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...At her apartment, following her arrest, police found a cache of weaponry, including a submachine gun and a grenade launcher....
...We then visit Alfie Nickerson, who has established an organic flower farm that embraces pests and weeds to produce blooms that are “perfectly imperfect”....
...The family’s money came from West Indian plantations worked by slaves. His father, an Anglo-Indian official in the opium trade, retired to Henley-on-Thames....
...That is because of a tendency by oil majors to “massively over-engineer” renewable energy projects — say by treating a solar panel farm as if it was an oil rig. Is there any answer?...
...The WaterWheel Network online platform enables data centres and others to farm out computing power to AI companies training large language models....
...But even among the individuals that the west has tried to isolate and marginalise, Prigozhin is a special case....
...The company’s goal is for all of its bluefin to be from closed-cycle farms....
...But these assets, which include solar farms in Texas and California, are primarily in the west and south-west. ConEd’s customers are concentrated in the north-east....
...Many, including Jessica West (@missfarming) and her showjumping calf Mooana, and Elerei Williams (@farmer_lel) and her sheepdog Cwin, enjoy a significant audience....
...(Patrick Temple-West) Carney goes big on transition finance Mark Carney has had a hyperactive couple of years since stepping down as governor of the Bank of England, taking on a role as UN climate envoy...
...As a consequence, the EU Farm to Fork strategy might be in jeopardy....
...The west has not prohibited exports. But financial sanctions on Russia have made supplies harder to obtain....
...The saga spanned Australia, where founder Lex Greensill used to run a watermelon farm; Switzerland, where Credit Suisse investors funded Greensill; and Japan, where SoftBank bought into Greensill at a racy...
...A thousand miles west, China’s 21st-century farm hands include the company Sananbio’s conveyor system that automates seeding and transplanting....
...One entry reads: “Jan: soft, cooler wind from the south-west, rain smelling – sky over the sea pale duck-egg blue washed with yellow – the sea itself murmuring gently, and behind the house (deeply, out of...
...This includes clandestine activity by troll farms and bots directed by the Russian government, one of the most active actors in the space....
...And in a three-day trial in November, software trained on the synthetic images detected the use of RBK-250s more than 200 times from a cache of more than 100,000 videos, with 99 per cent accuracy....
...(Fortune) Copenhagen’s new hotspot is a trailblazer for sustainability (Bloomberg Quint) Making small farms more sustainable — and profitable (HBR) Jefferies urges asset managers to prep for ESG regulations...
...(Bloomberg) Texas hold ’em The secretive real estate mogul Sun Guangxin has bought up 140,000 acres of Texas land where he plans to build a wind farm....
...(Patrick Temple-West) Chart of the day In an annual survey of its financial advisers, Merrill Lynch this year focused on ESG....
...Rodjana returned to her hometown of Suphanburi, 100 kilometres north-west of Bangkok....
...The drastic step, which includes locking down the north-west of the country until December 3, is intended to stop the rise of a virus potentially capable of evading Covid-19 vaccines....
...On July 9, B Corp Vital Farms, which produces eco-friendly eggs, filed to raise up to $100m....
...Given the history of the two institutions, and other recent attempts to mix West Coast tech with East Coast finance, it is tempting to conclude that this venture — codenamed Cache — will hit trouble....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on July 28 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
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