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A Pennsylvania lawmaker intends to propose legislation that would allow bars that purchase special liquor licenses to remain open until 4 a.m., two hours past the current mandated closing time.
Rep. Jordan Harris (D-Philadelphia) plans to introduce the bill, which he thinks would make Pennsylvania’s cities more appealing to young people.
“Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and cities in between are world-class cities of higher education, and we need to create an environment where the nightlife encourages young people who become educated here to stay in our Commonwealth to live, work and play,” Harris said in a statement last week.
Local bar owners have greeted the news with mixed reactions.
George Panelan, owner of Excuses Bar and Grill on East Carson Street in South Side, said the bill would have a two-pronged effect.
“It would be good for business,” Panelan said, “but I just think by 2 [a.m.] these young people have had enough to drink. I think there would just be more trouble on the South Side.”
Among all Pittsburgh neighborhoods, South Side claims home to the highest amount of violent crimes, according to the most recent report released by the Pittsburgh police.
In 2012 alone, 146 violent crimes took place in South Side, the report said.
Mike Kempf, owner of Smokin’ Joe’s Saloon on East Carson Street in South Side, thinks longer hours could lead to trouble.
“They say nothing good happens after midnight, well nothing really good happens after 2 [a.m.],” Kempf said. “I don’t think [extended hours] make a whole lot of sense, to tell you the truth. It might on maybe a Friday or Saturday night, but I don’t see it during the week.”
Under the legislation, a business with an extended permit would have to pay an additional 10 percent of the price they currently pay for a standard liquor license. This extra revenue would then be split, with one half going to the state, and the other half going to the municipality, according to the representative’s website.
Currently, a liquor license in Allegheny County costs approximately $65,000, but can cost more depending on the specific location within the county, according to an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Kempf has his doubts about the bill’s viability.
“First of all, I don’t think it’s ever going to happen,” Kempf said. “I don’t see it ever going through.”
Mindy Heisler, general manager of Piper’s Pub on East Carson Street, said she is also skeptical of the bill’s feasibility.
“I don’t know if the bill will actually get passed as it stands,” Heisler said.
The bill would have little effect on some bars, according to Heisler.
“We don’t do super late night business like that, so why stay open until 4 [a.m.]?” Heisler said. “I’m sure for clubs and stuff, it’s probably more beneficial, but for pubs like this, perhaps we’ll just keep doing what we do.”
As for the bill’s goal of retaining college graduates, Kempf is not convinced.
“There’s a thousand different ways you could do that without making the bars open until 4 [a.m.].” Kempf said. “We’re not New York City.”

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Background: Understanding the total cost of care (TCoC) specific to type-2 diabetes (T2D) is challenging. Diabetes is a driver of multiple chronic medical conditions, each with a constellation of costs. As such, medication trends specific to T2D may help inform assessment of population health and care management.
Methods: For a population of 7,361 commercially insured persons (≥18 years old) enrolled in a virtual care accountable care organization (Level2) , we examined de-identified administrative claims in a research database for T2D medications from 12/1/2019-11/30/2021. We determined the TCoC for this population, as well as changes in spending and utilization by medication class.
Results: Among individuals enrolled in Level2, spending for T2D medications constituted 31.2% of the total spend over the period studied. Spending and utilization changes are summarized in Table 1.
Conclusion: T2D care is rapidly evolving; ongoing changes in cost and utilization are dramatic. For organizations in risk arrangements, following and projecting medication spend in T2D is a critical exercise, as is driving the guideline-directed use of these agents. There is a need for greater specificity in T2D medication guidelines that considers cost-effectiveness and tailors treatment choice to the specific patient risk.
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In 2023, Nexen Tire America announced that it is the official tire partner of the Rangers during the 2023-24 NHL season. Throughout the partnership, the Nexen Tire logo and advertisement will appear on numerous marketing assets including digitally-enhanced dasherboards, billboards, in-arena branding, signage at Madison Square Garden and more. The ad appeared at Madison Square Garden in New York until Jan. 14.
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“Authors like cats because they are such quiet, loveable, wise creatures,
and cats like authors for the same reasons.” Robertson Davies
Cats and writers just seem to go together. According to Barbara Holland, author of Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend and Lives, “a catless writer is almost inconceivable. It’s a perverse taste, really, since it would be easier to write with a herd of buffalo in the room than even one cat.” I think she’s right.
I certainly get inspired by my two feline mewses, Allegra and Ruby. I couldn’t write The Conscious Cat without their inspurr-ation. But the best piece of writing I ever saw about how cats inspire writers comes from Muriel Spark’s A Far Cry From Kensington:
“If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work … the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp. The light from a desk lamp … gives a cat great satisfaction. The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious.”
This paragraph covers just exactly how cats help writers be the best they can be: in the way they model complete concentration for us, and by their simple quiet presence.
And of course, there’s also editing (walking across the keyboard and rearranging passages with a well-placed paw or two), and reminding us to take breaks by sitting in front of the monitor. On occasion, cats may also be our harshest critics, forcing us to start over from scratch. Whoever designed a keyboard should have known better than to place the “delete” key next to a smooth, empty area that makes such a purr-fect landing spot for feline paws. But then, whatever our cats erased “by accident” probably wasn’t meant for public consumption anyway.
I couldn’t imagine being a catless writer anymore than I could imagine a world without cats.
How do cats inspire your writing – or your other work, for that matter?
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We’ve seen some monumentally poor performances on “X Factor” this season, and it isn’t because the finalists can’t sing. The problem seems to rest in their mentors’ abilities to choose songs not suited to the vocal strengths of their proteges. And during Wednesday evening’s Top 8 live performances, America again got to see what it looks like when the mentors choose poorly and the finalists allow themselves to be placed on that Los Angeles stage with an ill-suited song. Worse still: the two worst song choices and performances came not from CeCe Frey and Fifth Harmony, the two acts finishing in the two bottom spots (without being eliminated) on the Top 10 results show. No, it was Emblem3 and Vino Alan, two of the four frontrunners.
So what happened?
In Vino Alan’s case, Judge and mentor L. A. Reid came in and changed Vino’s song a day before he went live. Vino had been rehearsing the classic “If You Don’t Know Me By Now” (Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, Simply Red). He wasn’t getting a good run on the chorus, so L. A. opted for a change. Although angry, Vino complied and the Righteous Brothers’ “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'” was chosen.
It was not a good choice. Vino was a bit flat here and there. And his delivery was more in tune with an aggressive song, not a forlorn love-lost song.
Judge Britney Spears said his act needed to be “refreshed.” Judge Demi Lovato agreed, as did Judge Simon Cowell. In fact, Simon said the entire performance was “uncomfortable” — wrong song, wrong execution. He said L. A. had taken a chance and it simply had not worked.
Oddly enough, at the end of the evening when Simon’s protege act, Emblem3, took the stage, L. A. had a chance to return the criticism. And he should have. But L. A. said he liked the performance and would have signed the guys to record deal had they auditioned with that song.
That song was the classic “I’m A Believer” (The Monkees, but done Smash Mouth style). But it is doubtful if it made believers out of many. It definitely was not a recording contract-winning performance, despite L. A.’s praise. It might have been a step above frat boy karaoke, and not much more than that. The guys were singing in unison, but there was no harmony, something that judges Britney and Demi picked up on.
It was easily Emblem3’s worst performance to date.
The same could be said of Vino Alan.
Unfortunately, their worst performances coincided with a double elimination week and now their poorly rendered covers could very well get them booted from the show. Because, despite their consistently high placement in the voting, it only takes a slip and an inability to win converts, not to mention picking up fans from other contestants that have been eliminated. In other words, although an act like CeCe Frey, a finalist that has finished in the bottom three out of four times (and last twice, including last week), was told by Simon that her rendition of “Lady Marmalade” during the Top 8 performances was just bad enough for her to go ahead and “pack a suitcase,” it wasn’t as bad as Vino and Emblem3’s covers.
And despite her many poor performances, CeCe Frey has proven to be quite the resilient finalist.
And still, it all comes back to song choice. To hear Simon Cowell defend himself by saying he’s sold over 300 million records and also condemn L. A. Reid for his song choice on Vino, then to hear and see such a sub-par performance on behalf of one of his own acts verged on the karmically ironic. But L. A. has been there before with Vino, even taking Simon’s advice earlier in the competition. He also agreed with Simon that he’d chosen poorly for Jason Brock’s Top 13 performance.
Beatrice Miller went public with her disapproval of song choice after she performed Cyndi Lauper’s “Time After Time” for her Top 12 performance.
And rap trio Lyric 145 threw Simon under the bus after he admitted to changing their song choice for the Top 12. When they were panned by Judge Demi, they said they had an entire “Diva” tune worked out with original lyrics but had been overruled by Simon. They were voted off the show on that week’s results episode.
These are but the most egregious “wrongs” done the “X Factor” finalists by their own mentors. There were plenty more, like just about everything Judge Demi chose for CeCe Frey, especially the more than ridiculous “Eye Of The Tiger” presentation.
(Watch CeCe Frey’s “Lady Marmalade” video.)
So why aren’t the mentors taking the age-old judges maxim of the importance of song choice for the contestant to heart? Who knows? Perhaps it is apathy. Perhaps it is hubris. Or maybe it is just something as simple as making a mistake in mixing and matching. Regardless, it could be a $5 million mistake for these finalists.
And when frontrunners like Vino Alan and Emblem3 get stuck with a bad song choice so late in the competition, it could get them sent home when they should be rehearsing for the finale.
“X Factor” will broadcast its Top 8 results on Thursday, Nov. 29, at 8 p.m. (EST) on Fox Television. Season 1 runner-up Josh Krajcik and Grammy winner Alicia Keys will perform live.


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Welcome to the Daily Aura Guidance for the Zodiac for Gemini, by Renooji. What is the Aura? Simply put, the aura is referring to the energy field surrounding our body, or any object. Be it animate or inanimate. It could be the aura of a person, a tree, a house or even a city and nation. Beyond that, the Aura is a portal, an interactive body that has the ability to create and have a relationship with as well as channel information to guide and create certain energies of benefit or disaster. Who can see the Aura? Many seers and mystics, individuals blessed with “true-sight”. Clairvoyance. What then is the Aura Guidance for the Zodiac?
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Washington, DC (July 9, 2003)- The National Vacant Properties Campaign exists to provide everyone – individuals, advocates, agencies, developers, nonprofits, and others – with information resources, tools, and assistance to support their vacant property revitalization efforts.
Far from being confined to urban and industrial areas, the abandonment of properties is a national phenomenon. Rapid growth on the fringes of many metropolitan regions has sucked development from urban cores and inner-ring suburbs, leaving abandoned buildings and vacant properties. Abandonment takes many forms – houses left behind because of suburban migration, industrial downsizing, and predatory lending practices, once vibrant downtowns turned into ghost towns, or local retail stores abandoned when large, regional centers moved in. No matter how the phenomenon manifests itself, the increasingly profound effects of vacant properties are the same: lower tax revenues, higher municipal costs, and serious environmental and public health consequences. Before communities can plot their comeback, they must address the scourge of vacant properties.
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The Campaign captures model practices, shares them with other communities, and helps inspire creativity and leadership in communities nationwide.
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"There are a number of foods that have this quality that are what we called anti-cariogenic," said Dr. William Vann, a pediatric dentist.
Several studies are underway. Lactobacillus is a so called friendly bacteria found in live yogurt. Scientists in Germany are harnessing that and putting it in chewing gum and so far, they say it dramatically reduced the amount of cavity causing bacteria.
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Julie Reiber is Broadway’s go-to gal. She has jumped seamlessly from roles in Brooklyn and All Shook Up to major parts in Wicked, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Did we mention she also has a new album?
How Reiber found the time to record Love Travels is anyone’s guess given her busy schedule. The album features pop classics, Broadway favorites and even a few originals. Reiber’s talent is genuinely huge, no doubt about that.
She recently spoke with The Improper about her new release, her time as Marion in Priscilla, and her latest collaboration with her husband.
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TheImproper: Love Travels is so beautiful. What was your intention for the overall theme of the album?
Reiber: When I was putting the set list together my original idea was just to do all covers, and then I had friends that were like, ‘No you have to put some of your originals on there.’ I’m a fairly new songwriter, so I was a little scared of doing that.
I just found that love was a common theme throughout all of the songs I chose. What I came up with was this concept of love travels, because the original idea was that the album is like an old school album, and it should be listened to from beginning to end. If you do that, it takes you on a ride and a journey. All of these songs are about different stages and spaces in love, and different kinds of love, and all of the different components of just the basic human instinct of love. It’s this idea that love travels as each song and story blends into the next.
IM: Every song is perfect for easy listening. Where/when do you envision people enjoying your music?
Reiber: Stylistically it has a little bit of everything for everyone. In regard to the love theme, it has the heartbreaking, sad love songs, but it’s not all that. It also has the joy and the yearning and the receiving and the giving. A lot of times when it’s a love album it’s a breakup album. But this has that broad spectrum with all of the different styles. I’m a Broadway singer, but in my spare time I listen to Ella Fitzgerald and Stevie Wonder. I have a very wide range of music that I love, and that I also love to sing, so that’s where the broad spectrum of styles of music comes from too.
IM: Who has inspired you most as a performer?
Reiber: I listened to a lot of jazz growing up, and Ella Fitzgerald is one of my favorite singers of all time. I really hope to do a straight jazz album someday too, because I love singing jazz. I also really got into old school funk and old school soul music. That’s why I chose Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan. I got really obsessed with these singers that are such great songwriters. And then I also like folk vibes, like John Mayer and Martin Sexton, these very simple songwriters on the guitar. That’s sort of what stemmed me sitting around learning to play the guitar. I’m slightly obsessed with Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen right now. Across the board, I like all styles of music.
IM: Choose your two favorite songs on the album, and explain why they hold the most meaning for you.
Reiber: “Knocks Me Off My Feet” is one of my favorite Stevie Wonder tunes. It’s one of the lesser known ones. I kept being drawn to it. And now it has an even more special meaning, because before the album even came out I sang it at my wedding with this arrangement, which was great. I would also say “Let Him Fly,” it was originally a kind of a country/folk tune by Patty Griffin, The Dixie Chicks did a cover of it and countrified it a little bit more, but we made it a little more gospel.
I’ve sung that song in auditions for years. I’ve always loved it, and I think it makes a great audition song because it has so much emotion and it’s such a story. It’s a great acting song. When we did that song in the studio it was always an emotional song for me to sing. By the third time I sang it I was a hysterical wreck. All these years when I’ve sung it, it has always been me singing it to get rid of something that I needed to let go of. Now, when I worked on it with the album, it came from a different place. I didn’t realize it until after I had that session, I was crying more out of relief and happiness because I don’t ever have to sing that song again! I had a big year and I got married, and I have a great husband.
IM: How did you meet your husband?
Reiber: He’s a photographer, but he’s the best thing I ever got from being in Wicked, actually. I was bowling with the Broadway Show Bowling League for Wicked, and he was shooting for The New York Times because he’s a newspaper photographer. He was doing a story on the league, and he came over and took pictures of us. He asked for my email and the rest is history! Now he shoots for The Wall Street Journal.
IM: Are you a singer first, actress second?
Reiber: In my mind I always think of them together. With my performing, singing and acting go hand in hand. Singing is about the storytelling. I don’t think you can get around that. The singers that are most powerful to me sing from their gut, and the emotions around what they’re saying. Have I been singing since I could open my mouth? Yes, but I’ve always just kind of taken them hand in hand.
IM: Did you always aspire to be in musical theatre, or did that grow out of your passion for singing? Were you a Broadway fanatic?
Reiber: I wasn’t a Broadway fanatic, but I think it was more from lack of knowledge. I was over in the Northwest corner of the country. I recall going to Les Mis when I was a kid, and going to The Phantom of the Opera and Annie. When I did see those shows, I was totally into them. I ran my Annie tape into the ground. I would have my best friend play the dog and all the other characters and I would be Annie. I guess I was always a musical theatre kid as soon as I figured out what it was.
I did my first show at the community theatre when I was 12 and I was like, “Ooh, yes, this is what I want to do.” It was a show called Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cinderella. It was a culmination of all these different fairy tales, and I was playing Little Red Riding Hood. I actually did that show with Hilary Swank, we did community theatre together. Cinderella actually got tonsillitis, and she was sick. Long story short, I played both characters at once. That was definitely the beginning of it all!
IM: The “powers that be” on Broadway seem to have an affinity for you. You hopped from On a Clear Day right into Priscilla last year. What was that transition like?
Reiber: I did the same thing with Brooklyn too. I had my Broadway debut with Brooklyn. And Brooklyn closed, and then only days later I went over to All Shook Up at The Palace. I’m just really fortunate and lucky because they called me and let me jump on over. It worked out great. I’ve been lucky that way a few times. I learned Priscilla in a week, which is possibly the hardest thing I’ve ever done. I’m quick, I guess they know that.
IM: If you could take on any role on Broadway, which would it be?
Reiber: I definitely want to play Evita at some point. It’s an incredible role, and I’ve never gotten an opportunity to play it. I get the chance to do The Last 5 Years in a reading in the Hamptons this summer. Music and characters like that are so suited to me. I love singing these contemporary composers like Jason Robert Brown and Jeff Blumenkrantz. I would love to do The Last 5 Years again.
IM: What do you have planned after Priscilla’s fuel runs out on June 24th?
Reiber: It’s a very big plan. I’m pregnant! I’m doing this reading in August, and a bunch of little benefits here and there where I’m singing, and I’m just going to keep myself busy while being pregnant. I have to get ready for this madness. We’re very excited. I’m at about four months. I’m starting to show a little bit, so I make for a pretty pregnant koala up on Priscilla’s stage!
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More than 82,000 people have volunteered for New York's reserve force of medical workers to help people infected with the new coronavirus.
Health officials say the force includes recent retirees, health care workers who can take a break from their normal jobs and people between jobs.
Many of these volunteers have yet to be assigned to work in New York’s hospitals, and state officials must vet the volunteers and decide how to deploy them.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said this week he wants that situation to change. Hospitals expect to employ about 1,500 volunteers to assist a medical workforce that needs help, especially in the New York City area.
Health care workers from across the United States have started working in New York. Many found their new jobs through employment agencies. These workers discovered a hospital system in danger of being overwhelmed. There are simply too many patients.
Liz Schaffer is a nurse from Saint Paul, Minnesota. Tuesday was her first day working in the emergency room (ER) at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.
“I have never seen so many human beings in an ER at one time in my entire life,” she said.
Other states also are busy looking for and recruiting medical workers. At least 10 other states and the District of Columbia are preparing for waves of patients. The Army and the Department of Veterans Affairs also are in need of medical workers.
The work is dangerous
Several health care workers have died from COVID-19, the disease resulting from the virus. One of them was Kious Kelly, who worked in the emergency room at Mount Sinai West Hospital. He died on March 24 after becoming infected with the virus.
Many other medical workers have become very sick. Some hospitals are limiting the protective gloves and facial masks they give to workers because of the possibility of shortages.
Even with those risks, many people have volunteered.
“Whatever it is that they need, I’m willing to do,” said Jerry Kops, a licensed nurse from Long Island. He was working as a musician in the Blue Man Group before its North American performances were suspended.
“I keep thinking about my old co-workers and friends that are still in nursing. And to me, it’s like if they have to be there, I should be there too,” he said.
Hospital volunteers in New York will be paid. But that is not always the case in other areas. In Washington state, volunteer retirees who work in free medical clinics are not always paid for their work. But those who volunteer at hospitals will be paid.
Adding to the group of state recruits are workers suggested by employment agencies.
Nurses are being offered wages of up to $100 an hour. The pay includes food and a place to live. The agencies are seeking to fill over 5,000 jobs in hospital intensive care units and emergency rooms, said Michael Fazio. He works for a company called Prime Staffing, which has recruited over 250 workers to New York hospitals in recent weeks.
“It shocks me more and more the calls I’m getting. West Coast nurses are calling me, wanting to help,” Fazio said. “They’re leaving their families, wanting to help. They don’t have the fear of COVID-19. Their driving force is saying: ‘I’m coming to help fight this, help New York City.’”
One of those nurses is Katherine Ramos of Cape Coral, Florida. She said her work at New York Presbyterian Hospital made her feel very tired.
Ramos has been staying in an apartment building with her husband and two children — and takes measures to prevent the virus from spreading to her family. But she plans on moving soon to a hotel so if she catches the virus, they will not be infected.
“I want to be able to protect my family more,” she said.
New York officials say the state will need tens of thousands of additional medical workers to deploy quickly before of an expected wave of patients in the next three weeks.
‘Got to play our part’
Temporary hospitals are being built in convention centers, sports centers and at colleges, but without trained workers they cannot help anyone.
John Gallagher is a doctor from Pennsylvania. He volunteered to work at hospitals near his home at the Ohio border a few months after retiring at age 65. He said the danger of becoming infected with the virus himself and spreading it to loved ones left him very fearful.
“But,” he added, “it’s one of those things. If it’s needed, then we’ve got to play our part.”
I’m Mario Ritter Jr.
Larry Neumeister and Marina Villeneuve reported this story for the Associated Press. Mario Ritter Jr. adapted it for VOA Learning English. George Grow was the editor.
Words in This Story
reserve –n. a group or force that is additional to the regular force especially in the military
assigned –adj. to give a person a particular job or duty
vet –v. to investigate someone to see if they are right for a job
recruiting –v. the process of find the right people to do a job
licensed –adj. having gone through the official process to be able to do a job or offer a service
clinic –n. a place where people can get medical help for problems that are not too serious


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April 4, 2013 Associated Press
WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — Just months before being gunned down, Sheriff Eugene Crum made good on a campaign promise to do what many in law enforcement have attempted in southern West Virginia — crack down on drugs, especially the illegal sale of prescription pills.
In three months and two days on the job, he'd already helped indict dozens of suspected drug dealers through Mingo County's new Operation Zero Tolerance.
Authorities haven't said whether that work was related to his shooting death at midday on a street in the small town of Williamson on Wednesday, but residents and county officials suspect it.
Crum's team has targeted people "who spread the disease of addiction among our residents," said County Commission President John Mark Hubbard.
Resident Jerry Cline stood near the site of the slaying hours later, the drug crackdown clearly at the forefront of his thoughts.
"He told them right before he got in as sheriff, 'If you're dealing drugs, I'm coming after you. I'm cleaning this town up,'" Cline said. "He got out just to do one thing, and that's to clean this town up. That's all that man tried to do."


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Golf courses are legendary for their perfectly manicured greens surrounded by lovely landscapes that are generously fertilized, treated, irrigated, and frequently mowed. Learn how a new wave of golf course managers are reducing their environmental footprint by reducing the amount of harmful inputs in their green and grounds.
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All major cities have to have major public transport installations. A great many of them have underground rail systems so there is nothing unique about London.
However, the London Underground, or the Tube as it’s known as locally, does tend to have a little mystique surrounding it. For someone arriving from a town or city that doesn’t have an underground network at all it can seem completely impossible to fathom.
It’s especially impressive when looking at its history. It was the first underground railway system to open anywhere in the world. The first route was between Paddington and Farringdon and opened in 1863 and today it is a network of 11 lines stretching across London and crossing into surrounding counties including Hertfordshire, Essex and Buckinghamshire.
It also carries over 1.3 billion customers a year at a peak of 5 million customers a day.
It’s easy to see why some people might be nervous about travelling on it.
The infamous tube map can look like a Jackson Pollock painting for the uninitiated. The intercrossing coloured lines, the zones, the fact that some lines aren’t even part of the tube network but are ‘helpfully’ pointing out other possible options!
That’s not even mentioning the tickets which are usually the most unnecessarily complex part of any city’s transport network.
The following is a rough guide for those who have never travelled on the tube before.
The Tube Map
The underground network stretches across nine zones as can be seen by the white and shaded circular areas that circulate out from the middle of the map. Central London is in Zone 1, in the middle of the map and the zones go out in numerical order until Zone 9 is reached.
It’s worth noting that Zone 9 is only found in the north east and north west of the map. South of the river only extends as far as Zone 5.
There are 11 lines, although the tube map key suggests there are 17. The others will be explained shortly.
- Light Brown – Bakerloo Line
- Red – Central Line
- Yellow – Circle Line
- Green – District Line
- Pink – Hammersmith & City Line
- Grey – Jubilee Line
- Magenta – Metropolitan Line
- Black – Northern Line
- Dark Blue – Piccadilly Line
- Light Blue – Victoria Line
- Turquoise – Waterloo & City Line Line
The other lines in the key include the DLR (the Docklands Light Railway) and the London Overground. These essentially both work in exactly the same way as the tube, use the same tickets and are generally so seamless most people won’t know the difference.
The DLR is driverless, which is a pretty interesting difference.
TFL Rail and London Trams are different systems, but use the same tickets, so they are less seamless than the others.
The Emirates Air Line is essentially a tourist attraction, a cable car that goes from one side of the river to the other. It has no transport benefit and in almost all circumstances, finding alternative means of transport is always quicker and cheaper. But it is fun!
The last part of the key shows parts of the district line that only open occasionally. Specifically the route to Kensington Olympia station.
The other things marked on the map are stations with step free access from street to platform, National Rail services (overground trains, not to be confused with the London Overground line!), Airports, Riverboat services and the Victoria Coach station.
The map also shows which stations have more than one line going through them (interchange stations), which stations are linked together so more lines are accessible (such as Bank/Monument) and which stations are close enough to walk from one to the other (such as Camden Town and Camden Road).
Deciphering the Tube Map
First things first. Find out the required station for the commencement of the journey and the station where the journey is to end. Look them up on the map and try to work out how to get from one to the other in the quickest way, using the white circled stations to change lines if required.
Next, figure out the direction of travel. Northbound, southbound, eastbound or westbound, this is pretty self explanatory from the direction of travel on the map.
The tube platforms are labelled by the line and the direction of travel so a train travelling in the right direction is relatively easy to find. Tube platforms are also numbered. Rest assured, the platform numbers at tube stations mean absolutely to nothing to anyone who doesn’t work for London Underground!
There are numerous options as to how to pay for travel.
There are manned ticket offices at most Central London stations and automated ticket machines everywhere.
Single or return tickets to a specific destination are pretty self explanatory. When the destination is reached the ticket will be consumed by the ticket machine and the gates will open automatically.
For multiple locations or for a day’s worth of travel on the tube there are travel cards. These give unlimited travel possibilities on the Tube, Trains, Trams, DLR and most other forms of transport in London (a notable exception are the buses).
They are simply shown, if asked for, or, in most cases, they are inserted into machines and then returned. The gates will open as soon as the ticket is taken.
Travel cards are available for single day use or for 7 days.
The cheapest way to travel on the underground. As a comparison, a single journey in Zone 1 on a paper ticket would cost £4.90. Using pre-paid Oyster card it would cost only £2.40.
An Oyster is basically a plastic charge card. When they are purchased they come pre-loaded with some credit but can then be topped up at machines or ticket offices. The beauty of them is that they seamlessly work out the cheapest price for a journey and charge just that. They are also capped so it’s possible to travel all day on the tube and not be charged an exorbitant amount.
Credit is also held on the card forever, so it can be used on a future visit to London!
Oyster cards are accepted on all overground, tram, train, DLR and bus services as well as the underground. It’s worth remembering that London buses DO NOT accept cash. Only Oyster and contactless are accepted.
The key with an Oyster card is to touch in (at the beginning of a journey) and then touch out at the end on the yellow circles. If there are no barriers a yellow circle will be somewhere and will need to be found and ‘touched’. Otherwise a ‘worst case scenario’ fare is charged.
For buses and trams, only a touch in is required as they are a set price.
Mobile devices and credit/debit cards. Work in exactly the same way as Oyster cards.
Catching a train
Sounds quite simple but can be quite stressful for the beginner.
Standing behind the yellow line is essential (something that will be drilled in constantly by the announcements!). The trains arrive at speed, the platform can be quite crowded and in the vast majority of stations there is no protection from the edge of the platform.
Some Jubilee line stations, however, do have protective doors in place.
The doors open automatically from the inside and out. Ignore any buttons that purport to Open or Close, they don’t work!
‘Mind the Gap’ is a real thing and will also be heard multiple times on the tannoy system. It means that there is a gap between the platform and the train so watch your step. Some stations have huge gaps, others have no gap at all.
Let other people off the train first. Not doing this is almost as grave a crime as standing on the left hand side of the escalators. Trying to enter the train before people have disembarked is likely to be met with a strong ‘tut’.
Once on the train move down as far as possible away from the doors to allow other people to enter.
The modern tube trains will have a display and announcements as to what station is approaching. Older ones will have the driver announcing it.
A foolproof way is to simply look out of the window as each station’s name is prominently displayed all along the platforms.
Accessibility and Opening Times
Most of the lines start running at around 05:00 from Monday to Saturday and finish around midnight. There is a reduced service on a Sunday so times should always be checked as they vary from line to line.
On the weekends there is a night tube running on certain lines. On Friday and Saturday there is a 24 hour service to certain stations on the Central, Northern and Piccadilly lines. There is a full service to every station on the Jubilee line.
The stations with step free disabled access are clearly marked on the tube map. These include stations with lifts.
Unfortunately the tube network was built over a hundred years before disability access was a requirement, therefore in a lot of cases full access is not available and not likely to be possible in the future either.
Nearly every stations has escalator access, some have tramulators too but others have very long walks within them so be prepared.
Most tube trains also have a significant step up or step down when they arrive in a station.
- Avoid rush hour, football matches and other events (unless attending). The trains are uncomfortably overcrowded at these times.
- The front of the train will advise the ultimate destination.
- Always stand on the right of escalators. It will be pointed out unless adhered to!
- Offer seats to elderly, pregnant or disabled passengers, those with children or those that are noticeably less able to stand. It will not likely be asked for but will be appreciated.
- Hold on tight if standing!


MARATHON VOLLEYBALL DEFEATS STRATFORD TO STAY UNDEFEATED IN MARWOOD SOUTH
Updated: Sep 29, 2021
MARATHON – Marathon remained undefeated in the Marawood Conference South Division volleyball standings with a 3-1 win over Stratford on Tuesday at Marathon High School.
Marathon is now 4-0 in conference play, while Stratford falls to 2-2.
Stratford won the first set 25-20 before Marathon rallied to take the final three 25-13, 25-13, 25-11.
Individual statistics were not reported.
Both teams will compete at the Marawood Conference Crossover Challenge at Abbotsford on Saturday.


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I am reading the book ‘Thinking Fast and Slow’ by Daniel Kahneman. He has won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002. In particular, I found the chapter about the illusion of understanding very thought-provoking. It describes our inclination to favor explanatory narratives over the role of chance, how the mind is fooled by the halo effect, and how hindsight can manipulate our thinking.
According to trader-philosopher-statistician Nassim Taleb, people find some explanatory stories compelling. Such stories give more importance to talent, stupidity, and intentions rather than luck. They focus on the few events that happened but ignore the countless events that did not happen. In those stories, the people’s actions and intentions are coherent. We like it partly because of the halo effect. It is the tendency of our brains to associate positive impressions in one area of people, groups, or products to influence our opinions or feelings in other areas.
Daniel explains the understanding of our illusion with the example of Google’s success story. It is easy to describe Google’s success story. The founders came up with an innovative idea. Made right decisions. Their competitors made some bad decisions or were too slow and ignorant. Described well, this story can be very compelling. But do we really understand how Google succeeded? Or in general, do we really know what makes a successful business?
There is a good reason that our understanding is an illusion in this case. The ultimate test of an understanding would be if we can predict the outcome of a business in advance. In fact, no story of Google’s success can help with the understanding illusion. It is too hard to take into account everything that occurred. It is even harder to take into account the events that did not occur. It is easier to construct a coherent story when we have little information.
Many important events in that success story involved choices. So, clearly, the founders were skilled. But, in most stories, their skills are exaggerated, and luck is understated. These stories show that the founders were nearly flawless at making important decisions. We buy these stories because of the halo effect. We want to believe in those stories.
These stories are not wrong. The founders are indeed very skilled. But, unfortunately, that does not explain the success of Google. According to Daniel, luck played a significantly large role in Google’s success. Which is why there is not much to understand in the first place. Hence, no story can really explain Google’s success.
We can know something only if it is both true and knowable. Many people claimed to have predicted the 2008 financial crisis in advance. But, they could not prevent it or conclusively show it at that time. Signs of illusions of understanding. People can predict many things. Some of those things actually even occur. But, that does not mean that they have a better understanding of how the world works!
We believe that we understand the past. This implies that the future is knowable. This is the core of the illusion. We don’t understand the past as much as we believe we do.
Everything is easy to explain in hindsight. Once the event actually occurs, it is easy to explain it. In fact, when a prediction turns out wrong, we forget what we thought about the outcome that way before the event actually occurred. After the event, sometimes, our mind even fails to accept that we ever thought in a wrong manner. We are even less tolerant for other people: how could they ever possibly think that way? This was also confirmed by an experiment.
We must keep in mind that we are evaluating decisions after the event. This causes a huge bias in the way we evaluate decisions that were made before the event. A lot of times, multiple decisions can be good for a particular event. Some of them lead to bad outcomes because of the luck factor. This does not mean that the decisions were wrong. In many cases, the luck factor is so large (for example, the success of a business) that there is very little to learn from the decisions made. There were too many and too specific events. We don’t truly understand what are good decisions because the noise from the luck part clouds everything.
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There are so many ways to react to a super-bad news you can’t count them.
But it’s what you do with your life after it that makes the difference.
Will it build up a good part of your character? Will it step up your game or will you feel defeated?
Your life might entirely change based on one event, but what will make the difference is you.


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The Main Characteristics of Shakespearean Plays: Comedy, Tragedy, History
The Plays of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is considered to be the greatest writer in English Literature. He composed over 150 sonnets and wrote some of the most famous plays in the English language. His plays are generally categorised as Comedies, Tragedies and Histories. There is some debate about which category some of the plays should be included in as there are often crossovers between the genres. So, which plays did he write and what are the features of the different genre?
Comedy is not necessarily what a modern audience would expect comedy to be. Whilst there may be some funny moments, a Shakespearean comedy may involve some very dramatic storylines. Usually what defines a Shakespearean play as a comedy is that it has a happy ending, often involving a marriage. The main characteristics in Shakespeare's Comedies are:
- A struggle of young lovers to overcome problems, often the result of the interference of their elders
- There is some element of separation and reunification
- Mistaken identities, often involving disguise
- A clever servant
- Family tensions that are usually resolved in the end
- Complex, interwoven plot-lines
- Frequent use of puns and other styles of comedy
The Shakespearean plays which are usually classed as Comedy are:
The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well, The Tempest, Taming of the Shrew, The Winter's Tale, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labours Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, Pericles, Prince of Tyre and The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Tragedies may involve comedic moments, but tend towards more serious, dramatic plots with an ending that involves the death of main characters. The main features of a Shakespearean Tragedy are that:
- Characters become isolated or there is social breakdown
- Ends in death
- There is a sense that events are inevitable or inescapable
- There is usually a central figure who is noble but with a character flaw which leads them towards their eventual downfall
The plays which are generally classed as Shakespearean Tragedy are: Macbeth, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Coriolanus, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Timon of Athens and Cymbeline (this is debated, with some scholars classifying it as a Comedy)
Shakespeare's Histories focus on English monarchs. They usually play upon Elizebethan propaganda, showing the dangers of civil war and glorifying the queen's Tudor ancestors. The depictions of monarchs including Richard III (an enemy of the Tudors) and Henry V (one of the great Tudor monarchs) have been influential in creating a perception of these kings which has persisted throughout the centuries. Many historians point to inaccuracies in the depictions, but the plays have been very powerful in presenting a particular image which it is hard for many people to see past.
The Histories are: King John, Richard II, Henry IV (parts I and II), Henry V, Henry VI (parts I, II and III), Richard III and Henry VIII.
The plays, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra are classified both as Tragedies and as Roman Histories.


The tragedy is a wake-up call for us to reconsider hillside development projects, even if they are for the benefit of the public, says the Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism (C4).
The tragic incident in Bukit Kukus, Paya Terubong, Penang, which has so far claimed nine lives, is something that could have been avoided.
This incident and others in the past, such as the one that claimed the lives of 11 people on 21 October 2017 in Tanjung Bungah, proves the incompetency of the local council and state authorities in monitoring hillside development in Penang.
From 2017 to 2018, there has been hundreds of landslides incidents reported in Penang. One such incident is at the Granito project site It has been one year since the Granito incident occurred in October 2017, but the state inquiry committee on the incident is yet to finalise its report into the investigation and no one has been held responsible thus far. The state must explain why it is taking so long to complete the investigations. It looks very bad on the state government. Justice delayed is justice denied.
C4 believes that such incidents could have been avoided if the local council had a proper mechanism in place to monitor and take action on issues related to non-compliance. Hillside development in Penang and its related problems have come to a serious level so much so we seem to be losing control over its effects.
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C4 would like to raise the following questions and points regarding the Bukit Kukus tragedy:
1. Was there an environmental impact assessment study conducted on the 5km Paya Terubong bypass road. If so, was the risk of landslides raised in the report?
2. What mitigating actions were taken by the council and developers to address concerns of a landslide? Was the developer in any way trying to cut costs in the project by not carrying out certain mitigation work or using cheap quality material?
3. Zairil Khir Johari, the state executive council member responsible for works, utilities and flood mitigation, in a press meeting on 23 October 2018, made it clear that many irregularities had been found on inspection at Bukut Kukus on 8 October 2018, including the absence of geotextile sheets which are used to reinforce and protect cut slopes. C4 is shocked, that despite these irregularities, no immediate stop work order was issued. The lack of seriousness and improper action taken by the council has now caused the loss of at least nine lives.
4. Many of the victims in the landslide incident are undocumented foreign workers. This was why the authorities were unable to confirm how many victims are buried under the sand initially. It is a shame that the state government and council is working with a contractor that hires undocumented workers. The state government cannot claim ignorance on this. A proper mechanism should have been in place to ensure all workers working in a government project are documented and covered by medical insurance. The government should now conduct an investigation into all other government projects and check if the workers in those projects are documented and covered by insurance.
5. The employer is now denying that the dead victims were working for them. It seems that the employer is trying to avoid admitting that these workers were indeed theirs. The site is not a residential area but a work site. There is no reason for someone not working for the contractor to stay in such conditions at a work site. The dead victims found in the cabin were of many nationalities. The fact that those dead were from many countries and living at the site suggests that these were workers involved in the project. Criminal action should be taken on the contractor for hiring and harboring undocumented workers, if indeed this was the case. The labour department should also conduct an investigation if the rights of these workers were violated. The incident also raises the issue of living conditions for migrant workers. Why were these workers housed in such a dangerous location? The employer should be held responsible for this and the local council for failing to monitor safety issues at the site.
6. The state must respond to the claims made by disaster mitigation and land erosion management expert Prof Habibah Lateh from Universiti Sains Malaysia that the soil used at the construction was not suitable and friable. She also claimed that the type of rock which was found was said to be granite, which tends to crumble. There seems to be expert evidence here that points to bad decisions being made and cost- cutting measures implemented at the expense of risk and compliance. The project should be put on hold until these issues are addressed, or we might risk an even bigger disaster. What if the entire stretch were to collapsed after being open to the public? These claims should not be taken lightly. The contractor should be suspended and disallowed from carrying out any projects pending a complete investigation into the cause of the incident. Further action should be taken on the contractor if indeed these claims were found to be true.
7. In the light of multiple disasters hitting Penang the last few years, C4 calls upon the state government to put on hold and conduct an independent review of the Penang transport masterplan project, particularly the part where it involves hill drilling and blasting. This incident has proved that the council and state authorities are not competent and able to monitor or ensure that the project could be carried out without any incident or tragedy. If the state could not be trusted to ensure such a project of a smaller scale was incident-free, how would it ensure the safety of a mega project such as the transport masterplan, especially when many concerns including landslides the care of explosive materials, and the construction which is close to a dam and crosses fault lines have been raised. With the current council’s lack of competence, we urge that independent reviews of the Penang transport masterplan be done urgently. It would be a catastrophic disaster if the mega project is allowed to be carried out, without proper safeguards, reviews and studies. The Bukit Kukus incident affirms the consequences of bad management practices both by the council and contractor and lack of independent consultation. We should not allow this to be repeated in the Penang transport masterplan project.
8. There is no doubt that this incident proves a failure on the part of the council. Urgent action must be taken to address the incompetency of the local council. Civil society representatives, field experts and government agencies should be roped in to review existing procedures and laws to address the issues affecting the council. This review should cover various aspects from budget allocations, training of staff, level of expertise and the enforcement mechanism. We cannot allow our council to continue its operation based on the status quo. Drastic measures must be taken immediately.
The state should come clean on the tragedy and be transparent. There should be no cover up and those responsible, including contractors, council staff and engineering officials who failed to carry out their duties, should be held accountable. The state should also ensure proper compensation is awarded to the victims and their families, especially for those without documentation and insurance. These workers had died due to human failure and not Mother Nature.
With modern and great engineering capabilities in the world today, it is a shame that such incidents still occur.
The incident is also a wake-up call for us to reconsider hillside development projects, even if they are for the benefit of the public.
Justice must be served in this incident, and no stone must be left unturned.
Cynthia Gabriel is executive director and Sudhagaran Stanley northern region coordinator of the Center to Combat Corruption and Cronyism.


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Constantin Gurdgiev gave a good overview of why a land tax is essential if Ireland is to build a smart / knowledge economy a few months back on the Renegade Economist. It’s probably worth reviewing his arguments today, the day Fianna Fail ruled out a (admittedly unfair) flat rate property tax. Gurdgiev blames the disparity in taxation between investments in human capital (e.g. increased education) – typically each additional Euro earned is taxed at 53% – and investments in land, where the return on investment is taxed at a much lower 26% or so (sometimes even 0% because of various tax breaks).
Meanwhile in the Financial Times, American progressive left economist Michael Hudson argues that there is an alternative to austerity – the burden of taxation should be moved from labour to resources such as land –
Facing these two unpalatable options, some of eastern Europe’s leaders have begun to realise that there is, in fact, a third option: radical reform of the tax system. Taxes in most post-Soviet eastern European economies, along with countries such as Greece, are regressive. They add to the price of labour and industry while under-taxing property. Latvia is an extreme example: its flat taxes fall almost entirely on employment, meaning workers take home less than half of what employers pay.
The good news is that these high taxes on labour leave open the option of shifting taxes on to other areas, in particular land. Lowering taxes on wages would reduce the cost of employment without squeezing take-home pay and living standards. Raising taxes on property, meanwhile, would leave less value to be capitalised into bank loans, thus guarding against future indebtedness.
So I am a land speculator – a mini-aristocrat in a land where private appropriation of the fruits of others’ efforts has long been a prime route to wealth. This appropriation of the rise in the value of land is not just unfair: what have I done to deserve this increase in my wealth? It has obviously dire consequences.
First, it makes it necessary for the state to fund itself by taxing effort, ingenuity and foresight. Taxation of labour and capital must lower their supply. Taxation of resources will not have the same result, because supply is given. Such taxes reduce the unearned rewards to owners.
Second, this system creates calamitous political incentives. In a world in which people have borrowed heavily to own a location, they are desperate to enjoy land price rises and, still more, to prevent price falls. Thus we see a bizarre spectacle: newspapers hail upward moves in the price of a place to live – the most basic of all amenities. The beneficiaries are more than land speculators. They are also enthusiastic supporters of efforts to rig the market. Particularly in the UK, they welcome the creation of artificial scarcity of land, via a ludicrously restrictive regime of planning controls
If “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste”, here is an urgent case for action. Socialising the full rental value of land would destroy the financial system and the wealth of a large part of the public. That is obviously impossible. But socialising any gain from here on would be far less so. This would eliminate the fever of land speculation. It would also allow a shift in the burden of taxation. Perhaps as important, with the prospects of effortless increases in wealth removed, the UK might re-examine its planning laws.

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The Smart IPv6 Building in Brief
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have reshaped our world. The emergence of the new Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) will further transform our environment. It will enable billions of devices to have their own IP address, to be interconnected and to work together. It is paving the way to the future Internet of things, in which sensors, actuators and devices will be directly connected to each other, with an almost unlimited scalability. The Smart IPv6 building project intends to explore this IPv6 potential in built environments. It will test innovative forms of interactions, by transforming buildings into smart and interactive environments, with pervasive and distributed intelligence. It will also develop the potential of IPv6 to improve buildings' energy efficiency and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through a smarter building management. The Smart IPv6 building project provides an international platform for research, academic and industrial partners. It is hosted by Mandat International and supported by the IPv6 Forum, as well as by several international research projects, such as Hobnet and IoT6.
The Smart IPv6 building project will be deployed and tested in real situations with existing buildings, and latter with new constructions, including a project in the middle of the international organizations area in Geneva: the "International Cooperation House". This building intend to provide budget accommodation and support for experts and delegates with limited resources coming from developing countries to attend international conferences, as well as offices for organisations working with the UN system. The central location and high visibility of this new building will be used to showcase and promote IPv6 based technologies. If you are interested to cooperate with us to bring IPv6-related solutions or to provide a building for tests, feel free to contact us.


Jackie Daly & Matt Cranitch UK tour dates 2022 – confirmed!
I’m so delighted – as are a lot of English fans – to finally bring these two legendary Irish traditional musicians to England again to play some of their uplifting and engaging Sliabh Luachra repertoire of polkas, slides, slow airs and waltzes to an appreciative audience.
Sidmouth Folk Festival, Sidmouth, Devon –Wednesday 3rd August to Friday 5th August inclusive
Dartmoor Folk Festival, South Zeal, Devon – Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th August
Return to London Town Festival Cricklewood, London – Friday 28th October only
Below: Jackie and Matt perform at the John Peel Arts Centre in Stowmarket, Suffolk, during their visit here in April 2019. More details about Jackie and Matt may be found here: Jackie Daly & Matt Cranitch


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We also have dry aged beef. Aging enhances the flavour of the meat and makes the meat even more tender, as the enzymes naturally present in the meat break down the muscle tissue. The dry aging process intensifies the meat’s flavour.
Rib eye, T-bone, Porterhouse and Rump are all available whole or you may just like one steak to try. We have a special dry aging fridge so that customers can see meat they have selected dry age for a memorable meal.
Marcus is experienced at dry aging meat and even featured with Matt Evans on Gourmet Farmer on SBS (episode 8 of season 3).
To place an order please phone the Butcher shop on 62236378.

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Piccinini and Peabody Symphony Orchestra Featured on Kernis Album
Peabody Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Hajime Teri Murai, has been awarded second place for the The American Prize in Orchestral Performance, 2016-17—college/university division.
Peabody Symphony Orchestra’s April 15 concert under the direction of world-renowned conductor Leonard Slatkin and featuring faculty artist Marina Piccinini, flute, received positive reviews from
WWFM The Classical Network will broadcast and audio-stream three Peabody recordings on Monday evening, April 10, beginning at 8:00 pm. The program will include the


|By Business Wire||
|January 6, 2014 08:11 AM EST||
HARMAN announced today that its Aha Radio service has partnered with Univision Radio, the leading Hispanic radio group that owns and operates 69 broadcast radio stations in 16 of the top 25 U.S. markets, to integrate more 65 radio stations from the Uforia digital music service into Aha-enabled vehicles and mobile apps. This partnership represents a continuing effort by Univision Radio to provide Hispanic audiences with high-quality content across all its platforms. For Aha, this is another step to further expand its content offerings and specifically, to provide high-quality content to Hispanic audiences in the U.S.
The integration of Univision Radio’s top radio stations and digital channels into the Aha platform essentially delivers the breadth of content from Uforia’s digital music service into the connected car, offering drivers across the globe exclusive genre channels not available on broadcast radio and specially curated by Univision Radio programmers including: “Kumbiazo,” “El Sancho,” “Planeta Rock,” among others. The breadth of Hispanic content will be delivered to over two million Aha-enabled vehicles and mobile app users. The Aha Radio mobile app is integrated into more than 50 car models of 14 leading automakers including Acura, Chrysler, Ford, Honda, Mazda, Porsche, Scion, Subaru and Toyota.
“This new partnership with Aha Radio helps us continue to serve and reach our listeners in new and meaningful ways,” said Jose Valle, president of Univision Radio. “The growth of digital music and our Uforia app is driven by our ability to offer our listeners the music they want, wherever they are, regardless of platform.”
Launched in July of this year, the Uforia digital music service aligns Univision’s music efforts under one umbrella and solidifies the company’s position as Hispanic America’s home for music discovery, regardless of language or platform. As part of its strategy, Uforia includes worldwide premieres on TV, Radio, and Digital, by both established artists (from Prince Royce to Vicente Fernandez and Marc Anthony), and developing artists (from Ariana Grande to Becky G and J Balvin).
Uforia leverages the size and scale of Univision’s media platforms, offering the most cutting edge entertainment to Hispanic America, which constitutes 17 percent of the total United States population, or 55 million people (2012 U.S. Census Bureau).
“At CES, HARMAN is showcasing a number of new solutions that upgrade, connect, or improve both the infotainment and audio experience for vehicles on the road today,” said David Slump, president, Automotive Services. “We realize people have choices in the applications they use for music and other content while they are in the car and on the go. We believe the addition of Univision Radio’s content makes Aha a leading choice for Spanish-speaking individuals in America and around the globe.”
HARMAN at CES 2014
Visit HARMAN during CES 2014 for a demonstration of Aha Radio as well as the company’s full portfolio of infotainment and lifestyle audio systems. The ONE HARMAN experience showcase is located at the Hard Rock Hotel. Follow HARMAN online during CES 2014:
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About Univision Communications Inc.
Univision Communications Inc. (UCI) is the leading media company serving Hispanic America. The company, a leading content creator in the U.S., includes Univision Network, one of the top five networks in the U.S. regardless of language and the most-watched Spanish-language broadcast television network in the country reaching 96% of U.S. Hispanic households; UniMás, a leading Spanish-language broadcast television network reaching 89% of U.S. Hispanic households; Univision Cable Networks, including Galavisión, the country’s leading Spanish-language cable network, as well as Univision tlnovelas, a 24-hour cable network dedicated to novelas, Univision Deportes Network, a 24-hour cable network dedicated to sports, ForoTV, a 24-hour Spanish-language cable network dedicated to news, and an additional suite of six cable offerings - De Película, De Película Clásico, Bandamax, Ritmoson, Telehit and Distrito Comedia; Univision Television Group, which owns and/or operates 62 television stations in major U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico; Univision Radio, the leading Hispanic radio group which owns and/or operates 69 radio stations in 16 of the top 25 U.S. Hispanic markets and Puerto Rico as well as Uforia, the leading Hispanic digital music service; UVideos, the first bilingual digital video network serving Hispanic America; an Interactive network of online and mobile apps and products including Univision.com, which continues to be the No. 1 most-visited Spanish-language website among U.S. online Hispanics, and Univision Partner Group, a specialized advertising and publisher network. UCI’s assets also include a minority stake in El Rey Network, a new 24-hour English-language network founded by maverick filmmaker Robert Rodriguez, and Fusion, a news, pop culture and satire TV and digital network launched as a joint venture with Disney/ABC Television Network. Headquartered in New York City, UCI has television network operations in Miami and television and radio stations and sales offices in major cities throughout the United States. For more information, please visit Univision.net.
About Aha by HARMAN
The Aha product portfolio focuses on delivering connected services to new and old vehicles on the road. Aha technologies and services enable HARMAN’s OEM partners and their customers to easily and seamlessly upgrade vehicle features and technology systems, improve connectivity to content in the cloud, and enhance driver safety and enjoyment. The portfolio includes Aha Analytics, Aha Updates, Aha Ad Platform, and Aha Radio, which is available in more than 60 countries and offered in more than 50 models of vehicles including Acura, Chrysler, Ford, Honda, Hyundai, Mazda, Porsche, Scion, Subaru, and Toyota.
HARMAN designs, manufactures, and markets a wide range of infotainment and audio solutions for the automotive, consumer, and professional markets. It is a recognized world leader across its customer segments with premium brands including AKG®, Harman Kardon®, Infinity®, JBL®, Lexicon®, and Mark Levinson® and leading-edge connectivity, safety and audio technologies. The company is admired by audiophiles across multiple generations and supports leading professional entertainers and the venues where they perform. More than 25 million automobiles on the road today are equipped with HARMAN audio and infotainment systems. HARMAN has a workforce of about 14,600 people across the Americas, Europe, and Asia and reported sales of $4.5 billion for the twelve months ended September 30, 2013. The company’s shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol NYSE:HAR. Please visit www.harman.com for more information.
*The number of stations available on Aha will vary based on country of use.
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