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2019 Ylva Publishing *Print and ebook
Mai Redstone is a hero. In costume as Mercy, she prowls Atlanta trying to save people from themselves and from each other, and with her new and strong powers, she acts like she's invincible. To those who know her though, she's as delicate as a cobra lily.
Xóchitl, the woman who loves her, is the complete opposite. Violence comes naturally to her. Hard-hearted and thick-skinned, the softest thing about her is her love for Mai. As Xóchitl's job as an enforcer, part of an elite team of law enforcement officers in the secret Meta community, she hunts and punishes anyone who dares to break their rules.
But when she has to protect Mai from the others in her powerful family, Xóchitl's soft underbelly is exposed. People aren't who they seem and allies turn out to be enemies. For the first time in her life, she feels threatened and as vulnerable as those who Mai protects.
Xóchitl is used to being the strongest one in the room, but when she suddenly isn't, will she allow herself to surrender to her lover's mercy?
Categories/Tropes: Strong Heroine, Reunited Lovers, Superhero
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2018 Red Hills Publishing *Print and ebook
Every woman has secrets. But Sage never thought the lover she'd shared her life with for years had one big enough to blow their entire world apart.
With one shocking revelation, the pleasures she'd taken for granted—decadent threesomes under the Miami moonlight, lazy afternoons with the woman who knew her best, complete and safe surrender to her deepest desires—are taken away. Left adrift and in pain, Sage begins to rebuild her life one piece at a time.
As she struggles to make sense of things again, her parents arrive from Jamaica for an unexpected visit and her own secrets threaten to destroy the little she has left. Can Sage find redemption in the one woman she turned her back on, or will she allow pride and her own self-destructive nature to ruin any chance at future happiness?
Number 4 in the How Sweet It Is series
Categories/Tropes: Reunited Lovers, Secret Romance, Bisexual (2 women) Characters.
To her family, Mai Redstone is weak. Her shape-shifting power is nowhere near as impressive as their abilities to literally alter the world around them. But when she puts on the costume to become Mercy, a rooftop-climbing chameleon with a thousand disguises and at least nine lives, she feels almost invincible.
When a local politician is murdered and the police call Mercy in to help, the stability Mai has built out of past pain threatens to crumble. The dead politician turns out to be her uncle, a man who made her childhood a living hell. Caught between giving a medal to the killer and being forced to find the murderer for her family, Mai must make the difficult choice between family loyalty and self-preservation.
Mercy is a blade that can cut both ways.
Categories/Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Strong Heroine, Superhero, Lesbian Romance.
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2016 Bold Strokes Books *Print and ebook
Nyandoro was born the favorite. As the only girl of her parents' six children, she gets everything she wants without even asking for it. When the latest thing she desires is the wife of a village elder, she faces consequences she never had to before.
These consequences come with the dawn of a passion she didn't know existed, a carnal feast of flesh she can't get enough of. But on the night she gains the ultimate satisfaction from the woman she'd always wanted, she also loses every good thing she ever had. This loss takes Ny from the shelter of her family and home to the unknown wilds of a new world flush with ancient power, and into the arms of an old lover who has always been by her side.
Categories/Tropes: Historical Romance, Paranormal Romance, Secret Romance, Strong Heroine, Lesbian Lovers.
Getting away from it all doesn't usually mean escape. In these three stories, women leave their familiar spaces - countries, landscapes, states of mind - to discover uncharted, but not always idyllic territories with lovers old and new.
The title story, To Italy with Love, introduces Iris, a newly dumped serial monogamist who travels to her friend's destination wedding. On the Amalfi Coast, she meets a much younger and casually provocative woman who challenges all the boundaries she's created for herself. Iris, queer and complicated, has a not-quite-secret she's unsure she's ready to share. But w ill her young lover pull all the way back when she discovers it?
Categories/Tropes: Enemies to Lovers, Speculative Fiction, Lesbian Romance, Secret Love, Strong Heroine, Violence.
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2014 Bold Strokes Books * Print and ebook
Recently turned from human to vampire, Kylie wants nothing to do with her new life or with the clan that claims her. She certainly wants nothing to do with her mother, Belle, who is completely infatuated with her vampire wife and clan leader.
To escape her unwanted existence, Kylie befriends a human, Olivia, who has been abandoned by her family. However, unknown to Kylie, someone is watching her. An enemy has targeted her as the perfect way to destroy her clan. While battling this enemy, Kylie also grapples with the surprising desires she feels for the human. Desires that she'd once seen as wicked and wrong.
Number 2 in the Desire Vampire series
Categories/Tropes: Secret Affair, Paranormal Romance, Lesbian Romance, Rebellious Heroine, Violence.
2014 Red Hills Publishing * Print and ebook
The provocative women from Fiona Zedde's imagination are at it again. From the sultry beaches of Jamaica to the palace of a Tanzanian queen then all the way to the exclusive playroom of one of the hottest women in Miami, When She Says Yes takes the reader on a sensual journey guaranteed to inspire a different kind of wanderlust.
Between these pages, an artist falls in love with Zora Neale Hurston. Two lovers reunite in Jamaica after nearly a lifetime apart. A sexually restrained woman finally gets the chance to meet the seductress she has been lusting after from afar. A chief's beautiful daughter is forced to marry for rain. The women in this collection of stories love each other passionately, diving into the heart of obsession, desire, and obligation while pulling the reader along for the wild ride.
Categories/Tropes: Paranormal Romance, Historical Romance, Shy Girl, Second Chance Romance, Lesbian Romance.
2014 Urban Books * Print and ebook
Slip between the covers of a triple threat of stories about temptation and what happens when you give in.
In "Honey and Absinthe," Chloe has always had a crush on Kai, her mother's best friend. She hoped that once she went away to college, her desire would also go away; but upon returning home after years of being gone, she finds that her attraction to Kai is stronger than ever. When she runs into Kai at a local fairground, the sparks fly between the two women in a way that cannot be ignored. Chloe becomes determined to seduce Kai, vowing to have the older woman, no matter the cost.
Categories/Tropes: Age Gap romance, Mother's Best Friend, Lesbian Romance.
Some mornings, Sara Chambers wakes in bed next to her girlfriend and her girlfriend's lover wondering how she ended up there. Beautiful, successful, and a force to be reckoned with at her Atlanta law firm, Sara is still powerless in her attraction to the rebellious and reckless, Rille Thompson.
As college girlfriends, Sara and Rille's relationship had been incendiary, burning away Sara's innocence and self-respect even as it widened her world beyond her wildest imagination. Now, almost twenty years later, Rille still pushes Sara beyond her limits, bringing a third lover into their bed and domestic lives when their monogamy gets stale. The hold Rille has over Sara—and their new lover—becomes as powerful as it is dangerous. Can Sara pull herself free in time, or will her life turn to cinders in the wake of Rille's powerful flame?
Categories/Tropes: Bisexuality, Second Chance Romance, Shy Girl, Sexual Discovery.
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Assassin, Bronwynne St. Just has a knack for finding trouble, usually in the form of a beautiful woman. After fulfilling a haunting contract on her sister's childhood friend and former employee, she takes off for the Caribbean and business as usual; but danger waits for her in the most unexpected places.
With an endless appetite for luscious variety, Wynne courts danger and pleasure from all corners of the globe. But she must wrestle with her own demons as she trades kisses and blows with some of the deadliest women in the business. She's been lucky in all her years in the game but will a young woman bent on revenge become her Achilles heel?
Categories/Tropes: Violence, Second Chance Romance, Enemies to Lovers, Strong Heroine.
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2011 Kensington Books *Print and ebook
Best friends Mayson and Renee are as close as they are different.
While Mayson slips in and out of affairs, taking pleasure where it bites the sweetest, Renee steps into a dangerous game of anonymous sex-by-dark that transports her to places she'd never dreamed. But the worlds of these two women are heading for a dramatic collision. At the end of it all, will they or their friendship remain standing?
Categories/Tropes: Bisexual Romance, Coming Out, Friends to Lovers, Love Triangle, Lesbian Romance.
2012 Red Hills Publishing *ebook
Rémi and Claudia have been together for over two years. During that time, their families have grown to accept what the twenty-nine year old reformed player and her fifty year old lover mean to each other. But a ghost from Rémi's past rises up to threaten what the two women have found together.
Can they put these demons to rest or will their love scatter like ashes to the four winds?
Number 3 (or 2.5) in the How Sweet It Is series
Categories/Tropes: Age Gap Romance, BDSM, MILF, Best Friend's Mother, Lesbian Romance.
Club owner and Miami socialite, Rémi Bouchard, is a lady's woman. With her money, good looks, and limitless charm, she can have just about anyone she wants. The problem is that she doesn't want just any one. She wants The One – someone very forbidden, and very dangerous. In this woman, has Rémi finally come up against a challenge she can't conquer?
Categories/Tropes: Age Gap Romance, May-December Romance, MILF, Best Friend's Mother, Divorced Character, BDSM, Lesbian Romance, Erotic Romance.
2015 Boldstrokes Books * Print and ebook
Desire can be dangerous. No one knows better than Naomi McElroy who, during a moment of intense ecstasy, is transformed into Belle, a ruthless beast whose hungers know no bounds. Hungers that inevitably endanger the people she loves. Set in the lush landscapes of modern day Jamaica and Alaska, EVERY DARK DESIRE is a vampire's tale of passion, discovery, and survival under starlight.
Number 1 in the Desire Vampire series
Categories/Tropes: Violence, Enemies to Lovers, BDSM, Lesbian Romance, Erotic Romance.
Desiree Nichols is a very good girl. Ask almost any woman in Miami with a taste for pink. She hasn't left a single one unsatisfied in all the years she's been prowling the city. But when a bad love affair and her mother's unexpected illness knocks Dez off her game, it'll take a very special woman to set things right in her world again.
Number 1 in the How Sweet It Is series.
Categories/Tropes: Brother's Best Friend, light BDSM, Secret Lovers, Family Drama, Lesbian Romance, Erotic Romance.
After an intensely erotic affair ends in her abandonment, closeted exec, Bliss Sinclair, escapes to Jamaica and to the welcoming embrace of her family, hoping to recover her equilibrium. On the island of her birth, she discovers herself, family she never knew she had, and a love more complete than she ever dreamed.
Categories/Tropes: Coming Out, Family Drama, Her Sister's Woman, Travel Romance, Lesbian Romance.
2011 Tiny Satchel Press * Print and ebook
For Carlene (Cee-Cee), newly arrived to the U.S. from Jamaica, high school is a difficult territory to navigate. When a group led by one of the most popular girls at school targets and taunts her for her accent and her skin color, she turns to art as a refuge. As if dealing with teenage Neanderthals wasn't enough, her mother's suddenly revealed secret puts Cee-Cee even more at risk, not just from the never-ending cruelties at school, but also from herself.
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Categories/Tropes: Young Adult, New School, Fitting In, Lesbian Parents.
2010 Red Hills Publishing * Ebook only
The artist with a secret passion. An assassin on the hunt. A Jamaican exiled in snow. These are just a few of the women who come to life in this seductive collection of thirteen stories by novelist, Fiona Zedde.
Exploring themes of love, desire, liberation, and loss, these stories take the reader on a journey into the hearts and minds of unforgettable characters who linger long after the last page has turned.
If you read and enjoyed any of Fiona's previous novels - Bliss, A Taste of Sin, Every Dark Desire, or Hungry for It - this is an anthology not to be missed.
Categories/Tropes: Short Stories, Sassy Heroine, Lesbian Romance.
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Noah Ringer was born Noah Andrew Ringer on November 18th, in Dallas, Texas, United States. His zodiac sign is Scorpio.
As an actor, Noah Ringer has worked on movies such as The Last Airbender, released in 2010 in which he plays Aang, Cowboys & Aliens (2011) playing Emmett.
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Who's Shooting Where
Top Location Picks
Discover Filmmaking Through the Eyes of a Real Location Scout
John Rakich, president of the Location Managers Guild International, discusses scouting challenges and how the creative process has changed in the streaming era
What are the factors you consider when scouting a location?
When you're scouting a location, you're beholden to more than more master. On one hand, you're dealing with the creative side and what the director, production designer and director of photography would like, and on the other hand, you want to find a location that's logistically feasible. The wonderful thing about the motion picture and television industry is that you can do almost anything if there's enough time and money—we can access more remote places if we have the resources. But you also need to keep in mind the scope of the production and the resources or schedule that are available.
What is an example of needing to adjust your expectations based on a creative or logistical decision?
I was working on one of the Resident Evil films, and the whole opening sequence was a sniper looking down from a rooftop on a city square. We consulted with the designer and director and found the perfect town square for this location, but when the director or photography joined the project, he explained to us that the shot would be impossible since 3D cameras were becoming more popular, and it was detrimental to go that high up with the equipment he would need to use. So we had to scrap everything and re-adjust for a camera setup that would require a 12-person team, and that's something you can't anticipate until everyone is onboard the project.
How has updated technology and the transition from film to digital affected the locations you scout or how they appear onscreen?
The camera technology is certainly getting smaller and allows you to leave a smaller footprint, but what's happening is that 4K cameras are no longer the standard, and 8K cameras are becoming more popular. But conversely, there are larger vehicles and lighting setups required for those cameras, so the logistics are equally challenging.
What's really changed is the accessibility over special effects shots. I've worked on the last two seasons of See for Apple TV+, and that show has giant battlegrounds with explosions and vast rock quarries at a scope that used to be extremely rare for TV. And with the volumetric filming on shows like The Mandalorian, we're also looking for more place-shot scouting for backgrounds instead of considering how the actors will be lit in the environment.
Has the streaming model for content changed how you approach the creative process?
Especially for TV shows, the director's creative control has already been distributed to other people. The producer, production designer and director of photography who are with the project for every episode have developed the groundwork before the director comes onboard, and with the budgets and resources now being spent by these streaming services, we're essentially shooting films within an episodic timeframe. As an example, the season finale of Stranger Things was two-and-a-half hours, which is longer than most feature films. But also with those increased resources are more comprehensive outlines, so I can see the story arcs for an entire series to dictate the locations we select.
You're a proud Canadian and Toronto resident. What defines the city and province of Ontario for you?
Being able to stand in for so many locations has always been our selling point. The province of Ontario changes topographically from flat plains to rocky hills to cliff edges and waterfalls. And Toronto and Canada have always been popular with filmmaking because the cities can stand in so easily for other locations, but even in the last five years, Calgary and Winnipeg in our prairie provinces have seen a huge influx of work. HBO just shot The Last of Us in Winnipeg, and Ghostbusters: Afterlife was able to use the open prairies of Canada even though the story takes place in Oklahoma.
States and provinces are increasingly introducing tax incentives and ways to draw productions from the major filmmaking hubs of Los Angeles and New York City. What would you say are the benefits of those incentives?
I think the incentives are really most important for developing an industry and talent base within the region, not necessarily the monetary benefits for the productions. The southern states like Georgia, North Carolina and Louisiana have seen surges of production in the last 15 years, and you can see them developing the base of technicians and studio space to accommodate a pretty rigorous production schedule, but the reason why Toronto remains so popular is that we've been that developing talent without tax incentives for 40 years.
It goes even farther than that—it's the little things that people don't necessarily think about. It's not just the money that's going to local labor, but it's the hotel rooms, rental cars, even the pens and paper. The average production spends quite a bit of its budget at an office supply store, and those little things make a massive financial impact. And that's why most jurisdictions are trying to fast-track the recovery of their film sector, because it touches so many other elements of the economy.
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Our CHI video 2014 for our paper Large-Scale Assessment of Mobile Notifications, written by Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Niels Henze, Tilman Dingler, Martin Pielot, Dominik Weber, and Albrecht Schmidt.
Our CHI video 2014 for our paper Exploiting Thermal Reflection for Interactive Systems, written by Alireza Sahami Shirazi, Yomna Abdelrahman, Niels Henze, Stefan Schneegass, Mohammadreza Khalilbeigi and Albrecht Schmidt.
Our CHI video 2014 for our note I Can Wait a Minute: Uncovering the Optimal Delay Time for Pre-Moderated User-Generated Content on Public Displays, written by Miriam Greis, Florian Alt, Niels Henze and Nemanja Memarovic.
This entry was posted in Windows Mobile on March 3, 2014 by Niels Henze.
I implemented a markerless object recognition that processes multiple camera images per second on recent mobile phones. The algorithm combines a stripped down SIFT with a scalable vocabulary tree and a simple feature matching.
Based on this algorithm we implemented a simple application which is shown in the video below. The stuff is described in more detail in a paper titled "What is That? Object Recognition from Natural Features on a Mobile Phone" that we submitted to MIRW'09.
This entry was posted in programming, research, Windows Mobile and tagged mirw, object recognition, paper, Windows Mobile on August 8, 2009 by Niels.
Loads and calculation are interleaved to have less pipeline stalls. I haven't looked at it in detail but the assembler version need ~25% less time than the intrinsics which needs around 25% less time than the naive C version. Still the assembler and the intrinsic versions are slower than I expected. Probably they are not properly inlined.
This entry was posted in programming, Windows Mobile and tagged ARM, assembler, MMX, SSD, WMMX on July 22, 2009 by Niels.
I implemented an object recognition algorithm for Windows Mobile 6 using Visual Studio 2008. When it worked somehow I thought about improving its performance to process more images per second. One aspect of my implementation is to compute two byte vector's sum of squared differences (some million times per second of course). My device is an ASUS P535 with an Xscale processor so I opt for using Wireless MMX. Since in-line assembler is not supported for ARM processors I used the according MMX intrinsics.
Of course the function must be adapted to fit the actual length of the vector to be useful. However, the function returned completely random results. It took me a while to puzzle out why my function is buggy. Actually the values loaded in v1 and v2 are already wrong. __m64 v1=*((__m64*)(a)); should load 8 bytes in v1 but loads only 4 bytes in the lower half of v1. The other 4 bytes seem to be random. I tested a bunch of other options to load values in a __m64 variable and all failed in the same way. Looking into the assembler code generated by the compiler reveals that instead of using the wldrd instruction (which actually loads 8 bytes) the compiler generates a wldrw instruction (which loads only 4 bytes). It might be a compiler bug and I assume that its related to the alignment of the arrays. Intel's assembler reference manual says that in order to load 8 bytes in a WMMX the bytes must be aligned to 8 bytes. However, Microsoft's documentation of the WMMX intrinsics tells us that if "data is not appropriately aligned, the program will throw an exception". No exception for me and I also tried to align the data properly.
This entry was posted in programming, Windows Mobile and tagged ARM, MMX, Visual Studio, Windows Mobile, WMMX, Xscale on July 10, 2009 by Niels.


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Buddy Bag scheme wins £2,500 cash boost
MAXIMUS Foundation UK has given money to fund items for children in emergency care
Jane McFarlane
MAXIMUS Foundation UK has provided the Buddy Bag Foundation with a grant of £2,500 to fund essentials and comfort items for children in emergency care.
The charity, based in South Derbyshire, provides 'Buddy Bags' containing pyjamas, toiletries and other items for a child's immediate wellbeing and comfort.
The charity's founder, Karen Williams, received the donation from Di Briggs, Chair for the MAXIMUS Foundation UK. The grant will fund the preparation of 100 Buddy Bags by the charity's team of volunteers, which will help 180 children.
Di Briggs, Chair, MAXIMUS Foundation UK said: "We are proud to be awarding a grant to the Buddy Bag Foundation. The comforting and useful items they provide help children in emergency care feel that they are not alone, and it's great to play a role in helping the BBF's team of volunteers to continue their amazing work".
Karen Williams, Founder, The Buddy Bag Foundation, said: "We are delighted to receive this grant from MAXIMUS Foundation UK. The grant of £2,500 will enable us to pack 100 buddy bags at one of our regular Buddy Bag Brigades. The bags will be delivered to local women's refuges in the areas where they are most needed".


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Central Africa needs 'concrete measures' to achieve stability, says Ban Ki-moon
UN News - May 18, 2007
Welcoming steps to approve a Central African pact against the illegal trafficking of arms and a code of conduct for the countries' armed forces, Secretary-General Ban today told a United Nations-sponsored security meeting that such concrete measures were needed for the region to achieve lasting peace and stability.
In a message to the latest ministerial meeting of the UN Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa, Mr. Ban said there have been several signs of important progress in the region over the past year despite the many challenges it faces.
He cited the holding of presidential and legislative elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the ceasefire between the Burundian Government and that country's last major rebel group, PALIPEHUTU-FNL, as encouraging examples.
But he added that the delay in implementing the ceasefire in Burundi and the outbreak of deadly violence in the DRC in March indicated the fragility of the situation in those two countries.
"It is therefore very important to put in place the mechanisms and the programmes which will consolidate the progress realised," Mr. Ban said in the message, delivered on his behalf to the meeting by Agnès Marcaillou, Chief of the Regional Disarmament Branch of the UN Office for Disarmament Affairs.
The five-day meeting, which concludes tomorrow, is being held in São Tomé, capital of São Tomé and Príncipe.
Mr. Ban added that the current conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, which is threatening to engulf neighbouring Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) as well, showed the need for a regional framework for collective security.
"I welcome also your intention to approve as soon as possible the text of a sub-regional instrument in the fight against the illegal trade in small arms, and a code of conduct for the armed and security forces in Central Africa.
"Only concrete measures to reinforce peace and security will restore the necessary stability for sustainable development of Central Africa and give the populations the opportunity to exploit fully their immense human and natural riches."
The Committee, which meets twice a year at the ministerial level, was established by the UN Secretary-General in May 1992 and its membership comprises all 11 countries in the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) - Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, the CAR, Chad, the Republic of Congo, the DRC, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda and São Tomé and Príncipe.
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In an interview with Al-Monitor, Iranian Central Bank Governor Valiollah Seif said Iran has made economic progress even before the lifting of sanctions and invited American companies to compete with Europeans in trading with and investing in Iran.
Valiollah Seif, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran, waits to start a meeting with Britain's Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (not pictured) in Tehran, Iran Aug. 23, 2015.
The governor of Iran's Central Bank said that Iran expects the US government to reinstitute limited access to the US dollar to facilitate Iran's financial transactions with the rest of the world and fully implement the recent nuclear deal.
The comment by Valiollah Seif, in a lengthy and detailed interview with Al-Monitor April 14, sets up a potential confrontation with the Barack Obama administration that could undermine the agreement Iran reached with the United States and five other world powers last year.
Under the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran agreed to curbs on its nuclear program in return for what Seif called "effective implementation of the agreement in such a way that Iran's economic and business activities will be facilitated." This includes, Seif said, what is known as the U-turn: Transactions that must be cleared through a US financial institution even though the money does not stay in the US bank.
Such brief contact with the dollar is customary when currencies such as the Indian rupee are converted into euros; the dollar is used in pricing the conversion. Iran would like to employ the U-turn to gain easier access to some $100 billion in foreign reserves that had been frozen in Asian banks prior to the JCPOA.
US officials, including Treasury Secretary Jack Lew — with whom Seif met on April 14 — have ruled out reinstituting the U-turn for Iran even though the procedure was allowed from 1995, when the United States ended direct banking relations with Iran and imposed a wide trade embargo, until 2008. Seif made clear in the interview that the JCPOA was predicated on the lifting of all nuclear-related sanctions and that in Iran's opinion, the U-turn waiver was included.
"This is our expectation, that the agreement will lead to that," Seif told Al-Monitor with emphasis.
In an appearance April 15 at the Council on Foreign Relations, Seif said Iran had not seen the results it expected after implementation of the JCPOA. "Almost nothing" has happened, Seif said. "In general, we are not able to use our frozen funds abroad." He asked for more "serious efforts" by the US government to fulfill its commitments to help Iran re-enter the global financial system. "They have not honored their obligations," Seif said.
The issue of U-turns has become politically charged in the United States and there are several bills in Congress that would outlaw the return of the procedure for Iran. It is not clear how the Obama administration will resolve the issue during an election year at a time when many in Congress are emphasizing their opposition to Iranian actions outside the JCPOA, such as Iran's continued testing of ballistic missiles, support for the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and incarceration of Iranian-Americans. The United States is retaining unilateral sanctions related to missiles, support for terrorism and human rights even as it has lifted so-called secondary sanctions that targeted non-US companies dealing with Iran.
Even with nuclear-related sanctions lifted, Iran's economy faces other challenges related to gross mismanagement under the eight-year presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Seif told Al-Monitor that the government of President Hassan Rouhani had succeeded in addressing many of the problems it inherited from Ahmadinejad even before the JCPOA was implemented in January. He said that the banking sector, in particular, was making progress in improving transparency and dealing with a backlog of toxic nonperforming loans.
Iranian officials have been disappointed that large European banks are still wary of returning to the Iranian market. Some have been hit with huge fines from the US Treasury for prior dealings and there is concern about the imposition of more US sanctions or re-imposition of old ones, particularly after Obama leaves office.
Seif said Iran was taking steps to improve its financial image and seeking to convince the Financial Action Task Force, an international intergovernmental body based in Paris, to lift its designation of Iran as a "high-risk" jurisdiction for money laundering and "noncooperative" in countering financial terrorism. Seif said Iran's parliament passed an anti-money laundering law a few years ago and last month approved a law combating the financing of terrorism.
The Central Bank governor, who has a 30-year career in the banking sector including as chairman and managing director of several state-owned and private banks, said Iran was also taking a number of steps to help banks cleanse their books of non-performing loans and to wind down nonfinancial institutions that offered high interest rates but were essentially pyramid schemes.
Seif said that the Central Bank had also made "very good progress" in closing non-accredited financial institutions and had managed to return deposits in some cases. He blamed Iran's high interest rates of about 20% in part on these pyramid schemes as well as a lax monetary policy under Ahmadinejad.
Seif predicted that inflation rates, which have already declined from about 40% under Ahmadinejad to 10-12%, would go down to single digits and that interest rates would follow.
He expressed pride in the fact that Iran's economy has continued to grow despite the reduction in oil prices and compared that performance with other oil-exporting countries such as Russia, Venezuela and Kazakhstan.
Even while sanctions were in place, "We had relative economic stability in spite of the fact that we had a sharp drop in the price of oil," he said.
According to the IMF, Iran's economy was flat last year but is projected to grow by 4% this year and 3.7% in 2017.
The nuclear deal permits continued US trade with Iran in humanitarian goods such as food and medicine and includes a carve-out for civilian airliners and associated services. Foreign subsidiaries of US companies are also allowed to do business with Iran provided that no Americans are directly involved.


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In solid state chemistry, the fluorite structure refers to a common motif for compounds with the formula MX2. The X ions occupy the eight tetrahedral interstitial sites whereas M ions occupy the regular sites of a face-centered cubic (FCC) structure.  Many compounds, notably the common mineral fluorite (CaF2), adopt this structure.

Many compounds with formula M2X have an antifluorite structure. In these the locations of the anions and cations are reversed relative to fluorite (an anti-structure); the anions occupy the FCC regular sites whereas the cations occupy the tetrahedral interstitial sites. For example, Magnesium silicide, Mg2Si, has a lattice parameter of 6.338 Å with magnesium cations occupying the tetrahedral interstitial sites, in which each silicide anion is surrounded by eight magnesium cations and each magnesium cation is surrounded by four silicide anions in a tetrahedral fashion.

Calcium fluoride Example
Crystallography is a powerful tool to investigate the structures of crystalline materials. It is important to understand the crystal structure of materials in order to form structure - property relationships. These relationships can help predict the behavior of crystalline materials, as well as introduce the ability to tune their properties. Calcium fluoride is a classic example of a crystal with the fluorite structure. Crystallographic information can be collected via x-ray diffraction, providing information on the locations of electron density within a crystal structure. Using modern software such as Olex2, one can solve a crystal structure from crystallographic output files.

Views of calcium fluoride crystal structure

In calcium fluoride, the calcium cations are surrounded by fluorine anions that occupy the tetrahedral sites, with an 8:4 coordination number, fluorine to calcium. This ration is consistent with the stoichiometry of the compound, where the ratio of fluorine to calcium is 2:1. This relationship can be visualized as a cubic array of anions surrounding the calcium cations.

Extended fluorite structure

Beyond the until cell, the extended crystal structure of fluorite continues packing in a face centered cubic (fcc) packing structure (also known as cubic close packed or ccp). This pattern of spherical packing follows an ABC pattern, where each successive layer of spheres settles on top of the adjacent hole of the lattice. In contrast, hexagonal close-packed (hcp), are successively layered with an ABAB pattern. These two types of packing are the most closely packed forms of spherical packing.

See also
 Rock-salt structure

References

Cubic minerals
Minerals in space group 225

Fluorine minerals
Crystal structure types

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Gourds and a bird
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Chen Wenxi studied at the Xinhua Art Academy in Shanghai. He was a lecturer at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore, and received the public Service Star and an Honorary doctorate from the National University of Singapore.
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Tom Capone (January 1, 1966 – September 2, 2004), born Luiz Antonio Ferreira Gonçalves, was a Brazilian music producer and guitar player. Born in Rio Negro/PR, Brazil, he died in Los Angeles hours after leaving the 2004 Latin Grammy Awards show when his motorcycle collided with a car.  He had been nominated for five Latin Grammy awards. His production for Maria Rita's eponymous debut won Latin Grammys for "New Star", MBP song: "A Festa" and "MPB Record of the Year".

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Pine Crest Golf Course, is a Public, 9 hole golf course located in Vancouver, Washington.
The course first opened for play July 15, 1965. The course was designed by Pat and Mary Hart.
This short but fun course sits on ground overlooking Salmon Creek.
Par for the course is 27. The course plays to 1,199 yards. The longest hole on the course is # 7, a par-3 that plays to 170 yards. The shortest hole on the course is # 1, a par-3 that plays to 77 yards from the back tees.
Watch out for # 3, a 164-yard par-3 challenge and the #1 handicap hole on the course. The easiest hole at Pine Crest Golf Course is # 1, the 77 yard par-3.


On February 17, 2009, Harvey Pekar made a rare NYC appearance, jam-packing the YIVO Institute for Jewish Studies amphitheater for an interview conducted by comics scholar Danny Fingeroth. To properly document our man and produce some future Pekar Project special goodies, SMITH brought two ringers backstage pre-show, the kookycool Josh McCutchen who covers NYC events on his eponymously named internet TV show and master portrait photographer Seth Kushner.
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I'm Josh McCutchen. I have 20 more episodes! http://www.youtube.com/joshmccutchen.
Experience New York City as your host Josh McCutchen searches for Adventure in the city that never sleeps. Witness the manifestation of interactive weirdness between Josh and the People of Earth. This is known as "The Rich Magic Moment Experience".
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It was a great honor interviewing Harvey. He is still quite a character.
Good video, nice to see what Harvey's like these days.
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Facebook Suspends Account of Ukrainian Jewish Leader After He Posts Details of Country's Holocaust Collaboration
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Monument to those murdered at Babi Yar, Ukraine. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
JNS.org — A prominent Jewish figure in Kiev found his Facebook account suspended after his post detailing Ukrainian collaboration in the Holocaust was flagged as a violation of the social networking site's terms of service.
Eduard Dolinsky, director-general of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee, told JNS.org he was locked out of his account October 20 after posting an old video of the Soviet trial of two members of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), a group that participated in the murder of Jewish civilians during World War II.
Dolinsky, an outspoken critic of the Ukrainian government's alleged support for revisionist history that denies the country's role in the Holocaust, said this was not the first time he has been censored by Facebook. Over the past several weeks, two other of his posts critical of Ukraine's past actions were removed by the social media site.
"I believe that this is an orchestrated attack by Holocaust deniers here in Ukraine," Dolinsky said. He added that he was careful to avoid foul language or any other objectionable content, which would have resulted in immediate censorship.
A teacher has been fired from a Mexico City university after she was seen mocking Holocaust victims during a virtual...
"The post was absolutely correct," he told JNS.org.
Other comments that Dolinsky said have been taken down by Facebook include those criticizing official signs commemorating fighters of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), an offshoot of the UPA and a group initially supportive of the Germans. The OUN has been implicated in the murder of many Jews and Poles, and only eventually broke from the Nazis over the issue of Ukrainian independence.
Dolinsky's posts condemning such memorials placed at the Kiev municipality and at Babi Yar — the site of a two-day massacre of 33,000 Jews by the Nazis, where OUN members were later killed as well — were removed as violations of Facebook's terms of service.
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Jerusalem office told JNS.org, "It is a very sad day and a very serious matter if any criticism of the efforts of the Ukrainian government to distort the history of World War II and the Holocaust are taken down by Facebook."
"Such a ridiculous policy basically gives the Ukrainian government a green light to continue to glorify individuals who participated in the mass murder of Jews during the Holocaust," Zuroff added.
Eduard Dolinsky. Photo: European Jewish Parliament.
Dolinsky is not the only individual to report facing censorship when critical of the Ukrainian government online. Experts say there is rampant restriction of freedom of speech in the formerly communist country.
Ukrainian-Israeli journalists Shimon Briman and Alex Kogan both shared a post discussing the responsibility of World War I-era Ukrainian leader Simon Petliura in a series of pogroms against Jews. The post, which contained a Russian epithet for Jews, was removed from both journalists' timelines.
"I felt there is anti-Jewish censorship on Facebook," Briman said.
Briman said he does not believe the Ukrainian government had any direct involvement, but believes that a bill passed last year by parliament making the denigration of the OUN and UPA illegal has encouraged social media "trolls" to attack critics of Ukraine's historical record.
"We are talking about a well-organized community of Ukrainians, who well understand what they are doing," Kogan said.
Professor John Paul Himka, a Canadian researcher who focuses on the Holocaust in Ukraine, pointed to the recent government ban on the Polish film "Wołyń" — which details the WWII mass murder of Poles by Ukrainian nationalists — as proof of official stifling of free expression.
Though the 2015 law failed to establish specific penalties for violators who do criticize the OUN or UPA, academics and human rights activists around the world condemned it for censoring historical debate and establishing an official state narrative of the Holocaust.
Asked about the recent Facebook incidents, Volodymyr Viatrovych, director of Ukraine's state-sponsored Institute for National Memory, told JNS.org, said the policy of "decommunization," or the process of dismantling the communist legacies of states in the former Soviet Bloc, does not generate censorship or limitations of freedom of speech. He added that he does not believe that the "Ukrainian politics of decommunization has some influence on the politics of Facebook."
Neither Facebook nor other representatives of the Ukrainian government responded to requests by JNS.org for comment.


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Daniel Erdmann & Samuel Rohrer – "From the Inside of a Cloud"
From the Inside of a Cloud is one of the more original sounding albums I've heard in a while. Recorded live, this collaboration of saxophonist Daniel Erdmann and drummer Samuel Rohrer gives the impression of a serene chamber jazz performance, except for the sudden interludes of avant-garde edginess and modern post-bop relentlessness. Within all that fury and motion, however, emit strands and fragments of melodic beauty, and the contrast between environment and expression is thrilling to hear.
Your album personnel: Daniel Erdmann (tenor sax), Vincent Courtois (cello), Frank Möbus (guitar), and Samuel Rohrer (drums).
From The Inside Of A Cloud by Daniel Erdmann – Samuel Rohrer w/ Frank Möbus & Vincent Courtois
The pulsing tempo of album-opener "Cumulus" emits a wavering melody that rides the back of Courtois' cello's wavering dissonance, while "Konässörs" is accentuated by the rise and fall of Erdmann's saxophone calls, broken and flayed by the serrated edge of Möbus's guitar.
The sax-cello interaction to open "5463" is equaled for thrills by Erdmann's conversations with guitar, then drums, then cello yet again… the first as patient breaths of melody, the second as harmony via low moans and howls, and the third as a pulsing rhythmic accompaniment to Courtois' furious cello solo. On the other hand, "In the Valley" drifts languidly, presenting dark clouds as contrast to its peaceful atmosphere.
"M39-Route to Bishkek" keeps to a casual tempo, the guitar's nonchalance a nifty counterbalance to Rohrer thoughtful, but excitable drumming. Meanwhile, Erdmann's saxophone alternates between accentuating a developing groove and sending out blistering streaks of fire. This, too, has a counterbalance, this time in Courtois's pizzicato, the delicate plucking of cello strings offering a lighter touch for when saxophone brings the heat.
The album ends with the sublime "Broken Tails," which begins as a slowly rising tide of intensity, still waters swelling up into roiling turbulence. This tide, too, recedes, revealing a bit of a groove, until this, too, is subsumed by a ferocious wave of dissonance that breaks just as the song reaches its conclusion, the final sounds mere sonic contrails of what came before. A powerful end to a powerful song.
Just a fascinating album. It was released late in 2013, after I'd already completed by Best of 2013 list… expect it to get some strong consideration when I begin making my Best of 2014 list.
Released on Arjuna Music.
Available at: Bandcamp | eMusic | Amazon: CD – MP3
This same quartet recorded a studio album, too, titled How to Catch a Cloud, and released on the Intakt Records label. I didn't find that album quite as striking as their live recording, but it is still pretty damn good. Worth looking into. I almost doubled up on this column by including a review of it, too, but just couldn't fit it into my schedule.
Rohrer also drums on the excellent ECM Records release Rruga by Colin Vallon's trio, which, arguably, was one of the best albums released in 2011. I mention it only to further illustrate Rohrer's ability to navigate a serene landscape. Read a review HERE.
For the most part, this review is original to Bird is the Worm, but I sorta fell in love with a couple of the sentences that I originally used in my Jazz Picks weekly article for eMusic when I first talked about this album, and I wanted to use those couple of sentences here unaltered. So, while I'm not even sure I need to do this, out of respect to eMusic, here's some language protecting their rights to those couple sentences of reprinted material as the one to hire me to write about new jazz arrivals to their site…
"New Arrivals Jazz Picks," reprints courtesy of eMusic.com, Inc.
© 2014 eMusic.com, Inc.
Not for nothing, my sincere thanks to eMusic for the gig. I love the opportunity provided to put the spotlight on so much modern jazz that might otherwise fly under the radar… like, for instance, this album. Cheers.
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Working out and staying fit has always been difficult for most people. It does not matter if you are a gym buff or the laziest person on earth because there will come a point wherein you will just feel demotivated and fall off the track.
Here, we will discuss a couple of things you can do to make sure that you will power through your Fremont personal trainer's schedule and other plans for your fitness.
Find something you know will motivate and remind yourself of that specific thing. For example, you can buy a couple of swimsuits and make them your motivation by putting them in a visible area in your closet. Buy them one size smaller than your current size, so you will be forced to go down a few sizes to be able to wear them. The same goes for dresses and other clothes. Buy them a couple of sizes smaller, so you will be motivated to workout and go on a diet so you can make use of them soon.
Other motivations can be for the important people in your life. Working out and having a proper diet can increase your lifespan. If you want to stay healthy and be around for your friends and family for a long time, then go ahead and make that a motivation to start your fitness journey.
You are human and just like any other person in this world, you will make a mistake. Remember that it's okay to mess up and fall off the wagon every once in a while. Besides, you owe it to yourself to rest and take a couple of breaks. Do not force yourself to go all out if you can, as this will only lead to failures and mistakes. Rest if you need to and make sure that you are 100% committed before starting again. Mistakes are all part of the journey and allowing yourself to do so will allow you to be successful in the future.
You have been slacking off and you just ate an entire box of pizza, and now you are feeling guilty. Well, now is not the time to be ashamed because the deed has been done. The wisest thing to do is to pick yourself up and continue where you left off. If you feel like you have eaten too much and haven't worked out for a while, then get yourself together and workout as soon as you can.
Remind yourself not to repeat the same mistakes because if you do, you might completely fall off the wagon, which will make it much more difficult for you to get back on it.
Get a workout buddy. Working out with someone can set you up for success, as you will feel highly motivated. Whether it's a friend, a family member, or your significant other, finding someone to motivate you when you need that extra push can be effective. If you have no one else to workout or diet with, then ask your personal trainer to do it with you.
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NBA Draft Lottery 2017: Projected Order and Odds for Every Team Involved
Alec Nathan@@AlecBNathanTwitter LogoFeatured ColumnistApril 13, 2017
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The 2016-17 regular season has concluded, but the Boston Celtics didn't have to wait until Wednesday to find themselves with the best odds to nab the No. 1 pick in the 2017 NBA draft on June 22 via the Brooklyn Nets.
The pingpong balls will have the final say May 16, when the draft lottery is slated to unfold.
Until then, here's a rundown of the projected lottery order based on season-ending standings and the odds associated with them, courtesy of Tankathon.com:
2017 NBA Draft Lottery Odds
Pick Team Record No. 1 Pick Odds Top 3 Pick Odds
1 Boston Celtics (via Brooklyn Nets) 20-62 25.0% 64.3%
2 Phoenix Suns 24-58 19.9% 55.8%
3 Los Angeles Lakers 26-56 15.6% 46.9%
4 Philadelphia 76ers 28-54 11.9% 37.8%
5 Orlando Magic 29-53 8.8% 29.1%
6 Minnesota Timberwolves* 31-51 5.3% 18.3%
7 New York Knicks* 31-51 5.3% 18.3%
8 Sacramento Kings 32-50 2.8% 9.9%
9 Dallas Mavericks 33-49 1.7% 6.1%
10 New Orleans Pelicans 34-48 1.1% 4.0%
11 Charlotte Hornets 36-46 0.8% 2.9%
12 Detroit Pistons 37-45 0.7% 2.5%
13 Denver Nuggets 40-42 0.6% 2.2%
14 Miami Heat 41-41 0.5% 1.8%
Source: Tankathon.com; * denotes tiebreaker determined by coin flip
Lottery Preview
When it comes to the 2017 lottery, the focus should be on picks that will or could convey.
For starters, the Nets' unprotected first-round selection will move to the Celtics—who are still reaping the benefits from the blockbuster trade that sent Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce to Brooklyn in 2013.
The New Orleans Pelicans also likely find themselves without a first-round pick this year—it's protected for selections 1-3—after they shipped it to the Sacramento Kings in the DeMarcus Cousins trade shortly before the Feb. 23 trade deadline.
It's good the Kings bolstered their pick stockpile because they could be in trouble on draft night if the balls bounce a certain way.
Although they seemingly recouped a first-round selection from the Pelicans and would then be picking in the lottery twice, they aren't in control of their destiny. The Philadelphia 76ers own swap rights on the Kings' own 2017 first-round pick if it falls any higher than No. 11.
Speaking of the Sixers, the league's preeminent process-trusters could wind up being lottery night's biggest winners if the pingpong balls bounce the right way.
Not only do they likely own insurance should their pick slide behind the Kings', but they could wind up with two top-five selections thanks to the foresight of former general manager Sam Hinkie.
Philadelphia owns the Los Angeles Lakers' top-three protected pick—which becomes unprotected in 2018 if it doesn't convey this year—by virtue of the February 2015 deal that sent Michael Carter-Williams to the Milwaukee Bucks and Brandon Knight to the Phoenix Suns.
That pick has a 53.1 percent chance to convey after the Purple and Gold rattled off a slew of wins to close out their season, as ESPN.com's Baxter Holmes noted:
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Prior to 5-gm W streak, LAL stood to enter lottery w/ a/b 56% chance of keeping their pick. Now, they'll have a/b 53% chance of losing it.
With so many variables at play, lottery night certainly won't lack for drama as the NBA preps for a potential landscape shakeup.
Draft pick information retrieved from RealGM.com unless noted otherwise.
For more news, rumors and related stories about the NBA and NBA draft, check out the NBA draft and NBA streams on Bleacher Report's app.


Derek Owens taught physics, honors physics, AP Physics, and AP computer science at The Westminster Schools in Atlanta, GA from 1988-2000 and AP Calculus at Providence Christian Academy. He graduated from Duke University in 1988 with a degree in mechanical engineering and physics, and worked at the TIP program at Duke for two years, teaching physics and heading the Satellite Science Program. He received a National Science Foundation scholarship and studied history and philosophy of science at L'Abri Fellowship in England. He worked as a software developer for five years before returning to teaching.
This will be his tenth school year teaching homeschoolers in the Atlanta area. He and his wife Amor and their two children Claire and David attend Twelve Stone Church, a non-denominational church near their home in Lawrenceville.Read about all Mr. Owen's qualifications and other classes at his website here.


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Abney Park, N16
September 5, 2011 / The Editor
(Published in Pen Pusher, November 2008)
If you enter the cemetery from Church Street through the renovated entrance gates you find the perfectly-maintained monument to Charles Booth (1829-1912), social reformer and founder of the Salvation Army. His Christian soldiers are a good lot. Yet his sarcophagus no longer represents what this place is about. There are more powerful energies at work.
On a fine day you would not be aware of these forces. For this is the brightest of spaces. The trees make a harlequin's cloak across the acres of the dignified dead. Children, parents, young lovers, frolic between the shadows. Dogs, cats, squirrels, mice, wander cheerfully. Birds flourish. The winding paths takes you into such dense green spaces that you almost believe London no longer exists.
In a rainy autumn there is often the strange sense of being touched, by hanging branches, bushes, leaves, spiders' webs, slugs' slime. I once had the fear that if I stayed still too long I should be encased in ivy. On that occasion I was restored by the sight of a tomb to the Bostock family on which sat a finely carved lion. The inscription reads: 'In that happy Easter morning / All the graves the dead restore / Father, sister, and mother meet once more.' Tender love defies oblivion.
There is variety in the expressions of death. I notice on one headstone a well preserved photograph of a dark haired, handsome woman. I fantasize that she is about to set out, on a Friday in late-Fifties London, a Du Maurier between her fingers and fragrant from her weekend scent, for an evening of ballroom dancing. The reality of her perished flesh beneath the earth chills me. On a connecting path there is a small black marble memorial to two brothers, who both died in their twenties, in 1993 and 2002 respectively. Behind this is a sapling, to which a printed note is attached: 'Please stop stealing my flowers. You are upsetting me very much. I am David and Tom's mum, Margaret. Thank you.'
Although this place encourages reflection, one is also struck by a bravado: in the face of death the Victorians developed the elegance and drama of mortality. The main entrance on Stoke Newington High Street has Egyptian-style gates, and the entrance drive is wide. After this there are a series of tall pillars, some with angels, others depicting a broken column. All of them are three times taller than the average man. Was this cultural tendency for excess due to a confidence in the after life or a terror that there may be nothing there? Whatever the reasons, Abney Park gives us a glimpse into the Victorian sense of spectacle.
Like that age, this place is one of extreme contrasts. Behind the grand thoroughfares are secret areas where graves cluster together like snug hamlets. Such places are perfect for a quiet picnic or a lovers' tryst. Generally, there is a feeling of peace amongst the dead. As you read the names on the graves, 'Maeve Bowles', 'Lucy Turton', 'Charles Ryder', you feel part of a restful community. However, a sense of disharmony is never far away. Recently I came across lurid pink handwriting scrawled over an old stone headstone: 'Here lies Popadom, May she rest in peace.'
Abney Park was a non-denominational cemetery laid out in the 1840s by a private company. In 1972 the owners were declared bankrupt, although unauthorized burials continued for a few more years. Hackney Council now has responsibility for the site. In 1974 the Save Abney Park Cemetery group was set up, and the volunteers of today originate from that beginning.
There are many dignitaries buried, or memorialised, here. For example, Isaac Watts (1674- 1748), poet, writer of hymns, headteacher, who was educated at the prestigious Non-conformist Stoke Newington Academy, is honoured by a huge statue, which was paid for by public subscription in 1845. A War Memorial gains in dignity through its understatement.
There is always the hint that chaos may break through. This anxiety is at its strongest in autumn or winter, especially after twilight. In certain spots nature seems to have become unnaturally fecund: ivy hugs the curves of graves, tombs and benches like a forbidden lover. The moss is thick along the paths where weeds, fungi and graffiti struggle for dominance.
Once, a glue sniffer, a large young man with a skinhead haircut, his face stiff and his lips dribbling, jumped out of the bushes in front of me. Another time I passed on quickly as two people copulated noisily behind some trees.
In the middle of Abney Park is a chapel designed in the 1840s by the architect William Hosking, which combines elements of Gothic architecture with an overall geometric shape that is severe in its classicism. It is ruined now, closed to the public, and its roof is open to the elements. The presence of this building haunts the cemetery and to stand close to it, even on a sunny day, is to feel depressed. The ornate plasterwork of the tall Gothic windows is crumbling. Higher up, the four round, mandala-shaped windows have no glass in them although they would once have been a central aesthetic feature of the chapel. The spire, tall for such a small building, is intact and so are the spindly little turrets. So much effort came to this. Through the locked steel fence I can see dog shit, old clothes, rubble.
God has abandoned this building. There used to be occult symbols – a pentagram, an ankh, an upside down image of Christ on the Cross – painted onto the church. On a bench outside the chapel was the inscription: 'Do What Thou Wilt is the Whole of the Law', a quotation from Aleister Crowley, most evil of magicians.
In the 1980s there were articles in the local press about Satanists and witches holding ceremonies here (I gather there is still a group of black magicians practising their craft in the locality). These inscriptions have now been removed. Yet to stand here at night is to sense a force that is frightening.
As I walk out past the good General Booth I imagine the muted singing of hymns. The tinkling cymbals I half hear sound flimsy and far away. Death is dense and luscious in this place.


BRIGHT FUTURE Fort Berens Estate Winery in Lillooet followed up a remarkable 2014 with an announcement last week that the ownership group is expanding.
Lillooet's Fort Berens Estate recently welcomed two new owners to the team, building on a remarkable year for the award-winning winery located along the Fraser River.
Vancouver residents Dan Barnholden and Patrick Downey have joined husband-and-wife founders Rolf de Bruin and Heleen Pannekoek, along with a group of four other early partners.
"We are delighted to make this announcement. Dan and Patrick round out Fort Berens' Ownership Team and their investment will allow us to expand the production and distribution of estate-grown grapes and wine from our Lillooet vineyard," said de Bruin in a release.
Barnholden is a long-time associate of the founders with deep connections to Lillooet making him "a natural addition to the team," the release stated.
Downey, meanwhile, is also a friend of the owners and frequent visitor to Whistler as an avid skier and biker.
The move comes on the heels of a milestone year for the Lillooet winemakers, which included the opening of a new state-of-the-art $3.5-million winery facility and tasting room this past summer, as well as being honoured with one of the industry's most sought-after pieces of hardware: the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Excellence in B.C. Wine for their 2012 Riesling.
That momentum looks to have carried into 2015, with plans to begin offering lunch service this summer on the winery's patio with stunning views of its lush vineyards and nearby Coastal Mountains.
The owners are also exploring options to expand on its 10,000-square-metre vineyard and increase production levels after selling out of a number of its wines last year.
"We are working together with a few local farms to plant additional vineyards in the Lillooet region. We are also starting to think about the first steps in the development of our second estate vineyard on the benchlands directly north of our current vineyard," de Bruin explained. "We have exciting plans for this year and we think 2015 will be another successful year."
As the closest winery to Whistler, the people behind Fort Berens Estate have a vision of putting Lillooet on the tourist map for those increasing number of visitors making their way from the resort and the Lower Mainland, as well as those travelling west from the Okanagan region.
With the emergence of Fort Berens, which opened its doors in 2009, Lillooet is quickly becoming recognized as B.C.'s newest up-and-coming winemaking region, blessed with cool nighttime alpine breezes, hot and dry summer conditions and moderate winter that lend itself to a unique terroir ideal for growing grapes.


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In 1888, there were 33 different Breweries in the State of Idaho
In 1888, there were 33 different Breweries in the State of Idaho....that is the most breweries there have have ever been in the state at one time. Although National Prohibtion Started in 1919, Idaho started their own state wide prohibition in 1916....so there were no breweries in Idaho from 1916 to 1934. A few breweries came back in Idaho after 1934, but by 1961, they were all gone....the last one the Bohemian Brewery in Boise. Idaho was without any Breweries until Tim Batt started his Snake River Brewery in 1984. The T.W. Fischer BrewPub opened in Coeur D' Alene in 1987. Table Rock BrewPub opened in Boise in 1987 also.
Currently there are 31 Breweries open in Idaho. List of Idaho Breweries. Click on the Link to see a complete list of current Breweries in the State of Idaho and a List of those that have com an gone since 1984. Also included is a short list of Breweries that plan to open in 2013.
The Year 2013 should see at least 34 Breweries in the State finally exceeding the all time high for most Breweries in the State.
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today was orientation for ITP…all of us first year students got together to be welcomed by Red Burns and to introduce ourselves to everyone. there are so many really smart, really interesting people in this class, from all backgrounds and from all over the world. it's quite inspiring to be a part of this community.
…which doesn't mean that I understand it. However, it does seem to have the uncanny ability to predict how some things will behave and certainly can make come cool looking stuff.
Expanding on the spirographs from the other day, here's a modified version which will iterate through a range of .1-10.0 for r and R.


After the utter debacle that was the Galaxy Note 7 launch Samsung really need the Galaxy Note 8 launch to go well. The Galaxy s8 launch was a huge success. Now Samsung have really pushed the boat out. Everything about the Galaxy Note 8 is supposed to scream "we're back!". One of the most exciting aspects of the Note 8 is it's new dual camera. It's so good that the Galaxy Note 8 might have an even better camera than the iPhone 7 and p10 plus.
Up until the Samsung Galaxy 8 the only real competitors here were the iPhone 7 plus and the P10 plus. Samsung is looking to do better than both of its competitors both in terms of the camera itself and the software that goes along with it.
One of the best cameras this year belongs to Huawei's p10 Plus. Huawei went into the dual lens design with a splash when they partnered with German camera maker Lecia when they released the P9. Every new iteration of the phone has improved on the design and the P10 plus has solved the flaws of its predecessors. With one color and one black and white lens the camera can take incredible outdoor shots and undoubtedly gives one of the best camera experiences on the market at the moment.
The other competitor for the top spot is the excellent iPhone 7 plus. While it lacks the built-in black and white sensor of the P10 it handles low light conditions much more effectively. On top of this it uses a 56mm telephoto lens which allows users to zoom in without image loss. The iPhone 7 plus also creates one of the best bokeh effects available on a phone today. On top of this Apple bundled it with one of the best apps out there that allows for a lot of user control over the photos that are taken. Is it even possible for Samsung to compete with competition this stiff?
Samsung has firmly jumped on the dual lens trend. The Galaxy Note 8 will come with two 12-megapixel cameras. One is a regular/wide-angle lens with an aperture of f/1.7. The other is a telephoto lens with an aperture of f/2.4. So far this isn't a huge departure from either the P10 or iPhone 7 plus. What Samsung claims will set the Galaxy Note 8 apart is the fact that both lenses will come with optical image stabilization.
No other phone on the market currently offers this. Both the Huawei P10 Plus and the iPhone 7 plus offer OIS but only on their primary cameras. This leads to problems with shaking on highly zoomed in shots. The Galaxy Note 8 offers OIS on both lenses and this will theoretically allow for some really solid zoom shots. If it works as well as Samsung claims then the Galaxy Note 8 might have an even better camera than the iPhone 7 and P10 plus.
There are also some disappointing features. The primary of which is the placement of the fingerprint scanner. Samsung have decided to once again place it at the back of the phone right next to the camera. This will undoubtedly lead to unnecessary smudging and those of us who are used to the front facing sensor of the p10 plus and iPhone 7 plus will be disappointed.
The Galaxy note 8 needs to be Samsung's best phone yet. That much is clear. The fact that the Galaxy Note 8 might have an even better camera than the iPhone 7 and p10 could be a huge boost for the company. Many users will put a solid camera experience at the center of their decision and Samsung really have delivered.
Only time will tell whether it is enough to entice over Apple and Huawei fans.
I have always been fascinated by the impact of new technology and discoveries on the World around us. Every great advancement mankind has made has had a profound impact upon our society. Now our science and technology is advancing at a rate never before seen. It is my mission to understand the latest changes in the tech and science world and try to relate it back to our lives and how it will change the world around us. For good or ill.


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AUCKLAND FROM THE SKIES
This film shows scenes from Leo and Vivian Walsh's Flying School at Mission Bay, Kohimarama, Auckland [on 16th & 17th February, 1917]. The New Zealand Flying School opened in 1915 at Orakei before shifting to Mission Bay. It provided trained pilots for the Royal Flying Corps during World War One. Hugh Blackwell and the legendary George Bolt were among the pilots who trained there.
Men training to fly seaplanes at Mission Bay in Auckland. The airmen include George Bolt. Aerial footage of the Waitemata Harbour, Mechanics Bay and Rangitoto. The men attend classes and perform callisthenics outside, train in Morse code and aircraft maintenance. In their spare time they enjoy swimming and water skiing around the Orakei wharf.
Reference number F7556
Genre Actuality
Production company Dominion (NZ) Film
Credits Camera: Charles Frederick Newham


Andy Kelly and Young Face want you to listen to their song "No Judge Me" and rate it. » Bodybyloud! The GetRight Spot!
These two artists from Nigeria's Benue State want you to listen to their song, "No Judge Me" and rate it. Rate this track here on this post and in the New Music Elevation group here on Bodybyloud!
The universe has plenty of good music all around us, it's just a matter of bringing it into our lives. I figure, if we show love for what we like and ask others to do the same, all we have to do is align ourselves with people who like similar things and we'll find more of the things we're looking for as individuals. Just makes sense to me, If you want something from the universe, your chances of getting it are better if you put that same thing out to the universe, like kindness. One of my takes on the Law of Attraction is: The universe projects back to you what you project out into it. Express love and more often than not, love is gonna be expressed back to you.
Andy Kelly and Young Face [Featured Artist] These two artists from Nigeria's Benue State want you to listen to their song, "No Judge Me" and rate it.


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Hjalmar Richard Andersson Rissén, född 7 februari 1876 i Frustuna församling, död 21 september 1947 i Maria Magdalena församling, Stockholm, var en svensk tullkassör och riksdagspolitiker.

Rissén var ledamot av Riksdagens andra kammare mandatperioden 1909-1911.

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This is a mini I made using Basic Greys green at heart collection-they are lovely colourful papers too work with! This mini was made for Aisling by request once again from my Aunty Anne.
So where am I in my scrapbooking journey?-I posted off my pages to Daphna for the time flies swap over on the scrap beach- I also had joined a paper & goody swap which I posted off this week to my swap partner Tricia in New York. I am in another swap which I will soon be starting my pages for & it is using the new Graphic 45 once upon a springtime papers which I love.
I titled the mini "Find your path" and used lots of Prima flowers with button brads for centres on the cover, and some butterfly stickers.
Aideen - OMGoooshness how utterly adorable is this mini! So very creative!!
Beautiful mini, love the papers (one of my favs), and the embellishments, you make the album really special.


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18/12/2019 - Pupils monitor their bees' health in the lab
17/12/2019 - Genetic clues of TB spread revealed
06/12/2019 - Agrifood research could benefit African countries
29/11/19 - Members of the Scottish Parliament praise Roslin
28/11/2019 - Bacteria overcome hurdles to jump between species
25/11/2019 - Research hotel hosts future One Health scientists
21/11/2019 - Chicken gene find could help improve vaccines
20/11/2019 - Dog study links genetics to behavioural traits
18/11/2019 - Climate resilience of farm animals linked to genes
11/11/2019 - Lung cancer gene study may enable diagnostic tests
07/11/2019 - Livestock research focus at international event
05/11/2019 - Social network insights could aid pig welfare
04/11/2019 - Protein has crucial role in hardening of arteries
30/10/2019 - Scottish Parliament celebrates gender equality work
29/10/2019 - Stem cell partnership paves way to new therapies
21/10/2019 - Research into pig disease inspires UK campaign
18/10/2019 - Good moods found to be infectious among rodents
16/10/2019 - Stem cell studies pave way to leaner livestock
14/10/2019 - Celebrating two years of research and innovation
07/10/2019 - Dolly named in world top 10 biotech projects
07/10/2019 - Climate lessons could aid antibiotics challenge
07/10/2019 - Insights into hunger will aid poultry welfare
04/10/2019 - Award recognises impact of rabies work
04/10/2019 - Emergence of bacterial disease potentiated by toxin
04/10/2019 - Next phase for hedgehog-friendly campus plans
03/10/2019 - Animal welfare event focuses on emotions
02/10/2019 - Surrogacy advance could aid rare chicken breeds
01/10/2019 - Researchers foster ideas for large animal studies
27/09/2019 - Global livestock centre marks five-year milestone
27/09/2019 - New agreement to develop E. coli vaccine
24/09/2019 - Fellowship supports research into birth defects
19/09/2019 - Sheep study lends insight into gene variation
17/09/2019 - Innovative science PhD programmes announced
16/09/2019 -Veterinary vaccine development aided by new website
12/09/19 - Pioneering patient study celebrated at sepsis event
11/09/2019 - Identification of prion diseases aided by novel marker
10/09/2019 - $3 million grant to tackle costly pig virus
06/09/2019 - Model predicts vaccine effectiveness in animals
26/08/2019 - Sheep research could aid insights into childhood dementia
21/08/2019 - Cows, coughs and genome editing
12/08/2019 - Cow gut DNA study could help improve meat and dairy
06/08/2019 - Free kit helps children conduct science experiments
12/07/2019 - Our campus will create a wildlife haven for hedgehogs
06/07/2019 - World Zoonoses Day: diseases that spread from animals to people
27/06/2019 - Widely available antibiotics could target common strains of superbug
25/06/2019 - Rats associate a smell with a positive experience
21/06/2019 - New grant to investigate drug resistance in serious African cattle disease
13/06/2019 - Video: Tools for genetic gains of breeding programs
12/06/2019 - Eye disease patients to benefit from chicken study
04/06/2019 - Gene-edited chicken cells resist bird flu virus
29/05/2019 - Genetic selection and editing could improve animal fitness
24/05/2019 - Animal genetics open to debate at events this summer
23/05/2019 - How the brain normally ages
20/05/2019 - How genetics could help our honey bees
17/05/2019 - Dog DNA find could aid breathing problems
16/05/2019 - Gut worms may hinder the spread of prions to the brain
13/05/2019 - Inspiring future women scientists in Africa
10/05/2019 - Over 100 years of bird flu and human pandemic
09/05/2019 - The genetics of Scottish red deer immunology
06/05/2019 - Propensity to transmit diseases depends on genes
01/05/2019 - Chief Medical Officer visits sepsis research team
28/04/2019 - World Veterinary Day – the value of vaccination
15/04/2019 - Genome sequencing lab awarded international quality stamp
15/04/2019 - How vitamin D affects the immune system
08/04/2019 - European consortium to ensure safer and healthier fish
04/04/2019 - Oral dog vaccine could help beat rabies
01/04/2019 - Easter Bush Campus wins sustainability & social responsibility awards
27/03/2019 - Sepsis study to investigate the role of genes
26/03/2019 - Study of gene linked to blindness helps Border collie breeders
21/03/2019 - Roslin science in verse
12/03/2019 - Gene study set to investigate how flu jumps species
08/03/2019 - Roslin scientists will support women agricultural scientists in Ethiopia
07/03/2019 - Roslin Director is awarded the Ronald Ross medal
04/03/2019 - People choose romantic partners with similar lifespan
22/02/2019 - How bird feathers form in wave-like motion
22/02/2019 - Protein supports embryo cell survival under metabolic stress
18/02/2019 - Aquaculture genetics consortium set to tackle industry challenges
15/02/2019 - Survey to gauge public opinion on gene-edited meat
13/02/2019 - Deforestation linked to changes in spread of infectious diseases
12/02/2019 - Lung tissue forms immune cell hubs when needed
04/02/2019 - World Cancer Day: tackling cancer at Roslin
08/02/2019 - Survey for dairy farmers in effort to improve diagnostic techniques for cattle
07/02/2019 - Sheep with higher vitamin D levels give birth to heavier lambs
28/01/2019 - Hen eggs with human proteins offer drug hope
25/01/2019 - A new high quality reference genome for water buffalo
22/01/2019 - Long-read DNA analysis can give rise to errors
15/01/2019 - Scottish consortiums take giant leap forward for salmon gill health
10/01/2019 - Members of the Scottish Parliament visit the Institute
07/01/2019 - Beekeeping citizen science
03/01/2019 - Animal lovers' empathy may be hardwired in their DNA
Gene study set to investigate how flu jumps species
New study will identify genes that reduce Influenza A infection in pigs and chickens, and genes that limit the spread of the virus to people.
Influenza A virus – known for causing "bird flu" and "swine flu" – can affect both people and animals. The virus is able to jump to new species, where it can cause more severe symptoms. Seasonal epidemic outbreaks cause significant disease and death in people.
A new study led by Dr Finn Grey of The Roslin Institute aims to identify genes that are important in reducing infection by Influenza A virus in pigs and chickens, and genes that limit the spread of the virus to people.
A barrier to flu jumps to new species
Jumps to new species are relatively rare because the virus has to adapt to the new species and because a specific 'arm' of the immune system – called the host interferon response – represents a significant barrier to the virus spreading from animals to people.
This study will investigate which genes are important for inhibiting replication of Influenza A virus in pigs and chickens and which genes of the host interferon response limit the spread of the virus from animals to people.
Understanding how to combat influenza
The study, which will receive over £750,000 from the UK Governments's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, will boost our understanding of how to combat influenza strains.
Work will be conducted in collaboration with Roslin scientists Professor Paul Digard, Dr Kenneth Baillie and Dr Jacqueline Smith as well as Dr Sam Wilson from the Centre for Virus Research of the University of Glasgow.
Research of livestock influenza infections is critically important, both in terms of economic burden and the potential for pandemic human outbreaks. This research, along with the recent development of genome wide CRISPR libraries for livestock species, places The Roslin Institute at the forefront of cutting edge systematic approaches in livestock species.
Dr Finn Grey, The Roslin Institute
Lung tissue forms immune cell hubs when needed
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The Chinese Language School of Connecticut is holding their 15th annual Chinese New Year celebration on Jan 28 at Greenwich High School, in the student center.
The event, which runs from 11:00 am until 3:00pm, will feature an authentic Chinese buffet, Chinese music, dragon dance, professional and student performances, demonstrations and workshops for all ages.
There will also be arts & crafts activities and both a raffle and marketplace.
Event organizers say guest performers will include the New England Youth Symphony, Wesleyan Chinese Music Ensemble, and renowned global dancer Kaili Chen.
Calligraphy, crafts, Kung Fu and dance workshops will ensure that there is something for everyone.
The event is open to the public and organizers anticipate hundreds to attend from Greenwich and surrounding towns.
Greenwich High School is located at 10 Hillside Rd in Greenwich.


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Home Dev Artificial Intelligence Opyl Limited to use artificial intelligence to digitally transform Australia's healthcare sector
Opyl Limited to use artificial intelligence to digitally transform Australia's healthcare sector
Combining new technologies and healthcare expertise, the company's key offerings include optimising clinical study design and recruitment strategies to better understand the patient experience.
Opyl Limited (ASX:OPL) has launched a new company name and brand, heralding its entry into the rapidly expanding global digital health and artificial intelligence (AI) market.
Combining new technologies and healthcare expertise, Opyl's key offerings include optimising clinical study design and recruitment strategies.
The rebranded and refocused company, formerly known as ShareRoot Limited (), is using AI to better understand the patient experience
Following a strong shareholder vote at the company's recent annual general meeting, the new name of Opyl Limited was approved.
Reflective of new strategy
Opyl's former name and brand were established in the US in 2013 and the new name better reflects the company's new strategy.
The Social Science brand within the ShareRoot group of companies will also be retired.
Opyl is designed to use AI-assisted technologies to provide biopharma and health organisations with an opportunity to collect and analyse the significant volume of clinical health data and real-world data.
The continuous flow of health data created in clinical settings and by patients in the natural course of each day is exceptionally large with the vast proportion of it underutilised by medical researchers and developers.
Accessing public and consented de-identified health and wellness data created by patients willingly shared to social media and analysing it using AI is Opyl's point of difference.
"Giving patients more control"
Chief executive officer Michelle Gallaher said: "At last, through social media and patient-generated data, we can put the final piece of the puzzle into place and genuinely understand the real lived experience of people managing illness, injury and disorders.
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"Hearing millions of patients' and carers' voices for the first time in their own words shared to social media platforms is an extraordinary insight that few in the health sector have been able to access until now.
"Patient stories and information shared to social networks gives us an ability to understand what their needs are and how they are not being met, identifying gaps where new technologies can be developed, predict the spread of infectious diseases, identify shortcomings in health and wellness education, improve compliance, identify new clinical intervention opportunities and opening up a novel way for patients to participate in medical research as partners.
"Our vision is to give patients control and agency over all their health data, not just electronic health records".
Data technologies to personalise health experience
Melbourne design studio Malt Creative worked with Opyl's internal design team to develop the company's new brand identity.
Gallaher added: "Digital and data technologies will play an increasingly disruptive role in transforming health, clinical research and activating patients to be partners in their health care.
"I'm very excited to explore and bring into practice evolving digital tools that can personalise the health and wellness experience within a considered and ethical framework, where patients are recognised as partners and are empowered and incentivised to manage their data directly.
"We are very excited at the addition of AI-powered technologies to the STEMM-specialist social media content creation and management services we currently offer."
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Matson Run, and 2.3 mi upstream from mouth.
PERIOD OF RECORD.--December 1945 to current year.
REVISIONS HISTORY.--WSP 1382: 1948(m). https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/dv/?site_no=01477800: 2011-2014.
above North American Vertical Datum of 1988.
REMARKS.--Occasional regulation at low flow from unknown source upstream from station. U.S.
Geological Survey satellite data-collection platform at station.
minimum discharge, 0.09 ft3/s, October 2, 1968.
EXTREMES OUTSIDE PERIOD OF RECORD.--Maximum stage known since at least 1940, that of July 5, 1989.
Flood of Aug. 1, 1945, reached a stage of about 8.5 ft, from floodmarks.
Survey, and the U.S. Geological Survey.


On August 26th, one day before the release of Hail To The King, Avenged Sevenfold will play a free show for their fans at the Hollywood Palladium. The show is a special thank you to their fans and for the band to celebrate the release of the new album with the their fans who have supported them for so long. Entry details can be found HERE.