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• Pamela Lee and Jamie Foxx hobnob at Dolce & Gabbana

  26-02-2017 23:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MILAN - While Giorgio Armani posed the question explicitly earlier this week, Milan designers in general appear to be asking what will be remembered of this era's fashions in decades to come.The answers were myriad on the fifth day of Milan Fashion Week, from provoking fun to exploring cultures...
  
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• 5 Oscar-Worthy Dress Watches for Your Next Black-Tie Gala

  26-02-2017 22:00
  
  With award season well underway, we’ve compiled 5 dress watches worthy of tucking under the finest cuffs…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• 6 of the Most Memorable Private-Jet Movie Scenes

  26-02-2017 21:00
  
  Compiled by Larry Bean
  
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• The facts on fruit and Worcestershire sauce | Letters

  26-02-2017 20:58
  
  George Bernard Shaw | Art of left and right | Bendy banana myth | Sales of Seville oranges | Delia Smith’s welsh rarebitIn response to your article (14 February) on May Morris’s love letter of 14 February 1886 to George Bernard Shaw, Michael Holroyd writes (Letters, 18 February) that there is no need to add “George” to the playwright, who never used that name on his plays. That might have been true of his plays, but at that time of the love letter, when he was writing the
  
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• Russian world ice fishing champion, Ukraine team winner

  26-02-2017 20:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  RIGA, Latvia - Russia's Dmitry Eliseev is the new World Ice Fishing Champion after beating a field of 78 others on the frozen Baltic Sea off the coast of the Latvian capital.Organizers said Eliseev's total catch of 5.2 kilograms (11.46 pounds) was more than a kilogram (2.2 pounds) heavier than...
  
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• Masks and snowy streets herald pre-spring rite in Latvia

  26-02-2017 19:25 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  RIGA, Latvia - Hundreds of people sang, danced and skipped through the snowy streets of Latvia's capital wearing colorful costumes and masks, participating in a pre-spring rite that dates back to pagan times.The International Mask Tradition Festival now is celebrated across eastern Europe to...
  
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• The Modern Way to Do Black Tie from a Menswear Expert

  26-02-2017 18:00
  
  Inspired to revamp your eveningwear after the Oscars’ red carpet? An expert shares his top tips…Phoebe Neuman
  
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• Koch leads fight to deregulate African-style braiding

  26-02-2017 16:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PAWTUCKET, R.I. - The billionaire industrialist Charles Koch (KOHK') and hair braider Jocelyn DoCouto (doh-KOO'-toh) have at least one thing in common. They are both part of a national movement to deregulate the business of African-style braiding.DoCouto is pushing for legislation in Rhode...
  
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• Improved technology saves maple syrup producers time, energy

  26-02-2017 14:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  UNDERHILL, Vt. - Maple syrup doesn't get that rich flavour and colour in an instant. It's a long process from tree to bottle.But improved technology could keep maple sugarers from working late into the night boiling sap into syrup.The machine removes more water from sap, leaving a higher...
  
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• Nigel Slater’s oyster sauce chicken with citrus mint salad recipe

  26-02-2017 13:00
  
  On a chilly night nothing warms you up like blisteringly hot Chinese-style chicken, served with a cooling side of herby saladThere was a bit of a flurry of aniseed, soy and ginger-scented cooking in the kitchen last week, as there often is when I have had one of my irregular trips to Chinatown. These are the trips where I return home with armfuls of bottles and jars, mostly red.
  I just needed, almost craved, the smell of oyster sauce to warm up a kitchen turned ice-cold by a dodgy thermostat. Le
  
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• Fatale attraction: a cocktail created for Jackie Kennedy in Phnom Penh

  26-02-2017 13:00
  
  The femme fatale was created in Cambodia’s legendary Hotel Le Royal, which has an aura and history as intriguing as the former first ladyIf Natalie Portman wins best actress at the Oscars for her portrayal of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, there’s a bar in Phnom Penh that will know how to celebrate.The former first lady visited Cambodia in 1967 and had an honorary cocktail created for her at the capital’s Hotel Le Royal, now owned by Raffles hotels. Continue reading...
  
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• The far right have taken over, without firing a shot | Stewart Lee

  26-02-2017 11:00
  
  There are no soldiers in the streets, and no one’s seized control of the radio stations, but nonetheless, we’re in an ‘alt-right’ stateWhat would a coup d’état look like? Would you even notice if one was happening all around you? Should we even be allowed to use the phrase coup d’état, now that we are leaving the EU? Should we return the very words themselves to the vile continent whence they came, and accept back in turn le weekend, le camping,
  
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• Great little ski resorts: Vaujany, France

  26-02-2017 11:00
  
  This unspoilt village on the doorstep of the vast Alpe d’Huez ski area offers stunning scenery, but is free of the crowds and commercialism of the bigger resortThe village of Vaujany, an hour by car from Grenoble, struck unexpected gold in the 1980s when the government compulsorily purchased a giant chunk of land for France’s largest hydro-electric scheme. Astute villagers invested the money in what was then the largest cable-car in the country, to reach the slopes above the neighbou
  
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• Robert Mercer: the big data billionaire waging war on mainstream media

  26-02-2017 10:00
  
  With links to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon and Nigel Farage, the rightwing US computer scientist is at the heart of a multimillion-dollar propaganda networkJust over a week ago, Donald Trump gathered members of the world’s press before him and told them they were liars. “The press, honestly, is out of control,” he said. “The public doesn’t believe you any more.” CNN was described as “very fake news… story after story is bad”. The BBC was &ldqu
  
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• Forget the hangover, under-25s turn to mindful drinking

  26-02-2017 09:59
  
  Non-alcoholic drinks are taking off in pubs and bars as a new fashion for abstinence takes over among young peopleForget pub crawls – increasing numbers of young people are replacing beer and wine with “mindful drinking” – where abstinence, not alcohol, is all the rage. A fifth of British adults under-25 are teetotal, according to the Office for National Statistics, and numbers are on the rise. Motivated by health and income concerns, this new generation are bucking
  
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• Milan fashion week autumn/winter 2017: 10 key shows – in pictures

  26-02-2017 09:00
  
  Super luxe coats, recycled fashion magazines and feathers… Observer fashion editor Jo Jones picks her highlights from Milan fashion week AW17 Continue reading...
  
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• Edge of darkness: looking into the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way

  26-02-2017 08:45
  
  It would take a telescope as big as a planet to see the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. But a team of scientists think they know how to do itAt the heart of our galaxy, a vast black hole is devouring matter from the dust clouds that surround it. Little by little, expanses of interstellar material are being swallowed up by this voracious galactic carnivore that, in the process, has reached a mass that is 4m times that of our sun.The Milky Way’s great black hole is 25
  
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• Heal thyself: meet the doctors living with the conditions they treat

  26-02-2017 08:05
  
  Would you be in safer hands if your doctor had the same illness as you? We hear from a dermatologist with a skin complaint, a psychiatrist with depression, an oncologist who survived cancer and a fertility expert who couldn’t conceiveBav Shergill: As a teenager I was terribly embarrassed about my skin – I had really bad acne from the age of 15. It took me until I went to medical school to find the courage and confidence to change my GP and get a hospital referral.Continue reading...
  
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• Mathematician Eugenia Cheng: ‘Yes, I am an anarchist!’

  26-02-2017 08:00
  
  Eugenia Cheng combines home baking with higher-dimensional category theory. She talks about pudding, infinity, and why geeks are the new alphasEugenia Cheng is a British mathematician who is senior lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her main interest is higher-dimensional category theory but she has also written a book about the maths of baking entitled How To Bake Pi. Her latest book is Beyond Infinity: An Expedition into the Outer Limits of Mathematics.What is higher-dimen
  
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• Mathematician Eugenia Cheng: ‘We hate having rules imposed on us'

  26-02-2017 08:00
  
  Eugenia Cheng combines home baking with higher-dimensional category theory. She talks about pudding, infinity, and why geeks are the new alphasEugenia Cheng is a British mathematician who is senior lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her main interest is higher-dimensional category theory but she has also written a book about the maths of baking entitled How To Bake Pi. Her latest book is Beyond Infinity: An Expedition into the Outer Limits of Mathematics.What is higher-dimen
  
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• Jessops leaves me out of the picture over movie camera repairs

  26-02-2017 08:00
  
  There’s no sign of my Sony Handycam after seven months and customer service has been poorIn June last year I left my Sony HD Handycam movie camera at Jessops, Bury St Edmunds for repair after the touchscreen stopped working. It was out of warranty, so I paid £25 and was told it would take two or three weeks to repair. I heard nothing for two months and started phoning in late August. I was told the repairers were still looking at it and I would get a response as soon as possible.In S
  
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• Condor moments: trekking in Patagonia

  26-02-2017 08:00
  
  There’s no better way to enjoy the drama of Patagonia than striking out on the W Trek – one of the most remote walks in one of the most beautiful places on EarthAs dusk fell, there on the skyline, at the top of a cliff nearly 100ft above us, was a female puma. Calm and elegant, she looked down on us as if she was choosing the next course of her evening meal.
  She was joined by her two cubs. A group of us looked up as the mother groomed one of them and the cub returned the compliment,
  
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• Why Testosterone Rex is extinct | Cordelia Fine

  26-02-2017 07:00
  
  The differences between men and women is all the work of one hormone, right? Totally wrong, says Cordelia FineWhen a baby is born, their sex is usually the first thing we want to know about them. The last thing you’re ever likely to forget about a person is whether they are male or female. We often think of biological sex as a fundamental force in human development that creates not just two kinds of reproductive system, but two kinds of people.At the core of this way of thinking is a famil
  
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• The eco guide to greener salads

  26-02-2017 07:00
  
  The salad shortage focused attention on the failures of our 24/7 dietary culture. But it also provides a chance to rethink the way we eat fresh fruit, veg and green leavesI’m afraid the lettuce shortage was just the tip of the iceberg. We may have run low on salad leaves but, more worryingly, we were low on empathy for poor southern Spain where flash floods followed by snow wrecked the crop. Our relentless consumer-rights focus meant that the emphasis was clearly on “weather-related
  
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• The day I saw John and Yoko’s 'bed-in' peace demonstration

  26-02-2017 07:00
  
  Amsterdam, 1969, and Rick Wilson, a young magazine reporter, hears of unusual goings on at the Hilton…It must have been lunchtime at the pub on one of my first days of my dream job: making an English-language magazine in the magical city of Amsterdam.We were enjoying some refreshment when, swaying a little, my editor slurred: “There’s been a communication to the office about some happening at the Hilton. John Lennon’s holding court about something or other. Sounds a bit
  
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• Teaching morality to robots | Daniel Glaser

  26-02-2017 07:00
  
  As with children, ethical input with robots needs to come before, not after, developing other skills, says Daniel GlaserEvery week comes a new warning that robots are taking over our jobs. People have become troubled by the question of how robots will learn ethics, if they do take over our work and our planet.As early on as the 1960s Isaac Asimov came up with the ‘Three Laws of Robotics’ outlining moral rules they should abide by. More recently there has been official guidance from t
  
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• Shand Stoater Rohloff: bike preview | Martin Love

  26-02-2017 07:00
  
  An agile road bike from Scotland that is as at home on tarmac as it is on trailsStoater, Stooshie, Tumshie, Bahookie, Skinnymalinky… It sounds like a guttural lesson in Scots vernacular, but in fact it’s the model range from Shand – a bike builder near Edinburgh. The firm was started in 2003 by Steven Shand who made bespoke one-offs for customers in the know. He’s now expanded, fabricating hand-built production bikes here in the UK as well as designing and supplying carb
  
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• My grandmother is lying to concoct a fantasy love life

  26-02-2017 07:00
  
  A woman in her 70s appears to be leading a mystery double life. Mariella Frostrup advises her grandchild that she’s not really doing any harmThe dilemma Several years ago my (then) 67-year-old grandmother got involved in internet dating, obsessing over an American man who later transpired to be a scammer. Then, two years ago, we started hearing about Kumar, who she said she met while on holiday. She’s been to “visit” this man dozens of times, travelling from our rural tow
  
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• It’s finally time to say ‘I don’t’ to the solo wedding craze

  26-02-2017 07:00
  
  Getting married to yourself – sologamy – may be a chance for a great party. But think about it for a minute and your heart will break Right now in Rotherham, a woman called Lynne is organising two hen nights before she gets married to herself. Fine, Lynne. Book your fireman stripper. Go wild. Buy your penis straws and skinny prosecco twice, book your pampering day with extra soap, and then stand in a massive white dress holding hands with yourself. But that’s it Lynne. Let your
  
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• Bundobust, Manchester: restaurant review

  26-02-2017 07:00
  
  Vibrant Indian food served with craft beer in a friendly communal space… Why has no one done this before?Bundobust, 61 Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2AQ (0161 359 6757). Meal for two, including beer: £45 (if you try hard)It takes something special to stop me wanting to bang my head on the table repeatedly, while stabbing the business end of a fork into the soft part of my hand, every time I hear the term “restaurant concept”. Bundobust in Manchester is that something special
  
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• Britain’s new wave of militant grocers | Sarah Butler

  26-02-2017 07:00
  
  So much food goes into landfill while many families go hungry. Sarah Butler meets the shopkeepers fighting wasteA steady stream of shoppers are filling their baskets with biscuits, fizzy pop, risotto rice and tins of tomatoes at Niftie’s grocery store in Dover on a cold January morning. Everything they’re buying would have been thrown out by a mainstream supermarket. Shelves are piled with food well past its best before date, slightly squashed cakes and some pretty unusual discontinu
  
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• Extrême buvabilité: the art of making drinkable wines | David Williams

  26-02-2017 06:59
  
  Three very quaffable reds that will quench your thirst as they slip down very easilyDomaine de L’Ausseil Le P’tit Piaf, Côtes du Roussillon, France 2015 (£13, Borough Wines) On the face of it, it’s rather strange that “drinkability” has become one of the wine world’s favoured superlatives. After all, being drinkable – as opposed to being poisonous or merely disgusting – ought to be the bare minimum requirement for any bottle, not some s
  
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• Beverly Hills’ Most Expensive Home Includes Gold Cars and $3 Million Worth of Art

  26-02-2017 02:00
  
  Photo by Jim Bartsch
  This hilltop home comes with views, an art collection, two cars, and a special collection for the Champagne lover...Geoff Nudelman
  
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• From ‘hands that do dishes’ to a bathtime Flake: the changing face of brands on TV

  26-02-2017 01:04
  
  A new film portrays how women’s roles have changed over five decadesThe name British Caledonian – the Scottish airline – is a blast from the past. So, too, is its popular television ad, aired from 1983. To the tune of the Beach Boys’ classic California Girls, a group of suited male passengers each sing the virtues of “air hostesses” of different nationalities. The song culminates in a rousing chorus of “I wish they all could be Caledonian Girls” af
  
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• Spring breakers: the best floral print dresses – in pictures

  26-02-2017 00:45
  
  Give your pretty floral dress plenty of edge this season with strong colours and tough accessories Continue reading...
  
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