Cleveland Orchestra conjures far-flung images on evocative night at Blossom Music Center - cleveland.com

Saturday night at Blossom Music Center, playing the "Zodiac Suite" by Mary Lou Williams, the Cleveland Orchestra and conductor Jader Bignamini supported a jazz quartet composed of pianist Aaron Diehl, bassist David Wong, drummer Aaron Kimmel, and later, soprano Mikaela Bennett.Roger Mastroianni
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio – Blossom Music Center is a picturesque retreat, but the minds of all who visited Saturday were elsewhere. Far elsewhere.
For that, blame – or rather credit – the Cleveland Orchestra.
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Covid-related international travel restrictions continue to wane. - The New York Times

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Anguilla, a tiny British overseas territory in the eastern Caribbean Sea, is preparing to ease its pandemic-related travel restrictions, following the lead of dozens of countries that have dropped testing and vaccination requirements, anxious to rebuild tourism and their economies.
This month, the British Virgin Islands, Belize and Australia also eased requirements for visitors. And most of the world’s countries are now open to visitors from the United States, which in June lifted its testing requirement for inbound travelers.
Some countries that closed their borders to tourists at the beginning of the pandemic have done away entirely with requirements for travelers, including the United Kingdom, Iceland and Sweden.
The shift comes even as the Omicron subvariant known as BA.5 has led to a surge in cases in the United States, Western Europe, Japan, Australia and other countries. However, that has occurred mostly without any commensurate surge in deaths, which experts link to more widely available vaccines and Covid-19 treatments, as well as at least some immunity conferred by prior infections.
Erika Richter, vice president of communications at the American Society of Travel Advisors, a trade group, said that travel was continuing to increase as more countries dropped restrictions. In the United States, travel is approaching prepandemic levels, according to Transportation Security Administration checkpoint metrics.
“We have seen since the beginning of the pandemic that travelers who wanted to travel would go through the hoops; they would do what was necessary to travel and to do that trip,” Ms. Richter said. “As more countries lift their restrictions, more people who may have been on the fence and may not have been in that ‘I’ll do whatever it takes’ category are now in the ‘Let’s go’ category.”
Travel restrictions proliferated at the start of the pandemic, as nations tried to keep the coronavirus and its variants at bay. But many were, in the end, no match for the virus’s ability to spread and mutate.
“Travel restrictions make sense when there is a big difference between prevalence and risk when you’re going between points A and B,” William Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, told The New York Times last month, when the United States dropped its testing requirement for incoming air travelers. “If there isn’t a big difference, then they are not particularly valuable,” he said.
With the summer travel season underway, even more countries are dropping restrictions.
Anguilla’s Ministry of Health said in a statement last week that starting on Aug. 8, the Caribbean island would no longer require vaccinated travelers to provide a negative coronavirus test before their trip. Unvaccinated travelers, who were previously not allowed to enter the country, will be allowed to visit as of Aug. 8 if they provide a negative coronavirus test before departure.
Last week, the British Virgin Islands dropped all of its testing requirements and said arriving travelers would no longer be screened for the coronavirus. Previously, all visitors over age 5, regardless of their vaccination status, had to present a negative coronavirus test taken within 48 hours of arrival.
Belize last week also dropped its requirement that visitors provide a negative coronavirus test or proof of vaccination. Foreign tourists are no longer required to show proof of having purchased Belize travel insurance.
Earlier this month, Australia, which had fully closed to foreign tourists in the first years of the pandemic, dropped its vaccination requirements for visitors, having already dropped its testing rule. States or territories in Australia may have their own requirements for testing and quarantine, and face masks are still required on flights into and within the country.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a four-tier ranking for coronavirus risk in other countries, with the highest “Level 4” ranking for countries that have “special circumstances,” including the threat of collapse to the health care infrastructure and extremely high case counts. The C.D.C.’s list currently has no countries so designated.
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Recycle paint, electronics or both at dropoff event in August at ESM High School - syracuse.com

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Electronics recycler Sunnking and Empire Recycled Paint will hold an event in August to collect both previously used electronics and unused paint.
The event will be 8:30 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 27, at East Syracuse Minoa Central High School. Registration is required by signing up online at sunnking.com/events. Residents can then select whether they intend to recycle unused electronics, leftover paint or both.
Empire Recycled Paint collects, transports and recycles unused paint throughout Syracuse — recycling water-based and solvent-based coatings.
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2-Minute Breakfast Recipes - 5 Easy Dishes For Busy Mornings - NDTV Food

As soon as the alarm goes off in the morning, we are on our toes. Mornings are a rollercoaster ride that often makes us skip our breakfast. Not that the rest of the day is smooth either. So, we actually need some energy and nutrition to stay agile throughout the day. Fill your tummy or be on time for work? We obviously would go for the latter. But doing both while saving time is totally doable if you have the right recipes to fulfil your breakfast needs. Believe us, 2 minutes (if not more) is all it takes to fix yourself a satiating yet tasty meal. 


If you are not really into indulging in an expansive meal every day in the morning, we have some quick-fix recipes that will provide you with enough nutrition to let you spring into action. These recipes are life-saving, to say the least. So, bookmark them and never go a day without a good morning meal. 

2-Minute Breakfast Recipes For Rushed Mornings: 

1. Sunny Side Up 

In just two minutes, you'll be able to rustle it up.  Crack your egg on a pan and while it's cooking on the base, bring out your bread and butter it up. Just slide the egg onto the bread, sprinkle seasonings of your choice and dig in. Can't make the perfect sunny side up? Here are some tips that will help you.

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Sunny side up is one of the easiest egg recipes. 

2. Peanut Butter Toast 

Sunny side up is one of the easiest egg recipes. 
Peanut butter is unlike other spreads that offer just good taste. This spread from protein-rich peanuts will also give you healthy fats and other nutrients that will keep you going all day long. All you have to do is spread some homemade or store-bought peanut butter on plain and toasted bread slices and you are good to go. 

3. Cereal Bowls 

In an instant, you can rustle up this meal by combining cereals (oats, corn flakes, muesli etc.) with milk, fruits, nuts, seeds, and some honey. It's delicious and satiating too. 

4. Paneer Sandwich 

No cooking, only assembling! Just spread some green chutney on your bread slices, place some tomato rings and paneer slices, season it with salt, red chilli flakes, garam masala and chaat masala, and munch away this tasty paneer sandwich. 

5. Avocado Toast 

This dish may not be very common in India for breakfast yet but it's getting there. This quick recipe that gives us a healthy and delicious meal deserves to be on your breakfast menu. Just scoop out the flesh from the avocado, mash it and smear your loaves of bread with it. You can top it with cheese and seasonings of your choice.  


Also Read: These 7 South Indian Breakfast Dishes Can Be Made In Just 15 Minutes

Avocado toast can be made in a jiffy. 

Avocado toast can be made in a jiffy. 
Your weekday mornings are sorted with these quick and easy breakfast recipes!  

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Exploring Solvents in Polymers for Next-Generation Printed Electronics - Design News

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Elizabeth Montalbano | Jul 22, 2022
Researchers have simplified the synthesis of a key component of electrically conductive polymers to pave the way for conductive paints and advanced printed electronic components for the development of next-generation devices.
A team from the University of Tskukuba in Japan focused on the investigation of solvents and which ones in particular best facilitate synthesis of polyaniline, an electrically conductive polymer used widely for electronics. In their work they found that a rather common material—that is, iodine—allowed for simple and reliable synthesis of the polymer, paving the way for its use in advanced electronics applications.
Indeed, synthesis of polyaniline for industrial-electronics applications has faced a major limitation for a number of decades in the decision as to which solvent to use to best facilitate synthesis of the polymer. Solvents are typically liquids into which other materials dissolve to make a solution.
Finding one that’s optimized for the process of synthesizing polyaniline can minimize the cost and complexity of manufacturing and make the material suitable for ink-jet printing processes, researchers said. It also can facilitate novel and useful properties in the polymer material, researchers said.
"Polyaniline is an extremely versatile polymer in routine and advanced technologies, but restrictions on which solvents can be used for synthesis have long hindered this versatility," explained University of Tskukuba Professor Hiromasa Goto, one of the researchers on the project, in a press statement. "Our discovery of how to facilitate polymerization in diverse solvents will be useful in basic research and industrial applications."
The team in particular was seeking solvents that are inexpensive and have low boiling points to best allow the material to be used in versatile polymer processing modes such as ink-jet printing, an application that until now has not been possible, researchers said. They used a procedure to produce polyaniline from aniline sulfate, a method that produced a material that exhibited the crystallinity and electrical properties as if it had been prepared by conventional methods, they said.
"A particularly exciting result is the ease of preparing industrially useful polymer alloys, such as blends with polystyrene or cellulose derivatives," Goto said in a press statement. "Electrically conductive paint, advanced rubber blends, and other materials are now straightforward to prepare, which we expect will facilitate product development in diverse fields."
Moreover, they found in their research that adding a small quantity of iodine to the reaction mixture allowed researchers to produce polyaniline from aniline sulfate in a single step, they said.
Indeed, while many solvents were compatible with the procedure—non-toxic ethanol and dichloromethane, among them—iodine particularly facilitated polyaniline production most likely because it is an electron-acceptor dopant, researchers said. This allows it to facilitate production of localized polarons, which is critical to the subsequent polymerization by radical chain reactions, they said.
Researchers published a paper on their work in the journal, Polymer-Plastics Technology and Materials.
The results of the research should make polyaniline more compatible with ink-jet printing and other useful processing technologies. This should simplify production of printed electronic components, such as circuit boards and other common parts, researchers said.
The research also paves the way for developing both routine and advanced electronics technologies at a lower cost, they said.
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Post-pandemic Affordable Care Act premium hikes on the horizon - Axios

Democrats' 11th-hour scramble to avoid steep Affordable Care Act premium increases for enrollees next year glosses over the reality that premiums are going up regardless for many people, thanks to the steady upward march of health care prices.
The catch: If the Democrats succeed, most ACA enrollees won't notice the premium hikes — which preliminary filings suggest will be around 10% — thanks to the law's subsidy structure, which passes the tab along to the federal government.
Driving the news: Most health insurers in the individual market are seeking median premium increases between 5% and 14% in 2023, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey of preliminary filings from 72 health plans across 13 states and the District of Columbia.
Go deeper: ACA coverage has been a focal point in Congress after Democrats' coronavirus relief package last year made premium assistance more generous and expanded eligibility to more middle-income Americans, but only temporarily.
KFF's survey found the political machinations won’t have as much of a bearing on health costs as increased demand from consumers who deferred care during the pandemic, and surging labor and supply costs.
The other side: Insurers say Congress holds the key to whether individual coverage remains affordable for nearly 20 million people.
Reality check: ACA marketplaces have been stable and profitable for insurers, even if individual market enrollees tend to be sicker than they were pre-ACA.
Our thought bubble: Washington has generally been reluctant to tackle rising health care costs, which would require taking on powerful industry interests.

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The Feed | Patio Daddy-o - Mpls.St.Paul Magazine - Mpls.St.Paul Magazine

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June 17, 2022
1:25 AM
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Dear Dad, stop tinkering on the grill and leave the lawn alone (it's a perfect 3/4 cut, like always), and go out with your brood to a patio this weekend. Dad bods, even without the accessory of children, will be seen all over town! Take yours to an epic brewery block party, check out a new rendition of that old bar you used to hang out at, or for any father figure, get him what he really always wants: a big sandwich.
\ I'm sure you've seen no news on this, so let me be the first to tell you that Owamni has won the prestigious award for Best New Restaurant at the James Beard Awards. Yes, this is a great achievement in our city, and more people will come and visit, but it's more significant for the rest of the country as it sets a tone: Indigenous food is important and worth celebrating, all you regional investors get your checkbooks out.
\ If you like beer, and you have a penchant for doodling, listen up. Your sudsy scrawls could come together to earn you $5,000 because Saint Paul Brewing is hosting a logo design contest. The very cool and tucked away brewery has one of the best patios of summer, a killer pizza oven, and a new license that allows them to sell wine and liquor along with their beer. They want to celebrate their new hotness, and need someone to logo the way. Read the rules and enter by July 6!
+ Who knew that there was a sneaky amazing chef cooking Italian food out at a vineyard on Lake Waconia? Gia at the Lake is worth your gas money. 
+ The Dabbler Depot is open! Matt Kenevan's liquor store project on West 7th is open for business as of today. Not just a liquor store selling craft beer, wine, cider and spirits, the DD is also a coffee shop with slices of pie and donuts for sale. Of course there's a patio with beer hall tables, why do you ask? 
+ Little Tijuana is open again just off of Eat Street. There are new owners: a collective including Travis Serbus, Ben Rients, Bennett Johnson, and Dan Manosack as chef. But even though they all come fresh off the Petite Leon team, there is no Mexican food here. While they've kept the iconic name, the menu is fully new and quite global, from a chopped cheese sandwich to takoyaki-style fried cauliflower, waffle fries with sour cream dip to an egg foo young laden St. Paul sandwich. The scrappy soul of the Little T's you loved is still there, as are the red Pizza Hut glasses and the (recovered) booths. Thank god the carpet is gone. 
+ There's a new shop on the hot corner of Lake and Lyndale in that long-vacant building that was going to be a Dumpling Man at some point. Well, now the spot is called Chicago's Very Own, and it's selling Windy City-style hoagy sandwiches. Right, that's not me, that's the way they like to spell it and I'm just fine with the shift. There's a chopped steak sandwich thing happening here (are we ... maybe on the verge of a chopped cheese type of trend in town??) along with some cold cut stacked hoagies, and Chicago dogs including a Maxwell Street Polish and true to life chili dog. On site, please also find a popcorn and cookie shop. 
+ Just announced, the Cargo Bar in Target Center is back open again as of next week. The ground level shipping container themed bar and eatery took over the former Hubert's location, but closed with the pandemic. Now, it will open three hours before each home Twins game. The simplified menu offers tacos, nachos, and pizza by the slice along with beers, cocktails, and NA beverages. 
- Boiler Room Coffee, an indy coffee shop in the basement of an apartment building in Stevens Square, has announced that they will close on Tuesday next week after 11 years of service. It was a welcoming and scruffy shop that did good work in the community, and it will be missed by the neighborhood.
- In case you were going to get your slushie on this weekend, you might want to check the status of Rooftop Bar capping Nolo's. They've temporarily closed while they make some improvements on the space and deal with some pesky occupancy limits. 
>> The Earl Giles distillery/restaurant/bar is looking to finally open next month. It's been nearly four years in the making, have Jesse Held and Jeff Erkkila used that time to create the perfect bar? 
>> The Smack Shack partnership is rolling open a new venture in the North Loop. Josh Thoma and Kevin Fitzgerald are taking over the former Alliance Française building to install chef Nick O'Leary in what will become a 10,000 sq. ft. three story tequila-influenced restaurant. The restaurant is unnamed as of yet, but updates can be found by following Nolo Loves Tequila. Hey ... isn't this the building that's right next to the former Aria/Jeune Lune building, which is now an evangelical church?
>>  There's a new ramen shop coming to the North Loop Galley food hall. Ramen Kawae will bring noodles, rice bowls, and other Japanese dishes to the stall that formerly held Soul Fu. Look for a soft open by the end of the month if all goes well. 
// Pryes Brewing's Block Party starts today and lasts all weekend. So much live music, a huge craft fair, tons of food from the outdoor grill, and the debut of their new Miraculite beer (slimmed down to 4%ABV so that you can have a few and still hang out with your eyes open and focused). 
// Not too far down the river, the Stone Arch Fest will be festing on W. River Parkway Rd. Besides all the live music and art, the vintage and vinyl, don't forget the culinary artisans setting up shop. The food market will have everything from hot sauce to mushrooms, cheeses to salsa and more from local makers. Then, stash your purchase in your bag and get something from the food courts. 
// SO much Dad action at Back to the Fifties this weekend. Really, if you've never gone it's kinda fun to poke around old hot rods with old dudes who will talk your ear off about chrome from his lawn chair on the curb. And then, you get to have State Fair food as a treat. 
// Shakespeare in the Orchard is a great new way to hang out at Aamodt's Apple Farm. And it's free! Head out to the Stillwater orchard to see Romeo & Juliet among the trees, but grab some drinks from the apple barn first. Then report back next weekend when a live chamber orchestra will underscore parts of A Midsummer's Night Dream. Culture among the fruits!
// No party like a parking lot party. Travail's version of blacktop fun starts at 4pm and runs like an open-house grad party for adults until about 8pm. Your $100 gets you all the good tunes from the band on the roof, plus all the food: smoked prime rib, Korean fried chicken, truffle gouda mac 'n' cheese and so much more. 
// Stillwater is where to point your car on Saturday for the Food Truck Extravaganza at the Washington County Fairgrounds. Some 35 food trucks from across the metro will roll in and park it to feed you: Kenny's Meatball Wagon will be there, so will Hopper's Mini Donuts, and Pretty Great Cheesecake (which shouldn't sell itself short). Beer tent and more!
// Do not watch Midsommar before going to the Nordic Midsummer fest at Buck Hill on Saturday, just don't. But do head down for Nordic food, beer, vendors, and a Viking re-enactment that's better than a football game. Or head to the American Swedish Institute Midsommar which has a maypole for sure. 
// Celebrate Juneteenth on Sunday at the Soul of the Southside festival. Live music will be joined by poetry readings and speakers broadcasting over the Black-owned businesses market and food vendors. Soul Bowl and Official Fried Chicken will be there! Check out more Juneteenth celebrations around town.  
// Free beer for Dad while you shop for stuff? This win-win can happen at the June Market at Malcolm Yards. You get some spices, he gets some MN United merch, you get a Wrecktangle pizza, he gets a plate of Abang Yoli fried chicken. There's no losing or compromising!
Food and Dining editor Stephanie March writes and edits Mpls.St.Paul Magazine’s Eat + Drink section. She can also be heard Saturdays on her myTalk107.1 radio show, Weekly Dish, where she talks about the Twin Cities food scene.
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