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• Back-to-school stationery a distraction for some in the classroom

  03-09-2017 19:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - Post-it notes with emojis. Locker magnets shaped like pizza and poop. Pencil boxes featuring T.rex. These are some of the many back-to-school items currently sitting on the shelves ......
  
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• Insider Q&A: Babies R Us wants to reconnect with parents

  03-09-2017 18:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Babies R Us wants to be a parent's best friend again.The crib and car seat seller is adding more classes at its stores, revamping ads to show ...
  
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• Brew period: the craft beer labels that are works of art

  03-09-2017 16:00
  Independent brewers haven’t just ripped up the rules on flavour – they have transformed beer packaging, too. Labels and cans are mini masterpieces – and the new aesthetic is asexual, inclusive and urbanWith its barrel-aged stouts and gooseberry saisons, craft beer has transformed British beer. But that revolution has not solely been about flavour. It has been aesthetic, too. Beer cans are now a canvas for dazzling, cutting-edge design, and this golden age for beer art is celebr
  
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• Drug users say methadone formula switch contributed to B.C.'s opioid crisis

  03-09-2017 13:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  VANCOUVER - Drug users trying to quit heroin are gathered for a meeting in Vancouver with one mission in mind: to support each other through the struggles of a reformulated ......
  
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• Eau de torment: living with scent intolerance

  03-09-2017 09:30
  One sniff and Orange prize-winning novelist Kate Grenville’s head would start to throb. Could she really be intolerant to... perfume?One night in 2015, travelling around Australia on a book tour, I lay on my bed in the room of a posh hotel admiring the job I’d done on the door. Wide packaging tape sealed the crack where the door met the jamb, and a damp towel was wedged against the bottom.If a person from housekeeping had knocked and then heard the sound of ripping tape before the do
  
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• Health kick in Croatia: a paleo regime on the luscious Adriatic coast

  03-09-2017 08:00
  The path to health and fitness doesn’t have to mean tough love. This seaside break provides fresh seafood, rest, relaxation – and a visit to a Game of Thrones location
  The first relief: there is coffee. The cave-dwellers inspiring the version of the paleo regime on offer at Hotel Ola, a stone’s throw from Split airport, clearly needed their morning pick-me-up as much as I do. Also, they obviously appreciated a modest glass of wine now and again, which is surely fair, given that
  
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• I’m a doctor trying to diagnose why I’m still on BT’s waiting list

  03-09-2017 07:59
  I’ve had to take time off and pay for cover to wait in for a landline engineer, but no one ever turns upIn May I placed an order for a new connection with BT for a phone line to a new-build property and was told it would happen on 1 June.I am a GP so took the day off work to be at home in order to allow the engineer access to the property. No one turned up and, after many calls to the company, I was eventually given a new date three weeks later. This was then shifted two weeks further on i
  
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• The hidden costs of vanity

  03-09-2017 07:00
  Emmanuel Macron spends nearly €10,000 a month on make-up; meanwhile Zadie Smith tells her daughter not to waste time doing her faceIt costs a lot to look this political. Emmanuel Macron’s personal make-up artist recently filed two claims for payment: one for €10,000 (£9,200) and one for €16,000 (£14,740) – both for doing his make-up for press conferences. The claims cover his first three months in office, meaning he’s been spending almost €10,000
  
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• The brilliant indoor benefits of LED grow lights

  03-09-2017 07:00
  Grow lamps were once massive, power-hungry, expensive and hot. Meet the amazing new LEDsAs a self-confessed science geek I am fascinated by technology. Yet in the world of gardening this is often synonymous with the gimmicky (fibreglass meerkat solar light, anyone?) or the hugely complex and costly – think hydroponic growers that require a degree in electrical engineering to install. So it was with trepidation that I started experimenting with LED grow lights last winter in my tiny flat.Th
  
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• Nigel Slater’s grape and plum recipes

  03-09-2017 07:00
  Early autumn is the time to roast dark sweet muscat grapes and the season’s gorgeous plums before they disappearI put a bunch of grapes in the oven to roast, the dark, sweet muscat variety you only find in late summer and autumn. The bunch emerged, looking like it had spent time in a flower press, a thin layer of sticky syrup in the roasting tin. We ate the purple-black fruit, picking them from the stalk with sticky fingers, stirring their juices into iced rice pudding, thick with cream an
  
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• My nephew is disabled and it’s his mother’s fault | Dear Mariella

  03-09-2017 07:00
  Mariella Frostrup asks the sister-in-law of a woman whose home birth went horribly wrong why she is so full of anger and blameThe dilemma I have huge anger at my brother’s wife for her actions, which I feel are directly responsible for my nephew being handicapped. For her first birth she had an emergency C-section, but she then chose to have a Vbac (vaginal birth after ceasarean) home birth for her second child – against all recommendations from her doctor. The home birth went terrib
  
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• Life in a Modern masterpiece home

  03-09-2017 07:00
  A rare intact British Modernist house has been decorated as if the era never ended
  ‘It’s personal expression, not faithfully reproducing an era, that gives a home character,” muses Niki fforde, ushering me inside her restored 1960s home. The concertina door swishes open to reveal an avalanche of colour. A toe-cossetting aubergine carpet clambers up the navy-walled staircase. Acid-yellow upholstery fizzles against mustard walls. Add a peppering of contemporary art and furniture
  
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• Jean-Georges at the Connaught, London restaurant review

  03-09-2017 07:00
  Jean-Georges Vongerichten marries classic French and Asian flavours like no one else – but hits you hard in the wallet
  Jean-Georges at the Connaught, Carlos Place, London W1K 2AL (020 7107 8861). Full meal for two, including drinks and service: £175 - £275It’s the ease with which they do it, this blazered and Louboutined throng. With an airy wave of a manicured hand they order a £29 pizza as if it was the most normal thing in the world; as if it wasn’t an outr
  
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• Pétillant naturel, oxidised wines, skin contact – demystifying new wine terms

  03-09-2017 06:45
  Some winemakers are reviving old techniques, which introduce new textures and tastes, as well as opening up possibilities for food compatibilityEvery generation has its zeitgeist wine. For my parents’ generation, it was richly proportioned, oak-driven white wines made from chardonnay, and full-flavoured, high alcohol, broad-shouldered red wines made from shiraz and cabernet. As I entered the wine industry, I saw it embrace aromatic white wines made from sauvignon blanc and riesling, and li
  
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• Five ways to wear... a suit – in pictures

  03-09-2017 00:50
  A versatile suit is worth investing in. Fabric and cut are key for the perfect fit. Break the trousers and jacket up and it becomes even more versatile. With the right accessories, it can see you through more than the working week Continue reading...
  
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