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Shannon McDonnell touched down twice as Hull secured their first Challenge Cup semi-final appearance in five years by overcoming Catalan Dragons 24-13 in an error-strewn match in hot and humid conditions.
The visitors led 8-7 at the break and, despite trailing for the majority of the second half, Hull took the lead with 15 minutes remaining and then relied on their defence to hold firm and seal their place in the final four.
Damien Blanch had a try ruled out for the home team as Morgan Escare was ruled to be offside in the opening minutes after good work by Scott Dureau.
That was before a superb McDonnell try after some good build-up work by Aaron Heremaia and Jacob Miller. McDonnell twisted his way to the line despite the best efforts of three Catalan defenders - Joe Westerman added the conversion to give the visitors a six-point lead.
On the half hour mark, the Catalans were level as Eloi Pelissier scored a superb solo effort to mark his entrance to the game. Dureau added the goal to level the scores before he gave the Catalans the lead with a drop goal four minutes before the break from 30 metres out.
Hull bounced back and Danny Tickle kicked a penalty from 10 metres after Jamal Fakir held on in the tackle too long to send his side in ahead.
After the break the Catalans retook the lead; good work by Dureau and Lopini Paea saw them combine to send in Escare to the left of the posts, Dureau added the conversion to make the scoreline to 13-8.
Three minutes later Hull scored again, McDonnell running at the Catalan left wing and holding up the defenders just enough to send in Tom Lineham in the right corner, although Tickle would miss the conversion.
With 15 minutes remaining, Danny Houghton picked up and scooted away from the dummy half position, Duport got back to pull him back but the Hull hooker offloaded to the supporting Tom Briscoe who went over after stepping past Escare with ease. Tickle added the conversion to give Hull a five-point lead.
With time running down, Catalans threw everything at Hull and a Steve Menzies knock-on looked to have ended the game.
However, Hull did not see it that way and, after Kirk Yeaman broke clear and drew the covering Escare, McDonnell offered his support and scored to the left of the posts to seal the win and send the travelling Hull fans into raptures. Tickle added the conversion to add icing to the cake.
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An oral hygiene device having one or more toothbrushes connected or connectible to the end of a handle, the one or more toothbrushes providing a desirable fit about the teeth and/or gums and/or providing a desirable brushing action. An oral hygiene device hereof may provide for mechanically providing the brushing movements of the professionally recommended manual tooth-brushing method known as the "Bass" or "Modified Bass" technique to thus reduce or eliminate the element of human error associated with the brushing of a user's teeth and gums.
1. An oral cleansing device comprising:
a handle including:
a housing structure;
at least one control assembly disposed within the housing structure; and,
a connection shaft assembly including at least an upper shaft and a lower shaft stemming from the housing structure; and,
at least one brush assembly adapted to be connected to the connection shaft assembly of the handle;
whereby the at least one control assembly includes a mechanical system to move the at least one brush assembly; the mechanical system including:
a crown gear connected by a gear shaft to a reduction spur gear;
a double cam gear which communicates in gear meshing relationship with the reduction spur gear; the reduction spur gear being adapted to drive the double cam gear; the double cam gear having respective upper and lower cams, one each on opposite sides of the double cam gear;
upper and lower cam followers each disposed in respective operative contact with the respective upper and lower cams of the double cam gear, the double-cam gear by contact through the respective upper and lower cams, being adapted to move the two cam followers in a linear fashion;
the upper and lower shafts of the connection shaft assembly each being respectively attached to the respective upper and lower cam followers, the upper and lower shafts thus being adapted to move with the respective upper and lower cam followers and thereby also move the at least one brush assembly therewith in a linearly straight fashion.
2. An oral cleansing device according to
whereby the first and second brushes are operatively disposed such that the first and second brush heads are disposed in generally opposing relationship to each other;
whereby the first and second brush heads each have respective crown portions and respective side portions.
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an oral brush device having:
a handle including:
a housing structure;
a linearly movable connection structure stemming from the housing structure; and,
at least one control assembly disposed within the housing structure; the at least one control assembly including a power-driven sub-assembly, the power-driven sub-assembly providing movement for the movable connection structure;
a power assembly; the power assembly being adapted to be connected to the power-driven sub-assembly of the at least one control assembly; and,
at least one brush assembly adapted to be detachably attachable to the movable connection structure of the handle;
whereby the at least one brush assembly includes at least one brush having at least one resilient, deformably elastic arm adapted to be connected to the connection structure, the at least one resilient, deformably elastic arm having a resilient brush head connected thereto, the at least one brush head having at least one first set of side bristles and at least one of an opposing set of side bristles and a set of crown bristles;
whereby the first set of side bristles and the one or both of the opposing set of side bristles and a set of crown bristles are operatively disposed such that the first and second brush heads are adapted to be deformably yet elastically self-positioning in relation to an oral feature.
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This application is a continuation from U.S. application Ser. No. 11/223,365, filed Sep. 9, 2005 which claimed the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/609,093, filed Sep. 9, 2004, and which claimed the benefit of U.S. Non-Provisional application Ser. No. 10/357,564, filed Feb. 5, 2003 which itself claimed the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application Nos. 60/385,366, filed Jun. 3, 2002; 60/403,915 filed Aug. 15, 2002 and 60/409,760 filed Sep. 10, 2002. The specifications and drawings of all of which prior applications herein being incorporated by this reference for all that they teach and suggest.
The present invention relates generally to oral cleansing devices and more particularly to power driven tooth and/or gum brushing devices, and also relates, in many embodiments, to a system for using or moving one or more cleaning or brushing heads during a cleaning procedure. This may commonly include providing reciprocal cleaning head movement. Particularly useful herewith may be one or more toothbrush or like arrangements which assist in orienting and guiding the cleansing heads within the user's mouth to provide proper cleansing and stimulation to thereby produce healthy teeth and gums.
A large proportion of the adult population suffers from some form of gum disease which in turn can and often does lead to tooth loss. An important cause of gum disease is inadequate gum brushing and massage. And, in response, a diverse array of manual and automated tooth cleansing devices have been developed including electric toothbrushes, oral irrigators and automated flossers. These have been generally directed at the important basic need to clean the teeth, gums and certain parts or the whole of the mouth area. Nonetheless, many deficiencies remain with various of these devices, and for many people and in many situations, they are inadequate or unsuitable. Manual brushes, for instance, require the user to have a minimum, moderate degree of manual dexterity and the ability to firmly grasp the brush while moving it against the dental surfaces. The tiresomeness, repetitiveness and difficulty of and/or the relative disinterestedness of many people with manual brushing leads many to do less than is necessary, often also using inappropriate brushing methods. And thus, some tooth and gum surfaces may receive inadequate brushing or may be missed altogether.
Furthermore, conventional electric or "power" toothbrushes, while often requiring less physical effort on the part of the user, still generally require human skill and dexterity, i.e., accurate human manipulation in order to achieve effective disease preventing results. And, these power brushes are often more complicated than manual brushes and are more expensive and require more time in maintenance. Moreover, brushing too vigorously with electric brushes can irritate the gums or cause them to bleed excessively, possibly injuring the gums or eventually causing them to recede.
Thus, present means of tooth and gum brushing or cleaning may be inadequate for many or even most users. Many prior means and methods are not readily capable of effective operation; hygienic, comfortable, and/or error-free use; simple and inexpensive maintenance; with a cost-effective purchase price, for most people in most situations. Thus, there is a need for an improved cleaning device to fill one or more of these needs.
The present invention is presented as a means to remedy one or more of the above-mentioned drawbacks of past devices and/or methods with the provision of a dental care device which offers effective means of dental care for people of all ages, including those with natural teeth or implants, crowns, braces and bridgework, as well as for people of limited dexterity, or having other handicaps.
The present invention provides a dental cleaning appliance for cleaning teeth and gums, the appliance having one or more cleaning heads which are insertable into the user's mouth for the cleaning operation, the cleaning head or heads being attached to a power handle which activates movement of the cleaning head or heads which each may include one or more brushing heads and one or more brushing arms, the one or more brushing heads being reciprocable in many embodiments, and also being disposed so as to include in further embodiments a set of upper brushes and a set of lower brushes, each of said sets of upper and lower brushes often being reciprocable in alternating opposing dispositions relative to each other. Such brush heads may also be used to definitively establish the position of the brushes in the user's mouth and maintain this position so that the bristles may effectively work on the tooth and gum surfaces and/or at the gum line (or elsewhere, if desired) as may be most appropriate for cleaning and improving oral health.
Accordingly, an aspect of the present invention is to provide an oral cleaning device including one or more brushes or other cleaning devices which may be positioned by a cleansing head in a substantially pre-selected position for cleaning and massaging of the user's teeth and gums. Another aspect of the present invention may be to provide an oral cleaning device including one or more brushes which are disposed in, on or adjacent a brush head assembly such that the bristles may be accurately positioned by or with assistance of the brush head assembly in a pre-selected disposition to provide for accurate brushing, cleaning and massaging of the user's teeth and gums. And yet another aspect of the present invention may be to provide a device in which one or more brushes may be moved such that the brushes selectively move with the cleansing head to activate the tooth and gum cleansing process with a moving bristle pattern (direction and angle) meeting the needs of a user while substantially eliminating human error. A further aspect may be in providing an oral hygiene device which provides for mechanically mimicking the brushing movements of the most widely professionally recommended manual tooth-brushing method known as the "Bass" or "Modified Bass" technique, to thus reduce or eliminate an element of human error associated with brushing of a user's teeth and gums.
These and still further aspects as shall hereinafter appear are readily fulfilled by the present invention in a remarkably unexpected manner as will be readily discerned from the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments hereof especially when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which like parts bear like numerals throughout the several views.
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The present invention relates in various embodiments to the provision of a new and useful, substantially automated oral cleaning device including unique coactive assemblages of distinct sub-assemblies which will be described herein in some detail. More particularly, the present invention is directed to a plurality of elements which when considered as one or more ensembles, may provide comprehensive attainment and/or maintenance of oral cleanliness. Of these, there are several primary features; among which are a variety of brush heads and brush head arrangements.
Now in more detail, though first in a relative macroscopic view; as shown at least initially in
A handle 21 may then also include a connection configuration 25 which provides for connection of the one or more brush assemblies 26, 27 to the control handle 21. This connection may generally involve a shaft or shafts 22, two shafts being shown here, namely, shaft 22 a in the relative top position, and shaft 22 b in the relative bottom position (see
The action of the brushes or brush assemblies 26, 27 may be manually maneuvered or activated, or may more often and/or more generally be driven by a control assembly or assemblies 24, as by a motor (see motor 44 in
As initially shown in
The brushes are in many embodiments, see e.g., brushes 26 a, 26 b, disposed such that the brush heads, e.g., heads 30 a, 30 b, are disposed in or have portions thereof predisposed in a preselected angular disposition to appropriately impact the teeth and gums, the intersection thereof and/or any gaps therebetween at the desired location, height, and width thereof. As such, the heads 30 a, 30 b may have respective head portions, namely, side portions 36 a, and crown portions 36 b. These brushes 26 a, 26 b can then contact the teeth from one or all sides of an array of teeth 50, see e.g. the outside or cheek or bucal side 51 toward the other side, e.g., the inside and/or tongue or lingual side 52 of an array of teeth 50 and/or the crown or occlusial side 550 as shown for example in
The side portions 36 a and crown portions 36 b of the heads 30 a, 30 b may thus be disposed to have the bristles 34, 35 disposed in an angular disposition, see angle .theta. in
It may also be desirable to provide an interaction of long bristles 34 of brushes such as brushes 26 a, 26 b particularly so as to substantially completely impact the deeper areas of teeth and between teeth, while having shorter brushes 35 impact the less deep, more prominent portions of teeth. For example, the long crown bristles 34 of adjacent brushes 26 a, 26 b may cover the interior depressed portion of the chewing or occlusial surface of the tooth, see e.g., tooth 56 in
Other views of bristle dispositions are also shown, particularly of the side bristles 34, 35 in the isometric views of
In the use of angled uneven length bristles 34, 35, the bristles may first be brought into contact with the tooth, then movement of the brush and thus also of the bristles, thereby brings the different length bristles into contact with the various uneven portions of the tooth surface, at various points the long bristles are brought into contact with deeper surfaces or interproximal areas between teeth or between a tooth and gum, and the short bristles also at times being brought into contact with the less deep, more prominent surfaces, the bristle tips in both cases being brought to full, non-interfered-with usage on the respective surfaces of the teeth, the bristle tips rather than the respective sides of the bristles. The angled disposition assists by substantially simultaneously directing the bristle tips toward the surface-to-be-cleaned and resisting bending of the bristle which would lead to the bristle side coming into contact with the tooth surface rather than the bristle tip.
Also directed to a maximal bristle cleaning activity may be an option of flexible, resilient brush arms, e.g., arms 28 a, 28 b, 29 a and/or 29 b, which can contribute to the preferred maintenance of the tips of the long and short bristles 34, 35 in contact with the respective deeper and shallower tooth portions by alternately flexing outwardly during an encounter with a wider tooth or shallower oral feature and then upon encountering a deeper or narrower feature, flexing or resiling inwardly to reach inwardly toward the deeper surfaces and/or the narrower teeth. This may be a part of providing for disposing the brushes in a preselected optimal brushing position. And, even the trim of the bristles may contribute to this maintenance of a desired bristle angle. As such, the trim at the tips of the bristles may be angled to be parallel to the tooth surfaces (see each of the views of
In some embodiments, in order to effectively substantially eliminate human error, the present brushes may provide a relative "self-positioning" of the brush arms, brush heads and bristles relative to the teeth and gums. Self-positioning may involve disposition relative to an oral feature such as a tooth or teeth and gums, and/or may involve in and out positioning as well as swiveling heads. The in and out positioning may primarily be a result of resilient brush arms which allow for spreading of the heads away from each other when encountering a wide tooth and resiling back inwardly toward their original position when narrower surfaces are encountered. The heads may also have resilient characteristics, e.g. of the side relative to the crown and vice versa. The resilient arms and/or heads may thus provide for biting into the combination of brush heads, the resilience providing for applying substantially continuous force for the brush heads to continually close in on or appropriately squeeze toward the teeth large or small, spreading as necessary for the larger teeth. Note, the resiliency of the arms and/or heads may be selected so as to provide or apply a desirable, light yet operative pressure in the direction of bristles (maintaining the desirable angle, e.g. 45 degrees for the side bristles), not an overly aggressive or damaging force on the teeth and/or gums. Spreading is shown in
A swiveling positioning may include such resiliency, allowing relatively independent twisting or rotation of one or the other or both of the arms upon encountering an obstruction. This is shown in
In use with two or four wrap-around brushes, such as one or as shown, two brushes in the top brush assembly 26 for the top teeth and/or one or two in the bottom brush assembly 27 for the bottom teeth, the user may simply bite into the brushing heads 26, 27, and self-positioning may be substantially automatic as the brushes position themselves or are otherwise positioned to substantially correctly contact tooth and gum surfaces (see
Another part of the ADA Bass techniques recommendation is to reciprocate the brushes in short/quick, back and forth strokes while applying light pressure in the direction of bristles. Accordingly, the device 20 hereof can, and in many preferred embodiments will be adapted to provide a defined stroke that imparts an alternating brushing, as shown in
Note also, in some embodiments, it may further be desirable to optionally though not necessarily include use of a dentifrice, tooth paste, flavor concentrate etc. To do this, the dentifrice may be delivered with, i.e., added to the brush or brush bristles in substantially conventional fashion and thus move with the brushes into the user's mouth and thereby be applied to the teeth and/or gums.
The respective brush assemblies 26, 27 introduced above, may be unitary appliances, or may as shown in
The respective brush assemblies 26, 27 may also include respective brush bases 40 (see the assembled base 40 in
As shown in
Disengagement of the quill end slot 123 from the cutout feature 142 b may be effected by pushing on the push-button surface 142 a in the direction 145 against the bias of the spring 43 which then allows for the outer diameter 123 od to enter and move through the cutout feature 142 b thereby allowing for removal of housing 40 and brush assembly 26 (or 27) from the shaft 22. Opposite engagement may be had by pushing the housing 40 onto the shaft 22 such that the quill end thereof enters the cutout feature 142 b and the ramp surface 122 r of the quill end engages the cutout feature and causes movement thereof against the bias of and compressing or otherwise deforming the spring 43 as the edge of the cutout feature rides along the incline of the ramp until the slot 123 is reached at which point the spring 43 pushes back against the push-button device 42 b to engage the edge of the cutout feature with the slot as shown in
The tooth brush assemblies 26, 27 may thus be removably mountable on the shafts 22 and thereby replaceable if and/or as they may be spent, or the assemblies 26, 27 may be interchangeable so that each of a plurality of users may each also have his/her own brush heads for sanitary reasons. Alternative cleaning head assemblies (see
Moving shafts for moving the cleaning heads 26, 27 will now be described. For example, in
Inside the control handle 21 may be one or more control assemblies 24 which may include conventional or unconventional reciprocation hardware. As a first example, a direct current (DC) motor 44 may be included to provide primary power to reciprocate the brush head assemblies 26, 27. The motor 44 may activate a mechanical system 45 such as a system of gears, to ultimately move the cleaning head assemblies 26, 27. The system 45 may be a double reciprocal/opposing movement like that described and shown in
Note, the two top heads 30 a, 30 b on the brush assembly 26 may as shown preferably be reciprocated together and the other, lower two heads 31 a, 31 b of the brush assembly 27 may be reciprocated together in opposed relationship to the upper heads. In many cases with devices 20 it will be preferable to provide such alternate reciprocal moving part embodiments having respective opposing parts moving contrary to each other to provide balance to the overall device. In any two opposed brush orientations, the opposing brushes may be moving substantially simultaneously in opposite directions, one out while the other is moving in and vice versa. Reciprocation of top and bottom and reciprocation in opposite directions provides substantially simultaneous action and reaction in and out, and this force action and reaction cancels each other out so that net motive force on the handle 21 is substantially zero and the handle 21 thereby remains stationary. The mechanical force counterforce, i.e., the force(s) tending to push the brush heads further in, or out of the mouth simultaneously provide at least a reduction of the overall forces felt by the user who may then be able to operate the device simply by and through the use of a simple/minimal grasp of the handle 21 with the thumb and forefinger. This overall action/reaction may also provide a further advantage in the self-positioning described above, overcoming the reciprocal brushing action to allow the brush head and bristle design to achieve and maintain the desirable self-position (
As mentioned above, the device 20 can provide alternating brushing, with, as shown in
An assembly such as this may be adequate for twin cooperative goals of efficaciously brushing the occlusial and lingual-bucal surfaces of the teeth and gums (including gaps between such surfaces and/or between the teeth and gums) while also simultaneously brushing the aforementioned surfaces and also the underlying gums. An aspect hereof may thus be the provision of an improved powered toothbrush for simultaneously efficaciously brushing the occlusial and the lingual bucal surfaces including any gaps therebetween while simultaneously beneficially brushing the teeth surfaces and also the underlying teeth/gums, the latter benefit representing therapeutical prevention of periodontal problems.
Note, shown in
Other repowering connections may also be had, as for example, including non-rechargeable, but replaceable batteries or where the recharger is built into the handle 21 or involves a table top recharging stand 48 for placement of the handle 21 therein as illustrated generally in one exemplar implementation of
An alternative embodiment, see
The brush combinations are optional, and/or interchangeable. A tripartite assembly 226 for example could include optionally one or more laterally spaced heads 226 a, 226 b and could further include a crown brush 226 c. Similarly, a lower tripartite assembly 227 could include a crown brush 227 c (this could be a sole brush, see e.g., brush 327 in
Furthermore, although uneven bristle groups 234, 235 are not necessarily shown in
The respective brush head assembly(ies) 226, 227 can also as described above, be detachably attached to the end of the respective structural brush shafts 22 a, 22 b. Detachability may be effected through use of depressible button 242 which can release a spring catch (not shown here), and the respective brush head 226 (and/or 227) can then be removed or pulled therefrom. A similar disposition and action may be had with the brushes (if so desired) and the corresponding structural shafts. In some embodiments, the brush head(s) may be installed onto corresponding shafts, until they go on to a point at which the button "snaps" and locks the brush head in relation to the respective structural shaft.
And, yet again as above, the brushes may be reciprocated in short strokes in accordance with ADA recommended Bass technique, brushing with a short/quick back and forth action(s). As such, the control handle 21 may in many embodiments be provided with powering means (see e.g.,
In general, brush head assemblies could include one or more brush heads. In one further alternative, for example, a singular brush head (not directly shown) could be used. Alternatively or in addition thereto, one or more or an arrangement of brush heads could be disposed for brushing the sides of the teeth and/or the crowns of the teeth. Examples of such arrangements include those brush assemblies 326 and/or 327 shown in
In another, single brush alternative, the single brush may have at least one set of side bristles together with a set of crown bristles, the single brush having a resilient head and/or arm to allow for self-positioning of the respective bristles relative to an oral cavity feature such as a tooth, gum or intersection therebetween. Such a single brush may moreover have two opposing side sets of bristles with or without crown bristles and may have internal head and/or arm resiliency to provide for self-positioning of the respective bristles relative to an oral cavity feature.
From the foregoing, it is readily apparent that new and useful embodiments of the present invention have been herein described and illustrated which fulfill numerous desiderata in remarkably unexpected fashions. An assembly such as any of these described herein may be adequate for twin cooperative goals of efficaciously brushing the occlusial and lingual-bucal surfaces, including gaps therebetween, while also simultaneously brushing the aforementioned surfaces and also the underlying teeth and gums thereby providing therapeutical prevention and/or treatment of periodontal problems. It is, of course, understood that such modifications, alterations and adaptations as may readily occur to the artisan confronted with this disclosure are intended within the spirit of this disclosure which is limited only by the scope of the claims appended hereto.
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Patty Mills showed on an international stage this summer that he's ready to make a big contribution in the NBA. Mill's performance for Australia at the London Olympics was incredible and showed a lot of people that he's better than they may have thought. For now, he's stuck on the San Antonio Spurs' depth chart behind Tony Parker and barring some sort of injury, that's not going to change anytime soon. Mills will have to do what he can as a backup for the time being, but he's hoping to show how well he can fill that role. ''It's a big year for trying to prove myself,'' Mills said. ''I still feel like I've got a lot of things to prove, my future goal is wanting to be a starting point guard somewhere. I'm really happy where I am now, I know what I need to do but I feel there are a lot of things I need to prove to everyone.'' I would imagine that the Spurs will keep Parker around for a long time, so if Mills wants to be a starting point guard, it may have to be somewhere else. Putting in a full preseason with the team, along with his experience last year should get him enough minutes to show what he can do. The Spurs might even consider giving him a few extra minutes for the opportunity to raise his trade value. I like Mills a lot, and I think he has a lot of potential. It's just a little unfortunate for him that he landed on a team with an All-Star point guard already. He may get to move out of Tony Parker's shadow eventually, but for now he just has to focus on making every minute count. I think Mills has a bright future ahead of him, even if it's not with the Spurs, but it's all going to start this year. This season is make or break for him. Will he be stuck as a backup point guard for the rest of his career or is it time to make a name for himself?
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Assembling a Costume: Step 3
Well THAT was a long jaunt between posts! Since the last time I posted, I attended the local CONvergence in Bloomington, Minnesota, and had the opportunity to attend San Diego Comic Con. It was a GREAT experience, especially in costume! { Read more }
Assembling a Costume: Step 2
Hello again!
CONvergence is A WEEK away and I'm working away on my projects! Now that I have most of the items ordered, I thought it was time for another installment of this series.
In case you missed it, step 1 was Research.
Step 2: BUY ALL THE THINGS!
Assembling a Costume: Step 1
Hello all!
It's been a LONG time since I've checked in with you but, I promise, that doesn't mean I'm not hard at work!
With the local CONVERGENCE science fiction convention coming up, I thought it'd be a good time to give you a peek behind the curtain. I wrote up pieces about a few of my costumes after-the-fact last year, but this year, I thought I'd get a jump on it and show you what my costuming process looks like from the very beginning.
I have a few costumes on deck for this year, but for the purposes of this post, I'll focus on two:
S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Maria Hill from Marvel comics and "The Avengers" film from last year,
and Queen Susan of the Horn from The Chronicles of Narnia and, specifically, the "Prince Caspian" film from 2008
What I've Been Working On, Fall 2012 edition
It's been a busy summer, blog world! Sorry I've been such an absentee. Here's what I've been up to.
teamphotoblog: Olympic Nails!
I geek out about the Olympics. Like, a lot. I was bouncing on Friday night when I was prepping for the Opening Ceremonies, getting foodstuffs ready for the thirty or so people that came over to my mom's house to hang out and watch the British show us how it's done. And by "bouncing,' I mean, "in tandem with my cousin."
So late last Tuesday night, before doing my costume pics, I did my nails for the Olympics. After surfing Pinterest, I landed on the idea of making each one of my nails one of the Olympic rings. I laid down a base coat of China Glaze "Fast Track" from the Hunger Games collection, which is lovely and gold. I made the rings with the middle of a Q-tip and edged them with silver to cover for the fact that I smudged them a few times.
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I got my inspiration from this pin from polishpedia, and it turns out this is a popular idea, because now I've seen it on HelloGiggles!
And now that I'm getting better at design-y things, and my nails are getting longer, this could be a lot of fun.
Gallery Update and Outtakes from the Shoot
It's been a long time coming – I was able to wrangle a photographer to take some more costume photos! The gallery is refreshed with lovely CONvergence goodies – Jubilee, Rufio, and Katniss. Special thanks to my BFF, Jenn Farmer, for bringing her good camera over and taking these shots!
A few of them were perfect for the gallery. Here's the few that are perfect outtakes.
As Jubilee, I was being overly critical of my "superhero" technique. I didn't remember how Jubilee rolled, but I knew it wasn't with "kamehameha" or "hadouken," and certainly not "jazz hands," but we have shots of those.
As Rufio, I was climbing on the pieces of the yet-to-be-assembled play structure in my yard. It was not, as they say, structurally sound. Once I scaled it, however, I found I had an audience – my two-and-a-half year old Tiny Roommate and her father, watching from the kitchen window. So I started making funny faces at them, and they turned out to be the best shots we got of the costume. I love them.
As Katniss, there was a lot of spinning involved for the ruffles on the Girl on Fire dress, so some came out as a blur, and some came out with me stepping out of frame. I used a couple of those anyway because the dress looked amazing!
CONvergence 2012: Hey! I made that!
One of the treats of the convention is walking around and seeing your work out there on other humans. Here are just a few of those from CONvergence 2012:
Sam as Codex from the "Do You Want to Date My Avatar?" video
Meredith and Ryan as Mal and Inara from "Firefly" (Congrats on the engagement, you two! And nice Kaylee costume, Corryn!)
I also dyed and embellished the shirt for Ash from Alien.
In case you missed it, here are my other costumes from CONvergence 2012!
Jubilee from the X-Men
Penny from Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog
Kaylee from Firefly
Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games
Rufio from Hook
CONvergence 2012: Hipster/Modern Jubilee from the X-Men
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Jubilee was a last-minute decision, someone I suddenly wanted to be in the heat of coming up with ideas immediately before CON. I have short hair that's perfect for the role, and this year's theme is "Wonder Women," so a comic book superheroine was in order. I had recently purchased the cranberry skinny jeans at Target – a sale rack impulse buy at $7. I'd had the blue corset for a couple of years. A friend provided the glasses. The gloves were a painstaking process of wanting to go one way with it (fiberoptics, LED or EL wire) and deciding to instead go easy on myself and use glitter.
It's the jacket that sold it for me. When I got the idea for Hipster Jubilee, I thought about it good and hard for a little while, wondering if I'd be able to execute the look properly. So I hit Etsy. Every hipster's got to have something vintage, right? So I looked for vintage yellow jackets. And there it was. A vintage canary yellow Jonathan Logan jacket with a wide lapel. Perfect color. Perfect fit.
I spent the entire night giving and receiving high-fives. Worth it!
CONvergence 2012: Katniss's Girl on Fire gown from "The Hunger Games"
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The "Girl on Fire" interview gown is described extensively in the book thusly:
"Because my dress, oh, my dress is entirely covered in reflective precious gems, red and yellow and white with bits of blue that accent the tips of the flame design. The slightest movement gives the impression I am engulfed in tongues of fire.
I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun."
I read "The Hunger Games" immediately before I saw the film. As soon as I read that passage, I was excited to not only see how it would translate to film, but to think about how I would design the gown myself. I didn't know for sure that I was even going to have this costume on hand until the Operation Glass Slipper warehouse sale. I'll need to go more in-depth about this wonderful organization later, but the long and short of it is that I was allowed to comb through racks and racks and racks of gowns and I found one that SCREAMED to be remade into the Girl on Fire gown. I combed through a bin of formal shawls and grabbed complementary shades of reds and golds. The technique I used on the skirt is an old one – you might recognize it a little from my Platinum Benedikta red carpet gown from two years ago. I loved the technique when I learned it, and this seemed like a great time to make more ruffles.
Since I was toeing the line between the book representation and the film, I wanted ruffles along the bottom cascading up in fire shades. The ruffles themselves are edged with bright metallic copper thread on the outside, and a variegated red-to-yellow thread on the inside, giving the edges of the ruffles a shimmering effect. Once I finished the ruffles, I hung the dress on Eloise (my new dress form) and thought that something was lacking; that there was a disconnect between the flaming colors of the ruffled skirt and the more floral bodice. That's when I busted out my white chalk, drew a flame design wrapping all the way around the dress, and sewed it in with the lovely metallic copper thread.
While working on this process, I was suddenly reminded of why I learned to draw flames: the St. Paul Winter Carnival. My dad was a Vulcan – the keepers of heat during the dark cold of winter, and the bringers of heat and spring. It's been a long time dream of mine to be a South Wind Princess in the Winter Carnival and, while that dream may have to go by the wayside as I get nearer and nearer to not being an eligible age, if I were to ever do it, I'd have this dress to wear, this gorgeous flaming dress.
CONvergence 2012: Rufio from "Hook"
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My love for this film has only grown in the twenty-one years since it came out. I think that that's probably because I've grown up, but made a concerted effort at not growing old. It's part of the reason I costume – it's an excuse to play dress-up!
Rufio was FUN. I got to run down hallways yelling "BANGARANG!", hear folks shout "RU-FI-OOOOOOO" after me, and walk into party rooms and crow like Pan. Totally worth it.
The costume itself is a pair of black jeans, a shirt with a ruffle neckline, and a faux-leather jacket with a few accessories. Doesn't sound too tough… and then you add the distressing and fringing elements. Making all that fringe took a while, but as I cut and cut, the jacket looked more and more like Rufio's, and that made it more than worth it. The black jacket with a red lining was LUCK. I found the jacket, shirt, and jeans at the Goodwill in Woodbury, MN. Pure kismet. The fringed "belt" is the bottom of an old turtle neck my mom gave me to use for fabric. The moccasins were a Christmas gift from a while back, and I was lucky to find them in one of my boxes of stuff. The tooth necklace, though – that was my roommate, Kathy, who majored in anthropology, and handed it over as soon as I told her my idea for this costume.


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PCM3, Inc. filed as an Articles of Incorporation in the State of California filed on Wednesday, August 11, 1993. This corporation is approximately twenty-two years old according to documents filed with California Secretary of State.
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The invention concerns a device for storage and search of textual and graphic data in electronic form, said device comprising display means, user-interface means, control means, means for storing said data, means for selecting data to be displayed according to the user's instructions. The invention is characterized in that it comprises a multiplexed address bus.
1. A device for the storage and searching of textual and graphical information in electronic form, said device comprising a case (1), a display means (9), a user interface means (3), an operating means (11), a means for storage (5) of said information, a means of selecting information to be displayed according to the user's instructions, and a multiplexed address bus (10).
2. A device according to
3. A device according to
4. A device according to any one of the
5. A device according to
6. A device according to
7. A device according to
8. A device for the storage and searching of textual and graphical information in electronic form comprising:
a case;
a display mounted within the case;
a user interface device mounted within the case;
a processor connected to the display and user interface device
a removable memory, removably connected to the processor, that stores the textual and graphical information;
a program for selecting the textual and graphical information stored in the removable memory that is to be displayed according to a user's instructions; and
a multiplexed address bus connected between the removable memory and the processor for transmitting the selected information between the removable memory and the processor.
9. The device according to
first memory components that store textual and graphical information that can be consulted by the user;
second memory components that store identification and personalization information to identify and personal the removable memory;
a decoder component that selects one of the first and second memory components;
three eight-bit bus decoder components for addressing the first memory components; and
a bus decoder component for transferring the stored information read in the first memory components to the multiplexed address bus for transmission to the processor.
The present application is the national stage under 35 U.S.C. §371 of international application PCT/FR99/03312, filed Dec. 29, 1999 which designated the United States, and which application was not published in the English language.
The present invention relates to the field of devices for storage and retrieval of information in electronic form. More particularly it relates to a reader for texts of standards, codes etc., of a format equivalent to that of a book.
Devices are already known for storage and retrieval of information in electronic form, such as "organizers", pocket computers, electronic translators etc.
These devices have the drawback that they are still of relatively limited storage capacity, and, as a corollary, they do not permit sufficiently rapid access to a very large volume of information. Finally, they are relatively expensive and therefore their field of application remains limited.
The aim of the present invention is therefore to remedy the drawbacks mentioned above.
To this end it proposes a device for storage and searching of textual and graphical information in electronic form, the said device comprising a display means, a user interface means, an operating means, a means of storing the said information, a means of selecting information to be displayed according to the user's instructions, characterized in that it includes a multiplexed address bus.
The product makes it possible to search an article or text automatically, according to a numerical or alphabetical input captured manually at the keyboard.
For a doctor, for example, searching for a medicine or for a contra-indication of the latter, or searching for textual or numerical information by theme, will be effected by means of an alphabetic input entered at the keyboard.
For a lawyer, searching of a legal text will be effected by the acquisition of a numerical input from the keyboard.
So as to simplify the architecture of the device and reduce its cost, the operating means is preferably an eight-bit processor combined with an IPP (Intelligent Programmable Peripheral).
According to the preferred embodiment, it has an internal communication bus of type I2C.
So as to make it possible to take account of regularly updated data, the storage means is a memory card that can be removed from the case.
According to a preferred embodiment, the device has a printer port.
It will be understood that, as the device according to the invention is equipped initially with a 9600-baud RS232C printer output, the data thus displayed can be printed, which is especially useful when searching a legal article or a text from case law, for example.
The invention also relates to a method of searching textual or graphical information stored in electronic form, characterized in that it comprises the following steps:
The description and drawings of a preferred embodiment of the invention, given below, will provide a better understanding of the aims and advantages of the invention. This description is of course given as an example, and is not limiting. In the drawings:
As can be seen in
It has a bottom part 2 where a keyboard 3 is accessible for input of instructions by the user. The bottom part 2 also has on its edge a slot 4 for insertion of a memory card 5 (not visible in the diagram), containing data representing texts, for example articles of law, or the texts of standards, stored in electronic form in memory components.
The bottom part 2 of case 1 has, on its front face, on the one hand, a socket 6 for connecting a conventional electrical supply lead, for example of the 9 V d.c. type, and, on the other hand, a printer port 7 permitting connection to a printer, by means of a conventional PC printer cable, such as RS232C.
Case 1 has in addition a top part 8 that can be opened, and having a flat screen 9. The device is switched on either with a conventional switch (not shown), or by detection of the opening of case 1.
The two parts 2, 8 of case 1 are hinged in a manner known to a person skilled in the art. This makes it possible to orientate the flat screen 9 over a wide range of angles relative to the bottom part 2 of case 1, for the user's comfort.
With regard to the internal architecture of the device, shown schematically in
The memory size required for storing a text such as the penal code is about 1 Megabyte. In the case of storage of 8 law codes, the minimum capacity must then be about 8 Megabytes, i.e. 64 megabits, one byte being equivalent to one character.
In binary this represents 2(23) (2 to the power of 23), i.e. an address bus must have as a minimum twenty-three connections to a memory card 5, eight connections for a data bus, two connections for an electric power supply 12, and four control connections (for commands of type /CS, /RD, /WR, /E), the technology of the processor 11 for this type of addressing is then at the minimum 32 bits. The drawbacks of this 32-bit technology are the volume (in PLCC there are 68 connecting legs), and the high power consumption (50 mA).
Since the memory card 5 must be removable so as to be able to offer users a subscription contract of the data updating type, the connector should moreover have at least 37 connections on this basis. Obviously this option is prohibitive in terms of complexity and production costs.
Accordingly, the device uses a multiplexed address bus 10, so as to make it possible to reduce the size of the processor 11. With addressing by multiplexing, it is possible to employ an eight-bit processor combined with an IPP (Intelligent Programmable Peripheral), addressing is at the maximum 2(24), i.e. 16 Megabytes.
The device uses a microcontroller 11 possessing its own IPP (Intelligent Programmable Peripheral), in RISC technology and HARVARD internal architecture. In fact, the other conventional processors, of type 6800 (from Motorola), Z80 (from Zilog) or 80C196 (Intel) operate with a common architecture, called VON-NEUMANN, but this older architecture has numerous shortcomings when we require to combine performance with speed of execution.
The microcontroller 11 chosen, in the device described as an example, is a PIC16C5X from the company MICROCHIP. It is organized in 12-bit words, which makes it possible to code, on a single word, the instruction and the operand or its address (in the broad sense of the term). The code produced is thus very compact.
The data from the main memory of the microprocessor (serving for execution of the main program, which calls data stored in the other memory stores) then enters an instruction decoder which acts simultaneously on the microcontroller 11 or an ordinal counter.
The clock frequency is fixed by a quartz crystal at 20 MHz in the example described.
The choice of communication bus determines the number of connections to the memory card 5, and the expandability of the machine.
The device according to the invention uses an internal communication bus.
For the device according to the invention, the bus 10 chosen is the I2C bus developed by Philips. Numerous peripherals have been developed by various companies for this bus: real time clock, RAM and E2PROM memories, input/output module, drivers, etc., making it possible to envisage possible extensions for the device.
The power supply 12 of the device according to the invention is provided by an ordinary battery or a rechargeable battery. If it is used with a rechargeable battery then recharging of the latter, with a suitable charger, uses the power supply socket 6 located on the front face of the device.
The internal power supply of the device uses a constant-power switching regulator (400 kHz) to transform the voltage of the ordinary or rechargeable battery to 5 V. A warning light on the front face of the keyboard can inform the user that the energy available in the ordinary or rechargeable battery is low, and that it should be replaced or recharged as soon as possible. The total consumption is about 15 mA for a supply voltage of 9 V.
The ordinary or rechargeable battery has, in the non-limiting example described, the following characteristics: dimensions W 26.5×H 17.5×L 48.5 mm, weight=38 g, voltage 9 V at 550 mA.
With a rechargeable battery, the device according to the invention can be used independently for about 30 hours.
The numerical keyboard 3 has 18 keys according to the following list of functions:
Adjustment of screen contrast with two keys (not shown).
Keyboard 3 (
The dimensions of the keyboard are: L 105 mm×160 mm×h 1 mm.
The advantages of this type of keyboard are: variations in shapes of the keys, choice of colours available, height of the keyboard (1 mm), low cost of manufacture.
Keyboard 3 has at the top a light-emitting diode 20, illumination of which indicates low voltage of the battery, according to a conventional setup.
The flat screen 9 used in the device is of the liquid crystal type (LCD). It can display 10 lines of 26 characters in text mode, and 160 by 80 pixels in graphics mode. It can, for example, be of the type marketed under the name DGI 6080 made by DATA-VISION. With this type of display it is possible to display letter symbols with accents.
The device according to the invention has, as we have seen, a printer port 7, so that the information displayed on the flat screen 9 can be printed on thermal paper or some other type of paper (depending on the printer connected).
A printer compatible with the device must have the following characteristics:
Each removable memory card 5 uses, as has been explained, the I2C communication bus. Each memory card 5 is organized as follows.
Card 5 is generally of rectangular format, for example with size of about 5 cm×10 cm, and is intended to be inserted into case 1 by sliding into it, in the direction of its length.
Card 5 is made in the form of a four-layer printed circuit 21 (
The printed circuit 21 also carries a decoder component 24, intended for memory selection, and I2C bus decoder components. Three bus decoder components 25 serve for addressing the memories, and a bus decoder component 26 serves for transferring the stored information read in the memory components 22 to the I2C bus.
On one edge of memory card 5 there is a connecting strip 27 for connecting it to the device when it is inserted in case 1.
The manner of production of the card and the choice of components are of a conventional type known to a person skilled in the art.
So as to reduce the memory size of the stored information, textual information is, in the example described here, stored as text only (ASCII format).
Microcontroller 11 is arranged on a microcontroller card 28 (shown schematically in
The microcontroller card 28 is arranged in the bottom part 3 of case 1, under the keyboard 3, and is of a general rectangular shape.
It is made in the form of a four-layer printed circuit of a conventional type, and has, in addition to microcontroller 11:
This microcontroller card 28 was developed in accordance with the requirements of standards for electromagnetic compatibility (CEM) directive 89/336 and directive 92/31.
The manner of operation of the device is illustrated in
On opening the device according to the invention (with a memory card already inserted in its housing), the stored database gives, as starting information, the number of pages to be displayed and the start address of the text mode (step E1).
A time delay step E2 makes it possible to detect whether there is a long delay without data input from the keyboard.
In this case, the device accesses the database in graphics mode (step E3), giving the number of images to be displayed and the start address, and which contains for example advertising screens or other information.
For as long as all the images have not been displayed, or no key depression on the keyboard has been detected, graphics display continues. On the other hand, if a key has been pressed (step E4) or all the images have been displayed, the program returns to step E1, to the stored database and to the first page displayed (a page showing the contents of the text memory, for example).
During processing of a keystroke (step E5), a succession of hierarchical menus permits access either to graphical information (return to step E3), or (step E6) to various stored codes (if legal codes are stored), and, in a chosen code, access to a particular page (step E7), identified for example by the number of an article of law in a list.
More precisely, when there is user input via the keyboard (step E5), corresponding to a choice of legal code or of subject for example, the Summary Survey Zone SSZ, based on 8 octets (bytes), makes it possible to define the number of pages to be displayed, and the corresponding memory allocation.
A new keystroke is then awaited from the user, and a time delay of 50 seconds without reaction can return to the database in graphics mode.
The Identification Memory Zone IMZ, based on 16 bytes, then defines the number of the table of the material selected, the code number, the end address of the article requested, the start address of article 1 or of text, and the memory address for articles.
Finally, the Article Memory Zone AMZ, based on 8 bytes, which has an article zone on 2 bytes, and memory address zones of the articles (on 3 bytes), permits display of the information requested (article chosen, for example).
During data input by the user, the keyboard then permits either page scrolling forwards or backwards using the "+" and "−" keys (15 and 16), or direct selection of an item from a list by entering codes on the numeric keypad (keys 0 to 9).
Operation is under the control of a program, stored in a memory of the microcontroller card 28, and executed by the microcontroller 11.
As the device according to the invention is equipped with a I2C internal communication bus 10, a number of options can be proposed.
For example, it is possible to drive several screens for the case when it is used as a digital pocket book, to obtain information via an operator so as to be able to be informed of important events in real time, or, for use by the police, to have visual information about a wanted notice, or, for a lawyer, to follow developments for draft laws, legal proceedings that are in progress, etc.
The man/machine interface can be adapted depending on the application selected. The option for dialogue with a computer makes it possible, by means of software developed for this application, for the user to use the device according to the invention solely as a databank, in the case when the user wishes to alter the pagination of the documents or article to be printed.
In a variant that is economical in terms of cost of manufacture, adapted to mass production, it is possible to develop an ASIC component, intended to replace the microcontroller card 28, in order to reduce the volume of components.
In one variant, a new microcontroller card 28 of the smart-card type can be developed in Java.
The scope of the present invention is not limited to the details of the above embodiments considered as an example, but on the contrary extends to modifications within the capacity of a person skilled in the art.
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Kershaw County Council will hold a special meeting Tuesday to consider implementing public hearing rules, a move that could set time limits for speakers at a public hearing involving setting the millage rate.
Despite the growing shift from reading hardcover books to reading digital downloads via the Internet, the Kershaw County Library continues to grow according to Library Director Amy Schofield.
Columbia businessman Austin Meyer and his wife, Lane, say they will match donations toward a new animal shelter in Kershaw County, up to a limit of $1 million in matching funds.
Kershaw County Council unanimously approved a fee-in-lieu-of-taxes (FILOT) agreement with Diversified Information Technologies (DIT) during its meeting Tuesday, finalizing a deal estimated to generate at least 20 full-time jobs.
Kershaw County Council will hold a public hearing and hold third reading of an ordinance authorizing a fee-in-lieu-of-taxes (FILOT) agreement with Diversified Information Technologies (DIT) during its meeting Tuesday.
Preliminary plans for a county-wide trail system are currently being developed as part of a collaborative effort set to be finished by May.
A string of recent financial moves by Kershaw County Council has drawn added scrutiny from Kershaw County School District (KCSD) officials because, they say, a funding request has essentially gone unanswered.
Kershaw County Council selected four new appointments to the KershawHealth Board of Trustees Tuesday with all but one receiving unanimous support.
After weeks of consideration, Kershaw County Council has decided it will appoint four new members to the KershawHealth Board of Trustees.
Since being named Kershaw County's tourism director in July, Darron Kirkley's aim has been to coordinate local tourism efforts and bring more visitors to the community.
Visitors to the Kershaw County Economic Development Office (KCEDO) have been greeted with a new face lately after the recent hiring of Lauren Branham as a marketing and administrative assistant. Branham, a 2012 graduate of Clemson University, will be serving a variety of functions under Economic Development Director Peggy McLean.
Despite not taking any formal vote, Kershaw County Council tried to hash out details Tuesday on making new appointments to the KershawHealth Board of Trustees. During the meeting's council/administrator briefing period, County Administrator Vic Carpenter presented recommendations for making appointments, but noted council could revise his proposal.
Aiming to get county tax notices out by October, Kershaw County Council unanimously approved first reading in title only of an ordinance setting the county's millage rate during its meeting Tuesday. County Administrator Vic Carpenter explained that approving the ordinance on first reading in title only allows council to flesh out the actual "body" of the ordinance before council's meeting Sept. 11.
Kershaw County Council is set to take up first reading in title only of an ordinance setting the millage rate during its meeting Tuesday. County Administrator Vic Carpenter said first reading of the ordinance will help initiate preliminary work needed to get county tax notices out by Oct. 1.
Members of the Lake Wateree Association (LWA) are currently working on a series of new safety initiatives to enhance life at the lake. Former LWA Chairman Ron Kadan said the push for improved safety measures was recently initiated after members of the organization reflected on a deadly boating accident along the shores of Lake Murray in Richland County.
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Smiles and handshakes filled the Kershaw County Council chamber Tuesday night after council approved the Kershaw County School District's (KCSD) budget by a 5-2 vote. Kershaw County Administrator Vic Carpenter said the KCSD requested a budget increase of $397,000, to be used for pay increases for teachers and other staff.
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I'm a bit late with this one, but Craig's post near Ketcum Ranch prompted me to get going with it.
A week ago Saturday I spent an evening by the campfire at dvwalker's property outside Mosier.
He's up pretty high in the hills, watching Mt. Adams sneak over the mountains beyond.
It was an ideal camping evening with calm, clear skies and a very nice view from dv's "campspot" of the the Mosier Valley and the Columbia Gorge below us.
Ideal until the night. Clear out here this time of year means COLD. Really cold.
Went to bed listening to the sprayers, coating the orchard on a calm cool night, and woke up to fans, trying to keep the orchards a couple of degree warmer.
In the morning we took a walk around some of the trails he's built, and watched deer and wild turkeys getting their breakfasts.
There's lots of deer here.
When the sun turned warm, we headed up Vensel Rd to Ketchum.
Ketchum Rd runs at the top of the ridge between Mosier Creek Valley and Mill Creek Valley, outside The Dalles.
It is one of the few gravel-less roads in our area, but on top, it stays fairly dry and hard packed.
There's a few puddles here and there, ready for my water-fording ride of the day, the Mighty Shadow !!
"got no problem with keeping truly roadless areas as wild....
On the other hand, if it has been logged or mined and roads already exist,,
...then that land should be open for public use"
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