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• Opening Ceremony swap runway for an evening at the ballet

  29-01-2017 20:57 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - The fashion label Opening Ceremony never disappoints when it comes to finding inventive ways to present its wares at New York Fashion Week. It has shown its clothes next to a wall oozing chocolate. It has sent models deliberately pratfalling down the runway. It has presented full...
  
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• Culinary schools struggle with enrolment decline

  29-01-2017 18:17 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. - With enrolment in culinary institutes in decline and programs across the country closing their doors, schools such as the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, Vermont, which graduated celebrity chef Alton Brown, and the Culinary Institute of Charleston, South Carolina,...
  
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• My wife prefers her vibrator to sex with me

  29-01-2017 18:00
  
  She says she’s too tired to make love, then masturbates in secret. How can I break this cycle?My wife and I are in our early 50s – both divorcees who married three years ago. Our sex life has been drifting away for the last couple of years. Regularly, my wife indicates that she is too tired or stressed for sex – but I know that she uses her vibrator when I’m not around, despite telling me she doesn’t. When she has an orgasm, I know that she will then be even less in
  
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• Cockfighters reap Year of Rooster bonus in Thailand

  29-01-2017 17:12
  
  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Prized birds faced off in front of thousands of spectators at a stadium near Thailand's capital on Sunday as celebrations for the Year of the Rooster brought a windfall for some.
  
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• Ridiculous Expensive Underwater Suit

  29-01-2017 13:30 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  I love diving, the feeling when you descent, the zero gravity feeling and all the fish and corals you can see. At first sight of this suit I was like: lame. But reading the description it does sound cool. It’s self propelled and you can go down to 1,000 feet. But the ridiculous expensive underwater suit has one huge drawback! It costs juicy $825,000. What the who? And the 50 hours life span you can have under water is not going to make up for the price. Well, if you can afford. Go ahead.
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• Nigel Slater’s roast lamb with coriander seed and rosemary recipe

  29-01-2017 13:00
  
  Sundays demand a proper roast, and today it’s shoulder of lamb with a creamy spinach sauceI like that moment when meat and its roasting juices meet a creamy accompaniment on the plate. When mac ’n’ cheese melts into the gravy of the Sunday beef, for instance, or when roast chicken nudges a pool of nutmeg-scented bread sauce. Or, as happened this week, when I made a dish of creamed spinach to nestle with slices of roast shoulder of lamb.Actually, the accompaniment was more than
  
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• Dry January: the science behind a detox month - video

  29-01-2017 13:00
  
  For many people the start of the year is a chance to recover from Christmas excess. But what are the benefits of an alcohol-free month? Continue reading...
  
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• Turkish Airlines Business Flight: Istanbul / Ho Chi Minh City

  29-01-2017 12:41 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Hello from Ho Chi Minh City, we just arrived here on Wednesday for our travel blog For 91 Days. We’re going to be here for 91 days, exploring the city and other spots nearby.In this article I want to show off the Turkish Airlines business lounge in Istanbul and some video I took of the flight. Both was more than amazing. We booked economy but got upgraded to business since the flight was overbooked, which was fine for us. We booked Valencia / Istanbul / Hanoi (where we were asked to stay o
  
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• City breaks with kids: Barcelona

  29-01-2017 12:00
  
  It’s a favourite destination for adults, but Barcelona has loads to offer kids, whether they’re into football, science, the seaside or amusement parks More in this series: Berlin | Amsterdam | Paris | RomeThe Gothic Quarter’s warren of medieval alleyways is great fun to explore, and one of its hidden treasures is the original Papabubble store on Calle Ample where jewel-like sweets are made by hand. Continue reading...
  
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• Eyewitness: Sana'a, Yemen

  29-01-2017 11:58
  
  Photographs from the Eyewitness series Continue reading...
  
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• How to stay fit: 25 tips and tricks from Joe Wicks, Louise Hazel and more

  29-01-2017 10:00
  
  From taking the stairs to watching TV at the gym, experts share what really works for themLocker room talk: what I’ve learned in the gym1 Focus on your sleep. People underestimate the impact of lack of sleep; not only will the intensity of your workouts suffer, but you are likely to crave sugary foods the next day. My top tips for deep sleep are to switch off your laptop and mobile at least 30 minutes before bed and leave them in another room. Ditch the bedroom TV; listen to music instead.
  
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• How to dance like Beyoncé: a step by step guide

  29-01-2017 10:00
  
  Can a mere mortal move like Queen B? Hell yes, says Cassius Powell, who shows you how, while Abigail Radnor tries it herself Continue reading...
  
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• Elizabeth Blackburn on the telomere effect: ‘It’s about keeping healthier for longer’

  29-01-2017 09:00
  
  The Nobel winner says keeping telomeres – the ends of our chromosomes – in prime condition can stave off diseases associated with ageingYou won your Nobel prize for medicine for your discoveries concerning telomeres, found at the ends of chromosomes. What are telomeres and what happens to them as we age?
  If you think of your chromosomes – which carry your genetic material – as shoelaces, telomeres are the little protective tips at the end. They are made of repeating short
  
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• Uber: the app that changed how the world hails a taxi

  29-01-2017 08:00
  
  How James Bond, an abusive Parisian cabbie and one man’s frustration with going out in San Francisco led to a transport revolution• Brad Stone Q&A: ‘We should watch Uber and Airbnb closely’The whole thing might not have happened without Bond – James Bond. It was mid-2008, the Canadian entrepreneur Garrett Camp had just sold his first company, the website discovery engine StumbleUpon, to eBay for $75m. Now he was living large, enjoying San Francisco’s nightl
  
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• No one can read what’s on the cards for AI’s future | John Naughton

  29-01-2017 08:00
  
  AI is now beating us at poker, but not even Google co-founder Sergey Brin can say with any certainty what the next steps for machine learning areTen days ago, in a Davos still shellshocked by Trump’s victory, one of the former masters of the universe sat down with an interviewer to talk about artificial intelligence (AI) and the future. His name is Sergey Brin and he is one of the co-founders of Google. The tone of the conversation was thoughtful but subdued, possibly because Brin is not a
  
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• Locker room talk: what I've learned in the gym

  29-01-2017 08:00
  
  You go to the gym to be nudged out of your comfort zone, but it can also get you out of your echo chamberHow to stay fit: 25 tips and tricks from Joe Wicks, Louise Hazel and moreThey tell you about the gains – but never about the bants. When it comes to gyms, fitness magazines will drone on about reps and sets – but they never talk about the chat you get there. Yet I’ve seen a man at one moment hacking at weights like Jack Nicholson at a hotel door, then launching into a disqui
  
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• A motorcycling adventure across Iran: 'the standout attraction is the people'

  29-01-2017 08:00
  
  Riding a trail bike 3,000 miles across Iran took Lois Pryce through spectacular scenery, but it was the warm hospitality she encountered along the way that made her fall in love with the countryIn the dining room of a remote hotel in Iran’s Alborz Mountains was a locked glass case displaying a solitary English-language book. “The Valleys of the Assassins, Freya Stark,” said the hotelier as he unlocked the case, removed the book and turned to the page of a hand-drawn map. He poi
  
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• The eco guide to responsible travel

  29-01-2017 07:00
  
  A few intrepid tour operators are determined to reduce the harm we do to the planet with our holidaysI love an untapped resource (as opposed to a very overstressed one). The responsible travel movement is perfect. It takes the huge global travel industry (1.2 billion people holidaying abroad in 2015) and shapes it into a force for good, rather than one that trashes local host communities, siphoning profits to rich countries.It’s untapped partly because we’re encouraged to think like
  
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• I left Iran for freedom in Europe but I’m lonely | Mariella Frostrup

  29-01-2017 07:00
  
  An Iranian man is struggling to make friends in Germany. Mariella Frostrup says he must embrace anything and everything until he finds his feetThe dilemma I am a 30-year-old guy and I am really lonely. I was born in Iran and was raised in a conservative family and society. I went to university there and graduated with a master’s degree in English language studies. I am now at university in Germany, but I am not able to make friends with girls. I have no proper job, no future and not even a
  
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• How to die well | Johannes Klabbers

  29-01-2017 07:00
  
  Lack of faith is no impediment to a decent death – or to helping another through theirs, says Johannes KlabbersIn the secular age you don’t need special authorisation to console a dying person. Just learning what it means to be there for someone is enough. “Death literacy” is officially a thing. People go to death cafés; books about death are in demand… and around 55 million people worldwide do it every year. But how do you actually do dying well? And who ca
  
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• 108 Garage, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  29-01-2017 07:00
  
  It looks like it could give your car an MOT, but 108 Garage is more interested in filling you up with great food
  108 Garage, 108 Goldborne Road, London W10 5PS (020 8969 3769). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £120Some restaurant names need to be unpicked. The 108 in this week’s is, quite obviously, the street number, on a stretch of west London’s Goldborne Road, cluttered with bijou décor shops, and more intriguing Moroccan and Portuguese mini-marts. As to &l
  
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• Guide to... ankle boots

  29-01-2017 01:09
  
  The new statement footwear is a mid-heel ankle boot. Comfortable to wear in frosty weather, choose from metallics, embroidery and buckles. Or if you’re feeling more adventurous, make a splash with the spring shades of yellow, mustard and sand Continue reading...
  
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• Me, marriage and a big regret: David Beckham tells all for Desert Island Discs

  29-01-2017 01:04
  
  Footballer reveals his dates with Victoria at a pub car park on Desert Island Discs specialThe star turn for the special 75th anniversary edition of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs does not disappoint. Speaking to Kirsty Young in the show broadcast on Sunday, David Beckham talks frankly about his most emotional moments in football, the scourge of child abuse in the game and how he and his wife Victoria keep their marriage on track. Related: Michelle Obama or Bob Dylan? Readers suggest castaw
  
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• Miriam Margolyes: ‘No one tells you what old age is like. I don’t care about raising hell’

  29-01-2017 01:03
  
  The outspoken actress wants to break open a conspiracy of silence about ageingMiriam Margolyes often thinks about how she is going to die. “I know that at 75, death can’t be far away. I think it’s made me busier. I try to pack a little bit too much into each day, because there might not be tomorrow.”Margolyes, who played Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films and won a Bafta for her role in The Age of Innocence, is one of Britain’s leading older female actors &n
  
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• UK Princes William and Harry say they will erect statue to late mother Princess Diana

  29-01-2017 00:45
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and his younger brother Harry have commissioned a statue in honor of their mother Princess Diana who died in a Paris car crash 20 years ago to be erected...
  
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• Reasons to wear... a tracksuit – in pictures

  29-01-2017 00:45
  
  Wearing a full tracksuit got the green light from Vetements. The fashion collective brought Champion and Juicy Couture back to the catwalk for its Spring/Summer 2017 collection. Make an impact: choose a bright colour, Look’s red and Next’s pink versions are the wallet-friendly alternatives Continue reading...
  
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• Sky-High Dining in Los Angeles

  29-01-2017 00:00
  
  71Above restaurant in Los Angeles
  The cuisine at L.A.’s new 71Above is as incredible as the view…Anush Benliyan
  
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