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• Gallery owner alleges major US Western art sale defamed him

  03-06-2017 17:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  RENO, Nev. - With Western American art long dismissed as unworthy of the fine art world, few collectors would have even cared 25 years ago if an early 20th century ......
  
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• Jeremy Lee’s recipes for elderflower sorbet and pistachio biscuits | King of puddings

  03-06-2017 13:00
  
  A few bags of elder blooms can quickly become a refreshing cordial. But far more enticing on a hot summer’s day is a cooling sorbet with a pistachio biscuit companionInvariably, they arrive after a hot, sunny weekend, in a great bag delivered by my friend. His cheeks are ruddied by the sun, having the previous day unleashed his children on an unsuspecting elder – the tree that is, not a statesman, though given the current political climate, it’s quite tempting – with the
  
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• Top 10 restaurants and bistros in Zagreb

  03-06-2017 12:00
  
  Croatia’s capital is bursting with good-value places to eat and drink. And new flights from the UK have made getting there cheaper tooThe epicentre of Zagreb’s bistro revolution is busy Nikole Tesle street, whose pavements almost exclusively contain restaurant terraces. Bistroteka particularly excels at breakfast. For health, order millet flakes, chia seeds, apples and cinnamon; for indulgence, poached eggs on toast beside cream cheese, spinach and bacon.
  • From £2.50, Nik
  
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• Plant of the week: foxglove

  03-06-2017 12:00
  
  These native woodlanders are a cottage garden classicAh, the dreaming spires of foxgloves, the cottage garden classic that evokes an age when watering cans were galvanised and compost came not from B&Q, but a heap. These native woodlanders have a biennial lifecycle, springing up one year, then flowering, seeding and dying the next. Continue reading...
  
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• 'It was quasi-religious': the great self-esteem con

  03-06-2017 12:00
  
  In the 1980s, Californian politician John Vasconcellos set up a task force to promote high self-esteem as the answer to all social ills. But was his science based on a lie?In 2014, a heartwarming letter sent to year 6 pupils at Barrowford primary school in Lancashire went viral. Handed out with their Key Stage 2 exam results, it reassured them: “These tests do not always assess all of what it is that make each of you special and unique… They do not know that your friends count on yo
  
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• Ask Alys: is there a dog-resistant alternative to grass?

  03-06-2017 12:00
  
  Our gardening expert has the answer to all your garden-related questionsThe onslaught of my two labradors means I have paved over most of my lawn, but the remaining grass turns nasty even with frequent cleaning and raking. Can you suggest tough, flat, non-grass groundcover?
  Little will survive life as a dog run without some wear and tear. First, try reseeding with a grass mixture tolerant of heavy foot traffic. Two types might work – Superstar: Back Lawn mix from The Grass People; and Lawn
  
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• Alexa Chung on her new collection: ‘I deliberately went quite weird’

  03-06-2017 11:00
  
  As her fashion label launches, Alexa Chung recreates the looks of her favourite style icons You would really like Alexa Chung. She’s famous for having loads of celebrity mates and an It hairstyle and wearing quirky clothes, which perhaps doesn’t sound like your cup of tea, but you would. The celebrity mates and the hair and the quirky clothes are all part of her, but she is also the kind of woman who, when she puts on a black leather minidress that shows ridiculously long, slender le
  
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• A recipe for salted chocolate cookies from the kitchen of Miles Kirby | A cook's kitchen

  03-06-2017 11:00
  
  Caravan’s Miles Kirby battles tea-towel towers in pursuit of a clutter-free cooking space ... to make these chocolate butter cookiesWe redid our kitchen about two years ago, when my partner, René, was pregnant with Marlon. The building work wrapped up the day before we got back from the hospital with him. We somehow always seem to do that – we didn’t have a working bathroom when we got back from the hospital with our eldest, Eli; not a great idea with a newborn …
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for quick-pickled onions

  03-06-2017 10:00
  
  Transform your onions with a quick bath in something sourIt’s a great luxury to be able to make things because we want to, rather than because we need to. And if, like me, you love the intense taste and particular texture of pickles and ferments in all their guises, from kimchi and sauerkraut to gherkins and piccalilli, there’s no limit to what you can do with a spare onion, cucumber or cabbage.While most pickles and ferments need (quite of bit of) time, the best tool in my sharp-sal
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the failed political candidate

  03-06-2017 10:00
  
  ‘What really hurts is that my oppenent did almost nothing. Yet she still won’I’ve put everything into this: I have forfeited time with family and friends, sleep and any semblance of normal life. Now the constant flow of work in my “spare time”– emails, sending press releases, knocking on doors – has stopped, leaving a void.I’ve been doing two jobs at once and I’m exhausted. People expect you to be in the community, campaigning,
  
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• ‘I wake at 2am worrying about the children’: the headteachers leaving Britain's schools

  03-06-2017 10:00
  
  Too little money, too many tests: senior staff talk frankly about life on education’s frontlineIt’s five in the afternoon at the Forest school, a boys’ comprehensive near Wokingham, Berkshire, and most of the staff and students have gone for the day. But headteacher Mary Sandell is still in her office, as she is every day. The room, with its slatted blinds and motivational messages – “Make your mark on the world”; “Keep your promises” – is th
  
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• Modern tribes: the sports day parent

  03-06-2017 09:00
  
  You know I’m not even sure mothers’ races set a good example for kids, all the coming first and body shaming that goes on?Oh my goodness, me? Run? You are joking, aren’t you? No, honestly, I’m so unfit, look at the state of me, practically expired getting here from the car park, no, I think I’ll sit this one out, thanks very much. God, look at her doing stretches in her leggings and everything, anyone would think it actually mattered. The last co
  
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• Beauty: sheer tan washes | Sali Hughes

  03-06-2017 09:00
  
  Products to perk up your summer face with a sheer wash of colour‘Shall we warm you up a bit?” This statement, so commonly uttered before brands focused as heavily on counter staff training, was always one that made my heart sink. It was an invitation to wear a foundation that was too dark, ostensibly to look “healthier”, but that in practice gave women two-tone heads and the outward impression of being a good five years older. The job of foundation is not to change the co
  
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• Which country won no golds when it hosted the Summer Olympics? The Weekend quiz

  03-06-2017 08:00
  
  From the Battle of Salamis to Fat Bob, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Who perished while her aunt watched The Second Mrs Tanqueray?
  2 The SRY gene helps determine what?
  3 Which song was partly inspired by a Lancashire council road survey?
  4 Which country won no golds when it hosted the Summer Olympics?
  5 What major 70s industrial dispute centred on a film processing lab?
  6 Which playwright fought at the Battle of Salamis?
  7 Who was found in Gough’s Cave, Somerset in 1903?
  8 Wha
  
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• 'I have little doubt your daughter should leave' – our work expert responds

  03-06-2017 08:00
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – help a parent whose daughter’s health is being affected by her job and a 72-year-old who wants to keep on working
  My daughter works for a private ­company in the care industry. She is a compliance manager for vulnerable people who live in their own homes with tailored support. She started with the company about five years ago and rose from being a carer to a manager.Continue reading...
  
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• Should we replace our old iPad 2 with an Amazon Fire?

  03-06-2017 07:59
  
  The Fire seems to offer all we need, or should we stump up for another iPad?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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• I fear skunk has claimed our son – but his siblings come to the rescue

  03-06-2017 07:45
  
  He leaves the house without telling me where he’s going and stays out all night, but his elder siblings are being vigilantOur house is filled with tattooed and pierced twentysomethings. Guitars are propped against walls. There is loud piano-playing. But none of the children is living the rock’n’roll lifestyle. Megan is teetotal, preferring herbal tea to vodka, and when Lily isn’t at a gig, she likes an early night with a good book. They are all past their teenage rebellio
  
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• A letter to … my husband, who copes with my anxiety disorder

  03-06-2017 07:45
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeYou have always known that I struggle with anxiety. At some stages of our life together, I have been paralysed by it, living it, breathing it but seeing little else, including you. My anxiety can stifle our time together. In my worst moments I constantly seek reassurance, I display symptoms of OCD and hyperventilate. I often wonder how you have managed to see the person beyond the anxiety, how you have tolerated me and stayed.When things are on a more even ke
  
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• How my mother was resurrected in my garden

  03-06-2017 07:44
  
  As a child, Barney Bardsley could not understand her mother’s passion for gardening. Now, she rejoices in its ability to evoke memories of loved onesIt was the hollyhock that did it: just a small green plant, carried home from the garden centre a couple of weeks ago and placed in the ground. A promise on the label, of scarlet flowers – bold and sassy – to come. But the memory it triggered, sweet as the smell of the spring soil I was digging, was sudden and unexpected:
  
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• Family life: my mum, dad and sister during the war; Freedom by Wham!; my mother’s scone treats

  03-06-2017 07:44
  
  Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesThis photo was taken in Stickney, Lincolnshire during the war. My mum, dad and sister were reunited after my dad returned from the evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940. He was a private in the British Expeditionary Force in France and had retreated to Dunkirk. He was on the beach for days before being given the order to line up and wade into the sea to be picked up by a small boat. Fortunately, he was a strong swimmer, because when a boat eventuall
  
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• Journalism isn't easy -- not when there's a press covfefe

  03-06-2017 07:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Every once in a while I like to use this column to give readers a glimpse of the high-pressure world inhabited by big-shot newspaper columnists such as myself.For instance, there ......
  
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• My dad’s murder didn’t break me

  03-06-2017 07:30
  
  When Mark Lemon was 12, his father was killed. Even at such a young age he knew he had to make peace with himself in order to have a futureOn Tuesday 12 May 1992, my father was murdered and my world changed for ever.At 3pm, a teacher came to my classroom to tell me my mother had requested that I go home urgently. I will never forget that heart-sinking feeling at the thought that something terrible had happened. I arrived home to be greeted by police cars and the sound of my sister crying in the
  
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• Bread and heaven: how compromising over food can save a marriage

  03-06-2017 07:30
  
  My mother wouldn’t throw out leftover baguette but my father hated the dry, hard remnants. Their solution was bizarre, but preserved their relationshipTwo years after the end of the war, but still during rationing, my parents married. They had never lived together, or even had sex; people didn’t in those days. They had spent a few weeks for a couple of summers under the close observation of my grandparents. And then, the next September, there they were married and on their way t
  
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• Why I’m making my family German

  03-06-2017 07:15
  
  Deeply unhappy at the EU referendum result last June, Amelia Hill applied for dual nationality for her and her children – returning to the German roots that her grandparents fled from during the 1930sLast week, I celebrated my daughter’s second birthday by making her German. Instead of eating birthday cake and pulling party poppers, she spent the day twirling round various waiting rooms at the German embassy in London, as I put the finishing touches to sheaves of paperwork, even
  
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• Why I love... Angela Bassett

  03-06-2017 07:00
  
  I am still waiting for the day Hollywood realises how it’s shortchanged herMy mother’s family is a parade of sharp cheekbones in shifting hues of brown. It became clear that I had inherited them in my 20s, and now, finally, I look a bit like my mum, my number one cheekbone inspiration. There is a non-familial second choice, though: American actor Angela Bassett, aka one of the few unrelated women I wish was an aunt.Bassett, 58, is hard to miss, as I discovere
  
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• Tim Dowling: Unbelievably, the day of the youngest’s 18th birthday has arrived

  03-06-2017 07:00
  
  ‘Happy birthday,’ I say. ‘You’re society’s problem now’I am on my knees with my head inside the cupboard under the stairs, extracting items of varying degrees of uselessness: a broken tent, a single boxing glove, a case for a long-lost guitar. Stuff piles up around me, but there is plenty more to come; the cupboard’s floor is 2ft lower than the hall floor and I need to dig all the way to the bottom.Below the bag of mismatched wellies, things get a bit se
  
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• How I came face to face with my dead father’s brain

  03-06-2017 07:00
  
  Miranda Doyle’s father left his brain to science. Shocked by revelations about him after his death, she went to see the donated organ, in the hope it would somehow shed light on his deceitI make the decision that I must see what is left of my father. His brain lies in Glasgow’s Southern General hospital, donated to the team who work on glioblastoma multiforme, a devastating cancer that has a survival rate of 15 months at best. Offered a place on a treatment study, he took it, an
  
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• Blind date: ‘I thought he was joking when he said he’s a Cliff Richard fan’

  03-06-2017 07:00
  
  Did energy consultant Martin, 36, and copywriter Almaz, 28, hit it off?What were you hoping for?Sparkling company, laughter and a relaxed evening. Continue reading...
  
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• Report: 14 poisoned by 'death cap' mushrooms in California

  03-06-2017 02:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - A new report says 14 people were poisoned after eating "death cap" mushrooms last year in the greater San Francisco Bay Area.Most recovered but three people needed ......
  
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• Original Disneyland map could fetch $900,000 at LA auction

  03-06-2017 02:05
  
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney's first map of his planned Disneyland theme park in Southern California is going up for sale in June and could fetch up to $900,000, auctioneers said on Friday.
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,687

  03-06-2017 01:00
  
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• Supreme strength: Justice Ginsburg's workout becomes a book

  03-06-2017 00:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Jane Fonda, Richard Simmons and Ruth Bader Ginsburg?The 84-year-old Supreme Court justice is about to join the ranks of workout superstars with a book about her exercise routine. ......
  
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