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A needle tip protector (10, 10′) including a pair of apertured members (28, 30 or 28′, 30′) with spring arms (22, 24) urging the apertured members (28, 30 or 28′, 30′) out of alignment to create a barrier to a needle tip (16). A needle gripping U-shaped clip (81) may also provide a needle tip protector (80).
1. A needle tip protector comprising:
a needle having a shaft and a sharp tip end;
a support member telescoped over the needle shaft;
a pair of spring arms extending from the support in a direction toward the sharp tip end; and
a pair of apertured members each connected to a respective one of the pair of spring arms, the spring arms providing a bias to urge the apertured members out of alignment, the needle shaft extending through the apertures of the apertured members in a loaded position of the needle, such that when the needle is retracted from the loaded position to an unloaded position with the shaft removed from at least one of the apertures, the apertured members will be urged out of alignment to provide a baffier to the needle tip whereby to impede movement of the needle from the unloaded position to the loaded position, the apertured members being urged inwardly relative to each other by the spring arms.
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This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/544,843, filed Feb. 13, 2004, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
The present invention relates to medical needles and, more particularly, to devices for protecting against the sharp tip of the needle.
Needles (to include all sharp-tipped cannulae) are used throughout the medical profession for a variety of medical procedures. For example, hypodermic needles are used with syringes to administer fluids and/or medications to patients and to withdraw fluids from patients. Similarly, sharp-tipped cannula are used to insert catheters into patients for various medical purposes. An intravenous catheter may typically include a sharp-tipped needle cannula with its shaft extending through the catheter so that the sharp tip extends slightly beyond the distal end of the catheter. The other end of the needle is connected to a hub or other structure which is held by the healthcare worker during insertion. The needle hub is typically fitted into the catheter hub. The needle and catheter are inserted together into the patient until the catheter end is properly placed in the patient's blood vessel. The needle hub is pulled from the catheter hub to withdraw the needle, leaving the catheter in place in the patient for administration or withdrawal of fluids or other medically required procedures or purposes. But as with hypodermic needles, after use, the exposed sharp tip of the needle cannula presents a source of accidental needle-stick, which may cause injury or disease, such as by transmission of dangerous blood-borne pathogens.
A variety of different devices intended to enclose or otherwise shield the sharp needle tip have been developed in recognition of the need to reduce or eliminate accidental needle-sticks. While many of these devices provide advantages, further enhancements are desired.
The present invention provides needle tip protectors which provide further enhancements over prior approaches. To this end, and in accordance with one aspect of the present invention, a support is telescopingly received over the needle shaft and includes a pair of spring arms each supporting at its end an apertured member adapted to extend into the axis of the needle, with the members being normally urged by the spring arms into a position where the apertures thereof are out of alignment with the needle axis, but which are held in alignment when a needle shaft is extending through the apertures. Thus, when the needle shaft is retracted from the loaded position in which it is extending through the apertures to an unloaded position, the spring arms urge the apertured members out of alignment so as to create a barrier against moving the needle back into the loaded position.
In accordance with a different aspect of the present invention, needle gripping structure is provided to secure the needle in the unloaded position. In one embodiment, the needle shaft may include an irregularity defining an oversized portion near the sharp tip with the support having an aperture sized to prevent the irregularity from passing through the support when the needle moves from the loaded to the unloaded position. As a consequence, when the needle is pulled to the unloaded position, the tip end becomes trapped between the now-misaligned aperture members and the support. In still other embodiments, the needle gripping structure may be active, such as provided by an extension flange or projection which grips into a slot in the needle such as shown in European Patent No. 0 352 928 B2, a locking clip such as shown in U.S. Pat. No. 5,328,482, or other mechanisms such as shown in aforesaid U.S. Pat. No. 5,328,482, or U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,458,658; 611,781; or 5,662,610. The disclosures of all of the foregoing U.S. and European patents are incorporated herein by reference in their entireties.
In a still further embodiment of the invention, the needle gripping structure may provide a needle tip protector in the form of a generally U-shaped clip having an aperture in each leg thereof for the needle shaft to pass easily therethrough when the clip is in a first state and to grip the needle shaft in a second state of the clip with one or both of the legs being angularly offset from the position the leg(s) held in the first state of the clip. The clip may be resilient so that it normally tends towards the second state. A trigger mechanism may be provided which cooperates with the needle shaft so as to hold the clip in the first state when the needle is in the loaded state and to release the clip when the needle releases from the trigger so as to allow the clip to go into the second state thereby to grip the needle. Cam structure may also be provided to assist in urging the clip leg(s) into the angular offset position to tighten the grip on the needle shaft as the needle shaft is moved while in the unloaded position. Advantageously, a surface of the cam is at an angle relative to a plane perpendicular to the needle shaft to facilitate such tightening of the grip.
In accordance with a yet further, different aspect of the present invention, the support may be defined by an aspect of a housing which telescopingly receives the needle. Further the needle gripping structure may be contained, at least in part, within the housing.
When the needle tip protector is to be used with a catheter, it is advantageous to have the needle tip protector remain affixed with the catheter hub until or with the needle being moved into the unloaded position. To this end, and in accordance with a still additional, different aspect of the present invention, features of the needle tip protector or its housing are urged against the interior surface of the catheter hub when the needle shaft is passing therethrough such as in the loaded state of the needle, and which are biased to move away from the catheter hub interior wall when the needle shaft is no longer passing therethrough so as to release from the catheter hub. In one embodiment, the apertured members could be held so as to have aspects thereof extend outwardly into the catheter hub interior wall, such as an annular recess therein, in the loaded position of the needle such that they are urged together when the needle departs the loaded state, so as to release from the catheter hub. In another embodiment, the apertured members may be held with a housing having resilient fingers extending therefrom and which have detents to engage the catheter hub interior wall when flexed apart by the needle shaft passing therethrough.
By virtue of the foregoing there are thus provided needle tip protectors which provide further enhancements over prior approaches. These and other objects and advantages of the present invention shall be made apparent from the accompanying drawings and the description thereof.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and, together with the general description of the invention given above and the detailed description of the embodiments given below, serve to explain the principles of the present invention.
With respect to
Members 28, 30 may be pushed into alignment, such as by being urged radially inwardly relative to each other by an external force, so that holes 32 and 34 thereof are in alignment with a common axis such as the longitudinal axis 36 of needle 12. As so-aligned, needle shaft 14 is telescopingly received through support aperture 22 and holes 32, 34 of apertured members 28, 30 to define a loaded position of needle 12 as shown in
In order to limit misalignment of apertured members 28 and 30 so, for example, they do not come too far apart and create a gap therebetween for re-emergence of needle tip 16, members 28 and 30 may advantageously extend in a direction transverse or perpendicular to the axis 36 of needle shaft 14 such that they define confronting faces 40, 42 each of which is provided with a respective ledge 44, 46 which are in opposed positions (
While apertured members 28, 30 of tip protector 10 are shown as moving inwardly to align and outwardly to misalign, the opposite directions of movement could also be utilized. To this end, and with reference to
A further aspect of tip protector 10′ facilitates its use with a catheter 52. In particular, and with reference to
Shaft 14 of needle 12 may be provided with an irregularity 62 (shown in dotted line in
Alternatively or additionally, a housing 64 may be provided, with proximal wall 66 thereof defining support member 20 as seen in
Housing 64 may be modified to housing 64′ as shown in
Needle tip 16 may be held within housing 64 or 64′ due to an irregularity 62 (see
Clip 81 is advantageously a piece of resilient spring metal or shaped plastic such that it normally tends into the second state (
A trigger mechanism 90 may be provided for clip 81. In particular, trigger mechanism 90 has a base wall 92 with a front retainer 94 defining an aperture or slot 96 therein sized to receive needle shaft 14 therethrough in the needle loaded position of
In the unloaded state, seen in
Although clip 81 is shown within a relatively rigid housing 64 which also advantageously houses trigger mechanism 90, it will be appreciated that some portion or all of the containment and/or trigger mechanism for clip 81 could be provided by protector 10, by way of example.
While the present invention has been illustrated by the description of embodiments thereof, and while the embodiments have been described in considerable detail, it is not intended to restrict or in any way limit the scope of the appended claims to such detail. Additional advantages and modifications will readily appear to those skilled in the art. By way of example, in the case of use with a catheter 52, tip protectors 10 and 10′ may be held to catheter hub 56 by directly (or indirectly via fingers 70, 72) interacting with the interior wall 54 of hub 56. Alternatively, tip protector 10 or 10′ could be held to catheter hub 56 (directly or indirectly) by interaction with the exterior of catheter hub 56. Additionally, support member 20 and its related aperture 22 may serve to align tip protector 10 or 10′ and/or housing 64, depending upon the overall thickness and aperture size defined by support member 20. Further, a Teflon felt wiper (not shown) may be placed within housing 64 to help contain blood (also not shown) which might find its way onto the needle shaft 14. The invention in its broader aspects is therefore not limited to the specific details, representative apparatus and methods and illustrative examples shown and described. Accordingly, departures may be made from such details without departing from the scope or spirit of the general inventive concept.
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Geographic Range
Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews are found exclusively on the island of Borneo. They are found in the mountainous northern part of the island including the mountains Kinabalu and Trus Madi in Sabah and the mountains of north-eastern Sarawak. (Thomas, 1892)
- Other Geographic Terms
- island endemic
Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews are arboreal mammals that are endemic to the mountains of tropical northern Borneo. They are restricted to higher altitudes (above 900 m) at elevations averaging 1,524 m. At these elevations, Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews have been observed in mossy, stunted jungles, though habitats could be more widespread, similar to the closely related northern smooth-tailed tree shrews which are found in evergreen and deciduous forests as well as bushes in rocky savannah. Northern smooth-tailed tree shrews also occasionally exploit undergrowth and understory forest tangles, which may also be true of Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews. (Roberts, et al., 2011; Thomas, 1892; Timmins, et al., 2003; Walker, et al., 1975)
- Habitat Regions
- tropical
- terrestrial
- Terrestrial Biomes
- rainforest
- Range elevation
- 900 (low) m
- 2952.76 (low) ft
- Average elevation
- 1524 m
- 5000.00 ft
Physical Description
Both members of the genus Dendrogale are distinguishable from other tree shrews due to their small body size, shortened rostrum, large ears, lack of shoulder stripes and tail covered by smooth, uniform hairs. Their morphological adaptations are suited to both an arboreal and a ground-dwelling life style. Some of their skeletal adaptations include thin ribs, an elongation of the lumbar region to allow flexion and extension of the vertebral column, a relatively short axis, and cervical vertebrae with wide inter-vertebral spaces to allow increased movement of the neck. (Endo, et al., 2003; Kolar, 1972; Sargis, 2001; Timmins, et al., 2003; Walker, et al., 1975)
Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews have a head and body length of 110 to 150 mm with a tail length of 90 to 140 mm and a body weight of approximately 42.5 g. They are distinguishable from the closely related northern smooth-tailed tree shrews by their dark body color, long claws, and lack of prominent facial striping. Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews have a predominantly black dorsal surface with their ventral surface and the inner surface of their legs a light brownish yellow. They have faint brownish yellow facial stripes above and below the eyes. Based on skeletal morphology, it is likely there is no sexual dimorphism in this species. The dental formula is I 3/3 C 1/1 P 3/3 M 3/3 = 38. (Endo, et al., 2003; Kolar, 1972; Sargis, 2001; Timmins, et al., 2003; Walker, et al., 1975)
- Other Physical Features
- endothermic
- homoiothermic
- bilateral symmetry
- Sexual Dimorphism
- sexes alike
- Average mass
- 42.5 g
- 1.50 oz
- Range length
- 200 to 290 mm
- 7.87 to 11.42 in
Nothing is known about the mating system of Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews. Generally, tree shrew species are believed to be solitary or pair living. Certain species, such as common tree shrews, have also been described living in harems with one male and multiple females. However copulation outside of these groups is believed to occur. Promiscuity may also occur in Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews. It has been suggested that the majority of mammals in northern Borneo breed over the summer months and likely pair formation occurs just prior to this period. (Kawamichi and Kawamichi, 1972; Kawamichi and Kawamichi, 1982; Kolar, 1972)
Nothing is known about reproduction in Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews. Mammals in northern Borneo are believed to reproduce in the summer during which there is minimal precipitation. Generally, tree shrews tend to have 1 to 3 pairs of mammae and 1 to 3 young, the number varying among different species. The period of gestation in Scandentia ranges from 43 to 56 days. They reach their adult size at approximately three months of age and reach sexual maturity at approximately four months of age. (Kolar, 1972; Wade, 1958)
- Key Reproductive Features
- iteroparous
- seasonal breeding
- gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate)
- sexual
- viviparous
- Breeding interval
- Breeding intervals in Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews are not reported.
- Breeding season
- The breeding season may be between April and August.
- Range number of offspring
- 1 to 3
- Range gestation period
- 43 to 56 days
- Average gestation period
- 50 days
- Average time to independence
- 3 months
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
- 4 months
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
- 4 months
Details of parental investment in Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews are not reported in the literature. However, females are likely invest in parental care through gestation and lactation.
- Parental Investment
- female
- protecting
- female
- female
- provisioning
- female
- provisioning
Lifespan of Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews is not reported in the literature. It may be similar to that of other tree shrew species, approximately 10 years. (Kolar, 1972)
- Average lifespan
Status: wild
- 10 years
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Status: captivity
- 10 years
- Average lifespan
Behavior of Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews is not reported in the literature. Tree shrews are generally diurnal, live in pairs or are solitary, and are aggressive and territorial. Common tree shrews live in harems with one male and multiple females, suggesting another potential social structure for Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews. Both members of the genus Dendrogale are recognized as mainly arboreal based on observations in the wild and skeletal morphology. The behavior of Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews may be similar to the closely related northern smooth-tailed tree shrews, in which solitary individuals and pairs have been reported. Northern smooth-tailed tree shrews are active in the morning and afternoon and individuals show distress when they leave the cover of vegetation. (Endo, et al., 2003; Kawamichi and Kawamichi, 1972; Kawamichi and Kawamichi, 1982; Kolar, 1972; Timmins, et al., 2003)
Home Range
Nothing is known about home range size of Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews. They are believed to be territorial and use olfactory cues to mark the range of their territories. Males and females of common tree shrews have individual territories that precisely overlap and are known to defend these territories from the same sex. Territories held by Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews could also be potentially sex-specific. (Kawamichi and Kawamichi, 1982; Kolar, 1972)
Communication and Perception
Nothing is known about vocalizations of Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews. Northern smooth-tailed tree shrews emmit short-pitched calls, particularly when climbing. These calls were heard when the animals were at high density in an area during the morning and were not heard at all in the afternoon. The calls emitted consisted of a repetition of 4 to 9 short, high-pitched notes with the pitch rising for the first couple of notes and then remaining more consistent for the last third of the call. It is possible that Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews emit similar types of calls. (Timmins, et al., 2003)
Tree shrews are territorial and believed to use olfactory cues to mark specific spots along the edge of their territories to indicate their range. Tree shrews also emit species specific alarm calls to warn others of danger. Certain tree shrews such as common tree shrews emit chattering noises prior to copulation with females. All of these communication methods may be used by Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews. (Emmons, 2000; Kawamichi and Kawamichi, 1982; Kolar, 1972; Timmins, et al., 2003; Walker, et al., 1975)
- Other Communication Modes
- scent marks
Food Habits
Nothing is known about the diet of Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews. Tree shrews generally consume a generalist omnivore diet and have a simple digestive system with a caecum. They have been observed, in captivity and in the wild consuming a variety of arthropods, fruits, and small vertebrates. Captive specimens of the closely related northern smooth-tailed tree shrews accept both small pieces of meat and fruit and one wild specimen was observed eating a butterfly. (Kolar, 1972; Shanahan and Compton, 2000; Timmins, et al., 2003; Walker, et al., 1975)
- Primary Diet
- omnivore
- Animal Foods
- mammals
- amphibians
- insects
- Plant Foods
- seeds, grains, and nuts
- fruit
Predation on Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews is not reported in the literature. Other species of tree shrews may be preyed on by a variety of mammalian, reptilian, and avian predators. Reptiles and birds of prey are thought to be the greatest threat. They avoid predation by avoiding detection by predators. This avoidance of detection is aided by their small body size and cryptic coloring. Tree shrews also produce species specific alarm calls. Likely predators on the island of Borneo are listed below. (Brodie and Giordano, 2013; Emmons, 2000)
- Anti-predator Adaptations
- cryptic
- Known Predators
- yellow-throated martens (Martes flavigula)
- Malayan weasels (Mustela nudipes)
- marbled cats (Pardofelis marmorata)
- leopard cats (Prionailurus bengalensis)
- Sunda clouded leopards (Neofelis nebulosa)
- yellow striped snakes (Elaphe flavolineata)
- monitor lizards (Varanus species)
- eagle owls (Bubo sumatranus)
Ecosystem Roles
The ecosystem roles of Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews are poorly understood. There is some evidence that other tree shrews may play an important role in seed dispersal due to the speed and the simplicity of their digestive systems. Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews may also play a role in the population control of insects, a primary component of their diet. Tree shrews such as common tree shrews are also known to be hosts for a variety of nematode and cestode parasites, which may also be true for Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews. (Betterton, 1979; Kolar, 1972; Shanahan and Compton, 2000)
- Ecosystem Impact
- disperses seeds
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive
There are no known positive effects of Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews on humans.
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
There are no known adverse effects of Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews on humans.
Conservation Status
Bornean smooth-tailed tree shrews have not been observed since the early 1970s and several trapping efforts between 1989 and 1991 have proved unsuccessful. For this reason the species has been classified as Data Deficient by the IUCN. It is thought that the population is in decline, potentially due to habitat loss occurring at low elevations throughout Borneo caused by logging for agriculture expansion and establishment of non-tree plantations. With further data IUCN may change the classification of this species to Near Threatened or higher. Current conservation efforts for this species are taking place at Crocker Range National Park in Sabah, Borneo. CITES categorizes the entire tree shrew order Scandentia in Appendix II, which means that, while these species are not on the verge of extinction, their trade and use must be regulated to ensure their survival. (CITES, 2014; Han and Stuebing, 2008)
- IUCN Red List
- Data Deficient
- US Federal List
- No special status
- Appendix II
- State of Michigan List
- No special status
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- acoustic
uses sound to communicate
- arboreal
Referring to an animal that lives in trees; tree-climbing.
- bilateral symmetry
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
- chemical
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
- cryptic
having markings, coloration, shapes, or other features that cause an animal to be camouflaged in its natural environment; being difficult to see or otherwise detect.
- diurnal
- active during the day, 2. lasting for one day.
- endothermic
animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature. Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) synapsid ancestor; the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities. Convergent in birds.
- island endemic
animals that live only on an island or set of islands.
- iteroparous
offspring are produced in more than one group (litters, clutches, etc.) and across multiple seasons (or other periods hospitable to reproduction). Iteroparous animals must, by definition, survive over multiple seasons (or periodic condition changes).
- motile
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
- native range
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
- omnivore
an animal that mainly eats all kinds of things, including plants and animals
- oriental
found in the oriental region of the world. In other words, India and southeast Asia.
- rainforest
rainforests, both temperate and tropical, are dominated by trees often forming a closed canopy with little light reaching the ground. Epiphytes and climbing plants are also abundant. Precipitation is typically not limiting, but may be somewhat seasonal.
- scent marks
communicates by producing scents from special gland(s) and placing them on a surface whether others can smell or taste them
- seasonal breeding
breeding is confined to a particular season
- sedentary
remains in the same area
- sexual
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
- solitary
lives alone
- tactile
uses touch to communicate
- terrestrial
Living on the ground.
- territorial
defends an area within the home range, occupied by a single animals or group of animals of the same species and held through overt defense, display, or advertisement
- tropical
the region of the earth that surrounds the equator, from 23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south.
- visual
uses sight to communicate
- viviparous
reproduction in which fertilization and development take place within the female body and the developing embryo derives nourishment from the female.
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Evergreen Habitat for Humanity
• Latest house: Danforth family at 3715 Lincoln Ave. 1,200 square feet; three bedrooms and two bathrooms.
• History: The nonprofit has built 29 houses since 1991.
• Financing: The house cost about $75,000 to build. The Nike Employees Grant Fund gave $30,000. Nikki Danforth has a no-interest loan and will pay about $600 a month. She and her boys put in about 300 hours of "sweat equity."
• Nourishment and blessings: Grocery Outlet provided $400 of food for the new homeowners. The family also received small wooden crosses from the Friends of the Carpenter.
• Next up: Another student-build is underway in the Evergreen school district and will trucked to O Street in Vancouver's Rose Village neighborhood. Dedication is expected to happen in June. Also, Habitat will start another three houses in 2014.
• Website:www.ehfh.org.
You could call it the house that young hands built, but Nikki Danforth and her two boys will call it home.
Evergreen Habitat for Humanity dedicated its 29th house on Sunday, this one largely built by students at Evergreen and Mountain View high schools.
"It was an amazing experience," said Cody Eisenhart, 15. He worked with about 48 other high-schoolers last year to build the house that now sits in Vancouver's Lincoln neighborhood. "I'm going to use this in real life."
"The high school kids were fabulous," Danforth said as she accepted the keys to the house at a ceremony. She will share her home with sons Coby, 16, and Koda, 12.
The modular home was built in two pieces at the two high schools in east Vancouver and then trucked and merged.
"We've never moved a house across town," said Josh Townsley, the executive director of Habitat, noting the house is a partnership between Habitat and Evergreen Public Schools.
The house was built by students in a class called Math in Construction. Nineteen Evergreen and 30 Mountain View students did the work, many in their freshman year. About an hour each day, they labored on the two halves of the house.
"Right out of middle school, they gave us a chance to build a house," said Maddy Murosako, 15, a sophomore this year at Mountain View. "It's really cool."
Students were guided by their instructors, Bill Culver at Evergreen and Eric Dodge at Mountain View, and Habitat's construction manager Kris Cowan.
"It was really great to see the confidence grow" by the high-school builders, Cowan said. "It was a blast. A lot of energy. A big learning curve. … I love the partnership (with Evergreen schools). A big part of Habitat is building community."
Culver said the goal was to marry math and construction.
"There's a lot of geometry in the curriculum," he said. "The kids did great."
"It's awesome," Dodge said of the young builders. "How many high school kids at the end of the year can say, 'I helped build that house'? At the end of the year they kind of became contractors themselves."
Nikki Danforth and her boys also helped, as well as Habitat volunteers. But Cowan said the bulk of the construction was done by the students.
"It's still not real yet," Nikki said while she greeted friends in her new house. The family will have to wait a bit to move in because the house does not yet have electricity."
Nikki had been waiting two years to be chosen by Habitat and earn her home. She thanked her relatives for housing her family. She is a medical assistant for Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center.
"I feel great; I just want to move in," said Coby, a Hudson's Bay High School junior. "They let us choose all our own colors and the style of cabinets. … It was pretty cool."
Coby painted his room Bay colors: gold and black.
"I love it. It's amazing," Koda said. He attends Discovery Middle School. His room is lime green. "It's my favorite color," he said.
Asked what she likes best about her house, Nikki said, "The fact that it's in one piece, and not two."
Voices of the builders
"I really liked the cutting and looking at the design to see what we have to do. The siding was a real challenge, but it was fun."
Cody Eisenhart, 15, Evergreen High School
"I'm really proud of him. He talked about it every day."
Cody's mom, Emily Smith
"It was a pretty amazing experience."
Jamie Adams, 15, Mountain View High School
Most interesting aspect? "Probably putting the roof on. It was interesting to see how it worked."
Maddy Murosako, 15, Mountain View
"I picked up plenty of good skills. How to use tools and make things properly. Mr. Dodge described everything to me. A pretty cool teacher. Now I'm at the Skills Center in the construction program, and I actually want to pursue a career in construction. It's all because of this one class."
Joseph Brown, 17, Mountain View
"I cut out trim for the window sills in the back room. I did some flooring. I worked on the roof. We had to rebuild a wall, and that was tough."
Steven Liddle, 17, Mountain View
"I've definitely never done anything like it."
Ashley Dykgraaf, 16, Mountain View
Best part of the class? "Getting to be outside and doing hands-on work. We're all tactile learners. Mr. Culver did a very good job. His patience was a key role. For him to not yell at us was a big thing. He made it fun."
Matthew Dissmeyer, 18, Evergreen High
"It was a really good way to apply the math to real-world activities. Our goal was to learn as much as we could in one year, Basically, we did a little bit of every job."
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While those other characters have texture on their costumes they are not nearly as
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[SOLVED] 295.40 Drivers and Xorg 1:7.6+12 HIGH cpu usage
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Running Debian Wheezy with linux kernel 220.127.116.11-amd64 and the 295.40 drivers from debian non-free repository.
Using LXDE as DE and not that much fancy stuff.
But as of yesterday the Xorg process started hogging all cpu when I were switching between windows. So currently I'm using the nouveau drivers just to have a usable system.
Here are some info about my system.
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Re: 295.40 Drivers and Xorg 1:7.6+12 HIGH cpu usage
Was yesterday also the day you installed libcairo2 1.12.x? It seems to expose some wonderful new bugs in the drivers and performance really falls off a cliff. Going back to 1.10.2-7~bpo60+1 from backports seems to fix it for me.
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Works like a charm :)
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Agility: There Was No Oprah Moment Of Shipping
The iPad Mini will reach stores at the start of November. Unless you're looking for a 3G enabled version, in which case you have another month to wait. The same goes for the other hardware on show. Compared to a few years ago, that's a fast turnaround, but the aura of announce and then ship? That's gone.
Affection: Is The Focus On Flair Or Figure
Tim Cook's strength was in logistics. If you wanted a spreadsheet, he was the man to go to in Apple. Line up all of Apple's hardware in separate columns on a spreadsheet and there was an obvious gap for a low-end iPad… so Cook has filled that. Rather than squeeze the iPad 2 down in price and retaining the classic form factor, the decision was made to go for a smaller screened device.
Why? My guess is that there's another mythical spreadsheet marked 'competition and how we compare to them' and there is a gap in the 7″ 'tweener' market. Which has been promptly filled.
That's a great way to maximise sales and income, and the bottom line from those efforts will be amazing, I'm not disputing that. What it doesn't show is any flair or fashion. This is a route that Apple has already walked down, and Tim Cook is taking them down it once more to earn some more money.
But every time you walk down the same road, part of the competition catches up and some of them pull further ahead. You cannot rely on it indefinitely. Apple has announced that they are doing "the same again, but thinner" once more. Where is the dynamic experimentation that creates brand new product lines like the iPad and the iPhone?
Short Term Victory Is Still Guaranteed, But The Future Will Be Difficult
You always believed that Steve Jobs could do something special when he led Apple. I saw nothing at this week's events that led me to believe that Tim Cook has that spark to lead Apple onwards to something truly new and different.
Forming, storming, norming, performing, dorming - Bruce Tuckman's group development model is apt here. Right now Apple is performing, but is entering the dorming stage, the stage where complacency creeps up on a group and they are more concerned about preserving their position and investments. I want Apple to break out of that stage and return and do some storming, but to do that they need to believe that change is needed.
Apple will continue to sell hardware by the metric tonne, the company will continue to be one of the biggest companies in the world, but I can't see any impetus for change. It's the same product line-up, slightly better, still with high margins, and trusting people to buy into the Apple story, shouting about short-term success…
If it were any other company, that would be enough, but Apple is not 'any other company', it's Apple. It's meant to be forward thinking, to be magical, to think different, to just work.
Right now, it's doing none of that.


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William Bill Harold Weeks, Jr., age 78, of Winder, died Tuesday, March 15, 2005. Mr. Weeks was born on December 25, 1926 in Monticello, Georgia. He attended the University of Georgia where he also played football. He graduated from Southern Technical Institute. He served in the US Army Air Corps. during World War II. Mr. Weeks moved his family to Clarkston, Georgia during the 1950's and was employed by Firestone, Norge, and the DeKalb County Board of Education until he became owner of a laundry-dry cleaning business, with locations in Decatur and Doraville; Winter's Village Laundry & Cleaners; until his retirement. He was a member of Clarkston Baptist Church. During retirement, Mr. Weeks became an active member of the Clarkston City Council, worked in his wood working shop, took care of his family, and continued trying to catch the big one off the coast of Florida. His mother and stepfather, Blanche Florence Floyd and Alton W. Floyd, and son-in-law, Jerry R. Funderburke, preceded him in death. Survivors include his loving wife of 58 years, Mary Frances Layson Weeks of Winder, children, Lenora Funderburke of Hendersonville, NC, Beverley and Jim Guffie of Montgomery City, MO, Steve and Tina Weeks of Winder, Ron and Kathy Weeks of Fishers, IN, and Nancy and Mark Yarbrough of Cumming; grandchildren, Shelly Funderburke Lummus of Cumming, Rebekah and Rachel Guffie of Montgomery City, MO, Ronnie Weeks of Athens, Alexandrea and Marty Yarbrough of Cumming, Tyler and Ethan Weeks of Winder and Kristen, Jessica, Emily and Elizabeth Weeks of Fishers, IN; and great grandchild, Jeri Anna Lummus of Cumming. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 19, 2005, at 1:00 P.M. at the chapel of Jordan Funeral Home, Monticello. Burial in West View Cemetery, Monticello. Rev. Irwin Dawson and Dr. Jim Guffie officiating. Serving as pallbearers will be John Graham, Scott Lummus, Ed Nothnagel, Ethan Weeks, Ronnie Weeks, Jr., Tyler Weeks, Mark Yarbrough and Marty Yarbrough. The family will receive friends from 6-9 P.M. Friday, March 18, 2005, at Jordan Funeral Home, Monticello. Jordan Funeral Home of Monticello is in charge of arrangements. (706)468-6303
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By T.W. Budig ECM Capitol reporter Republicans expressed a certain mystification over the thumping they took last night. "Nobody saw it coming," said Rep. Jim Abeler, R-Anoka, a 14-year veteran of the House, of Republicans losing the legislature, a congressman, two amendments. "I was surprised...Read More
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By Jeff Hage on November 7, 2012 at 4:44 am The Chip Cravaack era is over in the Eighth Congressional District after one term. Cravaack conceded to challenger Rick Nolan around 1 a.m. Wednesday. With 75 percent of the vote counted, Nolan held a 52-47 percent lead. The Nolan camp had reason for op...Read More
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The first time mitmproxy or mitmdump is run, a set of certificate files for the mitmproxy Certificate Authority are created in the config directory (~/.mitmproxy by default). This CA is used for on-the-fly generation of dummy certificates for SSL interception. Since your browser won't trust the mitmproxy CA out of the box (and rightly so), you will see an SSL cert warning every time you visit a new SSL domain through mitmproxy. When you're testing a single site through a browser, just accepting the bogus SSL cert manually is not too much trouble, but there are a many circumstances where you will want to configure your testing system or browser to trust the mitmproxy CA as a signing root authority.
The files created by mitmproxy in the .mitmproxy directory are as follows:
|The private key and certificate in PEM format.
|The certificate in PEM format. Use this to distribute to most non-Windows platforms.
|The certificate in PKCS12 format. For use on Windows.
|Same file as .pem, but with an extension expected by some Android devices.
You can use your own certificate by passing the --cert option to mitmproxy. mitmproxy then uses the provided certificate for interception of the specified domains instead of generating a cert signed by its own CA.
The certificate file is expected to be in the PEM format. You can include intermediary certificates right below your leaf certificate, so that you PEM file roughly looks like this:
-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY----- <private key> -----END PRIVATE KEY----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <cert> -----END CERTIFICATE----- -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- <intermediary cert (optional)> -----END CERTIFICATE-----
For example, you can generate a certificate in this format using these instructions:
> openssl genrsa -out cert.key 8192 > openssl req -new -x509 -key cert.key -out cert.crt (Specify the mitm domain as Common Name, e.g. *.google.com) > cat cert.key cert.crt > cert.pem > mitmproxy --cert=cert.pem
By default, mitmproxy will (generate and) use ~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca.pem as the default certificate authority to generate certificates for all domains for which no custom certificate is provided (see above). You can use your own certificate authority by passing the --confdir option to mitmproxy. mitmproxy will then look for mitmproxy-ca.pem in the specified directory. If no such file exists, it will be generated automatically.


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|There is no love lost between the Black Mamba and Superman.
Houston went on to win the game at Staples Center, 108-90. James Harden led the way for both squads with 32 points. Julius Randle was taken out on a stretcher due to a broken right leg.
|There is no love lost between the Black Mamba and Superman.
LeBron was on camera for 11 minutes during The Decision, but the only part anyone remembers is "This fall, I'm going to take my talents to South Beach." They didn't even hear the "Man, this is tough" that preceded it, which indicated just how difficult it was for him to leave Ohio. They don't remember his reason for choosing Miami that was perfectly valid and even prophetic: "The best opportunity for me to win." They've forgotten this part, which is more relevant than ever today: "I never wanted to leave Cleveland. My heart will always be in that area."
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- 45 Preston Street
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- United Kingdom
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- Ten minute walk from Paris Street Bus Station
- Exeter St Davids
AboutPrint with interesting added ingredients inspired by Edward Chell's road dust prints. Use earth from your garden, glitter, or even curry powder. In this workshop, printmaker Catherine Cartwright will show us how to print with and without ink (a technique called blind embossing).
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Weekend Roundup: eReaders and Readers Galore!
October 12, 2013 | 10:08 am
By Joanna Cabot
5 eReaders I Wouldn't Buy Again (The Digital Reader)
I was browsing an old thread over on MobileRead Forums this evening and I was reminded just how many bad ereaders I have seen over the years.
Review of the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2 (GoodeReader)
Amazon has just released the second generation Kindle Paperwhite 2 ereader and the big hyping factors about this unit is the software. The hardware remains the same from the first generation reader with the addition of e-Ink Carta display screen, which gives a higher degree of contrast with the text. You will also notice less full page refreshes, which makes shopping and turning eBook pages lightning fast.
Dear Book Nerd: My Family Doesn't Read (Book Riot)
We put out the call for questions, and you guys didn't disappoint! The response to my initial "Dear Book Nerd" post was overwhelming (in a good way). Thank you to everyone who submitted.
Alice Munro on the Slippery Slope of Censorship (GalleyCat)
Back in 1979, Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro responded to "pressure groups" trying to remove The Lives of Girls and Women from school reading lists. We've embedded the complete CBC TV interview above.
Kindle Daily Deals: The Rum Diary (and 4 others)
Tutorial Tuesday: How to Adjust the Brightness on Your Kindle Paperwhite
Morning Links: Comixology Subscription Plan? New Movie Anti-Piracy Ads Aimed at Moviegoers
ePub and other sacrileges on the Voyage and Paperwhite: Easy jail-breaks ahead?
BookDrop: Email ebooks to your Kindle from Dropbox—even ePubs and other formats not normally supported
What Indie Authors Can Learn from Big Retail
The piece on eReaders not to be bought again caused me to wonder what a checklist for eReaders should look like. There might be several as in one for text-based fiction, one for eTextbooks and so on.
There might also be a checklist for compliance with what a format enables (.mobi, .kf8, ePub 2, ePub 3, etc.) which would be a different perspective than the capability of the eReader itself (navigation, adjustability [including accessibility], etc.), yet another checklist.


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Treat your auto to some pampering and upkeep with a steam car wash. With steam cleaning and complete care, the wash is sure to leave your wheels pretty and prim. For its inner beauty, clean the engine and paint it externally, so that it gleams inside out. This carriage-coddling package is sure to make your car feel like its being taken care of.


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Oasis Shelter Home, Incorporated, is an emergency shelter for adult and child victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Oasis was founded as a result of a grass roots effort dedicated to establishing a haven for victims of family violence in Curry County, Oregon, population 22,000. The mission of Oasis states: "Through shelter, advocacy, and education, we empower victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and resulting homelessness, to achieve a life free from abuse."
The shelter, which has been housing victims since 1995, has 15 beds, 2 full bathrooms, 2 laundry rooms and a playroom complete with toys and games and is the only emergency shelter between Coos Bay, Oregon and Crescent City, California, a 150 mile stretch. Oasis operates a toll free 'hot line' which is listed on the National Directory of Domestic Violence Shelters and receives crisis calls from across the U.S. Oasis also provides Outreach Services to victims and survivors. Outreach and in-shelter services include: children's programs; peer support groups; educational classes; assistance with restraining orders, housing forms and other documents; distribution of food boxes and donated items; and transportation to court and other appointments.
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- Emergency clothing, food, and household items
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- Court advocacy, information, and guidance
- Accompaniment by Sexual Assault Task Force trained Advocates to hospital for sexual assault victims
- Peer Support Groups
- Case Management and Client Services
- Public Education
- Services for Human Trafficking Survivors
1 Domestic Violence Education – the material range includes the cycle of violence, individual types of abuse, and the progression and intensity of continued abuse. The goal of the material is to empower women to recognize that domestic violence follows a pattern of control and to empower women with options and information to break the cycle.
2 Peer Support Group – Woman's peer support group. Some are guided support and some the women in attendance determine the topics and discussion flow.
3 Client guidance and education using goal setting as a means of changing direction in their lives and becoming self-sufficient. The Case Manager provides guidance in identifying the needs required to reach individual goals; recording the requirements; assessing the level of success toward meeting the requirements; and refining the actions and goals as the client progresses. The guidance provides a written record of the client's successes and thereby enforces their self-esteem when recognizing their progress. This is primarily for residents and Transitional Housing clients, but we provide many resource referrals over the telephone for non-resident clients as well.


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The Japan Fair Trade Commission has ordered Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) to remove certain provisions from its license agreements with Japanese handset manufacturers, which use Qualcomm's chips, after finding that the San Diego-based company violated antitrust rules, Bloomberg reports.
Qualcomm issued a statement today acknowledging the order. Qualcomm's General Counsel Donald Rosenberg, said: "Contrary to the allegations in the JFTC order, none of our Japanese licensees were forced to enter into license agreements with us."
Qualcomm said it will exercise its right under Japanese law to have a full evidentiary hearing, and will pursue an appeal before the Japanese courts if necessary. In the interim, Qualcomm will seek to have the order suspended. In Aug., Qualcomm received a draft order asserting the same claims.


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WALLA WALLA - Top-ranked Tacoma, with its sparkling 23-2 record, and Eastern Division champion Big Bend, 21-4, are the logical favorites in the 16-team men's NWAACC Championships basketball tournament that gets underway Saturday in the Toyota Center in Kennewick.
After that, it's a proverbial crapshoot in what Walla Walla coach Jeff Reinland describes as "a year of parity" in the NWAACC.
The other 14 tournament qualifiers enter play Saturday with records ranging from six losses to 13. Seven teams in the field have suffered double-digit defeats, and one of the entries, Linn-Benton, is under .500 at 11-13.
"The NWAACC has been very even all year long," said Reinland, who guided his Warriors to a 14-11 record overall, a fourth-place finish in the East and WWCC's second straight appearance in the tournament and its third in four years. Last year's Warriors placed fourth in Kennewick.
"I just think it's wide open," Reinland said of the field. "I would pick Tacoma as the favorite based on all the teams that I've seen. I would also put Bellevue up there, and Big Bend and Spokane as well. And there are some others - Pierce is good, Highline is good, even Clackamas. Everyone there is going to be good."
Bellevue, Walla Walla's first-round opponent at 8 p.m. Saturday, won the Northern Division title and comes into the Toyota Center with a 19-6 record.
"I saw them in person twice early in the year in a tournament," Reinland said of the Bulldogs. "In one game they played not so well, in the other they played really well.
"They are athletic, they are big and they are from Bellevue, which means they have a lot of players at their disposal. But they are beatable."
It will all depend on the Warriors' ability to knock down shots, Reinland said.
"We play hard, we have pretty solid kids, but we haven't shot the ball the way we normally do," Reinland said of his team's season. "We've had a lot of chances to be a little better than we are, but we couldn't get the shots to fall."
And that goes for free-throw shooting as well, the coach added.
"We are 62 percent from the line on the season, and we shot 58 percent during league play," Reinland said. "On an average year we should shoot 70 percent or even higher. I think 70-to-75 percent is a good goal."
The problem, Reinland said, has been getting the right players to the line.
"We have one of those funny teams," he said, though he wasn't laughing.
"We have some guys who can shoot free throws, but they are for the most part perimeter shooters who don't put it on the deck and draw a lot of fouls, so they don't get to the line. And our athletic guys who do get to the line are not our best shooters. It's just one of those teams."
Sophomore guard Jason Smith has been the Warriors' most dependable shooter and leads the team with a 19.1 scoring average. But even his production is off from a year ago.
"He hasn't shot it as well as he did as a freshman, but he's getting keyed on every night," Reinland said. "It's remarkable that he has scored 19 a game."
Aaron Corsi, a 6-7 sophomore post, averages 16.3 points per game and also leads the Warriors in rebounding with nine per game.
Ryan Shulz is a third WWCC sophomore who scores in double figures. And though he's only 6-1, most of his 12.5 points per game are the result of his post-up moves, Reinland said.
"He has some good post moves," the coach said, "He has a jump hook, he can drive to the basket. He's as good as we have."
The Warriors get additional scoring from sophomore Jordan Steele (6 points per game) and a trio of freshmen, Michael Crane (8.4), Jon Payne (8.2) and Max Stennard (7).
"As a committee, we are doing OK," Reinland said. "It's just not the typical prototypical WWCC team where we have guards busting out of 21 points or more a game.
"Our 3-point shooting is down as well, to the tune of three or four a game. And I don't think we've shot it as well, either. We're at 39 percent and usually we are a little higher than that."
Walla Walla split with Yakima and lost twice each to Big Bend and Spokane during Eastern Division play. The Warriors also faced five NWAACC qualifiers during non-league games, defeating Mount Hood and Linn-Benton and losing to Tacoma, Clackamas and Peninsula.
"We're right in there," Reinland said. "We can play with all of these people.
"Peninsula beat us by three points, and we lost at the buzzer in Clackamas. Tacoma beat us by 19, but that game was much closer than that. We were down 10 at the half and within six points with eight minutes to go."
So Reinland enters his 10th tournament in 18 years as the head coach at WWCC hopeful that his team can achieve something beginning Saturday that it hasn't achieved all season long - a four-game winning streak.
During the course of 25 regular-season games, the Warriors won three consecutive games on two occasions but could never extend the streak to four. Likewise, they twice endured three-game losing skids but prevented a fourth straight defeat each time.
WWCC's 14-11 overall record includes a 7-7 mark in the division. The Warriors were 7-3 on their home floor and 7-8 on the road. For the most part, it was a season of two steps forward, two steps back.
"That," Reinland said, "is a pretty apt description. But I am really proud of how we have battled the way we have just to get to the tournament. Especially coming out of our division.
"I think there are seven teams in the East that deserve to be in the tournament. Treasure Valley only won one game, but even they weren't that bad. As for the other seven, with three or four games to go everyone had a shot to get in."
Parity is the East is perhaps a reflection of parity in the NWAACC. And it could lead to some interesting games beginning Saturday in the Toyota Center.
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Peninsula (18-7) vs. Yakima (15-10), 10 a.m.
Tacoma (23-2) vs. Chemeketa (14-12), 4 p.m.
Clackamas (19-6) vs. Clark (15-10), 6 p.m.
Spokane (19-7) vs. Skagit Valley (14-11), noon
Mount Hood (15-10) vs. Highline (18-7), 8 a.m.
Big Bend (21-4) vs. Whatcom (19-6), 2 p.m.
Bellevue (19-6) vs. Walla Walla (14-11), 8 p.m.
Pierce (20-6) vs. Linn-Benton (11-13), 10 p.m.
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The Brewers are talking to Rafael Furcal
Nov 15, 2011, 11:00 AM EDT
Adam McCalvy spoke with Doug Melvin at the GM meetings yesterday to catch up on the Brewers search for a shortstop. The upshot: Milwaukee has only had one phone call with Jose Reyes and no numbers were exchanged.
There has been a bit more with less-sexy options, including Rafael Furcal, whose agent, Paul Kinzer, lunched with Melvin yesterday. The Brew Crew is also keeping in touch with Yuniesky Betancourt. Not because they want him as their shortstop, but because they are no doubt all aware that I am almost totally unable to spell his name no matter how often I write it, and they just like messing with me.
Furcal seems like an intriguing option. Would be way cheaper than Reyes, obviously, though he is injury prone. And certainly isn't as long-a-term an option. As fallbacks go, however, you could do way worse.
- Kyle - Nov 15, 2011 at 12:56 PM
Anyone but Yuni would be an upgrade. Furcal still seems to have a bit left in the tank.
- cintiphil - Nov 15, 2011 at 2:25 PM
I don't know about being better off, with Furcal. I like him, but he is not the hitter he used to be.
They will miss Yuni's bat.
- paperlions - Nov 15, 2011 at 2:58 PM
Who misses an OBP of .271 and SLG of .388…in a hitters park?
- cintiphil - Nov 15, 2011 at 6:46 PM
I saw him play against the Reds many times, and it seem to me that he was a very good clutch hitter. Some guys hit little, but get the big hits when needed. I felt Yuni was that kind of hitter, or it seemed so.
- okwhitefalcon - Nov 15, 2011 at 3:05 PM
On the Furcal subject, not sure how much he's still on the Cards radar.
I just heard a Matheny interview echoing Mozeliak's Tyler Greene and Daniel Descalso double play combination possibilities up the middle next year in STL.
For those who concerned about Matheny being a TLR desciple, MM used the words "gritty" and "sacrifice bunt" within seconds of each other.
It's sounding more and more like Matheny will be Michael Corleone, taking over the family biz for Don Tony.
- paperlions - Nov 15, 2011 at 3:10 PM
Here is my one request…if they are going to continue to employ dumb ass "strategies" (in good conscience, I can't call giving away outs on purpose a strategy), like sac bunts….then fucking teach guys how to bunt. Besides the fact that they should rarely be employed and that successful sac bunts still decrease the likelihood of scoring in that inning, the Cardinals couldn't have been successful more than 70% of the time the tried to sac bunt.
- okwhitefalcon - Nov 15, 2011 at 4:53 PM
Matheny made no bones about his commitment to "The Cardinal Way" with emphasis on situational execution of the fundamentals. He stressed that he would be "no clone' of TLR but would use the philosophies he learned about matchup based bullpen management and late inning substitutional defense to ensure the best opportunity to win when those opportunities presented themselves.
- paperlions - Nov 15, 2011 at 6:01 PM
Yeah…but….those don't represent opportunities to win, they represent opportunities to manage.
If a guy isn't good enough to start, how is he suddenly the guy you need when the game is on the line? He's not.
Matchups are great…as tie-breakers or if you know which hitters have big splits, playing while ignoring talent is dumb (e.g. having a lefty specialist that can't get anyone out is worse than having no lefty at all).
These are philosophies with no evidentiary basis or with clear evidence against them….kind of like making late inning substitutions under the guys of keeping bench guys sharp…there is no evidence whatsoever that such a thing is true, none at all.
- okwhitefalcon - Nov 15, 2011 at 7:09 PM
Matheny said these philosphies are engrained in him and represent the overall vision of the franchise. He mentioned how this was incorporated into the interview process with specific questions on how'd he handle certain situations.
Personally I'm much more concerned about probability of Tyler Greene being an everyday shortstop and Mo and Dewitt not getting the deal done with Albert.
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Lidia Ryan | July 11, 2014 | Updated: July 11, 2014 4:13pm
Photo By Galveston.comTripswithpets.com put together a list of dos and don'ts for bringing your dog to the beach. Check out some of their rules...
Photo By Mike Kepka/The ChronicleDO make sure your dog's vaccinations are current and that he's wearing the proper ID. Keep your vet's number on hand just in case something happens.
Photo By Brant Ward/The ChronicleDO check the ocean for jellyfish and stingrays. A sting to your dog will be sure to ruin both his and your experience.
Photo By Maddie McGarvey/The ChronicleDO set a time limit for your beach trip. A couple hours might be just the right amount of time at the beach, depending on your dog's activity level. At the first sign of your dog tiring, pack it up and get back on the road.
Photo By Sean Culligan/The ChronicleDO bring toys and balls to throw and find sticks to fetch.
Photo By Andrew BrophyDON'T let your dogs go into areas on the beach where they're not allowed. Dunes and grassy areas need to be protected from any sort of environmental damage that a dog might cause.
Photo By Silvia Izquierdo/STFDON'T let your dog out of your site. Not even once. Paying attention and being proactive will go a long way in protecting you and your dog. The last thing you want is to be sued for a dog fight or by someone that had a run-in with your dog.
Photo By Felipe Dana/Associated PressDON'T forget to bring the leash, beach towels, umbrella, fresh water, and doggie sunscreen (yes, you can actually get sunscreen specifically made for dogs) - or maybe a hat.
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DON'T leave a mess behind. Don't count on the beach supplying waste bags, so bring your own and be diligent about cleaning up. No one wants to find a surprise just laying on the beach or buried in the sand.
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Tripswithpets.com provides the following guidelines for taking care of your dog should they suffer heat stroke or hypothermia:
Some signs of heat stroke in a dog include:
-Rapid panting
-Bright red tongue
-Thick, sticky saliva
If you think that your dog has heat stroke while you're at the beach, take the following actions immediately:
-Move the pet into the shade and apply cool (not cold) water all over their body to gradually lower their temperature.
-Apply ice packs or cool towels to the pet's head, neck and chest only.
-Allow the pet to drink small amounts of cool water or lick ice cubes.
-Then take him to the nearest vet.
Some signs of hypothermia in a dog include:
-Muscle stiffness
-Difficulty breathing
-Fixed and dilated pupils
If you think that your dog has hypothermia while you're at the beach, take the following actions immediately:
-Wrap your dog in towels and blankets that have been warmed by the sun.
-Bring extra fresh water in bottles and leave them out in the sun as this warm water can be applied to your dog to bring his body temperature back up.
-If your dog has still not stopped shivering and has continued lethargy, bring him to the nearest vet.
Many beaches don't allow dogs during the summer months, but if you do find a dog-friendly beach there are some important guidelines to follow.
Tripswithpets.com, recently compiled a list of doggie dos and don'ts for the beach. According to the site, two of the most important things to keep in mind when planning a beach day with your dog are:
Swim safety: Don't force your dog into the water if he or she is being timid, and make sure and bring a swim vest if your pet is not an expert swimmer. "If this is the first time your dog will be swimming, you may want to read up on his breed."
Temperature: In the summer months, it's especially important to keep an eye on your dog's well-being at the beach. "Summer at the beach can bring about two extremes: heat from the sun and a cold, cold ocean. Pay attention to how your dog is acting and responding while he's with you throughout the day, since there could be the potential of either heat stroke or hypothermia."
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NEWARK, NJ - OCTOBER 01: Brian Rolston (L) of the New Jersey Devils scores a power play goal at 7:44 of the second period and is greeted by Ilya Kovalchuk in their game against the New York Islanders at the Prudential Center on October 1, 2010 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)
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