This plays is about two couples. Dom and Jane (Luke Griffin and Aoibheann McCaul) are a married couple. We get to see a typical night out for them. They meet a group of friends at a house party, until an episode in the kitchen involving Susan and a container of pistachio nuts ends the evening abruptly! The other couple is Mel and Kev (Amilia Stewart and Conall Keating). They have been going out for a few years. We also see them on a night out, which seems to be going well until they encounter an ex-partner in the form of Fran and things start to get ugly.
This is the work of Lee Coffey who previously brought us work such as Leper + Chip, Slice The Thief, Peruvian Voodoo, and a Murder of Crows. Lee's earlier work was in a world of gangsters and drug abuse. It was a heightened reality where anything could happen. This new work deals with a more domestic situation, that of abusive and violent relationships in the home. The play takes the unusual route of allowing the audience to vote for their preferred roles for the characters, that of either the abuser or the victim. The audience are handed cards on the way into the theatre, which allow us to vote at one point about twenty minutes into the proceedings. It adds an interesting dynamic to the piece and means things are not always as you would expect. There is some role reversal and it moves away from more traditionally defined or clichéd characters.
The play is written in verse throughout. There is some interaction between the characters but it is mainly presented in the form of a series of monologues, which Coffey has used before. It would be good to see him dabble with dialogue at some point, and move out of his comfort zone.
The story is told from the perspective of the victim of the abuse in each case. The play is directed by Druid's Aaron Monaghan who is known for the physical nature of his performances, but this is about the text, with the actors talking directly to the audience and little movement. This play marks a change in Coffey's work to a much darker place than before. As the performers are essentially playing different characters depending on the vote, you can see a different play each night. The performances are what elevates the piece, with Amilia Stewart and Aoibheann McCaul highly impressive on the night of this review.


I have never attended one of my own graduations. I intend to keep it that way. Pomp & Circumstance does have its place amongst us and I respect that for others.
I had what you might call a less than wholesome attitude in high school. I wanted to live. I wanted to experience things. And authority and rules were needlessly restrictive.
Hence, I decided to my skip my graduation. I took a nap during its scheduled time. Never regretted it.
Fast forward a couple of decades. Number Two daughter (I refer to my children by their birth order rather than by their names) was graduating from the very same high school. It meant that I had to go to the graduation ceremony. I really did want to attend her graduation, but I still wasn't too keen on being back at my old alma mater.
Grad ceremony time and, well, I'm getting though it just fine. As she stepped up to the podium, I noticed that the Valedictorian had colored a rainbow on her headgear.
She took a moment to make the standard acknowledgements and opening remarks.
She then launched into a searing harangue about how mean and awful her fellow classmates were to her and to each other. Accusations of cliques and cruelty shot from her lips like bullets from an AK-47.
She was clearly deviating from her pre-approved speech. The school board members and faculty were squirming in their chairs behind her.
Then, to my wonder and amazement, she topped it all off by formally outing herself! Yep, she played that card in front of a full house. Remember the mention of the rainbow earlier?
Graduates were openly yelling and taunting her. Parents were saying very nasty things loudly. The school officials looked ready for retirement.
Bedlam and anarchy all around me. Chaos.
Truth being stranger than fiction in front of my eyes.
I was ecstatic! I think I yelled "You Go Girl!" Frankly Francis sidebar: please place the phrase in the time context that it was delivered in – prior to this millennium.
It was the best graduation I've ever witnessed!
"Thank you, Dean Martin, President Sinclair…and members of the graduating class. I have only one thing to say to you today…it's a jungle out there.
You gotta look out for number one. But don't step in number two.
That pretty much calls it the way it is.


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New Orleans Celebrates Saints Win As New Beginning In New Orleans, it's a holiday of sorts after the Saints' come-from-behind victory in the Super Bowl on Sunday night in Miami. New Orleans beat Indianapolis 31-17, setting off a celebration in the streets. Some residents see the win as a sign of the city's rebirth after Hurricane Katrina, which devastated parts of the city.
Fans celebrate the New Orleans Saints' win against the Indianapolis Colts during Super Bowl XLIV on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, Sunday in New Orleans. The Saints defeated the Colts 31-17.
Down in New Orleans, it's a holiday of sorts after the Saints' victory in the Super Bowl on Sunday night. New Orleans beat Indianapolis 31-17, setting off a celebration in the streets. Some residents see the win as a sign of the city's rebirth.
At Ditcharo's, a pub just a few blocks from the Superdome, the champagne corks were flying when it became clear that the Saint's 43-year wait for a championship was over. Patrons of the bar shouted the Saints chant "Who dat baby?" in unison as they celebrated.
The bar's owner, Greg Faye, says this football season has been magical.
"New Orleans needed it," says Faye. "We have suffered so much since Katrina, and most people don't realize how down this city still is. We've lost so much business and so many residents, but we're still here, and we're still fighting to stay here."
But during the weekend, the city was thriving. Fans decked out in their black and gold paraded through the French Quarter.
They lined up to have their faces painted with the fleur-de-lis. And they gathered Sunday night for a prayer vigil at St. Louis Cathedral, waving signs that read "Bless You Boys."
The headline in Monday's Times-Picayune read "Amen!"
Sunday night, firefighter Mike Shields and his colleagues were on duty in the Warehouse District, but got to watch most of the game.
"It's a dream come true," says Shields. "Words can't describe the way we feel right now."
He believes that between the Saints and Saturday's mayoral election, it's a new beginning.
"We got something good here," says Shields. "We got the Super Bowl. We got a new mayor. We got a new outlook for the future."
Moments after the game ended, people hurried toward the French Quarter for the kind of celebration the city has perfected.
Darrell Turner, who lives in the Lower 9th Ward, stood on Poydras Street, and waved a black and gold umbrella at passing traffic. He says the underdog Saints are proof that this city can turn itself around, and is particularly inspired by the possibility of unity among people from different backgrounds.
"When everybody come together, you can make something happen," says Turner. "That's what we need in this city — to make something happen!"
New Orleans is here to stay, he says.


Why do newspapers get a copy of the letter from Menino to Faust before the residents of Allston and Brighton?
Regarding the content of the letter, Menino states that "the University may not make unilateral decisions." This is a new concept after watching Harvard act unilaterally for the last several years. On Monday night Harvard employees defended Harvard's intention to make unilateral decisions. It would be great if now the Mayor's Office and BRA start advocating for collaboration and joint decision-making.
But will we move from unilateral to bilateral or trilateral?
The Mayor's letter tells Harvard to meet with BRA staff to discuss the Science Complex and vacant property, but it doesn't explain what, if any, role he sees for the people who live here. We need a process that recognizes all stakeholders - City, Harvard, and community.
The tone of comments on this blog has gone downhill recently. If you have something civil and constructive to contribute I look forward to reading your comments on this blog. If you don't have anything nice to write, please don't waste our time writing it. Rude and nasty comments will be promptly deleted.
The Globe has written a lot in the last week about Harvard's broken promises and vacant buildings littering our neighborhood. Please consider writing a Letter to the Editor sharing your thoughts. City Hall needs to know that that the voters and taxpayers of Allston and Brighton expect our elected officials to use the full extent of their power to protect and improve our quality of life.
The City has made considerable investments in neighborhoods such as Grove Hall in Roxbury. Meanwhile, we were told over and over that we would benefit from a Harvard-led renaissance. Now that Harvard is talking about spending its money elsewhere, it is time for the City to step up. This could be as simple as finally building sidewalks on Everett St or as drastic as using eminent domain to take property that Harvard refuses to develop.
So whether your letter is 25 words or 150 words, please write. The more letters they get, the more likely they are to publish some of them.
Harvard's stake in Allston - A Globe editorial encourages Harvard to do some "deep thinking about engaging its neighbors"
"The university has a spotty record for leasing the retail and industrial spaces that it bought so eagerly, and stealthily, in the late 1990s. It might suit the university's long-term strategy to sit on empty or underutilized properties for 50 or 100 years. But it doesn't suit the city."
Faust said the university is committed to renting out or sprucing up its vacant lots and buildings. "We certainly recognize that sentiment," Faust said.
She acknowledged that Harvard's slowdown in development across the Charles River should be accompanied by new efforts to make university-owned properties more attractive and useful to the community.
"He plans to send Faust a letter today, specifying conditions that he said would protect and advance the interests of both the university and Allston.
"We want to insure . . . that the actions by Harvard in the community are universally understood to be responsible actions of an institutional partner committed to the community, and not a series of ill-considered, opportunistic pursuits precipitated by the weakened economy," the letter says.
Menino is asking Harvard for a timeline for completing community improvements in Allston and a report on the condition of its Allston properties, along with plans to keep them in use while development is delayed.
"There's lots of abandoned property over there," Menino said in a phone interview yesterday. "What is Harvard's commitment to the neighborhood?""
"After starting a few major construction projects, purchasing and closing a mall's worth of small business, and releasing rats and a cloud of poisonous gas into the air, Harvard University has decided to slow down and possibly halt their massive development project in Allston. Thanks for not destroying the whole neighborhood, but do you mind cleaning up before you leave?"
There are a few different meanings for "In the Hole", the brief story in the new edition of Harvard Magazine about the Science Complex. There isn't much new news in it (the article was written a few weeks ago) but the photos of the construction site are pretty amazing.
Harvard moved promptly to borrow $2.5 billion. Public reports suggest the University will incur annual interest costs on this debt (before principal payments) of $128 million to $138 million, offset in part by the repayment of existing shorter-term debt. That substantial expense may be defrayed by using the "strategic infrastructure fund," an administrative assessment on endowment capital now designated to offset costs for Allston campus development.
"Residents are pushing Harvard to find short-term tenants for its vacant properties in Allston as soon as possible and to implement cost-effective community benefits for the neighborhood. The demands came following Harvard's announcement that economic realities would force it to slow down its development in Allston.
Neighbors packed into the Honan-Allston Library Monday night, Feb. 23 to voice concerns over the slowdown.
For nearly two hours, Chris Gordon, chief operating officer of the Allston Development Group, defended the university's decision to slow down the construction of the First Science Complex because of the recent 30 percent decline in Harvard's endowment."
If you recall, Allston never asked to be saved by its neighbor across the Charles River. Harvard bought up the property through a third party in the 1990s, then began a campaign to soothe the feelings of sandbagged residents.
...what has happened to Allston is jarring. The old Allston was fading away, and the new one is stuck on the drawing board. It is both less than it was and far less than has been promised.
The largely hostile crowd accused Harvard of sucking the life out of a neighborhood now littered with empty university-owned storefronts, and implored the school to impose a moratorium on buying property until it completes a state-of-the-art science complex originally slated to open in 2011.
"You shouldn't be able to land-bank in our city until you develop what you currently own," said mayoral candidate Michael Flaherty, to audience applause.
Residents erupted in anger at the Harvard Allston Task Force meeting last night as they responded to Harvard's recent announcement to slow construction of its science complex. The criticism centered largely around the ambiguity surrounding planned uses for the University's currently vacant properties.
The heated discussion that ensued involved residents both on and off the task force faulting Harvard for neglecting to seek community input in choosing tenants for its vacant holdings.
Community members clamored for Harvard to discontinue its buying of properties until the science complex is complete, but Christopher M. Gordon—chief operating officer for Harvard's Allston Development Group—refused to make a commitment.
Christopher M. O'Connor, the president of Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, is leaving the hospital immediately to pursue other opportunities, according to a spokeswoman for the six-hospital chain.
O'Connor, 38, who was head of the flagship hospital of Caritas Christi Health Care for 2 1/2 years, will continue in a limited consulting role at the Brighton institution. His photo and greeting to visitors were still on the St. Elizabeth's website late yesterday afternoon.
At some universities, the football coach is the highest paid employee. Elsewhere it is a medical school professor or the college president. At Harvard?
The highest paid Harvard employee listed was Christopher Gordon, the chief operating officer of the Allston Development Group, which manages the school's expansion into the Allston neighborhood. He was paid $587,172.
Also reported on Harvard's 2006 1099 form was $17.5 million paid to Behnisch Studio East Inc, the architect hired to design the Science Complex.
The editorial board of the Harvard Crimson writes that the Allston slowdown is "ill-advised" and that "Even in the current environment, these priorities of the school should not have been sacrificed."
The Globe reports on Harvard's landbanking and emptying of Allston.
Some people are looking at Harvard's Allston slowdown and wondering why Harvard hasn't already built more than a hole for the Science Complex. For years, Harvard has suggested that major new museums will someday be built in Allston, but none of those ideas are close to reality today.
What happened to the art building originally proposed by Harvard in 2006? In November 2007, Harvard planners and HUAM director Thomas Lentz spoke with Boston Globe arts reporter Geoff Edgers about their decision to postpone construction of a building in Allston.
The Dow was over 13,000 back then, almost twice its current value, so one could think that money wouldn't have been a limitation for Harvard's ambitions. But financial limitations came into play more than once as Harvard's plans changed.
As Faust's Arts Task Force report makes clear, a year later Harvard is still working on answering the "big thorny questions" that Lentz mentioned to the Globe.
In February 2006, the university disclosed plans to renovate a former bank and add a second building on an Allston site 2.5 miles from the Harvard campus, at 1380 Soldiers Field Road. This site would temporarily house staff, store materials, and serve as a satellite museum while work took place on Quincy Street. Then in December, the university decided to change course because the Soldiers Field Road project was considered too expensive for a temporary home.
When asked whether the projects' costs were a factor in the delay, Spiegelman said, "The decision was driven more by the timing and the planning. But obviously the university is cost-conscious of everything we're doing."
Cost, Lentz acknowledges, is an issue with the Allston project. So are proposals for a range of other cultural facilities in Harvard's expanded Allston campus.
"I think a wider, overriding concern is how it is all going to work in Allston? How do the art museums relate to performing arts facilities or theater facilities or music facilities?" Lentz said. "Those are all big, thorny questions to grapple with."
So even though Harvard seemed publicly certain in its proposals to request zoning approval from the City of Boston in 2006, the Globe story shows that internally the decisions were far from final. This is consistent with Harvard's history of proposing projects that often end up not materializing.
That these projects were left on the drawing board is not a complaint but a recognition of the reality that plans made by Harvard (or any other large, complex organization) are highly subject to change for internal and external reasons. These three projects from the 1997 IMP weren't dropped because of vigorous community opposition. I doubt that more than a few people in the community knew about them or would have cared if they did know.
Harvard's proposals for the art building, the Science Complex, and many projects before them changed significantly after first being proposed. For an outsider to try to find a simplistic and singular explanation for these changes is a tea-leaf reading exercise at best.
One she might not have anticipated was the intense pressure caused by the Allston expansion, according to one person with knowledge of the endowment. Several years ago, the university had envisioned an ambitious capital expansion program stretching for more than a decade. Lawrence H. Summers, then Harvard's president, had raised the possibility of locking in interest rates that appeared to be at historic lows, a plan the university adopted, said several people familiar with the endowment.
All went well at first. But in the second half of last year, interest rates plummeted, and Harvard turned to the endowment to meet hefty collateral calls, which could rise to $1 billion if rates remain weak, according to a person with knowledge of the university. According to a statement Friday from James R. Rothenberg, treasurer of the university, Harvard has taken a series of steps to reduce the risk associated with the transaction.
As Harvard slows down construction in Allston, MIT wants to build 400,000 square feet of office/lab space with ground-floor retail to replace the parking lot at 650 Main Street in Cambridge (just 1.5 miles from Harvard's hole in the ground). Harvard and MIT know how to collaborate on life sciences - they have been doing it for years at the Broad Institute.
If Cambridge neighbors don't want this new MIT building and Harvard alone can't afford to finish construction of the Science Complex, maybe Harvard and MIT could figure out a way to join forces to complete and occupy the Science Complex and everyone wins.
Harvard will finish the foundation and below-ground portions of the Science Complex this year. They will review the design of the four-building complex and consider modifications to the design to reduce cost. After the foundation is complete, Harvard may decide to stop construction.
Harvard's long-term Allston planning will continue but at a slower pace. Harvard will develop plans for interim improvements to existing property.
On Saturday, Feb. 21, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Boston Casting, 129 Braintree St., Allston, will hold an open call for dog owners who want their pets on an Animal Planet television show.
This Animal Planet TV show wants to help you train your dog to do something spectacular right now! We're not talking obedience training here. We're talking about turning your dog into a frisbee catching, trick-doing, dead playing, back flipping, hand standing machine.
Don't worry, your pet does not need to be professionally trained, just obedient.
If you don't have a dog, but instead an amazing cat, bird, or heck...even a giraffe, you still qualify!
Please DO NOT bring your dog to the open call. You will be turned away. Instead, please bring pictures or videos (on DVD) of your amazing pets! If you are unable to attend but wish to be considered, e-mail photos of you with your pup at: dogtricks@powderhouse.net.For more information, call Aaron Kahl at 617-680-6038 or e-mail aaron@bostoncasting.com.
Are you ready to get outside and enjoy spring when it arrives?
Sunday, April 26, is the 27th annual Run of the Charles canoe race, the largest canoe race in North America. It would be great to enter an Allston/Brighton team of 10 people (2 paddlers for each of 5 legs) in the relay race. After the race, which ends at Herter Park in Brighton, there is a festival with live music and refreshments.
Canoeing skill is not mandatory, but wanting to meet and have fun with your neighbors is! Last year there were 110 teams in the relay race from a wide range of Boston-area businesses, government agencies, and others. If a bunch of architects, lawyers, and engineers can do it, so can we!
A few people have already signed up, so we need another half-dozen to put together a team. The early-registration deadline is Thursday, so please email me if you are interested.
(NECN: Boston, Mass.) - A body has been discovered in the Charles River in the area of the Eliot Bridge. Massachusetts State Troopers assigned to the Brighton barracks observed the body after a jogger walked in and reported it shortly before 1pm this afternoon.
Signs of trauma or foul play were not immediately detected, though the state of decomposition could have hindered them.
More details are expected to be released, including gender and approximate age, after an autopsy tomorrow.
New Balance: Re-use of building located at the base of the Everett St. Bridge.
Sports Depot: Cambridge/Franklin Sts. Extension of hours until 2:00A.M.
Sheesha Lounge: Cambridge St. Smoking Bar seeking extension of hours.
Suvarnabhumi Kiri, 90 – 92 Harvard Ave. Request to extend hours until 2:00A.M.
The Harvard School of Public Health has frequently been mentioned for several years as a leading candidate to relocate to Harvard's future Allston campus. But as Harvard's near- to mid-term plans dissipate, HSPH is growing deeper roots in the Longwood area. HSPH recently began leasing a 39,000 sq ft building formerly used as an elementary school.
"With the economic environment making the pace of Allston less certain, we did not feel as though we could pass up the opportunity to lease a significant amount of space so close to our main campus," HSPH Dean Julio Frenk wrote in a letter to the HSPH community.
Boston Public Schools are proposing to modify the current zone scheme used for K-8 school assignment. A/B would move from the North Zone (which spans from Brighton to East Boston) to a new "Zone 2" exclusively for A/B. The draft map and demographic information is online here.
Western civilization prevailed because of its emphasis on equality, Penalosa said. But what constitutes equality in today market economy?
-- Public good prevails over private interest.
-- Equality of quality of life (as opposed to income equality).
-- Waterfronts should never be private.
-- Road space should go first to public transport, and if any space is left over to private cars.
A good city is "where people want to be out of their homes," in public space. And shopping malls don't qualify under Penalosa's definition of happiness, though he suggested they're better than no public space at all.
Penalosa said that beyond food and sleep and security -- the basics -- people need: to walk, be with people, have contact with nature, to play, and "not to feel inferior."
"A good city is not one with great highways, but one where a child on a bicycle can go safely everywhere."
I don't know if the City is using it as a reference, but Boston.com has a map of potholes where you can note the positions of potholes in A/B and beyond.
University officials advanced budget cutting measures at yesterday's meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, suggesting a likely slowdown in Allston construction and preparing to distribute long-awaited guidance for budget reductions to departments and centers later this month.
"Although it is clear that Allston is Harvard's ultimate future, that future is going to be arriving a lot more slowly than we'd thought," she said.
Faust's comment was the first public suggestion that construction in Allston will slow due to the financial crisis.
The Allston project has become a point of contention in recent months due to its hefty price tag and long-term nature, which some argue should make it subordinate to more immediate expenditures.
Faust said the administration hopes to make decisions "soon" regarding the specific timeline for Allston.
Though the University may not face the perils of disease or warfare, wrangling with a fiscal crisis may pose comparable difficulties, said Faust, a specialist in the history of the antebellum South.
The Media Performance Institute on Braintree Street in Allston is offering an afternoon class next week during school vacation for kids 10-15 interested in TV and sports broadcasting.
Wondering how Harvard's empty North Allston/North Brighton land can be put to some use without spending tens or hundreds of millions of dollars on construction? Now that it seems that the chance of new development is receding into the distant future, some creativity seems to be in order.
One possibility would be something like the Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NY (map).
Twenty five years ago it was an abandonded landfill. Today it is home to a variety of public art installations, sort of like an urban version of the DeCordova. They host free Wednesday evening outdoor movie showings and art performances during the summer and a great variety of classes and special activities to promote fitness (yoga, pilates, tai chi) and arts and crafts workshops.
Of course all that doesn't come for free, and Soctrates' expenses in 2006 were $864,000. Certainly here in Allston we could start with much smaller. Regardless of scale, outdoor arts, events, and workshops open to all and of interest to a wide variety of people could be great.
"Socrates Sculpture Park is the only site in the New York Metropolitan area specifically dedicated to providing artists with opportunities to create and exhibit large-scale work in a unique environment that encourages strong interaction between artists, artworks and the public. The Park's existence is based on the belief that reclamation, revitalization and creative expression are essential to the survival, humanity and improvement of our urban environment."
Applications should be distributed and and grant decisions made this spring.
Throughout the years I've enjoyed many meals at Rangoli and many others have too. I'll be sorry to see it go and hope its is replaced by something of comparable quality.
There's a new version of Google Earth! One of the cool new features is the addition of historical imagery that shows how our world has changed. The oldest images for our neighborhood are from 1995, and one of the largest changes visible from above since then was the demolition of the factories and development of the Brighton Mills shopping center shown below.
In November, The Crimson reported that "Though construction for the first science building in Allston, which began this spring, was slated to near completion in July 2011, it is unclear whether this date will be postponed as the University assesses current spending."
Today's edition of The Crimson informs us that Harvard administrators are moving forward with contingency plans in case construction of the Western Ave Science Complex is halted. Since the start of public discussion of the Science Complex, the star tenant for the buildings was to be The Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the immense value of their work was the primary rationale for Harvard's urgency during the City of Boston's Article 80 review and Harvard's request for the Phase One Waiver that was granted by the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act Office.
the Molecular and Cellular Biology department has been told to plan for an evacuation of Fairchild in six to twelve months, suggesting that the University will soon release a more definitive timeline for construction projects in Allston.
"It has to be clear that this is a 'Plan B' in case the Allston campus Science 1 building won't be built or is delayed," MCB department chair Catherine Dulac said."


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Q: Google Sheets Query multi condition sum of time duration I am using Google sheets to record rental data. The table looks like this:
[Client Name] [Product Code] [Product Name] ... some irrelevant columns ... [Rental Start] [Rental End] [Rental Duration] ... some more irrelevant columns

For the [Product Code] column, I need to check if the [Client Name] has over 3 hours of cummulative [Rental Duration] on the same day with the same [Product Name].
I tried using:
=query($A$3:$O,"select sum(hour(M)+min(M)/60) where Year(J)="& year(J117) & " and Month(J) ="& month(J117)-1 & " and day(J) = " & day(J117) & " ",-1)

But the sum() function doesn't accept the time duration format or the hour() function.
I need to use the result of this query as part of a bigger query, where depending on the result I search for a subscription or an other product code.
How can I sum up the time duration in column M?

A: Try converting the column M into explicit numeric format. You can do that using the N() function. As you need the output in hours, you need to multiply this number by 24 (durations as numbers' unit measure is 1 day).
=query({$A$3:$L, arrayformula(n($M$3:$M)*24), $N$3:$O},
       "select sum(M) where ...")

Obviously this is untested, share your spreadsheet if you want a chance for somebody to help with debugging.

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Clean water for the great lakes starts upstream! That's why the Porter County Izaak Walton League (PCC) will be working with the Northwest Indiana Urban Waters Federal Partnership Pilot Project along the East Branch of the Little Calumet River and Reynolds Creek. PCC, along with other governmental and non-governmental organizations, is working to develop urban green spaces, reduce flood risks, improve water quality, and create a vision for greenway preservation and water trail development.
The Property is adjacent to the new Indiana DNR Game Bird Area Reynolds Creek Game Bird Habitat Area.
Both streams are spring-fed, clean water creeks that rise in the Valparaiso Moraine of LaPorte County.
Salmon and steelhead run up the Little Calumet River from Lake Michigan.
Reynolds Creek is thought to still support brook trout, the only stream-dwelling trout native to the Great Lakes. Brook trout are native to small streams, creeks, lakes, and spring ponds; because brook trout is a popular game fish with anglers but depends on cold, clear, well-oxygenated water, its numbers are decreasing as its habitat deteriorates.
Due to its hydric soil, the land adjacent to the streams has great potential for wetland and riparian woodland restoration and education. A small public parking lot and trails will be developed once the land is purchased.
Both streams have been channelized in the past but are restoring their natural sinuosity, riffles, and pools.


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Denver is set to decide on its biggest potential action against ICE yet. Here's how the debate is shaping up - Denverite, the Denver site!
Aug. 02, 2017, 3:17 p.m.
With more than 100 people watching, Denver council members on Wednesday set the city up for a debate about just how far it can go in opposing Attorney General Jeff Sessions and federal immigration agents.
Councilman Paul López and Councilwoman Robin Kniech have been working since April on a proposed new law that would strictly limit the city's cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In a 6-1 decision on Wednesday, a city committee sent that proposal to the full council to consider later this month.
The city's elected leaders have been unified over the last six months in stating their support for undocumented and immigrant communities. However, the sweeping proposal is far from guaranteed to pass, at least in its current form.
For one thing, Mayor Michael Hancock's office recently introduced its own idea: a draft executive order that covers some of the same bases. The mayor's office has described his proposal as broader and potentially more flexible than the council proposal. It "formally removes Denver from immigration enforcement," Hancock said in a statement.
Both proposals say that Denver isn't responsible for enforcing immigration law, and both say that Denver jails should not hold people for suspected immigration violations if they would otherwise be released. They both give permanence to policies that currently are spread out across numerous departments.
"It will be, for the first time, written down in one place that I can show someone," Kniech said.
But there are some differences between the two proposals that have already opened up new debate.
The mayor's proposal may slow Kniech and López's roll.
"There's another option — and, granted, it came at the 11th hour," said Councilman Chris Herndon, expressing skepticism that the López-Kniech proposal would achieve its goals.
Councilwoman Kendra Black joined in a similar line of argument: "I don't want to ever give someone a false sense of security," she said, calling for another committee meeting.
That comment reflects one significant difference between the council bill and the mayor's order. Unlike the ordinance, the mayor's proposal allows ICE to interview immigrants in person in local jails, and it allows ICE to get advanced notice about the release of undocumented immigrants from jail in most cases.
The mayor's proposal appears to comply with a recent threat from the Department of Justice, which says that cities will lose federal money if they don't give ICE release notifications and jail access. Mayoral spokeswoman Amber Miller said that the compliance is unintentional and that the city would in no way bow to the department's pressure.
Kniech and López said they only learned recently about the mayor's proposal.
"We barely knew about it when everyone else did," López said. The mayor's office shared information about the mayor's plan with council on Monday morning, according to the mayor's office. The Denver Post published an exclusive on the mayor's proposal on Tuesday.
Councilwoman Robin Kniech noted that there had been "no formal process" to come up with the proposed draft order, contrasting it with what she and López described as a more involved community process for their own bill.
"There's something special about the legislative process," she said as the meeting opened.
López and Kniech's supporters say they want Denver's immigration stance to be encoded in law, rather than an executive order that could be reversed by the next mayor. By contrast, a city attorney argued to The Denver Post that flexibility could be a good thing in dealing with the federal government.
A spokeswoman for Hancock said that his ideas also were rooted in the community meetings that followed the election and that the mayor's office will keep advocates in that discussion. Both groups of leaders said there's plenty of opportunity to discuss the two proposals.
No matter how it turns out, this much is obvious: Advocates for immigrant rights have successfully made their concerns a focus of local politics.
Correction: It was 6-1, not 5-1.


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Now this guy has balls!
Subject: Now this guy has balls!
Craig 'Lazie' Lynch celebrated his first Chirstmas outisde of prison for the first time in six years. No, he didn't finish his sentence, rather, the criminal managed to escape from Suffolk's Hollesley Bay Prison on September 23, 2009 and has been on the run ever since. But Lynch didn't stop there, since his escape he has been taunting police via his Facebook updates, photos, etc., even going so far as to post a photo of himself celebrating Christmas whilst draped in tinsel, holding a 12 lb. turkey, and flipping another kind of bird in his other hand to the authorities. The caption below the festive photo read, "If any of you was doubtin my freedom. Here's proof. How the f*** could i get my hands on a bird like this in jail. ha ha."
Lynch was serving a seven year sentence for aggravated burglary when he escaped.
Police are monitoring Lynch's Facebook account even working with officials from the social networking service in attempt to catch the criminal who has garnered an astounding 11,195 followers.
As of December 28, Facebook deleted 'Lazie' Lynch's fan page but he has since started another page and even called in for a phone interview for the Channel 5 news in the UK.
Subject: Re: Now this guy has balls!
And the douche even has fan pages too!
Facebook shouldn't have deleted that idiot's account. If an escaped convict wants to publish an online diary of his activities, it can only aid the cops in nabbing him. This guy Lynch will get himself caught. He can't be very bright. I'm surprised a guy that dumb figured out how to escape. The thing is, if he just shut-up and behaved, he would have been set free in a matter of months. He was in the sixth year of a seven-year sentence, right? Now he's gonna get caught and face extended incarceration for escaping from custody. I mean, I could sort of understand an escape if he was in for life, but come on! Oh well, at least he gets his 15 minutes of fame.


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Brassed On!: brass band festival in York, May 1 to 3
30/04/2010 in Organiser, Trombone | Tags: Brass, York | Leave a comment
Charles Hutchinson interview with Kate for The Press – 30 April 2010.
IT began with dutiful motherly support and has ended in Kate Lock putting together York's new festival of brass band music in only four months.
Southerner Kate, green campaigner, writer, Press columnist, burgeoning trombone player and now festival director, has created Brassed On!: a celebration of the musical nectar of God's own country spread over this May Bank Holiday weekend… and all because she took her daughter, Isis, to a music lesson three years ago.
"It was seeing a flyer for free music lessons with the Ebor Brass Band that caught my eye when Isis was nine," Kate recalls. "We went along and they gave her a cornet and then said, 'What are you going to do?', and I said, 'I'm going to read the paper in the corner'. 'No, you're not,' they said, as they gave me another cornet.
"I sounded like a straining heifer at first, but after three weeks I was hooked."
So, too, was Isis, so much so that, having switched to drums and euphonium, she now has aspirations to become a professional drummer. "She plays in two brass bands, three school bands and Yorchestra, so that's where it's taken her already," says her delighted mum.
Kate, meanwhile, settled on the trombone as her instrument of choice and now plays in three bands.
"I didn't get on with the cornet, not everyone does, but playing brass band music has changed my life in a really good way," she says. "I love going out and performing; it has totally sucked me in – and I'm a southerner! I don't think I ever saw a brass band when I lived in Oxford, but now I'm a complete convert."
She hopes Brassed On! will lead to similar conversions with its emphasis on encouraging young people to take up brass instruments through a festival programme that includes a brass showcase tomorrow and massed bands' performance on Sunday in Museum Gardens and a public masterclass and young person's guide to the brass band on Monday at the National Centre for Early Music.
Young musicians from all five York brass bands will be performing under the baton of Mike Pratt, conductor of the Shepherd Group Concert Band in Monday afternoon's concert.
"They'll have done four rehearsals before the day and one more on the day, and we've just mixed it all up so they've all got a chance to shine, and they really seem to be enjoying it," says Kate.
Brass bands also offer a musical experience like no other for young players, she suggests.
"There are instruments in a brass band you don't find anywhere else, like the tenor horn and the baritone horn, and sadly instruments like the tuba – the bass as we call it – are an endangered species," she says.
"In York schools, the number of pupils learning the trumpet is 50-odd, but for the euphonium, the number is one, my daughter; the tenor horn, one, and the tuba, none. So we need to get young people playing these instruments. The bands have this store of instruments that will last forever, so we want to keep them going – and what better incentive than free tuition?"
Brassed On! fact file: brass band music in York
The start: Brass bands have performed at public concerts and social and political events in and around York for more than 180 years. In 1839, Walker's Brass Band, led by former military bandsman James Walker, performed a concert in Yorkshire Philosophical Society's Museum Gardens. Fittingly, 2010 Brassed On! Massed Bands concert will take place there on Sunday afternoon.
Earliest brass band in Yorkshire:In 1833, competent brass and wind players Joseph Bean, Daniel Hardman and James Walker assembled with other players in York to perform hand-written arrangements of popular tunes at "elections and other riotous occasions where noise alone is required".
Filling a vacuum: Brass bands emerged in York after disbandment of York Waites, the official city band, under Municipal Corporation Act of 1835. Hardman, a now redundant Waites musician, co-founded Orange (Whig) band with military bandsman Walker; Bean formed Blue (Tory) band. Both performed at 1833 elections, when York hosted county hustings. Bean's Brass Band played at Lord Mayor's Banquet in 1846; city band played at Lord Mayor's first public banquet in 1850.
Band contests: York and Hull were beacons of such contests. At Burton Constable and Zoological Gardens in Hull in 1857, prizes of £40 were being offered. Soon, York joined in, holding contests at annual flower show. By 1897, 229 contests were held in UK, 26 of them in Yorkshire, including Hawes, Pickering, Bridlington and Sheffield. By turn of 20th century, British Isles had 40,000 brass bands; by 1950, down to fewer than 4,000.
York's early bands: Between 1880 and 1914, several non-conformist bands formed, such as Chaucer Street Mission Band; Layerthorpe Mission Band; York Tramways Band; several Quaker Adult School bands; and bands at Acomb, Clifton and Naburn.
Brass needs brass: Instruments and uniforms were expensive necessities, so brass bands became commercialised. Subsidised Rowntree's York Cocoa Works Brass Band bought entire set of Besson instruments for £169.4s. Bandsmen had to provide music stands, diaries etc; benefit concerts, river trips and work as theatre musicians helped to fund such items. By 1913, York Corporation was underwriting 33 Wednesday and Sunday concerts and granted £200 towards improvements to Knavesmire bandstand.
Bands in York: York Railway Institute Band, founded by Noah Bruce, its leader for 31 years; originally named Chaucer Street Mission Band and later known as York and District Mission and Temperance Band; York Excelsior Brass Band; York Home Guard Band; and Ebor Excelsior Silver Band. Took on name of York Railway Institute Band after allying itself to York Railway Institute; the majority of members being railwaymen by now. Never disbanded in its 117-year history, even in wartime.
York St Paul's Band, later Subscription Silver Band, founded in railway works area of Holgate.
Rowntree's York Cocoa Work Brass Band, formed in 1903 when Groves Wesleyan Band took on new life, going on to perform in London at National Brass Band Championships.
Since 2004, sponsorship has moved from chocolate to bricks as the renamed Shepherd Group Brass Band, whose Senior Band is York's premier brass band, contesting in the first section under musical director Richard Wilton. Players of intermediate level play in Shepherd Group Concert Band under Mike Pratt.
Ebor Brass Band, non-contesting, non-graded band, founded in 1980 by Brian Henderson, who used to teach York Railway Institute learners. Strong tradition for teaching absolute beginners of all ages, with family ethos for parents and children to learn together, at Westfield School, Acomb.
Fresh impetus: 1996 film Brassed Off, directed by York writer-director Mark Herman, brought new audience to brass band music. Tara Fitzgerald playing cornet solo in Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez certainly helped.
Brassed Off in York: York Theatre Royal staged Paul Allen's stage adaptation of Brassed Off in September 2004 to mark 20th anniversary of 1984 Miners' Strike. Fine Time Fontayne, from a South Yorkshire mining family, Andrina Carroll, from a North East mining family, and Andrew Dunn starred; Shepherd Group Brass Band and Harrogate Band played.
• Brassed On! From tomorrow until Monday; on Sunday, members of all five of York's bands will play together for the first time on one stage.


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Le Zoo de Munich (en allemand : Tierpark Hellabrunn) est un parc zoologique allemand situé en Bavière, à Munich. Présentant ses animaux dans un ordre géographique, non systématique, c'est aussi le plus vieux «géozoo» dans le monde. Il abrite non seulement des animaux typiques (éléphants, girafes, rhinocéros, ours blancs, gorilles), mais des espèces très menacées (drills, daims de Perse, gazelles de Mhorr). Le zoo se caractérise par son emplacement proche de la nature dans la zone paysagère protégée près de l'Isar, et il est traversé de nombreux canaux qui limitent les enclos. C'était à Hellabrunn que les frères Lutz et Heinz Heck (directeur du zoo de 1927 à 1969) ont fait des efforts pour reconstituer l'aurochs.

Historique

À l'origine, une partie du site était un moulin du XIVe siècle. Ce moulin d'Untergiesinger, situé plus au sud, a été démoli en 1902, ce qui a permis la création d'un zoo pour Munich. Le parc animalier a ouvert ses portes le . Au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, le zoo a été lourdement endommagé par des bombes et de nombreux animaux ont été victimes des raids aériens. C'est pourquoi il a dû fermer en 1944. En , le zoo a été rouvert.

Aujourd'hui
En 2017, le zoo abritait 18943 animaux représentant 767 espèces
. Le Tierpark Hellabrunn est très actif dans les projets d'élevage, de réintroduction et de conservation.

Plus de 2,5 millions de personnes ont visité Hellabrunn en 2018.

Comme le niveau des eaux souterraines est ici assez élevé et que l'eau est de très bonne qualité, le zoo peut couvrir ses besoins en eau douce en utilisant ses propres puits.

Installations et faune présentée
Le zoo est situé dans le district d'Untergiesing-Harlaching. Intégrée à la zone de conservation du paysage de l'est de l'Isar-Auen, une forêt européenne typique de plaine inondable, il couvre 40 hectares de forêt préservée sur le site.

Le Tierparkgelände s'étend du pont Thalkirchner jusqu'à la Marienklause sur tout le terrain de la plaine inondable, de la pente abrupte à l'Isarufer. Avec ses 25 ponts sur différents cours d'eau et canaux, le zoo de Munich est parfois appelé "Venise des zoos".  De nombreux enclos sont délimités par des cours d'eau naturels ou des douves, afin que le visiteur puisse avoir un regard sans obstacle sur les animaux.

Références

Liens externes

   Site officiel du zoo de Munich

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