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...Peat became popular in horticulture in the mid-20th century — traditionally plants were grown in a mixture of soil, sand and charcoal — but it has become the default for most growers, since its water-retention...
...Market players had previously thought that financial authorities had drawn a line in the sand at about ¥150 against the dollar, but recent trading has shown that the Japanese government appears willing to...
...“Now the old chalk pits, sand pits and landfill sites have been abandoned, they’ve become Wildlife Trust reserves; we’re getting back a lot of biodiversity....
...In Seurat’s serene, though painstaking, “The Channel of Gravelines” (1890), the shore in morning light, a strip of sea, broad horizontal planes of sand and sky balanced by thin verticals of masts and signal...
...Runs February 9-May 7, whitechapelgallery.org, then at Fondation Vincent van Gogh, Arles, and Kunsthalle, Bielefeld...
...In Valldemossa, I picked up lingering echoes of Chopin at the monastery where he and George Sand spent a holiday from hell over the damp winter of 1838-39....
...I can’t even get the basic supplies I need to oil and sand a piece for that price.” British designer Sebastian Cox is at the forefront of the industry’s push towards sustainability....
...Corporate documents and property files, they show that Christy wasted very little time in setting up a bunch of companies, usually in the name of Christopher Vincent leaving off the Kinahan....
...The sun shone, her world seemed a blaze of primary colours against the white of the sand....
...We have trekked in Alvor and driven through dirt tracks to the naturist beaches of the west and on to Lagos and the windswept craggy westernmost point of Cape St Vincent....
...Special thanks to Trish Goff, Pascal and Philippe at Publimod, Vincent and Damien at Sparklink, Rita and Thomas at Art + Commerce and Steve Lovelace for his help on this project...
...At the bottom of the outside stair leading up to my room, a soft brush hangs on a peg — for dusting the sand off your toes....
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...Non-Fiction is a minor work from Olivier Assayas that often resembles a media studies seminar spiced up with sex and Sancerre as a Parisian publisher (Guillaume Canet), a needy novelist (Vincent Macaigne...
...Now Minc and Elliott have one thing in common: they’ve both antagonised Minc’s former client, billionaire entrepreneur Vincent Bolloré, the majority shareholder in global media group Vivendi....
...Mark Little, soon to take over as chief executive of Canadian oil sands producer Suncor, reiterated the company’s longstanding support for a price on carbon....
...Famous non-members include Tesla, VMware and the casino operator Las Vegas Sands....
...But when your neighbours grow to appreciate the fine-grained sand and temperate sea, the beach can quickly get busy and become less pleasant for all the visitors....
...On this private island, only guests or residents can enjoy the white-sand beaches....
...Famous non-members at present include Tesla, VMware and the casino operator Las Vegas Sands....
...FT Opening Quote, with commentary by Matthew Vincent, is your early Square Mile briefing. You can sign up for the full newsletter here. For the latest Lombard column commentary, click here....
...So does a starry work by the westerner who influenced them both, Paul Klee’s rough/refined pattern in oil and sand, “Island”, formerly owned by Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, then Mies van der Rohe....
...Others look like parched runes only just uncovered by windblown sands. In theory, the museum hewed to the “non-objective” aesthetic, leaving to MoMA the task of tracing modernity’s byways....
...of Cairns; from A$1,800 (£1,097) for a garden-view room, full board; lizardisland.com.au Photographs: Pierre Carreau; Vincent Bengold...
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