Try recalling relaxing memories - perhaps lying on a sandy beach - for a minute or two.
Around that time, his wife-to-be Sandy, a Japanese-American friend of the family who grew up in a neighboring town, told him she wouldn't move down from San Francisco to be with him unless they got married, and he wouldn't get married unless he had a job.
According to police, on December 15 -- a day after the Sandy Hook shooting -- a man was arrested at Riverview Gun Sales for stealing a .50-caliber firearm.
Mulvaney noted that most of the newly elected House Republicans backed his effort to force Congress to offset the disaster aid package for victims of Superstorm Sandy -- a departure from congressional precedent to give immediate emergency money to states without any strings.
He is a slight man with sandy-colored hair and a boyishly unlined face.
While some homeowners and advocates have complained the "Rapid Repairs" program got off to a slow start, Bloomberg and residents of a Sandy-ravaged island heralded it Friday as a first-time initiative that helped about 54, 000 get back home.
In September 2010, Intel launched its second-generation core architecture, Sandy Bridge, a 32-nanometer chip that can put CPUs and GPUs onto a single piece of silicon designed for tasks like handling high-definition video.
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"Before I'd put this property on the market, they would have to have a legal document" spelling out ownership and rights, says Sandy Yeatman, a real-estate agent in Kennett Square, Pa.
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'Even Ringo has adapted to the colours, ' she says, gesturing towards a sandy-coloured dog almost precisely the same hue as the stone flagstone on which he is lying.
Her mother's decades-old wedding portrait, her own eighth-grade graduation photo, a snapshot that captured her mom on a carefree teenage day, all damaged in a Sandy-sparked fire at Catania's home in suburban Deer Park, N.
The area covered by Breezy Point's ZIP Code had the largest percentage of New York City households that received a Sandy-related disaster loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration, which are used for long-term rebuilding, including elevating homes.
"The teaching staff came in and pretty much demanded an executive session and pretty much blew up that whole process, " said Peter Barresi, a Sandy Hook resident who has a 6-year-old son at the school.
The 1966 song was understood to be a favourite of 27-year-old Victoria Soto, a first-grade teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
For me, Bimini has always been a tranquil place to escape the commotion of big-city living, a sandy haven where I can sit and listen to the ocean waves gently slapping the shoreline.
One cannot argue with Hurricane Sandy, hopefully a once-in-a-lifetime anomaly, and perhaps other fundamental factors such as a wider trade gap.
On any other warm summer day, the white sandy beaches here around Jieh - a resort town about 15 miles south of Beirut - would be packed with sun worshippers.
Generac Holdings, a maker of portable generators that surged to an all-time high after Superstorm Sandy hit the Atlantic coast in November, climbed to a fresh all-time high.
Both are public beaches, and with a small parking fee (often avoidable in the off-season) you can walk across the sandy expanse for miles in either direction, taking a near-private tour of areas crowded with people during the high season.
XE300M22-A01US carries a 2.5GHz, Sandy Bridge-era dual-core chip on top of the usual 4GB of memory and 16GB solid-state drive.
And with the subway out of commission and many offices stuck at a standstill, some stranded New Yorkers have turned this post-Sandy time into something else entirely: a holiday of sorts.
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So does the Sandy Park Inn, a 17th-century pub with a gastro menu of its own, on the road into Chagford.
More than ever, we need strong leadership from the business community and policymakers to boost our preparedness in a post-Sandy world.
Maybe another thing that made Sandy seem like such a non-event in the Financial District was that the water disappeared so quickly.
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In one episode, after Hurricane Sandy, he visits a gas-station line, where a driver tells Bell that the police are helping to move his car.
And then there was Superstorm Sandy, a late October post-tropical cyclone that killed more than 110 people in the United States and nearly 70 more in the Caribbean and Canada.
The latter is a wonderful pick, visible through the trees as you make the short hike over a pine-needle-carpeted trail, edged by a tiny sandy beach (many of the ponds have no beach to speak of), and home to a bevy of quick-footed green frogs and one remarkably tame snapping turtle.
During summer weekends and on holidays (particularly over New Year's Eve in January and Carnaval in February or early March) a mix of Brazilian and Argentine sunseekers -- and a handful of international visitors -- pack the sandy streets, overwhelming the calm that pervades the island for the rest of the year.
In this spirit, a small group of young, civic-minded, tech-savvy entrepreneurs weathered the worst of Sandy with a brainstorm.
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Neighbor Gina McDade said Nancy Lanza was a "stay-at-home mom" and not a teacher or part-time employee of Sandy Hook Elementary, as some media reports stated.
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