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• Kelly Behun Created the Stunning Interiors for This New York City Penthouse

  11-03-2017 21:00
  
  The nearly 4,000-square-foot penthouse features bespoke furnishings and artwork from both established and emerging artists…
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• Cardboard boxes as cribs? Safety sleep program expands

  11-03-2017 19:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. - Cardboard boxes certainly aren't new technology. But when they're linked to a practice that started in Finland decades ago to help babies sleep safely, they're taking on a new purpose as so-called baby boxes make their way to the U.S.Parents are beginning to take baby boxes home...
  
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• This Collector’s Rum Is Inspired by Classic Cars and Cuban Quality

  11-03-2017 19:00
  
  Arôme 28 crafted in Panama
  A sports-car enthusiast shifts gears to make a perfect Panamanian rum to blow your taste buds away…Brett Anderson
  
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• Eskimo village aims to serve up reindeer meat far and wide

  11-03-2017 18:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A remote Eskimo village on a tundra-covered island in western Alaska is hoping to counter its steep unemployment rate and achieve greater self-sufficiency through one of its few resources: reindeer meat.Mekoryuk's tribal government is expanding its commercial reindeer
  
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• Thai contestant crowned Miss International Queen in transgender pageant

  11-03-2017 16:32
  
  PATTAYA (Reuters) - Thai contestant Jiratchaya Sirimongkolnawin was crowned Miss International Queen 2016 on Friday at a contest billed as the world's largest and most popular transgender pageant.
  
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• Tech workers find communal living a solution for high rents

  11-03-2017 16:13
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zander Dejah, 25, pays $1,900 a month rent to live in a downtown San Francisco house with at least 40 other people, many of whom sleep in bunk beds.
  
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• Ask Alys Fowler: can I train my cider gum from a pot plant into a tree?

  11-03-2017 12:00
  
  Our gardening expert has the answerI transplanted a cider gum, Eucalyptus gunnii, from a large pot into the garden. It’s about 3m tall, uneven and spindly. Should I cut it down to the base? Will I be able to train it back into a tree, or will it become more bush-like?
  If you leave your eucalyptus as it is, it will take over, as they nearly always do in open ground. The pot was restricting growth, but now that you’ve unleashed the beast, and as long as it’s happy, it will grow l
  
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• The Vicarage, Holmes Chapel, Cheshire: hotel review

  11-03-2017 11:00
  
  This new pub with rooms is a welcome addition to conservative Cheshire’s food and accommodation scene – even though it’s not quite as offbeat and designery as it tries to make outYou might imagine that rural Cheshire is home to many bucolic inns and tasty gastropubs. Not so. It may be well-heeled, green and pleasant, but the area is dominated by large pub operators and good food is surprisingly hard to find. The scene is flashy yet conservative.You can feel that tension at the
  
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• ‘All my friends had some nightmare experience trying to get pregnant. My story took the cake’

  11-03-2017 11:00
  
  At five months pregnant, Ariel Levy lost her baby. After another four years of IVF, had she left motherhood too late? I first met Ariel Levy in 2009, soon after moving from London to New York, but I had been a fan for more than a decade. Her frank articles about pop culture and sex, which she wrote in her first job at New York magazine from the late 1990s, provided the template of what I wanted to write one day. Her 2005 book, Female Chauvinist Pigs, a blistering look at how young women were bei
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s dumpling recipes

  11-03-2017 10:00
  
  Few foods are as comforting as a proper dumplingThe brilliant Marina O’Loughlin, in a recent review of a dumpling restaurant, wrote that, “As the world inches closer to chaos, we focus hard on what we put into our faces.” In such times, it’s comfort and safety we seek, and dumplings (or “bite-sized bundles of deliciousness”, as Marina calls them) fit the bill perfectly.But what, exactly, makes a dumpling a dumpling? Here, I must reluctantly part ways with
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the gay Christian

  11-03-2017 10:00
  
  When a religious upbringing has taught you to see yourself as disappointing at best and dangerous at worst, it is hard to feel proud as a gay person I’ve tried not to be both of these things, at different points in my life, but I can no more shut out a sense of relationship with God than I can deny my feelings towards the same sex.I’d like to be able to say that this means I’m totally comfortable with both identities, and some of the time I am. If I&rsq
  
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• Four infinitely adaptable recipes for leftover food | Food waste recipes

  11-03-2017 10:00
  
  There’s no excuse for throwing away food when these four recipes – adapted from the Cook archive – can turn all manner of leftovers into a sturdy meal for four ... why not leave us your ideas below?For anyone who always makes too much pasta. Continue reading...
  
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• Tattooed devotees transform in Thai temple trance

  11-03-2017 09:02
  
  WAT BANG PHRA, Thailand (Reuters) - Deep in trances, devotees of a Thai temple charged through gathered crowds on Saturday mimicking the beasts on their tattoos.
  
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• Modern tribes: the boot camp bore

  11-03-2017 09:00
  
  We played blindfold British bulldog until someone’s nose hit a branch, hilarious, blood everywhere, then we had to do squat jumps until the ambulance cameHey, notice anything different? No, not the smell, sorry, Rob got us doing a backwards leopard crawling race which is apparently what they do in the SAS to get them battle ready, brilliant, literally my entire body was screaming in pain, it was through this freezing mud and 6am, so it’s still dark, so actually it turns out I’m
  
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• Beauty: a big hello to a gamechanger of a dry mask

  11-03-2017 09:00
  
  Dry masks tend to be ridiculously expensive, but this new one may well be a turning pointIt may surprise you to learn that I’ve often not written about a product I love on the basis that it’s too expensive. I will have tested it, thought it very clever and highly effective, but also so unrealistically priced that a positive review would only cause frustration for most readers.In fact, this is precisely what happened last year with Nannette de Gaspé dry sheet masks (from &
  
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• Which painter had a pet pug called Trump? The Weekend quiz

  11-03-2017 08:00
  
  From the Battle of Castillon to Cilla Black: test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which painter had a pet pug called Trump?
  2 What came to an end with the Battle of Castillon?
  3 Russian satirist Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya wrote under what pseudonym?
  4 THINK is a trademark of which computer company?
  5 Who is the only starting quarterback to win a Super Bowl with two different teams?
  6 In Japan, “karoshi” is what cause of death?
  7 What carries the Bradfield Highway over Port Jackson?
  
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• What’s the best way to teach my daughter to drive?

  11-03-2017 08:00
  
  I could try to teach her myself or simply rely on an instructor – and how many lessons should I book?Every 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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• My workout: ‘Going to circus school is like being a child again’

  11-03-2017 08:00
  
  Nikki Elliott, 51, on the beauty and creativity of circus skillsI first took my daughter to circus school when she was three. I wasn’t a coffee-morning mum and I was looking for active things to do with her. We used to go together: she’d walk on the tight-wire and I’d hold her hand. But then she turned four and the tutors said if I wanted to keep doing it, I’d have to go to adult classes. So I did. That was eight years ago.Going to Belfast Circus School is like being a ch
  
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• In my version of the mother-in-law joke, the punchline is our happiness together

  11-03-2017 07:45
  
  I worried that the death of our loved-one-in-common would kill the bond between us – so with trepidation I sat my in-laws down to share heartfelt truths‘I haven’t spoken to my mother-in-law for 18 months – I don’t like to interrupt her.” Ken Dodd’s old joke rings hollow for me; I speak often to mine. It’s a pleasure, though, to quote newly knighted Sir Ken, for once a childhood hero who is in the news for something lovely. Above me now, the Rolf Ha
  
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• A letter to … My wonderful mother, who drank herself to death

  11-03-2017 07:45
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeI hate it when people who didn’t know you ask me how you died. As soon as I tell them you were an alcoholic, I know exactly the kinds of thoughts running through their heads. That one word conjures a vivid, stereotypical picture. You were violent. You were neglectful. You weren’t a good mother. I had a horrible childhood. You damaged me.But that’s not how it was. You were a wonderful mother and I had a golden childhood. You gave me everythin
  
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• Why photos of stillborn babies matter

  11-03-2017 07:30
  
  After her son Rowan was stillborn, Rachel Hayden found that photos of him taken by her midwife were a vital comfort. Now they train midwives to help grieving parents capture precious imagesRachel Hayden wants to know what her baby boy was wearing in the hours after his birth. Rowan, one of triplets, was stillborn at 31 weeks, after a routine scan showed that he had died. His sisters, who today ride their bikes through the local park like demons and play football with their two older siblings, we
  
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• Lynne Reid Banks: raising a family on a kibbutz was everything my mother detested

  11-03-2017 07:15
  
  In the 1960s, when the author moved to Israel with her Jewish partner, little did she know her mother’s disapproval would last for decadesWhen, in 1982, ill health and unhappiness led my mother to kill herself, she wrote this to me: “I love you so much that now I am weakening I’m going to beg you to try to forgive me. No words of mine can thank you enough for the love you have given me … the kindness, the sharing, the laughter and the many happinesses. It’s because
  
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• Why I love… musician Sampha

  11-03-2017 07:00
  
  Nobody’s voice swoops more elegantly and mournfullyThere’s a scene in the 1988 movie The Princess Bride in which Westley (Cary Elwes) makes a noise described as “the sound of ultimate suffering”. For a family comedy, it’s pretty intense; it’s a raw sound – an animal in anguish – and not played for laughs.Of course a howl is not the only way to telegraph pain and despair. Similarly eloquent is music, and I have not heard anything in recent years qui
  
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• How to make a feast without packaged food | A taste of home

  11-03-2017 07:00
  
  A project to reduce waste in the kitchen led to this deliciously savoury porridge recipe that makes use of whole ingredients, says eco-chef Tom HuntTwo months ago, my girlfriend Tamsin and I embarked on a 30-day no packaging, minimal waste challenge – to see if it was possible. Now, it’s becoming a lifestyle. It’s an ongoing process. After the initial strict no-packaging project, we’ve found a more realistic balance: barely any packaging, and any we do get must be fully r
  
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• Blind date: ‘We talked about having children’

  11-03-2017 07:00
  
  Tom, 31, restaurant manager, meets José, 36, project managerWhat were you hoping for?
  That I hadn’t dated him before. London is smaller than one might think.Continue reading...
  
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• Horrible parents: a survival guide

  11-03-2017 06:59
  
  Growing up with a difficult parent can be crushing. Is it possible to recover? Absolutely say the founders of a new website that helps people move onThere’s no such thing as a perfect parent – all of us who have children understand that, and we all buy, gratefully, into the concept of “good enough”. But is there such a thing as “horrid parenting”? Do mothers and fathers exist whose aim in life is to crush the children they brought into the world, whatever it t
  
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• Hinge alignment

  11-03-2017 01:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Who among us hasn’t suffered an ankle injury? Spraining an ankle is one of the most common physical injuries, particularly during childhood or athletic activities. The reason being is the size of this joint relative to the amount of body weight and physical demand it supports. The ankle
  
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• Whisky of the Week: Compass Box “The Circus” Blended Scotch

  11-03-2017 01:00
  
  A complex blend of ages, oak, and flavor, this whisky doesn’t clown around…Richard Carleton Hacker
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,142

  11-03-2017 01:00
  
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• Hermès Block Party Brings High Fashion to Downtown Los Angeles

  11-03-2017 01:00
  
  The iconic French fashion house debuted a range of refreshing new designs in the City of Angels…Carolyn Meers
  
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• 5 Sophisticated Sunglass Designers to Help Refresh Your Spring Style

  11-03-2017 00:00
  
  These must-know eyewear brands are taking spring style seriously…Anush Benliyan
  
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