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As with much else in the Constitution, I believe the Fourth Amendment has been misunderstood and distorted. The discussion mainly revolves around the terms "unreasonable" and "probable cause." It is assumed that unreasonable implies a "reasonable" standard. Somehow probable cause has become connected to the search.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause..."
The plain language intends that any search or seizure conducted without a proper warrant, properly served, is automatically unreasonable and therefore prohibited. What person's security, i.e. privacy, can be protected when the state or the police can make their own judgments about what is "reasonable"?
The phrase "probable cause" is likewise clearly confined to the context of due process in the courts and not the judgment call of police. It is the warrant which depends upon probable cause and sworn testimony.
If we are not secure in our private persons, we can not be truly free. There can be no guarantee of liberty. In that condition we become subjects in a police state.
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DALLAS, N.C. — Amber Shea Browning, 20, of Dallas, N.C., passed away Sunday, October 7, 2012.
Preceding her in death were her grandparents, Bernard and Mary Browning, and an uncle, Larry Ellis.
Amber was a student at Gaston College, Lincoln Campus, and was a member of the Stanley Rescue Squad for four years, where she was a Certified Medical Responder.
Survivors include her parents, Greg B. and Regina Ellis Browning, of the home; a brother Gregory Browning II (fiancée Ashley Warren) of the home; her Nanny, Phyllis B. Hatfield and her Mamaw, Doris Ellis, both of Logan; uncles and aunts, Robert (Janet) Ellis, Kathy (Carl) Adkins, Eugene Filllutzi, De Anna (Roscoe) McKnight, Mary Ruth (Mose) Newsome, Joyce King, Carol (Eric) England, Ashley Rae Varney and Suzie; numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, and very special friends, Kenny and Shona Hager, Courtney Cohen, Nick Bright, and Daddy No. 2 Don Woodall.
A service to celebrate the life of Amber will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday, October 11, in the Woodlawn Chapel of Woodlawn Funeral Home in Mount Holly with Rev. Patti Toler officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service.
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Though first assumed to be an undead army, the infected in The Last of Us are living humans. Each stage of the infection modifies their physical and mental capacity. People in the first stage of infection – referred to as Runners – know in their hearts and minds that their instinct to attack uninfected survivors is wrong, but they cannot control the impulse to harm life around them. Later stages of the infection offer encounters with more ghastly creatures. At stage three, the infection blinds hosts and turns them into 'Clickers,' agressors with faces bloomed in blood and gore. These enemies rely on echolocation to sniff out survivors, bellowing a haunting sound that serves as warning for survivors to remain completely still.
With these rules and languages, The Last of Us establishes a terrifying new universe to explore.%Gallery-177916% The tense thirty-minute demo I played of The Last of Us featured the early stages of the game. Beyond the border of a quarantined zone in a bomb-riddled Boston, two allies argue over a piece of information they've learned from a young girl. Joel and Tess, surviving as best they can as smugglers, have been hired by a group known as the Fireflies to escort a fourteen-year-old Ellie through the dangerous outskirts of the city and to their headquarters. It quickly becomes clear that Ellie's importance is as mysterious to us, the players, as it is to Joel and Tess, who seem reluctant to continue on their quest.
The demo takes Joel and his A.I.-controlled allies through a series of buildings ravaged by the government and bombed in an attempt to contain the infection. Joel, Tess, and Ellie scavenge supplies as they progress through the slanted, decimated office buildings. Pieces are collected, collated, and combined in a continued effort to survive, Joel stuffing his backpack with anything that could be of use. Alcohol, scissors, blades, batteries, binding and consumables are littered throughout the world. Joel can reach into his backpack and combine elements to create new tools or medpacks for survival: the blade of a knife and tape creates a shiv; a bottle of alcohol and a rag creates a Molotov cocktail; blade fastened to a pipe or wooden plank gives it the strength for more killing blows. Everything breaks over time; resources are finite and surviving seems like just another road to an early grave in this world.
Despite the company, it's easy to fall into a feeling of isolation in the world developed by Naughty Dog. Eerie silence masks the entire world, with the slightest of sounds piercing through the facade to remind players of the dangers that await them. To help players focus on the importance of listening for possible danger, players can activate Joel's "Listen Mode." Pressing R2, Joel puts his head down and focuses his undivided attention on the sounds around him. On screen this translates to a shift to black-and-white, outlining enemies in the immediate area (even through walls) to help players strategize.
Death comes quickly to Joel if precautions are not taken. In one area a lone clicker investigates a room as the trio enters from an opened door, the monstrous being's disturbing sound piercing the air every few seconds in search of a new victim. Picking up a brick or bottle and hurling it to another section of the room sends the infected fleeing in search of a bite. If the player makes too much noise near a hunting clicker, it's as good as signing Joel's death warrant. The infected's powerful jaws rip through Joel's throat in an instant. Reset to last checkpoint, try to shut up this time.
Later Joel offers to clear an area crawling with infected while Tess and Ellie hide. Here, multiple runners and clickers prowl. On their own, runners can be quite easy to take down; however, their quick speed and typical formation in packs can quickly overwhelm Joel. Inching in to shiv out each infected one by one is a difficult task (and it wastes resources), resulting in multiple moments where I was forced to pound on the dedicated sprint trigger to put space between the enemies and Joel. A few thrown bricks, a wooden plank combined with a blade as an improvised melee weapon, and what few bullets I was able to scrounge from fallen enemies later and the trio were on their way. Sounds easy, but it took me a few tries.
Naughty Dog's first demo for The Last of Us offers only a small slice of what's to come. Despite sharing the performance capture, pacing and character bonding, The Last of Us and Uncharted feel like different beasts. The Last of Us only had thirty minutes to sink its teeth into me, and I think I'm already showing the first stages of its infection.
The Last of Us will be released exclusively for the PlayStation 3 on May 7, 2013.
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Dr Mechthild Fend
18th- and 19th-century French visual culture and art theory
Mechthild Fend studied at Hamburg University and completed her PhD with the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt in 1998, where she was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow. She had a Getty postdoctoral fellowship in 2000/2001 and was a research scholar at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin from 2001-2005. She spend a year as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton before joining the UCL History of Art Department in 2006. Her research has focused on issues of gender, the history and representation of the body, art and science as well as the historiography of art history. The volume 'Männlichkeit im Blick. Visuelle Inszenierungen seit der Frühen Neuzeit' (Köln: Böhlau, 2004), co-edited with Marianne Koos, is a collection of essays that look at the representation of masculinity from Donatello's David to contemporary performance art. The monograph that developed from her dissertation 'Grenzen der Männlichkeit. Der Androgyn in der französischen Kunst und Kunsttheorie 1750-1830' (Berlin: Reimer, 2003) studies androgynous masculinities in the period of the French Revolution focussing on artists such as Jacques-Louis David and Anne-Louis Girodet. A French translation 'Les limites de la masculinité' was published with La Decouverte in autumn 2011.
Her current research project deals with various aspects of skin and skin colour, their history, representation or literal making in paintings, prints and drawings. Her book entitled 'Fleshing out Surfaces. Skin in French art and medicine, 1650-1860' is forthcoming with Manchester University Press. It looks at the art literature concerned with fleshtones and skin, medical definitions of skin and the sense of touch, and at the rendering of skin in the portraiture of Fragonard, David, Benoist, Girodet and Ingres. Further publications related to that topic include the essay 'Bodily and Pictorial Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1790-1860'. In: Art History 28, 2005, pp. 311-339, and a book co-edited with Daniela Bohde: 'Weder Haut noch Fleisch. Das Inkarnat in der Kunstgeschichte', (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 2007). This book is the first systematic study on fleshtones in art, spanning from the gradual introduction of oil paint in the times of Van Eyck to the silk-screens by Andy Warhol. The eight essays consider the ways in which artists used colour and other materials to render skin, explore a range of art theoretical reflections on the visual representation of skin or flesh and link this to issues of the history of the body. She has recently also worked on medical illustrations of skin and skin diseases, in particular on dermatological atlases and wax moulages.
Together with Petra Lange-Berndt she ran the AHRC Research Network
'The Culture of Preservation. The afterlife of specimens since the 18th century'.
Mechthild Fend is interested in supervising PhD students in the research areas sketched above.
Current PhD students:
Kelly Freeman: The Manifold Form: Analogies of Bone and Iron in the Skeletopoeia and Architecture of nineteenth-century Natural History and Anatomy Museums
Meghan Gilbride: Memory Migrations. Visualising personal narratives of political conflict and exile in animated film
Rebecca Whiteley: Illustration in Early Modern Midwifery Manuals in England and France
Completed PhD students:
Gemma Angel: In the Skin: An Ethnographic-Historical Approach to a Museum Collection of Preserved Tattoos (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award).
Recent book and articles include:
'Flesh-tones, Skin-colour and the Eighteenth-Century Color Print', in Aesthetics of the Flesh, ed. by Felix Ensslin and Charlotte Klink (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015), pp. 203-227.
'Marie-Guillelmine Benoist's "Portrait d'une négresse" and the Visibility of Skin Colour', in Probing the Skin. Cultural Representations of Our Contact Zone, ed. by Caroline Rosenthal and Dirk Vanderbeke (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), pp. 192-210.
Plumes et Pinceaux. Les femmes et les discours sur l'art en Europe (1750-1850), ed. with Anne Lafont and Melissa Hyde, Paris: Presses du réel/INHA, 2012.
'Portraying Skin Disease: Robert Carswell's dermatological watercolours', in A Medical History of Skin, ed. by Kevin Siena and Jonathan Reinarz (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), pp. 147-164.
'Skin portraiture "painted from nature": Ferdinand Herbra's "Atlas of Skin Diseases" (1856-76)', in Hidden Treasure: The National Library of Medicine, ed. by Michael Sappol (New York: Blast, 2012), pp. 122-126.
'Toile nerveuse. Rendre la peau dans les Portraits de fantaisie de Fragonard'., in Cultures de cour – cultures du corps, ed. by Catherine Lanoë, Matieu da Vinha et Bruono Laurioux (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 2011), pp. 169-184.
'Haut wie weicher Marmor. Die Frauenporträts von Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres'. In Ähnlichkeit und Entstellung, Oliver Jehle, Sabine Slanina (eds.), Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2010, pp. 95-112.
'Emblems of Durability. Preserves, Tattoos and Photographs' In Performance Research, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2009. Special Issue: Transplantations, eds. Ric Allsopp and Phillip Warnell, pp. 45-52.
'Bodily and Pictorial Surfaces: Skin in French Art and Medicine, 1790-1860'. In Art History 28, 2005, pp. 311-339.
'Allegory and Fantasy: Portraiture Beyond Resemblance (Review of Sarah Betzer, Ingres and the Studio. Women, Painting, History and Melissa Percival, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure, in Oxford Art Journal 26, 2013, pp. 265-267.
Book review of Melanie
Ulz: 'Auf dem Schlachtfeld des Empire'. In Sehepunkte 9,
2009, Nr. 6.
review of: Figures du corps. Une leçon d'anatomie aux beaux-arts.
Paris, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris. 21.10.2008-04.01.2009.
In ArtHist, Dec 2008.
Book review of Todd Porterfield and Susan L. Siegfried: ,Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David'. In Art Bulletin 40, June 2008, pp. 298-300.


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Child abuse. Nemours Kids Health website. Available at: http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/child%5Fabuse.htm. Updated January 2012. Accessed October 1, 2014.
Child sexual abuse. American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry website. Available at:
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Lahoti SL, McClain N, et al. Evaluating the child for sexual abuse. Am Fam Physician. 2001;63(5):883-893.
McDonald KC. Child abuse: Approach and management. Am Fam Physician. 2007;75(2):221-228.
Responding to child sexual abuse. American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry website. Available at: http://www.aacap.org/AACAP/AACAP/Families%5Fand%5FYouth/Facts%5Ffor%5FFamilies/Facts%5Ffor%5FFamilies%5FPages/Responding%5FTo%5FChild%5FSexual%5FAbuse%5F28.aspx. Updated March 2011. Accessed October 1, 2014.
Sexual abuse. American Academy of Pediatrics Healthy Children website. Available at:
http://www.healthychildren.org/English/safety-prevention/at-home/Pages/Sexual-Abuse.aspx. Updated August 7, 2013. Accessed October 1, 2014.
Warning signs. Stop It Now website. Available at:
http://www.stopitnow.org/warnings. Accessed October 1, 2014.
What is considered child sexual abuse? Stop It Now website. Available at: http://www.stopitnow.org/warning%5Fsigns%5Fcsa%5Fdefinition. Accessed October 1, 2014.
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"BUTTERMERE, a township and chapelry in the parish of Brigham, and ward of Allerdale-above-Derwent, in the county of Cumberland, 9 miles to the S.W. of Keswick, and 10 S.E. of Cockermouth. The district is mountainous, and abounds in romantic and magnificent scenery. The hamlet is picturesquely seated in a deep valley, encompassed by lofty mountains, which reflect themselves on the surface of the lakes below. To the S.E. of the village is the lake from which it takes its name, along the margin of which are the peaks called High Crag, High-Style, and Red Pike."
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It brings me great joy to announce that we are currently at the forefront of the next great awakening that our nation is longing for. In this day and age, we are in need of a desperate revival in our school, churches, and cities and we as Christians must respond. I am reminded of what the Apostle Paul wrote in Ephesians 5:14, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." In response to this desperate need, we feel that our upcoming youth convention can only be described as: "The Awakening".
You will not want to miss this historic, earth-shattering event, which will be held at the Hilton Austin on November 22-24, 2012 in Austin, TX. Students and leaders will also have the opportunity to participate in "God Belongs in My City", a prayer march and rally cry at the state capitol building immediately following the conclusion of our Speed the Light service on Friday morning.
Registration is now open and our rates for this year are $55 for early registration (must be postmarked by September 14), $65 for regular registration (must be postmarked by October 12), and $75 for late registration (must be postmarked by November 2). Please take advantage of our lower registration rates by registering your youth group early. This year, we are giving away one free registration for every 15 paid registrations. For more details on how to take advantage of this, check out the Frequently Asked Questions Page found on this website. As always, all senior pastors and their spouses receive free registrations.
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Posted by teddy r. on 01/16/2014
I adore Italian food, in fact, prepare many dishes myself. However, lasagna is not one of them. It is time consuming and labor intensive. This would be the reason I order it at many Italian restaurants. Big mistake at Caffe Linda. It was overcooked, soggy and all around terrible. Even the sauce, which had all but dried up, was tasteless. Can not recommend this restaurant at all. It is in a midtown neighborhood of many hotels. Stick to restaurants in more residential neighborhoods where the restaurant must depend on returning clientele. I did like the convenient coat rack upon entering.
Posted by Anonymous on 12/04/2012
None of the loud New York Italian greetings and overfriendly staff. Very good food, nice small and cozy atmosphere.. service could improve a bit, but the other stuff makes up for it. Definitely one to return to.
Posted by Anonymous on 02/17/2012
Authentic italian cuisine , friendly and efficient staff. Make sure you try their lemon-basil margarita!!
Posted by Gary, Texas on 04/22/2011
Our first dinner in NYC was at Caffe Linda. Unique Salads like the Shrimp, Avocado & Garden Greens Salad we had. Very good. Loved the Black Linguine with fressh Lobster and Shrimp. It has a very spicy hot sause that perfectly compliments the sweer lobster and shrimp. BEST DESSERTS in NYC!!! The four of us shared Tiramisu (my Wife's and my favorite) and Cheesecake. Superb! My Mom loves chocolate, which she mentioned to the waiter, so they then brought out a Tartufo Al Cioccolato, free of charge!!!! How nice was that??? It is Fantastic!!! A very special experience. Prices were less than I expected for Uptown NYC, sepecially on entrees. Portions were good sized. We cannot wait to visit NYC and Caffe Linda again.
Posted by John H. Moore on 09/25/2009
Yes, I know, there are more famous, more fashionable, more glamorous Italian restaurants in town, but Caffe Linda just seems to have the right balance of what makes the essence of Italian food: simple but tasty, casual but with elegance; the staff is welcoming and provides caring service, the atmosphere is nice and warm (especially at dinner time: they play good music, light the candles... all you need for a nice date). I've been eating at Caffe Linda quite often lately and everything I tried was very yummy... Just once I wasn't satisfied with a salad and the waiter changed it for me right away. I had a delicious whole Branzino fish, wonderful linguine with fresh scallops and sweet pepper sauce (amazing!). They have great appetizers too, such as a crispy but moist grilled octopus or polenta with mushrooms. Nice wine selection too, and a good hard liquor bar. I sometime get a Cosmo or a Dirty Martini and the barman did a great job mixing them! And all of this for a very decent price that the more famous Italian places can't beat. I speak a little bit of Italian because my grandmother was from Calabria, and I often overheard Italian tourists eating at Caffe Linda complimenting the staff on the great food, saying it tastes just like home!
Posted by anonymous on 05/19/2009
i have been going to this place for years, perfect lunch place. lunch is generally packed so go early if you want a table. food is simple, delicious, abundant and most of all, pretty reasonably priced. chicken milanese is exceptional and salads are delicious!
Posted by anonymous on 04/22/2009
Quite possibly my favorite 'quick' dine-in spot in Midtown East. I'm not sure what they do to their tomato sauce, but it is incredible. Be sure to try the Chicken Milanese, one of the best i've had. I also love the black linguine with grilled shrimp in arrabiatta sauce. It really is a nice, affordable, consistenly good Italian cafe in midtown. If you're ever looking to eat well and do it for around $15. This is your place. One piece of advice - if you go for lunch get there at noon or shortly thereafter. The place gets packed and there's usually a wait between 12:30-1p. At noon, it's wide open Enjoy!!!


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The Plaza Miserere is one of the most important squares of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is situated in the center of the Balvanera neighborhood.
The plaza is located at the previous site of a mansion called the Quinta de Miserere. It is one of the most visited parts of the city. The most notable attraction of the plaza is perhaps Monument to Bernardino Rivadavia, who was the first president of the country.
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The Tour de Fleece starts this Saturday, and I had the goal of emptying all my bobbins to have them ready for the tour (9 4oz bobbins and 2 8oz jumbo bobbins). To do this I had to get this done:
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It's 220 yards 3.2oz of wonderfully soft 50/50 baby camel/silk in a sport weight yarn. It's just calling out for me to knit it into something to keep someone warm next to their skin. However, I must wait until after the tour to figure out what that will be.
Just had to show it off, since it will probably after the tour when I post again. Hope you all have a great couple of weeks. See some of you soon at the Rocky Mountain Retreat.
You are completely and totally off the hook knitwise. I don't know if anyone has mentioned this to you before but BRAVO!!
Well thank you. I've been told that I am off my rocker, but not off the hook.
Believe me, you are. And this is to cast no aspersions whatsoever onto crocheters. I am a crocheter myself (albeit in a past life).
Tour De Fleece! That sound exciting! Beautiful Project and Yarn! :-)
Thank you. It just started today and I was able to get some spinning and hosting of the gathering at my house of our local Wyoming team members.
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I got a bit of spinning done in the heat of the day. Perhaps will do some more tonight. I am going to try my hand at beading the spinning again. Fingers crossed it goes better than last time.
Wow, it looks great. Question, what do you use your handspun for? I started spinning a few months back and I have a few skeins ready from different color ways (mostly ranging from 200-400 yards in a light fingerling weight) and no idea what to use them for...
Anything you want, it is your's isn't it?!? I have done several projects
with my own yarn and the more you use your yarn, the more you will understand
about it and the better you will get at making yarn you want, not just
spinning because you can.
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I made this hat for my niece out of the very first 2 batches of yarn I spun. The red was dyed with black cherry Kool Aid.
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This was maybe my 4th batch of homespun that I dyed with Jaquard acid dye. I ran out of the original and just made a contrasting blue since I knew I would never get the same color. You might be able to tell, my spinning got a little better.
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This was my first single ply that I spun very fine out of jacobs wool. A lot of issues since I originally spun intending to ply it but then got worried about yardage. I learned a lesson or two there...
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This was a scarf for a friend that I really worked on being consistent knowing it was going into a basic 2 ply. I wanted yardage because I only had 4 oz of fiber so I spun it out fine and nice. I knew immediately when I saw this fiber what I wanted for it because it fit her personality so well.
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This one was a chain ply that when I spun it I did not know what I was going to end up doing with it. But when the colors ranged out I knew it wanted to make a little neck scarf for a friend who loves green. Again, I can see quite a bit of improvement in my yarns the more I use them since I know what I need to finish them off well.
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And this is my latest handspun finished item. It's a large wrap that I spun the yarn for into a three ply. It has it's looser spots but for consistently spinning 16oz of fiber for a project over 3 months, I think I did a pretty good job.
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I still don't know what I will knit with my very first cable ply yarn, but it's itching at the back of my brain to be used.
So, my answer is, anything and if you have that much light fingering, play with something lacy and beautiful! Perhaps go shopping for some fiber with an idea of what you want to make,and spin to that idea in your head. I personally do both as you can kind of see. And most importantly, don't forget to show us pictures!
Awesome thanks for the advise! I've found the idea of selecting projects
for my handspun somewhat daunting. Knowing how much effort went into spinning
it I would hate to see it go to waste in a project that doesn't show it off
well or that I have enough yardage for. Although keep it on the shelf isn't
doing it much justice either... I think I'll bite the bullet and knit up some
lacy scarves or small shawls.
Thanks again!
PS. Nice pics! you do great work ;)
Thank you. We can't wait to see what you create.
Great job, Q. I look forward to seeing it in person.
And Mark - You will probably get your wish...both Quinton and I will have spinning with us at the retreat as we participate in the Tour de Fleece.
Lovely workmanship! And silk/cashmere would be so wonderful to spin, and to knit. Perfect for making an item for someone special! (yourself?)
I don't have much left in my stash now. My planned buying trip last week got rained out, and there doesn't appear to be another opportunity for some time. Although there is Fibre Week at Olds this week.... http://www.oldscollege.ca/programs/ContinuingEducation/fibreweek/index.htm
Have fun with your TdF!!
Again, beautiful spinning! camel/silk sounds like it would be wonderful. How many skeins do you do at once? I wish I lived closer to you, I'd love to watch you do the spinning.
Depends on the size of the batch of fiber, but I normally only have one spinning project going at a time. So very unlike my knitting in that way.


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I like to read (and write) about Finland and this novel had all the elements I enjoy. Snappy dialogue, a fast pace, humour and a brilliant ending. The story is about a dejected journalist who hits a hare with his car. The hare survives and become a companion to the journalist who, thrown by the accident, decides to drop out of society, hit the road and nurse the hare. The book is full of strong colourful characters that the journalist meets along his route as he works his way up to Lapland with his wife and editor on his tail. Highly recommended and I look forward to reading Arto Paasilinna's other English-language work, The Howling Miller.
Tarina saa alkunsa siitä, että kaksi miestä, toimittaja ja valokuvaaja, törmäävät työmatkansa aikana autolla jäniksenpoikaseen. Toimittaja, nimeltään Vatanen, rientää katsomaan kuinka eläimelle kävi. Hän lastoittaa jäniksen takakoiven risunpalasella ja nenäliinan suikaleilla. Vatanen kiintyy jänikseen kovasti ja päättää jättää entisen turhauttavan elämänsä taakseen. Hän ei pidä vaimostaan eikä työstään, joten päätös on helppo. Niin Vatanen aloittaa eri puolilla Suomea tapahtuvan seikkailunsa jäniksen kanssa. Vatanen elättää itseään mm. metsänraivaustöillä, tapaa monenlaisia ihmisiä ja joutuu moniin erikoisiin tilanteisiin. Yhteiskunta ei kovin suopeasti katso tällaista irtiottoa, ja lopulta Vatanen joutuukin vastaamaan erilaisista tempauksistaan.
When the car in which he's traveling injures a baby hare, Kaarlo Vatanen abandons his former life as a journalist and goes to live in nature with his new boon companion. This is a fairly short, but strangely intense picaresque which involves pretty much every stereotypical issue you can think of when it comes to Finnish people (the drink, the melancholy, the violence, the contemplation) and also describes the Finnish landscape in hard but loving terms and in great detail (Vatanen and the hare's trip can easily be traced on a map). Vatanen's return-to-nature odyssey lands him in a series of sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and sometimes absurd situations that aren't quite possible, but not entirely impossible either. I'd suggest arming yourself with an extremely dry sense of humor (Finnish-style) before picking this up or you'll be wondering what on earth is going on.
As the evening of a Finnish midsummer draws in two men, tired after a long and quarrelsome day, are heading home, driving into the sun, the beauty of their surroundings lost on them.
"They were a journalist and a photographer, out on an assignment: two dissatisfied, cynical men, getting on for middle age. The hopes of their youth had not been realized, far from it. They were husbands, deceiving and deceived; stomach ulcers on the way for both of them; and many other worries filled their days."
"On the crest of a hillock, an immature hare was trying its leaps in the middle of the road. Tipsy with summer, it perched on its hind legs, framed by the red sun."
The photographer brakes too late. The leaping leveret hits the windscreen and is thrown off into the forest. The photographer backs up to the place where the hare was hit and the journalist rushes into the trees to look for it. He finds it, and although its left hind leg is broken it seems otherwise unharmed. The journalist makes a splint for its leg and cradles the hare in his arms as it calms down. He doesn't respond to the impatient calls from the photographer, who angrily drives off, abandoning him. The journalist, Vatanen, idly looks through his wallet and considers its contents, indicative as they are of his life. He then picks up the hare and heads deeper into the forest.
Leaving his old life behind, and outwitting initial attempts by his wife and employer to get him back, Vatanen sets out on a series of adventures largely determined by, or as a consequence of, his concern for the hare. The adventures become increasingly bizarre as Vatanen fights forest fires, herds cows, becomes involved in military war games, and tracks a bear across the border into Russia - always accompanied by the hare.
Part whimsey, part satire, part shaggy dog story, according to the back cover of my edition 'The Year Of The Hare' is the author's favourite of his works, and has long been a best seller in Finland and France (an interesting pairing). I was surprised to see that the novel "is frequently dramatized for the stage and has been made into a film twice". I can't begin to imagine how this could be played out on stage. Even a film would miss the spread and the affectionate detail of the work.
One I will definitely be rereading.
Synopsis: Arto Paasilinna is a Laplander, born in Finland in 1942. He is a woodcutter, farm labor, journalist and poet and author of more than thirty novels. The short little story is the tale of a journalist who one day walks away from it all after finding a wounded hare that was just hit by their car. The adventure takes us through Finland with the man and the hare. He works in the forest, helps with various jobs and runs into all kinds of adventures such as forest fires, bears and ravens. It is a humorous story but also a story of a simpler life in harmony with nature.
Opinion: I liked the book because there was so much that brought back childhood memories. This story reminded me so much of my earlier life. My family lived in an area where Finnish people had settled and it is a lot like this land. My dad was best friends with a Finn. The hunted, fished and trapped together. My parents made fish soup and many other Finnish dishes. I took some Finnish cooking classes. The sauna is part of family life. I grew up with the sauna and miss it a lot. The Finnish people that I knew, knew nature. If you grow up in Finland maybe nature is just too much of the culture not to adapt quickly. The story seemed so very believable to me because of my life. Even in college I roomed with a Finnish gal.
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I honestly haven't been this addicted to a MMORPG in a long time. I'm having a blast with everything.
If you avoid reading General Chat, the experience is even better. I keep the Looking For Group channel and my faction channel open, and I have run into a lot of cool people. Had a speed run group for AP last night, and we had a lot of fun doing it. Unlocked all kinds of fun skills.
The game has some flaws, but it seems that they take it all pretty seriously. During Early Access, they were taking the servers down almost every night for maintenance to the client. If they keep this up, the game's going to be in great shape for a long time to come.
I was incredibly skeptical about this game seeing that EA was the publisher, and FunCom had tarnished their image with a sloppy launch for AoC, but all in all, I've been extremely happy with The Secret World so far. Many sleepless nights for me, and I find myself looking forward to logging in when I can.
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Originally posted by Dakirn
You are on the eve of a major product launch and you stand down from a position you have held for nine years as the leader of a company. That isn't normal, that is down right bizarre. That is like launching a ship with no captain.
Who in the right mind thinks that is the time to change around management structure. You have a major product launch, so you decide that is the perfect time to step down and transition to a new leadership of the company ... odd, very odd. There is more to that story than the CEO is off to pursue a role as a strategy advisor, he has been binned. Now the more important question is why? Why does someone bin a CEO on the eve of a launch? Pre-order sales not as expected or perhaps the ship is sinking and the 'former' captain is already in the lifeboat. Who knows...But its odd, not what has happened. But the timing of what has happened.
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I am estatic to hear that it was overall a successful launch! I did the AO one and I didn't have the heart to reattempt fate with AoC's.
What is leveling speed like? Is it like AO's or is it a lot faster?
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Originally posted by MurlockDance
I think there are 8 zones in the game (not 100% sure so someone can clarify) and the first zone Kingsmouth just took me 19 hours /played to clear completely. Dunno if that suits your pace, but for me it's about perfect, playing around 20 hours a week on average it means that playing through just this quest content will take up to 2 months. That is not including PvP, dungeons, exploring and idling in hub areas interacting with other players.
If you are the type of player that will blast through content as fast as possible I would probably say this game is still worth the box price to play through in the first month anyway.
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Originally posted by fallenlords
I believe he stepped down so he could get involved with that new leggo game they are starting work on... I guess the guy loves leggo..
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Originally posted by SlickShoes
Not to mention the time spent experimenting with an infinite amount of setups, customizing gear and exploring for tidbits of lore, which, are fairly interesting in and of themselves. I would also suggest that there is a replayability factor as well, to see what the other faction storylines are like.
I think I've explored 8 open world zones thus far, and 3 pvp zones as well. There are dozens of other zones as well that are either solo or team instanced (dungeons, mission areas etc...).
as long as funcom doesn't pull another "Shadowlands" expansion, like in anarchy online, then I think the game will continue to be successful. considering how badly the economy around the globe is doing, and that only those with relatively new gaming pc's can visually enjoy the game, I think funcom shouldn't be worried at all, at this point.
Imo, TSW definitely was a successful launch. There will always be folks who want to see a franchise crash and burn, and will focus solely on the mechanics of a game that they don't like, or that it is co-published by EA (recent memories of swtor i guess), or that pvp is too team oriented instead of open world gank-fests.
Using the recent Mass Effect 3 ending failure as an example, I think a lot of people love pessimism-porn. where reading, hearing about or talking about the failure of something is exciting and satisfies some primal desire. In the case of TSW, if you're a fan of the genre and lore and setting; then a few bugs, or EA having its pee-fingers near it would not be enough to keep you away.
But, if CCP gets World of Darkness out, then maybe there can be some comparisons made, and funcom will have some direct competition for the horror/modern fantasy genre. otherwise, Im not seeing how TSW can be compared to other recent MMO's, unless its about something purely mechical. As far as I can tell from actually playing TSW, the similarities stop there.
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Are we about ready to stop praising every mmo that actually functions on launch day? This is at least the fifth, possibly in a row, that I've witnessed. It's not a major feat anymore, give it a rest.
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Originally posted by adam_nox
But.. But... it was Funcom that made a decent launch, it most be the greatest game ever!
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Originally posted by adam_nox
5 is your limit, huh? someone give this kid a hug please.
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The launch was pretty smooth as far as MMO launches go. I think the best thing about TSW so far is that even though there's bugs, people seem to be enjoying the game enough to overlook them for now. I personally hope they get the buggy quests fixed up soon as there are quite a few. The GM's have been pretty responsive to help players past most bugged quests.
I'm impressed and enjoying the game more than I thought I would - enough that I've been pretty tired at work a couple days due to just one more quest syndrome.
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Originally posted by adam_nox
There is a missunderstanding here, sure people are talking about smooth and adequate launches BUT people arent praising a company for a good launch, they are just having fun , a smooth launch just helps in that department.. alot.
You are right though, games SHOULD be released smooth and functional , we arent asking the world and we definately can understand there being some issues, that will require attention after release. Although ironic enough smooth launches dont garantee success, heck bad launches dont even garantee a fail, some of the worst releases managed to become very successfull. Heck THE worst release because THE most successfull of all.
But back on topic, yes IMO its a good launch of TSW, overall my experiance has been good, Ive ran into little to no issues , just a few broken quests, which I was able to complete anyway, with the exception of 1, Ive found nothing worth mentioning. All I can say is Im having a blast.
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Originally posted by Dakirn
I have placed 2 petitions so far, both regarding broken quests. One for "Men in Black Vans," which was fixed by the developers, and the other regarding the "Dawning of an Endless Night." I have yet to be contacted by a GM regarding either of those quests, about 5 days later.
The only reason I was able to advance and finally beat "Dawning of an Endless Night" was because I saw another player doing it and I jumped in to help, which gave me credit for it. If I had to rely on a GM to fix it, I'd still be waiting.
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Im curious to see how many people are actualy playing,but yes it was a smooth launch.
kudos to Funcom for finally getting one.
aside from a few bugged quests its been smooth.
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Originally posted by heartless
Im curious what part of Dawning of endless night was an issue? The only part that was somewhat rough was the protection of the ward stone but I didnt have an issue doing that solo at all.
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Originally posted by Panthien
I've already explained this earlier in this topic, in that very post that is quoted in this conversation.
Here, I'll highlight it for you.
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It depens, simply, on what you call '' successful ''. TSW is a great game and fully worth ur time, however, it is really hard to deice if the launch was good or not. It depens on different aspects.
1. The servers: No crash or lag doesn´t explain anything. It depens on how many people are playing the game. As reports comes from different reviewing sites, the game is kinda '' empty '' late night, so we can´t consider the stress on the servers as high as on other hyped games. You can´t basically say that TSW´s servers are better than Blizzard´s via launch, just because Diablo 3 crashed nd this not because D3 had +1 million trying to login so it is '' usual '' the servers will crash. However, the servers ( TSW) have worked well anyway which is great.
2. The content: Well, TSW is great via launch nd better than many others but there is still lack in some content there the devs have already explained that they will '' add this later ''. Bugs are also there. So, in my opinion, they could have worked on the game for more time to make it more '' complete ''.
3. Impressions: Well, this maybe TSW´s best aspect. The impressions are pretty important when it comes to launch and fans, around the globe, have been pretty possitive when it comes to this aspect. The game simply offer a really great experience, so yeah great impressions. On the other hand, more experienced MMO-gamers/ppl working in MMO-industry/ Reviewing sites have actually noticed that, well, TSW is great, but it is stil kinda '' traditional '' and a revolution is something far away. Things like kill X number Y quests are more than wanted in some cases and some combat/graphic aspects are a bit low.
Overall, TSW is a great game that made a well launch. However, considering this as one of the most successful launches ever is kinda of '' being hyped urself ''. Having a smooth game via launch maybe a great + but on the other hand it doesn´t say much in this case because the population isn´t that big anyway. However, Funcorn have done a very great job that I, personally, love ;)


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Chalet Carclion was a new addition to Riders Refuge's collection of chalets for the 2013 / 2014 winter season. The chalet has been chosen to provide guests with spacious, comfortable accommodation with a fabulous central location.
Carclion offers guests eight spacious bedrooms – please see our floorplan for the layout of the chalet. Four bedrooms have their own balcony and on the ground floor there is a large sun terrace complete with Hot Tub, perfect to relax in after a hard day on the mountain. At the heart of the chalet is the most important room; an open plan living and dining area. Here, you will enjoy a home cooked food, unlimited complimentary wine with dinner and the opportunity to socialise with fellow guests. In the living area you can enjoy a night relaxing on the large comfortable sofas and watch flat screen TV, with freesat HDTV, DVD player and a media centre with a selection of films. There is also a Wii games console and a selection of games, Wi-Fi internet access with a laptop for your use.
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Five Most Fearsome Place Names
by tonyleather on 27/04/11 at 4:52 pm
When you want to get somewhere, as a tourist, you would consult maps and ask questions of local people, normally, but what if the destination you had in mind was a place whose proper name was beyond your ability to pronounce?
There are some places in the world that you might want to get to, but could never ask for directions because ot the difficulty of simply pronouncing the names of your intended destinations. Everyone in the UK has heard of the Welsh village, on the isle of Anglesey, of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch – a truly unpronounceable, 51 letter mouthful, in the Welsh language- 58 in English – which translates literally to Saint Mary's Church in a hollow of white hazel near the swirling whirlpool of the church of Saint Tysilio with a red cave.
No less difficult to utter is the full name of Lake Chaubunagungamaug, MA, which, in the Nipmuc language, translated as Fishing Place at the Boundaries — Neutral Meeting Grounds is written thus – Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg – a 45 utterly unspeakable letter combination that would twist the most skilful tonue.
Next on the least is a location in South Africa, known locally as TweeBuffels, though the full, 42 letter Afrikaans name is – Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein – translated quite literally as The spring where two buffaloes were cleanly killed with a single shot. Oddly enough, you could not find this place on any map, because, though said to be located west of Pretoria by some 200km, nobody has actually any idea how to find the place.
Should you have thought, even for a moment, that these names presented a certain difficulty in terms of pronunciation, you literally ain't seen nothing yet, believe me. Just try to imagine attempting to get your poor tongue around this 85 letter monstrosity, in the language of the Maori people of New Zealand. Known by locals as Taumata, the place named –Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu – which means, believe it or not, The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about, played his nose flute to his loved one, and is officially ranked as the longest place name on earth.
The Guinness Book of World Records would, however, dispute this claim, because, in the language of the Thai people, the city we all know as Bangkok, capitol city of Thailand, is represented as – Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
These 167 letters, a phrase that even Thai residents would have difficulty in actually pronouncing, translate to – The city of angels, the great city, the eternal jewel city, the impregnable city of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarma – no wonder the Guinness Book of Records regard this as the longest place name on the globe.
These might not be the most memorable of place names, and chances are you will never want to visit any of them, but just imagining trying to ask directions, using the proper names, is enough to make even the most seasoned traveler shudder. Five fearsome place names, by any standards.
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A decoupling capacitor is formed in a semiconductor substrate that includes a strained silicon layer. A substantially flat bottom electrode is formed in a portion of the strained silicon layer and a capacitor dielectric overlying the bottom electrode. A substantially flat top electrode overlies said capacitor dielectric. The top electrode is connected to a first reference voltage line and the bottom electrode is connected to a second reference voltage line.
1. A method of forming a capacitor, the method comprising:
providing a semiconductor substrate including a strained silicon layer;
forming a bottom electrode in the strained silicon layer;
forming a capacitor dielectric on bottom electrode;
forming a top electrode on capacitor dielectric;
forming a bottom electrode contact region within the strained silicon layer adjacent the bottom electrode; and
electrically connecting the bottom electrode and the bottom electrode contact region.
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forming an active region;
forming isolation regions surrounding the active region; and
doping the active region to form a bottom electrode.
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forming an interfacial oxide layer; and
forming a high permittivity dielectric layer.
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doping a portion of the strained silicon layer not covered by top electrode;
forming spacers on sides of the top electrode; and
doping a portion of the silicon layer not covered by the top electrode and spacers.
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depositing an etch-stop layer over top electrode and spacers;
forming an inter-layer dielectric over etch-stop layer;
forming contact holes in inter-layer dielectric; and
filling the contact holes with a conductive material to form contact plugs.
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providing a semiconductor substrate including a strained silicon layer,
forming a substantially flat bottom electrode in a portion of the strained silicon layer;
forming a capacitor dielectric over the bottom electrode;
forming a substantially flat top electrode over said capacitor dielectric;
electrically coupling the top electrode to a first reference voltage line; and
electrically coupling the bottom electrode to a second reference voltage line.
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This application is a divisional of U.S. Pat. No. 6,940,705 entitled "Capacitor with Enhanced Performance and Method of Manufacture," filed on Jul. 25, 2003, which patent is incorporated herein by reference.
The present invention relates generally to semiconductor devices and more particularly to a capacitor with enhanced performance and method of manufacture.
Power supply lines in a semiconductor integrated circuit chip supply current to charge and discharge active and passive devices in the integrated circuit. For example, digital complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) circuits draw current when the clock makes a transition. During the operation of circuits, the power supply lines must supply transient currents with a relatively high intensity, and can result in voltage noise on the power supply lines. The voltage on the power supply line will fluctuate when the fluctuation time of the transient current is short or when its parasitic inductance or parasitic resistance is large.
In state-of-the-art circuits, the operational frequency of the integrated circuit is in the order of several hundreds of mega-hertz (MHz) to several giga-hertz (GHz). In such circuits, the rising time of clock signals is very short, so that voltage fluctuations in the supply line can be very large. Undesired voltage fluctuations in the power supply line powering a circuit can cause noise on its internal signals and degrade noise margins. The degradation of noise margins can reduce circuit reliability or even cause circuit malfunction.
To reduce the magnitude of voltage fluctuations in the power supply lines, filtering or decoupling capacitors are usually used between the terminals of different power supply lines or between terminals of power supply line and the ground line. Decoupling capacitors act as charge reservoirs that additionally supply currents to circuits when required to prevent momentary drops in supply voltage.
Decoupling capacitors are used in integrated chips employing both bulk and silicon-on-insulator substrates. However, the role of decoupling capacitors is more important in a silicon-on-insulator chip than in a bulk silicon chip due to the following reason. Integrated chips fabricated on bulk substrates can naturally decouple the power supply potential and the ground potential due to the presence of inherent depletion capacitances between the doped wells and the bulk substrate. Compared to bulk substrates, silicon-on-insulator chips have very low on-chip decoupling capacitance between the power supply lines and ground.
U.S. Pat. No. 6,558,998 entitled "SOI type integrated circuit with a decoupling capacity and process for embodiment of such a circuit" issued to Belleville et al. describes a decoupling capacitor that is formed with the formation of silicon-on-insulator substrates. While that capacitor may be formed with a large area or large capacitance, it is formed together with the substrate, which means that the substrate has to be customized for each different circuit design.
These and other problems are generally solved or circumvented, and technical advantages are generally achieved, by preferred embodiments of the present invention which teach an integrated circuit capacitor with enhanced performance and method of manufacture a capacitor.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, a capacitor is formed in a strained semiconductor layer. In particular, a bottom electrode is formed in a portion of the strained semiconductor layer. A capacitor dielectric overlies the bottom electrode and a top electrode overlies the capacitor dielectric. In one embodiment, first and second bottom electrode contact regions are formed in the strained semiconductor layer adjacent but not underlying the top electrode. The bottom electrode is located between the first and the second bottom electrode contact regions. In this embodiment, the first bottom electrode region is electrically coupled to the second bottom electrode region, e.g., by at least one metallization layer.
In a second embodiment of the present invention, a decoupling capacitor is formed in a semiconductor substrate that includes a strained silicon layer. A substantially flat bottom electrode is formed in a portion of the strained silicon layer and a capacitor dielectric overlying the bottom electrode. A substantially flat top electrode overlies said capacitor dielectric. The top electrode is connected to a first reference voltage line and the bottom electrode is connected to a second reference voltage line.
The present invention also teaches a method of forming a capacitor. A semiconductor substrate that includes a strained silicon layer is provided. A bottom electrode is formed in the strained silicon layer, e.g., by doping the layer. A capacitor dielectric is formed on bottom electrode and a top electrode is formed on capacitor dielectric. A first doped region and a second doped region are formed within the strained silicon layer adjacent but not beneath the top electrode. These doped regions are electrically connected to each other. Alternatively, only one doped region may be used to electrically contact the bottom electrode.
The foregoing has outlined rather broadly the features and technical advantages of the present invention in order that the detailed description of the invention that follows may be better understood. Additional features and advantages of the invention will be described hereinafter which form the subject of the claims of the invention. It should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the conception and specific embodiment disclosed may be readily utilized as a basis for modifying or designing other structures or processes for carrying out the same purposes of the present invention. It should also be realized by those skilled in the art that such equivalent constructions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.
For a more complete understanding of the present invention, and the advantages thereof, reference is now made to the following descriptions taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which:
The making and using of the presently preferred embodiments are discussed in detail below. It should be appreciated, however, that the present invention provides many applicable inventive concepts that can be embodied in a wide variety of specific contexts. The specific embodiments discussed are merely illustrative of specific ways to make and use the invention, and do not limit the scope of the invention.
In the preferred embodiment this invention, a capacitor structure with at least one strained electrode is taught. The strained electrode may, for example, be comprised of a strained silicon layer. For example, the strained electrode can be a heavily doped strained silicon layer or it can be an inversion layer in a strained silicon layer.
In the embodiment of
In another embodiment, the bottom electrode 104 is doped to a different conductivity type. In this case, the inversion region 114 is provided to create the contact between regions 104, 110 and 112. For example, in one embodiment the contact regions 110 and 112 are physically doped with n-type dopants (e.g., arsenic and/or phosphorus) and the electrode region 104 is physically doped with p-type dopants (e.g., boron). When the top electrode is connected to a high voltage level, inversion region 114 will be formed and will appear to be n-doped. In this manner, the bottom electrode contact regions 110 and/or 112 are doped to a given conductivity type (n-type in this example) and the bottom electrode is operationally doped the first conductivity type. In this context, "operationally doped" means being at that doping level whenever the chip is operational. This definition excludes a transistor, which is at that doping level only when that transistor itself is turned on.
The mobility enhancement can be explained as follows. In relaxed silicon, the electrons reside in the six-fold degenerate Δ6 conduction valleys as illustrated by
According to the preferred embodiment of this invention, a heavily doped strained silicon layer or an inversion region in a strained silicon layer is used as a bottom electrode of a capacitor. The heavily doped strained silicon is preferably heavily doped with n-type dopants, and the inversion region preferably comprises electrons because the mobility of electrons is significantly increased in strained silicon. The resistance of the inversion region is inversely proportional to mobility. A high mobility inversion region has a lower resistance. Therefore, by forming a low resistance inversion layer in the strained silicon layer, and employing it as a bottom electrode of a capacitor, the capacitor is formed with an electrode with significantly improved conductance. The capacitor may be used as a decoupling capacitor in the preferred embodiment, but it is understood that the capacitor thus formed may be used for other analog or digital applications.
Referring now to
On the other hand, the sheet resistance rs of the inversion layer 114 should be as small as possible. Since the inversion layer 114 electrically communicates with adjacent doped regions 110 and 112, also known as the source and drain regions, the sheet resistances are connected to nodes 110 and 112 at the two ends of the circuit diagram of
The improvement to the sheet resistance of the inversion channel rs is one of the advantages of the preferred embodiment of this invention. According to this embodiment, by forming the inversion layer in a strained silicon layer and using it as a bottom electrode, the value of rs is smaller than that in a conventional relaxed silicon channel. A smaller value of rs contributes to a smaller series resistance in the capacitor, or a smaller resistance in one of the electrodes of the capacitor. A smaller electrode resistance leads to a lower equivalent series resistance (ESR). The ESR is defined to be the impedance or resistance of the capacitor at its resonant frequency. A low ESR is one of the desirable characteristics for a decoupling capacitor used in high frequency circuits. In high frequency circuits, it is advantageous to employ decoupling capacitors with low total impedance of resistance over a wide frequency range.
Another benefit of the preferred embodiment of this invention is the reduction of leakage current through the capacitor dielectric 108. Referring now to
An electron (depicted by a circle labeled 126) in the strained silicon layer 104 will see a barrier height given by Φb as indicated in
Such a substrate 132 may be formed by a layer transfer technique, such as by the transfer of a strained silicon layer onto a target wafer with an insulator surface. The bottom electrode 104 may be lightly doped and electrically contacted by a highly doped region, or the bottom electrode 104 may be a high-doped region.
According to embodiments of this invention, the capacitor dielectric 108 can be any dielectric. For example, the capacitor dielectric can be conventional gate dielectrics known and used in the art, e.g. silicon oxide, silicon oxynitride, or silicon nitride, or combinations thereof. In another embodiment, the capacitor dielectric may be comprised of a high permittivity (high-k) dielectric. By using a high-k dielectric as the capacitor dielectric, the capacitance density
The high-k dielectric preferably has a permittivity of larger than about 5, and more preferably has a permittivity of larger than about 10, and even more preferably has a permittivity of larger than about 20. The high permittivity dielectric may be selected from a group comprising of aluminum oxide (Al2O3), hafnium oxide (HfO2), hafnium oxynitride (HfON), hafnium silicate (HfSiO4), zirconium oxide (ZrO2), zirconium oxynitride (ZrON), zirconium silicate (ZrSiO4), or combinations thereof. In the preferred embodiment, the high-k dielectric is hafnium oxide. The silicon oxide equivalent thickness (EOT) of the capacitor dielectric is preferably smaller than about 100 angstroms, more preferably smaller than about 50 angstroms, and even more preferably smaller than about 10 angstroms. The physical thickness of the capacitor dielectric may be smaller than about 100 angstroms, more preferably smaller than about 50 angstroms, and even more preferably smaller than about 10 angstroms.
The top electrode 106 comprises a conductive material such as poly-crystalline silicon, poly-crystalline silicon-germanium, a metal, a metallic nitride, a metallic silicide, or a metallic oxide, or combinations thereof. Metals such as molybdenum, tungsten, titanium, tantalum, platinum, and hafnium may be used as the portion of the top electrode 106. Metallic nitrides may include, but are not limited to, molybdenum nitride, tungsten nitride, titanium nitride, and tantalum nitride. Metallic silicides may include, but are not limited to, nickel silicide, cobalt silicide, tungsten silicide, titanium silicide, tantalum silicide, platinum silicide, and erbium silicide. Metallic oxides may include, but are not limited to, ruthenium oxide and indium tin oxide.
The decoupling capacitor 100 may be formed in an active region in the vicinity of an active device such as a transistor (not shown). The capacitor dielectric may comprise the same dielectric as the transistor gate dielectric.
The cross-sectional view along line A-A′ is shown in
The top electrode in
The cross-sectional view along line B-B′ is shown in
For reasons of simplicity, the contacts 140 have not been shown in the cross-sectional views of
The inter-layer dielectric (ILD) 138 and/or 144 can be a chemical vapor deposited dielectric such as silicon oxide. Either one or both of ILDs 138 and 144 can also be a low permittivity (low-k) dielectric employed in interconnect technology. For example, by using a low-k ILD 138 to cover the capacitor, parasitic capacitances between the top electrode 106 and metal lines 142 in the vicinity of the top electrode 106 can be reduced. By using a low-k ILD 144 over first metal layer 142, parasitic capacitances between the first metal layer 142 and the second metal layer (not shown) can also be reduced.
In the preferred embodiment, the relative permittivity of the low-k dielectric is less than about 3.5, and more preferably less than about 3.0. For example, the low-k dielectric material may be an organic material, such as benzocyclobutene (BCB), SILK™, FLARE™, or others. Alternatively, the low-k dielectric material may be an inorganic dielectric material, such as methyl silsesquioxane (MSQ), hydrogen silsesquioxane (HSQ), SiOF, as examples. These materials are exemplary only as other embodiments may include different low-k dielectric materials.
A contact etch-stop layer 136 may overlie the top electrode 106 and the spacer 134, as shown in
As shown in
Next, a method of manufacturing the decoupling capacitor will be described with respect to
An active region mask 146 is used to define trenches 148 in the semiconductor layer 104. The mask 146 preferably comprises silicon nitride, and more preferably comprises silicon nitride on a silicon oxide layer. Trench filling dielectric material is deposited by chemical vapor deposition to fill the trenches to create isolation regions 116. As explained in U.S. Pat. No. 6,882,025, the isolation regions 116 may induce additional stress. U.S. Pat. No. 6,882,025 is incorporated herein by reference.
The process continues with a chemical mechanical process step to planarize the top surface of the device being fabricated. The mask 146 can then removed using common etching techniques.
The bottom electrode 104 may or may not be heavily doped at this point. If an ion implantation step with a high dose is introduced into the active region 104 at this point to dope the semiconductor layer, a heavily doped bottom electrode can be formed. For example, the heavily doped active region or bottom electrode may have a doping concentration of larger than 1019 cm−3.
The capacitor dielectric 108 is then formed, as shown in
Referring to
The top electrode material 106 is then patterned using photolithography techniques, and etched using plasma etch processes to form the gate electrodes. The deposition of the top electrode material may be the same process step as the deposition of gate electrode material of a transistor to be formed in a different portion of the semiconductor chip, and the etching of the top electrode may similarly be accomplished together with the etching of the gate electrode of the said transistor. The completed top electrode is shown in
At this point, doping may be introduced in regions adjacent to the bottom electrode to make electrical contacts with the bottom electrode. These regions are shown in the cross-section of
As shown in
A contact etch-stop layer 136 may be formed on the top electrode 106 and spacers 134. The etch-stop layer 136 may be a high-stress film such as a high-stress silicon nitride film deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition. The high-stress film may be used to enhance the strain in the strained silicon region 104.
An inter-layer dielectric (ILD) 138 may be formed over the capacitor and contact holes etched through the ILD 138 to reach the top and bottom electrodes of the capacitor. Conductive materials are then used to fill the contact holes to electrically contact the top and bottom electrodes. For example, a layer of tungsten can be formed to fill the holes and then either etched back or chemically-mechanically polished.
Although the capacitor described in this invention has been illustrated for use as a decoupling capacitance, it is understood that the capacitor thus formed according to this invention may be used for other purposes. For example, the capacitor may be used as a coupling capacitor. In another embodiment, the capacitor can be used as the storage cell in a dynamic random access memory or in a mixed signal circuit such as an analog-to-digital converter or a digital-to-analog converter.
While this invention has been described with reference to illustrative embodiments, this description is not intended to be construed in a limiting sense. Various modifications and combinations of the illustrative embodiments, as well as other embodiments of the invention, will be apparent to persons skilled in the art upon reference to the description. It is therefore intended that the appended claims encompass any such modifications or embodiments.
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