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• Outlaw Porsche 356s Are in the Emory Family’s DNA

  18-11-2016 23:00
  
  1957 Porsche 356 SpeedsterWatch as Rod Emory provides a behind-the-scenes look into his family’s business of creating Outlaw Porsche 356s…Lindsay Bjerregaard
  
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• Thanksgiving cheer for consumers as turkey, ham prices fall

  18-11-2016 22:55
  
  CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. consumers can expect to spend less on their traditional Thanksgiving and Christmas turkeys and hams this year as supplies of both have rebounded from outbreaks of avian flu...
  
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• Get crafty

  18-11-2016 22:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  With only a few weeks left until the season of giving, no time is better than now to start crossing names off that list — especially for the people on your list who fall into the hard-to-shop-for or have-everything categories.Keeping that in mind, the solution is the craft show. Here you
  
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• The art of becoming Santa

  18-11-2016 22:30
  
  MIDLAND, MICHIGAN (Reuters) - Randy Schneider has considered himself a professional Santa since 1999 when he found himself at a JCPenney store buying a beard and boots.
  
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• 13 of Sonoma’s Rarest Wines

  18-11-2016 22:00
  
  These small-production wines are hard to find but easy to drink…Elaine Chukan Brown
  
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• Monroe's dress from JFK birthday sells for $4.8 million at auction

  18-11-2016 21:52
  
  (Reuters) - The skin-tight dress Marilyn Monroe wore for her sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" before then U.S. President John F. Kennedy at a 1962 gala was sold on Thursday for $4.8 million at an...
  
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• Federal government provides funding for research into antibiotic resistance

  18-11-2016 21:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  REGINA - The federal government says it will provide $1.1 million to the University of Regina to research antibiotic resistance.Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says there is growing concern worldwide that the drugs have lost their ability to effectively control or kill bacteria that make...
  
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• One of the Most In-Demand Fine Jewelry Designers Is under 30

  18-11-2016 21:00
  
  These Sabba earrings withnatural pearls and diamonds highlight Sabbatini’s talent for achieving fluidity and lightness in important designs that alsomake a bold statement
  The 29-year-old founder of Sabba has seduced savvy buyers with his jaw-dropping jewelry designs…
  
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• Iris Apfel says young women must grab opportunity

  18-11-2016 20:13 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Fashion icon and interior decorator Iris Apfel, at age 95, has some advice for young female entrepreneurs: When opportunity presents itself, take it and run with it."Taking opportunity and running is very important, because I never had a business plan in my life. Things just came along and I...
  
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• Experience a Speaker that Packs the Same Punch as a Live Rock Concert

  18-11-2016 20:00
  
  Devialet is expanding its global footprint with a store in New York City
  The 2,200-square-foot property will house some of the best sound equipment in the world…Rebekah Bell
  
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• This hot cocktail is soothing and comforting on a cold day

  18-11-2016 19:26 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  After a snowy walk or long day on the slopes, there's nothing like curling up under a warm blanket. Maybe you have a fire going and the dog asleep at your feet, with a good book just within reach.But before you can relax, you need to warm up those cold hands and chilled bones. Before you settle
  
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• Is a paper cycle helmet really a good idea?

  18-11-2016 18:50
  
  The Ecohelmet, which looks a bit like a Christmas decoration, is designed to help users of city bike-hire schemes. But can it be robust enough – and how worthwhile are helmets anyway?This week a cycle helmet made of paper won a £30,000 design award. How can something made of paper protect your head?The Ecohelmet, the brainchild of US designer Isis Shiffer, works like one of those Christmas decorations that folds down almost flat, but expands into a circle of honeycombe
  
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• With customized Fiat, Polish priest offers spiritual emergency service

  18-11-2016 18:07
  
  BOLESLAWOW, Poland (Reuters) - In his small black Fiat 126 equipped with a blinking roof light shaped like a priest's bireta cap, Father Krzysztof Kauf zaps down the winding mountain road to answer...
  
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• The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for wild mushroom pilaf and pomegranate granita with salted sesame snaps

  18-11-2016 18:00
  
  Two seasonal recipes inspired by the #CookForSyria campaignI was once invited to Syria to try its celebrated cuisine, but I couldn’t go and have regretted it ever since, particularly now, seeing the terrible devastation inflicted on the country. Thankfully, I can do a tiny bit to help: the #CookForSyria campaign, which Yotam wrote about here last month, is releasing a stellar collection of Syrian-inspired recipes from the UK’s top food writers, to raise funds for Unicef. So, this wee
  
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• Cocktail of the week: Sea toddy recipe

  18-11-2016 18:00
  
  Salty dogs and ships’ mates, grab a glass of this grogA rival to the classic toddy: the cloves and lemon bring spice and aroma, the seaweed adds salt. Raise a glass to apple growers. Serves one.50ml water
  2 cloves
  1 strip lemon peel
  1 thumb-sized piece dried kombu (or 1 pinch dried sea spaghetti seaweed)2 tsp honey
  60ml cider brandy (I use Three-Year Old Somerset Cider Brandy)
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• 10 Delicious Reasons Not to Cook Thanksgiving Dinner

  18-11-2016 18:00
  
  10 great chefs, 40 incredible courses, and zero dishes to wash if you dine out this year…Michalene Busico
  
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• The week in menswear: layering

  18-11-2016 17:30
  
  Can’t decide which top to wear today? No problem: wear them all Continue reading...
  
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• Let’s move to Harringay, north London: ‘It’s up and come’

  18-11-2016 17:30
  
  Not as affordable as it was, but it still has fantastic Turkish grocers, green spaces and sought-after town housesWhat’s going for it? Harringay was my introduction to London. It was an inauspicious start. I was hoping for Mayfair, or Islington, at a push. (What can I say? I was young and foolish.) I’d never live here, past Finsbury Park? But here I lived in a £60-a-week room on Hermitage Road. It had a carpeted toilet mat around the loo. Still, Harringay won me over. It&n
  
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• Mexican wrestling fans demand blood in extreme 'Lucha Libre'

  18-11-2016 17:12
  
  NEZAHUALCOYOTL, Mexico (Reuters) - It is almost nine o'clock at night and fans are anxious in Mexico's Neza Arena, an old and dingy building in one of the most crime-ridden suburbs of Mexico City.
  
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• Dutch hope Indonesia will help solve mystery of missing WWII battleships

  18-11-2016 17:04
  
  AMSTERDAM/JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Dutch prime minister on Friday called the disappearance of the wreckage of several allied warships dating back to the 1942 Battle of the Java Sea "unacceptable" and...
  
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• This Breguet Watch Sounds as Beautiful as It Looks

  18-11-2016 17:00
  
  The speed of the strike is controlled by a completely silent magnetic regulator, a mechanical technology developed by Breguet
  Unlike traditional minute repeaters, this watch emits sound that has been designed at the computer…James D. Malcolmson
  
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• I hated being a stay-at-home mum – how many others feel the same? | Vonny Moyes

  18-11-2016 17:00
  
  When I gave up my job to be a parent, I felt stifled. And because of the pressure on women to deify being a mother, I felt guilty tooI was once a stay-at-home mum, and I hated it. Anathema as this might be to most, I think it’s something few women are willing to utter aloud, for fear of public condemnation.When you grow up in a society that rhapsodises about the joys and wonderment of motherhood to you from the day dot, it can be an especially crushing realisation that it’s not your
  
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• Can dry cleaning give you cancer? The hidden hazards of delicates

  18-11-2016 17:00
  
  Despite a 2012 EPA report finding that dry cleaning is a toxic process in the US, many Americans have no idea the way they clean their clothes is carcinogenicWith the results of the most recent presidential election, Americans are faced with all sorts of uncertainty in regards to their health. But there are some consumer choices that individuals can make to protect against future illness: cutting down on sugar, for example; exercising daily; and, surprisingly, being careful about how you clean y
  
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• 'I'm not normal' - the quirky genius that is Alton Brown

  18-11-2016 16:29 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Alton Brown thinks about food differently than you do. You don't get obsessive with hummus. He does. You don't research the long, weird history of nutmeg or put sumac in everything. He does.You never considered having spaghetti in the morning. He did — and made it delicious. "Why...
  
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• Pets are people, too. Remember that come gift time

  18-11-2016 16:26 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Pets are people, too — at least when it comes to holiday gifts.More than half of dog owners and nearly 40 per cent of cat owners buy their pets gifts for Christmas or Hanukkah, according to the American Pet Products Association, an industry trade group.Potentially, that's 39
  
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• Buckingham Palace gets funds for urgent overhaul

  18-11-2016 16:22
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Buckingham Palace, one of Britain's best known landmarks and home to Queen Elizabeth, will undergo a decade-long overhaul costing 369 million pounds ($457 million) after the...
  
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• Why rewards can backfire | Oliver Burkeman

  18-11-2016 16:00
  
  Beware of giving your kids treats for doing chores, or gold stars for work well doneHere’s a story about a man with a machiavellian genius for psychological manipulation. (It comes from the US educator Alfie Kohn, so I’ll Britishise it here.) This man is elderly and lives near a school. Every afternoon a group of pupils subject him to merciless taunts as they walk home. So he approaches them and offers a deal: he’ll give each child £1 if they come back next day to ta
  
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• My husband never wants sex and doesn’t even cuddle me. I yearn for love or affection

  18-11-2016 16:00
  
  We are in our mid-50s and our children will soon have left home. For financial reasons, I don’t see how I can leave, but I’m so lonely. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerMy husband and I are in our mid-50s and have been together for 30 years. I cannot remember the last time we had sex – it was at least four years ago. The last few times, he found it difficult and lost his erection. I don’t know why, and I think I felt that maybe it was me somehow. The problem is that
  
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• Abercrombie off the mark in 3Q as turnaround efforts sputter

  18-11-2016 15:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW ALBANY, Ohio - Abercrombie & Fitch said a key sales measure fell for the third straight quarter, after an effort to turn around the once-popular teen clothing brand failed to bring shoppers back to its stores.The company also said its profit plummeted 81 per cent in the most recent quarter,...
  
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• Museum as shoeseum: What our footwear says about our souls

  18-11-2016 15:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SALEM, Mass. - Boots aren't just made for walking. On the contrary, footwear has captivated hearts and minds worldwide for centuries.Whether a pair of crystalline embellished slippers, or thigh-high boots with platform heels, shoes show our personalities, moods and social status.That's the
  
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• The Wilderness, Birmingham: ‘This is dinner as theatrical performance’ – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin

  18-11-2016 15:00
  
  ‘It looks like a stage set, and the food is every bit as dramatic’It was a barney that brought The Wilderness to my attention. When chef Alex Claridge’s former pop-up went permanent back in May, its name was Nomad, but a hotel in New York called NoMad (New York, in actual America, ffs) was having none of it. In a move I can describe only as a massive, childish hissy fit, it issued a cease and desist, and Nomad was no more.The upshot – something that even the most visionar
  
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• Gleaming Bookshelf House in Paris Stores Creativity

  18-11-2016 15:00
  
  This three-level home located in Paris, France, was recently renovated by Andrea Mosca Creative Studio. Named “Bookshelf House“, the project is defined by extensive woodwork. The inhabitants can interact with a variety of shelving units, which act as stair railing, office space dividers and storage boxes.“The aim of this project was to transform this dark, run-down home into a bright and warm space, add an office zone on the mezzanine and create a separate but visibl
  
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• Monroe dress for Kennedy birthday song sold - $4.8 million

  18-11-2016 14:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LOS ANGELES - Officials say a dress worn by Marilyn Monroe as she famously sang "Happy Birthday" to President John. F. Kennedy has sold for nearly $5 million at a Los Angeles auction.Julien's Auctions says that the iconic, form-fitting gown was sold for $4.8 million Thursday night to Ripley's
  
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• It’s no surprise that white working-class boys do badly at school

  18-11-2016 14:30
  
  Their morale is likely to be lower than that of more superficially ‘oppressed’ groups and their family life more chaoticThere has been another report – this time from the Sutton Trust – showing that white working-class children are underperforming in schools. This is a long-established tendency. Nearly all ethnic minority groups do better. This includes black African, Chinese and Bangladeshi children.We are in a tricky area here – where race meets culture. Biology m
  
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• Herb Alpert: ‘If someone needed my father’s help, he was always there for them’

  18-11-2016 14:00
  
  The trumpeter talks about growing up in a musical family, why his first marriage went wrong, and being a grandfatherI grew up in central Los Angeles. My father was born in Russia. He was a survivor. He had come to the US in 1915, when he was 16, not speaking a word of English, on his own, at the insistence of his family. He landed in Ellis Island and made a life for himself. My mother was from the Lower East Side of New York. She was a secretary, she was good with numbers and play
  
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• My partner is turning into a rightwing cheerleader for Ukip, Brexit and Trump

  18-11-2016 13:00
  
  I don’t want to bring my three-year-old daughter up in a home where her father and I argue all the time about politics, but his new beliefs really upset meMy partner, with whom I have a three-year-old child, is becoming increasingly rightwing. He was not like this when we met. He voted to leave the EU, voted for Ukip and is a fan of Donald Trump. He consumes news addictively, including rightwing websites, and is passionate about political affairs. I don’t want my daughter to grow up
  
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• Delia’s way with kidneys requires a strong nose | The Delia project

  18-11-2016 13:00
  
  It takes a will of iron and an open window to prepare offal – and you can’t skimp on qualityMost people have morning rituals. Mine is to wake up, be depressed by the news, switch over to Radio 3, and discuss evening plans with my partner.“What are you cooking tonight?” Continue reading...
  
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• A recipe for a proper crisp, green salad | A taste of home

  18-11-2016 12:59
  
  A crisp collection of just-picked, mid-sized salad leaves, dressed with a nuanced vinaigrette, is luxurious, invigorating and David Tanis’s taste of homeOne rarely hears: “Oh, how I love a green salad – so cosy and homely.” And yet, to me, it is. Not that I come from a particularly salad-savvy home. The only salads I knew growing up were made from crisp, dependable, uber-American iceberg lettuce and bottled “Italian” or “French” dressing.But I did
  
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• Grape Britain: English wine production – a photo essay

  18-11-2016 08:30
  
  As English wine sales soar, Bolney wine estate on the edge of the South Downs lets Graeme Robertson in to see how it’s made Continue reading...
  
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• From flats to stilettos: Exhibit explores what shoes reveal

  18-11-2016 06:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SALEM, Mass. - Boots aren't just made for walking. On the contrary, footwear has captivated hearts and minds worldwide for centuries.Whether a pair of crystalline embellished slippers, or thigh-high boots with platform heels, shoes show our personalities, moods and social status.That's the...
  
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• Pounce! Kittens caught mid-leap – in pictures

  18-11-2016 05:40
  
  California-based photographer Seth Casteel made his name taking photographs of dogs underwater, but before that, he was snapping cats on land. In fact, they were his first animal subjects. Casteel’s new book, Pounce – a follow-up to his bestselling Underwater Dogs and Underwater Puppies – features more than 80 photographs of playful cats doing what they do best.• Pounce by Seth Casteel is out now, through Hachette in Australia and Sphere in the UK Continue reading...
  
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• Monet Painting Sells for a Record $81.4 Million at Christie’s Auction

  18-11-2016 03:00
  
  Haystacks (a series of 25 canvases painted between 1890 and 1891) by Claude MonetThe 1891 canvas, Muele, was from Monet’s famous Haystacks series…Rebekah Bell
  
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• A First Look at Four Seasons’ Stunning New Anguilla Retreat

  18-11-2016 02:00
  
  The Four Seasons Resort and Residences Anguilla
  Four Seasons brings its signature luxury style to the Caribbean isle of Anguilla…Jennifer Ashton Ryan
  
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• Kakuro 1526 hard

  18-11-2016 01:01
  
  Fill the grid so that each run of squares adds up to the total in the box above or to the left. Use only numbers 1-9, and never use a number more than once per run (a number may reoccur in the same row, in a separate run).
  Buy the Guardian next Friday or subscribe to our Digital Edition to see the completed puzzle.Continue reading...
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,045

  18-11-2016 01:00
  
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• Germany buys California house built by writer Thomas Mann

  18-11-2016 00:15
  
  BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany has purchased the California home that once belonged to Nobel Prize-wining author Thomas Mann for $13.25 million and plans to preserve the historic property, the real...
  
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• What to Eat with These Delicious Sweet Wines

  18-11-2016 00:00
  
  15 sweet and savory classic and surprising wine-and-food pairings…Michael Cervin
  
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