From sand sculptures and houseboat installation, to sunken ships and abandoned airports, Rockaway is much
more than sand and sun.
Don't go there for the island itself though, as you won't find much
more than sand.
Despite a lot of high - flying stunts and impressive feats, my favorite part of the show came midway through, when an artist working in silhouette with nothing
more than sand and a backlit table created some beautiful artwork that helped to further the story of the show.
In & Out Activity Table
More than a sand and water table, the In & Out Activity Table is multipurpose and can also be used for arts and crafts or snack - time fun.
Denver Dustless is
more than a sanding and refinishing company.
Not exact matches
The process of fracking involves vertical and horizontal drilling, often for
more than 10,000 feet below the surface, followed by the injection of millions of gallons of water, chemicals and
sand at high pressures.
Last March, Royal Dutch Shell said it was selling most of its stake in Canada's oil
sands, a vast project that has extracted millions of barrels of sticky, gooey hydrocarbons from the ground in a process that resembles mining
more than drilling.
Why have venture capital investments become ever
more concentrated along a single stretch of
Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley, rather
than diffusing out across the country as the industry has grown?
A
Sand Hill Group report said in 2012 the cloud created
more jobs
than the Internet itself.
More than half of affected reserves are in deep - water projects, and nearly 30 percent are in Canadian oil
sands.
Environmentalists oppose the project because it will encourage the development of Canada's oil
sands, a type of oil resource that requires
more energy to tap
than conventional reserves.
Whether it's the stability of our banks, the vastness of Alberta's oil
sands, or the gravity - defying march of home values, Canadian markets and businesses have
more international appeal — and demand
more attention domestically —
than ever before.
Ten years ago, the village of Tulum, a two - hour drive south from Cancun, was little
more than a scruffy outpost nestled into an otherwise deserted strip of
sand and jungle.
Along with other rail companies, it's shipping
more crude, frac
sand and grain and it's doing
more intermodal business — taking goods to another mode of transportation, such as ship or plane —
than it has in the past.
Without it, they contend, plans to
more than double oil
sands output over the next decade would stall.
Oil
sands stocks have underperformed the TSX by
more than 40 percent in the last year.
With a low cost of living, picture - perfect white -
sand beaches, friendly locals and fascinating culture, Southeast Asia are so much
more than exotic vacation spots.
Since then, China's state owned refining company, Sinopec paid
more than $ 4.5 billion for a 9 % stake in Syncrude, the largest oil
sand producer in the province.
We're at a line in the
sand here, where we can continue blindly marching over the cliff, or we can get a grip: ramp down fossil fuel use immediately, get an economic system geared to fixing up the mess we've made instead of enriching the few who already have far
more than enough, nourish an ideology of cooperation instead of competition, and put the technology to
more intelligent uses
than convenience and mindless diversion.
She cited the fact that offshore projects are projected to account for just 3 per cent of total output in Canada by 2025, while the oil
sands are forecast to represent
more than 80 per cent.
Alberta's oil
sands royalty system is so tilted toward the industry that the Alberta government now earns
more revenue from gaming and liquor
than from bitumen royalties.
Although the country is taking steps to rein in carbon pollution in other parts of the country, the exponential rise in emissions from the oil
sands will
more than offset gains being made elsewhere.
Nationally, however, Ontario's efforts to cut the amount of carbon pollution from electricity generation are
more than offset by the growth in emissions from the oil
sands, which are expected to triple by 2020 from 2005 levels.
The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar
sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning
more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.
The risks associated with future toxic waste from the oil
sands are, in some ways,
more worrying
than the much
more widely known global warming ones.
Speaking in New York in May, Mr. Harper emphasized that the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline would lead to an increase in oil
sands shipments by rail, which he called «
more environmentally challenging»
than pipelines.
Matt Ridley, for example, in his recent book, The Rational Optimist, argues that the oil
sands are a much
more sane solution to current energy needs
than things like wind (too unreliable and too little output) and biofuels (wasteful use of land).
The extraction and processing of a viscous oil called «bitumen,» excavated from vast formations of
sand just below the surface of Alberta's northern region, has come under fire because it requires
more energy
than many other oil operations.
That means the tar
sands oil has to travel all the way to the Gulf of Mexico —
more than twice the distance.
Canada's clean energy industries generate
more direct employment
than the tar
sands / oil
sands, Clean Energy Canada reported this week.
However, there's no
more reliable source of oil
than the Canadian oil
sands.
However, the fact that the average quantity of frack
sand used per well has
more than doubled in recent years — which has helped lower the breakeven price of U.S. shale oil — should help insulate the industry from the worst of the oil crash.
Extracting oil from Alberta, Canada's oil
sands is expensive, so Cenovus» shares generally benefit
more from rising oil prices
than most other energy producers.
One stops to think of actual countries of
sand, which include
more than a few particularly violent locales, places where people are not as willing as Mary Oliver to concede the comfy and common received idea of liberal Christianity that we all worship the same deity by «whatever name.»
But a region built on borrowed water has no
more chance of surviving
than a house built on
sand.
Standing up to such abuse, even bluntly, is surely not
more worthy of a line in the
sand than the actual abuse?
Mixing «Corpuscles of
Sand with... Saline ones» produced glass that is «
more lasting and
more unalterable»
than many natural elements.
Yet if the instruction is not given beforehand, the reassurance is built not on rock but
sand, and is
more than likely to be washed away by the waters of affliction which engulf the soul.
God's desire for His people consists of far
more than a mere set of actions they shouldn't commit or a line in the
sand they are not to cross.
In the end, our financial well - being is no
more permanent
than castles in the
sand, washed away by the ebb and flow of the tide.
Nothing
more than cosmic grains of
sand soon to erode.
The Jewish scriptures tell how Moses communed with God on the top of Mount Sinai, and returned with the tablets of stone on which were inscribed the Ten Commandments, which have served for
more than three thou
sand years as the basic moral code of the Judeo - Christian civilization.
Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through
sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being
more funding, and
more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing
more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...
The «flattening» problem that Bloom worried about was too nervous about a brutish end of history
than an infinity of beastly novelties, but we've put so much effort into
sanding off the sharp edges of our beastliness that it's no surprise collective naughtiness seems at the same time to be getting safer and
more dangerous.
The heavens hold
more stars
than earth has grains Of
sand, and given time, each tiny sun Combined should make a world where starlight stains The sky bright white and dark would be undone.
A dog prehends
more richly
than a grain of
sand, a person
more richly and fully
than a dog.
More than once I napped in the
sand, lulled to sleep by the repetition of the waves.
I've actually done it both ways, but I personally feel like the cold butter gives a little
more of
than «damp
sand» kind of feel.
Like spinach, it's really important to clean the kale thoroughly because it is often loaded with
sand and there's nothing
more unpleasant
than sand in your greens!
Not only are they
more succulent
than white meat, chicken thighs even stand up to reheating without drying out into Sahara desert
sand paste.