As Ontario continues to reopen its economy, the province continues to update the essential services which are permitted to operate.
The Ontario Government has updated its list of essential businesses allowed to remain open and has also provided guidance as to how such businesses should operate.
Business places that are open must operate in accordance with all applicable laws, including the Occupational Health and Safety Act and the regulations made under it, as well as the advice, recommendations and instructions of public health officials.
Place of business may open for retail sales to the public if:
- they use an alternative method of sale, such as curb side pick-up or delivery;
- they have a public entrance that opens onto a street or exterior sidewalk; and
- members of the public are not permitted to access the place of business, except in exceptional circumstances
The list of essential services includes the following:
- Supply chains supporting other essential businesses or essential services within Ontario, or that supply such essential businesses or services outside of the province.
- Food businesses that primarily sell food, beverage and consumer products necessary to maintain household and businesses including:
- Supermarkets and grocery stores;
- Convenience stores;
- Discount and big box retailers selling groceries;
- Restaurants (take-out, drive-through and delivery service only);
- Beer and wine and liquor stores
- Consumer products, including
- Businesses that sell motor vehicles (provided that members of the public can only enter the area in the business where vehicles are sold or displayed for sale by appointment);
- Garden centres and plant nurseries, including greenhouses that engage in retail sales to the public;
- Hardware stores; and
- Safety supply stores
- Services including, but not limited to
- Gas stations and other fuel suppliers;
- Automated and self-service car washes;
- Laundromats and drycleaners;
- Lawn care services and landscaping services;
- Security services for residences, businesses and other properties;
- Vehicle and equipment repair;
- Courier, postal, shipping, moving and delivery services;
- Funeral and related services;
- Veterinary services (urgent only);
- Home Child Care Services up to six children as permitted by legislation;
- Hotels, motels other shared rental accommodations;
- Seasonal campgrounds, provided that
- campsites are only provided to individuals who not have another residence in Canada and are in need of housing during the emergency period;
- only campsites with electricity, water service and facilities for sewage disposal are provided for use;
- campsites are made available only for trailers and recreational facilities; and
- all recreational facilities in the campground, and all other shared facilities in the campground, such as bathrooms, are closed;
- Golf courses (provided that no member of the public is permitted to use the golf course and the course is only open for the purpose of preparing it to be reopened to the public).
- Cheque cashing services Financial services, including
- Banking/Credit union activities including credit intermediation
- Capital markets and related securities trading and advisory services;
- Land registration services;
- Real estate agent services
- Businesses that provide real estate agent services must not host, provide or support any open house events.
- Pension and benefits payment services; and
- Financial services, including payroll and payment processing and accounting and tax services.
- Telecommunications and IT infrastructure/service providers
- Maintenance, repair, and property management services strictly necessary to manage and maintain the safety, security, sanitation and essential operation of institutional, commercial, industrial and residential properties and buildings.
- Transportation services including
- Transportation services provided by air, water, road and rail, including taxis and other private transportation providers
- Support services for transportation including
- logistical support;
- services that support the operations and safety of transportation systems including maintenance and repairs, and
- marinas that repair or service boats or watercraft, place boats or other watercraft in the water to be secured to a dock until the marina is open to the public; and
- any other service that may be required to enable individuals to access their place of residence or their property, support government operations or services, or support the transportation of items by commercial barges
- Businesses that provide and support online retail.
- Manufacturing, including businesses that extract, manufacture, process and distribute goods, products, equipment and materials, including businesses that manufacture inputs to other manufacturers
- Agriculture and food production, including businesses that
- produce food and beverages, and agricultural products including plants by farming, harvesting, aquaculture, hunting and fishing;
- process, manufacture or distribute food, beverages, crops, agricultural products, animal products and by-products;
- support the food or agricultural supply chains and the health and safety of food, animal and plants
- Resources and energy including but not limited to
- Electricity generation.
- Community services including
- Sewage treatment and disposal;
- Collecting, transporting, storing, processing, disposing or recycling of any type of waste;
- Potable drinking water;
- Critical infrastructure repair and maintenance including roads, dams, bridges etc.
- Environmental rehabilitation, management, monitoring, and spill clean up and response
- Administrative authorities that regulate and inspect businesses
- Professional and social services that support that legal and justice system;
- Government services that include, but not limited to, policing and law enforcement, fire and emergency services, paramedic, coroner, and court services.
- Allotment gardens or community gardens.
- Research and organizations that maintain research facilities and engage in research, including medical research and other research and development activities
- Sports training facilities that are operated by a team in one of the following leagues:
- Canadian Football League;
- Major League Baseball;
- Major League Soccer;
- National Basketball Association;
- National Hockey League
in compliance with the following:
- Sports teams operating training facilities for use by its players must ensure that
- the facility may only be used if the team’s league has established a health and safety protocol for the use of training facilities and the facility is operated in compliance with the health and safety protocol;
- the only people allowed to enter and use the facility are the players on the team who are using the facility for the purposes of training or conditioning and staff that are strictly necessary to operate the facility and support the training or conditioning of players
- Research businesses and organizations that maintain research facilities and engage in research, including medical research and other research and development activities.
- Health care and social services including
- Organizations and providers that deliver home care services or personal support services to seniors and persons with disabilities;
- Home care or personal support services to seniors and person with disabilities;
- Businesses that that sell, rent or repair assistive/mobility/medical devices, aids and/or supplies;
- Regulated health professionals (urgent care only) including dentists, optometrists, chiropractic services, ophthalmologists, physical and occupational therapists and podiatrists;
- Organizations that provide health care including retirement homes, hospitals, clinics, long-term care facilities, independent health facilities and mental health and addictions counselling supports;
- Laboratories and specimen collection centres;
- Manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers of pharmaceutical products and medical supplies, including medications, medical isotopes, vaccines and antivirals, medical devices and medical supplies.
- Manufacturers, distributors and businesses that provide logistical support of or for products and/or services that support the delivery of health care in all locations.
- Not-for-profit organizations that provide critical personal support services in home or residential services for individuals with physical disabilities.
- Not-for profit organizations that support the provision of food, shelter, safety or protection, and/or social services and other necessities of life to economically disadvantaged and other vulnerable individuals.
Businesses include any for-profit, non-profit or other entity providing the goods and services described herein.
All businesses may continue to deliver work and services online, by telephone or by mail/delivery. Teleworking and online commerce are permitted at all times for all businesses.
Teleworking and online commerce are permitted at all times for all businesses
The complete list of essential businesses can be found on the Ontario Government website here.
For more information about the Safety Guidelines for Employers for the gradual reopening of the economy, please refer to our In a Flash article Ontario Announces Safety Guidelines for Employers for the Gradual Re-Opening of the Economy
Finally, the Ministry of Health has released a Guidance Document for Essential Workplaces, which may be accessed here
We will continue to update our clients with information as soon as it becomes available. If you have any questions about this topic, other COVID-19 related questions, or would like assistance with developing and/or reviewing pandemic plans, please do not hesitate to contact a Mathews Dinsdale lawyer, or refer to the Firm’s COVID-19 website resources.


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BLACKSTONE’S shares plunged over four per cent yesterday wiping out most of their gains for the year after the private equity giant revealed a near 25 per cent drop in profit for the first quarter.
Economic net income (ENI), a measure of profitability which includes changes in its portfolio value, fell by $138.7m to $432.3m in January to March this year. The 24.3 per cent drop, compared to the same quarter last year, came as a slower rate of increase in the value of its assets led to lower performance fees.
Overall performance fees for January to March fell 36 per cent to $385.8m driven largely by decreases in the value of assets in its real estate and private equity divisions.
Despite the drop, the firm managed to boost assets under management to a record $190bn for the quarter – a 27 per cent increase on the same period last year – and a figure analysts said indicated its long-term fundamentals remain strong.
“Ultimately this business is a fund raising machine. If it can put the capital to work then that is what drives its potential,” said Sandler O’Neill analyst Michael Kim.
Kim blamed yesterday’s share price fall on Blackstone’s less optimistic stance on the near-term market outlook, with a meaningful pick up now not expected until year-end.
“As markets continue to heal, we are well positioned to take advantage of more opportunities to convert value creation to both returns for our limited partners and cash earnings for our public unit holders,” said chairman and chief executive officer Stephen Schwarzman yesterday.
Blackstone’s results, seen as a bellwether for the buyout industry due to its sheer size, come ahead of rival KKR which is due to report next week.
Its shares closed down 4.72 per cent at $14.14 yesterday.

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Thinking of those thoughts that thwarted the sense
Started to look deep into those dark pages with my lens
Noticed the tiny creepers were crawling like snakes
Burning simply everything down in fiery flames
Spawning beautiful forms in fire in pure frenzy
Spinning around the unknown with high intensity
Spearing that dark shadow to red & crazy
Scribbling those words down in bold & apostrophe
Amidst these KOs of chaos & cry
That shadow movement brought me to the deeper joy
The beautiful moment of soul leaving body to fly
The pure heart connection under the darker sky
That dark page changed in a second its color
It’s full of expressions & some real spicy flavor
So now you see, the dark has its own shimmer
It’s the edge of the deep, it’ll cut the shallow into slivers
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SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF CHRISTIAN BAKER
TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, earlier this week, after six years of litigation, the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-2 ruling, favored a Christian cake baker, Jack Phillips, in the case Masterpiece Cake Shop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.
This case was one of the most watched of the term. It was the first big showdown between gay rights and religious freedom since the court forced states to legalize same-sex marriage in 2015. The headline said it was a very narrow ruling. It was not narrow in the sense that it was a 7-2 vote, but it was narrow in how they framed their debate and argument.
DR. REEDER: What they did was slap the hand of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission because of their engagement, their animus to religion, etc. The point that many journalists have rightly made that this was not so much on the merits of Jack Phillips’ decision that, in light of his religious liberty, he should not have to participate in something that he disagrees with because of a sincerely held religious view that marriage is between a man and a woman. They did not go directly to that issue.
Now, there’s another case coming up that they’re probably going to have to deal with that, so it’s said as a narrow decision and those who are fighting for religious liberty should not take great heart in this. I would disagree. I agree with what they’re saying in that they didn’t go after the merits of Jack Phillips’ claimed exemption from participating because of religious liberty, but they did make a very significant statement.
THE COURT WALKS A FINE LINE
We cannot miss a couple of facts here, Tom. Fact 1: the same court that is pushing this notion that sexual activity and sexual practices have civil rights has now taken a pretty aggressive statement that the government cannot determine what someone’s religious convictions are in light of their validity or not. What they’ve basically said is this — they even used the language that was used by this civil rights commission in that they said that Mr. Phillips was claiming a rhetorical religious conviction, not a sincerely held religious conviction and that his conviction was “despicable to use such rhetoric as religious liberty to masquerade his clear discrimination against homosexual marriage.”
It shouldn’t escape our notice that not only did we have a court here that, on the one hand, has been pushing sexual anarchy under civil rights and now has pushed back on the government acting with animus toward religion through the activity of the civil rights commission. But the same person who wrote the majority opinion for the Obergefell decision that sought out the right to redefine marriage as two consenting adults whether they’re the same sex or not and leaving the historic definition of marriage of a man and a woman — the same guy who wrote that opinion now writes this opinion and his key word was “tolerance” and that we have to find a way in which those who are pushing for what has previously been known as sexual aberration, now that that is “protected behavior,” then you’ve got to find a way to tolerate those who, because of religious convictions, cannot participate or support in such behavior.
It’s been abundantly clear as this case has unfolded that Jack Phillips has friendships with those who claim homosexual orientation and his products have been available to everybody — he makes a cake — if you buy it, you buy it — but what he was asked to do here is to participate with his artistic ability in the celebration and implementation of a same-sex marriage and he said, “By religious conviction, I can’t do that.”
THE FIRST AMENDMENT MUST BE PRESERVED
There is no doubt that the First Amendment is the First Amendment. There’s a reason it is the First Amendment and the first of the First Amendment is religious liberty. There’s a reason why that’s important in terms of what it means to be an American and what has been crucial in the maintaining of the American experiment that has been unparalleled throughout history. And so, what you need to do is aggressively go after it and, to some degree, the Supreme Court did that, and you cannot miss a 7-2 vote.
In the majority opinion, he says that the civil rights commission is out of bounds when it calls someone’s religious beliefs as despicable. The government is not in the business of determining what religious beliefs are acceptable and not acceptable. The government protects the right of the practice of religion, but it does not pass judgment on what religions are right. That is not its job and that is one of the unique dynamics of the country. Then, when they use the word “despicable” because someone holds to a historic position of marriage, in other words, it’s telling every court and every government agency, “Get out of the business of passing judgment on religious belief.”
REACTIONS VARIED — SOME SATISFIED, OTHERS VOW TO DOUBLE DOWN
There are multiple responses to this. Some people were happy, some people were upset, but there were also some things that came out. The leader of the Democratic Party clearly came out in total opposition to this ruling, no protections of religious liberty cross the lips of the Democratic Party spokesman. It was an all-out assault on religious liberty and whatever Jack Phillips claims should not even be considered in light of the importance of pressing the issue of sexual anarchy in the name of sexual liberties. Now, the Republican Party has not spoken directly to this and it’ll be interesting to see how they do.
Also, what came out is those who want to press this matter said, “Our only answer now is we have got to move for a ‘human dignity amendment’ to the Constitution that protects sexual identity and that protects sexual practices.”
TOLERATION AND DISCRIMINATION
Well, let me just say that there’s two words here that I want to address: toleration and discrimination. Toleration is, ultimately, the resort of the arrogant. “I’m going to tolerate you.” While I am opposed to homosexuality, I don’t tolerate homosexuals — I am called to love them in a Christian world and life view.
I am called to love people made in the image of God, but that doesn’t mean I have to love their behavior. I’m not called to tolerate; I am called to actively, aggressively develop relationships that exhibit grace and mercy and dignity toward person — not toward their behavior, necessarily, but toward persons.
Secondly, this notion that we want a non-discriminatory society, no, please think through that. Even to this day, thankfully, there’s some sexual behavior we discriminate against. It’s wrong. Discrimination against people and their dignity is what must be affirmed, but discrimination on behavior is constantly practiced: “This is right; this is wrong. This is right; this is wrong.” Therefore, discriminating considerations are absolutely crucial in a society that is ordered by law that something is right and something’s wrong. Now, the question is is sexual activity outside of marriage — promiscuity, sexual activity that is abnormal between men and men and women and women — is that to be declared right and normal and acceptable or is there to be a discriminatory fact that, no, sex is between a man and a woman and sex belongs within the context of marriage?
That is the inevitable collision course in our culture and, while this case did not directly go to that issue, it did fire a shot across the bow to the government that you are here to protect the First Amendment and the free practice of religion, but you are not here to pass judgement and call someone’s free practice of religion “mere rhetoric,” when in reality it was a sincerely held belief.
COMING UP MONDAY: ANOTHER RELIGIOUS LIBERTY COURT CASE DECIDED
TOM LAMPRECHT: Harry, on Monday’s edition of Today in Perspective, there’s actually another case that came out the same day as the Jack Phillip’s case. It was Azar vs. Garza.
DR. REEDER: Yeah, and here’s one that goes to the issue of sanctity of life and, by the way, has implications on religious liberty again. It’s kind of gotten lost in the shuffle, but there’s something insightful. And, by the way, there’s some other things that are taking place around it concerning the ACLU and Planned Parenthood that this case highlights and we need to address that on Monday.
Dr. Harry L. Reeder III is the Senior Pastor of Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham.
This podcast was transcribed by Jessica Havin, editorial assistant for Yellowhammer News, who has transcribed some of the top podcasts in the country and whose work has been featured in a New York Times Bestseller.

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Guide To East London
|| If you thought
that all the east had to offer could be seen in a few
episodes EastEnders - you may find that you’ve been
East London offers mixed bag of theatre-based entertainments,
historic hideaways, art
galleries and several unsung cultural gems.
For example other than being the playground of Jack
the Ripper, Whitechapel also has other claim to fame
– a listing in the Guinness Book of Records for
being home to the Britain’s oldest manufacturing
company, the Whitechapel Bell Foundry [map].
Famous bells born out of the Foundry include Big Ben and the original Liberty bell. Tours usually take
place two Saturdays each month check their website for further details.
Owned by the National Trust, Sutton House [map] is a
red brick Tudor mansion in the heart of East London. This
house was once home to merchants, silk weavers, Edwardian
clergy and England’s first secretary of state Ralph
Sadleir for Henry VIII. Resplendent with carved fireplaces
and oak panelled room, this is one of the oldest surviving
buildings in the UK.
For culture of the dramatic kind, head for Hackney
Empire [map] where you’ll find musicals, opera, ballet, comedy
and more. The recently opened Stratford Circus [map] is the place for performing arts and the Arcola E8 has an innovative programme of new shows.
East London is also the home to a number of art
galleries. Whitechapel Art Gallery [map] is one
of London's leading contemporary art establishments but
you'll also find the 291 Gallery, The Showroom and Flowers East gallery here as well.
If you want to comment on our choices or recommend somewhere,
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Throwing a party can be a lot of fun, but it can also be expensive. If you’re considering having a party sometime soon, you may be trying to think of ways to save money. Consider making healthy appetizers on a budget to help keep your food budget down.
Making Healthy Appetizers on a Budget
Stuffed mushrooms are considered a gourmet appetizer. These are prepared by removing the stems and then stuffing the caps with any assortment of items. You can use the stems, chopped finely, along with other items. Bread crumbs, herbs, crabmeat, creamed spinach and baby shrimp are common ingredients you might find in Stuffed Mushrooms. However, you can use whatever ingredients your family enjoys when making these appetizers. Look in magazines, cookbooks, on the internet or television programs to find recipes.
Deviled eggs are a common appetizer for family reunions and any other gathering. However they don’t seem very “gourmet” do they? There are ways you can dress them up to make them more so. Be sure refrigerate these and take out just before needed.
- Rather than top deviled eggs with paprika, use 1/8 teaspoon of black or red caviar to garnish them. Alternate the red and black on the serving platter.
- Mince crabmeat or shrimp and black or green olives when making the filling and then pipe it into the egg halves.
- Minced red and green pepper can also be added to deviled eggs to dress them up.
Cheese marbles instead of cheese balls. Many people make or purchase cheese balls because they can be made with many different ingredients. Make Pecan and Goat-Cheese Marbles using soft goat cheese rather than cream cheese. Add minced rosemary and crushed and chopped coriander seeds. Toast and finely chop pecans which will be used to roll the cheese marbles in prior to placing them on the serving platter. Chill these prior to service.
Crostini is another gourmet appetizer that can be made. You can serve it with cheese, dips and vegetables. Cut either French or Italian bread diagonally into one inch slices. Place the slices on a baking sheet, brush them with olive oil and rub with garlic. Bake these until light browned in a 350 degree oven. If you want to serve a sweet crostini, spread flavored cream cheese on the bread after it comes out of the oven and then provide minced fruit or jellies.
As you can tell, you don’t have to spend a ton of money to make gourmet appetizers on a budget. You can use one or two ingredients that are more expensive and add them to appetizers you might normally prepare. See more recipes for healthy appetizers here!

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Della Ding Dang
Della Ding Dang (丁当), who was born on 17 April 1982, is an award-winning singer who has established herself in the Chinese, Taiwanese and Southeast Asian markets. At age 18, she began pursuing a career in music and was signed on to Rock Records in 2003. Following the release of her debut album titled “Run Away From Home” in 2007, she joined Bin Music, a renowned record company, and subsequently released six albums.
Known for her unique vocal style, she rose to prominence in 2009 with her hit track “I Love Him” which was the theme song for a Chinese drama series. It earned her the “Top KTV Song of the Year” award in Taiwan that year. Her other popular tunes include “Unable to Guess”, “I’m a Little Bird” and “Fireworks”. In 2011, she started the “The Diva is Della” world tour and performed her first large-scale in the Taipei Arena with a sold out crowd of 10,000 people. Other stops on her tour included Shanghai and Malaysia.


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The deed has been done, the letter delivered. All over media screens the two-year clock started ticking, registering to the level of seconds the time left for Britain’s EU membership. The point of Brexit, when by virtue of Article 50 the Treaties cease to apply, can be determined with atomic precision, so it seems.
But the relationship between law and time can be treacherous, and those who look at the two-year deadline of the withdrawal process as a physical fact could well come in for a surprise. Of course we know that the European Council has the power to decide, unanimously, to extend the withdrawal process. So much is expressly stated in Article 50. There is however more to Article 50 than meets the eye.
In a paper written with Dr Eleni Frantziou (Westminster), and to be published in coming months (for my lecture on the subject, see here), we argue that Article 50 needs to be interpreted and implemented in line with broader EU constitutional principles. We also point out that UK constitutional law governs further UK decision-making on Brexit. Our conclusions are that the clock can be stopped in a number of ways.
First, the UK could change its mind. Our view is that the Article 50 notification is revocable. The notification implements a decision to withdraw, in accordance with the withdrawing state’s “constitutional requirements” (Article 50(1)). If that state rescinds that decision, in good faith, and in constitutionally orthodox fashion, the very basis for withdrawal falls away. In the UK Parliament is sovereign. It has authorized the government to notify the intention to withdraw; it could decide, at any point, that Brexit is off.
The EU respects the constitutional identity of its member states (Article 4(2) TEU), and would therefore need to respect a Brexit reversal, for else the effect of Article 50 would be one of forced expulsion. The travaux of Article 50 show that such an expulsion mechanism was rejected. Of course any abuse of the Article 50 process must be avoided – there cannot be an opportunistic letter-sending sequel – but the law can deal with abuse. The EU’s whole purpose is integration, and the return of the prodigal son would fit that purpose.
Second, what if a withdrawal agreement, negotiated within the two-year period, is rejected by the UK Parliament? The government claims that will mean exit without an agreement. However, distinguished and erudite legal opinion disputes this. It interprets UK constitutional law as requiring that the ultimate Brexit decision be taken by Parliament.
It bases that interpretation on the Supreme Court judgment in Miller, which confirmed that only Parliament can change the law of the land. So Parliament could ask for further negotiations, even beyond the two-year period. We argue that EU law needs to respect this, because again this would be part of the UK’s constitutional requirements. The text of Article 50 should be read as meaning that the two-year deadline is limited to an agreement not to agree – a deal on no-deal.
Third, what if the European Parliament withholds its consent to the negotiated withdrawal agreement? Again that should not lead to a no-deal Brexit, simply because the clock runs out. Otherwise the European Parliament is, effectively, forced to consent, and that is not in accordance with EU constitutional principle. So the European Parliament, too, could ask for further negotiations, beyond the two-year period.
Fourth, the withdrawal agreement could be referred to the EU Court of Justice. Under 218(11) TFEU the Court can be asked for its opinion on an international agreement which the EU “envisages” to conclude. Such an opinion looks at the compatibility of the agreement with the EU Treaties, and can be requested by any Member State or by an EU institution. The Court would need time to consider such a case, and we would argue that, again, this should stop the clock.
Fifth, Article 50(3) provides that the Treaties cease to apply from the date of entry into force of the withdrawal agreement (and “failing that”, two years after the notification). In our view the withdrawal agreement could set a date for entry into force which lies beyond the two years. Such an approach would leave more time for a transitional period, in the course of which the future relationship could be worked out.
We recognize that on each of these questions there are different views. The mechanics of the clock are one thing. What is important, from the perspectives of both EU and UK constitutional law, is an orderly transition, and one which is consensual rather than Brexit by force of a legal clock running out. It is definitely a constant of the EU’s history to resolve constitutional crises by agreement, to a fault. If ever a crisis called for such an approach it must be Brexit.


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Matador band's highest-fidelity album to date, an intentional playing down of the things that made them among lo-fi's leading lights.
There's a note on the back cover of Times New Viking's Rip It Off I'd never noticed until the other day. "Mixed & fucked by TNV and Matt Horseshit," it reads, that last bit referring to the Columbus trio's über-pessimistic pal and Psychedelic Horseshit frontdude (with a nod to Columbus noise linchpin Mike Rep Hummel). You pick up on the "fucked" pretty quick when you're listening to Times New Viking; of this newish lo-fi crop, they're the finest melodicists by some margin, melodies they're more than willing to step on in service of the skronk. But there's no such note on Born Again Revisited, the band's fourth, nor is there Rip It Off's urging to "please play loud." Indeed, Born Again Revisited is Times New Viking's highest-fidelity album to date, an intentional playing down of the things that've made them among the leading lights of this nebulous, seemingly dwindling movement. Whatever their motives, Born Again Revisited finds these old pros hanging out in the red, further refining their sound to buck the trends that have built up around them.
Because they take such pains to obscure vocals, blow out drums, make one guitar sound like 40, and generally do everything in their power to piss off your speakers, it's easy to miss what sharp, funny, self-deprecating songwriters Times New Viking can be, a failing Born Again Revisited seems hell-bent on solving. Ignoring their obvious gifts as tunesmiths is just a touch harder here, as practically everything's been given a bit more space to itself, the enveloping crunch of Rip It Off replaced with a fizzy, reedy haze that puts a tad more focus on the songs themselves. Although every Times New Viking release to date has sported at least one truly knockout tune, the highs here might be the band's most dizzying yet.
There's shitgaze anthem "No Time, No Hope", one of the year's catchiest bumouts-- a little organ-driven fury propelled by Beth Murphy and Adam Elliott's weirdly complimentary vocals and a burst of pure energy. There's the streaky "Move to California"-- a maudlin request if there ever was one-- middle-fi in its production and resigned in its apparent yearning. And there's the 1-2 of the plaintive, beautiful Murphy-led "These Days" and the ripcord Rollins dedication "(No) Sympathy", the band's single finest stretch on wax. All four tunes-- and a few others besides, like the weary, hilariously titled "2/11 Don't Forget"-- take the obvious pleasures of Rip It Off's "(My Head)" and "Faces on Fire", strip back some of the peal, turn the sloganeering outward and turn up the lyrical detail, and emerge triumphant. Erm, as triumphant as a song called "No Time, No Hope" can be, I suppose.
Beyond a slight downward nudge of the volume knob, the biggest difference between Born Again Revisited and its predecessors is a lean towards the punk side of pop-punk; the tempos are by and large faster, the shout-along choruses more shibboleth and slightly less stoney, the little flashes of melody harder to grasp. Elements of either have shown themselves all over the TNV discography, but whereas on Rip It Off they'd fill in the gaps between the big numbers with sketches of pop tunes-- generally little more than an organ bleat, a guitar rumble, and Beth Murphy's wail, but insidiously catchy nonetheless-- here they're filling the space with scrappy little screamers that seem to pass by faster than even their brief runtimes. It's a pretty good look-- not far in spirit from the 10 terrific, tumult-ridden minutes of last year's Stay Awake EP. There's still a great deal of melody, and small moments-- the steamy organ crunch on the title track, the slap of Adam Elliott's drum on woozy singalong "Half Day in Hell"-- stand out, but the peaks tower over the valleys here, and as such, the album's internal logic occasionally feels wonky, lopsided. Whereas Rip It Off, after the initial learning curve, was a fairly easy album to sink into, Born Again Revisited is lumpier, dodgier, and in some ways even more fucked.
Good on them, you know? Now would've been a pretty good time for Times New Viking to crank out a mess of beery bouncers or thinly-veiled Clean covers and let that Matador money roll in. But that's pretty much exactly what Born Again Revisited isn't. Instead, we've got yet another standoffishly catchy, completely uncompromising bit of burnout ephemera from a band that predates a revived trend I'm certain they feel themselves outside of. Born Again Revisited is a deeply rewarding record and a worthy entry in a pretty stellar catalog, sure, but coming at a time when everybody's fucking up their tunes and only a few are really doing it well, it's reassuring to know we weren't silly for getting excited about this stuff all over again.


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The sharks, which are an average of six-feet long, are passing between boats and paddle boarders. They usually head south through Miami-Dade County, but have decided this year to stay near Palm Beach.
'More people die from falling off cliffs while taking selfies than from shark attacks'
A spate of shark attacks at some of Australia’s most popular beaches has prompted the authorities to consider radical measures to try to deter the predators
'It looked to us like he was having a heart attack. When we reached him, he told us to stay out of the water,' one rescuer said of the New South Wales attack
Discovery has yielded to temptation (and ratings pressure), presenting phony shark attacks as real and suggesting that prehistoric monsters roam the seas
‘It’s the shark’s house. We need to be adjusting because we’ve got the brains, but they’ve got the teeth,’ shark researcher George Burgess says
Lydia has her own Twitter account and a dorsal fin tracker that over the last two years has given scientists first ever details about great white sharks
The upcoming "film" Sharknado 2: The Second One features an unusual press conference by Rob Ford with Toronto's mayor agreeing to speak to reporters in New York
The government should implement a bull-shark bounty of $50,000 or more, to harness the energies of the province's sport-fishing community. Rural militias with sufficiently large boats should be properly deputized, mobilized and equipped
A YouTube video purporting to show three men surprised by a shark while fishing was posted a week ago, but it was only on Wednesday it was revealed to be a hoax


Kanye & Akon's Bro ft. Jay-Z -- Sidewalk Hip-Hop Summit
Kanye & Akon's Bro ft. Jay-ZSidewalk Hip-Hop Summit
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Despite being some of the biggest -- and richest -- names in music, Kanye West, Akon's record exec look alike brother Bu Thiam, and Jay-Z kept it real and rolled unescorted through the streets of SoHo on Thursday.
The music moguls took a break from making hit records and attempted to blend in with the common folk.


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2022 NSDUH Annual National Report
Read key findings from the 2022 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH). This report highlights 2022 statistics on substance use, mental health, and treatment in the United States. These national indicators are measured among people aged 12 or older in the civilian, non institutionalised population. Estimates are presented by age group and by race/ethnicity for selected measures.
Along with the full report, which includes both figures and text descriptions, a set of slides is available which includes just the figures from the report.

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White Weewoos don't exist. *shifty eyes*
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Rauch v. RCA Corporation
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
861 F.2d 29 (2d Cir. 1988)
General Electric Company (GE) acquired RCA Corporation (RCA) (defendant) and converted all RCA stock into cash. Each share of RCA preferred stock was converted into $40 even though the RCA certificate of incorporation provided that owners of preferred stock would receive $100 per share if the corporation ever chose to redeem the stock. Rauch (plaintiff), an owner of preferred stock, brought suit, seeking $100 per share. The district court dismissed the complaint, finding that GE’s acquisition of RCA constituted a merger and not a redemption of stock by RCA. Rauch appealed.
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text: State conservation officers arrested eight protesters on Mauna Kea early Wednesday morning for violating the state's new emergency rules that prohibit camping on the mountain, a Department of Land and Natural Resources spokesman said. DNLR officers arrested seven women and a man at a protest camp across the road from the Mauna Kea Visitors Center for being in the restricted area on the mountain. The protesters have been camping on the mountain in protest of the construction of the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea. In the four-minute video of the arrests shot by the DLNR, some protesters formed a small circle and were chanting as officers approached them. One of the protesters can be heard on the video saying this was her first time at the protest camp and asking the arresting officers if there should have been a warning before the arrests were made.

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Nanna.B & Odd Future’s Hodgy Make A Golden Video About Protecting One’s Treasures
Los Angeles, California (by way of Denmark) songstress Nanna.B is not an MC, but she is attracting Hip-Hop artists to her soulful ceremony. She is gearing up to release the EP, Golden this Friday (July 21). On the title track, Nanna is produced by none other than Aftermath’s Anderson .Paak, and given two feature verses from Odd Future’s Hodgy.
Shot in the sand dunes of California, “Golden” is a trippy journey through the desert. The OFWGKTA MC kicks things off with a fast rap about being seduced by a woman’s beauty. In the video, he gathers a tape that leads him forward through the hills. In actuality, what he’s tugging on is part of Nanna.B’s wardrobe, eventually bringing the musical pair together. She smoothly sings the chorus, about providing a partner a gift. The beat has accents to match her light vocal. Golden images are featured. By the second chorus, Hodgy Beats joins in and has some balanced interplay with Nanna.B’s singing. Paak, a drummer, shows his knack for percussion in the song’s driving beat.
To the concept, Nanna.B explains in a press statement: “The ‘Golden’ video is filmed on the planet Au, located in a neighboring galaxy, which is a place of higher frequencies I sometimes visit in my dreams. Remember that suitcase with the golden light in Pulp Fiction? Yeah, that’s what this song is about. Protecting your treasures.”
In 2012, she released her debut album, Vitaphone.
About Ready Or Not: “Ready Or Not” is Ambrosia For Heads’s platform for showcasing new videos and having you, the people, decide whether they are ready for primetime. Each week, AFH will showcase music from artists on the verge, looking for their seat at the table among Hip-Hop’s elite.


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Just Basics, Inc. is a parent organization equipping programs that provide for the basic needs of people in the Montpelier area. Click on the pages below to learn more about each program.
The Montpelier Food Pantry, located (in the basement of Trinity United Methodist Church) at 137 Main Street in Montpelier, serves emergency meals to individuals and families in the Montpelier area. Our volunteers come from across the community. Some of our clients come once a lifetime, and some return every month. Regardless of an individual’s situation, we are here to help. We believe that access to nutritious food is a basic human right.
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Feast – a senior nutrition program in partnership with the Montpelier Senior Activity Center and Good Taste Catering. Feast promotes independence and socialization to area seniors by providing meals on-site. Through the dedication of our volunteers we provide nutrition by making hot meals available twice a week.

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Born on March 26th, 1911 in Columbus Mississippi to Cornelius Coffin Williams and Edwina Williams, was the internationally acclaimed playwright, Thomas Lanier Williams, otherwise known as Tennessee Williams.
Williams’ father was a traveling shoe salesman and his mother was an ambitious southern home keeper. Cornelius Williams spent a large portion of his time away from the family throughout Williams’ childhood and was rumored to be abusive during his infrequent stays in their Mississippi home.
Williams had an older sister as well as a younger brother. Rose, the oldest Williams child, was plagued with emotional illness at a very young age and spent the majority of her life in and out of mental institutions.
Williams’ younger brother, Dakin, remained distant from Thomas and Rose throughout their childhood due to their father’s obvious favorism for their younger sibling. Due to the tumultuous nature of their home life, each of the children spent a considerable amount of time in the home of their grandfather, a deeply southern-rooted Episcopal minister.
Williams received his first brush with literary acclamation in 1927 when he placed an astonishing third place in a national essay contest sponsored by The Smart Set magazine with an essay entitled “Can a Good Wife Be a Good Sport”.
As he grew older, Williams continued to nurture an interest in literature. He even studied for a brief period of time at the University of Missouri, but eventually withdrew before completing his degree and took a job for the same shoe company for which his father worked.
This job and several others, including work as an elevator operator, a waiter, and an usher in a theatre supported Williams as he continued to write and cultivate his unique writing style. Eventually, he chose to return to school and complete his degree at the University of Iowa.
In 1939, Williams decided to move to New Orleans. There, he became known as “Tennessee” (his old college nickname), rather then Thomas. The name was linked to his father’s birth state, Tennessee.
In 1940, Williams was able to develop his first professionally produced play, “Battle of Angels”. The play ended badly and was labeled a theatrical failure due to exceedingly poor reviews and controversy relating to censorship.
Although “Battle of Angels” was somewhat of a disappointment, Williams’ early productions of “Fugitive Kind” and “Candles to the Sun” were locally appreciated and renowned in the city of St. Louis.
Williams’ next production, and quite possibly the most well-known play of his career, “The Glass Menagerie” was completed in 1945 and received high-acclaim from the critic community surrounding Broadway. The production eventually won that year’s Donaldson award, New York Critics Circle Award, and Sidney Howard Memorial Award.
In 1947, “Tennessee Williams” met and fell in love with the person who would eventually become his lifetime partner. In a time during which criticism and social distain for homosexuality was extraordinarily prevalent, Tennessee Williams was able to live out his homosexual preferences publicly while suffering little or no social repercussions.
Williams met his professed ‘love of his life’ in 1947 while living in New Orleans. Frank Merlo, the man who would eventually become Williams’ partner, was a Sicilian American who served in the Navy during World War I. The couple frequently visited Italy where Williams is known to have noted to have drawn inspiration from the lives and the people he observed there.
In 1948, Williams wrote “The Rose Tattoo”, a romantic comedy rumored to have been largely based around Frank Merlo and his immediate family. “The Rose Tattoo” is the only major production of Williams’ which boasts a happy ending.
Merlo continued to be a major influence in many of Williams’ proceeding works. After almost two decades as a happy couple, tragedy struck when Merlo died following a brief struggle with lung cancer.
Williams entered a deep depression following Merlo’s death, which lasted for nearly a decade. He suffered with incredible pains of grief as well as the fear that he had emotionally abandoned Merlo in the final days of his illness. He later described this period of his life as his own personal stoned age.
Although this depression was certainly the most publicized of any of Williams’ previous stages of depression, Williams was plagued with intermittent periods of depression throughout his entire life and lived in constant fear of suffering the same fate as his sister, Rose. At a particularly young age, he suffered a nervous breakdown and he persistently battled addictions throughout his adult life such as alcoholism and the addiction to prescription drugs.
On February 24, 1983, Williams died after having reportedly choked to death on a bottle cap in his New York City home. The room was said to contain ‘numerous opened bottles of medications along with consumed bottles of alcohol’. Despite his well-known abhorrence for organized religion, he was buried in St. Louis, Missouri following a traditional Catholic funeral.
Throughout his career, Williams accrued a diverse range of awards for various productions including three Donaldson Awards, four New York Drama Critics Awards, a Tony, (for his critically acclaimed screenplay, “The Rose Tattoo”), a New York Film Critics Award, as well as numerous other awards including an honorary degree from Harvard University, and the $11,000 Commonwealth Award (presented in 1981).
Williams was known to his admirers not only as a brilliant playwright (having produced 25 full length plays), but also having produced a various array of other literary works including screenplays, dozens of short plays, two novels, over one hundred poems, sixty short stories, and finally- an autobiography.
Williams was not only beloved to the critics, for many years, he was recognized and loved by international audiences as well as those within his own country. In order to accommodate the international demand for his work, his works have been translated a multitude of languages, and countless productions of his work have been staged not only in the US but also around the world.
By the 1950’s his name was renowned to both critics and audiences alike. His 1955 production of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” ran for an unprecedented 694 performances. Other notorious Broadway-produced works of Williams’ included Summer and Smoke, and Sweet Bird of Youth.
Williams notated his own self-described style in the production notes for his play “The Glass Menagerie”. In them, he proclaimed that each of his major plays was written based upon a “memory play” format.
The memory play structure is based upon a three-tier format, in it, a character undergoes a profound or life-altering experience which produces what Williams described as an ‘arrest of time’, the character then relives the experience over and over until they are able (and the plot is able) to characterize it and thus make sense of it.
The ultimate theme of his plays he further explained to be the negative, life altering impact which society has upon the “sensitive nonconformist individual”. This description seemed to ultimately agree with Williams’s personal preferences and opinions of his own life.
Many critics agree that is was Williams’ own arduous experiences growing up and living in the South as a self-professed non-conformist, homosexual, eccentric, unconventional, and radical thinker as having prompted many of his revolutionary, quirky but undyingly honest perspectives of life.

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- WWE had a group of special guests at last night’s SmackDown tapings in Oklahoma City – a bunch of kids from the OKC Boys & Girls Club.
- In an interesting note on Chris Jericho’s new Robot Combat League show, the woman featured in commercials for the show who says she was a professional MMA fighter is Amanda Lucas, who is also the daughter of George Lucas.
- We noted before that WWE discussed inducting Cyndi Lauper into the WWE Hall of Fame this year. With the news of Donald Trump going in, Lauper will not be inducted this year.
- Alberto Del Rio will be appearing with his brother, NXT star Memo Montenegro, at the NXT live event on March 15th from the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Immokalee, Florida. Ricardo Rodriguez will also be appearing.
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In the mid and late '80s, when seemingly every band on MTV played the same shiny pop metal and looked like toy poodles, Tesla stood apart from the pack. Certainly included in the hair metal dynasty of the era but not quite fitting the bill, the Northern Californian band played a tougher, bluesier music than their peers. Tesla's inspirations were tied to the hard rock of the '70s rather than to the weird Frankenstein monster created by the New York Dolls and Hanoi Rocks that informed the rest of the country's loud bands at the time. They scored hits with a pair of ballads, "Love Song" and "The Way It Is," before going major league when they took over both MTV and the radio with an acoustic cover of Five Man Electrical Band's "Signs," which is probably one of the worst songs of all time.


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Gotta hand it to Netflix, the lineup for the Netflix Is A Joke Comedy Festival (that whole “is a joke” thing is a terrible name btw) is super impressive. Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Burr…Johnny Mac takes a deeper dive at the schedule and WOW.
Tom Segura, Pete Davidson, Bert Kresicher, tributes to Carlin, Pryor and Robin Williams. Just amazing.
Wow, what a huge comedy festival announced by Netflix. Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, Chris Rock, Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Burr, Jamie Foxx, Sarah Silverman, Kevin Hart, Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg, Ken Jeong, Martin Lawrence and MORE!
In 2017, Rolling Stone made a list of the Top 50 Stand-Up Comics of All Time. Johnny Mac weighs in with some commentary on numbers 25 through 1, and adds some names that could have bumped Wanda Sykes off the list.
Kevin Hart and John Travolta are teaming up for Die Hart! How Tom Papa became friends with Jerry Seinfeld. The difference between Ron Burgandy and Ron Jeremy.
In a previous episode of @dcnpod (Seinfeld: does Jerry have porn on his bookshelf?) Johnny Mac took a look at Jerry’s interesting VHS collection. Today we take a look at Jerrys board games, and speculate on why he has two golf videos. Or are they golf videos Jerry? Hmmm new theory….
Ode To Desire? Rug Burn? Easy Love? What exactly is in Jerry’s VHS collection on Seinfeld?
If it starts Bob Odenkirk and makes us laugh, is Better Call Saul a comedy? Julia Louis-Dreyfus is the glue to Seinfeld, and Johnny Mac is still obsessed with Jerry’s open porn collection.


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1969 'Green Box' issue. This vehicle could put up a withering barrage of lead in the path of Allied airmen. The Flakpanzer used a Panzer IV chassis and mounted a 2CM Flakvierling 38 quadruple anti-aircraft gun in an open, rotating armored turret. It could reach 25 mph with its 12 cylinder Maybach engine and had a range of 125 miles. Features rotating turret, elevating guns and gun sight, detailed moving flexible treads, bogeys with spring action, optional position hatch covers and includes extra tread links, bogeys, Jerry cans and helmets with two crew figures. The kit has never been started. It has been inventoried complete with all parts and includes decals and instructions.
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Human-robot interactions that involve multiple robots are becoming common. It is crucial to understand how multiple robots should transfer information and transition users between them. To investigate this, we designed a 3 x 3 mixed-design study in which participants took part in a navigation task. Participants interacted with a stationary robot who summoned a functional (not explicitly social) mobile robot to guide them. Each participant experienced the three types of robot-robot interaction: representative (the stationary robot spoke to the participant on behalf of the mobile robot), direct (the stationary robot delivered the request to the mobile robot in a straightforward manner , and social (the stationary robot delivered the request to the mobile robot in a social manner). Each participant witnessed only one type of robot-robot communication: silent (the robots covertly communicated), explicit (the robots acknowledged that they were communicating), or reciting (the stationary robot said the request aloud). Our results show that it is possible to instill socialness in and improve likability of a functional robot by having a social robot interact socially with it. We also found that covertly exchanging information is less desirable than reciting information aloud.


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We rarely focus on the piece count when discussing digital builds. Well, it’s not surprising since accumulating a palette of real-life bricks is a lot more challenging than copy-pasting some from a digital library. Nevertheless, designing something mind-blowing always requires a lot of skill and an artistic eye — whether you work digitally or not. I was totally taken aback by a diorama Finn Roberts revealed the other day. Being a result of thorough planning and an enormous amount of designing, this digital masterpiece brings back one of my childhood hobbies — spending hours spying insanely detailed posters from LEGO promo catalogs.
The composition, the focal length, the depth, even the angle — everything seems to be just perfect in this photo. Finn shares that it took him seven months to finish the designs of the facades. And these are just a part of the whole diorama, which weighs in at nearly 12,000 pieces. The crowded alley of the pier fit about 60 minifigure characters; I find a new one each time I look at the image! And if you are not into minifigures, check out these amazing shots of the facades. The longer you look, the more parts you notice that didn’t make into the final shot even though they are still there.


The Red Sea state Public Prosecution arrested 15 state officials on charges of financial and administrative corruption and waste of public funds on Wednesday. The Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Prosecution is investigating the sale of university lands.
Among the officials charged are former state Minister of Finance Emad El Hussein, Ministry of Finance director Mohamed Ahmed, a number of employees of the Ministry, and the former Commissioner of Suakin locality.
The arrests came after a complaint was filed against them concerning the misuse of power generators in Suakin locality.
After interrogation, they were transferred to the Port Sudan National Prison.
The Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Prosecution in Khartoum summoned the Vice President of the University of Khartoum on Wednesday.
An investigation committee questioned him concerning the sale of agricultural lands belonging to the university.
The Prosecution has charged a former Khartoum state minister and an engineering consultant with owning 42 plots of university land.
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First step is to check whether your computers can see the local router at your end, i.e. ping the local gateway.
Then do a tracert to www.thinkbroadband.com
and see at what point it starts to lose the data. If the problem was with the downlink from satellite and break out to the internet one would normally expect to see more users affected.
One possibility is that the issue is simply congestion, and that rebooting just gives enough time for a spike of traffic on the service to vanish.


tech2 News StaffJun 15, 2017 13:08:33 IST
Shimon is a four-armed, bug-faced, marimba-playing robot built by the Georgia Institute of Technology, that composes its own tunes. The robot has learned to make its own music based on a dataset of 5,000 tracks, including songs by Miles Davis, Lady Gaga, Beethoven and The Beatles. Ph.D. student Mason Bretan has spent over seven years in building the robot. Only the first four measures are fed to the robot as a seed or a starting point, after which Shimon composes the music and plays it.
Bretan says, "Once Shimon learns the four measures we provide, it creates its own sequence of concepts and composes its own piece. Shimon’s compositions represent how music sounds and looks when a robot uses deep neural networks to learn everything it knows about music from millions of human-made segments." Shimon is an experiment to explore the possibility of artificial intelligences creating music that humans will find appealing.
Shimon has moved beyond thinking about just the next note in a composition, and has an overall picture of the song, similar to how a human would approach a composition. The compositions by the robot sound like a fusion of jazz and classical music. Every time a seed is fed to the robot, it generates entirely new music that cannot be predicted by humans. The researchers cannot pick out the particular tracks that lead to the compositions, but can notice influences, such as Mozart.


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If you want to make your own juices at home, you should understand that they may not be safe to drink unless they're pasteurized because they may contain harmful bacteria. Pasteurization is a process of heating, holding and cooling the juice to destroy the bacteria and make the juice safe to drink. You can do this at home and it does not affect the flavor or nutritional value of the juice.
Lay a large, clean towel flat on the countertop next to the stove.
Fill the kitchen sink with cold water.
Check over the canning jars and discard any that have imperfections.
Place the jars, lids, funnel and ladle into the large pot, cover them with water and bring the water to a gentle boil. Boil it for 10 minutes. Turn off the heat. This sterilizes the jars and utensils, making them ready for use.
Using tongs to remove the lids, funnel and ladle from the pot. Place them on the towel. Leave the jars in the hot water while you work with the juice.
Heating and Holding
Heat the juice in the double-boiler to 175 degrees Fahrenheit. Keep it at this temperature for 20 minutes. Turn off the heat.
Remove a jar from the hot water using the tongs. Drain any water from the jar back into the pot and place the jar right-side up on the towel. Leave the remaining jars in the hot water until you're ready to fill them. Touch only the outsides of the jars to avoid contamination.
Hold the jar with a pot holder, and set the funnel inside the jar and ladle juice into the jar until the juice is 1/2 inch from the top. Secure the lid with the ring and set it aside on the towel. Continue until you've put all the juice into jars.
Wait 5 minutes.
Place the jars into the sink of cold water.
Add ice to bring the temperature of the water down to 40 F and keep it at this temperature for 15 minutes. Monitor the temperature by checking every minute or so, adding ice as needed to keep it at 40 F. This will ensure a uniform temperature throughout the water, jars and juice.
Remove the jars from the cold water and place them on the large towel. Dry the outsides of the jars. The juice is now ready to drink, or you can store it in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.
Try to keep the area free from drafts. The jars, lids, funnel and ladle may be sterilized in the dishwasher if your model has a sterilize setting. When bathing the juice jars, cool the water as quickly as possible. Make ice ahead of time and store it in bags in your freezer.
Never allow glass containers to boil in a pot where they may come into direct contact with the bottom of the pot and the heat source. Always use tongs to remove items from boiling water. Never place hot jars into cold water. Let them sit for 5 to 10 minutes so they don't shatter when you put them in cold water.
Jennifer Bakken began writing professionally in 2006. She has written and produced documentary films that have appeared on local PBS channels. Bakken has a Bachelor of Arts in speech communication and a Certificate in Publishing from Minnesota State University Moorhead, where she is completing her Master of Fine Arts thesis in creative writing.

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30 Jan Scotland on film: How firms benefit from some celluloid magic
The Press & Journal – Peter Ranscombe
Promoting the north and north-east as destinations for filming is essential to capitalise on the economic benefits of movies and television shows, writes Peter Ranscombe.
Turn on the gogglebox or open a newspaper over the past few weeks and it’s been nigh on impossible to avoid the second series of The Traitors.
Whether it’s presenter Claudia Winkleman’s outfits or the real-life stories of the contestants playing the “traitors” or the “faithful”, the BBC television programme has been splashed across everything from radio shows to magazine articles.
Both the UK show and its US cousin were filmed at Ardross Castle, north of Alness in Easter Ross.
Loukas Tsarmaklis, a director of Ardross Castle Enterprises, told The Press and Journal last year the first series led to the venue being “inundated” with inquiries to host weddings, with filming itself helping “local B&Bs, tradesmen, taxi drivers, cleaners” through extra trade.
The Traitors isn’t the first TV series or film to put the Highlands on the celluloid map.
Wind the clock back to the 1990s and the movie triumvirate of Braveheart, Rob Roy, and Loch Ness thrust Scotland – and the Highlands in particular – into the Hollywood spotlight.
That gave Willie Cameron an idea; after hosting film crews at Drumnadrochit Hotelhe set up Loch Ness Marketing in 1994. Since then he has been acting as a “fixer”, helping production companies to find everything from locations and extras through to accommodation and catering.
“Total flexibility is key,” explained Mr Cameron, known affectionately as “Mr Loch Ness” for his efforts over the years to promote the Great Glen.
He added: “You might be asked to serve breakfast at 4am to one part of the crew that’s going out early to film, while at the same time serving dinner to another part of the crew that’s just come back from night filming.
“Film crews aren’t like any other type of business because they have to film when the weather and the light are right.”
Gap in the market
Mr Cameron said that when he started his company the only film services in the Highlands were focused on the “premier division”, or feature films.
He spotted a gap in the market for “middle of the road” pop videos, documentaries, and adverts.
Over the years he’s worked with clients ranging from Blind Date and Comic Relief through to McLaren motor racing, covering an area extending from Glen Coe and Highland Perthshire in the south to Wick and Orkney in the north.
Site visits deliver ‘fresh inspiration’
“I always encourage them to come up and do a recce,” he said, adding: “It’s one thing to come up with ideas when you’re sitting in an office in London, but you get fresh inspiration when you come here and see what’s available.”
The couple, whose catering company focuses on local produce, shared the ambassador of the year prize at last year’s Highlands and Islands Food and Drink Awards.
GHF has catered for the James Bond film franchise and last autumn’s Shrek-themed Air BnB promotion on Ardverikie Estate near Laggan – the location for the Monarch of the Glen television series – which featured singer Rita Ora and her filmmaker husband, Taika Waititi.
“You can see the huge value filming brings for the area economically,” Mrs Crook said.
Mr Cameron and Mrs Crook are both directors of Highland Tourism, a community interest company launched in 2021 to promote the region as a premium sustainable destination.
“From a Highland Tourism perspective, showcasing the Highlands as a destination for film and TV location work is one of the pillars for our brand in the future,” Mrs Crook said.
A Highlands and islands film commission was also founded in the 1990s and, over the years, morphed into the Highlands of Scotland Film Commission (HSFC).
Cannes Film Festival in its sights
It is run by Highland Council after the islands’ local authorities set up their own film offices.
Mr Cameron and Mrs Crook want to see HSFC engaging more with local businesses and becoming increasingly active in promoting the region on the world stage, including returning to the trade side of Cannes Film Festival.
HSFC helps production companies to find locations and services in the region, including Studio Lambert, which uses Ardross Castle for The Traitors.
Spin-off benefits worth millions
The commission calculated that filming generated more than £3 million for the Highland economy in 2022.
HSFC film locations officer Clare Piggot said: “Local businesses and local crew can create an account with us for free. Their entry will then be published on our database for production companies to see.”
Ms Piggot has also promoted HSFC at events run by destination management organisation Visit Inverness Loch Ness and the Highland Tourism Conference.
She added:“We’re looking to make our service more proactive – get more involved with the industry, help to grow it in the Highland region, and encourage younger people living here who are interested in the industry that they can work here and stay here.”
As well as the wider economic impact of making films and TV shows, Mr Cameron also pointed to the specific benefits for tourism.
He added: “The people who are managing the film crews – showing them locations – are exercising almost an indirect directorial control of what will be seen on screen.
“You’re actually advertising your country or location to the world.
“My old grandfather used to say ‘goods properly shown are half sold’.
“Then you get the spin-back when the film is shown, and people want to come here.
“The Glenfinnan viaduct in Harry Potter or Eilean Donan Castle in Highlander are perfect examples.
“So you get a second bite at the cherry; people are filming in the area and then tourists are coming to visit.”
A report by public body Screen Scotland valued screen tourism, known as “set jetting”, as adding £55m of gross value to our nation’s economy in 2019. It also supported the equivalent of 1,220 full-time jobs.
Recent productions visiting Scotland – such as film franchises including Avengers, Batman, Fast & Furious and Indiana Jones, as well as TV shows like The Buccaneers, The Crown, and Good Omens – may have grabbed all the headlines.
But national tourism body VisitScotland said older titles such as Braveheart, The Da Vinci Code, Highlander and the ubiquitous Outlander were still listed by tourists in surveys into their reasons for coming to Scotland.
Jenni Steele, VisitScotland’s film and creative industries manager, added the agency worked with film distributors to promote Scotland as part of wider publicity for movies.
The organisation also has content about film and television productions on its website that can be used by local businesses wishing to capitalise on opportunities in their area.
Ms Steele said: “We have industry relationship managers in each part of Scotland – local people on the ground who can help businesses.”


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Chicken Liver – Chicken Liver, Pork Fat, Shallots, Cream (Milk), Butter (Milk), Madeira (Sulphite), Eggs, Spices
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But that doesn't mean that the troubled actor and the colorful Giants' closer aren't the same person.
Less than a week after flying Wilson to Los Angeles to talk about Sheen working on another "Major League" movie, the actor has gone on the offensive against his CBS bosses who have put his show on permanent hiatus.
While Sheen makes the media rounds to get his side of the story out there -- and rip on his bosses -- the actor seems to have taken on the persona of Wilson.
Need proof? Listen to this interview that Sheen did with Dan Patrick about two weeks.
There are flashes of Wilson's unique speaking style, namely the "bring it" a little over one minute in. But for the most part Sheen sounds like he has for years.
Now check out this infamous Brian Wilson interview and note the speaking style before we listen to how Sheen sounds today.
Fast forward to Sheen's first public interview after his meeting with Wilson and listen for yourself. Hear anything that sounds familiar?
Need more proof? Check out Sheen's appearances on the national morning shows Monday.
Could the actor just be pulling a Joaquin Phoenix fastball on everyone while he guns for a contract from HBO? Is he not as rehabbed as he claims? Or has the Machine entangled Sheen in the trenches of the Beard?


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One of 2004's '50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers', according to the New York Press's annual list, Michael Flocker started life in West Berlin. His family left the city for America when the writer was nine, and at 19 he moved to NYC. Having tried his hand at acting in his early twenties and having written and directed the film Hideous Puppets, Flocker returned to New York and wrote The Metrosexual Guide to Style. He has subsequently published three more novels.