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Washington (CNN) - Sen. Jim DeMint, the Republican lawmaker holding up the nomination for the Transportation Security Administration chief, blamed Senate Majority Harry Reid Tuesday for the delay, saying the Senate could have voted on his nomination "months ago."
DeMint told CNN's Suzanne Malveaux Tuesday that all he wants is "limited debate and a recorded vote" before Erroll Southers can become the new TSA chief.
"Unfortunately the president has been downplaying the threat of terrorism since he took office. He waited eight months to even nominate someone for this position, and then he wanted him approved with no debate or no vote," DeMint said. "Senator Reid could have done that months ago, but the fact is they've been working on other things and have not seen airport security as a priority."
Reid said Tuesday that he will force a vote on Southers' nomination as soon as the Senate returns from recess. Southers, who was nominated by President Barack Obama in September, is currently assistant chief of homeland security and intelligence at the Los Angeles World Airports Police Department.
DeMint has been holding up the nomination in an effort to prevent TSA employees from joining a labor union. He praised Obama for blaming the security lapse that allowed a terrorist suspect to board a plane on Christmas Day on systemic and human failure.
"While other Democrats are trying to find someone to blame for this, at least the president is saying it is the responsibility of his administration," DeMint said. "My hope is that he'll change his focus from politics to real security. There's no reason that we should be focusing the attention of our homeland security agency and airport security on collective bargaining with union bosses when we need to be upgrading to deal with threats all over the world."
why does Obama criticize the lack of human rights in Iran but cowers in the face of China where the problem is at least as bad, if not worse???
This is what the Republicans do now. They just lie to your face and think you won't know better. John Cornyn is a master of it.
DeMint is a tool. He played politics with airline security, got caught, and is now placing blame elsewhere. Another great Republican example of responsibility for you kids out there.
Gotta love how the Democrats tried to blame the Republicans for there not being a new TSA chief in place and tried to avoid the fact that it took as long as it did to nominate someone...
Blah, blah, blah. "Ain't my fault!" This is becoming the Republican mantra, right next to "NO!" Always looking for someone else to blame. They cannot make it on their accomplishments, so they put down others as a way to try to make themselves appear better and so they feel better. What a bunch of losers!
DeMint has been holding up the nomination and is now looking for someone else to blame. My hope is that he'll change his focus from politics to real security.
So let them vote...
It appears that this Senator will never cease in his tireless effort of achieving the dubious distinction of being the earth's largest anal entry. His judgment is flawed at best and downright incendiary as a norm. The sooner his like leaves the halls of congress, the sooner the USA will return to thriving in this competitive world. Good riddance Sen. DeMint! Don't let the door knob hit ya where the Good Lord split ya!
This story comes out only after the previous story stateing it was purely the fault of Senator Demint for holding up the the Nomination.
Now we learn, it took the administration 8 months to even nominate a candidate and delays caused by a health care priority that we can't wait for!
We need to demand timely, accurate and complete journalism or we decide to pull or readership and go elsewhere (e.g. Foxnews.com)
DeMint you need to go and get a life. You had 8 years to make homeland security better and you did nothing but sit on your butt. Now you have the nerves to complaint about the Democrat Party. President Obama is more man than you Mr. DeMint. What's in this for you Mr. DeMint, got to be something?
It would be really nice if Jim DeMint would change his attitude toward solutions instead of politics. What a hypocrite!
The Senate could have confirmed Southers months ago if Deminted didn't place a hold on the nomination. With his highly partisan political and reckless obstructionist antics Deminted has demoralized the very TSA workers who protect our security.
"DeMint has been holding up the nomination in an effort to prevent TSA employees from joining a labor union",
now there shows his concern for America's safety, his fight against unions supersedesany patriotism, classic con.
"Hopefully Obama will change his focus from politics to real security"???
Hey, idiot senator, last I checked, Obama has been in office for over 11 months and we haven't been attacked.
How long was Bush in office before we got attacked? Oh yeah, that's right.
But that was Clinton's fault, of course...??
Shame on you.
All DeMint wants is a debate on card check, which has absolutely nothing to do with Homeland Security. He can try to pass this off as Reid's fault, but those of us paying attention are not fooled...
DeMint said Obama wanted confirmation "with no debate or no vote."
Since any confirmation vote would entail, well, a vote, and debate preceding it and Obama does not control the senate's committee procedures, why does Lauren Kornreich simply transcribe a partisan statement that has three contentions that are false on their face without any correction? Isn't that CNN reporting fiction as fact? Why is CNN simply reporting the fictional claims of a partisan press release without any fact checking or any balance?
Another Republican lie. DeMint put petty political score-settling above the security of the country and now tries to blame Obama. Pathetic.
Mr. DeMint's comments are so disingenuous it begs the question if he truly beleives what he says on this topic or any other. This issue is too important to "play politics" with. Yet time and again we see that the political games continue to be played. Let's work on correcting the problems in the existing system allowing the professionals the President has appointed to do the jobs he asked them to do.
Ugh! the party of whining do nothing hypocrites will long be remembered. They hold up voting on everything and then try to say it is the Presidents fault. Have they forgotten the mess they left this country in when the President took over. Heaven forbid where we would be now if they were still in office. There isn't one of them who cares about this country.
DeMint is right. National security has not been a priority under Obummie. Who cares about our country getting blown up if in the mean time all the bums get fed, get a car, housed etc. This isn't the United Socialist States of America, at least not until Obummie can get the Constitution changed.
And we ALL know the republicans don't lie (unless their lips are moving).
SC – grow some nads and clean our your dirty Republican house in the next election. It's hurting the entire country, kinda like George Wallace did many many years ago (you know – the ALABAMA Gov).
So Demint has been holding up the nomination of Southers but is blaming Obama and the Dems. Talk about speaking out of both sides of your mouth!
His reason is if TSA agents join a union he feels it will compromise security. What about all the police and firefighters who are mostly union, including the heros of 9/11.
Demints agenda is very obvious. He does not want the unions strenghened by having more members.
DeMint is playing politics at the peoples expence. No wonder fewer and fewer people identify them selves as Republicans. SHAME on DeMint.
Jim DeMint. Why does his name appear so frequently during negative political actions.
His record is unimpressive so I guess he needs to get his name in the paper somehow.
DeMint is a threat to our national security. He is placing politics before our safety as Americans. We would be better served if bums like him are thrown out of office.


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The secretary at the Gananoque branch of the Royal Canadian Legion reflects on his father's experiences on the day of the Armistice.
The day the Great War ended
One hundred years ago, early on the morning of Nov. 11, 1918, my father entered the Belgian city of Mons to join the 42nd Battalion (Black Watch of Canada) ,which had just cleared German defenders from the city. Pte. Wilbert Beswetherick was rejoining his battalion after recovering from a severe wound. Only a constant stream of reinforcements, including recovered wounded and the first group of conscripts, kept units up to strength. He was expecting to participate in another Allied offensive, but on reporting to his battalion Pte. Beswetherick learned that Germany had just signed an armistice, which would come into effect at 11 a.m. The terms amounted to Germany's complete surrender. The Great War, which had claimed more than 60,000 Canadians lives, was over.
In early 1918, Germany appeared on the verge of total victory. Her armies were close enough to Paris to shell it with artillery. Although her army went on the defensive after suffering one million casualties, her commanders believed a negotiated peace was possible. That illusion was crushed at Amiens on Aug. 8, 1918, when the Canadian and Australian corps drove the Germans back 11 kilometres and captured 12,000 prisoners. Amiens was followed by costly Canadian victories at the Queant-Drocourt Line and the Canal du Nord. The German request for an armistice, however, was a shock to soldiers on both sides. Most Allied military commanders expected the war would last into mid or late 1919.
It was at Mons in August 1914 that British and Germans soldiers fought their first battle and was there that the last Canadian soldier was killed. Canada relied exclusively on volunteers for most of the war, but heavy losses meant fewer men enlisted. Conscription came into effect following a divisive election on the issue in December 1917. Pte. George Lawrence Price, age 25, was one of about 24,000 draftees to arrive at the front during the last weeks of the war. He was shot in the chest and died two minutes before the Great War ended. His grave is located near the first British and German soldiers killed in the first days of the war.
The cost of the final 100-day drive to victory was staggering. The Canadian Corps began Amiens with a strength of 103,000. By Mons, 11,882 had been killed and 32,750 wounded. Macintyre Hood, a British Whig (now Whig-Standard) employee, wrote of Nov. 11, 1918: "Bands seemed to spring up as if by magic, hundreds of vehicles bearing flags and filled with cheering people … and amidst of it all an unforgettable incident. The triumphant parade suddenly stopped as along a side street came a solemn procession, led by a military band, playing the 'Death March.' Behind it was a gun carriage bearing a coffin covered by a Union Jack and a soldier's forage cap. It was the funeral cortege of one of many who had been wounded in the war and did not see the coming of victory … the remains of that departed soldier were laid to rest on the very day when his sacrifice was crowned with victory."
Many Canadians who served hoped that their sacrifices would mean a better world. This soldier wrote on learning that his brother had been killed in action: "For me I cannot conceive a worse tragedy, Father, than a wasted life, and one's life here at any rate is not wasted … it is something to have come here and done what is expected of you … Let us hope that the world after will be the better for it."
It is neither this soldier's fault nor that of the hundreds of thousands of other Canadians who served during the Great War that 20 years after the armistice, many of their sons and daughters saw the need to volunteer in another world war.
Maj. Bill Beswetherick is a retired Canadian Forces army communications officer who served 34 years in the military, including postings to Germany and the Netherlands and UN tours in Lebanon/Israel and El Salvador. He is currently the secretary at the Gananoque branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.

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We would like to share some of our pretty New Year's postcards with you today.2009 now lives on Memory Lane. We hope you all accomplished what you wanted to. We hope that there are lots of happy memories to store up from this year. We are thankful for all the happy memories our blogging friends have given us this year.
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I love the color of this dress. Mint is a wonderful shade that is seasonless. While it's perfect for bare legs in the summer, I can pair it with tights and boots in the fall, and it will be just as lovely.
I am in love with chambray shirts. I really love this look sleeveless, and it also allows you to pair it with a cardigan or blazer without the bulky bunch of the denim sleeves underneath. I like the tailoring in the back, as well.
Check out some of their other stuff here.
Hopefully everything fits when it comes in the mail. But I just love getting things in the mail. It's like sending yourself a present.
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Hello! Today I'd like to share my experience with two different types of IUDs (intrauterine devices).
My motivation for trying the IUD for the first time two years ago was the fact that I am personally not a fan of taking a medication every day, and I am definitely not a fan of hormonal birth control. I am sensitive to hormones and have found this out over a long time of trial and error from daily pills to rings that are left in all month and then removed and thrown away.
What has personally worked best for me has been condoms, however there have been occasions where I have had to go through the unpleasant experience of taking the morning after pill…more hormones.
So I decided to try out the IUD, which has been shown to be 99% effective at preventing pregnancy. I actually did try out the hormonal one first because, quite frankly, I was terrified of the stories I read online and heard from a friend about heavy, painful periods brought on by the copper, non-hormonal IUD. Plus, the staff at my gyno's office assured me that the hormones were so limited and concentrated that I shouldn't feel any effect. At any rate, I could always have it taken out (which I eventually did) so I gave it a whirl.
I was surprised to find that it actually bothered me that my periods were almost non-existent and I couldn't ever tell when they were coming. It made me feel depressed that I didn't understand what my body was doing, like I was disconnected from myself somehow. My boyfriend observed that while I was on it I was "flat" and not my usual self. I also did not have the same interest in sex that I had previously.
So that wasn't working for me and I had it taken out at my next annual. Since then I created habits of taking much better care of my body with regular exercise and healthier nutritional choices. Along with losing about 20 pounds of excess weight, I noticed that my periods were nearly painless and were only lasting about 3-4 days. My PMS symptoms had all but disappeared.
Feeling good about my overall health as well as reproductive health, I started thinking about trying the IUD again after a couple of scares and subsequent morning after pill experiences. I wondered if the copper IUD would really be such a traumatic experience if my cycle was as healthy as it is now. I decided to go for it, I made my appointment at Planned Parenthood and had my new copper IUD placed earlier this week. It was an uncomfortable procedure but I kept sending love and positive energy to the new inhabitant of my uterus and to my whole reproductive system and breathed through it.
I have to say, this experience has far exceeded my expectations. I did have some pretty intense cramping from the time of my appointment until the next morning, but I treated myself to a glass of wine, heat packs and turning in early and when I woke up I felt almost completely back to normal.
As it turns out, my period started a little early and, aside from about 3 pretty intense cramps, there was NO difference between my period this week and my regular periods. No excess bleeding, no intense pain. I'm so glad that I did this for myself, there will be no more taking the morning after pill for me and I will keep sending love to my body and to the little copper blessing that is helping me take good care of myself.
Has anyone else had a positive experience like this? Not-so-positive experience?
I invite any comments, stories or questions on the IUD or birth control in general. I think that this is an incredibly important topic for all people, and especially women since the responsibility generally falls on us. All are welcome to contribute and share! Good health to all 🙂


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It's been a long time since I have updated SHOUTcast version of the PSP Radio, so here it comes. The new version includes a pretty neat sleep timer. Operated by a single click, sleep timer offers a range of preset intervals – 00:15, 00:30, 00:45, 01:00, 01:30 and 02:00 hours. Selecting 00:00 will cancel the timer. Another added feature is a status bar at the top of the screen. It now shows stream buffering progress when selecting a new stream. Also switching between streams and stream handling have been redesigned to make it more simple and reliable.
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I know it might seem ridiculously early but just about this time each year, I start thinking about planning next year's studies. It looks like I may not be alone in this. I've read more than one "planning" post on various blogs lately. Dawn's blog has been one of my favorites for a long time: By Sun and Candlelight and she has some great planning ideas.
Since we use a unit study/living books approach, my first planning step is deciding what we'll be studying for the next year. Last year, we travelled the world. This year was a little more random (oh wait, I think the word is "eclectic.")
Our first unit study was weather. My initial plan was to do one Five in a Row book that related to weather for each week of our study (four FIAR books total.) This turned out to be a little bit too much for us. We either did the weather unit OR the FIAR work, but very rarely did we get to both. I love FIAR way too much to let that happen!
Light was the next unit study on the schedule so we tried a different approach. We first rowed The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Grey Bridge for a whole week, then we used that as a jumping-off point for our study of light and worked on that for the next two weeks. That went much better.
From the Big Picture to the Daily Schedule
This, by the way, is most definitely not a "how to plan" post. I just thought I'd show you how I do it since I really enjoy reading how other people do it.
Once I have an idea of the FIAR books I want to schedule and the other unit studies we may want to do, I make a list of library books, videos, craft projects, potential field trips, etc. for each one so I can see how much time to allocate. I put each unit into a yearly plan which lays out every week of the year. The ocean in January, snow in February, that sort of thing. Then I plug in all the other subjects. Certain things, like Saxon math and our Bible study, are easy to schedule. TruthQuest History is a little more challenging since I don't know what subjects we might find particularly interesting and want to camp out on. For that reason, I only make four or five weekly schedules at a time. Even then, I usually end up with a lot of arrows and things crossed out or moved around.
And from the weekly schedule, I make out a daily schedule. In the beginning of the school year, it looks like this:
Isn't that lovely and hyper-organized? Unfortunately, it doesn't last - but fortunately, it doesn't have to. The daily lists I scrawl on one side of my planner work just fine too.
I keep all my forms, lists and plans in a three-ring binder, along with our reading log, thoughts for next year's studies, holiday plans, etc. I decorate a new one each year. This year's may seem a little uninspired but I liked the paper so much I didn't want to put anything else on it! It makes me smile.
I hope this has been a little bit helpful. As I said, I always enjoy a peek into other people's homeschools - hopefully you do too!


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This application is a continuation of U.S. application Ser. No. 08/813,614 filed Mar. 7, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 5,830,229.FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This invention relates to stents for use in vascular surgery.
A wide variety of stent designs have been proposed for use in the vascular system. Typically, the stents are used to hold open a length of blood vessel which has been closed or occluded by some growth within the blood vessel. Balloon expandable stents and self-expanding stents are commercially available and have been used successfully for treatment of a number vascular diseases. Das, Stent, U.S. Pat. No. 5,554,181 (Sep. 10, 1996) shows a wire stent having a number of hoops all attached to a radially disposed spine, all of which may be formed of a single wire. Likewise, Hillstead, Endovascular Stent Apparatus and Method, U.S. Pat. No. 4,856,516 (Aug. 15, 1989). The stents are folded upon a catheter pusher and retained within a catheter sheath before release into the body. These stents must be radially compressed to fit within the catheter sheath, and expand elastically or may be expanded in elastically by a balloon. They are not susceptible to being stretched or elongated in the along their long axes to reduce their overall diameter.SUMMARY
The stent and stent delivery system described herein are designed for insertion into blood vessels and other lumens of the body. The self-expandable stent is composed of a single small diameter (0.005 inch) nitinol wire which is doubled first by making a bend at its mid-portion. The wire pair is then led around a tubular jig to form a hoop, and the wires are joined by double twisting or point welding to form a strut, then led around the tubular jig to form another hoop, joined to form another strut, and so on until the desired number of hoops are formed. The stent may be stretched along the long axis of the stent, whereupon the hoops are deformed into ellipses disposed at an angle approximately midway between the long axis of the stent and the radius of the stent, and the overall diameter of the stent is reduced by this deformation.
To deploy the stent, it is stretched out completely on the surface of a small catheter (3-F). The catheter contains a specially designed angled tip guide wire provided with a low-profile hook. The front end of the constrained stent is hung on the hook. The hook comes out from the catheter's lumen through a hole and goes back into the catheter through another hole. A monofilament retrieving loop runs from the proximal end of the deployment catheter to the to the proximal end of the stent. The proximal end of the retrieving loop is fastened to a sliding ring attached to the proximal end of the 3-F catheter shaft. Before final release of the stent, the retrieving loop may be operated via the sliding ring to pull the stent in order to correct for any error in the initial placement of the stent. After the stent is properly placed and the retrieving loop may be severed to release the stent from the delivery catheter. The stent has thermal shape memory or pseudoelasticity which facilitates deployment.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIG. 1 is a view of the stent.
FIG. 2 is a view of the stent in a stretched condition for loading onto the delivery catheter.
FIG. 3 is a cross-section of the delivery catheter for use with the stent.
FIG. 4 is a view of the delivery catheter for use with the stent.
FIG. 5 is a radial cross-section of the delivery catheter for use with the stent.DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
FIG. 1 shows the stent in its expanded state. The stent 1 is comprised of a single wire 2 which is folded at a point along the wire, such as mid-point 3 to form a length of double wire comprising two wire segments. Several twisted sections 4 in the double wire are interspersed with several hoops 5 formed by pulling the double wire apart into the hoop shape. The double wire is then bent at each junction 6 between the twisted sections and the hoops to form an angle of about 90° between each hoop and twisted section. The twisted sections 4 create alternately radially opposed struts or spines 7 between successive hoops. The free ends 8 of the wire 2 may be twisted into a free spine as shown, or they may be joined together. The hoops in this arrangement are aligned along a common axis 9 which defines the longitudinal axis of the stent, and they are oriented approximately parallel to each other. The stent has an unconstrained diameter defined by hoop diameter 10. The hoops may be all the same overall diameter, or they may be of different diameter, and it may be particularly useful to create the hoops so that the size of the hoops increases from one end of the stent to the other. The struts may be all the same length or of varying length. Although shown as being formed by intertwining the tow wire segments, the struts maybe formed by welding the segments together, or by shaping the segments to run parallel where the strength of the wire permits. Note that the stent may be formed of two separate lengths of wire, but in this case a free end strut at distal hoop 5d, or a joint provided elsewhere along the stent, may be required.
FIG. 2 shows the stent stretched out in the condition that it will be loaded onto the delivery catheter. In its stretched condition, the hoops 5 have elongated into reclining ellipses 11 oriented at an angle from the longitudinal axis 9 of the stent 1. The angle is intermediate between the longitudinal axis of the stent and the radius 12 of the stent. Thus the overall diameter of the stent has been significantly reduced by stretching along the longitudinal axis. The fact that the struts are not radially aligned permits longitudinal stretching or deformation of every hoop in the stent. As illustrated, the each strut is radially opposed to the struts on either side, meaning the each strut is on the opposite side of the stent compared to the preceding or succeeding strut. When the adjacent struts are 180° apart, maximum stretching of the hoops is achieved merely be pulling the ends of the stent. Direct opposition, or opposition of exactly 180°, is not required to obtain the benefit of this construction, and it suffices that the struts not be radially aligned.
The stent wires 2 may be made of a shape memory alloy such as nitinol (or other shape memory material), pseudoelastic or superelastic alloy such as nitinol (or other pseudoelastic or superelastic material), spring metal such as stainless steel, or other suitable materials. When made of shape memory nitinol or superelastic nitinol, the stent may be trained to the shape shown in FIG. 1, and will revert to that shape either through shape memory behavior at its chosen transition temperature, or through superelastic behavior at body temperature. The appropriate compositions and training regimens may be used to obtain these characteristics. Spring materials such as stainless steel may be used also, and fabricated so that the shape of FIG. 1 is the relaxed state of the material which is regained elastically after stretching into the shape shown in FIG. 2. As with prior art stents, the stent may also be deployed by inflating a balloon within the stent.
FIG. 3 shows a cross-section of the delivery catheter for use with the hoop stent shown in FIGS. 1 and 2. The delivery catheter 13 is a multi-lumen catheter, preferably with at least two lumens, a guide wire lumen 14 and a retaining loop lumen 15. A guide wire 16 is disposed within the guide wire lumen 14 and a retaining loop 17 is disposed within the retaining loop lumen 15. The guide wire 16 may be any available guidewire, such as an 0.012 coronary guidewire, and may have an angled or curved soft tip 18 as shown. The retaining loop 17 may be any small diameter wire or thread, made of metal, suture, nylon or other suitable material. The delivery catheter 13 may be made of polyethylene, polyester or any other suitable catheter material, and may be made in convenient length (about 100-135 cm for coronary applications) and diameter (about 3 French (1 mm) for coronary applications).
The guide wire 16 is modified by the addition of a retaining hook 19 attached several centimeters proximal to the distal end of the guidewire, at a location corresponding to the distal end of both the delivery catheter 13 and the stent 1. As shown in FIG. 3, the delivery catheter has two retaining hook apertures 20d and 20p. The retaining hook exits the proximal aperture 20p and reenters the catheter through the distal aperture 20d, and the external portion 21 of the hook traps a section of the stent 1 between the retaining hook and the delivery catheter.
The retaining loop 17 is threaded through the pair of apertures 22p and 22d. The retaining loop 17 enters the retaining loop lumen through the proximal aperture 22p, and exits the lumen through the distal aperture 22d, where it loops around a portion of the wire 2 at the distal end of the stent. The proximal end 23 of the retaining loop is secured to a sliding ring 24 slidably mounted on the delivery catheter proximal end. FIG. 5 shows a radial cross-section of the delivery catheter along section 25 of FIGS. 3 and 4, with the guidewire 16 inside the guide wire lumen 14 and the retaining loop 17 within the retaining loop lumen 13.
The position of the stent 1 on the delivery catheter 13 is illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4. The stent is stretched in order to flatten the hoops. A distal hoop 5d is retained by the retaining hook 19, while a proximal hoop 5p is retained by the retaining loop 17. Because the stent is stretched between the retaining g loop and the retaining hook, the hoops 5 and spines 7 are pulled taught against the delivery catheter, and the outer diameter of the entire assembly is reduced in comparison to the outer diameter of the expanded stent.
In use, a guiding catheter is used to catheterize the main trunk of the coronary artery (or other blood vessel to be stented). The guiding catheter is inserted percutaneously into the femoral artery and pushed into place near the coronary artery to be stented. The delivery catheter, preferably a 3 F double channel catheter with the completely stretched stent, is advanced into the lumen of the guiding catheter. The catheter-stent unit is advanced into the vessel so that the leading end of the stent can be in the right position. As a first step, the sliding ring is unlocked and moved slowly distally allowing the stent to take on its unconstrained diameter. Using the sliding ring carefully and taking advantage of the thermal memory of the stent, a smooth and controlled deployment can be achieved. At this point, some contrast can be injected via the side port of a check-flow adapter (not shown) which is attached to the guiding catheter. If the deployment is considered unsatisfactory, the retaining loop offers the chance of reposition. By pulling the sliding ring back (proximally) on the catheter, the stent can be stretched completely again. The delivery catheter's position can be changed with manipulation through the retaining loop 17, and the stent can be deployed again. When the deployment is completed, one of the strands of the retaining loop 17 is cut and the retaining loop 17 is pulled out. (Thus the retaining loop serves also as a release/retrieval loop. Note that the retaining loop 17 may be beneficially used without taking advantage of the retrieval function.) Following this maneuver, the guide wire 16 is pulled proximally within the delivery catheter to unhook the stent from the retaining hook. The guide catheter and the delivery catheter 13 are removed together completely.
While the preferred embodiments of the devices and methods have been described in reference to the environment in which they were developed, they are merely illustrative of the principles of the inventions. Other embodiments and configurations may be devised without departing from the spirit of the inventions and the scope of the appended claims.
1. A device comprising:
- an insertion catheter tube having a distal end, a proximal end, and at least one lumen within the tube, the insertion catheter tube having a first aperture near the distal end and a second aperture near the proximal end;
- a stent, mounted upon the insertion catheter tube, comprising a plurality of hoops connected by radially opposing struts;
- a first retainer, located within said at least one lumen of the insertion catheter tube and extending out the first aperture, for securing the stent to the insertion catheter tube; and
- a second retainer, located within said at least one lumen in the insertion catheter tube and extending out the second aperture, for securing the stent to the insertion catheter tube.
2. The device of claim 1, wherein:
- the stent has an unconstrained diameter and a longitudinally stretched diameter, and the longitudinally stretched diameter is smaller than the unconstrained diameter;
- the stent is mounted on the insertion catheter tube in the longitudinally stretched condition; and
- the stent is released from the insertion catheter tube by releasing the first retainer and the second retainer, whereby the stent expands to the unconstrained diameter.
3. The device of claim 1, wherein the stent is composed of a shape memory material.
4. The device of claim 1, wherein the stent is composed of a pseudoelastic material.
5. The device of claim 1, wherein the stent is composed of a shape memory nitinol.
6. The device of claim 1, wherein the stent is composed of a pseudoelastic nitinol.
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Type: Grant
Filed: Nov 3, 1998
Date of Patent: Jul 10, 2001
Assignee: Micro Therapeutics, Inc. (Irvine, CA)
Inventors: Andras Konya (Houston, TX), Sidney Wallace (Houston, TX), Kenneth C. Wright (Houston, TX)
Primary Examiner: Kevin Truong
Attorney, Agent or Law Firms: K. David Crockett, Esq., Crockett & Crockett
Application Number: 09/185,868
International Classification: A61M/2900;


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We found this print while hiking on Wildlife Trail at Dolly Sods. While going down the trail it was not there, we spotted on the return, maybe 3 hours afterwards.
Webmaster's Note! It is clear there are thousands of residents who often mistake the tracks of coyotes and large dogs as Mountain Lions but the track you posted looks to me like a canine print.. A track in soft dirt spread out more and may look bigger from one in regular dirt. Animals tracks 3 to 4 inches Mountain Lion; no claw marks | 2 to 2.5 inches Bobcat; no claw marks | 2 to 3 inches canine; claw marks.
Just found this website. Last year my wife and I were returning home to Berkeley Springs WV in Morgan County. Near the Silica Mine on Rt 522 a large mountain lion was literally leaping across the road in front of our car. It was extremely large with a long tail, probably 4-5 feet at least. This was not even close to a bobcat. Not only us, but two cars behind us also completely stopped and watched this graceful cat. It was an experience The lion continued up towards Cacapon mountain.
Terry and Marsha Moore
Webmaster's Note! There have been several Mountain Lion/Cougar sightings in Morgan County West Virginia since June 2003.
Hi, I'm a 47 year old professional and have spent a great deal of my free time in the woods, hunting, fishing, biking and hiking. In Sept 2007, I was on a bike trip along the C & O Canal and at 8:15AM I was coming out of the Paw Paw Tunnel near Paw Paw WV when a mountain lion crossed the trail in front of me within 125 feet. He was trotting and I could easily identify his large size, color, long tail, stockiness and head and the graceful movement. I know what deer, bobcat, fox, bear and every other animal look like because I've seen them all hundreds of times in the woods. This was definitely a mountain lion. I was doing a search on the internet and found your sight and was excited to see that a man named Chris Sparkman had sighted one in Paw Paw about 9 months before my sighting. I've been trying to find him on Facebook, so we could talk about it.I don't care that all the so called experts say they don't exist. I know a mountain lion when I'm within 125 feet of one. I would have gotten track impressions if I had thought that no one would believe me, but I was frankly pretty scared of it and got out of there asap. As for people who want photographic proof, this animal wasn't sticking around long enough for me to even get my camera out.
Submitted by: Rob Watt
Webmaster's Note! There have been several mountain lion sightings in Paw Paw Tunnel area since June 2003 where others have reported seeing the mountain cat . I've had nearly a dozen people tell me about their sightings but they didn't want their sighting published on the web.
In the summer of 2007, two friends and I were going fishing above Cheat Bridge in Randolph Co., WV. We were near the end of the road at Beaver Creek (about 6 miles below the old logging town of Spruce). An animal sprang up on the bank from the road about 40 yards away. I first thought it was a bobcat but then I saw the long tail and the reddish color of the cat and realized that it was not a bobcat. It was a young mountain lion about 50 -60#. My fishing buddy saw it and we agreed that it was a young mountain lion. In August 2008, a friend and I were in Ohio Co., WV on Harvey Rd. about a mile from West LIberty when I saw what I thought at first glance was a deer. It was about 75 yards away in a meadow. A second look revealed to me that it was an adult mountain lion, 100-125#. The long tail was a dead giveaway. My friend also saw it and we had about 30 seconds that it stood and looked at us. The camera was in the back seat but I was too stunned to reach for it. Later we heard a report of a deer kill close to Cabella's. The deer was killed by a farm pond and the owner saw the tracks of a mountain lion in the mud around the dead deer.
Submitted by: Dave Marshall
Fairmont, WV
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These large, wild mountain cats are shy and avoid humans. In fact, most people never see this animal in the wild.... You and your friends are very lucky to have seen this animal on two occasions in the wild...... They said wild mountain lions had always been there in the Allegheny Mountains Wilderness but in other parts of West Virginia most are thought to have escaped from private compound or been let loose by those keeping them as pets. On most sighting their no way to determine if a Mountain Lion was always wild or had been let loose in wild when someone happen across a mountain lion or cougar
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From: Kimberly Rush
Here are some pics of a horse that at least 2 Mountain Lions attacked and killed last Friday in broad daylight right along the road and across from houses.
From: Julia Spelsberg
Someone I work with had her horse killed last week (December 26, 2008). These are some of the pics. Is it possible that this was done by a mountain lion. this would have happened in the Churchville area of Lewis County, WV.
From: Katrina Posey
Subject: Mt. Lion Suspect in Killing of boys Horse in daytime
Please read this and click on the link to look at pictures, one of the pictures is a picture of a ladies hand and the paw print. Does this look like Mt. Lion to you?
Submitted by: James Denney
Subject: Horse Is Killed By Predators (Lewis County)
Webmaster's Note! The photo, submitted to The Richwooders site by a third party, and we could not confirm whether or not it was killed by mountain lions. The dead horse which appears to show deep slash wounds to the head and a powerful bite to the neck. It is always possible a Mountain Lion could come thru, and killed 3-year-old horse. The Scuttle Butt that I have been told was the eastern mountain lions, were exterminated decades ago but that doesn't mean they aren't present. We believe people in Churchville and the surrounding area need to be aware that definitely it's a possibility that there are mountain lions that come through this area.
Hello Richwooders! I am the owner of Abram's Creek Lodge and Campground in Grant County, WV (www.abramscreek.com).
Last Wednesday early morning, at 1:30am 11/12/08, a cabin user (cabin #2) at the Campground in Grant County stepped out of his cabin at 1:30am to use the rest room. He heard a noise in the tree area in front of his cabin and turned his flashlight onto the area from which he heard the noise.
He said he starred straight at a beige colored mountain lion eyes, the animal complete with a huge bushy tail. He said they looked at each other for a very long several seconds before the mountain lion darted and ran into the darkness. The head of the mountain lion stood below his waist (about 2 feet high) so perhaps a medium sized younger male or female. Again, his certainty of the sighting is 100% according to him, as he had plenty of time to stare at the animal and take it all in.
The sighting was by a local Grant County man named Trevor who is 100% certain of the creature sighting. He says that he knows a bobcat from a mountain lion, and this was no bobcat. Trevor and his wife has been inhabiting cabin #2 for several weeks in exchange for performing labor (exchange) at the campground.
Submitted by: Vince Lombardi
Grant County West Virginia
Hello! I just want to say how much I appreciate your website. I have found myself landing on it numerous times, whether researching ramps, bobcats, or mountain lions! I live in Putnam County, and one of my students who lives on "Redhouse Hill" which is rural and beautifully mountainous, with many ridge top roads populated by picturesque farms, told me he had seen a mountain lion. I was skeptical, but questioned him about the description of the cat. I thought it might have been a bobcat, but his description sounded more like a puma/mountain lion! Thanks for maintaining this website. I hope to visit Richwood in the near future!
Submitted by: PATRICIA WOLFORD
Putnam County West Virginia
I saw Two (2) adult Cougars on Spruce Flat Rd. in Buckeye. They were on the hill across from my house and close enough to see with the naked eye; but I still grabbed my binoculars to get a great look at them.
Submitted by: Dorothy Lane
Hey...First, Let's Go Mountaineers since the 'Eers are about to dismantle the ECU Pirates (providing the game is not cancelled due to the hurricane/tropical storm). Anyway, I am submitting this "report" of a possible Mt. Lion anonymously because I think many people, especially where I live, would think that I am crazy. But here goes...
My wife and I bought a house in the Whitehall area of Marion County in the summer of 2002. That autumn, my wife and I were sitting on our back porch which faces a "wooded area." I use the term "wooded area" because it would be hard to characterize the area as woods or forest - more like a strip of trees about one hundred yards wide that separates our house from the neighbors who live on the hill above us. It was late in the afternoon and my wife said she thought she saw a large dog like a golden retriever walking in the woods about ten yards above where the tree line begins. As the animal continued walking, it walked in front of trees which allowed us to give some perspective to its size. Also, because it was walking towards us, the closer it came the more clearly we could see its features. First, as it walked towards us it became clear that the animal was a cat and not a dog. Second, when it walked in front of several trees (big tulip poplars), it was pretty clear that the cat was bigger than a golden retriever and it had a long tail. My wife and I watched the cat walk up the hill through the woods and disappear at the crest of the hill (which is where our neighbor's yard is). The weird thing about this is that we live in a fairly populated area where I never thought you would see a mountain lion, if that was what it really was (maybe a bobcat with a longer tail than normal?). Despite the location where we saw it, and the fact that we have never seen it since, my wife and I are 100% certain that the animal we saw was a VERY large cat (at its closest it was only about thirty yards from us) that was bigger than a golden retriever yet had a coat that was similar in color.
I live in Preston County, on the border of Maryland. Yesterday August 29, 2008 I was driving on a country road called Cranesville Road that leads to Oakland Maryland when a large cat all black ran across the road in front of me. It was about 80lbs. I am guessing (the size of my German shepherd dog). The tail was as long as the body and was thick, it's back feet were large. I did not see much more than that, it was booking across the road, 2 leaps and it was gone. I know it was no domestic cat, due to the way it moved and the size.
Sue Maund.
About 10 yrs ago, my friend and I were coming from the Coleman Cliffs area in Frankford, W.V. It was night, and as we were going toward town, a rabbit ran across the road with a mountain lion chasing behind. It was beige, had a long tail, and cub like ears. I didn't tell anyone because I knew I would be called a liar. But I know what I saw! I am a college graduate and I work for AFLAC. Today, my friend, who lives in Ronceverte, told me that he heard a horrible scream that seemed to have come from a cat. His incredibly mean doberman, turned tail and ran up to the house. This dog runs from nothing, but it did today when it heard that scream. I was wondering, have there been anymore sightings in Greenbrier County? Thank you and have a nice day. If you have any questions for me, my name is Alice Hanna and my number is (304) 000 - 0000.
Webmaster's Note! The Scuttle Butt that I have been told was the eastern mountain lions, were exterminated decades ago in Greenbrier County but that doesn't mean they aren't present... Are you aware that there have been big cat sightings in other counties around Greenbrier County. The Eastern puma is known to occur: Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Refuges in which the Eastern puma is known to occur: Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge, Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge, Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge
I live in Boone County, West Virginia and back around the fall of 2006, one night I went walked outside to get the cat and put him in for the night. When I walked out side to find him my cat came running at me, and he never runs, he is a pretty big cat and doesn't run much at all. So when he came running at me I figured there was another neighbor hood cat outside after him so I walked around the corner of the house and soon realized there wasn't another cat. Then I look above my building on the hill side and saw a large bodied animal. At first I wasn't sure what it was, I Could see a long tail and as I said before a large bodied animal. Then after it I guess you would call it growled at me I became aware that It was a mountain lion. I know the sound of them because I do research on the internet of different animals. The sound that mountain lion made is nothing like you would ever imagine, It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck and it scared me. Then It took off up into the woods and I could hear it going around the side of the mountain and up the hill.
Submitted by: Zachary Harris
Boone County,West Virginia
Hi My name is Brandi, I live in Four States, WV. I'm 30 years old and scared to death for the safety of mydaughters. One month ago my mother Celestine was taking my daughter Addie to baseball practice and had herfather in the car with them.. They seen this animal coming out of the woods and she thought it was a big dog or fox from the distance, until it got closer to her she stopped her car and this big CAT came out in front of herand she said oh my goodness it's a mountain lion and her dad said it sure is and she said it walked in front ofher car as slow as it could go and just looked at her like it wasn't scared. She said it went up and stretched outon a log and just looked down and than went on it's way my daughter who is 8 years old says I've lived here in Four States for 8 years and have never seen one of those well her grandfathers looks at her and says AddieI've lived here for 73 years and I've never seen anything like that before so they went on to practice and whenshe got home she called the DNR and they laughed at her told her to get a pic of it or show some kind of a signthat there is one near.. She told them that she wasn't gonna go hunting for this big cat that it's there responsibilityto go look for this thing.. Well Last night May 26,2008 I went to take the garbage up to the end of the drivewayand I made it as far as the sidewalk when I heard sounding like a cat growling and I said oh God that's not alittle house cat.. So I ran in the house told my husband to get his gun that there is a cat out here and it isn't nolittle one either is a big one so he gets his 22 pistol and thinks I'm messing with him he comes outside with me tosee what I was scared off I was shaking.. So I make it back to the end of my sidewalk when we hear it againI told my husband your on your own buddy I'm gone I ran back in the house he looked at his gun and said I have the wrong one for this one that's a big ole kitty.. and the dogs barked and was ticked off all night.. I was gonna call the DNR but I was afraid that they wouldn't believe me either since they didn't believe my mother.. What Can I do to convince them that this is not a fake call and that we did see and hear it.. Is it gonnatake someone to be killed or hurt by this thing for them to come and check it out and not laugh at u?
Webmaster's Note! In fact, most people never see this animal in the wild.... Four States, WV seems like it would be good mountain lion habitat. You need to show some kind of a mountain lion sign (confirmed prints, pictures, and etc.) that there is mountain lion near.. DNR gets dozens of mountain lion reports and my guess is that DNR cannot check ever visual sighting.
This picture was taken April 7, 2008 behind my home in Wallace, WV approx. 400 yards above my house. They had recently added a right-of-way along the ridge to access wells they drilled the past several months. The tracks were from a step down onto the road which is rich in clay mud. We had noticed several deer tracks and then out of the blue notced a very different track following them. Here is a couple of pictures of what we had found. We plan on retaking pictures April 9, 2008 with a coin and measuring tape to give you something to compare the size with. I measured with my hand width and then again when I returned home and it was approx. 4 inches compared to a deer imprint of only 2 inches long.
Submitted by: Denalda Bush and Brian Jett
Webmaster's Note! Although I suspect the tracks in the photograph was dog track or a forefeet of bear, not a mountain lion tract.......I'm no expert and I've been wrong before and I know for sure experts have been wrong before.
If you find tracks, measure and photograph them carefully, then consult a track field guide for identification. And consider yourself lucky to see any of the elusive cats that exist or may exist in West Virginia (bobcat, mountain lion,). These rare and elusive cats are most active at night, so you seldom have an opportunity to see one!
I am happy to have found your site. I have had two Moutain Lion sightings. One was either 1979 or 1980 in June. My stepbrother, and I at the time were teenagers and lived at Horner WV, Lewis County was about a mile from Stonecoal Lake. We rode our bicycles with fishing poles and two dogs following to the Lake to go fishing. It was around 2pm on a weekday, hardly any traffic at all on that road during the week in the early afternoon. We were about 150 to 200 ft. from the main gravel road. I remember seeing a black animal thought was a black german shephard that may have gotten loose. Then never paid anymore attention to it for a while as I couldnt see it anymore. Then a little bit later we decided we were done fishing and would go home, about half way up to the main road we saw the black animal again, and I thought what kind of dog is that? As the ears looked really strange and small and the face seemed short just didnt dawn on me that it was a cat. The dogs were barking at it but they would not go right to it, which was odd cause they always go to a dog passing by and check it out but they would not get too close, then we rode our bikes a little faster and I could see it was cat, but couldnt believe my eyes, then it finally took off running not real fast but yet way ahead of us and it leaped up the side of the hill maybe a 8 or 10 ft jump. Of course no one believed us my dad even laughed. But it wasnt too long that others saw it and even some saw a brownish colored MT Lion. Then that fall my dad was looking at deer with his binoculars to see if they were bucks and how many points, he was very shocked as he saw the brownish colored MT Lion. Also several people that lived in the area eventually saw one or the other or both. Then in 1996 in the fall after the leaves had fallen, I was with a friend driving between Weston, WV and Jane Lew WV, it was evening almost dark, and we saw a animal at first glance thought was a large light brown dog coming to the road and my friend slammed on the breaks and it walked right in front of us in the head lights looked right at us, my friend was real excited, and myself to, as this made two sightings for me. They are definitely here in West Virginia. I am greatful others have been seeing them and are posting their sightings on your site as well. They are a beautiful Animal and are very much a part of West Virginia. Thank you,
I doubt anyone would want to believe this, but after reading all the comments on "mountain lions" I have to share what happened to me and Larry. It was late summer, (2006) around 7 in the evening, and we were on the side deck eating watermelon, watching the girl accross the road walk her lab dog, when I notice in the woods what I thought at first glance was a deer. I watched a second then realized this wasn't a deer and it was watching the girl and dog! Well it moved, I seen it was a cat and scream for the girl to get her dog in the house, she thought I had lost my mind but thank heavens she did what I screamed for her to do and ran to the house... this cat got up and started walking toward my drive, Larry couldn't believe his eyes and I said no house cat is that big at that distance! Then.. Lo' and behold the thing crossed right beside my drive and up the hill not 15 yards from where we sat on the deck and it was beyond a doubt a cougar. I never seen shoulders move like that on a big cat in person nor a tail so long! ... scared me to death but was fascinating too!... We told a few who didn't really believe us and when I told my other neighbor Dolly, she said yep, she had seen the thing at the woods edge between our yard. So no doubt about it... Mountain Lions cross our area if not living in this area!... On another note... Carlene and Sandy and all the others who have e-mailed me, I sent more pictures in to this site hope they are posted soon and hope you enjoy them! Ya'll have a happy March... and speaking of lions... in like a lamb...out like a lion!... And to those who make this site possible...THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
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Webmaster's Note!Hi Debbie Bond, I could have accidentally delete those pictures you send us when I accidentally deleted an entire page of emails and photos from my laptop. I will try to recover them and get them posted soon.
Hello, My name is Aaron. I am 16 years old and live in Putnam County, WV. I play in a bluegrass group, the Kidd Brothers Bluegrass Group (http://kiddbrothers.tripod.com). Anyway, to make a long story short, our bass player, Markel Fertig, was driving to the mountains of Pocahontas County about 6 years ago. He was coming across Kinnison Mountain, and it was around 4 a.m. in the morning. It was foggy, and his whole family was asleep. He came on a straight stretch and came upon what he thought was a deer standing in the road, but when he got closer, he said that it jumped off the road, and he saw the tail of the creature, which had to be a mountain lion.
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Fri, February 22, 2008 9:56 pm
Webmaster's Note!I've spent time on Kinnison Mountain picking ramps and hiking, but never saw any mountain lions. In fact, most people never see this animal in the wild.... Kinnison Mountain seems like it would be good mountain lion habitat. Your friend is very lucky to have seen this animal in the wild.
I just stumbled across your sight, mainly because of a conversation I had with a fellow employee in Cincinnati. He was telling me about a cousin of his in WV that said he had saw a panther there, but my friend did not believe him. I just laughed because I was born and raised in Logan WV and had also thought that stories like these were so much imagination. Until 1993, I was working for a Coal Company in Sharples WV, while riding with a fellow worker in a company pickup truck we were looking for deer and we spotted a set of eyes in the headlights about twenty five to thirty yards away, for at least a full minute neither one of us said a word, I think we were both in shock. There before us crouched down and broad side starring straight at the headlights was a LARGE black cat, and its tail was very long and switching back and forth like a house cat would when annoyed. We watch it for what seemed like a long time and then it bolted into the brush, we both looked at each other and said "HOLY S@%^ that was a Panther!". Wether or not anyone ever believes me I thought I should let it be known I now believe that Panthers exist in WV. I have saw one with my own eyes.
Submitted by: J Gore
Burlington KY
Webmaster's Note Sighting a Black Mountain Lion is a rare and unexpected event. So unexpected that it's common for people to initially mistake them for panthers. Contrary to popular belief, there are no black panthers in USA. Occasionally, a Cougar/Mountain Lion will be gray,dark brown, cinnamon which can appear almost black and, even more rarely, solid black mountain lion. Most are essentially reddish and light brown to tawny in color. The Scuttle Butt that I have been told from reliably people was a Black Cougar/Mountain Lion was sighted in the woods of Flag Pond Tennessee in 2007 by the Hensley and Shelton boys. So if you think you have seen a black cougar, or mountain lion in West Virginia or Tennessee, you are not alone.
We just wanted to inform you all that during our trip to the Snowshoe ski resort in West Virginia we sighted a mountain lion at a nearby field. The mountain lion was lying down in the snow. This was on January 25 at around 5:30 pm. Have you heard of any other sightings in this area? We were very excited, but we're unable to get any pictures.
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Date: Sun, January 27, 2008 3:22 pm
Webmaster's Note! Along the way we have seen black bears, deer, and hawks. but I haven't heard anything about Mountain Lion sightings in this area, and I haven?t seen them, but that doesn't mean they aren't present.
In 1990 I was at a old coal mine sight on the Gauley River rd. area in Webster county that my dad had mined out, I was there alone dropping off a flatbed trailer to be loaded with supplies in the next few days. While I was there I happened to be looking around at the stuff that was to be loaded up and I look up for the biggest surprise of my life, About 50' away there I saw solid black cat walking in a wide open area in the middle of the day with his nose on the ground. I didn't know how many goose bumps a person could have on there neck but I could feel every one of them, In shock and afraid to move I froze for a moment and the big cat never seen me and kept moving. When the big cat got out of sight I run back to my truck witch was only 50' away and got a 44 mag. pistol. A few minutes later I walked over to see that the big cat was tracking a deer and the cat track was 4 1/2 inches wide and looked to be about 6" to 7" long with the tail, a big head with small ears, black shiny hair with a long bushy tail.
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Date: Mon, January 21, 2008 11:45 am
After visiting your site I have decided to tell you of a sighting on a bow hunt with my 23 year old son who was 16 at the time. The hunt took place in Mineral Co. and was one of the most shocking things my son and Ihave ever had together. We got to the bow stand at daylight just off of the Potomac River and I helped him into the tree with a climbing stand then retreated back the grassy rd. to find a tree to climb some 100 yrds away. I could not find a good tree so I settled on the one close the road pulled my bow up set down and had the worstfeeling of my life. I kept having visions of my son in danger and it involved a mountain lion and no matter what I did I could not get the fear to go away. So I lowered the bow back down jumped to the ground and startedtowards my son, but when I spotted him from a distance I realiized that he was ok (at least I thought!) I felt stupid right then. I turned to go back and decided to have one last look and that bad feeling hit me again. I walked to within 5 steps of the tree and I could not believe my eyes. My son was holding his bow with an arrow noched and another in his right hand pointing down towards the ground, he was pale and shaking anddidn't even notice me. I got his attention and he freaked out and told me to run or get up the tree. When I asked him to calm down he wouldn't I knew something bad was going on this child wasn't scared of much. I got him to talk to me and I told him to lower the bow and come down to me but he wouldn't he said dad there was a big cat that came out of the river bottom and walked under the tree stand and up into the bouldersbehind the stand. So I walked up into the rocks to prove it was ok to get down and he freaked out again. So Isaid to him did the cat have big pointed ears and a short stubby tail and he said you don't understand Dad its tail was dragging the ground and he was bigger than Riley(our 110 lb black lab) so I convienced him to comedown that whatever it was, was long gone by now. I later tried to talk to the DNR about it but they said we were making it up. I don't need to have there input if they were going to act like we needed to make up storiesjust to have something to talk about. I hope this will help someone else who may have the same experience some day.
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Enjoying your website, very nicely done. My name is Clyde Downs I live in Bristol TN. and I have been coming to that area for over 30 years. Myself and 3 other close friends travel to the area twice a year to hunt and fish. We are all originally from Pineville WV. but now live in various parts of the country. We?ve camped in the Cranberry area many many times as well as the Greenbrier river area and Pocahontas county. Since we?ve gotten a little older and the ground has gotten harder we have opted for a cabin at Watoga State Park the last 6 years. One of my friends, Charlie Keaton (retired school teacher), was on the Scenic Highway 150 two weeks ago and saw a mountain lion cross the road in front of him. He said he got within 20 yards of the cat before it disappeared into the woods. About 15 years ago we were camped at the head of the Cranberry. One night after going to bed we were awoken by what sounded like screams off in the woods. Later we heard movement around our campsite and what sounded like hissing. From that experience we?ve always thought that there were mountain lions in the area. Glad to hear we?re not the only ones who have felt that the big cat it here (eastern wv) having migrated to the area many years ago.
Sincerely, Butch Downs
Date: Wed, September 19, 2007 8:19 am
It happened on December 26, 2006. I was hunting in Morgan County, about 6 miles from Paw Paw, close to Detour Road. I was watching a clear spot along an old logging road, about 30 yards from my position. I fully expected a deer to appear their. It was close to dark, and an animal with a color that approximated a yellow lab appeared in the clear spot. Hoping that is was a deer, I lowered my rifle and placed the scope on another clear spot that was in the pathof the animal. When it entered my scope, I was shocked to see what it was. It was clearly a mountain lion. It continuedalong the logging road until it disappeared into some thick trees. I watched it through the scope the whole time. I wascompletely surprised, not only because I didn't think they existed in West Virginia, but also because I know them to bequite elusive. I'm from California and have spent quite a lot of time in the Sierras, Cascades, San Bernardinos, San Jacintos, and the Rockies. Mountain lions are abundant in all those places, yet I've never seen one. I did see onedead beside the freeway in the Bay Area once. Needless to say, this sighting was a treat that I will treasure forever.
Chris Sparkman
Woodbridge, VA.
Webmaster's Note!The community of Paw Paw is known for the nearby Paw Paw Tunnel. The community was named for the paw paw, the largest wild edible fruit native to America and grew in abundance throughout the community of Paw Paw and Morgan County, West Virginia. The zip code for Paw Paw is 25434.Detour Road is (County Route 18).
Hello, My name is Don Woods Jr. My wife's name is Margaret. I saw a Mt. Lion crouched down along the road at Gormania WV. about six years ago. There is absolutely no doubt that it was definitely a Mt. Lion! Margaret has seen two over the years. One about twenty years ago near Friendsville in Garrett Co. MD. And the other near our home in Leadmine, Tucker Co. WV., about three years ago. They do exist and we know many other people that have seen them. Some say maybe it was a bobcat or maybe it was a large housecat. That is all bull, we have lived in the mountains of WV. all of our lives and believe me we know the difference!
Submitted by: Don Woods
Webmaster's Note! Gormania WV. is an unincorporated town in Grant County, West Virginia, along the North Branch Potomac River. Gormania, West Virginia, is in the Allegheny Mountains range comprising the western part of the Appalachian Mountains and near the borders of Virginia, Maryland and PennsylvaniaGormania WV. zip code for the town is 26720. Leadmine, WV. or Lead Mine, WV. is an unincorporated community in Tucker County, West Virginia, in the North Area of the State and the zip code for the community is 26290. Leadmine is known for the largest trees ever cut in West Virginia, White Oak.
It was about 7:30 a.m. November 21, 2006 when I saw it walking through the field of our neighbor. I called out to my husband to look at this, I was washing dishes and looking out our kitchen window. But he had not gotten in the room fast enough it had moved rather quickly. It was about 4 feet long and had a long tail it was tan/grey in color. Have heard of these being in our area just have never seen one. I grew up in Garrett County MD. and my great grand parents said they had seen quite a few in their day. I thought maybe you would like to know that they are definitely here in Hampshire County West Virginia as well.Submitted by: Nedra Platt
Webmaster's Note! Shanks West Virginia is an unincorporated community in Hampshire County, West Virginia, the North Fork Little Cacapon River runs through Shanks WV. and the zip code for the community is 26761. Shanks WV. population approx: 800.
I thought you might be interested in what I saw. On 8 Nov 2006 my wife and I were riding ATVs on theHatfield McCoy trail system just outside of Pineville WV. The trail system is called Pinnacle Creek Trails. I saw a mountain lion briefly, from a distance of approx. 50 feet. My guess is that its back was approx. 2 1/2 feet high with a body in excess of 4 feet long. Upon my return to Pa. I wanted to do some research into my sighting. It was in fact a mountain lion that I saw. My approx. location at the time of the sighting was the easternsection of the ATV trail around the northern intersection of the trail 10 and 15. I saw on your web site that itis believed that mountain lions are extinct in West Virginia. I can assure you that what I saw was in facta mountain lion.
Submitted by: Ken Vandevort
Webmaster's Note! Pineville is a town in Wyoming County, West Virginia, along the Guyandotte River and the zip code for Pineville is 24874. It is the county seat of Wyoming County and population approx: 750.


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