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• DesignQ’s Elegante Airplane Interior Is a Mobile Residence for the Jet Set

  19-02-2017 23:00
  
  Focused on comfort, the interior includes a private lounge, a dining area, and a large shower…Mary Grady
  
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• Designers offer winter romance, trip to the country at London Fashion Week

  19-02-2017 22:57
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - British designer labels took fashionistas on dream-like escapes, to snowy mountain peaks and the English countryside at London Fashion Week on Sunday, presenting luxurious...
  
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• Circle the Globe on this $13.9 Million Private-Jet Trip

  19-02-2017 21:00
  
  The most expensive around-the-world private-jet trip offers much more than sightseeing…Jennifer Ashton Ryan
  
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• 8 Colorful and Lightweight Sweaters for Spring

  19-02-2017 21:00
  
  Give your spring wardrobe a bold injection with one of these playful sweaters… Phoebe Neuman
  
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• Roaming telescope brings Kenyan kids views of night sky

  19-02-2017 18:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MOLO, Kenya - Thousands of schoolchildren in Kenya are getting a rare opportunity to look at the stars.The Traveling Telescope visits some of this East African country's most remote areas, showing students the night sky and the describing the science of astronomy with telescopes and virtual...
  
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• Americans on Presidents Day: Admiration, fear mark holiday

  19-02-2017 18:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The United States on Monday marks Presidents Day, a holiday that's taking on a new meaning for some Americans this year as President Donald Trump — to the dismay of some and delight of others — upends traditional notions of the office.The holiday began as a celebration of...
  
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• Doctor-lawmaker tries to restrict smoking in tobacco country

  19-02-2017 17:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. - When Dr. Ralph Alvarado was elected to the Kentucky state Senate in 2014, he found his new colleagues had something in common with most of his patients: They knew smoking was bad, they just couldn't quit.For more than two years, Alvarado has led the effort to restrict smoking
  
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• Toughening penalties if pets are harmed during crimes

  19-02-2017 17:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  FLORIDA, N.Y. - When Denise Krohn came home to find her goldendoodle Kirby bleeding on the kitchen floor, she at first thought it was a terrible accident. But she soon realized that her home had been ransacked, and that her other dog, Quigley, was lying dead on his favourite blanket in the living
  
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• Saudi gamers get together at kingdom's first-ever Comic Con

  19-02-2017 15:18
  
  JEDDAH (Reuters) - In a country where the use of magic is a crime punishable by beheading, it's not every day that young Saudis wander down the street dressed as the Hulk or Doctor Doom.
  
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• Nigel Slater’s black pudding, baked apples and celeriac mash recipe

  19-02-2017 13:00
  
  Vienna’s much-loved classic ‘heaven and earth’ dish is the inspiration for a delicious winter warmer
  Late last year I took a trip to Vienna. I ate well enough – simply, heartily even – choosing my daily restaurant purely by the length of its queue. The most memorable meal of all was a straightforward plate of black pudding with mashed potato and apple sauce. It was a Viennese version of the much-loved German himmel und erde, the “heaven and earth”. I hav
  
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• How do you spot a hipster wine?

  19-02-2017 11:00
  
  Some wines have pseudo counter-cultural stylings, but give them a chance – you might just love themNow that hipster has come to mean anything vaguely to do with young people, you can add hipster wine to the clothes, music and coffee shops. But whereas in most cases hipster has, through overuse, become all but meaningless, when it comes to wine it’s actually quite useful. The word itself might be annoying, but in wine it sums up a genuine change in approach, a change that has been, fo
  
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• OFM’s classic cookbooks: Claudia Roden’s Book of Middle Eastern Food

  19-02-2017 10:30
  
  Claudia Roden’s Book of Middle Eastern Food is as much an evocative set of stories as a list of great recipes. Yotam Ottolenghi introduces the cookbook that never fails to inspire himA Book of Middle Eastern Food was published in 1968, the year of my birth, yet I have only started using it in the past decade, 40 years on, when I began writing about food. I say use because this is what I do with Claudia Roden’s books. I use them. Beyond the evocative stories and buoyant style, beyond
  
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• Michelin men: Claude Bosi, Terence Conran and the return of Bibendum

  19-02-2017 09:30
  
  Bibendum has been a London landmark for 30 years. Now, with its relaunch, it is up to chef Claude Bosi to bring the stars homeIn the gutted upstairs room of Bibendum on London’s Fulham Road, I’m suddenly feeling my age. The flagship Conran restaurant is in the process of a makeover. Floors and walls have been stripped and the famous Michelin blue stained-glass windows and great arched conservatory glass roof look down on an interior of rubble and scaffold. The windowless kitchen behi
  
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• Women and desire: the six ages of sex

  19-02-2017 09:00
  
  Six women across six decades talk about how their sex lives and sensuality have changed, and what they’ve learned about the politics of pleasure Continue reading...
  
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• Welcome to our February issue and the OFM 50

  19-02-2017 09:00
  
  This month we shout about our 50 favourite things in the food world, from Mangalitsa pigs to Honey & Co’s babka. Plus classic recipes from Claudia Roden and my own winter citrus dishesAbove all, this magazine likes to celebrate. We like to find the joy and shout about it. Which is partly why we publish our annual list of 50 things we love about food. Sometimes the list includes events, ingredients, people, places that are happening now, such as the tacos at El Pastor at London’s
  
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• The 5th annual OFM 50: what we love about food in 2017

  19-02-2017 09:00
  
  From a revered French chef to Singapore’s salted eggs, Monica Galetti’s new restaurant to Japanese vending machines: 50 of Observer Food Monthly’s favourite things (in no particular order) Continue reading...
  
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• Len & Alex Deighton’s Italian Cookstrips: Mozzarella in Carozza

  19-02-2017 09:00
  
  I associate Neapolitan cooking with my dear friend Mario Cassandro, co-founder of the famed Trattoria Terrazzo. He demonstrated the wonders of real Italian food to me and swinging 60s London. I turn 88 when this publication goes to press. For 2017’s cookstrips featuring Italian regional cooking my son Alex – a talented artist and cook – is helping.Watch the BBC this month for a TV series of Len Deighton’s novel SS-GB. Deighton is also the author of the Action Cookbook and
  
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• Camden comedy as council doesn’t let me read my meter

  19-02-2017 08:00
  
  Local authority keeps our meter cupboard locked and says electricity firms need to pay for keys – meanwhile, residents and caretakers are not allowed accessI live in a Camden council block of flats but have been unable to read my electricity meter for seven years and therefore have no idea whether my bills are accurate or not. There is a cupboard that contains all the flats’ meters but it is locked, and Camden council will not allow residents or caretakers access. The council tells m
  
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• The pick of Provence: David Williams

  19-02-2017 07:00
  
  For wine lovers, and particularly those who like French wine, Bandol produces some gorgeous bottles. Here are two to treat yourself with. Plus, a cheaper week-night offering using the mourvèdre grapeDomaine Tempier Bandol, France 2013 (from £23, The Wine Society; Lay & Wheeler; Uncorked) For a certain generation of foodies, Provence’s Domaine Tempier will always have a special significance. The estate was a favourite of those celebrated shapers of the British and American
  
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• The day Le Corbusier took me for lunch on the French Riviera

  19-02-2017 07:00
  
  It’s 1958, and a starstruck art and architecture fan flies to the south of France to meet her design hero for a memorable mealIt was 1958, and I was a 30-year-old single mother with a design studio in Zurich. After seeing an exhibition of Le Corbusier’s paintings, drawings and sculptures at the Kunsthaus in 1957, I traded my beloved car, a Fiat Topolino, in exchange for my first work by Le Corbusier – a small collage. As the proud owner of this original, I imagined myself to be
  
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• My life is full of religion and education – but no men

  19-02-2017 07:00
  
  At only 27 years old, a high-performing woman fears she is having a midlife crisis: she feels her conservative and Christian beliefs have prevented her from finding love. Mariella Frostrup encourages her to emerge from her chrysalisThe dilemma I think I am having a midlife crisis – at 27. I was brought up in a Victorian girls-only school with nuns, and my parents were extremely conservative. I graduated from university with top honours. A master’s degree with merit and distinction fo
  
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• Interior design with all the vintage trimmings

  19-02-2017 07:00
  
  Fabric dealer Su Mason loves her former shoe factory flat in east London with its Crittall windows, high ceilings and bare bricks‘We live in such a throwaway culture, where everything from clothes to furniture is seen as short-term and disposable,” says Su Mason. “But living like that is anathema to me. It’s far more interesting to be surrounded by things that have been made with care, and have stories to tell.” Mason lives in a flat in a converted factory in east L
  
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• How your MRI scan benefits science

  19-02-2017 07:00
  
  A precise map of a living brain is of immense interest to researchers – but won’t always help the patientSir Peter Mansfield, who died on 8 February, won the Nobel Prize in 2003 for pioneering magnetic resonance imaging. MRI, and the detailed images it produces, has been a huge benefit for the study of the brain. Its greatest innovation is allowing us to see which parts of the brain have been damaged while a patient is still alive. In the past, we had to wait until a postmortem to fi
  
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• How do I explain death of our cat to my two-year-old? | Eva Wiseman

  19-02-2017 07:00
  
  Edie has been a much-loved family cat for years, but when she died it led to some interesting conversations between Eva, her mum and her young daughter…I carried the kitten home on the tube in a shoebox. I was living with my parents while I looked for a flat with my new boyfriend, who lived above a fish smokers – it was no place for cats. We called her Edie after Edith Massey who played the Egg Lady in Pink Flamingos, a woman who, John Waters remembered, was a nightmare on car journ
  
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• Does your life have a purpose, or are you just a drifter? Quiz

  19-02-2017 07:00
  
  If you are a go-getter you may find that you live longer than those happy just to drift through lifeDoes your life have purpose? Are you a drifter or do you have a cast iron plan for the future? To find out, answer the following three statements on a scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree). Add them up and divide by three for an average score.1. Some people wander aimlessly through life, but I am not one of them. Continue reading...
  
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• Chop Chop, Edinburgh: restaurant review

  19-02-2017 07:00
  
  Jian Wang’s Chinese restaurant is a shrine to the most perfect little dumplings…At a time of great political uncertainty it’s natural that we should search for the things that unify rather than divide us. There are the obvious markers, like our desires: for safety and warmth, for belonging and the type of sex that doesn’t make us cringe when we recall it. There’s language in general, and inventive expletives in particular, and a ravenous hunger for products made by
  
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• Vacheron Constantin’s Artistic Director Discusses the Brand’s Current Direction and Industry Trends

  19-02-2017 02:00
  
  Artistic director Christian Selmoni reveals design direction, industry trends, and the new Celestia…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• London fashion: Versus rocks on; Wickstead favours florals

  19-02-2017 00:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  London Fashion Week kicked it up a notch Saturday with the latest womenswear previews for fall and winter — just as the weather in the British capital took a decidedly spring-like turn.The second day of the fashion extravaganza featured Jasper Conran, Emilia Wickstead, Molly Goddard and others,...
  
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• Elvis’s Former Home Hits the Market for $30 Million

  19-02-2017 00:00
  
  The Beverly Hills abode of Elvis and Priscilla Presley is on the market for $30 million…Jennifer Ashton Ryan
  
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