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• Suntory’s Top Japanese Whisky Blender Launches a New Cocktail Whisky

  24-02-2017 23:00
  
  Suntory’s Shinji Fukuyo has made award-winning whiskies. Will Whiskey Toki be next?Dan Dunn
  
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• Diamond anniversary ribs: Silver Heights Restaurant marking 60 years as a Winnipeg hot spot

  24-02-2017 22:54 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  If the owners of the venerable Silver Heights Restaurant, which turns the big six-o later this year, ever wondered if their relationship with their clientele extended beyond baby-back ribs and flame-broiled steaks, they received their answer Sept. 4, 2015.At approximately 2 p.m. that afternoon,
  
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• Vionnet's birds of paradise fly in Milan palazzo

  24-02-2017 22:46
  
  MILAN (Reuters) - Fashion house Vionnet unveiled an airy and colorful collection inspired by birds of paradise in the brand's first fashion show in Milan following its decision to switch from the...
  
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• 'Sometimes people change'

  24-02-2017 22:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Randy Stiles learned the hard way: Having a Confederate flag tattoo that reads “Southern Pride” with a noose hanging off it isn’t a path to success.“A lot of public ridicule came from it,” Stiles, 25, said this month as he waited to get the flag on his right...
  
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• Emporio Armani's urban and bright looks at Milan shows

  24-02-2017 21:09
  
  MILAN (Reuters) - Clothes in black and optical white led off the catwalk show for Armani's Emporio line on Friday before a shift in contrast to encompass pattern and unusually bright colors for the...
  
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• Versace 'power woman' designs, Etro funky nomads in Milan

  24-02-2017 20:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MILAN - Gigi Hadid drew a crowd to Milan's Rinascente Department store where she was showing off Tommy Hilfiger's latest fall-winter collection.Hundreds of fans showed up, and she obliged some with the chance at a selfie. Hadid leads the pack of "It" models headlining Milan Fashion Week, which
  
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• This Malibu Mansion Offers Panoramic Views of the Pacific Ocean

  24-02-2017 19:30
  
  The two-story home features a pool, outdoor kitchen, and fire pit overlooking the ocean…Rebekah Bell
  
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• Saroo Brierley, the inspiration for the film Lion: 'My mother saw my face after 25 years'

  24-02-2017 18:41
  
  When he was five, he fell asleep on a train and ended up 1,000 miles from home. His journey from Indian street-child to adopted Australian is now the subject of an Oscar-tipped film. Here he and his biological mother talk about their reunionSaroo Brierley is fresh off the plane, sitting in a movie studio office overlooking Beverly Hills, once again adapting to an alien environment. The Academy Awards are on Sunday, and Los Angeles is in full Oscars mode, with limousines ferrying stars, executive
  
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• How stars spend a month getting ready for Oscars' red carpet

  24-02-2017 18:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LOS ANGELES - Like prom for movie stars, the Academy Awards is Hollywood's most glamorous night. It's also the most photographed celebrity event of the year, its starry images beamed instantly around the world and endlessly reproduced in fashion magazines.That's why it takes about a month and a...
  
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• The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for breakfast, brunch and pudding

  24-02-2017 18:00
  
  The art of home cooking is about making life easier for yourself, not harder, whether you’re making a Scandi-style brunch or a coconut rice puddingBreakfast and brunch are among my favourite meals, and equally delicious in all their forms, whether sweet, savoury, salty, healthy, fried, poached or baked. They have the advantage that the rest of the day stretches ahead, so even if you eat a little too much, you can still recover by bedtime.Puddings weren’t a big thing in our house when
  
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• 10 Oscar Movies that Made Us Want to Travel the World

  24-02-2017 18:00
  
  From La La Land to Lord of the Rings, these movies gave our editors a serious case of wanderlust… Compiled by Jackie Caradonio
  
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• Czech zoo welcomes baby Indian rhinoceros

  24-02-2017 17:55 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PLZEN, Czech Republic - A zoo in the Czech Republic has welcomed a new baby rhinoceros.The Indian rhino was born Feb. 5 at Zoo Plzen, 95 kilometres (60 miles) west of Prague. She weighed around 47 kilograms (104 pounds) at birth and is now up to 70 kilograms (154 pounds.) The zoo hasn't decided
  
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• The 10 best cork pieces for your home – in pictures

  24-02-2017 17:30
  
  Embrace spring’s biggest trend and pop some cork at home Continue reading...
  
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• Let’s move to the Torridge valley, Devon: ‘It’s lush’

  24-02-2017 17:30
  
  These rolling hills, thatched pubs and gay towns are a long way from the nearest turmeric latteWhat’s going for it? We’re not in Kansas any more, Toto. This is north Devon, deeeeeep Devon. Far, far, far from the nearest motorway. Far, far, far from the nearest turmeric latte. You need resilience out here. Survival skills. Your role model? Tarka the Otter. His creator, author Henry Williamson, moved here from London to track the tough lives of local otters. Poor old Tarka suffers endl
  
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• Gigi Hadid draws crowds to Tommy Hilfiger space in Milan

  24-02-2017 17:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MILAN - Gigi Hadid drew a crowd to Milan's Rinascente Department store where she was showing off Tommy Hilfiger's latest fall-winter collection.Hundreds of fans showed up, and she obliged a few with the chance at a selfie. Hadid leads the pack of "It" models headlining Milan Fashion Week, which
  
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• Sharp vision: New glasses help the legally blind see

  24-02-2017 17:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - Jeff Regan was born with underdeveloped optic nerves and had spent most of his life in a blur. Then four years ago, he donned an unwieldy headset made by a Toronto company called eSight.Suddenly, Regan could read a newspaper while eating breakfast and make out the faces of his...
  
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• This light Red Wine Granita is a perfect cold dessert

  24-02-2017 16:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  It may be cold where you are, but down in Miami, things are getting hot, hot, hot in preparation for the South Beach Food and Wine Festival. Showcasing local and celebrity chefs from around the world, the festival highlights the flavours and ingredients of the southern United States, with extra
  
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• In Japan, 'Rocky' and 'Premium Friday' join fight against overtime

  24-02-2017 16:53
  
  TOKYO (Reuters) - From the "Rocky" theme to cash handouts and early "Premium Friday" finishes, a small but growing number of companies in workaholic Japan are getting creative with the ways they're...
  
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• Japan starts weekend early to improve work-life balance

  24-02-2017 16:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TOKYO - It was not business as usual for some workers in Japan on Friday.As the clock reached 3 p.m., about 100 office workers raised champagne glasses in a cafe in the middle of Tokyo's central business district to toast "Premium Friday," a new initiative to promote better work-life
  
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• Other nations shaking heads at US transgender toilet battle

  24-02-2017 16:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  DUBLIN - Coming out as a transgender boy brought untold relief to Irish student Lucas Cross. After years of holding it in, he could finally start using the boys' restrooms at school — because Ireland, like some other parts of the world, doesn't make a federal issue about where children do their
  
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• Hot sauce 101: chilli sauce road test

  24-02-2017 16:03
  
  We put the tastiest, hottest chilli sauces through their paces in an assortment of edible ideas – not just meals, but pickles, sweets and cocktails – plus you were hot on our heels with some spicy hacks of your own Hot sauce is 2016-17’s must-have edible accessory: like Beyoncé, we all know to carry some in our bags, and slather it on, well, everything. When we say hot sauce, we’re talking the table-top condiment bottles – not chilli pastes (like aji panca, h
  
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• Does ignorance have an upside? | Oliver Burkeman

  24-02-2017 16:00
  
  Deliberate ignorance helps explain why people don’t go to the doctor or check their bank balance; in the short term, it’s more comfortable to stay in the dark It’s a cliche of modern tourism that no matter which hotel or B&B you plan to stay at, someone will have described it on TripAdvisor as the worst they’ve ever visited, from which they’re still suffering post-traumatic stress. This is also why you shouldn’t use Google to diagnose that pain in your abd
  
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• I want children – but my fears for the future of the planet fill me with doubt

  24-02-2017 15:59
  
  I am profoundly worried about climate change, resource scarcity and populism – but I can’t shake the yearning I have when I look at my sister’s children. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerMy partner of the last seven years and I have always been fairly ambivalent about the idea of having children. However, over the last couple of years, notably since the birth of my youngest nephew, I have found myself wavering. My sister emigrated before she had children and I now feel a profo
  
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• What I wore this week: kitten heels | Jess Cartner-Morley

  24-02-2017 15:00
  
  Yes, the kitten heel is back – but how do you avoid looking like an early noughties throwback?Oh, the bliss of a kitten heel. Enough of a lift to add two inches of leg, which, not to tar the rest of you with my short brush, makes a significant difference. Enough “polish” (dreadful word, sorry) that you look “done” (again, yuck, but you know what I mean). And yet comfortable enough to wear all day, safe to cross the road at a clip when the lights are about to change
  
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• The Wildebeest, Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk: ‘It’s an age since I’ve come across a menu quite this verbose’ – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin

  24-02-2017 15:00
  
  This excess, with its gels, soils, foams, is often conflated with haute cuisine Of all the jibes that eggs on Twitter like to lob at me, my favourite has to be “metropolitan liberal elite”. As a Glaswegian from a working-class background living in a Ukip-scented seaside town, this tickles, but as I approach The Wildebeest, I think, right you are. Fair enough. There can be few more “metropolitan liberal elite” jobs than mine. Let’s see what it feels like to behave li
  
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• Experience: I crashed into the North Sea

  24-02-2017 14:59
  
  The helicopter plunged head-first into the waves. The window next to me imploded and sea water rushed in I was 30 and working as a geologist. Part of my training was to visit a small semi-submersible exploration oil rig in the North Sea, where I analysed rock cuttings and helped determine if the well had discovered oil or gas.It was November 10 1988. The day was sunny, but the sea was rough, with huge waves. I’d been to that rig two or three times before, but this trip was to be my last be
  
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• Egyptians bear down under worst inflation in a decade

  24-02-2017 14:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CAIRO - Egyptians are bearing down under their worst inflation in a decade, cutting spending as much as possible as prices surge on basic food items, transport, housing, and even some essential medicines.Inflation reached almost 30 per cent in January, up five per cent over the previous month,...
  
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• If I looked like Scarlett Johansson I’d probably understand her view on monogamy

  24-02-2017 14:30
  
  The actor has said that monogamy is unnatural and hard work, but it’s more about demand, supply and opportunityScarlett Johansson has said it “isn’t natural” to be monogamous. She claims it’s too much like hard work, and continues, “the fact that it is such work for so many people … proves that it is not a natural thing. It definitely goes against some instinct to look beyond.”I think that she may have something of a skewed perspective on mon
  
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• Harriet Harman: ‘I believe in not breaking your word to children. Even if it costs you your job’

  24-02-2017 14:00
  
  The Labour politician on growing up in a tight-knit sisterhood, her mother giving up her career as a barrister and why Robin Cook thought she was having an affairI grew up with three sisters. We were extremely close but highly competitive. It was a joy and a torment, but they filled up my world and we are still really close. Jan is the eldest, then Sarah, then me and finally Virginia. I’m very grateful to my parents for having us and having us so close together (we’re all 18 mon
  
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• 'Hipster Cop,' in fashion spotlight during Occupy, retires

  24-02-2017 13:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - A New York City police detective who became an internet sensation as the "Hipster Cop" for his fashionable wardrobe during the Occupy Wall Street protests is letting go of something he's been wearing for 25 years — his badge.Detective Rick Lee's last official day with the New York
  
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• Stanley Tucci’s nostalgic recipe for Calabrian eggs poached in tomato sauce | A Taste of Home

  24-02-2017 13:00
  
  Fridays were Dad’s night to cook, recalls Stanley Tucci – when the family would gather on old stools round the formica-topped table and tuck into sweet-smelling eggs poached in a tomato sauce, mopped up with hunks of breadI grew up in Katonah, New York, but my family are of Calabrian heritage, so our homecooked food always had a southern Italian character. Really, it’s the stupidly simply stuff that’s most evocative, like steak oreganata, pounded and sauteed with a little
  
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• I’ve never got over the hurt caused by my mother-in-law

  24-02-2017 13:00
  
  Twelve years ago, my father-in-law gave me his special necklace, but when he died his wife demanded it back. Now my sister-in-law is wearing it and I feel so upsetTwo years before he died, my father-in-law gave me a necklace he used to wear all the time. I was touched by this gift as I had always felt that my parents-in-law were never very enamoured with their son’s foreign bride: they are French, and we have always lived near them in France. A few days after the death, my mother-in-l
  
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• How to make Delia’s ‘cheese on toast for posh people’ | The Delia Project

  24-02-2017 13:00
  
  Perfect for the surprise vegetarian guest, Welsh rarebit looks a lot more effort than it is – even for a cheese refusenikAs readers with long memories and a taste for nursing grudges will know, I am not a cheese fan. This can be a problem because, as readers with strong feelings and access to my postal address have told me, repeatedly, a good cheese can rescue even the least promising of leftovers.They’re not wrong. From time to time, people will buy me books with titles like The Bus
  
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• The week in menswear: berets

  24-02-2017 11:00
  
  When you wear a beret, you are essentially caught somewhere between Che Guevara and Frank Spencer Continue reading...
  
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• Lonely Planet co-founder: 'The first book was an accident'

  24-02-2017 08:15
  
  Launched in the 1970s, the travel empire preempted the gap year trend. Today Tony Wheeler is working on five books and is still an avid travellerTony and Maureen Wheeler co-founded Lonely Planet in 1973 after the couple travelled overland from London to Australia. The travel publisher, which has since printed more than 120 million books in 11 languages, sold a 75% stake in the business to BBC Worldwide in 2007. The Wheelers sold their remaining 25% stake in the company four years later. Continue
  
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• Students in Michigan and Ohio retire to new homes

  24-02-2017 08:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - Three Western Michigan University graduate students moved into their on-campus apartments at the beginning of the fall semester.The campus on which they are living, though, is not Western Michigan's. And their neighbours are not college students — at least they have not...
  
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• I quit my job when I had a baby – how can I restart my career?

  24-02-2017 08:00
  
  I’m interested in HR and have been applying for entry-level roles, but am getting nowhere
  Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights.When my son was born in 2012 I decided to take an extended break from paid work to look after him. I had been working in environmental education an
  
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• Meet the people who eat 10 portions of fruit and vegetables a day

  24-02-2017 07:49
  
  After scientists recommended eating 800g a day to prevent early death, readers tell us how they get so much greens in their diet
  Forget five a day, now it’s all about getting 10 portions of fruit and vegetables into your diet. That is according to scientists who say doing this could prevent up to 7.8 million premature deaths worldwide.But how do you make sure you get your 10 a day (about 800g of fruit and veg)? We asked those of you who already consume this amount. Here is a selection of r
  
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• The science of sneezing

  24-02-2017 07:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  We all do it. Some of us do it quite loudly. Others do it not once, but several times in a row.Sneezes are everywhere these days, during this, the height of cold and flu season. The chorus of achoos in offices, on buses and in homes often sends bystanders scrambling to get out of the line of
  
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• Watch of the Week: Zenith El Primero 36’000 VPH “Panda” and “Reverse Panda” Dials

  24-02-2017 06:00
  
  Photo by Justin Mastine-Frost
  We go hands-on with new Zenith El Primero models launched in Geneva this past month…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• Saint Crispin's Opens Bespoke Footwear Salon in New York

  24-02-2017 03:00
  
  The European shoemaker delivers its coveted custom services to clients across America… Jill Newman
  
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• Moschino shows anything can be worn, as long as there is attitude

  24-02-2017 01:22
  
  MILAN (Reuters) - "Couture is an attitude, not a price point", read the plain white t-shirt over sturdy leather biker trousers worn by Moschino's designer Jeremy Scott at the end of the Italian...
  
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• Sudoku 3680 hard

  24-02-2017 01:01
  
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls cost £1.03 per minute from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at standard rate). Continue reading...
  
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• Kakuro 1540 hard

  24-02-2017 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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• Quick crossword No 14,602

  24-02-2017 01:00
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,129

  24-02-2017 01:00
  
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• Key dates for transgender rights in the US

  24-02-2017 00:12 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Some important events in the history of transgender rights in the United States:1952: Christine Jorgensen completes sex-reassignment surgery in Denmark; she was the first American known for undergoing such a transition.1969: Transgender people are in the forefront of the Stonewall Inn riots...
  
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