But it’s too tight this year; maybe next year.’ This is one of those things like capacity-building with people ... “It’s basically about beginning to think of disaster risk as a core planning activity so that when countries invest in infrastructure they’re not building a hospital in a flood zone or establishing communities in areas vulnerable to storm surges and are not creating risk but identifying ways of reducing it,” he said....
Papa Wemba, a musician known around the world as the king of Congolese rumba, has died following a collapse on stage during a concert, officials said. He was 66. Culture MinisterBaudouin Banza Mukalay confirmed the musician’s death on Sunday, calling it a “great loss for the country and all of Africa.” ... He was taken to a nearby clinic, but couldn’t be resuscitated ... Keywords....
The country's opposition leaders and international civil society groups have already dismissed Sunday's vote as "not credible". PresidentTeodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo faces six mostly unknown opponents, with most of the opposition boycotting the poll ... Critics accuse the 73-year-old of failing to distribute the country's oil wealth to the population of about 700,000 ... In the last election in 2009, Obiang won 97 percent of the vote....
Kim Kardashian attended a friend’s wedding this past weekend and she captured the night’s events with some racy images that are definitely NSFW... 001. A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on Apr 23, 2016 at 6.05pm PDT. 014 ... 006 ... He married model IsabelaRangel ... ....
The two prom-goers who were wounded were shot as they exited the building, according to EricRoller, the chief of police in Antigo, a community of about 8,000 people roughly 150 miles north of Milwaukee.Map locates Antigo, Wisconsin, site of a shooting at a prom; 1c x 2 inches; 46.5 mm x 50 mm; ... (Fred Berner/Antigo Daily Journal via AP) MANDATORY CREDIT....
(Source. Buena Vista University). April 22, 2016 ... According to Dr ... Wiese was nominated for the honor by BVUPresidentFredMoore, a member of IowaCampus Compact, a statewide association of Iowa college and university presidents who are committed to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education by educating students for active citizenship and building strong communities ... OriginalDocument ... (noodl. 33225306) ....
True to its Hard Rock roots, the SeminoleHard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Fla., is a larger than life destination – an adult playground for lovers of gaming, music, shopping and dining ... Kuro opened in March 2015 at a reported cost of $12 million inside the hotel and casino complex ... Mission accomplished ... Some fan favorites ... “It’s wonderful new take on scallops that features yuzu jelly, young ginger and sea salt,’’ Becker said ... ....
Once doused after three hours of fire-fighting, the fire reignited in the commercial building around 10 p.m., and efforts to put it out were on ... Firemen said getting access to the building was challenging as the entire area had been used for parking. The parking barricades had to be demolished by them to reach the building, their seniors added....
Fire at PearlsBusiness Parkbuilding Sunday ... A fire broke out in the multi-storey Pearls Business Park building which houses several commercial establishments in Netaji Subhash Place late afternoon Sunday. Several people, including some security guards who were trapped inside the building, were rescued by fire officials. Police said while there were no causalities, the building suffered some damage....
The boundary of the building is merely seven metres away from the river ... A large number of mangroves were allegedly destroyed for the construction of the building in violation of the KeralaConservation of PaddyFields and Wetlands Act 2008 ... The portion where the river has been marked as a stream in the building plan was approved by the authorities....
"This is about providing a forum for descendants of the Anzacs to form up and to march behind their battalion banners, as their ancestors asked them to do," said David Laird, whose grandfather Fred Laird served with the 7th battalion at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. ... "These banners have been handed down for the last 80 years and are cherished ... . . . ....
Building a bus terminal seems easy. It’s just a building... it took from 1939 to 1951 to plan and build the initial building, smaller than today’s, for about $220 million in today’s dollars ... The Port Authority cannot stop bus traffic while it builds a new terminal, so it probably needs to build a temporary terminal in the meantime ... build a bus terminal in New Jersey, and build a rail link from Jersey into Manhattan....
About two dozen visitors to downtown Detroit took a noon tour of the art deco Guarding Building on Sunday. The Guardian was completed in April 1929, six months before the start of the Great Depression, which ended Detroit’s building boom of the 1920s....
Dan Carter moved one step closer to completing the clean sweep of world rugby’s premier trophies, booting Racing 92 into the European Champions Cup final ... Here was the England game-breaker's chance to prove he is back to his best ... The some-time England stand-off stepped inside Carter for a dazzling half-break, and never properly recovered, departing gingerly with a leg problem ... ....
“The CEDM lacks a spacious building forcing the management to conduct classes at private buildings...The State government had constructed a multi-storied building adjacent to the Haj House and aims to lease out the building to commercial establishments ... ....
Environmentalists would have you believe that microbeads of plastic found in face wash, body wash, and toothpaste are a hazardous threat to our local waterways, marine life, and the fish from Lake Huron and Lake Erie. A new law, the Microbead-Free Waters Act, co-sponsored by Rep.FredUpton, R-St. Joseph, will ban microbeads from consumer products by mid-2017 ... These represented the six species most likely to consume microplastics ... Why? ... G....
This, despite the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) making RWH mandatory in its revised building bylaws back in 2009 and BangaloreWater Supply and Sewerage Board (BWSSB) amending rules to make RWH mandatory for all new constructions on sites measuring 30 ft x 40 ft and existing buildings on 60 ft x 40 ft sites ... The penalty will double after three months and will be collected till the building adopts the system....