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...Do you think this is B versipellis? I got it in the same place last year . . . Do you think you could get me a fungus called Corticium amorphum? It grows on fir bark . . ....
...“Other notable modern authors to collect are Ursula Le Guin, William Gibson and Dan Simmons.” Unsurprisingly, values are often affected by screen adaptations....
...Additional reporting by David Sheppard in London Letter in response to this article: Developing Cumbrian coal is plain common sense / From Dick Sands, London TW8, UK...
...Simmons is a key figure in the discourse around the intersection of race, class, and gender identity in contemporary art....
...This Tabitha Simmons design, inspired by Diana, Princess of Wales’s Tanner Krolle vanity case, is the ne plus ultra. tannerkrolle.com Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle Heaven Can Wait, £185 for 50ml EDPAs...
...Some companies that defaulted in 2023 had already previously defaulted, such as Envision Healthcare and mattress company Serta Simmons....
...BofA vs JPMorgan Two years ago, I wrote a piece for Unhedged called “B of A buys tons of bonds, JPMorgan does not”....
...There’s a lot of companies in the double-B category that were downgrades from triple-B. They’re better companies. It’s a different high-yield than, say, 10 years ago ....
...Crew-style asset dropdowns (2016) and Serta-Simmons-style favoured lender up-tiers (2020)....
...If you want a second spicy topic, check out the FT piece questioning the spreading B Corp movement....
...Opec now expects the world to guzzle 99.7mn b/day this year. That might be down slightly from the 100mn b/d it predicted last month, but it is still a rise of 2.6mn b/d on last year....
...Over the staircase hangs a work by Felandus Thames, “Existential Crisis” (2020), consisting of hairbrushes spelling out B.B. King’s lyrics “Nobody loves me but my mother, and she could be jiving too”....
...The most recognisable names — Sarah Jessica Parker, Floyd Mayweather, Jerry Springer, Dick Van Dyke, Snoop Dogg, John Cleese, Lindsay Lohan, David Hasselhoff — are no longer at the height of their careers...
...It was May of 2018 and the R&B artist, known as R Kelly, had been fending off lawsuits since the 1990s....
...Food and Seafood to Share cookbook, £14.50, blackwells.co.uk Gold heels, £159, whistles.com Bronze serving spoons, £195, angharadstudio.com Cosimo coupe glasses, £210 for two, Campbell-Ray x Laguna B...
...“There is no Plan B,” Trenchard said. “We need a massive increase in humanitarian resources to carry Afghans through the winter into next year.”...
...He doesn’t like the alternative, B&Q. Too many friends have been nicked there. “The security guards are going on like the fucking Viet Cong,” he says....
...If you want to get from A to B, or skate as a form of cardio, inline is the best option. Quad skates are more stable and therefore better for beginners and dancers....
...The Flamingo was a popular live-music venue, where famous musicians such as members of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix hung out and listened to jazz and R&B....
...“Arbitrators face two competing pressures when it comes to protecting tribunals’ integrity,” says Jayne Bentham, a partner at Simmons & Simmons, the law firm....
...It was founded in 1927 by cinema royalty — Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Mary Pickford and Louis B. Mayer — and hosted the first Academy Awards two years later....
...US production has bounced back from sub-10m barrels a day to around 11m b/d....
...A number of firms including DLA Piper, Covington & Burling and Simmons & Simmons have opened offices in Dublin, and avoided those issues....
...Dunn, Lara B. Aknin and Michael I. Norton, of University of British Columbia and Harvard Business School respectively, giving disposable income to others makes you feel good....
...At the Khurais field, near Ghawar in the east of the country, a “mega-project” started production in 2009 with initial capacity of 1.2m b/d, subsequently raised to 1.5m b/d....
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