'What really excites me, ' says Jelal, waving to a friend who is climbing a mast to tie up his sail, 'is to make the journey from Aswan to Luxor.
The rise and fall of signal strength in each "link" - the path from one mast to another - provides an average measure of how much rain there is between them.
"They thought it would be quite funny to send me up the mast to get me out of their hair, as I'd been photographing them day-in-day-out for a few weeks, " Kos writes in the upcoming book.
From the valley below, each pier and mast merge to look like a single needle with an elongated eye: Foster's drawings, in fact, depict a thread piercing the eye of a needle.
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Gov Hickenlooper has ordered flags in the state to be flown at half-mast from sunrise to sunset until the day after Mr Clements's funeral, the Denver Post reported.
Part of our training, every other day, was to climb up to the mast and go all the way to the crow's nest.
It was the biggest such occasion since the Queen Mother's funeral in 2002, and the College of Arms gave special instructions that flags on buildings belonging to central and local government should be flown at half-mast from dawn to dusk.
Network Rail have pledged to paint the completed mast green in an attempt to reduce its impact on the area.
Do we pin our banners to the mast of renewable energies, or is nuclear the way to go?
The Planning Applications Panel agreed to allow a 10 metre mast and weather monitoring equipment to be built on the Ecrehous and Minquiers.
The journey takes Lewis and Clark from an Amsterdam shipyard, where Clark is building the world's largest sloop (197-ft. mast), to the boardrooms of Clark's companies.
There's the young city worker, with his tie always at half-mast as if to emphasise how "dreadfully busy" he is, even though he's been standing on the platform for at least 15 minutes.
At 1100 GMT, flags were lowered to half mast for a minute's silence, while military personnel and members of the public alike bowed their heads to remember those who sacrificed their lives.
Throughout the city and throughout the country, flags have been lowered to half mast.
This was the moment he nailed his colours to the mast of Social Security reform.
He pulled in the sail, tied it to the mast, rigged the rudder so it would remain true, and fell asleep.
You are lashed to the mast, which means you are more at risk than you would be with a bond which you can sell pretty much at will.
It's a way of binding ourselves, much as, in The Odyssey, Odysseus asks his men to lash him to the mast so he can guide the ship past the Sirens.
Gendarmes in the southwestern town of Samatan lowered their flag to half mast in a symbolic protest at pay, under-resourcing and what they see as inadequate support from the courts.
In their anxiety to avoid the mistakes of past Labour governments, Mr Blair and Mr Brown lashed themselves to the mast of austerity in the first two years of office.
But so those, you've pinned those to the mast.
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Oddly, Mr Ackroyd is most convincing when out among the hills and woods, just as the cockney Turner found his inspiration when strapped to the mast of a ship in a storm.
The mast was installed in April to measure wind speed, wave height and sea currents.
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Flags were lowered to half-mast across Italy and the Italian Senate observed a minute of silence.
The West Yorkshire force's flags at both the Killingbeck divisional headquarters and the Garforth station were lowered to half-mast.
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Vodafone engineers discovered a female bird nesting when they tried to repair the mast on 9 April.
The BBC's internal Editorial Complaints Unit had already apologised to the organisation Mast Sanity, which had put the woman forward for interview.
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One night winds gusting over 60-knots surprised the crew, leaving them battling to prevent the mast buckling and losing the sail for eight hours.
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