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US 4320770 A Abstract A device for taking specimens for laboratory analysis, specimens being of a fluid type such as body liquids or may be liquids of a different source. The device comprises a hollow body member with a closed end and an open end. The closed end has orifice therethrough which orifice is eccentric with respect to the longitudinal axis of the body member. A plunger having a plunger tip means is inserted into the body member for the purpose of accurately varying the internal volume of the device. The closed end is provided with an exteriorly mounted closure which may be of a rotatable type or a sliding plate type. The closure contains an orifice which may be aligned with the orifice in the closed end to take specimens into the device and then the closure may be moved with reference to the body member to misalign the orifices so that the orifice in the body member is closed and the specimen cannot be ejected from the device. Sealing means are provided between the closure interior and the exterior of the closed end around the orifice in the body member.
Claims(3) 1. A diagnostic specimen collector consisting of:
an elongated hollow body open at one end and closed at the opposite end with a single orifice in said closed end; a plunger having sealing means on one end which is slidably inserted into, and in sealing relationship with, said body to vary the interior volume of said body; a closure for said closed end orifice consisting of a onepiece cap having an end wall with a skirt extension exteriorly mounted to encompass said closed end concentrically and rotatable thereabout and a nipple to receive compatible fittings of specimen taking medical devices extending outwardly from the outer surface of said end wall and an orifice in said closure passing axially through said nipple and said end wall, said closure being rotatable from a first position in which both orifices are out of communication and said closed end orifice is in a sealed condition to a second position in which both orifices are in sealed communication for the passage of a specimen upon movement of said plunger and back to said first position after passage of said specimen; and an O-ring seal for said closed end orifice positioned concentrically with reference to said orifice in an annular groove on the outer surface of said closed end, a portion of said O-ring extending above said closed end outer surface to create a friction-free space between said outer surface and the inner surface of said end wall except for a moving area of sealing contact between said ring portion and the inner surface of the end wall, said ring portion providing a bearing surface for said rotation of said closure. 2. The collector according to claim 1 wherein said closure means is positioned on said body by cooperating bead and annular recess means arranged on the exterior of the closed end portion and inner surface of said skirt.
3. The collector according to claim 1 wherein the axis of said orifice in said closed end is eccentric to the axis of said body and the orifice in said closure means is eccentric to the axis of said closure means.
Description The present invention is in the field of medical diagnostic devices, and more particularly, in that portion of this field in which field specimens are collected for subsequent analysis in a laboratory. The taking of fluid specimens for laboratory analysis is an important diagnostic tool in the treatment of medical diseases and ailments. It is clearly evident that specimens should be as free as possible from any possible secondary contamination, be it from the area from which the specimen is taken or the ambient conditions external to the subject but through which the specimen collecting device must be moved. Conventionally, fluid specimens are withdrawn from a subject by syringe, having generally a hypodermic needle attached thereto for penetration of the subject. Often there is a need to introduce the collected specimen to a specimen maintenance agent, reagent, or culture media to induce specimen growth, specimen identification, or sustain the collected specimen's values constant and viable for subsequent laboratory procedures. It is not generally desired to introduce the specimen agent, reagent, or culture media, nor a specimen to which any of these media have been applied to a patient, the matter of toxicity being the question. Specimens may be body liquids such as blood or urine, or other tissue fluids, or may be anaerobic specimens collected from various organs within the body, or may consist of water or other non-body fluids. In some institutions, the practice has been to place a cork or stopper over the end of the needle after it is withdrawn from the subject in order to seal and protect the collected specimen, and then the syringe is carried to the laboratory. In other situations, the syringe collected specimen is injected through a rubber stopper into an otherwise sealed vial or tube. These vials and tubes often containing a specimen agent are then sent to the laboratory. Sometimes, a specimen is ejected from the syringe into a tube containing specimen maintenance media which tube is then closed and taken to the laboratory, sealing and maintenance of the specimen being of primary importance in preserving the viability of the specimen and its quantitative values. In attempts to increase the viability of the specimen and further minimize secondary contamination, there has been developed a vacuum operated system for taking liquid samples. The system comprises a bottle often containing a specimen maintenance or culture medium which is evacuated and then sealed with a rubber diaphragm to maintain the negative pressure within the container. To use such a device, use is made of a special hypodermic needle which may be considered as double ended. One of the needles is inserted into the subject and the other end of the needle is then inserted through the rubber diaphragm. The negative pressure in the container automatically draws fluid into the container. The draw is sudden and uncontrollable, and has been known to cause veins to collapse. Also, the vacuum within the container may be less than necessary to withdraw the desired amount of fluid. Because the interior volume of such containers cannot be variably controlled, such containers are made available in many capacity sizes such as 5, 7, 10, 15, and 20 cc capacities, resulting in the need to stock many sizes of the containers to meet varying requirements. Many of these types of containers are sold in a non-sterile state, and thus the institutions utilizing them must subject them to sterilization or run the risk of contaminated cultures. It has been noted that in many instances the autoclaving for sterilization reduces the amount of negative pressure within the container, and such containers do not provide the means to expel the fluid within them. In the recent developments in the field of collecting devices, is a syringe type device which is shown in U.S. Pat. No. 4,043,336. This patent is a hollow body member with a plunger therein. The so-called closed end of the end portion of the body member has a circular disk adhesively secured near the closed end, but providing space for another disk between the secured disk and the interior surface of the closed end. The second disk contains a nipple which extends outwardly through a slot in the closed end. Both disks have an orifice in each, and each movement of the disk with the nipple in the slot and the closed end of the syringe brings the two orifices into communication or out of communication. This device may contain an exterior protrusion on the side of the body member into which may be placed some form of medium for automatic and instant application to the specimen as it is being collected. The design of this device does not provide for the separation of the self-contained specimen agent from the fluid in the chamber of the syringe. The present invention is an elongated hollow body open at one end and closed at the opposite end with an orifice in the closed end. A plunger with sealing means on one end is slidably inserted into the body to variate the interior volume while maintaining a sealing of the interior of the body. Movable one-piece closure means are exteriorly mounted on the closed end of said body. The closure has an outwardly extending fitting, with an orifice therethrough, adapted to receive compatible fittings or medical collection devices such as needles or multiple specimen collecting devices or adaptors used on diagnostic equipment. The closure means can be moved from a position in which both the orifices are in communication so that a specimen can be drawn into the body and the closure means orifice, then moved out of communication so that the orifice in the closed end of the body is sealed. Sealing means for the orifice in the closed end are positioned around the orifice between the closed end of the body and the closure means to create a friction-free space between the closed end and the inner surface of the closure. The wall sections of the body member and the closure means can be of specially selected materials in a thickness to provide maximum protection from any possible oxygen gas permeation while the device is exposed to ambient conditions. The embodiments of the device of the present invention provide: Devices of practical design and structure for the reasonable cost manufacture and assembly required of a disposable syringe. Syringes with a sealing means useful not only in collecting fluid specimens but also useful as pre-filled devices for dispensing fluids of medical or non-medical nature. Syringes having connector fittings compatible with what are commonly called "luer" fittings but not necessarily limited to such. It will be recognized that such a fitting could be used directly as the dispensing nozzle without additional nozzle means. The present invention is shown by way of illustration in the following drawing figures in which FIG. 1 is an exploded perspective view of one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a partial cross-sectional view in elevation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 showing a specimen being collected. FIG. 3 is an elevation view along the section plane 3--3 in FIG. 2. FIG. 4 is a cross-sectional view along section plane 4--4 in FIG. 2. FIG. 5 is a partial cross-sectional view in elevation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 2 after the specimen has been collected. FIG. 6 is an end view in elevation of the embodiment shown in FIG. 5. FIG. 7 is an elevation view of the invention shown in FIG. 2 in the specimen collecting position. FIG. 8 is an elevation view of the invention shown in FIG. 2 after the specimen has been collected. Referring now to FIG. 1, the invention is seen to comprise a generally well-known type of syringe having a hollow cylidrical body 11 open at one end to receive a plunger 24 and having a substantially closed end 12 opposite the open end. The closed end 12 has an orifice 13 around which there is an annular recess 14 to receive an O-ring 15. Adjacent the closed end 12 is an annular recess 16 which receives an internal inwardly extending bead 17 in a one-piece cap 18. It will be apparent that other concepts of movably retaining the closure on the closed end such as threads, bayonet mount and the like may be employed. The cap 18 has a skirt extension which forms an open end to be fitted over the closed end portion of the body 11 and to rotate thereabout. The cap also has a closed end 19 from which there extends outwardly a cannula receiving member 20 having an orifice 21 therethrough. The cannula receiving member 20, hereinafter referred to as a nipple, is of a configuration which will receive a cannula of the conventional type and also will receive adaptors, known in the medical art, which will permit the use of a single venal puncture by cannula and the successive application of the syringes of the present invention for the purposes of taking a plurality of samples. These adaptors are normally configured with means therein to permit closure thereof after a sample has been taken so as to prevent exodus of any body fluid due to the pressure of the fluid within the human body. Fitted into hollow body member 11 is a plunger 24 of the type which is well known in the medical arts. Generally, it is configured with a plunger tip having a concial end surface 25 although the end surface may be flat. The plunger tip is positioned on one end of a stem shown to consist of a pair of longitudinal members 27 and 28 arranged at right angles to each other along the axis of the plunger and along which are a plurality of circular disks 29. The plunger stem terminates in a thumb ring (not shown) or finger plate 30 opposite the plunger tip. In addition to the end surface 25 or 26, the plunger tip includes at least one annular ring 31, generally of a resilient material, which provides a sealing relationship with the interior wall of the hollow body member 11 to insure that the movement of the plunger 24 would not result in any fluid medium escaping by the plunger. These annular rings may be considered seals. Referring now to FIG. 2, there is a showing of one embodiment of the invention extracting a specimen. The plunger 24 has been partially withdrawn within the hollow body member 11 to collect the fluid specimen 33 which has come from a specimen source 34 via a conventional type cannula 35. In this figure it will be noted that the O-ring 15 seated in recess 16 has a portion extending outwardly from the closed end surface 12 into contact with the inner surface 36 of closed end 19 of cap 18, the extension thus preventing contact between closed end 12 and this inner surface. This extending protion of O-ring 15 forms a seal with the inner surface 36 of the cap 18, thus insuring that the fluid specimen enters only the interior of the hollow body member 11. Study of FIGS. 2 and 5 discloses that the extending portion of O-ring 15 in contact with inner surface 36 functions as a sealed bearing surface about which cap 18 rotates. The cross-sectional view of FIG. 4 of the plunger 24 principally illustrates that the right angle position of the members 27 and 28 not only provides resistance to vertical and lateral flexing of the plunger, but the outer surfaces of these members also serve to provide bearing or guide surfaces for the plunger so that it is not displaced from its central axis sufficiently to destroy the vacuum created by the inner sealing members 31. Referring now to FIG. 5, it will be seen that the cap 18 has been rotated through a given number of degrees in accordance with the length of the slot 22 in cap 18 as controlled by the stop member 23 on the outer surface of hollow body member 11 (FIGS. 7 and 8). This means for orienting the cap relation to the hollow member is configured so that the slot 22 permits movement of the cap 18 from the specimen collecting position shown in FIG. 2 to the position shown in FIG. 4 by a clockwise rotation of the body member 11 with respect to cap 18 when cap 18 is held. By such rotation, the portion of the inner surface 36 of cap 18 which does not contain the orifice 21 is placed over the passageway 13 in hollow body member 11, thus sealing it effectively. Other external and/or internal means may be substituted to indicate the orientation of the cap relative to the hollow member. Patent Citations
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I am not a vegetarian or vegan and I found this really delicious. I made it in individual servings in a large muffin tin and the presentation was great. Next time I will make large large triangles like spanikopita. You could make it for non-vegetarians as a main course just because it is good real food.
Absolutely wonderful. Prep is time consuming but worth it. My wife is vegetarian and this is her favorite! I have made it every Thanksgiving for the past 3 years and it is now a tradition. Really great flavors, goes great with the turkey for those of us carnivores. Only thing I hate is the phyllo dough- the tearing is frustrating, but the flakiness is tasty!
The seasonings are exquisite with good forward flavor, followed by a chaser of exotic spices. My husband loved it so much that he wouldn't share with anyone! I used pie crust instead of filo dough and it was just great.
The seasonings are exquisite with good forward flavor, followed by a chaser of exotic spices. My husband loved it so much that he wouldn't share with anyone! I used pie crust instead of filo dough and it was just great.
I thought this was great actually. I did make a couple of changes though. I left out the spinach- it seemed gratuitous. I used pine nuts instead of walnuts (allergy) and I also cut the vegetable into 1" pieces after they roasted. My only qualm is that the vegetables actually become very intense and rich. I almost want to try adding a briny flavor like olives or feta to balance it out. Anyways, it's very Morrocan in flavor and if you're into that I think you'll like this. It took me about 2 hours from start to finish (that's including cooking times)
This is an excellent recipe. It's definitely not a weeknight dish since it is time consuming to make. I dedicated a cool autumn Sunday afternoon to the cooking of this dish. One comment: when you thaw the filo, thaw both packages (the brand I purchased had two wrapped packages of dough- thaw both packages) because you will likely need some extra sheets from the second package due to tearing that seems to happen no matter how careful you are. I made the recipe as written and it was very tasty. I will be making again soon.
Followed the recipe exactly and the pie was mediocre, nothing more, nothing less. Won't make again.
The flavors for this were absolutely delicious, but this recipe took forever and was very labor intensive (started at 7pm and by the time it cooled didn't eat until 10!). I don't think the spinach is necessary. I took the advice here to use a premade pie crust, but it fell apart on my plate - not something you'd want to serve to guests. So I'd stick w/ the filo as written.


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The negative index readings suggest the number of businesses that believe conditions deteriorated in the December quarter is greater than those that believe conditions improved, and that pessimists outnumber optimists about the outlook for early 2013.
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"We must address our long-run fiscal challenges," Austan Goolsbee, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, said in a speech in Chicago. "But to tie this to the debt limit is in my view quite insane."
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Point P is 20 unites from the centre of a circle of radius 29. The number of different chords of the circle through P with inteher lengths is
a] 16
b] 17
c] 32
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e] 34
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I think the answer is (c). First draw a picture of a circle and mark the points P and O(centre). Now convince yourself that the shortest length chord passing through P is the one thats perpendicular to OP.Now compute the length of the chord through Pythogorus theorem. The chord length will be 42. SInce the largest length chord is the diameter, length of the largest length chord through P is 58. Thus the chords range from 42 to 58. Now if you carefully count you will see that the number of chords is two times the number of chords on one side and the answer is 32
Suppose that the circle is centered at the origin (0,0), and that the point P is located at (20,0).
The first chord passing through the point P will be from (29,0) to (-29,0) with a length of 58.
Another chord will be from (-29,0) to (29,0) or in the opposite direction, but will still have the same length of 58.
I suppose that only makes a chord count (with integer length ) of 1 since they both are equal to 58.
That is the longest possible chord.
The shortest possible chord will occur when a point on the circle occurs at (20,y) or (20,-y).
[That creates a right triangle]
The radius (or hypotenuse) is 29,
the base is 20,
the height is y
Thus the chord will be from (20,21) to (20,-21) for an integer length of 42.
That is the shortest chord possible.
The chord length will vary (continously) from 42 to 58. You will have a chords of various lengths between 42 to 58 inclusive.
Simply count the number of integers from 42 to 58 (including 42 and 58).
That should be your answer
Here's a picture to illustrate the answer. The longest chord (length 58) is the diameter AB. The shortest is the perpendicular chord CD (length 42). These only occur once. Every intermediate length occurs twice, once as X moves along the arc from B to C, and once as X moves along the arc from C to A. The total number is that given by Isomorphism.


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Back when everyone knew who Simply Red was, there were a lot, and a I do mean A LOT, of women who got to know the band's singer. In fact, according to the rumors, Mike Hucknall bedded around 1,000 women. That's right, one thousand women. Now that band is reuniting for a tour, The Telegraph wanted to know if there was any truth to the rumor, so they straight out asked him. The singer told them, "It probably is. I've not denied that but I never claimed it. I never bragged about it. I don't keep count. I've no idea, but I would think over a 25-year period that's probably reasonable to say. But do I want to say it?" Then he added, "No. It's not what makes me tick. I don't put chips on the bedpost." He concluded his answer with, "It's like kids in a candy store. You can't believe it. There's girls chasing you all the time – it's incredible. When you're 24 you don't give a toss. You're invincible. You can do anything. Your mind is set in a way that the world is just ready and you're just going to take it all. You're just going to have a grand time." With that many women notched in his bed, or not chipped into his bedpost, I think we can all agree he had more than a grand time back then. He also told the newspaper what changed his ways, and why the band broke up for a few years. It's an interesting read to learn more about the man who had one of the most soulful voices in the '80s, so I suggest checking out the article.
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NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The effort to recover money for victims of Bernard Madoff took a dramatic turn Friday when officials said the widow of one of the Ponzi scheme's biggest beneficiaries had agreed to turn over $7.2 billion.
Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said that the widow of deceased billionaire Jeffry Picower had agreed to return "proceeds" collected over 35 years.
He said it was the largest forfeiture in U.S. history. The $7.2 billion represents more than one third of the total losses from Madoff's crime.
"Barbara Picower today has done the right thing," said Bharara, in a press conference at his Manhattan office. "I commend Barbara Picower for agreeing to return this staggering sum, which was really always other people's money."
Bharara said the $7.2 billion, combined with the $2.6 billion already recovered in stolen assets, is nearly half of the $20 billion lost to Madoff's scheme.
Irving Picard, the court-appointed trustee in the Madoff case, said that recovering the Picower funds through negotiation spared the victims the lengthy recovery process that would have resulted from litigation.
Barbara Picower said, in a prepared statement, that "this settlement honors what Jeffry would have wanted, which is to return this money so that it can go directly to the victims of Madoff."
Picower, a philanthropist, was the most prominent of the successful Madoff investors. His wife, Barbara, discovered him unconscious in the pool of their Palm Beach, Fla., home on Oct. 25, 2009. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital following a heart attack.
Earlier that year, Picard claimed in court filings that Picower was a key beneficiary of Madoff's scheme. The trustee said Picower had withdrawn $7.8 billion from Madoff's firm since the 1970s, even though he only deposited $619 million. Picower "knew or should have known that [he] was profiting from fraud, because of the highly implausible high rates of return" on his accounts, the trustee said.
His widow has denied that her late husband knew he was benefiting from a scam.
"I am absolutely confident that my husband Jeffry was in no way complicit in Madoff's fraud and want to underscore the fact that neither the trustee nor the U.S. attorney has charged him with any illegal conduct," she said.
Picower also said she hopes the settlement will ease the suffering of the victims.
Madoff pleaded guilty in March 2009 to orchestrating the most massive Ponzi scheme in history. He used his Manhattan investment firm as a front for the pyramid-style scam. He stole money from investors while claiming to be investing it in the markets. He would provide the stolen money to his more mature investors, like Picower, while fraudulently claiming that the returns were legitimate.
The trustee has sued at least 400 investors, who withdrew more money from Madoff than they invested. Many of these investors say that had no idea Madoff was operating a Ponzi scheme, and they thought they were withdrawing legitimate returns.
The trustee said that sued investors can apply for his hardship program and he is examining these situations on a case by case basis.
"We recognize that many of these individuals are not in a financial position to return all or part of the excess withdrawals," he said.
More than 16,000 people have filed claims to the trustee, claiming that they lost money to Madoff's scheme. The trustee has rejected the majority of these claims -- in some cases, because the investors withdrew more than they invested. The trustee has acknowledged 2,363 claims as legitimate; totaling nearly $5.9 billion in damages.
The Securities Investor Protection Corp., which provides insurance to burned investors, will cover $768 million of the damages to investors. The remaining $5.1 billion in damages would be compensated, or at least partially, by the recovered assets.
Meanwhile, Madoff is serving a 150-year sentence in a medium security federal prison in Butner, N.C.
On Dec. 11, the second anniversary of Madoff's arrest, his son Mark committed suicide. The trustee had sued Mark Madoff and other family members for tens of millions of dollars, though he had not been charged with a crime.
-- CNN's Brian Vitagliano contributed to this report.
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The serpent and the sacred fire: fertility images in Southwest rock artThe Southwest holds a treasure trove of prehistoric rock art, the fascinating images of petroglyphs and pictographs spanning thousands of years of Indian culture. Fertility has been identified as one of the most obvious and persistent themes in rock art, the record resplendent with symbols of birth, death, and procreation. Three-time rock art author Dennis Slifer takes a wide and deep look at symbols of fertility and fecundity, meticulously documenting drawings made by prehistoric cultures and the historical tribes of today's greater Southwest, and comparing the symbols with those fertility symbols found in rock art sites around the world. |
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Prep Basketball: Bradley Center all-star game set
By Matt Nestor
Prep Sports Reporter
The fourth annual Rock River Valley Classic boys' and girls' all-star game has announced a date and selections for their contest.
The game will again be at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee March 31, giving area players a chance to showcase their game in an NBA arena before the Milwaukee Bucks take on the Memphis Grizzlies.
"We started this four years ago when we were reading online that the rising stars game was going to be canceled," said Doc Cornell, one of the game's organizers. "But we wanted to make it even more memorable by placing them on the big stage."
On the boys' side, players like Fred Van Vleet, Steve McNease, Adonis Brown, Hunter Hill, Dave Hellstrom and Teyvious Montgomery lead the way.
The girls will feature players like Sannayyiah Johnson, Krystal James, Callan Timms, Katie Dovenmeuhle, Amy Wieting and Ellen Brunner.
"The kids that have played in the past said it felt great to sit and change in an NBA locker room and play on the court," Cornell said. "And in the end, this is what it's all about, making kids happy."
Tickets are $24 and will allow you to see eighth-grade boys' games between Freeport Aquin and DeKalb as well as Holy Family and St. Peters, the girls' and boys' all-star games, and finally, the Bucks and Grizzlies at the end of the night.
The prior night, March 30, there will be a dunk contest and 3-point contest that will take place at Rockford East High School at 7 p.m.
Full rosters and ticket information can be found on their website, classic2012.com. You can also contact the organizers at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Located in Keystone, Holiday Inn Express & Suites Mt. Rushmore is in a rural location and minutes from Big Thunder Gold Mine and Gutzon Borglum Historical Center.
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Holiday Inn Express & Suites Mt. Rushmore features an indoor pool and a spa tub. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This hotel offers access to a business center. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. This business-friendly hotel also offers coffee/tea in the lobby, complimentary newspapers in the lobby, and a fireplace in the lobby. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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