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Council worker wins case after being 'forced' to retire at 66
Updated / Wednesday, 25 Sep 2019 21:00
The Labour Court heard the unfair dismissal case taken by long-serving employee Michael Neilon
Longford County Council has been told it must reinstate a 68-year-old lorry driver and allow him to remain on its pay roster until he reaches his 70th birthday.
The Labour Court found in favour of long-serving employee Michael Neilon in a claim of unfair dismissal against the local authority.
Mr Neilon claimed the council had "forced" him to retire upon reaching his 66th birthday on 5 May 2017 despite his insistence the customary age for lorry drivers to ordinarily retire was 72.
His legal represenative, William Martin-Smith BL, told the court the custom and practice for outdoor road workers was to retire at 72 and provided details of named colleagues as examples.
Based on those grounds, he said, his client had a "legitimate expectation" that he too would be entitled to work until his 72nd birthday.
He also claimed the local authority had, despite repeated attempts, failed to provide Mr Neilon with a copy of his contract of employment.
Furthermore, Mr Martin-Smith said his client, together with a number of fellow colleagues, had been given a verbal assurance by a senior county council official in April 2006 at a meeting in Edgeworthstown that he could remain in employment up to the age of 70.
The council told the hearing that Mr Neilon retired in accordance with the normal and agreed retirement age for employees of the local authority - which was 66 - and the dismissal by way of retirement was not unfair.
Keith Irvine, of the Local Government Agency and acting on behalf of the council, said there was nothing untoward in how his client had acted.
He told of how Mr Neilon was classified as an outdoor worker and in this instance his terms and conditions of employment were in accordance with his grade within the local authority service.
He said the council acknowledged that during the period from 1998 to 2006, a small number of employees - nine in total - remained in employment after the accepted and recognised retirement age for outdoor employees.
But he said that from 2009 to 2018, a total of 85 employees had retired from the council. Of these, only one was permitted to remain on past 66 years of age.
The court said although it had been furnished with a 'Superannuation Revision Scheme, 1977', which may have been applicable to Mr Neilon, the document carried no specific retirement age.
It also said it was significant that other colleagues of Mr Neilon had been allowed to continue in employment beyond the age of 66.
In the absence of a clear retirement policy applicable to Mr Neilon, the court said it was not unreasonable for Mr Neilon to have an expectation that he would continue in employment beyond his 66th birthday.
In deeming his dismissal unfair, the council was ordered to reinstate Mr Neilon to his former position until he reaches the age of 70.
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Republican leaders in the House aren't thrilled with the $6 billion broadband stimulus package currently being debated. Joe Barton (R-TX) is the ranking member on the Energy and Commerce Committee, and he set the tone at today's bill markup hearing by saying, "I wish I could say I was looking forward to it."
He's definitely not looking forward to it, complaining that the process is moving too quickly to make good law; the committee has only a single day to markup the broadband, energy, and health care portions of the bill. "That's because the speaker wants the entire stimulus package on the House floor next week," Barton continued. "We all understand that if we don't accommodate her timetable, she'll yank the bill away and handle it herself, and the decline of our committee's status and influence will accelerate."
Despite his unhappiness with the process, Barton did muster up a host of specific complaints, pledging to do what he could to make the bill better in the limited time provided. When it comes to broadband, Barton wants a fully bipartisan proposal and says that "controversial provisions on network neutrality, open access, minimum speeds, and build-out requirements" are not bipartisan and should therefore be scrapped in their entirety.
While arguments about any provision are certainly worth having, scrapping all of these provisions would seem to remove the key reasons for such a stimulus in the first place. Why would the government hand out billions of dollars in grants to private companies without asking them to meet any sort of minimum speeds, holding them to any sort of build-out requirements, or requiring any sort of openness?
The wireless industry, while not objecting to the bill as a whole, does object to the "open access" rules in the bill. These are not well-defined, but would apparently be similar to measures that Verizon, Clearwire, and others have already taken or agreed to. Open access measures were included in the C Block of the 700MHz spectrum auction last year (which Verizon won) and required the winner to open its network to all devices and applications, which it has now done.
Steve Largent, who heads the wireless trade group CTIA, sent Energy and Commerce a letter in which he argued that "the utility of the [broadband] program will be compromised if carriers are hesitant to participate because of uncertainty about the vague, undefined and unnecessary 'open access' obligation that is to be implemented by the Federal Communications Commission on an expedited basis."
Nevertheless, the bill was voted out of committee with only minor changes, chief among them a transparency requirement that directs the NTIA to issue annual reports on the effectiveness of the grants it gives out. Barton might not like it, but there doesn't appear to be much he can do about it.


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Scientists help Galapagos finches combat killer maggots
By Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Which nest is best to eliminate a blood-sucking pest? Scientists seeking to help endangered Galapagos Islands birds survive a deadly parasitic threat put that question to the test.
Darwin's finch nestlings are pictured in this undated handout photo. REUTERS/Sarah A. Knutie/Handout
Researchers on Monday described a new method to assist Darwin's finches in combating the larvae of parasitic flies responsible for killing numerous nestlings of the famous birds that helped inspire Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
They placed cotton balls treated with a mild pesticide near where the birds were building their nests. The birds picked up bits of the cotton with their beaks and incorporated it into their nests, killing the fly maggots while causing no harm to the birds or their offspring, the researchers said.
The pesticide was permethrin, used to treat head lice in people. It also kills flies of the species Philornis downsi that was apparently unwittingly introduced by people to the Galapagos Islands and has been blamed for population declines among Darwin's finches, including two endangered species.
"This parasite is not historically found in the Galapagos Islands and, therefore, Darwin's finches have not had enough time to evolve defenses against the parasites," said University of Utah biology professor Dale Clayton, one of the researchers.
"In some years, 100 percent of nestlings die as a direct result of the parasites. It is critical to find a way to control the parasites in order to help the birds," Clayton said.
The flies probably came aboard ships or planes arriving at the Galapagos and were first noticed as a problem in 1997. The flies lay eggs in bird's nests. When they hatch, the parasitic larvae feed on the blood of nestlings and their mothers.
Finding a method to control the flies has become a top priority for scientists studying the Galapagos birds.
"There are currently no methods to effectively combat the parasite," said University of Utah biology doctoral student Sarah Knutie, another of the researchers.
'SITTING ON MY PORCH'
A casual observation at a research facility in the Galapagos led to the idea of helping the birds help themselves.
"In 2010, I was sitting on my porch at the Charles Darwin Research Station and noticed Darwin's finches continuously landing on our laundry line. The birds were pulling frayed cotton fibers from the line and presumably taking them back to incorporate into their nests," Knutie said.
"Since we know that permethrin is effective at killing the parasite, I wondered if Darwin's finches could be encouraged to take cotton balls treated with permethrin back to their nests to kill the parasite," Knutie added.
In experiments on the Galapagos' Santa Cruz Island, the researchers placed wire-mesh dispensers for cotton near where finches were building nests. They found that all four species of finches that nest there readily used the material in nests and were just as apt to use treated cotton as untreated cotton.
When the birds used treated cotton in their nests, this "self-fumigation" technique eradicated at least half the maggots, the researchers found. In nests that contained at least a gram of treated cotton, all but one nest was parasite-free.
The nest that was the lone exception had four maggots compared to an average of 30 in nests with no treated cotton.
Darwin's finches, named for the British naturalist, are 14 species of birds that live on the Galapagos Islands, made up of 19 Pacific islands located about 600 miles (1,000 km) west of Ecuador. Darwin, who visited the islands in the 1830s, was struck by the diversity of the finches including such traits as beaks that varied depending on their local food source.
Darwin felt this suggested that the birds adapted to their environments, leading to the notion that species are not unchanging but instead evolve over time.
Knutie said the findings have important implications for helping critically endangered species of Darwin's finches including the mangrove finch and medium tree finch. She noted that the mangrove finch has fewer than 80 individuals left, making it one of the world's most endangered bird species.
The same method could be used elsewhere to help birds and perhaps even prairie dogs affected by parasites, Knutie said.
The research was published in the journal Current Biology.
Reporting by Will Dunham; Editing by James Dalgleish

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Movies, Thai, Weekdays
Movie: Laddaland (2011)
Would you "stay" or "move out" if your village had ghosts?
Laddaland (2011) is Thailand's latest horror flick, from the studio that brought us "Coming Soon", "4Bia", and "Phobia 2", all of which I have watched. Hehe.
Laddaland's director Sophon Sakdapisit co-wrote the most successful Thai horror thriller ever, "Shutter" and "Alone" (trailers). If you're a big fan of Thai horror movies, you'd know what I'm talking about.
Teaser: There is an urban legend about a village where screams and shrieks fill the night. Mass murders are taking place and no matter how much the residents pray, it seems like nothing can save them. The death toll continues and the residents are fleeing from this place. This cursed place is called "Laddaland".Synopsis: Thee has bought a new house in a neighborhood named Laddaland and relocated his family - wife Parn, teenage daughter Nan, and son Nat - from Bangkok for a better life away from his mother-in-law who despises him. Parn and Nat are thrilled but Nan is peeved about having to settle down in a brand new environment. Barely a few weeks later, bizarre things start to happen in the neighborhood.
This is the best line from the synopsis - "Death is something we all must face sooner or later, but in Laddaland, your dead neighbors are what you must deal with."
Laddaland is not as eerie as Shutter but it's hauntingly compelling with shock factors, especially unbearably dreary slo-mo scenes with jarring music to scare the pants off you. Apart from dealing with ghosts, this movie also probes the issue of family dysfunction and how much stress a family could handle before everyone is pushed to their limits.
If you're a Thai horror flick fan, I do recommend this movie.
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Francis Sydney Muschamp, RBA, (English, 1851 – 1929)
A Serenade
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Francis Sydney Muschamp, RBA (British, 1851 – 1929) "A Serenade" Oil on canvas signed lower right. Painting depicts a woman reclining on a leopard skin rug being serenaded by a woman playing a harp. 20″ H x 30″ W
Francis Sydney Muschamp was greatly influenced by Lawrence Alma-Tadema and Lord Leighton, and other leading classical artists of the era. He had a special love for ancient mythology, 19th-century romance, and Elizabethan dramas, as evidence by the titles of his paintings: The Merchant of Venice, The Sonnet, Much Ado about Nothing, Juliet and her Nurse, The Fool and Maria: A Scene for Twelfth Night, The Winning of the Golden Fleece and Ivanhoe.
Francis Sydney Muschamp was born in Hull to the son of the landscape painter, Francis Muschamp (active 1865-1881). The family moved to London in 1865, the year that Muschamp Sr. began to exhibit at the Royal Society of British Artists. The younger Muschamp began to exhibit at the Royal Society of British Artists in 1870 and continued to exhibit his paintings at the major halls until 1903. He exhibited at: The Royal Academy (1884-1903); Suffolk Street; Royal Society of Artists, Birmingham; Dudley Gallery & New Dudley Gallery; Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Manchester City Gallery; Royal Society of British Artists; Royal Hibernian Academy; and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
Francis Sydney Muschamp was elected a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in 1893.


Mariama hails from the beautiful twin-island of Trinidad and Tobago, the most Southern island of the Caribbean region. She has been with Art Start since 2015. Starting as an intern and volunteer, she became a Teaching Artist in 2017 facilitating dance, theater and visual art workshops. In the same year, she was promoted to Office and Programs Coordinator, managing office organization and other administrative duties while supporting programming and creating content for our media platforms. Now as the Programs Manager she liaises with partnering sites and community partners to create fundraising and educational opportunities for our youth outreach programs and Emerging Artists Program. She also manages the intern and volunteer programs, plans community-building events, and supports staff and Teaching Artists to ensure the smooth running of Art Start daily workshops.
Mariama graduated from The New School in 2017, with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance and Global Studies, with a focus on the intersections and interdependence of social justice and the Arts. She is also a freelance dancer, teaching Soca Fitness dance classes and performing with choreographers such as Ralph Lemon and Havanna Fisher. Very proud of her Trinbagonian background, she hopes to return home after her professional and academic years in New York to continue creating opportunities for youth, using the Arts as a point of entry.
Check up on at least one family member (My family is huge and spread out).
It's easy to want to drown out the noise of New York City, it's important to find moments to be present and listening, you may witness something that reminds you why you're here.
I love New York City in the summertime. The city is so colorful and alive with all sorts of events, concerts and happy faces.
My favourite breakfast is a cuisine from Trinidad and Tobago called 'Doubles'. My favourite restaurant is Woodland in Brooklyn: good music, good food, good vibes.
We love ordering lunch from the Good Seed. They have healthy and yummy choices. The Highline is right by us and is great for lunch when it's not too cold.
7:00 PM – A few options: I could be wrapping up a meeting with our group of Emerging Artists, visiting one of our creative workshops or family nights in our on-site outreach programs, or trying to maneuver through New York City rush hour.
11:00 PM – I'm usually trying to convince myself to sleep but more than likely finishing eating dinner because I got home late.
Water! With how busy life can get, we often forget to drink water. I try to start and end my day with water.
Most used App/Favorite Instagram Account? Instagram definitely. It's made connecting with people, even potential Art Start donors and volunteers, so much easier. So many partners have come from our Instagram network.
Authentic food from Trinidad and Tobago. Yes I'm biased, but one taste is all you need and you're hooked!
Honestly in my thoughts. I love daydreaming and thinking up all sorts of ideas. I often catch myself choreographing routines in my head to songs I'm listening to while on the train.
Our creative workshops are structured to support consistency, build resilience, and provide direction to youth going through a time of challenging transition. Art Start youth are free to build trusting relationships with our teaching artists naturally, learning to open up and bond in ways not possible through the social service or traditional education model. And because Art Start comes to the youth, both in terms of location and circumstance, we're able to reach them despite the physical and psychological walls built to keep them closed off from the rest of the world.
Over the past 5 years, Art Start has collaborated with youth from across New York City and Milwaukee to interpret and re-imagine visions of themselves through the Art Start Portrait Project. Through workshops, in-depth dialogue, interviews and photoshoots, participants explore personal identity and envision their lives beyond circumstance and stereotype. The Art Start Portrait Project challenges the belief that the future will simply be a continuation of the past, or that stereotypes, statistics, and circumstance determine our youths' existence. With the freedom to design and re-imagine oneself, the courage to believe, and access to the resources to create, we can profoundly transform how we identify and how we interact with our lives, futures, and each other. The 2019 Art Start Portrait Project is currently in process and the photos will be premiered in the fall of 2019. Please check out our 2018 Portrait Project for more information.


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Q: Title of book about people drifting in a spaceship, unaware their DNA is being used to keep the population stable This is an old-school book about people going to another planet, just out of reach from being able to contact Earth. The ship's fuel source starts slowly dying leaving them to drift, hopefully eventually reaching their destination. The people on the ship are unaware of this.
Only a few people, the captain or someone, have been using the DNA of the people on board, so that when they die they will be reborn via another family, so the population doesn't die and the ship keeps functioning. It goes in more depth about the DNA side of it.
Anyway someone who is to take the Captain's job, who hasn't been told everything, starts to think things are weird and trying to figure out what's going on.
I believe there was a second book but not very well known.

A: Search the Sky by Frederik Pohl and Cyril M. Kornbluth and first published in 1954
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_the_Sky
Is this it?

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The number of bins in the histograms is too small.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histogram has a good description of the different algorithms for choosing the number of bins in a histogram. Five bins is rarely sufficient for engineering purposes.
Many electronic parameters should be on a log scale. For example, resistors have a huge range of values. When there is a large range of values that can be selected, the code needs to know to log the data before it goes into the histogram bins.
I'll second this request, more bins, better labeling of the bins, and the capability to move limits out without removing the filter entirely would be helpful. The example @tomacorp links to is indeed much more usable than the current implementation, although it does lack the ability to fine-tune that is provided by the current zooming application. Once manual entry is implemented it should be much easier to recover from mistakenly cropping too much. If you are set on using the zoom, perhaps you can zoom in but leave a couple of bins on both sides of the slider to allow the selection to be easily expanded. It may also be useful to put a little number on each side showing how many results are cropped in both directions, to provide context on where the user is on the continuum of values. Labeling could also be improved, giving a single value for each histogram bin makes the cutoffs between each bin somewhat ambiguous, but this becomes less important as you use more bins.


This research paper explores the extent of empowerment translated by Urban PNPM in practices. It focuses on issue of empowerment in relation to participation of the poor and local community in defining, financing, and organizing their priorities. It introduces the problems of community and the poor in decision making process regarding their problems and necessities. In the chapter of theoretical framework, the paper focuses on issues of empowerment in general terms, followed by reviews in specific context: defining and financing urban poor (public) needs. The next two chapters highlight overall design, financing and structure of Urban PNPM in Indonesia and how does it work in practice. -- Relevance to Development Studies -- Empowerment and Participation are crucial elements in development programs, especially for community development and poverty reduction programs.


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The deposit must be at least the $20 for MasterCard and Visa users and $100 for Rapid Transfers.
The bonus is only 50% of the deposit.
The bonus can only be redeemed on the first deposit.
The deposit, bonus, and its earning can only be withdrawn after a five times wager. That is, if one deposit, $40 and gets a bonus of $20; the player will be required to wager $300 to claim the bonus.
Depositing more than $500 to get more bonuses will automatically increase the wagering requirement, not the bonus. A player, for example, who deposits $550 will only receive $250 cash bonus but will have to wager $1600 instead of $1500 to claim the bonus.
Rollover for winning wagers is determined by the least risk or win amount at the time of wager settlement.
The risk amount will be credited to the rollover contribution. Withdrawal of any amount before all the bonus terms are met will lead to automatic forfeiting of the bonus and any of its winnings.
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The promotions on Bovada get better with daily cash back on losses. Only players with account balance less than $10 at midnight are eligible for this promotion. Like all bonuses, terms and conditions apply.


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Mofaz details keeper settlements
Defense Minister, speaking at Oranit, doesn't mention Ofra-Beit El bloc.
By Yaakov Katz, Herb Keinon
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Setting a vision for Israel's permanent borders, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has said that the government plans to retain the settlements of Karnei Shomron, Rehan, Kedumim and Shaked in addition to the Jordan Valley, Ariel, Ma'aleh Adumim and Gush Etzion settlement blocs, whether under a peace plan with the Palestinians or in a unilateral withdrawal. Mofaz was speaking during a meeting with the residents of the settlement of Oranit late Sunday night. The defense minister made no mention of the future of the Ofra-Beit El bloc, Hebron, or Itamar and Eilon Moreh. "When we talk about Israel's permanent or future borders it includes the Jordan Valley, Ma'aleh Adumim, Gush Etzion, Ariel, Kedumim-Karnei Shomron and Rehan-Shaked," Mofaz said.
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Mofaz's list went a little farther than a similar list Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert detailed three weeks ago. Olmert began to broadly draw the parameters of where he thought Israel's final border should run earlier in the month in a Channel 2 interview, saying that the Jordan Valley, Gush Etzion, Ma'aleh Adumim and Ariel settlement blocs would remain a part of the country. "We will separate from the majority of the Palestinian population that lives in Judea and Samaria, and it will obligate us to leave territories where Israel is today," Olmert said. "We will move into central settlement blocs." Security officials claimed that Mofaz's inclusion of Karnei Shomron as part of the settlements Israel planned to keep was not new and would not be affected by the construction of the West Bank barrier whose route has yet to be finalized and could potentially place the settlement on the Palestinian side of the fence. "Just because we are building the fence doesn't mean we can't take it down at a later date," one official close to Mofaz said. "The fence is a security apparatus and is not meant to set permanent borders." The inclusion of the Rehan and Shaked settlements near Jenin, officials said, was based on security concerns that a relinquishment of land up to the Green Line in that area could leave Israeli cities vulnerable to Palestinian attacks. "Rehan and Shaked are part of Mofaz's overall belief that Israel needs to maintain strong and defensible borders," a source close to the minister said. While Mofaz went into more details as to what settlement blocs he envisioned would remain in Israel's hands than Olmert did, a source close to the acting prime minister said there was no daylight between the two officials' positions on the matter. "I don't see a big difference," he said. But Olmert, like Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, refrained from defining those settlement blocs. When pressed to spell out details, he said there was no reason at this time to "understand where every point would run. We are going toward separation from the Palestinians, toward establishing a permanent border for Israel." Mofaz, according to the source close to Olmert, went a bit farther and mentioned a couple of different names. "Olmert did not give details, he spoke generally," the source said. "Mofaz mentioned more names. That is the only difference." The source said there was full coordination between Olmert and Mofaz on this issue. Mofaz's words did nothing to assuage Karnei Shomron resident Benny Raz who has been leading the charge in his community for voluntary evacuation under the belief that his settlement would eventually be slated for destruction. "It's bullshit," said Raz, who accused Mofaz of playing for votes. Initial assurances by Mofaz that his settlement would be inside the fence had also be proved false, said Raz. "I will only believe it when the Americans say it," said Raz. He said he would see a future in his settlement only when it is deemed part of Israel within the context of internationally recognized agreement. "I'm not stupid, until then my time here is suspect," he said. Others have told him to prepare for evacuations following the elections, said Raz, who is part of the One House movement that is seeking compensation for voluntary evacuations. Likud MK and former foreign minister Silvan Shalom also dismissed Mofaz's words as pre-election politics. "I don't think its the real position of his party," Shalom told The Jerusalem Post. Tovah Lazaroff contributed to this report.
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I'm programming a module for day sales management, i mean that it shows details by day >> shifts >> commercials >> Commercial details.
But i have an issue on view which will show those data : because for every day i should show in the same page the related shifts, and also for it i should show the detail of sales by every commercial. (so i have commercials sales details inside shift inside day) about three levels to show.
So i don't know how to present all that in one page, i tried many tabs level but it doesn't work, i don't know if i have something wrong or what ?
Else is there any advanced way to do this job.


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I agree entirely with the premise of this plugin - Jetpack is too bulky and adds bloat to your website. This plugin does add a CSS file and 2 JS files, but somehow manages to only do it if you're using the gallery on a page. I'm using it, for example, with Advanced Custom fields and while I call the shortcode, that is in my theme...yet the proper CSS and JS files are loaded so the plugin just works, but not loaded on all of the other pages. So, in short, great plugin. It gets 4 stars because it adds a menu item in WordPress which is unnecessary and against WordPress best practices. See https://codex.wordpress.org/Adding_Administration_Menus#Determining_Location_for_New_Menus It is rare that a plugin would require the creation of a top-level menu. If the plugin introduces an entirely new concept or feature to WordPress, and needs many screens to do it, then that plugin may warrant a new top-level menu. This just adds clutter on the backend, but otherwise this plugin is written really well.
I tried this plugin on WordPress 5.1.1. In my tests, it fails to properly display some tiled galleries, and it doesn't show slideshow galleries at all. added to that there have been no updates issued in over a year, and response times on the support forum are exceptionally slow (months). I really wanted this plugin to work so I could get rid of the bloated Jetpack plugin, but unfortunately this plugin does not make the grade.
I had to delete Jetpack because of the DSGVO, but I missed the Carousel. This plugin makes me happy. Thank you!
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French kiss // exkiouz my French // French letter // to French or not too French // French people in London... it's not an invasion, it's an infestation! London is the fifth French town. I live there
the Ganges river
Friday 18-oct-13 = email from French Embassy in India "We are very interested in touring your DJ-VJ in five towns in India for 2014. We would like to know if you could lower his cachet @ €700 per date (we obviously pay for flights, hotels and meals)"
I thought my Yahoo was getting a bit temperamental and brought back a 2011 email. I read it less than 10 times until I decided my French was still quite good. It was not a 2011 email and forwarded it to Parisian Ninja representative, whose artist name is taken from an Ed Rusha's painting-meaning-crazy-in-Verlanland.
2009, that artist-businessman wants to tour in Latin America and wonder if I am still there. Euh, non. Just had an accident, relearning to walk, but I can help if you don't mind touring via the French Embassy // French Institutes-Alliances based there. "I'm dealing with Gilles Peterson in Paris. I get you on the guest list. He plays tomorrow. We can talk there?" – "Am not based in Paris, but I can come next week."
The office is full of young lads, cool guys who say vous to me when I say tu to them... so far, I hadn't realised I had aged! Or maybe... I am a woman? Eventually, DVJ turns up, we speak, he gives me DVDs of his work to watch and goodbye. First impression = he is a business man. He is very charming. By experience, I don't trust charming guys and less when the word money serves as a comma in each sentence. But, by experience, I should not have prejudice. Back in the snowy street of the 9th arrondissement, I managed to make a show of myself at peak hours and got almost ran over as my legs are hanging around in the air. Bad omen! BUT, by experience, do not be prejudiced against bad omens = sometimes bad shit happens and it can be good shit... Rama Rama.
In Latin America, I was not an expat' = I was not paid by a French government or sent by a French organisation. I was a foreigner, having to leave the country every three months for a stamp on my passport. I taught French and English at local rate ($10 dollar an hour) and managed projects such as Bjork, Matthew Barney etc @ $300... per project = 2 to 3 months = lower than the local rate! When it was fiesta time, I drank and smoked spliffs, but didn't coke. I repeat = I didn't whiten my nose. Not even once! You do it or you don't. There is no in-between in Latin America. It's a political choice (and no one, absolutely no one smuggles cocaine unless under threat!) I came back... poor. Some people get married, have kids and divorce = it's a fuck up, but an "acceptable" one, others need to breath another atmosphère and fuck up too, which few can understand.
For a businessman, the AV's work is quite good although no filmmakers have given permission. My motivation takes me to researching all contacts of Cultural Attachés in the world. Because... of course, the world is not big enough, so I searched for these Cultural Attachés in Embassies and Institutes based in Latin America, Asia, Africa, Eastern and Northern Europe. Managed to interest quite a few of them = I wrote PR in three languages to ease the Cultural Attaché's job and I arranged meetings with the Parisian French Institute and the Foundation of French Alliance. On those meetings, I learnt that he has a female booking agent already in contact with "my" network and that his cachet is not €1500 per date, but €800 per date. I even learnt that he actually toured in West Africa for €500 per date. I write to the Cultural Attachés network, explaining the situation. Despite this, India was highly interested in touring him in five towns for 2011, but it took him two weeks to reply... by then the potential tour had been cancelled. Being paid on a percentage of a cachet... I earned nothing! And my expenses were my expenses.
Having made all those worldwide contacts, I had now to research French artists.
What Time Out (in their September issue) call "These two synth-wielding Frenchmen know how to freak out, with plenty of disco-melting Krautrock..." are actually two talented musicians whose booking agents find normal to put me on a paying guest list in their Parisian's gig... and refuse to give me their album in order to promote them well. One influential cultural attaché in Latin America felt so insulted by their booking agent that it looks like they might not tour via the Latin American network sometimes soon.
Unfortunately, every single artist or agent I contacted happened to be a friend of that artist-businessman. Paris is a cultural microcosm = most artists-agents rotate around themselves and only bend to kiss their own belly buttons! What they don't seem to realise is the amount of work it requires for those based in third world countries // the over reduced team // the lack of money to get some good acts going there. These artist-businessman simply behave like spoiled brats asking for extravagant fees, expecting people like me to slave around!
So, on Friday 18 oct 13, I forwarded that email from India after a two years hiatus between DVJ and myself. I just want to believe there must have been a misunderstanding, that we can sort something out, that we have to go beyond...
Sunday 20 oct 13 @ 2.30 am = he actually contacted my network in India in August and sold himself for over €700 per date saying my "job" was insignificant. He didn't contact an Indian local promoter... he went straight into a door I opened for him! The new Cultural Attachée in India had been given my files and emails and she contacted me by mistake. He's going to pocket money €3500 out of an opportunity I created. Behind that "peace and love" macho who tatooes his FB's wall of "let's fight against the system" hides a "business is business" misogynist, opportunist and narcissique faux-hippie-pinkfloyd-esque! I wonder how many other countries' Cultural Attachés he has contacted on my "behalf"!
But then again, in Paris, women decide who fly or not and they can see from my last email, the rip-off doesn't come from me... + now, he will have to pay in Poundland, not in Euros...
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Builder's Base - BH5 Base Designs
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Anyone who has played BH5 in the 2400 trophy range has seen a base that is heavily used. it's in the shape of a diamond and, when properly deployed, does quite a number against Baby Dragon or Beta Minion attacks. I created a version of this of my own that I'm currently using on my own BH5 games.
The original design of this base - at least the one I see floating about the most - has the Air Bombs in the lower apex of the base. The problem with this is that it exposes the Air Bombs to attack by Sneaky Archers and other troops. A successful air defense uses the Air Bombs and Firecrackers; at BH5, you need to be able to defend against 12 Baby Dragons or 32 Beta Minions; that's not going to happen if Air Bombs can easily be taken down.
So...I moved them up toward the middle of the base. To reach them, or the Firecrackers, you have to go through a bunch of other defenses and junk buildings. I've also seen ground attacks start at the bottom, so it made sense to put the Guard Post down there.
The top apron prevents easy access to junk buildings that will be the goal of ground troops, while bringing air troops into range of defenses.Trap placement reflects typical attacker deployment.
Using level 10 Baby Dragons and this base, I soared from 2200 trophies to 2939 trophies in just an hour or two of attacks. Nearly every single attack was a win. The moment I hit above 2900, though, I started to come against other players who were familiar with this base and could get higher percentages with ground troops. They also tended to have much stronger air defenses (a must for BH5). The base is still very effective in maintaining a trophy base of 2700-2900 which offers 360K to 370K in win bonuses each day; plenty to keep my Master Builder and Star Laboratory active.
When I first rushed my main game to BH5, I ran with a two part, rectangular base that also performed very well.
This base relies heavily on routing and a bit of subterfuge. It served me well when I was hanging down around 2000-2200 trophies at BH5, just shortly after moving over from BH4. (I believe I used it at the beginning of BH5 to propel myself up from the 1500s.) It's not an original; I saw a version of it in one of my attacks and adapted it for my own use.
Attacks against this base typically come from the far right or left. For some reason, air attacks tend to come from the left and ground attacks from the right. Ground attacks will usually start with Bombers taking out the no-man's land followed by Giants and Archers or Barbarians moving in from there.
Most attackers get half the base. Since the typical, early BH5 player is rushed and does not have strong troops, they often do not get the Builder's Hall at all. Those that do will usually end up with a low percentage one-star win.
By the time I hit 2200-2300 trophies, this base design was no longer viable. Most BH5 attackers had upgraded their ground troops and were easily achieving two star wins in the 60%-80% range by coming at the base from the far right. Ground attacks from the left never did well as the left half of the base is a ground attacker's nightmare with the push traps, double cannons, and Crusher all placed to break any ground pathing.
As always, YMMV. These base designs have served me well on a couple of my games now and I anticipate continuing to use them across all seven of the games I currently have running. Eventually, I'll design a new one but probably not until I move up in trophies again.
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QED Refrence AUDIO 40 Cable Stereo Phono to Phono Analogue Interconnect- QE2453
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ANALOCTM Locking RCA Plugs: The new QED Analoc™ plug is a low eddy current design featuring small high purity copper
conductors in place of the usual large volume brass body found in ordinary high-quality plugs. This cuts down or eliminates the tendency for the changing magnetic field in the conductor to induce eddy currents which can affect the micro-timing of the audio signal.
Silver Plated 99.999% Oxygen Free Copper (SPOFC) conductors with LDPE dielectric
Asymmetrical twisted pair geometry: OFC shield giving 100% electromagnetic screening
Zn/Mn ferrite Jacket: Gold plated QED 'Analoc™' RCA plugs
Parallel Capacitance: 76 pF/m
Inductance: 0.37 μH/m
Loop resistance: 0.072 Ω/m
Dissipation Factor: 0.0059
Sound Quality: Before the QED loom, the panelists have taken a mixed view of the various wires played to them. They've found positives and negatives, liked some, and been lukewarm about others. But two out of the three listeners express a strong preference for this set of cables, applauding it for its clean, open, even sound that doesn't try to do anything too clever. Instead, it is very accomplished at almost every facet of the music and makes things look rather easy.
"Everything is joined up," says one panelist, and so it proves. The Lorde track plays better than it has through most others here. Although not necessarily the warmest or most expansive, it just seems to gel the bass with the rest of the music - which is something several others fail to do. It doesn't sound too steely in the mid-band, giving a nice smooth sound to female vocals, and the treble is crisp and finessed. Musically the loom works very well, the beat bouncing along in an enjoyable way. The result is a surprisingly easy listen when previously the track hasn't quite made sense. The REM tune is described as sounding, "head and shoulders better" by one panelist. There is a fine sense of depth to what can sound like a pretty close and claustrophobic mix. One can hear lots of detail too, with the keyboard backing track coming through from the second verse, where previously it had been submerged. Tonally the QED isn't the warmest or most sumptuous here, but it is very even and transparent and doesn't seem to be trying to add or subtract anything much. This means that it's likely to work well with a wide range of systems. Moving to the Duke Ellington piece and the pattern continues. One adoring panelist describes it as, "good bass rhythm and control, nice, cohesive, great sound, head and shoulders better".Another of the panelists isn't quite so enamored; they appear to yearn for the expansive yet sumptuous mid-band of the Ecosse and find the QED a little too anodyne and bland when playing Julian Lloyd Webber's cello work. All of which just goes to show how much taste plays a part, but still this remains a superb result considering its low price
Reference and Signature Audio40 analog cables use 'Analoc™' plugs with a built-in locking feature so that as the barrel is screwed uptight, the clamping force is increased making for a super noise-free and secure connection.
To correctly fit 'Analoc™' plugs, the outer locking cylinder of the plug must be screwed forward, to loosen the gripping 'blades', whilst the plug is pushed into place on the socket. The locking cylinder should then be screwed back in order to lock the plug onto the socket. Needless to say, users must always remember to do this when connecting/disconnecting the cables.
CABLES MATTER
There are three cables in the Audio 40 range representing the long-established Performance, Reference, and Signature designations which have always corresponded to the "good, better, best" principle of QED product hierarchy.* However the whole range has been developed using a strict top-down approach which means that all three cables share an almost identical construction and geometry with the Signature cable representing the ideal 'cost no object' original state of the design with the Performance cable its cost engineered alternative. The Reference cable represents the perfect balance of performance against the law of diminishing returns omitting only the most expensive components..
The cordage is designed primarily for low capacitance as this has been identified by QED as the primary factor which leads to a hi-fidelity experience and makes for a tight sound that retains the rhythm of the original piece. Further unique steps have also been taken to eliminate minute timing errors in the cable. Our new complimentary conductor geometry is used throughout the range and utilizes two conductors of different diameters to carry the same audio signal. This has the effect of providing an alternative path for high-frequency audio components which might otherwise become time smeared in a single audio pathway. Another innovation added to the entire range is the specially impregnated PVC jacket containing 10% Zn/Mn ferrite material. This absorbs very high-frequency noise signals and audio signal components which are thought to have an adverse effect on the micro-timing of the audio signal. Low dielectric constant materials such as foamed polyethylene or Teflon have been used throughout the range to cut down on the amount of audio signal energy lost due to cable capacitance and all of these measures have been applied under the consultation of leading industry experts. We have been able to measure the effects of these improvements using our high-frequency cable test suite.
Additionally, the new locking plug does nothing to spoil the low jitter, low noise signal provided by the cordage. The new QED Analoc™ plug is a low eddy current design featuring small high purity copper conductors in place of the usual large volume brass body found in ordinary high-quality plugs. This cuts down or eliminates the tendency for the changing magnetic field in the conductor to induce eddy currents which can affect the micro-timing of the audio signal. Coupled with its hollow central pin, which is designed to combat the skin effect in the same way as our X-Tube speaker cables, the new QED Analog ™ plug maintains the fidelity of the audio signal from start to finish.
Traditionally high-quality RCA phono plugs (designed in the 1940s and still used today for domestic unbalanced audio connections) have been machined from solid brass. Brass is a reasonably inexpensive material and can be easily worked so it lends itself to use in bespoke designs which attempt to improve
upon more basic implementations of the original RCA plug. Unfortunately, there are a few problems with the use of bulk brass, the most prominent being its low conductivity compared to pure copper. Pure copper plugs would be prohibitively expensive and so are not used but if the high purity copper conductors were confined to just the pin section and the small contact areas required for the return ring then this would be economically viable.
QED's new Analoc™ plugs take advantage of this idea and provide a high purity copper connection without the use of bulky brass plug bodies. The pin section is made from a hollow tube of high purity copper and the ground return is reduced to just two of the normal six leaves. This has the dual effect of providing a low resistance path for the tiny signal currents flowing inline-level unbalanced connections and cuts out the possibility of eddy currents forming in the large volume of the plug body which would otherwise form part of the return path for the signal. Eddy currents are swirling circular currents which build up in any conductor where there is a variable magnetic field acting on it such as when an ac signal is applied. Eddy currents flowing in a conductor of a given resistivity necessarily dissipate energy and this energy loss is proportional to the square of the diameter of the conductor - so the smaller this can be kept, the less the effect of eddy currents on the delicate audio signal. Add to this that due to self-inductance eddy currents can persist for a short time after the field is removed and always create a field that opposes that which creates them it can be seen that eliminating this phenomenon can lead to improved transmission of the audio signal - especially in the area of minute timing effects.
Eddy currents give rise to the skin effect wherein the current increasingly flows towards the outside of the conductor as frequency increases. By removing the central portion of the copper pin section we have reduced eddy currents here also and thus combated the skin effect and reduced self-inductance in a similar way to that employed in our X-Tube™ speaker cables. Because the contact area of the outer ground ring has been reduced it is necessary to provide a very firm connection indeed and so all Analoc™ plugs have a locking feature built-in so that as the barrel is screwed uptight, the clamping force is increased making for a super noise-free and secure connection for life.
HIGH-FREQUENCY DATA STREAMS
The two diagrams above show the difference measured in a high frequency data stream applied to an ordinary cable without the improvements (left) and with the improvements in the QED cable (right)
The ability to accurately transmit high-frequency impulses means that within the audio band timing and dynamics should be improved.


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Westover Family Tree Back to the Year 985
March 17, 2018 /7 Comments/in Family History /by Jeff Westover
How does 31 generations sound to you? Awesome, huh?
About a year a half ago I was thrilled to visit Family Search one day to see our paternal Westover line magically extended another 500 years and terminate with the name Siegfried De Sponheim, who was born in 985.
That name was added by Family Search, which means they had actual records from that time and place to stick the name on our line.
That makes it legit, right?
Well, it turns out old Siegfried was just the latest name in the Leiningen family, part of ancient German nobility. They ruled certain areas of Europe until they were annexed by the French Republic in 1793.
How did De Sponheim and Leiningen become "Westover"?
As with many royal families, names were derived from lands they owned and impressive homes they lived in. The Leiningens had family and lands from all over but deep in Bavaria lies a town – and a castle – called Westerburg.
Family Search lists 400 plus years of their history as Count after Count came and went as the wars and generations and diseases of Europe did their thing over time. Most of the names you see in this line are, like Siegfried list above, verified by Family Search.
The line continues all the way to the year 1453 with the name Reinhard I (IV) Count of Leiningen Westerburg.
Now we learn the hard lessons of Family Search.
Reinhard I has two wives. Both appear to be legit and documented.
But Reinhard's children come from three mothers – not two. We don't know who the third wife is – if she was a wife – but we do know the name of the child that came of this union.
His name is Robert Westover.
Robert Westover was born in 1480 in Somerset, England.
How do we know this? Family Search lists the source of this information from a GEDCOM file uploaded to Family Search in 2016. We know who loaded the file…but we have no other sources of who Robert Westover is. (Yes, I'm trying to contact the file owner).
So what does this mean? Are we of a royal German line or not? Is there or is there not a castle? More importantly, is there a hidden, royal inheritance that has gone unclaimed the past 500 years or so? I just want to help.
Well, until we can proved definitively that Robert Westover was the son of Reinhard, all this is pure fantasy.
We know that John Westover, Sr. of Somerset county England did exist – and we know we are descended of him.
But that is where the "proof" ends for the Westover line.
So how and why does Family Search allow for the extension of the family tree another 500 years with these key links missing?
The answer lies in the fact that overall our tree extends beyond 500 years.
You see, the Church has a policy that we can do temple work for our family for only the last 500 years. Anything beyond that would take one very extraordinary exception.
It is a good policy.
First of all, 500 years of human history is already a chunk of work to do. Billions and Billions of names have come and gone to the earth in that time span. Family Search hasn't even scratched the surface – just around 6 billion names from the past 500 years are available on Family Search.
We just need to get those sorted out and the temple work done for them before we move on.
But more importantly there is something really difficult in proving lineage past that 500 year mark. Unless your family WAS royalty the chances of finding them are exceedingly small.
So while the names past John Westover Sr on our tree on Family Search are suspect at best, Family Search is letting them stay there because at the point they fall in history we can do nothing with anyway.
But there is another reason they stay: it's to spur further research.
Family Search indexed the Westerburg area of Germany several years ago – and they want connections made to it. The Westover line is literally one or two names away from connection to that proven line.
They want us finding out – one way or the other – if the records of southwest England can indeed tap us into the Leiningen family line. They think it is highly probable.
What if you sign in to Family Search and you don't see this connection? Maybe the names listed on your tree are slightly different than mine. Maybe a merge needs to be made.
I'll be glad to supply what information I have to anyone who wants it.
Tags: Reinhard I Count of Leiningen of Westerburg, Robert Westover
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robi says:
Is it permitted to speak of DNA testing, within the context of searching for, and verifying (or not) connections such as the one speculated in this discussion? There is no Westover or Westburger surname project at Family Tree DNA. I have had no luck soliciting testers for Y DNA, from any of my many WESTOVER matches who are males carrying the WESTOVER name. Is this kind of testing not considered a reliable source of data. I am offering to subsidize the testing.
Jeff Westover says:
DNA has a place at the table, of course. Will it be useful in identifying individuals back to the year 985? That remains to be seen. With the passage of time the record get stronger. But that is what it would take. Many with Westover connections have taken DNA tests. Most of those tests have confirmed what we already know from history and they most certainly help with confirming connections within the last 150 years or so. So yes, there is interest. But I feel the biggest obstacle is education, both in why DNA testing is valid and HOW it can add to the historical record. That will require a lot more time. We need more vocal advocacy.
YOU, as my 7th cousin, with the surname WESTOVER, and a Y chromosome in your 23rd pair,… you would qualify nicely for this testing process. You and I are not an Ancestry or a MyHeritage DNA match (if you HAVE tested, the lack of a match is due to the vagaries of autosomal DNA), but, your close cousins Wendy Hinckley, Danny Westover, Samuel Westover, ALL ARE matches to me at one of those companies. I have tried to elicit responses from them with respect to testing of Y DNA, but have drawn a blank so far. Perhaps I will get lucky this time.
Rob Ireland
(great great grandson of…. Jane (Jennie) Westover b. 1848 in Erin, Ontario d. 1930 in Simcoe, Ontario, married William Hammond)
I would be happy to do it.
Jeff…this response is encouraging. Can we pursue this through eMail? If so, reply to me at this eMail…. pmulder@oricom.ca
I will be happy to supply/support that advocacy. I have been studying and using Y DNA (this is NOT the testing served by Ancestry, or MyHeritage, or 23AndMe) for the last 5 years and am currently using that research in the deep ancestry of my 4 grandparent lines, and 1 of my great grandparent lines. I am actively soliciting a candidate for Y DNA testing of my great grandparent WESTOVER line. Any assistance you can offer in finding a willing candidate would be appreciated. This is an expensive test, but I am offering any financial assistance required.
Thank you for your prompt reply
Hi Jeff
Are you still there? Did you get my reply?
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#region License

#endregion

#region Imports

using System;
using AopAlliance.Intercept;
using Spring.Util;

#endregion

namespace Spring.Aop.Framework.Adapter
{
    ///
    /// <see cref="AopAlliance.Intercept.IInterceptor"/> implementation that
    /// wraps <see cref="Spring.Aop.IMethodBeforeAdvice"/> instances.
    ///
    /// <remarks>
    ///

    /// In the future Spring.NET may also offer a more efficient alternative
    /// solution in cases where there is no interception advice and therefore
    /// no need to create an <see cref="AopAlliance.Intercept.IMethodInvocation"/>
    /// object.
    ///

    ///

    /// Used internally by the Spring.NET AOP framework: application developers
    /// should not need to use this class directly.
    ///

    /// </remarks>
    /// <author>Rod Johnson</author>
    /// <author>Aleksandar Seovic (.NET)</author>
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    internal sealed class MethodBeforeAdviceInterceptor : IMethodInterceptor
    {
        private IMethodBeforeAdvice advice;

        ///
        /// Creates a new instance of the
        /// <see cref="Spring.Aop.Framework.Adapter.MethodBeforeAdviceInterceptor"/>
        /// class.
        ///
        /// <param name="advice">
        /// The <see cref="Spring.Aop.IMethodBeforeAdvice"/> that is to be wrapped.
        /// </param>
        /// <exception cref="System.ArgumentNullException">
        /// If the supplied <paramref name="advice"/> is <see langword="null"/>.
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        public MethodBeforeAdviceInterceptor(IMethodBeforeAdvice advice)
        {
            AssertUtils.ArgumentNotNull(advice, "advice");
            this.advice = advice;
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        ///
        /// Executes interceptor before the target method successfully returns.
        ///
        /// <param name="invocation">
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        /// <see cref="AopAlliance.Intercept.IJoinpoint.Proceed"/> method of
        /// the supplied <paramref name="invocation"/>.
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The Swedish heavy metal group Avatar launches a four-episode streaming concert series on Saturday, Jan. 9. (Photo courtesy eOne Entertainment)
Swedish band Avatar launches 'Ages' streaming series
Avatar launches 'Ages' streaming series, 5 Things to Know
Avatar formed 20 years ago in Sweden — an anniversary the heavy metal group expected to celebrate live in concert, in some form. But celebrating is complicated these days.
So the quintet is starting 2021 with an ambitious Plan B — Avatar Ages, a four-episode virtual concert series that will focus on individual albums, with fan-voted set lists for three of them. Avatar's latest album, last year's "Hunter Gatherer," is first up on Saturday, Aug. 9, with the rest of the catalog to follow.
It's not exactly what frontman Johannes Eckerstrom and his bandmates had in mind, but they're certainly not complaining about the opportunity to do the "Black Waltz," and more, together once again.
• Eckerstrom says by phone from Gothenburg that he was initially "very much against the idea to do a stream concert. I lacked vision. I only imagined us standing on a stage in a venue somewhere, with no audience in front of us, and retendering. We are theatrical band, but we're not into that kind of theater. The roar of the crowd is 50 percent of the show. So I couldn't for the life of me imagine us doing that and feeling OK with it."
• The frontman changed his mind after being presented with production designs along with a concept spread over multiple episodes. "I started to feel like a livestream is no longer a compromise; Suddenly it became an opportunity to do things in a way we couldn't have done otherwise — number one is just the huge chunk, vast amount of material we can perform. We can't bring four to five hours of music on the road, but we can do it like this. Suddenly it became a fun challenge. It's kind of like a TV show, but the live side is still the biggest part of it."
• Eckerstrom enjoyed watching the fan requests come in. "A lot of stuff is kind of what we expected, but one thing that is real exciting is we will end up playing our third album (2009's self-titled set) from front to back. That's an interesting one, when were really wanted to push ourselves into a band that didn't exist before. It felt like a real starting point for us, in a way, a very important album."
• A silver lining of the COVID-19 shutdowns for Eckerstrom has been its effect on his creativity. "I have never written this much music right after a new album release as I have this year. We have all been writing. It's one of the things you can do when you can't tour. There's an abundance of freedom, and I've been very inspired — we all have. I think something very exciting will come out of this, I really do."
• Eckerstrom resides in Finland while Avatar remains headquarted in Sweden, and he voices disappointment at the latter's largely hands-off handling of the pandemic early on, which wound up backfiring. "I get sad sometimes. I get angry sometimes. I don't think the elected officials (in Sweden) were totally wrong; We don't expect a prime minister, no matter which party he's from, to be an expert on pandemics. But when the experts keep coming up with different conclusions compared to other countries, that's troublesome. Finland is doing better than Sweden, but there's a lot of people (in Sweden) I care about, so it was very disheartening."
"Avatar Ages — An Impossible Concert Experience" livestream series begins at 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 9, with an episode focusing on 2020's "Hunter Gatherer" album and "Avatar's biggest songs." Subsequent episodes stream Jan. 16, 23 and 30. Tickets via AvatarAges.com.


Looking for something to do this weekend. If so there are plenty of events happening throughout the city. At Woodbine Park there is Waterfront Blues, at York University's Rexall Centre the sounds of the Blackcreek Summer Music Festival, and at 99 Sudbury (near Liberty Village) you can sample a cocktail or two at the Drinks Show. Check out these links for events going on in and around the city.
Just remember to avoid the DVP and Gardiner on Sunday as it's closed for the Becel Heart and Stroke Ride for Heart. Enjoy the weekend!


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