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Unless you have developed a strong taste for shirts with buttons made of gold, a leather jacket is most probably the biggest investment in your wardrobe that you'll ever make. Why i called it an investment? well… if you buy a leather jacket that's made with the pure top grain leather, chances are that your future grandchildren might one day end up wearing it. That's true, as leather is undoubtedly an immortal material and leather jackets; they're never going out of mainstream clothing, ever.
Leather Jackets are famous for their capability for transforming a layman into a badass tough shot instantly. But then again it's not some sort of a universal truth as it can might as well be the opposite. A leather jacket that doesn't fit you good will definitely make you look ridiculous regardless of it's price tag. The secret lies in the choice and the way one wears a leather jacket.
Choosing the best leather jacket, which is both a smart investment and fits you perfectly, is an art. We're here to help you master the art. The first suggestion that we'd like to give you is; don't go for ready-made jackets as they're not exclusively made for you rather, they're made while keeping in focus profit margins. So the first step in choosing the right leather is to go for a bespoke, custom made leather jacket. Now you must be thinking that handmade, tailor stitched leather jackets will probably make you go homeless. That's just a perception and a wrong one, as all the jackets at our store The Leather Jacket Shop are hand stitched, exclusively made for you and the prices are highly competitive. You can get yourself a world class, custom stitched leather jacket, which is made with the finest quality, top grain leather by craftsmen with experience of generations, for under $400.
Okay so next step is to choose the color of the jacket, wisely. How often are you going to wear it? What is the average weather? Will you be getting in contact with a lot of oil, grease or dust? ask yourself such questions before you make a choice and you'll end up getting yourself a jacket that's perfectly suitable for your conditions. Getting back to color choice of the jacket - you're going to have to consider your own skin color, the color of your hair and eyes while deciding the color for your jacket.
In a recent blog that i wrote about brown leather jackets my emphasis was more towards the dark brown hues. For now I am thinking to highlight the other side of the brown, which is tan. Tan leather jackets are definitely a league of their own. Tan is one of the complex most colors, at least to me it is. What made me say that? well.... Tan is among those colors which can either look extremely good or extremely bad, there are no middle grounds when it comes to Tan. So if you're willing to take the risk here is a detailed collection of Tan Leather Jackets for men & women.

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Within this Market Hero review, I will reveal some email marketing secrets that are so good, you are going to want to crawl buck-naked across broken glass just to find them. Unbounce Mailchimp Autoresponder
But first, I want to say"thank you" into Alex Becker, the founder of Market Hero.
I started watching Alex Becker's YouTube movies back in 2016. He taught me the best way to conduct a Shopify shop, and that a bunch of things regarding entrepreneurship marketing.
It was right around that time that Alex published his book, The 10 Pillars of Wealth: Mind-Sets of The World's Richest People. I got that book as soon as I watched it and I jumped to highlight it and then mark it up. I could move re-read it as soon as I finish this.
Actually, Market Hero is not even his only multi-million dollar business. The SEO software development firm Source Wave was also founded by him and he is running a nutritional supplement brandnew. He has also got a few classes out there from the market teaching individuals market more and to increase their email lists.
The dude is a freaking machine. My hat's off to you, Alex.
Sign up for the free trial : Market Hero
What Is Market Hero?
Anyhow, Market Hero is one of the best email Because it concentrates on in-depth sales metrics autoresponders on the market nowadays and it's so much better than its competitors.
I've used a lot of email autoresponder software over time, including MadMimi and Drip. Drip has been my favorite up until I started using Market Hero. Drip allows you label your subscribers, like track your rates and to perform lots of cool things.
But if you are anything like me, as you take care of open rates and click-through prices, the thing that matters is SALES. Earnings are the lifeblood of your business and sales is what puts cold, hard cash in your pocket. Market Hero makes it possible to track sales, plain and simple.
Market Hero Service
While I didn't have to use Market Hero support that They got back to me, much since everything is fairly self-explanatory, the couple times that I did reach them out. Unbounce Mailchimp Autoresponder
The support is not amazing to the point where they provide you with detailed step-by-step videos and also hold your hand through each step along the way, but it isn't terrible. If you want that degree of hand-holding and coddling, perhaps Market Hero isn't for you.
Market Hero has English-speaking support staff available to answer your questions through live chat at no cost. You do not have to be part of any plan or package that is updated to possess priority support, such as some firms do. You simply log in and begin chatting.
Could Market Hero Truly 4X Your Enterprise?
On Market Hero's homepage You'll see says,"4X Your Email Business With Unequaled Delivery and Revenue Metrics". This immediately set off my B.S. detector because I know how hard it's to 4X an email sequence, particularly if you're any good at everything you're doing.
But Market Hero provides a free trial, and so I figured I'd register and see if it had been any good. I figured I only need a little increase in sales for Market Hero to cover itself and if it did 4X my business, I'd be flying high.
Now, in the interest of full disclosure I really do want to tell you that Market Hero has NOT increased my sales 4X (yet), but I am gaining more sales than before and Market Hero IS paying for itself. Easily, in fact. I was doing well and had my own email game tight, so I understood a 4X increase could be tough.
But in case you are new to email marketing or in case you've got a bigger online business, Market Hero could very likely 4X your earnings. Here is the way:
It monitors your customers' lifetime value.
I know I already mentioned this, but the secret to Market Hero is how it retains your customers' lifetime value (LTV) in front of you constantly and it changes as you send emails out and tweak your own autoresponder. Once you understand your customer worth, you can literally"buy" clients. What Market Hero does is each conversion for every single lead on your list and track every sale. It then averages everything together and gives you.
If you're to do this manually, you'd most likely have to experience different softwares, various spreadsheets, and go back through your previous earnings. You may need to crunch on a lot of amounts that are different which you probably don't have anymore. Market Hero simplifies this issue better than anyone else on the industry.
You can segment using tags.
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I know that you're probably thinking,"Tags? Okay… big thing." But the way that Market Hero lets you use tags is much better. This is why…
Let's say that I'm running two different campaigns for the same audience. Anyone who opts-in into the very first campaign will be tagged as"A" and anyone who opts-in into the second campaign will be labeled as"B".
I will enter Market Hero and filter out all the"B" opt-ins and see how much they are worth in contrast to"A" opt-ins. If I find out that the"B" opt-ins are making more money, I know that I must be pouring more advertising dollars into advertising the"B" opt-in. Unbounce Mailchimp Autoresponder
If you do so again and again, you can build a powerful business because you'll always be split-testing to determine which kinds of people are worth more to your enterprise.
And getting this up and running will be super-easy too. All you have to do is choose the pixel that Market Hero gives you and put it in the regions which you would like to track. From that point, Market Hero will keep tabs on all your clients, sales, conversions, etc. to give you the data which you need to cultivate your business.
You can incorporate with a lot of different services.
Inside Market Hero, there is a button called"integrations" that – you guessed it helps you incorporate with matters like ClickFunnels, SamCart, Shopify, Leadpages, Zapier, and more.
I believe that this is a wise move by Alex Becker because it indicates he knows his market. He understands that the people that are serious about making money online are probably using things like this and he would like to make sure that his software integrates seamlessly.
My only complaint is that lots of the applications I use, such as OptinMonster and Thrive Themes hasn't been placed in the"integrations" tab. That doesn't mean that you CAN'T integrate them, because you can (you use Zapier to make them speak to each other) but it's not quite as simple as something like ClickFunnels or even Shopify.
Speaking of Shopify…
How Is This Different From Autoresponders?
The best method for me is of The other email autoresponders were created for email marketers. I have nothing against marketers that are email and that I send mails to my listing on a daily basis, however, their thinking has its own limits. Market Hero was constructed by means of a business owner FOR business owners.
Market Hero is different since it provides you with a lot of different ways that will help you track ROI and generate more profit from your emails.
For example, among the coolest features is the fact that it shows you just how much each lead is worth. Imagine logging in to your email autoresponder and viewing that every lead is worth $6.87 for you. Meaning that you can go out and"buy" email addresses to create money. What you do is you purchase paid visitors from Google, Facebook, etc. and send that traffic into a opt-in page. You get a lucrative business, if you can get a prosperous than it is worth. As possible wash and repeat as many times.
It also lets you segment your list in much deeper ways than other autoresponder services on the market. I used Drip and they have some good segmentation tools, largely from the ability to use tags to your leads like I said, but it's small potatoes in comparison Market Hero. I don't need to give away any of Market Hero's proprietary info, but let's just say that you will be impressed by the segmentation ability. Unbounce Mailchimp Autoresponder
Is Market Hero a Scam?
From what I've seen, absolutely not. I think that At this time, by being a scam artist, Alex Becker has far too much to lose. Businesses's running and he's smart enough to understand that when his reputation was tarnished by him, he would be screwed.
From what I have seen, people have complained about his refund policy. However, these individuals are usually the ones who have utilized Market Hero for weeks and try to get all their money back. These are the scammers. You're scum, if you are not willing to cover for a service which may enhance your business and your life. Plain and simple.
Market Hero's free trial offer is pretty clear-cut. It says that in case you cancel within 14 days anything won't be charged.
Rest assured, gentle reader. Market Hero is legit.
If You've Shopify (Or Any Online Business…)
When I began writing this Market Hero review, I Was worried it was going to lean a bit too much. That's why I want to stress that Market Hero will help you in ANY business, not just Shopify.
On his YouTube channel, Alex has published a great deal of different videos about Shopify. You find he provides a lot of information on how to earn money with Shopify, When you get beyond the clickbait-style titles. Part of the reason that he does this is because he needs to get folks to test out Market Hero because he understands it can help them with their Shopify company.
By way of instance, Market Hero lets you create abandoned cart strings. Whenever someone begins the checkout process in Shopify (by entering their email) but doesn't complete it, that has monitored in Market Hero. From there, you can follow up with that individual and get them back to finish their purchase.
The ability to make those abandoned cart sequences is just one of the ways which you can make Market Hero literally pay for itself. Let us do some math…
based on the analysis that you read, the average cart abandonment rate for an internet shop is usually somewhere in the neighborhood of 70-80 percent. Are there individuals with abandonment rates? Sure, but this is the average.
Imagine you have 100 people go through your checkout process and 80 of these individuals abandon your cart. That means you have 20 clients and 80 non-customers. Imagine if a cart retrieval sequence only got a 10 percent of the non-customers to buy?
That will get you an extra 8 clients. Which means that you would literally increase your earnings 40%! (Because 8 extra sales is 40 percent of the 20 earnings you had.)
If you boosted your sales 40%, would that justify the investment in Market Hero? But that's not all…
Market Hero also lets you make upsell sequences. Can you create such strings with additional autoresponder softwares? Yes, you can. It's nowhere near as fluid and it doesn't provide you that crucial lifetime customer value, although I am completely transparent about that. Unbounce Mailchimp Autoresponder
The reason Market Hero is so strong is because you can apply tags and track LTV. When you link Market Hero to Shopify, it begins monitoring. Purchase tags are applied that show you that purchased which products.
Imagine that you have a Shopify store selling print-on-demand dog shirts. If a person purchased a pug shirt, it would be silly to try and market Golden Retriever things to that individual, right? But that's because they do not have the information in front of them what a lot of online entrepreneurs are doing. Because Market Hero enables you to determine exactly what the individual bought, you can focus on selling just stuff.
You are able to totally geek out with this stuff. You can get as detailed as intricate as you like. In my own business, I use it to segment the subjects that advisors want to know more about. Because I sell products that help advisors GET customers and help them KEEP customers, if someone is interested in KEEPING clients, since they'd be immaterial, I do not want to bombard them with emails about GETTING clients. That person would unsubscribe.
Oh, and in case you're interested, here is a movie of Alex Becker showing you how you can raise your own Shopify sales 300% with Market Hero. Just keep in mind the Market Hero can be used with ANY business, not Shopify.
Market Hero is an awesome email program because It's built for those who are currently trying to make money online. If you haven't done So go over there, import your list and take advantage of this complimentary trial.
You can't afford not to know your numbers for another month. That's like Driving blind. If you don't know your numbers, you are leaving a tremendous Amount of money on the table. Imagine how much more money you could make if you Knew exactly what every lead was worth. How would your decisions alter? How would your life change? Unbounce Mailchimp Autoresponder
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Article 2019-10-29
Large scale lawsuits present new challenge for insurers
In recent years, the US has seen a trend in large-scale litigation pushed forward by the plaintiffs' bar in the form of class actions, which are often consolidated in state courts or take the form of multi-district litigation (MDL) in the federal court system.
Article 2019-10-04
Personal injury market insights – October 2019
A summary of key developments including an update on recent changes to civil justice reforms, a consultation on financial redress for in-care victims and survivors in Scotland and an update on the Law Commissions consultation on automated vehicles.
Article 2019-10-03
Personal Injury Brief: latest decisions October 2019
A roundup of recent court decisions raising issues in relation to incidents that really are nobody's fault, an application to withdraw an admission of liability, whether a tour operator is liable for the criminal acts of hotel employees, the impact of decisions in criminal proceedings and when is a path a highway.
News 2019-09-04
Kennedys to grow UK public liability practice
We are to strengthen our public liability practice with the recruitment of Kathryn Oldfield as a partner.
Article 2019-06-19
Personal Injury Brief: latest decisions June 2019
A roundup of recent court decisions raising issues in relation to the duty of care owed by local authorities to protect individuals from third parties, the MIB's liability with accidents occurring on private land, the test to avoid fixed costs, a limit on the widening duty of vicarious liability and a cost order outside a judge's discretion.
Case review 2019-06-06
The Supreme Court upholds the strike out of claims seeking to impose a duty of care on a local authority arising out of its functions under the Children Act 1989
In a welcomed decision, the Supreme Court has delivered its long-awaited judgment clarifying the scope of duties owed by local authorities. The court confirmed there is no assumption of responsibility arising out of the mere operation of social services functions, and except in defined exceptional categories, there is no duty of care to protect individuals from harm caused by third parties.
Article 2019-03-12
Personal Injury Brief: latest decisions March 2019
A roundup of recent court decisions raising issues in relation to childhood abuse trials, unidentified drivers, an EL claim following a terrorist attack, the ability to adduce evidence in relation to life expectancy and concerns over the security of periodical payments against the backdrop of Brexit.
Article 2018-11-19
Personal Injury Brief latest decisions – November 2018
A roundup of recent court decisions raising issues in relation to vicarious liability, a stay in proceedings, litigant in person sanctions, and some limitation decisions.
News 2018-03-22
Still a lot to play for on Civil Liability Bill, says Kennedys
The Civil Liability Bill is a big stride in the right direction but there remains a lot to play for on the detail to ensure it achieves its aim, we have warned
News 2018-03-19
Kennedys launches new edition of claims handling guide book
We are thrilled to announce that we have published a significantly updated edition of our guide to claims handling, which helps empower insurers, third party administrators, corporates and their claims teams to become less reliant on their lawyers.


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- I quit being somebody's lab-rat, and being at the whims of the team of medical "professionals" I have been given to. I will do something, or not do something, as I see fit, even if it makes absolutely no sense to anyone with an MD behind their name. My body, my mind, my choice.
- I quit on my dreams. Holding out hope for "a better day" is only stressing me out. I've been off work for four years as of my upcoming birthday, and the more I think about that, the more I want to fucking end it already.
- I quit focusing on the future. I'm going to find peace in the moment instead. Maybe there isn't peace to be had, but that's nothing clonazepam won't fix.
- I quit giving a shit what other people think of my illness. It is what it is, people. If you know me, you know I am a crazy type A perfectionist. If you think I chose to be mentally ill because I'm "lazy" or can't pull myself out of it because I'm not trying hard enough, it says everything about you, and very little about me.
- I quit caring what my "best" is. My best might be perfecting my ass-dent in the couch for the next 40 years.
- I quit feeling guilty for ANY REASON. Including, but not limited, to the following: not returning a phone call, not calling someone on their birthday because I feel too shitty, not attending someone's baptism because I can't be in crowds, etc. I'm hard enough on myself without help from stupid social expectations.
- I quit attaching my self worth to what I "used to be" and what I used to be able to accomplish. That was then (and a very dishonest then I might add), and this is now. Now is nothing like then.
- I quit worrying about what some third-party thinks or decides about my illness. It does NOT equal truth. Third-parties cannot see me in my day-to-day things, and therefore, can't comment accurately.
- I quit doing anything that does not feed my soul. Including, but not limited to: attending Christmas ANYTHING, family functions, visiting toxic family members, keeping toxic friends around, etc.
- I quit being around anyone that makes me feel lesser for any reason. I don't expect anyone to understand what's going on with me, but I do expect people to be understanding.
Thoughts from a Neo-Pagan Druid trying to make it in a swirling maelstrom of chocolate. I wish.
February 25, 2014
The "I Quit" Manifesto
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February 16, 2014
Don't Be Alarmed...
I'm merely using my current situation as inspiration for material.
I'm pretty fucking sad. LOL. Whatever. At least I get a poem out of it I guess.
Can anyone hear this?
I'm alone in the abyss
Comforted only by my own echo.
Hollow and sunken,
My head has been blown in,
Not sure how much lower I can go.
Becoming a quitter,
Who will be my pinch hitter?
I'm not sure I care anymore.
You've got to be loud,
When you're alone in the crowd,
Painfully slowly, falling to the floor.
Time has been frozen,
Where has my mind been?
Lines under my eyes belie my age.
Too delicate for this world...
My life not yet unfurled,
Will I ever have the wellness to turn the page?
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Nepal has been blessed by nature. It is so beautiful. Numbers prove that tourists love that about Nepal. The most places visited in Nepal by tourists are National Parks and Wildlife Reserves, followed by Pashupati Area and Lumbini (excluding Indian tourists for both of these religious sites).
Here are the most visited places by tourists in 2017.
|National Parks and Wildlife Reserve
|Pashupati Area (excluding Indian tourists)
|Lumbini (excluding Indian tourists)
|Manaslu Trekking
|Mustang Trekking
|Humla Trekking
|Lower Dolpa Trekking
|Kanchanjunga Trekking
|Upper Dolpa Trekking
Source: Ministry of Culture, Tourism & Civil Aviation (PDF)
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Ralf Schumacher and his wife Cora split. The former F1 driver, brother of seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher could only communicate through lawyers and his wife. The couple was married thirteen years.
According to various sources, there is likely to arrive between Ralf and Cora. Fighting a divorce There's plenty at stake: a large sum of money, three houses, and their 13-year-old son David. Schumacher would accept his partner have to block. Not that Cora hunger should die thereby. "At this time Ralf cares for her livelihood," says a friend of the family. "He pays her about € 10,000 per month."
The ability of Ralf Schumacher is estimated at around 100 million euros. The 39-year-old German in 2007 put an end to his F1 career. He drove 180 GPs and posted six wins.


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You might want to avoid driving through Winterbourne in the evening for the next week.
From 31st August - 7th September, road resurfacing will take place in Flaxpits Lane, Dragon Road and Beacon Lane. The work will be done between roughly 8pm and 6am. From 31st to 2nd, Flaxpits Lane and Dragon Road will be closed to through traffic overnight with diversions in place. When the work moves to Beacon Lane there will be temporary traffic lights. All times and dates are subject to change due to bad weather or other problems.


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This ultra spacious, three bedrooms luxury apartment is designed to conveniently accommodate 10 persons. The 80 square meters apartment is located on the 4th floor of a building which has an elevator on the Magdalen Street in Waterloo District.
Guests can enjoy a number of amenities such as iron and ironing board, hair dryer, bed linens and towels, washing machine, DVD and TV. The apartment has central heating arrangement. Free and unlimited access to the internet is also available.
The spacious living room has two double sofa beds, cupboards, dining table and chairs and flat screen TV. There are three bedrooms with similar furniture and furnishings such as bed linens, towels, double bed, night table, wardrobe with lots of storage space and reading lamp. The master bedroom has an en suite shower.
The modern and fully functional kitchen has a full range of appliances and accessories to make cooking easy and quick. The kitchen is equipped with cutlery, cookware, washing machine, dishwasher, kettle, oven, microwave, toaster, fridge/freezer, coffee maker and more.
The bathroom is fully tiled and has a shower, toilet, bath tub, washbasin, drying rack, heated towel bar and mirror. The separate WC has a washbasin and mirror besides a toilet. Towels and soap are provided in the bathroom.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Pilots of a Northwest flight to Minneapolis that overshot its destination by about 150 miles said they missed calls from the ground to descend because they were distracted, raising questions Friday over how much of a role fatigue played in the incident.
The Federal Aviation Administration is rewriting its rules that govern flight time for pilots and their required rest periods in order to reduce the chances of fatigue. It will be the first update to the rules in decades and will utilize research that wasn't available before.
For example, scientists have looked into the role of circadian rhythms, and the effects of flying one long international flight versus six or seven short hops in an eight-hour period. They have also looked into the effect of night flying compared to day flying, or flying from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. versus flying 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
A smarter policy could help avoid the mistakes like the one at Northwest. Fatigue plays a prominent role in many aircraft accidents, usually resulting in distraction and pilot error.
The February crash of Continental Airlines CAL, -2.28% flight 3407 was blamed in part on pilot error, but fatigue likely played a role. Both pilots reportedly spent the prior night and day in Newark airport's crew room, rather than in a hotel.
Details of the FAA overhaul aren't available, but it's a major priority of the agency's new administrator, Randy Babbitt.
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Industry experts said it was extremely rare for pilots to miss a runway. The Northwest pilots were flying 147 people from San Diego when they flew past the Minneapolis airport on Wednesday nigh at about 8 p.m. Central.
The last time such an incident occurred was in 2008 when pilots of a Go airlines flight overshot a runway in Hawaii because they had fallen asleep.
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Earlier reports had said the Northwest crew had also fallen asleep at the stick, but the pilots denied that in an interview with the FBI, saying they were in a "heated discussion" over airline policy and distracted, missing radio calls from ground controllers to begin their descent.
The National Transportation Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are investigating the incident.
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Method for applying an insert or tape to chucks or wafer carriers used for grinding, polishing, or planarizing wafers
A tool and method for applying an insert to the face of a chuck so that holes in the insert register with holes in the chuck, includes a removable vacuum chamber that is brought into sealing engagement with the chuck and that is indexed with respect to the chuck by means of locating pins. The removable vacuum chamber includes a stamp on which the insert is mounted and to which the insert is indexed by locating pins. The stamp is advanced until an adhesive surface of the insert contacts the face of the chuck. Thereafter, the vacuum is relieved and the vacuum chamber is removed from the chuck. The tool insures that the holes in the insert register with those in the face of the chuck, and the absence of air within the vacuum chamber prevents air from being trapped between the insert and the face of the chuck.
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This application is a continuation-in-part of co-pending U.S. Application Ser. No. 09/675,747, filed Sep. 27, 2000.FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention is in the field of semiconductor manufacturing and it specifically relates to devices and methods for protecting the front side of device wafers during grinding, polishing, or chemical mechanical planarizing of very thin and frangible wafers.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
As described in U.S. Pat. No. 5,476,566 issued Dec. 19, 1995 to Cavasin, semiconductor wafers are typically sawn to approximately a 30 mil (0.76 millimeter) thickness as they are being manufactured. Thereafter, electronic circuitry is formed on one side of the wafer, called the front or active side. The front side of the wafer is planarized at various stages of electronic circuit formation, usually by a process known as chemical mechanical planarization (CMP). The wafers may then be thinned in subsequent processing by a backgrinding process wherein the backside, i.e., the side not covered by circuit components, is ground until the wafer is of a reduced thickness, typically on the order of 14 mils (0.36 millimeter).
Advances in device packaging have led to a demand for very thin wafers, on the order of 8 mil (0.20 millimeter) in thickness.
Unfortunately, the ongoing demand for thinner wafers has been accompanied by an ongoing demand for larger-diameter wafers. Wafers having a nominal diameter of 8.0 inches (actually 200 millimeters) are replacing wafers nominally 6.0 inches (actually 150 millimeters) in diameter. As a result of these converging trends, breakage of the wafers during processing has become a serious problem. If the breakage occurs after a number of process steps have been performed on the wafer, the result can be costly, thereby undermining the benefits gained by using larger diameter wafers. Thus, the forces applied to the wafers in the backgrinding process must be applied uniformly across the wafer to minimize breakage.
The problem is further aggravated by the delicate nature of the circuitry built up on the active front surface of the wafer, which ideally should not be scratched by sliding under the pressure applied by a chuck during the backgrinding process. To protect the wafer against this eventuality, it is known in the art (U.S. Pat. No. 5,476,566) to apply an adhesive tape to the front surface of the wafer to protect the circuitry while the backside of the wafer is being ground to achieve a reduced thickness.
In U.S. Pat. No. 5,964,646 issued Oct. 12, 1999 to Kassir et al. there is described the advantageous use of a resilient pad between the wafer and the chuck that supports the wafer during the grinding process. The use of the resilient pad is found to improve the flatness of the ground surface.
The present invention builds on this earlier work by providing a tool that facilitates installing a resilient tape on the chuck, rather than on the front side of the wafer. This permits the resilient tape to remain in place while a number of wafers are ground, polished, or planarized in succession, and this is much more efficient than the prior art technique of applying a resilient tape to each wafer.
Several circumstances complicate the apparently simple operation of applying an adhesive tape to the chuck that is used to hold the wafer during grinding, polishing, or planarization.
First, a widely used type of chuck is composed of an open cell porous ceramic, which allows the wafer to be held against the chuck by a vacuum applied through the ceramic material. As grinding progresses, grinding dust tends to be pulled into the pores of the ceramic chuck. These dust particles can come into contact with the device side of subsequent wafers, causing damage. Therefore, to protect wafers later processed on the same chuck, the dust is usually removed from the chuck after each wafer has been ground. The dust is typically removed by backflushing, whereby water is forced through the porous ceramic chuck in a direction opposite the vacuum airflow. Backflushing would tend to remove the tape from the chuck, but if the adhesion of the tape were great enough to withstand the water pressure, then backflushing could not take place.
A second problem encountered in applying a tape to the chuck is that the tape would tend to seal the ceramic material, defeating the vacuum that is relied on for holding the wafer to the chuck.
A third problem that the present inventors needed to solve was preventing air from becoming trapped between the tape and the chuck. Air bubbles trapped between the tape and the chuck caused the tape to be not completely flush against the chuck, and so the tape was not uniformly flat. Thus, the wafer resting on the tape would be more prone to defects after backgrinding, polishing, or CMP processes were performed.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The approach taken by the present inventors is to replace the porous ceramic chuck with a solid chuck having passages through it to permit the vacuum to be applied to the wafer. They then use a tape having apertures that register with the ends of the passages at the face of the chuck. Finally, to prevent air from being trapped between the tape and the solid chuck, the tape is applied to the chuck in a vacuum. To facilitate applying the tape to the chuck, the inventors developed a specialized tool that permits the operation to be accomplished swiftly and flawlessly.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, a removable vacuum chamber fits over and sealingly engages the chuck. The removable vacuum chamber is indexed to the chuck by means of locating pins. Within the removable vacuum chamber a stamp is provided that is movable in a direction perpendicular to the face of the chuck. The tape to be applied is indexed to the face of the stamp, and then the stamp is advanced toward the chuck to bring the tape into adhesive contact with the face of the chuck. The absence of air within the chamber eliminates the possibility of air being trapped between the tape and the face of the chuck. After the tape has been applied to the chuck, the stamp is retracted, the vacuum within the chamber is relieved, and the chamber is removed from the chuck, leaving the chuck ready to receive a disc.
The novel features which are believed to be characteristic of the invention, both as to its structure and method of operation, together with further objects and advantages thereof, will be better understood from the following description considered in connection with the accompanying drawings in which several embodiments of the invention are illustrated by way of example. It is to be expressly understood, however, that the drawings are for the purpose of illustration and description only and are not intended as a definition of the limits of the invention.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 shows a first preferred embodiment of the tool of the present invention.
FIG. 2 shows an alternative embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 3 illustrates a chuck provided with blind registration holes and a tool for applying tape to the chuck.
FIG. 4 illustrates a porous chuck and a tool for applying porous tape to the chuck.DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT
FIG. 1 shows a first preferred embodiment of the tool of the present invention. The chuck 12 is composed of a non-porous rigid material such as a non-porous ceramic. The chuck is provided with a number of passages, of which the passage 14 is typical, that extend completely through the chuck and that are manifest as holes in the face 16 of the chuck. When a wafer is being background, the front surface of the wafer faces the face 16 of the chuck. On the opposite side 18 of the chuck is a chamber 20 that can be selectively evacuated by connecting a vacuum pump to the port 22.
In accordance with the present invention, a tool is used for applying an insert 34 to the face 16 of the chuck. The insert 34 may comprise tape, a pad, a disk, or other device suitable for supporting a wafer on the chuck or wafer carrier. The insert may have an adhesive on one side, both sides, or neither side. The insert may be porous or may be provided with one or more holes so that a vacuum may communicate from the vacuum chamber 20, through the chuck, through the insert, and to the wafer.
In a preferred embodiment, the tool includes a removable housing 24 that, when placed over the chuck in sealing engagement forms a closed chamber 26 that is evacuated when a vacuum pump is connected to the port 22; air initially within the chamber 26 is drawn through the passages 14 into the chamber 20 and out through the port 22.
Within the chamber 26, a stamp 28 faces the face 16 of the chuck. The stamp 28 includes a planar face 30 that is maintained parallel to the planar face 16 of the chuck as the stamp is advanced toward the chuck. At least two locating pins, of which the pin 32 is typical, protrude from the face 30. These pins are used as follows.
At the beginning of the procedure, before the removable housing 24 is placed over the chuck 12, the tape 34 which is to be attached to the face 16 of the chuck is precut to the desired size and shape, including an array of holes that are spaced to register with the passages 14 of the chuck. The precut tape 34 is manually placed on the face 30 of the stamp, and the tape 34 is indexed to the stamp by shifting the tape until the locating pins 32 extend through certain holes in the tape. The side of the tape that faces the chuck bears an adhesive coating. Once this has been done, the removable housing 24 is placed over the chuck 12.
One or more locating pins, of which the pin 36 is typical, index the removable housing 24 with respect to the chuck 12. A vacuum is then applied at the port 22, and after the chambers 20 and 26 are sufficiently evacuated, the stamp 28 is advanced toward the chuck 12. As the face 30 closely approaches the face 16 of the chuck, the locating pins 32 advance into the passages 14, thereby improving the accuracy with which the holes in the tape 34 register with the passages 14 of the chuck.
The adhesive coating on the exposed side of the tape or insert 34 adheres the tape or insert to the face 16 of the chuck. The lack of air in the chamber prevents air from being trapped between the tape or insert and the face of the chuck.
A number of possibilities exist for the design of the stamp and there are a number of ways of moving it toward the chuck. For example, in the preferred embodiment the face 30 of the stamp includes a layer 38 of a resilient material (through which the locating pins 32 extend) to assure a uniform distribution of pressure when the film is pressed against the face 16 of the chuck. In one alternative embodiment, a weaker adhesive on the side of the tape facing the stamp suffices to retain the tape on the stamp before the tape makes contact with the face 16. Any traces of this weak adhesive remaining on the tape after the tape has been applied to the chuck may be removed by a suitable solvent.
In another alternative embodiment, the tape is drawn against the stamp by a vacuum applied through the stamp. This can be done by using either a porous stamp or a non-porous stamp having passages through it, analogous to the manner in which the chuck 12 retains a wafer, Clearly, the pressure in the chamber 26 must be controlled to be slightly greater than the pressure at the face 30 of the stamp, until the tape has made contact with the chuck. Thereafter, a slight overpressure may be applied through the stamp to overcome any tendency of the tape to cling to the face of the stamp.
Consistent with the present invention, any of several techniques may be used to advance the stamp. In the preferred embodiment of FIG. 1, the stamp is pushed manually into the housing 24. In alternative embodiments, the integrity of the removable housing is not disturbed, and the moving mechanism is located entirely within the chamber 26.
For example, in the alternative embodiment shown in FIG. 2, an air-filled bellows 40 located above the stamp expands as the vacuum is applied to the port 22, so as to push the stamp toward the chuck. When the vacuum is relieved, the bellows returns to its original smaller size. The action of the bellows repeats automatically each time the vacuum is applied, and the use of the bellows eliminates the need for electrical or vacuum feed-through on the housing 24. In still other embodiments, the stamp could be driven by an electrical solenoid or motor.
FIG. 3 illustrates a chuck provided with blind registration holes and a tool for applying tape to the chuck. The chuck in this embodiment is porous. A number of blind holes 42 are provided in the top of the chuck, and some or all of these holes are located to correspond to registration pins protruding from the stamping surface of the stamp. The tape is provided with corresponding holes, located such that placing the tape on the stamp with the registration pins protruding through the holes in the tape, and thereafter lowering the stamp so that the registration pins enter corresponding blind holes, properly locates the tape relative to the chuck. The registration pins are sized and dimension to fit within the blind holes of the chuck and permit the stamping face and tape assembly to move into contact with the chuck. When the tape is applied to the chuck, numerous holes 43 in the tape align with numerous holes in the chuck. Thus, registration is achieved as described relative to the previous figures, and the porous chuck can be back-flushed. Thereafter, a wafer can be placed on the tape and secured to the tape by suction applied through the chuck (with a vacuum applied to the bottom of the chuck acting on the wafer through the pores and blind holes of the chuck). Fluid used for backflushing passes partly through the blind holes, and relieves pressure that might otherwise push and lift the tape away from the chuck.
FIG. 4 illustrates a porous chuck and a tool for applying porous tape to the chuck. The chuck is porous, or provided with a multitude of through holes. The tape is also highly porous, comprised of a reticulated foam (such that air may pass from one side to the other through the tape), or provided with a multitude of through holes. The number and size of pores or through holes are chosen such that, regardless of the position of the tape on the chuck, a sufficient number of pores or holes in the tape overly holes or pores on the chuck. The tape is applied to the chuck after evacuation of the vacuum chamber, as described in relation to the previous figures, and is held to the chuck by the adhesive on the chuck side of the tape. Thereafter, a wafer can be placed on the tape and secured to the tape by suction applied through the chuck (with a vacuum applied to the bottom of the chuck).
In another alternative embodiment the chuck is removed from the backgrinding or CMP machine and may be inverted to form the upper end of the chamber 26. Gravity may then be relied on to keep the tape on the face 30 of the stamp prior to contact of the tape with the face 16 of the chuck.
Thus, there has been described a tool for applying an adhesive-coated tape to the face of a chuck that is used to hold a wafer during grinding, polishing, or CMP operations. The application of an adhesive-coated resilient tape to the face of the chuck is particularly helpful when backgrinding of the wafer is performed, in that the resiliency of the tape prevents the unyielding face of the chuck from damaging the frangible electronic components on the front side of the wafer.
In use, the tool is used to apply an insert to the face of a chuck. A vacuum supplied through the chuck and the insert holds the wafer during one or more methods of grinding or polishing the back surface of a wafer that has circuitry deposited on the front surface without damaging the circuitry. The wafer may be similarly held during various CMP steps.
One method of grinding or polishing the backside of a wafer comprises the steps of adhering a tape (which may be resilient) to the chuck, placing the wafer onto the chuck such that the front surface of the wafer is facing the tape, and then grinding the back surface of the wafer. The tape protects the front side of the wafer from the chuck. A method of performing CMP comprises the steps of adhering a tape to the chuck, placing the wafer onto the chuck, and then performing CMP on the wafer. The tape protects the side of the wafer facing the chuck.
The chuck face may be provided with a pattern of holes and the resilient tape may be provided with a matching pattern of apertures. In this case, an additional initial step may be added to any of the above methods of grinding, polishing, or planarizing a wafer comprising the additional step of positioning the tape so that the apertures in the tape are in registration with the holes in the face of the chuck.
The foregoing detailed description is illustrative of several embodiments of the invention, and it is to be understood that additional embodiments thereof will be obvious to those skilled in the art. The embodiments described herein together with those additional embodiments are considered to be within the scope of the invention.
1. A method of applying an insert to a chuck so that no air is trapped between the insert and the chuck, said method comprising the steps of:
- providing a tool for applying an insert to a chuck, said chuck having a plurality of holes and having a face, said tool comprising:
- a stamp disposed such that the stamp is capable of applying the insert to the face of the chuck, and said stamp being provided with at least one pin;
- a means for moving the stamp such that the stamp may apply the insert to the chuck;
- a vacuum chamber, wherein the chuck and the stamp may be disposed within the vacuum chamber;
- wherein each of the at least one pins is arranged to fit within corresponding holes in the chuck, whereby the position of the stamp relative to the chuck may be fixed when the stamp applies the insert to the chuck;
- providing an insert disposed on the stamp;
- thereafter providing a vacuum within the chamber; and
- thereafter applying, using the stamp, the insert to the chuck such that each of the at least one pins fits within corresponding holes in the chuck.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein the step of providing an insert comprises providing a tape.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Sep 26, 2002
Date of Patent: Oct 28, 2003
Patent Publication Number: 20030079828
Assignee: Strasbaugh (San Luis Obispo, CA)
Inventors: Salman M. Kassir (San Luis Obispo, CA), Alan Strasbaugh (San Luis Obispo, CA)
Primary Examiner: Michael W. Ball
Assistant Examiner: Jessica Rossi
Attorney, Agent or Law Firms: K. David Crockett, Esq., Crockett & Crockett
Application Number: 10/259,536
International Classification: B29C/6500;


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Cute Pictures Jenni! How did you guys get to Waipio Valley Car or walk? Where is the beach that Matt and Abby are playing on, it is so pretty! By the way, your family was so helpful to me on the flight over here! Tell them thanks for me!
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I was checking to see how you are doing? Be yourself that's all we can do. I can't worry about what other people think anymore. I have been asked to leave pools, hairdressers, etc in the past. That is their lost, not mind.
I hope you are doing ok. I was covered in scales form end to toe before, so I know how you feel. Stay in touch. People don't have a clue what we go though.
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Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's four main islands, is a skier's paradise. Its powder runs are so impressive, the practice of skiing them has its own name, "Japow," and enthusiasts travel from far and wide to experience the season, which sees on average 600 inches of snowfall.
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Moving forward, Mark explores the Encoder Checker feature that offers a way of comparing common encoder formats and their settings by generating a multi-stream playback preview of up to three streams.
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You don't need an invitation to create impact
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If you could do anything now, what would you do? Why?
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What is the best investment your parents made in/for you?
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Swami Vivekananda's Chicago Lectures – 125th Anniversary Celebrations (Invitation)
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In 1893, on September 11, Swami Vivekananda proclaimed at the World Parliament of Religions the unity of whole mankind and highlighted India's spiritual, cultural and intellectual greatness.
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Nikko also has an incredible history as it is the location of important Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. Anyone planning to attend the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics should be sure to arrive early or stay longer to spend time in Nikko.
Getting There
The easiest way to get to Nikko, which is 150 kilometers north of Tokyo, is by Tobu Railway. A private train service, the Tobu Nikko Line starts at the Tobu Asakusa Tokyo Skytree station in Tokyo (easily accessible from Haneda Airport via a 35-minute ride on the KEIKYU and Toei Subway Asakusa Line).Tobu Railway offers a scenic and comfortable ride, complete with reclining seats, that takes less than two hours to get to the Tobu-Nikko station, the final stop on the line.
International visitors are eligible for a discount pass that includes round-trip train fare as well as unlimited rides for bus and train services in the Nikko area, including the World Heritage area (and the Kinugawa-onsen area). Tickets can be purchased from a ticket machine at Tobu Asakusa station, from Tobu Travel Co., online or a travel agent.
The Natural Beauty Of Nikko
Nikko, the town at the entrance to Nikko National Park, offers a lush landscape that is a stark contrast to the metropolitan area of Tokyo. Nikko is a peaceful respite, and as such, it is one of most iconic places to visit in the North Kanto region. Nikko is well-known for its natural beauty, from verdant forests, rolling hills and breathtaking waterfalls to raging rivers, streams and a beautiful lake.
People from all over the world travel to Nikko during the autumn months to see its striking foliage (arguably the best fall colors that can be seen anywhere in the world). During the winter, there is skiing and other snow-related activities, while spring offers the cherry blossoms. Summer, when the weather is warm (though much cooler than in Tokyo), is a great time to visit for those who enjoy outdoor activities such as hiking, walking and biking.
The area has long been a holiday destination for foreign dignitaries stationed in Tokyo. Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy at one time had or continue to own residences on Nikko's famous Lake Chuzenji. The British Embassy Villa and its grounds is currently a museum and park open to the public. The café on its second-floor veranda is a great place to enjoy traditional scones and afternoon tea while taking in the picturesque landscape of the lake.
Be sure to see the Cedar Avenue of Nikko, which is world-renowned. Its cedar trees were planted during the early Edo period on the sides of three different roads. With a total length of 37-kilometers, it is recognized as being the world's longest tree lined road with approximately 12,000 existing cedars. The Cedar Avenue of Nikko is the only example in Japan that is designated by the national government as both a "special historic site" and "special natural monument".
Also in Nikko is Tamozawa Imperial Villa, a former summer residence for the Imperial family of Japan, is open to the public. Here, visitors can take a self-guided tour through many of its 106 rooms, where you will see such rooms as the emperor's bedroom and dressing room, as well as the family's dining room, library and sitting room. The architecture of the villa, which was built in 1899, is a blend of traditional Edo and early modern Meiji styles.
The villa is stunning and it is impossible not to notice the incredible craftsmanship that was used to create it, from the tatami mats that are lined with silk to its hand-crafted walls and ceilings. The Japanese-style garden outside is a manicured setting with paths, a stream running through it and beautiful landscaping.
Nikko's UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Nikko was long a center of Shinto and Buddhist mountain worship, and as a result, many important temples and shrines are located there. Two shrines and one temple, Nikko Tosho-Gu, Rinno-ji, and Futarasan Jinja, comprise a world-renowned UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The Nikko Tosho-Gu Shrine, was built to honor Ieyasu Tokugawa, the first Tokugawa shogun and the founder of the Edo Bakufu, the last feudal Japanese government which existed from 1600 to 1868. The most famous shrine in Nikko, Tokugawa is buried at the top of 275 stone steps. At the base of the shrine, you will see the impressive and highly decorated Yomeimon Gate. Also called the "Sunset Gate", it is a national treasure.


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Blue Velvet was released 30 years ago in 1986, but David Lynch's woozy surrealist masterpiece doesn't quite fit into that decade. Some of the haircuts are definitely from the 1980s, but it pays homage to the film noirs of the 1940s and '50s, its two signature ballads, Blue Velvet and In Dreams, were both recorded in 1963. The hero's detective work could have been lifted from a 1970s cop show. But more than anything, though, Blue Velvet feels as if it is the first film of the 1990s. One reason why so many critics adore it is that it was several years ahead of its time. But that's one reason why some critics loathe it, too.
Lynch's previous film had been 1984's Dune, an interstellar epic which became one of the most notorious flops in cinema history. Blockbusters about immortal alien worms were obviously not his forte (Lynch has blamed studio interference), but, again, you could say that he was a trailblazer: it's commonplace now for acclaimed young art-house auteurs to be handed the reins of science-fiction franchises, from Fantastic Four to Jurassic World. At any rate, the producer of Dune, Dino De Laurentiis, gave Lynch another chance. As long as he agreed to a reduced fee, he could make something that was closer in spirit to his experimental debut, 1977's Eraserhead. Lynch didn't hesitate.
Would anyone in 1986 really have been shocked to hear of unsavoury goings-on in small-town America?
Instead of being set on a desert planet in a distant galaxy, Blue Velvet would be set in Lumberton, North Carolina, an all-American logging town of white picket fences and street-corner diners. But there is trouble in paradise. One of Lumberton's residents collapses while watering his lawn, so his clean cut son, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan, who had starred in Dune), returns from college to manage the family's hardware store. Jeffrey is happy enough to be home, but he clearly has a thirst for adventure. After he finds a severed ear on a patch of wasteground, he teams up with Sandy (Laura Dern), the blonde teenage daughter of a police detective, and tries to figure out whose ear it is. The youngsters' investigations lead to an apartment where an exotic cabaret chanteuse, Dorothy (Isabella Rossellini), is having sadomasochistic sex with an unstable thug, Frank (Dennis Hopper). Jeffrey, who spies on them from inside Dorothy's cupboard, is appalled... sort of. But he isn't wholly against the idea of some sadomasochistic sex with Dorothy himself.
Freudian trip
What to make of it all? The most common reading of Lynch's eerie crime reverie is that it uncovers the rot which is festering away behind America's shiny facade. According to Hopper, among other commentators, it was this brave truth-telling that upset so many critics when it was released. But it's a reading which raises a number of questions. Would anyone in 1986 really have been shocked to hear of unsavoury goings-on in small-town America? And does anyone today really believe that the country's secret shame involved Italian torch singers in unflattering Frank-N-Furter wigs, and weepy psychopaths who sniff nitrous oxide from their own portable cylinders? Blue Velvet attracted its cult following not by exposing a sordid reality but by staging a terrifying yet seductive fantasy.
Right from the slow-motion introductory montage, it's plain that Lynch doesn't want us to see Lumberton as a real place, but as a make-believe town of stilted dialogue and TV archetypes. Then when Jeffrey stumbles into Dorothy's depraved world, like Alice falling down the rabbit hole, the film get even weirder: in its most celebrated sequence, a foppish pimp (Dean Stockwell) mimes to a recording of Roy Orbison's In Dreams, lighting up his face with the lamp he's using as a mock microphone. It makes more sense - if a Lynch film can ever be said to make sense - to see Blue Velvet not as an indictment of a corrupt America, but as a Freudian study of a boy, on the verge of adulthood, who is torn between the hometown respectability represented by the virginal Sandy (perhaps named after the heroine of Grease) and the illicit pleasures represented by the whore-ish Dorothy (definitely named after the heroine of The Wizard of Oz).
Films allows us to visit a twisted demi-monde of sex and violence and moody music
It's a story of two competing narratives that seem to take place in separate universes. When Dorothy first discovers Jeffrey in her cupboard, she nicks his cheek with a kitchen knife, but the next morning, his face is as smooth as ever. Another night, Frank beats him up viciously, but his bruises fade with miraculous speed. In a sense, he is a substitute for anyone who goes to the cinema. Films allow us, like Jeffrey, to visit a twisted demi-monde of sex and violence and moody music for a couple of dark hours, before returning unscathed to ordinary life.
Postmodern games
Blue Velvet invites countless other interpretations, of course: that's why viewers are drawn back to it, again and again. But what's undeniable is that Lynch isn't telling a straight story (to borrow the title of one of his later films); he is switching between different genres and different tones, reminding us constantly that we are watching a work of fiction.
In 1986, these postmodern games were bamboozling - and, to some critics, irritating. In the Washington Post, Paul Attanasio complained that Blue Velvet was ultimately frivolous, with "a juvenile, 'Wouldn't it be neat if ...' quality". In a one-star review in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert argued that Lynch was being cowardly by repeatedly yanking Jeffrey back from the transgressive underworld of Dorothy and Frank: "Is he afraid that movie audiences might not be ready for stark S&M unless they're assured it's all really a joke? I was absorbed and convinced by the relationship between Rossellini and MacLachlan, and ... I didn't need the director prancing on with a top hat and cane, whistling that it was all in fun."
In the 1990s, though, everything that annoyed Attanasio and Ebert would become standard practice. Just as the rap records of the era were getting into the habit of sampling soul tracks, indie movies were pilfering scenes and settings from wildly incongruous films and sticking them together in bizarre new configurations. They were inspired less by the writer-directors' lives than by their video collections. They were, in short, copying Blue Velvet. The hip, meta, retro films of the mix-and-match 1990s learnt everything they knew from Lynch.
Just look at how much Reservoir Dogs has in common with Blue Velvet: the career-reviving casting of an older actor, the voice-over by a radio DJ, the severing of an ear, the sinister spin on an innocuous decades-old pop hit (Stuck in the Middle with You). In 1996, the novelist and essayist David Foster Wallace went so far as to dismiss Tarantino as a populist Lynch imitator, someone whose only achievement was to "take what is ragged and distinctive and menacing about [Lynch's] work and homogenize it, churn it until it's smooth and cool and hygienic enough for mass consumption".
Whether or not you agree with this assessment, there are echoes of Blue Velvet not just in the work of Tarantino, but of Robert Rodriguez, Jim Jarmusch and the Coen brothers, not to mention dozens of inferior Sundance wannabes. Watch any 1990s thriller that couples extreme violence with humour, and which flags up its artificiality with winking references to old songs and movies, and you can bet that the director is a Lynch fan.
Lynch himself can hardly be blamed for all the people who followed in his footsteps, of course. But maybe Blue Velvet should take some responsibility for the pop-cultural tendency to put things in inverted commas - to be arch and ironic instead of sincere. Maybe it has so many devoted fans because, as Ebert observed, it encourages us to peek at our most frightening desires and then back away with a giggle, just as Jeffrey does, rather than having the courage to explore them. In the 1990s, far too many films were wrapped in a comfort blanket made of Blue Velvet.
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