• When I pitch, my arm is not parallel to the ground like most major league pitchers. (ericcressey.com)
  • In chatting with one MLB scout this off-season, he noted that only 14% of major league pitchers are under 6-feet tall. (ericcressey.com)
  • Nepenthes ( / n ɪ ˈ p ɛ n θ iː z / ) is a genus of carnivorous plants , also known as tropical pitcher plants , or monkey cups , in the monotypic family Nepenthaceae . (wikipedia.org)
  • And that's what led him to be a part of discovering that carnivorous plants are eating baby salamanders. (ontarioparks.com)
  • With the discovery of salamanders being eaten by carnivorous plants, it's possible that they are a large source of nutrients for these plant populations. (ontarioparks.com)
  • in many species, this keeps rain from diluting the fluid within the pitcher, the underside of which may contain nectar glands which attract prey. (wikipedia.org)
  • N. rafflesiana ), different prey may be attracted by the two types of pitchers. (wikipedia.org)
  • The lids of some species are covered with hairs that point towards the pitcher mouth, so they have a secondary function in ushering prey towards death. (sarracenia.com)
  • This area includes the pitcher lip and extends a little way into the pitcher, and functions to conduct prey into the pit of doom. (sarracenia.com)
  • Back in April, you could pick up a Venus flytrap (which differs from a pitcher plant in that it uses traps that snap shut to catch its prey). (kxlf.com)
  • In 2017 and 2018, undergraduate students and instructors working on ecology projects as part of a field biology course were surveying Pitcher Plants intending to document the invertebrate prey. (ontarioparks.com)
  • At this size, juveniles are small enough to fall prey to Pitcher Plants. (ontarioparks.com)
  • That doesn't mean that this plant has a small pool of prey. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Attracting prey is no small feat for the Venus flytrap. (a-z-animals.com)
  • He's also excited about the direction of the franchise, which has traded for two other starting pitchers this offseason, Tanner Roark and Alex Wood , while also adding star power in the lineup with outfielders Yasiel Puig and Matt Kemp. (daytondailynews.com)
  • During this past offseason, Tim Melville served as a seasonal part-time employee at Little Miss BBQ in Phoenix. (royalsreview.com)
  • Until then, she has fond memories of being a little girl and trotting out into the backyard for a handful of fresh mint when her mom was make a pitcher of lemonade. (latimes.com)
  • If you're meeting up with friends via Zoom or distancing in the park, make a batch of lemonade to leave on their front porch or pack a little picnic for your meetup. (greatist.com)
  • You are the ringleader of your own lemonade pitcher! (greatist.com)
  • Whenever you're whipping up a batch of lemonade, consider adding frozen fruit to the pitcher instead of ice. (greatist.com)
  • Freshman students were always a little hungry at night. (uoguelph.ca)
  • The name "monkey cups" refers to the fact that monkeys were once thought to drink rainwater from the pitchers. (wikipedia.org)
  • These plants have specialized bell-shaped leaves that form "pitchers" capable of collecting rainwater, into which they excrete digestive juices. (ontarioparks.com)
  • The insects become trapped in the pitcher and are subsequently broken down by a combination of the digestive juices and microorganisms living in the rainwater. (ontarioparks.com)
  • One day after the New York Yankees traded Gray to the Reds, the 29-year-old, right-handed starting pitcher from Smyrna, Tenn. (daytondailynews.com)
  • However, Minnesota has also struck out in 26.2% of their plate appearances against right-handed pitchers in 2023. (fantasypros.com)
  • Hooker zones are useful not only in Sarracenia --the traps of all pitcher plants can be interpreted using Hooker zones, even those of the carnivorous bromeliads. (sarracenia.com)
  • Mini pitcher plants aren't difficult to care for, but you can't neglect them entirely. (kxlf.com)
  • Pitcher plants love the sun and require at least six hours of direct sunlight a day. (kxlf.com)
  • Pitcher plants are finicky about watering, too. (kxlf.com)
  • Water your plant when the soil volume is 25 percent dry and avoid missing a watering, as pitcher plants are not tolerant of drought conditions," Pangborn said. (kxlf.com)
  • However, bogs are nutrient-poor environments, and so Pitcher Plants that grow in this habitat have evolved a strategy to supplement their diet. (ontarioparks.com)
  • It is at this stage that the salamanders may have to traverse a bog mat, where Pitcher Plants lie in wait. (ontarioparks.com)
  • The pit at the bottom of the pitcher is flooded with fluid laced with digestive enzymes, and hungry commensals prowl its depths. (sarracenia.com)
  • Tube Feeding Tube feeding may be used to feed people whose digestive tract is functioning normally but who cannot eat enough to meet their nutritional needs. (msdmanuals.com)
  • He started the first game of the MAC tournament a little more than two weeks ago, giving up just two hits over eight innings. (foxsports.com)
  • If he clears waivers, he will likely find a home eating innings in between starts from higher priority players. (blessyouboys.com)
  • Part of that is because Karstens doesn't walk a lot of hitters (25 in 130 innings), but part of it had to do with small-sample shenanigans. (mccoveychronicles.com)
  • The viscoelastic fluid in pitchers is especially effective in the retention of winged insects. (wikipedia.org)
  • When wet, the slippery surface of the peristome causes insects to 'aquaplane', or slip and fall, into the pitcher. (wikipedia.org)
  • A full-grown pitcher plant can thrive on just a few insects every month. (kxlf.com)
  • Spiders and crawling insects such as beetles are also commonly captured and eaten by this plant. (a-z-animals.com)
  • These ground-based critters are larger and offer more nutrition than smaller flying insects. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Quietly going about his business, Riggins is a man the franchise trusts to shape pitchers when they're at their most vulnerable and ready them for the next step. (sportsnet.ca)
  • According to the Houston Chronicle , the Houston Astros pitcher, who set a franchise record with 9 non-decisions to start the season was recently demoted to the bullpen, causing him to get. (outsports.com)
  • The picks in today's primer are narrowed to three pitchers, two stacks, core studs and values/punts. (fantasypros.com)
  • The pitcher starts as a small bud and gradually expands to form a globe- or tube-shaped trap. (wikipedia.org)
  • The zones describe the different parts of a pitcher trap, and the likely functions of each. (sarracenia.com)
  • There are many varieties of this carnivorous plant, but the one at TJ's is a miniature version of the Sarracenia variety, which has slim tubes that look like vases or pitchers that stretch up toward the sun. (kxlf.com)
  • Birkbeck said the Flashes prefer to work their young pitchers slowly, and when Starn joined the program as a walk-on in the fall of 2008, he wasn't exactly in the plans. (foxsports.com)
  • Tony was on his weigh to give his pitcher to his mother when he saw a tiny ferry sitting on the window sill. (minds-in-bloom.com)
  • As juveniles, individuals can weigh as little as 0.3 g, and be as small as 3 cm in length. (ontarioparks.com)
  • These "metamorphs" can weigh as little as 0.3 g and be as small as 3 cm in length. (ontarioparks.com)
  • The matchup is less concerning for the second pitcher on the table, but his home ballpark is treacherous for pitchers. (fantasypros.com)
  • It was understood that when you left the dining hall, you'd take some bread and a pitcher of milk. (uoguelph.ca)
  • The patio at Little Bread Co. was made for these warm early spring days. (fayettevilleflyer.com)
  • I WALKED INTO the dining room to see tables of four already set - silverware, silver bread basket, off-white ceramic plates, cloth napkins, clear glasses and water pitchers laid out ready for lunch. (matadornetwork.com)
  • The child who sits at the designated "red" chair is the only one who is allowed to get up to fetch more water in the pitcher, extra bread for the bread basket, or to ask for extra food for the table. (matadornetwork.com)
  • Nepenthes species usually produce two types of pitchers, known as leaf dimorphism. (wikipedia.org)
  • The handle of the pitcher is white with an alternating yellow and blue leaf design that extends all the way down the handle's exterior side. (gardnermuseum.org)
  • The bright yellow tulips on this small pitcher recall stylized designs out of the ceramic workshops at Iznik. (gardnermuseum.org)
  • I recall a small, unobtrusive, white wooden church sunk in the earth, the grass and weeds grown tall around it. (nybooks.com)
  • Baseball pitchers utilize their lower extremities as force generators to supply energy up the kinetic chain to maximally deliver the ball. (wku.edu)
  • The current findings on leg stiffness in high school pitchers warrants further investigation with larger and diverse samples to examine how leg stiffness relates to performance and injury risk in baseball pitchers. (wku.edu)
  • His father was a fast-pitch pitcher who passed the baseball bug on to young Riggins. (sportsnet.ca)
  • Q: I am a 18-year-old Division 1 college baseball pitcher, and I have a baseball mechanic/ biomechanical question for you. (ericcressey.com)
  • David Starn will be the starting pitcher for the biggest game in the history of Kent State baseball. (foxsports.com)
  • Kent State's kind of crazy run - the Flashes have won 20 straight games - continues Saturday night (11 ET) in Eugene, Ore., in the first of a best-of-three Super Regional against Oregon, the No. 5 national seed in the NCAA Baseball Tournament. (foxsports.com)
  • We get a little bit of everything in terms of client variety, but the overwhelming majority of my athletes are baseball players. (ericcressey.com)
  • Wheeler was not rewarded with that gig but he's been as good as any pitcher in baseball not named deGrom. (oddschecker.com)
  • Curacao's Jay-Dlynn Wiel (10) scores as the ball gets past Taiwan's Chen Kai-Sheng during the fourth inning of the International Championship baseball game at the Little League World Series tournament in South Williamsport, Pa. (wpri.com)
  • The top-ranked pitcher is living up to his prospect billing. (fantasypros.com)
  • The eye slides right off the only oddity: three small sculptures, Brancusi-esque abstract butterflies with their wings laced together. (thestranger.com)
  • Lucky Luke's has 79¢ wings and $5 pitchers all day every Saturday. (fayettevilleflyer.com)
  • One idea that occurred to me is to decide how much you want to have, say two small glasses. (metafilter.com)
  • Little leaguers have little to no shoulder stiffness, and present with lateral elbow issues (compression type issues from the stress in the cocking to acceleration transition). (ericcressey.com)
  • Since it's only the 18th I'm a little confused? (katheats.com)
  • I've also considered making a blanket 'don't eat or drink anything with alcohol or caffeine 2 hours before bed' rule for myself which would help, but also seems like a workaround instead of a mindfulness solution. (metafilter.com)
  • The only drink offered at lunchtime is filtered tap water, served in glass pitchers. (matadornetwork.com)
  • Every Friday our guests have gathered to eat pizza, drink pitchers and warm up their voices for the club in front of the karaoke mics. (lu.se)
  • Tony decided two make a Valentine's pitcher four his mother. (minds-in-bloom.com)
  • Liberals invented the designated hitter rule because it wasn't fair to make the pitcher bat as well as through. (blogspot.com)
  • Hospital staff members can make sure that restrictive diets are changed as soon as possible when no longer needed and can check how much people eat each day. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Add lemon juice, ice, and remaining 5 cups water to a pitcher and stir. (greatist.com)
  • Humidifier (A machine that puts tiny drops of water into the air. (cdc.gov)
  • A pitcher of fresh water should be placed within easy reach from the bed unless fluids must be limited because of a disorder. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The rim of the pitcher is embellished with a pattern of alternating blue and yellow inverted triangles with a red dot between each triangle. (gardnermuseum.org)
  • Keep a pitcher full of this in the fridge for whenever you need a little pick-me-up! (greatist.com)
  • Most of these are large and require a small number of people to work the machinery. (nybooks.com)
  • However, it's worth considering which critters a Venus flytrap will eat and which ones it will not. (a-z-animals.com)
  • Even before his first job on a major-league staff, he had developed a reputation as someone who could easily diagnose pitchers' flaws. (sportsnet.ca)
  • Starn had interest from college programs throughout Ohio but chose Kent State, even without a scholarship, because of the program's winning tradition and reputation for getting the most out of its pitchers. (foxsports.com)
  • Pewter, some glass, ceramic or glazed clay pitchers and dinnerware. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Monday morning, after someone in the Memorial Day parade handed her a small tomato plant, Annette came back here to plant it, and another friend asked, "Don't you want to check with Kate where to put it? (addisonindependent.com)
  • He even seems smaller than his listed 6 feet 6 inches, and despite being on the disabled list with a back injury, his strong handshake belies his superhuman powers. (thedailybeast.com)
  • AP) - Jay-Dlynn Wiel and Nasir El-Ossais got back-to-back singles off Taiwanese ace Fan Chen-Jun and later scored, leading Curacao to a 2-0 victory over Taiwan on Saturday in the semifinals of the Little League World Series. (wpri.com)
  • Eating moderate quantities of fresh and freshly prepared food at set times of the day is definitely one of the most convincing reasons why they stay lean. (matadornetwork.com)
  • A cheese course follows (often a yogurt or small piece of Camembert, for example), and then dessert (more often than not, fresh fruit). (matadornetwork.com)
  • It is only visible in Sarracenia purpurea and Sarracenia rosea , and even on these species is it small. (sarracenia.com)
  • Hip coil= a small internal rotation of the hips independent of the shoulders during and after weight has begun to transfer forward. (baseballprospectus.com)
  • Since his teams would also rest some starters occasionally it would hold that his run support would be a little lower than expected, so any given ERA+ would produce fewer wins than one would expect. (baseballthinkfactory.org)
  • The pitch had evaded Borucki throughout his young career but - despite the 37-year age gap between them - Kim noticed a shared sense of enthusiasm as the pitcher and coach hunted the solution. (sportsnet.ca)
  • These young, tiny salamanders must travel from these aquatic hatching grounds to find cover underground for the winter. (ontarioparks.com)
  • These upper pitchers usually form as the plant reaches maturity and the plant grows taller. (wikipedia.org)
  • To keep the plant steady, the upper pitchers often form a loop in the tendril, allowing it to wrap around nearby support. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, he carries some risk, like all the pitchers on this slate. (fantasypros.com)
  • If you look at everything else, it all looks fairly good: the walk rate has crept up a tiny bit, the strikeout rate is down (something he vowed to do this year), his hard hit rate is up, his HR/FB rate is right in line with his career, he's on pace for around as many home runs as he hit last year, and he's cut down on infield fly balls. (pitcherlist.com)
  • Hard to be as good as mediocrity when you are down enough starting pitchers that Austin Gomber is your ace. (mlbtraderumors.com)
  • I had a hard time breaking a sweat today though 🙁 30 minutes of ET (on my usual settings - my HR would just not climb! (katheats.com)
  • In some cases, more than one salamander was observed in a pitcher at a time. (ontarioparks.com)
  • Some people need help or more time while eating. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Such feedings may be necessary for a short time until people can safely eat enough food by mouth. (msdmanuals.com)
  • No matter where they have come from this week, our guests share a love of growing - and eating - food. (addisonindependent.com)
  • Much of the food on the all-you-could-eat menu came from OAC farms. (uoguelph.ca)
  • The fire-throwing New York Met reveals what food he'll never eat. (thedailybeast.com)
  • If you could eat one food or meal every single day, what would you eat? (royalsreview.com)
  • They can also get lead on their fingers from touching a dusty or peeling lead object, and then putting their fingers in their mouths or eating food afterward. (medlineplus.gov)
  • In an appetizer of two kinds of beets ($9), hand-diced into perfect tiny cubes with a roasted apple vinaigrette and wisps of miner's lettuce, the flavor of a pungent ashed goat cheese bullied all else, making for monotony (an additional element on the plate would've solved the problem). (thestranger.com)
  • The small Coffee Pot is spun with no seams on the bottom. (ushist.com)
  • The small Coffee Pot is spun, but has a folded seams at the bottom. (ushist.com)
  • The bottom of the pitcher is also white and has three black asterisk shaped marks grouped together. (gardnermuseum.org)
  • The spout is decorated with the same floral design that is found on the body and neck of the pitcher. (gardnermuseum.org)
  • I've found that long spines can be extremely advantageous in pitchers, as they allow guys to go into lumbar flexion in the follow-through without hitting end range (where disc issues present). (ericcressey.com)
  • We found the crossroads Evans photographed and a small shut-down country store where the old one most probably stood. (nybooks.com)
  • A study by Moritz et al found the LFCN to be closer to the ASIS in patients with idiopathic MP than it was in controls. (medscape.com)
  • The exterior of the pitcher is white and features numerous floral designs. (gardnermuseum.org)
  • So, there's a ton to love about Brown, making him the top pitcher tonight. (fantasypros.com)
  • Eating a balanced meal while sitting down calmly is important in the development of a healthy child", adds Cahuzac. (matadornetwork.com)
  • Eco-actress Emmanuelle Chriqui is behind a not-so-evil plot to get children to eat their carrots. (latimes.com)
  • Children also can breathe in tiny amounts of lead. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Morton has a great sinker that he can't quite command just yet, and his peripherals were really strange for an effective pitcher, even by sinkerballer standards. (mccoveychronicles.com)
  • It had been so long since I'd had one, I'd forgotten that I find them a little, tiny bit sweet. (smittenkitchen.com)
  • I get hits every day from people searching "animal penis" into Google (usually with a spelling mistake or two), who find this crappy little post I did once. (scienceblogs.com)
  • She said it was a grate pitcher and gave Tony a big hug. (minds-in-bloom.com)
  • In his early days Gallo's hip coil was exaggerated and it created timing issues in his swing and gave him gaping holes in his zone for pitchers to exploit. (baseballprospectus.com)
  • For some people, eating in a hospital bed with a tray is difficult. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Haase has also served three brief stints with the big-league club, totaling 19 games and doing very little worth mentioning in an insignificant sample size. (blessyouboys.com)
  • That's solid production for a pitcher spending half his games in the league's most hitter-friendly environment. (mlbtraderumors.com)
  • The midweek MLB DFS slate is small, featuring only six games at DraftKings and seven at FanDuel. (fantasypros.com)
  • The situation isn't hopeless, though, because the Blue Jays do have a strong core in place, led by Roy Halladay, the best pitcher in the entire division. (bluebirdbanter.com)
  • He was tasked with chores from an early age - tending to vegetables or feeding cattle in the mornings before school - and he didn't eat a store-bought steak until college, which is still a point of pride. (sportsnet.ca)
  • I'm eating with my college roommate, Frank. (thrillist.com)
  • Some people call them trumpet pitchers since they also look like the body of that instrument. (kxlf.com)
  • People may be served foods they do not like or cannot eat for philosophical or religious reasons (for example, because the foods are not kosher or halal). (msdmanuals.com)
  • At hospital admission, people or their family members can let staff members know what foods are preferred or not eaten. (msdmanuals.com)