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• Corum’s Redesign of the Golden Bridge Watch References a San Francisco Landmark

  01-01-2017 21:00
  
  The Golden Bridge Ronde was designed with extra inserts surrounding themovement
  Designer Dino Modolo adds a personal touch to the reinvention of a monumental timepiece…
  Jonathon Keats
  
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• Four Seasons’ Heavenly New Hawaiian Resort

  01-01-2017 20:00
  
  Four Seasons Resort Oahu at Ko Olina
  Culinary adventures for every gastronome…Susan B. Barnes
  
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• Tomato Soup Can Light

  01-01-2017 19:45 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  With this Tomato Soup Can Light I would be way to nervous that some soup will drip out and ruin all of my fancy, laced table cloths. Haha, of course this light won’t have any soup inside. It’s more like a homage to the Campbell’s Soup cans. So iconic that very kid knows about them.
  Tomato Soup Can Light – Hold the spoon
  Instead of the light I would buy myself a decent pressure cooker and make my own soup but I do understand that this is definitely a collectors item until
  
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• New Year's Day swimmers brave the cold – in pictures

  01-01-2017 18:18
  
  Across Europe, in swimsuits or fancy dress, hardy swimmers start their new year with a bracing dip Continue reading...
  
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• 11 Tips for Better Sleep When Traveling

  01-01-2017 18:00
  
  The bedroom of an Etihad Airways Residenc
  These easy tweaks will help you enjoy your travels more…Janice O'Leary
  
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• Your underwhelming New Year's Eve photos

  01-01-2017 16:00
  
  Our readers saw in 2017 in style, with blurry pictures of fireworks and cats pretending to drink proseccoAs 2016 withered away, our readers saw in the new year in a most underwhelming manner. Below are some of the themes that emerged from the truly average photos you sent in. Continue reading...
  
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• Concussions on the brain: Pushing for more research on women

  01-01-2017 15:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. - Katherine Snedaker says she has had 20 concussions, the first three decades ago from a car accident when she was 16. But it wasn't until her son suffered a series of concussions in the sixth grade, around 2008, that she felt compelled to learn all she could about head injuries...
  
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• Domestic & General left me without a fridge over Christmas

  01-01-2017 08:00
  
  I’ve been on hold for hours trying to get through to the company, and now it says delivery will take several more weeksI have four household appliances insured on a Domestic & General policy, one of which, my faulty fridge, was written off several months ago. But getting a replacement has been a saga.In the past few months I have phoned D&G at least a dozen times, but was on hold for hours at a time, at great expense. Ultimately, nobody answered. In desperation I used the online co
  
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• You need to read this now: the ultimate hangover survival guide

  01-01-2017 07:00
  
  Fireworks, friends, all-night New Year’s party? This article may save your life, or at least your headache anyway…However you are reading this, there’s a fair chance you’re not firing on all cylinders. What kind of hangover do you have? Like Lucky Jim, has your mouth been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum? Or maybe, like Ned Beauman’s Egon Loeser, you’ve woken with the conviction that somewhere in northern Rhodes
  
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• The Holy Birds, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  01-01-2017 07:00
  
  A hip new chicken joint opens in Shoreditch. How wrong could it go? Let Jay count the ways…The Holy Birds, 94 Middlesex street, London E1 7EZ (020 3610 0185). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £100Over the past year London has been overrun by an outbreak – a flock, if you will – of chicken-based restaurants. We’ve had Fancy Funkin Chicken in Brixton and Clockjack in Woolwich, Randy’s Wing Bar in Stratford and Absurd Bird in Shoreditch and many more
  
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• The day Michael Jackson complimented me on my cat song

  01-01-2017 07:00
  
  It’s the mid-1980s, LA Coliseum, the Stray Cats’ drummer Slim Jim Phantom is at a Bruce Springsteen concert when someone extraordinary walks in…Part of the fun at any show is the hang-out. Usually, the bigger the show, the better the hang. This is one of the times it happened that way.Britt [Ekland, then Phantom’s wife] and I went to see Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band at the LA Coliseum. This would have been the Born in the USA tour and there was a lot excitemen
  
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• New year, new drinking thinking

  01-01-2017 07:00
  
  Three unexpected wines to usher in a year of experimentation and innovation. Whatever you do, steer clear of that dry January nonsenseSODAP Maratheftiko, Pafos, Cyprus 2015 (£9, Marks & Spencer). There are few New Year’s resolutions that survive the time it takes to make them. If, say, I’d vowed to have a dry January this year, I’m sure I’d have blown it by lunchtime. One commitment I could conceivably keep, however, would be to drink more adventurously in 2017.
  
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• My boyfriend cheated on me using Skype sex. Does it matter?

  01-01-2017 07:00
  
  A woman in her 20s has discovered that her beloved partner has been having online sex with porn stars. Mariella Frostrup says she is right to worryThe dilemma My boyfriend and I have been together for three years, we rarely fight and have planned our future lives together. Recently I found out he has been having Skype sex with other women (I think only porn stars). Am I right to be upset about this? I confronted him and he said he considers it as porn, but I don’t, as it is an interaction
  
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• How we transition into the new year

  01-01-2017 07:00
  
  Our brains are always on the lookout for joining up the dotsYou may have woken up today feeling a little more wobbly than usual, not just from last night’s festivities, but about what 2017 holds. We can’t help our memories of last year colouring our expectations of the next. We’re wired that way.We know this from the Colour Phi experiment in 1976, where respondents were shown a blue dot at the top left hand corner of a screen followed soon after by a red dot at the bottom right
  
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• How funny do you think you are? Personality quiz

  01-01-2017 07:00
  
  Make up the punchlines to five jokes then discover whether you are a complete gagmeister or a total painHow funny do you think you are? To find out, complete the following zingers - ideally with a willing friend or partner - and compare your witticisms. Possible answers are shown at the bottom of the page. (a) The angler told me he hadn’t had a bite in days. So…
  (b) The good-looking anaesthetist was nicknamed “Appendix” because…
  (c) Carrots are definitely good for
  
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• Everything is possible in this newest of all new years | Eva Wiseman

  01-01-2017 07:00
  
  With 12 pristine months stretching ahead, this could be the year that everything slips comfortably into placeThis is it. This is the year you will sort out the drawer next to the hob. This is the year you will find love. This is the year you will limp out into, like Winona at the end of Heathers, lighting a fag on the embers of your ex. With a certain swagger. A dark sort of acceptance. This is the year you will be confident in the knowledge that David Bowie will not die, that Hillary Clinton wi
  
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• Chillis: a walk on the mild side

  01-01-2017 07:00
  
  Prefer your chillis sweet and mild? There are plenty of varieties – and now’s the time to start growing themReaper, Viper, Scorpion and Satan are not words you normally find among the comfy and cosy plant variety names in seed catalogues, but the world of chilli growers is often a little different. Amid all this oozing bravado, those with sensitive palates (and stomachs) might be forgiven for thinking the only thing this crop has going for it is pure fire power.Yet chillies actually
  
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• Be happy, not mindful

  01-01-2017 07:00
  
  As post-Trump anxiety rates go through the roof, it’s time for less introspection and more social engagement“Happiness comes from within,” declare a thousand advice blogs and books, fridge magnets and Facebook memes. Or “withinwards” as my local yoga studio prefers to call it.The idea that happiness comes from looking inwards rather than outwards has taken a deep hold in our collective psyche in recent years. We no longer see wellbeing as a facet of community or eng
  
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• This Sporty Travel Watch Is Patek Philippe’s Most Compelling World-Time Offering

  01-01-2017 02:00
  
  World Time Chronograph Ref. 5930 from Patek Philippe ($73,700)
  The Ref. 5930’s self-winding chronograph movement links with a world-time module that sits on top…James D. Malcolmson
  
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• Leica’s Cool New Camera is a Red-Hot Work of Art

  01-01-2017 00:00
  
  Leica M-P Grip by Rolf Sachs
  The Leica M-P Grip by Rolf Sachs is both form and function at their finest…Jackie Caradonio
  
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