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Abduction from the Seraglio in San Francisco
Some of the more memorable achievements of San Francisco Opera occurred in the brief life-span of its Spring Opera season, 1961-1981.
In a recent article in BBC Music Magazine tenor James Gilchrist reflected on the reason why early-nineteenth-century England produced no corpus of art song to match the German lieder of Schumann, Schubert and others, despite the great flowering of English Romantic poetry during this period.
With the New York Premiere of Florencia en el Amazonas, the New York City Opera Steps Out of the Shadows of the Past
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Not merely Don Carlo, but the five-act Don Carlo in the 1886 Modena version! The welcomed esotericism of San Francisco Opera's extraordinary spring season.
The early summer San Francisco Opera season has the feel of a classy festival. There is an introduction of Spanish director Calixto Bieito to American audiences, a five-act Don Carlo and two awaited, inevitable role debuts, Karita Mattila as Kostelnička and Malin Bystrom as Janacek's Jenůfa.
Now that the curtain has long fallen on the third and last performance of the Ring cycle at the Washington National Opera (WNO), it is safe to say that the long-anticipated production has been an unqualified success for the company, director Francesca Zambello, and conductor Philippe Auguin.
Most of the attention during this revival of Daniele Abbado's 2013 production of Nabucco has been directed at Plácido Domingo's reprise of the title role, with the critical reception somewhat mixed.
My first Tristan, indeed my first Wagner, in the theatre was ENO's previous staging of the work, twenty years ago, in 1996. The experience, as it should, as it must, although this is alas far from a given, quite overwhelmed me.
Four years ago, almost to the day (13th to 12th), I saw Melly Still's production of The Cunning Little Vixen during its first Glyndebourne run. I found myself surprised how much more warmly I responded to it this time.
This recital celebrated both the work of the Park Lane Group, which has been supporting the careers of outstanding young artists for 60 years, and the 90th birthday of Joseph Horovitz, who was born in Vienna in 1926 and emigrated to England aged 12.
Headed by General Director Luana DeVol, a world-renowned dramatic soprano, Opera Las Vegas is a relatively new company that presents opera with first-rate casts at the University of Las Vegas's Judy Bayley Theater. In 2014 they presented Rossini's The Barber of Seville and in 2015, Puccini's Madama Butterfly. This year they offered a blazing rendition of Georges Bizet's Carmen.
Ever since a friend was reported as having said he would like something in return for modern-dress Shakespeare (how quaint that term seems now, as if anyone would bat an eyelid!), namely an Elizabethan-dress staging of Look Back in Anger, I have been curious about the possibilities of 'down-dating', as I suppose we might call it. Rarely, if ever, do we see it, though.
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Edouard Lalo (1823-92) is best known today for his instrumental works: the Symphonie espagnole (which is, despite the title, a five-movement violin concerto), the Symphony in G Minor, and perhaps some movements from his ballet Namouna, a scintillating work that the young Debussy adored.
There can't be that many operas that start with an extended solo for double bass. At Holland Park, the eerie, angular melody for lone bass player which opens Pietro Mascagni's Iris immediately unsettled the relaxed mood of the summer evening.
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Although Bohuslav Martinů's short operas Ariane and Alexandre bis date from 1958 and 1937 respectively, there was a distinct tint of 1920s Parisian surrealism about director Rodula Gaitanou's double bill, as presented by the postgraduate students of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
The eyes of the opera world turned recently to Dresden—the city where Wagner premiered his Rienzi, Fliegende Holländer, and Tannhäuser—for an important performance of Lohengrin. For once in Germany it was not about the staging.
Some of the more memorable achievements of San Francisco Opera occurred in the brief life-span of its Spring Opera season, 1961-1981.
This long ago April-May season embraced the lesser known and experimental repertory, premieres and advanced staging style looks at nearly anything that might be called opera. And sung in English, the language of its audience. Thus almost immediately (1962) Spring Opera gave San Francisco Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio — it readily qualified as lesser known, it was an experiment — Mozart's own experiment into singspiel, and with its dependence on the spoken work it was not really opera.
Spring Opera's headier moments happened in its later years at the Broadway-style Curran Theatre, and among these moments again was Abduction (1975) this time in the hands of jack-of-all-theatre-trades Jack O'Brien (but that handle is now, back then it was his first, experimental foray into opera). O'Brien's first revelation was that Abduction was not about its story told in spoken words, it was about its music, thus he slashed its dialogues to the absolute bone, and let them sing. One of Spring Opera's slickest productions resulted.
Andrew Bidlack (Pedrillo) and Peter Rose (Osmin)
But these days Abduction is big-house stuff, not only in repertory weary San Francisco but around the world. Just last March Lyric Opera of Chicago unveiled a new production of Die Entführung aus dem Serail that is currently on the War Memorial stage. Only in Chicago the spiel was in German (well, there was one German in the cast) while in San Francisco the dialogues were mostly in American though the sing fortunately was in German — the one German in sight was a very important one, the young maestro Cornelius Meister. This uncomfortable language duality left he ear confused. It also gave rise to the trivial critical question as to whether Mozart's opera should have been entitled Entführung in San Francisco, or Abduction as preferred by the SFO program booklet.
But the answer is easy — it was an Entführung. It all happened in the pit, the San Francisco Opera Orchestra rising magnificently to the occasion of the American debut of 29 year-old, wunderkind Cornelius Meister. This fine orchestra responded to the warmth and to the joyous overflow of rare and new Mozartian colors imparted by the young German maestro, and played with a beauty of string tone that gave the evening (2/10) its considerable musical luster.
Mozart's simple singspiel has two monster roles, that of the abducted Constanze and her rescuer Belmonte. Matthew Polenzani, an alumnus of Lyric Opera's young artist program and now a highly credentialed Mozart singer, brought urgency, beauty of tone and perfect phrasing to the considerable amount of singing Mozart's hero must accomplish. Mary Dunleavy, a recent SFO Gilda, took on the fiendishly difficult Constanze and succeeded gracefully enough, appropriately displaying her quite beautiful voice, considerable technique and solid high notes in the opera's grand soprano showpiece Martern aller Arten.Anna Christy (Blonde) and the Pasha's guards
Unfortunately Es lebe die Liebe, Mozart's famous tour de force reunion quartet, did not succeed in musically uniting its four singers — though Anna Christy acquitted herself handsomely as Blonde throughout the evening, Adler Fellow Andrew Bidlack was over parted as Pedrillo, not yet a match for arrived artists. Bass Peter Rose was a vocally pale Osmin, his smooth voice and soft presence an uncomfortable match to Mozart's sharper buffo demands. The Pasha of actor Charles Shaw Robinson made no effect.
While Mr. Rose's Queen's English inflected speeches were no more at odds with the character of the Turkish lecher Osmin than Hochdeutsch might have been, his Samurai wig was, as was his most fanciful Papageno-like costume, not to mention his retinue of little, bare chest Samurai eunuchs. In fact one was not sure what was supposed to be happening on the Baroque stage within the War Memorial stage.
Accounts of the Chicago performances talk about an old Pasha who began imagining this episode of his lost youth during the overture, about a trap door that opened into the false stage where Belmonte then climbed out, and soon a young Pasha appeared as well, explaining that this was a performance within a performance. None of this or anything else of the Chas Rader-Shieber Chicago concept made it to San Francisco. What we saw in San Francisco was inexplicable.
Besides Blonde's jaunty yellow hat the quartet of lovers costumes were elaborately period, including Constanze's wigs. So it was costume opera, take it or leave it. The crowd gamely took it, and applauded young Mozart's Italianate attempt at singspiel that belonged in a much smaller theater, and cheered the appropriately attractive youthful cast and conductor.
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|Publication number
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|Application number
|Publication date
|Jul 11, 2000
|Filing date
|Apr 3, 1998
|Priority date
|Dec 12, 1997
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Gary Hong
|Original Assignee
|United Semiconductor Corp.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (3), Referenced by (1), Classifications (10), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This application claims the priority benefit of Taiwan application Ser. No. 86118765, filed Dec. 12, 1997, the full disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a semiconductor capacitor. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) capacitor.
2. Description of Related Art
FIG. 1 is an equivalent circuit diagram of a DRAM cell. A DRAM cell comprises a transfer transistor T and a storage capacitor C. The source terminal of a transfer transistor T is connected to a bit line BL, and the drain terminal is connected to a storage electrode 10 of a storage capacitor C. The gate terminal of the transfer transistor is connected to a word line WL. The opposed electrode 12 is connected to a fixed voltage source. A dielectric layer 14 is formed between the storage electrode 10 and the opposed electrode 12.
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the basic structure of a conventional DRAM device. As shown in FIG. 2, the method of fabricating a DRAM cell comprises the step of forming a plurality of field oxide layers 21 on a P-type substrate 20. The field oxide layers 21 not only define the device regions, but also act as a device isolation structure. Thereafter, a gate oxide layer 22, a polysilicon layer 23 and an upper cap oxide layer 24 are sequentially formed over the substrate 20 forming a gate structure as shown in FIG. 2. Subsequently, protective oxide spacers 25 are formed on the sidewalls of the gate structure.
Next, a self-aligned process is used to form source/drain regions 26a and 26b in the substrate 20, thus finishing the fabrication of a MOS transistor. After that, a polysilicon layer having electrical connection with one source/drain region 26b is formed by a conventional method. The polysilicon layer acts as a bit line 27. In a subsequent step, an insulating layer 28, for example, an oxide layer, is formed over the substrate 20 and gate structure. Next, using photolithographic and etching processes, the insulating layer 28 is patterned to form a self-aligned contact window 29 exposing the source/drain region 26a. Finally, a conductive layer is deposited over insulating layer 28 and into the contact window 29, and then patterned to form the lower electrode of the capacitor.
Due to the restriction imposed by the resolution of light source in a photolithographic process, there is a minimum size for the contact window 29. If attempt is made to narrow down the contact window 29 and surrounding structures without due regard to possible errors caused by the ultimate resolution, the insulating material for isolating the gate 23 from subsequently deposited conductive layer may be too thin and may result in short-circuiting. Thus, reliability of the device is compromised.
In the meantime, the charge storage capacity of a capacitor needs to be increased. Therefore, new dielectric materials that has a higher dielectric constant or new methods that are capable of depositing a thinner and better quality dielectric layer are constantly in need. Yet, how to increase the surface area of a charge storage electrode despite the continuous shrinking of available DRAM substrate area remains to be a major issue in semiconductor fabrication.
At present, various methods for increasing the surface area of the capacitor's lower electrode are devised. Most of them make use of fabricating three-dimensional structures and forming uneven surfaces. For example, all kinds of structural shapes for the lower electrode, such as a crown, a pillar, a fin, a tree-trunk with branches or a cavity, exist. In addition, a hemispherical grained silicon (HSG-Si) layer can be formed over the surface of an electrode to increase the charge storage capacity of a capacitor by up to about 80 percent. However, the capacitance of a capacitor can still be increased by following an improved method of manufacturing.
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to provide a self-aligned processing method that is free from the limitations imposed by the resolution of light source. Furthermore, a silicon nitride layer is used as a mask for etching the insulating layer that lies above the word line and bit line so that a narrow contact window is formed. Therefore, the word line and the conductive layer are properly isolated from each other, and the reliability of the device is increased.
To achieve these and other advantages and in accordance with the purpose of the invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, the invention provides a method for manufacturing DRAM capacitor. First, a semiconductor substrate having at least one MOS transistor formed thereon is provided. The MOS transistor has a gate that acts as a word line and source/drain terminals in the substrate on each side of the gate terminal. The polysilicon layer between the transistor gates is patterned to act as a bit line, and the bit line is electrically coupled to one source/drain terminal of the MOS transistor. The method of manufacturing a DRAM capacitor comprises the steps of forming an insulating layer over the substrate covering both the word line and bit line, then sequentially forming a mask layer, a first oxide layer and a first polysilicon layer over the insulating layer. Subsequently, an opening is formed in the first polysilicon layer. The opening is located right above one of the source/drain regions. Thereafter, a second oxide layer is deposited over the first polysilicon layer and into the opening. The second oxide layer forms a groove above the opening.
Next, a self-aligned etching process is performed to etch away the second oxide layer and a portion of the mask layer, the first oxide layer and the insulating layer forming a contact window in the insulating layer. After that, a second polysilicon layer is deposited over the first polysilicon layer, completely filled the contact window and electrically coupled to one of the source/drain region. Thereafter, the first and the second polysilicon layers are patterned, and then the first oxide layer is removed. The first polysilicon layer and the second polysilicon layer together constitute a lower electrode of the capacitor. Finally, a dielectric layer is formed over the second polysilicon layer, and then a third polysilicon layer, which acts as the upper electrode of a capacitor, is formed above the dielectric layer.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary, and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed.
The accompanying drawings are included to provide a further understanding of the invention, and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification. The drawings illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the description, serve to explain the principles of the invention. In the drawings,
FIG. 1 is an equivalent circuit diagram of a DRAM unit,
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the structure of a conventional DRAM device; and
FIGS. 3A through 3G are cross-sectional views showing the progression of manufacturing steps in producing a DRAM capacitor according to one preferred embodiment of this invention.
Reference will now be made in detail to the present preferred embodiments of the invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Wherever possible, the same reference numbers are used in the drawings and the description to refer to the same or like parts.
FIGS. 3A through 3G are cross-sectional views showing the progression of manufacturing steps in producing a DRAM capacitor according to one preferred embodiment of this invention.
First, as shown in FIG. 3A, a device isolation structure 31 is formed on the surface of a silicon substrate 30. For example, a thermal oxidation method is used to oxidize the silicon (using a LOCOS technique) forming a field oxide layer preferably having a thickness of about 3000 Å. Alternatively, a shallow trench can be used as a device isolation structure. Next, the substrate 30 is place inside a furnace, and then a dry thermal oxidation method is used to form a gate oxide layer 32 for protecting the substrate against damages in subsequent processes.
The gate oxide layer 32 can be a silicon dioxide layer preferably having a thickness of about 100 Å to 250 Å. Thereafter, a polysilicon layer 33 preferably having a thickness of about 2000 Å to 3000 Å is formed over the gate oxide layer 32 using, for example, a low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) method. In addition, a heat-diffusion method or an ion implantation method can be used to implant impurities into the polysilicon layer 33 to increase its conductivity. Thereafter, a cap oxide layer 34 is deposited over the polysilicon layer 33. Then, photolithographic and etching processes are used to pattern the cap oxide layer 34, the polysilicon layer 33 and the gate oxide layer 32 to form the gate structure of the MOS device.
Next, a blanket oxide layer is formed over the substrate using a chemical vapor deposition method, where the thickness of desired spacers 35 is determined by the thickness of this blanket oxide layer. In a subsequent step, the blanket oxide layer is anisotropically etched back to form spacers 35 using, for example, a plasma etching method with carbon tetrafluoride (CF4) or other fluoride compound as the gaseous source.
The cap oxide layer 34 and the oxide spacers 35 isolate the polysilicon gate layer 33 and avoid unwanted contact with subsequently deposited conductive layer. Thereafter, an oxide spacer self-aligned process is used to implant ions into the substrate 30 to form the source/drain regions 36a and 36b of the MOS transistor. The implanted ions preferably have a concentration level of about 1015 /cm2. Alternatively, a gate sidewall self-aligned process is used to carry out a first light concentration ion implant to form a lightly doped region in the substrate 30 before the formation of the oxide spacers 35, and then a second high concentration ion implant is performed after the formation of the oxide spacers 35 to establish a lightly doped drain (LDD) structure in the substrate 30.
Next, using conventional techniques, a polysilicon layer electrically coupled with a source/drain region 36b and acting as a bit line 37 is formed between the gate structures. Thereafter, a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method is used to deposit a planarized insulating layer 38 over the substrate 30, the word line 33 and the bit line 37. For example, an atmospheric-pressure chemical vapor deposition (APCVD) or a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) method can be used to deposit a borophosphosilicate glass (BPSG) layer having a thickness preferably between 5000 Å to 20000 Å.
This is followed by using a heat reflow or a chemical-mechanical polishing method to planarize the BPSG layer. After planarization, subsequently formed layers over the insulating layer 38 will be easier to deposit in addition to having a better-deposited quality.
Next, as shown in FIG. 3B, a blanket mask layer 39, a first oxide layer 40 and a first polysilicon layer 41 are sequentially formed over the insulating layer 38 using, for example, a chemical vapor deposition method. The mask layer 39 can be a silicon nitride layer and preferably having a thickness of about 100 Å to 2000 Å. The first oxide layer preferably has a thickness of about 500 Å to 2000 Å. The first polysilicon layer can be impurities-doped to increase its electrical conductivity. Thereafter, through photoresist coating and photolithographic development techniques, an opening 42 located directly above one of the source/drain regions 36a is etched in the first polysilicon layer 41.
Next, as shown in FIG. 3C, a second oxide layer 43 is formed over the first polysilicon layer 41 and the opening 42 using, for example, a chemical vapor deposition method. The second oxide layer 43 preferably has a thickness of about 500 Å to 5000 Å, wherein a groove 44 is formed above opening 42 rather than being completely filled in the process of deposition. Subsequently, a self-aligned etching process is performed using an anisotropic dry etching method such as a plasma etching method. First, using the dry etching method, the second oxide layer 43 above the first polysilicon layer 41 is removed forming spacer-like structures 43a on the sidewalls of the opening 42 as shown in FIG. 3D. At the same time, a portion of the first polysilicon layer 41, a portion of the first oxide layer 40a and a portion of the mask layer 39a in the groove 44 are removed exposing a portion of the insulating layer 38. As dry etching continues, the spacer-like structures 43a and the portion of first oxide layer 40a underneath will be removed, only stopping when the mask layer 39a is reached.
In the meantime, a portion of the insulating layer 38 will also be etched away, and hence forming a contact window 45 leading from the top to the source/drain region 36a of the substrate 30 as shown in FIG. 3E. Since the width at the lower part of the contact window 45 depends on the width of the groove 44 as shown in FIG. 3C rather than on the resolution of light in a restrictive conventional photolithographic process, this invention is able to form a narrower contact hole. In other words, the lower part of the contact window 45 can be made narrower, and at the same time ensuring a minimum thickness of isolating material between the gate 33 and the subsequently formed conductive layer. Consequently, there will be no short-circuiting of the device, and the reliability will be increased.
Next, an impurities-doped second polysilicon layer is formed over the sidewalls in the upper part of the contact window 45 while completely filling up the bottom part of the contact window 45. Then, the first polysilicon layer 41a and the second polysilicon layer 46 can be patterned into a structure as shown in FIG. 3F. In fact, the second polysilicon layer 46 and the first polysilicon layer 41a can be patterned into any shapes that is capable of increasing surface area, for example, a pillar, a groove, a fin or many others. Subsequently, the first oxide layer 40b is removed to form the lower electrode structure of a capacitor using, for example, hydrofluoric acid in a wet etching method.
Finally, as shown in FIG. 3G, a hemispherical grained polysilicon layer 47 is formed over the second polysilicon layer 46 and the first polysilicon layer 41a. The hemispherical grained polysilicon layer 47 can be formed by any conventional methods. For example, a low-pressure chemical vapor deposition method with reacting temperature controlled between 550� C. to 595� C. and pressure set to about 0.2 to 0.5 torr can be used to deposit hemispherical grained polysilicon (HSG-Si) using silicane as a gaseous source. The deposited HSG-Si finally nucleates in the process to form a grainy surface, thereby increasing the surface area of the lower electrode.
Next, a dielectric layer 48 is formed over the hemispherical grained polysilicon layer 47. The dielectric layer 48 can be, for example, a nitride/oxide (NO) composite layer. However, the dielectric layer can also be a material having a high dielectric constant such as tantalum pentoxide (Ta2 O5) or provskite dielectrics such as a barium-strontium-titanium compound. Thereafter, a third polysilicon layer 49 is formed over the dielectric layer.
The third polysilicon layer 49 acts as the upper electrode of the capacitor, and is formed, for example, by a low-pressure chemical vapor deposition method. Furthermore, impurities can be doped or ions can be implanted, and an annealing operation can be performed during deposition of the third polysilicon layer 49. After further photolithographic and patterning of the upper electrode, fabrication of the DRAM capacitor is complete.
It will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the structure of the present invention without departing from the scope or spirit of the invention. In view of the foregoing, it is intended that the present invention cover modifications and variations of this invention provided they fall within the scope of the following claims and their equivalents.
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|Vanguard International Semiconductor Company
|Method of fabricating a capacitor storage node having a rugged-fin surface
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|Method of fabricating capacitor over bit line COB structure for a very high density DRAM applications
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Kendrick Perkins knew what to expect from Anderson Varejao.
"You've just got to take him out of the game," he said Saturday, the day before the Celtics met the Cavs in Cleveland. "I think you've got to, all the time he's more of the instigator. I think you've got to be more of the instigator when you're playing against him. You've got to hit him first."
But it was Varejao who hit early against the Celtics. He scored 15 points and grabbed six rebounds in the first half alone. His early play set the tone for the Cavaliers' 104-93 victory on Sunday (click here for the full recap).
"I thought one guy completely dominated this game, and that was Varejao," Boston coach Doc Rivers told reporters after the game. "And that's the second time. Loose balls, activity, getting under our skin — I mean, he's doing what he should do, and so that was very frustrating."
Varejao led the charge in the first half and LeBron James stepped up in the second. After scoring just six points in the first two quarters, James finished with a game-high 30.
The Celtics were fueled by the Big Three — Ray Allen led with 20 points; Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce followed with 18 each. But the offensive production stopped in the starting lineup. The C's bench added 15 points between five players. Rasheed Wallace was the high scorer with just five points, and that came off of 1-for-8 shooting from the field. In contrast, Varejao and Mo Williams combined for 31 points off the pine for the Cavs.
But this loss cannot be pinned on the Celtics' second unit. There were missed opportunities, missed shots, and plenty of missed rebounds, that led to Boston's third loss in four games.
Here are three things we learned in the loss.
There have been plenty of times this season when the Celtics have missed having Kevin Garnett on the court because of injuries (the C's are 5-6 without him this season). But there was a different kind of frustration on Sunday.
Garnett was held to just 28 minutes against the Cavaliers because of foul trouble. He was whistled for five fouls in the game, the most since Jan. 22 against the Trail Blazers (he played 30 minutes in that win).
"I thought Kevin was taken out of his game because of the fouls," Rivers said. "Even though he had a terrific game in 28 minutes when you look what he did, he was terrific, but when you're in foul trouble the way he was, it really hurts his rhythm."
Garnett scored 18 points (he 5-for-8 from the floor and 8-for-8 from the line) and grabbed seven rebounds. In comparison, Paul Pierce scored as many points in 36 minutes and Kendrick Perkins nabbed one less board in 30 minutes.
Not only did losing Garnett's efficiency hurt the Celtics, they didn't have any weapons on the bench to compensate for it. They were a team-low minus-17 with Rasheed Wallace (1-for-8 from the field, 0-for-2 on 3-point attempts) in the game.
"That hurt us because our game plan was to go low more and with him out, and Rasheed didn't give us anything. We basically became a pick-and-roll, jumpshooting team instead of being the post team that we planned on being going into this game," Rivers said.
The Celtics had made the argument that the Cavaliers are better without Shaquille O'Neal, who has been out since spraining his thumb last month in Boston. Even though the Cavs give up size, they make up for it in versatility and speed.
On Sunday, however, the smaller Cavs team played bigger than the Celtics. Playing without O'Neal and Zydrunas Ilgauskas, who had averaged 5.3 rebounds for the Cavs in 53 games, the Cavaliers outrebounded the Celtics, 51-43. They grabbed six more offensive rebounds and scored 10 more points in the paint.
"I thought they were the more physical team, and they were the smaller team," Rivers said. "Without Shaq, they've gone small a lot and we're big — that's who we are. But if we're going to be big, we're going to have to act big. And we didn't do that tonight. I thought they did. I thought they really took the fight to us more tonight."
Rivers did, however, praised the hustle of Glen Davis. Even though he picked up four fouls in 15 minutes, his tough play was appreciated. In the second quarter, Davis practically leapt at Antawn Jamison as he set up for his shot, knocking him to the ground.
Later in the game, Varejao went flying to the floor as and Davis chased for a loose ball. Whether it was a flop or a foul, Rivers applauded Davis' effort.
"I thought he played great. I thought he was terrific," he said. "I thought Baby was the one guy, I thought his energy there was absolutely wonderful. And honestly, I think Baby's been doing that more and more for us. He was the only one who made a physical play, to me, the entire night when he knocked Varejao down. You don't want that, but you want physical play. We were not tonight."
With just 17 games left in the regular season, Rivers continues to take it one day at a time. He isn't panicking now that the Celtics are 1-2 against the Cavs this season. They have the opportunity to even up the series when the Cavs come to Boston on April 4.
"It doesn't mean anything — they won one game," Rivers said. "You think about it, we've played three times. They're won twice and we have another game against them. And I've only said it a hundred times, it's one single game."
Regular-season matchups, after all, don't carry over into the playoffs.
"Two years ago, we swept Atlanta in the regular season and went seven games [in the playoffs]," Rivers said. "When the playoffs start, it's a new thing. We understand that. But what we have to do is keep just improving so when the playoffs start, we're ready. That's the key for us."
Regardless of whether the regular season ends up tied at two apiece or the Cavs go up 3-1, LeBron James still expects the Celtics to turn it on in the playoffs. After telling the Cleveland Plain-Dealer the Celtics looked bored to him, he pointed out before the game that they can't be taken for granted in the postseason.
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Pop guru Simon Cowell carries pocket-sized inhalable oxygen shots, America's Mad Men actress January Jones favours dried placenta pills, and British soap star Patsy Palmer rubs coffee granules into her skin.
Celebrities rarely shy away from public peddling of dubious ideas about health and science, and 2012 was no exception.
In its annual list of the year's worst abuses against science, the Sense About Science (SAS) campaign also named former US presidential candidate Mitt Romney for spreading misinformation about windows on planes, and Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps for false justifications for peeing in the pool.
To help set the record straight, SAS, a charity dedicated to helping people make sense of science and evidence, invited qualified scientists to respond to some of the wilder pseudo-scientific claims put about by the rich and famous.
It suggested Romney, who wondered aloud in September why aircraft crews don't just open the windows when there's a fire on board, should listen to aeronautical engineer Jakob Whitfield:
"Unfortunately, Mitt, opening a window at height wouldn't do much good," the scientist said. "In fact, if you could open a window whilst in flight, the air would rush out...because air moves from the high pressure cabin to the lower pressure outside, probably causing further injury and damage."
January Jones's dried placenta pills, which the actress admitted in March she consumed after giving birth, win no favour with Catherine Collins, principal dietician at St George's Hospital in London.
"Nutritionally, there's nothing to be gained from eating your placenta - raw, cooked, or dried," Collins said. "Apart from iron, which can be easily found in other dietary choices or supplements, your placenta will provide toxins and other unsavoury substances it had successfully prevented from reaching your baby in utero."
Gary Moss, a pharmaceutical scientist, patiently points out to Palmer that while caffeine may have an effect on cellulite, rubbing coffee granules into the skin is unlikely to work, since the caffeine can't escape the granules to penetrate the skin.
Phelps's claim that it's fine to pee in the pool because "chlorine kills it" is put straight by biochemist Stuart Jones, who reminds him that "urine is essentially sterile so there isn't actually anything to kill in the first place".
And for Cowell, Kay Mitchell a scientist at the Centre for Altitude Space and Extreme Environment Medicine warns that very high levels of oxygen can in fact be toxic - particularly in the lungs, where oxygen levels are highest.
"Celebrity comments travel far and fast, so it's important that they talk sense," said Sense About Science's managing director Tracey Brown. "The implausible and frankly dangerous claims about how to avoid cancer, improve skin or lose weight are becoming ever more ridiculous. And unfortunately they have a much higher profile than the research and evidence."
To encourage more vigilance among celebrity pseudo-scientists in the future, SAS provided a checklist of "misleading science claims" it suggests should be avoided:
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'If I sit down too quickly, will I break my spine?' How Ian Puleston-Davies, the actor behind Coronation Street's carefree tough guy, is paralysed by his obsessions
It is testimony to Ian Puleston-Davies's acting skills that he plays a tough, carefree builder in Coronation Street.
For it is a character completely at odds with his own. Ian suffers such extreme anxiety he worries that if he picks up his children, he might hurt them, or that if he sits down too quickly he will crack his coccyx.
While his soap character Owen merrily blusters about in the Rovers Return pub, for Ian just drinking a pint is an ordeal.
Taking control: Actor Ian Puleston-Davies who plays Owen Armstrong in Coronation Street,opens up about his long struggle with crippling OCD
'I'm terrified that the glass is cracked and I'll swallow glass, or that it's stained and dirty,' he explains.
'Before rehearsing every scene, I have to go through a series of checks, like feeling the lip of the glass with my finger to make sure it's not chipped and examining it for stains.
'I sip very slowly as I think I'll cut myself if I drink too quickly, and I make sure my teeth are far away as I'm convinced I'd scratch them otherwise.
'If I jump into a van I practise sitting down in it first, or if I sit down quickly I check the seat has padding, as I worry I'll break my coccyx. I am always checking that things won't hurt me.'
Ian, 54, suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and is constantly plagued by intrusive worries about contamination, germs and harm.
The condition is one of Britain's most common mental health problems and is characterised by unsettling thoughts or compulsions.
Compulsions: Ian, pictured with Anna Windass, played by Debbie Rush on Coronation Street, has suffered from severe OCD since he started working as an actor and feared it would wreck his career
'I liken it to an overactive antenna,' says Ian, who lives in Chester with his girlfriend Sue MacPherson and their two children, Maggie, five, and Charlie, two. 'When most people process information, they discard 99 per cent. But my antenna gets clogged up, so my brain ends up full of unnecessary thoughts.'
OCD usually starts in early adult life but can begin at any time, including childhood, as Ian found out. He was just seven when he was teased by schoolfriends for compulsively checking his trouser zip was fastened during football kickabouts.
He recalls: 'I also began checking my shoes every few yards I walked, in case I'd trodden in dog dirt. As a teenager I was always last to leave the changing rooms after swimming as changing in a small cubicle was a nightmare. I took ages because the fear of dropping my clothes on the wet floor was too horrific for words and my body had to be bone dry.'
By the time Ian reached adulthood, he had realised his behaviour was unusual but thought he was the only person who felt that way. By then his anxieties were extreme.
'My first fear of the day was lifting my head off the pillow – I thought if I did it too quickly, my neck would break. Then I'd be scared that if I sat up too quickly I'd damage my spine and if I stood up too quickly I'd break my ankles.'
Outside the house, things were even worse. 'I'd worry there were germs on door handles. On the pavement I saw every mark and would analyse how far away it was and whether it was toxic.'
At 21, Ian began working as an actor. He has appeared in countless shows and films, including the Guy Ritchie movie Revolver, Ghostboat with David Jason and acclaimed drama My Beautiful Son. But he feared his obsessions would wreck his career.
More than 750,000 adults and children in the UK suffer from OCD – more than one per cent of the population.
Symptoms are usually intrusive thoughts or repetitive compulsions. Some people suffer only compulsions – such as repeated checking or tidying – while others experience only obsessions or extreme worrying.
'There are three main components,' says Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Jim Bolton.
'The obsessional thoughts, the anxiety they cause, and the compulsion – the thing someone does to relieve the anxiety, such as washing their hands.
Half of sufferers undertake compulsive rituals so often that normal life is impossible.'
The exact cause is unknown. It can run in families or be triggered by stressful events. It often goes hand-in-hand with illnesses such as anxiety and depression
Another explanation – believed by Ian – is that OCD is triggered by low levels in the brain of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that regulates mood and anxiety.
'I'd almost been late on stage several times. I'd be in my dressing room obsessing about marks on the mirror. And once I missed my cue as I was still standing on a chair examining my fingernails under the light, worrying they were too long.'
While many people have only mild or moderate OCD, about half of all sufferers have it severely, like Ian, and the condition completely takes over their life.
He says: 'At its worst it was 24/7, because I was dreaming it as well. I couldn't go to the cinema for 20 years because I'd obsess about people sitting around me – are they friends? why are they here? – and it would ruin the film.'
Ian was 35 when he finally got help. During a bout of depression following a relationship break-up, he began seeing a counsellor and confided in her about his behaviour.
'By then I'd narrowed it down to three things: early dementia, a blood clot or madness. Now people know a lot about OCD, but back then I didn't know what it was and nobody around me did either.'
The counsellor referred him to a private psychotherapist in Harley Street, who diagnosed OCD. 'I wept with relief that I wasn't going crazy and also with anger and frustration that no one had told me what I'd had since I was seven.'
Ian was prescribed Prozac and referred to the Maudsley Hospital in South London, which specialises in mental health problems. There he received Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which trains the brain to think in a different way. He also began attending a self-help group.
The treatment helped him feel more in control at work and his career flourished. In 2010 he joined Coronation Street, where the cast have been very supportive.
'Antony Cotton [barman Sean Tully] knows about my condition and when he serves me a pint he'll say, "It's clean, it's not chipped – I've examined it." The people I work with closely are my safety blanket because when I'm overwhelmed I turn to them for help.
'I'll say to Mikey North, who plays Gary Windass, "I just scratched my head. My nails aren't so long that I would cut my scalp, are they?" '
After more CBT, Ian came off medication last year and believes he is 85 per cent cured.
'The final straw came when we were on holiday last summer. Sue and I were arguing a lot about my OCD, which was particularly bad. I worried when I picked up Maggie or Charlie – had I scratched them or wrenched their neck? I was completely obsessive.
'I was 54 and my OCD was still no better. I didn't want my family to suffer another minute so vowed to finally get rid of it. There's no easy escape; you just have to be determined to beat it. But I honestly believe you can, and since then I have been much more in control.
'I want on my gravestone, "Ian did not go to his grave clutching his wet wipes." OCD is like the twin I wish I never had, and I despise it for tampering with my life. I don't want to live with it any longer.'
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