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• Hundreds of thousands rally for LGBTI rights in Madrid

  01-07-2017 22:31 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MADRID - Hundreds of thousands of people marched Saturday in a global gay pride demonstration in Madrid under tight security, and a parade of 52 floats took the festivities through ......
  
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• Hundreds of thousands rally for LGTBI rights in Madrid

  01-07-2017 18:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MADRID - Hundreds of thousands of people are marching in a global gay pride demonstration in Madrid under tight security measures.The rally Saturday calling for LGTBI rights to be extended ......
  
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• Prices rise, partitions fall under new Utah liquor law

  01-07-2017 18:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY - A trendy downtown Salt Lake City seafood restaurant started business Saturday with glass-smashing and champagne, a symbolic gesture in its emancipation from Utah's so-called "Zion Curtains" ......
  
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• Shaun Ryder: ‘It was cycling that got me off drugs’

  01-07-2017 15:00
  
  The Black Grape frontman, 55, on fatherhood and family life, coping with panic attacks and the truth about UFOsI left school without knowing my alphabet. By age 13 I was working on a building site with my mates. It was a different world in Manchester back then. Dinner time was watching strippers in the pub. Bernard Manning would come in and tell some jokes.The Happy Mondays were different to everything else. If anything started to sound familiar we’d scrap it. We’d be on to something
  
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• Roses: ‘This is the best time for gazing, sniffing and falling in love with them’

  01-07-2017 12:00
  
  Everything you need to know about the nation’s favourite flowersEveryone has known a rose. Perhaps your nana grew one from which she would snip the odd blowsy bloom to place in a little vase on the windowsill above her sink, or your landlord’s slack garden maintenance meant mornings dodging wet droplets hanging from sodden flowers along a rainy garden path. Maybe you once plucked soft, cool handfuls of petals to stuff into bottles to make perfume that sat and turned rank a 
  
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• Plant of the week: bronze fennel

  01-07-2017 12:00
  
  This plant ticks all the boxes for a garden all-rounderThis plant ticks all the boxes for a garden all-rounder. For a start, it’s edible. And it’s a fast mover, popping up in spring after a winter rest and quickly reaching a height and spread of around 2m x 1m. The ferny, purple-brown foliage adds height and elegance to a border, and the yellow flowers in midsummer are irresistible to bees and hoverflies. Continue reading...
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s avocado recipes

  01-07-2017 10:00
  
  There’s something magical about the way you can turn a ripe avocado into a winning dishMy uncle used to have an avocado tree in his garden, and my hazy childhood memories are of an ever-fruiting tree, stooped in the middle of the lawn, with clusters of hefty fruit permanently threatening to bring it down. The bunches lay so low that, even as small children, we could reach them pretty easily. I am not sure why we bothered, though: avocados don’t really ripen on the tree, and the fruit
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the Viagra user

  01-07-2017 10:00
  
  At first it was half a pill. After six months, two-thirds. Then three-quarters, until finally I had to take a whole oneWe have had a good sexual relationship for nearly 50 years – not bad going when you’re in your 70s. After three children came the contraceptive pill, a wonderful period in our relationship. You felt completely free to enjoy making love, and the pill relaxed you so much that reaching orgasm was scarcely ever a problem. Then the menopause arrived and the pill could be
  
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• Vogue has a new editor. Bad news, it's not me – but here's my advice | Hadley Freeman

  01-07-2017 10:00
  
  Listen up, Edward Enninful: British style is about so much more than rich people and skinny modelsLast week the British Vogue editor of 25 years standing, Alexandra Shulman, held her leaving party, which means the new editor is now incoming and, astonishingly, it is not me. The high-ups at the magazine’s publisher, Condé Nast, decided to go with Edward Enninful, an internationally respected fashion editor-stylist with an OBE, as opposed to someone who makes jokes about skinny jeans
  
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• Swearing ban: Samuel Smith pub boss calls time on bad language

  01-07-2017 09:00
  
  Humphrey Smith, 72, rarely talks to media and expects the same of staff. But a picture of an eccentric owner has begun to emergeFor most, overhearing the odd profanity is expected when going for an evening tipple at their local pub. But for punters at Samuel Smith watering holes, swearwords are strictly off the menu.The owner of the 300-strong chain, 72-year-old Humphrey Smith, has introduced a no-swearing policy at every one of his establishments, and last week it was enforced in dramatic fashi
  
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• Modern tribes: the diet guru

  01-07-2017 09:00
  
  I met 150-year-olds whose longevity can only be explained by the healing power of locally harvested lardAs a top scientist, I grew up believing in low-fat. Yes, for years I trusted the research, ate fruits and grains and shunned tempting doughnuts, in the firm belief this would keep my body strong. I even wrote books about it! But here’s the thing. Although I looked trim and healthy and – some say – fiendishly attractive on the outside, inside my organs were pallid and mis
  
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• Beauty: the best summery nails | Sali Hughes

  01-07-2017 09:00
  
  With a sheer multichrome, you get a peep of what lies naturally beneath without sacrificing all colour and prettinessFor someone whose nails are almost never unpainted, I’m decidedly unadventurous. With the best of intentions, I’ll lustily examine all the beautiful, bright, multi-finish colours on the manicurist’s sample fob, or in my bedroom drawer, and invariably plump for some variation on red.But summer is a time to take stock and embrace lightness and, being ever suggestib
  
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• What’s a good city break for a special anniversary?

  01-07-2017 08:00
  
  We’re seeking undiscovered gemsEvery 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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• What links Rachel Weisz, Julie Christie, Tippi Hedren and Joan Fontaine? The Weekend quiz

  01-07-2017 08:00
  
  From an impact crater to a goblin, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Who is the only one of the Forbes 400 richest Americans to be convicted of murder?
  2 Caloris is the largest impact crater on which planet?
  3 Who was the subject of Virginia Woolf’s biography Flush?
  4 The Tobin tax is a proposed levy on what?
  5 Where are Korotkoff sounds produced?
  6 Who opened the first Casa dei Bambini in Rome in 1907?
  7 What was defined as 1/10,000,000th of the distance from the equator to the n
  
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• My workout: ‘Being out on the water, surrounded by natural beauty, is amazing’

  01-07-2017 08:00
  
  Nicky Collins, 43, on the satisfaction she gets from paddleboardingI grew up in Poole, but I was never into water sports when I was younger. Back then I preferred to spend my time and money on clothes and going out rather than exercise. But when I moved back to Poole three years ago, after 14 years away, one of the first things I did was to book a stand-up paddleboard (Sup) lesson. I instantly fell in love with it. Being on the water, surrounded by natural beauty, is amazing – it’s j
  
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• Jeremy Lee’s recipe for vanilla pots with raspberries

  01-07-2017 08:00
  
  What evokes summer more than vanilla ice-cream and a punnet of raspberries? Go one better with a baked custard pot served with raspberry sauceWho ate all the ice-cream? This is all I had for lunch!” cries our beleaguered pudding chef, all too often. On warm summer days, he fights off steamy cooks, who seek out bowls of cooling ice-cream to soothe them in the heat of the kitchen.There is rarely any pity for the pudding cook, just hoots of laughter and an outstretched hand for more. I am as
  
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• ‘I wish you all the best in the world of work’ – our work expert’s final response

  01-07-2017 07:59
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – help someone thinking of a career change, and Jeremy bids goodbye after 12 yearsSince being made redundant some years ago I have freelanced, but work has all but dried up and it is time to get a full-time job. However, I also intend to retrain and do a lot of volunteering to that end, as without voluntary experience I cannot get on the necessary postgraduate training programme. I also intend to do a distance learning course. Continue reading
  
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• I’m fooled into believing I’m a twentysomething like my kids

  01-07-2017 07:45
  
  An attractive young man I was talking to wasn’t flirting, just being polite. I am the mother figure in this scenario. How could I have thought otherwise?A certain amount of morphing occurs when you live cheek by jowl with others. I have begun to be influenced by my adult children’s sartorial style, and to adopt some of their mannerisms and phrases. I listen to their music. And until I’m confronted with the brutal truth in the mirror, it is easy to kid myself that I look like th
  
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• Family life: My daughters’ first Glastonbury; Hoover Dam by Sugar; My grandad’s beetroot salad

  01-07-2017 07:44
  
  Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesThe last time I went to the Glastonbury festival was in 1990 when the Cure were headlining on the Saturday night – I remember this because they played their song 10.15 Saturday Night at … 10.15pm on a Saturday night. But then again, for a while my friends and I were convinced that an entirely not-at-all-similar-looking group called African Head Charge were the Cure until we realised our mistake (don’t ask and I won’t
  
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• A letter to … my husband, who has a mind all of his own

  01-07-2017 07:44
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeIt has taken me 30-odd years of marriage to realise this, but the clues have always been there. There are the many car journeys where you will drive, and I will spend hours bashing the console and rearranging the door-pocket, in search of a minute noise that I can hardly hear but that is driving you mad.Or there are the special dinners I cook for you, after which you will say, “Not my favourite.” At my hurt look, you will add: “Well, if I sa
  
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• Tracy-Ann Oberman: To my great-grandmother, Fiddler on the Roof was documentary

  01-07-2017 07:30
  
  For many years, the actor struggled with her Jewish identity. But now, as she’s about to star in a new stage version of Fiddler on the Roof, she tells Thomas Harding how she came to embrace her rootsAs a child, when Tracy-Ann Oberman watched Fiddler on the Roof, her great-grandmother Annie would say, “This is like a documentary.” The village of Anatevka in the movie was just like the shtetl where she grew up. Her father had been brutally beaten in an anti-Jewish pogrom. She had
  
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• In Colorado I learned to cook – and fell in love with the United States

  01-07-2017 07:30
  
  I discovered heaven across the pond … with shops as big as Harrods all on one floor, brighter lights and the enticing aroma of flame-broiled chicken and key lime pieOne spring, when I was 11, my mother stuck a pin in a map and said, “Boulder, Colorado”.She was planning our summer holiday, believing my dad’s distinction as a mathematician was such that he could invite himself, like Henry VIII, pretty much anywhere and the locals would have to say yes. Sadly
  
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• How much do your kids really need to know about your sex life?

  01-07-2017 07:15
  
  After splitting up with her husband, Sylvia Brownrigg faced a dilemma. Should she tell her children about any new relationships, or her past one with a woman? Would they even be interested?A couple of things are reliably true about kids: they start out being wonderfully self-centred; and they don’t – they really DO NOT – want to imagine their parents having sex lives.Every parent has seen the egocentrism that the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget identified in childhood developmen
  
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• Why I love… SZA

  01-07-2017 07:00
  
  Her voice swings between self-consciously raspy and whisper-soft, with a hint of something not quite of this realmI’ve just realised that I’ve already bought more music this year than I did in all of 2016. It’s not that I have suddenly developed an appreciation of previously unexplored genres (on the contrary, I have become even more entrenched in loving what I already do) but there has been a lot of excellent music in 2017.And as we ease into the second half of the year, there
  
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• Lonely? It’s time to brush up your intimacy skills

  01-07-2017 07:00
  
  Improving our ability to be more intimate in relationships is just another skill, like learning a language, says the neuroscientist Giovanni FrazzettoGiovanni Frazzetto speaks with a thin voice, barely louder than our footsteps; we are walking around St Stephen’s Green in Dublin. To hear, I have to lean in. At first I think he’s shy, but he’s an intimacy expert so maybe talking quietly is a device to bring us closer. After all, there is a loneliness epidemic and
  
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• Blind date: ‘Did I mention he gets free chocolate?’

  01-07-2017 07:00
  
  Daniel, 23, chocolate scientist, meets Cecily, 23, occupational therapistWhat were you hoping for?
  A fun evening, and a story to tell the family. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,711

  01-07-2017 01:00
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,238

  01-07-2017 01:00
  
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