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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Mar 14, 1995
|Filing date
|Mar 17, 1993
|Priority date
|Mar 17, 1993
|Fee status
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|John S. Gipson, Don M. Wilkerson
|Original Assignee
|Gipson; John S., Wilkerson; Don M.
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|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (23), Referenced by (13), Classifications (10), Legal Events (3)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
This invention relates to a golf swing, specifically to improving the backward and forward swing of a golfer, improving alignment toward intended target, and improving address posture.
Upon examining the game of golf, it is apparent the real challenge of golf is consistency, both in score and in striking the ball as desired. To develop a consistently desirable golf swing, it is important to have a technique for avoiding undesirable changes; a technique of identifying and adjusting unintentional swing variations as they occur.
In respect to alignment at an intended target, prior art contains numerous devices which help eliminate unintentional variations. But prior art is directed toward only part of the alignment task. For example, several patents are directed toward position of feet and ball relative to an intended target line. A number of patents are directed toward specific body parts, such as shoulders, legs, or hands. But none include a simple device for aligning shoulders, body, feet, hands and golf club at an intended target simultaneously.
Furthermore, for a device to be truly useful, it needs to be useable while a golfer is holding a club in an address position for hitting a ball. Much of prior art is not. Also, several devices shown in prior art are relatively cumbersome to use, they are actually practical to use in practice sessions only. Several devices even prohibit a golfer from safely swinging a club during use. For example, the device in U.S. Pat. No. 4,993,716 to Waller in February 1991, requires a golfer during use to step away it and remember the desired position of alignment. Even short time memory is deceptive and not precise. U.S. Pat. No. 5,013,044 to Hesselbart in May 1991, has adjustable alignment bars, but is directed to foot alignment and controlling swing path of clubhead.
The position of the entire golfer, body and limbs, while holding a club in an address position for hitting a ball usually is referred to as address posture. It also influences the alignment process. Since a swing starts from an address posture, it is obvious a golfer needs a consistent address posture to develop a repeatable consistent swing. Prior art associated with improving and maintaining consistent address posture contains devices which help, such as U.S. Pat. No. 4,993,716 to Waller in February 1991 which is impractical to swing while engaged and U.S. Pat. No. 4,318,546 to Chen in 1982, with straps holding a golfer in desired address posture, but it is too restrictive and does not include distance between body and ball.
After a golfer completes the alignment tasks, with associate address posture, a golfer makes a swing. It is apparent, anyone can swing in any manner for a single swing and achieve perfect results. A hole in one is an example. Such a perfect result has been made by a multitude of golfers with a large number of entirely different swings. This fact alone implies good results for a single swing have little significance in developing a golf swing. The criteria for developing a desirable golf swing is CONSISTENT RESULTS rather than an infrequent perfect result.
Examining prior art associated with golf swings indicates some useful devices and techniques are available. Much the same as in the alignment task, when developing a golf swing, it is important to have a technique of identifying preferred swing adjustments. And also, a technique for avoiding or eliminating undesirable swing changes.
Several patents are involved with arm position during a swing. U.S. Pat. Nos. 1,591,523 and 1,591,524 to Fuller in 1926 are arm guide swing devices. While they attach to the body in an interesting manner, the modern golf swing is much more than an arm swing. Other art is involved with shoulder positions during a swing. Some pertain to head position. Some such as U.S. Pat. No. 5,013,044 to Hesselbart in May 1991 and U.S. Pat. No. 4,919,432 to Coggins et al. in April 1990 are directed to controlling path of clubhead during a swing. Controlling the path of the clubhead can produce undesirable body and muscle movements.
Several involve restricting leg actions or movements during a swing. U.S. Pat. No. 5,050,885 to Ballard in September 1991 is a rotating machine that attaches to a golfer to help force the desired rotation of hips and shoulders. Although the rotation may be desirable, not everyones' body parts rotate the same and the size of the device is cumbersome. U.S. Pat. No. 5,125,663 to Lurowist, Jr. in January 1992 is a seat type device to help with posture and rotation, but is very restrictive. U.S. Pat. No. 4,948,142 to Tabor in August 1990 is a swing control limiter pertaining to hips and neck movements. Such devices make it difficult to make a natural swing. U.S. Pat. No. 3,215,438 to Sheldon and Levinson in November 1965 is directed to hip movements which are only part of the golf swing.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,940,144 to Dickie in February 1976 attaches to the belt of a golfer to limit weight shift during a swing. But a golf swing is more than weight shift. U.S. Pat. No. 4,817,954 to Kubo in April 1989 is a harness type device to assure a consistent backswing position for the club but ignores body position.
U.S. Pat. No. 3,368,817 to Duncan in February 1968 is concerned with body action during a swing. It attaches to the waist area and emits a click for specific rhythmic actions during a swing. It is interesting but is lacking in considering proper rotation and balance.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,583,740 to Ohly in April 1986 is directed toward developing muscles associated with a circular swing. It is too restrictive and nothing helps develop the proper muscles better than repetitive desirable swings.
U.S. Pat. No. 1,669,457 to Dailey in May 1928 is a combination guide, gauging and timing device. It is lacking for it does not include swing balance.
Much of prior art involving golf swings is directed toward developing one swing objective. Some are useful for practice situations only. Several devices attempt to force a golfer to move his or her body in a prescribed manner with restrictive straps or other devices. Many are very cumbersome to use. Some are complex and expensive.
Some of prior art attempts to help a golfer from a very desirable perspective; seeing oneself during a swing. Some even use a mirror, positioned to facilitate seeing one's own swing. The need for an unbiased, consistent, reliable technique of seeing one's own golf swing is obviously great. This is indicated daily by the large numbers of golfers and golf instructors using video devices and cameras for this purpose. A video camera helps in viewing completed swings, but it is difficult to use to advantage during an actual swing. It is basically a visual aid after the fact. Usually even with video devices, an expensive instructor is needed to indicate the desired swing positions and body movements. It is also difficult for a golfer to convert desired movements into actual movements by viewing pictures. Actually, a golfer already has a good video device, his or her own eyes, which can be used to view his or her own swing as it occurs.
Furthermore, a golfer needs to actually `feel` for oneself the desired movements and positions, preferable either during a swing or at least immediately prior to a swing. Some of prior art involves devices from this `feels` perspective. But these also are lacking. They often relate to a single `feel` or some muscle activity similar to the ones involved in a golf swing. Nothing `feels` exactly the same or is as convincing as the `feels` of the entire swing itself.
Also, none of prior art satisfactorily incorporates the interaction between body configuration and preferred golf swing. Some consider height, weight, and shape of torso a little, but little consideration is given to the real differences between golfers concerning natural body movements and muscle control. Thus, for a golfer with limited body flexibility or a particular body configuration, they are unsatisfactory. Also, the natural limb movements or control of muscles of a golfer many not respond well to a prescribed swing path or movement. None of prior art are entirely satisfactory for developing a consistent repeatable satisfactory golf swing. This is exemplified by the large amounts of money golfers spend for instructors and aids to help them improve their golf swing. In general, the instructors and golfers are less than satisfied with the results. Few achieve their goals and then only after many hours of practice and expensive instruction. It is apparent, `A GOLF SWING NEEDS TO BE CUSTOMIZED TO THE INDIVIDUAL GOLFER.`
The full impact of this statement is generally missed by golfers, both novice and professional. Most people, golfers too, enjoy items uniquely developed or made for them. Nearly everyone performs better when they contribute directly to a project. The golf swing of a golfer is more consistent and desirable if it is uniquely their own. Especially, if it is mostly self-developed. This could explain why top professionals have unique swings. Their swings are mostly self-developed with help from others occasionally to overcome a specific difficulty.
Each golfer needs to develop his or her own individual customized repeatable consistent golf swing. In many respects, this is an entirely new concept to the golfing world, even though the t professionals have essentially done something similar, continuously. Nearly all professional golf instructors recognize that each golfer needs to individualize some minor items, but they usually teach a preferred personal basic swing technique; one they have either playing or teaching experienced success with.
Briefly, there exists a need for a self-instructional swing aid device for a golfer to develop his or her own unique individual golf swing; a golf swing customized to what his or her body configuration will accommodate as he or she rotates. One that helps a golfer in whatever manner his or her body moves easiest or best under normal self-control of muscles to execute a rotational golf swing. To ascertain for oneself when rotational movements are satisfactory and repeatable enough to produce consistently predictable effects on a golf ball when hit. It naturally is desirable to know when body rotations and movements are equivalent to previous ones. With consistent address posture, backswing, and forward swing body rotations and movements, a golfer develops muscle and body `feels` rapidly and decreases swing development time considerably.
The swing aid invention device presented herein is a simple, safe lightweight, convenient, and inexpensive device, which fulfills these needs and helps a golfer develop a consistent satisfactory golf swing. It is also useable for swings during on-the-course play as well as during practice swings elsewhere.
This visual swing aid invention device is a self-teaching device that attaches to the body of a golfer during use. It may be attached to the body in several ways. It can be inserted between belt and body or preferredly secured by belt or elastic type strap near the waist. Wherever attached for use, it protrudes outward from the body and in a preferred embodiment comprises the following elements:
(1) a positioning indicator for aligning device to the front centerline of the body of a golfer,
(2) a visible outward from the body indicator which is perpendicular to the body of a golfer when attached appropriately during use,
(3) other visible outward from the body indicators parallel to the outward from the body indicator,
(4) a visible target line indicator perpendicular to the outward from the body indicator,
(5) a visible bubble level element aligned parallel with the visible target line indicator,
(6) an easily removeable lightweight rod element that is easily secured to the protruding element parallel to the visible target line indicator,
(7) a through-hole near the outward from the body indicator,
(8) an easily connected and disconnected angularly adjustable and length adjustable stem element.
Each element and indicator is located appropriately so that when invention device is attached properly, a golfer can see each one while in an address position or during a backswing pause or on completion of the forward follow-through swing with a golf club.
This swing aid invention device fulfills some definite needs associated with developing a good golf swing; it is an aid to consistent alignment at intended target, consistent address body posture, consistent amount of rotation of the upper body or breast bone, consistent amount of rotation of the lower body or hips, and consistent level rotation of the hips.
Furthermore, it is a simple, safe, lightweight, convenient, and inexpensive device. It is useable during on-the-course play as well as during practice sessions elsewhere. Even more importantly, by using one's own eyes appropriately with this visual swing aid invention device, it is a self-instructional device which enables a golfer to ascertain for his or her self when the desired body rotations and movements are satisfactory during a swing.
An object of the invention is to provide a swing aid device which promotes consistent alignment toward intended target.
An object of the invention is to provide a swing aid device which promotes a consistent satisfactory entire swing, a consistent satisfactory backswing and a consistent satisfactory forward swing.
An object of the invention is to provide a swing aid device which promotes a consistent address posture.
An object of the invention is to provide a device that is of simple construction and reliably indicates to a golfer the needed information to become his or her own swing instructor with confidence in the swing evaluations.
Another object of the invention is to provide a device that promotes a consistent technique of self-evaluating and self-adjusting one's own body movements and balance throughout the swing, especially at points of pause during a swing.
Another object of the invention is to provide a device that is safe to use during actual golf swings, both for on-the-course swings and practice swings.
A further object of the invention is to provide a device that is useable for repetitive practice swing drills without ball or club, indoor or outdoor, to help develop swing `feels`.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a device that is small, light-weight, easily and readily carried by a golfer for use at his or her convenience.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a device that is easily and quickly attached for use or removed from use in seconds.
Still another object of the invention is to provide a device that easily adjusts to different physical body configurations.
Another object of the invention is to provide a device that can be used equally well by right handed and left handed golfers.
These and other objects, desirable characteristics and advantages of the invention will become more readily apparent from the following referenced drawings, detailed description and claims.
FIG. 1 shows a preferred embodiment of the visual swing aid invention device.
FIG. 1A is a cross sectional view of the visual swing aid device.
FIG. 2 is view of invention device as seen by a golfer with swing aid invention device attached for use near the waist with the golfer holding a golf club in an aligned address position.
FIG. 3 is a view of a golfer at pause point of a backswing from a perspective standing near the golf ball, with invention device attached for use at the breast bone of a golfer.
FIG. 4 is a view of a golfer at finish of forward swing from a perspective standing near where golf ball was hit with invention device attached for use at the breast bone of a golfer.
FIG. 5 is a view of a golfer at pause point of a backswing from a perspective standing near the golf ball, with invention device attached for use near the waist of a golfer.
FIG. 6 is a view of a golfer at finish of a forward swing from a perspective standing near where golf ball was hit with invention device attached for use near the waist of a golfer.
FIG. 7 is a view from behind a golfer in address posture addressing a golf ball for hitting with invention device attached for use near the waist.
20--Visual swing aid device
22--body engaging element
24--protruding element
26--alignment positioning indicator
28--perpendicular to body indicator
30--outward from the body indicator
32--mating material on outward from the body indicator
34--outward from the body indicator
36--mating material on outward from the body indicator
38--outward from the body indicator
40--mating material on outward from the body indicator
42--outward from the body indicator
44--mating material on outward from the body indicator
46--outward from the body indicator
48--mating material on outward from the body indicator
50--visible target line indicator
60--bubble level element
62--holder for bubble level element
64--holder for bubble level element
66--level mark of bubble level
68--level mark of bubble level
72--attaching part of stem element
74--length adjusting part of stem element
76--stem element
80--front centerline of a golfer's body
82--lightweight removeable rod
84--holder for removeable rod
86--holder for removeable rod
87--knob near one end of removeable rod
88--handle of golf club
90--shaft of golf club
92--clubhead of golf club
94--shoe of golfer
96--instep of shoe of golfer
One of the interesting aspects of this body attaching visual swing aid invention device is that it provides a method of visually self-measuring body movements and positions. The measurements are sufficiently accurate for developing a consistent golf swing. Since the device includes a procedure of positioning and attaching to the body of a golfer in a reliable consistent manner, it provides repeatable consistent visual measurements continuously. This invention device clearly uses the eyes in many interesting ways to help a golfer develop a consistent repeatable satisfactory golf swing.
This swing aid invention device helps a golfer in several ways. The quick easy technique shown by which a golfer can develop and improve his or her own customized golf swing using the invention device describe herein is completely new. It helps a golfer rapidly develop his or her own consistent golf swing, mostly without help from others.
It is an aid to target alignment and address posture. This device helps a golfer align club, hips, shoulders, and feet simultaneously and consistently toward an intended target while holding a club in an address position. It helps a golfer self-develop his or her own individual customized desirable backswing and forward swing.
This discussion begins with a complete detailed description of a preferred embodiment of this invention device with its elements. Followed next by methods of using it appropriately and concludes with some of its more apparent advantages.
Turning now to FIG. 1, which illustrates a preferred embodiment form of this visual swing aid invention device. The general device is denoted by 20. It includes a body engaging part 22 of an outwardly protruding element 24. It also contains a body alignment positioning indicator 26 for aligning device 20 appropriately with the front centerline of the body of a golfer.
Several outward from the body indicators 30, 34, 38, 42, 46 are shown with mating materials 32, 36, 40, 44, 48 near their respective ends opposite the body engaging member 22.
In this embodiment, Indicator 38 is shown linearly aligned with the positioning indicator 26 and a perpendicular to body indicator 28. The other indicators, 34 thru 46 are shown parallel indicator 38. Other non-linear, non-parallel arrangements of these indicators yields other desirable embodiments of this device.
A visible target line indicator 50 extends the length of protruding element 24 and is perpendicular to indicator 28 and indicator 38. This embodiment uses the square to intended target alignment technique, but device 20 is readily adjustable to other target alignment techniques by simply making multiple target line indicators adjacent to indicator 50 at desired angles with respect to indicator 28.
A bubble level 60 is secured to protruding element 24 by level holders 62 and 64. Level 60 is positioned perpendicular to indicator 28 and in this square to target embodiment is parallel to the target indicator 50. It is important each level mark 66 and 68 as well as all the other indicators be visible during use.
Through-hole 70 is a simple hole completely through device 20 sufficiently large to be used for sighting ground objects when device 20 is attached for use near the waist. As shown, it is desirable for through-hole 70 to be in close proximity to indicator 38.
As illustrated, a long stem 76 is formed by mating two pieces 72 and 74 of flexible mating material with each other. Piece 72 is also easily mated with mating material 40 near the end of indicator 38 as shown. The mating material used in 72 and 74 to form stem 76, needs to be sufficiently rigid so that after 72 is also mated with 40, stem 76 extends generally linearly outward from indicator 38 with only a small angle downward. The length of stem 76 is easily adjusted as desired by two procedures. First, piece 74 is mated to piece 72 by overlap mating of 72 and 74 as much as practical. Second, piece 74 is long and after the overlap mating, piece 74 is easily cut a desired customized length for an individual golfer.
As the other indicators 34 thru 46, have the same type of mating material near their respective ends, piece 72 of stem 76 mates equally well with each.
In regard to materials, it is helpful that body-engaging element 22 not be extremely rigid. It is desirable the entire device 20 be made of pliable, malleable material but sufficiently rigid to remain in place during use. Of course, it also needs to have enough rigidity to support the lightweight elements it supports. The protruding element 24 needs to extend outward from the body far enough for all the indicators to be visible during use, but no farther than necessary so that the likelihood of engaging during a swing is minimal. For additional safety during use, it is also beneficial for protruding element 24 to have horizontally curving rounded blunt edges. This helps assure no harm occurs should it accidentally be engaged by hands or arms during a swing.
Referring now to FIG. 1A. It is a horizontal cross-sectional view of swing aid invention device 20. It further illustrates the mating of 72 and 74 to form the stem 76. Also, the mating of 72 to mating material 40 is easily seen.
Only one element of this swing aid invention device is not shown in FIG. 1. It is shown in FIG. 2. In this figure, illustrating the view a golfer sees in an address posture with invention device 20 attached for use near the waist, all the elements of device 20 are visible to a golfer, easily distinguished and readily useable by the golfer for the alignment task. Also, illustrated is the last element of this invention device, a lightweight removeable rod element 82. As illustrated, It is held in place by two semi-loop shaped holders 84 and 86 of protruding element 24. Holders 84 and 86 are aligned parallel to target indicator 50 and permit rod 82 to be extended considerably in the same direction as the target indicator 50. As holders 84 and 86 are not closed loops, they permit rod 82 to be easily removed by sliding rod 82 toward body engaging element 22. A reverse action makes rod 82 equally easy to place in holders 84 and 86. Once in the holders, rod 82 is easily extended in the direction of target indicator 50 until knob 87 near the end of rod 82 prohibits farther extension. As shown in this figure, knob 87 engages holder 86 and stops farther extension of rod 82.
In respect to using device 20 properly, it is quickly and easily attached for use in a few seconds. A golfer only needs to stand erect, fasten device 20 with a belt or strap to his or her body. Next adjust device 20 so that positioning indicator 26 is aligned with the front centerline 80 of his or her body. Next, adjust device 20 horizontally, until bubble level 60 indicates protruding element 24 is level. Now it is ready for use. Most often it is fastened to the body for use near the waist with a belt or elastic type strap. Or alternately, it can be fastened very quickly for use by simply slipping between a golfers' belt and body. Disuse is simple and quick, just ignore it. It is safe to swing with it secured in place; or a golfer can quickly detach it from the body completely.
Now attention is directed to using device 20 appropriately as an aid to alignment both with respect to a ball and an intended target. One of the difficulties of alignment is determining the alignment of one's own shoulders and body while in an address posture. For consistent satisfactory target alignment, a golfer definitely needs to know the alignment of his or her own body parts relative to the golf ball and relative to an intended target while in an address posture.
FIG. 2 helps understand the aid this invention device 20 provides to the alignment difficulties mentioned. FIG. 2 illustrating a golfer's view in address posture during use of device 20, shows each of the following are linearly aligned:
a clubhead 92,
a shaft of the club 90,
a handle of the golf club 88,
the stem element 76,
the outward from the body indicator 38,
the perpendicular to the body indicator 28,
the positioning indicator 26,
the front centerline 80 of the body of the golfer.
This linear alignment arrangement using device 20 only requires using the eyes in a line of sight manner appropriately. With device 20, a golfer can consistently align the clubhead, club, and his or her body the same so that alignment variations in the address position relative to the ball are minimal. The address alignment position illustrated in FIG. 2 is appropriate for shorter distance clubs. Similarly, the same components of a golf club can be readily aligned with the other outward from the body indicators. These indicators are useful for other clubs. As is apparent, rod 82 can be extended equally easy in the opposite direction for left handed golfers.
In respect to aligning at an intended target, various techniques concerning body, foot position, and etc. relative to intended target are used. For this discussion with this embodiment of the invention device 20, the square to intended target technique is used.
Referring again to FIG. 2 the visual target indicator 50 is illustrated perpendicular to the linear address alignment arrangement with the golf ball. Indicator 50 provides a golfer with a definite perpendicular line to help visually align toward an intended target while in the address posture. Also, as shown in FIG. 2, the easily removeable lightweight extended rod 82 provides a visibly much longer temporary target line indicator to facilitate aligning toward an intended target. As shown, rod 82 is parallel to and extends in the same direction as the target indicator 50. Also, rod 82 is readily available and useful as a sighting instrument to align the position of the feet as desired toward the target. In this figure, the feet are also aligned square with the intended target. Once alignment is complete, rod 82 in semi-loop shaped holders 84 and 86 is easily slipped out its holders with one hand and dropped aside while maintaining alignment and address posture. Now a swing can be safely made with no change in target alignment or address posture. As is apparent in this figure, rod 82, provides a much longer indicator for intended target direction alignment. With experience indicator 50 alone is satisfactory for aligning toward an intended target, but during initial use of device 20, rod 82 is very helpful in improving alignment performance.
With address alignment variations associated with ball reduced, and using indicator 50 together with rod 82 to minimize target line variations, alignment toward an intended target is improved and consistently repeatable. Also, due to the manner in which device 20 is fastened in aligned position to the body of a golfer, the body and hips of a golfer are aligned satisfactory in respect to the ball and the intended target. Fastening device 20 to the breast bone or sternum, and visually aligning indicator 38 with the ball and indicator 50 to intended target aligns the shoulders similarly satisfactory also. Obviously, device 20 improves alignment when fastened both at the sternum and near the waist properly. Fastening two such devices is practical, since this is a very inexpensive device.
Briefly, summarizing device 20 alignment aids. It helps align club, hips, shoulders, and feet simultaneously and consistently relative to a ball and relative to an intended target while holding a club in an address position. It:
improves golf club and clubhead alignment consistency relative to body and an intended target,
improves hip alignment consistency relative to a golf ball and an intended target,
improves shoulder alignment consistency relative to a golf ball and an intended target,
improves foot alignment consistency relative to a golf ball and an intended target,
improves alignment consistency toward the intended target line,
reduces all unconscious alignment variations, especially ones resulting from looking in an intended target direction.
These results indicate device 20 used appropriately is a definite alignment aid.
After a golfer completes the alignment tasks, his or her next task is to make a consistent swing that hits the ball in a desirable manner. Device 20 when used properly, helps a golfer rapidly develop a consistent repeatable rotational golf swing with good vertical balance. It is most beneficial in developing a circular golf swing, produced by shoulder and body rotational motions. But it is also useful in developing golf swings with lateral shifts back and forth as some golfers do with skill. It helps in developing a consistent amount of shift.
For a circular swing the swing center needs to rotate a consistent amount. The swing center is located midway between the shoulders and directly behind the sternum at shoulder level. The sternum is very close to this swing center and in general, indicates the amount of rotation of the swing center.
A golf swing actually consists of two swings, a backswing and a forward swing. The main purpose of the backswing is to set the club in a desirable same position to strike the ball consistently the same on the forward swing. To make the same amount of rotational backswing and set the club in the same or equivalent position is not easy. Device 20 is a definite aid to a consistent backswing.
Device 20 is easily secured and aligned with the front centerline 80 of a golfer at the sternum by an elastic type strap as illustrated in FIG. 3. In the illustrated backswing position of this figure, a golfer using device 20 can actually pause and view the amount his or her sternum has rotated relative to the address position or relative to an intended target line.
Furthermore, when device 20 is fastened properly at any point on the front centerline 80 of a golfers' body, indicator 38 is perpendicular to the body. A golfer needs to only look in the direction indicated by indicator 38 to see even more precisely the amount of rotation of the sternum or shoulders. Also, as the ball is struck on the forward swing only, a golfer can actually pause and adjust his or her body movements until the desired amount of rotation is achieved before starting the forward swing. Pausing and adjusting is somewhat awkward, but doing so provides a golfer immediately with the muscle `feels` and body `feels` associated with a consistent amount of shoulder rotation. In addition, a consistent amount of shoulder rotation can be practiced repeatably without a club in successive drill type backward and forward rotations which facilitates developing the desired amount of habitual rotation.
Similarly, FIG. 4 illustrates a golfer on completion of a forward swing with device 20 fastened to the front centerline 80 of the body at the sternum. As is apparent, the amount of shoulder rotation for the forward swing is also easily determined by the golfer. Again for a precise indication, a golfer only needs to look in the direction indicated by indicator 38 on completion of the forward swing.
Another task a golfer performs during a rotational backswing is rotating the lower body or hips a consistent amount. FIG. 5 illustrates a golfer at the end of a backswing with device 20 fastened for use on the front body centerline 80 near the waist. At this point a golfer using this swing aid can actually pause and visually evaluate the backswing, especially during practice swings.
A golfer can see indicator 38 and ascertain the amount his or her hips have rotated. For consistency, the amount is easily related to address position or an intended target line extended backward or to visual proximity of foot farthest from target. The desired amount of hip rotation for a backswing is generally less than for the shoulders.
A golfer can also view the bubble in level 60 during a backswing pause and determine levelness of the lower body, relative to ball direction. Preferably level, but if not, could achieve increased swing consistency by bubble being unlevel in the same position each swing. Also, a golfer can adjust legs, hips, etc. until level 60 indicates level. This adjustment technique helps a golfer `feel` immediately a level hip position. Since the bubble level 60 is a known reliable mechanical instrument, subjective evaluations by others concerning levelness of the hips are unnecessary.
Also, while a golfer is in a backswing pause position as shown in FIG. 5, he or she can sight through the through-hole 70 and see ground objects. For consistent lateral vertical balance in the target line direction, a golfer looking through the through-hole 70 needs to consistently see the same spot on his or her shoe 94; preferably, a spot 96 near his or her shoe instep. Again, a golfer can adjust hips, legs, etc. vertically until the same desired spot 96 is in view. This indicates his or her lateral vertical movement or balance is consistent.
All of these adjustments at the end of the backswing help a golfer `feel` immediately his or her desired body position for consistent hip rotation and vertical balance. During practice swings, it is helpful a backswing be made slowly and a golfer adjust movements as he or she swings backward to `feel` the desired body actions or movements for consistently satisfactory hip rotation and vertical balance. Furthermore, since the ball is hit only on a forward swing and there is no rule against a pause at the end of a backswing, a golfer can actually pause and make the desired adjustments before initiating the forward swing. Such a procedure is slightly awkward at first, but with practice and reduced pause time, it helps a golfer `feel` immediately, consistent satisfactory positions. Obviously, used in this manner, device 20, is definitely a self-instructional backswing aid.
Now turning to FIG. 6 which illustrates a golfer on completion of a forward swing with device 20 fastened to the front centerline 80 of the body near the waist. As is apparent, the amount of hip rotation for the forward swing is also easily determined by the golfer. Again for a precise indication, a golfer only needs to look in the direction indicated by indicator 38 on completion of the forward swing. For a consistent forward swing, the hips need to rotate until the front centerline 80 is aligned with intended target line.
Similarly, using device 20, vertical balance on completion of a forward swing is easily determined. In FIG. 6, it is apparent a golfer on completion of the forward swing can view the bubble level 60 and sight through the through-hole 70 similarly as during the backswing pause. Adjustments on completion of a forward swing can only provide a golfer with a `feel` for the desired position at completion of a forward swing, not during the swing. In a very slow motion forward swing, a golfer can actually adjust his or her body actions or movements during such a slow motion swing and maintain satisfactory vertical balance. This technique helps a golfer `feel` the desired body actions or movements to maintain vertical levelness during a forward swing. A golfer naturally can't strike a golf ball in slow motion to any advantage, but he or she can definitely `feel` the desired body movements and positions. Once again, used in this manner, device 20, is definite a self-instructional swing aid that helps a golfer develop his or her own consistent forward swing.
To develop a golf swing rapidly, muscle and body movements and `feels` are very important. Only by consistently repeating satisfactory and desirable equivalent movements and body positions is `swing feel` or `muscle memory` developed properly. The less time between desirable `swing feels` the more rapidly a repeatable swing develops. Using visual swing aid device 20 appropriately, at points of pause during a swing, and in a slow motion fashion as discussed, desirable consistent `swing feels` are constantly accessible to a golfer. In practice sessions, the desirable `swing feels` are easily experienced during a swing by adjusting body positions appropriately. This helps a golfer immediately experience and perform the desired adjustments to body movement. This technique helps a golfer develop his or her own individual desirable customized consistent golf swing.
Another significant variable in swing development is address posture; the position from which a golfer starts a back swing. It is very helpful to swing development that address posture be repeatable and consistent as possible. As indicated in the alignment discussion, device 20 helps assure consistent alignment relative to a golf ball and an intended target, but there are also other variables associated with address posture.
The amount of tilt of the upper body toward the ball affects address posture. Tilt variations modify the distance the ball is from the body of a golfer, which in turn modifies consistency of a repeatable swing to strike the ball as desired. Without some method of measuring and checking this tilt, unintentional variations will naturally occur. With the use of device 20 fasten the same and appropriately near the waist, a golfer can measure and keep the distance from his or her body to the ball, consistently the same.
FIG. 7 illustrates device 20 fastened to a golfer near the waist while in address posture. It is a view in line with intended target line from behind a golfer addressing a ball. As mentioned previously, stem element 76 is flexible, length adjustable, and connected in alignment with indicator 38. In this figure, stem 76 is bent angularly down and just touches the end of the golf club handle 88 as shown. The distance between the body of a golfer and the ball is accurately and definitely established once the stem length is adjusted as shown. For additional swings with the same club, device 20 helps measure and keep body distance to the ball the same, which in turn, helps upper body posture or tilt remain the same.
Also, since stem element 76 is flexible and connected by mating material 72 to mating material 40, it is safe to swing with stem 76 in place. This makes it practical for a golfer to use device 20 with stem 76 to adjust his or her upper body tilt as needed to maintain same address posture during practice sessions and without any other actions, make actual swings safely. Thus, device 20, using this technique helps eliminate unintentional posture variations between swings.
Furthermore, while in an address posture a golfer can use level 60 to adjust his or her hip positions until level 60 indicates hip levelness in an intended target line direction. The desired level hip rotations of a swing are much more likely to be consistent when initiated from a level hip position. And again, without any other action which might produce unintentional changes, a golfer can actually swing safely with device 20 in place. Reducing any unintentional address posture variations will naturally improve swing consistency.
As indicated throughout this discussion, a unique aspect of this visual swing aid invention device is its self-instructional nature. All measurements performed with the aid of this device are actually self-performed by the golfer. It helps avoid some swing problems by visually indicating the problem to the golfer, immediately. It consistently provides a golfer with self-help from the most needed perspective;
`what a golfer needs to mentally know and the desirable muscle or body adjustments or `feels` during a swing itself.`
With this device, a golfer can make practice swings and pause as desired during a swing and without assistance from anyone else, ascertain if the position at swing pause is satisfactory and/or equivalent to previous swing positions. If positions at swing pause are not satisfactory, a golfer can see the results of adjustments immediately. A golfer can immediately adjust himself or herself and `feel` a satisfactory desirable position. It helps one to ascertain for oneself in an unbiased reliable manner satisfactory and consistent body movements and positions. This helps eliminate indecisive thoughts concerning such body movements and positions; thoughts resulting from poor swing results, conflicting advice, or not having swung a club recently. Nothing helps a golfer develop a consistent swing more rapidly than `feeling` equivalent satisfactory body and muscle positions with each practice swing. It provides a quick direct self-instructional method for developing a desirable customized repeatable consistent golf swing.
It is also worth mentioning that with consistent satisfactory body positions and rotational movements, swing repeatability and consistency is definitely improved. While this may result in an attractive swing path or plane for some golfers, others may not be so appealing due to the body configuration and or flexibility of the golfer. But in either situation, the resulting golf swing provides a golfer with the ability to strike the ball repeatably and consistently satisfactory.
The reliability of this device is significant. It is an unbiased visual swing aid with a bubble level element, which is a known reliable instrument. The visual alignment indicators, target indicator, and through-hole and rod are definitely reliable. Each indicator does require a golfer to use his or her eyes and are only as precise as a golfer so dictates. But with practice, line of sight using the eyes is a consistent reliable measuring technique in any endeavor.
Another variable involved in using the eyes in conjunction with this visual device is one of color. Normally, color has little effect on the operation of a device, but for this visual device it has a definite enhancing effect. During use, a golfer looks down toward the device with grass on the ground as background. Grass varies from green to brown depending on the time of the year. For good visibility, it is helpful the color of this visual device contrast visually with green and brown. It is also important that the visual indicators of the device be easily seen by a golfer, thus their color needs to be visually contrasting with the color of the device. A black, red, or white device with contrasting white, black, or red indicators fulfills both desires for visually contrasting colors. Of course, color is not a necessary element, it simply enhances the device considerably.
Another unusual desirable feature of this device is convenience. For a device that is helpful in so many ways it is unusually lightweight and small. It is easily carried wherever desired and attached or disattached for use in a few seconds. Space requirement needs for use are also minimal, especially when practicing without a club; such as practicing development of some swing `feels`. Such practice is easy to do almost anywhere; indoors, at office or home, on practice tee, on tee of hole during on the course play, or just prior to executing a golf swing during on the course play. Only sufficient space to rotate the body is necessary to practice quick successively repetitive rotational type backward and forward body rotations. To practice the desired consistent rotations for the shoulders and hips. Or similarly, to practice vertical swing balance in a similar manner. This practice without a club, provides the desired muscle and body position `feels` associated with consistent swing rotations and consistent vertical balance. Practice exercises definitely enhance muscle and mental memory considerably. Thus, with these type of practice drills a golfer rapidly develops desirable swing movements and habits that quickly translate into consistent repeatable swing `feels` with minimum effort.
It is even more useful in practice sessions with a club. It helps develop consistent address posture and target alignment by definite repeatable measure of the distance between body and ball. Target alignment consistency is improved by improving body alignment with ball and intended target. It also improves visibility of alignment toward intended target while in the address position. These alignment improvements in practice sessions emphasize real advantages using this device. With a club, it helps throughout the swing in developing a consistent amount of rotation of body parts and vertical swing balance. Such practice consistency inherently helps a golfer with consistent hand, arm, and shoulder positions.
With the aid of this invention device, consistency naturally increases with practice since satisfactory equivalent movements are indicated in an unbiased reliable manner. Such satisfactory movements are indicated independent of elapsed time between swings or other factors which normally have a negative effect on swing development. Thus, practice effort with this device produces definite improvement which makes the game less frustrating and more enjoyable for a golfer.
The foregoing sets forth the invention in its preferred, practical form but it is susceptible to various changes, shapes, modifications and materials without departing from the spirit thereof.
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|Jul 6, 1926
|Fuller Clarence W
|Arm guide for golf players
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|Jul 6, 1926
|Fuller Clarence W
|Practice device for golf players
|Jun 18, 1927
|May 15, 1928
|Dailey John F
|Combined guiding, gauging, and timing device
|Dec 22, 1961
|Nov 2, 1965
|Levinson David J
|Hip movement training device for golfers
|Aug 23, 1965
|Feb 13, 1968
|Earl N. Duncan
|Device for indicating attainment of proper golf swing movements
|Nov 27, 1972
|Feb 24, 1976
|Dickie Harold G
|Golfer's aid
|Sep 13, 1976
|Mar 21, 1978
|Arakaki Glen S
|Golf shot alignment device
|Mar 16, 1981
|Mar 9, 1982
|Chien Chung Chen
|Golf club swing training device
|Dec 19, 1983
|Apr 22, 1986
|Swing Plane Systems, Inc.
|Golf swing muscle training device
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|Aug 9, 1988
|Mccleery Ray A
|Training device for golfers
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|Dec 6, 1988
|Kane Thomas J
|Apparatus for assisting a golfer to keep the golfer's head level with the ball and still while the golfer is in the process of hitting the ball
|Oct 1, 1987
|Apr 4, 1989
|Kubo Gerald G
|Golf swing training device
|Sep 22, 1988
|Nov 14, 1989
|Lewis John F
|Putting practice device
|Feb 21, 1989
|Nov 28, 1989
|Gregory Leland
|Ridge planter guide unit
|Jun 2, 1988
|Apr 24, 1990
|Carlos Coggins
|Golf swing guide with backswing indicator
|Nov 22, 1989
|Aug 14, 1990
|Taber Donald J
|Gold position training device
|Apr 20, 1990
|Feb 19, 1991
|Waller Malcolm C
|Golf stance alignment device
|Nov 19, 1990
|May 7, 1991
|Hesselbart Frank C
|Training device for golfers
|Nov 30, 1990
|Sep 24, 1991
|James Troy Ballard
|Golf swing training apparatus
|Mar 6, 1991
|Jun 30, 1992
|Lurowist Jr Nicholas
|Golf swing training apparatus
|Sep 16, 1991
|Oct 6, 1992
|Rouse Christopher D
|Golf stroke training attachment
|Mar 18, 1992
|Oct 20, 1992
|Robert Gauer
|Golf glove-supported golf swing aid
|Nov 12, 1992
|Mar 15, 1994
|Wally Armstrong Golf, Inc.
|Golf swing aid
|Citing Patent
|Filing date
|Publication date
|Sep 28, 1994
|Dec 26, 1995
|Terry; Terence R.
|Golf swing alignment template
|Dec 22, 1994
|Feb 13, 1996
|Johnston; Chris
|Golf swing practice/training device
|Jan 29, 1996
|Jul 1, 1997
|Bechler; Jurgen
|Hip rotation training device
|May 23, 1996
|Aug 19, 1997
|Shub; Nelson H.
|Alignment device for sports
|Aug 23, 1996
|Sep 30, 1997
|Richard D. Sanchez
|Golf swing training device and method
|Jan 27, 1998
|Apr 6, 1999
|Mingo; Michael L.
|Golf swing training device
|Aug 23, 2000
|Apr 23, 2002
|James Michael Urban
|Instructional swing device
|May 10, 2001
|Dec 23, 2003
|Gary Wayne Shepherd
|Shoe with level and method for determining grade
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|Nov 21, 2006
|Wright David F
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|Jul 21, 2009
|Bodipro Technologies, Inc.
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|Jun 22, 2010
|Taly Williams
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|Nov 27, 1997
|Nelson Training Aid Products L
|Alignment device for sports
|Apr 29, 2005
|Nov 10, 2005
|Ronald John Safstrom
|Golf alignment device
|U.S. Classification
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Oct 6, 1998
|Maintenance fee reminder mailed
|Mar 14, 1999
|Lapse for failure to pay maintenance fees
|May 25, 1999
|Expired due to failure to pay maintenance fee
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If you've missed Percona Live in Washington,DC and even if you did not you should be happy to know we have now published slides from majority of talks at this conference. Enjoy! This conference had great talks, whenever you're Beginner or Advanced when it comes to MySQL. Also remember not to miss MySQL Conference in Santa Clara,CA April 10-12 2012.
I don't see any of Baron's slides (EXPLAIN Demystified, Percona Toolkit, etc). Will those be posted eventually or are they available elsewhere? Thanks.
That's my fault for not getting the slides to Mauricio soon enough. When he comes back from his brief vacation he'll get them posted. I'll mail them to you in the meantime.
Is there a place where I can get the sql for the MySQL Query Optimization presentation ? The link from the pdf doesn't work.
In the above comment I meant the sample database
@Mihai: You're right. We'll be fixing that in the next couple of days.
@Baron may I have a copy of those slides as well please? Thanks
Sent Mauricio should be posting them on the web shortly, so if anyone else needs them, please check online now, and if they're not there yet, check tomorrow?

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RE: [Electronics_101] Re: CD ROM
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- I still have my A500, the disks and the monitor.. The monitor when out on it.. I think it was something like a 1824 .. not sure on the model # now.. I should probably fix it sometime. You can still pick Amiga's up fairly cheap on ebay (even have some new in the box) but I bought mine from a commodore store before commodore went and screwed all their vendors by selling them so cheap to kmart that the vendors could go down to kmart and buy them cheaper than commodore was selling them at dealer pricing.-----Original Message-----
From: peter tremewen [mailto:Ptremewe@...]
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 8:57 PM
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Subject: Re: [Electronics_101] Re: CD ROMHey,How many other Amiga users are there out there?????
PS Hi, Brian, fellow Amiga user. A3000 060/50MHz and Amiga Forever
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- Hello peter
On 01-Jul-03, you wrote:
> Hey,
> How many other Amiga users are there out there?????
> PS Hi, Brian, fellow Amiga user. A3000 060/50MHz and Amiga Forever
I use my Amiga every day, and it's actually what I'm using now to write
these Emails. You'd probably be amazed at the spec. Here goes:
040/PPC 200Mhz
Voodoo3 3000 GFX card
Terratec512i Sound Card
5x USB2 slots (SpiderII USB)
WinTV Primio TV-In card
10/100 Ethernet
2x 40GB HDs
6 in 1 flash card reader
All housed in Elbox's new Mirage Tower.
19" Monitor
AmigaOS 3.9 (OS4 as soon as it's released)
Good eh? And I bet you didn't know there were new Amigas being released with
modern PPC processors and a new Operating System due out which is PPC native
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Amiga 040/PPC, Amiga OS3.9.
- Hey Peter,
I actually did a similar project once in my bathroom (of all placed)
and found a very nice CD-ROM by Creative. (no, I don't work there)
The series is called Infra AudioExcel and should go for around US$
50,- in the US and has a remote control as the name suggests. Just
hook up 12v and 5v at the suggested rating and you're done. The
phunny thing about this player is that if you stick a piece of
plastic in the headphone connector it automatically activates the
volume control on the standard audio connector (the four pin type) on
the back of the unit. Really great piece of hardware. Give it a go...
Hope this helps...
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<Ptremewe@b...> wrote:
> Does anyonme know a "simple" circuit to make a computer CD romreader
> into an audio player?? Most CD roms have an audio output, and itcan
> obviously read Audio CDs, how hard is it to get an audio CD toplay??
> I did see something simllar based on the 8051 micro controller,
> described, but the site lacked a circuit, or full information....
> The Sinister Dragon....
- I think you are right that's why running in DOS requires CD drivers.Tony----- Original Message -----From: peter tremewenSent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 8:51 AMSubject: Re: [Electronics_101] Re: CD ROMI didn't realise that the audio function was "automatic", thought it was \under computewr control at least a bit.The Sinister Dragon
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I rarely do a traditional Wiccan ritual. Sometimes I don't even cast a circle because I do not always find it necessary. Sometimes, I follow the usual Wiccan order of service and other times I opt for simplicity. I am not a British traditional initiate nor care to be. I don't even belong to a coven nor do I currently care to be. But I still tell people proudly I am a Wiccan. I never call myself a neo-wiccan either. I do not relate to the term because my practices I call Wiccan are not new. … [Read more...]
Far From Traditional but Still a Wiccan
Magical Beginnings Begin Again
I started officially walking into the study of Paganism in 2002, and joined my first coven in 2003. It has been a long time, and yet sometimes it feels like I just came to the path. There has been so much learning, and so many moments of personal growth, I am not the practitioner I was before. The process of personal and spiritual growth has changed me in ways I never anticipated, and now even the process of magic does not look or feel the same to me. I have even began noticing how my connection … [Read more...]
Renewal and Rebirth; My Path to Justice
As I have been contemplating ancestral work, and what that means in my life, I decided it was a perfect time to reprint a piece I wrote earlier this year. It was originally printed in Sage Woman #86, and is a piece that was inspired by the death of a student that I worked with in my job. It is easy to think that our ancestral lessons come from those who we would typically connect to as those who have crossed over, but what about the ones we do not expect. The lessons that come from those we do … [Read more...]
Listening to the Ancestors; Visions in Plain Clothing
I believe the ancestors are limitless. Beyond the material and conscious world of the living, the power of the ancestors are not restricted by the boundaries and limits of the mundane. The infinite power of those who have crossed-over the veil still contain the ability to guide, teach and transform the living, if only we allow ourselves to tap into the wisdom that is there.My mother use to tell me that if I dreamed of things in the night, I had to tell someone before 12:00pm or else it would … [Read more...]
Harvesting Magic and Setting Magical Intentions
The red of the moon earlier this month reminded me of many things. I circled under the shining light of the mother, thinking about all the change of this year and all the things to come. A time of power and release, the power of the eclipse looming. I started thinking about the calm that comes with ritual, the energetic foundation that is palpable and yet still indescribable. It is one of the reasons that the mystery of ritual still exists, it is the experiential process of being in it and not … [Read more...]
Gliding Into the Darkness; The Turning of the Wheel
"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious." ~Carl Jung The dark half of the year is upon us and that is not always a comfortable thing. The natural cycles shift from the outward exploration of energy and manifestation, to one that cycles inward. This half of the year is often associated with the shadow self, the things that are hidden or unseen, those things that we are not sure we want to look for but yet have no choice.I often … [Read more...]
Summer of Change: A Journey to Spiritual Self Care
Every year I feel as though I am dealing with a sea of change, a constant movement of my life that takes readjusting and reframing. It is the continuous chaos that follows behind many of us as life shapes itself, and we begin to reawaken to the idea that life is change, and that nothing stays the same.My life experience and my spirituality conflict here. My childhood taught me that change is a bad thing; stability is what we strive for. In a constantly changing world, we are looking for … [Read more...]
The Nature on the Inside by Cecily Joy Willowe
by Cecily Joy WilloweIf you are a Wiccan or a Ecospirituality type there is this expectation that the majority of your rituals will be outside. There is this idea that rituals indoors are somehow off and unfitting of Wiccan-like folks. However, I will admit, without apology, that I do the vast majority of my rituals at home in my spare bedroom. Don't get me wrong, I am not the type of Wiccan who never leaves home and uses mostly plastic or artificial tools. I have a plant on my altar so … [Read more...]
My Favorite Moments; Happy 5th Anniversary Patheos! #Patheos5Yrs
My favorite moments, as a writer for Patheos and with readers, are every single moment. I feel like I get the opportunity to explore one of the most challenging, often misunderstood, and complex issues around the intersectionality of ethnic culture and alternative spirituality. Being a Black woman has its own distinct culturally significant challenges, and moments of beauty and resiliency. The addition of Paganism to that path adds to the very interesting, multifaceted perspective and experience … [Read more...]


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Since Canadian Thanksgiving is coming up this weekend, I thought today would be the perfect day to whip up a festive fall side dish. I love the traditional Thanksgiving dishes like stuffing, mashed potatoes, and sweet potatoes but it's fun to switch things up and bring a new dish to your family dinner.
This Hemp-ini & Corn Sauté is a delicious combination of zucchini, corn and Hemp Hearts mixed with some herbs, Hemp Hearts and lime juice and topped with grated Parmesan cheese. It's a great recipe to make for Thanksgiving since it's more exciting than the normal vegetable medley people tend to make.
You can serve this sauté warm or cold, it tastes great both ways. It's so easy to make, you can whip it up quickly before your dinner and spend the rest of the time enjoying the company of your family and friends.
Hemp-ini & Corn Sauté
Yield: 4 servings
- 2 tbsp. olive oil
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced
- 4 zucchinis, diced
- 1 cup corn kernels
- 1/4 tsp. dried basil
- 1/4 tsp. dried oregano
- 1/4 cup Hemp Hearts
- Sea salt and black pepper, to taste
- Juice of 1 lime
- 2 tbsp. fresh cilantro, chopped
- 2 tbsp. Parmesan, grated
In a large pan, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add the garlic to the pan and sauté for about one minute.
Put the zucchini, corn, basil and oregano in the pan and cook until the zucchini is tender. Season with salt and pepper to taste and stir in the lime juice, Hemp Hearts and cilantro.
Add the mixture to a bowl, top with grated Parmesan and serve. You can also top it with some diced red pepper as a garnish if you like.
I hope you enjoy this recipe and make it for your family this weekend! What is your signature Thanksgiving dish?
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Politics and Government Politics and Government Hypocrisy Just Cause Happiness Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Failure Example General The best advice is a good example. Don't count your chickens before they are hatched.
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Moses said to them, "If you do this, if you go to battle as shock-troops, at the instance of the Lord, and every shock-fighter among you crosses the Jordan, at the instance of the Lord, until He has dispossessed His enemies before Him, and the land has been subdued, at the instance of the Lord, and then you return--you shall be clear before the Lord and before Israel; and this land shall be your holding under the Lord. But if you do not do so, you will have sinned against the Lord; and know that your sin will overtake you. Build towns for your children and sheepfolds for your flocks, but do what you have promised." The Gadites and the Reubenites answered Moses, "Your servants will do as my lord commands. Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our other livestock will stay behind in the towns of Gilead; while your servants, all those recruited for war, cross over, at the instance of the Lord, to engage in battle--as my lord orders." Then Moses gave instructions concerning them to Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the family heads of the Israelite tribes. Moses said to them, "If every shock-fighter among the Gadites and the Reubenites crosses the Jordan with you to do battle, at the instance of the Lord, and the land is subdued before you, you shall give them the land of Gilead as a holding. But if they do not cross over with you as shock-troops, they shall receive holdings among you in the land of Canaan." The Gadites and the Reubenites said in reply, "Whatever the Lord has spoken concerning your servants, that we will do. We ourselves will cross over as shock-troops, at the instance of the Lord, into the land of Canaan; and we shall keep our hereditary holding across the Jordan." So Moses assigned to them--to the Gadites, the Reubenites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph--the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of King Og of Bashan, the land with its various cities and the territories of their surrounding towns. The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified towns or as enclosures for flocks. The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim, Nebo, Baal-meon--some names being changed--and Sibmah; they gave [their own] names to towns that they rebuilt. The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, dispossessing the Amorites who were there; so Moses gave Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he settled there. Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, which he renamed Havvoth-jair. And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its dependencies, renaming it Nobah after himself. These were the marches of the Israelites who started out from the land of Egypt, troop by troop, in the charge of Moses and Aaron. Moses recorded the starting points of their various marches as directed by the Lord. Their marches, by starting points, were as follows: They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. It was on the morrow of the passover offering that the Israelites started out defiantly, in plain view of all the Egyptians. The Egyptians meanwhile were burying those among them whom the Lord had struck down, every first-born--whereby the Lord executed judgment on their gods. The Israelites set out from Rameses and encamped at Succoth. They set out from Succoth and encamped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. They set out from Etham and turned about toward Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon, and they encamped before Migdol. They set out from Pene-hahiroth and passed through the sea into the wilderness; and they made a three-days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and encamped at Marah. They set out from Marah and came to Elim. There were twelve springs in Elim and seventy palm trees, so they encamped there. They set out from Elim and encamped by the Sea of Reeds. They set out from the Sea of Reeds and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. They set out from the wilderness of Sin and encamped at Dophkah. They set out from Dophkah and encamped at Alush. They set out from Alush and encamped at Rephidim; it was there that the people had no water to drink. They set out from Rephidim and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. They set out from the wilderness of Sinai and encamped at Kibroth-hattaavah. They set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and encamped at Hazeroth. They set out from Hazeroth and encamped at Rithmah. They set out from Rithmah and encamped at Rimmon-perez. They set out from Rimmon-perez and encamped at Libnah. They set out from Libnah and encamped at Rissah. They set out from Rissah and encamped at Kehelath. They set out from Kehelath and encamped at Mount Shepher. They set out from Mount Shepher and encamped at Haradah. They set out from Haradah and encamped at Makheloth.
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[Ed. Note. This review first ran in the Atlantic Monthly, April 1860.]
It is, we believe, more than thirty years since Mr. Hawthorne's first
appearance as an author; it is twenty-three since he gave his first collection
of Twice-told Tales to the world. His works have received that surest warranty of genius and originality in the widening of their appreciation
downward from a small circle of refined admirers and critics, till it embraced
the whole community of readers. With just enough encouragement to confirm his
faith in his own powers, those powers had time to ripen and toughen themselves
before the gales of popularity could twist them from the balance of a healthy
and normal development. Happy the author whose earliest works are read and
understood by the lustre thrown back upon them from his latest! for then we
receive the impression of continuity and cumulation of power, of peculiarity
deepening to individuality, of promise more than justified in the keeping:
unhappy, whose autumn shows only the aftermath and rowen of an earlier harvest,
whose would-be replenishments are but thin dilutions of his fame!
The nineteenth century has produced no more purely original writer than Mr.
Hawthorne. A shallow criticism has sometimes fancied a resemblance between him
and Poe. But it seems to us that the difference between them is the immeasurable one between talent carried to its ultimate, and genius, -- between a
masterly adaptation of the world of sense and appearance to the purposes of
Art, and a so thorough conception of the world of moral realities that Art
becomes the interpreter of something profounder than herself. In this respect
it is not extravagant to say that Hawthorne has something of kindred with
Shakspeare. But that breadth of nature which made Shakspeare incapable of alienation from common human nature and actual life is wanting to Hawthorne. He
is rather a denizen than a citizen of what men call the world. We are conscious
of a certain remoteness in his writings, as in those of Donne, but with such a difference that we should call the one super- and the other subter-sensual.
Hawthorne is psychological and metaphysical. Had he been born without the
poetic imagination, he would have written treatises on the Origin of Evil. He
does not draw characters, but rather conceives them and then shows them acted
upon by crime, passion, or circumstance, as if the element of Fate were as
present to his imagination as to that of a Greek dramatist. Helen we know, and
Antigone, and Benedick, and Falstaff, and Miranda, and Parson Adams, and Major
Pendennis, -- these people have walked on pavements or looked out of club-room
windows; but what are these idiosyncrasies into which Mr. Hawthorne has
breathed a necromantic life, and which he has endowed with the forms and
attributes of men? And yet, grant him his premises, that is, let him once get
his morbid tendency, whether inherited or the result of special experience,
either incarnated as a new man or usurping all the faculties of one already in
the flesh, and it is marvelous how subtilely and with what truth to as much of
human nature as is included in a diseased consciousness he traces all the
finest nerves of impulse and motive, how he compels every trivial circumstance
into an accomplice of his art, and makes the sky flame with foreboding or the
landscape chill and darken with remorse. It is impossible to think of Hawthorne
without at the same time thinking of the few great masters of imaginative
composition; his works, only not abstract because he has the genius to make
them ideal, belong not specially to our clime or generation; it is their moral
purpose alone, and perhaps their sadness, that mark him as the son of New
England and the Puritans.
It is commonly true of Hawthorne's romances that the interest centres in one
strongly defined protaganist, to whom the other characters are accessory and
subordinate, -- perhaps we should rather say a ruling Idea, of which all the
characters are fragmentary embodiments. They remind us of a symphony of
Beethoven's, in which, though there be variety of parts, yet all are infused
with the dominant motive, and heighten its impression by hints and far-away
suggestions at the most unexpected moment. As in Rome the obelisks are placed
at points toward which several streets converge, so in Mr. Hawthorne's stories
the actors and incidents seem but vistas through which we see the moral from
different points of view, -- a moral pointing skywards always, but inscribed with
hieroglyphs mysteriously suggestive, whose incitement to conjecture, while they
baffle it, we prefer to any prosaic solution.
Nothing could be more original or imaginative than the conception of the
character of Donatello in Mr. Hawthorne's new romance. His likeness to the
lovely statue of Praxiteles, his happy animal temperament, and the dim legend
of his pedigree are combined with wonderful art to reconcile us to the notion
of a Greek myth embodied in an Italian of the nineteenth century; and when at
length a soul is created in this primeval pagan, this child of earth, this
creature of mere instinct, awakened through sin to a conception of the
necessity of atonement, we feel, that, while we looked to be entertained with
the airiest of fictions, we were dealing with the most august truths of
psychology, with the most pregnant facts of modern history, and studying a
profound parable of the development of the Christian Idea.
Everything suffers a sea-change in the depths of Mr. Hawthorne's mind, gets
rimmed with an impalpable fringe of melancholy moss, and there is a tone of
sadness in this book as in the rest, but it does not leave us sad. In a series
of remarkable and characteristic works, it is perhaps the most remarkable and
characteristic. If you had picked up and read a stray leaf of it anywhere, you
would have exclaimed, "Hawthorne!"
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of breadth and power, and criticisms of of pictures and statues always
delicate, often profound. In the Preface, Mr. Hawthorne pays a well-deserved
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