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This application is a divisional application of Ser. No. 11/407,918, filed Apr. 21, 2006 which is based upon and claims the benefit of priority from the prior Japanese Patent Application No. 2005-365074, filed Dec. 19, 2005, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention generally relates to a semiconductor device, and a manufacturing method thereof, and especially relates to a method of evaluating impurities distribution of a silicon active region under a gate electrode, and a semiconductor device and its manufacturing method suitable for evaluation of such impurities distribution.
2. Description of the Related Art
With the "ubiquitous era" arriving, information apparatuses are required to be even more miniaturized, capable of providing even higher performance, and capable of operating with even less power. Detailed ruling (design rule) for LSIs used in, e.g., servers, digital household electric appliances, and cellular phones, is progressing. Developments of "45 nm-generation" transistors are advancing, wherein the line width of a gate electrode is less than 40 nm. For stable operations of LSIs that contain a great number of such detailed-ruling transistors, it is important that the performance of each transistor be uniform, so that a transistor manufacturing method that reduces variations in the performance becomes important.
If variations by etching to shape the form of gate electrodes of transistors are great, variations of operating characteristics of the transistors are great. Accordingly, for determining a cause of the variations of the transistor performance, a method of evaluating the processed form after etching the gate electrodes (gate LER, Gate Line Edge Roughness) by an electron microscope is widely used during manufacturing.
However, a variation of the processed form of the gate electrode observed by the electron microscope is not necessarily the same as the variation of the transistor performance. That is, even if the degree of the variation of the processed form of the gate electrode is the same as that of a transistor, the variations of the performance may differ from transistor to transistor. This is because of variation of impurities distribution at a boundary between a channel region and an extension region of the source-drain diffusion layer extending to a silicon active region under the gate electrode.
Accordingly, it is conceivable to directly measure and evaluate the impurities distribution in the active region with a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) by removing the gate electrode.
Conventionally, wet etching by KOH, hydrofluoric acid-nitric acid (HF—HNO3), organic alkali, and the like is performed for removing the gate electrode 105, which is made of poly silicon, and an etching selectivity of the poly silicon to a gate insulating film is taken. However, since precise adjustment of the mixing ratio and process temperature is difficult, the gate insulating film 104 and the active region thereunder are often removed as shown on the right of
In the case of the technology of less than 0.13 μm, the performance degradation due to depletion of gate electrodes of MOSFETs is serious, and attempts are made wherein metal is used for the gate electrode. In this case, it is difficult to manufacture MOSFETs by the same technique as the conventional poly silicon gate. As a result, the technology called the replacement gate or damascene gate is widely used. According to the replacement gate method, a typical manufacturing process is as follows: a source and a drain are formed using a dummy polysilicon; an insulator layer is covered; the gate surface is appeared by a CMP (Chemical-Mechanical Polishing) method; the dummy gate is selectively etched; and then a gate insulation film and a metal gate electrode are formed.
In the manufacturing process as described above (the replacement gate), the same problem of seriously damaging a channel layer arises, because the gate insulating film is also removed when selectively removing the dummy gate. As described above, it is difficult to obtain a satisfactory etching selectivity with the conventional wet process, and the substrate silicon is often damaged. Although there have been attempts to solve the problem by structuring the dummy gate with three layers of Poly/SiN/SiO2, this increases the number of manufacturing steps, which is not desirable.
Further, in order to solve the problem, another method of removing only the gate electrode 105 made of poly silicon without melting the gate insulating film 104 is proposed, wherein a solution of TMAH (tetrapod methyl ammonium hydro-oxide) is used and conditions of a TMAH process are optimized (for example, Non-Patent Reference 1).
[Non-Patent Reference 1] H. Fukutomo, et al., "Direct evaluation of Gate Line Roughness Impact on Extension Profiles in Sub-50 nm N-MOSFETs", IEDM Tech. Dig., pp. 433-436, December 2004.
Even with the TMAH process that may be optimized for removing only the poly silicon-gate electrode 105 and leaving the gate insulating film 104, optimization of conditions and control of the etching selectivity are still difficult, and it is not certain whether only the gate insulating film 104 is left remaining. Since it is clear that as the thickness of a gate insulating film becomes smaller and smaller, a gate removal method whereby a gate insulating film is surely to remain is desired.
Then, the present invention provides an evaluation method of a semiconductor device, wherein exact evaluation of impurities distribution in the silicon active region under a gate electrode is stably performed without damaging a silicon substrate, the method substantially obviating one or more of the problems caused by the limitations and disadvantages of the related art.
Further, the present invention provides a method of efficiently manufacturing the semiconductor device, variations in operations of which are reduced, the manufacturing method being based on an evaluation result of the impurities distribution in the silicon active region under the gate electrode.
Furthermore, the present invention provides a semiconductor wafer that includes the semiconductor devices as described above.
Features of embodiments of the present invention are set forth in the description that follows, and in part become apparent from the description and the accompanying drawings, or may be learned by practice of the invention according to the teachings provided in the description. Problem solutions provided by an embodiment of the present invention are realized and attained by a semiconductor device, a manufacturing method thereof, and an evaluation method of the semiconductor device particularly pointed out in the specification in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable a person having ordinary skill in the art to practice the invention.
To achieve these solutions and in accordance with an aspect of the invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, an embodiment of the invention provides a semiconductor device, a manufacturing method thereof, and an evaluation method of the semiconductor device as follows.
A preferred embodiment of the present invention provides a gate electrode removing method wherein a high etching selectivity can be obtained between a gate insulating film and a gate electrode.
Specifically, pyrolysis hydrogen is used for removing the gate electrode; in this way, even if the gate electrode is on a thin gate insulating film having a thickness of several nm or less, only the gate electrode is removed. After observing the form of the gate insulating film that remains, or the form of a sidewall insulating film, the gate insulating film is removed by using dilute hydrofluoric acid. In this way, impurities distribution can be correctly measured and evaluated without damaging the active region. Further, a correlation between the processed form of the gate and the impurities distribution in the silicon active region under the gate electrode can be obtained.
The pyrolysis hydrogen is generated, e.g., with hydrogen molecules contacting a high melting point metal catalyst heated at about 1800� C.
An aspect of the present invention provides an evaluation method of a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a gate electrode that is made of a silicon containing material, the gate electrode being located on a gate insulating film that is formed on a semiconductor substrate; and a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate, which source electrode and the drain electrode sandwich the gate electrode. The evaluation method includes steps of
(a) removing the gate electrode without removing the gate insulating film by the semiconductor device contacting the pyrolysis hydrogen, and
(b) evaluating the form of the gate as processed in (a) above by observing the form of the gate insulating film that remains on the semiconductor substrate, or by observing the form of a sidewall insulating film.
Preferably, the evaluation method of the semiconductor device further includes the steps of
(c) removing the gate insulating film that remains on the semiconductor substrate by a wet process, and
(d) measuring and evaluating the impurities distribution in the silicon active region under the gate electrode.
Here, a process of estimating a correlation between the impurities distribution and the form of the processed gate can be added.
Another aspect of the present invention provides a manufacturing method of the semiconductor device. The manufacturing method includes steps of
(a) forming a monitor semiconductor device in a monitor region of the semiconductor substrate, the monitor semiconductor device including a gate electrode consisting of silicon containing material arranged on the semiconductor substrate through a gate insulating film, a source electrode and a drain electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate on corresponding sides of the gate electrode simultaneously with a semiconductor device in a device region of the semiconductor substrate,
(b) removing the gate electrode of the monitor semiconductor device in the monitor region without removing the gate insulating film by applying the pyrolysis hydrogen,
(c) removing by a wet process the gate insulating film, and measuring the impurities distribution in the silicon active region under the gate electrode, and
(d) feeding back a measurement result to the semiconductor manufacturing process.
For example, if the measurement result of the impurities distribution does not fulfill predetermined conditions, process conditions of the gate electrode are adjusted.
If the measurement result of the impurities distribution fulfills the predetermined conditions, the semiconductor manufacturing process is continued, and a semiconductor wafer is completed as it is.
Correlation between the impurities distribution of the active region and the etching processed form of the gate electrode can be estimated without damaging the silicon active region.
Variations of the semiconductor devices manufactured as above can be reduced based on the evaluation result. Further, production efficiency can be improved, effectively using the semiconductor wafer in the middle of manufacturing.
In the following, embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to the accompanying drawings.
The principle of a gate electrode removing method of the present invention is described with reference to
As shown at (a) of
A manufacturing process of the semiconductor device according to the first embodiment of the present invention is shown in
As shown at (a) of
Specifically, a device separating region (not illustrated) is formed in a predetermined area of a p-type silicon substrate 11, the plane direction of which is (100). Next, a n-well (not illustrated) is formed in a p-type MOS-transistor formation region by carrying out ion implantation of n-type impurities, such as phosphor (P), in the silicon substrate 11 with acceleration energy of greater than 300 KeV and dose amount 1E13/cm2 (1�1013/cm2). Then, the surface of the silicon substrate 11 is thermally oxidized such that a gate insulating film 14 is formed on the whole surface for a desired thickness of 5.0 nm or less. In addition, although the gate insulating film 14 is usually made of silicon oxide, nitrogen may be added if needed. On the gate insulating film 14, a poly silicon film is grown for a thickness between 100 and 300 nm by a CVD method, which film is etched into a predetermined form, and a gate electrode 15 is formed. Then, an extended diffusion layer (extension region) 12 a is formed by ion implantation of boron (B) as p-type impurities in the silicon substrate 11 using the gate electrode 15 as a mask with acceleration energy between 0.2 and 1.0 KeV and a dose amount between 1E14/cm2 and 2E15/cm2 (1�1014/cm2 and 2�1015/cm2). By the plasma CVD method, a SiO2 layer is formed on the whole surface as an insulator layer of the sidewall, and a sidewall insulating film 16 is formed by etching back. In addition, the insulator layer of the sidewall may be a silicon nitride layer. By using the sidewall insulating film 16 as a mask, ion implantation of boron (B) as p-type impurities is carried out to form a high concentration diffusion layer 12 b, and an impurities layer 12 connected to the source electrode and the drain electrode is formed in the silicon substrate 11. Then, the whole surface is covered by a layer insulation film (e.g., a silicon oxide film) 19.
Next, the layer insulation film 19 and the sidewall insulating film 16 in the monitor region are removed as shown at (b) of
Next, after removing the native oxide film formed on the wafer surface by, e.g., dilute hydrofluoric acid, hydrogen (H2) gas is introduced into a process chamber that contains a tungsten filament heated at 1800� C., then pyrolysis hydrogen is generated, and the poly silicon gate electrode 15 of the monitor region is removed by the pyrolysis hydrogen as shown at (c) of
At this stage, the form of the appeared gate insulating film 14 is directly observed and is photographed, as desired, using the electron microscope. Since the form of the gate insulating film 14 corresponds to the form of the base of the gate electrode 15, it reflects the processed form of the gate electrode most correctly. Observing the form of the sidewall insulating film 16 also serves the purpose.
At this stage, inspection of a pinhole that may be present in the gate insulating film 14 is also possible. This is because, if there is a pinhole, the silicon substrate below is etched when the gate insulating film 14 is exposed to the pyrolysis hydrogen, and the pinhole is actualized.
Next, the gate insulating film 14 is removed as shown at (d) of
Further, at this stage, an inspection is possible if a pinhole is present in the gate insulating film 14. This is because if there is a pinhole, when the gate insulating film 14 is exposed to pyrolysis hydrogen, the silicon substrate is etched and a pit is formed in the silicon active region.
The measured impurities concentration and/or extension overlap distance (D) is correlated with the etching processed form (Gate Line Edge Roughness) of the gate electrode, which is observed at the previous step, and actual correlation between the impurities distribution and the processed form of the gate can be evaluated. Further, whether there is a pinhole in the gate insulating film can be evaluated. In the case where a result of measurement and evaluation fills a predetermined criterion, the semiconductor manufacturing process of the wafer concerned is continued.
That is, as shown at (e) of
Next, as shown at (f) of
Next, as shown at (g) of
Next, a gate insulating film is removed by a wet processing using hydrofluoric acid (S105), and impurities distribution of the silicon active region under the gate electrode is measured and evaluated using a scanning tunneling microscope. Further, a pinhole inspection of the gate insulating film may be carried out. When an evaluation result fulfills predetermined conditions (for example, when the variation in a concentration distribution is within a predetermined limit), the manufacturing process is continued. That is, a contact hole that reaches the source/drain electrode is formed (S107), metal material is embedded inside of the hole, and a contact plug is formed in the layer insulation film of the device region (S108). Through other required manufacturing steps, the wafer is completed (S109).
In the case where the measurement of impurities distribution and the evaluation result do not satisfy predetermined conditions, the measurement result is fed back to the next product manufacturing process (S110). For example, when the evaluation result is slightly off the predetermined conditions, a margin of gate etching conditions is expanded; and when it is greatly off the predetermined conditions, a cause is determined and a countermeasure is taken, for example, gate etching conditions, impurities injecting conditions, heat treatment conditions that affect the impurity distribution are reviewed so that the impurities distribution of the silicon active region may turn into a predetermined distribution. In this way, the variation in the electrical characteristics of a final product is made within tolerance. Further, by collecting data of the correlation between the etching processed form and the actual impurities distribution, the performance of a transistor can be predicted based on the correlation data. Further, since the measurement and evaluation in the middle of the manufacturing process of an actual wafer does not affect the device region, manufacturing efficiency is improved.
First, as shown at (a) of
Next, by CMP, as shown at (b) of
Next, as shown at (c) of
Next, as shown at (d) of
Next, as shown at (e) of
That is, as shown at (f) of
As described above, the present invention is also applicable to the manufacturing process of a damascene gate, wherein correct measurement of the impurities distribution in the silicon active region under the gate electrode is possible without damaging the channel region. Further, the replacement gate (damascene gate) can be formed by a dry process with high controllability. Here, although the embodiments are described wherein poly silicon is used as the gate electrode, other silicon containing materials such as poly silicon germanium may be used.
At (a) of
In the n-channel LDMOS, control of an overlap length from the gate edge of the p-body 71 used as the channel region is important for an operating characteristic. The present invention is applicable to determining a concentration profile of the p-body.
That is, LDMOS is formed in the monitor region like in the device region, only the gate electrode 75 of the monitor region is removed by pyrolysis hydrogen, and the form of the gate insulating film 74 is observed. Subsequently, the gate insulating film 74 is removed by wet etching using hydrofluoric acid, and the impurities distribution profile of the p-body 71 under the gate electrode is measured by a scanning tunneling microscope. A measurement result can be reflected to gate processing conditions, p-body formation conditions, etc., of a following wafer.
As described above, according to the present invention, correlation between the impurities distribution in the silicon active region under the gate electrode and the etching form of the gate electrode can be evaluated with a sufficient precision without damaging the silicon active region, and transistor performance can be predicted.
Further, since the manufacturing process can be continued to complete a product after evaluation, production efficiency is maintained high. Here, although the embodiment above is described wherein poly silicon is used as the gate electrode material, other silicon containing material such as poly silicon germanium may be used, and the above-described technique is still applicable.
Further, the present invention is not limited to these embodiments, but variations and modifications may be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.
The present application is based on Japanese Priority Application No. 2005-365074 filed on Dec. 19, 2005 with the Japanese Patent Office, the entire contents of which are hereby incorporated by reference.
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On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of Armed Forces Day as a day to thank the members of the United States military and their families for their service to our nation.
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Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon faced off on Thursday's "The Colbert Report" in a mock feud over their respective Ben & Jerry's flavors. The ice-cream maker years ago named "Americone Dream" for Colbert, while earlier this week "Late Night Snack" was unveiled for Fallon, host of "Late Night" on NBC.
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"That'll change," Wagner responded while thinking about how quickly the fans in Philadelphia and New York turned against him after rough outings that led to blown saves or losses.
After having time to think about his response and remember that his current environment isn't necessarily the same as the ones that he inhabited while spending the past six seasons pitching for the Phillies, Mets and Red Sox, Wagner took time on Monday afternoon to say that he regretted the fact that he had been judgmental of a Braves fan base that he was a part of while growing up in Virginia.
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"They should know that you're going to give it everything that you've got and you're not going to be a [jerk]," Wagner said. "I don't consider myself to be a [jerk]. But you can come off that way when you say something kind of off the cuff, and although it's not meant to, it comes off that way."
Wagner's comments did not create much of a stir in Atlanta. But 48 hours later, while pitching in San Francisco, the veteran closer provided the reminder that things aren't going to be perfect throughout the season. Asked to protect a 4-2 lead on Friday at AT&T Park, he hung a slider that Edgar Renteria drilled over the left-field wall for a game-tying homer with one out in the ninth.
"After those games, I don't really like to show my face," said Wagner, who entered the season ranked sixth on the game's all-time list for save percentage (86.1 percent). "I feel horrible. But these guys in here were like, 'You're OK. No big deal.' I've been on teams where you have a tough game like I did the other day and it's like, 'What's up with this guy?' Here, you have guys coming up and saying, 'Hey, we win as a team and lose as a team.' That's something I haven't heard since I played in Houston."
A laid-back country boy from Virginia who spent his first nine Major League seasons in Houston, Wagner proved that he could handle the increased pressures he faced while serving as the closer for the Phillies and Mets. In fact, he has seemed to be genuine whenever he has openly talked about how much he enjoyed the four years he spent in New York.
But provided the opportunity to play for the team his grandparents introduced him to via TBS, Wagner truly seems to be at home in Atlanta. In addition, he has quickly proven to be the respected leader that Braves general manager Frank Wren envisioned when he made signing the veteran closer his top offseason priority.
"He's come in here with all the experience he's got and he's just been a real person," Braves right-handed reliever Peter Moylan said. "He's the kind of guy that I like a lot and like being around a lot. He's not fake at all. You could come in with some sort of attitude, because of all he's done in the game, and he's just completely the opposite."
Before Monday afternoon's game against the Padres, Wagner walked around the clubhouse letting all of the players know that they were invited to join him at a San Diego steakhouse after the game. While this certainly isn't unique, he provided a strong impression when he made a point to put his arm around the oft-secluded Yunel Escobar and ensured that the Cuban shortstop understood exactly where they would be dining.
"He's a team guy and we're lucky to have him," Braves catcher Brian McCann said.
Wagner sits 38 saves away from tying John Franco for the most saves recorded by a left-handed pitcher in Major League history. While there are some who believe that he will retire if he reaches this mark this year, the veteran closer, who returned from Tommy John elbow surgery late last year, is keeping his options open and taking time to appreciate this new environment that reminds him of the enjoyable days he spent with the Astros.
"The expectations are great, and probably even more so for myself -- coming back, being older and having to accomplish a lot," Wagner said. "But this team has really made it easy to come to the ballpark."
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Anti-rape bill is in a mess; UPA is a house on fire
The UPA government is far from a consensus over the anti-rape bill even as it is in a rush to have it passed in Parliament. Renu Mittal reports
The Union cabinet is virtually split down the middle over the anti-rape bill with a minister describing it as "TADA ka Baap" and a number of ministers opposing various aspects of the bill even.
The United Progressive Alliance government needs to pass the bill by April 14 to avoid its anti-rape ordinance from lapsing.
Following the differences, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh set up a Group of Ministers which met on Tuesday evening to dissect and streamline the bill. Another meeting will be held on Wednesday after which it would come before the Cabinet on Thursday.
After the approval, an all-party meeting would be called on March 18 and the bill is likely to be tabled on March 20. The Parliament will go for a one month recess from March 22.
Apart from senior ministers, many of whom are lawyers, who are opposing key provisions of the bill, the UPA's allies are also against the bill.
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Anti-rape bill is in a mess; UPA is a house on fire
While Nationalist Congress Party's Praful Patel expressed his unhappiness, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party have opposed the bill. The Bharatiya Janata Party has also shown reservation on some aspects.
A Union minister said the bill will not be passed by Parliament in the present form and that the language needs to be tightened and certain safeguards included, as in its present form it is 'draconian' to say the very least and is liable to be misused in a big way.
While the ordinance was drafted by Home Ministry officials, senior ministers say that the corrections should have been made at that stage. Now it would look like the government is retreating on key provisions and show it in a poor light, politically.
Particularly since there is enormous pressure from women's organizations, NGOs and others to come out with a tough law which they say should leave no loopholes for the accused.
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While some ministers like Social welfare Minister Kumari Selja said there should be gender neutrality in for instance using the word "sexual assault" rather than rape, sources say that the government would probably keep it as 'rape' or risk it to look like it is being diluted.
Culture Minister Chandresh Kumari wants the age of consent lowered to 16 from 18, but this has various complications as a lot of other existing laws would need to be amended. Also Child and Welfare Minister Krishna Tirath is opposed to the idea and wants it to be at 18 only.
Sources said that the main problems are over stalking, voyeurism and age of consent. It is felt that many of the provisions are likely to be misused and have no provisions for bail or lengthy prison sentences.
There is a suggestion that malicious complaints should be punishable while in the safeguards it has been proposed that stalking and voyeurism should be made bailable offences and that there should be pre-investigation before filing an FIR as in many dowry cases.
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The prime minister has made it clear the bill has to be passed, but most ministers have warned that it should be carefully studied and suitable changes made if it has to stand the test of judicial scrutiny as well as being an effective rather than a draconian law.
Along with this the Prevention of Child Abuse Act is also likely to be amended for cases of sodomy and sexual abuse against men.
In the wake of the brutal rape and murder of a 23-year-old paramedical student and a huge nationwide outcry, the Justice Verma commission was set up and most of the recommendations for the tough anti-rape law have come from its report.
But despite the differences and the intention of the government to do justice to the bill and to also safeguard against misuse, the government has made it clear the bill would be passed after it is fine tuned by the group of ministers looking into it.
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Colorado Law announced today that alumnus Robert F. Hill '70 will receive its highest alumni honor during the Back-to-Boulder Homecoming celebration Saturday October 8, 2005. Conferred annually by the Law Alumni Board of Directors, the William Lee Knous Award recognizes outstanding achievement and sustained service to the Law School. The award will be presented by Jennifer Smith '00, Chair of the Law Alumni Board, and by Dean David Getches. "Bob Hill epitomizes the ideals that are perpetuated by the Knous Award—the ideals that distinguish alumni of CU Law School," said Getches. "He is not only an extraordinarily accomplished antitrust lawyer but a citizen deeply engaged in the life of our community, giving his time, talents, and money to the causes he cares about. And he is an alumnus whose commitment and loyalty is unsurpassed." Members of the CU Law community reacted to the news of the Board's unanimous vote with universal enthusiasm. "In my view, we could not pick someone more deserving," said Law Alumni Board member Larry Treece '67. "He graduated number one in his class; taught at the law school; was in public service, revitalizing the state antitrust enforcement, making a name for our office nationally; has been astoundingly successful in private practice, becoming a nationally renowned securities class action and antitrust lawyer; and gives generously of himself personally and financially to the community. The choice could not be more fitting."Mr. Hill is a co-founder and shareholder of Hill & Robbins, P.C., where his practice emphasizes complex commercial litigation, particularly antitrust, securities, and pension litigation and class actions. After earning his law degree from the University of Colorado, where he was co-editor-in-chief of the Law Review and graduated first in his class, Mr. Hill served as a law clerk to the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson of the United States District Court for the Central District of California and as an associate with the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. before returning to Colorado as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at CU. From 1975 through 1978 Mr. Hill served as First Assistant Attorney General of the State of Colorado, where he established the Antitrust Section of the Colorado Attorney General's office. As a founding partner of Hill & Robbins in 1978 Mr. Hill has had a leading role in many Colorado's largest civil-damage recoveries in recent years. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1991, Mr. Hill received the Award for Best of the Bar for Antitrust Law in 2004 as well as numerous awards for community service including the National Philanthropy Day Award as the Outstanding Volunteer in Colorado (2003); the Colorado Bar Association's Hoagland Award for Public Service; and the Individual of the Year Award and Outstanding Sustained Contribution Award from the Colorado Lawyers Committee. He recently chaired the Committee on Conduct of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado and the Board of Directors of Colorado's Ocean Journey. He is currently co-chair of Invest in Kids, a nonprofit children's organization that he co-founded in 1996, and is a member of the Board of the Nurse-Family Partnership, a national nurse visitation program for low-income mothers. "It is a humbling experience to be chosen for the Knous Award by the Law Alumni Board not only because of the award's illustrious namesake but also because of the outstanding alumni who have received the award in the past," said Hill. "And it is particularly meaningful to me because of the pivotal role the Law School has played in my life. The Law School gave me far more than simply a professional education, it set the course for the rest of my life."


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Investor Mulls RadioShack Rescue Plan
RadioShack's (NYSE: RSH) largest shareholder is mulling whether to put together a so-called rescue fund to bail out the troubled retailer from likely bankruptcy, according to Bloomberg news.
The hedge fund Standard General owns about 9.8 percent of RadioShack along with a 44 percent stake in another troubled retailer, American Apparel (NYSE: APP).
Recently, Standard promised American Apparel $25 million of support and pushed it to restructure its board of directors.
RadioShack burned through $48 million in the most recent quarter; the company has only $62 million of cash on hand. The investment bank B. Riley last month cut its price target on RadioShack to zero.
Standard General is also seeking to refinance RadioShack's $250 million second-lien term loan that's held by Salus Capital Partners LLC and Cerberus Capital Management LP, Bloomberg said, citing unnamed sources
RadioShack jumped 1.4 percent recently to $0.73.
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NEW ORLEANS - Beyonce has said that she has really been hurt and offended by all the hateful comments, remarks, and insults due to the fact that she decided to lip sync the "Stars Spangled Banner" at President Obama's Inauguration.
The long-legged singer also revealed that she was upset at the fact that she was again criticized for lip syncing during her Super Bowl halftime performance.
Beyonce spoke with Pico de Gallo of Tittle Tattle Tonight and told him that she has been made to feel like Britney Spears, except for the fact that she's black, taller than Britney, and she is nowhere near as moody as the "Oops" girl.
She vowed to never again lip sync even if she is outside and the temperature is minus 10.
Jay-Z, Beyonce's husband told her not to worry about it because together she and he have more money than the entire state of Wyoming.
Beyonce has said that every professional singer lip syncs at one time or another, even veterans such as Willie Nelson, Cher, Tony Bennett, and The Village People.
De Gallo told her that truth be told probably about 99.3 percent of all American males who were watching the halftime extravaganza were not focused on her mouth.
Beyonce blushed and thanked de Gallo for that wonderful female ego booster. She then gave him a big kiss right on the mouth.
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Alex Eklund likes beautiful women. He believes, however, that true beauty comes from the heart and character of a woman. In fact, he says he would "rather have a Proverbs 31 wife than a Victoria's Secret model." He posted this comment after noticing the fallout from the Victoria's Secret fashion show. Watching this event prompted some of his female friends to air feelings like these on Facebook: "I'm going to have to hit the gym after this" and "I'm going to starve myself for a week."


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Geoff Downes On Losing Prog Friends & Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame
It's been a rough few years in Prog Rock. Yes bassist Chris Squire died in the summer of 2015, both Keith Emerson and Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer passed in 2016 and King Crimson and Asia's John Wetton died just last month.
Downes shared the spotlight with Wetton as members of Asia and the group was all lined up to tour this year until the singer had to bow out because of health concerns only to pass a few weeks later. Downes told the Sun-Herald, "I was very, very saddened by that. It's a big blur. I was very, very close to him."
Asia was working on new material when this all went down but the keyboardist says there will be a new album on the way with material from Wetton. Downes said, "He had a lot of material for it. I think we will definitely do something with it because I think John would like me to do that."
As for all the rock stars dying so quickly and closely together Downes says they are all at "that age," adding, "It's part of life. But it's been a particularly tough time with losing Chris and my good friends Keith Emerson and Greg Lake at the end of last year. It's been a tough time. Maybe we just have to say "That's life" and just get on, you know? It doesn't make it any more palatable. John and I have been writing songs together for what seems like forever and that's something no one's going to be able to take away from me nor John's legacy."
Downes is a current member of both Yes and Asia (he was also in the Buggles that gave us"Video Killed the Radio Star" in 1979).
With Yes being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year (only the following members were included – Jon Anderson, Bill Bruford, Steve Howe, Tony Kaye, Trevor Rabin, Chris Squire, Rick Wakeman and Alan White.) Downes was asked if he would like to at least perform this year he said, "I totally will. That's a good question. Certainly from my standpoint, I would like to. But they cap the amount of inductees that they have. But in the whole grand scheme of things, it's probably the right choice because I think the ones getting inducted are deserving of it. I think all in all it's fair."
Adding, "But that said, I would certainly like to go and I think the other band members in this version of Yes would like to go as well. We just have to play it by ear. If there's a big objection from Jon Anderson or someone that we shouldn't be there, then we'll see what happens. But I'm not certain about the performance yet." – by John Beaudin
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John Beaudin has been in major market radio (Edmonton, Vancouver & Calgary) for 33 years and a music journalist since 1989. He graduated from Broadcasting school as a news man so he would have the skills to write about the artists that inspired him since he bought his first album, "Madman Across The Water" by Elton John as a teen. In the 80's Beaudin was the host of the syndicated radio show "The Cross Canada Report" which had two version (Rock and A/C). Beaudin was also asked to be a judge at the Juno Awards (Canada's answer to the Grammys) Twice. He has anchored every position in radio including morning and afternoon drive and was a Program and Music Director for The Breeze and California 103 in Calgary. He currently hosts the popular Lovesongs at QM-FM in Vancouver and on iHeartRadio.
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...This site has 313 backlinks - including 182
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Well, the Google Toolbar gives it a PR6, as does every PageRank checking site I know of. But when I do a backlink search on Google, I see a whole bunch of sites that DO NOT link to it - you cannot find the site name or its URL anywhere on the page or in the code. The backlinks are precisely the same backlinks of a different, unrelated site (which just happens to be a PR6).
Yahoo only has a singular backlink.
Is this a Google glitch, or is it a new way to fake PageRank?
If every link sells for the maximum cost (big, underlined, in color), the most they'll make is $4500, so I doubt this person would risk tarnishing his repuation for such a lowly sum....
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Similar games include Doodle God, but please note that this is brand new, built from scratch, taking the concept directly from the old 80s 'Alchemy' and reinventing it in the process.
The game includes 1500 discoverable Elements, but grows with updates and your suggestions. In fact if you have an idea for a combination or feel that two elements should react, the game provides a direct link for the suggestion.
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The Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering is pleased to invite applications for its 2011 undergraduate research program, through funding provided by Stanford's Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education. The program is geared primarily to support full-time research appointments over the 2011 summer session; however, alternative proposals will be considered, subject to funding availability. The research awards will be based on a competitive application process. Interested students should submit their application and statement of interest, following the guidelines given below, before March 15, 2011 at 5:00 pm. Decisions regarding awards will be announced by April 15st via e-mail.
Research Theme: The theme of the undergraduate research program is "Engineering for Sustainability", which can be broadly interpreted within all program areas of civil & environmental engineering and related fields (e.g., architecture, earth sciences, etc.).
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· Eligibility is limited to Stanford undergraduates who are working under the supervision of an academic council faculty member affiliated with the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering. Co-terminal master's degree students are eligible only if the bachelor's degree will not be conferred before the end of the research appointment.
· Students receiving full summer stipends may not register for more than 5 credits of coursework, nor may they work for more than 10 hours per week in addition to their research appointment.
· Students are prohibited from receiving both credit and salary for any single research activity. This does not, however, preclude students from working on a research project during the summer and then expanding it into a senior thesis during the following academic year.
· Students are expected to participate in organized program activities throughout the summer (provided research is on campus), provide a final 3-page summary report on their project, complete an on-line evaluation, present the results of their research orally in early fall quarter at a CEE VPUE conference, and fill out a CEE evaluation form.
Application: Prior to submitting an application, students should identify and contact a CEE faculty member who is agreeable to supervise a summer research project. Students are encouraged to reference the CEE faculty web pages to learn more about the specific research interests and opportunities of the faculty. Faculty who have indicated an interest in advising summer projects are listed below. You may also apply for projects with faculty that are not listed here.
Applications should include the following:
[1] student applicant information (name, gender, ethnicity (not required, but requested), major, expected graduation date, local address, e-mail address),
[2] faculty research supervisor name and e-mail address,
[3] brief (500 word max.) statement of your research topic and plans,
[4] copy of your transcript (an unofficial transcript is fine),
[5] resume or summary of relevant experience.
If your application is to request financial support for other than a full-time stipend during the 2011 summer session, your plans should be clearly stated, including proposed dates of appointment and level of support.
Applications should be submitted either in hardcopy or e-mail <firstname.lastname@example.com> to Susie Stone (Yang & Yamazaki Envvironment & Energy Bldg. Room 301) before 5 PM on Tuesday March 15. Applications received after this date may still be considered, pending availability of funding.
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Environmental Fluid Mechanics: Laboratory Investigations of Interactions Between Physical and Biological Systems. Students interested in environmental fluid mechanics are invited to apply to work in the laboratory on projects to investigate turbulence and internal wave dynamics in stratified flows, transport and mixing in estuarine systems, phytoplankton dynamics in estuarine systems, coral reef and kelp-forest hydrodynamics, chemical sensing in the marine environment, and coastal upwelling processes.
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Impact of rural water supply improvements in Nampula, Mozambique
The Government of Mozambique is installing deep boreholes with handpumps in several hundred rural communities of Nampula Province. Our team will be researching the impacts of this intervention, and will design and carry out a baseline survey in Nampula this summer. We would like an undergraduate RA to work with us on design and coding of the follow-up survey, training of the Mozambican field teams, and support of the in-country survey activites. Fieldwork in Nampula will be required as part of this position. It may be possible for the RA to continue working with the project during the 2011-2012 academic year. Desired skills include an interest in water supply in developing countries; prior experience in a developing country; Portuguese language, statistical analysis and/or GIS.
Water, sanitation, & child health in Tanzania
Stanford researchers have been working in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, with a sample of 1200 households to evaluate a number of questions related to the impacts of improved water supply services; the relationship between fecal indicator bacteria, diarrhea-causing pathogens, and health outcomes; and the effects of sharing water quality and hand contamination information on the perceptions, behaviors, and health of study households. Data collection will be completed during the spring of 2011, so fieldwork in country is not part of this RA position. Instead, we would like an undergraduate RA to assist with data cleaning and analysis at Stanford. Desired skills include an interest in water, sanitation and health; data management, statistical analysis, graphics, and/or GIS skills. Facility with SPSS a plus.
Estimating the caloric cost of water fetching
The Government of Mozambique is installing deep boreholes with handpumps in several hundred rural communities of Nampula Province. Our team will be researching the impacts of this intervention, and one dimension of this research is estimating the caloric expenditure associated with different types of water supply services. We would like an undergraduate RA to work with us on the design and implementation of a controlled field experiment in which two dozen Mozambican women are instrumented with equipment that monitors their caloric expenditure during physical activity. Fieldwork in Nampula will be required as part of this position. Desired skills include an interest in water supply in developing countries; prior experience in a developing country; Portuguese language, data management and statistical analysis. Facility with SPSS a plus.
Faculty: David L. Freyberg
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Faculty website: http://cee.stanford.edu/faculty/freyberg/
Searsville Dam and Reservoir—Sediment Accumulation and Management and Sediment-Reservoir-Wetland Interactions. The goal of this multi-faceted research project is to better understand the hydrologic interactions between Stanford's Searsville Reservoir, its inflowing streams, and the large sediment deposit that has been trapped in the reservoir. The context is the need to make management decisions about the 114-year-old dam and its rapidly diminishing reservoir. Opportunities include field work designing, installing, and obtaining data from field instrumentation; analyzing field data to develop a water balance for the system; laboratory analysis of sediment core samples collected from the site; GIS analysis of accumulated sediment over time; assisting a Ph.D. student in implementing a mathematical model of flow through the system; literature review of reservoir sediment processes; and other similar projects. You will be working as part of a team of students and faculty and have considerable latitude to choose a project of greatest interest to you.
Faculty: Alexandria Boehm
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Coastal Water Quality: Microbial Source Tracking At the California Coast
Miles of Californian coastline is declared impaired due to high levels of fecal indicator bacteria. These organisms do not cause illness in humans, but correlate to elevated illness rates in swimmers. The State of California has funded a large multi-university study to develop source tracking methods to determine the source of fecal pollution along the State's shorelines. A student interested in field work and strong interests in water quality in natural systems is encouraged to apply for a position to assist with this project. Student will work with Prof. Boehm as well as several graduate students and post docs on this project. A laboratory class (chemistry or biology) is required for this position.
Faculty: Richard Luthy, Craig Criddle, and Alexandria Boehm
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
Re-Inventing America's Urban Water Infrastructure. Positions are open to CEE majors and underrepresented students are particularly encouraged to participate.
Cities are facing a mounting water crisis from climate change, population expansion,
ecosystem demands and deteriorating infrastructure that threatens economic development, social
welfare, and environmental sustainability (See figure below). Without relatively large investments this crisis will only deepen through the 21st century. Students will work on new strategies for water/wastewater treatment and distribution that will eliminate the need for imported water, recover resources from wastewater, and generate rather than consume energy in the operation of urban water infrastructure while simultaneously enhancing urban aquatic ecosystems. Knowledge of basic environmental engineering (CEE 70) is a plus.
Sustainable Built Environment – Structures and Construction :
Faculty: Sarah Billington and Craig Criddle
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Faculty websites: http://www.stanford.edu/group/strgeo/People/billington.htm
Biobased Recyclable Construction Materials. Biobased composites are made from a bacterially produced polymer combined with natural fibers to provide an alternative to many traditional construction materials, such as engineered wood and wallboard. These composites can be biodegraded anaerobically to produce more polymer at the end of their useful service life resulting in a fully recyclable construction material. Summer students will have the opportunity to fabricate, analyze, perform mechanical and environmental tests, and develop models for a variety of biobased materials. Different focus areas may include; (1) optimizing strength and thermal resistivity properties for biobased structural assemblies, (2) characterizing creep and thermal resistance behavior, (3) assessing sorption and dimensional stability, (4) assisting with anaerobic biodegradation and imaging experiments, and (5) analyzing process technology methods for life-cycle assessments. This project is in collaboration with Prof. Sarah Billington, Prof. Craig Criddle and PhD students Aaron Michel, Wil Srubar, Cecily Ryan and Sabbie Miller.
Characterization of Highly Ductile Cement-based Composites for Durable, Seismic-resistant Structures. Ductile cement-based composites are damage-tolerant materials that experience fine, multiple cracking in tension and little to no spalling in compression. Several projects are underway examining the application of these materials to seismic-resistant construction. Students will assist with the design, fabrication and testing of small-scale reinforced composite specimens, analysis of results and modeling to predict performance in structural applications. This student will work with both Prof. Billington and PhD student Daniel Moreno-Luna.
Faculty: Kincho Law
E-mail contact: firstname.lastname@example.com
Advanced computing principles and techniques for structural engineering analysis and design. Students interested in the applications of computing, sensing, and design to study and simulate large-scale systems are encouraged to apply.
Faculty: John Barton
E-mail contact: email@example.com
Shelter. The past few years have shown the marked weaknesses of sheltering those left homeless by natural disasters. Current pre-fabricated shelters do take into account cultural differences that may exist between locations with a need, and are not able to withstand inclement weather or long term use. Thus students will research current options, challenge the underlying assumptions and develop and build a prototype new shelter for rapid and long-term deployment.
Campus Gateways. The campus architect's office is currently looking at what gateways would look like and do. Would they be traditional markers? Might there instead be an iTunes app that provides key data? Is it both or something else? Students will work with a variety of sources to research options and develop drawings and prototypes for possible implementation.
Faculty: Eduardo Miranda and Helmut Krawinkler
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Collapse capacity of steel structures during earthquakes. The project involves small-scale testing of a steel structure using a special testing technique called "hybrid simulation" in which a portion of the structure is physically tested using computer controlled actuators and other portions of the structure and tested analytically with computer models. Work involves assembly of the test structure, installing instrumentation, testing and data post-processing and interpretation.
Faculty: Michael Lepech and Anne Kiremidjian
E-mail: email@example.com
Corrosion Resistant Concrete Elements Using Bendable Concrete. Rusting of steel in reinforced concrete combined with poor concrete durability are the primary sources of deterioration for civil engineering infrastructure worldwide including bridges, piers, seawalls, dams, and other structures (See Figure 1). Departments of Transportation and builders around the world are working heavily to try to prevent this deterioration from happening to create more durable and sustainable infrastructure. New bendable concrete materials (Figure 2) are now being developed that can drastically change the ways in which concrete structures age and deteriorate over time, allowing structures that are constructed primarily of recycled industrial waste products to last hundreds of years. Such durability reduces the amount of material and energy needed over decades to build and maintain our infrastructure systems, resulting in significant savings of basic materials, energy resources, and emissions over time. This summer research project would entail two summer undergraduate students in:
(1) Engaging in laboratory fabrication and standardized testing of simple reinforced concrete and bendable concrete specimens exposed to accelerated corrosion conditions
(2) Quantifying and modeling the reduction in environmental impacts and economic savings over time
Courses that should already be completed (which will be used in the research) are Physics 41 and Chemistry 31X or 31B. These courses will be used as a basis to model both the mechanical and chemical interactions taking place due to the corrosion Redox reactions in both conventional and bendable concrete.
Faculty: Michael Lepech and B. Schwegler
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Valuing Natural Ecosystems Using Integrated Economics and Engineering Approaches. Companies currently have little incentive to incorporate environmental considerations into infrastructure development or management decisions beyond those that are either regulated by the government or subject to public perception. This lack of incentive exists due in part to the absence of: i) a clear understanding of the connections between project ecological impacts and how these impacts damage firm/project assets; and ii) the ability to include the effects of project ecological impacts in operational decisions. In response, we apply the concept of ecosystem service monetization as a novel approach to capitalize the relationship between industry and the natural environment.
The valuation of natural ecosystems (Figure 1) consists of four parts: i) lifecycle assessment (LCA) to quantify project ecosystem impacts; ii) fundamental biophysics and biochemistry study to characterize the component processes of ecosystem services; iii) functional thermodynamic substitutability to assign a monetary value to such services; and iv) representation of ecosystem services value within international financial accounting norms.
This summer research project would entail one summer undergraduate students in:
(1) Identifying and quantifying the environmental impacts associated with development of Disney's new Shanghai Themepark
(2) Modeling the biochemical effects of environmental impacts on the Shanghai ecosystem
(3) Identifying functionally substitutable thermodynamic processes for valuation
Courses that should already be completed (which will be used in the research) are Physics 41 and Chemistry 31X or 31B. Basic courses in biology are also desired. These courses will be used as a basis to model the biochemical interactions taking place within the natural ecosystem.
Figure 1. Natural Ecosystem Valuation
Faculty: John Kunz
E-mail: kunz@
Impact of energy retrofit in Silicon Valley
Joint-Venture Silicon Valley Network provides analysis and action on issues affecting the economy and quality of life of the local region, and it has a significant interest in sustainability. The organization brings together established and emerging leaders - from business, government, academia, labor and the broader community - to spotlight issues and work toward innovative solutions. It asked to work with Stanford students to assess the predicted and ultimately the measured impacts of energy retrofit projects on the existing local building stock, starting with a sample project of three buildings in the Valley. The students will create Building Information Model of the three buildings in the project, make and conduct measurements for a baseline energy audit, analyze the model from the perspectives of energy performance, potential and scheduled occupancy, and occupant comfort factors, identify the cost-potential value business case of the project, recommend instrumentation to place in the project that will allow ongoing assessment of project effectiveness, and set up a data reporting system for the occupants to report the project performance once it is commissioned. The three buildings will include no, some and significant retrofit effort, providing a basis for comparison both in analysis and later in measurement.
The project needs 2 students; it could easily accommodate 4.
Faculty: Raymond Levitt
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Climate Policy Database
The Climate Policy Database is a novel platform to identify, classify, and describe the global diversity of ongoing public sector efforts to mitigate GHG emissions and global climate change. VPUE student researcher(s) will focus on populating the database.
NATURE OF RESEARCH. This project involves secondary research from mostly online resources -- supplemented by primary personal communication and policy readings -- to identify relevant policies, public sector organizations, and evaluations and neatly distill key information about them into an established standardized format. The definition of relevant "policies" is rather broad and ranges from formal codified law to voluntary initiatives to subsidy regimes, and so on, across all economic sectors that deal with energy supply, energy demand, or agriculture/land-use. An individual student researcher would likely focus on a single geography at the provincial or national level -- for example, a collection of US/Indian/Chinese states/provinces, or a single nation such as Brazil, Japan, Canada, etc.). The exact focus area could be suited to the student's experience or interest.
If there is interest, the student would also have the opportunity to author a brief analysis piece focusing on a specific topic relevant to her and which would be informed by her own policy identification and distillation efforts -- this could provide the background for later undergrad thesis work, independent study, etc.
PREREQUISITES. There are no hard prerequisites for the work apart from curiosity and a willingness to quickly get up to speed on any area that might benefit from it (such as finance, energy technology, etc). This project would be a good fit for a student who reads The Economist in her spare time and has an interest in energy or climate. In terms of background, most of the policy "distillation" is factual in nature, though some elements will require a degree of analyst judgment. A detail-oriented person who can quickly find, evaluate, and extract key points from large amounts of information will likely thrive in this work. Basic familiarity with domestic or international policymaking, economics, business or legal concepts would be useful, as would familiarity with various strategies to mitigate GHG emission or energy supply and demand. If the student wished to focus on international policy, reading ability of Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, or Turkish would be useful but certainly not required.


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HOUSEHOLDERS have been warned they may have to wait another year before their properties are assessed to see if they are due compensation for damage allegedly caused by flood prevention works.
Residents at Stockbridge Colonies, next to the Water of Leith in Edinburgh, have banded together to co-ordinate claims after chimneys caved in and cracks appeared in listed buildings following the controversial works that are running a year late.
Eighteen claims are already lodged. Some of those involve first-floor flats that have suffered from the works despite never being flooded.
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The council will not carry out repairs on any damage proven to have been caused by the works and can only make a final assessment when the bulk of the work is done, according to a document seen by The Herald.
The council is locked in negotiations over the costs of the works, which threaten to double the £11.5 million bill because of the over-run due to bad weather and unforeseen conditions.
The massive civil engineering project has already been going on for a year and has involved the shifting of huge boulders and concrete walls into place as well as the driving of foundations.
Rose Pipes of the Stockbridge Colonies Residents Association said she is awaiting a response to the first claims.
She said: "For residents like me, who live right next to the river, it has been a very anxious year. As well as the noise and disruption caused by the flood works, most of us have suffered damage to our properties and have had a long struggle to get the council to agree to process claims for the cost of repairs."
While the council will process each claim individually, its property management and development department document sets out a framework.
The paper reads: "The council will ensure residents are not left disadvantaged as a result of ongoing liaison with CEC and Lagan [the contractors].
"The council will take ownership of the claims/issues and is eager to progress them. Condition surveys will be undertaken towards completion of the flood prevention works.
Nigel Bagshaw, Green Party councillor for Inverleith, said he been shown damage to buildings which was "undoubtedly" caused by flood protection works, saying: "I hope the council will make it easy for local residents to claim compensation for damage."
The scheme was initiated after about 500 properties flooded in 2000.


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" Brand: Wilkinson / Type: Painting / Age: 6 Years+ "
Both my son and daughter took art at GCSE and both needed a lot of stuff. One of them did a project on masks, mostly tribal (we got asked to move on once because we were taking pics on my daughters phone outside a shop...)
I had to get loads of bits, masks, feathers, paints etc it cost a fortune so when we saw a mask in Wilkinson for under a pound I got one, it even came in a box with elastic and paint. They have them selling for a bargain 75p and 3 for 2, although the mask advertised at the moment doesn't appear to have paint included with it (as far as I can tell) the mask however looks like the same one.
Wilko's website says the masks are suitable for age 4+ and definitely not for the under 3's. The mask is a plain white velvet covered face, it has a uni sex look but does veer towards feminine it would however depend on how you decorated it. Another craft mask I bought was small but this one would cover a face. It's not bad quality and was just about strong enough not to lose shape whilst decorating, and when being lugged around in an art folder.
The mask has eye holes and nostril holes but no mouth. There are holes at the sides to thread the elastic through to wear the mask around your head. When the mask was painted up, there was enough paint in the little pots to cover it. Being slightly flock helped the paint adhere and dry quicker, the other mask I'd got was plastic and trickier. The material of the mask allowed feathers to be poked through the edges with the aid of a compass which looked effective.
Would I recommend this mask? yes I would.
5 stars from me.
Last easter I made the conscious decision not to buy any of my friends
children any big easter eggs. Everbodys houses always end up jam packed with chocolate that it takes months to eat. Instead, I bought them one of these each!
I thought a craft toy was an excellent compromise for kids and parents
alike. It will keep the kids entertained for a little while during the
easter holidays, which gives the parents a bit of peace! Plus it means no
excess chocolate.
These masks only cost 99p each in Wilkinsons. They are velvety to touch,
but are basically a blank version of your plastic Halloween face mask, and
they come with elastic to secure them to your child head. They come with
pains and brushes so your child can decorate them in whatever way they
They are suitable for boys and girls because they can do what they please with them - and I got some lovely pictures after easter of the children in their masks so I could see how they had decorated them (spiderman was popular, as were princesses - but some had decorated them in an easter theme like bunnys or with eggs on them!). They encourage childrens creativity and they get a fun dress up toy at the end - which for under £1 you cant complain about.
They suugest they are for ages 6+, but i dont think that this is necessary so long as they are made with adult supervision (and thats more to do with the mess than they toy).
Im definitely going to look for something similar for this easter after
last years success... I'll let you know if I find anything.
All in all, these make a cheap and great alternative to eggs.
I bought this velvet mask as a little stocking filler for my ten year old daughter this Christmas. Here is what I thought of it
What is it?
Well it is a plastic mask that has been coated in velvet. It is white and the face is quite neutral so could be painted as a male or female face. It comes with cut out eyes, so there is no need for any scissor mishaps (been there done that !!! ). It also comes with two tiny cut holes at the sides, for you to thread the elastic through. The elastic is provided.
The kit also contains a set of paints and a paint brush. The paints are those tiny plastic pots that are attached to each other in a row and almost impossible to open. You get six colours Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and pink. Despite their small size, the tiny pots give you ample paint to decorate the mask, my daughter covered the entire mask in yellow before decorating it and there was still some yellow paint left.
Who would it be good for ?
The box says it is suitable for Children over six, I think younger children would be able to do it with supervision. It could be for boys or girls, although I bought my son a similar thing that was a monster mask instead of a face. (maybe another review coming up ?!?)
It would make a great present and it s a lovely way for the children to express themselves and go wild with their imagination.
They can literally paint it as anything, my daughter painted a giraffe face and even attached little pipe cleaner horns, but you could do animals, people, pirates, or a pretty fairy.
It would be a brilliant activity to do at a party, with little stress or mess they could paint the mask and then take it home with them.
I want it, where can I get it and how much does it cost ?
This is the best part, the paint your own mask kit is just 99p, complete with mask, paint, elastic and paint brush all for under a quid.
You can get it from one of the 337 Wilkinson stores, most towns have one. If you can't get to a store then you can order it online, although the postage is a whopping £5.50.
I think this is totally fabulous and excellent value.
I have always tried to instil good methods of working for a wage with my kids from a very young age. What I mean by this statement is that my kids (currently 7 and 4 years old) have to do specific chores for the few pounds pocket money they receive.
Now due to the amount of money they get, my kids have to be quite thrifty with what they spend it on, even in a credit crunch there are some pricey things around! Normally my kids will go for a "spree" in good old Poundland but after spotting this lovely little set in Wilkinsons last week I knew I had to review it and let you lovely people hear about it!
The set I will now review is - "Colour your own velvet mask" set, Wilkinsons own brand.
As with the other products in Wilkinsons own branded craft range, the packaging is simple yet effective.
The colour scheme is grey and orange in colour, this is to differentiate the own branded products from all the other different sets they seem to stock.
On the front of the box is all the relevant information this being a brand name, product name and contents list. There is also a large clear plastic panel through which the set of paints included and the velvet mask can be seen.
In the set there is of course a velvet mask, this is a plain white and very thin plastic mask with a velveteen front, this aids the paint sticking to it.
There is a set of 6 colour paints, these are very small pots that are attached together, I found these were not quite big enough or at least didn't contain enough as my son tends to drip rather than paint with them! Do not expect to have any paint left after painting the single mask.
You also get an extremely thin paint brush and finally a length of elastic to turn this into a proper mask once the paint has dried.
What this set doesn't contain is glitter, even though there are two packets of glitter advertised on the outer box just under the mask!
The instructions for use are really simple, open the paints dip in your brush and paint, even I could do that!
Of course the masks on the box are painted intricately and the effect that we ended up with was less Van Gough and more van driver, but that is the same with most of these types of products.
My son decided to paint his mask so it looked like it was bleeding, I know such a delightful child, we are so proud! LOL.
Once the mask has dried, which with the velvet cover takes very little time at all, around an hour, not bad considering the paint was about ½" thick! The final step is to attach the elastic through the holes on either side of mask to finish it of, we never bothered with this set preferring to attach it to a chopstick thus making a ball type of mask, my daughter loved this idea!
As mentioned earlier this was purchased from Wilkinsons, the reason we chose this over the many products available from Poundland is due to the price, which was £1.00.
There are a few different sets to be had in the range, all staring from £1.00 with the most expensive retailing for around the £5.00 mark.
For more information visit - www.wilkos.co.uk
This is a lovely set that was a little different and kept my kids amused for a good hour, recommended!
Thanks for reading x


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Been cruising some blogs lately, and my, it seems almost everyone except my 10-day-old grand-nephew has one these days. (Ahem, er, I don't count because I am insane enough to spend the wee hours, previously spent sleeping, drawing these sweet little artworks.)
Well suffice to say, a person could spend their entire life watching other people's lives unfold through their blogs. Trouble is, it's not always so interesting. Which makes it all the more pleasing when you do find one that interests you, and one that gives you backdrops of New York streets you wish you were standing on, and wait for it – one that also has a store to shop at! Yes! I can drink my coffee in bed + live in New York vicariously through someone else + shop for vintage clothes and accessories – all at the same time!
So let me introduce Mimi of BROOK&LYN. Mimi is a graphic designer living in Brooklyn (no kidding), who, as she puts it, started blogging to share her likes and dislikes, which are basically fashion. The addition of the very excellent BROOK&LYN Boutique is much more recent, and you can see me wearing the result of my first visit below. Or at least, what I believe I will look like wearing it, when the nice postman places it in my greedy little hands.
If you peruse Mimi's blog you will notice her extremely covetable jewellery collection (thankfully many nice things make it to the store – that would not happen if I had a store), and there surely must be some sort of subliminal "you must wear more jewellery" thing going on, because I have now gone bonkers for jewellery – as many pieces at once as possible. It's not unlike 1984 after Madonna released Borderline.
So meet Mimi and see her style for yourself. Besides the luscious necklaces, this outfit was apparently about the crop tee, which reminds me of one I used to wear in 1987. It was wider, more cropped, and by Chong and Merkel. Being 18, and summer in Sydney, I of course wore it sans bra. Until one day crossing a busy road with both hands full of shopping, the wind blew it up and right over my face. Not a damn thing I could do about it – I couldn't even see where I was walking. I just remember a guy crossing in the opposite direction saying as he passed – "thank you". Well at least he had manners.
And this will be me in my new dress: