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|Numéro de publication
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|Date de publication
|15 oct. 2009
|Date de dépôt
|3 avr. 2009
|Date de priorité
|29 nov. 2004
|Autre référence de publication
|Numéro de publication
|William John Stroshein, David Louis Richard, Monte Neil Wright, Leon Keith Jantzen, Imad Assaf
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|William John Stroshein, David Louis Richard, Monte Neil Wright, Leon Keith Jantzen, Imad Assaf
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This application is a continuation-in-part of patent application Ser No. 11/785,446 filed Apr. 18, 2007, which is a continuation-in-part of patent application Ser. No. 10/997,930 filed Nov. 29, 2004, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,331,746 which issued Feb. 19, 2008.
This invention relates to the field of equipment used in the drilling industry, and more particularly, it relates to an apparatus for manipulating and racking pipes in a drilling derrick.
In drilling operations, the derrick is the structure designed to support and manipulate the drill string in and out of the well bore. The drill string is a series of drill pipe segments or joints detachably connected together. Typically, the drill pipe joints are coupled together to form a pipe stand consisting of two or three joints of pipe. The stands are then coupled together to form the drill string.
Drill collars and a drill bit are attached to a drill end of the drill string. The drill collars are heavier pipes having a larger diameter. They connect to the drill pipe and place weight on the drill bit such that the downward force from the weight of the drill string, drill collars, and drill pipe on the drill bit assists in the drilling process. As the drill bit and drill string rotate and penetrate into the well bore, additional lengths of pipe may be connected to the coupling end of the drill string. Each pipe segment or joint is typically thirty or forty five feet in length (Range 2-30 feet, Range 3-45 feet). The joints are coupled into double stands of approximately 60-65 feet or, for larger operations, triple stands (Range 2) of 90 feet.
Because the drill bit has to be changed after a few days or even a few hours, depending on the hardness of the matter being drilled through, the drill string must be tripped out of the hole frequently. This involves withdrawing the drill string from the well bore by conventional hoisting means such as a winch (draw works) mounted to the derrick or substructure, uncoupling the pipe stands of the drill string using a power wrench, rotary table, top drive or other torqueing and rotary machinery, and then standing the pipe stands in a conventional pipe storage or racking assembly such as a so-called racking board or finger board assembly. In larger operations, the drill string can weigh several hundred tones and requires an extremely powerful motor housed in the draw works to withdraw the drill string from the well bore. The pipe stands are then transmitted between the well bore, that is well center in the derrick, to and from the storage assembly. After replacing the bit, the pipe stands are removed from the storage assembly by the or derrickman and transported back to the well center where the pipe stands are re-coupled with the drill string and lowered back down the well bore to recommence drilling. Known as a "round trip", this operation can take up to ten hours or more, depending on the depth of the well.
For decades, triple rigs have been used for drilling deeper holes than double rigs; triple rigs will not have fewer trips but there will be fewer connections between stands, and therefore less time is required to trip with a triple rig than a double rig for any particular depth. Further, a triple rig will hold ⅓ more pipe in the same size racking board and set back floor space as a double rig.
Present methods of manual tripping on both double and triple rigs require a person to stand on the racking board for the duration of the round trip, manually pulling back the stands or feeding the stands to the elevators so the stand can be lifted by the drawworks. This can be reasonably efficient when done by a skilled derrickman but, especially on a 10 or 12 hour round trip, it will be exhausting. This has been, and is presently, the predominant method of tripping on double and triple land rigs.
Automation of processes improves personnel safety and operating efficiencies. To automate the drilling and tripping processes, personnel must be removed from the rig floor and the racking board. In recent years there have been a number of mechanized products brought to market that remove personnel from the rig floor but racking of pipe while tripping has not changed—a person must still stand on the racking board for the time it takes to round trip.
The present invention eliminates the need for anyone to go up to the racking board while tripping pipe. Safety and efficiencies of the tripping process are thus improved.
Offshore drilling rigs have, for a number of years, used mechanized pipe racking systems. Equipment on offshore installations is permanently constructed on the drilling vessel. Offshore racking systems may weigh from 60,000 lbs to over 100,000 lbs and be capable of lifting 25,000 lbs. These systems are not practical for land drilling rigs.
Land rigs must be moved from one location to the next, every two or three weeks. Land drilling equipment is constructed to be readily rigged out, moved to the new location, and rigged up, quickly. A complete rig move may only take one to three days. What is missing in the prior art, and an object of the present invention to provide, is a relatively compact piece of equipment, with a total weight of less than 8,000 lbs, and capable of lifting 15,000 lbs; and which may be fitted onto both existing and new land drilling rigs. The present invention is also compact and robust. Whereas offshore systems are permanently installed and are capable of lifting only approximately one quarter of their own weight in tubulars, the present invention is portable and lifts nearly double its weight.
Also, it is an object of this invention to provide a smooth, controlled movement when moving the stands of drill pipe. When pipe stands are racked manually, there is considerable swinging of the bottom end of the stand when it is lifted with the drawworks. This swinging is slowed down by the rig floor personnel. This can put personnel at risk of injury. It is thus an object of the present invention to move stands in a controlled, smooth fashion, accelerating, moving, and decelerating to a stop with minimal swinging of the stand.
There are several devices and apparatus known in the art designed to improve the efficiency of the round trip operation. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 4,621,974 to Krueger, issued Nov. 11, 1986, provides an automated pipe equipment system for automatically removing pipe stands from, and adding pipe stands to, a drill string by using sensing means such as transducers to indicate to a programmable controller whether a pipe joint has been grasped by a racking arm. The Kruger system carries the stand of pipe in an assembly on the drill floor rather than lifting the stand. Furthermore, U.S. Pat. No. 4,117,941 to McCleskey Jr. et al., issued Oct. 3, 1978, provides a device which rapidly handles and vertically racks riser pipes and drill pipes in the drilling derrick. Manipulators effect the desired displacement of the pipes such that the lower ends of the pipes may rest on a set back platform on the drill floor and the upper ends of the pipes may be secured in a finger board. In addition, U.S. Pat. No. 4,013,178 to Brown et al., issued Mar. 22, 1977, provides a pipe racker wherein a maneuverable arm mounted on the derrick may grip the pipe joint anywhere along its length, lift the pipe, and move the pipe to another location without the need of a cable support. The vertical, horizontal and telescoping of the maneuverable arm provides the racker with three orthogonal degrees of freedom.
While the prior art provides devices for handling pipe stands in a more efficient manner, they do not provide a solution to address the instability associated with manipulating and transporting pipe stands that may exceed ninety feet in length and several thousand pounds in weight. Therefore, an unaddressed need exists in the industry to provide an apparatus for handling pipes in a stable and efficient manner to deal with deficiencies and inadequacies in the prior art.
In the prior art applicant is also aware of U.S. Pat. No. 6,821,071 which issued to Woolslayer et al. on Nov. 23, 2004, for an Automated Pipe Racking Process and Apparatus. Woolslayer describes a stand manipulator rather than a stand lifter automated pipe racking, wherein an arm support member is rotatable about an axis parallel to the well bore and wherein a gripper arm extends from the arm support member along an axis normal to the axis of rotation of the arm support member. A gripper head on the gripper arm extends from the gripper arm to grip the upper end of a pipe stand. The arm assembly is suspended from a carriage which moves along the underside of a working board mounted to a finger board or racking board. The working board extends between sets of fingers. Rotation of the arm and movement of the carriage permits movement of the upper end of a pipe stand from the well bore to the slots between the fingers. The lower end of each pipe stand is moved manually onto a base grid adding rows of multiple cells. When a pipe stand is on a cell it acts as a switch to send a control signal, upon which control signal the carriage, arm support member, gripper arm, and gripper head on the gripper arm engage the top of the pipe stand. A proximity sensor verifies that the pipe stand is in the gripper assembly. With the lower end of the pipe stand manually moved over one of the cells and the pipe stand than lowered onto that cell on the grid, the upper end of the pipe stand is than moved into a slot between the fingers of the racking assembly.
Thus Woolslayer teaches merely guiding the top of the pipe stand after the pipe has been lifted by the drilling rig elevators. In other words, the pipe stand itself is not lifted by the Woolslayer articulated arm. In the present invention, it is an object to provide an articulated assembly which lifts a complete pipe stand and is capable of lifting in the order of 12, 000-15, 000 pounds in contradistinction to the 1,000 lbs contemplated by Woolslayer, and once lifted carrying the completed pipe stand in a vertical position and inserting the pipe stand still in its vertical position into a desired slot between fingers of the racking board.
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an apparatus for handling pipes in a drilling derrick wherein the apparatus stabilizes and supports the pipe stand such that unwanted movement of the pipe stand, which affects the rate of racking, may be reduced, thereby increasing racking efficiency
In summary, the pipe stand racking system according to the present invention includes a racking board, an overhead frame for supporting the articulated arm mounted at the end of the diving board to the racking board, a rotation drive on the end of the driving board cantilevered in the open corridor between the fingers of the racking board, a parallelogram arm mounted to the rotation drive and a pipe stand gripper mounted to the arm. The overhead frame helps support the weight of the rotation drive, arm, gripper and any pipe stand being lifted. The arm is rotated and extended so as to position the gripper along linear paths corresponding to the open corridor and finger spacing's between the finger by coordination of rotation and extension of the arm as controlled by a controller. Pipe stands are thereby lifted and carried between well center and next available positions in the racking board.
The racking board has a pair of opposed facing arrays of the pipe stand supporting fingers mounted in a first frame. The opposed facing arrays of pipe stand supporting fingers define the open corridor therebetween. The corridor extends from a derrick-side opening in the first frame to an opposite back-wall of the first frame opposite the derrick-side opening. The first frame is substantially horizontal when mounted to an open side of a derrick mast so as to register the corridor in cooperative alignment with the open side of the derrick mast. And wherein the first frame includes fasteners to mount a derrick-side of the first frame in the cooperative alignment with the open side of the derrick mast.
The overhead or second frame is mounted to the first frame so as to extend over the first frame when the first frame is mounted to the derrick mast. A tensile weight supporting member such as a rod is mounted to the second frame and extends downwardly from the second frame. A lower distal end of the rod is positioned over the corridor. The diving board or cantilevered member is mounted to the back wall of the first frame and extends therefrom cantilevered, in a plane containing the corridor, to a terminal end of the cantilevered member substantially coinciding with the lower distal end of the rod. A selectively controllable rotation drive is mounted to the terminal end of the cantilevered member and the lower distal end of the rod.
A parallelogram arm having a base end and an opposite pipe stand gripping end is mounted to the rotation drive. The parallelogram arm is mounted at the base end to the rotation drive for selectively positionable rotation of the parallelogram arm about an axis of rotation of the rotation drive. The parallelogram arm is selectively actuable between a retracted position adjacent the axis of rotation and an extended position extended therefrom. A pipe stand gripper is mounted at the pipe stand gripping end. The gripper is advantageously only a single gripping head gripping the pipe stand at only a single location along its length. The parallelogram arm maintains a pipe stand gripped in the gripper substantially vertical when the first frame is mounted to the derrick and the pipe stand is translated by the parallelogram arm between its extended and retracted positions.
When the first frame is mounted to the derrick mast, in. its extended position the parallelogram arm has a reach sufficient to position the gripper at well center when the rotation drive is in a first rotational position. When the rotation drive is in a second rotational position the reach of the parallelogram arm is sufficient to place a pipe stand held in the gripper into a rear-most finger space between the back wall of the first frame and an adjacent finger of corresponding the array of pipe stand supporting fingers. When the parallelogram arm is in its retracted position, the gripper is rotatable by rotation of the parallelogram arm by the rotation drive along an arc having a retracted radius corresponding to rotation of the gripper and the parallelogram arm. The retracted radius allows rotation of the gripper about the axis of rotation within the corridor without interference with the ends of the fingers in the opposed facing arrays of pipe supporting fingers closest to the corridor. The gripper and the parallelogram arm are extendible between the retracted and extended positions when the rotation drive is in the first rotational position. The gripper and the parallelogram arm are rotatable by the rotation drive between the first and second rotational positions when the parallelogram arm is in the retracted position.
The spacing between the cantilevered member and the terminal ends of the fingers define at least one corridor space for passing there-along an end of a pipe stand held in the gripper. Each pipe stand may thus be moved back and forth from well center to the racking board. The weight of the pipe stand is transferred to front legs of the mast via the overhead second frame mounted above the racking board and through the racking board to the derrick mast so as to support the weight of the pipe stand from above whereby each full pipe stand may be lifted for positioning of the full stand.
A controller cooperates with the rotation drive and the parallelogram arm to control the position of the gripper. The controller controls the position of the gripper along optimized constrained and unconstrained paths. When following the constrained path the gripper, while carrying a pipe stand, follows a first linear path along a finger space adjacent a selected finger of the arrays of fingers, and follows a second linear path along the corridor space, on a side of the corridor between the cantilevered member and corresponding terminal ends of the fingers corresponding to the finger space. The gripper follows around the arc defined by the retracted radius, and from adjacent the rotation drive to a well-center position in the derrick when un-racking a pipe stand from the racking board, and vice-versa when racking a pipe stand from well-center to the racking board.
The gripper follows an unconstrained path only when not carrying a pipe stand. The unconstrained path follows an arcuate optimized path from the selected finger space to a ready position set back from. the well center awaiting a next pipe stand running in or out of the well. Upon the arrival of the next pipe stand the gripper translates into a well center position closely adjacent the pipe stand.
The accelerations and decelerations of the gripper and the pipe stand being carried along the constrained path are optimized to minimize pipe stand instability, to smooth motion of the pipe stand along the constrained path, and to minimize probability of impact of a pipe stand held by the gripper with the racking board during translation along the constrained path. In order to accomplish this rotational and extension motions of the arm are coordinated together to create straight line movement of the gripper and a pipe stand held therein along the first and second linear paths.
In a preferred embodiment the gripper includes a selectively vertically movable portion selectively vertically movable relative to the parallelogram arm. A gripping head is mounted on the vertically movable portion. A pipe stand is gripped in the gripping head and is selectively vertically translatable independently of movement of the parallelogram arm. The vertically movable portion may include a selectively actuable telescopic portion for vertical telescopic translation of the gripping head.
A controller cooperates with the rotation drive and the parallelogram arm for positioning the gripper along the constrained and unconstrained paths. The controller is adapted to catalogue the quantity of, and to store the position of each pipe stand stored in the racking board. The controller may thus position a subsequently retrieved pipe stand in an unoccupied storage position adjacent occupied storage positions and retrieve next available pipe stands from occupied storage positions without interference with other pipe stands stored in the racking board. The controller may also cooperate with the vertically movable portion to elevate or lower a pipe stand held in the gripping head at well center prior to or subsequent to translation of the gripping head along the constrained path respectively.
In one embodiment the overhead second frame extends substantially orthogonally from the first frame. The rod may be a rigid substantially linear member depending downwardly from a vertex position of the second frame substantially centered over the first frame. The rod may be parallel to the axis of rotation of the rotation drive. The second frame may include an inverted u-shaped frame member and the rod may depend vertically downwards from the vertex position centered along the u-shaped frame member to support the rotation drive at least vertically. A tension member may be mounted at a lower end thereof to a rear side of the first frame. An upper end of the tension member is mountable to an upper position of the derrick mast above where the racking board is mounted to the derrick mast. The tension member supports the rear side of the first frame and reduces a moment loading on the fasteners of the first frame where mounted to the derrick mast on a front side of the racking board. The tension member may include a pair of tension members such as spaced apart struts or cables on opposite ends of the rear side of the first frame. The tension members may thus be linear and the fasteners may be mounting brackets which include reinforcing plates mounted to the derrick mast. Opposed facing leg portions of a front wall of the first frame, opposite the back wall, may be mounted to the reinforcing plates so as to abut the leg portions against the reinforcing plates.
These and other features of the invention will become more apparent from the following description in which reference is made to the appended drawings wherein:
With reference to the Figures wherein similar characters of reference denote corresponding parts in each view, the apparatus for handling pipe stands 6 includes a derrick 8, a pipe racking assembly 10 mounted to derrick 8. A rotatable and articulated assembly 20 is mounted to pipe racking assembly 10 in a central open corridor 12. In an embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus for handling pipes is configured to handle and rack a plurality of pipe stands 6 which are triple stands or larger. In use the pipe stands are detachably coupled together to form a drill string 14.
In an embodiment of the invention, pipe racking assembly 10 is generally rectangular in shape and horizontally disposed. Pipe racking assembly 10 is mounted to a mid-portion of derrick 8 such that pipe racking assembly 10 extends outwards and away from derrick 8. Pipe racking assembly 10 includes a first frame 16 and a plurality of transversely disposed support members such as fingers 18 mounted to frame 16 such that each finger 18 attaches to frame 16 at a first end only. Fingers 18 are arranged in an opposed facing pair of planar arrays of parallel spaced apart fingers 18 having slots 18 a therebetween. In an embodiment of the invention, rotatable assembly 20 is mounted to frame 16 such that rotatable assembly is positioned in gap 17 so that pipe stand 6 may travel along corridor 12 towards support members 18. To rack pipe stand 6, pipe stand 6 is positioned in slots 18 a between support members 18 and pipe stand 6 is lowered to stand against the fingers 18 and to rest the base of the pipe stand on the rig floor set back area.
The rotatable and articulated assembly 20 includes a rotation drive 22 supporting and selectively rotating about axis of rotation A a parallelogram arm 24 having a pipe stand gripper assembly 26 mounted at the distal end thereof. Rotation drive 22 is rigidly mounted to a rigid cantilevered member 28 which extends perpendicularly from a back wall 16 a at the rear most side of first frame 16.
The opposed facing arrays of parallel co-planar fingers 18 are mounted to the parallel pair walls 16 b which rigidly join the back wall 16 a to the opposed facing co-linear legs 16 c of the front wall of frame 16 on the derrick-side of the racking board. The opposed facing free ends of legs 16 c and the inwardly disposed free ends of fingers 18, are inwardly disposed into frame 16, and are spaced apart to form the open corridor 12 which substantially bisects through the racking board between the derrick-side of frame 16 and the back wall of frame 16.
Cantilevered member 28, referred to in the art as a diving board, extends along corridor 12 along the plane B of the corridor. In one embodiment, which is not intended to be limiting, member 28 is parallel with and lies below a plane containing fingers 18. In a preferred embodiment, a walking platform or grid 30 is mounted onto member 28 so as to provide a walking surface substantially in the plane containing fingers 18 for use in the event that manual racking of a pipe stand is desired, it being important to note that member 28 and assembly 20 including rotation drive 22, parallelogram arm 24 and gripper assembly 26, when the latter two components are in their home position as seen in
A second frame 32 is rigidly mounted to so as to extend over first frame 16. In one embodiment which is not intended to be limiting, second frame 32 is in the shape of an inverted "u".
The vertical legs 32 a and the horizontal cross member 32 b collectively form second frame 32. Legs 32 a are braced by a corresponding pair of brace members 34 extending between a midpoint of legs 32 a and members 16 b of frame 16. Vertical arm 36 is mounted at its upper end to a midpoint along cross member 32 b and at its lower end to the distal end of member 28 adjacent rotation drive 22. Vertical arm 36 supports in tension, and in combination with cantilevered member 28, downward loads on rotation drive 22 due to the weight and accelerations imparted to a pipe stand 6 held in gripping assembly 26, and dynamic loads associated therewith. Such loads for example caused by linear and rotational translation of the gripping assembly 26 during actuations of parallelogram arms 24 and rotation drive 22 as transmitted to rotation drive 22 via parallel arms 24 a of the parallelogram arms, and the corresponding end brackets 24 b pinned on opposite ends of arms 24 a and rotation shaft 38 rigidly connecting the upper of brackets 24 b to rotation drive 22. As referred herein, although in the illustrated embodiment vertical arm 36 is mounted to rotation drive by a rigid mounting of the lower end of arm 36 to the distal end of member 28 adjacent to rotation drive 22, it is understood that is not intended to be limiting and is collectively referred to herein as being mounted to rotation drive 22. One skilled in the art would understand that the lower end of arm 36 could be mounted in the vicinity of rotation drive 22 so as to support the downward and dynamic loading on rotation drive 22 in a number of ways whether the lower end of arm 36 is mounted directly to rotation drive 22 or in the close vicinity thereof via a common segment of rigid supporting structure. Thus as used herein when it is referred to the lower end of arm 36 being mounted to rotation drive 22, it is collectively intended to encompass the mounting of the lower end of arm 36 either directly to or in adjacency to rotation drive 22.
Rotation drive 22 is controlled by a controller (not shown) so as to selectively rotate shaft 38 within cylindrical collar 40 and corresponding bearings 42 so as to thereby selectively rotate parallelogram arm 24 about axis of rotation A. Independently of rotation of shaft 38 by rotation drive 22, parallelogram arm 24 may be actuated by actuator 44 to selectively elevate or lower arms 24 a in direction C so as to thereby correspondingly elevate or lower a pipe stand 6 held in gripping assembly 26 while maintaining pipe stand 6 in a vertical orientation and are assisted by a pipe stand supporting collar 48 a mounted at the upper end of vertical support 48.
Gripping assembly 26 includes gripping head 46 mounted at the lower end of a telescopically actuated vertical support 48 which telescopically actuates in direction D by the extension and retraction of actuator 50 mounted within the outer housing of vertical support 48. The extent by which gripping head 46 may be extended downwardly in direction D from vertical support 48 depends on the length of the stroke of actuator 50 housed within the housing of vertical support 48. Thus to remove a pipe stand 6 from well center within derrick 8, once the pipe stand has been decoupled from the drill string, and with actuator 50 extended so as to position gripping head 46 in a lowered position, parallelogram arms 24 are rotated upwardly towards well center from their home position retracted under rotation drive 22 and aligned towards well center, so as to bring vertical support 48 alongside and aligned with pipe stand 6 where it is held in its hoist or top drive.
Gripping head 46 is thereby brought into mating engagement with pipe stand 6 and in particular so as to position pipe stand 6 between the parallel clamping arms 52 of the gripping head. An actuator within gripping head 46 such as the illustrated threaded actuator 54 translates in direction E the clamping arms 52 either away from each other or towards each other while maintaining their parallel relationship by arms 52 sliding on parallel alignment shafts 56. In the case of engaging with the pipe stand 6 at well center so as to remove the pipe stand to the racking board for storage, once gripping head 46 is mated against pipe stand 6 so as to engage the clamping surfaces 52 a against the outer surface of the pipe stand by the actuations of actuator 54. Toothed splines 58 located on the interior of each gripping or clamping surface 52 a are thereby clamped into frictional engagement rigidly against the outer surface of the pipe stand. Clamping pipe stand 6 within the elongate gripping and clamping surfaces 52 a of clamping arms 52 allows pipe stand 6 to be maintained in its vertical orientation during translation of the pipe stand to and from the racking board. Gripping head 46 is mounted to the lower most end of actuator 50 by means of mounting brackets 60. Where actuator 54 is a threaded actuator as illustrated, a hydraulic motor 54 b may be provided to rotate the shaft 54 a of the actuator which is threadably journalled within corresponding threaded bores 52 b in each of clamping arms 52 on oppositely disposed ends of threaded shaft 54 a. Legs 16 c of first frame 16 may be mounted to the open side 8 a of derrick 8 by pinned mounting of flanges 16 d rigidly mounted to legs 16 c with elongate channel brackets 62 mounted to the corresponding vertical supports 8 b on the open side 8 a of derrick 8.
When first frame 16 is mounted to derrick 8 by the pinned engagement of brackets 16 d with the corresponding apertures along channel brackets 62, the front face of legs 16 c bear against the corresponding edges of channel brackets 62. However this engagement of first frame 16 against the channel brackets is not intended to bear the pivoting moment about the pinned connection of brackets 16 d as a result of the weight load acting downwardly through rotation drive 22 and communicated to first frame 16 via cantilevered member 28, and also due to the rest of the weight of the racking board assembly. Rather, struts or other tension supports 64 are mounted at their lower most ends to the rear of first frame 16 for example to the rear end of members 16 b as illustrated, and are mounted at their upper most ends to mast 8 and in particular to mast members 8 b at mounting points well above first frame 16.
As described above, rotatable and articulating assembly 20 has a home position when parallelogram arms 24 are tucked flush under rotation drive 22 with gripper assembly 26 aligned towards well center. In the two dimensional plot of
Thus in the translation plot of
Once in position 78, pipe stand 6 is aligned with the corresponding aisle 12 a of corridor 12 and so may be translated back and fourth along the aisle in direction F between position 78 and a slot-aligned position 80 aligned with the slot 18 a. Slot 18 a is the slot which is next to be filled with pipe stands being moved into their storage position between fingers 18 during running out the drill string and corresponding storage of pipe stands. The slot aligned with position 80 also corresponds to the slot 18 a containing the next pipe stand to be removed from the racking board during the running back in of the drill string into the well. Thus because the controller knows the position in space at all times of gripping assembly 26 and also knows the position of fingers 18 and the frame 16 surrounding the fingers, and because the controller tracks or otherwise catalogues the inventory of pipe stands 6 held in slots 18 a at any particular time, the processor associated with the controller may then determine which is the next most available space for storage of a pipe stand or determines which is the next most available pipe stand depending on whether the pipe stands are being stored or retrieved respectively. This next most available position is indicated by reference numeral 82. Thus although illustrated in
When moving the gripping assembly 26 between positions 82 and 74, the movement is unconstrained and hence the movement is illustrated diagrammatically as unconstrained paths 68 and shown as including intermediate positions 84 (where the clamping arms or head 46 have been removed from the pipe stand) and 86 (where the arm passes through its 90 degree position relative to direction F) as gripping assembly 26 translates in directions H and I. Once gripping assembly 26 is returned to position 74, gripping head 46 is aligned for a translation in direction J so as to mate clamping arms 52 onto the pipe stand at well center position 72 or so as to move the pipe stand being carried in clamping arms 52 into well center position 72.
Thus in
As will be apparent to those skilled in the art in the light of the foregoing disclosure, many alterations and modifications are possible in the practice of this invention without departing from the spirit or scope thereof. Accordingly, the scope of the invention is to be construed in accordance with the substance defined by the following claims.
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The room we stayed in we found hairs on floor in the bathroom and found a tablet on the floor under a table by the skirting board ...We reported this to reception 3 times on the third report on it the lady on reception had to come and clean the bathroom floor...not very happy and won't be staying at this hotel again...I've stopped in a few holiday inn's and never had any problems with cleanliness of rooms.
god only knows what would of happened if our young children had been with us and of picked up the tablet on the floor and put it in there mouth. just hope this is an isolated incedent for this hotel.
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Rooms were spotless and food was excellent. Wide choice of breakfast options. Check out was a lovely 12noon which meant no rushing as most hotels have an earlier checkout so this is a definite plus. Free entry into wonderland. Close to town centre and restaurants, a very big outside park with lots of activities fro different ages within walking distance. All in all an excellent place to stay for families or business as near to International centre.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. -- Michigan State tight end Dion Sims can make the clutch catch in a variety of ways. He's a big acrobat with soft hands and uses his basketball talent to post up defensive backs on sideline routes. Hes also a good blocker who, at 6-foot-5 and 285 pounds, can lay some lumber on defenders. Spartans coach Mark Dantonio calls the junior from Orchard Lake (Mich.) St. Marys a big-play receiver, and Sims 24 catches and 313 yards rank second among major-college tight ends. Only Arizona States Chris Coyle, with 26 grabs for 338 yards, ranks ahead of Sims. Dion is a tremendous football player with great skills that can be used as situations present themselves, Dantonio said. And he will continue to get better and grow. Sims is on the watch list for the John Mackey Award, awarded annually to the top tight end in college football. Thats an honor just to be on that list, Sims said. I have to play up to my ability. I have an opportunity to win this award, and an opportu...
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We saw a lot of low necklines, high slits, sheer panels, and cutouts on the red carpet of this year's Grammy Awards. Who do you think wore it best? Photos from Getty Images.
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What a surprise to see Adele ditch black on the red carpet. She goes all matchy-matchy with a Valentino gown and shoes. We are totally loving this unexpected moment!


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Oh please Corbin.
This dude does not have a single statistic to indicate he can provide anything significant to make a wit of difference to the current situation.
This team can't throw it in the ocean from outside 8 feet and their starting PG is a joke.
Jazz tickets will be selling on Groupon shortly. This team is going to get obliterated on the road. They just lost to the Knicks which are nothing but an abysmal defensive disaster.
I predicted this downturn was coming. All these home games to start gave everyone warped expectations.
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This guy can't stay on an NBA roster but we need him?
Worse than that they bring him in with zero ability to have any camp or practices to give him an opportunity to learn our offense or defense.
Jeremy, you now have someone to sit next to you on the bench.
Unless this is part of a trade to come I see little point in this signing.
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I agree with u jazz source. Don't get this at all there has to be more to it. We need a starting PG worse we need a shot maker outside the paint.
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Someone is due for an injury amongst the bigs. We have seen it for years. They picked up this Carrol kid for cheap and he will work his butt off just like the rest of the Jazz team. Give him a chance. The Jazz need someone on the team that has hair problems now that Keralinko(sp) is gone.
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We can use this kids defense especially to help guard the 3 point shot. Now we need a point guard who can shoot as well as distibute and another 3 point shooter. Just hope we don't have to give up Favors, Kanter, Hayward or Burks to get them.
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First off, he will never play so what does it matter what he can do or can't do.
He is number 14 on the team depth chart. Are you forgetting that only 5 play
at a time. He is the bottom of the 3rd string, not second string.
He was signed for injury purposes only....
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Two weeks ago I went out to a new park just south of Springfield, MO. Two Rivers Bike Park. It is a nice place and plan to visit there again.
On one of the downhill runs I did not clear the jump and went endo. Smashed myself up pretty good. Spent the next six hours in the emergency room getting x-rays and a CAT scan of my head and neck. Happy to report my helmet saved my head.
Final out come was only a non-displaced radial head fracture. No surgery and the doc said he won't even cast the arm since the elbow tends to stiffen up pretty bad when immobilized. I still have no feeling in part of my thigh from the swelling and bruising. Otherwise most of my cuts and bruises have healed nicely.
Out of riding for about 3 months according to the doctor.
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GLENDALE Ariz. -- For a number of reasons, Martin Hanzal's two-game suspension could not have come at a worse time for the Phoenix Coyotes as they host the Los Angeles Kings at Jobing.com Arena on Tuesday.
Hanzal, a repeat offender under the NHL's disciplinary system, will miss the game against the Kings and Thursday against the Nashville Predators after charging Edmonton Oilers defenseman Jeff Petry in a 5-4 comeback victory on Saturday.
The Coyotes are banged up and Hanzal is one of four regulars who will miss the game. Forwards Lauri Korpikoski and Jeff Halpern are injured, as well as defenseman Rostislav Klesla. The two-game break might actually be beneficial to Hanzal, who has been banged up for more than a week himself, but the Coyotes will certainly miss him.


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So, I have court on Thusday with Adam's SD. He's wanting to redo all the visitation and hold me in contempt for moving.
I know that he's not going to get anywhere with the contempt because he was in the loop on everything. He was just being petty because I wasn't moving south or far enough north-east.
Visitation may be another matter. But, what he's asking for is outragous. He wants all extended weekends during the school year, full 6 weeks over the summer, and to start switching X-mas. I finally got Adam's evaluation back from the psych, and he does indeed have Asperger's Syndrome. I've known he has it for a few years, but it was nice to finally get the proof he needs for school and such. Anyway, with this diagnosis, SD doesn't stand a chance to get what he wants. The extended weekends aren't on a stable schedule and do not occur every month. Adam has to have a stable schedule. Summer is only 10 weeks, so he's not going to get over half that time. And since Adam has to have a stable schedule, I doubt that the judge is going to go along with switching our current X-mas schedule - which has been in place for 4 years now. It was a schedule that we agreed to, and the only reason he wants to change it is because of his other son.
The judge now also has to look at the fact that SD took his niece and nephew into his home when their mother (his sister) was put in prison. It may be months or years before his sister is able to get her kids back.
The thing that bothers me right now is that SD seems to be acting really nice all of a sudden. I e-mailed him Adam's evaluation the day after I got it. He still can't pronounce Asperger's, but is perhaps already doing research on it. He was also nice sounding during our texts when I took Adam to his visitation (SD no longer comes to the drop-off due to the other two children - not that Adam minds). It is freaking me out a bit because I don't know if he's got something up his sleeve for court. I shouldn't have to worry because he was a non-entity in Adam's life for the first 5 years, but something still just doesn't feel right about this.
Adam is on visitation right now, and I won't be getting him back until after court. SD has arranged for an overnight sitter while he goes up to OK Wednesday night for court on Thursday. I'm doing all my driving in one day - 4 hours each way.
I've gotta get my head on straight. Just becuase Adam's gone and I have court doesn't mean that the rest of my life is on hold. I still have Zane with me and I want to spend some of this week pulling ahead in my schoolwork.


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Now that I got my RT2870 wireless-n adapter to work, I'm onto another problem. I need to output the audio from my Gigabyte K8NS-Pro mobo based PC through the S/PDIF port. I ran the "aplay" command as root and the output was this:
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**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: CK8S [NVidia CK8S], device 0: Intel ICH [NVidia CK8S]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: CK8S [NVidia CK8S], device 2: Intel ICH - IEC958 [NVidia CK8S - IEC958]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
I've seen several posts referencing a hardware tab in ALSA mixer but after I installed both it & ALSA I don't see a hardware tab. Do I need to install anything else or set any switches?


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With its unrivaled art program and accessible writing style, McKinley/O'Loughlin's Human Anatomy stands apart from other anatomy texts. High-quality photographs paired with brilliantly rendered illustrations help students visualize, understand, and appreciate the wonders of human anatomy. Student-friendly Study Tips, Clinical View boxes, and progressive question sets motivate students to internalize and apply what they've learned. The second edition has been refined based on reviewer feedback to offer an even stronger version of this highly acclaimed textbook.
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During an attempt to escape the 7 hours war, we were ambushed by the combine and separated from our friends. Surprisingly, we were transported into what seems to be an old Aperture science Warehouse. While being transported on a rail in the remain of the facility, the transportation system failed due damages caused by the waging war and let you fall into the deep of the Facility. Abyss is not the typical Linear game, instead, its focus on the storytelling by introducing choices and consequences. Your life depends on your actions and you never know what will happen.
This is a small tutorial that will explain you how to Install a temporary Program that will support Portal 2 for the Oculus.
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Hey there, I now have the Oculus Rift and I've been testing a lot since then. Valve didn't included Portal 2 to the official supported game on the Oculus. I decided to look on the Internet for a third party mod that is easy to understand and easy to use.
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Dig1 and Dig2 are required for the pheromone-induced nuclear accumulation of Fus3. Strains of the indicated genotype were transformed with Fus3-GFP and grown to mid-log phase. The cultures were then split and grown with or without the addition of 12 nM pheromone. Images were acquired from the treated and untreated cells three hours later. The RNCF values were determined as described in the Materials and Methods, and their distributions represented in histograms. The number of cells (y axis) is plotted as a function of the RNCF values (x axis). Mean RNCF values are indicated ± s.d. In each panel, the untreated and treated cultures are represented by the left and right histograms, respectively. Arrows indicate the mean RNCF value for each culture. Representative micrographs from which the quantitative data were derived are shown beneath each histogram. (A)Wild type cells; (B) dig1Δ cells; (C)dig2Δ cells.
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I am looking to update my reign, and and the first thing to change will have to be the seatpost. Definitely for AM a telescopic one is the way to go, they are extremely expensive, but sadly thars the way the market is going.
I was seriously considering the Rock Shox Reverb, but I kinda dont understand wich length to buy (380mm length or 420mm). My frame is size M.
I was looking at the 2011 Giant Reign 0 and it comes stock with a "Crank Bros. Joplin 4 R, 30.9 w/remote & 100mm height adj."
The frame hasn't changed in that aspect since 2008, therefore I am positive I have to go for a 30.9 diameter, I measured my frame and its the same.
I have also noticed that the Crank Bros Jopli 4 can be get a bit cheaper than the reverb, and thre is also a KS or something like that?
Can any one give me any opinions, hands reviews, and/or feedback? I would appreciate!
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You are the second your own friend I see :D. Seem knowledgeable in the ways of internet too).
The amount of reading/watching is astoundable :o. Doesn't that annoy you to be in the process of so many?
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In Alexandra, Martin creates a slowly shocking erotic odyssey, a bittersweet love story, a chilling tale of a man destroyed by a desperate and tragic experiment in passion. "A strange and artful novel."--Margaret Manning, Boston Sunday Globe.
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About the Writing of The Ghost of the Mary Celeste, by Valerie Martin
I first read about the ghost ship the Mary Celeste when I was in fifth grade I think it must have been an article in the Weekly Reader, the childrens newspaper my school subscribed to and which I looked forward to with modest excitement every Friday. Im sure the article barely sketched out the story - a ship sighted drifting at sea in some sort of trouble, with no sailor at the helm; the boarding of the Mary Celeste by the anxious crew of a passing ship; the discovery that there was no one aboard; the evidence that the crew had left on the ships boat and in a hurry; and the perplexing problem - the mystery - of their motive for abandoning the ship, which was fully provisioned and in seaworthy condition. Fit, as one of the salvers would testify in the salvage hearing at Gibraltar, to sail round the world.
A few years ago, by accident and Im still not sure where, I learned that the missing crew of the Mary Celeste included the captains wife and his baby daughter. This detail caught my attention because I was under the impression that sailors considered women aboard ships bad luck. I began some superficial research about the subject trawling a few nets in the wake of the Mary Celeste, and quickly uncovered a world Id never dreamed of.
Throughout the 19th century, women regularly sailed on the vessels that plowed the seas, and it was not uncommon for children to be born aboard ship. Especially on whalers, which would be out at sea for years on end, wives took the opportunity of going along with their husbands. One whaling captain delivered all five of his children on his ship, and some of these learned to walk on a deck before they put their little feet on land. The captains wife and family were such an ordinary component of seagoing commerce that the sailors had a name for ships with a wife and children in the aft cabin they called them hen frigates.
When a captain married, the couple might combine his business with their pleasure and take a honeymoon trip. This was the case with Capt. Benjamin Briggs and his wife Sarah Cobb Briggs, who sailed to Genoa shortly after their marriage in Marion, Massachusetts. In the fall of 1872, Benjamin Briggs purchased a one/fifth interest in a newly fitted ship and signed on to sail her to Messina, a trip that would take about three months. Sarah Briggs, who disliked sailing, decided to join him, taking their two-year-old daughter along. As she wrote to her mother-in-law, Going to sea in itself considered is anything but agreeable, at least to me, but if Benja must go I would gladly go when I could. On October 26, having shipped ahead her melodeon, sewing machine, two boxes of music books, toys, and clothes for herself and her daughter Sophia, she took the train to New York and joined her husband at Pier 8 to board their ship the Mary Celeste.
Before long, investigation of the events that followed turned up an unexpected name: Arthur Conan Doyle.
The future creator of Sherlock Holmes was a boy when the Mary Celeste was recovered and doubtless followed the news stories about the salvage trial in Gibraltar that appeared in the British and American press. Twelve years later, when he was a struggling young doctor in Edinburgh, Doyle published a story in the Cornhill magazine that purported to be a true account of the lone survivor of the Mary Celeste. Though Doyle altered the name of the ship and changed the captains name, the publics imagination was fired by this tale and to this day certain details entirely invented by the young Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle, who longed to make his way as a writer, continue to be attached to new accounts, fictional and otherwise, about the famous ghost ship, the Mary Celeste.
Even a superficial study of the life of Arthur Conan Doyle bangs up against the 19th century Spiritualist movement, which was spawned in upstate New York and quickly spread across the country and abroad. The craze for mediums, séances, spirit writing, spirit photography, spirit guides, table turning, apparitions, and the materialization of ectoplasm excited the interest of a credulous public, as well as an alarming number of prominent and intelligent men and women. Horace Greeley, Alfred Russel Wallace, William James and his brother Henry James, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln and even Queen Victoria indulged in séances and clairvoyant lectures. Many of these notables were ultimately disabused of their fascination, but Arthur Conan Doyle became a committed Spiritualist. He gave up writing and spent the last five years of his life traveling the world to spread the good news that life is continuous and that the dead only wait for our attention to make themselves known again.
These three elements, a ship found sailing without a crew, a famous writer on the verge of enormous success, and the rise of an unorthodox and heretical religious fervor, began to work in my imagination, and I knew I was on the track of an historical novel. In my researches the fantastic and the banal, the absurd and the tragic seemed woven into an intricate and radiant fabric, one spun from facts and fictions in much the same way everyday life spins out, one story generating another, a thread disappearing in one corner and reappearing surprisingly near the center.
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Divorce literal and metaphorical is the subject of this magnificent novel. This book charts the territories of division- between humanity and nature and within the human psyche. Pulling together two distinct worlds- contemporary New Orleans and its antebellum counterpart- Valerie Martin explores the lives of three intriguing women, each struggling to remain whole as divisive forces threaten. At the novel's center is Ellen Clayton, a veterinarian at New Orleans's zoo, who fights to bring her family safely through the rupture of a crumbling marriage. Her departing husband, an historian in love with a younger woman, is researching the story of "The Catwoman of St. Francisville," the only white woman in Louisiana history hanged for murder: Elisabeth Boyer, a wealthy Creole beauty who fatal marriage to an intolerant older man resulted in her captivity and finally, his fiolent death. Elisabeth's legend finds an echo in Camille, a troubled young woman who works with the big cats at the zoo, and who finds herself caught in terrifyingly real fantasies of becoming one of them.
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Italian Fever is a strange soufflé--half mystery and half squib on American innocence and European experience. In Brooklyn, Lucy Stark, an author's assistant who has "come to prefer liberty to passion," despairs over her boss's latest manuscript. "DV's books were always awful, but what made this one worse than the others was the introduction of a new element, which was bound to boost sales: There was a ghost in the villa. DV had gone gothic." But then the phone rings, and she learns that DV will scribe no more, having died under strange circumstances in Ugolino. At least his demise will afford Lucy a vacation of sorts--a stay in Tuscany so that she can identify his body, sort through his effects, and perhaps divine the cause of his death.
Of course, from the moment her plane lands, she suffers from cultural disorientation, and worse. Why, exactly, is her handsome if humorless chauffeur, Massimo, so solicitous? Why is DV's villa in fact a farmhouse? And are its proprietors, the Cinis, conspiring to keep her from the truth? Then there are Lucy's Nancy Drew-like discoveries--a terrifying drawing of DV and a mysterious love letter. And is the scratching at the walls a sign from DV's ghost or something more quotidian? All in all, our heroine can't sort out hallucination from Italian provocation, which is all too much for someone who has long prided herself on her clear sight.
Though Valerie Martin's seventh novel has its share of stomach-clenching moments, it is most successful in its many comic scenes (not something this talented author has hitherto been known for). Whether Lucy is trying to break through Massimo's defenses or get to the bottom of the Cinis' behavior, she is usually miles from the truth. Meanwhile, Martin offers up a host of memorable minor figures, from DV's ultrasophisticated New York publisher to the quail-consuming, epigram-spouting Antonio Cini, who gets most of the good lines. When Lucy tells him that she's forever in Massimo's debt, he languidly responds: "Forever, that must be a tiresome sensation." Though Italian Fever is never in the least tiresome, its biggest mystery is how Martin--who has written so strikingly of possession in The Great Divorce--is here far stronger on satire than the supernatural. --Kerry Fried
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From the acclaimed author of the bestselling Italian Fever comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the perspective of Mary Reilly, Dr. Jekyll's dutiful and intelligent housemaid.
Faithfully weaving in details from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, Martin introduces an original and captivating character: Mary is a survivorscarred but still strongfamiliar with evil, yet brimming with devotion and love. As a bond grows between Mary and her tortured employer, she is sent on errands to unsavory districts of London and entrusted with secrets she would rather not know. Unable to confront her hideous suspicions about Dr. Jekyll, Mary ultimately proves the lengths to which she'll go to protect him. Through her astute reflections, we hear the rest of the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, and this familiar tale is made more terrifying than we remember it, more complex than we imagined possible.
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Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her native New Orleans, but most of all, she longs to be free of the suffocating domestic situation. The tension revolves around Sarah, a slave girl who may have been given to Manon as a wedding present from her aunt, whose young son Walter is living proof of where Manon's husband's inclinations lie. This private drama is being played out against a brooding atmosphere of slave unrest and bloody uprisings. And if the attacks reach Manon's house, no one can be sure which way Sarah will turn ...Beautifully written, PROPERTY is an intricately told tale of both individual stories and of a country in a time of change, where ownership is at once everything and nothing, and where belonging, by contrast, is all.
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Valerie Martin's third novel is the story of a deadly love triangle set in New Orleans. Emma Miller, married and the mother of a five-year-old daughter, is obsessed by her increasingly sadomasochistic relationship with Pascal Toussaint, who is himself fixated upon Clarire D'Anjou, a young novice with a passion for God so powerful that she has been sent home to New Orleans by the convent for a year's test of her vocation.
In a city overrun by rats and awash in a mysterious plague, freedom and the consuming desire for self-sacrifice are pursued to harrowing, ultimately redemptive consequence. New Orleans--alluring, pleasure-loving, mesmerizing--remains both a force in its own right and a backdrop to the erotic contests at the center of the novel that established Martin as a major American voice.
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Salvation by novelist Valerie Martin imagines the life of St. Francis of Assisi in the form of short, vivid scenes. She begins at the end, with his death in 1226, and then moves backward in time, ending with his youth and conversion. Martin has mined all of the early hagiographies of St. Francis in order to fill her book with sharp details ("his eyebrows met above the bridge of his nose"). She has carefully corrected some popular misconceptions about her subject: "He was not so much a nature lover (he was certainly neither an environmentalist nor a vegetarian) as a man who saw no distinction between himself in the natural world." And although she is not particularly religious, she clearly describes the spiritual significance of poverty. Salvation is not a defense of St. Francis or an argument about his significance in the contemporary world, but many readers will interpret its stories in a way that fulfills both. Many contemporary Christians are hungry for precisely this kind of story, about a person whose faith was so deep and dedication so strong that he sacrificed everything--even most Christian doctrine--in order to become like his Lord. --Michael Joseph Gross
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'An impressive writer... I admire her straightforward style and the intelligence and strength of her heroine'Ann Tyler, author of The Accidental TouristThrough the sweet, hot New Orleans nights, where moist air clings to lips and shoulders like an exhausted lover, Helene Thatcher is a woman on the move. The hungry and helpless come to her during the day. Sheis a welfare worker; she is kind and listens but keeps her distance. She is on the move. At night, her lovers come - the teacher, the drug addict, the madman.She is kind, and loves, but she keeps her cool, keeps her distance, keeps on the move. Her life is a modern love story and she is a woman who will set your heartin motion - if you can keep up with her.'Compelling' Elizabeth Berridge, Daily Telegraph'Valerie Martin is contemporary and extraordinary' Boston Globe Powerful' Lucy Hughes-Hallett. VogueCover illustration by Lee Stannard
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Flat 3, Elizabeth House
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Apartment / 2 bedrooms / sleeps 5 Home 32614
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Flat 3, Elizabeth House, Hambrough Road is located in the town centre just a couple of minutes' stroll down the cascade to the beach. Situated opposite the Winter Gardens, it is a great location to explore the delights of Ventnor. Many excellent pubs and restaurants are nearby.
Within the property you can relax in the living room with French doors to a balcony overlooking Ventnor Haven, and onto extensive sea views of the English channel. The lounge has a TV/DVD/CD player, a sofa bed, dining table and chairs plus a gas fire. There is WI-FI and USB charging ports in the apartment.
Retreat to the master bedroom with its kingsize bed and comfortable chairs. Enjoy your morning coffee watching the fishing boats coming and going.
The second bedroom, recently decorated in a contemporary style, has en suite with shower, and a double bed with a single bunk above. A TV/ DVD is wall mounted. Added benefit: Funky Lighting.
The main bathroom has a power shower over a 'P' Bath.
Admire the sea views whilst cooking or sitting at the breakfast bar.
|Sleeps up to 5, 2 bedrooms
|2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms of which 1 Family bathrooms and 1 En suites
|Nearest beach
|Ventnor Beach 100 m
|Car not necessary
|Nearest Amenities
|100 m
|Nearest travel links
|Nearest railway: Shanklin 5 km
|Family friendly
|Great for children of all ages
|No pets allowed, No smoking at this property
Features and Facilities
|Internet access, DVD player, Sea view
|Central heating, TV, Wi-Fi available
|Kettle, Toaster, Iron, Hair dryer
|Clothes dryer, Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Freezer, Washing machine
|1 Sofa beds, King Beds (1), Double beds (1), Bunk Beds (1), Cots (1), Dining seats for 4, Lounge seats for 4
|Linen provided, Towels provided
|Balcony or terrace
|Not suitable for wheelchair users
|Further details
Welcome pack provided on arrival.
As a rule - weekly lets are Saturday to Saturday. Other days by prior arrangement. You'll be
met and shown the property.
Free parking is available in the streets around Hambrough Road, although these can get
busy. There are several Council car parks in Ventnor.
The Isle of Wight region
The Isle of Wight is the perfect place to enjoy a relaxing break, at any time of year. It is a stunning island boasting unspoilt scenery and a wealth of fascinating attractions. For the energetic, there are plenty of sports facilities, including windsurfing, sailing and paragliding. For those who prefer to unwind and explore, there's much to discover. The Isle of Wight may only measure 23 miles by 13 miles, but it has an amazing number of attractions. There are fun parks with thrilling rides, animal and bird sanctuaries, carnivals and festivals to delight visitors of all ages.
Wherever you go on the Isle of Wight you will see evidence of a fascinating past, going back to the time of the dinosaurs. Roman villas, medieval castles, historic houses and exhibitions reflect life in a bygone age. Children love to journey back to prehistoric times, looking at fossils and life-sized animated models at the Island's dinosaur museums. Maritime heritage can be discovered at a number of museums, with displays of pirate gold and silver, and countless artefacts recovered from shipwrecks.
Come rain or shine there's something for all the family.
Ventnor is a Victorian seaside town situated on the southern coast of the Isle of
Wight, right in the heart of the famed Undercliff, much of which is designated
as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Sheltered from the north by the National Trust-owned St Boniface Downs,
Ventnor benefits from its own microclimate. This climate provides an ideal
haven for a variety of flora and fauna, many species of which are only found in
Mediterranean countries.
Ventnor's town crest bears the figure of Hygeia, the goddess of health, who
serves to remind us that, since Victorian times, many visitors have benefited
from the revitalizing and restorative properties that this microclimate offers.
Visitors to Ventnor will find a great variety of established local shops,
restaurants, public houses and holiday accommodation. All provide a friendly
service both to their local community and its visitors. Many serve local freshly-
caught fish and locally brewed ales.
To the east of the parish of Ventnor lies the village of Bonchurch renowned
for its literary connections. Writers and poets such as Dickens, Stackpole and
Swinburn all resided here for a time. To the west lies St.Lawrence nestling in the Undercliff.
Here there are many miles of coastal walks, bays and places of interest to explore.
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27 May 2012
This was our second visit to Eliabeth House and we would hapily return there because the location is perfect, being close to both the sea and town centre. The views of the sea are brilliant. I spent most of my time there watching the ships go by through the binoculors. The flat itself is comfortable, clean and well equipped. Tash and Mrs Summers always make us feel really welcome and it really does feel like visiting old friends.
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