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• American Apparel founder Dov Charney: ‘Sleeping with people you work with is unavoidable’

  10-09-2017 17:00
  Charney’s line in hipster fashion made him a multi-million dollar sensation until serial accusations of sexual harassment led to his downfall. Has the man who now sleeps on a mattress in his new factory changed his ways? Dov Charney, the man at least as famous for founding American Apparel as he is for being serially accused of sexual harassment, is showing me around his new factory in south central Los Angeles. As usual, he is talking at least as fast as he is walking.“See this shir
  
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• Ohio couple helps maintain yards of residents shamed online

  10-09-2017 16:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NILES, Ohio - An Ohio couple has stepped forward to help families shamed online for their unkempt yards.The Warren Tribune Chronicle reports Adam Jenyk and his wife, Chaelsie Adkins, saw ......
  
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• From pineapples to spaghetti – every era has had its own avocado toast

  10-09-2017 15:00
  The Instagram favourite is just the latest in a line of hip foods, with fondue and celery among its equally fashionable ancestorsThere has been much ado about avocado toast, the eminently Instagrammable breakfast food. Here’s the thing, though: every generation has had their own version of avocado toast. Every era has had an It food that has seized the popular imagination and taken a supersized bite out of people’s wallets. According to a recent article in Taste magazine, for example
  
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• Cats on a train! Japan railway lets felines roam to raise awareness of strays

  10-09-2017 14:01
  OGAKI, Japan (Reuters) - A Japanese civic group teamed up with a railway operator on Sunday to let some 30 cats roam on a local train at an event, hoping it will raise awareness of the culling of...
  
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• 'Non-drinkers deserve a great adult cocktail': how alcohol-free spirits became a stealth hit

  10-09-2017 14:00
  The number of British adults who consume alcohol is at its lowest since 2005, and a new generation of booze-free spirits offer a welcome alternative to lemonade. But which is better, a strawberry sour or an old fashioned made with ‘Whissin’?On a warm Sunday afternoon, hundreds of people are milling around what is usually the site of an antiques fair or farmers’ market in Bermondsey, south London. Today, it’s a festival dedicated to drinking. There’s live music, a He
  
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• Dutch engineer aims high with latest green roof design

  10-09-2017 12:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  AMSTERDAM - Standing between raised beds of plants on top of a former naval hospital, Joris Voeten can look across to the garden, cafe and terrace that decorate the sloping ......
  
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• Gabrielle Deydier: what it’s like to be fat in France

  10-09-2017 10:00
  Gabrielle Deydier’s book about being obese has ignited her native France. She tells Stefanie Marsh how her life has been a battle against ‘grossophobia’, discrimination and verbal abuse – until nowIn August 2015, 37-year-old Gabrielle Deydier went for a job interview which she passed with flying colours. The job was for a position as a teaching assistant at a Parisian special needs school and the interview panel, including the school’s headmaster, had been so impres
  
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• We got a sinking feeling as Bradford & Bingley cancelled our home insurance

  10-09-2017 07:59
  Mid contract, it told us we were now ‘unacceptable’We have paid Bradford & Bingley about £600 a year for our buildings and contents insurance since we bought our little terraced house 12 years ago, and renewed again last April. We then got a call from the insurer out of the blue to say it was discontinuing the cover in nine days because its underwriters, Legal & General, had said it was “unacceptable” to keep insuring us. We think it may be because we made t
  
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• Whiff of discontent as China bans imports of soft European cheese

  10-09-2017 07:05
  Delicacies such as brie and gorgonzola contain ‘too much bacteria’, officials say, sending expats scrambling to buy up remaining stocks Soft European cheese has fallen on hard times in China. Customs officials have banned a host of soft, mould-ripened cheese for containing “too much bacteria”, with authorities reportedly alarmed the mould contained colonies of bacteria that had not been officially approved.The ban mainly affects French and Italian cheese, including brie,
  
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• They’re houseplants, but not as we know them

  10-09-2017 07:00
  Banish your boring old aspidistras and grow something amazingThere is no reason why the onset of autumn needs to stop you getting your horticultural fix thanks to the wonders of houseplants. But if you’re looking for resilient, easycare species just a bit more exciting than the boring old aspidistra or sansevieria, here are a few super-quirky alternatives.Ant plants are a group of bizarre species from southeast Asia that have adapted to grow on the branches of trees, baked by sun and lashe
  
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• The Straight and Narrow, London: ‘Jazz was born in places like this’

  10-09-2017 07:00
  The music creates a great atmosphere, but the food hits the right notes, too
  The Straight and Narrow, 45 Narrow Street, London E14 (020 3745 8345). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £70- £100It is anthem night at the Straight and Narrow in Limehouse, and the piano player is working his way through Dancing Queen, Wuthering Heights and Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of The Heart. He has a boisterous left hand, does Vaughn George Eunson. It pushes the melody on, imploring
  
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• The lunchtime I spent with Michael Foot at Dylan Thomas's house

  10-09-2017 07:00
  It’s April 1997, west Wales, and a well-read old man with a shock of white hair wants to talk about a dear old friendIn a TV discussion about Michael Foot the other day, someone asked: “What drove him?” In a flash I remembered the day I drove him.Dylan Thomas used to come to my house in London in 1947 and sometimes we were sober and sometimes we weren’t Continue reading...
  
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• Riesling with sushi? Unexpectedly excellent wine and food combinations

  10-09-2017 07:00
  Everyone knows the classic pairings, now check out some of the marvellous new cross-cultural matchesMarsc Wine Co Barossa Frontignac, Australia 2016 (£10.99, Virgin Wines) In Europe, wine and food grew up together. That’s why pairings such as oysters and muscadet or tomato-based pasta and montepulciano go together so well: the wine is made with the local food in mind. For years, wine industries in the New World were effectively copies of the European blueprint, making European-style
  
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• Parents need a strength switch: to help them and their kids | Lea Waters

  10-09-2017 07:00
  Focusing on what children do well helps them to behave better – and you to parent well, says Lea WatersWhen will he ever learn? That was my thought as I arrived home and saw that my eight-year-old son Nick had failed to put away his new bicycle… again. The day before, I’d snapped: “I’m tired of reminding you about this!” Then, seeing his welcoming smile fade, I’d felt like a terrible parent.Why is it so hard to control the urge to criticise our children
  
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• Nigel Slater’s autumn vegetable recipes

  10-09-2017 07:00
  Marrows, damsons and late-season carrots and tomatoes… now’s the time to cook up the last of the summer crops
  Some vegetables mark the passing seasons more emphatically than others. None more so than the marrow, which has always had something of a back to school ring about it. The sight of a wooden crate of them at the vegetable shop this week heralded summer’s slow, delicious slide into autumn.We need our wits about us if we are not to miss the short-season fruit and vegetabl
  
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• JW Anderson: ‘We have to democratise fashion’

  10-09-2017 07:00
  Creating a new collection for Uniqlo was a labour of love for designer Jonathan Anderson, the man who oversees his own label and LoeweThere is an unnerving busy-ness to Jonathan Anderson: his daily schedule planned six months in advance, the small mountain of iPhones beside his coffee and the way his conversation slips from business ethics to the history of Japanese ceramics in the same sentence. But this is how the 32-year-old fashion designer, who oversees his own label as well as the Spanish
  
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• It's best to leave contraception to those who need it | Eva Wiseman

  10-09-2017 07:00
  A poorly judged apology and a grudging reduction in the cost of the morning-after pill means Boots ‘provoked more complaints’ than it bargained forI am reeling, reeling, at this week’s extreme version of the soulless apology, where the other person, their chin held up awfully proudly, says: “I’m so sorry,” but then, “…if you were upset.” A crapology, if you will. That poisonous “if”. It stays bitter, fizzes on your tongue like la
  
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• How can I stop my parents sending embarrassing emails? | Mariella Frostrup

  10-09-2017 07:00
  Cyberspace means everyone can publish their views, says Mariella. And parents are entitled to do that, tooThe dilemma My parents have gone on a long summer holiday and have started writing a weekly round-robin email. It contains the usual update on where they happen to be staying, but also absolutely cringe-worthy “reflections” on what life is like on the continent. Each week they email this out to 20-30 people, including some of my friends. I can’t help but feel they’re
  
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• Chin Chin's school prawns and flathead dtom kem recipes

  10-09-2017 03:04
  Melbourne’s favourite Thai restaurant lands in Sydney – and launches a cookbook of popular recipes, including fish and seafoodIf the mark of a top restaurant is lengthy queues around the block, Melbourne’s Chin Chin has had them consistently since the Thai restaurant opened in Flinders Lane in 2011. The devoted and the curious have continued to wait up to two hours for a table.
  Now at least some of those patient diners will be diverted to Sydney when a new Chin Chin opens in Su
  
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