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The present invention relates to electronic packaging and, more particularly, to chip packaging.
It has long been desirable to be able to pack as many chips into as small a space as possible. More recently, this has led to the development of various integration techniques.
One such integration method, shown in
Another integration option, shown in
Still further, the process of stacking the multi-chips (
Yet another integration option, shown in
The interposer option also does not dispense with the problems noted above with creating a multi-chip to multi-chip stack (
In addition, with such an approach it may be necessary to use vias in chips containing active devices which, in some applications, might not be desirable because they take up potential circuit area, increase the risk of yield loss, or both.
Yet further, to add a third 'chip' to the stack, each of the individual chips must be even thinner than the option that only had two chips, thereby further adding to the risks of decreased yield and damage.
Thus, there is a need for a packaging option that does not suffer from the problems and/or risks presented by the foregoing options presently available.
We have developed a process for integrating chips together that reduces or eliminates the problems present with the above processes.
Depending upon the particular variant, our approaches can provide one or more of the following benefits: they can be used with two chips of any arbitrary size, they can allow the final stack height to be very thin so that multi-chip on multi-chip configurations can be created, they can eliminate the need to make vias in an active chip, they can eliminate the need to make through-die vias entirely (i.e. whether or not the die contains devices), they can eliminate the need for a specially created interposer chip, they involve a thick and stable platform, they eliminate the need to perform dual-side processing of the individual die, and they still allow for the use of small, dense connections without the electrical performance 'hit' imposed by an interposer through-via structure.
One example variant involves a packaging method. The method involves attaching a first chip to a stable base, forming contact pads at locations on the stable base, applying a medium onto the stable base such that it electrically insulates sides of the first chip, forming electrical paths on the medium, attaching a second chip to the first chip to form an assembly, and removing the stable base.
Another example variant involves a package having at least two chips electrically connected to each other, at least one contact pad, an electrically conductive path extending from the contact pad to a contact point on at least one of the chips, a planarizing medium, and a coating material on top of the planarizing medium.
Through use of one or more of the variants described herein, one or more of various advantages described herein can be achieved. The advantages and features described herein are a few of the many advantages and features available from representative embodiments and are presented only to assist in understanding the invention. It should be understood that they are not to be considered limitations on the invention as defined by the claims, or limitations on equivalents to the claims. For instance, some of these advantages are mutually contradictory, in that they cannot be simultaneously present in a single embodiment. Similarly, some advantages are applicable to one aspect of the invention, and inapplicable to others. Thus, this summary of features and advantages should not be considered dispositive in determining equivalence. Additional features and advantages of the invention will become apparent in the following description, from the drawings, and from the claims.
The approach will now be described with reference to two simplified example major implementation variants. The first simplified example implementation family, shown in
Notably, in the interest of brevity, only the steps pertinent to understanding the approach are described. Thus, there may be additional straightforward intermediate steps that me need to be performed to go from one described step to another. However, those intermediate steps will be self evident to the pertinent audience. For example, as described a step may involve depositing a metal in a particular area. From that description, it is to be understood that, absent express mention of a process and that it is the required or only way to accomplish the transition, any suitable known intermediate process can be used. For example, one variant may involve, applying a photoresist, patterning, metal deposition, stripping of the photoresist and, if appropriate, removal of overburden. Another variant might involve electroless or electroplating and thus patterning, seed deposition, etc. Thus, unless expressly stated otherwise, it should be presumed that any known way to get from one point in the process to another point in the process can be used and will be acceptable.
The process begins with a piece of material that will act as a stable base for most of the process, but will later be removed. Depending upon the particular implementation, this base can be any of a number of different things, for example, a silicon wafer that can later be removed through an etching process, or a material such as glass, sapphire, quartz, a polymer, etc. the relevant aspects being i) that the material that will be used as the base has sufficient rigidity and stability to withstand the processing steps described below, and ii) that the material can be removed when necessary in the process using a technique that will not damage the package created up to that point, irrespective of whether the process involves removal by chemical, physical or heat action (or some combination thereof) or some other process.
The purpose of the material is to primarily provide mechanical support during the processing steps and thereby avoids the thin wafer handling problems noted above because, to the extent "thin" components are involved, they are handled at the chip level, while still allowing the major steps to be performed at the wafer level.
Advantageously, through this approach, the contact formation and use techniques as described in U.S. patent application Ser. Nos. 11/329,481, 11/329,506, 11/329,539, 11/329,540, 11/329,556, 11/329,557, 11/329,558, 11/329,574, 11/329,575, 11/329,576, 11/329,873, 11/329,874, 11/329,875, 11/329,883, 11/329,885, 11/329,886, 11/329,887, 11/329,952, 11/329,953, 11/329,955, 11/330,011 and 11/422,551, all incorporated herein by reference, can be employed, even though through-chip vias need not be part of the techniques described herein, although they are not incompatible, and thus can be used, with some implementations.
The process will now be described with reference to the figures, bearing in mind that dimensions are not to scale and are grossly distorted for ease of presentation even though specific dimensions may be provided for purposes of explanation.
Initially, a thin layer of support coating 702, for example about 0.5 μm, is applied to a surface 704 of the stable base 600. Depending upon the method to later be used to remove the stable base 600, as described below, the support coating 702 can be selected to be a material that can act as an etch stop for later processing, a release layer to ultimately allow the clean removal of the stable base 600 material without damaging the chips and connections that will be added in later steps, or both.
Depending upon the particular implementation, the support coating 702 can be an oxide or other dielectric, a polymer, a metal, a deposited semiconductor material, or some combination thereof.
In one example variant, the support coating 702 is simply used as an etch stop that will be left in place when processing is finished.
In another example variant, the support coating 702 is used as an etch stop that will be removed in a later processing step.
In yet another example variant, the support coating 702 is used as a release layer that, by etching, causes separation of the stable base 600 from the subsequently deposited parts (which will be discussed in greater detail below).
In still another example, the support coating 702 is a combination. In the combination case, for example, a metal could be added as an etch stop and then, subsequently, a dielectric could be deposited to prevent the connection pads that, will be created in a later step described below, from being shorted after the final work was done. In this specific example case, the dielectric would therefore remain while the metal that would be used as an etch stop will ultimately be removed.
Next, openings 802 are formed in the support coating 702 in the areas where the ultimate connection pads will be. The openings 802 extend down to the support material so that the final contacts that will be created in those openings 802 will be accessible after the stable base 600 is removed.
Depending upon the particular implementation, the openings can be created using any approach suitable for the particular support coating 702 used.
Next, the pads 902 for the ultimate contacts are formed. Depending upon the particular implementation variant, the pads 902 can be sized and of materials that are suitable for conventional solder connections or wirebond connection pad or can be made up of materials suitable for other types of connection contacts, for example, those suitable for use with a post and penetration connection or the other types of connections described in the above-incorporated applications, as well as gold stud bumps, copper pillars, or combinations of suitable metals like solder tipped copper pillars, gold covered copper, etc. or alloys. In addition, the layers could incorporate, as described below in connection with
Next, the first chip 1002 is placed and attached to the stable base 600, in this case so that it is "face-up" (i.e. the circuitry on the chip faces away from the stable base 600). In the case of a chip that does not have through-vias, the chip is attached in any way suitable for forming a physical connection between the first chip 1002 and the stable base 600. Depending upon the particular implementation, the attachment can involve using, for example, epoxy, solder, covalent bonding, a tack and/or fuse connection, thermo compression, wafer fusion, copper fusion, adhesive or thermal release bonding tapes or films, etc.
Alternatively, and advantageously, in some implementation variants, the pad 902 can even be configured to later serve as a wirebond or flip chip pad, as the flip chip bump itself or as a combination of a pad and bump.
Optionally, if the first chip 1002 has conventional through-chip vias, or through-chip connections or vias such as described in the above-incorporated applications, the first chip 1002 can be attached "face-down" so it makes contact from the bottom.
Depending upon the particular implementation, the first chip 1002 may have undergone additional processing pre- or post-dicing from its original wafer. However, the last processing step for the first chip 1002 prior to use in this process should ideally be either that the wafer is thinned and then the individual chips diced from it, or the chips are diced from the wafer and then thinned so that only the individual chips are handled in thin form.
Once the first chip 1002 has been attached to the stable base 600, the surface of the stable base 600 is planarized using a planarizing medium 1102.
Depending upon the particular implementation variant, the planarizing medium 1102 can be a spin-on glass, polymer, epoxy, dielectric, oxide, nitride or other appropriate material, the important aspects being that the planarizing medium 1102 be non-electrically-conducting and will form or can be treated to form a substantially planar surface.
In some variants, the planarizing medium 1102 is applied so that it is coincident or nearly coincident with the top of the first chip 1002. In such a case, if the material will naturally form a planar surface, no further processing may be needed within this step. Alternatively, in other variants, the planarizing medium 1102 is applied so that it covers the first chip 1002 and may or may not naturally form a flat surface. In such a case, the planarizing medium 1102 can be planarized by further processing, for example, polishing, lapping, etching, liftoff, developing out material, etc. In another, variant similar to the second case, only the surface 1004 of the first chip 1002 (or some portion thereof) can be re-exposed by, for example, one or more of the foregoing processes. Alternatively, if the first chip is the same size or larger than the contact area of the chip that will be stacked on top of it, simple use of a conformal insulating coating to at least cover the sides of the first chip 1002 can be used if the height of the first chip 1002 is short enough. In general, the pertinent aspect for this step is that a surface is formed such that metal routing layers can later be added without creating open circuits or shorting to the sides of the first chip 1002.
Next, the planarizing medium 1102 is removed in specific areas 1202 to expose the pad body 906 and any other areas which may need to be exposed for purposes of forming connections.
Advantageously, if the planarizing medium 1102 is a photo-sensitive material, such as a photo-sensitive polyimide, then a simple pattern and expose can be used to make the planarizing medium 1102 ready for this step. Note that as part of this step, etching can be performed wherever it is needed or desired, for example, on top of the first chip 1002, on top of the pad body 906 (such as shown in
At this point, metal connections 1302, 1304 are formed so that, for example, the pad bodies 902 are connected to the first chip 1002, the pad bodies 902, other connection points are rerouted to positions which can ultimately align with corresponding connections of another chip or some other element, or (optionally, if needed) elevated contacts 1306 are formed. Of course, in many variants, some combination of both of these will occur and, in some cases, a pad body 902, can be intentionally connected to another pad body (not shown).
Because the height of the first chip 1002 can be small, since it is only handled as a die, the opening formed by removal of the planarizing medium 1102 can have a low aspect ratio. This allows the use of a low cost deposition technique or even a simple plating process for making connections. In other words, specialized or advanced via filling techniques are not required and, in fact can be used, and the process can be less costly.
At this point, a package assembly 1308 has been created that is suitable for addition of a second chip 1402 onto the first chip 1002. Thus, in the next step, the second chip 1402 is attached to the assembly 1308. Note that, because the entire process up to this point has involved a thick substrate (i.e. the stable base 600) this process is more robust than with processes where two chips are joined by hybridizing to a very thin substrate. Also note that, although the second chip 1402 can be thin at this point, all the contacts 1404 of the second chip 1402 will ideally have been put on the second chip 1402 while it is still in wafer form and thick; then the wafer containing the second chip 1402 can be thinned, diced and the second chip 1402 chip can be attached to the assembly 1308.
Advantageously, it should now be understood that, through use of a variant described herein, dual side processing and thin wafer-scale handling for processing are reduced or, ideally, eliminated.
Returning to the process, at this point the second chip 1402 is aligned with and attached to the respective connection points of the assembly 1308. Depending upon the particular implementation variant, this may involve a conventional solder attachment, a tack & fuse approach, a post and penetration connection, covalent bonding, etc.
Advantageously, where tight-pitch connections (e.g. <50 μm pitch and preferably <30 μm) are used a tack & fuse approach is desirable, although not necessary. Moreover, using low height (<25 μm high) contacts, such as can be formed using approaches from the above-incorporated patent applications, alone or in conjunction with tight pitch connections, are particularly advantageous in keeping the overall height of the final package small.
It should also now be appreciated that variants of the approaches described herein can have the advantages provided by small contact size and short connection lengths without via parasitics while also having the advantages provided by an the interposer (i.e. overcomes chip size restrictions). Moreover, these advantages can be obtained while allowing thick wafer handling and avoiding or eliminating dual-side processing.
At this point, the main processing is complete. However, if additional chips are to be joined to the complex assembly 1406, the approach of the preceding steps can advantageously and straightforwardly be repeated as necessary.
Optionally, however, the process can be continued, for example, by adding an additional coating material 1502 to, for example, protect the chips, act as a thermal conductor, or allow the complex assembly 1406 to be planar, etc. Depending upon the particular implementation variant, the coating material 1502 can optionally be a material that is resistant to the etchants that might be used in some cases in the next step. In most implementation variants, the coating material 1502 will be a non-electrically-conductive type of material and, more particularly, one of the materials that were suitable for use as the planarizing medium 1102. Advantageously, in some cases, the coating material 1502 can also, or alternatively, provide structural support so that the wafer-like assembly created by the process described herein, can be handled in a wafer-like way after the stable base 600 has been removed.
Next, the stable base 600 is removed from the complex assembly 1406. Depending upon the particular material used as the stable base 600, removal can occur through any of a number of processes, the only constraint being that the process be suitable to achieve the desired removal and expose the stable base 600 side of the pads 902. Depending upon the particular implementation, the removal can be effected by grinding, lapping and/or etching down to the coating 702 if it is an etch stop layer. If the coating 702 is a sacrificial layer, that layer can be sacrificed by the appropriate process (e.g. heating, etching, chemically reacting, exposing to specific wavelength(s) of light, for example ultra-violet or infra-red, etc.) thereby allowing the complex assembly 1406 to "float away" from the stable base 600, thereby eliminating the need to remove the stable base 600 in a destructive manner. Thus, for some variants where the sacrificial layer approach is used, the stable base 600 can become reusable, further reducing costs.
Advantageously, if an etch is used and the support coating 702, planarizing medium 1102 and coating material 1502 are resistant to that etch process, then the chips in the complex assembly 1406 would be completely protected from the etch, so an aggressive process like a wet etch could be used in a batch process to remove the stable base 600 without concern.
Following removal of the stable base 600, the remaining complex assembly 1406 is, if the support coating 702, planarizing medium 1102 and coating material 1502 are polymer(s), compliant and resistant to cracking.
At this point, if, as described in conjunction with
Alternatively, if the now-exposed side of the pad 902 will be used with a conductive bonding material 1702, like a solder bump or gold ball, for example, the conductive bonding material 1702 can be added at this point. Advantageously, it should be noted that, because the conductive bonding material 1702 is not attached to one of the fragile pieces of silicon there is no stress created on the chips or as would be on an interposer if one were used.
Finally, the complex assembly 1406 is diced into individual packaged units 1802. Here too, it should be noted that, even if the individual chips within the complex assembly 1406 were very thin, the risk of damaging them is minimal.
The second simplified example implementation family will now be described. Due to the fact that the initial steps are the same as described in connection with
Picking up following completion of the steps resulting in
At this point, as with
At this point the second chip 2002 is aligned with and attached to the respective connection points of the assembly 1908. As noted above, depending upon the particular implementation variant, this may involve a conventional solder attachment, a tack & fuse approach, a post and penetration connection, covalent bonding, etc.
Note that, because the second chip 2002 is smaller in extent than the second chip 1402, the second chip 2002 does not connect to the peripheral contacts 1902, 1904, but rather only connects to the contacts 1906 within the extent of the second chip 2002. However, through use of routing layers, contacts at the periphery can be routed to be within the extent of the second chip 2002 so that, in effect, the routing can move a contact at the periphery to a different and more centralized location.
Thereafter the processing proceeds as described in connection with
From the above it should now be apparent that some of the above steps can be iteratively employed in the same approach to add a third or additional chips.
Finally for these two families, it should be evident that variants involving two chips of the same size can be processed in the same manner as described above in connection with either the first or second family of implementations.
Based upon the above, it should advantageously further be appreciated that the above approach is not incompatible with aspects of the wirebond or interposer approaches, should there be a need or desire to employ those as well.
It should thus be understood that this description (including the figures) is only representative of some illustrative embodiments. For the convenience of the reader, the above description has focused on a representative sample of all possible embodiments, a sample that teaches the principles of the invention. The description has not attempted to exhaustively enumerate all possible variations. That alternate embodiments may not have been presented for a specific portion of the invention, or that further undescribed alternate embodiments may be available for a portion, is not to be considered a disclaimer of those alternate embodiments. One of ordinary skill will appreciate that many of those undescribed embodiments incorporate the same principles of the invention and others are equivalent.
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OnThe 39th running of the Gisborough Moors now
back in its traditional April slot, nicely book ended
the 2015/16 Esk Valley/Northern Runner winter
series with the 38th version opening the winter
series back in October. The change around to
accommodate a practice running of the Three Tops
English championship event.
Had the event been held 24 hours previously then
competitors may have been faced with the snow
that blanketed the high parts of the North Yorkshire
moors, instead the skies were clear, the sun shone, an ideal day for fell running, though there
was a chill breeze and the course heavy in parts. The conditions were a reminder of why the
mandatory kit must be carried, apparently good conditions are deceptive, becoming very
testing for an injured or worse immobile runner.
With much still to be decided in the winter series age categories a good field of 146 started the
race. Harry Holmes, York Knavesmire maintained his recent good form to claim the race
victory and seal overall series victory, Paul Butler of Loftus came in second close enough to
ensure Harry knew he was in a race and Lee Bennett now of NFR was third.
In the ladies race, Scout Adkin also of York Knavesmire came very close to what looked like
an unlikely race record in the conditions, though had to settle for the ladies race victory and a
position good enough for eighth overall, Catherine Davis of NFR was second and in her first
fell race Natalie Curgenven, individual placed third. Ella Towers, individual in fourth, continued
her consistent form to earn the Winter Series title.
Knavesmire's mens packed well for team victory, again pipping Esk Valley to the series title. In
the ladies team event NYMAC ladies won out and eased to the series victory.
"Step by Step to Success"
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Slipstreaming is vitally important at the track - up to seven tenths a lap for WTCC cars - and the field drove aggressively in order to make best use of that fact.
It is Muller's third pole position of the season and the second in a row after Budapest - but the stewards might have something more to say on the outcome.
Qualifying 1
Tom Chilton posted the fastest lap of the session in the early stages, completing a lap of 1:26.670 then improving to 1:26.570, which was not to be beaten. Alex MacDowall ranked second and Yvan Muller climbed to third just before the end, demoting Michel Nykjær to fourth.
The final minutes were full of drama, with a bunch of drivers seemingly more interested in bothering each other than in improving their positions. Pepe Oriola hit Charles Ng at Turn 9; James Thompson outbraked himself at Turn 1; Hugo Valente and Tom Coronel made contact to avoid Gabriele Tarquini who was driving at a pedestrian's pace; Marc Basseng crashed at the exit of the last bend just before being given the chequered flag.
As a consequence, only Tarquini was able to improve and make the cut for Q2 in 11th position, knocking Mehdi Bennani out of the top 12.
The following drivers went through to Q2: Chilton, MacDowall, Muller, Nykjær, Monteiro, Michelisz, Nash, Huff, Coronel, Oriola, Tarquini and D'Aste.
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The matter was settled on the first timed lap, when Muller set pole position at 1:25.756, beating Chilton by two tenths.
Huff clocked the third fastest lap, seven tenths from the pole, and relegated MacDowall to fourth and best of the Yokohama Trophy. Nykjær moved up to fifth, demoting Tarquini to sixth, while Coronel was still sitting in the pits.
All cars left the pitlane for the second attempt with less than two minutes to go. They were driving at a slow pace and nobody seemed willing to open hostilities.
Eventually time ran out before they completed a lap, no one improved and Coronel remained without a qualifying lap - then crashed out on the cool-down lap.
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Coolpix L610 batteries
I am thinking of buying an L610, as a first-time Nikon user.
The L610 Reference Manual (as with other L-series) mentions alkaline, lithium and the Nikon EN-MH2 rechargeable batteries. There is NO mention about using other types of NiMH rechargeables (eg Energizer or Eneloop etc).
Is this just an effort by Nikon to sell their much more expensive NiMH batteries (when compared with other brands), or is there in fact a problem with using other brands in L-series cameras?
#1. "RE: Coolpix L610 batteries" | In response to Reply # 0cliddell Nikonian since 10th Oct 2006Wed 03-Apr-13 05:31 AM
Hi nemo,
In my opinion, yes I think it is a marketing effort. However, I should mention that I use only Nikon brand batteries in my cameras that take non-standard batteries as they seem to hold their charge a bit better and have a longer life than 3rd party copies.
This may well be the case with the EN-MH2 but I just use ordinary NiMH batteries in my wife's L series camera with no problems - just remember to "Select" the type of battery you use (see menus).
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#2. "RE: Coolpix L610 batteries" | In response to Reply # 1nemo2000 Registered since 02nd Apr 2013Wed 03-Apr-13 04:49 PM
Not yet having a camera, I'm only going by what the Ref manual says, but..... the 'battery type' menu option refers to Alkaline, Lithium and 'Coolpix NiMH'. I am assuming therefore that choosing the last of those will work regardless of the actually brand of NiMH battery.
I note that the Specifications in the Ref manual list 120 shots for alkaline batteries. This seems a little on the low side to me, when compared to (say) the L28 quoted at 280 shots?? Does the method of calculating such figures take account of motoring the lens in/out if the camera is turned off/on (say) every 2 or 3 shots?
#3. "RE: Coolpix L610 batteries" | In response to Reply # 2Covey22 Charter MemberThu 11-Apr-13 02:30 PM
Battery life is usually estimated on nominal use - that is, keeping the camera on but relying upon internal settings to put certain battery-consuming functions to sleep during idle time - such as metering, rear LCD displays, control panel displays, etc.


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Is over 2 million bucks toothless?
AUTHOR: Robert - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, February 08, 2012POSTED: Wednesday, February 08, 2012
After reading your ROR rebuttal about the FTC going after AA, I'm rather surprised that you are continuing with your so called "not much gonna happen with the FTC complaints" mantra (face it-you are a legend on ROR.) I actually READ the court documents about the AA case and the majority of the funds are going to be paid out to consumers who were shafted by those bozos.
I'm just surprised. I guess I expected your attitude had changed towards the FTC and FDCPA compliance issues because you're the person who educated me about the Asset Acceptance case.
IMO folks should do BOTH, file their own lawsuit in district court AND make a formal complaint to the FTC. This way, the consumer gets a payday for the violations, and if the FTC receives enough complaints then the FTC (government) goes after the scumbags as well. Additionally, consumers (at least in NY) should make a formal complaint with the State attorney general office as the AG will go after these scumbags as well! There are several cases where the NYS AG has shut down FDCPA violators and recouped funds to compensate victims.
This 3 pronged pitchfork approach is what I recommend. The scum loose in DC for the FDCPA violations and the consumer gets some cash. The scum lose more when they have to defend a case in District court or State court.
Finally, the last thing I recommend to folks is to write to their government representatives to have the FDCPA UPDATED to reflect today's economic situation. The FDCPA was written in 1977 and went into effect in 1978-the penalties, by today's dollars, are a pittance. The FDCPA should be amended to allow for statutory damages up to $5000 (minimum level although I prefer a $10,000 statutory limit) to be an effective deterrent to debt collectors who consider violating the act.
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Ted, the FTC is a "toothless tiger"
AUTHOR: Southern Chemical and Equipment LLC - (USA)
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, February 08, 2012POSTED: Wednesday, February 08, 2012
The reason debt collectors pull the crap that they do, is they know there is absolutely no compliance enforcement of the FCRA, or the FDCPA, or any FTC regulation for that matter.
The FTC is a "toothless tiger".
You can file all of the FTC complaints you want, but it would be a very rare occurence if a real person ever saw any complaint sent to the FTC.
When you file a complaint with the FTC, it simply gets filed in a database for POSSIBLE future action in support of a State AG, etc. but really does nothing for you except the generation of a form letter that explains your rights and informs you that you must sue the offender at your own time and expense as there is no one at the FTC to actually represent you.
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You must actually sue a third party debt collector yourself if you want justice.
No one else will do anything at all for you.
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When I went last week at 12 weeks for my first tri screen for downs and etc. I had no issues with the screen but they were very concerned about my placenta. The specialists were saying my placenta position was very very low, and that when I go to my regular OB for my 14 week appointment, they will need to check it out, then I will alsoĀhave to come back at 18 weeks to the specialist, and if the placenta is not moved, they will be putting me on bed rest. Anyone else have this going on????


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SANTIAGO, Dominican Republic (AP) -- Rafael Furcal denies he reneged on a deal with the Atlanta Braves last week before agreeing to a contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
After his arrival in the Dominican Republic to play winter ball, the veteran shortstop told reporters "We never gave the nod to the Braves."
Braves president John Schuerholz and general manager Frank Wren were quoted in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution as saying Furcal's agent asked the Braves to send a signed letter of agreement, then reached a deal with the Dodgers.
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- The infamous Happily Ever After version of Shakespeare's King Lear by Nahum Tate. The 1681 rewrite (which Tate boasted "rectifies what was wanting in the Regularity and Probability of the Tale") ends with the good guys surviving, Lear regaining his throne, and Edgar and Cordelia marrying. It proved so popular with Restoration audiences (who hated Shakespeare's Kill 'em All Downer Ending—purely his own invention and diverging drastically from his source material, the Historia Regum Britanniae, in which the legendary king's story has a cheerful conclusion) that it completely eclipsed Shakespeare's King Lear for the next 150 years, enjoying hundreds of productions, while the original Lear languished in obscurity and went all but unperformed. In the 1830s reverent fans of the Bard began to restore Shakespeare's original ending to performances, and the Tate version gradually fell out of favor, increasingly derided by Victorian critics as sentimental and trite. Since the start of the twentieth century, the Tate play has only been revived a few times, and then only as a quaint historical curiosity. It's mostly remembered today as one of the earliest and oddest examples of Disneyfication.
- Vaudeville (a series of unrelated acts, such as musicians, dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians or acrobats), was one of the most popular types of entertainment in America for several decades between the 1880s and the 1930s. It waned due to the arrival of radio and the Rise of the Talkies, and is today remembered mainly for having been the breeding ground for many of the talents of The Golden Age of Hollywood.
- Same applies to its British cousin, the music hall, where performers typically mixed comedy and musical performances, along with dancers, trampoline acts and other performers. Rightly or wrongly, musical hall is often associated with lewd humor and broad patriotism (the phrase "jingo" originates from a Victorian-era ditty). Once England's predominant source of middlebrow entertainment, music hall's popularity waned in the 1920s and '30s with the rise of more sophisticated comedy and musical acts (not to mention film and television), though remnants lingered into the '60s. Its legacy is mixed, remembered either nostalgically for its influence on British culture, or as an anachronistic remnant of Britain's imperial past (as in John Osborne's The Entertainer).
- Minstrel Shows were some of the most popular forms of entertainment in the 19th and early 20th centuries, being viewed as good, clean, light comedy. They were also very culturally significant as one of the first uniquely American forms of artistic expression. As times changed, however, the nasty racial undertones that lay at the core of the genre fundamentally discredited it. Today, it is only used in period works as a way to highlight the Values Dissonance of the era. A notable turning point was in White Christmas, the 1954 remake of sorts of 1942's Holiday Inn. Like Holiday Inn, White Christmas had a minstrel-show number; unlike Holiday Inn, the performers wore tuxedoes, top hats, and gloves, but not black makeup.
- Blackface, within minstrel shows and for any other reason, is now extremely taboo in much of the Western world and is used only for historical reasons, irony, or to make a statement about racism. However, this is not the case for some countries that the trope spread to, where it's detached from race relations. One of the most notable examples is Japan, where many people don't understand why it's so offensive and it still has influence on popular culture, leading to many a Cross-Cultural Kerfluffle.
- Cyrano de Bergerac: In-Universe, this play shows us a French literary movement at The Cavalier Years that has become synonymous with Fan Dumb: les Précieuses, who loved and produced a extended literary work around one trope: Beauty Equals Goodness. Unfortunately, their taste was questionable, to say the least, and soon they found their work ridiculed and even themselves were parodied by Molière. The play lampshades it with Dramatic Irony at Act I Scene II, with a Long List of authors that were big at their time but now are completely forgotten. Obviously, this is Truth in Television.
- The "megamusical". In The '80s, there was a craze for European pop musicals heavy on Costume Porn, Scenery Porn, and Melodrama. Shows like Cats, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon were smash hits not just on the West End and Broadway but internationally, with touring companies everywhere one looked — to the amazement of critics, who generally regarded the shows as empty Spectacle. But at the turn of The '90s, in the ironic wake of Andrew Lloyd Webber's not-so-mega Aspects of Love's poor reception in New York City, the craze began to recede to Europe. At the Turn of the Millennium, attempts at exporting Tanz Der Vampire, Notre Dame de Paris, The Woman in White, and The Pirate Queen to North America proved failures (heavily retooled in the first case) as audiences turned to straight-up musical comedies (i.e. The Producers, The Book of Mormon) and jukebox musicals instead. Lloyd Webber's Phantom sequel Love Never Dies couldn't manage a Broadway production, and the stylistic throwback Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark was a notoriously Troubled Production that lost tens of millions of dollars despite performing for upwards of two years in New York.
Still, the megamusical's legacy endures. Successful successors to the style emerged in The '90s with shows that were spectacular but more fanciful and family-friendly — Disney stage musicals, Wicked, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, etc. And Les Miserables, Phantom, and Miss Saigon still have huge fanbases.
- While the concept of the classic Las Vegas showgirl, with her Showgirl Skirt and feathered headdress, remains iconic in the city and depictions of it in pop culture, the actual Vegas showgirl revue is dead. Inspired by European cabaret revues, lavishly-designed shows like Folies Bergere and Lido de Paris ran for decades starting in The Fifties, alternating parades of scantily clad beauties with variety acts. Successors like Splash and Enter the Night simply updated the aesthetics to what was then The Present Day — Goddess, the fictional production in the movie Showgirls, is inspired by those shows.
The format was hit by two different kinds of competition from The '80s onwards. First, strip clubs lured away guys who came to showgirl revues strictly for the babes. Second, audiences looking for spectacle were captivated by other genres. Stage magicians Siegfried & Roy rose from the ranks of revues to headline Beyond Belief in 1981, and their 1989 self-titled show at the Mirage Hotel and Casino was the show to see in Vegas up until Roy's Career-Ending Injury in 2003. When sister hotel/casino Treasure Island unveiled Cirque du Soleil's Mystère, a show which had spectacle, daring feats, and strong artistic vision (mind-screwy though it was) and characterizations tying it all together in 1993, revues were doomed. As additional Cirque shows and other performance art productions moved into town at the Turn of the Millennium, the "classic Vegas revue" format was recognized as dated, unsexy, and unintentionally campy. Only Jubilee!, which opened in 1981, made it into The New Tens, scraping by on nostalgia and foreign tourists, and in the wake of a disastrously-received We're Still Relevant, Dammit retool shut down in 2016.
- Touring ice skating revues. Dating back to the 1930s, such shows as Holiday on Ice, Ice Follies and Ice Capades featured glitteringly-costumed ice dancers, stunt skaters, comedy/novelty acts, Olympic champions, and costumed characters from kid-friendly franchises. With a new "edition" each year, they became as much of a family entertainment tradition as touring circuses, but by the end of The '70s Holiday on Ice absorbed Ice Follies, and stopped touring the U.S. by the mid-'80s (it still exists in Europe to this day). Ice Capades hung on into The '90s but fell apart by decade's end, owing to the rise of the extra-kid-friendly rival franchise Disney On Ice and straightforward superstar showcases like Stars on Ice that appealed to serious skating fans — and the skaters themselves. Nowadays the revues are best-known for serving as the real-life basis for the On Ice trope.
- Circus and Stage Magician acts involving exotic wild animals (as opposed to domesticated ones: ducks, dogs, cats, horses, camels, etc.) started dying out in The '90s as complaints from animal rights activists mounted and all-human circuses such as Cirque du Soleil flourished. The finishing blow came in 2003, when magician Roy Horn, one half of Siegfried & Roy, was mauled onstage by a white tiger. The best-known "traditional" circus, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey, not only announced it would retire elephants from their shows by 2018 but made good on their promise two years early, leaving tigers as the only wild animals there.


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The number of complaing witnesses who are now reporting on Eric Symons and Steve Leflar include musicians owed tens of thousands of dollars, clients from Texas to New York who have fallen victim to the scam, and even a family who appears to be the target of Steve Lerlar's demented rants.
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Wearing red can make you appear angry and dominant
Men who wear red clothes send out a signal that they are angry and aggressive, in much the same way as if their face had reddened, suggests research published today by Durham University in England.
The University of Durham traces its roots some 600 years. The University of Durham received its Royal Charter in 1832. The University of Durham is comprised of the main departments and 16 colleges. The flagship campus is located in Durham, England and the other campus is in Stockton-On-Tees. The University of Durham is noted for its engineering, technology and design educations and an exemplary medical school The University of Durham consistently acquires grants and funding for research. Research digests are available on-line.
Men who wear red clothes send out a signal that they are angry and aggressive, in much the same way as if their face had reddened, suggests research published today by Durham University in England.
Sad music can provide enjoyment, comfort or pain to different people, according to new research looking at the effects of melancholy songs on the emotions.
The harmful effects of smoking during pregnancy may be reflected in the facial movements of mothers' unborn babies, new research has suggested.
Voices in people's heads are far more varied and complex than previously thought, according to new research by Durham and Stanford universities, published in The Lancet Psychiatry today.
There is no need to spray insecticide on walls for malaria control when people sleep under treated bed nets, according to new research.
Fetuses are more likely to show left-handed movements in the womb when their mothers are stressed, according to new research.
Human intelligence cannot be explained by the size of the brain's frontal lobes, say researchers.
Babies learn how to anticipate touch while in the womb, according to new research by Durham and Lancaster universities.
(Medical Xpress)—Unborn babies 'practise' facial expressions of pain in the womb, according to a study published today.
British women's obsession for thin bodies could potentially be changed if advertising showed more plus size models, suggests a preliminary study published today.