CHICAGO (WLS) -- On this Memorial Day, many graduates and their families may be looking ahead to what's next when it comes to work.
The good news is there's a lot of jobs out there right now.
Jessica Schaeffer from the LaSalle Network helps recruit people for positions all the time.
She joined ABC7 to discuss tips for the class of 2021. Her tips include utilizing career services, attending career fairs, networking, cleaning up your online image and casting a wide net.
If our recipes could talk they would tell us that we all (especially us on the east coast!) exhaled a collective sigh of relief at the arrival of warmer weather and bustling farmers markets this month. Our most popular May recipes feature a bounty of seasonal veggies, like roasted asparagus (with crispy-buttery fish!), low-and-slow-cooked beans with all the spring alliums, and tadka-style pasta laced with fresh peas. But all that incoming produce didn’t stop us from craving comfort food, either. Look beyond the veg and you’ll find pillowy, steamed mantou, hearty Steak au Poivre, and berry-glazed chicken wings. What can we say? We wanted it all this month. Here are our most popular recipes from May—starting with No. 1.
Good morning. Here’s Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. on Memorial Day, from an 1884 address he gave in Keene, N.H., “in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life.” It’s worth recalling before anyone heads out into a yard or park today to grill with friends, a reminder of the purpose and import of the day.
“To the indifferent inquirer who asks why Memorial Day is still kept up we may answer,” Holmes told the crowd before him, “it celebrates and solemnly reaffirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith. It embodies in the most impressive form our belief that to act with enthusiasm and faith is the condition of acting greatly.” It was a soldier’s faith that Holmes was citing, a faith that the sacrifice is worth it, that the nation won’t forget.
Don’t, then. It’s a solemn day for many, even as Americans cook out and celebrate the coming summer season. That needn’t dampen your cheer so much as underscore it.
If that work continues to be at home and not an office, you can make the evening meal slowly over the course of the day. I like this springtime lemony chicken soup, for instance, burbling along in a slow cooker while I type. Likewise this slow cooler mushroom and wild rice soup. And I love a weeknight bo ssam in a low oven, too, a kind of slow-moving magic trick that I’ll miss when I have to go back to the newsroom again, and the dish returns to the weekend special occasion file.
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Now, it’s nothing to do with mangoes and chile-lime salt, but many of us could use some magical realism and sprawling narrative right about now, and “The Old Drift,” by Namwali Serpell, delivers. It’s Zambia from past to future.
There are so many types of rice noodles, from thin, threadlike vermicelli to the extra-wide that you find in pad see ew. Rice noodles are gluten-free (some varieties include tapioca as a stabilizer, which is still gluten-free, though you should always check the label if gluten is a concern), and cook quickly; many varieties just need to soak in hot water.
There are myriad different ways to enjoy rice noodles, and we rounded up some of our favorite flavorful recipes below. Not seeing the right one for you? You can search for more recipes through our Recipe Finder.
Vietnamese Rice Noodle Salad, pictured above. Perfect for summer! Adapted from writer Molly Wizenberg’s recipe in her memoir “Delancey," this pileup of rice noodles and thinly sliced vegetables in a tangy-sweet dressing is exactly what we want in warm weather.
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Italian cooking is generally known for its inclusion of flavorful herbs and spices, garlic, olive oil, and tomatoes.
Some of the most popular Italian recipes include pizza, soups, pasta, salads, and delicious sauces that use these ingredients. Tomatoes are frequently incorporated either fresh as the main ingredient or in the form of marinara sauce.
Not everyone who enjoys classic Italian recipes likes tomatoes, though, and some people are even allergic to them. Fortunately, this doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy some creative and equally tasty tomato-free Italian cooking.
This article offers 15 Italian-style recipes that are tomato-free.
While tomato-based marinara sauce may be among the most widely used Italian sauces, you can mimic it using other vegetables and seasonings.
This recipes use butternut squash, zucchini, and garlic cooked with beet stock and apple cider vinegar. Use it for pasta, pizza, or casseroles.
Lasagna doesn’t have to be slathered with tomato sauce. Instead, this recipe layers lasagna noodles with mushrooms, garlic, onion, and spinach with a creamy cheese sauce.
To make this recipe easier, substitute store-bought lasagna noodles for homemade ones.
This is an easy tomato-free sauce that could pair well with a variety of noodles.
Just cook and combine onions, grated carrots, and soy sauce for an inexpensive and simple pasta topper. This particular recipe tops the carrot sauce with beans, Parmesan, and sunflower seeds.
Avocados are naturally creamy and versatile. This recipe blends them with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, and fresh basil for a simple tomato-free Italian pasta sauce.
All you have to do is cook your pasta, make the avocado cream sauce, and gently combine them for a satisfying dish.
Here’s a classic Italian minestrone soup that combines great Northern white beans with green vegetables like parsley, zucchini, green beans, and peas instead of tomatoes.
Between the textures, flavors, and beautiful colors of this soup, you won’t miss them.
Simply cook spaghetti noodles and toss them with olive oil, cheese, lemon juice, and basil leaves for a light and tasty pasta dish. Top with lemon zest to bring out even more lemon flavor. You could use any variety of noodles here.
The options for topping a tomato-free white pizza are endless.
This recipe tops pizza dough with a flavorful combination of cheese, thinly sliced summer squash, arugula, red chiles, and rosemary. To make it even easier, you could use store-bought pizza crust.
All it requires is cooking your noodles, tossing them with olive oil and garlic, and topping everything with red pepper flakes, parsley, and cheese, or customizing it further as you see fit.
Stuffed shells are often packed with cheese and spinach and topped with marinara sauce to bake.
Instead, this recipe uses a neutral-flavored creamy white cheese sauce, with no tomatoes required. It could be made vegan by substituting plant-based milk products and tofu in place of ricotta.
Italian cooking is known for a vast array of pasta dishes, pizzas, soups, and sauces that often contain ingredients like garlic, olive oil, fresh herbs, and tomatoes.
Yet, not everyone likes tomatoes, and many people are allergic to them. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to enjoy Italian recipes without using tomatoes.
Some recipes may require omitting the tomatoes altogether, while others use creative alternatives that don’t rely on tomatoes at all.
Try some of the recipes above that highlight other ingredients to create creamy and flavorful tomato-free Italian dishes.
In a packed house at TD Garden, the crowd came alive as the Boston Bruins defeated the New York Islanders 5-2 in the opening game of the second-round series.
Charlie McAvoy and Taylor Hall both scored, and Patrice Bergeron notched a total of two assists for the Bruins.
David Pastrnak responded to the energy of the Boston Bruins crowd
During the post game interview, Pastrnak was all smiles.
“It’s a different sport with them in the building. It warms your heart and reminds you why you play the sport,” he said, via Boston.com. “You could tell, right from the warm-ups, the fans were going to help us.”
The fans undoubtedly helped lift Pastrnak’s energy.
After scoring late in the 1st period to tie the game 1-1, Pasta found the back of the net again on assists from Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand to give the Bruins the lead in the 2nd. Leading 3-2 late into the 3rd period, Pastrnak put the game out of reach for the Islanders with his 3rd goal of the game, and hats began to rain in Boston.
“It felt amazing,” Pastrnak said following the game. “It’s nice to see hats anytime anybody scores a hat trick. It’s a big tradition. It’s always fun, especially if it’s your team that scored the hat trick.”
There have been 25 🎩 tricks in #NHLBruins playoff history. And only five players have done it more than once:
Phil Esposito (4)
Cam Neely (3)
Johnny Bucyk (3)
David Krejci (2)
After learning that his performance entered him into history as the fifth Bruins player (David Krejci, Cam Neely, Phil Esposito, and Johnny Bucyk) to score a hat trick twice in the playoffs, Pastrnak responded:
“It obviously feels better now with you saying that. Playing for the Boston Bruins with the amount of history and great players and Hall of Famers, that’s obviously a huge honor for me. Hopefully, I can add some more.”
Fans return tonight in Game 2 of the Second Round against the New York Islanders tonight at 7:30 ET at TD Garden.
"I'm doing a lot better, which is not saying much. I came out of the operation — I had open-heart surgery on March 1st, so I've been convalescing here at home, and I'm feeling much better and just following my doctor's orders,” the rocker explained during an interview with Detroit radio station WRIF. Petersson admitted he continues to ask his doctor questions, even months after the operation. “What can I do? Has anything come loose yet? Do you have to open me back up? That’s your biggest fear. I do not wanna have to go through that again — now that I know what happens."
The bassist went on to address the unexpected toll such a procedure can take, specifically how it affects a person’s mental health.
"It's a lot of psychological stuff that you don't hear about or think about — post-traumatic stress," Petersson explained. "And it's scary. It's kind of like being in an auto accident — you're not thinking of it that much at the time, and later you look back on it and you think, 'Holy shit. That was close.'"
Back in April, Petersson revealed to fans that he’d undergone the surgery, posting to Facebook that he was “under doctor’s orders to take it easy.” In his latest interview, the rocker noted that the “didn’t have any problems in addition” to his heart issue.
“I was in good shape, and it was something they discovered unexpectedly," he admitted. "I didn't have any symptoms. But it was the kind of thing where without knowing about it, you would just all of a sudden suddenly drop dead. I was, like, 'Okay. I'm in. Open-heart surgery? Sounds good to me.'"
Cheap Trick’s latest album, In Another World, came out in April. The band is scheduled to start touring again in July.
Videos of magicians performing tricks to animals and their astonished reactions have attracted millions of views online. A team of scientists has spotted an opportunity to compare the way humans and other animals think by showing the same trick to volunteers and European Jays, comparing their capacities to see through the deception. They found the birds win on average, but they’re just as susceptible as us to some of the tools in a good magician’s kit, while resistant to others.
Last year a team at Cambridge University published a paper arguing for the potential of performing magic tricks to animals in neuroscience research. As the authors pointed out, certain corvids make particularly promising study subjects. Not only are these birds famously smart, some members of the family like to trick their fellow forest dwellers, pretending to store their fall nuts in one spot, but secretly hiding them elsewhere.
PhD student Elias Garcia-Pelegrin has now followed through on his team’s proposal, performing a trio of magic tricks to Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius).
Garcia-Pelegrin is a professional magician as well as a cognitive scientist. As the video below shows, he used three standard tricks - known as palm transfer, French drop, and fast pass - to test six Eurasian jays’ capacity to determine which hand held a worm. The birds got to eat the worm if their first guess was right. Garcia-Pelegrin also performed various other hand movements for comparison.
“These magic effects were specifically chosen as they utilize different cues and expectations that mislead the spectator into thinking one object has or has not been transferred from one hand to the other,” Garcia-Pelegrin and co-authors write in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The jays usually saw through the French drop or the palm transfer, choosing the correct hand 70 and 60 percent of the time respectively. The fast pass was a different matter, with the jays getting just 26 percent of trials right.
Videos of Garcia-Pelegrin doing the same tricks, jay free, were shown to 80 humans to see how often they could pick which hand held the worm. Success ranged between 13 and 27 percent for the three tricks. Perhaps the humans found the reward less motivating – it’s a cheerier thought than having been outsmarted by those we call bird brains. On the other hand, humans picked the correct hand almost perfectly in most of the comparison tests, whereas even the jays’ strongest subjects produced substantial error rates.
A Eurasian jay keeps one eye on Elias Garcia-Pelegrin as he performs a "French drop", a magic trick that fools most humans, but the jays can usually see through. Image Credit: Elias Garcia-Pelegrin
The similarities between the way jays hide food from those who would steal it and the way magicians deceive the public are striking. Not only do jays and their fellow corvids; “Cache food items discretely in among multiple bluff caching events,” the paper notes, they also; “Conceal items in their throat pouch, akin to a magician’s use of false pockets, and will manipulate food items within their beak similar to sleight-of-hand techniques performed by magicians.”
Nevertheless, jays have not evolved the same expectations about the way humans move objects from hand to hand that we have. Magicians rely on these expectations in their audiences. "If you were used to objects flying or objects vanishing in mid-air, then magic wouldn't surprise you at all,” Garcia-Pelegrin told Inverse when the research began. Without these expectations, only the fast pass proved a reliable deception.
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CHICAGO (WLS) -- On this Memorial Day, many graduates and their families may be looking ahead to what's next when it comes to work.
The good news is there's a lot of jobs out there right now.
Jessica Schaeffer from the LaSalle Network helps recruit people for positions all the time.
She joined ABC7 to discuss tips for the class of 2021. Her tips include utilizing career services, attending career fairs, networking, cleaning up your online image and casting a wide net.
The sanitary sewer system is comprised of underground pipes that carry sewage and grey water from toilets, showers, sinks, dishwashers, washing machines and other home or business plumbing components to a wastewater treatment plant, where it is filtered, treated and discharged. The water produced inside a building is used in part to help transport other solids through the sanitary sewer. Solids, such as toilet paper and ground up food from sinks equipped with a garbage disposal, are easily handled by the sanitary sewers.
Other solids, such as grease and rags, can also make their way into the sanitary sewer and are common sources of blockages that in turn, reduce capacity of the sanitary sewer and can cause basement backups.
Toilet paper is designed to break down when exposed to water. While they are often marked as flushable, baby wipes and other disposable wipes don’t break down quickly or as easily as claimed. These rags can get caught on roots, deposits, jagged pipe edges, or other areas of the sewer. As they accumulate, they cause a flow restriction and over time can cause a complete blockage.
While it might be tempting to dispose of hot grease and oils produced from cooking by dumping them in the sink, these materials turn solid as they cool and attach to the walls of the pipes. Over time, the build-up of grease reduces the sewer’s capacity and can cause overflows or basement backups.
In both instances, homeowners should enlist the services of a plumber to remove any buildup or blockage. Better yet, you can prevent these issues from occurring in the first place by properly disposing of wipes and cooking grease in the trash.
The City has staff dedicated to ensuring that the public sewers are open and flowing. Reach out to the Upper Arlington Engineering Division, at 614-583-5360 if you have questions.
Although some countries are out of the woods in terms of the pandemic, the health crisis is still ongoing and highly relevant for every modern workplace. Dedicated health organizations across the world are continuously working on educating the public and helping companies cope with the spread of the virus. It’s your responsibility to protect your employees, educate them on the best ways to avoid getting sick, and of course, implement the most appropriate solutions to keep your office space clean and safe.
Managing your workplace during the pandemic is a major challenge, no matter if you’re running a small-scale organization counting no more than a dozen people, or you have a huge organization on your hands. Even as we catch a glimpse of the pandemic’s end, it’s hard to imagine a world free of masks and disinfectants for a long time. Instead of obsessive stressing and pointless decisions with no rhyme or reason, you should have a dedicated strategy that will help keep your workplace safe, healthy, and hygienic. Here are a few core tips to keep in mind!
Adapt the layout of your office
Companies are creating all kinds of office solutions to encourage employees to come back to the office without feeling overwhelmed. Do your workers feel confident about coming back to the office, or will they be anxious if your desks are too close together and there are not enough people who are vaccinated?
Knowing that the situation differs from one person to another, make sure that you can rearrange your office furniture to accommodate the situation. Keep your desks further apart and make more room for moving around the office, and start by bringing smaller groups of people back to your workplace instead of immediately opening the office for everyone.
Introduce shift-based and remote work
Various hybrid models of collaboration have emerged as a response to the pandemic, in an attempt to reduce viral infections and keep vulnerable employees safe. You can do the same with your organization and find an optimal strategy for office collaboration without jeopardizing your productivity.
— Consider shift-based work to avoid overcrowding your office space.
— Ask your employees to see if they feel comfortable working remotely on a more permanent basis, if their position allows for such a transition.
— For your workers who need to be on-site for the job, check to see if they can work in shifts to make sure they can follow safety protocols and keep social distancing.
Track potential close contacts at the office
When you have many employees working in a single office or collaborating with various departments, you need to be sure when they are at risk and what they need to do to stay safe. The easiest way to keep track of people and their interactions is to give a COVID contact tracing card to each employee in your organization.
The card will record close interactions, and you’ll be able to remind your teams of social distancing rules, but if anyone falls ill, you can then make sure everyone who has been in contact with that person is notified, tested, and isolated in time.
Smart sanitation at every turn
Some employers have already decided to go back to the office, while others are reluctant to do so. If you live and work in a country that’s slowly reopening businesses and going back to some semblance of normalcy, you need to make sure everyone in your organization is practicing prevention, to avoid an office-wide outbreak.
— Hire professionals to clean your office regularly, at least once or twice a day.
— Educate your employees on your new protocol for washing hands, using the available hand disinfectants regularly, and cleaning their own stations and tools.
— Instruct them on how best to use shared office rooms, such as your kitchen, bathroom, and conference rooms, and what the best ways are to keep these shared spaces clean.
— Switch to contactless sign-in platforms to avoid too much contamination, or keep your digital panels clean regularly.
Prepare for every eventuality just in case
Unexpected events can always push your business productivity out of balance and cause a rift among your teams – but you can help prevent many of these unfortunate scenarios. Proper crisis management during the pandemic looks a little bit different from a strategy you’d implement normally. Now that we can expect changes in what the new normal will look like, and for some of the preventative measures to remain relevant for longer, your strategy can be adapted, too.
For starters, do you have a safety protocol that can help employees manage their relationships and collaboration in case one team member gets sick? Many of your employees might have elderly family members or people with chronic illnesses living with them, so it’s vital to keep everyone informed in case someone gets sick. Organize regular testing if your employees are regularly in touch with customers, and of course, educate them on the best strategies to stay healthy and keep their distance.
Safety is truly vital for your employees to feel engaged and to be able to be productive every day at work. Considering all the stress the pandemic has already caused, the benefits of elevating their sense of wellbeing in the workplace will eventually help contribute to a more productive environment, but it will also encourage healthy collaboration and accountability. Now that you have these clear steps at hand, you can craft your own workplace management strategy to keep everyone safe, healthy, and productive.
Your Mac has powerful features under the hood. We'll show you how to unlock them.
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Been using a Mac for a while, or are you new to Apple's platform? Regardless if it's a shiny new M1-powered iMac or an older MacBook, it's easy to forget some of the more useful or handy apps, shortcuts and tools. For instance, did you know you can use the Preview app to sign a document in a couple of seconds? Or that you can drag settings like Bluetooth or Do Not Disturb from the Control Center to your menu bar? You will soon.
The current software, MacOS 11 Big Sur, made significant changes to the way the Mac looks and works. But at its core, the Mac is still a Mac, just with a more iOS-like interface and borrowed features such as the Control Center.
Crank your Mac skill level to 10 with these essential tips and tricks.
Get free updates for years
It's far too easy to take routine software updates for granted -- they're something we just expect from device makers now. Not only do software updates add new features, but they continue to optimize your computer and include important security updates as well.
Do yourself a favor and make sure you keep your Mac updated whenever a new update is released. It's perfectly fine to wait a day or two to make sure no major bugs slipped through testing undetected, but after that click on the Apple logo in the top-left corner of the menu bar, select System Preferences followed by Software Updates.
Apple has continued to release updates for devices that are incredibly old. Here, look at the list of Macs that will run MacOS Big Sur, the most recent operating system. (I have a 2011 iMac that was finally left behind nearly 10 years after I bought it.)
Keep your Mac updated for security fixes and new features. It doesn't cost you anything.
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Make the Control Center and menu bar work for you
Arguably one of the biggest interface changes Apple made to MacOS Big Sur is the addition of the Control Center to the menu bar. For those who don't own an iPhone or an iPad, Control Center is where you'll find all the, well, controls for settings like Do Not Disturb, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and display brightness on that respective device.
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Using the Control Center is easy enough, you click on the icon, select the setting you want to change and that's about it.
But here's a pro tip: If you find yourself missing quick access to any of the settings now included in the Control Center, just drag that icon out of it and place it on your Menu Bar.
For example, I frequently mess around with Bluetooth devices and have to manage what my Mac is connected to. With this trick, I can move the Bluetooth icon back to the menu bar (where it should always be, ha!) and access it with fewer clicks. The same goes for anything else in the Control Center.
When I learned about this trick my mind was blown. Seriously.
Hidden feature: Sign a document right from your Mac
One of my favorite hidden features of MacOS is that you can use Preview to sign documents. I use it all the time to sign documents for work or my kids' school.
The gist of it is this: Open the document you need to sign in Preview, then click on the pencil icon at the top, followed by the signature logo. You can then use your iPhone to create and save your signature, which is then added to your document.
I have a more complete walkthrough you can check out if you're in need of a free tool to sign anything from a loan on a new car to a field trip permission slip.
Move and resize your signature while adding it to your document.
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Make your iPad an extra display in a snap
Apple Sidecar allows you to use your iPad as an external display for your Mac. It's a completely wireless connection, and takes just a second to turn on. Your iPad will need to have iPadOS 13 or later installed, and your Mac will need MacOS Catalina or newer.
With your iPad near your Mac, you can turn on Sidecar a couple of different ways. The easiest is to go to Control Center > Display and select your iPad on your Mac. Otherwise, you can open system preferences and open the Sidecar settings panel.
Your iPad can either mirror your Mac's display, or act as an extended desktop, giving you another screen and more space to put windows and apps. You can even continue to use your iPad and other apps, then go back to the Sidecar view without breaking the connection. If you're going to use it for a long period of time, I suggest connecting your iPad to your Mac with a cable.
You can easily share information between your iPad and Mac.
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Pick up where you left off on your iPhone, Apple Watch or iPad
Continuity is a feature you might already be using and not even realize it. The nondescript name is what Apple uses to link all of your Apple gadgets together, allowing you to pick up a task on your Mac where you left off on your iPhone. Or something as seemingly simple as taking a phone call on your Mac -- that's Continuity in action.
But perhaps my favorite and most used aspect of Continuity is Handoff. If you've ever seen an app icon appear and then disappear on the far right side of the app dock on your Mac -- that's Handoff. If you were to click that app icon, it would open whatever app you're using on your iPhone, Apple Watch or iPad on your Mac.
For example, if you're writing an email on your iPhone but want to finish it on your Mac, click the Mail app icon and the compose window will open, with your draft ready for you to finish.
I often will copy a string of text on one device, but need to paste it into a text field on another device. Continuity includes a Universal Clipboard feature, so as long as both devices are near each other, you can copy on your Mac and paste on your iPhone without doing anything special at all. Try it. It's truly awesome.
It's true. You can share your Apple-created documents just like Google docs.
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Forget Google Docs with these built-in Mac apps
Every Mac comes with Pages, Numbers and Keynote installed out of the box. Those three apps are the Google equivalent of Docs, Sheets and Slides, or Microsoft's equivalent of Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
One of the biggest draws to Google Docs is the ability to share and collaborate in real time with fellow users using your favorite web browser. It's a handy tool, no doubt, and one I use every single day.
However, Apple's suite of apps have a collaboration tool of their own built right in, and the people you're working with don't even have to own a Mac. You can send an invite to any document by clicking on the Collaborate button and sending your invite. From there you can also set permissions, and require a password to access the link.
You can then work together on a document in real time, just like you would with Google Docs. Whoever you're working with can open the link, add their name so changes are credited to them, and start working in the document directly in Chrome or Microsoft Edge.
Use your iPhone to scan documents and photos
Speaking of Apple's creativity suite, here's an oft-forgotten feature built into MacOS that makes scanning a document or importing a photo into a document a breeze.
To check if an app supports this feature, right-click in any text field and look for a section with your nearby iPhone listed. Under that section will be the option(s) supported by the app. For example, when I right-click in a Pages document, I am shown three options for my iPhone 12 Pro: take photo, scan documents or add sketch.
Select the option that works best for you, and then unlock your iPhone or iPad. It will automatically open the proper screen based on your selection, and when you're done it will be added to your document.
Sharing a folder from your Mac takes a couple of clicks.
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Create and share iCloud folders the easy way
Apple made it possible to share iCloud Drive folders with the launch of iOS 13 a couple of years ago. It works just like sharing a folder on Dropbox or OneDrive does, only instead of using a third-party service, you're using something that's built directly into your Mac.
I covered how to share a folder and all its caveats when the feature made its debut. Make sure to check it out, especially if you're tired of paying for multiple cloud storage services.
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Use your favorite iPhone and iPad apps on your Mac
Apple's latest Mac computers all use the company's own processor, the M1. Because it's the same type of processor that powers your iPhone or iPad, and thanks to changes Apple has made to MacOS Big Sur, you can install and use the same apps you do on your phone or tablet directly on your Mac.
iPhone and iPad apps aren't included in the default search results.
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GarageBand and iMovie: Not just for professionals
Each Mac includes GarageBand and iMovie, Apple's core audio and video editing tools, respectively. It's easy to look at either app as something for professionals or creative people, and while there's some truth to that, both apps are easy to use and get started with.
I've personally used GarageBand to record podcasts and interviews, both of which have nothing to do with musical instruments. As for iMovie, I have created countless trailers using the built in scenes and tools with my kids. I used each one of those sessions as a way to teach myself how to use iMovie and edit video, back when I was doing CNET How To videos.
I admit, it's easy to get intimidated by both apps. But if you're looking to pick up a new hobby, open either one and start experimenting.
FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Memorial Day weekend marks the start of summer for many people, which means more and more are getting out and about. This also means more boats in the water, but people need to remember to be safe while having fun out in the sun.
“It’s basically just keep your distance from people, pay attention to what’s going on boats aren’t like, it’s not like driving a car where you have your lane of traffic. You could have people coming from five or six different directions when you’re out on the water.” said Detroit Lakes Conservation Officer Jacob Swedberg.
Here is some tips and advice from Becker County Sheriff’s Office and the state of Minnesota on boating safety:
Life jackets all the time.
Drinking and boating do not mix.
Check your safety equipment.
Own the wake.
And know the rules.
“For us, it’s really nice to see everyone getting back to normal, I mean it’s, this time of year you just get a lot of activity in general so, seeing a lot of first time boaters get out, get families out,” said Officer Swedberg. “The big thing is patience. Not everyone backs a boat trailer everyday, not everyone launches a boat trailer everyday, not everyone launches a boat everyday. not everybody drives a boat every day. So just slow down, take your time and be patient with people out there.”
A reminder to have fun and stay safe during Memorial Day weekend.
May 30, 2021, 4:00 PM HST * Updated May 30, 9:58 AM
The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) encourages anyone flying into or out of Hawaii airports to expect a busy summer travel season. Preliminary visitor statistics show 23,423 passengers arrived in Hawaii on May 23, which is approximately 70-percent of pre-COVID numbers (source: http://dbedt.hawaii.gov/visitor/dailypax-dashboard/).
Given the current trends, HDOT offers the following air travel tips:
Plan for peak travel time. Peak time for arrivals at Hawaii airports is between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. If your flight time is within that window, plan and prepare using the tips below.
Consider getting a ride to the airport. Parking historically fills up quickly on long holiday weekends. Last Sunday, May 23, only seven percent of the 1,500 parking stalls at Kahului Airport and 35 percent of the 481 stalls at Hilo International Airport were available. At the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport which has 4,600 stalls, approximately half of the stalls are currently occupied. Lihue Airport and Ellison Onizuka International Airport at Keahole are also half filled at this time. Getting dropped off at the airport can save you time spent searching for a stall should parking reach capacity.
Arrive at the airport ahead of time. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) recommends arriving more than two hours prior to departure and checking baggage to save time at security checkpoints. Additional TSA tips can be found here.
Practice safe travel at the airports. The statewide indoor mask mandate applies at all Hawaii airports, inside, or outside while on property. The mask must be worn regardless of an individual’s vaccination or COVID testing status. Travelers should also be prepared to wear a face covering onboard their flights and are encouraged to check with their air carrier for information on their COVID protocols.
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CONCORD, N.C. – Looking to join Kyle Busch as the second driver to sweep the Coca-Cola 600 in the stage racing era, Kyle Larson won his third straight stage as night fell Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Leading 78 of the 100 laps in the segment, Larson took the green-and-white checkered flag under caution after Ryan Newman blew a right-front tire and pounded the wall in turn three at lap 296.
Larson commanded the penultimate quarter of NASCAR’s longest race, grabbing the top spot off the restart at lap 208 and only briefly giving up command once under green-flag conditions to teammate William Byron.
A cycle of pit stops was just what the doctor ordered for the No. 5 Chevrolet, however, as Larson retook the point on lap 253 and paced the final 48 laps of the stage for his ninth stage win this season.
It was the 27th stage victory of Larson’s Cup Series career, tying him with Joey Logano for fifth all time.
William Byron, who passed Larson to lead laps 231 through 247 before the green-flag pit cycle kicked off, was the stage runner-up over Joe Gibbs Racing’s Busch, with the other two Hendrick Motorsports drivers filling out the top five in Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman.
Tyler Reddick, Denny Hamlin, Austin Dillon, Bubba Wallace, and Kevin Harvick closed out the top 10 and all scored bonus points during the third stage break of the 600-mile classic.
Newman’s incident marked just the second caution for cause in Sunday’s race and fourth yellow flag overall.
Through 300 laps, 11 drivers have exchanged the lead 18 times.
Following the pit stop cycle at the stage break, Busch came off pit road second and hopes to have something with which to challenge Larson down the home stretch of the race.
“I’m gonna have to wreck him!” Busch quipped when asked how he can pass Larson and win his second Coca-Cola 600. “He’s too fast, I don’t know. … We’ve been working on our car and I feel really good about it. We’ll just have to see what we can get in the final 100 [laps].”
Man who went viral for "trick shots" uses new fame to bring awareness about Scleroderma.
A high school basketball coach is using his internet fame for making trick shots to raise money for Scleroderma
Billy Bodle is a special education teacher whose talent for making trick shots made him go viral.
" My brother-in-law we were on the patio grilling, and he kind of dared me he was like why don’t you shoot it from the patio, and I shot it and made it in and kind of got addicted from there ever since," says Bodle.
Bodle says it's really cool and humbling that his videos have gone viral and that he is constantly looking for the next trick shot to take.
" I’ve done one shot, and then I'm like maybe I can do this again," Bolde said.
Bolde is a high school football and softball coach and says he has gained many fans some being his players.
Bolde says that making his trick shots are not always easy, and sometimes it can take him up to ten hours to complete a shot.
Bolde says he is using his newfound fame to donate to Stamped Scleroderma, which his mother-in-law suffers from.
Social media personalities Dixie D'Amelio and Noah Beck at Disney California Adventure Park at the Disneyland Resort on May 2, 2021 in Anaheim, California.
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The Covid pandemic made the past 14 months a literal roller coaster of a ride for both theme parks and their fans.
Parks shut down or didn't open at all last spring, and although some did reopen by summer, it was with strict capacity limits and stringent health and safety measures that put off some customers and definitely dented the fun factor for others.
Here's a look at how things are shaping up in 2021 for this part of the travel and tourism sector, and how prospective visitors can make the most out a theme park vacation as the pandemic winds down.
Pre-pandemic, things had been going well for the sector. The top 20 North American theme parks drew 159,108,000 visitors in 2019, 1% more than the year before, according to the 2019 TEA/AECOM Theme Index and Museum Index.
To draw even more visitors, park operators were rolling profits back into much-hyped, big-budget new attractions like the Jurassic World Velocicoaster at Universal Orlando Resort's Islands of Adventure in Florida and the Marvel-themed Avengers Campus at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim.
People haven't forgotten those debuts were in the pipeline.
"A lot of families are opting into going to theme parks this year," said Trish Smith, a Kansas City, Missouri-based travel advisor affiliated with the InteleTravel network of home-based agents. "I've actually had more bookings at this point this year than I did in 2019.
"There are so many new attractions coming that a lot of people are like, 'Yeah, I don't want to miss out on that, and I want to be the first,'" she added.
Demand is especially pent-up in California, where parks didn't reopen until this April.
In fact, Michael Erstad, senior analyst, consumer for research firm M Science, said theme parks could see a return to former attendance levels as soon as next year. "I certainly think it's a possibility," he said. "It will all depend how things go with the virus for the rest of the year.
"I wouldn't count [a rebound] out."
Consumer data insights firm Cardify has found, unsurprisingly, that theme parks saw a big drop in consumer spending last year but "were able to recover a bit" by last summer by reopening with capacity restrictions. Now that cities and states are relaxing pandemic restrictions, parks are seeing what Cardify terms the "silver lining" for park operators — a new "sharp increase" in spending.
Cardify also found in a survey of 1,044 consumers that 72% are excited to return to amusement parks after the pandemic, more so than movie theaters (68%) or bars and clubs (67%). Only in-person concerts (79%) and sporting events (74%) are more eagerly awaited.
Theme parks "are in a much better spot" relative to cinemas, cruises, air travel, hotels and other entertainment options, said Erstad at M Science.
As at ski resorts, at theme parks "a lot of the experience is outdoors," he said, and therefore less risky in terms of exposure. "You do queue up for rides, but over the last year they've made enhancements to improve the purchasing decisions for food and beverage so you do a lot of things electronically."
So, where are thrill-seekers headed?
There are essentially two theme park markets in the U.S., although there is some crossover between them. Large destination parks — such as Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando Resort and SeaWorld Orlando, clustered together in central Florida — draw both domestic and international visitors for longer vacations, while regional parks, sometimes smaller and less heavily themed, attract more of a drive-in, day tripper demographic from nearby areas.
Examples of the latter type of park would include the 27 theme and water park properties operated in North America by Grand Prairie, Texas-based Six Flags Entertainment Corp. Some smaller yet highly themed parks, such as Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, straddle the line between the two categories.
(Interestingly, Disneyland boasts a global destination park profile but effectively operates as a regional park, drawing most visitors from its local southern California market. That said, the park — currently restricted to Californians — reopens to all visitors in full on June 15.)
Don't have any plans set in concrete; you've got to be a little flexible right now.
Trish Smith
InteleTravel-affiliated travel advisor
Consumer spending at Orlando parks has been recovering from last year's crash for months, with out-of-state visitors opening their wallets more than Florida residents, Erstad explained.
"I think it is a healthy sign for Disney and the destination-focused operators, as well as overall consumer appeal for theme parks in general this summer, [and] indicative of consumers seeking out this type of [mostly outdoor] entertainment," he said.
Florida's been among the least restrictive states when it comes to pandemic-related regulation, and Orlando area Disney, Universal and SeaWorld parks have all been open since last July. Temporary interstate travel restrictions and quarantine requirements tamped down on long-distance demand for a few months but were eventually eased by year-end.
While interest in Disney's Orlando parks is strong, "road trips close to home will be very popular this summer for regional theme parks like [Cedar Fair's] Kings Dominion [and] Cedar Point, Six Flags, Sesame Place, Busch Gardens and Dollywood," said Carolyn Moody, an InteleTravel advisor in Durham, North Carolina.
The jury's actually still out on how regional parks will fare, with a lack of real data for climate-related and corporate reasons at some venues, Erstad said.
Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., for example, took four of its 11 theme parks in the U.S. and Canada completely offline for most of 2020, even in jurisdictions that allowed limited opening with restricted capacity, and cut the operating season short in the rest. It had just 487 total operating days in 2020, compared to 2,224 in 2019.
"Cedar Fair has taken more of a conservative approach to things; they were the first to announce they'd honor 2020 pass holders into 20201 and took a cognizant decision to take a more cautious approach," Erstad said. "It's a little too early to look at some of your colder weather parks, although we've been seeing pretty healthy demand at the parks that are open."
This year, Sandusky, Ohio-based Cedar Fair plans on opening all its U.S. parks — such as Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Point, California, and Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina — by Memorial Day, although Canada's Wonderland, outside Toronto, Ontario, will remain closed. The company plans to debut attractions originally planned for 2020 and to spend an additional $100 million on new upgrades this year, said president and CEO Richard A. Zimmerman, in a May 5 statement, in anticipation of "strong pent-up consumer demand for closer-to-home, outdoor entertainment, particularly in the year's second half."
"We are pleased with the early leading indicators we have seen thus far, and our 2021 operating strategy is focused on maximizing performance during our seasonally weighted second half of the year," he added. "With our park openings right around the corner, we are once again seeing a lift in season pass sales."
Erstad, meanwhile, pointed to Six Flags Great Adventure & Safari in Jackson, New Jersey, as a regional park that opened early in the pandemic and did "extremely well last summer."
"That was just attributable to the fact they have the safari attraction, where you can be in your car with your family and socially distant from others," he noted.
The park, near New York City and Philadelphia, reopened its safari last May 30 to drivers with reservations, and then reopened its theme park portion at 25% capacity on July 3. The good response points to a lot of "pent-up demand," Erstad said.
Parks like those of Cedar Fair's that weren't open at all last year may see an initial spurt of visits but "I don't know that they're going to see a surge in demand the way Disney and some of the other larger parks have experienced," said Summer Hull, director of travel content at website The Points Guy.
"But I think that for some of the people who typically enjoy going to those spots, this may be the summer they do get back to them," she added.
Theme park tips and pivots
So, if you've decided to visit a theme park, what tips do travel advisors have?
Moody, a Disney specialist, said families considering theme parks this year should consult a travel advisor, "who can update clients on the latest CDC regulations, answer any questions, find the best deals, book everything from start to finish. and be a single point of contact throughout your trip."
She also recommends booking travel as early as possible, visiting parks early or late in the day to avoid crowds, buying tickets and remembering to make any required entry reservations, too.
Smith also stressed that last point. While Universal Orlando never required reservations and Six Flags scrapped them at its parks nationwide this month, visitors to Walt Disney World parks still need them — as does anyone visiting any of the newly reopened theme parks in California.
"Even if you buy the ticket, you're not guaranteed to get into the park that you want to go to, because that park may be booked up with reservations," she said.
Once in the park, follow any rules on masking and social distancing still in place — the situation is fluid and can change rapidly — but don't worry too much. There have not been any reports of Orlando-area parks becoming Covid hotspots since reopening.
"The theme parks have done a great job of keeping people safe," said Smith. "Even with more people being vaccinated, they're still taking safety into account …so I don't think there's going to be a big uptick in cases or anything."
The Points Guy's Hull has been to Walt Disney World three times since it reopened and said "it's been a blast."
"It's largely outdoors and they've done a great job of making it feel fun and at the same time safe in your own little 'Disney bubble,'" she said.
Also be open to change. "That's the biggest thing," Smith said. "Don't have any plans set in concrete; you've got to be a little flexible right now."
Hull agreed and said theme park guests who do their homework will have a great time this summer. "But those who assume it's just business as usual are going to have a few surprises awaiting them," she said, noting that many parts of larger destination parks — from hotels to restaurants to rides — are still not online or operating at normal capacities.
"You've got to line some stuff up in a way you might not have before and still go in with tempered expectations for things around dining, housekeeping and other elements that are still sort of pandemic-era and haven't gotten back to normal yet."
(Disclosure: CNBC and Universal Parks & Resorts are both subsidiaries of NBCUniversal, owned by parent Comcast.)
