The knowledge behind the practice of building the daldal is now known to all male members of the community, but some Irob men are regarded as more skilful than others in adapting and improving the daldal and in experimenting with different ways of using the niches that they have created for crop, grass and tree production.

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The set will feature real grass, an oak tree and "clouds" suspended from wires above the stadium - one of which will produce rain, provided the British weather does not provide its own on the night.

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At first it looks more like a fat white and yellow fish swimming through a green sun-speckled ocean, as if it and the tree and the grass were occupants of a fantastical aquarium.

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It was traveling eastbound on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when it veered off the road near Carlise, struck a guard rail, traveled 70 yards through grass and then struck a tree, said Trooper Rob Hicks, a spokesman for state police.

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The swimming pool has a built-in bench where the couple's college-age children can watch movies projected onto one of the walls (the projector is hidden inside a fountain.) Loggias and outdoor dining areas surround the courtyard, which has grass between shellstone pavers, strawberry plants and a pineapple guava tree.

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Henry stands and watches helplessly as the small fire he has birthed flows like brilliant liquid over the tree stump's ragged edges and into the dead grass and pine needles that carpet the barren slope from the water's edge to the lip of the woods.

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