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• Study: Superbug infections found in Chinese hospitals

  27-01-2017 23:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - New research suggests a worrying number of people in China may be infected with bacteria resistant to an antibiotic used as a last resort.Researchers examined more than 17,000 samples from patients with infections of common bacteria found in the gut, in two hospitals in China's...
  
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• Charles Bombardier Explains Why His Hypersonic Jet Concepts May Not Just Be Hype

  27-01-2017 23:25
  
  Charles Bombardier's Paradoxal jet concept.
  The engineer converses about the risk, reward, and potential reality of moving at Mach 24…Viju Mathew
  
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• Meals on wheels

  27-01-2017 23:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  After the stove in our kitchen called it quits a few months ago, my wife and I were forced to go appliance shopping.During our travels, we encountered a salesperson whose first query wasn’t whether we were interested in gas or electric, porcelain or stainless steel, or even black versus
  
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• Carla Zampatti's wisdom: 'Trust is most important in life'

  27-01-2017 22:00
  
  Being trustworthy is crucial to the fashion designer and business leader Carla Zampatti, but so is the flipside – being trusting. Zampatti, an Italian immigrant who has worked a lot on multiculturalism in Australia, says: ‘I really think we should be less suspicious of people we don’t know.’ And, as she tells some of her story, she reflects: ‘I love being at this stage of my life – it’s kind of magical’• Watch more from the Guardian’s Wi
  
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• New face of Gerber is 7-month-old baby from Ohio

  27-01-2017 21:28 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  FLORHAM PARK, N.J. - A 7-month-old boy from Ohio is the new face of Gerber baby products.Though he probably won't be saying much anytime soon, the spokesbaby named Riley has an "infectious laugh and big, gummy smile," according to his mom, Kristen Shines.Gerber announced Thursday that Riley,...
  
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• Hot New Jewelry from Greek Designers

  27-01-2017 21:00
  
  Clockwise from middle left: Ileana Makri; Nikos Koulis; Venyx; Lalaounis
  Contemporary Greek jewelry shines with bright gemstones and geometric shapes…Carolyn Meers
  
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• Exclusive Black Truffle Dinner Series Kicks Off at Beverly Hills Culinary Mecca

  27-01-2017 20:55
  
  Chef Aitor Lorenzo Zabala and his team are serving up a series of truffle-tasting dinners at the SLS Beverly Hills
  Chef Aitor Zabala shines with his 18-course truffle menu at Saam at the Bazaar by José Andrés…Janice O’Leary
  
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• Russian lawmakers decriminalize some domestic violence

  27-01-2017 19:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MOSCOW - Soon it will no longer be a crime in Russia to beat family members — as long as you don't cause bodily harm.The lower house of the Russian parliament on Friday gave final approval to a bill decriminalizing some forms of domestic violence — a move that has sparked intense public...
  
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• Sundance doc profiles Canadian transgender YouTube star Gigi Gorgeous

  27-01-2017 19:07 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PARK CITY, Utah - Canadian transgender YouTube star Gigi Lazzarato has been extremely candid in sharing the story of her male-to-female transition with her millions of subscribers.So it's not surprising that the new documentary "Gigi Gorgeous: This is Everything," which premiered at the...
  
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• Miss Universe beauty pageant kicks off in Manila

  27-01-2017 19:06
  
  MANILA (Reuters) - More than 86 women from all over the world gathered in Manila on Thursday to compete in the Miss Universe beauty contest that will culminate in a coronation in the Philippines...
  
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• The weekend cook: how to make ramen at home – recipe

  27-01-2017 18:00
  
  Ramen is the ultimate Japanese comfort food, and it’s nowhere near as hard to make as you might thinkRamen is the ultimate comfort food, but for something that seems so simple – it’s just broth, noodles and a few toppings, after all – it is quite involved. You could, of course, use ready-made noodles (many specialist Japanese and Asian food shops sell a wide range of both fresh and dried ramen noodles; failing that, use some thin Cantonese-style egg noodles, which you can
  
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• Six of the Finest Yachts Featured at the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show

  27-01-2017 18:00
  
  The stars included a 403-foot Fincantieri concept and a 230-foot custom build that reaches 30 knots…Michael Verdon
  
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• The 10 best pendant lights – in pictures

  27-01-2017 17:30
  
  Modern or metal, glass or wood – a pendant light will brighten any hang-out Continue reading...
  
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• Let’s move to Newport, Isle of Wight: ‘Its quaint alleys hide jewels’

  27-01-2017 17:30
  
  There’s plenty to discover, with a vibrant arts centre, an exciting new restaurant and eccentric attractionsWhat’s going for it? There are ups and downs to living on a small island. The ups? You have to really want to live on one, so spots like the Isle of Wight attract the intrepid and the eccentric. Like Queen Victoria, who came here to escape the hordes so she could play “normal life” at Osborne, her suburban house on steroids. The apparently ordinary on Wight is rarel
  
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• Out of flavour: why tomatoes have lost their taste

  27-01-2017 16:48
  
  After exhaustive studies, an international team of scientists has worked out why tomatoes don’t taste like they used toAn international team of scientists claims finally to have cracked one of the most common consumer conundrums: why don’t tomatoes taste like they used to?
  After conducting exhaustive taste tests of 100 tomato varieties and sequencing the genomes of nearly 400 varieties, researchers have found the 13 volatile compounds that give a tomato its inherent flavour. Continue
  
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• To channel the flavour of New Orleans, make a shrimp etouffee

  27-01-2017 16:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Even if you're not familiar with the name Paul Prudhomme, it's likely you've enjoyed the benefits of his long and celebrated career. Prudhomme was a Louisiana-born chef who gained celebrity for his culinary expertise and larger-than-life personality.Prudhomme thrust Cajun and Creole cuisine...
  
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• Should I break off my long-distance relationship?

  27-01-2017 15:59
  
  My boyfriend lives 1,500 miles away and won’t move to be near me. I won’t move to be near him. Can we go on like this? Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerMy boyfriend and I have been together for more than five years and met while I was working abroad. Ever since then we have been in a long-distance relationship and live 1,500 miles apart. I am self-employed and am often sent to work in the country where he lives. He comes over regularly so we see each other every five to 10 days
  
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• Calm down! Anxiety is contagious

  27-01-2017 15:59
  
  A trouble shared is a trouble multiplied. Take a calm approach to other people’s stress and you’ll help them, and yourselfLike ebola, and people clearing their throats at the theatre, emotions are contagious. One example: if you’re unhappy, and then for some reason you become happy – a new relationship, say – according to one 2014 study, a close friend living within a mile of you has a 25% greater chance of becoming happy themselves. (On the flipside, researchers ha
  
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• Women on the verge of a midlife crisis

  27-01-2017 15:00
  
  For years, middle-age meltdown has been viewed as an exclusively male phenomenon, involving sports cars, affairs and ill-advised fashion choices – but the reality is not that binaryIt was supposed to be, says the writer Louise Doughty, a feminist indictment of the criminal justice system and of how women are still judged on their sexual conduct in a way that men aren’t. Instead – of course – it has become about the sex. Hot middle-aged sex. A middle-aged woman having hot
  
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• Mei Dim, Manchester: ‘What Chinatowns used to be like’ – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin

  27-01-2017 15:00
  
  The regular menu takes me back to when we thought sweet-and-sour so luminous it could be seen from Mars was simply what Chinese food was like The clamour in this basement canteen is deafening. There’s the jabber of large tables, many of them 10 or more: extended families, animated students, gals on the town, all Chinese. And the seating style is, well, idiosyncratic: empty the place out completely before letting in the next wave. Mei Dim is an exercise in hungry frustration for those of us
  
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• Experience: I talk with my eyes

  27-01-2017 15:00
  
  My cerebral palsy meant I was stuck in a perpetual reception class at school – but a spelling board helped me find my voiceAt last I am able to tell my story in my own words. When I was born in 2006 my parents were told I had cerebral palsy and renal failure; the MRI scan of my brain was one of the worst the technician had seen. My early years were a blur of hospital stays, sickness and prayer combined with my family’s love, which carried me through those long days of pain and uncert
  
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• I'm as passionate about my pessimism as the next person, but not in front of the kids

  27-01-2017 14:30
  
  Trump, climate change, antibiotic failure – there’s a glut of bad news. But the new generation need, more than anything, hopeWhat are we to tell our children about the world they are inheriting? Obviously that we’re all doomed, that Donald Trump and Isis will finish us off if climate change and the failure of antibiotics doesn’t first.It’s hardly the first time parents have had to break the news to children that things are in a parlous state. When I was growing up,
  
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• What I wore this week: a naval jacket | Jess Cartner-Morley

  27-01-2017 14:00
  
  The abbreviated shape looks more modern with trousers than a hip-length blazer, and adds briskness worn over dressesFashion craves newness, which is a problem when winter shows no sign of shoving off. I’m happy in polo necks and never fall out of love with ankle boots, but I’m swiftly running out of patience with coats. This problem is partly caused by the madness that is August in the modern fashion industry, when the shops are full of coats months before we need them. If we could p
  
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• Viv Richards: ‘I’ve always taught my kids to never look down on anyone’

  27-01-2017 14:00
  
  The former West Indies batsman on the influence of church, his cricketing father, home discipline and bringing up his childrenI had a wonderful childhood in Antigua growing up in a family with three other brothers and no sisters, so you can imagine the little fights and scraps we had. My parents were very religious and they made sure we went to church every Sunday. We’d go to 8am mass, then Sunday school in the afternoon, then we’d go again at 7pm mass and we sang with the choir, whi
  
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• 'Nobody runs for the hills': is Britain ready for everyday nudity?

  27-01-2017 14:00
  
  There’s naked yoga, naked dating, naked dining. But is it OK to take your clothes off in public? There’s only one way to find out...It’s like a dream. I’m at the pub with a pint of stout and a packet of nuts, wearing no clothes. Families tuck into their Sunday roasts, darts players carry on unperturbed. No one gives me so much as a second glance. I could get used to this.How things have changed. In 1974, when Sally Cooper stripped naked and attempted to run across Richmon
  
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• I'm a gay man who spends hours looking at hook-up ads on my phone

  27-01-2017 14:00
  
  It is wonderful and awful in equal measure. How should I handle this time-wasting distraction?I am an out gay man living in an urban area. I spend hours and hours online looking at hook-up ads on my phone. In addition, I hook up a lot. It is wonderful and awful in equal measure. I’m sure this is a challenge for a lot of other people, too. Society has rarely had so many people with so many sexual opportunities in a short span of time. Any thoughts on how I should handle this time-wasting di
  
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• Delia’s kipper salad recipe is the Neanderthal in the room | The Delia project

  27-01-2017 13:00
  
  This culinary beast belongs to a bygone era, but it was a step towards greater thingsDelia is a true British hero, in a way you don’t truly appreciate until you read How To Cook. Its pages are littered with references to culinary mistakes that are now, happily, dead and buried. She is one of that elite cadre to whom we should give thanks that dried pasta has become a staple item in British supermarkets. It’s down to people such as Delia that olive oil was freed from British pharmacis
  
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• A family-filling chicken cobbler recipe from New Zealand | A taste of home

  27-01-2017 13:00
  
  His sisters’ ballet lessons derailed childhood family Sunday roasts for chef Miles Kirby, but mum’s chicken cobbler has stayed with him ever sinceI grew up in a large suburban house at the end of a long drive, in Wellington, New Zealand. My grandpa lived three minutes down the road and on Sundays he’d come up for lunch. My father and he would have a beer and if I was good, I’d get a tiny diluted glass too. I felt like I was one of the guys.I was the youngest of three, and
  
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• From double-zip boots to butterfly motifs: this week’s fashion trends

  27-01-2017 12:59
  
  What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this weekThe Zigi No, not Zayn Malik and Gigi Hadid: the double-zip boot in Malik’s Giuseppe Zanotti collection. Same hashtag for Instagram, though. Continue reading...
  
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• How Wing Yip became Britain’s biggest Chinese supermarket

  27-01-2017 12:32
  
  As Chinese New Year approaches, the famous chain has every reason to celebrate the year of the roosterStanding at the front of his family’s Chinese supermarket in Nechells, Birmingham, Brian Yip is moved to philosophy by a display of jasmine rice. “For a non-religious race, we’re actually very superstitious,” he muses, stroking the top bag (“New Crop 2017!”) fondly. “At this time of year, rice is a big thing; if the rice pots are full, the new year will
  
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• Alexandra Shulman is new Vogue editor – fashion archive, 27 Jan 1992

  27-01-2017 12:29
  
  27 January 1992: Shulman brings a more modest style to the fashion magazine and she is relaxed about her job and clothesIs it Suzy, or Sarah, or Sally, or even Sarah Jane? - Vogue has unveiled its new editor. An entire topic of conversation is cruelly killed, only to be replaced by the equally tantalising question: just who is this woman?For Alexandra Shulman, 34, is not what’s known as a ‘fashion person’; she’s a journalist. She replaced Paul Keers as editor of the men&r
  
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• Blood and gore: Brussels asks how far street art can go

  27-01-2017 11:57 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BRUSSELS - A struggling child with a blade to his neck awaiting slaughter. A gutted body hanging upside down as blood seeps out. In Brussels these days, it's called street art — and names far less flattering."Hellish and awful," Nicole Brisard grumbled as she walked her dog, Max, past the...
  
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• Picture of the day: a doorway to another world

  27-01-2017 11:06
  
  The 2015 Marathon des Sables ladies champion Elisabet Barnes training in Lanzarote on a multi-day training camp. In February, Barnes will head to Costa Rica to take part in the 2017 Coastal Challenge, a multi-stage race that weaves in and out of the Talamancas along Costa Rica’s stunning coastline Continue reading...
  
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• Australian wine exports to China soar as premium labels sparkle

  27-01-2017 10:34
  
  SYDNEY (Reuters) - The value of Australian wine exports to China surged 40 percent in 2016, industry figures showed on Friday, unexpectedly driven by sales of premium labels rather than the cheaper...
  
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• Chinese new year: millions head home for festivities – in pictures

  27-01-2017 10:21
  
  Tens of millions of Chinese will travel home during the spring festival period in what is often called the largest human migration. Lunar new year falls on 28 January this year Continue reading...
  
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• A house at Pooh Corner – in pictures

  27-01-2017 08:00
  
  AA Milne created his bear of little brain at this East Sussex farm – but you might be tempted to Paint it Black when you discover its other celebrity owner Continue reading...
  
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• Chinese Lunar New Year feast begins with drums and dumplings

  27-01-2017 07:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LIUMINYING VILLAGE, China - Four men in traditional yellow costumes bang large drums to announce the start of the New Year's banquet in Liuminying village. Inside the village's meeting hall, 100 tables are set with a dozen plates, bearing sausages, nuts and fruit.Sitting in a storage shed...
  
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• Israelis seek to comfort Holocaust's loneliest survivors

  27-01-2017 07:13 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  RAMAT HASHARON, Israel - Surrounded by more than 100 fellow Holocaust survivors and young volunteers, a blind Ernest Weiner sat in his wheelchair with a puffy crown on his head as the crowd sang happy birthday and showered him with hugs and greetings.The widowed and childless 92-year-old Weiner
  
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• From amari mania to a vodka revival: what we’ll be drinking in 2017

  27-01-2017 07:00
  
  If you want to keep up with the in-things in drinks this year, here are four trends that could take off in a big wayIf the first few weeks of 2017 have taught us anything, it’s that the year ahead will probably be as chaotic and unpredictable as 2016 – and quite possibly more so. With the inauguration of one of the most controversial presidents the United States has ever elected, or even simply the looming threat of climate change … well, nobody’s going to blame you for
  
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• Luxurious New Skincare for Men

  27-01-2017 03:25
  
  You’ll never believe what one of these skincare products is made of…Bekah Berge
  
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• Azimut Yachts Showcases Seven Stellar Models at Düsseldorf

  27-01-2017 02:37
  
  From the Azimut 77S to the Azimut 50, these are some of the top yachts on display… Rebekah Bell
  
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• Ronin Motor Works Releases the Last of Its One-of-a-Kind “Art Bike” Motorcycles

  27-01-2017 02:00
  
  Ronin #5 serves as a canvas for the acid-etching patterns of Jason Thielke
  Based on a Buell 1125R, Ronin #5 features acid etchings by Denver-based artist Jason Thielke…Larry Bean
  
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• Gore, others revive cancelled US climate and health confab

  27-01-2017 01:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - A conference on climate change and health is back on but apparently minus the U.S. government.Several organizers including former Vice-President Al Gore have resurrected the meeting set for next month in Atlanta.The government's top public health agency had planned the conference...
  
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• Kakuro 1536 hard

  27-01-2017 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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• Cryptic crossword No 27,105

  27-01-2017 01:00
  
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• Dog sled teams charge through Czech mountains in annual race

  27-01-2017 00:57
  
  DESTNE, Czech Republic (Reuters) - With a police patrol and handlers fueled by hot rum tea, around 80 dog sled teams from across Europe are racing through the Czech Republic's Orlicke mountains in...
  
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• These Four Brands Are Redefining Buttoned-Up British Style

  27-01-2017 00:00
  
  From relaxed suits to lightweight wing tips, these are the keys to mastering 2017’s laid-back style…Jill Newman
  
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