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Water everywhere, tends to do that.

A broken sprinkler system created a disastrous domino effect where crews were forced to make emergency repairs, leaving tenants out in the cold.

No water, no heat, no electricity...India Guerrero says it's horrible.

About a dozen tenants in the Morrisania section of the Bronx are displaced.

"It's a disaster. I'm tired. Management knows about the problem, but they don't want to do anything about it," said Renald Deleon, a tenant.

"To be safe, we close everything to be safe. Because if something happens then we save a life," said Jose, the building's super.

The building's super says unfortunately these things happen, but the timing of course is bad. It's brutally cold outside.

The Office of Emergency Management helped organize a team of firefighters, Building Department, Con Edison, and Housing Preservation workers along with the Red Cross.

"Just waiting for numbers. Waiting for the Buildings Department and HPD to get more information about how many people are affected," said Brian Green, of the Red Cross.

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Sheds have been burgled

Anthony Carroll Tuesday, March 10, 2015 4:49 PM

Police are appealing for information following a spate of shed burglaries in Brockdish, near Diss.

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Between 3pm on Saturday, February 28 and 9.15am on Sunday, March, forced entry was gained into six allotment sheds on Church Road.

Items taken from six sheds included two lawnmowers, a rotavator, a strimmer, two iron bench ends, a garden hoe and a number of forks and spades.

Officers would like to speak to anyone who may have seen or heard anyone acting suspiciously in the area between the times stated.

Anyone with any information should contact PC Jim Squires at Harleston safer neighbourhood team on 101, or alternatively, call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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Curator Katie Yuill poses with the Girls in the Tin Shed exhibition at Sydney University Gallery. Photo: Steven Siewert

Decades before Banksy took political messages, made them sexy and infiltrated society with street art, a group of Sydney women were already on the case.

The University of Sydney's Tin Sheds workshop space was a hotbed of female artistic expression, producing an arsenal of posters tackling feminist issues, anti-nuclear crusades and Aboriginal land rights.

To tie-in with the 40th anniversary of International Women's Year, Girls at the Tin Sheds: Sydney Feminist Posters 1975-90 is an exhibition featuring 76 posters from a vault of more than 800 which vividly depict the discourse of the time.

Tony Robertson's History I . Photo: Sarah Thomas

Artist Marie McMahon, who has several works in the exhibition, says they saw themselves as outsiders to the mainstream art establishment, inspired by acts like the Sex Pistols and the Clash.

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"There was a lot of rather dry propaganda around but I think we brought a bit of aesthetics and excitement to the way we presented ideas," McMahon says.

"A lot of it is rough. You look back and think, well, yeah, the printing was pretty dodgy and some of the design could be a bit amateurish at times but there's also that energy, there's that spirit that comes out of that roughness."

Marie McMahon's A Stitch in Time Saves Nine encouraged men to be equally responsible for birth control. Photo: Sarah Thomas

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I came late to Seraphina, Rachel Hartman's first book only discovering that gorgeous story in preparation for reviewing its sequel. I fell deeply in love with it, and have been pressing it into peoples' hands and climbing rooftops to shout about it since: half-human, half-dragon Seraphina and her wonderful voice, by turns wry and vulnerable; the rich, musical world of her country Goredd and its surrounding nations; the brilliantly original dragons and the tensions in their own society and philosophies. It was pitch-perfect, so far as I was concerned which made me rather nervous about approaching Shadow Scale. Suppose it didn't live up to its predecessor?

It turns out that "living up to it" is the utterly wrong frame for the question. Shadow Scale is less a sequel than it is another stage of development: it outgrows Seraphina and sheds it like a skin. Seraphina was about finding acceptance in a scornful world; Shadow Scale is about self-examination, challenging your own assumptions, discovering all the ways in which you can be unbalanced and changed by new information.

Shadow Scale picks up where Seraphina left off, with the Queendom of Goredd coming to terms with the existence of half-dragons, a civil war among the dragons themselves after an act of betrayal, and the risk of that war spilling across their borders. 40 years of peace have left Goredd's dragon-fighting abilities depleted but Seraphina and her fellow half-dragons may hold the key to protecting it with their unique abilities.

Shadow Scale exceeds the bounds of Seraphina in several ways: geographically it moves outwards beyond the bounds of Goredd, and philosophically it delves deeper into conventional wisdom to find the ways it's anything but. This dazzled me: When so much of the work of a fantasy setting is in establishing how it differs from ours, it's refreshing and exciting to see an author put real effort into showing the tension and diversity that world contains. I loved that it's travel that reveals this: There's absolutely nothing like a journey for unmooring us from our certainties and assumptions, and it was mesmerising to see Seraphina and her companions experience that unmooring as they travel to the neighboring nations of Ninysh, Samsam and Porphyry in search of more half-dragons.

Without giving too much away, I want to say that this book's villain is one of the most terrifying I've encountered: Genuinely charismatic, ruthless, the kind to slide a knife into your belly while cooing about how much she loves you and wants only the best for you. So many fantasy villains are abstracts, absolutes against which the heroes strive, but the villain here felt jarringly, frighteningly real. She'll make you think of the monsters you know, the people who inspire bewildering love even as they work at destroying everyone around them.

I also loved, with a passion verging on the desperate, the fact that this fantasy world contains people of color, trans characters, gay characters, and languages that acknowledge multiple genders. You'd be forgiven for thinking that the half-dragons of Seraphina are a metaphor for Tolerance and Acceptance, that a reductive allegory is at work, but no, it's so much more than that: Shadow Scale demonstrates that all these other ways of being are present and accounted for in the magnificent tapestry of its world.

Seraphina cast its protagonist into the role of teacher: a young woman caught between worlds and able to explain and understand both while belonging completely to neither. In Shadow Scale, Seraphina's challenge is to understand herself, to question her history, and to grow. It raises the stakes of compassion, understanding, kindness, and goes to some much darker places than Seraphina but that too is a function of its growth. Ultimately Shadow Scale is about the painful truth that sometimes you don't get to keep everything you love; things have to change. And sometimes, the change itself has to be enough.

Amal El-Mohtar is the author of The Honey Month and the editor of Goblin Fruit, an online poetry magazine.

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Raw sewage from a broken pipe flowed into Lost Lake in Mahtomedi on Tuesday.

It took the Metropolitan Council's Environmental Services team more than six hours to clean up the spill, starting two hours after the leak was reported, officials said.

They aren't saying how much sewage leaked into the 10-acre lake but estimate up to 40,000 gallons.

Residents say this was the second leak from that pipe since October.

The Met Council has now taken the damaged sewer pipe out of service permanently.

They are planning to start work this year draining and cleaning the sewer and filling it with grout.

Met Council Environmental Services will monitor the lake's bacteria levels until they are normal.

Officials don't anticipate any long-term effects from the spill, but some residents are concerned the sewage will leak into their drinking water.

"I have on-site well and septic here and I'm worried this is going to get into my drinking water," resident Tim DeWuske told KARE11.

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4.A recent report showed that suspensions and expulsions of the youngest students in Connecticuts school are on the rise. A bill before the education committee would require in-school suspensions only -- no out-of-school suspensions -- for children below third grade. The committees public hearing is at 11:30 a.m. in LOB room 2C. The full agenda is here.5. Promoting the theme Paid Family & Medical Leave: Not Only a Womens Issue, the annual Womens Day 2015 at The Capitol, hosted by The Permanent Commission on the Status of Women, is being held Wednesday. The event starts at 10 a.m. (with coffee being served starting at 9:30 a.m.) in LOB room 2D. The guest speaker is author and financial literacy expert Neale Godfrey.

Also: The weather may be downright balmy outside compared to the last few months, but there are signs of spring inside, too. The annual Friends of Connecticut State Parks day is Wednesday and the group will have an informational display manned by volunteers on hand in the LOB concourse from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Editors Note: Our list is a snapshot each morning to start your day. Events change quickly. Check The Courants Capitol Watch blog for the latest news and the Connecticut General Assembly Calendar for the latest updates in the schedule and agendas.

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