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Keller said Taylor often stored dynamite in his truck to blow up tree stumps (a common method of disposing of tree stumps at the time).
Sometimes trees may be reduced to just hollow stumps, but with the cambium intact, they can still produce leaves and flowers or even live as stumps.
There's no word yet on what's happening to the stumps.
Who knew that decorating a Christmas tree even stumps physicists?
Swaths of trees had been reduced to stumps, he said.
"We'd make a staircase out of tree stumps," he said.
MYSTERIOUS SOUTH CAROLINA FISH WITH HUMAN-LIKE TEETH STUMPS THE INTERNET
My eyelashes are sad little stumps sparsely peppering my upper lids.
This is the core of what stumps me about Trump's base.
Like the vandalized cake, it petered out in stumps of staircase.
The ball rips through your defense and clatters into the stumps.
Composed of members current and former members of Twin Stumps, Pop.
Bugs and abandonment have reduced the palms to rows of stumps.
If you're a fan of decaying tree stumps, you're in luck.
So as Trump stumps for his wall, border town economies keep churning.
So it's a challenge for me to try and hit the stumps.
We leveled your forests; our hands removed the stumps from the field ….
They wouldn't be coming here if it was a bunch of stumps.
Hungarian artist Gergely Dudás stumps the internet with vivid seek-and-find illustrations.
You can have this bluish-black color showing through from his hair stumps.
"They are just cute little stumps with no hooves," says another @GoatsOfAnachry post.
He donned Highland dress and danced a hornpipe on his leather-clad stumps.
Observers reported that he drew holding his pens between the stumps of both arms.
A few ashy stumps showed where some of the sturdier shop buildings had been.
The first course of herbal Shanghai soup dumplings with organic bean curd stumps everyone.
She could continue to struggle with illness, compromising the intensity with which she stumps.
A neighboring plot of trees was reduced to singed stumps and ashen pine skeletons.
And yet, the most fact-checkable president in history stumps even the fact-checkers.
Some he depicted as he saw them, bestrewn with marble stumps and fallen capitals.
The haze came not just from burning tree stumps, but from the smouldering soil, too.
The stumps were even rejected from a soup kitchen because they were missing their tops.
Gandini maps the stumps on his website, and the sculptures are becoming a tourist attraction.
The smell of sawdust hangs in the air, all the trees sawed down to stumps.
Three weeks after the blast, after evacuation to the US, infections developed in his stumps.
Belgium feeling it now as Alderweireld stumps a shot just in front of net wide.
I.N. explains his lack of willpower using cool slang ("작심삼일") that stumps even the interpreter.
A silvery photo of tree stumps that look like surfacing sea monsters anchors the room.
Some of the townspeople event painted the stumps so they could be more easily recognized.
Paul Ryan stumps to save Trumpcare from dissident Republicans Paul Ryan stumps to save Trumpcare from dissident Republicans House Speaker Paul Ryan on Sunday continued an aggressive campaign to bring Republicans in line to save his party's plan to replace the Affordable Care Act.
Further results were confirmed by electrically stimulating the stumps of the fin nerve and peripheral nerves.
Jones represents 16 indigenous landscapes (Hopi, Seminole, etc.) with children's toys of trees, plants, and stumps.
McDonald's is planning to offer their muffins sans stumps — the same way Elaine Benes eats them.
It hides from the sun almost its whole life, finding shelter in burned-out tree stumps.
Smoke still rose on Tuesday from tree stumps in the evergreen forests that run through Paradise.
Tree stumps offer seating to passers-by, who may also pick what they want to eat.
Others lay fallen and shattered on the ground, branches strewn around, their mangled stumps still smoldering.
Each cake was supported by miniature tree stumps made up of edible birch, crabapple and pear branches.
Roux painted a picture of a fearful man on his stumps, trying to protect a loved one.
And the bill stumps up $182bn over a decade which states could use to subsidise the exchanges.
So, as a rule, the bowler bounces the ball near the batsman, aiming to hit those stumps.
With twilight approaching, we found ourselves in a petrified forest, swerving wildly to avoid the blackened stumps.
The schoolyard got a mud pit, a tire swing, log stumps and workbenches with hammers and saws.
To study the magpies, he attracted the birds to 20 experimental sites with peanuts on tree stumps.
None of the old growth remained — only charred stumps poking up from murky, dark pools of water.
Dump trucks laden with the stumps of storm-ravaged trees rumble back and forth along narrow streets.
In the myth, Hercules defeats the monster after figuring out that cauterizing the stumps would prevent regeneration.
"Bloomberg stumps in California as rivals battle in Iowa caucuses," by Mark Niquette Counterprogramming that paid off.
If not for this TIME essay, Tom would be just another trivia question that stumps Boston sports fans.
Inside, tucked away and sewn in, they keep their "belly buttons," meaning their fallen-off umbilical cord stumps.
The article also says Taylor had taken dynamite, used for blasting tree stumps, with him in his truck.
Click here to view original GIFIroning sucks, but it's the kind of precise activity that usually stumps robots.
The researchers say this surprisingly complex interplay between living trees and stumps could change our perception of trees.
They also evolved a population of obstacle courses for the bots, complete with hills, trenches and tree stumps.
Buildings were leveled, once lush and verdant hillsides were reduced to barren stumps and roads were washed away.
"That's when I realized I had lost them," Dz'dza says, gesturing toward me with the stumps that remain.
The team is also hoping to get access to the buried stumps at Stonehenge to confirm their origins.
Now, a picnic table he built in a shady grove stands amid a tangle of stumps and branches.
Now the earth was a wasteland, covered with tree stumps and jasmine bushes that had lost their scent.
The surrounding forest had been slashed and burned, and the open land was still dotted with blackened stumps.
That's a thumbs-down that still comes up on the campaign trail, as President Trump stumps for GOP candidates.
India also missed several opportunities to run the right-hander out when their throws failed to hit the stumps.
It was then randomly switched to a landscape with short stumps, where it had to learn to walk upright.
It's a piece of sporting history that stumps practitioners and fight historians the world over to this very day.
LONDON — Somewhere in the woods in Erith, London, there's a 70-year-old woman turning tree stumps into art.
The dirt road leading to his property has been cleared of tree stumps and other remnants of the flooding.
There is no question of hitting the stumps: The bouncer's intended target is the batsman's upper body or head.
By the morning of June 19803, all that remained were heaps of severed trunks and tree stumps oozing sap.
"I'm going to give them a special treat," said Mr. Caserta as he patrolled for smoldering logs and stumps.
The beds in this ward are overflowing with patients, the rounded stumps of their amputated limbs pointing at the ceiling.
"Stumps are not very well considered but they have the right features that make them perfect for carving," he said.
All around us were old bottles and dead bushes and gnarled stumps, including the skeleton of a large fig tree.
The bowler is aiming at "the stumps," three wooden sticks creating a target almost hip high and nine inches wide.
" Yes, that's a Hillary Clinton slogan, and the song smilingly and bluntly stumps for the "pantsuit-wearing herstorical first-timer.
Paintings called "Above the Gravel Pit," show scenes of denuded land and tree stumps, all beneath a brilliant, rippled sky.
In the opening are a few circular monolithic concrete stumps atop a bed of white gravel that reflects the light.
Within a second, she hopped off the couch and onto her stumps, hobbled over to him and pinned him down.
"The house was built on tree stumps and logs set sideways," said Ms. Moses, whose father passed away in 2001.
And in interviews with a dozen residents, there was more support for the council's efforts than the tree stumps suggest.
A few short years is all it takes to give us stumps in the place of an old growth forest.
Bing has a yard that contains tree stumps for jumping, chickens for chasing and a 30-foot-long wooden bridge.
Now he is threatening to trigger a partial government shutdown on December 7th unless Congress stumps up for his pet project.
CITY'S 'NITPICKY' FINES FOR TREE STUMPS, BLINDS TRIGGER CIVIL RIGHTS LAWSUIT The fine and charges against Thornton were also eventually dropped.
There are few trees left in this part of Freetown and in front of some houses, there are knee-high stumps.
" MYSTERIOUS SOUTH CAROLINA FISH WITH HUMANLIKE TEETH STUMPS INTERNET "I think he was expecting to have Cornflakes for breakfast - not Cornsnakes!
Those big eyes and rounded stumps for hands and feet are uniquely specific to the girls, emphasizing their softly charming exteriors.
Scientists haven't been able to see the forest for the trees and the tree stumps, as this new research wonderfully illustrates.
But under the right conditions, the stumps can sprout anew, and the hollowed-out stems that remain can find new purpose.
Trump will make his second stop in a state that he lost in 2016 on Saturday, when he stumps for Sen.
It meant sitting by the campfire at night on stumps, singing, telling stories, watching fiery sparks soar up to the stars.
Why it is that American politics became more competitive around 1980 and has remained that way since stumps everyone I've asked.
Small Business stumps for Gorsuch: The National Federation of Independent Businesses issued a full-throated endorsement of Trump's Supreme Court pick.
He stumps himself talking about banning travel to, and immigration from, "high-risk countries"—in other words, religious persecution of Muslims.
While some stumps were painful to behold, the felled cypress were milled and reincarnated as the benches we were sitting on.
The panic-buying of hand sanitizer also stumps me, given the effectiveness of a 20-second wash with soap and water.
His predecessor, Barack Obama, stumps Monday in Nevada, where Dems are aiming for a US Senate seat and the governor's mansion.
The forests have gone, all that's left of the redwoods are blackened stumps, poking up through the fields of white powder.
All that's left of them are stumps; these seem ironic, even tragic, alongside the row of saplings planted to replace them.
When she calls the party to order, the group sits around her living room on leather cowhide seats and polished wooden stumps.
Image: D. WebbExcavations at the site revealed hundreds of pile stumps, which once represented the internal structure and layout of the settlement.
A new trend has arisen that sees creative-minded jewelry makers turning umbilical-cord stumps into wearable keepsakes, from rings to necklaces.
One option was simply to up stumps: sell the one-third stake in Xstrata and focus on its own commodities-trading company.
According to firsthand reports, Buchinger cut his quills and held his pen with the help of growths and calluses on his stumps.
The goat's horns have been severed, with blood-red stumps glowing like cigarette cherries where they once grew from the creature's skull.
Both Colbert and Reeves have dealt with death in their lives, and Reeves's simple answer about the nature of loss stumps Colbert.
And they generally don't have the "oomph" needed for grunt work like pulling stumps, clambering up hills and scrambling over rough terrain.
Those events have intensified in recent weeks as Trump stumps for Republicans scrambling to retain their majorities in the House and Senate.
A year later, Alfred Crone-Münzebrock published his study of 12 men, cancer survivors who opted for amputation and had remaining stumps.
I missed a single question on the SATs, yet the easiest conceivable question stumps me: What was it like growing up in Miami?
Since Bill's a vegan now -- we're guessing he was feeding Hillary's staff and/or supporters while she stumps for next week's Cali primary.
The creatures spend most of their time hopping around tree stumps or burrowing in holes with a canopy of longleaf pine trees overhead.
"I think he is messing with everybody, then again he stumps me all the time so who knows?" the SI cover girl said.
And "selling timber" doesn't have to mean an ugly clear-cut down the side of the mountain, or razing the backyard to stumps.
From childhood to adulthood, we've eaten them off twigs and skewers, on backyard lawn chairs and campground tree stumps, with family and friends.
As I raced down narrow country roads to meet deadlines, I caught glimpses of smoldering embers on tree stumps a few feet away.
All around the Indonesian island of Sumatra, charred landscapes of blackened tree stumps and singed earth attest to the devastation wrought by humans.
Slaves in wagons singing under their breath, ghosts and haints staring silently from tree stumps, ancestors whose names were hidden in children's chants.
But in the finished image, Mr. Chermayeff has wrenched the "U" from its moorings, leaving two jagged stumps where the letter once was.
Using an implement he wielded with his stumps, Buchinger excelled in calligraphy, ornamentation, and micrography, the practice of making patterns with tiny letters.
Bill Clinton may well garner applause, but every time he stumps for her, it's an implicit promise to revisit yesterday, not to chart tomorrow.
PFI contracts run for up to 30 years, during which time the government repays a firm that stumps up the cash for the project.
Paul Ryan avoids talking Trump as he stumps for a GOP White House But it's not just the email issue that is infuriating Democrats.
Paul can't dismiss Cruz as just another liberal when the Texas Senator stumps hard for the risk pools for reasons of compassion and pragmatism.
Our job now was to tend multiple gunshot wounds, apply tourniquets to the stumps of legs amputated by mines, and bandage shrapnel-mutilated bodies.
Reelfoot's average depth is barely more than five feet, and the stumps of hundreds of thousands of drowned trees lie just beneath its surface.
"Clearing the Land" features lumberjacks hacking down trees, but the smoke and stumps express an ecological regret that negates any pride in Manifest Destiny.
I didn't want to leave the dog alone, so I carried her to the chair and nestled her hind-leg stumps into my lap.
Corpse Fortress is a wonderfully joyless slog through zombie hell; its 11 depraved tracks crawl on bloody stumps, and lurch along with claws outstretched.
Dr Bader and Dr Leuzinger started with the suspicion that living stumps are sustained through their roots by nearby, intact trees of the same species.
There's finally a question that stumps Kellyanne Conway: Name a high-level black person serving on President Donald Trump's staff, now that Omarosa is out.
He said he liked to meet people while working and had no personal claim to the faces, animals and other artwork carved out the stumps.
While we were talking, I noticed that his nails looked absolutely hideous—gnawed down little stumps that looked like they could start bleeding any moment.
The one time I've seen it was when they assigned me to paint the parking stumps in the lot at the front of the prison.
At every turn — by motorbike and motorboat — shards of burned stumps, a crop of shimmering silvery charcoal, stuck out from the blackened earth like gravestones.
He replaced the sock-like covering many amputees wear over their arm stumps with an actual sock: first a plain sock, then stripes and argyles.
This is Us is nearly back after a five-week hiatus and we've bitten our nails down to stumps waiting to know what happened to Toby.
MYSTERIOUS SOUTH CAROLINA FISH WITH HUMANLIKE TEETH STUMPS THE INTERNET "I thought dispatch was joking," a deputy from the sheriff's office commented in the kangaroo post.
Wickets are set up behind the batters, and they consist of three long poles called stumps on which balance two little spool-looking things called bails.
"I think he is messing with everybody, then again he stumps me all the time so who knows?" the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2019 cover girl said.
There is a separate artist's studio as well as a hot tub and a ring of tree stumps that can be used as a drum circle.
He threw straight for the wicket, and smashed the bails from the stumps while Ponting was still an outstretched bat from the refuge of the crease.
At dawn, with reddened eyes and raw nerves, they studied the shadows to discover that the lurking Indians were nothing but a field of tree stumps.
His bare legs were burned into pus-filled purple stumps so unrecognizable that he was told by his doctors that he&aposd never walk normally again.
"Bowl-outs", when bowlers try to hit the stumps at the other end of the pitch, were introduced to decide shorter forms of the game in 1991.
The woman's body was found "hunched in a dug-out area, her head against the ground, covered in branches and surrounded by wood stumps," France 24 reported.
Why living trees should expend resources to support leafless cohorts is not fully understood, nor the extent to which resources are shared among living trees and stumps.
A railway station cloaks the eastern approach to Annesburg in thick, black smoke, the surrounding trees hacked to their stumps and the waste dumped behind a hill.
For the experimental treatment in the study, researchers placed sensors on the patients' stumps to detect nerve signals that would control muscular activity for the missing arm.
Families and midwives have been known to put butter, turmeric, ash, cow dung and even rat feces on stumps to promote healing; many babies die of tetanus.
In the courtroom last month, Mr. Pistorius removed his artificial legs and walked on his stumps, resting his hand on a desk for support at one point.
There is an additional $10 million to provide meals for needy seniors, $1 million to remove tree stumps and $640,000 to provide translation services at polling places.
The developers say the wood they use doesn't come from old-growth forests, but rather is harvested from places like tree farms that replace stumps with saplings.
The fossil itself was found in 2005 by volunteer George Caspar, buried deep at the base of a powerful river, along with tree stumps, logs and branches.
There's a pair of jean shorts (part of a work called "Jorts," from 2017) dangling upside down and fitted on painted cardboard stumps that look like cactuses.
In a move that shocked a South African courtroom, ex-Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius removed his prosthetic legs in court Wednesday -- and walked around on his stumps.
Batuu, an Earth-like destination on the — you guessed it — galaxy's edge, filled with giant stone formations that look like petrified tree stumps up to 135 feet tall.
Meanwhile, voters who switched from Barack Obama to Mr Trump will adore her stumps on corporate greed, revolving-door lobbying, and prioritisation of expanded bad-weather crop insurance.
And those mutant potatoes, with their amputee stumps and flipperlike appendages: they're abject emissaries from the underworld, sightless tubers waiting to sprout eyes in the root-cellar dark.
Elizabeth Banks was one of Hillary Clinton's most ardent supporters last year, and sounds like she's ready to mount up again if Hill stumps for mayor in NYC.
Susan Sarandon stumps for Bernie Sanders in Iowa Sanders himself offered a blunt assessment of his Iowa operation after a meeting with steelworkers in Des Moines on Monday.
I'd brought a torch from the warehouse and we are able to navigate our way through the guide ropes, muddy ditches and tree stumps to the main path.
It produces a 3D map of the vegetation as well as the terrain, allowing the system to identify stumps, roots, bushes, new trees, erosion and other important features.
Openers Zeeshan Maqsood and Khawar Ali gave Oman a blistering stand of 69 in 8.3 overs before both inside-edged medium pacer Kevin O'Brien on to their stumps.
When tree seedlings sprout on the stumps and felled trunks, sometimes the roots flare around the rotting wood as it vanishes and preserve its contorted outlines in midair.
As the trail looped back to the brick house, he spotted trees nearly 200 years old with fissured bark, and a few fairly recent stumps left by foresters.
Yolanda was always provided with a youth from juvenile detention to fresh-cut the stumps, which seemed to Henry quite redundant, as far as the tree was concerned.
Gomes's exhibition shows abstract sculptures titled "Roots" (Raizes, 2018), which are created from used fabrics and found objects including clothes, purses, neckties, plush animals, pins, purses, and tree stumps.
City officials have voted to spend $3.45 million CAD (~$2.69 million USD) on a project that includes dozens of pieces intended as benches that critics say resemble tree stumps.
So to recap, I was about to try a sex toy that has the power to turn dicks into amputated stumps and might have a mind of its own.
Whatever the rules, the reality is that a small coterie of private businesses stumps up most of the campaign cash almost everywhere, except perhaps in Uruguay and Costa Rica.
Pistorius lawyer Barry Roux asked his client to walk in the court on his stumps to show the difficulty he faced while dealing with the threat of an intruder.
MYSTERIOUS SOUTH CAROLINA FISH WITH HUMANLIKE TEETH STUMPS THE INTERNET The fish , which appears to more than a foot long, can be seen gasping for air in video footage.
There are 19636 million species of fungi and 22017 species of hallucinogenic mushrooms that grow between life and death in turds, in damp caves or along dead tree stumps.
By the end of "The Adversary" it's clear why the other departments within the company have such disdain for the "butchers" downstairs: Felix and Sylvester are dumb as stumps.
Their techniques include training courses for farmers and grafting new plants to older stumps, decreasing the amount of time it would make for a cocoa plant to produce pods.
In 1980, the West Indies fast bowler Michael Holding kicked down the stumps, the vertical posts that support the bails and form the wicket, to protest an umpire's decision.
One day, while on the Bitterroot Complex, which burned more than 350,000 acres, we were feeling around for embers hiding in roots and stumps when it began to snow.
Pistorius was not wearing his prostheses at the time of the shooting, and Roux painted a picture of a fearful man on his stumps, trying to protect a loved one.
In a chat in Storm Lake, Iowa, where he was attending a political event, Russell told me he earns most of his money contracting out to grind up tree stumps.
Up on the big screen, strings swell as we cut to the veteran's pit bull, rescued from a dog-fighting ring after his wife saw his stumps and walked out.
A Reuters witness said lush pine forest was reduced to blackened stumps as aircraft dumped red dry extinguishing powder on to the flames, followed by helicopters equipped with 'rainmaker' buckets.
The Post reported that the Potomac Riverkeeper Network went on a jetboat to the Trump property and saw about a dozen stumps, as well as trunks lying along the shoreline.
The trees were encircled by stumps—the remains of earlier efforts to resprout—and their trunks were ringed with gashes, as if someone had been trying to slit them open.
It is here, in real life, that she has made some best friends from the online group, including the artist Rachel Keith, whose work transforms tree stumps into fairy playgrounds.
And then there are the dead trees: scorched mountain tops dotted with blackened stumps, eucalyptus trees hacked at their base, smoking piles of olive wood slowing turning into lumps of charcoal.
In the 1840s, the charismatic performances by pianist Franz Liszt inspired mobs of young women to fight over shreds of his gloves, handkerchiefs, and even cigar stumps to keep as mementos.
ROME (Reuters) - Andrea Gandini, a 22-year-old Roman sculptor, is making a growing name for himself by turning the Eternal City's dead tree stumps into much-admired pieces of art.
His body shaking with emotion, Pistorius removed his prosthetics and stood on his stumps for about five minutes in front of the court television camera, wiping away tears with a tissue.
He failed in farcical fashion looking for a quick single that always looked like a gamble, left stranded when Brathwaite scuttled back to his crease as Peter Nevill broke the stumps.
Black skeletons of scrubby trees stretched to the horizon south of Seiling; in other places, the flames had turned open prairie into Sahara-like dunes dotted with spiky black sagebrush stumps.
But the archivists managed to create a tree embryo using tree DNA from the ancient stumps, which they then raised in a "living archive" for 2.5 years before planting last week.
We soon crossed Beicegel Creek, where 228-million-year-old petrified cedar stumps stood in the shallows, a reminder that western North Dakota had once been subtropical wetlands, like today's Everglades.
The "What the Heck Is That?" feature zeros in on general knowledge that might be of help to solvers, but sometimes it is the twisted clues and wordplay that stumps them.
He balances the metal between his right hand and what's left of his left hand, using one of his stumps to push the foot pedal of the main machine he works with.
When Mark Zuckerberg stumps for immigration reform, chats up the president of China—in Mandarin—or announces that he's going to use his $45-billion fortune to rethink "society," that is power.
Newborn babies will keep their umbilical cord stumps attached for the first few weeks, so it's important to clothe them in something that's loose and comfortable, and won't aggravate their belly button.
But salty water, seeping northward from the Gulf of Mexico, killed the trees off long ago; just a few blackened stumps remain, protruding from the open water that now surrounds the Isle.
But in truth, given the extraordinarily high incidence of ankle sprains, we'd probably all be better off if we had thick stumps like an elephant's to connect our feet to our legs.
He failed in farcical fashion looking for a quick single that always looked like a gamble, left stranded when Kraigg Brathwaite scuttled back to his crease as Peter Nevill broke the stumps.
CreditCreditLam Yik Fei for The New York Times From the Altai Mountains to the Pacific Coast, logging is ravaging Russia's vast forests, leaving behind swathes of scarred earth studded with dying stumps.
The Oregonian reported that the city grew so fast in the 1800s that people didn't have enough time or energy to cut trees for homes and remove the leftover stumps — hence, Stumptown.
That's something else to think about when you can't sleep because the crackpot next door has put beer bottles on the tree stumps in front of his house and decides 11 p.m.
His body shaking with emotion, Pistorius then removed his prosthetics and stood on his stumps for five minutes in front of the court television camera, wiping tears from his face with a tissue.
Where Clinton stumps with pop stars like Demi Lovato and political fixtures like her husband, Sanders has stood by as rapper Killer Mike, liberal actress Susan Sarandon and others have pushed his candidacy.
Kostianovsky is still using the reclaimed clothing, but has moved onto devising tree stumps that viewed from above, contains whorls of fabric arranged in radiating circles like the growth rings in a tree.
For the project, CSAIL PhD student Andrew Owens and postgrad Phillip Isola recorded videos of themselves whacking a bunch of things with drumsticks: stumps, tables, chairs, puddles, banisters, dead leaves, the dirty ground.
Huge stumps—the remnants of ancient giants—are scattered throughout, marked by notches where hand-loggers would have inserted their springboards to fell these enormous trees with nothing more than axes and handsaws.
The two girls who survived — Marwa, 4, and her cousin Rabia, 7 — writhed in pain on their hospital beds, trying to find a comfortable way to sit or lie with their bandaged stumps.
As people descended to the garden level for dinner, they emerged onto the forest floor: Autumn leaves, damp from the weather, carpeted the ground, and guests delicately sidestepped tree stumps and fallen logs.
Besides bright colors, silver stools that resemble tree stumps, and unexpected graphic presentations of food-related adjectives, Gensler and Focus's aesthetic feast for millennial tastes manifests primarily in the layout: open and collaborative.
And "if we do not have a light bulb, let's light our candle stumps or, as a last resort, repeatedly strike some matches as a sign that we did not desert our post."
Shell wants to leave the concrete stumps, which contain some oil, in place at sea, saying they pose minimal risk to shipping routes and have less chance of polluting the environment that way.
With the U.S. job market stronger than it has been in nearly two decades, you can expect President Donald Trump to tout his economic record as he stumps in this year's midterm elections.
Imagine being so good at killing that someone took your fingers off so you had to live with your stumps and the knowledge that your greatest gift had been stripped away from you.
We spoke with Tom Rose, the co-founder of Testive, which offers SAT and ACT learning software as well as coaching, who presented us with a particularly tricky problem that stumps students regularly.
Although there is no law that forbids people from carving dead tree stumps, police have threatened to ban him from historic areas using tough new rules drawn up in recent years to maintain decorum.
Seems the neighbor was frustrated that Whitney's wall of bark was blocking his view, and she says he ordered the landscaper to do a hatchet job on her property ... cutting the trees down to stumps.
The authors of the new study, Sebastian Leuzinger and Martin Bader from the Auckland University of Technology, say the discovery points to a previously unknown relationship between living trees and not-so-dead tree stumps.
Global Health A gel used to prevent infections in the umbilical cord stumps of newborns was endorsed by the European Medicines Agency last week, an important step toward distribution of the disinfectant in poor countries.
As guests (of many ethnicities and faiths) arrived, they found small round tables, like tree stumps in a pillow forest, on which small dishes of olives, horseradish and parsley were set by stacks of matzo.
From Art's cyclops bump and Barb's heart-shaped hump to Hilda's wart-like bubbles, read on to find out how Dr. Lee handles each patient and their curious conditions... and the one that really stumps her.
The brief rains that showered the southern belt in recent weeks are unlikely to bring an end to the freshly hacked stumps and smoldering fires lining Dambwa's dusty paths – especially with elections coming up in August.
Hot stones line the bottom of a pit, which is layered with banana stumps and leaves; meat, fish and vegetables; more leaves and flaxen sacks to seal the heat in; and dirt heaped over it all.
As the fighting moved up and down the peaks, lush jungle landscape was ripped apart by airstrikes and artillery fire and reduced to craters and shattered tree stumps, with body parts protruding from the pulverized earth.
The performance could hint at how Trump plans to appeal to the elite business community as he stumps for re-election — forget about the scandals, the stock market is doing great and job growth is steady.
So, the people of Portland cut down the trees, but they didn't remove the stumps because it is much more strenuous to pull a tree up from its roots than chop it close to the base.
Over the course of several months in 2015, Maccarone, who is a nationally ranked thrower, and a friend cleared trees, stumps and crushed stone from his Thoreau-like backyard for a target range featuring a flagpole.
And maybe, they can help Jay crack one of the mysteries that has fixated him for decades: how did Buchinger, working with his stumps, make drawings so tiny they are barely visible to the naked eye?
In their latest study, just published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Dr Jarrassé and Dr Graaf stuck six electrodes onto the arm stumps of two volunteer amputees who had each lost that limb above the elbow.
In addition to the Palin events, Great America Alliance is also putting six figures behind a pro-Moore ad campaign that will run during the University of Alabama football game on Saturday as Trump stumps for Strange.
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Melbourne Stars cricketer Adam Zampa will be boasting a stellar Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer impression after a ricocheting ball bounced off his nose to hit the stumps during Saturday's Big Bash League match against the Melbourne Renegades.
To drive home the point, defense attorneys had him remove his prosthetic legs last month and walk across the court room on his stumps to show how vulnerable he was at the time of the late-night shooting.
He later claimed that he believed an intruder had broken into his home and he was so fearful that he walked on his stumps toward the bathroom, after grabbing his gun, and discharged four shots into the door.
I paused at the Cavey Den, a hollowed-out treehouse with stumps for seats and children's books, then rocked on a rocking horse and ate a cookie from a jar, wondering what time was set aside for naps.
More often than not, as they visited the sites listed on the paperwork, they found no evidence that any trees had been cut down there—no stumps, no debris, no disturbance—much less the trees listed on the documents.
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In the pitch-black of his bedroom, he says he urged her to call police and hide while he grabbed a handgun, then walked on his stumps down a hall toward the bathroom shouting for the intruder to flee.
And the outsize presence of the sculptures within easy driving distance of Las Vegas, rising from a scatter of mesquite bushes, yucca and stumps of dead Joshua trees, is like a high-art billboard for the institution's particular ambitions.
"It's the conditions here that push them to do this," Mbainar said, looking at the ramshackle huts made of tree stumps and bamboo shoots, tied together with rotting strips of fabric, and covered with a patchwork of tarpaulin sacks.
In this cartoonish version of the Rorschach, what we see in the blots — whether a butterfly, or the bloodied stumps of our last victim's limbs after we hacked them off with a salad fork — is who we really are.
They previously said that visitors to the land will be making a trip to Batuu, an Earth-like destination on the galaxy's edge that's filled with giant stone formations that look like petrified tree stumps up to 135 feet tall.
Removing his artificial legs, Pistorius moved – mostly without aide – across the room on only his stumps in an effort by the defense to show how difficult it would have been for the amputee to confront an intruder, according to Reuters.
During his closing arguments, defense lawyer Barry Roux asked the gold medalist, known as the "Blade Runner" for his carbon-fibre prosthetics, to walk on his stumps to show the difficulty he faced dealing with the threat of an intruder.
SANTHIOU MEKHE, Senegal (Reuters) - In an expanse of sand 282 miles (210 km) north of Senegal's capital, two men set to work digging up tree stumps to clear space for what could soon be the biggest solar plant in West Africa.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has rapidly increased his campaign spending in recent months, pouring big sums into massive rallies and legal bills as he stumps for imperiled congressional Republicans and confronts inquiries about Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
In one of cricket's most unusual dismissals, Renegade batsman Peter Nevill seemed lost for words after a drive from his batting partner, Dwayne Bravo, glanced off his bat before shooting into Zampa's face and back onto the stumps to claim the wicket.
Last Sunday, as the wildfires, which have now killed at least 40 people, first erupted, Lopas' cannabis farm in Santa Rosa went up in flames, leaving behind the stumps of two chimneys, heaps of ash, charred marijuana plants and a despairing entrepreneur.
Beneath the sea surface, the towering bases of the rig serve much like the eroding underwater stumps or any object tossed into these vacant waters: They are all "fish collectors," Dr. Helmuth said, providing structure for sea life and people to enjoy.
One way to help is to patronize an airline that uses renewable biofuel: There are a number, including United Airlines, Singapore Airlines, and Alaska Airlines, which is experimenting with a fuel blend partially powered by leftover branches and stumps from timber harvests.
DEEP in Oregon's Elliott State Forest, past groves of 241-foot Douglas firs and bigleaf maple trees dripping with emerald green Spanish moss, Joe Metzler pulls over his Toyota truck and peeks over a precipitous slope covered in tree stumps for signs of elk.
The town consists of 16 Queenslander-style homes — which have wrap around balconies, stumps for ventilation and weatherboard cladding — but there are also roads, street lights, a water purification plant, power depot, a dam with a pontoon, plus a phone line to each home.
When Buchinger was a child, his parents "concealed him as much as possible," but around the age of 20 he — or someone uncannily like him — began to show up as a fairground attraction performing "artistic acts with his stumps" in Leipzig, Strasbourg and Basel.
In five bookish scents — Leather, Paper, Wood, the cedar-and-patchouli-spiked Havana and a fresh vanilla-sandalwood option called Culture Lounge — the set, or any single one, would also make a good holiday gift for the man (or woman!) who always stumps you.
"Andrew has some grip with his stumps but is not able to reach up to those bars which are quite high on the poolside out of the water," said Dr. Ian Radcliffe, from the department of bioengineering and project manager on the sports innovation challenge.
The 34-year-old told Mwende, 27, 'today is your last day' before attacking her, said the Daily Nation newspaper, which published a video of the victim with a deep gash on her head, and stumps where her hands once were, wrapped in bandages.
Christie's description can be superb, whether he's conjuring clear-cut devastation ("a black peppering of stumps arranged like seats in a coliseum") or Depression-era Toronto ("where souls wander and collapse, damned either by something they've done or by something they're unable to do").
Especially as Mr. Biden stumps the country on his record in the Obama administration, Mr. Trump sees a political advantage in taking down his predecessor and trying to lift himself as an outsider taking on a system he has led for over two years.
Especially as Mr. Biden stumps the country on his record in the Obama administration, Mr. Trump sees a political advantage in taking down his predecessor and trying to lift himself as an outsider taking on a system he has led for over two years.
Pril, a retired electronic-music composer who favors phrases like "properly irreverent," is among the Smileys who now run what replaced the tavern: Mohonk Mountain House, a castlelike lakeside resort hotel of Edwardian and Victorian design, surrounded by bucolic views and very few charred stumps.
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday pushing ahead one of his signature campaign stumps—the construction of a massive $14-20 billion wall along the 2,000-mile-long border with Mexico, designed to deter illegal immigrants and drugs from entering the United States.
President Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday pushing ahead one of his signature campaign stumps—the construction of a massive $2100-20 billion wall along the 2,000-mile-long border with Mexico, designed to deter illegal immigrants and drugs from entering the United States.
This is a bloody movie with no sense of scale; it's not enough that we see one guy's legs get blown off, but we must see him get dragged across the ground, bloody stumps behind, and then see the same thing repeated four or five times.
Tawny silhouettes cascaded ad infinitum around us, and directly below, at the foot of a near-vertical drop, lay the notorious Deadvlei: the desiccated clay pan, or "dead marsh," a sprawling expanse of petrified white earth studded with carcasses of acacia trees crisped into charcoal stumps.
But her lover, an older academic who knows nothing of her past, sweet-talks her into going to a wedding back in Saltleigh, a bleak estuary town where "all roads led to the water" and the "fossilized stumps" of Saxon villages lie buried in the marshes.
Trump's stop here came a day before Trump stumps in Michigan, also a state likely to swing in Clinton's favor, as the Republican nominee and his campaign are hoping to make late gains to help secure the 270 electoral votes Trump needs to secure the presidency.
Visiting the Indonesian coast can bring on a kind of whiplash: One moment you're dazzled by opulent biodiversity — monkeys and bats flying through the air, manta rays swooping through the crystalline water — the next you're in an environmental hellscape of acrid smoke and burnt tree stumps.
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"The sticks and stumps and foliage that's left over after a clear cut can be pretty thick so when we've gone out and fired this through all of that stuff and it still gets an inch or two into the ground, it's been very cool to see," Ullyott said.
Despite my good sense of direction, I found the paths — including straightaways, curvy tree-weaving sections and countless connecting passes — wound so extensively that it was hard to keep track of where I'd been except for the landmarks provided by a few tree stumps carved into bear sculptures.
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Think of the Music Nazis who make their way through the world with their one-upmanship, and your collection of Van Morrison and Jimi Hendrix is so uncool compared with the Mud Stumps and Echo Park, but only before they caved and became famous and were no longer cool.
In 1869, Albert Smiley, a nature-loving Quaker schoolteacher, bought a property at a good price: a few hundred acres surrounding a lake and a tavern in New Paltz, New York, in the Shawangunk Mountains, on a ridge "covered in charred stumps," Priscilla (Pril) Smiley said the other day.
The demonstrators lit boxes and tree stumps, sprayed foam and water, and threw firecrackers, as they marched near the Belgian prime minister's office and official Union leader Erik Labourdette said the firefighters' monthly average 1,500 euro ($1,680) package was going down by about 300 euros in planned cuts.
You can find wooden stools with navy and gray feet; color-blocked doors; rustic, non-weight-bearing ladders painted white at the bottom; tree stumps that have been repurposed as side tables and dressed up with black paint; and millennial-baiting gold-dipped quartz crystal air plant holders.
They can count, learn and remember; nurse sick neighbors; warn each other of danger by sending electrical signals across a fungal network known as the "Wood Wide Web"; and, for reasons unknown, keep the ancient stumps of long-felled companions alive for centuries by feeding them a sugar solution through their roots.
"The Queen will urge Britain to overcome 'deeply held differences' as she sits near a golden piano that would feed and take the homeless off the streets for a year, a carriage clock that would fund a nurse for a year, all while Joe Public stumps up £360million to fix her castles," one user tweeted.
Read on for Cannom's take on the beauty of Bale's prosthetic neck rolls, the unexpected role of K-Y Jelly, how to cover up "hair stumps" on a bald head, the decline of the special effects makeup artist, and how creating "Old Rose" for the movie Titanic taught him about using aging makeup to its best effect.
Like the candidate he stumps for, Hannity is willing to spread a conservative conspiracy theory about Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE's health just to make sure "The Donald" wins.
According to a news release, the nonprofit Archangel Ancient Tree Archive—founded in 1994 as the Champion Tree Project—created a "super grove" of 75 saplings by taking DNA samples from the stumps of five redwood trees 31 to 35 feet in diameter, which may have been 3,000 years old and 400 feet tall when they were chopped down.
Even the people most obviously in need attention, consideration, and help — the broken-down woman with her overstuffed garbage bags in the middle of the subway car, or the man at the intersection with two stumps for legs and a cardboard sign asking for change — tend to blend in as if camouflaged by the city itself.

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