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...Actor, singer and writer Billy Porter is expert at making a grand entrance....
...He chose the songs for Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’s acclaimed 2007 album Raising Sand and has helmed the soundtracks for The Hunger Games and O Brother, Where Art Thou?...
...Just mix regular coarse salt with the tiniest bit of water until you have a damp sand texture. Make small mounds on the plate and place each shucked oyster on top of the mound....
...You can watch all the action from the comfort of the “beach”, a purpose-built stretch of sand nestled in turn 3 named Larry Hard Lemonade Beach Bash....
...Spoken word, folk, hip hop and R&B are placed alongside traditional opera....
...And it’s not just because Billy Joel has a house there. The hotel I’m staying at, Baron’s Cove, is a seven-minute walk from The Dock House....
...Robin WigglesworthFor me, the only advantage really, of R-star is it’s very pun-worthy: “R-star Wars”, “The Fault in R-stars”. Ethan WuI hate the puns. I’m sick of them. They’re tired....
...The UK has also announced a semiconductor partnership with Japan involving R&D co-operation and skills exchange as part of a broader economic accord....
...Anything shorter should be saved for the sand. He suggests desert boots or loafers as a smarter — and more stylish — sneaker alternative. Trainer socks and pool slides should be avoided....
...As the nature writer Richard Mabey showed with The Unofficial Countryside in 1973 (and, 30 years earlier, the naturalist R S R Fitter found in the remnants of London’s Blitz), wildlife and plants return...
...De Meyer adds that “if you draw a line in the sand at 1.5C or 2C, some people will see it as a line of existential threat and if we go over that, we are in the land of the dragons....
...Everywhere, the crunch of discarded plastic cups half-embedded in the sand....
...When you compare that to millions [for a company like Ikea], you’re not amortising the R&D, the tooling costs, over nearly as many chairs,” he says....
...FIND design fair Marina Bay Sands hosted the first edition of new annual trade show FIND — Design Fair Asia....
...I’m gonna bury my head in the sand, and that is the worst thing that you can do....
...Reddit prepares for stock market listing The social media platform at the centre of this year’s meme stock frenzy, via its r/WallStreetBets message board, is planning a stock market listing....
...“History is made by the minorities,” says Tatiana Stanovaya, founder of Moscow political consultancy R.Politik....
...They are burying their heads in the sand,” said Drew Dixon, a former A&R executive who has accused music mogul Russell Simmons of rape....
...We sit on sawn-off logs, wet sand clinging to our feet....
...There is also a piece of Libyan Desert glass, created some 29mn years ago when an asteroid impact melted the sand ($150,000–$250,000)....
...While Lego’s effort might be taking a while, it underscores the increasing R&D spending for sustainable alternatives — from agriculture (see BASF’s announcement this year) to fashion....
...(Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson) NY pension drops oil sands The $246bn New York State pension will divest from a group of oil sands companies it has determined “are [not] prepared for the transition to a low-carbon...
...I’m passionate about products, the deep reality of products in factories and R&D centres. MM: Do you know what you want to do next? EF: I’m a great believer in business....
...Charted waters Peter Sand, chief shipping analyst at Bimco, had a chart in his latest research note that has piqued our interest....
...There, executives gathered downtown in the George R Brown Convention Center argued that their companies would play a starring role in the transition to cleaner energy and the fossil fuel age was still burning...
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