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If you find your life partner on your first date, the site doesn’t make much money off you.Our survey found that among respondents who stopped online dating, 20 percent of men and 40 percent of women said they did so because they didn’t like the quality of their matches.According to a 2015 study by the Pew Research Center, 15 percent of American adults have used online dating sites (web-based platforms like Match.com) and/or dating apps (location-based smartphone apps like Tinder).Participation by those 18 to 24 has almost tripled since 2013, and boomer enrollment has doubled.There’s a whole range of difficult human emotions to contend with: insecurity, disappointment, rejection, maybe heartache. “Sometimes there is nothing that clicks whatsoever,” says Julien Nguyen, a 30-year-old software designer from Austin, Texas, who has used Bumble and Tinder.“Sometimes whatever chemistry we had just fizzles out.”Perhaps being in the market for a mate can’t be compared with using other services. D., a professor at the Harvard Business School who studies consumer behavior, thinks so.
They are gatekeepers to a massive population of potential partners; they control who we meet and how. So Consumer Reports decided to survey almost 115,000 subscribers about online dating and their experiences with it.
D., a junior fellow in economics at Harvard University.
In other words, there’s no incentive for them to make the experience speedy.
But the responses from the more active group suggest they’re highly frustrated.
They gave online dating sites the lowest satisfaction scores Consumer Reports has ever seen for services rendered—lower even than for tech-support providers, notoriously poor performers in our ratings. Well, finding a mate can be arduous and exhausting.


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Happy ninth wedding anniversary to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge!
It’s hard to believe that it has been almost a decade since Kate Middleton walked up the aisle of Westminster Abbey with her father Michael to meet Prince William.
The couple have released a lovely photo from their special day to celebrate, alongside a very sweet message.
It shows them leaving the abbey hand in hand as a married couple after saying their vows.
Best man Prince Harry can be seen in the background with the little bridesmaids.
The official Kensington Palace Twitter account wrote: “Nine years ago today — thank you for all your lovely messages on The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s wedding anniversary!”
The couple are celebrating the day “privately” today, which was expected due to the coronavirus lockdown.
The couple’s wedding on April 29, 2011, was celebrated by people around the world and Brits were given an extra day off to mark the occasion.
Thousands travelled to London to try an catch a glimpse of the couple, and people up and down the country held street parties and gathered around the TV to watch the historical moment.
After the ceremony, the newlyweds and their friends and family headed to Buckingham Palace for a reception.
The royals and the Middleton family waved to well-wishers from the palace balcony, and Kate and William shared a sweet kiss with her new husband Prince William on the balcony to the delight of cheering and flag waving fans.
Kate wore a stunning Alexander McQueen wedding dress with lace detail, which many fashion lovers have said is their favourite royal dress to date.
But she changed into a beautiful Sarah Burton creation – a white satin dress with a diamante waistband – for the night time celebrations.
Kate finished off the look with an angora bolero cardigan and had a whole new hairstyle for the evening.
According to many of the guests one of the highlights of the glamorous event was Prince Harry ‘s Best Man speech.
A guest revealed: “Harry only said a few words, but it was so emotional. The entire room burst into applause.”
Wearing a fez hat Harry had started his speech by standing on the top table and describing the newlyweds as the “Dude and Duchess”.
As guests chuckled, he poked fun at William’s receding hairline and said he felt sorry for Kate marrying a “bald man”.
And there was barely a dry eye as Harry turned to William and told him: “Our mother would be so very proud of you.”
According to royal author Katie Nicholl his speech also contained some emotional moments.
She said: “It was affectionate, warm and funny and touched William deeply.
“The speech was peppered with Harry’s classic sense of humour, and he ribbed his brother: ‘William didn’t have a romantic bone in his body before he met Kate, so I knew it was serious when William suddenly started cooing down the phone at Kate’.
“Famous for his mimicry, Harry then impersonated his brother calling Kate ‘Babykins’, to much laughter from the guests.
“When he said the couple’s decade-long romance was his inspiration, there was a shy smile from Chelsy, while Kate shed a tear.”

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Sneaker Sale Ends in Armed Robbery
By Kevin O’Rourke
Montgomery County Police have arrested three men in connection with an armed robbery which was the result of sneaker sale gone bad.
The incident occurred between 11:10 am and noon on Friday, Jan. 2 on the 11000 block of Honeybear Lane in Germantown.
MCPD have arrested Ja Quil D. Hargrove, 19 of Observation Court in Germantown, Hermes Yangu Mavambu, 19, of Chadburn Place in Montgomery Village, and Aurelio Levon Simmons, 21, of Gaithersburg on armed robbery charges. Simmons and Mavambu are also charged with first-degree assault.
According to Lieutenant Bob Ravida of District 5, the incident began with sneakers being put on sale on a social media website. The victim was selling the shoes and one of the defendants was to purchase the shoes, but when it came time to meet to complete the transaction, the sneakers were stolen instead of sold.
A few days later, on Jan. 2, the victim and a friend were walking on Honeybear Lane when they spot one of the defendants in a car and attempt to confront him about the stolen shoes. Then, according to police, the car the pulls away and quickly returns with more people inside. At this point, the three men jump out and assault the victim. They produce a handgun and pistol-whip the victim in the head, and kick and beat him. The defendants then steal the victim’s iPhone, North Face jacket and the sneakers he was wearing.
According to Ravida, the victim and the defendants all know each other from Watkins Mill High School. The case was investigated by Detective Robert Finkelstein.

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Innovative Fundraising Partnership
Manitoba Lotteries and Habitat for Humanity Winnipeg (HFHW) reached a milestone in 2010 when the 25th home was completed through the Manitoba Lotteries Legacy Build program. This achievement is especially notable because it represents a partnership that is unique in Canada.
The Legacy Build program was created by Manitoba Lotteries in 2008 as a self-sustaining funding model. Through the program, Manitoba Lotteries commits to provide up to half a million dollars annually to build homes for lower-income working families in Habitat for Humanity communities across the province. Developed as a five-year program, the corporate commitment of up to $2.5 million is based on matched funding raised within the community. This approach encourages additional community support for Habitat projects and has the potential to create $5 million in funding over the life of the program.
CMHC provided Seed Funding for Minto Street, the first development created through the Legacy Build program funds.
The Legacy Build Fund will create long-term benefits because mortgage payments received from Legacy Build homeowners are reinvested into building more homes. These proceeds will potentially contribute to helping more than 200 families acquire safe and affordable housing by 2058. The children of these families will have brighter futures — meaning the life-altering results of this program will truly be far-reaching.
The support provided by this unique partnership has allowed HFH Winnipeg to expand its program to build affordable homes throughout Manitoba, except in Brandon where there is already an active affiliate. HFHW has already established satellite operations known as chapters in Selkirk, Portage la Prairie and Steinbach. Several other communities in Manitoba have also expressed an interest in becoming part of the Habitat program.
“The Legacy Build Fund exemplifies a truly sustainable, community-driven approach that meets the goals of our partner and the communities we jointly serve,” said Winston Hodgins, President and CEO of Manitoba Lotteries.
Manitoba Lotteries Corporation establishes a Legacy Build Fund for Habitat for Humanity communities across Manitoba.

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“‘In 1945, our parents went away and left us in the care of two men who may have been criminals.’ I had no idea where I was going after I wrote that first sentence,” admitted Michael Ondaatje as the audience burst into laughter. Ondaatje, the Sri Lanka-born author of seven novels and 13 poetry collections, visited the Seminary Co-Op this past Thursday to discuss his latest novel Warlight. He was joined in conversation by Sonali Thakkar, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Chicago. Included on Barack Obama’s 2018 summer reading list, the book delves into the nature of war, memory, and family.
Warlight follows 14-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel after they are abandoned by their parents and left in the care of the Moth, named after his quiet and secretive demeanor, and the Darter, a smuggler of racing dogs. After months of silence, their mother returns without their father, explaining nothing. The children’s story of parental separation and eventual reunion is a trope associated with fairy tales. Ondaatje plays with this idea, speaking through Nathaniel: “Whenever my sister and I recalled this story, it felt like part of a fairy tale we did not quite understand. Our mother told us about it without drama…the way things happen in twice-told tales.” The novel itself is such a twice-told tale, delivered in two parts, spanning over a decade. In the second part, an adult Nathaniel embarks on a painful journey of retelling and reconstructing his mother’s story, and by extension, his own. “It is like clarifying a fable, about our parents, about Rachel and myself…there are traditions and tropes in stories like this.” But as old secrets unravel and the family breaks apart once again, the prospects for a happy ending are grim. For survivors of war, it seems, the past never stays in the past.
The novel challenges the notion that the destruction that came about because of World War II ended in 1945. The word “warlight” refers to the dim ambient light that people and ships in London had to rely on to navigate the city at night, since blackouts were mandated to prevent enemy aircraft from using the city lights to identify targets. Ondaatje recounts, “When I was finding a title for the book, ‘warlight’ was apt because it was a reflection of war, a reflection that continued on like light on a cloud.” Thakkar added to his point, “It seems in a way like we’re still living in warlight. The emergency lights are still on and the bright illumination never quite returned.”
“It’s not romantic,” said Ondaatje about his experience in post-war London, which informed his writing of Warlight. “The version of England that I have [is] a place where whatever you were born into, you became that, simply. When I was in school there was no sense that you were going to suddenly become something unusual like a rock star or a writer. If you were from a family of laundromats you became a laundromat.”
Despite this, Ondaatje has managed to become one of Canada’s most renowned authors, where he relocated in 1962 to attend university. Over the course of the talk, he offered insight into his writing process, which could best be described as spontaneous.
“When some people write novels, they have all the research done, and then they can write the book,” he said. “But for me I have a tendency to do the research simultaneously.” He emphasized that he does not force his characters into molds, but rather lets them emerge organically.
“I never base characters on people I know because then I would be limited to what I know about them, and I know that person is much more interesting than [that],” said Ondaatje. His characters largely write themselves, and none of them turn out quite the way he planned. Still, others were not planned at all— “I wasn’t expecting the Darter to be in the book until he was there in the living room when [Nathaniel and Rachel] came back from school. Often some of the most interesting characters are the ones who turn up uninvited.”
Michael Ondaatje’s foray into a deeply scarred England is incredibly powerful. Although the novel’s ambiguous characters and melancholy progression land far from its fairy tale roots, Ondaatje hints that “there is more hope than you might think.”

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The past few days we have seen several trades go down, and I wanted to briefly touch up on them. The Anaheim Ducks haven’t been in anything and I don’t think they will anytime soon.
-Los Angeles Kings trade Jack Johnson(D) and a first round selection in 2012 or 2013 to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Jeff Carter(C)
-New York Rangers trade Wojtek Wolski (LW) to the Florida Panthers for a third round selection and prospect Mike Vernance (D).
-New Jersey Devils send Kurtis Foster (D), Nick Palmieri (RW), Stephane Veilleux (LW), and two draft picks to the Minnesota Wild for Marek Zidlicky (D).
-Phoenix Coyotes send Curtis McElhinney (G) and two draft picks to the Columbus Blue Jackets for Antoine Vermette (C).
-Edmonton Oilers extend Ales Hemsky to a two-year deal for $10 million
-Kings extend Willie Mitchell to a two-year deal for a reported $7 million
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Patoranking surprises sister with a car gift on her wedding
Clad in white Agbada, the music star sang for his sister at the wedding reception.
The car gift was presented to the couple on their wedding day which took place on Saturday, March 20, 2021.
Another highlight of the wedding event was when the music star sang for his dad and sister during the father-daughter dance.
Congratulations to the couple.
Patoranking is a Nigerian reggae-dancehall singer and songwriter.
He rose to prominence in 2013 after he dropped the hit single 'Alubarika.'
He has gone on to become one of Nigeria's biggest music stars.
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An integrated microfluidic chip for chromosome enumeration using fluorescence in situ hybridization
Sieben, Vincent J.;
Debes-Marun, Carina S.;
Pilarski, Linda M.;
Backhouse, Christopher J.
Fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH) is more sensitive than classical cytogenetics for detecting cryptic chromosomal abnormalities. H; however, the protocol complexity, high reagent cost and long hybridization time associated with a typical interphase FISH analysis have slowed its utilization in a clinical setting. For various cancers, such as multiple myeloma, the lack of a cost-effective and informative diagnostic method has compromised the quality of life for patients. Here, wWe present the first demonstration of a microchip-based FISH protocol for the analysis of chromosomal abnormalities in multiple myeloma cells to address this issue. The developed microfluidic arrays allow several chromosomal abnormalities associated with multiple myeloma to be detected with a 10 fold higher throughput and 1/10th the reagent consumption of the traditional slide based FISH. These benefits have resulted in the arrays being actively used in a clinical laboratory. We examined two methods of enhancing the hybridization, using mechanical and electrokinetic agitation. Both methods yielded improvements in the hybridization efficiency and warrant further optimization studies. Ultimately, we established a novel method of performing interphase FISH on a microchip in hours whereas the conventional protocol requires days. We believe that additional optimization studies would improve the hybridization enhancement even further, reducing the analysis time to less than one hour and making point of care FISH analysis a possibility.

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Thomas Quinlan's indie rap label celebrates two decades with a compilation release bash at Lee’s Palace
HAND’SOLO RECORDS 20th ANNIVERSARY PARTY and compilation release with ETERNIA, ULTRA MAGNUS & DJ SLAM, MORE OR LES, THE SUPERNOVAS and many others at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West),Thursday (September 29), 8:30 pm. $10 at the door. handsolorecords.com. See listing.
Twenty years is a long time for an indie record label to last, so if you do, it’s only right to throw yourself a party.
On Thursday, Toronto-based indie rap label Hand’Solo, founded by Thomas Quinlan, takes over Lee’s Palace to celebrate two decades of releases, and to launch another one: the Bassments Of Badmen 3 compilation, featuring label alumni.
So how does Quinlan himself feel 20 years’ worth of releases stack up? Here are his top 10 faves, with tons o’ insight into the DIY behind-the-scenes process that went into each one.
The first release on Hand’Solo, this collection of studio and live tracks was intended to spotlight the exciting (but, unknown to me, fractured) Halifax hip-hop scene that had inspired me. I got assistance from scene vets Jorun and Buck 65 (still transitioning from Stinkin’ Rich), who each brought along their own camp of young, hungry upstarts like Classified, Little T (now Tachichi) and Hip Club Groove. Some consider it a classic.
Shortly after Bassments Of Badmen dropped, my editor at a magazine I was writing for suggested I add a sticker proclaiming “A Rap Essential” to the cover. Hell naw! Although it probably would’ve helped my chances when I was in NYC trying to shop the CD to uninterested stores in 97.
Fantastical dreams in which Buck 65 competes in the Tour de France, loses a camp basketball game and goes on a nature hike are given form as rap songs on this record. He captures the dream state superbly with his multi-syllable raps and proves himself a formidable triple threat by also providing the quirky production and intense scratches. But, really, the best part is the hidden, untitled bonus track that is just! so! hard! Plus, how awesome – I released Buck 65 vinyl!
Originally I pitched Buck 65 on a typical 12-inch single, but he countered with this unique idea – three vocal tracks on Side A, three instrumentals and a hidden track on Side B – which is definitely much more awesome. It also received a lot more press and airplay than it probably would’ve otherwise.
Shortly after my introduction to Moka Only, I wanted to do a split 12-inch that would introduce Vancouver to the Halifax scene through Moka and Halifax to the Vancouver scene through Sixtoo. Moka’s side is fun and sunny, and done like a typical 12-inch single with two songs and corresponding instrumentals. Sixtoo’s side is a dark and brooding four-song (plus intro) EP featuring a cover of Sun Ra’s Astro Black. It’s a sloppy, odd beast of a release, but I love the yin-yang of the two sides.
My initial plan was that each would contribute a song and the other would provide a remix for it, creating more interplay between the two. Plus there would be the four instrumentals. But both Moka and Sixtoo had such a backlog of music they were looking to release that I had to let each just have a full side of his own.
This combines the best of the best, imo, of the duo’s Canadian classic debut, Truth Of The Trade, along with a few vinyl exclusives. It has two long-time fan favourites, Bush Gardens and Booze Hounds II, the latter receiving the computer-animated treatment as the first video for Hand’Solo. It was also the first vinyl release with a cover, a black-and-white logo design by graffiti writer Insight One. It even went to a big, fancy studio for mastering. Things were starting to become a lot more professional at this point.
There are two pressings of this EP, and they’re easy to tell apart. After the vinyl arrived for the first batch, I discovered there was no contact info anywhere, so stickers were printed and affixed to the back cover. Yeah, not so professional. The second printing includes the address as well as info about a podcast I was doing at the time called Silly Robots.
Buck 65 and Moves were working with their Halifax rap crew on this project to bring back sex rap, so I expanded the scope by inviting my new contacts in Toronto and Vancouver along for the X-rated ride. It’s a lot of smart songs about sex, including one that’s downright scientific, released on clear red cassette with gold writing, so it looks super-sexy. The initial 200 copies sold out fast and remained out of print until re-released on CD years later.
Putting this compilation out on cassette was an homage to the Halifax hip-hop scene, which held a lot of space in my tape collection, but to keep costs down the cover was colour-copied, hand-cut, folded and inserted by me, much of it done in my downtime ushering at a live theatre. Definitely a lot of weird conversations with my co-workers over those few days.
This was the first full-length release on Hand’Solo Records by a single artist, and it only took a decade! His follow-up, 3rdburglar, is a better album, his wordplay-heavy comedic rap style more refined, but it’s on Burglaritis that he discovers his sound. Two videos were released for this album, an artsy black-and-white short “film” for Cream Of Wheat and a funky Groundhog Day-inspired video for horrorcore paperboy anthem The Route, one of my personal favourites of his.
The song Let’s Get Romantical was first available under another name as part of a five-song bonus download that accompanied the Cock Dynamiks CD re-release, but after cleaning up a few lines, it was ready for almost-prime-time consumption. This song was the first time I heard Wordburglar get so cheeky. He’s since done a few other verses like this for Backburner projects.
They just dropped their sophomore album, but The Raw is still my favourite since it’s just so much more, well, raw. The energy is unleashed, and Ultra Magnus and DJ SLAM! embrace experimentation. They’re still trying to find their footing, and it makes for some exciting music. HELL-O-L is the (subjectively) big hit, both as song and video, but the album also had videos for Bill Clinton and posse cut Rock The Mic with M.O. Littles and Dynamic.
I first saw Ultra Magnus & DJ SLAM when they played a $5 Rap Show [editor’s note: Quinlan is one of the event’s coordinators] opening for Timbuktu’s release party, and they returned for the next $5 Rap Show opening for Chokeules’s release party. That was the first time we had an act back for two consecutive nights. Both times they killed it, and that was enough to offer them a spot with Hand’Solo. I’m just a stepping stone. These guys are going to be huge, so look into them now.
Savilion had quit rapping until Toolshed’s Timbuktu and Chokeules pulled him back in, and Swamp Thing is the result. The trio have had a few other releases since their debut album, but they’re at their purest on Creature Feature. Here they don’t get too conceptual and epic, keeping it simple with song after song of rapping about sci-fi and horror B movies over dark boom bap. The Ghettosocks cover is a thematically inspired homage toMidnight Marauders.
Creature Feature began a tradition of Swamp Thing releasing a new album in time for Halloween each year. For their first album, we had a big costume bash on the weekend before Halloween, and everyone was in costume in the audience and onstage. Peter Project DJ’ed all night in a boxy robot costume with flashing lights. Timbuktu dressed as Jesus. I was Dr. Drillhands. What a fun night!
Posse cuts are awesome, each rapper trying to top the other. So how can you not love an album of posse cuts? Especially when composed exclusively of tracks by the 20-member, Canada-wide Backburner collective, who also happen to love concepts, so you know it isn’t just battle rapping. Heatwave is a summertime party album, and the song of the same name is its centrepiece. Thesis outdoes himself with his chorus for Heatwave, and Ginzu333 gets me every time with his verse on Back Home about missing home while living in Japan.
For the Heatwave video, the 3:AM Design team wanted to create the effect that everything was frozen in time and only the rapper would be capable of motion, but at a trippy, reduced speed. Everyone aside from the rapper would remain frozen, and to help create that illusion of time being stopped, things that would logically be in motion, due to gravity, say, would be added in (and immobile) during post-production. The rest was filmed at a higher speed to be slowed down later. I spent a lot of time standing still in a chicken costume that day, when Thesis wasn’t rapping in it.
The Dirty Sample is a beast. I had rough mixes of most of these remixes within 24 hours, and some are even better than the originals. But this album never received the attention it deserved. Remixes of D-Sisive, Eternia and Noah 23 and Moka Only are only some of the highlights, while additional contributions come from across Canada, plus a few from the U.S. and overseas. I also like how Kody Peters’s artwork mirrors some of the themes the Dirty Sample repeats through the music.
I’ve always loved remixes, so I was excited when I learned the Dirty Sample was starting work on just such a project. I reached out to offer my assistance. Or maybe I weaselled my way in? The plan was to combine our contacts to increase the variety of artists involved and therefore our reach. Interest was so high. We also released a free companion album of remixes, Beauty & Poison.
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The Carolina Panthers will have a national audience Monday night when they play at Philadelphia. But the other three NFC South teams will get some fairly significant television exposure.
Let’s take a look at the maps on the506.com to see what games will be televised in what markets.
The late afternoon game on FOX (with Joe Buck and Troy Aikman) between the New Orleans Saints and San Francisco 49ers is almost a national game. It will air just about everywhere, except the markets around St. Louis and all of Arizona, where the game between the Rams and Cardinals will be shown.
The 1 p.m. ET game between Atlanta and Tampa Bay (on FOX with Thom Brennaman and Brian Billick) also will be available to a wide audience. It will air through almost the entire Southeast , with parts of Florida as the exception. The game won’t air in the Tampa Bay market because the Bucs didn’t sell enough tickets to lift the local television blackout, and South Florida will get the game between Seattle and Miami.
The game between Tampa Bay and Atlanta also will be available going West. It will air in markets right up to the Louisiana/Texas border. It also will get some play in New England, airing in Boston and several surrounding markets.


Here is a brief description of the equipment used by U2 system.
• Eye Tracker
– System that is used to analyze eyes attention or visual search patterns.
– The measured value is used to help improve the layout of displayed products and screen menus.
• Document Camera (Ziggi)
– Ziggi is an education’s premier document camera.
– The measured value is used to project live image onto screen through LCD Projector.
• EMG (Eletromyography)
– System that measure muscle fatigue and activity during working task.
– The measured value is used to provide guideline of standard postures during working.
• EEG (Electroencephalogram)
– System that measure brain activity on user of external stimuli.
– The measured value is used to interpret user emotions while manipulating the product.
• HFMS (Hand Force Measurement System)
– System that measures the pressure generated between the user’s skin and the product and presents the result in graph form
– The measured value refers to the physical demand on the use while manipulating the product (e.g., jog dial)
• LUX Meter
– Device that measures the intensity of illumination within the work environment.
– The measured value is used to help improve the working environment.
– Instrument that is used to measure the angle of a body part
– The device measures the angle involving the human body in a particular position to be evaluated (e.g., neck angle, upper arm angle, antebrachial angle).


BEETHOVEN Symphonies Nos. 51 and 72 • Orpheus CO • OCO 001 (73:07) Live: Carnegie Hall 110/11/2012; 212/4/2010
This is an astonishingly successful CD. My ears did a slight double-take, as the deep rich sounds of Beethoven in Carnegie Hall first came through the speakers. Where is the BärenreiterRead more Edition phrasing? Where are the metallic violins? Did I put on Giulini by accident? Karl Böhm? Thielemann? Chamber orchestras this small (35 players) aren’t supposed to project so much velvet and gold, or are they? We have become accustomed in recent years to a miniaturization of the Beethoven sound-journey, with the early music movement to thank for it. It is as if the elegant old sedans have been chopped down to economy size and given sports suspensions with all the charm of shopping carts. We expect to be jarred and jerked and hurled into door frames as we corner. Bounce and aggression and a certain edgy excitement substitute for the noble ride and serene purring we knew and loved. But not here.
These are totally traditional performances, aiming always for weight, beauty of tone, and the long bass line. The opening moments of the Beethoven Fifth are the hardest to pull off this way, with so few players, and one becomes aware that the motto would sound better with more musicians onstage. But even here, the Orpheus players diphthong their chords and spread out their sonority as seamlessly as possible. Numerous bits of portamento along the way and a beautiful sense of blending for horns and woodwinds eventually trick the mind, until one accepts that this is big rich Beethoven. This unanimity of purpose is all the more remarkable for being achieved without a conductor. But everything is fluid and beautiful, with an especially serene and drawn-out oboe solo in the Fifth. And the Seventh Symphony performance is, if anything, even more traditional. The way the music is voiced allows for fewer moments where one would notice the absence of more violins. Even so, the rich legato and burnished weight achieved is remarkable. And excitement in the Scherzo and Finale is palpable, without that manic tempest-in-a-teapot quality so common in HIP performances. Readers should note also that the repeat is taken in the Finale of No. 5 but that the exposition repeat in No. 7 is omitted. This, too, is the way it used to be done.
This CD is a fine antidote to the irritations of revisionism. If you ever wondered what Giulini or Karl Böhm might have sounded like in front of a chamber orchestra, this is your moment.
Symphony no 7 in A major, Op. 92by Ludwig van Beethoven
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Period: Classical Written: 1811-1812; Vienna, Austria
Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67by Ludwig van Beethoven
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Period: Classical Written: 1807-1808; Vienna, Austria
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro con brio
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: II. Andante con moto
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: III. Allegro
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67: IV. Allegro
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: I. Poco sostenuto - Vivace
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: II. Allegretto
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: III. Presto, assai meno presto
Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92: IV. Allegro con brio
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Acceptable Beethoven, but something is every so sMay 13, 2014By Warren Harris See All My Reviews"This recording of Beethovens Symphony No 5 and No 7 is interesting, and has a lot to offer. The musicians do a fabulous job, and the recording quality is excellent. But the pacing was slightly disturbing for me. Beethovens Symphony No. 5 appears first, and I expected great things from the first movement and was not disappointed in the slightest. It was in the second movement where I felt that some of the spacing and pacing holding rests just a hair longer than is typical, and rather than adding to the dynamic tension of the piece I found this to be rather distracting. The 3rd movement is very well played and each melodic line has great clarity. Unfortunately, the 4th movement doesnt quite flow in a way that is comfortable for me. However, each note is articulated clearly and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is clearly giving their all. And in all fairness, if this was the first recording of this symphony that I had ever heard, I would have been thrilled. The other work on the disc is Beethovens Symphony No. 7. And while I did find the first movement to also linger a bit here and there, the 2nd movement is very well played (and the crystal clear string work is laudable) albeit just a touch slow near the end of the movement. As for the 3rd movement, I felt that there were a few places where things were just a bit rushed and that just a hair more lingering on a note would have added so much. The 4th movement, though, is wonderful and filled with all of the excitement that it should be. The liner notes are fairly basic, but with the background on the Orpheus being of the most value. As for this recording as a whole, I found the interpretation to be slightly uneven, but I have no doubt that many will fall in love with it. As for me, Im afraid that I am most definitely in love with Karajans interpretations, and if you are in that camp then this performance may hit you the same way that it did me. But if you arent, then it is definitely worth exploring as there is so much here to drink in."Report Abuse
The Great OrpheusMarch 29, 2014By Harold C. (Walnut, CA)See All My Reviews"Great sound and great intonation. Orpheus is the top of great orchestras."Report Abuse
An intrsting ideaMarch 14, 2014By Oscar O. Veterano See All My Reviews"Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Beethoven Symphonies NO.s 5 & 7 KMPG When it comes to recordings of Beethovens symphonies, the listener is spoiled for choice; the worlds greatest orchestras and conductors have all weighed in with their own versions. Thats what makes the Orpheus Chamber Orchestras latest project such an interesting, even curious, choice. Recorded in performance at Carnegie Hall, the Grammy winning 20 member ensemble plays, as always, without a conductor, applying instead what might be called a musical collective consciousness in their approach to dynamics and tempo which is most effective in the quieter passages of these works. Its when the music becomes louder and more vigorous that the size of the band begins to work against itself. These are all excellent musicians who play beautifully, but try as they might, 20 people simply cannot sound like 50 or 60 and the result is a sound thats more like a sketch or a well executed watercolor than a fully realized oil painting. Call it an interesting and well done idea; Orpheus Chamber Orchestras new live recording of Beethovens 5th and 7th symphonies should appeal most to those most familiar with this music as a chance to juxtapose the dynamic and tempo approach of a Bernstein or von Karajan against that of a self run ensemble. Some might conclude that theyre punching above their weight and need to beef up in size before looking for a re-match. Recommended 8 out of 10 Oscar O.Veterano"Report Abuse


Health ministers from the G7 nations have agreed to work on “mutual recognition” of vaccine passports to help global travel and commerce deal with Covid-19, health secretary Matt Hancock said on Friday.
Ministers from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US said they were committed to working “towards a process of mutual acceptance of Covid-19 certificates”.
The agreement was reached following a two-day summit in Oxford as part of the G7 meeting.
“We are committed to work as G7 countries towards a process of mutual acceptance of Covid-19 certificates,” said a statement after the meeting.
Ministers also agreed on a new charter that will bring about standardised evidence and data from international trials.
It is hoped that new agreements will mean better collaboration and diversity on large-scale international trials, and speed up access to approved treatments and vaccines.
The ministers agreed they must work together to develop international standards and recommended practices “for the creation, use and mutual recognition of testing and vaccination certificates across countries that rely on safe, effective and rigorously reviewed vaccines”.
Mr Hancock said ahead of the G7 meeting: “Being able to certify that you’ve had a vaccine is going to be necessary for international travel because some countries have already set out that they require proof that you’ve been vaccinated, and that means being able to prove with authority that you’ve had one of the jabs and confidence in which jab is accepted for that proof - which is a matter for each individual country.”
But he said that “when it comes to using certification for domestic purposes, that is the review that Michael Gove is leading, and we’ll come forward with the conclusions of it soon”.
The agreement came after the NHS app was updated to allow members of the public to view their vaccination status.
But plans for the use of Covid-19 domestic passports as a legal requirement for entry to large events this summer are set to be dropped, according to a recent report.
It had previously been suggested that entry to large events could be granted by presenting proof of a Covid vaccination, a recent negative test or a positive antibody test for the virus.
However officials working on the ongoing Covid-19 status certification review do not believe that the law will be changed to mandate their use in the UK, with one government source claiming that the plans were “dead”, The Telegraph reported.
Although proof of vaccination has been accepted as a possible requirement for international travel, the use of Covid-19 passports domestically is a controversial issue that poses significant legal and ethical questions.
In April, the Equality and Human Rights Commission reportedly told the Cabinet Office that Covid status certificates or vaccines passports could be discriminatory as they risked creating a “two-tier society” in the UK.
Advocates for the idea have argued that Covid status certificates could be used to open up the economy while preventing coronavirus outbreaks.
In response to The Telegraph’s report, a government spokesperson said: “The Covid status certification review is ongoing and no final decisions have been taken yet. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster will update parliament after recess.”
Additional reporting by PA
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In a year that's seen traditional television production cease to exist, even a month ago the notion of a new season of CBS's long-running reality show Big Brother seemed like a pipedream. Yes, CBS has maintained since May that it was still planning to bring the show back for its 22nd season, but when its traditional launch date in early summer came and went with nary a peep from the network, it seemed like Big Brother had gone the way of so many other summer traditions this year. Then came word that the show's set was being worked on... and that past houseguests had been approached to possibly participate in a new All-Stars season. Finally, just two weeks ago, the network announced that Big Brother would indeed return with a cast of all-stars for what promises to be a season like no other.
Adding to the intrigue of a season that's faced any number of hurdles, safety concerns, and contingencies ahead of its launch is the fact that we know far less about what to expect than we have in year's past, with producers holding off on announcing who will be in cast and exactly how the game will be played until tonight's live premiere.
So what do we know about Big Brother 22 what can we expect from the first major primetime TV series to go back into production? Here's a quick overview:
As we've covered before, it seems before every new season of Big Brother brings with it rumors of a new all-stars season, something the US version of the show seems to have been resistant to doing, having only aired a single all-stars season in its 20+ year history. It's not known whether the coming season was always intended to be an all-stars edition or whether producers landed on th idea after strategizing how to cast a new season amid the pandemic, but whatever the reason, fans are finally getting their wish. As for who might in the all-stars cast... more on that in a minute.
Ever since California entered phase one of its re-opening, fans and industry watchers have waited to see when (and how) regular TV and movie production would resume. Although the state's reopening proved to be disastrous for its COVID numbers, pushing the likely restart date for most productions back indefinitely, there's always been reason to believe that Big Brother, of all shows, would be able to pull if off. It is, after all, one of the most socially distant shows on TV, even under usual circumstances. The cast members are isolated from the outside world, with no comings or goings alllowed; they're taped via remote controlled cameras and other apparatuses that are behind walls; and their contact with production has always been minimal.
On top of that, the show has enacted additional guidelines to help keep the cast and crew safe this season:
Additionally, a COVID-19 compliance officer will be on staff to ensure proper implementation of each of these policies.
While the fan community immediately began their usual obsessive digging for hints, clues, and scoops about who might comprise the cast, some former players who were long considered to be shoo-ins for s new all-star cast appear to be out of the running. Former winners like Dan Gheesling and Derrick Levasseur communicated that they would not be taking part in the season, and while cast members denying they're going to be cast members is an oft-used trope in the BB community, once the show had reportedly gathered all possible contestants for quarantine, it became a lot easier to see whose denials were for real, and Dan and Derrick do seem to be out. While it would previously have seemed inconceivable to have an all-star season without the show's most celebrated masterminds, the reality of the pandemic has meant that propspective players have needed to make some hard decisions about putting themselves in harm's way and isolating themselves from their families during an incredibly uncertain time. Understandably, many have said no, including two-time runner-up Paul Abrahamian.
And just to add a dose of Big Brother petty drama to the proceedings, there have been a truly ridiculous series of dust-ups among the Big Brother fan community — egged on by the former contestants themselves — that have led to some truly wild conspiracy theories. In particular, Season 18 winner Nicole Franzel has been rumored to be a producers-installed mole among the BB alumni community. According to this wholly unsubstantiated rumor, Franzel infiltrated a chat of alumni who were making alliances before the show started, ratted out Gheesling and Lesasseur, and that's why they're out of the All-Stars cast and Franzel is in. While this has led to some seriously hilarious memes blaming Franzel for everything from starting World War I to the extinction of the dinosaurs, it's also sadly indicative of the greater BB fandom's meanness towards certain players like Nicole.
With the contestants set to be announced and move in live on Wednesday night, casting rumors have been rampant. Prospective cast members have been required to quarantine for two weeks, which means every absence from social media has been heavily scrutinized. At the moment, the general consensus has settled on the following former players as being among the quarantined:
This list includes 20 people, and Big Brother seasons usually have about 16. But if the idea is that quarantine is meant to screen out anyone who might test positive for COVID, bringing in more contestants than are needed would be the way to go. Rumor has it that Josh Martinez and Kaycee Clark have already been dropped from contention for allegedly testing positive. There are also rumors that Danielle Reyes has either removed herself or been removed from contention, something that will bum out a LOT of old-school Big Brother fans who were hoping to see the return of the best player who's never won.
Still, even just among this rumored group of all-stars, some fascinating potential storylines emerge. For one thing, this cast is shaping up to have a record number of people of color, perhaps a response to the very valid criticisms of the show that have resurfaced over its diversity and its history of players making racist statements. In particular, David Alexander, who was "banished" from the game on Day 1 last season, the first of what many saw as Season 21's wholesale exile of people of color, would get a much-anticipated second chance to play.
Some other potential storylines among the rumored cast:
Of course, it's Big Brother, where "expect the unexpected" is the literal motto, so trying to predict what this particular group of returning contestants will do is complete folly. Undeniably, though, it's exciting to see what this unlikely cast of all-stars — maybe not the ones we'd have predicted, nor uniformly the ones we may have wanted — will do in this most uncertain season of Big Brother yet.
Big Brother Season 22 premieres tonight at 9:00 PM ET on CBS.
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L.A. County issues dire warning amid ‘alarming increases’ in coronavirus cases
Los Angeles County health officials issued a dire warning Monday that conditions amid the COVID-19 pandemic are deteriorating rapidly and the highly contagious virus is spreading swiftly in the nation’s most populous county.
They said they are now faced with one of their biggest fears: that the reopening of L.A. County would coincide with sudden jumps in disease transmission that have the potential to overwhelm public and private hospitals.
L.A. County has long been the epicenter of the coronavirus in California — with nearly 98,000 confirmed cases and more than 3,300 deaths — but officials said Monday that the outbreak is worsening.
Barbara Ferrer, the director of public health for L.A. County, said that new data show “alarming increases in cases, positivity rates and hospitalization.”
“This does indicate — definitively — that we have increased community transmission,” Ferrer said. “There’s so much at stake, since these continued increases will result in many more people becoming seriously ill, and many more deaths of COVID-19.”
“This is the time to hunker down back in your home whenever you can,” Ferrer said, urging people to wear their masks and practice social distancing. “Please, let’s not let go of everything we worked hard and sacrificed for.”
She urged people to avoid crowds. “It’s just not safe right now,” she said.
The L.A. County Department of Public Health also announced a ban on fireworks displays.
“We’re seeing more people get sick and go into the hospital. This is very much a change in the trajectory of the epidemic over the past several days. It’s a change for the worse and a cause for concern,” said Dr. Christina Ghaly, L.A. County’s director of health services.
The daily number of new coronavirus cases that require hospitalization could be four to five times the peak of what L.A. County saw in late March and early April, “placing tremendous burden on our healthcare system and hospitals and resulting in much otherwise unnecessary suffering and mortality,” Ghaly said.
With a predicted increase in hospitalizations, for the first time since the coronavirus crisis seemed to ease locally, L.A. County is now projecting the possibility of running out of hospital beds in two to three weeks. Likewise, the number of intensive care unit beds could be exhausted sometime in July.
If the increased disease transmission rate continues as it has done so over the last few weeks, it “suggests that we are at risk of running out of hospital beds if we don’t take steps to increase that capacity within the next two to three weeks,” said Dr. Roger Lewis, a biostatistician, director of the COVID-19 demand modeling unit for L.A. County and chair of the emergency department at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
“We did anticipate that we would see increases in cases of hospitalization. The problem was that we didn’t expect to see increases that were this steep so quickly,” Ghaly said.
Los Angeles County confirmed 22 additional coronavirus-related deaths and 2,903 new coronavirus cases Monday.
The county is able to meet hospital demand currently, but many of the patients who have already been exposed to the virus will now be filling the beds in the coming weeks. It can take three to four weeks after exposure to the virus for infected people to become sick enough to be hospitalized, and four to five weeks after exposure for some of the most vulnerable patients to die from the disease.
“So even if steps are taken immediately to reduce the spread in the community, we do expect to see a continued uptick in the next two to four weeks,” Lewis said.
All public and private hospitals in L.A. County need to be prepared to treat more patients based on these projections, Ghaly said. Hospitals can create new capacity by reducing elective procedures and surgeries and take steps to expeditiously discharge patients who no longer need hospital care.
Hospitals can also add more beds beyond their normal licensed capacity, typically 20% to 40% over, by creating space they normally wouldn’t utilize for in-patient care, such as emergency departments, recovery rooms, and pre- and post-operative care units, Ghaly said. Some hospitals can also reopen previously licensed or staffed wards.
The best place to treat a patient who needs hospital care is in a hospital. Alternate care sites present a host of challenges, Ghaly said.
The effective transmission rate of the coronavirus has now increased. Previously, through the beginning of May, for every one person infected, fewer than one other person on average was infected — a testament to the success of the stay-at-home order. But by early June, as the reopening accelerated, the coronavirus transmission rate had crept above 1, meaning for every one person infected, an additional 1.26 people are infected on average.
“We expect the number of cases to rise quickly,” Ghaly said.
Although this rate is lower than what L.A. County saw earlier in the pandemic, when every one infected person on average infected three other people, the current rate can still cause a much larger number of new cases “because of the much broader base of infected individuals that we have today,” Ghaly said.
Last week, there was an estimated 1 in 400 people in L.A. County who was infectious with the virus and infecting others — people who weren’t hospitalized or in isolation at home. Now, there’s an estimated 1 in 140 people people actively infecting others, Ghaly said.
That means a typical large, busy store is likely to have multiple infectious persons enter and shop every day, officials said.
The increase in transmission likely occurred sometime around the week of Memorial Day week or shortly thereafter. At the time, L.A. County officials decided to gradually reopen the economy because the data were stable, with no increases in hospitalizations and a decline in new deaths, Ferrer said.
But unfortunately, people and businesses haven’t been adhering to health orders to wear masks in public and stay away from crowded situations. Just this past weekend, masks or face shields were not being worn by workers at about half of inspected restaurants and bars. Officials have also seen examples of overcrowding at public spaces.
“I’ve had an explosion of new outbreaks in workplaces. One that got shut down this past weekend, it had over 115 infections. Again, very little compliance with the directives on how to operate a factory with as much safety as possible,” Ferrer said.
“And we’ve had numerous examples of outbreaks happen because families are getting together with extended family members and friends to celebrate weddings, things they had postponed, and again, created higher risk, and there was transmission,” Ferrer said.
Ferrer also said that, according to data by Foursquare, that the weekend after June 20, the day when bars reopened in L.A. County, 500,000 people visited nightlife spots. And the county has observed a 40% increase in coronavirus cases among younger people, between the ages of 18 and 40, in the last two weeks.
People are often most infectious with the coronavirus before they develop symptoms, Lewis said. There are people who also become infected and can transmit to others who never develop any symptoms at all.
Health officials urged people to avoid gathering with friends and family for the Fourth of July weekend. “We’d love to spend it with close family and friends [but] I strongly advise against it,” Ferrer said. “This is a time to still stay within your household, as much as possible.”
She said outside activities with household members are good. “Take solace in the fact that we’re all going to do it this way ... in hopes that by next July Fourth, which I see is totally possible, we’re celebrating in ways we’re much more accustomed to,” Ferrer said. “We need to get this back under control.”
Now is a tenuous moment in L.A. County, and Ferrer urged the elderly and those with underlying conditions to stay at home. “There is far too much risk at the moment ... Everyone else should stay home as much as they can,” Ferrer said.
“Businesses and individuals need to figure out how we personally are going to help to turn things around,” Ferrer said. “Otherwise, we’re quickly moving towards overwhelming our healthcare system and seeing even more devastating illness and death.”
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Landlords should be spared any new tax and regulation changes after a "weak start" to 2017 for the UK buy-to-let sector, lenders say.
Buy-to-let investors have faced a stamp duty surcharge, tax relief changes and stricter affordability checks.
The Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) said an expected recovery in lending to the sector had failed to materialise.
The impact of these changes should be assessed before any new policies were designed, it said.
However, some would argue that the changes have started to rebalance a housing market that had been skewed in favour of buy-to-let investors and had blocked young people from getting on the housing ladder.
Housing market 'stalled'
The CML had forecast originally that total buy-to-let lending would reach £38bn this year and the same amount in 2018, but it has now cut that to £35bn in 2017 and £33bn in 2018.
Total lending to the sector was nearly £41bn last year.
"Buy-to-let had a weak start to 2017, and the sector's contribution to overall net mortgage lending has fallen considerably over the last year," said CML director general Paul Smee.
"While falling mortgage interest rates have helped support borrowing, tax and prudential measures are exerting pressure on the buy-to-let market. Following the distortion of the stamp duty change on second properties last year, we expected a slight recovery in lending levels. However, this has not materialised, and we therefore have lowered our forecast for buy-to-let lending this year and next.
"This re-emphasises the case for avoiding further changes to the tax and regulatory framework until the effect of these already in train have been properly assessed."
The CML forecast for mortgage lending as a whole stands at £248bn for 2017. However, it said the housing market had "stalled" in the past few months with monthly UK property sales static at around 100,000, reflecting the wider economic picture.
Mortgage lending remained relatively stable with interest rates remaining low - although there are some signs of a slight increase in the offing - and government assistance for helping some first-time buyers.

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Four of five seats are open on the Warren Elementary School Board this year with one candidate running unopposed for each seat. Below are brief bios of the candidates as well as their answers to three questions.
Alycia Biondo was appointed to the board last summer when Laurie Greenberg stepped down to accept a teaching position at Warren Elementary School. She will run for a three-year term. An Ohio native, Biondo came with her family to Warren — “the place we wanted to plant our roots and grow our family” — seven years ago. She has three children in Warren Elementary School and said that she would “help the newly elected people through the upcoming challenges that we will face as a town, a school and a parent and taxpayer community.”
Marie Schmukal is running for the final year of Michael Ketchel’s term as board chair. She moved to Warren from the Boston area with her family seven years ago and has two children who attend the school. She is currently the children’s and assistant librarian at the Warren Public Library with previous work experience in arts administration. She also volunteers as president of the Warren School PTO and is a member of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra chorus and the Mad River Chorale, as well as acting on the Valley Players’ stage.
Matt "Chicky" Staples was appointed to the board seven months ago and is running to serve an additional year. He has lived with his family in Warren for seven years coming from Portland, Maine. Staples has two children at Warren Elementary School and works as a property manager while coaching youth sports and performing solo and as part of a band. “I look forward to the coming year with an open mind,” he said.
Jennifer Watkins is running for a two-year term that Rob Rosen vacated. She is a labor and delivery nurse at Gifford Medical Center in Randolph and has two children in Warren Elementary School. Having grown up in Warren in a family of farmers, Watkins spent her childhood “watching neighbors helping neighbors and seeing this community come together to solve problems and grow into what it is today.”
VR: What are the most important issues facing Warren Elementary School in the next few years?
Biondo: They include, but are not limited to, the repair of our school building and school grounds, our budget — with our first deficit ever and how it will look if a bond vote is passed – and, of course, everything concerning Act 46 — a possible accelerated merger and what that looks like for our town, school, taxpayers and, most importantly, our children.
Schmukal: In the immediate, our biggest issue is dealing with a building that has suffered from deferred maintenance. Over the next few years, and assuming the voters of Warren vote yes on accelerated merger, maintaining the Warren Elementary School identity and values in the face of school consolidation will be one of the biggest challenges. Local control has already been chipped away in recent years and consolidation will bring even more loss.
Staples: The two most important issues are addressing the repairs to the building and a vote on whether to merge in an accelerated manner with the rest of the supervisory union. The former will require passage of a bond to pay for the repairs. This is not frivolous. It is an absolute necessity. The latter will require some real communication with the town as details unfold, as to what a merger would look like.
Watkins: I decided to run for a seat on the school board because I believe that Warren Elementary School and Valley communities are facing a tremendous challenge of deciding what to do in the face of Act 46. I think that how we face this challenge will have lasting impacts not only on the quality of education our children receive but also on the vibrancy and connectedness of our community.
VR: How would you define a well-functioning school board?
Biondo: It is a balanced board that includes parents, local business owners ("numbers people"), and we are lucky to have local legislator Adam Greshin who can keep us updated on what is happening at the state level and, most importantly, people who simply care. People that care about their town, taxpayers and our little people who are just trying to receive a quality educational experience. A well-functioning board listens to each other and the community and operates in a fiscally responsible manner.
Schmukal: It collaborates with the entire community, teachers and the administrators in balancing the educational, social and emotional needs of Warren’s children with the financial realities of living in a town with high property taxes.
Staples: In my limited experience on the board, it seems that a group of people that work with an open mind, solid communication and an understanding that the board is there only to ensure the best operations of the school are most likely to see success. A thick skin and an accounting background seem helpful as well. (I only have one of these.)
Watkins: It’s one that engages teachers, parents and community members, hears their concerns and ideas and then acts accordingly. Given the challenges of Act 46, I think it is especially important for the school board to take an active role in facilitating public forums and ensuring that our community is fully informed about all the options we have available to us. I think the board also has a role in setting the tone for these conversations. It is easy to get divided in these moments, but important to recognize that everyone working on these issues has the best interest of our children at heart.
VR: How do you think the board should balance the concerns and desires of the Warren community with state policies and regulations that may be at odds with the community?
Biondo: It is imperative to be able to listen to the community, including people of the school community, but also the majority of our taxpaying community who may not be involved with the school in any way. We will obviously have to abide by whatever state policies and regulations that are placed on us, but we will also have an obligation to explore all of our options and make sure that we stay connected with what our community desires. Our duty will be to do our best with that holistic approach.
Schmukal: As a public school, we have to adhere to state and federal policies. It is up to the board to inform the Warren community about these policies, welcome questions and concerns and, when appropriate, work with legislators to address community concerns.
Staples: The school board and the community share a responsibility to conform to state policies and regulations. That being said, I share the concerns of losing town control over some policy and budgetary matters. One thing I feel confident about going forward, whichever direction that may be, is that Warren and its school will not lose its identity as a great, clever, unique and decidedly awesome place to be and learn. The town would not allow that and nor would I.
Watkins: It is the board’s job to make sure that the school is in compliance with all state policies and regulations, even if we don't like them. Act 46 is the law and we need to respond to it. But before we can think about what action we want to take, we need to think concretely about what it is we value in our community and what we want to give to our children. While there are many rules and regulations, we still get to decide who we are and what we value.


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AS the Olympic torch nears London with the Games just a week away, one resident at a Frimley care home has been following its journey with special interest after he carried the torch 64 years ago.
Ernest Lowden, who lives at the Whitebourne care home, was just 24 when out of the blue he received a letter from the Olympic Organising Committee asking him to carry the torch during what was set to be a big year not just for host city London but the whole of Europe following World War II.
Now 88-years-old, and with the torch passing near his Frimley home, Ernest has been looking back at his memories of the day and the moment he received the flame as the Olympic spirit sought to bring together a continent ravaged by war.
“They wanted me to run in the Olympic torch relay for what was officially called the Games of the XIVth Olympiad,” he said.
“I was very proud to be invited and I accepted with pleasure.”
While Ernest was born and bred in Fulham, his family soon moved to Slough where his father found work.
Always a keen distance runner, Ernest stressed that although his running days were over, he would forever remember ‘with pride’ the moment he was passed the torch.
“The day of the relay came. As I waited at my starting place with the torch ready to be kindled in my hand, I was feeling a mixture of emotions – nervous, excited and proud. As the moment arrived, I greeted my fellow runner, kindled the torch and began my run.
“I ran the distance with a big smile on my face, knowing the importance of the task I was carrying out.
“The run seemed to pass in no time at all and before I knew it, I was handing the flame over to the next runner.”
Ernest still to this day has the actual torch he ran with from 1948 as well as the letter sent to him by the organising committee and a host of photos from his big day.
Ros Stevenson, who manages the Whitebourne care home, described Ernest as one of the home’s ‘great characters’ who has a real interest and passion for reading and current affairs.
“When he joined us four years ago, he told us about his Olympic run,” he said. “Care UK recently held a short story competition and so our activities team working with Ernest to capture his memories of the great day, along with his photos and documents.
“Getting to know someone, their interests, their likes and dislikes, is at the heart of genuinely good care.
“We want to ensure residents’ lives are celebrated and their hobbies and passions are maintained.”


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2017 Dodge Challenger
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The Dodge Challenger is a key player in the realm of muscle cars. It's more capable than any other coupe, and to this day, it still holds true to its initial personality. Four engines, 13 trims and sub trims, and a wide array of packages make your Challenger as unique as you are. With horsepower reaching a mind-blowing total of 707 in the top-of-the-line Hellcat. The Challenger has some small changes for 2017, including an active exhaust for all 5.7-liter HEMI V8 models. The Uconnect touchscreen interface has also been upgraded for 2017; Challenger's are now equipped with the fourth generation Uconnect featuring Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, as well as optional navigation that offers pinch, tap, and swipe capabilities. For a menacing coupe, the 2017 Dodge Challenger is a great selection.
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The powertrains are what make the Challengers stand out amongst the competition. You get your choice of four engines. The weakest engine in the lineup still sends most competitors running, boasting 305 horsepower and 268 lb-ft of torque-a 3.6-liter Pentastar V6. It can be found under the hood of the SXT and SXT Plus, and it can be paired with a rear-wheel- or all-wheel-drive system. AWD is unique to the Challenger; it's the only muscle car to offer it. In many of the trims, you'll find a 5.7-liter HEMI V8 engine, capable of between 372-375 horsepower and 400-410 lb-ft of torque. In upper-level trims, such as the SRT 392, you'll find a 6.4-liter HEMI V8 powered by SRT. This engine has an output rating of 485 horsepower and 475 lb-ft of torque. The Hellcat has its own unique engine-a supercharged 6.2-liter SRT Hellcat V8. This engine is the crown jewel of the lineup, rated at 707 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque. It makes the Hellcat the most powerful muscle car ever and can accelerate from zero to sixty in about 3.5 seconds.
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by Steve Walker
I keep doing drawings of cars. A lot of them featured Diamond T grills, because after building the first Diamond T Boat-tail Roadster, I still had one more grill to use. One design in particular caught the eye of Colin Case, an architect, art collector and yachtsman in San Francisco. “We need to build this” he said.
He wrote a generous check to initiate the project. Furthering the history of Diamond T racing, this would be the model succeeding the Boat Tail. It would be mid-engined, like the pre-war Auto Union Grand Prix racing cars and would have four wheel independent suspension. It would retain the distinctive, identifying grill and the long rear body would be crested with a large graceful tail. The straight sides would rest on fat side pods, given the car visual gravity. Overall, it would be at least as big as the big yellow Diamond T Boat-tail Roadster.
Like Lynn and I, Colin was a big guy. So I was not going to repeat the small cockpit – this would seat two huge guys with a cooler between them. There would be plenty of leg room and lots of storage compartments, as well. I wanted to sit high, with a good view of traffic.
I drew up a space frame with '60s formula car suspension, scaled up to truck size.
I sent Colin, who lived in San Francisco, drawings of the frame and body designs. He wasn't quite satisfied with the fin and insisted the engine needed to be a V-12. “You get it and I'll put it in”, I told him. But in the meantime, to prove the engine bay could accommodate the length, I installed a six cylinder 250cid Chevy truck engine. The engine and suspension arms bolt to aluminum plates. This was a technique I had seen on formula cars in the early '70s. It would also expedite the engine and transmission swap when Colin came up with his preferred engine.
As usual, I sawed up my work van for parts: straight six engine, front hub carriers, master cylinder and such.
I launched into the most laborious parts first, hand cutting and welding the frame, selecting hundreds of lattice boards and planking the body. Most important was to get the shape right, and I knew I could do that in wood. Later it could be the fiberglass form, if needed.
I crafted elaborate scissor action hinges for the engine bay doors by the time honored method of trial and error. Some salvaged Diamond T latch handles provided the appropriate detail on the doors.
Colin went to work selecting the color.
He sent a color chip, which in reality was an exquisite English made die-cast model of the "Chapman Special", second place finisher at the '55 Indianapolis 500. It was a lovely turquoise blue and as color chips go, it was a knockout. But, when Colin later visited Seattle, he spotted the model on my desk. “Is that the one I sent you?” Yes it is. “No, that's not the color. It looked better in the photo.” I think he meant the blue of the Blue Crown specials of '47 and '48.
Sadly, Colin died, an unexpected and abrupt death, before the car was done. He was a classy guy and devoted friend that I will sorely miss. At his wake, I shared pictures of our last, unfinished project.
Colin's death took the fun out of it for me. The car languished for some time under a tarp in a corner of my shop until I finally resolved that it deserved completion. So, in the summer of 2010, I stripped it back to the frame and dove in with renewed determination to see our car on the road.
My goal was the Tacoma Hot Rod a Rama; my favorite local car show.
I worked twelve and fourteen hour days as the show approached. Friends would drift in, get “Tom Sawyered” into the project and work to exhaustion helping me out.
For wheels, Trail Ready custom machined American cast billets to my specs.
The wood, I sprayed with four coats of varnish, adding just a tint of "Blue Crown Special" blue to the third coat which I feathered in along the fin, tail and edges.
I designed the upholstery and had Mobetta Shows stitch it together. Endless trips back and forth to hardware and automotive stores were made to find fittings and adapters to tie together all the disparate parts. Seat belts from the black Chevy van were installed, along with tail lights from Bent Bike, Harley rear view mirrors and, of course, Diamond T headlights. The headlights, on testing, worked just fine for about six seconds and then went dark. Of course! What a bozo move! In '48 they would have operated on a six volt system. I replaced them with modern 12 volt sealed beams and they are perfect.
I hired a sign painter, Sergio Nicoli, to paint number “523” on both sides (my wedding anniversary – "look honey, I built it for us!") as well as the classic Mobile red Pegasus.
I also had Sergio paint a prominent logo for “Colin Case Racing” on both sides of the fin and he produced “Close Enough Engineering” decals for the doors and “Diamond T” emblems for the cowling. He reported that when he looked up Diamond T on the internet, the first thing that appeared was a picture of the fictitious Boat-tailed Roadster, now more famous than the venerable truck company.
The night before the Tacoma Show, I struggled with leaking brake lines and power steering fittings. I replaced all and then maddeningly, the Chevy 10 brakes were frozen. In the shop, I scrounged a set of Chevy 20 brake calipers and ground them to fit. At 10 o’clock on the morning of the show, with the car just hours from completion, I conceded defeat and drove my Alfa instead. Later, bitter at having missed the show, my friend Greg Nowak ('31 Chrysler) put it in perspective for me: "Steve" he said, "when the biggest problem we have is which car we're driving to the car show, we're really not that bad off."
It was to be the last Tacoma Hot Rod a Rama.
The first show I actually got the GPT to was my new favorite, the Rat Bastards Infestation car show show at the XXX Root Beer stand in Issaquah, WA. Jennifer rode with me.
I made up a "history" of the car and the Grand Prix Truck Races that I framed and perched on the seat. Almost immediately, a fan began telling me that their great uncle had competed in the Grand Prix Truck Races.
The car was a hit at the show and garnered its first of many trophies.
Below is the history I have printed up and display in the vehicle at car show:
Commissioned by privateer Colin Case for the 1948 season of Grand Prix Truck racing.
Long distance Grand Prix Truck racing started up after the Second World War. Races were held on demanding transcontinental roads built to move men and material during the war such as the Alaskan Highway, Burma Road, Trans Siberia and Trans Sahara.
Sportsman – entrepreneur Colin Case, (an avid yacht racer who also sponsored formula and sports car racing teams, gravity racers, bicycle racing teams and a hockey club), decided to enter the wildly popular new sport of Grand Prix Trucks.
Colin selected Diamond T to fabricate his GPT racer. The premier truck manufacturer in the world from1911 to 1966, founder C. A. Tilt started out building race cars and established a reputation for innovation and reliability.
Colin commissioned an entirely new design inspired by the forward thinking pre-war Auto Union Grand Prix cars. His mid-engined vehicle features a welded tube space frame, independent suspension, power steering and a straight six engine.
After many seasons of hard campaigning followed by long neglect, this vehicle was in sad shape when abandoned in the Close Enough Engineering parking lot by the last owner, Charles Van Ness.
The ongoing restoration has stretched over years due largely to the shifty character and slack work habits of the occasionally paid personnel of Close Enough Engineering.
Original artwork by Steve Walker


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BBC reports on weather issues in France impacting the wine production. "French wine production is likely to be 10% lower this year than in 2015 because of frosty weather in spring and a heatwave now, officials say."
Food and Wine asks are you using an ice bucket all wrong? "Fill an ice bucket with ice, then halfway up with water, and then drop in the bottle."
Dan Berger in the Napa Valley Register on the homogenization of wine. "By government regulation, a Pinot Noir must contain at least 75 percent of that grape. But at low prices, you can only use such mediocre grapes that the resulting wine can’t possibly smell like the grape variety. And few do."
Eric Asimov in the New York Times visits with Frank Cornelissen in Mt. Etna, Sicily. "I’m better in cold vintages,” said Mr. Cornelissen, who has lived and worked in the area since arriving from Belgium in 2000. “I just can’t get hot vintages right. It’s hard for me to pick before complete ripeness, and 2006 was just heavy.”
Jon Bonné in Punch asks what is the quintessential summer red wine? " I’m not even talking about the Jura, trendy as it is, so much as grignolino and ruchè from Piedmont, frappato from Sicily and schiava from the far north; the current pop frenzy for gamay in all its forms; the refreshing reds of the Loire; and, of course, reds from the southerly wine parts of Germany."
Decanter reports that France has revived a controversial rule allowing winemakers to buy in grapes to cover extensive losses from severe frost and hailstorms in some areas.