Getting ready in the morning is far from routine with modern bath hardware.
This double towel bar keeps towels off the floor and countertops.
The minimalist design of the Astra collection evokes the sleek elegance of contemporary art. The geometric details and unique, rounded shape of this 24 in. towel bar is ideal for bringing an affordable upgrade to the modern bathroom. Complete your space with the coordinating accessories from the Astra bath collection (sold separately).


Raeleen H. Horn is the Music Department Chair and Director of Bands at Palatine High School in Palatine, Illinois. This marks her 30th year of teaching at Palatine High School.
John P. Paynter. She is active as an adjudicator and guest conductor. She is a member of A.S.B.D.A., Phi Beta Mu, and MENC.
Articles written by Miss Horn have appeared in two professional music journals: The Instrumentalist and The School Musician. She is the 1992 State and North Central Regional winner of the American School Band Director's Association Stanbury Award and the 2010 Phi Beta Mu Outstanding Bandmaster Award.
Under Miss Horn's direction, Palatine High School Bands have traveled extensively throughout the United States and participate in approximately 55 performances each year. Our tour highlights include the years 1989 and 1996, when the Marching Band represented the United States in the Lord Mayor of Westminster's New Year's Day Parade in London, England. The Marching Band was selected to be one of ten Illinois bands featured on a compact disc recording entitled Marching Bands 1977. The group also represented the State of Illinois in the World War II Memorial Dedication Parade in Washington, D.C. The Symphonic Band has acclaimed musical excellence by honors received at state, national and international levels including the Pacific Basin Music Festival in Honolulu, Hawaii. During the Spring of 2000, Symphonic Band traveled to the International Music Festival Competition in Toronto, Canada. The band received the only gold medal awarded. In 2008, Symphonic Band performed a Memorial Day concert at the Richard Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California. In Spring of 2010, the Symphonic Band travels to Washington, D.C. and will perform at Schlesinger Concert Hall as part of the National Festival of States Memorial Day Celebration. Dale Clevenger, Principal French Horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, will be a featured guest soloist with the band.
Melody Lord - Piano, Tage Larson - Trumpet and Dale Clevenger - French Horn. Television and radio personalities include: Joel Daly and Harry Porterfield from ABC 7 Chicago -Wayne Messmer the voice of Wrigley Field - Vince Gerasole from CBS Channel 2 News - Orion Samuelson and Dean Richards from WGN Radio. The Palatine High School Marching Band recording of Louie, Louie often opens the Saturday morning Mr. Fix It Show with Lou Manfridini on WGN Radio.
Miss Horn has worked with Clint Eastwood and Dennis Quaid. Thirteen Palatine High School instrumentalists performed as a 1940s high school band in the movie Flags of Our Fathers directed by Clint Eastwood. Band musicians also appeared as the Syracuse Marching Band in The Express starring Dennis Quaid and Rob Brown.


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Maersk hires DNV GL for Culzean work
by Niamh Burns
20/11/2014, 3:29 pm Updated: 21/11/2014, 7:56 am
Maersk Oil's Culzean field
Maersk Oil and Gas has hired DNV GL in a multi-million service contract deal for its Culzean project in the UK North Sea.
The scope of contract includes Independent Competent Person (ICP) verification, Independent Verification Body (IVB) and Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) work.
The team will be managed from a single point in the UK and DNV GL said it will use additional resources and expertise from Maersk's team in Denmark to deliver the work.
The Maersk Oil-operated Culzean project is one of the largest gas discoveries of recent years in the UK North Sea.
Culzean is a HP/HT field discovered in 2008 in Block 22/25 of the North Sea and further appraised between 2009 and 2011.
If successfully developed, it could provide around 5% of the UK's total gas consumption by 2020/21. First gas from the project is currently expected in 2019.
Maersk Oil and its co-venturers JX Nippon Exploration and Production (UK) Limited and Britoil (BP) have chosen a new standalone facility to develop the discovery; a complex of bridge linked platforms comprising a 12 slot wellhead platform (WHP), a central processing facility and utilities/living quarters.
The company also said subject to a final investment decision in 2015, a phased installation of the facilities would begin in 2016.
First gas from the central North Sea field, which lies nearly 145 miles east of Aberdeen, is expected in 2019.
Forecast plateau gas production is in a range of 400million-500million standard cubic feet per day.
Maersk is the operator, with a 49.99% stake, alongside JX Nippon (34.01%) and BP (16%).
Ineos investment: Scottish Government warns of cautious approach
Updated: Total income slumps despite Culzean production boost
DNV GL wins deal with Apache for Beryl and Forties assets
Updated: Total celebrates first gas from huge North Sea field
Total 'weeks away' from start-up of one of UK's largest gas fields
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Funding boost for tourism and improvements schemes
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Council leaders have approved plans to boost tourism in Bexhill as part of a £27,500 improvement plan for the town.
This week Rother District Council approved a proposal from its Bexhill Town Centre Steering Group to set aside £27,500 from developer section 106 contributions to fund a series of schemes designed to improve the town. In the past section 106 contributions have been used to fund schemes such as the town centre cycle racks and improvements to Marina Court Gardens
According to the council, £20,000 of the money will be used to ensure street furniture, fixtures and fittings are installed to the high standard throughout the town centre.
The remaining money will fund posters promoting visitor events in the town at London railway stations and a public relations campaign aimed at generating national media coverage.
Cllr Ian Hollidge, Rother District Council cabinet member for Bexhill Town Centre, said: "Recent investment has really started to make a difference to the presentation of the town centre and it is important we continue to make further improvements.
"This funding will enable us to ensure features in the town centre are well-maintained, neat and tidy, and that any new street furniture required is installed to the highest standard."
The poster campaign, designed to a 'modern vintage' theme, will promote high-profile events such as Festival of the Sea, Motofest, Roaring 20s and the 1066 Cycling Festival. The posters will direct potential visitors to a website with full listings of events in the district.
The tourism campaign has previously run as part of a series of initiatives to promote the town including a postcard campaign – the latest batch of 30,000 postcards has just been distributed around the south east and within Rother and 1066 Country.
De La Warr Pavilion director Stewart Drew, who is also a member of the town centre steering group behind the tourism campaign,said: "We received feedback from local businesses that there was a real sense of local pride in the rail campaign and that Bexhill's profile was starting to grow for events, shopping and accommodation, as well as the De La Warr Pavilion.
"The rail posters were seen by hundreds of thousands of commuters per day across the rail network."
Disruption to train services between Eastbourne and Hastings


Every Day A New Photo Will Be Added. This Is Meant To Be A Great Collection Of Fascinating Photos.
The Family, a photo by Justabird2 on Flickr.
"Archiving! Wishing it was spring again. It was fun visiting the bird rookeries and seeing little ones. This nest started with 2 babies...ended up with one. He did make it, though. His parents worked really hard taking care of him, taking turns looking for food and feeding him. It's quite inspiring watching the whole process.
Great Blue Heron family, Emeralda Marsh, Florida"
Shadows and Reflections (Explored), a photo by jenover2010 on Flickr.
"This is a little farm a few miles from where we live. Its so beautiful !"
Care to share... Explored, a photo by Hedi-Alana (quite busy to catch up) on Flickr.
"Found a few shots from my visit to the Butterfly Center, I really liked, and this is another one of it"
I love photos of nature,animals,sky and all eye-catching photos.


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Days before a Brazilian supreme court hearing on a move that could eventually decriminalise abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, a leading feminist campaigner is in hiding after receiving death threats.
Debora Diniz, a professor of anthropology at the University of Brasília, who helped bring the legal action with bioethics institute Anis, is sequestered in an unknown location but will still appear at the two-day hearing, which starts on Friday.
Abortion is banned in Brazil unless a woman has been raped, her life is in danger, or the foetus has anencephaly, a fatal brain disorder. Unsafe abortions leave 250,000 women in Brazil hospitalised annually and cause 200 deaths.
Rosa Weber, the supreme court judge who called the hearing, is steering the case through the court and has called upon dozens of doctors, government officials, specialists, campaigners, churches and religious organisations to speak on Friday and Monday.
Last year, Weber dismissed a petition from a Brazilian woman, Rebecca Mendes, to terminate a pregnancy in Brazil on procedural grounds. Mendes had her abortion in Colombia.
Two days after the hearing, Argentina's senate votes on a bill to decriminalise abortion that has raised Brazilian campaigners' hopes. But there is no timeline on when the supreme court might vote on the issue, said Eloísa Machado, a professor of constitutional law at São Paulo's Getúlio Vargas Foundation.
Meanwhile, some of the threats made against Diniz remain online, in comments left under her photograph – captioned "you are a monster" and posted on June 23 – on the Facebook page of a group calling itself the National Union of Rightist Students. One featured a gif of a man pointing a gun. Another said she should have been aborted at birth.
Three men turned up at congress when Diniz was there, saying they wanted to "talk to her" and filming her. Others sent threats to her through WhatsApp. Police recommended she entered a protection programme and left her home.
"They asked for a series of protective measures," she said.
According to the health ministry, there are almost a million illegal terminations of pregnancy a year in Brazil. In 2016 alone, 203 women died as a result of unsafe abortions. Most at risk are black women from low-income groups, Diniz said, because richer Brazilian women can afford to pay for safer, albeit illegal, abortions.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a 35-year-old black woman in the north-eastern city of Recife told of how she aborted at home after taking Misoprostol tablets. She already had two young sons and at the time was going through a difficult separation from her husband, father to the youngest child.
She has no regrets, however, and believes she made a responsible choice even though, as an evangelical Christian, she contradicted church teaching.
Leila Katz, an obstetrician-gynaecologist who works in an obstetric emergency ward in Recife, deals with women suffering complications – including sepsis, haemorrhage and infections – after unsafe abortions. She said black market Misoprostol tablets reduced cases but have become scarce recently, causing a new rise in complications.
"This whole problem of abortion being illegal and criminalised is very sad," she said.
Sergio Rego, a paediatrician and researcher at government research institute Fiocruz, will tell the hearing why his wife Marisa opted for an abortion after she got pregnant soon after the birth of their son Pedro, the only survivor of triplets. Pedro, now 33, was born with multiple disabilities.
Pedro and Marisa will be there to hear him speak.
Brazil is a profoundly conservative country, with a Catholic majority and an increasing number of politically active evangelical Christians who are largely against abortion. In a poll last year, only 26% of Brazilians said women should be able to decide to interrupt a pregnancy, even though 45% said they knew someone who had had an abortion.
Not all those opposing abortion at the hearing will do so on religious grounds. Hermes Nery, a professor of bioethics from the National Pro-Life and Pro-Family Association, said the move to decriminalise abortion is part of an international movement that offends Brazilian sovereignty. "It is an anti-life and anti-family agenda," he said.
Last November, a congress committee approved a bill that would effectively ban abortion in all circumstances. It has yet to be voted on by both houses.
The hearing comes during a heated presidential election campaign, in which a leading campaigner, far-right army captain and lawmaker Jair Bolsonaro, faces charges at the same supreme court for telling a female lawmaker in 2014 that she did not "deserve to be raped".
Leading polls, though he is currently jailed on corruption charges and unlikely to be able to run, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the former president, has long said he is personally opposed to abortion. His campaign managers said he now believes the state should "discuss the legislation".
Environmentalist Marina Silva, another presidential contender, believes a plebiscite should be held, while Conservative candidate Geraldo Alckmin has called the current legislation "adequate". Neither Bolsonaro nor leftist candidate Ciro Gomes responded to requests for their position.
Brazil's health ministry may provide one of the most powerful pro-abortion arguments at the hearing. It will present figures showing that abortion numbers fell following its legalisation in the US and Portugal, and an estimated cost of unsafe abortion in all developing countries of $232m – a big spend for a country struggling to reduce a huge deficit.


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/************************************************************************/
/*                                                                      */
/*  display_ctrl.c  --  Digilent Display Controller Driver              */
/*                                                                      */
/************************************************************************/
/*  Author: Sam Bobrowicz                                               */
/*  Copyright 2014, Digilent Inc.                                       */
/************************************************************************/
/*  Module Description:                                                 */
/*                                                                      */
/*      This module provides an easy to use API for controlling the     */
/*      Digilent display controller core (axi_dispctrl). It supports    */
/*      run-time resolution setting and seamless framebuffer-swapping   */
/*      for tear-free animation.                                        */
/*                                                                      */
/*      To use this driver, you must have an axi_dispctrl and axi_vdma  */
/*      core present in your system. For information on how to properly */
/*      configure these cores within your design, refer to the          */
/*      axi_dispctrl data sheet accessible from Vivado and XPS.         */
/*                                                                      */
/*      The following steps should be followed to use this driver:      */
/*      1) Create a VideoCapture object and pass a pointer to it to     */
/*         DisplayInitialize.                                           */
/*      2) Call DisplaySetMode to set the desired mode                  */
/*      3) Call DisplayStart to begin outputting data to the display    */
/*      4) To create a seamless animation, draw the next image to a     */
/*         framebuffer currently not being displayed. Then call         */
/*         DisplayChangeFrame to begin displaying that frame.           */
/*         Repeat as needed, only ever modifying inactive frames.       */
/*      5) To change the resolution, call DisplaySetMode, followed by   */
/*         DisplayStart again.                                          */
/*                                                                      */
/*      This module contains code from the Xilinx Demo titled           */
/*      "xiicps_polled_master_example.c." Xilinx XAPP888 was also       */
/*      referenced for information on reconfiguring the MMCM or PLL.    */
/*      Note that functions beginning with "DisplayClk" are used        */
/*      internally for this purpose and should not need to be called    */
/*      externally.                                                     */
/*                                                                      */
/************************************************************************/
/*  Revision History:                                                   */
/*                                                                      */
/*      02/20/2014(SamB): Created                                       */
/*      12/01/2015(GN): Modified for MicroPython                        */
/*      01/27/2016(GN): Modified for CPython                            */
/*      08/31/2016(YRQ): Adjusted format                                */
/*      09/01/2016(beja): timout adjustable & in seconds                */
/*                                                                      */
/************************************************************************/
/*
 * TODO: The VDMA debugging options can be enabled in Vivado IPI to enable
 *       the frame count functionality. This provides an interrupt that is
 *       triggered at the end of every frame, and also provides the ability
 *       to grab a single frame and have the VDMA core then automatically
 *       halt. We should evaluate if adding this functionality is worth
 *       requiring users to enable the Debug mode of the VDMA core
 *       (it requires some manual TCL commands to be run).
 */

/* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
/*              Include File Definitions                        */
/* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
#include <stdio.h>
#include "math.h"
#include "xil_io.h"
#include "video_capture.h"
#include <sys/time.h>

/* ------------------------------------------------------------ */
/*              Procedure Definitions                           */
/* ------------------------------------------------------------ */

/***    DisplayStop(VideoCapture *dispPtr)
**
**  Parameters:
**      dispPtr - Pointer to the initialized VideoCapture struct
**
**  Return Value: int
**      XST_SUCCESS if successful.
**      XST_DMA_ERROR if an error was detected on the DMA channel. The
**          Display is still successfully stopped, and the error is
**          cleared so that subsequent DisplayStart calls will be
**          successful. This typically indicates insufficient bandwidth
**          on the AXI Memory-Map Interconnect (VDMA<->DDR)
**
**  Description:
**      Halts output to the display
**
*/
int VideoStop(VideoCapture *videoPtr)
{
    // If already stopped, do nothing
    if (videoPtr->state == VIDEO_PAUSED || \
        videoPtr->state == VIDEO_DISCONNECTED)
    {
        return XST_SUCCESS;
    }

    // Stop the VDMA core
    XAxiVdma_DmaStop(videoPtr->vdma, XAXIVDMA_WRITE);
    while(XAxiVdma_IsBusy(videoPtr->vdma, XAXIVDMA_WRITE));

    /*
     * This might actually be the better way to test if the core is halted,
     * because IsBusy seems to check a bit that may no longer be supported
     * in the core.
     */
    XAxiVdma_Reset(videoPtr->vdma, XAXIVDMA_WRITE);
    while(XAxiVdma_ResetNotDone(videoPtr->vdma, XAXIVDMA_WRITE));
    videoPtr->state = VIDEO_PAUSED;
    return XST_SUCCESS;
}
/* ------------------------------------------------------------ */

/***    VideoStart(VideoCapture *videoPtr)
**
**  Parameters:
**      videoPtr - Pointer to the initialized VideoCapture struct
**
**  Return Value: int
**      XST_SUCCESS if successful, XST_FAILURE otherwise
**
**  Errors:
**
**  Description:
**      Starts the Video.
**
*/
int VideoStart(VideoCapture *videoPtr)
{
    int Status;
    int i;

    // printf("Video start entered\n\r");
    VtcDetect(videoPtr);
    if(videoPtr->timing.VActiveVideo == 0
       || videoPtr->timing.HActiveVideo == 0
       || videoPtr->state == VIDEO_DISCONNECTED){
        return XST_NO_DATA;
    }
    if (videoPtr->state == VIDEO_STREAMING)
        return XST_SUCCESS;
    /*
     * TODO: Consider conditionally disabling the detector,
     * resetting the VDMA, and then re-enabling the detector.
     * Configure the VDMA to access a frame with the same dimensions as the
     * current mode.
     */
    videoPtr->vdmaConfig.VertSizeInput = videoPtr->timing.VActiveVideo;
    videoPtr->vdmaConfig.HoriSizeInput = videoPtr->timing.HActiveVideo * 3;
    videoPtr->vdmaConfig.FixedFrameStoreAddr = videoPtr->curFrame;

    /*
     *Also reset the stride and address values, in case the user
     * manually changed them.
     */
    videoPtr->vdmaConfig.Stride = videoPtr->stride;
    for (i = 0; i < VIDEO_NUM_FRAMES; i++)
    {
        videoPtr->vdmaConfig.FrameStoreStartAddr[i] =
                                (u32) cma_get_phy_addr(videoPtr->framePtr[i]);
    }
    videoPtr->vdmaConfig.EnableFrameCounter = 0;

    /*
     * Perform the VDMA driver calls required to start a transfer.
     * Note that no data is actually transferred until the disp_ctrl core
     * signals the VDMA core by pulsing fsync.
     */
    Status = XAxiVdma_DmaConfig(videoPtr->vdma, XAXIVDMA_WRITE, \
                                &(videoPtr->vdmaConfig));
    if (Status != XST_SUCCESS)
    {
        return XST_FAILURE;
    }

    Status = XAxiVdma_DmaSetBufferAddr(videoPtr->vdma, XAXIVDMA_WRITE,
             videoPtr->vdmaConfig.FrameStoreStartAddr);
    if (Status != XST_SUCCESS)
    {
        return XST_FAILURE;
    }

    Status = XAxiVdma_DmaStart(videoPtr->vdma, XAXIVDMA_WRITE);
    if (Status != XST_SUCCESS)
    {
        return XST_FAILURE;
    }

    Status = XAxiVdma_StartParking(videoPtr->vdma, videoPtr->curFrame, \
                                   XAXIVDMA_WRITE);
    if (Status != XST_SUCCESS)
    {
        return XST_FAILURE;
    }

    videoPtr->state = VIDEO_STREAMING;

    return XST_SUCCESS;
}

/* ------------------------------------------------------------ */

/*
**  int VideoInitialize(VideoCapture *videoPtr, PyObject *vdmaDict,
**                      PyObject *gpioDict, unsigned int vtcBaseAddress,
**                      u8 *framePtr[VIDEO_NUM_FRAMES], u32 stride)
**
**  Parameters:
**      dispPtr - Pointer to the struct that will be initialized
**      vdmaDict - CPython dictionary for XAxiVdma
**      gpioDict - CPython dictionary for XGpio
**      vtcBaseAddress - BASE ADDRESS of the Video Timing Controller
**      framePtr - array of pointers to the framebuffers. The framebuffers
**                 must be instantiated above this driver
**      stride - line stride of the framebuffers. This is the number of bytes
**               between the start of one line and the start of another.
**      init_timeout - Timeout in seconds for initialization. signed init
**                     because POSIX time_t is signed int. Check for negative
**                     values should be done in Python class.
**
**  Return Value: int
**      XST_SUCCESS if successful, XST_FAILURE otherwise
**
**  Errors:
**
**  Description:
**      Initializes the driver struct for use.
**
*/

int VideoInitialize(VideoCapture *videoPtr, PyObject *vdmaDict,
                    PyObject *gpioDict, unsigned int vtcBaseAddress,
                    u8 *framePtr[VIDEO_NUM_FRAMES], u32 stride,
                    unsigned int init_timeout)
{
    int i;

    // Initialize all the fields in the VideoCapture struct
    videoPtr->curFrame = 0;
    for (i = 0; i < VIDEO_NUM_FRAMES; i++)
    {
        videoPtr->framePtr[i] = framePtr[i];
    }
    videoPtr->state = VIDEO_DISCONNECTED;
    videoPtr->stride = stride;
    videoPtr->vtcBaseAddress = (u32)vtcBaseAddress;
    XAxiVdma_Config vdmaCfg = Py_XAxiVdma_LookupConfig(vdmaDict);
    videoPtr->vdma = Py_XAxiVdma_CfgInitialize(&vdmaCfg);
    videoPtr->vtcIsInit = 0;
    videoPtr->startOnDetect = 1;

    // Initialize the VDMA Read configuration struct
    videoPtr->vdmaConfig.FrameDelay = 0;
    videoPtr->vdmaConfig.EnableCircularBuf = 1;
    videoPtr->vdmaConfig.EnableSync = 0;
    videoPtr->vdmaConfig.PointNum = 0;
    videoPtr->vdmaConfig.EnableFrameCounter = 0;

    // Initialize the GPIO driver
    XGpio_Config gpioConfig = Py_XGpio_LookupConfig(gpioDict);
    videoPtr->gpio = Py_XGpio_CfgInitialize(&gpioConfig);

    /*
     * Perform a self-test on the GPIO.  This is a minimal test and only
     * verifies that there is not any bus error when reading the data
     * register
     */
    XGpio_SelfTest(videoPtr->gpio);

    // Setup direction registers, and ensure HPD is low
    XGpio_DiscreteWrite(videoPtr->gpio, 1, 0);
    //Set HPD channel as output
    XGpio_SetDataDirection(videoPtr->gpio, 1, 0);
    //Set Locked channel as input
    XGpio_SetDataDirection(videoPtr->gpio, 2, 1);

    // Set HPD high, which will signal the HDMI source to begin transmitting.
    XGpio_DiscreteWrite(videoPtr->gpio, 1, 1);

    // from Gpio Isr
    u32 locked = 0, timeout = 0;
    struct timeval time_1, time_2;
    gettimeofday(&time_1, NULL);
    while (!locked && (signed int)timeout < init_timeout){
        locked = XGpio_DiscreteRead(videoPtr->gpio, 2);
        gettimeofday(&time_2, NULL);
        timeout = time_2.tv_sec - time_1.tv_sec;
    }
    if((signed int)timeout >= init_timeout){
        return XST_FAILURE;
    }
    XVtc_Config vtcConfig = Py_XVtc_LookupConfig(videoPtr->vtcBaseAddress);
    videoPtr->vtc = *Py_XVtc_CfgInitialize(&vtcConfig);
    XVtc_SelfTest(&videoPtr->vtc);
    XVtc_RegUpdateEnable(&videoPtr->vtc);
    XVtc_EnableDetector(&videoPtr->vtc);
    videoPtr->vtcIsInit = 1;
    VtcDetect(videoPtr);

    return XST_SUCCESS;
}

/* ------------------------------------------------------------ */

/***    VideoChangeFrame(VideoCapture *dispPtr, u32 frameIndex)
**
**  Parameters:
**      dispPtr - Pointer to the initialized VideoCapture struct
**      frameIndex - Index of the framebuffer to change to (must
**                   be between 0 and (DISPLAY_NUM_FRAMES - 1))
**
**  Return Value: int
**      XST_SUCCESS if successful, XST_FAILURE otherwise
**
**  Errors:
**
**  Description:
**      Changes the frame currently being displayed.
**
*/

int VideoChangeFrame(VideoCapture *videoPtr, u32 frameIndex)
{
    int Status;

    videoPtr->curFrame = frameIndex;
    /*
     * If currently running, then the DMA needs to be told to start reading
     * from the desired frame at the end of the current frame.
     */
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Luxembourg Promoted as Runner-Up in International Rugby 7s Tournament in Bulgaria
22nd July 2016 World 33660
The weekend of the 2-3 July saw Luxembourg Rugby's senior 7s team compete over two days in Rugby Europe Sevens competition in Bourgas, Bulgaria, in which Luxembourg were grouped with Croatia, Turkey, Norway and hosts Bulgaria.
The first game saw a slow start against Croatia, but the Red Lions came out on top winning 15-7. The second game saw Luxembourg pitted against hosts Bulgaria, here they powered to a 38-10 victory with crowd favourite Adrian Timmermans picking up two tries. The final game of day won saw Luxembourg hammer Norway 28-5 to escape the group stages of the competition and qualify for the knockout rounds on the Sunday.
Day two kicked off with a disappointing performance against Turkey, but it was enough for the Red Lions to eke out a 26-15 victory with Christopher Rossa successfully gathering a mesmerising chip-and-chase in the closing moments of the game.
Coming out the group stages as the tops seeds, Luxembourg were pitted against Serbia for not only a place in the final, but for promotion to the tier above of the Rugby Europe's Sevens Trophy. Two tries from Scott Browne, and another two from Yared Ketema, saw Luxembourg thrash the Serbs 38-7.
All was then set up for a crunch final against Croatia. The game was a thriller and was neck and neck until just after half time with Croatia ahead 19-14. However, the final quarter of the game saw Croatia up the pressure and pull ahead to win 43-14, leaving Luxembourg as the runner-up.
Adrian Timmermans proved Luxembourg's silver bullet with 7 tries throughout the tournament. With promotion, Luxembourg will compete next year in the Rugby Europe Men's trophy alongside the likes of Romania, Sweden and Czech Republic in the second tier of European Rugby Sevens.
Team Captain Maxime Dozin was full of praise for his squad and support staff "The tournament was a lot of fun, it's great to be part of a team that can punch above its weight in such a way, we look forward to the next challenge and taking Luxembourg Rugby to even greater heights".
With the end of the 7s season, focus now moves back to the 15-a-side format of the game, a format in which Luxembourg were also promoted last season following a grand slam campaign.


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Two government agencies were robbed over the course of the weekend. The fisheries department is reporting that sometime between five-thirty p.m. on Friday and seven-fifty Monday night, its offices located on the second floor of the Fisheries Department Building on Princess Margaret Drive in Belize City was broken into. About ten thousand dollars in electronic devices including three laptops, a nexus tablet, a GPS and two external hard drives were stolen by the perpetrators who gained access through the rear of the building. The burglars got away with the items despite the presence of watchmen on the compound. According to fisheries officials, they are currently looking at protocols to put in place to prevent another break in.
There was another break in…this time at the Belize Marketing and Development Corporation on North Front Street. On Monday morning, a KBH supervisor informed the police that at around four a.m., he was called and informed by his security officer that someone had apparently burglarized the Housing and Planning Department building. The burglar or burglars entered the building by removing four glass louvers from the window on the west side of the building. Police are looking into both cases.
When will all of those companies and GOB hiring individuals from these security companies (as political favours) realize that this will be the trend? The security companies are hiring criminals and not doing proper screening with their employees. These same employees then orchestrate these robberies themselves or give inside information and security procedures to help these burglars rob the same organizations they are being paid to secure!


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This is a list of Belgian film directors.

A
Chantal Akerman
R. Kan Albay
Jean-Jacques Andrien

B
Tom Barman
Rémy Belvaux
Alain Berliner
Bert Beyens
Jef Bruyninckx
Jean-Marie Buchet
Jan Bucquoy

C
 Bo & Gustavo Catilina
Stijn Coninx
Gérard Corbiau

D
Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Luc Dardenne
Emile Degelin
Robbe De Hert
Charles Dekeukeleire
Eric de Kuyper
André Delvaux
E.G. de Meyst
Dominique Deruddere
Marc Didden
Pieter Dirkx
Frederik Du Chau
Fabrice Du Welz

E
Adil El Arbi
Geoffrey Enthoven

F
Bilall Fallah
Jacques Feyder
Anna Frijters

G
Jonas Geirnaert
Noël Godin
Felix Van Groeningen

J
Edward José

K
Yasmine Kassari
Edith Kiel
Harry Kümel

L
Patrick Lebon
Joachim Lafosse
Benoît Lamy
Bouli Lanners
Vincent Lannoo
Boris Lehman
Nicholas Lens
Roland Lethem
Matthias Lebeer

M
Benoît Mariage
Thierry Michel
Ernst Moerman

P
Picha

R
Maurice Rabinowicz
Jo Röpke
Vincent Rouffaer
Rob Rombout

S
Raoul Servais
Ben Stassen
Henri Storck
Samy Szlingerbaum
Boris Szulzinger

T
Guy Lee Thys
Patrice Toye

U
Henri d'Ursel

V
André Valardy
Patrick Van Antwerpen
Jan Vanderheyden
Jaco Van Dormael
Erik Van Looy
Frank Van Passel
Roland Verhavert

W
François Weyergans

Z
Thierry Zéno

See also
Cinema of Belgium
List of Belgian films

Belgium

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Is Entrepreneur Barbie a good idea for our daughters?
by Melissa Dunlap
She might be "breaking through plastic ceilings and inspiring girls to follow their dreams," but is Entrepreneur Barbie a good role model?
I confess.
I loved playing with Barbies when I was a little girl.
Nowadays to concede that you played with (and dare I say enjoyed) a Barbie doll feels like some weird concession to your feminist principles.
But dang, I still liked playing with my homegirl Barbie.
I used to pair her up with my KNOTB dolls and put on concerts set to the background of Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation (sorry Ken, guess you weren't Hangin' Tough enough).
Somewhere along the path to adulthood, particularly in the exploratory years of college, my feminist consciousness grew. I began questioning implicit cultural symbols of femininity and gender identity construction.
That's when I broke up with Barbie.
I became more mindful of the influence such a seemingly harmless doll can have over a young girl. Unrealistic body proportions, the sexualization of toys for girls, stereotyped gender roles, normalization of white privilege — the list of concerns is long.
Now that I'm a mother to a vibrant 1-year-old daughter, I try to be mindful of toys I expose her to. We've avoided branded toys and princess-themed products so far, but I know the day is coming when I'll have to decide if I want to introduce her to my frenemy Barbie.
Enter the Entrepreneur Barbie.
Introduced as the 2014 career of the year doll, Entrepreneur Barbie is described by the brand as, "breaking through plastic ceilings and inspiring girls to follow their dreams." She has the slogan, "if you can dream it, you can be it" and is owning her place in the girl power discussion with the hashtag #unapologetic. She even has a LinkedIn page that's pretty fierce. Yes, seriously.
Entrepreneur Barbie has partnered with female entrepreneurs who serve as her "Chief Inspiration Officers" to help spread the message about inspiring young girls. The impressive list of "CIOs" include: Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss, co-founders of Rent the Runway; Susan Feldman and Alison Pincus, founders of One Kings Lane; Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code and Rosie O'Neill, co-founder of Sugarfina, among others.
I spoke with Reshma Saujani of Girls Who Code and Rosie O'Neill of Sugarfina who shared their take on Barbie's latest career venture.
"I'm a feminist with a capital 'F' and I don't want to live in a world that's run by men," Saujani said.
Saujani is passionate about inspiring girls to explore areas of science, technology and math — career paths traditionally under-represented with female demographics. She started Girls Who Code in 2012 to encourage computer science education for girls and expose them to top female entrepreneurs and engineers in the industry.
"At a very young age, girls often feel — or are told — these careers are not for them and so having as many toys that are out there are inspiring them to be entrepreneurs or pushing them into computer science and into technology are initiatives we want to support and we want to be part of," Saujani said.
As co-founder of gourmet candy boutique Sugarfina, Rosie O'Neill is probably living out the dream of every young kid. She gets to travel the world tasting candy — and gets paid to do it.
O'Neill believes Barbie helped her express her creativity as a child, which led to career success down the road.
"I remember when I was a little girl, I would play with Barbie and I would kind of play out these stories of, you know, Barbie having her own bakery and Barbie having her own candy shop and that experience really showed me, from a very young age, if you can dream it, you can totally do it."
O'Neill encourages parents to expose their daughters to a wide variety of experiences. "It may not be your personal passion… but it might be your daughter's passion."
However, even this girl power version of career Barbie has her critics.
Danielle Wiener-Bronner mocked the entrepreneurial concept in The Wire saying "Thanks for teaching children to aspire vaguely to buzzwordy nothings."
Salon writer Sarah Gray condemned Barbie as a role model entirely. "Entrepreneur Barbie is modern woman with her smartphone and her tablet stuck in a sexist, outdated, dangerous representation of femininity."
Even the fashion icon's clothing choice was questioned by Liz Tilatti in Forbes who criticized her for completely missing the mark as being an accurate representation of a start-up business owner, pointing out a real entrepreneur is more likely to wear jeans and flats from running around all day.
And to some extent I agree.
While I'd like to think the brand is branching out with new ways to empower young girls, the skeptic in me believes Mattel is probably trying to boost low sales by jumping on Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In bandwagon.
But I still dig the idea.
Sure, this career Barbie is probably just another example of capitalism at work rather than an authentic display of girl power.
And, yes, we need to choose dolls that promote realistic beauty standards and body proportions for girls (see the Lammily doll), but as a feminist I believe the path towards gender equality also involves advocating for change within current mainstream products.
Entrepreneur Barbie is at least a step in the right direction.
Looks like we might be friends again.
More on toys for girls
GoldieBlox: Engineering toys for girls
Weapons for girls glamorize violence
There are no Gamora toys for kids because she's a girl, duh
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March 8, 2018, 12:24 p.m.
When we think of wildlife encounters, it's often in the "kill or be killed" frame of mind. It's very rare that our minds go, "Oh, that jaguar is just going to watch the potentially tasty anteater walk away."
But such is the case in the video above, filmed September 2017 in Brazil's Pantanal region by Luke Massey. And it was one of the oddest experiences of his life as a wildlife photographer.
"When I saw the jaguar strolling up behind the completely unaware — and at the time vulnerable — giant anteater, I just assumed I was either about to witness a kill or an almighty battle. I was not expecting the jaguar to lie down and watch," he said in a story published by National Geographic.
But this is pretty common, according to Fernando Rodrigo Tortato, a field researcher for the Pantanal Jaguar Project. In the same story, Tortato explained that anteaters only make up 5 percent a jaguar's diet; they prefer caiman, capybara and peccary.
"This jaguar could have had a full stomach, and was only curious about the giant anteater," he said.
Of course, the law of the jungle might have also been in full effect, too. Anteaters have terrifically sharp, 4-inch long claws that could easily do some damage to a jaguar. Perhaps the jaguar was simply weighing its options, hoping the anteater was weak in some way.
In any case, the footage shows that wild animals are just full of surprises.
A giant anteater in Brazil was just minding its own business when a jaguar sneaked up behind it. And then it kept minding its own business.


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Q: Reverse vlookup I have a list of descriptions and I want to add a code column as shown below. The descriptions in the list are neither unique nor sorted.
I have an index table with substrings and the codes in separate columns. vlookup doesn't seem to work.
List:
Description     Code
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Horse shoes     Horse
Saddle cloth    Horse
Saddlery grease Horse
Shearing board  Wool
Shearer         Wool
Saddle cloth    Horse
Shearer         Wool

Index:
Substring Code
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Horse     Horse
Saddle    Horse
Shear     Wool

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This is an array formula, you need to enter it with CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER

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Passive aggression
by Brett Stevens on February 23, 2011
When we speak of passive aggression, we're talking about a general term for all actions that hide their aggressive intent behind egalitarian guilt.
For example, during your dinner hour, a traveling salesman bangs insistently on your door. You tell him you're not interested, and he gets indignant.
"But I drove all this way, and I'm lugging these heavy carpet samples," he says. "I have every bit as much a right to earn a living as you do." Now he's got you: you must either state a belief in inequality or a disregard for his suffering.
A good salesperson knows that getting the foot in the door is the point of no return. If she makes you hesitate for just a few seconds, that's tacit permission to continue with the spiel. And at this point, you're using up that salesperson's time and since they're equal, guilt is expected.
Passive aggression strikes when someone uses that guilt at inequality to make you receptive to their message, and then to make your changing the situation seem like an inconvenience or attack directed at them.
You can see this in our politics and interpersonal behavior:
You can't change anything. Once we've passed a law entitling people to a certain benefit, we can never retract that — jobs or lives are on the line now. Nothing is temporary in government.
Everyone has the right to you. If someone has a need or a want, they should be able to ask you about it, because you're there and since they're equal, your rights don't come before theirs.
It's personal — except for you. If you vote down their bill to award $5,000 to every person with hangnail, they assume you hate them. Since they're equal, there can be no other way, because taking it personally is one of the most effective guilt-inducing techniques.
If they are offended, you are to blame. Offense is in the eye of the beholder. Something that is innocent to you, in a relative sense applied like an absolute, might not be innocent to them and that makes them the injured party, so you should compensate them.
If you have more, you owe it to those who have less. They're human too, and they bleed red just like you. So if your farm was successful this year, hand out the "extra" cows, if you please. Never mind that your greater skill at farming could result in a better society.
You cannot have secrets or differing opinions. They — the Crowd — know what is right, because they know what they as individuals fear, and as a group of individuals, they've turned those private fears into a paranoid lynch mob mentality. Burn the unbelievers!
Their bad behavior is your fault. This brain-buster is so blatant you'll chew on it for weeks, trying to figure out how the logic works, but it's a trick question: there is no logic. If they behave badly, and you either strike back or don't save them from themselves, you're the one who's to blame.
If they think they're right, your objections are wrong. Unless of course you find an "officialTM" source saying exactly the opposite of what they're saying, you have no reason to reject. Not wanting to or not liking the looks of things isn't enough. You need a scientifically verified reason for saying "no."
Our society — which doesn't lead, but polls us to see what is popular, profitable and inoffensive — forms a paradise for both salesmen (consumerism) and socialists (parasites). In both cases, people irrelevant to your life want something from you.
Whether that is your time, your allegiance, your money or just your eyes, they're taking something from you — your irreplaceable moments. That quiet dinner you were enjoying? Not for you; they have needs, you know. Your house? Your business? Your family? Not yours; theirs.
Understanding passive aggression helps us understand one great mystery of the modern time: how normal people get caught up in destructive waves, usually by not daring to oppose the passive-aggressives who manipulated them:
Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a war-mongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across Southeast Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians – most killed by sword, shovel and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were "peace loving"?
History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt; yet, for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by the fanatics. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. – INN
We all get taken for a ride when we don't stand up to people with insane, incomplete or impractical ideas. Yet in a society where each individual is an island, and any island can be offended and reject oversight by any other, ignorance spreads. Eventually ignorance is united in a movement for The Common Good of one kind or another, and then it's off to the races.
One reason for this is that in a society of people who put their own interests first, being a victim is the only safe role:
The article, titled 'To Escape Blame, Don't be a Hero – be a Victim', is published in the March issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.
The findings are based on three experiments conducted by Gray and Daniel Wegner, professor of psychology at Harvard University.
'Our research suggests that morality is not like some kind of cosmic bank, where you can deposit good deeds and use them to offset future misdeeds,' said Gray, who directs the Mind Perception and Morality Lab at the University of Maryland.
Gray suggests that the explanation for these findings is our tendency to divide the world up into moral agents – those who do good and evil – and moral patients – those who receive good or evil.
'People ignore heroic pasts – or even count them against you – when assigning blame'
'Psychologically, the perceived distance between a hero and a villain is quite small, whereas there's a wide gap between a villain and a victim. – Daily Mail
The problem is that without people who are in charge, and keeping others in line through heroic and often unpopular actions, society rages out of control. It starts to follow what people want to be true, instead of what they know to be true or can estimate is more likely to be true. Inconvenient questions get ignored in favor of a gold rush toward what is popular and thus, rewarding.
A new study reveals how ecosystems crumble without the presence of top predators be keeping populations of key species from growing too large. It also provides a cautionary lesson to humans, who often remove top predators from the food chain, setting off an eventual collapse.
The top predators play their role by happily munching away at each channel's top consumers, explained study leader Neil Rooney of the University of Guelph in Canada.
"Top predators are kind of like the regulators of the food web—they keep each energy channel in check," Rooney told LiveScience. "The top predator goes back and forth between the channels like a game of Whac-a-Mole," a popular arcade game in which constantly appearing
Constant predation of the top consumers prevents a population from growing larger than the system can support. – MSN
We can see this kind of passive aggressive behavior in the news quite a bit of late. Generally, it takes the form of individuals putting their interests before all other concerns (individualism) and then justifying their behavior with appeal to an external, socially-recognized good like "equality" or "fighting global warming."
Police have told residents to stop putting wire mesh on their garden shed windows – because they could be sued if a burglar is injured.
Countries that cannot tell people "no" when they want entitlements or early retirement go bankrupt, hurting the world economy
Government workers riot after losing the exclusive right to higher salaries and less efficiency through unions, sinking the state budget
Leisure time is vitally important for your thinking, yet someone always wants you on the phone or in a meeting
Beyond politics, our tolerance for passive aggression threatens our ability to have a functional society. By concentrating power in the individual, and making the individual judge and jury as perceiver, we have created an inherently divisive society where we can undermine each other with catty social demands.
As we face an uncertain future, we will have to make hard choices. Choice A or Choice B, but not both, and not half of each since doing either one halfway would mean nothing got done. In this time, we're going to see passive aggression finally put to the practicality test, something we've avoided with four centuries of industrial wealth and easy living.
Tags: crowdism, passive aggression
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Slip into the most mystical chill-out lounge you can imagine. Enter the into the salon and connect with inner wisdom as East meets West in this sublime set of blissful grooves hand-selected and mixed exclusively by the Gordon Brothers (creators of the original Buddha-Lounge and Cafe de Luna). In the salon tonight are an amazing line-up of the leading edge of the nu-India groove - Ghandharva Cafe, Jaya Lakshmi, KarmaCosmic, Wynne Paris, Artemisia, TAU, Althea W., Sophia, David & Steve Gordon and more exotic lounge luminaries. Ancient chants from India, a multi-cultural array of ethnic instruments, hypnotic world rhythms and a spicy mix of modern electronica weave seamlessly together, creating an elegantly divine mood. De-stress and relax with this definitive hip soundtrack perfectly suited for everything from enhancing your Yoga sessions to unwinding after work, dinner with friends or just any time you want to kick back and slow down.
With YOGA SALON, Sequoia continues their streak of releasing mesmerizing compilations that seamlessly blend groove with ethnic color. This time around, David & Steve Gordon's enchanting musical brew features contemporary chill tunes with a decidedly Indian spin. This means that mantras, sitar and the low thump of the tabla are deftly fused to mid-tempo beats, dreamy synthesizer backdrops and a plethora of techno samples. If you enjoyed Sequoia's "Buddha-Lounge" albums you will be right at home here - both feature a non-stop mix of mystically-minded tunes perfect for a lounge atmosphere. Among some of the artists on this outing are Jaya Lakshmi, Artemisia, Sophia, TYA, the Gordon brothers and more. Great for relaxing, entertaining and especially yoga and bodywork.
Compiled and mixed by Steve and David Gordon, Yoga Salon follows in the meditative footsteps of the duo's successful Buddha-Lounge and Caf de Luna series. Contributions from the Gordons, Sophia , Karmacosmic and others reveal a rich tapestry of sound that relies heavily on ethnic instrumentation and atmospheric programming. Yoga Salon is an effective companion to casual dinners and its ethereal worldbeat rhythms, chants, and deep pulses of electronica provide the background for what promises to be a real hot time on the old yoga mat.
Sequoia Grooves Yoga Salon contains themes compiled by brothers Steve and David Gordon that continue to open the road to musicians and composers outside as well as within the U.S, with a combination of hypnotic themes clearly and directly. Skillfully mixing original and exotic Hindu music with modern electronica, this CD is especially good for yoga sessions. Certainly the main thing is that the general tone of these twelve tracks is relaxation with an invitation to meditation.
Assembled and mixed by Steve and David Gordon, this compilation features various artists blending contemporary electronic technology with Eastern musical styles. The result is an absorbing body of music designed to enhance the yoga experience. Of course, this album can also be used to complement meditation practices, massage therapy, martial arts exercises, and other likeminded activities.
Artemisia's Perfumed Garden is a delightfully tranquil composition. This piece hypnotizes with its repetitive percussion patterns and aromatic flute playing. Steve Gordon's Holding the Vision exacts a similar musical vibe. Employing tribal rhythms, exotic flute trills, and a distant vocal choir, Gordon invokes the feel of far-off safaris and pastoral landscapes. Another track, Bolo Shri Krsna by Jaya Lakshmi features flowing vocals, droning keyboards, and throbbing tabla drums. The album's closer Tempel der Stille by Tau is a contemplative track that focuses on a plaintive female vocal melody; Tau's use of exotic strings also adds to the composition's overall mood. In general, YOGA SALON is a transfixing set of music that encourages inner peace and spiritual health.
With Yoga Salon Sequoia continues their winning series of	releasing	amazing compilations (especially the successful Buddha Lounge and Cafe de Luna series) that seamlessly blend electronica with world flavors. This time around, David & Steve Gordon's enchanting musical brew features contemporary chill tunes with a decidedly Indian spin. The brothers, who in recent years have created a great stir with their own albums in the New Instrumental Music scene, have assembled an amazing line-up of the leading edge of the nu-India groove - Ghandharva Cafe, Jaya Lakshmi, KarmaCosmic, Wynne Paris, Artemisia, TAU, Althea W., Sophia, David & Steve Gordon and more exotic lounge luminaries.
Ancient chants from India, a multi-cultural array of ethnic instruments, hypnotic world rhythms and a spicy mix of modern electronica weave seamlessly together, creating an elegantly divine mood. De-stress and relax with this definitive hip soundtrack perfectly suited for everything from enhancing your Yoga sessions to unwinding after work, dinner with friends or just any time you want to kick back and slow down.
Although the styles of the different compositions are quite varied, this compilation tends towards a rhythmic style and range between Atmospheric Pop and World Music.
As the types and genres of music being 'fused' increase, so do the termsused to describe the resulting music. Eventually, categorization rationale goes out the window- this CD has been described in a press release as world chant meets chill-out and in another source as accessible worldbeat pop: It has Indian influences wedded to an upbeat pop sound. It successfully merges the old with the new; the past with the present. For example. sitars, wooden flutes and percussives meld with thoughtfully svnthesized elements. It is an enjoyable CD and a good introduction to the individual artists, including TYA. Althea W, Sophia. Artemesia.Karma Cosmic. David & Steve Gordon, Jaya Lakshimi. Win Meyersan. Wynne Paris and TAU.
Not into Yoga? Its Still Great Music!


IONE, CA: Al Scapone - the Godfather of the infamous Scapone family and master criminal lies dead - gunned down in his own club! Word of this "hit" gets out and the whole balance of power in the city could be thrown into chaos.
Al's murder needs to be resolved - and fast - to restore the credibility of the family.
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Other fundraising events for 2016 include the Wine Tasting and Tour on Sept. 10, a Photographer's Day on Sept. 11, ParaCon on Sept. 16 & 17, Preston Castle Haunt October 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, and 29, and Olde Tyme Christmas Holiday Bazaar on December 10.


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Lewes goalkeeper on gambling addiction that harmed him mentally, physically and financially
Lewes FC are the first football club to sign up to a pioneering new gambling education programme produced by Gambling with Lives, a charity set up by families bereaved by gambling-related suicide. And the club's first-team goalkeeper, Lewis Carey, will be sharing his own experience of gambling harm to warn young people.
By Steve Bone
Thursday, 28th October 2021, 2:06 pm
Lewis Carey / Picture: Lewes FC
Carey - also known to Eastbourne Borough fans after a spell at Priory Lane - became addicted to gambling as an 18-year-old, shortly after signing his first professional contract, and it took a severe toll on his mental, physical and financial wellbeing for several years. Lewis said:
"As a footballer in recovery from a gambling addiction, I'm excited to be involved in this partnership. With my own experiences of how harmful gambling can be, I feel it is vital that this excellent programme reaches as many young people as possible in the club's community.
"As a youngster, no-one warned me about the harm gambling can cause. If someone I felt I could relate to had done so, it would have made a big difference to my life and that's where this programme comes in."
Lewes FC has refused gambling sponsorship money and even put Gambling with Lives' logo on the front of their men's first team shirt as a statement against the saturation of gambling sponsorship in the game.
John Peel, director at Lewes FC, said: "From the very outset of our partnership with Gambling with Lives, we wanted to go beyond shirt sponsorship and create something bigger and longer term together. This educational programme achieves that and then some, it's a nationwide step towards understanding gambling-related harm in an area that has often had to rely upon gambling industry funded programmes.
"We are delighted that Lewis Carey will lead on the programme delivery. As a footballer and someone who has suffered gambling-related harm, his testimony will be both impactful and insightful."
Gambling with Lives' ground-breaking new education programme is aimed at preventing gambling harm and will be delivered to young people aged between 11 and 16 in schools and clubs across the country. Later this month, the charity will deliver their programme to youth team players and members of the local community at Lewes FC – the first time it will be delivered at a football club.
The Gambling With Lives logo on the Lewes shirts / Picture: James Boyes
Created by experts on gambling harm, academics, teachers, award-winning filmmakers, and people with lived experience of gambling harm, the programme aims to influence the way gambling awareness education is delivered to young people and address the lack of information and help currently available – something that leads to lives being lost each year. Crucially, the programme also focuses on how addictive products work and the methods and impact of industry marketing, which sets it apart from programmes delivered by industry-funded charities.
Gambling addiction is a huge problem in the UK, with research indicating that there are between and 250 and 650 gambling-related suicides each year[1]. Gambling addiction has the highest suicide rate of all the addictions, with those addicted to gambling up to 15 times more like to take their own lives than members of the general population[2]. There are currently up to 1.4 million adults addicted to gambling the UK, along with at least 55,000 children.
James Grimes, Head of Education at Gambling with Lives, said: "Lewes FC has already done some fantastic work in raising awareness of gambling harms and I'm really pleased that they are now working with us in prevention.
"Football is so often the hook that draws young people into gambling, so we believe it will be especially effective to deliver this programme at club level.
"By raising awareness of the harm that gambling can cause from an early age, as opposed to just waiting for the harm to occur, we're confident we can help protect many young people."
This announcement comes at a time when football's relationship with gambling is under increased scrutiny, with the Government's exploring the possibility of a ban on gambling shirt sponsorship as part of the review of the 2005 Gambling Act. Paul Merson's recent BBC One documentary highlighted the link between footballers and gambling addiction and reported that professional footballers are three times more likely to suffer from gambling addiction than other young men.
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To go with the newly restored gauges, now to restore the fascia panel the gauges sit in.
Then powder coated in a small crinkle black, by a local firm.
Another part of the dash to go to the powder coaters, was the two dashboard air vents.
More gauges….now happy, got some new gauges done. Note that the fuel gauge now reads 57 liter instead of 43 liter. The SP311 Fairlady roadster had an option for larger fuel tanks for racing. My fuel tank is full of holes, so I might as well have a new one made a little bit bigger (following the measurements of one of the option tanks).
The temperature gauge now looks like the one shown in a old Silvia brochure and I feel it looks better than in Fahrenheit. Pictures in old dash and new fascia panel.
Just brought…NOS chassis wiring harness, correct for the Silvia.
Heater fan unit aqua blasted. Ready for yellow zinc plating.
A little stubborn rust left on a few of the blades.
More rust left in bottom of fan housing, not worried, as the inside will be plastic coated.
I then decided to wet sand with very fine grit to get a smooth finish, would this improve look after yellow zinc plating?
Other parts after aqua blasting. I think they come out very well.
The pieces are numberplate light housings (triangle shaped) side dash vent arms (3 arms) and heater control unit.
And here is what these parts looked like prior to aqua blasting….
Taking the heater control unit apart. It has a switch unit fixed to it as well. Note rivets drilled out.


The reality cannot be avoided: In order to learn anything new and get better at it, effort must be applied. True, whether one is learning to cook, sew, sing or practice celestial navigation. There is no simple way of avoiding effort — and besides, why would we want to? So for those who want to learn to navigate in a traditional manner, you will have to exert some effort. But, and this is important, once you have made the initial effort, there are tools available that will make the practice of celestial sights as simple as brewing a pot of coffee.
Traditionalists insist that we use HO 229 because it is more accurate than HO 249. Others say the old HO 214 or HO 211 are the best methods. Actually, the choice of sight reduction tables makes very little difference. Find a sight reduction method that works for you and master it. Personally I am very much at ease using the air tables (HO 249) developed during WWII combined with the Nautical Almanac. William Buckley, who did a great service in popularizing celestial navigation in his books and videos, preferred the air almanac. All that matters is that you can complete the process comfortably when you are both tired and a little seasick.
But, after you learn the longhand method, it is time to simplify; by that I mean instead of going to the tables, let your fingers do the walking on a hand-held calculator. There are lots of apps available and navigation programs for the computer, but for the past 25 years I have gotten yeoman's service from the celestial calculator called the Celesticomp V. This calculator, developed by John Watkins out of Washington, is the sine qua non of celestial calculators.
The Celesticomp V was programmed on a Sharp PC-1270 pocket computer with a ROM cartridge that fit in the back. The memory can't be lost even if there is battery failure. This tool is such a workhorse that it is disconcerting to no longer have them in production (I think Sharp discontinued the model or went out of business). Celesticomp V can found only on eBay where they sell for about half the original price, which was about $290. I have sailed thousands of miles with this little tool and it has saved me hundreds of hours of time in the reduction of star, moon or planet sights. It will inform me of unknown stars, provided I enter the Hs and the bearing of the star. The prompts are simple, even for a Luddite like me. And here's the thing: The easier it is to reduce shots, the more observations will be taken and the greater chance for increasing accuracy and all of that is good.
The point being is that we want to get up to speed and develop confidence as quickly as possible. The calculator, computer app or navigation programs won't help you understand that when you put garbage in, you get garbage out. But it will easily point out anomalies in the sight reduction process. I combine the use of the calculator with the physical process of using plotting paper to plot my results. This way I can convert the results into LOP or fixes; the clarity of doing that is, for me at least, the best of both worlds.
To be sure, these computers and navigational apps and computer software programs are all marvelous tools, but they are just that — tools — that make the job easier in the same manner that a table saw will help simplify a woodworking project for a skilled carpenter. In both instances, there is no substitute for understanding and experience. A celestial calculator or any supplemental computer program will assist the skilled navigator who is already trained in the concepts and basic techniques of celestial navigation.
A tool like my Celesticomp — and I have three of them by the way, including a backup and a backup for the backup — has a permanent nautical almanac for the sun, moon, and the other planets and 173 stars, and has all kinds of bells and whistles to calculate great circle courses, rhumb line, course over ground, etc. It will calculate your time for morning twilights, nautical twilights and civil twilights, and can update the DR automatically.
It also does away with the need for precalculation of stars for twilight. All I have to do is shoot a star and record its true bearing and the time in GMT, along with the sextant altitude. If I don't know the star, I enter a prompt called "unknown star," and my trusty little Celesticomp reduces the HS to HO and spits out what the star is.
I highly recommend finding a calculator that is programmed to do celestial navigation and learning to use it, initially as an adjunct to the longhand method. As you develop confidence you will find you rely on it more and more — just remember to carry an extra set of batteries. Now go out there and have fun.
Very timely. The news today included a story about the US Naval Academy reinstituting courses in celestial navigation because of concerns that the GPS system could be disabled by hackers or otherwise.
There are alternatives to your beloved Celesticomp. StarPilot runs on a couple of Texas Instruments calculators. You can buy the bundle already installed or by StarPilot separately for $129 and find a compatible calculator on eBay for cheap.
Your article (probably intentionally) overlooked the most important reason for buying the celestial calculator – for many of us it has been decades since we attempted trigonometry. A pre-programmed calculator limits our challenge to whether (or not) our eyesight is still good enoughTo get a reliable sight.
Thanks for the useful info. We are trying to ensure we keep our celestial skills current and are looking for easier ways than all the manual steps. Are there other options besides the calculator method recommended here. What about the Starpilot app ($50) and the associated Starpilot almanac ($15)?
I think it would be much easier and more practical (not to mention economical) for many of us to use those apps on our existing devices. That said, I have not used either and I would appreciate if ON could take a look into reviewing these products.
I have had a Celesticomp V for several years and have been happy with it. However I understand that Celesticomp is now out of business and the ephemeris (internal nautical almanac) is now out of date. Is this true?
I wrote a program in MS Excel (http://www.svsarah.com/Sailing/ewTechniqueExcelNavigation.htm) that also does the sight reduction and provides an ephemeris for the Sun, Planets, and Stars. One of these days I will get around to adding the Moon.
FWIW, I started development of this program back in the 80s on a Radio Shack pocket computer, which I believe is the same computer on which the Celesticomp is based.
Like Mr. Stevenson I wrote a program to solve the navigational triangle. I used the equations found in the back pages of the Nautical Almanac. I debugged the program using examples from Gray's "100 Problems in Celestial Navigation."
I also skipped the plotting part by programming a least squares algorithm, These equations are also found in the back of the Nautical Almanac. The algorithm combines 3,4,5, or 6 LOPs. The new position can then be recycled as a new DR. This will yield new and hopefully improved LOPs.
When I compared my results with Mr. Gray's there were small differences of several miles. Since neither one of us were really there with a GPS I wonder whose more correct? Any ideas.


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Niebiesko-zielona tarcza symbolizuje wyspę Pitcairn, główną wyspę całego terytorium, wyłaniającą się z oceanu. Na tarczy znajduje się Biblia i kotwica ze statku HMS Bounty. Ma to symbolizować rodowe korzenie mieszkańców wyspy, którzy w większości są spokrewnieni z marynarzami, którzy podnieśli bunt na HMS Bounty w 1789 roku. Nad tarczą hełm z zielono-żółtymi labrami zwrócony w prawą stronę. Na hełmie zwinięty zielono-żółty zawój, w klejnocie taczki oraz kwiat z rodziny malwowatych.

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(Photo: Joseph Hopper/Iowa Soybean Association)
Iowa City-based company manufactures fresh tofu
August 22, 2022 | Kriss Nelson
Jake Gratzon and Matthew Mesaros, co-founders of Old Capitol Food Co., discovered a love for tofu.
Bringing together that love for tofu and the urge to be entrepreneurial, Gratzon and Mesaros had the idea to start a food production company.
They learned the process and art of making tofu. In 2014, the duo started Old Capitol Food Co.
"I have always been a huge fan of tofu, and I knew how much better it was when it was fresh," says Gratzon. "I wanted to bring that to my home state of Iowa."
He and Mesaros set out to find a way to make tofu in large quantities as large manufacturers did – but to do it better.
"We are proud of how we make it," says Gratzon. "We use the best ingredients possible, even though it is only three ingredients: water, soybeans and our coagulant. The fact we make and deliver it fresh is a much better result."
Old Capitol Food Co. uses a coagulant made from magnesium chloride, which makes the tofu taste sweeter and with a firmer texture.
"We want to make sure we are producing best product we possibly can so chefs have a good experience with our tofu," says Gratzon.
Old Capitol Food Co.'s mission is: "We want to prepare the best food, using the best local ingredients."
With this mission, Gratzon says they strive to work with people also dedicated to producing fresh food with local ingredients.
Suman Hoque, owner/chef at HoQ, a farm-to-table restaurant in east Des Moines, purchases tofu from Old Capitol Foods Co.
"It is some of the best I have had," he says. "I have found you can make anything with it."
"We love working with places that are farm-to-table oriented like HoQ," Gratzon says. "They approach their restaurant the same way we approach our production. We are dedicated to using local ingredients. That is the gold standard as far as I am concerned."
Old Capitol Tofu can be found throughout Iowa in other restaurants and select Hy-Vee stores, Gateway Market and other grocery stores, as well as university and college dining halls, including Luther College, Grinnell College, Cornell College, Iowa State University and the University of Iowa.
Bringing tofu to the dinner plate
Gratzon says they use 1,500 bushels per year of Iowa-grown soybeans purchased through their soybean broker, Stonebridge Limited, from Cedar Falls.
"We want to use tofu-quality soybeans with a higher protein content," he says, adding there is an extensive range of possibilities for consuming tofu, just as there is a wide range of options for meat.
"You don't have to cook it; it's a prepared food in the way it is made," he says. "You can eat it right out of the bag. Our tofu has a subtly sweet quality. It's firm and will not fall apart."
Gratzon likes to cut his tofu into slabs or steaks and marinate them overnight. Marinades include barbecue sauce, soy sauce, teriyaki sauce, olive oil and seasonings.
"Thinner sauces tend to marinate the tofu better, but any marinade will do," he says. "You can take the marinated tofu, not cook it any further, slice it up and put it on a salad. Or you can cook it."
Beyond marinating, Gratzon says tofu can be cooked in beef or chicken stock by cutting the tofu into steaks or cubes and boiling it in the broth for 10 to 20 minutes.
"You end up with a juicy tofu," he says. "Tofu in beef stock gives it a nice beefy flavor. You still get a lot of benefits from having a highly digestible protein."
To make it even easier to bring tofu to the dinner plate, Old Capitol Food Co. is working on a product called "What the Fu," a premade, flavored tofu.
Linda Funk, executive director of The Soyfoods Council, says she highly recommends trying tofu, and it is great having a tofu company like Old Capitol Food Co. in our state.
"The tofu they make is of the highest quality," she says. "It is wonderful soybeans can be grown for food and feed in Iowa."
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Q: QLThumbnailProvider extension does not appear to be called I'm developing a QLThumbnailProvider extension to display thumbnails for my document type.  My extension does not appear to be being called - my thumbnails are not appearing and I'm not seeing the logging I've added appearing in any log files.
I have an UIDocumentBrowserViewController based app that defines a new document type.  It exports an UTI (com.latenightsw.Eureka.form).  My app is able to browse, create and open documents, but the thumbnails are blank.
I've added a Thumbnail Extension target to my project.  The code looks like this:
class ThumbnailProvider: QLThumbnailProvider {
    override func provideThumbnail(for request: QLFileThumbnailRequest, _ handler: @escaping (QLThumbnailReply?, Error?) -> Void) {
        // Third way: Set an image file URL.
        print("provideThumbnail: \(request)")
        handler(QLThumbnailReply(imageFileURL: Bundle.main.url(forResource: "EurekaForm", withExtension: "png")!), nil)

    }
}

I've confirmed that EurekaForm.png is part of the target and being copied to the extension's bundle (as well as the host app's bundle).
And I've confirmed that my UTI is declared:

Does anyone have any suggestions?

A: It appears that logging and breakpoints sometimes do not work inside app extension. Even fatalErrors occur silently.
In my project I could not get the initialiser QLThumbnailReply(imageFileURL:) to work. However the other initialisers seem to work better.
Drawing the image into a context
When using the context initialiser you have to use a context size which lies between request.minimumSize and request.maximumSize.
Below I've written some code which takes an image and draws it into the context while keeping the above conditions.
override func provideThumbnail(for request: QLFileThumbnailRequest, _ handler: @escaping (QLThumbnailReply?, Error?) -> Void) {

    let imageURL = // ... put your own code here

    let image = UIImage(contentsOfFile: imageURL.path)!

    // size calculations

    let maximumSize = request.maximumSize
    let imageSize = image.size

    // calculate `newImageSize` and `contextSize` such that the image fits perfectly and respects the constraints
    var newImageSize = maximumSize
    var contextSize = maximumSize
    let aspectRatio = imageSize.height / imageSize.width
    let proposedHeight = aspectRatio * maximumSize.width

    if proposedHeight <= maximumSize.height {
        newImageSize.height = proposedHeight
        contextSize.height = max(proposedHeight.rounded(.down), request.minimumSize.height)
    } else {
        newImageSize.width = maximumSize.height / aspectRatio
        contextSize.width = max(newImageSize.width.rounded(.down), request.minimumSize.width)
    }

    handler(QLThumbnailReply(contextSize: contextSize, currentContextDrawing: { () -> Bool in
        // Draw the thumbnail here.

        // draw the image in the upper left corner
        //image.draw(in: CGRect(origin: .zero, size: newImageSize))

        // draw the image centered
        image.draw(in: CGRect(x: contextSize.width/2 - newImageSize.width/2,
                              y: contextSize.height/2 - newImageSize.height/2,
                              width: newImageSize.width,
                              height: newImageSize.height);)

        // Return true if the thumbnail was successfully drawn inside this block.
        return true
    }), nil)
}

A: I've gotten the Thumbnail Extension rendering but it only displays its renders in the Files app (others use the App Icon) as far as I can tell.
It is important to note this issue with debugging extensions in that print to console and breakpoints may not be called even though the extension is running.
I see that you have the QLSupportedContentTypes set with your UTI but you may also want to change your UTI to something new as this is when it started working for me.  I think after some testing the UTI can get corrupted. While it was working, I had a breakpoint set and it was never called.

A: In my case, the extension didn't work in the simulator (Xcode 11.1). Everything works as expected on a real device (iOS 13.1.2).


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These are a couple of cards I created while playing with a couple of new stamp sets.
I used Stampin' Up!'s Certainly Celery card stock and For Being You stamp set. I'm not over-joyed with this one.
My 8 year old granddaughter made this one for her mom. Sweet and simple.


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Gaelic Park - Bronx, NY
Playin' In The Band
Mr. Charlie
Big Boss Man
Big Railroad Blues
Good Lovin'
Me And My Uncle
I Know You Rider
Cumberland Blues
Truckin'
The Other One
Next Time You See Me
Me And Bobby McGee
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This was the first time I saw the dead outdoors (I'm a real New York City boy), but Gaelic Park is a misnomer, and it was at the very northern tip of Manhattan, not in the Bronx. Gaelic Park was just a big square of lawn, surrounded by a chain link fence, fronting directly onto Broadway. It was also slightly uphill to the stage - kind of a reverse amphitheater effect. The band was in their wall of sound phase, and the tie-dyed speakers were piled 30 feet high from one side of the lot to the other. It was on a late Thurs aft after work, and we were jammed in together to full capacity (at least everyone got to sit tho). The band was good, but the venue was awful. No wonder they never played there again.
Re: 8-26-71 Gaelic Park - The music was good But the vibe was strange! The place reminded me of a concentration camp!Barbed-wire fence,armed guards (police)patroling around,trains bringing the dissidents (Deadheads) to the holding area.Not the ideal setting for a good time/trip!
reg the veg,
the wall of sound did not come into play for the dead until 73'.
Gaelic Park is NOT in Manhattan, but in the NE section of the Bronx. The field is shared by Manhattan College. I thought the Wall of sound started in late 73 and was in full force only in 74?
Anyway, I feel the Sugar Magnolia rocks with an intensity unknown as well as the last Empty Pages. This show marks the beginning of the end of the Pigpen era. Considering it was in an Irish sports field, I can only imagine how much whiskey Ron quafed during/afterward. Jerry plays so fast on teh songs that I say this is the 2nd best show of 71, behind 4.29.71.
The field is still in use for Gealic football and hurling.
Slainte!
Mr. Anonymous: The speakers were piled at least 20ft. high, covered in tie-dye and stretched fully from one side of the stage to the other. If you don't want to call it "the wall of sound", that's fine. But the Dead were always experimenting (especially when they came to NYC - I saw some pretty odd shows in odd places with odd audiences), so maybe it was an early iteration of the wall before it got the groovy name.
Mr. Perrin: The name "Gaelic Park" has been recycled to a new location. The location I speak of - the olde "Gaelic Parke" where this show took place - now has a building on it.
Best wishes to all my fellow DeadHeads - whoever you are and wherever you may be.
Gaelic Park is in da boogie down Bronx, not Manhattan.
-Saint and Scholar (12/19/2007)
the comments on this show are very interesting but i have one question was this show at night or during the day because the guy with the British accent says that the lights are not bright enough. Also, Pigpen, Phil says is sick at home and the keyboardist is a new guy from California name Keith(we all know who...)Godcheaux...i wish i was there, no matter where it was or how high the elevation-it is a grate show...am i listening to the right recording?
Hampton87. Pigpen peformed in the first set, as the tape indicates and sang Next Time You See Me but may have left afterward which would make sense, this was his last show before he went into the hospital for his liver.
-Perrinswolf (04/17/2008)
WIKI says...
Gaelic Park is the principal Gaelic Athletic Association stadium in New York City, located in the Bronx. It is home to the New York GAA's hurling and Gaelic football teams.
Located just west of Broadway, on the north side of 240th street, near Manhattan College, Gaelic Park was purchased in 1926 by the Gaelic Athletic Association of Greater New York. It has been given a few different names over time including Innisfail Park, but since the 1950s it has gone by its current name, Gaelic Park, a reflection of the park�s decidedly Irish flavor. The park includes a playing field and dance hall. In addition to hurling and football matches, a number of other sporting events take place at Gaelic Park. There are also concerts and dances that feature Irish music both old and new. In the early 1970s, rock concerts were also held there, including the Grateful Dead and Deep Purple.
The GAA ran the park for about 10 years until it was forced into bankruptcy, after which the city took over the land. The property was then leased again in 1941 to John "Kerry" O�Donnell, who with the help of his family and friends ran the park, dance hall, and tavern.
The park was taken over by Manhattan College in 1991, and currently goes under the official name of The Gaelic Park Sports Center. The college has kept up the traditions of Gaelic Park, as well as doing some significant renovations, and now also uses it for home games of lacrosse, soccer, and softball.
In early 2007, Field Turf was laid out to replace the natural pitch. In addition, better facilities for softball were put in place. Also installed were floodlights, now making night games possible.
There is also a Gaelic Park near Chicago in Oak Forest, Il. It is a banquet hall that hosts many Irish activities, including Irish dancing and live bands.
-Bossgobbler (02/10/2009)
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my base playing was of the charts in China cat.
-mr lesh (03/03/2009)
This was my first Dead show. My boyfriend (now husband) and I were very close to the front of the line and were almost crushed when the crowd surged forward to rush inside. This show was phenomenal! Yes, there were tie-dyed speakers 30 feet high on either side of the stage and all the way across. Probably 100 individual speakers in all. It was an evening show and Pig Pen was definitely on keyboards, not Keith!! They played for at least 5 hours, maybe 6 and if they took a break I sure don't remember it!
Just saw Further at the Bill Graham Civic last night...Lesh and Weir kicked ass and wish I had tickets for tonight!
One of the good things about Gaelic Park was if you did not have tickets you could hear the show in the streets surrounding the park.The streets were mobbed with people dancing and just having a good time.The following summer the Allmans played here .Duane was dead,Jerry,Bob and Phil showed up to jam.There are traders who have the show it was great .Dickey Betts and Jerry trading licks.It was a great location for a show you had bus service and the subway.ALSO A WHITE CASTLE A WALK AWAY AFTER THE SHOW.
This was my 1st Dead show, and it got me hooked. It was the last "Fillmore Era" Dead show in the NY area. Gaelic Parl is DEFINATELY in (the Riverdale section of) The Bronx. Not Manhattan. And there is only 1 Gaelic Park. I stopped by there just a couple of months ago and (I can't believe it) it still looks the same. Even the Gaelic Park sign is the same.
I remember it was a very hot humid afternoon. The Dead started about 6:30 because of the threat of rain that evening. It never did rain, and they played untill about 11:30PM. It was not the best show I've ever seen, but they were young with alot of energy, and it got me hooked on these guys.
......and by the way, it's true they had a stack of amps and speakers behind them, but it was a far cry from the "Wall Of Sound" that would follow 2 1/2 years later.
Well, a few things. Never having seen the Boys West of Lake Erie, take it as Gospel that Gaelic Park was by far the worst venue to see a good-time band. And regardless of whether Manhattan or the Bronx wish to claim it, it's a pain in the keister getting there - from anywhere! Saw the Airplane there as well and Grace spiced things up by going topless. The "Wall of Sound" in its completed form did not appear - in the East anyway - until the Summer of '74 in Boston although the band had been flirting with delay mikes and other components of the W-O-S since returning from Europe at larger, or outdoor, venues.
-DenMan (08/12/2012)
My wife and I were at the show and we had a great time. The band was terrific that night and the crowd was as mellow as you would imagine. We originally sat on a blanket on the grass, but after a while we went up to the front and just stood there leaning on the edge of the stage. Maybe that's why the subway trains didn't bother us at all.
A nice show in what is obviously one of the greatest stretches for the dead. I don't know what to think about this version of Good Lovin'. On the one hand, the tempo is slow and Jerry does not seem to be on the same page as everyone else. On the other, the page that Jerry is on is pretty remarkable. He plays with an intensity rarely seen in other versions of Good Lovin', or for that matter, other Pig jams of the time. Feedback appreciated!
-Zack (10/16/2013)
I was there with my boyfriend at the time. Don't remember much, was pretty stoned and making out most of the concert, lol
if i remember correctly ,at the jefferson airplne show,which was mostly in the rain, there was a stripper named sunshine who danced topless during the show,noy Grace Slick.
-pug bear trouble (06/09/2014)
You are indeed correct! There was some lithe little prancer dancing topless. Grace merely exposed her girls afterward; she did not dance as i faintly remember.
Pigpen's last show playing alone before his health caught up with him. End of an era.
I snuck up onto the stage of this concert and picked up a tambourine sitting on an amp between Pig Pen and Krutzman and played along on one song, saluted Bob and Jerry and left the stage.
I have now listened to all the shows from when Mickey left to when Keith joined. These shows are really interesting as they started in March trying to find the sound and really started to put something together by June that, IMO, was the absolute pinnacle for the Grateful Dead.
Too bad Pig Pen got sick. Maybe they could have avoided the disco era and what was to follow after.........Either way, this show is the end of the ride for me.
#71powerdeadrules
Last show with the original 5 guys.
-Billy Le Strange. (05/08/2019)
Perhaps a top 30 show for 71. Not great. The end of my beloved saloon band. You made hells angels smile, hippy chicks shake their asses and you blew the minds of countless college nerds. Fare thee well.
Jerry and Phil absolutely smoke on the Hard to Handle jam in a classic 1971 style. Good old Grateful Dead!
Last "true" Hard to Handle, shame they didn't play it on the Europe '72 tour, Pig and Jer always bring it
-Snow the Jam Man (10/24/2019)
Purple barrel were in at that time.... had a really good time...
-Ralph Herman (01/28/2020)
Keyboards: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan