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• Jeans that give directions? Products get, um, 'smart' at CES

  06-01-2017 21:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LAS VEGAS - Here's a morning routine for you.After the alarm on your smartphone goes off, it's time to roll out of your "smart" bed and give your hair a good run through with your app-connected brush. Don't forget to use your smart toothbrush in front of your smart mirror.After that, your...
  
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• Think Flinqué Enamel Is a Decorative Art of the Past? Think Again

  06-01-2017 21:00
  
  Chronoswiss Artist watchIn watches and pens, artisans are reviving the engraving-and-enamel technique Fabergé made famous…Jonathon Keats
  
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• Philadelphia launches pre-K program funded by soda tax

  06-01-2017 20:54 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA - Thousands of Philadelphia toddlers have started 2017 in a citywide pre-kindergarten program as a new sugary beverage tax created to fund it hit store shelves.The city launched the pre-K program this week with more than 2,000 children enrolled at 90 locations. The 3- and
  
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• Celebrate Chinese New Year by pulling out the stir fryer

  06-01-2017 20:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  At the same time many of us are packing away our noisemakers and Champagne glasses, people all over the world are just beginning to prepare for the new year.Chinese New Year is a celebration of the lunar new year — the first day on a calendar based on the phases of the moon. The lunar new year
  
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• Dying UK man to challenge British law on assisted suicide

  06-01-2017 20:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - A British man with a terminal disease is attempting to overturn the country's laws on assisted suicide.The charity Dignity in Dying said in a statement Friday that 67-year-old Noel Conway has motor neurone disease, a degenerative muscle-wasting disease. He is not expected to survive
  
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• A look at the devastating toll of PTSD

  06-01-2017 18:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  A murder-suicide involving a former soldier and his family has renewed calls to bolster support for those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.The body of 33-year-old Afghanistan veteran Lionel Desmond was found Tuesday in Upper Big Tracadie, N.S.Police say autopsies determined that...
  
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• The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for plaice with potatoes, and chargrilled hispi cabbage

  06-01-2017 18:00
  
  There’s a lot to be said for giving humble ingredients the respect they deserveMemorable food often comes from humble beginnings. When I was at cookery school in Cork, I remember a party at Gubbeen Farm where a deceptively simple soup of potatoes, thyme and chorizo oil left me mesmerised; this was all of 15 years ago, but I remember it as clearly as yesterday. I have had similar epiphanies, including at Noma in Copenhagen (a charred spring onion puree) and at Hartwood in Tulum, Mexico (woo
  
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• The 10 best velvet furnishings – in pictures

  06-01-2017 17:30
  
  From plush sofas to gorgeous cushions, no wonder we’re crushing on velvet this winter Continue reading...
  
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• Let’s move to Durham, County Durham

  06-01-2017 17:30
  
  As buildings go, Durham Cathedral is as good as it gets What’s going for it? Is it silly to move somewhere just because of one building? I think I could, you know. I’m an archi-geek, so perhaps more predisposed to being intoxicated by a smashing guildhall or a stately home. But still: Durham Cathedral, what a place. As buildings go, this is as good as it gets, equal to the Alhambra, the Pantheon or the Parthenon. Walk in and you’re beamed back to a time of monks and border raid
  
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• Historic Lisbon Apartment Preserves Ornate Details

  06-01-2017 17:00
  
  Atelier Veloso Architects completed a historic apartment redesign in Lisbon, Portugal. Situated on the first level of a five-storey building dating back to 1893, the loft preserves great details such as the stone masonry walls and the 3.5-meter ceilings with plaster stucco and figurative decorations.Converting the apartment in order to adapt it to contemporary living needs meant installing new kitchen appliances in areas with reduced difficulties, adding wooden-framed windows and complete repla
  
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• My husband often goes on holiday and leaves me with our child

  06-01-2017 16:00
  
  We live abroad and have no family support. I think he’s terribly selfish but when I complain, he thinks I’m being unreasonable. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerMy husband and I live abroad without our families with our two-year-old child. Our marriage has not been on solid ground for a while because of his love of alcohol, though things have improved a bit on that front.During our child’s first year, my husband travelled a lot for work and also had mini-breaks such as going s
  
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• Dramatic Luxury Home Overlooking the Pacific

  06-01-2017 16:00
  
  Aiming to connect living spaces with the dramatic ocean vistas surrounding the property, Ezequiel Farca Architects envisioned a luxury home with green walls and floor-to-ceiling-windows. The private residence in the photos below is located in the marina of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Overlooking the Pacific Bay, it was conceived as a holiday oasis with all possible amenities: eight bedrooms, a fitness center, a home theater, two Jacuzzi bathtubs, a terrace with swimming pool, a fire pit, and numer
  
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• Jamie Oliver to close six restaurants in 'tough market' after Brexit vote

  06-01-2017 15:47
  
  Chef shrinks size of Jamie’s Italian chain in UK to focus on international launches and expansion of Barbecoa brandJamie Oliver is to close six of his Italian restaurants after tough trading and the “pressures and unknowns” following the Brexit vote.Oliver intends to close Jamie’s Italian restaurants in Aberdeen, Exeter, Cheltenham, Richmond, Tunbridge Wells and Ludgate Hill, near London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, by the end of the first quarter of the year.Contin
  
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• My swimming odyssey: ‘It felt like a last chance to prove what I was capable of’

  06-01-2017 15:00
  
  It seemed like the ultimate challenge: a 5km swim between Greek islands. But would it help me deal with a trauma to come?I had always thought I could swim. It may have been because I could run. It may have been because I wanted to swim. Or because I only ever did 10 minutes of breaststroke at a time, or splashed off a warm beach. But I really couldn’t swim.It took 12 months of lessons and practice before I was able to swim in open water, beyond the pool or my home beach in Brighton. Then I
  
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• Experience: I was painted by Andy Warhol

  06-01-2017 15:00
  
  He wanted to paint my portrait every year for 10 years. I was so young, I didn’t realise what an awesome opportunity this was It is autumn 1978 in New York. The little round stool is hard, the studio cold, and I’m doing my best, aged 10, to sit still. There is a woman nearby, but I can see only silhouettes of her, intermittently, between bright flashing lights. I hear phones ringing, people chatting, but it’s mostly a peripheral, dizzying blur. My focus is on the photographer,
  
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• Breddos, London EC1: ‘It isn’t Mexican or Tex-Mex food. It’s a chaotic fusion’ – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin

  06-01-2017 15:00
  
  The Yucatan-style sea bass is to subtlety what Trump is to interior decoration I mourned AA Gill by chain-reading his work, bingeing on interviews, restaurant reviews, travelogues: all fearless, curious, unbothered by the bourgeois notion of giving offence, a clear-headed vision with unique literary elan. In one interview, these lines struck me: “Everything is so overflavoured now,” he said, “dominated by the East and by Latin America and these enormous, big flavours. This styl
  
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• In marriage, as in life generally, you are winging it all the time

  06-01-2017 14:29
  
  Family life is a shot in the dark. If you get it right – and everyone gets it right some of the time – the payoff is better than goldGeorge Orwell wrote: “We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.” He was talking about politics but it also applies to domestic life, where it is terrifyingly easy to lose grasp of the basics – to cease to see the wood for the trees. This being the first column of the year,
  
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• Eddie ‘the Eagle’ Edwards: ‘My parents didn't quite understand what had happened with the Olympics’

  06-01-2017 14:00
  
  The unlikely ski-jumping hero says fatherhood has made him softer, and praises his parents for supporting his sporting effortsMum and Dad always knew I was very determined. Mum would call it stubbornness. If somebody said I couldn’t do something, then I’d try to prove them wrong. I was like that from when I was a little boy, and if somebody dared me to do something, then I’d do it. She thought I would grow out of it, but I got worse. And as soon as I discovered skiing, I&r
  
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• Despite acclaim for 'Loving,' 'Lion,' interracial couples on film remain a rarity

  06-01-2017 13:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - It's been 50 years since the debut of "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" yet film portrayals of interracial couples remain a rarity in Hollywood.
  The 1967 movie was a watershed in its positive depiction of the relationship between an accomplished black doctor (Sidney Poitier) and his...
  
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• Embrace the 80s with this almond waffle recipe | A taste of home

  06-01-2017 13:00
  
  Waffles embodied the essence of 1980s sitcom family life; a celluloid dream that became Bee Wilson’s taste of homeIf you love someone, you make them pancakes. If you really love them, you make them waffles.This was one of the many things I learned from watching too much American TV while growing up. Most of my ideas about how families should behave came from sitcoms and romcoms, these wonderful places filled with cheesecake and hugs and beautiful people in cosy knitwear. Alone, after schoo
  
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• Delia’s secret to tasty seasonal winter veg | The Delia project

  06-01-2017 13:00
  
  Eating seasonal veg can become a chore in the depths of winter – Delia’s trick is to add bacon“Once upon a time,” Delia writes, “nature provided us with a perfectly varied diet, leaving us blissfully free of a large amount of decision-making.” Other highlights of that time included cholera and dying during childbirth, but, says Delia, this came hand-in-hand with a bonus: “We could enjoy anticipating what each month in each year would bring and really loo
  
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• Am I stupid to continue an affair with a married man?

  06-01-2017 13:00
  
  He says he loves me but he also loves his wife. I feel usedLast year, I was contacted by an ex-boyfriend who I knew 37 years ago. We chatted, arranged to meet and embarked on an affair. We meet up at least once a month and spend the night together having fun and sex. But I always feel used. I love him and he says he always loved me, but he also loves his wife. At the start of the affair he told me he was having problems in his marriage and that his wife had had an operation and couldn&
  
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• I'm leaving our two-man consultancy firm – how can I tell my boss?

  06-01-2017 08:00
  
  He seems to have lost all interest in work, pays me below market rate and has essentially cut me adrift on my final projectTwice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights.I work for a two-man consulting company – my boss is a friend from university and owns all of the business. Over t
  
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• Driving the Mercedes-AMG E63 S in Faro, Portugal

  06-01-2017 02:00
  
  The Mercedes-AMG E63 is the most powerful E-Class sedan ever made
  Robb Report finds out if the most powerful E-Class sedan ever made lives up to the hype…Laura Burstein
  
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• Sudoku 3638 hard

  06-01-2017 01:01
  
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls cost £1.03 per minute from a BT landline. 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 standard rate). Continue reading...
  
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• Kakuro 1533 medium

  06-01-2017 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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• Quick crossword No 14,560

  06-01-2017 01:00
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,087

  06-01-2017 01:00
  
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• Get What You Really Want—6 Best Online Jewelry Websites

  06-01-2017 00:00
  
  If you asked but did not receive, these websites have you covered…Gabrielle Levy
  
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