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• Oscar winner Ennio Morricone honors homeless at Vatican concert

  12-11-2016 23:41
  
  VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Homeless people were the guests of honor on Saturday night at a special benefit concert in the Vatican conducted by Oscar winning composer Ennio Morricone.
  
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• Vintage biplanes attempt Greece-South Africa imperial route

  12-11-2016 23:12
  
  ATHENS (Reuters) - Twelve vintage biplanes from the 1920s and 1930s set off from the Greek island of Crete on Saturday bound for South Africa for a 12,800-kilometre (8,000-mile) race never attempted...
  
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• 5 Healing Benefits of Water

  12-11-2016 21:00
  
  New ways that water can help boost fitness and happiness…By Erin O’Donnell
  
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• 3D Foam Pen Printer

  12-11-2016 20:07 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  You got 3 guesses to guess from what country this 3D Foam Pen Printer is coming from. I think you guessed it right, JAPAN of course. It’s not a long lasting like creation what you would make with a regular 3D printing pen.3D Foam Pen Printer Creatures Is Not Forever
  The things you’ll be creating with the pen won’t last forever but that has it’s good side too because eventually you’ll run out of room storing your art pieces. This won’t happen with the foamer, e
  
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• Lego won't advertise in Britain's Daily Mail anymore

  12-11-2016 19:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  COPENHAGEN - The Danish toy company Lego said Saturday it won't advertise anymore in Britain's Daily Mail, one of several British newspapers targeted by a social media campaign for their anti-immigrant stances.The maker of multi-colored Lego building bricks tweeted Saturday "@StopFundingHate We...
  
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• Venetians pack their bags as tourism takes its toll

  12-11-2016 19:35
  
  VENICE, Italy (Reuters) - Dozens of Venetians waved maroon and yellow flags and carried empty suitcases on Saturday during a symbolic demonstration to highlight an exodus of residents from the lagoon...
  
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• Real Sickness Food

  12-11-2016 18:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hey, the cook just gave you the side-eye while serving you some real sickness food. I think he’s messing with you and is testing how far he can go before you throw up. After seeing the first example of some truly not needed food decoration, that pink grinning hedgehog, I had enough. But couldn’t stop looking away. I’m curious to find out how far you can make it, going through the food decoration gallery below.
  Real Sickness Food Remedies
  To clean your taste buds I can offer you
  
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• Rare Collection of More Than 1,000 Disneyland Artifacts to be Auctioned in November

  12-11-2016 18:00
  
  Souvenirs of Disneyland auction
  Auction items include original artwork, signs, magazines, and props…Rebekah Bell
  
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• How Much Is Reggie Jackson’s Ferrari Worth?

  12-11-2016 17:00
  
  The Ferrari 275 GTB/4 is one of dozens of cars in Jackson’s collection. The majority are classic American muscle cars
  The baseball Hall of Famer’s 275 GTB/4 may be rarer than a N.A.R.T Spyder but not as valuable…Marco Della Cava
  
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• Beach Home in Spain Feels Both Casual and Refined

  12-11-2016 16:00
  
  This single family home located in Platja d’Aro, Spain embraces coastal living. 05 AM Arquitectura redefined the initial layout of the residence, in order to adapt it to the contemporary living needs of the clients.“The original house had a classical distribution of spaces, separated according to their functions; with a large living room, a dining room and a kitchen strictly separated,” the architects said. “On the one hand, a large opening was designed to
  
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• Tommy Hilfiger: 'I've been buried under an avalanche in Austria'

  12-11-2016 15:00
  
  The designer, 65, on lunch with Michael Jackson, being buried in an avalanche and eating crabs in MiamiI used to adore Mickey Mouse and watching The Mickey Mouse Club. I grew up in Elmira, New York. The house was small, but very pleasant. I had eight brothers and sisters so it was noisy. Our television was black and white and we’d all huddle round to watch.My relationship with my father in the earlier years was strange. He wanted me to be a grade A student. He wanted me to go to an Ivy Lea
  
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• Modern Light Fixtures You Can DIY This Weekend

  12-11-2016 15:00
  
  When the days are getting darker, how can we make our style shine a bit brighter?Enter these DIY light ideas. They’re sleek and simple enough to add a modern touch to your home, and easy enough for even beginner DIY-ers to tackle as a weekend project. Some are made from unexpected items laying about your home, others from a quick trip to the hardware store. With a little elbow grease and entry level electrical knowledge, you can be on your way to a new light fixture for your home.Want to u
  
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• Dutch police detain protesters before Saint Nicholas arrival

  12-11-2016 14:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MAASSLUIS, Netherlands - Dutch police have detained dozens of protesters and arrested a man carrying a large knife in a bag amid tight security for the arrival of the Dutch Saint Nicholas.The arrests Saturday came as thousands of families lined the historic harbour of Maassluis to welcome the...
  
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• Plant of the week: golden clematis

  12-11-2016 12:00
  
  With seedheads that are fantastic dried, it’s the cream of the cropWhat is it? When it comes to pink or blue, there are hundreds of clematis to choose from. But yellow? Not so many. Clematis tangutica is the cream of the crop, offering sunshine yellow lanterns in late summer and autumn, followed by wonderfully tactile fluffy seedheads.Any good varieties? ‘My Angel’ has rusty red backs to its petals, ‘Lambton Park’ has longer, droopier petals, ‘Golden Tiara&rsq
  
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• Our gay wedding: ‘Does one of us have to play the groom?’

  12-11-2016 12:00
  
  Deciding to get married was easy, but then came the dilemmas: two white dresses? Two rings? And where do you find lesbian hen party tat?During a family lunch shortly after my girlfriend Jen and I announced our engagement, my mother could barely contain her joy. “Two brides!” she declared, clapping her hands and looking across the table from me to my fiancee and back again with a huge grin on her face. “Two mothers of the brides!” Jen’s mum said with equal glee. Jen
  
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• Andrea Riseborough: ‘My biggest disappointment? It used to be me, but I’m over that now’

  12-11-2016 10:30
  
  The actor on the love of her life, her greatest fear and wanting to be a binman when she was growing upBorn in Newcastle, Andrea Riseborough, 34, studied at Rada. She was Bafta-nominated for her 2008 portrayal of Margaret Thatcher in the BBC’s The Long Walk To Finchley. Her movies include Made In Dagenham, Shadow Dancer, Oblivion, with Tom Cruise, and Birdman; she also appears in Bloodline on Netflix. Her most recent TV drama, National Treasure, is out on DVD. She lives in Los Angeles.What
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s squash recipes

  12-11-2016 10:00
  
  Whether you use butternut, coquina or queen, make sure you put squash on the menu this autumnIf roast chestnuts are the defining smell of autumn, orange is surely the season’s colour, both outside and inside the kitchen. We have orange leaves on the trees (and ground), fires both inside and out, and fruit bowls filled with seasonal clementines and persimmons, not to mention all the pumpkins.There are plenty of varieties of fruit squished under the term squash, and pumpkins are just one of
  
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• Usain Bolt: ‘I feel good because I know I’ve done it clean’

  12-11-2016 10:00
  
  He won a historic triple treble at Rio, and plans to retire next year. What’s next for the fastest man alive? He talks doping, partying and his plans to settle downTo run faster than any other human being in history is such an extraordinary concept that you have to wonder what it would do to your sense of self. I wondered a lot about it on my way to Jamaica, and the first glimpse of Usain Bolt appears to confirm my worst fears. He arrives at Kingston’s empty National Stadium in blazi
  
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• Mariah Carey wants $50m from her ex – and it only makes me love her more

  12-11-2016 10:00
  
  Every decision I make these days is accompanied by the inner question: ‘What would Mariah do?’I’ve been thinking a lot about Mariah Carey recently. Carey is never far from my mind, because ever since I read that she gave birth to her twins, Monroe and Moroccan (I love you, Mariah), while listening to a recording of one of her own concerts so the babies would enter the world to “the sound of applause”, every decision I make is accompanied by the inner question: &ldqu
  
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• Can mayonnaise cure my infertility?

  12-11-2016 10:00
  
  A controversial treatment that has divided medical professionals is offering hope to women who have suffered multiple miscarriagesIt is a warm spring day, and I am sitting in a private clinic in Surrey with a drip in my arm. I am having an infusion of intralipids, a white emulsion of soybean oil and egg: mayonnaise, basically. On top of that, I am taking a daily dose of steroids. I have signed a form declaring that I am aware intralipids are not licensed for use in pregnancy, and that there is a
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the 60-plus dater

  12-11-2016 09:00
  
  We’re realistic by this stage of life. We expect he will come with thinning hair, loose skin and stiff joints, same as usI look at pictures of men my age and wonder if women look as much alike as men do in their seventh decade. I doubt it, because most of us come with colourful accessories. We’re realistic by this stage of life. We’re looking for a best friend, an accomplice, as well as an inamorato. We expect he will come with thinning hair, loose skin and stiff joints, same a
  
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• Modern tribes: the smart householder

  12-11-2016 09:00
  
  Alexa, what’s in my diary tomorrow? I’m getting the sack? What? That’ll be her little jokeWait, don’t switch the light on, Alexa will do it, seriously, it’s brilliant. I just need to wake her up. Careful! No don’t switch the light on. ALEXA! No, I can’t give her a different name, I’ve just changed mine instead. Al-lex-a! See her blue light’s come on, that tells you she’s listening. Course she can’t spy on us. Alexa, switch the lig
  
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• Mark Rylance: ‘Backstage, I always have one ear to the house’

  12-11-2016 09:00
  
  His Twelfth Night was a critical smash – but how did he feel waiting in the wings? Rylance reveals all, while photographer Mary McCartney gets a backstage passMy earliest memory of a backstage space is a bunch of us crouched behind an overturned table in a school library, where I had created a play about something or other – The Wizard Of Oz, I think. I must have been about eight. The invisible but ever so tangible line between backstage and on stage can be terrifying to cross, espec
  
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• Clive James: ‘It occurred to me that I might be suffering from a sudden mental disturbance’

  12-11-2016 09:00
  
  When one is genuinely shocked, there is a tendency to mumble polite banalities and shuffle away, dazedI was a bit late writing this column because my usual medical problems were compounded by shock on the night of Halloween. My elder daughter had supplied me with a candle-powered pumpkin and a basket of very classy treats, including little chocolates, properly wrapped up. Unfortunately, I had not been supplied with some very necessary information, and had to figure it out for myself during
  
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• Beauty: it’s the glitter season | Sali Hughes

  12-11-2016 09:00
  
  I love glitter. In autumn and winter, some jewel-toned sparkle looks glorious against rich fabrics and knitwearIn the last Great British Bake Off, finalist Jane, having seen her tricky decorative chocolate collar refuse to adhere to her celebration cake, just chucked a load of glitter at it instead. Any makeup artist could relate – beauty industry folklore rules that, “You can’t polish muck, but you can roll it in glitter,” (or something less delicate). Glitter cover
  
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• Sumo’s three top-ranked wrestlers are from which country? The Weekend quiz

  12-11-2016 08:00
  
  From sumo to science to a silver tabby, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which broadcaster spent 182 days in the Linton Travel Tavern?2 What was abolished by the 1968 Theatres Act?3 What are stored in a parc fermé?4 Who is the only British woman to have won a Nobel prize for science?5 Politically, what began as PEOPLE in 1972?6 Erskine Childers said, “Come closer, boys. It will be easier for you” to whom?7 Which brand has a silver tabby British Shorthair mascot?8 Sum
  
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• Should we split the cost of a two-family holiday by the number of children?

  12-11-2016 08:00
  
  We’ve previously just halved any costs, but the kids are growing and they’ve got one more than usEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• My workout: Tyler Saunders, 33, wheelchair basketball player: ‘Taking shots, I’m happy’

  12-11-2016 08:00
  
  I found out about wheelchair basketball only by chance. It’s liberating to play a sport controlled by your hands, not your feet I have always loved basketball. I grew up in the 90s (the Michael Jordan era) and would set my VCR to record NBA coverage on at stupid o’clock. I played a bit in school, just playground stuff, but with my prosthetic leg (I was born with my right leg missing from the hip), I couldn’t keep up. I found out about wheelchair basketball only by chance, when
  
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• Why I smoked my son’s drugs

  12-11-2016 07:45
  
  I was already having a bad day when I discovered my teenage son smoking cannabis. By the end of it, I found the confiscated joint, still in my pocketAs a parent, I have done something hypocritical and illegal. Not that the kids know … yet, and not for a long time. If ever.It began with the dentist yanking at a back tooth he says must come out. Except that half of it cracks apart loudly. I feel nothing after six injections. Continue reading...
  
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• After I’ve hit him, I feel possibly the greatest rage I’ve ever felt

  12-11-2016 07:45
  
  I seethe with anger during a car-park fight with another driver because he’s alive and my wife isn’t. It’s good that I’m in counsellingYou just took my parking space!” If you don’t believe in fate you probably believe in chance. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes not, as any Monopoly player will testify. So it plays out as I’m walking away from the car when the voice repeats, “Oi – you took my fucking parking space!”I realise that the
  
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• We moved to a tiny house to get more room – and it worked

  12-11-2016 07:30
  
  One city couple desperate to give their family proper outdoor space decided on a radical, rural downsize. But for how long can they rub along in such proximity? Related: Can Oregon's tiny houses be part of the solution to homelessness? As Laura Hubbard-Miles and her husband, Tim Francis, prepared to welcome their third child, their thoughts turned, naturally enough, to their living arrangements. But at a point when most couples start looking for more space, they have instead done the opposite an
  
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• A letter to … My dad, whom I haven’t seen for 10 years

  12-11-2016 07:30
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeCan I still call you Dad? It has been more than 10 years since I last saw you. Unless you can class the time you walked past me in the shopping centre as seeing you. I just thought I’d write you a letter and let you know what’s happened to your “family” since the night you walked out.Your wife? Well, she’s a mess. Pretty much a shell of the person she used to be. I think she is just waiting to die. That’s what it feels like
  
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• The Jack Russell with a bucket list

  12-11-2016 07:14
  
  Sadly for Iain Maitland and family, their dog Bernard only has three months to live, but this has helped them learn to live for todayBernard has a bucket list. It’s not unusual to have one – many people do. But Bernard is not a person, he’s a dog. A dog with two months – three at the most – to live.Our family – me, my wife, Tracey, and our children, Sophie and Adam – adopted Bernard, a white and tan Jack Russell, in 2008. He was raised on a far
  
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• Why I love… Minnie Driver

  12-11-2016 07:00
  
  Such is her power to inhabit her characters that I buy her performance in every roleFor women given names like Amelia or Claudia, who attended single-sex boarding schools, with connections that go centuries deep, there’s a very British expression that is deployed with a mix of sneering and a sliver of privilege envy: “jolly hockey sticks”. You know these people – pop culture tells us they end up in PR and have glossy manes.I know only one real-life posh Amelia who escaped
  
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• Readers’ recipe swap: Cinnamon | Dale Berning-Sawa

  12-11-2016 07:00
  
  This heady spice usually wants to be the star of the show, but your recipes for pork bely, orange curd and apple cake show the subtle side to cinnamon Cinnamon is such a beauty of a spice that you don’t usually think of it taking a backseat in a dish: you want it up front – the swirl in your pastry, the flurry on your crepe, the quill in your vat of mulled wine. But, for all its star qualities, it can do wonders without drawing attention to itself – much like lemon. Your recipe
  
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• Claire Ptak’s recipes for membrillo and poached quince | Baking

  12-11-2016 07:00
  
  Whether cooked into a sweet paste for cheese or simply poached with vanilla, these quince treats bring warmth to the crisp, dark days of autumnWe have returned from California to winter in London. Mornings are crisper, afternoons are darker and days are shorter. More time under the covers and plenty of steaming hot coffee are the order of the day. Winterising here starts with pulling out the woolly hats and gloves that have been packed away since March and getting into the kitchen to warm up our
  
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• Blind date: ‘He is hot, hilarious, sophisticated’

  12-11-2016 07:00
  
  Abolade, 31, lawyer, meets Sam, 30, senior merchandiser
  What were you hoping for?
  Meghan Markle. Continue reading...
  
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• Ashley Walters – so solid dad

  12-11-2016 06:59
  
  The actor and former So Solid Crew rapper had his first child as a teenager. He was determined not to repeat his own father’s mistakes. Now, a dad for the eighth time, he explains why he’s stopped looking for a rulebook“I have grown up being a father. When my first son was born I was 17. I was a child bringing up a child. I was not capable of understanding what a dad was meant to be.”Ashley Walters, actor and former rapper with So Solid Crew, is keen to talk about fatherh
  
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• Q&A with British Jewelry Designer Annoushka

  12-11-2016 03:00
  
  Annoushka Ducas 
  Behind the jewelry brand with founder Annoushka Ducas…Ellena Kkolos from Beyond-Bespoke.com
  
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• Marilyn Monroe’s Dresses Are the Star’s Ultimate Collector’s Item

  12-11-2016 02:00
  
  Monroe’s dress in The Seven Year Itch (1955)
  Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but Marilyn Monroe dresses rake in more at auction…Sheila Gibson Stoodley
  
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• After a heavy meal, snickerdoodles are the perfect bite

  12-11-2016 01:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The holiday season is such a beloved time of year. The weather turns cool and the snow begins to fall; we spend dedicated time with our family and friends; and children experience old family traditions for the first time.At homes across the country, carefully wrapped plates of homemade cookies...
  
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• Sudoku Killer 527

  12-11-2016 01:01
  
  Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls will cost £1.03 per minute, plus your phone company’s access charge. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at stand
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,513

  12-11-2016 01:00
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,040

  12-11-2016 01:00
  
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• The 10 Best Charter Yachts for Winter

  12-11-2016 00:00
  
  These top charter yachts promise the journey of a lifetime…Michael Verdon
  
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