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Trainer Mohd Sukri's last start winner, Lonely Boy looks set for a back-to-back win in Class 3 over 1400m in Race 8 at Selangor Turf Club on Saturday. On the track this morning, the nice looking three-year-old by Lethal Force took it very lightly by cantering twice on the sand track and still looks in perfect condition. Lonely Boy's last outing with Jockey Jose De Souza came with a pulverizing run at the closing stages of the race to beat front hitter Arc Cara and stablemate Sounds Approving to win. Up a class, Lonely Boy still looking very fit, once again Brazilian rider Jose De Souza has been elected to ride will be the choice of racing fans for another victory.
RACE 1: Six Empire trotted and then strode out smartly in 39.6 seconds.
RACE 6: Sounds Approving also cantered twice looking a picture of fitness.
RACE 10: No Nonsense (HS Gill) was tested when cantering twice strongly.
So Hi Class should break the ice in a Class 4 (B) event over 1200m in Race 9 on Sunday. Trained by Mohd Sukri, the three-year-old by Dark Angel is still in form and trotted twice on the inner sand track. Last outing, So Hi Class came up very well at the closing stages of the race but found the winner in Satellite Boy just too good to finish a game fourth. So Hi Class will once again team up with Jockey Y Aify and the combination will the best bet for a maiden win.
RACE 4: Sunny did a light gallop and did not make time.
RACE 5: Listen trotted and then took it easy in 44.2 seconds.
RACE 6: Sakura Japan with trainer Charles Leck astride trotted and then had a good blowout in the final 300m.
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Ceci est une chronologie des évènements relatifs à la Dacie et aux Daces.

Avant les Daces

Avant les Daces, qui sont des Indo-Européens classés (dès Hérodote) parmi les peuples Thraces, de nombreuses cultures, déjà agricoles dès 4500 avant notre ère, se sont épanouies dans le bassin du bas-Danube. Elles sont généralement associées aux populations mal identifiées, mais appelées par commodité Pélasges, (), différenciées en Pélasges vinciens ou Vinciens, auteurs de la Culture de Vinča, dans la future Dacie et l'actuelle Serbie, et en Pélasges diminiens, auteurs de la Culture de Dimini, dans le reste des Balkans. Parmi les trouvailles archéologiques, nous avons:
 -6000 : une cognée, appartenant à la culture dite Starčevo-Criș
 -5000 : une mine, appartenant également à la culture Starčevo-Criș (Yougoslavie)
 -4500 : plusieurs objets portant de signes répétitifs qui pourraient être l'écriture la plus ancienne au monde, 1000 ans avant celle de Sumer.
 -4500 : de nombreux objets d'art, dont les statuettes des « penseurs » de Hamangia.

Avant Burebista
 De 2400-1700 avant notre ère, à la fin du Néolithique, des peuples d'origine indo-européenne s'installent sur plus ou moins le territoire de la Dacie, en même temps que dans le reste de l'Europe. Ces peuples, que Hérodote classe parmi les Thraces, sont dits Gètes par les Grecs () et Daces par les Romains (). Les détails de leur arrivée sont controversés, mais la plupart des auteurs s'accordent maintenant à penser qu'il ne s'est pas agi d'une simple conquête avec disparition d'une population au profit d'une autre, mais d'une lente assimilation des populations antérieures par les nouveaux venus, comme ailleurs en Europe (Ligures ou Ibères assimilés par les Celtes, Villanoviens assimilés par des Lydiens pour former les Étrusques, Étrusques assimilés par les Latins pour former les Romains, Celtes assimilés par les Romains pour former les Gallo-Romains, Gallo-Romains assimilés par les Francs pour former les Français, et ainsi de suite…).
 entre 1800 et 1200 avant notre ère, début du culte de Gabeleisos, demiurge et architecte de l'univers.
 datant de 1700-1200 avant notre ère, plusieurs trésors de l'époque thraco-gète, dont des objets d'or et d'argent,
 de 800 à 500 avant notre ère, une partie des Scythes se déplacent vers l'ouest et s'intègrent aux Gètes qui, à leur tour, diffusent vers le nord, l'ouest et le sud, comme on le voit sur les cartes de Ptolémée. À la même époque, qui voit une péjoration climatique dans toute l'Europe, avec abandon de nombreux sites et migrations, différentes populations celtiques, germaniques, illyriennes, italo-villanoviennes s'installent également dans la région : en Dacie, les celtes sont des Scordices (en Transylvanie et le long du Danube), tandis que les Bastarnes (dans l'actuelle Moldavie) sont des celto-germains.
 en 753 avant notre ère, fondation de Rome.
 l'an 713 avant notre ère marque le début du calendrier dace. Un prophète de Gabeleisos, du nom de Zalmoxis, aurait vécu à cette époque. Cependant, le nom de Zalmoxis a été porté par de nombreux chefs spirituels (des "Polistes", tandis que les chefs temporels étaient des "Tarabostes" et les simples citoyens, des "Comates" ou "chevelus"). L'un de ces "Polistes", selon Hérodote, aurait été initié pythagoricien et aurait ensuite regagné la Dacie, où il aurait été fort considéré, récit qui confirme la forte influence grecque sur la Dacie due à l'installation des colonies grecques vers 700-600 avant notre ère sur la mer Noire (alors Pont-Euxin).
 vers 500-300 avant notre ère, les relations entre Daces et Grecs sont à l'apogée. Les Daces leur proposent du blé, du miel, des cires, des peaux, des fourrures, du bois. Les Grecs leur offrent bijoux, céramiques, tissus fins, parfums, huiles, vin.
 vers 400 avant notre ère, Hérodote relate l'attaque des Perses sur le Danube, et les déplacements de populations consécutives (de nombreux Thraces du sud passent au nord du fleuve).
 En 335 avant notre ère, Alexandre le Grand s'attaque à son tour aux Daces en traversant le Danube, où il rencontre 4000 Tarabostes à cheval et 10.000 Comates à pied. Il voit des champs cultivés partout. Il revient avec un important butin provenant d'une seule ville (Sacidava), ce qui montre le développement et la richesse des Gètes/Daces.
 En 148 avant notre ère, la Macédoine est transformée en province romaine et les Daces montent des expéditions au sud du Danube pour piller les possessions romaines.
 En 112-109 avant notre ère, nombreux heurts avec les Bastarnes et les Romains.
 En 74 avant notre ère, les Daces prêtent main-forte aux Scordices et aux Dardanes de Mésie en lutte contre Rome.

De Burebista à Décébale
 En 60 avant notre ère, le roi Burebista unit les tribus daces en créant un État puissant sur le bas-Danube et la mer Noire. Il réorganise efficacement l'armée, confirme les privilèges des Polistes et des Tarabostes, mais aussi les libertés des Comates, et raffermit ainsi le moral du peuple. Burebista resserre ses liens avec les cités grecques et passe alliance avec le roi Mithridate du Pont. On construit la grande cité de Sarmizegetusa, capitale du royaume, avec plus de 40 terrasses, des fortifications pour la défense et des centres cultuels, dont un observatoire astronomique/calendrier.
 En 60-59 avant notre ère, Burebista gagne toutes les batailles contre les Bastarnes, des Celtes menaçant la Dacie depuis le nord-ouest. Il rassemble ensuite une armée de plus de  hommes, et offre ses services à Pompée pour participer dans sa guerre contre César. Les Bastarnae et les Boii sont conquis, les villes grecques d'Olbia (dans l'actuelle Ukraine) et d'Apollonia (dans l'actuelle Bulgarie) sur le Pont-Euxin tombent entre les mains de Burebista. Le royaume atteint sa plus grande extension, couvrant les actuelles Hongrie orientale, Roumanie, Moldavie, Ukraine occidentale, Serbie et Bulgarie septentrionales.
 En 44 avant notre ère, Jules César projette de mener une expédition contre les Daces, à la fois parce qu'ils avaient soutenu Pompée, et parce qu'ils ravageaient régulièrement les provinces romaines au sud du Danube. L'attaque contre la Dacie est annulée lorsque César est assassiné.
 La même année, Burebista lui aussi est assassiné, pour les mêmes raisons que César: un pouvoir jugé excessif par l'aristocratie patricienne (Tarabostes). Le royaume est alors divisé en quatre (ou cinq, selon les sources) parties, chacune sous l'autorité d'un roi différent. L'un d'eux est Cotiso, dont Auguste aurait souhaité épouser la fille, et qu'il aurait fiancé à sa propre fille de 5 ans, Julia. Cotiso apparaît dans Horace (« Occidit Daci Cotisonis agmen », Odes, III. 8. 18) - qui, puisque l'ode est datée du  mars 29, fait probablement référence à la campagne de Marcus Crassus (30 av. J.-C.-28 av. J.-C.), plutôt qu'à celle de Cornelius Lentulus, consul seulement en 18 av. J.-C..
 La conquête par les Romains de la Mésie, terminée en 15 de notre ère, isole le royaume dace de la Thrace, et met en contact direct les Daces et l'Empire romain. Auguste déclare que les Daces ont reconnu la suprématie de Rome (Auguste, Res Gestae, chapitre 30), ce qui ne signifie pas qu'ils soient tous soumis pour autant.
 En 69 de notre ère, profitant des troubles à Rome (pendant l'année des quatre empereurs), les Sarmates Roxolans envahissent et pillent la Mésie, tandis que les Daces s'emparent des quartiers d'hiver des unités romaines de la rive sud du Danube. Le gouverneur de Mésie et le général romain Mucien rétablissent l'ordre romain (Tacite, Histoires, livre I, 79, livre III, 49).

La Dacie, province romaine

En fait seul le sud-ouest du pays, où l'on trouvait alors en abondance du sel, de l'or, des métaux et du bois, sera intégré pour 170 ans à l'Empire romain : le reste sauvegarde sa liberté, avec les tribus des Tyrgètes, des Costoboces et des Carpiens (les "rocailleux", qui ont donné leur nom aux Carpates).
 De 85 à 92 de notre ère, les Daces mènent deux guerres contre les Romains, sous le règne de l'empereur Domitien, et des rois daces Douros ou Diourpanaeos (Diurpanée), et de leur successeur Décébale. Lors de la première guerre de 85 à 89, les Romains subissent plusieurs revers : le légat consulaire Oppius Sabinus fut battu et le préfet du prétoire Cornelius Fuscus tué au combat (Suétone, Vie des douze Césars, Domitien, VI). Tettius Iulianus reprend l'avantage en 88, mais les Quades et les Marcomans, des Germains, attaquent à leur tour les Romains, les obligeant à une paix provisoire en 89. Décébale restitue les armes et une partie des prisonniers romains, cherchant la paix, mais reste puissant et menaçant.
 En - de notre ère, pour mettre fin à ces menaces, mais aussi pour s'emparer des ressources de la Dacie et surtout de l'or, l'empereur Trajan mène une première campagne (101 - 102) et un long siège de la capitale dace Sarmizegetusa, occupant une partie du pays. L'expédition a été longuement préparée : percement d'une route à travers la montagne, creusement d'un canal pour contourner les rapides du Danube aux Portes de Fer… Pour assoiffer la capitale, les sapeurs Romains cherchent les adductions d'eau en tuyaux de tuiles, approvisionnant secrètement la cité. Ils en bloquent quelques-unes, mais ils ne les trouvent pas toutes, et la capitale résiste.
 En - de notre ère, l'histoire de cette guerre est relatée dans Dion Cassius. L'architecte Apollodore de Damas construit un pont sur le Danube, de vingt piliers en pierre, long de 1,2 km à Drobeta (entre 103 et 105). Face à la supériorité romaine, le suicide de Décébale pour ne pas avoir à subir une capture humiliante, et pour permettre à ses Tarabostes de négocier une paix pas trop dure, marque la fin de la Dacie antique et le début de la province romaine de Dacie. Sa tête et sa main droite sont apportées à Trajan en guise de trophées de guerre, et la victoire est célébrée avec faste à Rome. En l'honneur de ces victoires au nord Danube, Trajan fait alors ériger deux monuments : la Colonne Trajane à Rome et le Tropaeum Traiani dans la localité d'Adamclisi en Dobrogée. En outre, Trajan, dans son Forum, fit ériger des statues de prisonniers daces illustres (des Tarabostes, généraux de Décébale), qui se trouvent actuellement au sommet des colonnes de l'Arc de Constantin, ultérieur.
 vers 136 de notre ère, les Daces intégrés dans l'armée romaine combattent sous leurs propres enseignes (comme auxiliaires), utilisant leur dragon qu'ils emportent partout. Ils utilisent leur propre technique de combat et l'on estime le nombre de Daces dans l'armée romaine à plus de  dans les guerres contre les Perses.
 entre 106-256 de notre ère en Dacie, et entre 15 et 580 en Mésie, une romanisation soutenue se met en place au nord de la ligne Jireček, par le mélange de populations d'origines et de langues diverses, par le commerce, l'administration et la construction de routes et de fortifications : le latin populaire devient lingua franca et cela donne naissance aux Thraco-Romains, appelés aussi Romains orientaux. Cependant, les possessions romaines sont souvent attaquées par les Daces libres (Carpiens, Costoboces, Tyrgètes) ainsi que par les Sarmates Roxolans, puis par les Huns, les Goths et d'autres "barbares", de sorte que la mainmise romaine sur le pays reste précaire. Au bout d'un moment, sous Hadrien, la Dacie, au nord du Danube, devient plus coûteuse à garder qu'elle ne rapporte en sel, or et bois, et l'empereur n'y maintient son administration et ses troupes que pour préserver la sécurité des nombreux colons romains.
 en 212 de notre ère, Caracalla étend la citoyenneté romaine à tous les hommes libres de l'Empire romain : les Daces deviennent donc des citoyens romains.
 en 256 de notre ère, sous Gallien, les Goths traversent les Carpates et chassent les Romains de Dacie, à l'exception de quelques places fortes entre le fleuve Timis et le Danube. Aucun détail de l'événement n'est connu, mais le principal argument qui corrobore l'affirmation de Ruffius Festus : « sous l'empereur Gallien la Dacie fut perdue » est l'arrêt brutal des inscriptions romaines et des monnaies dans le pays après .
 en 270-275 de notre ère, Aurélien retire toutes les troupes et réinstalle les colons romains au sud du Danube, en Mésie, où il crée la province de Dacie aurélienne, où se retrouvent également une partie des Daces romanisés fuyant l'attaque des Goths, qui continue. La Dacie aurélienne fut ensuite divisée en Dacie Ripense (en grec Δακία Παραποτάμια : la Dacie des berges du fleuve - il s'agit du Danube) autour de Ratiaria (aujourd'hui Arčar en Bulgarie entre Lom et Vidin : l'évolution linguistique de Ratiaria à Artchar montre une particularité phonologique de l'aroumain : "a" préposé au "r"), et Dacie Méditerranéenne, autour de Serdica (actuellement Sofia, capitale de la Bulgarie). Ultérieurement la Dacie Méditerranéenne sera à son tour subdivisée en Dardanie et Dacie Méditerranéenne. La Dacie aurélienne occupe, entre / et , la plus grande partie de ce qui est aujourd'hui la Serbie orientale et la Bulgarie. Ultérieurement ces "Dacies" formeront, avec les provinces de Mésie inférieure et de Prévalitaine, le Diocèse de Dacie, qui disparaîtra au  lors de l'installation en masse des Slaves et des Bulgares, qui remplacent l'autorité impériale et submergent les Thraces romanisés locaux, ancêtres des Valaques.

L'âge pastoral, de 271 à 1300
Cette période de l'histoire des ancêtres des Roumains et des Aroumains est ainsi surnommée par les historiens roumains (en référence à l'occupation principale des Thraco-Romains) parce qu'elle ne peut être connue que surtout à travers l'archéologie, la linguistique comparée et la toponymie, tandis que les sources écrites, tant épigraphiques que paléographiques, sont très succinctes et sujettes à controverses. Cette "diète documentaire" fait appeler cette période « Âge obscur » ou « Âge sombre » par les historiens hongrois, slaves, allemands ou occidentaux qui affirment que, puisqu'il n'y a pas de sources fiables, c'est que les ancêtres des Roumains ne s'y trouvaient pas. Suivant cette position, la quasi-totalité des atlas historiques occidentaux ne mentionne même pas l'existence des locuteurs des langues romanes orientales entre 271 et 1300, bien qu'ils soient attestés non seulement par la toponymie, mais tout de même aussi par des chroniqueurs comme Théophane le Confesseur, Théophylacte Simocatta, Kedrenos, Nicétas Choniatès et Anne Comnène. L'historien roumain Neagu Djuvara remarque que : Les arguments des thèses antagonistes peuvent tous être contestés, mais ils ont le mérite d'exister, tandis qu'aucun fait archéologique et aucune source écrite n'étayent l'hypothèse d'une disparition pure et simple des roumanophones pendant mille ans, qu'ils se soient envolés avec les hirondelles pour migrer en Afrique, ou qu'ils soient allés hiberner avec les ours dans les grottes des Carpates ou des Balkans…. De plus, même s'il n'y avait aucune preuve archéologique ou toponymique et aucune mention écrite, la simple existence des daces  comme peupledominant a survécu à l'arrivée des Slaves et des Bulgares dans la région.

 en 271, la retraite romaine est définitive au nord du Danube. Les relations commerciales continuent néanmoins avec les habitants au nord du Danube, comme le prouve l'archéologie. Suivant ces relations, le christianisme aussi s'étend au nord du Danube. La création de la Dacie aurélienne au sud du Danube est une opération politique, pour masquer le déclin de l'Empire romain et peut-être pour préparer, en cas de redressement, la reconquête de la Dacie.
 l'empereur roman Galère (règne de 293-311) est Dace, originaire du nord du Danube par sa mère. Parce que Galère a persécuté les chrétiens, l'auteur chrétien Lactance (vers 250, vers 325) le présente sous un jour très noir dans son livre La Mort des persécuteurs : « au moment où il est devenu empereur, il s'est déclaré l'ennemi du nom même de "Romain"; il proposa alors que l'empire soit appelé, non pas l'Empire romain, mais l'Empire dace » ; en réalité cet empereur gouverne et défend efficacement l'Empire romain pendant près de vingt ans.
 le 271 à 381, les Daces du nord du Danube passent sous contrôle des tribus carpiennes, des Daces libres, et forment les Carpo-Daces.
 la présence des Thraco-Romains est mentionnée au  par les chroniqueurs Théophane le Confesseur et Théophylacte Simocatta.
 plus tardivement (du  au ) les descendants des Daces (au nord du Danube) et des Thraces (au sud du Danube) apparaissent sous le nom de Valaques

 la datation au carbone 14 du Rohonczi Codex donne les années 1520-1530: c'est un document de plus de 400 pages de papier fabriqué en Italie. On suppose que c'est une copie d'un original plus ancien, car il est écrit dans une langue de type dace danubienne très archaïque, proche latin vulgaire, et surtout dans une graphie peu connue, que l'on a supposée être un alphabet dace.L'alphabet Danubien.
 le plus ancien document écrit en langue roumaine moderne date de 1521, en alphabet cyrillique gréco-slavon, car, depuis le Regnum Bulgarorum et Valachorum ("royaume des Bulgares et des Valaques") au , l'église et les chancelleries des états roumains utilisaient le slavon comme langue liturgique et officielle. Entre la disparition de l'Empire romain et 1521, les Daces et les Thraces  n'ont évidemment pas disparu selon nombreuse documentes.

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 Victor Chapot, La Dacie dans Le Monde Romain, Albin Michel, Paris, 1951
 Yann Le Bohec : La Dacie des Romains : des provinces éphémères sur :
  Ion Grumeza : Dacie, pierre angulaire de l'Europe orientale antique, éd. Hamilton, 2009, Lanham and Plymouth;

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BSE4BL's Afrika and Tamika Green talk about the need for more diversity in the film composing industry with their brother, Jamal
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Published: 05:00, 09 January 2021
In this month's article we speak to Bury St Edmunds-born film and game composer Jamal Green about his work and the need for more diversity in his industry.
The world of film composing is not as diverse as it should be. Jamal Green, 22, of mixed African American and White British heritage is going to change that.
He has recently celebrated the release of Skelattack, a game published by major Japanese game company Konami, and was one of six musicians of colour to be placed in the spotlight for Sony's Black Music Month. He was among the likes of singer and film composer Labrinth, and Terence Blanchard, American composer and esteemed Jazz trumpeter.
Jamal Green. Picture by Ayce Oyerinde of Ayce Photography @aycephotographyuk (43864039)
Of the experience, Jamal said: "To be the face of Sony's representation of black composers in a time when that representation has never been more important is what makes this one my proudest achievements."
Jamal started composing at the age of 12, making music for Minecraft videos on Youtube at 14. He eventually went on to attend West Suffolk College where he made the most of the equipment that they had there.
"I stayed late every night and would sneak into college on my days off to use the snazzy equipment because no matter how many hours I did at my Frankie and Benny's job, I wouldn't have been able to afford the equipment myself," he said.
Around this time, Jamal started writing music for mobile and computer games and he then went on to study Music Composition for Film and Games at the University of Hertfordshire, where he continued to write music for games alongside his studies, one of those games being Skelattack.
In 2019, Jamal scored an Indie film entitled Aberdeen (Van Til, 2019, USA), which is now available for streaming on American Amazon Prime.
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Jamal looks to the future and wants to continue to work on bigger and better projects. He wholeheartedly accepts the challenge of helping to diversify the industry and hopes to hear what other composers of colour can bring to film soundtracks.
Finally, Jamal thinks there is change on the horizon: "The game industry is leading the field, and I've seen so many black and brown composers flourish here, so it's just about forcing change in the film industry now."
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Stillwater's Water Street Inn plans three-story addition
A photo of the former Union Depot building in downtown Stillwater taken in the late 1880s. Courtesy: ARCHNE
By Mary Divine | mdivine@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: February 24, 2014 at 11:01 pm | UPDATED: November 4, 2015 at 12:49 am
Editor's note: In previous versions, a quote from Water Street Inn owner Chuck Dougherty was incorrect. Dougherty said that plans for the addition were considered in 2008, but the economic downturn "put it on the back burner."
The Water Street Inn in downtown Stillwater is planning a major expansion.
Owner Chuck Dougherty wants to build a three-story addition that would include a rooftop patio and a new primary entrance and lobby. It also would have a tower element, a nod to the clock tower that graced the old Union Depot train station that formerly stood on the site.
The 21,000-square-foot addition, designed by ARCHNET in Stillwater, would add about 20 rooms to the 41-room hotel. The hotel lobby in the southwest corner would be moved to the building's north side, and the existing lobby would become the main dining area.
Plans for the addition were considered in 2008, but the economic downturn "put it on the back burner," Dougherty said Monday.
He said the time is right to make a major investment in downtown Stillwater.
"I think with all the improvements, with the new bridge, with the bike trails — both the Loop Trail and Brown's Creek State Trail — coming into town, we're at a renaissance," he said. "In talking to the business owners, everybody is really seeing these as great, positive moves. The city rebuilding Lowell Park and the parking lots and the public restrooms and the amphitheater are all very positive moves, and we feel … that the future looks very bright."
The project would require a variance to the front-yard setback and a special-use permit for the rooftop patio, said Bill Turnblad, the city's community development director. The matter is expected to go before the planning commission March 10 and the city council on March 18.
The proposed addition, at the corner of Water and Myrtle streets, would be in the "view corridor" of people who looked down Myrtle Street to the Lowell Park gazebo and the St. Croix River, Turnblad said.
"It's more or less exactly where the original tower was, but it's closer than our ordinance allows to the street now, so that becomes the public balancing act," he said. "They own the space, so that becomes the design question: How much visual blockage are we willing to put up with in order to remind ourselves of our history?"
City staff has not yet come up with a recommendation to the city council "because they're both legitimate public purposes, and how do you balance them?" he said.
The Water Street Inn opened in 1995 in the Lumber Exchange Building, which was built in the 1890s.
Dougherty said the Union Depot clock tower was in the "view corridor" for years — from 1887 until the depot was torn down in 1960 to make room for Hooley's Supermarket. The gazebo was built about 1916.
"Our property line is where it is and includes that location of the clock tower," he said. "I think it's exciting, and I think it's going to look great for the town and it's something to be proud of."
The proposed tower — which would rise 7 to 8 feet above the roof line — would be outlined in steel, Dougherty said. "We're going to try and re-create it as best we can," he said. "There was a shingled roof on top of (the tower), but because of the city's height ordinances, we're building more of a steel replica of what that would look like so it won't be enclosed."
"People forget that that corner of Myrtle and Water streets was kind of the transportation hub of town," Dougherty said. "It was where the trains came into town, the trolley stopped there, and later on it was the bus stop.
"It was an iconic piece of downtown, and to bring that back is exciting," Dougherty said. "It's our gift back to the city for what the city has done for us."
Construction will be done in the offseason to avoid conflict with the hotel's wedding business, Dougherty said. Work is expected to begin in fall 2015 and be complete in early 2016.
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The Bishop's Castle Railway was a railway company that constructed a railway line in Shropshire, from near Craven Arms to Bishop's Castle. It opened in 1866 but was continuously short of money, and was unable to complete its originally-planned route, nor to provide more than the most basic level of equipment. It closed due to bankruptcy in 1935.

Origin
Bishop's Castle is a small town located in Shropshire near the border with Montgomeryshire, now Powys. Its population in the middle decades of the nineteenth century was about 2,000. The town had been on the route of a proposed trunk line to Porth Dinllaen, which was seen as a packet port for Ireland at one time, but that scheme had come to nothing.

To the east the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway had opened its main line in 1852; there was a station at Craven Arms, named after a nearby inn that had been a staging post for the coaches. To the west, lay the Oswestry and Newtown Railway, which was promoted in 1859: its main purpose was to connect a group of small railways at Newtown with the English railway network, by way of Oswestry. The O&NR had a Montgomery station, but it was two miles from the town it served. That part of the line opened in 1862.

At this time it had become clear that rural towns that were not connected to a railway would suffer economically, as necessities brought in, and manufactures and agricultural products sent out, were expensive to transport by other means. Accordingly the idea developed of a railway branch line from the Craven Arms station to a point on the O&NR near Montgomery, serving the town and intermediate areas. From a junction at Wistanstow near Craven Arms, this would run through Lydham and join the O&NR north of Montgomery station, near the bridge over the River Camlad. The town of Montgomery is on a hill, and the route of the proposed railway could not be made close to the town; a  short branch line to it would be built. There would also be a branch from Lydham to Bishop's Castle.

At public meetings locally, the scheme received enthusiastic support, and a Parliamentary Bill went forward; the railway was authorised by the Bishop's Castle Railway Act, on 28 June 1861. Authorised share capital was £180,000, to build  miles of line.

There was dismay when the scheme was published, for it was then seen that Bishop's Castle was planned to be on a branch and not the main line. The Shrewsbury Chronicle commented, "The railway is a misnomer, for Bishop's Castle will never enjoy much, if any, of its vast benefits". As a result of local feeling, the Committee of the House of Commons introduced a clause in the Railway Bill requiring that a branch from Lydham Heath to Bishop's Castle must be opened concurrently with the main line.

Construction and opening
A contractor was appointed, and he stated that he would start work as soon as a proportion of the share capital had been actually subscribed. This proved extremely difficult and for a considerable time no work was started, due to the absence of share subscriptions. It was not until 1865 that work was begun, by another contractor, and the part of the line from Craven Arms to Lydham and Bishop's Castle was opened on 1 February 1866. The line formed a Y shape, as trains ran from Craven Arms to Lydham and reversed to reach Bishop's Castle. Much of the route followed the River Onny.

The first commercial use of the line was actually on 27 January 1866, when a special train was provided for the Squire of Plowden for his shooting party.

However Oppitz says that the Bishop's Castle branch from Lydham was used [for passenger purposes] from October 1865 without waiting for the approval of the Government Inspector.

Expansion plans
Notwithstanding the failure to complete the line, the directors now started to plan an extension line, to Minsterley. The topography was helpful for such a line, as low-lying land around the Aylesford Brook and the Rea Brook led from Chirbury (on the proposed Montgomery line) to Minsterley; there was already a branch line terminus there, connecting with Shrewsbury. An Act authorising this extension was granted on 29 June 1865.

Now the money market turned against railway projects in the financial Panic of 1866 and it became impossible to get finance. Moreover the ordinary trading of the company was disappointing, and it fell into the hands of a receiver in Court of Chancery. Completion of the original line from Lydham to Montgomery was obviously impossible.

Working the line
The company had two locomotives, and operated one at a time, so that the operating system was "one engine in steam". There was no electric telegraph or block working, and therefore no communication for train control. There were three train services each way daily with an additional one on cattle-fair days. There were several passenger coaches, although three were normally used on service trains; they were four-wheelers, using the obsolescent chain brake system.

Receivership and temporary closure
The railway was always heavily in debt, and on 27 February 1877 possession some of the land on which the railway ran was taken by authority of the Court of Chancery, due to unpaid debts. The line was closed until 2 July 1877 when the sum of £700 was paid in to court and the seizure was cancelled. The money was raised by a sale and leaseback of a locomotive and some land, to local persons.

Most of the press simply said that the line was 'stopped' during this period; however the Wellington Journal (newspaper) said that a service was continuing between Horderley and Bishops Castle, with Mr Scriven, a hotel proprietor, providing a wagonnette service from Craven Arms to Horderley. The suspension of through goods trains was considered to have had a marked adverse effect on the price of coal in Bishop's Castle.

Another Attempt to reach Montgomery
Not to be deterred the company's supporters promoted a further scheme in 1883 to extend the line from Lydham Heath to Montgomery. They obtained an authorising Act of Parliament on 7 August 1884, incorporating the Bishop's Castle and Montgomery Railway, but once again local support in the form of share subscriptions was absent, and the scheme never progressed. It was abandoned by a further Act of 5 July 1887.

Washout in 1886
There was severe flooding in the district in 1886 and the line was breached by a washout at Plowden on 13 May 1886. For a few weeks the traffic was worked from each end and passengers were conveyed past the gap in horse brakes.

A final plea to the GWR
On 1 January 1922, the Cambrian Railways, owners of the Oswestry and Newtown line at Montgomery, joined the Great Western Railway as part of the grouping of the railways. Craven Arms was also a Great Western station (jointly with the London and North Western Railway, shortly to be the London, Midland and Scottish Railway). The Bishop's Castle Railway tried to persuade the GWR to build the Lydham Heath to Montgomery line, so forming a through link between the two main lines. If that were done the Bishop's Castle might sell its line to the GWR. The GWR immediately made it plain that it was not interested in such a development. Evidently Montgomery Town Council had been lobbying for such a scheme–the "Montgomery" station on the Cambrian line was some distance from the town; however in June 1924, the Ministry of Transport indicated that a Government grant was not a possibility.

Closure
For decades the company had struggled to continue in business while in receivership. The financial state of the company was worsening as road transport in rural areas began to expand, and the Receivership was terminated in April 1935: the business was closed down and the line now ceased to operate. The track was removed in 1937 and the land was gradually sold privately.

Locomotives used on the line
 Bee, 0-4-0ST, ex-Benjamin Piercy (contractor), built by Brotherhoods of Chippenham in 1865
 Plowden, 0-6-0, ex-St. Helens Railway, builder unknown
 Perseverance, 0-4-2T, ex-Great Western Railway No. 227, built as 0-4-0T by Dodds, Isaac and Son in 1854
 Progress, 2-4-0, ex-Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, built by George England and Co. in 1861
 Bishops Castle, 2-4-0, ex-Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway, built by George England and Co. in 1861
 No.1, 0-4-2T, ex-Great Western Railway No. 567, built at Wolverhampton railway works in 1869
 Carlisle, 0-6-0, ex-Thomas Nelson (contractor) of Carlisle, built as 0-6-0ST by Kitson and Company in 1868.

Stations

 Bishops Castle Junction or Stretford Bridge Junction on the Shrewsbury and Hereford Railway;
 Stretford Bridge Junction Halt; opened May 1890; closed 20 April 1935;
 Horderly: opened March 1866; closed 20 April 1935;
 Plowden; opened 1 February 1866; closed 20 April 1935;
 Eaton; opened March 1866; closed 20 April 1935;
 Lydham Heath; opened 1 February 1866; closed 20 April 1935;
 Bishop's Castle; opened 1 February 1866; closed 20 April 1935.

Bishop's Castle Railway Society
The Bishop's Castle Railway Society hopes to preserve remaining artefacts from the railway.

References

Further reading

External links
 Open Plaques subject
 BBC Shropshire article
 Bishop's Castle Railway Society

Rail transport in Shropshire
Railway companies established in 1861
Railway lines opened in 1865
Railway companies disestablished in 1935
1861 establishments in England
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Bleiburg - Pieces of a Broken Dream
Pieces of a Broken Dream is a comprehensive archiving of the Croatian project Bleiburg's collaborations with artists from Europe, America and Japan. It's an exhaustive collection of 17 collaborative tracks and 7 previously unreleased solo tracks from Bleiburg. Bleiburg is the solo project of Stefan Rukavina, former publisher of the Thaglasz journal and related vinyl releases, and it's clear he has made considerable use of his extensive contact list. I must confess this is my first real exposure to Bleiburg (aside from some compilation tracks) but it would be fair to say that they operate within post-industrial/neo-folk circles. The solo tracks are largely slices of dark electronics, brooding soundscapes with symphonic passages and spartan rhythms and beats. It's worth noting, however, that it takes until track 5, and the first of two collaborations with Obscure Resistance that they deploy the acoustic strum synonymous with neo-folk, though earlier tracks adopt the martial vocals so favoured by the genre. As a result of the collaborations the entire Bleiburg sound is taken into new musical avenues absorbing fresh elements. With Cawatana there's an air of eastern mystery to the ritual industrial sounds. US contemporary medieavalists Soil Bleeds Black surround the martial vocals with dirge like strings, flute, a fluttering piano score and death rattle percussion. The martial folk of Harvest Rain is awash with ethnic flute and hand percussion, while even Lonsai Makov's chanson is drawn into the realms of traditional folk. The other artists featured include Gregorio Bardini, Thorn Agram, Larrnakh, Project Toth.
Bleiburg may take their name form a European conflict but they seem to be setting their martial themes in a modern context, namely that of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. Throughout Pieces of a Broken Dream Bleiburg display an interest in eastern sounds where tablas and hand percussion replace the martial beats atypical of neo-folk, ethnic flutes feature heavily. Even their own tracks on the second disc are evidence of their interest in recent history and contemporary world affairs. 'Oil In Their Eyes' features forlorn piano and the distressed cries of (Muslim?) women, while 'Muezzin Pop' harnesses Eastern samples to explosive beats. And while the first disc revolved around neo-folk, the second disc is far more electronic, featuring a number of ambient and noise tracks. The real highlights are the longest. Aube offer ringing and buzzing tones, ricocheted metal, against a solid Bleiburg beat. Cellar of Rats provide a tension ridden soundscape of blurred electronics, cinematic strings and battlesounds. The other artists include Nocturne, Telepherique, Amir Baghiri and Vidna Obmana. The latter's collaborative effort is a fitting piece of tranquil ethno-ambience.
The collaborative ventures on a Pieces of a Broken Dream illustrate that Bleiburg have found a way out of the musical cul-de-sac that is neo-folk. How much of that is down to the collaborators we don't know - no writing credits or any recording information for that matter is provided - but the diversity of musical approach while remaining loosely anchored to neo-folk /dark ambient genres should attract the attention of even the most jaded neo-folker. For the most part, it's an engaging collection and as an entry to the world of Bleiburg its unsurpassed, and an impressive first CD release by anyone's standard. For more information go to www.coldspring.co.uk


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Established in 2004, MEGlobal is a joint venture between The Dow Chemical Company of the United States and Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) of Kuwait. MEGlobal's sole focus is on the manufacture, supply and marketing of merchant monoethylene glycol (MEG) and diethylene glycol (DEG), collectively known as ethylene glycols (EGs). As MEGlobal would say, it is all about "everything EG."
"We are one of the top players in our industry," Head of Supply Chain for the Americas, Antulio Borneo says.
The purpose behind the joint venture that created MEGlobal was to manufacture and commercialize EG products. MEGlobal manufactures more than 1.2 million metric tonnes of ethylene glycols per year at its three manufacturing plants in Alberta, Canada. In addition, MEGlobal markets in excess of 3 million metric tonnes from its world-leading supply partners.
"We seek to be efficient in everything we do, from manufacturing to supply chain and finance," Borneo says.
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From a supply chain perspective, MEGlobal focuses on optimizing its production efforts and channels to market thanks to its investments in infrastructure and logistics. The company's supply chain and logistics operations are based on the concepts of efficiency of scale and serving the customer in the best way possible.
Among the improvements MEGlobal has made to its distribution network was a recent expansion to a terminal in the southeast United States that allows it to bring in product from Canada by ocean vessel. This is an alternative to rail transportation.
"We can't rely on just one mode of transport," Borneo says. "Marine transport is key, and being in the southeast U.S. makes for greater efficiency."
Additionally, MEGlobal has made improvements to its plants to increase output. The company is better handling strong demand and storage needs as a result. "We must be creative because we handle a commodity and have to find ways to lower cost per ton to survive in a cost escalating environment and better serve customers," Borneo says.
Focusing on safety is another imperative for MEGlobal. It seeks to move, handle, store and transport product in the safest manner possible.
"There are several different aspects to safety," according to Borneo. "You need the right training, mindset and work processes in place."
MEGlobal audits partner locations and reviews transportation routes. All partners' vessels are vetted before being utilized for shipment. The company also pays close attention to maintenance of railcars in its fleet.
"All suppliers and vendors go through these processes and reviews," Borneo says.
Increasing Demand
Borneo says the EG market is poised for growth. In 2013, about 16.5 million pounds of EG served the market, but that number is expected to reach more than 22 million in the next few years. Much of that growth is coming from the Asia-Pacific region because of the textile market demand.
"We have to make sure we have the right partnerships with transporters and we must be able to adapt to market growth," Borneo says. "We have to. We are also doing a front-end engineered design study for a new glycol plant."
MEGlobal will continue to invest in people and bringing in upgraded technological systems. For example, it recently engaged in an SAP upgrade initiative.
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Over the past several weeks, a lot of us have gained a new appreciation for Payments Tech as we maintained social distance while attempting to perform vital tasks. We paid for essential purchases by tapping our smart phones at the POS – trying hard not to touch anyone or anything personally. We got accustomed to ordering household goods (including groceries) from various eCommerce platforms and paid via a mobile app or a digital wallet without stepping out of our homes. We paid other bills via Zelle and sent money to friends via Venmo. The list goes on. It seems as if Payments Tech has never been as useful – or as taken for granted – as in the time of COVID-19.
In February, shortly before the full impact of the coronavirus hit New York, we released our debut report on m&a values and trends in the Payments Tech industry. See here for that previously published report.
Our debut report highlighted some of the trends driving positive momentum and increased interest in the sector. We discussed ubiquitous and built-in payments capabilities becoming more integral, B2B payments getting digitized, financial inclusion remaining front and center, and innovation continuing around new payment flows and rails. We noted that m&a and financings were robust. The first part of that all remains valid. But COVID-19 has changed a lot in the m&a and financing world over the past 60 days.
As COVID-19 has spread worldwide it has led to government mandated lockdowns, and the closing of many businesses, resulting in massive job losses. It has also led to tremendous transaction volume growth for eCommerce platforms like Amazon, Walmart/Jet and others who have mastered the use of embedded payments as part of their overall business model. Meanwhile, overall transaction volumes have dropped precipitously at brick and mortar stores as many have been forced to close and their customers ordered to shelter in place. Some firms successfully leveraged payments enabled technologies like mobile order ahead and online ordering for delivery or pick-up services. Meanwhile m&a and financings slowed while the global equity markets dropped 20% and more. The Payments Tech industry has not been immune.
As you will see in our latest report, m&a values and trends in the Payments Tech industry have taken a hit but it won't last forever. There is a silver lining. Our latest report focuses on what this current dislocation means in the short term, as well as our sense of the many opportunities the industry offers. Among other things we discuss:
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Past Innovation Hall of Fame inductee Harry B. Smith speaking at the 2006 induction ceremony, where he received a medallion comemmorating his own induction in 1987.
Harry B. Smith, M.S. '49, electrical engineering, died on August 8 at the age of 86. Smith's invention of pulse Doppler radar earned him the David Sarnoff Award and IEEE Pioneer Award, and induction into the Clark School's Innovation Hall of Fame. He led a highly successful career, serving as president of the Westinghouse Defense and Electronic Systems Center (later acquired by Northrop Grumman), and launching APEX/ECLIPSE, developer of technologies to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of communications systems. Smith received the Clark School Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1982. Smith is survived by his wife, three children, four grandchildren and his brother. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, August 12 from 7-9 p.m. and Wednesday, August 13 from 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. at the Sterling-Ashton-Schwab-Witzke Funeral Home, 1630 Edmondson Avenue, Catonsville, Md. 21228 (410-744-8600). The funeral service will be held on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. at the same location. Interment will be in Loudon Park Cemetery.


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EdTech investor Owl Ventures closed $1 billion new funds with over $2 billion assets under management
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Owl Ventures announced today that it closed over $1 billion in new funds. The Silicon Valley-based EdTech investor closed $640 million for its fifth fund, $270 million for its second Opportunity Fund, and over $100 million in special purpose vehicles.
Owl Ventures remains the largest venture capital fund in the world focused on the EdTech market with over $2 billion in assets under management.
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The development brings Coventry's railway services – and the overall passenger experience – in line with the highest standards in the UK.
The new state-of-the-art facility is a key part of the area's wider regeneration. This includes Friargate – an ambitious new business destination in Coventry. TWO FRIARGATE is currently under construction and is set to be the city's premier office building, targeting BREEAM Excellent. This follows the successful delivery of One Friargate.
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Councillor Jim O'Boyle, Cabinet Member for Jobs, Regeneration and Climate Change said,
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The Darkness To Release Third Studio Album Via Wind-Up Records
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Since reuniting last year, The Darkness have been promising to release their third album and first since disbanding in 2006. And earlier today, the UK rock group (and Superbowl commercial stars) confirmed plans to release said new album in August.
Titled Hot Cakes, the new Darkness album will be released on August 21 in North and South America via Wind-Up Records, while the European release will be handled by PIAS. "When we first heard a new Darkness track and after seeing them play live in New York City, we knew The Darkness were back! The Darkness and Wind-up make a great rock partnership and we look forward to working with them to launch Hot Cakes," proclaims Wind-Up CEO Edward Vetri. With that said, it is interesting to think that The Darkness are now label mates with bands like Creed, Evanescence, and Seether.
Though Hot Cakes won't come out until August 21, The Darkness did already treat fans to a new song called "Nothin's Gonna Stop Us" earlier this year. If the rest of the album is anything like that particular song (which is still available for free via their website), then Hot Cakes should certainly be right up fans' ally. The album's release also comes just in time for The Darkness' opening stint on Lady Gaga's European tour.
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Emotional speech is one of the principal forms of social communication in humans. In this study, we investigated neural processing of emotional speech (happy, angry, sad and neutral) in the left hemisphere of 21 two-month-old infants using diffuse optical tomography. Reconstructed total hemoglobin (HbT) images were analysed using adaptive voxel-based clustering and region-of-interest (ROI) analysis. We found a distributed happy > neutral response within the temporo-parietal cortex, peaking in the anterior temporal cortex; a negative HbT response to emotional speech (the average of the emotional speech conditions < baseline) in the temporo-parietal cortex, neutral > angry in the anterior superior temporal sulcus (STS), happy > angry in the superior temporal gyrus and posterior superior temporal sulcus, angry < baseline in the insula, superior temporal sulcus and superior temporal gyrus and happy < baseline in the anterior insula. These results suggest that left STS is more sensitive to happy speech as compared to angry speech, indicating that it might play an important role in processing positive emotions in two-month-old infants. Furthermore, happy speech (relative to neutral) seems to elicit more activation in the temporo-parietal cortex, thereby suggesting enhanced sensitivity of temporo-parietal cortex to positive emotional stimuli at this stage of infant development.


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Last month there were reports that, Koratala Siva will join hands with Akkineni Akhil to direct the latter's third film. Reports stated that Nagarjuna tried hard to bring in Koratala to direct his son's next movie. Apparently, Koratala isn't keen to work with Akhil as he is said to have narrated a story to Nani.
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Q: get length of data sent over network to TCPlistener/networkstream vb.net It seems the most obvious thing, but I just can't work out how to get the length of bytes sent over a network using a TCPClient and TCPListener?
This is my code so far:
   'Must listen on correct port- must be same as port client wants to connect on.
    Const portNumber As Integer = 9999
    Dim tcpListener As New TcpListener(IPAddress.Parse("192.168.2.7"), portNumber)

    tcpListener.Start()
    Console.WriteLine("Waiting for connection...")

    'Accept the pending client connection and return
    'a TcpClient initialized for communication.
    Dim tcpClient As TcpClient = tcpListener.AcceptTcpClient()
    Console.WriteLine("Connection accepted.")
    ' Get the stream
    Dim networkStream As NetworkStream = tcpClient.GetStream()
    '' Read the stream into a byte array

I need to get the length of the networkstream to set the size of the array of bytes I'm going to read the data into. But the networkStream.length is unsupported and does not work and throws an Notsupportedexception.
The only other way I can think of is to send the size of the data before sending the data, but this seems the long way round.

A: I realize this post is old but I feel there is an easier way to accomplish this task with TcpListener / TcpClient
You can use a BinaryFormatter to accomplish reading and writing from a NetworkStream where you don't know the exact length.
Using
System.Runtime.Serialization.Formatters.Binary;

Client Side
    string[] animals = { "Dog", "Cat", "Mouse" };
    TcpClient c = new TcpClient();
    c.Connect("YourServer", someport);
    using (NetworkStream ns = c.GetStream())
    {
            BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
            bf.Serialize(ns, animals);
    }

Server Side
    string[] animals;
    TcpListener l = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Any, someport);
    l.Start();
    TcpClient c = l.AcceptTcpClient();
    using (NetworkStream ns = c.GetStream())
    {
            BinaryFormatter bf = new BinaryFormatter();
            animals = (string[])bs.Deserialize(ns);
    }

As long as you know the type that you're sending and receiving this a way to send and receive data across NetworkStreams without knowing the exact byte count.
If you're just sending a simple string across a NetworkStream however you could use a simple StreamWriter and the Write(String) method to write to the stream and a StreamReader and the ReadToEnd() method to retrieve your string at the other end.
Edit: I was just thinking about this answer the other day and I realize that it's important to note here that in order to use a BinaryFormatter the object must be able to be serialized by being marked with the SerializableAttribute, which is the case of some built-in types, makes this not an option. I apologize for the late edit but I felt this was important to note.

A: Not sure what object type you are expecting but this works and you could keep track of the final size, sorry in C# though:
System.Net.Sockets.NetworkStream nwStream = objTcp.GetStream();
System.IO.StreamReader stReader = new System.IO.StreamReader(nwStream);

string strTemp = ReadFromBuffer(stReader);

private string ReadFromBuffer(System.IO.StreamReader objReader)
{
        int intRead=1024;
        System.Text.StringBuilder stbBugger = new StringBuilder();
        char[] chrTempBuffer = new char[1024];

        while (intRead == 1024)
        {
            intRead = objReader.Read(chrTempBuffer, 0, 1024);
            stbBugger.Append(chrTempBuffer, 0, intRead);
        }

        return stbBugger.ToString();
    }

It all depends on what you are needing to read and what type of stream you use.  The method here you could add a count to as well while reading the results if you really needed to.
Just keep track of the number of char's read during the operation and you have a size plus the data.

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Q: Get all months with number of months and days from 2 date? Here is my 2 mysql tables. In clients table is showing user connection date and in clients_pay_bill table showing in which month user is paid his/her bill from connection date (conn_date).
a) clients
clients_id    conn_date
=======================
1             2016-06-01
2             2016-07-17
3             2016-06-22
4             2016-09-03

b) clients_pay_bill
cpp_id     clients_id    paid_month
===================================
1          1             2016-07-03
2          2             2016-07-22
3          4             2016-09-09
4          2             2016-07-22

Now I want to show all months with number of days and months of which clients is not paid until current date.
For example :
clients_id = 1 connection date (conn_date) is 2016-06-01 and he only paid 2016-07-03 month bill till now. So the sql query will be output following months:
2016-06
2016-08
2016-09
**2016-07 will not print because he already paid this months bill**

and I also want to show number of days and months e.g: 3 months some days..
I can't imagine how the sql query should look like ?

A: I will suggest you a bit different approach cause this one will kill you both logically and performance speaking. The way it should be done is to have records genreated in clients_pay_bill not when someone pays but when he/she should pay and as an addition to it there should be 2 columns: due_date and paid_date. So your table would look like this:
cpp_id     clients_id      due_month      paid_month
====================================================
1          1               2016-06-03     NULL
1          1               2016-07-03     2016-07-03
1          1               2016-08-03     NULL
2          2               2016-09-22     NULL
3          4               2016-09-09     NULL
4          2               2016-07-22     NULL

You could generate monthly due note via cron or if you prefer to stay in SQL than via events. After that you have simple query selecting which due note has NULL in paid_month cause if payment was done than you would update paid_month column.
Regarding days I am not sure what effect you would like to achieve (example would help) but having list of due notes it's already half way to make calculations regarding amount of days on these records (eg. with DATEDIFF)


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Each year state decision-makers are tasked with balancing constitutional, statutory, and federal requirements with a host of other considerations, such as competing policy priorities, caseload growth, and the health of the state's economy to create a budget. Although the budget is funded with a variety of revenue sources, state taxes provide a significant portion of the revenue Colorado uses to fund its operations.
Formulating the budget involves state departments, the Judicial Branch, the Governor's Office of State Planning and Budgeting (OSPB), and the General Assembly, including its Joint Budget Committee (JBC), JBC Staff , Capital Development Committee (CDC), the Office of Legislative Legal Services, and Legislative Council Staff. Generally, the process begins with state departments in the Executive Branch preparing a budget request between July and September of each year for review and approval by OSPB. OSPB then prepares a consolidated request from the Governor, an overview of which is presented to the JBC in September. State departments also submit any capital construction, property acquisition, and controlled maintenance requests each September. OSPB prioritizes these requests for the CDC by November 1.
Between November and January, each department and the Judicial Branch has a briefing meeting and a hearing with the JBC. These meetings provide an opportunity for the JBC members and a JBC staff analyst to discuss operational and funding considerations with representatives of each department. During this period, the CDC also holds hearings on prioritized capital requests before submitting recommendations to the JBC in January.
In December, Legislative Council Staff and OSPB each prepare a quarterly economic forecast. This forecast is used to project the amount of revenue that will be available for appropriation during the next fiscal year.
Using these data, between February and March, JBC staff work with department staff to fine tune each department's budget request in a process that is referred to as "figure setting." The figure setting process includes an opportunity for departments to appeal certain recommendations made by JBC staff, which is referred to as a "comeback." At the conclusion of the figure setting process, the JBC votes on the appropriations to be included in the Long Bill for each department. Simultaneous to this, agencies of the General Assembly submit a budget request for the Legislative Branch, which is enacted in a separate bill, to the Legislative Council for review.
In March, following the approval of the department and capital requests by the JBC, the Long Bill is prepared and introduced as a bill for consideration by the entire General Assembly. To implement portions of the Long Bill, "companion" bills may be introduced to change other parts of state law. For instance, the Long Bill could contain funding to expand an existing program and a companion bill might adjust that program's eligibility criteria contained in statute.
Public testimony on the Long Bill and its associated companion bills may be offered in the Appropriations Committee of either chamber. In mid-March, Legislative Council Staff and OSPB update their respective revenue forecasts. Members and the JBC staff review the Long Bill and propose adjustments to "balance" the budget, or to ensure that the appropriations contained in the Long Bill, companion bills, and the General Assembly's budget bill are backed by sufficient revenue. These bills are signed into law in order to take effect on July 1, the first day of the next fiscal year.
Because the budget is based on caseload forecasts, at the start of the following legislative session, "supplemental" bills are introduces to "true-up" the Long Bill from the last year with actual case load data.