She loved the outdoors, especially the ocean, and the many years of playing in the sand building boats with her grandchildren.
A group of retired mafioso in banana hammock bikinis play in the sand, building small hills around their equally tanned and oiled wives, crowning the mounds with coke cans and sticks, like some alien ritual.
Through these analyses, influence of different subsoils (dense and loose sand), buildings height, in addition to the frequency content of the earthquake have been investigated on amplification, acceleration response and stress propagation on the soil-foundation interface.
It has no natural resources and even has to import sand for building.
Other members are geologists, sand sculptors, building conservationists and hobbyists from 34 states and 13 other countries.
Also ecologically appealing, oddly, is that the land still bears plenty of evidence of its industrial days: sand piles, building rubble, twisted chunks of metal.
Fearful of facing the next big storm without the protection of the dunes, some community associations are already reviving them, filling government-sanctioned bags, known as Geocubes, with sand, and building a tight wall where the dunes once stood.
Along with more than a dozen other swimsuit-clad artists, Mr. Yellin was selected to participate in the inaugural sand castle building contest organized by Creative Time, the public arts organization.
Ireland's chronic financial problems seem a world away as the surf crashes into Sydney's famous arc of sand, yet building a new life isn't easy.
China claims sovereignty over a large swath of the South China Sea and has been dredging sand and building facilities, including runways and ports, on various islets and reefs.
The U.S. surveillance flight came less than a week after the Fort Worth, a Navy littoral combat ship designed for near-shore operations, passed close to the Spratly Islands, where the Chinese are dredging sand and building up five reefs.
