To win, we have to fight from higher ground in order to bring this country to higher ground.
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"The animals seek higher ground once the rains begin on their own, but they have to cross a national highway to get to higher ground," said Saikia.
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Consider Avalanche Strategy, another startup supported by Higher Ground Labs.
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Stay safe out there peeps, and get to higher ground.
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In response, he ordered the group to find higher ground.
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Moving on to higher ground, another opening was soon discovered.
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Higher Ground did not announce a screenwriter or any producers.
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Thousands of residents were forced to evacuate to higher ground.
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So she ran to higher ground once the tremors subsided.
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People start running to higher ground as waves approach them.
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Higher Ground Labs is at the center of enabling that.
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You could hear the chains clang, but you could hear this man singing about higher ground, and that was the moment that I realized I wanted to help condemned people get to higher ground.
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Like animals fleeing rising floodwaters, metrologists sought higher ground, epistemologically speaking.
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From her higher ground, Dany is the queen of the ashes.
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The production company, Higher Ground, announced the Spotify partnership on Thursday.
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Higher Ground and Spotify said they would announce the specifics later.
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"Move to higher ground now," the NWS said in a bulletin.
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Everyone else swam or walked to higher ground on their own.
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" He added later, "It's the never-ending battle for higher ground.
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He began running with his wife and mother for higher ground.
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Higher Ground Productions said it would be a scripted anthology series.
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So, on this government shutdown, morally, Democrats hold the higher ground.
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Hanisya Massey, the owner of Higher Ground Enterprises in Covina, Calif.
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The latest cohort of companies to receive backing Higher Ground Labs The latest cohort of companies to receive backing Higher Ground Labs "It is vitally important that Democrats learn to do their campaigns online," says Dutta.
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Tourists scrambled to benches, trees and caves as they sought higher ground.
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A few patched-up tents sit on higher ground, protected for now.
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An escalator helps you ascend to higher ground more quickly and efficiently.
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Residents in the area are being told to evacuate to higher ground.
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The Louvre will have to move about 250,000 works to higher ground.
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He, the wife and the sea creatures are moving to higher ground.
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The family lost their home and possessions but safely reached higher ground.
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He had also moved his vehicles to higher ground before the flooding.
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Lyondell's refinery, which sits on higher ground, remained in operation during Harvey.
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If the companies make money, Higher Ground Labs will become self-sustaining.
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Garden Apothecary's Higher Ground facial serum smells like coffee mixed with chocolate.
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Evacuation centers need to be built on higher ground with stronger roofs.
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They parked their cars on higher ground at Safeway and Walmart stores.
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Equipment could be taken to higher ground, corn and beans moved out.
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He could see higher ground nearby—he could hear survivors calling out.
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"For us, it makes sense—we have higher ground nearby," he said.
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"Last year, Higher Ground Labs invested in companies and entrepreneurs that provided game-changing technologies in Virginia's state elections and the Alabama Senate race," said Ron Klain, chair of the Higher Ground board and former White House aide.
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Those in low-lying areas were urged to move immediately to higher ground.
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The film's production company, Higher Ground, is owned by Barack and Michelle Obama.
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That means that eventually, the fuel might have to move to higher ground.
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Volcanoes across the Pacific are sending thousands of people fleeing for higher ground.
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" The service requests motorists to "move to higher ground as quickly as possible.
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Higher Ground Labs seeks to "supercharge" political startups with progressive causes at heart.
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"Any homes downstream must be prepared to evacuate to higher ground," he added.
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It would sit on higher ground above its former site, with homes nearby.
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"This spot is on higher ground, and the spot is vast," he said.
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Krikorian, for his part, also serves on the board advising Higher Ground Labs.
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The current website for Higher Ground Enterprises was still in development on Sept.
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This is exactly what Michelle and I hope to achieve through Higher Ground.
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From here, the film moves to mystical higher ground, as abhorrence expands into awe.
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About three miles away, in Union Park, is Higher Ground Academy, another charter school.
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But even Higher Ground is still far behind majority-white charters like German Immersion.
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The truck driver, named Robert, greeted Smith when he made it to higher ground.
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Uribe and his family -- including his 10-month-old son -- escaped to higher ground.
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Spotify just announced a partnership with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground.
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Schools closed; citizens were advised to leave their cars on higher ground where possible.
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Typically, wild horses innately know to move to higher ground when a storm surges.
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Residents along Japan's eastern coast were urged to move inland and seek higher ground.
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Stroud's home in the northern suburbs sits on higher ground and escaped largely unscathed.
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Michelle and Barack Obama had added Crip Camp to their Higher Ground Netflix slate.
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The people whose houses burned out in California, they don't have any higher ground.
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Authorities urged people living near rivers to move to higher ground over the weekend.
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Hovering low over the higher ground in the distance, they look vaguely UFO-like.
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And it's guaranteed that when All-Stars fall, they fall from much higher ground.
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Nearly 21927,500 people were injured and over 21,000 people have evacuated to higher ground.
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Chris Tipton moves a plant to higher ground as floodwaters surround her home in Guerneville.
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Water has gone above three-storey buildings and people survive by running onto higher ground.
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About 75 people had received assistance in evacuating their homes for higher ground, he said.
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Higher Ground Labs plans on providing fellowships for progressive political tech entrepreneurs, Politico reported Monday.
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Higher Ground Labs plans on providing fellowships for progressive political tech entrepreneurs, Politico said Monday.
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If a road is washed out, find safety at higher ground and stay parked there.
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Please get to higher ground if you can, but please try stay out of attics.
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Twice we had to move the bike to higher ground as the tide swept in.
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At least six other Netflix projects with Higher Ground are in the works as well.
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In June, Higher Ground agreed to produce an exclusive, multi-year podcast deal with Spotify.
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As he backed onto higher ground, another gust ripped the camper from his truck bed.
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Polyethylene tubing connects the ice stupa to a source on higher ground, drawing water downhill.
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"They left the plant itself but stayed nearby the property on higher ground," she added.
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Water has gone above three-storey buildings and people survive by running to higher ground.
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Reduced vegetation leads to higher ground temperatures and lower humidity, a recipe for less rainfall.
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The first podcasts from Higher Ground Audio are likely to debut in 2020 at the earliest.
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Water has gone above three-storey buildings and people survive by running on to higher ground.
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He promptly screams bloody murder, as his poor cat tries desperately to search for higher ground.
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He hired a lorry to move his five heifers 30km to higher ground in timber plantations.
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This included moving moved inventory to higher ground and cleaning roof drains to avoid cave-ins.
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You've got the leavers, who brave miles-long traffic jams as they make for higher ground.
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Sure, part of me wants to take the higher ground, wish him well, and move on.
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On Tuesday their production company, Higher Ground, announced the first slate of projects with the streamer.
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Residents had been instructed to head to higher ground but the warning was later called off.
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Please get to higher ground if you can, but please try (to) stay out of attics.
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The warning lasted two hours and sent people living along the coastline fleeing to higher ground.
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The quake had earlier caused panic among many residents, prompting them to flee to higher ground.
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Wednesday, as residents and visitors to the popular tourist city fled for cover or higher ground.
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If you live in these areas, you already know you should be evacuated to higher ground.
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Their owner wanted the cows driven away from that dangerous perch and moved onto higher ground.
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Emergency officials urged residents on higher ground to stay indoors, even after the storm pushed out.
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The Obamas landed on Higher Ground, inspired by the Stevie Wonder song of the same name.
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Boyd appeared to stand on higher ground than the field officers who were speaking to him.
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She began banging on her neighbors' doors, she recounted, urging them to flee to higher ground.
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Only the rocky citadel and fortress ruins on higher ground overlooking the river will escape the waters.
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And they never really have to apologize for it because they believe they have the higher ground.
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Elder Darius Matlock at Higher Ground Empowerment told CNN that Snow was the grandson of the deceased.
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Volunteers used boats to take about 35 animals -- including dog, puppies, cats and kittens -- to higher ground.
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When the sheep reached higher ground, the rabbits fell off but climbed a hedge to reach safety.
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If exposed to the nerve agent, the CDC recommends evacuating the area and moving to higher ground.
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People should evacuate to higher ground if ordered by officials, Obama said in a press pool event.
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After evacuating their family to higher ground, her husband, Jon, returned home to watch over their property.
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"I wish it were common ground, but I know for sure it is higher ground," she added.
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Democrats hold higher ground nationally, with popular vote victories in six of the last seven presidential elections.
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CNN meteorologist and severe weather expert Chad Myers warned residents of Houston to move to higher ground.
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Nevertheless, traders are convinced the dollar will struggle to gain higher ground unless incoming data beats expectations.
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He knew he had to get to higher ground, so he stayed in his 16th-floor condo.
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The higher ground clearance on SUVs and trucks leave space beneath to store a battery, Schuster said.
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Dungey will also be working with Higher Ground Productions, the production company of Barack and Michelle Obama.
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But more than that, I realized that my journey to higher ground was tied to his journey.
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Vanuatu's National Disaster Management Office advised people in southern provinces to evacuate coastal areas for higher ground.
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She made sure all her equipment was in waterproof cases and moved her car to higher ground.
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The Sentinelese seem to have successfully weathered the devastating tsunami, seeking higher ground before the storm hit.
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The company is backed by Higher Ground Labs and individual investors like Chris Sacca and Reid Hoffman.
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In the case of a flash flood, you'll move to somewhere with higher ground if it's safe.
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Tremors shook buildings, alarming residents of some cities, and authorities urged people to move to higher ground.
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The town is considering a proposal to move some buildings, like the town hall, to higher ground.
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Kaew, who had no scuba gear with him, scrambled to higher ground, barely escaping the final deluge.
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When Sasha asks Helen out, she turns him down, giving herself the higher ground in this situation.
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Higher Ground Enterprises started training people to use computers more than 10 years ago, Ms. Massey said.
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Michelle Shaffer, 45, of Hull, Massachusetts evacuated Thursday night to higher ground, she told CNN affiliate WCVB.
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Then the tear gas started, he said, and he ran with a large group to higher ground.
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Under the Netflix deal, Higher Ground will produce, curate and acquire content for distribution on the streaming service.
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Higher Ground Productions is the name of the company established by the Obamas to produce content for Netflix.
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Some low-lying island nations, such as Fiji and Vanuatu, have moved some coastal communities to higher ground.
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The group was found 300-400 yards past a section of the cave that was on higher ground.
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Officials are also testing a flood warning system, with emergency sirens telling people to move to higher ground.
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Residents were fed up with increasingly intense and frequent flooding, so they are moving to higher ground. Together.
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Higher Ground Productions, the production company owned by Barack and Michelle Obama, announced a slate of upcoming content.
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Neighbors tore down a fence in the back of the complex to move their cars to higher ground.
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The Frontline Generation leveraged differences, built coalitions and found the common ground to make it to higher ground.
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Last month Spotify announced a multiyear podcasting deal with Higher Ground Productions, Barack and Michelle Obama's media company.
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Live video from Houston showed rescuers in small boats on one flooded street carrying people to higher ground.
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"People whose villages are on higher ground are preparing to go back to their villages," he told Reuters.
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But many Venetians, scrambling to move their belongings to higher ground, still waded through the knee-high water.
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Many De Soto residents would rather move to higher ground — but selling these properties is rarely an option.
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American Factory, the first film from the Obamas' production company Higher Ground, is a riveting inquiry into globalization.
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That night, however, they'd taken shelter on higher ground, and that entire miserable stretch of Khost was ours.
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The details: Sermitsiaq, a national newspaper in Greenland, reports Sunday that many residents have evacuated to higher ground.
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A tsunami alert that followed Monday's quake sent many rushing for higher ground, before the threat was lowered.
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If they tell you to evacuate, you need to get out of there and move to higher ground.
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After Allen surfaced, he swam and clambered over uprooted trees back to shore and then to higher ground.
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Families have scrambled to higher ground, some to other cities like Dallas or San Antonio, others into shelters.
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Or if that is not possible, imagine the billions necessary to relocate the entire city to higher ground.
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The area is the hardest hit because it is on higher ground and therefore was pummeled by winds.
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The self-described "Redneck Armada" used their own boats to rescue strangers and carry them to higher ground.
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It was released through Netflix as part of a lucrative deal Higher Ground has with the streaming service.
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The couple has created "Higher Ground Productions," a company to produce content for Netflix, the streaming service announced.
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Further east in Maunabo, video on social media showed people evacuating to higher ground following the tsunami warning.
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For his part, Andrew Yang elaborated on his plan to move people to higher ground as seas rise.
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The dozens of others helped pull people to safety, while others worked to get people to higher ground.
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Residents of low-lying areas in densely populated Miami-Dade County were urged to move to higher ground.
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"Those on higher ground are stocking up and hunkering down," said Pamela Brownlee, the county's director of emergency management.
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The plan proposes moving approximately 300,000 people out of high-risk areas to better-protected zones on higher ground.
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This move allowed the rescuers to maneuver the animal to higher ground and disentangle its horns from the wires.
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He said he had considered driving across the flooded road to higher ground but decided it was too dangerous.
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Launched earlier this year, Higher Ground Labs is comprised of former President Barack Obama's 29597 and 21 campaign veterans.
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When a Mei surfaces, Pharah should take to the skies and pepper the her with rockets from higher ground.
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Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency said on Twitter that residents near coastlines at risk should "immediately evacuate to higher ground".
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To the technical analyst, the recent price action suggests that stocks are on their way to much higher ground.
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Ric Saldivar called his brother and told him to bring the family members to his house on higher ground.
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Her friend lives on higher ground than her home, which is only 15 feet above sea level, she said.
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The terms of the contract were not disclosed, but the Obamas' new production company is called Higher Ground Productions.
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One Higher Ground-funded company has developed a platform that uses web site banner ads to measure public opinion.
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We responded early by calling every client, urging them to gear up quickly and move everything to higher ground.
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He chose the higher ground, but apparently this decision caused him to stand with the sun in his eyes.
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Nancy found a spot on higher ground and shacked up in an old Army tent with a few friends.
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The board advising Higher Ground Labs, meanwhile, is plucked right from the roster of Obama's two White House tours.
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An 225-year-old boy was riding in a van with his extended family in search of higher ground.
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Militants who were lying in wait raked the convoy with gunfire and rockets from higher ground, police officials said.
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At Coney Island Hospital a new building on higher ground will house the emergency room and critical patient services.
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She urged those in low-lying areas and flood zones to seek higher ground and consider staying at shelters.
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He barely escaped: Minutes before, he had driven to higher ground after being warned by volunteer firefighters to flee.
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The Netflix documentary American Factory was the first film released under Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.
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This doesn't mean the Obamas can't win an Oscar in the future for a movie produced by Higher Ground.
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Higher Ground is staffed by veterans of the entertainment industry, including former employees of MTV, ESPN and FX Networks.
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Thousands of people who were marooned by the heavy flooding abandoned their possessions to seek safety on higher ground.
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All of the news coverage inspired him to write the song "Higher Ground," which he later added to the album.
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The National Weather Service in Tulsa urged people in those areas to move to higher ground, with more rain expected.
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The new effort is called Higher Ground Labs, and it hopes to help the party in state and local races.
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As the rainy season brings flooding to Southeast Asia, critters and snakes head for higher ground as their nests flood.
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Farmers with fields close to flood-prone rivers should have another place to retreat to on higher ground, Macie said.
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The US Coast Guard in Lumberton, North Carolina, take Susan Hedgepeth and her dog Cooper to higher ground on Sunday.
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The group was reportedly located between 300 and 400 yards beyond a section of cave that was on higher ground.
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Higher Ground Labs, which was founded in 2017 to help progressives, now has more than 20 companies in its portfolio.
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About a year ago, the couple moved to neighboring French Settlement, a blessing since their home sits on higher ground.
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As part of this collaboration, the production company will be launching Higher Ground Audio, a new division focused on podcasts.
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GiveMini has joined the most recent batch of Higher Ground Labs, which bills itself as an accelerator for progressive startups.
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I recently met a resident there who is packing up and planning to move to higher ground because of it.
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These are companies like Change Research, an earlier-stage company that just launched from Higher Ground Labs accelerator last year.
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For Higher Ground Labs, a stipulation for receiving their money is a commitment not to work with any Republican candidate.
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If oil prices are now viewed as detached from fundamentals, they must surely rebound to higher ground, the thinking goes.
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They will be relocated to higher ground but still live in the same area - a "win-win" situation, said Thipparat.
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At one Dickinson home, residents used an axe to cut a hole in the roof to get to higher ground.
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About 300,000 people had moved to higher ground though even some of these places ended up under water, he said.
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Not surprisingly, property owners who see increased coastal flooding due to slowly rising sea levels are moving to higher ground.
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Building H is not the only construction that is visible, but it is taller than most and on higher ground.
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We couldn't locate each other and, in an effort to get to higher ground, I tumbled into a steep ravine.
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This year, CNBC was able to escape the crowds for a bit by traveling to higher ground: the Salesforce Tower.
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Thirteen of them waded through a rush of stomach-deep water and cut through a fence to seek higher ground.
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This is enough to force the relocation of hundreds of thousands, and potentially even millions, of Americans to higher ground.
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Perhaps a drowned monument to a long-dead warrior was as important as higher ground or shelter from the storm.
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The peroxides were moved to refrigerated trailers, which were then moved to higher ground, but three could not be relocated.
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Some people might have scrambled to higher ground, but it would depend on when they were notified of the threat.
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Many animals were in just as much danger as humans, like these cows that police officers herded to higher ground.
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Mr. Méndez noted that the school was on higher ground and wondered if it had been built on unstable fill.
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All three have gotten funding from Higher Ground Labs, a progressive tech accelerator created by former Obama staffers in 2017.
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To help his side catch up, Wilson founded Startup Caucus, a conservative response to Higher Ground Labs, in August 2019.
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"If you are still in an area with standing water, seek higher ground and shelter in place," Beaumont police said.
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If ever there was a time to consider selling your home and moving to higher ground, this would be it.
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Spotify has also inked content deals, including a partnership to produce exclusive podcasts for Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground.
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"American Factory," the first film from Higher Ground, was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Annual Academy Awards.
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" The weather service in the area warned drivers of possible flooding and urged residents to "move to higher ground immediately.
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While there's a risk that companies exploit the murk, it's more likely they'll end up defenders of the higher ground.
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"The water level has gone down, and people in the lower areas have been moved to higher ground," he said.
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Thousands of residents have had to move to higher ground, and officials have extended their high-tide warning to Wednesday.
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If you are trapped or unable to evacuate to higher ground, your next step is to find a sturdy vertical refuge.
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The group, Higher Ground Labs, is taking a note from Sand Hill Road and applying venture-capital tactics to progressive politics.
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The company recently inked an exclusive multiyear production deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions to create original content.
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"If you are in the evacuation zone, go pack up the suitcase right now and head to higher ground," Corbett said.
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People who live along the Tuolumne River are being encouraged to move to higher ground, the LA Times reported on Monday.
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She saw cars and other debris floating around and joined some of her neighbors as they struggled to reach higher ground.
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A government-issued tsunami warning added to the panic, sending people running for higher ground, though the ensuing wave proved small.
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I saw people being loaded into rescue boats, people dragging what they could carry onto kayaks to get to higher ground.
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"Higher Ground" features Los Angeles singer Naomi Wild, and delivers introspective ambiance styled with gliding synths and upbeat, hip-hop percussion.
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The couple also established Higher Ground Productions, which will serve as the entity under which they will produce content for Netflix.
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President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama will begin producing content for Netflix under their company Higher Ground Productions.
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In May, the Obamas announced their decision to produce a variety of content for Netflix through their company Higher Ground Productions.
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AutoNation is still assessing how many vehicles it lost, but it too moved vehicles to higher ground ahead of the storm.
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Closer to the epicenter, residents scrambled for higher ground, remembering the lessons of the country's devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2010.
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Frank Bruni Opinion Columnist James Comey's book is titled "A Higher Loyalty," but it surrenders the higher ground, at least partly.
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But when the animals move to smaller areas of higher ground to escape the floods they become more vulnerable to poachers.
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"Some people are beginning to come back in to town, but others have stayed at the higher ground," Muri told Reuters.
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The Fort Bend County Sheriff's Office had warned last week that reptiles, like humans, are seeking higher ground when it floods.
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People passed me, walking in the opposite direction, all of them residents of North Lombok who were heading for higher ground.
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If you plan to stay in local shelter, park your car on higher ground or in a multistory parking garage. 6.
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Howard County Fire and EMS urged residents to evacuate downtown or move to higher ground while rescue teams swarmed the area.
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Rescuers have theorized that the group took the left fork, which would eventually lead them to higher ground at Pattaya Beach.
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"Residents are urgently advised to move to higher ground immediately," RNZ quoted a statement from the Marlborough District Council as saying.
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A tsunami warning was issued in the immediate aftermath of the quake, prompting people to flee to higher ground, said Susanto.
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A cherry-red countertop was re-created with steel and sealed wood, and the remaining ornaments migrated to conspicuously higher ground.
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After floods a decade ago, about a quarter of the residents left, and the town was partially rebuilt on higher ground.
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They moved up the street, upstate or down South, all to higher ground, though still feeling the pull of the tides.
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People in Cook Inlet and the southern Kenai Peninsula were urged to stay off the beach and move to higher ground.
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Mr. Guterres would not comment on those specific efforts except to say that "we believe higher ground is the best place."
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The Coast Guard was on hand with motor boats in North Carolina towns like Lumberton to move residents to higher ground.
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They ended up selling the property for land value and moving to a rental house on higher ground in Coral Gables.
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Depending on what the insurance company decided, Ms. Hunziger said this could be the flood that forced her to higher ground.
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He was also frustrated with businessman Andrew Yang's call for Americans to move to higher ground because of rising sea levels.
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With Klain's help, Higher Ground Labs has already raised an additional $1.5 million, giving it more than $2.5 million on hand.
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Whether in a pandemic or a climate crisis, capital can only escape labor for so long while fleeing to higher ground.
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Hundreds tried to salvage their cars by driving them to higher ground and then had to swim back to their homes.
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Upon leaving office, the Obamas created Higher Ground, a multimedia production company whose first documentary, "American Factory," just won an Oscar.
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The officials loaded Mr. Fiske, his fiancée, Annette Sklodoski, and other tenants into a large vehicle to ride to higher ground.
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A late shot shows tombstones of the deceased, with construction trucks ("the monster's playthings") driving on higher ground in the distance.
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"American Factory," a film backed by the Obama's Higher Ground Productions, on Sunday took home the award for best documentary feature.
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If people in the path of a tsunami don't have enough time to head to higher ground, they need another option.
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During storms, they move to higher ground and gather under sturdy oak trees to shelter from the storm, the Fund said.
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A tsunami warning was lifted on Saturday night but coastal residents were urged to seek higher ground in case tides rise.
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The teammates climbed higher, using their hands to feel the walls for a crawl space that would lead to safer, higher ground.
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The divers are aiming for a sandy chamber on higher ground in the cave, where they believe the group would be safe.
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Video The couple also established Higher Ground Productions, which will serve as the entity under which they will produce content for Netflix.
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Higher Ground also nabbed the rights to the documentary American Factory at this year's Sundance, where it earned the documentary directing award.
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Here are the ones I recommend clicking: Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections by Jon Shieber
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Cuban officials said approximately 35,000 residents were either moved to higher ground with family or placed in shelters run by the state.
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There were no immediate reports of casualties, but the latest quake caused people to flee their homes and move to higher ground.
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The water rose eight feet in two hours in some areas, which kept people and pets searching for higher and higher ground.
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Many people in the slums said they had little warning and had to grab what they could and move to higher ground.
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Already, Higher Ground has invested in more than 30 companies focused on services like advocacy outreach, polling and campaign organizing — among others.
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Authorities sounded sirens on Kodiak Island, and residents were warned via cellphone to seek higher ground or move away from the coast.
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American Factory is being released by Netflix in association with Higher Ground Productions, a media company launched by Barack and Michelle Obama.
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People who lived near the ocean left for higher ground despite reassurances from officials that the quake did not have tsunami potential.
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Flooding can turn city streets into snake highways as the creatures are forced from their hiding places and swim for higher ground.
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Netflix said Ms. Dungey will help oversee programming that will be made by Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions production company.
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At the time her son believed she was being ferried to higher ground, she was found floating face down in the floodwater.
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Higher Ground has announced a partnership with Spotify to produce exclusive podcasts, suggesting the Obamas' work in entertainment won't stop with Netflix.
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" He writes his plan would "move our people to higher ground," and that the climate crisis is "already causing damage and death.
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Cattlemen opened up their fences and moved animals to higher ground and wooded areas, which can offer some relief from high winds.
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Higher Ground Labs has invested in startups like voter engagement platform MobilizeAmerica, polling group ChangeResearch, and political messaging tool Swayable, among others.
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Before the storm, the National Disaster Warning Center urged people to head for higher ground, including in Koh Samui and Koh Phangan.
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Residents in most coastal communities of densely populated Miami-Dade County were ordered to move to higher ground beginning at 9 a.m.
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Tens of thousands of people in the predominantly Christian country spent Christmas in shelters after authorities moved them to safety on higher ground.
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Still, authorities have expressed hope there are dry places on higher ground within the cave where the group may be able to wait.
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"American Factory" is the first release from their company Higher Ground Productions, which the former U.S. president and first lady founded in 2018.
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Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have signed a multiyear deal to produce podcasts exclusively for Spotify, through their media company Higher Ground Productions.
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Higher Ground said last year that the projects are in various stages of development and will be released over the next several years.
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Residents of Rockhampton, in central Queensland, were advised to seek higher ground as the rising Fitzroy River approaches a peak forecast for Thursday.
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About a dozen people, including a child, managed to reach higher ground or were rescued, civil protection officials in the Calabria region said.
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Flood insurance premiums could rise sharply, with people faced with the choice of increasing clean-up costs or retreating to higher ground inland.
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Police in the area around Christchurch reported 19 burglaries of homes and commercial properties after the quake as residents headed for higher ground.
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President Obama, by contrast, has taken the higher ground: making personal, reflective speeches at packed rallies to help drum up enthusiasm for Clinton.
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Higher Ground said it has already brought in $85033 million in commitments, adding it has also started identifying and committing resources to projects.
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At that spot, the U.S. side is on higher ground, and has a border fence that rises nearly 50 feet above street level.
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Now, finally, they're getting out: through a little-known Department of Agriculture program, the community has received funding to move to higher ground.
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Another resident, Ida Banks, says that while she's wanted to move to higher ground for years, she never tried to sell the house.
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"With Higher Ground Productions, we hope to bring people together around common values and uncommon stories," former President Obama said in a statement.
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"You haven't completed the circle of success until you help someone else move to a higher ground and get to a better place."
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Neighbors had to be rescued from their attics by boat, folks axed down their doors and swam through the surge to higher ground.
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The settlers left the site for higher ground, establishing what would become the city of Osogbo, and dedicated the forest to the goddess.
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In February of this year, the family moved to the Lake Oaks neighborhood, which sits on higher ground than their old house had.
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He said the garrison has no regular flight operations and had already towed the few private planes kept on base to higher ground.
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In order to get cellular service, people like Schiavone have been trekking to higher ground—in his case, the top of a nearby fort.
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More than 22004,2226 people were injured, and about 2000,214 residents had to move to higher ground, with a high-tide warning extended to Wednesday.
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Flynn pointed out many of the homes along the path of a possible flood are built on berms or sit on relatively higher ground.
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More than 21927,226 people were injured, and thousands of residents had to move to higher ground, with a high-tide warning extended to Wednesday.
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Snow was attending his grandfather's funeral at Higher Ground Empowerment Center in Atlanta when police responded to a "person armed" call, Atlanta Police Dept.
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For example, Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground Productions, unveiled an initial slate of programming last week in partnership with Netflix.
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Vowing to never let that happen again, Valmeyer made a difficult decision: to move most of the town off the floodplain to higher ground.
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On Tuesday, Ward posted he had saved another four horses and he worked with several others to bring hundreds of cattle to higher ground.
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The deal is similar to the one Higher Ground made with Netflix, which will see its first release with American Factory later this year.
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If the floodwaters rise around your vehicle but the water is not moving, abandon the vehicle and move to higher ground, according to Ready.
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One security source said the convoy was attacked from higher ground by militants firing rocket-propelled grenades and detonating explosive devices on the ground.
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Homes, office buildings and other structures along the Gulf Coast and in Houston's Harris County, were flooded, their occupants forced to find higher ground.
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The Republican Party has passed some signal legislation but allowed Democrats to seize the higher ground on dominant issues of taxes and the economy.
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The magnitude 22011 earthquake, which was felt in Tokyo, sent thousands of residents fleeing for higher ground as dawn broke along the northeastern coast.
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For one thing, SUVs and trucks often have higher ground clearance than sedans, meaning there is greater distance between the frame and the ground.
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Netflix struck a multiyear deal last year with former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama and their production company Higher Ground.
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So far, nine people have been reported dead due to the natural disaster, and thousands have been left stranded in search of higher ground.
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Already willing and able to shift from traditional lineups to small ball, there aren't too many adjustments that can nudge them to higher ground.
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"In Mr. Bloomberg's case, the product was bad," Shomik Dutta, an Obama campaign vet and the chief executive of Higher Ground Labs, told me.
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A monk named Nobuo Kobayashi stayed and, by selling land and accepting donations, rebuilt the 1,100 year-old Buddhist Kongoji Temple on higher ground.
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In the United States, meanwhile, 13 million people have left their water-adjacent homes in search of higher ground, or at least drier pastures.
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As the storm ground on, Williams said that from the higher ground of the church he could see people on their rooftops seeking refuge.
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The Dutch government funded a new master plan for Beira to expand on higher ground, improve drainage, and fortify its port, among other measures.
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More than 21,21927 people were injured and thousands of residents had to move to higher ground, with a high-tide warning extended to Wednesday.
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The documentary was released on Netflix via Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground, and was directed by Julia Reichert and Steven Bogner.
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The devastating rain put thousands of animals at risk of drowning, but a cowpoke in a helicopter is helping drive them to higher ground.
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"American Factory," directed by Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar, and co-produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's company Higher Ground Productions and Participant Media.
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A graduate of the politically focused accelerator, Higher Ground Labs, Sameside is the work of Nicole a'Beckett and her brother, a former Navy Seal.
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Leaders of the town, which was settled by newly emancipated slaves, rejected suggestions from state officials to move the entire community to higher ground.
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Last month, Fiji's prime minister hit back at remarks by an Australian politician that Fijians should seek higher ground in response to higher seas.
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FedEx went in search of higher ground, and in early 2014 it reached an agreement to take one of the four storefronts at 20 Pine.
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Barack and Michelle Obama may have left the White House, but they are now making moves over at Netflix with their company Higher Ground Productions.
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American Factory According to The Hollywood Reporter, the award-winning documentary was acquired by Netflix and Higher Ground out of 2019's Sundance Film Festival.
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Fire and rescue teams urged residents to evacuate the downtown area or move to higher ground as rescue teams worked in the area, CNN reports.
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And Higher Ground Labs is a new attempt by some of former President Barack Obama's digital aides to invest in cutting-edge campaign tech startups.
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Only call if in imminent danger People should not drive in flood waters, and FEMA suggests people try to get to higher ground if possible.
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Susan left the girls with her friend to wade back through the flood waters for her husband, stomping through flowerbeds to stay on higher ground.
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The government has not issued a formal evacuation order, but it's hoping Mackay residents will take action and seek higher ground before it's too late.
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Lower levels of the Louvre have also closed and numerous artworks have been moved to higher ground as part of the museum's emergency action plan.
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We grabbed the ladder and waded in waist-deep water, climbing our neighbors walls until we reached my sister's house that was on higher ground.
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With that info, Fallen advanced up the higher ground and blasted N22016thing with a no-scope shot through the boxes he was using for cover.
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Though located on higher ground, the town of Wuppertal, Germany, which is nearby Dusseldorf, offers a particularly handsome monorail, one that's been running since 1901.
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In Oklahoma, following Monday's severe weather, flood rescues are underway; the National Weather Service urged residents in the Tulsa area to move to higher ground.
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Team worked around the clock Before Harvey made landfall, Cutrer, along with family and his cowboy team on horseback drove the cattle to higher ground.
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Standing in a certain spot might reveal a platform needed to reach higher ground, or it might remove a barrier that's keeping you from progressing.
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Almost seven months after his death, John retains an unusual ability to influence his former colleagues while inspiring them — and us — to reach higher ground.
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He then started the arduous task of pulling mangled Google bicycles to higher ground, away from the creek, and contacted Google to pick them up.
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The National Weather Service has been sending out flash flood warnings, telling people in those areas to move to higher ground and not to drive.
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At a couple of points Mousasi found himself in Baret Yoshida's 'higher ground' position, with double overhooks and laying on the back of Weidman's head.
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Rescuers in helmets gathered under a partly submerged tree at one point to retrieve a dog that had climbed into the branches seeking higher ground.
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She was in a one-bedroom condominium in Chelsea, on a block flooded by Hurricane Sandy, when she decided to move uptown to higher ground.
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One of the leaders in Higher Ground has been working solidly for three years as a full-time volunteer to protect a wetland from development.
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The Obamas have been involved in media ventures since leaving office in 2016, and their production company Higher Ground has deals with Spotify and Netflix.
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Kanye even busts out his Sunday Service Choir, which surrounds him in song as he stands on higher ground in the middle of the crowd.
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Crip Camp was announced in April 2019 as part of Barack and Michelle Obama's forthcoming slate of Netflix programming (via their production company Higher Ground).
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Survivors described how waters rose rapidly to chest height in roughly an hour and mainly at night, making it hard to escape to higher ground.
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Higher Ground Labs, which will add Obama aide Ron Klain as chairman, will announce the first crop of campaign-tech companies it plans to support.
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"Ted Sarandos is our chief content officer so of course he was engaged in bringing Higher Ground Productions to Netflix," a company spokesman told Fox News.
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The Obamas will "develop, produce, and lend their voices to select podcasts, connecting them to listeners around the world on wide-ranging topics," Higher Ground said.
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Asking a metro area of 6.7 million people (the fifth largest in the country) to flee for higher ground is not a decision anyone makes lightly.
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Village leaders asked residents to move to a school building on higher ground, Elopre said, pausing briefly during a mild aftershock while talking on the phone.
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There's no release date yet, but it's likely to hit Netflix later this year, and will be the first thing from Higher Ground you can watch.
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With even a modest storm liable to flood the island and the narrow causeway that connects it to higher ground, the village has become almost uninhabitable.
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If you're anywhere in southeast Asia and you're on the coast and you feel an earthquake, move inland and move to higher ground and stay there.
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A group of technologists who worked under President Obama have formed an organization—Higher Ground Labs—to fund and mentor early-stage startups focused on politics.
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Under the name Higher Ground Productions, the Obamas have the options to produce scripted and unscripted series, documentaries and feature films, Netflix said in a statement.
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New Delhi (CNN)Poachers are seeking to take advantage of widespread monsoon flooding in India's Kaziranga National Park as animals flee in search of higher ground.
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They grabbed the world's attention in 2004 when they escaped the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami by fleeing to higher ground when they saw the waters recede.
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The home Jackson lives in with his parents and two siblings is one of few areas on higher ground that are not under threat, he said.
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The terms of war and victory conditions are undefined, but early in this galactic struggle it is readily apparent that prequel memes has the higher ground.
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Makeshift camps were set up on higher ground only after the flooding, they said, so many people decided to see out the storm in their homes.
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If asset prices are allowed to reflect the risks of climate change, property owners who have the most at stake will literally move to higher ground.
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"My job as chair isn't about finding common ground; it's about finding higher ground," Cummings told The Hill of his new role on the platform panel.
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The companies that Higher Ground Labs is funding are working on all aspects of campaigning: fundraising, polling, research, voter persuasion, and get-out-the-vote efforts.
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"I'd try to hit up some of my friends who have rifles and then go to higher ground," Mr. Goulding said, his girlfriend looking slightly shocked.
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"Neighbors and friends later told him that, "During heavy rains, the water can rise in the low-lying areas and push the herds to higher ground.
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When water levels rise, the horses seek higher ground and also form a huddle and go "butts to the wind," OBX Today reported ahead of Dorian.
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Red Cross workers moved people to higher ground and advised people in coastal areas to leave due to tsunami concerns, said agency spokesman Arifin M Hadi.
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In Cambodia's northern Strung Treng province, nearly 1,300 families that were also affected by the flooding from the dam in Laos were moved to higher ground.
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The flooding led the government of Manitou Springs City, about 80 miles southwest of Denver, to close offices and advise residents to evacuate to higher ground.
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Authorities asked residents of 650 homes in Guerneville to seek higher ground even as officials assess damage to determine how many houses were flooded, Euser said.
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In this case — given the Union forces available, this particular piece of higher ground and the Confederate units arrayed against them — it was a fatal choice.
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She had lifted her three children — all under the age of 5 — on to her shoulders and waded through the water until she reached higher ground.
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Engineers cut the temples into 1,53 blocks, each weighing between 20 and 30 ton, and in 1968 reassembled them on higher ground, exactly as they were.
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Their production company Higher Ground reportedly signed an eight-figure deal with Netflix last year, and the first project is scheduled for release in August 2020.
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It's the kind of story we don't see often enough and it's exactly what Michelle and I hope to achieve with (our production company) Higher Ground.
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Along with the opening film, Netflix titles include "Crip Camp," a documentary about a camp for disabled teenagers from Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions.
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WHAKATANE, New Zealand — The bodies were more than a quarter-mile from shore, some on higher ground, on a scorched, moonlike landscape shrouded in toxic gas.
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"We have shifted people to higher ground and they are being provided with cooked rice, clean drinking water, polythene sheets," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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In Craig Werner's book "Higher Ground," Moy said the song was stitched together with Wonder's input after he sang a lyrical fragment that became its foundation.
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In the event of a chlorine attack, you should not crawl on the floor, as you might in a fire, but stand and seek higher ground.
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"Most people are out in the streets with backpacks on, heading for higher ground," he said, speaking in a trembling voice on a WhatsApp phone call.
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Local authorities issued a number of flood warnings on Saturday morning and told residents to avoid using roads and consider moving to higher ground if conditions worsen.
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Yesterday, authorities said the players and their coach have all been found alive, about 300 yards beyond a section of the cave that was on higher ground.
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Higher Ground, former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama's production company, announced its first wave of content in its partnership with Netflix last year.
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WLBT-TV reported the move is an attempt to keep flooding to a minimum downstream, and to allow extra time for residents to get to higher ground.
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Theoretically, this item will provide players with more evasive and offensive maneuvers that are capable of providing quick exits, higher ground, or more pathways toward the enemy.
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The love affair with SUVs and their higher ground clearance have also prompted Lamborghini, Aston Martin and Rolls-Royce to seek to compete in the popular segment.
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And where are tropical forests — the same forests that regulate global climate — most at risk from coffee farmers who have to shift their crops to higher ground?
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And as threats increase, Valmeyer officials say they are continually approached by other municipalities considering what scientists call managed retreat -- basically, a preemptive move to higher ground.
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Back in 2017, the two launched Higher Ground Labs, an early-stage company accelerator and investment firm dedicated to financing technology companies that could support progressive causes.
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Loti Yates, the director of the Solomon Islands National Disaster Management Office, said people had been told to move to higher ground in Choiseul and Western Province.
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The streaming service basically gave the Obamas free rein to produce whatever film or TV projects their hearts desired under the pair's new production banner, Higher Ground.
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Nobody's asking who you voted for, who you love or who your ancestors were before picking you up, drying you off and delivering you to higher ground.
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In the summer, we have our male reindeer in that same enclosure while the females, with and without calves, range outwits the enclosure on the higher ground.
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She reportedly was attending meetings related to her and Barack Obama's production company, Higher Ground Productions, as they signed a multi-year dealwith Netflix in the spring.
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Many of the people who took to higher ground, including about 0003,000 taking shelter in the gubernatorial office in the Lampung province, had returned home, Wibowo said.
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"Please look for higher ground at least 10 meters (33 feet) high, stay calm and keep monitoring information from the geophysics agency," Karnawati told a news conference.
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Now his wife and young child had evacuated, while he stayed behind to help church members board up their houses and locate spare rooms on higher ground.
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In some areas, soldiers moved people who were marooned on the roofs of buildings to makeshift camps set up in schools and government buildings on higher ground.
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Ms. Pérez managed to escape to higher ground with much of her family, but two of her young daughters died, along with at least five other relatives.
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A river runs from higher ground, spanned by a fig tree root bridge that links pathways between tidy lawns, vegetable and flower gardens, and clusters of houses.
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As of Monday, 66 aftershocks had been recorded and some people in South Halmahera were still taking refuge on higher ground fearful of a tsunami, Wibowo said.
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"It's about reaching higher ground and stacking for survival," Ms. Odem, a New Orleans native, said as she looked out at the tankers passing behind her tables.
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A monk named Nobuo Kobayashi stayed and, by selling land and with the help of donations, rebuilt the 1,100 year-old Buddhist Kongoji Temple on higher ground.
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At one point in the afternoon in Sumber Jaya, someone shouted that a big wave was coming, prompting hundreds of panicked people to run for higher ground.
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A spokeswoman for Higher Ground said the "Fifth Risk" project would focus on the civics lessons contained in the book and would not take shots at Trump.
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Deflecting attention from Trump's often pointed criticism, Mexico has tried to take the higher ground in the debate by promising to help migrants get jobs and visas.
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Higher Ground Labs also plans to announce on Thursday its first-ever, full-time hire: Joselyn Lai, one of the top aides to Hillary Clinton in 2016.
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She said people were particularly frazzled because of contradictory messages from the authorities about whether they were supposed to huddle under a table or seek higher ground.
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Trump's decision to take the higher ground has helped to soothe markets and increase demand for risk assets, said Brad Bechtel, managing director, Jefferies in New York.
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Deval Patrick is joining the advisory board of Higher Ground Labs, an accelerator and venture capital firm for startups that sell technology to progressive campaigns and causes.
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Trucks stuffed with boxes streamed down country roads, boats and trailers rigged to the back, their drivers trying to find places to stash them on higher ground.
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The various projects announced this week will be released on Netflix "over the next several years," according to the news release from the Obamas' production company, Higher Ground.
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If you happen to be sunbathing on a quiet Caribbean beach next week, don't be alarmed if a helicopter flies overhead warning everyone to evacuate to higher ground.
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Less than 30 minutes later they had packed up their car and hit the road with their dog, heading for her fiance's home, which is on higher ground.
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"In New Orleans, historically rich neighbourhoods are the ones that never flood because they were built on higher ground, and that goes back hundreds of years," he explained.
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Those who live on the coast or in flood zones have been told to prepare to evacuate to higher ground in the case of storm surges, officials said.
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The couple's production company, Higher Ground, just nabbed an Academy Award for "American Factory," a documentary about a Chinese investor who opens a factory in post-industrial Ohio.
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The former president and first lady have created "Higher Ground Productions," a company to produce content for Netflix, the streaming service announced, according to The New York Times.
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All he, his dad, a family friend and the friend's young son had to do was get it across the road to his own home on higher ground.
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After years of warning neighbors of a grim future, he says he is moving his 90-year-old mother to higher ground after the flood destroyed their home.
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The Obamas will "develop, produce, and lend their voices to select podcasts" that will cover "wide-ranging topics," according to a statement from their production company, Higher Ground.
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Tens of thousands of people, some of them as much as 125 miles inland, have been warned to move to higher ground since the hurricane drenched the state.
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Leaving the relative shelter of the car, he hiked with his son to higher ground and was able to get a cell phone signal to call for help.
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This level is also very destructible and by knocking down the platforms you force your opponents fight you head on and not take advantage of the higher ground.
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Residents ran to higher ground to escape the floodwaters, he said, but many lost their homes and possessions and were expected to ask the regional government for compensation.
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And west of New Orleans, officials in Vermilion Parish advised some residents in low-lying areas and people living in mobile homes to consider moving to higher ground.
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Jane Fonda's still walking the walk -- marching with and sitting in with environmental protesters in D.C. -- but now when the cops move in, Jane heads for higher ground.
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Shadow was initially a tech firm named Groundbase, founded by Hillary Clinton campaign veterans Gerard Niemira and Krista Davis and funded by the progressive nonprofit Higher Ground Labs.
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The firm had been founded by a pair of Clinton campaign veterans, Gerard Niemira and Krista Davis, with an initial investment from another progressive nonprofit, Higher Ground Labs.
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Luckily, the horses didn't stay stuck for long; a group of volunteer rescuers swam through the waters to reach the horses and lead the animals to higher ground.
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The neighbors said they loved living in Wilmington, but that there were not many other public housing options available even if they tried to move to higher ground.
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One British tourist described cracks appearing on the road both in front of, and behind, the van in which she and her friends were driving to higher ground.
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The former governor became a CBS political analyst and joined the advisory board of Higher Ground Labs, an accelerator and venture capital firm that supports progressive tech tools.
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"In New Orleans, historically rich neighbourhoods are the ones that never flood because they were built on higher ground, and that goes back hundreds of years," he explained.
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The downpour pushed the nearby Ross River Dam to almost 250 percent of its capacity, forcing the floodgates open as officials instructed people to move to higher ground.
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In addition to its work with Y Combinator, the firm has picked up an investment from Higher Ground Labs — an investment firm focused on incubating progressively minded technology companies.
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In the past, the federal government has given flooded homeowners money to relocate, but this is one of the first plans to move an entire community to higher ground.
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And there are already signs that's happening: Days before Virginia's election, well-known Valley venture capitalist Conway invested in Higher Ground Labs, he told Recode, without specifying an amount.
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Precautions include watching for downed power lines, being aware of snakes and other animals that might have escaped to higher ground, gas leaks, and sewer and water line damage.
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They've examined ways to stave off rising tides by buffering sites that will be swamped, hauling things to higher ground, or documenting whatever they can in the water's path.
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Near the end of Trump's letter to Comey, he offers the argument that by firing the FBI director, he is seeking higher ground on behalf of the American people.
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A magnitude 22018 earthquake struck about 220 miles southeast of Kodiak, Alaska early Tuesday morning, sending residents of the picturesque island fleeing to higher ground to avoid tsunami waves.
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Singapore's has already taken some action, including introducing a carbon tax and requiring future critical infrastructure like its new airport terminal and port to be built on higher ground.
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Viboonrungruang said his son, nicknamed Titun, had told him their coach, Ekkapol Ake Chantawong, had told the boys to run away from the water and go to higher ground.
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The National Disaster Warning Center also sounded alarms around tourist beach destinations, such as Koh Samui and Koh Phangan, urging people to leave high-risk areas for higher ground.
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He believed we are here to serve one another, and that the way to move the country to higher ground was to begin on the common ground of service.
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" Gina and Stu Dubner, 54 and 60, Oceanside, N.Y. "I would move my car to higher ground and remove anything from the floor of the storage room and garage.
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They want to embrace books, movies, television that take the higher ground, that don't have an axe to grind, and that aren't polemical, or don't take a political side.
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"I'm recommending that everyone stay home tomorrow," said Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Monday, as he asked people to stay off the streets and park their cars on higher ground.
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Zach Karrenbrock recorded video of the rescue, and told the station that all of the animals were moved to higher ground and then later transported to a safe location.
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Their goal was to get to higher ground, where rising waters left in Hurricane Florence's wake wouldn't put Bostic, her son, daughter-in-law and their children in danger.
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Juan de la Puerta, who sought buyers for Errazuriz's house, said the difference in the value of homes on higher-ground streets versus those lower down was growing starker.
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Growers located in regions far from Rosario face higher ground transportation costs to get grains to the river, which leads out to the shipping lanes of the South Atlantic.
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With no other option, some people are using rudimentary canoes to cross the flooded plains while others are trudging across higher ground to safe havens several hours walk away.
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As they rushed out the door, people were racing and yelling desperately for everyone to go to higher ground because rivers of waste were about to flood the town.
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When it was built, it was barely above sea level The original part of the city, the French Quarter, was built on higher ground beginning in the early 22100th century.
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Vanuatu's National Disaster Management Office advised people in southern provinces to evacuate coastal areas for higher ground.. New Caledonia's civil security agency made no plans to evacuate coastal places immediately.
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"What I thought was interesting about that scene was Brienne has achieved the position of commander of the Kingsguard and she decides to take the higher ground," Christie told Variety.
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There's an obvious recklessness attached to this mentality, but if Indiana can discern some method inside its self-inflicted madness, ball-handlers like Oladipo will elevate to a higher ground.
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That same year Sarandos also signed a multi-year production deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground Productions, leading some to question whether Netflix was adopting a liberal slant.
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Former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground, announced last year its first wave of content for Netflix that includes docuseries and feature films.
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The entire state is at risk for flash flooding into Sunday, according to the North Carolina Department of Transportation, so residents are still being urged to move to higher ground.
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If you thought you could leave a killer robot behind by climbing to higher ground, it turns out, the robot might soon be able to climb right up beside you.
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A teeny-tiny mouse creeping around is enough to get some people jumping on chairs, but this family of rats will have even the bravest souls lunging for higher ground.
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The roughly 130 inhabitants of Lewis and Clark village near St. Joseph have already left for higher ground, local news media reported, with other nearby towns at risk as well.
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The low-lying Pacific islands are on the frontline of global climate change, battling rising sea levels and related crises that have forced some residents to move to higher ground.
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Lieutenant Colonel Jo-Ar Herrera, a military spokesman, said on Thursday that the army had retaken higher ground to the east of the city, reducing the enemy's field of fire.
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This weekend, we recommend watching the classic Stanley Kubrick film "A Clockwork Orange," as well as "American Factory," a Netflix original from Higher Ground Productions, Barack and Michelle Obama's company.
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However, communities are feeling the impacts of erosion and sea level rise across the country and Shishmaref is not the only community that feels forced to move to higher ground.
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Instead, on the first day of the battle, he ordered troops, including Lt. Wilkeson and his unit, to move to higher ground, which would normally be a sound tactical maneuver.
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But the Cape Fear River in Wilmington can also be a beast, surging madly from its bed to overtake houses and send residents like Angela Baynes fleeing for higher ground.
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The documentary, which was partially produced by Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground, premiered at Sundance to high reviews and, thanks to Netflix, is now available to stream.
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The Obama family's production company Higher Ground also signed an exclusive deal with Spotify last year to produce shows, although it isn't clear whether Barack or Michelle will be hosts.
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In October, after years of planning and millions of dollars, nearly a third of the community began relocating to new homes on higher ground in Mertarvik, about nine miles away.
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The Netflix production deal, announced more than a year ago, led to the formation of "Higher Ground Productions," which will create a broad range of programming for the streaming service.
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First was a film from Obama's own production company, Higher Ground, which was launched in Spring 2018 and announced earlier this year that it was developing seven movies with Netflix.
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Spotify announced Thursday that it has signed a partnership deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground, to produce podcasts that will be available only on its streaming platform.
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The deal comes on the heels of a similar agreement between Higher Ground and Netflix that will see the former first couple producing movies and television shows for the Hollywood streamer.
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Dozens of residents were evacuated to higher ground last week due to concerns that the 11 million-ton iceberg could break apart, creating high waves that could wash away coastal buildings.
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As the sun began to rise, a few members of the group climbed to higher ground on some nearby rocks to make sure the letters were straight and to take pictures.
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The former President and First Lady's production company, Higher Ground, was behind the doc, which followed a group of workers at a factory in Dayton, Ohio, struggling to unionize their workplace.
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Indonesia lifted a tsunami warning but urged people to remain vigilant and evacuate to higher ground after an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck off the coast of its island of Sulawesi.
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Shomik Dutta, one of the founders of Higher Ground Labs, said it's too early to tell if a specific app or technology is primed to deliver Democrats more victories in 2018.
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In New Orleans, Adam Slocum and his wife got ice, water and extra food, filled their generator with gas and parked their cars on higher ground at a nearby grocery store.
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Officials urged residents in Wellington, Christchurch, the Chatham Islands and other coastal areas to move inland or seek higher ground after a magnitude-22011 earthquake struck shortly after midnight local time.
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Rescue teams of soldiers, police and local people have been deployed to help those trapped on rooftops or on higher ground, officials added, as TV pictures showed damaged roads and bridges.
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Iwan Asmara, an official from the local Disaster Mitigation Agency, said people poured out from their houses in panic to move to higher ground, particularly in Mataram and North Lombok district.
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Prior to 2011, warning broadcasts were mostly limited to television, radio, and city officials on loudspeakers, with volunteer firemen in trucks roaming the roads, telling residents to flee to higher ground.
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In the event of the dam bursting, however, Abadi advised that people living near the Tigris River move to higher ground, at least 3.7 miles (6 kilometers) away from the river.
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More than 300,000 people in the predominantly Christian country spent Christmas in shelters after authorities moved them to safety on higher ground, said Mina Narasigan, spokeswoman for the national disaster agency.
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The quake, a magnitude 7.6 centered off Chiloe Island northwest of Patagonia, caused thousands in the tourism and salmon farming region to evacuate to higher ground amid fears of a tsunami.
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After the low dam was completed in 1902, the site was often flooded, so in the 1960s the temple was moved, piece by piece, to higher ground some 500 metres downriver.
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Joining Social Capital in the Series A are Canvas Ventures, Designer Fund, Foundation Capital, GSV Acceleration, Higher Ground Labs, Index Ventures, Kapor Capital, Matrix Partners, New Media Ventures, Omidyar Network, Twilio.
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In addition to the publishing arrangement, the Obamas agreed to a multiyear production deal with Netflix in May to create television shows and films through their new production company, Higher Ground.
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In the rainy season in his Arkansas town, the hogs get pushed out of nearby "swamps / low lying areas looking for higher ground," resulting in them pushing into human residential areas.
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Barack and Michelle Obama's new production company, Higher Ground Productions, on Tuesday announced seven projects that are in the works for Netflix, including several documentaries and a movie about Frederick Douglass.
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"It happened very fast, the flood waters quickly rose filling our house," farmer Felipe Ybarsabal, 65, told Reuters by telephone, saying he and his family had to run to higher ground.
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He spent much of last week moving his cattle to higher ground at a ranch just west of the city, making sure the cows were safe before tending to his house.
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In addition to calling for action to combat the climate crisis, Yang also said that those actions are already "too late," and that we should be moving people to higher ground.
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"There's an algorithmic bias that inherently benefits hate and negativity and anger," said Shomik Dutta, a digital strategist and a founder of Higher Ground Labs, an incubator for Democratic start-ups.
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Hundreds of others were also attempting to make the congested seven-hour walk from the village of Lamego -- about 90 kilometers (56 miles) inland from Beira -- to Nhamatanda, on higher ground.
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Flooding affects other towns in the area Not every road in Guerneville was under water -- a few were still passable but lined with cars and trucks from owners seeking higher ground.
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For homeowners who would like to escape the cycle of "flood, rebuild and repeat," the flood insurance program should provide more assistance to make relocating to higher ground a viable option.
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By contrast, most of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank lie on higher ground in the western part of the territory, often in close proximity to Palestinian cities and towns.
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Now Sacca's team is elevating a series of startups that try to generate votes more cheaply, including many that came out of Higher Ground Labs, an incubator for political tech groups.
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We're excited about Higher Ground Audio because podcasts offer an extraordinary opportunity to foster productive dialogue, make people smile and make people think, and, hopefully, bring us all a little closer together.
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The New York Times reported on Monday that Netflix has partnered with Higher Ground Productions, a company created by the former president and first lady, to produce content for the streaming service.
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The flooding then had the knock on effect of causing the local elephant population to seek out higher ground, which resulted in them trampling through the community's paddy fields to get there.
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The techniques performed facing in one direction seem to be for fighting an opponent on lower ground, techniques performed in the other direction seem to be for attacking someone on higher ground.
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Neither Pence nor Morrison, though, matched China's rhetoric on climate change, a major security issue for Pacific islands where rising sea levels are forcing people to move to live on higher ground.
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The quake triggered a tsunami warning and frightened people poured out of their homes to move to higher ground, particularly in North Lombok and Mataram, the capital of West Nusa Tenggara province.
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"It was a scary situation and we rushed to the site where there is a solar panel," said Hannah Longeya, pointing at the fence surrounding the solar power system on higher ground.
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The Kaziranga National Park, home of the endangered one-horned rhino, was almost entirely under water, the state government said, forcing animals to seek shelter on higher ground, including in human settlements.
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The quake was also felt strongly on the island of Sulawesi, to the west of the epicenter, where authorities urged people to move to higher ground and stay away from the beaches.
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The quake was also felt strongly on the island of Sulawesi, to the west of the epicentre, where authorities urged people to move to higher ground and stay away from the beaches.
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As we reported ... Jane's been arrested 4 times, but last Friday when the cops moved in she moved to higher ground and chanted with her comrades from a balcony in the Capitol.
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The Burmese National Disaster Management Committee has urged residents near river banks and low-lying areas to move to higher ground, after floods shut down roads and submerged villages, leaving communities stranded.
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The announcement follows a multi-year agreement between Higher Ground and Netflix that was announced in 2018 in which the former president and his wife will produce films, documentaries and other series.
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Sea-level rise and erosion are set to make most island atolls uninhabitable by 2050, and for the Marshall Islands, home to 75,000 people, moving to higher ground is not an option.
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Tsunami warning sirens sounded, cellphones pinged with emergency alerts, and in Kodiak, which suffered major damage when an earthquake in 33 sparked a tsunami, roads filled as residents rushed toward higher ground.
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Over the past few days, as the cyclone barreled up the Bay of Bengal toward India, the authorities in Odisha helped move people to higher ground and into specially built cyclone shelters.
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With Harvey expected to make landfall overnight as the most powerful storm to hit the U.S. mainland in a dozen years, many residents of this beach city had left for higher ground.
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Studies have shown that elephants may be monitoring ground vibrations through their bodies, fleeing for higher ground moments before distant tsunamis strike or stomping on the ground to warn others of danger.
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For example, elephants have been observed fleeing for higher ground in the moments before distant tsunamis, and a mother elephant who feels threatened will stomp on the ground to warn others away.
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"His decision to take the higher ground and ease the emotions around the tit for tat have ... acted to soothe markets and the bid tone to risk assets returned immediately," he added.
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Higher Ground Productions, which aims to create projects that lift up "new and diverse voices," signed a multiyear partnership with the Obamas in 2018 to make content for online streaming giant Netflix.
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As much as "A Novel" can be used to widen the genre's horizons, today it's also used to create a hierarchy, to set a work of fiction on higher ground than its peers.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia lifted a tsunami warning but urged people to remain vigilant and evacuate to higher ground after an earthquake of magnitude 6.8 struck off the coast of its island of Sulawesi.
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Higher Ground members will seek to push other local and state elected officials to follow suit by tagging them in images documenting flooding and seeking meetings, said Harriet Festing, who heads the group.
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He told a reporter his home had taken on three feet of water, and that he was using the mattress to bring the dogs to his car, which was parked on higher ground.
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Mayank Rawal, a senior official in the disaster management department in Ahmedabad, Gujarat's main city, said more than 10,000 people had been moved to higher ground, including 1,000 who were airlifted to safety.
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Under the partnership, the Obamas will "develop, produce and lend their voices" to select podcasts that will be distributed worldwide, Spotify and the Obamas production company, Higher Ground, said in a joint statement.
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The announcement follows a multi-year agreement between Higher Ground and Netflix that was announced in 2018 in which the former president and former first lady will produce films, documentaries and other series.
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The US Department of Housing and Urban Development is spending $50 million to relocate close to 40 families to higher ground as early as next year, in the first US climate resettlement plan.
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Rick Scott, who had declared a state of emergency in 29 counties, said Saturday that evacuation orders were in effect Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, with shelters open for those seeking higher ground.
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A powerful earthquake struck near Indonesia's Moluccas islands on Thursday, prompting panicked residents to flee to higher ground, though a tsunami alert was later lifted and there were no immediate reports of casualties.
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Or, just last year, al-Shabaab, a terrorist group, diverted water from the Jubba river in Somalia, causing a flood that forced opposing forces to move to higher ground, where they were ambushed.
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There were no reports of deaths or damage to buildings from the overnight undersea quake, which caused panic in Padang as people tried to reach higher ground when a tsunami warning was issued.
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In addition to receiving buyout payments from the government, some residents whose homes are threatened by the dam are eligible to move to "New Hasankeyf," a higher-ground settlement about 2 miles away.
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Leading the effort to gain permanent federal recognition of the district is Robert Lewis, a resident of Christian Avenue, and the founder and president of the Higher Ground Inter-Cultural and Heritage Association.
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More that three million people were told to evacuate to higher ground or shelters as flooding and landslides destroyed homes and killed at least 68 people by Sunday afternoon, with 56 more missing.
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Under the partnership, the Obamas will "develop, produce and lend their voices" to select podcasts that will be distributed worldwide, Spotify and the Obamas production company Higher Ground said in a joint statement.
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My friend Greg Carr, who runs the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, told me that the lions, elephants and zebras sensed the storm coming and moved to higher ground to avoid the flooding.
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If Florence floods him out, he said, he will retreat to the second story of his concrete garage, or jump in his pickup truck parked outside and high-tail it to higher ground.
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The relative told her to leave the house and move to higher ground "because the water was coming," she recalled, speaking in a shelter in the southern town of Paksong on Wednesday evening.
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My body froze, and I don't know how I made it to the truck, but by the grace of God I was able to drive to higher ground with four of our workers.
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If the answer is yes, that soul passed on to higher ground a few days ago, when Mary Anderson, a co-founder of the outdoor retailer REI, died at the age of 107.
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In Bangladesh, though, the Ashrayan project, run directly by the prime minister's office, has relocated 160,000 families affected by cyclones, flooding and river erosion to higher ground at a total cost of $570m.
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Residents urged to seek higher ground Flash flood emergencies were declared Monday night and Tuesday morning in the Tulsa area, where more than 6 inches of rain have fallen in some locations this week.
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In Gulf County alone, the first to begin ordering residents of low-lying areas to higher ground, mandatory evacuation notices encompassed an estimated 3,800 homes, said Jessica Sasich of the county's emergency operations center.
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When the ground shakes in Puerto Rico and it is time to head for higher ground, the people in the northwestern coastal city of Aguadilla find out the old way: the shrill of whistles.
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I have been wrapped up in the warm embrace of my fellow "small d" democrats, who yearn for a nation of people who stand up to ignorance and hate by climbing to higher ground.
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She pushed the raft further down the street, toward what she hoped was higher ground, and eventually reached the home of a couple who took them in and helped carry Cedric up the stairs.
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Elsewhere, the New Zealand dollar eased after a powerful earthquake rocked the island nation early on Monday, killing at least two people and prompting a tsunami warning that sent thousands fleeing to higher ground.
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The salvage party then attached their harnesses to the rope, hooked their feet over it, and went hand-over-hand to the point about 30 feet away where they could drop to higher ground.
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The quake triggered a tsunami warning in Japan's Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures, causing the government to urge thousands to seek higher ground amid warnings waves could be up to 3 meters high (10 feet).
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But there are answers to how, and both Lloyd Parry and the parents he interviews want as much information as possible as to why the school did not evacuate the pupils to higher ground.
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Limbaugh then revealed that he didn't believe his own bullshit when got the fuck out of his own Florida home and headed for higher ground, which was a good and correct thing to do.
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When you base your entire political brand on being a people pleaser who loves to take the higher ground, it's a little bit hard to get in the mud with the rest of us.
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Although the conflict would grind on for two more years, with catastrophic loss of life, the Union seized fortune's higher ground in the Civil War overall by driving Lee's army into retreat at Gettysburg.
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LUMBERTON, N.C. — After Hurricane Matthew flooded her childhood home two years ago, Deborah Maynor borrowed $25,2146, bought a new house on higher ground, and waited for federal aid to reimburse her for her losses.
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That's why Hoover, like many in the Democratic Party, is hoping Higher Ground Labs can cover some of the gap by investing in early-stage businesses working at the intersection of politics and technology.
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She listed some of her losses: all 10 fish in her fish tank; a cat; a couple of chickens; and a cow, although she and her boyfriend hoped it had escaped to higher ground.
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"American Factory" is the first release from Higher Ground Productions, a company the former U.S. president and first lady founded in 2018 as they unveiled a multiyear deal to supply programing to Netflix Inc.
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About 8.9 million pigs are raised on 2,100 farms across the state, and although farmers "took extraordinary measures" ahead of the storm, including moving thousands of animals to higher ground, they have suffered losses.
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It could include establishing an independent production company to make television shows, documentaries, podcasts or movies along the lines of the Higher Ground company formed by ex-President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle.
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"Having organized for years, volunteer canvassers were more effective time after time after time," said Betsy Hoover, a cofounder of Higher Ground Labs, a progressive tech incubator that funded Outvote and the Tuesday Company.
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"American Factory" is the first release from Higher Ground Productions, a company the former U.S. president and first lady founded in 2018 as they unveiled a multiyear deal to supply programing to Netflix Inc.
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North Carolina farmers had several days' notice of Florence to harvest what they could and move livestock to higher ground or to market, but there was only so much they could do to prepare.
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Strong storms sent flood waters racing through neighborhoods and towns along the Gulf Coast area Friday morning, and the National Weather Service advised residents in large swaths of Louisiana and Mississippi to seek higher ground.
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However, a spokesperson for the Obamas' production company, Higher Ground, said that The Fifth Risk Netflix project would center around the "civic lessons" it presents and not attack Trump, according to The New York Times.
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The quake disrupted Christmas celebration plans for thousands of people who fled on foot, in cars and on horseback, seeking higher ground amid torrential rains in some places as sirens warned of a potential tsunami.
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Higher Ground Labs backs 13 startups to help Democrats win in 2018 and beyond "As the political world shifts from analog to digital, we need a lot more tools to capture that spend," says Dutta.
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Rick Scott, who had previously declared a state of emergency in 29 counties, said Saturday that evacuation orders were in effect for Escambia and Santa Rosa counties, with shelters open for those seeking higher ground.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake struck near Indonesia's Moluccas islands on Thursday, prompting panicked residents to flee to higher ground, though a tsunami alert was later lifted and there were no immediate reports of casualties.
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Such communities would pass the colder winter months in river valleys (where the dolmens are located) and move to higher ground in the spring—most likely to Serra da Estrela ("mountain range of the star").
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Aid agencies are providing machinery to keep roads clear to allow food and medicine to get through, setting up emergency medical centers and moving latrines to higher ground to prevent floods spreading disease, she said.
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The weather service advises people in the area to get to higher ground, if possible, avoid driving into floodwaters (12 inches of rain can sweep a car away) and to monitor media outlets for updates.
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Long after it was apparent that emigrants had a better chance of survival if they settled at sites on higher ground, the society continued to deposit them at Monrovia, Liberia's low-lying, malaria-infested capital.
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In Padang, the city in Sumatra nearest to the first quake's center, panicky residents fled to higher ground on foot or motorcycles, according to a local television station, which reported traffic jams on some routes.
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In the face of rising water levels that they knew would gain momentum over the course of many decades, they would regularly dig up the bodies of their ancestors to rebury them on higher ground.
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On Oahu, where 70 percent of Hawaii's 1.4 million residents live, Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell told the Weather Channel that the city has moved its emergency-response equipment to higher ground for the time being.
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Fiji moved its first coastal community inland in 2014, and may have to move dozens more to higher ground as sea levels rise, said Nilesh Prakash, the country's head of climate change and international cooperation.
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"You go to higher ground, hunker down with stored water and canned food, because there's nowhere else to escape," said Ron Matayoshi, a volunteer at the McKinley High School emergency evacuation center in urban Honolulu.
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From privilege's higher ground, though, it's all much cleaner, just as a football game naturally looks and feels and plays much different from a luxury box than it does from the bottom of the pile.
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A simple heavy rain used to fill low-lying streets with water, forcing drivers to move their cars to higher ground and residents to leave rubber boots next to their welcome mats outside most doors.
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"For the past few days, we've been moving the cows to higher ground because they can't go 24 hours without lying down, and they won't put their heads under water to eat grass," Modine said.
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John Bel Edwards of Louisiana declared a state of emergency on Thursday, and Mayor Mitch Landrieu urged residents to be ready to move cars to higher ground and to stay off the streets during rainstorms.
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The New Zealand Ministry of Civil Defense and Emergency Management warned people living near the coast to move inland to higher ground as tsunami waves raised seawater levels in some places by about six feet.
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Measures that could help include using different building materials, digging deeper foundations, putting structures on higher ground, building flood protection around them, or adding backups that can be used when needed, such as extra roads.
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Another slice of his early aid has gone to Higher Ground Labs, sources said, a collection of Obama's former digital advisers who are trying to help their party take advantage of new, cutting-edge campaign technology.
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MANILA (Reuters) - Hundreds of residents of coastal areas in a province south of the Philippine capital fled to higher ground fearing a tsunami on Saturday after a series of earthquakes on the main island of Luzon.
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"It's tough, sure, but it's much worse for people living on other blocks on higher ground," where water pressure is lower, she said, sitting behind a curtain of rubber sandals hanging for sale outside her home.
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New Orleans, much of which lies below sea level, was gearing up for a hit, and Landrieu urged people who live "outside the city's levee protection system or in low-lying area" to seek higher ground.
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Editor's note: This post has been corrected to reflect that Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert are Emmy Award winners (not Academy Award winners), and the 3rd noted project is not yet titled (not named Higher Ground).
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I quickly discovered, as I caught my breath on the uphill climb, that Washington Heights is indeed higher ground; at 183rd Street in Bennett Park, a plaque marks Manhattan's highest elevation, 265 feet above sea level.
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The low-lying islands of the Pacific are seen as the front line of global climate change, battling rising sea levels and other climate-related crises that have forced some residents to move to higher ground.
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Fears of a tsunami prompted people to evacuate their homes for higher ground, but there were no reports of tsunamis occurring along the southern coasts of western, central and eastern Java and the city of Yogyakarta.
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Dramatic footage shot from a smartphone by Yub Raj Rana, a local, also showed the Tinau breaching a concrete embankment, forcing him to flee a tide of water until he reached the safety of higher ground.
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Launched in the wake of the 2016 election by three former staffers from Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency, Tuesday is one of the higher-profile alumni from the progressive-focused technology accelerator, Higher Ground Labs.
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"I was at home asleep when I woke up with the shaking," said Lt. Tim Putney of the Kodiak police after he evacuated his wife and children to a friend's home that was on higher ground.
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This section of his plan is called "Moving to Higher Ground" and is framed around proposals to do just that: relocate and otherwise adapt humanity to accommodate climate-related disasters that make previously habitable places unlivable.
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The group, called Higher Ground Labs, plans to announce on Thursday that it has tapped Ron Klain, the executive vice president and general counsel of Revolution, to serve as chair of the nascent organization's advisory board.
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Lorenzo, a 2003-year-old from Mexico, is adept at elevating and moving houses to higher ground, and keeps pictures on his cellphone to prove it — mansions he rescued in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Houston.
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The consortium is also building an additional facility on higher ground, about 30 miles to the north in the city of Houma, La., which could handle operations on days when the DeFelice center can't be used.
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What Julia and Steve capture on film is at times painful, at times exhilarating, but always thoughtful and always real—exactly the kind of story Barack and I wanted to lift up with Higher Ground Productions.
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The governors of North and South Carolina and the mayors of Wilmington and Myrtle Beach told their citizens and tourists along the coasts to evacuate to higher ground in advance of the flooding and storm surge.
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There are weirder songs on Hudson Mohawke and Lunice's joint opus (note the baby coos on "Buggin'"), but none of them hit harder than "Higher Ground," with its delirious vocal sample, thunderous handclaps, and synthesized tuba blasts.
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Though the couple's overall deal with the streaming giant has been in the works for a while (the news was officially announced in 2018) we only now know what it is that Higher Ground is working on.
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The growing alarm persuaded the state government on Monday to warn some 953,000 people living in parts of Mackay, a city 950 kilometers (590 miles) north of the state capital Brisbane, to head south to higher ground.
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"The Democrats have invested in digital and technology and data for longer than Republicans have," said Betsy Hoover, a partner at 270 Strategies who advised Obama and now serves as the co-founder of Higher Ground Labs.
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Higher Ground representatives said they were launching a campaign now because they sensed "a mass of ... people who want to speak out", including tens of thousands of its own individual members who have lost homes to floods.
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Indonesian authorities urged coastal-dwellers to head for higher ground on Friday after a tsunami warning with potential for waves up to three metres (10 feet) following a powerful earthquake off the islands of Sumatra and Java.
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I still did shoot over 400 people, and I still solved way too many puzzles by boosting buddies up to higher ground and waiting for them to find a conveniently placed box for me to stand on.
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Higher Ground Labs announced that Ron Klain, a longtime top Democratic operative, will chair its board, with a host of Barack Obama veterans with him and Shomik Dutta, Betsy Hoover and Andrew McLaughlin serving as its leaders.
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In recent months, Spotify has invested in the podcast market through acquisitions like Gimlet, Parcast and Anchor — as well as in its programming, like the just-announced deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground.
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The North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services told the paper that many farms prepared for the storm by moving animals to higher ground, but underestimated the strength of Hurricane Florence's storm surge and flood waters.
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The series, documentaries and films will be released on the streaming service over the next several years, according to a statement from Higher Ground Productions, a company established by the former president and first lady last year.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake struck off the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java on Friday, triggering a two-hour tsunami warning that sent coastal-dwellers fleeing to higher ground and panicking people in the capital Jakarta.
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Residents began to flee the city Sunday and take to higher ground after ISIS issued a statement warning of the expected collapse of the Euphrates Dam, according to local activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS).
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On Monday, Mr. Lueth was helping a friend move some farming equipment to higher ground when they paused, he said, to watch hundreds of deer race across a flooded field, chased from the woods by high water.
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The Niro is marketed as an SUV, but since it doesn't have all-wheel drive or have a higher ground clearance like an SUV, it's really more of a hatchback — but a good looking one at least.
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The Arctic is warming at a faster pace than any other part of the world, forcing native villagers on coasts and rivers in the region to move to higher ground as permafrost and glaciers melt and seas rise.
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Ortiz, now 22017, lost both parents, her sister, baby niece and brother-in-law in the disaster, while she and her daughter narrowly escaped the neck-high torrent of mud and rocks, clinging to shelter on higher ground.
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Between gutting a house, filing insurance claims, and trying to get whatever assistance FEMA can offer, some of those who left their homes for higher ground during the storm are now returning to face another set of ordeals.
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On Wednesday, Higher Ground is disclosing investments totaling nearly $1.5 million in 10 startups and enrolling them in a five-month accelerator program, during which they'll work with mentors from the political-tech space to build their businesses.
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Narongsak said the divers located the missing about 300-400 yards past a section of the cave that was on higher ground and was thought to be where the team members and their coach may have taken shelter.
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The Sydney Morning Herald reported Alexander had told a voter forum last week that while Bainimarama had said Australia should stop burning coal, the priority should be helping move settlements in Fiji and its neighbours to higher ground.
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The Higher Ground coalition of flood survivors, from states ranging from Florida to Missouri and Illinois, plans to "bombard local, state and national politicians with videos, photographs, emails and postcards documenting flooding" starting next Monday, coalition members said.
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The demand for action over the low-lying islands of the Pacific, seen as the front line of global climate change, comes as rising sea levels and other climate-related crises force residents to move to higher ground.
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While the PTWC canceled its warning of a potentially hazardous tsunami for the Solomons and neighboring island chains, authorities in New Caledonia ordered people on the east coast and in the Loyalty islands to move to higher ground.
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New models, such as the Fiesta hatchback and EcoSport SUV, have been adapted for Russian conditions of bad roads and extreme cold, with higher ground clearance, anti-corrosion finishes and engines adapted for lower grade fuel, Ovenden said.
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Buoys in the Gulf of Alaska early Tuesday morning detected Tsunami activity and The Weather Channel warned residents of Alaska and British Columbia to evacuate to higher ground and farther inland beyond the bounds of tsunami hazard zones.
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In Houston, they now join locals and other out-of-towners who are patrolling waterlogged streets, opening their doors to strangers in need, offering their time and talents and choosing to help others instead of seeking higher ground.
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The rescuers dropped the family off at a nearby Valero gas station, where Eicher and her children rested on an air mattress while Joey went to reach their car, which he moved to higher ground the night before.
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His shooting range, Higher Ground Tactical, which had been issued 12 violations and fined $135,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for "willfully" exposing its workers to lead and noise hazards in May, was burglarized in July.
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Heavy downpours on Sunday night and early Monday forced some 3,000 people to flee to higher ground in California's Russian River valley, while about 400 homes were evacuated in Reno as the Truckee River topped its banks there.
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"Crews from the Hawaii Fire Department and Ocean Safety and Lifeguard Services have been evacuating residents to higher ground via jet skis but were unable to effect rescues in the towns of Hanalei, Wainiha, and Haena," it said.
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Mozambican authorities on Friday urged people living near two rivers in the province, one to the north of Pemba and the other to the south, to move to higher ground as rivers began to fill up and overflow.
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In recent years, Oregon has instituted practice drills at schools and hospitals, provided evacuation materials to tourists in their hotel rooms and in some areas painted blue evacuation lines to higher ground on roads and paths, Rizzo said.
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And the Netflix deal with his production company, Higher Ground, which he runs with Michelle Obama, was not intended to be used for public rebuttals to Trump, according to what the former president told associates at the time.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said on Tuesday an estimated 23,2500 Florida residents had been ordered or urged to seek higher ground before the storm in 21 counties spanning a 23-mile (22-km) stretch of shoreline.
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Some communities around Binga are still in dire need of food aid and shelter, he noted, adding that the Zimbabwean government has offered to relocate the affected villagers to areas on higher ground and build them new houses.
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Some communities around Binga are still in dire need of food aid and shelter, he noted, adding that the Zimbabwean government has offered to relocate the affected villagers to areas on higher ground and build them new houses.
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Where to stream it: Rent or buy at Amazon Higher Ground Productions, Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, has gotten off to an impressive start by scoring a Best Documentary Oscar nomination for American Factory, their first film.
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Residents of low-lying areas in densely populated Miami-Dade County were urged to move to higher ground by Wednesday as a precaution against coastal storm surges, three days before Irma was expected to make landfall in Florida.
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In doing so, she hopes to spread the lessons learned from her heartbreaking experience - such as the importance of early warning systems and fleeing to higher ground when an alarm is raised or if there is an earthquake.
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It also recently landed a deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground, and on Friday announced the third season of the Rob Riggle and Sarah Tiana sports podcast Riggle's Picks will now stream exclusively on Spotify.
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And last month, when the river began to swell and then inundated cities from St. Louis, 19933 miles upstream, to Cape Girardeau in southern Missouri, Valmeyer refugees watched from the safe perch of their new homes on higher ground.
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Student performance drops at both traditional and charter schools with higher shares of nonwhite students, but only a handful of highly segregated charters — like Higher Ground — were able to "beat the odds" and outperform similarly segregated traditional public schools.
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BRUMADINHO, Brazil, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Firefighters called for the evacuation to higher ground of some 24,000 people from the Brazilian town hit by deadly mud flow from an earlier mining dam rupture, as a second dam threatened to collapse.
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Consortium members include Chris Boos from Arago and Antoine Blondeau from Sentient, Carlos Domingo from Securitize and SPiCE VC and Shayne Coplan from TokenUnion, and Andrew McLaughlin from Higher Ground Labs and Michael Sarasti from the City of Miami.
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Despite Lewis' condemnation of Trump, a spokesperson for the Obamas' production company, Higher Ground, said that The Fifth Risk Netflix project would center around the "civic lessons" it presents and not attack Trump, according to The New York Times.
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In the absence of deep-pocketed Democratic funders comparable to the Mercers and the Kochs, Higher Ground Labs acts as an incubator, looking particularly to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to support the next generation of for-profit, election-tech startups.
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After dark, fire department crews began going door to door advising residents of three creek-side mobile home parks, consisting of about 600 trailers, to move to higher ground, Vossbrink said, adding that the stream was continuing to rise.
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Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections for Democrats Michael Luciani, Jordan Birnholtz and Shola Farber, the co-founders of Tuesday Company, met working on mobilization and outreach for the Clinton campaign in 2016.
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Still, we need to focus less on what's wrong with Trump and the Republicans and more on what's right with us, and especially on how we as Democrats can lead us all to higher ground without fear and division.
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Most plans to deal with climate change don't feature the plank "Move our people to higher ground," but most plans to deal with climate change don't come from Andrew Yang, the entrepreneur and writer turned dark horse presidential candidate.
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Get to higher ground Tsunamis are giant waves triggered by anything that disrupts the ocean, including earthquakes or volcanic eruptions under the sea, so the first sign may be a rumbling Earth, or a rapid rise or fall in ocean waters.
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Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's most significant public statement on the dam, which was not widely distributed, advised millions of people living in the path of a potential flood that they should move to higher ground, but provided few specifics.
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By Friday afternoon, when she hadn't returned, Eric, a mental-health counselor at the same college, made the difficult choice to leave Isaac alone in the car and hike to higher ground to get cell phone service and call 911.
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The addition of the Obamas' Higher Ground Production company as executive producers could elevate the film to a global audience, but their involvement could also politicize a film Reichart and Bognar had worked scrupulously to keep free of any political commentary.
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In Srekor village, site of the submerged area, 10 families relocated to a resettlement village, while 63 stayed behind, moving to forested higher ground from where they saw the waters rise steadily since December to reach the roofs of their homes.
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And many had financial backing from Valley venture capitalists like LinkedIn's Hoffman, as well as groups he's supported, including Higher Ground Labs, a new incubator that seeks to identify the next generation of campaign technologies that can help Democrats win.
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Fiji plans to move more than 40 villages to higher ground to escape coastal floods and is also working on ways to help future migrants from other Pacific island nations as sea levels rise, the country's attorney general said last month.
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He and his team have topped up the fuel in the lab's backup generators, moved trucks and boats to higher ground, and retrieved expensive equipment that listens to the underwater activity of creatures off the coast, Eggleston told The Verge.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Global stocks will continue their march to higher ground but an escalation of the U.S.-China trade war poses the biggest risk, Reuters polls of over 200 equity strategists, analysts and fund managers from around the world found.
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"We're excited about Higher Ground Audio because podcasts offer an extraordinary opportunity to foster productive dialogue, make people smile and make people think, and, hopefully, bring us all a little closer together," said the former U.S. president in a statement.
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Kathy Krauth, a teacher with a Tokyo international school leading a dozen students on a study tour, was staying at a traditional Japanese inn in the coastal town of Ofunato and was evacuated to higher ground soon after the quake struck.
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I recently wrote about one resident of the South Florida city who is so concerned about climate change and rising seas that he's packing up his home in the center of the island and planning to move to higher ground.
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Dozens of people were exploring the gorge when a storm dumped heavy rain upstream, and the narrow canyon funneled the runoff into a raging wall of water and debris that engulfed some hikers and sent others scrambling to higher ground.
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He said people had been told to seek higher ground when they saw the flags flying, but that no one could have predicted the force and speed of the flooding when two big rivers burst their banks following the cyclone.
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" As the Huffington Post noted, warming in the Arctic is happening faster than anywhere else in the world, "forcing native villagers on coasts and rivers in the region to move to higher ground as permafrost and glaciers melt and seas rise.
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But if Republicans -- particularly Republicans frustrated by the direction of politics today -- are getting nervous about another blue wave building in 2020 and want to change course, the approach of these two governors could be a welcomed path to higher ground.
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Trump could move to higher ground by declaring that, while he still views the investigation as a "witch hunt," he would waive all remaining privilege assertions for the purposes of this report so that the public can reach its own conclusions.
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The documentary, from the Obamas' production arm Higher Ground, follows what happened after a GM plant outside Dayton shuttered in 2008, leaving 2,000 people out of a job—only to be reopened in 2014 by a Chinese auto-glass manufacturer.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - South Texas ranchers are scrambling to relocate cattle from massive flooding spawned by Tropical Storm Harvey, with many hauling livestock up to the north of the state while others rush to move the animals to higher ground nearby.
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Crip Camp, which was an opening-night selection at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, is part of Barack and Michelle Obama's slate of Netflix programming via their production company Higher Ground (following in the footsteps of 2020 Oscar winner American Factory).
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"I've gotten several phone calls asking me, are we selling our building," said Trenise Bryant, the chairwoman of the board of the Miami Workers Center, a social justice organization in the Liberty City neighborhood, which is also on higher ground.
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For his part, Klain echoed to Recode the guiding mantra behind Higher Ground Labs — that Democrats have lost significant ground to Republicans in harnessing the best tech tools to communicate with voters and nudge them to the polls on Election Day.
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Obama, who was mocked as a celebrity by Republicans during his 22019 campaign, has entered the entertainment business with a Netflix deal to produce unscripted and scripted series, documentaries and features for the media giant through the Higher Ground production company.
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Higher Ground Labs is betting tech can help sway the 2020 elections for Democrats The company offers push notifications and reminders of important dates as well as a database of potentially engaged activists who could be organized around social events.
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Musa, 25, and his family lived for almost a year alongside Atmeh, but he moved to a tent on higher ground in recent months with his wife and a six-month-old baby to escape the damp and mud, he said.
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However, fears over rising sea levels mean homes at lower elevations are selling for less than expected, and their value is increasing more slowly than those on higher ground, according to data from a Harvard University study published in April.
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After she and hundreds of others scrambled to higher ground on Monday, soldiers and local officials moved them to the town of Paksong, west of the dam site, to take refuge in an empty warehouse normally used to store coffee.
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Higher Ground is led by President Barack Obama's 2012 online organizing director Betsy Hoover, former Obama White House special assistant Shomik Dutta, and former Tumblr and Google executive Andrew McLaughlin who served as deputy chief technology officer in the Obama White House .
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The Obamas announced Higher Ground Productions in the spring of 2018, on the back of a multi-year deal with Netflix to produce what has been promised to be a number of wide ranging and somewhat vague scripted and unscripted features and series.
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Higher Ground Productions, the production company owned by the former president and first lady, announced a slate of upcoming content on Tuesday that "encompasses a wide range of fiction and non-fiction signature productions for all audiences," according to a press release.
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Bill Wilson, the school's director, didn't intend for Higher Ground to become a school geared toward St. Paul's growing East African immigrant population when he opened it in 1999, but its 761 students are now almost entirely from Somali and Ethiopian families.
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One more obstacle Despite their fears and difficulties they pushed on, to nearby W.H. Knuckles Elementary School, which was on higher ground and dry, but it wouldn't be for long, as the water was starting to rush in on the school grounds, too.
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The goal, in the end of each of the films, is to win — whether it's vanquishing a foe in a classroom, winning a court case, or gaining the higher ground and being the de facto winner in the court of public opinion.
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The hurricane hit Cavaillon with winds up to 145 mph (230 kph) at about midnight on Monday, but it wasn't until the next afternoon that flood waters forced people to seek higher ground in the hills behind the town, said resident Roosevelt Esperance.
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MUMBAI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The western Indian state of Gujarat will move 15 villages that were affected by floods this year to higher ground, officials said, as they look for new ways to tackle the increasing frequency and intensity of flooding.
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In Solai, Veronica Wanjiku Ngigi, 67, said she was at home brewing tea with her son at about 8 pm (1700 GMT) when his wife rushed in to say the dam had burst and they needed to get to higher ground immediately.
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Netflix announced the details of 7 films and shows that will spotlight issues such as race, class, democracy and civil rights, to be released in partnership with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company Higher Ground as a part of a multi-year deal.
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"After losing in 224, one of the most creative things the Republicans did was apply entrepreneurship to technology," said Shomik Dutta, Hoover's partner in Higher Ground Labs, who also worked on both Obama campaigns as well as in the Obama White House.
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On our drive, we'd passed a village where nearly every building was marked with red spray paint, indicating that the occupants had to evacuate and move to higher ground when a new dam is completed and floods the only home they've ever known.
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By no means a great building, it was nonetheless an elegant and thoughtful one: Its infinity of wood slats evoked, yet again, Kuma's love of louvers, but also the fragility of the structure and the town itself, now being rebuilt on higher ground.
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Washington (CNN)At a time when President Donald Trump seems to permeate nearly every aspect of American discourse, it might come as a surprise that the first movie from Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground, never mentions him by name.
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In the clip, taken from an elevated parking garage just off the beach, a man can be heard yelling "tsunami" and calling out to God as he tries to warn those walking by on the road below to get to higher ground.
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Gareth Southgate, the England manager, said his players have been "hardened" to racism because of the issues they face at home, a brave statement for a manager who might have seen an opportunity to take the easy path to the higher ground.
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But José Luis Casiano, Ms. Ayala's husband, wanted to be on higher ground and closer to the highway leading out of town in the event of a tsunami, perhaps the biggest fear among residents following more than a week of unsettling tremors.
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Recognizing the danger, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development awarded $48 million to the state of Louisiana in 2016 to relocate the community to higher ground, off the island -- making the residents of Isle de Jean Charles the country's first-ever climate refugees.
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After the histrionics of last week's gathering in Detroit, the four remaining candidates are likely to search for higher ground as they offer closing arguments to Republican voters, particularly those in Florida and Ohio, who vote next Tuesday in nominating contests for the Nov.
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Questions are sure to be asked why warning systems set up after that disaster appear to have failed on Friday, and why more people in coastal areas had not moved to higher ground after a big quake, even in the absence of an official warning.
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According to Netflix, the Obamas "will produce a diverse mix of content, including the potential for scripted series, unscripted series, docu-series, documentaries, and features," under their new production banner, Higher Ground Productions, meaning that they've basically got free rein to do whatever they want.
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"The city is urging residents in the affected area to move their vehicles to higher ground, take necessary actions to protect personal property, and stay off of roadways during rainstorms unless an emergency makes it absolutely necessary to do so," Landrieu said in a statement.
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With emergency sirens blaring as the Missouri River rose to the top of the three-story-high levee wall in St. Joseph, about 2200 miles (88 km) north of Kansas City, Missouri, sheriff's deputies rushed door-to-door urging residents to flee to higher ground.
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What had worked for the Democratic party in 903 and 2012 wasn't going to be effective in future election cycles, so they created the investment firm Higher Ground Labs to provide financing and a launching pad for new companies serving Democratic campaigns and progressive organizations.
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With emergency sirens blaring as the Missouri River rose to the top of the three-story-high levee wall in St. Joseph, about 0003 miles (2000 km) north of Kansas City, Missouri, sheriff's deputies rushed door-to-door urging residents to flee to higher ground.
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Max Robinson, whose family owns a kitchen goods store that had to be rebuilt after the 20163 flood, said he went outside to move his car to higher ground when he encountered a local business owner helping a vision-impaired neighbor get to his apartment.
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With the risk that rising seas could eventually swamp South River on Erromango island, village chief Steve Bob is determined to move his 200 residents to higher ground but getting people to shift an hour's walk inland is proving to be an uphill battle.
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According to the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, which oversees the herd, the horses are able to sense the storm from a change in air pressure and know exactly what to do when it approaches: move to higher ground and group together under sturdy trees.
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Over the weekend, a dike was breached in Sainte-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, Quebec, a suburb west of Montreal, sending 5,000 residents fleeing to higher ground, some frantically scooping up their small children, pets and valuables as water came as high as their waists.
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Already one of the most powerful storms ever recorded, Irma could become one of the most destructive as well, depending on its path, and officials from Turks and Caicos to Florida pleaded with people to heed advisories to evacuate to shelters and higher ground.
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But the day-to-day leadership of Higher Ground Labs still falls to its three co-founders: Dutta; Betsy Hoover, an Obama digital organizing guru now at 270 Strategies; and Andrew McLaughlin, who once served as deputy chief technology officer to the former Democratic president.
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On the higher ground to the east, neighborhoods of single-family and semidetached homes that sprung up in the early 503s as housing projects for army officers are bastions of a more ethnically mixed, middle-class, liberal and secular Israel that votes center-left.
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"This ultimately comes down to a lack of honesty and transparency on the part of Facebook—and that is toxic for our democracy," said Betsy Hoover, a former campaign strategist and the cofounder of the progressive tech incubator Higher Ground Labs, in an email.
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They will move to higher ground and gather under sturdy oak trees to shelter from the storm, said the Corolla Wild Horse Fund, which manages the herd and sends a similar reminder during major hurricanes due to the outpouring of concern for the horses.
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After that was done, she roused her two daughters — Grace Anne, 12, and Emma Rae, 9 — and told them each to throw three outfits into a plastic garbage bag: The whole family was going to the neighbor's house to wait out the storm on slightly higher ground.
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Piermont, parts of which are set on a narrow peninsula that juts out into the Hudson River, is hugely at risk from rising sea level rise linked to climate change, and may become one of the early U.S. communities that need to retreat to higher ground.
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Higher Ground Labs' board of advisers includes Jeremy Bird (Obama's 2012 field director), Jon Favreau (Obama's speechwriter, now Crooked Media co-founder), Michael Slaby (CTO for Obama's 2008 campaign), Raffi Krikorian (formerly at Uber and Twitter), and Dan Pupius (an entrepreneur formerly at Medium and Google).
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Dalton Rapattoni and Chris Daughtry, Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" The band overpowered their vocal performance, but from what we could hear, Dalton — who "vomited in his brain, in a good way" upon learning he'd be paired with Daughtry — kept up well enough with his childhood hero.
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Everyone who loses his or her factory job (or legal or medical job) to the advance of science should immediately begin building wind turbines and solar cells, inventing better batteries, building sea walls, bringing water to desperate desert countries, moving whole cities to higher ground, etc.
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The effort is called Higher Ground Labs, and it aims to invest in new political technologies so that progressive office-seekers at the state and federal levels can tap the same Silicon Valley-style tools that helped Obama and other nationally inclined Democrats win past races.
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Sirens sounded before dawn, set off by heavy rains and dangerously high water levels at a dam at an iron ore complex owned by the Brazilian mining giant Vale S.A. Rescue workers looking for survivors from Friday's disaster turned instead to evacuating residents to higher ground.
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Nor did the moving monument pass with the ancient past: London Bridge not long ago raced from London to Arizona, and the beautiful temples of Abu Simbel, in Egypt, were picked up and pulled back to higher ground, out of the way of the approaching Aswan flood.
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HOLDEN BEACH, N.C. (Reuters) - More than 238 million people along the Carolina coast fled toward higher ground on Monday in a mass evacuation ordered three days before the expected arrival of Hurricane Florence, a Category 4 storm and the most powerful to menace the region in nearly three decades.
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Before performing hits such as "Higher Ground" and "Overjoyed" at Global Citizen Festival in New York City on Saturday, the 67-year-old singer started his headlining set by addressing the controversy reignited by President Donald Trump's most recent remarks about NFL player who kneel during the national anthem.
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Everyone else continues on, Rubio to a likely win in Nevada where his organization is deep and growing, Cruz to the "SEC primaries," Kasich to his higher ground on March 8 in Michigan and March 15 in Ohio, Trump to everywhere because he leads every poll in every state.
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He says that most often, residents fail to clear storm drains of debris; turn off electricity, gas and water before evacuating; gather important paperwork and documents and move them to higher ground; and secure outdoor furniture and other lawn items that could become flying objects in strong winds.
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"When we worked with Facebook in 2012 at the Obama campaign, there was a proactive ethos to improve civic engagement," said Betsy Hoover, the National Digital Organizing Director for the Obama campaign in 2012 and now the cofounder of Higher Ground Labs, an incubator for political technology startups.
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In his proposal released last week, Yang, an outsider candidate who has qualified for the Democratic debate later this month, has called the federal government to move people living in low-lying and flood prone areas to higher ground, seemingly conceding that rising sea levels cannot be reversed.
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Netflix description: "Adapted from The New York Times' ongoing obituary column Overlooked, telling the stories of remarkable people whose deaths were not reported by the newspaper, Higher Ground is developing OVERLOOKED as a scripted anthology series with producers Liza Chasin of 3dot Productions and Joy Gorman Wettels of Anonymous Content."
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To gain greater and permanent recognition of the Bethel-Christian Avenue-Laurel Hill Historic District and other nearby sites, Higher Ground hired Historical New York Research Associates to draft and forward to state officials by June a detailed Cultural Resource Survey documenting the significance of dozens of local neighborhood landmarks.
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While many communities will seek to rebuild their destroyed levees, conservation groups say the repairs only buy time before the next inevitable flood comes along, and that local and federal governments should more seriously consider relocating to higher ground and placing levees and development farther away from rivers and their floodplains.
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Netflix solidified its reputation as a liberal entertainment powerhouse with the announcement Monday that former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama have signed on to produce a raft of new programming for the content conduit under their Higher Ground Productions shingle, and some conservative consumers aren&apost happy about it.
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Chris Boos and Antoine Blondeau, from Arago and Sentient Technologies, respectively, are two of the most well-known AI experts from Europe and the US. Also listed is Martin Varsavsky, from Prelude Fertility, Fon, Jazztel; Andrew McLaughlin, from Higher Ground Labs, betaworks and Google; and Babak Razi, from Ingenu, Ostendo and Broadcom.
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It's been an excruciatingly slow-motion disaster, engineered by shortsighted, power-obsessed leaders hell-bent on denying scientific truths—and blocking the basic measures to mitigate carbon emissions and stave off drought, rising ocean tides, and mass migrations of climate-traumatized populations to higher ground in increasingly xenophobic and belligerent rich Western nations.
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This is a climate plan that has a section on "Moving to Higher Ground," arguing we have to accept and adapt to climate change's effect as well as mitigate them — ideas you're more likely to hear batted around on speculative tech news sites (and maybe prepper sites) than in mainstream political debates.
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Over the past year or so, Spotify has heavily invested in the podcast market, including through acquisitions like Gimlet, Parcast and Anchor — as well as in its programming, like the deal with Barack and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground, for instance, and a quickly growing number of exclusives, windowed-exclusives and originals.
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