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• Brooklyn’s Up-and-Coming Jewelry Designer Baker & Black

  05-03-2017 23:00
  
  Baker & Black founder talks recycled materials, her art-inspired designs, and must-have jewelry…Carolyn Meers
  
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• Blue is the colour of the season at VIP-studded Paris shows

  05-03-2017 19:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PARIS - It's no secret that politics infuses fashion — and some critics are interpreting the current mania for blue at Paris Fashion Week as a statement of "the blues" about the perceived rise of nationalism across Europe and America.Here are some highlights from Sunday's star-filled shows in...
  
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• Sweden’s Icehotel 365 Keeps It Cool All Year Long

  05-03-2017 19:00
  
  Photo by Asaf Kliger
  The solar-powered ice hotel is the best place to chill this summer…Devorah Lev-Tov
  
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• Dutch treat: Philadelphia Flower Show celebrates Holland

  05-03-2017 18:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA - Visitors arriving at the Philadelphia Flower Show this year will feel as if they're stepping into the endless flower fields of Holland.A rainbow sea of 30,000 tulips and other blooms will stretch seemingly into the horizon as a canopy of 6,000 cut and dried flowers floats
  
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• Smart condoms: like Fitbit for sex – and you can even share your stats

  05-03-2017 17:00
  
  Ever wondered how many calories you’re burning in the bedroom? The i.Con condom, which keeps track of your sex stats, could be the answer
  Name: Smart condoms.Appearance: A discreet, lightweight ring, currently hidden inside a black box. Continue reading...
  
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• Saks Fifth Avenue Opens Its Latest New York City Outpost

  05-03-2017 17:00
  
  The new Saks Downtown Men’s blends old and new with technology walls and private made-to-measure services…Phoebe Neuman
  
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• The Faroe Islands’ first Michelin-starred restaurant

  05-03-2017 13:30
  
  The 17-course Nordic tasting menu at Koks has put the remote, windy islands on the culinary mapIn the murky depths of Tangafjøður, not far from the Faroes’ capital, Tórshavn, the lobsters are famed for their size and succulence. Along with giant, copper-coloured horse mussels and dainty ivory-tinted scallops they represent the freshest, most sought-after culinary treasures in the Faroes. Related: The Faroes' summer music festivalContinue reading...
  
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• Seasonal recipes from Gill Meller river cottage chef

  05-03-2017 13:00
  
  The gifted former head chef at River Cottage introduces the first of two exclusive extracts from his cook book, Gather, which features everyday recipes inspired by the landscapeI’ve always liked the word “gather”. It feels hopeful, natural and very human. Though few of us can go around picking berries and tracking deer, we still collect ingredients: bread, fruit, cheese, a jar of honey. Related: Wines for a family gathering | David WilliamsContinue reading...
  
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• Smoking pot as a medicine raises questions for doctors about side effects

  05-03-2017 10:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  VANCOUVER - Not all medicinal marijuana is created equal. That's what some experts are saying as they warn about the health risks and curtailed effectiveness associated with smoking medicine.As medical pot becomes increasingly mainstream and Canada moves toward legalizing the substance, health...
  
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• Why we have a quirky love of the qwerty keyboard | Daniel Glaser

  05-03-2017 07:00
  
  The ordering of letters on typewriters was designed to slow us down. Its survival is testament to our comfort with arbitary movement sequencesThe news that Tom Hanks is writing a book of short stories, inspired by his love of typewriters – he owns over a hundred – is a timely reminder of what a strange device it is.The original Qwerty keyboard, sold to Remington back in 1873, was designed to slow you down because mechanical typewriters with keys that followed each other too quickly l
  
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• Why a digital detox is bad for us | Ruth Whippman

  05-03-2017 07:00
  
  These days it’s tempting to ignore the news entirely, says Ruth Whippman. But it’s essential that we stay fully engaged
  The “digital detox”. It’s the new juice cleanse. In the age of constant connectivity it’s now our minds rather than our bodies that need urgent purification. According to Ofcom, the average adult internet user spends more than 20 hours a week online. Our smartphones have become tiny iron lungs, our dependence on them so total that we now can&
  
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• What becomes of the brokenhearted when they are 'catfished' online?

  05-03-2017 07:00
  
  It’s devastating when the person you’ve fallen in love with turns out to be unrealThere was a period in my life when I watched a lot of Catfish. Signed off work, I’d lie on the sofa mid-afternoon and watch people lie from their sofas in the American midwest. It’s an MTV reality show following the trails of suspicious lovers. Someone calls the presenter, Nev, and says: “The girl I’m in love with, maybe she doesn’t exist.” Nev performs some science o
  
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• The night Kerry Packer took David Gower to the casino

  05-03-2017 07:00
  
  It’s January 1991, Brisbane, Australia, the Ashes are in full swing and England’s star batsman is invited out gambling by the man who reinvented cricketI only met Kerry Packer the once. We were in Australia for the 1990-1 Ashes. For the first test, at the Gabba, our tour captain, Graham Gooch, was absent, injured, and my great mate, Allan Lamb, led the side. It was a game not destined to last long. By the close of day two we were batting for the second time, having earned a first inn
  
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• The eco guide to female-friendly shopping

  05-03-2017 07:00
  
  Choose the right brands if you want to promote women’s rightsEthical shoppers like me want to think that they always have the sisterhood top of their list when they shop. But in practice I find most can rattle off the five freedoms of animal welfare, but are pretty hazy on enshrined women’s rights, like the right to hold elected and appointed government positions.Even ethical shoppers are often pretty hazy on women's rights Continue reading...
  
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• Skosh, York: restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  05-03-2017 07:00
  
  A restaurant that riffs brilliantly on the flavours of Japan and the Middle East… Better jump on board now
  98 Micklegate, York YO1 6JX (01904 634 849). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £110Let’s dispense with the preamble. Here’s what you need to know. You can get from London to York by train in 1 hour and 51 minutes. From Edinburgh, it’s 2 hours 24 minutes. From Birmingham, it’s 2 hours 9 minutes, from Liverpool 1 hour 54 minutes and from Manchest
  
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• My creative space

  05-03-2017 07:00
  
  Artists and makers open the doors to their studios in an inspiring new book. Rich Cunningham takes a look insideSally Coulthard was inspired to write Studio by a barn on her North Yorkshire farm. It’s not the studio she uses herself for her work as an interiors and garden designer and writer – she prefers an old bureau in her house – but one that she has rented out to an array of crafters and painters. For the past decade, she has watched as each new arrival reinvents the barn
  
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• I’m happy, so why do I fantasise about sex abuse? | Mariella Frostrup

  05-03-2017 07:00
  
  Our imagination can be an outlet for things we wouldn’t do or condone, but craving to be controlled might be worth exploring with a therapist, says Mariella FrostrupThe Dilemma I am a woman in my early 20s, about to graduate from university and consider myself very independent with a healthy, normal, happy life. About two years ago I started watching porn. I didn’t even know what to look for, then I began to develop my own tastes and searched for specific things. What worries me is t
  
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• Do you improve with age? – quiz | Ben Ambridge

  05-03-2017 07:00
  
  Find out the truth about how your personality changes as you get olderDo you think you improve with age? If so, do other people agree? To find out, answer the following questions comparing your 14-year-old self with how you were, or are, or imagine you will be at 29.Answer yes or no. Would you say that between the ages of 14 and 29 you became more… Continue reading...
  
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• Wines for a family gathering | David Williams

  05-03-2017 06:59
  
  Gill Meller, the former head chef of the much loved River Cottage, has just written his first cook book. It’s called Gather – a showcase of delicious meals to be enjoyed with friends and family. Here, David Williams chooses three wines to accompany some of the dishesChâteau de la Petite Griaudière, Muscadet Sèvre-et-Maine Sur Lie, France 2015 (£6.75, The Co-op) Gill Meller’s samphire recipe is an invitation to head for the coast and forage in marshes a
  
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• Sushi in Pyongyang: Japanese chef opens rare restaurant

  05-03-2017 04:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PYONGYANG, Korea, Democratic People's Republic Of - Sushi in Pyongyang? At a restaurant run by a Japanese sushi chef famous for working for North Korea's late leader Kim Jong Il?Kenji Fujimoto has opened his sushi restaurant in the North Korean capital, according to Canadian Michael Spavor, a...
  
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• Gigi Hadid: a model with a fabulous figure – 30m followers | Observer profile

  05-03-2017 01:05
  
  A star since age two, and now a ‘veteran’ at 21, she is the first ‘Instagram supermodel’. But her latest cover, for the new Vogue Arabia, has focused fashion on debates about cultural diversityNot too long ago, a person’s social media following was an adjunct to their fame, rather than its foundation. You had followers because of your career, rather than a career because of your followers. That era now seems laughably archaic. Gigi Hadid, the ubiquitous supermodel a
  
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