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March 31, 2020 9:35 am Published by

The Ontario government is issuing further restrictions and extending its state of emergency.

The state of emergency and all of its orders currently in effect will be extended from March 31 until April 13.  In addition to the declaration, the province has issued a new emergency order to close all outdoor recreational amenities — such as sports field, playgrounds, basketball and tennis courts, off-leash dog parks, beaches, skateboard and BMX parks, picnic areas, park shelters, outdoor exercise equipment, condo parks and community gardens — effective immediately.

 

A man in his 50s has been given some great news after being identified as Chatham-Kent’s first confirmed case of COVID-19.Officials with the Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit said the individual has made a full recovery. He was tested after he developed symptoms following a cruise.There are five more confirmed cases in Chatham-Kent that are still in isolation.

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There have been rushes on grocery stores but there are some things that are SO undesirable that they managed to stay on the shelves while people bought up everything around them.

A website compiled a bunch of people’s social media pictures to put together a list of the foods that no one wanted, even now.  Those include . . .

  1. Frozen pizzas with pineapple . . . or with cauliflower and broccoli crusts.
  2. Cans of Manhattan Clam Chowder soup in a New England grocery store.
  3. Hot Tamales-flavored Peeps. 4.  Baby Shark cereal.
  4. Aquafina water. 6.  Gluten-free battered halibut.
  5. Unsalted potato chips.

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THIS WEEK’S NETFLIX (Canada) RELEASES:
➢ March 31:
• “Sense and Sensibility” (Drama):  After their father’s death, two young women have to navigate the tricky and patriarchal rules of inheritance in this adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. (Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, Kate Winslet)
• “Step Brothers” (Comedy):  Two middle-aged men who still live at home are forced to live together when their parents get married. (Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly)
➢ April 1:
• “Community, Seasons 1-6” (Comedy):  The wacky, witty, and self-aware sit-com about a group of misfits who bond at an eccentric community college.
• “Reservoir Dogs” (Drama):  The complicated lives of professional thieves intertwine with the police after a robbery goes spectacularly wrong. (Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth)
• “Magic Mike” (Comedy-Drama):  A male stripper teaches a younger performer how to party, pick up women, and make easy money. (Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey)

After Kelly Clarkson made a comment about having a musical crush on contestant Mandi Castillo, and Blake said he had one on the ’80s hair metal band RATT.  Yeah, the comment tanked.  (From “The Voice” or Monday, March 30, 2020)

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TODAY IS……………….

“Farm Workers Day”, encouraging us to thank agricultural laborers for their role in growing what we eat.

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

 

Alabama‘s Greatest Hits album was certified gold and platinum in 1986.

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COVID UPDATES……

Two quick health updates:  PRINCE CHARLES is out of self-isolation, while

PLACIDO DOMINGO has now been hospitalized

 

38-year-old Nic Brown was one of the first people in Ohio to get sick.  He ended up in the ICU at Cleveland Clinic, and was in really bad shape.  He was even on full life support for a while. While he was fighting it, his Doctors and Nurses would write daily goals for him to read on a window in his room.  And at the bottom, they’d write, “We WILL get you home.”

Well, they kept their promise.  He’s now RECOVERED.  And before he went home, he wrote something for THEM that’s going viral.  He thanked them for being “rock stars” and working so hard around the clock.  And he said it’s changed him as a person to know there are, quote, “such wonderful people dedicated to the care and concern of others.”

 

A regular customer at a restaurant in Florida recently left a $10,000 tip, and asked the owner to give all 20 employees 500 bucks.  And someone in Arizona left a $2,000 tip to help the owner of a pizza place keep paying his staff.

 

An eight-year-old wrote about homeschooling in his journal, and his mom shared it online.  Quote, “My mom’s getting stressed out.  [She] is really getting confused.  We took a break so [she] can figure this stuff out.  And I’m telling you, it is not going good.”

 

Remember this guy who went viral last week?  A guy in Brooklyn saw a woman dancing on her roof, and used his drone to give his phone number.  Well, now they’re DATING.  They had a virtual dinner date from across the street.  Then he got inside a big plastic Zorb ball, and they went on a walk together.

 

Nineteen members of an orchestra in the Netherlands did Beethoven’s ODE TO JOY from their homes, and the video’s going viral.

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FOUR RANDOM FACTS

  1. Betty Boop was originally a talking French poodle when she debuted in 1930.  She didn’t become a person until 1932.

 

  1. Purple Skittles aren’t grape in other countries.  In England and Australia they’re black currant.

 

  1. A Hungarian fencer named Pal Szekeres won a bronze medal at the 1988 Olympics.  Then he became disabled after a bus accident, and went on to win six medals in wheelchair fencing at the Paralympics.

That makes him the only person who’s won a medal at the Olympics before a disability, then won one at the Paralympics when he was disabled.

 

  1. Mary Shelley got the idea for “Frankenstein” from a nightmare.

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GOOD NEWS

A man who allegedly tried to kidnap three children from a convenience store in New Mexico was stopped when a champion high school wrestler intervened.

 

Canaan Bower, age 16, was getting gas in Las Cruces on Wednesday morning (March 25th) when he noticed commotion at a convenience store across the street. A woman there told him she was waiting for an Uber with her three children, all under age 10, when a man grabbed her two-year-old’s arm and demanded the children go with him.

 

The woman said she kicked the man, who then punched her in the head, causing her to fall on the infant in a carrier on her back. The suspect, Daniel Beltran, also punched a man and woman on the scene, and that’s when Bower jumped in his truck.

 

Witnesses say that within seconds of his arrival, Bower had pinned Beltran to the ground. Bower had won his high school district’s heavyweight wrestling championship in February, and his father said he kept the assailant in a chokehold as he waited for police to arrive.

 

Beltran is in custody and has been charged with four counts of battery, two counts of assault, two counts of child abuse, and one count of kidnapping.

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BIRTHDAYS

[77] Christopher Walken, actor (Oscar-“The Deer Hunter”)

 

[72] Rhea Perlman, actress (“Cheers” 1982-1993)

 

[49] Ewan McGregor, actor

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Do You Eat These Eight Foods the Way Other People Eat Them?

Over one million people recently took an online survey.  Here are eight questions, and how people answered them . . .

 

  1. When you make a sandwich, what’s the best way to cut it . . . down the middle, or diagonally?  80% said diagonal is better.

 

  1. Do you eat pizza flat, or do you fold it?  31% of us like to fold.

 

  1. What’s the best way to eat an apple?  Slice it up, or just bite into it?  Slices won with 56% of the vote.

 

  1. Do you put ketchup on your fries, or on the side for dipping?  92% prefer to dip.

 

  1. What’s the best brownie . . . corner piece or middle piece?  57% said corner piece.

 

  1. Do you peel string cheese, or just bite into the whole chunk?  85% peel it.

 

  1. What’s the right way to eat a popsicle, lick it or bite it?  77% said they mostly lick.

 

  1. Do you eat a bagel one half at a time, or put the two halves together and eat it like a sandwich?  We were surprised . . . 22% go sandwich-style.

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TRAVEL POSTERS

48-year-old Jennifer Baer, a graphic designer and illustrator who works for the NASA Ames Research Centre and is based in Palo Alto, California.

 

She created coronavirus travel posters because she felt a sense of urgency to contribute and be part of the solution to the coronavirus outbreak.

 

Baer said she had a trip planned to Tofina to see the whales, but it was cancelled by the outbreak. She said she watched her peers rally for N95 masks and then remembered she had the ability to communicate using humour.

 

The posters have gone viral since she tweeted them. Baer says she is overwhelmed by the response. She said: “J.K. Rowling retweeted the posters this morning. Who am I? Where am I?

Is this real life?” Due to popular demand you can buy your own for $11.99

TUESDSAY MARCH 31ST                                               

 

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

[77] Christopher Walken, actor (Oscar-“The Deer Hunter”)

[72] Rhea Perlman, actress (“Cheers” 1982-1993)

[49] Ewan McGregor, actor

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  1. The Ontario government is issuing further restrictions and extending its state of emergency.

The state of emergency and all of its orders currently in effect will be extended from March 31 until April 13.  In addition to the declaration, the province has issued a new emergency order to close all outdoor recreational amenities — such as sports field, playgrounds, basketball and tennis courts, off-leash dog parks, beaches, skateboard and BMX parks, picnic areas, park shelters, outdoor exercise equipment, condo parks and community gardens — effective immediately.

 

A man in his 50s has been given some great news after being identified as Chatham-Kent’s first confirmed case of COVID-19.Officials with the Chatham-Kent Public Health Unit said the individual has made a full recovery. There are five more confirmed cases in Chatham-Kent that are still in isolation.

 

  1. A guy in New Jersey got arrested Friday night for throwing a coronavirus party with a DJ.  Police found 47 people crammed into an apartment that was only 550 square feet.  Governor Phil Murphy talked about it in his briefing the next day and called it an example of “what NOT to do.”

 

  1. Conan did his first full show from home last night on TBS.  He had his neighbor and longtime friend, Adam Sandler as a guest.  They were both in their own homes, telling stories about how they don’t know how to do things in them.  (From “Conan” on Monday, March 30, 2020)

 

 

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THOMAS RHETT RELEASES STAR-STUDDED SONG TO BENEFIT COVID-19 RELIEF

Yesterday (Monday, March 30th), on the occasion of his 30th birthday, Thomas Rhett released a song he co-wrote called “Be A Light.” It features his friends Reba McEntire, Hillary Scott, Chris Tomlin and Keith Urban.

Thomas said, “I wrote ‘Be A Light’ last year as a way to process negativity and sadness I was seeing in the world. Now, as I sit in my home with my family on my 30th Birthday, we are in the middle of a world-wide pandemic affecting every single human on earth, all while our town of Nashville is still healing from devastating tornadoes that destroyed so much of our city less than one month ago. But, among the wreckage, I see us come together in ways I never dreamed possible. I knew in my heart this was the time to share this message with the world and our community. The voices who join me on this track are some of the brightest lights I know. I hope this song serves as a reminder that we are all in this together.”

Thomas and the song’s collaborators will donate all proceeds from “Be A Light” to the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund, which helps people in the music industry affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and subsequent cancellation of multiple music events.

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Behold Blake Shelton’s Striped Mullet

It’s here, people.  BLAKE SHELTON’s new mullet debuted in a GIF on Twitter, and it’s better than expected.  The “business on the side” has two stripes shaved out so that it kinda resembles a mohawk.

The “party in the back” is very short, and in the GIF you see GWEN STEFANI’s hands pulling down as if she’s trying to make the hair longer.  Some people say the mullet reminds them of JOE EXOTIC from the Netflix docuseries “Tiger King”.

Anyway, Blake captioned it “Quarantine mullet update 3/26/2020 . . . @GwenStefani has decided to take it to the next level . . . Stripes.”

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BRAD PAISLEY, DUSTIN LYNCH SHARE ‘GRATITUNES’ WITH VANDY MEDICAL STAFF

Brad Paisley and Dustin Lynch are just a couple of Nashville’s country stars joining the “Gratitunes” movement as a way of saying thank you to the staff at Music’s City’s Vanderbilt University Medical Center for all they’re doing in the fight against Covid-19. The program launched yesterday (Monday, March 30th), on National Doctor’s Day, with an acoustic rendition of “Southern Comfort Zone” done by Paisley.

The gratitude will continue for the next 30 days where each artist will post their own “Gratitune” to Instagram. Lauren Alaina, Lindsay Ell, Sara Evans, Amy Grant, Jewel, Walker Hayes, and hit songwriter Shane McAnally (“Body Like a Backroad”) have all signed on to contribute. Fans are also encouraged to contribute a song. For more information, visit the Gratitunes website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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This post was written by Dave Palmer