Crane

LAKE CLEAR — U.S ... Schumer said the wildlife had been “wiped out by selfishness” by coal fire plants that were practically designed to pollute ... As Schumer spoke, members of the crowd stopped listening and craned their necks to see a common loon diving and resurfacing in water to fish, a sign of life for birds and fish ... Pollution, he said, creates “externalities,” side effects of a company’s production which are paid for by someone else ... ....

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Down-to-earth appeal of Tyagaraja's songs

The Hindu 26 Jul 2018

“Neeti kaki meenu munuga niratham udaya snanama, theta kanula konga gurchaa deva deva dyanama? Gahana munanu kothulunte ghanamau vana vasama ? Patramulanu meyu meka balamaina upavasama? (Crows and fish always dive into water. Can we say that they are doing their morning ablution? If the crane waits with half-closed eyes to catch fish, can we say it ......

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Skyscraper’s Brainless Blockbuster Thrills

National Review 11 Jul 2018

About the closest he comes is when, after he climbs 100 or so stories on a construction crane, smashes a hole in the side of a Hong Kong skyscraper three times the height of the Empire State Building, and dives into the building from the crane, his trapped wife (Neve Campbell) asks how he got there....

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Boskalis appoints former DeepOcean CEO as energy division leader

Splash24/7 03 Jul 2018

In anticipation of this we are investing considerably in our offshore energy activities, as demonstrated by our recent investments in diving support vessels and a crane vessel, as well as ......

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Eddie Vedder reunites with the cameraman who helped his death-defying stage dive

NME 18 Jun 2018

"He hasn’t been angry at me this whole time, and I just feel so fuckin’ forgiven.”. Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. Eddie Vedder has revealed how he reunited with the cameraman who aided one of his most famous stage dives. As Pearl Jam played PinkPop Festival in 1992, Vedder climbed onto a camera crane that was filming their performance – before undertaking a death defying dive into the crowd ... ....

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Audio: How soundscapes are helping us better understand animal behavior and landscape ecology

Mongabay 13 Jun 2018

The Mongabay Newscast previously looked at how soundscapes are being used in phenological studies when we talked about the great Sandhill crane migration on the Platte River in the US state of Nebraska. Today, we take a deeper dive into soundscape phenology with researcher Anne Axel, a landscape ecologist and professor ......

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AT LAST Olmsted Locks and Dam opening planned Aug. 29

The Paducah Sun 26 Apr 2018

The impact of the long-awaited opening of the Olmsted Locks and Dam this summer will be felt far beyond Locks and Dams 52 and 53, which it will replace on the lower Ohio River ... A ribbon-cutting is planned Aug ... Construction on the project included about 1.5 million construction man-hours each year, 50,000 hours of crane operations. The project has also totaled more than 14,000 hard-hat dives to date, according to Nichols ... ....

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Olmsted Locks are opening to benefit Ohio River traffic

The Paducah Sun 13 Apr 2018

The much-anticipated opening of the Olmsted Locks and Dam later this summer will greatly increase traffic on the lower Ohio River, particularly in and around Paducah. Capt. Jeremy Nichols, the U.S ... "We go to D.C ... In an overview of construction on the project, Nichols said there have been about 1.5 million construction man-hours each year, and 50,000 crane hours. "We've done more than 14,000 hard-hat dives to date ... Limestone is the No ... ....

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Art students let imagination fly in ‘Bat Book’

The Davis Clipper 02 Apr 2018

“Bats have been a part of Layton High for a long time but this year was the worst,” said art teacher Chad Crane ... I was sitting at parent teacher conference and bats were diving down while janitors rushed around trying to get them out ... Crane said he decided to have the students reinvent the bat ... “The poems are more of a metaphor of the highs and lows of teaching,” said Crane ... “We have six candidates for the bat scholarship,” said Crane....

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The ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ Live Concert Was Absolutely Incredible

The Daily Beast 02 Apr 2018

We were part of the live audience ready to be taken to church by John Legend and company ... NBC. We found Jesus, and he is John Legend ... It’s Easter Sunday ... Using sweeping cameras on cranes and strategic handheld contraptions that let cameramen dive into the ensemble, the telecast, when we watched back after returning home, managed to capture the electricity of the live experience, zooming in for nuance but never sacrificing the scope ... ....

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NIAS to host spring waterfowl trip

Journal Standard 25 Mar 2018

FORRESTON — The Northwest Illinois Audubon Society will host a trip to view migrating waterfowl on the Mississippi River south of Savanna.The group can expect to see a variety of both diving and dabbling ducks with breeding plumage, grebes, bald eagles, sandhill cranes and some early songbirds. Tundra swans may also be observed.The group will have lunch in Thomson and travel to Lock and Dam 13 in the afternoon ... ....

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What About Bob?

York News-Times 23 Mar 2018

I went dumpster-diving for a dear, un-named, friend in a Casey’s dumpster in Aurora, for, of all things, her lower bridge (teeth) ... Only for a dear friend would I have done diving of any kind, and only for a dear friend would I tell this story I swore not to tell!. Sandhill crane migration is still in its peak period, from now until approximately through the first week of April....

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Russia's Black Sea Fleet receives new ships of various types since 2015

China Daily 21 Mar 2018

The commander also noted that the Black Sea Fleet was replenished with two powerful new-generation towboats, modular diving platforms, a powerful floating crane, and a number of other support vessels, which immediately began to perform tasks in the Mediterranean and Black Seas ... ....

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