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This is a Legend of Zelda themed texture pack that incorporates Zelda themed items, terrain, mobs, and more. Almost all of the textures are based on Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask.
this was an awesome texture pack i loved it <3
this is my two favorite games combined
i'm so glad i found Mcedit and this pack without i wont beable to make my map.
dude this texture pack is the best i seen.
i love this texture pack one of the best
Are you ure this is minecraft (THERE WAS A CIRCLE)
Love this texturepack, however.. the water on mine looks like the default MC water :(
Use MCpatcher, my friend. It solves everything.
I've also noticed that there aren't any flames on the torches I place, even though the torches still give off light o.O.
The water stays as the same basic Minecraft water for me o_O
This was my first tex pack…… i got it in 1.8.1……. now……… I HAVE IT AGAIN BWAHAHAHA
Epic :D Its kinda hard to know which is the block :/
cool! it doesnt look EXACTLY like zelda :3
I tried to install this, but when I tried to select it in the texture pack screen, it was grayed-out. any advice?
I LOVE THIS!!! But please change the portal.
This texture pack is awesome! But I did notice that the chickens don't have legs. Lawlz ^^
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am a MAJOR Legend of Zelda fan and this was dream come true…. twice! Thank-you for making this! And to all those Legend of Zelda fans out there, KEEP FIGHTING HARD!!!
Dude I have skyward sowrd!!!!
…and I'm playing it right now!
Awsome texture pack!
i love the lava!
unlike some texture packs, it changed every item!
love it!
When I play through this the moon scares the absolute bejeezers out of me! Other than that this texture pack rules! Love the legless cucoos too!
This is not bad texture pack, i can say its cool.
the moon is sideways XD but still an awesome texture pack :3
Fantastic! Best one out there
Epic moon
Im thinking about using this for my Lets Play Thanks dude your awesome
This is the best thing to happen to me since I got this for an older version, but alas Minecraft updated and it wouldn't work for me anymore. But now I can play this again, and the two games this is mostly based on is my two favorite games of the series.
Its great! But there is a bug where on 1.7.4 the sounds and music play as default…. And water/lava look the same… Please fix this or i'll have to install another zelda texture pack.. P.S ima biggggg zelda fan and im also a hugeeee spyro fan (not skylanders)
Amazing texture pack i am really a fan of the legend of zelda and everything is amazing on it Plus i did't know that Sky Does Mine Craft commented on here.Plus good job and i am a fan of sky does mine craft :3
Looking at this resource pack has really brought back good memories, and I'm glad Koa Neuva made it for us :D
For some reason when I activated the texture pack and entered a world, only the sun and animals and sky (half of it was white!


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Luscious by Nature: Local wines and delicious food
Luscious by Nature is a casual eatery near downtown featuring fresh ingredients and creative dishes. I had a caprese salad and a glass of a local reisling that was perfect for lunch.
People are so friendly in Walla Walla. I guess we look like outsiders, not sure what it is, maybe it's my husband's mohawk or the leg irons, but while we were eating, the people at the table next to us turned to us and asked us where we were from. We told them, which led into questions about how we liked the area and wines, and then we learned the couple was an owner of one of the local wineries.
Anyway, the food was really, really good, the service was excellent, and I highly recommend this place.
- Wine Tasting
- Food and Dining
Merchants, LTD: Don't even think about it
Be prepared to wait and have bad service while in line to order; be prepared to drink bad coffee while you wait and wait and wait for service after you order; be prepared to not be offered refills, water or anything else while you wait; be prepared for the most singlarly bad and unappealing breakfast you've ever had.
Looks charming, but it isn't. The wait staff seems to think you're there for their convenience, not the other way around. Not even worth slowing down for as you walk down the street.
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- Family Travel
- Food and Dining
Whitehouse-Crawford: Good place for dinner
At first, I didn't want to eat at the Whitehouse-Crawford because it sounded so stuffy. We decided to go there anyway after someone recommended it. We were surprised by the contemporary decor and how good the food was. It has no connection at all to that old house on the hill in Washington, D.C. Whitehouse-Crawford was the name of a now-defunct planing mill that used to operate the same space. The restaurant has retained the name, which was painted outside on the brick exterior walls.
Favorite Dish: The food is quite innovative. I ordered the one vegetarian entree, which was a stir fry of smoked tofu, greens, pine nuts and whole grain pasta. Some might say this is hippie food. Maybe, but it sure was good. The salad, dessert and wine list were all excellent, too. We thought the whole experience was great, and it was a very good location for a 21st anniversary dinner.
- Food and Dining
Colville St. Patisserie: Cinnimon Roll and Coffee
Matthew Zack the pastry chef and owner of this wonderful shop is amazing! The pastries, french maccaroons and the goodies are out of this world! The cakes and confections will satisfy the fussiest dessert lovers and a wonderful wine selection for evening dessert and wine can't be beat!
Favorite Dish: Weekend Cinnimon Rolls - they don't always have them, but when I see them I get a latte and two rolls one for then and one for later. These are not your regular fare - pastry, carmalize nuts and sweetness. I dream about these before every visit.
- Food and Dining
- Romantic Travel and Honeymoons
Creektown Cafe: Skip this place!
We started eating here 4 years ago while in Walla Walla on our weekend wine tasting visits. The place is decorated in casual bistro style, but the food and wine price not - more like fine dining. Too bad the atmosphere isn't so fine. Upon entry, there is no reception area. So if you have to wait for your table, you'll most likely find out what's good from tonights menu - since you'll be standing about 2 feet away from what's on other diners plates. The food is very inconsistent so you're never sure until it's too late that you've made the right choice for your evening. They do many seasonal menus, using local ingredients when possible, which can result in anything from very tasty to "please don't make me eat another bite". The one thing that is consistent is the service. And it sucks big time! Our reservations have been screwed up more than once, even when we've booked months in advance and called to confirm the week before. Since we generally are in the area on weekends, having the snooty, obnoxious manager inform you upon arrival on a Saturday night that they "don't have you down in the book" or "your reservations were 30 minutes ago so we gave up your table" provides for very few options at that point. You'd think by the attitude and arrogance that this guy gives off management believes they're running some chic little bistro in the East Village or in North Beach. It's nothing more than a diner, for gods sake. So get over yourselves. Travel tip - always beware of men with extremely fake tans. If you want a nice casual dinner, skip this dump and go to the Backstage Bistro instead.
Favorite Dish: Don't have one
Creektown Cafe: Pork out on just OK food
Creekside Cafe in Walla Walla was busy all night long but it is overrated. The food was just ok, not great. Everything was on the heavy side and I really don't like feeling bloated on just ok food.
Favorite Dish: Unfortunately, neither of us ordered anything that we can call a "favorite" or could recommend.
The desserts were equally heavy. The dessert menu looked like a pirated list from Marie Callenders. They weren't that good, either.
The wine list was good and included some of the most highly rated local wines. We concluded it was a good place for a glass of wine, but not so good for the food. I just couldn't figure out why, when we left at 10:00 pm, just about every table was filled, and people were still coming in.
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- Wine Tasting
Grapefields: Here to imbibe
No breakfast, one latte before boarding the plane, 5 hours of flying time (including layover), one hour driving time, two stops at wineries, too early for check-in - now we were hungry. It was 3:00 pm. Kind of an off hour. Where to go?
Downtown! Downtown Walla Walla, that is, where the downtown is two blocks long. Walla Walla has an excellent wine bar that is open for lunch and dinner and in between, but doesn't serve food at 3:00 pm. Not even a small dish of peanuts.
A glass of wine was better than nothing, so we each had a glass of locally produced wine. I had an Otis Kenyan Syrah. My husband had a Tertulia red blend. Both were really good. Grapefields is a good place to stop and relax while you are waiting for your check-in hour.
Favorite Dish: Only had the wine. Can't speak to the food since it wasn't being served.
- Wine Tasting
26 Brix: Big City Food in a not-so-big City
Housed in the building that was once the largest brick structure in the Washington Territory (before it became a state), 26brix is a gourmet restraunt (read: high prices, tiny portions) that's all the rage in high-end dining in Walla Walla these days. They have several prix fixe options including 3 courses for $50, which most of us selected. Even though the portions were tiny, the food was really good. My only disappointment was the lack of green vegetables.
26brix is also known for making hamburgers from cattle that were fed wine grapes (the ones cast off from wine making) called Cow-Bernet. This is not always available on the menu, but it sounds like something I'd love to try : )
BTW, The word "brix" is a term used in winemaking, having to do with fermentation and sugar.
Favorite Dish: I think the bread pudding was my favorite part.
And, of course, they have a large selection of Washington wines, plus wines from around the world.
- Food and Dining
Our favorite restaurant is...
Our favorite restaurant is 'The Homestead'.
It is located on Isaacs Street in Walla Walla.
We have never been disappointed in anything that we have ordered, and we eat there often.
Atmosphere and ambiance are very important to me as they are to most women.
The Homestead has these unique qualities.
The prices are quite reasonable as well.
Favorite Dish: I prefer variety, so I ask the manager what he would recommend. The local salmon is fabulous.
This is a little history on...
This is a little history on that delicious Walla Walla Sweet Onion!
The Walla Walla Sweet Onion story began nearly a century ago on the Island of Corsica, off the west coast of Italy. It was there that a French soldier, Peter Pieri, found a sweet onion seed and brought it to Walla Walla in the late 1800's. At the time, Italian immigrant gardeners comprised the core of WallaWalla's gardening industry, and several were Pieri's neighbors. Impressed by the new onion's winter hardiness, they and Pieri harvested the seed.
This 'French' onion developed over several generations through the process of carefully hand selecting onions from each year's crop, ensuring exceptional sweetness, jumbo size, and round shape. Today's growers realize they're not just raising sweet onions, but cultivating a tradition.
Favorite Dish: Here is a recipe that will go good with that Monday night football! Don't forget the Beer!!!
**Walla Walla Sweet Onions make the perfect topping for this traditional, yet easy to fix pizza.
4 Walla Walla Sweet Onions, sliced
1 tablespoon garlic, chopped
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/2 cup tomatoes, diced
8 anchovy fillets, optional
1 tablespoon olive oil, to brush on pizza pan
1 tablespoon fresh thyme, chopped
12 black olives, pitted and halved
1/2 pound frozen bread dough
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. In a large skillet, warm the olive oil. Add the onions, garlic and thyme. Cook until golden brown. Add the tomatoes, olives and cook for 5 more minutes.
Roll the bread dough into a circle, about 1/4 inch thick. Brush olive oil on a pizza pan and dust with flour. Place dough on pan. Spread the onion and tomato mixture evenly on top (right to the edge). Arrange the anchovies on top. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes until the crust is crisp. Serve warm or at room temperature.
Serves: 4
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An SOI MOSFET having improved electrical characteristics includes a low barrier body contact under the source region, and alternatively under the drain region, to facilitate collection and removal of current carriers generated by impact ionization. Fully-depleted and non-fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs can be integrated on the same chip by providing some transistors with thicker source and drain regions with a recessed channel therebetween and by selective channel dopant implant. Accordingly, digital circuitry and analog circuitry can be combined on one substrate. Improved electrostatic discharge protection is provided by fabricating transistors for the protection circuit directly in the supporting substrate by first removing the silicon thin film and underlying insulation barrier. Alternatively, improved transistors for electrostatic discharge protection can be formed in the silicon film by fabricating the transistor in a plurality of electrically isolated segments, each segment having source and drain regions separated by a channel region with the regions being electrically interconnected with like regions in other segments. Increased ESD current can be realized as compared to the ESD current for a wider unsegmented device.
1. A field effect transistor formed in a semiconductor material layer on an insulating layer formed in a supporting substrate comprising
a first region in said semiconductor material and having a first conductivity type, said first layer functioning as a source region,
a second region in said semiconductor material layer having said first conductivity type and spaced from said first region, said second region functioning as a drain region,
a third region in said semiconductor material layer underlying said first region abutting said insulating layer and separating said first region from said insulating layer, said third region having a second conductivity type and functioning as a body contact for charge carriers,
a fourth region in said semiconductor material layer between said first region and said second region and functioning as a channel interconnecting said first region and said second region,
a conductor overlying said fourth region and insulatively spaced therefrom and functioning as a gate contact,
a source contact to said first region, and a drain contact to said second region.
2. The field effect transistor as defined by claim 1 and further including
a fifth region of said second conductivity type abutting said first region, said third region, and said source contact.
3. The field effect transistor as defined by claim 2 wherein said fourth region is recessed and thinner than said source region and said drain region.
4. The field effect transistor as defined by claim 2 and further including a sixth region in said semiconductor material layer underlying said second region and abutting said insulating layer, said sixth region having said second conductivity type and functioning as a body contact for charge carriers, and
a seventh region of second conductivity type abutting said second region, said sixth region, and said drain contact.
5. The field effect transistor as defined by claim 4 wherein said fourth region is recessed and thinner than said source region and said drain region.
6. The field effect transistor as defined by claim 1 and further including a fifth region of semiconductor material underlying said second region abutting said insulating layer and separating said second region from said insulating layer, said fifth region having said second conductivity type and functioning as a body contact for charge carriers.
7. The field effect transistor as defined by claim 6 wherein said fourth region is recessed and thinner than said source region and said drain region.
8. The field effect transistor as defined by claim 1 wherein said fourth region is recessed and thinner than said source region and said drain region.
9. The field effect transistor as defined by claim 1 and further including a second field effect transistor interconnected with said first field effect transistor, said second field effect transistor being formed in said substrate as a component of an electrostatic discharge protection circuit.
10. The field effect transistor as defined by claim 1 and further including a second field effect transistor in said semiconductor material layer and comprising a plurality of electrically isolated segments, said second field effect transistor forming part of an electrostatic discharge protection circuit.
11. The field effect transistor as defined by claim 1 and further including at least a second field effect transistor in said semiconductor material layer, said second field effect transistor having a threshold voltage which is different from a threshold voltage for said first field effect transistor.
12. The field effect transistor as defined by claim 11 wherein said second field effect transistor has a source region and a drain region which are thicker than said source region and said drain region of said first field effect transistor, said second field effect transistor having a recessed channel region.
13. The field effect transistor as defined by claim 12 wherein said recessed channel region of said second field effect transistor has a dopant concentration which is different from a dopant concentration in said channel region of said first field effect transistor.
This invention was made with Government support under Contract No. F49620-93-C-0014 awarded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research/Joint Services Electronics Program. The Government has certain rights to this invention.
This invention relates generally to semiconductor devices, and more particular the invention relates to field effect devices fabricated in silicon-on-insulator structures.
Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology employs a layer of semiconductor material overlying an insulation layer on a supporting bulk wafer. The structure can be formed by a number of well-known techniques, such as zone melting and recrystallization (ZMR), separation by implanted oxygen (SIMOX), or Bonded and Etchback (BESOI). Typically, the structure comprises a film of monocrystalline silicon on a buried layer of silicon oxide in a monocrystalline silicon substrate.
Field effect transistors such as MOSFETs fabricated in the silicon film of an SOI structure have many advantages over MOSFETs fabricated on the traditional bulk silicon substrates including resistance to short-channel effect, steeper subthreshold slopes, increased current drive, higher packing density, reduced parasitic capacitance, and simpler processing steps. In the past, the range of SOI applications has been limited due to high cost and inferior crystalline quality of SOI wafers. However, recent advancements in the SOI silicon film quality, buried oxide quality, and manufacturing throughput have opened the door to a multitude of ultra large scale integration (ULSI) applications. Combined with the continually increasing cost of bulk silicon submicron integrated circuit processes and the lower complexity/cost of SOI integrated circuit processes, SOI technology shows great potential to become the low cost mainstream production technology.
Despite all of the attractiveness of SOI technology, there are obstacles which cancel part of the benefit of using SOI for high-performance, high-density ULSI circuits. The problem is especially severe for analog circuits or mixed-mode circuits, which contain both analog and digital circuits.
MOSFETs fabricated with SOI technology include non-fully depleted MOSFETs with silicon film thickness greater than the maximum channel depletion width and fully-depleted MOSFETs having silicon film thickness less than the maximum channel depletion width. Unlike bulk silicon MOSFETs, the substrate of an SOI MOSFET is usually electrically floating. In a non-fully depleted MOSFET, carriers (holes in nMOSFETs and electrons in pMOSFETs) generated by impact ionization accumulate near the source/body junction of the MOS transistor, and eventually sufficient carriers will accumulate to forward bias the body with respect to the source thus lowering the threshold voltage through the body-bias effect. Extra current will start flowing resulting in a "kink" in the I-V characteristics as shown in FIG. 1. This reduces the achievable gain and dynamic swing in analog circuits, and gives rise to abnormality in the transfer characteristics in digital circuits.
In a fully-depleted SOI MOSFET, the channel is depleted completely under normal operations. The source/channel junction has a lower potential barrier, and the carriers generated by impact ionization have smaller effect on the body and channel potential, thus the "kink" softens. But the resulting output resistance as illustrated in FIG. 2 is poor, thus making SOI technology less attractive than conventional bulk technology in analog circuits.
Furthermore, in fully-depleted MOSFETs, the depletion charge is reduced for a given body doping concentration, leading to a smaller threshold voltage. Threshold voltage becomes very sensitive to variations in the silicon film thickness, which makes the fabrication of high performance circuits very difficult. Additionally, the reduction of silicon film thickness in a fully-depleted MOSFET gives rise to high source/drain series resistance which in turn lowers the device operation speed. Silicidation can help improve the series resistance, but it will create mechanical stress and the process is hard to control on thin film silicon. One solution to the series resistance problem is to selectively reduce the silicon film thickness over the channel region. However, the resulting recessed region and the polysilicon gate are not automatically aligned. To allow for the possible misalignment, the recessed thin silicon region must be made longer than the gate. This reduces the device performance and density, and results in asymmetrical devices.
Another problem common to both fully-depleted and non-fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs is the parasitic floating-base lateral bipolar transistor existing in parallel with SOI MOSFETs. Band-to-band tunneling generated (GIDL) drain leakage and drain/body junction leakage due to thermal generation are multiplied by the gain of the parasitic bipolar junction transistor, which might be as high as 100. Low breakdown voltage and anomalously steep subthreshold slope due to a decreasing threshold voltage has been observed.
Problems due to the floating body can be solved by providing a contact to the body for hole current collection. However, the currently available hole collection schemes, including the use of a side-contact or the use of a mosaic source are very inefficient and consume significant amounts of device area. A dual source structure has been proposed which depends on an aluminum spiking phenomenon to make contact to the P region, which is sensitive to process variations. Further, the structure is not compatible with VLSI junction and contact technology such as silicidation.
Another major obstacle to the use of SOI technology in production is electrostatic discharge (ESD) susceptibility. In bulk-substrate technology, good ESD protection levels have been demonstrated by using nMOS/CMOS buffers. However, this protection scheme is not compatible with SOI structures. For example, thick-field-oxide devices are not available on an SOI substrate. Large-area low-series-resistance (vertical) PN junctions are not available as the silicon film can be thinner than 100 nm. Experimental results demonstrate that ESD performance on SOI wafers are much worse than bulk technology. This can be due to two reasons, namely the poor thermal conductivity of the buried oxide enhances the failure due to Joule heating, and the reduction of silicon film thickness and junction depth increases the ESD current density. Severe localized silicon heating can result, which causes junction melting and polysilicon melt filaments to form, which cause electrical shorts among the gate, source, drain and body of the transistors and result in device failure. ESD protection schemes designed for SOI circuits have been proposed using additional circuits constructed with diodes and polysilicon resistors, however these devices consume large silicon area, introduce large delays, and are far from adequate.
The present invention is directed to providing SOI transistors which overcome or reduce the above problems.
Briefly, in accordance with the invention, a low barrier body contact is provided under at least the source of an SOI transistor to collect current generated by impact ionization, junction leakage, and tunneling. For an nMOSFET, a P-doped region is provided under the N- source region. A side contact can be provided to the underlying current collecting region, or tunneling conduction from the underlying region to the overlying source region can accommodate the collected current.
In accordance with another feature of the invention, thicker source/drain regions are provided with the channel region therebetween recessed to reduce series resistance and increase operating speed of the transistor. Transistors with different conduction voltages, VT, can be accommodated by the channel thinning and by threshold dopant implant into the channel region. Thus, fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs and non-fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs can be integrated on the same chip. Fully depleted SOI transistors with recessed channel structures are suitable for digital circuits because of suppression of punch-through and the kink effect. Non-fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs with the low barrier body contact are ideal for analog applications, but require a thicker body. Both analog and digital transistors can thus be accommodated on the same chip giving ultimate integration for a wide range of circuit applications. A self-aligned gate and recessed channel process is provided in accordance with the invention.
To provide electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection, buffer transistors can be fabricated directly in the substrate adjacent to an SOI transistor by first removing the semiconductor film and buried oxide layer. The fundamental problem of thermal isolation due to the buried oxide is thus eliminated. In an alternative embodiment using an SOI transistor for ESD protection, the transistor is fabricated in electrically isolated islands or in physically isolated mesas, so that each island or mesa can have at least one conducting filament and absorbs some amount of ESD energy. The total ESD energy is thus spread among the isolated regions, whereas in a bulk SOI transistor the ESD current tents to concentrate at a few hot filaments which can lead to device failure.
The invention and objects and features thereof will be more fully understood from the following detailed description and appended claims when taken with the drawing.
FIG. 1 is a plot of I-V characteristics for a non-fully-depleted SOI device.
FIG. 2 is a plot of I-V characteristics for a fully-depleted SOI device.
FIG. 3 is a section view of an SOI MOSFET in accordance with one embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 4 is a graph illustrating a comparison of performance between conventional and SOI MOSFETs in accordance with the structure of FIG. 3.
FIG. 5 is a section view of another embodiment of an SOI MOSFET in accordance with the invention.
FIGS. 6A-6F are section views illustrating the fabrication of a self-aligned recessed channel SOI MOSFET in accordance with the invention.
FIG. 7 is a section view of an SOI MOSFET and a bulk MOSFET for ESD protection in accordance with the invention.
FIGS. 8 and 9 are graphs illustrating ESD failure voltage of nMOSFETs having different Leff under positive ESD stress.
FIG. 10 is a plot of ESD failure voltage as a function of channel width.
FIGS. 11 and 12 are plan views of multiple island ESD production devices in accordance with the invention.
FIGS. 13 and 14 are plan views of conventional SOI ESD protection devices comprising a single silicon island.
FIG. 15 is a section view illustrating the fabrication of resistors in the SOI ESD multiple island devices of FIGS. 11 and 12 fabricated in lightly-doped polysilicon films using a light-doped drain implant or source/drain diffusion.
Features of the invention will be described with reference to specific nMOSFET embodiments, but it will be appreciated that the invention applies to pMOSFETs as well.
Referring to FIG. 3, an nMOSFET having a low barrier body contact source region in accordance with the invention is illustrated in cross-section. As in a typical SIMOX structure, a silicon substrate 10 has a buried silicon oxide layer 12 therein with the transistor fabricated in an overlying monocrystalline silicon film. The transistor includes an N+ doped drain region 14 and an N+ doped source region 16 formed over a P doped body contact 18. P+ region 20 abutting the source 16 and body contact 18 provides a current path for the impact ionization current accumulated in region 18 near the source/body junction. The source region 16 and drain region 14 are separated by a channel region 22 with a polysilicon gate contact 24 overlying the channel region 22 and insulated therefrom by silicon oxide. Metal or polysilicon interconnect lines 26, 28 are interconnected with the source and drain, respectively, with the P+ region 20 also connected to the source contact line 26.
The P region 18 underlying the source region, either neutral or depleted, provides a low resistance path to collected hole current generated by impact ionization, junction leakage, and GIDL. The P implant for the underlying P region 18 is on the order of 1�1014 to 1�1016 dopant atoms per cm-2. The N+ implant for the source and drain is higher in dopant concentration with a lower implant energy level to form the shallower N+ doped regions. The P- doped low barrier contact can be provided under both the source and drain for a simpler fabrication process. The P+ contact 20 is formed after the N+ implant.
FIG. 4 is a plot illustrating a comparison of performance between conventional SOI MOSFETs and MOSFETs with the low barrier body contact, as illustrated in FIG. 3. The kink effect in non-fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs is completely removed and the bipolar induced problems are suppressed. The low barrier body contact MOSFETs exhibit higher breakdown voltage, especially for low gate voltages, and a very constant saturated drain current which is free of the kink. The resulting device has all of the advantages of a bulk MOSFET in addition to the better short channel behavior and lower capacitance advantages of SOI structures, which is ideal for analog circuits.
The low barrier body contact structure in accordance with the invention is capable of collecting carriers uniformly across the channel with a much higher efficiency than the conventional side substrate contact or the mosaic source while requiring less surface area than the conventional schemes. Some transistors in a circuit can be designed to have the low barrier body contact structures while others have floating bodies in order to perform pass-gate functions or have the larger current of a floating body MOSFET. Even without the current collection P region (N region for P MOSFETs) beneath the source, the carriers can still be collected by the source if the doping concentration at the bottom of the source is sufficiently low to provide a low barrier for collecting the impact ionization generated carriers.
FIG. 5 is a section view of another embodiment of the invention in which the P+ layer is placed beneath the N+ source, and contact is made only to the N+ source. Like elements in FIGS. 3 and 5 have the same reference numerals. Instead of relying on the non-uniform, therefore uncontrolled, spiking of contact, the electrical current between the N+ and P+ regions is carried out by uniform tunneling conduction between the N+ and P+ silicon as is the well-known mechanism of the operation of a tunnel diode. Even though the N+ regions at the source and drain are of different depths, they can be created by the same N+ implantation.
In the embodiments of FIGS. 3 and 5, the low barrier body contact is provided only under the source region of the SOI MOSFET. However, a similar low barrier body contact can be provided under the drain region thereby providing a symmetrical transistor structure which is desirable for applications such as a pass-gate circuit.
In accordance with another feature of the invention, a thicker film of silicon is employed for the source and drain regions to reduce series source/drain resistance and increase operation speed. Further, non-fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs require a thicker body. However, the thicker source and drain regions require a thinning of the channel region therebetween. FIGS. 6A-6F are section views illustrating a method of fabricating a self-aligned gate and recessed channel structure in accordance with a feature of the invention. In FIG. 6A a substrate (not shown) has a barrier oxide 40 therein with a thicker silicon film 42 thereon. A thin layer of silicon oxide 44 is grown on the surface of the silicon film and a layer of silicon nitride 46 is deposited on the oxide layer. A window 48 is then etched through the nitride and oxide layers. Thereafter, a sacrificial LOCOS oxide 50 is grown through window 48 into the silicon layer 42 to thin the silicon film where the MOSFET channel will be. An oxide etch is then employed using the nitride layer 46 as a mask to expose the channel region of the silicon film, as shown in FIG. 6C. In FIG. 6D, gate oxide is grown on the exposed surface of the silicon film and a polysilicon layer 52 is then formed in the etched hole and over the surface of the silicon nitride. In FIG. 6E, the polysilicon film and nitride are removed, leaving the polysilicon gate electrode 53 aligned over the channel region and separated therefrom by the gate oxide from FIG. 6D. Finally, in FIG. 6F, dopant ions are implanted in the source and drain regions using the gate electrode for self-alignment, oxide 56 is deposited and selectively etched, and metal source and drain interconnect lines 57 and 58 interconnect the transistor structure. In addition to the thicker source/drain regions which can be provided, ultrathin film SOI transistors down to 10 nm can be fabricated using this technique without a problem of the source and drain regions being consumed during contact opening and metallization.
Circuit operating voltage must be reduced in order to reduce power consumption. When the operating voltage is lowered, the MOSFET threshold voltage (VT) must be lowered in order to obtain larger currents and higher circuit speed. Unfortunately, a low VT leads to large transistor leakage, which increases power consumption. By using the low barrier body contact and recessed channel structure of the invention, MOSFETs in a speed-sensitive and leakage-insensitive portion of the circuit can have lower VT while other MOSFETs have a higher VT through use of dual silicon film thickness produced in the recessed channel structure. Differences in VT can be controlled by performing threshold adjust implants before or after the LOCOS thinning step (FIG. 6B) and by adjusting the amount of additional uniform thinning after the LOCOS thinning step. Different VT for each of P and N channel transistors can be obtained by masking the VT implant for some transistors with a photoresist mask and using the dual silicon film thickness. Two additional VT can be obtained by implanting P channel threshold adjust ions into N channel transistors, and vice versa for pMOSFETs. The use of different silicon film thicknesses on the same chip makes device design very flexible. Fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs and non-fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs can be integrated on the same chip with the fully-SOI transistors with a recessed channel structure being particularly useful for digital circuits because of suppression of punch-through and the kink effect. Non-fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs with a low barrier body contact are ideal for analog applications but require a thicker body, all of which being accommodated on the same chip in accordance with the invention to give ultimate integration covering a wide range of applications.
In accordance with another aspect of the invention, electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection can be incorporated in SOI MOSFET circuits. In accordance with one embodiment shown in cross-section in FIG. 7, an SOI MOSFET 64 can be fabricated on the oxide layer 68 of substrate 70, while adjacent to transistor 64 a bulk MOSFET 66 is fabricated directly in substrate 70 by etching through the silicon film and buried oxide to create an opening to expose the silicon substrate in which the transistor 66 is fabricated. ESD protection circuits including nMOS buffers, pMOS buffers or CMOS buffers can then be fabricated on the silicon substrate at these openings. Accordingly, most of the bulk ESD protection circuits are directly transferred to the SOI technology, thus saving time and effort of developing special circuits for SOI ESD protection. The fundamental problem of thermal isolation due to the buried oxide in SOI technology is eliminated, hence giving more flexibility for building the ESD protection circuits. Experimental results demonstrate that ESD protection circuits built directly in the substrate are capable of withstanding higher ESD discharge voltage during the human-body-model stress compared with ESD protection circuits build on conventional SOI circuits for both positive and negative discharge pulses. For negative discharges, conventional SOI nMOS transistors in the buffer are operated in the so-called transistor-diode mode. The series resistance in this operating mode is too large for SOI technology to provide satisfactory ESD protection. However, with bulk MOSFETs, the negative discharge pulses are absorbed by the large drain-to-substrate diode which can accommodate larger ESD currents. The results are summarized in the plots of FIGS. 8 and 9 which show ESD failure voltage of different nMOSFETs with different Leff under positive ESD stress. The transistors have Weff of 250 μm, Tox of 9 nm, and 2 μm contact-to-gate spacing.
In accordance with another feature of the invention, an ESD protection device can be built into the silicon film in thermally isolated segments to increase the ESD current handing capability. FIG. 10 is a plot illustrating a special problem of SOI ESD protection, namely, SOI ESD failure voltage does not increase significantly with increasing protection device width. This prevents the attainment of good ESD protection by simply enlarging the device width of an SOI transistor as is routinely done for bulk IC ESD protection. The problem lies in the filamentary current flow in the ESD devices under the condition of secondary breakdown. Current is concentrated at hot filaments while cold regions of a transistor carry no current. In a wide bulk transistor, there are many hot spots (filaments) and each filament can absorb certain ESD current or energy without failure. However, in an SOI device, it is unlikely to have multiple hot spots since the temperature in a silicon island tends to be more uniform even in a wide transistor because the thermally-conductive silicon island is surrounded by thermally insulating oxide. In accordance with the invention, the SOI ESD protection device is divided into a plurality of mesas or in silicon islands, each separated by oxide, as illustrated in the plan views of FIGS. 11, 12. Each island can have at least one conducting filament and absorb a certain amount of ESD energy so that the 250 μm-wide SOI device would have about 5 times larger ESD voltage as a 50 μm-wide device, rather than a similar ESD failure voltage as shown in FIG. 10. The use of multiple islands requires little more area than conventional SOI protection devices shown in FIGS. 13 and 14. The silicon islands illustrated in FIGS. 11, 12 can be created by field oxide isolation or by physical isolation through etching of mesas. The resistors in the subject of FIGS. 11 and 12 can comprise part of a lightly doped drain (LDD) structure as illustrated in FIG. 15 and are added to promote uniform distribution of the ESD current.
SOI MOSFETs in accordance with the invention improve operating characteristics and speed through use of the low barrier body contact, and the inclusion of non-fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs along with fully-depleted SOI MOSFETs in one SOI integrated circuit can be accommodated using the recessed channel structures along with multiple threshold voltage implants. Further, improved ESD for protection for SOI circuits is readily provided by forming bulk transistors directly in the underlying substrate and through the use of device segmented islands or mesas.
While the invention has been described with reference to specific embodiments, the description is illustrative of the invention and is not to be construed as limiting the invention. Various modifications and applications may occur to those skilled in the art without departing from the true spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the appended claims.
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Luscinski, the league's reigning Striker of the Year, found the back of the net off a free kick from 25 yards out in the 25th minute of the Terriers' 1-1 tie against #4 Boston College on Friday. She scored again off a free kick in Sunday's 2-0 win over Northeastern, this time from 20 yards out in the 63rd minute. Luscinski, who registered 11 shots in the two games, moved into seventh place on her program's all-time scoring list with 60 points.
Gormley, a freshman back, Gormley started both games for the Bearcats last week, a 1-0 double-overtime loss to Buffalo on Friday and a 1-0 win over Delaware State on Sunday. She played all 193:47 of action and helped Binghamton hold opponents to just six shots over that span.
Three other America East teams started play last week. Hartford began its season with a 1-1 tie at Old Dominion while Vermont fell at COlgate and UMBC dropped contests to American and Campbell.
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Albany (0-0-0) opens its season against Sacred Heart on Friday ... The Great Danes hope to build off a season in which they had the program's highest win total since 1988 ... The Great Danes bring back 21 letterwinners from that squad, including five all-conference players highlighted by first-teamer Rebecca Lee, a senior midfielder ... Second-team selections Shayla Bergeron, a senior midfielder who ranked third among conference leaders with nine goals, and Chelsea DeVerna, a junior midfielder who finished with six points, will be asked to carry the offense again ... Defensively, the Great Danes recorded the second-highest number of shutouts in the league with nine.
Binghamton (1-1-0) split its opening two games of the 2011 campaign ... The Bearcats fell to visiting Buffalo 1-0 on a late goal in the second overtime before using a first-half tally to beat host Delaware State 1-0 two days later ... Against Buffalo, Binghamton held a 12-6 shots advantage and controlled much of the play before surrendering the game's lone goal on a 21-yard free kick ... Senior defender Jennifer Abbate (Northport, N.Y./Northport) was named the team's America East Player of the Game for her steady work on the back line ... Two days later in Dover, Binghamton held a wide 17-0 cushion in shots and scored the game-winner in the first half ... Senior midfielder Mary DeWitte (Penfield, N.Y./Penfield) took a cross from junior forward Candice Rowland (Brewerton, N.Y./Central Square) and found the back of the net in the 33rd minute ... Sophomore keeper Carrie Martin (Cincinnati, Ohio/McNicholas) registered the shutout without having to make a save ... The Bearcats host St. Joseph's on Friday night before heading to Olean to face St. Bonaventure Sunday afternoon.
Boston University (1-0-1) got its season off on the right foot as it opened with a 1-1 draw at No. 4 Boston College and followed up with a 2-0 victory over Northeastern in the home opener ... Senior Jessica Luscinski (Bedford, N.H./Trinity) set the tone for the offense with two goals in two games. Both goals were off free kicks ... Senior Alice Binns (Dorchester, Mass./Beaver Country Day) also had a standout opening weekend as she finished the final 70 minutes at BC and earned the shutout vs. Northeastern. She was forced to make a handful of highlight-reel saves in both contests ... The Terriers return to action on Friday (Aug. 26) when they hosts Illinois State at Nickerson Field at 7 p.m.
Hartford (0-0-1) began its season with a 1-1 tie at Old Dominion Friday night ... Sophomore Arielle Aikens (Wantage, N.J,/Blair Academy) tallied the Hawks' goal off a feed from junior Amelia Pereira (Madeira Island, Portugal/Escola da APEL), a first-team all-conference selection last year, in the 76th minute. Periera provided a long pass form the right side of goal with Aikens beating the keeper with her shot to the left side of the net ... Sophomore goalkeeper Erin Quinlan (Saugus, Mass./The Governors Academy/Syracuse), who was making her Hartford debut after transferring from Syracuse, stopped seven shots ... The Hawks return to action on Thursday when they travel to Holy Cross for a 7 p.m.contest.
Maine (0-0-0) kicks off its season on Friday, August 26 when it hosts Charleston Southern at 1 p.m. ... The Black Bears will then host Fairleigh Dickinson in a game at Falmouth High School in Falmouth, Maine on Saturday, August 27 at 7 p.m. ... Maine returns 12 letterwinners and nine starters from the 2010 team which competed in the America East Championship game ... Stephanie Frenette-Blais (Quebec, Quebec) and Meagan Price-Leibenzeder (Surrey, British Columbia) will serve as captains for the 2011 squad ... Maine's top returning scorer is Carolyne Nellis (Quebec, Quebec) who scored four goals and added two assists last season for 10 points ... Also returning are Courtney Harnais (Braintree, Mass.) who had three goals a year ago and Maddie Hill (Brampton, Ontario) who finished with two goals and an assist for five points ... Lisa Bijman (Brantford, Ontario), a back who was named to the America East All-Rookie Team, added a pair of goals.
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New Hampshire (0-0-0) will begin its season Tuesday by hosting UMass at 4 p.m. ... The Wildcats reached the conference tournament for a record 10th straight year in 2011 but is still in search of its first-ever league title ... UNH will bring back five of its top six scorers from a year ago, including second-team all-conference selections Chelsea Kuss, who ranked fourth among league leaders with six assists, and second-team all-conference standout Monique Lamotte ... Senior back Kelly Mooney, a first-team honoree last year, will lead the Wildcat defense along with sophomore Erica Correa, an all-rookie selection last year.
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Toews doesn't expect Hossa back soon, Bettman says Torres hit will be reviewed
Apr 18, 2012, 1:17 AM EDT
Jonathan Toews is generally described as a great player, a fantastic Chicago Blackhawks captain and something of a cliche machine. Yet when it comes to the Raffi Torres hit on Marian Hossa, he had a few very frank and interesting things to say.
Perhaps most importantly, Toews gave Adam Jahns an honest but far-from-shocking update on Hossa.
"We don't expect him back anytime soon," Toews said. "That was a scary thing to go through."
When asked for his take on the Torres hit and how the NHL will address the situation, Toews exhibited a serious sense of exhaustion. It seemed like he fell somewhere between Joel Quenneville's fury and Patrick Kane's diplomacy. Jahns provided some interesting quotes here, too.
Toews on a possible suspension for Torres: "I don't [know] what to expect anymore. I don't think anyone does."
(That's kind of a sick burn for Brendan Shanahan, huh?) NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was on hand for the game tonight. He didn't go into much detail, but Chris Kuc reports that Bettman said that the league will review the play.
As far as how Torres will conduct his business in the future, Toews probably captured the haggard thoughts of many hockey fans again:
"It wouldn't surprise me if he tried to do something like that again," Toews said.
We'll find out soon enough if Torres will get a chance to do it again in Game 4.
- charliereno - Apr 18, 2012 at 1:42 AM
Toews just nailed the sentiment that every REAL hockey fan is feeling, no matter who they root for.
- johngaltx - Apr 18, 2012 at 1:58 AM
It is getting to the point where I cannot stand to watch an NHL game. If I wanted to watch roller derby, or cage fighting I would, but these morons, and that includes Shanahan, Bettman and NHLPA, have let the sport disintegrate into a brutal display of win at any cost. In the NFL the bounty scandal showed how far up the ladder the thuggery has gotton, but hockey players are taught from early on to "finish their checks" and that is exactly what Torres used for reason for smashing into Hossa.
Pretty bad when Shanahan has to explain why a player is banned. or not banned by parsing the stop action video of the hits in question one frame at a time, while waiting for the injury report tom come in. All the while the four seemingly blind, deaf and dumb refs have reverted back to old time hockey.
I can predict when it will all stop, when they carry a player out in a body bag instead of a stretcher. To top it all off the guy that hit him will speak at his funeral and claim he was just "finishing" his check.
- zach28 - Apr 18, 2012 at 2:09 AM
settle down nancy, if hossa didnt want to be hit, he shouldnt of stood there
- effthenfl - Apr 18, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Boy that's about the dumbest comment I've seen in a while. I'm sure Hossa was "just standing there". So if he was just standing there (without the puck) that means he deserved to get leveled like that. – Jesus you're worse than Shanahan
- zach28 - Apr 18, 2012 at 4:56 PM
hossa is an nhl player, granted a pretty bad one. he should watch the other players instead of stand and admire is his pass like a mite player. the suspension was TOTALLY unwarranted on torres #freeraffi
- tru2joelu4eva - Apr 18, 2012 at 2:41 AM
i'm not happy about it, but i have to agree with you man. just go back over the last four or five pages of PHT's headlines, it's easy to see what dictates the game. it saddens me deeply to say that i am beginning to feel embarrassed of being a hockey fan. there's competitiveness, and then there's ruthless thuggery. unfortunately it's undeniable that the latter is starting to creep its way into most every game in every series. i blame brendan shanahan, as i have all season long, for never making examples of players when it needed to be done. given torres' history, i personally don't think that it's unreasonable to want him never to play in the nhl again. unfortunately though, it looks more and more like someone will have to die before things change and the nhl starts taking its own "disciplinary action" seriously. i love this game, and think that the nhl is the greatest league in the world, but it has entered a dark era in some ways, and i for one am having a harder and harder time salvaging entertainment out of the ill-officiated games (and poorly handled post game suspension reviews) that seem to condone malicious and inexcusably reckless behavior. some big, big changes may be on the horizon….
- henste11 - Apr 18, 2012 at 3:53 AM
Unfortunatley you are probably right. I am a true hockey fan and hits like that are Bush League. I can't wait to see what happens to Raffi. If he gets any less than 8 games it will be a travesty of justice. You are also right about the NHL higher ups. I just hope Coach Quinville dosen't get fined for what he said. I guess the announcers are affraid of loosing their jobs for saying that Raffi left his skates to make a hit.But htis is the New NHL and the mystery will be answered some time tomorrow I guess?
- tommytd - Apr 18, 2012 at 6:11 AM
Bettman was at the game. Maybe Torres gets fined and extra $1000. LOL
- tommytd - Apr 18, 2012 at 6:10 AM
That's why, in my opinion, hockey will always be a "second tier" professional sport. If I want to watch all this crap, I can tune in WWF. These morons running the NHL and the goons on the ice are ruining the sport.
- hockeyflow33 - Apr 18, 2012 at 9:32 AM
Good, then don't watch the games.
- icelovinbrotha215 - Apr 18, 2012 at 2:07 AM
Spoken like a true lawyer.
- kinnex - Apr 18, 2012 at 3:19 AM
Watch baseball if its too violent for you. Or soccer.
- henste11 - Apr 18, 2012 at 4:00 AM
Those of you who enjoy seeing players get hurt on a GUTLESS play from a player that to me is truley GUTLESS are MORONS, why don't you stick to Pro Wrestling and the fake stuff it suits you
- hockeyflow33 - Apr 18, 2012 at 9:34 AM
No one anywhere has said this was a clean hit or a good play. You're taking a stance on a complete non-issue
- Doesnotmatter - Apr 18, 2012 at 4:41 AM
yep, great. The Stanley Cup finals are going to be played by a bunch of 3rd and 4th liners because all the skilled players like Hossa will in the hospital.
- broadstbully33 - Apr 18, 2012 at 7:30 AM
where's the stories about how classless and childish the pens are?
- raoool - Apr 18, 2012 at 11:06 AM
that only comes up when there's no other news. Everyone already knows how classless and childish the pens are.
- babar61 - Apr 18, 2012 at 7:35 AM
Can these playoffs go two days with a controversial game? I don't ever remember playoffs being like this. The game has changed a lot….if Scott Stevens played today he would be suspended indefinitely.
- mojosmagic - Apr 18, 2012 at 8:24 AM
Shanahan is cluless. The only way this is going to change if the suspensions and fines are increased 5 fold. Coaches also should be held accountable. I predict seriously injured players after retirement will start filing lawsuits against the league.
- rtrmusic - Apr 18, 2012 at 8:27 AM
Really hoped the inconsistency would've been gone with Colin Campbell leaving. Now it is inconsistency except done in a fancier and explanatory way. 3 Pens suspended. Weber not. Torres – who knows with Shanny. Although Torres = Matt COoke.
- themohel - Apr 18, 2012 at 8:46 AM
I agree that the teams and coaches have to be part of the punishment. A case in point is Cooke; he acted like Torres until his team told him he has no future with them and he cleaned up his act big time this year. By doing nothing about their own players, the teams are giving implicit approval to the players. It will stop when there are no roster spots available to players like him.
- billsin20xx - Apr 18, 2012 at 8:54 AM
When Torres was a Sabre he was down right boring, I actually at first thought it was a difference Torres when all his antics started.
- billsin20xx - Apr 18, 2012 at 8:52 AM
They need to set it up with 3 guys determining these punishments, with majority rules, not just a single person. I think it would help the consistency to have more than one opinion/review of each play.
- eggserino - Apr 18, 2012 at 9:12 AM
The problem is that the board of governors gets involved if they don't like what Shanahan is doing. He started off tough, got flak from the board, backed off, and now we have a mess where it feels like he's not so much making a decision as looking over his shoulder.
- eggserino - Apr 18, 2012 at 9:11 AM
I am so tired of the NHL's inconsistency as it relates to enforcing the rules of the game. I'm not a fan of either one of these teams, but it seems obvious that there was an illegal check. Torres left his feet.
I understand that the game is fast, but you can't miss calls like that. Additionally, how does Bettman guarantee that this will be reviewed for supplemental discipline? If no penalty was called, there has been no supplemental discipline review in the past.
The NHL says they want clutching and grabbing out of the game. It creeps back in (maybe to slow gunners trying to check defensemen, but it's all over the ice again). The NHL says it is taking head shots seriously. Really? Shea Weber? Brent Burns? TJ Galiardi? Now Raffi Torres?
It almost seems like the NHL is using these types of hits as a way to garner media attention for the game. I heard someone say once, "no attention is bad attention for the NHL." Is that the state of our game?
The owners will never agree to fix the problem. The problem, very simply, is that the ice is too small for the speed and size of the players in today's game. Make the ice bigger and it makes it harder to make that body check without opening up massive passing lanes/ give guys easier access through the ice. That will cost the owners money in attendance numbers.
I'm tired of the constant rules tinkering. It confuses the players and the referees and disciplinarians look like idiots.
- bigdaddy44 - Apr 18, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Suspensions need to be longer and very, very painful to any player who targets the head with a blindside hit. If you are going to attempt to ruin a player's career, then your career should be equally at risk. Serial offender Torres needs to be made an example of. Start by suspending him for the rest of the playoffs. Then suspend him for HALF of next season. If he offends again, the punishment should begin at the same amount of games of his last suspension. Being in a contract year, Torres will be hard pressed to get a contract anywhere. Let's see how tough these POS's are when the ability to earn a living is taken away from THEM. For every Marc Savard out there, a Matt Cooke should not be on the ice anymore.
These hits aren't hockey. I grew up watching teams like the Bruins and Flyers in the 70's and 80's. Penalties, fights, bloody battle royales occured on a fairly frequent basis. There was dirty play, but most of the vilolence then was man to man. Rarely did you ever see what is becoming the norm right now in the NHL, cowards launching themselves into the heads of other players. What would a Bobby Clarke or a Terry O'Reilly done to Torres in a case like this? Torres would have gotten his head caved in. He would have deserved it. And the next coward in line would think twice, keep his skates on the ice and deliver a body check instead.
- jericoc - Apr 18, 2012 at 9:38 AM
I don't see how the officials are blameless in this. There's too much after-the-whistle stuff. One guy whacks another or face washes and nothing is called. Give that guy a two-minute Unsportsmanlike or Delay of Game, put the other team on a power play and then the nonsense will stop.
Instead, the refs turn a blind eye (and enlist the linesmen to untangle guys) and the cycle repeats after every stoppage until it escalates to a dangerous cross-check, slash, or slew-foot; at which time the announcers, coaches and league office begin to offer up fake disdain and scorn.
- lsxphotog - Apr 18, 2012 at 10:19 AM
Crosby has ruined the NHL. I remember when we just enjoyed watching the games and injuries were viewed as major setbacks. Now it's all drama because people EXPECT there to be major punishment. A defined system needs to be implemented with Shanny out of the mix entirely. One game to ALL illegal hits – I mean, if you start a fight in the last 5 minutes you get an automatic game so if you break a rule with your hit, why not the same one game suspension. Three games or more if there is sustained injury. For serious hits that are malicious or deliberate there should be suspensions that correlates with the amount of time the "victim" is out of play. I think that last one may change some player's perspectives on head-hunting.
I'm a lifetime hockey player and a lifetime fan. My father has been a fan for much longer and he agrees that the league has turned into a madhouse because of the expectations resting on every hit of the game. We're worried they'll reduce hitting, and that's NOT what we want. We just want scumbags out of the league and players to learn how to hit. The league should really hold a mandatory school on how to hit every year because there are players out there in the NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE who can't lay out a clean hit. Fricken unbelievable.
Rant off/ Best of luck to Hossa. I hope we will see him again this series.
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By Donna MilesAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2009 Talk to just about anyone at the U.S. Southern Command staff, and they'll describe their commander, Navy Adm. James G. Stavridis, as a renaissance man.
He's a voracious reader, an author, a whiz on the tennis and squash courts and a linguist who, after mastering French and Spanish, now is studying Portuguese so he can communicate with his Brazilian counterparts in their native tongue.
Stavridis also has embraced technology, becoming the first combatant commander to use Facebook and a personal blog to convey the importance of partnership and cooperation to confront threats facing Latin America and the Caribbean. It's a message he shares every time he travels to the 45 countries and territories in his area of focus.
In a region highly unlikely to experience all-out war, Stavridis calls communication the most important tool in his arsenal. "In this hemisphere, we are in the business of ideas, not missiles," he said. "Our main battery, so to speak, is communication."
Stavridis' focus on communication begins in his West Miami headquarters. After 33 years of military service, he told American Forces Press Service, he's learned that being a leader demands being able to communicate vision and expectations.
"You have to be the 'writer in chief,' and you have to put your own pen to the paper -- or in these days, your own fingertips to the keyboard," he said. The bottom line, he said, is that a leader must "own the message" and be able to articulate it.
Stavridis solicits feedback, too, keeping the communication lines open in both directions. He holds near-weekly all-hands meetings with his headquarters staff and frequently updates and responds to his online blog report, "In the Americas." He also circulates routinely throughout the headquarters to check in with staffers at every level, and he schedules time with U.S. embassy country teams when visiting the region to hear directly from them.
His advice to U.S. Merchant Marine Academy graduates at their commencement in June summed up his openness to feedback. "Do not be afraid to question your seniors," he told the class. "Even as the youngest member of the team, you need to have the curiosity, the commitment and the courage to stand up and be part of the leadership conversation."
"Few things are more vital to an organization," he added, "than young officers and leaders who have the moral courage to help shape the direction in which the organization is headed, and then the strength of character to see it through."
The message reflects the commander's philosophy Stavridis introduced when he became the first Navy officer to command Southcom in October 2006.
That philosophy, prominently posted on the command's Web site, spells his expectations of his staff as well as himself: civility, quiet confidence, creativity, teamwork and collaboration, determination, honesty and integrity.
They're the same qualities Stavridis began honing as a brigade leader during his senior year at the Naval Academy, and that earned him the Navy League's John Paul Jones Award for Inspirational Leadership in 1998 during Destroyer Squadron 21's deployment to the Arabian Gulf.
Today, this leadership style sets the tone for his command at Southcom.
"I would put civility at the top of the list," Stavridis said, emphasizing the benefits of a friendly, collegial workplace that brings out the best in its people.
"It's a word we don't use enough in our society," he continued. "It means taking an approach where you never lose your temper and you are polite and kind to everybody around you. You bring the best of yourself to the workplace and try to rise above the daily pressures. And you encourage everyone in your organization to take that same approach."
Stavridis also calls on his staff to demonstrate calm and steadiness without letting egos impede progress. He encourages a never-ending quest for improvement and a refusal to give up when the going gets tough. He urges teamwork, and demands that his people abide by the rules and tell the truth without flinching.
If these qualities sound straight out of a textbook on leadership, it could be from one Stavridis penned himself. Since his commissioning at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1976, he has written or co-written "Command at Sea," "Watch Officer's Guide: A Handbook for all Watch Officers," "Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command," and "Division Officer's Guide."
Stavridis said he took many of his leadership lessons from heroes in his own life. He counts among those heroes his father, retired Marine Corps Col. P.G. Stavridis; Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman who, as a lieutenant, served as Stavridis' company officer at the U.S. Naval Academy; and retired Navy legend Vice Adm. Cutler Dawson, Stavridis' long-term mentor.
Stavridis said he also takes inspiration from historical leaders. He considers Army Gen. George C. Marshall "a profoundly good leader who was interagency before interagency was cool." And he admires Winston Churchill, not just for his intellect and sheer energy, but also "for his ability to communicate and craft a message."
The biggest lesson he said he takes from these heroes is that a leader's job is to serve.
"If there is an absolute piece of bedrock" to his leadership philosophy, Stavridis said, "that's it."
"Leadership is about service," he explained. "The job of a leader is to understand what all of the people in his or her organization are seeking to achieve in their lives and how they are trying to reach their goals. The leader is the facilitator who, in this sense, is the servant to the crew."
The result, Stavridis said, is an organization that shares a common vision and works together to achieve it.
"I believe in the Wikipedia concept," he said, referring to the online encyclopedia that depends on the public for its entries. "The way Wikipedia was built was through millions and millions of people contributing together. And that's what a leader can facilitate, creating a Wikipedia-like thinking within the organization.
"Because none of us -- and no leader -- is as smart as all of us thinking together," he said.
Related Sites:U.S. Southern Command
Related Articles:Cooperation Provides Key for Central American Security, Southcom Leader Says Stavridis Praises U.S.-Honduran Cooperation in Confronting Mutual Threats


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Outlook's rules are great... well, maybe good. Or just OK... I don't deny that there is room for improvement, but you can do a lot with the rules that are available. One frequent question is how to create a NOT rule - how to apply a rule to all mail that doesn't meet a condition.…
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How to CC a copy of every message you send
Unlike many smartphones, Outlook does not include an option to automatically CC an address on every message you send, however, you can do this easily using an After Sending rule.
Tip 1000: Using Rules Wizard for Internal Exchange Email
How to use Outlook's Rules Wizard to filter messages send by co-workers. This same technique will work with views and search filters.
Tip 982: Filtering for 'where I am the only person on the To line'
How to create a filtered view, conditional formatting, or search folder where you are the only person in the To line, using all variations of your name or email address.
Tip 980: Filtering Out of Office Automatic Replies
Use rules to delete the Out of Office (OOF) replies as they arrive in your Inbox, choosing either to create a rule that looks for messages which are automatic replies or to create a rule that looks in the subject for commonly used words that identify the message as an 'automatic reply'.
Tip 968: Display New Message Alert using Rules
How to display desktop alerts (the blue window) when messages are moved by rules.
Tip 962: Change the Default Calendar for Meeting Requests
Problem: user has all mail delivered to a Personal Folder. When they have a meeting request, and accept it, the meeting is added to the Calendar in the personal folder. User has cell phone that syncs with Exchange calendar but meeting requests do not sync to the cell phone, because they are not in the Exchange mailbox. Solution: Use Rules.
Tip 959: Changing the Font used for Outlook's RSS Feeds
If you really don't like Calibri, we show you how to use VBA and a Rule to change the font used for Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2010's RSS feeds to another font.
Tip 945: Print a list of your Outlook Rules
Do you have a need for a text file containing a list of the rules assigned to your Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2010 default email account? A visitor to Slipstick.com submitted a code sample that creates a text file with the rule names and the From condition, in the order they are listed in Rules…
Tip 940: Messages moved using Sent Message Rule are Unread
You can create an "after sending" rule in Outlook to apply a limited number of actions to a message after it's sent. One of the more common uses is to move messages to another folder: I want to arrange Sent Items in folders and want to do it using rules. I created a rule for…


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East Greenbush
Written by East Greenbush residents, dedicated to all things East Greenbush.
Monthly Archive for February, 2010
A federal ally for threatened parks
As reported by Kenneth C. Crowe II: A proposed federal study to consider the Hudson River Valley as a national park area includes 25 state parks and historic sites scheduled to be closed or see services cut this year. Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources passed a bill to have the […] [Read More]
Schumer touts job creation tax benefit
As reported by Christen Gowan: U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer visited the Capital Region on Monday, announcing a new proposed tax cut that would benefit businesses hiring workers who have been laid off for at least 60 days. Schumer told a crowd of people at X-Ray Optical Systems that businesses who hire unemployed workers this year […] [Read More]
EG Schools Budget Timeline
With all of the talk about the new sign at Genet, and spring upon us, I thought everyone might want to see the schedule for the School Budget Process for this year. With things being tight for everyone, I think anyone concerned with their taxes might want to partake in the process this year, just […] [Read More]
Stewart's Is Doing Well!
Apparently Stewart's had a good year, according to this article on The Buzz: Business News – http://blog.timesunion.com/business/stewarts-shops-had-strong-2009/18092/ They report that, for 2009, Stewart's Shops report an increase in gas and retail sales. Revenue for the 327-location regional chain topped $1.25 billion. I think it's nice to see what I think of as a "local" chain doing […] [Read More]
From highways to byways
As reported by Chris Churchill: A once-vital shopping area is in decline, pocked with empty storefronts and laid low by the migration of shoppers to newer and shinier destinations. A Capital Region downtown? No — the area's older commercial highways. You know these roads. They flow from cities such as Albany like arteries, and in […] [Read More]
To Dunk or not to Dunk
My husband and I were driving home last night about 7 pm on Route 4 towards Red Mill Rd, and as we approached the Dunkin Donuts on Route 4, I asked the same question I seem to frequently ask – "Are they even open?" The outside lights and the sign were off, the only lights […] [Read More]
What's so great about East Greenbush?
I was talking with a friend of mine the other day who isn't from the Capital Region originally. He moved here for college, then stayed after graduation. He rents an apartment in the East Greenbush area and recently decided it's time to start house-hunting. I asked him where he wanted to look, because I have a license […] [Read More]
Valentines Weekend dinner
According to the Table Hopping blog Chez Mike has a special Valentine's Day menu http://chezmikerestaurant.com/Menu.html), which will be available from Friday, Feb. 12, through Sunday, Feb. 14. I'd love to go just for this dessert: Chocolate Fondue for Two Warm semi-sweet chocolate with fresh fruit, biscotti, pound cake & pretzels 12.99 Do you know how […] [Read More]
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Thousands celebrate Christmas in Broadway
Decorative clowns twirled on motorized carts while mini race car drivers zipped through Downtown Broadway during Saturday's annual Christmas Parade.
The Broadway Optimist Club 15th Annual Christmas Parade and Celebration attracted thousands to the little town Saturday where more than 140 participants dotted through on Main Street.
This year's parade is one of the largest the group has seen and the weather was beautiful, said parade organizer Connie Brown.
"We want to bring out the best in kids," she said. "We want to show the importance of being a part of a community."
Before the 2 p.m. start of the parade, visitors were able to listen to live music, purchase holiday presents from vendors and take photos with Santa who stopped by the Broadway Community Center for the parade.
"I love it," said Broadway Optimist Club Vice President Paul Rogers. "We have a big turnout and this is our way to give back to the community."
Chris Denny and her husband Gary attended the parade with their grandchildren and were looking forward to seeing their church's float in the parade.
"We love seeing the crowd," Denny said. "It's a beautiful day."
It was the first Broadway parade for Charlene Kehoe and her 2-year-old daughter, Avery, who said her favorite part was the dancing clowns.
"The parade is a good way for families to get involved with the community," she said.
The parade lasted more than an hour and Brown said the yearly tradition helps raise awareness for the club and funds for their upcoming projects.


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I need a new pot and pan that are non-toxic, but I can't spend tons of money. Any suggestions???
We only use non-toxic cook and bakeware in our home, as we not only have a baby, but we have parrots. The PTFE in non-stick is not only long-term carcinogen for us, but will kill birds instantly if overheated.
So we have stainless steel, cast iron, enameled cast iron, pyrex, silicone, and ceramic pot pans, and bakeware.
Unless you can get a whole set for cheap, I would get really durable high quality pieces one at a time, just the things you need. In my small family of three, we have one 12" skillet, one 9" skillet, one saucepan, and several diff size stockpots.
Cast iron will last many lifetimes. even if you get it rusty, it's an easy fix. And it is good for you to cook in!
Mama to a 3 year old awesome kid, Rowan (aka Mister Boopy) and TTC another at 43!
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lillitu, thats funny, we have parrots too!
I second and third the cast iron, it's pretty darn heavy to work with, but ya just can't get fried eggs like that with a nonstick! lol, but seriously, I love love LOVE my cast irons, I have several sizes. I have tried the enameled ones, but they stick a LOT, at least for me, I have a few pots of stainless, I imagine a cast iron pots would be REALLY heavy. OH, and comparatively, cast iron is pretty affordable too. HTH, Danielle
I have purchased almost all of my pots and pans at the thrift store over the last year. They are all stainless steel and dh just bought my finally crowning piece ;) An enameled cast iron 6qt pot.
I have 2 sauce pots from Copco ($3/each) and 2 skillets from Tramontina ($8/each). I really enjoy stainless steel and Tramontina is a very affordable brand for how awesome it is. In this article it's compared to All-Clad and holds it own against them :)
Lacey, wife to a published author , mama to (7),(6), our Angel Faith born to Heaven April 2013, (8mo) and expecting another bundle November 2015
If your talking skillets, go for cast iron - I have tons and I love it. I hate cooking on anything else. For sauce pans/pots I do stainless steel. Bakeware is mostly pyrex, though I do have a couple ss cookie sheets and several aluminum ones. :shrug
Be aware though that you are not supposed to use cast iron pans on glass/smooth top ranges. The cast iron is too heavy and could crack the top.
I love my Cuisinart stainless steel but it is pricey. I just save up and buy one piece at a time. I currently have a 6 qt stockpot and a 12 inch fry pan. Other than that I truly only need a couple smaller pans to boil pasta and will add those over time.
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We replaced our cookware a few years ago--3 years?-- mostly with Tramontina stainless steel. I'm happy with how it's lasting, I don't foresee having to replace any of it anytime soon.
Wow, that's cool. If you wanna chat parrots sometime, PM me. I also have a parrot focused pet sitting business, so you can bet I love them lots!
Ah! I've never used an electric stove, so I did not know that. Good to know.
Mama to a 3 year old awesome kid, Rowan (aka Mister Boopy) and TTC another at 43!
Herbalist, Acupuncture student, Mama, Blogger!
I'd just like to say I call BS on the 'no cast iron on a glass top stove!' crap. Cause' its crap. I cook w/ cast iron every day, multiple times a day and have for the past 4 yrs on our glass-top, and my dad cooked on it w/ cast iron for about 5-6 yrs before that. And its fine. So thats BS.
I switched over to 100% cast iron and love it (I have canaries)....easy cleanup, the food tastes AMAZING and you can go from stove top to oven - I even cook on top of my woodburning stove with them.
We have stainless steel and cast iron.
If you have an Olde Time Pottery near you, they have Lodge cast iron for pretty cheap.
Sarah, partner to J and mom to DD1 April 30th, 2002 and DD2 May 5th, 2012.
I'd also look for stainless steel pots-- farberware is a slightly cheaper brand that has lasted my mom 20 years. You might also try Craiglist-- I'm about to post two ss skillets that are still in the plastic. I never used them and luckily thought to check the box before I threw it out.
Texmati-- Knitter, Hindu, vegetarian, WOHM. Wife to superdad and mom to DS 24 months, and DD 8 months! .
I use my grandma's old revereware--stainless steel with the copper bottoms (on the outside). You could probably find it piece by piece at thrift stores. I also second the cast iron. I love our skillet and would buy some casseroles or a dutch oven if the weight didn't freak me out so much!
I just wanted to bump this thread to mention some affordable enameled cast iron that's available. Cost Plus World Market has some affordable pieces - frying pans, saucepans and Dutch ovens in a few different sizes. They range from $20-$60 per piece I think, and they run sales on them every so often. I've had a frying pan and small Dutch oven for awhile and it's good quality stuff - but a lot more affordable than Le Creuset.
For used Le Creuset though, you can always keep your eyes open at yard sales and thrift stores - especially stuff in the more "retro" colors. And don't worry if the knobs are busted or worn, Le Creuset does sell replacement knobs for pretty cheap.
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We have several Lodge pieces of cast iron that we got from amazon for very little. We also have a stainless set. If you're looking for bargains on the stainless stuff, go to TJ Maxx or Marshalls. They often have individual pieces for very cheap.
The majority of my cookware is cast iron and they are easily 60+ years old. They are the "original" non-stick cookware. I would scour yard sales/thrift shops. Even the most rusted nasty looking ones can be cleaned and re-seasoned.
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Michael Schumacher has backed up the claims of his Mercedes paymasters by admitting that, while things have not gone to plan so far, he has no intention of quitting Formula 1.
Speaking ahead of this weekend's Chinese Grand Prix, Schumi acknowledged that he has not achieved the results many had predicted of his partnership with the German outfit, but insisted that things were progressing and would continue to do so.
"Admittedly, the last two races have not been very fortunate for me, but I am very much aware of the reasons for it," said Schumacher. "I know how things go in F1 and, if you look into the detail of the two races, I think everything is still going according to plan. You can only improve step-by-step and I am confident that we are achieving this."
The seven-time world champion scored points in his first two races after returning from a three-year 'retirement', but fell foul of a mechanical problem in Malaysia last time out, leaving him only tenth in the standings, on nine points. Team-mate Nico Rosberg finished third at Sepang to take his tally to 35 and a share of fourth overall.
"We looked quite reasonable in Malaysia at the last race and maybe things will play into our hands again in Shanghai," Schumacher added. "I am looking forward to the race and fully enjoying the competition again."


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Northrop Grumman Corp., Rolling Meadows, Ill., is being awarded a $5,200,000 face value increase to a firm-fixed-price contract to provide for 65 test sets applicable to the electronic system on the F-15 aircraft. Expected contract completion date is Dec. 31, 2003. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F41608-93-C-0064-P00083).
Lockheed Martin Corp., Marietta, Ga., is being awarded a $32,000,000 face value increase to a cost-plus-award-fee contract to provide for continuation of Phase 2 of the Diminishing Manufacturing Sources program in support of engineering and manufacturing development of the F-22 aircraft. This effort involves redesign of 18 avionics components to insure continued procurement. Expected contract completion date is June 30, 1999. Solicitation issue date was Feb. 25, 1999. Negotiation completion date was March 19, 1999. Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, is the contracting activity (F33657-91-C-0006-P00394).
Boeing North American Inc., Electronic Systems & Missile Defense, Anaheim, Calif., is being awarded a $1,021,995 increment as part of an $8,200,000 cost-plus-fixed-fee letter contract for Atmospheric Interceptor Technology (AIT) Advanced Master Frequency Generator (A-MFG). This is a producibility improvement effort to provide an A-MFG to the Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) Project office suitable for insertion into PAC-3's full rate production program. The program will focus primarily on reducing the cost of the current MFG without degrading performance. Work will be performed in Anaheim, Calif., and is expected to be completed by April 30, 2001. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This is a sole source contract initiated on Nov. 4, 1998. The U.S. Army Space & Strategic Defense Command, Huntsville, Ala., is the contracting activity (DASG60-99-C-0004).
Bell-Boeing Joint Program Office, Patuxent River, Md., is being awarded a $5,609,720 modification to previously awarded contract N00019-96-C-0054 to exercise an option for the procurement of various components for the production of the V-22 aircraft. Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pa. (50%), and Fort Worth, Texas (50%), and is expected to be completed by March 2000. These contract funds will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
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NASA Captures Video of Solar Eruption Aimed at Earth
NASA has announced that they've detected a coronal mass ejection, or CME, from the sun which is directed towards earth. In a CME event, millions of tons of solar material can be launched away from the sun. These particles, which travel at a speed around 575 miles per second, will reach Earth in one to three days. Based on NASA's predictive models, this will only be an average CME and its effects will be relatively mild.
NASA does not expect there to be any interference with satellites or electrical systems, but does note that there may be increased aurora activity near the north and south poles.
A coronal mass ejection occurs when the strong magnetic fields that make up the outer solar atmosphere are closed, and the confined and violent solar atmosphere can then eject bubbles of gas and magnetic fields in a solar explosion. CMEs sometimes are associated with solar flares, however, this one occurred independently.
The largest CME events eject several billion tons of solar matter.
When particles from a coronal mass ejection get near to Earth, they can cause a specific kind of space weather known as a geomagnetic storm, in which the particles connect with the Earth's magnetic envelope for a period of time. Geomagnetic storms can cause damage to both communications and GPS satellites, but most of the time the effects are generally limited to minor signal disruptions and increased aurora activity.
NASA used the Solar and Helioscopic Observatory (SOHO) to capture images of the coronal mass ejection as it was moving away from the sun and out into space.
NASA shared a video of the CME on YouTube, which can be viewed above.