"According to our investigation committee 1,200 shanties were damaged and out of this 750 shanties burned totally," said Enamur Rahman, junior minister for Disaster Management and Relief.
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The string of sea shanties I heard could have been a natural result of what happens when you tune into the Faroe Islands' shanty-only station, or I could have stumbled upon a special, never-to-be-repeated program: 24 hours of commercial-free shanties, a concession to a pushy loyal listener who loves sea shanties more than anything.
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Here be mythical creatures, political machinations, stormy seas and sunny shanties.
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All the shanties will be cleared by end of this year.
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The riverbank is a jumble of fishing nets, poultry coops and shanties.
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"These shanties have an inherent structure of call and response," Mr. Lederer said.
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Tokyo was in ruins, with much of its population living in shanties. Gen.
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Shanties will have to be uprooted to let roads, railways and power lines expand.
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Projections ripple along the floor to mimic water; sea shanties blend into clan songs.
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In the distance, across the bay, a vast mosaic of shanties spread across the hills.
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Hundreds of shanties were destroyed in the Rupnagar slum in the city's Mirpur area, witnesses said.
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It also brings back the popular naval combat system from Black Flag, complete with Grecian sea shanties.
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You sing it in the ragtime blues, work songs, Georgia sea shanties, Appalachian ballads, and cowboy songs.
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Nairobi, Kenya's capital, which has 2.5 million people living in shanties, has water-supply challenges as well.
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So I posted up next to the helm, whipped out my accordion, and started playing sea shanties.
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Finally, we reached a hamlet of zinc-roofed shanties and parked in front of a small church.
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The clearance came a month after Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode announced plans to evict all waterside shanties.
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Some of the sea shanties had English lyrics; others had what I assume were Danish or Faroese ones.
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The settlement he lives in is one of seven in the town and houses 120 families in 90 shanties.
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The people most affected were poor residents of slum areas and river shanties who rely on fetid river water.
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But it wasn't until a city front loader started tearing down plywood shanties that people started moving in earnest.
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In Libreville, expensive western hotels overlook the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the capital's hillside shanties to the east.
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At El 23, the gardens that were planted after the complex was built have been obliterated by thousands of shanties.
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As such, Ms. Mitchell's score combines folk, pop and Dixieland with rhythmic work shanties and, for the lovers, ethereal arias.
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Jonathan and Drew Scott, better known as the Property Brothers, help people purchase rundown shanties and transform them into plush oases.
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Most importantly, the trailer seems to confirm you can still get your crew to sing sea shanties as they set sail.
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He squinted across the street at a stone cliff that rises, like a castle battlement, some 20 feet above the shanties.
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Price: Varies The book linked above is "Shelters, Shacks, and Shanties: The Classic Guide to Building Wilderness Shelters" by D.C. Beard.
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Though Akuarium, a neighbourhood of shanties, is on the coast, it is impossible to see the sea from its dirt streets.
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Yet even cursory scrutiny of evidence that has emerged so far knocks down assorted GOP arguments like shanties in a hurricane.
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Residents of the area, mostly living in shanties, had been demanding the removal of the dump, saying it was causing health problems.
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In Ahmedabad, city funds have been used to slather white reflective paint over several thousand tin-roofed shanties, bringing down indoor temperatures.
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Think Manchester by the Sea meets Thoroughbreds in this darkly funny tale coming-of-age tale of sisterhood, scored with soaring sea shanties.
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By the middle of the trip, we'd reached the country's eastern tip, and our ride pulled up to some shanties on the shore.
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Some extend for miles, spreading over hilltops and down into canyons, where countless people live in red brick shanties and unpainted cement huts.
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There I remembered the peninsulaof my sea, the breeze opening the waterto no book but dusk; no electricity,just stars pulsing over shanties.
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In moments of leisure, the crew of the Pequod lie in the forecastle swapping tales of women and wandering, singing shanties and dancing jigs.
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The rain brought the wall crashing down on shanties built on a hill slope in Malad, a western suburb, a fire brigade official said.
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Roadside shanties made of corrugated metal and plastic abut new apartment complexes painted fuchsia and lime green; late-model SUVs bounce along potholed roads.
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Spread over roughly 500 acres in the heart of Mumbai, they connect the shanties of this informal settlement, home to about one million people.
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So far, the seaside food scene has remained charmingly low-tech — operating out of sandy-floored bunkers and brightly painted shanties with surfboard racks.
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One by one, the former illegal Roma shanties were turned into legal brick homes and apartment blocks that the Roma either owned or rented.
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Thousands of shanties were bulldozed last week in Kibera, Nairobi's largest slum and home to some 400,000 people, to make way for a road.
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Ader recruited a small group of his students from UC Irvine (all of whom were dressed in black) to sing the shanties with a pianist.
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The dated vernacular of the sea shanties emphasized the gulf between the sea farer (Ader) and those to whom he would later recount his experiences.
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For one thing, the village's own Roma residents have proved vigilant about keeping out illegal shanties, eager to protect their own neighborhood and steady jobs.
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This lucid biography presents a warmer and more socially engaged Thoreau, devoted to his friends and family and fond of belting out sea shanties at parties.
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Greenfield, a fine-art photographer turned filmmaker, has something else in mind, as telegraphed by the aerial shot of ramshackle Manila shanties that starts the movie.
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A city official said 300-350 shanties were demolished with hundreds placed in temporary accommodation, but a local non-government organization estimated 1,500 were left homeless.
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Winds up to 105 miles an hour crushed giant dockside storage silos like tin cans, and whipped tin roofs from the shanties in a nearby slum.
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To go back to that Beyonce comparison, it would be like if Bey, at the peak of her fame, dropped an album of Icelandic sea shanties.
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At the other end of the camp, Mohammad Tahir and his family of six sit outside their tarpaulin shelter, the last in a row of ramshackle shanties.
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Authorities are also clearing vendors and food stalls from the pavements, and removing shops and shanties along the Chao Phraya river in a bid to modernize Bangkok.
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Mr Pattinson and Mr Dafoe enthusiastically take up the challenges of their roles: Mr Dafoe bellows sea shanties and growls dire proclamations from behind his smoking pipe.
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Or why Indonesians in shanties crowding sewage-filled canals went to court in Jakarta to sue the authorities for moving them into new apartment towers miles away.
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They threatened to remove the black families from their sharecropper shanties, fire them from their jobs and call their loans due if their children went to school.
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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode visited the community after the incident and stopped reconstruction of the shanties, the statement said, directing those living on the waterfront to leave "for security reasons".
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Tens of thousands are crammed into rooftop shanties, so-called cage homes with plywood bunk beds, or into tiny partitioned flats averaging just 62 sq ft (6 sq m).
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There are too few sidewalks in Dhaka, and those that exist are often impassable, occupied by vendors and masses of poor citizens who make their homes in curbside shanties.
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We made our way down a narrow road lined with thatch-roofed bamboo-and-concrete shanties, and pulled into the parking lot of the Seagull White Sands Beach Resort.
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Heavy rain brought a wall crashing down on shanties built on a hill slope in Malad, a western suburb of Mumbai, a fire brigade official said, killing 21 people.
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Absolutely. Throughout history, people have used the words "hung over" and "drunk" interchangeably, like in sea shanties where they sing about a drunk sailor and it's obviously he's hung over.
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Many of them live in cities, where the high cost of owning or renting a home forces them to live on the streets or in shanties lacking even basic amenities.
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Official figures from the Pas de Calais region put the total number of people living in tents, shanties, and a new state-run city of converted shipping containers at 3,5003.
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Official figures from the Pas de Calais region put the total number of people living in tents, shanties, and a new state-run city of converted shipping containers at 21,1363.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN)More than 10,000 people have been left homeless after a massive fire engulfed a slum in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, destroying thousands of shanties, according to Bangladeshi officials.
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Snowmobilers come to sled inn-to-inn; "glissades," or sledding runs, abound, from public parks to private resorts; and ice-fishing shanties create pop-up villages of down-padded anglers.
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There were a few real gimmes like PINTA and LISPS, and some long entries clued by cultural references that weren't terribly obscure — SEA SHANTIES was one of those, I'd say.
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Authorities are also removing shanties along the Chao Phraya river to build a promenade, and earlier this year forced out a community of more than 300 people near an old fort.
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The crackdown worked: The small knots of plastic tarps and cardboard shanties that had dotted El Bordo vanished, as did small tent cities that had been set up in nearby plazas.
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Authorities are also removing shanties along the Chao Phraya River to build a promenade, and have forced out a community near an old fort to make way for a public park.
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It made several stops in Khayelitsha and, after passing a densely packed stretch of shanties, some precariously stacked two high, it pulled out of the township on its way toward Cape Town.
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As a result, every year thousands of people struggling with addiction are being sent across the border to Tijuana, where they end up living on the streets, in sewer tunnels, and in shanties.
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Real close grappling with it, she finds, is not to sing the men's sea shanties (though they make her feel temporarily elated again), nor to try lone yachting, nor to swim in it.
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" D.K.: "The men are showboating, they're on the cliffs, they want to be seen, they're drawing a lot of attention, they're making kind of a big deal, cinematically, when they sing their shanties.
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Mumbai's eastern waterfront, controlled largely by the port trust, includes several docks, hundreds of shanties, as well as colonial-era buildings, mangroves and mud flats frequented by flamingos several months of the year.
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He returned to California from shooting a film in Cape Town, a port city in South Africa with more than 22017,000 homeless people living in shanties, only to find the same problem in his own city.
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DHAKA (Reuters) - About 3,000 people in Bangladesh were left homeless after a massive fire consumed several hundred shanties in a slum on the northern outskirts of the capital city of Dhaka, government officials said on Sunday.
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Different from Radhika and most hijras, who spend their years in small, airless shanties with the smell of feces wafting through cracks in the walls, this guru, who calls herself Chandini, rents a relatively large apartment.
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As for the truly indigent, the reason I didn't see them in Harare proper was because they were sequestered in high-density "townships" at the edges of the city—vast shanties where the economy was entirely informal.
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For a while, the Danish director Kristoffer Nyholm (who worked on the original version of "The Killing") is content to hang out with the men as they catch crabs the size of hubcaps and sing sea shanties.
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The authorities are now using "fire safety" as a pretext to drive thousands of other migrants out of the basements, air-raid shelters and shanties where they live (see article)—often by cutting off their electricity and water.
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Thousands of migrants fleeing war, upheaval and poverty in the Middle East and Africa for years camped in shanties around the French port of Calais, hoping to cross the Channel in search of a better life in Britain.
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Over the years, the diver from Hangberg said, he has upgraded his house with the money earned from poaching, adding extra rooms and a watertight metal roof, and it stands apart from the lopsided shanties of his neighbors.
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Across the Arkanabad slum — named after the old designation for Myanmar's present-day Rakhine State — decrepit shanties with temporary walls, often with no doors and windows and unsteady corrugated roofs, serve as homes to more than 100,000 Rohingya.
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He moved to New York and plunged into the emerging folk music scene, performing at the Café Bizarre and singing with Paul Clayton and Dave Van Ronk on the Folkways album "Foc'sle Songs and Shanties," released in 1959.
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Ader had made preparations for a Dutch choir to sing the shanties at the Groninger Museum and had also planned to exhibit photographs of a night walk through Amsterdam, thereby implying that "the miraculous" had yet to be found.
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The "administration is law-abiding ... But that does not mean it will allow indiscriminate erection of shanties on the right of way for roads and other projects," said Gbenga Omotoso, commissioner for information and strategy for Lagos state government.
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The "administration is law-abiding ... But that does not mean it will allow indiscriminate erection of shanties on the right of way for roads and other projects," said Gbenga Omotoso, commissioner for information and strategy for Lagos state government.
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In the case of "One Thousand Shacks," the repetition of these endless small shanties gives the maker a sense of control over the bewildering notion that 20% of the world's populations struggles with the condition of poverty on a daily basis.
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He collected sea-shanties from a gnarled old sailor sitting on a quay by the Bristol Channel, and extracted a treasury of early English songs from villagers in the Appalachian mountains whose ancestors had emigrated across the Atlantic two centuries before.
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In an extension of the village's shanties and tin sheds, the forecourt of the immigration station is now covered in tents and tarpaulins, with clothes drying on railings and smoke rising from cookers made from old tins of baby formula.
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In the post-apartheid South Africa, a third of the population lives in predominantly rural former Bantustans, another third in urban areas that comprise both affluent suburbs and impoverished townships, and the remaining third in informal shanties around formal townships.
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We think of the shanties as the spiritual core of the movie, and it's also this masculine yin to the yang of the film, where you're still feeling the presence of men even though the story is focused on the women.
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MUMBAI, July 2 (Reuters) - A wall collapsed on shanties in India's financial capital of Mumbai on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people as a second straight day of heavy rain disrupted rail and air traffic, forcing authorities to declare a public holiday.
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This is especially true of Hong Kong, one of the wealthiest cities in the world, where tens of thousands cram into rooftop shanties, so-called cage homes with plywood bunk beds, and tiny partitioned flats, averaging just 23 sq ft (23 sq mt).
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The overwhelming poverty of the shanties and tin-roof shacks of Kliptown was sobering — we spent roughly 30 minutes winding through the mazelike, dirt roads, distinguished only by the odd spray-painted wooden board or the rusted-out iron coils of a mattress.
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Members of the moneyed elite whose wealth dates back to the colonial era can take pleasure in access to the new, exclusive Manila House social club, while just over 10 miles away, scrawny boys take a dip in the polluted waters near shanties.
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That said, given the different time period, you'll be flinging arrows and javelins at your enemies, instead of broadsides of cannonballs, which felt a little less impactful — although I'm pleased to report that sea shanties make their triumphant return and this time, they're in Greek.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - City officials in New Delhi have demolished hundreds of shanties in the past week, leaving up to 1,500 people homeless for winter, in the latest of several such evictions this year across the country as officials race to upgrade cities.
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Official figures from the Pas de Calais region put the total in tents, shanties and a new state-run city of converted shipping containers at 3,43, up from 3,500 at the end of March, but well down from the peak of over 6,000 reported in September.
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"While the Otodo Gbame shanties clearly fell within the prime waterfront areas where Lagos state government would prefer to have better development, befitting of a prime area in a megacity, it was mindful of the fundamental rights of the various residents living in the area," he said in a statement.
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Organized by Dr. King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference — and led by Ralph Abernathy after Dr. King's assassination — the campaign brought around 3,000 people from all over the country to a spit of land that would soon be drenched by rains, and filled with wooden shanties and varied attempts at utopian do-it-yourself collectivism.
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My guide, a surly local named Gary, made it all look so easy, even when he chose to do it the hard way—he believed that heated ice shanties were only good for ice drinking, not ice fishing, and that anything invented in the last four decades was totally unnecessary, since his father had been catching fish just fine without it.
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