Sentences with phrase «shelters built from»

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Signs on building throughout New York City are all that's left of a widespread government effort to shelter millions of people from the fallout of a nuclear attack.

The Global Seed Vault in Norway was built to shelter millions of crops from any potential natural or man - made disaster.

«I sat here and watched my house start coming apart,» Kendrick said, who sheltered with city officials in public building a block from his house.

They give Americans their peculiar folkways and mores, their public behavior and private opinions, the patterns of their social skills and know - how about everything, from building a family fallout shelter to performing the latest dance step.

The Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, also mentioned by Bartley, saved tens of thousands of Jews in Nazi occupied Hungary from the Holocaust by sheltering them in buildings designated as Swedish territory and by issuing them with protective passports.

The good news is that thousands of World Vision staff from around the world will continue their good work today - building wells, providing life - saving vaccinations, caring for Syrian refugees, partnering with communities to develop business and agricultural opportunities, lifting families out of poverty, and feeding, clothing, and sheltering vulnerable children.

If these moments are like bricks that build a solid shelter around us, well then I feel so lucky to have such a strong foundation to start from.

Ravinia Neighbors board members said they've sought compromises: If the interpretive center must be built, perhaps it could be constructed on a nearby bluff where it would be better sheltered from the elements.

The district recently received a $ 100,000 grant from the Illinois FIRST program that will be used to build restrooms and a picnic shelter as well as install walking paths and a drinking fountain.

Dozens of residents were evacuated from the building, with several displaced families relocated by the Red Cross to hotels and shelters.

Aside from operating shelters, BEDCO also runs cluster site housing, where homeless families are placed in apartment units in privately owned buildings.

In April, the city opted to kick out roughly 200 homeless New Yorkers from a two - building emergency shelter on the Upper West Side, freeing up at least 100 affordable housing units slated for low - income residents, as previously reported.

The city is vacating roughly 200 homeless New Yorkers from a two - building emergency shelter on the Upper West Side, freeing up at least 100 affordable housing units slated for low - income residents, according to a report.

Known for her efforts to prevent the city from building additional homeless shelters in the area, Adams also wants to fight for housing equity.

A second shelter in the neighborhood last week was hit with a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit filed by Crown Heights residents one day after the first 10 families moved into the building at 267 Rogers Ave.. The shelter is barred from accepting more families at least until a June 2 court date, a judge ruled last week.

One plan to build a shelter in a residential zone is being met with pushback from neighbors.

Regardless of whether the building is used as a hotel or a homeless shelter, Senator Marty Golden said it just doesn't make sense at the proposed location, especially considering it's right across the street from P.S. 104, an overcrowded school with more than 1,300 students.

Others worried about services for the homeless population already in the area, saying that men from a nearby shelter are often seen roaming public housing buildings during the day.

The injunction was submitted by the Chelsea Flatiron Coalition, one of several groups opposing the homeless shelter, to prevent the building from opening before a hearing with the Department of Homeless Services July 22.

Trump has made several campaign promises around immigration, including building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, deporting 11 million undocumented immigrants, imposing financial penalties on sanctuary cities that shelter undocumented immigrants, and banning Muslims from entering the United States.

Crowley sought to link Holden to President Donald Trump and Holden accused her of not doing enough to prevent the city from building homeless shelters in the district.

PSEG, who took over from LIPA, then attempted to convince the Shelter Island Town Board that building an electrical substation here was in the best interests of the Island for reliable back up power.

Holden claimed that she did not do enough to keep the city from building homeless shelters in the district.

To introduce a unit on photosynthesis, for instance, he launches into a story from his childhood about building a fallout shelter with a friend after seeing a TV movie about a nuclear attack.

Even so, the «flic - flac» spider, Cebrennus rechenbergi — famous because it can cartwheel quickly across the desert — builds a tunnel 25 centimeters deep and uses it daily for shelter from Morocco's hot sun.

The design, which features reinforcements at the base of a large stilted building to help prevent damage from powerful tsunamis, aims to provide a new city hall and vertical - escape shelter for 1,500 people

During the storm, three broadcasters from the mobile unit of a local radio station were reporting live on the scene and had to take shelter in the basement of a stone building.

Long before meteorology became a national spectator sport, 12 - year - old Joshua Wurman built a makeshift weather station in his backyard in a suburb of Philadelphia, erecting a wooden shelter to shield his instruments from the elements as they captured temperature and relative - humidity readings.

The researchers found that Zika targeted two specific cell types in mice: spermatogonia, which make sperm, and Sertoli cells, which are involved in helping sperm develop and sheltering them from the blood and immune system, building what's called the blood - testis barrier.

Earliest evidence of purpose - built shelters — wooden huts — are known from sites near Chichibu, Japan

The moving sand starts accumulating into a sand dune and the dune builds to the point where the downwind side of the dune actually is sheltered from the wind.

Our results show that exposure to at least 250 °C hot surges at a distance of 10 kilometres from the vent was sufficient to cause instant death, even if people were sheltered within buildings.

From mushroom spotting to guided walks, to shelter buildings, there is something for every taste and age.

Build bases from tiny shelters to complex colonies that you create as a team and can be seen by the community

Pretty much all the refugees arriving in Bangladesh are having to build their own shelters, from bamboo and plastic sheeting.

Take Shelter (R for profanity) Paranoia drama about a working - class family man (Michael Shannon) plagued by apocalyptic visions who finds himself struggling with whether or not to have his wife (Jessica Chastain) and daughter (Tova Stewart) hide in a backyard bunker he's built as protection from the conflagration he believes is imminent.

Reality begins to blur in his mind and he decides to build an expanded underground shelter, using machinery from work.

A wooden pavilion with bespoke seating was built in a quiet corner to provide shelter from the elements and provide additional outdoor teaching space.

In profiling compelling, young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple's first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle - powered maize shelters in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere.

You may even find yourself debt - free eventually and starting to build a taxable non-registered investment portfolio without a place to shelter the income and gains from tax.

Many TNR groups build insulated shelters to give their local colonies safe, warm places to curl up away from the harsh elements.

To help keep the feral cats in your neighborhood safe from the elements and potential predators, consider building your own shelter.

Two weeks ago in Vinh City, Vietnam, former Maddie's Shelter Medicine Program resident Dr. Katherine Polak teamed up with Adam Parascandola from Humane Society International to deliver a series of lectures and tabletop exercises to help build the capacity of local groups working throughout the country to tackle the dog and cat meat trade.

They muck cages, change litter, tackle a mountain of laundry, answer phones, tally statistics, write grants, take photographs, write up animal stories, build kitty trees, fix the roof, schlep «stuff», paint the building, plan and produce fundraisers, walk in parades, work at events to promote the Shelter, make signs, decorate and clean our facility, take animals to and from the veterinarian, take complaints about animal abuse, make visits to talk with people about humane animal care, and pretty much anything else we need to keep this operation running.

Thank you from the Community Cats TNR Board of Directors — As the Community Cats TNR program begins its sixth year, we wish to thank all who have made donations, helped with and contributed to fundraisers, dropped loose change and bills in to canisters and the participating businesses that welcomed the canisters, to Shop N Save and all who have dropped off canned and dry cat food in the container, and individuals who have donated building materials and built winter cat shelters.

They have absolutely no control over where they came from or if they will live or die and did NOTHING to deserve any of it, I understand over crowding in shelters is a huge issue but doesn \» t it make since that rather than pay BIG many for a specific breed of animal humans should pay that money to adopt an animal which would go to the shelters to either enlarge the facility or build more, paying for feeding and upkeep of this poor babies until they find a loving home.

Follow our advice on building the best kind of shelter and keeping food and water from freezing.

What sets a rescue group apart from other types of animal shelters is that they usually do not have a physical location or brick and mortar building where the animals are housed in one location.

In a project called «Architects for Animals,» founded four years ago by Leslie Farrell, and presented by the Mayor's Alliance for NYC's Animals, some of the city's most renowned architectural firms and designers design and build delightfully original winter shelters for New York City's outdoor «community» cats to provide them with a refuge from the cold.

Even if the animal comes from a professional, well - respected breeder, it causes animals from shelters to build up as people overlook rescue animals for bred puppies.