There was nothing but sand, sand — and more sand.
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Sand carvers work on a giant sand castle on display at the sand sculptures festival in Rügen, Germany, on June 5.
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The disease is spread by sand flies, not sand fleas.
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They dredged sand and pumped sand and reclaimed the beaches.
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Sometimes it is called "The Sand Plague", sometimes "The Sand Pest".
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Favorite Sons and Daughters: Doran Martell, Trystane Martell, Ellaria Sand, Obara Sand, Nymeria Sand, Tyene Sand The Dead: Oberyn Martell, Elia Martell Season 5: Nothing about the Dornish plot even made the most basic empirical sense.
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It's a lot of sand — they've got a lot of sand over there, so there's a lot of sand that they could play with.
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Choose from over 1,000 sand banks, or send in your own sand.
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Choose from over 22.75,643 sand banks, or send in your own sand.
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And not all sand is alike: the particular shape and composition of individual sand grains is crucial for huge sand consumers like the concrete industry.
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I used to draw pictures in the sand instead of making sand castles.
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The black sand had slightly larger, but lighter, grains than the white sand.
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Play in the sand at Denmark's biggest perpetually-shifting sand dune in Skagen
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Euron killed two of the Sand Snakes, then delivered Ellaria Sand (the Snakes' mother) and the last surviving Snake, Tyene Sand, to Cersei, while keeping Yara prisoner.
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Yara and Theon are headed to Dorne with Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes.
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But Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes are waiting for him and he's imprisoned.
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Sometimes watery sand can be ejected as well, a phenomenon called a sand boil.
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The sand is taken from more inland areas and is similar to river sand.
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We also know that at least two of the Sand Snakes are dead, but unsure of the status of Ellaria Sand, the living Sand Snake, and Yara Greyjoy.
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Sand prices have been falling as shale producers are sourcing sand from local basins to save transportation costs rather than use the Northern White sand brought from Wisconsin.
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Synthetic track surfaces come in three types: polytrack (silica sand and fibers made of spandex, carpet, and rubber), tapes (sand and rubber), and cushion (sand, synthetic, and elastic fibers).
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Sand And Sky Brilliant Skin Purifying Pink Clay Mask, $49, available at Sand And Sky.
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And in Stromborn, she gets close—oh, so close—to Sand Snake matriarch Ellaria Sand.
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Unlike ordinary towels, it's made of a sand-repellant fabric that keeps the sand away.
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"Their hooves push the sand back in, filling the river with sand again," Nthianandham said.
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Julia Isabella Sand was born in Brooklyn in 1850 to Christian Henry and Isabella Sand.
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Though largely unknown in the West, sand hammams — or sand baths — are anything but new.
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Sand pagodas are large piles of sand decorated with flags, flowers, and sometimes with incense.
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" Rumor: Beach sand should be used if sandbag distribution sites are out of sand "Local emergency management in coastal areas is warning residents not to use beach sand for sandbagging.
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The steel industry put its head in the sand; America put its head in the sand.
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Let's get our heads out of the sand, and the sand out of our collective ears.
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Any weakening of sand demand would collide with several sand producers' plans to open new mines.
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Sand dunes are formed by wind, so there's a chance you'll be peppered by blowing sand.
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When it's low tide, a sand bar appears and connects the island to Vinalhaven's sand beach.
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When the waves come in, the sand softens, but when the waves withdraw, the sand stiffens.
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For artists, the facility, the fine-grained sand and the opportunity to collaborate with top international sand sculptors make Tottori one of the most coveted spots on the sand-sculpting circuit.
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They plunged seven-foot-long tubes into the sand, pulling up sand and groundwater samples for analysis.
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Kill the Sand Snakes, don't kill the Sand Snakes, it's pretty much all the same to me.
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Was Copacabana's sand good enough for the Games, or would different sand have to be hauled in?
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He's the vice-president of the company that supplied the sand, Hutcheson Sand & Mixes, in Huntsville, Ontario.
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I love the sand, but you have to walk on the beach and the sand is hot.
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This did not sit well with Koepka, who accused Reed of "building sand castles in the sand".
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Sand was everywhere, and, when it comes to moving heavy equipment, sand is a highly unsuitable surface.
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Among the variables in beach depth are the shape and angle of the area where sand accumulates; the materials that lie under the sand, whether mud, rocks, rubble or more sand; the source of the sand, as well as its size and texture; and wave and current patterns.
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This includes the Sand Snakes and Ellaria Sand (for killing Cersei's daughter Myrcella) and Lady Olenna Tyrell for joining the Sand Snakes, Ellaria, and Yara Greyjoy in backing Daenerys as their new queen.
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One name Lund recommends is Houston-based sand manufacturer Hi-Crush Partners, which provides sand for fracking operations.
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She posed in the hotel, lounging in the sand and standing next to some "Happy Birthday" sand art.
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In part drawing a line in the sand; in part throwing sand in the faces of Iran's leaders.
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If we do decide to fill one side with sand, it will hold around 50 pounds of sand.
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U.S. SILICA HOLDINGS INC - EXPECTS BY 2019 END, 2/3 OF TOTAL U.S. SAND PROPPANT DEMAND WILL BE SUPPLIED BY IN-BASIN SAND WITH 1/3 SUPPLIED BY NORTHERN WHITE SAND - CEO, CONF CALL
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The problem comes when you are taking the sand from someplace that is environmentally sensitive, where the sand might be serving as habitat and where the sand is not going to replenish itself naturally.
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Related: [Exclusive Video] Creating Sand Castles With A Single Grain Of Sand Watch Skaters Thrash a Halfpipe Made of Sand on a Frozen Beach in Norway [Summer Break of the Future] Incredible Architectural Sandcastles
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River sand is preferred for construction in many cases because desert sand is too rounded to bind concrete well, while seabed sand contains salt that can corrode metal and dredging it can be costly.
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Last year, its sand castle suffered a major collapse and was disqualified for using material besides sand and water.
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The idea of shipping sand, better beach-volleyball sand, to one of the world's most iconic beaches was sacrilege.
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Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes violently overthrow Dorne and take control, even though Ellaria wasn't next in line.
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They've got a lot of sand over there, so there's a lot of sand that they can play with.
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Malaysia, formerly the biggest source of sand for Singapore, in 2018 introduced an outright ban on the export of sea sand, used for land reclamation, and imposed tighter controls on river sand, used mostly in construction.
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Malaysia, formerly the biggest source of sand for Singapore, in 2018 introduced an outright ban on the export of sea sand, used for land reclamation, and imposed tighter controls on river sand, used mostly in construction.
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Those who want more of that flying feeling can get their feet off the ground at Tottori Sakyu Sand Board School (like snowboards, but for sand) or try paragliding with the Tottori Sand Dunes Paragliding School.
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The remaining Sand Snake — Tyene Sand, played by Rosabelli Laurenti Sellers — could very well also be a gift for Cersei.
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The Sand Fire—named for the area's Sand Canyon—started on July 22 and has now grown to 33,000 acres.
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"Its atmosphere is a lot thinner than Earth's, but you can see sand dunes and sand ripples everywhere," she said.
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Regular construction sand, at the other end of the sand scale, can be had for a few dollars per ton.
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Activists opposed to sand mining have been shocked by the deaths and suffering accompanying the surge in demand for sand.
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And it's not the only kinetic sand channel in town: turns out there's a whole world of kinetic sand videos.
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One night at Great Sand Dunes, I surfed dark waves of sand under the brilliant light of the Milky Way.
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Sea sand is mostly used for land reclamation, while river sand is a core component in constructions materials like cement.
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Conditioning mixes the oil sand with water to create a slurry, in which oil begins to separate from the sand.
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The building materials for the resort are made from the island's sand and saltwater to make a sand-based mortar.
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"Yeah, I don't know what he was doing, building sand castles in the sand," Koepka told SiriusXM PGA Tour Radio.
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For the past decade, sand sculpture artists have gathered here every year for two weeks at the world's only indoor sand museum to mount an exhibit of improbably intricate tableaus, all crafted from about 23,247 tons of sand.
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Even though fully accounting for illegally mined sand is not possible, sand is easily the most mined material in the world.
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That accounted for 97% of Singapore's total sand imports in the year by volume, and 95% of Malaysia's global sand sales.
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An alternative, "slow sand" filtration, employs the layers of algae and bacteria that develop on wet sand grains to remove pollutants.
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So sand scarcity really comes down to where sand is found, where it came from, and what it's made out of.
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In Indonesia, sand miners destroyed 24 islands for sand to export to wealthy Singapore, effectively shrinking Indonesia's territory, the report said.
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Worn grooves in the sand serve as roads, snaking between rickety goat pens, drab canvas tents, and crumbling sand-brick houses.
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In a new experiment, scientists observed two kinds of sands interacting, where one sand would form bubbles in the other sand.
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On Thursday, supplier Smart Sand reported it shipped less frack sand in the second quarter than it did in the first.
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Analysts and frack sand providers continue to forecast an overall rise in sand consumption as more wells are drilled and completed.
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SoJo Spa Club in Edgewater, New Jersey, offers a communal, warm-sand-bathing experience that uses volcanic sand from Ibusuki, Japan.
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That accounted for 13% of Singapore's total sand imports in the year by volume, and 95% of Malaysia's global sand sales.
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She personally ordered and oversaw the death of the last living Sand Snake and holds the Snakes' mother, Ellaria Sand, captive.
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The links-style course includes 19 holes that emerge from rolling sand hills, with challenging holes shaped by natural sand traps.
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Perfect for small spaces, the Step2 Cascading Cove Sand and Water Table with Umbrella promotes hours of water and sand play.
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Around February, we place sand on the ice, and when the ice melts, the sand falls and stimulates new vine growth.
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Joe showed us how he squeezes and lets go of just the right amount of sand to make a sand painting.
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Kinetic Sand Bake Shoppe Playset, available at Amazon, $13.99This kinetic sand can be easily molded into all sorts of fun shapes.
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These are the tallest sand dunes in the US, and to take full advantage, visitors head here for sand-boarding and sledding.
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"Caked with sand on every inch, unshowered for 5 days, and loving that sand dune life #glamis #camping," Bell captioned the snapshot.
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In her meeting with Ellaria Sand and her daughters, she casually slaps down the Sand Snakes, among the series's least popular characters.
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The experiment consisted of a pair of sands, a white "heavy" sand atop a black "light" sand, in a see-through rectangle.
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"Caked with sand on every inch, unshowered for 5 days, and loving that sand dune life #glamis #camping," Bell captioned the snapshot.
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Many in the group spent time driving sand buggies on a tract of land owned by Pratte in the Glamis Sand Dunes.
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Then, they watched the melting ice boil and evaporate, ejecting the sand grains into the air and building small piles of sand.
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These seashells were broken down into lime-rich sand and, over time, the surrounding sand was blown away, leaving just the pillars.
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The tabletop has a bin for sand play, a molded roadway separating the sand and water, and a sailing course for boats.
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From André Maurois's sentimental treatment in "Lélia: The Life of George Sand" (1952) to "Last Love of George Sand", a dramatised biography by Evelyne Bloch-Dano (2013), Sand consistently appears as a muse rather than an author in her own right.
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Sand trucks in Midtown Manhattan on November 8, 2016 (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)If you notice a bunch of enormous trucks that are filled with sand around New York this weekend, it's not for a sand castle competition.
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But for some reason, it is intensely satisfying and oddly soothing: The videos are made using kinetic sand, a special craft sand that contains a type of silicone oil, allowing it to be more dense and moldable, like wet sand.
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Trying to determine when a huge, dense ball of gas should be considered a brown dwarf rather than a planet is a bit like trying to determine how many grains of sand constitute a sand pile versus a sand heap.
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"Since the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam almost completely stopped exporting sand to Singapore, the sand from Myanmar has become much more in demand," said Aye Lwin, joint secretary-general of the Myanmar Port Authority, which grants licenses for sand-mining operations.
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"Since the Philippines, Cambodia, and Vietnam almost completely stopped exporting sand to Singapore, the sand from Myanmar has become much more in demand," said Aye Lwin, joint secretary-general of the Myanmar Port Authority, which grants licenses for sand-mining operations.
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The sand wall falls, trapping them on the ground, unleashing a horde of sand covered walkers who crawl over to attack them immediately.
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She's stopped wasting time on tears and headed straight to Dorne to ally with Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes against the Lannisters.
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Towering columns of smoke could be seen from miles away, highlighting the dangers of the Sand Fire, named for the area's Sand Canyon.
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Towering columns of smoke could be seen from miles away, signposting the dangers of the Sand Fire, named for the area's Sand Canyon.
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"Sand is being dredged ... are we sure that sand is not being exported?" asked Lim Kimsor, an activist with the group Mother Nature.
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Image: Alex ZurichEngineers observed bubbles of sand moving within other sand, like oil droplets through water, in a first-of-its-kind observation.
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Thanks to its patented multi-weave layers, the sand will remain trapped underneath, offering you a fun, sand-free day at the beach.
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She is accompanied by her rambunctious Sand Snake cousin, Elia Sand, who stumbles into caves once belonging to the children of the forest.
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Somewhere from 80 percent to 92 percent should be between 0.5 and 1.0 millimeters (coarse sand) or 0.25 and 0.50 millimeters (medium sand).
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We can make more sand, but crushing rock or pulverizing concrete is costly, and the resulting sand is ill suited for many applications.
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Our friends and enemies must know that if I draw a line in the sand, I will enforce that line in the sand.
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Sand mining remains unregulated in many areas, however, and illegal sand mining operations operate in as many as 70 countries worldwide, Goichot said.
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A sand ceremony—bride and groom pour two separate vials of sand into a vessel—in orange and blue could also be arranged.
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YouTuber Mark Rober demonstrated how adding air to sand in a certain way causes the sand to look and act like a fluid.
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Greg also gets some new friends in the form of sand mites, adopted from the prop sand at Willa's preview of her play.
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In the 1990s, the town used snow fencing and discarded Christmas trees to trap drifting sand and build a 15-foot-high sand dune barrier along the waterfront, and then planted beach grasses to stabilize the dunes once enough sand had piled up.
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The sand trucks weigh 16 tons, and twice that when filled with sand, making them difficult to move even if rammed by large vehicles.
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The tragedy made me feel like a grain of sand, and so I wanted to be surrounded by all the other grains of sand.
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The sand miners on Vasai Creek dread coming back with an empty boat and no wages - an increasingly common occurrence as sand reserves diminish.
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There is Silvia Gruner's "Arena (Sand)" (1986), a color video of the artist covering herself in sand and tumbling across a stretch of beach.
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You'll be on a beach with sand in your hair, and sand in your bikini bottoms, and you'll ask yourself: what day is it?
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This Zen Garden Relaxation Gift, provides all the soothing benefits of an actual sand garden, just in miniature size: sand, a rake, tiny rocks.
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India issues sand mining licenses, he said, which limit the quantities of sand that can be taken and the locations where mining is allowed.
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It's not "see[ing] a world in a grain of sand"; but rather, seeing in a grain of sand (the possibilities of) a world.
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Starhigh dredges the sand legally through a license with the local government that does not limit the amount of sand the company can extract.
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Starhigh dredges the sand legally through a licence with the local government that does not limit the amount of sand the company can extract.
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Desert sand is useless for concrete, and cities such as Dubai, which sits on the Arabian Desert, have had to import construction-grade sand.
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The sand museum was founded in 2006 when the city of Tottori decided it wanted to better exploit its proximity to the sand dunes.
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The white sand and relaxed pace of the Caribbean is thrown out the window, with black sand beaches, canyoning, and scuba-diving replacing it.
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The sculpture's operation is pretty simple: under the table's glass top sits a thin layer of sand; under the sand, a two-motor robot called the Sisbot moves a magnet around the surface of the table pulling the steel ball across the sand with it.
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Sand on ocean beaches usually includes a high proportion of shell pieces and, increasingly, bits of decomposing plastic trash; Hawaii's famous black sand is weathered fragments of volcanic glass; the sand in the dunes at White Sands National Monument, in New Mexico, is mainly gypsum.
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Hakusuikan Spa, which offers the sand-bathing experience in Ibusuki, says the experience is detoxifying because of two things: first, the sweat released when buried beneath the hot sand, and second, the alkalinity of the sand and water, which is said to have cleansing properties.
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The premise being that bumphead parrotfish eat coral, and digest it, and poop out white sand, and therefore that's where white sand beaches come from.
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Towering columns of smoke could be seen from miles away, signposting the dangers of the so-called Sand Fire, named for the area's Sand Canyon.
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For the creek bed is not smooth but has sand dunes measuring 22014 to 229 meters in height and scooping out sand loosens these structures.
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Instead of just water, you can fill it with sand, Easter eggs, plastic balls, moon sand, snow, beans, rainbow rice, or any other sensory material.
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The process entails "artificial sand-re-circulation," where parts of the beach that have been depleted are filled in with sand brought in from elsewhere.
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Most ghost towns are found deep in the forest along paths of sugar sand, super fine sand that is slippery and prime to becoming quicksand.
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Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes lead a strike on Doran Martell and his son Trystane following up on her poisoning of Myrcella last weekend.
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Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes stage a bloody coup — the young Trystane gets a spear through the head (235 minutes in; lasts two minutes).
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While the lid protects the sand from animals, it does have small holes for ventilation and the sand gets a bit wet during heavy rains.
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"The sand has a big part in the conversation," said Daniel Doyle, 43, an Irish artist who has been making sand sculptures for 20 years.
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Sand is almost as boring as ice, anyway, and when the sand is being trampled by an army of fearless gelding warriors it induces sleep.
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It was formed by heating quartz sand, copper, an alkali, and lime (or lime-heavy sand) into calcium copper silicate, a highly stable chemical compound.
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"It can form in saturated loose sand with standing water (in this case, he stepped into a small sand filled pothole with one leg)," she said.
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"Their worries are right that the risks are massive so the ministry decided to ban sand exports and large-scale sand dredging," Meng Saktheara told Reuters.
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Dennis and model Santa Auzina had nothing but a good time Wednesday on the sand in Kauai -- hugging, kissing in the sand, and hanging with friends.
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Next is Howard (Sandman) Sims, more analytic, telling us how his sand dance was done, showing us the box, the mike, even the grains of sand.
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But dredging sand can displace important shellfish and fisheries; species like Atlantic herring lay eggs on sand and gravel habitat, and removal can affect the population.
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"Sand is imported on a commercial basis from various countries to ensure resilience in our sand supply," the ministry said in response to questions from Reuters.
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A few feet from the outer wall was an inner one, and packed between the two was sand: lovely, pristine sand the color of milky Ovaltine.
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Raza suggests the first cancer cell that gives rise to a tumor is like a grain of sand that precipitates the collapse of a sand pile.
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They have even found they don't need to import trainloads of fracking sand from Michigan; there is plenty of sand in West Texas that meets specs.
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To make sand art like this one, artists typically use a small pipette, funnel, or other device to layer sand strategically into a glass container or vase.
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After lunch we hit up black sand beaches, red sand beaches, and stop to see more stunning cliffs and wondrous waterfalls for the rest of the afternoon.
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BBC essentially pulled the idol-for-bag-of-sand switch from Indiana Jones here — it just happened to spill a lot more sand than the fictional archeologist.
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Gaines also shared a sweet moment of Crew in the sand on her Instagram Stories writing, "First time to feel the sand and ocean on his toes."
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The sand trucks weigh 16 tons (14.5 metric tonnes) and twice that when filled with sand, making them difficult to move even if rammed by large vehicles.
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Nicknamed "the Sand Dragon" by Border Patrol agents, this 7-mile, $40 million section of border wall is designed to remain above the ever-moving sand dunes.
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"Since China built hydropower plants, new sand almost never reaches us," said Ni. "If we use up the sand we have here, there will be no more".
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Sand mining has been declared illegal in most parts of India with countless court petitions highlighting the danger it poses to coastlines, marine life, and sand reserves.
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When it comes to sand chemistry, there may be no one more knowledgeable than Todd Knapton, a vice president of Hutcheson Sand and Mixes in Huntsville, Ontario.
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Line in the sand The Pentagon is likely trying to draw a line in the sand early on to prevent further escalation in the region, he said.
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Photo: Brookstone Your sandbox days might seem far away, but this Brookstone kinetic sand isn't the gritty, salty sand you'll find at the beach or a park.
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" "Obara, Nymeria and Tyene Sand will be distinct characters - and Ellaria Sand will be torn between her patriotism, her slain lover's memory and her desire for vengeance.
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The sand in the bunkers on the Earth course is white (the most prized color for golf sand) and was bought from a producer in North Carolina.
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There's less steam involved, obviously, from the sand, but I feel like it feels better because there's, like, a big hug that's surrounding me with the sand.
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And they've been testing out a version of it in a literal sand box at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida -- except this sand simulates moon dust.
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How did he come to power when all the men in the Martell line were thought to have been assassinated by Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes?
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An oversilted river — a river with too much sand — is also prone to flooding and changing course, and strategic sand mining can help keep it on track.
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This covers all the oil sitting in sand near the surface Alberta's oil companies strip away the local forest then dig the sand out of the ground.
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Walk a few blocks and pop your head over the sand dunes and you'll find the culprits: orange-yellow tractors piling sand into dump trucks, which caravan three miles south and spit out the sand—50,000 cubic yards, or 75,000 tons, of it in total—back on the beach.
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Arthur even tracked Sand down at her family home and conversed in person (Sand was stricken with spinal troubles and was mostly confined to a couch or bed).
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No.3 U.S. oilfield services provider Halliburton Co and sand miner Fairmount Santrol Holdings have said they expect rail delays of sand deliveries to affect their quarterly results.
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At the moment, the Curiosity rover is exploring some of these martian sand dunes for the first time, investigating the sand of the red planet from close range.
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The world's first sand hostel has opened up on the beaches of the Gold Coast, Australia, allowing guests to stay over and admire the sand beneath their toes.
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"Yeah we ready for war, don't cross the line in the sand / You'll be lying in the sand, boy I'll die for my land," goes one incendiary line.
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A golf course in the oil‑drunk United Arab Emirates imported 4,000 tons of this sand in 303 to make sure its sand traps were world‑class, too.
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Chieftain Sand and Proppant LLC, a producer of hydraulic fracturing sand, won a bankruptcy court order on Monday approving its $35 million sale to Mammoth Energy Services Inc.
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What they saw: The researchers compared the patterns left by flowing sand on Martian sand dunes to the dark streaks, which are called recurring slope linnea, or RSL.
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I always found it strange that our beach days weren't like the ones on TV, with towels laid out in the sand for sunbathing or sand-castle building.
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Durrant: So many different environments from, black-sand beaches in Alaska, bright red sand in Arizona, superb Rocky Mountains, rocky coast Maine, palm-lined Cali, and tropical Hawaii!
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To fight erosion, APAL is building walls to protect the coastline from the waves and has sourced 2000 million cubic meters of sand from a nearby sand quarry.
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OBITUARIES An obituary on Sunday about Nicholas Sand, a chemist who produced a pure form of LSD known as Orange Sunshine, referred incorrectly to his daughter, Sorrel Sand.
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What to watch: Engineers are testing materials like recycled plastic, bamboo, wood and straw to replace sand in cement, and it's possible to recycle sand from demolition waste.
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In any case, the proximity of sand to construction sites is generally important too: because sand is relatively cheap, it tends to be uneconomical to transport across long distances.
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As needs and costs rise in Florida, communities are increasingly competing both for sand and funding, with some retaining "sand lobbyists" to represent them in state and federal legislatures.
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Recently, residents of Malibu's Broad Beach spent $31 million to add 2,000 truckloads of sand to their coastline, but the sand is only expected to last about a decade.
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Shinn said he does not see oil and gas producers from the Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi basins buying frac sand from the regional and in-basin sand producers yet.
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Curiosity has been exploring Martian sand dunes — the first active extraterrestrial sand dunes ever studied from close range — since December 2015, when it arrived at the Bagnold dune field.
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"Best thing to do is push the device into a bucket of sand," Dahn says, jokingly noting that no one walks around with a bucket of sand on hand.
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He was also a cast member for two seasons of Travel Channel's reality show "Sand Masters," so Long's expertise in crafting luxurious projects out of sand is known worldwide.
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You may not need all of the wine, just enough to make the salt feel like wet sand (like the ultimate sandcastle sand you get at the beach). 2.
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The three miles of sand at the beginning and the end present the toughest challenge; it has not rained for weeks, and feet slide as sneakers fill with sand.
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Food is served from the adjacent Sand Box restaurant with beachy cool seating atop actual sand, and dishes like fish tacos, salads, burgers, sandwiches and plenty of kids' meals.
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Developers used sand in the mix to slow play for longer rallies, but were careful not to use too much sand as to lighten the distinctive coal black color.
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And on sunny beach days when the plastic sand pail and shovel were carelessly forgotten, surf clams made handy, on-the-spot trowels for quick and dirty sand castles.
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"As the price of sand has risen rapidly in recent years, so has the practice both licit and illicit sand excavation and trade around the world," the group said.
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Dr. Bottke said anyone can observe this phenomenon with a walk on a beach at night: The sand is cool, while a rock in the sand is still warm.
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Blood and Sand , by Alex Von Tunzelmann (Harper) .
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Yara Greyjoy: In the season seven finale, Yara was ferrying Ellaria Sand and the Sand Snakes to Dorne when her uncle, Euron Greyjoy, launched a surprise attack on her fleet.
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It's an incredible sight — from the moment the turtles sweep away the sand to lay eggs to when the hatchlings dig their way out of the sand to the sea.
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I give her my friendliest smile and tell her I am a journalist writing a book about sand, including about the importance of the quartz sand in this very facility.
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Bringing sand to the beach On Ireland's west coast, there's a brand new beautiful beach now that the Atlantic has returned all the sand it stole away 30 years ago.
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It also has its own sand mine, and uses effluent water from the city of Odessa for frack jobs using pressurized sand, water and chemicals to unlock oil from rock.
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To prevent sand from ending up everywhere as it usually does after a trip to the beach, the contents of the Sand Scribbler are sealed behind a clear plastic screen.
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Sand&Sky The Ultimate Pore Perfection Kit, $49 (valued at $59), available at Sephora Sand&Sky's pink clay mask may be Instagram-famous, but it's more than just selfie-ready.
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As opposed to an adorable shot of Blue Ivy playing in the sand, wouldn't you prefer a shot of Beyoncé taking a photo of Blue Ivy playing in the sand?
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Esther Cha: The volcanic sand bath is an experience that you can add on to your day at SoJo Spa Club where you get covered in authentic Japanese volcanic sand.
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Speaking of sand, Wirecutter recommends The Green Toys Sand Play Set, a pail-and-shovel set that's robust enough to last for years without splintering into beach-littering plastic shards.
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The slurry is then piped to containers where it separates into three parts: Oil froth on top; sand on the bottom; and oil, sand, clay, and water in the middle.
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Location: Dorne Also with: The Sand Snakes, Ellaria Sand, Varys Margaery Tyrell, Loras Tyrell, and Mace Tyrell are all dead, leaving Olenna Tyrell as the last significant member of her house.
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Unlike most tadpoles, this rare species from the Indian dancing frog Micrixalidae burrow through sand and live in darkness under the sand beds near streams, until they develop into young frogs.
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Specifically, a nearby circular depression (probably a sand-filled impact crater) has "focused the wind, and also limited the amount of sand available for formation of the dunes," Bray told Gizmodo.
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Oil and gas sand proppant sales were hurt by pricing pressure from a combination of low demand and additional local sand capacity coming on line in the Permian, the company said.
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A booming construction sector in fast-growing economies like India has lead to a surge in illegal sand-mining, where poor laborers risk all by diving into rivers to extract sand.
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Instead of going to the hospital, he'd heal it by walking through deep sand that he said was over 200 degrees and the heat from the sand would heal his ankle.
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Related: Artist Creates Absolutely Epic Geometric Drawings on Beaches Around the World [Summer Break of the Future] Incredible Architectural Sandcastles [Exclusive Video] Creating Sand Castles With A Single Grain Of Sand
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I remember feeling each and every grain of sand sift through my fingers and squish between my toes, as if I were just born and discovering sand for the first time.
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Euron Greyjoy disarmed two of them, impaling Obara Sand with her favorite spear and choking Nymeria Sand with her own whip, and captured the third as a "gift" for the queen.
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For miles ... literally no visible sand, just plastic waste.
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Not all white sand beaches — it's particularly the Maldives.
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" She added: "I wasn't thinking about the sand bar.
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See you on the sand — we're bringing the beer.
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It's not as if we're carjackers — we're taking sand!
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You can see there — the desert, rocks and sand.
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Seminole Rock & Sand Co. in 1945 and Auer v.
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The best sand toy set: Green Toys Sand Play Set ($21.55) The Green Toys Sand Play Set is small and doesn't come with a whole lot, but it probably has the best chance of lasting a season out of any plastic beach toy set we could find, and these are, after all, the essentials.
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Sand mining is also responsible for damaging the water supply in the Mekong Delta, and it's behind a crime ring that makes $17 million a month in revenue—the sand mafia. Seriously.
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"The sand and silt plumes created by dredging sand and gravel and depositing it on the coral reefs either would have killed fish or expelled them from the reefs," the report said.
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In Carteret County, which receives sand but no money from the Corps, shore protection director Gregory "Rudi" Rudolph estimated they'll need new sand on 70 percent of their 43-mile long beach.
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Image: The ASMR Circus/YouTubeKinetic sand is a freaky-looking substance made of 98 percent sand and 2 percent silicone oil, so it sticks to itself, but won't stick to anything else.
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Meng Saktheara said Singapore was Cambodia's top market for sand until last year when the temporary ban came into force, and had it imported some 16 million tonnes of sand since 2007.
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Over a pea-gravel base, workers will add a layer of sand, and atop that, a clay-silt-sand mix that will help keep the infield just moist enough after pregame watering.
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When the tide is out, the S. roscoffensis can be found chilling in mat form along the wet sand, but when the water returns, they respond by burying themselves in said sand.
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Cambodia banned all sand exports last year, officially ending the sale of sand to the wealthy city state of Singapore which has for years used it to reclaim land along its coasts.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads On Saturday afternoon, sand sculptor Zara Gaze came upon a pile of sand at a construction site in her rapidly gentrifying south London neighborhood of Brockley.
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The marine reptile dug a deep hole in the sand and laid 128 eggs, scraping sand with her flippers over the nest to hide it, and she lumbered back to the sea.
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Mahathir, who put in place a similar sea sand ban when he was prime minister in the 1990s, has also tightened regulations on river and estuary sand exports, the government sources added.
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The expansion centers on a new tunnel under the aged pine boardwalk that leads to a compressed slice of sand that will be set off by a rope and a sand berm.
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Sand and dust storms take place when hot air over the desert destabilizes the lower atmosphere, whipping up strong winds that send huge amounts of sand hundreds or even thousands of miles.
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The federal government replenished more than 2120 million cubic yards of beach sand, enough to fill the Empire State Building two times over, and the city planted six miles of sand dunes.
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Near the end of his journey, Severian has an epiphany about the relic (a thorn in the shape of a claw) that came from the cathedral that burned: The thorn was a sacred Claw because all thorns were sacred Claws; the sand in my boots was sacred sand because it came from a beach of sacred sand.
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Not good at all... Literally two feet of sand connect the parking lot to the shoreline, and the sand is infested with inch-long chips of broken beer bottles and other glass parts.
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U.S. Silica, which said demand and pricing for its Northern White sand began to strengthen in the first quarter, expects oil and gas sand volumes to grow low to mid-single digits sequentially.
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When a poor fish gets close, the mantis shrimp shoots its body out of the sand, impales the fish with serrated blades, and then drags the fish back into the sand with it.
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Sand companies idled half of the roughly 125,000 frac sand cars they had in service in 2014 after oil plunged, experts said, but nearly all are expected to return to service by 13.
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The group arranged the eggs around mounds of sand away from the net — and in direct view of the harsh sunlight on Sand Island, according to a release from the National Audubon Society.
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In fact, Mars's atmosphere is subject to periodic sand storms, which are notoriously problematic as the sand further limits the amount of received light and can also collect on and cover the panels.
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"Our small dam here is almost (filled in) with sand and as villagers we are planning to work together to remove the sand and increase its capacity to hold more water," Madanhire said.
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Ellaria Sand killed him, aided by Sand Snakes who are impossible to differentiate and who apparently have no qualms (not even a moment's hesitation!) over killing their uncle and cousin in cold blood.
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They are experts at moving through underground sand — they dig with their enormous claws and then pat the sand behind them into a compact tunnel with a butt plate that resembles a spatula.
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Sand prices have been dropping as shale producers in the Permian and other basins have been sourcing more from local basins to cut transportation costs involved in buying Northern White sand from Wisconsin.
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With a berm of sand-colored plastic in the foreground, it could seem, for long moments, as if we were watching an excellent surfer pulling into a dream section on a sand point.
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Trending There were only two sand sleds left in the rental rack when I arrived one June morning at the Oasis store near Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in Southern Colorado.
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While observing the movement of sand on a vibrating plate, Chladni noticed that the sand tended to move toward a predictable handful of points depending on the frequency the plate was vibrating at.
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The menu focused on Golden Era cocktails like the martinez and the boulevardier, with interesting variations like the smoke, blood & sand, a house twist on the classic blood & sand that added peaty Laphroaig.
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Books I never took to the beach still managed to trap sand in their spines; the sand then found its way to our couch; Marion then complained about it irritating her sensitive skin.
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It has the usual sand bags on each corner so it doesn't blow away, and because it's so lightweight, the wind shakes off the sand for you, unlike a more traditional beach blanket.
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"It puts some sense into sand budgets," Dr. Guza said.
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Boys in the Sand takes place entirely on Fire Island.
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Sand is still in between the pages of each one.
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"It's like spotting a toothpick in someone's hand," sand Ramanan.
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A wheeled automaton could well get stuck in the sand.
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The sand in my eyes I walk though a desert
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What if the poor people come to use our sand.
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Kucera compared trudging through dry snow like going through sand.
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Right now, most helmets in Pakistan are filled with sand.
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He trips on his feet and collapses onto the sand.
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Or would you rather keep your head in the sand?
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In the end, though, these efforts ran into the sand.
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Sand may appear plentiful, but is in fact becoming scarce.
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But sand and dirt on Mars is definitely a problem.
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I unloaded a ton and buried it in the sand.
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"We cannot bury our heads in the sand," he said.
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He pointed to blood and drag marks in the sand.
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Who says beach towns have the monopoly on sand castles?
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A "topical" sand sculpture on the Seaside Heights beach today.
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What I found instead was litter sprawled across the sand.
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Concrete's made up of water, gravel, sand, and cement powder.
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Its hardy bushes keep sand dunes in place, stabilizing coastlines.
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Lying in the sand with a story in your earbuds.
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Concrete is a mix of cement, sand, and coarse stone.
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Normally sand + fire = glass, but not in these trying times.
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It seems Africa is defined by a wall of sand.
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The coaches had to paint and sand the lockers themselves.
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Summersalt The Sidestroke in Seaweed & Seaglass & White Sand, $95; summersalt.
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Summersalt The Sidetroke in Lava & Hibiscus & White Sand, $95; summersalt.
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"My head's been in the sand on this," Johnson said.
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They would throw sand in the gears of Chinese commerce.
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Will Google only offer the black, white, and sand options?
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Umbrellas and canopies dotted the sand under partly sunny skies.
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The snow in the mountains became covered with red sand.
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Some photos depict untouched landscape — hills, palms, sea, and sand.
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In 2016, Hurricane Matthew washed much of that sand away.
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The Sand Snakes, by comparison, are introduced after Oberyn's death.
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Sticking your head in the sand is not a plan.
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Many poke sticks of spaghetti into the sand as waymarks.
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In three stills she summed it up: quiet, foam, sand.
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I love to watch my children run in the sand.
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Hutton says his client told the accuser to pound sand.
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I was so happy that I fainted on the sand.
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We're not going to be needing that much more sand.
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China transformed seven disputed reefs into islands using dredged sand.
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Beachcombers might be surprised at armed gangs fighting over sand.
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The one to come to that line in the sand.
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Some burrow underneath the sand while others hide among rocks.
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Nymeria Sand is most definitely the Stephanie of the bunch.
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"Some nests even gained a foot of sand," says Wyneken.
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Gone are the days of needing to communicate through sand.
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Investors are putting their heads in the sand and waiting.
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And of course, that includes lounge sessions on the sand.
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He arrived in a buggy, rolling across gravel and sand.
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"I like that the snow looks like sand," Xelot says.
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His car is ankle deep in sand and broken leashes.
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He has nothing to lose by scrambling in the sand.
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Head in the sand and let's get ready to go!
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Sand dunes disappeared from the coast in the storm surge.
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On being stuck in a patch of sinking sand. 6.
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Sarah Jones: Why were the Sand Snakes included at all?
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Bulldozers follow, grading the sand down to a gentle slope.
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But even the third sand snake might not make it.
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Alex: Players first build their own battlefield using the sand.
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"Granny, I'm getting sand in my eyes," the child cried.
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There's definitely a line in the sand in that period.
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The dives are getting deeper as more sand is removed.
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"He's buried his head in the sand," said Mr. Reino.
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Men fill them with sand and close up the tops.
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Other toxic materials, like asbestos, get absorbed into the sand.
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That happened quickly at East Sand Island, Dr. Roby said.
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The sand of the bay smelled like almonds to her.
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The view of a white sand beach off a balcony.
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The water is essentially gone, replaced with dusty sand flats.
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Or which one of these people is a Sand Snake?
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Just that we choose to bury our head in sand.
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Sprawling campuses were built, and money flooded Sand Hill Road.
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Dash insists on using a driver for his sand shots.
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"Just sand enough to hold the paint," Ms. Mailer said.
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This waterproof portable speaker can withstand sun, sand, and surf.
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You can go for a dip without getting sand everywhere.
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He wanted to see what made their sand just right.
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Sand is the essential ingredient that makes modern life possible.
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Sand is tremendously heavy, which makes it expensive to transport.
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A "Line in the sand?" to me means one line.
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" 'Sand' means grit," he wrote in 1882, in Firemen's Magazine .
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That was another line in the sand quickly washed away.
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Flake and Corker have drawn a line in the sand.
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Sand Cloud won the title of "best raving fan culture."
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Large sandstone formations rose from the rolling expanse of sand.
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But their speed boats are beached, the footwells accumulating sand.
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Housing complexes and commercial buildings are rising from the sand.
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The Cubans collapsed on the sand, got up, and left.
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Smart Sand is off about 43 percent since June 30.
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Plaster blobs on top and below evoke piles of sand.
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Proof that Greece is magic: The sand is actually pink.
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Step 3: Sand the area until it's flat and smooth
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With Harris, there is always some sand in the oyster.
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It reminded me of kinetic sand but was more flexible.
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Plastic sleds, saucers, and cardboard don't slide on dry sand.
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