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Inspired by traditional processes, CASA DEL AGUA emerges as a nostalgic brand that evokes and appeals to that which is well made, to the practical, to the timeless, but especially to the beautiful. Man, machine, and nature come together in a common language, unafraid to speak with clarity and purpose. CASA DEL AGUA is the encounter between past and present speaking with a high sense of "honesty and transparency". Also known as "El Agua Local" (The Local Water) or –"De Barrio" (Neighborhood) because it collects, distills and harmonizes on site, CASA DEL AGUA is instinctively contemporary, yet passionately classic. With conviction, it represents everything that is worthy for what it "is" and not for what it "intends to be".
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Blessing of the Hounds
Hear our humble prayer, O God, for all animals, especially those in whose companionship we find joy and health. We entreat for them Thy mercy and pity, and for those who deal with them we ask a heart of compassion, gentle hands and kindly words. Make us all to be true friends of animals and so share in the blessings of the merciful, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Bless, O Lord, rider and horse, and hounds that run, in their running, and shield them from danger to life and limb.
May Thy children who ride, and Thy creatures who carry, come to the close of the day unhurt and give thanks to Thee with grateful hearts.
Bless those over whose lands we hunt, and grant that no deed or omission of ours may cause them hurt or trouble.
Bless the foxes who partake in the chase, that they may run straight and true and may find their destiny in Thee.
Bless the hounds to our use and their joyful part in Thy service.
O God, who of Thy love sanctifieth all things by Thy Word, pour down Thy mercy upon these Thy servants, their horses and their hounds; to all who shall take part in the hunt, grant protection of body and soul; make us all ever mindful of, and responsive to, the needs of others that the spirit of true sportsmanship may prevail in all that we do; all which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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Brooke Shields is reaching out to Britney Spears, who is currently in rehab.
"I hope she's fine," Shields, 41, tells TV's Access Hollywood in an interview to air Monday. "I believe she's going to be fine, and she just needs the support and her kids. She's their only mom, and she'll earn that back in her own mind."
Shields, who suffered postpartum depression after the birth of her first child, says that if Spears – mom to Sean Preston, 18 months, and Jayden James, 6 months – is suffering from the condition as some have speculated, "then it really needs to be reckoned with, and it's very common, and she'll get through it."
Shields, the mother of two daughters, Rowan, 3, and 10-month-old Grier, wrote the book Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression detailing her experience and how she overcame it.
"If [Britney] is reading my book," Shields adds, "I hope it's helping her. If it's not, and she wants to talk to someone, I'm available."
Shields, who like Spears has been a public figure since she was a child, says the constant pressure of being in the media spotlight may have contributed to the singer's trouble. "[She is] followed every moment of her life, and she's documented every minute of her life."
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Erie SeaWolves infielder Brandon Douglas is heading to Triple-A Toledo. Douglas is hitting .297 this season with three doubles and six RBIs for the SeaWolves, including a .307 average over the past four games. He was projected to start in Toledo but was added to the Erie roster out of spring training after Dixon Machado was sent to the disabled list.
Danny Worth left Toledo's game on Wednesday with a heel injury and could be on his way to the disabled list. Douglas' call-up could replace Worth on the roster. Lakeland catcher Zach Maggard is being sent to Erie to replace Douglas. Maggard is a right-handed catcher that is hitting .105 with 10 strikeouts this season. Maggard will be Erie's third catcher on the roster with James McCann and Ramon Cabrera seeing time in the starting lineup nearly every day. Maggard will not be in uniform tonight against Trenton.
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New Experiment: Mass Effect Tech Would Operate 10,000 Times Faster Than Light
Still too slow to stop the Reapers.
By Ryan Winterhalter Mar 14, 2012 4:06PM PSTTags: Mass Effect (XBOX 360) Mass Effect (PC) Mass Effect 2 (PC) Mass Effect 2 (XBOX 360) Mass Effect Galaxy (IPHONE) Mass Effect 2 (PS3) Mass Effect 3 (XBOX 360) Mass Effect 3 (PS3) Mass Effect 3 (PC) Mass Effect Infiltrator (IPHONE)
A few weeks ago we discussed the physics behind Mass Effect's "quantum entanglement communicator."
Particles like photons have a property called spin, and through the...laws of quantum mechanics, two particles can become "entangled" in such a way that if particle A spins clockwise, its counterpart B will being spinning counter-clockwise instantly, regardless of its location in the universe. Represent a spin in either direction as 0 and 1, and you have yourself a digital radio capable of operating across the vastness of space.
As fantastic as this sounds, quantum entanglement is a real phenomenon and subject of study -- but even scientists in the field find it weird. "Any theory that tries to explain quantum entanglement... will need to be very spooky -- spookier, perhaps, than quantum mechanics itself," said one physicist to The Telegraph when explaining a recent discovery by a team of physicists in Switzerland. His comments refer to a famous quote by Einstein where he referred to entanglement as "spooky action at a distance." Their findings show that any communicator like the one aboard the Normandy would transmit data much faster than light speed. Further discoveries could reveal the speed to be much higher still, but the new discovery places a lower speed limit on the phenomenon -- one that's still too slow to communicate instantly across interstellar distances.
The team of scientists began by entangling photons (particles of light) at their lab in Geneva. They then passed each particle down one of two fiber-optic cables of equal length to the nearby villages of Jussy and Santigny. By studying the photons in their respective villages, the team was able to pin the speed of entanglement to at least 10,000 times the speed of light. This means that changes in one particle transmitted changes to the other at approximately 1,860,000,000 miles per minute, or 10,000 light years per year. That's faster than any phenomenon ever recorded in human history, and certainly fast enough to travel our galaxy, but far too slow to operate an entanglement communicator across the distance of space. If Shepard were at the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, and the Illusive man on Earth, it would still take around an hour for a single bit of data to reach the other side. If Shepard happened to be on the other end of the galaxy, a message from the Illusive man would reach him in around 10 years.
The experiment reveals that entanglement travels at least 10,000 times the speed of light, but may in reality be much faster, meaning speed may not present an issue. However, just because the two photons appear to exchange information at FTL speeds, doesn't mean that we can access and use it -- which keeps Einstein's universal speed limit firmly intact, and places the Normandy's communicator firmly in the realm of science fiction.
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ItsPosted: Mar 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by sepewrath
interesting, Shepard can have a random conversation with EDI in which she discusses the possible existence of multiple universes, which in theory would have different laws in regards to physics and matter and how the science of Mass Effect is only possible in their universe. I assume it was suppose to be an in joke, about how any of the things you see in the game is possible. I guess that would apply to Quantam Entanglement as well. That's actually a real world theory, that I find to be rather interesting. As EDI said, a universe where 1+1=3
Quantum entanglement cannot be used to send information.Posted: Mar 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by mjemirzian
Quantum entanglement cannot be used to send information. Furthermore, the wave collapse is a one time function. Even if entanglement could send information, you'd only be able to use each entangled pair once, for a total of one bit.
Stop it!Posted: Mar 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by JonathanDrake
Why does 1Up keep trying to shatter my dreams of space hijinks with this silly talk of Science???
You're like that guy at the party...Posted: Mar 14, 2012 12:00AM PST by AquinasD
Who thinks he's clever because he can point out that, in the real world, the AT-ATs would be ridiculously impractical and good for nothing but wasting resources. But that isn't the point! They're just supposed to be cool. It's a fucking story. Let it tell its story. If you can't enjoy The Iliad because "the gods aren't real," you're just obtuse.
Forget the AT-ATsPosted: Mar 15, 2012 12:00AM PST by Captain_Gonru
though they were way too top-heavy
HoorayPosted: Mar 15, 2012 12:00AM PST by NextSureThing
Now get Neil deGrasse Tyson to rewrite this.
i guessPosted: Mar 17, 2012 12:00AM PST by Dub_Z
someone would have to entangle the particles locally, and then get one of them to the other side of the galaxy to create an oppositional relay. that's gonna be a problem, even if the evil doppleganger effect was instaneous and the state of molecules was easy to interpret as data. 1 phone per galaxy, and every junction telling the next what to tell the next and the next etc
talk about a one horse town.
it could be pretty fucking amazing to have internet that fast on earth, though. i'm sure AT&T would find some reason to cap it even if it flowed like water. plus it would be scary to have agitated-molecule containers/regulators anywhere near civilization.
i knoiw nothing, though, honestly


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My mistake on the gluconeogenesis, I thought it was just amino acids that got broken down. Regardless, it's a poor way to get glycogen to your muscles, it's more there to protect your brain in times of famine.
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Buzz words are something that has gotten completely out of control. It seems like they permeate every part of life these days. Every package of food in the super market is covered with words that do not even mean anything; every new item being sold has some descriptive word on it that really has nothing to do with the item. When I go shopping, I am bombarded with products that claim to be "fat free" or "natural", what does that even mean? Natural, what isn't natural? Radiation is "natural" but I don't want extra added in my food. These words are usually just something that an advertising team has found catches the attention of the public. We need to be smarter shoppers. Knowing a lot of those popular buzz words so that we can just ignore them is the first step.
The same thing is taking place in every aspect of marketing. We even see it in the gaming community. Gaming used to be a sub culture, but with the rise in popularity over the last decade or so, and the advent of Esports, references to video games have become commonplace. As an entire generation of people become adults that were raised with video games, companies are working overtime to cash in on this market. Nowadays, just about every company is releasing a "gaming" line of products, but what makes a peripheral a gaming product?
The Genius KB-G265 has LED backlighting and eight media hot keys. The KB-G265 from Genius also comes with a set of eight interchangeable keycaps to switch out the WASD and arrow keys. Genius has also provided anti-ghosting across 20 keys to allow game players more functionality without the keyboard getting hung up on input commands. There are two USB pass through ports to allow users to plug headphones and/or a mouse into the keyboard. The KB-G265 is a full sized keyboard with a standard layout, except for the addition of eight hotkeys located across the top of the keyboard. The Genius also has a palm rest with LED lighting that matches the backlighting of the keys. The final unique feature is the smart cable allocation, which allows us to run the wire through one of three different channels in an attempt to manage desktop clutter.
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Today is the start of our monthly design challenge! It's a new giveaway that the Material Girls will host each and every month here on our site.
All of us designers at MG will give you guys the chance to challenge us each month. Do you have an irregular shaped floor plan? Are you stumped on what color scheme should go in your bedroom? Can't find any lighting you like? We pick the topic, you provide the home's challenge, we provide answers- easy as that! Free advice and inspiration to one of our readers each month (no matter where you live) from our practicing MG designers.
Here's the lowdown on the monthly challenge:
Challenge will be announced on the first of the month every month…this month's challenge is "Space Plan for your Living Room"
Designer: Jill Seidner
To enter our giveaway, all you have to do is email our MG blogger, Jill (email@example.com) by the last day of this month (12/31) with these few things-
**Description of the room, why it is a challenge, and what is needed in the room
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**At least 4 images of all angles of the room
**Any existing furniture to be used (Dimensions & photos of these pieces)
**Also, any furniture that you would like to add to the room
After the first fifty entries or the last day of the month (whichever comes first), we will post a note on our blog that the giveaway submittal window has ended and Jill will go on to select the best Living Room space plan challenge.
On the 15th of every month, (January 15th for this particular challenge), we will post the winner along with the answer to the challenge. This month, it will be Jill who will provide one of our readers with an answer to their Space Planning quandry.
The MG designers will rotate each month, as will our chosen challenge!
So for every month, here is the "Challenge Calendar":
1st- Challenge announced
15th- Previous challenge winner announced on our blog as well as the solution to the challenge
Last day of the month- All entrants must be emailed to the designer who is taking on that month's challenge
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I'm running Windows 2000 and something really weird just happened to
my monitor. I have accidentally lowered the screen resolution from
1024x728 to 800x600 (right-clicked on the desktop by accident). OK, so
I went into the Display properties to change the settings back. I
first changed them to 1280x1024, just to see if I'd like it, because
that's what I have at work (albeit on an LCD monitor). Well, that
seemed too small, so when the little window appeared asking me whether
I wanted to keep the settings, I clicked on "No". Bang! - all of a
sudden all I see on my display is my wallpaper at the 800x600
resolution, and nothing else - no icons, no Taskbar, nothing. Oh, I
have a cursor. If I right-click on the desktop, I get a regular menu -
Active Desktop, Arrange Icons, etc. Clicking on anything but New
Folder or New Shortcut doesn't produce any results. If I make a new
folder, I can then get into My Computer via Exploring it, and move
around Windows Explorer at will, but that's not much help, because
when I get to Control Panel and click on Display, nothing happens.
Same thing with all the programs - I click on the .exe files, but
don't see anything. Tried to reboot - Ctrl+Alt+Delete doesn't work,
had to hard-reboot. When the Windows login window comes up, it's just
a blue screen. I can login into Windows by just hitting Enter (set it
up without a password), but I get the same result when I'm back in
Windows - wallpaper at low resolution and no access to programs. I
tried unplugging the monitor and even removing and replacing the video
card, all to no avail. I'm pretty much at my wits' end at this point.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!


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Patent application title: BAFFLE SEAL FOR GAS TURBINE ENGINE THRUST REVERSER
Chi-Ling Michael Tsou (Renton, WA, US)
Carl Francis Holdren (Hamilton, OH, US)
William Andrew Bailey (Cincinnati, OH, US)
Dean Thomas Lenahan (Cincinnati, OH, US)
IPC8 Class: AF16J1516FI
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Class name: Seal for a joint or juncture seal between relatively movable parts (i.e., dynamic seal) circumferential contact seal for other than piston
Publication date: 2011-05-05
Patent application number: 20110101622
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A baffle seal for a thrust reverser of a gas turbine engine includes a
seal body of a resilient material. The seal body has a relatively flat
central portion with opposed front and back sides. A raised sealing rim
extends at least partially around the central portion. An outer periphery
of the sealing rim extends beyond an outer periphery of the central
portion so as to define an exposed sealing surface.
1. A baffle seal for a thrust reverser of a gas turbine engine,
including: a seal body of a resilient material, comprising: a relatively
flat central portion having opposed front and back sides; and a raised
sealing rim extending at least partially around the central portion, an
outer periphery of the sealing rim extending beyond an outer periphery of
the central portion so as to define an exposed sealing surface.
2. The baffle seal of claim 1 wherein the sealing rim includes a pair of divergent legs extending connected at their proximal ends by a curved segment.
3. The baffle seal of claim 1 wherein the sealing rim is hollow tube-like structure defined by a closed wall.
4. The baffle seal of claim 3 wherein at least one vent opening extends through the wall of the sealing rim.
5. The baffle seal of claim 3 wherein the wall of the sealing rim has an elongated cross-section with curved ends.
6. The baffle seal of claim 1 wherein an abrasion-resistant cover is disposed over at least the sealing surface.
7. The baffle seal of claim 1 wherein the seal body comprises silicone rubber.
8. The baffle seal of claim 1 in which an edge bead extends outwardly from the central portion of the seal body.
9. The baffle seal of claim 6 further comprising a relatively rigid backing plate disposed against the back side of the seal body and including a curved lip which engages the edge bead.
10. The baffle seal of claim 1 further comprising a relatively rigid retainer disposed against the front side of the central portion, the retainer including at least one raised flange which bears against the sealing rim.
[0001] This application is a divisional of application Ser. No. 11/742,233, filed Apr. 30, 2007, which is currently pending.
[0002] This invention relates generally to gas turbine engine thrust reversers and more particularly to air seals for such reversers.
[0003] A gas turbine engine includes a turbomachinery core having a high pressure compressor, combustor, and high pressure turbine in serial flow relationship. The core is operable in a known manner to generate a primary flow of propulsive gas. A typical turbofan engine adds a low pressure turbine driven by the core exhaust gases which in turn drives a fan through a shaft to generate a bypass flow of propulsive gas. In the case of a high bypass engine this provides the majority of the total engine thrust.
[0004] Aircraft turbofan engines typically employ thrust reversers for ground deceleration. Known designs include "target" reversers, blocker-door reversers, and cascade or "doorless" reversers. Thrust reversers may be provided for the primary or bypass flows of an engine, or both. Each type of thrust reverser includes one or move components which are selectively moveable from a stowed position in which they do not affect engine thrust, to a deployed position in which some portion of the engine's thrust is turned or directed forward in order to slow the aircraft.
[0005] Thrust reverser components are relatively large and subject to air loads, vibration, thermal gradients, and other varying loads in operation. Accordingly, there is a limit to how small gaps and tolerances can be made, and some leakage of fan bypass flow occurs from the bypass duct to secondary flowpaths (i.e. inside the reverser). This results in a mixing pressure loss in the bypass duct that reduces net thrust, thus undesirably increasing specific fuel consumption (SFC).
[0006] These and other shortcomings of the prior art are addressed by the present invention, which provides a thrust reverser seal that reduces unwanted leakage of air flow, thus improving SFC of the engine.
[0007] According to one aspect, the invention provides a baffle seal for a thrust reverser of a gas turbine engine, including a seal body of a resilient material. The seal body has a relatively flat central portion having opposed front and back sides; and a raised sealing rim extending at least partially around the central portion. An outer periphery of the sealing rim extends beyond an outer periphery of the central portion so as to define an exposed sealing surface.
[0008] According to another aspect of the invention, a transcowl assembly for a gas turbine engine thrust reverser includes (a) longitudinally-extending structural beam having a side face; (b) an arcuate transcowl segment having an end disposed adjacent the side face, the transcowl segment moveable forward and aft along the structure beam between stowed and deployed positions. The transcowl segment includes: (i) an outer panel; (ii) an inner panel; and (iii) an arcuate cross-section baffle disposed between the inner and outer panels. A resilient baffle seal is carried by the structural beam. The baffle seal is arranged to engage in sealing contact with an inner surface of the baffle so as to resist leakage of air between the baffle and the structural beam.
[0009] The invention may be best understood by reference to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing figures in which:
[0010] FIG. 1 is a schematic side view of a gas turbine engine incorporating a thrust reverser constructed according to an aspect of the present invention;
[0011] FIG. 2 is schematic side view of the gas turbine engine of FIG. 1, with a transcowl thereof removed to show the internal components of the thrust reverser;
[0012] FIG. 3 is a schematic cross-sectional view of an aft portion of the gas turbine engine shown in FIG. 1;
[0013] FIG. 4 is half-sectional view taken along lines 4-4 of FIG. 3;
[0014] FIG. 5 is a perspective view of a baffle seal of the thrust reverser;
[0015] FIG. 6 is a front view of the baffle seal of FIG. 5; and
[0016] FIG. 7 is a side view of the baffle seal of FIG. 5.
[0017] Referring to the drawings wherein identical reference numerals denote the same elements throughout the various views, FIG. 1 depicts an aircraft turbofan engine 10. The engine 10 has a longitudinal axis "A". The engine 10 is enclosed in a nacelle 12 and a casing or core nacelle 14 which defines an inner flowpath 16 of a bypass duct 18. A fan nacelle 20 cooperates with the core nacelle 14 to define the outer flowpath 22 of the bypass duct 18.
[0018] While not illustrated, it will be understood that the nacelle 12 encloses conventional components including a fan, a low pressure compressor or "booster" and a low pressure turbine ("LPT"), collectively referred to as a "low pressure system", and a high pressure compressor ("HPC"), a combustor, and a high pressure turbine ("HPT"), collectively referred to as a "gas generator" or "core". Together, the high and low pressure systems are operable in a known manner to generate a primary or core flow as well as a fan flow or bypass flow. The present invention is described and illustrated in the context of a high-bypass turbofan engine. However, the principles described herein are equally applicable to fan reversers for low-bypass engines, to turbine reversers, or to turbojet engines.
[0019] The engine 10 includes a thrust reverser 24 of the type having a pair of opposed, generally semicircular cowlings referred to as "transcowls" 26. In the illustrated example, the reverser includes "left" and "right" transcowls. Only the left transcowl 26 is shown in FIG. 1, it being understood that the right transcowl 26 is generally a mirror image thereof. The present invention is equally applicable to other configurations which may use transcowls positioned in a different orientation (e.g. upper and lower), or a single larger transcowl. The transcowls 26 are supported at their terminal ends by spaced-apart upper and lower beams 28 and 30, respectively, via rails or tracks 32, so that the transcowls 26 can translate forward and aft in a direction generally parallel to axis A, powered by a known type of actuator (not shown). As with prior art thrust reversers, the reverser halves may be mounted so that they can swing open about a longitudinal axis for inspection or servicing. Accordingly, the upper beam 28 may also be referred to as a "hinge beam" and the lower beam 30 may be referred to as a "latch beam".
[0020] FIG. 2 shows the engine 10 with the transcowl 26 removed to expose the internal components of the thrust reverser 24. A semicircular torque box 34 supports then upper and lower beams 28 and 30. A semicircular assembly of cascade boxes 36 containing reversing vanes 38 extends from the upper beam 28 to the lower beam 30 and is structurally attached to the upper and lower beams 28 and 30 and to the torque box 34. A mirror-image torque box and cascade boxes (not shown) are carried on the opposite side of the engine 10. An inner reverser fairing 40 cooperates with the core nacelle 14 to form a part of the bypass duct inner flowpath 16.
[0021] FIG. 3 shows in more detail the cross-section of the thrust reverser 24 in a forward-most or "stowed" position. The transcowl 26 includes an outer wall 42, an inner wall 44 which forms a part of the outer flowpath 22, and a forward-facing baffle 46 having an arcuate cross-section. A radially inner end of the baffle 46 carries a forward seal 48 which rides in close proximity to the aft end of the torque box 34.
[0022] For various reasons it is impractical to make a complete seal between the torque box 34 and the baffle 46 using the forward seal 48. Accordingly, there exists an open leakage path which allows air to flow from the bypass duct 18 through the forward seal 48 in a generally radially outward direction into the space between the torque box 34 and the baffle 46, then circumferentially around to the upper beam 28 and the lower beam 30, and then longitudinally aft back into the bypass duct 18. Diversion of the fan flow through this leakage path results in a mixing pressure loss which reduces net thrust of the engine 10, which in turn increases SFC.
[0023] To reduce or prevent this leakage, one or more baffle seals 50 are provided, as shown in FIG. 4, which is a forward-looking aft (FLA) view. Upper and lower baffle seals 50A and 50B are attached to the side faces 52A and 52B of the upper and lower beams 28 and 30, respectively, in alignment with the upper and lower ends 54A and 54B of the baffle 46. Only the right-side (i.e. aircraft starboard side) baffle seals 50 are shown in FIG. 4, with the understanding that another pair of baffle seals 50 would be installed on the left-side (i.e. aircraft port) faces of the upper and lower beams 28 and 30.
[0024] FIGS. 5-7 illustrate a baffle seal 50 in more detail. The specific baffle seal 50 illustrated is the upper right-hand unit, which is identical to a lower left-hand unit (not shown). In this example, the upper left-hand and lower right-hand baffle seals 50 would have mirror-image configurations to that of the illustrated baffle seal 50, but otherwise the baffle seal 50 is representative of all of the baffle seals 50.
[0025] Each baffle seal 50 comprises a seal body 56, optionally provided with a backing plate 58 and a retainer 60. The seal body 56 is generally three-sided in plan view with an arcuate forward edge 62 contoured to the shape of the torque box 34. The seal body 56 may be generally triangular or may have more of a "D"-shape in plan view, depending on the particular application. The seal body 56 has a relatively flat central portion 64 with opposed front and back sides 66 and 68. The upper and lower edges of the seal body 56 are formed into a hollow tube-like sealing rim 70 formed by a closed wall 72, which in this case has an elongated cross-section with rounded ends. Other cross-sectional shapes may be used as well. For example, instead of a tube-like geometry, the sealing rim 70 ma be a flange or "flapper" shape. The outer periphery of the sealing rim 70 defines a sealing surface 74 which extends beyond the outer periphery of the central portion. The sealing rim 70 is generally V- or C-shaped with elongated legs 70A and 70B connected at their proximal ends by a curved segment 70C. When installed, the distal ends of the legs 70A and 70B butt up against other components of the thrust reverser 24 and may be closed off with a sealant, such as room-temperature vulcanizing (RTV) silicone. At least one vent opening 76 is formed in the sealing rim 70 to allow it to equalize its internal pressure with the ambient pressure (e.g. when atmospheric pressure changes during flight, or when the sealing rim 70 is compressed during stowage of the transcowl 26). A portion of the periphery of the seal body 56 extends outwardly from the central portion 64 to form an edge bead 78.
[0026] The seal body 56 is formed from a resilient material such as silicone rubber. The outer surface of the baffle seal 50 may be covered with a flexible, abrasion-resistant material to avoid damage from rubbing. One example of a suitable material is DACRON polyester fabric.
[0027] The backing plate 58 is made of a relatively rigid material such as aluminum sheet. It is generally triangular in plan view with an arcuate forward edge and has a curved lip 80 formed around its periphery (or a portion thereof) which serves to receive the edge bead 78 of the baffle seal 50.
[0028] The retainer 60 is also made of a relatively rigid material such as aluminum sheet. It is generally triangular in plan view with an arcuate forward edge. It has flanges 82 formed along its upper and lower edges which bear against the inside surfaces of the baffle seal 50, near the junction between the central portion 64 and the sealing rim 70.
[0029] In the illustrated example the baffle seal 50 is secured to the upper beam 28 with rivets 84 extending through the retainer 60, baffle seal 50, backing plate 58, and the upper beam 28. However it will be understood that the baffle seal 50 could be attached with other types of fasteners (e.g. bolts, machine screws), or by methods such as welding or adhesives. The backing plate 58 restrains the outer periphery of the seal body 56 against the upper beam 28 so as to avoid "dishing" or curling. The seal body 56 is further restrained in the desired shape by the retainer, which presses the sealing surface 74 into place as well as spreading out the load of the metallic rivets 84 to hold the seal body 56 in place without tearing.
[0030] When the transcowl 26 is stowed, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the interior surface 86 of the baffle 46 engages the baffle seal 50. Because the transcowl 26 moves in the direction of the arrow "T" when being stowed or deployed, the interaction with the baffle seal 50 is a combination of sliding and compression. This minimizes any loads placed on the actuating equipment by the presence of the baffle seal 50.
[0031] In operation, flow in the bypass duct 18 will initially tend to leak past the forward seal 48 as with a prior art thrust reverser and will flow circumferentially inside the leak path. However, the air is blocked or substantially prevented from exiting the leak path by the baffle seal 50. This tends to cause the pressure to equalize between the leak path and the bypass duct 18. Without a substantial pressure differential to drive flow into the leak path, further leakage is greatly reduced. It is estimated that this leakage reduction can improve SFC by about 0.05% in certain applications.
[0032] The foregoing has described a baffle seal for a gas turbine engine thrust reverser. While specific embodiments of the present invention have been described, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications thereto can be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the foregoing description of the preferred embodiment of the invention and the best mode for practicing the invention are provided for the purpose of illustration only and not for the purpose of limitation, the invention being defined by the claims.
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Three of four major records fell last year at the P.F. Chang's Rock 'n' Roll Arizona Marathon and � Marathon, with only the men's marathon mark standing.
Much has changed since, with prize money for the marathon champions plunging from $17,500 in 2010 (it was $20,000 before that) to a modest $1,000. How that impacts elite results Sunday and into the future remains to be seen.
What's certain is that African runners who have claimed 12 of 14 marathon titles in the event's first seven years will not be including Phoenix on their early season schedule unless it's for appearance money, such as what Haile Gebrselassie received in 2006. The Ethiopian superstar set a then-world half-marathon record here on the back half of the marathon course.
Competitor Group, which purchased Elite Racing in 2008, has expanded the Rock 'n' Roll series to 18 events, plus the Carlsbad 5000 and a few other races. That's required budget tightening in elite runner recruiting and prize money, and strategic use of appearance fees to create a media buzz during race week for an event with 30,000 entrants.
U.S. Olympians Ryan Hall and Deena Kastor ran in the half-marathon here last year, with Kastor setting a record. This time, the featured elites are Olympian Kara Goucher, in her racing return from maternity leave, and Josh Cox, trying to break the world 50K road record that's stood since 1988 and perhaps double as marathon champion.
"We don't need to have a (full) elite field in every single market," said Matt Turnbull, Competitor's elite athlete coordinator. "We're focusing on where we can bring in the best athletes in the field," which for 2011 is Carlsbad, San Diego and Philadelphia. "My job is to make races relevant. It's about trying to find a good balance between the best of U.S. talent and international talent."
Cox is making his second record try here, setting an American 50K (31.05 miles) record of 2:47:17 in 2009. He won the Rock 'n' Roll Las Vegas Marathon on Dec. 5 in a training run for his race here, which will end with almost five miles on the Arizona State track after the 26.2-mile marathon. He is aiming for a 2:17 marathon time, which could be fast enough to win even though it would be way off the race record 2:10:33 from 2004. The slowest winning time to date is 2:14:24 in '05.
Cox and Sally Meyerhoff of Maricopa could become the race's first American marathon winners. Goucher is in the half marathon.
"There are still recognizable brand-name athletes they're bringing in to these events, which is key," Cox said. "Without the elites in races, it becomes a community event not a sporting event. There's a huge difference. With the kind of training we put in, this is athletics at its pinnacle. Elite runners are in the best shape of any athlete in the world. It's nice to be rewarded when you cross that finish line."
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The last few weeks have been a bit of a challenge. Between apartment hunting and coaching it's been difficult to find the time to really dedicate myself to the cause. I'm happy to say that I'm on the right track again. I've found a place to stay in Irvine, 5 minutes away from where I train and coach, and therefore things are looking up.
I've entered myself into four tournaments in the next month. A men's Open tournament in Santa Maria on the 31st of August, and then three Futures in a row in the Los Angeles area starting on the 6th of September. I've got 11 days before it all kicks off, so I'm going to use the time I have in Irvine to train as hard as I can. For the next two weeks I'm going to be hitting twice a day, running, training in the gym and doing as many footwork exercises as I can.
My strokes are coming along nicely. The new service motion is still a work in progress but it's starting to feel more natural. The thing that I've been struggling with the most is my movement. It seems difficult to keep up and get into the positions I need to be in. I don't know if it's a mental thing because of my knees, or if it's purely physical, but either way I'm determined to improve my movement before the tournaments start.
I feel like court movement is almost like a dance. If you don't practice it, you don't do it very well. It's almost as if I have to retrain myself to move correctly because I've got into some bad habits over the last few years. So it's time to get the jump rope and the ladder out, get after it, and try to improve a little bit every day.
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TRENTON -- Mirroring trends seen around the nation, New Jersey's incidence of childhood cancer has increased slightly from 1979 to 1995, while mortality rates have steadily declined, Acting Health and Senior Services Commissioner Christine Grant said today.
The New Jersey Department of Health today released Childhood Cancer in New Jersey 1979 - 1995, the latest in a series of reports based on the updated New Jersey State Cancer Registry. The report shows that New Jersey's total incidence of childhood cancer rose 5.6 percent over the 17-year period, from 14.2 to 15 cases for every 100,000 children. And although New Jersey's incidence rate remains higher than that for the United States (13.9), the gap has narrowed over the years.
Mortality in both the state and the U.S. declined by one- third, from 4.3 to 2.9 deaths per 100,000 children.
"The declining mortality rates are very good news. However, researchers are still trying to understand why the cancer incidence rate is rising in this country and elsewhere in the world," said Dr. Eddy Bresnitz, State Epidemiologist and Assistant Commissioner of the Division of Epidemiology, Occupational and Environmental Health.
The pediatric cancer report is being distributed to local health officers, cancer treatment specialists and other health care providers, health planners, and others interested in childhood cancer. Information in the report will be helpful to researchers as well as those planning needed children's services in their regions.
"In the last two decades, we have seen great advances in childhood cancer treatment. It's gratifying to see these successes confirmed in the declining number of deaths from childhood cancer here in New Jersey," said Dr. Michael Harris, director of the Tomorrows Children's Institute at Hackensack University Medical Center, and professor of pediatrics at UMDNJ.
For the second consecutive year, the state's Cancer Registry has met the Gold Standard for excellence set by the National Association of Central Cancer Registries, Dr. Bresnitz noted. The award is based on completeness of data, timely reporting and other measures of data quality.
"The high-quality statistics compiled in this report provide invaluable data to researchers as we develop major pediatric cancer initiatives in New Jersey," said Dr. Barton Kamen, director of pediatric oncology, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
Childhood cancers are those diagnosed from birth to age 14, and they account for less than one percent of all cancers diagnosed in New Jersey residents. The causes of most childhood cancers are unknown, although many are known to be related to hereditary conditions. It is also not known why rates are rising in industrialized counties. Better access to medical care, improved reporting, environmental influences or random variation are among the possible factors suggested by researchers.
The state's pediatric cancer report presents data on total childhood cancer, as well as statewide and county-level data on major categories of childhood cancer. The statewide incidence of most types of childhood cancer has increased slightly along with the increase in the total childhood cancer rate, the report says. One exception has been leukemias -- cancers of the blood-forming organs -- which have declined since 1982.
In New Jersey as in the nation, the most commonly diagnosed childhood cancers are leukemias, followed by cancers of the central nervous system, and lymphomas, which affect the white blood cells of the immune system. In general, white children in New Jersey are more likely than black children to develop cancer, and boys have higher incidence rates than girls. This trend is also seen in national data, the report notes.
At the county level, the number of cancer cases can be small, resulting in rates that rise and fall sharply with small changes in the number of cases, the report notes. However, an analysis of county rates for the major types of childhood cancer over the 1979 - 1995 time period showed no statistically significant elevations over state rates.
The report provides three-year incidence and mortality rates, not year-by-year rates. The number of childhood cancer cases reported in any one year is relatively small, from 200 to 250. Three-year rates reduce the amount of random fluctuation in rates that is often seen with small numbers of cases.
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Author Affiliations: The Eye Center, The Eye Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology, and Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease is a chronic multisystem disorder characterized by an acute onset.1- 4 The disease may be associated with signs of meningeal irritation and may later develop integumentary signs of poliosis and vitiligo that are valuable in the diagnosis of the disease. Poliosis and vitiligo occur as late clinical manifestations of VKH disease and help in making the diagnosis of complete VKH disease.2 Reversal of the poliosis and vitiligo has not been previously emphasized. We report reversal of poliosis and vitiligo among patients with VKH disease.
The study was approved by the institutional review board at The Eye Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. A total of 22 patients with VKH disease were included. Patients had complete VKH disease as defined by the International Committee on Nomenclature.2 There was no history of penetrating trauma or ocular surgery preceding the onset of the disease. Patients were followed up for a mean of 8 years (range, 4-18 years). The presence of poliosis and vitiligo was assessed, and all patients were evaluated for activity of the disease.3
All patients were treated with prednisone, 1 mg/kg/d, for 3 months. Patients were also treated with one of the following immunosuppressive agents for a minimum of 6 months: azathioprine sodium, methotrexate sodium with folic acid, or mycophenolate mofetil. Reversal of poliosis and vitiligo and relapse of active intraocular inflammation were the outcome measures. A relapse was defined as a flare-up of disease activity 3 or 4 months after a remission.5,6
For overall analysis, SAS version 9.2 statistical software (SAS Institute, Inc) was used. Patient characteristics were compared using the Wilcoxon rank sum test or Fisher exact test. Differences in medians were tested with the nonparametric Wilcoxon rank sum test.
There were 22 patients (16 females and 6 males). The mean age was 28 years, and the age range was 5 to 58 years. All patients had vitiligo and poliosis. Reversal of vitiligo and poliosis was complete and was noted in 6 patients at a mean follow-up of 19.6 months (range, 18-30 months) following onset of the disease (Figure 1 and Figure 2). The mean (SD) age was 15.3 (7.9) years for patients with reversal of vitiligo and poliosis compared with 34.0 (8.2) years for patients who had no reversal (P = .004) (Table). The median age was 14.5 years for those with reversal and 32.5 years for patients without reversal. None of the 6 patients who had reversal of their poliosis and vitiligo had relapse of uveitis at 30 months compared with 7 of the 16 patients who had no reversal of poliosis or vitiligo (P = .04). Systemic steroids were given for longer periods in patients without reversal compared with patients with reversal of vitiligo and poliosis (P = .007). Nominal P values are provided for all comparisons in the Table.
Figure 1. The left upper eyelid with poliosis of the eyelashes 6 weeks after the acute onset of complete Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease in a 14-year-old patient.
Figure 2. Total reversal of poliosis of the left upper eyelid eyelashes in the same patient shown in Figure 1.
The skin changes are important diagnostic features of VKH. In this series of patients, however, there was reversal of vitiligo and poliosis in patients with complete VKH disease.
The reversal of poliosis, vitiligo, and alopecia in patients with VKH has not been previously emphasized. Reversal of poliosis and vitiligo should be taken into consideration in the diagnosis of VKH disease. Following a period of immunologic dysregulation in VKH disease, reversal of poliosis and vitiligo may suggest restoration of the normal immune homeostasis.
All patients with reversal of the poliosis and vitiligo had no intraocular inflammation. The reversal of poliosis and vitiligo may indicate a good prognostic sign and may indicate remission of the disease.
Correspondence: Dr Tabbara, The Eye Center, 241 Makkah Rd, PO Box 55307, Riyadh 11534, Saudi Arabia (firstname.lastname@example.com).
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Funding/Support: This work was supported in part by a grant from The Eye Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology and The Eye Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Additional Contributions: Naser Elkum, PhD, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Dasman Diabetes Institute, Dasman, Kuwait, assisted in the statistical analysis.
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Oh, the irony of it all.
On Monday, I tried to get someone in Harrisburg to explain why, in the name of all that's fair and just, low-income Pennsylvanians who have managed to build up modest savings are slated to have their food stamps - now called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - cut off.
When I called the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, the office was closed - for the Martin Luther King holiday.
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Hmm, not me. I've never wanted milk chocolate again.
Has anyone else noticed that dark chocolate doesn't cut it when you're in ketosis? I had 2 squares of 70% chocolate today (as a little treat) after 2 weeks of VLC and it just did not satisfy me! I actually found it rather unenjoyable and I REALLY felt like going for the milk stuff but in the end did not. I used to love dark chocolate before. What's going on?
Hmm, not me. I've never wanted milk chocolate again.
I love dark chocolate, but I have concluded that it is terrible for my skin, so I'm no longer eating it regularly. When I do eat it though, I find it very satisfying.
Unchatenfrance, how long have you been eating low carb? In ketosis?
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Shoot, 70% dark tastes like milk chocolate to me anymore.
I'm with you Diana - but I'd probably go into shock with actual milk chocolate!
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haha, yeah. I didn't realise the 70% was considered dark! I go for 90%, if I want something really sweet, I go 85%, if I want bitter I go up to 95. I still don't enjoy munching on the 99% stuff so much, though it's great grated or melted in food
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Editor's note: Today marks the sixth in a series in which we recognize athletes at the local high schools who represent their respective schools not so much by what they do on the field, but off of it. We call them "More than an athlete."
The email arrived, and Chase Malynn called his parents up to his bedroom.
They would open it up as a family.
The same college Todd and Michelle Malynn worked so hard to get into was now giving their son an answer as to if he would follow in their footsteps.
Click. Open. Read.
The answer was no.
And as a family, the Malynns cried.
Chase is probably too well-mannered, too kind, too understanding to say it's their loss.
But this is what that school is missing out on.
Chase Malynn just finished his fourth year in the West Ranch High baseball program and his first on the varsity squad.
West Ranch head baseball coach Casey Burrill was blunt with Malynn before the start of the season. He'd receive no other promise other than a uniform.
"I can't relate. I couldn't play a sport under those circumstances that I wasn't going to be a starter or have something on the backend," Burrill says understanding that being a bench guy is a difficult pill to swallow.
"I'm not one who takes no for an answer," Malynn says. "It motivated me. It was more of a challenge. He put a bar I would have to climb above."
Burrill says Malynn is a unique person — and by unique, there is no one like him.
"He is truly the nicest most mature kid I have ever met," Burrill says.
"Ever," he repeats.
Malynn ended up with 36 plate appearances his senior year and played in 18 of the Wildcats' 27 games.
The nice and mature thing had only a little to do with Malynn having about 30 more plate appearances than he was destined to have.
It was more other attributes that earned him the playing time — dependability, drive and dedication.
As a child, Malynn knew there was a standard.
Todd, an attorney, and Michelle, a marketing manager, established the importance of grades with their son at an early age.
"We expected him to work hard, get good grades," Michelle says. "But he was always motivated in that sense. But he didn't rebel, so that tells me it's in his heart to do things right."
In his four years of high school, Malynn was a National Honor Society officer at West Ranch, a member of the California Scholastic Federation, was the founding captain at the school for Action Team — a national youth volunteer program, and a peer leader at Our lady of Perpetual Help Catholic church in Newhall.
Malynn hates to admit it, but the motivation to get active in the community was based on his own need and not that of others'.
"I'm not going to lie. My freshman year you sign up for programs like NHS, and I was going through confirmation, you have to fill out a certain number of hours of community service," Malynn says. "At first it was filling boxes (on volunteer forms) and making numbers. But once I established that footing in community service I fell in love. My passion is getting people to fall in love with helping people in the community."
He did that for his entire baseball team last September.
Being the leader of the Action Team, he wanted to link a volunteer effort with his baseball team.
Burrill agreed, but he told Malynn that his hands were full and that the student/athlete had to organize it and execute it.
The idea was to bring Santa Clarita Special Olympics athletes to West Ranch High and conduct a baseball clinic/game.
Malynn had volunteered for Special Olympics in the past, but he had another connection that motivated him.
His cousin Nick has Down syndrome.
Michelle says her son has always connected well with her nephew.
"When you're growing up and in elementary school and junior high, there are the special education classes next door. People crack jokes (about the kids in the classes). You don't understand it till you're connected with someone with Down syndrome (or another special need)," Malynn says. "It's like any other characteristic. Nick is one of my favorite people to be around. I just wanted to find an event for people to connect to and have relationships with people with special needs."
Nearly 50 Special Olympians participated in the event, necessitating the use of the adjacent softball field.
Malynn's lasting memory was of an Olympian named Spencer who slid into home plate on the hard, packed dirt. Spencer then cracked a giant smile.
"It was fantastic," Burrill says of the event. "Honestly I was upset with myself that I hadn't done it earlier. It took someone like Chase to show me. I'd never done this, and I'm 44. Honestly, I'm embarrassed."
Malynn cleaned house at the school's annual senior awards night.
Scholar award, leadership award, award for being an NHS officer, award for having the baseball team's highest GPA (4.39), Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation scholarship award.
Malynn will be going to the University of Texas at Austin this fall to study electrical engineering.
Though he is elated to be going to the school, it wasn't his first choice.
That school turned him down.
That's their loss.


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Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama is trying to clarify comments he made to Pastor Rick Warren about abortion at last month's candidate forum.
Obama told ABC News over the weekend that he should not have answered a question about when human rights begin by saying it was "above his pay grade."
He gave his original answer during a nationally televised religious forum at Warren's Saddleback Church in California August 16.
"All I meant to communicate was that I do not presume to be able to answer these kind of theological questions," the Illinois senator said.
"What I do know is that abortion is a moral issue. It's one that families struggle with all the time and that in wrestling with those issues, I don't think that the government criminalizing the choices that families make is the best answer for reducing abortions," he continued.
Obama's running mate Joe Biden was also asked about abortion over the weekend. He told NBC's "Meet The Press" that he accepts his Catholic church's teaching that life begins at conception.
But Biden said he will not impose his views on others.
"I'm prepared as a matter of faith to accept that life begins at the moment of conception. But that is my judgment," Biden said. "For me to impose that judgment on everyone else who is equally and maybe even more devout than I am seems to me is inappropriate in a pluralistic society."
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People are leaving Libya by the thousands as the threat of civil war continues to grow in the country.
U.N. refugee agency spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said more than 180,000 people have reached the border, and nearly 78,000 had crossed east from Libya to Egypt. Another 30,000 are still waiting to cross into neighboring Tunisia.
Flemming said many of the refugees are "terrified" because of the violent crackdown on protestors in Libya.
Meanwhile, opponents of Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi repelled an attack Wednesday by loyal Libyan forces trying to retake a key coastal oil installation. At least six people were killed in the fighting.
The battle went back and forth as artillery shells splashed in the Mediterranean and a warplane bombed a beach where rebel fighters were charging over the dunes.
The assault on the Brega oil port was the first major regime counteroffensive against the opposition-held eastern half of Libya. The local population has been backed by mutinous army units who rose up and drove out the regime's rule. The fighting has lasted for two weeks.
Jonathan Schanzer is the vice president of research for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He discussed the situation in Libya on the CBN News Channel's Midday News, Mar. 2. The FDD is a non-partisan policy institute founded shortly after 9/11 which aims to promote pluralism, defend democratic values, and challenge the ideologies that threaten democracy.
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