A shower drain trap is a device that is installed in the drain line of a shower to catch hair and other debris before it clogs the drain.
A shower drain trap is responsible for preventing water and sewer gases from entering your home through the drain. The trap is a U-shaped section of pipe located under the drain that holds a small amount of water. This water forms a water seal that blocks sewer gases from coming up through the drain.
Should a shower drain have a trap?
P-traps are curved pipes installed under showers and drains of all kinds. They are required by regulations in order to prevent water from backing up into the fixtures and causing problems. P-traps are an important part of any plumbing system and should be installed correctly in order to work properly.
The above mentioned is a great way to clear a clogged shower drain. The baking soda and vinegar will react and help to break up the clog. Be sure to cover the drain hole while the mixture sits in the P-trap so that it can work its magic!
How far can trap be from shower drain
According to code, the vent must be no farther than 6ft away from the drain opening. This means that the space between the floor and the ceiling is not large enough to accommodate a trap.
A shower P-trap is located beneath the shower drain hole. It may be one solid piece of pipe or it may be an extension pipe attached to a J-bend pipe to form a “P” P-traps are removed using the same process in either case. Access to the P-trap is the key element in the process.
Does a shower trap stop smells?
The P-trap is a small device that is installed in your bathroom plumbing in order to block sewage gases from coming back up the pipe. If you have not used your shower in a while, the water in the P-trap may have evaporated. In this case, simply run water in the shower for a few minutes to refill the P-trap.
While the sink trap is P shaped, you may find semester our traps the S shape allows water to drain more effectively. This is because the S shape provides a more direct path for the water to travel, rather than having to make a sharp turn as it does in a P trap.
How do you tell if your P-trap is clogged?
If you’re notice any of the above signs, it’s likely that your P-trap is blocked. To clear the blockage, you’ll need to remove the P-trap and clean it out. Once you’ve done that, your drain should be clear and the foul odor should be gone.
Cleaning the P-trap is an easy task. Start by manually removing anything visible and dumping it into the bucket or a trash bin. Next, get the flexible wire brush, wet it, and get to work. Simply push the brush through the pipe to remove anything that may be stuck inside.
Why do P-traps get clogged
One of the most common issues associated with P-traps is the accumulation of debris in the bend. Over time, things like hair, food, grease and mineral deposits build up and reduce the diameter of the drain pipe. Eventually, the drain will clog up and have to be thoroughly cleaned out.
A 2-inch pipe is the recommended size for shower drains because they have a low threshold for flooding and the larger pipe helps the water drain faster. If you are converting from a tub and shower combination to a shower, you’ll likely have to change the drain pipe size.
Can a shower trap dry out?
If you’re having an issue with your P-trap running dry, it’s likely because it’s drying out. This can happen as quickly as a month, and is most common in winter. To prevent your P-trap from drying out, make sure to run the sink or shower for a minute or two once a week. This will keep water flowing and your P-trap from drying out.
If you notice a foul smell coming from your shower drain, it’s likely that your P-trap isn’t doing its job of preventing sewer gases from leaking into your bathroom. If you have a musty or general odor, it’s probably because your P-trap needs to be cleaned.
How do I know if my shower trap is leaking
If you have access to the underneath of the shower drain, you can test for leaks by plugging the drain completely with a rag and turning on the water. Watch the underside of the drain to see if any water is coming through. If it is, then you know there is a leak around the drain.
This is a great way to clear a clogged drain! The vinegar and baking soda create a fizzy reaction that breaks up the gunk in your drain, and the boiling water helps flush everything away.
What causes a shower trap to leak?
If you have a look at your shower tray and realise that the sealant is starting to deteriorate and looks like it may be causing a leak, don’t panic! This is a relatively easy problem to fix.
Simply peel off the old, faulty sealant with a sharp knife and then remove any debris that may be present. Once you have done this, you can then apply some new sealant and hopefully this will rectify the problem.
One way to try to kill bacteria in your home is to mix one part bleach with one part water and pour it down the drain. Another way is to first pour one cup of baking soda down the drain, then add a cup of white vinegar. Cover the drain as the mixture fizzes, then flush with hot water.
A shower drain trap is a section of pipe that is installed in the drain line between the shower stall and the drain pipe leading to the sewer. The trap is designed to retain a small amount of water in the bottom of the pipe so that sewers gases cannot back up into the shower stall.
A shower drain trap is a device that helps to prevent clogs in your shower drain by catching hair and other debris before it has a chance to enter the drain. By regularly cleaning your shower drain trap, you can help keep your shower drain clear and prevent costly clogs.


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IT took them the full 80 minutes to secure victory, but tonight the Wests Tigers managed to cross the threshold and earn fourth position with a tense 30-22 win over Cronulla in front of 16,879 fans at Toyota Stadium
TWO lucky sides competing in the 2011 Koori Cup will earn the right to play at the Sydney Football Stadium prior to the NRL blockbuster between the Wests Tigers and St George Illawarra Dragons as
WESTS Tigers could celebrate 3 player milestones at the Sydney Football Stadium this Friday night.
WESTS Tigers superstar Benji Marshall was yesterday crowned the 2010 Magpie Award winner at a luncheon at Wests Ashfield Leagues Club.
WESTS Tigers, fighting for their place in the NRL's top 8, have constructed a magical second 40 minutes to defeat the Manly Sea Eagles at Bluetongue Stadium.
THE Wests Magpies are currently mourning the death of former player Denis Meaney, who passed away suddenly but peacefully at Lismore Base Hospital on Monday 25 July, aged 74.
WESTS Tigers has today announced the signing of NZ Test forward Adam Blair on a four year deal commencing in 2012.
THE inaugural Tigers Ball held at Sydney Hilton tonight has seen Leo Nosworthy and Mark O'Neill inducted into the Balmain Tigers Hall of Fame.
WESTS Tigers Head Coach Tim Sheens has named his team to play Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs at Campbelltown Sports Stadium on Friday, June 24, in Round 16 of the Telstra Premiership.
WESTS Tigers five-eighth Benji Marshall has been ruled out of Friday night's round 16 clash with the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs at Campbelltown Sports Stadium.

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Katy B has released a brand new EP online.
The singer has teamed up with Jessie Ware and Wiley for the new collection titled Danger, which is available to download for free now.
The set contains four new songs, including further collaborations with Geeneus, Zinc, Diplo, Iggy Azalea and Jacques Greene.
"I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with people I always respected and wanted to work with," Katy B explained.
"All of the tracks were written quite quickly because I was so inspired by the beats. It was important for me to give people new music before the end of the year, a taster and a warm-up of what's come."
Meanwhile, Katy B is expected to release her second studio album in 2013, following the success of her 2011 debut On A Mission.

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Offsite storage is a service that is utilised nationwide. This demand has led to a dramatic increase in offsite storage facilities in every region of the UK. However, there are some parts of the UK that perhaps need the helping hand of offsite facilities more than others. In those areas of the UK where house prices are rising businesses are struggling to cope with the limited space that they can afford. For these businesses, an offsite storage facility could be just the cost-saving storage solution that they have been looking for.
A recent report released by the Land Registry shows that UK property prices have risen everywhere in the last year. In some areas prices rose more than others. In London prices increased by 13.9% while in the North East of England the rise was only 0.2%. There is clearly a North-South divide when it comes to UK house prices, a trend most businesses and home owners are probably already aware of.
The Land Registry’s report also revealed that the cost of flats rose faster than any other type of housing. With apartments being the property of choice for city dwellers, this rise is likely to be linked with the general rise in urban housing. It would seem that businesses and property owners living in cities in the South have to bear the greatest costs when it comes to property ownership.
Property Sales Declining
It might be the rising expenses of real estate that has led to a decrease of property transactions in the past year. From August 2014 to November 2014 there were on average 81,656 property sales each month. This figure decreased to 78,652 sales per a month in 2015. It is probable that the rocketing cost of property in some regions has created some buyer’s hesitancy, resulting in fewer monthly sales.
Home owners normally have more flexibility when it comes to choosing when to buy – not so for businesses. When a business is scouting for new office space it is probably a matter of urgency; after all what employer is going to splash out on space they don’t really need. Firms can’t wait for property prices to decrease, but at the same time often can’t afford to purchase space in the coveted urban locations they are based in.
Is Offsite Storage An Alternative?
This is where offsite storage comes in. Offsite storage can be a real life-saver for businesses based in the South, where steep real estate prices are pushing smaller businesses out of cities. An offsite storage facility can provide a small or medium sized business with the space it needs at a manageable price. For some businesses this could just be a temporary solution, for others it might be more permanent.
Offsite storage facilities offer their clients a whole range of services and a business can pick these services depending on what kind of operations it manages. For example, if it is the volume of stock that is using up a lot of available space, then a firm might choose to use a self-storage service. If it is paperwork that is leading to an overcrowded work space, then a firm could be inclined to using a secure document storage service; this way their records could be removed and securely stored offsite.
The diversity of purposes that an offsite storage facility can fulfil means that its’ benefits are in no way region specific. What’s more, with new rail links and increased investment in Northern cities, rising real estate prices will be inevitable there too. However, it is evident that in the South of England extra space at fair prices is in high demand and is becoming scarcer. Indeed, it is a precious commodity that is on the brink of extinction in London.

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Mother. The very word evokes feelings of love, care, comfort, and warmth. We often refer to a mother’s love being so incredible that it’s truly indescribable. Mothers carry their babies within them for 40 weeks, creating an unspeakable bond that only she and her baby can understand.The moment her baby is laid on her chest, mommy and baby just know each other. They know they love each other without having ever properly met before. Moms show the magic and power of love at first site. In fact, I didn’t believe in love at first site until I had my daughter.
On the other hand, there’s the term momma bear. This term evokes feelings of ferocity, aggression, and strength. Momma bears, because of their fierce love and devotion to their babies, can shed their nurturing sweet mommy masks and transform into a wild animal at a moment’s notice – anything to protect her family.
Somewhere in the middle of these two sides of mommies comes a not so common term – well, the term is common, but not when describing mothers: mean girls. If you’ve never thought of moms as mean girls, I’ll explain, from my experience, ways that they are and why this needs to change.

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Feature type: None recorded.
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
rising to c.150m on W side of Providence Cove, Neny Fjord, Fallières Coast, was probably sighted by BGLE in 1936-37; climbed by a FIDS-RARE party from "Stonington Island", 17 January 1948, and called descriptively The Needle (Latady, 1949b, p.35), Pinnacle, Sanctuary Pinnacle (Butson, 1949, p.199-200) or Needle (Nichols, 1953, Fig. 21, p.31); surveyed by FIDS, 1948-49, and named The Spire (APC, 1955, p.20; DCS 601 sheet 68 66, 1955).
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Thiomer- A new generation mucoadhesive
By Sudhir Kushawaha, Mayank Bansal, P. K.Sharma
The advantages of new generation mucoadhesive are increased cohesive force, increased enzyme inhibiting property, increased permeation effect of paracellular drug. In new generation mucoadhesive include l-cysteine into thiolated polymer and lectin mediated adhesive polymers. Thiolated polymers are immobilization of sulhydryl-bearing ligands on the polymeric backbone polymers, like chitosan and poly (acrylates). Thiomer micro- and nano-particles exhibit as the delivery of various types of challenging drugs. This achivement leads to significantly improved properties compared with the corresponding unmodified polymers. Thiomer micro and nano particlulate delivery systems can be devloped by different techniques, such as insitu gelation and covalent crosslinking, radical emulsion polymerization, emulsification and solvent evaporation. Mucoadhesive properties are strongly improved by the devlopment of disulfide bonds between thiol groups of the thiomer and cysteine-rich glycoproteins of the mucus gel layer. Although, enzyme- and efflux-pump inhibiting, improved permeation-enhancing properties, that is advantages of polymer thiolization. As thiomer micro- and nano-particles were shown to exhibit the same features as thiolated polymers per se, they might be useful tools for the delivery of various types of challenging drugs
Keywords: Thiomer, mucoadhesive, thiol group, stability.
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Mark Batson: Infinite KundaliniBy Waldo Jaquith
When Everyday was released, it hit long-time fans like a ton of bricks. It was just so different that few knew what to make of it, and many rejected it out of hand.
With the subsequent Busted Stuff and Dave Matthews' solo album, Some Devil, the band wisely worked with a known quantity -- long-time DMB engineer Steve Harris, who fans were loathe to criticize (see our October 2002 interview with Harris for more). Musically, Busted Stuff did little to advance the band. More than anything else, it was a return to the jazz roots they never had, an album by musicians for musicians. While a beautiful work, it served the role of sating fans' desire for the Lillywhite Sessions, and wasn't intended to do anything new. Stand Up is really more of a sequel to Everyday than anything else.
Apparently having learned from their mistakes with Ballard, the band has worked hard to ease fans into the idea that Stand Up is going to be the beginning of a new direction for the band, and that their new producer, Mark Batson, is nothing more than the facilitator for that process. (Clearly, that was his chief talking point for our conversation.) As Batson describes it, Stand Up is nothing less than a new starting point in their musical evolution. Fans have been warned for months, via the band's website and the Stand Up website, that the album would be different. A positive spin has been put on the change, and it's hoped that fans will take to it much more readily than they did Everyday.
Batson is succinct on the comparison. "I hope that the fans think that I'm a cooler dude than Glen."


Volcanic ozone wipeout
Eruptions in Siberia devastated Earth's ozone layer 251 million years ago, coinciding with the largest mass extinction in history, according to models of atmospheric chemistry. The models suggest ozone-destroying halogen gases were released as lava reacted with coal and salt deposits (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2007.2046).
Nigeria has filed a $7 billion lawsuit against US pharmaceuticals giant Pfizer over trials conducted in 1996 of an antibiotic against meningitis, claiming it harmed Nigerian children. The case follows several recent challenges to Big Pharma from developing countries.
The same genes may be responsible for several common diseases, according to a genome-wide study of such links. Researchers have identified four chromosome regions as carrying genes that may predispose people to type 1 diabetes and Crohn's disease, as well as a single gene called PTPN2 that is implicated in both diseases. Such multi-purpose ...
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I’m not much of a cyclist myself, but I am a big fan of the “Tron” films, particularly the newer “Tron: Legacy.” The futuristic costumes worn by the characters inside their imaginary computer reality were way cool. When I randomly stumbled onto this Tron-Inspired Cycling Skinsuit from Podium Cycling, I had to share it. Due to their slim fit, skinsuits are used by cyclists to reduce drag and help increase their speed on the bike. Made from a moisture-wicking, antibacterial Elastaine/ Polyester blend, this skinsuit provides UPF50+ sun protection and includes a professional chamois, elastic gripper and hidden zipper. Available in women’s and men’s sizes, each $149.99. Visit Podium Cycling for more info.
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Inside and OutBook - 2002
Explains how telescopes function, how they are used, and what we have learned from their use.
Publisher: New York : PowerPlus, 2002
Edition: 1st ed
Characteristics: 48 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm
Alternative Title: Large telescopes : inside and out
From the critics

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Failure to address structural issues lowers Korea’s potential growth rate
A report released by the Bank of Korea last week estimated the country’s potential growth rate for 2021-2022 at 2 percent, down 0.2 percentage point from its previous estimate made in August 2019. The rate for 2019-20 was estimated at 2.2%. , also a decrease from the previous projection of 2.5 to 2.6 percent.
The fall in South Korea’s potential growth rate has been accelerated in recent years not only by the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic but by structural problems weighing on Asia’s fourth-largest economy. The potential growth rate refers to the maximum possible rate at which an economy can grow without triggering inflation.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) remains more cautious about Korea’s economic fundamentals, estimating its potential growth rate for 2020-22 at 1.8%.
Before the outbreak of the pandemic here early last year, warnings were issued that declining labor productivity, shrinking working-age population and other negative factors would continue to reduce the potential. growth of the country in the future.
Local research institutes predict that unless these issues are addressed effectively and urgently, Korea’s potential growth rate could fall below 1% by 2030.
The downward trend in potential growth cannot and should not be minimized, as the indicator points to the overall health of an economy and serves as a barometer of a country’s future growth.
It is somewhat inevitable for mature economies to see their potential growth rate decelerate. But Korea, which is on the verge of crossing the threshold and becoming one of the world’s advanced economies, could further boost its economic growth.
Government officials expect Korea’s economy to accelerate amid a global economic recovery and register a growth rate of more than 4% this year, following a 1% contraction last year under the influence of the pandemic.
But without a serious overhaul of its economic fundamentals, the country will remain in a rut of low growth over the long term. In a context of sluggish growth, youth unemployment will worsen and tax revenues will decline. With weakening economic fundamentals, interest rate hikes aimed at correcting financial imbalances could have a more negative impact on consumption and investment.
The administration of President Moon Jae-in has delayed or abandoned the structural reforms necessary to consolidate the long-term strength of the economy. On the contrary, the displaced policies she has pursued since Moon came to power in 2017 have undermined Korea’s growth potential.
The revenue-driven growth of the Moon administration, which places greater burdens on employers, has pushed many workers out of work.
Its pro-labor measures have made the labor market more rigid and hampered efforts to improve the country’s labor productivity, which remains near the bottom among member states of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
The Moon administration also introduced more regulations, discouraging companies from increasing investment and hiring more workers.
It should be noted that the impact of the pandemic on a country’s potential growth rate differs depending on the policy response of its government.
The Moon administration should redouble its efforts to accelerate regulatory and labor reforms to revitalize business activity, nurture new engines of growth and attract more women and young people to the labor market .
It may be too much to expect him to revisit the economic framework before Moon leaves office in May. But at the very least, it’s the administration’s obligation to remove the restrictions it has added in recent years.
Worryingly, presidential candidates from ruling and opposition parties show little interest in bolstering the country’s declining growth potential. Most of them are concerned with coming up with populist spending plans. But whoever succeeds Moon will struggle to fund his welfare promises without increasing tax revenues through continued economic growth.
Korea’s economy has struggled to grow ever since its gross national income per capita hit the $ 30,000 level. Now is not the time to let the economy contract while neglecting efforts to strengthen its growth potential.
THE KOREA HEARALD / ASIA INFORMATION NETWORK

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October 24, 2014 - Policy decisions shaped Canada’s rail system and helped define northern Ontario’s development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some were models of intelligent public policy. Others were questionable, but ultimately bore fruit when subsequent decisions corrected their flaws.
Non-rail policy decisions later in the 20th century also affected our rail system. These include the legislation and public funding of commercial aviation facilities, a nationalized airline, the Trans-Canada Highway and the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway. These decisions established and enabled rail’s competitors.
But the most fundamental policy decision following those that built and reshaped the rail system was enshrined in the National Transportation Act (NTA) of 1987. The federal government billed it as “legislative change which will free Canada’s transportation system from the burden of excessive economic regulation.”
The NTA did, indeed, do that. But it went further by eliminating most of the public interest tests contained in the previous act of 1967, which had applied a combination of commercial and public policy requirements to all the federally-regulated modes. The NTA was based purely on profitability in the regulation and operation of our transportation system, particularly rail.
On the surface, that seems reasonable. It implies every operator within each mode shall compete fairly with the others; only the most efficient win the business by paying all their costs. The problem is our transportation system has always contained public investment, whether directly or indirectly through infrastructure and support services. It still does, but little goes to rail.
When public policy cuts off investment in one mode and not another, we’re not likely to get maximum utility from the mode lacking access to the public funding necessary to cover the full cost of its infrastructure and services. That inevitably leads to the disadvantaged mode slicing away unprofitable or marginal services. As stockholder-funded enterprises, they concentrate their available capital where it will produce the greatest revenue and dividends.
The CPR and CN have done this, as prescribed by the policy decisions reached in 1987 and escalated in subsequent national transportation acts.
We’re seeing the result of those decisions now. One recent example is our rail system’s inability to deal effectively with surges in grain and crude oil, complicated by harsh weather conditions. Network capacity and resilience have declined because it’s not cost-effective to have assets sitting idle pending unexpected demand changes. Adding them requires time and scarce capital.
Another example is service prioritization and differential pricing based on shipper volumes, service needs and profit margins. All traffic is not created equal under this system. Just ask northern Ontario’s forest products industry.
No nation operates in isolation. Canada’s major competitors have taken a different legislative and funding approach to their transportation systems. In every case, railways are treated the same as the other modes, or even favoured, to maximize their effectiveness for valid economic, social and environmental reasons. Where non-profitable services are deemed necessary in the public interest – including global competitiveness – there is public investment.
After years of applying the same skewed policies as Canada, the U.S. has changed tracks. We should be concerned that our largest competitor and trading partner is doing so. Interlocking U.S. federal and state policies now recognize the public benefits of rail investment that’s in synch with the other modes. Using the public-private partnership approach that built the CPR more than a century ago, the U.S. is rebalancing its system to expand and improve rail capacity, flexibility, fluidity and utility. That will affect Canada’s railways and our competitiveness.
The opportunity to reassess the course Canada has steered since 1987 is here. The current Canadian Transportation Act of 1996, which boosted the NTA’s reliance on the profitability test, is undergoing a legislative review. A major public policy decision needs to be made.
Will Canada continue a policy that applies one yardstick to the railways, but not the other modes? Or do we, as a nation, want to rebalance the system and take greater advantage of railroading’s untapped potential?
The recent decision to restructure provincially-owned Ontario Northland provides a more regional opportunity to determine rail’s future role. The choices in the mode and funding mechanisms to support the Ring of Fire demand similar questions be asked – and answered.
History proves the looming policy decisions will reverberate for decades, reshaping rail services, coverage and impact. Regions heavily dependent on long-haul freight and passenger links, such as northern Ontario, must choose carefully. Some economic opportunities, especially in mining, can’t be tapped effectively without a robust rail system.
With our global competitors leaning heavily on improved, sustainable rail service, our choices should be clear.
Authored by Greg Gormick, a Toronto transportation writer and policy adviser. His clients have included CN, CP, VIA and numerous elected officials and government transportation agencies.
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Okay for daylight shots, but no good for anything slower than 1/15th of a second exposure in my experience as you're still relying on your hand/body to hold it still. Depends what you want to photograph I guess.
I use a monopod everyone and then for wildlife photography or the odd landscape when it's a bit dull. I suppose exploring it would be better than nothing, but as soon a the exposure time gets below 1/30th of a second I'd be using a tripod anyway. They don't weigh that much different tbh and as the photos are a one off more often then not I take them at ISO 100 with exposure times from a couple of seconds to the extreme of 5 minutes in some of the larger mines I've been in.
A monopod would be good for bashing nettles and brambles, far better than a tripod too

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Should we love Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk? No! The film original aim might have been to be a subtle, understated epic about national brotherhood. It meant to show us the indomitable spirit of the people who later withstood the German bomb blitz, fought on the beaches and never […]Read More
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The merit of these papers, whoever was their author, is considerable. They give a very pleasing and rational account of the origin and progress of pastoral poetry; and N° 32, which closes the series, is a well-imagined allegory illustrative of the critical opinions laid down in the preceding Numbers. On this fable Sir William Jones has constructed, with some additions and variations, a very elegant pastoral poem, which he has entitled Arcadia; and in the advertisement to which he says, that he took the hint of it from an allegory of Mr. Addison; supposing, most probably, from the style and manner, which are in this paper peculiarly sweet and polished, that it must have flowed from the pen of that accomplished writer.
The poem deviates from the essay in the following particulars: in the essay, Menalcas, an inhabitant of Arcadia, and descended from the god Pan, offers his daughter Amaryllis in marriage to the youth who can best perform upon a rural pipe, the gift of a Faun; and the different styles of pastoral composition are indicated by the mode of playing of the different candidates.
Amyntas, the victor in the contest, lives long and happy with his fair prize; they had, however, but "four descents in above two thousand years. His heir was called Theocritus, who left
his dominions to Virgil; Virgil left his to his son Spenser; and Spenser was succeeded by his eldest-born Philips."
In the poem, "Menalcas, king of the shepherds, means Theocritus, the most ancient, and, perhaps, the best, writer of pastorals: and by his two daughters, Daphne and Hyla, must be understood the two sorts of pastoral poetry; the one elegant and polished, the other simple and unadorned; in both of which he excelled. Virgil, whom Pope chiefly followed, seems to have borne away the palm in the higher sort; and Spenser, whom Gay imitated with success, had equal merit in the more rustic style: these two poets, therefore, may justly be supposed in this allegory to have inherited his kingdom of Arcadia *."
This poem, like every other poetical production from the pen of Sir William Jones, is remarkable for its sweetness of versification; its imagery too, is, in an eminent degree, beautiful and appropriate. The two chief classes of pastoral poetry, as derived from Theocritus and Virgil, are thus allegorized in the description of the daughters of Menalcas:
Two lovely daughters were his dearest care;
* Sir William Jones's Poems, 8vo. second edit. 1777, p. 37.
Love, where they mov'd, each youthful breast inflam'd;
A small portion of the imagery of these lines is taken from the Guardian: but, to show in what manner Sir William has availed himself of the fancy and colouring of Tickell, or, if the reader please, of Addison, we shall transcribe the description of the person and performance of the
* Poems, p. 100.
successful lover, as given in the essay and the poem.
"The fourth that stepped forward was young Amyntas, the most beautiful of the Arcadian swains, and secretly beloved by Amaryllis. He wore that day the same colours as the maid for whom he sighed. He moved towards her with an easy, but unassumed air; she blushed as he came near her; and when she gave him the fatal present, they both trembled, but neither could speak. Having secretly breathed his vows to the gods, he poured forth such melodious notes, that, though they were a little wild and irregular, they filled every heart with delight. The swains immediately mingled in the dance; and the old shepherds affirmed, that they had often heard such music by night, which they imagined to be played by some of the rural deities."
Soon to the bower a modest stripling came,
And o'er his beauteous limbs a decent mantle flow'd:
His mien applauded, and his neat attire ;
And Daphne, yet untaught in amorous lore,
He now begins; the dancing hills attend,
* The name, supposed to be taken by Virgil, in his first pastoral.
He sings of swains below the beechen shade,
6. JONATHAN SWIFT. Of the life of this eccentric character, so numerous and so copious have been the details, and by men of the first respectability in the republic of letters, that even had we room to enter at full length into the consideration of his biography, the attempt might be justly thought unnecessary, and altogether a work of supererogation. We shall, therefore, limit ourselves to a few observations on the chief productions of his pen, and on the principal events
* Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida sylvas. Virg. Poems, p. 114.


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Since the Klse.my website was shut down on 28-Jun-2016, we have received many inquiries and notes of support. First of all, we just like to express our sincere thanks to everyone for showing your support. Secondly, we would like to apologise as we have limitation to reply to everyone in view of the huge number of the incoming emails. We have spent time reading through ALL the emails, and below is a summary of the questions that we received and our responses to them.
 Why did klse.my shut down?
As per our previous announcement, Klse.my was instructed by Bursa Malaysia (Information Services team) that it cannot publish Malaysia's stock market info at the Klse.my portal without paying a license fee to Bursa Malaysia, regardless where the portal obtains its data.
The license fee is not a small amount for a free investment website like Klse.my. We have been sponsoring the server hosting fees in the past, but the license fees requested by Bursa is just too much. In view of this, we have no choice but to shut down the Klse.my website.
 What is klse.my bank account number? Does klse.my accept public contributions?
We appreciate the suggestions and support from some who suggested to collect public contributions to keep the website online, much like a crowd sourcing portal. But, the license fee is not cheap and we are not sure if public contributions will help in the long term. Also, if the public contributions are not sufficient to keep the website online, then our plan is to return the fund back to the contributors.
Please send us an email to [email protected] if you are willing to contribute and state the amount of intended contribution. If the number of responses and amount is sufficient, we will consider adopting this crowdsourcing method to bring up the klse.my portal again and keep it going for another year. We can review this on yearly basis.
 Will klse.my consider to become a paid website?
Since day one of the operation, Klse.my aims to deliver free and reliable information on the local equity market investors at no cost. We aim to level the playing field and let every investors have quick and easy access to important company data. The lack of information certainly won't help the retail investors and we do not intend to be another paid website which is against our initial objectives.
 Does klse.my think Bursa have the right to demand license fee for the stock price data and company announcements?
Klse.my appreciate your input on this. We agree with you the stock prices are driven by public supply and demand, and the company announcements are prepared and submitted by the listed companies themselves. But, it is certainly not up to us to deem whether Bursa has the rights to collect license fees for other websites that publish those data.
However, our view remains that in today’s world, keeping market data propriety certainly does not benefit the investors and Fintech sector in Malaysia as a whole. Fintech companies can only flourish and continue to innovate if it receives support from local market participants and agencies. The market size of Malaysia’s stock investment sector is already not that large to begin with. Any additional barrier imposed will only discourage the Fintech companies in this country to continue to develop useful and innovative products for the retail investors to support their investment decisions.
 Why did Klse.my not request Bursa or other agency to waive/sponsor the license fees?
Klse.my did explained to Bursa and requested for a fee waiver before we decided to shut down the website. But, the decision that came back was not in our favour. We would urge Bursa to reconsider the decision and we are happy keep the portal free for general investors if Bursa agrees to waive the license fees for the klse.my portal.
If there are other agencies that would like to sponsor the license fees, we are happy to discuss the collaboration details too.
 What are the other plans for Klse.my if the above don’t work out?
We may consider selling the site, or re-developing the website to cover the stock market in another country that has a more open policy on market data and more friendly to a stock investment portal / Fintech companyin general.
Last but not least, we’d like to thank everyone who has supported us. Happy Investing!

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Aether VST v1.6.0 от 2CAudio - самомодулирующийся алгоритмический ревербератор наивысшего качества. Мы полагаем, что это - одна из лучших .
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The same principle still applies for simulated в. AВ pickup. В captures the vibrations as they bounce across the plate, and the result is output again as an audio signal. Plate reverb tends to be bright and clean- sounding, and it holds a special place in many producers hearts.
Waves Abbey Road Reverb Plates features. В both a. В control panel and a graphic representation of the reverb plate itself in it’s casing. Spring: Uses a similar principle to that of plate reverb, but with a metal spring instead of a plate. A transducer at one end and a pickup at the other are used to create and then capture vibrations within the. В spring. We wouldn’t recommend attempting this with a plugin version though : )The UAD EMT 2. Death Star. Digital: В EMT built on the popularity of the EMT 1.
EMT 2. 50 digital reverb unit. However, it was the arrival of the Lexicon 2. L in 1. 98. 6, that.
В took digital reverb into virtually. В every professional studio, and it’s the Lexicon name – and sound – which is now. В cemented in our minds as the archetypal digital reverb of the 1.
В Since then, we’ve also seen many. В highly- regarded and much- loved digital reverb units and guitar reverb effects boxes from the likes of Eventide, TC Electronic and Yamaha, such as the Eventide Space pedal, TC Electronic Reverb 4. В Bricasti M7 rack unit. Meanwhile, the awesome. В Strymon Big Sky has virtually taken over the world of guitar reverb.
The Difference Between Algorithmic And Convolution Reverb. Almost all reverb plugins (as well as hardware digital reverb units) use one of these two digital processing methods. Algorithmic reverbs use calculations based on hypothetical rooms and other spaces to generate their reverb sounds. This is not necessarily a bad thing though в. The impulse response is then в. Here’s our rundown of what we consider to be the very best reverb plugins, whatever your price range.
As before, we’ve covered. В every type of reverb. В and. В all price ranges. В with the categories, and included plenty of alternative choices for each category.
В There’s definitely something for everyone here. Don’t forget: В “In the end, в. With an attractive interface and just the right number of options for both quickly finding decent working settings and making a few finer adjustments, TAL- Reverb- II is a great reverb plugin for. В beginners or those simply. В looking to expand their.
В existing reverb options. We. В must also mention. В the TAL- Reverb- III, another free plate reverb plugin that strips the controls down further to a series of sliders, and the TAL- Reverb- 4 which is a free standalone version of the reverb section from. В the TAL- Sampler plugin. Both of these are of course worth checking out, but to our mind the TAL- Reverb- II strikes the best balance of. В sound and control out of the bunch. В More info and download here.
Also check out: Our previous top choice in this category was the. В Variety Of Sound Epic. Verb, and if you’re a fan of developer Bootsy’s other fantastic free plugins this should. В certainly find a place in your collection. Smartelectronix Ambience was also mentioned and still holds it’s own as one of the best freeware algorithmic reverbs.
Despite having a GUI design that could best be described as “functional”,Freeverb. В is all about the sound and is undoubtedly. В another strong contender for best free reverb. Voxengo Old. Skool. Verb delivers a nice classic stereo reverb sound that is designed to blend well within a mix. We must also cover the free versions of two of the convolution reverb plugins mentioned below, Liquid Sonics Reverberate LE and Knufinke SIR1.
Best Convolution Reverb: Audio Ease Altiverb 7. The established industry. В standard. В convolution reverb plugin. Convolution reverb uses.
В Impulse Response (IR) files that contain the recorded reverberation characteristics of any space, from the inside of an oil drum to the Sydney Opera House, and applies those characteristics to the source material. Users also get access to new Impulse Responses as they are made available each month on the Audio Ease website. The XL version also includes 5. TDM version for Pro Tools.
BUY NOWВ via. В Amazon. Alternatively: HOFA Plugins IQ- Reverb sounds similarly fantastic to Altiverb and is billed as a convolution reverb that can be controlled. В much like one of the classic algorithmic hardware units that it replicates with it’s IR library. It doesn’t have as comprehensive a library of IRs as Altiverb, but you can import 3rd- party IR files so this won’t be a problem for any but the most demanding professional users. В The real- time graphic representation is a cool and inspiring touch, although it can be a little heavy on computing resources as it redraws.
Special mention here must go to. В Logic Pro Space Designer, FL Studio Convolver,В Convolution Reverb Pro. В in Ableton Live and Reaper Reaverb. Some other top contenders are Waves IR- 1 (discussed in more detail below), the newly updated. В Liquid Sonics Reverberate 2 and. В Knufinke SIR2. В As mentioned above, there are free versions of these last two plugins,В Liquid Sonics Reverberate LEВ and.
В Knufinke SIR1. 3) Best Reverb For Sound Design & FX: 2. CAudio Aether. Aether is unquestionably the sound designers algorithmic reverb plugin. It was 2. CAudio’s debut plugin in 2. В unmatched in terms of audio quality,В scope and usability. В Yes, it looks relatively complex and isn’t necessarily going to be a first choice for quickly setting up basic reverb sends for a typical mix (although of course it can do that with bells on).
Where Aether really comes into it’s own is as the ultimate reverb for dramatically enhancing sound design, ambience and spot FX: hits, cinematic booms, club track- style swirls of shifting reverb clouds that can add a lot of extra movement, vibe and overall epic- ness to a track. More info here. Also check out: The Eventide Blackhole.
В plugin is based in part on. В Eventide’s hardware processors and Space reverb guitar pedal. It’s another great choice for sound design and spontaneous effects creation, with a ribbon strip for super- easy real- time morphing between different reverb settings. В Best reverb for live performance/DJing, anyone?! Waves added to their excellent “hybrid” series of plugins (some of our favourites) with Waves H- Reverb, and В 2. CAudio’s B2 dual reverb is another interesting and top. В quality variation using the expertise they’ve honed with Aether.
В UVI Spark. Verb features a novel coloured frequency graph which illustrates which areas of the frequency spectrum will generate reverb from the sound being processed. Overall a great combination of sound and interface design, and very. В nice to use. Valhalla Shimmer is an obvious candidate whenever you’re looking to achieve huge, quality reverb ambience. The new- look. В ea. Reckon EAReverb 2 is another reverb that also offers something different to the norm with style and flexibility.
We must give an honourable mention to Camel. Space: since it’s creator Camel Audio has been snapped up by Apple it’s no longer supported, but we guess/hope it will eventually pop up again in some form, possibly as a native plugin for Logic Pro.
Best Bundled / Series Reverb: Waves Renaissance Reverb. Some of the most useful reverbs are parts of bundles or series of plugins that work really well together. В As previously mentioned, the Renaissance Reverb is still one of our. В go- to reverbs, as are quite a few of the other Waves plugins. A well balanced reverb in terms of overall sound, versatility and interface/usability, with simple but effective graphic EQs for quick shaping of the reverb return signal в.
So if you want to hear what your music would sound like in the Sydney Opera House or at legendary NY punk rock club CBGBs, this is the reverb for you. As far as we know, the IR1 is also unique for it’s parametric controls, whereby you can plot your settings on the interface display in the same way as you would on a parametric EQ. The IK Multimedia Classik Studio Reverb (в. We should also mention.
В i. Zotope Ozone’s Reverb module as a solid “bundled” reverb that you could easily overlook when perusing your plugin list. Finally,В Acustica Audio Nebula Pro 3. Best. В Streamlined Reverb: Valhalla. DSP Room and Shimmer. Quite often you don’t need the most complex and processor- intensive plugin for mix processing tasks, and the best solution will be something that keeps the audio quality high while stripping the controls and parameters down to a well- honed essence. This sums up Valhalla’s Room and Shimmer reverb plugins quite well. More info here. Valhalla.
Room is very versatile on it’s own, but to bring the epic- ness to your sounds you might also want Shimmer, which is specifically designed to create large, smooth- sounding tails for booms, trailer hits and other more ambient. В elements. В More info here. Also check out: Before founding Valhalla. DSP, plugin designer Sean Costello was the man behind Audio Damage’s reverb plugin Eos, which featured in my original list. В 2. CAudio Breeze strips down the complexities Aether to provide a plugin more suited to simpler tasks while maintaining the audio. В quality. Exponential Audio Phoenix.
Verb. В is a newer reverb plugin from the creator of none other than the Lexicon PCM Native Bundle, so is certainly worth checking out. For simple, low- CPU tasks,В PSP Easy. Verb is made for the job. Best. В Algorithmic/Digital Hardware. В Reverb Emulation: Lexicon PCM Native Reverb Bundle. We. В could virtually fill. В an entire category highlighting emulations of famed.
В Lexicon hardware reverb units, with particular attention to the 2. However, this official software bundle version from Lexicon themselves uses the algorithms and presets from the more modern PCM9. В (the PCM series.

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The revenue of Amazon Web Services (AWS) increased 33 percent on an annualized basis to $10.22 billion in the first quarter of 2020.
AWS maintained its leading position in cloud services, accounting for 32 percent of the total market in Q1. AWS outpaced its key competitors once again, said Alastair Edwards, chief analyst at Canalys.
AWS has opened two new data center regions in April, in Cape Town and Milan, with more planned in coming quarters.
Alibaba, Google, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle all continue to trail AWS even as its growth has slowed. Microsoft, which is considered the No. 2 cloud infrastructure provider, doesn’t disclose revenue, though it said on Wednesday that revenue from the Azure cloud grew 59 percent in the quarter, CNBC reported.
AWS has delivered 13.5 percent of Amazon’s total revenue during the first quarter of 2020. AWS, launched in 2006, is bigger than Oracle, which was founded almost 30 years earlier. Oracle reported quarterly revenue of $9.8 billion.
Operating income from AWS totaled $3.08 billion, which was up 38 percent. That works out to 77 percent of Amazon’s overall operating income.
AWS announced cloud deals with 3M, Bundesliga and Carrier during the first quarter of 2020.
Canalys said cloud service providers have felt the negative impact of a slowdown in large consulting-led projects, including SAP migrations, hybrid cloud deployments and other transformational projects. Cloud investment in the worst-affected vertical segments, such as hospitality, aviation, construction, tourism and manufacturing, is being scaled down or delayed.
Amazon growth continued to largely mirror overall market growth and its worldwide market share was 32 percent in the quarter, Synergy Research Group said.
Synergy Research Group said that Q1 spend on cloud infrastructure services reached $29 billion, up 37 percent from the first quarter of 2019.
Canalys said Cloud infrastructure services spend hit yet another record in Q1 2020, growing 34 percent to $31 billion. Growth in cloud services was driven by organizations around the world moving to remote working as the COVID-19 pandemic hit.


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LOS ANGELES -- Dodgers prospects Zach Lee and Scott Schebler were on hand Sunday at Dodger Stadium, both honored on the field before the regular season finale for winning the Branch Rickey minor league pitcher and player of the year, respectively, in the organization. They provided an interesting contrast in expectations versus performance.
Both 22-year-olds were drafted in 2010 but Lee was a first round pick, 28th overall, while the outfielder Schebler was picked in the 26th round, the 802nd pick. Getting drafted so late was a motivating tool for Schebler.
"Just knowing my opportunities aren't as high as someone like [Lee], you really have to make sure you do everything, do the small things right," Schebler said. "I knew I could always do it so it wasn't a breakout for myself, but in the eyes of people that saw me it was a breakout."
That breakout campaign for Schebler included 27 home runs and 69 extra-base hits in 125 games with Class-A Rancho Cucamonga, with 95 runs scored, 91 runs batted in and a spot on the California League postseason All-Star team. He hit .296/.360/.581 in 2013 after hitting just .260/.312/.388 in Class-A Great Lakes in 2012.
The improvement for Schebler came with the help and work of Quakes hitting coach Johnny Washington, who had worked with Schebler in 2012 as well.
"This year I kind of figured out what kind of hitter I am," Schebler said. "I always saw myself as a gap-to-gap hitter with power ability, but he said I wouldn't be able to do that with one healthy hack per at-bat. You have to get three healthy hacks up there."
Those three healthy swings also resulted in an increase in strikeouts, from 99 in 2012 to 140 this season. But it also saw Schebler hit .362/.411/.745 with 18 of his 27 home runs in a 47-game stretch from June 13 to Aug. 3.
"I came into spring training stubborn and stuck in my ways. Washington came up to me with stuff to work on and I didn't do it, and didn't have success in spring training," Schebler said. "I started the process in the beginning of the year, so you saw the early struggles then when June and July came I started getting hot because all of the stuff was coming together."
Schebler's signing bonus as the 802nd pick in the draft in 2010 was $300,000, a tad less than Lee, who parlayed the leverage of potentially playing quarterback at LSU into a Dodgers record $5.25 million bonus spread over five seasons.
"We both feel like we have to prove ourselves every day, go out and work as hard as we can to get where we want to be," Lee said. "Obviously from a living standpoint, my life is probably easier than his at this point. But on field there are a lot of similarities between us."
Lee in his third professional season was 10-10 with a 3.22 ERA in 28 games with Double-A Chattanooga, including 25 starts, with 141 strikeouts and just 35 walks in 142⅔ innings. He was a Southern League All-Star.
"It was pretty unbelievable. This was the year I kind of put it all together," Lee said. "I was able to put my command and control together on a consistent basis.
Lee's goal is to make the majors in 2014, and given all the injuries suffered by the Dodgers in 2013 he thought the call might have come even sooner.
"That's the target for me. The target originally was this year, but nothing really took place," Lee said. "I was trying to put myself in that position to get myself in that door, to force my way up here."
But Lee doesn't just want to make the majors next year. He wants to start the year in the Dodgers rotation, which currently has Clayton Kershaw, Zack Greinke, Hyun-jin Ryu, Josh Beckett and Chad Billingsley under contract for 2014, though both Beckett and Billingsley are coming off surgery. Lee, who isn't on the 40-man roster and hasn't heard whether or not he'll be invited to big league camp in spring training, said he isn't worried about things out of his control.
"I feel like if I go in with that mentality it will heighten my mental and physical preparation going into spring training and better my chances at winning a job," he said.
After a career high in innings pitched, Lee will spend the winter at home in Texas. Schebler, who heard of winning the organization's minor league player of the year award while in instructional league in Arizona, will play winter ball in Mexico during the offseason.


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Happy National Peanut Butter Lovers Day!!!
I normally don’t celebrate these kind of holidays since there are so many of them, but this one is near dear to my heart! Why? Because it is peanut butter and you know how much I LOVE peanut butter! So with today’s celebration I decided to make a Peanut Butter, Banana and Strawberry Bread!
The inspiration for this recipe is that horrible Chobani yogurt!!! Darn those yogurt makers! You know I’m only kidding! I LOVE you!!! Maybe I love you too much!! I think my Husband thinks so! lol Chobani was kind enough to send me a shipment of their newest flavors, banana and pear.
I honestly thought, ehhh, banana? I know I’ll like the pear but banana. Oh my gosh, I was so wrong, so so wrong!!! I added some strawberry jam and peanut butter and gave it a mix. I was in heaven! I was in heaven so much I ate two in a row! It’s unbelievable! I’m not much for flavored Greek Yogurt, but Chobani’s Banana made me change my mind!! I can tell you, I am stocked up on this newest Greek Yogurt! Thanks Chobani for giving me another obsession! Here is my yogurt concoction, the second photo is all mixed together!
Now back to my banana bread! When making this bread I did use greek yogurt, and my intention was to use Chobani’s Banana Greek Yogurt, but I ate it all, so I used my Chobani plain greek yogurt! It was perfect! I just added a banana to make up for the banana taste I was craving!
I thought of using jam for my bread, but I found some gorgeous fatty, red strawberries from Driscoll’s. I was afraid I wouldn’t find any precious berries this year, since the past month they haven’t looked very good. Just check out these fat bad boys! They were perfect in this bread and eating plain! Sorry there are not many berries in the picture. I ate them all too!
I have to tell you this bread is so moist, chock full of strawberries with a wonderful peanut butter taste and a hint of banana. I based this recipe on last weeks Apple and Cinnamon Walnut Bread. I was pretty stoked, because this recipe made 4 mini loaves, which will last me and my Husband throughout the week. I plan on making some french toast with it or maybe eating it with a dollop of peanut butter, after all you can’t have too much peanut butter.
- 1 Cup Greek Non Fat Plain Yogurt
- 1 large ripe banana, mashed
- 2 tbsp coconut oil or canola oil
- ¾ cup NuNaturals Presweet Tagatose or ½ cup sugar
- 3 egg whites
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp. milk
- ½ cup peanut butter, crunchy or smooth
- 1 Cup whole wheat pastry flour
- ¼ cup flax seed, ground
- 2 tbsp wheat germ
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp cinnamon, ground
- 1 cup strawberries, diced
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Grease one 9- x 5-inch loaf pan or 4 mini loafs with cooking spray; set a side.
- In a medium bowl, mix yogurt, banana, coconut oil, sugar, egg whites, vanilla extract and milk; mix until until blended.
- In a separate bowl add flour, flax seed, wheat germ, baking powder, salt and cinnamon; Mix together.
- Slowly incorporate the flour mixture into the yogurt mixture, be careful not to over mix.
- Fold in strawberries
- Pour batter into prepared baking pans. Use the back of the spoon to smooth batter out.
- Bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour for 1 large loaf or 30 – 35 minutes for 4 mini loafs, or until a wooden pick inserted into center comes out clean. Cool in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pan to wire rack.
Calories per slice with Sugar: 118.2, Fat: 5.3, Cholesterol: 0, Sodium: 144, Potassium: 63.7, Carbs: 14.3, Fiber: 2.2, Sugar: 6.5, Protein: 4.7
I am loving today and I am loving this banana bread! What a great way to get ready for the weekend!!! I am just so happy right now, and I don’t know why? I guess it’s because it’s my day!! I think I’ll celebrate National Peanut Butter Lovers Day with making some homemade Peanut Butter and lots of treats to use it with! I can’t wait! Now for work to be over with and soon! Please day, don’t drag!!!
Have a great weekend!!!

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Bluetooth communication technology is a wireless transmission method that uses radio waves. The first Bluetooth module was manufactured on week 22, 2001, by the Swedish company Ericsson. Since then, the technology has become an essential part of everyday life. Today, the Bluetooth standard is available in nearly every electronic device. It is also a popular option for wireless charging devices and mobile phones.
King Harald Gormsson
Bluetooth is a wireless technology that connects devices using radio waves. The name Bluetooth comes from the king of Denmark, King Harald Bluetooth. The king tolerated Christianity and was highly regarded by his people. He was known for his bluish teeth, which earned him the nickname Bluetooth.
King Harald Gormsson was a ruler of Denmark and Norway during the 10th century. He was a great leader who unified the country and conquered Norway. He was a proponent of Christianity and was credited for converting the people of Denmark to Christianity. Today, Bluetooth is one of the most popular wireless communication technologies, used in smartphones and other devices.
Bluetooth’s name derives from a Danish king who ruled Denmark and Norway in the late 10th century. Harald’s name is derived from two Danish words, “blaa” (blue) and “tan” (tooth). The name is a tribute to the king’s greatness, who helped to unify Denmark and Norway.
Bluetooth communication technology is a wireless connection technology developed in the 1990s. It’s the standard method of connecting two devices without cables, such as mobile phones and headsets. Bluetooth is an easy way to share data in a secure way. To use Bluetooth, all you need is an electronic device with Bluetooth compatibility. If you use Bluetooth in your everyday life, you’ll find it much easier to share files and music.
Harald was king of Denmark and Norway from 940 to 986 AD. He was credited with converting Denmark to Christianity and uniting Scandinavia. He was a great leader, who brought people together and made the transition from paganism to Christianity amicably.
Bluetooth is a modern form of wireless communication. The name comes from the Viking king, Harald Bluetooth. The king was the first to introduce Christianity to the Nordic region. His Christianization efforts led to a change in Viking culture. Harald became the first Scandinavian king to be baptized. He was also known for uniting many countries.
Bluetooth is a technology that uses a short-range radio signal to connect two devices. The name is a reference to the Viking king Harald Bluetooth, who was credited with uniting Scandinavia. In the late 10th century, Harald Bluetooth became king of Denmark and Norway, converting the Danes to Christianity.
While Bluetooth was once a pagan, he later converted to Christianity. Some historians believe he was buried in Poland, while others believe he is buried in Roskilde, Denmark. Regardless of where he was buried, his legacy lives on through the technology we use today in our pockets and homes.
Bluetooth was first developed in the 10th century AD in Denmark. The Scandinavian kingdom was ruled by King Harald Gormsson, also known as Bluetooth. The name was inspired by the king’s initials, Hagall, h, and Bjarkan, b. This combination formed a bind rune, which became the Bluetooth logo. The name Bluetooth was originally intended to be a temporary moniker, but it became a popular moniker soon after.
As the name suggests, the Bluetooth communication technology is a wireless standard that connects two devices. During its development, multiple companies were working on the project. Jim Kardash, an engineer at Intel, was inspired by King Harald Bluetooth’s name and thought that it would be a good codename for the project.
Book about Vikings
The name Bluetooth comes from a Viking king, Harald Bluetooth, who was nicknamed Bluetooth by his people. This viking king had a mysterious past. While the exact details of his life are a mystery, we know that he ruled over the Vikings for a period of nine years and was a son of the famous king Gorm the Old. Harald Bluetooth also had an odd looking front tooth.
Bluetooth was born in a pagan culture and later embraced Christianity. There are differing accounts of Bluetooth’s death, but some researchers believe that Bluetooth was buried in a Christian manner. The author of the book, Peter Pentz, is a noted Viking expert and curator at the National Museum of Denmark.
In 10th century Denmark and Norway were ruled by Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson. His nickname, “Bluetooth,” comes from his name, which means “blue tooth”. Apparently, he was nicknamed this because of his liking for blueberries. Eventually, Harald converted his kingdom to Christianity, and his name became synonymous with Bluetooth wireless link technology.
The Vikings changed the history of many European countries. Their expansions spread across the Atlantic, bringing new lands with them. The Vikings also invaded North America, and even took over the island of Iceland. The Vikings were smart and brave explorers. As they conquered the islands, they raided and settled throughout Europe.
Vikings had a number of different types of ships. Some were used for war and some for trade. The Viking war ships were longer, shallower, and narrower than the knarr, which were big, broad boats used for exploration and trade. They also had smaller boats for ferrying and fishing.
Bluetooth, or Bluetooth Low Energy, is a popular wireless technology used by mobile phones, computers, and other devices. The term was originally derived from the name of a Danish king, Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson, who unified Denmark and Norway and introduced Christianity into the region. His name inspired engineers to use the term “Bluetooth,” and the name eventually became the official name of the technology. The Bluetooth logo is a combination of the Danish letters “H” and “B” written in the Scandinavian runic alphabet, a language that was widely used in the 9th century.
Bluetooth was intended to be a temporary working title. The company that came up with the name had to get an agreement from many major smartphone manufacturers, including Nokia, Samsung, and LG, and a few other large companies. The name “Bluetooth” was also a codename that Intel engineer Jim Kardach suggested.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group was formed in 1998 by IBM, Toshiba, Nokia, and Ericsson to develop, trademark, and license the technology. These companies helped develop the technology and the standard that we know today. Today, more than 36,000 companies use the Bluetooth technology, including phones, computers, and other devices.
Bluetooth technology is constantly evolving, and it’s crucial to stay updated with the latest updates. Bluetooth 5.0 was released in 2016, and it has improved the range of Bluetooth devices, allowing them to communicate with each other over longer distances. With this new version, Bluetooth devices can transmit data at a much higher rate.
Bluetooth was developed by two engineers who were interested in the history of communication. They had just finished reading a book on Vikings, and a history buff as well, they decided to give the new technology a Scandinavian name. ‘Bluetooth’, for short, means “near enough to work.” The name was used as a placeholder until the two men could decide on a proper name.
The Bluetooth 5 protocol is the latest upgrade for the wireless communications technology. It offers increased data transmission rate and reduced power consumption. Additionally, it offers up to four times the number of data rates compared to Bluetooth 4.0. These upgrades are expected to improve call quality, performance, and safety. These upgrades will be available in the second half of 2019.
Bluetooth 5 is a new version of Bluetooth that builds upon the previous versions, focusing on Internet of Things (IoT) and increasing speed, range, and data capacity. It was adopted by the SIG in December 2016 and brings significant improvements to current Bluetooth technology. It also helps BLE devices connect directly to the Internet. Bluetooth 5 features double the data rate, four times the range, and eight times the data capacity of Bluetooth 4.0, making them faster and more responsive.
Bluetooth version 5.2 added features for retransmission of data between devices. This new feature helps to decrease cut-through delays and maintain optimum Bluetooth signal quality. Bluetooth LE also introduces channel classification, allowing peripheral devices to determine which signal frequency best meets their needs. It also supports Legacy Advertising.
Bluetooth 2.1 is expected to be available in holiday season, and new Bluetooth 2.1 gadgets are expected to hit the market in the coming months. This wireless technology is expected to usher in the data-driven future. Several companies are investing in the development of Bluetooth technology, including Intel, Microsoft, and Nokia. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (BLE) believes that by 2010, the number of devices using Bluetooth technology will double to two billion.
Bluetooth 5 is expected to impact the consumer electronics and entertainment industries. The wireless technology will make it possible to transfer video from mobile phones to televisions. It will also be integrated with near-field communication, a technology standard used to facilitate mobile payments.


Car maintenance is important for keeping your car running smoothly and preventing costly repairs. However, there are many common car maintenance myths that can lead you to do things that are not actually helpful or even harmful to your car.
Here are a few of the most common car maintenance myths:
Myth: You need to change your oil every 3,000 miles.
This is a myth that has been around for a long time, but it is no longer accurate. The oil change interval for your car will vary depending on the make, model, and year of your car. It is always best to consult your owner’s manual for the recommended oil change interval.
Myth: You should use premium gas in all cars.
Premium gas is not necessary for all cars. In fact, using premium gas in a car that does not require it can actually waste money and harm the environment. Only use premium gas if your car’s owner’s manual specifically recommends it.
Myth: You should warm up your car engine before driving.
This myth is also outdated. Modern car engines do not need to be warmed up before driving. In fact, idling your car engine can actually be harmful to the environment. If you live in a cold climate, you can let your car run for a few minutes before driving to allow the fluids to circulate, but you do not need to let it idle for more than a few minutes.
Myth: You should never use synthetic oil.
Synthetic oil is a great option for many cars. It can help to improve fuel economy, extend the life of your engine, and reduce emissions. If your car’s owner’s manual does not specifically state that you should not use synthetic oil, then you can use it with confidence.
Myth: You should only get your car serviced at a dealership.
There are many qualified independent mechanics who can provide quality car maintenance services. You do not always have to go to the dealership to get your car serviced. In fact, typically technicians that work in independent shops are more skilled and have extensive experience and training with multiple makes and models of vehicles, and because of that vast experience, they are able to troubleshoot and diagnose problems more efficiently.
These are just a few of the many common car maintenance myths that are out there. It is important to do your research and consult your owner’s manual to make sure that you are following the correct maintenance procedures for your car. By avoiding these myths, you can help to keep your car running smoothly and prevent costly repairs.
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Another concept for reusable launchers are single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) vehicles. Such vehicles would provide launch cost saving by eliminating the need for different stages, be they reusable or not. However, SSTOs must try to squeeze out the necessary engine performance, while drastically reducing structural weight, and still be able to reliably deliver a meaningful payload in orbit. Several reusable SSTO concepts have been proposed.
When will a reusable single-stage-to-orbit vehicle deliver a payload to orbit?
This question will resolve on the date that a single-stage-to-orbit vehicle successfully places a payload in orbit (above 100km in altitude), and returns in a condition to be able to be reused. Statements by the Launch provider, National Space Agencies, and credible media reports may suffice as a resolution source.
The payload should be a minimum of 1 kg, and should be operational after being deployed in orbit. If it is determined that the payload has been damaged due to the fault of the SSTO vehicle, that launch will not qualify to resolve; if the payload is inoperational due to no fault of the SSTO vehicle, this will resolve the question.


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The "newest" Bugatti was parked right next to the tiny original Type 10 prototype. It's Chrysler styling guru Virgil Exner's take on a Bugatti for the '60s. After Ettore Bugatti died in 1947, the company tried to reinvent itself by introducing the type 101 at the 1951 Paris Salon. Though its styling was praised, its prewar hardware was not. Six chassis were constructed, but only five were fitted with bodywork. The sixth turned up in a barn, was purchased, and rebodied by the father of the tail-fin, Virgil Exner. The steel bodywork was constructed by Ghia and first shown at the Turin show in 1965.


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It was a dog day of August on Long Island Sound. The type of day hated by all residents of Connecticut, especially sailors: no wind, the smell of thunderstorms in the air and lots of heat and humidity.
My wife and I decided to anchor in Westport Harbor behind one of the Norwalk Islands. There is a submerged rock in the harbor with no buoys to mark its position. We carefully navigate past the rock to find a safe place to anchor. After lots of debate, we decide on a place to anchor so that we can relax and read.
Just as we settle in, a decrepit power boat motors out of Westport Harbor and anchors near us. It has about 5 - 6 men and women on board in their early twenties. After a few minutes a women and two men get into a dinghy and motor into the beach on the island. The man driving the dinghy heads back to the boat leaving the couple on the beach.
After a few minutes we hear thunder in the distance and I start measuring the time between the lightening strike and the thunder. I can tell by the rapid decrease in time that the storm is rapidly approaching. We get the boat ready for the storm just in time as the rains starts shortly after we get the hatches closed.
The couple on the beach decide to swim back to the beach. They strip naked and start swimming while they hold their clothes above their heads with one hand. Just then, a good samaritan on a jet ski approaches the women and offers her a ride back to the boat. She gives him her clothes and he takes them back to the boat and returns for her.
As they pass my boat, she stands up and gives me a good flash. They climb up on the boat and she can't resist another flash. I tell my wife that I am going to flash her back and she lets me know that I will experience a very unpleasant month if I do that.
The rain finally stops and we decide to pull up the anchor and head back to the harbor. As we are motoring back, the naked women can't seem to resist another opportunity for a flash. She gets on the jet ski and starts circling my boat, standing up every time she is along side.
Bam -- I hit the rock! Just goes to show you that thirty years of navigation and safe boating go out the window when confronted by a naked woman.


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According to the company, DCI took part in a global tender for “Post monsoon maintenance dredging works at New Mangalore Port”.
The tender, released by NMPT during May 2020, involves maintenance dredging for a period of three years, 2020-21, 2021-22 & 2022-23.
DCI also added that the estimated annual dredging quantity is about 6.5 million cubic meters.
Dredging will take place during the timing window for inwater works, from October to January each year.
This is the second successive maintenance dredging project won by DCI on open tender basis.
Before this, the company was the best bider for the SNC-Kochi maintenance dredging project.
DCI is also carrying out maintenance dredging at major ports like Kolkata, Paradip, Visakhapatnam, JNPT (Mumbai), MPT (Goa) and Cochin.


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When Andrew Jackson moved the Indians out of Georgia 150 years ago, he entered into an obligation that another southern president named carter is trying to duck.
For Indians of the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw tribes of Oklahoma, it is new insult - added to historic injury.
It has taken the three tribes more than 60 years just to get the United States to admit that land and resources taken away in a federal river projected actually belonged to them.
"Now, they want to take it away without paying us a cent," says Ross Swimmer, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. "If people do not think the government tries to cheat Indians anymore - then they just haven't heard about this case."
The dispute between the government and Indians dates back to an 1838 treaty that was born in hatred and signed amid trickery.
In 1830, President Jackson decided to uproot thousands of Indians in southeastern states and send them west to make room for more settlers.
Jackson wanted to consolidate the Indians and segregate them into what he called "The Land of the Red Man." Translated into Choctaw, that phrase becomes one word: Oklahoma, which eventually became the name of the Indian's new homeland.
Several tribes were forced to leave their homes and were herded west by soldiers. The trip was called the "Trail of Tears" because of the thousands of men, women and children who died on the harsh journey. Of the 18,000 Cherokees forced to march, 6,000 perished.
Despite the inequities, the final treaty contained a unique clause. Unlike previous treaties with Indians, this treaty gave the tribes title to their new lands rather than setting up a government-owned reservation.
The Indians settled into their new homeland and established villages. They began charging tolls along the only navigable river in the area - the Arkansas River.
Then, shortly before statehood in 1907, Congress approved the Curtis and Dawes Acts, which required all tribal land to be allotted to individual Indians. Tribal members rolls were closed and all Indians on those rolls received pieces of land; they were sold to whites.
A year after oklahoma became a state, the Cherokees asked for permission to charge tolls along the Arkansas River once again.
The state refused, saying the Indians no longer owned the riverbed. But the Cherokees claimed the valuable property was still theirs because the government had goofed when it allotted land.
When that was done, surveyors titled the land from the riverbanks instead of from the center of the river. The Cherokees claimed the riverbed had not been allotted and therefore was still Indian property.
The state asked for an opinion from the federal government and the secretary of the interior issued a memo saying the state owned the land.
THE INDIANS disagreed, but they were so disorganized they did little until two powerful U.S. senators, Robert S. Kerr of Oklahoma and John McClellan of Arkansas, convinced Congress to undertake what then was the largest water project ever proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers.
Congress agreed in 1946 to dredge, damn and change the course of the Arkansas river, at a cost of $1.2 billion, to make it navigable from Tulsa to the Mississippi River.
In 1966, the Cherokees filed suit against the government seeking compensation for losses of land, oil, gas, sand, gravel and other resources in the riverbed that had been destroyed by construction. The two other tribes joined the suit.
Two lower courts ruled against the Indians, but the U.S. Supreme Court held in 1970 that the tribes did own the property. Congress ordered the Interior Department to determine the value of the land and resources. The estimate: $177 million.
The Cherokees filed an immediate claim for damages they said they suffered when the corps removed 40 million tons of salable sand and gravel from the river to make it deep enough for barges.
Interior Department officials and the tribes's leaders agreed unofficially on an $8.4 million settlement.
That was nearly three years ago. So far, nothing has been paid.
In a letter last June to a House subcommittee,, Interior Secretary Cecil andrus said the settlement was "fair and just compensation" and he promised to seek funds to pay the Cherokees in 1980 for the sand and gravel losses. But Interior and OBM officials have decided on a new approah, Andrus told a recent Senate hearing.
Martin Seneca, a Bureau of Indian Affairs official, explained: Since the waterway is important to interstate commerce, the government may have the authority under police powers and rights of navigation servitude to confiscate the riverbed without compensation to protect national security interests.
This week, Sen. Henry Bellmon (D.Okla) received copies of a report Andrus got from attorneys investigating navigation servitude statues. The attorneys said the Department of the Interior could refuse to pay all cliams because it has "no constitutional obligation to pay", but they urged Andrus to pay the Indians anyway, because of several precedents.
Despite the report, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Forrest Gerard told Congress, the Department of the Interior will not seek any extra money to pay the Indians.
Publicly, Interior Department officials refuse to say why Andrus is taking such a hard line, especially since his job includes protecting Indian land. Privately, they say he has no choice.
They say OBM told Andrus that if he wanted to pay the claim, the funds would have to come from other BIA programs.
"The reason this is a hot potato is not the $8.4 million," a BIA official says, "It's the rest of the claims everyone is afraid of. No agency wants to set a precedent of paying and get stuck with all the other claims for gas, oil, coal, et cetera."
"They just don't want to pay us." Swimmer says. "Carter is not acting much differently from Andrew Jackson."


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When I first began this blog one and a half years ago – and nearly 500 posts ago – I lamented the changes that were taking place in book publishing. We had just witnessed the shuttering of the final Borders bookstore outlet and the Great Recession was teaming up with a digital revolution to transform the book publishing industry. Today we are about to see the next phase: publisher consolidation.
Random House, the nation’s largest book publisher, is in serious merger talks with Penguin. The rumor was spread by the Financial Times, a paper owned by the same London-based company that owns Penguin, (Pearson). Bertelsmann, the German-based media conglomerate, owns Random House.
Such a merger means:
- Less competition in the marketplace of literary agents selling the works of authors and thus, smaller advances and fever bidding wars are to come
- Layoffs at both publishers, where duplication exists, but could mean a cost-savings to the combined operation.
- There will be more mergers.
- RH-Penguin could be big and strong enough to compete without Amazon and form its own online store.
- There is more uncertainty in the industry.
The book world soon could be left with fewer book publishers, just as it’s been left with fewer book stores. After the next three to five years bears witness to what I believe could be merger mania amongst publishers, you will see a marketplace that will consist of competing business models.
The self-publishing industry continues to grow by leaps and bounds. What could conceivably happen is that major distributors of self-published books will be elevated competitors to the shrinking of traditional publishers and/or some of the publishers will buy up the self-publish distributors so they can capitalize on the success of the fast-growing segment.
Another trend appears that foreigners will continue to buy up U.S. publishers. UK’s Rupert Murdoch owns Harper Collins. The French own Hachette and what was The Time Warner Book Group. Who’s next?
Lastly, not only is there consolidation ahead for book publishers, but also for the news media – TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines. Some of the media will merge with book publishers, the way ABC-Disney, CBS-Simon & Schuster, and Fox-Harper have.
And if Barnes & Noble’s stores continue to struggle and see shrinking paper book sales, we will see the loss of the last great book chain. E-books will then reach a tipping point and by 2030 – when my daughter graduates college – printed books will be in antique shops and memorabilia shows.
But through all of these changes, one thing will hold true. Content will be written, published, and sold at a level that exceeds today’s marketplace. Venues will change. Shifts in the market will continually create new winners and losers but we will always have a vibrant publishing world – whatever form it takes.
Brian Feinblum’s views, opinions, and ideas expressed in this blog are his alone and not that of his employer, the nation’s largest book promoter. You can follow him on Twitter @theprexpert and email him at email@example.com. He feels more important when discussed in the third-person.
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There were a lot of times last year when I asked myself, “What’s the point of this?” ‘This‘ being the Otherfaith, this religion, this type of life. I sat on the swing on our porch and agonized over this question. I asked myself why I didn’t just stop. I could continue on my own, worship on my own, stop writing, stop talking about it. The religion didn’t matter, I told myself as I sat on the swing, the sun setting on the mountains. Who cares?
I was in a bad place last fall. I’d made mistakes, big ones. Not just failing to behave on the internet. (That’s something I’m working and failing at every day.) Big mistakes. I’d been involved with an emotionally abusive man and lost who I was. I had lost dreams and kindness and that most sacred thing: hope.
I lost myself. I was lost in so many ways, and finding my footing was a gift (was grace). For if it had only been the gods, my beloved spirits, I would have remained lost, fading from the world of men. Forgetful, just like my patron god.
But mortal obligation and fellow humans brought me back. And I had my answer.
The point of ‘this’ was that it was bigger than me. This was about more than me. Get up and brush yourself off, the gods said. Get up and get out of your head. (Are you going to let this make you stagnate? the Ophelia asked. This is what will make you rot?)
This message came loudest from the Clarene, which wasn’t a surprise. She came to me as I picked my scabs, refusing to let them heal, and held my hands. (That ‘Hand Holder’ epithet has more to it than at first glance.)
“Why did you start this?” she asked.
“Because we needed it,” I answered. “What should I keep doing it?”
“Because I’m telling you to.”
I know the Clarene would let me go if needed – that is the kind of god she is – but I also know that would be it. The end. Close the book, say goodbye, watch those threads burn away. I could do this, or I could not, but none of this – as the Dierne put it later – “wibbly wobbly BS”. And like any parent, the Clarene gave a push when she knew it was needed.
This was about the gods.
Like I said, however, it wasn’t just those gods. People set me on the right path again. I owe many people in my life so much due to their help – and that help sometime came in the form of them just posting on Facebook and grounding me in the reality of my life instead of the despair. (What pushed me back on the right path was sometimes not direct questions or confrontations but seeing something – a post, a picture, a discussion – and realizing just how much the world was offering, just how much I was missing.) But there was someone who helped more directly, someone so new, so unexpected, so underestimated –
a devotee in the Otherfaith. I don’t know if they are comfortable being named here, so I will refrain from doing so. But they joined the faith, and seeing them exploring and diving in, struggling and rising, it re-lit a fight in me I hadn’t realized almost died. Of course, I thought, it’s about people too. I’d been holding everything too tight. I was a bundle of stress over things I couldn’t control. But that person came into my life and re-awakened my world.
And I wondered: how I could have been so deep in sleep, how could I have missed this, how could I have forgotten?
Yet still I was in error. For I approached them as prophet and priest. But they taught and shattered from me my walls – so beautifully crafted and so excellently obscuring. They taught me what this faith means again.
They teach me every day.
So – what’s the point of writing about this faith anyway?
The gods – they say to.
The people – because someone, many someones, might need it. Because someone does need it.
Because I don’t want people to be as alone as I felt, because this is something to be shared, because I have to let this out or my soul will crumble.
(That’s why, past-me. That’s why you’re going to keep doing this. This is why, whoever I am in the future.)


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