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1. Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)
PG | 88 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Manny, Diego, and Sid embark upon another adventure after their continent is set adrift. Using an iceberg as a ship, they encounter sea creatures and battle pirates as they explore a new world.
Writers: Michael Berg, Jason Fuchs, Lori Forte | Directors: Steve Martino, Mike Thurmeier | Stars: Ray Romano, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Aziz Ansari
Votes: 144,462 | Gross: $161.32M
2. Ice Age (2002)
PG | 81 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe.
Writers: Michael J. Wilson, Michael Berg, Peter Ackerman, James Bresnahan, Doug Compton, Mike Thurmeier, Jeff Siergey, Galen T. Chu, Xeth Feinberg | Directors: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Denis Leary, John Leguizamo, Ray Romano, Goran Visnjic
Votes: 326,724 | Gross: $176.39M
3. Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
PG | 91 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the ice age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the woolly mammoths.
Writers: Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow, Jim Hecht | Director: Carlos Saldanha | Stars: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Seann William Scott
Votes: 193,255 | Gross: $195.33M
PG-13 | 109 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A prehistoric epic that follows a young mammoth hunter's journey through uncharted territory to secure the future of his tribe.
Writers: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser | Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Camilla Belle, Steven Strait, Marco Khan, Cliff Curtis
Votes: 108,762 | Gross: $94.77M
5. Year One (2009)
PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy
After being banished from their tribe, two hunter-gatherers encounter Biblical characters and eventually wind up in the city of Sodom.
Writers: Harold Ramis, Gene Stupnitsky, Lee Eisenberg | Director: Harold Ramis | Stars: Jack Black, Michael Cera, Olivia Wilde, Oliver Platt
Votes: 76,614 | Gross: $43.34M
6. Life (2009 TV Mini-Series)
TV-G | 473 min | Documentary
David Attenborough's legendary BBC crew explains and shows wildlife all over planet earth in 10 episodes. The first is an overview the challenges facing life, the others are dedicated to ... See full summary »
Stars: David Attenborough, Oprah Winfrey, Doug Allen, Michael Pitts
Votes: 23,340
7. Chisum (1970)
G | 111 min | Biography, Western
Cattle baron John Chisum joins forces with Billy the Kid and Pat Garrett to fight the Lincoln County land war.
Writer: Andrew J. Fenady | Director: Andrew V. McLaglen | Stars: John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, Christopher George, Ben Johnson
Votes: 6,602 | Gross: $6.00M
8. Rams (2015)
R | 93 min | Drama
In a remote Icelandic farming valley, two brothers who haven't spoken in 40 years have to come together in order to save what's dearest to them - their sheep.
Writer: Grímur Hákonarson | Director: Grímur Hákonarson | Stars: Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Theodór Júlíusson, Charlotte Bøving, Jón Benónýsson
Votes: 4,507 | Gross: $0.14M
9. The Polar Express (2004)
G | 100 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express. During his adventure he learns about friendship, bravery, and the spirit of Christmas.
Writers: Chris Van Allsburg, Robert Zemeckis, William Broyles Jr. | Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola, Michael Jeter, Leslie Zemeckis
Votes: 120,420 | Gross: $0.67M
10. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002)
G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A wild stallion is captured by humans and slowly loses the will to resist training. Yet throughout his struggles for freedom, the stallion refuses to let go of the hope of one day returning home to his herd.
Writer: John Fusco | Directors: Kelly Asbury, Lorna Cook | Stars: Matt Damon, James Cromwell, Daniel Studi, Chopper Bernet
Votes: 43,847 | Gross: $73.22M
11. Walking with Dinosaurs 3D (2013)
PG | 87 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
See and feel what it was like when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, in a story where an underdog dino triumphs to become a hero for the ages.
Writers: John Collee, Gerry Swallow, David Skelly | Directors: Barry Cook, Neil Nightingale | Stars: Charlie Rowe, Karl Urban, Angourie Rice, John Leguizamo
Votes: 8,877 | Gross: $36.07M
12. Khumba (2013)
Not Rated | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
Rejected by his superstitious herd, a half-striped zebra embarks on a daring quest to earn his stripes but finds the courage and self-acceptance to save all the animals of the Great Karoo.
Writers: Raffaella Delle Donne, Anthony Silverston, Jonathan Roberts, Camilla Bubna-Kasteliz, Richelle Wilder, Mike de Seve, Joe Vitale, Dave Bejoya | Director: Anthony Silverston | Stars: Jake T. Austin, Steve Buscemi, Loretta Devine, Laurence Fishburne
Votes: 3,989
13. Angel and the Badman (1947)
Approved | 100 min | Romance, Western
Quirt Evans, an all round bad guy, is nursed back to health and sought after by Penelope Worth, a Quaker girl. He eventually finds himself having to choose between his world and the world Penelope lives in.
Writer: James Edward Grant | Director: James Edward Grant | Stars: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot
Votes: 3,830
14. Say It Isn't So (2001)
R | 95 min | Comedy, Romance
Young orphan Gilly (Klein) finds out his lover Jo (Graham) may actually be his biological sister. After they break up he discovers he's not related and travels across the country to stop ... See full summary »
Writers: Peter Gaulke, Gerry Swallow | Director: J.B. Rogers | Stars: Chris Klein, Heather Graham, Orlando Jones, Sally Field
Votes: 11,348 | Gross: $5.52M
15. Dino King (2012)
88 min | Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi
70 million years ago dinosaurs ruled the Korean Peninsula the same way they ruled the rest of the earth. At that time the part of the land now known as Jeonnam Yeosu was the forest habitat ... See full summary »
Writers: Young Kyu Lee, Han Sang-Ho | Director: Han Sang-Ho | Stars: Goo Ja-Hyeong, Lee Hyung Suk, Sin Yong-woo
Votes: 412
16. Le Quattro Volte (2010)
88 min | Drama
An old shepherd lives his last days in a quiet medieval village perched high on the hills of Calabria, at the southernmost tip of Italy. He herds goats under skies that most villagers have ... See full summary »
Writer: Michelangelo Frammartino | Director: Michelangelo Frammartino | Stars: Giuseppe Fuda, Bruno Timpano, Nazareno Timpano, Artemio Vallone
Votes: 2,828 | Gross: $0.15M
17. Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952)
Approved | 167 min | Action, Sci-Fi
The invaders come to Earth to create an H-bomb to blast Earth out of orbit so that Mars can take its place.
Writer: Ronald Davidson | Director: Fred C. Brannon | Stars: Judd Holdren, Aline Towne, Wilson Wood, Lane Bradford
Votes: 285
18. Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
Approved | 89 min | Drama, Family, Western
"Thunderhead," a roving, big white stallion, causes problems for the Wyoming ranchers when he leads their blue-blooded racing mares off to join his wild horse herd in the mountains. ... See full summary »
Writers: Martin Berkeley, Mary O'Hara | Director: Louis King | Stars: Peggy Cummins, Charles Coburn, Robert Arthur, Lloyd Nolan
Votes: 227
19. The Avenger (1962)
95 min | Adventure, Drama
Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy, and must deal with new threats to his people.
Writers: Publius Vergilius Maro, Albert Band, Ugo Liberatore, Luigi Mangini, Arrigo Montanari, Nino Stresa | Director: Giorgio Venturini | Stars: Steve Reeves, Giacomo Rossi Stuart, Carla Marlier, Mario Ferrari
Votes: 259
20. Yohan - Barnevandrer (2010)
125 min | Family
With his family struggling to survive in late1890s Norway and his father leaving on a ship for America to earn much needed money, 10-year-old Yohan devises some plans of his own to help his... See full summary »
Writer: Grete Salomonsen | Director: Grete Salomonsen | Stars: Robin Pedersen Daniel, Kris Kristofferson, Mathilde Berg, Dennis Storhøi
Votes: 219
21. Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness (1927)
Passed | 69 min | Adventure, Documentary
Elephants disrupt the lives of a family deep in the jungles of Northern Siam, and an entire village.
Writer: Achmed Abdullah | Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Kru, Chantui, Nah, Ladah
Votes: 622
22. The Wind Blows Round (2005)
110 min | Drama
The aging, conservative population of a small, sleepy village in the Italian Alps are surprised to see that a former French professor has settled there with his young wife and their three ... See full summary »
Writers: Giorgio Diritti, Fredo Valla | Director: Giorgio Diritti | Stars: Thierry Toscan, Alessandra Agosti, Dario Anghilante, Giovanni Foresti
Votes: 574
23. The Showdown (1950)
Approved | 86 min | Mystery, Western
Shadrach Jones, ex-Texas State Policeman, has a ruthless determination to find and kill the man who shot his brother in the back and stole the money with which he was to buy a ranch for he ... See full summary »
Writers: Dorrell McGowan, Stuart E. McGowan, Richard Wormser, Dan Gordon | Directors: Dorrell McGowan, Stuart E. McGowan | Stars: Bill Elliott, Walter Brennan, Marie Windsor, Harry Morgan
Votes: 156
24. The Badge of Marshal Brennan (1957)
Approved | 74 min | Romance, Western
Jim Davis is a man on the run. He comes across the body of a dead man wearing the badge of a marshal. He buries the body and takes the badge and rides on. At the next town, he is mistaken ... See full summary »
Writer: Tom Hubbard | Director: Albert C. Gannaway | Stars: Jim Davis, Arleen Whelan, Carl Smith, Harry Lauter
Votes: 111
25. Lord of the Jungle (1955)
Not Rated | 69 min | Adventure
Mona Andrews arrives by plane in Laghaso Station, Africa, to visit her uncle, Commissioner Andy Barnes, just as three elephant hunters, Jeff Woode, Paul Gavin and Kenny Balou, set out under... See full summary »
Writers: Roy Rockwood, Ford Beebe | Director: Ford Beebe | Stars: Johnny Sheffield, Wayne Morris, Nancy Hale, Paul Picerni
Votes: 98
26. The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)
Passed | 18 min | Short, Comedy
The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast."
Director: Clyde Bruckman | Stars: W.C. Fields, Rosemary Theby, George Chandler, Richard Cramer
Votes: 1,306
27. Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925)
Passed | 71 min | Documentary
The struggles of a hardscrabble Iranian nomadic tribe as they journey through bleak country to reach the grasslands that will save their livestock.
Writers: Richard Carver, Terry Ramsaye | Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Marguerite Harrison, Haidar Khan
Votes: 698
28. Las Niñas Quispe (2013)
83 min | Drama
Based on a true story occurred in 1974, this is the tale of sisters Justa, Lucia, and Luciana Quispe, sheperds in the Chilean altiplano who lead a solitary life. A visitor brings news about... See full summary »
Writer: Sebastián Sepúlveda | Director: Sebastián Sepúlveda | Stars: Alfredo Castro, Francisca Gavilán, Digna Quispe, Catalina Saavedra
Votes: 75
29. Elephant Tales (2006)
G | 92 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Teenage Zef and little brother, Tutu, are two happy elephants. Who wouldn't be with the biggest backyard in the world to play in? - the wild plains of Africa. They merrily chase zebras, ... See full summary »
Writers: Mario Andreacchio, John Wild, Denis Whitburn, Patrice Gautier | Director: Mario Andreacchio | Stars: Patrick Bry, Aymeric Lecerf, Boris Ventura-Diaz, Xavier Clément
Votes: 75
30. One-Sixth of the World (1926)
65 min | Documentary
"Sixth Part of the World" was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines. All and every is a part of great unity.
Writer: Dziga Vertov | Director: Dziga Vertov
Votes: 263
31. Heart of Arizona (1938)
Approved | 68 min | Action, Romance, Western
Belle Starr has returned from time in prison only to face a hail of bullets, along with rescue by Hoppy and the Bar 20 gang.
Writers: Clarence E. Mulford, Norman Houston | Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: William Boyd, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Russell Hayden, John Elliott
Votes: 69
32. Wild Horse Mesa (1947)
Approved | 61 min | Western
Dave and Chito are working for Melburn who is looking for wild horses. Olmstead has his men looking for then also. When Dave finds them first, Olmstead buys them from Melburn and then kills... See full summary »
Writers: Norman Houston, Zane Grey | Director: Wallace Grissell | Stars: Tim Holt, Nan Leslie, Richard Martin, Tom Keene
Votes: 48
33. Herd (2012)
88 min | Documentary, Biography, Comedy | Completed
What's it all about? 100 people of diverse backgrounds ages 4 to 87 answer life's most intriguing questions, creating a mosaic of shared experiences - serious, light-hearted and in between,... See full summary »
Director: Steven Singer | Stars: Esme Trontz, Tushar Dalvi, Holly Kaplansky, Tiziana Guarini
34. Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders (1953)
Approved | 167 min | Adventure
A villain named Marlof attempts to set up secret missile bases inside Canada so he can launch missiles at the U.S. The Canadian Mounted Police dispatch agents to try to stop him.
Writer: Ronald Davidson | Director: Franklin Adreon | Stars: William Henry, Susan Morrow, Arthur Space, Dale Van Sickel
Votes: 103
35. Four Seasons (1975)
29 min | Documentary, Short
The last collaboration of Artavazd Peleshian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov is a film-essay about Armenia's shepherds, about the contradiction and the harmony between man and nature, scored to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Writer: Artavazd Peleshian | Director: Artavazd Peleshian
Votes: 472
36. Stars Over Texas (1946)
Approved | 59 min | Action, Adventure, Music
When Eddie and his pals deliver cattle to the Lawrence ranch, they run into trouble with Ringo Evans and his gang. Ringo's men are rustling cattle and attempting to kill the foreman. Seeing... See full summary »
Writer: Frances Kavanaugh | Director: Robert Emmett Tansey | Stars: Eddie Dean, Flash, Roscoe Ates, Shirley Patterson
Votes: 55
37. The Red Rider (1934)
Approved | 310 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
"Red" Davison(Buck Jones), the sheriff of Sun Dog, sacrifices his job and his good name to save his best friend, "Silent" Slade from the hangman's noose, following a framed-up court ... See full summary »
Writers: W.C. Tuttle, George H. Plympton, Vin Moore, Ella O'Neill, Basil Dickey | Director: Lew Landers | Stars: Buck Jones, Grant Withers, Marion Shilling, Walter Miller
Votes: 29
38. The Conquering Horde (1931)
Passed | 75 min | History, Western
Not long after the Civil War, Texas cattle ranchers realize they have a problem--the Union Pacific railroad is bypassing their state and make it near impossible to get their cattle to ... See full summary »
Writers: Emerson Hough, Grover Jones, William Slavens McNutt | Director: Edward Sloman | Stars: Richard Arlen, Fay Wray, Claude Gillingwater, Ian Maclaren
Votes: 18
39. Cattle Stampede (1943)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Comedy, Western
Billy the Kid (Buster Crabbe) and Fuzzy Jones (Al St. John) are on their way out of Arizona being chased by some riders who hope to cash in on the reward money for their capture. They are ... See full summary »
Writer: Joseph O'Donnell | Director: Sam Newfield | Stars: Buster Crabbe, Al St. John, Frances Gladwin, Charles King
Votes: 46
40. Bovines (2011)
62 min | Documentary
Writer: Emmanuel Gras | Director: Emmanuel Gras
Votes: 71
41. El alijo (1976)
105 min | Crime, Drama
A pair of Spanish truck drivers used to the game of escaping the police in smuggling operations, receive a new contract, overpaid in relation to the usual, so they won't say no: crossing ... See full summary »
Writer: Ramón Solís | Director: Ángel del Pozo | Stars: Juan Luis Galiardo, Fernando Sancho, Paloma Cela, Helga Liné
42. Tetri karavani (1964)
93 min | Drama, Romance
Writer: Merab Eliozishvili | Directors: Tamaz Meliava, Eldar Shengelaia | Stars: Imedo Kakhiani, Ariadna Shengelaia, Giorgi Kikadze, Spartak Bagashvili
Votes: 15
43. Sandflow (1937)
Approved | 58 min | Romance, Western
Two brothers who are at odds with neighboring ranchers find themselves in trouble when they are accused of murdering the local sheriff.
Writers: Frances Guihan, Cherry Wilson | Director: Lesley Selander | Stars: Buck Jones, Lita Chevret, Bob Kortman, Arthur Aylesworth
Votes: 10
44. Frontier Days (1945)
Approved | 17 min | Short, Action, History
U.S. Marshal Clay Stacy brings law and order to a frontier community terrorized by an old Nemesis.
Writer: Jack Scholl | Director: Jack Scholl | Stars: Robert Shayne, Dorothy Malone, Rory Mallinson, Truman Bradley
Votes: 53
45. Cow-Cow Boogie (1943)
Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
The foreman of the "Lazy S Ranch" is getting much work out of his shiftless cowhands until a black cowboy on a donkey comes riding' along singing "Cow Cow Boogie." While his version doesn't... See full summary »
Writers: Ben Hardaway, Milt Schaffer | Director: Alex Lovy | Star: King Jackson
Votes: 8
46. Round Up (2010)
18 min | Short
A personal journey from cultural alienation to pride and belonging.
Writer: Gil Cardinal | Director: Narcisse Blood | Star: Pete Standing Alone
47. Dodge City Trail (1936)
Approved | 56 min | Adventure, Music, Western
Let's start with some house cleaning first. Columbia produced a series of Charles Starrett westerns that they called "Peter B. Kyne productions" but, other than allowing the use of his name... See full summary »
Writer: Harold Shumate | Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Charles Starrett, Donald Grayson, Marion Weldon, Russell Hicks
Votes: 9
48. When a Man Sees Red (1934)
Approved | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
When easterner Mary Lawrence arrives to take over the ranch of her late uncle, the will specifies that foreman Buck Benson must remain as her guardian. They quarrel and when Buck catches ... See full summary »
Writers: Basil Dickey, Alan James | Director: Alan James | Stars: Buck Jones, Peggy Campbell, Dorothy Revier, LeRoy Mason
Votes: 17
49. Point Reyes National Seashore (2014)
7 min | Short
Tule Elk, black tailed deer, a famous lighthouse and a long shoreline make Point Reyes National Seashore a Bay Area natural treasure.
Director: Fred Heiman | Star: Peggy Heiman
50. Les aventures extraordinaires d'un litre de lait (1951)
13 min | Documentary, Short, Family
Writer: Pierre Grimblat | Director: Alain Pol | Star: Jean Rigaux


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The Lady and Her Doctorby Evelyn Piper, Evelyn Piper
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Dr. Milton Krop yearns to escape from his dull medical practice to a life of glamour and travel. So he marries Sloane Folsom, a wealthy blueblooded woman. He and she come from different universesand murder is in the air. Evelyn Piper is the author of "Bunny Lake is Missing" and "The Nanny."
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The Lady and Her Doctor
By Evelyn Piper
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Maureen said, "You gotta hear me, Mom!"
"Everyone will hear you!" Jenny hurriedly closed the kitchen door. "Pipe down, Maureen, you'll wake Uncle Miltie."
"But you gotta hear me my poem, Mom!"
Buddy said, "Hear ye, hear ye! Oyez, oyez!"
Jenny told Bud to shut up and stop teasing his sister. She told Maureen that she had plenty of time before school. "If you wake up poor Uncle Miltie, Maureen, I'll hear you in a way you won't like. I want Milt to get his sleep."
Milton didn't thoroughly awaken until Jenny said, "I want Milt to get his sleep," but that got him up, that woke him like a fire alarm woke a fire horse. What Jenny wanted, Milt didn't want.
Maureen said affectedly, "'A Psalm of Life,' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow."
Buddy said, "By Henry Wadsworth Shortfellow," imitating her recitative flourish.
"You shut up, Buddy Krop!
"Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
"Now that's a cheerful little number, isn't it, Mom? 'Still, like muffled drums, are beating funeral marches to the grave.'"
Milton sat up, threw off the covers and swung his feet off the Hide-a-Bed. His heart was pounding.
Jenny said, "I hear Milt. You woke him, Maureen, with your poem. I don't know what to do with you, Maureen, you'll be the death of me!"
"The death of me," Milton thought. "'Still, like muffled drums, are beating ...' Muffled drums nothing," he thought. "Tachycardia. I sat up too suddenly, that's all. Doesn't mean a thing. Awareness of the heartbeat, that's all. I get these palpipations all the time now, but they don't mean a thing." He stretched and rubbed his hands down his back where the crease in the Hide-a-Bed always made a crick. He heard Jenny coming down the hall from the kitchen and called out that he was up, hoping to keep her out of the room that way, although he should have known better. The only room she wouldn't just barge into was the john. Just because she used to be a nurse, she thought that gave her the right to barge in everywhere. The minute she barged in, as usual, she started telling him.
"Sleep good, Milt? Milt, Mrs. Antony called already. When you examine her, Milt —"
"Look, Jenny, are you the doctor here or am I? If I'm the doctor then let me decide how to run my practice."
"Now, Milt —"
"Now, Milt! Now, Milt!"
"I'm just trying to be helpful, Milt."
"You're just trying to run me."
"But Mrs. Antony will call another doctor if you pooh- pooh her again, Milt. I could tell from the way she talked on the phone."
"You could tell," he said. "You know everything, don't you?" He walked to the open window and reached under the pulled-down blinds to close it. This was an Apartment Suitable for Physician. On the ground floor, which, since he slept in the living room, meant he could never have the blinds up nights. It wasn't a case of people seeing in but of potential patients learning that "the doctor" didn't have a bedroom and slept on a bed which turned into a sofa. Where he was supposed to sleep was another matter but perhaps the patients figured that a doctor's five and a half rooms were different from other apartments in the building just as a doctor was different from other people.
Jenny took a step toward Milton. "Aw, Milt — Milt!"
"Aw, Milt — I'll be the death of you, won't I?"
The word "death" hung in the air between them until Jenny swooped over the Hide-a-Bed and yanked the cover off Milton's pillow and threw it onto a chair, then stripped the sheets and blankets, grunting, lifting, shoving, to fill the air with these noises, to fold the bed away, death away. She looked everywhere but at Milton. "I better wash the sills before office hours. Honestly, you'd think, way out in Jackson Heights like this —"
She would wash the sills with the blinds down because she must not be seen doing them. Jenny was supposed to be his "nurse." The window sill washing was supposed to be done by a maid, the patients were supposed to believe this maid also cleaned and cooked for him. An invisible maid.
"Breakfast is ready, Milt." Jenny straightened up, stretching. When she raised her arms, the coachman's robe pulled tight across her firm breasts. No patient would have recognized her in that fancy ruffled pink robe as the tailored "nurse." (Actually she was his receptionist-secretary. She let the patients in and answered the telephone and collected his fees. If death came today, Jenny would know to a penny what was owing him. Owing her was more like it.) Jenny had fixed Milton's breakfast but she had not thought it necessary to clear the table of Buddy's breakfast. Buddy had, as usual, eaten only the whites of his fried eggs. The two glazed yolks were like two glazed yellow eyes. Milton covered Buddy's plate with another and drank his orange juice. Jenny noticed the maneuver and smiled as if nothing was supposed to turn Milton's stomach.
"Take your polyvitamins, Milt."
He smiled at that.
"Go on, Milt, take your polyvitamins." She pushed the bottle of them toward him.
"Didn't Phil take his vitamins, Jenny? Is that why he died?" He waved the bottle of pills away. "Don't waste them on me. Save them for the kids."
"Aw, Milt, don't!" Jenny set the bottle back on the table. Her lips were trembling. Her brown eyes filled with tears.
The toast tasted like sawdust, cardboard — anyhow nothing like the bread his mother used to bake and which he and the boys used to eat in the old kitchen in Brookfield, Connecticut. For a minute, grinding the cardboard, sawdust, whatever it was, between his teeth, Milton could smell the bread and the kitchen and his three big brothers and he wanted — not to cry, but to pound his fist on the old scrubbed wooden table in the old kitchen and say, "Mom, hear me, Mom! Oyez, oyez, you got to hear me, Mom, it's like muffled drums beating!" He got the mouthful of sawdust down and put the rest of the slice on his plate, shoving his chair back. Jenny started to tell him he had to eat but he said he wasn't hungry. Jenny said, all right, he could eat after he made his calls. Halloran, Demitric, Cohen, Antony, and he said maybe he would. Business before eating — well, it was her business, too. She lived on it.
"Milt, drink your coffee, anyhow. You can't go out on an empty stomach that way."
She pushed his cup closer, leaning across the table so that he saw the shadows between her breasts. He lifted the cup more to keep from seeing Jenny than because he wanted coffee. She was so damned healthy, so bursting with health. Jenny started taking dishes off the table, picking up Buddy's covered plate. In a minute she would scrape the dried yellow eyes off the plate into the garbage can. The thought of them made his stomach heave and he set his cup down. "I better get dressed."
The bathroom was where he dressed, his private suite, his private castle. The suit he had worn yesterday hung from a hanger on the hook behind the door. His shoes with the socks he had worn stuffed into them were on the laundry hamper. His undershirt, drawers, and one of the white-on-white shirts Jenny believed were suitable for a doctor were on a lower hook, his underwear hidden from Maureen, who also used the bathroom and, from the look of the sink, had just used it. Milton turned on the cold water tap full force so that Jenny and Maureen wouldn't barge in and stripped off his pajamas before he recalled that he had forgotten to stop off at the linen closet on his way here. The linen closet was "his" closet and he should have stopped and picked out clean socks and B.V.D.s and, if the white-on-white shirt wouldn't do a second day, a white shirt. He shaved and washed naked, bending over the sink, and then, because when he dried his face he could see in the mirror over the medicine chest door his broad chest covered with strong curling black hair, so deceptively powerful, he could not wait to change his underwear, but to hide his heart, to forget it, to get out and see Cissie Parker for a few minutes and forget the whole damned business, he put the soiled undershirt on and over that yesterday's white shirt. By this action he had hidden his chest, but he could not help seeing his thick wrists, his big hands, the bulging farm-boy muscles of his calves.
"But the Doc looked strong as an ox," people would say. And so had his father who had died at forty-two, and Phil, and so had Don and so had Hut, although Hut didn't count since he had gone down in the South Pacific a year after graduation from medical school. All the Krop boys had looked strong as oxen! The feel of the soiled socks drawn on his feet was like the taste in his mouth at facing another day.
The mailboxes for all the tenants were set into the wall on the right-hand side of the foyer and as Dr. Krop passed on his way out of the apartment house he looked into his and made sure the mail hadn't come yet. Somebody upstairs pushed the button for the self-service elevator and it could have been Cissie Parker and Milt didn't want her to know that he timed his leaving so that he would meet her, so he hurried out of the building.
Milton's Studebaker was barely two years old but because it was always parked outside, the finish had suffered. (It reminded him of his mother's skin because she, too, had stayed outside in all kinds of weather, and Milton hastily visualized Cissie Parker's skin in order to forget his mother's, but Cissie reminded him of his mother's canary that all the boys had chipped in for and bought her. It wasn't the only present they had bought his mother, but it had been the only useless one. So it reminded him of Cissie Parker — useless, useless, too.) The Studebaker was pastel green, but it was pastel dust-colored this fine morning. Buddy had volunteered to polish it when the old Studie had been turned in, but his enthusiasm had died down when he found that he could never hope to be repaid by having the use of it for any date he might have when he reached his sixteenth birthday. Even Jenny, who would give her right arm for Buddy, had been horrified at the suggestion. Her Buddy should have known a doctor's car, like a doctor, must be available at any time.
Milton unlocked the door of the car and, as he got in, heard light steps behind him on the sidewalk. Cissie. It wasn't surprising that he had noticed Cissie. There were God knows how many females in this one apartment house and in the four others on the block, but most of them were either pregnant, post partum or too old. There were more females around than you could shake a stick at, but damned if the kid wasn't about the only pretty one he'd seen. But it wasn't that, it wasn't the prettiness — she wasn't that pretty — it was the way he had caught her looking at him that first time, because she had noticed him first. A pretty little kid like that had noticed him first! He had been climbing into the Studie one morning, and when he turned she was looking at him that way and when he slid behind the wheel, like now, and drove away, he couldn't forget how she had looked at him. He'd made his calls and he couldn't forget it; then he knew why not. In Brookfield, the farm next to theirs had been owned by the Brownings. Unlike the Krops, Mr. Browning was a "gentleman farmer"; that meant he put money into the land instead of taking money out. The Browning girl wasn't there all year; a lot of the time she was away at boarding school. Then, after graduating, she went off a lot to Europe, to the Riviera, but when she was there, boy, was she there! You could see the Brownings' tennis court from their north field. Once when he and Hut were getting in the hay, Hut had pointed to a haystack. "This is a haystack, kid," Hut said, "and that —" pointing to the Browning girl playing tennis — "that's stacked." The way Cissie Parker had looked at him was the way he used to look at the Browning girl when, high on her brown mare, she had passed him high in the old Ford pickup truck.
First Dr. Krop started the Studie, then, accidentally on purpose, turned and "saw" Cissie Parker standing there, looking at him again the way he used to look at the Browning girl. He waved, leaned over and opened the door. Since the Parkers had moved into the apartment house, he must have given her fifteen, sixteen rides to the subway, but today she hesitated, color flared in her blond skin and she touched the blond hair on the right side of her small head uncertainly, then turned back and glanced up at the apartment house, at her window, Milt saw, at her mother who was leaning out of the window. Her mother was shaking her head, then Cissie shook her head at him but he said, "Get in," and she did. She would do anything he told her to. If the Browning girl had condescended to notice him enough to tell him to lie down on the dirt road and let her mare ride over him, he would have done it, and that's how it was with Cissie. He knew this even though he had never said more than hello and good-by to the kid.
Cissie usually gave a performance getting in the Studie and he usually enjoyed every wriggle of it, the leg show with chorus of gasps and flutters — He was always being shown women's legs, having their swollen bulk, their varicose veins, their ulcers and burns and bruises thrust at him. Cissie's concern with any disarrangement during her scramble into the car, the way her thin hands with the red nails touched and patted and repaired before she turned to him and gave him the Browning-girl look, always moved him by its very silliness, but today Cissie just plain climbed in. He liked the smell of her, compounded of every cosmetic ad she fell for, the perfumes of her deodorant, her bath powder, the stuff she sprayed on her blond hair to keep it in place, her lipstick, her pancake make-up. Today all her perfumes seemed fainter, as if her mother's disapproval had blotted them. Today Cissie sat biting her lip and, as the car moved off, glanced back nervously toward the window of her apartment and forgot to do all her little settlings and flutterings. "So your momma didn't want you to take a lift," he said.
"No, Doctor."
She seemed to think she had said enough, sitting quietly, denying him the sparrow act, the smell of her perfumes, all the things he would never have. "Why not, if you don't mind my being nosey?"
"Well, it's you're a married man," she said. "We didn't know you were a married man. We don't know the neighbors yet, so nobody told us. I don't know — I figured she was your nurse, because of course I saw her around. Mrs. Krop. I don't know, I thought she was your nurse. Mom said I shouldn't think so much, I should find out."
Jenny was Mrs. Krop and Buddy was Buddy Krop and there was also little Maureen Krop. If Jenny had told Cissie's mother that she was Mrs. Krop, it was the truth and there was no reason Mrs. Parker shouldn't think she was his wife, but Cissie shouldn't have thought so. That she should think so — How could she think so? Milton started the car. She had a nerve! Who gave her the right to think he would marry Jenny, a woman like Jenny! Leaving out the four years she had on him, not even counting that. He saw Jenny as he had left her in the pink frilly thing — in any of the frilly stuff she wore out of office hours because, as she said, she'd had her bellyful of uniforms. If this kid here really looked at him the Browning-girl way she couldn't think he would marry a woman like Jenny, so he turned nasty. He wanted to hurt her. "You mean a married man can't give a single girl a couple lifts to the subway, is that it? Have I ever done anything else? Have I in any way propositioned you?" he asked. He pulled over to the curb and stopped the car. "Get out," he said, "go on, get out." He remembered how his mother used to put a dark cloth over the canary's cage when she wanted the bird to shut up; that was the effect of his anger on the kid. So long, Cissie, he thought. Married to a woman like Jenny, he thought. Beloved Husband of Jenny, it said on Phil's tombstone. When the time came, Jenny might as well save herself the expense of another stone and just tell Phil to shove over and plant him there alongside. No one in the whole world would know the difference, he thought. (Not Cissie.) No one in the whole world would know the difference, and neither would he, he thought. The life and death of Milton Krop. Which was which?
He had been heading toward Eighty-fifth, the Cohens', but, reaching the corner and too close to it to do it right, he made a U turn. Not a U turn, he thought, a worm turn. Even a worm turns, he thought.
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Skip to comments.(3-judge panel, 9th Circuit) Rules ALL GITMO detainees must have access to an attorney
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The Guantanamo Lease
(i) The Lease Recognizes the "Continuance of Ultimate Sovereignty" by Cuba Over Guantanamo.
The majority concluded "that, at least for habeas purposes, Guantanamo is a part of the sovereign territory of the United States."
Which implies that for the Ninth Circuits political purpose GITMO is not sovereign under Cuba but for all other purposes it is.
I fail to see how, if there is a lease that states Cuba retains sovereignty over the leased land, any US Court other than a military tribunal can assert jurisdiction over anyone on Gitmo.
And no, I'm not reading the opinion. The only sense I've ever seen that came out of the Ninth Circus is the dissent in Locklear when the Court refused the request for an en banc review.
I also think we all need to get together and have the 9th Circuit broken up. I'd be perfectly happy if their jurisdiction was restricted to San Francisco and a new circuit could be established to cover the rest.
I believe that this decision of the 9th is a tempest in a teapot. Nothing is going to come of it. The decision was a waste of taxpayer time, trees for the paper and bandwidth.
Because they are outside of the united states, only the Supreme Court would have jurisdiction to hear arguments in this case or to accept a writ.
the 9th is out of control. We need to get congress to impeach every one of them.
And we need to invest in guns'n'ammo. When the firestorm starts, these bastards will be the first to be eliminated.
A state of war exists only under a Declaration Of War from Congress.
There's been no such Declaration.
If there's some other statute, law, or provision that defines this thing called "state of war," please cite it and I'll stand corrected.
There's been no such Declaration.
It is longstanding precedent that a Declaration of War by the U.S. is only neccessary for the making of war when we have not yet been attacked, nor has war been declared against us. The Founding Fathers noted this in the incidences with the Barbary Pirates. A full declaration of war by our Congress results in many, many laws which severely abridge freedoms to go into effect - and so the Congress did a half-measure, by authorizing and funding a war.
Interesting statement. Then why did Congress enact the War Powers Resolution in 1973?
Anyway, you're not clearly reading these posts.
I'm saying that there is no legal definition for anything called "a state of war," and certainly there is no actual "state of war" without a formal Declaration Of War from Congress.
Authorizations Of Force are not Declarations Of War, and you guys know it. Stop pretending they're the same thing, they are most certainly not.
Hey, why don't you just cut the BS, OK? Let's see if you're bright enough to follow:
You know that only Congress can declare war. Yes?
You also know that Congress has not declared war. Correct?
Then you also know that we are not at war in the technical and legal sense mandated by the Constitution.
Get it?
Oh, you mean slicing and dicing jihadis? Of course. Don't be silly.
But I also believe that 9/11 warranted a formal Congressional Declaration Of War against al Qaeda and all other groups we deem as terrorists. There is nothing in the Constitution that prevents it, while the "war on terror" is both lame and imprecise.
It is a war against identifiable Islamist groups and their supporters, and the sooner we name them, formally Declare War on them, and kill them, the better.
Then what are they? They are not identical, but with the exception of not invoking broad DOMESTIC powers - such as triggering about 150 emergency provisions in the law, such as the right to impose censorship, to expedite licensing for nuclear facilities, and to control communications - the authorization is effectively the same.
Interesting statement. Then why did Congress enact the War Powers Resolution in 1973?
Because they felt like it. BTW, no later President has ever acknowledged the authority of that Act. They have always been very clear to abide by it as an official courtesy rather than legal obligation. Its Constitutionality is questionable - though all that is aside from the previous point.
Hamilton wrote that war "between two nations is completely produced by the act of one -it requires no concurrent act of the other. . . [W]hen a foreign nation declares, or openly and avowedly makes war upon the United States, they are then by the very fact, already at war, and any declaration on the part of Congress is nugatory: it is at least unnecessary."
Thomas Jefferson noted similarly while he was President.
That's pretty clearly a limited Declaration of War - limited to external force and procedures, and which denies authorization for "triggered" domestic powers over U.S. citizens.
True, but are we sure about this with Reinhardt? He generally is considered to be a "bully," as well as the most liberal appellate judge in the country, or at least the most activist in his beliefs. His opinion makes clear that he does not HAVE to issue it, since the SC will be taking up the other Guantanamo cases. I clerked on a federal court of appeals and we would almost always have waited when a parallel case is before the SC; anything else is completely wasteful, since you'll probably have to write a new decision when they rule. So besides being totally wrong on merits, the timing of the opinion is strange.
Except that ... Reinhardt's wife is Ramona Ripston, the head of the LA ACLU. Reinhardt says he is issuing the opinion to "help" the SC with its cases -- indicating that he recognizes issuing the opinion is DISCRETIONARY. But won't the ACLU file an amicus brief on behalf of the Guantanamo prisoners? Won't it be able to cite Reinhardt now? If it does, Reinhardt's decision (which is indefensible on the merits) appears to me to better explained as an attempt to influence the SC cases in which his wife has an arguable institutional interest than as an independent resolution of the California case.
Consequently, Reinhardt has an apparent conflict of interest and his actions create the appearance of impropriety, bringing into question the integrity and independence of the judiciary (i.e. a violation of the Canons of Judicial Ethics). This is grounds for impeachment, but it has to wait until the ACLU files its brief. I realize the impeachment would probably be unsuccessful, and even if successful, the Senate would not convict, but I disagree that he has not made himself potentially eligible for the procedure. And no, I am not Larry Klayman.
You think the Authorization is sufficient. I do not. That's all, fini.
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HOMESTEAD, Fla. -- Brad Keselowski might not be in position for his first Sprint Cup title if he had not received the call to replace suspended driver Ted Musgrave for one 2007 Camping World Truck Series race at Memphis.
Jimmie Johnson might not be in position for a sixth Cup title if had he not driven head-on into the wall at Watkins Glen in William Herzog's Nationwide Series car in 2000.
Funny how life works.
Sometimes it doesn't matter how much talent you possess. Sometimes, as in the cases of Keselowski and Johnson: as they prepare for Sunday's finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway separated by 20 points -- it's somewhat of a fluke circumstance.
Keselowski was impressive enough in that one Truck series race he drove for owner Bob Germain that it caught the attention of Dale Earnhardt Jr., who put him into a full-time Nationwide Series ride. That eventually led to his current Sprint Cup ride for Penske Racing.
And Keselowski wouldn't have gotten the call from Germain if Mark Martin hadn't recommended him because he couldn't drive, and if Musgrave hadn't insisted on this unknown driver over veteran Randy LaJoie.
Johnson's crash at Watkins Glen was so spectacular that it made Jeff Gordon put a face with a name, which eventually led the four-time champion to recommend Johnson to team owner Rick Hendrick.
Now here are Keselowski and Johnson, prepared to slug it out for NASCAR's grandest prize. Johnson is being compared to the greatest drivers in history. Keselowski is being compared by team owner Roger Penske to legendary IndyCar driver Rick Mears.
Who knows where either would be had the stars not aligned in the strangest of circumstances.
"I think he would probably have made it still, but it might have just taken a little bit longer," Earnhardt said of Keselowski. "It might have taken awhile to get that opportunity."
Keselowski and Johnson have storied paths that are similar, yet distinctly different. They each grew up in families without a lot of money, and what money they had was put into racing. Each has brothers who would give anything to be in this position, but neither got the break or had as much talent to get here.
They were relatively quiet, shy figures who knew little about life outside of racing, but have blossomed into confident, sometimes outspoken, leaders of the sport.
"He was just a babe in the woods," Germain recalled of Keselowski when they first met. "He's come a long way in a very short period of time. There was no question he had a lot of talent. "But there are a lot of people that have a lot of talent and don't win a Nationwide or Cup championship."
Or get the chance to.
Keselowski and Johnson have made the most of their chances. Now here they are, in South Florida vying for the title. Who wins will be determined not only by how they got here, but by what they have done lately.
Let's break that down:
Keselowski: We keep saying he hasn't won a title, but he won the 2010 Nationwide Series championship. He also has nine wins in his first three Cup seasons. That's only five fewer than Johnson had at the same point, and Johnson was good enough to be a serious contender in each of those years.
Johnson: Go ahead and pencil him in for the NASCAR Hall of Fame. He already has more championships (five) than all but Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt. His 60 wins rank eighth on the sport's career victory list after only 11 years. Kind of an unfair comparison, but it has to be done.
Advantage: Johnson
Driving skill
Keselowski: That Penkse compares Keselowski to Mears, who won four Indianapolis 500s, is impressive enough. Keselowski also has proved to be one of the most versatile drivers in the sport, having won at all sizes and shapes of tracks. His average finish of 5.3 in the Chase, if it holds up, is second only to the 4.9 Carl Edwards had a year ago.
Johnson: You seldom hear Johnson compared to Petty, Earnhardt or David Pearson. Many want to credit his success to crew chief Chad Knaus and the Hendrick Motorsports machine. They're wrong. He could drive the wheels off a car in any era with any driver.
Advantage: Johnson
Crew chiefs
Keselowski: It has become popular to compare Paul Wolfe to Chad Knaus, but that's not entirely fair. Wolfe and Keselowski make decisions more by committee. Wolfe actually takes input from Keselowski and lets him make calls. The combination has worked flawlessly.
Johnson: Chad Knaus is Chad Knaus. He has five titles. He is a future Hall of Famer. His relationship with Johnson is different. He ultimately makes the calls. Funny example: Last week at Phoenix, he asked Johnson for thoughts on whether to stop. Johnson said he had no idea. Knaus responded, "You're no help at all." But the two make it work better than any other team.
Advantage: Johnson
Keselowski: Dodge may be a lame-duck manufacturer, but it has doubled up resources to help Penske Racing send it out in style. After a few issues with fuel injection early in the season, the No. 2 has performed at the highest level in terms of power and fuel mileage. No engine failures there.
Johnson: Johnson has had two engine failures this year. And he wouldn't face the deficit he has if it weren't for a blown tire last week at Phoenix, with a car that never really had the speed to compete for a win. He started off slow here too.
Advantage: Keselowski
Mental and physical toughness
Keselowski: He won at Pocono last year only a few days after breaking his foot. Doesn't get much tougher than that. He got an upgrade to the workout facility at Penske Racing, so we know he works out. And he eats reasonably healthy. I saw him searching for a fruit parfait in the wee hours of the morning in Las Vegas once. He appears to be handling Johnson's mind games pretty well too. He brushes them off with better one-liners than the lines meant to pressure him.
Johnson: I actually ran into Johnson on a 10-mile run earlier this week in Charlotte. The dude gets up at 5:30 a.m. twice a week to swim for an hour and a half. Keselowski may be coming in at 5:30 a.m. Johnson runs triathlons. Pressure? He says he wants to win eight titles. Enough said.
Advantage: Johnson
Keselowski: Roger Penske is the greatest owner in all of motorsports, but he doesn't have a Sprint Cup championship.
Johnson: Rick Hendrick has 10 Sprint Cup championships and is the greatest owner in NASCAR.
Advantage: Toss-up
Homestead history
Keselowski: Four starts and an average finish of 20.2 doesn't bode well, but as we've seen throughout the Chase, Keselowski is capable of stepping up his game even at tracks where he has struggled. The numbers to look at are what Keselowski has done in the Chase at 1.5-mile tracks. One win and an average finish of 5.5.
Johnson: This is one of the few tracks where Johnson hasn't won and he has an average finish of 13.5. But he has had two seconds and a third, has started on the pole twice and has seven top-10s in 11 starts. To be fair, he has never had to win here to win the title. In the tale of the 1.5-mile Chase tracks this year, Johnson has a win and a 3.75 average finish.
Advantage: Even
Keselowski: Kyle Busch still owes Keselowski for running through him while leading late at Watkins Glen. Were it not for that, Busch would be in the Chase instead of playing out the season. Tony Stewart also seems to have issues with Keselowski racing hard. But for a guy who seemingly ticked off everybody a few years ago, Keselowski has certainly earned the respect of his peers.
Johnson: Nobody is more respected. He even gets along with Kurt Busch these days, inviting him to a Charlotte art gallery recently to view photos of his picture book. Barely a year ago, the two were at each other's throats. Other drivers respect him so much that they give way to him on the track in these situations.
Advantage: Johnson
Keselowski: Sam Hornish Jr. is his only teammate on the track, and he isn't likely to be running up front where he can get in Johnson's way. Off the track, he is neighbors with Dale Earnhardt Jr., the most famous friend he has outside of the guitarist for Kid Rock.
Johnson: Johnson has more celebrity friends than many celebrities: singers Nick Lachey and Darius Rucker, actress Angie Harmon and former NFL star Jason Sehorn. He has lots of friends on the track as well, including three teammates who could be in position to race Keselowski hard if necessary.
Advantage: Johnson
Keselowski: He has more than 326,000 Twitter followers and the entire sport of "48 Haters" on his side. He was fined $25,000 this week for carrying a cellphone in his car after NASCAR banned it following his Daytona 500 red-flag tweet-up. He has no fear.
Johnson: He has 332,000 followers, which seems kind of low for a five-time champion. He has a baby going through the terrible 2s. He's 20 points down, and nobody in NASCAR history has come from that far back (adjusting old points systems to the new one) to win the title in the last race.
Advantage: Keselowski
Most of the advantages go to Johnson. The points and history say Keselowski will win it.
So maybe it will come down to something fluky. They have been there before.


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|Dec 27, 1892
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|Jan 9, 1892
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|John I. Covington
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PBRMUTATION LOCK E15 @www U5 UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFTCE.
SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 488,648, dated December 2'?, 1892.
Application filed January 9, 1892. Serial No. 417,478. (No model.)
To all whom it may concern..-
Beit known that I, JOHN I. Cov1NGToN,.a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in PermntatiOn-Locks, of which the following is a specification.
My invention relates to permutation locks.
The object of my invention is to construct a cheap, eective and detachable permutation lock which can be readily applied to the thing to be locked and as readily removed therefrom, and I accomplish this object by the means hereinafter described and claimed.
In the accompanying drawingsforming part of this specification Figure l represents a book with my invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a book constructed to permit the application of the locking means thereto. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the lock. Figs. 4 and 5 represent the two parts of the key used in connection with the lock and the means secured to the book. Fig. G represents the position of the two parts of the key after insertion in the lock. Fig. 7 represents the two constructions of wheels or disks used in the lock. Fig. 8 is a longitudinal cross-section of the lock, when locked with key in place. Fig. 9 represents a modiiied construction in which all of the wheels are alike in construction. Fig. l0 represents the modified construction in locked condition. Fig. l1 shows the varying positions of the several wheels of Fig. 10.
The lock hereinafter particularly described I have illustrated as applicable tothe locking of books, but I do not, of course, limit myself to this use of the lock as it is applicable to various other objects and things.
Referring to the drawings the book, Figs. 1 and 2 has each of its two covers provided with a key hole 2 protected by a metal reinforcing piece 3 irrnly rivet-ed to each cover. These key holes are preferably located where most effective in locking the covers of the book together. The lock which I have invented to use in connection with books so constructed consists of a series of disks or wheels 4 and 5 inclosed in a cylindrical case 6 provided with a slot 7 in its side to expose to view the numbers. or characters on the wheels and with a slot 8 in each end corresponding in form to a cross-section of the key. The length of the cylinder will vary according to the number of wheels contained therein, the greater the number of wheels the more difficult or impossible of course to open the lock. In Figs. 3 and 8 I have shown seven wheels consisting of four wheels 5 provided with slots 9 and three wheels 4 having circular opening 10. These two sets of wheels are arranged alternately as shown, the wheels 5 being at the ends of the series. Each of the seven wheels has printed or impressed on its periphery (see Fig. 7) a series of numbers from O to 9 arranged consecutively. Instead of numbers, letters or other characters could be used, but numbers are preferred, and instead of using ten numbers on the periphery a less or greater number could be employed.
I employ in connection with the lock so far described a two part device which is herein for convenience called a key, it forming a member of the lockingrmeans and consisting of the parts ll and 12, each part, if the lock embraces only three wheels as 4, being provided with three projections 13, the number of projections always corresponding to the number of wheels 4. The slots in the wheels 5 are stamped out to occupy a relative, position to the position of the numbers arranged on the periphery, so that when the proper combinations is shown through the opening in the cylinder the slots 9 of all the wheels 5 may be in line with each other and with the slots 8 in the cylinder so that the key may be inserted or withdrawn therefrom. It follows from this construction that each wheel 5 can occupy but two positions that will permitinsertion or removal of key, one being diametrically opposite the other, consequently each lock can be locked or opened on only two different combinations determined at the time of construction of the lock. The wheels 4 having each a circular opening sufficiently large to permit revolution of same on the key without the movement of one affecting that of the others, are, therefore, only dummies, and their relative position can be disregarded in using the lock.
The operation of the mechanism so far described is as follows: If, for example, the lock is constructed to open onv the combination 2469 then the four wheels 5 are turned until IOO these numbers appear opposite theslot in the cylinder. The said cylinder is then applied to the book or other thing to be locked, and the two part key is inserted through the key holes of the covers, in case of a book, into thev cylinder until it occupies the position shown `in Fig. 8 t. e. until the projections of the key are within the circular openings of the wheels 4 after which the wheels 5 are each turned more or less as may be desired to bring their slots 9 out of line with each other and with the slots in the cylinder. The two' part key cannot therefore be withdrawn until the four wheels are again turned to bring the combination 2469 into view and as the heads 23 of the key cannot pass through the key holes of the covers of the book itfollows that the book cannot be opened. In the construction shown in Figs. 9 to 11 the wheels 14 within the cyl inder are all alike, each having formed in it the slot 15. The two part key 16 and 17 used in this case has only one projection to each' part, and when the wheels have all their slots in register it is inserted so that the two.projec,
tions of thekey rest in the first andlastwheels,
in the cylinder. The four intermediate Wheels can then be turned on the shank of thekey to disarrange the combination as illustrated in Figs. 10 and 1l. The key canbe formed like an ordinary key as shown in Figs. 4 and 5 or it may have a fiat milled head as illustrated in Figs. 9 and,10, a retaining head or enlargement being necessary to eReet the locking, said head being so located as to leave a space between the same and the end of the case, or nearest wheel, sufficient, for example, to accommodate the cover of abook.
It is frequently desirable'in addition tol locking a book or other object to prevent its be-` ing stolen or displaced and to this end Ivhave constructed the key so as to not only permit the connection of a chain thereto, butso that the lock will co-operate therewith in prevent-` ing the removal of the chain. Isplit'the shank of the key so as to open the loop 2O of the handle as shown in Fig.` 4 the two separated parts 18and 19 being capable of beingpressed apart to allow a chain 21 to pass through into the loop, and in their closed condition fitting into the slot in the cylinder and thus closing the entrance to the loop 2O and preventing the withdrawal of the chain. The chain thus secured to the book may be fastened to a desk,l stand or othersuitable supportbya staple 22 as shown in Fig. 4, or in any other suitable manner. y y
I do not in this application claim the combination with a book of av separate ,locking means, as I have claimed such combination in an application tiled October 7,1891, Serial No. 407,974.
Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is,
1. A lock consisting of aseries of numbered wheels provided with openings, and a two part key, each part of which is provided with a retaining head and is adapted to pass into the openings in said wheels, said retaining head being so located as to leave a space between it and the nearest wheel when the key is inserted, substantially as described.
2. A lock consisting of a series of numbered 7 wheels provided with openings, and a two part key provided with projections, eachv part of said key having a retaining head and adapted to enter into the openings insaid wheels, said retaining head being so locatedas to leave a space between it'and the nearest wheel when the key is inserted, substantially as described. 3. A lock consisting of a case provided with slots or key holes in its ends, a series of numbered wheels provided with openings, and a headed key adapted to be passed through the Islots of the case into said wheels, the heads of said key beingso located as to leave a space between the same and the ends of the case when the key is inserted, substantially as de- I scribed.
4. A lock consistingof acase provided with slots or key holes in its ends, two sets of numbered wheels of l which one set. is provided with slots and the other set with circular openings, and a headed key adapted to lbe passed through the slots ofthe case into said wheels, the lheads of said key beingso located as to leave a space between the saine and the ends of the case when the key is inserted, substantially as described.
, 5. A lock consisting of y.a ycase yprovided'with slots or key holes in its ends, as eries of numbered Wheels provided with openings, and a two. part'headed key Vprovided. withv projections and adapted toV be passed through the slots of the case into said wheels, the heads of said key being so located as to leave a space between the same and the ends ofthe case when the key is inserted, substantially as described. y
. 6. A lock in combination with a key having a split shank forming an/open looped handle,
the said shank passing into the lock closing the opening to the loop, substantially as described. l
Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 7th dayof January, A. D. 1892.
Jol-IN i. COVINGTON.
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C HAs. L. WISE, RUDOLPH H. REDDIsH.
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|Jan 20, 2009
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|Dec 27, 2002
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|Dec 28, 2001
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|Jean Nicolai, Marie Rimpault
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|Stmicroelectronics S.A.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to digital image processing and more specifically the compression of digital images by fractal coding.
2. Description of the Related Art
Fractal coding comprises searching, in a digital image, similar image portions to reduce the image volume by only, for the blocks considered as similar, coding a single block and identifying the other similar blocks by a reference to the first block.
The search for the similar blocks is performed with respect to a reference block also called range block RB of dimensions smaller than those of blocks B1 to B9. To enable comparison, blocks B1 to B9 are sub-sampled to obtain so-called domain blocks DB of same size as range block RB.
The similarities between blocks RB and DB are not searched for identities only. It is also searched whether each domain block corresponds to the range block after given transformations. These transformations are called isometries and respectively correspond to a symmetry with respect to the vertical axis, a symmetry with respect to the horizontal axis, a 180° rotation, a symmetry of axis Y=X, a 270° rotation, a 90° rotation, and a symmetry of axis Y=−X.
The fractal image coding or compression technique is described, for example, in work "Fractal image compression: Theory and application to digital images" by Yuval Fisher, published by Springer Verlag, New-York, 1995. Another example of a fractal image compression algorithm is described in article "Design of an ASIC architecture for high speed fractal image compression" by Ancarani De Gloria and Olivieri Stazzone, published in IEEE "International ASIC conference", September 1996.
Those skilled in the art can also refer to French patent application 2,775,812.
To enable comparing domain blocks with the range block, the range block and its seven isometries must conventionally be stored in distinct memory areas.
One embodiment of the present invention aims at reducing the necessary memory space in a digital image fractal coding system.
One embodiment of the present invention more specifically aims at reducing the storage space necessary to the range block isometries.
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for storing values of a range block and of seven isometries used in a fractal image compression method, comprising using four memory areas of identical sizes in which are respectively stored the identity, and three first isometries corresponding to the isometries of symmetry with respect to the vertical axis, of 270° rotation, and of 90° rotation.
An embodiment of the present invention also provides a method for reading from memory areas in which each memory area is addressed in a first direction for the reading of the stored values to obtain the identity and the first three isometries, and in the reverse direction for the reading of the four other isometries of symmetry with respect to the horizontal axis, of 180° rotation, of symmetry with respect to a first diagonal, and of symmetry with respect to the second diagonal.
An embodiment of the present invention also provides a fractal image compression method using a range block and seven isometries of this block, including:
memorizing the respective values of the pixels of the range block and of only three of its isometries; and
addressing the corresponding memory areas in read mode in one direction or in the reverse direction according to the desired isometry.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, two isometries of the range block are stored in a same memory area.
One embodiment of the present invention also provides a circuit for addressing a memory of storage of an image data range block intended to be used in a fractal image compression method, including means for addressing each of four areas of said memory in a first direction and in the reverse direction.
The foregoing features of the present invention will be discussed in detail in the following non-limiting description of specific embodiments in connection with the accompanying drawings.
Reference throughout this specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment is included in at least one embodiment of the present invention. Thus, the appearances of the phrases "in one embodiment" or "in an embodiment" in various places throughout this specification are not necessarily all referring to the same embodiment. Furthermore, the particular features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments.
Same elements have been designated with same references in the different drawings. For clarity, only those elements and those method operations which are necessary to the understanding of the present invention have been shown in the drawings and will be described hereafter. In particular, the different calculations and processings upstream and downstream of the storages and of the reading of the range blocks have not been detailed and are no object of the present invention. Further, the sequencing of the processings of loading and unloading of the range blocks depends on the application and is no object of the present invention either.
Reference block 1 is taken arbitrarily as the identity block, that is, in the case where pixels P1 to P16 of range block 1 correspond in values and arrangements to the pixels of the domain block being compared. In
A first isometry 2 corresponds to a symmetry with respect to vertical axis Y centered in the middle of the range block. If a domain block corresponds to the arrangement shown in isometry 2 of
A second isometry 3 corresponds to a symmetry with respect to horizontal axis X centered in the middle of the reference image.
A third isometry 4 corresponds to a symmetry of axis Y=X. This amounts to a symmetry with respect to diagonal DXY.
A fourth isometry 5 corresponds to a 180° rotation of the range block.
A fifth isometry 6 corresponds to a 270° rotation.
A sixth isometry 7 corresponds to a 90° rotation.
A seventh isometry 8 corresponds to a symmetry of axis Y=−X, that is, a reflection with respect to diagonal D−XY.
A feature of an embodiment of the present invention is to only use four memory areas having a size corresponding to the size of the range block to store all the isometries necessary to the comparison.
Another feature of an embodiment of the present invention is to provide a reading of the isometries in reverse directions so that each memory area actually contains two isometries of the range block.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a first memory area M1 contains arrangements 1 and 3, that is, the identity and the symmetry with respect to the horizontal axis.
A second memory area M2 contains isometries 2 and 4, that is, the symmetry with respect to the vertical axis and the 180° rotation.
A third memory area M3 contains isometries 5 and 6, that is, the symmetry of axis Y=X and the 270° rotation.
A fourth memory area M4 contains isometries 7 and 8, that is, the 90° rotation and the symmetry of axis Y=−X.
As appears from
Such a reading is easily implementable by means of a memory addressing circuit 10, parameterized according to the type of isometry with which the current domain block is desired to be compared.
An advantage of the present invention is that it divides by two the memory space necessary for the storage of the range blocks and of their respective isometries.
Another advantage of the present invention is that it results in no complexity of the memory selectors. The only counterpart is a read-adapted programming of memory areas M1 to M4 containing the range block isometries.
Of course, the present invention is likely to have various alterations, modifications, and improvements which will readily occur to those skilled in the art. In particular, although an embodiment of the present invention has been described in reference to isometries of range blocks of 4×4 pixels, it applies to any square range block and its isometries.
Further, the present invention more generally applies to any image processing method requiring storage of image block isometries, similar to those used in a fractal compression.
Moreover, the practical implementation of the circuits necessary to the implementation of the present invention and the control signals of addressing of the different memory areas are within the abilities of those skilled in the art based on the function indications given hereabove.
Such alterations, modifications, and improvements are intended to be part of this disclosure, and are intended to be within the spirit and the scope of the present invention. Accordingly, the foregoing description is by way of example only and is not intended to be limiting. The present invention is limited only as defined in the following claims and the equivalents thereto.
All of the above U.S. patents, U.S. patent application publications, U.S. patent applications, foreign patents, foreign patent applications and non-patent publications referred to in this specification and/or listed in the Application Data Sheet, are incorporated herein by reference, in their entirety.
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|Publication date
|Feb 28, 2012
|Mar 15, 2016
|Applaud, Llc
|Personalized memory compilation for members of a group and collaborative method to build a memory compilation
|U.S. Classification
|382/232, 382/305, 345/555, 375/240.24
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Jun 28, 2004
Owner name: STMICROELECTRONICS S.A., FRANCE
Free format text: ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNORS INTEREST;ASSIGNORS:NICOLAI, JEAN;RIMPAULT, MARIE;REEL/FRAME:016311/0886
Effective date: 20040607
|Jun 2, 2009
|Certificate of correction
|Jun 26, 2012
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