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As most people in Japan should know by now, a new era of the Japanese calendar will start in May 2019.
It is not clear when the new era name will be announced, but it may be at rather short notice.
The Unicode consortium has made up a plan about how to deal with this, see http://blog.unicode.org/2018/09/new-japanese-era.html. Among else, they will encode an equivalent of the current ㍽, ㍼, ㍻, and plan to publish a special version of the Unicode standard numbered 12.1.
We should start to discuss and tentatively decide what (if anything) will be needed for Ruby. Alternatives include the following two and others inbetween.
Follow past years where the update to a new Unicode version is done with the Ruby version release around Christmas. That would mean we upgrade to Unicode 12 around Christmas 2019. At that time, we can include the changes in 12.1 without any problems.
Implement the upgrade to Unicode 12 as quickly as possible in trunk, implement Unicode 12.1 as soon as available in trunk, and backport the changes needed for the new era name to older Ruby versions.
need are highly unlikely, and we want to make sure Ruby is ready for the new era.
This (mostly) completes issue #15195.
Both plans are OK, but the latter seems fun for this big event.
Link to (request for) feedback on this issue from Rails: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rubyonrails-core/fZUk1qXRT5k.
There has been an announcement recently in the Japanese news that the Japanese government will make sure the new era name is being published at least one month before the era change. The era change is planned for May 1st, 2019. This means that the new era name should be know on April 1st, 2019 at the latest.
According to https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/12/06/national/politics-diplomacy/japan-mulls-announcing-new-era-name-april-11-sources/#.XBQPC6qWxD8, the announcement of the new area name may be postponed until about April 11.
I have verified that with the beta files for Unicode Version 12.1.0 at https://www.unicode.org/Public/12.1.0/ucd/, Ruby compiles and runs all tests (make check) successfully.
which is guaranteed to change.
Changed title from "How to deal with new Japanese era" to "Deal with new Japanese era".
A beta release for Unicode 12.1.0 should be available by tomorrow. The official release of Unicode 12.1.0 is planned for May 7.
This raises the question of whether we should release a Ruby version before May 1st (with the beta data) or after May 7th. For the former, we would have to cheat a bit by introducing some logic into the build process that can pretend that a beta version is already final.
My preference, also for issue #15742, would be to move ahead, so that Ruby users who need the new functionality can get it.


Thoughts On Neptune Stickable Fish Food?
While I was at a retail store, I was looking around in the pets area and I spotted this Neptune Stickable Fish Food for £1. I thought that it might be easier to feed the neon tetras while cycling so if there is any uneaten food, it will stay stuck on the glass for me to remove, rather than dropping pellets (some floating and some sinking) in the aquarium.
I use o-nips and freeze dried tubifex.. it depends on the ingredients it may not be suitable to be the primary diet.
Do you think it'll be okay for neon tetras during a cycle, rather than sinking/floating pellets?
I've got them, none of my fish will go near them but maybe that's personal preference. One thing I will say is that they don't stay in nice tablet form for long. After being in the water for a little while, they go all fluffy like frozen fish food does when you defrost it.
While they're not bad, I wouldn't use them as the sole diet. They can certainly be used as a treat once or twice a week.
I would look into slow sinking granules. That's what my little tetras prefer, I feed them a couple pinches at a time and they nom them up before they hit the botfom.


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August 21, 2013 July 26, 2014 sidewayssammyLeave a Comment on Goodbye Billy Edge
Goodbye Billy Edge
The bomb squad has lost yet another member, now down to 3 with the anouncement of the departure of William Edjenguele. With the Frenchman seemingly set to complete a switch to Bury, to play alongside another ex-Sky Blue Nathan Cameron, it's now time to reminisce over his one year stay at the club.
Billy Edge was signed in early July last summer as Andy Thorn looked to replace the hole in the squad left by the departures of Richard Keogh and Martin Cranie. He joined just a few days after fellow French centre-back Kevin Malaga but appeared at first to be secondary in Thorn's thoughts to his fellow countryman. He started the season out of the side, both due to managerial preference and also apparantly down to his lack of English.
His debut came at the end of August 2012 against Birmingham City in the League Cup where he partnered Jordan Willis in the first game after Andy Thorn's sacking. In that match we saw his aerial presence and marking ability nulify our ex-striker Marlon King in an impressive 3-2 victory. This performance was enough for the caretaker manager Richard Shaw to place in him the side for the league game against Crewe immediately afterwards. Edjenguele played in every single match of Richard Shaw's ill-fated caretaker spell in charge which saw us lose every single league match.
However it was clear already that Billy Edge had won a place in the hearts of the Coventry fans, especially those on Twitter. His social media profile made him come across as a well-humoured and kind man who was enjoying the status of being a professional sportsman. Furthermore his relationship with his new-found followers and Coventry City fans seemed to be warm and well-mannered, despite the team performing so poorly during his first few games at the club.
As soon as Mark Robins was appointed his role in the first-team was given to the higher rated Reece Brown who struggled to cope with the physicality of the league and also with his concentration. Robins however soon spotted both Brown's weaknesses and Edjenguele's strengths despite meaning having to accomodate two left-footed centre-backs into the back 4 (Richard Wood being the other). Over Robin's first couple of months Edjenguele soon became a mainstay of the first-team.
His best run of form in a Sky Blue shirt came during the team's successful November-December period of last season where he and Richard Wood soon formed a reliable central defensive partnership. During this period Edjenguele scored his only goal for the club in an away fixture against Colchester United. His partnership with Wood arguably became the basis for the side's success as it allowed City to rely on the counter-attack with a solid platform to defend from.
As we reached that fateful night in February against Crewe the cracks in the Edjenguele-Wood defensive partnership began to show. As sides sat back on Coventry it became clear that their lack of pace left the team vulnerable to counter-attacks. Furthermore his limited passing ability restricted our ability to build from the back to offer variety to our attacking play. By the time Crewe were bursting past our defence after yet another attempt to break down opponents happy to soak up pressure the script was one that Coventry fans were already familiar with.
Nonetheless Edjenguele remained well loved by City fans, mainly for being a really nice guy on twitter. As the season wore on and the club fell short of the play-offs, Robins left, Pressley arrived and points were deducted the same frailties that the defence were showing went unsolved. It soon became clear that Edjenguele didn't fit into Pressley's vision for Coventry City and with finances tight it became difficult to countenance paying him as a back-up player. Even with our thin defensive ranks it didn't appear that Edjenguele would improve the squad greatly and it perhaps is better for all parties that he now moves on.
For Billy Edge his imminent arrival at Bury sees him take a step down and may not even guarantee him first-team football with Richard Hinds and Nathan Cameron both starting the season as first-choice in central defence. However the quality he displayed at times last season suggests that he has the ability to become a dominant defender in League Two who shouldn't have problems replacing either of Bury's current first-choice. As a left-footed centre-back he also improves his attractiveness to Kevin Blackwell's side, offering the preferrably option of playing two centre-backs in their most comfortable side of defence. It's a shame to see him leave as he was close to becoming somewhat of a cult hero at the club but that shouldn't hide the fact that his weaknesses perhaps cost us goals in several key matches last season.
What this does mean is that Pressley now has the option of bringing in another player. After Dunn's departure it gives us greater room to maneuver in the transfer market but it will be interesting to see where its decided we strengthen. There's the case of bringing in another attacking midfield player or perhaps a defensive midfielder but perhaps the greatest concern is still central-defensive cover despite the form of Webster and Jordan Clarke. It seems as if Pressley will take his time over his next move and with the team currently in form and without any major injury concerns there is little need to be too hasty.
The current news with the 'bomb squad' or 'expendables' (as some people (me) are calling them) is that Kevin Malaga is on trial at an unnamed French club and that Gary McSheffrey is apparantly in talks with Chesterfield. This would leave Steve Jennings as the last unwanted player but from the sounds of it Pressley remains uncompromising in his decision to exclude the initial 8 players so the likeliest scenario would be another mutual termination before the end of the transfer window.
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Spinning out of control
The last Labour Government – and, in particular, Alistair Campbell – has been widely credited with the triumph of spin over substance in political debate.
Sound bites rather than demonstrable proof became the order of the day and what ministers said in relation to an issue or crisis became, at least in their own minds, more important than what they actually did. And whilst a week has often traditionally been viewed as a 'long time in politics', in terms of the civil service it is but the twinkling of an eye. The UK's Civil Service is an ocean going liner and it is not about to – or even able to – change course any time soon; and nowhere is this more apparent than in its response to gaming.
First of all, it starts with the view that gaming is bad because, for a minority of players, it can become addictive with all the unpleasant inherent consequences that any addiction entails. In that respect, however, it is no different from, say, drinking or smoking. Yet, while Governments make a lot of noise about how they are 'tackling these issues head on', the truth is that they are doing nothing of the kind because they have become addicts themselves. They are now too reliant on the income and taxes generated by these pursuits to want to, in any way, put in motion actions that would reduce their income. So they say one thing but then they do another. Within gaming and gambling, though, it is sort of the other way round. The last Government could see that millions were being made in the sector. They noted that online casino and poker had really taken off and observed that Las Vegas was throwing up bigger and more extravagant buildings as fast as it could. But, unlike drinking and smoking, these weren't bad habits whose revenue producing potential the Government was unable to wean itself off. This was a bad habit with the potential to generate an income stream that the Government wished to wean itself onto. This was their dilemma. Did they encourage it to grow and look to reap fiscal dividends overtime? Or did they tax it so hard that effectively they ran the risk of killing off the UK industry?
In truth, the last government got it about as wrong as it could have done. On the one hand, it introduced a light touch regime to help it grow but, on the other, it applied a vicious tax rate that caused nearly all operators not only to move offshore but also to take their taxable earnings away with them. In other words, the worst of all worlds. And to make it worse, as the note left behind by one outgoing Labour Minister made clear, the Government had spent all its money. Addressing the issue, however, was a lot more difficult than had originally been appreciated both from a substance and a spin perspective. Substantially, nearly all businesses (at great expense) were now located offshore and, from a spin point of view, the government couldn't just announce big taxes as it did with alcohol on the grounds that the activity was 'bad' since, above all, if it was to see a growth in tax revenues then it needed and wanted more people to gamble more often.
As consequence, the Government introduced the cause of 'better player protection' to justify its market intervention. That's why a glance through the results of a new research study by the Gambling Commission and the way its findings have been presented, make such interesting reading. For example, "the proportion of British adults regularly participating in at least one form of gambling has risen to an all-time high of over 57%" writes one magazine. "Steady increase in remote gambling…" writes another. Tonally, both headlines are suggesting that the problems associated with gambling had not only increased but also that they were on an inexorable growth path for the foreseeable future and that, by implication, we are all doomed. However, interestingly, though that may be the impression being given, it is at total odds with the truth.
So while it's true that well over half the population has participated in gambling in the last month at 57.3% (up from 55.59 in 2010 and 55.2 % in 2009), the lion's share of both the total and the rise was down to National Lottery sales where National Lottery tickets (47.5%), followed by National Lottery scratch cards (12.7%) and tickets for society or other good causes (9.6%) were the three runaway leaders in terms of participation in gambling. What makes this interesting is that the top two growing gambling activities are both Government backed monopolies where the biggest winner, by a country mile, is the Government.
Since, over time, more and more of the National Lottery Good Cause money has been allocated in line with Government spending – reneging completely on the original promise that Good Cause funds would be supplementary rather than substitutional – the 28% allocation to Good Causes looks more and more like a direct tax which, when added to the 12% lottery duty, makes an affective tax on National Lottery sales of some 40% (on top of which the Government additionally receives any unclaimed prize money). So, if there is a problem currently with an increase in gambling in the UK, it is being directly funded and legislated for by the Government itself for its own benefit and not by any of the other operators within the sector.
If one then examines online gaming in the wider gambling context, it is often perceived to be the worst type of gambling from a player protection point of view. There's no peer pressure to regulate behavior; there's huge potential for fraud and money laundering and no effort or journey is required in order to take part. In short, the way the Government – and 'crusading' newspapers such as the Daily Mail – reflect on online gambling, they appear to believe that it is not just corrupting our society, it is also demonizing our youth. The results of the Gambling Commissions survey, however, again tell a rather different story. First of all, "the growth in participation in remote gambling is explained very largely by increased online participation on the National Lottery". Indeed, if those who just play National Lottery products are excluded, it transpires that only 6.1% of respondents had participated in remote gambling in the year to December 2011, compared with 5.7% in 2010, 5.7% in 2009, 5.6 % in 2008, 5.2 % in 2007 and 5.1% in 2006. It's hardly a runaway train. Moreover, those who gambled online were more likely to be male and to be aged over 45. Again, not exactly callow youth.
This highlights another problem for the Government in the ongoing spin versus substance tussle. The consequence of a 'nanny' State is that people get to believe that what the State is telling them is for their own good. Since 1997, the last Labour Governmenthas been consistently telling us that the National Lottery is a force for good. Which it is. It redistributes wealth. It funds much needed and valuable causes, buildings and projects. It raises taxes. It's fun. It's classless. It gives hope and so on. All of which are true. But – and this is probably what the Government doesn't wish to confront – it's not just gambling, but also, as a direct corollary of the lottery being successful, it is addictive gambling.
The National Lottery has incredibly high participation at 57.3%. Some of that is due to the perception that the lottery is not gambling, because you can buy in a ticket in a petrol station, a supermarket or a corner shop and some of that will be due to the Euro Million Mega jackpot-chasing that inevitably brings in new people when the jackpots roll over to mouthwateringly large amounts. The majority of the high participation, however, will be provided, week on week, by those who have a fixed set of numbers and who dare not miss out just in case their numbers came up. It doesn't matter what their chances are or even, as American author Fran Lebowitz once remarked, that you have roughly the same chance of winning the Lottery whether you play it or not', They are hooked every bit as much as the Government. Only it's the Governments fault.
April 14, 2012 Robert Williams TWV Media


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The Controlant PR-T80 Digital Temperature Probe is the first real-time monitoring solution fully validated for pharmaceuticals and designed for dry ice applications, active pharmaceutical ingredients (API's), clinical trials, and additional pharmaceutical and life sciences products that require transport and storage in low temperature-controlled environments.
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Alias the Lone Wolf is a 1927 silent mystery film directed by Edward H. Griffith. The film is based on the 1921 novel of the same name by Louis Joseph Vance. It is not known whether the film currently survives.

Cast
Bert Lytell as Michael Lanyard
Lois Wilson as Eve de Montalais
William V. Mong as Whitaker Monk
Ned Sparks as Phinuit
James Mason as Popinot
Paulette Duval as Liane Delorme
Ann Brody as Fifi
Alphonse Ethier as Inspector Crane

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1927 films
American silent feature films
American black-and-white films
1927 mystery films
American mystery films
Films directed by Edward H. Griffith
Columbia Pictures films
1920s American films
Silent mystery films

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Jonathan Calabrese (pictured) and Tony Winkler met playing basketball and quickly restaurant bonded.
The duo always owns the nearby Social Pie.
Jonathan Calabrese and Tony Winkler have been in the Dallas restaurant business since 2003. They've opened hotspots State & Allen, Ross & Hall, The Nodding Donkey, Social Pie and Savory Catering over the past 15 years.
Now, they're adding a new bar to their repertoire called Maple Landing.
"We always knew we would eventually open a bar," Calabrese tells PaperCity. "There aren't too many restaurants and bars in the Medical District." A lot of UT Southwestern students view Social Pie as the local spot to grab a bite or drink after classes.
Tentatively set to open the week of February 11, Maple Landing will be located at 5855 Maple Avenue, directly adjacent to Social Pie. CultureMap first reported the bar was coming.
Calabrese and Winkler tell PaperCity the bar came about because they already owned the 18,000 square foot space. The duo had previously taken over the old Feed Store that had been owned by a local family for 30 years. They needed to do something with the empty space.
Calabrese says that the new spot will pay homage to Southwest Airlines. "We're going to have an airplane theme." There will be an abstract charcoal mural by architect Mark Hopper inside and a mural of Herb Kelleher, the former CEO of Southwest who recently passed away, by muralist Alli Koch on the exterior of the building.
The industrial building has stayed intact, but Calabrese says that they've given it a new skin.
The smokehouse-themed restaurant will serve everything from sliced brisket to brisket melts, to kimchi burgers, to a seared tuna salad. The executive chef will be Rhett Dukes, who currently runs Social Pie's kitchen. The menu is still in the works of being finalized, but there will for sure be a lot of bourbon and whiskey.
Business partners Calabrese and Winkler have been doing this for a long time. Calabrese jokes that sometimes they ask themselves why they went into this crazy business, but they love it.
The two met playing basketball at a recreation center in Plano in 1995.
"We almost got into fist fights," jokes Calabrese. Winkler is from the East Coast and Calabrese grew up in Chicago so they felt a camaraderie about being newbies in Texas.
"We're kind of like brothers," says Calabrese.
They fell in love with their new state and bringing good eats to different pockets of Dallas. After being in Uptown for almost 20 years, they wanted to also do their thing in the Medical District. They opened Social Pie in 2016 and, even with the addition of Maple Landing, want to expand further.
"I'd like to have a coffee shop or Tex-Mex restaurant in the area," Calabrese says.
That's part of their business culture. They'll be closing all of their restaurants early on February 10 for a big employee appreciation party.


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North Iredell High School is public high school located in Olin, North Carolina. North, as it is called locally, was established in 1966 as part of the consolidation of high schools in Iredell County. It is part of the Iredell-Statesville Schools district.

Description
North Iredell High School is one of 10 high schools in Iredell County and is part of the Statesville-Iredell public school district.  The student body is 53 percent male and 47 percent female, with a 25 percent minority enrollment in 2021.  North has an 85 percent graduation rate. Twenty nine percent of the students are enrolled in Advanced Placement courses.

Music groups
Musical ensembles at North include: Marching Raiders and color guard, wind ensemble, concert band, Mixed Choir, and Advanced Choir, as well as extra curricular jazz band, basketball band, and pit orchestra.

Notable alumni
Blake Crouch, author best known for his Wayward Pines Trilogy
Matt Matheny, former college basketball head coach

References

Educational institutions established in 1966
Public high schools in North Carolina
Schools in Iredell County, North Carolina
1966 establishments in North Carolina


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Q: Slidden, Chidden, Blent, Hove, Rove, Shodden, Gilt, Girt Now, I'm doing complete research on semi-irregular verbs, so I really need your help in order to know how often you use each verb (the irregular form of it), whether it's grammatically correct nowadays, and whether it'd generally be understood if I used it instead of the contemporary regular form.
The dubious ones are (bolded):

*

*Shoe: shod-shod/shodden.

*Chide: chided/chid-chided/chid/chidden.

*Slide: slid-slid/slidden.

*Heave: heaved/hove-heaved/hove.

*Reeve: reeved/rove-reeved/rove.

*Blend: blended/blent-blended/blent.

*Gild: gilded/gilt-gilded/gilt.

*Gird: girded/girt-girded/girt.
Please, don't accuse me of trying to find such archaic things out; I'm just a curious guy, wanting to know more about the English language.
Also, would you mind telling me what the verb to reeve means: I cannot find it out, yet dictionaries do recognise it as one.

A: Some of these words, even in their regular forms, would be archaic or poetic (i.e. difficult to understand) for a typical American speaker.

*

*"Shodden" is occurs primarily in the context of horses, but even then I've only ever seen "shod" as the past participle of "to shoe".

*I've never seen "chidden" and would be confused if I heard it, as it does not flow immediately from the already unusual word "chide", but it is apparently more of a word than "shodden" to my spellcheck.

*"Slidden" is very bizarre; my autocorrect does not recognize it as a word, nor can I claim to have ever seen it in any context.

*"Hove" might be familiar to some in the form of "hove to", the past participle form of "heave to".

*"Rove" and its base"reeve" might be passingly familiar to those with an interest in history... as a noun (a kind of local magistrate, still apparently a political position in parts of Canada). They might also be confused with "reave", meaning to raid/steal/plunder, perhaps from science fiction or fantasy literature. This is neither of them, apparently meaning "to pass a rope through," in a nautical context. As a verb with this particular meaning, I've never seen it before.

*"Blent" looks and sounds incorrect. I've never seen it, and would certainly raise an eyebrow at it if I did. Also not recognized by my spellcheck.

*"Gilt" is the most immediately recognizable to me, although a little poetic sounding. This is the only one in the list that I would be likely to

*"Girt" is unusual but possibly reasonable; "gird your loins" is the phrase that would immediately come to mind, and "girt" follows somewhat logically, although most would prefer "girded".

The ngrams for these words roughly follow my feelings; gilt and hove are the most common, followed by girt and rove (I disagree on this one). Chidden, blent, shodden, and slidden are effectively rare enough to be nonexistent.

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Despite reports that Megan McAllister and the suspected "Craigslist Killer" Philip Markoff have canceled their wedding, Megan has announced that she will support him through his legal process.
"To me and my family, he is a loving and caring person and in the eyes of the law and the Constitution, he is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt," McAllister said in a statement released to People magazine. "I just can only hope that the criminal justice system will not be overwhelmed and persuaded by what is being put forth in the media."
She continues, "In the past two short weeks, my life and what I hoped my life to be has dramatically changed. I also love my fiancé and I will continue to support him throughout this legal process. What has been portrayed and leaked to the media is not the Philip Markoff that I know."
The couple was planning a wedding for August, but a member of the Bstreetband, who was scheduled to play at their nuptials, told the press that the ceremony was canceled. When asked how Megan was doing, her father, Jim, told reporters: "Megan is not doing so well, it's a very tense situation."
Megan added that she intends to cooperate with Markoff's attorney and the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office. Markoff, 23, has been charged with the murder of one woman and the assault of another.


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is a passenger railway station located in the city of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the private transportation company Iyotetsu.

Lines
The station is served by the Gunchū Line and is located 2.2 km from the terminus of the line at .

Layout
The station consists of one island platform. The station building is an extension of the platform, and the structure is such that you pass through the ticket gate and cross the railroad crossing to go outside. It is the first interchange station on the Gunchū Line from the Matsuyamashi Station side, and a timetable has been set up for trains to pass each other at this station during the daytime hours.  During most of the day, trains arrive every fifteen minutes.

History
The station was opened on March 6, 1930

Surrounding area
Jimi Heisei Secondary School
Japan National Route 56

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

References

External links

Iyotetsu Gunchū Line
Railway stations in Ehime Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1930
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The header picture is a portrait of James, Duke of York just prior to his ascension to the throne as James II.
I have been working pretty intently on getting the core of my Scots Flodden army completed but wanted also to get at least one unit of James II's army at Sedgemoor on a more modular set of bases to see how they are going to work. The painting of these figures was done professionally and were my second Christmas gift from my wife. I added the pikes and flags. Once they are all based (along with the Flodden army as well), I will do all the final dressing of the bases (along with their magnetic vinyl bottoms) as one giant assembly line task.
Probable Sedgemoor configuration (1685). This is roughly a 2:1 (musket:pike) configuration, little different from the later BCW. A grenadier company is added (rear rank of right flank). The three additional pieces are for alternated configurations.
The same 1685 configuration but with the grenadiers now detached (with their own command) and "line" musketeers taking their place in the battalion.
The battalion in a circa 1690 configuration with a 5:1 (musket:pike) ratio. Grenadiers remain detached.
The battalion can be configured in a post 1700 configuration (no pikes and socket bayonets).
In a pinch I may use the post-1700 configuration all the way through 1746 so I can complete the Jacobite Wars. Both the appearance of the uniforms and the accouterments would have changed noticeably but for wargaming purposes it will save doing a whole new army.
Looking good! I've been contemplating some similar arrangements for a future projected 1672 army. I would love to do Sedgemoor…. I have a copy of Brigadier Peter Young's book on the battle, with some annotations and a load of photos of the 1985 reenactment pasted inside by the author.
The book that captured me on Sedgemoor was David Chandler's. Picked it up on a whim soon after it was published because of his Napoleonic histories – have been hooked on Sedgemoor ever since.
Great Christmas gift! I can't imagine anyrhing you'd enjoy more than a new army already painted. Of course you still make bases and configure the army, but you've saved a lot of time. Enjoy!


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New Song Release by Tony Trischka: Christmas Cheer (This Weary Year)
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Tony Trischka is sharing "Christmas Cheer (This Weary Year)," a song written in 2014 for his upcoming album, Shall We Hope (January 29, Shefa Records). The players include Michael Daves on lead vocals and guitar, Kristin Andreasson and Stephanie Coleman on harmony vocals, Brittany Haas on fiddle, mandolinist Dominick Leslie and Skip Ward on bass.
"Though the song has a few sobering moments, I wrote it to add some levity to my upcoming project set in the Civil War," adds Tony. "Games played, the arrival of Santa, and so forth. I wrote it five or six years ago, but the chorus seems to have a particular resonance this holiday season."
Happy Holidays and enjoy!


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Analysis of Facebook's Acquisition of WhatsApp
The Irrational Rationale behind Facebook's Acquisition of WhatsApp:
Defying all the theories of Corporate Finance and principles of equity valuation, Facebook recently announced the acquisition of WhatsApp at a whopping valuation of $ 16 bn…yeah…you heard it right…it's billion and not million. Add to that shares of Facebook worth $ 3 bn to be issued as restrictive share units to the employees of WhatsApp, the valuation hits the rooftop of $ 19 bn. In terms of magnitude, let's look at the table below to get a hang of the valuation quoted for WhatsApp.
"Facebook Buys Whatsapp" While we are still gasping for breath after going through the table above, let's try to be rational and figure out what might have led Facebook price WhatsApp so high.
Irrational Rationale behind WhatsApp Acquisition
Even after spending some 10 hours and flipping through almost all the news articles, reports, and analysts' opinions, I could not figure out any rationale behind such a high valuation. However, I could think of various reasons behind this acquisition. Before we get into the shoes of Facebook's CEO and start thinking (rationally or irrationally) like him, let's understand a little bit about the two companies involved here. None of them needs any introduction. And almost all of us would have used/continue to use platform offered by one or both of them.
While these are the statistics that place Facebook as a very strong buyer in comparison to the Target, let's look at the facts below as well to figure out the reasons behind this acquisition:
Highly Active Users Base
The users on WhatsApp are highly active given the level of activity reported in the exhibit above. Facebook in comparison, is losing its shine – this is what I feel after interacting with the many around me.
Fast Growing User Base
WhatsApp has demonstrated extraordinary growth in its user base probably unparalleled in history.
Complementarity offered by WhatsApp users base
WhatsApp user base is exactly what Facebook is looking for:
WhatsApp has a strong presence internationally and particularly in Europe, India and Latin America. These are also the regions where Facebook is trying to grow its base of users.
WhatsApp and other mobile messaging services are used by all age groups alike. They are widely used by teens and tweens, a group that has recently started dissociating itself from Facebook.
WhatsApp offers a very personalized one on one interaction platform which probably users of Facebook never got and always complained about.
The success factor behind WhatsApp is probably an early embracing of mobile technology. And this is probably the only factor behind Facebook's struggle. They went public without any revenue from mobile devices. It is still looking to expand its mobile reach.
Although WhatsApp is more limited in its scope and capabilities to Facebook and Twitter, mobile messaging services are becoming competitors to traditional social networks.
Threat from Google
Facebook is a relatively new entrant in the internet technology / social media business ecosystem. It needed support/platform to fight the existing and stable players in the ecosystem like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Informal articles on the internet suggest that Google attempted acquisition of WhatsApp in the past, even attempted to outbid Facebook after the deal was announced and ultimately even suggested WhatsApp to stay independent as it had been always in the past.
Attempt to become a diversified social media player
Facebook may be attempting to emerge as a social media conglomerate. It can aspire to become a dominant player with different tools like Instagram and WhatsApp in its arsenal. Each one does things that the other property can't.
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April 12, 2017 at 1:31pm
Carriage Trade Gallery Reopens in New York
Following the closure of its TriBeCa gallery in 2014, Carriage Trade Gallery will open a new space on the Lower East Side this month, Andrew Russeth of Artnews reports. Located on the second floor of Two Hundred and Seventy-Seven Grand Street, the gallery has about 1,800 square feet of space.
A group show titled "American Interior" will inaugurate the space. Featuring artists such as Richard Artschwager, Richard Bosman, Dorothea Lange, Louise Lawler, and Paul McCarthy, the exhibition will examine American interiors "as a private, geographic, and psychic space" and "encourage a kind of trespass into realms which our media narratives have failed to tread."
Director Peter Scott said the space reflects his interest "in combining the noncommercial mission of a nonprofit with the programming flexibility of a commercial gallery with the exhibition scope of a museum." He added that its curatorial mission will be to bridge the "market gap," where established artists are often shown in larger gallery and museum settings, separated from emerging artists whose works might explore common themes.


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Tempted is the second, and last, album by the American dance duo Waterlillies. It was released in 1994. The title track was a top 10 hit on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart.

Production
The album was mostly produced by Ray Carroll. "Take My Breath Away" was written and produced by Sandra Jill Alikas. Tempted includes a cover of "Close to You".

The Junior Vasquez remix of "Never Get Enough" topped the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart for a week in April of 1995. It reached No. 40 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales chart.

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the title track "a rousing dance track that garnered a fair share of radio and club play," writing that "except for a wholly unnecessary a cappella rendition of Bacharach/David's 'Close to You', the Waterlillies' sophomore album stretches the boundaries of a limited aesthetic palette with greater returns than the debut." Entertainment Weekly thought that "on its own, singer-producer Sandra Jill Alikas' voice, a stock-still alto not unlike Enya's, would be just another aural massage, but instrumentalist-producer Ray Carroll's gently boinging tracks add all sorts of shadings—wanton desire in 'Tempted', all-enveloping warmth in 'I Wanna Be There', sorrow in 'Never Get Enough'." Billboard deemed the title track "a jiggly dance/pop number," writing that "Alikas is an angelic, compelling presence."

The Miami Herald called the album "hypnotic," writing that the musicians "somehow manage to inject heat and heart into mid-tempo dance tunes despite using the tools of the trade—synths and drum machines." The Record determined that "Carroll revels in early-Eighties synth-pop, creating dreamy, if uninvolving, melodies, with drum-machine tracks and the occasional hip-hop rhythm." The New Yorker opined that Tempted "happily evokes both the glory days of the electronic eighties and the recent work of other dance-floor mavens, like Saint Etienne and Opus III, but without their nostalgia."

AllMusic wrote that "what sounds at first blush like just one more formulaic house-beats-plus-diva dance album turns out, on second listen, to be something a bit more subversive than that."

Track listing

References

1994 albums
Sire Records albums
Reprise Records albums


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CRIMINALLY GOOD: Interview with Paul Finch, author and screenwriter
So, who are you & what have you written?
My name is Paul Finch, and I'm a former cop and journalist, who – rather fortuitously, as it turned out – was made redundant once too often in 1998, and thus decided to try his hand at freelance writing. It wasn't quite as high-risk a decision as it might seem. For several years by then, I'd had a parallel career writing television scripts for THE BILL. You can follow me on twitter as @paulfinchauthor.
Going full-time gave me the opportunity to expand this repertoire, so that when I parted company with THE BILL in around 2003, I was writing full-time in various other capacities. For example, I was also working extensively in children's animation, and had developed a reputation in the horror field, having by this time penned hundreds of short stories and novellas, most of which found publication in professional magazines and anthologies in both UK and the US.
This led to my first real writing success, when a collection of my stories – AFTER SHOCKS – won the British Fantasy Award (for Best Collection) in 2002. I won the award again (for Best Novella) with my story, KID, in 2007, and that same year, my short story, THE OLD NORTH ROAD, won the International Horror Guild Award (for Best Short Story).
Since then, numerous of my horror stories have been published in both hardback and softback collections, and have representation in various 'Year's Best' anthologies. It was on the strength of these that I was eventually commissioned by Rebellion Books to write two horror/fantasy novels, STRONGHOLD and DARK NORTH.
My reputation in dark fantasy (and as a TV script-writer) opened three other important doors for me. The first of these was in the movies. I've now written scripts for a number of horror films, two of which – SPIRIT TRAP (to which I contributed 'additional material') and THE DEVIL'S ROCK – went on to full production and cinema release, and another two of which – WAR WOLF and THE FREEZE – are currently under option and in development. The second door was DR WHO, to which mythos I have contributed one novel and one novella (both for BBC Books), one short story and four full-cast audio dramas (all for Big Finish). The third was the TERROR TALES series of regional horror anthologies, which I now edit annually for Gray Friar Press.
However, my most satisfying publications to date, have been my Heck crime novels, five of which have been published since 2013 (by Avon Books at HarperCollins), and all of which have since sold widely overseas. They follow the investigations of Detective Sergeant Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg, who is attached to Scotland Yard's elite Serial Crimes Unit, and in style are hard-edged thrillers occupying the very darkest end of the spectrum.
The Heck novels have been something of an unmitigated success for me. To date, they've sold well over half a million copies, while the second in the series, SACRIFICE, was at the time the most pre-ordered book in HarperCollins' history.
I'm still writing Heck as we speak, though for some time Avon have also been interested in a parallel series of crime thrillers featuring a female protagonist, so STRANGERS – the first novel in the Detective Lucy Clayburn range – is due for publication in summer this year. The next Heck novel, THE BURNING MAN, will follow in 2017.
Why do you write crime fiction?
For a time after I left the police, I tried to avoid writing anything even close to crime or mystery. I think this was simply that, having been there for real, I wanted to move in a completely different direction.
However, an opportunity to write for THE BILL – not long after I'd left the job, no less – was too good to turn down, as it gave me an early push into a completely new and potentially quite lucrative career. I was a very inexperienced writer at the time, of course, but having been a real cop, one part of THE BILL that came easy to me was packing my scripts with authenticity. I didn't need to consult police protocol experts or go for ride-alongs or anything like that in order to build an accurate picture of police life. I think this was at least part of the reason I got an early shot at the show.
But at the same time, ultimately, I still wanted to venture away from police procedural if I could. Hence, I ranged into horror, fantasy, sci-fi and action. My first episode of THE BILL, in fact, which was called PROTECT AND SURVIVE, was described by fans afterwards as an out-and-out thriller rather than a crime drama (it went down so well at the time that I think it's still circling on YouTube).
And when I finally moved back into crime writing in the late 2000s, in the form of my Heck novels, I was determined to keep ploughing this same high-energy furrow. A plethora of quality US crime-fighting shows had hit our TV screens by this time. THE WIRE, THE SHIELD, BOOMTOWN and the like, all introduced heinous villains, gritty action and very mean cops. My interest in crime fiction was massively revitalised by this, and so when in around 2010 I approached my agent with a desire to pen as tough-talking a crime novel as I could – which would turn out to be the first in the Heck series, STALKERS – he was delighted and reckoned it would be a much hotter product than any of my horror/fantasy novels.
Thus far, he's been proved right.
What informs your crime writing?
There is a three-pronged impetus behind my crime writing: it should be as dark as possible; as scary as possible; and as exciting as possible. If you get the feeling that these are all horns on the same twisted goat, you're probably right. I can't explain it, but this is what I personally love to read – stuff that puts me on the edge of my seat, runs a chill up my spine and makes me think 'God forbid that should ever happen to anyone I know'. It's that same frisson of cosy fear that I'm trying to impart to my own readers.
This was certainly the driving force behind my first Heck novel – STALKERS – so much so that when I first hatched the concept, both my wife, Cathy, and I thought it might only work as a full-blown horror novel, and even then there'd be some concern about whether it was acceptable (though thank Heaven I stuck with it as a crime thriller instead).
Of course, it's never as straightforward as that. As you say, other factors must then come into play. What informs the work? What keeps it vital and edgy?
Well … real life cases are always relevant to me. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't been influenced by real police investigations, both those I've read about and those I've participated in. Truth is always stranger and often more horrendous than fiction.
But that only works to a point. I've already said that I want my books to be exciting, to keep the readers turning the pages, and I know from my own experience that there isn't a great deal of that to be found in real-life criminal investigation. Most murder enquiries are sordid affairs thick with human tragedy, and most offenders are pathetic, banal losers.
Criminal investigation can also be tedious. It's often about being methodical, being patient and being prepared to put in hours and hours, if not days and weeks, of legwork. It's about ploughing through reams of CCTV footage and interviewing hundreds of people extensively and painstakingly, even though they may only have peripheral involvement with the case (if any at all).
It's also about paper – mountains and mountains of paper. Real murder cases are secretarial nightmares. None of that makes for good drama or fiction. So while I may be affected by historic investigations, I certainly don't reproduce them slavishly.
It's interesting that you mention the psychological angle. I'm not sure why, but I've always liked my villains to be larger than life. I grew up with a great TV cop show, THE SWEENEY, which centred around two everyman heroes, a pair of hard-working, hard-drinking detectives who were confronted by a whole range of colourful but psychopathic criminals. In the mid-1970s, it was engrossing viewing.
Then there were the DIRTY HARRY movies, featuring another honest cop who gradually changed personality due to his battle against outlandish evil. Following that, there were the newer US cops shows I mentioned before, which combined to give us an absolute gallery of lunatics.
As a background to all this, you've also got the JAMES BOND films, the BATMAN comics, and astonishing semi-fantastical British TV like THE AVENGERS, in which there was literally no limit to the villains' insanity and depravity.
All of these were my cultural reference points at one time or another, so perhaps it's no surprise that I've gone the same way in my fiction. But I do try to underwrite these characters with appropriate psychology. One of my best friends since childhood is now a professor of forensic psychology, and is regularly on hand to advise on the various forms of mania that create such havoc in our world, and how they can develop – I'm afraid I hammer him on the subject.
So, yes, though there are some strong fantasy elements in my crime fiction, there are also (I hope) plenty of hooks to keep them in some way attached to the grimy reality of everyday urban life.
What's your usual writing routine?
I'd like to say that I'm a nine-till-five disciplinarian, who always enters his study after breakfast and doesn't emerge until teatime with a damn good day's work under his belt. But it doesn't pan out like that. And in fact, the way I go about writing isn't always conducive to any regular routine.
To start with, I try to spend as much of my work-time as possible outdoors, walking my dogs through the surrounding countryside – they must now be the two fittest spaniels in Lancashire. Initially this is done for the purpose of story-lining. I find that walking helps me think more clearly, and I don't like to actually start a book until I've got the storyline absolutely square.
This doesn't mean I'm inflexible from that point on. If better ideas come along later, I'll incorporate them even if it means changing everything else. But as long as I've got a good skeletal structure to hang my words on, I'm comfortable. I usually manage to create this beast on my hand-recorder while I'm out bestriding the land, and then I type it up later.
My first draft begins life on the hand-recorder too, and this is the part where my dogs get really long walks – as I dictate chapter after chapter while roaming the landscape. This is never the final version, of course. I can't compose finished prose when I'm dictating – it's usually just a stream of thoughts and ideas, broken passages, disjointed sentences etc, all assembled in roughly the right order. But if it tells the tale, that part of the job is done. After that, I again type it all up, this time knocking it into some kind of passable shape.
For the second draft, out comes the trusty hand-recorder again. This time I read everything I've written onto tape and play it back through earphones, again while I'm walking the pooches. I usually have a notebook with me this time, so I can scribble down any additional thoughts for rewrites, adjustments, tweaks etc.
My third and final draft, before it goes to my editor, is usually the least intensive one. I tend to be pretty happy by this stage, so it's often a case of slumping in front of the computer and making a last read-through with a mug of tea in hand and appropriate background music playing (I have an extensive play-list of atmospheric themes, which now reaches about nine hours in length).
If this approach sounds scatty and chaotic, that's the way it goes. Inevitably, it doesn't fit into the nine-till-five framework. I often work evenings and weekends, but one perk resulting from this is that I'm always owed a bit of time-off (not that I take it very often). This only works for me because I'm fortunate to have a job that I enjoy so much. Even when away on holiday I keep a pad close to hand in case an idea pops up that needs jotting down. I think one of my creepiest horror novellas – APE OF GOD – was inspired by a vivid dream I had in a villa in Majorca. I spent the whole of the next morning sketching out the idea by the swimming pool, and never considered it a half-day misspent.
Anyway, using these processes, it usually takes me between three and four months to create a novel, though of course, once it's delivered to HarperCollins there'll be a whole new editing system to go through, and that may be a little more painful. Not that I'm complaining. All authors have that final cross to bear.
Which crime book do you wish YOU'D written, and why?
There's only ever one answer to this. It's JACK'S RETURN HOME, written by Ted Lewis in 1970.
Most crime aficionados will be familiar with it, though others will know it better as GET CARTER, Mike Hodges's movie version of 1971, which starred Michael Caine as the titular anti-hero. The reason I like it so much is because it's so personal to me.
I read it when I was very young, and was hugely taken by its realistic portrayal of the North of England I knew so well. It's set in the bleak industrial landscape of Scunthorpe in the 1960s. I'm a Lancashire lad by origin, but the town of my birth and upbringing, Wigan, was almost identical, except that where Scunthorpe had steel-mills we had coalmines.
The time-zone is just right too. I was on the cusp of my teens when this novel is set, that period of life when your environment exerts so much influence on you. Life in the industrial north was tough and unforgiving in those days, but that's what I love about JACK'S RETURN HOME. Talk about gritty. That bleak urban underbelly in which gangland enforcer Jack Carter must pit himself against foes even more violent than he is, rang so true.
I'm not being sentimental or romantic about this – there was nothing romantic about that time and place. But I was captivated by the novel's uber-realism. Check out this extract from the opening paragraph:
It hadn't stopped raining since Euston. Inside the train it was close, the kind of close that makes your fingernails dirty even when all you're doing is sitting there looking out of the blurring windows. Watching the dirty backs of houses scudding along under the half-light clouds. Just sitting and looking, and not even fidgeting.
Seriously, how moody an intro is that?
JACK'S RETURN HOME also occupies a unique place in the annals of crime fiction, in that it opened the era of British noir. The dark alleys, the pool halls, the massage parlours, the dingy bars, the harrowing back-story of underage prostitution were very familiar tropes to fans of Hammett, Spillane and Chandler, but British fiction hadn't really explored that hardboiled territory until now. So you can't help but applaud it for that.
What else appeals to me about it?
Well, there is no way that Jack Carter is not recognisable to some degree in my own dogged loner, Mark 'Heck' Heckenburg. Both are displaced northerners, of course, and though Jack is a mobster and Heck a detective, they both walk a tightrope through a dangerous and decaying world wherein in a proportion of the police are corrupt and a majority of the criminals are like wild animals.
Both have similar aims too: Jack seeks revenge for his innocent brother, and in the process takes down the syndicate responsible, whereas Heck seeks revenge/justice for numerous innocents, and in the process takes down any killers and gangsters who cross his path.
And it isn't as if they use different methods. Heck always tries to conclude things by resorting to law, but Jack Carter has his own law too – the law of the underworld, which back in those distant days actually did possess some ethics.
Yet for both these men, chivalry often proves futile, the only alternatives being nasty trickery and/or heart-stopping brutality.
Wow, fantastic detail there, thanks Paul!


If there had been a prize for guessing the number of crabapple trees in the city of Littleton, Larry Borger would not have claimed it with his estimate of 2,000.
As it turns out, there are 6,727.
By Borger's calculations, that's one crabapple tree for every six and one-quarter residents.
Hancock recruited 16 volunteers who spent a total of nearly 97 hours combing the streets for the brightly flowering trees that are becoming a symbol of the city. He's has been tending to the trees since 2011, when he took on the cause for his Eagle Scout project.
That's the same year signs went up marking the city's Crabapple Route, conceived of by former Mayor Vaughn Gardinier. It was his idea 45 years ago to line Littleton's streets with the hardy, colorful crabapple trees not just to make them pretty, but to give the city something unique.
Gardinier died in 2012, but his wife, Mary, still sits on the board of LCTI with Borger. She says he was hoping to arrange for horse-drawn carriages to someday trot the trail.
Hancock and others from Littleton Boy Scout Troop 361 planted about 30 new trees along the seven-mile Crabapple Route in April, adding to the 100 they've planted since 2011. These days, they plant trees that flower but don't bear fruit, making for a less messy flourish of beauty each spring.
"The Littleton Crabapple Trail is currently working to get the city council to approve the acknowledgement of these numbers to become the `Crabapple Capital of Colorado,' or maybe even the nation," said Hancock.
For more information and to see a map of the trail, visit www.littletoncrabappletrail.org.


The PLACED project is working to accompany the transformation of libraries in the digital age, and researching on new co-design methods to apply in such places. The project will develop two prototypes of digital tools (Demonstrator 1 & 2) that re-think the link between activities and collections.
The demonstrator 2, called EXPLORE, will focus on how to bring the fore on a library's activities and how to link up those activities with the other ressources of the library.
A work group as been set up with our partners at the BML, the public library of Lyon in France, in order to co-create Demonstrator 2. The group last met on May the 17th and the 24th, keeping on elaborating the prototype as it was started in previous workshops.
Following the series of workshops, the development of the prototype should be carried out during summer 2018.


On this page, you'll play the game Super Mario Flash Battle, one of your best free mario games!!! Choose among Mario, Luigi, Peach, Kirby or Donkey Kong to be your character, then go out to fight your computer. The fight won't be an easy one. The computer is going to send its own characters with special powers to defeat you, but you have some tricks up your sleeve. Start with the tutorial to learn to use all of the moves available to you.
Use the right and left directional arrows to run right and left. Jump with the up arrow and block with the down arrow. Use the up arrow along with the right or left arrow to long jump.


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Facebook to introduce new features on WhatsApp, might launch on Windows and Mac
Sovan Mandal
Facebook is believed to be working on an update for its WhatsApp messaging app which includes the ability to send zip files as attachments along with support for call backs and voicemails.
The report which first appeared on the site Phone Radar further mentioned the voicemail feature will only be introduced on the iOS version of its app to begin with. However, there seems quite a bit of confusion about what its scope will be like in reality. That said, it is being speculated there will be a "Record Voice Mail" and a "Send Voice Mail" button popping up each time there is a voice call. Needless the say, one of the buttons should allow the user to record the voice mail while the other should enable sending an in-call audio clip and such.
As for the call back feature, users will be served a dedicated "Call Back" button for users to respond to a missed call. Further, the button will be present right in the notification that the missed call generates, thereby saving the user from having to launch the WhatsApp application all over again to return back a missed call. Also, unlike the voicemail feature, call back is expected to debut on both Android and iOS apps.
Another convenient feature that WhatsApp users can look forward to is support for ZIP files. This will allow users to compress large files before sending, thereby saving on data charges. As things stand right now, WhatsApp already is compliant with text formats such as PDF, VCF, DOCX and DOCS.
Meanwhile, in another development, there also are reports of the popular messaging platform being introduced on Windows and Mac as well. Facebook has already shown its commitment for the Microsoft OS by making available its entire service on Windows 10. That includes Facebook Messenger and Instagram along with the core social networking app of Facebook on Windows 10 recently. Launching WhatsApp on Windows 10 (as well as Mac) could well be seen as a further build-up on that.
The report has its origins in the WABetaInfo Twitter account, which seems to have inkling about future WhatsApp builds and releases.
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