Hints and tips:
...Although the decisions by US insurers such as Allstate and State Farm to stop writing homeowners insurance in California may appear unduly harsh, they do serve to make the hazard risk explicit (“What happens...
...It puzzles some art world insiders, who struggle to grasp why a gallery that represents artists such as Cindy Sherman, Mark Bradford, Rashid Johnson and the late Louise Bourgeois is linked to a business...
...This included more than 847,000 cars and light trucks and 1.3mn tons of farm and construction machinery. About 140,000 jobs are linked to the port’s activities....
...One of my guides, Michael Moschos, owns and directs a farm of fine walnuts near the coastline at Artemision....
...Bristow brushed aside concerns about dealmaking at a time when the price of gold, which, at more than $2,000 per troy ounce, is approaching an all-time high....
...Some are poised in farm activities. Others are in exercise, play or mid-conversation....
...“Folks, ‘Bidenomics’ is just another way of saying the American dream,” he said last week at a farm in Northfield....
...He then did something similar in Bradford. On both occasions he then subsequently lost his seat. He’s also got some really awful friends....
...The 11-metre mosaic floor includes a panel that shows the Greek warrior Achilles dragging the corpse of Hector behind a chariot around the walls of Troy as his grief-stricken father, King Priam, looks on...
...says Troy Carter....
...An increasing number of her clients had homes in the Hudson Valley — the farm-filled, culture and creativity-rich region two hours north of New York City....
...She was a bit of a homebody, so we’ll be hosting the dinner at the farm, but I’ll zhuzh up the dining room to make my guests comfortable — ice sculptures on the table; walls hung with those Renoir-does-soft-porn...
...Director Robert Icke likewise asks searching political questions in a new stage adaptation of George Orwell’s classic study of dictatorship, Animal Farm (Birmingham Rep from January 22, then UK tour)....
...Masses and Movements by Mark Bradford is showing until 31 October. hauserwirth.com...
...And the clues might really work, given that they once helped unearth Troy....
...comment: Power companies have social responsibilities too / From Richard G Little, Visiting Research Scholar, Disaster Mitigation, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy...
...Gold climbed more than 1 per cent to $1,756 per troy ounce, a one-month peak, while the US dollar dipped 0.5 per cent against a basket of big currencies....
...Meanwhile, gold, a haven asset, slipped 3.5 per cent to $1,847 a troy ounce on hopes for a sustained recovery in 2021....
...However, even with the uncannily good child actor Tommy Finnegan as Troy, the mystery stumbles on the way to its conclusion....
...Gold prices edged away from records, falling to $2,035 a troy ounce from $2,063 a day earlier....
...The precious metal has risen for 13 days in the past 14, and a 1.1 per cent gain led it to a fresh all-time high of $2,040 a troy ounce....
...In Aeschylus’s tragedy Agamemnon, a beacon tells a Greek lookout that Troy has fallen....
...Technology stocks helped to lift US markets on Thursday ahead of Friday’s non-farm payrolls report for July....
...This is what it looks like when you have an isolated cluster, something like an outbreak at a farm or a meat processing factory....
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