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Wednesday's lineups: Tigers vs. Cubs
TIGERS (career numbers off Jake Arrieta)
- Anthony Gose, CF (0-for-4, 4 K's)
- Ian Kinsler, 2B (1-for-9, HR, K)
- Miguel Cabrera, 1B (3-for-9, HR, 3 K's)
- Yoenis Cespedes, LF (0-for-4)
- J.D. Martinez, RF
- Tyler Collins, DH
- Nick Castellanos, 3B
- James McCann, C
- Jose Iglesias, SS
P: Shane Greene
- Dexter Fowler, CF
- Anthony Rizzo, 1B
- Kris Bryant, 3B
- Miguel Montero, C
- Chris Coghlan, LF
- Starlin Castro, SS
- Mike Baxter, DH
- Chris Denorfia, RF
- Addison Russell, 2B
P: Jake Arrieta
Tuesday's lineups: Tigers vs. Cubs
Josh Wilson is 0-for-14 lifetime against Jon Lester, but he's coming off a hot weekend series against the White Sox, and he bats right-handed. He gets the start at third base, with Nick Castellanos at DH.
TIGERS (career numbers vs. Jon Lester)
- Rajai Davis, CF (12-for-41, 2 doubles, 2 triples, HR, 4 walks, 10 K's)
- Ian Kinsler, 2B (7-for-32, 2 HR, 3 walks, 4 K's)
- Miguel Cabrera, 1B (14-for-27, 4 doubles, HR, 9 walks, 3 K's)
- Yoenis Cespedes, LF (1-for-11, walk, 3 K's)
- J.D. Martinez, RF
- Nick Castellanos, DH (2-for-5, HR)
- James McCann, C
- Josh Wilson, 3B (0-for-14, walk, 6 K's)
- Jose Iglesias, SS (1-for-6, double, 3 K's)
P: Anibal Sanchez
CUBS (career numbers vs. Sanchez)
- Dexter Fowler, CF (1-for-6, 2 walks, 4 K's)
- Anthony Rizzo, 1B (2-for-6, walk)
- Kris Bryant, 3B
- Miguel Montero, DH (3-for-17, double, HR, 3 K's)
- Chris Denorfia, LF (2-for-4, 2 walks)
- Starlin Castro, SS (1-for-8, 2 walks, K)
- Junior Lake, RF
- David Ross, C (4-for-15, double, HR, 2 walks, 4 K's)
- Addison Russell, 2B
P: Jon Lester
Hosmer overtakes Cabrera for All-Star vote lead at first base
The tidal wave of All-Star votes from Royals fans not only swept Eric Hosmer past Miguel Cabrera for the lead among AL first basemen this week, it built Hosmer a cushion. Cabrera now trails Hosmer by about 618,000 votes after holding a 70,000-vote lead a week ago.
With that, the Royals now hold the vote lead in seven of nine starting positions, and the Tigers hold none. Jose Iglesias stands second in voting at shortstop, but trails Alcides Escobar by more than 2.1 million votes. Yoenis Cespedes ranks seventh among AL outfielders, where the top three get spots. Cespedes trails third-place Alex Gordon by about 1.96 million votes.
There's clearly a surge of support among Royals fans at work coming off their American League pennant. That said, there are also signs of a drop in support for Cabrera. His 2,933,108 votes reflect a gain of about 810,000 votes from last week's update. By comparison, he gained just under a million votes from the first balloting update two weeks ago to last week. Hosmer's support, by comparison, swelled from 2,053,237 votes last week to 3,551,005 votes as of Monday.
Here's how the race has unfolded over the three balloting updates:
- May 26 (initial update): Cabrera 1,347,351 votes, Hosmer 1,101,738 votes
- June 1: Cabrera 2,123,752, Hosmer 2,053,237
- June 8: Hosmer 3,551,005, Cabrera 2,933,108
Unless Cabrera gets his lead back, the Tigers are likely to go without an All-Star starter for the first time since 2009. Jose Iglesias stands second in voting at shortstop, but trails Alcides Escobar by more than 2.1 million votes. Yoenis Cespedes ranks seventh among AL outfielders, where the top three get spots. Cespedes trails third-place Alex Gordon by about 1.96 million votes. Ian Kinsler has fallen to fifth among AL second basemen, where former Tiger turned Royal Omar Infante is closing in on reigning AL batting champ Jose Altuve.
Rondon struggles in latest rehab outing
For all the encouragement on Justin Verlander's rehab start, there was a flip side Saturday night in Toledo against Columbus. It was Bruce Rondon's outing, which gave a lot more reason for concern than his last few outings.
After debating a call-up earlier this week, the Tigers decided to send Rondon back to Toledo for another rehab appearance, stretching him out to two innings. To try to make sure he got those innings, they stretched out his pitch count to 40. He ended up going one-plus innings, facing four batters in his second inning of work without retiring any of them, and giving up four runs on four hits and three walks.
It was a step backward for a reliever whose recent throwing seemingly had him on the verge of returning to Detroit's bullpen for the first time since September 2013.
"To me, he really struggled," Mud Hens manager Larry Parrish said. "As bad as his line looked, it was probably worse than that. … It was a real battle for him tonight."
Two of Rondon's three outs came on a double play after he loaded the bases with a hit and two one-out walks in the seventh inning. Clippers catcher Adam Moore lined out to left, and Xavier Avery threw out James Ramsey trying to score from third.
The escape for Rondon proved brief with the top of the Clippers order due up in the eighth. Francisco Lindor tripled and scored on a Michael Martinez singled before Jesus Aguilar homered to left-center. After a Zach Walters walk, Rondon's pitch count was at 39, and Parrish had to get him, much to his frustration.
"If you consider yourself a big-league pitcher and you've got 40 pitches, and you get one inning of work in against a Triple-A club, you'd better be frustrated with it," Parrish said.
The mechanics were not consistent. All three walks were on changeups out of a lower arm angle, Parrish said. It was a reminder that for all the throwing Rondon has done on his road back, he has had precious little game action.
There has been no indication that Rondon isn't healthy. His velocity Saturday was more mid-90s than 98-99 mph, according to reports, but he was pitching in a longer outing.
"His velocity is fine. It's a matter of locating," Parrish said. "It's great to throw 98-99, but it still needs to be located."
The outing gives the Tigers a difficult decision in the coming days. Rondon reaches his maximum 20 days on rehab assignment on Tuesday, after which the Tigers must either make a roster move with him or keep him on the DL and not pitch him. Rondon has minor-league options left, making it possible for the Tigers to keep him at Toledo long-term.
Verlander throws 5 2/3 solid innings in rehab start
Justin Verlander looked like he was ready for the big leagues in his second rehab start for Triple-A Toledo, where he struck out nine batters over 5 2/3 innings with an unearned run allowed.
While Verlander's top velocity registered a tick down on the Fifth Third Field radar gun compared to his first rehab start last Sunday at Indianapolis, his command and his secondary pitches were markedly improved. He retired 10 consecutive batters after Indians prospect Francisco Lindor's single leading off the game, and sent a Columbus lineup swinging and missing at 17 of his 93 total pitches. He threw first-pitch strikes to 18 of 21 batters.
Verlander topped out at 94 miles an hour on his fastball, and sat at 91-92. He stopped short of saying his next pitches would take place in Detroit, but indicated he had accomplished what he wanted.
"I feel like today was the step I wanted to see," Verlander said afterward. "The biggest thing was getting my pitch count up and also getting some innings, not just three innings but getting up and down a few times."
Control was much better today. I felt like for the most part, I was able to hit my spots and get ahead of guys and execute my pitches much better.
After lasting just 2 2/3 innings over 79 pitches last Sunday at Indianapolis, Verlander churned through innings after ending his opening frame with a 10-pitch battle and a strikeout-throwout double play. He had an eight-pitch, eight-strike third inning that featured an even split of fastballs and offspeed pitches.
"He looked like he was searching for it a little bit in the first," Mud Hens manager Larry Parrish said, "and then he dropped a 3-2 breaking ball in there for strike three, [catcher Miguel Gonzalez] threw the guy out, and then after that he was spot-on."
Among Verlander's strikeout victims was Lindor, one of baseball's top prospects. After leading off the game with a single, he fanned on a Verlander slider in the fourth inning before fanning on a nasty breaking ball inside in the sixth as Verlander neared his pitch count of 90.
A few pitches later, Verlander showed his Major League form when he bargained Parrish into letting him face an extra hitter.
"He asked if I can get [Jesus Aguilar] out in three pitches, and I said yeah," Verlander said. "I threw four or five and then told [Gonzalez] we have to go right down the middle, throw one down the middle and hope to get an out. Didn't get an out, gave up a double, but I didn't want to end up in another 10-pitch at-bat and throw 95-96 [pitches]. That wouldn't make LP look good either. So here it is, hit it."
Aguilar hit a fastball to the fence in left-center for a double on Verlander's 93rd pitch. Neither Verlander nor Parrish sweated it.
"It's not my call, but he looked like he was ready today," Parrish said. "Indy, no. Today, yeah."
Technically, the Tigers don't have to make that call for a while. They're off Monday and Thursday next week, so they could go without a fifth starter for a week. More likely, they could slot him in for next weekend's series against the Indians at Comerica Park, Friday or Saturday depending on whether they would want to give David Price more rest following his complete game tonight in Chicago.
Regardless, his time in Toledo is likely to be a brief stop. Still, it was memorable. The combination of his start and several promotions, from the Jurassic World uniforms to the Mud Hens' annual scout sleepover, and the attendance of 13,300 set a new Fifth Third Field record. The Hens auctioned off the themed jerseys after the game; Verlander's jersey raised $2300 for charity, according to the team. The previous record, according to John Wagner of the Toledo Blade, was $600.
"The jersey's pretty cool," Verlander said after his outing. "I don't think I'll bid on it, but maybe I'll get them to make a replica or something."
Saturday's lineups: Tigers at White Sox
Same lineup as last night for another White Sox lefty. This time, it's John Danks, who pitched the usual 10-hit shutout last Sunday at Houston. Aside from Ian Kinsler (who's just 8-for-61 with three RBIs over his last 16 games, according to MLB Network research), there aren't a lot of great numbers for Tigers hitters against Danks, though Josh Wilson does have a double and a sacrifice fly off him.
The White Sox mix things up near the bottom of the lineup. Emilio Bonifacio gets the start in left, while Geovany Soto and his awkward throwing motion starts behind the plate.
Reminder: Tonight is a FOX Network broadcast, not Fox Sports Detroit. Check your local listings to find out which channel that is.
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TIGERS (career numbers against Danks)
- Rajai Davis, LF (5-for-18, 3 doubles, 3 walks, 3 K's)
- Ian Kinsler, 2B (14-for-41, 4 doubles, 4 HR, 2 walks, 4 K's)
- Miguel Cabrera, 1B (11-for-44, 2 doubles, HR, 7 walks, 5 K's)
- Yoenis Cespedes, LF (1-for-6, 3 K's)
- J.D. Martinez, RF (2-for-5, HR, walk, K)
- Nick Castellanos, DH (3-for-6, double, 3 walks, K)
- James McCann, C
- Josh Wilson, 3B (1-for-4, double)
- Jose Iglesias, SS (1-for-6, HR, 2 K's)
P: David Price
WHITE SOX (career numbers against Price)
- Adam Eaton, CF (7-for-12, 2 K's)
- Alexei Ramirez, SS (7-for-33, 2 doubles, 2 walks, 3 K's)
- Jose Abreu, DH (1-for-10, HR, 3 K's)
- Avisail Garcia, RF (2-for-7, HR, 2 K's)
- Adam LaRoche, 1B (0-for-9, walk, 2 K's)
- Gordon Beckham, 3B (3-for-26, 3 walks, 5 K's)
- Geovany Soto, C (2-for-5, 3 K's)
- Carlos Sanchez, 2B (0-for-3)
- Emilio Bonifacio, LF (1-for-7, 2 walks, 2 K's)
P: John Danks
Friday's lineups: Tigers at White Sox
Jose Iglesias' move to the second spot in the Tigers batting order lasted three games. That said, the Tigers offense didn't look much different in those few games than the previous week or two, notably with Ian Kinsler in the fifth spot. Yoenis Cespedes, as expected, is in the lineup after leaving yesterday's game with flu-like symptoms. With his numbers off Jose Quintana, he might have needed to be bedridden to miss that matchup. Rajai Davis gets a similarly favorable matchup in his return from the paternity leave list.
Last but not least, Brad Ausmus gets one more right-handed bat in the lineup against the left-handed Quintana by starting Josh Wilson at third base and DHing Nick Castellanos.
Some pregame stats and tidbits:
- NumberFire released its weekly power rankings of baseball's hottest and coldest hitters based on runs contributed over league average. Miguel Cabrera is eighth, creeping up one spot from last week. Anthony Gose, meanwhile, is the fourth coldest, based on the biggest drops in efficiency from last week. Considering Gose started 17 of the last 18 games, with one team off-day mixed in, gotta think fatigue has played a part.
- Iglesias has struck out just five times in 76 plate appearances over the last month, good for the fifth-lowest strikeout rate among full-time players in that span according to Inside Edge.
- Miguel Cabrera's streak of reaching base safely is now at 23 games, longest active streak in the big leagues.
- Actor LeVar Burton is throwing out the ceremonial first pitch tonight. You may remember him from his role playing Ron LeFlore in the TV movie One in a Million from the 1970s. LeFlore spent the final couple seasons of his Major League career with the White Sox after six seasons with the Tigers (he spent a year in Montreal in between).
TIGERS (career numbers off Quintana)
- Rajai Davis, CF (11-for-31, 3 doubles, HR, 2 walks, 6 K's)
- Ian Kinsler, 2B (7-for-23, 2 doubles, walk, 5 K's)
- Miguel Cabrera, 1B (9-for-25, 2 doubles, HR, 2 walks, 4 K's)
- Yoenis Cespedes, LF (6-for-9, double, 4 HR, walk)
- J.D. Martinez, RF (1-for-11, triple, 2 walks, 4 K's)
- Nick Castellanos, DH (3-for-15, 5 K's)
- James McCann, C (1-for-2, triple)
- Josh Wilson, 3B (1-for-2)
- Jose Iglesias, SS (1-for-5, double, 2 K's)
P: Kyle Ryan
WHITE SOX (numbers off Ryan)
- Adam Eaton, CF (1-for-3)
- Alexei Ramirez, SS (1-for-3, double)
- Jose Abreu, DH (1-for-2, walk)
- Avisail Garcia, RF (0-for-3, K)
- Adam LaRoche, 1B
- Melky Cabrera, LF
- Gordon Beckham, 3B
- Tyler Flowers, C
- Carlos Sanchez, 2B (1-for-2)
P: Jose Quintana
Set points: Tigers get outplayed for three games
The Tigers have had their share of postgame quotes lately about dealing with pressure and trying to do too much. Thursday wasn't one of those days.
"We are in a tough situation," Ian Kinsler said. "We're all continuing to work hard and trying to play our game the best we can. This game offers different challenges and right now we are in the middle of one. I hope we get out of it sooner than later."
More than anything, there was attention turning to the next day. After three games of frustration, the Tigers have had it with Oakland.
"The greatest thing about this game," Joba Chamberlain said, "is you get an opportunity to play tomorrow. There's a bunch of guys in this clubhouse that know exactly what it takes and what we need to do. Obviously it's the beginning of June, there's no panic. We just gotta continue to try and get better every day."
Or as manager Brad Ausmus said when asked about getting Victor Martinez and Alex Avila back at some point soon, "Right now, it is about the White Sox. We have to find a way to win."
The Tigers' seven-game losing streak is their longest since 2011. They haven't had a longer one in this era of contention that began in 2006. Detroit's last eight-game losing streak happened in 2005, the year before Jim Leyland was hired. Among the losing pitchers in that stretch: Vic Darensbourg, Chris Spurling (twice), Matt Ginter, Jeremy Bonderman, Craig Dingman, Nate Robertson and Fernando Rodney.
That was during an 8-23 final stretch that led to changes, a month that began with a nine-game losing streak before an eight-gamer later. Even during the Tigers' miserable closing stretch in 2008 that led to a last-place finish, they never lost more than seven in a row. Part of the Tigers' ability to contend, to survive slow starts and close in during the summer, has been the ability to cut off losing streaks before they get too long.
It's too early to say a long losing streak could doom these guys, especially with Martinez on his way back at some point and Justin Verlander potentially back next week. The Tigers want to see what kind of boost they get from returning players before deciding on any moves. But they have to play better. Thursday's ninth-inning was an encouraging sign, but they have to build on it.
They've been needing better baseball for a while now.
The Tigers had an 11-2 record and a plus-34 run differential on April 20. They're 17-25 with a 44-run deficit since. It's the third-lowest run differential in baseball in that span, better than only Boston (minus-55) and Philadelphia (minus-47 entering Thursday). It's not just offense, because their 197 runs allowed since April 21 is the highest total in the American League. Their 153 runs scored, isn't the worst.
The White Sox, Detroit's next opponent, has a minus-35 run differential.
The Tigers have been around .500 this late and later in recent years. They were 25-30 after 55 games in 2012 with a minus-16 run differential and a six-game division deficit, stuck in third place, and didn't get over .500 for good until July 7. They were three games over .500 with a minus-7 run differential and a five-game gap in 2011. The 2012 team started playing consistent baseball from July on, while the 2011 team turned it on in September with a 12-game winning streak fueled in part from a rotation that turned it on down the stretch following Doug Fister's arrival.
This year's rotation has to stabilize, not just for the team's sake but for the bullpen. Getting Verlander back in even decent form would help, taking up innings, but Detroit needs Shane Greene and Anibal Sanchez to turn it around (Sanchez has shown signs). The Tigers desperately need a healthy Victor Martinez in the middle of the lineup.
In the meantime, they have to survive. It's not do-or-die yet, but the losing streak has to stop.
What went right: Miguel Cabrera hit, and Al Alburquerque continues to get his pitching in order, albeit in lower-leverage situations. That might be about it.
What went wrong: Sanchez and Greene continued to struggle, albeit in different ways from their last starts. The lineup, aside from Cabrera, continued to struggle until the final inning of the series. Angel Nesbitt appeared to be shaken up by a Ben Zobrist grand slam in the opener, then tried to make the perfect pitch the next night and couldn't. Ian Kinsler's series, until his final at-bat, might have been his worst three-game stretch as a Tiger.
Takeaway: The Tigers came home with a bitter taste in their mouths, rested with an off-day, then came out looking flat. That doesn't mean they were flat, but it wasn't a good look.
Snapshot moment: What else could it be? The look on the young fan's face upon catching the grand slam Tuesday night, then realizing it was a go-ahead grand slam for the A's.
Cespedes update: Expecting to play Friday
Credit MLB.com associate Alejandro Zuniga for checking postgame with Yoenis Cespedes, who said he was ill Thursday but expects to be OK for Friday's series opener against the White Sox in Chicago. He, too, said his third-inning exit had nothing to do with fouling a ball off his foot.
"I threw up, and I felt a little lightheaded," Cespedes told Zuniga after Thursday's loss. "But I'm good now."
Cespedes is 6-for-9 with four home runs for his career against Friday's scheduled White Sox starter, Jose Quintana. He'll probably need to be a lot sicker on this to miss out on that matchup.
The Tigers are also getting Rajai Davis back from the paternity leave list. Daniel Fields was optioned back to Triple-A Toledo, as was always the plan.
Cespedes leaves with flu-like symptoms
The struggling Tigers offense has lost its second cleanup hitter in three weeks, albeit temporarily. Yoenis Cespedes left Thursday's series finale against the A's with what the team called flu-like symptoms.
Cespedes, who has taken over the cleanup spot with Victor Martinez on the disabled list, fouled a ball off his foot in the second inning before striking out swinging at a Jesse Hahn changeup. He walked back to the clubhouse as Daniel Fields began warming up. Fields replaced him in left field for the start of the third inning.
Considering the Tigers entered Thursday having scored 18 runs over their last nine games, any loss of a productive hitter is a big one. Cespedes entered the day batting .286 with seven home runs and 28 RBIs.
For Fields, called up Tuesday with Rajai Davis on paternity leave, it was a sudden entrance for his Major League debut. The son of former Tigers player and current Tigers hitting coordinator Bruce Fields became the first Detroit-born player to take the field for his hometown team since Dave Borkowski in 2001.


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they just need a backup outfielder. He'll be sent down again eventually.
i think both teams won this trade. Tigers were looking for young cost controlling pitching, and the yankees were looking for a young shortstop with 1-2 WAR potential.
Police sometimes have to kill a suspect in order to keep them from hurting themselves. Proper procedure.
yeah...as a starter. Throwing 90 innings back to back seasons is nothing to sneeze at for a reliever, and could very well have had an impact on his arm coming into this season.
Hal is right, you don't need 200 million to win, but apparently the yankees do, since they don't have the type of leadership necessary to build from within or make smart trades. When you don't have...
Police lie....all the time. We don't actually know that's what happened. With that said, if this guy was in fact some sort of violent thug and criminal, then i'm glad he's dead.
Not sure what reality you live in, but I live in the non imaginary one, and in this one, usually people who tamper with evidence have something to hide, or want something covered up.
Video has been cropped, as well as edited. That means the video evidence has been tampered with. Tampering with evidence = guilt. Martin had no gun.
Just saying it's really not necessary.
Cops don't need to plant guns. You're talking about the old days.
That is what is being reported by the police. The cruiser's dash cam will confirm this. The officer turned off his body at the time of the shooting, or didn't turn it on.
lawrie is built like Mike Trout but hits like Brett Gardner. Beane has jumped the shark with this trade. what he got in return for Moss only fortifies my argument.
Not strange at all, if you've been watching baseball for more than a couple of years. I'm quite surprised CC has lasted as long as he has with the amount of innings he's thrown.
Let's not get too excited over an A ball all star yet. Fans here work themselves up into a tizzy over a low level prospect and then become hugely disappointed when they can't handle upper level...
They were in the playoffs every year in spite of their payroll not because of it.
The yankees traded away their best catcher, lol! ;)
I think Miller wants to be a closer, but I wouldn't put it past the FO to pass on miller over a few bucks even if he's willing to remain a...
I wouldn't worry about Cashman emptying the farm. He only trades away top prospects one at a time and only for unproven pitchers with past arm problems.
It is suggested by doctors like James Andrews that pitching too much at a sustained pace from a young age to an adult is the root cause for the weakening of the UCL, resulting in more and more tj...
Friedman drafted Price and Longoria. Everyone else was a bust. Yes, he benefited greatly from drafting first.
Monkey see, monkey do.
the yankees don't waste any time findng their scapegoats
When Cashman retires he'll have his own plague in monument park.
The yankees rarely, if ever trade for impact players, and they don't sign mlb ready IFA, except once every blue moon. Not their style.
According to all the sources I've read, that was their final offer. They weren't going to go higher than 7/175.
Yes, because we all know by past history that the yankees always always throw out the lowest offer possible when going after a free agent. :facepalm: :laugh2:
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Since its £2.4bn takeover of EMI last year, Terra Firma has been seeking to push through a turnaround plan at the music company. Hands is slashing jobs and seeking to stamp out what he sees as music industry profligacy.
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The Patriots brought in seemingly a million wide receivers this offseason, one which was Anthony Gonzalez. Gonzalez is a former 1st round pick of the Indianapolis Colts in the 2007 NFL Draft, but thanks to injuries, he's played just 2 games over the last 3 seasons, catching 5 passes. The Patriots didn't have a ton of room at wide receiver and likely just brought Anthony Gonzalez in as a boom or bust free agent signing to see if he had anything left as a player after all of his injuries. It appears he doesn't as the Patriots have already cut him. According to the Boston Globe, they gave up on him because he "doesn't have the legs anymore." His past leg injuries have turned him from a player who once went in the 1st round to a player not even worth bringing in Training Camp. At just 27 years of age, it's fair to wonder if anyone will ever give him another chance.
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Risotto With Peas
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|Chicken stock
|1 3⁄4 Cup (28 tbs)
|2 Tablespoon
|1 , chopped
|Short grain rice
|3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Frozen peas
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Grated parmesan cheese
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs)
In 4-cup (1 L) measure, microwave stock at High for 3 to 4 minutes or until simmering.
Set aside.
In 12-cup (3 L) deep casserole, combine butter and onion.
Microwave at High for 2 minutes, or until onion has softened, stirring once.
Add rice; stir to coat rice with butter.
Pour in hot stock; cover with lid or vented plastic wrap and microwave at High for 4 to 5 minutes or until boiling.
Microwave at Medium (50%) for 7 to 9 minutes, or until rice is just tender and mixture is still creamy, rotating once if necessary.
Rinse peas with warm water to thaw and stir into rice mixture.
Cover and let stand 5 minutes.
Stir in cheese.
Taste and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.
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Preparation Time:5 Minutes
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In the coming days, junior welterweight contender Lucas Matthysse (34-2, 32KOs) is planning to spar with WBO welterweight champion Timothy Bradley (30-0, 12KOs). Both boxers have very important fights coming up. Matthysse is going to face WBA/WBC champion Danny Garcia (26-0, 16KOs) on September 14th at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, while Bradley will defend his title against Mexican superstar Juan Manuel Marquez (55-6-1, 40KOs) on October 12th at the Thomas & Mack Center, also in Las Vegas. [Click Here To Read More]
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I don't like this. Someone could get cut or another injury and one of the fights gets cancelled. Or both burn each other out and leave their best in the sparring and training and come to the ring not at their best.
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A catheter support has a yoke attached to a base plate by a resilient beam capable of accommodating limited motion of the catheter without pulling the catheter from the patient. The base plate has an adhesively-backed surface for placement on a patient's body surface.
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[ 5] Nov. 14, 1972 United States Patent Schlesinger .248/205 A Robinson....... 248/74 A CATHETER SUPPORT 3,516,631 6/1970 Santucci............... 72 Inventor: Robert M. Schlesinger, 25 Gardner 1,429,776 9/1922 Road, Brookline, Mass. 02146 March 1,1971
Primary Examiner-Dalton L. Truluck Attorney-Cesari & McKenna 22] Filed:
[57] ABSTRACT A catheter support has a yoke attached to a base plate 'by a resilient beam capable of accommodating limited [2i] Appl. No.: 122,639
motion of the catheter without pulling thev catheter from the patient. The base plate has an adhesivelybacked surface for placement on a patients' body surface.
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ATTORNELS CATHETER SUPPORT BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The invention relates to catheters, and comprises a catheter support which can accommodate limited motion of the catheter without slippage and without pulling on the patient. This application is a refile of US. Pat. application, Ser. No. 804,226 filed Mar. 4,
1969 by the same applicant and now abandoned.
2. Prior Art Catheters provide drainage from body cavities. To prevent their involuntary withdrawal when the patient makes slight movements, it is necessary to clamp the catheters to the patient in some manner. Heretofore this was commonly done by means of suturingor by adhesively attaching the catheter to the patient, either directly or with an intermediary dressing. v
Care must be taken to ensure that the catheter is not clamped too tightly or at too frequent intervals to the patients body to prevent unnecessary tissue trauma. Furthermore, a certain amount of looseness in the catheter betweenclamping points must be provided to ensure that the catheter does not pull away from the patient during slight movements. Inexperienced personnel most frequently offend in one or more of these areas and thus often cause patient discomfort and sometimes severe harm.
Devices having a semi-rigid, deformable, but nonresilient body for holding an infusion needle in prescribed relation to a body surface are also known. However, these cannot accommodate any significant motion of the infusion device relative to the body surface without suffering the infusion device to slip relative to it. Thus, they are unsuitable for use as catheter supports of the type described herein.
BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A. Objects of the Invention Accordingly, it is an object of the invention to provide a catheter support.
Another object of the invention is to provide a catheter support that is quickly and simply attached to,
' or removed from, the body of a patient.
A further object of the invention is to provide a catheter support that inherently provides some freedom of movement of the catheter when necessary without pulling the catheter from the patient.
Still a further object of the invention is to provide a catheter support that is inexpensive to manufacture and simple to use even by inexperienced personnel.
B. Brief Description of the Invention The catheter support of the present invention is formed from a yoke attached to a base plate by a resilient beam. The yoke receives the catheter and clamps it in place, while the resilient beam accommodates itself to limited movements of the catheter caused, for example, by limited patient movements, without pulling the catheter from the patient. The base plate has an adhesively-backed surface which is readily mounted on a patients body.
SPECIFIC DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION The invention will be explained in connection with the preferred embodiment illustrated in the drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a top view of a catheter support in accordance with my invention;
FIG. 2 is a front view of the catheter support of FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a side view of the catheter support of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 4 is a view in perspective of the catheter support of FIG. 1.
As shown in the drawings, the catheter support comprises a yoke 1 connected to a base plate 4 by means of a resilient beam 2. A pedestal 3 on the base plate 4 pro vides additional mounting support for the beam 2.
An adhesive layer 6 is spread over the lower surface of the base plate 4. A removable protective backing layer 7 is placed over the adhesive layer 6 to prevent its adhesion to other objects until the backing layer 7 is removed. A lip 5 having a recess 8 is formed along one side of the base plate 4; the lip 5 provides a surface which is readily grasped when it is desired to remove the backing layer 7 from the base plate 4 or when the support is to be removed from the body of a patient after having been adhesively affixed to it.
The beam 2 is formed from a resilient material, conveniently'a plastic, which is capable of bending to accommodate a limited movement of the catheter while snugly retaining the catheter in the yoke. This ensures that limited movement of the patient will not dislodge the catheter or inadvertently pull the catheter from the patient. The degree of allowed movement will, of course, be determined by the nature of the material chosen and by the length and cross-sectional shape of the beam. By properly proportioning the beam, movement in both directions may be accommodated or the movement may be restricted to a single direction if desired. The yoke and base plate may likewise advantageously be formed from a plastic material and may be molded integral with the beam for economy of manufacture.
When a catheter is to be fixed in place, the backing layer 7 is removed from the base plate 4 and the support is lightly pressed against the patients body with the adhesive layer 6 in contact with the body in the desired location. The catheter is then pressed into the yoke 1 which is selected to be of a size sufficient to accommodate the catheter snugly therein. The catheter is thus securely positioned on the body in the desired location, but limited motion of the catheter is allowed by the support.
From the foregoing it will be seen that l have provided an improved catheter support capable of firmly positioning acatheter on a patients body while accommodating limited movement of the catheter without pulling on the patient. Various changes may be made in the dimensioning, arrangement and construction of the parts without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention and it is intended that all matter shown and described herein be taken as illustrative only, the scope of the invention being defined in the claims.
Having described my invention, I claim:
1. A catheter support comprising A. a yoke for receiving a catheter therein, said yoke comprising a generally C-shaped member providing catheter engaging means permitting entry and release of said catheter;
B. a base plate having means thereon for attachment to the skin of a patient; 7
C. an upstanding beam attached to said base at the lower end thereof and connected to said yoke at its upper end, said yoke being spaced at a fixed position from the base plate by said beam when no external forces are applied to the catheter; said beam being resiliently deformable in at least one direction parallel to the base plate in response to a limited movement of the catheter in said direction whereby the movement of said catheter may be accommodated by the beam without pulling the catheter from the patient.
2. A catheter support according to claim 1 in which the beam has a substantially greater resiliency in one direction than in the transverse direction, whereby movement of the catheter in the one direction is more freely accommodated than in the transverse direction.
3. Apparatus according to claim 1 in which the yoke and the beam are formed integral with each other and from a plastic material of sufiicient resiliency to accommodate the desired bending in the beam.
4. Apparatus according to claim 1 in which the yoke, the beam, and the base plate are formed integral with each other and of a plastic material of sufficient resiliency to accommodate the desired bending in the beam.
5. Apparatus according to claim 4 in which the base plate includes 1. an adhesive backing on one face thereof for fixing the support directly to a patients skin;
2. a removable cover over said adhesive; and
3. means forming an adhesive-free lip on a portion thereof for grasping while removing said cover.
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The three major elements for plant growth are food, water, and sunlight. Of these water is the most dominant – with the exception perhaps of the fungi of mushrooms, which grow in dark caves and possibly your closet. Notice, of these three major elements, soil is not mentioned!
We all too often think that good, rich, fertile soil is absolutely vital to a good garden. People have mentioned that they have tried to grow a garden out back but the soil is so poor. Then they expect miracles to happen. When the expected results don't show, they mistakenly think that the poor outcome is caused by poor soil.
Florida soils are well known for poor fertility. Yet Florida is a leading producer of vegetables and fruit in the United States. Soil is given nutrients, and the plants draw off that food from the soil. Hydroponics is a well-known method of growing plants without soil. Plants are held by special stem clamps and set in a bath of nutrients. Usage of pebbles, rock, wood, or ground coconut husks are also used to hold the plant in place. This is a proven method of growing vegetables without soil.
The soil we use can be improved on by adding organic material. My choice is plenty of leaves from the lawn, pine needles, and last year's dead vegetable plants. Organic material adds body and water retention, and contains some nutrients. However, fertilizer is a must for healthy, high producing vegetables.
Now let us discuss fertilizer – organic or non-organic. If you have access to animal manure, steamed bone meal and others of this kind – you are organically ready for business. Animal manure has an odor that some people don't appreciate. It can also be loaded with weed seeds. Plant the manure and plant the weeds. I have three garden plots 30-ft by 100-ft, and could easily use 9 dump truck loads each year. For many of us, organic fertilizers are not a good option. If you want to grow a true organic garden the use of any chemical fertilizer voids the term organically grown.
For many of us the only practical way to fertilize is to use chemical fertilizers. You may have planted 7 different types of plants in your vegetable garden. Commercial growers target special fertilizers for all different plants. When walking through the garden center, you may see 5 pallets of fertilizer, each pallet having different numbers on their bags. You might see 5-5-5, 10-10-10, 16-4-8, 34-0-0, etc. I special ordered a fertilizer (calcium nitrate), which is 15.5-0-0. For our purpose we will use a general purpose fertilizer with the same three numbers such as 10-10-10, 20-20-20, etc. What do all these numbers mean? These three numbers are macronutrient numbers: the first is nitrogen, the second is phosphorous, and the third is potassium, also called potash. Each number is the percentage in 100-lbs. of that element. These elements are used in large quantities for plant growth. Now, what are the other number percentages listed? These are micronutrients which plants need but, in very small amounts. Some would be copper, magnesium, boron, zinc and others. Ever wondered why vegetables contain vitamins and minerals?
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Hydraulic Ram Pumps are very old technology that pump water using gravity and 2 valves to generate a repeating water hammer effect. The "hammer" pounds a little of the drive water into a pressure tank then up the delivery hose for your use. Why is it green? Because it's simple, reliable, pumps water without any engine, fuel or electricity or muscle power and can be made from mostly recycled materials.
The one I built has a few novelties that make it more reliable, cheaper and easier to operate than most of the plans you find on the Internet. It developed a steady 28psi pressure at the pump and delivered about 1,000 gallons per day where we wanted it.
last season, it hammered over 145,600 gallons of pond water up a steep hill to our garden over 700 feet away and over 100 feet higher than the pond! In the process, it saved us over 485 liters of diesel fuel we would have normally used to drive our diesel tractor to pump and tow the water around our farm.
The pump was built for about $50 worth of plumbing parts and a bunch of stuff that I had sitting in my scrap pile.
What's the secret? A strong gate valve - period.
Please have a look and enjoy the instructable and don't forget to rate it.
Please let me know if I can make it better or easier to follow somehow, and I will be happy to answer any questions that you have so post away!!
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Parts list.
You may want to print this picture to refer to later as an assembly guide.
I did see an old patent that claimed it had a ram pump design that worked in a well but I never investigated it.
can we buy a set of instructions for this?
I don't have a detailed set of plans but the info above should be enough to get you there. try it and let me know if you have problems and I will talk you through your build.
You can definitely run the outflow back to the pond surface for agitation purposes. If the outflow is directed through a smaller diameter nozzle, it will spray quite far. I got at least 20 feet out of a 0.25" nozzle. You may get even farther out of a smaller diameter nozzle.
"You could use high pressure pvc.... the abs fittings ..."
Were you mixing ABS (fittings) with PVC (pipe)?
I thought they were incompatible.
Do youknow if these kind of hydraulic ram pumps would be full submersible? I am wanting to build a pond with a waterfall and small stream that is self contained. My idea would be to place the intake at the far end of the pond leading to the ram pump at the other end of the pond. I am wanting it fully submerged so the water loss isn't an issue for maintaining the pond's water level.
Do you know if that would cause any sort of pressure issues?
You can't put the water from the exhaust back into the same reservoir it came from. It has to flow down hill to create the energy to drive the pump.
Thank's for getting back to me so soon. I Like your site very much.I believe I may be able to salvage my old waste valve and create a new base out of material i have in my boneyard. The Pond has an old air box that was used to regulate water level. It has a 12 in pipe that drains at the base of the embankment equal to 10 ft of head. I have sealed the drain because the old stand pipe or box has rotten away at base. I have been pondering if it would be possible to create a waste valve that would connect to the 12 inch pipe that then would connect to a fabricated steel air box with a bladder a threaded delivery line at 6 inch. I will try to send a sketch. Again great site and thanks for any advice.
and it worked fine for years. No fabricating & easy to take on & off. I imagine you could go up to 4" this way pretty cheaply but you might start to have trouble with the coupling leaking pressure at that diameter so you may need a threaded union joint for greater strength... like this:
Post a sketch or link to tinycad drawing so we can see what you are thinking.
Hi Drew,
I see no reason you can't scale up my impulse valve design to whatever size you need and bolt it to whatever ram pump body you prefer. I turned down a 2" hockey puck for my 1.5" valve size but you could buy bigger chunks of rubber or polymer than a puck. Something like a boat roller guide might serve you. e.g. http://www.easternmarine.com/3-1-2-x-1-2-yates-bo...
The best advice is to make sure the valve stem runs up and down smoothly and centered. Do that by attaching at least 2 centering guides made of plastic. You could cut them out of sheets of 1/2" or thicker polyethelyene or buy some nylon casters of the correct size to act as centering guides so the valve stem must stay aligned to the valve seat.
Post a sketch if you like & I will comment on it for you. you might like the free CAD program here: https://tinkercad.com
to help you design something.
Hello. I have used a ram pump from folk ram pumps. It was an aluminum cast body which over the years has broken. I was able to make a new bell housing out of eight inch well casing i had however the aluminum cast waste valve assembly has also gone the way of the body. I am now without a pump. The pond that i am using is 4 acre ft I have 8 ft of head and have a 3inch feed pipe in place with a flow rate of 200 gal a minute i would like to manufacture my own pump and would greatly appreciate any help or advice you could offer.
You could provide your water for gardening, livestock, drinking, washing etc, generate power....
If you could make a viable hydrogen fuel cell, you could be completely green and off grid theoretically..
Or is it not a viable system?
Hi Boraan,
If you feed a 2" ram pump with a 4 meter vertical drop, you should have good luck driving it with a 20 L/m solar pump. Just hook the solar 1" outflow directly into the ram pump 2 " feed pipe. You can adjust the speed of the ram pump cycle to make sure you have enough drive water in the ram pump feed pipe. If it is adjusted to just barely spill over the top of the ram pump feed pipe, you will never have your ram pump stop due to lack of feed water.
Your trouble will be that the solar pump will stop feeding at night, then you will have to start the whole system again each morning. This design of ram pump is not self starting. To start it, you will require a long, light weight rod attached to the ram pump top valve so that you can push it down several times to prime the cycle. This will be annoying to you. You may be better off with a small self priming high lift gear pump attached to a simple water wheel driven by your solar pump outflow. Alternately, you can try to get a high lift low voltage pump that is directly driven by your solar cells and eliminate the double pump setup you are envisioning.
Or just get a low voltage compressor driven from your solar cells (or use an inverter to make high voltage) and run an airline down to a bubble pump. That way all your mechanism is above ground with no moving parts in the water or well. much easier to service everything. Ram pumps are easiest to operate and service when you can keep them at ground level and they have a continuous flow of feed water.
Or build a teeter totter with a piston pump on long rods over the well. Then the kids can play all day and pump water at the same time.
Hi Boraan, Actually I think you could use your low lift solar pump to feed a ram pump that would move water much higher. You could suspend the ram pump above the water line of the well and fill its feed pipe with the solar pump output. The ram pump exhaust would go right back into the well and the ram pump output could be delivered to a much higher level than the solar by itself. You could fill barrels at the top of the well overnight or run a gravity feed system of pipes from the well to where the water is needed. You might be able to run 2 ram pumps from that much feed water. worth a try. Another maybe easier idea is to use your solar pump to turn a small water wheel that directly drives a piston or gear pump that will pump water above the ground level. You can also use the solar cells to make compressed air which in turn runs a bubble pump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95LVVe7OpRM or use a windmill pump
The question that we have is; can install the pump underwater and use the water pressure to power the pump?
We need to go 100' up and 300' inland.
Has anyone done this? Do you have any plans for this? Can you help us?
Also, FYI, I have seen these as closed loops, which do not emit water at the pump but capture both sides of the pressure to enhance the pump capabilities. I don't remember where I saw it but some googling should get you going in the right direction. Same premiss however, floating feeder pipe.
You can definitely run the outflow back to the pond surface for agitation purposes. If the outflow is directed through a smaller diameter nozzle, it will spray quite far. I got at least 20 feet out of a 0.25" nozzle. You may get even farther out of a smaller diameter nozzle.
the 2'' is a constant, or depends of the ... debit of water ?
like if i have a like slow river, is ok to use 2'' pipe ?
Garden hose is about the same diameter but more flexible so it may not deliver as much as the flexible walls will absorb some pressure. the shorter the delivery hose, the more water you will have at the end of the hose. The larger the diameter of the delivery hose, the less it will pump because it will have to push a large weight of water through the hose. There is a happy medium so you may have to experiment. You may want to use more rigid hose, like water line pvc, even up to 1 inch diameter and put a garden hose connector on the end of it where you want to use the water. that worked for me when I added another 50 feet of hose on the end of my delivery pipe to drip water the garden. A soaker hose at the end worked well to drip water onto the garden for hours.
They are well known in France, they have been invented by Mr de Montgolfier (who also invented the hot air balloon by the way) so you may test your french at :
another link http://energies-nouvelles-entreprises.pagesperso-orange.fr/ch12-71.htm
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I am currently using a brass spring type check valve bought at a hardware store but there is no reason a more reliable type of check valve could not be used.
Also, in my design it is important to orient the check valve upright and level so that gravity assists its operation and you reduce side pressure on the valve seat and stem to avoid premature wear. My check valve has operated reliably for over 3 years with no maintenance. You are pushing lots more gallons through at likely higher pressure than me so that may account for the fast failure.
Maybe if you compress the valve spring and measure the tension in "PSI" then replace the spring with an equal weight of metal on the valve stem you might get away without a spring if you orient your valve to operate vertically, i.e. build a gravity powered spring.
I also experimented with neodymium magnets held in repulsion to replace the spring on the gate valve with some success before I moved to a weight operated valve. You might try that on the check valve and then you would have a permanent spring setup. Also there are plenty of home made check valve designs on the net if you search around a bit. Anytime you can avoid use of springs in these pumps you will increase reliability.


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- Jill Scott Charlie Wilson
- Saturday, 20 October 2012
- The Woodlands (Texas)
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
- 2005 Lake Robbins Dr Map
Other Jill Scott's gigs in U.S.
|Jul 09, 2015
|Peabody Opera House
|St Louis
|Jul 11, 2015
|FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
|Jul 13, 2015
|Heinz Hall
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Jill Scott's latest setlist
Enmore Theatre (Sydney) 23-11-2013
Intro, It's Love, The Real Thing, Love Rain, I Love You, A Long Walk, The Way, So in Love, Gettin' in the Way, Quick, Slowly, Surely, So Gone (What My Mind Says), Cross My MindJill Scott setlist on setlist.fm
Past Jill Scott gigs in The Woodlands
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