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• London fashion: Wickstead favours florals, Conran goes green

  18-02-2017 20:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - The British capital's fashion extravaganza kicked it up a notch Saturday with shows by Jasper Conran and other designers as the weather in London took a decidedly spring-like turn.For the second day of London Fashion Week, the womenswear previews for fall and winter included the latest...
  
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• London fashion: Conran goes green, Goddard loves contrasts

  18-02-2017 20:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - The British capital's fashion extravaganza kicked it up a notch Saturday with shows by Jasper Conran and other designers as the weather in London took a decidedly spring-like turn.For the second day of London Fashion Week, the womenswear previews for fall and winter included the latest...
  
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• Study: Big data helps struggling college students graduate

  18-02-2017 18:12 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Getting through college isn't easy, and it can be even harder for low-income and first generation students with few support resources. A new tool involving big data can help those at risk.Researchers at Georgia State University spent four years analyzing students' grades, test...
  
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• NY's Met Museum offers exercise amid world-class art

  18-02-2017 17:27 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - World-class art, meet sweaty aerobics.New York City's cavernous Metropolitan Museum of Art has been holding lively morning workout sessions this winter amid its prized masterpieces.The 45-minute "Museum Workout" sends people in exercise attire chugging through 35 galleries, past...
  
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• Ross Kemp: ‘People still think I’m Grant Mitchell’

  18-02-2017 15:00
  
  The actor and documentary maker, 52, on talking posh, supporting the Labour party and why he’ll never have a midlife crisisI’m a very different person to when I was in EastEnders. I did it aged 25 to 35. I was young and naive and even though I was follicly challenged, I was quite vain. I got lulled into a sense of my own self-importance – I don’t take myself that seriously any more.I grew up in a tight-knit household. Emotionally, I’m like my mother. She was a haird
  
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• Elephants on parade in Laos as numbers dwindle

  18-02-2017 13:30
  
  SAYABOURY, Laos (Reuters) - Dozens of elephants, adorned in bright colors and with garlands of flowers, paraded through a Laotian town on Saturday in a celebration of a species that has become...
  
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• Plant of the week: Prunus mume ’Beni-chidori’

  18-02-2017 12:00
  
  Want early blossom? Look no further than this compact little beautyWhat is it? Mume (aka Chinese plum or Japanese apricot) is highly prized across east Asia for its white or pink, almond-scented blossom, which bursts forth in late winter and early spring, weeks ahead of other trees. There are dozens of cultivars, but few are available in the UK. Fortunately, the most popular variety here is a real showstopper: ‘Beni-chidori’ has deep pink single flowers on bare stems (the n
  
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• 'I didn't realise he was dying' - losing my fiancé, and then his family

  18-02-2017 11:00
  
  They were engaged and on the trip of a lifetime when tragedy struck. What would she tell his parents?This is what I remember about waiting at the temple in Ko Pha Ngan that August: cold, bitter black coffee. I can still taste it 15 years later. It must have been around 2am. Women were passing out the cups, and a small group of men gathered around a red Toyota truck in which the body of my fiance lay, wrapped in a white sheet.Two Israeli girls sat next to me on a low wall. They had been with me t
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s Taiwanese recipes

  18-02-2017 10:00
  
  Ready, steady, wok… Create a stir in the kitchen with a Taiwanese feastIwould love to feast the night away at one of Taipei’s many food markets. Freshly made dumplings, bowls of hot noodles, fried chicken, sticky rice, Chinese tea eggs, oyster omelette, fermented tofu, mochi balls… I’d be the one arriving very early and leaving very late. But I recently experienced the next best thing when my friend Garry Bar-Chang (whose mum is Taiwanese) cooked a bunch of chilli-, gin
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the woman trying for a baby

  18-02-2017 10:00
  
  The last thing you should say to a woman who is desperately trying to have a baby is, ‘Try not to think about it.’ It’s all we think aboutI’m 33, and my husband and I have been trying to conceive for three years. When we were ready, we threw caution to the wind and decided that if it happened naturally, it would be wonderful. Then as the months passed, we began to wonder if there was something wrong, so we got tested. My husband’s fertility is A++; his swimmers are
  
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• Thomasina Miers: the ultimate roast chicken and six other easy recipes

  18-02-2017 09:00
  
  The chef and former MasterChef winner is happiest cooking at home. In an exclusive extract from her new book, she shares her favourite starters and main coursesOver the years, I have spent thousands of happy hours – as a child, student, twentysomething singleton and now a mother of three – in the company of those I love, sitting around a kitchen table. I have thrown last-minute parties for 40 people to celebrate my birthday, dinners that have grown from six to 14 in the space of a da
  
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• Beauty: selfie powders that flatter on and off camera

  18-02-2017 09:00
  
  Many of social media’s favourite makeup looks, while striking and flawless in photographs, look pretty bad in real lifeI approach any beauty product designed and declared as an aid to good selfies with some scepticism. Not because I’ve anything against selfie culture within reason, but because many of social media’s favourite makeup looks, while striking and flawless in photographs, look pretty bad in real life. Away from filters and flashlights, sharp brows look hars
  
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• Modern tribes: the disappointed celebrity

  18-02-2017 08:59
  
  What’s Mo Farah got one for? For what? I can run, we can all run, but it’s all Sir Mo this, Sir Mo that, did he ever hold a poorly kiddie?Seen the list? That actor, whatisname, what for, twatting around pretending to be Oliver Cromwell, I can pretend to be other people, has he tried doing Audrey Hepburn in Africa? Any of them knighting lot ever done any charity work? You think we should have told them how hot Africa is before they knighted that old singe
  
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• Humble French restaurant swamped after Michelin mistake makes it a star

  18-02-2017 08:44
  
  Serving beef bourguignon for €12.50, Bouche à Oreille temporarily found itself among France’s finest thanks to mix-up Waiters at a cheap and cheerful restaurant in central France have been worked off their feet since the eatery earned a coveted Michelin star – by mistake, the daily Le Parisien reported on Friday.“We’re swamped,” Veronique Jacquet, who runs the Bouche à Oreille [Word of Mouth] bar-restaurant in the town of Bourges, told the paper.
  
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• Lincoln, Washington and Roosevelt ranked top three U.S. presidents

  18-02-2017 08:14
  
  (Reuters) - Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt were ranked as the top three U.S. presidents in history respectively while Barack Obama entered the rankings in the 12th spot,...
  
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• Who was Mighty Joe Young in a 1940s film?

  18-02-2017 08:00
  
  From the US Census Bureau to board games, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 What line ceased to exist by 1890, according to the US Census Bureau?
  2 Which Grand National is run at Sittingbourne?
  3 Who went on strike in Iceland on 24 October 1975?
  4 Which anatomist invented the plastination technique?
  5 Ajman is the smallest member of which confederation?
  6 Who was Mighty Joe Young in a 1940s film?
  7 What board game was the first to have a computer world champion?
  8 “A happy face, a
  
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• What’s the best 18th birthday present for our grandson?

  18-02-2017 08:00
  
  We’d prefer not to give money, but don’t really know what kids today would likeEvery 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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• ‘Noise-cancelling headphones may bring back the peace’ – our work expert responds

  18-02-2017 07:59
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – help a worker deal with music in the office and come up with ideas on how to survive Brexit with a home study courseI work in the small software development arm of a large retailer (the head office is based elsewhere). The new HR executive has decided that the office is too quiet and has suggested that having music could liven it up and create a more collaborative environment.Continue reading...
  
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• In a charity shop I find my dad, and embrace my inner Caractacus Potts

  18-02-2017 07:45
  
  Chitty Chitty Bang Bang has always been a favourite of team Golightly. But I hadn’t realised why it had been so important to me as a childThe name is Potts, Caractacus Potts – or it might be. You will understand the reason for my James Bond-like delivery if you know that the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was based on the children’s book by Bond author Ian Fleming and produced by Bond supremo Cubby Broccoli. Unsurprisingly, it is packed with gadgets, not least a flying car,
  
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• Letters to the president

  18-02-2017 07:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Is it just me, or does anyone else think U.S. President Donald Trump is getting some really bad advice from his political advisers?Why don’t we have a show of hands. (Dramatic pause.) OK, that’s just what I expected. Well, I for one am not prepared to just sit in my office cubicle...
  
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• A letter to … My brother, who is now my sister

  18-02-2017 07:30
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeThis autumn, you told me something more significant than anything you have ever said to me. You told me that you feel you are a woman in the body of a man.I want you to know that telling me was one of the bravest things you could ever have done and I applaud you for that. Now, and always, you have my full support. In your journey to becoming a woman, I am with you every step of the way. Every new shopping trip, every makeup tutorial, every session with your G
  
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• We’ve been children together, my daughter and me

  18-02-2017 07:14
  
  Heather O’Neill came to motherhood early and unexpectedly, but life with her daughter became an innocent, shared, second childhood with strangers often mistaking them as sisters‘I always see you and your sister riding the bus together,” a man said to me once. “I think you have such a beautiful relationship. You two are adorable.”“Thank you,” I said. What I didn’t mention was that she was my daughter, not my sister. But it was a step up from the usu
  
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• Tim Dowling: ‘Cutlery shouldn’t be made from more than one thing’

  18-02-2017 07:00
  
  Even our most dearly held family prejudices will probably dissolve in timeFor the first time in a long time, all five of us are home for supper on a Friday night. The middle one, back from university for the weekend, is appraising his knife and fork with suspicion.“What do you think?” my wife says. “I got the whole service in the Christmas sales.” Continue reading...
  
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• Four sweet pie recipes, plus three seasonal variations on each

  18-02-2017 07:00
  
  Cook asked four of our favourite chefs to give us the recipe for their favourite sweet pie for cold days, with three seasonal variations so you can now indulge in it all year round ...Imen McDonnell, farmette.ie Continue reading...
  
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• Archie’s odyssey: the boy who was lost at sea but found his way home

  18-02-2017 07:00
  
  After Archie died at 16, a bench dedicated to him stood at Port Isaac harbour until, at Christmas, it was washed out to sea. But Archie wasn’t done … This is the story of his journey homeNo one talks about memorial benches much. Private tributes in public spaces, they keep alive the names of loved ones known to few. This is the story of one such bench. Its plaque reads, “In memory of Archie Thomas, 1969-1985. He loved this place.”The place Archie loved is Port Isaac. The
  
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• Why I love Moonlight actor Mahershala Ali

  18-02-2017 06:59
  
  He always seems coiled and controlled, fleshing out minor TV and movie roles until he fills the screenIn Hollywood, as in life, there are “overnight successes” that closer inspection reveals have been years in the making. Oprah wasn’t born Oprah, you know? It takes time to become fully formed, and no US actor embodies that more than Mahershala Ali. This is his moment.Ali, 42, is the hot favourite to win the best supporting actor Oscar next weekend, for his role in Barry Jenkins
  
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• Blind date: ‘He’s a smooth talker. I think he enjoyed himself’

  18-02-2017 06:59
  
  ‘Super, super cool’ Dominique, 30, meets ‘confident gentleman’ Ed, 37What were you hoping for?
  A fun night – and I got one. Continue reading...
  
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• Zenith Launches New Bronze Chronograph Ahead of Baselworld

  18-02-2017 05:00
  
  Will the latest heritage-inspired Pilot watch be the new darling of the collecting community?Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• Stunning New Ruby Jewelry from Munnu the Gem Palace

  18-02-2017 03:00
  
  A new collection from India’s renowned jewelry house… Carolyn Meers
  
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• Whisky of the Week: Highland Park Ice Edition 17-Year-Old Single Malt

  18-02-2017 02:00
  
  This first in a series pays tribute to Scotland’s Norse heritage…Richard Carleton Hacker
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,597

  18-02-2017 01:00
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,124

  18-02-2017 01:00
  
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• Rest in peace: The politics of remembering the personal failings of the dead

  18-02-2017 00:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - Tradition dictates that when we bury the dead, we also bury their faults, failings and any transgressions."Don't speak ill of the dead" is an enduring mantra for many who would rather put their pain to rest than continue to dwell on it.And so revelations that a murdered Winnipeg bus...
  
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• Our Favorite Presidential Suites for a Perfect Presidents’ Day

  18-02-2017 00:00
  
  Robb Report celebrates Presidents’ Day with a look at the world’s most extraordinary presidential suites…Compiled by Jackie Caradonio
  
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