If CES discoveries are anything to go by, then this one takes the cake. LG electronics has introduced a new smartphone model powered by an Intel Moorestown processor. Looks like LG is ready to brush aside competition when the phone releases in the second half of 2010.
Announced during LG's keynote speech at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) 2010, the invention has caught the eyes of many for Intel until now was engaged in making processors for PC's. With the GW990, Intel has plunged into the smartphone market and will assist in creating many more handsets in the future, blurring the line between phones and PC's.
"The smartphone is the new PC. The most powerful PC (functions) today will be in the smartphone three to five years down the road," said Pankaj Kedia, Intel's director of Global Ecosystems Program for Mobile Internet Devices and smartphones.
LG GW990 runs on Intel's Moblin Linux 2.1 OS , which is similar to Android OS. The only difference lies in its enhanced "S-Class" user interface, a feature common to LG phones.
Conventional smartphones are based on ARM-based processors but the new LG GW990's Moorestown is paired with an Atom processor core. In short, the smartphone will be quite similar to a netbook with the ability to deliver internet performance similar to a PC yet with the mobility of a smartphone.
The video looks great..i suppose the GW990 has the largest screen size ever. But looks wise..i prefer the recently released Google Nexus One.


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Romantic love and predestined marriage: comparing two ideal types of intimacy
ZHAI Xuewei
This paper regarded romantic love and predestined marriage as two different ideal types. The author discussed the marital relationship in the dimension of human relationships. After exploring the complexities of marital relationships, two intimate relationship patterns were proposed, namely romantic love and the predestined marriage. After comparing, this paper found that romantic love had individual internality. Romantic love placed importance on attractiveness, idealization, and passion. Its mechanism for continuation lied in addition. On the other hand, the predestined marriage placed importance on externalities, such as compliance, matching each other, and matchmakers. Its mechanism for continuation lied in subtraction. Based on these two patterns, many intimate human relationships can be explained so as to achieve knowledge construction for this theme.
The social logic of traditional Chinese welfare practice: an explanation based on the research on the society of the Ming and Qing dynasties
ZHANG Peiguo
In traditional Chinese welfare practice, the concepts of blessing, destiny and return are not the symbolic system of freedom, but the culture of integration of production and exploitation, which permeates the reproduction process of the welfare system such as the public granary, charitable granary, grave, charitable institution. Therefore, as a symbolic culture of conceptual form, they are exactly binders of the basic association of Han Chinese's society. The combination of productive and exploitative forces is the social logic of traditional Chinese welfare practice. A set of symbolic systems, which centers on the basic social notions such as blessing, destiny, return, integrates the rights of land in economic coercion. The state excessively absorbs agricultural surpluses through tribute, and domination of the gentry combines profit-making brokers and protective brokers as a whole. Symbolic domination is a pattern of domination in the sense of social ontology, which is integrated by various forms of local public welfare practice with the share as institutional forms.
Migrant children and rural-urban migrants' integration to the city
WANG Chunchao;ZHANG Chenglei
More migrant parents now choose to bring their children with them when migrating to the city. This emerging phenomenon in China is called the family migration. Compared with individual migration, does family migration contribute to better integration to the city? Based on a two-period utility model, we study the migrant children's impact on their parents' integration to the city, using the data of dynamic monitoring survey of migrant population conducted by the National Health and Family Planning Commission of China. Using the IV estimation and endogenous switching model, we find that bringing children to the city does increase migrant parents' sense of integration to the city. Migrant parents bringing their children along to the city have greater willingness to integrate and settle in the city. We also discuss the mechanism behind this influence and make several policy suggestions. Providing better access to education, medical care and other social welfare will facilitate the migrants' better integration to the city.
Social bases of organizational commitment: testing embeddedness in employment relations and its functional boundary
ZHU Yan
Existing research points out the social embeddedness of employment relations, but fails to clarify how social relations function under different conditions. Using an employer-employee matching dataset in the Yangtze River Delta region, this research addresses the impact of vertical ties on employees' organizational commitment. This paper finds that shared native connections between employer and employee can effectively enhance employees' organizational commitment. As the ties gets stronger, employees' organizational commitment becomes stronger. The enterprises' ILM functions as an effective conditional variable. When the ILM becomes more fluid, the vertical ties become less effective in promoting organizational commitment.
Organization patterns and evolution mechanism of the project responsibility system: an analysis of the historical process of a national project
CHEN Jiajian
By investigating the historical process of a national project, this research reveals that in the project-oriented operation direct control, contracting and joint management exist as the three important organization forms. When carrying out a project, governments at different levels allocate different rights and responsibilities at four dimensions, namely, goal setting, resource provision, implementation and inspection. The differences among the four dimensions lead to the evolution of the organization forms. The different project management systems influence how the local government implements projects. The problems include the routinization of implementation, excessive implementation, passive implementation, which will affect the effectiveness of the projects.

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Compression therapy is frequently the first and most conservative step in the management of varicose veins. In fact, insurers often require that patients undergo conservative compression therapy prior to becoming eligible for reimbursement for the VenaCure EVLT™ system or other more aggressive varicose vein treatments. Compression stockings are also often used following those same treatments to promote healing by lessening pain, swelling and bruising.
It is important to recognize that compression stockings can alleviate some symptoms of varicose veins but they cannot treat their underlying cause, failed valves (also called venous reflux). Even with faithful use of compression stockings, the disease may progress to the point that more advanced treatment is necessary.
Gradient compression stockings and hosiery provided pressure that is strongest around the foot and ankle and looser as it moves up the leg. The steady pressure provided by compression stockings assists the leg muscles and veins in moving blood more efficiently and quickly up the leg to the heart. They also prevent the superficial veins directly beneath the stockings from over expanding with pooled blood. For best results, compression stocking should be worn throughout the day.
Compression stockings and hosiery are available in varying degrees of compression that are expressed in units called "mmHg", or millimeters of mercury. The range is from 10 mmHg to over 50 mmHg. Compression stockings at the lower end of the scale are used for milder cases of vein disease and can be purchased over the counter. Higher compression stockings require a prescription from your physician.
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An ambulatory phlebectomy is usually performed in a doctor's office using local anesthesia. First, a local anesthetic fluid is injected into the area of varicose vein clusters to be treated. The doctor then uses a small scalpel or needle to puncture the skin next to the varicose vein, inserts a small hook into the hole, grasps the vein and removes it. The area is covered with a compression bandage and/or compression stockings. No stitches are required and the scars are nearly imperceptible. The patient is able to walk immediately following the procedure, which is often performed following the VenaCure EVLTÖ procedure to remove any large surface veins left behind after the procedure. The possible risks of ambulatory phlebectomy include an allergic reaction to the anesthetic and localized numbness.
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After using ultrasound to map the course of the vein to be treated, the physician guides a catheter (thin tube) through a small incision into the diseased vein, threading it through the blood vessel into the groin area. Electricity is delivered to a heating element in 20-second pulses, heating and contracting the collagen within the walls of the vein until they shrink and shut down. This process is called ablation. The vein is treated in segments as the catheter is gradually inched back down towards the incision. When the entire vein has been ablated, the blood flow is automatically rerouted through healthier adjacent veins, restoring healthy circulation and reducing swelling. The ablated vein becomes scar tissue and is absorbed by the body.
Like the VenaCure EVLT™ procedure, which uses a laser to ablate the varicose vein, VNUS RF treatment is an alternative to more invasive leg stripping surgery. It is used primarily to treat the great saphenous veins (GSV), small saphenous vein (SSV), and other superficial veins in the legs. Varicose veins that branch off from these blood vessels are treated with sclerotherapy or phlebectomy.
Approved for use in the United States by the Food and Drug Administration in 1999, the VNUS RF treatment procedure is performed under local anesthesia in a physician's office, ambulatory surgical center or hospital. Patients are encouraged to walk immediately following the procedure, and are usually able to resume their normal activities within a day. The use of compression stockings is generally prescribed for a week or two.
The success rate of VNUS RF treatment is reportedly slightly lower than that of the VenaCure EVLT procedure, and the risk of developing deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or a pulmonary embolism (blood clot), while rare, is higher. Other potential side effects of VNUS RF treatment include temporary bruising, swelling and numbness of the treated area, thermal skin burns, numbness that comes and goes, and an allergic reaction to anesthesia.
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The traditional technique for surgical stripping is ligation and stripping of the great saphenous vein (GSV), the long vein that extends from the anklebone along the inside of the leg and thigh and empties into the femoral vein in the groin. Ligation and stripping involves tying off the abnormal vein (ligation) and physically removing it (stripping).
Ligation and stripping are performed in a hospital setting or outpatient surgical center under local, spinal, or general anesthesia. The surgeon makes a small incision in the groin to expose the diseased GSV, which is tied off. The surgeon then makes a series of incisions along the leg from the thigh to a point just below the knee. Using a specialized stripping tool that is inserted and threaded through the incisions, the surgeon strips out the diseased vein.
A more recent variation on this technique is PIN (Perforate Invaginate) stripping. This technique involves inserting an instrument called a PIN stripper through a small incision in the leg. The stripper is advanced through the vein, its tip is sewn to the end of the vein, and the vein is pulled in on itself as it is stripped out of the leg. PIN stripping is performed in a hospital operating room or outpatient surgical center under general anesthesia or local anesthesia with IV sedation.
During stripping, branch veins attached to the GSV are broken, causing blood to leak into surrounding tissues. This causes the postoperative pain, soreness and bruising experienced by ligation and stripping patients. Other potential complications include numbness from damage to surrounding nerves, chronic leg swelling from damaged lymphatic tissue, incision scars and allergic reaction to anesthesia. Although the patient is usually able to return home the same day, recovery from vein stripping surgery typically takes up to four weeks, with patients sidelined for several days in the beginning.
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Some physicians are now using a jacketed fiber, which prevents any contact between the fiber and the vein wall. This prevents much of the pain and bruising that is often associated with the more conventional method of ligation and stripping. Some patients may experience temporary soreness or some slight swelling, which can be treated effectively with over-the-counter, non-aspirin pain relievers and typically subsides within the first five days.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN) - Members of the Community Health Center of Buffalo and the Health Care Education Project rallied in opposition of the proposed U.S. Senate health care bill on Friday morning at 1390 South Elmwood Avenue. "(The health care replacement) would be replaced with a huge backwards...
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When Coach Gail Goestenkors earned her 100th coaching victory Feb. 25 — one day before her 49th birthday — celebrating was far from her mind. It was late February in a difficult season and, birthday or not, she would spend the following day scouting Texas' next opponent.
"The only thing I'm concerned about is Missouri, period," she said.
The sense of urgency shadowed both the coach and the state of her program. Having washed out of this year's Big 12 tournament after one game — a disheartening, 23-point loss to lower-seeded Texas Tech March 7 — Goestenkors and her players found hope when they made their fifth straight NCAA tournament. The team lost to West Virginia 68-55 in the first round of the tournament.
Goestenkors led Texas into the NCAAs each season, but Texas advanced past the first round only once under her. After the team's 2012 season came to an end, Goestenkors announced her resignation March 19. "I'm tired and it's not fair to this program, to the university, and most importantly I don't think it's fair to the kids to have a coach that's tired," she said. "It's time to step away and bring in new leadership to help this program go where I know it can go." Former North Texas head coach Karen Aston accepted the challenge, becoming the fourth women's basketball head coach in program history. Aston assisted former coach Jody Conradt for eight years.
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Ronny Martinus Maria Michels –conocido como Ron Michels– (Tilburg, 23 de julio de 1975) es un deportista neerlandés que compitió en bádminton, en la modalidad de dobles mixto.

Ganó tres medallas de bronce en el Campeonato Europeo de Bádminton entre los años 1992 y 1996.

Palmarés internacional

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Jugadores de bádminton de los Países Bajos
Jugadores de bádminton en los Juegos Olímpicos de Atlanta 1996
Deportistas de los Países Bajos en los Juegos Olímpicos de Atlanta 1996
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Stenoma immersa is a moth in the family Depressariidae. It was described by Lord Walsingham in 1913. It is found in Mexico (Guerrero).

The wingspan is about 21 mm. The forewings are brownish ochreous, partly suffused with purplish grey. The first suffusion touches the flexus, is diffused outwards along the cell, branches narrowly to the costa at one-third, and is somewhat intensified on the dorsum at the same distance from the base. The second suffusion, faintly connected with the first above the middle, leaves the costa a little beyond the middle and fading out at the end of the cell, where there is a small round spot, reappears below this and is diffused downward to the dorsum and tornus, whence arises an indistinct, outwardly curved, series of small purplish grey spots reverting to the costa after forming a slight angle below it. The hindwings are brownish grey.

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Moths described in 1913
Stenoma


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D.O.B: Jan 17, 1931 | Arkabutla, Mississippi, USA
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James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is a multi-award-winning American actor of theater and film, well known for his distinctive bass voice and for his portrayal of characters of substance, gravitas and leadership. He is known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise and the tagline for CNN.
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James Earl Jones (born January 17, 1931) is a multi-award-winning American actor of theater and film, well known for his distinctive bass voice and for his portrayal of characters of substance, gravitas and leadership. He is known for providing the voice of Darth Vader in the Star Wars franchise and the tagline for CNN. James Earl Jones was born in Arkabutla, Mississippi, the son of Ruth (née Connolly) and Robert Earl Jones. At the age of five, he moved to Jackson, Michigan, to be raised by his maternal grandparents, but the adoption was traumatic and he developed a stutter so severe he refused to speak aloud. When he moved to Brethren, Michigan in later years a teacher at the Brethren schools started to help him with his stutter. He remained functionally mute for eight years until he reached high school. He credits his high school teacher, Donald Crouch, who discovered he had a gift for writing poetry, with helping him out of his silence. Jones attended the University of Michigan where he was a pre-med major. While there, he joined the Reserve Officer Training Corps, and excelled. During the course of his studies, Jones discovered he was not cut out to be a doctor. Instead he focused himself on drama, with the thought of doing something he enjoyed, before, he assumed, he would have to go off to fight in the Korean War. After four years of college, Jones left without his degree.
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Tracy this has you written all over it!
I found this in my docs and finished it up with what's going on in my life right now.
in tranquil immunity with the gods of forever.
In waves of silence I could find you easily.
I might shatter your concerted thoughts.
To which direction do I repeat the patterned vibrations?
that vibrates in ryhthms so deep.
*hahaha* hey you guys are flipping me out. Dang it feels good!
honey I miss You!!! I want to hear all about whats going on soon...when you have time. I know your work is keeping you busy and i'm so happy that you are more fullfilled being home where your heart is.
I like how this piece floats for me. Drifting through desires and reality, to alight on acceptance.
hmmmmmmmmm, well it isn't meant to be 'that' spiritual.
well I know there is someone who will understand lol.
ok, enjoy the season and thankyou!
Exactly, but when I wrote my first draft -of the above comment- I felt that I had dwelled too strongly on the line "so desire leads the way...". I believed that by doing so I was missing out on the full experience of this piece.
This poem really worked for me, possibly I was in just the right space this morning. But I got a whole sense of understanding desires, and an acceptance of their place in the whole.
*hahaha* yah :) and the desire here is good. it is meant to be the desire that pulls two creatures or people together for the purpose of fullfilling an orgasmic encounter.
my thoughts are that there are two ways of climbing to the peak where thoughts are gone. the one through meditation of course with the euphoria you reach and now since some recent reading and a new experience I am quite certain that one can also reach a plato of no-thought when two people are very much awake through the five senses and then they enter the essential art together that brings spirituality and sexuality together...the ultimate union maybe ??
hmmm yah people are use my ethereal and fun poetry but not so much anything having to do sexuality, although it is there none the less...it is quite subtle.
your use of it stands beautifully.
Tracy it is as if being your wheel of people has helped to bring me to this place quicker...(meaning the experience I am having right now) All the times you have said; in all directions of time and space; cutting all the vows that have kept us from rightly attracting all the good things we so deverse and can have if we want. it really is something how we can enjoy anything and everything our hearts desire. and desire being a good thing...something I have been understanding much more fully in these last months.
Ahhhh sweet Katie... 'the shadows of yesterday'... what a deep, soul cleansing awareness. I shall joyously read this again and again... and again.
hey Jerry, I hope your thanksgiving was nice.
yes the shadows of yesterday; seem to be not needed any more, once one feels so real inside. They seem to just desolve eh?
hmmm, thinkin we another comedy story soon ?
right now today where I am we are experiencing a winter blizzard. kind a cool if no-one gets hurt.
I might shatter your concerted thoughts"
and then into the verse".
yes it is how I am feeling lately.
*smiling high* ^_^ thankyou Susan.
'I done good' *teehee* I like that.
yes those were Anna's fav too. And the 'real' that vibrates; I think so many of us can relate to that sort of magic.
Gosh I wish I could swallow it; the real. Kind of like drinking live carrot/lemon/pear juice heehee.
no but anyhow Good morning Susan, this is very nice to read.
I really liked this one, ethereal is not quite the word I'm looking for, but close, very close. This line in particular - Directing thought patterns is unheard of - is now called noetic science: apparently. Sending beautiful thoughts into a tumbler of water as it freezes making the patterns twist to your will as they form and take shape. Good write.
Paul, I have Never heard 'Noetic' before. How fascinating!
I have however read much material on thought patterns and the like. In fact certain high consciousness people are able to see thought patterns. Apparently they look like clusters of grapes.
Oky Thanks a billion Paul!
Absolutely love the vibes......a very different type of writing from you and I adore it Katie. I am awash with awe and humility - can feel as well as see the thought vibrations in this one. Prati hit the nail on the proverbial here.
Vee thankyou So much! I have missed you lots!
Tracy and I wonder when and If you are coming back to facebook. We miss you there too!!
You know what Vee, I sure wish I were feeling the power now as I felt while writing this. I am def going through some impending feelings of doom, but I will def be alright!
I know this as fact! Thankyou again! I LOVE You!
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Why Killing The Open Skies Treaty Would Be A Mistake For The Trump Administration
Gary Wetzel
Filed to:Russia
One of America's two OC-135B Open Skies aircraft prepares to depart the Russian airbase near Khabarovsk-Novy for a surveillance flight. Wikipedia
The Trump administration has moved to place a new series of restrictions on authorized Russian military spy flights over the United States which are conducted as part of the Open Skies treaty. This week, at a monthly meeting of the Open Skies Consultative Commission in Vienna, the U.S. asked that limits be placed on the length of flights over Hawaii and removed access to two air force bases the Russians use during their missions over the U.S. The retaliatory changes are in response to what America has seen as prolonged Russian violations of the treaty.
In recent years, American politicians and military leaders have begun to complain louder about the treaty, indicating that Russia is no longer fully cooperating and is deliberately attempting to circumvent the spirit of the agreement. Led by Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, the stage has been set for modifications to the treaty like the ones the Trump administration has suggested, or the eventual American withdrawal from Open Skies. (Despite the widely-accepted perception, Open Skies is not a bilateral treaty between the U.S. and Russia, but a rather large, multilateral treaty between 34 nations.)
The likely changes to the Treaty on Open Skies is another blow to the faltering relationship between the two nations. On Thursday, it was revealed that those new restrictions will limit Russian flights over Hawaii to no more than 560 miles for each flight and has removed access to two American bases—Ellsworth in South Dakota and Robbins in Georgia—which the Russians had been using as refueling points and for crew rest.
Since 2002, members of the Open Skies Treaty have been conducting unarmed surveillance flights over Russia, the U.S., Canada and most nations in Europe. According to the State Department between 2002 and 2016 the U.S. had flown 196 observation missions over Russia, with another 500 flights over Russia by other members of the treaty. In the same time frame, Russia flew 71 missions over the U.S.
A Russian Tu-154M-ON Open Skies aircraft returns from a surveillance flight. Wikipedia Commons
In 2015, the State Department issued a report outlining Russia's violations of Open Skies. These violations included placing altitude restrictions over certain areas near Moscow as well as over Chechnya. According to the Russians, the altitude restrictions over Chechnya were put in place for the safety of Open Skies aircrews who could be vulnerable to shoulder-launched missiles in the troubled region. Additionally, since 2010 Russia has refused to allow flights within a roughly six-mile corridor along its border with the Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The most repeated Russian violation, though, and the one most stressed by those eager to see the treaty changed or eliminated, concerns the enclave of Kaliningrad. Sitting on the Baltic Sea, Kaliningrad borders Poland and Lithuania and is slightly bigger than the state of Connecticut. In 2014, Russia placed a 500-kilometer (310 mile) limit on flights over Kaliningrad despite treaty language establishing a maximum flight distance of 5,500 kilometers (3,400 miles). Prior to that, surveillance flights wound their way across Kaliningrad, creating havoc for commercial aviation and stressing the air traffic control system. As a result, Russia began enforcing the 500-kilometer limit.
In testimony Tuesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford went as far as to say that Open Skies should no longer "be in place if the Russians aren't complying." Gen. Dunford's statements come on the heels of numerous declarations and reports indicating that the Russians have been balking at flight requests and imposing flight ranges significantly less than the treaty specify, in addition to using superior digital cameras and getting more out of the spy missions than the Americans are.
History of Open Skies
The Treaty on Open Skies became effective January 1, 2002, though the idea for such a program dates to the mid-1950's. In 1955 at the Geneva Summit, President Dwight D. Eisenhower first suggested the idea of "Open Skies," where the U.S. and the USSR would be allowed to spy on each other using aerial surveillance. Eisenhower wanted each nation to provide one another with a complete list of military installations so that these facilities could be located and then photographed during the surveillance flights. With these flights, it was hoped that two goals could be achieved: the verification of compliance to any future arms control treaties and the ability to confirm that neither side was preparing a first strike against the other.
A sample image from flight over Russia by a Open Skies surveillance flight. OSCE Photo
Along with the Eisenhower, the French and British were also interested in the proposal. The Soviet representative, Premier Nikolai Bulganin, was not so receptive, however, and his boss, Nikita Khrushchev, declared Eisenhower's plan to be nothing more than a plot against the USSR. Eisenhower never actually expected the Soviets to agree to his proposal, but he knew that if they declined they would be seen as anti-arms control. For the Soviets, meanwhile, their refusal was simple: allowing the overflights would merely show how inferior the Soviet military was compared to the Americans.
Within a year, though, Eisenhower would have his own "Open Skies" program over the Soviet Union, albeit without their permission. On July 4, 1956 the first U-2 overflight of the Soviet Union occurred as the spy plane took off from Wiesbaden Airfield in West Germany. The U-2 spy flights would continue periodically until May 1, 1960 when a U-2 was shot down over the USSR and the pilot captured.
President George H.W. Bush reintroduced the idea of Open Skies during his administration, and on March 24, 1992 the Open Skies Treaty was signed. Open Skies has 34 nations that are allowed to conduct unarmed aerial observation flights over the entire territories of treaty members. The purpose is to enhance security among the participating countries by promoting openness and transparency.
Despite being signed in 1992, the first flight did not occur until 2002. Approximately 1,200 flights have been conducted since then, and the vast majority have gone off without a problem. One of the few instances when it hasn't? In February 2016, when Turkey refused a Russian flight. The Russians had requested for a portion of the flight to cover the area near the Syrian-Turkish border, and Ankara denied permission claiming that the area was off limits. As expected. Russia protested.
The Russian use of digital camera technology has also raised concerns about how the Russians are taking advantage of Open Skies. In February 2016, Russia asked permission to begin flying missions over the U.S. with digital cameras, replacing the film cameras that had been used since the treaty was enacted. Despite the protests from members of Congress and the U.S. military, the digital cameras will be restricted to the same 30-centimeter resolution as the earlier film cameras. Prior to the request, the Russians had been using the new optics over Europe for nearly a year, and the change was approved by the Open Skies Consultative Commission, which is the collective administrative body that oversees Open Skies.
In fact, in April 2017 the State Department released a report stating that the OSCC had approved the transition process from film to digital for all 34 members. The report said, "These decisions capped a year-long effort by the United States to provide procedures for bringing the next generation of optical Treaty sensors into use while addressing and mitigating the concerns of U.S. departments and other States Parties".
According to the State Department, the 30 centimeter resolution is controlled by the treaty, and all technology—film or digital—are approved by all Open Skies members. This resolution allows members to tell the difference between a tank and a truck, and is quite similar to the resolution anyone can find on Google Earth. In fact, one of the leading commercial satellite providers DigitalGlobe is set to 30 cm resolution by law. America's newest spy satellite is believed to be capable of achieving a resolution of 7 centimeters to provide a contrast in capability.
The move to digital was first discussed in 2007 within an informal group of the OSCC and in 2010 it was acknowledged that the transition to digital was not only inevitable, it was necessary. In 2012, the Department of Defense was directed to proceed on obtaining new digital technology for its Open Skies aircraft but did not begin to request funds until 2015. In a 2016 budget request, the USAF admitted it needed new digital cameras, as the current film cameras were "nearly obsolete, unreliable, hard and increasingly expensive to maintain, and repair parts must be individually manufactured. In addition, the wet film manufacturers are discontinuing production of the film stock." The Air Force expects to have its two Open Skies aircraft outfitted with digital cameras by 2019.
What Is Behind the American Changes to Open Skies?
It is clear that within certain areas of the American government and military there is a desire to withdraw completely from Open Skies. The big question is why? Many possible reasons exist. Among them: politicians looking to reward defense-industry donors with contracts that make Open Skies redundant, military leaders not shy about crying wolf to increase budgets, and some folks who might actually be concerned the Russians could find something.
Also, there's no question that American spy satellites are superior to the Russians'; there are also more of them. With the resolution of American satellites greater than the resolution allowed by Treaty on Open Skies, the true benefit to the U.S. of these flights is the access to information that other members of the treaty get, meaning that the U.S. can request the photos Russia took when its aircraft was over the U.S., and vice versa. Everybody knows, in other words, what everyone else has seen.
As for satellite imagery, though, the U.S. does not share what it has with most nations; it is, in fact, one of its most closely held means of intelligence. But by using the advanced capabilities of its constellation of satellites, the U.S. can pinpoint items of interest that may go undetected, and perhaps suggest possible targets for Open Skies flights. In this way, the U.S. has shared information it would normally not, due to the restrictive nature of its collection source. This has also allowed nations without sophisticated spy satellites a sense of security they would otherwise not have, creating some stability and certainty in Europe which otherwise may not exist.
The tangible benefits of Open Skies to the U.S., in other words, are not as great as those gained by Russia, but do they have to be for the treaty to be a success? The inequality of intelligence gleaned is of little importance. Russia can already learn a lot through publicly-available intelligence, and the scheduled flights, which average about six per year since the treaty began, are too few to do nothing more than update photos taken years before, and track any changes.
Two Danish Air Force F-16AMs escort a Russian An-30 on an Open Skies mission. OSCE Photo
Steffan Watkins, an expert at piecing together the jigsaw puzzle that is publicly-available intelligence, also known as open-source intelligence, writes the blog Vessel of Interest, and has, for years, closely watched the Open Skies treaty, creating maps of Russian flights over the U.S. and his home of Canada. Speaking to Foxtrot Alpha recently, he questioned the reasoning behind the Trump administration's attempt to impose limits on Russian Open Skies flights. "The nature of the restrictions suggests to me," Watkins said during a phone interview, "that the American government wants to force a reaction and retaliation by Moscow, which the US can use as an excuse to kill the Open Skies Treaty entirely. The restriction over Hawaii is wildly disproportionate to the restriction over Kaliningrad. I hope nobody thinks for a moment these measures are done with the hope that Russia will return to compliance, as is the statement from the White House. Russia cannot be in compliance in the eyes of the U.S. due to border disputes unrelated to Open Skies."
Watkins is referring to the ongoing problems arising from Russia's short war with Georgia in 2008 and the self-proclaimed republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Georgia is not a partner to Open Skies and treaty language is clear in pointing out that surveillance flights cannot take place within 10 kilometers of the border of a non-States Parties. Russia has every right to refuse those flight requests and has done so. The Russian new service TASS spoke to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova about the proposed changes to Open Skies and the fact that the issues of flights near Georgia were part of the reasons given. Zakharova explained, "If some of our partners are unable to reconcile themselves with the modern political realties in the Caucasus, it is not a problem of ours, let alone a violation of the treaty."
Open Skies has become a tit-for-tat game between the Russians and the U.S., despite the 32 other nations belonging to the treaty. Russia, for their part, can't be trusted, as it has invaded several neighbors over the past decade to reclaim lost land, and has also made clear it does not seek to honor many of the treaties it is a signatory to, including the INF treaty. The United States, on the other hand, does not even need Open Skies. But Europe does, and for this reason the U.S. must not continue to push Russia into a corner. Just looking at a map of Russia will show you that playing games with refueling options will be a losing situation for the U.S., as the distances to be covered are much greater than Russia needs to here.
Europe, meanwhile, has become more tense in the last decade as Russia seeks to reestablish itself as a leading world power, and Open Skies is one of the few treaties that directly contributes to security and predictability. If the U.S were to pull out, how long would it be until other nations withdrew, creating a vacuum of information that is no longer available. Europe has come to depend heavily on Open Skies, and the trade-off for what Russia may discover flying over the U.S. is well worth that continent's security.
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You have what 4 possibilities on the roster? I dunno I don't see it as a must draft..
Yinz might not want to thank him just yet.
Would be a great year for it with the media expecting the teams decline.
Um let's not forget right tackle.
With AB gone WR might be nipping at ILBers heels.
After I cancel one service, I will send my contribution.
Man my faith in humanity is.diminishing.
No way posters are complaining about you, outside of cooch that is. But that matters not.
I might have just got you money with my general questions. Thanks for the reply.. Will be good for posters to know this information.
Oh they aren't updated Wig? Definitely good to know if true.
Jesse's departure helped his cause IMO. But I thought he took a step back last season and is a fringe roster player.
NFL iknows Tomlin will be ready by then..
Did we mention your opinion is garbage around here? I don't really feel the need to tell you again.
Bush is not as good as white. Just my opinion.


One of the most enjoyable aspects of reading Scripture are the times when we read something that we have read before (perhaps many times), and an element comes into sharper focus. In general, I had merged the selection of the apostles and the disciples into a single process. The verses above highlight for me, that Jesus had called a number of people to be His disciples; but it was a separate, and special occasion when He selected His twelve leaders (apostles).
Selwyn discusses this issue, as follows: "Today we focus on yet another of Jesus' legacies – the men whom He chose to found His Church. … At a national level, the choice of twelve apostles was significant and symbolic. He was reassigning His leadership of the twelve tribes of Israel to men of His choosing.
This was a socially provocative gesture, demonstrating that He had the goal and authority to rebuild the life of the people of God under His lordship. (At some point). the apostles must have been spiritually nourished to know they had been handpicked by Jesus after prayerful consultation with His heavenly Father.
Yet, knowing that God has 'picked' us, do we completely live our lives to produce fruit for His kingdom (or, are we committed for just a short time on a Sunday)? Aware, that we have a short, and very limited time, to freely employ our will, in proclaiming to this world, the amazing love of our Lord?
After death, it will be too late – when faced with the glory of God in all His reality – to say, "I'll shout it on the mountain tops just how magnificent You are"; everyone with you, will know. Now, is the time, to tell others about the love of Christ.
A number of points – the ordinary Christian left Jerusalem, but they were not silent – they preached the word wherever they went; the apostles, stayed in the city probably because their work for God had not been completed. Secondly, this account clearly says that people (Stephen) who were not apostles performed miracles (Acts 6:8) – those whom God enables through His Spirit can drive out demons and heal the sick, even today!
We are God's special possession – perhaps it's time that we start to live this truth and preach the word to those who do not know Jesus – our family, friends, neighbours and to the community in which we live. Jesus is coming back – what will you be doing when He arrives?


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Thursday's HOT MIC
By Debra Heine 2018-02-08 16:21:02
•• 2018-02-08 16:21:02 ••
David Laufman, who leads the Justice Department's counterintelligence division, announced his resignation for "personal reasons" on Wednesday, The Daily Caller reported.
Laufman worked with FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok on both the Hillary Clinton email investigation and the Russia investigation. He and Strzok interviewed Clinton as part of the investigation into her emails.
In addition to working on the investigation into Clinton's handling of classified information, Laufman has also worked on the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
On the Clinton investigation, he sat in on interviews with the former secretary of state and several of her aides, including Cheryl Mills, Huma Abedin and Jake Sullivan.
No doubt more rats will be jumping ship in the coming days as the various investigations close in on them.


Michiteru Kitazaki, Yuta Murofushi, Jun Kawahara; Task-irrelevant attentional capture by salient expanding motion. Journal of Vision 2014;14(10):314. doi: 10.1167/14.10.314.
Salient discontinuities in expanding optic flow induce attentional capture even when observers engage in feature-search mode in a different stimulus domain (Kawahara, Yanase, & Kitazaki, Journal of Vision 2012). We aimed to investigate whether global motion like as coherent optic flow is necessary or mere presence of a salient motion is sufficient for attentional capture to occur. In Experiment 1, the stimulus display consisted of 2,052 dots and a rapid stream of nontarget letters in the center. Observers searched for a green letter embedded in heterogeneously colored nontarget letters. The dots were divided into four square-regions (2x2 matrix, 18x18-deg each), so that the letter stream appeared in the intersection of the region borders. The bunch of dots expanded or contracted in each region for 100 ms at 300 ms before the presentation of a target. A control condition, under which the dots remained static, was also included. The results indicated that correct identification of the target was significantly impaired when the motions of four regions were contractions, suggesting that the expanding motion perceived locally around the central letter stream captures attention. In Experiment 2, the stimuli were identical to Experiment1 except that the dots in 6-deg diameter around the letters were deleted. We found that the accuracy for letter identification was impaired by four regions of expanding dots. This result suggests that local expanding motions capture attention. In Experiment 3, we presented a second-order motion of expanding or contracting circular contour by accretion and deletion of stationary dots (2,000 dots, contour diameter: min 6.9 to max 18.3-deg), and found the expanding second-order motion impaired letter-identification accuracy. This result suggests that the second-order motion can capture attention if the motion is expansion and sufficiently salient. We conclude that saliency of expanding motions is critical for the task-irrelevant attentional capture to occur.


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So this is news to me
ValeTudo34 June 20, 2011, 10:02am #1
Can somebody post a link to the video, or tell me where I can find this amazing cut scene inside SSIV AE?
"Sagat comes to watch one of Adon's matches, but Adon,** taunting Sagat, challenges him to a fight. The two face off in the ring in a match and Adon is defeated by a single Tiger Destruction. **Adon, developing fresh contempt for Sagat, is still unimpressed and considers him a disgrace to Muay Thai since losing to Ryu. Declaring that he has lost all respect for his former mentor, he sets out to participate in S.I.N's tournament and end Sagat's career."
Street Fighter Wiki
Adon (アドン Adon, Thai: อาดอน) is a video game character from the Street Fighter series, first appearing as a non-playable opponent in the original Street Fighter, before becoming playable in Street Fighter Alpha. He is a former pupil of Sagat, seeking...
PongBoom June 20, 2011, 10:06am #2
sagat or adons intro/ending most definitely
Durant June 20, 2011, 10:33am #3
Who cares? Its a fighting game and Capcom has been crappy writing the stories. You dont believe me? Then explain how Makoto, Ibuki and Dudley fit in the timeline. All of those characters are from Third Strike. Hell Sakura has been in high school most of her life. Trust me dont worry about the story. Quite sure Capcom dont care and neither should you.
Darrikson June 21, 2011, 3:07am #4
The first part is Sagat's intro vid from vanilla, from there (the point where Adon gets knocked out), is adon's intro from Super. Hope that clears it up for you.


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Liebau may refer to:

Places
Minihof-Liebau, Austria
The German name for Lubawka, Poland

People with the surname
Carol Platt Liebau, attorney, political analyst and commentator based near Los Angeles

See also
 Libau (disambiguation)


So good. Yes a million times! And we have the Holy Spirit to guide us when we go astray-if he is our confidence, let's go forward!
GO Vanessa!! I'm so proud of you and what you shared. Very exciting to see the true nature of who God created you to be coming forth unlike never before!!! The reading was very encouraging and true! I love to hear and read how God reveales the vastness of HIMSELF to us, His created vessels! We can never exhaust God. Yes, Yes, YES to your article again and KEEP GOING!!!! Blessings and love to you and your family!


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wealth that one party gives to another as a sign of respect or of submission or allegiance
The English used in this article may not be easy for everybody to understand. You can help Wikipedia by reading Wikipedia:How to write Simple English pages, then simplifying the article. (June 2012)
A tribute (from Latin tribulum, contribution) is when one party gives to another as a sign of respect or, as was often case in historical situations, of submission or loyalty.
This is trade between the parties under a contractual relationship formed upon pressure, and based upon the possibility of threats if improved relationships did not happen.
Imperial ChinaEdit
In Imperial China, the term "tribute" is used to describe a kind of regulated trade in goods and services between China and other trading partners.[1]
Despite the term "tribute" state, China did not get involved in the domestic affairs and diplomacy of its trading partners, such as Joseon,[2] Japan,[3] Siam,[4] Cochinchina[5] and the Ryūkyū Kingdom.[6]
1403: The Ming Dynasty emperor of China gave a patent and a gold seal to Taejong of Joseon. This confirmed his legal status as the ruler of the Korean peninsula.[2]
1784: The earliest imperial device in Japan was lost. It was found in the late 18th century. A Han Dynasty emperor of China gave the gold object to the emperor of Japan in the first century (57 AD).[7] This is a relic of the Chinese tribute system.[8]
Musical tributeEdit
In music, a tribute is when a singer, musician or band plays the music of another musical group. These artists may make an entire album called a "tribute album" that is nothing but songs that were first played by other musicians. A "tribute band" is a band that only plays songs that were made famous by one other band. They will often dress like that band and try to look like them as they perform. For example, a Kiss tribute band will only play songs by the band Kiss. They will also dress like the band and use the same makeup designs as members of the bands.
↑ Toby, Ronald P. (1991). State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu, p. 170.
↑ 2.0 2.1 Kang, Etsuko H. (1997). Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century, p. 49.
↑ Toby, p. 58.
↑ Toby, p. 202.
↑ Cooley, James C. (1981). T.F. Wade in China: Pioneer in Global Diplomacy, 1842-1882, p. 20.
↑ Toby, Ronald P. (1991). State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu, p. 50.
↑ Martin, Peter. (1997). The Chrysanthemum Throne: a History of the Emperors of Japan, p. 36-37.
↑ Kitagawa, Joseph Mitsuo. (1990). Religion in Japanese history, p. 5 n4. citng Ryūsaku Tsunoda et al. (1951). Japan in the Chinese dynastic histories: Later Han through Ming dynasties.
Cooley, James C. (1981). T.F. Wade in China: Pioneer in Global Diplomacy, 1842-1882. Leiden:Brill. ISBN 978-9-004-06198-9; OCLC 185926738
Kang, Etsuko Hae-jin. (1997). Diplomacy and Ideology in Japanese-Korean Relations: from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century. Basingstoke, Hampshire; Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-17370-8; OCLC 243874305
Kitagawa, Joseph Mitsuo. (1990). Religion in Japanese history. New York:Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-02838-7; OCLC 21592285
Martin, Peter. (1997). The Chrysanthemum Throne: a History of the Emperors of Japan. Honolulu:University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-824-82029-9; OCLC 243891362
Toby, Ronald P. (1991). State and Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan: Asia in the Development of the Tokugawa Bakufu. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-1951-3
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FREDDIE MERCURY, THE FRONT-MAN OF THE BAND
"We are the champions, my friends
And we'll keep on fighting till the end"
All the world knows who Freddie Mercury is. He is known as "The Queen" band's singer, but we can't forget that Freddie was above all a generous and a brave man.
Freddie's career started in a peculiar way. He demonstrated his love for music and songs when he was just twelve years. He formed a band (The Hectics) for a school project where Freddie played the piano.
However, his career began mainly after meeting a group composed by Brian May, Roger Taylor and Tim Staffell. When Tim left the company, Freddie formed the famous band known as the Queen. From then on, he dedicated his entire life to the band.
It's not a coincidence that Freddie chose the name "Queen". In fact, he stated that this name expressed what they really wanted: they dreamed of becoming stars.
During his life, Freddie fell in love with a girl called Mary Austin. Their love continued until Freddie confessed he was also interested in men. But this didn't influence their relationship, in fact they remained close friends. Mary supported her best friend in every decision and Freddie dedicated to her a great song: "Love of my life".
Mercury wrote many beautiful songs, but the song that gave him the title of the front-man of the band was Bohemian Rapsody. There was a lot of criticism around this song, due to its duration. It was thought that Bohemian Rapsody could bore people, but this didn't happen in fact this song is still mainstream nowadays.
Unfortunately, at the end of 1982, the band decided to take a break. Freddie considered producing a solo album and he did.
1985 was an important year for the Queen because they performed at Live Aid. Their exhibition stole the show and even the audience who enjoyed this fantastic band.
Much later, Freddie contracted AIDS, but he didn't want people to know about it in fact he announced he was ill the day before he died. This iconographic figure died on 24th November 1991.
The Queen were attached to Montreux in Switzerland, in fact they made six albums there. Freddie said that he found peace at Montreux and, when he was ill, he went to Mountain Studios and he dedicated his life to music.
Freddie spent his last days at Montreux with his soulmate Jim Hutton. They lived in a house that today is a museum, open to visitors. At Montreux there is a statue which represents Freddie Mercury in his famous position.
He showed his love for his profession even when he was ill and this makes him a legend.
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Impacts of Economic Reform in Poland: Incidence and Welfare Changes Within a Consistent Framework
Sonya Kostova Huffman,
Sonya Kostova Huffman
Stanley R. Johnson
Received: January 26 2000
Accepted: May 13 2003
© 2004 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Review of Economics and Statistics (2004) 86 (2): 626–636.
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Sonya Kostova Huffman, Stanley R. Johnson; Impacts of Economic Reform in Poland: Incidence and Welfare Changes Within a Consistent Framework. The Review of Economics and Statistics 2004; 86 (2): 626–636. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/003465304323031166
The costs of shortages and rationing are not captured by standard consumer price indices. Thus the change in real GDP per capita is an overestimate of welfare losses in transition economics. In this study virtual prices are used to calculate new cost-of-living indices (CLIs). The results for Polant show that from 1987 to 1992 the CLI ignoring the rationing effects is biased upward from 1.53 to 3.71 percentage points per year. Compared to the estimates of welfare loss that neglect the rationing effects during the prereform period, the estimated welfare losses that reflect the rationing are reduced by 50% using Hausman' virtual prices and by 75% using external proxy virtual prices.
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College, city partner to provide para-medicine program
The College and Tuscaloosa Fire and Rescue Services have partnered to provide a first of its kind in Alabama program that seeks to reduce costly hospital emergency room transports of people with low-emergency conditions. The program is aimed at "low acuity" patients who might call 911 for back or stomach pain, fever, weakness or bleeding, for example, which might be treatable at the scene. Under the program, nurse practitioners and social workers, and possibly psychologists, will ride with fire department first responders on low-acuity calls and offer treatment at a patient's location, eliminating the need for an ambulance ride and a hospital emergency room visit. While care can be delivered at the scene, low-acuity patients will have the option of being transported to the hospital if they wish. The nurse practitioners will have back-up from physicians, and the social workers can ensure that patients have the resources they need and can connect patients with primary care physicians. The psychologists can offer assistance on managing the nearly 30 percent of low-acuity calls related to mental health. "This is a way to change how health care is delivered," said Tuscaloosa Fire and Rescue Chief Alan Martin. The para-medicine program is modeled after a similar Arizona program, although that program doesn't have a university as a partner. Based on preliminary results from the Arizona program, the medical cost savings for the Tuscaloosa program could be $6 for every $1 that's invested, said Dr. Richard Friend, chair of the College's Department of Family, Internal, and Rural Medicine and co-director of the program along with Dr. John C. Higginbotham, chair of the College's Department of Community Medicine and Population Health. The para-medicine program is funded with a legislative allocation through Alabama's Medicaid program and will use College nurse practitioners and social workers to provide care. The funding is expected to be available Oct. 1. In fiscal year 2015, in Tuscaloosa there were 11,122 calls to 911, of which 23 percent, or 2,558, were low-emergency calls. At a cost of approximately $645 per call for an ambulance ride, treating callers at the scene would save $1.65 million. "Trying to stop use of the emergency room for routine care is the goal," Friend said.


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Nashville Ballet leaps at chance to show off expanded home
Mary Hance
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If you are looking for a chance to kick up your heels, or a place and time to try a little plié, there is a perfect opportunity on Saturday at the beautiful, new and improved Nashville Ballet headquarters.
Ballet officials are inviting the entire community to a free family grand opening celebration to see the new facilities and enjoy free dance classes for all ages, ballet storytimes and lots of other children's activities — plus discounts on upcoming dance classes and some good giveaways, too.
The "new" Martin Center for Nashville Ballet home represents an $8 million investment that adds 11,000 square feet to its Sylvan Heights facility and takes it from four to seven studios, as well as creating more family-friendly and comfortable lobbies and observation areas.
So what can you do if you go to Saturday's celebration?
First position will be the parking lot, which will be transformed into a carnival-like area, with Mix 92.9 doing a live remote, plus there will be free food (such as snow cones, hot dogs, cotton candy and lemonade) and family activities such as face painting, as well as balloon animals, according to Lauren McKirgan, Nashville Ballet communications coordinator.
The set-up for the day is for guests to tour the building by participating (or observing) the activities in the various studios to get a sense of what all is being offered by Nashville Ballet these days.
McKirgan explained that each ballet studio will have different activities running through the day for guests to check out: "Storytime with the Nashville Ballet" performances of "Jump Frog Jump" and "Peter Pan"; a children's obstacle course; a parachute area; and "Children's Adventures" that give a taste of what the children's classes are like. There are also some Peter Pan-themed arts and crafts activities.
The most hands-on (or feet-on) opportunities are the "Ballet for all Ages" where you can jump in and try ballet; "Jazz, Hip Hop and Musical Theater," which is another "jump-in" opportunity; and "Contemporary Dance" for all ages that works the same way. These go on throughout the day in the various studios and are open to all ages and levels.
A lot of people don't realize that in addition to performing six big ballets a year, the Nashville Ballet offers community classes for all ages. And the growth in demand for those classes is huge, with the academy having 662 students in 2011 and more than 2,000 this year.
"The goal is to add 1,200 new students by 2018. We want to be able to bring the art of dance to more students," said McKirgan, who explained that before the expansion they had been "at capacity" with their community classes.
One of Saturday's big draws should be the discounts on upcoming classes for new or lapsed students. The Ballet is offering 50 percent off a Community Division 10-class pass ($55 value), 15 percent off a children's program fall semester registration (up to $55 value) and 15 percent off summer programs (up to $65 value.)
There will be prizes tied to a treasure map and be sure to put your name in the grand prize pot (at the entrance) for a drawing for some seriously good big prizes, including a family four-pack of tickets to any performance of the Ballet's upcoming "Peter Pan," a fall semester tuition for one children's class and an Outreach performance at your child's school or day care.
But I still think the best part of the open house day will be those "jump-in" chances to try a few steps with the Nashville Ballet instructors, just for the experience and to see how you do.
As the Tia Sillers/Lee Ann Womack song says, "I hope you dance!"
And if there was ever a perfect place and time to do that, this would be it.
Stay cheap!
P.S. And be sure to peek inside the ballet costume warehouse area as part of your grand opening tour. An insider look there is a fantastic treat; it really is amazing!
Reach Ms. Cheap at 615-259-8282. Follow her at www.tennessean.com/mscheap, at Facebook.com/mscheap and on Twitter @Ms_Cheap, and catch her every Thursday at 11 a.m. on WTVF-Channel 5's "Talk of the Town."
Nashville Ballet Grand Opening Community Celebration
• When: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday
• Where: The Martin Center for Nashville Ballet, 3630 Redmon St.
• Cost: Free
• Contact: nashvilleballet.com or 615-297-2966
Nashville Ballet and its expansion
Since its founding in 1986, Nashville Ballet has grown to become the largest professional ballet company in Tennessee, presenting a varied repertoire of classical ballet and contemporary works.
In 2000 Nashville Ballet purchased and renovated the building on Redmon Street (it was an indoor tennis facility), making it the first performing arts group in the city to own its building. In 2012 they purchased the adjoining space that was previously occupied by Climb Nashville and just completed a project that increased the Ballet facility from 31,000 to 44,000 square feet, as well as added three new studios. The Martin Center for Nashville Ballet is home to 22 professional dancers, 2,000 school students and houses the Ballet's administrative offices.
School of Nashville Ballet offers 140 classes a week for people of all ages, including a Children's Division for ages 2-7, an Academy Division for more serious dancers ages 8-18 and a Community Division for adults of any experience level ($5 for new Community Division students). Plus, the school is introducing a new Studio Division in the fall for ages 8-18 that offers the same quality of training as the Academy, but on a more flexible schedule. The community classes start at $5 for a first-time adult class and increase to $3,000 a year for some of the Academy classes.
A deal you need to know about
• Christmas in July: Tickets to all performances of "Nashville's Nutcracker" (Dec. 5-23 at TPAC's Jackson Hall) are discounted by $12 during the month of July (largest single ticket discount of the year). Tickets can be purchased at www.nashvilleballet.com, at the TPAC box office or by calling 615-782-4040. Use the discount code XMASJULY.


This course is based on 14.01 Principles of Microeconomics made available by Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license.
This is an introductory undergraduate course on the fundamentals of microeconomics. It introduces microeconomic concepts and analysis, supply and demand analysis, theories of the firm and individual behavior, competition and monopoly, and welfare economics. Students will also be introduced to the use of microeconomic applications to address problems in current economic policy. This course is taught by Prof. Jonathan Gruber at MIT and includes a complete set of lecture videos.
This course begins with an introduction to supply and demand and the basic forces that determine an equilibrium in a market economy. Next, it introduces a framework for learning about consumer behavior and analyzing consumer decisions. We then turn our attention to firms and their decisions about optimal production, and the impact of different market structures on firms' behavior. The final section of the course provides an introduction to some of the more advanced topics that can be analyzed using microeconomic theory. These include international trade, the impact of uncertainty on consumer behavior, the operation of capital markets, equity vs. efficiency trade-offs in economic policy and social insurance.
5th ed. Addison Wesley, 2008.
This is the official textbook used by students enrolled in the class at MIT.
Rittenberg, Libby, and Timothy Tregarthen.
This Creative Commons-licensed online text offers free web viewing and low-cost print & download options.


Hope everyone is having a good summer ! We said that Cardiff Rivers Group would have a summer break and not have any events during August, we lied. We're having a short, city centre event this weekend. Hope you can make it !
After receiving a few requests from our members to tackle the state of the feeder canal that runs through Bute Park, we've decided to dedicate next Sunday morning to work on improving this waterway.
This is a fairly large project and we will be looking to come back later in the month and in September when we will hopefully be joined by some other groups to tackle around the ambulance station and castle. More on future events soon.
Wading through the Feeder, removing as much debris as possible, improving the appearance of the Feeder as well as the flow of the water.
Volunteers are to meet at the source of the Feeder, at the bridge at Blackweir at 09:45 for safety briefing & kit. This location is on the Taff Trail – an easy walk / cycle from town centre along the River Taff. Closest car parking would be at Pontcanna Fields changing room [ CF11 9HX ], within the Tal y Bont student halls [ CF14 3AS ] or near the North Road Ambulance Depot. See map below for general area.
Please wear suitable footwear and bring waterproofs. We will provide the rest of the equipment. Let us know if you are coming so we can ensure we have enough equipment for all of you.


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CES 2018 gets serious about health, wellness and medical tech
With the slew of self-care, fitness and sleep devices on show at CES, the health and medical industries are making big rumbles in consumer tech.
Lynn La
January 13, 2018 10:00 AM PST
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When "health tech" first started popping up at CES a few years ago, it was mostly centered on step counters, digital workout coaches and heart-rate trackers. These days, of course, that technology is widely available in consumer wearables from the likes of Fitbit, Garmin and Apple. But the devices we saw at the 2018 iteration of the world's biggest electronics show raised the bar for health, fitness, wellness and medical technology in some surprising new ways -- and for an audience that reaches far beyond runners and gym addicts.
This isn't surprising considering the huge demographic changes we're experiencing. Tens of millions of Baby Boomers (people born roughly between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s) are reaching their golden years now, and tech industries are rushing to help the elderly and those in the disability community succeed and live independently.
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The increasing focus on medical-grade tech is also why CNET's Next Big Thing panel at CES 2018 focused on what we called The Invisible Doctor, in which experts from United Healthcare, Doctor on Demand, Samsung and the Institute for the Future discussed how the future of medical care and technology will increasingly intersect.
Below is a roundup of all the compelling tech we saw that's related to self-care, elderly care, health monitoring, fitness and healthy living and sleep. We also want to give a shout-out to the NeoMano robotic glove, which didn't quite fit in any of these categories, but was a favorite nevertheless. It's a special glove that helps those with spinal cord injuries perform everyday tasks using their hands.
Every health and wellness gadget we've seen at CES 2018
Keep in mind that while we were learning about these devices down on the show floor, we weren't able to test all their company's claims thoroughly and accurately, so take their assertions with a grain of salt. Even getting a reading of something considered quite simple, like a heart rate, isn't always accurate in fitness wearables and heart-rate trackers.
Still though, we couldn't help but be impressed by these products' initial concepts and intentions. If these devices do what they claim and ever actually escape developer limbo (unlike other CES vaporware we've seen), these products can help us lead not only more advanced lives, but healthy ones as well.
Self-care: Taking the reins for your health
These days, the term "self-care" -- or taking a conscious initiative to take care of one's mental and physical well-being -- gets thrown around a lot. Though some companies use the concept liberally to peddle their products, it can mean more than just pampering yourself with bath bombs and candles.
The My Special Aflac Duck "receiving" chemotherapy to help ease kids being treated for cancer.
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My Special Aflac Duck: This robotic companion duck toy comforts kids being treated for cancer by helping to ease anxiety. The duck nuzzles, waggles its head and mirrors health care routines like receiving chemotherapy.
Olfinity air monitor, purifier and aromatherapy diffuser: Olfinity's air monitor assesses your air quality in real time with sensors while its purifier cleans your indoor air. Its aromatherapy diffuser creates a controlled 20-minute aromatherapy session with purified air and organic essential oils.
Oska Pulse: This Pulse Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) device is designed to increase blood flow to impacted areas of your body. For those who suffer from chronic pain, Oska claims its Pulse eases muscle stiffness and temporarily relieves minor pain. It works with an app so you can control the device remotely or track your pain relief progress.
Elderly care: Safeguard your loved ones
If you have older relatives who are aging, it's easy to worry about their well-being when you can't regularly check up on them. These products, though a bit silly-looking, have the best intentions of keeping your elderly relatives safe.
The Hip'Air deploys to break a fall and protect your hips.
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Helite Hip'Air: Hip injuries can be deadly, and a simple fall is all it takes to get one. Developed in nursing homes around France, the Hip'Air looks like a fanny pack and is equipped with sensors, a battery, airbags and an air cartridge. When the sensors detect a fall, the airbags deploy to help break the fall and avoid serious injury.
E-vone smart shoes: Featuring GPS and other sensors that detect abnormal movement, these shoes from E-vone are aimed for older adults, workers and travelers. When the shoe senses a fall, alert messages are automatically sent to the user's provided emergency contact or emergency services.
Health monitoring: Keep tabs on your body
As the ancient maxim goes, "Know thyself." One way you can start is measuring and gathering important stats about your body, as well as the parts of the environment around you that can negatively affect your health.
Lenovo Vital Motorola Moto Mod: Moto Mods can be attached magnetically to Motorola phones like the Moto Z2 Force and Z2 Play. The Vital Moto Mod measures your heart rate, respiratory rate, body temperature, blood oxygen levels and your blood pressure.
Nima peanut sensor: Nima, the company that created a Bluetooth-connected gluten detector in 2017, has made a version of its device that tells you if there are traces of peanuts in your food, helping peanut allergy sufferers so they can test their food before they eat it.
Sensio Air: Speaking of allergies, this football-shaped allergen detector tracks grass, mold, pollen and dust inside your house so it can warn you when your allergies could act up. When you need to venture outside, the Air's corresponding app connects with 220 sensors placed throughout the world by Sensio to measure environmental conditions like pollution and weather.
L'Oreal UV Sense: Perhaps the tiniest wearable we've ever seen, the UV Sense measures UV exposure and can be worn on a fingernail, pair of sunglasses or any other item that's exposed to sunlight. It's reusable and re-adhesive, battery-free, and works with an app to help users be mindful of sun exposure.
The L'Oreal UV Sense device is the smallest wearable we've seen.
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Lifestyle and sleep: Live right, sleep right
The products below aim to help you live healthily throughout the day as well as through the night. The latter is especially important since not getting enough sleep has been associated with health issues such as high blood pressure, diabetes and increased risk of heart attacks.
The Quartz Bottle: Using ultraviolet light to keep itself and the water inside clean, Quartz is a water bottle that has a UV-C light in its lid. Every four hours the light is triggered, which Quartz claims help purifies the water and the bottle itself.
Kolibree Magic toothbrush: Geared towards kids, this toothbrush uses an augmented-reality-based phone app and the phone's front-facing camera to incentivize kids to brush their teeth thoroughly.
This sleep pillow "breathes" in and out to help you fall asleep.
Somnox
Osram SFH 4735 embeddable emitter: First introduced as SCiO in 2016 as a standalone scanner and then again in 2017 as a phone, the Osram chip is a near-infrared spectrometer that can tell you the chemical components of an object and gathers information on things like soil content, body fat, medicine, how sweet a piece of fruit is and more.
Dreamlight sleep mask: Launching as an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, Dreamlight is a Bluetooth-connected sleep mask that covers your eyes and ears. It dims and illuminates light to match with your breathing and plays ambient sounds to block out noise.
Somnox robot pillow: Somnox is a robot pillow that features an accelerometer, an audio sensor and a carbon dioxide sensor. As you hold it to your chest when you're in bed, you can feel Somnox expand and contract as if it were breathing. This, in turn, helps you relax and regulate your breathing as you fall asleep.
Nokia Sleep: The Wi-Fi-enabled mat sits under your mattress and gathers all kinds of info about your sleep. It tracks how long you sleep, as well as how restful your sleep was and your snoring patterns, and then gives you recommendations on how to improve your sleep.
Sleep Number: Though smart-mattress maker Sleep Number didn't announce a physical product at CES, the company wants to take it a step further than Nokia's Sleep matt and says it's looking into the future where its mattresses can help with diagnosing conditions like heart attacks, sleep apnea, the flu and more.
The Omron wearable measures blood pressure.
Fitness: Stay fit on the go, go, go
As the OG piece of consumer health gadgetry, there's no surprise that fitness trackers made multiple appearances at CES this year. But in a sea of smartwatches and wearables, each new product had a unique feature to help it stand out.
Omron HeartGuide: Submitted for FDA clearance later this year, the HeartGuide is a fitness tracker that has a special band to take your blood pressure. The watch's band inflates and it takes manual readings and spot heart rate measurements. It can also be programmed to take readings at night, which test for hypertension and risk of stroke while sleeping.
Coros Pace: Built with triathletes in mind, the GPS-enabled Pace features dedicated modes for running, cycling and swimming. Coros also claims the watch lasts up to 30 days on standby mode, which is especially impressive for a wearable.
Garmin Forerunner 645 Music: When it comes to fitness watches specifically, storing music is a novelty. But Garmin's first music watch can store up to 500 songs, and also has GPS tracking, running-focused training modes and a digital payment system called Garmin Pay.
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