to time.
Carryout daily warehouse duties to meet demands as directed by Warehouse Manager, production schedules and workflow.
Plan and organise tasks to utlilise resources efficiently.
Arrange warehouse stock to most suited locations.
Respond to other department's demands and requests in an efficient manner.
Carry out administration duties as required ensuring that all records are up to date.
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Three-input majority logic gate and multiple input logic circuit based on DNA strand displacement
Wei Li, Yang Yang, Hao Yan, Yan Liu
CLAS-NS: Solid State Science, LeRoy Eyring Center for (CSSS)
Biodesign: Single Molecule Biophysics, Center for (SMB)
Biodesign: Molecular Design and Biomimetics, Center for (MDB)
CLAS-NS: Molecular Sciences, School of (SMS)
In biomolecular programming, the properties of biomolecules such as proteins and nucleic acids are harnessed for computational purposes. The field has gained considerable attention due to the possibility of exploiting the massive parallelism that is inherent in natural systems to solve computational problems. DNA has already been used to build complex molecular circuits, where the basic building blocks are logic gates that produce single outputs from one or more logical inputs. We designed and experimentally realized a three-input majority gate based on DNA strand displacement. One of the key features of a three-input majority gate is that the three inputs have equal priority, and the output will be true if any of the two inputs are true. Our design consists of a central, circular DNA strand with three unique domains between which are identical joint sequences. Before inputs are introduced to the system, each domain and half of each joint is protected by one complementary ssDNA that displays a toehold for subsequent displacement by the corresponding input. With this design the relationship between any two domains is analogous to the relationship between inputs in a majority gate. Displacing two or more of the protection strands will expose at least one complete joint and return a true output; displacing none or only one of the protection strands will not expose a complete joint and will return a false output. Further, we designed and realized a complex five-input logic gate based on the majority gate described here. By controlling two of the five inputs the complex gate can realize every combination of OR and AND gates of the other three inputs.
Nano Letters
https://doi.org/10.1021/nl4016107
Published - Jun 12 2013
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Li, W., Yang, Y., Yan, H., & Liu, Y. (2013). Three-input majority logic gate and multiple input logic circuit based on DNA strand displacement. Nano Letters, 13(6), 2980-2988. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl4016107
Three-input majority logic gate and multiple input logic circuit based on DNA strand displacement. / Li, Wei; Yang, Yang; Yan, Hao; Liu, Yan.
In: Nano Letters, Vol. 13, No. 6, 12.06.2013, p. 2980-2988.
Li, W, Yang, Y, Yan, H & Liu, Y 2013, 'Three-input majority logic gate and multiple input logic circuit based on DNA strand displacement', Nano Letters, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 2980-2988. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl4016107
Li W, Yang Y, Yan H, Liu Y. Three-input majority logic gate and multiple input logic circuit based on DNA strand displacement. Nano Letters. 2013 Jun 12;13(6):2980-2988. https://doi.org/10.1021/nl4016107
Li, Wei ; Yang, Yang ; Yan, Hao ; Liu, Yan. / Three-input majority logic gate and multiple input logic circuit based on DNA strand displacement. In: Nano Letters. 2013 ; Vol. 13, No. 6. pp. 2980-2988.
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Distressing Update On Salman Rushdie - On-Stage Stabbing
By Manish Gupta
Disturbing Update on Salman Rushdie's Condition Following On-Stage Stabbing from Agent.
Moments before giving a lecture in western New York, Salman Rushdie was attacked on stage
The Chautauqua Institution was set to host a talk by the 75-year-old Booker Prize winner
When a male suspect stormed the stage and attacked both Rushdie and the interviewer.
Rushdie's injuries were much more severe than the interviewer's, who just sustained a slight head injury.
He appeared to have a neck stab wound when he was brought to the hospital.
On Friday night, Andrew Wylie, Rushdie's agent, gave the New York Times an update.
The representative stated, "The news is not good," adding that Rushdie is presently on a ventilator and unable to talk.
The eligibility period for which begins on October 1, 2021, and ends on September 30, is now in effect.
He received stab wounds to his neck and abdomen.
"Salman will probably lose one eye," the statement added, "the nerves in his arm were severed, and his liver was stabbed and wounded."
Brie Larson (Captain Marvel) Dancing In Bikini Again


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The Centenary of G.S. Ulanova
Galina Ulanova's Foundation started preparing her jubilee events long before the century. The President of the Galina Ulanova Foundation, People's Artist of the USSR, V.V. Vasiliev, appealed to various higher governing bodies of our country with a request to erect a monument to G.S. Ulanova in Moscow and St. Petersburg by E.A. Yanson-Manizer (there is such a monument in Stockholm, but not in Russia), to name it a street, a square in Moscow and St. Petersburg, an airliner or a sea liner, etc., as well as to create the World Dance Center. Unfortunately, everything promised during personal meetings and appeals has not been realized so far.
The Foundation has also been looking for funds to hold events for the 100th anniversary of the great ballerina. The Russian Ministry of Culture and Gazprombank agreed to provide support. And already in the autumn of 2009, the Galina Ulanova Foundation organized and conducted a tour of the Bolshoi Theater ballet dancers across Siberia with the gala concert "Mona Lisa of the Russian Ballet. It is dedicated to Galina Ulanova". The concerts were held in Krasnoyarsk, Abakan and also at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power plant. In Abakan it turned out that the Bolshoi Ballet dancers performed in Khakassia for the first time since it joined Russia. And at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station, the gala concert was a charity event for the employees of the hydroelectric power station and their families who suffered after the tragedy with the accident at the station.
At the same time, the Foundation was in talks with the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres to hold joint gala concerts at the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres dedicated to Ulanova. Such a concert was held at the Mariinsky Theatre on 8 January 2010. At the concert Viktor Vasilyev, President of the Foundation, presented an award for "For selfless service to the art of dance" to outstanding personalities in the art of ballet:
Alicia Alonso (the award was given to her later in Havana).
to Yuri Grigorovich (transferred later in Moscow)
Boris Bregvadze
Irina Kolpakova
Gabrielle Komleva
Carle Fracci
Mikael Denar came to receive the award and give it to Yvette Chauvir in Paris.
On 16 January 2010, the Galina Ulanova Foundation organized a gala evening "Mona Lisa of the Russian Ballet. Galina Ulanova is Dedicated" at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow (on the New Stage, as the building was under reconstruction).
For this purpose the Foundation has organised the visit of the entire Mariinsky Ballet Company to Moscow. The Mariinsky Ballet Company presented in a gala concert one act of the ballet Bakhchisarai Fountain and one act of the ballet Romeo and Juliet directed by Lavrovsky. The Bolshoi Theatre presented the one-act ballet Chopiniana.
From May 17 for two months in St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music Art with the support and in cooperation with the Galina Ulanova Foundation was organized and held an exhibition dedicated to the life and work of G.S.Ulanova.
The Foundation also released a colourful album with fragments from Ulanova's diary and her photographs and presented them to viewers at the Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatres.
Gala concert – of the Galina Ulanova Foundation and the Bolshoi Theater "Galina Ulanova is Dedicated",
Bolshoi Theatre, 2005
The second gala concert, organized by the Foundatio, Bolshoi and the Mariinsky Theatres, was the evening of Galina Ulanova on 16 May 2005 at the Historical Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre. It was a concert-dedication from two great opera and ballet theatres of Russia, and also a dedication from famous contemporary choreographers: M. Bezhara, I. Kilian, J. Neumeier, W. Forsythe, B. Eifman and M. Eck, who himself came to this gala concert and performed in his miniature together with his wife and ballerina A. Laguna.
President of the Galina Ulanova Foundation, People's Artist of the USSR V.V.Vasiliev opened the evening and awarded personal scholarships of the Foundation to the following students of choreographic schools:
Victoria KRASNOKUTSKAYA, Vaganova Ballet Academy, St. Petersburg
Tikhomirova Anastasia, Bashkir Choreography School, Ufa
Elizaveta KRUTELEVA, Moscow State Academy of Choreography, Moscow
FILATOVA Anna, Moscow State Academy of Choreography, Moscow
YANKEL Ochoa Leyva, State School Staats Opera, Berlin.
Sergey POLUNIN, Royal Ballet School, London.
The President of the Foundation also presented an award "For selfless service to the art of dance".
Yvette Chauviré (the award was presented later in Paris), the world-famous choreographers Maurice Béjart and John Neumeier, the ballet dancer of the Paris Opera, Eva Evdokimova, and the Bolshoi Theatre conductor Alexander Kopylov.
The President of the Foundation also welcomed guests of the Galina Ulanova Foundation – leading ballet critics of the world Mary Clarke – DANCING TIMES magazine, London, Clement Crispa – Financial TImes newspaper, London Don, and Clive Barnes – Washington Post newspaper, Washington – to the Bolshoi Theatre hall.
"Galina Ulanova is dedicated",
Gala concert in Bolshoi Theatre, May 16, 2004
On 16 May 2004, the Historical Stage of the Bolshoi Theatre hosted a joint project of the Galina Ulanova Foundation and the Bolshoi Theatre – a gala concert "Galina Ulanova is Dedicated" with the participation of artists from the Bolshoi and Mariinsky Theatres, students of the Moscow State Academic Theatre and Vaganova Ballet Academy, as well as the choir of the New Opera Theatre.
President of the Galina Ulanova Foundation, People's Artist of the USSR V.V. Vasilyev opened the gala concert with the words that the day of May 16th was marked by the opening of the gala. S, Ulanova all her life celebrated as her second birthday. It was the day of her graduation from choreography school. That is why the Foundation decided to hold this gala concert dedicated to her on May 16.
The President of the Foundation also announced the opening of Galina Ulanova's annual personal scholarship program and announced the first scholarship holders of the Foundation. They were the first to do so in 2004:
АХМЕТШИНА Diana, State Choreographic School, Kazan
Volkova Nina, State Academy of Choreography, Moscow
TKACHENKO Vasily, Academy of Russian Ballet named after A. Vaganova, St. Petersburg
Fernanda Gallianone Bruna, Bolshoi Theatre School in Brazil, Joinville.
PHILIPPOVA March, State Choreographic School, Voronezh
SHIRINKINA Maria, State Choreographic School, Perm
In 2004, at the request and suggestion of the Galina Ulanova Foundation, the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg, a department of the State Hermitage Museum, for the first time in 40 years revived the porcelain statue of G. S. Ulanova as Odette by E. A. Yanson-Manizer. The Foundation established an award "For selfless service to the art of dance" in the form of this porcelain statuette. At this gala concert, the award was presented to great names of Soviet and Russian ballet:
Marina SEMENOVA
Olga LEPESHINSKAYA
Raisa KNOCKING
Igor MOISEV
Nikolai FADEECHEV
Gala concert in memory of G.S. Ulanova,
March 21, 2003 at the New Opera Theatre
The first gala concert "Galina Ulanova is dedicated" was held by the Galina Ulanova Foundation on March 21, 2003 on the day of the 5th anniversary of G.S.Ulanova's death in the New Opera Theatre.
The evening was attended by such ballet stars as Nina Ananiashvili, Anna Antonicheva, Dmitry Belogolovtsev, Nadezhda Gracheva, Dmitry Gudanov, Mark Peretokin, Tatiana Predeina, Marianna Ryzhkina, Tatiana Chernobrovkina, Egle Shpokayte (Lithuania), Gennady Janin, the Imperial Ballet directed by Gedeminas Taranda and the Lithuanian National Opera, as well as the chorus and orchestra of the New Opera Theatre. The evening program includes ballet fragments from Galina Ulanova's repertoire of Swan Lake, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet, Sleeping Beauty and others.
The Foundation also addressed the world's theatres with an appeal to remember the great ballerina G.S. Ulanova on March 21, dedicating one of her performances to her. Many theatres in Russia and abroad responded and joined this action in memory of G.S.Ulanova.


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Andrei Alexandrowitsch Lieven (; *  in Simferopol; †  in St. Petersburg) war ein deutschbaltisch-russischer Minister für Staatsbesitz.

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Lieven war der älteste Sohn Fürst Alexander Karlowitsch Lievens und seiner Frau Jekaterina Nikititschna Pankratjewa und Enkel Fürst Karl von Lievens. Er besuchte das 4. Moskauer Gymnasium und studierte dann an der Universität Moskau in der naturwissenschaftlichen Abteilung der physikalisch-mathematischen Fakultät mit Abschluss 1859.

Darauf arbeitete Lieven im Amt des Innenministeriums bei der Kanzlei des Generalgouverneurs von Livland, Estland und Kurland. Er wurde Vizegouverneur des Gouvernements Kursk (1865), des Gouvernements Tschernigow (1867) und des Gouvernements Moskau (1869). 1870 wurde er Gouverneur des Gouvernements Moskau. 1871 folgte die Ernennung zum Wirklichen Staatsrat (4. Rangklasse). 1872 wurde Lieven Vertreter des Ministers für Staatsbesitz Graf Pjotr Alexandrowitsch Walujew. 1874 folgte die Ernennung zum Staatssekretär. 1879 wurde er Mitglied des Staatsrats. 1879–1881 war er Minister für Staatsbesitz.

In den 1870er Jahren erhielten viele höhere Beamte, darunter auch Lieven und Mitarbeiter des Ministeriums, fast kostenfrei große Landgüter im Gouvernement Ufa. Diese Ausplünderung des baschkirischen Staatsbesitzes führte zu einem öffentlichen Skandal, worauf Alexander III. Lieven zum Rücktritt von seinen Ämtern und zur Rückgabe seines Landgutes im Gouvernement Ufa zwang. Lieven zog sich auf sein Landgut Spasskoje im Gouvernement Moskau zurück. Dort baute er sich ein Observatorium und widmete sich astronomischen Beobachtungen. Infolge unvorsichtiger Sonnenbeobachtung erblindete das rechte Auge.

Im Januar 1910 wurde Lieven in den Staatsrat zurückberufen. Ab 1912 arbeitete er in der Hauptverwaltung der Kanzlei für die Wohltätigkeitseinrichtungen der Kaiserin Maria. 1913 wurde er Wirklicher Geheimer Rat (2. Rangklasse).

Lieven war in erster Ehe verheiratet mit Natalja Stepanowa Strekalowa (1839–1866), Tochter der Moskauer Wohltäterin Alexandra Nikolajewna Strekalowa und Enkelin des Senators Stepan Stepanowitsch Strekalow, mit der er zwei Kinder bekam. Nach ihrem Tod heiratete er 1867 in zweiter Ehe Warwara Sergejewna Muchanowa (1838–1897), Tochter Fürst Sergei Pawlowitsch Golizyns und Mutter des Politikers Alexei Alexejewitsch Muchanow.

Lieven wurde in der Familiengruft der Golizyns auf deren Landsitz Troizkoje Kainardschi bei Balaschicha beigesetzt.

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 Alexander-Newski-Orden
 Sankt-Stanislaus-Orden I. Klasse (1872)

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Pippa Middleton to announce engagement within months, according to friends
August 19, 2013 - 15:22 BST hellomagazine.com Pippa Middleton to announce engagement within months, according to friends
Pippa Middleton is expected to announce her engagement within months, it has been reported.
According to friends, the younger sister of the Duchess of Cambridge has been delaying the news out of respect for her sister Kate, who gave birth last month to her and Prince William's first baby, Prince George.
A close friend of the couple said in July: "An engagement is definitely on the cards."
Pippa, 29, and her handsome boyfriend Nico, have openly shown affection for one another since bringing their relationship into the public eye at the beginning of the year.
The eligible brunette is reported to have told friends that her stockbroker beau is "the one".
The party planner-turned-columnist was beaming as she strolled hand-in-hand with Nico in London's swish Chelsea neighbourhood on Friday night. She looked stunning in a short skirt and white long-sleeved top with strappy heels and a clutch.
Kate's younger sister was first linked to Nico at the start of the year — and by February the 35-year-old had already been introduced to her family.
He was invited into the Middleton fold when he joined Pippa, Kate and Prince William on holiday in paradise island Mustique, along with her parents Michael and Carole and her brother James.
Nico's delighted mother has also given the relationship her blessing, describing Pippa as "absolutely charming".
While Pippa has been linked to aristocracy in the past, dating suitors including investment banker James Matthews and financier and former England cricketer Alex Loudon, Nico has a distinctly humble background.
He grew up in a middle-class red-brick terraced house in Folkestone, Kent, and attended the Harvey Grammar School in Folkestone, before earning a business degree at Kingston University. He then went on to make his millions as a stockbroker at Deutsche Bank.
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