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Saturday, 23 January 2021

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Big dams are at risk of collapse, warn researchers

The News International 23 Jan 2021

From the Hoover Dam in Arizona to the Inguri Dam in Georgia, many of the world's most famous dams are risk of collapsing, a worrying new report has warned. Most of the 58,700 largest dams worldwide were constructed between the 1930s and 1970s, making them between 50 and 90 years old, foreign media reported....

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Ageing, unsafe dams growing threat in India too: UN report

The Siasat Daily 23 Jan 2021

The report provides an overview of dam ageing by world region and primary function — water supply, irrigation, flood control, hydropower, and recreation ... According to the report, the world is unlikely to witness another large dam building revolution as in the mid-20th century, but dams constructed then will inevitably be showing their age....

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Fun from top to bottom: A three-story playhouse in Bennington is a grandkid's dream

Lincoln Journal Star 23 Jan 2021

Chris Christen Omaha World-Herald ... Steve, a contractor, used home construction materials throughout the play module ... CHRIS CHRISTEN, THE WORLD-HERALD. “This really was a living, breathing thing,” Kris says of the construction process ... CHRIS CHRISTEN, THE WORLD-HERALD ... CHRIS CHRISTEN, THE WORLD-HERALD ... CHRIS CHRISTEN, THE WORLD-HERALD....

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Punjab launches ease of doing business App

The News International 23 Jan 2021

The provincial minister said that countries around the world were providing facilities to increase investment during the COVID-19 ... The chief secretary said that workshops should be organised for the approval of maps for construction works, awareness of reforms for obtaining permits....

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Lincoln experts collaborate to bring historical nuggets to light

Lincoln Journal Star 23 Jan 2021

They can also show how plots were divided and when dwellings were constructed ... Designed in 1914 by the Woods Brothers Construction Co ... Designed in a simplified Neo-Classical Revival style, the library was constructed in 1914 in the town of College View (now a neighborhood in southeast Lincoln) with funds from an Andrew Carnegie grant....

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‘WandaVision': Our Biggest Questions After That Crazy Third Episode

The Wrap 23 Jan 2021

Age of Ultron.” Her mental abilities, which are derived from the very same Mind Stone that brought Vision to life, are more than capable of constructing this world in her mind — or in someone else’s ... While it seems very likely that this whole world is some kind of mental construct, the more intriguing mystery is the why of it....

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Richard 'Dick' Case

The Scranton Times-Tribune 23 Jan 2021

Richard “Dick” Case, 94, of Clifford Twp., died Jan. 16 at the Carbondale Nursing Center, Carbondale, after an illness ... He was an Army veteran of World War II and retired from R.J. Longo Construction Co. in Denville, N.J., where he worked as a mechanic ... .......

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Ice Palace Maze In Stillwater Made With 500,000 Pounds Of Ice

CBS Sports 23 Jan 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – There’s a new attraction in Stillwater ... So Franz, an architect, got to work, researching ice mazes all over the world. He came up with the design, and after some coordination, it took two weeks for builders to construct the Ice Palace Maze outside the Theatre. “It’s pretty amazing ... And get this ... ... ....

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China risks a Himalayan water war with India

Asiatimes 23 Jan 2021

China-India tensions in the Himalayas is shifting from confrontation and saber-rattling over contested border territory to a potentially more destabilizing conflict over water flows from the world’s highest mountain range. The heart of the issue is China’s plan to construct a ......

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Biden speaks to leaders of Mexico and Canada on trade, migration

Hindustan Times 23 Jan 2021

Biden has sought to largely reverse Trump’s foreign policy, including by rejoining the Paris agreement on climate change and reversing an exit from the World Health Organization. He has also halted some of Trump’s immigration overhauls and construction of the wall on the Mexican ......

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Growing up in Derry: ‘We were carrying trauma right into our bones’

The Irish Times 23 Jan 2021

This is a memoir redolent not just of place and the natural world, but its geography, history and ... “Time is the ultimate part of the natural world but it’s the ultimate part of the human world because obviously it’s a human construct but we can’t halt the cycle of the seasons.”....

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5 killed in blaze at Indian producer of COVID-19 vaccine

Rapid City Journal 22 Jan 2021

PUNE, India (AP) — At least five people were killed in a fire that broke out Thursday at a building under construction at Serum Institute of India, the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, officials said ... Mahol said the victims were probably construction workers....

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Aging dams pose growing threat: UN

Phys Dot Org 22 Jan 2021

The report provides an overview of dam aging by world region and primary function—water supply, irrigation, flood control, hydropower, and recreation ... According to the report, the world is unlikely to witness another large dam-building revolution as in the mid-20th century, but dams constructed then will inevitably be showing their age....