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Lund Mania Fishing TournamentThe team of Miles Nelson and Ray Sonnenberg hoist their 1st place trophy as their winning weight was announced during the Lund Mania Fishing Tournament awards ceremony held in front of the fire hall after the New York Mills 125th Anniversary Celebration parade. Sonnenberg and Nelson caught six fish for 25.6 pounds, which edged the team of fishing legend Al Lindner and Michelle Trudeau of Lund Boat Co. Andrew Klopak (left), President of Lund Boat Co., looks on and event MC Kyle Gylsen delivers the good news. 40 teams took part in the contest on Otter Tail Lake on Friday.
The weekend celebration started out on a high note Thursday evening with the Lund Mania Fishing Tournament rules meeting at City Hall, and none other than Minnesota Twins legend Kent Hrbek was in town to do some fishing.
For New York Mills area resident Richard Dykhoff not only meeting the legendary Twins first baseman, but getting to be the spotter in Hrbek's boat Friday was the chance of a lifetime. And Dykhoff owes that opportunity to the duece of clubs.
Each team entered in the fishing tournament needed a spotter to sit in the boat and verify fish lengths. The volunteers signed up not knowing which team they would be paired with.
During Thursday's meeting each spotter and each team received a playing card. As the cards were drawn the spotters were assigned to teams.
Dykhoff held the two of clubs. When Hrbek drew the card, the life-long Twins fan couldn't get off the stage quick enough.
Dykhoff was in the boat with Hrbek early Friday as the boats hit Otter Tail Lake for the tournament. The crafty Dykhoff wanted to feel the situation out Friday before asking for any autographs.
He wanted to see what kind of guy Hrbek was first. Dykhoff waited until noon before he asked Hrbek if Dykhoff's grandson could meet them at the end of the dock.
"I told him I waited so long because I wanted to see if he was a jerk or not," Dykhoff said. Hrbek "barrel laughed" when Dykhoff told him that.
Hrbek said meeting Dykhoff's 8-year-old grandson at the dock would be no problem.
"Hrbek is one heckuva guy," Dykhoff said. "I talked to him and what's really neat is he's just a common guy. It was really enjoyable spending the day with him."
And of course, Dykhoff had to ask the question all Twins fans have on their minds.
Did he pull Ron Gant off the bag at first when the Twins beat the Atlanta Braves in the World Series?
Hrbek said that's the number one question he gets asked. The answer he gave Dykhoff was no, he did not pull Gant off the bag.
'Blast From the Past' weekend a big success
Organizers of the New York Mills 125th Anniversary "Blast From the Past" Celebration couldn't have ordered better weather for the weekend. With sunny skies above for all three days a steady stream of people made its way in and out of New York Mills.
What a great weekend. The Lund Mania Fishing Tournament was a great success. Local anglers did well as they went head-to-head with the pros.
Andrew Klopak, President of Lund Boat Co., was all smiles as the top 10 teams participated in the Friday evening parade. The winners were announced on stage in a shootout format at the end of the parade.
As the crowd cheered for local teams like Todd Becker and DuWayne Roberts, and Scott Perala and Chad Sonnenberg, weights were announced and
A team of locals - Miles Nelson and Ray Sonnenberg - edged out Lindner and Michelle Trudeau to capture the Lund Mania title. Other notable finishes by locals included Scott Perala and Chad Sonnenberg, who placed fourth.
Later Friday evening, the parade made its way through downtown Mills as hundreds of spectators lined the streets. Close to 100 parade entrants participated. The New York Mills V.F.W. Post 3289 won first prize for their Wall float. St. Peter's Lutheran Church and its combine, as well as Legried's Balhepburn units were chosen honorable mention.
The street dance followed the parade... and what a party it was. With food vendors serving a variety of tasty meals in Central Park, the NYM Lions and Mills Liquors kept the beer flowing all night. The Lions reportedly drained about 16 kegs to the delight of the late-night revelers.
Activities took place throughout the day on Saturday. The Classic Car Show was a big hit as cars of all makes, models, and styles lined both sides of Main Street.
"Down Memory Lane" provided a historical glimpse of Mills over its 125 years. Organized by Rachel Eklund, the program featured business displays, historical accounts, and a program in the auditorium, which among other things honored Russ Jacobson, or as Jack Herr called him, "Mr. Baseball New York Mills."
Downtown Mills was busy all day Saturday. Tom Gerber of the Eagles Cafe on Main reported business was good all day both Friday and Saturday. The 4th of July celebration continued Saturday evening with the annual baseball game between the NY Mills Millers and Bluffton Braves, followed by an impressive fireworks show in Smith Park.
The weekend concluded with a community picnic Sunday in Smith Park. There were bagpipers and a barbershop quartet on hand to provide the musical entertainment. The weather was great and the picnic was well-attended. The Eagles Cafe catered the meal with the help of the Miss NY Mills princesses. About 250 meals were served at the picnic. And to top of the picnic and the weekend, a beard contest was held. Ten entrants showed up to have their beards judged, and Peter Keranen, with his red, white, and blue beard received top honors and bragging rights for the next 25 years.
This was a great celebration from start to finish. Hats off to all those who organized the activities, particularly Rachel Eklund and Duane Koehler. And to those who participated in NY Mills' 125th Anniversary Celebration thanks for the memories, and we'll see you when we see you.
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Are you ready for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiere? More importantly: Do you have your outfit planned? Chances are the theater won't let you sit in a seat with pea green painted skin a la Octavia. And who wants to commit to Effie's pink mound of teased hair? That's got to be heavy.
Here's some easy Hunger Games nail art you can do Thursday night that shows your District 12 spirit but won't make you look like a Capitol freak on the way to the theater. This ombre glitter design is a more abstract interpretation of "The Girl on Fire" dress.
OK, I know. In the book it says Katniss has tiny flames on her nails when she goes into the arena. But you know what nails with flames really look like? A Harley-Davidson decal. It's a bit tacky for me, and I'm not spending money on nail art tools that look like kebab skewers. Also, I do not have time to devote hours marbling flames on my nails, and I bet you don't either.
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Sweat Lodge
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AboutSweat Lodge is an exhibition of recent work by Zanne Andrea, Martyn Cross and Brendan Lancaster. It is about chance, instinct, repetitious acts and a primal urge to communicate something, but without quite knowing what to say. By rummaging around physically and mentally for elements to bring together, each artist chooses to let outside forces and materials dictate the final outcome of work. Zanne Andrea's assemblages gravitate towards industrial, institutional, domestic materials and objects; things often encountered in daily life. By constantly researching, reading and looking at images, Andrea continuously arranges and edits her work to conjure up the hidden or what is underneath or unknown. Interested in the different aspects of power, she plays with connections, associations and the cultural detritus of history swept up and spat out for a new world order. The work of Martyn Cross provides us with snapshots and artefacts from a fictional archaeology of outsiderdom. In his offerings we find dirty sleeping bags, a pile of pastry bones, a spent campfire. Using paint and collage, Cross modifies found images of homely comforts into visions from the end days of the human project. A cast of fugitive misfits perform uncertain rites, lose limbs or grow too much hair. And when they go into hiding the effect is all the more uncanny. Brendan Lancaster uses paint in a physical way to suggest places or situations - something we feel maybe we've seen before, but haven't. Something unreal and abstract. In seeking to uncover an image from nowhere, Lancaster never sets out to create anything in particular he just gets lost in the woods and uses smoke signals to attract attention. All the artists live and work in Bristol, first showing together in Like A Monkey With A Miniature Cymbal at Aid & Abet, Cambridge in 2013. Recent exhibitions include: Zanne Andrea Smoke and Mirrors, Edwardian Toilets, Bristol 2014; Beneath a stereoscopic moon, Spacecamp MicroGallery, Indianapolis, USA 2013; Beaten Black Blue Red Green and Gold, Clifton Street, Cardiff 2012. Zanne is currently artist in residence at Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea and was selected for the Catlin Art Guide 2014. Martyn Cross Barbican Artworks Open, Barbican Arts Trust Group, London 2014; Take Me To The Other Side, Pallas Projects, Dublin 2013; Edgelands, Angelika Studios, High Wycombe 2013; Temporary Residence (with Aid & Abet), Kettles Yard, Cambridge 2013. Martyn was recently a prizewinner at the Barbican Artworks Open and in 2012 was one of Modern Painters 100 Artists to Watch. Brendan Lancaster Form and Function, Piccadilly Place, Manchester 2013; Open Country, Motorcade/Flashparade, Bristol 2013; A night and day and another night, Bucca Gallery, Newlyn 2013; John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Gallery, Liverpool 2012. Brendan will be showing in Writhe and Jerk at Transition Gallery, London in 2015.
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A surgical instrument, suitable for endoscopic surgery has a first member and a movably driven second member movable in such first member. One such member comprises a generally tubular proximal member and a tissue working tip which are relatively telescoped and have opposed surfaces. A projection protrudes from such tip surface through such generally tubular member surface to fixedly secure same together.
1. A surgical instrument of the kind having a hand piece engagable proximal part and a tissue working distal part, said surgical instrument comprising:
an outer member;
an inner member movable in said outer member;
at least one said member comprising:
a proximal member having a generally tubular distal portion; and
a tissue working tip having a generally tubular proximal portion, said tip proximal portion and proximal member distal portion being at least partly telescoped and therewith having radially opposed surfaces, said tip proximal portion having a plurality of circumferentially-spaced projections generally protruding from said surface of said tip, a circumferential space defined between adjacent ones of said projections being circumferentially wider than an adjacent said projection, said radially opposed surface of said proximal member having portions disposed in locations corresponding with said projections, a substantial part of each said portion being disposed in superimposed relation with the corresponding said projection and thereby relatively fixing said proximal member and said tip.
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an outer member fixable on a powered hand piece;
an inner member movably disposed in said outer member and drivingly engagable with a hand piece motive power source;
at least one said member comprising a proximal member having a distal portion and a tip having a generally tubular proximal portion, said tip proximal portion comprising a wall having an inner peripheral surface and an outer peripheral surface, a projection protruding from one said peripheral surface, said projection defining a strip having opposite ends integral with said tip proximal portion and an intermediate portion bent away from said ends, the other said peripheral surface having a depression backing said projection.
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an outer generally hollow tubular shaft defining a central longitudinal axis and being configured for attachment to a surgical handpiece;
an inner shaft movably disposed within said outer shaft and configured for being driven by a power source associated with a surgical handpiece, said inner shaft defining a cutting edge thereon; and
one of said shafts including an elongate proximal portion and a distal end portion, said distal end portion defining on a surface thereof a plurality of circumferentially-spaced and radially-projecting connector elements, each said connector element defining a strip having opposite axial ends integral with said distal end portion and an intermediate portion bent away from said ends, each said connector element being surrounded by a generally projectionless surface area of said distal end portion substantially greater than a distal end portion surface area occupied by each said connector element, and each said connector element being engaged with corresponding portions of a distal end of said proximal portion so as to fixedly interconnect said proximal portion and said distal end portion to one another.
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an elongate outer and generally tubular shaft defining a central longitudinal axis, said outer shaft having a proximal end configured for attachment to a powered surgical handpiece, a distal end spaced from said proximal end and defining a cutting window therein, and an intermediate portion disposed between said proximal and distal ends; and
an elongate inner and generally tubular shaft having a proximal end configured for being driven by a drive of a powered handpiece, a distal end defining a cutting window therein, and an intermediate portion disposed between said inner shaft proximal and distal ends, said inner shaft being movably disposed within said outer shaft such that said cutting windows are disposed axially adjacent one another, one of said distal ends being constructed of a first material and one of said intermediate portions corresponding to said one distal end being constructed of a second material different from said first material, said one distal end being deformed so as to define a radially projecting strip having a part which is separated from said one distal end, said one intermediate portion having a length greater than a length of said one distal end and engaging said radially-deformed strip so as to fixedly interconnect said one distal end and said one intermediate portion.
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This invention relates to a surgical instrument usable for endoscopic surgery and having an outer member and an inner member movable in the outer member.
Prior tissue working instruments, suitable for endoscopic surgery, have included a hand piece engagable proximal part and a tissue working distal part, and more particularly have included an elongate, generally tubular outer member in which an elongate inner member is disposed movably for surgically working (e.g. removing, shaping, etc.) tissue.
Early examples of such instruments tended to be rigid and straight. Later examples included instruments having a bent or bendable outer tubular member and an inner elongate member having a length portion of sufficient flexibility to enable tissue working movement (e.g. rotation and/or reciprocation) thereof within the bent outer member.
Typically the proximal end of the outer member is held fixedly to the frame of a hand piece and the movable inner member is movably (e.g. rotatably or reciprocably) driven by a motor unit fixed to the hand piece housing.
By way of example, some prior instruments of this kind use a movably driven inner member which enables surgical detritus, such as typically liquid carrying bits of severed tissue, to be drawn proximally of the tubular inner member toward a suction source connected to the hand piece.
Instruments of this type include so-called shavers or cutters, wherein the inner and outer members have distal tissue working tips having cutting edges relatively movable to shear tissue from the surgical site. Instruments of this type may further include burs in which an inner member distal end carries a bur head with sharp edges movable (e.g. rotatable) to remove bits of tissue from the surgical site. The bur head may be partially guarded by the distal end of the outer member.
In early bent instruments of this general type, the flexible inner member portion at the outer member bend was variously constructed of an elongate helical metal coil, or counter wound coaxial helical metal coils, or a solid metal tube perforated by transverse slots or spaced holes. Difficulties variously included limited usable operating life, limited durability in use, expense and relative complexity of manufacture, and difficulty of sealing against leakage (e.g. of incoming irrigation liquid or outgoing suctioned material) through the wall of the inner tube flexible portion, as the moving inner member flexed.
In time, leading suppliers in the industry introduced movably driven inner tubular members of intrinsically flexible polymer materials, with or without additional fill (particles, strings, etc.) or reinforcing structure embedded therein.
This gave rise to attempts to fix a metal tissue working tip on the distal portion of the polymer tube to try to transmit sufficient torque.
For example, Donahue U.S. Pat. No. 5,282,821 bonds (by adhesive) a cutting tip to a rotor tube which may be of plastic. See also Ryan U.S. Pat. No. 5,282,795 which discloses a reciprocating cutter.
Lim et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,540,708 in FIGS. 9-11 discloses complexly preformed fingers 125 extending proximally from the cutting tip 110 to be received in corresponding preformed recesses in the distal end of the polymer tube 102 to form a mechanical interlock between the tube and tip. However, the forming and/or machining operations required on the adjacent ends of the tip and tube suggest substantial manufacturing expense.
Anctil U.S. Pat. No. 5,922,003 discloses a metal cutting tip having a reduced outer diameter proximal shank with diametrically opposed axially elongate slots 52, 62, 152, 162, 252, 262, etc. (FIGS. 4-7 and 13-15) or diametrically opposed and longitudinally spaced holes 486 (FIG. 16), wherein such cutting tip shank is inserted into the open distal end of a flexible tube 40 of polymer reinforced by wires 68 (FIG. 8). The result is surrounded by heat shrink tubing. The resulting assembly is heated to cause the polymeric material 66 of the tube to flow and the heat shrink tubing to shrink, thereby forcing the polymeric material to flow radially inwardly into the aforementioned slots or holes formed in the tip shank. Axially mechanically interlocking the tip and tube appears to require relatively complex machining to form the diametrically opposed slots or plural holes and thus make the tip relatively expensive. Further, the several embodiments disclosed all show two circumferentially narrow portions of presumably weaker flowed polymer material sandwiched between circumferentially very wide expanses of presumably stronger metal tip material, which may limit the maximum torque transmittable from the tube to the tip.
Finley et al. U.S. Pat. No. 5,961,532 in FIGS. 11-13 shows a metal tip 40 having a reduced outside diameter proximal portion (annular flange) 61, whose outer periphery is deeply knurled, and a polymer tube 32 having a cylindrical recess 62. Prior to assembly, the tip annular flange 61 is heated and then axially telescoped in the polymer tube recess 62, such that the thermoplastic polymer of the tube plastically flows around the hills and into the valleys of the tip knurl to fix the tube to the tip. Optionally, the tube 62 may be coated with an adhesive, such as epoxy resin, prior to such telescoping. This patent is assigned to the Assignee of the present invention and in general has proved successful in use. However, machining is required to form the tube recess 62 and tip knurl 71. For example, the tip annular flange 61 and tube wall bounding the recess 62 must be of sufficient wall thickness and strength, to avoid distortion or breakage in normal use. However, the depth of the knurl (height from hill top to valley) must be big enough to ensure secure fixation to the polymer tube. In one example in which the outside diameter of the instrument outer tubular member was 4 mm, the thickness of the tip annular flange at the bottom of the knurl valleys was 0.0032 inch (about three one-thousandths of an inch). Thus, relatively high machining precision and hence cost may be required, particularly in smaller outside diameter cutters.
Accordingly, objects and purposes of the present invention include providing a surgical instrument avoiding, or at least reducing negatives of prior devices, and which combines relatively low cost of manufacture with successful operation (including a sturdy fixation of a tissue working tip to a motor driven deformable tubular member). Other objects and purposes of the invention will be apparent to persons of ordinary skill in this art upon reading the following description and inspecting the accompanying drawings.
A surgical instrument, suitable for endoscopic surgery, is of the kind having a first member and a movably driven second member movable in such first member. One such member comprises a generally tubular proximal member and a tissue working tip which are relatively telescoped and have opposed surfaces. A projection protrudes from such tip surface through such generally tubular member surface to fixedly secure same together.
A surgical instrument 10 (
The particular surgical instrument disclosed in
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The inner member 12 (
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The outer and inner tips 22 and 32 in the particular shaver type surgical instrument 10 shown in
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At least one of the tube 21 and tubular shaft 31 is of a material deformable when heated e.g. a thermoplastic material, with the corresponding tip 40 and/or 41 being of a rigid material capable of holding a cutting edge, e.g. stainless steel. Such deformable material may be relatively stiff in its normal, unheated state where used for the tube 21 of the outer member 11 (whether straight or bent), or where used for the tubular shaft 31 of the inner member 12 where same is not required to bend or flex in use, as when the corresponding surrounding outer tube 21 is straight. However, when the corresponding outer tube 21 is bent as shown in
To the extent above discussed, the apparatus of
Turning now to the aspects of the disclosed apparatus more specifically embodying the invention, attention is directed to
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The projection 60 may, within the scope of the invention, take various forms. For example, projections of various shapes (e.g. generally triangular, rectangular, multi-sided, round or oval) are contemplated, as are projections with one, two or more perimeter portions or the entire perimeter thereof attached to the adjacent part of the tip. Further, projections with or without openings are contemplated, as are projections of constant or varying thickness or cross-section.
However, in the preferred embodiment shown in
The projection 60, including the strip 61 (
In the preferred embodiment shown, the central portion 64 of the strip 61 projects radially sufficient to form at least one opening 80, and here a circumferential opposed pair of openings 80 (
In the finished inner member 12 (
To reduce the radial thickness of the inner member 12 at the telescoped overlap of the hollow tubular shaft 31 and tip 32, and in view of the greater strength of a metal (e.g. surgical stainless steel) tip 32, as compared to a hollow tubular shaft 31 of possibly less strong material, e.g. a suitable plastic material, the rearmost part 83 of the tip proximal portion 50 may be reduced in thickness from that of the more distal portion of the tubular peripheral wall (at the reference numeral) 54 by means of an annular radial step 84 (
In the embodiment shown, the hollow tubular shaft 31 (
The shaft 31 may be substantially rigid in surgical instruments 10 of the kind having a substantially straight outer member 11. However, where the inner member 12 is to move (e.g. rotate) in an outer member 11 (
The above described method may be used to fixedly join a non tubular (e.g. solid) shaft (not shown) to the tip 32, in which case the mandrel M would generally be omitted.
After the aforementioned cooling, any thermoplastic material from the shaft 31 that has extruded radially outwardly from the recesses 75 (considered "flash") is removed, so that the outer perimeter of the tip 32 at the recesses 75 is flush (or at least does not extend radially outward beyond) the remainder of the outer peripheral surface 51 of the tip 32.
The resultant fixed connection of the tip 32 on the distal end of the hollow tubular shaft 31 is indicated in
However, it will be understood that a sufficiently strong connection of the tip 32 to the shaft 31 is provided by the axial and circumferential surrounding of the projection 60 by the material of the shaft 31 (i.e. the protrusion of the projection 60 into the material of the shaft 31) and does not depend on the aforementioned flow of shaft material through the openings 80, or on a deposit of shaft material on the concave surface 72 in a clawlike or bridging manner, as in
Displacement of portions of the thermoplastic material of the tubular shaft 31, around the protrusions 61, may result in some flow of thermoplastic material distally slightly beyond the step 84, to form forward extensions 94 of forwardly diminishing thickness and which tend to converge in a generally smoothly tapering manner against the tip inner peripheral surface 52, to minimize impediment to suction flow proximally from a surgical site SS generally in the direction of arrow A (
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Also, the above discussed minimizing of the circumferential width of the protrusions 60, and spacing of the protrusions 60 forward from the tip rear end 53, strengthens the reduced thickness, rearwardmost part 83 of the tip 32 against radial crushing from its preferred circular (except for the protrusions 60) shape. Telescoping of the distal end portion of the tubular shaft 31 into the rearmost portion 83 of the tip 32, with the radial backing of the mandrel M above discussed, snugly radially backs the peripheral wall of the rearwardmost tip portion 83 with eventually hardened thermoplastic material of wall thickness substantially exceeding that of the tip rearwardmost portion 83, and thereby further strengthens, against radial crushing, the tip rearward portion 83.
The above discussed interengagement of thermoplastic material of the tubular shaft 31 with the tip protrusions 60, which provides torque resistance therebetween, will be seen (
The protrusion 60 preferably extends radially almost through the peripheral wall of the tubular shaft 31, again to maximize contact circumferentially and axially between the tip 32 and tubular shaft 31. Whereas the central portion 64 of a protrusion 60 may extend fully through such peripheral wall to the opposite side (the interior side in
As mentioned, the tip projections may be formed without openings (e.g. openings 80 of
Although a particular preferred embodiment of the invention has been disclosed in detail for illustrative purposes, it will be recognized that variations or modifications of the disclosed apparatus, including the rearrangement of parts, lie within the scope of the present invention.
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Due out this winter for 1,200 MS points on Xbox Live and $15 on the PlayStation Network, the Artorias of the Abyss expansion brings additional explorable areas, more bosses and standard enemy types, non-player characters, and equipment.
Additionally, the site reports that the upcoming Prepare to Die edition of Dark Souls--due August 24--will be available in North America through Steam. Previously, only Microsoft's Games for Windows Live service was confirmed, which had thousands of gamers up in arms, decrying it as "unpopular," "inconvenient," and "difficult to use."
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The extended online version of your report on drug trials carried out on pet dogs in the US quotes me as expressing some concern about the use of dogs suffering from cancer to test drugs intended for people (newscientist.com/article/dn17969; 17 October, p 7). I would like to make it clear that I do not object to the principle of scientifically relevant data from ethically conducted veterinary trials being used to benefit people, or indeed vice versa, provided due caution is accorded to the inevitable species differences.
However, I would need more information before being satisfied by the Comparative Oncology Trials Consortium's claim that the interests of the canine patient are the top priority, given that the researchers ultimately want to know whether the drugs work in people, not dogs.
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ANTM's Johnny Wujek: Victoria "Could Easily Snap" This Cycle
At this point, Victoria Henley is just kind of endearingly weird. The America's Next Top Model Cycle 19 contestant started the season by declaring herself "different," then called a fan "racist" for finding her face boring. (But she was kidding! We think...) On Episode 2, she revealed both a deep, darn-near passionate love for her mother and a scary hunting trophy photo that made Rob Evans giggle like a tween.
But keep an eye on this girl — in fact, keep an eye on all of the college models, 'cause they're about to turn on one of their own, whether it's Victoria or someone else.
Entertainment Weekly asked ANTM's new creative consultant Johnny Wujek if any drama makes its way into his photo shoots. "I did see some drama in an upcoming episode," he said. "There's one contestant that the other girls are…anti. You'll see a whole storyline with her. Other than that, everyone came to set and did their thing. I never saw it, so I always had to dig, like, 'Who's not getting along? What's going on?!'"
We've already seen Destiny Strudwick and Kiara Belen get into a "stripper" tiff, and we know Kristin Kagay has some Mean Girl to her, but it's possible Queen Victoria herself could turn out to be the outcast. "Victoria is such an outgoing character, but she could easily snap," Johnny warned. "She gets so crazy worked up sometimes. The other girls don't know how to read her yet, but they're picking up on her weirdness, which I like!"
So maybe the girls will end up liking Victoria? She did say she didn't have many friends, so maybe this experience will actually help to wean her off her mom.
Catch the next episode of America's Next Top Model Cycle 19: College Edition on Friday, September 7 at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.
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MASON CITY, Iowa (AP) Calls are pouring into the Humane Society of North Iowa with offers to adopt an abandoned dog that ate her own tail to survive.
The Mason City Globe Gazette reports calls to take Goldie home have come from as far away as Australia. Humane Society officials also say many people have donated money on behalf of the golden retriever.
Applications for adoption are being accepted through the end of the week. Officials will then make a decision on a new owner.
The newspaper reports Goldie was badly abused when she was discovered along with several dogs at an apartment in Forest City. The other dogs now have new owners.
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Blind people who can echolocate actually process the sounds in the visual centers of their brains, according to an article published in the May issue of PLos ONE.
Bats and certain marine mammals including dolphins use echolocation to navigate. This study was the first to investigate the neural underpinnings of human echolocation, used by some blind people to do things thought to be impossible without vision, such as riding a bicycle.
"The enormous potential of this 'natural' echolocation ability is realized in a segment of the blind population that has learned to sense silent objects in the environment simply by generating clicks with their tongues and mouths and then listening to the returning echoes," the article states.
Canadian researchers placed tiny microphones in the ears of two blind individuals who practice echolocation and recorded their clicks and returning echoes as they tried to identify objects in the environment. The recordings were played back to the subjects and their brain activity was studied with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).
The team found that the blind echolocators could sense objects based on the recorded echoes, identifying "the shape, motion and location of objects with great accuracy," according to the paper.
Interestingly, the fMRI scanner showed activity in an area of the brain known as the calcarine cortex, which usually processes visual information in sighted people. Moreover, the areas of the brain that usually process auditory information showed no more activity when the echolocators listened to recordings of outdoor environments with echoes than to recordings of the same scene without echoes.
"This suggests that visual brain areas play an important role for echolocation in blind people," says lead author Lore Thaler, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario, in a press release.
In contrast, sighted control subjects who do not echolocate could not detect objects based on the echo recordings, and their brain scans did not show activity related to the echoes.However, "there is the possibility that even in sighted people who learn to echolocate, visual brain areas might be recruited," adds co-author Stephen Arnott, researcher at the Rotman Research Institute, in the release
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The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange often moves in the same direction as U.S. markets. While this has been a tough week for the bulls in the U.S. it's been even more difficult in Israel because of the new round of violence plaguing the area.
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Boise State softball wraps up the regular season at New Mexico State, Friday and Saturday, with the Western Athletic Conference regular-season crown up for grabs.
The Broncos (32-15, 15-3) enter the weekend riding a six-game win streak. Back-to-back sweeps of Hawai'i and Fresno State vaulted Boise State into first place in the conference by itself- a program first- one game ahead of the Aggies
New Mexico State (37-15, 14-4) dropped three games at Hawai'i last week to set up the showdown.
Boise State will clinch a share of the conference crown with one win. A series win gives the Broncos the title outright and the number one seed in the WAC Tournament, May 11-14, in Fresno Calif.
The three-game set begins with a single game Friday, followed by a Saturday doubleheader. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. (MT) Friday, and 2 p.m. (MT) Saturday.
Live stats will be available for each game of the series. For more information, check the schedule page at BroncoSports.com.
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Boise State softball is in its third season. Head coach Erin Thorpe and the Broncos return 15 letterwinners and eight starters from the 2010 squad that finished third in the Western Athletic Conference.
After a 2-8 start, Boise State posted a school-record 12-game winning streak behind dominant pitching. The Bronco pitching staff combined for a staggering 0.65 ERA in the last 10 games of the streak, a span that included a 41-inning scoreless streak.
The win streak propelled the Broncos into the confernce slate where they started 8-1. Boise State enters this weekend 15-3 in WAC play, fresh off a sweep of Fresno State. The Broncos became the first team to sweep a season series from the Bulldogs in WAC history, and are in first place in the conference.
The Broncos are 13-2 in their last 15 games. The span includes not only the sweep of Fresno State, but a sweep at Hawai'i. It was the first time the Rainbow Wahine suffered a sweep at home since 2005, and was the first three wins in the all-time series for Boise State. The marquee wins have put the Broncos in the national conversation, receiving votes in the Ultimate College Softball Top 25 Poll for consecutive weeks. Boise State has nine votes in the latest poll, released Tuesday.
Junior Aubray Zell leads the team in the circle with a 14-2 record and 1.73 ERA. Zell has been named WAC Pitcher of the Week three times this season. Earning the Broncos' first win against Hawai'i, she became the only pitcher in school history to beat all seven WAC teams. Fellow junior Allie Crump joined that exclusive club with a win against Fresno State. Crump is 13-6 on the year with a 3.73 ERA.
Devon Bridges is enjoying a breakout freshman campaign, pacing the Bronco offense. Bridges is batting .387 with 13 home runs and 48 RBI, leading the team in each category. She has thrived in WAC play, hitting nine home runs and driving in 27 while slugging 1.023.
Juniors Christina Capobianco and Tazz Weatherly have joined Bridges as the Broncos' hottest hitters the last 15 games. Capobianco is slugging .821 with five homers, while Weatherly is batting .410 with 12 runs and seven RBI during the span.
About New Mexico State
The Aggies feature one of the most potent offenses in the country, led by seven starters batting .350 or better in conference play. The Aggies rank first in the WAC in nearly every offensive category, but feature middle-of-the pack pitching numbers.
Hoku Nohara leads the nation in home runs (21) and slugging percentage (1.051), while drawing more than one walk per game. Tiare Jennings adds more pop to the lineup with 14 homers. NMSU also has 73 steals.
The pitching staff is led by Alex Newman's 20-6 record with a 3.46 ERA. Newman has started 13 conference games, while Celisha Walker took the ball in the other five. Neither averages four strikeouts per seven innings.
The Series
Boise State leads 4-3. The teams have swapped season sweeps, with the Broncos taking four in 2010.
Broncos in the RPI
The sweep of Fresno State propelled Boise State to No. 72 in the most recent RPI, the highest in school history...Three other WAC members rank in the top 75 with Fresno State leading the way at No. 32. Hawai'i checks in at No. 57 and New Mexico State is No. 64.
Broncos Cleaning Up in the Circle
Juniors Allie Crump and Aubray Zell have combined for four Verzon WAC Pitcher of the Week awards this season. Zell earned the first in Bronco history for the week of Feb. 28-March 6, after tossing the program's first no-hitter. Crump took home the award the following week, earning three wins at the Santa Clara Bronco Classic and allowing just one unearned run on the weekend. Zell repeated as WAC Pitcher of the Week April 4-10, going 2-0 with a 0.00 ERA against Louisiana Tech. She is the first Bronco to earn multiple weekly awards in her career. She added her third weekly honor after going 2-0 with a 0.50 ERA in the Broncos' sweep of Hawai'i. Zell is the first player to earn three WAC Pitcher of the Week honors this season.
Fabulous Freshman
Devon Bridges is among the most accomplished freshmen across the country. Bridges ranks in the top 12 in her class, nationally, in seven categories: on-base percentage (fourth); RBI per game (fifth); home runs (fifth); home runs per game (sixth); slugging percentage (sixth); walks per game (eighth); and batting average (14th).


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Jury says Samsung owes Apple another $290 million
A jury in the new settlement trial, part of the Apple vs. Samsung trial, has determined that Samsung owes Apple an additional $290 million, on top of the $600 million that they already owed at the conclusion of the original trial. The previous amont had been $1 billion, but Judge Koh had vacated $450 million of that. The new amount is less than Apple was asking for, but much more than Samsung had hoped to pay, according to All Things D:
Apple had argued it was due a further $379 million, while Samsung maintained it should only owe $52 million for the portion of damages being reconsidered. Barring a successful appeal, Samsung also owes roughly $600 million in damages from the original verdict as well.
This isn't the end of the litigation between the two companies. A new trial, again before Judge Lucy Koh, is set to begin next year. The new trial concerns a new set of Samsung devices not covered in the original case. Both Apple and Samsung are appealing portions of the original case, hoping to get more favorable outcomes.
Do you think this settlement is fair? Let us know below in the comments.
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Jury says Samsung owes Apple another $290 million
I think apple should just really stop. It's the business. Apple steals IP from a lot of people and then buys them out or runs them out business. Samsung does that and Motorola didn't and that's how it ended up under googles name. BlackBerry was minding its own business customers so it didn't care about the prosumers until it backfired.
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Just because they all do it, doesn't make it right.
Also, there's a big difference in buying a company for their IP (Apple), and outright stealing it (Samsung).
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Nah, I don't agree and if you had read and seen the court documents from the original trial you would have a much different opinion of Samsung then apple. There is a giant difference in the industry when a company likes a facet of an OS (such as palms card view) that is an excellent idea and then writes it's own code to implement it their own way. This happens all the time especially when something isn't patented, but apple has every right to go after and protect their core business as the documents that leaked showing Samsung took a lot more steps than just implementing their own ideas and borrowing from other OS. They out and out designed their OS to confuse consumers and make an iOS clone and the first galaxy s phones are completely evident of that. Apple has patents and the power to protect its self and they should have that opportunity. If it was as simple as you claim then samsung wouldn't be in this hole. The problem is (just like someone else posted above) this is just a cost for Samsung that they probably added in as R&D and when they are making billions off of stolen ideas (let alone the fact that they've already run out almost two great android oems in Motorola and now HTC) it really doesn't matter to them. The sad thing is apple will turn around and write even larger checks for components and manufacturing anyway. The mobile industry is worth much more than what's at stake in this trial and both apple and Samsung aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
This case is different from what Apple does. Apple sometimes borrows or copies ideas, but it does that with ideas that aren't patented. Samsung blatantly stole ideas that Apple specifically patented. So Apple has legal grounds to protect its ideas. I am proven right by this case's outcome. Twice a jury says, " Samsung, pay Apple for the things you stole!"
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They never patented a shape. This is one of the many things that misinformed samsung fans continually say over and over. This while argument was nothing more than a point that Samsung tried to make during this trial that there is only so many ways to make a phone (which they have and other android oems have shown the last couple years is incorrect). I do agree that the patent system is indeed extremely flawed, but what Samsung did deserved to be punished and they weren't found guilty on something ridiculous like arguing that they won some silly patent on a rectangular phone with rounded corners. Android blogs got a hold of this during the trial and android fans took it to whole new level. Yes, apple isn't always right in how or who they choose to sue, but in my opinion they really had to with Samsung and have every right to. Samsung not only stole ideas, but allowed themselves as the major player in the android world and didn't do it like other companies tried they simply copied apple on ever little part of their stategy. I don't see why android fans still argue this and other parts of the trial and try to take up for Samsung as Samsung is the reason that android is basically indistinguishable from where it was when they entered the market. Befor the galaxy s 1 and 2 we had a healthy Motorola and HTC now we have samsung strong arming every android competitor outside of Google out of the Eco system. It was built for choice and I miss that about android. It just isn't the same. In my opinion apple couldn't just sue samsung they had to also open lawsuits on all other android oems as we'll. those got all but thrown out, but apple
Isn't the big bad guy that hates the competition like everyone thinks as they have some great deals going on with companies like HTC and both companies are making great design and OS releases because of it. We need choice or Samsung will run android to the ground with their business tactics of stealing (among other things) and then once android is no longer the OS we all love it will go somewhere else.
Apple does not steal the IP of others. You have no proof for any of your highly dubious comments.
I love apple products. I've been an apple loyalist since I purchased an iPhone 3G in 2008, and I would probably not buy any non apple device anytime soon, before that I liked everything windows. I believe what Samsung continues to do is genius. The copying of the phone, the ads, the stores, etc. takes the "specialness" away from apple products. They're no longer unique. If I were them I would continue to do it regardless of how much they continue to spend on court fees.
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It's nice to see the jury come to the right decision, and that Apple gets almost the entire amount they were seeking in the first place.
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Just stop Apple you giant bully. Just because you have the judges on your side doesn't mean that you could file pointless lawsuits. It's the tech industry, companies steal ideas from each other and improve on them. Just accept the fact that you aren't the best anymore and leave Samsung alone before it all backfires on you and Samsung cuts ties with you for good. None of the phones look anywhere close to each other so I'm sure consumers will not confuse the yours and Samsungs products. Don't let greed get in the way of your business!
Apple doesn't have judges on its side, it has the law on their side. Samsung stole.
You can't just say, "it's the tech industry, stealing is ok." That's like saying killing is ok as long as everyone is doing it. Wrong is wrong, it's that simple.
Samsung will never cut ties with Apple, Apple is their best customer. Samsung makes tons of money from Apple.
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So how do you explain your beloved Apple copying others then. In case you so called forgot, Apple copied Google's drop down notification bar, HTC's multitasking design in iOS7, Apple Music's design looks awfully similar to Google Music's design. LG has also copied Samsung's features but you don't see them filing lawsuits. But the fact that Apple is on Samsung's d tells you that they are intimidated. And yes, stealing ideas without patenting is fine (and I don't mean patenting stupid things like how your lock screen looks or how many icons your app grid has, etc). It only promotes improvements on what others have done and it's also better for us, the consumers.
Dude, HTCs multitasking?
You just made webOS cry!
You my friend, are a moron.
Another misinformed and under educated android fanboy joins the comments. Have you been asleep while this trial has been going on? After all that came out how can you honestly take Samsungs side? Their business tactics doesn't just hurt apple it hurts every other oem and that current state of android shows this. Just look at what android has become since Samsungs entry. Samsung is the only company making any money and they are only stealing market share from the likes of Motorola and HTC. Do some homework Or read something outside of pro android blogs that only want page views so you can form your own educated opinion.
Who ordered the retrial?
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I don't even understand what this is all about
Apple will loose in the end because Samsung will bump up the cost of that new chip that Samsung makes for the new 5S, I-Pad mini and etc, etc. It will end up costing Apple big bucks for their day in Court. What a crazy mixed up business. SmartPhones keep getting better, keep pushing the envelope.
You do know that Samsung doesn't "make" apples chips, right? Apple designs all of them Samsung just puts them together. Nothing more than a plant like Foxconn. Apple has already weaned itself off of Samsung for years. The only real money they make is off of components, but make no mistake Samsung cannot and does not make the quality silicon that apple makes and that's the reason Samsung buys from snapdragon.
This is absolutely what should happen! I heard a rumor that there is a possibility of a trial that might ban some of their products. I sure hope that happens! It's what those copy cats deserve.
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These trials are literally going to last FOREVER! How I understand it (I may be wrong), coming up is the THIRD seperate but related trial, and there haven't been any appeals yet. Who knows how many seperate trials there will be, and as the article said, BOTH companies will be appealing for more money! I don't know if you're allowed to appeal an appeal, but even if you're not, it's going to be a while before its settled.
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Your absolutely right. Apple won't see any of this money for years if not decades. All of these trials will be Locked up in court room battle after court room battle and then each verdict will be wrapped in appeal after appeal.
This is the saddest part of this trial and your absolutely right. Both Samsung and apple are not going anywhere anytime soon. In a way they are both bad on smaller company's like HTC and Motorola.
Samsung is gangsta, its like how those drunk rich white boys like to show off that new mercedez there mommy and daddy bought them but then that one gangsta dude is like "gimme that shit" robs the white boy and drives off in a free benz in style but then the rich white boy calls the cops and has the "law" on there side so the gangsta beats up the white boy for snitching. So apple should stop being so white before they get there asses kicked on the street where iphones arent so special anymore
Wow, Congrats to Apple!
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Samsung is lucky that I wasn't on the jury, because I would've definitely done my best to award Apple a lot more money. The only real sad thing about all this is that the lawyers will take a big piece of the (Apple)pie. I would be real interested in seeing just how much of that pie they do get.
After all is said and done, I have only one more thing to say, "Congratulations Apple!!!"
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I fully agree that if somebody steals from someone then they must be punish for it. But I think its just that SOME of the patents of Apple in question is a bit unrealistic like the one about the shape/corner.
I don't have all the facts regarding this issue so all the things coming from me might as well be garbage but I'm sorry I'm just saying what I feel. It might have the result of a somewhat broken patenting system and Apple took advantage of it. I don't know if somebody can enlighten me about the subject, please do.
Another thing, these 2 tech giants seem to have one of the most, if not the most, awkward symbiotic-slash-cutthroat-competition relationship around.
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Samsung is not accused of the shape patent, but they are accused of software patents, involving multi touch gesture for zooming in and out of documents, bounce effects for documents, to name few, which has made the iOS experience all together different from early android experience. There was even an internal samsung document, around 80 slices comparing iPhone UI with samsung s2 (or S1), where samsung managers are saying make it like iPhone.
Samsung was unable to defend themselves from jury, and this trial is to validate how much damage samsung has given to Apple products. Apple didnt win much on patents outside US, as patent system works differently, even they loose ground at UK, and have to show in their website that samsung didnt copy tablet design from apple.
These are some of facts which happen in last two years. And as per my own views, yes Samsung was unethical in copying Apple features, market strategy, cloud strategy, stores, its like they took all the handwork of Apple and applied it in their own Business wherever it applicable. Another argument I can make, it took Apple good 3-5 years to come up with first iPhone, and it took 6 months only for Samsung to copy it. Only good product from them could be galaxy note (in mobile space), see their failure in galaxy gear.
Apple is also not saint, they too take inspiration from outside world (competitors too), as you can see from notification centre, iOS 7 design, but they dont cross the line by giving their own touch and not go in to patent direction, if something is patent they try to license it, if not, they too have given the price for it, (swiss watch UI). But what I like about Apple, is they try to bring some thing good, and new to the table, with the way which others have not done before. See fingerprint scanner, it was there before, but not as cool, functional and easy to use. And next year many android phones will come with finger print scanners with the same ease of use as of Apple.
From a legal prospective, I agree with the verdict. Apple was smart to patent everything they have stolen, copied, and bought from others. Steve Jobs said that Apple shamelessly and proudly stole many ideas from others. Paraphrasing, "Good artists copy, great artists steal." By that notion, Samsung was the better artist, followed the lead of Apple, and beat them at their own game.
What I don't understand is Apple's hypocrisy. Phil, Apple's big marketing guy, claimed that Apple had difficulty selling its phones because many consumers were confused on the look and feel between Samsung and Apple phones. From the look of the 15 Samsung phones, they do not look anywhere near Apple's phones. Apple consumers are known to be more educated and savvy than other non-Apple consumers, so are they that stupid?
Tim Cook claimed many Android phones are junk, but if Samsung copied Apple phones, aren't Apple phones junk too? But somehow Samsung is able to still do well in their sales??? How can Apple's brand and innovation be threatened by all the non Apple phones? Think about it, if consumers want the whole Apple smart phone experience, wouldn't they buy Apple phones than other knock-offs? Perhaps Apple is indirectly praising Samsung…that there are indeed those consumers who may want a better alternative that suit their needs?
Even though Samsung needs to pay up almost $1 billion, at the end of the day, the real loser here is Apple. THEY HAVE INDIRECTLY ADMITTED HOW WEAK THEY REALLY ARE.
Thanks for that. I gotta say that's a much better read than going through a 8-10 page article full of unfamiliar jargons. On the Apple-Samsung suit, after reading what you posted, yes I gotta agree with all the things you pointed out. And as I have mentioned I have no qualms regarding the verdict.
And, about patenting even the littlest thing, I know it's just a way to protect intellectual properties and I may not support it 100% (90% ok with it, 10% not so much), I think it's all for the best. Maybe this is just the kind of push other companies need to innovate more.
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I think, Apple become paranoid with iOS because of what happen with them in Mac and PC times.
Just ban Samsung in USA already!also Android!


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Reps With the First Team Offense? Dennis Dixon Don't Need That
Dennis Dixon, after not having practiced during the week with the first team offense, gets the start on the road against the Ravens. I suppose the only worse scenario would be if Ben had actually started and injured himself again early in the game. It's kind of amazing now that Ben through six seasons will have only started two games in Baltimore in his career.
I'm kind of freaked out about how Bruce Arians would respond to this. The immediate reaction from laypeople who don't follow the team is that the Steelers are going to bust out the Wildcat, but Arians hates the formation (obviously, of course, because it actually leaves somebody in the backfield - five receiver sets are where it's at!) and Dixon hasn't practiced it much since the preseason, and even then it wasn't an extensive amount of reps. I would imagine they're gonna give a try a few times during the game, but the Ravens have proven themselves effective against the Wildcat in the past anyway. I'd guess the Steelers will go superconservative, which worked wonders for Denver against Baltimore. The Ravens secondary is awful, but if you let them play up and not challenge them deep, you really have no chance against their front seven, even with Suggs out.
The defense will have to put together one of their best performances of the season for the team to have a chance. Without Polamalu playing, that's gonna be tough, but then it hasn't really been the fault of the defense that the team has been losing. Still, it's gonna take a lot of guys stepping up and probably a few mistakes on the Ravens end as well.
Nevertheless, even if the Steelers lose, there are some positives to take away. The Ravens don't get the triumphant vengeance they've been so desperately seeking even if they win. Yeah, they take over second place and put the Steelers in precarious playoff position, but the Ravens still won't have been able to beat the Steelers in any games that Roethlisberger has started since 2006. And it's good for Dixon to get an opportunity to perform in something that isn't the second half of a preseason game. This was a game that I figured the Steelers were likely to lose at the beginning of the season, given how much Baltimore has been drooling all over themselves for revenge. If the team can get healthy, they can easily make a five-game run to get in the playoffs.
Can't escape how weird the timing is for Ben to be sidelined (though the team has yet to comment officially) after a full week of practice. Already there is speculation that the league, ever mindful of concussion issues this season, put the kibosh on Ben starting so as to look responsible on the issue. I don't know. It wouldn't be the first time a QB felt the adverse effects of a concussion after reportedly saying he felt fine in the immediate aftermath. Still, the fact that doctors initially cleared him makes it fishy. Either way, it looks like Dixon gets his trial by fire.
UPDATE: Ed Bouchette reported that Dixon actually got the majority of the snaps with the first team offense on Friday. Hey, that's one day! It's something!
by Christmas Ape at 2:55 PM
tags: arians, big ben, dennis dixon, fire bruce arians, week 12
3 comments:
- bluzdude said...
Been reading you for a while now, as I live in Ratbirds country too. I hate everything about that team, fans included.
(Detailed reasons for said hatred can be found here: http://darwinfish2.blogspot.com/2009/11/purple-stain.html )
I really hope Dixon can handle the noise and maybe even pull out a few surprises. I think they'll need to do whatever they can to be unpredictable and Dixon's presence can help that.
- Cornbread said...
That could be the only picture of Dixon on the net. Let's go Dennis?
A win in B-more would just crush those bastard Ravens.
- Fred Jones said...
The Steelers have nothing to lose. If they lose, they were without Ben, but if they pull out a win with Dixon, oh how sweet!
Go Steelers!
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Understanding chromosome number...
You learned in the last lesson (and in the mitosis lab) about how DNA molecules exist in a cell. You also learned about the idea of homologous chromosomes. These are important ideas for this week.
Humans, as you know, have 23 pairs of chromosomes, such that each pair is made up of homologous chromosomes. Cells that have this type of arrangement of their chromosomes, meaning, cells that have pairs of chromosomes, are called diploid. You understand the importance of having pairs from when we learned genetics... If we only had one chromosome with a single allele for a trait, if anything ever happened that allele, we could end up somehow defective the trait it coded for. So if we had only one allele for skin color and something happened to it, we would end up an albino. But our cells all have two of each type of chromosome, so in the above example, we would have two chromosomes that each have an allele for skin color. This way, if something were to go wrong with one chromosome, we would still have one, fully functional chromosome left.
Some organisms are composed of cells with only one of each type of chromosome. These cells do not have homologous chromosomes and are called haploid. Most organisms that you are familiar with, though, are mainly composed of diploid cells. Believe it or not: other organisms contain cells that are made up of many of each type of chromosome, so they have 3 or 4 or 6 or whatever homologous chromosomes! These are called polyploid.
Different organisms contain different numbers of chromosomes. The number of different types of chromosomes is represented by "N." In a haploid cell, where no pairs of chromosomes are found, the number of chromosomes that it has is simply N. In a diploid cell, the number of chromosomes is 2 times the number of different types of chromosomes, because it has pairs of chromosomes. So the total number of chromosomes in a diploid cell is 2N. Humans have 46 chromosomes in total. But we also are diploid. So we have 23 pairs of chromosomes (only 23 different types of chromosomes). A diploid organism containing 28 chromosomes would have N = 14 (because 2N = 28). A haploid organism containing 28 chromosomes would have N = 28.
What does chromosome number have to do with cell division?
Meiosis, as you read in the introduction for this lesson, is the way we make our gametes. A man and a woman each have 46 chromosomes. To have a child through sexual reproduction, they have to jumble up their genes and combine them together using their gametes. If the man put all of his 46 chromosomes in his sperm and the woman put all of her 46 chromosomes in her egg, when the sperm and the egg combined, the zygote would have 92 chromosomes! That is way too many! The zygote could not develop into a person. So, instead, the man and woman have to only put half the number of chromosomes into each gamete. That means that the sperm would get 23 chromosomes, the egg would get 23 chromosomes, and the zygote would end up with the correct number of chromosomes, 46, after fertilization.
To reduce the number of chromosomes from 46 to 23 in the gamete, the gamete has to be made through meiosis. And, now that you know a lot about homologous chromosomes, it should make sense to you that the only way to cut down the number of chromosomes while still ensuring that each parent gets to contribute an allele to each gene, is to only give one of each pair of chromosomes. When we do that, we take our diploid cells and make haploid gametes out of them.
Therefore, humans do have some haploid cells-- but they are all located in our gonads (testes and ovaries). There are no haploid skin or liver cells.
And, also, that means that if we are going to make new cells (the gametes), but make them different from the parent cell (haploid, not diploid, gametes), we can't use mitosis to make them. And Pasteur showed us that we can't wait for spontaneous generation to make them. So we need to use another method of cell division... and that method is meiosis. So, meiosis serves to make haploid cells out of a diploid one.
Chromosome appearance during meiosis
Chromosomes at the beginning of mitosis have 2 sister chromatids... right? Well at the beginning of meiosis, they look a little different. You see, if meiosis is going to split up homologous chromosomes (to make diploid cells into haploid ones), the homologous chromosomes are going to have to associate with one another.
Homologous chromosomes normally never touch each other or interact with each other. But, in the one case of meiosis, they do. So, when homologous chromosomes get together for meiosis, after DNA replication has occurred, each chromosome has sister chromatids, so you end up with 4 chromatids all stuck together. This is called a tetrad.
In the drawings in the table below, I have made one homologous chromosome green and the other orange. The sister chromatids within a chromosome are the same color because they are identical. The homologous chromosomes are not identical... they just code for the same traits (but may have completely different alleles for those traits).
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Just Finished the the stand and the have poured a 4" reinforced concrete slab for the 1st layer of my floor.
What to do next? Please give me your input on the best way to finish the next couple of pours before our dome. Thanks! :rolleyes:
Re: Need help with my next steps.
1. Keep it continuously damp and covered for at least 7 days.
What type of under hearth insulation are you planning for ?
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Your next layer is either the Portland/ Vermiculite or insulation board. So insulation is the next step.
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Next, examine your new structural slab closely. Patch any voids in the top and sides.
The slab should also drain freely - no standing water. If necessary, grind the surface so as to eliminate or drain any low spots. Water will get into your oven from time to time so you should plan for it. If there is any "bathtub" it will be difficult and time consuming to dry out.
Layout on the slab the footprint of your oven and entryway. Allow for the brick thickness and for the thickness of the dome insulation.
If going the Portland/vermiculite route, form up on the slab for this shape. (You can use the existing form work to attach blocks to support the form work for the insulation layer). The shape does not need to be exact and can be a bit wider, however the insulation layer should not extend out to the edge of the structural slab, if it does this will be an entry route for moisture in the future.
You should keep your new structural slab continuous moist during the forming and pouring of the insulation layer. The insulation layer in turn should be kept moist for at least 7 days.
If going the insulation board route you need to have a flat surface under the oven footprint (still draining) to support the board. Leveling can be done with a thin layer of sand. Place your insulation board and continue.
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Under the hearth for the footprint we plan on using a type of refractory insulating cement.
Not to sure if one is better then the other or the price difference. Any thoughts?
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"a type of refractory insulating cement"
Not sure what this might be. Most builders here have either used a vermiculite (or perlite) / Portland cement mix of 5:1 or have used insulating board.
If using the vermiculite / cement material a thickness of 4 inches is recommended.
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Sounds to me as if someone has not thoroughly read the Pompeii oven plans. If you have not, NOW is the time. You are at the point where using an ill suited material can make the difference in owning a fantastic cooking vessel or simply a tool for adding to global deforestation (you will burn a huge amount of wood and never hold the temps that you want).
You next step should be one of three options and nothing else:
1) 5:1 vermiculite/portland cement mix (4" thick)
2) 5:1 perlite/portland cement mix (4" thick)
3) Minimum 2" of refractory insulating board. Many manufacturers and various compositions, available in the Forno Bravo store if you can't find a local supplier.
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We have repeated problems with wet pre-mixes. They are made, as the man says, for boilers, where there are tiny, well fitted, joints, and they are completely isolated from any dampness. If your firing chamber doesn't reach those temperatures, the mortar never sets, and remains water soluble. If you must use a commercial refractory mortar, use a dry mix used for fireplaces, such as heat-stop50 or equivalent.
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Thamk you this is very helpful
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My local supplier at "The Plibrico Company" suggested I use his product which is a pre mixed refractory cement that he uses for boilers that reach in excess of 2000 degrees if I am not mistaken. As far as not reading the Pompeii directions what part would you be referring to? Because I am just trying to use everyone else's experience along with the Pompeii directions to have the best knowledge in going forward with my project.
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Because sooner or later, we'll all be trying to predict the final 53…
Likely Roster Spots: 9-10
Projected Starters: LT Max Starks, LG Chris Kemoeatu, C Justin Hartwig, RG Maurkice Pouncey, RT Flozell Adams
Key Training Camp Battles: Pouncey vs.Trai Essex vs. Ramon Foster for RG; Hartwig vs. Doug Legursky for C; Jonathan Scott vs. Kraig Urbik vs. Adrian Jones vs. Tony Hills for 1-2 roster spots.
Projected for 53-Man Roster: (9) Starks, Kemoeatu, Hartwig, Pouncey, Adams, Essex, Foster, Legursky, Urbik
Projected for IR and PUP: Willie Colon, Chris Scott
Analysis: A few weeks ago, Pittsburgh's offensive line appeared mostly set except for at right guard and possibly at center. Then, disaster struck when the Steelers' best offensive lineman, right tackle Willie Colon, ruptured his Achilles tendon during an offseason workout and was lost for the season.
The Steelers' offensive line has generally been the team's weakest position unit over the last 4-5 seasons and last fall Pittsburgh was the only team in the NFL not to have a former first- or second-round draft pick on its offensive line roster, which is why I was not jubilant yesterday when the contract of director of football operations Kevin Colbert was extended for a long-term deal.
Yes, Colbert is good, particularly in drafting in the first round, and I am mostly glad to see him stay in his hometown. Most impressive, he has built two Super Bowl championship teams.
However, he has not put an emphasis on the offensive line in recent years or the Steelers would have been in the playoffs every season since 2004 and most Steelers fans would have longer life expectancies, including quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. But hey, no team in the NFL will have a better set of third-team linebackers on its training-camp roster this fall!
However, Colbert deserves a great deal of praise for securing Flozell Adams as a replacement for Colon late Thursday. Yes, Adams is old, having played in 12 seasons for the Cowboys who decided to go with the younger Doug Free this offseason instead of paying Adams a large salary.
Although he has clearly lost a step on his 350-pound+ frame, Adams was still a serviceable left tackle last year for a playoff team, was in the Pro Bowl just two seasons ago, remains a quality run blocker, and should be better in pass protection at right tackle than left tackle.
He is far superior to any other possible Steeler starter at right tackle and his addition could definitely make the difference between the Steelers going to the playoffs this fall or missing them for a second consecutive season for the first time since 2000
Now, the big question is if rookie Maurkice Pouncey starts immediately over Trai Essex at right guard. assuming the Steelers can sign their first-round draft pick and get him into camp soon. Although he started his last two seasons at Florida at center and that is where he will start for Pittsburgh as early as 2011, Pouncey did play guard his freshman year for the Gators and should provide an upgrade in athleticism over Eseex.
No, Essex was not good last year in his first campaign as a starter, but he was better at that spot in 2009 than 2008 starter Darnell Stapleton or previous starter Kendall Simmons, who was by far the worst first-round draft pick of the Colbert era and an enormous bust for a first-round offensive guard.
In most games last season, the Steelers ran behind the right side more than 60% of their plays. Now, they were doing that because Colon is probably the best run-blocking right tackle in the NFL, but they could not have done so if Essex was not an upgrade over the physically weaker and smaller Stapleton and Simmons.
Another candiate at right guard is Ramon Foster, an undrafted rookie free agent from the University of Tennessee who emerged as the Steelers' No. 6 offensive lineman last training camp and saw extensive action at guard last season. Foster had some good moments but mostly did not play like an NFL starter. Foster should be a solid-game day reserve in 2010, but his best chance to start is probably at right guard in 2011.
Veteran center Justin Hartwig appeared like a life-savior in 2008, when he joined the Steelers and brought stability to the center position. No, Hartwig was not exceptional in 2008 and was overpowered by bigger and better defensive tackles, like Darnell Dockett in the Super Bowl against the Cardinals. But he was a major improvement from previous starter Sean Mahan.
Last year, though, Hartwig was regularly dominated by mammoth 3-4 nose tackles and quality defensive tackles, ranking as one of the worst starting centers in the NFL. Prior to the Colon injury, he was set to face a training-camp battle from Doug Legursky for the starting center job. Hartwig is coming off shoulder surgery and Legursky is quicker, stronger and younger.
Then, folowing Colon's loss, Hartwig had to be considered a strong favorite to hold onto the job. With new starters likely in place at right tackle and right guard, including a rookie, new Steelers coach Sean Kugler seemed likely to elect to go with a cerebral, experienced, veteran center rather than have three new starters.
However, the candidacy of Legursky got a boost with the addition of Adams, assuming the veteran provides a stablizing force at right tackle. But also hurting Legursky's chance of starting is that Pittsburgh plans to move Pouncey back to his natural center position, probably right after the 2010 season.
Pouncey will eventually join a long line of Steeler centers selected to multiple Pro Bowls that included Bill Walsh, Mike Webster, Dermontri Dawson (who is deserving of joining Webster in the Hall of Fame) and the under-rated Jeff Hartings.
The strength of the Steelers line now likely lies on the experienced left-side of tackle Max Starks and guard Chris Kemoeatu. Starks is a serviceable NFL left tackle, making him worth the big cash the Steelers pay him annually. He still has trouble with top-tier, smaller, pass rushers and gives up a lot of space initially in pass protection.
Starks, though, usually fares well in 1-1 pass blocking, although he is not a dominant run blocker like he should be as a 345-pound tackle who often faces under-sized, weakside defensive ends. That will have to change this year, since Pittsburgh will likely run tailback Reshard Mendenhall more behind the left-side.
Kemoeatu is now clearly the Steelers best run blocker. A subpar pass blocker, I still contend Kemoeatu would better as a right guard. However, it took him four years to learn the playbook at left guard, so moving him is not in the Steelers' plans. Kemoeatu began the 2009 season easily playing the best of his career and earning a spot on the Sports Illustrated mid-season All-Pro Team, although that was probably too much praise for his play.
However, he missed four games with a knee sprain and was not as impressive upon his return. The Steelers need Kemoeatu to play as he did early in last season.
After the Steelers signed Jonathan Scott and drafted fifth-round tackle/guard prospect Chris Scott from Tennessee, I was projecting Pittsburgh to keep 10 offensive linemen on its 53-man roster, but could not figure out which one player would be cut among the Scotts (no relation), Hartwig or Kraig Urbik, a third-round pick in 2009 who played poorly last preseason and did not dress for the Steelers on gamedays in 2009.
But the season-ending loss of Colon was coupled with Chris Scott fracturing his right foot, meaning he will miss at least the first six weeks of the season on the PUP list and may then be transferred to the injured reserve, essentially giving him a redshirt season. That made the 9-man roster seem much clearer. Now, we are back to more uncertanty and keeping 10 offensive linemen is probably not needed.
Second-year pro Kraig Urbik was a highly-productive and articulate, four-year starter at Wisconsin. However, 2009 marked one of the worst NFL draft classes for offensive guards in recent memory and he did not represent great value in the third round of that draft. My memory of the pick was the NFL Network then showing multiple clips of Urbik getting beat again and again in one-on-one, pass protection drills at the Senior Bowl workouts.
The hope remains that Urbik can develop into a Kemoeatu-type run blocker at right guard with more intelligence. Urbik, though, probably only made the 53-man roster in 2009 due to where he was drafted and not how he performed in training camp and the preseason, where he was awful.
The fact that Foster, an undrafted rookie free agent, passed Urbik on the depth chart less than week into training camp was revealing. However, it is too early to give up on Urbik.
As J.J. showed in this excellent analysis, there are multiple reasons why Jonathan Scott was available several weeks into free agency and signed for the veteran's minimum contract after the Bills made no attempt to resign him. Remotely decent offensive tackles garner huge contracts in free agency, since they rarely hit the open market.
Scott is a journeyman tackle who now provides some depth at that position. He was 50-50 to make the team before Colon's injury and 80-20 to make the team after the injuries of Colon and rookie Chris Scott, with a 25% shot of starting. Now, following the addition of Adams, he is back down to a 40% shot of making the 53-man roster, and unlikely to dress on gamedays if he does.
Playing for new Steelers offensive line coach Sean Kugler last season in Buffalo, Scott yielded 8.5 sacks in eight starts at tackle. He was not initially the starter for a Bills' line that was by far the worst in the NFL last season, but was thrust into the position after departures (including star LT Jason Peters, who was traded to the Eagles) and multiple injuries.
Fourth-year veteran Tony Hills is a longshot to make the team. However, his odds of doing so went from very little to a fighter's chance after the injury of Colon, because Hills physically still has pass-blocking potential. Unfortunately, he has yet to show those skills in any of the last three preseasons and has rarely dressed for the Steelers on gamedays. Moreover, his roster odds went back to extremely slight after the signing of Adams, who could move over to left tackle if Starks went down, because he has spent most of his Dallas career protecting the blindside.
Veteran Adrain Jones, who was recently signed, was also thrust into the mix at right tackle. But Jones was never on a regular-season NFL roster in 2009 despite being healthy. He is just fighting for a roster spot and those odds went from 30% to at best 10% after the signing of Adams..


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Do noisy fans sway the referee? The stats suggest so, especially for Harlequins, says Phil Clarke.Back to story
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David Lea says...
I believe it to be absolutley correct that refs are making decisions based on fans shouting. It is no suprise at all that Saints were awarded the most penalties, surely anybody who who has watched a game at Saints or even on the telly can here the saints fans shouting, moaning and crying at every play. While this is annoying, it works so who can blame them.
Posted 17:23 30th August 2009
Phil Ford says...
Phil the crowd swaying the officials is nothing new. When I used to support Liverpool City as a lad there was a bunch of us from the Huyton area who always stood behind the posts, when our goal kicker atempted a conversion we always jumped up with a big yes! and cheers when the ball came near to the posts even if it was just out, on a number of times the touch judges put up there flags in agreement with us. It is great to see sutch large crowds at the games today. The more there the better they can help the ref.
Posted 14:47 27th March 2009
Phil The dude says...
I think that your spot on Phil with your thoughts on the crowd swaying referees. Anyone who thinks any different is probably a referee or someone who has never watched our great game. If us spectators didn't think we could sway the referee we wouldn't be screaming at every suspect decision, there would still be singing etc. But as you said a player lying on at the ruck is probably the main culprit especially against the faster more attacking sides- but as you said were only human!
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By Jerry DiPaola
Pitt freshman Patrick Amara was homeless, hungry and forced to live with so many different families that he lost count.
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Amara, an all-state safety at West Catholic High in Philadelphia, finally has the structured life he always wanted. He has a scholarship, a schedule of classes for Pitt's summer semester and the hope that one day he will help carry the Panthers to the top of the ACC.Read more: http://triblive.com/sports/-topstories/6299970-74/amara-pitt-patrick#ixzz36hSyHyiP
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