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|May 18, 1976
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|George Reginald Newns, Keith John Beales
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The present invention relates to dielectric optical waveguides, glasses for use in dielectric optical waveguides, and methods of making glasses for use in dielectric optical waveguides.
In order to produce dielectric optical waveguides suitable for use in telecommunications systems it is necessary to ensure that the loss in the dielectric optical waveguides is of the order of 20 dB/Km or less. This requirement imposes severe conditions on the quality of the glasses from which the dielectric optical waveguides are made. For example it is important that such glasses should have a low concentration of transition metal ions and water, which give rise to absorption bands. It is also important that phase separation and devitrification should not occur in the glasses when the fibre is drawn, because even if present to only a slight extent, these effects will result in glasses with a high scatter loss.
Up to the present time greatest success has been encountered with pure and doped vitreous silicas. It is possible to produce vitreous silica in an extremely pure state, so that absorption losses due to impurities are as low as 2 dB/Km. In order to produce a second glass with a refractive index different from that of pure silica, small quantities of dopants are added, e.g. titanium dioxide. In this way dielectric optical waveguides can be made with a doped silica core and pure silica cladding. Such dielectric optical waveguides have an extremely low loss. However because of the higher softening point of vitreous silica, there are difficulties in the preparation of dielectric optical waveguides from these materials. For example the usual technique used in the fabrication of dielectric optical waveguides is to prepare a preform consisting of a clad rod and then draw this down to a suitable diameter to form the dielectric optical waveguide.
From the point of view of convenience of manufacture the double crucible technique for drawing fibres is ideal.
This technique involves melting two glasses, one in a first crucible and the other in a second crucible, the first crucible located within the second crucible. Both crucibles have drawing nozzles. The fibre thus formed is a clad fibre which is capable of acting as a dielectric optical waveguide.
Ideally low melting point glasses are required for the double crucible technique. However, such glasses are complex, containing as a rule, at least three oxides, and this introduces problems in keeping the glass losses at a sufficiently low level to permit the production of satisfactory dielectric optical waveguides.
The present invention is concerned with a particular glass system, namely the alkali oxide-boro-silicate system, which is capable of yielding low melting point glasses (glass forming temperatures in the region of 800�C to 1300�C), methods of producing these glasses and dielectric optical waveguides formed from these glasses. (The alkali oxides are the oxides of lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium, and caesium). In particular the present invention is concerned with glasses in the soda-boro-silicate system, dielectric optical waveguides made therefrom, and methods of preparing such glasses. In order that such glasses be suitable for use in dielectric optical waveguides they should have low absorption and scatter losses, the combined losses being less than 20 dB/Km in the bulk glass. This necessarily means that the glasses should be free of phase separation and de-vitrification, and have a low concentration of transition metal ions exhibiting absorption bands in the visible or near infra-red region of the spectrum. As will become apparent hereinafter, the glasses of the present invention contains small quantities of arsenic trioxide (less than 5% by weight, more usually between 0.01% and 1% by weight) as a result of the methods of preparation. It should be understood, therefore, that any reference to an alkali oxide-boro-silicate, or soda-boro-silicate glass is also to be interpreted as referring to the glass when it contains arsenic oxides in addition to soda, silica, and boric oxide.
According to a first aspect of the present invention there is provided a soda-boro-silicate glass for use in fabricating dielectric optical waveguides, in that said glass has a composition lying within the range of compositions defined by region A of FIG. 1, and further characterised in that said glass contains 0.01 - 5% by weight of a redox buffering oxide e.g. As2 O3 or Sb2 O3.
According to a second aspect of the present invention there is provided a dielectric optical waveguide characterised in that both said core and said cladding consist of alkali-boro-silicate glasses.
According to a third aspect of the present invention there is provided a method of preparing an alkali-boro-silicate glass for use in dielectric optical waveguides by melting appropriate batch materials to produce molten glass, characterised in that a mixture of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide is bubbled through the molten glass.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described by way of example with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 shows the composition range of glasses in the soda-boro-silicate system.
FIG. 2 shows iso-refractive index plots for the soda-boro-silicate system.
FIG. 3 shows iso-thermal expansion coefficient plots for the soda boro-silicate system.
FIG. 4 shows a plot of refractive index versus soda content for soda-boro-silicate glasses having a low soda content.
FIG. 5 shows a plot of attenuation coefficient of iron versus wavelength for various soda-boro-silicate glasses.
FIG. 6 shows a plot of attenuation coefficient due to iron at two wavelengths, as a function of soda content for glasses in the soda-boro-silicate system.
FIG. 7 shows a graph of total attenuation versus wavelength for a soda-boro-silicate dielectric optical waveguide.
N.B. FIGS. 2 and 3 are drawn from published information and are only approximate.
It has been found that glasses having compositions in the Region A of FIG. 1 can be made in a form suitable for use in dielectric optical waveguides. These glasses have compositions lying outside the composition range of nonglass formation (Region B of FIG. 1) and phase separation (Region C of FIG. 1). Glasses having the composition set out in Table 1 have been prepared in a form having a suitably low loss to permit their use in dielectric optical waveguides (with the exception of glasses 28, and 31).
However it is believed that all compositions falling within Region A of FIG. 1 are suitable for use in dielectric optical waveguides. Glasses having compositions defined in this way should have a low scatter loss, because they lie outside the region of phase separation, C, and well within the glass forming region, so that de-vitrification and nucleation should not occur. All the glasses in Table 1 contain between 0.1% and 1% by weight of arsenic trioxide because of the way in which they are made.
TABLE 1______________________________________Glass No. SiO2 B2 O3 Na2 O______________________________________1 50 22.5 27.52 35.3 41 23.73 60 13 274 25 50 255 25 58 176 37 43 207 38 44.5 17.58 58 27 159 57 25 1810 47.2 31.1 21.711 52 23 2512 53.5 24 22.513 55.5 24.5 2014 57 25.5 17.515 46.5 20.5 3316 23.5 46.5 3017 24 48.5 27.518 26 51.5 22.519 27 53 2020 27.5 55 17.521 50 25 2522 45 30 2523 40 35 2524 35 40 2525 30 45 2526 70 10 2027 60 20 2028 70 20 1029 28.5 56.5 1530 29 58.5 12.531 30 60 1032 40 47 1333 28 55 1734 78 5 17______________________________________
Compositions in the above table are in parts by weight, and are indicated by X in FIG. 1.
The principal problem in producing glasses in the soda-boro-silicate system, which are suitable for dielectric optical waveguides is to ensure that optical absorption due to impurities, mainly iron and copper, are kept to an acceptable level. In glasses produced by usual techniques, the attentuation coefficient of copper in e.g. glass 2 is 500 to 1200 dB per Km per ppm and the attenuation coefficient of iron is about 2 dB per Km per ppm. Copper and iron are usually present in the ratio of ten parts iron to one part copper. The iron absorption loss is due to iron in the ferrous or reduced state, i.e. is due to Fe+ + ions, while the copper absorption loss is due to copper in the cupric or oxidised state, i.e. Cu+ + ions. The oxidation reactions are set out below.
Fe+ + + 1/4O2 →Fe+ + + + 1/2O- -
cu+ +1/4O2 →Cu+ + + 1/2O- -
the requirements on the redox state of the glass to minimise the absorption losses of iron and copper are therefore opposite, and it would appear at first sight that nothing can be done to reduce the combined absorption coefficient.
However it has been found that for a particular redox state the total absorption coefficient is a minimum.
The optimum redox state, which may be identified by the copper attenuation coefficient, may be determined either by trial and error, or by the technique described in our co-pending U.K. Pat. application No. 53804/74.
Glasses made with this redox state in fact proved to have a sufficiently low absorption coefficient to permit their use in dielectric optical waveguides typically the total loss of dielectric optical waveguides made from glasses in this optimum redox state, are less than 14 dB/Km, and a portion of this loss is due to water.
In order to produce a glass with the desired redox state, a reducing gas i.e. a gas having a very low effective partial pressure of oxygen, in this case a mixture of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide is bubbled through the glass, carbon monoxide forming 0 - 20% of the gaseous mixture. If the glass is fined in air the carbon dioxide - carbon monoxide mixture should contain 9-18% carbon monoxide giving an effective partial oxygen pressure of the order of 1013 atmospheres at 1,000�C. The bubbling process also serves to homogenise and dry the glass. The glass melt is at a temperature in the range 800�C to 1400�C during the bubbling process. For batch weights of 200 grams to 1000 grams a flow rate of carbon monoxide carbon dioxide mixture of 100-200 cc per minute is used; and the treatment is maintained for a period of between one half-hour and two-hours. The bubbling process may be carried out as soon as the batch materials have melted, or it may be delayed for a period of time after the batch has melted. It has been observed that the copper absorption loss falls as the temperature at which the glass is melted is raised and the iron absorption loss increases as the temperature at which the glass is melted is raised. The melting temperature is thus an important parameter in producing glasses with minimal absorption loss.
It has been found that optimum results are obtained with a melting temperature of 1100�C with the compositions normally used. Higher temperatures may be required for other glass compositions. This dependence of absorption loss on temperature is almost certainly due to the effect of temperature on the redox state of the glass.
It has also been found that the absorption loss due to copper and iron is dependent on the boric oxide content of the glass, the absorption loss drops as the boric oxide content rises. The explanation of this effect is uncertain. Typically glasses treated in this way have an attenuation coefficient, e.g. for glass 2 for copper of 100-200 dB per Km per ppm and for iron of 30-50 dB per Km per p.p.m.
Because of the difference in wave lengths between the cupric and ferrous absorption peaks, 810 nm and 1,060 nm respectively, (the ferrous absorption is approximately 60% of its peak value at 800 nm), the different concentrations of copper and iron in the glass the effects of arsenic trioxide in the melt (to be discussed later), it is impossible to give a definitive explanation of why the absorption loss due to copper and iron should be a minimum for a particular redox state.
It should be noted that the batch material used for the manufacture of glasses described in this specification are commercially available materials. Typically the batch materials contain between 0.05-0.2 ppm of iron, 0.01 - 0.04 ppm of copper, less than 0.05 ppm of chromium, and less than 0.01 ppm of other transition elements. Presumably by reducing the impurity content of the batch materials further reduction in absorption loss could be obtained.
If nothing is done to the melt apart from adjusting its redox state to the desired condition, the redox state would change rapidly when the gas flow through the glass ceased. Since the glass must be allowed to stand in the molten condition for several hours to permit gas bubbles to escape from the melt this means that the final glass would not have the optimum absorption coefficient because of the change in the redox state. Further changes in the redox state would occur when the glass was remelted in a double crucible prior to fibre drawing.
To prevent this occurring 0.1% to 1% by weight of arsenic trioxide is added to the batch materials. The arsenic trioxide acts as a buffer against changes in the redox state, so that the melt can be held at high temperature for a considerable period (up to 40 hours) without major alteration of the redox state. The addition of arsenic trioxide thus permits the glass to be fined, drawn into rod, and remelted in a double crucible and still retain the optimum low absorption loss induced by the carbon dioxide carbon monoxide treatment. The only requirements on the quantity of arsenic trioxide added to the melt are firstly, that the concentration of arsenic in the melt should be much higher than the concentration of iron and copper combined, and secondly that the arsenic trioxide concentration should not be so high that the properties of the glass are greatly modified. It is believed that these conditions are satisfied when the quantity of arsenic trioxide added to the melt is between 0.01% and 5% by weight. The optimum amount of arsenic trioxide is about 1%. As reported in "Low-Loss Glass for Optical Transmission" by Newns et al Electronics Letters Vol. 10 No. 10 May 16, 1974, the reduced glasses have bulk losses of 15-25dB per Km compared with 80 - 120dB per Km for the oxidised glass.
The arsenic trioxide also has a cooling reaction with iron which tends to reduce the attenuation coefficient for iron in the glass.
Antimony trioxide can also be used as a redox buffering oxide, and it is believed that cerium oxide should also work.
In order that the total loss should be low, it is preferable that the OH content be less than 20 ppm. To achieve this the batch powders are individually baked in vacuo at 250�C prior to mixing. The CO/CO2 mixtures are dried with molecular sieves to a dew point of -60�C to -65�C. The glass is then fined in dry CO2 (dew point -60�C) or dry nitrogen (dew point -70�C). In this way OH contents for glasses 2, 3, and 4 have been reduced to less than 10 ppm. This is essential for ultra-low loss fibres i.e. total losses less than 10 dB per Km.
In selecting glass pairs from the soda-boro-silicate system for the production of dielectric optical waveguides (i.e. two glasses, one for the core of the dielectric optical waveguide, the other for the cladding) it would appear to be necessary to ensure that the glasses have a suitable difference in refractive index, typically 1% and that the expansion coefficients are similar so that the drawn dielectric optical waveguide is stress free. The selection of suitable compositions can be made with the aid of FIGS. 2 and 3, FIG. 2 shows approximate iso-refractive index lines plotted for variations in composition, and FIG. 3 shows approximate iso-expansion coefficient lines plotted against composition, (lines of constant refractive index and expansion coefficient respectively).
From FIG. 3 it can be seen that glasses 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Table 1 have roughly the same expansion coefficient and so should enable stress free dielectric optical waveguides to be fabricated. As previously mentioned the absorption loss decreases with increasing boric oxide content, thus glass 4 has the lowest loss followed by glass 1 and 2 and glass 3 has the highest loss. From FIG. 2 it can be seen that glass 3 has a lower refractive index than the glasses 1, 2 or 4. Thus dielectric optical waveguides can be made with cores of glasses 1, 2 or 4 and claddings of glass 3. Glass 4 is preferred as the core composition. When dielectric optical waveguides are drawn from a double crucible using glasses 2 and 3, a great deal of electrolytic bubble formation occurs which results in a dielectric optical waveguide with a high scatter loss, (in this case scattering at core-cladding boundary). This effect may be removed by keeping the oxygen partial pressure low during pulling.
Dielectric optical waveguides having particularly desirable characteristics have also been fabricated using glass 2 as the core glass and glasses 6 or 7 as the cladding glasses.
The lowest total losses have been obtained with dielectric optical waveguides made from glass 4 as core and glass 3 as cladding. These dielectric optical waveguides may have a total insertion loss lower than 14dB per Km at a wavelength of 750 nm - 850 nm.
The insertion loss as a function of wavelength is shown in FIG. 7, for a typical dielectric optical waveguide having a core of glass 4 and a cladding of glass 3. The absorption peak is the 2nd overtone of the OH fundamental.
It has been found that the attenuation coefficients due to iron falls as the percentage of soda in a soda-boro-silicate glass is reduced. Decreasing the soda content however does not affect the copper attenuation. This means that the total loss of the glass can be reduced by reducing the soda content. Decreasing the soda content also causes attenuation coefficients due to cobalt and nickel to fall, has no effect on the attenuation coefficient of manganese and raises the attenuation coefficient of chromium. The experimental data establishing this is now discussed.
The following compositions were prepared by bubbling the melts for 1 hour with CO2 and fining in air: 16, 17, 4 18 and 19.
The following compositions were prepared by bubbling the melts for 2 hours with 18% CO - 82% CO2, fining in the same atmosphere and doping them with 0.05 wt % Fe2 O3 : = 16, 4, 19, 20, 29, 30, and 31. (These glasses can of course be prepared without added iron). The doped glasses of compositions 16 and 4 were blue and the rest were colourless. Nevertheless, they all gave ferrous ion absorption peaks that could be measured. The attenuation coefficients and refractive indices of the glasses were measured.
The refactive index decreased rapidly as the Na2 O content decreased below 27.5% (FIG. 4). Composition 31 (containing 10% Na2 0), phase-separated, but would be expected to be about 1.48, as the binary (67% B2 O3 0.33% SiO2) is known to be about 1.45 - 1.46 from literature.
Attenuation coefficients due to Fe are plotted out in FIG. 5. The ferrous ion coefficient decreases as the Na2 O content decreases. The effect is shown more clearly in FIG. 6, where the attenuation coefficient is plotted as a function of the Na2 O content, at 800 and 1060 nm.
In order to determine the copper attenuation coefficient composition 29 was prepared, containing 0.1% by weight of Cu. The glass was colourless, showing that nearly all the copper had been reduced to Cu+.
Had a redox effect been present in the glass, it would have been expected that the Cu coefficient would have increased (as the corresponding Fe coefficient had decreased).
However, as the Cu coefficient was also low, it would indicate that the cause is a change in extinction coefficient rather than a redox effect. This has been confirmed by analysis of the glasses for Fe2 +. All the glasses have 85-95% of the total iron in the Fe2 + state.
From the results of refractive index and attenuation coefficient measurements, it should be possible to select a core and cladding composition that have a lower Na2 O content, with the required refractive index difference, and lower absorption due to Fe. The unchanged copper attenuation coefficient allows a more favourable optimisation of Fe and Cu loss (at a higher state of reduction).
Possible disadvantages are that the tendency to phase separate increases as the Na2 O content decreases, and glasses with low Na2 O contents are more difficult to dry.
N.B. None of the iron doped glasses have arsenic added. The set of experiments are useful only for comparison. The attenuation coefficients are not the same as pure melts, which have arsenic added to lower the Fe2 + content and thus the attenuation coefficient.
Fibres with total insertion loss of less than 18dB/Km have been made with glasses 32 and 33. A substantial proportion of the loss was due to water absorption.
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A Democratic senator told me that, late last year, in an off-the-record lunch meeting, Secretary of Defense Gates met with the Democratic caucus in the Senate. (Such meetings are held regularly.) Gates warned of the consequences if the Bush Administration staged a preëmptive strike on Iran, saying, as the senator recalled, Well create generations of jihadists, and our grandchildren will be battling our enemies here in America. Gatess comments stunned the Democrats at the lunch, and another senator asked whether Gates was speaking for Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney. Gatess answer, the senator told me, was Lets just say that Im here speaking for myself. (A spokesman for Gates confirmed that he discussed the consequences of a strike at the meeting, but would not address what he said, other than to dispute the senators characterization.)
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So you agree that the only way to avoid that is to just nuke them all back into the stone age? :D
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The same should apply to Christian doctors who use eletronic shock therapy on gays to try to change them.
Does that still happen ? In the UK?
Probably, religion seems to get away with anything nasty, whether it is child abuse or denying gay people equality.
No. And it was either electro-shock as part of aversion therapy (an alternative to which was the use of nauseating drugs), or the even worse electro-convulsive shock, which has permanent effects on memory and was a form of torture widely used in NHS mental hospitals on homosexual people until the 1970s, and transsexual people up until the 1990s, mainly on the pretext of curing the depression that was mainly due to the incarceration and discrimination but was intended to reprogramme the brain. Both required a doctor's prescription, and probably presence too, which would be considered unethical now, in the UK.
Not just christians peddling in this quasi science occupation as "converters" , i had a really bad experience at school where a muslim counsellor at school(i was around 150who tried to molest my inherent sexuality with psycho babble abuse.
Parents or therapists who subject teenagers to conversion "therapy" are sexually abusing and torturing these kids, conversion "therapy" is not only sexual abuse, it's also psychological and spiritual abuse.
You are exactly right that it sexual abuse to try to convert either sexual orientation or sex or gender identity of any child or adult, but that is not something generally recognised.
In my view, it is the so called 'christian' therapists and doctors who believe in the now debunked ex-gay conversion therapies who are in dire need of therapy. Wasn't it Karl Marx who once said that religion is the opiate of the people? He was ahead of his time.
All forms of the evil "conversion thereby" which twists mother nature's children should be outright banned by decree!
sorry meant evil "conversion therapy" spelt Therapy wrong in last comment.
Maybe some nut somewhere should try to convert straight people for a change. Just a thought.
This move from the BACP can be added to the hundreds of statements and warnings from professional organizations in the UK against 'gay cure' treatments. Among those organizations are the British Psychological Society, Royal College of Psychiatrists, United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, British Medical Association and of course a diverse range of others.
I sincerely hope that this will drive the whole concept of 'gay cures' in our country further into the dust.
Whatever the case, seeing as the recent Californian law was heavily based on the fact that so many American organizations came out against 'gay cure' therapies, I think the British government would also have solid grounds on which to introduce the same restrictions.
Lets hope :D
One would hope that UK law would ban conversion therapy on trans children too – a major omission from the California law, given such therapy was originally developed in California, using US government money, to supposedly cure transsexual children on the basis that they were extreme homosexuals.
The fact that professional bodies have condemned anti-day therapy whilst remaining silent about anti-trans therapy only indicates their transphobia, not least that of their LGB members who have usually been a the forefront of the campaigns. The fact that the American Psychiatric Association appointed a practitioner of anti-trans therapy on children below the age of 10 to chair their committee writing their revised "DSM", thus ensuring such children would be retained as a mentally disordered category and available for such treatment, really evidences that.
I want to see it made illegal here, and frankly if all the professional organisations are telling their members to never offer it, making it illegal should affect anyone.
The practice of gay conversation therapy is also largely supported by the fringe parts of the conservative movement… it is safe to assume most of the targeted potential customers are in this demographic.
I am a non-religious gay male who recently found out about this type of therapy.
I am 25, independent and in a good career. I haven't ever spoken to anyone about it before but having seen some footage of the type of therapy that can be given I am quite curious to try it.
If there is a way to do it and people like me who are not "vulnerable" would like to seek this help should it not be possible?
Surely it would be better to have legitimate channels for people such as myself rather than banning the practise. Driving this underground is likely to mean the only people available to help are the hard-line religious nut jobs as opposed to an unbiased professional.
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The Methodist Church in Hunstanton hosted the annual Hunstanton and District Festival of Arts Bible Reading Competition for local schoolchildren and on Thursday 16th June youngsters from Hunstanton Primary, Glebe House School, Docking Primary and Brancaster C of E VA Primary competed for top honours reading passages for the Old and New Testament.
Another £1250 presented to good causes by Hunstanton Charity Shop
16th June 2016
Two cheques were presented on Thursday afternoon by the volunteers at Hunstanton's Charity Shop.
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15th June 2016
Only hours after hearing he had been awarded a British Empire Medal, veteran fundraiser David Foulkes embarked on a fundraising walk around Hunstanton.
£24K presented by Charity Shop
15th June 2016
The Hunstanton Charity Shop's annual presentation of cheques to the three charities selected by the shop's volunteers took place on Monday.
Sir Henry highlights growing businesses
9th June 2016
Three years ago Mary Portas reviewed Britain's High Streets at the behest of the Government and she reported on the obstacles that small businesses faced when they were growing.
Celebrating the Birthday of HM Queen Elizabeth II with St. Nicholas Church, Dersingham
29th May 2016
In honour of HM Queen Elizabeth II's 90th Birthday, the congregation of St. Nicholas Church, alongside the people of Dersingham are throwing open their doors for two special events on Saturday 11th June.
Vestments and flowers on display
28th May 2016
The beautiful Parish Church of St Edmund's Hunstanton hosted a display of vestments and flowers depicting the Liturgical Year over the Bank Holiday weekend.
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28th May 2016 - by Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary
Meet the feisty critter that put the 'terror' in terrapin!
This female yellow-bellied slider terrapin has had to be found a new tank at the Hunstanton Sea Life Sanctuary in Norfolk after terrorising the other occupants – three caiman crocodiles.


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A smartphone-connected fitness tracker, a programmable robot to keep the dog company when no-one is at home and a GPS tracker enabling the dog owner not only to see where a lost dog is, but also to talk to it, are all part of SK Telecom's smart pet products range.
The fitness tracker, which retails for $70, can be easily attached to the dog's collar. It is equipped with acceleration and gyro sensors that monitor the pet's every move. Through a smartphone app, available for both Android and iOS, the dog owner can see at the end of the day whether the animal has had enough exercise and compare that statistic with its calorie consumption. The owner can then decide whether an additional walk or run is necessary to ensure the pet stays fit and toned. The app also provides weekly and monthly stats and keeps track of the duration and distance covered in individual walks, much like Apple's Fitness Tracker app for humans, included on the iPhone and Watch.
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After giving up their first round pick this season for the rights to the second overall pick they had last season when they selected Robert Griffin III, the Washington Redskins showed up late to the draft.
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The Redskins were one of the most improved teams in 2012, and should be equally as good if not better in 2013 depending on the health of Robert Griffin III and how well the offensive line can protect him.
After seeing their most prized possession in years go down with a devastating knee in the playoffs against the Seattle Seahawks, the only new protection RGIII can look forward to is Jacolby Ashworth, Xavier Nixon, and Kyle Wilborn.
The smart thing Snyder did in this draft was address his need for another tight end after he saw his offense suffer when Fred Davis went down with a injury. All-Sec Gator Jordan Reed should be a perfect fit with a Redskins' offense that likes to run the pistol formation.
The Redskins' only real downside in 2012 was stopping their opponent's passing game. Now maybe with linebackers Will Compton and Marvin Burdette in camp; the Redskins could possibly have a top 5 overall defense to go with their high-powered offense.
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The four-time NBA champion San Antonio Spurs stormed to a franchise-best 4-0 start to the season after routing the Indiana Pacers 101-79.
Reserve Gary Neal led five Spurs in double figures with 17 points, while Tim Duncan got a double-double with 14 points and 11 rebounds to lift the team to the win.
Despite winning four NBA championships between 1999 and 2007, the Spurs had never won their first four regular season games.
"It's just a stat, it's not that important in the long term," San Antonio veteran Manu Ginobili told reporters. "At this point, we're enjoying it."
San Antonio grabbed an eight-point lead after the first quarter before scoring the first 11 points of the second to push their advantage to 37-18.
The visiting Pacers (2-2) never fully recovered, trimming the deficit to nine at halftime only to be pegged back again in the second half.
George Hill and Paul George had 15 and 14 points respectively but Indiana shot just 34 percent from the field.
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With Granger out, points have been hard to come by for Indiana and San Antonio's defense did not make things easier.
"I thought our defense was very good tonight," said Spurs coach Gregg Popovich. "We caught a break tonight. Without (Danny Granger) their team loses spacing."
The Spurs' bench scored 57 points and the team moved the ball around to the tune of 25 assists.
Lead scorer Tony Parker scored just six points on a rare off night, while Ginobili played his second game since returning from a back injury and scored three points and made seven assists in 17 minutes.
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Yes your right there is HOPE out there.
I have my bad days just like everyone, but the first things I think of when having a bad day is no longer about what I can put into my body to alter the way I feel so I don't have to feel. What a huge gift of life that is!
Thanks for the kind words about the pain and health issues. It is hard to be spiritual when your in pain, but I do the best I can.
I am mostly hanging out on the Pain Management forum, but if you ever need support and want to find me and do not see me here...please feel free to come over there and ask me to meet you here.
I for sure have a lot going on with my health these days and I have been sad a lot. When I made the post here I remembered how grateful I really am to be a sober person.
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