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Welcome to Georgian College Orientation is Tuesday, Sept. 8. Classes commence on Wednesday, Sept. 9. Check your campus tab for details.
Top reasons to attend orientation
- Connect with other new students. Whether you're a mature student, directly out of high school, transferring, commuting, coming from another country, or whatever your situation, this is your chance to connect.
- Find out who's who. Get to know the faces of Georgian College, hear from our President, academic deans, co-ordinators and more!
- Meet faculty. Find out what your classes will be like, get to know your teachers and classmates, ask questions about textbooks, papers or missed classes.
- Success. People who attend orientation feel more connected and comfortable on campus, and get a better start. At orientation, we'll guide you to resources that will help contribute to your overall success.
- Get involved. Student clubs, on-campus jobs, volunteer work – find out how you can get involved at Georgian.
- Services. Find out how to get help with study skills, tutoring, counselling, learn about our athletic facilities and programs – you'll find everything you need to know about the services available to you at Georgian.
- Free stuff. Who doesn't like FREE stuff?
Are you an international student?
We look forward to welcoming you to Georgian College and invite you to join our college-wide orientation events. Please take a look at these pages for event details. In addition, the International Centre offers a mandatory pre-orientation event to help make your transition as easy as possible. Find out more about pre-orientation for international students.
Mature Student Supporters Conference
Thursday, April 23, 2015
Hosted by Georgian College – Barrie Campus
The purpose of this conference is to obtain a greater knowledge of the unique challenges that mature students face in accessing, attending and persisting through postsecondary education in Ontario, and how within our various roles we can assist their transition, success and mental health.
Conference schedule
9 a.m. – 10 a.m. : Keynote Address, Alumni Hall
10 a.m. – 11 a.m. Practical Learning Strategies for the Mature Student
11 a.m. – noon What's Next? Your Guide to Career/Life
Planning in Ontario
Noon – 1 p.m. Lunch, The Last Class (TLC)
1 p.m. – 2 p.m. Mature Student First Year Experience
2 p.m. – 3 p.m. The Adult Learner's Journey Through Education and Employment
3 p.m.: Mature Student Panel
Keynote address: Tapping the Resiliency of the Mature Student
Presented by: Karyn Baker, MSW,RSW
Many mature students attending postsecondary find the experience a delicate balancing act between academic and personal responsibilities. This talk will highlight the toll that this can take on the student's wellbeing. Also discussed will be tools and tips for how we can identify the strengths of these students, tap into their resiliency and instill hope in their success.
Practical Learning Strategies for the Mature Student
Presenters: Cindy Korpatnicki and Christina Meredith
In this interactive workshop, participants will identify both the characteristics of mature learners and the challenges they face. Participants will also learn how to use mature student development theory to develop learning strategies to mitigate these challenges and help mature students become successful learners.
What's Next? Your Guide to Career/Life Planning in Ontario
Presenter: Loretta Neebar
The What's Next? Your Guide to Career/Life Planning in Ontario is a collaboration between the Ontario School Counsellors' Association (OSCA) and the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO). It is available for no charge at www.whatsnextguide.ca . The guide was inspired by the Student Transition Eduation Program: University Preparation for Parents (STEPUPP) – www.stepupp.ca – an outreach program that was designed by the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) to educate first generation families about the post-secondary pathways in Ontario. This What's Next? guide is built upon the Ministry of Education's four Education and Career/Life Planning inquiry questions in order to engage parents/guardians in a meaningful conversation with their child about their future, and the options available to them. The four questions are: Who am I? What are my opportunities? Who do I want to become? What is my plan for achieving my goals? The questions and resources outlined in this guide are also relevant to mature students as they explore post-secondary pathways in Ontario. Some questions will help them reflect on past educational or academic experiences and others will help them assess their current needs. Throughout the guide are links that provide up-to-date and relevant information about all aspects of career and life planning. As the guide is laid out in a workbook format, students and advisors can use it as a starting off point for discussion, research and exploration.
Mature Student First Year Experience
Presenter: Brian Poser
This session is aimed at easing the transition of mature students to university study. Topics include stress and relaxation, reading and note-taking, preparing for exams, academic literacies, and academic pathway planning. We have a couple of years of data on the program so far (evaluation data, that is; we're hoping to collect grades/performance data), and all indications are that the program has a powerful impact on students' early experiences at York.
The Adult Learner's Journey Through Education and Employment
Presenter: Susan McCabe and Maureen Arbour
Discussing the challenges of the adult learner in the community at large in accessing postsecondary education and employment. The focus will be on discussing the barriers and challenges, career decision-making, Second Career and supporting job search strategies.
Mature Student Panel
Presenter: Brandy Mullen
Often during conferences, some of the most inspiring interactions and conversations take place during lunch, breaks and receptions. In this workshop you will be given the opportunity to meet and speak with several past and present mature students.
The panel will start with mature students doing a 60-second elevator speech that describes who they are, why they returned to school and what they were doing before college/university. After this it will be opened up to questions that may be general questions for anyone to answer or directed to a specific panelist.
The workshop will finish with a "chocolate and chat." Attendees will be able to connect with mature students in small groups or a 1-1 capacity to informally chat while enjoying a lovely chocolate treat.
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Presenter biographies
Karyn Baker is the Project Lead for the Campus Mental Health Partnerships project at Georgian College. This Mental Health Innovation funded project, in partnership with Centennial College, is developing a system delivery model of triage, care and partnership which can be disseminated to other postsecondary institutions. Karyn has worked in community mental health for 30 years and is presently on leave from her role as executive director of the Family Outreach and Response Program in Toronto. Karyn also works as a consultant and trainer in the area of mental health recovery.
Cindy Korpatnicki has been a full-time faculty learning strategist at Georgian College since 2011. She holds an MA in English literature. Cindy was a mature student when she started her undergraduate degree at the age of 44 and identifies with the challenges and benefits of being a mature student. Cindy is currently taking a break on her doctoral work in Gender, Feminist and Women's Studies at York University where she is specializing in the long-term emotional consequences of intimate partner violence against women.
Christina Meredith has been a full-time faculty member at Georgian College since 2002. She is currently on a secondment filling in for a parental leave as the manager of library operations and Academic Success Centre. Christina holds an MA in sociology and a MSW in critical social work practice. Having recently completed her second graduate degree, online, through the University of Victoria while attempting to balance the care of three small children, Christina approaches her work on mature student development from both professional practice and lived experience.
Brian Poser joined the Atkinson Centre for Mature and Part-time Students as associate director in August 2008. He completed a Bachelor of Arts degree at York University and holds a Master of Education degree from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Brian's academic interests include computer-mediated learning environments, distance education, student self-regulated learning, adult development, and retention. From 1990 to 2004, Brian served as learning skills counsellor with the Counselling and Development Centre at York University. During that time, he also was an instructor in LLS1800 (Language and Learning Seminar for Students with Learning Disabilities) and co-authored the Fundamentals of Learning program, a structured retention program for at-risk students. In 2005, Brian joined the Student Community & Leadership Development team as manager, student activities and organizations, working in the areas of orientation and co-curricular student experience. In 2006, Brian assumed the role of manager, Student Success & Retention, with a mandate to integrate orientation and transition programming with ongoing student success support and pan-university retention initiatives. Brian has worked extensively with students on academic skills, time management, academic writing, learning styles, and personal success.
Lorretta Neebar is the associate registrar of student recruitment and admissions at the University of Toronto Mississauga with over 15 years of strategic enrolment management experience. Lorretta was the project advisor on the What's Next: Your Guide to Education and Career/Life Planning In Ontario (www.whatsnextguide.ca) produced by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) and the Ontario School Counsellors' Association (OSCA). Lorretta is passionate about higher education and is dedicated to helping students and their families find their own postsecondary pathways.
Susan McCabe is currently working as an employment consultant with Georgian College's Centre for Career and Employment Services and has been in employment services for over 25 years. She is presently assisting the public and community with their employment needs and providing guidance and support in all aspects of job search strategies. She was a pioneer in developing and implementing the employment services program currently being used by the County of Simcoe Ontario Works program and this model is currently being used by the province of Ontario. She has extensive experience assisting marginalized individuals including those with physical, emotional, mental health and developmental issues. Susan has a BA in sociology and psychology, with additional education in counselling, addictions, crisis intervention and employment. She has been working under the Employment Ontario guidelines since its inception and along with employment consulting, currently assists individuals with accessing skills training, job placement, job development and apprenticeship.
Maureen Arbour is an Employment Services Consultant with Georgian College's Centre for Career and Employment Services. Maureen provides support and assistance to clients in our community with job search, job preparation and job development. She also assists clients to access training and self-employment programs. She has completed a Bachelor of Arts, Human Resources Management Diploma and the Teaching and Training Adults Certification and brings experience in employment services, human resources and sales.
Brandy Mullen is the Coordinator of the Academic Success Centre and the Math and Science Learning Strategist at Georgian College. She has been a full time faculty member since 2010. She has worked closely with First Year Experience and Student Success to develop a mature student orientation, an online forum for mature students, and has developed and delivered workshops specifically for this population. She completed her masters as a mature student at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland.
Get Connected: pre-orientation
Get Connected is your chance to visit Georgian and connect with us before the September rush. We'll help you with your transition to college life. Here are some of the things you can do to get connected:
- Purchase your parking pass
- Get a personalized tour of your classrooms
- Learn about Banner and Blackboard
- Purchase your fitness centre membership
- Visit the Registrar's Office for help with fees, OSAP, add/drop, get assistance with the new queuing system, Qnomy.
- Get your student card (bring photo ID)
- Opt-out/find out more about student insurance
- Attend a learning strategies session, and more!
Register here for a Get Connected (pre-orientation) event on your campus.
Get Connected: Pre-orientation
Your Get Connected events will happen the week of Aug. 17 to 21, and on Wednesday, Sept. 2.
- Monday, Aug. 17: 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m.
- Tuesday, Aug. 18: 1 to 3 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m.
- Wednesday, Aug. 19: 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m.
- Thursday, Aug. 20: 1 to 3 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m.
- Wednesday, Sept. 2: TBD
Get Connected is your chance to visit Georgian and connect with us before the September rush. We'll help you with your transition to college life. Here are some of the things you can do to get connected:
- Purchase your parking pass
- Get a personalized tour of your classrooms
- Learn about Banner and Blackboard
- Purchase your fitness centre membership
- Visit the Registrar's Office for help with fees, OSAP, add/drop, get assistance with new queuing system, Qnomy.
- Get your student card (bring photo ID)
- Opt-out/find out more about student insurance
- Attend a learning strategies session, and more!
Each session will start in Alumni Hall (Room K229)
Register for Get Connected here.
Fall Orientation
Tuesday, Sept. 8
Your orientation day will include:
- Welcome session with free swag and giveaways
- Academic breakout session
- Frosh carnival
- Free pizza lunch
- Outdoor fun festival
- Tug of War challenge
Ask Me: Stay Connected
First Two weeks of Classes
We can help you Stay Connected and provide ongoing transition support with our Ask Me booth. Find us across from the Subway restaurant during the first weeks of school.
Late Connection
Did you miss Orientation day? Still need some help transitioning? Connect with us at Late Connection Orientation.
Family Orientation
As part of our Open House, the Georgian Orientation and Transition team hosts a Family Orientation Room. We want to make sure that your support team (family) is as connected to the college as you are! Encourage your family to drop by for a coffee, tea and something to eat, and to find out what they need to know about you coming to Georgian. We will have family information available about financial aid, library and academic supports, orientation and transition activities, first year experience and First Generation support, privacy and much more.
Orientation schedule from January 2015
10 a.m. to noon.
Programs: Personal Support Worker and Office Administration
- Welcome reception in Room 113 with coffee, pastries and welcome bags
- Campus welcome
- Info session – campus and general info – including distribution of program outlines
- Georgian College Students' Association (GCSA)
- Mask fit testing (Room 115)
- Technology session – how to log into and use banner
- Pictures for student cards
- Purchase locks/locker rentals/pick up books
- Regular scheduled postsecondary classes resume at noon
A full list of activities for Orientation and Get Connected will be posted here on June 1st!
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Orientation Monday, May 4, 2015
9 to 9:10 a.m.
Welcome and introduction (Room 121)
9:10 to 10:10 a.m.
Program information session (Room 121)
10:10 to 10:30 a.m.
Program breakout – student services (Front foyer in front of student lounge)
10:30 to 11 a.m.
Computer lab (Room 119)
11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Student cards (Front foyer), Ask me table, GCSA table, Parking pass (front reception)
11:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
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UCI wins landmark anti-doping verdicts
GENEVA Italian rider Franco Pellizotti was found guilty of doping and banned for two years Tuesday in a landmark victory for cycling's blood profiling program.
The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that evidence of blood doping was confirmed in Pellizotti's biological passport profile. He was stripped of all his race results since May 2009.
Pellizotti, whose ban runs through May 2, 2012, loses his third-place finish at the 2009 Giro d'Italia and his King of the Mountains title at the 2009 Tour de France. He also must pay the International Cycling Union a fine of $160,000, CAS said.
Cycling's governing body welcomed the court's endorsement of its flagship project to catch drug cheats.
"We always were convinced of the quality of our anti-doping program and the work of our scientific people," UCI spokesman Enrico Carpani said in a telephone interview.
Cycling's governing body appealed to CAS after he was cleared by an Italian anti-doping court last October.
The UCI said CAS also rejected Pietro Caucchioli's appeal against his two-year suspension imposed by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) on the basis of biological passport results.
Pellizotti and Caucchioli never tested positive for banned drugs but showed irregular results in blood samples taken for their biological passport.
The verdicts are the first issued by CAS appeal panels that have examined the scientific and legal validity of the biological passport. The program was designed so that scientists can prove evidence of the effects of doping rather than trace and test for banned substances.
The CAS panel "reviewed in detail the biological passport program applied by the UCI and has found that the strict application of such program could be considered as a reliable means of detecting indirect doping methods," it said in a statement.
The project was launched by the UCI and the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2008.
"Both of these cases are important for cycling, for the biological passport and for sport," Carpani said. "Thanks to the good cooperation of WADA, we were sure we could go in front of CAS with a strong case."
WADA director general David Howman said the verdicts were a "significant step" in anti-doping efforts.
"The athlete biological passport program has proven it can withstand legal and scientific challenges. These decisions send a strong message to those athletes who take the risk to cheat that we will ultimately catch them," Howman said in a statement.
Pellizotti's case was heard at the Lausanne-based court last Wednesday as the fourth, and highest profile, test of the biological passport.
The 33-year-old rider had been one of the favorites for the 2010 Giro d'Italia. Days before the three-week race started last May, Pellizotti was suspended by his Liquigas team after the UCI said his blood profile results were suspicious.
The case was handled by CONI, which recommended that its anti-doping court impose a two-year ban. However, the panel ruled last October that the evidence did not prove Pellizotti's guilt.
Pellizotti, who has not raced since, also appealed to CAS seeking damages from the UCI.

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Pioneering R&M levels up from dried mangoes
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It's been said that the early bird catches the worm, but sometimes the second mouse gets the cheese. In business, as in any other race, there are risks with being first.
For one, those who seek the rewards of fulfillment and success as pioneers must learn to deal with copycats.
When a product becomes successful, copycats can skip the initial hit-and-miss in development and can improve on it. Worse, poorly made copies can give the original products a bad reputation, but that is why innovators must build a brand—something clients can identify and trust as the real thing.
"We always innovate to get a step ahead of copycats and we keep on expanding our reach. We are always looking for new customers while keeping our existing ones happy with consistent quality," says Erwin Richard T. Siao, whose parents pioneered making and selling dried mangoes that Japanese, Koreans and most foreign buyers are crazy for, not to mention a lot of locals.
R&M Preserves started in 1970 with dried mango and has since expanded to making dried pineapple, dried papaya, dried jackfruit and dried lemon (kalamansi), along with its varied
range of tropical juices, mango juice concentrates and mango puree.
From its early days as a small business that started the dried mango craze, R&M is still filled with the pioneering spirit, but is also looking ahead.
The company's latest innovation, R&M's Choco Mangga, has taken the humble dried mango to a new level. Choco Mangga is made of chewy mango strips half-covered in velvety chocolate.
The product, which comes in dark and white chocolate variants, is the only brand of its class to have received the Golden Shell Award, according to Erwin Richard's better half, Frances Marguerite M. Siao. Another product paired with chocolate is the dried pineapple, which is also being snapped up as another sweet treat from the Philippines.
Looking ahead, the Siaos are educating their children about the business and training them to value their blessings. "We tell them about how our parents started the business, the hardships they went through. We expose them to work in various aspects of the business," Siao says.
Training their children to value what they have, the Siaos allow them to work during summer and whenever they have free time. Usually it's to work as staff at various fast-food chains and coffee shops.
"I've heard my children say, why should I buy a cup of that coffee when it costs as much as my daily salary?" Siao says.
Along with the work comes family bonding to balance the hardworking attitude that permeates their daily lives. "It's important to keep bonding as a family. We have cocktails with our more grown-up children; we're cool parents. We'd rather they first experience it with us than with others. During holidays like Christmas and New Year, we usually spend it together abroad so that we can really bond and spend time together," Siao says.
There is still a long way to go before passing on the torch, and even when that time comes it will be up to the young ones to decide who would help carry on with the business. "We hope they will help keep it up but we just expose them, we will not force them. Whoever wants to get more involved, in the end it's really up to them," Siao says.
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U.S. enjoy 4-0 victory over Guatemala
February 19, 2006
FRISCO, Texas (Reuters) – The U.S. enjoyed a 4-0 victory
over Guatemala on Sunday, their third straight win as they
prepare for the soccer World Cup finals in June.
Midfielder Chris Klein scored once and assisted in two
other goals in the friendly played in sub-zero temperatures in
the Pizza Hut Park.
Goals by Bel Olsen and Brian Ching gave the U.S. a 2-0 lead
at the break and Eddie Johnson got on the scoresheet just after
the interval before Klein chipped in with a fourth.
Guatemala captain Julio Giron and Juan Carlos Plata both
announced their retirement after the game.
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Colts confirm they will take Luck
Do not expect any surprises with the first pick of the upcoming NFL Draft.
Indianapolis Colts general manger Ryan Grigson confirmed Tuesday what everybody in football already knew, telling reporters the team would use the top overall pick to select star quarterback Andrew Luck.
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"In fairness to Andrew Luck and in fairness to the whole process — the media gantlet he's going to be enduring the next couple days — I thought it was the right thing to do to announce that we're going to take him," said Grigson.
"I didn't see the point in prolonging what the world already knows."
The Stanford signal caller will officially begin the task of filling the shoes of four-time MVP Peyton Manning when the Colts call his name Thursday at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
The Colts are confident Luck can carry the torch that burned brightly for over a decade under Manning, who the team selected first overall in the 1998 draft.
New Colts head coach Chuck Pagano said Tuesday he would sleep a little better knowing he had someone of Luck's caliber joining the team.
"We've got a great one for years to come," Pagano said. "It's another piece of the puzzle that we feel really good about, obviously."
Indianapolis landed the top pick following an abysmal 2-14 season, in which the 35-year-old Manning was absent due to a series of offseason neck surgeries.
Team owner Jim Irsay decided to clean house after the disappointing campaign, parting ways with longtime vice chairman Bill Polian, general manager Chris Polian and head coach Jim Caldwell.
Irsay then decided to roll the dice on drafting Luck as the team's quarterback of the future by opting out of Manning's contract and allowing the franchise's biggest star to eventually sign with the Denver Broncos.
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Gay Cinema Touchstones: Suddenly Last Summer
Suddenly Last Summer... "The one they're all talking about!"
Have you seen the classic queer cinema documentary The Celluloid Closet recently? Whenever I see an older film with gay content I find myself reflexively referencing that documentary. Did they cover it? If they didn't could it fit easily into the historical narrative they mapped out there? I know that Suddenly Last Summer (1959) is referenced, but I can't begin to recall in what context or which clip was shown. The film has a dark stickiness to it that is hard to shake for days afterwards and I've just rewatched it last week so I'm still in its swampy hot presence.
In high school English I became totally smitten with the Tennessee Williams classics. This worried my mother because she picked up on everything gay long before I did though she was too religious to ever name that unspeakable concern. (She gave me the same look when I fell hard for Cabaret though the most she would say by way of explanation was that it was "disgusting"). Hollywood as an industry is perhaps a little more akin to a frightened parent than their gay child; Showbiz loved, nurtured and produced endless gaybies but always had issues with their gayness!
Case in point: Hollywood couldn't stop making film versions of Tennessee Williams plays in the 50s and 60s but his celebrated plays rarely made it through the adaptation process intact. Usually they were marred by censorship of some kind whether outwardly imposed or stemming from a lack of nerve about their sexual content. A Streetcar Named Desire, a total masterpiece of both stage and screen, is arguably the only film version you could safely call definitive. Wouldn't it be great to see more cinematic versions of his work? How many film versions of Shakespeare plays have we had at this point? Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterwork so why is there only one big screen Cat, for example?
It's hard to imagine someone remaking Suddenly Last Summer … but shouldn't someone try? The material is so ripe for interpretative leeway since it's so strange and unfilmable, a one act consisting of just two long monologues. If Tennessee enjoyed Shakespeare's reputation (and why shouldn't he? Let's not succumb to pop culture's view of Shakespeare as the only masterful and important playwright) it might well be named one of his "problem plays" but the problem is perhaps not the play itself but how unsuited it is for traditional narrative film adaptation. Naturally the movie had to take liberties with expansion and characters and a more conversational approach. Tennessee Williams hated it but artists aren't always the best judges of their own work.
For those who are unfamiliar Suddenly Last Summer takes place after the wealthy Violet Venable's (Katharine Hepburn) son Sebastian has died under questionable circumstances on a summer vacation with his beautiful cousin Catherine (Elizabeth Taylor). Catherine has been locked up since either spouting gibberish about the incident that no one believes or understands or forgetting the details of the event entirely. Enter the neurosurgeon Dr. Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) who Violet hopes will Vlobotomize Catherine… carve those hateful gibberish lies right out of her brain! Essentially Suddenly Last Summer is a war over who owns the truth, but it's also in its peculiarly evasive way, a psychological horror movie about predatory gays.
Despite its flaws and the lurid material, there's quite a lot about it that's worth loving. Take the unsubtle but often brilliant Production Design (Oscar nominated), which brings the wildness of nature right into the home. The most ingenius move of the filmmaking team is to make dead Sebastian a more vivid tangible presence in death through constant referencing in background objects (paintings, memorabilia, skeletons), than he is in flashbacks where his face is always obscured. No one really knew or understood him, did they? Consider the strange meta dialogue between the doomed mythology of Montgomery Clift, one of Hollywood's greatest and most tragic stars, and the fused specter of both death and queerness that's so central to the movie. Know that you can have a ton of fun chasing almost any of Hepburn's campily incestuous line readings with a Heathers shout out:
Some future production of Suddenly Last Summer might conceivably top and complicate and rescue the 1959 film version with the distance and perspective of a post-homobic* world, but good luck trying to top its indelible leading actresses. They were both nominated for Oscars. Elizabeth Taylor was at the absolute peak of her legendary beauty in the 1950s but she was also knocking performances out of the park and this is one of her very best. She careens from self-possessed to just possessed and her big moments are like molotov cocktails of provocation, carnality, confession, memory, and post traumatic stress disorder. Hepburn's imperiously cruel and delusional matriarch is something else entirely, a camp classic in and of itself. It's worth noting that Hepburn never joined in on the popular 1960s fad of Grande Dame Guignol Horror (aka "Hag Horror") that her peers Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Olivia de Havilland all participated in. Suddenly Last Summer is as close as she ever got to that endlessly fascinating sub genre that was long dead and buried until Ryan Murphy met Jessica Lange and they dug up its corpse.
Suddenly Last Summer is not a lost Hag Horror classic, don't misunderstand. It's something far more singular. It may well be its own genre of one: Fag-Hag Horror. When Violet and Catherine finally clash in the film's last mesmerizing act, Catherine terrifies Violet with the truth of their similar roles in Sebastian's lives.
"We procured for him!"
She says with contempt and says it repeatedly. Is she horrified by her own life choices, or the man she loved that didn't love her back? Or both? And here both women are again, repetitively warring over the soul and loyalty of another man who doesn't love them in quite the same way. And one who so reminds them of Sebastian.
*We are not living in a post-homophobic world, of course. But, to twist the comforting ubiquitous current LGBT mantra, "It Got Better!"
Nathaniel Rogers would live in the movie theater but for the poor internet reception. He blogs daily at the Film Experience. Follow him on Twitter @nathanielr.
It's a bizarre film to be sure. And sad to view due to the fact that Clift was in pretty poor shape here. It would appear he was heavily under the influence of something during filming (he was addicted to painkillers after his accident); in this film he's just barely hanging on by his fingernails, barely able to speak his lines.
This WAS filmed a second time, for television; the television version stuck to the script of the play. The remake was more open with the gay content, but (in my mind) considerably less entertaining and melodramatic.
Posted by: octobercountry | Aug 17, 2014 2:48:31 PM
Amazing film..
Posted by: Rob | Aug 17, 2014 2:49:12 PM
I've always been surprised that this film ever got made, considering the lurid content. It's certainly some kind of classic. I'd love to see the tv version. Anyone know if it can be accessed somehow?
Posted by: throwslikeagirl | Aug 17, 2014 3:01:53 PM
any film people know if there is a lost kinescope out there? as a long time fan of all the players, including tennessee, i would love to see that as well.
Posted by: bandanajack | Aug 17, 2014 3:19:00 PM
There's a 1993 BBC version of "Suddenly Last Summer" with Maggie Smith as Violet and Rob Lowe as the doctor, available on Netflix DVD.
Posted by: Jeff Atwood | Aug 17, 2014 3:37:04 PM
This was a much more interesting article than those ridiculous articles nominating everybody and his garbageman for gay icon status.
Posted by: odee | Aug 17, 2014 3:50:22 PM
the murder scene is what is referenced in The Celluloid Closet.
Posted by: Eric | Aug 17, 2014 3:50:48 PM
Thanks, Jeff! I just added it to my Netflix queue.
Posted by: throwslikeagirl | Aug 17, 2014 3:51:19 PM
Sebastian, a gay poet, uses Elizabeth Taylor to seduce the young men HE wants to sleep with -- and later is cannibalized by the young men. Gore Vidal wrote the screenplay based of Tennessee's one-act play.
I love Tennessee's baroque sensibility. Unlike other playwrights of his day (or ours), Tennessee threw in madness and rape (Streetcar), pill popping and castration (Sweet Bird of Youth), a labotomy and cannibalism (Suddenly Last Summer). He was great and wrote in his own unique style. It must have been like cool, fresh water for audiences in the 1940s and 50s.
Posted by: will | Aug 17, 2014 4:12:13 PM
Actually, Octobercountry, Clift still had a few good movies in him. Persnoally, I thought he was great in "Wild River".
Posted by: Mike in the Tundra | Aug 17, 2014 4:13:21 PM
So I was lucky enough to attend a lecture by Vito Russo where he referenced this movie, and compared the gay character to other "monsters" that must be destroyed at the end of the movie. He talked about himself sympathizing with movie monsters, knowing what it felt like to feel both misunderstood and persecuted -- he also intercut the lecture with clips from Bugs Bunny and the Monster cartoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLdKU4JCYqg The Bad Seed, and Bride of Frankenstein. **SPOILER*** Another interesting factoid if I remember it right, the fact that the movie would have probably been censored more if the character hadn't met a grotesque end. The fact that the gay character got devoured made it okay to have a gay character.
Posted by: Nick | Aug 17, 2014 4:15:08 PM
I love this write-up. Had forgotten about this gem. Thanks, Nathaniel.
Posted by: T.s. | Aug 17, 2014 4:22:34 PM
I watched this film once on commercial TV and right after Taylor's magnificent monologue, they cut to one of those big burly bare-chested "Come To Jamaica" commercials. I almost died of hysterics. Ah Jamaica, so "friendly" to gays...
Posted by: Gunga Dean | Aug 17, 2014 4:54:41 PM
Why is the pic above captioned "Liz dreams of beautiful men"? She was refering to Sebastian's tastes when she said "Blondes were next on the menu"… Was this supposed to be clever or just factually incorrect?
I was also surprised that this film ever got past the censors, although by the end of the 50s things were loosening up; I suppose Tennessee Williams had some clout too — the film is wonderfully twisted and every actor wonderful (I think of Kate's entrance as Violet, as she descends in her elevator). I need to watch this again.
Posted by: tinkerbelle | Aug 17, 2014 5:04:48 PM
You can rent Suddenly last summer on Amazon streaming...netflix- you have to get the dvd.
Posted by: woodroad34 | Aug 17, 2014 5:35:13 PM
A true classic
Posted by: jarago | Aug 17, 2014 5:48:11 PM
To be the contrarian here, but "Suddenly Last Summer" is a mess of a movie. It depends on Montgomery Clift's character being dense and slow-witted. "I don't understand..." seems to be his usual response to the revelations about Sebastian, as if he has never heard of a homosexual. Elizabeth Taylor is stunning - and the white bathing suit became iconic - but acts up a storm and not in a good way. Katharine Hepburn is my favorite actress, but this is a rare one-note performance.
This is not to take away anything from Mr. Williams who wrote two of the four greatest American plays, "Glass Menagerie," and "Streetcar." The others being, "Death of a Salesman," and "Long Day's Journey into Night."
Posted by: gr8guya | Aug 17, 2014 6:50:12 PM
Good analysis. But Elizabeth Taylor is so beautiful, though, that it's beside the point even after all this time. "Suddenly Last Summer" documents for all time how lovely she was.
Posted by: elg | Aug 17, 2014 7:12:28 PM
I enjoyed this article a lot. But it's important to add that the screenplay adaptation was written by Gore Vidal (although Williams was credited at the time). A great gay writer adapting the work of an even greater gay writer. I find the film, and Vidal's screenplay, better than the play (not one of Williams' greats). I've always wondered if that's one of the reasons Williams hated the film.
I also think that the great, great film director Joe Mankiewicz (All About Eve, Letter to Three Wives) deserves mention for why this odd film is so watchable. Apparently he didn't get along with his cast at all and apparently Hepburn spit in his face after her last shot, but what a film he made.
Regarding the censorship: it is surprising the movie was made in 1959. But the producer Sam Spiegel asked the Production Code for a waiver, which was granted because Sebastian's bad end showed the horrors of homosexuality.
I disagree with the notion that a remake in a "post-homophobic" time would "rescue" the material. The times that Tennessee Williams lived and wrote in, the unspeakableness of homosexuality, and his own internalized feelings are a vital part of his writing, and infuse the gay undercurrents of so much of his work. I think the fact that this film was made when it was made is part of the fascination and thrill of watching it.
I also am not sure if a big screen remake of Cat would prove more insightful/enjoyable than the 1958 film. Although the material was censored, a lot of the beauty of the language and the ideas of the play are there to be enjoyed over and over in the film. As we've seen with TV performances (Natalie Wood/Robert Wagner, Jessica Lange/Tommy Lee Jones) of the unedited play (well, he wrote various versions but the 1973 version that was "final") and with Broadway revivals, no one but no one can match Taylor, Newman and Burl Ives. At least none that I've seen yet.
I feel the same way about Suddenly Last Summer. The Maggie Smith/Rob Lowe/Natasha Richardson version reminded me of how glorious Hepburn, Taylor and Monty (even post-accident, painkiller-addicted Monty) were.
Posted by: Robert | Aug 17, 2014 7:36:49 PM
"Fag-hag horror". I love it! I now have a title for my memoirs. To paraphrase Henny Youngman; "Take my boyfriend's fag-hag...PLEASE!!!!
Posted by: Bill | Aug 17, 2014 7:48:11 PM
Oh, yes! I saw it the summer it was released, the same summer I graduated from high school. You might say it was "formative" for me, then again, you might say it was a warning about how grown-ups act, and then finally, it was the first movie I ever saw that validated the fact that we (gays!) exist. Imagine that?
Posted by: Michael | Aug 17, 2014 7:52:32 PM
The Maggie Smith version is on YouTube in six parts. The production is more theatrical than the movie, with Smith's Violet less a 'star turn' than Hepburn's, and for me, somewhat the better for it. There's also a snippet of the Roundabout Theatre production, with Blythe Danner playing Angela Lansbury playing Violet Venable.
Posted by: Aunt Sharon | Aug 17, 2014 8:20:11 PM
An odd and powerful film to be sure, this from one who does not jump on bandwagons. Liz was wonderful, Monty too, but cannibalizing someone? That's stupid. T. Williams' terrible sick streak made his stories depressing and joyless. They made you feel that life was basically, intrinsically ugly and that, indeed, cannibals wait at the bottom to devour our joy along with our lives. How pathetically, lunaticly "Southern" he was. Catharsis is one thing, immersion in the perverse is crap.
Posted by: UFFDA | Aug 17, 2014 8:24:17 PM
I have seen this movie on television and the gay censorship is appalling. The gay character of Sebastian is shown only briefly and from the neck down - they refuse to show his face or head. He was a headless man! Both funny and sad by today's standards.
A very bizarre movie that is worth seeing simply because it is so bizarre.
Posted by: David From Canada | Aug 17, 2014 8:45:21 PM
Love this movie. It may not be everything a great movie can be, but it's Williams, Taylor, Hepburn and Clift. I can't imagine all the story that went over people's heads at the time but this is subversive drama, interesting themes and great acting. Everyone I have shared this movie with has loved it.
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A system for the disposal of medical waste comprises a sharps container (12) and a nonsharps container (14). The sharps container (12) is interconnected to the nonsharps container (14) for convenience. The sharps container (12) has an open end (18) with a semitortuous path therethrough which helps retain sharps within the sharps container (12). The nonsharps container (14) may also include an attachment holder (16 or 17) which is engaged thereon. A header (20) is positioned in an open end (22) of the nonsharps container (14). Medical nonsharps are disposed of by depositing them within the nonsharps container (14) through the header (20).
1. A container for receiving medical sharps, comprising:
a receptacle having an open end for receiving the sharps therethrough and a main body for storing the sharps therein; and
constricting means having a portion integral to the container, and further including a plastic, snap-in insert substantially between said open end and said main body of said receptacle for restricting access to said main body and for retaining the medical sharps within said main body of said receptacle, wherein said constricting means portion comprises a wide mouth, a substantially rigid reduced diameter throat having a length connecting said mouth to said main body, and a taper from said mouth to said throat wherein a progressively constricted access to said receptacle is formed.
2. The container of claim 1, wherein said receptacle comprises:
a rigid walled structure generally puncture resistent to the sharps.
3. The container of claim 2, wherein said rigid walled structure comprises polycarbonate.
4. The container of claim 2, wherein said rigid walled structure comprises polypropylene.
5. The container of claim 1, further including:
a cap for enclosing the container.
6. The container of claim 1, further including means for externally interconnecting an attachment to the container.
7. The container of claim 6, wherein said attachment comprises another externally adjacent container.
8. The container of claim 1, wherein said open end is adapted to removably receive a syringe needle capping and uncapping device which fits partially within said open end.
9. The container of claim 1, wherein at least a portion of said main body is semi-transparent to permit external observation of contents of said main body.
10. The container of claim 9, wherein the container comprises polycarbonate.
11. The container of claim 9, wherein the container comprises polypropylene.
12. A container for medical nonsharps, comprising;
a bag assembly including at least one bag and a header having a slot therein; and
support means for supporting said bag assembly, said support means including a first member for receiving a first side portion of said one bag while said header holds a second side portion of said bag opposite said first side portion, wherein said header orients said bag relative to said support means in order to provide an opening in said bag for receiving nonsharps inserted through said slot of said header.
13. The container of claim 12, wherein said at least one bag comprises:
a plurality of flexible plastic bags, wherein during use only one of said bags is oriented for receiving nonsharps through said slot.
14. The container of claim 13, wherein said plastic bags further comprise:
means for sealing each of said bags.
15. The container of claim 14, wherein said means for sealing comprises:
a removably covered adhesive strip on each of said bags.
16. The container of claim 12, wherein said bag is attached to said header by sonic bonding.
17. The container of claim 12, wherein said support means comprises:
a rigid walled structure constructed and arranged to receive said bag assembly with said at least one bag suspended therein.
18. The container of claim 17, wherein said rigid structure comprises ABS.
19. The container of claim 17, wherein said rigid structure comprises high impact polystyrene.
20. The container of claim 12, wherein said header further comprises:
a first member having said feed slot therethrough; and
means for attaching said first member to said means for supporting.
21. The container of claim 20, wherein said means for attaching comprises:
a first hinged flap on one edge of said first member matingly received by said support means; and
another hinged flap on an edge of said first member opposite said first flap, wherein said other hinged flap is matingly received by said support means with said first member positioned between said first flap and said other flap.
22. The container of claim 20, wherein said feed slot is generally oval.
23. The container of claim 20, wherein said feed slot further includes an opening protector.
24. The container of claim 20, wherein said feed slot is smaller than said opening for receiving the nonsharps.
25. The container of claim 20, further including means for interconnecting at least one attachment to the container.
26. The container of claim 25, wherein said means for interconnecting comprises:
at least one Y-shaped slot on a wall of the container for receiving a tab on said attachment, said Y-shaped slot including a flap, wherein upon insertion of said tab into said slot, said flap locks said tab therein.
27. The container of claim 26, wherein said tab comprises a T-shaped locking tab.
28. The container of claim 25, wherein said attachment comprises another container.
29. The container of claim 28, wherein said other container comprises:
a medical glove dispenser.
30. The container of claim 12, further comprising means for mounting the container to a vertical surface.
31. A container for receiving medical sharps, comprising:
a receptacle having an open end for receiving the sharps therethrough and a main body for storing the sharps therein;
constricting means integral to the container and substantially between said open end and said main body of said receptacle for restricting access to said main body and for retaining the medical sharps within said main body of said receptacle, wherein said constricting means comprises a wide mouth, a substantially rigid reduced diameter throat having a length connecting said mouth to said main body, and a taper from said mouth to said throat wherein a progressively constricted access to said receptacle is formed; and
a cap for enclosing the container, wherein said cap is stored in a sidewall of the container, said sidewall formed to define a recess for receiving said cap.
32. The container of claim 31, wherein said recess is into said sidewall such that said cap is substantially flush with said sidewall when positioned in said recess.
33. The container of claim 31, wherein said cap is shaped to be received within said constricting means.
34. The container of claim 33, wherein said constricting means further comprises:
retaining members for snapping said cap in place in said constricting means to close the container.
35. A medical disposal device, comprising:
a nonsharps container adapted for receiving at least one disposable receptacle therein in an open orientation;
a disposable sharps container; and
interconnection means for attaching said sharps container to said nonsharps container, including:
a holder removably attached to said nonsharps container, wherein a tab on the holder fits into a Y-shaped slot on a wall of the nonsharps container, said Y-shaped slot including a flap, wherein upon insertion of said tab into said slot, said flap locks said tab therein.
36. The device of claim 35, further comprising:
a bracket for attachment of the device to a vertical surface.
37. A medical disposal device comprising:
a nonsharps container comprising:
(a) a plurality of disposable receptacles for receiving nonsharps;
(b) means for supporting said receptacles;
(c) header means associated with said means for supporting, wherein one of said receptacles is positioned on said means for supporting and said header means, in an open orientation to receive said nonsharps;
a disposable sharps container; and
interconnection means for attaching said sharps container to said nonsharps container.
38. The device of claim 37, wherein said plurality of disposable receptacles comprises:
flexible plastic bags.
39. The device of claim 38, wherein said plastic bags further comprise:
means for sealing each of said bags prior to disposal of said bags.
40. The device of claim 37, wherein said means for supporting comprises:
a structure constructed and arranged to receive said header means with said disposable receptacles depending therefrom.
41. The device of claim 37, wherein said header means comprises:
a first member having a feed slot therethrough; and
means for attaching said first member to said means for supporting.
42. A header for use with a medical disposables container, comprising:
a first member having an opening slot therethrough;
means for attaching said member to a support integral to the container, said means for attaching comprising a first slotted portion for receiving a first flap of said first member and a second slotted portion spaced apart from said first slotted portion for receiving a second flap of said member wherein said opening slot is positioned between said first and second slotted portions; and
receiving means interconnected to said member and said support, wherein the disposables are deposited in said receiving means through said opening slot in said member.
This invention relates in general to devices for disposal of medical waste, and in particular to a system wherein medical sharps and medical non-sharps are disposed.
In medical and health-related industries, the fear of contamination from contact with bodily fluids has become a concern to all. Medical personnel now routinely wear protective garments such as masks and latex gloves whenever they may come into contact with bodily fluids. Similarly, fear of contamination requires careful handling and disposal of all items that have been in contact with bodily fluids. For example, needles, syringes, scalpels, and bandages are all collected for sanitary disposal after use. Typically, sanitary disposal includes autoclaving prior to landfilling or high temperature incineration of such items to prevent accidental contact. Since there are over 3 billion syringes (not to mention scalpels) used in the United States every year, safe and economical disposal of these contaminated items is no small concern. Additionally, there are ever increasing Federal and State regulatory requirements for the tracking of waste materials including the use of proper packaging and transportation of such materials.
The safety precautions for handling these items after use but prior to final disposal have been less than optimum. After needles and syringe bodies were used to draw blood or make an injection, they were often disposed by being tossed into a plastic garbage bag or a trash receptacle. Obviously, this was unsafe as when the garbage bag was gathered for removal or the trash can was emptied, the sharps (needles) could easily puncture anyone handling the trash.
The Environmental Protection Agency is currently operating under a test act known as the Medical Waste Tracking Act of 1988. This test act creates classifications of medical waste including sharps, such as needles, glass, scalpel blades and other discarded equipment in contact with bodily fluids and non-sharps, such as biological waste, discarded surgical materials (gauze), scalpel handles, syringe bodies and other waste deemed to be a health threat. The Act has the aim of protecting the public from exposure to waste materials. In addition, OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) now requires sharps containers to have rigid or semirigid walls to resist puncture therethrough by sharps. Since the containers are required to be located in close proximity to all locations where sharps are used, these containers are generally quite small to prevent waste of valuable space and to facilitate ease of handling. Thus, if the sharps are deposited in one of these small containers, the container will become filled quite rapidly. Therefore, the per unit cost of a small container with puncture resistant walls can become expensive for the disposal of medical instruments, as proper disposal generally requires costly land filling of or incineration of the container along with its contents.
One example of a device that is frequently used for the disposal of sharps is known as a WALL SAFE manufactured by Bemis, Inc. The WALL SAFE resembles a mail box in that a syringe needle and attached syringe body may be laid into a horizontal chamber exposed by lifting a handle. Once the syringe is in position, the handle is dropped and the syringe is deposited into the attached container. Thus, the device requires use of both hands in a two step process which is inconvenient. The WALL SAFE is relatively small and will hold only between 85-100 syringes, thus filling quite rapidly therefore is relatively expensive. In addition, the WALL SAFE is made from polypropylene which has a tendency to soften during the autoclave process allowing some of the sharps to penetrate therethrough.
A device for the separation and disposal of medical sharps and non-sharps is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,807,344 to Kelson et al. Kelson provides an electric device capable of removing and disposing of blood sampling needles from a test tube or syringe body. Once the needle is removed, it is dropped into a container upon which the electric removing device is positioned. The electric removing device of Kelson can be expensive and inconvenient as it obviously requires an electrical outlet. Additionally the Kelson device is designed to merely remove a needle from the syringe body and does not provide for disposal of the syringe body.
Another device for the disposal of medical appliances is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,452,358 to Simpson. In one embodiment of Simpson, a syringe needle may be bent, and the entire needle and attached syringe body may then be deposited therein for disposal. In an alternative embodiment, the needle may be removed from the syringe body and deposited into the container while the syringe body may be saved. Thus, in the first embodiment, the container will become rapidly filled due to the bulky syringe bodies. In the alternative embodiment the container will not become filled as rapidly only if all the syringe bodies are saved for reuse but still presents a small container which can be rapidly filled. Thus, there is a need for a system which provides for the safe, convenient and economical disposal of medical sharps and nonsharps.
The present invention disclosed herein comprises a method and apparatus for the disposal of medical waste which greatly reduces problems associated with prior methods of disposal. The present invention allows the sanitary disposal of medical sharps and the disposal of medical nonsharps in separate containers which may be interconnected for convenience.
In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a medical disposal system comprises a nonsharps container and a disposable sharps container removably interconnected thereto. The sharps container is preferably interconnected to the nonsharps container by engagement with a holder locked into position on the nonsharps container. The device may be adapted for attachment to a vertical surface such as a wall by a bracket. An additional optional holder may also be attached to the system by any appropriate means such as by locking into position.
The nonsharps container comprises at least one disposable receptacle for receiving the nonsharps. A header associated with a supporting device is provided to support the disposable receptacle in an upright and open arrangement to allow deposit therein of nonsharps. The disposable receptacle preferably comprises flexible plastic bags having a removably covered adhesive strip for sealing of the bag prior to disposal of the bag and its contents.
The sharps container comprises a receptacle having an open end with a constricted entrance and an optional insert. The constricted entrance and optional insert provide a semitortuous path to reduce the likelihood of sharps deposited therein to spill out. When the sharps container is filled, a snap on cap is applied over the open end to seal the container for disposal.
For a more complete understanding of the invention and for further advantages thereof, reference is now made to the following Detailed Description taken in conjunction with the accompanying Drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a front elevational view of a disposal system constructed in accordance with the preferred embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 2 is an exploded perspective view of the disposal system of FIG. 1;
FIGS. 3a-c are front, rear and side elevational views, respectively, of a sharps container;
FIG. 4 is a top plan view of the sharps container of FIG. 3;
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the sharps container of FIG. 3a along the line 5--5;
FIG. 6 is a top plan view of a cap used in conjunction with the container of FIG. 3;
FIG. 6a is a top plan view of a snap-in insert;
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional view of a nonsharps container;
FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a disposable bag used in conjunction with the present invention; and
FIGS. 9a and 9b are views of a holder used in accordance with the present invention.
In FIGS. 1-9, like items are identified by like and corresponding numerals for ease of reference. Referring first to FIG. 1, a front elevational view of a system incorporating the preferred embodiment of the present invention is generally identified by the reference numeral 10. The system 10 comprises a sharps disposal container 12, a nonsharps disposal container 14 and identical attachment holders 16 and 17.
The system 10 is designed for placement in a medical facility where it may be either free standing or attached to a vertical surface such as a wall. The system 10 is a compact device capable of safely disposing both sharp medical waste and nonsharp medical waste in one sanitary interconnected system.
The sharps disposal container 12 is removably attached to the nonsharps disposal container 14 by the attachment holder 16. Therefore, if the sharps disposal container 12 becomes full, it is merely necessary to remove the container 12 from the holder 16. An empty sharps disposal container may then be put into place on the holder 16 (or the holder 17). The sharps disposal container 12 is particularly adapted for use in conjunction with a device 32 capable of allowing safe capping, uncapping and separation of a syringe needle such as a RECAPPER offered for sale by the assignee herein, On-Gard Systems, Inc., of Denver, Colo. An open end 18 is provided on the container 12 for receiving the sharps therethrough.
The nonsharps disposal container 14 includes a header 20 removably attached thereto at an open end 22. As will be subsequently described in greater detail, the header 20 is associated with a support structure for positioning at least one disposable receptacle within the container 14. The container 14 may be provided with a bracket 38 (See FIG. 2) or other similar device for attachment to a vertical surface.
The holders 16 and 17 are removably attached to the container 14 such as by a snap lock engagement, as will be subsequently described in greater detail. The holders 16 and 17 may also be used to hold other medical devices such as the capping/uncapping safety device 32 as previously discussed above. Alternatively, a medical glove dispenser 136 (see FIG. 2) or any other medical products dispenser (such as caps, masks, gowns, etc.) may be installed on the container 14.
Referring to FIG. 2, an exploded perspective view of the system 10 is shown. The sharps disposal container 12 may serve as a stand alone unit or may be removably attached to the nonsharps disposal container 14. Optionally, the container 12 may be attached to a vertical surface as a single unit by attaching the holder 16 or 17 to the vertical surface.
The container 12 may comprise any suitable material which resists punctures therethrough by sharps. Some materials that are particularly suitable for formation of the container 12 are polycarbonate and polypropylene. In the preferred embodiment, the container 12 is formed by blow-molding translucent (to allow external inspection of the contents) polycarbonate. The container 12 receives sharps through the open end 18, which is preferably provided with a semitortuous path to limit spillage of the contents from the container 12. The tortuous path is provided by constricting the open end 18 as will be subsequently described in greater detail. Additionally, a snap-in insert 65a (see FIG. 6a) may be inserted into the open end 18 to further restrict entry therethrough. The insert 65a is formed from any suitable material such as plastic and is provided with a plurality of interference fingers 140. As previously described above, the capping/uncapping device 32 may be used in conjunction with the system 10, and the open end 18 is therefore adapted to receive and hold the device 32.
Referring to FIGS. 3a-c, 4 and 5, the container 12 is shown in greater detail . The open end 18 is formed with a wide mouth 78 (FIG. 4) that gradually tapers inwardly at 79 to a reduced diameter throat 80. The throat 80 has a length sufficient to separate the mouth 78 from the main body 82 and is then connected to the main body 82 of the container 12. A semi-tortuous path is thus formed to help reduce the likelihood of any sharps spilling from the container 12. Additionally, the throat 80 (and the separation of the mouth 78 from the main body 82 thereby) and the insert 65a (see FIG. 6a) reduces the ability of an individual to insert fingers into the container 12 thereby reducing injuries to the fingers.
The taper 79 has a plurality of locking flaps 84 which are used to secure a cap 65 or insert 65a (See FIGS. 6 and 6a) to the open end 18. By placing the cap 65 over the open end 18 and pushing downwardly, the cap 65 will be securely locked in place by locking flaps 84 to seal the container 12. The cap 65 which may comprise polycarbonate or any other appropriately durable material is die cut separately from the container 12 and fits snugly within a recess portion 86 (See FIG. 3b) until the container 12 is filled with disposable sharps. The recess 86 is preferably formed with finger notches 88 to assist in the removal of the cap 65 from the recess portion 86. As will be subsequently described in greater detail, the locking flaps 84 are also used to secure the container 12 to the holders 16 or 17.
The main body 82 of the container 12 has a generally flat front wall 90 (See FIGS. 3a and 3c), a generally flat rear wall 92 (See FIGS. 3b and 3c), and generally curved sidewalls 94 (See FIG. 4). The throat 80 has correspondingly shaped walls to match the walls 90, 92 and 94 of the main body 82. Thus, the throat 80 can be seen to have oppositely facing flat walls 96 and 98 (See FIG. 4) further constricting the open end 18.
Referring to FIG. 5, a cross-sectional view of the container 12 is shown along the line 5--5 of FIG. 3a illustrating the structure of the container 12. By blow-molding translucent polycarbonate, a relatively thin-walled, yet highly puncture resistant structure may be formed in one piece. Thus, the use of a relatively expensive material such as polycarbonate may be offset by decreasing cycle time and by eliminating the need for multiple molds and the associated assembly costs.
Referring again to FIG. 2, the container 14 comprises a suitably rigid material such as, for example, ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) or high impact polystyrene, which is capable of supporting the header 20 within the open end 22. Appropriate receiving slots 33, 34 and 36 are provided for receiving the header 20, as will be subsequently described in greater detail. The container 14 may be placed on a horizontal surface or may be used in conjunction with a wall bracket 38 for attachment to a vertical surface. The bracket 38 has vertical flanges 100 with locking arms 102 (only one of which is shown) for locking engagement with slots 104 on the container 14.
The header 20 comprises a first member 41 having a feed slot 40 for allowing disposable nonsharps to pass therethrough into a disposable bag 42. The header 20 (see FIG. 7) may be a translucent thermoformed plastic and is provided with a first hinged flap 43, a second intermediate hinged flap 44, and a third hinged flap 45 for insertion into the receiving slots 33, 34 and 36, respectively. The header 20 is preferably translucent to allow external inspection of the bag 42 to know when bag 42 is in need of disposal. The disposable bag 42 is removably attached to the header 20 by any appropriate method such as by sonically bonding or stapling an edge thereof onto the flap 44. A plurality of additional disposable bags may also be similarly attached to the flap 44. It is to be understood that any appropriate arrangement may be used for receiving the header 20 within the open end 22. For example, header 20 may be provided with only first and third hinged flaps 43 and 45 with the bags 42 and 46 attached to the flap 43.
It is important to note that the slot 40 is smaller than the opening formed by the bag 42 which helps keep the disposable non-sharps from contaminating the edges of the bag 42. Thus, when the bag 42 is removed for disposal, personnel will have a reduced likelihood of coming into contact with contaminants on the bag 42.
Referring to FIG. 7, a cross-sectional view of the container 14 is illustrated with the header 20 in position thereon. The bag 42 and the plurality of additional bags 46 are attached to the flap 44 and hang freely therefrom into the container 14 until needed. To install the header 20, the first hinged flap 43 is slideably inserted into the slot 33 followed by insertion of the second intermediate flap 44 into the slot 34. Prior to inserting the third flap 45 into the slot 36, the bag 42 is opened by pulling a side 48 away from a side 49 thereof. Openings 50 (see FIGS. 2 and 8) are then positioned over tabs 52 to hang the bag 42 within the container 14 directly below the feed slot 40. The header 20 may be provided with an opening protector 70 which may comprise a cutout formed from the feed slot 40. The opening protector 70 provides a tortuous path to restrict the nonsharps within the bag 42 from spilling therefrom. A tab 64 (see FIG. 2) is provided on the first member 41 to facilitate lifting of the header 20 for removal from the container 14
Referring to FIG. 8, a perspective view of the disposable bag 42 is shown separated from the header 20. The bag 42 is provided with perforations 76 for easy removal from the header 20. The bag 42 is also provided with a handle 68 in at least one side thereof for ease of transport. The openings 50 are cut into the side 48 to match the receiving tabs 52 on the container 14 to allow the bag 42 to hang in an open arrangement. The bag 42 is preferably provided with an appropriate mechanism for sealing thereof to reduce the likelihood of spillage of the contents prior to disposal. For example, a removably covered adhesive strip 72 may be used to seal the bag 42. The bag 42 is appropriately color coded (red) and marked with the words "Biohazard" and symbol to indicate its contaminated contents.
In operation, the plurality of bags 46 and the bag 42 are received within the container 14 through the open end 22 by inserting the flaps 43, 44 and 45 into the receiving slots 33, 34 and 36, respectively, with the header 20 traversing the open end 22. Prior to inserting the flap 45 into the slot 36, the disposable bag 42 is opened by pulling the side 48 away from the side 49 and attaching the openings 50 to the receiving tabs 52 proximate the receiving slot 34. A nonsharp disposable item may thus be inserted through the feed slot 40 into the disposable bag 42. When the bag 42 becomes filled, it is a simple process to seal and remove the bag 42 along the perforations 76 from the flap 44 and to replace it with the next one of the plurality of bags 46.
Again referring to FIG. 2, the medical glove dispenser 136 may be locked onto the container 14 in place of the attachment holder 17. The dispenser 136 is provided with L-shaped locking tabs 138 and T-shaped locking tab 140 (identical to locking tabs 126 and 128 subsequently described herein) for locking engagement with L-shaped slots 130 and Y-shaped slot 132, respectively on the container 14. The dispenser 136 has a hinged access door 142 which may be opened by depressing locks 144. The door 142 has a cut-out 146 for dispensing medical gloves therethrough. By depressing locks 144, the access door 142 may be swung open and a supply of disposable medical gloves inserted into the dispenser 136. The door 142 may then be locked shut for the convenient dispensing of gloves therefrom through the cut-out 146.
Referring to FIGS. 9a and 9b, the attachment holder 16 is shown in a top plan view and in a cross-sectional view along the line 9b-9b, respectively. Referring first to FIG. 9a, the holder 16 has a holding portion 106 and a locking/supporting portion 108. The holding portion 106 has a shape which generally matches the sharps container 12, i.e. a wide mouth 110, a taper 112 and a reduced diameter throat 114. Additionally, the holding portion 106 has an opening 116 and flat portions 118. Thus, the container 12 is received by the holding portion 106 by matching the throat 80 of the open end 18 with the opening 116 and slidingly inserting the container 12 therein. The holder 16 is provided with locking tabs 120 which mate with the locking flaps 84 (See FIGS. 3a-c and 4) of the container 12 to secure the container 12 in position.
The locking/supporting portion 108 of the holder 16 has an arcuate portion, 122 to match with a curved sidewall 122 of the container 14. L-shaped locking tabs 126 and T-shaped locking tab 128 are matingly received by L-shaped slots 130 and Y-shaped slot 132, respectively, on the sidewalls 124 of the container 14. Once the tabs 126 and 128 are inserted into the slots 130 and 132, the holder 16 is locked into place by pushing downward thereon. The Y-shaped slot is provided with a flap 134 to reduce the likelihood of accidental removal of the holder 16 from the container 14. Due to the flap 134, it would be necessary to insert some type of pointed device into the container 14 to free the tab 128 from the Y-shaped slot 132. Although not shown, it is to be understood that any other appropriate attaching arrangements, such as, for example, an "arrow head" and slot, may be used to attach the holders 16 and 17 and the dispenser 136 to the container 14.
In operation, the system 10 may be used as a system or separated into its individual components as desired. The system 10 is preferably connected to a vertical surface by matching the bracket 38 to the container 14. The container 12 is interconnected to the container 14 by the attachment holder 16 or 17, thus allowing a convenient means for disposing of sharps and non-sharps. Sharps are deposited into the disposable sharps container 12 while non-sharps are deposited into the disposable bag 42 within the container 14. The system 10 is particularly adapted for use with the capping/uncapping device 32 which may be stored in the open end 18 of the container 12 or on a separate holder 17. The container 14 may also be used as a base piece for the attachment of additional medical products such as a medical glove dispenser 136 or any other dispenser as desired.
In the convenient use of the system 10 with the capping/uncapping device 32, the safety of a person using the system is enhanced. The device 32 would be used to safely remove the syringe needle from the syringe body and then deposit the syringe needle into the container 12 without contact between the needle and the person. The detached syringe body is then simply deposited into the container 14 thus limiting further human contact with possibly contaminated waste.
Although the present invention has been described with respect to a specific preferred embodiment thereof, various changes and modifications may be suggested to one skilled in the art, and it is intended that the present invention encompass such changes and modifications as fall within the scope of the appended claims.
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IBA, Zambales—Homegrown talent Lloyd Trinidad provided an explosive finish to the PLDT-Abap Luzon Area Boxing Championship when he stopped Kabaka's Alkhuzeem Abdul Aziz and hogged the spotlight with the Rizal Technological U (RTU) fighters on Friday night at Capitol Park here.
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Visit Your Park: Yosemite National Park
As awe-inspiring as the Yosemite Valley is, it is not the length and breadth of Yosemite National Park, but rather only one measure of this High Sierra beaut. Sadly, a surprising number of people never venture out of the valley with its towering granite walls and, in season, wispy waterfalls, to explore the other wonders of the park.
And that's their loss.
John Muir discovered that in 1869 when he spent his first summer in the Sierra, venturing beyond the Yosemite Valley and high into the upper reaches of today's national park. It was there, among the mountains, the granite domes, the meadows, streams and forests that he found the deeper beauty of Yosemite, a beauty that can't easily be seen from the valley floor. The following passages come from his book, My First Summer in the Sierra:
Probably more free sunshine falls on this majestic range than on any other in the world I'd ever seen or heard of. It has the brightest weather, brightest glacier-polished rocks, the greatest abundance of irised spray from its glorious waterfalls, the brightest forests of silver firs and silver pines, more star-shine, moonshine, and perhaps more crystal-shine than any other mountain chain, and its countless mirror lakes, having more light poured into them, glow and spangle most.
And how glorious the shining after the short summer showers and after frosty nights when the morning sunbeams are pouring through the crystals on the grass and pine needles, and how ineffably spiritually fine is the morning-glow on the mountain-tops and the alpenglow of evening. Well may the Sierra be named, not the Snowy Range, but the Range of Light.
Climb up into this high country along the meandering Tioga Road and you're quickly surrounded by granite domes perfect for scrambling, lakes, and paths that lead hikers and pack trains deeper, and higher, into the park's core.
And while the light seems to shine best in the high country, down in the Yosemite Valley the magic can be seen at certain times of year, such as when Horsetail Fall catches and shimmers with the sun's rays, and throughout the spring and early summer when the high country's snowmelt plunges into the valley, casting off its feathery, diamond-beaded spray.
This valley does lure with its falls of water and towering walls of granite. And it should be on any first-timer's list of stops. But as impressive and captivating as Yosemite's acclaimed valley is, any trek to the national park that begins there should lead one further up into the highlands that so enchanted Muir, for they are just as beautiful and entrancing today as they were in the 1869 when he first ascended up into them.
To learn more about Yosemite and how to enjoy a visit there, be sure to read the Traveler's "park page" on Yosemite. You'll find helpful information on lodging, camping, hiking, great videos, and even a list of books worth reading.
Very good article, enjoyed very much. This would be a book worth reading.
Yep-- there's nothing like Yosemite----
I was there in March 2000 and spent most of the time in the valley, with snowshoeing in Badger pass and a trip through Wawona on the way out. I was told by
My husband Dave and I have thoroughly enjoyed our trips to Yosemite, the
hiking trails in particular! I am selfish enough to say that I prefer
that most visitors remain ON the beaten path. More wilderness for the
rest of us and a better chance for it to stay just that! I sound like a
Park Snob but I don't especially like crowds and the back country is a
great way to escape them!
Side note Kurt,
Dave had his surgery
this past Tuesday and was home by Wednesday afternoon. The surgeon
believes he got all the cancer but we are awaiting pathology reports. He
and I have been out walking *2 miles every morning since he got home.
Maybe "Superman" and I will get to go to Yellowstone in August after
Great news, Connie! Sounds like a great start towards Yellowstone.