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...They put the elderly’s safety first, escorting them onto boats and floating them at sea, where smoke and ash distressed them less. Food, let alone water, became ever scarcer....
...He also hopes to cement “really good relationships” with the private sector to support performers through sponsorships, with most of carnival’s costs currently met by grants from RBKC, Westminster city council...
...North and west, the Jokulfall river, winding out of the Hofsjökull glacier, crosses plains of stone and pumice ash. Behind us, Kerlingarfjöll is fulminating another storm....
...Meanwhile, the structure is made from glue-laminated timber made from Ash Dieback and sourced from a shelved building project at the nearby Glyndebourne estate....
...James Groves, a regulatory lawyer at firm Fieldfisher, said the EU’s decision does not have any effect on the deal’s position in the UK....
...Alternative binders such as high-quality fly ash and ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) are becoming increasingly available (both of which emit less CO₂ than cement) but the supply of these alternatives...
...constant threat of volcanic eruption — is shrugged off; Etna’s activity is appreciated by its resilient, native grape varieties (Nerello Mascalese for red wine, Carricante for white), that soak up the ash...
...Xylella is a fast-spreading bacterium that has wiped out olive groves in Italy and is attacking swaths of fruit and ornamental plants across western Europe....
...Plum, cherry, oak and ash all grow more profusely. But planes occupy all the best real estate, casting their dappled shade over Berkeley Square and Park Lane, Westminster Abbey and Aldwych....
...Our base for the week is a villa ringed by lemon groves that sits on a hill with spectacular views of Mount Etna and the Ionian Sea....
...This, they explained, was Le Cementine (named after the cement floor tiles), part of the Padua-based Alajmo group of restaurants, which includes the three-Michelin starred Le Calandre....
...Those are kind of images that they would love to be able to cement in the public’s mind....
...Holcim, the Swiss cement group, is using fly ash recovered from landfill sites, which will help clean up these sites and allow them to be reused....
...They are, unexpectedly, the most beautiful gardens I visit in Oman — a falaj spilling on to emerald terraces shaded by towering palms, coursing through banana groves where the air quivers with butterflies...
...BASF’s Belgian peer Solvay, which produces soda ash used in glass and detergents, said on Thursday it would accelerate price rises this year to cover the additional rise in energy costs....
...The Pasupatas were wandering Brahmins — or priests — who smeared their bodies with ash from cremation grounds and slept on a bed of ashes....
...In plain, factual terms, Yoakum was born in Ash Grove, Missouri, in 1891. His father, a farmer, claimed Cherokee descent. His mother was a former slave....
...Performance paintings from the piece are currently on view in the exhibition Fawn Grove at London’s Amanda Wilkinson Gallery....
...One option is to use coal fly ash or blast furnace slag, which is closer to the type of concrete the Romans made, using volcanic ash to build the Pantheon in Rome....
...To get around this, some producers are increasing the share of clinker substitutes in cement, such as fly ash or blast furnace slag, or even alternative binders altogether....
...She has flowing ash hair....
...I repeat to myself the line from Auden’s Bucolics — “a small grove massacred to the last ash . . . ” The last time we lost trees to a disease in such large numbers was in the 1970s....
...The day after our long lunch in Florence, a taxi takes me 30 minutes east of the city centre to Bagno a Ripoli, a verdant suburb filled with olive groves and vineyards....
...In an exposed trench wall was a narrow line of black ash. The Mongols, he said, 1241. We ran our hands over the burnt layer....
...Back in Vienna, three centuries after the family arrived there from Italy, Antonio’s father initially mixed cement on building sites to support his family....
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