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June 6, 2012. Four months after the post below ("Issa Tells Holder to Turn Over Wiretap Apps" 2/17/12) went online, the MSM (NYT, CBS, New York Post, Fox) is reporting that Representative Darrell Issa (R-CA), Chairman of the House Oversight Committee investigating DOJ's gunrunning scheme, Fast and Furious, claims the wiretap applications submitted during the course of the operation prove that DOJ officials at the highest levels knew ATF agents were bending, ignoring, and violating US law to move more than 2000 combat-ready weapons across the US border into Mexico.
Lanny Breuer, head of Holder's Criminal Division signed off on memos accompaning each wiretap application, and the way Issa puzzles it out, Breuer was unlikely to have given the thumbs up to the wiretap apps unless he'd first ok'd the strategy with his boss, the Attorney General.
So far, DOJ has sidestepped congressional subpeonas issued by Issa's Committee, and in the process, some say getting away with murder. You see, none of the weapons ATF agents were ordered to let 'walk' across the US-Mexico border carried tracing devices, and ATF whistleblowers who pressed superiors about the need to have some sort of interdiction strategy in place that would allow them to recover the weapons before they could be used to murder innocent people (US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry) were told to stand down or find another job.
Whether Issa's latest revelation will revive the one-step=forward, two-steps back investigation into a government scheme to supply Mexican gangs with weapons that could be traced back to recent sales by US gundealers along the SW border, a move that even the most skeptical mind has trouble believing was designed to do anything but shore up the argument for stricter gun control in the US, is uncertain.
Attorney General Eric Holder has told the press that Issa's Committee is on a 'witch hunt' meant to target high-ranking 'African-Americans' within the Administration, officials Holder identified more explicitly by adding 'like me, and the President,' and it is unlikely the GOP House Speaker John Boehner is eager to divert pre-election media coverage from Romney's singleminded focus on the economy–even though Fast and Furious, with its parallels to Iran-Contra, might well result in the prosecution of admininstration officials for contempt, obstruction of justice, perjury, and multiple violations of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA). Think Ollie North.
In case today's reports about the importance of wiretap applications linked to Fast and Furious still leave you confused, let me repeat–there's a repost of my earlier analysis below. Of special interest should be the photocopy of the memo requesting approval for a wiretap signed by Lanny Breuer, in charge of DOJ's Criminal Division, in March 2010. A DOJ spokesperson says Breuer never scrutized the details–just signed on the dotted line.
From FPB, February 17, 2012
Issa's committee has weighed in on the significance of Fast and Furious wire taps, claiming they provide the House Oversight Committee with significant details about how and who was involved in the gunrunning scheme. Investigators say ATF agents involved in the gun walking scheme known as Fast and Furious made numerous applications over a significant period of time for the issuance of court orders authorizing wire taps.
Bad news for top cops at DOJ. You see, wire tap applications can tell someone who knows how to read them a lot of important things about an operation. And, like Willy Sutton, who said he robbed banks "because that's where the money is," members of the House Oversight Committee have told DOJ they want those wire tap applications because they know that's where the evidence is–in detailed descriptions of investigative techniques and signatures they believe will point to the involvement of senior DOJ officials.
Chairman Darrell Issa of California complained that Justice had complied only in turning over 6,400 documents of 80,000 requested. Among the records held back, according to committee GOP member Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina, are wiretap applications signed by key Justice officials in Washington laying out the plan for the gunrunning scheme. The documents, he said, are "the single best piece of evidence" that responsibility for the operation reaches into the department's upper echelons. That would explain the stonewalling…
Attorney General Eric Holder fired back, telling Issa's Committee that wire tap orders and the applications submitted by Fast and Furious agents to obtain the orders are off-limits to investigators, sealed by court order and impervious to the rule that, in the past, has allowed access to wire tap applications or orders, when provided by 'whistle-blowers,' to the press and Congress.
(Holder) "To the extent that those wiretap applications have been shared… If I find, if I find that someone in the US DOJ has shared the contents of wiretap applications, that is something that will be looked at … Anyone who read or submits that information for people to look at does so at their peril."
Issa countered, stating that Members of Congress engaged in oversight investigations and whistle blowers are protected in these situations–and again, Holder threw out a warning…
(Holder) "You act at your peril if you think that's the truth."
Despite the warning, Holder's response is no doubt a welcome one to investigators, a 'doth protest too much' tip-off that the wiretap apps they're after are loaded with information refuting Holder's insistence that Fast and Furious was a 'bottom-up' op that stopped at the local level, without his knowledge or involvement.
What's in the apps?
Some background: forget what you see in the movies–agents in white vans listening, in 2-minute increments, to the bad guy's telephone calls–wire taps are serious business, and very difficult to obtain. Indeed, wire taps qualify as investigative techniques of 'last resort,' inimical, except in extreme cases, to privacy rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
As a result, federal agents who apply for wire taps are required by law to jump through some pretty tough hoops, providing "a full and complete statement of facts and circumstances justifying the application" to the Criminal Division, DOJ, in order to prove 'legal sufficiency to make such an application.'
In other words, the information provided by the lead agent in Phoenix would have had to spell out, in painful detail, every start and finish, twist and turn, that would ultimately make the gun walking debacle the object of Congressional scrutiny.
The agent in charge of the investigation would have had to put together an affidavit in which he or she demonstrated, first, that every other means of conducting the investigation had been exhausted, and second, that the facts so far gleaned via the investigation constituted 'probable cause'–facts and circumstances that would lead any reasonable person to believe that the private communication investigators intended to intercept would lead to evidence that could not be gathered from any other source using any other investigative techniques.
This is no small undertaking, and it's not meant to be.
If you've been following Fast and Furious, the posturings, the warnings, the threats ( and the theater), then you may want more legal details about what it takes to obtain authorization for a wire tap, or more information about what constitutes 'last resort,'the procedures for obtaining authorization, and the process, (including the 'sign-off' by an independent district judge. Well, you can find it all here.
Language of the Law
Or you can skim through the next few paragraphs: I know it's long and dry, but believe me, reading about it is nothing compared to the challenge of implementation:
Application for a Court Order
All government wiretaps require a court order based upon a detailed
showing of probable cause. To obtain a court order, a three-step
process is involved. First, the law enforcement officer responsible
for the investigation must draw up a detailed affidavit showing that
there is probable cause to believe that the target telephone is being
used to facilitate a specific, serious, indictable crime.
Second, an attorney for the federal, state, or local government must
work with the law enforcement officer to prepare an application for a
court order, based upon the officer's affidavit. At the federal level,
the application must be approved by the Attorney General, Deputy
Attorney General, Associate Attorney General, any Assistant Attorney
General, any acting Assistant Attorney General, or any Deputy Assistant
Attorney General in the Criminal Division designated by the Attorney
General. At the state and local level, the application must be made
and approved by the principal prosecuting attorney of the state (State
Attorney General) or political subdivision thereof (District Attorney
or County Prosecutor). The attorney must be authorized by a statute of
that state to make such applications.
Third, the attorney must present the approved application ex parte
(without an adversary hearing) to a federal or state judge who is
authorized to issue a court order for electronic surveillance. A state
or local police officer or federal law enforcement agent cannot make an
application for a court order directly to a judge.
Title III requires that an application for a court order specify:
(a) the investigative or law enforcement officer making the
application and the high-level government attorney authorizing
the application;
(b) the facts and circumstances of the case justifying the
application, including details of the particular offense under
investigation, the identity of the person committing it, the
type of communications sought, and the nature and location of
the communication facilities;
(c) whether or not other investigative procedures have been tried
and failed or why they would likely fail or be too dangerous;
(d) the period of time for the interception (at most 30 days –
extensions may be permitted upon reapplication);
(e) the facts concerning all previous applications involving any of
the same persons or facilities;
(f) where the application is for the extension of an order, the
results thus far obtained from the interception.
OK, who's still with us and which of you saw the part about who has to approve the application, the affidavit that the case agent puts together? Yes, that's right, folks–the Attorney General of the United States or a designee he choses to represent him–someone he (and we) assume will read through the entire package of information. And these high-level signoffs come before the application even makes it to a 'wire tap' judge in the appropriate venue.
Not all judges have the authority to grant court orders for wiretaps.
In New Jersey, for example, only eight judges are designated as
"wiretap judges" for the
entire state. These judges are given special
training to be sensitive to personal rights of privacy and to recognize
the importance of telephone intercepts for law enforcement.
Before a judge can approve an application for electronic surveillance
and issue a court order, the judge must determine that:
(a) there is probable cause for belief that an individual is
committing, has committed, or is about to commit an offense
covered by the law;
(b) there is probable cause for belief that particular
communications concerning that offense will be obtained through
such interception;
(c) normal investigative procedures have been tried and have failed
or reasonably appear unlikely to succeed or to be too dangerous;
(d) there is probable cause for belief that the facilities from
which, or the place where the communications are to be intercepted
are being used, or are about to be used, in connection with the
commission of such offense, or are leased to, listed in the name of,
or commonly used by such person.
In addition to showing probable cause, one of the main criteria for
determining whether a court order should be issued is whether normal
investigative techniques have been or are likely to be unsuccessful
(criterion (c) above). Electronic surveillance is a tool of last
resort and cannot be used if other methods of investigation could
reasonably be used instead. Such normal investigative methods usually
include visual surveillance, interviewing subjects, the use of
informers, telephone record analysis, and DNRs. However, these
techniques often have limited impact on an investigation. Continuous
surveillance by police can create suspicion and therefore be hazardous;
further, it cannot disclose the contents of telephone conversations.
Questioning identified suspects or executing search warrants at their
residence can substantially jeopardize an investigation before the full
scope of the operation is revealed, and information can be lost through
interpretation. Informants are useful and sought out by police, but
the information they provide does not always reveal all of the players
or the extent of an operation, and great care must be taken to ensure
that the informants are protected. Moreover, because informants are
often criminals themselves, they may not be believed in court.
Telephone record analysis and DNRs are helpful, but do not reveal the
contents of conversations or the identities of parties. Other methods
of investigation that may be tried include undercover operations and
stings. But while effective in some cases, undercover operations are
difficult and dangerous, and stings do not always work.
The bottomline here is that applications for wire tap orders must lay out the workings of the investigation in exhaustive detail, and they must be signed by senior DOJ officials each time an order is issued or reissued, after 30 days, for instance. Each and every time.
The revelatory information included in wire tap applications, and the possibility Issa's Committee may get hold of it, does not bode well for the Department of Justice, and the Attorney General, who told the Committee on February 2 that 'wiretap applications do not always go into all the techniques used in an investigation.'
"Wrong," said the Committee:"A wiretap application must include precisely this type of information in order to meet the legal sufficiency standard required by the Criminal Division in its review.Therefore, law enforcement officials would have to include these procedures, and possibly others, in the wiretap applications to meet the statutory requirement and obtain the Criminal Division's approval."
Breuer Memo Approving Request to Seek Issuance of Wire Tap Order Already Exists
What no one on Capitol Hill, or in the press, has yet mentioned is that some of this information is already in the public domain–hidden in plain sight.
On May 4, 2011, CBS reporter Sharyl Atkisson, broke the news that Lanny Breuer, Chief of the Criminal Division at DOJ during Fast and Furious, had indeed signed off on a request by ATF agents in Phoenix for a court order authorizing a wire tap. Atkisson provided readers with a photocopy of the document signed by Breuer.
As you can see, much of the memo has been redacted, but the information that remains, says a former federal agent,"is gold," and here's why: when you examine the list of statutes ATF lists, violations which the agency intends to investigate, you understand that the agents running Fast and Furious were admitting specific knowledge of criminal activity ATF later denied it knew anything about.
For example, the memo cites 22 USC 2278 as justification for its application to see approval for electronic surveillance. 22 USC 2278 is the statute prohibiting the illegal export of the weapons ATF agents were, in fact, urging gun dealers to sell to strawbuyers, and its mention in the Breuer memo tells us that as of March 10, 2010, agents understood that ITAR violations were in play and might serve as basis for arrests and prosecution.
There's more. Many of the violations covered by the statutes cited below, and referenced by ATF as a basis for the issuance of a wire tap order, fall outside of ATF's jurisdiction (with the exception of 18 USC 922 and 924). So we're either talking about joint investigations, which no other agency has acknowledged, or an agency, ATF, ready and willing to appropriate jurisdictional powers that belong, by law, to other enforcement organizations. What's going on here?
Take a look at the memo–click here and then consider:
Title 21 USC 841 Controlled Substance Act falls under the jurisdiction of ICE and DEA;
Title 22 USC 2278 Arms Export Control Act falls under the sole jurisdiction of ICE;
Title 18 USC 554 Smuggling Goods out of the United States falls under the sole jurisdiction of ICE;
Title 31 USC 5332 Bulk Cash Smuggling falls under the sole jurisdiction of ICE;
Title 31 USC 5324 Structuring a Financial Transaction (Title 31 USC is also known as the Bank Secrecy Act) falls under the sole jurisdiction of the IRS/CID;
Title 18 USC 1956 The Anti Money Laundering Act of 1986 falls under the primary jurisdiction of ICE but can be used by another agency with a substantive related offense.
Investigations involving possible violations of other statutes included in the ATF memo of March 10, 2010 also belong to agencies other than ATF …
18 USC 371 Conspiracy can fall under the jurisdiction of any enforcement agency;
18 USC 922 Possession of firearm by a convicted felon, illegal alien or the mentally ill falls with ATF's jurisdiction;
18 USC 924 Possession of firearm by a person engaged in drug trafficking per 21 USC 841 et seq also belongs to ATF;
18 USC 1343 Fraud by wire radio or television falls under the jurisdiction of the FBI or any agency with a substantive count can add 18 USC 1343 to its jurisdiction;
21 USC 960 Import/Export of a controlled substance falls under DEA's jurisdiction;
21 USC 963 Attempt and/or conspiracy to traffic in a controlled substance falls under DEA's jurisdiction;
31 USC 5332 Bulk Cash Smuggling belongs to ICE.
At this point, of course, anyone who's managed to wade through the legal arcana is wondering what it all means in plain English.
Let me tell you.
We know what ATF knew in March 2010, when the Breuer memo was signed, via the scrutiny of the laws cited as justification for obtaining a wire tap order.
The ATF agent who compiled 'sufficient reason' to warrant the issuance of a wire tap order offers his superiors at ATF, as well as higher-ups at DOJ, specific insights into the types of crimes the Phoenix office and the Fast and Furious team believes are underway. And given the fact that this knowledge passed from Phoenix to Breuer (Number 3 and Head of the Criminal Division in DC), it means the almost certain involvement of the Attorney General, via his responsibilities in regard to the issuance of federal wire tap orders.
It means, given the statutes cited as justification for the issuance of wire tap orders, that ATF was working in cooperation with a number of partner agencies (ICE/FBI/DEA/State)–whose involvement and prior knowledge of gun walking is still to be determined.
It means ATF knew that their agents and their straw buyers were involved in illegal trafficking of arms to drug organizations across international boundaries, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.
And it also means that, given the fact that ATF sought and obtained orders for international wire taps, DOJ would have been required to inform and cooperate with senior officials in Mexico–the Attorney General of the United States is required, via the Brownsville Agreement, to notify his or her counterpart in Mexico that federal agents are in fact using court-ordered wire taps to intercept communications involving Mexican citizens.
Did DOJ Tread on Jurisdictional Authority?
There's also a larger irony at work here: it is the Attorney General of the United States, the nation's top cop, who is legally responsible for protecting the jurisdictional integrity belonging to each separate law enforcement agency.
That's part of Holder's job description.
But if ATF/DOJ sought a wire tap order based on its intention to enforce or investigate crimes described under statutes whose jurisdictional authority rests with agencies other than ATF/DOJ, and the Attorney General, or in this case, his deputy, Lanny Breuer, signs off on that request, then Holder has in fact violated jurisdictional proprieties the AG is tasked by law with protecting. Another fine fix.
So far, DOJ denies that higher-ups were aware of any of the information contained in the wire tap apps–Holder says he signed off on the requests without reading more than the cover page. Hmmmm…
He has told Congress that agents do not always outline their investigative plans and objectives in any great detail on the affidavits the senior case agents takes to the 'wire tap judge.' The Breuer memo looks pretty detailed to me.
Lanny Breuer, who operated as Chief of Holder's Criminal Division during most of Fast and Furious, remains on the hook–his signature is all over the wire tap apps. His challenge now is to convince Congress that the buck stops with him, and that his superiors at Justice may have been derelict in their duties, but never criminal in action or intent.
If the applications for wire tap orders show, as does the March 10, 2010 memo signed by Breuer, that senior DOJ officials, including the AG, testified as part of an affidavit, that all other investigative means of pursuing targets had been exhausted (and we know this is not true, because none of the F+F weapons bore tags or tracing devices and agents were told not to interdict per prior ATF policy), then Holder still has some explaining to do.
Issa may ask Holder how the Attorney General, once he'd concluded every other investigative method had been exhausted, could have approved an operation that delivered operable weapons to what insiders describe as 'the most violent criminal organization in the world, bar none.'
The Committee may ask Holder, why at this point, he simply did not exercise his lawful authority and deny the application for a wire tap order–why he didn't try then to get to the bottom of the gun walking debacle? Why he or Breuer failed to delve into the 'violations of the Arms Export Control Act' cited as a basis for obtaining a wire tap order?
And finally, someone, somewhere, may ask the Attorney General about a treaty that seems to have been largely forgotton: the Brownsville Agreement. Why didn't DOJ notify Mexico about the operation (the ATF office in Mexico City swears they were kept in the dark), when Breuer's memo clearly states that weapons purchased from US gun dealers were being trafficked into Mexico?
It's a tangled web, for sure, and while Congress may understand that some big important laws have been broken, no one seems willing, in the case of Fast and Furious, to connect the dots in ways that might shed light on just who broke them.
Just a few days ago, Bradley Manning, the Army Private accused of supplying Wikileaks with hundreds of emails about US government operations was bombarded with words like 'treason' and accused of 'aiding and abetting the enemy.'
Despite the old adage about the pen being mightier than the sword, and my own regard for the power of the word, it's difficult to see how documents, overflowing with gossip, personal observations, and information anyone with a search engine could have pulled up at an internet cafe, might be of more service to America's enemy's than the 2000 military-grade, fully operational weapons delivered to Mexican cartels by our own government.
But no matter. Forget Fast and Furious. In the case of pirated emails delivered to Julian Assange, it looks like we've got our man.
If convicted of the charge of giving aid to the enemy, Manning could face life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for the other charges he faces is 150 years combined. Manning's defense team avers that their client was unwell, and that he was not competent to have been allowed access to classified information.
Incompetence as opposed to criminality?
Why not?
If it's good enough for DOJ, it's good enough for Manning.


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Selaru is the second signee to the Cougar tennis family for the 2005-06 season and she is the first player to come to Washington State from Romania. Selaru will come to WSU as a freshman in August from Zalau (Zuh-low, as in allow), Romania. In her native country she has been ranked as one of the top 30 players.
"We expect Carmen to contribute instantly in our singles and doubles line-ups," Hart said. "Her work ethic, passion for the game and personality are exactly what we are looking for to take Cougar tennis into a new era."
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As BP oil spills on and on into the Gulf, the seafood industry is being especially hard hit. With P & J Oysters in New Orleans--a major supplier, and the oldest plant of its kind in the United States with 134 years in business--shutting its doors, this had us wondering about the status of seafood in the Twin Cities.
We spoke with Tim Lauer, general manager of Coastal Seafoods, which supplies the fish and shellfish to many of the Twin Cities' best restaurants. He explained that Gulf seafood is a very small part of his business. About 14 years ago, Coastal stopped carrying Gulf oysters because they are filter feeders--meaning that they live on plankton and are typically found in warmer waters, making them a safety risk. Coastal is still selling Gulf shrimp from less affected areas in Texas, although those shrimp were harvested before the waters became polluted.
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Ryan Drese (11-6) won his fourth straight decision, a career best, allowing three runs and five hits in seven-plus innings.
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Francisco Cordero got three outs for his 38th save in 40 chances. The Rangers, who remained tied with Boston for the AL wild-card lead, are one win shy of their longest winning streak this season, set from June 18-26.
Royals rookie Mike Wood (2-5) and Jaime Cerda combined on a four-hitter. Wood gave up five runs and four hits - three of them homers - in 7 1-3 innings.
Joe Randa hit an RBI single in the first, but Dellucci's fourth-inning homer - which came after Wood retired his first 10 batters - and Mench's drive in the fifth put Texas ahead 4-1.
David DeJesus had an RBI grounder in the bottom half. Dellucci homered in the sixth for his third multihomer game of the year.
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United States Patent [191 Lewis 1 Jan. 15, 1974 [73] Assignee: Surgical Appliance Industries, llnc., Cincinnati, Ohio 22 Filed: .lu1y26,1972
21 Appl. No.: 275,143
[52] US. Cl. 128/77, 128/165 [51] Int. Cl. A611 5/10 [581 Field 01 Search 128/77, 80, 165; 2/22 [56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 3,046,981 7/1962 Biggs, Jr. et a1, 128/80 1,622,211 3/1927 Sheehan t 2/22 2,270,685 1/1942 Miller 128/165 2,195,024 3/1940 Bullock 128/165 FOREIGN PATENTS OR APPLICATIONS 1,024,204 'l/1958 Germany 128/80 Primary Examiner-Richard A. Gaudet Assistant Examiner-J. Yasko Attorney-Wood, Herron & Evans 5 7 ABSTRACT A surgical device including a tubular, elastic sleeve configured to snugly embrace the elbow region of the wearer and a portion of the forearm and upper arm extending therefrom, a pair of hinges secured to opposite sides of .the sleeve with the hinge pins of each lying along an imaginary line defining the bending axis of the elbow, a first strap lying exteriorly of the sleeve along the elbow crease and secured at its opposite ends to the hinges for restricting the pinned portions of the hinges from moving rearwardly away from the elbow crease when the elbow is bent, and a second strap encircling the upper and lower portions of the sleeve above and below the elbow which is configured in the form of a figure-8 to facilitate, with the wearers other hand, adjustably restricting the elbow against straightening motion beyond a selectively variable bent position.
3 Claims, 41 Drawing Figures ELBOW SLEEVE This invention relates to elbow sleeves, and more particularly to an improved elbow sleeve of the hinged type having means to restrict the elbow against straightening motion beyond a preselected adjustably variable bent position.
Elbow sleeves have heretofore been used for alleviating a condition known as tennis elbow in which the elbow joint becomes sore due to inflammation occasioned by repeated impact transmitted to the elbow joint. This condition is prevalent among participants of tennis, carpenters, and the like where the elbow is subject to repeated shock. In severe cases of tennis elbow, it is desirable to positively limit bending of the elbow to movement only along the natural bending axis of the elbow joint, and for this purpose elbow sleeves are often provided with hinges secured to the elbow sleeve on the opposite sides thereof.
One of the difficulties with hinged elbow sleeves is that as the arm is bent through varying angles, the hinges tend to move relative to the sleeve such that the hinge pins no longer lie along the natural bending axis of the elbow. This not only gives rise-to discomfort, but degrades the utility of the restrictive support provided by the hinges.
Under certain conditions of elbow sleeve use, it is desirable to positively restrict the elbow against straightening motion beyond a given bent position. Advantageously, the means provided to facilitate restricting the elbow should be capable of adjustment single-handedly by the wearer. Since a wearer is unable to manipulate the sleeve restricting means with the hand of the arm about which elbow the sleeve is placed, e.g., the right hand, due to the inability of reaching it with such hand, the restricting means, if to be adjusted by the wearer alone when in place on the elbow, must be such that it can be adjusted with one hand, in this case, his left hand.
It has been an object of this invention to provide a hinged elbow sleeve of the positional restricting type which maintains the hinge pins in position along the natural bending axis of the elbow as the elbow is bent through different angular positions, and which permits the wearer to adjustably restrict the elbow against motion beyond a preselected limit without assistance when the sleeve is in place on his elbow.
This objective has been accomplished in accordance with the principles of this invention by providing an elbow sleeve of the type having hinges on opposite sides thereof with the combination of a first strap located along the elbow crease which is secured at its opposite ends to the pinned sections of the hinges to effectively maintain the hinge pins along the desired natural bending axis of the elbow irrespective of the degree to which the elbow is bent, and a second strap encircling the upper and lower portions of the sleeve above and below the elbow which is configured in the form of a figure-8 and which, when a buckle is provided in the general area of the elbow crease, permits the wearer to single-handedly adjust and restrict the elbow against straightening beyond a desired angular position.
These and other advantages and objectives of the invention will become more readily apparent from a detailed description of the invention in which:
FIG. 1 is a side perspective view of the sleeve of this invention;
FIG. 2 is a front perspective view of the sleeve of this invention;
FIG. 3 is a side perspective view of the sleeve of this invention showing the manner in which the angular position is adjusted with one hand, and
FIG. 4 is a front perspective view of a modified form of this invention showing an alternate form of figure- 8 adjusting strap.
With reference to FIGS. 1, 2, and 3, the preferred embodiment of this invention is seen to include an elongated, tubular elastic sleeve 10. The length of the sleeve 10 is selected such that the lower and upper portions 11 and 12 thereof cover portions of the forearm 8 and the upper arm 9 extending from the wearers elbow. The diameter of the sleeve 10 is selected such that the sleeve snugly embraces the wearers elbow and adjacent portions of the forearm 8 and upper arm 9 when positioned in place about the users elbow. Preferably, the elastic sleeve 10 is fabricated of one-way stretch material, namely, stretchable in a circumferential direction, although it may be fabricated of two-way stretch material if desired so as to also stretch in a longitudinal direction.
The sleeve 10 is provided with a pair of identical hinges located on opposite sides of the sleeve, only one hinge 14 of which is shown. The hinge 14 includes upper and lower elongated bars 14-1 and 14-2, preferably fabricated of rigid material such as metal, which are connected for pivotal motion by a pin 14-3. Elongated hinge members 14-1 and 14-2 are secured in place by upper and lower sheaths l6 and 17 sewn to the exterior of the sleeve 10 at positions surrounding the upper arm 9 and forearm 8, and are disposed in a direction generally parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sleeve.
To insure that the pivot pins 14-3 of the hinges, which are located on opposite sides of the sleeve 10, remain disposed along an imaginary line coincident with the normal bending axis of the elbow as the elbow is bent through varying angular position, a hingeretaining strap 19 is provided. The strap 19, which preferably is inelastic, is located exteriorly of the sleeve 10 overlying the elbow crease. The retaining strap 19 terminates at its opposite ends in loops which surround their respectively associated elongated hinge members 14-1 and 14-2 in a region of the pin 14-3. The length of the retaining strap 19 measured in a direction parallel to the elbow crease is selected such that the hinge pins 14-3 of the hinges 14 located on opposite sides of the elbow sleeve 10 are restrained against movement off the imaginary line defining the bending axis of the elbow. As the elbow bends, there is a tendency for the pivot pins 14-3 of the hinges 14 to move rearwardly, that is, away from the elbow crease in the direction of arrow 18. The restraining strap 19, the ends of which encircle the pinned portion of the hinges 14, restrains the pinned portion of the hinges against such undesirable rearward motion off the elbow bending axis. Stated differently, the restraining strap 19 insures that, as the elbow bends, the pivot pins 14-3 of the hinges remain coincident with the imaginary line defining the normal bending axis of the elbow.
The surgical device of this invention also includes a restricting strap 20 in the form of a single, elongated, inelastic strap having opposite ends 21 and 22 which are adapted to be adjustably secured to each other by a suitable buckle fastener 23. The strap 20 has an intermediate section 25 which overlies the elbow crease in an angled disposition with respect to engaged strap ends 21 and 22. The strap 20 also includes an upper rear section 26 disposed to slidably engage the rear of the upper arm 9. Rear strap section 26 connects to strap end 21 and to the upper end of intermediate strap section 25. Strap 20 also includes a lower rear section 27 which slidably encircles the rear of the forearm 8, connecting the strap end 22 and the lower end of the intermediate strap section 25. The upper portions of strap sections 21 and 25 slidably engage slotted loops 28 and 29 formed in opposite sides of the upper sheaths 16, while the lower ends of strap sections 25 and 22 slidably engage slotted loops 30 and 31 formed in opposite sides of lower sheaths 17. Loops 28, 29, 30 and 31 maintain the various sections of the strap 20 with which they are engaged in the desired longitudinal position with respect to the longitudinal sleeve axis. Alternatively, and to enhance the restricting action of strap 20, the strap may be threaded through the set of loops 28', 29', 30 and 31'. Strap section 26, the upper portion of strap 25, and the inner portion of strap 21 effectively form a first, upper loop encircling the upper arm 9 while strap sections 27 and 22 and the lower portion of strap 25 effectively form a second, lower loop encircling the forearm 8. Between these two loops, the strap 20 is criss-crossed to form a necked region.
In operation, the sleeve is positioned to encircle the wearers elbow with the hinges 14 adjacent the inner and outer portion thereof and the retaining strap 19 overlying the elbow crease such that the hinge pivot pins 14-3 are disposed along an imaginary line coincident with the normal bending axis of the elbow. The elbow is then bent to the desired angle and the strap ends 21 and 22 secured with respect to each other by the buckle 23 such that the strap 20 is maintained in a taut position. With the strap so secured, the elbow is effectively restricted against straightening motion beyond the angular position it occupies when the strap 20 is secured. The degree of angulation, beyond which the elbow cannot bend in a direction to straighten it, when the strap 20 is secured is correlated to the effective length of the strap 20, i.e., the strap length between buckle 23 and the point on section 21 wherein it engages the buckle, with the angulation decreasing as this effective length decreases and vice versa.
In accordance with an alternative form of the invention depicted in FIG. 4, the figure-8 configuration for the strap 20, and in particular the necked portion between the upper and lower loop sections 26 and 27, is obtained without criss-crossing the intermediate strap section 25 and the buckled strap end sections 21 and 22. Instead, intermediate strap section 25 and buckled strap end sections 21 and 22 are passed through a ring 35 with respect to which they slidably engage. The ring 35 permits the strap 20 to be effectively necked to form a figure-8" without actually criss-crossing the intermediate strap section 25 and the buckled strap end sections 21 and 22.
What is claimed is:
l. A surgical device comprising:
a tubular elastic sleeve configured to snguly embrace thejoint region ofa wearers limb and adjacent sections of the upper limb and lower limb extending therefrom, said sleeve having a region thereof adapted to be creased when the limb is bent at the joint,
a pair of hinges secured to opposite sides of said sleeve, each hinge pivoting at a point along an imaginary line coincident with the bending axis of the joint,
A first strap disposed exteriorly of said sleeve overlying said crease, said first strap being connected at spaced points to said hinges adjacent said hinge pivoting points to restrict said hinge pivoting points from moving away from said crease to a position off said imaginary line, and
a second unitary strap configured in the general form of a figure-8 and having upper and lower loopshaped sections slidingly encircling said sleeve upper limb and lower limb sections adjacent said joint, respectively, and a single necked section between said upper and lower loop-shaped sections and overlying said crease outwardly of said first strap and unrestrained by said sleeve at said crease, to facilitate adjustably restricting the limb against further straightening in selectively variable angular positions with the degree of angulation correlated to the effective length of said second strap.
2. The device of claim 1 wherein said strap in the region of said joint crease is criss-crossed to form said necked section.
3. The device of claim 1 further including a ring slidingly engaging two adjacent, non-crossing sections of said strap overlying said joint crease to effectively form said necked section without criss-crossing said strap.
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USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program
Other ID: SEAX95007
Status: Completed
Organization(s): USGS, Woods Hole Coastal and Marine Science Center
Funding Program(s):
Principal Investigator(s): William Schwab
Affiliate Investigator(s):
Information Specialist(s):
Data Type(s): Location-Elevation: Navigation, Sampling: Geology, Seismics: Air Gun / Water Gun, Seismics: Boomer, Seismics: Sub Bottom Profiler, Sonar: Sidescan
Scientific Purpose/Goals: Assess the shallow sediment framework: the first phase of comprehensive environmental study of the New York Bight area.
Start Port/Location: Woods Hole, MA
End Port/Location: Toms River, NJ
Start Date: 1995-05-07
End Date: 1995-05-25
Equipment Used: 3.5 kHz, DGPS, Grab sampler - Van Veen , Boomer, Single channel hydrophone, Water gun (wh), SIS1000 Sidescan sonar
Information to be Derived:
Summary of Activity and Data Gathered:
Staff: William Danforth, Jane Denny, David Foster, David Nichols, Thomas O'Brien, Richard Rendigs
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Notes: Project = EEZ Mapping NY-NJ, EEZ Mapping NY-NJ
New York Bight, New York, New Jersey, United States, North America, North Atlantic,
Buczkowski, B.J., and Kelsey, S.A., 2007, Archival policies and collections database for the Woods Hole Science Center's marine sediment samples: URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2006/1187/.
Denny, J.F., and Schwab, W.C., 1999, Archive of sidescan-sonar and DGPS navigation data collected during USGS Cruise SEAX95007, 8 May-24 May, 1995: URL: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/publications/of99-356/.
Hill, J.C., Schwab, W. C., and Foster, D. S., 2001, Archive of water gun subbottom data collected during USGS Cruise SEAX 95007, New York Bight, 7-25 May, 1995: URL: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/publications/of01-157/.
Hill, J.C., Schwab, William C., and Foster, David S., 2001, Archive of datasonics SIS-1000 CHIRP subbottom data, collected during USGS Cruise SEAX 95007, New York Bight, 7-25 May, 1995: URL: http://woodshole.er.usgs.gov/publications/of01-97/.
Schwab, W.C., Denny, J.F., Butman, B., Danforth, W.W., Foster, D.S, Swift, B.A., Lotto, L.L., Allison, M.A., and Thieler, E.R., 2000, Seafloor characterization offshore of the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area using sidescan sonar: URL: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/of00-295/.
FAN 1995-007-FA has data viewable in the GeoMappApp/Virtual Ocean applications. To view this data in these applications go to http://www.geomapapp.org/ and http://www.virtualocean.org/. See the instructions for locating USGS data in these applications. You can also view the imagery created from the SEGY data at http://cmgds.marine.usgs.gov/images.php?cruise=1995-007-FA.
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Irrational as their fear may be, some people apparently are very scared of Friday the 13th, according to Dossey, who says 17 million to 21 million Americans have some form of fear of the date. "The symptoms range from mild anxiety to a nagging sense of doom," he says, adding that "some people will actually not get out of bed."
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I did get in the grocery shopping today. Which leads to a NSV for today. Pretty much I hate doing any kind of shopping alone because I get high anxiety. DH refused to come with me so it was either not go and starve, not go and eat junk, or go and continue the healthy lifestyle. So of course I forced myself to go out in the heat and get it done.
Came home and took a nap for a couple hours. Then DH woke me up for lunch. Afterwards I went shopping then got back and put away the groceries. I bought a whole table full of produce- you name it I probably bought it. lol. I decided to make a juice for dinner as I was already exhausted. Then while I had the juicer out I made a juice for breakfast so I can grab and go tomorrow morning as I'm up at 4a and start at 5a.
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