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Divine Empowerment
God didn't just rescue us; He empowered us so that we can live successfully here in this world. He didn't want children who would have the title of righteousness but not have the ability to overcome the sins and weaknesses that ensnared them in the first place. No, He designed salvation to be complete—triumphant living in this world as well as in the one to come. read more
The Delight of God
You and I have what it takes to bring delight to our heavenly Father! Take a look at what the scripture says about this... read more
The Deep Longing
Why have so many Christians embraced the idea that following Christ means losing individuality, creativity, ingenuity, and the passion for excellence in all spheres of life? Too many believers are trapped in "the ordinary" when God promised an extraordinary life! read more
Pleasing a Perfect God
When it comes to pleasing God, the big question is, "Can we do it?" Do we have what it takes to make Him smile? Can we who live in an imperfect world, bring a perfect God delight? Can we actually please Someone who is flawless? read more
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The fear of the Lord is not being scared of God. How can we have intimacy with someone we are scared of? God's greatest passion is to have close fellowship with us. read more
Self Image
All of us have three images: projected image, perceived image, and actual image. Your projected image is the way you desire others to see you. Your perceived image is how others see you. Your actual image is who you really are. read more
A Book About YOU
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Love and Pleasure
We can't do one thing to make God love us any more than He already loves us, and we can't do anything to make Him love us any less. However, we are responsible for how pleased God is with us. read more
The Fullness of Grace
You probably know that by God's grace you're forgiven and saved, but do you know there is so much more that grace gives us? read more
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5 Things You Should Never Listen To
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Villapanés is the name of the historic family estate that is situated in the heart of Jerez. As is traditional, this sherry is made entirely from noble Palomino grapes grown pure white albarizo soil. The elegance of this wine is due in part to a brief aging under flor before its oxidative aging period, which lasts an average of 15 to 20 years. It is considered by many to be the Oloroso par excellence.
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I have the Cuticle Oil, Fiberized Ridge Filling Base Coat, Epoxy Bond Base Coat, and the Quick Dry High Gloss Top Coat. And, I have nothing but good things to say about all of them. I've spent much more on other products and still prefer to spend less and get more with these. The only thing I can say is, I was kind of hoping the oil would be a little scented, but it doesn't claim to be scented so I can't complain. I have horribly dry hands and cuticles and this stuff has helped me so much since I started using it a few months ago. The ridge filler base coat is great, and really does provide a smooth even surface for polish. The epoxy base coat is great too, and REALLY seems to bond to my nails and keeps the polish in place for a couple days longer than it would with other base coats. The Fast dry top coat is really great. It really is super fast and the shine is great. I was paying way more for the popular seche vite, but just couldn't afford to pay so much for the MUCH smaller bottles. Then, halfway through, they'd glop up like glue. The pro FX is a much bigger bottle for much less, and I'm very happy with the results. I won't be going back to other brands. Now I wanna try the rest of the PRO FX line....
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Just like at the nail salons. Great scent and keeps manicures looking fresh.
I was pretty surprised when I received the bottle was huge. I've been using it for a few weeks, not twice a day as recommended, but it has helped take away those dry edges that are so bothersome. Only drawback is the cheap brush that isn't very useful at all. I suggest use any thin brush you have around to apply. Otherwise great!
Actually i bought the Quick Dry High Gloss top coat and the Long Wearing UV top coat, I love them both...way better than the top coat the salons use...
I bought this size because it was the only one available but it's really too much for one person.
The oil goes on smoothly and does not easily come off once it sets. I use it two or three times a day because it's really dry where I live and it works to keep my cuticles from drying out.
This product really does keep help the polish from chipping. I've used it once so far and my polish has lasted for a week and a half. Only one finger nail chipping and that's b/c I broke the nail with caused the polish to chip. I followed the directions on the bottle and so far so good. I also own the Fiberized Ridge Filler which I love, if you have small to medium ridges in nails this will have the polish go on smooth. I place the Ridge Filler on a clean, let dry completely then I place the Epoxy Bond, let dry completely then add polish. Lastly, I purchased the Longwearing UV Topcoat but have yet to use it so I cannot review it. Excellent on the Salon size. Bang for your buck!
Great line of products! They are affordable and superior to the high end ones I have used in the past. Added value is that you can use bargain polish for your color coat with this base coat and top coat and still get a week or two out of your manni-petti. The Pro FX Epoxy Bond Base Coat is a must have! Just remember like the name says "epoxy" so even when it is set it feels tacky so plan your time to get the color coat on.
I actually got the PRO-FX Epoxy Bond Base Coat and it's my very favorite base coat ever, I just wish that Wal-mart hadn't taken it out of the stores, it was a flook that I found it here on-line I was ordering something else and this popped up as a suggestion for me to look at and I'm so glad that it did I went ahead and got 2 bottles just in case!!!
Smells like fingernail polish
It conditions as soon as applied, nice
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|May 24, 2011
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|Feb 7, 2003
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|Anton Daanen, Matthias Locher, Olivier Charlon
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|St-Ericsson Sa
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (25), Non-Patent Citations (1), Classifications (13), Legal Events (9)
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1. Technical Field
The present disclosure relates to Radio Frequency (RF) transmitters and, more particularly, to interface circuitry for interfacing a baseband portion of a radio transmitter to a radio portion of the radio transmitter.
2. Description of the Related Art
Radio transmitters are commonly partitioned into a baseband portion and a radio portion. The baseband portion may produce, for example, an-information-bearing current signal for input to the radio portion. The radio portion produces a frequency-translated and amplified signal corresponding to the information-bearing current signal and transmits the amplified signal.
The baseband portion and the radio portion may be produced by the same vendor or by different vendors. To allow for the circumstance that the baseband portion and the radio portion are produced by different vendors, it is desirable for a radio part, for example, to be interface compatible with a wide variety of baseband parts.
A current steering mechanism is provided in a radio transmitter (e.g., a multiband radio transmitter) to provide compatibility with a variety of baseband parts. Different proportions of an input signal current may be steered to a dummy load, a mixer for a first band, and a mixer for a second band. In one example, five different loads are provided, one dummy load and two different loads for each band. Possibilities include: 1. All current steered into dummy load via transistor A; 2. all current steered into a Band1 mixer via transistor B; 3. all current steered into Band1 mixer via transistor C, causing 6 dB input signal amplification; 4. all current steered into a Band2 mixer via transistor D; 5. all current steered into Band2 mixer via transistor E, causing 6 dB input signal amplification; 6. like cases 2-5 but with diversion of some portion of current via dummy load for attenuation of the input signal in 1 dB steps.
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a circuit is provided that includes a current splitter that receives a current input signal received at a radio circuit from a baseband circuit and apportions the current input signal concurrently between multiple paths of the same polarity having respective load circuits, including multiple mixer paths and a dummy load circuit, and a voltage-to-current converter for converting a voltage input signal to the current input signal.
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a circuit is provided that includes a current splitter that selectively apportions a current input signal between multiple paths of the same polarity having respective load circuits and concurrently steers different proportions of the current input signal to a dummy load path and at least one mixer path.
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a circuit is provided for interfacing a baseband portion and a radio portion of a radio transmitter, including a current steering circuit structured to perform the following method: receiving at the radio portion a current signal from the baseband portion; and selectively apportioning the current signal between multiple paths of the same polarity having respective load circuits, including multiple mixer paths and a dummy load path, to steer different proportions of the current signal to the dummy load path.
The present disclosure may be more fully understood from the following description in conjunction with the appending drawing figures. In the drawing:
The following detailed description relates to the input circuit on a radio frequency transmitter IC (TXIC) that receives the modulated TX signal current from a mixed-signal baseband IC (BBIC). To enable low production cost the BBIC is implemented in a CMOS process, whereas the TXIC is best implemented in a BiCMOS process for optimum performance at lowest possible current consumption. This set up of a separate BBIC and TXIC in principle allows the use of one TXIC together with a BBIC of various manufacturers. Due to this approach the transmitted signal at the physical interface of the BBIC and TXIC needs to have a well defined specification.
It is desirable to provide an input circuit on the TXIC that enables the use of various BBIC, each having a different interface signal specification. The input circuit described here is applicable to CDMA (IS-95)/CDMA2000 mobile applications which have a TX interface signal with a bandwidth of 1 to several MHz. However the input circuit could also be used elsewhere, e.g., in similar applications of W-CDMA or WLAN, having comparable bandwidths. Because of the TX signal bandwidth at the BBIC and TXIC interface it is advantageous to use a signal current (as opposed to a signal voltage) because the signal quality and BBIC supply current consumption are much less influenced by parasitic capacitances at the interface (PCB and IC package parasitic capacitances, for example). Although it is not necessary to use a signal current it is the signal of choice for most manufacturers of BBIC in the foregoing application areas.
The signal current can be described as having a DC component and having superposed thereon an AC signal whose amplitude typically will not exceed the DC value, but this is not a requirement.
Another typical feature of the TX interface between BBIC and TXIC in the foregoing applications is that there are actually four physical lines, two forming a differential signal for the I (in-phase) channel and the other two forming a differential signal for the Q (quadrature) channel. In the embodiment described herein, the input circuit is used four times to handle both differential I and Q channels. This feature, however, is not essential. Each of the four physical lines carries a DC component of preferably identical value and an AC component of preferably identical amplitude only differing in the amount of phase shift (0, 90, 180 and 270 degrees).
The input circuit described herein provides a method to divide a signal input current into multiple parts and redirect each part to a different load circuit. Hence the circuit is given the name 'splitter'.
In an exemplary embodiment, the splitter circuit is described for use in a CDMA TXIC that needs to operate in two frequency bands, called CELL and PCS. Only one band is used at a time, and switching between bands is application dependent. Note that for operation in either band the signal going through the splitter remains identical, although this is not a necessity for splitter operation. Although not explicitly described herein, the same switching arrangement can be employed in other applications than CDMA CELL and PCS operation, e.g., to switch between two channels, or to interchange I with Ibar and/or Q with Qbar.
Referring now to
Referring to
Referring to
The circuit of
Another particular case is where the total signal input current is steered into the circuit for CELL band operation directly (i.e., via PE). In this case a transistor TB provides a constant bias current and its base is connected to a fixed bias voltage (v_bias) via a switch S. There is no amplification of the signal. This case is comparable to the prior art situation in which no splitter would be present and node 'out' would be identical to node 'in'.
A third particular case is where the total signal input current is steered into a transistor TM for CELL band operation via PD. The base of transistor TB is now connected to TM via switch S, such that the resulting circuit consisting of TM and TB forms a current mirror with a fixed ratio 1:A. The value A is chosen in accordance with the particular application; in the case of CDMA, for example, the value A may be set to 2. Therefore the splitter amplifies the signal by 6 dB and this allows for the signal input current to be smaller by a factor of two while still providing the same output signal current as in the previous case from node 'out' into the transmit circuit part (cascode and upconverter mixer). This construction simplifies the circuit design of the cascode and upconverter mixer considerably, as will be clear to any person skilled in the art of designing such circuits.
Yet another case is where only part of the signal input current is steered into the dummy load via PA and the other part is steered into one of the circuits for CELL band operation. The latter part is steered either directly (i.e., via PE) to the node 'out' with transistor TB providing a constant bias current, or it is steered (via PD) into transistor TM with TM and TB forming a current mirror with a fixed ratio 1:A. This arrangement adds the ability to divert small portions of the signal input current to the dummy load, thus causing a small attenuation of the signal current. By proper choice of the number of PMOS unit transistors connected to each of the logic inverters of the decoding block, accurately defined attenuation steps with, e.g., 1 dB resolution can be made. In this mode of operation the accuracy of the ratio of the used and unused current is dependent on the fact that the PMOS unit transistors that are on are in the same saturated mode (this means that |Vds|>|Vgs|−|VTP|, otherwise written as Vd<Vg+VTP, where VTP is the PMOS threshold voltage, e.g., 0.7V). The accuracy also depends on any physical mismatch between the PMOS unit transistors.
The input impedance seen by the BBIC is 1/gm, with gm being the total parallel transconductance of the PMOS unit transistors that are switched on. This input impedance 1/gm can be low by choosing the PMOS unit transistor size W/L large enough. This W/L size also determines how large the common mode voltage will be as seen by the BBIC. It is preferable to have this voltage specified so as to not exceed a certain value (e.g., 1.2V) which enables independent design of the BBIC and TXIC. The common mode voltage as seen by the BBIC is further determined by the low voltage applied to the gate of the PMOS unit transistors that are on, which is equal to the ground potential in the illustrated embodiment, and the amount of DC current that flows through these PMOS unit transistors.
At node 'out' a certain minimum voltage (e.g., 0.8V) is needed to maintain proper operation of the transistor TB in either case of providing the constant bias current or the signal dependent current.
It will be appreciated, therefore, that whereas on the one hand the voltage Vd must be small enough to keep the PMOS transistors in saturation to assure that the input common mode voltage not exceed a certain specified value, on the other hand the voltage Vd must be larger than a certain minimum for proper operation of TB.
In order to maximize the range of possible values of Vd that still satisfy the requirements, it may be desirable to add a PMOS back bias voltage (V_nwell) different from either the supply rail voltage or the voltage at node 'in'. For CDMA for example, a PMOS back bias voltage of 1.6V has been found to provide satisfactory results. Referring still to
By using PMOS transistors to steer the signal input current, no signal is lost, while the PMOS transistors require virtually no gate current.
From a BBIC design perspective, ideally the DC component of the signal input current is equal to the superposed AC component amplitude such that the signal input current will always flow in the same direction and power consumption is minimized. With this BBIC signal, the signal input current into the TXIC varies between zero and two times the DC component. However the 'splitter' circuit has a provision that allows it to handle other values of the DC component as well. For this purpose, as shown in
One DC current source 303 (Ibsplit) adds a current going into node 'in'; this current is active if the DC component of the signal input current is equal to or smaller than the superposed AC component amplitude. Another DC current source 305 (Ibsink) subtracts a current from node 'in' to ground; this current is active if the DC component of the signal input current is larger (by a certain minimum amount) than the superposed AC component amplitude.
The values of Ibsplit and Ibsink are chosen such that there will always be a minimum current through either TM and/or TB in order to minimize AC signal distortion as well as to assure that the current going into the load circuit (CELL or PCS) is not too high, in order to prevent distortion in the transmit circuit part after node 'out'.
In an implementation of the described splitter, the following modes are defined:
mode 1
1.00 mAdc +/− 1.0 mA
mode 1a
1.25 mAdc +/− 1.0 mA
mode 2
1.00 mAdc +/− 0.5 mA
mode 2a
1.00 mAdc +/− 0.5 mA
mode 2b
0.50 mAdc +/− 0.5 mA
To further increase the versatility of the radio frequency transmitter IC, it may be provided with a voltage-to-current converter (V2I) 401 as shown, for example, in
Referring to
Referring still to
It will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that the present disclosure can be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential character thereof. The disclosed embodiments are intended in all respects to be illustrative and not restrictive. The disclosure is defined by the appended claims rather the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the range of equivalents thereof are intended to be embraced therein.
The various embodiments described above can be combined to provide further embodiments. All of the U.S. patents, U.S. patent application publications, U.S. patent application, foreign patents, foreign patent application and non-patent publications referred to in this specification and/or listed in the Application Data Sheet are incorporated herein by reference, in their entirety. Aspects of the embodiments can be modified, if necessary to employ concepts of the various patents, application and publications to provide yet further embodiments.
These and other changes can be made to the embodiments in light of the above-detailed description. In general, in the following claims, the terms used should not be construed to limit the claims to the specific embodiments disclosed in the specification and the claims, but should be construed to include all possible embodiments along with the full scope of equivalents to which such claims are entitled. Accordingly, the claims are not limited by the disclosure.
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|455/552.1, 455/127.1, 455/550.1, 455/103
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|Cooperative Classification
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The making of Vladimir Putin
There are 3 comments on the Politico story from Aug 19, 2014, titled The making of Vladimir Putin. In it, Politico reports that:In late January 2000, William Safire wrote a column in the New York Times under the headline "Putinism Looms."
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In late January 2000, William Safire wrote a column in the New York Times under the headline Putinism Looms. Vladimir Putin had been acting president of the Russian Federation for only a month but Safire had already seen that the new Kremlin leader was bent on developing a cult of personality,suppressing the truth and the resurgence of Russian power. For the remaining nine years of his life, Safire often returned to the subject. He expanded the definition of Putinism as its namesake muzzled dissent, cracked down on the media, exiled or imprisoned those who opposed him, courted China as a counterweight to the United States, and did everything he could to lock the countries of the near abroad fellow former Soviet republics into a Russian sphere of influence.
Ukraine the cradle of Russian civilization as well as its breadbasket, and a major manufacturing center of the old USSR has always been the principal object of Russian neuralgia about Western encroachment into the post-Soviet space. Russians often say that they feel the loss of Ukraine as though it were the pain an amputee feels in a phantom limb. Yet it still came as a shock when Putin outraged by pro-European protesters overthrow of a corrupt and repressive pro-Moscow regime in Kyiv annexed Crimea and fomented a secessionist rebellion in the eastern and southern parts of Ukraine.
Putins aggression only makes sense against the backdrop of what has been the defining theme of his presidency: turning back the clock. For years that has meant repudiating the transformational policies of his immediate predecessors and reinstating key attributes of the Soviet system within the borders of the Russian Federation. But there were also indications that, if given a chance, Putin might extend his agenda, his rule, and what he hopes will be his legacy beyond those borders. In 2005, he famously lamented that the breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. Three years later, Russia invaded Georgia and granted independence to two breakaway ethnic conclaves, Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Not until this year, however, did Russia expand by military conquest and unilateral decree its own territory by seizing Crimea. In doing so, Putin also proclaimed the right to protect our compatriots and fellow citizens i.e., Russian-speaking minorities elsewhere in the near abroad, from Estonia on the Baltic to Kazakhstan in Central Asia.
Therein lies the most malignant manifestation of Putinism: it violates international law, nullifies Russias past pledges to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of its neighbors, carries with it the danger of spinning out of control and sparking a wider conflict, and establishes a precedent for other major powers to apply their own version of the Putin Doctrine when convenient (think of China, for example, and its running feuds with Vietnam, the Philippines, and Japan over territorial and maritime claims).
While Putin has earned the ism that Safire attached to his name more than 14 years ago, the phenomenon he personifies its content, motivation and rationale, as well as the constituencies behind it predates the appearance of Putin himself on the scene. A number of students of recent Russian history including some, like myself, who have dealt with Putin can, in retrospect, trace the roots of his policies today back more than a quarter century to the battle between Soviet reformers and their reactionary and revanchist foes.
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The backstory begins in the late 1980s, when Putin was a mid-level KGB officer, attached to the Second Chief Directorate, stationed in Dresden. His job was not espionage but counterespionage: that is, identifying, thwarting, defeating and often destroying the enemies of the Soviet state. In Moscow at that time, there were influential individuals who saw the president of that state, Mikhail Gorbachev, as an enemy bent on destroying the system to which they had devoted their lives and from which they had amassed power and prestige.
Gorbachev had ascended to the pinnacle of power in the Soviet Union 29 years ago with what he believed was an obligation to save the country. The status quo, he was convinced, was holding the USSR back, preventing it from competing and prospering in a globalizing world. His supporters often expressed this aspiration with a deceptively modest-sounding phrase: Russias need to become a normal, modern country. Yet normalization and modernization required a radical break with previous Soviet leaders, starting with Vladimir Lenin.
The vocabulary of Gorbachevs program was, tellingly, made up of two Russian words, glasnost and perestroika, and two borrowed from English: demokratizatsiya and partnyorstvo (partnership) with the West. These were not just descriptors of the Kremlins new policies they were antonyms of the watchwords of the Soviet internal regime and the Soviet worldview. As such, they were anathema to some of Gorbachevs supposed comrades.
In June of 1991, his own prime minister, Valentin Pavlov, mobilized an effort in the parliament to weaken Gorbachevs powers as a prelude to removing him. The proximate incitement was a plan, known as the Grand Bargain, that Gorbachevs advisers had proposed as a way of garnering Western economic aid in support of perestroika. Lt. Col. Putins ultimate boss in the KGB, Vladimir Kryuchkov, was active in this cabal. He and Pavlov saw the Grand Bargain as a conspiracy to sell out the motherland to foreign interests.
Senior officers in the Soviet military and security services had their own version of that complaint. They were infuriated by Gorbachevs willingness to compromise, largely on American terms, in arms-control negotiations on conventional forces in Europe, the zero option for intermediate nuclear forces, and, most stunningly, in Reykjavik, on Ronald Reagans proposal to eliminate all nuclear weapons.
The so-called constitutional coup of June 1991 failed, but its instigators didnt give up. The fear that Gorbachev was selling out to the West grew stronger, leading Kryuchkov and the KGB to attempt a real coup two months later. The plotters put a defiant Gorbachev under house arrest at his vacation retreat in the Crimea, then treated the world to a Keystone Kops performance of ineptitude, including a public rollout of the putative new leadership in which the front man, Gennady Yanayev, was visibly drunk.
The putsch backfired spectacularly. It accelerated not just the terminal decline of the Soviet system, but the terminal weakening of the centripetal forces that had, for all those decades, kept the Soviet Union itself intact.
The No. 1 terminator was Boris Yeltsin, a Gorbachev protégé turned rival, a Soviet functionary and Communist Party member who ultimately converted to an anti-Soviet, anti-Communist revolutionary. Yeltsin was impatient with Gorbachev for proceeding too slowly and too timidly with perestroika, glasnost and demokratizatsiya. In other words, Yeltsin out-Gorbacheved Gorbachev as a reformer, which made him popular with the growing numbers of citizens who were fed up with Soviet rule. That also meant he out-Gorbacheved Gorbachev as a threat to the old guard. Gorbachev, seeing Yeltsin as a political liability as he tried to manage the increasingly fractious leadership, expelled him from the Politburo.
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Yeltsins reply was, in effect:You cant fire me I quit! He resigned from the Communist Party. But he didnt stop there. Having quit, he set about liquidating the mega-firm of USSR Inc. and making himself the CEO of its largest spinoff an independent, democratic Russian Federation.
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the last thing Gorbachev wanted, and it became the wedge issue that Yeltsin used to replace Gorbachev, bringing down the hammer-and-sickle Soviet flag over the Kremlin and flying in its place the Russian tricolor.
But on other issues, the transition between them was almost seamless. Those issues included how Russia should govern itself and how it should behave beyond its borders. For Yeltsin, that meant deciding where Russias borders were. His decision was crucial to what happened in the years that followed and what didnt happen.
Yeltsin made it an imperative of his presidency to maintain the inter-republic borders of the old USSR as the international borders of the new Commonwealth of Independent States. There would be no redrawing the political map to align with the ethnographic one.
Yeltsins insistence on that point further riled his already fraught relations with the enemies he had inherited from Gorbachev. For them, the most emotive bloody-flag grievance was not just the loss of territory, but the stranding of some 25 million ethnic Russians in what were now 14 neighboring, independent states. A common phrase mumbled, growled and sometimes screamed in the debates of the time was that Yeltsin was guilty of the mutilation of Mother Russia, leaving her orphans outside the care of Moscow.
Much as Pavlov had turned against Gorbachev, Yeltsins own vice president, Alexander Rutskoi, then turned against him. Rutskoi had a large map of the Soviet Union on the wall of his office.Thats the past, he liked to tell visitors,but its also the future. The first step in bringing about that future, he often said, would be the recovery of Crimea, which had been briefly part of Soviet Russia from the end of World War II until 1954, when the Kremlin leader of the time, Nikita Khrushchev, transferred it to Ukraine as a way of celebrating the three hundredth anniversary of Catherine the Greats conquest of the peninsula. The second would be Transnistria, a long, thin sliver of Moldova with a largely Russian population and a contingent of Russian troops.
This aggressive nostalgia for the past and the territory that came with it rattled Yeltsins team, so much so that in December 1992 about the time of post-Soviet Russias first anniversary Yeltsins foreign minister, Andrei Kozyrev, shook up an international conference in Stockholm with an alarmist impersonation of what a different Russian foreign policy, as carried out by resurgent nationalists, could look like if Yeltsin were overthrown. Kozyrev played it for real, pretending to announce a new set of policies: first, Russias traditional and fated orientation was toward Asia, not Europe; second, Russia would use military force to compel other former Soviet republics, particularly Ukraine, to join a new federation with its capital in Moscow. Only at the end of Kozyrevs speech did he say it was a bit of shock treatment designed to bring the worlds attention to a real danger.
Strobe Talbott, deputy secretary of state in the Clinton administration, is president of the Brookings Institution.
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All Tucked In ...
By Jule McBride
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Chapter OneThis was hardly the first time Dr. Tobias Free wished he hadn't discovered steel baron Cornelius Sloane's nineteenth-century pornography collection. In fact, the only other thing in life that had caused Tobias more sleepless nights was Carla DiDolche, the Italian spitfire who'd left him at the altar seven years ago. Now he surveyed the "artwork" spread across the boardroom table, his eyes trailing over a few pieces before settling on an ink drawing of a whip-wielding woman in a bustier and frilly pantaloons, a pencil sketch of three topless chorus girls, and a watercolor of a man in cross-tied breeches having his crotch fondled.
Then Tobias looked around the crowded board table.
"Well," Margaret Craig was saying to J. J. Sloane the seventh, sole heir to Cornelius Sloane's fortune, "we all know how much this ancestral mansion has meant to you, since you used to live here, Mr. Sloane, and we also know how much it means now -" She shot a piercing, significant look at Tobias " - to the University of Pittsburgh, which has been using it to house its sleep clinic research facility for the past ten years." Margaret paused for a deep breath. "However - and I'm speaking for every member of the Pittsburgh Preservation Society, not to mention the community at large - we feel it's our duty to open this mansion to the public, especially since Dr. Free has discovered such a vast vault of art...."
J. J. Sloane, whom Tobias secretly referred to as Sloane Junior, was a tall, thin, overly pretty, silver-haired playboy who'd just hit forty and begun to realize that he was an only child with no heirs. He leaned forward, looking interested. "Does the Society really think it could do something with the mansion? Something for posterity that we'd be remembered by?"
"Of course!" Margaret assured him, squaring her matronly shoulders. "We're prepared to make this your legacy, Mr. Sloane. Stone mansions of this magnitude are rarely found intact, as you can imagine! Most of the places along this part of Fifth Avenue, which we Pittsburghers so fondly refer to as mansion row, have been turned into apartments or businesses. And yet this remained a private home until you left in the nineties, sir, which makes it very special. Its architecture is gorgeous. The extensive grounds are divine. Even the astonishing stone fountain just off the veranda is in working order. With the exception of the Frick mansion in the Point Breeze neighborhood, few buildings in Pittsburgh are this impressive...."
Sloane leaned further forward. "You really think it compares to the Frick museum?"
"And the Preservation Society would ...?"
"The plans - and let me tell you, we have many, Mr. Sloane - are all included in the prospectus in front of you. We'd like to offer tours of the mansion, as well as lectures about the many contributions the Sloanes have made to our city. Maybe open a gift shop. Possibly even lend books from the extensive library. And of course, we'll be opening a gallery, not only for the photographs displayed in this room, but also for the new art found by Dr. Free...."
Tobias's eyes shifted to the pornographic pictures again, landing on a charcoal drawing of a woman removing veils as she danced. Most of the stuff wasn't that racy, at least not by comparison to today's Guess ads, but in the late 1800s, it must have been as hot as tamales.
Tobias shook his head. Under any other circumstances, he would have laughed. Yes, watching the members of the Preservation Society - mostly prim elderly ladies like Margaret with blue-rinsed hair and American flag pins proudly affixed to the lapels of their linen suits - sit around trying to elevate a porn collection to the level of high art would have brought a chuckle.
Except that Tobias's ten-year lease on this building was over in a month, and these sweet little ladies were truly going to snap his dream clinic out from under him. Having finally realized he lacked heirs, Sloane had become determined to do something to give his life meaning. As near as Tobias could tell, turning forty had been a rude awakening, and now Sloane hoped the Preservation Society could lend his previously dissipated life some credibility.
To add insult to injury, Tobias had once married Margaret Craig's daughter, Sandy - this was after Carla DiDolche, of course - and while the union had lasted only three disastrous months before it was annulled, Margaret had never forgiven him for leaving her daughter. Now she was relishing taking away the building in which Tobias housed his life's work. Oh, yeah, he thought now, eyeing her, Margaret definitely carried a grudge. Probably Sandy had told her mother the truth. That even after marrying another woman, Tobias simply couldn't get his mind off Carla.
Not that Tobias felt any guilt. He'd dated Sandy on the rebound and let her pressure him into marriage. When things hadn't worked out, she'd quickly remarried a mall developer from North Carolina who'd kept her in high style ever since. Last time she'd visited the Burgh for the holidays, she'd been pregnant with twins.
Shifting uncomfortably in his seat, Tobias tugged the knot at his throat, wishing he could take off his tie. He hated ties. In fact, the only thing more loathsome than ties were the jackets you had to wear with them. Unfortunately, even his best jeans and corduroy blazer couldn't hold a candle to the suits worn by his competitors. Last night, on the phone, his mother had urged him to go buy some dress slacks. Maybe he should have listened. She'd also mentioned Carla, the way she always did. After seven years, Laura Free still missed the young woman she'd been so sure was going to become her daughter-in-law. She and Sandy hadn't really hit it off.
Tobias blew out a sigh. What a couple of days! It didn't help that one of the three male members of the Pittsburgh Preservation Society was Vince Gato, owner of Gambolini and Gato Imports, which was a wine importing business on Liberty Avenue, at the opposite end of the block from DiDolche's, the family-owned café of which Carla was now the sole proprietor. From what Tobias recalled, the Gatos and DiDolches went way back. They'd known each other since the old country, which meant circa 1850.
Nope. Even after seven years, there was no escaping Carla. She intruded on his thoughts at the most unexpected times. Tobias suddenly realized that Sloane Junior was addressing him and even though Tobias hadn't actually seen Carla for awhile, he silently cursed her for breaking his concentration. "Yes, Mr. Sloane?"
"Once more," asked Sloane Junior, "how did you come across the drawings, Dr. Free?"
As if he didn't know. For some reason, Sloane Junior loved this story. Tobias retold the tale of how, a couple of months ago, when he and a colleague were moving some equipment, he'd inadvertently tripped, hit the side of a mantle in what had previously been Cornelius Sloane's study - only to have the wall swing inward, just like in an old horror movie, to expose a hidden room.
"What a find!" Margaret exclaimed breathlessly.
"Yes, indeed," seconded Vince Gato.
"And you were carrying one of those ... what was it, Dr. Free?" asked Sloane Junior.
"An electroencephalograph," Tobias reminded him.
"Ah, yes. An electroencephalograph."
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Staying in a Sedona hotel in the downtown region won't deprive you of the amazing views remote hotels offer. You will still wake up every morning to amazing views of red peaks and blue skies in the distance. Sedona's downtown offers the experience of waking up in a small ranch town with a big personality and plenty of access to boutique shopping and quaint restaurants. Sedona is considered to be an artist's paradise. The city is home to hundreds of artists who make a living by selling authentic crafts to tourists. Art collectors and students travel to the city from all over the world to study and procure the goods created by Sedona's local artisans. Sedona hotels in the downtown region are in close proximity to more than 40 art galleries. There are many opportunities for the public to meet renowned artists and participate in demonstrations and workshops.
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