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West Ham United fan Chris Barmby who was barred from taking a copy of his local newspaper into Stoke City's ground last weekend in case he used it as a weapon


THE Dartford Choral Society will perform Beethoven s Mass in C and Holst s Hymn of Jesus later this month.
THE Dartford Choral Society will perform Beethoven's Mass in C and Holst's Hymn of Jesus later this month.
The 7.45pm concert at Stone House Hospital Chapel in Cotton Lane, Stone will feature soprano Claire Tomlin, contralto Margaret Cameron, tenor Geraint Hylton and bass Peter Snipp.
Conductor Michel Bell will lead the concert on Saturday, November 22 and they will be accompanied by Raymond Lewis on the organ.
Tickets are £9 (concessions £7) and are available from David Ware on 01474 321604 or on the door.


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No winners in ICC – Libya standoff
Posted on October 9, 2012	by Mark Kersten
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Judges at the ICC are set to hear two days of arguments from Libya and the Saif al-Islam's ICC Defence counsel over where Libya's former heir apparent should be brought to justice. As readers will know, the question of where to try Saif and Abdullah al-Senussi has been a major theme covered in this blog over the last year and a half. While it's hard to predict how the ICC judges will ultimately rule, it is clear that the relationship between the Court and the Libyan government leaves a lot to be desired. In this vein, I wanted to share with readers an article that I've just had published at Foreign Policy, which covers the tumultuous fight over where to try Saif and Senussi. The argument reflects that of a longer, academic chapter that I have posted on academia.edu. Here's a taste:
Libya's embattled transitional government is not only struggling to appoint a cabinet, disarm its powerful militias, and deal with the aftermath of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. It is also locked in a tense battle with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over where to try Muammar al-Qaddafi's son Saif al-Islam and the former regime's mysterious intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi. Since the fall of Qaddafi's regime and the assertion of a newly sovereign Libya, the ICC's intervention has degenerated into a controversial and, at times, acrimonious battle between Libya's new rulers and the Court over where the highly prized indictees should be tried. Over the past year, Libya's transitional government has sought to demonstrate its effective sovereignty to its citizens and the world by proving itself able and willing to prosecute senior members of the Qaddafi regime. At the same time, the ICC has striven to establish itself as an effective institution that can have positive effects on post-conflict accountability. However, the fight over where to try Saif and Senussi may ultimately serve to undermine the aims of both the ICC and Libya — not to mention the pursuit of post-Qaddafi justice.
For more, continue here.
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The Consultant General Physician is a doctor who deals a wide range of medical conditions. He/She is likely to have an area of special interest such as respiratory medicine or nephrology or endocrinology or cardiology, as well as caring for patients with general medical problems.
This will depend on the type of patients he sees. If he has a special interest in respiratory medicine, for example, he will be exposed to the potential areas of negligence of a Consultant Respiratory Physician.
The Consultant General Physician may be known as a Consultant Physician with a special interest in a variety of different sub–specialities such as Respiratory Medicine, Endocrinology or Medicine of the Elderly. He/She may be known simply as a Consultant Physician.
The Consultant General Physician will usually have MRCP or FRCP (Membership or Fellowship of one of the Royal Colleges of Physicians).
The Consultant General Physician may be a Lecturer or Professor in Medicine at a Medical School. He/She may be an Examiner for one of the Royal Colleges of Physicians.


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Connecticut Ovation guitar factory to close after 47 years
Fender blames market conditions, insufficient volumes; will manufacture offshore.
April 24, 2014 by ASSOCIATED PRESS
Melissa Etheridge playing a 12-string Ovation. Photo: Craig ONeil
HARTFORD, Conn. — An Ovation guitar factory in the western Connecticut hills that produced instruments for music legends from Paul Simon to Cat Stevens to Glen Campbell will be closing in June after 47 years and production of the Ovation line in the US will stop, the manufacturer's parent company told the shop's 46 workers this week.
Fender Musical Instruments Corp., based in Scottsdale, Ariz., and maker of the iconic
Stratocaster electric guitar, said it was ceasing domestic production of Ovation guitars and closing the New Hartford factory, citing "current market conditions and insufficient volume levels." The company also said it is consolidating production of US-made acoustic instruments.
Ovations will continue to be manufactured outside the US, Fender spokesman Jason Farrell said. Fender also builds Ovations in China, South Korea and Indonesia.
The factory also has been making Fender and Guild guitars since Fender bought Ovation's owner, Bloomfield, Conn.-based Kaman Music Corp., in 2007. The shop opened in 1967 after Charles Kaman, an engineer who founded Bloomfield-based aerospace company Kaman Corp., developed the first Ovation guitar. Kaman died in 2011.
The factory closing was first reported by the Republican-American newspaper of Waterbury, Conn.
Richard Hall of Winsted, who worked for Kaman and Ovation for three decades including 18 years at the New Hartford plant, told the newspaper that Ovation made the first acoustic guitar that could be plugged in to an amplifier and the company had 66% of the acoustic market in the US in the early 1990s.
"It's the end of an iconic American brand," Hall said. "In the 1970s and '80s, just about every big touring band was playing Ovation."
Ovations made in New Hartford have been praised for their craftsmanship and tone. The company's website shows pictures of many music legends playing Ovations, including Simon, Campbell, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Eddie Van Halen, Kenny Rogers, Neil Diamond and Melissa Etheridge.
Fender officials say the factory closing will affect all 46 workers, who will get severance packages, outplacement services and other assistance.
Production of US Ovation guitars resumes
Jimmy Page's dragon guitar reborn after 50 years on ice
It ain't free, babe: Dylan 1963 Martin D-28 guitar expected to fetch $300K
Gibson guitar maker sees a future with bankruptcy protection
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Our goals for this project are based on the idea of connecting students to their community through a focus on public art and the building of language to communicate their personal reflections. Artistically, the students will work together to make a collaborative mural on the side of their school, engaging team building skills and communication. They will learn the process of creating a public work of art from brainstorming to organization, from process to finalization.
The students will be building work for their English Language Arts Portfolio as they write poetry and develop a spoken word performance centered around a greater understanding of their community gained through the mural painting. They will be encouraged to communicate about this place they call home in a poetic and creative way.


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Q: Unable to read MAT file with scipy I am trying to read a matlab file using scipy
import scipy.io as sio

data = sio.loadmat(filepath)

but I get the error
ValueError: Did not fully consume compressed contents of an miCOMPRESSED element. This can indicate that the .mat file is corrupted.
In Matlab I can open this file without any problem. I also tried to save it again, but nothing changed...
Can you help me?
Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B3vXKJ_zYaCJanZfOUVIcGJyR0E
you can find 2 files saved in the same way..
I can open part_000, but not part_001.... why? :(

A: The problem seems to be caused by the compression. .mat files are compressed automatically from version 7 onward.
Therefore, I suggest trying to save the file in the earlier, uncompressed .mat file version 6:
save(filename, 'data', '-v6');

A: The problem is with scipy.io.loadmat's verify_compressed_data_integrity keyword argument, which defaults to True. It's trying to do some error checking of the headers, but can raise an error even when the data is extracted just fine. See this related GitHub issue. I'm unsure of the implications of switching this off full-time, but if you use the following, it should resolve your issue in the meantime (I can't check it against your data, it's no longer available at the provided URL).
import scipy.io as sio

data = sio.loadmat(filepath, verify_compressed_data_integrity=False)

A: I can load both files with Octave, and rewrite the one that causes problems
>> data1 = load('part_0001.mat');
>> save -v7 part_0002.mat -struct data1

In Python the rewritten file loads fine, just like your 0000.mat file.
In [8]: data2=loadmat('part_0002.mat')
In [10]: data2.keys()
Out[10]: dict_keys(['RealTime', 'AccNorm', 'Alt', 'FsP', 'DeviceTime', 'FsA', 'Acc', 'imatemp', 'Time', '__version__', '__globals__', '__header__'])

The rewritten file is actually a bit smaller.  A V6 file is 13M, and also loadable.
>> save -v6 part_0003.mat -struct data1

So there must be some glitch in loadmat's handling of the V7 format.

A: sometimes the mat files become corrupt, so Matlab cant recognize the data type and unable to load it. so while saving the mat file. try to save the mat file by setting the long_field_names=True

scipy.io.savemat(filename,long_field_names=True)

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You Are Here: Live Bands / Duos / Ireland / Connaught / Joe Kearns and Olivia Romeo
Joe Kearns and Olivia Romeo - Duo | Bettystown, Connaught
Based In: Bettystown, Connaught
Performs: Worldwide
From: 250 Euro / 2hr set.
Acoustic cover duo with large repertoire spanning from the 50s to current popular hits of every genre.
Joseph Kearns and Olivia Romeo are two very experienced performers that met while working aboard the Disney Fantasy. The pair knew that they had a unique sound, and so they began to collaborate, building up a large repertoire. With an average of 3-4 gigs a week in Ireland, these passionate performers are receiving a lot of positive attention and quickly building a following of fans.
New York native Olivia Romeo is a performing arts graduate from Stephens College in Columbia, MO that has worked throughout the states, singing, dancing, and acting. From performing in summer stock theatre w ... ork in Okoboji, Iowa to work-shopping off Broadway productions in NYC to gigging extensively in Westchester County, Olivia has worked extremely hard to hone her musical craft. She has studied vocal techniques for 7 years with vocal coach Nancy Theeman and also jazz vocals with Tom Andes. Most recently, Olivia worked as a performer for Disney Cruise Line, where she met musician Joe Kearns.
Hailing from Ireland, Joe has been playing regular gigs around Europe for 8 years. He has frequent media attention both in Ireland and also in cities such as Montreal, Canada . He was voted number 1 out of ten 'New Acts to Follow' by renowned journalist Tony Clayton-Lea of The Irish Times. Joe performed for two months at sea with Disney to great response, both from the company and cruisers who still email him.
Joe and Olivia perform almost every genre during their sets, with each gig lasting up to 2.5-3 hours. The two not only use their charismatic energy to capture the attention of their audience but also their smart musicianship, which helps them gauge what the crowd wants to hear. With an ever-increasing arsenal of tunes in their repertoire, Joe and Olivia strive to move their audiences, to make them dance, cry, or simply be moved.
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Have performed in a vast number of venues in New York, Ireland, Montreal, etc.
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The New Orleans office participated in the K10 Day of Service this summer, a citywide initiative. The August date marked Hurricane Katrina's 10-year anniversary. Teamed with a local architect firm, the Terracon group volunteered at Our School of Blair Grocery, an independent alternative school and sustainability education center based in the Lower Ninth Ward. Fifty volunteers toured the facility, planted, weeded, composted, relocated the goats to a new pin, reorganized items in the main building, and more.


Where was Carla Connor's top from on Corrie last night?
The Carla Connor top (played by the well-turned-out Alison King), was a Ted Baker Black Cameo Printed Top; a cream, green and black printed fabric top featuring a country, horse riding scene, tipped crew neckline and cuffs, a satin style front panel to front and fine gauge knitted back.
This was originally available at a price of £128, however, since it was originally available in 2012, it's now sold out.
BUT – we have found a similar printed top by Ted Baker (as seen on Alex jones a few weeks back). The Aiesha printed top is still available at House of Fraser.


Congratulations to Small Giant Games as it joins Zynga!
Huge news coming out of Helsinki today — Small Giant Games, the team behind Empires & Puzzles, has entered into an agreement to be acquired by Zynga (Nasdaq: ZNGA) in a deal worth $700m. Massive congratulations to Timo, Markus, Otto and the rest of the Small Giant team — this is a well-deserved milestone for everyone at the company. And a big congratulations to Zynga too, as it acquires one of the best mobile game developers in the world.
Just four months into 2018, the company had already exceeded 2017's revenue.
In the time that has passed since then, the Small Giant Games team has stayed on course. They've continued to passionately and diligently work on Empires & Puzzles and, while adding just a handful of new colleagues, the team has unveiled a huge amount of great new features (Alliance Wars, Season 2: Atlantis, and many more) and improvements to the game that have delighted players. And yes, I'm a loyal player myself, as I've been co-leading a top 50 alliance together with a bunch of friends since March 2017.
As a result of the hard work put in by the Small Giant Games team, more and more players have come to love the game. Consequently, Empires & Puzzles has been frequenting the top 10 grossing game charts on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store for most of 2018.
For the EQT Ventures and Small Giant Games teams, this has been a real partnership and a great cultural match.
What's next? EQT Ventures actively chose to take a significant part of its proceeds in this transaction and joined Zynga as a shareholder. We believe Small Giant's journey is set to continue and the team will continue to thrive within the larger Zynga family and achieve great things for many years to come.
Note: DnB Markets provided advice to the EQT Ventures Fund based on publicly available information.


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Torrential rains kill at least 27 people in Jiangsu Province
Tornados and torrential rains killed at least 30 people as storms battered eastern China earlier this week, with millions more affected by flooding and other storm damage, state media and officials said yesterday.
A tornado smashed through the town of Dafeng, in Jiangsu Province, killing three people, the official newspaper China Daily reported.
A total of 27 people were reported dead in Jiangsu, west of Shanghai, and about 40,000 were evacuated an official from the Jiangsu Civil Affairs Bureau said in a phone interview.
Newspapers showed residents using makeshift rafts to ferry through streets flooded chest-high.
In total, more than 13 million people were affected by the storms, reports said.
From June 21-July 5, Jiangsu had four times the usual amount of rainfall, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing provincial meteorological officials.
In neighboring Anhui Province, another three people were killed, said an official at the local Civil Affairs Bureau.
More than 40,000 people were displaced along the flood-prone Huai River, he said.
Earlier this week, the government reported that flooding, landslides and other weather-related disasters killed at least 349 people in China in June.
The official Xinhua news agency said that another 99 people were still missing, while damage was estimated at 20 billion yuan (US$2.5 billion).
China suffers hundreds of rain deaths every summer. The impact of flooding has been worsened by heavy farming and tree-cutting that left cleared hillsides unable to trap rain. Major cities are shielded by flood dikes but small towns, especially in mountainous areas, are vulnerable to deadly flash floods.
China is expected to suffer from more typhoons than usual this year due to an unusually warm current off its Pacific and high temperatures over the Tibetan plateau.
Eruption felt worldwide, serious damage in Tonga
HOUSES FLOODED: The ground shook in Tonga as explosions were heard, followed by gushing water and pelting rocks, sending people running to higher ground A massive volcanic eruption in Tonga that triggered tsunami waves around the Pacific caused "significant damage" to the island nation's capital and smothered it in dust, but the full extent was not apparent with communications still cut off yesterday. The eruption on Saturday was so powerful that it was recorded around the world, triggering a tsunami that flooded Pacific coastlines from Japan to the US. Tonga's capital, Nuku'alofa, suffered "significant" damage, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said, adding that there had been no reports of injury or death, but a full assessment was not possible with communication lines down. "The tsunami has
Chinese dialects fading on Xi's watch
Two years ago, Qi Jiayao visited his mother's hometown of Shaoxing in eastern China. When he tried to speak to his cousin's children in the local dialect, Qi was surprised. "None of them was able to," said the 38-year-old linguist, who teaches Mandarin in Mexico. The decline in local dialects among the younger generation has become more apparent in recent years as Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) has sought to bolster a uniform Chinese identity. Mandarin is now spoken by more than 80 percent of China's population, up from 70 percent a decade ago. Last month, China's State Council promised to
COVID-19: Omicron in China further threatens supply chains
PORT CONGESTION: Ships heading for Omicron-affected Dalian and Tianjin are being redirected to Shanghai, which does not have the capacity for the sudden cargo influx China has detected the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 in a second major port city, deepening concern that the vastly more infectious variant could spread quickly across the world's largest trading nation, upending global supply chains. Chinese officials said yesterday that at least one person has Omicron in Dalian, a city of 7 million. A second person also tested positive for the virus, but the variant is unknown. Both are college students who returned home for the Lunar New Year holiday from Tianjin, where at least 137 other cases were traced as of Wednesday. Dalian joins Tianjin as the second crucial port city
China's birthrate falls to 61-year low despite efforts
DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS: Beijing is attempting to address its population decline, including considering raising the retirement age and allowing more than two children China's birthrate has fallen to its lowest level in six decades, barely outnumbering deaths last year despite major government efforts to increase population growth and stave off a demographic crisis. Across China, 10.62 million babies were born last year, a rate of 7.52 per thousand people, the Chinese National Bureau of Statistics said yesterday. In the same period 10.14 million deaths were recorded, a mortality rate of 7.18 per thousand, producing a population growth rate of just 0.34 per 1,000 people. The growth rate is the lowest since 1960, and adds to the findings of May last year's once-per-decade census, which found
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In1990 Bodybuilding in New Zealand had established itself as a recognised sport but still retained the stigma associated with performance enhancing drugs and supplements such as steroids. Peter Hardwick, already at that time involved for many years in the organisation and promotion of the sport, recognised the need for an association dedicated to the drug free Bodybuilding athlete.
He founded the South Pacific Natural Physique Association to encourage those in New Zealand and the South Pacific who wished to follow a healthy Bodybuilding regime. Those who wished to build impressive natural physiques and who wanted to compete against those who followed the same principles on a level playing field.
The first SPNPA competition was held on Auckland's North Shore with a modest 19 contestants and the Overall Mens Champion was Don Rewita who became the first SPNPA athlete to represent New Zealand internationally. The following year the SPNPA held the first South Pacific Natural Physique Championships in Taupo, an event which has over the years gained an iconic status as "the Taupo Show".
This event has not missed a year since its inception and until the last few years was the only event held by the SPNPA. In the early years the SPNPA were assisted by a company who adhered to the same Natural principles and who have supported us over the years - Horleys - Intelligent Sports Nutrition.
SPNPA teams have represented New Zealand in International competition every year since its inception and more than held their own on the Natural Bodybuilding arena. In 1998 New Zealand became a founding member, together with Australia and the USA, of a new International Natural Bodybuilding Association INBA. The SPNPA then adopted the INBA Competition guidelines for its New Zealand events.
With the formation of the INBA a new International Contest was inaugurated to attract and award the best Natural athletes in the World - The Natural Olympia. New Zealand was well represented at the first Natural Olympia which was held in the country that was the home of the original Olympic Games - Greece. Menden Mahe became the first New Zealander to win a Natural Olympia Gold Medal when he won the Junior Class.
Since that time New Zealand teams have brought home many Gold Medals and other trophies. Join us and enjoy Bodybuilding competition - the Natural way!


Most city departments would shut down every other Friday to accommodate workers' furloughs in the hopes of achieving $100 million in savings under a plan authorized Wednesday by the Los Angeles City Council.
After four hours of closed-door talks, council members instructed the city administrative officer to meet with union representatives and lay out a furlough implementation plan that would shut down most city offices every other Friday.
Police officers and firefighters would not be impacted by the plan, nor would the Department of Water and Power, Port of Los Angeles and Los Angeles International Airport.
Libraries, the zoo and some city council offices may remain open on those days, and sanitation workers would continue to pick up garbage throughout the city.
City Council President Eric Garcetti said the goal is to cluster furloughs within offices or city buildings to achieve additional savings by shutting off utilities for the day.
The plan will take effect July 1, which is the start of the fiscal year.
"We have to balance the budget responsibly on July 1 with real money, not projected money," Garcetti said. "We hope to lessen the number of layoffs and/or furloughs with ongoing discussions with unions, but we don't have an option.
Obtaining union approval of the furlough plan is expected to be difficult.
The move to shut down on Fridays could push the city council's regularly scheduled meeting to Thursdays. A final decision has not been made.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa signed the city's $7 billion budget Tuesday. City officials plan to partially reduce the city's $530 million deficit through unpaid days and layoffs. Of the $326 million that must be achieved through "shared sacrifice," the furlough plan agreed to today would save $100 million, Garcetti said.
Further financial difficulties for Los Angeles could be on the horizon as the state looks to withhold $120 million to $180 million in money owed to the city, he said.
The budget approved this week included 1,200 layoffs.
"We hope that discussions with our organizing units and unions can avoid (additional layoffs). We all agree that is the last option we want, " Garcetti said.


Guest post by Bo Keeley.
Amazon Cares is a theoretically non-profit organization founded a decade ago by an American dog lover whose pockets grew thin over the years until, two years ago, they dried up completely. Now the clinic is a duplex with a small attached vet hospital that supports Amazon Cares which offers neuters to street dogs – when they can be caught – at cost ($5 for a castration and $10 for a spay). They also used to ply the neighboring rivers to dozens of pueblos dispensing free worm pills, mange treatment, and a mobile neutering table. The hospital refuses to euthanize an animal, even treacherous street scamps, unless it would otherwise die of natural causes.
Meanwhile, on Dog Corner, the gang awaits me as I rise from this story. However, after today's visit to Amazon Cares, and after much deliberation over my training in vet school to save rather than kill, versus my schooling on skid rows as a hobo toward self-preservation, there was one more agency to visit. A City Policemen responded to my account, 'We will poison them for amordida (bite, a bribe).' And, that's the end of the tail of the Gang at Dog Corner.


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What is Asphalt Driveway Sealing or Seal Coating?
Asphalt driveway sealing (also known as " seal coating") is the process of applying a protective coating to an asphalt-based driveway that helps protect the asphalt from the damaging effects of harsh weather, chemicals, and U.V. light while restoring the beauty of the driveway's original black-top finish.
Simply put, seal coating is a preventative measure to protect against further deterioration of asphalt driveways. While the breakdown of asphalt is inevitable, the speed at which it occurs and how far the degradation proceeds can be managed by seal coating the asphalt on a regular basis. Seal coating benefits the asphalt surface in multiple ways. The first major benefit is 'weatherproofing'. Once the seal coating is applied, it helps prevent water or other liquids from penetrating and deteriorating the asphalt and the base layer. In the same way that excessive ultraviolet solar radiation affects human skin, it also breaks down asphalt and shortens its lifespan. Seal coating helps dampen the effects of these harmful rays thereby extending the life of the asphalt. As most homeowners realize, occasional dripping of motor oil and other vehicle fluids or spilling of lawnmower gasoline on your driveway is par for the course. Seal coating creates a protective barrier which slows, and sometimes prevents, the absorption of these harmful chemicals into the asphalt. Lastly, as any real estate agent will tell you, curb appeal matters. A regularly sealed asphalt surface helps maintain the attractive and clean black-top appearance of a newly paved driveway.
What Causes an Asphalt Driveway to Deteriorate?
The harsh reality is that the moment your asphalt driveway was laid, it started to deteriorate. The major causes of asphalt deterioration are oxidation, exposure to the elements, traffic volume and heavy loads.
Oxidation is a key factor to understand. The rate of oxidation is controlled by three main drivers: oxygen exposure, time, and temperature. Now the correlation of these three factors' effect on the asphalt is simple: as oxygen exposure, time, and temperature rise, so does the rate of oxidation. The effects of oxidation show in the colour of the asphalt which goes from a freshly-paved dark black to a pale grey colour. This process can happen over a period of months or years depending on the elements. In addition to the colour change, the oxidation process causes the asphalt to become more brittle and to lose its elasticity, which leads to the next phase of asphalt degradation: cracking.
When the asphalt in your driveway becomes brittle, it loses its pliability and with that loss of pliability, the heavy load of vehicles can cause the asphalt to crack. Most often, the cracks first appear as straight line cracks. At the earliest stages, the development of these straight cracks can be maintained with crack sealer. If unmaintained, the moisture will not only degrade the surface but will also penetrate the base layer of the asphalt. The wearing out of the base layer forces the now brittle top layer to bear more of the stress of the vehicle weight, which leads to what is called asphalt fatigue.
Asphalt failure manifests itself it various ways. At this stage, the asphalt is so brittle and unable to support normal traffic stress that the asphalt surface will begin to separate and break off into pieces. Should a driveway be left unmaintained for too long, where the inevitable oxidation leads to the preventable state of failure, you could end up needing to replace the entire driveway or, at a minimum, undertake an extensive and costly patchwork and crack sealing project. Both these options are very expensive and can be avoided by simply implementing a proactive annual asphalt maintenance plan that will almost certainly save you many thousands of dollars in the long run.
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The professional seal coating process differs from the do-it-yourself approach where a homeowner purchases a consumer-grade sealant product from a hardware store and applies it with a roller and/or squeegee. The primary difference is that a professional seal coating company should be using a commercial-grade, asphalt-based product that cannot be purchased in stores and they apply the sealant evenly to driveway by spraying it from a wand attached to a motorized pump system that dispenses a cold (i.e., not heated) sealant from a tank located in the bed of a truck or trailer or in a hand-pushed mobile cart invented by Canadian Property Stars, the largest driveway sealing company in Canada.
However, before the sealant is applied, the driveway must be cleaned. Even if you think your driveway is clean, trust us, it isn't. Exhaust gas contains combustion byproducts that deposit a light, sometimes oily film on your driveway. That film, along with dirt and tree sap, must come off so that sealant can properly adhere to the asphalt. Professional driveway sealing companies like Canadian Property Stars will first use a still bristle broom to loosen and remove the oily film, dirt, gravel, sand and other debris from the surface of your driveway. Next they will use use equipment such as a gas-powered blower to remove any residual material from the driveway. If necessary, they will also pull out any weeds that have sprouted up in the cracks in the asphalt. If the company offers it, the cracks in the driveway can be filled by hand using a rubberized crack filler. Lastly, before spraying the commercial sealant, the technician will tape off the edges of the driveway to prevent any sealant from contacting paver stones or concrete surfaces. Spraying the sealant is much more efficient than rolling. An experienced professional can apply just the right amount of sealant to a standard residential driveway in under 10 minutes. If it's a windy day, the technician may use a thin handheld wooden board to prevent over-spray from occuring.
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The primary characteristic of a commercial-grade sealant for asphalt driveways is that they are petroleum-based product that are manufactured from asphalt cement (bitumen). One high-quality product used by leading commercial sealing companies such as Canadian Property Stars is a rapid-curing cutback asphalt. This is an ideal sealant since it will cure right into the driveway restoring the original properties of the asphalt surface. One way to describe the difference between using a commercial-grade sealant and an inferior quality consumer-grade sealant is to realize that sealing with many of the consumer products is like painting a piece of wood where the paint remains on the surface whereas sealing your driveway with a commercial product is like staining a piece of wood because the liquid asphalt sealant soaks right into the top layer of solid asphalt.
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The white-haired guy leads Teo and Kitty into the mysterious mountain temple. Meeting incoming.
Now when he says silence. Does he say that nicely or rudly. But then again you probably had his face turned away so you can assume. I like to imagine he was being nice.


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I have now lived two weeks on this Earth without a major piece of my heart. Sun up to sun down. Minute by minute. Mile stone by mile stone. Foot step by foot step. Breath by breath.
I have lost people before. I have lost people I have heavily grieved over before. I am a bit caught off guard at the depth of this loss. Well, I am and I'm not. I mean, how can you not feel a deep loss when you loose the one person who you have literally known your whole life? The one person who's body was your place of growth and protection before you were even born. The one person who's heartbeat was the first thing you heard.
My Mom was by no means perfect. She struggled with life sometimes. She struggled with me and my brother sometimes. She struggled with God sometimes. She shut down when she was mad. And, oh boy, she could yell!
But my Mom was also one of the most amazing women on this planet. She was so sweet and nurturing. When she loved you, you knew you were loved. It was like a warm blanket on a cold night. Soft, warm, comforting. She had a smile that would light up a room, soften the hardest heart, and put even the grumpiest grouch at ease. She taught me to give to people. I can not count all the times she gave away blankets she made with her hands and her heart. She loved to talk to people, learn their story. She set you at ease and lifted your heart.
Mom was a thinker. I already miss the conversations we would have about everything, and nothing, and life and living. I loved being able to call and say, "What do you think…" and she would have great things to say. She was my sounding board. A voice of reason when I needed one. A laugh when I needed one. A shoulder to cry on when I needed one.
Not very athletic, she was left handed, and always felt things were backwards, so I think that hindered her desire to work at sports. However, she almost always willing to try something adventurous. She wasn't one to go play soccer or basketball or baseball. Camping, hunting, fishing, parasailing, zip lining? Yep, she was there. However, if I was playing, boy you bet she was there to watch. Sunny? There. Rainy? There. Snow on the ground and freezing temperatures? There. I wish I could show you the pictures in my head of her on the side line, standing in snow just to watch me play soccer. Even as a 45 year old adult player, if she was in town when I played, she was sitting in the stands and cheering us on.
Her heart though? That was the amazing eight little people who lovingly called her Grandma. Each one of them were her pride and joy. She couldn't wait to hear what they were doing, what they said or how they did. Or talk to them whenever she could… on the phone or in person. And, how they loved her. She was so concerned when I moved to Nashville, that when I had kids, they wouldn't know her because she lived far away. It tickled her so to hear them squeal with joy "GRANDMA!!!" as she walked into the house. She was there for each of their births. She was there for plays, and games, and cooking together. They knew her. They loved her. They miss her.
Even sitting here now, I find myself wishing I could ask her opinion or advice. Or just throw my arms around her for a hug. The grief comes in waves. Sometimes they are little waves and just rock me enough to take a step back. Sometimes they are big waves and are impossible to stand up against. And while I'm sure they will slow and become less traumatic, I'm equally sure they will never really calm or be still. There is a void that can not be refilled on this earth.
So do me a favor, huh? If your Momma is still here, call her. Tell her you love her. Go see her. Hug her neck tight. Because when you no longer can, it will be the one thing you really want to do.


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Willem Kes (* 16. Februar 1856 in Dordrecht; † 22. Februar 1934 in München) war ein niederländischer Dirigent, Violinist und Komponist.

Leben
Kes studierte Violine an den Hochschulen in Leipzig, Brüssel (bei Henryk Wieniawski) und Berlin (bei Joseph Joachim). Er spielte zunächst als Orchestermusiker und trat auch als Solist in seinem Heimatland und in Deutschland auf. Bereits 1883 wurde er Dirigent des Orchesters in seiner Heimatstadt Dordrecht, außerdem des Amsterdamer Parkorkest. Dieses Orchester war der direkte Vorgänger des Concertgebouw-Orchester, es spielte im Parksaal, der vor der Erbauung des Concertgebouw abgerissen wurde. Es hatte zeitgenössischen Berichten zufolge kein hohes Niveau. Brahms soll 1879 gesagt haben, in Amsterdam lebten nette Leute, aber schlechte Musiker.

Bekannt ist Kes heute vor allem als erster Chefdirigent des Concertgebouw-Orchester ab 1888. Hier führte er strikte Disziplin ein, bestrafte Musiker, die zu spät kamen und ließ schlecht spielende Musiker bei sich nachsitzen und ihre Stimmen üben. Außerdem verlangte er Stille im Publikum während der Aufführung, was damals durchaus nicht selbstverständlich war. Kes legte mit seiner Arbeit den Grundstein für die Qualität des Concertgebouw-Orchester und wurde international bekannt. Er verließ diesen Posten daher 1895 für das ebenfalls erst wenige Jahre zuvor gegründete Scottish Orchestra in Glasgow, das damals angesehener war. Er wechselte jedoch bereits 1898 weiter zur Moskauer Philharmonischen Gesellschaft. Von 1905 bis 1926 war er Generalmusikdirektor der Stadt Koblenz.

Kes hinterließ auch eine Anzahl von Kompositionen für die verschiedensten Besetzungen vom Orgelsolo bis zur Symphonie, die heute allesamt vergessen sind.
Seine letzte Ruhestätte befindet sich auf dem Südwestkirchhof Stahnsdorf.

Literatur
 Hugo Riemann: Musiklexikon, 12.A. Bd.1, Mainz 1959. S. 917.

 M. Flothuis (Ed.): Het Concertgebouworked 75jaar, Amsterdam 1963.

Weblinks
 90 Kompositionen von Willem Kes im Archiv des Nederlands Muziek Institut

Komponist (Romantik)
Komponist klassischer Musik (20. Jahrhundert)
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Klassischer Geiger
Generalmusikdirektor
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Komponist (Niederlande)
Niederländer
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Jorja Smith wins 2018 Critics' Choice!
The Award tops an incredible year of success for Jorja Smith which has seen her collaborate with Drake on two tracks from his 'More Life' album, 'Get it Together' and 'Jorja Interlude'. Jorja also performed as a special guest at Drake's UK headline shows. In 2016 her Dizzee Rascal inspired debut single 'Blue Lights' caught the attention of music critics and she has continued to grow a following with tracks like 'Teenage Fantasy' and 'On My Mind'.
On winning the award, Jorja said: "I cannot believe it, it's been an unforgettable 2017 during which I've fulfilled so many of my dreams and this is such a special way to end the year... and to be part of an all female shortlist alongside Mabel and Stefflon Don, who've both had incredible 2017s, makes it even better! There's lots more to come in 2018 from all of us and I will do my best to make it another memorable year!"
Mabel and Stefflon Don are this year's runners up to Jorja, the overall and 11th winner of the prestigious award which has been successfully predicting future stars of British recording talent since it's inception in 2008. This year marks ten years since the first Critics' Choice Award was given to global superstar, Adele.
BRITs Chairman and Chairman & CEO of Sony Music UK & Ireland Jason Iley said: "The Critics' Choice Award has an incredible track record of showcasing some of the most exciting up-and-coming artists for the last ten years. Jorja Smith has a huge future ahead of her and looks set to follow in the footsteps of the most successful past Critics' Choice winners."
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What does the church offer the world these days? The answer, in Benjamin Dueholm's estimation, is what it has always offered: a sacred word, baptism, Eucharist, forgiveness, ministry, worship, and a cross-shaped lens through which to view it all. These are the "holy possessions" of the church. Each is an act of resistance in a world that tempts us to live as inhumane and godless people. These seven possessions are what we've got to work with and, according to Dueholm, it has always been so.
Sacred Signposts reads like Paul Woodruff's Reverence, a collection of personal stories and deep ruminations on a topic that cannot be addressed head-on. A direct treatment would just be a collision. By writing about (or, more accurately, around) each practice, Dueholm reveals the shape, depth, and necessity of each. His writing is careful but not timid. Each chapter builds upon the previous one, culminating with the call to sacrificial living in "The Cross," a topic which is both beautiful and biting, breaking readers open to the fragile power of the Christian life on which these practices leave their mark.
Filled with wit and wisdom, honesty and humility, the book does what its subtitle suggests: it resists. It resists the temptation to be preachy and instead chooses a more poetic route. The subversive nature of our holy possessions can only be approached through subversive writing. Dueholm takes up that challenge, weaving the brilliance of Augustine and Bonhoeffer alongside that of his children, to reveal the meaning of Christian practices.
Throughout it all, I found my own place in the conversation. How do the scriptures confront my reluctance to "give a damn" about my neighbor? How does baptism call me into community with those I disagree with? Dueholm's twists and turns of phrase made me put the book down periodically to ponder my own relationship with each rite. A book about the ministry arts should do no less.
The unashamedly Lutheran hermeneutic at work here will not be a stumbling block for those who find themselves in other camps. One of Dueholm's core convictions is that these practices are a golden thread that weaves through the church universal. I found this conviction a testament both to the strength of each practice and to their disruptive nature. Christians don't appreciate having our sectarian tendencies challenged, and yet they are challenged in these marks of the church. The progressive Wesleyan and the paleo-Calvinist both find themselves under the sway of the same practices, though they might understand them differently. Dueholm makes this point with a grace and matter-of-factness that engender both humility and shock. It's as if he's naming a secret that we all know but refuse to acknowledge.
Sacred Signposts is hard to nail down within a genre. "Humble apologetics" might fit, although that description misses the mark, as does "spiritual memoir." The book offers a humble apologetics not of the faith but of the faithful acts—and therefore of the practitioners, faithful or not. While the prose occasionally reads as romantic, it's clear that Dueholm deeply loves these practices and feels loved by them, so his romanticism is easy to forgive. How else do you write about something you love?
I have often thought that, should my faith deteriorate into nothingness, the practices of the church would be what I would miss most, both in the doing and the receiving. Dueholm nods in agreement, and he notes that there is good reason for that. Intangible beliefs change, but these practices offer an enduring, tangible word for those seeking faith when all other words fail.
Our holy possessions continue to say something. It's a mysterious but abiding something about the nature of God and humanity that gathers in the name of Christ. It's something that the church has always offered to the world in roundabout ways, full of hope and resistance and grace.
Though the World Council of Churches' consensus document Baptism, Eucharist, and Ministry is a work of enormous significance, it may strike one as bland. Gordon Lathrop, a Lutheran theologian, presents much the same material in two books (the first published in 1993) that are lively, provocative and challenging.
A worshiper can go a long time without any idea of who Melchizedek is and what it means to be a priest according to his order.


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Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
I absolutely loved this book.
I had a smile on my face the whole time I was reading it.
My Feynman was so full of mischief and curiosity about the world.
He saw the world as a series of puzzles and he felt driven to solving them.
When he became curious about something or wanted to learn about something, or how to do something, he dove straight in and became an expert via experimentation.
This book was recommended several times inside a collection of interview transcripts with many of the worlds greatest minds. It just kept popping up again and again.
It's not normally a book I would choose. It's a collection of reminiscences by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman who was born in 1918 and died in 1988.
I found this list of about 200 Feynman stories in the book useful for finding my 11 favourites.
My 11 favourite Feynman stories
From "Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character" by Richard P. Feynman:
Science Lab: He built a science lab at home (11 years old) to work out how electricity and radios worked
Safe-Cracking: He enjoyed safe-cracking. He loved to open the locked filing cabinets full of nuclear bomb secrets
Japan: In preparation for a trip to Japan he was advised to learn some Japanese by the tour leader, which he did, but the tour leader didn't even bother. He refused to stay in a Western Hotel because he wanted an authentic Japanese experience
Samba: He learnt how to play samba drums and became good enough to perform in a street parade
Drawing: He learned how to draw portraits by taking classes and even sold a few pieces
Brazilian University: He was a guest lecturer in Brazil and discovered that everyone was learning physics by rote instead of truly understanding. If they wanted to develop leading physics scientists, this was not the right path, and he told the university such during his final speed. He was taken seriously. He doubted his own conclusion because he did find 2 gifted students, but during his speech, both of these students revealed that they were from other countries
Text Books: He was asked to review dozens of text books for high schools and read them all in detail (unlike any of the others on the review panel) and supported his approvals/disapproval's with his detailed notes
Ants: He spent hours and hours studying how ants leave trails and experimenting with how to move them around on bridges of paper without them noticing
Understanding: He became quite famous for explaining complex theories (and anything really) because of how deeply he understood them himself, and his method of coming up with examples in his head of how things worked
Smell: Discovered that human smell can be almost as good as a bloodhound's by sniffing books and bottles that were recently handled
Atomic Bomb: Played a role in building the first atomic bomb
And here are just 4 passages I highlighted:
"The trouble with playing a trick on a highly intelligent man like Mr. Teller is that the time it takes him to figure out from the moment that he sees there is something wrong till he understands exactly what happened is too damn small to give you any pleasure!"
"This question of trying to figure out whether a book is good or bad by looking at it carefully or by taking the reports of a lot of people who looked at it carelessly is like this famous old problem: Nobody was permitted to see the Emperor of China, and the question was, What is the length of the Emperor of China's nose? To find out, you go all over the country asking people what they think the length of the Emperor of China's nose is, and you average it. And that would be very "accurate" because you averaged so many people. But it's no way to find anything out; when you have a very wide range of people who contribute without looking carefully at it, you don't improve your knowledge of the situation by averaging."
I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys—but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!
"Oh. Well, nobody knows anything about that, so I guess we can't talk about it." "On the contrary," I answered. "It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about that we can discuss. We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance—gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood—so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!"
If you have an interest in science at all, or you are curious by nature, I think you'll enjoy this book.
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Q: Application can't find properties file on Tomcat server I am trying to get Tomcat to load an external property file, which exists outside the classpath of the WAR file.
I have simple class called PropertiesSingleton, which is supposed the load the properties file into a java.util.Properties object.
package my.test.properties;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

public class PropertiesSingleton {
    private static String filenameProperty = "testprops";
    private static IProperties properties;      //This is an interface that defines a number of get methods for each property
    private final static Logger log = LoggerFactory
        .getLogger(PropertiesSingleton.class);

    public static void main(String[] args) {
    IProperties props = PropertiesSingleton.load();
    }

    public static synchronized IProperties load() {
    InputStream stream;
    if (properties == null) {
        try {
        String propertyFileName = System.getProperty(filenameProperty);
        String variableFileName = System.getenv(filenameProperty);
        log.debug("Value of "+filenameProperty+" parameter: "+propertyFileName);
        log.debug("Value of "+filenameProperty+" env variable: "+variableFileName);
        PropertiesImpl props = new PropertiesImpl(); //A subclass of java.util.Properties implementing the IProperties interface
        if(propertyFileName != null && !propertyFileName.isEmpty()){
            File file = new File(propertyFileName);
            log.debug("Loading properties from parameter '"+propertyFileName+"'" + (file.exists() ? "" : ", which does not exist") );
            stream = new FileInputStream(file);
        }else if(variableFileName != null && !variableFileName.isEmpty()){
            File file = new File(variableFileName);
            log.debug("Loading properties from environment variable'"+variableFileName+"'"+ (file.exists() ? "" : ", which does not exist"));
            stream = new FileInputStream(file);
        }else{
            log.debug("Loading properties from properties file");
            stream = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("my/test/properties/test.properties");
        }
        if(stream == null){
            log.warn("Could not load the properties file");
            return props;
        }

        props.load(stream);
        properties = props;
        log.info("Loaded properties " + properties);
        } catch (IOException ex) {
        log.error("Could not load properties", ex);
        } catch (Exception ex) {
        log.error("Unexpected Error: Could not load properties", ex);
        throw ex;
        }
    }
    return properties;
    }

    public static synchronized IProperties reload(){
    properties = null;
    return load();
    }

}

This seems to work as intended when i add an Env property and run the main method thorough my IDE.
2015-05-26 09:17:02,136 DEBUG Value of testprops parameter: null
2015-05-26 09:17:02,139 DEBUG Value of testprops env variable: C:\test\test.properties
2015-05-26 09:17:02,141 DEBUG Loading properties from environment variable'C:\test\test.properties'
2015-05-26 09:17:02,141 INFO Loaded properties {defaultLocale=dk, host=123.123.123.123}

However, when i have the nerve to WAR package this code and run it on my local Tomcat8, i get a new and exciting message. (The tomcat WAR calls PropertiesSingleton.load at some point):
2015-05-26 09:17:02,136 DEBUG Value of testprops parameter: null
2015-05-26 09:17:02,139 DEBUG Value of testprops env variable: C:\test\test.properties
2015-05-26 09:17:02,141 DEBUG Loading properties from environment variable'C:\test\test.properties', which does not exist
2015-05-26 09:42:36,114 ERROR Could not load properties
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\test\test.properties (The system cannot find the file specified)

Is there some security feature in Tomcat that does now allow me to access my filesystem, or is something else horribly wrong?
I should also note that i am doing this exercise because i need an external properties file that resides well outside the WAR context on the Tomcat server. There are several reasons for this. For example, several applications will share configuration from another running application. A properties file inside the WAR will be crazy impractical.
If someone knows of another way to read an external properties file from a WAR, that will also be graciously accepted as an answer.

A: Accessing the underlying file system is not supported by the servlet specification and is not guaranteed to work, especially if the access happens from an unexploded .war-file (I'm assuming that's what's happening in your case).
It makes your app dependent on the underlying system - OS, server etc. The recommended way is to package your configuration inside the .war-file.
If you must do it though (and i agree an external configuration can be a good idea), here's a more OS-independent way that should work, using a java.net.URL and the file: URI scheme:
URL url = new URL("file:///test/test.properties");

URLConnection con = url.openConnection();
ResourceUtils.useCachesIfNecessary(con);

InputStream stream = con.getInputStream();

Adapted from org.springframework.core.io.UrlResource.getInputStream(). If you can, use a library/framework like Spring and its Resource abstraction.


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Mario Livio is head of the Science Division at the Hubble Space Telescope Institute, where he studies a broad range of subjects in astrophysics, particularly the rate of expansion of the universe. He is the author of one previous book, The Accelerating Universe (2000). He is a frequent public lecturer at such venues as the Smithsonian Institution and the Hayden Planetarium. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.
The Golden Ratio
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Throughout history, thinkers from mathematicians to theologians have pondered the mysterious relationship between numbers and the nature of reality. In this fascinating book, Mario Livio tells the tale of a number at the heart of that mystery: phi, or 1.6180339887...This curious mathematical relationship, widely known as "The Golden Ratio," was discovered... Read more
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DO YOU WORK IN "SELECTION"?
Many Spanish people who work in HR (RRHH) often use the word "selection". In many ways this is understandable because "to select" and "selection" do exist in English but we do not use them very much in this context. The correct word to use here is "recruitment".
So, for example: "I work in recruitment" or "I work as a recuiter for an employment agency". The word "selection" in English is more commonly used to describe some sort of variety. For example: "I have found a selection of hotels that might be of interest to you".


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In this essay I will be explaining the differences between a broadsheet and a tabloid newspaper. Some of these differences range from the type of language used, to the format of the newspaper itself.
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On Monday 30 January, Art History in the Pub welcomed Dr Marie Mulvey-Roberts, Associate Professor in English Literature at UWE, and artist-writer Fiona Robinson RWA to the White Bear in St Michaels Hill. Co-curators of the current Strange Worlds exhibition at Bristol's RWA (Royal West of England Academy), they will highlight different facets of a stimulating show that brings together contemporary and historical art to explore the work of Angela Carter, a major writer with a powerful visual imagination that delves into feminism, fantasy and sexuality. Marie will reflect on the challenge of translating a writer's work into art and Fiona on the relevance of the exhibition's multi-faceted contemporary work. Art History in the Pub talks are always very informal. This is the fourth in our 2016-17 season of events. The talks are of general interest, and anyone is welcome to come along and listen and ask questions. The talk will last for about 30 minutes, with a break for getting extra drinks, followed by general discussion. This event is free of charge. The talk will take place upstairs from the main bar area, and the pub does food for those wishing to eat before the event. Art History in the Pub events are organised by the Association of Art Historians. They are aimed at bringing interesting art historical research to a wider, public community.
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Q: Sending Email using Sql server 2012 in single mail I am trying to send mail using Stored Procedure in Sql server 2012.
The can send the mail using code which i have written.
Output i am getting
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Mail 2
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Actual requirement
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EmpName: xyz
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CLOSE C1
DEALLOCATE C1

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Light Years : What Are They? Why Are Astronomical Events Measured In Light Years?
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Before we start discussing about Light Years lets' learn about our cosmos. Everything in the cosmos is. It encompasses all of the stuff and energy that exists in space. It encompasses everything, including time itself and you, of course.
The other planets and their numerous moons, as well as Earth and the Moon, are all a part of the cosmos. The planets revolve around the Sun, as do comets and asteroids. The Milky Way galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars, the majority of which have exoplanets, or stars with their own planets. The Sun is one of these stars
In the observable universe, there are billions of galaxies, including our own Milky Way, all of which are believed to contain supermassive black holes as their centres. The cosmos contains all the stars in all the galaxies as well as everything else that astronomers are unable to see. Simply said, it is everything.
Even though it might appear like a bizarre place, the universe is not far away. Outer space is only 62 miles (100 kilometres) away from where you are right now. The distance to outer space is only a few dozen miles above you, regardless of the time of day or night, where you are—indoors or out, napping, eating lunch, or nodding off in class. It is also beneath you.
On the other side of the planet, 8,000 miles (12,800 kilometres) below your feet, is the merciless vacuum and radiation of space.
Courtesy – Exoplanet Exploration
About Universe And Planet Earth
Our planet, Earth, is a haven in both time and space. Although it may seem unchanging, the entire world is a transient object in the scheme of the cosmos. Earth was not even a part of the cosmos for approximately two-thirds of its history. Likewise, it won't remain this way forever. In a few billion years, the Sun will enlarge and cover Earth's sky while consuming Mercury and Venus.
It might possibly enlarge to the point that Earth would be swallowed. It's challenging to know for sure. After all, we humans are only now starting to understand the universe.
Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay
The distant past is slightly easier to anticipate with any degree of accuracy than the distant future. It has been discovered by scientists investigating the radioactive decay of isotopes on Earth and in asteroids that the solar system and our planet were formed about 4.6 billion years ago.
Image by Felix-Mittermeier.de from Pixabay
On the other hand, it appears that the universe is only 13.8 billion years old. By calculating the ages of the earliest stars and the speed at which the universe is expanding, scientists were able to determine that figure. By detecting the Doppler shift in the light from galaxies, almost all of which are moving away from us and from one another, they were also able to measure the expansion. T
he distance between galaxies increases with their rate of distance travel. Galaxies should move apart from one another more slowly because to gravity, but this is not what is happening; scientists are unsure of the cause. The galaxies will be so far away in the future that Earth won't be able to see their light.
In other words, last Sunday, the universe's matter, energy, and everything else was more compact than it is right now.
The Big Bang theory provides the greatest explanation for the origin of the universe. Galaxies are moving away from one another on average, according to observations of far-off galaxies. According to astronomers, this motion indicates that the universe is expanding because, on the greatest scales, the distances between galaxies increase over time. This implies that the cosmos was earlier than it is now, and it was also hotter and denser.
Astronomers can determine the age of the universe by connecting its contents to the history of its expansion thanks to Einstein's general relativity theory. The universe is currently thought to be 13.787 billion years old, based on a wide range of data, including far-off supernovas(opens in new tab), the cosmic microwave background(opens in new tab), and the abundance of light elements.
The singularity is a place where the cosmos was initially compressed into an infinitely small volume. NASA claims that after the singularity, space expanded, creating the universe we know today (opens in new tab).
Scientists are unsure of what existed prior to the Big Bang. They are aware, however, that the singularity is an artefact of general relativity, which happens when the equations fail to adequately capture a physical condition. A theory of quantum gravity, which is a physical theory of strong gravity at incredibly minute scales, must be the source of a genuine explanation for the singularity.
While there is no such theory as of yet, there are a number of contenders, including loop quantum gravity and string theory.
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All the energy and matter in the universe are present. As the simplest atomic element with simply a proton and an electron, hydrogen makes up a large portion of the universe's observable matter (if the atom also contains a neutron, it is instead called deuterium).
A molecule is made up of two or more atoms sharing electrons. An aggregate of several trillions of atoms is a dust particle. An asteroid is created by mixing a few tonnes of carbon, silica, oxygen, ice, and a few metals. Or create a Sun-like star by combining 333,000 Earth masses of hydrogen and helium.
Courtesy – Sci News
The majority of the universe's materials are in a form that is now unknowable to modern physics. Dark energy, a hypothesised type of energy that seems to live in the vacuum of space-time itself, makes up about 68% of the universe's total energy. However, the Universe Forum at Harvard University claims that physicists are unable to explain why this energy is so powerful or where it comes from (opens in new tab).
Dark matter, which is thought to be an invisible kind of stuff that does not interact with light, is thought to make up around 27% of the matter and energy in the universe. While most physicists believe that dark matter is a new type of fundamental particle (or particles), this has not yet been proven.
Stars, planets, and enormous gas clouds make up the remaining 5% of the cosmos, which is made up of common, everyday matter.
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Courtesy – Universe Today
We must correctly estimate the contents of the universe before we can comprehend how the universe will end. Dark energy, which makes up the majority of the cosmos, will determine how it evolves in the future. The expansion of the cosmos is speeding as a result of dark energy, which is its primary effect.
Therefore, the universe is not only expanding daily but also expanding at an increasing rate. Astrophysicist Kevin Pimbblet stated in The Conversation that if dark energy does not change (which is a large assumption given that we do not yet understand the nature of dark energy), then this accelerated expansion would eventually push nearly every galaxy beyond of our observable sphere
In a few hundred billion years, practically every galaxy will vanish from our view. The Milky Way will eventually run out of new gas needed to produce stars. The final stars will burn out billions of years from now, leaving behind a thin soup of fundamental particles that will gradually cool to absolute zero.
Melodysheep explains it beautifully through this youtube video.
What Is A Light Year?
Courtesy – Nbcnews
A light-year measures distance rather than time (as the name might imply). A light-year is the distance a light beam travels in one year on Earth, which is roughly 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers).
Given the extremely enormous numbers being discussed, it is difficult to measure lengths in miles or kilometres on the scale of the universe. Astronomers can measure the distances of stars from Earth in a lot less time than it takes for light to cross that vast distance. For instance, Proxima Centauri, the star closest to our sun, is 4.2 light-years away from us, which means it takes just over four years for the star's light to reach us.
It is highly precise knowledge that the speed of light is constant throughout the cosmos. Light moves at a speed of 670,616,629 mph (1,079,252,849 km/h) in a vacuum. You multiply this speed by the number of hours in a year to calculate the distance of a light-year (8,766).
The answer is that 5,878,625,370,000 miles make up one light-year (9.5 trillion km). This can appear to be a very far distance at first, but the vastness of the universe dwarfs it. According to one calculation, the known universe has a diameter of 28 billion light-years.
Why Light Years?
Given the magnitude of the figures being utilised, measuring in miles or kilometres at an astronomical scale is not practicable. Starting in our immediate cosmological vicinity, the Orion Nebula, which is the nearest star-forming region to us, is only 1,300 light-years distant, or 7,861,000,000,000,000 miles, away.
Our galaxy's centre is roughly 27,000 light-years away. The Andromeda galaxy, which is 2.5 million light-years from our galaxy, is the closest spiral galaxy to it. We can observe galaxies that are billions of light-years away from us. With a distance of 13.4 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy GN-z11 is regarded to be the most distant observable galaxy.
Astronomers can establish how far back in time they are looking by measuring in light-years. Everything we see in the night sky has already happened since it takes light time to reach our eyes. In other words, if you see something from a distance of 1 light-year away, you see it precisely as it was a year ago.
The Andromeda galaxy is visible to us as it was 2.5 million years ago. The cosmic microwave background, which is the farthest object we can observe, is also our oldest perspective of the universe, having been created just 13.8 billion years after the Big Bang.
Alternatives To Light Year?
Along with the light-year, astronomers also use parsecs. A parsec, short for parallax-second, is derived from the use of triangulation to estimate the separation between stars. It is, to be more precise, the distance to a star whose apparent position changes by 1 arcsecond (1/3,600 of a degree) in the sky following Earth's half-circle around the sun. The distance of 3.26 light-years is one arcsecond.
Astronomers will continue to measure distances in our vast and majestic cosmos in either light-years or parsecs.
Author Thoughts
The age of the universe is close to 14 billion years; the age of our solar system is 4.6 billion years; the age of life on Earth is perhaps 3.8 billion years; and the age of humanity is only a few thousand years. In other words, compared to the age of our species, the cosmos is around 56,000 times older.
By that standard, practically everything that has ever occurred occurred before humans. Given that we have only recently arrived in the cosmos, we naturally have many questions. Our research into our own solar system has just just begun in the past few decades. In just one human lifetime from now, our knowledge of the universe and our place in it will have surely advanced beyond anything we can currently comprehend.
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