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If your have too much time on your hands for the good of your health, or like to hyperanalyse the various spiders/unique referrals or whatever from your weblogs, then you have something like webtr*nds to see how your site is "ticking over". Since I dont want to be splattering statistics all over WMW, I just wanted to create a thread about looking at statistics and how you should perceive them. Of course, every site is unique but im sure there are some general rules of thumb that you can relate to. So if youve read every other new post in WMW, and you want some more WMW, then check out this from my web site statistics, and see what you agree/disagree with and can elaborate on.....Im just taking excerpts and suggesting something useful (hopefully). The timeframe used here is last week, pre-good update and during the holidays for many countries across the world RETURNING VISITORS Unique Visitors 6,182 I look at this and think SE REFERRALS We have talked plenty about these, so I'll skip it TOP DOCUMENTS Pages below my home page seem to get the best page views, which seems obvious being in the "middle" of the site. Is it the same for everyone else? The generic keywords on my second tier target the bigger keywords, pulling in the biggest referrals The "money" pages at the bottom of the navigation structure are content specific and #1's for niche keywords. The results of this are pretty much reflected in the stats ENTRY PAGES The home page gets 40% of incoming visitors as their first page load. Obviously most inbound links point to the home page, so we can respect the 40% comprises of a respectable amount of incoming links. Also, the most generic keywords of all are targetted on this page (i.e. one word)....so any increase in ranking overall for the site should boost ranking for this keyword.....keep this in mind. One of my second tier pages....a dynamic page with a nicely sized db behind it pulls in 15% of entry pages...making the total 55%. Take the following into account 1. Any second tier page is more or less exclusive on the home page, therefore is visible to the 40% mentioned above, as well as people from other areas of the site reaching the home page (the other 45% who entered some other way) So...in a nutshell, slightly less generic keywords are targetted here, because with less competition, but alias with less impact as your home page, you want to be ranking well for more generic keywords than badly for a more generic one here. Im sure you get what im pointing at here....its navigation and keywords..... The "money" keywords and pages.... Brett made a model where you target your keywords according to the navigation structure. The bottom pages of the structure are known as the "money pages", where your site can harvest in all the niche keywords that your site focuses upon. Basically, the word "content" pretty much comes into play here. In my instance....good money pages get about 1% of your referrals. One page in particular is a "gem" receiving twice as many hits as any other page in the same part of the nav structure. In light of this, perhaps I should bring that particular page "up one level" and add more content in this area, thus maximising this keyword and "niching" it further. Anyways, money pages are what your site is all about, dont play games...just target the keywords that suit the pages and in general you get rewarded for the traffic (believe me I aint been doin it long). TOP EXIT PAGES This pretty much looks similar to my top entry pages, which can be a bad thing :o). I could assume that people leave as soon as they go, or perhaps en masse they just leave "on average" after X amount of views....whatever. I guess if you want to study this area more closely web logs and better web stats than mine would answer any queries here :) SINGLE ACCESS PAGES My site is content specific, but 28% of people access my home page, and dont go any further. I guess this is pretty negative, considering that is over half of people that enter from that page (the 40% mentioned above). However, on the same note, its easy to click on a site by mistake, or click and change your mind etc etc etc TOP DIRECTORIES (in order of hits) Anything thats repeated on the site..ie design I put in a specific folder. These are the directories most accessed on my site. Hopefully much of this gets cached on a users first visit, then a super fast site awaits them :) Below these cached directories are dynamic pages that are 100% uncached, and therefore like munching bandwidth Afer that, all the unique text and their respective folders bring up the rear (in order of hits) TOP FILE TYPES ACCESSED I use some gifs for design...but apart from that...content is king on my site :o) and therefore the most accessed. RETURNING VISITORS Number of Visits/Number of Visitors/% of Total Unique Visitors What I assume here SITE ACTIVITY - THE JUICY BIT Time Interval Hits Page Views Kbytes Visits What can be assumed from this? ACTIVITY LEVEL BY HOURS Pretty much when people are awake they will tend to view your site more than when they are asleep :o). From this the only thing I take note of is the busiest hours and reasons why (geographical location and reasons for use) PAGE VIEW PER VISITOR Number of Pages Viewed Number of Visits % of Total Visits 0 pages? Im stumped by this, im assuming its people who click "back" before they load the page up. Those viewing 1 page either got the info they wanted and sped off/didnt find it OR didnt like the site. AVERAGE TIME SPENT ON SITE The longer, the better The rest of my stats include top browser types, SE referrals, top URL's etc that Id rather just skip, as these areas are pretty much well documented in here. But what about the rest? What about the stuff above..... I appreciate there are a 100001 reasons for stats being stats...and unique to everyone, but im sure there are some general assumptions that can "reassure" you while you look at them. If you dont find anything useful in stats apart from curing your curiosity, then youre wasting your time :) I just wanted some feedback/expansion on the things Ive mentioned, and any other method of tracking that you think should be discussed with the people of WMW :)
There is a fair bit of number crunching to do for a site, and a whole lot of assumptions when it comes to viewing your webstats
Visitors Who Visited Once 5,263
1. Good, a respectable % of people come back to see more of the site after their first visit
2. Any change in relative % could indicate a re-indexing of a popular search index bringing in more "uniques"
3. Any change in relative % could also mean people dont think as highly of the site "on average" as they once did
2. The PR from the home page and all the "follow through" from PR linking to the second page makes it rank "better" in the likes of Google
3. The flow of traffic between home > money pages and money pages > home
1 gif 31,470 16,760
2 htm 15,350 172,720
3 js 5,800 9,432
4 asp 5,425 226
5 txt 214 114
6 jpg 199 1,609
1 visit 5263 85.13%
2 visits 455 7.36%
3 visits 164 2.65%
4 visits 83 1.34%
5 visits 46 0.74%
6 visits 31 0.5%
7 visits 26 0.42%
8 visits 24 0.38%
9 visits 26 0.42%
10 or more 64 1.03%
1. If 1 visit % is high, then im getting lots of new referrals OR people aint interested in the site
2. If 2 visits plus % is high, the site is "sticky"
3. Those that keep coming back might be willing to part with money :o)
Mon 04/01/2002 9,424 3,430 27,049 K 1,056
Tue 04/02/2002 9,754 3,572 30,316 K 1,128
Wed 04/03/2002 10,146 3,720 28,972 K 1,250
Thu 04/04/2002 10,872 3,958 28,881 K 1,108
Fri 04/05/2002 15,489 5,794 38,031 K 1,341
Sat 04/06/2002 9,488 3,752 32,476 K 1,224
Sun 04/07/2002 16,230 8,029 39,140 K 1,570
1. Since its easter holidays...not much in the long term
2. "cache you later baby"....See how much bandwidth on average people are using
3. Relatively low number of hits because its text based, but a jump in hits out of line can indicate many new visitors (perhaps from a new long term source)
4. The Googly-type update is gonna increase those numbers....(thats just a wish)
0 pages 791 8.81%
1 page 3,680 41.01%
2 pages 1,325 14.76%
3 pages 811 9.03%
4 pages 562 6.26%
5 pages 417 4.64%
6 pages 298 3.32%
7 pages 241 2.68%
8 pages 152 1.69%
9 pages 126 1.4%
10 pages 97 1.08%
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Rasmussen also reported today out of Governor Romney's home state of Michigan that Rick Santorum holds a 4-point lead over Romney, a 1-point increase over the last poll taken. This poll is of note given the millions of dollars in negative advertising Governor Romney and his Super PAC supporters have invested in Michigan over the past two weeks to tear down Senator Santorum:
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September 1, 2007 is a date which I will never forget. It was the day that I finally quit smoking...and for good. Yes me, Mister healthy and active was once a pack a day smoker for more years than I like to remember. Quitting was one of the hardest and proudest accomplishments in my life. For those who vowed to quit in 2013, it isn't going to be a cake walk. In fact researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
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Obama has done very little this term because the anti-bipartisan republican majority congress won't let him do **** . If Congress was more agreeable and willing to compromise ( ******* hilarious, I know), we would have seen a lot of progress. I'm voting Obama because he at least tries to do the right thing, despite having a huge amount of opposition.
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After the 2010 election, the republicans had the majority. If you recall, our economy improved and we got a decent helthcare bill ****** before 2010. I can't remember anything important happening afterwards, do you? Besides, I wasn't blaming the republicans, I was blaming the anti-bipartisan people. Democrats are like that too. What I'm saying is they need to COMPROMISE and stop hating each other because of their political differences.


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United States Patent: 7745904 ( 1 of 1 ) United States Patent 7,745,904 Ko , et al. June 29, 2010 Shallow trench isolation structure for semiconductor device Abstract A semiconductor device provides a transistor adjacent an isolation trench. The device may be formed by producing isolation trenches in a semiconductor substrate, filling the trenches with a filler material, creating voids near top edges of the trenches and annealing by a gaseous ambient to reflow the edges of the trenches causing the edges to become rounded and overhang the trench. The filler material may be a dielectric. The transistors which are then formed in close proximity to the trenches may include source/drain regions formed in the rounded portion of the semiconductor substrate that overhangs the trench. Inventors: Ko; Chih-Hsin (Fongshan, TW), Ke; Chung-Hu (Taipei, TW), Huang; Chien-Chao (Hsin-Chu, TW) Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (Hsin-Chu, TW) Appl. No.: 11/809,519 Filed: May 31, 2007 Related U.S. Patent Documents Application NumberFiling DatePatent NumberIssue Date 11076707Mar., 20057238564 Current U.S. Class: 257/510 ; 257/513 Current International Class: H01L 29/00 (20060101) Field of Search: 257/510,513,E21.546 References Cited [Referenced By] U.S. Patent Documents 5956598 September 1999 Huang et al. 6001707 December 1999 Lin et al. 6165871 December 2000 Lim et al. 6326282 December 2001 Park et al. 6326283 December 2001 Liang et al. 6503802 January 2003 Kim 6525403 February 2003 Inaba et al. 6544839 April 2003 Kanamitsu et al. 6613635 September 2003 Oda et al. 6746933 June 2004 Beintner et al. 6746936 June 2004 Lee 2002/0064912 May 2002 Komori 2005/0167777 August 2005 Lee 2005/0224907 October 2005 Ko et al. Other References C T. Liu et al., "Severe Thickness Variation Of Sub-3nm Gate Oxide Due To Si Surface Faceting, Poly-Si Intrusion, and Corner Stress", Symposium on VLSI Technology Digest Of Technical Papers, pp. 75-76, Jun. 1999. cited by other . C. P. Chang et al., Enabling Shallow Trench Isolation For 0.1um Technologies And Beyond, Symposium on VLSI Technology Digest Of Technical Papers, pp. 161-162, Jun. 1999. cited by other . Tsutomu Sato et al., "Trench Transformation Technology Using Hydrogen Annealing For Realizing Highly Reliable Device Structure With Thin Dielectric Films", Symposium on VLSI Technology Digest Of Technical Papers, pp. 206-207, Jun. 1998. cited by other . S. Matsuda et al., "Novel Corner Rounding Process For Shallow Trench Isolation Utilizing MSTS (Micro-Structure Transformation Of Silicon)", International Electron Devices Meeting 1998, Technical Digest, pp. 137-140, Dec. 1998. cited by other . Van Zant, P. Microchip Fabrication Fifth Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2004, p. 611. cited by other. Primary Examiner: Smith; Zandra Assistant Examiner: Perkins; Pamela E Attorney, Agent or Firm: Duane Morris LLP Parent Case Text RELATED APPLICATION This application is a divisional application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/076,707, filed on Mar. 10, 2005, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,238,564 the contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference as if set forth in their entirety. Claims What is claimed is: 1. A semiconductor device comprising a transistor formed on a semiconductor substrate and between a duality of opposed isolation trenches formed in the semiconductor substrate, each isolation trench filled with a dielectric, the transistor including a channel region formed within a section of the substrate surface, a gate structure overlying the channel region, and a source region and a drain region formed within the substrate adjacent opposed ends of the channel region and in a corresponding substrate portion that overhangs the corresponding isolation trench such that the drain region overhangs only one isolation trench and the source region overhangs only the other isolation trench, the substrate portion having a completely and continuously curved upper surface, wherein the completely and continuously curved upper surface of the substrate portion is entirely disposed at a height below a top planar surface of the dielectric. 2. The semiconductor device as in claim 1, wherein the substrate portion overhangs the isolation trench by 10-2000 angstroms. 3. The semiconductor device as in claim 1, wherein the completely and continuously curved upper surface of the substrate portion is entirely disposed at a height below a top planar surface of the semiconductor substrate. 4. The semiconductor device as in claim 3, wherein the substrate portion includes a radius of curvature of 5-50 nanometers. 5. The semiconductor device as in claim 1, wherein the source region and the drain region each comprise a silicide formed thereon. 6. The semiconductor device as in claim 1, wherein the a gate structure comprises a gate dielectric material overlying the channel region and a gate electrode overlying the gate dielectric. 7. The semiconductor device as in claim 6, wherein a silicide layer is formed on a surface of the transistor portion. 8. The semiconductor device as in claim 1, wherein the isolation trench extends down from the substrate surface. Description BACKGROUND The present invention relates generally to semiconductor device fabrication, and more particularly to shallow trench isolation (STI) structure fabrication process enhancements. Isolation structures are used in semiconductor devices to electrically isolate different components of a semiconductor device. These isolation structures between the components reduce adverse noise effects that may cause performance degradation of the semiconductor device. Once the components are isolated from each other, certain electrical paths can be established between the components to obtain the desired electrical characteristics from the semiconductor device. Conventional methods for fabricating an isolation structure for a semiconductor device typically employ a LOCal Oxidation of Silicon (LOCOS) process. In the LOCOS process, a field oxide layer is thermally grown using an oxidation mask to pattern the growth. However, a portion of the field oxide grows laterally, thereby producing tapering oxide wedge portions outside the desired growth pattern. These oxide wedge portions are referred to as a "bird's beak" due to the shape of the wedge portions. The bird's beak reduces the isolation area between the components of the semiconductor device and can deteriorate the electrical performance of the semiconductor device. The shallow trench isolation (STI) process is replacing the conventional LOCOS process for the formation of an isolation structure as technology evolves to submicron geometries. The STI process has various advantages over the conventional LOCOS process. For example, the STI process allows for the planarization of the entire substrate and isolation structure. This results in better control of critical dimension (CD) when defining a gate stack of a transistor, for example. Better control of the CD when defining the gate stack results in better control of the CD in further processing steps, which occur after the gate stack is defined. In a typical STI process, a buffer oxide of 10 to 20 nm is thermally grown on a wafer substrate. A nitride of approximately 200 nm is deposited and then patterned with lithography and etched down to silicon. An etch that is selective to silicon (etches mostly silicon) is then used to etch a trench into the silicon. A liner oxide is thermally grown to anneal out any damage to the silicon and passivate the silicon. Next, an oxide that is considerably thicker than the trench depth is deposited. The wafer is then subjected to a chemical-mechanical polishing that stops when it reaches the nitride. The nitride is then stripped, along with the buffer oxide underneath, thereby forming the STI structure. For the above-described STI process scheme, the sharp corner where the trench sidewall meets the silicon substrate surface causes many problems with device performance, yield, and reliability. As an example, a parasitic transistor may be inadvertently formed at the corner that has a lower threshold voltage. As another example, a thinner gate oxide may be inadvertently formed at the corner, resulting in immediate device failure or reliability issues. Other conventional STI process schemes have been devised to overcome the sharp corner effect by thermal oxidation processes, implantation of oxidation-accelerating ions and micro-structure transformation of silicon to round the corner where the trench sidewall meets the silicon substrate. Although these conventional rounding process schemes provide the corner rounding, they have inherent deficiencies. One deficiency of these conventional rounding process schemes is the stress-induced defect generation problem in today's reduced geometry device designs. A second potential deficiency is the damage of the STI sidewalls caused by the HDP oxide filling process of the oxide liner. Another deficiency is the divot-induced reverse narrow channel effect (RNCE) caused by parasitic corner transistors. This undesirable effect is due to the crowding of the electrical field at the STI edge. Therefore, desirable in the art of semiconductor device fabrication are enhanced processes for shallow trench isolation (STI) structure fabrication that resolve the above deficiencies while increasing device performance, yield, and reliability. SUMMARY In view of the foregoing, this invention provides a new STI fabrication process that results in a wider fabrication process window, increases the gate oxide integrity, and increases device performance, yield, and reliability. In one embodiment of this invention, a new STI fabrication process that forms a STI trench in a semiconductor substrate with a rounded top corner is presented. The rounded top corner includes a portion that overhangs the STI trench and may advantageously be used in the formation of device components such as transistor source/drain regions. The new STI fabrication process also eliminates the divot at the top corner of a trench opening that is typically created by conventional processes, and suppresses the parasitic corner transistor by eliminating the divot created in the conventional processes. In addition, the new STI fabrication process reduces the channel stress which may be induced by the STI corner stress caused by the conventional processes, and reduces the silicide-induced junction problem while improving the narrow device characterization. The new STI structure created by the new STI fabrication process allows for a wider processing window without surface warping. The gate oxide integrity is improved by eliminating the conventional problems of silicon surface faceting, polysilicon intrusion, and the stress induced thinning at the STI boundaries. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The construction and method of operation of the invention, together with additional objects and advantages thereof will be best understood from the following description of specific embodiments when read in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which: FIGS. 1A-1D present a conventional STI fabrication process. FIGS. 2A-2D present a series of processes in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 3 presents a cross section of the STI corner in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. DESCRIPTION Although the invention is illustrated and described herein as embodied in a new STI fabrication process to improve component active region isolation, device yield, and reliability, it is nevertheless not intended to be limited to the details shown, since various modifications and structural changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention. FIGS. 1A-1D present a conventional STI fabrication process. In FIG. 1A a pad oxide layer 316 is formed on a substrate material 318 which may be silicon, silicon-on-insulator SOI, Ge, C or combinations thereof. This can be accomplished by oxidizing a silicon substrate using a thermal oxidation process, a chemical vapor deposition process, or other existing techniques. A silicon nitride film 314 is then formed on the pad oxide layer 316 using any of various existing conventional techniques. A photoresist layer 320 is then formed on the top surface of the silicon nitride film 314. As shown in FIG. 1B, the photoresist layer 320 is patterned using conventional methods and the silicon nitride film 314 and the pad oxide layer 316 are then selectively removed by using the photoresist pattern as a mask using known etching or other removal processes. Portions 322 of the top surface of the substrate material 318, are exposed and correspond to the area where the STI structure will be formed. FIG. 1C next shows various trenches 310 formed selectively in the exposed portions 322 (FIG. 1B) of the substrate material 318. The trenches 310 are formed using existing etching techniques that use an etch selective to silicon. The trapezoidal shape of trenches 310 is exemplary only and may alternatively be rectangular. Before the trenches 310 are filled an optional thin oxide film 328 also known as an "oxide liner" may be thermally formed in various trenches 310 and on the exposed surfaces of the pad oxide layer 316. Corner rounding may be achieved during the formation of the thin oxide film 328. During the thermal oxidation process, the corner portions 326 may be rounded automatically as the thin oxide film 328 is formed because the oxidation speed at the various corner portions 326 of the substrate material 318 is much higher than the oxidation speed at other surfaces. The oxidation may take place at a temperature of abut 1000.degree. C.+/-300.degree. C. In other embodiments, oxide film 328 may not be used. As shown in FIG. 1D, an insulating film 312 is formed in the various trenches 310 and on the exposed surfaces of the silicon nitride film 314 by the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process. The insulating film is preferably formed as a silicon oxide film and it fills the trenches 310. The structure is then planarized using chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) which removes the insulating film from over the top surface of silicon nitride 314 which serves as a polishing stop film, to form the structure shown in FIG. 2A, which does not include the optional oxide film 328. In the conventional STI fabrication process, thermal oxidation such as used to form oxide film 328 may be used to form rounded corners because the oxidation speed of the various corner portions 326 of the semiconductor substrate at the entrance of the trench is increased during such thermal oxidation. The increased oxidation speed produces rounded corner portions of the semiconductor substrate near the trench entrance, as above. Rounded corners at the semiconductor substrate are important because they stabilize and improve the electrical characteristics and performance of the semiconductor device by preventing or eliminating concentration of electric fields at the corner portions of the semiconductor substrate at the trench entrance. There are disadvantages, however, to the conventional STI fabrication process, and other conventional STI fabrication processes not illustrated. The rounding process generates a stress-induced defect generation problem when the device geometry is reduced such as in advanced designs. Also, the STI sidewalls are damaged by the HDP oxide filling process with the oxide liner. Finally, the conventional processes promotes divot induced reverse narrow channel effect (RNCE) due to the creation of the parasitic corner transistors, caused in turn by the crowding of electrical fields at the STI edges. In contrast, FIGS. 2A-2D and 3 illustrate the improved methods for STI formation according to the present invention. FIGS. 2A-2D present process steps 302, 304, 306 and 308, respectively, in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. The process steps 302, 304, 306 and 308 are developed to resolve some of the disadvantages of the previously illustrated conventional STI fabrication process, and other similar conventional processes. This novel STI fabrication process of the present invention begins with the structure of FIG. 2A which may be formed according to the sequence shown in FIGS 1A-1D, or by other means that produce STI trench structures formed and filled with an oxide to a level above the pattern mask. In process step 302, STI filler material 312 is removed by the CMP process, but only down to the top of silicon nitride layer 314. STI filler material 312 may be an oxide, another dielectric or polysilicon. Thus, the silicon nitride layer 314 and silicon oxide layer 316, which may be a pad oxide layer, remain intact on top of the substrate material 318. Silicon nitride layer 314 and silicon oxide layer 316 together form a pattern mask layer. Various STI structures 340 are essentially the trenches 310 filled with STI filler material 312 up to the top of silicon nitride layer 314. The CMP process that produces the structure in process step 302 leaves a planarized surface formed of STI filler material 312 and the top surface of silicon nitride layer 314. It is noteworthy that the pattern mask layer consisting of the silicon nitride layer 314 and a silicon oxide layer 316 covers the full width of the substrate material 318. In process step 304, an etching process is performed to remove an additional amount of the STI filler material 312 contained in the STI trench structure 340 as well as causing an etch-back of the original sides 309 (shown as dashed lines) of the pattern mask layer. H.sub.3PO.sub.4 and HF may be used as the etching solutions for etching the pad nitride and pad oxide, respectively. This etch process essentially removes STI filler material 312 from over the top surface of substrate material 318. Due to this etch-back process, the top corners of the STI trenches have significantly more STI filler material 312 removed at various locations 372, thereby creating voids below the substrate surface and exposing a portion of the upper trench sidewalls as the wet etch preferentially etches along the interface between substrate material 318 and STI filler material 312. In addition, the sides of the pattern mask of the silicon nitride layer 314 and the silicon oxide layer 316 are receded laterally thereby exposing not only a portion of the substrate material 318 at the corners but also the receded sidewalls of the silicon nitride layer 314 and of the silicon oxide layer 316. In other words, width 344 defined by the opposed sidewalls after the etching process, is reduced with respect to previous width 346 defined by original sides 309, before the etching process. In process step 306, the structure formed after the process step 304 is annealed with a hydrogen gas to reflow and round the corners of the substrate material 318, thereby extending the silicon substrate structure to the trench sidewalls as shown at locations 324. Overhang portions 390 overhangs STI structure 340 by a distance of 10-2000 angstroms. As an example, this annealing process is performed at a pressure of 1 to 1000 Torr and a temperature of 600 to 1100 degrees Celsius, but other annealing conditions may be used in other exemplary embodiments. Hydrogen, nitrogen, helium, argon, xenon, or a combination thereof may be used as the gaseous ambient in the annealing process. In process step 308, the pattern mask layer consisting of the silicon nitride layer 314 and the silicon oxide layer 316 is removed using conventional methods. A transistor structure 356 is then formed in the device active region between the various STI structures 340 using any of various standard semiconductor fabrication processes. A gate electrode 358 is isolated from the substrate material 318 by a gate dielectric layer 330. The gate dielectric may be comprised of SiO.sub.2, Si.sub.3N.sub.4, Si.sub.3O.sub.4, Si.sub.3ON, a high-k dielectric material, or a combination thereof. The gate dielectric layer 330 maybe formed using conventional means such as thermal oxidation or various deposition processes such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The gate portion of the exemplary transistor structure 356 is formed on an essentially planar portion of substrate 318. Gate electrode 358 is formed using conventional deposition and patterning methods and may be formed of polysilicon in one embodiment. In other exemplary embodiments, gate electrode 358 may be formed of metal or it maybe a compound structure formed of metal, a semiconductor, metal oxide and/or silicide. Source/drain regions 332, 334 are formed in substrate material 318, including in overhang portions 390, using conventional methods. Source/drain regions 332, 334 may be formed by ion implantation into the substrate and will preferably be self-aligned with respect to the gate structure by using an ion implantation process after the gate the structure has been formed and serves as a mask to protect the underlined channel from being implanted with the source/drain materials. The source/drain regions 332, 334 are formed at opposed ends of channel 350 formed beneath the gate structure and within the substrate. Dielectric spacers 352 may be formed along sidewalls of the gate electrode 358 using conventional methods and may assist in positioning the source/drain regions 332, 334. It is noteworthy that the rounded corner structures of the source region 332 and the drain region 334 have a radius of curvature R, where R is 5 to 50 nm. A silicide layer 336 may be formed on the source/drain regions 332, 334. Further, the corner extensions to the various STI structures 340 have a length in the range of 1 to 200 nm. Although the semiconductor substrate in this example is comprised of silicon, it is understood by those skilled in the art that the substrate can also consist of a silicon, silicon-on-insulator (SOI), germanium, carbon, or combinations thereof. The channel crystal orientation can also be <100> or <110>. FIG. 3A presents a cross section 400 of the STI corner in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention. The cross section 400 represents an interim process step between the process step 306 and the process step 308. At this interim step, the gate dielectric layer 330 has been formed, but the remaining portions of the transistor structure 356 (see FIG. 2D) have not yet been created. The above illustration provides many different embodiments or embodiments for implementing different features of the invention. Specific embodiments of components and processes are described to help clarify the invention. These are, of course, merely embodiments and are not intended to limit the invention from that described in the claims. Although the invention is illustrated and described herein as embodied in one or more specific examples, it is nevertheless not intended to be limited to the details shown, since various modifications and structural changes may be made therein without departing from the spirit of the invention and within the scope and range of equivalents of the claims. Accordingly, it is appropriate that the appended claims be construed broadly and in a manner consistent with the scope of the invention, as set forth in the following claims. * * * * *
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Companions for Life
It is a shame there is a need to have rescue programs. Be that as it may, the need for rescue programs exist because there are callous and even mean people out there who won't except any responsibility for their actions and have a total disregard for life. These wonderful animals in rescue programs have never done anything to deserve being mistreated or neglected. All they ever wanted was to be a Companion for Life. We have no Danes available at the moment, however, if you are interested in sharing your life with one of these wonderful and precious Great Danes, please contact Pat Hubbard (See contact information below). For your convenience, if we have a Dane available you would like to offer a great and loving home to, please see our GDCT application HERE We apologize for the details requested in our form, but because of the trauma most rescue animals go through, we must make sure they are placed in the best homes possible. Great Dane Club of Tucson Pat Hubbard 8750 S Nogales Hy. Tucson, AZ 85706 Phone: 520-321-3700 If you don't get an answer, please leave a message and I will return your call as soon as possible, or email me at email@example.com The following link and contact will provide more Dane rescue information: Great Dane Club of America Mary Barnett Reed Hoosier Great Dane Rescue GDCA Rescue Chairperson Ph. 765-362-3239 firstname.lastname@example.com
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Personal Growth - The freedom of choice
by K Gitanjali
The end result of your life here on earth, will always be the sum total of the choices you make while you are here, said a wise soul, driving home the importance of making the right choices in life.
Do we really give importance to the choices we make every day in our lives, or do we function on autopilot? Arent most of our choices motivated by our conditioning, our belief systems, and by what the people will think?
No choice
Times are changing now. We see youngsters making enlightened choices, and following their hearts. Society is becoming more open and appreciative of its youth experimenting, when it comes to career choices. The scene was quite different just a few years back. 26-year-old Ratan, who had a dream, bears testimony to it. His is a story that was oft-repeated (unfortunately sometimes even today), in many families. A child interested in music, he had a dream of going to the Musicians' Institute in USA to pursue his dream. His parents, however, gave him no choice.
Snap out of it and get real! was their dictum and they kindly added, We are doing it for your sake. You need to survive in the real world, and earn your bread and butter, you know. Your father is a doctor and you need to take over and manage his clinic.
The poor boy was talked into thinking he was selfish to pursue his dream. Recently, I met his mother at a social gathering and she remarked, How lucky it is that Ratan followed our advice. See how successful he is today. Looking at the smart young man who seemed to have it all, I could not help feeling that behind the successful exterior, something was missing.
Do you have the right to influence your childs choice, using any means, be it coercing, or persuasion, or manipulation, or emotional blackmail? When God himself has given us free will, who are we to tamper with others' lives? Are we doing the right thing, by imposing our dreams and choices on our children and other loved ones, and snuffing out their right to exercise their own choices?
When your life is a tapestry made up of other peoples choices, two things happen. You end up feeling a victim.
Do you have the right to infl uence your childs choice, using any means, be it coercing, or persuasion, or manipulation, or emotional blackmail? | ||
Choice with guidance
I have always admired the way in which my friend Kavitha brought up her daughter, Komal. I was surprised to see that the child was taught to weigh the pros and cons of any decision she took early in life. It could be as simple a thing as how many chocolates she could eat. I told her that she could make her own decisions, but I also pointed out that each decision came with a consequence. As early as seven she realised that she had the free will to eat as many chocolates as she wanted, but she also was told that its consequence could be a host of health problems. We would always advise her as to which was the wiser choice. But the final decision was hers. I remember the day she gorged on cake one Sunday, in spite of repeated reminders of its consequence. The next day she was down with severe indigestion, and had to miss her friends birthday party! That experience taught her a lesson no amount of nagging could have.
Availability of too many choices forces us to introspect She continued, The real problem with choices however started when she became a teenager. It was then that I realised that allowing one you loved dearly to experiment with her choices was tough. It needs us to have great faith in a Higher Power to take care of them. The world today offers our children much more in every aspect of life than it used to in our times. From the number of channels on the television, to the number of career options, to the number of things they are exposed to through the media and internet, leaves even the most level-headed ones confused as to how best to use their time and energy. Komal bungled once or twice, as she refused to take our advice, and made foolhardy choices, especially in her selection of friends, and spending her time. However, every time she fell, we were there to help her get up, and dust herself back on to the cycle of life.
The result? By the time she was 20, she had a wise head on her shoulders. By the trial and error method of making her own decisions, and being accountable for them, she bloomed into living life on her own terms, and learnt the art of making right decisions. Truly, there is no greater teacher than experience in learning the art of making right decisions, in developing the ability to identify when to take a risk that will pay off, and when to avoid foolhardy decisions.
Ironically, Komal was there at the same social gathering that Ratan was, and I could not help comparing the joy the young woman exuded to Ratans more sober exterior. I realised suddenly that while both she and Ratan had made it big in their life, the missing element in Ratan was that sparkle of life that was so obvious in Komal. That was because he was not living his own life. He was living a life someone else had designed. Komal had developed her will power and her planning abilities, but Ratan, who had buried his passion by allowing himself to be swayed and influenced by others, now needed to rely on others in making any important decision.
Be the guide only
But surely we owe it to our children to show them the way, I asked Komals mother over dinner. There you have it, she replied. That is all you should confine yourself to doing showing them the way. Remember Khalil Gibrans famous lines, Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of lifes longing for itself. They come through you but not from you
Our children are not our possessions to influence. We can advise them, not live our lives through them. They are individual souls, and each comes with his/her own path chalked out. They come to earth wired to live out their souls blueprint. We kill their spirit and their sparkle when we impose our own egoistic man-made ambitious plans on them. A person who is wired to be an artist can never make a great engineer or a lawyer. Excellence can shine forth only when a person chooses to do what he loves. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna urges Arjuna very firmly to live an authentic life according to his svadharma. He warns us that performing duties to please others (para dharma) will alter the course of our lives for the worse.
Even the great masters are careful not to interfere with the free will of their disciples. You will see that a true master will just point the way. A master will never compel anyone to make a choice, for a master knows that ultimately all choices have to be made by the individual. He is aware of the amount of karma he will incur by dictating and tampering with anothers free will, even if the other is a close relative like a child or a spouse.
Make informed choices
If the soul has a plan for us, it stands to reason that the best choices we make will be those that are made in communion and alignment with our souls. That brings us back to the question of awareness. A person who is awake, alert, and aware of what he is choosing, chooses wisely. It is rather ironic that half the time, we are on autopilot, and we choose unconsciously, even though many of our choices can be life-altering. Any person who is following the beaten track and living out choices not his own, is blocking the plan his soul has charted.
I took the road less travelled by And that has made all the difference, says poet Robert Frost in one of his best-loved poems. The lines stress the importance of choices, and remind us that regardless of the choice we make, our life will be enormously affected by it. Frost speaks about making a choice based on ones interest and ones passion. He symbolised it in his poem, The Road Not Taken, by showing himself standing at a fork in the road. He knew he could walk down but one path and he knew the decision lay solely with him. The sad part of life is that most people do not even realise that the decision of how to carry their lives forward rests solely on them. They choose not to choose but even that is a choice, a weaker choice that will hamper their journey towards their pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
What helped Frost take the road less travelled and leave the safe shores of America for an unknown land (England) where he tried his hand at poetry (and succeeded!)? Was it merely the ability to take risks? On the other hand, was it that he was aware that he had been given free will and had the freedom to make a choice?
At the time when people unconsciously followed the herd, choosing not to choose, Frost epitomised the freedom of choice that is every humans birthright. Yes, the power of making a choice has been given only to humans. Moreover, the intellect is the instrument with which he has been endowed, to aid him in exercising the mammoth responsibility.
Importance of a calm mind
K Geethanjali is a teacher,
writer, and healer, currently based
in Bangalore. She is the disciple
of Mahavatar Babaji. Yet how many of us really sit, and think our choices through? Arent we swayed by emotions while making a choice? The world is in the shape it is today, because of decisions taken in haste. Decide in haste, repent at leisure, our ancestors warned us, stressing the need of taking time out and making responsible choices.
A calm and collected mind thus seems to be ideal for making a crucial choice. Though one needs to consult near and dear ones at times, and move from emotion to intellect while making a choice, the highest choices remain those that are motivated by the soul. Managing our self thus means making right choices in tangent with the Higher Self.
Finally, the most important choice we can make is the way in which we choose to see life. If we choose to see ourselves as aliens, separate beings in a hostile world, that will be our destiny in the world of relativity. If, on the other hand, we choose to see the world as one huge unit, then naturally the actions that stem from such a choice will be of love and peace, for how can you hurt others if the others are part of it? Therefore, our choices made out of oneness will chart out a beautiful destiny.
As one gets into the flow of following the nudges of ones Higher Self, one slips into the enviable state that J. Krishnamurthy calls choiceless awareness, where one just responds to the present moment spontaneously, without any preconceived ideas, where ones actions are directed not even by choice but just awareness.
Till we reach the state where the chooser and the doer cease to exist, and there is only the soul witnessing the experiences it has created with life, we need to take small steps, aware of even the littlest choices we make. Choosing to shut out external noise once in a while and connecting to the stillness within, and thus choosing to connect to our Higher Self, goes a long way in helping us make all other choices.
When we choose to allow others to create their own painting on the canvas of life using their own colours of choice, we truly choose to give the greatest gift to self and others, freedom, the birthright of every soul.
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night707 - 1:50 pm on May 9, 2007 (gmt 0)
Google has done a lot for many webmasters in the past. At least for my feel, Googles Bourbon update had been THE turning point as since then many quality webmasters had been sandboxed whilst MFA and other junk have been rewarded with tons of cash. Just wish, that there will be a search engine or directory only for quality sites. I am certain, that millions of users would like to see that too.
We (the Webmasters) were the hands that fed Google. We (the Webmasters) built Google.


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Can't find a Nexus S
I'm switching to Tmobile soon and I want a Nexus S to hold me over until the Galaxy Nexus comes out, but I can't find one anywhere. I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction. I was also wondering if i bought the ATT version, if it would work with Tmobile 3g or 4g?
Re: Can't find a Nexus S
Best Buy was the exclusive retailer in the U.S. for the T-Mobile & AT&T versions. It appears they have stopped selling the T-Mobile version. Your best bet at this point would most likely be Craigslist, Swappa, Overstock, or Ebay.
The AT&T versions will not work with T-Mobile's 3G/4G. If you buy the AT&T version you will be limited to 2G (Edge) speeds. - 10-27-2011, 11:14 PM #3
Re: Can't find a Nexus S
I say check out Swappa.com
This is not a buying and selling thread. Post deleted, and I'm closing this thread.
If you were looking to buy a used Nexus, please start a thread in our Marketplace forum. If you want new, try Amazon or Best Buy. Good luck.
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Billy Koitzsch of Anchorage completed a 2,000 mile journey from Knik to Nome to Fairbanks this past Friday, covering the Iron Dog trail on a fat tire bike. Koitzsch, 40, took about 40 days to finish his trip across some of Alaska's most demanding and varied terrain.
Koitzsch is believed to be the first cyclist to traverse the Iron Dog trail solo. He began his trip February 21st, traveled the southern route of the Iditarod to Nome, where he arrived on March 17th. Koitzsch then began the second 1,000 mile leg of his journey and wound up in Fairbanks to culminate a process that took five years to prepare and train for.
Koitzsch had previously attempted a 2,000 mile winter bike trip, but was stopped short a year ago due to frostbitten toes that had to be amputated.