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Palmyra's Arch of Triumph recreated in London

Edit BBC News 19 Apr 2016
A replica of a 1,800-year-old Syrian monument destroyed by so-called Islamic State in Syria has been erected in Trafalgar Square ... It will travel to cities around the world after leaving London ... 'Common heritage' ... Palmyra ... One of the most visually striking pieces at the gallery is by British artist Piers Secunda, who creates moulds of bullet holes made by so-called Islamic State militants and casts them in replicas of ancient reliefs ... ....

Community Groups and Youth Receive Prevention Innovation Grants (Government of Nova Scotia)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
Government of Nova Scotia) The development of a community-based sexual violence prevention and education working group, and youth-led prevention programs are among the projects in the Antigonish, Sydney and Whitney Pier areas receiving grants through the Sexual Violence Strategy ... Whitney Pier areas receiving grants through the Sexual Violence ... Derek Mombourquette, MLA Sydney-Whitney Pier, on behalf of....

Community Groups and Youth Receive Prevention Innovation Grants (Nova Scotia Department of Community Services)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
Nova Scotia Department of Community Services) The development of a community-based sexual violence prevention and education working group, and youth-led prevention programs are among the projects in the Antigonish, Sydney and Whitney Pier areas receiving grants through the Sexual Violence Strategy ... Whitney Pier areas receiving grants through the Sexual Violence ... Derek Mombourquette, MLA Sydney-Whitney Pier, on behalf of....

Audi, White Birch advance to U.S. Open polo semifinals

Edit Palm Beach Post 18 Apr 2016
Audi and White Birch advanced into Wednesday’s semifinals of the 112th USPA U.S ... Audi, the 2009 U.S ... Teammate Gonzalito Pieres also scored six goals for Audi. Pieres has 64 goals in 11 games. “We set a goal and we finished good,” said Pieres, a 9-goaler ... Grand Champions Polo (Alex Webb, Tincho Merlos, Nic Roldan, Juan Bollini) will play Aspen Valley Polo Club (Grant Ganzi, Juancito Bollini, Gonzalito Pieres, Sebastian Merlos). Elsewhere....

Boats set to parade in celebration of the Queens 90th birthday (Dorset County Council)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
(Source. Dorset County Council). Royal Dorset Yacht Club are organising a boat parade to celebrate the Queen's 90 birthday ... The lighting of the beacon will take place at 7.30pm and will be visible from Weymouth's Stone Pier and Nothe Gardens. Parade schedule.. 10am Normal bridge lift. 10.20am RNLI demonstration off Weymouth pier-head ... 10.45am All participating boats in 'assembly area' between Old Pier and Bowleaze ... Original Document ... (noodl....

Celebrity Threesome Injunction TV Argument Between Piers Morgan And Evan Harris Spills Into Twitter Spat

Edit Huffington Post 18 Apr 2016
Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan held a fiery debate on live TV with Hacked Off campaigner Evan Harris over the "absurdity" of the law allowing the celebrity threesome injunction ... Harris disagreed, saying that few people have as many Twitter followers as Morgan, and therefore wouldn't "go to prison over Piers ......

Monitoring Hamasen Air Quality to Show the Effect of the Trial Eco-Mobility Control Measures (Kaohsiung City Government)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
[News of Kaohsiung] The Transportation Bureau of Kaohsiung City Government has collaborated with the Environmental Protection Bureau to conduct air quality monitoring from April 4 to April 10, 2016 at Gushan Ferry Pier, Cijin-Gushan Ferry, Hamasen area, and Sizihwan tourist coach restricted area ... the Gushan Ferry Pier during April 2 to April 5....

Army Corps invites shutterbugs to submit photos (USACE Detroit District)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
(Source. USACE Detroit District). DETROIT - Do you have great pictures from visits to the Soo Locks, Duluth Ship Canal or from a beach near a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers pier or break water on the Great Lakes? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, invites you to enter your pictures in our photo contest ... Army Corps of Engineers projects, including piers, break waters or facilities on the Great Lakes ... -30- ... (noodl....

Mexican Tall Ship to visit New London (USCG - United States Coast Guard)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
(Source. USCG - United States Coast Guard). NEW LONDON, Conn. - The ARM Cuauhtémoc (kwawˈte.mok), tall ship of the Mexican Navy, will visit New London May 2-6 ... An informal welcoming flotilla is expected to be on hand to greet the ship, followed by a welcoming ceremony at City Pier with a musical greeting from the Coast Guard Band ... The Cuauhtémoc will be open for public tours at City Pier Monday, May 2 from noon to 4 p.m. and from 10 a.m....

It could cost $3 billion to prevent disastrous earthquake damage along San Francisco’s Embarcadero

Edit The Los Angeles Times 18 Apr 2016
severed access to the ferries; damaged piers, wharves and the buildings on top of them; distorted streetcar tracks; big cracks in the Embarcadero roadway and promenade; and disrupted utilities ... The Exploratorium, a science museum at Pier 15, was seismically retrofitted in 2013, based on recommendations by structural and geotechnical engineers, said spokeswoman Shannon Eliot....

Scarborough RNLI’s temporary shop is going places (RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
(Source. RNLI - Royal National Lifeboat Institution). For the last few months, Scarborough RNLI's temporary shop has been positioned in front of the building site of the new lifeboat house. With construction now at an advanced stage, the charity's shop has had to move around the corner onto West Pier. Run by volunteers, it is scheduled to reopen on West Pier tomorrow (Saturday 16 April) ... RNLI Media contacts ... Notes to editors ... (noodl....

(4-18-16) Old Bay Bridge Lives on Through Art and Recyclin (California Department of Transportation)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
(Source. California Department of Transportation). Date. April 18, 2016PR# 16pr037. District. 4. Contact. Leah Robinson-Leach. Phone. (510) 715-6730. OAKLAND - Caltrans is carefully and steadily demolishing the old east span of the Bay Bridge ... The second of five, 504-foot long trusses stretching from Pier E4 to Pier E9, the equivalent of approximately one half of a mile, was successfully removed last week. The first was brought down in February....

Authorities searching for two missing swimmers in Green Cove Springs

Edit The Florida Times Union 18 Apr 2016
Authorities were searching for two missing swimmers in the St. Johns River in Green Cove Springs Sunday night. According to Officer Kimberly Robinson with the Green Cove Springs Police Department, one man initially jumped off the pier at Spring Park to swim to a floating dock. Once in the water, he started struggling to get to the dock. His friend then jumped into the river to help him. Both went under ... read more ... ....
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