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As I walk the hall's of the high schools, the student's come to me and say that, the other students are talking about them behind their back. I tell them that not to worry because in reality they are just jealous of them and want to be like them. GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Peace DLD
Clearly Flint-Mi I have the inside scoop and that is that, there is a chance that this company that the district is privatizing to, has criminal background problems with their employees, that are going to be over our children, and I can seriously say that the other board members could care less about the situation.
It has came to the attention of the district from other companies that know of this companies problems, so you can just say that I care about the children and I want to make sure everyone's child is safe from harm. PEACE DLD
intheknow-The chair of the meeting decided not to have the meeting and David Davenport is not the chair because, if it was me, I would have given all parties proper notice. PEACE DLD
To: All that want's respect, to get it you have to earn it and to violate your own bylaws and other applicants civil right's just because you want to Is not trying to earn respect and so I wont give it to you .
I cant agree with that none whatsoever, there were 3 other applicant's that filled out the application correctly and turned in a letter of recommendation like the bylaws required, so why would they choose someone who's application was filled out incorrectly and did not have a letter of recommendation that was required, well first of all Strozier is the nephew of Clyde bell that works for the FCS and second is that these people are Crooked and they always will be crooked.
Even Blake Strozier is an assistant pastor at Antioch church(Pastor Lewis Randolph) and he know it was wrong and still accepted the seat, so that tells me that even assistant pastors are crooked also and that will be how i will address him on this board "crooked pastor" I am sick of this crookedness with these peoples lives, especially (children) that did not ask to be brought in this world. PEACE DLD
To those that do not support my run for mayor, I am sad to the fact, that all of this time I have been in this city fighting for equal rights for EVERYONE in the city, (not just the well to do) that you all have not understood that this year and last year a lot of lives have been majorly affected in a seriously terrible way , no matter if it was death a victim of a crime or whatever.
ALL of these taxpaying citizens, deserved to have a chance on weather or not they wanted to keep public safety, by asking them to pass a millage for public safety before he laid off 56 police officers and let all these people die.
So if you all cant understand that we need someone in office with common sense, then the next time this goes down if he is re-elected, I hope you all are all prayed up because if he sold out the other people what makes you think you cant be next.
Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. PEACE DLD
To all that feel like this move is needed, I agree, what I don"t agree with, is the fact that there are no savings when you are outsourcing the transportation and the fuel total was not included and you claim you are saving 109,000.00.
Well we all know that fuel is at 4-5$ a gallon, we also know that at that rate there definitely is no savings because the bus company is using the districts fuel,and the busses will surely use 109,000.00 worth of fuel in 2-3 mnths. So clearly the fuel was included in our district total but was not included in the outsourcing bid.
So clearly I know the facts and I make my decisions by the facts and there are no savings in this transportation deal.
Thats why I can say it is "UNION BUSTING".
I do believe that all elected officials of the city, are city employees also, so shouldn't they be tested randomly also? As a matter of fact I believe All elected officials from the President on down should be drug tested, through the Hair testing process, that goes back 3 months. "Davenport for Mayor 2011"
Councilman Kincaid's problem is if this bill passes, he could be thrown out of his council seat-- and cant run again for 6years.
Per law that is being voted on now, "all elected officials, Mayor and council will have no power and will be put out of their offices, and unable to run for any office for 6 years" lol, If the state takes over. He knows its coming and he will be dethrowned the state is tired of bailing out cities, and the voters puting the same people back in office, to do the same thing over lol. PEACE "Mayor Davenport"
Remember People it is election time, Walling will tell you anything you want to hear-- until after the election then he does what he wants to do. PEACE MAYOR DAVENPORT
Well a Person fighting for his life everyday due to stray gunshots, should go to a meeting of the ones that have made it this way, and act like nothings wrong lol, well im sorry to tell you, that i pay taxes just like the people that are protected with the police grants, and i want equal protection, and i am going to raise sand until I get me and my families life out of danger.
So you can say I am the reason all you want, because if it were hapening to you, i know you would be doing the same and if you wouldnt then you would be less of a man/woman, not to try to protect your families lives. PEACE Mayor Davenport " DAVENPORT FOR MAYOR 2011"
Retiredrat2-Did your parents teach you to respect someone that has put your life in danger like this idiot has, I should think not, remember respect is not given it is earned.
As for the children Iwill teach them that when your life is in danger, forget respect and do whatever it takes to save your life, if that means scream,holler,run,disrespect whatever, to and elder person adult whomever is endangering their life, because if they respected you they would not have put your life in danger in the first place.
If the parents disagree with me then I will keep them in prayer, because to tell your child to respect someone when they are endangering your life,is telling them to not worry about their lively hood,what some people dont understand is my life is in danger here on the northside because thhe Idiot Mayor decides to descriminate.
Now retiredrat2 if you live in the danger zones on the north and east sides of town, where a bullet can come through your walls at anytime, and you can still respect that idiot walling-- then god bless you sir, but i cant just sit and watch me and my family get hit by a stray bullet, and worry about respecting the person thats desciminating against me and put our lives in danger in the first place.
I would be less of a father a husband and a man, and you might not tell me this, but you would not respect anyone that put you or your families life in danger either Retiredrat2. PEACE Mayor Davenport
Tru-Leigh for your first comment ever on m-live (per your activity when i click on your name) to be negative about me , makes me feel special, that you have that much interest in my truthfull conversations.
It also tells me that you are a walling supporter, and that tells me that you like to uphold people that descriminate against other people, like the walling administration has, by choosing the south side and the downtown areas to provide grants, to keep police and leave the east and north sides of town, (the high crime areas) without grants for police, so that tells me, that I should pay no attention to anything you say, because the same goes for you, if you think it is ok to descriminate against people-- then I have no respect for you just as well as i dont for your supportee Walling.
So it was nice meeting you, and i will keep you in my prayers, that you change your thinking that the word (equality) is meant for everyone not just the rich,powerfull,or the educated. PEACE Mayor Davenport.
Flint Grower- whatever you are growing you should stop smoking it; Think about what you said "they are there because i might start a riot," with me educating the people about what the council is doing wrong to the citizens that voted them in office lol, If they were not doing anything wrong to the citizens, (as they claim) then they would have nothing to worry about lol, common sense.
Also you are asking me to stop going to the meetings and educating the people, so heartless people like the walling administration can keep discriminating against them on police protection huh lol.
Yes ,Flint grower you reall need to stop smoking whatever it is you are growing, because its clouding your mind from a word called (equality), and this administration should not have a problem with this word if they are there to protect all of the citizens of flint. PEACE "MAYOR DAVENPORT"
Sam- look you can say what you want about the grammar on my page, but the bottom line is that the city is being discriminated against, by this administration that has caused this city to break a homicide record, because of the ignorant decisions of the council and the idiot mayor, also the jobs will be for the people that do not, and I repeat do not have a college degree, so they can work and feed their families also, instead of them robbing and stealing from me or you.
(If you live in the city, so what other administrations did was them, and i am me, and i promise you that every citizen will be taken care of --and wont have to fear for their life because of a budget or predjudice by the mayor of the city that is supposed to be there leader. PEACE DLD
I dont have a history of any crimes in my past, "like some people want me to have," so trust and believe i am the last person you have to worry about, I have three beautiful kids I have to raise lol, and trust me no one, i mean no one but GOD can take me away from them.
So instead of bringing in the taxpayers dollars (police officers) to protect those crooked decisions they make, they need to start using the taxpayers dollars (police officers) for what they were alloted for-- and that is to protect the taxpayer not the taxpayers enemies (like the council), that has allowed a mayor to come in, and discriminate against certain sides of town, with police protection,like the southside and the downtown area with grants , that make sure the officers cant come past downtown and have to stay in those areas to keep them protected, and then say well the northside and west side of the city,(the high crime areas ) dont need grants to keep officers over there, and also since they are the high crime areas we are going to layoff 56 officers and crime will go down lol.
Bottom line is the council and the mayor are contradicting themselves, by saying that police presence does not deter crime, because if it didnt why would they have police protection at the meetings.
that is what the citizens are saying also give them the police back so they can feel comfortable in this city, like they want to feel comfortable at the meetings.
What kind of Idiot leader in his/her right mind would single out certain parts of the city and say we will give this part of the city grants for police, and not the other parts of the city.
To make it so bad the money from the grants dont even come from the citys "dime' none what so ever, and they still wont go to the federal grant Dept and try to save a life or 2 on the north or west side as we speak.
So that tells me, as it should you that there are certain agendas that have to be met on those sides of towns before the peoples safety comes back as top priority in those areas lol , that is sad, i just hope and pray that it does not backfire on them (council and mayor). PEACE DLD
Peopel the Governer did not speak of lil'ol Flint Mi., in his state of the union speech, for nothing.
The money has already been authorized no matter if we like it or not, that is politics. What we have to do as citizens is make our voice heard at the poll's in August primary, by electing 2 different people to be in the general election, so the taxpayers dollars will not be used for nonsense, remember people not a red cent of that money goes to public safety-- and we have to pay it back, I disagree and will always disagree with the tactics that are being used by this incomptent administration. PEACE DLD
"Davenport for Mayor 2011"
For anyone concerned i will provide employment to anyone that wants to work my first year into my administration and that is a promise.
That is going to be for the educated and the un-educated. PEACE DLD
Hmmmmmm- lets see now, A 9 member board that majority rules,and davenport by himself, goes against almost everything that this administration aproves, and that one lone person (David Davenport), is the problem with the Flint school distric lol.
Sounds like im stepping on someones toes, by wanting whats right for every citizen in the city of flint. Children and the adults. PEACE DLD
"Davenport for Mayor 2011" (davenportformayor.com) check it out.
407- if you feel that way then thats on you, my goal is to get police on the stree,t to lower the crime rate I know it will work.
The publics safety- is more important to me than anything else, and I am going to prove it when i am elected Flint Michigans Next Mayor in 2011. PEACE DLD
Well walling you probably created the jobs, but none of them went to flint residents lol. PEACE DLD


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North Moore Street in Rosslyn will no longer go both ways
- A sign warning drivers of upcoming traffic changes on North Moore Street, expected to take effect Oct. 9. (Photo: TBD Staff)
North Moore Street in Rosslyn (in front of the Rosslyn Metro station) will change to a one-way street starting this Saturday, Washington Post's Dr. Gridlock reports.
The street will only accommodate traffic southbound towards Wilson Boulevard for the foreseeable future due to construction projects about to start on either side of North Moore Street.
Arlington County has placed signs warning drivers of the change on Wilson Boulevard.
Arlington plans to begin work on a new access to the Rosslyn Metro station, including three new elevators, later this fall, and Monday Properties will begin construction on the 1812 North Moore Street building Oct. 14.
As a result, taxis will no longer be picking up passengers on North Moore, and will instead wait on Fort Myer Drive near the back entrance of the Rosslyn Metro station. Bus stops will also be relocated. We brought you word of the ART bus stop changes last week, but exactly what changes are in store for Metrobus stops are still unclear.
The construction will also lead to the closure of Annie's Park, the small park next to McDonald's, according to Arlington County. The jury's still out on how the changes will affect the near constant jaywalking at this spot. We'll update you as we know more.

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Controversial changes that have rocked Texas higher education system may be coming to Florida.
Gov. Rick Scott has begun discreetly promoting the same changes to the higher education system that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has championed. The proposals include some of the same reforms pushed by conservatives in K-12 schools: merit pay for professors, tenure reform, and generally a much greater emphasis on measurement of whether professors are turning out students that meet certain goals.
The attempt in Texas has caused something of an identity crisis in that states higher education community, with opponents saying what needs to be reformed is Perrys control over university policies.
Scott told the News Service of Florida on Tuesday that he has discussed the Texas reforms with his appointees to university and college governing boards in an effort to line up support for a nascent campaign to dramatically change how universities and colleges are funded, overhaul professor tenure, emphasize teaching over research, and give students more influence.


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Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, October/November 1997, Page 37
Bookburners and Their Victims
First-Hand Accounts of Pro-Israel McCarthyism: When Israel's Mossad Set Out to "˜Break' Me, It Found Its Helpers Here at Home
by Victor Ostrovsky
"We will get to him by other means, we will break him economically," stated the chief of the Mossad, Israel's CIA, to a Knesset committee after the failure of the government of Israel's attempt to ban publication of my first book, By Way of Deception, in the U.S. and Canada. This statement, made on camera, was purposefully leaked to an Israeli reporter and printed in the weekend addition of Ma'ariv, Israel's leading daily newspaper, with the military censor's approval. Since that day, Israel's foreign intelligence agency has waged a war of attrition against me with the enthusiastic cooperation of its cabal of North American Zionist organizations.
For years as a Canadian-born, Israel-raised former Mossad caseworker I was unwilling to accept the possibility of a wide conspiracy against me. After all, my book had finally been published. What more harm could I do to the country I had left in disgust to return to the land of my birth. Only hitting rock bottom has finally jolted me out of this state of innocence—and optimism that a change of luck is just around the corner. I'm now convinced that I am the target of a broad collusion between elements of the Israeli government and their gofers, mostly in the American Jewish community.
Following publication of my By Way of Deception I wrote a spy novel, Lion of Judah, using the spycraft I'd learned with the Mossad as background. The book described a fictional Mossad operation aimed at thwarting a secret peace process underway in the Middle East. (The book was written and published before the real-life, year-long secret negotiations that led to the Oslo accord came to light.)
In the book I revealed considerably more about Mossad techniques than I had in By Way of Deception. But, despite the wide publicity garnered by my first book due to the Israeli government's unsuccessful effort to suppress it, my second book was ignored.
Radio and television interviews that were scheduled by my publisher were canceled almost as soon as they were booked. A speaker's bureau in Toronto, which seldom had trouble arranging speaking engagements with student and other groups eager to have me as a speaker, found that the engagements were cancelled before I could appear. In fact, the cancellations occurred each time a local B'nai B'rith Anti-Defamation League (ADL) chapter got wind of them, and they always did.
But, of course, the less I spoke, the more time I had to write. In 1995, when my third book,The Other Side of Deception, another work of non-fiction, was published, the efforts against me were stepped up.
So, on Oct. 21, 1995, I was surprised to be invited by Canadian Television (CTV) producer Ron Fine to do a guest appearance on "Canada AM," the widely viewed Canadian version of "Good Morning America." Scheduled to appear on the same program, via satellite from Israel, was Israeli journalist Yosef Lapid, the former head of Israeli television.
An Appeal to Murder
Lapid had earned his 14 minutes of North American media fame by appealing openly on the Israeli television show "Popolitica" for the Mossad to seek me out in Canada and kill me for writing my books. He had followed this with an article making the same appeal in the Tel Aviv daily Ma'ariv headlined "By Virtue of Murder" (see accompanying translation).
On cue, Lapid repeated, as I listened, his call for my assassination on the Canadian television show, but this time with a twist. He said that, since Israel's Mossad could not kill me in Canada without causing a diplomatic incident, "I hope that there would be a decent Jew in Canada who would do the job for us."
My reaction was horror mixed with relief. Now it was going to be hard for media gatekeepers to pretend that there were not "ugly Israelis" every bit as vicious and fanatical as the Iranian ayatollah who had called for the assassination in Britain by a British Muslim of author Salman Rushdie.
Along with the producers of the show, a large percentage of the Canadian public had just seen for themselves a former Israeli government official calling upon Canadian Jews to murder me on Canadian soil for the books I had written. But, to my astonishment, there seemed no inclination by the Canadian media to follow up the story when it was an Israeli rather than an Iranian inciting the murder of a published author. I had never felt more alone and isolated in my life.
My spirits brightened when a reporter from USA Today viewed the tape of the "Canada AM" show and was outraged. "I'm going to write a story about this," he declared, and proceeded to interview me for over an hour. Then, while I was still in his office, his editor told him by telephone to kill the article. "It's not a story," the editor said. The silence surrounding me intensified.
It was a year later that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a right-wing zealot who got his legitimization for murder from an extremist rabbi and his marching orders from the likes of Lapid. If by Lapid's rules I should be killed according to his category "D" (see accompanying article), in the eyes of Yigal Amir, Rabin's assassin, so should Rabin. I have no doubt in my mind that all those like Lapid who make their own rules as to who may live and who must die are partners in Rabin's murder.
A radio host named Tim Kern from a station in Denver, Colorado, called me up for an interview. Several days later he sent a file on me he had received from the "Mountain state regional office of the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith." The ADL communication suggested that the station drop the interview, claiming that I am an unreliable subject. This sequence was repeated over and over at radio and television stations in the United States and Canada. Ironically, supposedly separate Jewish organizations around the United States kept coming up with the same wording in their efforts to shut me up.
The same people who presumably would praise someone from the CIA or the U.S. armed forces who exposed serious wrongdoing in those institutions were now hard at work to smother my criticisms of an intelligence agency for a foreign country that, to put it as charitably as possible, does not have America's best interests at heart. The Americans who call me a traitor to Israel for exposing the Mossad's efforts to kill the peace process hail as a hero Jonathan Pollard, a traitor to the U.S. who spied on the American government for Israel.
In an attempt to break the vicious cycle, I decided to sue in a Canadian court Yosef Lapid for inciting my murder and "Canada AM" for airing his incitement to the public. I assumed that bringing the issue to public attention would expose the attempts of organizations in both the U.S. and Canada that in fact are agents of Israel to suppress the truth through intimidation and, if necessary, economic or physical terrorism.
After accepting a hefty retainer and completing the preparations for trial, my lawyer, Paul B. Kane of Perley-Robertson, Panet, Hill and McDougall in Ottawa, Canada, informed me that he could not continue with the case. His explanation was that the safety of his staff would clearly be jeopardized if he proceeded.
Then HarperCollins, my publisher, informed me it was keeping the last portion of my advance, some $46,000, against advertising. I pointed out that since this was something I had never agreed to, they had no right to do it. "Sue us," was their response.
At the same time, my daughter, a television producer, was denied a job she had been offered in a Vancouver television station after its Toronto head office learned of her relationship to me.
Then my Canadian publisher, Stoddart, informed me it had decided not to publish my newest spy novel, Dominion of Treason, and also that it was holding back all monies coming to me from By Way of Deception and Lion of Judah.
Meanwhile I had suggested to my agent in Toronto a new (fifth) book on the American militia movement. I proposed to interview supporters of the movement to ascertain their motivations, and then define the movement in terms of its members rather than simply labeling them as the enemy and shutting the door on them. I believe the growth of misunderstanding and mistrust within a nation, and particularly between regions as is the case between America's Eastern seaboard on the one hand and its Midwest and Far West on the other, is courting disaster.
My agent was enthusiastic about the proposed project. We called it We the People. For several months he told me how this proposed book was being received in literary circles of New York. Then he dropped out of sight, and I have not been able to make contact with him to this day. I know he is in his office and doing business, but he will not return my calls.
In 1996, a new, New York-based agent struck a light at the end of a very long, dark tunnel. Regnery Inc., a Washington-based publisher, signed a contract with me for a tongue-in-cheek guide to espionage called The Spy Game. They had some suggestions, however, for making the book more serious on the grounds that readers don't regard spying as a laughing matter.
As I was in the final stages of the first draft, however, my house burned to the ground. The fire marshal's report declared it arson. No one was hurt, since we had moved out several weeks earlier and I was using only one room in the house for writing. Luckily, aside from the house itself, very little was lost—only my computer and several boxes of documents.
As I was sifting through the ashes of what used to be my bedroom, however, I realized things were starting to get out of hand. By then, under the Likud government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, both the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and the Israeli ambassador to Canada were former Mossad officers. I couldn't identify the perpetrators of the fire, or blame it on one group or another, but it was clear to me that those who had vowed to break me "economically" were becoming more confrontational and taking greater risks.
After several days of soul-searching I realized I could no longer allow my wife, who had stood by me through thick and thin, to remain in the line of fire. This was my battle, my choice. Knowing full well she would not abandon me, as almost everyone else had, I told her I needed to be alone, to sort out things for myself.
Our separation lasted several weeks. But we both realized we couldn't remain apart.
So I wasted no more time and re-wrote The Spy Game, having kept my notes on Regnery's suggested revisions with me. The work on the book was moving along well, and most of the editing had already been completed. The publisher, through his project editor, asked that I add a chapter on espionage and the Internet and also bring in some biographical material on myself. I complied and he expressed his satisfaction in a letter to me.
On July 9 of this year the Regnery publicity department faxed me a copy of their catalog page depicting my book, slated to be released in October. One day later, on July 10, 1997, I received a letter from Regnery informing me that the company had decided not to publish my book. I felt as though I had been hit by a freight train.
It suddenly occurred to me, for the first time, that the forces of racism, bigotry and apartheid may win, even here in North America. In calling out, finally, for help, I suddenly fear that I may only be shouting into the wind.
To all who believe that "it can't happen here," I say beware.
It is immensely satisfying to take a stand and speak out against coercion and tyranny. But eventually there may be a price to pay.
And when that day comes, and the bill is handed out, you may find that although your friends cherish you, they may choose to do it from a distance. I wonder now if the thousands who have called and written still think of me as a prophet and a hero, or only as a fool?
Victor Ostrovsky, a former Mossad caseworker in Israel, is author of By Way of Deception andThe Other Side of Deception about his personal observations within Israel's external security service. Both books are listed in the AET Book Club Catalog.


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A website featuring adult pornography has recently become a major concern to Houlton Police. Chief Butch Asselin says a parent brought to his attention that women in the county are having their private pictures posted on a website without their knowledge or consent.
"Some of the photographs are disturbing..distressing, they serve no purpose other than to humiliate and embarrass the individual and their family," says Chief Asselin.
Many of the photographs were posted by ex-boyfriends and former husbands out of revenge. It's clear in many cases that the women took the photos themselves not intending for anyone else to see them. Chief Asselin estimates that 30 to 40 women from the county are on there, and the website includes women from all over the world. The users remain anonymous, and some even request images of certain girls by giving their first name and the first initial to their last name.
"They're getting back at somebody, upset over the break up…angry..and this allows them some anonymity to post something without thinking they're going to get caught, " says Chief Asselin.
Most of the women observed were in the 18-30 age range. Chief Asselin didn't see any minors on the site. Its known in many cases as "revenge porn" and he calls it vicious.
"Had I been told one of my own daughters was on that website, it would certainly cause me some embarrassment, humiliation, and anger," he says.
News Source 8 is not going to name the website's URL. Chief Asselin says right now in Maine there's no law against this type of internet activity, but it is a form of harassment and the police can investigate into those types of complaints. He says with this specific website there is a way to request that the photo be removed but on other websites like this there is a fee. But even after a photo is removed, there's no way of knowing who might still have access to it.
"Once a picture is out there its pretty much out there forever, its hard to remove these photographs..best advice, don't have intimate photographs taken that are shared with others because assume, assume that once you do that, they will be shared," he says.
Chief Asselin says he hopes to work with the legislature to get something in place in order to prevent this from happening, to identify the individuals posting these pictures, and prosecute them.
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and efforts to disseminate these results through consensus guidelines for preventive services, the standard practice of clinical medicine is slow to change and incorporate these approaches. Because of the complexity of chronic diseases and their interactions, optimal treatments that will lead to the highest levels of quality of life and functional outcome are not well standardized and evaluated.
Both standardized protocols for the management of chronic diseases and mental disorders, and guidelines for preventive services need to be developed and widely disseminated with the goal of preventing disability.
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Just another pretty face. There will be another one coming along very soon.
heydummi ... what's "prolly"? Maybe you should have done a bit better in school!
The playbook could have been written at MIT but how does that affect his ability to catch the ball?
Since we can't count on people who are most suceptible to "poor birth outcomes" to take appropriate methods to PREVENT those births, maybe we should FORCE it on them. This is ridiculous! Millions and millions or dallars are spent each year on birth control education, condoms, etc. and what do we get. Higher birth rates and higher infant mortality.
Cities and towns all over the commonwealth are not filling the ranks and laying off police officers and firefighters left and right. Yet millions of tax dollars are being wasted on these useless programs. Something is very wrong here!
Once a dirtbag, always a dirtbag!
corrupt... I have had several opportunities to observe the Quebec officers do their work. In my opinion they use a much higher level of discretion than maybe they should and could make many more arrests than they do! Also, based on what I've seen, no kid has ever been arrested for "ordinary teenage behavior" in school. Kids know what is expected of them once they are in school. If they would not know by using ordinary common sense, then it is clearly explained to them in the Student Handbook that each kid gets the first day of school. The scenario involving your neice's boyfriend seems to be mssing something. Again, I'm pretty sure that no kid has ever been arrested for just walking out of school.
Unfortunately, ordinary citizens cannot observe the day-to-day activities in our public schools. If they could, I'm sure they would be appalled!
The owner of the AR-15 can probably kiss it goodbye! Nobody steals a weapon of that magnitude from a housebreak without it being stored improperly. In Massachusetts, that's a crime, which if the owner is found guilty, could result in forfeiture of the weapon.
Also, I don't think the SPD is in the business of holding onto weapons unnecessarily. If your weapon is used in a crime or which criminal charges may result (i.e. improper storage), you can expect them to hold onto it for evidence.
Can the police really make people say things or see things that didn't happen or is that just a worn out defense tactic? Was Wilhite's defense lawyer so inept that he or she couldn't trip up Perez on any inconsistencies in his testimony? Sounds to me like another courtroom charade at the taxpayers expense!
Sure, 413, it's just that easy!
How stupid can you be? Every little girl who rides a bike like that knows to put their gun in their lunch box in the basket on the front handle bars!
Why does everything have to be inclusive? Don't like minded people have the right to some exclusivity, without having to worry about allowing someone in who may not enjoy or respect that same right? Why would anyone try to bully their way into any place where they were clearly not wanted?
Obviously to me, Martha Burke, apty called an "activist", thought of membership at Augusta National as just another trophy on her ideological mantle. So much so that she referred to the members as " ... a bunch of old guys in Augusta". Martha, do you really want to belong to a place where a bunch of old men hang out, play golf, smoke cigars, drink too much scotch, use colorful language and maybe talk about women such as yourself?
The paper determines what is newsworthy, the authorities determine who may need to be found. I'm sure the circumstances surrounding her disappearance determined the level of the response that was given. I really don't think the police are going to look for someone who said "... I'd just like to get away for a couple of days..." as opposed to someone who may have made mention of being depressed and then didn't show up for work, answer their cell phone, etc.
1,000+ people in attendance and not a single one knew Trayvon Martin personally. For that matter, they probably didn't know who Cheryl Rivera and Ben Swan were either!
Typical "penny wise, pound foolish" mentality, candaman. Most people want to see more cops on the street. With cops at construction sites, there might me up to 30-40 cops a day out there at no taxpayer expense. Granted they're not patrolling, however they can and do respond to calls in their immediate vicinity. For an $8.00 an hour difference along with a dozen other reasons, I'll take the cop any day.
YANKEES... you and your ilk should stop blaming the school system for the failures of its students. It is the parents, sometimes children themselves, often gang members and drug users, who are foisting sub-standard children on the school department. It's not the childrens fault, it's the parents!
And trusting a 12 year old boy to use a condom is utterly absurd. What we should be doing is plastering 12 year old girls with birth control patches, much the same way a hippie plasters his 25 year old Volvo with "Think Globally, Act Locally" bumper stickers!
What this says is the officer behind you can check your license plate on the in-car computer without you even knowing it. The beauty of that is if your registration is current, insurance is up to date, etc. you'll never know he did it. However, if you "borrowed" a plate from a friends car, stole a plate from someone else, didn't pay your insurance, etc., you're going to get pulled over. Works for me.
The job of police work in Hampden County just went from difficult to nearly impossible. At least with Mr. Murphy there is some background as a prosecutor, along with other aspects of the law. However, according to the article, Mr. Groce's practice had been criminal defense and civil litigation. To me, that screams "agenda". This is not what we need in a district court judge, especially is the busiest courthouse in the Commonwealth.
Clearly and overwhelmingly, the answer is fewer children born to people who cannot and will not raise and parent them properly.
twoyouts ... a well written comment. Veteran's is closed so they can continue repairs and tree work on the course due to damage from the tornado and subsequent snow storm. Franconia is also having some repairs and tree work done as well. Both close by Dec. 1st each year because there just isn't enough golf business to go around after that date. With East Mountain, St. Anne,s and Oak Ridge, all privately owned and staying open, there are ample places to play locally. Imagine the taxpayer complaints if one or both municipal courses were open and only 10 people showed up to play one day?
Tiedyeguy... maybe your MassLive name should be "i was at woodstock too" or "weed is a basic food group"! "... the delicate job of policing..."? You are truly out of your mind! There are people out there who would punch you in the face just for the sport of it, rifle your pockets and take your jewelry, then laugh at you while they walked away with their boys.
There are some very, very bad people in this city who carry guns, knives and other weapons. Sometimes there are used on other very, very bad people. Sometimes theye are used on people like you. So please keep that in mind while you're sitting on your futon, enjoying a cup of herbal tea, knowing that 24/7/365 in all possible conditions, there are police officers protecting you and your way of life.


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come on Joe... gotta make better throws
If Joe puts that out there a bit farther, that's a TD. Joe needs to trust that Smith can't be overthrown.
WOWOWOWO FLACCO... holy shit
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Damn get that first Flacco!
move over, big ben!
Torrey will be amazing soon. He's so close to Randy Moss like vertical ability.
that was fantastic work Flacco! and You Too Ray Rice!
Best play by Joe Flacco I've ever seen!
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Justin Timberlake has apologized for a video made by a friend in which various homeless people around Los Angeles congratulate the performer on the occasion of his marriage to actress Jessica Biel.
The video, a clip of which was obtained by Gawker earlier this week, was reportedly made by Timberlake's friend Justin Huchel. The full, 8-min, 30-sec. version allegedly features Huchel asking homeless people, street performers and transsexuals their thoughts on the wedding. The title card read "Greetings from Your Hollywood Friends Who Just Couldn't Make It," and was intended as a joke gift for the couple.
The original 20-second clip has since been taken down upon the request of Huchel's attorney. The attorney's letter stated that Timberlake did not know about the video before it was shown and that it was intended only for private use.
"Mr. Huchel made [the] video to be used and exhibited privately at Justin Timberlake's wedding as a private joke without Mr. Timberlake's knowledge," he said.
However, in an open letter of apology posted on his website, Timberlake maintains that the video was not in fact shown during the estimated $6.7 million event. "Like many silly rumors that I have been made aware of about the week: It was NOT shown at my wedding," the star wrote.
In addition, Timberlake used the opportunity to post an apology for his friends and to take responsibility for the video.
I'd like to start off by saying that I don't live my life making fun of people (unless, of course, I'm making fun of myself on SNL)… Especially, those who are less fortunate or those in need. I grew up with a family and community that instilled ideals in me like hard work, honesty and empathy. As a matter of fact, growing up in Tennessee, I was always taught that we as people, no matter what your race, sex, or stature may be, are equal.
I want to say that, on behalf of my friends, family, and associative knuckleheads, I am deeply sorry to anyone who was offended by the video. Again, it was something that I was not made aware of. But, I do understand the reaction and, by association, I am holding myself accountable.


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CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) A week after Oregon State relied on its offense for a victory over Arizona, the defense helped secure the win against Washington State.
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A new hairstyle is one of the quickest and easiest ways to update your look. Not sure what to go for? A small change to your usual style can make a big difference. We spoke to the experts for some inspirational hair looks to start 2013 with a bang.
Embrace a 2013 colour trend
"Hair Veiling was spotted on the Spring/Summer 13 catwalks and it's a great way to make a statement through colour," explains Jessica Speechly, Head of Colour at Errol Douglas Salon. "Veiling creates hidden panels of colour so that when the hair is flipped from side to the other it exposes contrasting colour. It's a great New Year update - instant edge that's also easily hidden."
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"For a quick update switch to wavy hair," suggests Karis O'Brien, Creative Stylist at Errol Douglas salon. "I teach my clients how to master a messy ponytail where the texture and height is an instant transformer. For a sleeker, but equally speedy transformation, I recommend a loose fishtail plait. Very red carpet, but effortless. Both great looks for 2013."
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"For an instant update, I use a technique I call Face Framing," explains colourist Jade Blakely. "It's a technique where subtle colours are literally painted on selected parts of the hair around the face to warm and attune with your face shape, tone and complexion. It's what's behind that indiscernible "you look really well" comment – subtle colour big impact."
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We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness – Thich Nhat Hanh (Buddhist monk and peace activist)
"The west" has always struggled with this. We tend to compartmentalize everything and think in terms of the parts rather than the whole. Even our concept of God, until very recently, made "him" into a more or less conventional human being, writ large, but somewhere "up there" rather than "with us". We've been more comfortable with the reasoning of Greek philosophy – and a God who was more like Zeus than Emmanuel – than the spirituality of mystical belief.
Unfortunately, one of the consequences of this approach is that without seeing all things as interconnected we have little incentive to value anything that doesn't clearly impact us directly and immediately. We've known for years, for example, that the climate was changing. But it wasn't until the wind and waves were destroying our homes, until the winters became wilder outside our windows, until the summers began to kill us with heat, that we noticed.
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Sometimes if you are to close to the situation things are not in focus, thats what happened here, most people could see that the Vikings had a bullseye on Khalil period, He would look good in a Browns Uniform and that is what I would have told Minnesota, someone would have to have made a RG3 deal to pry Khalil away from them.
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A friend of mine who grew up in Mayfield and moved to Alaska has raced in the Iditarod and The other big race in Alaska The, (Yukon Quest) Said by many to be a tougher race, and this one time Greater Cleveland resident finished as high as 5th place in this race.
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These machines probably have tracking devices built in them, the feds will be close behind....
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Those who purchase the Forza 4 Season Pass will be offered 60 new vehicles, which will be released in installments between November 2011 and April 2012. Beyond getting a 30 percent discount on the sticker price of those six add-ons, those who pick up the Season Pass will get day-one access to the American Muscle car pack, the contents of which are listed in full below.
Microsoft also announced today that it will be giving gamers a free sample of Forza 4 prior to the game's October 11 street date. Xbox Live Gold members will be able to download a demo for Forza 4 on October 3, and everyone else will gain access as of October 7. Microsoft did not offer word on what gamers can expect from the free trial.
For more on Forza 4, check out GameSpot's previous coverage.
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While many have tried to cinematically adapt the literary triumph that grapples with the philosophical implications of capitalism in the face of economic devastation, all previous attempts have failed.
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Teenage driving and specifically driving safety is getting more and more traction in the news. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has just launched the 5 To Drive campaign to reinforce last week's "National Teen Driver Safety Week". All of these campaigns are encouraging parents to initiate discussions with their teen drivers about safety.
I have long been a propionate of driving contracts and luckily my three sons abided by the contract and never had a "significant" accident. There were a few of the "I backed into the fence", or "I just didn't see the car when I backed out of the parking space", but beyond that we were blessed with accident free teen years. I also believe that they were maybe a bit more cautious because they had to pay for 1/2 of their insurance premium each year, as well as having other perks (like gas) tied to their grades. Having some of their own hard earned money in the game made them realize consequences for accidents would also mean higher insurance premiums and more money out of their wallets.
The NHTSA safety topics for parents to discuss with their teens are:
No cell phone use or texting while driving - no exceptions
No extra passengers - parents also need to follow their own state laws on this topic as graduated drivers licenses enforce different lengths of time before allowing teens any extra passengers (which are definitely distracting)
No alcohol
No driving or riding without a seat belt
No speeding
There were 2,105 teen drivers involved in fatal crashes in 2011 and 45% of the teens involved died in those wrecks as well. The topics for parents to discuss with their teens are on the list as all of these behaviors seen in adolescent drivers are known to contribute to the high death rate among teens.
Another recent study from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in collaboration with State Farm Insurance found that "teenagers were 50% less likely to crash when parents set clear rules, kept track of their teens activities and did so in a supportive manner".
Take the time to discuss the safe driver rules and model behavior while you are at the wheel as well. Distracted driving affects everyone.....as I continue to remind myself to stay off the phone in the car, even though I finally did get hands free for the phone.


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I love Carrot Cake! I have my own recipe that's a winner with friends and family, but I wanted to try it with whole wheat flour to see if I could tell a big difference in taste. Well, I tried this cake recipe (Carrot Cake X) minus the wheat germ this past weekend (9/19/04) and I loved it. Everyone who sampled a piece enjoyed it as well. The whole wheat flour gives the cake a nice texture, and it doesn't change the taste of the cake! This is definately a winner in my book!!
Cake was strange, nothing like any carrot cake that I had ever tasted. I made it for my son's birthday and he didn't like it...so disappointed.
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Amazing! I followed recipe except healthier choices. I used splenda for the sugar and apple sauce for the oil. I only used half cream cheese frosting from one of the other carrot cake recipes. Great Recipe!
I added low-fat homemade cream cheese icing to keep it relatively healthy.
This is very good and you feel good eating it! I did change a few things. I used unsweetened applesauce instead of the oil, used only 3/4 c of sugar, replaced the coconut with raisins (I made this for my 1 yr olds b-day and he loves rasins :) ) and cut the nuts in half. He loved it and we did too. I did cheat and use the cream cheese frosting from Carrot Cake III from here. I had extra batter so I made muffins for my husbands breakfast. Will definetly be making this again!
Unfortunately I did not get to actually taste this recipe, BUT after sending it to work with my Hubby I got requests for more! I wanted to make this into a double layer cake so I added a quarter more of everything. To make this a bit healthier I subbed Unsweetened Applesauce for the Oil. ALSO, I did not have Wheat Germ so I substituted All Purpose Flour in its place. For no particular reason I also added a touch of Orange Juice. Hee hee! And to finish it off I frosted with homemade cream cheese icing. Hmmmm... Wish I had tried it!
Really heavy but then again carrot cake is a heavy cake. Tasty. Probably one of the healthiest versions of carrot cake out there. I might modify it next time with added raisins and sugar substitute. This time I used olive oil and it was fine. I highly recommend this recipe.
This is what I was looking for! Had a great carrot cake at a little bistro with whole wheat, pineapple, nuts and so soft. This one does it. I will probably add a few more carrots next time.
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The Echaurren restaurant is a 40-minute drive from Elciego and located in quite a similar-looking little town called Ezcaray; like everywhere else in the vicinity, its strong point is tradition: the owners are culinary virtuosos in the fifth generation. Echaurren is also the proud owner of a Michelin star and indubitably one of the La Rioja gastronomy destinations. However, there is no sign of all of that from the outside: Echaurren shares its building with a three-star hotel and is noticeable only because of the huge parking place. There is no shortage of wanna-be diners, so do book a table in advance. There are two menus at Echaurren: a traditional and a modern one. The first is the speciality of Marisa Sanchez, the second - of her son Francis Paniego, the rising star of the La Rioja culinary world. The first embodies the best of the culinary history of the region: excellent croquettes, black pudding prepared in a special way etc. Do trust the waiter, both in your choice of fare and wine. And take heed should he advise you to order just half of the helping: unlike the prices, the servings are really huge here. An excellent choice of wines and cosy family-like atmosphere. The modern menu, on the other hand, is obviously influenced by the El Bulli school of cooking and could in a way be described as a contemporary version of the historical family recipe book. There is also a cigar bar where you can relax and spend some time dotting your i's and crossing your t's after an excellent meal.
More on Echaurren see in Connoisseur's Guide: this restaurant has been included into the list of best European restaurants by Mārtiņš Rītiņš.
2 Héroes de Alcázar, Ezcaray, La Rioja 26280
Phone: 941354047
Keywords: La Rioja, La Rioha, Larjoha, restaurant, Michelin


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A surgical instrument serves to insert a trocar needle into the bone marrow of a patient for connection of a syringe, an infusion set or the like. The instrument includes a cylindrical housing containing a sliding bolt and the trocar needle configured to be forcefully shot through the bone material into the marrow by release of a compressed helical spring. The bolt holds the rear end of the needle in a releasable grip permitting the needle to be released and to remain in the bone. The helical spring is positioned in the rear of the housing and of the bolt and is held in compressed state by a catch which is releasable by pressure on a trigger. This shoots the bolt and the needle forwards, a collar in the housing stopping the bolt sharply and allowing the needle to be released from the device after its penetration and to be connected to a syringe or an infusion set for intraosseous injection, infusion or other treatment.
1. A surgical instrument for forcefully driving a trocar needle into a patient's bone through the skin and the tissue by the force of an expanding helical spring, and for releasing said trocar needle for connection of a syringe, an infusion or medication set to said trocar needle, the instrument including:
a longitudinal housing having a front end and a rear end, said housing being in the shape of a hollow cylinder including a smooth bore extending from its rear end to a stop close to its front end,
a screw cap closing the rear end of said housing, said screw cap having a rear portion extending beyond the rear end of said housing,
a trocar needle having a sharp front end for penetrating said bone and a rear end surrounded by an outstanding connecting flange, said needle being positioned, in a cocked state, in said housing with its sharp front end close to the front end of said housing,
a bolt slidingly positioned in said housing, having a first front portion provided with means for releasably holding the rear end of said trocar needle, a second portion of a diameter coextensive with said smooth bore in said housing positioned to the rear of said stop, a third portion of smaller diameter, and a rear portion provided with means for being held in said rear portion of said screw cap in the cocked state,
safety catch means positioned in said screw cap for engagement with said means for being held to releasably hold said rear portion of said bolt,
a helical spring surrounding said third portion of said bolt and being held in a compressed state between said second portion of said bolt and said rear portion of said screw cap,
whereby said bolt is shot in a forward direction by the force of said helical spring as it expands when said safety catch means releases said rear portion of said bolt, and is stopped by contact of said second portion with said stop in said housing, effecting release of said trocar needle from the front portion of said bolt.
2. The instrument of claim 1, wherein said trocar needle has a lumen extending from its rear end to close to its front end which is closed in the shape of a sharp point, and at least one transverse hole close to said sharp point in communication with said lumen communication between said lumen and an outside being effected by at least one transverse hole close to said sharp point.
3. The instrument of claim 1, wherein said trocar needle includes:
a sharp inner stylet rigidly connected to the front portion of said bolt by means of a cylindrical block at a rear end of said stylet, said stylet including said sharp front end, and
a cannula adapted to be left in the bone after insertion, said cannula enclosing said stylet and including said rear end,
wherein said block and said stylet remain attached to said bolt and are withdrawn together with said surgical instrument.
4. The instrument of claim 1, wherein said means for releasably holding said trocar needle is in the form of a sleeve mounted on said front portion of said bolt and provided with elastic inwardly directed fingers configured to grip said connecting flange on said trocar needle.
5. The instrument of claim 1, wherein said bolt comprises a circumferential groove in said rear portion serving for engagement with said safety catch means.
6. The instrument of claim 5, wherein:
said screw cap includes a transverse bore,
said safety catch means comprises at least one steel ball movable in the transverse bore in said screw cap, and
further comprising:
a second cap which urges said at least one steel ball into said groove in said bolt, said second cap slidingly movable on said screw cap, and
a transverse pin which releasably holds said second cap in a "safe" state, preventing forward sliding movement of said second cap on said screw cap.
7. The instrument of claim 6, wherein said sliding cap is provided with an internal circumferential groove positioned to the rear of said at least one steel ball, while said sliding cap is in a rearward position, permitting said at least one steel ball to enter said circumferential groove of said sliding cap and to leave said groove on said bolt, so as to release said bolt to be shot forward by said expanding spring after withdrawal of said transverse pin and a forward push of said sliding cap.
8. The instrument of claim 5, wherein:
said screw cap includes a transverse bore,
said safety catch means comprises a first pin movable in said transverse bore in said screw cap, said pin having a straight portion and a circumferential groove,
whereby the straight portion of said first pin engages said circumferential groove in said bolt to hold said bolt in a "safe" state and disengages said bolt by axial movement of said pin into coinciding position of said two grooves, permitting said bolt to be driven in the forward direction by said expanding spring.
9. The instrument of claim 8, wherein said first pin is held in a "safe" state by a second pin movable in a second transverse bore in said screw cap and engaging said groove in said first pin.
10. The instrument of claim 8, wherein:
said transverse bore has an open end and a closed end,
said first pin protrudes out of said open end, and
a helical spring is positioned in said bore at said closed end.
11. The instrument of claim 10, further comprising trigger means for axially moving said first pin from the "safe" state into a "shooting" state, said trigger means pivotally fastened to said screw cap and configured to move said first pin against the force of said helical spring positioned in said bore at said closed end.
12. The instrument of claim 1, wherein the front end of said housing is provided with external screw threads, and wherein a sleeve having a front end and a rear end and corresponding internal screw threads is movable along said housing by rotational motion to a position in which the front end of said sleeve extends beyond the front end of said housing by a distance defining the depth to which said trocar needle will enter the bone.
13. The instrument of claim 12, wherein a numerical scale is provided on the outside of said housing, indicating the depth of entry of said trocar needle by a number appearing at the rear end of said sleeve.
14. The surgical instrument of claim 1, further comprising trigger means coupled to said safety catch means for releasing said safety catch means.
The invention relates to a surgical instrument for impact insertion of a trocar-needle into a bone for the purpose of connecting to the needle an infusion or transfusion set or a syringe containing any medicine to be injected for medical treatment of a human or animal patient. It relates particularly to an instrument suitable for instantaneous insertion of a trocar-needle, be it in a battle field, the site of an accident, or any other occasion where instantaneous infusion or itravascular injection becomes necessary. It is especially necessary in the case of newborns or children where it is often difficult to find a vein. But also with adults it often becomes necessary to find an alternative route to intravenous infusion, for rapid vascular access. Likewise for the purpose of marrow aspiration or transplantation.
Intraosseous infusion and bone marrow transfusion was first introduced in the forties of this century, and was especially used in emergency cases during World War II, to avoid the lengthy times needed for finding the suitable blood vessel for insertion of the needle. Nowadays the method is well known, but not much in use, because of the difficulty to forcefully drive a needle or a trocar into the bone with resulting great pain, on the one hand, and the danger of infection owing to the necessity to provide an opening through the skin and the tissue surrounding the bone. The conventional trocar used is in the form of a sharp stylet enclosed in a tube (cannula) and inserted through the containing wall of the bone, whereafter the stylet is withdrawn permitting fluid to be infused or to be drained through the tube.
Infusion, injection of drugs, resuscitation and anesthesis through a major vein or peripheral vein often cause complications which can easily be avoided by intraosseous infusion. There exist a few medical instruments for intraosseous infusion injection or aspiration, but they differ considerably from the present device which is characterized by the operation of forcefully driving a trocar needle into the bone, releasing it from the device and leaving it in the bone for subsequent attachment of the needle to a syringe, an infusion or transfusion set.
The following patents are cited as prior art, but they differ from the present device in their essential functions:
U.S. Pat. No. 4,969,870 (Kramer et al.) describes a tube having an upper end for connection of an infusion set and an enlarged lower end which is rotatably advanced through the cortical bone into the trabecular bone.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,271,744 (Kramer et al.) discloses a device for rapid vascular drug delivery, including a syringe body fitted with a needle. A compressed helical spring is released to drive a plunger into the syringe body and simultaneously driving the needle into the bone and injecting the drug. A second helical spring serves to extract the needle immediately after the medication has been injected.
It is the main object of the present invention to provide a specially designed trocar-needle and an instrument which will drive it into the bone while causing almost no pain to the patient due to high velocity penetration of the trocar-needle, and to leave it in situ for infusion, transfusion aspiration, and other medical treatment.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an instrument which will automatically insert the needle into the bone to a predesignated depth.
Still another object is to provide an instrument for the above purpose which is practically foolproof and easily handled by any surgeon, nurse, medic or paramedic in the battlefield, as well as in ambulances, air transport and especially in the emergency room of a hospital or a ward, and in any occasion as an alternative to intravenous injection, infusion or other medical treatment.
Still another object is to provide a surgical instrument which can be readily sterilized for re-use, but the main idea is to produce it at low cost so as to permit its disposal after a single use.
The surgical instrument or "gun" serving to insert a trocar-needle into a bone of a patient works on the known principle that a compressed or "cocked" spring is released from its cocked position, after a safety catch has been opened, thereby driving the trocar-needle in the forward direction at high velocity in order to avoid pain to the patient. However, the present instrument differs from the conventional injection instruments in that it releases the needle after its penetration into the bone and permits its connection to a syringe or an infusion or transfusion set.
This operation requires a needle strong and sturdy enough to be driven into the hard bone without being bent or broken and to be shaped in a form to prevent bone or tissue material from clogging the front opening. This requirement has resulted In the design of the present trocar-needle which has the external shape of a conventional hypodermic needle, whereof the front end is in the form of a sharp point closing the lumen of the tube in the needle, while forming communication between the lumen and the outside by one or more transverse holes in the tube wall close to the front end.
The surgical instrument of the invention includes a housing containing the afore mentioned trocar needle in its front portion and a compressed helical spring in its rear portion, as well as a trigger mechanism and safety catch at its rear end. The housing is in the form of a hollow cylinder having its rear end closed by a cap and its front end by a penetrable diaphragm to prevent impurities from entering the housing. The diaphragm also serves to prevent the needle from being shot out of the instrument in case of its accidental operation, by retaining the thicker rear portion of the needle. The housing encloses a long bolt which holds at its front end a resilient member for releasably holding the rear end of the trocar needle and has its rear end retained in cocked position by trigger means. The front portion of the bolt is of a diameter coextensive with the smooth bore of the housing permitting its smooth motion in the forward direction, while its rear portion is of a much smaller diameter and is surrounded by the helical spring which is held in compressed state between the front portion of the bolt and the rear cap.
In a preferred embodiment a screw-threaded sleeve is mounted on the front of the housing, which is rotatably movable in the axial direction and configured to define the depth to which the needle is to penetrate into the bone.
The invention includes two different safety catch and trigger arrangements, both designed to hold the spring in compressed state while preventing unauthorized or accidental release. In a first embodiment at least one radial bore is drilled into the rear portion of the housing which contains a steel ball of coextensive diameter. In the cocked state the steel ball holds the bolt in the rearward position by engaging with a circumferential groove in the rear portion of the bolt, while the front end of the rear cap holds the ball inside the groove. The cap, in its part, is held in position by a transverse pin extending through the cap and the housing and serving as a safety catch. The cap has an internal circumferential groove of a depth alike or greater than the depth of the groove in the bolt end. In order to propel the needle, the instrument is placed onto the skin covering the bone portion to be penetrated, the safety pin is pulled out and the cap is pushed in forward direction. This causes the at least one ball to slip out of the groove in the bolt into the groove of the cap, whereby the bolt is released and shot forward by the expanding spring. A stop on the inside of the housing stops the bolt, after the needle has penetrated into the bone to the desired depth, and by pulling the instrument to the rear the resilient member releases the end of the needle which is now free to receive the connector of an infusion set or a syringe.
Another embodiment of the trigger and safety catch includes a screw cap covering the rear end of the housing and holding a trigger handle. The rear end of the bolt is positioned in a central bore of the cap and is held in cocked position by a transversely movable pin engaging a groove in the bolt. This pin is, in its part, held in bolt-engaging position by a second pin at right angles to it which engages a recess in the first pin. A trigger handle is in contact with the sideways-protruding end of the first pin, but is prevented from pushing it inwards by the safety catch pin. By pulling out the safety catch the first pin becomes axially movable and can be pressed into the cap by movement of the trigger handle, thereby moving it out of engagement with the groove in the bolt which is thus moved into the recess of the pin and freed out of engagement with the latter. The bolt is shot forward by the expanding spring and the operation becomes identical with the operation described with reference to the first embodiment.
FIG. 1 is a longitudinal section of the trocar needle of the invention,
FIG. 2 is a longitudinal section of a conventional trocar needle, likewise used with the present surgical instrument,
FIG. 3 is a side view of a first embodiment of the instrument,
FIG. 4 is a longitudinal section of the instrument of FIG. 3 in "cocked" position,
FIG. 5 is a longitudinal section of the instrument of FIG. 3 in "shooting" state,
FIG. 6 is a section along line 6--6 of FIG. 5,
FIG. 7 is a side view of a second embodiment of the instrument,
FIG. 8 is a longitudinal section of the instrument shown in FIG. 7, in "cocked" position,
FIG. 9 is a longitudinal section of the instrument of FIG. 7 in "shooting" state,
FIG. 10 is a section of the instrument of FIG. 8 along line 10--10, and,
FIG. 11 is a section of the instrument of FIG. 9 along line 11--11.
In the following description the terms "front" or "forward" will be used to define the direction of driving the needle into the bone, while the expression "rear" defines the end of the instrument containing the triggering device.
The instrument or "gun" for driving or shooting a trocar-needle into a patient's bone for injection, infusion, transfusion, aspiration or other treatment includes generally a housing, a helical spring, a bolt, spring-cocking and triggering means, and a device defining the depth to which the trocar is to be driven into the bone.
The trocar-needle I has the external shape of a conventional hypodermic needle with the difference that the lumen 10 stops short of the front end and communicates with the outside--in the present case the inside of the bone--through two transverse bores 11, while the front end is closed in the form of a sharp point 12. The rear end is in the form of a rim 13 for connection to a syringe or an infusion set in the conventional manner. The rear end of the needle encloses a cylindrical block 5 which serves as a reinforcement and is to be removed from the needle after its penetration into the bone.
The conventional trocar needle I' illustrated in FIG. 2 comprises a solid stylet 1 enclosed in a cannula 2 which includes a hollow, frusto-conical rear end 3 terminating in a connecting flange 4. The rear end of the stylet is firmly embedded in a cylindrical block 5 which, after insertion of the trocar-needle is withdrawn from the cannula together with the stylet.
The embodiment of the surgical instrument illustrated in FIGS. 3 through 11 essentially includes a cylindrical housing II, a helical spring III, a bolt IV, a safety catch and bolt-triggering means V, and a device VI configured to limit the depth to which the trocar I or I' is to be driven into the bone.
The embodiment of the Instrument shown in FIGS. 3, 4, 5 and 6 includes a cylindrical housing II which has a smooth bore 20 extending from the rear end to close to the front end which is bored to a somewhat smaller diameter 21, thereby forming a step 26. The rear end is provided with an external screw-thread 22 for attachment of the trigger mechanism and the front end with external screw-thread 23 permitting the lengthwise adjustment of a sleeve 60 on the housing. This sleeve serves to limit the depth to which the trocar enters the bone by extending beyond the front of the housing by a predetermined length effected by rotation of the sleeve on the screw-threaded end of the housing. A centrally perforated cap 24 is screwed onto the front of the sleeve and presses a diaphragm 25 onto the sleeve's front end.
The bolt IV comprises a front end 40 which is centrally bored (41) for holding the cylindrical block 5 of the trocar needle I' (FIG. 2). The front end is covered by an elastic sleeve 46 forming at its front end several inwardly extending fingers 47 (FIG. 6) which releasably grip the flange of either the trocar needle of FIG. 1 or of the cannula 2 shown in FIG. 2. Beyond the front end the bolt forms a piston 42 which is slidingly movable in bore 20 of the housing, while the main cylindrical portion 43 is surrounded by spring III. The rear end 44 is of smaller diameter than that of the main portion and contains a circumferential groove 45 holding, in cocked state, two steel balls 50.
At this opportunity it should be mentioned that the needle in FIG. 4 is a trocar-needle as illustrated in FIG. 1, while FIG. 5 shows the conventional trocar-needle illustrated in FIG. 2.
The rear end of the housing is closed by a screw cap 51 which is elongated towards the rear in the form of a centrally perforated cylinder 52. The latter is additionally perforated by a bore 53 perpendicular to its axis, permitting axial motion of the two steel balls 50. These balls are held in position Inside groove 45 by a sliding cap 54 slidingly movable on cylinder 52 and provided with an internal circumferential groove 55. The sliding cap is held in safe position by a safety pin 57 mounted in a crosswise extending bore 56 at the end of the cap.
The instrument is operated as follows: In the cocked state (FIG. 4) spring III is held in compressed state between piston 42 and screw-cap 51 owing to the fact that the steel balls hold the bolt in a rearward position by engagement with groove 45. For the purpose of driving the needle into the bone, safety pin 57 is pulled out, the front of the instrument is placed onto the skin covering the bone to be pierced and sliding cap 54 is pushed forwards. This movement allows the steel balls to leave groove 45 in the bolt and to enter groove 55 in the cap whereby the bolt is free to be moved forwardly by the force of the expanding spring and to insert the needle into the bone, after having pierced membrane 25. The forward motion of the bolt is abruptly stopped by step 26 at the end of the rear bore of the housing, whereby fingers 47 release the flange of the trocar-needle or of the cannula which now remains inside the bone, while the instrument is removed. An infusion set or other medication set is now connected to the the end of the trocar needle or the cannula for the purpose of medication. Previous to operating the instrument, the depth to which the needle should enter the bone may be determined by unscrewing sleeve 60 from the housing until it extends beyond the housing front by a length, as indicated by a scale 29 on the outside of the housing. (FIG. 3).
The second embodiment of the surgical instrument illustrated in FIGS. 7 through 11 differs from the afore described instrument only in the arrangement of the safety catch and the trigger mechanism, and for this reason only those parts will be described in the following, while the other components are identical with those of the first embodiment and need not be described again.
Referring now to FIGS. 8 and 10 showing the instrument in the cocked state: The rear end of housing II is closed by a cap 150 which is centrally perforated for containing in the bore 151 thereof, the rear portion 44 of the bolt. The bolt is provided with a circumferential groove 45 similar to that shown in the first embodiment which is in engagement with a cross bolt 152 axially movable in a bore 153 in the cap. The cross bolt is provided with a circumferential groove (154) which is engaged by a safety pin 155 preventing it from slipping out of engagement with bolt IV. The cross bolt is urged in an outward direction by a helical spring 156 mounted at the end of bore 153. A trigger 158 is hingedly attached by a pin 159 attached in a slot of cap 150.
Looking now at FIGS. 9 and 11 showing the position of the bolt after removal of the safety pin and pressure on the trigger 158 moving cross bolt 152 inwardly. The cross bolt has been free to be moved against the force of spring 156, by removal of safety pin 155 out of groove 154 which latter now permits bolt IV to be shot forward, since the groove permits its free motion.
The operation of this instrument is similar to that described in respect of the first embodiment: the depth of penetration is adjusted by means of sleeve 60, the safety pin is pulled out and the instrument is placed in position, whereupon the trigger is pulled. The needle or the cannula respectively are released from the instrument and are connected to an infusion set or a syringe.
Finally it should be noted that the two embodiments of the triggering mechanism constitute only examples of the many means of releasing the bolt, and that they may be altered and modified by a person skilled in the art, within the scope of the appended claims.
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