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When the nights are cold, try these simple, cozy dishes from Nigella Lawson's new cookbook "Nigella Kitchen: Recipes from the Heart of the Home". For more from the TV host and cookbook author, visit her website, Nigella.com.
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- 4 ounces linguine
- Salt, to taste
- 1 egg
- 3 tablespoons heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
- A few drops white truffle oil, or to taste
- Freshly ground white pepper
- 1 tablespoon butter
Baking Directions:
Put on some water to boil for the pasta and, when it comes to a boil, salt it generously before adding the linguine and cooking for 2 minutes less than directed by the instructions on the package. In a bowl, whisk the egg with the cream and parmesan, a few drops of white truffle oil and a good grinding of white pepper. When the pasta's had the time you've allocated, check to see if it's al dente. Just before draining it, remove ½ cup of cooking liquid. Return the drained pasta to the cooking pan and, on the stove but off the heat, add the butter and about 1 tablespoon of the cooking water and stir to mix. Now, stir in the eggy mixture and keep stirring so that the pasta becomes smoothly, softly and lightly coated. Taste to see if it needs any salt or any more truffle oil and act accordingly. Decant into a warm bowl and eat alone, and thrillingly.
- 1 butternut squash, approximately 2 1/4 pounds
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt or 1/2 teaspoon table salt
- 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger
- 2 tablespoons cold-pressed canola oil or olive oil, plus 2 tablespoons for dressing
- 1/3 cup golden raisins
- 1/4 cup water, from a freshly boiled kettle
- 1 teaspoon sherry vinegar
- 4 ounces (about 3 cups) arugula and other salad leaves
- 1/3 cup pine nuts, toasted
Baking Directions:
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F. Don't bother to peel, but halve and seed the butternut squash, cut into 1/2 inch thick slices, then cut each slice into four. Put the butternut pieces into a bowl with the salt, spices, and 2 tablespoons oil and smoosh them about, then tip into a lipped baking sheet (lined with aluminum foil). Don't clean the bowl yet. Cook the squash for 30-40 minutes. Check to see if it is cooked through by the time the ½ hour's up by piercing with a fork; some squashes cook faster than others.Add the golden raisins to the spice-smeared bowl and cover with the freshly boiled water; once cooled, whisk in the vinegar and the 2 tablespoons oil that remain. Put half of the salad leaves over a large plate or bowl and arrange the butternut pieces on top. Sprinkle with the remaining salad leaves and the toasted pine nuts. Scrape the raisin-studded dressing out of the bowl to dribble over it all, and toss gently before serving. To make ahead: The butternut squash cubes can be roasted 1 day ahead. Cool completely, then cover and refrigerate until needed. Remove from the refrigerator about 1 hour before serving, to allow to come to room temperature.Making leftovers: It may well be that you end up with a wee bit of salad leftover. Frankly, you can eat this just as is (perhaps with a little lime juice spritzed over to freshen it up) or else cook some rice and stir this through just in time to warm through properly at the end of the cooking.
- 1 teaspoon garlic flavored oil
- 1 x 5-ounce container (⅓ cup) pancetta cubes or diced pancetta (or approximately 10 slices smoked bacon, snipped)
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- Zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 2 tablespoons cold water
- 1 x 12-ounce jar flame-roasted peppers
- 1 cup parsley leaves, chopped
- 8 ounces spaghetti
- Salt and pepper, to taste
Baking Directions:
Put a big pot of water on to boil for the pasta. Heat the oil in a medium-sized, heavy-based pan (one you can toss the cooked pasta into later). Fry the pancetta cubes (or bacon) until they start to crisp, then add the red pepper flakes, grated lemon zest and juice, and 2 tablespoons water. Let this mixture bubble for a minute. Scissor the drained peppers (still in the colander) into bite-sized pieces, then add these to the pan with half the chopped parsley.Salt the pasta water once it is boiling and cook the pasta following the package instructions. Fish out a cupful of pasta water just before you drain it. When the pasta is cooked, drain loosely and tip into the waiting pan of sauce. Toss everything together well, and add some pasta water if you need it, then season and sprinkle with the remaining parsley.
- 7 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 5 tablespoons golden syrup (such as Lyle
- 6 ounces good-quality milk chocolate, chopped (or 3/4 cup chips)
- 2 ounces good-quality bittersweet chocolate, chopped (or 1/4 cup chips)
- 5 1/2 cups Rice Krispies
- 3/4 cup milk chocolate morsels or chips (or use half dark and half white chocolate chips)
- 1 x 8-inch square cake pan or 1 rectangular aluminum foil pan approximately 13 x 9 x 2 inches
Baking Directions:
Line your cake pan with aluminum foil or get out one of your trusty foil pans. Put butter, golden syrup, and chopped chocolates (not the morsels) in a heavy-based and fairly wide saucepan and melt over a low heat. Stir to mix the glossy goo, take it off the heat, then quickly pour and stir in the Rice Krispies. Still off the heat, quickly stir in the chocolate morsels, and spoon and scrape the mixture into your pan of choice. I find it easier, once the gunk is in the tin, to smooth the top with hands covered in a pair of disposable vinyl gloves. Put in the refrigerator to set for about 4 hours before cutting. Make ahead: The brownies can be made up to 2 days ahead. Wrap pan tightly with plastic wrap and store in a cool place. In warm or humid weather, store in the refrigerator. Cut into squares before serving. Keeps for 3-4 days.


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These turned out really good! I made exactly as posted except I added some vegetarian bacon bits before baking the beans. It's got a sweet flavor with a little kick to it which surprised me. Next time I might use a little less cinnamon for preference but otherwise wouldn't change it. Thanks!

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Hi Guys.....i get a variety of holsters here
These are high quality replica of WWII holsters. I bought the German WWII AfrikaKorps P-08 Hardshell Luger Holster from here and found it good.
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Hi Guys.....i get a variety of holsters here
These are high quality replica of WWII holsters. I bought the German WWII AfrikaKorps P-08 Hardshell Luger Holster from here and found it good.
The repro holsters do look useful as a resource - have added that link to the list.
Triple K holsters
Gun Holsters and Gun Magazines by Triple K
WEG - welcome to DefCarry - your link has been added to the list.
Thx for the info - changes made.
May I join the list?
CC Holsters
Carl - have added you - you have some nice work.
Pity you don't mention your location on the site - so can't show it. I have very little spare time right now but if you let me know a location I can try and add that at some point.
I too would like to join this list if possible.
McCabe's Custom Leather.
Have made the addition. Will PM you with some other info.
Could I be added to the list.
Thanks, Matt
Midwest Leather Works
Could you add me as well? Thanks.
Bear River Holsters.
Husker and Steelhawk - sorry about delay. I always have to set aside special time to do this sort of update and the days roll on, badly! - at last got to doing it. :)
Is this one on your list? Holsters-Wilson Combat . Bill's best known for his pistolsmithing, and as an excellent competitive shooter also knows what's needed in a carry holster. From their design and construction, many of his carry holsters are obviously supplied to him by Safariland, likely because of his longtime working relationship with Bill Rogers there.
There are so many choices of holster companies out there, lot of compitition. May I add one????
The American Holster Company
I wanted a Crossbreed type of holster but didn't want Kydex for the gun pouch, I saw an article in a magazine about this company and they make there's all leather, cost $78.00 delivered and very comfortable, excellent quality and workmenship.


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I made this recipe almost exactly as written. I did leave out the oil (cooking no fat) and only used a spray of olive oil. This may have affected the final taste. I was expecting an in-your-face, grab for the water, spicy curry and was surprised. At first I thought this very bland, then I decided that the flavour was subtle. I liked it. The potatoes were on the edge of underdone, I would cut them smaller, say into bite-size cubes. The portions are generous and filling for a main course. We really didn't need the rice I made as a side. I think I would also allow more than 20 minutes for prep, but maybe I'm just a bit slower than superblondieno2. I would make this again, and might even take it to a potluck. (I *won't* say anything about the assumptions of the newspaper writer. Maintain control, woman!)


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The Lancaster Recreation Commission is currently seeking Assistant Group Supervisors for our Infant, Preschool and School Age Programs. Hours are Monday through Friday and vary depending on site. Candidates must have at least two years' experience working with children and a CDA/SAC Credential or 12 college credits in education. Position requires working hands-on with children and assisting the Site Director with lesson plans, observations, assessments, and other required paper work for the site. Contact Lucy Stauffer at 392-2115 ext. 136. EOE.
Site Directors for Before and After School
The Lancaster Recreation Commission is currently seeking for Site Directors for our Before and After School Programs. The hours are Monday through Friday 6:30 to 8:45 a.m. and 3 to 6 p.m. plus planning time. The second Wednesday of each month After School begins at 12 p.m. Staff is required and paid to attend meetings and trainings to meet the guidelines for Keystone Stars and DHS. The position is part time, 28-30 hours per week. Candidates must possess a degree in education or a related field with a minimum of 30 credits in elementary or early childhood education and have a minimum of 2 years' experience working with children. Site Directors are responsible for managing staff on-site, planning and implementing daily program activities, abiding by all DHS and Keystone Stars regulations. Candidates must possess excellent communication skills and be self-starters. Site Directors are also responsible for maintaining a positive partnership between the School District of Lancaster and with families. Contact Lucy Stauffer at 392-2115 ext. 136. EOE.
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Workers needed for weeknight hours (ranging from 6 to 10:15 p.m.) and Saturday hours (ranging from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.). Responsibilities include monitoring who enters the building, and ensuring that program areas are left in proper condition. Training is provided. State Police and Child Line clearances must be successfully passed. Pay rate $8/hour. To apply, complete and submit an employment application. Contact Jack Bingeman for more information.
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Referees and umpires are needed for Volleyball, Basketball, Baseball, Softball, Flag Football and Dodgeball leagues. Certification is preferred. Understanding of league and sport rules is required. Individuals must be able to control the progress of the sport/activity, look for violations of rules and regulations during play, and impose penalties on teams or players when necessary. Part-time weeknight hours (ranging from 6 to 10:15 p.m.) and Saturday hours (ranging from 9 a.m. to


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I have a difficult user that wants to connect via vnc to control her linux workstation while remote. However, she has an 'issue' where she does not want the workstation display to show her activity (updates, mouse moves ,etc). I currently have x11vnc configured for her and am curious if this is an option or not. Apparently turning off the monitor is not an acceptable solution in this case.
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The Site is Pictopoetry.co.uk
When I first set this up I used category pages for blog posts. This is because the site owner needs to post poems and blog.
Now I am using WPBook and notice that the way that it calls the blog into Facebook in the APP page doesn't display the two menus items in the site for "Blog" and "Poems." I am guessing this is because I am using a catogory template for those pages?
I can live with this but I wonder how I might get around it?


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a few of my favourite things {july 2012}
Si dropped my Dad and Marie off at the airport in the early hours of this morning. When the kids awoke they found an empty space where their mattress had been pushed into the corner of our living room for the past four days. With such a small amount of time to spend with their Grandpa, the kids got every last second of play out of him and we've raced around showing them as much of this beautiful city as we could with just a few moments of quiet time in between site-seeing to chat, relax and reconnect. We would've loved to have had them here for 4 weeks, not days. But thankfully we will still get to have one last dinner with them as they pass back through Perth next week before heading up to Darwin and onto Timor and Indonesia, via boat.
I seem to have missed last months favourites post in the blur of busyness that was June, and even though I know most of you prefer to get recipes, I really love sharing great things with you all and thought it was about time I got a post up. That and well, I've not had even one moment to put together a recipe to blog about over the past week and you know what? It has been a really, really lovely break from blogging for me. I even managed a few days off the computer altogether (a rarity for sure) but I have to say I was shocked when I jumped back online to see this. If you follow me on facebook you will have heard about the drama. I don't really think it deserves any more time on here, but it has been such an eye opener for me. I know I've done no wrong and thank you all so much for your kind words of support. I also ask that you please don't stoop to their levels and please refrain from spamming their page or emailing them about the issue. I'd love to just forget about it all and move on, thanks all xx
Now onto the positives, of which there are many...
* Amen.
* I love Byron Bay. Even more so after watching this.
* 10 Ways to Create a Sustainable Table
* love this leather ipad satchel and have put an order in for one of these. (Dad makes them)
* gluten & refined sugar-free salted caramel cupcakes. Oh yes.
* How beautiful are these?
* great song
* gluten-free, gum-free breadsticks
* how to make gluten-free all-purpose flour mix (going off this month Shauna!)
* red quinoa taco salad with ancho-chipotle lime dressing
* want these
* how to tie a simple turban
* the low down on milk allergies and lactose intolerance
* guide to what to plant and when (Australia)
* summer 2012- foodie crush
* why I never use agave
* chocolate gateaux with grapefruit sorbet, yes please.
* soak and sprout
* 32 companion planting tips
* gluten-free is not healthy
I'll be back real soon with a recipe and more photos, promise xx Emm
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Don't worry about missing out on some posts, I guess summer is less about blogging and more about connecting with family and friends, what most people can't usually do the rest of the year. I enjoy reading more personal posts too, it's a really nice touch. Kudos to your kids and you to live life to the fullest with your loved ones!ReplyDelete
I'm glad the whole internet drama thing was settled. Not quite reassuring to see it can happen to anybody.
Oh, and, a great selection as usual. Keep up the favorites!
Take care! :)Replies
Thanks so much Marie-Anne. I sometimes wonder if anyone enjoys these favourites posts but sometimes I have to get a little selfish around here, because I REALLY enjoy putting them together and it's a lovely break from regular recipe posts (which are a huge amount of work, lets face it!) xxDelete
Oh wow! Thank you so much for featuring me in your favourites list! Lucky for your children to spend time with their grandfather, it will mean much as they grown older. XO and happy Friday.ReplyDeleteReplies
No worries Heidi! I love foodiecrush and have found so many amazing blogs from reading it. Your current issue is especially awesome, well done xxDelete
Thanks for the link love Emma!ReplyDelete
- jacquieJuly 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM
You are so lucky i don't live closer,i would hit on your dad so bad for one of those bags;]ReplyDelete
Love the favorites post,its's well ,my favorite


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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau
- March 25, 2012
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Rerun from October 3, 2010.
Best way to raise your IQ – become a Democrat!
Let's not forget that Mitch McConnell's #1 priority for America has nothing to do with jobs, education, national security, the environment, citizen health, infrastructure, or any of the other things government is involved with. His self-proclaimed top goal as the Senate minority leader is to defeat Barack Obama, and everything else is subordinate to that, national welfare be damned.
Yeah, what ever happened to country first? Ask not and all of that.
It was a Democrat who said that.
We need more open minded politicians.
It would be impossible for an independent to win the White House. So we have a choice between the smart, decent and honorable man who currently has the job, or the freak show of candidates left in the hunt for the GOP nomination. An incredibly easy choice!
that's an oxymoron!
What is Mike drinking? Looks like a can of Billy Beer. He was also a democrat.
Tigger;s been drinking the FOX News Kool-Aid
^ If you haven't noticed, Tigger is unstable. He makes things up as he goes. Then he flip-flops on it. I think he's the next front-runner for the Republicans. Sad.
"Until he defeated Hillary, I don't think anybody thought he could really win; then they had no alternative."
I have to disagree with that. When Obama delivered the keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, I said to myself "That guy's going to be President someday." It just happened sooner than I expected.
Actually It was a former Sen. Hillary Supporter with a case of sour grapes that had called the Sen. McCain campaign office. That said that the rumors of his birth place in Kenya and that Sen. Obama was muslim were true.
From there the birthers took over. As it seemed to confirm what they wanted. Unfortunately, like so many things. before McCain could tamp down the stupidity of this on his end. The call was confirmed to the media as being legitimately made from the the campaign offices of Hillary Clinton.. Every one else forgot that Sen. McCain himself never really believed the nonsense.
What really comes down to was that for some people to see a black man in office was just too much for them. Racism it seems is alive and well in the 21rst century. And yes tin hat wearing fools will believe the worse of anyone.
Hey Trudeau, ignore his upbringing, don't read his books, be selective in what you hear from his speeches and off-the-cuff remarks. Everybody has to have a fictional hero.
Do any of the characters in Doonesbury ever pop up some popcorn for a movie? They all seem to be equally captivated by political debates.
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Government argues birth control mandate doesn't violate religious freedom
Eric Rassbach, an attorney for the Becket Fund, explained that the main issue in the nonprofit cases deals with a certification form that must be signed that authorizes a third-party insurer to handle the contraception coverage for a non-profit religious objector.
The administration came up with the third-party solution after religious groups protested that the birth control mandate forced them to either violate tenets of their faith or pay hefty fines imposed by the government.
But shifting the responsibility for the contraception requirement hasn't satisfied many religious nonprofits that say they want a blanket exemption like that offered to churches and other houses of worship.
Rassbach said that so far, 18 federal courts have granted injunctions requested by religious non-profits against the mandate. Two courts have denied injunctions, one for the Little Sisters of the Poor and the other for Notre Dame University.
The Little Sisters case is unusual because that third party, Christian Brothers Services and Christian Brothers Employee Benefits Trust, handles health benefits for other Catholic nonprofits. But Rassbach said Christian Brothers, which is a plaintiff in the lawsuit, contracts with a secular provider for its pharmaceutical coverage, which includes birth control.
Basically, Rassbach explained, the Little Sisters of the Poor and Christian Brothers don't trust the government's assurances that the certification form is meaningless in their cases because of the unusual circumstances.
"The bottom line is the sisters need protection," he said.
Big fines
The Little Sisters, which operate nursing homes for the elderly poor in the United States and around the world, would face fines of up to $2.5 million a year for not complying with the mandate, according to court documents.
The documents also show that nearly 500 Catholic non-profit ministries provide employee benefits through the (Christian Brothers) Trust and face "onerous daily fines" unless they comply with the contraception mandate.
In a statement issued Wednesday, the White House said the ACA rules "strike the balance of providing women with free contraceptive coverage while preventing non-profit religious employers with religious objections to contraceptive coverage from having to contract, arrange, pay, or refer for such coverage."
But Rienzi said the government can find a better way to meet its objective goal of providing free contraceptives to all women.
"Our federal government is massive and powerful," he said. "It can obviously find ways to distribute contraceptives and abortion pills without forcing nuns to be involved."
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Hi, I have read the archives and through most of the posts about 403 errors. However, nothing I've read so far is helping me with this problem.
My blog is functioning otherwise normally. I can post, people can comment. However, a friend of mine emailed me today to say that everytime he tries to post this---
I certainly agree with you both about Zope: I can barely understand what it is, but I'd always assumed that's because my needs are relatively modest.
But isn't a framework just a big library? Even the smallest libraries have expectations about inputs and outputs. What would Zope be like if it were a library instead of a framework?
As to why pythonistas are particularly prone to writing frameworks, I can only imagine that it's because python scales so well, in terms of both computing power and number of people involved in the project. It's very easy to start off small and build up as your needs/desires increase to something very large. As long as you refactor as you go, the framework you end up with is as efficient and as fun to hack as the little script you started off with.
I'm currently in danger of writing a framework or two myself: I'm writing some python wrappers for things like HTK (ASR toolkit) and festival (TTS toolkit). Part of the point of writing these wrappers is to allow the users to keep to the file formats and work patterns they're comfortable with, so framework-type lock-in would obviously be inappropriate. But it also makes sense to have a single wrapper with a clearly defined and documented interface - that sounds like a framework. What should I do?
---as a comment to my blog he gets a 403 error. He has successfully posted the first two paragraphs, but something in the third and fourth paragraphs are causing a problem. I've tried editing his comment myself and added the remaining two paragraphs. I've tried posting the comment myself. Same problem - 403.
I just tried adding the remaining two paragraphs word by word to his original comment and I get as far "python scales" in the first sentence of the third paragraph. "python" is fine, but adding the word "scales" or any other word after "python" gives me a 403 error. I don't understand because I don't believe it is a word length problem, as people have successfully posted much longer comments to my blog before.
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Skip to comments.Piers Morgan gets schooled on the Second Amendment [by *The Nuge*]
Posted on 02/12/2012 9:17:58 AM PST by Daffynition
While I don't know whether the show raised Morgan's ratings or not, I do know one thing: Nugent put on a clinic for anyone wondering how best to take down a weak-minded, egalitarian European who doesn't know Natural Law from Natural Light.
In all honesty folks, as I watched the interview I almost felt sorry for Morgan a couple times: Nugent was at his best and Morgan was at his usual.
[Video at source] contains typical Nuge language
(Excerpt) Read more at 2ndamendmenttv.com ...
Piers got called an "Idiots' Advocate" by Teddy from Texas, LOL
He is so sexy to me.
Absolutely worth three minutes of your time...Nugent guts this pansy-ass lib like a deer...it's a beautiful thing.
I watched with glee as Ted dissected Barbara Boxer on MTV's Rock the Vote debates in 2000. She wanted to concede 10 minutes into it, but it was a half hour show.
He unloaded both barrels and, as usual, was right on. Wonder if that is up on u-tube?
2) Notice that Piers seemed to particularly relish Ted's metaphors, "...suck on your machine gun" and "as much as I'd like to KYA...?"
3) Piers was unable to shoot any holes in Ted's stat-based argument on crime in relation to gun ownership, and could only take personal shots through the usual personal innuendos that are fired at 2nd amendment advocates. Ted had none of it! Once he overcomes his shyness he'll really find his voice.
Too many stops and starts within the video to watch. Looked good from what I could see.
He calls Piers the "idiot's advocate" — Priceless.
He calls Piers the "idiot's advocate" — Priceless.
... I watched the interview I almost felt sorry for Morgan a couple times: Nugent was at his best ..The Nuge was great. But with people like Piers Morgan any knowledgeable gun owner would be. The reason is simple - he's British and a European.
The sad fact is that it's inbred in Eurpeans to blindly follow the leader and bow to the King, Prince, whatever 'Royal' is in charge as they've always been 'subjects' not free citizens. And to them it's from the Royalty they get their 'rights' and from the Royalty they're taken away (No killing the 'Kings Deer' in the 'Kings Forest').
So the whole concept of having the God given Right to self defense with Arms is alien to them. And to take up Arms against the 'king' is unthinkable, Even if that 'king' is Der Führer. (this is why is was so easy to disarm everyone, it was in their DNA to 'follow the leader').
That's why people like Piers Morgan or any European will never 'get' Americans love for guns or our belief in OUR RIGHT to have them. And, as many of them and type of gun that we want.
they did a freaking hilarious send up of the superficial Piers last night on SNL. Must see.
Piers Moron is so whacked they even kicked him out of England. He can't get work there.
saving this for later
Brit butt-boy never had a chance.
Bump to watch at home.
Ted Nugent nails another left-wing wacko!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Did it air last night?
Holy crap, that was awesome! :)
Best I can tell, about May 18th. [see 2nd link]
A Brit no less. Easy pickins for Ted.
However even when they did have the 'right to arms'. IMHO they still weren't as ...'determined'... to exercise that right as their American 'cousins' were - and are.
LOL, how right you are FRiend. But there's a reason for that, too. All the rabble rousers mingrated to the colonies at a time when the gene pool was in sore need of replenishment. The sheepdogs all crossed over to form a new nation and the sheep remained to be clipped, shorn and slaughtered by the predators. It's a pattern that kept on being reinforced by the Parliament and the monarchy.
I feel bad for their military over there, though. I trained with a bunch of them back in the day. They're all great blokes and patriots all. LOL I came quite close to causing an international "incident" in 1983. The 1st Para were training with my unit and we all got quite tight with them, especially when we found out about their beer rations in the field! So a few of their officers invited me to take leave and hop a MAC flight over there to Lakenheath AFB. I'd be met and they'd put me in the uniform of a british private just before starting a rotation to patrol BELFAST. Nobody but the platoon officers would know my status as a yank officer. It was supposed to be a little Safari since we had nothing on the horizon that seemed to offer any action and Grenada hadn't hit yet. In retrospect, Thank God I didn't have the leave time or I'd probably still be in prison.
But as I was saying, universally the British military is treated like dog poop by the citizenry. That's why they love to train here in the States because we treat them like the heroes they are and of course all our ummmm birds just love a hunky hero in uniform. The accent just seals the deal.
The video was too short and Ted didn't get to say enough.
Though for some people, even a few FReepers, they balk at me wanting to be able to carry a full auto MP-5 on the NYC subway. Because my theory on protection is that of the NY lottery: Hey, you never know (when you might need it).
I posted the link to the 2nd part. :)
Maybe they used this for a bumper?
Ted Nugent-Kiss My Glock
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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Seriously, I thought that office was crawling with The Gays! The film version had Ann-Margret for GOD'S SAKE!
How old are you Josh?
um. i knew that. just saying.
What is happening in his head?
I wish I knew.
I wish I knew.
I'm 100 years old. I have Tommy (the Who's version) on vinyl, cassette, and CD.
These letters are amazing.
Dude, you really screwed the pooch on this one.
Please don't plead the typcial "you didn't get my ironic and hilarious fake ignorance," as a cover. You blew it.
#2 had it right, how old are you?
and it had elton john in huge (i mean like 6ft tall) platform shoes!
wow, Josh, while i am amazed you didn't know the reference, i am even more amazed that none of the editors or others in the office have heard of it either.
i thought you guys all loved to get stoned and revel in being hipsters--Tommy is a classic "drug" movie.
i'll give you a heads up that if you ever review a weird play called "the wall", it was written by another british band call Pink Floyd. no one in the band was named floyd. just thought you should know...
elswinger, beat me to the punch about your age. And what rock did you crawl out from under?
did you really not know Tommy? i can't ever tell if any of you Slog writers are serious or not because everything is written with the "saracasm/irony" know dialed up to 11. (BTW - that's another well-known musical reference. See if you can get that one. :)
Adhering to this very simple rule would have prevented this: avoid Issaquah.
i am only 23 years old and i knew that 'tommy' was the product of pete townshend/the who. i agree, a little research should have been done before babbling off about the show.
i am an avid reader of the stranger/slog and i think this is a bit shameful and makes the writer look like an uninformed hack.
"i'll give you a heads up that if you ever review a weird play called "the wall", it was written by another british band call Pink Floyd. no one in the band was named floyd. just thought you should know..."
reminds me of the time i was in amoeba records and i overherad someone describe can as a band that seemed heavily influenced by stereolab.. but this would be a splendid idea for a column... pick a warhorse from yesrteryear and have josh review it and cite the influences..just off the top of my head how's about yes' fragile..or elp's brain salad surgery
Usually I'm with you, Stranger, but this time I just don't get the joke...
Seriously? You guys...
Not one choir queer or drama fag at the Stranger caught this before press time?
I asked because I work at the UW and am surrounded by 18-22 year olds. And I just realized today that R.E.M.'s Document and Guns & Roses' Appetite For Destruction came out 20 years ago.
To pffft~
bloody brilliant post! they are playing Live Earth this year, let's see if the stranger suggests them as "a great new act"...
Tina fucking Turner as the Acid Queeen!
Dude, it's not "apparently, I fucked up..." it's "I totally fucked up real real bad."
This reminds me of the time some 20 year old girl asked me who The Journeys were.
Kids! Geesh!
Jesus Christ! DOES NO ONE HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR ANYMORE? I am completely stunned. Are are you all pranking now? God, I hope so.
im 25 and certainly no music snob, but i cant believe the stranger has some fucktard out reviewing music or whatever he was doing, without having any idea about tommy or the who. i mean this is embarrassing. i expect better out of seattlites. then again, hes probably from colorado or something.
20 years ago a girl I went to Evergreen with had never heard of Neil Young. I told him he was Paul Young's father. Now I can't remember what song Paul Young was famous for.
i have intimate knowledge of Josh Feit's extensive record collection and can report that THE WHO feature quite prominently. Feit know's The Who did Tommy just like you know The What did The Huh?
btw, did that old man fiddle with kids or was that just research?
to Amy Kate Horn~
if this is a joke, i highly suggest you come clean now. this is seriously the type of fuck up that destroys your credibility as a source of information and advice. seriously...almost as bad as plagarism or making up a news story....fucking up this bad isn't something you should do as a joke. you can't recover from the damage.
how would being ignorant of tommy be funny?
also, how is josh's reaction not like 'who shot jr' on dallas? was it all a dream?
Hmmmmm, apparently the Stranger needs to be a "serious" publication from now on.
Honestly, given The Stranger's penchant for snarky, faux-hipster no-nothingism, I honestly thought the review was intentionally meant to display the callous ignorance of the writer.
Now, I discover it was actually, genuinely, sincerely displaying the writer's ignorance, not to mention lack of common research skills.
I'm not sure which disappoints me more...
And I can't believe none of you mentioned Jack Nicholson's cameo, AND the fact that Ken Russell directed.
Jeebuz, sometimes you kids make me feel so frackin' OLD.
Wait, Tommy is the name of a rock band? I'm confused. Is this like a hip hopera? Please, Slog commenters, the Stranger needs your help to stay on top of stuff like this!
You are all idiots. Admittedly dry, but obviously a joke.
[Screaming:] OF COURSE IT'S A FUCKING JOKE!
If *you all* aren't joking, your condescension-coated stupidity is making me suicidal.
@ 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 15, 17, 18, 20, 23, 24, 26 and probably dozens to come:
I edit the theater section.
It kills me how dumb you're being. It just kills me. I had so much more faith in your collective ability to take a joke.
When we fuck up, we cop to it: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=26022.
All of you, please stop. You're plunging me into despair.
My God! It's obviously sarcastic. Did you guys actually read Josh's article? The tone of it is not like Josh at all...he's clearly joking. Why else would he be making fun of boomers if he wasn't aware of Tommy's origins?
I hope he's joking, at least. Because if not, it wouldn't just be a factually inaccurate piece, it would be a horribly written one as well.
Also, ddv, it's spelled plagiarism.
Okay, you guys, you had me really questioning your credibility on that one. Well played. Maybe next time save it for April.
Of course now I'm thinking I need to get all my younger friends super high and make them watch it.
Hey asshead, if people didn't react this way, what was the point of Josh's post. You got people on a joke and you call them dumb for falling for it?
@30 see the problem is, we all could be joking/dense on purpose, or actually be dense and then write it off later that we were in fact joking.
why arent you affording us the same standard you want for yourself?
I wish I could find that article about the hidden Seattle neighborhood -- "Little France" -- from several years ago now. That was awesome. and also a joke. It's a Stranger tradition!
Fake guys? I really doubt it... nice try Stanger staffers. And why exactly are you fighting Josh's battles for him?
it is kind of funny how all the staffers rush to the "it's a joke" defense. kind of ironic how pissed they get at the city, state, other instances of "the system" banding together to defend their own, then pull the same shit when they fuck up.
P.S. Amy, i'll start using spell check for my comments when your publications starts doing research for articles. :)
It's all so existential. Everybody at the Stranger is so stupid. Except Jen Graves, who I worship. Or do I?
@39, this wasnt written by charles so it doesnt pass that test
No offense to any of you staffers, as I love you all, but I think the problem (and the reason you're getting infuriatingly dumb responses)with this article/post is that it's just not funny. Because of this, people are responding as if Josh were actually an idiot.
Wait, was Tommy one of the contestants on American Idol? Was he the guy with the funny hair? Please, Slog commenters, we need your help!
@40 - I once lived on you. Your parking situation is horrendous.
@43 thats why I walk to work and school.
i heart charles mudededede (sp?).
Hmmm, I just looked at the calendar and it isn't April 1. So much for that theory.
My favorite movie is "Wild in the Streets."
Google it kids.
I thought it was hilarious. Not knowing who the Who is or what Tommy was is the funniest thing Josh has ever written. Zoom zoom, over their heads. It's not like there weren't hints all the way through the piece. I mean, c'mon, Josh has posted Who video clips to the Slog before.
Calm down, guys. Josh was making a long form joke that didn't really work. Now it's over.
Given that this is the same city that has given Patrick MacDonald a music column for about 500 years, I'm not surprised Seattle people have really deaf sarcasm meters.
Wait, didn't "Wild in the Streets" star Diane Lane as Ellen Aim? Help us Josh, Amy Kate and Brendan! We need your help! Wash our hair, Eric Grandy!
If you have to explain your joke, it's not funny. Way to win readers by calling them idiots! Keep up the good work!
For the longest time I could never understand why older guys obsessed over Ann Margaret.
Then I saw the version of State Fair that was done in like 1954.
That was when I understood why Tommy was such a hit.
@ fnarf
it's good to see that the videos he posted in the paper edition of the stranger were good hints that other people missed.
Lordy, nobody knows how to read anymore.
Or, apparently, write.
so sanity is apparently pretending like you got the joke at the prodding of stranger staff?
sanity is over-rated.
@ 21 - oh, thanks a lot. Now I have "everytime you go away...you take a piece of me with youuuuu..." in my head.
Erm, Paul Young, not Pete Townshend.
And yes @22, it was just research. Honest.
Whatevs. I did this joke at my high school paper.
What would have been funny would be to review the performance as though it were child porn.
Hey Josh, did you hear the one about Mayor Nickels diggin smooth jazz?
Bette Midler played Tommy's mother and the Acid queen at a production put on at the Moore back in oh, 1971? She was very good at it. :-) (It was before she became well known.)
Bellevue Ave: um, video clips in the paper? I said "Slog", which is where they, and we, currently are.
To everyone wondering if it was an April Fool's joke...
Well, you'd be expecting it on April first, wouldn't you?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29
In Internet terminology, a troll is someone who intentionally posts derogatory or otherwise inflammatory messages about sensitive topics in an established online community such as an online discussion forum to bait users into responding.[1] They may also plant images and data on networks that others may find disturbing (usually indirectly relating to the individual in person) in order to cause confrontation. While not necessarily related to hacking, such a practice is against the Computer Misuse Act 1990 in the United Kingdom, where mischief is caused in order to ensure chaos is spread.
Mayor loving smooth jazz = funny. Some dumb review about Issaquah theatre, not so much. It appears that somebody needs a Weekly lesson in funny.
Mayor loving jazz = (waste of) entire cover story
Tommy thing = small review
fnarf, the people giving josh shit presumably read the review for the show in print form and are not aware of the videos of the who he posted on slog. therefore to say that is evidence of it being this great big joke is null to everyone who missed out on that because they dont read slog.
...except that most of the people tripping on Josh's thing are commenters here on Slog where Josh post all his 60s obsessions shit all the time.
Suddenly I'm reminded of hapless employees of Pacific Northwest Ballet getting harangued for producing that version of the Nutcracker. You know, the one choreographed by Muammar Qaddafi.
It must be depressing to learn that a vast portion of your readers are ineducable retardates. Josh et al, you have my sympathy.
I agree with the folks that are saying that the problem was that it wasn't funny, that is why they didn't realize it was a joke. And no, people aren't "ineducable retardates" just because they didn't get Josh's lame joke.
@64: what @65 said.
It reminded me of the David Sedaris reviews of two school Christmas plays where he writes in the character of a bitter NYC drama critic ("Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol"). I enjoyed it.
I don't think most people are bright or questioning enough to understand satire. Perhaps I should amend that to "Americans," but I don't know how people elsewhere respond. I do know that when I wrote a review of "Star Wars" for my junior high newspaper and called it "a cheap, sleazy rip off of Battlestar Galactica," a few thought it was funny, but most couldn't understand it.
Josh! I am younger than you and I knew this. Get your mind out of the 60s!
Aw, what's a little more of beating the dead horse - it's one of the things we do best around here - so, Brendan & Amy Kate, the question you really should be asking yourselves is: "if Josh pens such a lame attempt at satire that someone such as myself - with a graduate degree in theatre, and the original "Tommy" concept album album collecting dust in my dwindling vinyl collection - fails to clearly "get" the satirical intent, then perhaps the fault lies, not in our lack of humor, but rather in Mr. Feit's abject failure to provide any in the first place.
And Ebeneezer@70, to even compare this to "Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol" is just, well - an insult to real satire.
MMMM. Psyche!
Fact: Muammar Qaddafi has always been known to do his own hair.
Will in Seattle @51, the actual reason that the Tommy movie was a hit was not Ann-Margaret, but Jack Nicholson's performance of "Smash the Mirrow" http://digg.com/videos/comedy/Jack_Nicholson_singing_role_in_Tommy
When S.F. Sorrow came out in the U.S,, there were those critics who thought it was a rip off of Tommy. I could be wrong, but I don't think they were engaging in satire.
Mirror, not Mirrow. Excuse me.
Pete Townsend is such an asshole.
I heard this record called Tommy and its hella cool! It's like, there's this kid who plays video games, only SUPER old school, and he's super good, but he can't see anything! And then he gets molested! And he takes drugs! And the whole time the guitar is like chugga chigga chigga and a whole orechestra comes in! KA CHUNG! And there's this chick, and someone gets killed I think, and it's SOOOO COOOOL!!!!
I always thought "I Don't Know How to Love Him" was a really pretty song.
@65, while the people within slog are giving josh shit, did the original authors of the letters josh put up on slog frequent slog?
The only thing I find lame is the double standard of saying you were joking all along while not accepting that same thing from people taking the piss outta you.
@79, Paulus, I think you are in the wrong comment log. "I Don't Know How to Love Him" is from "Jesus Christ, Superstar", circa, I don't know (1972???)...
Okay, but that was Tina Turner as Mary Magdalene, right?
Josh -
You are having an Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" moment. This kind of joke doesn't work in print, especially not on the web. You should know that.
Yesterday I ordered a sandwich and I asked for "no onions." The guy repeated my order back to me, but changed "no onions" to "extra onions." No smirk, no joking tone of voice. I corrected him, saying, "no onions." He had been making a joke and acted offended that I hadn't gotten it. What he failed to realize is that half of the waiters out there are idiots. I have no way of knowing whether he's one of them or not. It's just not a funny joke.
@82, Uh... I don't think so. Of course it has been a long time.
come on, no matter what-making fun of issaquah is ALWAYS funny. and on top of it, a theatre piece! double funny!! just like the classic stand up joke "the difference between black guys and white guys is...". i liked your little joke, josh.
That's nothing, I ordered a burger once and decided it was easier to tell them what I wanted on it rather than everything I wanted the to hold. I ordered a burger with "just lettuce, mayo, pickles, and onions." i wound up getting a lettuce, mayo, pickles, and onion sandwich with no burger.
BTW, this was at the San Diego Zoo, which I thought odd that they served meat.
not that anyone's reading anymore... but for this sort of joke to work there has to be clues. there were clues.
the harsh posts could have been "joke" replies offered no clues that they were in on the joke.
and the idea was not to pull one over on readers, or to fool them. the idea was that they would laugh along. the fact that some were offended(!) means they could have laughed alond instead, becaues they agreed.
Clues? How's this for starters: "World Premiere." It's in the fucking headline moron.
Just to add a sort of universal existential irony to this for me (why, oh WHY did I read all 10,000 comments on this joke, which was sort of limp to begin with), XM Radio is playing Eyesight to the Blind right this second.
I say take it a step further. Hire third-world immigrants and preteens to review the Police. Or the Stones.
That's not sarcasm.
People who insist that something like a Tommy remake has to be reviewed by someone with deep reverence to the source material... want reviews that kiss their ass, instead of ones that actually do the job reviews are supposed to do.
I'm starting to remember why I didn't go into journalism.
Okay, if y'all are still reading this and are actually Who fans, here's a treat.
Tanglewood, 1970 show, a blazing version of "Sparks",with Moon at the top of his game.
@88 - Brenda:
How about actually reading #87 before calling them a moron?
"not that anyone's reading anymore... but for this sort of joke to work there has to be clues. there were clues.
Why am I still reading this string of nonsense? Moving on!
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Patent application title: CHARGED-PARTICLE OPTICAL SYSTEM WITH DUAL LOADING OPTIONS
Johannes Antonius Maria Ven Den Oetelaar (Eindhoven, NL)
Jorn Hermkens (Oss, NL)
Pleun Dona (Veldhoven, NL)
Pleun Dona (Veldhoven, NL)
Frank Nederlof (Neunen, NL)
Wim Wondergem (Best, NL)
FEI Company
IPC8 Class: AG01N3510FI
USPC Class:
Class name: Inspection of solids or liquids by charged particles analyte supports with air lock or evacuation means
Publication date: 2010-05-06
Patent application number: 20100108907
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A charged-particle optical system (100) such as an electron microscope has
a vacuum chamber (102) with a space (104) for accommodating a specific
one (114) of multiple specimens in operational use. The charged-particle
optical system has a loader (106) with a part (108) that is moveable into
and out of the space. The part is configured for attaching a specimen
carrier (110), brought from outside the system, to a first holder (112)
or to detach the carrier from the first holder and to remove the carrier
from inside the system. The carrier accommodates a first specimen. The
system has an interface (116) in a wall of the chamber for removably
accommodating the first holder (112) or a second holder (118) with a
second specimen (120) mounted thereon.
1. A loader for use with a charged-particle optical system, the system
comprising:an evacuable chamber with a space for accommodating a specific
one of multiple specimens in operational use of the system, wherein:the
loader has guiding means for controllably guiding a part into and out of
the space:the part is configured for enabling to attach a carrier,
brought from outside the chamber, to a first specimen holder or to detach
the carrier from the first specimen holder and to remove the carrier from
inside the chamber, andthe carrier is configured for accommodating a
specific one of the specimens.
2. The loader of claim 1, wherein:the loader comprises a vacuum load lock;the part comprises a gripper;the vacuum load lock is configured to guide the gripper when moving to attach or detach the carrier; andthe guiding means has engaging means (206, 302, 408) for mechanically engaging the vacuum load lock and the gripper so as to allow locking the gripper in a refracted position inside the system and outside the space.
3. The loader of claim 2, wherein:the engaging means comprises a key and a guiding channel matching the key; andthe key is positioned on one of the gripper and the vacuum load lock, and the guiding channel is positioned in the other one of the gripper and the vacuum load lock.
4. The loader of claim 1, wherein the system further comprises:an interface in a wall of the chamber for removably accommodating and positioning, in operational use of the system, the first specimen holder or a second specimen holder with a second one of the specimens mounted thereon.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein:the loader comprises a vacuum load lock;the part comprises a gripper;the guiding means is configured to guide the gripper when moving to attach or detach the carrier; andthe guiding means has engaging means for mechanically engaging the vacuum load lock and the gripper so as to allow locking the gripper in a refracted position inside the system and outside the space.
6. The system of claim 5, wherein:the engaging means comprises a key and the guiding means comprises a guiding channel matching the key; andthe key is positioned on one of the gripper and the vacuum load lock, and the guiding channel is positioned in the other one of the gripper and the vacuum load lock.
[0001]The invention relates to a charged-particle optical system and to a loader for loading a specimen carrier into the system.
[0002]Charged-particle optical systems are well known, highly specialized tools for illuminating a specimen with charged particles, e.g., electrons or ions in order to create an image or to modify a surface of the specimen. Different configurations of such tools are referred to by their respective names in the jargon, such as Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEMs), Scanning Electron Microscopes (SEM), Reflection Electron Microscopes (REMs), Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopes (STEMs), Focused Ion Beam apparatus, etc. The compartment wherein the specimen is being illuminated is kept evacuated to a sufficiently low pressure so as to prevent the charged particles from being scattered. Electromagnetic or electrostatic lenses are used to control and collimate the charged-particle beam. The specimen is placed, typically accommodated on a carrier, on a specimen holder that extends through the wall of the charged-particle optical system in order to hold the specimen at the required position with respect to the beam. The specimen holder has an end at which the specimen is located, referred to as the "specimen holder tip".
[0003]Some charged-particle optical systems have specimen holders that enable to vary, in situ, the position of the tip and/or the orientation of the tip with respect to the stationary holder so as to be able to make a series of images of the specimen, e.g., for a three-dimensional model of the specimen. The specimen is mounted on the tip when the holder is removed from the charged-particle optical system. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 7,291,847, incorporated herein by reference, discloses a TEM with a specimen tip holder assembly for mounting a specimen tip in the TEM. The specimen tip holder assembly comprises a tip holder for supporting a specimen tip. The tip holder is coupled to an elongate support for movement in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of the support. An actuator is mounted to the support for causing motion of the tip holder relative to the support. By means of bonding the specimen to the specimen tip rather than using clips or other mechanical fixing means, the size of the specimen tip may be significantly reduced. Indeed, the need for any sort of specimen clamping or locating mechanism is eliminated thus allowing a much thinner tip profile to fit between the narrow gap of the TEM pole pieces. Once bonded, the individual specimens can be handled and stored as an assembly with an interchangeable specimen tip.
[0004]Yet other charged-particle optical systems have been specially designed for cryogenic applications, e.g., the study of biological specimens. In such a system the specimen to be studied is cooled down to the temperature of, e.g., liquid nitrogen or liquid helium and mounted at the specimen holder tip.
[0005]In order to keep the specimen at the required low temperature, one configuration of such a system has a cooling device mounted at the specimen holder and in thermal contact with the specimen. This configuration, however, has the disadvantage that the entire specimen holder has to be removed from the system for replacing the specimen at the specimen holder tip. The replacement of the specimen may not be carried out at the same low temperature during operational use. As a result, upon reintroducing the specimen holder with the new specimen into the system, the entire system is not in thermal equilibrium, giving rise to thermal drift of the specimen relative to the electron beam, adversely affecting the image quality. Accordingly, the system has to reach thermal equilibrium before high-quality images can be made, thus reducing the time wherein the system is available for operational use.
[0006]U.S. Pat. No. 5,986,270, incorporated herein by reference, discloses a configuration of an electron microscope for cryogenic applications. Herein, the specimen holder is retained in a fixed position in the evacuated compartment during normal operation of the electron microscope. The specimen holder has a control unit, accessible from outside the electron microscope, for translating and rotating the specimen holder. The specimen is brought to the holder via a loading/unloading unit that is mounted separately from the specimen holder and that is configured for transporting the specimen to and from the specimen holder. The loading/unloading unit is mounted in a wall of the electron microscope in the vicinity of the location where the specimen holder is arranged, i.e. preferably at the same height in the wall of the column of the electron microscope and diametrically opposite the specimen holder. The object space accommodating the specimen in operational use of the electron microscope also accommodates a part of a loading/unloading unit. The location of the loading/unloading unit offers the advantage that it is not necessary to modify the design of the apparatus, notably the optical aspects thereof, because the location of the optical elements in the particle-optical column is not influenced thereby. The loading/unloading unit transfers the specimen into and out of the evacuated space within the column of the electron microscope and transports the specimen to and from the specimen holder within said space. The specimen itself need not yet have reached the desired final temperature, because it consists of only a small quantity of matter to be cooled, so that it has a small heat capacity and can be readily cooled, not causing noticeable heating of the specimen holder. The specimen to be studied is introduced into the loading/unloading unit from, after which the specimen is transferred into the object space in a known manner (for example, as in the case of conventional specimen holders); it is then situated at an end of an arm of the loading/unloading unit. The end of the specimen holder is subsequently brought into contact with the end of the arm of the loading/unloading unit in order to take over the specimen. During the transfer of the specimen from the loading/unloading unit to the specimen holder the thermal contact between the end of the specimen holder and the corresponding end of the loading/unloading unit can be limited by providing thermal insulation of a transfer arm of the loading/unloading unit and/or by constructing this arm to be thin and/or by limiting the duration of the contact. It will thus be evident that the specimen holder itself is not removed from the apparatus in order to exchange the specimen. Actually, the specimen holder cannot be removed during normal operation of the system without major servicing of the system. The cooling conduit means are provided separately between the end of the specimen holder which is situated inside the apparatus and the cold source. The term "separately" in this context is to be understood to mean that the cooling conduit means is not connected to the specimen holder in any way other than the connection to the end of the specimen holder. As a result, cooling takes place where cooling is indeed most desirable, i.e. in the direct vicinity of the specimen.
[0007]US patent application publication 2008/0250881, incorporated herein by reference, relates to a specimen holder suitable for being used with a replaceable specimen carrier. More specifically, US patent application publication 2008/0250881 relates to a composite structure of a specimen carrier and a specimen holder. The specimen carrier is separately embodied from the sample holder. The specimen carrier can be formed from a strip of metal, and is a simple and inexpensive element. Using resilient force, it clamps onto or into the specimen holder. The portion of the specimen holder to which the specimen carrier couples also has a simple form. The specimen carrier can couple to the specimen holder in vacuum using a coupling tool. In an embodiment of the co-operative composite structure the coupling tool is an automatic coupling tool. An automatic coupling tool makes it possible to automate processes, and it also makes it possible to attach the sample carrier to a sample holder in vacuum. The latter is of particular importance in so-called cryogenic applications, where a sample carrier that has already been pre-cooled has to be attached to a sample holder at cryogenic temperatures, e.g. temperatures in the vicinity of that of liquid nitrogen or of liquid helium. Systems configured for use with replaceable specimen carriers are also highly relevant for (automated) processing of a batch of specimens, each accommodated on a different carrier.
[0008]In a further embodiment, coupling of the specimen carrier to the specimen holder or decoupling of the specimen carrier from the specimen holder occurs in vacuum. The vacuum may be part of a TEM, a STEM, a SEM, an Electron Microprobe Analyzer (EPMA), a Focused Ion Beam apparatus (FIB), an Auger analyzer, a Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (SIMS), a Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM), an X-ray analyzer, a sputter coater, a plasma cleaner or an evaporative deposition unit.
[0009]The space available for positioning the specimen holder tip within the charged-particle optical system is very small, typically with a characteristic dimension in the order of 5 mm. Specimen holders should also be mechanically very stable in order to allow an image resolution of, e.g., 0.1 nm or less. The publications briefly discussed above demonstrate that a specimen holder assembly is typically designed for a particular type of usage. For example, the design of a specimen holder for use in a cryogenic application is based on certain considerations with respect to thermal criterions, e.g., being made of suitable materials, using joints and lubricants for controlling the position and orientation of the specimen holder tip that function properly at low temperatures. As another example, a specimen holder for use at high temperatures, e.g., 500 K, put some other demands on the materials and joints. As yet another example, a specimen holder may be configured for acceptance of a replaceable cartridge carrying the specimen. As yet another example, specimen holders are available that enable their specimen holder tip to be adjusted relative to the holder, e.g., with respect to the tip's position and/or orientation (tilting with one or more degrees of freedom). This needs intricate machinery at the tip. All this shows that specimen holder assemblies for charged-particle optical systems are expensive components.
[0010]The inventors have realized that loading a specimen into a charged-particle optical system is generally a delicate process. The specimen has to be mounted on a specimen holder. The specimen can be damaged during mounting and/or during the loading of the holder into the charged-particle optical system.
[0011]The inventors have also realized that the configurations of known charged-particle optical systems restrict the usage of specimen holders to only particular types. U.S. Pat. No. 5,986,270 discloses a specimen holder mounted in an electron microscope and a transport unit that arranges the specimen on the specimen holder. The specimen holder is to be moved towards the transport unit in order to accept the specimen, and is then to be moved back to the position for operational use of the electron microscope. Owing to the amount of space available for maneuvering, as a result of part of the transport unit and part of the cooling means extending into the object space, the setup disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,986,270 is not suitable for replacing specimens by means of replacing specimen holders. Also, U.S. Pat. No. 5,986,270 is not suitable for replacing specimens by means of replacing the specimen holder, as the removal and re-insertion interferes with thermal equilibrium requirements, discussed above. U.S. Pat. No. 7,291,847, on the other hand, restricts the usage to specimen holders that have the specimen already bonded to the tip. In order to replace the specimen, the specimen holder must be removed from the electron microscope and either the specimen is to be mechanically or chemically removed from the tip, or the tip is to be replaced. After bonding the new specimen to the tip, the specimen holder can be re-inserted into the electron microscope for a new operational cycle.
[0012]The inventors therefore propose a more convenient configuration of a charged-particle optical system suitable for replacing specimens using an in situ specimen holder configured for accepting a cartridge with a specimen, and for replacing specimens using a holder that is removed in its entirety.
[0013]More specifically, the invention relates to a charged-particle optical system comprising an evacuable chamber with a space for accommodating a specific one of multiple specimens in operational use of the charged-particle optical system. The system has a loader, which includes guiding means for controllably guiding a part into and out of the space. The part is configured for enabling to attach a carrier, brought from outside the chamber, to a first specimen holder or to detach the carrier from the first specimen holder and to remove the carrier from inside the chamber. The carrier is configured for accommodating a first one of the specimens. The system also has an interface in the chamber for removably accommodating and positioning, in operational use of the system, the first specimen holder or a second specimen holder with a second one of the specimens mounted thereon.
[0014]Accordingly, the charged-particle optical system in the invention allows loading a specimen on a cartridge or other carrier that has to be attached to a holder already in place in the system, as well as loading a specimen already mounted on a holder by means of placing the holder. Changing between these types of holders does not require additional service actions from the operator. The system in the invention thus maintains its operational flexibility in that it can be used to support all types of experiments at high specimen temperatures, at low specimen temperatures, using straining the specimen, etc. Note that in the electron microscope disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 5,986,270 the specimen holder moves to or from the loader unit, whereas in the invention the loader accommodates a part that moves to the stationary holder or away from the stationary holder. The cartridge loading cycle in the invention does therefore not interfere with positioning the holder.
[0015]In an embodiment of the system of the invention, the loader comprises a vacuum load lock, and the part comprises a gripper. As known, a vacuum load lock enables to bring objects into or out of the chamber while preserving the vacuum. The guiding means is configured to guide the gripper when moving to attach or detach the carrier. The system has means for mechanically engaging the vacuum load lock and the gripper so as to allow locking the gripper in a retracted position inside the system or chamber and outside the space.
[0016]In a further embodiment, the means comprises a key and a guiding channel matching the key. The key is positioned on one of the gripper and the vacuum load lock, and the guiding channel is positioned in the other one of the gripper and the vacuum load lock.
[0017]The invention further relates to a loader for use in a charged-particle optical system as specified above.
[0018]The invention is explained in further detail, by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawing, wherein:
[0019]FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a charged-particle optical system in the invention; and
[0020]FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 are block diagram illustrating a loader in the invention.
[0021]Throughout the Figures, similar or corresponding features are indicated by same reference numerals.
[0022]FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a charged-particle optical system 100 of the invention. As charged-particle optical systems are well known in the art, FIG. 1 only shows those components that are relevant to the current invention.
[0023]Charged-particle optical system 100, e.g., a TEM or a STEM, comprises an evacuable chamber 102, coupled to vacuum pump (not shown) and having a space 104 for accommodating a specific one of multiple specimens in operational use of charged-particle optical system 100. System 100 also has a loader 106. Loader 106 accommodates a part 108 that is moveable into and out of space 104. Part 108 is configured for enabling to attach a carrier 110, brought from outside charged-particle optical system 100, or from outside chamber 102, to a first specimen holder 112 or to detach carrier 110 from first specimen holder 112 and remove carrier 110 from inside chamber 102, or from inside system 100. Carrier 110 is configured for accommodating a first one 114 of the specimens. System 100 further has an interface 116 in chamber 102 for removably accommodating first specimen holder 112 or a second specimen holder 118 with a second one 120 of the specimens mounted thereon.
[0024]Second specimen holder 118 preferably resembles a standard side-entry TEM specimen holder as known to the person skilled in the art, showing tilt, double tilt, rotation, heating, or other capabilities, although a specimen holder of a different kind may be used.
[0025]Accordingly, system 100 can operate in a first mode, wherein first specimen 114 is mounted via loader 106 onto first specimen holder 112 in situ, and in a second mode, upon replacing holder 112 by holder 118, wherein second specimen 120 is loaded together with placing loader 118. Note that part 108 is moveable into space 104 and out of space 104. When part 108 has moved into space 108, carrier 110 can be attached to, or separated from, holder 112, whereupon part 108 can be retracted from space 104. If holder 118 is used instead of holder 112, part 108 is kept out of harms way, thus maximizing the room to maneuver holder 118 that may have a tip end that occupies slightly more space than the tip end of holder 112.
[0026]In this way a charged-particle optical system 100 according to the invention combines all capabilities of system using a standard side entry TEM sample holder and the capabilities of cassette loading via samples mounted on small tips that are introduced with a gripper and coupled to a first specimen holder, acting as a receiver of said tips on which the specimens are mounted.
[0027]FIG. 2 is a block diagram of loader 106 in the invention, represented in cross-section. The evacuable chamber 102 shown in FIG. 1 has a wall 220. Loader 106 comprises a vacuum load lock 202. Part 108 comprises a gripper 204 that is keyed with key 206 to vacuum load lock 202. Vacuum load lock 202 enables to use gripper 204 for loading carrier 110 with specimen 114 into charged-particle optical system 100 in order to attach carrier 110 to holder 112 (when moving the gripper in the direction of arrow 208) or for removing carrier 110 from holder 112 (when moving in the direction opposite to arrow 208) and from charged-particle optical system 100. Gripper 204 can be manually controlled, or using suitable actuators known from robotics, can be automatically controlled by a computer or microcontroller. Carrier 110 and holder 112 are designed according to, e.g., the approach disclosed in US patent application publication 2008/0250881, discussed above, or another suitable approach that enables to mechanically match carrier 110 with holder 112 using gripper 204 Preferably, vacuum load lock 202 preserves the vacuum in space 104 during the loading and unloading of carrier 110.
[0028]The keying of vacuum load lock 202 and gripper 204 is preferably such that gripper 204 can only be loaded into, or removed from, vacuum load lock 202 in a certain orientation relative to vacuum load lock 202, so as to avoid erroneously loading another gripper with a another carrier and another specimen while a gripper and/or carrier 110 with specimen 114 are still inserted in the instrument and coupled to holder 112. To that end, after attaching carrier 110 to holder 112, gripper 204 is retracted into vacuum load lock 202 and can stay there for the duration of the experiment conducted on specimen 114, being positioned so as to not interfere with the electron beam or with holder 112 when the latter has the orientation changed of its tip so as to tilt specimen 114 with respect to the direction of the electron beam.
[0029]FIGS. 3 and 4 are diagrams that illustrate, in combination with FIG. 2, a simple keying mechanism. Gripper 204 has a key 206 whose shape and dimensions match with a profiled guiding channel 302 in vacuum load lock 202. Channel 302 guides gripper 204 and locks gripper 204 in a retracted position. To clarify the operation, assume that gripper is to be brought into system 100 via vacuum load lock 202. Arrow 208 in FIG. 2 indicates the direction of moving gripper 204. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a lower half portion of vacuum load lock 202 when looking at vacuum load lock 202 face on from outside system 100 as indicated by the tail of arrow 208 in FIG. 3. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing the inner surface of vacuum load lock 202 when looking at vacuum load lock 202 from the direction indicated by arrow 304 in FIG. 3. In the view of FIG. 4, channel 302 has a first portion 402 that guides key 206 so as to move gripper 204 first in the direction of arrow 208. Then, gripper 204 is to be kept in position and rotated clockwise around its longitudinal axis so as to move key via a portion 404 to a portion 406. Once key 206 has entered portion 406, gripper 204 can be moved further in the direction of arrow 208 so as to attach carrier 110 to holder 112. Once carrier 110 is thus mounted, gripper 204 is retracted in a direction opposite to the one of arrow 208, i.e., outwards from charged-particle optical system 100. Channel 302 has a portion 408 to hold key 206 in a position, wherein gripper 204 is retracted and locked in vacuum load lock 202. FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 merely serve to illustrate an example of keying gripper 204 to vacuum load lock 202. It is clear to the skilled person that channels with other profiles can be used with a matching key, and also that the guidance channel can be made in the outer surface of gripper 204 while the key is accommodated in vacuum load lock 202.
[0030]Note that, once gripper 204 is locked in channel portion 408, gripper can only be released by moving in the direction of arrow 208, i.e., towards the inside of charged-particle optical system 100. This facilitates picking up carrier 110 from holder 112 when the experiments on specimen 114 have been completed, and specimen 114 can be removed or replaced by another specimen. The profile of channel 302 can be designed in such a way, that gripper 204 must pick up carrier 110 from holder 112 in order to remove gripper 204 altogether from system 100 (preferably via a vacuum lock, not shown). This configuration prevents another carrier (not shown) from being loaded accidentally when carrier 110 is still attached to holder 112. Also note that when gripper 204 is locked in the retracted position in portion 408, gripper 204 does not interfere with the electron beam or with any controlled movements of the tip of holder 112 or the tip of holder 118 that position or orientate specimen 114 and specimen 120, respectively, with regard to the electron beam.
[0031]Vacuum load lock 202 is positioned so as to have gripper 204 move and be positioned into space 104 opposite of interface 116 so as to be aligned with holder 112 when mounted at interface 116. Note that system 100 can still be used in a scenario, wherein replacing specimen 120 in space 104 involves removing holder 118 to which specimen 120 is attached.
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