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...Meanwhile, we take a seat in the garden of Gargiulo’s Napa farmhouse, built from salvaged old-growth redwood siding, glass and rusted metal roofing....
...The next day, the Royal Scotsman’s itinerary took it south, to Wemyss Bay....
...Shibaura House, a glass and chain-link edifice in the Tamachi district near Tokyo Bay. The ground floor is accessible to all, with work tables and WiFi....
...It provides a haven for wild flowers and birds, grazing for livestock, and once provided roofing material in the form of marram grass for its inhabitants....
...A copycat knitting pattern by Traverse Bay Crochet on Etsy was being added to baskets hundreds of times a minute....
...“We are talking about billions and billions of dollars that did not get to hosts,” says Enrico Schaefer, a lawyer at Traverse, a Michigan law firm which is leading the case....
...The company intends to trial a shared passenger service in 2020....
...Two other men, an American and a Brit, Colin O’Brady and Lou Rudd, were separately attempting the first solo unassisted traverse of the continent, a journey of 1,500km....
...The impetus for the agency’s creation was the 2004 Morecambe Bay tragedy, where 23 Chinese cockle-pickers died after being made to work on the perilous mudflats in Lancashire after nightfall....
...Chris Sacca, an early shareholder, and Rivzi Traverse, an investment group whose founders Suhail Rizvi and John Giampetroni are among Twitter’s top 20 shareholders, had both started pressing for the company...
...He’s talking on the phone from Dubai’s Business Bay, an area that, like so much of the city, is currently under construction but is still no more than a short drive away from the unspoilt beauty of rolling...
...The material traverses the ancient and the modern, from the fustian weave of AD200 Egypt to the corde du roi (“cloth of the king”) of 18th-century Europe....
...One Ocean, the company operating the trip, insists this is an expedition, not a cruise – something banged home when I find our charter flight north from Edmonton is bound for Resolute Bay, one of the coldest...
...Artemis, Mr Pinault’s holding company, owns auction house Christie’s and is the largest shareholder in luxury goods conglomerate Kering. Square, Rivzi Traverse and Artemis all declined to comment....
...Flipboard, the digital magazine app, has raised $50m from investors including Rizvi Traverse Management and Goldman Sachs, valuing the Silicon Valley company at $800m....
...The current financing round was led by an unconventional group of investors: Citi Ventures, and arm of the global financial services company, Rizvi Traverse Management, a private equity firm, and Starbucks...
...The development sits on a windy hillside, which tenants traverse on golf carts to get to an adjoining hotel/spa, golf course, and beach club....
...There is the “beautiful but challenging” 48-mile Skyline route, which traverses large hills. Then there is the 62-mile Half Moon Bay route....
...Anyone who works for the Aspen Skiing Company, which runs all the skiing infrastructure and much else, can apply for houses via a ballot....
...Close to Admiralty Bay, we hiked a five-hour traverse across a glacier to get to a really steep face, racing the last stretch as only 10 minutes of sunlight remained....
...Its decision in 2005 to resort to the courts is now seen, even by company officials, as counter-productive....
...This route has been popular since the Victorian spa boom, and is a traverse between the two highest summits: Worcestershire Beacon (425m) in the north and Herefordshire Beacon, aka British Camp (338m), in...
...From there, it’s just a short walk past Rick Stein’s enviable art-deco bolt hole at Mother Ivey’s Bay to the finish at Harlyn Bay....
...A copper roof weighs half that of a lead one, which means “it doesn’t need such a solid structure underneath”, says London-based metal roofing specialist Guy Keenan....
...” … Flannery spent his childhood in the prosperous, bay-side Melbourne suburb of Sandringham....
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