When a gas main recently burst, workmen didn't have to clear the streets: The 30,000 downtown workers were tucked in their cubicles with little incentive to venture outside.
IN THE heart of Bali's main tourist strip at Kuta, workmen have spent the past week frantically sanding and cementing, in a scramble to finish a small memorial to the victims of last year's bombing in time for the first anniversary of the attack, on October 12th.
"So why have such a big wedding in Venice?" By mid-afternoon their chances of spotting il divo from their quayside vantage spot as he entered the Aman Hotel later that evening for the main wedding reception, seemed slimmer as workmen constructed a brown canvas walkway to hide the celebrities from the prying eyes of ordinary people.
It has already installed itself and begun to give orders: workmen are struggling to raise the main pole that supports the tent while over there others are watering the elephants, dressing down the horses".
Delayed by shortages of skilled workmen, design changes and late delivery of the main armament, the ship was laid down on 19 May 1892 at the Galernii Island shipyard and launched on 6 November 1894.
It will be situated on the main road of the museum site, next to the existing re-erected Oakdale Workmen's Institute.
When I visited in September, just before the reopening, workmen in coveralls were milling around a giant crane in front of the main entrance.
Installing jail doors on areas prisoners use regularly, like the canteen or the main entrance to a cell block will drastically reduce prisoner flow, and will also prevent workmen from getting where they are needed to (for example) remove tunnels or repair broken objects quickly, and doctors from attending to injured staff or prisoners.
As I enter the grounds and ascend the main stone steps, the echo of stones being chipped and cut by a small army of workmen slowly gives way to wind and chiming bells.
Pam Workman, a spokeswoman for Mr. Fellowes, said about 3,000 people attended the first night, when Patti Smith was the main attraction, and roughly 5,000 came out the second night, when Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros headed the show.
