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"If you're an Elvis fan, no explanation is necessary; If you're not an Elvis fan, no explanation is possible."
(George Klein)
"History has him as this good old country boy, Elvis is about as country as Bono!"
(Jerry Schilling)
(Unquiet Grave Productions, 2004, Softcover, ISBN: 097568680)
Anonymously written, this book is the first attempt to bring together in one publication the eclectic conspiracy stories that make up the mysterious "Elvis underground".
Pre-publication publicity described the themes as being "controversial" and there is no doubt they are:
While many fans are likely to find a lot of the themes extreme (aren't most conspiracy theories) this won't detract from enjoying what is a good book.
The Tupelo-Memphis Murders relies on two basic ingredients:
The use of short, quite clever quotations to introduce each chapter is a nice device with each quote symbolic of the following narrative. Among the most frustrating parts of the book are the concluding chapters which use an excerpt from "Alice Through the Looking Glass" and a confounding "end game" (what does it mean???).
While names are generally not used in The Tupelo-Memphis Murders, to those familiar with its themes, a delightful narrative communicates who the major players are and also paints vividly evocative pictures around its unusual, and at times, confronting, subject matter.
There are occasionally some unexpected changes in writing style in the book that are irritating (eg. the alternating use of present and past tense) but this is a minor issue. We suspect that this device, as with the often cryptic nature of the narrative, was deliberate, the intention being to never let the reader settle, to keep them a little off balance and always thinking. It works. We also didn't see The Tupelo-Memphis Murders as a study in "self-destruction and murder" but again this in no way detracts from the book's merits as a unique and intriguing entry in the world of Elvis literature.
In the annals of "Elvis conspiracy" theory, The Tupelo-Memphis Murders ranks as one of the best. It is better written and superior to The Memphis Mystery (Smith), The Elvis Mystery (McRae), Elvis Alive? Where Are You? (Chanzes) and Fairytale.
Verdict: A very different Elvis book that is challenging, cryptic and confusing. You simply won't have read anything like it before. Be prepared to get totally hooked and to never look at the Elvis story in the same way again!
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How Safe Is Our Food?By G. Douglas Andersen, DC, DACBSP, CCN Last fall, the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) ran the cover story "Safe Food Quiz." It asked readers a series of questions about their knowledge of food safety.1 Although we have discussed food safety in this column before, I felt the information was disturbing enough to warrant the attention of the chiropractic community to remind our patients how to avoid food poisoning. Salmonella
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Resources University of California at Berkeley Wellness Letter August 1998;15(11) University of California at Berkeley Wellness Encyclopedia. Boston; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991. Reference Safe food quiz. Nutrition Action Health Letter October 1998;25(8) Click here for more information about G. Douglas Andersen, DC, DACBSP, CCN.

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If you want to understand a mail carrier's relationship with his route, walk with him on a Saturday.
In the six-day postal week, Saturdays are just a little bit more personal. Offices are closed, but shops are busy. It's when legions of carriers pass yard sales, avoid leaf blowers and step over carwash puddles. It's when they can give a gardener a short break, exchanging a few words about the weather before putting the mail right into a muddy hand.


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Cisco Integrates Arbor's DDoS Mitigation into CRS Router
Arbor's Peakflow platform combines network-wide anomaly detection and traffic engineering with carrier-class threat mitigation that automatically detects and surgically removes attack traffic, while maintaining other traffic. With the ability to mitigate only the attack traffic, customer-facing services remain available while providers actively mitigate attacks.
"More than 12 years ago, Cisco was an original investor in Arbor," said Arbor Networks President Colin Doherty. "Cisco NetFlow has always been a key data source for Arbor solutions. Cisco Clean Pipes 2.0 is another example of the close relationship that leverages each company's technology to bring about a better combined solution for DDoS protection."
With the Arbor license, Cisco is rolling out the Carrier Grade Service Engine (CGSE) DDos Mitigation software. Cisco describes it as single-slot module supported on its carrier-class routing system, the Cisco CRS-1.
By embedding Arbor's DDoS mitigation technology within the CRS router, Cisco said, service providers can stop DDoS attacks at the backbone or peering/transit edge of the network. That eliminates the need to reroute attack traffic to dedicated scrubbing centers. According to Cisco, this approach helps protect core bandwidth and infrastructure while easing logistics and operational expenses associated with DDoS attack protection.
The combined solution also helps protect the network backbone and services offered by the service provider against attacks originating from both the outside and the inside of the service provider network. Cisco said service providers can also leverage the solution to offer revenue-generating managed DDoS mitigation services to enterprise customers.
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Legendary electro duo will call it quits following their final tour dates.
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Stream: The Knife's new album Shaken-Up Versions
A collection of remixes and reworkings from their four-album discography.
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Album Review: The Knife – Shaken-Up Versions
Largely a reminder of how fantastic the source material is.
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Listen: The Knife bring you the "Political Macarena"
Swedish duo present new, dance-friendly song as part of "political activist cabaret" called Europa Europa.
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Top 10 Music Festivals in Europe: Spring 2014 Power Rankings
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The Knife announce Shaken-Up Versions, featuring new reworkings of old songs
The digital LP arrives in June.
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Watch: The Knife's Karin Dreijer Andersson sings "Heartbeats" in Karaoke (while Bill Murray watches)
Karin Dreijer Andersson sings the band's smash single for the first time in years.
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Live Review: The Knife at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom (4/23)
Lessons on transcendence from the Swedish duo.
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Coachella 2014: Top 15 Sets + Photos
There's now no denying that the festival has gone Top 40.
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Plus, Julian Casablancas and Pixies have been added to the lineup.
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Identifying Hipster Bands and Bro Bands: A Scientific Study
Find out which acts are the most obscure and which are the most mainstream.
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(MEMPHIS, TENN. - October 9, 2013) Charles J. Sherr, M.D., Ph.D., chair of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Department of Tumor Cell Biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, has been selected to receive the 2013 Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine by the American-Italian Cancer Foundation.
The Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine recognizes important discoveries in cancer biology, prevention, diagnosis and/or treatment. Sherr is scheduled to receive the award at the foundation's 2013 Benefit Dinner and Auctions at the Racquet and Tennis Club in New York City in November.
Sherr's work has advanced scientific understanding of the mammalian cell cycle and tumor suppressor genes, which are both disrupted in cancer. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and earlier this year was inducted as a fellow in the inaugural class of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy. He has received numerous other honors and holds the Herrick Foundation Endowed Chair.
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Illustration by Bob AulThe American Lung Association came out with a report card on May 1 that gave Orange County an F for air quality, but don't strap on that aqualung just yet. We got the bad mark for just 10 unhealthful-air days over a three-year period. Meanwhile, fellow flunkies Riverside and Los Angeles counties racked up 342 unhealthful days in the same period. Think of them as the cigarette-smoking stoners in the student parking lot who'll never learn. We're the nerdy, borderline retardos who'll someday get that D-minus that'll have Ma dancing through the trailer park. Of course, no matter what, we'll always get picked on by the stuck-up jocks and cheerleaders. We're not sure which counties those are, but they're undoubtedly in the Bay Area.
BOMBS AWAY May Day protests raged around the globe on May 1, including in the Weekly's adopted town of Long Beach. With workers of the world uniting and Commie-tinged rhetoric spewing from Russia, where there were 480 International Workers Day revivals, what better time for George Dubya Bush to usher in Cold War II? Shrub announced plans to scrap the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty so we can build the Mother of All Weapons Systems: National Missile Defense (NMD), a ground-based version of that Reagan-era laser-tag game known as Star Wars. If it works—hah!—the U.S. would be able to knock everyone else's missiles out of the sky, which is great unless you're everyone else. Bush's pipe-bomb dream produced chubbies among his fellow Republicans (even the chicks!) and the U.S. defense-industry giants who put them in office. Among those pushing Bush to develop NMD is former Steely Dan/ Doobie Brothers guitarist Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, who told the Washington Post he began advising Congress and the Pentagon on ballistic missile defense after "I wrote a paper a long time ago and gave it to a friend, Dana Rohrabacher." What's next, Dana: Sammy "I Can't Drive 55" Hagar advising Transportation on highway safety? Opponents of the "Son of Star Wars" include Canada, NATO, the Ruskies, Federation of American Scientists and the Orange County Alliance for Global Nuclear Disarmament, which had been riding high after persuading the California Democratic Party to pass a resolution on April 1 urging the U.S. and Russia to take nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert status. Now the no-nukers have another reason to hit the streets.
JUDGE DREAD One street the OC alliance will hit on May 12 is the one in front of Congressman Christopher Cox's (R-Newport Beach) office. Not moving into that office is James Rogan, the Republican attack dog who lost his Glendale-Pasadena congressional seat after bashing President Bill Clinton. Rogan announced on May 2 that he'll join Dubya's cabinet instead of running for Cox's seat after Chrissie is appointed to the federal bench. Why? Because U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer is promising a long and bumpy confirmation process for Cox. Why? Because Dubya broke protocol by not running California judge nominees' names by her and fellow U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein before announcing his appointments. Had Dubya asked, Boxer would have told him that Cox is too conservative and from too conservative a county (that's us, the F student) to be a judge. So much for right-wing scribe Robert Novak's recent New York Post column that had Cox on the fast track to the U.S. Supreme Court because he'll sail so easily through the Senate.
CAR WARS In a claim filed against Caltrans on May 3, the city of Corona alleges that traffic is damaging the cow town. Corona is trying to pressure the state into opening toll lanes that run parallel to the 91 freeway to all drivers. After taxpayers are done paying on both sides for this mess, can we file a claim against Corona for covering pastureland with the cheap houses that necessitated the toll lanes in the first place?


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Author(s): | Ulf Griesmann; Quandou Wang; T D. Raymond; |
Title: | Optical Flatness Metrology for 300 mm Silicon Wafers |
Published: | April 01, 2005 |
Abstract: | At the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), we are developing two interferometric methods for measuring the thickness variation and flatness of free-standing and chucked silicon wafers with diameters up to 300mm. The eXtremely accurate CALIBration InterferometeR (XCALIBIR) is a precision phase measuring interferometer with an operating vacelength of 633nm and a test beam of 300 mm diameter. XCALIBIR is used to evaluate the flatness of chucked wafers. NIST''s infrared interferometer (IR2) is a phase measuring interferometer that operates at 1.55um and is used to measure the thickness variation of free-standing 300 mm silicon wafers. |
Conference: | American Institute of Physics Conference on Characterization and Metrology for ULSI Technology |
Proceedings: | American Institute of Physics Proceedings of the 2005 Conference on Characterization and Metrology for ULSI Technology |
Volume: | 788 |
Pages: | pp. 599 - 603 |
Location: | Dallas, TX |
Dates: | March 15-28, 2005 |
Keywords: | 300mm silicon wafers,wafer flatness,wafer thickness variation (TTV and GBIR) |
Research Areas: | Nanomanufacturing |
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GSP Didnt Want to Fight Johny Hendricks Because He Believes He Lost to Josh Koscheck
I think this is foolish. Though I do agree that Koscheck beat Hendricks |
but he has no problem facing a dude who had a 13 month layoff, coming off a loss to condit? gsp's cowardice knows no bounds
Can't blame him, I thought Koscheck beat Hendricks as well.
Diaz is a better payday for everyone involved...no brainer.
The amount of stupid I sometimes see on these forums knows no bounds. Do people really think GSP is scared of Hendricks? An even bigger question, do people really think GSP isn't going to fight Hendricks if GSP and Hendricks both win their next fight? It is a sad.... sad day when you have to even ask those questions on here. Just like GSP was scared of Diaz. Just like GSP was scared of Condit. This will never end with some people. |
Exactly Peelgood, GSP is not afraid of nobody. I think the only person he can potentially become intimidated by is Rory MacDonald, but he doesn't have to deal with worry for at least another year. GSP is the most powerful MMA Magacian on the planet. He'd beat Anderson Silva, too. That's why Silva doesn't want to come down.
GSP p4p best fighter on the planet. |
Man, Hendricks aint beating GSP if he gets past Ellenberger.
If i was GSP id chose to fight Diaz over Hendricks too.
Why do people think a "Professional Fighter" who has DOMINATED everyone he has come across is scared of anyone??? Every time a fighter says "Well id rather fight this person" they are considered to be ducking someone and scared. Yet people complain about how boring the "Il fight who ever they want to give me" answers are. And im sure that GSP will be fighting Hendricks after he beats Diaz anyway. Aslong as Hendricks wins his fight of-course. |
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Running Time: 75
Director: Milton Ingley
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Avalon, Don Fernando, Leilani, Ashley Nicole, Leanna Foxx, Blake West
Critical Rating: AA 1/2
Genre: Feature
Sometimes the most tepid and seemingly uninvolving feature can be made bearable by a couple of good performances. Such is the case with Foxx Hunt, a sexvid that seems to have something to do with rich people and their servants, and the shenanigans that occur after a disappointing fox hunt (thus taking care of the plot, title and title star in one fell swoop). Leanna Foxx shines in her scenes with Blake West and Don Fernando, who's amusing as the handyman who pretends to speak only Spanish when it suits him. The supporting female cast are good in their individual scenes, with maid Ashley Nicole the only one seen more than once. Her opening session with Fernando pretty much sets the tone for the feature; nothing very special, but certainly enough to entertain the average viewer.


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WellPoint Inc. plans to buy contact lens retailer 1-800-Contacts Inc. in a deal that would give the insurer its first direct-to-consumer business outside selling individual health coverage.
Terms of the deal with private equity firm Fenway Partners were not disclosed.
WellPoint, based in Indianapolis, said Monday that the eyewear company will help diversify its revenue sources with a high-margin business. WellPoint is the second-largest U.S. health insurer based on both revenue and enrollment, trailing only UnitedHealth Group Inc.
It runs Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in 14 states, including California and New York.
Health insurance is WellPoint's main product, and the insurer said in April its total medical membership fell nearly 2 percent to 33.7 million people compared to the end of last year. The company lost enrollment in its two largest membership segments, plans that provide health insurance to employees of small businesses and large, national accounts.
1-800 Contacts fills orders for contact lens by phone, internet, mail or fax. It sells disposable and color lenses among other types. It also offers brands like Acuvue, Focus, FreshLook and PureVision and operates a partnership with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest retailer.
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WellPoint Chairwoman and CEO Angela Braly said in a statement that 1-800 Contacts serves about 3.3 million customers, but it comes with a significant growth opportunity because there are more than 38 million people wearing eye contact lenses and more than 140 million people wearing eye glasses in the United States.
The deal requires regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions but is expected to close in the third quarter.
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text: By Les Leopold/ Star-Ledger Guest Columnist We are still gripped by the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression. New Jersey, like every state in the nation, is suffering from major tax revenue shortfalls as businesses cut back and layoffs mount. The state Constitution requires a balanced budget. So there are only two options: reduce public sector costs or increase taxes. Many think the answer is obvious — freeze public sector wages, cut benefits and privatize jobs. Why should these workers enjoy good jobs when so many are unemployed, and so many more are losing their pensions and health care? The Star-Ledger editorial board argues that "We have the highest-paid police officers in the country, and they can retire after 25 years at 65 percent of their highest salary. We have the nation's highest-paid firefighters, too…." But it neglects to mention that New Jersey also has the highest median household income ($70,378 in 2008). To enrich the debate, we need to take a sober look at the causes of our economic crisis and its implications for state economic policy. Simply put, Wall Street's speculative excesses crashed the economy. The problem grew directly from the dismantling of New Deal-era financial controls and the elimination of progressive taxation on the super-wealthy starting in the late 1970s. During the Eisenhower years, the marginal tax rate on those earning more than $3 million per year (in today's dollars) was 90 percent. By 2007, the IRS reports, the 400 richest individuals in the country actually paid only16 percent in federal income taxes, the lowest rate on record. Deregulation was supposed to lead to an enormous investment boom that would lift all boats. Instead, the money from the super-rich gushed into speculative investments on Wall Street leading to bubble after bubble. When the housing bubble burst, trillions of dollars of "innovative" financial instruments quickly turned into toxic assets. The financial system froze and pushed the real economy over the cliff. Unemployment rates shot up to post-Depression highs and they won't be coming down anytime soon. New Jersey can not solve this problem alone. It will take massive federal support to create the jobs we need. But short-sighted state policies can make the situation much worse. Cutting state and local payrolls — or slashing public sector benefits — actually adds to the problem. Unemployed public sector workers pay no taxes, which increases the tax burden on those with jobs. Further pressure mounts to cut services which leads to more layoffs. Laid off public sector workers and those with frozen wages and lower benefits also don't buy as many goods and services. This reduces demand for small-business goods and services, which will trigger layoffs in the private sector and additional losses in tax revenues. In short, public sector cutbacks contribute to a downward spiral of fewer tax revenues and more cutbacks. And what about cutting pensions for new hires? This also reduces private sector demand as workers rightly recognize that their standard of living is declining. From an economic standpoint, the only constructive alternative on the state level is to increase taxes on the super-rich who already earn far more than they can spend. Taxes on middle- and lower-income earners would harm economic activity by causing a cutback in spending. Won't taxes on the super-rich cause them to flee New Jersey? It's highly unlikely that a small tax on their enormous incomes would deter those who are here to work, to raise their families and to enjoy the quality of life. But a deterioration of public services could drive them away. Let's not fool ourselves: You undermine the public sector workforce and you'll be next in line. If we maintain public sector jobs and decent benefits, we help to stop the downward spiral. The choice is ours. Les Leopold is executive director of the Labor Institute and the Public Health Institute, and author of "The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed our Jobs, Pension and Prosperity — and What We Can Do About It" (Chelsea Green Publishing, June 2009).


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There will be fewer valid excuses for being late to class for Kavanagh College technology pupils from this week, after they constructed their own clocks shaped like cartoon characters.
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Video analysis for Cartoon-style Special Effects
Collomosse, J. P., Rowntree, D. and Hall, P. M., 2003. Video analysis for Cartoon-style Special Effects. In: 14th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2003-09-01.
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In recent years the Vision community has shown interest in processing images and video for use by the entertainment industries. Typical applicationsinclude 3D reconstruction of models, and rendering graphics models into video. This paper broadly aligns with that trend, but differs in that we process video to emphasise motion in Cartoon-like styles, in which moving objects deform in defiance of physical laws, and leave trailing marks of one kind or another in their wake. We provide an introduction to the effects real animators use, and show how a judicious choice of standard processing techniques, supplemented by novel methods, can be used to achieve convincing results. We illustrate the robustness of our method using several video sequences, ranging in content from simple oscillatory to articulated motion, under both static and moving camera conditions.
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Moving on, EOS Books is giving away FIVE bound galleys of the third volume—Passage—in Lois McMaster Bujold's Sharing Knife series to the first five people who email the publisher HERE. The only catch is you have to write a reader's review of the book by its April 22, 2008 release. Not sure if the copies are already gone, but I thought it was worth mentioning and if it is too late, at least you can look forward to a review of the book from yours truly :)
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Lastly, this is actually old news, but recently on The Swivet two acquisitions were announced that has me pretty excited. The first is "Fat Ghost Ocean" to Roc Books by author Shawn Peters who wrote the excellent "Whitechapel Gods" (Reviewed HERE) and which features a 22-year-old 'binder' charged by The Man in the Empty Chair with imprisoning the mythical beasts from the ancient days of the Old Powers… The other is Alex Bledsoe's "Blood Groove" to Tor, the first book in a new series with a vampire who resurrects sixty years after being staked to find a drastically changed world and more peril than he ever expected… Alex you may remember is the author of "The Sword-Edged Blonde" (Reviewed HERE), one of my favorite debuts in 2007 :)
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Ms. Bujold is one of my top 4 sff authors that I buy and read everything on publication pretty much since her debut around 1990 and never been disappointed - I usually count only at least after 5 published novels, and the others are P. Hamilton, D. Weber and N. Asher, but J. Abercrombie is heading there too - and despite being quite different than earlier work and panned by some for various reasons, I am really enjoying The Sharing Knife double duology, so I am really excited about book 3 or 2/1 depending how you look at it. I am looking forward to your review.
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Did you know that there is a sequel coming out to The Sword-edged Blonde later this year from Night Shade? That's one I can't wait to read.
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Liviu, the Sharing Knife duology was actually my introduction to Ms. Bujold but I was quite impressed! I can't wait to read "Passage" personally :) I'm afraid I haven't read any David Weber but I absolutely love Neal Asher! I actually just got his new one "Line War" and will be hosting a giveaway for it tomorrow :D
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Borsosfoldi, Z., Webster, D.R., Thayne, I.G., Asenov, A., Haigh, D.G., and Beaumont, S.P. (1997) Ultra-linear pseudomorphic HEMTs for wireless communications: A simulation study. In: IEEE International Symposium on Compound Semiconductors, San Diego, California, 8-11 September 1997, pp. 475-478. ISBN 0750305568 (doi:10.1109/ISCS.1998.711718)
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In this paper, we apply numerical device simulation in the design of pseudomorphic HEMTs with improved linearity and reduced intermodulation products aimed at wireless communications applications. We show that in channel doped GaAs pHEMTs the introduction of a p-doped buffer layer significantly improves the device linearity leading to a 10 dB suppression of 3rd order distortion over a wide bias range with similar gain when compared with a more standard δ-doped GaAs pHEMT device.
Item Type: | Conference Proceedings |
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Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Thayne, Professor Iain and Beaumont, Professor Steven and Asenov, Professor Asen |
Authors: | Borsosfoldi, Z., Webster, D.R., Thayne, I.G., Asenov, A., Haigh, D.G., and Beaumont, S.P. |
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College/School: | College of Science and Engineering > School of Engineering > Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering |
Research Group: | Device Modelling Group |
Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 1997 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
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Chinese 熊: this name has at least two origins. The first is from one of the names of the legendary emperor Huang Di (2697–2595 BC), also known as You Xiong; some of his descendants adapted this name as their surname. A second origin traces it to the end of the Shang dynasty in the 12th century BC: at this time there lived in the state of Chu a wise scholar and author, Yu Xiong, who served as teacher to the duke of Zhou, Wen Wang, famous for his virtue. Some of Yu Xiong's descendants adopted their illustrious forebear's given name as their surname.
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Coenzyme Q10 Q-Gel®Coenzyme Q10 is a crucial component in the cellular energy production cycle. CoQ10 is naturally produced in all cells of the human body, and has been studied extensively for more than 40 years. CoQ10 plays a crucial role in the production of cellular ATP (adenosine triphosphate), which provides energy to all cell functions. Coenzyme Q10 is an antioxidant that has great importance as a free radical scavenger. CoQ10 protects the stability of the cell membrane, protects DNA from free radical induced oxidative damage, and helps recycle Vitamin E. The human body gradually loses its ability to synthesize CoQ10 as we age. Research indicates that supplementation with CoQ10 may support normal heart function, protect DNA from free radical induced oxidative damage, and maintain healthy energy levels.*
Coenzyme Q10 is Critical for Vital OrgansAll tissues in humans possess Coenzyme Q10, but there are great differences in concentration. The heart muscle has the highest concentration, followed by the liver, kidney, spleen and pancreas. CoQ10 is found in concentrated quantities inside the cell's organelles, especially within the Golgi bodies and mitochondria. Within the mitochondria, CoQ10 is utilized in the metabolism of fats and carbohydrates. More than 90% of the energy from our cells is produced from the aerobic respiration that takes place in the mitochondria. CoQ10 facilitates electron transfer within this inner membrane for the production of ATP (adenosine triphosphate), the usable unit of energy. Coenzyme Q10 is also naturally present in the cell membranes. Another function of CoQ10 is to make sure the cells' plasma membranes remain flexible. 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Singaporeans have often been accused of not having a heart for home. The identity angst of our young nation-state has manifested itself variously in aspects such as high emigration statistics and cultural dialogue. "Singapore you are not my country", poet and activist Alfian Sa'at once wrote. "Singapore you are not a country at all."
A recent paradox has emerged in the bitter debate over immigration policy that challenges this impassioned shout. On the one hand, Singaporeans profess to feel alienated and second-class in their homeland – Singaporean, perhaps, but cynical as to what this identity actually offers or entails; on the other hand, they retreat into terms such as 'us' and 'them, 'ordinary citizens' and 'foreign trash' – terms which I have seen thrown around Internet forums with alarming frequency. This polarizing rhetoric of difference between 'us' and 'them' demonstrates that our alienation has developed into an identity of its own; that some long-buried territorial instinct to defend our home, long suspected of being absent in our kind, has given us the energy to say that we have some manner of definitive rights to its riches. Yet this very rhetoric damages our sense of self. It amplifies our emotions of disenfranchisement and reinforces our insecurity in our identity as Singaporeans. To and fro, these two phenomena – alienation and xenophobia – feed each other. If nothing else, the dynamic of interaction between them demonstrates that when it suits us, Singapore is a country. When it concerns our rice bowl and our future, Singapore becomes our country.
But as much as this debate over 'us' and 'them' has allowed the dormant feelings of national stake to stir its hitherto-lethargic bulk, it is ultimately a destructive force. Nationalism is a many-headed hydra, and the head that has been awoken has an ugly face of hate and fundamental mistrust. It is indiscriminate in its choice of foes, blurring all unfamiliar faces into a monolithic prey in its myopia. It does not discern between the many different types of 'foreigners' that are immigrating to Singapore – I use the term in inverted commas because many of these so-called foreigners have lived, schooled and worked in our midst for decades before making the bold choice to make this their home. This form of nationalism attacks, rather than reinforces, our social fabric. Perhaps most damagingly, it does not question the sources of its hate.
Xenophobia allows us to put a face to our fears. It projects our deepest concerns about our future onto a convenient group of blame. It does not recognise that our real enemies are far more complex and non-physical. The ageing population; the unpredictability of the global markets; the rising costs of living contributing to a declining birth rate. These are some of the real sources behind our discontent. But how do you hate a burst in the U.S. housing bubble after decades of improper financial management precipitating a global crisis? How do you hate a shift in the hegemonic paradigm needing us to realign our industrial strategies and wage policies in order to stay competitive? Far easier to hate something with a body – far easier to hate the bitter pill, instead of the insidious disease.
No doubt, it would be patronising to ask the population to blindly swallow any medicine the state prescribes. Immigrant influx is not a blunt solution. Recent comments by PM Lee in his speech to NTU students dated 15th September promise a slower and more calibrated intake. Slower and more calibrated or not, however, the intake is inevitable. Every developed nation has had to accept immigration at least to some extent as part and parcel of survival in today's world. The question that remains is: what do we do about the ones that are already here? How should we treat those who have made the life-changing decision to take this country as their own?
Having studied in the UK for the past two years, I have found myself in the midst of a European society that is growing increasingly uneasy in the face of an immigration phenomenon that they have neglected to address for too long. The streets of London hum with hundreds of different languages being spoken all at once, and the heterogeneous multiculturalism of the city, while a testament to colour and variety, also sits uneasily on many minds. Mere cultural tolerance is a fragile foundation for a society. Tolerance waits, and bides its time to break. It is up to times of crisis to test the ice, such as the recent economic havoc that political commentators agree helped to usher the British National Party (BNP) into the European Parliament and three county Councilor seats in the local elections earlier this year. The BNP is famous for its whites-only membership, its history of anti-Semitism and its staunch opposition of immigration. One of their recent party leaflets declares that black and Asian Britons 'do not exist', in a startling denial of the validity of a significant segment of the population's identity. It is not the mere existence of the BNP that is worrying. It is the growing base of support for their hardline antagonism towards recent generations of Britons that is symptomatic of a social illness. Post-colonial Britain has struggled to find an identity whose civic glue consists of more than the Empire mentality of their reign. In such a vacuum, dangerous ideas gain currency; ideas of race supremacy and targeted hatred thinly-concealed behind a veil of sophistry and misdirection. What if, ten years down the road, we started to believe that Singaporean Indians or Singaporean Caucasians did not exist? What if we began to confine the Singaporean identity to those whose ancestors were perceived to be native to the soil, or only arrived in times of pre-independence?
At the same time, however, the melting-pot approach of claiming a singular national identity at the expense of all cultural and historical differences is equally untenable. We have long prided ourselves on being truly multicultural: not simply living side by side with people of other races and religions, but trying to understand and empathise with their traditions as well. Hence, by and large our schools are secular, emphasising multicultural interaction and learning about the customs and practices of various religious and ethnic groups. We should not deny that first-generation immigrants often come from very different contexts, with different religious and ethno-cultural practices. What we should aim for is not an erasure of those differences, but an integration: different hues and shapes put together in a harmonious composition. If this sounds like a delicate and uphill task, make no mistake that it is. The one thing we cannot do, however, is leave it all to sort itself out. It is only too easy for the state of things, left to its own devices, to degenerate into a destructive cycle of insecurity and polarizing hate – the early symptoms of which I have pointed out in my opening paragraphs. Instead of degeneration, we must treat this furore over immigration as an opportunity to regenerate our identity, and as part of the teething pangs of a nation still searching to define itself. Only then can we emerge from this dialogue with something constructive: something that builds up, rather than tears down, our identity and our hope for the future.
Reaching this result requires us to ask ourselves: what's in a name? What does it mean to be 'Singapore'? I think we should not insult ourselves by pretending that Singapore is just some kind of property we can inherit – some patch of sea-devouring soil we can keep within the family. Neither is Singapore simply the sum of its immigrant roots; while we must call on our past to define ourselves, it is meaningless if we cannot integrate our past with our present reality. Antiquated and professionally-retouched photographs of mama-sans and coolies, or quaint heritage centres in colonial ethnic districts, are not sufficient to give weight to our meaning. In effect, Singapore is not a hand-me-down. Singapore is ours in the here and now, ours to define, ours to live. Singapore is a choice. The National Integration Council cannot make the choice for us, or buy it from us with a price-tag of $10 million: it can only give us the opportunity to make an informed choice, by interacting with unfamiliar faces in our communities, talking to them, learning about their personal histories and the reasons why they have chosen to define themselves as part of Singapore. I found myself personally inspired to love my country more by my interactions with my friends who are new citizens, learning how they have come to cherish this country for its aspirations of equal opportunity, religious freedom and racial harmony.
Perhaps I should clarify myself on this point. The choice to which I refer is not whether immigrants can truly become Singaporean citizens. I think the discussion on that point is moot. They have the passport, and they have the equal rights of every citizen, including that to call themselves Singaporean. In some respects it could even be argued that they are even more appropriate recipients of the label 'Singaporean' because they have taken the leap to embrace the term, in contrast to the many Singapore-born citizens who struggle to navigate the troubled waters of identity, jetting back and forth between countries unable to decide who they are. In terms of the law, and in terms of their own choices, new citizens are therefore no longer foreigners – just as there are black and Asian Britons whether Nick Griffin thinks so or not. The choice to which I refer is whether we can accept them as such – if our definition of our national identity can expand to include them in the spaces of our own heads. This has been our home turf for longer than it has been for many new Singaporeans. We have, I feel, the advantage and the responsibility to level the psychological playing field now that they are in our lives and part of our community as well.
The outcome of our choice will determine the harmony of our society, and if we are truly concerned about our future, then surely we should prize that enough to open our minds, and give a little bit of time and understanding towards accepting our new compatriots.


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| AbstractThis thesis offers a descriptive and analytical account of the productions of The Two Gentlemen of Verona performed at the Stratford theatres. Four productions produced before 1926 without substantial material are mentioned and briefly discussed in Chapter I. The other six staged after 1932 will be separately considered in each of the following chapters in terms of their theatrical realization. Discussion derived from prompt-books, contemporary reviews, theatre-records and photographs, together with information obtained directly from members of the Royal Shakespeare Company. This thesis seeks to evaluate theatrical as well as literary attitudes towards the play. In certain cases, the influence of some modern literary criticism will be discussed where it is considered to be a factor in the directors' conception of the play. The final chapter attempts to assess divergent interpretations and to identify some aspects of the play which have perhaps received insufficient attention. |
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Bai, J. Z. and Hitlin, D. G. and Jones, L. and Kelsey, M. H. and Oyang, J. and Panetta, J. and Porter, F. and Prabhakar, E. and Weaver, M. (1998) Direct measurement of B(D_s^+ → φX^+). Physical Review D, 57 (1). pp. 28-32. ISSN 0556-2821. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20120117-125010776
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The absolute inclusive branching fraction of D_s^+→φX^+ has been measured from data collected by the BES detector at a center-of-mass energy of 4.03 GeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 22.3 pb^(-1). At this energy, direct pair production e^+e^-→D_s^+D_s^- has been observed. We have selected D_s candidate events by reconstructing five hadronic decay modes D_s^+→φπ^+, K^(0*)K^+, K^0K^+, f0^(π+) and K^0K^-π^+π^+ and have searched for inclusive φ's in the recoiling D_s^-. We observed three recoiling φ's in the 166.4 ± 31.8 D_s candidate events, which leads to the absolute branching fraction B(D_s^+→φX^+)=(17.8(-7.2 -6.3)^(+15.1+0.6)) % and B(D_s-6.3+→φπ-6.3+)=(3.6_(-1.6 -1.3)(^_3.1+0.4) %. [S0556-2821(97)02423-5]
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In the following two sections, we discuss changes in the implementation of MySQL Cluster in MySQL MySQL Cluster NDB 7.3 and MySQL Cluster NDB 7.4, as compared to MySQL Cluster NDB 7.2 and earlier releases. Changes and features most likely to be of interest are shown in the following two tables:
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The Accumulation of Lender-Owned Homes During the U.S. Mortgage Crisis: Examining Metropolitan REO InventoriesDan ImmergluckSchool of City and Regional Planning, Georgia Institute of Technology March 1, 2009 Housing Policy Debate, Forthcoming Abstract: A key concern among policymakers and community developers in recent years has been the extent to which lender-owned homes, often called real estate owned or "REO" properties accumulate in different local housing markets during the mortgage crisis. This paper describes the accumulation of REO properties in 356 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) from August 2006 to August 2008. It examines differences in both changes and static levels of REO activity across MSAs and compares changes in REO levels to changes in home values over the same period. Special attention is paid to twelve large MSAs with substantial levels of REO as of August 2008. A model of REO volume at the metropolitan level is estimated which includes differences in state foreclosure legal processes and timing among the independent variables. Finally, cluster analysis is used to identify a simple typology of MSAs based on REO levels and home price changes. Number of Pages in PDF File: 48 Keywords: foreclosure, foreclosed properties, subprime crisis, mortgage crisis Date posted: January 10, 2010Suggested CitationContact Information
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A Groople Paxicle alien is wandering along when he happens upon a Yitney fruit, a highly hallucinogenic plant that can walk. The Groople is stupid and eats the fruit, which sends him on a dangerous trip. Everything round turns into a Yitney, and he eats all the round things he sees.
A squirrel uses the Groople's impairment to send him off a cliff, and he ends up in the belly of a giant Grudler. The Grudler is then sent on a trip in which reality and fantasy are a complete blur....
This was made on a whim because I was bored with one project and started doing this. Then, I found out I needed to earn independent study credit so I went all out with this so I could turn it in for my final project at the University of Utah. No storyboard, just train of thought.... not sure it goes anywhere.
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I think some people may have preferred it if it was accompanied by music, but for me it just added to the...'surreal' atmosphere.
I could definitely see this becoming a Brackenwood-esque series.
The backgrounds were beautifully drawn, and the colour choices were wonderful.
The character animation could have been smoother, and I personally don't like the effect that tweening a movie clip loop gives, but I guess it's an efficient method of animation. The stream/waterfall was smooth and impressive, though.
The character animation is the single thing that could have improved this flash, hence the 9/10.
The storyline was interesting, and light hearted whilst portraying a horror movie like situation, haha.
I also loved how you gave the little species names.
All in all I found this to be a very impressive and inspiring little movie.
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Reminds me very much of Mr. Coo, It all looked great overal, maybe there could of been a few more creatures and Goolies but the animation and drawing was stunningly beautiful, Great Job!
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it was very good but the last part after the big guy eats him is kinda ...not that great. i mean why do all the creatures jump towards him and not away.and why does he melt away.
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The Impact of Shareholding Reform on Chinese Enterprise, 1995-2001Gary H. JeffersonBrandeis University - International Business School Jian SuBrandeis University - Department of Economics September 22, 2003 William Davidson Institute Working Paper No. 542 Abstract: During the 1980s and early half of the 1990s, the entry of new firms, the strengthening of managerial incentives, and the accumulation of non-state assets in the state sector set the stage for China's shareholding experiment, involving the formal conversion of thousands of state-owned enterprises to joint stock companies. Shareholding conversions have also been extensively employed in China's collective-owned enterprises. This paper examines the impact of the conversion of these state- and collective-owned enterprises on a range of measures relating to both equity and efficiency. The analysis distinguishes between the direct effects of conversion holding the asset structure fixed and the induced effect, which involves reductions in the proportion of state-owned assets. For SOEs and COEs, conversion contributes to overall increases in both current productivity and innovation. At least during 1995-2001, the period spanned by this study, by encouraging employment growth or slowing layoffs, conversion seems to have benefited incumbent workers. Among SOEs, the most robust impact of conversion is the reallocation of resources and effort to R&D and new product development, which suggests greater attention to deep restructuring. Conversion greatly enhances the ability of converted firms to attract new investment from outside the state sector. Within the sample used in this paper, the state typically retains its assets after conversion: an indication that state asset sales or stripping is not widespread. The shareholding experiment seems to be creating a channel, in addition to those served by new domestic private enterprise and foreign-owned firms, for the emergence of a domestic managerial and entrepreneurial class. Due to these efficiency effects, the greater concentration of conversion in wealthier coastal areas is likely to contribute to regional inequality in China. Number of Pages in PDF File: 56 Keywords: Ownership reform, Enterprise performance, China JEL Classification: L23, P31, P27 Date posted: September 25, 2003Suggested Citation |
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