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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School has identified a scrap of papyrus that she says was written in Coptic in the 4th century and contains a phrase never seen in any piece of Scripture: "Jesus said to them, 'My wife ...' "
The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card, with eight lines on one side, in black ink legible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus' having a wife, the papyrus includes a second provocative clause that purportedly says, "she will be able to be my disciple."
The finding was made public in Rome on Tuesday at an international meeting of Coptic scholars by historian Karen L. King, who has published several books about new Gospel discoveries and is the first woman to hold the nation's oldest endowed chair, the Hollis professor of divinity.
The provenance of the papyrus fragment is a mystery, and its owner has asked to remain anonymous. Until Tuesday, King had shown the fragment to only a small circle of experts in papyrology and Coptic linguistics, who concluded that it is most likely not a forgery. But she and her collaborators say they are eager for more scholars to weigh in and perhaps upend their conclusions.
Was Jesus married?
Even with many questions unsettled, the discovery could reignite the debate over whether Jesus was married, whether Mary Magdalene was his wife and whether he had a female disciple. These debates date to the early centuries of Christianity, scholars say. But they are relevant today, when global Christianity is roiling over the place of women in ministry and the boundaries of marriage.
The discussion is particularly animated in the Roman Catholic Church, where despite calls for change, the Vatican has reiterated the teaching that the priesthood cannot be opened to women and married men because of the model set by Jesus.
King cautioned that this fragment should not be taken as proof that Jesus, the historical person, was actually married. The text was probably written centuries after Jesus lived, and all other early, historically reliable Christian literature is silent on the question, she said.
But the discovery is exciting, King said, because it is the first known statement from antiquity that refers to Jesus' speaking of a wife. It provides further evidence that there was an active discussion among early Christians about whether Jesus was celibate or married, and which path his followers should choose.
"This fragment suggests that some early Christians had a tradition that Jesus was married," King said. "There was, we already know, a controversy in the 2nd century over whether Jesus was married, caught up with a debate about whether Christians should marry and have sex."
Private collector
King first learned about what she calls "The Gospel of Jesus' Wife" when she received an e-mail in 2010 from a private collector who asked her to translate it. King, 58, specializes in Coptic literature, and has written books on the Gospel of Judas, the Gospel of Mary of Magdala, Gnosticism and women in antiquity.
The owner, who has a collection of Greek, Coptic and Arabic papyri, is not willing to be identified by name, nationality or location, because, King said, "he doesn't want to be hounded by people who want to buy this."
When, where or how the fragment was discovered is unknown. The collector acquired it in a batch of papyri in 1997 from the previous owner, a German.
The owner carried the fragment to the Divinity School in December 2011 and left it with King. She said she was initially suspicious, but it looked promising enough to explore. Three months later, she carried the fragment in her red handbag to New York to show it to two colleagues, both papyrologists: Roger Bagnall, director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, at New York University, and AnneMarie Luijendijk, an associate professor of religion at Princeton University.
They examined the scrap under sharp magnification. It was very small — only 4 by 8 centimeters. The lettering was splotchy and uneven, the hand of an amateur, but not unusual for the time period, when many Christians were poor and persecuted.
It was written in Coptic, an Egyptian language that uses Greek characters — and more precisely, in Sahidic Coptic, a dialect from southern Egypt, Luijendijk said in an interview.
What convinced them it was probably genuine was the fading of the ink on the papyrus fibers, and the traces of ink that adhered to the bent fibers at the torn edges. The back side is so faint that only five words are visible, one only partly: "my moth((er))," "three," "forth which."
"It would be impossible to forge," said Luijendijk, who contributed to King's paper.


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Awesome work! I´d love to go to the Seattle once And thanks for the fav a lot !
Beautiful view! Like those several colors on the b&w
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This spot were I took it is a rare spot to do it to. If I were not at Sakura-con. I would not have gotten this shot.
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Is that the camel right there in the shape of thin smoke?
girl smokin, art in the air, a scene with the sun in the cast, thoughtful and sensual woman
is it an analog?
There's so much emotion in this picture. I can almost feel the frustration she must be feeling.
I really like the focus here...subtle changes from the focus on the model, the couch, and then finally the wall. Nicely done. And smoke looks so wonderful when captured in a photograph!
I don't know why I love cigarette smoke, the color, the way it spread over a room… just in real it smells…
Arts and smoke. I like that.
Love this one! Well done Marta
gorgeous portrait
i love the lighting
ottima la luce...ma per te non è una novità. Sguardo assorto e pallido, montalianamente...
Straordinaria, sempre più talentuosa
Beautiful! May I ask what you did to get this vintage tint?
don't cry about smoking
yes smoking kills but life kills as well
about pic. i like her face expression
yes smoking kills but life kills as well
about pic. i like her face expression
I love this! The lighting, tone and expression are amazing! VERY well caputured^^
this one's great!
Smoking kills. Please tell this beautiful girl she will destroy her beautiful hair and skin like that.
Colors are beautiful.
Colors are beautiful.
I like this kind of color. Look like 1970 when I was younger. Is there a special technique ?
Waaw, this picture is beautiful!
I love it, the lighting . . . the smoke . . and of course the model, beautiful
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"Get Ready For Margin Collapse" Goes Mainstream
First it was "Get Ready For Higher Food Prices" going mainstream... Now, logically following, it is "Get Ready For Margin Collapse." As Zero Hedge has long been warning, the one immediate consequence of surging commodity prices as a result of endless liquidity, is a collapse in corporate margins. Now, about 6 months after we first broached the topic, it has finally hit the mainstream media. The WSJ highlights what is so obvious, it is no wonder no sellside "strategist" is willing to touch the topic with a ten foot pole: "This earnings season has seen a much-welcomed return to revenue growth, giving investors another reason to push stocks to two-year highs. But beneath the surface lurks a fresh worry: For many companies, the cost of raw materials is rising at a faster pace than revenue. Blame it on soaring prices of everything from cotton to copper and corn. That has squeezed profit margins more markedly than many analysts anticipated—and is serving as a worrying sign for future earnings." But yes, aside from the painfully obvious collapse in margins, and thus plunge in net income (sorry, companies can't fire their skeleton crew workers any further) which will mean 2011 S&P 500 EPS will come far, far lower than prevailing consensus, everything is fine.. and don't forget to BTFD.
The WSJ - about half a year behind the curve:
rocter & Gamble, Ford Motor and Kraft Foods are among dozens of companies that reported lower profit margins for the fourth quarter of 2010 compared with the third quarter. Their stocks were punished by investors, even as the companies' profit and revenue exceeded analyst forecasts. The cool reception stood in contrast to the general optimism among investors that has helped the Dow Jones Industrial Average to gain about 6% this year.
About three-quarters of the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index have reported their earnings so far. Some 25% of those companies have posted lower margins in the latest quarter, according to Morgan Stanley. S&P says operating margins for S&P 500 companies in the latest quarter have come in at 8.69%, down from margins of 8.95% for the S&P 500 in the third quarter.
Stunningly, the computers doing all the trading are shocked, shocked, to find out there have been unpassable price increases going on in here.
"I think this quarter was a wake-up call. We're seeing these stocks get hit on margins and sell off dramatically," said Erin Browne, director of global macro trading at Citigroup. "It's definitely picking up steam and becoming much more on the tops of investors' minds, and it's only going to continue as we move through 2011."
This is the token chart presented by the WSJ, which anyone who lived through 2008 could have seen coming from a mile away:
Even that permabull among bulls, Morgan Stanley is issuing warnings:
Some worry that many analysts aren't taking the lower margins into account and are overestimating future profit margins. Adam Parker, Morgan Stanley's chief U.S. equity strategist, says consensus earnings estimates for the rest of the year imply that analysts continue to see margins expanding. That leaves plenty of room for disappointment if rising commodity prices bite deeply into companies' margins.
"Some analysts may be guilty of 'over-extrapolating' the recent margin improvements into their forward outlooks," and companies that fail to meet these heightened expectations may find themselves punished by the market, Mr. Parker warned in a recent note to clients.
Just who may Parker be envisioning? Why the pathological liars from Goldman Sachs of course, where displacing the truth by 179 degrees under the stern eye of Goebbels exhumated corpse has become a fetish.
Cue David Kostin:
Inflation is the initial topic raised by investors in every meeting. Discussion subsequently shifts in one of two directions: (a) the impact rising prices will have on profit margins and earnings; or (b) the impact higher inflation will have on bond yields and the implications for equity valuation. Both subjects are worthy topics for analysis and debate.
However, the initial premise that inflation is rising may be an incorrect assumption. Simply put, most indicators suggest inflation is falling, not rising. In 2011, the perceived risk to US equity prices from inflation vastly overestimates the actual risk, in our view. Investors should consider the historical evidence and our forecasts before finalizing portfolio decisions.
Unlike China where home prices continue to surge, most Americans would not use housing and inflation in the same sentence. Housing is critical to the consumer inflation outlook because it accounts for 41% of the basket of goods used to measure headline CPI and 49% of the core CPI. High unemployment means labor inflation pressures are also likely to remain low.
In fact, Goldman Sachs Economics forecasts most measures of inflation will decline in 2011 and 2012. We forecast Producer Price Index (PPI) for finished goods will fall on an annual basis from 4.3% in 2010 to 3.7% in 2011 and 1.3% in 2012. Core Consumer Price Index (CPI) will fall from 1.0% to 0.7% to 0.5% and the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) Index willdecline from 1.7% in 2010 to 1.1% in 2011 to 0.9% in 2012.
It gets much, much worse:
Commodity prices have surged by an average of 40% during the last 12 months led by Agriculture (+60%), precious metals +50%), industrials metals (+24%) and energy (+14%). Cotton has stretched 142%, corn has popped nearly 90%, gold has rallied 23%, and Brent crude has risen 30%.
More importantly, Goldman Sachs Commodities Research forecasts prices for many commodities will fall over the next 3, 6, and 12 months. Cotton, sugar, coffee, cocoa, wheat and corn prices are all forecast to decline over the next 12 months along with aluminum, nickel and silver. However, gold, WTI crude, and soybean prices should rise (see Exhibit 3). Accelerating GDP growth, low inflation, and low interest rates will likely support a higher S&P 500.
But wait. there's more - the punchline(s):
We acknowledge many investors disagree with our forecast and believe commodities and other raw materials prices will increase in 2011. We analyzed changes in profit margins, P/E multiples, and equity returns during nine periods of rising PPI "crude materials" inflation since the mid-1970s. We focused our historical analysis on the PPI "crude materials" indicator, which is more related to commodities inflation than the PPI "finished goods" or headline or core CPI indicators.
The intuition of many portfolio managers is that inflationary pressures will likely weigh on margins. However, the historical evidence does not support this view. Operating margins actually expanded by an average of 13 bp during episodes of PPI "crude materials" inflation. Technology and Materials registered the greatest margin expansion while Energy margins experienced the sharpest margin contraction.
Hold on to your hats:
We forecast S&P 500 margins in aggregate will rise in 2011 and 2012 by 30 bp and 20 bp, respectively (from 8.5% to 8.8% in 2011 to 9.0% in 2012). Actual margin changes will differ by sector and by company. We expect margins this year will be 109% of the previous high reached in 2008 with Information Technology posting the strongest gains. We expect margins will expand in both 2011 and 2012 for all sectors except Consumer Staples where we forecast a slight 3 bp of compression during each year. We forecast 2011 sector margins will range from 62%-111% of previous highs.
Those who wish to subject themselves to the aneurism inducing masochism of reading David Kostin's complete weekly note, can do so here.
So going back from the never-never world of the Little Goldman Prince, here is what is happening in real life:
Kraft reported a 30% rise in revenue on Thursday. But the company said higher costs for meat, packaging and other raw materials sliced $500 million from net income, which the company reported at $540 million. The shares fell about 2% after the earnings were released. Procter & Gamble blamed higher commodity prices for crimping margins and said higher costs will lower annual earnings by about $1 billion. Since its earnings on Jan. 27, the shares are down 2.1%, compared with a gain in the S&P 500 of 2.5%. Ford shares are down 13% since Jan. 28, when the auto maker reported that rising costs of commodities such as steel and oil helped drag down its fourth-quarter profit.
Companies that are dependent on raw materials to produce their goods are going to feel the biggest pinch, like Procter & Gamble and Ford, said Charles Blood, market strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman. But energy and materials companies are benefiting.
Luckily, the WSJ, where bonuses are not contingent on the size of the lie, has a slightly different view than Goldman:
During the downturn, U.S. companies aggressively cut costs and improved productivity, allowing many of them to churn out profits even as the weak economy kept sales muted. But investors were worried that the cost-cutting would have its limits, and that longer-term growth could really only be sustained by revenue growth.
Bottom line - margins are collapsing, and whatever companies can pass them off (for now), are desperately trying to do so. Those that can't, see their stock prices plunge by 10-15% the day after earnings (see Cisco). And with the myth of recovery not really doing much for consumer purchasing behavior, contrary to repeated lies otherwise (mostly emanating from the very same Goldman Sachs) soon even Goldman will be forced to acknowledge what is an incontrvertible truth. We expect that Jan Hatzius will do so in April (with the lemming Kostin following suit shortly), just in time for the QE3 chorus to hit the 100+ dB level.
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Slowly it's all comin' together...
(sorry, companies can't fire their skeleton crew workers any further)
Our margins have indeed thinned, but I could fire more than 50% of our staff, if volume warranted it, and still make a profit. I have contingency plans for a skeleton crew of 1/5 of what we have now.
Obama will take care of the unemployed, right?
No. Actually the states will borrow the money from Obama who will borrow it from Bernanke, just like every other administration for years. The states still owe all of this EUC back to Bernanke, at interest of course. If the states declare bankruptcy then the fed will take the nominal loss, until it passes it along to the federal treasury. One more bailout disguised as a get tough measure. LOOOOL
The change in Q4 10 incremental operating margins is probably more telling.
Grains will correct but, higher prices are here to stay.
How many bubbles has it been and our MSM still practices willfully dishonest/ignorant economics in the lead up to the problem?
Just wanted to thank the zerohedge staff/creators/contributors for the umpteenth time. Between the articles and the comments I actually learn something new most days.
Between the articles and the comments I actually learn something new most days....
Yeah, me too.
I never knew so many rednecks had internet connection and could work a keyboard. I also never realized how pronounced the "hoarding" gene was in redneck, hillbilly DNA. I'm sure Gregor Mendel would be truly fascinated. Has any geneticist ever found a mullet/hoarding pair?
Mullets/Bullets/Camaros and Libertarians! 2012
Wrote about margin fall just today: http://seekingalpha.com/article/252544-corporate-profit-margins-likely-to-fall-here-s-why
"sorry, companies can't fire their skeleton crew workers any further"
Wrong. There are still American workers who are employed with their bloated salaries and benefits.
They will be canned in total and replaced with oversea's workers. It is a no brainer ZH.
This market and the multi-nationals are going to continue to perform until there is no one left making enough money to buy their crap.
And that day is many, many years away.
With the all of the unrest (and potential unrest) overseas? It wasn't too long ago that workers in India and China were taking out management.
In support of your position:
1) US MNCs pioneered development in China both to obtain access to the future Chinese market and to use China as a low cost export platform to the US. This "export of jobs" took place over a 10 year period and the effects are now being felt in US employment weakness.
2) Chinese exports include less than 5% Chinese value added. The value add is primarily in final assembly labour. The rest of the embedded labour costs reflect US wages for product design, legal, logistics, accounting, marketing and all the rest. Expect to see chunks of this "upper echelon" work being moved elsewhere. India is already making inroads in legal and accounting outsourcing.
The implications are countinued "hollowing out" of the US workforce while Catastrophe Ben is madly printing off ever larger amounts of Bernanke Bucks. A good analogy is the last frame in Thelma & Louise. If Bernanke was in the car he would have the accelerator through the floor despite the car hovering mid-canyon.
Go long agricultural products and screw the Chinese! China is suffering from an extremely severe drought. If there is no sufficient rain in Feb and March, China's winter wheat crop will be utterly fucked!
Wrong. Just like they are buying the real physical metals, they will buy the real physical potash-no worries anymore about no sun, droughts, floods. If all else fails they can make plastic rice and rubber pancakes. And 69 was my entry on the CAPTCHA, whats up.
rubber pancakes! I bet they already have those.
Then styrofoam donuts.
Potash is not grains... Last year's winter wheat crop in China was not good. Chicoms released a large chunk of its official reserve to suppress the domestic wheat prices. The result is: less official reserves and less people wiling to grow wheat. Methinks plastic rice and rubber pancakes will only make the Chicoms suffer the same fate of Ben Ali.
Yes, but they are not allowed to riot. If they do anything, they will be killed or seen as a threat to the great society. Why should it be different than '89? And I wonder what would happen to all of these international companies that hire in China. Although I must admit, it would be good to see them getting a bloody nose.
As I have said many times, QE2 (and QE3) will go from being the safety net underneath the market to the hammer that drives it much lower.
In real terms, quite likely, in nominal terms I'm not so sure.
Dow/Gold 1:1
hello old friend...
Yep, like Zimbabwe... stocks soar while currency heads south... adjust for inflation... returns negative... then the bust and currency is trash... gold, the once and future money.
Let's see, that's raw materials, margins, wholesale prices, retail prices, then yippee, taxes. Such typical government.
Good point, i don't see how the pols can resist the pile of cash companies are sitting on. If they won't add to payrolls, are higher taxes on the way?
looks like we need to cut rates again from 0.25% to .00025%, then maybe credit can be expanded again. However, this would lead to the same outcome as the same periods as 2003 to 2007 and 2009 to 2011. Hmm. Well fuck, do we have another bubble derived from the "I don't see any bubbles" crew again, from our cartel central planning folks. These people (FED) would make Bubble Yum envious.
Fear not. The Bernank can fix this in less than 15 minutes.
Correction: It is up to 17.8 minutes
What a difference a failed CAPTCHA makes!!
The thing about margin compression is:
At some point "doing more with less" is just "going out of business".
Creative destruction of capitalism, baybee. And eventually it's one company providing everything and buying all the political favors by paying for the election of the government and the...
...um. Waitaminute.
a small point here you cannot "destroy capitalism" though i understand your point... capitalism are the economic rules of the game, you cannot avoid them you can fuk about with them (aka USSR and Washington-Wall Street) but capitalism eventually destroys the tossers... you can't run or hide from capitalism even behind the Berlin Wall, its laws work everywhere and will catch you up.
Those that do fuk with capitalism always get fuked... as Wall Street and Washington are about to find out
Good points all. I prefer to think of 'capitalism' as Mr Market.
Mr Market applies to everyone, every gov, every soul on this earth, at all times. Mr Market may be twisted and tweaked for a time but Mr Market always comes roaring back with a vengance and runs over the twisters and tweakers.
The Fed and Keynes thought that Mr Market could be contained, controlled, made to follow rules contrived by a few men for a few men. Not!
in someway the best way to describe capitalism is by looking at socialism and communism.. we see in China, the USSR and North Korea deluded moguls pretending they can magician a strong socialist economy by centrally managing everything... the end result is always the same, debilitating bankruptcy.
You cannot hide from the rules of capitalism. Even behind a totalitarian wall it will not protect you. Piss on efficiency, productivity and deny the free competitive market and all the innovation and progress that provides and capitalism will slowly but surely grind you into the dirt... and that holds true for Western Govts too as they are the exact same basic monopoly power structure and everything they touch (healthcare, transport, mortgages etc) also turns to dust.
Capitalism (the free market) Rules
actually, the hilarious punchline will be when the stock market and commodities fall, the boogie man 'deflation' will be dragged out again, and the following equasion gets into the alpha-wave brainwash machine:
1. margin collapse leads to decreased stock prices.
2. decreasing prices (in any asset class) is "deflation".
3. to avoid deflation, print money.
Stunningly, the computers doing all the trading are shocked, shocked, to find out there have been unpassable price increases going on in here.
Fukn brilliant. Well done ZH.
Hey TD have you ever thought about updating this Debt piece from 2009 to 2011 numbers.
I keep hearing on the MSM that all corporate entities have Gazzillions in cash stashed "just sitting and waiting" to invest and it will put everyone back to work.
I have often wondered what the Debt to Cash ratio is and is the MSM still full of shit as I suspect?
Put simply, there is a lot of apparent "cash on the sidelines" because the government and many corporations have issued enormous quantities of new debt, often with short maturities, while other corporations have purchased it. It is an equilibrium. The assets that are held in the right hand represent debt that is owed by the left. You cannot call that pile of short-term marketable securities an asset without calling it a liability. The cash on the sidelines is evidence of debt incurred to fund economic activity that is already in the past. It will remain "on the sidelines" until the debt is retired. The government debt has been issued to finance deficit spending. At the same time, a great deal of corporate debt has been issued over the past year apparently as a pre-emptive measure against the possibility of the capital markets freezing up again."
Still so difficult to understand hwo a market and a system that is based on the presumption of perpetual growth can still be standing.
Till you realize it is not. It's being propped up.
Dead market walking....
Wow, maybe it is time to pull out the old financial management text books from back in the 80s when we discussed the pervasive effect inflation has on companies balance sheets and financial ratios. Ugh.
Wait, a quick Google finds the following!
In terms of accounting policies, firms using the LIFO inventory cost valuation are more closely matching costs and prices in an inflationary environment. LIFO understates inventory value, overstates the cost of sales, and therefore lowers reported earnings.
Soooo, inflation lowers reported earnings, hmmm. What else does inflation do that distorts the Quick Ratio and Debt/Equity etal? Seems this was a problem back then too.
Inflation is the Satan of the financial world and company financial statements. It is the great deceiver, it's pernicious nature hides the true costs it extracts. Make no mistake, Bennie has taken us down a path that will take decades to fix, if we can at all.
All to satisfy a few equations he watches and to test his PHD thesis. We are in for a wild ride for sure.
Someone explain to me how they can project falling commodity prices with all this fake, new money still hanging 'round the economy...
Simple, what goes up also comes down... the funny counterfeit Fed money is not neccessarily hitting the commodity sector, most of it is doing precisely what it's designed to do, bail out the 'Too Big to Fail' frauds of Wall Street, plug holes, stop leaks, repair their rotten hulls, buy new paddles so they can paddle a bit further up Shit Creek gathering executive bonuses from robbed taxpayers in the game of 'Pretend and Extend' that Washington, the Feds, the Regulators and Wall Street are playing at everyone elses expense... the usual criminal activity of Big Govt and Big Corps
"The intuition of many portfolio managers is that inflationary pressures will likely weigh on margins. However, the historical evidence does not support this view. Operating margins actually expanded by an average of 13 bp during episodes of PPI "crude materials" inflation. Technology and Materials registered the greatest margin expansion while Energy margins experienced the sharpest margin contraction.
Yeah I know, Its different this time.
One man's margin collapse...is another man's margin expansion.
Hmmm, good so the end product price increase fuse is fully lit and burning. Cannot wait for Zimbabwe Ben to explain how this is not because of QE but of incredible economic strength and recover.
Tyler, Tyler....I was the one who mentioned margin collapse over a year ago as a result of higher input prices but that can't be passed on to constrained US consumers, caught in the vice grip of biflation as their real wages and net worth continue to collapse. Let's spread some of the glow around, don't ya think? ZH is as much about group think and mind meld as it is about ego and snark.
Gosh, who woulda thunk it? If it wasn't for rearview mirrors those central planners wouldn't be able to drive.
I don't agree with using CSCO's stock price decline as an example of margin collapse. Their stock price, however, has been a historic indicator of the economy in my book. When corporations are spending on infrastructure CSCO is healthy and when corps. aren't CSCO goes down. So I might guesstimate that the margin compression from CSCO's corp. customers are impacting CSCO's bottom line more than their own cost of materials.
Stunningly, the computers doing all the trading are shocked, shocked, to find out there have been unpassable price increases..
That is funny ;)
One nice thing about zero hedge is it seems to stay a few steps ahead of cnbc. However the signal to noise ratio is a little lower than I would prefer!
"However the signal to noise ratio [on ZH] is a little lower than I would prefer!"
...as compared to the signal to noise ratio of any 'business channel' on tv? What little signal exists on biz channels is usually misinformation...so, one is better off not receiving it.
David Kostin once again demonstrates that GS cocksuckers are the top producers in the industry. Amazing that with a GS partnership goes a lifetime supply of knee pads + depends for when their sphincter muscles collapse
Inflation won't show up in CPI because 45% of the number is housing costs. Just give it a little thought.
++ yup.... that's right..
Tell that to CONgresscritters who can't afford a place in DC, who are thus sleeping in their offices...
The way I see it....companies will have good sales this quarter..but cost will have risen...so the margins are squeesed...they will miss "expectations"...and the stock will drop a little..QE will keep them up this quarter.....after this quarter they will have to riase prices..so sales will then drop...then the market will drop big...QEIII will not help then...its over..
Think how much more interesting the game of Monopoly would be if 'the banker' were allowed to pull all the bs that happens in the real world.
Perhaps some enterpreneur out there could come up with a new game, similar to Monopoly, but where ALL the players are bankers and allowed to issue debt, operate on 50:1 margin, take long/short positions in all commodities, create 'innovative' debt instruments, open swap lines with other players, etc.
If this game had been created, instead of the simplistic game of Monopoly as we know it, Americans would have a grasp of what bankers, the treasury, the Fed, foreign CBs, and our government are really doing to us.
That could actually be a really interesting twist to a game of Monopoly (for some of us, anyway). Trading insurance vs landing on hotels, returning a yield on borrowed money, and creating swaps on existing squares.
It might make for one hell of a confusing game, but perhaps it could be an online multiplayer computer game.
"perhaps it could be an online multiplayer computer game"
I like the idea of an online multiplayer computer game. Players could also have a Gulfstream, to be used if they decided to rob their own bank and fly off the board. :) Naturally, the game would need a treasury dept and IRS. A player would incur an audit if landing on the wrong square.
It would certainly be more interesting than Farmville.
got owned in this overbought market btw. took our book down to zero: http://www.hedgefundlive.com/blog/trader-reahab-again-i-take-my-book-down-to-zero
Actually, since Peak Oil, occured in 2005-6, we have no 'growth' left in us...those who cannot see this simple fact, have their noses stuck in too much paper. Real wealth, is measured in food and comfort, those who say you cannot eat gold, will get a real taste of how paper tastes, in the not too distant future. For without growth in oil, you will say goodbye to the entire paradigm of Infinite Growth on a finite planet. Without oil, the paper doesn't work, because all paper is based on 'the future'. When that basic 'commodity' goes flat, and sour, and becomes generally recognized, what do you think happens to margins' then?
War is coming, do you feel it, do you smell it, do you hear the drums of War playing in the winds of scarcity?


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This is random and off topic, but the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are in first place somehow!! I doubt this will happen too much longer.
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This is random and off topic, but the Tampa Bay Devil Rays are in first place somehow!! I doubt this will happen too much longer.
It's also snowing in Arlington this morning. I doubt we'll see that again this year....I guess snow beats the hail and tornado we had on Tuesday...
D Rays line up looks pretty good. If their pitching can manage... I think they may have some success.
Twins are on pace for 162-0!
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Los Angeles Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni heard enough of forward Paul Gasol's complaining and fired back on Friday.
Gasol expressed displeasure in recent days about his role in the Lakers' system and that he feels out of place because he wants to be used in the post.
"The biggest thing is, everybody, to a man, we've just got to play harder and worry about things less," D'Antoni said after the Lakers' shootaround on Friday morning in Oklahoma City.
Gasol is averaging 14.4 points, nine rebounds and three assists per game while shooting 41.7 percent from the field. Those numbers are well below his career averages of 51.5 percent shooting from the floor and 18.3 points.
"That's one thing, if they just don't want to do it that way," D'Antoni said of his system. "Then you have to accept it or not. But there's no reason to not play hard."
The 33-year-old Gasol told the Los Angeles Times on Wedneday that the system is to blame for that.
"The fact that I'm not getting the ball in the post affects directly my aggressiveness," Gasol said. "When I'm not getting the ball where I want to, where I'm most effective, where I can bang guys and utilize my skill, that affects my aggressiveness and overall intensity."
D'Antoni said, "That's a classic: 'Well, I don't know what I'm supposed to do. Well, you don't have trouble getting up to the pay stub line. They know what to do there to get the check. So, obviously, you know what to do. They will."
In an NBA.com story earlier in the week, Gasol acknowledged that he is intrigued by returning to Memphis and playing on the same team as his brother Marc. Gasol becomes a free agent next summer.
"It's appealing," Gasol told NBA.com. "One of the best centers in the NBA, one of the best interior players, is my brother. There's a lot of attractive factors there. But who knows if that's even a possibility or if that will ever happen.
"Right now, I'm just trying to focus on (the Lakers' opponents) and staying healthy and playing a very successful year so this team and others will have the certainty and the confidence that I am a difference-maker, that I am an elite player and I have a lot of years in me."
D'Antoni was to start Jordan Hill with Gasol in the frontcourt on Friday night.
"He'll get through it," D'Antoni said of Gasol. "The message is the same to everybody: Just play hard, and we'll figure it out. If you don't play hard, it's hard to figure out because you don't know what works and what doesn't. I think everybody has the same message, and we keep beating it in during practice. Every film session we show them what we want, and hopefully they'll do it."


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To the trailhead: From Paseo de Peralta head away from downtown Santa Fe on Washington Avenue. Go Right on Artist Rd toward the State Park. This will become Hyde Park Rd. At the intersection of Hyde Park and Cerros Colorados turn left. The Dale Ball Trails parking lot is on your immediate right. From here it will take about 20 minutes to reach this letterbox.
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Tix at regular festival outlets RCR plays at 6:30 pm
Sounds Like: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rancid, The Specials, Sublime, Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Label: Stomp Records / Skaspot Records, Skaspot Records
Manager: Dan Cowan
Bio: Vancouver, B.C. based "Power-Ska" band Rude City Riot now take their place alongside Canada's top Ska talents with the 2011 release of "Nothin But Time" on Stomp Records. This is RCR's first full length recording and is available in stores now, or online at itunes, Amazon and of course at Stomp...See Full Bio
"Vancouver's Rude City Riot deserves a hearty shout-out — their Friday night set really showed off great songwriting and musicianship on songs like "Victoria," "See You In Hell" and a cover of Bad Manners' "Sally Brown." Their performance was definitely among the best of the fest. The highlight sets by Roy Panton and Yvonne Harrison, Rude City Riot and the Slackers, among others, were more than enough to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Ska Fest."


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GARDEN VALLEY — The task facing Golden Sierra volleyball each season is a recurring theme for past, current and future Grizzly teams … namely, what to do when a league opponent is beneath your level.
Monday was no different as Highlands, a team Golden Sierra should crush, pushed the Griz to overtime in the opening set and again in the third before succumbing 28-26, 25-6, 25-15 in Sierra Delta League action.
Golden Sierra did blast the visiting Scots in the middle set behind the hitting of Jazmin Lutey-Willard and long service runs by Jordyn Condit, Paige Murchison and Elise Wilson.
"I think we came in with the mindset we'd win and they'd roll over and we'd take it but we jumped the gun a bit," Lutey-Willard said. "We fell back into that (same) mindset in the third (game) but were able to shake it off."
Highlands bounced back in the last set before the Grizzlies awoke from their stupor to end on an 11-1 run, 10 coming with Abby Wever on serve. The hitting of Murchison, Wever, Condit's dump and then her redirected hit were highlights while Lindsey Natrass' block ended it.
"The girls stepped up at the end and served where I asked which got us a few more aces," Golden Sierra coach Justin Cox said. "Highlands has improved a lot but unfortunately they're small. They made us work for our kills and when the ball came back we were surprised."
Using that standard, the Griz were shocked the entire first set as the Scots were in position to grab the lead. Golden Sierra, which battled serve-receive issues, hung in on Robin Moore's kill and made its move on Becca Brown's tap-down followed by Brown's kill off Condit's back set.
In overtime, smashes by Brittany Lashell and Lexi Chiaratti led to Condit taking the sideout and sending two blistering jump serves that Higlands failed to return.
"It's hard to play a team that isn't at our level … it's a slower pace than we're used to," said LaShell who along with Chiaratti and Wilson led the defense. "Overall the defense played well."


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waw you're a vilain man!
It's a great job but you're any heart, I hurt for him.
It's a great job but you're any heart, I hurt for him.
oww woow this looks epic!
you have one great art style!
you have one great art style!
hopefully she'll bleed out before the nasty chewing business ensues.
Что-то такое... отчаянно. Браво!
Words cannot describe how much I love this!
That's one bad ending. You have to wonder who's javelin that is in her neck though.
Cant find the words.......
Well yeah you are about to die, but if you reach for the sword falling with you. You can grab it and then when the dragon swallows you, just start stabbing and slashing everywhere. You might get lucky and take it with you as it chokes on it's own blood.
Finally a believeable dragon fight. And awesome work besides.
Simply amazing
That spear in your neck? Nah it's just a flesh wound. Just let yank the thing out and bandage it. Then use the spear to kill the thing that's about to eat you. You can win this buddy! What? No I can't help you. I'm here for emotional support. And I am the invisible, one armed man. What do you expect me to do?
Необычная интерпретация традиционной тематики. Причем довольно жестокая и реалистичная - в стиле Игры Престолов)
fckn nice colour and light!
одна из самых динамичных картин, которые я видел
Вот беда - и копьем проткнули и монстр щас сжует... Не день Бэкхама однозначно
Game over
nice angle
really awesome work!
very dramatic!
very dramatic!
Ух, отличная работа. Все теперь +watch
niceeeee like this one a lot!!
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Member Feature #4 with NujabesJournal Entry: Sat May 19, 2012, 6:01 AM
Hello there
I'm dekorAdum, and my duty at Urban-and-Rural is to feature submitted artworks. Recently we decided to change the way we do it, and instead of themes & Featured folders, we decided to pick only one Member and make a little interview with them to get to know our members a little more and I'll feature amazing U&R photographers every second week!
Our Previous Featured Members
Interview with geolio
Interview with BlauBeerKuchen
Interview with Twitch100
Here is our next Featured Member, romainjl
First of all, thank you so much romainjl for taking time and let me interview you!
#1 When did you start taking Urban & Rural Photos?
I started taking urban photos just after my arrival in Hong Kong in 2009.
#2 What kind of equipment do you own for taking photos?
I have a Nikon D5000 with few lenses. For urban shots, I mainly use my Nikkor 18-200mm and my Sigma 10-20mm.
#3 Do you have a favourite Urban & Rural Photographer here on deviantART?
Curiously, I don't browse much urban photos on deviantART.
My favorite photographer in this field is Michael Wolf, but he doesn't have an account here.
My favorite photographer in this field is Michael Wolf, but he doesn't have an account here.
#4 What are your favourites from your own gallery and why?
For graphic art I would choose :
because they are related to artist / piece of art that impressed me very deeply.
Regarding photography, I would choose :
I think it's because I like to see how the density and crowd can actually look calm and tidy when you take some distance from it.
#5 How or why did you start taking U&R related photos?
When I arrived in Hong Kong I was amazed by the unique urban environment there. The density of buildings combined with a great richness of details made me want to take my camera and record it..
And now more amazing photos from the deviant!
Stay tuned for the next Volume!
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Interview and Art Feature with ~Nujabes, the amazingly talented Photographer who is a Member of #Urban-and-Rural
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life of Pi . by megatruhWatch
©2012-2016 megatruh
a speedy I did last night I want to submit something at December 10th, which I never did.
I used SAI's crayon tool for the clouds, really fun and helpful~ recommended for all SAI users 8D
I used SAI's crayon tool for the clouds, really fun and helpful~ recommended for all SAI users 8D
i just love this.
Wow! Can I use your picture? What license?
Need to buy or provide a link to you?
Need to buy or provide a link to you?
So gorgeous
One of my favorite movies!! Beautiful!!
WOW, this is so beautiful!
One of my favorite movies! Have you ever thought of doing any digital art for the movie Cloud Atlas?!
Megatruh, I just want to inform you that your drawing is used everywhere (Youtube, website...), it seems to be very appreciate. :')
this scene was absolutely beautiful <3
pretty; I really love this film!!
I watched this film and I totally love tha effects used here
would be great if one day I can see a scenery like that in real life o3o
no more destroying nature... hahaha
This is lovely <3
It's so beautiful *-*
whaaat? "I did last night" he say's
You definitely have some greeat awesome experience & creativity.
You definitely have some greeat awesome experience & creativity.
OMG i love it girl!
This is absolutely stunning! The colors are gorgeous!
Wow amazing, love that part in this film <3
AWWWW! I love Richard Parker :3 I just wish it wouldnt have ended the way it did
I LOVE THE LIFE OF PI SO MUCH! IT'S SO AMAZING! plus, i love tigers. AWESOME!
That´s amazing!
Waow une vrai illusion cette oeauvre et magnifique
The most beautiful scenery of the movie. The entire film is magnificent visually magnificent. The story is heroic, yet humble
I love how the sea dissolves into the sky
How do I get a print?!?!?
How do I get a print?
Great job!
What were your settings on the crayon tool?
I loved that scene in the movie. It was such a beautiful movie, I didn't want it to end. XD Awesome job!
I loved the movie, beautiful!
beautiful, looks like Richard's driving the boat
Absolutely stunning... the background is phenomenally shaded & painted. Simply magical, and it looks like it's straight from the film! So perfectly to the colour scheme!
Beautiful! Love all the colours and light!
Amazing !!
great job
i love this movie
i love this movie
Really, really beautiful.
Can I use it for my desktop background please? *.*
Great work!
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Spring in Buckovina by lica20Watch
©2012-2016 lica20
From Bukovina,Romania.
this is a really stunning picture, actually one of the best landscapepictures I've seen. The light is beautiful and the picture have all the important parts; a foreground (the flowers) a "middle" (the grass and the line of the trees) and a background (the sky), which makes the photo complete. It is much to look at, which always is important. Also the composition is really good, like the place of the sun. As I said, a really stunning landscape photography. Good light, composition and technique.
You have done a great job!
Keep up the good work and I hope you have a nice day!
You have done a great job!
Keep up the good work and I hope you have a nice day!
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Canon Universe
Back in the days it used to be simple. There was the canon, and everything else was fanon. But then along came the different media adaptations, the addendum made by the authors, the noncanon - often contradicting previous things, or each others - and the various Universe Bibles. Different fandoms have different ways of determining what's definitely officially part of the universe or not. Here's an index to help you.
See also:
- All There in the Manual
- Canon
- Canon Illustrations
- Canon Welding
- Expanded Universe
- Franchise Index
- God Does Not Own This World
- Fanon
- Intercontinuity Crossover
- Modular Franchise
- Series Franchise
- Shared Universe
- Spin-Off
- Universe Bible
- Universe Chronology
- Universe Compendium
- Universe Concordance
- Unreliable Canon
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Fox News anchor Heather Childers roused controversy on Tuesday when she posted on Twitter questioning the Obama campaign's intent and threats to murder Chelsea Clinton.
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Article: Structural properties of relaxed Ge buffer layers on Si (0 0 1): Effect of layer thickness and low temperature Si initial buffer[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We have used the strain sensitive tool two-dimensional reciprocal space mapping (2D-RSM) and high resolution rocking curves (HR-RC) to assess the effect of the layer thickness and the influence of low temperature Si buffer on the properties of fully relaxed Ge on Si (0 0 1). The samples were grown by chemical vapor deposition in an ASM commercial reactor. As complementary measurements we have employed secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) for chemical analysis, cross sectional transmission electron microscopy for quality assessment, and finally atomic force microscopy (AFM) for investigating the surface roughness. The investigated samples have a thickness ranging from 0.25 to 5.0 m. In addition and for a 5.0 m thick Ge layer, an initial low temperature Si (LT-Si) template was grown before the Ge epitaxy. The results indicate that high quality fully relaxed Ge layers have been achieved using the adopted growth procedure. Most of the improvement in crystalline quality was observed for Ge layers with thickness up to 1.5 m. Above this thickness the observed crystalline quality improvement was negligible. The LT-Si buffer observed to be disadvantageous for pure relaxed Ge growth.
Article: Direct assessment of relaxation and defect propagation in different as-grown and in situ post-growth annealed thin Ge/Si and step-graded Si 1− x Ge x /Si buffer layers[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The strain-sensitive X-ray two-dimensional reciprocal space mapping diffractrometry (2D-RSM) is employed to investigate the relaxation parameters and defect propagation in various thin relaxed buffer layers (RBLs) having a pure Ge top. In addition, we also studied the effect of in situ post-growth thermal treatments at an early growth stage of RBLs with low and intermediate Ge fraction. Both direct Ge epitaxy and multi-layer step-graded epitaxy have been adopted to grow these RBLs using chemical vapor deposition (CVD) at elevated partial pressure (around 10 Torr), which implies a much higher growth rate than RBLs grown using ultra-high vacuum CVD technique. Fully relaxed Ge top layers were obtained for both the direct Ge epitaxy, as well as for the step-graded technique. The results, when comparing these two techniques, favor the direct Ge epitaxy. However, the results of in situ post-growth annealing of the step-graded RBLs indicate a large reduction in the threading dislocations present in the grading regions without a change of relaxation degree or Ge% incorporation in that region.
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ABSTRACT: We study the device characterization of Si-on-insulator (SOI) metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) with buried Si1−xGex quantum well (QW) channel. Accurate quantum mechanical description of the p-channel of the buried Si1−xGex QW shows that the peak carrier concentration in the conduction channel is higher in the positively graded SiGe QW, whereas the carriers are more uniformly distributed in the retrograded QW. By phenomenologically introducing a physical parameter to describe the energy relaxation of transmitting wave due to various scattering processes, systematic simulation about quantum wave transmissions of our SOI MOSFET indicates normal current-bias characteristics at nanometre regime. A threshold gate bias of about 0.6 V is obtained for both the positively graded and retrograded SiGe QWs.
Article: Characterization of strain relaxation in low-defect-density thin single and step-graded germanium buffer layers by high-resolution two-dimensional X-ray diffraction mapping[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Double-crystal x-ray diffraction rocking curves and two-dimensional reciprocal space mapping (2D-RSM) are utilized to characterize the degree of strain relaxation, lattice parameters and assessment of defect propagation in two growth approaches to yield relaxed germanium buffer layers on silicon substrates. Two schemes are investigated: direct epitaxy of a single relaxed buffer layer (SE-RBL) and step-graded multiple relaxed buffer layers (GM-RBLs). The characteristics of these two growth schemes offer prospects of a much thinner grown layer compared with previously reported approaches. Two-dimensional reciprocal space mapping shows that an SE-RBL with a thickness of less than 0.35 µm has a superior quality over the GM-RBLs. A high relaxation factor (R = 0.986±0.002) is obtained from the asymmetric (113) 2D-RSM of the SE-RBL with 100% Ge content. Further, the ratios of full width at half maximum of the layer to substrate FWHM (L/S) of nearly unity for both ω and ω/2θ scan directions imply a very high-quality crystalline relaxed buffer layer is realized. The 2D-RSM of the material deposited using the GM-RBL scheme, the first of its kind regarding the total grown thickness (approximately 6 µm), also show a mosaic final Ge buffer layer with an indication of reduction of dislocation density.
Conference Paper: Direct assessment of relaxation and defect propagation in different thin single Ge/Si and step-graded Si1-xGex/Si buffer layers for RF and Microwave Applications[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: We have used the direct and strain sensitive double crystal and multi-crystal high resolution x-ray diffraction to perform double crystal rocking curves (DC-HRRC) and triple axis high resolution 2-D reciprocal space mapping (2D-RSIM) respectively, as the main tool to assess the relaxation and defect propagation in Ge and Si1-x relaxed buffers layers grown on Si (001) substrates. The present study represents one of the first studies regarding the direct extraction and assessment of relaxation parameters and defect propagation in relaxed buffer layers having top pure Ge fully relaxed layer. This technique allows the direct and accurate determination of the mismatches of the lattice parameters parallel and perpendicular to growth directions with an accuracy of 10-5. The investigated heterostructures include Ge/Si single epitaxial relaxed buffer layer (SE-RBL) and step graded multi layer Si1-x/Si relaxed buffer layer (SG-RBL) with Ge fractions of x=0.15, 0.44 and final pure Ge top layer. Moreover, the effect of post processing annealing is investigated for different temperature time cycles for some of these structures. The unique thin total grown thickness (maximum of 6 μm) actually enables the use of the high resolution X-ray diffraction
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ABSTRACT: A comprehensive electrical characterisation of the SiGe/Si heterostructures has been per-formed in the wide temperature range (10270 K). Four structures fabricated by the Ge + ion implanta-tion technique at different substrate temperatures (room temperature, 150°C, 450°C and 600°C) have been studied. The diode I-V characteristics, thermally stimulated capacitance and currents were meas-ured and the presence and parameters of shallow trap levels were determined in dependence on the substrate temperature. The sample implanted at 450°C shows the best diode operation reflecting the higher quality of the surface silicon layer as compared to RT-and 150°C-implanted samples. Implanta-tion-induced mechanical stresses have been investigated by Raman spectroscopy. For the first time the cryogenic TSCR technique has been applied to this system which makes it possible to investigate strain in the silicon layer due to SiGe layer formation.
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ABSTRACT: An analytical model for a double QW-PMOS is developed for the determination of the threshold voltages and an estimate of the hole densities in each conducting QW-channel including the silicon surface channel. Detailed analysis of the uncoupled retrograded double QW-PMOS is carried out with varying structural and physical parameters. The model adequately describes and predicts the best design choice of the double QW structure for optimum device performance. The procedure for the evaluation of the optimum structure is not just limited to QW-PMOSs in bulk silicon technology but can be also successfully applied for realizing QW-NMOS structures on relaxed buffer layers.
Article: Optical study of APCVD-grown Si1−xGex/Si quantum well structures under different post-growth annealing conditions[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Single and double Si1−xGex/Si quantum well (QW) structures, which were grown by atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition (APCVD), are characterized by photoluminescence and secondary-ion mass spectrometry. Systematic post-growth annealing treatments are carried out at temperatures between 600 and 1100°C in pure N2 ambient. The interdiffusion between the Si layer and the Si1−xGex well layers occurs at the annealing temperature around 900°C. From SIMS measurements for single QW structures we have estimated the activation energy which is about 3.9 eV in the temperature range between 950°C and 1100°C. The double QW structures show a similar value. The intensity of the exciton recombination related to carriers confined in the double QW structures decreases with increasing annealing temperatures and becomes strongly suppressed at 750°C. When the annealing temperature is increased further, the intensity of the QW emission recovers in the QW structures.
Article: Photoluminescence of pseudomorphic SiGe formed by 74Ge+ ion implantation in the overlayer of silicon-on-insulator material[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: A metastable SiGe-on-insulator structure is realized by a high-dose 74Ge+ ion implantation in the overlayer of silicon-on-insulator followed by solid phase epitaxial regrowth. Studies of the optical properties of the germanium-implanted and post-implantation annealed layers with 18% peak germanium concentration were carried out using photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The electrical integrity of the strained layer was qualitatively inferred from the pseudo-mosfet characterization technique. The PL results show that the broadband (BB) emission related to germanium implantation damage can be completely eliminated by post-implantation thermal treatment. PL spectra and measured transconductance of the sample heat-treated at 500 °C indicate conclusively that a defect-free strained SiGe layer has been formed. However, samples heat-treated at higher temperatures show degradation in the charge carrier lifetime, a new BB emission with 0.816 eV peak energy and an emergence of defect related emission at 0.870 eV for samples annealed at and above 900 °C. © 1998 American Institute of Physics.
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ABSTRACT: A comprehensive electrical characterisation of the SiGe/Si heterostructures has been performed in the wide temperature range (10-270 K). For this study die structures fabricated by the ion implantation technique at three different substrate temperatures (room temperature, 150 C and 450 C) have been used. The presence and parameters of shallow and deep levels and the diode performance were studied as a function of the substrate temperature. The sample implanted at 450 C shows the best diode operation reflecting the higher quality of the surface silicon layer as compared to RT- and 150 C-implanted samples. For the first time the cryogenic TSCR technique has been applied to this system which makes it possible to investigate strain in the silicon layer due to SiGe layer formation.
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ABSTRACT: A comprehensive electrical characterisation of the SiGe/Si heterostructures has been performed in the wide temperature range (10-270 K). For this study the structures fabricated by the ion implantation technique at three different substrate temperatures (room temperature, 150 C and 450 C) have been used. The presence and parameters of shallow and deep levels and the diode performance were studied as a function of the substrate temperature. The sample implanted at 450 C shows the best diode operation reflecting the higher quality of the surface silicon layer as compared to RT- and 150 C-implanted samples. For the first time the cryogenic TSCR technique has been applied to this system which makes it possible to investigate strain in the silicon layer due to SiGe layer formation.
Article: Quantum mechanical description of p-type Si/Si1-xGex quantum well MOSFET in silicon-on-insulator technology[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The limitation of the semiclassical description of the charge distribution in the thin, strained buried overlayer of the silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate is seen as a hinderance to the progress in device modelling and engineering when using this advanced electronic material technology. A self-consistent solution of the Schrödinger and Poisson equation is carried out to determine the hole distribution in the SiGe quantum well (QW) with a positively and negatively graded trapezoidal Ge profile grown on a SOI substrate. From a thorough analysis of the gate charge control, we predict that the improved hole confinement and channel mobility in the SiGe QW can be maximized over a wide gate voltage range using a negatively graded trapezoidal Ge profile. In addition a much thinner silicon cap layer thickness, with reduced interface scattering, can be used for the retrograded Ge profile.
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