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• Moncler’s Latest Collection Offers an Artsy Take on Your Summer Wardrobe

  14-05-2017 22:00
  
  Moncler has tapped artist Jean-Philippe Delhomme for a witty take on classic beach gear…Phoebe Neuman
  
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• Help exporters with a business whip round | Letters

  14-05-2017 20:00
  
  Export assistance | Sheep guardians | Great Grandma Quack Quack | 35mm canisters | Destoning avocadosSo Suren Thiru of the British Chambers of Commerce believes “it is vital that more is done to provide greater practical assistance for exporters, including developing an expanded trade mission and fairs programme” (Brexit bites as output falls and trade gap grows, 12 May). Quite so. But I hope that those robust, entrepreneurial, laissez-faire, small-state believers who subscribe
  
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• Washing your hair with mineral water or champagne – what lengths would you go to?

  14-05-2017 19:00
  
  Star hairdresser Sam McKnight has suggested that people should wash their hair with bottled water – welcome to beauty’s new battlegroundSam McKnight is one of the most famous hairdressers in the world. His clients have included Princess Diana, Kate Moss and Madonna. So when he tells you to wash your hair in bottled water, you wash your hair in bottled water.In an interview in the current issue of Fantastic Man magazine, McKnight claims that rinsing your hair, post-shampoo, in mineral
  
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• This Italian Charter Yacht Is the Ultimate Beach-House Party Pad at Sea

  14-05-2017 19:00
  
  The 142-foot Mondomarine superyacht Bina has everything you need for a Mediterranean summer escape…Bailey S. Barnard
  
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• No! Sushi – the parasitic nightmare in your lunchbox

  14-05-2017 19:00
  
  Don’t fancy a worm with your nigiri? Freezing or cooking the fish is the answerName: Sushi worms.Age: Let’s just say that, by the time you meet one, it will have been around the block a few times. Continue reading...
  
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• Katz's Deli to offer a taste of a its famous menu - by mail

  14-05-2017 17:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Katz's Delicatessen has been urging customers to "send a salami to your boy in the Army" for generations. Now, the New York City restaurant, where everyone's favourite ......
  
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• NYC’s Waterline Square Project Features 100,000 Square Feet of Amenities

  14-05-2017 17:00
  
  The residential development includes a rock climbing wall, skate park, gardening studio, and art studio…Rebekah Bell
  
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• The 2017 Quail Motorcycle Gathering Showcases Top Two-Wheel Treasures

  14-05-2017 15:00
  
  The 9th annual bike festival brought out some of the very best examples from throughout the decades…Jeff Buchanan
  
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• Schools brace for impact if Congress cuts Medicaid spending

  14-05-2017 14:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  For school districts still getting their financial footing after the Great Recession, the Medicaid changes being advanced as part of the health care overhaul are sounding familiar alarms.Administrators say programming ......
  
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• In search of Burmese fish noodle soup in Yangon

  14-05-2017 13:30
  
  Myanmar’s unofficial dish, mohinga, is going upmarket – and nowadays you don’t even have to get up early to find itBurmese days: in the footsteps of George OrwellIn Myanmar, a land with more than 130 distinct ethnic groups and almost as many languages, there’s one thing that almost everybody can agree on: mohinga (fish noodle soup). Many Burmese still start their day with this rib-sticking working class staple. The unofficial national dish is served bobbing with vermicell
  
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• Elfies Headphones

  14-05-2017 12:24 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Sharpen your ears and liste up, you need this elf-like headphones but you just don’t know it yet. Perfect for listening to the Lord Of The Rings Soundtrack while slurping a matcha latte. Stick out your green tongue at everyone who stares longer than 5 minutes, then they know your the elf boss!
  We’re currently working non stop out of cafes while traveling Vietnam and I’m so sick of blasting brainless pop music. So sick of it. I wish these headphones would instead of playing mus
  
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• Nigel Slater’s steamed bream and baked sea bass recipes

  14-05-2017 10:00
  
  Flavour your fish with ginger and chilli or bake it over sweet tomatoes, but cook it whole to impress your guestsA whole fish is a splendid thing to bring to the table. Steamed, Chinese style with ginger, chillies and spring onions perhaps, or baked with the flavours of the Mediterranean, tomatoes, onions, olives and anchovies. Both have been on the table this week, a whole bream and a sea bass, each fish just enough for two.The bream was steamed in the classic style with just a few aromatics &n
  
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• Bulletproof Coffee’s Dave Asprey: why healthy eating and exercise aren’t enough

  14-05-2017 09:30
  
  The tech entrepreneur was once overweight and unfocused. Now his ‘brain‑boosting’ diet has made him the toast of Silicon ValleyDave Asprey, 43, is best known for his concoction Bulletproof Coffee, the go-to caffeine kick of Silicon Valley, Hollywood and David Beckham. A Guinness-dense combination of coffee, two tablespoons of butter and a product he markets called Brain Octane Oil, a triglyceride oil derived from coconut oil, the recipe was inspired by Tibetan yak-butter tea. B
  
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• Lloyds has lost my US dollar cheque, jeopardising a property purchase

  14-05-2017 08:00
  
  I wanted to use the inheritance money towards a shop but now the seller may withdrawI have been trying to cash a US cheque for just over $100,000 (£77,300), left to me in America by my late father but Lloyds bank has lost it, and now I fear a shop I was hoping to buy with this money will also be lost. Lloyds was to open a dollar account for me, and we agreed I would go to my local branch with ID and pay in the cheque at the same time. I did this in late February and, luckily, asked fo
  
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• Who says Naples knows pizza best? Welcome to the Las Vegas Expo

  14-05-2017 07:00
  
  Every year thousands of the world’s top pizzerati flock to Nevada for a massive trade fair and pizza blowoutThe world’s biggest pizza trade fair is not held in Naples or even Rome, but Las Vegas. Here 8,000 of the world’s pizzerati gather to catch up with friends, spy on the opposition and seek marginal competitive advantages. They attend seminars called things like “Pizza Crust Boot Camp, Part 1: Technical” or “Menu Labelling: Is It Right For You?” What
  
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• The eco guide to green lawns

  14-05-2017 07:00
  
  Manicured grass comes at a heavy cost in terms of pollution from pesticides. We need better legislation, and wildflowers happily mixed with the turfAs contenders for the 12th Britain’s Best Lawn competition will know, with a great lawn comes great responsibility. Despite the fact that the winner receives a lithium-ion-battery, self-propelled lawnmower (far more eco than a petrol version), lawn-keeping typically involves a shed-load of pesticides and herbicides.The Mormon temple in LA let i
  
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• Rich is relative: how well-off do you feel? | Daniel Glaser

  14-05-2017 07:00
  
  Wealth should be measured like sound because it depends on our perceptionAccording to the London School of Economics, even the highest paid people in the country – the top 1% – don’t feel particularly well-off. This is because they compare themselves with the 0.1% super rich - one usually works for the other.Similarly John McDonnell caused outrage a few weeks ago when he defined those earning more than £70,000 or more as ‘the rich’. Neuroscientists wouldn&rsqu
  
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• Radici, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  14-05-2017 07:00
  
  Chef Francesco Mazzei has always been wildly brilliant, but he has never before been good value. Lucky us…Radici, 30 Almeida Street, London N1 1AD (020 7354 4777). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £40 to £120There is one dish on the menu at Radici, a new Italian in London’s Islington, which sums up the restaurant. It is listed under “Primi” as “taglierini, fagioli and pancetta”. That’s ribbons of a thin tagliatelle-style pasta, wh
  
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• On the bright side: a colourful restoration in Whitley Bay

  14-05-2017 07:00
  
  How one young mum turned a nondescript Victorian terrace house into a cosy family home, and herself into an interior designerWhile buying even a studio flat is a pipe dream for many first-time buyers in London, living in the most affordable region of England has enabled first-time buyers Steph and Si Lumsdon to leap several rungs up the property ladder. In 2011 the pair swapped their rented Newcastle flat for a four-bedroom Victorian terrace in Whitley Bay, costing £189,000. They have spen
  
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• Love Pimm's? Grow your own cocktail garnishes

  14-05-2017 07:00
  
  Fond of a Bloody Mary, a G&T, a few mojitos? Grow all the aromatics you need in a few small potsIt happens every year. One weekend of T-shirt weather and like clockwork my non-gardening mates start asking for ideas about what to plant on their tiny patios. The brief is almost always for low maintenance and ornamental, but above all, edible, too. So instead of me having to repeat myself in the pub, at work and on Facebook all week, here are some easy-care ideas for containers stuffed full of
  
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• Knowing how others see us is the key to happiness | Tasha Eurich

  14-05-2017 07:00
  
  The relentless ‘me’ focus of our lives misses a crucial stepThe most important, and yet least examined, determinant of success or failure – at work and in life – is self-awareness. The ability to understand who we are, how others see us, and how we fit into the world.Plato instructed us to “know thyself”, while psychologists have argued that this skill is at the core of human survival and advancement. For millions of years, the ancestors of Homo sapiens evolve
  
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• It’s good to talk about mental health. But is it enough? | Eva Wiseman

  14-05-2017 07:00
  
  With Princes William and Harry speaking up about the death of their mother, mental health awareness has had a much needed boost. But it’s what happens next that really countsMy toddler has recently learned to talk, and she speaks as if she’s recording her podcast, an unedited till roll of thoughts with a small pause for congratulations at the end. Occasionally she will prod me for praise. “That was a lovely story I just told wasn’t it?” Yes baby. “I piggy pard
  
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• Power to surprise: wines from the South Americas | David Williams

  14-05-2017 06:59
  
  The southern Americas have a reputation for churning out gluggable plonk, but here are some alternative, experimental wines which will set your tongue waggingBodegas Garzón Colinas Albariño, Maldonado, Uruguay 2016 (£8, Sainsbury’s) One of the wine world’s more curious historical developments is the one that has seen South American neighbours Argentina and Uruguay make their name with two of southwest France’s more obscure grape varieties. Argentina has been
  
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• I chucked my son’s girlfriend out and he won’t forgive me

  14-05-2017 06:59
  
  A woman still haunted by an argument from years ago wonders what to do. Mariella Frostrup says it’s high time to eat humble pieThe dilemma Many years ago, when my son was 18, he met a girl who had a young baby. When the child was three years old, I was asked to babysit. I was delighted and we had fun decorating my Christmas tree before I put the little boy to sleep in the double bed that my son and his girlfriend would be returning to. I was woken by him crying for his mum so I lay on the
  
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• Aman’s Private Jet Wellness Journeys Are the Ultimate Spa Vacations

  14-05-2017 01:00
  
  Aman is taking wellness to knew heights with its new wellness journeys via private jet…Jenny Adams
  
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• Watch of the Week: Vacheron Constantin Traditionnelle Chronograph Perpetual Calendar

  14-05-2017 00:00
  
  Vacheron’s longstanding mainstay saw a refresh this past fall, and is headed for boutiques this month…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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