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With just a few days to go until Christmas, everyone in London is frantically finishing off their shopping.
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The X Factor winner ensured that all eyes were on her as she squeezed her curvy figure into a skin-tight jersey dress for her shopping trip to The Grove.
LA style: Alexandra Burke tries her best to pull of a stylish, Hollywood look as she picks up some last minute shopping at The Grove
Alexandra looked stylish when she jetted out of Heathrow a few days previously, and clearly didn't want to let her fashion crown slip so made sure that she dressed up as she hit the shops.
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Skin-tight: Alexandra shows off every curve of her figure in the skin-tight, jersey dress and adds a felt hat to the look
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Earlier in the day she had been at the X Factor USA studios to meet some of the contestants, tweeting a picture of herself with band Fifth Harmony, and sporting a sticker from the show on her dress.
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Helping hand: The former X Factor winner meets the USA contestants before hitting the shops
The star might be in the process of trying to launch her career stateside, after her last single only reached number 33 in the UK singles chart.
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As she jetted out of the UK a few days earlier, she tweeted from her business class seat on the airplane.
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Terrel White, 100
Diyral Briggs, 4.5
Interceptions: Antonio Smith, 2
Star of the defense: Senior DE Devon Parks
Player that has to step up and become a star: Redshirt
freshman LB Cody Basler
Unsung star on the rise: Sophomore DE Diyral Briggs
Best pro prospect: Parks
Top three all-star candidates: 1) Parks, 2) CB Antonio
Smith, 3) LB Terrel White
Strength of the defense: Cornerback
Weakness of the defense: Middle linebacker
Defensive Line
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way too much against the run and not generating nearly enough of a pass
rush. It's a smaller line this season, but it's a lot faster and should
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The key to the unit: Be stronger against the run and hope the
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Defensive Line Rating: 5
Projected Starters
- DE Devon Parks, Sr. - 56 tackles, 4 sacks, 8.5 TFL
A pure pass rusher with 13 career sacks and 23.5 tackles for loss, the
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- DT Brad Williams, Sr. - 63 tackles, 2.5 sacks, 10.5 TFL
A big defensive end and a small defensive tackle, the 256-pound senior
will move inside to add more speed and quickness to the interior. He's a
tough, hard-nosed tackler who'll hold up well despite his size.
- NG Nick Davis, Soph. - 39 tackles, 1.5 TFL
Davis turned into a strong backup and needs to be a strong starter in
place of Mike Thaler on the nose. At 280-pounds, he's the team's biggest
lineman and should be a big boost to the run defense.
- DE Diyral Briggs, Soph. - 38 tackles, 4.5 sacks, 5 TFL, 11
quarterback hurries, 3 fumble recoveries
The 6-4, 216-pound sophomore might be light and a bit too thin, but he
can move and has a fantastic motor. With all the attention paid to Devon
Parks on the other side, Briggs should be freed up to be a big playmaker
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Top Backups
- DT Bradley Minturn, RFr.
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counted on behind Brad Williams. While he might be small, he's quick and
should be active.
- DE Jacob Hardwick, RFr.
A top scout teamer last year, he should be a speed rusher on the outside
combining with Thomas James behind Diyral Briggs. At 260 pounds, he's a
far bigger option than Briggs.
- DE Thomas James, RFr.
He'll find his way onto the field sooner than later. At 255 pounds, he's
a good-sized end with excellent quickness and the potential to start
right off the bat if he has a big summer. He could see time on either
end spot.
The run defense wasn't a rock last season and
it could struggle even more if the linebacking corps doesn't play over
its head. Call this a major question mark with the only sure thing being
Terrel White getting a spot at one of the outside positions after
leading the team in tackles. The middle is the biggest issue with Cody
Basler and Jon Jakubowski needing to shine right away. The speed and
athleticism comes this fall when Eugene Fells and Brandon Jackson
arrive, but two true freshmen won't be the major difference makers
needed right off the bat.
The key to the unit: A steady force has to show up in
the middle while Terrel White and Erique Dozier have to be consistent.
Linebacker Rating: 5
Projected Starters
- Erique Dozier, Soph. - 19 tackles, 3 TFL
More of a safety than a linebacker at 6-1 and 198 pounds, Dozier had a
decent season as a reserve and needs to be a major factor right away
replacing Teddy Piepkow on the outside. He'll be used as a key pass
rusher and he should be more of a factor against the pass.
- Cody Basler, RFr.
A good scout teamer last year, the 225-pound Basler is in a battle with
John Haneline for the starting job and will have to fight off true
freshmen coming in this fall. He's a rangy, tough tackler who's more
than strong enough to handle the work in the middle. Consistency will be
his key to keeping the job.
- Terrel White, Sr. - 100 tackles, 3 sacks, 9 TFL, 5 broken up
White went from being a good backup to the team's leading tackler able
to play either outside position. The only returning starter to the
linebacking corps, he has to be one of the defense's top leaders and a
steady all-around performer again. He's 224 pounds and is always around
the ball making plays, but he's not a special athlete and he's not quite
good enough carry the entire corps.
Top Backups
- Jon Jakubowski, Sr. - 20 tackles
Jakubowski has been a nice reserve over the last few years as both a
defensive back and a linebacker. He can run and he has bulked up enough
getting to 221 pounds to get more work on the strongside.
- John Haneline, Soph. - 26 tackles, 1 interception
A bit banged up throughout spring, the 225-pound sophomore is
neck-and-neck with Cody Basler for the starting job on the inside. He's
a good tackler who can get into the backfield, but he's not a special
Defensive Backs
The secondary went from horrible to solid in the course
of a year, at least statistically, but that was partly because everyone
spent so much time running the ball. This is a young, young, young group
that's going to be far better by the end of the year once a slew of
redshirt freshman figure out how to play. Sophomore corners Antonio
Smith and Kenny Lewis will be good ones in time, while Deandre Perry is
a nice safety to build around.
The key to the unit: Live through the mistakes. There
will be some big rough patches early on before things tighten up.
Secondary Rating: 5.5
Projected Starters
- CB Antonio Smith, Soph. - 57 tackles, 2 interceptions,
8 broken up passes
Smith took over a starting spot as a true freshman and was one of the
team's best all-around defenders leading the team in broken up passes
and taking two interceptions for touchdowns. While not all huge at 5-10
and 175 pounds, he's a good tackler and a physical cover corner.
- SS Loren Hargrove, Jr. - 35 tackles, 1 sack
Hargrove went from not getting off the bench to starting by the end of
the season. He's an athletic 5-11 and 204 pounds with good potential as
the cousin of former Ohio State and NFLer star Shawn Springs and former
Cincinnati Bengal James Brooks. He's a smart player who needs a little
more time before he can be a confident difference maker.
- FS Deandre Perry, Jr. - 66 tackles, 2.5 TFL, 1 interception
The team's best safety, Perry is a big-hitting 6-1 and 214 pounds with
105 tackles over his first two seasons. Now he has to become a bigger
factor against the pass and use his experience to be in better position.
He'll be the quarterback in the secondary and could be an All-MAC
performer if he gets his interception stats up there.
- CB Kenny Lewis, Soph. - 5 tackles, 1 interception, 2 broken up
Lewis stepped in as a true freshman and saw time as a nickel back and on
special teams picking off a pass against Miami University and showing
off good potential. He's a great athlete and a top prospect who'll need
to take several lumps early on. The mistakes will pay off over the
second half of the season; he'll be solid once he gets more playing
Top Backups
- CB Jarrett Sanderson, RFr.
A good-sized reserve at 6-0 and 180 pounds, he'll see the field early
and often as a backup corner behind Kenny Lewis as well as a nickel
back. He needs time, but he has starting potential once he figures out
what he's doing.
- CB Van Johnson, Sr. - 7 tackles
For a while Johnson was the team's number two
quarterback and even saw a little bit of time in the win over Kent State
last season. He hasn't done too much on the defensive side, but he's the
team's most experienced player and has the athleticism and knowledge of
the system to be more of a factor.
Special Teams
The kicking game is up for grabs with Nick Goss getting the
first shot at improving the field goal situation. Alonso Rojas was rated
the number one punting recruit in the nation and has to kick like it
right away. Corey Partridge will handle the punt returns after returning
three kicks last year for 98 yards and a touchdown. Brandon Jones will
takes over for B.J. Lane as the main man on kickoff returns. The punt
coverage unit only allowed 2.6 yards per return last season.
The key to the unit: Hope for the freshman kickers to
be up-to-snuff right away. Far more production is needed on kickoff
returns after averaging 18.5 yards per try.
Special Teams Rating: 6
Projected Starters
- PK Nick Goss, RFr.
Goss is a big, athletic kicker with a nice leg and decent range. He'll
try to improve a mediocre situation with Joe Timchenko and Nate Fry
combining to hit only five of nine kicks and showing no ability to hit
from appreciable distances.
- P Alonso Rojas, Fr.
One of the nation's best punting recruits, the
6-3, 200-pound Miami product averaged 46 yards per kick last season and
should instantly add more pop to the punting game replacing Nate Fry. He
has a huge leg and should be an All-MAC star early in his career.


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As a guest entrant, Baumgartner has been gathering some racing experience in recent years during occasional runs in the one-make cups of the Volkswagen Group. The big difference in the 2014 season: the Audi R8 LMS ultra provides him with a 419 kW (570 hp) 'pure-bred' GT3 race car. The 44-year-old is completing an extensive preparation program before competing in the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring on June 21/22, 2014. His team-mates are equally prominent: The five-time Le Mans winner Frank Biela (D), the three-time Le Mans winner Marco Werner (D) as well as the GT and sports car pro Pierre Kaffer (D) will be his colleagues in the cockpit.
"This task is totally exciting and I'm looking forward to driving races in an Audi," says Felix Baumgartner. "During initial tests in the road-going Audi R8 I got to know the Nürburgring, and in the Audi R8 LMS ultra I've clocked a few kilometers on various tracks as well. I regard this task as one of the major projects in my life. The environment is perfect, the atmosphere is fantastic, and I feel really well taken care of by the Audi race experience. But it's also clear that I'm basically starting from scratch because this sport is new for me."
Former professional rally driver Josef 'Sepp' Haider, now the Audi race experience's sporting director, is one of the instructors of his Austrian compatriot. "Felix is approaching his new task in exactly the manner that is the hallmark of a pro," says Haider. "He's eager to learn, has good judgment of the physical conditions, and is totally motivated. All team members have come to respect him in the initial tests. I'm very much looking forward to our joint journey."
The team will be fielding another R8 LMS ultra in the 24-hour race. The drivers of this car have already been confirmed. Already last year, Dominique Bastien (USA), Rahel Frey (CH) and Christian Bollrath (D) formed a team. Christiaan Frankenhout (NL) will be supporting the Audi race experience as a driver for the first time.
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Monday, March 4, 2013
Nobody loves abbreviations like the folks in Washington, DC (an abbreviation itself), so it's not terribly surprising that the Capitol crowd has spiced up its OPM mindset with a dash of OPJ.
OPM, of course, is Other People's Money. Nothing easier to spend. (In fact, spending OPM is SOP in DC.)
OPJ is Other People's Jobs. Nothing easier to cut.
Or so it seems since Friday (March 1, aka Sequester Day), given the congressional shrug that greeted the trigger pull on $1.2 trillion in federal budget cuts ($85 billion by Sept. 30).
The sequester ax fell after President Obama and Congress failed to agree a deficit reduction plan.
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Shrug, actually, would be an understatement. A more offensive gesture comes to mind.
Because the day before the cuts were to take effect—at 2:07 p.m. ET Thursday (Feb. 28), to be precise—when thousands of workers nationwide were awaiting word on their futures, the House of Representatives adjourned for a long weekend.
So, all you California ship painters and blasters who just received notice that you might be laid off because of this deadlock?
Your members of Congress called it a (paid) workweek before you had your lunch Thursday.
Fortunately, the House voted to jump back into action at the crack of noon (ET) Monday (March 4).
Pledges, Prayers and the PRC
To be fair, the House did do some work Thursday before declaring it Miller Time. Members:
The Violence Against Women Act is important legislation and now heads to the President for his signature. But the other issues that filled the House's busy half-day Thursday seem less urgent … especially when thousands and thousands of American family incomes are hanging in the balance.
What's at Stake
Now, the full effects of this self-inflicted game of chicken are not yet known. Politically charged projections about impending sequester-related cuts abound, and most estimates do not see any cuts being felt for a month or so.
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(For a refreshingly factual update, check out the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' report or the Office of Management and Budget report.)
But coatings and contractors are clearly vulnerable. Defense programs are set to take half of the total hit under the sequester plan, and military personnel funding is exempt.
So what's left to cut? Things like maintenance of installations and ships. Public contracts. And a whole lot of contractors.
Meanwhile, over at the Department of Transportation, they're looking at nearly $2 billion in cuts by the end of September. That means tens of millions of dollars less for bridge maintenance, highway repairs, rebuilding aid after Hurricane Sandy, and other industry projects.
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As the American Subcontractors Association reported last week, "Army Corps of Engineers, rapid transit, military housing and facilities, water and wastewater infrastructure, school and other federally subsidized local public works, clean energy, and post-disaster reconstruction are some of the project types expected to be hardest hit by the mandatory cuts."
The C-Word
And why? Because in some circles of "the world's greatest deliberative body" (as the U.S. Congress has historically been known), compromise has become, figuratively speaking, a four-letter word.
This disaster has been brewing since August 2011, when the sequester was passed as part of the debt ceiling deal. The goal/gamble was to light a fire under the so-called "Supercommittee" (Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction) to make the hard choices on deficit reduction.
Dozens of proposals, hundreds of days, and tons of punditry later, one thing hasn't changed: The ground rule among many members of the U.S. House that considering one dime of new revenue is a "non-starter."
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Having individuals whose annual adjusted gross income exceeds $2 million pay an effective tax rate of 30 percent (the so-called Buffett Rule)? Hands off.
Ending corporate tax breaks for companies that send jobs overseas? No way, Jose.
A budget debate by the U.S. Congress that bans discussion of such issues? That's not a non-starter. That's a hostage situation.
And those layoff notices now rolling out of the printer for maintenance workers, contractors and others of you deemed expendable?
They're the ransom notes.
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|Zarafa (2015)
| "Zarafa fails to supply an emotional punch to match the grandeur of its Lawrence of Arabia-inspired compositions. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 3, 2015
|Chagall-Malevich (2015)
| "When the appeal of the film's whimsy wears off, the fogginess of its historical perspectives comes to the fore. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 8, 2015
|Animals (2015)
| "It sticks firmly to a Kerouac-lite immersion into young love rather than a more provocative portrait of the hazards inherent to modern urban life. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted May 11, 2015
|The Dead Lands (2015)
| "A phony collection of storytelling clichés held under the banner of archetype and lent a modicum of weight by the splendor of the landscape. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 12, 2015
|Cut Bank (2015)
| "If the film is meant only as a pulpy genre exercise, Matt Shakman's competence in various modes actually works to strip it of any sense of coherent vision. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 30, 2015
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| "The film finds the actors' performance deficiencies functioning less as signs of authentic teenage behavior than as an incompetent carrier of plot. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 23, 2015
|No Score Yet
| "Though short on concrete details, the film's evocation of late adolescence is rich in emotional texture and geographic specificity. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2015
|A Poem Is A Naked Person (2015)
| "Those familiar with Les Blank's malleable approach to documentary production will recognize that energy in its nascent form. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2015
|No Score Yet
|The Boy (2016)
| "By the time the film goes out in a blazing inferno of hell-raising loneliness and tops itself off with the best final line-to-credit song combo since Killer Joe, The Boy has reached a point of stupid fun. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 17, 2015
|The Nightmare (2015)
| "The Nightmare exhausts whatever built-in intrigue it has by at least the third or fourth more-or-less identical retelling. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 16, 2015
|No Score Yet
|La creazione di significato (The Creation of Meaning)
| "The film views the meaning-making process as something malleable and dependent on perspective. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 15, 2015
|Run All Night (2015)
| "This time around, in spotlighting Liam Neeson's fatigued charisma, Jaume Collet-Serra's formidable filmmaking chops have plateaued. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 12, 2015
|Seymour: An Introduction (2015)
| "Ethan Hawke's concentration on Seymour Bernstein isn't a betrayal of his own ego massaging, but rather an attempt to have a genuine soul-bearing conversation. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 9, 2015
|Kidnapping Mr. Heineken (2015)
| "For all the thematic emphasis the script ultimately places on the allegedly thick bonds among these men, it's surprising how often they communicate solely through exposition. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 3, 2015
|Young Bodies Heal Quickly (2015)
| "Its lack of dramatic specificity places it in a precarious middle ground between exacting character study and ethereal parable. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 22, 2015
|Old Fashioned (2015)
| "Any masochistic joy that can be derived from watching the film owes to seeing it take its bullheaded conceit to its logical, artless extreme. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 9, 2015
|Giuseppe Makes A Movie (2014)
| "Adam Rifkin's documentary convincingly portrays the sense of community fostered by Giuseppe Andrews's crazed passion. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 12, 2015
|It's All So Quiet (2015)
| "There's literally no way to miss the memo that It's All So Quiet is about dealing with the encroachment of death, as it's there in every scene. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 5, 2015
|Pioneer (2014)
| "Its greatest asset, and another trait it shares with Mann and Fincher's work, is a careful attention toward the particulars of its milieu in a way that doesn't call attention to those period touches. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 30, 2014
|Bad Hair (2014)
| "The narrative works through the many contradictions brewing inside its main character in the wake of his personal actualization without ever feeling like a dramatic checklist. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 17, 2014
|Wolves (2014)
| "The cinematographic approach of the film suggests some unholy hybrid of the aesthetic and genre indulgences of Michael Bay and the hyper-literalist plot construction of Christopher Nolan. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 9, 2014
|21 Years: Richard Linklater (2014)
| "Of greatest damage to the doc's coherence is its wholehearted belief that its subjects are offering firsthand reports worth hearing. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 3, 2014
|The Heart Machine (2014)
| "It showcases a genuine fascination with the mind/body split engendered by Skyping, online dating, and constant app usage through a plot that doesn't fuel itself on received wisdom. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 20, 2014
|Diplomacy (2014)
| "The film isn't really fooling anyone into feeling doom-laden suspense (Paris, after all, is still standing), but the principal performers sell the momentousness of the drama. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 16, 2014
|Fort Bliss (2014)
| "The complicated psychological realities of army personnel require a tougher directorial treatment than the maudlin melodrama presented here. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 18, 2014
|La Sapienza (2015)
| "Eugène Green's mannered direction doesn't work for every situation it's homogenously applied to, but at its most effective it inspires an enhanced sensitivity to the import of every gesture, visual or verbal. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 10, 2014
|Fedora (1978)
| "The offhand jabs at the dissolution of orthodox craftsmanship in 1970s cinema are overwhelmed by a deeper core of autocritique played out in the film's downward trajectory. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 2, 2014
|The Damned (2014)
| "From its first draw of blood onward, it bolts down a foreseeable slasher-movie trajectory, laying on thick the dramatic irony while constantly inventing new reasons to punish its characters for old iniquities. " ‐ Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 25, 2014
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TIM Eddy and Owen Taylor are excited to be selected for an overseas trip, but they have mixed emotions about what they will see.
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10 U.S. Code § 488 - Management of electromagnetic spectrum
(a) Requirement for Strategic Plan.— Every three years, the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Commerce, shall prepare a strategic plan for the management of the electromagnetic spectrum to ensure the accessibility and efficient use of that spectrum needed to support the national security of the United States. Each such strategic plan shall include each of the following:
(1)An inventory of the uses of the electromagnetic spectrum for national security purposes and other purposes.
(2)An estimate of the need for electromagnetic spectrum for national security and other purposes over each of the periods specified in subsection (b).
(b) Periods Covered by Strategic Plan.— Each strategic plan prepared under subsection (a) shall cover each of the following periods (counting from the date of the issuance of the plan):
(c) Submission of Plan to Congress.—
(1)The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress the strategic plan most recently prepared under subsection (a) at the same time that the President submits to Congress the budget for an even-numbered fiscal year under section 1105(a) of title 31.
Source(Added Pub. L. 108–136, div. A, title X, § 1054(a),Nov. 24, 2003, 117 Stat. 1615; amended Pub. L. 113–66, div. A, title X, § 1072(a), (b)(1),Dec. 26, 2013, 127 Stat. 868, 869; Pub. L. 113–291, div. A, title X, § 1071(f)(7),Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3510.)
2014—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–291inserted a comma after "Every three years" in introductory provisions.
2013—Pub. L. 113–66, § 1072(b)(1), struck out ": biennial strategic plan" after "spectrum" in section catchline.
Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 113–66, § 1072(a)(1), substituted "three years" for "other year, and in time for submission to Congress under subsection (b),", inserted ", in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Commerce," after "Secretary of Defense", substituted "the national security of the United States. Each such strategic plan shall include each of the following:" for "the mission of the Department of Defense.", and added pars. (1) to (3).
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 113–66, § 1072(a)(2), added subsec. (b). Former subsec. (b) redesignated (c).
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 113–66, § 1072(a)(3), designated existing provisions as par. (1) and added par. (2).
Pub. L. 113–66, § 1072(a)(2), redesignatedsubsec. (b) as (c).
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A device for use in vacuum suction systems for withdrawing fluids from a patient's body cavity, such as the stomach, wherein the device includes a chamber that is located in the flow stream of such fluids between the patient and the source of vacuum. At predetermined intervals, the device forces a quantity of the withdrawn fluid from the chamber, back into the suction tubing leading to the patient such that some of the fluid previously removed from the body cavity is forced backward toward such cavity under a positive pressure to dislodge any obstructions that may have occurred in the tubing or at the end of such tubing. In the preferred embodiment, the device is effectively self-contained and needs no source of positive pressure or electricity for its operation and is readily and fully operable from present commercial intermittent suction systems without revamping or otherwise modifying existing systems.
1. A positive pulse device operable from a vacuum source and adapted to be located in a patient drainage line leading from a patient to the vacuum source, said device comprising an enclosed housing, a movable piston within said housing separating the interior of said housing into first and second chambers, said second chamber having an inlet for receiving fluids from the patient and an outlet in communication with the vacuum source, said first chamber adapted to be connectible to said source of vacuum, bias means on said piston exerting a force thereon in a direction toward said second chamber, said first chamber being dimensioned such that vacuum applied to said first chamber overcomes said bias means to hold said piston in a first position withdrawn toward said first chamber, said first chamber being adapted to selectively be placed at atmosphere pressure causing said bias means to force said piston to move to a second position collapsing said second chamber, whereby fluids from the patient collected in said second chamber are forced therefrom in a backward direction toward the patient.
2. A positive pulse device as defined in claim 1 wherein said piston is adapted to close said outlet of said second chamber.
3. A positive pulse device as defined in claim 2 wherein said second chamber outlet comprises an opening in said enclosed housing, and wherein said piston further comprises a nose adapted to align with and enter said opening when said piston initially moves toward said second position whereby said nose closes said opening.
4. A positive pulse device as defined in claim 2 where means are included to control the total movement of said piston between its first and second positions.
5. A positive pulse device for use in a vacuum line connecting a patient to a source of vacuum for removal of fluids from the patient, said device comprising a variable chamber through which at least a portion of said fluid passes from the patient toward the vacuum source, said variable chamber having an expanded condition and a contracted condition and having an inlet for receiving fluids from the patient and an outlet connected to the source of vacuum, said variable chamber having means to be connected to said source of vacuum to move said chamber to its expanded position, and bias means to move said chamber to its contracted position when said further connection to said source of vacuum is discontinued whereby a portion of said fluid contained within said chamber is forced from said chamber backwardly through said inlet toward said patient.
6. A method of returning a portion of fluid being withdrawn from a patient toward a vacuum source comprising the steps of:
(a) positioning an expandable-contractible chamber within the flow path of fluids being withdrawn from the patient;
(b) directing the flow of at least a portion of such fluids through said chamber;
(c) selectively applying a vacuum to said chamber to expand said chamber; and
(d) selectively terminating vacuum to said chamber to contract said chamber to force a portion of the fluid contained therein withdrawn from the patient in a direction backward toward the patient.
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 10,095, filed Feb. 7, 1979, now abandoned.
This invention relates to a device used for the withdrawal of fluids from patient cavities. More specifically, the present invention comprises a device that can be used with present suction systems where vacuum is utilized for fluid drainage and the new device serves to force a quantity of the evacuated fluid backwards towards the patient cavity at predetermined time intervals to free clogged material from the drainage tubing or catheter.
In most hospitals today, central vacuum systems are provided by pipeline to accessible outlets in the various treatment rooms. The vacuum is thereupon utilized for the withdrawal of fluids from patient cavities, particularly from stomach cavities in post-operative treatment.
One of the problems associated with patient drainage is, however, the clogging of catheters or tubing by mucous or other heavy matter being drained. Such clogging prevents the flow of fluids from the patient and requires attention by hospital personnel to vigilantly insure that all tubing to the patient remains clear of such obstructions.
In Intermittent Suction Units (ISU's) a feature is provided that attempts to automatically alleviate the clogging problem. ISU's are regularly used in hospital treatment for drainage of patient cavities and, in effect, such devices stop the vacuum on a predetermined cycle and open the tubing leading to the patient to atmospheric pressure. In this way, the flow of fluid from the patient is temporarily stopped and some of the fluid is allowed to run backward by gravitational forces toward the patient. Examples of typical ISU's are shown and described in Eichelman U.S. Pat. No. 3,086,528, Sielaff U.S. Pat. No. 3,659,605 and others.
Intermittent suction does effectively clear various obstructions from suction devices and tubing, however, it does have limitations, in particular, the flow backward to the patient relies significantly upon the effect of gravity and, in those cases where the clogging material is heavy mucous, there may not be enough gravitational effect to cause the necessary movement backward toward the patient, thus the material remains in its undesirable position in the various tubing.
A further improvement to dislodge clogging material has been to force a fluid backwards toward the patient under a positive pressure, with particular emphasis on the introduction of a liquid, such as a saline solution, into the patient tubing. An example of such a positive backflow system is described in Blanck U.S. Pat. No. 3,042,042. In the Blanck system, however, a separate fluid is required that is forced by a piston back into the tubing leading to the patient. The overall system is relatively complex and requires electrical power as well as a plurality of motor-operated values. Also, the introduction of an outside fluid requires attention to sterility conditions.
A further system for producing alternate pulsations may be found in Duron U.S. Pat. No. 1,755,318 but no backflow is contemplated.
In U.S. Pat. No. 3,955,574 there is described a system for producing positive pressure back pulses used with a patient drainage system, however, again the unit comprises a complete system requiring a source of vacuum as well as pressure and thus, is an attempt to replace present suction systems rather than complement them.
The present invention overcomes the difficulties of the aforedescribed systems by providing a relatively inexpensive, simple device that may be used with present suction systems to add on the feature of providing a positive pulse of fluid backward toward a patient at predetermined time intervals to clear obstructions from tubing and/or catheters. The device is readily adapted to operate in connection with normal ISU's and basically changes the operation of that system from a gravity induced backward fluid movement to one that actually forces fluid backward under a positive controlled pressure.
In the preferred embodiment, the device of this invention requires no additional source of power for its operation, i.e. no pressure source is needed nor is any electrical power required.
Since the fluid forced backward is the same fluid previously withdrawn from the patient cavity, the problems of sterility in introducing an outside liquid are eliminated.
The device of the present invention is characterized by the inclusion of a chamber into the vacuum tubing line running from a patient to the source of intermittent vacuum. As the normal vacuum is interrupted by the ISU, the present device automatically senses the cessation of vacuum and closes off the tubing leading from the device to the ISU. The chamber is thereupon isolated from the vacuum source but is open to the patient cavity. Fluid in the chamber is then forced from that chamber and moves back through the open tubing toward the patient. In the preferred form, the chamber is essentially collapsed to force the fluid contained therein backwards toward the patient.
By this means, the device of the present invention can readily be installed in existing intermittent suction systems without the attendant high costs of installing an entirely new system to obtain a backward positive pulse of fluid, nor is any independent timing system needed. In fact, the cost of such a device can be made low enough to the point that the device itself is readily disposable and thus need not be autoclaved or otherwise cleaned after use.
The improved positive pulse device is illustrated in the accompanying drawings which show the preferred embodiment of the invention, incorporating the features and advantages described.
FIG. 1 is a flow diagram showing the device of the present invention installed in a conventional intermittent suction system; and
FIG. 2 is a cross-sectional view showing the actual configuration of the device constructed in accordance with the present invention.
Referring now to FIG. 1, there is shown a flow diagram with a device made in accordance with the present invention incorporated into a typical intermittent suction system for fluid removal from a patient.
A vacuum source 10 provides a regulated vacuum for operation of the suction system. Typically, hospitals are equipped with pipeline vacuum supply where a central vacuum pump is interconnected to individual rooms where outlets are installed that receive suitable plugs for use of the vacuum in various equipment. The normal vacuum found in most hospitals generally range to about 29 inches of Hg.
Connected to the vacuum source 10 is an intermittent suction unit or I.S.U. 12, typical of which is the fluidic unit described in U.S. Pat. No. 3,659,605 of U. Sielaff. As shown in the FIG. 1, a suitable tube 14 is used, however, in commercial units, the ISU 12 generally plugs directly into and is carried by the vacuum outlet in the treatment room.
A collection bottle 16 receives the drainage fluids from the patient and is connected to ISU 12 by suitable tubing 18. The collection bottle 16 normally collects fluids and in turn provides protection to prevent fluids from reaching a point downstream of the collection bottle 16 where such fluid could enter and do damage to the ISU 12 or vacuum source 10. As shown, the collection bottle 16 includes an outlet 20 where vacuum is drawn and an inlet 22 where fluids that are removed from the patient are deposited in the bottle 16.
Connected to the bottle inlet 22 by suitable tubing 24 is the positive pulse device 26 which is the subject of this invention. The device 26 has a vacuum port 28 which is connected by suitable tubing 30 to the output of the ISU 12. As shown, this is readily accomplished by a tee 32 in tubing 18 leading from the ISU 12. The positive pulse device 26 also has a bottle port 34 connected to the collection bottle 16 by tubing 24 and a patient port 36 again connected by tubing 38 to a device such as a catheter 40 which is inserted within the patient cavity when the drainage operation is being carried out.
The purpose and functions of the various ports of the pulse device 26 will become apparent from an explanation of FIG. 2 showing a cross-sectional view thereof showing a solid line position and a dotted line position of the pulse device 26.
The pulse device 26 depicted in FIG. 2 has the vacuum port 28, patient port 36 and bottle port 34 in their respective positions and comprises a frame 42 and a lid 44 which is fitted atop frame 42 forming an enclosed volume therein. The lid 44 may be tightly retained against the frame 42 by means such as screws 46 and an adequate seal is provided by means such as O-ring 48 to insure that the lid 44 is fully sealed about the top surface of the frame 42.
A movable piston 50 is positioned within frame 42 and is sealed by an O-ring 52 against the inner surface thereof. As may now be seen, a sealed vacuum chamber 54 is thus formed between the upper area of piston 50 and the lid 44. A spring 56 engages the piston 50 and lid 44 and exercises a bias to push the piston 50 away or downwardly from lid 44, the purpose of which will later be explained.
The piston 50 has an elongated nose 58 which extends downwardly toward bottle port 34. As shown in the solid line position in FIG. 2, the nose 58 is not in engagement with bottle port 34, however, in the dotted line position, the nose 58 is positioned within bottle port 34 and O-ring 60 seals the nose 53 against the inside surface of the bottle port, thereby closing the bottle port 34. As also may be seen, the underside of the piston 50 forms a fluid chamber 62 with the frame 42 wherein the only openings into said fluid chamber 62 are the patient port 36, and, depending upon the position of the piston 50, the bottle port 34 may or may not also consititute an opening into fluid chamber 62.
Also found in the lower portion of frame 42 is a cylindrical housing 64 having an internal threaded portion. A pin 66, also being suitably externally threaded, fits within housing 64 and moves laterally with respect thereto when said pin 66 is rotated in either direction. An O-ring 68 seals the pin 66 against the internal surface of frame 42 to prevent leakage from the fluid chamber 62.
At the lower end of pin 66, some means is provided for engagement with a turning tool; one possible configuration is an allen wrench socket so that an allen wrench may be fitted thereto and, when rotated, can advance or withdraw pin 66 with respect to the fluid chamber 62.
Turning now to the operation of the pulse device 26, it may be seen that in the solid line position of piston 50, fluid from the patient is drawn into the fluid chamber 62 through patient port 36 and is continually withdrawn therefrom through vacuum being applied via the bottle port 34. The fluid thus flows through the fluid chamber 62 in this position as the same is withdrawn from the patient to the collection bottle 16. At this point of the operation, it is assume that the ISU 12 is in the sucking position and vacuum is thus being applied continuously to the bottle port 34. The vacuum is, however, also being applied to the vacuum port 28 of the pulse device 26 and thus evacuates the vacuum chamber 54 to hold the piston 50 upwardly against the bias of spring 56.
As the ISU 12 enters the off cycle, i.e. the supply of vacuum is stopped, the ISU 12 causes the pressure in tubing 18 to return to atmospheric pressure and, accordingly, the vacuum chamber 54 also returns to atmospheric pressure.
The spring 56 thus applies its bias or force against the piston 50 serving to push the piston 50 downwardly. As piston 50 progresses downwardly, the piston nose 58 initially enters bottle port 34 and closes that port off by sealing O-ring 60 against the internal surface of bottle port 34.
As piston 50 continues its progress downwardly, the fluid remaining in the fluid chamber 62 is thus confined within a collapsing chamber and such fluid is forced out the patient port 36 backwardly toward the patient, thus effecting a positive pressure pulse of fluid in the reverse direction of normal fluid withdrawal to dislodge any obstructions in the tubing 38 or catheter 40.
As the ISU 12 again switches to the "on" or suction cycle, the vacuum chamber 54 is again evacuated and the piston 50 moves upwardly to return to the solid line position.
An adjustment to the stroke of piston 50 is accomplished by turning pin 66 which moves the pin with respect to piston 50 and limits the bottom of the piston stroke. As the pin 66 is rotatably inwardly, therefore, the piston stroke is decreased. In this manner, the attending personnel can set and adjust the quantity of fluid which is forced backwardly toward the patient.
Thus, as may be seen, the positive pulse device 26 is readily installed in existing intermittent suction systems without any difficult circuit changes and is completely powered by the vacuum source provided; no external source of energy, such as a pressure source, is necessary. Also, since the device 26 merely returns to the patient some of the fluid previously withdrawn, no additional sterile liquid is necessary.
It will be understood that the scope of the method and product of this invention is not limited to the particular steps or materials disclosed herein, by way of example, but only by the scope of the appended claims.
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