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Gas appliances including heaters, hot water services and cooktops would be phased out under a proposed moratorium on new gas connections to Victorian households to help the state achieve its 2030 target to cut carbon emissions by up to 50 per cent.
The City of Yarra is the first council to pledge to switch its buildings, including pools and community centres, from gas to renewable electricity by 2030 and wants the state government to back a ban on gas connections in new homes.
Victoria is the highest user of gas in the country.
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Victorians are the nation’s biggest users of natural gas for heating, hot water and cooking due to the state’s historically cheap and plentiful supply piped in from Bass Strait since the 1970s.
On the Town: Warning – ‘Nunsense’ may be habit-forming By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record April 22, 2021
Lillie-Beth Brinkman
The “Nunsense” title alone lends itself to the description that Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma used to promote its latest production that opened Wednesday night at the Myriad Botanical Gardens in downtown Oklahoma City.
“‘Nunsense’ is habit-forming,” the news release stated, and the production lived up to that with lots of nun and light-hearted Catholic jokes, a zany storyline and, of course, in Lyric’s usual style, a very talented cast, all women.
Directed by Lyric’s Ashley Wells, the high-energy musical made good use of the round water stage in the Myriad Gardens Wednesday night, and being outdoors with the ducks and passersby again gave the production a wonderfully unique feel. I can’t urge people enough to support our outstanding cultural institutions like Lyric that continue to innovate and entertain in a m
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From wind gusts blowing around set pieces to ducks wandering onto the stage to the choreographer keeping actors out of the moat around the stage, Ashley Wells is embracing the shenanigans sometimes involved in creating outdoor theater. Yes, there s an actual moat, which is a good thing for our COVID world that we re in right now, because we don t have to worry about how close we are to the audience. . But it really does require us to think about the choreography and the blocking, said Wells, Lyric Theatre s associate artistic director. Luckily, this show is great in that we re breaking the fourth wall all the time anyway and speaking to the audience. So, if we need to talk to a duck to get it off the stage, it s totally fine. We can do that.
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Andra Day wasn’t the only San Diego-raised woman who made a ground-breaking appearance at the Golden Globes Sunday evening. Day became the second black female ever to win the best actress in a drama award following her film portrayal of Billie Holiday.
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Ashley Wells got a bit of air time, as well. She co-starred in a controversial, pushing-the-envelope commercial that aired during the three-hour broadcast.
“Was that you?” texted a former University City High School classmate after it aired. “Were you lactating on national TV?”
Yes, she was, Wells confirmed. She was breastfeeding one of her twin babies in front of an international TV audience.
Ohio hospitals seeing 84% fewer flu cases so far this season, health officials say Share Updated: 5:40 PM EST Dec 11, 2020 Share Updated: 5:40 PM EST Dec 11, 2020
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Show Transcript uh huh. Ashley Wells of Price Hill is a pandemic year flu shot convert. Actually, this is my first time ever getting a flu shot. I was one of those ones that didn t believe in getting it. Doctors are seeing Mawr first timers joined the annual regulars. Since September, more than 4300 have rolled up their sleeves for the influenza vaccine at city clinics alone. Cameron Boston is not one of them. He s unsure about it. To be honest with Kobe going on, I hadn t even really thought about the regular flu. You know free flu shots are available that familiar retail locations once you book an appointment, the pandemics raising all kinds of concerns relative to flu prevention. Me and my mom is 91 I m afraid to even get her out of the house to go get one because of co