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- Rated: PG
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: February 1, 2005
- Originally Released: 1996
- Label: Platinum Disc
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
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|Brian Shuster & James Ian Lifton
|Director of Photography:
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Hulk Hogan stars as a pre-teen's dad who leads a double life--on the surface he's a goofy toy store owner, but he's actually a top secret government agent assigned to recover a lethal laser weapon. When he gets captured by an evil woman bent on world domination, his son and his friends pull out all the stops to free him.
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News Shocks and the Term Structure of Interest Rates: A Challenge for DSGE Models
News shocks about future increases in Total Factor Productivity (TFP) lead to a large and persistent drop in inflation and the Federal Funds rate while driving up the slope of the term structure of interest rates (Kurmann and Otrok, 2010). In this paper, we first show that a monetary DSGE model with a standard parametrization along the lines of Smets and Wouters (2007) is unable to replicate these dynamics. We then formally estimate the model with a limited-information procedure that is designed to match as closely as possible the impulse responses of key macroeconomic aggregates, inflation and the term structure to TFP news shocks. When we restrict parameters to economically meaningful values, the model is unable to generate the large drop in inflation and the Federal Funds rate that causes the slope of the term structure to increase. This failure to quantitatively account for the impact of TFP news shocks represents a challenge for modern DSGE models because TFP news shocks explain a significant portion of the variation in inflation, the Federal Funds rate and the term structure of interest rate as well as medium-run fluctuations in future real activity.
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good hotel if you have sea views ..... middle of the action , lots of Beautiful Russian girls and Russian clubs ..... the day I was leaving I found the hotel cleaners had stolen a lot of my most lovely and expensive Cloths ...... the cleaners have got good taste ..... YOUVE BEEN WARNED ....... Joey God Bless x
The best thing about this hotel was the location, it is right in the middle of walking street. I was on the 8th floor and I didn't have much of an issue with the noise from the clubs. The hotel is old and could do with some work, some fresh paint, general tidy up, but the room was comfortable for...
Very bad experiance 500 bhat me yeh room waha pe de rahe hai aur bekar hotel hai breakfast bekar hai only 2 bread. Es k pass me khub hotels hai 1000 bhat me achi achi beverly plaza aur walking street k pass to hai but room me smell hai hotel 30-40 year pahle ki bani hui hai
I booked this hotel because it was cheap and in the market area, but regretted my choice as soon as I arrived.
It's bang in the middle of the walking street and too noisy! Also the online rates were more than the counter rates! The breakfast was horrible. The swimming pool too small. The manager at the counter does not...
i love this hotel, i have been going to pattaya for 13 years and i alway stay at this hotel, the staff are super friendly and alway willing to help you. the hotel sit just block away from the beach and many fun thing to do. the hotel does sit in a bar a nd club area and prob not...
let me start with the best part of this hotel and that its Location... its right in mid of Pattaya famous walking street... If ur going with a boys group to celebrate ur bachelorhood... this place and hotel will amaze you...
We never had the food here as we were dependent on street food.. they r cheap and somehow more...
Hotels staffs behavior was very rude and extremely bad.they were not cooperative at all.room was very tiny and also awful breakfast with very limited option.it seems that they behave good with only European tourist not Asian.one and only good thing is location of the hotel,very near to walking street
I have been visiting this hotel for the last twenty years and have watched some aspects of it decline over the years. They used to have a rooftop swimming pool and bar but the pool was replaced by a spa tub because of problems with water leaking but they still have an indoor pool. The restaurant used to be 24...
The best aspect of this hotel is the location, probably the best in Pattaya in my opionion. Reception area is nice but the restaurant is terrible. I couldn't eat that awful food. The staff were extremely friendly and helpful. But the rooms are in terrible need of renovation. Amazingly not noisy even though it is so close to walking street...
"Only have room with Sea Views"
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not a hotel for peope who don't like the bar sence !
the hotel sit right in a red light district so if your not into seeing girls selling them self and partying all night don't stay here."
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Think it's hot on the sun? Well it's just as hot under your feet, according to new research suggesting the Earth's core is a scorching mass of iron that's roughly the same temperature as the sun.
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The Earth is believed to have a solid core, consisting mainly of iron in a crystalline state. Surrounding that solid core is an outer core comprised of scorching-hot liquid.
The temperature of the crystalline centre has been the subject of an enduring debate, with scientists unable to agree on how the iron might behave in the intense pressure and heat of that environment.
The CEA researchers were able to simulate the phenomenon, however, by compressing a sample of iron in a laser-heated diamond anvil cell -- a device which essentially squeezed the sample between two synthetic diamonds. Then, they used lasers to increase the temperature of the sample while the pressure was cranked up to more than a million times that of the Earth's atmosphere at sea level.
X-rays were then fired at the iron sample, while its texture and structure were observed during the transition from solid to liquid – giving new insights into the behaviour of partially molten iron and the temperatures at which iron crystalline can form.
According to the experiment, the Earth's core is 1,000 degrees hotter than previously thought -- making it 6,000 C, on par with the temperature on the sun.
"The accurate determination of the melting temperature of iron provides an important constraint on the core temperature, which is essential to understanding how the dynamic Earth works, including its heat budget, generation of its magnetic field, and the thermal evolution of the planet. high heat flux at the core-mantle boundary with a possible partial melting of the mantle," wrote researcher Yingwei Fei.
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It is important to recognise the role that methane has played throughout history in causing massive turbulence within the Earth System. At this stage of the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe, it is important to pay close attention to the role that methane is playing in creating dead zones and potential sources for volatile eruption that could affect not just sea-based, but also land- and air-based life. Although a global-scale methane driven oceanic eruption is highly unlikely at present, there may be stagnant, oxygen-poor basins in the ocean where methane might accumulate to dangerous levels. Even a small explosion of that methane could cause a catastrophe. Imagine what would happen if such an event occurred. Tsunamis could be generated in continuous waves. Methane and water clouds would auto-ignite and the massive fires could cause widespread destruction. Consequences could be global. "I have little doubt there will be another methane-driven eruption -- though not on the same scale as 251 million years ago -- unless humans intervene," says Prof Ryskin. Even if there is only a small probability that such eruptions could occur, we should start looking for areas of the ocean where this might be most likely, beginning with the underwater gas clouds and dead zones now being spawned by the Gulf of Mexico oil gusher. What would be your suggestions for diffusing those very large underwater methane clouds especially if, on their way to the surface, they could erupt explosively?
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they are anticipating a methane-driven explosion with massive fires and widespread destruction. Unlike oil, significant amount of methane gas dissolves in deep cold water. However, as that methane-water rises, the gas comes out of the solution and creates a methane mist, whose volume is seven times greater than pure water because of much reduced pressure. The resulting eruption is likely to spread quickly and release a part of the ocean basin's worth of natural gas in great clouds into the atmosphere. These could ignite because the amounts of flammable gas would be enormous. The subsequent fires and explosions would be catastrophic. Gulf Oil Gusher: Methane, Climate & Dead Zones:http//www.mi2g.com/ this article was originally written in 2010 they have continued to expand on it.
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While the tri-band Samsung SGH-E720 impressed us with its bright LCD screen, 1 megapixel camera and cleverly designed interface, this multimedia phone lacks some key functions.
Although Samsung classifies the SGH-E720 as an MP3 phone, only 88.5MB of memory is installed and inexplicably no memory expansion slots are included, which severely limits the amount of pictures and music it can store.
While functionally similar to the older Samsung SGH-D500 model, the SGH-E720 has a clamshell design rather than a slide design. The only criticism we have of the clamshell design is that the phone is slow to switch the displays from external to internal and vice versa.
On the outside of the SGH-E720, Samsung has fitted a large 96 x 96 pixel OLED display that shows signal strength, battery life and the current time. During our testing, we found that if a call was missed, a small icon would flash up on the screen for a few seconds and then disappear, meaning there is no way to tell if a call has been missed unless the phone is opened. If a message is received however, an icon appears at the top of the external screen.
We found the OLED screen performed better than LCD screens outdoors. The display also acts as a self portrait viewer for taking photos. Three media shortcut buttons are positioned under the OLED that allow users to access MP3 playback. These buttons can only be activated by holding them down, so chances are they won't be activated accidentally while in your pocket.
Opening the phone reveals a striking 176 x 220 colour LCD that displays up to nine lines of text. The SGH-E720 is highly customisable, allowing users to adjust the LCD brightness, determine how long the display remains backlit and change the wallpaper display of both internal and external screens.
Underneath the screen Samsung has provided a backlit keypad with a five-way navigation joystick, two soft keys, dedicated call start and call end buttons and a cancel button. We were pleasantly surprised at just how easy it was to use. The large graphical icons, intuitive interface and logically placed buttons meant that we were navigating around the phone with ease within a few minutes.
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|Publication number
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|Aug 24, 1994
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|Aug 24, 1994
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|Niels Krag
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|Krag; Niels
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|Patent Citations (18), Referenced by (10), Classifications (16), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
Cross-country ski stimulator machines have become popular, with the NORDICTRACK models sold by NORDICTRACK, Inc., being very popular. Such machines include a pair of skis slidably mounted on a frame to move forward and rearward in opposite synchronism, with resistance, to provide exercise simulating cross-country skiing. Such machines also encourage exercise by providing a rope that extends around a pulley which resists turning, with the person encouraged to pull opposite ends of the rope as he skis.
Experience shows that it takes about a week or more of use of the machine, for at least about 30 minutes per day, for a person to become comfortable in using the above-mentioned machine. As a result, it is common for a purchaser to try the machine a few times, and then store it away. The skis are spaced apart (center-to-center) by about eight inches and are each perhaps two inches wide to simulate cross-country skiing. The close lateral spacing of the skis provides insufficient lateral stability for a person to feel comfortable, until about a week of use. While the skis exercise the legs in a manner comparable to cross-country skiing, the exercise obtained by pulling on a rope, does not exercise the same muscles as are used in operating ski poles during actual cross-country skiing, and the pulling of ropes does not help train a person in the proper use of ski poles. An attachment for an existing cross-country ski simulating machine or a new cross-country ski simulating machine, or a new cross-country ski simulating machine, which enabled persons to become comfortable in the use of the machine over a short period of use and which provided exercise and training of arm muscles for actual cross-country skiing, would be of value.
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, a cross-country ski simulator and an attachment for a prior art simulator are provided, which enables new users to quickly become comfortable in their use and which more completely simulates proper cross-country skiing. An attachment for a prior art machine such as a NORDICTRACK machine includes a framework comprising a pair of stationary guides that are mountable on the left and right sides of a prior art machine. A pair of slides are each slidable in forward and rearward directions on a corresponding one of the guides, and a pair of ski poles each has a lower end pivotally mounted on a corresponding one of the slides. A cable mechanism connects the slides to each other to assure that they move in opposite synchronism, so one moves forward as the other moves rearward.
The framework which includes the stationary guides, preferably includes spacers that position the beams so the slides and the bottoms of the ski poles are widely spaced apart. The lateral spacing between the bottoms of the ski poles is at least twice the lateral spacing of the skis. The wide spacing of the ski poles provides lateral stability during early stages of use, to more quickly make the user become comfortable with the use of the machine.
The slides are preferably coupled to the guides by a ball cage assembly such as the type used to mount drawers in a file cabinet, so the slide can extend far forward and rearward for full pole stride or reach, and yet permit compact storage and transport.
The novel features of the invention are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The invention will be best understood from the following description when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is an isometric view of an exercise apparatus of the present invention, which includes an attachment of a present invention shown in solid lines and a prior art machine shown in phantom lines.
FIG. 2 is a plan view of the exercise apparatus of FIG. 1, with the attachment shown in solid lines and with most of the prior art machine shown in phantom lines.
FIG. 3 is a view taken 3--3 of FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is an isometric view of the attachment of FIG. 1.
FIG. 5 is a front elevation view of the apparatus of FIG. 1, with the attachment shown in solid lines and most of the prior art machine shown in phantom lines.
FIG. 1 illustrates an exercise apparatus 10 of the present invention, which includes a prior art NORDICTRACK cross-country ski simulator 12 and an attachment 14 of the present invention mounted thereon. The machine 12 includes a pair of skis 16, 18 that are slidable in longitudinal forward and rearward or backward directions F, B, and that are laterally spaced in left and right lateral directions L, R. The machine 12 is constructed so a largely vertical post 20 and swing up rod assembly 116 usually extends forwardly and in an upward incline, with a rope (not shown) wrapped about a drum pulley 22 (then at the top of the post), so a person P can pull on opposite sides of the rope as that person moves the skis forward and back against resistance. As discussed earlier herein, it takes about a week or more of daily practice for a person to become comfortable in use of the prior art machine 12. Applicant's attachment 14 allows the person to become comfortable with the apparatus 10 that combines the attachment with the prior art machine, in one day of about 30 minutes of exercise. Also, applicant's apparatus simulates true diagonal style cross-country skiing.
The attachment 14 comprises a framework 30 that includes a pair of stationary guides 32, 34 that are mounted at the left and right sides of the frame 36 of the prior art machine 12. The frame 36 and framework 30 can together be referred to as a frame assembly. A pair of slides 40, 42 in the form of channels, are slidably mounted on the guides so the slides 40, 42 can move in forward and rearward directions thereon. A pair of height-adjustable ski poles 44, 46, each of a length of a plurality of feet, have lower ends 50, 52 that are each pivotally mounted on a corresponding one of the slides 40, 42. In using the exercise apparatus 10, the person grasps upper ends 54, 56 of the ski poles and moves them forward and rearward as he moves the skis forward and rearward.
Applicant provides a mechanism 60 which couples the slides 40, 42 to cause them to move substantially in synchronism, in opposite forward and rearward directions. This is often referred to as the diagonal cross-country ski style, and is highly preferred in cross-country skiing. The mechanism 60 includes a cable 62 that extends around pulleys 64-67 located at the four corners of the largely rectangular framework 30. It is noted that the cable is guided by additional pulleys such as 70, 72 at the front of the framework to guide it in wrapping around the existing NORDICTRACK brake pulley 22 and avoid interference with the skis 16 and 18. The cable (which is preferably continuous but which can be in sections) is fixed to the right slide 42 and is coupled to the left slide 40, with portions of the cable extending both forward and rearward of each slide. As a result, when one of the slides such as 40 moves in one direction such as rearwardly, the other slide 42 will move in the opposite direction such as forwardly. Such movement is the proper movement in cross-country skiing, and the cable mechanism therefore promotes proper ski pole use.
As shown in FIG. 2, the skis 16, 18 are spaced apart by a distance A such as eight inches. Each of the skis has a width W of about two inches. The lower ends 50, 52 of the ski poles are spaced apart by a distance C of about 20 inches. In would be possible to mount ski slides only slightly laterally beyond each of the skis 16, 18. However, applicant provides the framework 30 with spacers 74-77 that hold the guides 32, 34 widely spaced to hold the bottom of the ski poles widely spaced. The wide spacing of the ski poles enables the person to achieve higher lateral stability.
When a beginner starts to move the skis back and forth, his body may tend to tilt to one side or the other. Without the ski poles, it may take perhaps a week or more of daily sessions, each of about one-half hour length, for a fit (and generally younger) person to feel comfortable on just the prior art machine 12. By providing ski poles whose lower ends are widely spaced, a person helps avoid a tendency to fall to the left or right by pressing on the ski poles (which is a major reason why poles are used in cross-country skiing). It takes perhaps one thirty minute session for a fit person to learn to rely on the ski poles to keep himself upright while moving the skis and ski poles back and forth. The great reduction in time required for a person to feel comfortable with the apparatus, and the ability of older and/or less fit person to become comfortable in use of the apparatus, resulting from the widely spaced ski poles, greatly encourages continued use of the exercise apparatus 10. That is, if a person does not feel comfortable using the device after a day or two, there is a considerable possibility that the person will merely store away the apparatus, and consider it a poor purchase. However, if the person begins to feel comfortable using the device after a relatively short period of time, then that person is much more likely to buy and/or continue to use the apparatus. The ski poles increase the age range of users and lessens the degree of dexterity required of the users. It also makes it easier to demonstrate and sell to customers.
Applicant prefers that the lateral spacing C between the centers of the ski pole lower ends be at least twice as great as the spacing A between the centers of the skis, or even greater than twice as great, such as approximately twenty inches.
FIG. 3 shows a two-axis joint 80 which applicant uses to connect the lower end of each ski pole, such as the lower end 50 of pole 44, to a corresponding slide such as 40. The joint includes vertical and horizontal hinges 82, 84 that allow the ski pole to pivot about vertical and horizontal axes.
Applicant prefers to couple each slider such as 40 to one of the guides 32, by a ball slide unit such as 90. The unit 90 is of the type used to support drawers on file cabinets, which includes a static ball guide rail 91, a ball slide member 92 and a ball cage assembly 94 that includes balls 96 and a ball cage 98. Such ball slide units 90 are commonly used to hold a drawer in a file cabinet, although applicant found that he had to weld two drawer ball guide rails 91 in tandem in order to obtain a full ball guide rail 91 of sufficient length for use in the attachment. Applicant uses a rectangular tubular structural guide beam 100 to support the ball guide device 91, with beam-32 being riveted to the spacers such as 72. Each spacer 71-74 is attached by bolts such as 102 and wing nuts 103 to the corresponding side of the frame of the original machine 12, and the spacers and bolts can be considered to be a coupling that couples the ski pole enhancement attachment 14 to the frame of the prior art machine 12. Guide beam 32 supports cable pulleys, and is therefore made longer than the ball guide rail 91. The beams 32 and 34 are riveted to the spacers such as 71-74. It is noted that the bolts 102 mount in existing holes in the prior NORDICTRACK simulator.
The ball slide unit 90 provides for smooth sliding of the slides such as 40 on which the ski poles are mounted. As will be described below, considerable selective braking forces can be applied to the cable that couples the slides, so the low friction obtained by the ball slides is not significant. However, the ball slides have an advantage over simple slides (where a slide slides directly on low friction material on a stationary guide) in enabling the slides to move further forward or rearward and even beyond the framework. When the slide moves, the ball cage assembly 94 moves half as fast or far. As a result, when a slide is in an extreme forward or rearward position, such as a slide 40 shown in FIG. 4, the ball cage 94 will extend forward of the slide 40. Similarly, when the slide is in an extreme forward position such as shown for slide 42, its corresponding ball cage assembly will extend rearward of the slide 42.
The ball cage assembly 94 couples the slide 40 to the stationary ball guide rail 91 (FIG. 3), and holds up the slide even when its end extends a considerable distance rearward or forward of the ends of the ball rail guide 91.
The channel shaped extrusions 40 and 42 provide needed structural rigidity for the ball slide assembly members 92, 94. This is because when member 92 is maximally extended, large forces on the ski poles might otherwise cause the ball engaging members to twist. The channels 40, 42 also provide mounting members for ski poles 50, 52 and cable attachments. The advantage of this movement of the member 92 beyond the ball guide rail 91 is that the bottom ends of the ski poles can move rearward and forward by long distances (e.g. 4 feet) to simulate their use in cross-country skiing, and yet the attachment can be stored in a compact space that is about as long as required for the prior art machine 12 on which the attachment is mounted. The stationary guides 32, 34 preferably each extends along at least 50% of the length D of the frame or frame assembly, and actually extend along about 109% of it. The bottom of the ski poles move along distances that preferably are at least as long (i.e. over 90%) as the lengths of the guides.
Applicant has built and successfully tested an attachment of the illustrated construction, for a NORDICTRACK simulator 12, where the attachment has a length of about 54 inches, with about 52 inches of frame and about 2 inches of pulleys extending forward of the frame in the stored position (brake assembly pointed down and skis even) with each other. The ski pole travel was 48 inches, using a ball guide rail 91 of 44 inches length, a ball slide member 92 of 24 inches length, and a ball cage 94 of 18 inches length. The ski pole travel (of the joints 80 at the bottom) was 12 inches rearward of the existing NORDICTRACK simulator and 18 inches rearward of the front of the simulator. Travel beyond the rear end of the frame of the simulator 12, simulates true cross-country skiing using ski poles. The framework 30 of the attachment extends 41/4 inches behind the prior frame 36. The beams 32, 34 each had a length of 50 inches.
The brake drum pulley 22 (FIG. 4) is typically mounted on a shaft 110, and a braking mechanism 112 is included that can be adjusted by a control 114 to vary braking of the brake drum pulley 22. It is noted that in the case of the NORDICTRACK exerciser, such exerciser has a pulley 22 already built in to resist movement of a rope whose opposite ends are held in the hands of the person who is exercising. Such pulley and mechanism is held by a rod 116 which can be pivoted down from its prior art use position. Applicant uses the rod and pulley in their pivoted down position to resist movement of the cable that connects the slides, to provide braking of the ski poles and thereby simulate ski pole use in cross-country skiing. Applicant inserts a spacer block 20A between the post 20 and swing-up brake rod 116 of the prior simulator, to align the pulley 22 with other cable pulleys and to prevent sideward deflection of the rod 116 by cable forces.
The cable is fixed to the slide 42 (with an adjustment provision, not shown) at a cable middle location 117. The forward end of the left cable portion is fixed to slide 40 at location 118. Applicant picks up any slack in the cable by the use of an extension coil spring 120 which couples cable portion 121 through a coupling 124 to the spring, with the spring anchored to the slide at 126. The coil spring assures that there will be cable tension despite slight loosening of the cable by back and forth motion. Tension is required to assure braking by the capstan-type wrap-around brake pulley 22. The extension coil spring 120 also allows limited vertical adjustment of the stomach support cushion 140 (FIG. 1 ).
Applicant provides decelerators, or dashpots 122 which stops rearward movement of the slides, to avoid an abrupt jarring stops of ski-pole movement. Such dashpots slow the slide movement over a distance of a plurality of centimeters.
It is possible to obtain about the same motion of the ski pole handles or upper ends 50, 52, in movement along a largely straight line inclined at about 40�, by a complex linkage. However, such linkage is likely to have an increased cost, and with the simulation not being apparent. A not-so-accurate simulation can be achieved by straight ski poles of about 3.5 feet length with lower ends that are pivotally mounted at the front bottom of the frame, but with handles of about eight inches length whose lower ends are pivotally connected to the upper ends of such ski poles.
Thus, the invention provides an attachment for use with an existing cross-country ski simulating machine to help stabilize the user to facilitate his early comfortable use of the machine and provide exercise that will be useful in actual cross-country skiing, as well as an entire exercise apparatus. The attachment or exercise apparatus has a pair of guides that include structural guide beams on laterally opposite sides of the frame or framework and slides that move forward and rearward, with the lower ends of ski poles attached to the slides. A mechanism causes synchronist movement of the slides in opposite directions, and can comprise a cable extending substantially around the four corners of the framework. The sliding ski poles are widely spaced to enhance stability. Applicant can use an existing brake pulley used on present NORDICTRACK machines, to reduce the cost of an attachment.
Although particular embodiments of the invention have been described and illustrated herein, it is recognized that modifications and variations may readily occur to those skilled in the art, and consequently, it is intended that the claims be interpreted to cover such modifications and equivalents.
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|Jul 26, 1968
|Jan 6, 1970
|Herbert S Fall
|Heavy-duty drawer slide
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|Fabricacion De Maquinas
|Sheet glass conveying, classifying & stacking apparatus
|Dec 15, 1975
|May 17, 1977
|Pauls Edward A
|Cross-country ski exerciser
|Apr 18, 1977
|May 16, 1978
|Herbert S. Fall
|Slide assembly with bearing retainers coupled by floating clip
|Nov 28, 1979
|Feb 24, 1981
|Karl Lautenschlager Kg, Mobelbeschlagfabrik
|Drawer slide
|Oct 10, 1980
|Sep 6, 1983
|Jones William C
|Body-exercise device
|Nov 12, 1981
|Mar 6, 1984
|Norton Desmond H
|Cross country skiing simulating exerciser
|Sep 30, 1982
|Apr 23, 1985
|Hermelin Victor M
|Force opposition type exerciser
|Apr 18, 1983
|Jul 16, 1985
|Gary Haaheim
|Cardiovascular exercise machine
|Dec 21, 1984
|Oct 21, 1986
|Haaheim Gary R
|Exercise machine
|Sep 13, 1985
|Dec 30, 1986
|Alexander Geraci
|Walking exercise apparatus
|Mar 16, 1988
|Sep 19, 1989
|Altero Technologies, Inc.
|Cross-country skiing simulator
|Sep 27, 1989
|Nov 13, 1990
|Aqua-Vent Products, Inc.
|Clothes dryer/filter/humidifier
|Feb 23, 1990
|Nov 12, 1991
|Holt Peter P
|Cross-country skiing and exercising machine
|Apr 28, 1992
|Mar 9, 1993
|Fittraxx, Inc.
|Exercise apparatus
|May 21, 1985
|Aug 18, 1987
|Sheer Marcel M
|Cross country skiing machine simulator
|Title not available
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|Filing date
|Publication date
|Dec 9, 1996
|Aug 22, 2000
|Tissue; Stan D.
|Cross country skiing skate trainer
|Aug 19, 2003
|Aug 16, 2005
|Richard D. Charnitski
|Inertial resistance exercise apparatus and method
|May 6, 2005
|Aug 22, 2006
|Rizzo Peter A
|Exercise device
|Aug 21, 2006
|Jul 22, 2008
|Rizzo Peter A
|Exercise device
|Oct 29, 2009
|Mar 24, 2015
|Thoraxtrainer Company Aps
|Training apparatus imitating cross-country skiing
|Aug 19, 2003
|Feb 17, 2005
|Charnitski Richard D.
|Inertial resistance exercise apparatus and method
|Aug 21, 2006
|Apr 19, 2007
|Rizzo Peter A
|Exercise device
|Jul 12, 2011
|Jan 17, 2013
|Tayebi Sean K
|Systems and methods for exercise mechanism
|Dec 23, 2003
|Jul 15, 2004
|Fyres Ab
|Ski training apparatus, ski pole means and resistance and retraction means
|Oct 29, 2009
|May 6, 2010
|Jto Holding Aps
|Training apparatus imitating cross-country skiing
|U.S. Classification
|482/70, 482/51
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Mar 16, 1999
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|Aug 22, 1999
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|Nov 2, 1999
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
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Fresh!....Spirited! -- Publishers Weekly
"Sharp, witty." -- Palm Beach Post
"Hilarious." -- USA Today
"Wildly inventive." -- People
"An Ex to Grind was a joy from beginning to end." -- Bestselling author Karen Robards
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Jane Heller promoted dozens of bestselling authors before becoming one herself. She is the author of thirteen books including An Ex to Grind, Infernal Affairs, Name Dropping, Female Intelligence, and Lucky Stars. She lives in Santa Barbara, California, where she is at work on her next book. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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I sometimes wonder if people who review books have ever tried to write and have their own work then published or criticised! An amazing achievement to have written a novel, and even better to have then had someone create a movie on the back of it!
Melanie Banks, a most unsympathetic character, is a financial analyst who is griping that, since she was the breadwinner in their marriage, she has to pay her husband maintenance in their divorce. She hits upon a clause in their divorce agreement that gives her a light at the end of the tunnel and she single-mindedly pursues a mean-spirited course of action to get a bit closer to that light. She doesn't care who gets hurt in the process.
There's nothing funny in this novel. There's nothing even mildly witty in the dialogue. Melanie uses her friends, shirks her real responsiblities and wastes everyone's time, not least the reader's. I kept reading because I wanted Melanie to receive her inevitable comeuppance, and while the sequence when that arrives is indeed sweet, I thought she deserved worse than she actually got. Given that she's the "heroine" of the story, I suppose that was too much to ask.
I hope that this author returns to form in future novels. I miss the crackling dialogue, intelligent styling and interesting heroines that made me a Heller fan many moons ago.
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Melanie hires the well-known matchmaker, Desiree to help her find a love interest for Dan. You see, in the fine print of their divorce papers, it states that if Dan gets married or lives with another woman for 3 months, she no longer has to pay him alimony. Thus, her search for the perfect Love Connection begins.
I have been a huge Jane Heller fan & have read all of her books. An Ex to Grind and Lucky Stars have been VERY different from her earlier novels that were always filled with fun & crazy plots that guaranteed laughs. These last two, anyone could have written them - they did not have that unique quality that I had come to love.
No doubt that I will await the next Heller book and I do not regret spending the time reading 'An Ex to Grind,' but it seemed a little under par for her normal work.
I gave this novel a chance after a favorable review in the local paper. I stuck with it, hoping that it would get better. It did not. The protagonist is so annoying I found myself rooting against her at every turn, hoping she would wind up alone so she could continue to be miserable. If ever there was a character who deserved to be miserable, she's the one.
Save yourself the time/aggravation and leave this novel on the shelves.
Melanie's character is frank, bordering on a little too much self-deprecation that doesn't seem to jive with her chosen career. In fact, for a woman so driven that her husband accuses her of work-a-holism, her mind can't seem to get off the track of having to fork over half of her salary. For me, that made the premise a little unrealistic.
However, that is exactly the reason I purchased the audio recording of this novel--Melanie's voice is reminiscent of a friend unloading her deepest secrets and her less than stellar moments infused with probably more humor than actuality as in any good retelling of a story beginning with "You'll never guess what happened to me. . . "
The first half of the novel entertains a lot more than its second half. Unfortunately, this is when the author must tie up all the loose ends and actually keep the story real without being too predictable. Does it work? That depends. Melanie is a madcap heroine--cut from the clothe of Katherine Hepburn in Bringing Up Baby--or Rosalind Russell in "His Girl Friday." Those characters do some crazy things to get what they want with the old adage, "All's Fair in Love and War" at the top of their list of Words-to-Live-By. In this same respect, Melanie, does some despicable things--but that doesn't take away from the fun of the book. So what if she doesn't have the moral compass of a Girl Scout or missionary? Once you dedicate yourself to such a book, or the viewing of that Lifetime movie, you already know the outcome as soon as you see the titles--you are expecting to be outraged. What fun would it be if the main character never did anything unsavory? The predictability of the story should factor into the the comedy as in the classic films mentioned above. In "An Ex to Grind," Melanie works towards what she wants, gets what she wants, realizes she doesn't really want what she thought and must go through the fire of disappointment to become a newly baptized Melanie--one that views things in a different way because of her experience. This does happen in this novel, however, the outcome is not all that satisfying--its too saccharine-y sweet. I may expect that from a classic film, but not from a novel published in 2006.
Reader Caroline Schaffer does a great job of acting out each characters voice while still keeping the timing of a comedienne, making the audio presentation of this novel a worthwhile listen.
Bottom line? Having not read any of Jane Heller's other novels, I found "An Ex to Grind" predictable fun with a madcap heroine. Recommended for those who want a typically crazy comedic read that probably would work best as a Lifetime movie.
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Due to a co-habitation codicil in their divorce agreement, she decides to hire a matchmaker to provide the perfect woman for him, so that he'll break that cohabitation rule, thus relinquishing his alimony. What she doesn't count on is his finding Leah - the perfect woman, who brings about all kinds of positive changes in Dan, including his new quest to become a college football coach. Suddenly Mel is finding herself torn between the husband she used to love, and the hunky artist across the hall. Of course, if either of them found out about her plot... it could be the end of both relationships.
The story had a lot of promise - it's really hard to actually like Mel. She's so conniving, and never really saw that her current fortune had a lot to do with Dan's early support. Despite that, Heller's crisp dialogue and witty banter keep the story from becoming mundane. I was pretty disappointed with the ending - I hate ambiguous endings when you've invested so much time in a book.
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The author shows the good and bad, the brilliant mixes, the bad editing and cutting on some songs, especially the earlier ones, and gives credit where credit is due. He can get a bit too overbearing at times, I happen to love the keyboard solo in "In My Life", I hardly notice the little flourish at the end of it which the author dislikes. On certain songs such as "Revolution", the author dispenses with song analysis altogether and starts writing an essay about the politics and culture of the time. This I found a bit annoying. The Beatles were a phenomenon, but as John Lennon once said, "we were just a little band who made it big". The music is meant to be enjoyed, from "Little Child" to "Glass Onion" to "For No One", there's no great social meaning to all this, it's just a rich pop tapestry.
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Where the book goes a little off the rails for me is that the author has a tendency to state his opinions as fact. As opinions, they're interesting, but to imply that because a song makes a particular impression on him then that's the only way to hear it is taking it a bit too far. Where he sticks to facts, it's a most informative book. Once he starts introducing adjectives, he often loses me as I simply don't hear the song in the same way as he does.
I suppose to some extent we all see what we want to see. I notice some reviewers believe MacDonald was biased towards McCartney, but my impression is that he felt that the more significant work came from Lennon (personally I feel that without the others none of the Beatles work would be as good as it is). Be that as it may, he does have interesting opinions and his technical analysis is first-rate. A book well worth reading.
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One of the most seriously astute critiques of Beatles music I have ever read. Highly recommended to fans who think that they have read it all.Published on June 11, 2014 by Elizabeth A. Verhoeven
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I have a huge document in which the lines starting with some specific words text style should be changed. I have created an array for all those words and tried formatting the document using For loop. But only the style of first word in the array is getting changed not for all the words in the array.
Below is what I did, please have a look at it and suggest the solution:
Sub Variables_NormalTxt()
Dim oRng As Word.Range
Dim oRngFC As Word.Range
Dim varUbyteNormal As Variant
Dim ArrayItem As String
Dim i As Integer
varUbyteNormal = Array("uword", "ubyte", "bool", "sword", "const", "ulong", "static")
Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
i = 0
For i = 0 To UBound(varUbyteNormal)
With oRng.Find
.Text = varUbyteNormal(i)
.Font.Name = "Times New Roman"
.Font.Bold = False
.Font.size = 10
While .Execute
Set oRngFC = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("\Line").Range
oRngFC.Style = "variable normal"
End With
Next i
End Sub


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Cedric Yarbrough net worth: Cedric Yarbrough is an American actor and comedian who has a net worth of $1 million. Hailing from Minnesota, Cedric Yarbrough's net worth steadily grew from the early 2000s as he became a fixture in well-known TV comedy series and films. In his early acting career, the Minnesota State graduate made an appearance on the King of Queens, The Bernie Mac show Arrested Development, before starring in Comedy Central's Reno 911! as Deputy S. Jones. Yarbrough was also featured in popular comedy films, including 40 Year Old Virgin, Meet the Fockers, Get Smart and Four Christmases. As a voice actor, Yarbrough can be heard on Adult Swim's animated series, The Boondocks, providing the voice of Tom Dubois and Colonel H. Stinkmeaner. He also provided the voice of Firestorm in the animated film, Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths. The alumnus of Dudley Riggs' Brave New Workshop is a massive fan of Elvis Costello and Bobby "Don't Worry" Mc Ferrin.
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Cedric Yarbrough
Date of Birth
Mar 20, 1973 (43 years old)
Actor, Comedian, Voice Actor
United States of America
African American
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