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A thin ring fabricated from a relatively low thermal expansion material located between the engine case and the outer air seal segments and adjacent vane segments serves to seal the gap between the adjacent vane segments and outer air seal segments by virtue of deforming the ring caused by the expansion of the case.
1. A turbine type power plant having a generally cylindrical outer casing surrounding at least one set of vanes and its adjacent rotor, a segmented generally cylindrically shaped outer air seal between the casing and the tips of the blades on said rotor, platform adjacent the outer edges of said set of vanes and being in substantially axial alignment with but spaced from said outer air seal defining a gap forming a leakage path of engine cooling air into the gas path, a tie connection extending radially inward from said casing securing said platform and said outer air seal and being disposed adjacent said gap, seal means for said gap disposed between the end of said tie connection and overlying a portion of said platform and said outer air seal and extending across said gap, said seal means being a continuous ring-like element and having a relative low thermal expansion in relation to said case whereby heating of said case deforms said seal means to position it into contact with said platform and outer air seal and seal said gap.
2. Apparatus as in claim 1 wherein the edge of said platform and the adjacent edge of said outer air seal adjacent said gap is beveled radially outward whereby said ring-like element tends to deform into said space formed by said bevels.
This invention relates to turbine type of power plants and particularly to seal means for the gap existing between the outer air seal of the rotor blades and adjacent vanes for sealing the cooling air in the cooling cavities outboard the gas path therefrom.
Owing to the advent of high performance engine, particularly in light of the concern for fuel conservation there has been an increasing awareness of avoiding air leakages in the engine. Obviously any leakage is in reality a loss of energy and hence adverse to fuel economy.
This invention is directed to the sealing of the gap that exists between the rotor blade, outer air seal and the adjacent vane at the junction point where the outer air seal and vanes are tied to the engine case. I have found that by utilizing a relatively thin ring fabricated from a low thermal expansion material (lower than the case) the forces created by the heated case during expansion forces the ring to bear against the vane structure and outer air seal structure deforming to provide a good seal. This serves to seal the cooling cavities located outboard of the gas path to prevent the higher pressure cooling air from ingressing into the gas path. It is contemplated that the seal be assembled into the engine with a loose fit ring. When the engine is operated, the generated heat causes the case to expand, which is at a rate that is faster than the low expansion seal. This causes the segments of the outer air seal and vane to move in a direction to bear against the seal. At operating temperature the seal is stretched elastically causing it to deform and conform to the contour of the walls of these segments. This gives a good metal to metal contact causing a satisfactory seal.
A feature of this invention is to provide a seal between the vane and outer air seal segments in a turbine type power plant so as to seal the cooling air cavities from the gas path to prevent the higher pressure cooling air from ingressing into the gas path.
A feature of this invention is to provide relatively thin hoop fabricated from a material having a lower thermal expansion value than the engine case so that the expansion of the case causes the seal to bear against the segments and form a good metal to metal (surface-to-surface) contact.
Other features and advantages will be apparent from the specification and claims and from the accompanying drawings which illustrate an embodiment of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a partial view partly in section and partly in elevation showing the details of this invention.
FIG. 2 is a blown-up partial view showing the seal in a non-deformed condition.
FIG. 3 is a blown-up partial view showing the seal in its deformed configuration.
FIGS. 1, 2 and 3 are a partial showing of the turbine section of a gas turbine engine having the turbine blade 10 mounted adjacent the vane 12. For convenience and simplicity only those elements necessary for an understanding of this invention are shown and further details of engine may be had by referring to any one of the engine models, as the JT-3, JT-8, JT-9 and the like engines manufactured by Pratt and Whitney Aircraft Group, division of United Technologies Corporation.
As shown in FIG. 1, a segment of the outer air seal 16 is secured into position adjacent the tip of the rotor by the hook connections formed on the inner diameter of the engine case 18. The hook portion 18 is formed in annular opposing lips 20 and 22 that fit into annular grooves 24 and 26 formed in one side of the outer air seal 16 and vane platform 28.
It is apparent from the foregoing that the segments of the vanes and outer air seal are tied to the engine case and expansion of the case will cause the vanes and outer air seal to move radially outward.
According to this invention ring or hoop seal 30 is disposed between the end of the hook portion 18 and the outer diameter faces of the vane platform 28 and outer air seal 16. At room temperature ring 30 fits loosely in this space as shown in FIG. 2 and at elevated temperatures owing to the differential in thermal expansion between the ring and case, the ring deforms and bears against the cylindrical surfaces 35 and 36 and deforms into the beveled surfaces 32 and 34 of the vane platform 28 and outer air seal 16, respectively. A suitable material for the ring is Thermex which is an iron alloy consisting of 38% nickel, 1.4% titanium and columbium, 3% tungsten, 15% cobalt, 0.9% aluminum and 0.05% boron, by weight or material identified as Inco 903.
In this configuration the diameter of the case is approximately 30 inches and this type of seal is particularly efficacious in the higher diameter engines, such as the one described herein.
It should be understood that the invention is not limited to the particular embodiments shown and described herein, but that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of this novel concept as defined by the following claims.
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Police teams have been dispatched to Deoria and Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh in search of an absconding television script writer at whose rented accommodation in Mandawali here the body of a 21-year-old aspiring model-cum-actor was found stuffed inside a plastic bag on Saturday. The victim had apparently been kidnapped for a ransom.
The police suspect the role of one Shanti Verma in whose rented house Sumit Tiwari's body was found. Enquiries by the police revealed that he had written scripts for television serials and some films.
Sumit, a resident of Karawal Nagar who had done a dual course in modelling and acting from a Noida institute, went missing under mysterious circumstances three days ago. His father then received a ransom call demanding Rs.2 lakh for Sumit's release.
Through technical surveillance, the police zeroed in on a house at Mandawali which was locked from outside. They broke open the door and found there Sumit's body stuffed inside a plastic bag. Circumstantial evidence suggested that he had been strangled.
Sumit's father disclosed that two days ago his son had told him about a crew shooting a film near Akshardham Temple. Sumit told his father that a person named Rakesh had promised to get a role for him in the film. For two consecutive days, Sumit left home in the morning apparently to meet the contact person and returned in the evening.
On Thursday too, he left home as usual for the shooting venue and around 5 p.m. called up his father to inform him that he was on his way back.
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Dec 3, 2012, 9:00 AM EDT
Even though we've said this every year since 2009, it remains true: for the Yankees to keep up their winning ways, they need a healthy and productive Alex Rodriguez. George King of the New York Post reports, however, that A-Rod's surgically repaired right hip is damaged, with an insider telling him that it's "a big issue."
Rodriguez looked lost against righties in the postseason, and one wonders if the hip — and an attendant inability to turn quickly — was the cause. A-Rod his .272/.353/.430 in 2012, though he was less effective after returning from the disabled list than he was prior.
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Indians demote Danny Salazar to Triple-A
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Thanks to his mid-90s fastball and fantastic strikeout totals Salazar was a popular breakout pick for 2015.
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So far so good in Tanaka's attempt to avoid Tommy John surgery.
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Royals castoff Johnny Giavotella looks like Angels' starting second baseman
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Mar 27, 2015, 8:42 AM EDT
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Why did the chicken cross the road?
To get to the other side, of course. Why this particular chicken decided he needed to cross I-90 near Argonne this morning is a mystery, however. It took a SCRAPS animal control officer, four WSP troopers and a DOT employee about 45 minutes to capture the wayward bird during this morning's commute. He seemed intent on evading capture. Maybe he was on his way to visit a girlfriend?
Whatever the rooster's intent, he's now locked up at the SCRAPS shelter waiting for his owner to claim him. "We hope the owner comes and gets him soon," said SCRAPS animal protection operations manager Nicole Montano in a press release. "He is really a beautiful bird and we'd like to get him back home as soon as possible."
If you know where this bird belongs, call SCRAPS at (509) 477-2984. Photo courtesy of SCRAPS.
Life & Death In The Country
Since Cindy will be subbing for me midweek on next week, I thought I'd get a jump on her cat photos by posting this one from Oregon online bud Robin Loznak, who writes on his Facebook wall: "One of the cats killed a wild rabbit about half her size this morning. The chickens were very interested."
St. Maries Council Frustrates Girl
Which came first, the chicken or the veto? After agreeing to allow residents to keep chickens within city limits in May last year, the St. Maries City Council decided against it last month. Jenna Bauer, 11, the girl who asked for the change said she feels the council deceived her. "They said I could have them and all voted yes, and now here they are changing their minds," she said. "That is unfair." Despite their latest decision, Jenna said she was going to keep her chickens and attempt to convince the council to reconsider/Mary Orr, St. Maries Gazette Record. More to come. (Gazette photo: Jenna Bauer with her grand champion chicken at their coop in her yard)
Question: What would you advise Jenna re: the St. Maries council changing its mind?
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A chicken is shown under PG&E SmartMeters in San Juan Bautista, Calif. The California Public Utilities Commission considers a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. proposal Wednesday to levy charges against customers who opt out of $2.2 billion SmartMeter program that has triggered protests in several Northern California communities. You write the cutline. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)
Today's highlights
At the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture in Spokane, a 1915 Rauch and Lang electric car is part of the new exhibit in the Campbell House carriage house. SR photo/Jesse Tinsley
Happy last Thursday before Christmas. It's time to take a look at the highlights from today's Valley Voice. The small towns in southern Spokane County are looking at their law enforcement bills from the Spokane County Sheriff's Office with concern, particularly Rockford. Their bill jumped $10,000 in a year.
While the Campbell House next to the MAC isn't in the Valley, it's still a regional icon. Reporter Pia Hallenberg has a story on a new visitor center in the carriage house. There are interactive exhibits in the horse stalls and touch screen displays so visitors can page through historical documents.
Correspondent Stefanie Pettit has an update on Chicken, the wayward hen she took in and cared for that now has a new home and chicken family. Correspondent Cindy Hval has another touching Love Story, this one about a World War II B-17 pilot and his WAVES wife.
Millsap: Crying Over A Lost Chicken
The scene in the morning was terrible. What was left of the torn, bloodied carcass of my beloved Anacona hen, the crazy, flighty Italian chicken whose antics never failed to amuse me, was tossed like so much trash in front of the henhouse. The two traumatized survivors, battered, bloodied, with beaks broken from frantic attempts to escape, crooning forlornly, huddled in a corner of the backyard under a lilac bush still laden with heavy, fragrant blooms. Feathers were everywhere. We'd been raided by a raccoon. I know it sounds silly to cry over a chicken. Everyone knows a backyard chicken is a target for skunks and raccoons and coyotes. Chickens vanish out of my friends' coops all the time. It's a fact of life. But I spent the rest of the day in tears anyway, consumed with guilt, fretting over whether or not I could have prevented the raid/Cheryl-Anne Millsap, Home Planet, SR. More here.
Question: Have you lost a pet to a predator (coyote, raccoon, skunk, etc.)?
Today's highlights
Capt. Mark Hill, right, and firefighter Brad Huffman stand by their truck Tuesday. They are part of the crew that will staff the new Greenacres Fire Station at 17214 E. Sprague. Jesse Tinsley/SR photo.
There's so much to check out in today's Valley Voice that you might as well pour a cup of coffee and get comfortable. The Spokane Valley City Council voted to make some speed limit changes, Spokane Valley Fire started operating out of the new Greenacres Fire Station this week and the Liberty Lake City Council approved a one percent property tax increase.
Students from Central Valley schools will be at the Safeway on East Sprague, the Fred Meyer at Sprague and Sullivan, the Liberty Lake Albertson's and the Albertson's on 32nd for their annual "Fill the Bus" food drive Saturday to benefit the Spokane Valley Partners Food Bank. For those of you following the exploits of "Chicken," check out the update on efforts to catch the free range bird and relocate her to a new home. Regular correspondent Stefanie Petit has been keeping readers updated about the bird ever since it began roosting under her porch a year ago.
Chicken coop tour this Saturday
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Great read but is a spoiler of the movie if you want to watch the winter soldier.
The one character long thought safe from resurrection, even in comics, was Captain America's teenaged partner Bucky Barnes. In this now-classic story by Ed Brubaker, Bucky is brought back as the Soviets answer to Steve Rogers but the Winter Soldier had always operated in secret. Until now.
I would avoid this if you want to avoid spoilers in the movie "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" but if you want to read the book that the movie is based on, this is the one you'll want.
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W: J. Bulger (5-1) L: G. Balfour (4-2)
|3rd Inning
Figgins singled to left, Kendrick scored.
|4th Inning
Carlos Pena (30) 2 run shot to right off Bell, Longoria scored.
|4th Inning
Napoli tripled to left, Morales scored.
|5th Inning
Longoria singled to left center, Bartlett scored, Crawford to second.
|6th Inning
Carlos Pena (31) solo shot to right off Bell.
|6th Inning
Gary Matthews Jr. (3) 3 run shot to right off Balfour, Morales, Napoli scored.
|7th Inning
Morales safe at first on shortstop Bartlett's throwing error, Figgins and Aybar scored, Guerrero to third, Morales to second.
Howie Kendrick (7) 3 run shot to left center off Wheeler, Morales, Napoli scored.
|8th Inning
Pat Burrell (10) solo shot to left off Arredondo.


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Everything non Christian corrupts youth in their eyes.
Anyway, that desk is pretty cool for the "look at me, give me attention" factor, but it's quite terrible for actually playing games.
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This is by far the ugliest thing I've ever seen. What, are you like 12 years old?
The mortar and pestle have been used for thousands of years to not only grind herbs, but to make dyes, medicines, and spice mixtures. It fits well with the Diablo theme. Also, the wax is really easy to remove off of a desk. Sad that you don't have an imagination, so you have to bash others for their creativity.
Oh, let me guess, you must be quite the player and have intercourse with girls twice a day?
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So much blatant negativity. O_o
I freakin' love it! Visually it's a gorgeous set-up (the wax on the desk is a nice touch, really cements the idea to the physical aspect).
I would change a few things- most notably putting the Book of the Blind poem on the parchment instead- but only minor things to customize it to my own tastes.
Dark and moody, visually it's a wonderful representation of the "mood" for the game. And if it's viable to play at that set-up, all the better!
Edited by Succubii#1412 on 5/2/2012 10:38 AM PDT
Haha, I was thinking so too while I was picking herbs. I wandered a good ways into the woods while thinking about whether or not it was too skyrimmy and then suddenly happened upon a half-naked hobo sitting on a rock. Nearby was a haphazardly made shack with a giant confederate flag, and there were tied up half filled garbage bags everywhere.
Long story short it was quite the adventure.
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Mars Asteroid Impact More Likely Than Before 207
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Tell them that if the asteroid just barely misses Mars that its gravitational pull could actually slingshot the rock straight towards earth! You just don't have to tell them what the chances of that are (astronomical would be an accurate value.)
Lets see how many people who failed math we can get to go hide in caves till it passes.
The more it moves, however, the higher the precision of the measurements can be. So as time progresses, the astronomers will be able to reduce the circle of uncertainty.
It would also be interesting to know if, given that there's an impact, the Opportunity Rover has a chance of seeing it. One report describes the possible impact point as "north of" the rover, but doesn't say how far.
It also notes the asteroid is 160 ft / 50 m across, and any impact probably will not be observed (by human eyes, anyways) because it will impact Mars where there are no instruments.If the asteroid is indeed on a collision course, it would hit Mars with a velocity of about 13.5 km/s (8.4 miles per second), and would produce an explosion equivalent to about 3 MT of TNT. We can only speculate as to the effects of such an impact, but it would be reasonable to expect a crater nearly a kilometer across and a significant amount of dust lifted into the atmosphere.
any impact probably will not be observed (by human eyes, anyways) because it will impact Mars where there are no instruments.
It says no such thing in the press release you linked to. Regarding instruments, all it says is:
The zone of potential impact on the surface of Mars is approximately 800 km wide, and sweeps across the Martian equator from southwest to northeast, crossing the equator at roughly 30 deg W longitude. The MER Opportunity rover is close to the southern edge of this possible impact zone but c
But what about 2007 WD40 [wikipedia.org]? My bet is that one WILL slip past us! <grin>
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To appreciate the power of regular expressions, let's look at a simple Perl script that helps system administrators look for authentication failures. For the following examples I used rather expressive regular expressions to show different features. You may write simpler ones to describe the same strings.
Each time someone fails to log in, syslogd writes messages to /var/log/messages that read like this:
Jul 26 16:35:25 myhost su(pam_unix)[2549]: authentication failure; logname=verdi uid=500 euid=0 tty= ruser=organtin rhost= user=root Jul 27 14:54:36 myhost login(pam_unix)[688]: authentication failure; logname=LOGIN uid=0 euid=0 tty=tty1 ruser= rhost= user=mozart
These lines list the time at which the login attempt was made, the user who tried to log in as another user, if available, and the target user. For example, the user verdi tried to log in as root two times, while someone failed to log in as mozart from the console.
Consider the Perl script shown in Listing 1. It reads the /var/log/messages file, then identifies the lines that look interesting and extracts only the relevant information.
Listing 1. Sample Perl Script for Finding Authentication Errors
First of all, we select only relevant lines and match them with the regular expression /authentication failure/ shown on line 7. Everything else is discarded. Then each line is matched with a regular expression (line 8) that should be read as follows: take all the strings starting (^) with exactly three ({3}) alphabetic ([a-zA-Z]) characters, followed by a space, followed by at most two (+) characters that could be either numeric (0-9, equivalent in Perl to the metacharacter \d) or a space. After a space, an arbitrary number (*) of digits or semicolons must follow. The portion of the string described so far is enclosed in parentheses, so it is stored in a back reference called \1 (it is the first one). After that, any number of characters (.*) can be found before the string "logname=". That string must be followed by any number of alphanumeric characters. Again, because there are a couple of parentheses, we will store them in \2. Any number of characters, finally, can be present before the string "user=", followed by any number of alphanumeric characters. This all gets stored into \3.
From this example, you can see how it is possible to extract substrings from strings. You do not need to know their relative positions, as long as you can describe their appearance.
Perl provides a helpful feature for working with regexps. The automagic definition of Perl variables named after the back references as $1, $2 and so on, can be used after a regular expression has been matched. Perl also lets users define useful symbols, such as \d or \w (equivalent to [A-Za-z0-9_]), as well as POSIX-compliant symbols representing the same things (see man perlre for more information).
Basic regular expressions are used by several other programs, like sed or egrep.
In basic regular expressions, the metacharacters |, + and ? do not exist, and parentheses and braces need to be escaped to be interpreted as metacharacters. The ^, $ and * metacharacters follow more complicated rules (see man 7 regex for more details). In most cases, however, they behave like their extended counterparts. It is often convenient to express the regular expression in the extended format, then add the escape characters when needed.
As an example, the script shown in Listing 2 generates an HTML-formatted page to read the content of system log files using an internet browser. Besides echoing HTML tags for the headers of the page and for a table, it simply lists files in a given directory and pipes the result to sed, which transforms it using a regexp. The syntax used by sed for text substitution is rather common and is something like:
where regexp is a regular expression that must be replaced.
Listing 2. Example Script for Generating and HTML-Formatted Page for Reading Log Files
Essentially, the syntax represents a string composed of nine elements properly described by the appropriate regular expressions. For example [rwxds-] asks for the possible characters that can be found within the first element.
The latter part of the string consists of alphanumeric characters, with slashes interspersed. You may notice that the regular expression used in this case is (.*\/)(.*). The first group matches all characters preceding a (escaped) slash, i.e., the path name. The second group lists all the following characters (the filename). The number of slashes in the path doesn't matter. Regular expressions (both basic and extended), in fact, are said to be greedy—they try to match as many characters as possible.
The result of the script is written to standard output and can be redirected to a given file (by cron at fixed intervals, for example) to be shown on the Web.
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"...followed by a space, followed by at most two (+) characters that could be either numeric..."
Is this a mistake? I can't see how that regexp isolates 2 characters (day of the month) without matching the space and hour as well. Surely you need something like this?
$line =~ /^([a-zA-Z]{3} [ 0-9]{2}
Otherwise you'll chew up further spaces and digits until you hit the first ':'.
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Down on the coast near North Berwick, short but beautifully golden winter day, sun setting, casting long shadows and warm, copper coloured light over the distinctive triangular shape of North Berwick Law (a major local landmark, it can even be glimpsed from parts of Edinburgh on a good day) as the rising Moon chases the sun from sky:
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Indy Ref – the day after
Spent chunk of the day with visiting cartoonist/journalist I know who was up to cover the referendum, and at one point we strolled down the Royal Mile, passing so many media crews (more camera crews than even during the festival). There was a crowd of Yes campaigners there, this was just after Alex Salmond had announced his resignation as First Minister, although we didn't know that until we spoke to some of them. This chap got up to make an improvised speech, and, I am glad to say called for understanding and moving on:
Then he finished by calling on the crowd, in Scots tradition, to forget divisions and come together, hold hands and sing Auld Lang Syne, and there they were singing and dancing in front of the Scottish Parliament
This chap started up with his pipes…
And there was the crowd doing some Scottish country dancing, Strip The Willow, right in front of the doors of the Parliament – loved it (and what a contrast to a small cadre of bigoted boot boys in George Square later in the day and their disgraceful behaviour)
And here's the media village set up by the parliament – think half the world's media has been on the streets of Edinburgh the last few days
Edinburgh as Scotland decides her future…
Edinburgh is buzzing tonight – Yes and No campaigners out, all seem to be in an almost carnival mood, and our ancient capital is also awash with massed media from all over the world and in addition to many flags – mostly Union flags for the No and Saltires for Yes – there is a sprinkling of foreign flags, notably Catalonian flags and many from Catalonia are here tonight, exuberant, watching closely, offering support and wondering if they will get their much-desired chance for a proper referendum that would decide if they stay or depart from Spain.
In front of Saint Giles Cathedral tonight, appropriately enough in Parliament Square, close to where the original Scottish parliament met before the Act of Union in 1707, the flags of Catalonia and Scotland re-created in coloured glass and fluttering candles. Turnout for the vote is huge, reports say, polling stations now closed as I write, the counting begins, by tomorrow we will know the outcome.
Even the world-famous Greyfriar's Bobby statue has had a makeover, with a natty new doggy coat in tartan all dressed up for the Independence Referendum!
Scotland decides
So today I and millions of fellow Scottish citizens decide on the issue of staying in the Union or returning to a state of independence, the most important constitutional decision in three centuries. I said months ago I thought it would be far closer than the previously (over)confident No camp thought it would be, but I had no idea just how close it would become this close to the wire… I'll cast my vote first thing before going to work, no way I will miss this. I decided a long time ago how I will vote, not on nationalistic lines, or from jingoism or feelings towards Westminster but mostly drawing on what I think is the most important thing, what I consider to be the most democratic outcome for Scottish citizens, that gives us the fairest form of democratic represenation.
(aircraft vapour trails crossing above Edinburgh Castle, creating a Saltire-like image, a floating, ephemeral version of the Scottish flag in a blue sky above the great castle at the heart of the capital)
I have held off from talking about it here because far too many people from politicians in London who ignored most of it for two years (until recently!) to that useless parasite of modern society, the opinionated but brainless celebrity, have been busy trying to tell people how they should think and vote. And while I have (surprise) strong opinions, as I tend to do about most things (Neil Gaiman once commented I was opinionated, but in the good way), I have no desire to try and influence anyone. This is not a decision anyone should try to make for you, not foolish, interfering foreign politicians (yes, Mr Tony Abbot, you and others), not the London government, not celebrities (especially those who don't even reside in the UK most of the time), this is our decision, for Yes or for No, our nation, our ancient nation, and our choice.
And afterwards… Afterwards, whichever way the result goes, no rancour, no discrimination, no in-fighting, we are, as the grand old Scots saying goes, all Jock Tamson's Bairns. And recall the words of our great Scots makkar and artist, Alasdair Gray, "work as if you live in the early days of a better nation." Whichever way the vote goes, work for ever more change – because change doesn't stop because life is change and we can't stop it as long as we live – change that makes for a better nation, because our nation is ancient and it was passed to us and we will pass it on to others, hopefully changed for the better each generation.
"I want the names and numbers…"
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson's speech to the Conservative party conference recently contained her wrapping herself in the Union flag to attack the pro-independence camp in Scotland. Since the Tories were the only major party to even oppose Scotland having a devolved parliament I tend to pay little attention to what Scottish Conservatives said – they are mostly a fringe party in Scots politics, really, both in terms of Holyrood and Westminster, disliked and distrusted by the majority of the electorate, as their voting habits have shown numerous times in recent decades. Ironically the voting system for the Scots Parliament has been their best hope for clinging on to at least a small amount of politicians in Holyrood…
However my friend Alex pointed out that during her speech to the conference she said:
"But 98% of Conservatives said they wanted to keep our Kingdom United.
And friends, do you know what I want? I want the names and numbers of the other 2%"
Er, is that right? She wants the names and numbers of anyone who doesn't agree with her completely? Great British Gods! How dare someone hold or express a different opinion in our democratic society! Fear being tracked down by Davidson's secret police and dragged away in dead of night for dissenting, you disloyal scum!
Seriously though, that is quite a disturbing thing for a politician to say and more to the point why the hell are the lazy-arse Scottish media not grilling this politician over this remark? That's their job, to hold politicians to account. And when they utter chilling phrases like that they should be held to account and questioned very closely and publicly on what they meant. Or perhaps like other right-wing politicians recently she will simply say "taken out of context" (the standard excuse) or the "it was a joke" (an excuse for uttering disturbing lines that seems to be making a come back in British politics at the moment). Either way she should have been questioned by the Scots media on this and she should also be a damned sight more careful of the wording of her speeches. As my friend remarked as we discussed this, had a Yes camp politician said something similar there would have been uproar, and rightly so.
And before anyone says I'm just doing some pro-independence biased ranting here, A) I am still waiting on a proper debate (as opposed to simple posturing and either scare stories or misty-eyed rhetoric from each side we've had so far) and information on which to base my decision for my vote (and lines like that above don't help persuade me to the No camp) and B) even if I had decided completely to be in the Yes camp already it doesn't invalidate the criticism of her quite disturbing wording.
Looping the loop
Down at North Berwick on a very warm, sunny Sunday afternoon earlier this week, strolling along the beach we heard the drone of a propeller engine – not unusual as there is a small airfield nearby and light aircraft and small microlights fly out from it and along the coast regularly. This sounded much more powerful though and when we spotted the plane it was moving a darned site faster than the usual little Cessna type light planes you see around there (which are really the small car of the skies, very slow). This sounded like an engine beefed up for speed and it roared past quite low; as it tilted we realised it was a biplane and we thought hey, few years back, last time we saw a biplane at this spot he was practising his air display routines, I wonder… And lo and behold on went the smoke cannister and the pilot launched into a series of maneuvres, rapid climbs, dives, looping…
After several moves the pilot roared low over North Berwick, from this perspective seemingly in line with the rocky headland which just out beyond the Scottish Seabird Centre and the harbour and I quickly tried to zoom and focus on the fast moving plane and was lucky enough to capture this scene:
And a moment later I got another decent pic of the plane with the local landscape, this time flying past the mighty Bass Rock (once a site of pilgrimage, a monastery, a fortress and a prison across our long history, now one of the largest seabird colonies in Europe, given back to nature):
We even got to see the pilot pull a classic stunt that goes back to the World War I dogfights, climb up at full speed, almost vertically until stalling then let the plane 'fall' over and straight back down into a dive:
Turning into a climbing loop:
And then it was all done, our brief one-man air show was finished and the biplane was roaring back inland towards the airfield. But what a cracking little surprise show we had:
Cloudscape, skyscape, landscape: Scottish river, Scottish sky
Crossing the Tay rail bridge at the weekend, a bright, sharp but chill Easter weekend. As the bridge curves across the mighty Firth of Tay towards Dundee the river was at low tide, still as a mirror and reflecting the cloudscape above beautifully. It was a glorious Scottish landscape to view from the train and I didn't expect any shots taken through the window from a moving train to come out very well, but sometimes little experimental shots like that work and you get something beautiful like this:
Heading down the coast a few weeks ago with a chum and his dog we stopped off briefly at Longniddry Bents to let the dog have a quick walk and in case he needed to 'use the facilities'. As we walked down to the beach we had this rather lovely sight of a pair of horses being exercised in the shallow surf of the Bents (which have a long, very shallow beach so at high tide you can wade around a fair bit before it gets too deep, the odd dips notwithstanding):
This one was actually being lead rather than ridden as he'd injured his leg and the salt water was good at cleaning out the wound:
Changing light on the landscape
Out with my dad a few days ago, one of those days where we had bright sunlight, rain, hail and more all within minutes of one another. May make the weather unpredictable for going out but it also means constantly changing quality of light, something I rather love in Scotland, it makes even scenes you've seen many times before look different. We had driven up and over the Campsie Hills (a range of extinct volcanoes a little north of Glasgow) and coming down the far side towards Fintry we pulled over to watch a band of sun and rain move along the hills and mountains in the north. Above you can clearly see Ben Lomond, the most southerly of the Scottish Munros – a Munro is a mountain over 3000 feet and hill walkers and climbers who try to do all of them and tick them off are known as Munro Baggers – which is in the Trossachs and Loch Lomond National Park, still snowcapped as you can see even in late April, caught here in shafts of sunlight from gaps in the cloud while dark curtains of rain flicker over the other summits nearby.
You can see huge areas such as the foreground in deep gloomy shadows from the heavy clouds overhead, some of the peaks in the distance being hammered with rain, others basking in sun (we watched the sun and rain move along the whole range in a few minutes), if you click on the pics to go the larger images on the Woolamaloo Flickr you can even see some smaller, lower clouds floating around below the actual peaks themselves. All this landscape beauty is just a short drive from Scotland's largest city – it's one of the reasons I love living in Scotland, even in the middle of a city you are never far from our landscape. Here where I live in Edinburgh I can catch glimpses of the Pentland Hills from the middle of town, or views down to the might river Forth and the hills of Fife on the other side. Best of both worlds.
Autumn in Edinburgh
Scotland in autumn, my favourite season here, not just because of the riot of colours as the leaves change, but because of the quality of light we get here at this time of year.
Because our little kingdom lies so far north, as the world tilts on its journey around the sun Scotland is at such an angle that we have the sun much lower in the sky, casting long shadows and meaning the sunlight is stretched out to a redder part of the spectrum, meaning we get this glorious, golden quality. It's like warm honey slowly dripped across the land, beautiful copper-amber colour that splashes over the landscape and the man-made structures alike, giving an amazing glow to everything from trees to the old buildings hewn from native stone. Gorgeous.
(Greyfriars kirk as the evening autumnal sunlight splashes across the western end)
And right now we're in that perfect time when much of the foliage is still the deep green of spring and summer (doubtless helped by all that rain we get!) but parts have started to turn now, mixing russet, gold, vermillion and more colours, especially as the sunlight shines through them.
All the fun of the fair
Nice, sunny afternoon, pal decided to get the hood down on his old MG and go for a run up the coast, we ended up in Burntisland in Fife for a short stop, wandered through the wee funfair, sudden rush of childhood memories – if we came back this way when I was a kid my mum and dad couldn't get past here without me spotting it and a stop off would normally ensue. Nothing huge at it, but when you're six it's fun!:
From a distance we thought this was a helter-skelter, but when we got closer we realised it wasn't a slide spiralling down the tower, it was a track and wee cars ran down it. How the heck did they get up to the top though? We watched and it turned out the cars went right up inside the tower – kids get in them, it enters then flips up so it is sitting on it's backside and goes up vertically with the passengers lying on their back, then at the top it emerges, flips back to horizontal and starts its spiral downwards, looked fun.
and here's a short video of the ride in action:
Happy 110th birthday, Kelvingrove
Today marks the 110th anniversary of a true Scottish institution opening its doors to the public: on May 2nd, 1901 the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum first admitted the people of Glasgow and Scotland to enter within this temple of delights. Generations of Scots have grown up with the Kelvingrove, walking through the pleasures of nearby Kelvingrove park, or coming down from the Gothic spires of nearby Glasgow University and the Bohemian pleasures of studenty Byres Road, to the banks of the Kelvin and this palace of wonders and knowledge and art. Those generations include me: like many children growing up in Glasgow the Kelvingrove was a regular pleasure, my parents taking me in there. It was my childhood idea of what a great museum should be – knights in shining armour, Egyptian mummies, mighty dinosaur skeletons! My, what treasures to delight a wee boy, to spark his imagination and generate a lifelong love of history and learning.
And the adult me adores it still – when my friend (who also grew up visiting the Kelvingrove) and I went through after the museum re-opened after an extensive refurbishment we both still loved it. A real Supermarine Spitfire hanging from the cieling in one gallery right above a giraffe! An Egyptian sarcophogus. Exquisitely made medieval armour – among the many collections the museum enjoys an international reputation for is its arms and armour, it boasts one of the finest collections anywhere. And then those light filled upper galleries full of artworks, from the Scottish Colourists and the Glasgow Boys to an international panoply of artists of the ages. It is the first place I saw Salvador Dali's powerful Christ on the Cross, an amazing work even to those of us who have no truck with religion. And it is still free – free to all the citizens of Glasgow and Scotland and our visitors, a people's palace, open to and run for the people of its city and country, long may it continue.


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Differentiation of BCG-induced lymphadenitis from tuberculosis in lymph node biopsy specimens by molecular analyses ofpncA andoxyR
ABSTRACT Without culture, differentiation of bacille Calmette-Guérin-induced lymphadenitis (BCG-LA) from tuberculosis (TB) is sometimes difficult by histology, but is important because of different treatment schemes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility of differentiating BCG-LA from TB in lymph nodes (LNs) by molecular analyses of two recently identified genes, pncA and oxyR. In both genes, a single tuberculosis difference exists between Mycobacterium bovis and M. tuberculosis. M tuberculosis complex (MTC) DNA was first detected in nine of ten formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded LNs from patients aged under 20 years with suspected mycobacterial infections, using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for IS6110, an insertion sequence specific for MTC species. PCR, together with direct DNA sequencing and PCR-restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) assay, was then performed to identify polymorphic nucleotide in pncA and oxyR, respectively. For comparison, 37 adult cases of tuberculous lymphadenitis were also analysed by PCR-single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) assay for pncA and by PCR-RFLP for oxyR. The results revealed that five of the nine IS6110-positive child cases had a G residue at nucleotide 169 in pncA, and also had a three-band pattern after digesting the amplified oxyR segment with AluI, suggesting BCG-LA. The remaining four child cases, as well as all adult cases with detectable IS6110, showed no motility shift in pncA PCR-SSCP and had the same one-band pattern as M. tuberculosis in oxyR PCR-RFLP, suggesting TB lymphadenitis. The data from molecular analyses showed a good correlation with the vaccination history and clinicopathological findings, except for one case. This study indicates that molecular assay of either oxyR or pncA could be a rapid and useful tool to distinguish BCG-LA from TB.
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ABSTRACT: The bacilli Calmette-Guérin (BCG) Tokyo-172 strain was considered to exhibit good protective efficacy with a low rate of unfavorable side effects. However, we describe a rare case of BCG osteomyelitis developed in an immunocompetent host who was given with BCG Tokyo-172 vaccine on the left upper arm by multipuncture method. A 9-month-old girl presented with progressive inability to move her right elbow and had radiographic evidence of septic elbow combined with osteomyelitis of right distal humerus. A biopsy from the site revealed chronic caseating granulomatous inflammation, positive for BCG Tokyo-172 strain on the multiplex polymerase chain reaction. The child had to undergo second surgical debridements and oral antituberculosis chemotherapy. There were no sequelae after 2 yr of follow-up. This complication, although uncommon, should be considered in the appropriate clinical setting.Journal of Korean medical science 02/2012; 27(2):221-4. DOI:10.3346/jkms.2012.27.2.221 · 0.84 Impact Factor