Tarpaulins shield militants from drones: All along the length of al-Mansour street in central Raqqa is a blanket of massive tarpaulins strung up from the buildings.
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Officials there made urgent appeals for fresh water, food and tarpaulins.
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The tarpaulins are designed to obscure ISIS fighters from coalition drone surveillance.
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Firefighters handed out tarpaulins to residents so they could cover damaged roofs.
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A tangle of torn tarpaulins and human debris is scattered across the desert.
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On their decks were what appeared to be harpoon guns covered in tarpaulins.
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Spokesman Arifin Hadi said people need clean water and tarpaulins most of all.
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A few yards away, a large shelter of tarpaulins rippled in the wind.
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Aid is arriving in dribs and drabs—food, water purifiers, tarpaulins—but not nearly enough.
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Most Dominicans replaced the blue tarpaulins that covered their houses after the storm with permanent roofs.
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A few tarpaulins now provide some shelter from the elements, where a wall used to stand.
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She is now trying to raise funds and get donations such as tarpaulins to the island.
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A thousand tarpaulins were to be distributed to replace roofs, the International Organization for Migration said.
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Under shelters built from branches and tarpaulins, traders in turbans with leathery faces hawk almost everything imaginable.
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They're stored under tarpaulins—hastily erected structures with canvas awnings to protect the fruit from the sun.
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Work had paused on the Hunters' barn conversions, and there were blue tarpaulins battened down across the roofs.
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The next day they moved back to their home, patched up with tarpaulins, along with more than 20 relatives.
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The Swiss company has been making backpacks and messenger bags out of recycled truck tarpaulins since the early 1990s.
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In Amugo camp, new arrivals sleep under loose white tarpaulins as they lack the tools to build proper shelters.
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The hurricane also delayed renovations to the Convention Center, whose adjacent streets are still ringed by barriers and tarpaulins.
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The police carried victims' bodies in tarpaulins to a truck, occasionally drawing loud wails from some of the onlookers.
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Syrians typically pay $100 to a landowner to build drafty, uninsulated breezeblock shelters with flimsy plastic tarpaulins as roofs.
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Villagers fearing aftershocks could be seen camped by the thousands under makeshift blue tarpaulins held together with bamboo and sticks.
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Instead, passengers sit in a floating shanty town on top of the cargo, with tarpaulins to shield them from the rain.
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Tents, tarpaulins, food stalls and solar panels to charge mobile phones are laid out among rows of men bent in prayer.
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Now they face Bangladesh's monsoon season, slicked with mud and soaked to the skin, waiting under tarpaulins with nowhere to go.
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Seeking shade in the 104 degree heat, they sat close together on plastic chairs under tarpaulins for more than three hours.
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A long convoy of military trucks carrying armored personnel carriers under tarpaulins entered the Turkish border town of Akcakale after dark.
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Outside the city's Undata Hospital, patients slept under tarpaulins in the sweltering heat, with some of the injured covered in flies.
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They devise temporary homes under tarpaulins and tin panels on sidewalks or under street overpasses, or rent cheap rooms in slums.
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Blue tarpaulins dotted the landscape as people prepared to spend the nights outdoors because of aftershocks or because their homes were destroyed.
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New photographs of the refugees show only the fortunate have tarpaulins for a roof, the rest stretch black plastic over bamboo frames.
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Shielded from the autumn rains under tarpaulins, a substantial crowd, mostly of young Kenyans but with several European and American expats, dances.
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The camp's population in September was so large that many were living under tarpaulins on a windswept spillover site beyond its fences.
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Local officials, aided by nonprofits like World Wildlife Fund Indonesia, coordinated a rescue effort using nets, tarpaulins and boats, the group said.
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Just over half of the new population has been supplied with tarpaulins for shelter, according to an International Organization for Migration (IOM) report.
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Aid agencies have been distributing food, tarpaulins and other essentials in the camps, but they are struggling to keep up with the demand.
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Blue tarpaulins filled the landscape, as people prepared to spend the nights outdoors because of aftershocks or because their homes had been destroyed.
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Fernandez said the extent of the damage was not yet clear but authorities needed food, water and tarpaulins and blankets to help residents.
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White walls, roofs or tarpaulins, and extra vegetation in cities, all of which help prevent heat from building up, can be provided fairly cheaply.
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Overall, the system straddles the 275th and 21st centuries, featuring subsiding bank branches protected from the monsoon by tarpaulins, but also virtual mobile chatbots.
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They came ashore in the Turkish town of Dikili, where Turkish officials covered the ship's bow with tarpaulins to prevent journalists from seeing inside.
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At first, most lived in shacks or under tarpaulins, but eventually many laid concrete blocks for the foundations of their future homes and businesses.
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The place, the Château de Calberte, was more than midway through a major restoration; building stones and masons' tool were laid out on tarpaulins.
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The walled compound, full of makeshift shelters covered by tarpaulins bearing the names of aid groups, is home to 10,000 people who have fled fighting.
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When Boko Haram, a jihadist group, torched the main market in 2014, traders built stalls from grass mats and tarpaulins on the outskirts of town.
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Spokesman Arifin Hadi says the tens of thousands people left homeless by Sunday&aposs magnitude 7.0 quake need clean water and tarpaulins most of all.
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Authorities attempted to block the view of assembled local and international media by hanging blue tarpaulins from a razor wire-topped fence surrounding the port.
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But the next morning at dawn, I scurried on board with at least 80 other people toting stools, sacks, sleeping mats, tarpaulins, buckets and stoves.
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A thousand tarpaulins -- strong pieces of waterproof plastic-- will be provided to replace roofs that were stripped from homes, the International Organization for Migration said.
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Its fighters have booby-trapped homes, ringed the city with belts of improvised landmines and strung tarpaulins across the main streets to conceal them from drones.
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A flight with tarpaulins, tents, soap and other supplies would leave on Wednesday, after more than 3 million euros ($3.6 million) was donated in the Netherlands.
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Lautaru, his parents, older brother, and 8-year-old sister live together in a wooden shack patched up with tarpaulins at one end of the slum.
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Australia will deploy three helicopters this week to deliver aid, while New Zealand will send a second military plane to distribute medical equipment, hygiene kits and tarpaulins.
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"We will be distributing hygiene kits and tarpaulins, and have emergency response experts on stand-by to travel to the worst-affected ares if needed," said Quartermaine.
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As we walk through the camp accompanied by four soldiers with assault rifles, we see families living under torn tarpaulins and children urinating next to freshwater pipes.
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The crowded ship has appealed for shelter from 7-meter high waves and icy winds amid treacherous conditions, as the rescued migrants hunker under tarpaulins on deck.
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"A minority in the Senate has decided to play politics with military pay, but you deserve better," Pence said, surrounded by troops in fatigues and camouflage tarpaulins.
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But the sounds heard are mostly those of objects, of giant tarpaulins being winched taut or slackened, of bowls bowed or tapped, of sputtering cranks turned by hand.
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A combination of corrugated iron, tarpaulins, shipping pallets and other refuse comprise most homes in this impoverished community that lacks running water and connection to the electrical grid.
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With every building there destroyed, he and his neighbors have moved to an open area nearby, where they are camping under plastic tarpaulins and sleeping on woven mats.
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The people on the other end were asking for all sorts of things: food, generators, solar lights, tarpaulins to take the place of roofs shredded by the hurricane.
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With many fellow traders stuck on the other side of the river, their stalls have been shrouded in blue tarpaulins that make them look like a crime scene.
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Families huddled under tarpaulins strung through trees, and the people we met thought they would be able to go home in a few days, a few weeks at most.
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On tarpaulins at Jakarta's port, officers laid out items retrieved from the sea, ranging from oxygen bottles to personal effects such as wallets, a mobile telephone, cash and backpacks.
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With many homes on the south side of city older and more vulnerable to collapse, people began camping in the middle of the street under tarpaulins and in tents.
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On tarpaulins at Jakarta's port, officers laid out items retrieved from the sea ranging from oxygen bottles to personal belongings such as wallets, a mobile phone, cash and backpacks.
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Delos Santos' flower-draped coffin passed through a major highway on a small truck decorated with tarpaulins reading "Run, Kian, Run" and "Stop the killings" displayed on each side.
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The unstretched canvases, which remind me of tarpaulins, underscores Marshall's sense that all this might be temporary, that these paintings might soon be rolled up and put in storage.
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Video: 'Now we are living under the tarpaulins' An official at the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation in Naypyitaw told Reuters that Noor Islam's tax receipts looked genuine.
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On the other, huddling under the guns of the Pakistani battalion billeted here, are the tarpaulins that shelter some 12,000-15,000 people in one of the world's newest refugee camps.
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ON A vast building site on the southern coast of South Korea near its industrial heartland, the foundations of the country's newest nuclear-power project are swaddled in protective tarpaulins.
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Weir's report on the eve of the camp's demolition is printed on linen and hung, like so many tarpaulins, from the arches of Fabrica gallery in the center of town.
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Hundreds of thousands of refugees are living in temporary shelters made of bamboo and tarpaulins at Kutupalong, many on steep hills and in low-lying areas likely to be flooded.
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ROME (Reuters) - On the banks of Rome's historic Tiber River, the homeless use wood, cardboard and plastic tarpaulins to make a shelter, protecting themselves from the elements as best they can.
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Underneath several large tarpaulins piled with iron ore, they found a huge secret cargo of ammunition, including around 30,0003 PG-7 rocket-propelled grenades and related equipment, the UN report said.
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President Joko Widodo visited Jakarta's port on Tuesday where the pile of debris has been laid out on tarpaulins, examining the items including mangled seats, bags, shoes and flight attendant uniforms.
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Ms Meléndez says it was two weeks before she heard from FEMA, and two months before the Army Corps of Engineers started dispensing tarpaulins to patch up Ponce's 49,000 damaged houses.
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Tarpaulins placed over the statues of Confederate generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson in Charlottesville, Virginia, were removed in accordance with a ruling by circuit court judge Richard E. Moore.
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Aid distributed to Lombok The Indonesian Red Crescent said it was dispatching hundreds of tarpaulins, blankets and hygiene kits to the affected areas as part of their initial response to the earthquake.
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Atmeh sent a picture of a dwelling he said belonged to the "richest person in the camp" - four muddy brick walls with two metal doors and tarpaulins stretched over as a roof.
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At an ambulance station a short distance from the city centre, troops in light grey overalls, purple gloves and gas masks covered ambulances with black tarpaulins as they prepared to remove them.
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More than 1,400 people have died in the floods that have swept South Asia over the past two months and tens of thousands are living in tents, schools and even just under tarpaulins.
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At two ice skating rinks in Central Park — the Wollman Rink and Lasker Rink — red signs used to spell out "Trump," the Washington Post reported, but recently they've been covered with white tarpaulins.
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The enclave resembles an encampment, filled with stationary vehicles and rough shelters with blankets or tarpaulins that could be seen flapping in the wind during a lull in fighting as people walked among them.
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Sandwiched in between all of this, as ubiquitous as the glittering sea and copses of palms, was a city of slum and shanty, already hunkered down under blue tarpaulins in anticipation of the monsoon.
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The crass messages showed a political elite intent on maintaining power on an island where people still live under blue tarpaulins two years after hurricanes ripped roofs off their homes and killed over 3,000 people.
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The preparations have been impressive and include measures ranging from training people in vulnerable regions to administer first aid and installing robust emergency communications systems to pre-positioning emergency supplies such as tarpaulins and blankets.
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Some villagers used sledgehammers and ropes to start clearing the rubble of broken homes, but others, traumatized by continued aftershocks, were too afraid to venture far from tents and tarpaulins set up in open spaces.
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He wrapped Ms. Klaben's injured foot in her sweaters, covered the openings of the cabin with tarpaulins and tried, without success, to fix their radio to send out a distress signal and build rabbit traps.
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Mr. Sobelle has that one covered (or uncovered), too, as he stands center stage in his white boxers and T-shirt, modestly draping himself in sheer plastic tarpaulins, looking both slightly alarmed and supremely regal.
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The International Federation of Red Cross has sent over "relief goods from its regional warehouse in Banten including water, tarpaulins, cleaning equipment (shovels, mattocks (axes), etc.), family kits and hygiene kits," according to its website.
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On the journey to the collection point, tarpaulins hung between buildings offer the only protection in some areas keeping residents out of the sights of snipers, who often fail to distinguish between fighters and non-combatants.
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The crass messages showed a political elite intent on maintaining power on the bankrupt island where people still live under blue tarpaulins two years after hurricanes ripped roofs off their homes and killed over 3,000 people.
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On many days, Mr. Qin's secondhand taxis cross the bridge in a convoy of more than 100 vehicles, including trucks loaded with containers draped in shabby tarpaulins and secondhand minibuses for North Korea's rickety transportation system.
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In Beni, the front line in the battle against the rebels allegedly responsible for the massacres, soldiers live in miserable dugouts protected from the elements by tree branches and tarpaulins, and complain that there is no food.
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Two big tremors last April and May killed 20163,000 people, injured more than 22,000, and damaged or destroyed more than 900,000 houses, forcing many to brave freezing temperatures in shelters made of tarpaulins and corrugated iron sheets.
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A closer look shows this is a city under threat -- tarpaulins along streets hide the movements of fighters from surveillance drones and sandbags outside buildings might offer some protection from a blast from the sky or the ground.
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Speaking before an American flag and camouflaged tarpaulins, Pence told the crowd that President Donald Trump stood behind them and would work to ensure their pay continues uninterrupted as the government enters the second day of a shutdown.
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Michael Byrne, acting director of Region II of the Federal Emergency Management Administration, said at the meeting that Puerto Rico homes would need about 60,000 tarpaulins to replace damaged roofs, but that the agency had only installed 3,000 so far.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Shoes, torn clothing and bodies covered with tarpaulins were strewn across one of Toronto's busiest streets on Monday, turning a 15-block area into a ghost town after a van struck and killed 10 people and injured 15.
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Many islanders have been evacuated to temporary shelters, and in some parts of Lombok, such as the village of Mentigi, locals have fled to the surrounding hills and are sleeping under tarpaulins for fear of their homes collapsing during aftershocks.
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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 recent years, it was piled high with grand English furniture interspersed with tarpaulins up to the ceiling, Groucho Marx mustaches, huge gilded palm tree lamps and makeshift towers of books and magazines that threatened to collapse at any minute.
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In Port Arthur, like many places along the Texas coast, time can be measured in storms: the surges of water during Hurricane Ike (2008), or the "blue roofs," the government-provided tarpaulins that covered damaged homes, after Hurricane Rita (2005).
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Iraqis on Saturday continued to pull bodies from the rubble, as families held hastily arranged funerals for the victims, some of whom were buried in mass graves, shrouded by blue tarpaulins, according to photographs and videos shared on social media.
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The Red Cross operation aims to assist an initial 7,000 people (approximately 1,400 households) affected by the event, with relief assistance such as tarpaulins and hygiene kits, health and psychosocial support, water, sanitation and hygiene support and evacuation and search and rescue support.
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"I was really struck by the fear that these people carry with themselves, what they have gone through and seen back in Myanmar," he told Reuters in the camp, where refugees live under thousands of tarpaulins covering the hills and rice paddies.
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Amtrak disconnected the board on Monday, stretching tarpaulins over one side of the familiar, ever-changing sign that told commuters whether the 5:153 to Metuchen, N.J., would be a touch late — and, when the time finally came, which track they could find it on.
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Guy Juneau of the LAPD's Security Services, security camera footage showed "a 'lone individual' climbing up Mount Lee, scaling the sign using the built-in ladders and hanging tarpaulins over the sign's O's to change them to E's" at around midnight on Saturday, the LA Times reports.
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These fumigation tarpaulins shroud houses and are common sights particularly in warm regions such as Southern California; they caught the eye of photographer Randi Malkin Steinberger when she moved there in the early 1990s, and she began stopping her car while driving around Los Angeles to photograph them.
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Some campaigners are seeking justice for alleged atrocities in Myanmar, a small cadre of women are raising their voices for the first time, and others are simply working to improve life in the new city of tarpaulins and bamboo that, after the latest influx, is home to more than 900,000 people.
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And while this is probably not the place for cranky opprobrium, it feels necessary to call out the obliviousness of designers who presented collections rife with references to campsites, tarpaulins, tents and displacement when millions of Syrian and Afghan refugees crowd Europe's borders or wash up dead on its shores.
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On the second floor of a no-frills walkup in Hong Kong's gritty Sham Shui Po neighborhood, where decaying neon signs hang over a crowded electronics market—a mess of off-the-truck wires stitched up to poles under humid tarpaulins—seasoned businessman Alex Chan has converted an average space into an urban temple.
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One difference between the two artists is temperament, with Warhol being cool and even aloof towards his charged subjects (car crashes, electric chairs, public disasters, and movie stars) while Schnabel came across as either an unabashed romantic or a pretentious jerk who serves up his subjects in an overheated style on a field of broken dishes and later velvet, tarpaulins, sails, animal skins, canvas flooring from boxing rings, and Kabuki theater backdrops.
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