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I've been thinking about building/buying a bike trailer for transporting groceries and/or my dog. I don't really need a trailer - I've got along for the last 8 years with no car, no bike and no trailer. In the past I've always walked/bussed to get groceries. Right now when I stop on my commute home I can't get very much because I don't have much room on my bike. With a trailer I could get groceries in the evenings or on the weekend. But I can do that using the bus now. I don't really "need" a trailer for my dog either since the park we go to is only a few blocks away, but it would be nice to have a bike transport option for him if I ever need it. When we first got him the vet was only a few blocks away, but they've since moved several km away. But we can usually get a ride to the vet with a friend if I need to make an appointment for him.
I don't really know anything about bike trailers, and I've never towed anything using a bike.
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Skip to comments.Supernova Storm Wiped Out Mammoths?
Posted on 10/04/2005 11:47:27 PM PDT by planetesimal
A supernova blast 41,000 years ago started a deadly chain of events that led to the extinction of mammoths and other animals in North America, according to two scientists.
If their supernova theory gains acceptance, it could explain why dozens of species on the continent became extinct 13,000 years ago.
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well, time to change those science books AGAIN as another theory falls on its face. apparently. maybe. for a while.
Neandertal DNA is not close enough to Homo sapiens DNA for this to happen.
BS. they are closer than horses and asses.
Besides, nobody said the breeding was successful (yielded viable offspring).
How long before it's blamed on President Bush?
It's hard to call it "breeding" when nothing is born.
Bush doesn't care about mammoths.
Go learn the difference between horses and asses and donkeys, and then perhaps we can have this discussion.
Remember, its not my theory, but its one possible explanation of that phrase.
I hate it when giants bread with me. Let them get their own bread. You know how big a loaf those guys can eat?
In addition to the tusk evidence, the scientists said arrowheads from North America's prehistoric Clovis culture, which went extinct around 13,500-13,000 years ago, Icelandic marine sediment, as well as sediment from nine 13,000-year-old sites in North America, contain higher-than-normal amounts of radiation in the form of potassium-40 levels.This is by no means settled science, but interesting nonetheless.
LOL! Thanks, Kanye!
I'm waiting. I'm still waiting. Still waiting. Still.....
I'm waiting. I'm still waiting. Still waiting. Still.....Why not try a personal ad? Or take up a hobby.
I seriously doubt the 'hunted to death' theory. What really piques my interest is the frozen mastadons found in Siberia that have fresh flowers in their teeth, and unprocessed vegetation in their gastric system. It's like they just up and died, and froze, in minutes.
Up here in Alaska, and I speculate also in Siberia, you can have a thin layer of melted earth in the spring, and flowers blooming in just a week or so of sunshine. But underneath you have permafrost.
However there are sink holes with water running underneath, and iced over lakes/rivers that look walk-able. Walk out, fall in, and freeze next to or under the permafrost.
But that's in spring. Wouldn't the coming warming, albeit a short warm season, allow predation and deterioration?
Author doesn't know what she's talking about.....Michael Moore is still around.
I can't think of a single person, let alone scientist, who denies that glaciation occurs in cycles governed by solar and planetary factors. I can think of somebody who aims to profit directly from a dubious collation of information. The guy flogging that book.
Not if the carcase sinks into the permafrost. Gets covered with muskeg (no oxygen) and gets frozen even in mid summer.
Siberia is generally fairly flat, and in such places holes tend to get iced over, (often year round) OR muskeg forms a layer over a small lake or hole. The muskeg might be 10 feet thick but its floating. Big animals call fall through (or little animals in the case of my little brother who had to be pulled out of a muskeg hole while picking blueberries one year), and sink to the bottom where the lake may never thaw.
Flowers do not necessarily mean spring. There are flowers up here that bloom late (since summer is so short).
Your position then seems plausible. Contrary to popular belief, SD has no permafrost, and so I'm not familiar with the peculiarity of the geography. However, I have not seen this position forwarded in what I've read of scientific work on these beasts.
The 6,214 miles-per-second iron-rich grains would have riddled everything like bullets.
Well I can't think of any other way something as large as a mammoth can die X thousand years ago and be almost intact today. It has to fall into some place where it freezes and gets burried quickly because the north will not allow a food source to go unused for long.
By the way, another mammoth was just discovered in Siberia.
Very cool. I find the idea of perhaps cloning one very fascinating. I'm much more interested in the more recent mega fauna, such as the Mastadon or the giant sloths, than the dinosaurs.
Where do you think lieberals come from? And ol' Red Zone?
Well, "the guy flogging his book" sold one to me, and I read and thoroughly enjoyed it, and learned a few things about the author's branch of plate tectonics theory studies. I lent it to my dad, but it seems to have gone missing.
For the price, I'll probably buy another, and not just because I was intrigued by the scenario presented, but because I LOVE reading.
He also goes into magnetism and galaxial mechanics (albeit merely glancing off same) in a most unique manner in the book.
I'm not saying he's dead right, nor is he dead wrong, but he presents a series of compelling arguments for his theory, and is worth reading. He does sometimes seem to be preaching at times, mind you, but what author doesn't? < BG >.
Aw, hell. There goes another two hundred billion...
Call me crazy, but we share 95% of the DNA of most primates, yes? Ceretainly, our DNA is close to that of Neanderthals.
Seems the much more likely explanation is the arrival of man at about the same time. The same thing happened to many large mammal species in Australia after mankind arrived on that continent.
Dima, a frozen baby Mammoth In 1977, the first of two complete baby mammoths was founda 612-month-old male named Dima. His flattened, emaciated, but well-preserved body was enclosed in a lens of ice, 6 feet below the surface of a gentle mountainous slope.1 Portions of the ice were clear and others quite brownish yellow with mineral and organic particles.2 Silt, clay, and small particles of gravel were found throughout his digestive and respiratory tracts (trachea, bronchi, and lungs). These details are important clues in understanding frozen mammoths. Because most mammoths were fat and well fed, Dima may have suffered before death from one of the many problems common to baby elephants. Within their first year of life, 536% of elephants die.
Reference? I doubt you have any of this Neardertal DNA, but there are many scientists who believe Neadertal DNA is widespread in modern day humans.
But an intact sample of pure Neandertal DNA? I think you are daydreaming or reading too much SF.
Actually, what the Bible says is that the "sons of God" bred with the daughters of men and their offspring were "giants." Exactly what this means is highly debatable, but folk memory of Neanderthals is likely to be it.
Any Astronomers here?
Is there any evidence of a Supernova within say, 500 LY of earth within, say, the last 100K years?
Any evidence at all?
Concerning the presently existing astronomical evidence of supernova blasts that have been recorded, how old are they? ( regardless of distance )
How old is the presently seen evidence of those explosions?
Is it fairly easy to recognize the post-supernova evidence?
I don't recall hearing/reading of any nearby (relatively) evidence of large clouds of ionized particles, x-ray emmissions from massively accelerated solar mass, etc....
Seems to me if you're going to claim "supernova killed the mammoths", pitted craters in mammoth tusks is not primary evidence to validate your claim..
The primary evidence is the remains of a supernova..
Where is it???
Sorry, bad wording. I very much doubt folk memory of Neanderthals is behind this Bible story.
My previous posts were written before reading the article.
Bad habit.
But seriously, folks, this is a truly idiotic article. To believe it, you must believe that a supernova 250 light years from Earth affected North America, and only NA, in at least two separate events tens of thousands of years apart.
It seems to me that mammoth tusks riddled with iron-rich particles would be more likely to be related to a localized event, perhaps a volcanic eruption, than to an astronomical event that mysteriously affects all of NA but not the rest of the planet.
You must also believe that saber-toothed cats were less able to take shelter in a cave or elsewhere than elk or moose or (regular-size) bison!
It is possible that the actual science makes more sense than this idiot article.
That was interesting, Thanks.
Geez, how did they ever find out his name???
Easily testable...
If the tusks are riddled with craters, there should be some of the causative material embedded in them, one would think.
A Neandertal mitochondrial DNA sequence has been constructed and compared with homo sapien mitochondrial DNA. The comparison supported the idea that they didn't interbreed.
Seems to me that if there were a Supernova blast within 250 LY of earth, even 40K years ago, there would be ample astronomical evidence of such.
I'd like to know if that is the case also. If anyone in the know could weigh in...
The inlay is made from Mastadon tusk. I did a search for mammoth tusk and found that there is a lot on the market via Ebay, primarily from Siberian origin and sells as carved figurines.
I think fad dieting killed them.
I wonder whether the Northern European troll myths are a folk memory of the last Neaderthals. Presumably places like Norway would have been their last holdouts.
Driver's license I would imagine. Mastodons and mammoths are very law-abiding creatures.
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The first units in a $25.5 million apartment complex under construction in southeast Amarillo could be available in late 2008, a developer said Monday.
Construction crews have begun preparing a 9-acre site at 1710 S.E. 34th Ave. for the 240-unit Silver Oaks Apartments, a complex under development by The Williams Group.
Developer Perry Williams envisions the complex, which sits on the northern edge of the Tradewind residential subdivision developed by The Williams Group, will fill a niche by serving families who aren't yet able to qualify for a home mortgage.
Amarillo hasn't really been affected by the subprime mortgage crunch seen in other parts of the nation, but mortgage lenders have tightened restrictions in response to it, Williams said.
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The 240-unit Silver Oaks brings the total number of market-rate apartment units now under construction to 846 - double the 400 units the city has averaged annually for four years, Litz said.
Market-rate apartments are private enterprises not subsidized by federal programs designed to offer affordable rental rates to low-income tenants.
Case Development Co. of Tulsa, Okla., launched construction of the city's largest apartment complex to date - the 428-unit, $34.8 million Colonies at Hillside - in August at Hillside Road and Coulter Street.
And in September, Lubbock developer Tigris II Ltd. began construction of a 178-unit, $9.2 million complex, tentatively called Arden Road Apartments, near Arden and Interstate 27, west of Bell Street.
Silver Oaks will contain 11 structures, including a clubhouse with a business center, fitness room and pool, Williams said.
The complex will offer 60 one-bedroom units, 120 two-bedroom units and 60 three-bedroom units. Rents will range from about $575 to 900 a month, he said.
Silver Oaks' location in the city's southeast quadrant should contribute to its success, Litz said.
"There's not a lot of apartment complexes that are market-rate in that part of town," she said. "There's a lot of opportunity for them there."
Perry Williams Inc. will act as contractor for construction of Silver Oaks.
The Williams Group has developments under way in several areas of Amarillo.
Since 2002, an estimated 1,100 homes have been built in the Tradewind subdivision. Two final phases of the neighborhood, about 450 homes, should be completed in the next 36 to 48 months, Williams said.
The Williams Group also has the Hillside Terrace Estates subdivision under development at Hillside and Soncy Road in southwest Amarillo.
About 240 homes have been built there so far, with lots being prepared for another 100 units now, he said.
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$34.8 million - The Colonies at Hillside apartments, 7550 Hillside Road
$25.5 million - Silver Oaks Apartments, 1710 S.E. 34th Ave.
$23 million - Western Crossing shopping center, Western Street and West Interstate 40*
$12 million - Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, 6401 Lowe's Lane
$10 million - city of Amarillo wastewater lift station, 2914 Wolflin Ave.
$9.2 million - Arden Road Apartments, 6302 Blake Ave.
$5.2 million - Holiday Inn Express, 6701 Hollywood Road
$3.9 million - Arden Road Baptist Church addition, 6701 Arden Road
$3.8 million - Way More Storage, 6620 Lowe's Lane
$3.7 million - Baptist St. Anthony Health System remodel, 1600 Wallace Blvd.
*Western Crossing's value to-date compiled from several different building permits. Some portions of the mixed-use development have not yet been issued permits.
Source: City of Amarillo building permit data
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British Humanist Association - Following an objection submitted by the Fair Admissions Campaign(FAC), a Jewish state school in north London has been ordered by the Office of the Schools Adjudicator to remove from its admission arrangements the requirement that parents comply with a strict set of rules relating to their sex life. Hasmonean High School in Barnet had been seeking assurances from prospective parents that they adhered to the 'laws of family purity', which state that a husband and wife may not engage in sexual relations during the period of her menstruation, and for seven days afterwards. The British Humanist Association (BHA), a founding member of the FAC, has welcomed the adjudicator's decision.
Assessing whether or not the requirement, which appears as part of the Questionnaire for Rabbis, represented a fair, clear and objective criterion, as is required by the School Admissions Code, the adjudicator stated that 'some parents applying for places at the school may find it embarrassing or intrusive'. He went on to conclude that it would not be possible for a Rabbi to objectively assess observance of the law, and therefore ordered the school to remove the requirement from its admission arrangements.
Britain Urges Saudis to Free Grandfather Facing 350 Lashes
According to The NewYork Times, Karl Andree, 74, has been in a Saudi prison for over a year and faces 350 lashes because bottles of wine were found in his car.Mr. Andree's family has been pleading with the government to intervene.
For more than a year, an asthmatic 74-year-old grandfather and former oil executive has sat in a prison in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, accused of violating the country's strict prohibition on alcohol after the authorities found bottles of homemade wine in his car.
The case of the former executive, Karl Andree, a Briton who has lived inSaudi Arabia for 25 years and is a cancer survivor, has now become a matter of geopolitical controversy amid an outcry over the sentence he faces: 350 lashes, a punishment that his family says could kill him.
The British government said Tuesday that it was canceling a program to train prison officers in Saudi Arabia and that Prime Minister David Cameron would make a personal appeal for clemency, as Mr. Andree's case continued to draw attention on social media.
'We Were Treated Like Animals': The Story Of Indonesia's LGBT Activists
A local politician said this year that homosexuality is "a social disease that should be eradicated."
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This is the first part of a 10-part series on LGBT rights in Southeast Asia, which uncovers the challenges facing the LGBT community in the region and highlights the courageous work of activists there.
Hartoyo remembers that fateful night in 2007 all too clearly. He had been home with his boyfriend in the Indonesian province of Aceh when a group of people broke down the door and began ransacking the place. The strangers "dragged me, beat me, verbally abused me," Hartoyo recalled in a 2013 interview with 429Magazine. They then called the police.
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Iraqis claim to have hit ISIS chief Baghdadi's convoy in air raid
According to ABC News, Iraqi security forces claim to have struck the convoy of Islamic State (IS) group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an air strike near the country's border with Syria.
The military said in a statement that the air force bombed the convoy as Baghdadi travelled to a meeting with IS "commanders" in Karabla, barely five kilometres from the border with Syria.
"The location of the meeting was also bombed and many of the group's leaders were killed and wounded," the statement said.
"Fate of murderer al-Baghdadi is unknown and he was carried away by a vehicle.
"His health condition is still unclear."
5-year blasphemy sentence confirmed for Egyptian TV anchor
According to Ahram Online, an Egyptian appeals court upheld Saturday a five-year prison sentence against TV anchor Islam El-Behery, a prominent researcher in Islamic studies, for "contempt of religion".
El-Behery received the sentence in May and was released on bail in the case, which was filed by lawyer Mohamed Abdel-Salam.
In June, El-Behery was acquitted of charges of blasphemy in another case.
The researcher's show, With Islam, was canceled in April. It aired on satellite TV channel Al-Kahera Wal-Nas and tackled controversial issues like punishments for apostasy and different interpretations of Islam.
FBI foils smugglers' plot to sell nuclear material to Isis
Investigation finds that Russian-linked gangs specifically targeted the extremist group
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Smuggling gangs with suspected Russian links tried to sell nuclear material to Islamic extremists from Isis, an investigation has found.
In the backwaters of Moldova, authorities working with the FBI interrupted four attempts in the past five years by the gangs that sought to sell radioactive material to Middle Eastern extremists, The Associated Press news agency learned. The latest known case came in February this year, when a smuggler offered a huge cache of deadly cesium — enough to contaminate several city blocks — and specifically sought a buyer from Isis.
The smuggler, Valentin Grossu, offered the supply of cesium to what he thought was an Isis representative in exchange for €2.5 million, according to the investigation. The representative was in fact an informant.
Islamic State ties broaden Boko Haram threat
Nigeria predicts that Boko Haram will soon be defeated, but the militant group's ties with Islamic State mean that would probably push the fighters further into neighbouring countries, writes BBC Monitoring Africa security correspondent Tomi Oladipo.
The Nigerian military has been in overdrive in trying to control the narrative of its war against Boko Haram in recent weeks.
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By Jared Allen and Bridget Johnson - 10/11/09 03:10 PM EDT
Sen. John McCainJohn McCainTrump should apologize to heroic POWs McCain urges sports leagues to return 'paid patriotism' money Senators to Obama: Make 'timely' call on Afghan troops levels MORE (R-Ariz.) said that the United States cannot win the war in Afghanistan without the 40,000 additional troops that the top military commander there is said to be recommending.
McCain was asked Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" if American forces could prevail with a surge of fewer than 40,000 troops.
"I think the great danger now is not an American pullout," McCain said. "I think the great danger is a half-measure."
President Barack ObamaBarack ObamaObama: 'Stop to reflect' on Memorial Day John Bolton slams Obama's 'shameful apology tour' Miss. governor to join lawsuit against Obama transgender policy MORE is weighing the possibility of sending tens of thousands of new troops to Afghanistan upon the recommendation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who has prepared a troubling assessment of the eight-year-old war and determined that a much larger military force will be needed to turn the tide of the conflict.
Reports of the still-confidential McChrystal report have put the number of recommended new troops at 40,000.
While criticizing the leaking of the McChrystal report, McCain called the details that have been reported by the press "generally accurate."
"I have urged the president to act with deliberate speed," McCain said. "I hope the president will heed the advice of his advisers."
McCain said that if Obama chooses to follow a course different than the one urged by his generals on the ground, he will be making "an error of historic proportions."
Obama has not indicated how he will handle the McChrystal report other than making assurances that he intends to listen to a range of opinions regarding Afghanistan before deciding whether more troops or any new strategy is needed.
On "Meet the Press," Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Carl LevinCarl LevinCarl, Sander Levin rebuke Sanders for tax comments on Panama trade deal Supreme Court: Eye on the prize Congress got it wrong on unjustified corporate tax loopholes MORE (D-Mich.) said the president needs to carefully weigh the options to maximize the chance of success in Afghanistan. Levin said opined that the best way forward is to send more trainers to mold the Afghan forces, citing Iraq as the model for success.
"At this time, don't send more combat troops," Levin said. "...The surge that will really work will be a surge of Afghan troops."
Armed Services Committee member Sen. Lindsey GrahamLindsey GrahamSenators to Obama: Make 'timely' call on Afghan troops levels Senate amendments could sink email privacy compromise Trump: Romney 'walks like a penguin' MORE (R-S.C.) disagreed, saying that efforts at training will be unsuccessful without a secure ground situation.
"Without better security and more combat power we're going to lose in Afghanistan," Graham said.
Graham challenged Obama to "earn the award he was given" by implementing a "robust strategy," even offering to build Obama a cabinet to store his Nobel peace prize if the president manages to turn around the war in Afghanistan and keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
"Obama will be judged by the decision he makes" on Afghanistan, Graham said.
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Computer-Aided Evaluation of Malignancy with Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Breast
DESCRIPTIONThe use of computer-aided evaluation (CAE) may assist radiologists' interpretation of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast, and improve the accuracy of diagnosis of malignancy.
The use of computer-aided evaluation (CAE) is proposed to assist radiologists' interpretation of contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast. MRI of the breast is suggested as an alternative or adjunct to mammography or other screening and diagnostic tests because of its high sensitivity in detecting breast lesions. However, it has a high false-positive rate because of the difficulty in distinguishing between benign and malignant lesions. MRI may be used to screen women at high genetic risk of breast cancer or to look for more extensive disease in women diagnosed with breast cancer who are eligible for breast-conserving surgery; it is also being studied to gauge the impact of cancer treatment. The CAE systems reviewed in this policy are intended to improve the specificity of MRI in detecting or measuring malignant tissue, while maintaining the generally high sensitivity of MRI. This could potentially reduce biopsy rates if it improves the ability to identify which MRI-detected lesions are almost certainly benign. There is anecdotal information that MRI may also reduce re-operation rates among patients undergoing breast-conserving surgery by more clearly identifying the tissue that should be removed. The use of CAE may also shorten the time needed to interpret breast MRI images, which currently takes longer than reading mammograms.
CAE systems for MRI essentially provide easier ways of interpreting the patterns of contrast enhancement across a series of images, which in turn may help identify lesions and their likelihood of being malignant. Two key aspects of enhancement (also called kinetics) are examined: 1) Within the first minute or so, how quickly does the lesion enhance up to a certain threshold (e.g., 50%, 100% of the initial value; rapid enhancement [>90% in 90 seconds] suggests malignancy)? 2) What is the subsequent pattern of enhancement (ie, continues to increase [persistently ascending], plateaus, or declines [called washout, which is associated with malignancy])? In contrast to computer-aided detection (CAD) systems used with mammography, CAE for MRI is not primarily aimed at identifying lesions for consideration by a radiologist. Unlike the subtle appearance of lesions on mammography, most cancers enhance on MRI. The challenge is determining which lesions are benign and which are malignant. A large number of images are produced during MRI of the breast: images are taken at varying "depths" throughout each breast multiplied by the number of times the breast is imaged to capture different time points in the enhancement process; this can produce hundreds of images. Radiologists view the images to detect suspicious areas, and then pick a region of interest and look at the enhancement pattern. However, there may be variations across radiologists in the regions of interest selected and in the precise definition of the region of interest. CAE systems, in contrast, use color-coding and differences in hue to indicate the patterns of enhancement for each pixel in the breast image, thereby allowing radiologists to analyze enhancement patterns systematically. CAE systems for MRI of the breast were initially called CAD (computer-aided detection) systems, the same terminology used for mammography. However, the focus with MRI of the breast is on improving specificity (distinguishing malignant from benign) rather than increasing sensitivity (i.e., detection), as in mammography. The authors of 2 studies refer to CADStream as a computer-aided evaluation (CAE) program, and that terminology has been adopted in this policy.
Several CAE systems for use with MRI of the breast have 510(k) marketing clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Some of these systems may have broader uses beyond breast MRI. There also may be some overlap in the functions performed by these devices and other image-processing systems.
"Computer Aided Detection (CAD) system intended for use in analyzing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies. CADstream automatically registers serial patient image acquisitions to minimize the impact of patient motion, segments and labels tissue types based on enhancement characteristics (parametric image maps), and performs other user-defined postprocessing functions (image subtractions, multiplanar reformats, maximum-intensity projections). When interpreted by a skilled physician, this device provides information that may be useful in screening and diagnosis…. Patient management should not be based solely on the results of the CADstream analysis."
It also provides automated determination of volumes of interest. In addition, CADstream can be used during MRI-guided biopsies.
POLICYThe use of computer-aided evaluation (CAE) for interpretation of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the breast is considered investigational.
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POLICY GUIDELINESInvestigative service is defined as the use of any treatment procedure, facility, equipment, drug, device, or supply not yet recognized by certifying boards and/or approving or licensing agencies or published peer review criteria as standard, effective medical practice for the treatment of the condition being treated and as such therefore is not considered medically necessary.
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POLICY HISTORY05/09/2012: Policy added.
04/04/2013: Policy reviewed; no changes.
03/11/2014: Policy reviewed; no changes.
02/17/2015: Policy reviewed; description updated. Policy statement unchanged.
07/13/2015: Code Reference section updated for ICD-10.
SOURCE(S)Blue Cross Blue Shield Association policy # 6.01.45
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Within just 17 years the United States will be completely oil
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recently as 2005, it's a huge shift.
This change creates some interesting choices for investors.
Given the time horizon of this growth, it pays to be picky. Not
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One of these companies is
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The company is the biggest domestic producer of natural gas in
the U.S.
This $14 billion energy giant owns interests in 45,000 wells
scattered across the entire country. In just about every energy
formation, you'll find Chesapeake drilling wells.
The company's primary focus is natural gas. Chesapeake spends
huge amounts to find new wells and bring them into production.
Unfortunately, the growing production has been offset by falling
prices for natural gas.
As a result, Chesapeake reported a net loss of $940 million
last year. The company can afford to pay shareholders only a 1.6%
dividend. The stock price isn't making up for that tiny dividend
either - it's fallen nearly 60% in the last five years.
Another company with similar stakes in the natural gas
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Kinder is also a big player, with a market cap of almost $32
But Kinder isn't in the business of producing natural
gas. Instead, the company is involved in transportation.
And this is perhaps the most profitable aspect of the energy
Using 33,000 miles of pipelines, Kinder transports natural gas
throughout North America. In this pipeline business, the company
gets paid for transporting oil and gas regardless of the market
price for the commodity.
This means that the pipeline company gets paid based on volume
- or the amount of gas being transported. The more gas it moves,
the more it gets paid.
Last year, Kinder earned a profit of $1.3 billion. The
company's revenues were about 30% below Chesapeake. Yet Kinder
turned a healthy profit instead of a billion dollar
It won't surprise you to learn that Kinder has been a great
investment. The company pays a generous 5.9% dividend, and has a
history of increasing payments to its shareholders.
That healthy yield is complimented by a rising stock price.
Over the last five years, the stock is up a total of about
Finding big oil and gas discoveries may seem exciting. But for
investors seeking both capital gains and a growing income stream,
sometimes the boring companies like Kinder have much more to
This is a special breed of company, known as a Master Limited
Partnership or MLP. These companies have a special tax
status that is good for shareholders. By design, Kinder is set up
to reward shareholders with rich dividend payments.
Some executives and companies are intent on delivering profits
to shareholders. Others are more interested in growth for the
sake of growth. When it comes to my own investment portfolio, the
choice is crystal clear.
I'll take the juicy 5.9% dividend from Kinder over that tiny
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As we know Marrakech is a veritable hot-bed of fashion and barely a week passes without another boutique opening. Equally, our shopping list is never-ending with yet more 'must-buy' items added all the time. One of our long-time favourites, which we would like to share with you, is Hanout. According to their promotional material, Hanout
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Even if you're in Marrakech just a few days, if you make your way to Adil Andaloussi's place in Rue Riad Zitoun Jdid (New Olive Street), he can make you a genuine leather handbag using ancient techniques (as opposed to the machine-made ones in the souks). Simple bags range from 200 dirhams and ones with
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|Fecha de publicaciµn
|11 Ago 1987
|Fecha de presentaciµn
|13 Feb 1986
|Fecha de prioridad
|13 Feb 1986
|TambiÕn publicado como
|Nºmero de publicaciµn
|James R. Dillner
|Cesionario original
|United Technologies Corporation
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1. Technical Field
This invention relates to fixturing apparatus and more particularly to a workholder and method for securing a workpiece thereto.
2. Background Art
Generally, a workpiece is secured to a workholder to prevent movement of the workpiece during subsequent machining, milling, or other finishing operations. Clamping or other such mechanical means are well known in the art for attaching a workpiece to a workholder. However, delicate items, such as an airfoil blade, comprising essentially a thin metal plate having critically contoured surfaces on opposite sides, could be damaged by such mechanical attaching means. Since precise machining is required to produce an airfoil blade having aerodynamically shaped surfaces, precise fixturing is required to hold such a blade during the finishing operation. Movement or improper positioning of the workpiece could easily result in damage to the critical surfaces.
In commonly assigned U.S. Pat. No. 3,586,559 to Shepard et al, a method is disclosed for applying a melted wax-like thermoplastic composition to a workpiece and workholder, which, after cooling, forms an interlayer which bonds the workpiece and workholder together. The wax-like composition and workholder are heated to melt the composition before application and then again after finishing to release the workpiece from the workholder. Generally, such a workholder is constructed with a plurality of internal heating elements imbedded beneath the bonding surface, with the elements capable of heating the workholder to melt the bonding composition. The processing steps include heating the workholder, applying the bonding composition to the workholder, positioning the workpiece on the workholder and cooling the assembly. After finishing, the assembly is heated to melt the bonding composition and thereby free the workpiece. While such a process has been used successfully on many items, there are several limitations.
To insure uniform heating of the workholder bonding surface, a plurality of uniformly disposed electrical heating elements are imbedded under the workholder bonding surface and connected to a power source by a plurality of interconnecting wires. Generally, a workholder having imbedded heating elements is very costly and difficult to construct. This is particularly true for workholders having surfaces which conform to workpieces of complex shape or which require a large bonding surface. In addition, differences in the rate of thermal expansion between the elements, wires and workholder can cause fatigue after a number of heating cycles, resulting in individual element failure. Such failures cause cold spots on the bonding surface, slowing both the bonding and release of a workpiece from the workholder, thereby lengthening processing time.
Another problem involves premature release of the workpiece from the workholder. Generally, a finishing operation, such as milling or grinding, may generate sufficient frictional heat to cause a release of the workpiece from the workholder during finishing. Should this occur, the article may be rendered unusable due to inaccurate machining. The use of thermosetting compositions, which have a higher thermal resistance than thermoplastic compositions, such as the wax-like composition, reduces the likelihood of frictional heat release. However, since such compositions require an even higher temperature to release the workpiece from the workholder, a greater amount of time and energy are required to fix and release a workpiece during the fixturing operation.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a workholder which does not require heating to either secure or release a workpiece bonded thereto.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a fixturing method which optimizes energy use and minimizes processing time.
It is yet a further object of the present invention to provide a workholder and method that assure precise fixturing of workpieces having complex shapes or large bonding surfaces during finishing operations.
These and other objects of the present invention are achieved by utilizing a workholder having a contoured surface essentially matching a contoured surface of a workpiece, and, having means for releasably engaging a cured resinous material. In the preferred embodiment, such means comprise a plurality of studs disposed within a plurality of tapped holes located about the workholder bonding surface. The studs extend outwardly from the contoured bonding surface to a length sufficient to allow threaded engagement of a resinous material.
The method for utilizing such a workholder comprises the steps of configuring the engaging means for resinous engagement, coating the contoured surface and engaging means with a releasing agent which prevents chemical bonding of the resinous material to the workholder, positioning a workpiece relative to the workholder, contacting the workpiece, workholder and engaging means with the resinous material, sandwiching the resin therebetween, and, curing the resin. This bonds the workpiece to the resin layer which is, in turn, precisly held by the engaging means. After the finishing process has been completed, the workpiece and resin are disengaged from the workholder using the releasable engaging means. Where studs are used as the engaging means, this involves backing the threaded ends out of the cured resin layer. Using releasable engaging means to free the workpiece from the workholder provides heatless fixturing and release, saving considerable time by eliminating heating and cooling steps which would otherwise be required to perform this operation according to the prior art.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a typical airfoil article and the preferred embodiment of the workholder of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an elevation showing the workholder of the present invention engaging a sandwiched resinous layer which is bonded to an airfoil article.
FIGS. 3A, 3B and 3C are sectional illustrations of an airfoil article undergoing a typical two sided finishing operation utilizing the workholder of the present invention.
For illustrative purposes, the fixturing of an airfoil article to the preferred embodiment of the workholder of the present invention will be discussed. Referring to FIG. 1, an airfoil 1 has a root 2 and a blade 3, with the airfoil having opposite aerodynamically contoured surfaces 4 and 5, which require precision milling as a finishing operation. Such an airfoil may be approximately 30 inches in length from root to tip and approximately 12 inches wide at the root. While milling is illustrative of the present invention, any operation requiring precise fixturing of a workpiece can utilize this invention. Referring to FIG. 1, a workholder 6 has a contoured bonding surface 7 which essentially matches the first contoured surface 4 of airfoil 1. The illustrative workholder has means for releasably engaging a curable resinous material. For illustrative purposes, the releasable engaging means comprise a plurality of studs 8 extending through a plurality of tapped holes 9 in contoured surface 7 of workholder 6. Such studs are extendable outwardly from the contoured surface to a length sufficient to allow thread engagement of an after applied curable resinous material. In this example, about a 1/2" extension is sufficient.
Referring to FIG. 3A, the preferred embodiment of the method for utilizing the workholder of the present invention involves first threading studs 8 through the tapped holes 9, on contoured surface 7, extending a threaded portion of the studs outwardly about 1/2" from the contoured bonding surface 7. A release agent 10 (not shown) such as Miller-Stevenson MS-122, which prevents the adhesion of a resinous material to a contigruous article, is applied to the contoured surface 7 and extended studs 8. A curable resinous material 11, preferably an epoxy resin such as REN 3262 manufactured by REN Plastics Corporation, is applied to the contoured surface and extending studs on the workholder surface. While resin 11 is still pliable, airfoil 1 is fixably located relative to the workholder 6, and properly referenced to a machining alignment apparatus 12, sandwiching resin 11 between airfoil 1 and workholder 6 and thereby forcing resin 11 into the voids between the threads of extended studs 8. In another embodiment, airfoil 1 is first properly referenced to machining alignment apparatus 12, with resin 11 forced into the space between airfoil 1 and contoured surface 7. In either embodiment, the sandwiched resin forms a layer and is cured, usually by undergoing a self contained catalytic reaction.
Upon curing, airfoil 1 is bonded to resin layer 11. The resin which filled the voids between the threads of studs 8, forms a plurality of tapped holes 13, within layer 11, firmly attaching the cured resin layer 11 to workholder 6. Machining or other finishing operations may now be performed on second contoured surface 5 of airfoil 1. For illustrative purposes, airfoil 1 is shown undergoing a milling operation performed by a cutter 14. After milling, the airfoil is disengaged from the workholder by removing the studs from the cured resin, in this case, by backing them out of the formed tapped holes 13 in resin layer 11.
Where machining is required on both sides of an article, as is usually required with airfoil surfaces, additional steps are required. Referring to FIG. 3B, after completing finishing operations to the second surface 5, and before disengagement, a layer of resin 15 is applied to second surface 5 of airfoil 1. A second fixturing device 16 is positionally fixed relative to surface 5, sandwiching the resin therebetween. No engaging means or release agent are required on second fixture 16. After curing, second fixture 16 is bonded to second surface 5. Airfoil 1 is then disengaged from workholder 6 by removing studs 8. Referring to FIG. 3C, airfoil 1 and second fixture 16 are then rotated 180¯ and first contoured surface 4 machined by cutter 14 through resin layer 11. After the finishing operation is completed, the airfoil and fixture are placed in a furnace and heated to release the airfoil from fixture 16 and burn off any remaining resin. Such a fixturing method avoids several intermediate heating and cooling steps, significantly saving both processing time and energy.
While the preferred embodiment of the present invention is described in relation to a workholder having a plurality of studs extending through a contoured bonding surface having a plurality of tapped holes, this invention is applicable to any workholder having means for releasibly engaging a resin layer used for bonding a workpiece to a workholder. Therefore, it will be understood by one skilled in the art that any modifications in terms of engaging means, workholder contoured surface or curable resinous material can be made without varying from the scope of the present invention.
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