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• Cats at the Westminster dog show? Sort of, in a first

  11-02-2017 23:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Dogs from petite papillions to muscular Rottweilers showed off their four-footed agility Saturday at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show, tackling obstacles from hurdles to tunnels. And next door, so did some decidedly rare breeds for the American dog world's marquee...
  
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• The 5 Most Romantic Cocktail Lounges in Las Vegas

  11-02-2017 21:00
  
  Discover the secret and secluded side of Vegas this Valentine’s Day…Richard Carleton Hacker
  
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• Widely ridiculed 6-story Los Angeles artwork may be revamped

  11-02-2017 18:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LOS ANGELES - For 40 years, Joseph Young festooned public buildings, open spaces and private places across his adopted city of Los Angeles with dozens of brilliant, colorful mosaics, larger-than-life murals and towering sculptures.But the work the artist hoped he would be best remembered for...
  
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• The Top Men’s Tailors That You Probably Didn’t Know: New York City

  11-02-2017 18:00
  
  In the West Village, master tailor Jake Mueser marries heritage and modernity at his bespoke shop, J. Mueser
  Tailoring is the strong suit of these young, must-know Manhattan shops…Anush Benliyan
  
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• Triforium, LA's once widely mocked artwork, may get makeover

  11-02-2017 17:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LOS ANGELES - For 40 years, Joseph Young festooned public buildings, open spaces and private places across his adopted city of Los Angeles with colorful mosaics, larger-than-life murals and towering sculptures.But the one work the artist is remembered for is The Triforium, something people have...
  
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• UK offers teens cybersecurity classes to fight attacks

  11-02-2017 15:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - Britain plans to give afterschool cybersecurity training to thousands of teenagers in a bid to protect the country from online attacks.The government says it has earmarked 20 million pounds ($25 million) for a Cyber Schools Program, due to start in September.The Department for...
  
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• 'It's always high drama. It's somebody's life at stake': inside British rape trials

  11-02-2017 12:00
  
  The number of rapes reported in the UK has more than doubled. So why do only 7.5% result in a conviction? Newcastle crown court is an imposing red sandstone building that dominates the quay by the river Tyne, fronted by pillars and a wall of tinted windows. From the glass elevators, there are views across the water to the Baltic art gallery and the Sage concert hall, silhouetted on the bank like a Russian doll on its side.Up on the second floor, in courtroom number five, the jury files in &ndash
  
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• Plant of the week: winter aconite

  11-02-2017 11:59
  
  These tiny tuberous perennials create a wash of egg-yolk yellowWhat is it? Whether the ground is sodden and soft or encrusted with snow and ice, flowers of winter aconite (Eranthis hyemalis) burst out just when the winter garden most needs an injection of colour. From afar, these tiny tuberous perennials create a wash of egg-yolk yellow. They deserve examination up close, too; each buttercup-like flower sits amid green bracts that look like tiny Elizabethan ruffs.Any good varieties? A few, but t
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for Valentine’s Day

  11-02-2017 10:00
  
  Ditch the candles and flowers this 14 February, and cook from the heart insteadI love cooking and eating, and I love my loved one, but I’m no good at all with a heart-shaped menu, candlelit table and flowers. Valentine’s Day is, in fact, the only night of the year when I’m likely to shun my love of cooking and eating, and opt instead for a makeshift supper of popcorn (albeit for two) at the local cinema.There’ll be no candles and flowers round at mine, then, but just in c
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the firing manager

  11-02-2017 10:00
  
  I hired and trained you. I nurtured and developed you. But now I have to tell you your position is being eliminatedYou’ve worked for us since you graduated. You believed all the rhetoric about how highly we value you. But now you’re part of a process that you have no control over, that does not recognise you as an individual. You are a number on a spreadsheet, a cost to be managed. And I have to manage that cost and manage you, to ensure you make a minimum of fuss.I hired and trained
  
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• ‘It's the breaking of a taboo’: the parents who regret having children

  11-02-2017 10:00
  
  It’s tiring, often boring – and can mean a return to more traditional roles. Why some mothers (and fathers) feel they made a mistakeIt was coming up to Christmas 2015 when a query popped up on Victoria Elder’s home computer screen. It was from the question-and-answer site Quora, to which she had only recently subscribed. She didn’t know much about Quora at the time, except that it was a place where users posted questions others would do their best to answer, such as &ldqu
  
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• Beauty: the best heavy-duty hand creams | Sali Hughes

  11-02-2017 09:00
  
  I apply plenty before bed and, if nothing more interesting is happening, pop cotton socks over my hands and incubate overnightI have had dozens of emails in the last two months about dry, cracked, even bleeding hands. I can think of no reason why this winter should be worse than any other, but the in-out-in cycle of bitter cold and central heating always plays havoc with hands to the point where one can feel pretty miserable about their appearance and discomfort.In harsh conditions, a regul
  
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• Modern tribes: the Valentine’s Grinch

  11-02-2017 08:59
  
  I’d rather saw off my right arm than pretend to be all romantic for a day, waste a fortune on massive show-off flowers and pink champagne or some crap balloonWhat God no I don’t want to go out on Valentine’s Day, worst night of the year, have you never been to a restaurant on Valentine’s, all those desperate couples silently hating each other across the table, trying to recapture the old magic, with a single dead rose on every table, all those aphrodisiac menus? Be hilari
  
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• What links St Michael and the Devil, Coventry; Wilde’s tomb, Paris; Pan, Hyde Park? The Weekend quiz

  11-02-2017 08:00
  
  From a riddle to a river, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Where, infamously, did Cookie become Socks?
  2 Harriet Tubman was a “conductor” on what?
  3 What are subject to the Kimberley Process?
  4 What was “the riddle of history solved”, according to Karl Marx?
  5 Theologically, what is the Paraclete?
  6 Which jazz saxophonist was nominated for a best actor Oscar?
  7 Frida Kahlo’s Viva La Vida, Sandías is a painting of what?
  8 Which festival is SXSW?
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• Unhappy Valentines: romantic holiday disasters

  11-02-2017 08:00
  
  Few things conjure up the idea of romance like an exotic trip with a partner, though the reality can be excruciatingly different, as these writers discoveredIn 2004 I went on a two-week group holiday with some friends to Sidari in Greece. They were all couples and I was the only singleton so felt a bit left out. When I met a hot Greek waiter called Spiros (you couldn’t make this stereotype up!) on the third night, I fell for his charms and muscly arms. He was blonde, blue-eyed and very cut
  
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• Should we take our teenage children on a Mediterranean cruise?

  11-02-2017 08:00
  
  I fear we will be going stir crazy after a few days and it will either be madness or geniusEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• ‘A change of jobs is not only desirable but possible’ – our work expert responds

  11-02-2017 07:59
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – advise a social care manager suffering from burnout, and a teacher who wonders whether to leave the professionI’m seeking advice for my husband. He is 48 and a manager of a multidisciplinary community health and social care team. He has a background in social work and has always enjoyed working in a team, resolving problems, project managing and, above all, being able to do some good in his work.  Continue reading...
  
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• Don't mess with Texas law

  11-02-2017 07:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  I have not been able to get a wink of sleep since I heard the terrible news.As most of you have already deduced, I am referring here to the apparent theft of the iconic No. 12 jersey worn by the New England Patriots superstar quarterback, Tom Brady, during his team’s historic comeback...
  
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• Why I’m dreading Valentine’s Day

  11-02-2017 07:45
  
  There are several dates that I’m fearing – Helen’s birthday, Mother’s Day – but none more so than 14 February, which just reminds me of our last poignant Valentine’s Day together watching Brief EncounterGriefbergs ahead! Surveying the usually calm waters of my desk diary, I see difficult days poking through the weeks ahead. Emotional pinnacles whose hidden pathos may rip holes in the side of the good ship Golightly’s recent positivity.Unlike the Titanic&
  
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• Shot through the heart…

  11-02-2017 07:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  There are only three more sleeps until Valentine’s Day and, deep in your heart, you know what that means.It means you need to put down this newspaper, pick up your car keys, drive to the nearest mall and fork over big bucks for heartfelt gifts that will show your loved ones how much they
  
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• Rolling to the rescue

  11-02-2017 07:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  When actress Carrie Fisher suffered cardiac arrest near the end of a flight to Los Angeles just before Christmas, some of the first emergency medical crews to arrive on the scene were on two wheels: medics on bicycles who helped resuscitate the Star Wars star.The Los Angeles Fire
  
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• In Conversation with Lisa Damour

  11-02-2017 07:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  In 2016, American psychologist Lisa Damour published a book called Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood. It became a New York Times bestseller — clearly, parents and teachers were hungry for insight into the brains of teenage girls, arguably the most
  
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• Reba turns to gospel to cope with troubles

  11-02-2017 07:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  When a celebrity goes through a deeply personal situation, it can feel like the whole world wants to know the details. Reba McEntire, the country singer and popular TV actress of the WB’s Reba, experienced this in 2015 when she split from her husband of 26 years. And after the tabloid
  
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• Craft beers just getting too boozy

  11-02-2017 07:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  If your favourite craft beer lovers seem a little tipsier than usual, they probably are. And you can blame the beer itself.While running down the menu of a D.C craft beer bar, the list seemed fairly boozy: Three stouts over 10 per cent alcohol by volume, a few Belgian ales between 9 and 10 per
  
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• How my husband saw blindness as a ‘dark, paradoxical gift’

  11-02-2017 07:29
  
  For Marilyn Hull, life with her husband, John Hull, changed irrevocably when he went blind as their first child was born – an experience captured in the Bafta-nominated documentary Notes on BlindnessTwo wildly disparate films could be said to frame Marilyn Hull’s life with her husband, John. There’s the extraordinary documentary Notes on Blindness, an intimate, highly inventive rendition of John’s experience of losing all vision in his 40s. And then there is the romantic
  
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• A letter to … My nieces and nephews – sorry, I just don't like children

  11-02-2017 07:29
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeYou are my sisters, brothers, my dear friends. I have treated you all the same – I have not been a good auntie or helpmate to your children. As I write that I feel, as usual, defiant but apologetic.The long and short of it is, I can’t abide children. I don’t wish them harm, I don’t feel hostile to them, I can love and be charmed by them from a distance. I’m simply unable to enjoy or function in their presence. Mysteriously, their
  
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• How a mummy made of cardboard brought new life to my daughter

  11-02-2017 07:15
  
  Carl Gorham worried that his six-year-old daughter was bottling up her feelings after her mother died. But when she asked him to ‘make’ Mummy from cardboard boxes, it was to prove a breakthroughI had been worried a few months after my wife died about many things: her family’s wellbeing, my own health and ability to survive it all, even the practical necessities of my work and managing the family finances.Most of all, though, I was worried about my daughter, Romy. She was only s
  
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• Why I love… singer Ray BLK

  11-02-2017 07:00
  
  Her voice is the sound of my youth, my city and my heartLiving in New York means I can’t have my mum’s cooking on tap, but I can tune into public radio to hear the BBC at least once a day. And I’ve found that the easiest way to alleviate my homesickness is music, which is where London singer Ray BLK comes in. Her voice is the sound of my youth, my city and my heart.Rita Ekwere, aka Ray BLK, 23, is having a stellar time of it at the moment: born and raised in south London, last
  
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• Tim Dowling: ‘How are you enjoying the break,’ I ask my wife. She shudders

  11-02-2017 07:00
  
  The weekend away was her idea, even though it’s not quite a weekendMy wife and I are sitting opposite one another on a train heading north. Planned engineering works have added an hour to the journey, but we have a table, and the landscape rolling by is pleasingly misty. My wife is asleep with headphones on and my coat draped over her, mouth slightly ajar.I distinctly remember her once responding to an idle proposal of mine with the words, “Never, ever try to take me on a mini-break&
  
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• The 100-year-old couple – still married, still going strong

  11-02-2017 07:00
  
  Morrie and Betty Markoff, 103 and 100, say that there’s no particular secret to their very long marriage, other than tolerance, respect and luck. But why has Morrie never told Betty that he loves her?‘We don’t know anyone else over 100. We are really oddities: two people married for 78 years, one 103, the other 100. We’ve outlived everybody. And it’s rare, I recognise that. We’re very lucky. The best I can wish you is our luck.”Morrie Markoff is sitting
  
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• Claire Ptak’s quick recipe for ice-cream sundaes

  11-02-2017 07:00
  
  This week, we’re giving everyday vanilla ice-cream a makeover. Behold it transformed into a sundae with blood oranges and caramel, or – combined with another sweet staple, digestive biscuits – into the sandwich of dreamsMy mother was a prolific baker – still is, actually – so we almost always had a baked pie or chocolate cake on the go. But on the rare occasion that the cupboard was bare, my dad would drive down to the local grocery store to buy vanilla Häagen-
  
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• Blind date: ‘There was some kissing’

  11-02-2017 07:00
  
  Emma, 27, social enterprise events coordinator, meets Gervase, 28, civil servantWhat were you hoping for?
  A good time with a nice guy. Oh, and a fancy meal, too.Continue reading...
  
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• Calvin Klein show delivers political message at Fashion Week

  11-02-2017 05:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Crunchy snow and ice greeted designers, models and fans at New York Fashion Week on Friday, a day after a snowstorm pummeled the city. What visitors got was a high-profile debut and a political message at Calvin Klein, some psychedelic designs (and more politics) from Jeremy Scott, a
  
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• I HAZ A BALL IN HO CHI MINH

  11-02-2017 05:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It’s official our Saigon Travel Blog is now online. We’re here now for 2 weeks and we absolutely are loving it. The time just flew by like nothing. Every single day is packed with so many incredible impressions. It’s exhausting but a lot of fun. Every single night we fall half dead into our beds.
  I HAZ A BALL IN HO CHI MINH
  I spotted this little doggy claiming his ball yesterday in District One and thought that he needs to deserve all the fame and decided to make a meme out of
  
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• Forget Valentine’s Day with These Getaways That Are Friendly to Solo Travelers

  11-02-2017 05:43
  
  Celebrate being single with over-the-top travel packages that don’t fine you for it…Viju Mathew
  
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• Raf Simons debuts Calvin Klein collection at New York Fashion Week

  11-02-2017 05:37
  
  (Reuters) - The runway debut of the first collection by Calvin Klein's new chief creative officer, Raf Simons, was the talk of the town on Friday, the second day of New York Fashion Week.
  
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• Vintage Finds: A Patek Philippe Watch & Jewelry Set, a Gold Zenith El Primero, and a Bovet Chronograph

  11-02-2017 05:00
  
  Zenith El Primero 18-Karat Yellow Gold
  We round out the week with a few of our favorite vintage watches currently up for sale…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• Whiskey of the Week: Lock Stock & Barrel 16-Year-Old Rye

  11-02-2017 03:00
  
  Lock Stock & Barrel whiskeyThis intensely flavored rye heralds the spirit’s newfound popularity…Richard Carleton Hacker
  
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• 6 Sinful Chocolates That Will Make Your Sweet Tooth Sing

  11-02-2017 03:00
  
  Whether you’re single, taken, or it’s complicated, these chocolates will make your Valentine’s Day that much sweeter…Bekah Berge
  
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• Mitchells CEO Shares the 5 Timeless Pieces that Need to be in Your Wardrobe

  11-02-2017 02:00
  
  From a classic navy suit to the perfect pair of khakis, these five pieces will never go out of style…Phoebe Neuman
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,591

  11-02-2017 01:00
  
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• 6 Sexy Sparkling Red Wines for Valentine’s Day

  11-02-2017 01:00
  
  Red wine, with bubbles, seems like the most perfect choice for a holiday all about passion…Michalene Busico
  
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• The 8 Rules Every Art Collector Needs to Know

  11-02-2017 00:00
  
  Phillips auction house’s Robert Manley shares the secrets to building a successful art collection…Jackie Caradonio
  
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