Without a sea wall on the east side, or a sea wall on the west side, Tangier will just be in the history books.
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Anne, why should New Yorkers care about a sea wall?
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Sea Wall/ A Life is now playing at the Hudson Theatre.
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Maybe. Staten Island recently received funding to build a sea wall.
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Agatha, 15, is a Hawk, charged with patrolling the sea wall.
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Eko Atlantic is built on reclaimed land protected by a sea wall.
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Waves crash over the sea wall in Blackpool on January 29, 2016.
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Down below, a mother mallard paraded her ducklings along the sea wall.
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The original proposal was for a sea wall about 1.7 miles long.
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It's not enough to build a sea wall and call it a day.
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So we started doing an evacuation of Manhattan right up to the sea wall.
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The lane collapsed when a strong wave swept up the sea wall on Thursday.
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Host Dylan Matthews wakes up to a view of a grim, grey sea wall.
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Read more: A $6.5 billion sea wall was supposed to stop Venice from flooding.
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In Haiti, there is no protective sea wall to help blunt the encroaching tide.
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Residents say they hear that the road may get elevated, the sea wall fixed.
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Finally, they spotted a sea wall along a beach in Tavernier and spied a dock.
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I use the metaphor of a Democratic tidal wave up against a Republican sea wall.
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I was in one of the communities when the sea wall broke into a freshwater pond.
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Otherwise, she'd just hit a sea wall, or a rock, and touch it, before turning around.
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" One insists "Legislative Action Would Be Premature," while still others veritably beg, "Build the Sea Wall!
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The problem of God's whereabouts is in fact the underlying theme of "Sea Wall," the opening monologue.
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Unveiled in 2014 - and better known as the "Great Garuda" or "Giant Sea Wall" - the project involves raising and strengthening the existing onshore embankment of Jakarta Bay, as well as constructing a 15-mile outer sea wall and developing real estate on artificial islands reclaimed from the ocean.
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In "Sea Wall," by Simon Stephens, Tom Sturridge plays a photographer whose contented family life is suddenly upended.
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One night, after her fifth stay in the center's psych ward, she crashed her boat into a sea wall.
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I walk down to the sea wall and grab a ginger-flavored Rise kombucha from the local grocery store.
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Within 50 minutes of the initial earthquake, the first wave crested the nuclear plant's 10-meter high sea wall.
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Here a huge sea wall of more than 20 miles cuts off the double estuary from the Yellow Sea.
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But along the riverfront, the sea wall, built on a foundation of loose stone called riprap, was falling apart.
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But he admits he has few choices and will have to rely on the protection of the sea wall.
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His group decided against working with Mr. Trump, and is now a leading opponent of his planned sea wall.
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But even if "A Life" is a bit of a comedown from "Sea Wall," the two make smart companions.
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There is a big sea wall in front of Turner Contemporary, which you see in one of Harvey's engravings.
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The mascaret was tamed when a sea wall was built in the 1960s, but the Seine still determines everyday life.
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I stripped down to my boxers, ditched my clothes in a secluded area near the sea wall and plunged in.
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That balloon burst several years ago, long after the Manhattan sea wall collapse but before the Midwood great white attack.
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"That sea wall, where they have you see in the last act of the film, is on Sepulveda Boulevard," said Green.
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Since December, city officials say storms have damaged the pier, the Milagra Watershed Outfall and caused a sea wall to fail.
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Some of that, he said, involves preventive work on the sea wall and underwater piles that hold the area in place.
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However, a final decision on the sea wall is still far off, as Congress would have to approve of the plan.
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Waves crashing over an experimental sea wall built to protect homes during high tide in Isle of Palms, S.C., last year.
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Jakarta has focused its attention on bolstering its defences with a 15-mile sea wall and refurbishing the crumbling flood canal system.
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Last year, he applied for a permit to build a sea wall to prevent erosion at his oceanfront golf resort in Ireland.
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The monologues that make up "Sea Wall/A Life" (at the Hudson, directed by Carrie Cracknell) are two such dubiously useful contraptions.
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But if calling me a climate-change refugee gets me a sea wall, then go ahead, call me a climate-change refugee.
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Video footage shot by Rio residents and posted online showed massive waves crashing up the sea wall and into the new structure.
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"Sea Wall/A Life," a double bill of sombre one-act monologues, transfers from the Public to Broadway's Hudson Theatre (July 26).
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In Detroit, officials said they would ask residents to help fill sandbags after water breached a sea wall in a residential area.
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Within 50 minutes of the initial earthquake, the first wave crested the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant's 10-meter (33 foot) sea wall.
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While environmentalists have chafed at the planned sea wall, many local residents have been supportive of Mr. Trump's presence in the area.
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But it just took crossing a short sea wall that runs along the promenade for the water to rush over our feet.
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Just look at Hoboken's ongoing battle against its sea wall—designed by OMA—which is in limbo now due to vicious community opposition.
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On Thursday, Hathaway, 36, debuted her baby bump on the red carpet at the Broadway opening of the play Sea Wall/A Life.
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Eskridge told Trump that he hoped the President would cut down the time on studies and maybe help with funding a sea wall.
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Anne Hathaway wore a stylish maternity look at the opening night of a Broadway show called "Sea Wall / A Life" on Thursday night.
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The actress attended the opening night of "Sea Wall / A Life," a new Broadway show, at the Hudson Theater in New York City.
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In the long term, she wanted New York City to rebuild the sea wall and restore access to the walkway along the water.
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Water filled many downtown streets, and flowed over the sea wall along East Battery Street, along the southeastern edge of this peninsular city.
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Ms. Holup created "River That Flows Two Ways," the 213 panels set in the sea wall railing at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan.
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A sea wall in China has been fortified as a bulwark against rising water levels — and those fortifications will need to continue indefinitely.
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This sea wall is planned to be about 13 feet high — even though Haiyan's storm surge reached almost 20 feet in some places.
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The most recent dispute involves the Trump Organization's plans to build a flood-prevention sea wall at a course on the Irish coast.
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The most recent centers on the Trump Organization's plans to build a flood-prevention sea wall at the course on the Irish coast.
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Tom Sturridge shares the stage Jake Gyllenhaal in their new Broadway production, A Sea Wall/ A Life, even though they appear in different plays.
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Head has been digitally pieced together by rocks and boulders from the nearby sea wall and floats in front of the artist in midair.
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We could watch the waves crash violently on the sea wall while pushing Roxie back and forth in her swim tube in placid water.
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The plays, billed jointly as "Sea Wall/A Life" and directed by Carrie Cracknell, are scheduled to begin performances July 26, to open Aug.
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Longer-term solutions have been proposed: building breakwaters or a new sea wall, resanding the beaches or clearing them to create a buffer zone.
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After the floods of 22010 they raised the existing 22018km-long sea wall, widened and dredged the canal system and dug more retention ponds.
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An application to build a sea wall around one of his golf courses cites climate change as the need for it, Politico reported last year.
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A small sandy beach beyond the 0003-foot sea wall disappears when the tide comes in and reappears, inch by inch, when it goes out.
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The drone rises slowly and the frame faces up, revealing a sea wall along one edge of the site that separates it from a beach.
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The company also settled a labor dispute with Las Vegas hotel workers and canceled plans for a controversial sea wall at Trump's Irish golf course.
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This irritated Glenn so much that he just went over and took the book out of Bryan's hands and threw it over the sea wall.
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Mr. Trump's real estate organization had planned to build a long sea wall off the Irish coast to protect its golf course in County Clare.
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Mr. Trump's representatives said at a meeting at the club this week that they would replace the planned sea wall with two much smaller barriers.
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Beirut airport's decaying sea wall, protecting the western runway, is also a key concern and repairing it fully would cost up to $54 million, he said.
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To prepare for rising sea levels, the city of Newport Beach in 2018 added a nine-inch cap to the sea wall that surrounds Balboa Island.
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The project involves building a 9.5 km (6 mile) horseshoe-shaped sea wall in Swansea Bay, about 170 miles west of London, to capture tidal power.
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On Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the Quinault Indian Nation must rely on a 2,000-foot-long sea wall for protection until it can complete its move uphill.
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Thousands of cockroaches were seen marching along a sea wall, seeking shelter from the deadly typhoon that has battered Hong Kong and neighbouring Macau this week.
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The university also plans to repair the sea wall along the East River and improve the public esplanade adjacent to the campus, according to its website.
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To cope with the unfolding crisis, the city is building a $10 billion sea wall to keep flood waters out, but that's only a temporary solution.
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Right of boom planning is no more fatalistic than aggressively treating the growth of a cancer cell or building a sea wall as the oceans rise.
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Take your goodies and join the locals perching on the sea wall across the street, with the water susurrating beneath you and small boats floating nearby.
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The project would involve building a 9.5 km (6 mile) horseshoe-shaped sea wall in Swansea Bay, about 170 miles west of London, to capture tidal power.
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I get an hour break every day, so I walk pretty far along the sea wall and feel super refreshed when I get back to my desk.
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They praise a sea wall being built in Jakarta and note the political lessons to be drawn from French gilets jaunes protests against a proposed fuel tax.
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Mayor James Eskridge of Tangier Island, Virginia, said his home town needed a sea wall to fight erosion, but claimed sea-level rise was not affecting them.
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So before starting construction, Mr. Tuckman said he spent nearly a half-million dollars to raise the sea wall and truck in dirt to elevate the land.
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While attending the opening night of "Sea Wall / A Life" on Broadway, the actor donned a magenta gown with a high neckline and cutouts across the chest.
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Chain saws buzzed through fallen limbs and trees, but repairing the damage to some of the buildings and the sea wall will be more difficult and expensive.
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SEA WALL/A LIFE Get tickets early: Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal star in this pair of heady monologues by Simon Stephens ("Heisenberg") and Nick Payne ("Constellations").
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The sea wall will no longer enclose the bay, and the artificial islands have been scrapped, although 2,000 hectares of land will still be reclaimed for development.
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That sea wall swastika in Santa Cruz, after all, wasn't just a skull-and-crossbones any more than the genocidal racism it represented was a German import.
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The Trump Organization stepped back from real estate development projects in Argentina, Georgia, and Azerbaijan, and dropped a plan to build a controversial sea wall in Ireland.
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Securing the right environmental permits can take years, and the work is expensive; up to $1,600 per foot for a sea wall that may be 100 feet long.
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Adding to the chaos, the Army Corps of Engineers is set to construct a sea wall around much of the area — empty parcels, brand new homes, and all.
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Many residents believe building a $30 million sea wall is Tangier's only hope of saving what remains of the island, but Congress hasn't approved funding for the wall.
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"If we don't get a sea wall, this is what you'll find on Tangier in a few years: remnants of homes," Tangier Island resident Carol Pruitt-Moore said.
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Trump got the green light on Thursday to build a 38,000-ton sea wall (he's getting a wall after all!) at the Trump International Golf Links Doonbeg in Ireland.
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The curving, mile-long structure, designed by late architect Manuel de Sola-Morales, was constructed of clay, sand, and stone, and contains a hidden 1203-foot-high sea wall.
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The curving, mile-long structure, designed by late architect Manuel de Sola-Morales, was constructed of clay, sand, and stone, and contains a hidden 2120-foot-high sea wall.
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As Maurice Blanchot, a French philosopher, puts it in a formulation Mr Corbin cites, the writer tries to build "a sea wall of paper against an ocean of silence".
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At Baltiysk, home to the Baltic Fleet and Russia's most western outpost, grizzled fishermen lined the sea wall, barely glancing up at the modern corvettes steaming out to sea.
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On the day Vaivai would find out if she was going to Rio, I stood on Levuka's buckled sea wall and looked above the town's weather-beaten shop fronts.
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During an appearance on The Tonight Show, Gyllenhaal spoke to Fallon about Sea Wall/A Life — the play he's currently starring in at The Public Theater in New York.
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But construction for a new ferry terminal had turned up soil along the water, and a strip between a concrete walkway and a sea wall was overgrown with weeds.
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Boston has begun to come up with ideas to mitigate the effects of rising seas on infrastructure, which include flood proofing properties and potentially building a massive sea wall.
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Within 50 minutes of the first quake, the wave crested a 10-meter (33 feet) sea wall intended to protect the Fukushima nuclear plant from just such an event.
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So the church is there because I asked the villagers to put a sea wall around it so that it can stay there as clear evidence of what is happening.
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Other workers are building a new sea wall, 13 metres high, along a nearly 2 km stretch of Naraha's coast, similar to other sea walls under construction in the northeast.
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Studies by seismologists before the tsunami had suggested that waves higher than the Fukushima plant's roughly 30-foot sea wall could strike the Pacific Coast, the site of the plant.
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The restaurant was decorated with crates of oranges, apples and large, uncut pineapples, and the Povlsens looked out on the ocean rollers crashing into a sea wall not far away.
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The walls in question are the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a contentious holy site, and the Galveston sea wall, a 10-mile hurricane barricade not far from Knight's native Houston.
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But Dr. Roe is reluctant to consider more aggressive solutions, like a sea wall that would isolate the site from the ocean that connected it to a once-mighty empire.
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Other workers are building a new sea wall, 13 meters high, along a nearly 2 km stretch of Naraha's coast, similar to other sea walls under construction in the northeast.
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The town has expanded a sea wall as a stopgap measure until a relocation can take place, but not all critical infrastructure on the island is protected, including the airport.
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Developers have proposed building a sea wall to shield it from rising sea levels, but at least one scientist has warned that the wall could send surges to nearby areas.
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"If this Giant Sea Wall is not done, that will create a big impact on Jakarta with regards to salt water penetration," Coordinating Maritime Minister Luhut Pandjaitan told reporters on Tuesday.
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The sea wall is not without controversy — homeowners with bluff-top properties welcome its protection, while the California Coastal Commission argues it accelerates erosion and chips away at public beach space.
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He spent time on an island off the coast of Washington that had once been a kind of family homestead, where he saw his grandparents' initials carved into a sea wall.
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It runs atop the rebuilt sea wall, across from Manhattan towers named for corporations and real estate developers, a place where anyone who loves river breezes and moonlit nights can stroll.
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The result was the National Capital Integrated Coastal Development (NCICD), a $40bn mega-project consisting of a 25km outer sea wall and 17 artificial islands which would seal off Jakarta Bay.
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A massive 200 Billion Dollar Sea Wall, built around New York to protect it from rare storms, is a costly, foolish & environmentally unfriendly idea that, when needed, probably won't work anyway.
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Nothing is, especially with a president-elect who has said both that the Chinese invented global warming and also requested a sea wall to protect his Scottish golf course from it.
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But Mr. Trump's organization has said the golf resort development might be dead in the water without the sea wall, and many locals welcome the business and the jobs it brings.
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In both "Sea Wall," by Simon Stephens, and "A Life," by Nick Payne, there is no one to blame when disaster strikes — except perhaps God, who is nowhere to be found.
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Texas has put forward a $12 billion request for federal assistance to build a sea wall and other infrastructure to protect oil refineries along its coast.
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Sturridge, whose character is a professional photographer in Sea Wall, admits that the idea of performing a 45-minute monologue and carrying out an entire act by himself was intimidating at first.
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To guard against rising sea levels and coastal erosion, much of Solana Beach's coastline is protected by a sea wall, which is partly funded by a fee levied on oceanfront property owners.
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But that will require convincing elected leaders that extreme heat is big a threat as, say, rising seas—and one that can't be addressed with something as obvious as a sea wall.
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The enormous wave, caused by a magnitude 9 offshore earthquake, overwhelmed the plant's protective sea wall and swamped the facility, knocking out cooling systems needed to keep its six reactors from overheating.
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Yet our immigration policy is mired in shameful congressional paralysis, with the great diversion of Trump's sea-to-shining-sea wall serving only to fire up his base and fan political differences.
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Residents walk on the sea wall promenade past partially submerged cars on East Battery Street at the southern-most tip of the city as Hurricane Matthew hits Charleston, South Carolina October 8, 2016.
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Tony Lowes, a New York-born director at Friends of the Irish Environment called the plan a "monster sea wall" and confirmed to CNBC that the group would be objecting to the application.
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"Do you aim for a bigger night that would help you build a sea wall against losing the Senate in 2018, when we have such a terrible map?" the senior Senate Democratic aide said.
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After the tsunami, construction companies there floated the predictable and self-serving idea of erecting an immense protective sea wall, which would have made a kind of fortress, or prison, of the ravaged riverfront.
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But their opposition has also grown to include a number of concerns including the project's impact — past and future — on the natural ecosystem and the effects of a new sea wall on beach erosion.
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Earlier this month Liberia's newly sworn-in President George Weah committed to building 2,000 modern homes to replace fragile structures in West Point as well as a sea wall to keep out the encroaching ocean.
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We walked along the Malecón, the seafront avenue and promenade known as the "sofa of the city," where young people come out to see and be seen as the ocean pounds the city's sea wall.
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"We know we are racing against the clock," said Elaine Forbes, the executive director of the Port of San Francisco, her office buttressed by a century-old sea wall that could collapse in an earthquake.
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The endangered little snail has helped stall Mr. Trump's plans to build a sea wall to protect the coastline along his Trump International Golf Links course on the west coast of Ireland, in County Clare.
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The sea wall, due to be complete by the end of the year, entails three layers below and above the Mediterranean surface, and will employ fortified rock as well as barbed wire, the ministry said.
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The proposed dams would dwarf the largest such barriers built so far — the Afsluitdijk in the Netherlands, and the Saemangeum Seawall, in South Korea, which at 21 miles in length is the world's longest sea wall.
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Hundreds of Cubans stood near the dock and on Havana's sea wall, snapping pictures with smartphones and filming the arrival of the ship, Adonia, which arrived in the colonial-era port after crossing overnight from Miami.
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"Sea Wall" is written by Simon Stephens ("The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time") and performed by Mr. Sturridge, while "A Life" is written by Nick Payne ("Constellations") and performed by Mr. Gyllenhaal.
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Why it matters: A long-delayed sea wall project from 10 years ago meant to block rising waters and threats from global warming, known as the MOSE project, could've stopped the flooding, the New York Times reports.
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Coastal wetlands, for example, reduce economic damages to inland residents because they provide better protection from storm-related disasters than built barriers, avoiding catastrophic losses that occur when a levee breaks or a sea wall is breached.
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The last fatal airliner crash in the United States occurred in 2013 when an Asiana Airlines flight came in too low as it approached the runway in San Francisco and struck the sea wall at its edge.
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The remaining funds will be invested in affordable housing, tree planting, road work and an innovative approach to urban landscape design that will allow residents to continue enjoying waterfront access while improving drainage and sea wall defenses.
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Streets in downtown Charleston, known for its historic waterfront architecture, were flooded to the tops of tires on some parked cars, and a few residents could be seen wading near the city's sea wall as high tide approached.
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On the wooden veranda of Spencer Seaside Lodging where she works, Araceli Huertas explained storm waves are now much higher than in previous years and sometimes crash over the reinforced sea wall in front, soaking the hotel's rooms.
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The government decided late on Tuesday to allow work to continue on a key phase of the "Giant Sea Wall", which aims to shore up northern Jakarta while revamping the capital's image into a Singapore-like waterfront city.
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He also repurposed blocks from the 1905 sea wall to create a stone scramble that is meant to feel, he said, "like a pyramid climb" — all of which contributes to the island's newfound sense of exploration and fun.
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One last ironic thing: A golf course in Ireland owned by one of Trump's companies applied for a sea wall application and specifically cited the consequences of global warming, Politico reported last year in a highly cited article.
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Made of giant five-ton bags of sand topped with rock-filled cages, it will run for about two miles down the coast until it reaches parts of an old colonial-era sea wall that are still standing.
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"Sometimes we'd have like 40 people sitting against the sea wall watching us rehearse," Mr. DeMarco said, insisting that the impetuous stunt did not lead to any negative experiences and only brought him closer to his fan base.
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"We're a double ground zero," said Pat O'Connell, who owns a small gallery and gift store facing the rocky sea wall, where thousands are expected to gather when the sky darkens and the eclipse comes in to view.
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Mr. Gyllenhaal will share a bill with Tom Sturridge in a pairing of two monologues, "Sea Wall," written in 2008 by Simon Stephens, and "A Life" (previously called "The Art of Dying"), written in 2013 by Nick Payne.
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The line between Exeter and Plymouth at the seaside town of Dawlish in Devon, southwest England, is regularly pummelled by heavy seas and in 2014 was partially washed away when a storm destroyed a large section of sea wall.
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At Fukushima, massive waves crashed over the plant's 10 meter (32 foot) sea wall, flooding its emergency generators and knocking vital cooling systems offline, eventually leading to a major meltdown, the worst nuclear disaster since the 1986 Chernobyl incident.
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Eskridge hopes that Trump will encourage the Army Corps of Engineers to accelerate their plans to build a protective jetty or even a sea wall around the island, citing the president's reputation as a decision maker and de-regulator.
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Here, the unpaved roads are flooded, and a partially built sea wall has failed to protect the island — which lies on average just three feet above sea level — from having its cemetery inundated, or losing its white sand beach.
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They say the $18 billion runway will have a sea wall that stands at least 21 feet above the waterline and can withstand 100-year storms, as well as a drainage system that is designed to handle rare floods.
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"As I understand it, the sea wall at the Doonbeg golf resort is not on the agenda for the bilateral meeting between Taoiseach Enda Kenny and President Trump," said Siobhán Miley, a spokeswoman at the Irish embassy in Washington.
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Though they were written independently — "Sea Wall" originated at the Bush Theater in London in 2008 — the Public's production, marking the New York premiere of the combo platter, makes it seem as if they were designed to be bookends.
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OFF THE coast of Guyana, 160km beyond the ramshackle, rainbow-coloured roofs and the sea wall meant to protect the low-lying capital, past the mud flats and into the deep, churning Atlantic, a vast drilling vessel sits almost perfectly still.
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The Dutch, regarded as the foremost authorities on the concept of "living with water", are lending their expertise via the flood prevention plan involving a giant sea wall that will close off Jakarta Bay, which could cost up to $653 billion.
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I rest on the sea wall and when I stand, a group of swans rises from a nearby dyke, five of them, passing over the marshes until they are no more than gleaming dashes against the dark woods of Northward Hill.
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So here, friends, is a story from The San Luis Obispo Tribune, about a mother otter in Morro Bay who got herself stuck in a man-made rock sea wall called a riprap, separated from her pup, on Sunday morning.
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In the New York City borough of Staten Island, fellow freshman Democratic Congressman Max Rose held a town hall to discuss a planned $615 million sea wall - only to have it derailed briefly by a woman yelling at him over impeachment.
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As water has crept closer to his home, occasionally lapping at steps leading up to the porch, islanders have begun stacking chunks of concrete from demolished buildings and pieces of broken tile along the shore to create a makeshift sea wall.
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The benefits of adaptation — higher sea walls, better drainage systems, more effective emergency response — are unavoidably both local (only those who happen to live behind the sea wall benefit) and regressive (wealthy people and places will adapt first, best, and most).
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Seawall in Blackpool, UK Artificial lake in Silvretta, Austria Avalanche and mudslide barriers in Fionnay, Switzerland Nothing about a dam or a sea wall or an artificial island is natural, yet engineers try so hard to make them blend into the landscape.
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Employees point to its many fail-safes: a 15-metre-high sea wall to protect it from tsunamis (the main cause of the Fukushima Dai-Ichi meltdown), multiple backup power sources, scores of fire engines and a huge reservoir of cooling water.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland on Thursday gave the green light for a company owned by U.S. President Donald Trump to build a scaled-down sea wall at its golf course in the west of Ireland that environmental groups say could damage protected wildlife habitats.
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A crowd of young men and women singing by the sea wall in the cool night air quickly turned somber when they learned that Castro's death had been announced by his younger brother, President Raul Castro, on state television two hours earlier.
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In "Sea Wall," by Simon Stephens, a youngish photographer named Alex (Sturridge) talks adoringly about his family—a wife too good to be deserved, a beautiful little girl, and a father-in-law, Arthur, an Army veteran and a former math teacher.
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Trump's company has been mired for several years in a dispute with local officials in Ireland over plans for a sea wall to protect the eroding sand dunes that abut his 18-hole golf course and hotel in Doonbeg, on Ireland's west coast.
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The fight to protect Houston and Galveston from storms has been going on for more than a century, ever since Galveston built a 17-foot sea wall after the Great Storm of 1900, a Category 4 hurricane that killed an estimated 2800,24 to 2500,22 people.
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It's here, behind a new sea wall at the edge of the restricted radiation zone, that Fukushima Prefecture plans to build a memorial park and 543,200-square-metre (56,000-square-foot) archive center with video displays and exhibits about the quake, tsunami and nuclear calamity.
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In Charleston, S.C., where flood prevention is a top priority, Mayor John J. Tecklenburg said the city plans to raise its sea wall by three feet and fit it with tracks for glass plates that could add an additional two and a half feet.
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It's the circle of life...The Jakobsens had been investigating a steep deep-sea wall on the south side of São Jorge Island in their Lula1000 submarine when the female anglerfish and her parasitic mate came into view, which they observed at a depth of 2,600 feet.
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Think of watching a wave from the ocean hit a sea-wall with a narrow opening: The way the straight wave becomes a ripple spreading out on the other side is the same as what happens to rays of light when they go through a hole.
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She had a brief moment of self-doubt at the second turn when she left England the second time to swim to France because it was dark and she thought she was going to land on a beach but she ended up at a sea wall instead.
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In addition, a project along Brickell Bay Drive will raise the elevation of nearly one and a half miles of sea wall on Biscayne Bay to prevent flooding from storm surges, and a redesign of Jose Marti Park along the Miami River will reduce flood risk.
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Trump's Doonbeg Golf Resort, located on the Atlantic coast, applied to Country Clare Council in March to build a 20-meter-wide defense barrier, or sea-wall, in order to protect the resort from 30-meter waves that are eroding the coastline which is dotted with sand dunes.
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The Sahara, though now out of sight, was behind a line of red mountains — the Jbel Bani, a low, arid mountain range that runs like a sea wall on the southern side of the Anti-Atlas — whose striated surfaces formed whorls, as if bearing the impression of enormous thumbprints.
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The president sent the chief of his cabinet, Karlo Nograles, to a Typhoon Haiyan memorial ceremony in Tacloban earlier this month, where he boasted of a plan to build a sea wall to protect against storm surges — a "Great Wall of Leyte," he called it, because Tacloban sits in Leyte province.
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The Trump administration has unexpectedly halted a project to protect the New York City region from flooding during dangerous storms like Hurricane Sandy — a decision that came six weeks after President Trump took to Twitter to ridicule the study's most expensive proposal, a giant sea wall that could have cost billions of dollars.
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Targeting the five largest investor-owned oil companies for their climate pollution — BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, and Royal Dutch Shell — the cities have demanded compensation to pay for expensive projects, such as building a sea wall, that climate experts and city planners have identified could help respond to current and future climate impacts.
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He'd pick out a rod and then, at night, I'd park my beach chair not too close but not too far from him as he stood against the railing, one foot bent up on the concrete sea wall, and the sky would pulse with stars and maybe there would be one of those fat moons that lit a path across the water.
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Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE, who has called climate change "bullshit," is trying to build a sea wall at one of his golf courses in Ireland to protect it from global warming, according to Politico.
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When Ms. Swift first moved in, "No Trespassing" signs appeared around the property's perimeter that were prefaced with, "I knew you were trouble when you walked in," a coy reference to one of her own lyrics that irritated some locals, as did her shoring up, with the blessing of Rhode Island's Coastal Resources Management Council, the property's eroding armor stone sea wall and planting a chain-link fence at its edge.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpMnuchin knocks Greta Thunberg's activism: Study economics and then 'come back' to us The Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' What to watch for on Day 3 of Senate impeachment trial MORE on Saturday ripped the "sea wall" that was proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers to protect New York City from damaging natural disasters such as Hurricane Sandy, calling the plan costly, foolish [and] environmentally unfriendly.
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