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Intolerance in Egypt: 'They call it a revolution; it was never a revolution'
For decades, Agamy has been policed by well-organized bedouins and populated, mostly in the summer, by the middle and upper class.
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AGAMY, EGPYT—Off the Egypt tourist track, far from the camel riders of the Giza pyramids and the scuba divers of the Red Sea, is a little village that is one of the country's oldest beach destinations.
For decades, it has been policed by well-organized bedouins and populated, mostly in the summer, by the middle and upper class. On its sandy streets, covered by gigantic palm trees, you heard Arabic mixed with Greek, Italian, English or French. There were no fancy hotels, no monuments, nothing to see really, but it was how it made you feel.
Agamy couldn't be divided, not by class, not by religion. There was nothing quite like it — and it was ours.
The village, some 20 kilometres west of Alexandria, is where I spent the first few years of my life. It is where my mother, a Christian, walked to the grocery store in little more than a bikini, and where she was once mocked by construction workers for wearing too many layers on her way to the beach.
This summer, my aunt was strolling along that same street, still unpaved, only to have a construction worker throw a brick her way — she wasn't wearing enough layers. Her arms and her head were bare.
Many of the homes in Agamy are now empty. Locals say the Agamy of my childhood is nearing its death.
Although high-rise buildings are going up on every empty corner, they will be filled by conservative Islamists — if they are filled at all. Few of them are properly built. Permits? Since the revolution, nobody's really checking.
"They call it a revolution, but it was never a revolution," says Aya Akel, a liberal Muslim. I became friends with Aya on the beach in Agamy 18 years ago, while we were trying to break away from our big brothers' eagle eyes and smoke a few cigarettes, away from the crowds.
She believes the result of the January 25 Revolution — as they call it — is a failure. Young activists sparked it, she says, "but we were cheated by the Muslim Brotherhood."
During those 11 adrenaline-filled days, as she describes it, Aya was one of those who helped bring medical supplies to the injured. She laughs when I mention democracy. "We should be aspiring to become like Turkey," she says. Instead, "we're heading somewhere between Iran and Saudi Arabia."
Will the government impose the veil? No, "but they are going to make us feel so uncomfortable, many women will choose to wear it just to avoid the harassment," says another friend, Lamia Adham.
On one of the many TV talk shows born from the uprising, I watched a debate between the co-host and a member of the committee rewriting the constitution. The topic? The possibility of reducing the minimum age for women to marry, from 18 to just 9. After all, once a girl has her period, she is a woman.
Egyptians are now about to vote on their new constitution, which fails to mention a minimum age, leaving the door dangerously open, according to Amnesty International.
"Daniele," Aya says, "we're f---ed."
Although not in those exact words, my 70-year-old uncle Roger, who shocked the entire family when he joined the crowd at Tahrir Square last year, makes his case:
"My dream of seeing Egypt become a civilized country in my lifetime, I know now, will never happen."
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- Release Date: May 3, 2013
- Starring: Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Gwyneth Paltrow, Robert Downey Jr.
- Summary: Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man? [Marvel Studios]… Expand
- Director: Shane Black
- Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Fantasy
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Mixed: 14 out of 44
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It sharply fuses the humor and heart of the earlier films with a satisfyingly heavy-metal strength — and a darkness that's more than earned.
The real question for audiences isn't whether Tony Stark/Iron Man defeats the latest supervillain (of course he does), but whether the movie itself rises above the dreaded third-in-a-sequel torpor of "Spider-Man" and "The Dark Knight." Spoiler alert: Yes, mostly, it does.
Here, it's hard not to wish Downey were sparring with his costumed comrades again, instead of trading barbs with the far-less-colorful cast members — old and new — of this busy, sporadically diverting sequel.
The villains are all wrong, the motivations are muddy, even the gadgetry is off. And the swaggering genius at the center of it all has become a preening fool.
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May 3, 2013This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. So first of all, I want to say that I loved this movie, but I do get the hate on it, for it's controversial plottwist.
But there are some reasons why some fanboys shoud NOT be so angry about it;
- first of all, the fake mandarin was set up, to not set up a racist stereotype and more of like a fun character.
- aldrich killian revealed that he was the real mandarin, he even had some dragontattoos across his chest.
- a big part of the fanbase was angry at Tony throwing his arc reactor away at the end, but Tony states that he is still Iron Man and he picks up one of the extremis holders, which will likely mean that he will build an extremis suit, powered by repulsor technology (which has also been confirmed as the new energysource for the suits.) and this will set up a suit that will allow Tony to go into space with it, and this will probably set up the bridge between guardians of the galaxy and avengers 2.
so for me this was a very good movie, and I think they've done a great job with expanding the MCU even further… Expand
May 4, 2013This was a great movie it was really good The was tons of action, it had some funny moments and Robert Downey Jr did a great job acting wise as well as Gwyneth Paltrow Don Cheadle, Ben Kingsley and Guy Pearce.… Expand
Apr 3, 2014This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Iron Man 3 is another fantastic film from Marvel Studios, It's a good way to end the trilogy. The original Iron Man movie is great, Iron Man 2 was not that great, The Avengers was revolutionary and this is also great. Overall it had some great action and some good story elements in it. I really wish people would not be so hateful to this movie just because of how much they hated that plot twist with the Mandarin, even though I didn't care, I mean I guess it was pretty stupid but I am not going to judge the movie by that one point. That wasn't even the worst part about this movie, I say probably the worst thing in this film is the fact that this felt more like "Tony Stark: The Movie" than a new Iron Man movie, I mean why not have more Iron Man in it. However the story was still good and it even has a bit of funny and enjoyable moments. If you can survive that plot twist that insulted many Comic Book fans, I think you will enjoy this movie.… Expand
Jun 7, 2013When Iron Man 3 opens and Eiffel 65's hit "Blue" from 1999 begins to play as we see the Marvel and Paramount logos flash up on the screen it was clear we were in for a little something different this time around. I haven't read many comic books and out of the ones I have, none of them have ever been an Iron Man comic, but at the end of the day it feels like that if there were a film that was able to get as close to the spirit of its source material (or even the artistic medium originally used for that matter) that it might be this one. Granted, I have nothing to base that on, but it is simply a gut instinct in that the tone of this film is very light in its banter, very quick in its wit, and also more personal at the same time than I ever expected it to be, especially considering the obvious point that it's a massive summer blockbuster. While Iron Man 3 doesn't exactly live up to the expectations I was holding for it, it instead reroutes them and delivers a story that was more on the opposite side of the standard super hero flick spectrum while still containing enough explosions and fight scenes to appease those that go to these kinds of movies expecting nothing more than that. Director Shane Black (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang) takes over for Jon Favreau (who still shows up to play Happy Hogan) and took on writing duties as well and has delivered a very Shane Black-esque script with plenty of self-referential dialogue and a large scale action set piece every twenty minutes or so. I enjoyed the film immensely and found Robert Downey Jr. as good as ever as Tony Stark, but despite all the flash and bang it still felt like there was something missing, or maybe that's just because Captain America, Thor, and The Hulk didn't bother to show up.
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May 4, 2013I am not gonna jump on here to disgrace this film in anyway what so ever. It was not a horrible movie, however it was not the best Iron Man, or comic based story for that matter. It began interestingly enough, then the story became weak throughout, and the character development was...lacking. I was really hoping they would build on Stark's problems a little more. I had also wished that they really played around with the relationship between Pepper and Stark more than they did. In the end it is a film worth seeing if you are a fan, but remember you aren't looking at a film masterpiece. In my personal opinion Iron Man, The Avengers, and X-Men: First Class were the best Marvel films as of recent. I felt Thor and Captain America were a little rushed. I didn't like the way they re-portrayed Spidey either. I hope they can come on top with another great marvel film soon enough.… Expand
Jun 15, 2013This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I'm pretty easy to please, and tend to like movies most others don't like, and movies most people do like. This was not one of those movies. They completely ruined the Mandarin, and the fact that Ben Kingsley was a complete hoax aside what was originally portrayed in the trailers reinforces the total disapointment that is Iron Man 3. They shouldn't have cast Ben Kingsley and his version of the "fake" Mandarin all together, and just ran with the burning orange bio-energy wielding Guy Pearce as the Mandarin instead. It would have had a cooler, less misdirecting feel with a better movie adaptation of a super villain.
The other, just as much if not more of a let down what how WEAK Iron Man was portrayed as in this movie. I know it's a typical comic book adaptation movie, where the hero deals with a new situation, gets the crap beat out of him/her, comes back and wins/saves the day/world. The whole movie Iron Man and Stark were like a joke, going through suits like toilet paper and getting crushed like tin cans. This is the SAME HERO that took on an ALIEN ARMY and a NORSE GOD, yet some freak science experiments are able to crush his suit like it's nothing?? This was all very underwhelming for what, in my opinion, wasn't even close to what an Iron Man movie should be like.
I hope he is better portrayed in the Avengers too, and my apologies to those who actually liked the movie, as I'm just stating my personal opinion in this review.… Expand
Nov 9, 2013Iron Man 3 seems to be a tired echo of its predecessors. The scenes were bland and the fast, and unusual, pace of the movie, compared to the previous, made it unbearable to watch. 15 minutes into the movie I very munched missed the former director. If Iron Man 3 is a taste of what is now to come from Marvel studios, I will no longer be the devoted movie goer I have been in the past. I have a feeling Disney is interfering too much in the production process now. I hope this does not carry over to the upcoming Star Wars movies or I will not be watching those as well.
We need character depth and devolpement. Fast paced action is for Michael Bay teeny bopper fans. Blah. Waste of money.… Expand
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This review is from: Sound Practice: Phonological Awareness in the Classroom (Resource Materials for Teachers) (Paperback)
This book aims to provide teachers with a sound understanding of the importance of phonological awareness to successful literacy. It explores practical ways in which phonological skills can be developed; suggests ways in which children with weaknesses in this area can be helped; links phonological skills to reading and writing programmes, and finally offers concrete examples of ways children with persistent weaknesses in literacy can be supported in main-stream education.
The authors of this study are highly credible. Their background consists of teaching pupils with SLD, teacher training, speech therapy and research. They thus combine extensive practical experience with in-depth theoretical knowledge. Their credibility is further enhanced by the fact that teachers were involved in the research project from which this book developed.
Just as the authors' own experiences combine practice with research, the book itself offers a useful balance between theory and practice. In their introduction they refer to the considerable body of research which proves the link between early systematic promotion of phonological awareness and greater success when learning to read and write. But they also remark on the fact that these findings are not being applied to the classroom. They identify a lack of "usable techniques which can be applied effectively in the 'real world' of the classroom" (p.viii). The book therefore aims to fill the gap, by not only providing teachers with a theoretical understanding of the part phonological skills play in learning to read and write, but also by providing teachers with 'usable techniques', whereby they can easily integrate phonological activities into their teaching programmes.
The book is highly readable and accessible. The chapters follow a thematic progression, which is made even clearer for the reader by the inclusion of introductions and summaries at the beginnings and ends of chapters.
Chapter one begins with a series of questions concerning phonological awareness and examines its links with spoken language, before outlining the role it plays in written language use. It thus provides a framework for the rest of the book, which is at once stimulating and informative.
Chapter two examines the importance of rhyme awareness as a pre-reading skill. Prior to this it addresses the need to improve children's general listening skills, and then considers how to incorporate phonological awareness training in the nursery/classroom, in many different contexts and using different media. Opportunities for involving parents in the development of this skill are also offered. This chapter contains lots of practical suggestions and model photocopiable resources, which can be used or adapted by teachers.
Having examined the promotion and development of phonological awareness amongst children in general, chapter three addresses those children with poor rhyming skills. It offers ways of identifying such children and strategies for remedial action. It makes use of mini case studies, which are a particularly effective way of engaging the target audience. Whilst reading the case studies, the reader finds herself making judgements on the child's situation and performance, which she cam then compare with the authors' interpretation.
Chapter four explores the strategies needed to attain independent literacy and the role phonological awareness plays in this process through the linkage between sound patterns and spelling patterns. Again, complex ideas are made wholly accessible by building on the knowledge gained from the previous chapters and by engaging the reader by means of examples and questions. As elsewhere in the book, key ideas are summed up in boxes in the body of the text.
In the same way that chapter three addressed children with poor rhyming skills, chapter five focuses on those children whose written language is a cause for concern during the first three years of schooling. In particular, it concentrates on those difficulties whose origins lie in the phonological domain. It explores the range of difficulties relating to poor phonological awareness, and how to take remedial action.
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The best of intentions sometimes go astray, and good people sometimes do bad things. That's the best way I can think to sum up Big Star Story, a retrospective compilation so riddled with problems it's difficult to decide where to start talking about them. It seems pretty obvious that the folks at Ryko were trying to come up with a set that could serve both as an introduction to the band's work and as a sort of capsule overview of a band whose status in the rock canon is nothing short of mythical. The result, unfortunately, does the group's legacy a tremendous disservice.
Perhaps the single greatest sin of this collection is that it's patently unnecessary. Anyone who wants an introduction to Big Star should just pick up their first two albums, #1 Record and Radio City, which are still available as a two-for-one on a single disc from Ardent Records and usually list for around $13.99. If you want more, track down Ryko's own reissue of the band's swansong, Third/Sister Lovers, a release that gathers virtually every song cut during the chaotic sessions that birthed that album. Congratulations, you now own every piece of Big Star's essential output. If you really want to go crazy, you can even shell out for Big Star Live, which catches the band near their peak in concert, and Nobody Can Dance, a compilation of some outtakes and sundry live performances (for the hardcore only). After that, there's nothing left but the solo albums.
Big Star Story's superfluousness established, there's also the fact that it doesn't even live up to its name. This is not the "Big Star Story" it claims to be-- the tracks aren't even in chronological order, and two of the selections, "I Am the Cosmos" and "You & Your Sister", aren't Big Star songs at all. These last two are actually the A- and B-sides of a solo single Chris Bell single released on Chris Stamey's Car Records after Bell had left the band. Suffice to say, you'll get a few scenes from Big Star's career here, but you'll never be able to glean the plot from the haphazard tracklist.
And about that tracklist: it is theoretically possible to compile a satisfying "best of Big Star" release, but this doesn't even come close. First, considering the formidable songwriting talents of Alex Chilton and Chris Bell (and even Andy Hummel), why on earth are there two covers on here? Loudon Wainwright III's "Motel Blues" is a great song, and Chilton handles it well, but T.Rex's "Baby Strange" just sounds creepy when Chilton warbles, "I just wanna ball ya," and aside from the quality of the performances, they're just not Big Star songs-- nor are they essential enough pieces of the band's oeuvre to justify wasting the space on them. They're not integral to the story, you might say.
Each album is fairly well-represented, with five tracks from Third and four each from #1 Record and Radio City, but the sequencing is jarring, highlighting just how drastically different Third is from its predecessors. Further injustice is served by the fact that "Mod Lang", "You Get What You Deserve" (from Radio City) and "Don't Lie to Me", (from #1 Record) are each presented in inferior alternate versions culled from Nobody Can Dance instead of their definitive versions, while "Thirteen" (from #1 Record) is snatched from Big Star Live (an admittedly strong performance, but not as rending as the original). The moment where the disc's inherent clumsiness comes into sharpest focus is the one where the crystalline, majestic harmonies of #1 Record's "Ballad of El Goodo" give way to Third's crumpled centerpiece, the haunting death whisper "Holocaust". Though both are excellent songs, they don't share a state of mind, nor do they sit well next to each other.
The reason Big Star's first two albums work so well on a single disc together is that they're fundamentally similar-- each captures the sound of some anglophile kids from the American heartland perfecting a ragged brand of power-pop fit for the ages. Those albums feel like the band knows they're destined to be huge-- the strumming is confident, the hooks are punchy, the awkward, everyman vocals somehow swagger, and there's exuberance in even the most subdued songs. That the feeling persists on Radio City is somewhat remarkable considering the public indifference that met #1 Record at the time, and the fact that Bell departed during the sessions, despondent at the band's lack of success.
Two years later, the band still hadn't made it, and you can hear it all over Third. It's a recorded document of a band disintegrating while simultaneously trying to grow. The expansive production and experimentation of that record are wholesale left turns from their earlier material, and the final result is a brilliant, timeless shambles. Removed from their natural surroundings, "Nightime", "Holocaust", "Thank You Friends", "Jesus Christ", and "O, Dana" are all still good songs, but they carried more power as parts of a logical whole. And, as mentioned before, Ryko's reissue of that album is everything a reissue should be-- informative, comprehensive, and brilliantly mastered.
Of course, I still haven't mentioned the most heinous aspect of this compilation: the bait track. Yes, there's a song on this disc that has never been released before, called "Hot Thing". Completists, beware: this is unquestionably the worst track to have ever been branded with the Big Star name-- worse, even, than the rotten Third-era outtake "Downs". Recorded by the reunion lineup in the 90s, it's a lifeless, amelodic song that should have been better considering that Alex Chilton, Jody Stephens and Posies co-frontmen Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow all share its songwriting credit. Even the horn part sucks. And the worst part is that it's included in lieu of any of a dozen other fantastic songs.
If this compilation is truly trying to tell the Big Star story, where are important chapters like "Watch the Sunrise", "Stroke It, Noel", "Way Out West", "You Can't Have Me", "I'm in Love with a Girl", "Kizza Me", "Kangaroo", "When My Baby's Beside Me", "What's Going Ahn", and-- you get the point. Seriously, even if you've never heard Big Star and have no idea where to start, you should still head straight to the albums. They're available on a grand total of two discs, and both of those discs belong in the collection of anyone who ever loved the sound of pop songs played on guitars. If you want to keep going from there, it's up to you, but for God's sake, don't trust this thing to start you off on the right foot.
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According to Bishop Nikolai Velimirovch in The Prologue from Ohrid:
Varied are the paths along which God leads those who desire to be pleasing to Him and fulfil His Law. In the time of the Emperor Honorius (393-423), there lived in Rome a high imperial dignitary, Euphemianus, very eminent and very rich. Both he and his wife, Agalais, lived lives pleasing to God. Although he was rich, Euphemianus sat down to table only once a day, at sunset. They had an only son, this Alexis, who, when he was grown up, was compelled to marry. But, on the night of the wedding, he left not only his wife but also his father, took ship and went to the town of Edessa in Mesopotamia, where the wonderful Face of the Lord Himself, sent to King Abgar, was kept. Having venerated this Face, Alexis dressed himself in simple clothing and lived for seventeen years as a poor man in that town, constantly praying to God in the porch of the church of the Mother of God. When he became known as a holy man, he shunned the praise of men and so went off and took a ship that was going to Laodicea. By the providence of God, the ship went off course and took him right to Rome. Regarding this as a cross from God, Alexis decided to go to his father`s house and there, unknown, continue his life of self-denial. His father did not recognise him, but from charity allowed him to live in his courtyard in a little shack. There Alexis spent seventeen further years, living only on bread and water. Molested by the servants in many ways, he persevered to the end. And when the end drew near, he wrote a few words on a single sheet of paper, held it in his hand, lay down and breathed his last, on March 17th, 411. Then a voice was heard in the Church of the Holy Apostles, saying to the Emperor, who was present, and the Patriarch: `Look for the Man of God.` Shortly afterwards it was revealed that this Man of God was in Euphemianus`s house. The Emperor, the Pope and their whole escort came to Euphemianus`s house and, after lengthy questioning, discovered that the poor man was the Man of God. When they went into his shack, they found him dead with his face shining like the sun. His parents discovered from the paper that he was their son Alexis; and his bride, who had lived for thirty-four years without him, that this was her husband, and they were overcome by immeasurable sorrow and grief. But then they were comforted, seeing how God had glorified His chosen one. For, on touching his body, many of the sick were healed, and a sweet myrrh came forth from it. He was buried in a coffin of marble and emerald. His head is preserved in the Church of St Laurus in the Peloponnese.
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Born in Alexandria in 296, he had from childhood an inclination to the spiritual life. He was a deacon with Archbishop Alexander and accompanied him to Nicaea, to the First Ecumenical Council in 325. At this Council, Athanasius became famed for his learning, his devotion and his zeal for Orthodoxy, and contributed very greatly to the containing of the Arian heresy and the strengthening of Orthodoxy. After the death of Alexander, Athanasius was chosen as Archbishop of Alexandria. He remained in his archiepiscopal calling for more than forty years, although he was not on the archiepiscopal throne the whole time. He was persecuted by heretics through almost the whole of his life, particularly by the Emperors Constantius, Julian and Valens, by Bishop Eusebius of Nicomedia and many others, and by the heretic Arius and his followers. He was forced to hide from his persecutors in a well, a grave, private houses and the deserts. Twice he was forced to flee to Rome. Only just before his death did he have a peaceful period as a good shepherd with his flock, which truly loved him. There are few saints who have been so callously slandered and so criminally persecuted as St Anthanasius. But his great soul endured all with patience for the love of Christ and at last emerged victorious from all these terrible and lengthy struggles. He often went to St Antony for advice and moral support, revering him as his spiritual father. He suffered greatly for the truth, until the Lord gave him rest in His kingdom as His faithful servant, in the year 373.
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This great Father of the Orthodox Church was of eminent parentage. His father was the imperial governor of Gaul and Spain, and a pagan, while his mother was a Christian. While he was still in his cradle, a swarm of bees once settled on him, left some honey on his lips and flew off; and, while still a child, he thrust out his hand and said prophetically: `Kiss it, for I shall be a bishop!` On the death of his father, the Emperor made him governor of Liguria, of which province Milan was the chief city. When the bishop of Milan died, there was great dissention between the Orthodox Christians and the heretical Arians about the choice of a new bishop. Ambrose went into the church to keep order, this being his responsibility. Thereupon, a child at its mother`s breast cried out: `Ambrose for bishop!` All the people took this to be the voice of God, and unanimously elected Ambrose as their bishop, although it was against his will. Ambrose was baptised, and passed through all the necessary ranks in one week, and was consecrated bishop. In this capacity, he strengthened the faith of the Orthodox, restrained heretics, adorned churches, spread the Faith among the pagans, wrote many instructive books and was an example of a true Christian and a true shepherd. He also composed the Te Deum, the great hymn of thanksgiving. This renowned hierarch, who was visited by people from distant lands for his wisdom and gracious words, was very austere in his personal life, being no stranger to toil and full of good works. He slept little, worked and prayed constantly and fasted every day except Saturday and Sunday. God therefore permitted him to witness many of His wonders, and to perform many himself He discovered the relics of Ss Protasius, Gervasius, Nazarius and Celsus (see Oct. 14th). Humble before lesser men, he was fearless before the great. He reproached the Empress Justina for heresy, cursed Maximus for tyranny and murder and forbade the Emperor Theodosius to enter a church until he had repented of his sin. He refused to meet the powerful Eugenius, the self-styled Emperor. God granted this man, who was so pleasing to Him, such grace that he could raise the dead, drive demons from men, heal the sick of every ailment and see into the future. He died peacefully at daybreak on Easter Day in the year 397.


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text: IOSR Journal of VLSI and Signal Processing (IOSR-JVSP) ISSN: 2319 – 4200, ISBN No. : 2319 – 4197 Volume 1, Issue 1 (Sep-Oct. 2012), PP 46-50 www.iosrjournals.org CMOS Body Driven Quaternary Logic Generator Umesh Kumar1, Rajiv Kapoor2 1 (Student, Delhi Technological University, India) 2 (Faculty, Delhi Technological University, India) Abstract–– This paper is about the design, simulation and study of a CMOS quaternary logic generator having a single stage CMOS body driven design. The interest of design is that the circuit consists of only one CMOS circuit, reducing the chip area and also only two supply rails is required to drive the complete circuitry. The multi-valued logic generator, designed here is also demonstrated with and without enable circuitry too. The design has been implemented with 1.8micrometer CMOS technology on Cadence virtuoso schematic Editor. Keywords –– CMOS, body effect, decoder, multi-valued logic. I. INTRODUCTION In logic a multi-valued logic [7] is a propositional calculus in which there are more than two values. Traditionally, in Aristotle"s [6] logical calculus, there are only two possible values (i.e. "true" and "false") for any proposition. Extension to classical Boolean logic is an n-valued logic for n greater than two e.g. three valued logic[8] of "true", "false" and "unknown" and for infinite valued "fuzzy logic"[11] and "probability logic"[12]. There have been many approaches to design multi-valued logic. Methods have also been implemented in voltage mode [14] and current mode [13] circuits. In previous works, the number of transistor use were more than two, which increases the chip area, also it has been seen that most of the approaches to design multi-valued requires more than two different supply rails which causes the use of more metal in the chip increasing the fabrication cost. This paper the is about the design of quaternary logic generator, based on body driven CMOS circuit where binary inputs can be decoded in quaternary logic. Since the module is using single CMOS stage the chip area is very less and also the number of supply rails required to drive the complete circuitry is two, which is a cost efficient design. II. DESIGN AND SIMULATION The design of body driven [4][5] quaternary logic generator is based on CMOS circuit[1] in which pMOS and nMOS are connected drain to drain and their gates are common and driven by a bias potential. The driving inputs are connected on the body (substrate) of pMOS and nMOS (fig. 1). These inputs are digital inputs with logical high as 1.8 volts and logical low as 0 volts. Vdd is 1.8 volt. Fig. 1- Schematic of body driven quaternary logic generator The simulation is executed on Cadence Virtuoso Schematic Editor 180nm designed by CADENCE. Both the inputs Vin_1 and Vin_2 are applied with pulse inputs with one having double frequency than to the other input so as to generate all the logical combination of the inputs (fig. 2 and fig. 3). www.iosrjournals.org 46 | Page CMOS Body Driven Quaternary Logic Generator Fig. 2- Simulation of quaternary logic generator The Vg_bias is gate bias potential to control the logical levels spacing in voltage domain. These spacing can be modulated by varying parametrically this bias potential. In special case to provide equal voltage spacing (approximately) in the logic levels, the potential is chosen 677 mV. The nMOS body input with logical high will be controlling the weak high and weak low output (fig. 3 and table-1). The layout of the design is also shown in fig_4. Fig. 3- Circuit response with Vin_1 for pMOS and Vin_2 nMOS inputs at their body Table -1 nMOS body pMOS body OUTPUT "0" (0.0 V) "0" Strong low "0"(0.0 V) "0" "1" Strong high "1"(1.8 V) "1"(1.8 V) "0" Weak low "0'"(741 mV) "1" "1" Weak high "1'"(1.136 V) www.iosrjournals.org 47 | Page CMOS Body Driven Quaternary Logic Generator Fig.4- Layout of the module III. WORKING OF THE MODULE The module is producing four different and stable logical levels which is comes into possibility due to the MOSFET second order effect[2][3] i.e. body effect, which can be explained by equation (1). VT = VTO + {√|VSB +2Ø| - √|2 Ø |} ……………. (1) Where =(tOX /Cox) √(2q εsi NA) ……. ………(2) Since four different combinations of threshold voltages are being configured (due to application of four different combinations of the two inputs at the substrate of pMOS and nMOS), there will be four different resistive path on applications of different inputs. Hence four different stable voltages will appear at the output terminal. IV. DECODER WITH ENABLE INPUT For introducing an enable input, a pMOS and nMOS are to be inserted between Vdd and source of the input pMOS and ground and the source of the input nMOS stages respectively. Their gates must be connected with and extra introduction of CMOS inverter and given to the enable input (fig. 5). When it is required to disable the module a logical high is given to the enable input else wise a zero. This is an active low enable structure. We can also design an active high enable structure shown in fig. 6. Fig. 5- Module with active-low enable input Fig. 6- Module with active-high enable input V. ISSUES WITH THE DESIGN AND SOLUTIONS The major drawback of the system is that the pMOS input stage constitutes a source to drain forward biased diode which provide a path for current to flow directly from V dd to the logical input source at the body of pMOS. This current is very high in the order of tens of milliAmps to 500 mA (fig.-7). That is why the design is not much power efficient. To overcome the drawback the circuit input must be designed with high input impedance. One of the possible solutions to the problem is to use SOI technology [15] to reduce the body current in the pMOS. www.iosrjournals.org 48 | Page CMOS Body Driven Quaternary Logic Generator Fig. 7- Current at the source and substrate terminals of the pMOS and nMOS of input stages Since the design is new, the compatibility with the other modules is not good. So we need extra overhead to design systems where this circuit can be applied. The compatibility issue is just a matter of advancement of the technology. Introduction of the multi-valued logic to current technology still seeks a path of advancement in the technical era. Introduction of the enable circuitry doubles the chip area required for simple decoder design (without enable circuitry). We can reduce this extra chip area by using only pMOS at the source of the input stage pMOS and its gate is connected to the enable input (fig. 8). If that pMOS is off, the power supply will be disconnected and the circuit will be switched off. Fig. 8- Enable input with single pMOS stage VI. CONCLUSION A new multi-value logic generator design is introduced with a less chip area and with two supply rails. Design can be used as a 2-to-4 decoder circuitry. The design is not much power efficient and less compatible to the other digital system. As per the future scope is considered, the inefficiencies of the circuit can be reduced with some extra components and with the development of the design on SOI technology. www.iosrjournals.org 49 | Page CMOS Body Driven Quaternary Logic Generator REFERENCES [1] Burgess, R.R. and Daniels, R.G., Silicon gate CMOS integrated circuits, Electronic devices meeting, 1970 international : 16 ,Publication Year: 1970 , Page(s): 112. [2] Pelgrom, Duinmaijer and welbers, Matcing properties of MOS transistors, IEEE Journal of solid-state Circuits,1989; Pages: 1433- 1439. [3] Conti M., Crippa P., Orcioni S. and Turchetti C., Layout-based statistical modeling for the prediction of the matching properties of the MOS transistors, Circuit and systems I: Fundamental theory and Application, IEEE Transaction 2002, Pages: 680-685, Volume:49. [4] Meijer M., de Gyvez J.P., Body-Bias-Driven Strategy for Area- and performance- Efficient CMOS circuit, IEEE Transaction on VLSI System: 2012, Pages: 42-51. [5] Meijer M., de Gyvez J.P., Body bias driven design synthesis for optimum performance per area, 11th International symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED): 2010, Pages: 472-477 [6] Hurley, Patrick. A Concise Introduction to Logic, 9th edition. (2006) [7] Nidine M.H. and Files C.M., A mature methodology for implementing multi valued logic in silicon, symposium on multivalued logic: 2008, Pages:2-7. [8] Ravariu C., Zoltan F. and Dobrescu L., The three valued logic implementation on a hybrid SOI Structure, International Semiconductor Confrence, 2006, Pages:425-428. [9] Trzesicki. K. Many valued tense logic and the problem of determination, symposium on multi-valued logic:1990,IEEE Conference publication, Pages:228-236. [10] Vasundra Patel, K. S. gurumurthy, Arithmetic Operations in Multi-Valued logic, International journal of VLSI desighn and Communication Systems (VLSICS)2010 Vol.1 NO. 1. [11] Ramot D., Friedman M., Langholz G. and Kandel A., Complex fuzzy logic, IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy System 2003, Pages 450- 461. [12] Wasen Wang and Huacan He, The study of prepositional Probability logic and the flexibility of its logical relation, International conference on Natural language processing and Knowledge Engineering 2005,proceedings of 2005 IEEE, Pages:814 -817. 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This book is a translation of the book with the name "Hombre engañado pour la mere" written and published in Spanish language. Sorry if spelling or some other type of error, but I'm not very skilled speaking English, and unfortunately the google translator is not very accurate lol. So I ask for your support, you English-speaking friend, helping me to identify the errors in this paper.


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Air conditioning is less about making things colder and more about absorbing the heat from things. When you feel an air conditioner blowing cold air on you it's not pumping out cold energy. It's returning the air it just sucked out of your room with the heat removed. Let's talk about how it does this. There are basically two main sections in the system. There's an indoor part and an outdoor part. In a window air conditioner these two parts are situated in the same enclosure. In a central air conditioning system there is a unit outside, usually located in the rear or side of the building, which is the condenser and compressor. The inside unit called the evaporator will usually be hidden in a basement or closet.
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The indoor unit will have pipes with fins attached situated in an enclosure with a fan. Coolant, commonly referred to as Freon, is pumped from the outside unit through the pipes where it can absorb the heat from the surrounding room. A fan inside the units speeds up the transfer of heat from the room to the coolant in the pipes. The air from the room is returned to the room with the heat removed. This of course makes the air feel cold to us. The heat from the room has been used to boil the coolant in the pipes which is returned to the outside unit as a gas. This process is also referred to evaporation.
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The compressor / condenser unit outside the building processes the coolant expelling the heat into the outside air. The compressor takes the coolant and pumps it through the system and increases the pressure in the pipes. This increase in pressure causes the coolant to condense back to a liquid and another fan is used to transfer the heat from the pipes to the outside air. The chilled refrigerant is now returned to the inside unit to start the whole process again.
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Air conditioners take advantage of a physical law: when a liquid converts into a gas it absorbs heat. This is part of a process called phase change. Freon and other coolants are used because they have very low boiling points. This allows them to absorb heat at room temperature without needing to be heated up to 212 degrees Fahrenheit, like water needs to be in order to boil. The process is however the same. Just as the water absorbs the heat from your stove, coolant absorbs heat from your room.


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Cruz will remain absent because he hasn't gotten the long-term deal he has been seeking but at least Nicks will show. It's a start for a Giants team that underperformed last season.
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