Archive for April, 2006
Ten Commandments display going to trial
Kansas City Star, MO - 22 hours ago… Because the county had allowed other monuments on the courthouse lawn – including tributes to war dead, two graduating classes and Choctaw Indians who died on …
The world’s most famous ‘white elephant’?
International Herald Tribune, France - Apr 26, 2006… Like all great monuments, the Empire State Building shelters meanings that extend … and William Van Alen’s Chrysler Building – gripped the city’s imagination in …
The Grand Old Lady – Testimony Of Miri’s Development
Bernama, Malaysia - 7 hours ago… Lady and accorded her status as one of the state’s important historical monuments. … Taib Mahmud, and the opening coincided with Miri being accorded city status. …
Editorial Briefs
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel – We appreciate City Councilman Don Schmidt s, R-2nd, questioning the cost of the city s plan to hire call specialists and create a central phone bank for callers contacting the city. The upfront cost is about $462,000 to set up the system, and
Plan for Army tank in city park draws concerns
Fort Wayne News-Sentinel – WASHINGTON, Ind. – A proposal to place an Army tank near the war memorial in a city park has some questioning whether it would be safe or appropriate. The tank would join the other memorials and monuments on the “Hill of Heroes” to commemorate war
More movie shoots making New York Hollywood East
Turkish Press – Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore, seen here in January 2006, are filming on the romantic streets of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Long one of Hollywood’s favorite backdrops — though, in recent years, only so far as its grit and flash can be depicted
Thursday, April27
Zanesville Times Recorder – 2. Pro Muskingum, 30-minute massage from Genesis Complimentary Medicine, $30. 3. WHIZ, George Hiotis, 2 tickets to the Cincinnati Reds, on the WHIZ Travel Bus, food, drinks provided, $200. 4. Adult Center for Education, $50 for any class, Nutz
NEWSWEEK’s Mac Margolis took your questions on world travel and the
MSNBC – Every year, some 10,000 vacationers huff their way to the 19,340-foot peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain. Their view is a little different than the one immortalized in Ernest Hemingway’s 1936 story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro;” thanks
No value in MDC building
Boston Herald – C ity and state officials have put the screws to colleges and universities to expand campus housing, and with good reason. Housing students in campus dorms frees up apartments and relieves the pressure on neighborhood rents. So Suffolk University
NFPA 502: Standard for Road Tunnels, Bridges, and Other Limited Access
NFPA 502: Standard for Road Tunnels, Bridges, and Other Limited Access Highways, 2001 Edition
Welcome to Kings County
Information about each of the covered bridges in Kings County, as well as events surrounding the Kings County Covered Bridge Festival.
Papua New Guinea Forum – The Wait For a Road and Bridges Continues at
The Wait For a Road and Bridges Continues at SIMBAI
Guatamalas mysterious monuments
On the far side of the world, rebel CLARENCE CHUA stumbles upon a mysterious place that could have been a refuge from an evil empire far, far away.
Visitors face belt-tightening at national parks
The Bush administration has ordered America’s national parks to show that they can function at 80 percent or less of their operating budgets, and that’s forcing some parks to cut services for visitors as summer approaches.
An Architect of the Sepulchral Rises to the Surface
Starting next week, the Richard L. Feigen gallery will feature the work of Joseph Gandy, a Romantic visionary and inspired illustrator of sepulcher architecture.
First Edition Cycling News for April 21, 2006
In claiming his first major classic on Wednesday, April 19, Alejandro Valverde Belmonte once again demonstrated his incredible versatility on two wheels. The question now being asked is: ‘Does he also have the capability to challenge for victory at the Tour de France?’
Quotes of Many Colors
It takes a unique vision to create a Purloined Passages literary remix. Dreams rarely make sense to those on the outside.
Jungle monuments to time
LITTLE wonder producers of Tomb Raider chose the 12th century temple as a backdrop for Angelina Jolie to strut her stuff.
Panoramas :: The Forth Bridges
The Forth Road Bridge when opened, on 4th September 1964 by Her Majesty Queen … The total cost of the bridge including the approach roads consisting of 13 …
Road bridges – Edinburgh Film Focus
Dean Bridge 1 · Dean Bridge 4 · Dean Bridge 3 · Dean Bridge 2 · Talk to us about this location. Area: Edinburgh Cross referenced with: Road bridges …
Future for road bridges
Tolls abolished on Erskine Bridge and application to raise toll on Forth rejected.
Bridges In The USA And Canada
Hite Road Bridge Over The Colorado River, Utah (Ut 95) … Many of these road bridges have tolls. No sales tax is charged on tolls (or perhaps where …
RIVER ROAD BRIDGE – New Hampshire Covered Bridges
Periodically, volunteers have undertaken the cleaning of the bridge and minor repairs. The River Road Bridge is eligible for listing on the National …
KSAS Introduces Museums and Society Program
Johns Hopkins Gazette, MD - 8 hours ago… this program is certainly to build relationships with the city’s cultural institutions … the program will also explore the roles of historic sites and monuments. …
State faces rural road wreckage
FARMERS across rural Victoria won’t have much time for the State Government’s soon-to-be-announced Transport and Liveability Statement if there is no new money for local roads, bridges or freight rail.
Grand Forks begins recovery, other towns brace for floodwaters
GRAND FORKS, N.D. — Grand Forks is recovering from recent flooding but some towns north of it are still waiting for the Red River to crest.
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MOUNT VERNON The Knox County Board of Commissioners approved awarding of a contract Monday for the replacement of four county road bridges.
Church of Scientology Is Coming to Plant City
Ledger – PLANT CITY — In this town of restored brick buildings, behemoth Christian churches and stately homes, people are whispering. The Church of Scientology is coming to Plant City, of all places. On Monday, the church paid $620,000 in cash for an 11
City buying land to boost arts district
Kentucky Post – Covington is buying blighted property in a crime-ridden pocket of its arts district in hopes the move will aid revitalization and boost the number of owner-occupied homes. Blighted properties near the intersection of Locust and Orchard streets are
Rated R for strong violence, sexuality and language
Northwest Herald – Once you get past the annoying title that strains at cleverness and misses, “Lucky Number Slevin” proves to be an engaging crime romp, even though it aims so hard at wily misdirection you fear the actors may pull some muscles as they bob and weave
Spending for biz building
Calgary Sun – With the city booming, spending on business construction has reached unprecedented levels in Calgary. (CP photo) While housing construction in Calgary is booming, spending on non-residential projects across the city is also at unprecedented levels
City condemns A-frame in park 04-12-2006
Plainview Daily Herald – The old A-frame building near Fifth and Joliet in Lloyd Woods Park will soon fall victim to a wrecking ball wielded by the city, which owns the structure that once housed the Plainview Arts Council. Following a presentation at Tuesday night s
Officials hope new apartments will boost downtown economy
Sentinel & Enterprise – SENTINEL & ENTERPRISE / SARAH BRITAIN U.S. Congressman John Olver, Trish Pistone and State Rep. Jennifer Flanagan speak before the Twin Cities CDC formally unveiled plans for apartments in the TD Banknorth building on Fitchburg’s Main Street, Tuesday
Grand S.F. plans that never came to be
San Francisco Gate – Architect Daniel Burnham envisioned grandeur only shades of his plan survive. San Francisco’s most tantalizing “what-if” after the 1906 earthquake came when civic leaders turned their backs on one of the most ambitious plans ever crafted for an
Is once-scrappy Detroit heading for scrap heap of history?
Toledo Blade – DETROIT – Thirty years ago, Detroit was angrily fighting its reputation as the murder capital of the nation. Things are different today and that’s too bad. These days, Detroit in many people’s eyes is no longer the murder city, but the murdered
West Elm grabs $4.9M in incentives for new store in D.C.
Washington Business Journal – D.C. put up $30 million of incentives for downtown retail attractions nearly three years ago and now the District has finally gotten someone to take a piece of it. City officials announced Wednesday they have reached an agreement with furniture
‘The Horseman’ and the sweep of the limitless steppe at the AKM
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On Stage (Gay)
Washington Blade – ANYTHING GOES is a comedy about Billy, a passenger ship stowaway trying his best to break his object of affection s engagement to a stuffy British nobleman. Shenanigans ensue when he recruits the help of a wanted gangster couple and the ship s
MATT HELMS: Beware more mess on M-14 this weekend
Detroit Free Press – Metro Detroit’s other huge construction project of 2006 is shifting into overdrive this weekend. M-14, undergoing a considerable revamp in Wayne County, has been vexing drivers for a couple of weeks. It’s down to one lane in some parts between Napier
AREA ROADS: Area roads:
Grand Forks Herald – The last open road into Oslo, Minn. – Highway 54 west of town – was closed at 6 p.m. Thursday. North Dakota Highway 54 east of Interstate 29 to the Red River was the last open route into Oslo. Minnesota Highway 1 entering Oslo from the east is closed
RTA announces completion of Jumeirah Palm Island Road Corridor
Press Trust – The Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced the completion of the AED 370 million Jumeirah Palm Island Road Corridor and Access Project, which will aid the free flow of traffic to and from Sheikh Zayed Road and Al Sufouh Road and integrated
I-494 detours start tonight in Woodbury
Pioneer Press – Motorists can expect a big slowdown on Interstate 494 in Woodbury this weekend as road crews begin an interchange reconstruction project at Valley Creek Road. I-494 traffic will be closed between Tamarack and Lake roads beginning at 9 p.m. tonight
In Brief
Albuquerque Tribune – In a heated contest, 10 poets competed for four slots for the 2006 Albuquerque Slam Team. On April 2, in a sold-out show at the Outpost Performance Space, poets Hakim Bellamy, Lee Francis, Jessica Lopez and Damien Flores won the slots to represent
Better roads for Grand Rapids
WZZM 13 – It’s a van that has lasers and high resolution cameras that will analyze every inch of the roads and bridges in Kent and Ottawa counties. That gives road commissions a way to track pavement conditions and figure out when work needs to be done. Don
Friday, April 7, 2006
AccessAtlanta – We undershot the mark slightly last week when we joked with rapper Tip T.I. Harris on the red carpet at the ATL premiere that he was having the best day ever. Try best week. T.I. s latest album, King, released March 28, sold