Hints and tips:
...East won with K♣, and led a third diamond to West’s king. The case for the defence began immediately: “Both finesses wrong — as usual — couldn’t be made.”...
...The style is R&B, a genre famous for vocal ornament. De Casier and her regular co-producer Natal Zaks don’t so much flatten it out as give it a diminuendo gloss....
...If 1..h6 2 b8=Q! h5 3 Qb6 h4 4 Qg1 mate. If 1...h5 2 b8=R! h4 3 Rb6 Kg1 4 Rb1 mate. Chess 25331...b3! 2 Kd3 Ne3! wins because 3 Kc3 Nd5+!...
...But these aren’t simpering affairs. The template is the sinuous sound of 1990s R&B-pop, not the mushy end of the slow number spectrum....
...When they didn’t, however, South was too good a player to fall for East’s ruse. She played a club to dummy’s ace, cashed J♠, discarding 5♦ from hand, and then played back to her K♣....
...The Securities and Exchange Commission demands that details such as dates are disclosed on a Form 8-K. But the reasons for an exit are not required....
...Personally I don’t believe expenses such as R&D should be treated as investments. Most are stay-in-business costs, often wasted, and for the market as a whole a zero-sum game....
...One objective is to minimise conflicts of interest with commercial goals and focus on safety-first R&D....
...K is synonymous with new Korean culture, the little e is hitched to the internet....
...That doesn’t go well. Did you spot the potential blockage of the diamond suit? If so, to ensure that an unblocking finesse position exists, declarer must lead 9♦ to dummy’s K♦ and 8♦ to dummy’s Q♦....
...Maybe you’ve been relying on things like Tesla’s 2022 annual report and its 10-K filing, neither of which mention Dojo even once....
...First, productive factors like human capital, R&D and infrastructure....
...The plaintiff was Cassie, the R&B singer, who alleged that Combs had raped her, beaten her and blown up a romantic rival’s car. Combs denied the allegations....
...The point, instead, is to go from being Robert Armstrong, journalist, to R.K. Armstrong, author of The Fall of the House of Lucre: A Tale of Greed, Sex and Accounts Receivable....
...Past fundraisers include a T-shirt illustrated by Pol Anglada and an NFT version of the designer’s viral patchwork cardigan worn by Harry Styles. akt.org.uk; jwanderson.com K is for Michael KorsEach year...
...It is also the venue for a casual dinner between Q, M and Moneypenny in Spectre (2015)....
...(NYMag, metered paywall) — NYMag’s Eric Levitz has an . . . illuminating Q&A with a leader of the effective-altruist “longtermism” movement....
...The closing blast of “Galvanize” didn’t feel like the end. The night was still young and these rhythms were timeless. ★★★★☆ allpointseastfestival.com...
...The Reuters story about bots cited is from May 2 and refers to Twitter’s 10-K SEC filing of the same date....
...With West likely to hold both K♠ and K♦, the contract seemed safe. East dropped Q♣, and West switched to 10♥. Declarer decided that East’s Q♣ showed J♣, and 10♥ was surely a singleton....
...Q Queue Yes, you could get some fancy corporate ticket to Wimbledon....
...In the wake of K-pop and the Korean Wave in general, the country is trying to see if K-art can be the next big global draw....
...When East played low, South inserted Q♠; West dropped 2♠. Declarer returned to dummy with A♦ and repeated the spade finesse. When West won K♠ this time, declarer frowned....
...(Don’t miss the FT’s latest on Gupta’s Mykonos birthday bash and the rest of our coverage here.)...
...When East leads Q♥, only the adverse ruff can defeat 4S so, instead of covering Q♥ with K♥, declarer plays low, and West does not ruff....
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