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Investec Epsom Derby 2009 (Group 1)
15:45 Epsom, Saturday 6 June2009
1m4f10y, Good-Good to firm in places
No | Form | Horse | Trainer |
1 | 14-1 | Age Of Aquarius | A P O'Brien |
2 | 21-31 | Black Bear Island | A P O'Brien |
3 | 0121-8 | Crowded House | B J Meehan |
4 | 4-113 | Debussy | J H M Gosden |
5 | 11-11 | Fame And Glory | A P O'Brien |
6 | 312-3 | Gan Amhras | J S Bolger |
7 | 3541-41 | Golden Sword | A P O'Brien |
8 | 211-5 | Kite Wood | Saeed Suroor |
9 | 2130-2 | Masterofthehorse | A P O'Brien |
10 | 21-2 | Montaff | M R Channon |
11 | 117-4 | Rip Van Winkle | A P O'Brien |
12 | 411-1 | Sea The Stars | J M Oxx |
13 | 21 | South Easter | W J Haggas |
In 1780 Edward Smith Stanley, the 12th Earl of Derby, organised a race for himself and his friends to race their three year old fillies over one and a half miles. He named this race after the Oaks in his estate. This was so successful that the following year they added a new race for colts and fillies. This race was over one mile but the distance was increased to a mile and a half in 1784. This is the race we know as the Derby today. It is a race restricted to three year old full colts and fillies.
As with the Grand National I will use race profiling to hopefully find the winner of the 2009 Epsom Derby. This involves analysing the profile of previous winners of the race and using this information to find the winner.
Recent Form
Eight of the last ten winners won last time out with only Sir Percy on 2006 and New Approach last year being different, however, both these horses finished second to above average 2000 Guineas winners.
Number Of Runs
Five of the last six winners had just one race before the Derby in their three year old season prior to the Derby.
Also, only Benny The Dip in 1997 and New Approach last year had more than five career starts before lining up for the Derby since Erhaab won in 1993. Runners with three or more wins have won twelve of the last twenty races.
Key Races
Horses that have won the Dante Stakes, the Derristown Stud Derby Trial and the Lingfield Derby Trial have to be respected.
Aidan O'Brien
Aidan O'Brien has not won the Derby for seven years which is a long time for a trainer with his record in Group races, however, with six of the top eleven in the betting all his entries have to be respected.
Irish bred horses have won eight of the last eleven races, five of sixteen runners in 2008 were Irish bred and finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 6th and 12th.
The Derby is very much a market driven race with horses priced 16/1 or bigger having a terrible record. The top three in the betting have provided thirteen of the last twenty winners while the top six in the betting have provided nineteen of the winners. Only four of the last ten favourites have won, however, only one horse has won at a bigger price than 7/1 in the last eleven years, High Rise at 20/1 in 1998.
Positives | Negatives |
Irish bred | Horses priced 16/1 or greater. |
Last time out winners | |
Horses raced no more than 5 times | |
Winners of the Dante Stakes, Derristown Derby Trial and Lingfield Derby Trial | |
Horses who have had only 1 race as a 3 year old prior to the Derby. |
The 2000 Guineas winner, Sea The Stars, fits many of the key trends in that he won last time out and has had only one run this season. He also won over one mile as a two year old. In addition, the 2000 Guineas can produce Derby winners.
The main question mark is whether he will stay the distance. The female side of his pedigree says yes with his mother, Urban Sea, winning the Arc and producing two horses that were placed in the Oaks and two Group 1 winners in Black Sam Bellamy and Derby winner Galileo.
The doubts are because of his father, Cape Cross, who was a miler and many of his best progeny were best around that distance, However, he has sired an Oaks winner in the wonderful Ouija Board.
There are concerns about the distance but jockey Mick Kinane thinks he will stay and in the forecast good ground he is my selection to win the Derby. Another plus for me is I am a big fan of the trainer John Oxx.
Selection : 12 Sea The Stars
1st 12 Sea The Stars (IRE) 11-4
2nd 5 Fame And Glory 9-4 F
3rd 9 Masterofthehorse (IRE) 16-1
Tote Win £3.40
Pl £1.50, £1.50, £5.00
Winning Trainer J M Oxx
Winning Jockey M J Kinane
Distances 1 3/4l, nk
Runners 12 ran
Non runners 13


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Peter SchaferScreenwriter
Hanna WegStarring
- Keira Knightley as Zelda Sayre
The story revolves around Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who became Jazz Age icons known for living large, soaring high and crashing hard. Although toasts of town in the 1920s, their courtship and marriage was festooned with jealousy and acrimony. Fitzgerald used their relationship as material for his novels, and Sayre - who tried hard to find an artistic identity of her own and ended up being admitted to a sanitarium - did the same.
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HELLO I'M A TRUCK (Framed!)
If the Beach Boys provided the soundtrack for endless summers of hopeful romanticism, Hello I'm a Truck fits the bill for endless summers of ironic detachment. Like all that is good and bad about Southern California, this Silver Lake-bred quartet revels in the yin-yang of jaded observations and goofball witticisms. Their New Wave landscape of synthetic squawks and bleeps provides the perfect setting for "End of the Summer," a slightly melancholy tale about a suburban teen suicide pact that's nonetheless great driving music. "Ultrasonic Cotton Candy" goes even further by undressing The Hook all the way down to its adrenal core. The song pounds the perfectly obvious keyboard combination deep into your drums with all the frazzled energy of a poodle that never stops yapping. Later on, the band plots a South American coup d'rock in "Airwave Paraguay," only to succumb to the sugar rush infatuation of "Double Love Chew." You could get away with describing Hello I'm a Truck as Cars protégés with a better sense of humor, but the novelty of the New Wave aesthetic is a mere accouterment to their clever songcraft. Get this one while the sun's still warm. 4 Stars -- Greg Beets
Highways and Honky Tonks (Rounder)
"Heather Myles is the kind of singer that makes you wish you were wrapped in a roadhouse love affair somewhere between Bakersfield and Barstow." So claims the promotional material from Myles' latest release Highways and Honky Tonks, her first for rootsy Rounder after Nashville doors closed on three earlier efforts. Sure enough, the songs have a truck-stop feel along with some Nashville steel: the album shuffles along confidently, a little slick at times, but not egregiously so, straddling the border between maverick and mainstream. There's several toe-tappers ("I'll Be There If You Ever Want Me"), a few tear-jerkers ("Broken Heart for Sale"), and more than a few you're-goldurned-right-about-that numbers, including the dreadfully honest "Who Did You Call Darlin'" and the standout opening track, "You're Gonna Love Me One Day." There's shades of Loretta Lynn in that songwriting -- as well as in Myles' rich, resilient voice -- but it comes up several hairs short of classic. In other words, it may not make you pine for that Barstow barstool, but it just might make you crack a cold one and call your honey closer. 3 Stars -- Jay Hardwig
Learning How to Live (Sub Pop)
On "House of Secrets," the near-masterpiece that opens Mike Ireland's debut, a shaken protagonist returns to the abandoned home of his recently shattered life with the intention of burning it to the ground. "Secrets" embodies the same raw, bare emotional wallop that makes classics like George Jones' "The Grand Tour" so unforgettable. A latecomer to country music, Ireland understands there's more there than twang and pedal steel; his keen ear steers him clear of aping Nashville's traditionalists. Instead, Learning How to Live revels in the lush Sixties pop arrangements that ruled the charts when producer Billy Sherrill was king of Music City. Ireland sings with winning conviction and an appealing honky-tonk whine, and while none of the album's remaining songs hold up to "Secrets," many come close; "Headed for a Fall" reeks of the cynicism of spurned love, "Biggest Torch in Town" is its delusionally optimistic flipside. There's no denying Ireland is a compelling and sincere talent, without a drop of the icy cool ethic many of his peers possess, though whether his demons will ultimately conquer or sustain him remains anybody's guess. 3.5 Stars -- Jeff McCord
Clinch Mountain Country (Rebel)
For the long list of folks who lined up for this project, singing harmony with Ralph Stanley must have been like robbing a bank with Clyde Barrow. Regarded as one of the progenitors of the high lonesome sound, Stanley's songs have been reworked by nearly everyone working the bluegrass circuit. On Clinch Mountain Country, Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys perform his songs and those of his brother Carter, as well as other bluegrass standards and public domain material. The most notable example of Stanley's influence on this 2-CD set is Bob Dylan's turn on "The Lonesome River." Dylan's mud-nasal low-end meshes with Stanley's tenor holler in an astounding harmony, spooky in its dissonance and weighted with history. In fact, each and every performance on this set is memorable; the lazy drawl of Dwight Yoakam on "I Just Got Wise," Junior Brown's patented twang on "Stone Walls and Steel Bars." The gospel tradition in mountain music is well-represented here, too, in hymns like "Shouting on the Hills of Glory," "Beautiful Star of Bethlehem," and perhaps the most stunning moment, the near-perfect match of Alison Krauss and Stanley on "Pretty Little Miss in the Garden." In its wealth of beautiful tunes and breadth of contributors, Clinch Mountain Country offers a guided tour through the roads of a long and dynamic tradition and suggests a number of new paths to follow. 4 Stars -- Christopher Hess
Plain Sweeping Themes for the Unprepared (Trance Syndicate)
After running yourself ragged on a summer's eve of mad dog debauchery, Monroe Mustang's laconic twang is just the elixir to get you feeling human again. The Austin quartet's soothing yet precise muse often harkens back to the early post-psychedelic work of Pink Floyd or the lazy, off-kilter sounds of New Zealand pop. Then they come along with a clever tune like "I Was Eighteen It Was Hate," which breaks the mood with a dark, slurry texture that's reminiscent of a toilet bowl confessional. "Vinyl" narcotizes rhythm and harmony to create something deliciously wrong before "Veronica" dives headfirst into desperately romantic acid rock. The band pays close attention to the subtle interaction of sounds, which leads to a striking degree of musical congruence. Somehow, though, Monroe Mustang seems just a bit more approachable and (ahem) fun than their drone-heavy brethren. Whenever the band settles into a comfortable groove, something unexpected and jarring is just around the bend. Perhaps we can chalk that up to the charming playfulness of the four-track mind. 3.5 Stars -- Greg Beets
The Black Light (Quarterstick)
Like dayglow colors that appear only under a black light, the instruments that paint Joey Burns and John Convertino's fuzzy black vision are key. Setting the tone instantly, "Gypsy's Curse" is a spicy instrumental of twanging guitars topped with accordion and sprinkled with cello: Mambo Italiano! "Fake Fur," with its marimba, wood claps, and steel guitar, tells a different tale, and while the third track, "The Ride (pt II)," features bassist Burns' indistinct voice as its main component, all the instruments listed after the duo's names in the credits rise to the surface sooner or later to define a tune -- a bassline here (the title cut), a trumpet there ("Chach"). Whereas their debut, '97's Spoke, was recorded in Burns and Convertino's bedrooms, The Black Light lists a studio in their native Tucson as point of origin, and one imagines the musically adept duo having a ball with a crib's worth of nifty instruments. An adult should have overseen the album's edit, the last third living up its song titles ("Sprawl," "Stray," "Bloodflow"), but if nothing else, this sort of ghost town music conforms well to the background. 2 Stars -- Raoul Hernandez
Hello Nasty (Grand Royal/Capitol) The four-year wait for a follow-up to Ill Communication has yielded a sloppy mess that's part Ill Conceived, part License to Fill. It's 22 completely unmemorable tracks and to say it has minimal flow and loads of sketchy ideas is charitable. Hello Nasty's old-school hijinks sound like lazy filler; even worse, although the Beastie's proto-punk excursions have always been hit or miss, they've left them behind here in favor of some ultra-forced faux-Beck stylings -- the most criminal of which has Adam Yauch whining his way through the sappy "I Don't Know." How about, "I Don't Know How to Pull Off a Convincing Falsetto"? Since it takes seven songs to get to "Intergalactic," the album's first single and best song, and until track 9 for anybody to get off a decent rhyme, it's probably no accident that the cover pictures the trio of post-funk heroes tightly trapped in a sardine can and sweating in the sun. Hello Nasty was this summer's "event release" and the Beasties clearly felt and bowed to the pressure. To use a Beastiesque metaphor, they folded like origami. 2 Stars -- Andy Langer
Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk (Columbia)
Franz Kafka had one request of his friend Max Brod, the legal executor of his estate. He wanted Brod to destroy everything. Kafka didn't consider any of his written works finished, and therefore didn't want them seen by the world. If sometime in May 1997 Jeff Buckley had an inkling of his untimely drowning, he might have made a similar request of his mother, the executor of his estate, because the material that makes up the 2-CD Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk is unfinished as well. On the first disc, that's not very problematic, because it consists of polished material that was simply going to be re-recorded. It sounds finished. And it's a bit more diverse and daring than Buckley's stellar debut, Grace. It's with the second disc, the incomplete homemade four-track recordings that Buckley was dinking with, that things get uncomfortable. There's something eerily voyeuristic about intruding into the middle of the creative process without an artist's permission. To the credit of Buckley's mother, she didn't attempt to touch up anything. Still, it's tough to enjoy something the world wasn't meant to see. 2 Stars -- Michael Bertin
Dear Enemy (Hannibal)
On their Hannibal debut Dear Enemy, identical twin sisters Dana and Karen Kletter create a vast musical story book of their 38 years together. The emotionally deep result is conveyed in an honest, mostly acoustic (guitar, banjo, piano) way. The 12-song suite, featuring Susan Voelz adding banner violin cameos, retells the twins' shared experiences and emotions. Examples include suffering through the late summer heat ("We Died in August"), and dealing with an occasionally present father ("Flight Into Egypt"). The album's closer, "Blue Glass," possesses the quietly dark mood à la Trinity-era Cowboy Junkies. Having more than just very compatible and moving voices (even singing the words "brackish water" in "Beach Song" gorgeously), the sisters are both classically trained pianists, though their talent doesn't stop there: Karen is a veteran of medieval history doctoral studies and Dana backed up Courtney Love on Hole's Live Through This. Their individual and shared experiences all come together on Dear Enemy, one emotion-soaked, damn fine debut. 3 Stars -- David Lynch
New Power Soul (NPG)
Things haven't been bad enough for the Artist that New Power Soul constitutes a comeback per se, but it's certainly a return to form. For the first time since Prince declared himself dead on 1994's Come, the Artist has released an album you don't need a remote control to listen to. New Power Soul is compact, well-sequenced and fit with far more hits than misses -- certainly much more than you could say about the bloated crapshoots he called Emancipation and Crystal Ball. And as it winds up, the Artist's new power isn't far removed from Prince's old power: slinky falsettos, knee-deep grooves and raw sexuality. The latter is all over this album, although transparent jams like "Mad Sex" and "Come On" are balanced by spiritual delirium like "Freaks on the Side," which instructs us that "God is love/ love is God/ simple and plain/ partyin' in this way/ there's so much more to gain." Even so, the Artist hasn't given up painting seedy portraits. "Shoo-Bed-Ooh," a slick eclectro-funk tribute to an unsuccessful prostitute is the album's centerpiece, a sex rave that includes at least one classic line: "Spittin' out the aftertaste of a boy who might not call again." It's frank stuff, but eminently hummable. And although the Artist and the New Power Generation cover a lot of musical ground in just 10 songs and one slow jam bonus track, New Power Soul gels around cohesive songwriting, not a batch of similar grooves. If Prince is really dead, then long live the New Power Generation. 3 Stars -- Andy Langer
Powertrip (A&M)
The Seventies were a time of great cynicism and maleficence -- Vietnam, Richard Nixon, Watergate -- an era best defined by hard rock; desperate, dangerous music chronicling dissolution and death. Dave Wyndorf understands. The dark lord behind Monster Magnet, Wyndorf has once again rammed his fist down the throat of the Seventies, and as with the group's last effort, 1995's Dopes to Infinity, pulled out the heart and lungs of a beast still best defined by Aerosmith, Black Sabbath, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Unflinchingly aggressive, Powertrip bulges with muscled testosterone, steely riffs pumping Wyndorf's epic machismo ("Powertrip," "Space Lord"), sonic explosions ("3rd Eye Landslide"), and comic book cliches ("Temple of Your Dreams," "Goliath and the Vampires"). Though it's all terrifically radio-ready, a Sixties garage nugget like "See You in Hell" (a rewrite of Dopes' "Dead Christmas") displays Wyndorf's obvious gifts as a songwriter. The Nineties will ultimately also boil down to hard rock -- disguised as punk and grunge -- and as such, Monster Magnet's Powertrip is totally justified. 3.5 Stars -- Raoul Hernandez
Strung Out in Heaven (TVT)
Caught up in the hedonistic bliss-wreck of 1969, Anton Newcombe just can't get his latter-day incarnation of the Word According to Brian Jones out of his hazy head. Three years and seven albums after kick-starting BJM, Newcombe and his host of disposable co-conspirators have jumped from Bomp! to TVT with this 13-song salvo that recalls not only the namesake Jones, but also Byrds, Velvets, Strawberry Alarm Clock, and -- leaping ahead here -- the more bluesy psychobabylonic riffings of Primal Scream. It's a flashback within a freakout, but Strung Out in Heaven is surprisingly cohesive given the amount of rock & roll territory it mines. Ranging from the atonal Lou Reed drone of "Wisdom" to the pure pop ecstasy of "Going to Hell," and the proto-Dylan/Noel Gallagher of "Wasting Away," Newcombe is an evil genius at stylistic appropriation; BJM tosses off a mean doppelganger of just about any soundscape collated circa '65-'70. Like the psychedelic paisley zombies in Bob Clarke's hippified flick, Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, BJM just keep crawling back, dragging their beloved decade behind them, to devour our brains. (The Brian Jonestown Massacre plays the Electirc Lounge, Friday, July 24.) 3 Stars -- Marc Savlov
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EXCELSIOR SPRINGS — The Missouri Highway Patrol says a Plattsburg woman died Saturday night in a head-on collision on U.S. 69 north of Excelsior Springs.
Sixty-year-old Shirley Harless was killed after her vehicle was hit head-on by a vehicle driven by 28-year-old Lucas Bates of Lawson.
Bates' vehicle, after the head-on crash, went off the road and caught fire.
Harless was pronounced dead at the scene.
Bates and a passenger in Harless' vehicle were treated for serious injuries. Two others had minor injuries.


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, Jane Ziegelman follows European immigrants on a remarkable journey from their first taste of America in the Ellis Island dining hall to cramped tenement kitchens on the Lower East Side in this tantalizing saga of how immigrant food and culture became American food.
Through the experiences of five families, all of them residents of 97 Orchard Street, she takes readers on a vivid and unforgettable tour, from impossibly cramped tenement apartments down dimly lit stairwells where children played and neighbors socialized, beyond the front stoops where immigrant housewives found respite and company, and out into the hubbub of the dirty, teeming streets.
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Historical Note:
The Battle of Little Bighorn took place on July 25-26, 1876 near the Little Bighorn River in what is now southern Montana. Sometimes referred to as "Custer's Last Stand," the encounter pit the 7th Cavalry of the United States Army, under the command of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, versus a collection of Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors. The 7th Cavalry sustained severe losses as a result of the encounter - its casualty count ultimately tallied to 268 dead and 55 injured, over half the total roster of the regiment. Among those whose lives were claimed was Lt. Custer as well as every soldier fighting in the five companies alongside him. Estimates of Native American casualties vary widely, but the battle is almost universally remembered as having been an overwhelming victory for the Native American alliance; a victory that was, at least in part, brought about by major tactical mistakes made by Custer in commanding his troops. Custer was a flamboyant and celebrated figure who had achieved fame for decorations earned during the American Civil War. His death, combined with the heavy defeat suffered by the 7th Cavalry, rendered the Battle of Little Bighorn both an extremely newsworthy event during its time and a continuing source of fascination within American popular culture.
The Cheyenne people are believed to have established themselves as a tribe in the early 1500s. Originally based in the Great Lakes region of present-day Minnesota, the Cheyenne migrated west, eventually settling in what is now Montana. By the 19th century, the Cheyenne nation had grown quite substantially, populating a great expanse across the midwestern United States. Throughout the century the Cheyenne were commonly at war: first against the Crow people - traditional enemy of the Cheyenne - and later against the United States Army. In the aftermath of the Black Hills War of 1876-1877, the Northern Cheyenne were forcibly relocated to Oklahoma - home of the Southern Cheyenne - by the United States government. The tribe, unaccustomed to this new environment, fared very poorly and in 1878 a fragment of the Northern Cheyenne returned to their ancestral homeland, settling in the Powder River Basin of southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming. In 1884 the 444,000-acre Tongue River Indian Reservation, located in southeastern Montana, was established by U.S. President Chester A. Arthur. The reservation has served as home to the Northern Cheyenne people ever since.
Royal G. Jackson was a faculty member in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University from 1970 until his retirement in 2004. Jackson taught courses in recreation resource management and nature-based tourism; his research interests included forest history, nature-based tourism, and protected area management. He pursued research projects in the western United States and in Costa Rica. As part of his research, Jackson conducted numerous oral history projects pertaining to the history of forestry, specifically, the Oregon State University College of Forestry and the Research Forests (McDonald and Dunn Forests); the Soap Creek Valley in Benton County, Oregon; Basques in Harney County, Oregon; the diversification of a resource-based economy in Deschutes County, Oregon, to include tourism; the Winema National Forest; the Battle of Little Bighorn from the perspective of the Northern Cheyenne descendants; and the environmental movement and ecotourism in Cost Rica. Jackson earned his BA in 1960 from the University of New Mexico, an MA in 1965 from Western New Mexico University, and his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico in 1971.
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The Global Volcanism Program has no activity reports for Buckle Island.
The Global Volcanism Program has no Weekly Reports available for Buckle Island.
The Global Volcanism Program has no Bulletin Reports available for Buckle Island.
Buckle Island is in the center of a 160-km-long chain of volcanic islands forming the Balleny Islands off the coast of Antarctica's Victoria Land. The islands are located at the southern end of a submarine ridge system that extends north to New Zealand, but is offset by the Indian-Antarctic ridge system. The elongated, 21-km-long island is capped by an gently sloping icecap that descends steeply to the sea between rocky cliffs. Dark eruption columns were reported during 1839 and 1899, but no detailed geological studies exist for Balleny Islands volcanoes.
Summary of Holocene eruption dates and Volcanic Explosivity Indices (VEI).
Start Date | Stop Date | Eruption Certainty | VEI | Evidence | Activity Area or Unit |
1899 Jan 12 | Unknown | Confirmed | 2 | Historical Observations | |
1839 Feb 9 | Unknown | Confirmed | 2 | Historical Observations |
This compilation of synonyms and subsidiary features may not be comprehensive. Features are organized into four major categories: Cones, Craters, Domes, and Thermal Features. Synonyms of features appear indented below the primary name. In some cases additional feature type, elevation, or location details are provided.
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Scott Cone | Cone | 66° 51' 0" S | 163° 11' 0" E |
The Global Volcanism Program has no photographs available for Buckle Island.
The following references have all been used during the compilation of data for this volcano, it is not a comprehensive bibliography. Discussion of another volcano or eruption (sometimes far from the one that is the subject of the manuscript) may produce a citation that is not at all apparent from the title.
Berninghausen W H, Neumann van Padang M, 1960. Antarctica. Catalog of Active Volcanoes of the World and Solfatara Fields, Rome: IAVCEI, 10: 1-32.
LeMasurier W E, Thomson J W (eds), 1990. Volcanoes of the Antarctic Plate and Southern Oceans. Washington, D C: Amer Geophys Union, 487 p.
Quartermain L B, 1964. The Balleny Islands a descriptive and historical outline. Antarctic Div Dept Sci Ind Res, p 1-10.


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Moshe Flinker wrote "I have written several times about a question that has been bothering me for some time; namely, what will I be when I am on my own, which I imagine will be in about five or six years".
Moshe was a deeply religious young man who wrote with great feeling and insight about the persecution he faced living in German-occupied Belgium. His diary began in November, 1942 when he was sixteen, and continued until September 1943. Eight months later, he and his family were sent to Auschwitz. He did not survive.
Moshe's diary is about much more than the daily hardships he faced under Nazi tyranny. He wrote about his religious ideals, his philosophy of life, and his struggle to discern the meaning of the events that engulfed him. Though he struggled with despair, the act of writing showed that he was still concerned with the future and that he had not given up hope. In the end, his diary is testimony to the strength of his spirit in the face of oppression.
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6899653 | Fastener with gear assembly | 2005-05-31 | Murphy | 81/57.31 |
6035746 | Gear transmission cartridge | 2000-03-14 | Lin | 81/57.31 |
5947212 | Dual-mode fastener-driving tool | 1999-09-07 | Huang | 81/57.3 |
4846027 | Screwdriver | 1989-07-11 | Lu | 81/57.3 |
4341292 | Freely-reversible torque-applying handle assembly with direction of torque-application selection | 1982-07-27 | Acevedo | 81/58.3 |
2721591 | Geared screw driver | 1955-10-25 | Criswell | 81/57.31 |
0919156 | N/A | 1909-04-20 | Gilmore | 81/57.31 |
0311255 | N/A | 1885-01-27 | Pedersen | 475/296 |
This application claims priority as a continuation-in-part application from U.S. Non-Provisional patent application Ser. No. 12/354,939, filed on Jan. 16, 2009 now U.S. Pat. No. 7,987,745, the entirety of which is hereby expressly incorporated by reference herein.
This invention relates to a device for driving or removing fasteners from a substrate, such as a screwdriver, that includes a ratcheting mechanism to assist in driving the fastener.
In the past a variety of different types of devices have been developed to drive fasteners into a substrate for various purposes. The type of device most often utilized to drive the fastener is a screwdriver or similar device that translates the rotation of the screwdriver by the individual into rotation of the fastener to urge the fastener into the desired substrate.
On many occasions, the particular location where the fastener needs to be located, or the type of substrate into which the fastener is to be driven creates a certain amount of difficulty in driving the fastener into the substrate. To provide some assistance in driving the fasteners in these more difficult situations, many of these devices are constructed with a ratcheting mechanism. The ratcheting mechanism allows the individual to restrict the rotation of the driver to a single direction, which eases the difficulty of driving the fastener.
Nevertheless, the devices, whether including a ratcheting mechanism or not, produces only a one to one ratio between the rotation of the device by the individual and the corresponding rotation of the fastener. As a result, it normally takes a significant amount of time to completely drive the fastener into the substrate.
In an attempt to increase the speed of driving a fastener into a substrate, certain prior art devices have been developed that can alter the ratio of the rotation of the handle of the device with respect to the driving bit of the device, to thereby increase the speed of driving the fastener into the substrate. One device of this type is disclosed in Murphy U.S. Pat. No. 6,899,653, which discloses a fastener with a gear assembly. In this device, the fastener includes a plate having a number of openings formed therein. The plate is connected to a sun gear which engages a number of planetary gears positioned between the sun gear and a ring gear disposed on the exterior of the device. When engaged with and allowed to rotate freely with the planetary gears and the ring gear, the sun gear rotates at a speed faster than the rotation of the handle, at a ratio of approximately four rotations of the sun gear for each revolution of the handle. Further because the driving bit for the device is fixed to the sun gear, the bit also rotates at the 4:1 ratio to drive the fastener engaged with the bit into the substrate at a speed greater than the rotation of the device handle by the individual.
The device also includes a switch located on the exterior of the device, and that is slidably movable with respect to the device. The switch includes a pin that can be selectively engaged and disengaged with one of the openings in the plate to which the sun gear is attached. Thus, when the pin is engaged with the plate, the pin prevents the plate and the sun gear from rotating separately from one another, so that the sun gear, as well as the bit connected thereto, and the handle rotate in a 1:1 ratio.
However, while providing a design that enables the device to be operated at different gear ratios to increase the speed of the driving bit as desired, the device requires a separate switching mechanism to transition the device between the different gear ratios. This requires a separate mechanism to be formed on the device and significantly complicates the construction and operation of the device. In addition, the switch mechanism relies solely on the frictional engagement of the pin with the plate to main the lock between the plate and the pin, such that the switch mechanism can be inadvertently disengaged in a relatively easy manner.
Accordingly, the prior art does not satisfy the needs and solutions required for devices of this type, such that it is desirable to develop a fastener-driving device that provides a simple construction and mechanism for altering the speed of rotation of the driving shaft relative to the handle.
It is one object of the present invention to provide a fastener driving device including a variable ratio gear mechanism that enables the ratio of the rotation of the handle to the rotation of a driving bit extending from the handle to be varied to allow the bit to rotate at different speeds from the handle. The device includes a gear mechanism disposed within a housing for the device that includes a sun gear attached to a shaft extending through the housing and to which a driving bit can be connected. A number of planetary gears are disposed around the sun gear and operably engage the sun gear and the shaft with a ring gear secured to the housing. The planetary gears are disposed on a cover that is connected to a handle for the device, such that the rotation of the handle causes the planetary gears to rotate relative to the sun gear.
The cover also encloses a locking member and a biasing member between the cover and the handle. The biasing member urges the locking member into engagement with the sun gear to lock the sun gear and the planetary gears to one another. A selector switch is secured to the device over the gear mechanism and is operable to move the locking member into and out of engagement with the planetary gears against the bias of the biasing member.
According to another object of the present invention, the selector switch is continually biased into engagement with the planetary gears by the biasing member to avoid any inadvertent disengagement of the switch and consequent alteration of the gear ratio at which the device is operating.
According to still another object of the present invention, the locking member and the switch can be combined to further simplify the construction the construction for the device.
Numerous additional objects, aspects and advantages of the present invention will be made apparent from the following detailed description taken together with the drawing figures.
The drawings illustrate the best mode of practicing the present invention.
In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a side pan view of a first embodiment of the driving device constructed according to the present invention in a locked position;
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the driving device of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a cross-sectional view along line 3-3 of FIG. 1;
FIGS. 4A-4C are isometric exploded views of the device of FIG. 1;
FIG. 5 is a partially broken away isometric view of the gear mechanism of the device of FIG. 1;
FIG. 6 is a side pan view of the driving device of FIG. 1 in an unlocked position;
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of the driving device of FIG. 6;
FIG. 8 is a cross-sectional view of a second embodiment of the driving device constructed according to the present invention;
FIG. 9 is a partially broken away isometric view of the gear mechanism of the device of FIG. 8;
FIG. 10 is a side plan view of a third embodiment of the driving device constructed according to the present invention;
FIGS. 11A-11C are isometric exploded views of the device of FIG. 10;
FIG. 12 is a cross-sectional view taken along line 12-12 of FIG. 10;
FIG. 13 is a front isometric view of a support member of the device of FIG. 12;
FIG. 14 is a rear isometric view of the support member of FIG. 13;
FIG. 15 is a front plan view of the support member of FIG. 13;
FIG. 16 is a cross-sectional view along line 16-16 of FIG. 15;
FIG. 17 is a front isometric view of a locking member of the device of FIG. 12;
FIG. 18 is a rear isometric view of the locking member of FIG. 17;
FIG. 19 is a front plan view of the locking member of FIG. 17;
FIG. 20 is a rear plan view of the locking member of FIG. 17;
FIG. 21 is a front isometric view of a plate member of the device of FIG. 12;
FIG. 22 is a rear isometric view of the plate member of FIG. 21;
FIG. 23 is a front plan view of the plate member of FIG. 21;
FIG. 24 is a rear plan view of the plate member of FIG. 21;
FIG. 25 is an isometric view of the locking member in a disengaged position; and
FIG. 26 is an isometric view of the locking member in an engaged position.
With reference now to the drawing figures in which like reference numbers represent like features throughout the application, a tool or device constructed according to the present invention is indicated at 10 in FIG. 1. The device 10 includes a housing 12 having a first end 14 and a second end 16. The shape of the housing 12 can be made to have any desired and ergonomic configuration, and can be made of any suitable material, with a material that is both impervious to fluids and able to be sterilized in any conventional manner being especially preferred. Additionally, the material forming the housing 12 can be selected from a material having the desired properties that can be molded around the other components used in the formation of the device 10.
Referring now to FIGS. 1-4C, the housing 12 includes a central passage 18 extending therethrough that includes a first expanded section 20 at the first end 14 and a second expanded section 22 at the second end 16. Within the first expanded section 20 is disposed a suitable ratcheting mechanism 24, such as that disclosed in co-pending and co-owned U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/241,696, the entirety of which is expressly incorporated by reference herein in its entirety. The ratcheting mechanism 24 is held in the first expanded section 20 in any suitable manner to maintain fluid-impervious and sterilizable construction of the device 10. The mechanism 24 is also capable of releasably receiving and engaging a driving member (not shown) therein that is used to directly engage a fastener (not shown) to enable the device 10 to drive the fastener into the desired substrate (not shown). The ratcheting mechanism 24 is preferably operable to restrict the rotation of the driving member to one direction, or to hold the driving member stationary when the device 10 is in use.
A shaft 26 is disposed within and extends through the central passage 18 between the expanded sections 20 and 22. The shaft 26 is held within the passage 18 by a number of bearings 27 that allow the shaft 26 to rotate freely in the passage 18. The shaft 26 is also operably connected at one end to the ratcheting mechanism 24, such that the rotation of the shaft 26 is controlled by the operation of the ratcheting mechanism 24. Opposite the ratcheting mechanism 24, the shaft 26 is affixed to a handle 28 that can be grasped and turned by an individual in order to operate the device 10. The handle 28 can have any desired shape and configuration to maintain the fluid-proof and sterilizable structure, but in a preferred embodiment is formed of an interior component 30 formed of a rigid material and an outer resilient cover 32. The interior component 30 enables the handle 28 to accommodate the stresses utilized in the operation of the device 10, while the cover 32 provides a softer feel to the handle 28 when in use. The interior component 30 is not affixed to the shaft 26 opposite the ratcheting mechanism 24, such that the turning motion applied to the handle 28 is not directly transmitted to the shaft 26 to turn the shaft 26 along with the handle 28, but is directed to a gear mechanism 34 operably connecting the handle 28 and the shaft 26.
Between the handle 28 and the housing 12 is disposed a gear mechanism 34 that is disposed within the second expanded section 22 of the passage 18. The mechanism 34 includes a support member 36 that is engaged with the handle 28. The support member 36 includes an outer end 38 including an inwardly extending recess 40. The recess 40 has a rim 42 that has a diameter greater than the outer diameter of the handle 28, such that the handle 28 can be engaged with the support member 36 within the recess 40. Preferably there is a sealing member 44 disposed in the recess 40 to be engaged with the handle 28 to provide a fluid-tight engagement of the handle 28 with the support member 36.
The support member 36 also includes a projection 46 extending outwardly from the recess 38. The projection 46 is inserted into the handle 28 to further affix the handle 28 the housing 12. The projection 46 also includes a central opening 48 located concentrically within the projection 46 that extends completely through the projection 46 and the support member 36. The opening 48 is additionally disposed in concentric alignment with the passage 18 in the housing 12, and has a sufficient diameter to enable the shaft 26 to extend through the opening 48 in order to be engaged within the handle 28.
Opposite the projection 46, the support member 36 includes a number of attachment members 50. The attachment members 50 extend outwardly from the support member 36 and each include a blind bore 52 therein. The attachment members 50 are disposed around the opening 48, and taper inwardly towards the opening 48. Each attachment member 50 includes a pair of flat side walls 54, and are separated from one another by a flat section 56 of the support member 38, for a purpose to be described.
Between the projection 46 and the attachment members 50, the support member 36 includes a radially outwardly extending flange 58. The flange 58 includes a pair of flat sides 60 disposed opposite one another. The flange 58 serves as an engagement point for a number of biasing members 62 that are positioned on the flange 58 around the attachment members 50. The biasing members 62 can have any desired form, but are preferably Belleville springs 64. The biasing members 64 are retained against the flange 58 by a cover 66 secured to the support member 36. Preferably, the cover 66 is circular in shape and includes an axially extending wall 68 extending outwardly therefrom. Within the wall 68 are located a number of slots 70. Each slot 70 is preferably spaced equidistant from the remaining slots 70 around the perimeter of the wall 68, and includes a pair of notches 72 and 74 spaced from one another by a spacing section 76. The notch 74 is formed with a depth greater than the depth of the notch 72, for a purpose to be described.
The cover 66 also includes a central aperture 77 and a number of apertures 78 therein that are aligned with the bores 52 in the respective attachment members 50. The cover 66 is affixed to the attachment members 50 over the biasing members 64 by screws 80 inserted through the apertures 78 and into engagement within the bores 52 in the attachment members 50. The screws 80 are preferably formed with an end portion 82 on which threads 84 are located for engagement within the bore 52, a smooth shaft 86 extending away from the end portion 82, and a head 88 used to engage the end portion 82 within the bore 52. The smooth shaft 86 is present to enable a planetary gear 90 to be mounted to each screw 80. The planetary gear 90 is formed of any suitable material with a first width W1, and includes a central opening 92 and a number of teeth 94 disposed around the periphery of the gear 90. The central opening 92 is dimensioned to have a diameter larger than that of the shaft 86 for the screw 80, such that the shaft 86 can be inserted through the opening 92, preferably with sufficient space for a bearing 96 to be positioned between the shaft 86 and the gear 90 within the opening 92.
Around the planetary gears 90 is located an annulus or ring gear 98. The ring gear 98 is affixed to the housing 12 around the second expanded section 22 at the second end 16 of the housing 12. The ring gear 98 includes a number of bores 100 through which suitable fasteners 102 are inserted to engage the ring gear 98 around the periphery of the second expanded section 22. Additionally, the ring gear 98 is formed to have a width W1 corresponding to the width of the planetary gears 90, such that the ring gear 98 and planetary gears 90 are essentially coplanar with one another. The ring gear 98 further includes a number of teeth 104 disposed along the inner periphery of the ring gear 98 that are engaged by the aligned teeth 94 disposed on each of the planetary gears 90, such that rotation of the planetary gears 90 causes the rotation of the ring gear 98, and vice versa.
The planetary gears 90 are secured to the cover 66 opposite the support member 36, such that the gears 90 do not interfere with the operation of the biasing members 64, and around a space 105 formed in the center of the cover 66. The space 105 allows for the shaft 26 to extend therethrough, and has a diameter large enough to accommodate a sun gear 106 therein. The sun gear 106 is formed as a hollow sheath 108 disposed around the shaft 26 that includes a central part 110, from which extend a number of teeth 112, and a pair of end parts 114 that extend axially from each end of the central part 110. The sheath 108 is affixed to the shaft 26, such that the sheath 108 rotates in conjunction with the shaft 26. Further, the end parts 114 each support a bearing 116 thereon that engages the interior of the passage 18 to hold the sun gear 106 securely within the device 10, while also allowing the gear 106 and shaft 26 to rotate freely therein. Also, the teeth 112 on the central part 110 contact and engage the teeth 94 on the planetary gears 90, such that rotation of the sun gear 106 will cause consequent rotation of the planetary gears 90, or vice versa.
Additionally, the central part 110 has a second width W2, which is greater than the width W1 of the planetary gears 90 and the ring gear 98, such that the teeth 112 on the central part 110 axially extend beyond the teeth 94 on the planetary gears 90 in both axial directions. The portion of the teeth 112 that extend through the space 104 in the center of the cover 66 can be selectively contacted by a switch 118 to control the gear ratio achieved by the sun gear 106, planetary gears 90 and ring gear 98.
The switch 118 includes a ring 120 slidably mounted to the exterior of the support member 36. The ring 120 includes an enlarged section 122, positioned adjacent the handle 28, and a reduced section 124, disposed around the wall 68 of the cover 66 and the ring gear 98, that are joined to or integrally formed with one another to form the ring 120. The enlarged section 122 includes a radially inwardly extending rim 126 that is slidably positioned around the support member 36 between the rim 42 and the flange 58 to operably connect the ring 122 to the support member 36.
Looking now at FIGS. 2, 4B, 4C, and 5-7, opposite the rim 126, the reduced section 124 of the ring 120 includes a number of openings 128 extending radially therethrough. The openings 128 receive suitable fasteners 130 therein which operate to connect the reduced section 124 of the ring 120 to a locking member 132. The locking member 132 is formed of any suitable, and preferably rigid material, and is shaped to have a fan blade-like shape, with a number of, e.g., preferably three, sections 134 extending radially outwardly from a central hub 136. Each of the sections 134 is dimensioned to be positionable within the flat sections 56 of the support member 36 formed between the attachment members 50, and preferably have an area less than the area of the flat sections 56 to allow some movement of the sections 134 with respect to the flat sections 56. The sections 134 also each include a bore 138 at their outer ends within which the fastener 130 is inserted to engage the ring 120 with the locking member 132. In one embodiment the bore 138 is disposed in an off-center position within the section 134. Each of the fasteners 130 is inserted through a slot 70 in the wall 68, which enables the fastener 130 to function as a stop for the movement of the locking member 132 with respect to the wall 68 and the cover 66.
The locking member 132 is also continuously engaged by the biasing members 64, such that the biasing members 64 urge the locking member 132 away from the support member 36 and towards the cover 66. Also, due to the positioning of the fasteners 130 within the slots 70, the biasing members 64 press the fasteners 130 against the inner end of one or the notches 72 or 74 formed in the slot 70, to maintain the fasteners 130, and consequently the locking member 132, at the particular location within the slot 70.
Looking now at FIGS. 2, 3 and 7, the hub 136 of the locking member 132 also defines an opening 140 therein through which the shaft 26 can extend. The opening 140 also includes a number of teeth 142 disposed along the periphery of the opening 140 that are selectively engageable with the teeth 112 on the sun gear 106. When the fasteners 130 are disposed in the deeper notch 74 (FIG. 2), the teeth 142 in the opening 140 are positioned in engagement with the teeth 122 on the sun gear 106. In this position, due to the engagement of handle 28 with the shaft 26 via the support member 36, cover 66 and the locking member 132, when rotating the handle 28 while grasping the housing 12, the rotation of the shaft 26 is in a 1:1 ratio with the rotation of the handle 28. Conversely, when the fasteners 130 are disposed within the notch 72 in each slot 70 (FIG. 7), the opening 140 and teeth 142 are spaced from the teeth 112 on the sun gear 106. Therefore, when the handle 28 is rotated to turn the shaft 26 while holding the housing 12 stationary, the rotation of the handle 28 is transmitted through the support member 36 to the cover 66, which in turn rotates the planetary gears 90 due to their movement along the ring gear 98. The rotation of the planetary gears 90 it directly transmitted to the sun gear 106, which provides 2:1 gear ratio to rotate the shaft two revolutions for every single revolution of the handle 28.
In either position, the switch 118 maintained in the selected position during operation of the device 10 due to the force exerted by the biasing members 64 on the locking member 132 and the depth of the notches 72 and 74, which keeps the fasteners 130 disposed within the selected notch 72 or 74. When it I desired to change the gear ratio for the device 10, the switch 118 is grasped and urged towards the handle 28 against the bias of the biasing members 64. Once the fasteners 130 have been moved out of the notch 72 or 74 in which they were located, the switch 118 can be rotated with respect to the cover 66 and support member 36 to position the fasteners 130 in alignment with the other notch 72 or 74 corresponding to the desired gear ratio. At that point, the switch 118 can be released and the biasing members 64 will urge the fasteners 130 into the desired notch 72 or 74 to reengage the switch 118 with the cover 66. Further, the depth of the notches 72 and 74 are formed to enable the locking member 132 to be positioned out of engagement with the sun gear in notch 72, and in engagement in notch 74.
Preferably, the reduced section 124 of the ring 120 also includes indicia 144 thereon to assist in properly positioning the switch 118 in the location for the desired gear ratio. Further, both the support member 36 and the ring gear 98 can have printed indicia 146 on the exterior thereof indicating the gear ratio at which the device 10 is currently operating. This indicia 146 becomes exposed on the particular part of the device 10 when the switch 118 is moved into engagement with the notch 72 or 74 on the cover 66 corresponding to that gear ratio.
In a second embodiment of the device 200 shown in FIGS. 8 and 9, the device 200 includes the ratcheting mechanism 202 positioned on the same end of the housing 204 as the gear mechanism 206. In this embodiment, the housing 204 is formed of a front portion 208 and a rear portion 210 connected to one another via the shaft 212. The shaft 212 is connected to the ratcheting mechanism 202 that is disposed a part of the passage 214 formed in the front portion 208, and extends rearwardly from the mechanism 202 into the rear portion 210. The passage 214 in the rear portion 210 is formed within a generally rigid inner member 216, around which is formed a softer material member 218. The shaft 212 is engaged within the passage 214 by a number of bearings 220 to allow the shaft 212 to rotate without interference from the housing 204, and is covered opposite the ratcheting mechanism 202 by and end cap 222.
In this construction for the device 200, the support member 36 of the first embodiment is replaced by the inner member 216 of the housing 204, from which the various attachment members 224 extend. Thus, the cover 226, and planetary gears 228 are connected directly to the inner member 216, with the locking member 230 and switch 232 being connected to the cover 226 using the slots (not shown) and the notches (not shown) in the same manner as described above. Additionally, the biasing members 234 are also disposed between the inner member 16 and the locking member 230 to bias the locking member 230 into engagement with the slots in the cover 226, regardless of the selected gear ratio, in the same manner as described previously. The ring gear 236 is affixed to the front portion 208 and is positioned around and in engagement with the planetary gears 228 in the assembled device 200.
In the device 200, the switch 232 can be moved with regard to the cover 226 as described previously to shift the position of the locking member 230 and cause the rotation of the sun gear 238 on the shaft 212 at the desired ratio.
A third embodiment of the gear mechanism 34 for the tool 10 is shown in FIGS. 10-26, where, as in the previous embodiments, opposite the projection 46, the support member 36 includes a number of attachment members 50, as best shown in FIGS. 13-16. The attachment members 50 extend outwardly from the support member 36 and each includes a blind bore 52 therein. The attachment members 50 are disposed around the opening 48, and taper inwardly towards the opening 48 and are separated from one another by the flat sections 56. Around the attachment members 50 and flat sections 56 are located a number of projections 352 extending outwardly away from the flange 58. The projections 352 have an exterior surface 354 that is configured to engage one end 356 of the biasing members 358, (FIGS. 11A-12) and which can have any desired form, but in the current embodiment are formed as compression springs 360 with the first end 356 and a second end 362 disposed opposite the first end 356. The springs 360 preferably have a generally cylindrical shape in order to be more readily engaged with the projections 352, but can be formed to have any suitable shape complementary to and easily engageable with the projections 352. In addition, the springs 360 are engaged axially around the exterior surfaces 354 of the projections 352 in any suitable manner, such as by mechanically, adhesively, etc., engaging the end 356 with the surface 354 of the projection 352, to retain the end 356 of the spring 360 in engagement with the support member 36.
The opposed end 362 of each of the springs 360 extends outwardly beyond the projections 352 of the support member 36 in order to resiliently engage the support member 36 with a locking member/ring 364, as best shown in FIGS. 11A-12 and 17-20. The locking member/ring 364 is formed essentially as a combination of the ring 120 and the locking member 132 of the prior embodiments. The locking member/ring 364 includes an interior member 366 having an outer periphery 368 from which extends an exterior member 370. The interior member 366 is formed with a central section 372. The central section 372 defines a central opening 373 that is positioned in alignment with the opening 48 in the support member 36 to enable the shaft 26 to extend therethrough. In addition, a number of inwardly extending teeth 375 are positioned around the periphery of the central opening 373, and a number of flanges 374 are disposed, preferably spaced equidistant from one another and formed to expand outwardly from the central section 372. The flanges 374 each include a tab 376 located along one side of the flange 374 adjacent the wide end of the flange 374. The tab 376 projects outwardly generally perpendicular to the flange 374 from each side of the flange 374. The portion of the tab 376 disposed adjacent the support member 36 functions in part to retain the spring 360 engaged with the flange in alignment with the flange 374, thereby maintaining constant engagement between the spring 360 an the flange 374 to bias the locking member/ring 364 away from the support member 36.
Opposite the central section 372, the wide ends of each flange 374 are each connected to an interior surface 378 of the exterior member 370. The exterior member 370 is generally cylindrical in shape, such that the interior member 368 is disposed completely within the exterior member 370. The flanges 374 and exterior member 370 define a number of spaces 380 therebetween which are disposed in alignment with the attachment members 50. The exterior member 370 has a sufficient inside diameter so as to be larger than the outside diameter of the rim 42 of support member 36, thereby allowing the support member to be positionable within the exterior member 370. In addition, the inside diameter of the exterior member 370 is sized such that the exterior member 370 is able to rotate freely about the circular rim 42 of support member 36 of device 10 with a minimal transverse motion such that the rim 42 of support member 36 axially locates the exterior member 370. Likewise, the exterior member 370 is free to translate axially along support member 36 under the bias of the springs 360 engaged between the support member 36 and the locking member/ring 364.
The exterior surface 382 of the exterior member 370 includes a number of raised portions 384 disposed therearound that enable the locking member/ring 364 to be easily grasped and rotated by an individual when in use. Further, at the end of the exterior surface 382 opposite the support member 36, the surface 382 includes a rim 386 extending axially from the circumference of the exterior surface 382 and on which is disposed indicia 387 relating to the particular gear ratios at which the tool 10 is operating.
As best shown in FIGS. 11A-12 and 21-24, instead of the cover 66, the tool 10 includes a plate member 388 positioned adjacent the locking member/ring 364 opposite the support member 36. The plate member 388 is formed of any suitable material and includes a central aperture 77 aligned with the opening 373 in the ring 364 to enable the shaft 26 to pass therethrough. Around the aperture 77 are disposed a number of equally spaced bores 78 alignable with the bores 52 in the attachment members 50 in the support member 36 and can receive the screws 80 used to affix the planetary gears 90 to the plate member 388. This, in turn, secures the plate member 388 to the support member 36, with the ring 364 movably positioned therebetween.
The plate member 388 also has a number of bores 392 disposed in between each pair of adjacent bores 78. The bores 392 are used to receive pins 393 therein that project through the spaces 380 in the plate member 388 and into engagement within the blind bores 52 hold the mechanism 344 together. In this manner, the rotation of the ring 364 is limited with regard to the support member 36 and plate member 388, and the end of the springs 360 opposite the projections 352 is maintained in engagement with the flanges 374 to provide a constant biasing force between the support member 36 and the locking member/ring 364.
Spaced from the aperture 77 on the exterior periphery of the plate member 388 are a number of stops 394. The stops 394 extend perpendicularly from the plate member 388 axially inwardly towards the ring 364. The stops 394 are preferably equidistantly spaced around the plate member 388 in alignment with and extending at least partially through the spaces 380 and include a first stop 396 and a second stop 398. The first stop 396 is formed to have a height less than that of the second stop 398, and is separated from the second stop 398 by a notch 400. The first stop 396 is additionally separated from the plate member 388 by a groove 402 formed in the plate member 388 immediately adjacent the first stop 396. The notch 400 and the groove 402 are formed to have a depth sufficient to receive and retain the tab 376, thereby holding the ring 364 at that position with respect to the support member 36 and the plate member 388.
Opposite the stops 396, 398, the plate member 388 includes a number of recesses 404 formed in the body of the plate member 388. The recesses 404 reduce the overall weight of the plate member 388 such that the tool 10 is easier to manipulate as desired.
In operation, to shift the gear ratio of the mechanism 34, the ring 364 is grasped and urged towards the handle 28 and support member 36. This motion disengages the tab 376 from within either the notch 400 or the groove 402 depending on the amount of movement of the ring 364. In this position, the ring 364 can then be rotated to align the tabs 376 with either the notch 400 or the groove 402. At that position, the ring 364 can be released, and the bias of the springs 360 will urge the tabs 376 into engagement with the notch 400 or the groove 402. When the tabs 376 are positioned in engagement with the notch 400, as best shown in FIG. 25, the teeth 375 within the central opening 372 are disengaged from the sun gear 106 on the shaft 26, such that the mechanism 34 operates in a ratio of other than 1:1, which can be selected as desired based on the number of teeth 94, 104, 112, on the respective gears 90, 100 and 106, but that is preferably selected to be a ratio of between 2:1 to 5:1, and more preferably a ratio of 3.5:1. Alternatively, when the tabs 376 are engaged within the grooves 402, as best shown in FIG. 26, the teeth 375 on the central section 372 of the interior member 366 of the ring 364 are engaged with the teeth 112 on the sun gear 106, such that the mechanism 34 operates in a ratio of 1:1.
Various other alternatives are contemplated is being within the scope of the following claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter regarded as the invention.


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Finding Gracie's Joy
Jan Ackerson
9/25/2006 / Short Stories
The file on my desk told Gracie's tragic story. She had been in her mother's car with her twin sister and baby brother, on an evening errand to the grocery store. As her mother rounded a curve, the headlights caught the startled gaze of a deer. Nora had swerved to avoid the frightened animal and skidded on wet pavement, sending the car spinning into another vehicle. Gracie and Nora had survived; Sophie and little Jack had not.
That was six weeks ago. The cast had just been removed from Gracie's broken arm, but Nora was concerned about the deeper injury to Gracie's spirit. The little girl never spoke of Sophie or Jack—and she never smiled. Nora had called me for an appointment, frantic that her remaining child seemed to be disappearing into grief.
I knew that Nora and Gracie were in my waiting room. Surveying my office and the play areas that I had set up for my sad and wounded little patients, I breathed a prayer. Lord, help me to find Gracie's joy. Through the peephole, I saw that Gracie was sitting solemnly beside her mother, her feet inches from the floor but motionless—as if the simple act of swinging them might somehow betray her sorrow.
I opened the door, and knelt next to Gracie's seat. "I'm Meg. What's your name?"
Gracie shot a look at her mother, who nodded. "It's okay, sweet pea."
Her wide green eyes studied me for a moment. Then—almost a whisper. "Gracie the Great."
I've learned this: let the child guide the session. "Well, Gracie the Great, would you like to see what's in my playroom?"
She slid out of her chair and followed me, then quietly surveyed each play center. I saw that she was wearing a dishtowel, pinned cape-like to her pink tee-shirt. As good a place as any to start. "Gracie the Great. Do you have any superpowers?"
Gracie's eyes flashed. "Yes!" She took a few steps toward the road mat, a carpet printed with streets and traffic signs. Taking a toy car out of a nearby bin, she hesitated at the edge of the mat. Her grip on the toy whitened her knuckles.
"What are your superpowers, Gracie?"
"Gracie the Great!"
"I'm sorry. What are your superpowers, Gracie the Great?"
She took another car from the bin and tapped their bumpers together, ever so gently. "It doesn't hurt me." She looked at me, then at the cars in her hands. "When cars smash up. It doesn't hurt me."
"That's a really useful superpower, isn't it?"
But Gracie didn't say a word for the rest of our time together. I made arrangements with Nora for a series of sessions.
Over the next few weeks, I learned more about Gracie the Great's powers. She could talk to animals, and see in the dark, and she had no blood—"just more skin." Clearly, Gracie was working through the accident, trying to regain control. Always, her face remained solemn, her eyes wide.
One afternoon, Gracie the Great revealed another superpower. Twisting a corner of her dishtowel cape, she gazed at her shoes. "I never need to drink juice." Then, to my astonishment, she sank to the floor, sobbing.
"Gracie? Why don't you need to drink juice, honey?"
Several weeks' worth of emotions poured forth. "I told my mommy I wanted juice but we didn't have any so I told her to go get some. She didn't want to because daddy wasn't home to watch J-Jack but I cried a little bit and she had a mad face and said okay we'll go get juice…" Gracie stopped, her broken heart choking back her words.
"Oh, Gracie. Do you think the accident was your fault?"
A nod. Shuddering gulps.
I gathered her into my lap. "No one thinks it was your fault, honey. It was just an accident."
"It was just a dumb deer?"
"Yes, Gracie. Just a dumb deer."
Gracie sniffed. "I don't like dumb deer." She peered at the framed print on my wall—a smiling Jesus surrounded by happy children. "Is Sophie in heaven?"
"Is Jack in heaven?"
"Do they know he likes his tummy buzzed?"
"Yes, Gracie. They know."
Gracie sat silent in my lap for a minute. "I have another superpower."
"What is it, Gracie the Great?"
"I can see your underpants." I drew back and looked into her tear-stained face. She was not smiling, but a twinkle played at the corner of her eye.
Jan is a Christian who has traveled through sorrow and depression, and has found victory and grace. She dedicates all writings to her Heavenly Father. Check out Jan's website at
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I tried to write a story connecting the images in mirtle's wonderful series. Hopefully you can see how they match up!
Mary and Anne were inseparable twins
Who had the same hobbies and thought the same things
They shared a peculiar penchant for birds
And spoke in their own secret sisterly words
But there was one difference between the two girls
One looked ever skyward, one looked to the world
And as the years passed, Mary reached for the stars
She sought fame singing old Motown classics in bars
While Anne, ever sensible, found a safe job
And a reasonably good-looking boyfriend called Bob
For years she was happy, least that's what she thought
The boxes were ticked so she felt as she ought
Although she had drifted apart from her twin
And abandoned the things she was interested in
And forgotten her love for her featherly friends
And was suddenly fixed upon ends meeting ends
But all fell asunder when ol' Bob came clean
And admitted his feelings had lost their sheen
Suddenly Anne was left all on her own
In the only true solitude she'd ever known
She hid in her over-sized jumper of grief
Or lay under bedclothes and shook like a leaf
Convinced that her person was breaking apart
One day at a time, starting first with her heart
She tried to read novels but it was no good
She couldn't stop thinking, but wished that she could
So she took herself out to her favourite park
Where she and her sister would talk with the larks
A scarf 'round her neck and a hat on her head
For once, she was happy to be out of bed
As she walked with the birds, she forgot she was sad
And remembered a dream she and Mary once had
That they, like their birds, were created to fly
To turn cartwheels mid-air and to soar through the sky
And just as she thought it, a great bird swooped down
Scooped her up, lifted her off of the ground
And happily, Anne sailed up into the blue
Sure this was what she was destined to do
Her little girl spirit now no longer broken
She flew to her twin sister, all eyes open


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Jordanian Endowments Ministry hails Saudi services for Hajj
Jordan's Ministry of Endowments has praised Saudi Arabia for the great efforts exerted by all authorities concerned with pilgrims to enable them to perform their Hajj rituals in ease and comfort.
A press statement issued by the ministry Monday on the occasion of the pilgrims' return to Jordan, said the measures, facilities and services provided by the Saudi government had played a great role in the success of this year's Hajj season, SPA news agency reported.
In addition, the Ministry also hailed the great achievements in the field of developing the services rendered to the pilgrims and following up expansion and construction projects in the holy places. (Albawaba.com)
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Rex waited in the examining room nervously waiting for Dr. Jenkins to arrive. He hated doctors and felt uncomfortable even though this was just a routine sports physical for school. The appointment was for 2:00pm and here it was almost 3:00, making him wait seemed like cruel and unusual punishment! Just then the door flew open and Doctor Jenkins' nurse, Miss Boyd came flying through the door and told Rex the Doctor was on his way. Within two minutes Dr. Jenkins entered the examining room, sat down on a stool, and began going over the forms Rex had brought with him. After going over his past medical history the Doctor got down to the business of the physical part of the exam, and had Rex remove his shirt and pants and instructed him to sit up on the examining table.
After checking his hearing, eyes, heart, lungs, and skin Dr. Jenkins had Rex stand in front of him and take down his shorts. Being only eighteen, Rex was embarrassed to have to expose himself in front of the Doctor, but what really made him red was having nurse Boyd in the room. She seemed totally oblivious to what was going on, so Rex stood up and dropped his boxers to the floor. Doctor Jenkins rolled over in front of him on his stool and took Rex's testicles in his hand and told him to cough, it was at this point in the exam when Rex's memory gets a little hazy, for at that moment Dr. Jenkins told Rex he had to check his sexual response. Before he could even ask what that meant, the Doctor leaned over and put Rex's cock in his mouth and started to suck him off!!! Totally stunned, Rex just stood there gaping as Doctor Jenkins sucked him to a full erection. Rex looked over to see what Miss Boyd was doing and was shocked again to see that she had her hand up her dress and was furiously fingering her hot pussy!
Although he had gotten a hand job from his girl friend, Rex had never experienced anything like the head he was getting from the good Doctor. In less than two minutes the cum rushed up his shaft and shot down the throat of the cock loving older man. Later, when it was all over, the Doctor casually stood up, walked over to the seated nurse, and stuck his own dick in her hot mouth. The intensity of the hot sucking bitch brought the Doctor to a shattering climax.
After several minutes of recuperation, Miss Boyd and the Doctor both came over and began licking Rex all over his body, taking turns at sucking his hard prick. Rex was again hard as a rock, and it was Miss Boyd's turn to have some fun with his young pecker. She pushed him back down on the examining table and threw her leg over his crotch and mounted him as she would a young stallion! His hard pecker entered her like a red hot poker, and she had a convulsive orgasm the moment her pussy engulfed his straining dick! She groaned loud and long while she rode his hard cock to orgasm after orgasm, while Dr. Jenkins sucked on her over ripe pink nipples.
Rex glanced over to see that the doctor had another raging hardon sticking straight out of his groin, so he reached out and felt the thickness of it in his hand, and all at once had the overwhelming urge to put it in his mouth. Then to doctor's utter delight, his thick pecker was now being sucked on in the teenager's virgin mouth! "My god, he's a wonderful cocksucker," he moaned to nurse Boyd, who was by now riding the hard stump that grew out of Rex's youthful crotch!!" It was only a matter of time until all three of them were caught up in a torrent of sexual relief!!! Rex, taking a full load of cum down his hot throat, while he himself filled nurse Boyd's burning vagina with a nut sack full of hot jism!!!
Nurse Boyd was in another world, that of an older woman who has the luxury of having a hard young penis to do with as she pleases, that being to use it in her warm vagina, or use it as a pacifier and suck it until it sends it's hot seed into her waiting mouth! To her there was nothing like the feeling of having a hard young penis inside of her, and that was one of the main reasons she stayed working for Dr. Jenkins, working here gave her the opportunity to suck and fuck a variety of young men, some of them being extremely well hung!!! This young man Rex, while he didn't have the biggest cock she had ever had, it was certainly one of the hardest, and at this very minute it was making her have a very hard orgasm as she rode the wonderful stiffy to a very hard climax!
Unfortunately it was getting late, and the doctor had several other appointments waiting in the outer office. Nurse Boyd and Rex slipped back into their clothing while Dr. Jenkins finished filling out the athletic exam forms. He handed them back to Rex and said, "You're in perfect condition, young man, I hope to see you again next year!" Rex could hardly wait!!!
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Community Forums › Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › Trying to remove footer from one or two pages only
Tagged: conditional tags, css, footer, genesis_do_footer, genesis_footer
This topic contains 10 replies, has 5 voices, and was last updated by And_or 2 years, 3 months ago.
January 4, 2013 at 3:13 pm #9570
I'm using the current version (Jan. 2013) of Genesis and the Executive theme. I'm looking to remove the footer widget area from a few pages only – on the site.
The support folks were kind enough to pass this along:
To get you started, you can use code from here to remove the footer: http://my.studiopress.com/snippets/footer/#custom-footer
remove_action( 'genesis_footer', 'genesis_do_footer' );
In combination with some conditional tags: http://codex.wordpress.org/Conditional_TagsI'm getting a little bogged down here … any ideas
January 4, 2013 at 3:28 pm #9576What pages do you want the footer removed on? Nick The Geek has a great tutorial on conditional tags here. The conditional you are going to want to add to your footer logic in your functions.php file is:
(!is_page()) { ?>
And then specify the page within the logic.
January 4, 2013 at 3:47 pm #9585If you are trying to remove the footer widgets (not the footer) on only a few pages, another option would be to create a new page template and upload it to your theme folder to make it selectable from the page editor without having to track down the page IDs or edit your functions file every time.
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January 4, 2013 at 4:10 pm #9590WOW, @BrianBourn, that is so elegant … and late on a Friday, too!!!
What would I have to add to make this functional?
I added to Genesis folder, selected the "no footer" template – what loads is a completely blank page.
January 4, 2013 at 5:52 pm #9605If its just for a few pages, why not simply hide the widgets with something like this in your css file:

.postid-177 #footer-widgeted , .postid-178 #footer-widgeted{

 display: none;

}

If you are on the page you want to have the widgets hidden on, you can check the body class to see which id you need to use.
Not elegant, but efficient. But I will copy Briancreatives snippet for future use
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January 4, 2013 at 8:06 pm #9659This file should go in your child theme folder "executive". If you click the github link you can download the complete php file to add to your child theme. You shouldn't ever edit or add anything to the "genesis" theme folder.
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January 7, 2013 at 2:35 pm #10173Brian,
That did the trick.
January 7, 2013 at 2:40 pm #10175@Brian – What's the advantage of adding a custom body class? Just as a reminder that the footer widgets aren't there by design?
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January 7, 2013 at 2:47 pm #10179I wanted to remove footer only on eCommerce pages both to secure the pages for the SSL, but also to keep the content focus of the page to be the transaction. Some of the footer elements, that change, include video and potentially other items that aren't easily coded to serve up on http and https pages with the same html.
January 7, 2013 at 4:02 pm #10197Bill-We add a custom body class on every custom template as things may shift around a little bit when removing elements and the template may need some targeted CSS tweaks. WordPress will usually add it's own class that you can use but it is usually much longer than a custom class.
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January 7, 2013 at 5:57 pm #10220I just noticed I sent gibberish into my answer.. below is what it was supposed to look like. ( also to see if it works okay this time)
.postid-177 #footer-widgeted , .postid-178 #footer-widgeted { display: none; }
I miss the preview that you could check before submitting on the old forum
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From: Kez in England (p122.nas1.man.opaltelecom.net)
In Reply to: Re: Third eye experience posted by Rocket Scientist on September 7, 2004 at 6:42 am:
Thanks so much for all this info. I'm really surprised that my experience is quite rare as I hadn't ever done any proper meditating before the experience happened, in fact I'm pretty awful at trying to keep my mind on one thing, which is why I like the guided meditations as I'm constantly being talked to and told what to do, but in the C.D. as soon as the talking stops for 5 minutes in the middle, that's it, I'm off that beautiful flower in the lovely meadow, soaking in those energies, and I'm planning what to get from the supermarket!!! I am quite a sensitive person though, and I was told by a healer once that I have healing hands, though to be honest I find it very hard to believe what some people say (the sceptic that I am!). You called my experience 'a vision' I always imagine a vision to be actually seeing something, I didn't actually see anything with this eye, I just felt it there. I wonder if having my baby feeding from me helped, maybe something to do with my son's energy being very pure. I will definately try the breathing from the link you've given me, and I'll let you know how I get on.


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Hi hippiekarl,
Windows versions since XP are GUI-concentric in that nothing runs without the GUI. Unlike versions previous to these that could run -in varying degrees- minus the GUI. Even the CLI interface runs within a Windowed shell.
That said, there are a multitude of advanced user options available via the CLI to effect tweaks to the OS that are not available within the GUI. I make no claim of expertise in implementing most of these myself as they often require a bit of coding or scripting skill. An area I remain challenged in BTW. :)
Is there any possibility you could provide more details regarding your objective and the avenues you have taken thus far to achieve them? I ascribe generally to the "there must be a way" train of thought in this field and enjoy challenges such as these in implementing them. While my skills are far from advanced in that area, it brings out what is best about these forums. The collective synergy of the minds within them.
Waiting to see what one of my TR heroes has to say about this. Enter OH Smeg. :)
I did a search of TR articles on disabling UAC (of course they were 4 years old, for Vista), and, assuming Vista's congruence w/7, I logged on as Admin. Before I could even start the registry workaround, I noticed the little 'admin-shield' in the program's shortcut. Clicked it....and my software update finally did its installation. Ta-da! Thanks go to Schultz and Detweiller, plus SmartAceWOLF for his initial interest in my dilemma. BTW, the TR Dojo 2011 blooper-reel, I discovered, is attached to the end of--apparantly--ALL his archived videos (the one I watched was from 2009, I think, but it ran the out-takes after the credits).
start menu, search UAC (UAC will pop up), slide slider all the way to never...done :) it was one of the first things i did when we installed 7 on our computers.


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Arsenal winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain believes that his side are capable of a late push to reach the top four once again.The Gunners have qualified for the Champions League in each of the past 15 seasons but fell five points behind fourth-placed Chelsea after a 2-1 away defeat to Tottenham in March.
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Use this activity as a follow-up to the Downtown Pittsburgh or Holy Pittsburgh segments with an abundance of great ornamentation. Better yet, use the videos to prepare students for a Downtown Dragons walking tour with Pittsburgh History & Landmarks (412-471-5808).
In addition to developing creative thinking, the objective in making gargoyle masks is to challenge students to understand and experience three-dimensional texture in the built environment.
Cut 18-inch x 24-inch oaktag into 6-inch x 24-inch strips to form the base of the mask. Provide other smaller sheets, precut strips, and scraps of oaktag for students to use to construct their masks. Construction paper can also be used, but the paper should all be one color--this will simulate a gargoyle more accurately and will require students to concentrate on texture, not color, to achieve their goal.
Fit a strip around the head of each student and staple at the correct size. Mark eyes on base and have students cut out eyeholes.
Brainstorm and demonstrate with the students all the ways paper can be changed from being flat to being three-dimensional or "unflat." Some possibilities are: folding (single or multiple folds), tearing, crinkling, rolling around a pencil, curling with scissors, cutting and bending, or scoring with scissors along a curved line and then folding.
Students can now begin to build their gargoyles on the mask base--the wilder, the better! The masks should be thought of in three dimensions--the sides and back, not just the front. White school glue is the strongest way to attach mask parts, but paper clips or staples may be helpful while the glue dries.
For inspiration as they build, have a range or animal pictures (the whole gamut from reptiles and fish to birds and mammals) and a supply of pre-cut oaktag strips, straws, styrofoam "peanuts," and similar "junk" available.
Once the masks are finished, arrange an exhibition, either worn or arranged on a bulletin board to simulate how they would be installed on a building.
Source: Pittsburgh Heritage Supplement, Susan Donley, Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, 1987.
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