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Create the music experience you want with easy, full-featured, personalized listening. Build a library, browse channels, and make and share playlists. Stream the latest tracks from the major labels and the indies to your Android mobile, always ad-free. Plus, your account is linked to Sony® Entertainment Network, where you'll get instant access to games, music, and movie offerings on PlayStation® 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Sony home theater and audio.
• Create & manage your account on your device
• Stream music with an Internet connection or download to enjoy anywhere in Offline Mode
• Explore and create channels
• Browse new releases and top albums
• Recommendations based on your tastes
• Find old faves and discover new ones
• Handmade, curated playlists
• Guest artist picks
• Make your own playlists
• Share with friends
• No ads, unlimited skips
• 320 kbps High Quality Audio
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Spotify Music
With Spotify, you have access to a world of music. You can listen to artists and albums, or create your own playlist of your favorite songs. Want to discover new music? Choose a ready-made playlist that suits your mood or get personalized recommendations.
Listen for free on mobile
• Play any artist, album, or playlist on shuffle mode
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• Play any song, any time
Spotify Premium features
• Play any song, any time on any device--mobile, tablet, or your computer
• Download music for offline listening.
• Enjoy amazing sound quality.
• No ads – just uninterrupted music.
• No commitment - cancel any time you like.
Love Spotify?
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Google Play Music
With our new subscription service, you can play millions of songs on Google Play, listen to radio with no limits, and enjoy playlists handcrafted by our music experts.
With both Unlimited and Standard, the Google Play Music app lets you listen to your music collection anywhere. All your music is stored online, so no need to worry about syncing, storage space or offline playback.
Unlimited features:
* Listen to unlimited songs
* Create custom radio from any song, artist or album
* Enjoy radio without skip limits
* Get smart recommendations based on your tastes
All Access and Standard features:
* Add up to 50,000 of your own songs from your personal music collection
* Access your music anywhere without syncing, and save your favorites for offline playback
* Experience music without ads
* Buy new music on Google Play (18M+ songs)
* Share a free full play of the songs you purchase from Google Play with your friends on Google+.
* Learn more about availability of Google Play Music at https://support.google.com/googleplay/?p=availability
* Learn more about Google Play at http://play.google.com/about/music
Music Player for Android
Nothing fancy here, just providing everyone the option to use the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) developed music player. Not all phones come with this player installed.
For a free but more advanced and slick music player, check out JRT Studio's other music player, Rocket Player, which includes a built-in equalizer, genre view, lock screen support, and more!
Need help? Visit http://www.jrtstudio.com for quick tips or to contact support.
Anghami - Music Unlimited
Anghami gives you the largest music catalogue, with millions of arabic and international songs (international works only in MENA countries)
If you need help, please email email@example.com or http://www.anghami.com/help
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Download songs and listen without internet or 3G. No laptop syncing needed!
Build your own playlists
Discover amazing tunes with Personal DJ
Anghami team works hard to give you the best and latest songs
Share what you're listening to on Twitter, Facebook
Our music comes in pure Dolby sound - top quality that uses little data
An amazing interface that you'll love everyday
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To stay updated with the latest about Anghami:
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- Follow us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/anghami
- Watch us on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/anghami
Note : Anghami streams International Music in the Middle East only
SoundCloud - Music & Audio
Wherever you are. Whatever you're doing. The SoundCloud app lets you hear more.
More hip hop. More rock. More electronic. More classical. More house, jazz, audiobooks, sports…
- Explore Trending Music and Trending Audio feeds
- Search directly for tracks, artists and other users
- Follow friends and artists to hear what they share
- Browse tracks by genre
- Listen to your stream wherever you are using WiFi or data
- Play, pause and skip tracks from the lockscreen
- Login or register with Facebook and Google+
- Record sounds. Share them on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr
- Geotag recordings with location information
- Listen to playlists, or create your own and share them with your followers
It's easy to dive straight in and start discovering music & audio.
Try the Explore section to find trending music & audio of just about every genre you can think of.
As you explore, tap the heart to 'like' and save your favorites for later playback.
The Search page lets you find your favorite tracks, and artists. Follow their profiles so you can listen to the new music they post in your Stream.
Find out more on http://help.soundcloud.com/customer/portal/topics/110297-mobile-apps/articles
"SoundCloud is focused on building out a massive trove of content, weaving it all into the Web and making it easier to share. The "YouTube for audio" analogy looks increasingly apt, especially if its metrics continue to shoot skyward." - ReadWrite
"SoundCloud is a sharing machine. Remember the early days of audio online — when you had to download the Real Player or Windows Media Player to listen? The days of downloading before listening are over." - USA Today
"It's an evolution of audio's most vital self-service creation and discovery platform, music's best analogue to Twitter, YouTube, and Kindle Direct Publishing. It's not just finding or sharing songs or podcasts or spoken-word readings your friends may be listening to — it's finding and sharing the people who make those recordings, too." - The Verge
Like what you hear? Let us know, and share your discoveries with the world.
SoundCloud Blog: http://blog.soundcloud.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/soundcloud
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/soundcloud
Tumblr: http://soundcloud.tumblr.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/soundcloud
The more you tell us, the better SoundCloud gets.
Your privacy is really important to us. We only ask for the permissions we need for the app to be at its best.
For more information, read http://help.soundcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/1575188-what-permissions-are-required-to-download-the-app
If you have any more questions get in touch with us - see the help section.
This app is available in English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese
Deezer Music
Millions of tracks are waiting. Your favourite artists too. Listen without limits.
Combining expert knowledge from the Deezer Editors with our smart algorithms for PERSONALISED RECOMMENDATIONS, which means non-stop you music you'll love.
Deezer in FREE mode:
- Listen to FLOW and discover new favourites
- Enjoy thousands of RADIO CHANNELS without limits
- Check out PLAYLIST RADIOS based on your taste
- Search for an artist and play their radio channel
- Create as many playlists as you like
- New! Get the lyrics to your favorite songs.
Yep, you heard right. It's all for FREE!
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By downloading the Deezer app, you get 15 days of Premium+ free of charge.
- No ads
- Enhanced audio quality (320 kbps)
- Sync your tracks to listen offline
- Skip as many radio tracks as you llke.
Subscribe to Premium+ to enjoy these additional benefits!
Nominated for Best Music Service Provider at the 2013 ME Awards.
Follow Deezer!
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/deezer
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/DeezerUK
Torch Music
Here are a few ways to start:
- Use the Search box to find your favorite albums and songs and start playing.
- Sign in in using your Facebook account to listen to music your friends like and create your own library/playlists.
- See what's trending or check out Torch Music suggested music for you.
Torch Music is also available on your PC! Go to http://music.torchbrowser.com to continue listening to your library and playlists at home or at work.
More features coming up soon so stay tuned!
Music Anywhere
Music Player for Android
This music player is not only based on artists or albums, but also based on the folder structure. And more than 3 desktop widgets make your music play never been so easy.
Over 22 gorgeous background skins to make your music player look more outstanding,
The unique equalizer make your music sounds like you've never had before.
Key Features:
- Browse and play your music by albums, artists, genres, songs, playlists, and album artists.
- 3 simple home screen WIDGETS (4x1,2x2,4x1).
- High quality decoding with mp3,mp4/m4a,wma,flac and ape;
- Smart Playlists for easy access to your favorite and Most Played songs.
- Music Library wide SEARCH. Find all your music never been so easy.
- Lyric support.
- Five band equalizer.
- More then 20 types of pre-set music tone for your choice, or you can manually adjust the equalizer.
- Manually pick your preferred album artwork, artist pictures, genre illustrations from the Internet, the Gallery app, ID3 tags, or album folder.
- home screen WIDGETS
- NOTIFICATION STATUS support: display album artwork, title and artist, play/pause, skip forward and stop CONTROLS in notification status.
One of the most successful and high quality music players for Android.
Beats Music
With Beats Music, you have unlimited, ad-free access to over 20 million songs from every genre. Listen anytime on demand or download to listen offline.
When you're not sure what to play, let our in-house curators guide you. Here are just a few features that'll make it easy for you:
Your first stop for music that's right for you, based on your personal taste. A mix of albums and playlists that have been handpicked by our music experts are always ready and waiting just for you.
Make your mix. Let The Sentence know how you're feeling, what you're doing and who you're with and we'll play an continuous mix of tracks based on your selections.
Discover what's happening in the world through music. Quick access to what's worth checking out, even if it's not on your radar.
Take a deeper dive into music discovery here, where you can explore different genres, activities and curators. When you're not quite sure what to listen to, reach for the perfect playlist here.
Let your friends know what you're streaming by sharing your favorite tracks, albums and playlists with your friends via Beats Music, Facebook and Twitter.
There's tons more waiting for you. Just open the app and hit play.
Download the app and sign up for Beats Music to start your free (no strings attached) 14 day trial. It's on the house! When you're ready to lock it in, subscribe to Beats Music for $9.99 per month or $99.99 per year, which will renew automatically. For now, Beats Music is only available in the US.
- No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.
- Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication.
Musixmatch music & lyrics
"Best app 2014" on both App Store and Google Play
"Editor's Choice" Google Play
Enjoy your music with lyrics, in perfect sync with the music!
Use the equalizer for a better sound or improve your discography's cover arts by adding new ones.
Works as a scrobbler for almost every other music and radio player. It even supports ALAC/FLAC
Key features
★ Support to Android Wear (even scrobbling from Google Play Music and Spotify)
★ NEW: complete UI overhaul, with smooth transitions and slick animations
★ Full Spotify, Deezer, rdio, Rhapshody, Play Music support with FloatingLyrics™
★ NEW: use FloatingLyrics™ and enjoy lyrics everywhere
★ NEW: cast music and lyrics to your TV with Chromecast and LG Smart TVs
double check Spotify settings http://bit.ly/mXmSpotifysup
★ Super fast MusicID for unlimited recognition from TV and Radio
★ Search for lyrics by typing words, artist names, or song titles
★ Sing along by removing the song's vocals (Android 4.1+)
➜ Want to be a mXm beta tester ? Join us here http://bit.ly/BetamXm
➜ Help us translating Musixmatch in your language http://bit.ly/translatemXm
Problems? we hear you here http://bit.ly/mXmSupport
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/musixmatch
Twitter: https://twitter.com/musixmatch
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+musixmatch
Laya Music Player
Key Features:
» Browse and play music by Albums, Artists, Genres, Songs and Folder
» Play list management: supports adding entire songs by album, artist or genres to the playlist
» Formats supported: AAC, AMR, FLAC, MP3, MIDI, Vorbis and PCM
» Five band equalizer and Bass Boost
» Lock Screen Widget (Android 4.0 and above)
» Home screen Widget (4x1)
Music Player - Audio Player
One of the most gorgeous and powerful music player for Android!
You can manage your musics easily, Music Player will guide you easily to find all the music in your phone.
This music player is not only based on artists or albums, but also based on the folder structure. And more than 3 desktop widgets make your music play never been so easy.
Over 20 background skins to make your music player look more outstanding, and these also make your music player get the next level experience.
The unique equalizer make your music sounds like you've never had before.
Key Features:
* Browse and play your music by albums, artists, genres, songs, playlists, folders, and album artists.
* Lyric support. Automatic scanning all the lyric files , and matching the most appropriate lyrics file for your songs.
* 3 simple home screen WIDGETS (4x1,2x2,4x1).
* Notification STATUS support: display album artwork, title and artist, play/pause, skip forward and stop CONTROLS in notification status.
* Five band equalizer.
* 22 types of pre-set music tone for your choice, or you can manually adjust the equalizer.
* SHAKE IT feature: give your phone a shake to play next/previous song
* Gorgeous background skins, 20+ Gorgeous background images for your choice. You also can choose your own picture as background.
* Edit the song details, now you don't worry about the song without album name or artist name.
* Headset support. Support one button and multiple buttons headsets. Leave your device in the pocket!
* Music Library wide SEARCH. Find all your music never been so easy.
* Custom Playlist, set albums, artists, genres, folders songs to playlist
* Show recent play list
* Headset/Bluetooth Controls
To learn more about the advanced settings, please feel free to down and have a try.
We have always believed that music player experience can be something more. This is exactly why we have created this Ultra Music player.
Free Music for SoundCloud®
* Your best music client and player for finding and listening trending music. Since millions of people listen to music and audio for free from SoundCloud®, your can find online any song of your likes.(By complying with the API Terms of Use, we do not provide caching and downloading any tracks)
* Popular Music,Hip hop, rock, electronic, classical, jazz, folk, R&B, and more.
* Enjoy music now!
Key features:
- Search and find free music and song tracks
- Explore free music online by preset genres
- Manage your favorite music and songs
- Manage your local playlists
- Shuffle and Repeat mode
- Play music on background
- Music player widget
- Share music track and song url to social network
If you don't know what SoundCloud® is, read here:https://soundcloud.com/pages/contact
Vevo - Watch HD Music Videos
Vevo offers the largest collection of premium official music videos. Start watching your favorite music videos and catch daily video premieres by downloading Vevo for Android today.
Discover what's happening in the world through music. Quickly access what's worth checking out, even if it's not on your radar.
Stream exciting new music videos, original shows, and live music performances from your favorite artists for free.
Make playlists of your favorite pop, rock, rap, electronic, R&B, and country music videos. See a video you like? Add it to a playlist. Let your friends know what you're streaming by sharing your favorite music videos by sharing to your favorite social networks like Facebook and Twitter.
Not sure what to listen to? Vevo recommends music videos while you're watching based on your personal tastes. We'll scan your music library and provide recommendations for videos that we know you'll like.
Take a deeper dive into music discovery, where you can explore different genres, activities and channels created by our music insiders. A mix of channels and playlists are ready and waiting just for you.
Or just sit back and relax with Vevo TV, a hand-curated music video channel. Turn it on and enjoy an HD music experience that features everything from daily premieres to live music to the best classics.
New Features:
- New design
- Realtime Feed
- Music Matching
- Improved browsing, video recommendations, search & player
- Performance enhancements
Be sure to join the Vevo community to discover & share your favorite music.
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/vevo
Twitter - https://twitter.com/vevo
Tumblr - http://vevo.tumblr.com/
Instagram - http://instagram.com/vevo
Pinterest - http://www.pinterest.com/vevomusic
PLEASE NOTE: Vevo will work over cellular (3G or LTE) network connections, but for the highest quality music video experience, we suggest accessing via Wi-Fi whenever possible. Due to the nature of some licenses from the content owners, features and videos may not be available in all regions.
Once you Shazam music, you can easily:
• Preview and buy tracks on Amazon or Google Play
• Sing along to the beat with real time lyrics
• Share your discoveries on any social network
• Watch music videos on YouTube
• Share your discoveries on Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, Google+ and Pinterest
• Listen to full tracks with Rdio, Spotify or Deezer
• Connect to Rdio to create a playlist of your Shazamed tracks, or add tracks to any Rdio playlist
• See song recommendations from others like you
You can also use Shazam with TV:
• Shazam your favorite TV shows for the cast, soundtracks, and more
• Shazam ads to watch again, share with friends, or get special offers
Want even more?
• Go to shazam.com/myshazam to see your entire Shazam history; sign in to Facebook to get started
• Check out News to discover great new videos, updates and more, from artists and TV shows
you've Shazamed; plus see what your friends are Shazaming
• Explore shows you what's trending around the world and zoom in for local chart knowledge
• Book concert tickets for artists you've Shazamed
Use Shazam as much as you like – it's unlimited. Don't want the advertising – upgrade to Shazam Encore
Lyrics and LyricPlay™ available: US, CA, UK, FR, IT, DE, ES, AU, NZ
MIPS devices are not supported
Why does Shazam need these app permissions? https://support.shazam.com/entries/29632198
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Music Unlimited Mobile App
Create the music experience you want with easy, full-featured, personalized listening. Build a library, browse channels, and make and share playlists. Stream the latest tracks from the major labels and the indies to your Android mobile, always ad-free. Plus, your account is linked to Sony® Entertainment Network, where you'll get instant access to games, music, and movie offerings on PlayStation® 3, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and Sony home theater and audio.
• Create & manage your account on your device
• Stream music with an Internet connection or download to enjoy anywhere in Offline Mode
• Explore and create channels
• Browse new releases and top albums
• Recommendations based on your tastes
• Find old faves and discover new ones
• Handmade, curated playlists
• Guest artist picks
• Make your own playlists
• Share with friends
• No ads, unlimited skips
• 320 kbps High Quality Audio
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The best in television is available for purchase to own, often the day after air. You will find thousands of episodes from hundreds of shows across every major network.
Video Unlimited is your one-stop access to the best video entertainment available today. Wander through our great selection and be sure to check back regularly for great specials, including our Deal of the Week. You can even watch your videos on other compatible devices, including PSPs and PCs.
Unlock the power of your imagination with Video Unlimited.
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After you have linked your account, you can sign in to any supported application without having to type in your account information again.
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Gov. Rick Scott's proposed budget for the new fiscal year includes $1.3 billion for Florida hospitals providing care to uninsured people. However, that pool of money might stop existing this summer.
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The country's big beer companies have set their sights on craft brewers in the Sunshine State — again.
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The Walt Disney Co. uses a complex network of companies and subsidiaries to move profits out of high-tax countries to the tiny nation of Luxembourg, where the multinational giant only pays an effective tax rate of 0.3 percent.
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The invariant tori of knot type and the interlinked invariant tori in the Nosé-Hoover oscillator
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Has anyone else experienced a cracked 1/4 turn Brasscraft angle valve in recent months? Mine is a 1/2" inlet X 3/8" outlet Mod. #G2R17X C1. After a year of service, the inlet portion of the valve cracked and has sprung a leak.
Someone over tightened it. Buy a new one and use teflon pipe dope not tape this time.
I installed two of these about a year and a half ago on a bath sink. I had to replace the hot supply about 9 months ago. Just replaced the cold supply today (Sunday!). Both cracked. Installed with teflon tape and never overtighten. I've replaced a bunch of valves in my time and it's extremely rare to incur a cracked valve, much less two. Must be the cheap material they are using in China.
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You are the first to respond to my post that incurred a similar problem with cracked Brasscraft angle valves. Three of these cracked on me about 18 months after installation by a professional plumber causing leakage and damage. Unknown to me, my remodel contractor installed 9 of these which have all been changed. They were all stamped with TK09, which I believe is a Brasscraft date code. I sent one cracked one and two uncracked ones back to Brasscraft in Dec. 2011 and they opened a claim number. They promised me test results, but after repeated requests, they have reported nothing. I sure would like to know more about these faulty valves, but Brasscraft has been less than forthcoming. They really have caused me grief and my neighbor underneath too.
Those valves may have been "no-lead" & because of the lack of lead the brass is now brittle. I believe the manufacturers are addressing this on their web sites; about tightening the use of non-marring wrenches or pliers so as to not accidentally "score" the brass product. The KT Brasscraft 1/4 turn valves have been snapping off the handles here in West Texas just from "hard water"
Please file it with the BBB. I use the BBB to screen companies for new electronics and when I'm making home purchases. If you post on there people will see it, and the company will need to give you a resolution. They may be awful and just mechanical failure but if you post it and others post it there's a record of it and you can see how bad it is. It's one of the only ways of keeping a company honest about faulty products.
Yesterday, I replaced the 4th brass craft 1/4 turn angle stop that had developed the same crack in the 1/2 inch female pipe thread on the inlet side of the valve. The valves worked well for at least 1 year, and I have many still in service after 2 1/2 plus years. I am concerned that they are like a ticking time bomb, as they unexpectedly crack and cause flooding. So far, all 4 times the valves have cracked, there was only minor damage. The body of the valve is very thin. they should design them with more metal like in the olden days. I will look up the number of the code on the valve. I have used both 1/2 male thread on the output, and 3/8 compression on the output, and both have developed the same crack. Golden
I have had two Brasscraft KT series angle stops leak through the solid body where the FIP threads are. I installed them in August 2014 on a new pex system and in the last month two have developed leaks. One looked like it came in the area of the seam on the left side and the other on the right with no signs of reason. I swapped them all out for $6 Proflo for now and will probably order Dahl valves at some point. Im going to be calling Brasscraft today as this post feels like we are starting a club. My only question I asked myself is "do I really want them replaced under warranty?".
Welcome to all the new members that have entered here, James147, Golden, lostinwesttx, robertgelling and Seemer


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A chemically hardened optical crown glass having a refractive index nd of 1.5225-1,5235, a thermal expansion coefficient in the temperature range between 20° and 300° C. of 90 × 10- 7 to 100 × 10- 7 /°C., a dispersion γd of 54-60, a softening temperature of 690°-750° C., and a transformation temperature of 480°-550° C., produced by melting, shaping and cooling a batch consisting essentially of the following composition in parts by weight based on 100 parts of total composition: SiO2, 50.5-61.0; Al2 O3, 7.0-17.5; B2 O3, 2.0-6.1; Li2 O, 0-1.0; Na2 O, 12.0-15.0; K2 O, 2.5-3.5; CaO, 0-4.1; BaO, 0-0.3; ZnO, 5.0-10.0; PbO, 0-0.5; TiO2, 0.1-0.9; As2 O3, 0-0.5; and Sb2 O3, 0-1.0; and thereafter subjected to an ion exchange in which large alkali metal ions are diffused into the glass in exchange for smaller alkali metal ions at a temperature below the upper cooling temperature which corresponds to a viscosity of 1013 poises.
1. A chemically hardened optical crown glass having a sharp U-form tension profile, a refractive index nd of 1.5225-1.5235, a thermal expansion coefficient in the temperature range between 20° C. and 300° C. of 90 × 10.sup.-7 to 100 × 10.sup.-7 /° C., a dispersion γd of 54-60, a softening temperature of 690°-750° C., a transformation temperature of 480°-550° C., and a flexural tensile strength of at least 3000 kp/cm2 produced by melting, shaping and cooling a batch consisting essentially of the following composition in parts by weight based on 100 parts of total composition wherein the sum of the alkali oxides in the composition amounts to 14.5- 18.0% by weight, and wherein the sum of CaO, BaO and ZnO is larger than 6.3 and smaller than 10% by weight:
SiO2 50.5 - 61.0Al2 O3 7.0 - 17.5B2 O3 2.0 - 6.1Li2 O 0 - 1.0Na2 O 12.0 - 15.0K2 O 2.5 - 3.5CaO 0 - 4.1BaO 0 - 0.3ZnO 5.0 - 10.0PbO 0 - 0.5TiO2 0.1 - 0.9As2 O3 0 - 0.5Sb2 O3 0 - 1.0
and thereafter subjecting it to an ion exchange in which potassium, rubidium or cesium ions are diffused into the glass in exchange for smaller alkali metal ions at a temperature below the upper cooling temperature which corresponds to a viscosity of 1013 poises.
2. An optical crown glass according to claim 1 wherein said ion exchange is effected after the glass has been ground and polished to its final form.
3. An optical crown glass according to claim 2 wherein said diffused ions are potassium ions.
4. An optical crown glass according to claim 2 wherein said final form is an eyeglass lens.
5. An optical crown glass according to claim 4 wherein said diffused ions are potassium ions.
6. An optical crown glass according to claim 1, wherein said batch has the following composition in parts by weight based on 100 parts of total composition:
SiO2 54.0 - 56.0Al2 O3 10.0 - 16.5B2 O3 2.0 - 3.5Li2 O 0 - 1.0Na2 O 12.0 - 15.0K2 O 3.0 - 3.5CaO 0 - 1.0BaO 0 - 0.3ZnO 8.0 - 10.0PbO 0 - 0.5TiO2 0.6 - 0.9As2 O3 0 - 0.5Sb2 O3 0 - 1.0.
7. A chemically hardened optical crown glass according to claim 1, consisting essentially of, in weight percent based on the total composition, 50.81%, SiO2 ; 17.28% Al2 O3 ; 4.07% B2 O3 ; 14.33% Na2 O; 3.25% K2 O; 4.07% CaO; 0.81% TiO2 ; 5.08% ZnO; and 0.30% As2 O3.
8. A chemically hardened optical crown glass according to claim 1, consisting essentially of, in weight percent based on the total composition, 56.22% SiO2 ; 12.11% Al2 O3 ; 4.04% B2 O3 ; 14.22% Na2 O; 3.23% K2 O; 4.01% CaO; 0.81% TiO2 ; 5.08% ZnO; and 0.30% As2 O3.
9. A glass consisting essentially of the following composition and in parts by weight based on 100 parts of total composition: SiO2, 50.5-61.0; Al2 O3, 7.0-17.5; B2 O3, 2.0-6.1; Bi2 O, 0-1.0; Na2 O, 12.0-15.0; K2 O, 2.5-3.5; CaO, 0-4.1; BaO, 0-0.3; ZnO, 5.0-10.0; PbO, 0-0.5; TiO2, 0.1-0.9; As2 O3, 0-0.5; and Sb2 O3, 0-1.0.
10. A glass composition according to claim 9, consisting essentially of the following components in parts by weight based on 100 parts of total composition:
SiO2 54.0 - 56.0Al2 O3 10.0 - 16.5B2 O3 2.0 - 3.5Li2 O 0 - 1.0Na2 O 12.0 - 15.0K2 O 3.0 - 3.5CaO 0 - 1.0BaO 0 - 0.3ZnO 8.0 - 10.0PbO 0 - 0.5TiO2 0.6 - 0.9As2 O3 0 - 0.5Sb2 O3 0 - 1.0.
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 330,008 filed Feb. 6, 1973, now abandoned.
This invention relates to chemically hardened optical crown glass.
Both the thermal and the chemical hardening of glasses are known. For increasing the tensile and impact strength of optical quality crown glasses used as eyeglasses, however, only thermal hardening processes have heretofore been used, because conventional eyeglasses due to their chemical composition were not suited to be chemically strengthened to such an extent as to achieve satisfactory results in drop ball testing.
The thermal hardening does however involve disadvantages. This hardening process is unsuitable for a glass blank and has to be carried out on a glass which has already been ground, polished and rimmed. For thermal hardening, it is necessary to heat the glasses to high temperatures and then to quench them. This heating passes into transformation temperature ranges about 550° C. in which the glass is already deformed after several minutes. As a result, there is the danger that the surface curves which are carefully produced and often are specially calculated to correct for visual errors become distorted.
Another disadvantage of the thermal hardening is the parabolic distribution of tension which is thereby achieved in the cross-section of a thermally hardened optical glass lens. This is always noticeable in a displeasing manner when the corrective glass lenses have a non-uniform thickness. With the hardening, a stress imbalance is produced so that it is difficult to accurately determine what stressing the thermally hardened glass will actually withstand in subsequent use.
An additional disadvantage of thermal hardening is that it is restricted to lenses having a minimum thickness of about 2 mm. This means that a heavier spectacle glass is often required, particularly with corrective glasses having a negative diopter since it is necessary to have a minimum central thickness in the thinnest part of the glass.
Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide chemically hardened optical crown glass.
Another object of this invention is to provide a simplified process for hardening optical crown glass.
A further object of this invention is to provide optical crown glass severalfold stronger than comparable thermally hardened optical crown glass.
An additional object of this invention is to provide optical crown glass spectacle lenses and lens blanks of improved dimensional stability and ball-dropping strength.
Upon further study of the specification and appended claims, further objects and advantages of this invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art.
Briefly, the above and other objects are attained in one aspect of this invention by providing a chemically hardened optical crown glass having a refractive index nd of 1.5225 - 1.5235, a thermal expansion coefficient in the temperature range between 20° C. and 300° C. of 90 × 10.sup.-7 to 100 × 10.sup.-7 ° C., a dispersion γd of 54-60, a softening temperature of 690°-750° C., and a transformation temperature of 480°-550° C., produced by melting, shaping and cooling a batch consisting of essentially the following composition in parts by weight based on 100 parts of the total composition:
SiO2 -- 50.5 - 61.0Al2 O3 -- 7.0 - 17.5B2 O3 -- 2.0 - 6.1Li2 O -- O - 1.0Na2 O -- 12.0 - 15.0K2 O -- 2.5 - 3.5CaO -- 0 - 4.1BaO -- 0 - 0.3ZnO -- 5.0 - 10.0PbO -- 0 - 0.5TiO2 -- 0.1 - 0.9As2 O3 -- 0 - 0.5Sb2 O3 -- 0 - 1.0
It is thereafter subjected to an ion exchange in which large alkali metal ions are diffused into the glass in exchange for smaller alkali metal ions at a temperature below the upper cooling temperature which corresponds to a viscosity of 1013 poises.
The optical crown glasses to be chemically strengthened according to the invention are manufactured as is common practice in the art of making ophthalmic crown glass; i.e. melting the batch at about 1500° C, firing at about 1520° C, cooling to achieve shaping viscosity of 4 × 104 poises, shaping and cooling to room temperature. The properties of these glasses at this stage are similar to those of any ophthalmic crown glass, such as Type S1 of SCHOTT OPTICAL INC., Duryea, Pa., including the flexural tensile strength which is about 800 kp/cm2.
The present invention provides a spectacle glass which has been strengthened by other than thermal hardening, whereby more especially a lower hardening temperature below the transformation temperature of the glass, e.g., 340°-550° C., and preferably in the temperature range of 450°-370° C. preserves the true shape of the glass element.
It has now been found that certain optical crown glasses can be hardened chemically by ion exchange below the transformation temperature. In this way, small alkali ions which are originally in the glass are replaced by larger alkali metal ions which diffuse thereinto.
With this chemical hardening procedure, a two to fourfold increase in structural strength is achieved, as compared with thermal hardening of the same glass.
A sharper tension profile is obtained according to the invention having a U-form, not a parabola form as results from thermal hardening, which makes possible the chemical hardening of eyeglasses of non-uniform thickness with more constant results than can be obtained by thermal hardening.
The compressive stress level in and near the glass surface of spectacle glasses produced according to this invention lies above 4000 kp/cm.sup.-2. This stress must therefore not be once exceeded before a break occurs. This compressive stress occurs in a layer thickness of at least 100 μm, so that the effect of any indentation or notch positions which exist or are formed in use is compensated for in every case, thereby greatly increasing the structural strength of the glass.
As a result, the following advantages are produced for chemically hardened spectacle glasses:
1. Improved dimensional stability with the hardening; connected with this:
2. Simplification of the hardening process.
3. Considerably higher ball-dropping strength, e.g., according to DIN 4646 (higher than for comparable glass which is hardened thermally).
4. Thinner and lighter spectacle glasses which are cosmetically more pleasing.
The fact that spectacle glasses can be chemically hardened is surprising. It was not heretofore possible for the optical crown glasses used commercially in spectacles to be chemically hardened to produce advantages as compared with the thermally hardened glasses because with the thermally hardened glasses because the composition of conventional glasses does not permit an ion exchange which would give compression layers of sufficient thickness and stress so as to achieve high flexural tensile strength of more than 3000 kg/cm2.
On the other hand, glasses already known to be suitable for chemical hardening cannot be used as spectacle crown glass, since a whole series of standards exists for a spectacle quality optical crown glass which is not satisfied by these known chemically hardened glasses:
Optically correct position: refractive index (nd =1.3230)
Thermal expansion coefficient at 20°-300° C. in the range of 95-98 × 10.sup.-7 /° C
Transformation temperature according to DIN between 520°-545° C.
Softening temperature (107.6 poises) between about 700° and 750° C.
Fusion tension as compared with the close portion glasses usual today, e.g., BaF51 (Schott), smaller than ± 50 nmem.sup.-1.
Chemical resistivity equivalent to that which exists today with the usual spectacle glass distance portions.
Devitrification strength sufficiently high to permit the automatic production of spectacle glass blanks.
It was found that a glass composition within a range which differs considerably from the heretofore usual spectacle glass compositions can be chemically hardened for times of between 15 minutes and 16 hours at temperatures below the transformation temperature, to form a hardened glass which fulfills all of the previously described requirements set for a spectacle glass.
This glass is characterized by having the following composition of oxides given in parts by weight per 100 parts of the composition:
Useful Preferred______________________________________SiO2 50.5 - 61.0 54.0 - 56.0Al2 O3 7.0 - 17.5 10.0 - 16.5B2 O3 2.0 - 6.1 2.0 - 3.5Li2 O 0 - 1.0 0 - 1.0Na2 O 12.0 - 15.0 12.0 - 15.0K2 O 2.5 - 3.5 3.0 - 3.5CaO 0 - 4.1 0 - 1.0BaO 0 - 0.3 0 - 0.3ZnO 5.0 - 10.0 8.0 - 10.0PbO 0 - 0.5 0 - 0.5TiO2 0.1 - 0.9 0.6 - 0.9As2 O3 0 - 0.5 0 - 0.5Sb2 O3 0 - 1.0 0 - 1.0______________________________________
The sum of the alkali metal oxides is preferably 14.3 to 18.0% by weight; the sum of CaO, BaO and ZnO is preferably smaller than 10 and larger than 6.3% by weight. As2 O3 and Sb2 O3 can alternatively be used for the refining either in admixture or preferably individually.
Chemical hardening of the above glass compositions is effected according to this invention by immersion of a glass specimen into a molten salt bath for a period of time sufficient to permit the exchange of a portion of the small alkali metal ions in the glass composition with larger alkali metal ions which diffuse from the molten salt bath into the glass surface. The relative size of the alkali metal ions is Cs>Rb>K>Na>Li.
Ion exchange with molten potassium nitrate is preferred because potassium nitrate melts at about 334° C. which is sufficiently below the glass transformation temperature and upper cooling temperature of the glass composition so that the cooling of the melt which takes place on immersion does not cause crystallization of the molten salt. Other inorganic alkali metal salts having melting points at least 50°- 150° C. below the glass transformation temperature and which are stable at hardening temperatures can be used equivalently provided that the cation is larger than that being exchanged in the glass.
The following test hardening operations were carried out on glasses in the above range of compositions. The glass specimens were preheated to the desired hardening temperature in a hardening furnace and then immersed in a salt bath at the hardening temperature. The salt bath consisted of molten potassium nitrate. After the hardening process at various times and temperatures, the glasses were removed from the bath, introduced into kieselguhr for cooling purposes and thereafter washed off in water.
The optical measurements as regards tension were made on 0.5 mm thick cross-sections of the chemically hardened glass parts. These cross-sections were situated perpendicular to the glass surface which had been exposed to the potassium nitrate exchange medium. A tension value established by optical tension procedures and generally lower than 20% as compared with the flexural tensile strength can already be attributed to tension relaxations in the production of the thin specimens. This discrepancy increases with rising flexural tensile strengths.
The layer thickness of the compressive or tensile stress zone was determined by the procedure of locating the neutral phase, as is known in the art. This layer thickness must not be identical with the diffusion front.
The flexural tension tests were made with a 50 mm. diameter annular support on circular discs having a diameter of 60 mm. Before conducting the flexural tensile stress test, the chemically hardened glasses were subjected to slight roughening by abrasion with grade 600 emery.
The ball-dropping test was carried out according to DIN 4646 with a dropping height of 130 cm. and a ball weight of 43.8 p. The standard support was used in all cases and the glasses were likewise slightly roughened with 600 grade emery prior to the test. If the discs were not destroyed in this test, the dropping height was increased in stages until breaking occurred. The dropping load in cmkp was used for evaluating the impact strength.
It had originally been assumed that a new glass specimen would have to be taken for each individual ball-dropping test. However, a comparison of glass specimens which had repeatedly been pre-loaded with specimens which were not pre-loaded showed another picture. The ball-dropping test appears to indicate that pre-loading of the specimens occurs only to an extent which does not deepen the indentation fissures, since it appears that compressive stress zones produced by chemical hardening not only take up the tangential tensile load, but also retard the deepening of the fissures. This discovery is of particular interest for repeated alternate stressing of chemically hardened optical glasses in practice.
Without further elaboration, it is believed that one skilled in the art can, using the preceding description, utilize the present invention to its fullest extent. The following preferred specific embodiments are, therefore, to be construed as merely illustrative, and not limitative of the remainder of the disclosure in any way whatsoever. In the following examples, all temperatures are set forth uncorrected in degrees Celsius; unless otherwise indicated all parts and percentages are by weight.
Table 1 gives a number of examples of compositions by synthesis in percentages by weight and Table 2 sets forth the measured properties of these compositions.
It can be seen from Tables 1 and 2 that only glasses III, V, VII and VIII possess suitable refractive index values for use in the present invention, and that the former two of these have glass transformation temperatures outside of the suitable ranges therefor, while Examples VII and VIII possess both properties within the desired ranges.
TABLE 1__________________________________________________________________________COMPONENTS GLASS I GLASS II GLASS III GLASS IV GLASS V GLASS VI GLASS VII GLASS GLASS__________________________________________________________________________ IXSiO2 50.52 51.32 50.89 55.89 60.96 50.81 50.81 56.22 52.18Al2 O3 17.18 17.45 17.45 14.26 7.11 17.28 17.28 12.11 17.66B2 O3 6.06 4.10 3.58 3.19 4.06 4.07 4.07 4.04 2.07Li2 O 0.80 -- -- 0.21 -- -- -- -- --Na2 O 12.29 13.47 13.09 13.82 14.33 14.33 14.33 14.22 14.36K2 O 2.80 3.28 3.32 3.09 3.25 3.25 3.25 3.23 2.56CaO -- -- 0.20 -- 2.03 2.03 4.07 4.01 3.31BaO -- -- -- 0.21 -- -- -- -- --PbO -- -- -- 0.41 -- -- -- -- --TiO2 0.10 0.82 0.70 0.62 0.81 0.81 0.81 0.81 0.83ZnO 9.19 9.24 9.28 8.24 7.11 7.11 5.08 5.01 6.71As2 O3 0.26 -- -- 0.31 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30 0.30Sb2 O3 -- 0.30 0.50 -- -- -- -- -- --__________________________________________________________________________ 9
TABLE 2__________________________________________________________________________PROPERTIES GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS GLASS I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX__________________________________________________________________________20,300 × 10.sup.-7 °C. 91.2 97.2 92.1 91.9 96.0 96.4 97.3 97.0 96.5Fusion stress compared with -338/ -50/ -219/ +223/ +175/ +124 +52 +73 -79BaF 51 (nm/cm) +334 +33 +219 -230 -159 -132 -54 -81 +87nd 1.52149 1.5238 1.5232 1.5220 1.5233 1.5268 1.5232 1.5233 1.5289vd 57.18 56.57 56.71Transformation temp. (°C) 472 536 463 498 468 498 483 512 547Softening temp. (°C) 700 740 690 720 695 710 700 720 750Flexural tensile strength 3000 3000 5000 4000 3500 4000 3000 3500 4000after 2 hr. hardening timeAbrasion with grade 600 emery 4 hr. hardening time 5000 4500 7000 5000 5000 4000 4000 5000 550016 hr. hardening time 2500 3000 4000 4000 2500 3000 2500 3000 3500Ball-dropping test ac. to DIN 15.6 17.5 12.0 10.0 10.6 8.8 11.3 10.6 12.04646 (Dropping load in kp)Thickness of compressive stress 60 80 80 70 50 60 30 50 30zone in (μm)+Compressive stress obtaining in 4100 2800 3900 3700 3100 3200 3000 3200 3000compressive stress zone (nm+/cm + +)Tensile stress obtaining in 300 190 240 280 200 220 180 210 180tensile stress zone+ + + (nm/cm)__________________________________________________________________________ +Data for a typical hardening KNO3 salt melt, 90° transf. temp. and 4 hr. exchange time. + +Measurements made on 0.5 mm. thick cross-sections.
127.25 g. quartz sand, 15.75 g. boric acid, 55.46 g. soda, 11.90 g. sodium nitrate, 11.94 g. calcined potash, 23.04 g. zinc oxide, 56.91 g. aluminum monohydrate, 2.04 g. powdered rutile, 0.75 g. arsenic and 0.94 g. common salt are intimately admixed, placed in a ceramic crucible, and introduced into an electric furnace at 1470° C.
After melting this batch, refining takes place for 2 hours, following by stirring with a quartz tube and lowering the temperature to 1450° C. Refining is thereafter continued at 1450° C. for 2 hours without stirring, whereafter the melt is cooled to 1200° C. while stirring and then removed from the furnace. The glass melt is poured into a metal mold and introduced into a cooling furnace at 580° C. In this furnace, the glass specimen is cooled to room temperature at a cooling rate of 30° per hour. A glass is produced with a refractive index nd of 1.52310. The Abbe number γd is 56.62; the nF value is 1.5300 and the nC, value is 1.52074. The expansion of this glass is at 87.5 and the TK100 value is 142. The processing temperature (104 poises) is at 1072° C., the softening temperature (107.6 poises) at 737° C., the upper cooling temperature (1013 poises) at 552° C., the lower cooling temperature (1014.5 poises) at 513° C., and the transformation temperature according to DIN is at 536° C. The electric conductivity of this glass at 20° C. is 1.2 × 1012 OHM, at 250° C. is 1.1 × 106 OHM, and at 350° C. is 5.0 × 104 OHM. The acid resistivity of this glass lies in acid class 3; the alkali resistivity is in caustic solution class 3; the hydrolytic stability is in hydrolytic class 3, measured according to DIN 52; 322; 12,116 and 12,111, respectively. The fusion stress was determined as compared with the standard glass BaF 51 by melting a specimen of the glass with the BaF 51 standard glass in an electric furnace at 730° C., thereafter cooling at 10° per hour to room temperature and measuring the fusion zone under a polarizing microscope. A fusion stress of 40 nm/cm pressure was measured in the standard glass BaF 51 and 38 nm/cm tension in the specimen glass.
Other hardening tests carried out on glasses with the glass composition II (see Table 1) showed the following strength values determined by the ball-dropping test: glass thickness 2 mm, treated beforehand with grade 600 emery.
TABLE 3______________________________________HARDENING CONDITIONS DROPPING LOADTime Temperature cm kphrs. °C______________________________________0 0 1.11 460 27.71 480 20.81 500 15.62 380 7.72 440 15.62 460 15.82 480 9.02 500 13.74 460 17.54 480 13.84 500 12.06 420 13.66 440 19.06 460 17.56 480 13.816 420 9.016 440 13.816 460 22.3______________________________________
The preceding example can be repeated with similar success by substituting the generically or specifically described reactants and/or operating conditions of this invention for those used in the preceding example.
From the foregoing description, one skilled in the art can easily ascertain the essential characteristics of this invention, and without departing from the spirit and scope thereof, can make various changes and modifications of the invention to adapt it to various usages and conditions.
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She loves em! Was able to ship them right to her and she says they are so comfortable!
Bought this shoe on sale and I just can't stop wearing it all the time especially If I need to walk long distances. It is so comfortable! That's why it's my favorite walking shoes! Walked in the mall for almost 3 hours and my feet was perfectly fine. The only reason I gave it 4 stars because it came in with a little stain on the fabric. But other than that its a truly great buy and I'm really picky when it comes to shoes!
I bought these sneakers off Shoebacca so I could have a cute, tough little pair of shoes to wear to concerts. These are made with a luxurious, durable suede that I have gotten wet and dirty. You can clean it off with a washcloth and it still looks great. The soles are thick and grippy, and there is a puffy supportive arch pad that feels great at first. (Eventually, it goes flat.) I got a lot of compliments on these, because they are so unique! A little more support and heft that your average Keds, too.
The drag here is that they run large, and being fabric, they only stretch. Order down a full size and narrower (if possible). I can no longer wear them after 4 months because they are just too big, so I'm giving them to my roommate who is a size larger.
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Keds also championed the sneaker worldwide, with any general athletic shoe in countries such as India often being called a "Ked" just like Americans might say "sneaker" or "tennis-shoe." To this day many schools require Keds Shoes for physical education classes or uniform. Keds even has celebrity support from Taylor Swift, who recently released a line of shoes with the company.
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I wanted to update all who are still reading this diary blog that I have posted things since January, except I have taken them down. About a month ago, I wanted to conduct an experiment with myself, and properly analyze my perception of an old friend I used to have. About two weeks ago, I decided that was a bad idea to do, and removed those posts from existence. The experiment was a reaching out to him, even though I knew he was never going to answer. More and more, I have been losing interest in even being his friend. It is sad enough that friendship requires mutual communication, a point he has always had the power to deny me. This, itself, is rather manipulative, but I've explained enough already.
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August 18th 2014 | NEWS & PUBLICATIONS, PRESS RELEASESPHOTO CREDIT: © STE File
New research has revealed that an estimated 100,000 elephants were killed for their ivory between 2010 and 2012.
An average of 33,630 elephants per annum are calculated to have been lost over those three years, with preliminary data indicating unsustainable levels continued in 2013. The number of elephants remaining in Africa is uncertain, but these losses are driving declines in the world's wild African elephants on the order of 2-3% a year.
This study provides the first verifiable estimation of the impacts of the ongoing ivory crisis on Africa's elephant populations to date, solidifying speculation about the scale of the ivory crisis. To do so, researchers drew on data and experience from an Africa-wide intensive monitoring program.
The most thoroughly studied site was Samburu in northern Kenya where every birth and death over the past 16 years has been recorded, in a long-term monitoring project that lead author George Wittemyer of Colorado State University co-founded with Save the Elephants, in association with the Kenya Wildlife Service.
"Witnessing the killing of known elephants, some that we have followed since they were born, has been terrible," said Wittemyer. "Our data has become the most sensitive barometer of change during this poaching epidemic. We needed to quantify the scale of killing and figure out how to derive rigorous interpretation of poaching rates."
The researchers determined illegal killing in Samburu began to surge in 2009. This surge was directly correlated to a more than quadrupling of local black-market ivory prices (the poacher's price) and tripling in the volume and number of illegal ivory seizures through Kenyan ports of transit. The data also show that the destination of the illegally trafficked ivory increasingly shifted to China.
The team used the intensive study of the Samburu elephants as a Rosetta stone to translate less detailed information from 45 elephant populations across Africa to estimate natural mortality and illegal killing rates to model population trends for the species. The CITES-mandated global programme known as Monitoring of Illegal Killing of Elephants (MIKE) establishes cause of death for each elephant carcass found in these sites and this has provided the best measure of poaching pressure.
Over the last decade, the Proportion of Illegally Killed Elephants has climbed from 25% to 60-70%. Such figures cause conservationists alarm, as the study shows over 54% is a level of poaching that elephant birth rates are unable to overcome and will lead to population decline.
To establish figures rather than proportions, two types of model were used. One focused on the elephant populations with the best information and used them as an indicator for the conditions in their region of Africa. The other used proxy variables such as Chinese consumption rates, a corruption index, and poverty rates to estimate illegal killing in 300 sites. Both came to similar conclusions.
While the timing and magnitude of declines differed by region in Africa, with central Africa experiencing the worst levels, all regions of Africa are facing unsustainable levels of ivory poaching with the killing peak in 2011 equating to over 40,000 elephant deaths.
"It's a complex situation for elephants across Africa, with some populations – such as in Botswana – still increasing. History has taught us that numbers alone are no defense against attrition from the illegal ivory trade, and this new work confirms that elephant numbers are decreasing in East, Central and parts of Southern Africa," said co-author Iain Douglas-Hamilton, founder of Save the Elephants.
"This study helps make sense of the challenge faced by thousands of rangers working on the frontlines to protect elephants and other species across Africa" said co-author Julian Blanc of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) secretariat. "It also highlights the importance of the accurate collection of data as part of their day-to-day patrol work, which is essential to understand and communicate the true proportions of the threat that elephants face."
George Wittemyer
Assistant Professor, Colorado State University
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Iain Douglas-Hamilton
Founder & CEO, Save the Elephants
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About Save the Elephants
Save the Elephants (STE) works to secure a future for elephants in a rapidly changing world. To battle the current surge in ivory poaching, the STE/WCN Elephant Crisis Fund is identifying and supporting the most effective global partners to stop poaching, thwart traffickers and end demand for ivory. Leaders in elephant science, STE also provides cutting-edge scientific insights into elephant behavior, intelligence, and long-distance movement and applies them to the long-term challenges of elephant conservation.
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WASHINGTON --- Relentless in his lifelong devotion to the elephants' survival, Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Ph.D., has been named the 2010 recipien...
China's Illegal Ivory Trade Escalating Out of Control
Press Release The illegal ivory trade is exploding in China, overwhelming efforts to enforce the law, according to the results of the first detailed research on the marke...
Will mobilization of military forces stop elephant poaching in Cameroon?
Ten elephant carcasses discovered in mid-January in and around Cameroon's Bouba Ndjida National Park are raising fears that poachers may again be targeting the park. Bu...
Zimbabwe: Manzou Evictions - State to Move in Wildlife
IN what could amount to psychological warfare Manzou Estate villagers' days to vacate the farm in Mazowe are numbered as government plans to move in the "big five" animal...
Vietnam seizes over 1 ton of elephant tusks smuggled from Hong Kong
See link for photo. --- Customs officials in the northern city of Hai Phong on Saturday seized more than one ton of ivory smuggled into Vietnam.The tusks were conceale...
Reaching out to the Chinese
When it comes to discussions about the current elephant poaching crisis, China is often a word that looms large. Demand for ivory in the world's most populous nation ha...
At least 33,000 elephants are being killed every year for their ivory. The Elephant Crisis Fund provides quick, efficient support to the most effective projects aimed at stopping the killing, thwarting the traffickers and ending demand for ivory. Created by Save the Elephants and the Wildlife Conservation Network, 100% of funds reach the field.
Each year, we accept a small number of interns to Save the Elephants in Kenya. These internships comprise 1-2 month professional placements with one of our research projects in Kenya. The programme is best suited to university students or graduates pursuing a career in conservation, with skills in scientific data collection and analysis.
Our unique brand of conservation education encourages students to become ambassadors for elephants and the rich environment in which they live. Our scholarship programme transforms the prospects of children that live in the elephant rangelands and forges important links between the worlds of both sponsor and student.


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The thing that annoys us all is, imagine if Rondo actually worked out?! Dallas would be a top 4 contending team in the NBA possibly, we would be extremely dangerous, it sucks how he's not fitting in, we are throwing away the potential. But you're right, he's been in Boston for 9 years, he's not going to adjust in the short span he has been here, but it needs to happen soon!
Yeah Crowder is no difference maker, but i would put his ceiling higher than Carrolls, these are his stats in his time in Boston; after all star he's averaging 14.5PPG, and 7 rebounds. For Feb he's averaging 11.5PPG and 6RPG.. These aren't mind blowing stats, but for a 2nd year player who didn't get a massive chance in Dallas it's interesting to see how well he's doing with a bigger role. I think he will be a good 3M per year player.
Yeah MIL has a solid lead on 7th spot, not sure if they will fall, but it'll be interesting, i see them not winning as many games as they did with Knight though..
Vonleh just gets no chance, and it's because of his injury he suffered prior to the season, he just never grasped a role in the team and Clifford doesn't seem to trust him yet. He's still incredibly raw, the whole Charlotte org believes in his potential, hopefully next season he gets a good role, it's tough though because they are trying to develop Cody at the same time.
Kanter has been a beast in OKC, i think Adams is better coming off the bench with a scoring big like Mith McGary, that way they have a good offense-defense punch wit Adams and McGary, like Kanter and Ibaka.
Hey Jens,
Man, that Rondo vs Carlisle argument was tough to see. I'm going to be honest, Rondo is not working out as we all had planned. Yes he has made us a better defensive team and yes he has the potential to take this team to a championship, but right now he's looking ugly, and he's not adapting to the new role of working with Ellis and our other dominant players. He's still a great player and i love his game, but right now it looks like we should have stuck it out with Crowder, B.Wright and Jameer, have you seen how good Crowder has been playing in Boston?! He's on fire! Plus if we had of waited, we could have grabbed Dragic, but none of us thought he'd be dealt!
Man that sucks that D-Rose is out yet again, and potentially for good! Chicago just can't catch a break, they were starting to click and looked like the darkhorse finals team in the East, but now without Rondo it will be extremely tough! I hope they sign Nate Robinson!
Yeah Milwaukee are ahead by 7 games or something in 5th spot, however now with Knight gone too i see them falling dramatically, but still 7 games is hard to gain! Plus i see Detroit and Indiana pushing into the top 8 also and knocking Miami and BK out.
Charlotte's future is bright still, Al Jefferson looks to have declined a bit this season, he's not as good as he was last season and we are really thin at forwards which is concerning. Noah Vonleh and Cody Zeller will hopefully pan out, MKG will, without him in the lineup we struggle, he's too good on defence and ofcourse we have Kemba. Hairston has potential too! I wish we had of signed Thomas Robinson though, i really am a big fan of his and he just needs a chance, plus he would have been good to pair with Cody to make it competitive with who gets the start, because Cody has been struggling lately! And not to mention how thin our PF is right now..
Thanks man. I have a lot of respect for the Mavs too. Dirk is great and so are most of the other guys who've been through that organization. Mark Cuban is the only one I question haha.
Na i did not see that quote from Jimmy Butler, but it's good to see that guys that have so much hype surrounding them can still admit that they are also part of the problem. He seems like a legit future piece to the Bulls franchise.
Apparently O'Neal is already in Dallas, he's got a house where he's currently working out constantly to get NBA fit, then once he is confident in himself he will join the team. Although i was also reading that Dallas is hot after Amare if he is brought out. Do we have a roster spot?
Yeah i have my fingers crossed that we can make fourth seed, it was such a good come back win against Portland the other night and put Dallas on notice, however we are still only 3-11 against the West top 4 teams, and that is not good enough, and it's giving everyone doubt to whether we are actually contenders or not. Harden is playing his best basketball yet at the moment, they are still playing so well without Howard and it's directly related to Hardens production.
Yeah Clippers are stuck in the mud at the moment, something isn't working there, and loosing Blake for atleast a few weeks is going to be huge. However i feel it's more their bench that is keeping them back, Glen Davis is washed up, Hedo is washed up, Austin Rivers is still raw, Hawes has been underachieving, Ekpe Udoh is average, Jamal Crawford is really the only consistent production they have coming off the bench. And to be honest, Barnes and Redick are good, but when you look at the other wings in the West, they would be one of the worst wing pairings in the top 10 in West;
Ellis and Parsons,
Harden and Ariza
Green and Leonard
Lee and Green
Wes and Batum - (even though Batum has been average this season)
Klay and Barnes
Durant and Roberson
etc etc
Yeah Charlotte has now won something like 15 of last 20 which is nice, and considering Brian Roberts and our two best defenders in MKG and Bis have been out is more impressive! We're 7th right now, MIL ahead by about 6 or so games, i hope we can catch them or atleast finish the season with a record over .500.
Yes, i can not believe that ATL beat GSW, they are legit. ATL is a real threat now, i wonder what their odds were going in to the season? They're a team i don't mind seeing do well either.. And yeah Dennis has been a pivotal part of their success. Yeah Marcus Smart has horrible shooting percentages, but i do think once he gets a shot he will be very good.
Trade deadline next week!
Yeah man, Rondo is still trying to find his groove, he can go off one night and drop 20+ points but then the next game he will take like 3 shots, he needs to figure out his game more and realize what he can give us to make us win, then do that production every night.. His defense has changed the culture of this team, it's made Ellis better on defense too, i was reading an article about how Ellis is now giving so much more effort on the defensive end. It's going to be tough without Rondo for the next few games though, however Harris is arguably one of the best back up PG's!
It sounds like Jermaine O'neal is coming to Dallas, just when he is in the perfect condition, so i would be very happy with that. Honestly i think Dallas just needs to make the top 4 going into the playoffs, if they can cement home court then they are going to be a wrecking crew, kind of like how OKC just needs 8th, then they are one of the biggest threats.
Those contracts sound good to me, and i think Ellis and Chandler will want to stay, Rondo could be interesting, but hey, if he leaves we can sign B.Wright back haha.
Charlotte has been really disappointing, can't believe how the first couple of months went! But they have now won 12 of their last 15 games or something, so they are turning it around and i fully believe they can still grab 6th seed. Lance has to go, i'm sick of waiting for him hoping he gets better, it's throwing our season away and honestly he has not improved at all since game 1. I liked the Joe Johnson trade idea, even though we would be committing to 24m next season with him he would make us better, and he is the perfect player for that team, plus if he didn't work out his expiring contract will be very intriguing for trades.
Washington is one piece away, they need to forget Andre Miller and sign Nate Robinson, he would be perfect. But we just need another pure scorer, our defense is there, we are like 6th or something, just need someone else to contribute with Beal and Pierce..
ATL is crazy, i bet no one thought they would be this good! I honestly can't comprehend how good they have been, and i'm interested to see how they do in the playoffs. Schroeder has been really good too! Cavs are becoming scary too!
Hey bro,
Sorry man i have been super busy and away from home for a few months with work! Have not watched a Dallas game in months, but always see the highlights. I love the Rondo trade, he hasn't been as good as what he can be yet but he makes us better, offensively and defensively, and he's nailing so many 3's!
We really need to add another big though, we should trade for Plumlee or possibly Tyler Zeller or someone along those lines, maybe Mahinmi back from Indiana? He barely gets used.. Or Jermaine O'neal, theres a good chance we get him if he comes back.
Dallas will be a top 4 seed in the WC i think, Washington will finish no.2 seed and Charlotte will sneak in a take 7th, maybe 6th, they are playing worlds better now!
Memphis is playing exceptionally well, i would have never picked how good they are playing going into the season! They are really consistent too! I was watching Grantland's, it's a new televised show that Bill Simmons and Jalen Rose do, they had a great trade i thought, the trade is; Clippers sign Ray Allen, then trade Jamal Crawford to Memphis for Tony Allen. Imagine that, Memphis gets high volume scorer, and Clippers get a a good 3 player that they currently lack in. HOwever, Memphis is not in a situation to trade at this point, there's no need for them to trade, and it would be a risk incase the departure of Tony hurts Memphis's team culture!
Houston have been incredible too, i hate it, but you have to give them credit.. Trevor Ariza has worked out really well there, and even though they do have a weak bench, it's working. Plus, they've lost Dwight and Beverly a number of games this season so far.. Another team is Toronto, they have been so good and consistent! They could do with a better front court, but Lowry and Derozan and Lou Williams off the bench have been playing so well. If i were Toronto, i would look at adding Pekovic, with a C like Pek, they could be contenders.
Charlotte has real issues. Lance is not working out, he's a great rebounder and passer but he doesn't score, and scoring is something we need to win! Our defense has dropped too, and i don't get why, we lost McRoberts but we added better defenders as a whole. Charlotte has some real chemistry problems at the moment, they have no identity, and you never know when they will show up to a game, some games they look like they want to win, other games it looks like they don't care!
The Bucks and Kings! Wow, DMC has emerged as a true leader, Gay is playing the best basketball of his career and our guy Collison looks to have found a home! Bucks are just on fire, they've got so much talent, they could be a really good franchise in time!
Yeah Kobe is playing pretty selfish basketball, however i think that's his desire to win coming out in him, he knows he doesn't have the talent around him to win many games so he feels like he has to do all he can to atleast be in contention to win the game with 2minutes to go! I love Kobe though, kind of disappointed to see him in that situation.
Dallas is playing really efficient basketball, Brandon Wright is money when he has the ball in his hands close to the rim, and Chandler is looking like the championship Chandler we used to see. Monta has been good too. We just need to continue focusing on working on that defense because everyone knows how dangerous our offense is!
Hey man,
Didn't watch the Dallas- Philly game, but wow! I seen the highlights haha, that was incredible offense! We almost beat the biggest ever winning margin and a few franchise records! Great game, and was good to see the bench warmers get a bit of time at the end. Dirk is playing redirkulous efficiency! I seen somewhere that Dallas is relying way to much on Dirks production! I couldn't believe it, it seems like this year Dirk hasn't even taken over 12 shots.. He's been taking like 8-12 shots and still getting 15-25points. His efficiency will be 50-40-90 this year, i'm picking it!
Dallas is a contender, i fully believe, despite the defense that we will be a WCF team
We don need him though. Teague's here for life and I doubt Schroder will be in the rotation at the end of the season.
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Rose fish
|Rose fish
|Scientific classification
|S. norvegicus
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|Sebastes norvegicus
(Ascanius, 1772)
The rose fish (Sebastes norvegicus), also known as the ocean perch,[1][2] Atlantic redfish,[3][4] Norway haddock, red perch, red bream, golden redfish, or hemdurgan, is a species of rockfish from the North Atlantic. Misleadingly, it is sometimes called bergylt, bream, or snapper, though it is unrelated to all of these. In the past, the scientific name Sebastes marinus was frequently used, but this is actually a synonym of Serranus scriba.[5]
This food fish lives off the coasts of Europe and North America. Adults are found off the coast at depths of 100 to 1,000 m (330 to 3,280 ft);[6] juveniles may be found in coastal waters such as fjords. The adults are slow-moving, gregarious fish, of some commercial importance. They reach 1 m (3 ft 3 in), though most only are about half that length.[6] They are viviparous. While the young fish are of brownish color, the adults are bright red.
The rose fish appeared on a 15-pfennig stamp of West Germany in 1964.
In 2010, Greenpeace International added the rose fish to its seafood red list.[7] It is also on WWF's list of fish species to avoid.[8]
One of the main fishing areas of the rose fish is the Irminger Sea between Iceland and southeastern Greenland.
- ^ food university
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- ^ RTL international
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- ^ "Sebastes marinus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 24 January 2006.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Sebastes norvegicus" in FishBase. 6 2012 version.
- ^ Greenpeace International Seafood Red list
- ^ Kinkartz, Sabine (5 April 2014). "EU demand for fish exceeds sustainable supply". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 8 October 2014.


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Around the Square of Weapons (Trg od Oruzja), there are cafés, discos, and restaurants, even an Irish-themed pub; designer stores sit next to real estate offices, and boutique hotels are being fixed up for the discerning. In the harbor, the yachts of wealthy visitors are a sign of things to come.
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Why was "tantrum" trending last week?
1802, from French galvaniser, from galvanisme (see galvanism). Figurative sense of "excite, stimulate (as if by electricity)" first recorded 1853. Meaning "to coat with metal by means of galvanic electricity" (especially to plate iron with tin, but now typically to plate it with zinc) is from 1839.
He'll swear that in her dancing she cuts all others out,Related: Galvanized; galvanizing.
Though like a Gal that's galvanized, she throws her legs about.
[Thomas Hood, "Love has not Eyes," 1845]
Placement of a thin coat of a metal, such as zinc, over iron or steel to protect the latter from rust. Galvanized metals typically appear shiny.


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Obama's Decision To Put US Forces On The Ground In Jordan Is Lunacy
Did you know that Barack Obama has made the utterly bizarre decision to put American troops on the ground in Jordan
The United States has sent military troops to the Jordan-Syria border to bolster that country's military capabilities in the event that violence escalates along its border with Syria, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday.
Speaking at a NATO conference of defense ministers in Brussels, Panetta said the U.S. has been working with Jordan to monitor chemical and biological weapons sites in Syria and also to help Jordan deal with refugees pouring over the border from Syria. The troops are also building a headquarters for themselves.
But the revelation of U.S. military personnel so close to the 19-month-old Syrian conflict suggests an escalation in the U.S. military involvement in the conflict, even as Washington pushes back on any suggestion of a direct intervention in Syria.
Barack Obama is putting American troops at risk by placing them on the ground in Jordan. It opens our soldiers up to terrorist attacks and the idea that they could be involved in potential fighting on the Jordanian border is insane. We have no national interest in Jordan or Syria and putting our troops in the middle of that mess is risking their lives so Barack Obama can feel like a big man. It's ridiculous, it's foolish, and Republicans should cut off the funds for the mission unless Barack Obama can explain to the American people why we're risking the lives of American troops in Jordan.
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