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• Angela Missoni shows feather-light sheer knits in Milan

  23-09-2017 21:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MILAN - It's a season of celebration and commemoration at Milan Fashion Week, in its fourth day Saturday.Angela Missoni marks 20 years as creative director at the family-owned and -run ...
  
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• On the hunt: Lithuanians race to pick wild mushrooms

  23-09-2017 20:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  VARENA, Lithuania - Hundreds of Lithuanians have been running around with baskets and buckets in a southeastern pine forest.Why you ask? It's the national championship of wild mushroom picking — ......
  
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• Bottega Veneta's neoclassical look and Blumarine's boudoir on show in Milan

  23-09-2017 19:55
  MILAN (Reuters) - Bottega Veneta's neoclassical-inspired looks and Blumarine's delicate boudoir pieces took center-stage on Saturday, the fourth day of Milan fashion week.
  
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• Tattoos move into cultural mainstream

  23-09-2017 17:09
  LONDON (Reuters) - Mothers shopping with teenage children and parents pushing baby buggies joined the crowds of body art enthusiasts at this weekend's annual London Tattoo Convention, underscoring...
  
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• Bottega Veneta embraces the now at Milan Fashion Week

  23-09-2017 16:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MILAN - It's a season of celebration and commemoration at Milan Fashion Week, in its fourth day Saturday.Angela Missoni marks 20 years as creative director at the family-owned and -run ......
  
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• ’80s Bungalow Converted into Family Beach House in Sydney

  23-09-2017 14:00
  This waterfront villa in Palm Beach, Sydney, Australia, was recently transformed from an ’80s bungalow into an inviting family retreat. Alexander & Co Architects aimed for better circulation inside the building, corridors with a view and access to the water.“The dwelling, pushed back from the water’s edge, presented challenges, due to this lack of physical connection that was evident in neighboring properties,” the architects said. “The core idea
  
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• Inside a top chef's home kitchen: Tom Aikens | A cook’s kitchen

  23-09-2017 13:00
  Grandad’s sweet jar and a photo of top chefs in a foodfight are among the curios in Michelin-star chef Tom Aikens’ kitchenWe didn’t do anything to this place when we arrived five years ago. We were moving house, having our first child, and I was reopening a restaurant after a big refurbishment – it’s possibly the worst three things you could be doing at the same time in the space of two weeks. The kitchen was a little bit smaller than we’d have liked, but it w
  
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• A beginner’s guide to pickling

  23-09-2017 11:59
  Grown too many vegetables? Sick of making chutney? There is an alternative…Your harvests may have been bountiful, but by now you must be bored with making chutney. It’s time to embrace brine. With the help of salt water, a process known as lacto-fermentation can give surplus veg a new lease of life.Fermented foods are manna for good gut flora, and fermented pickles are part of that package. These sorts of pickles are often best done in small batches, so they’re ideal for that
  
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• Move over, Bud: Czech firm makes DIY backyard breweries

  23-09-2017 11:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PRAGUE, Czech Republic - It has never been so easy to start your own beer company.A Czech firm is selling professional beer-making sets that fit in a backyard but can ......
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for vegan bunny chow

  23-09-2017 10:30
  A hollowed-out bread roll filled with curry: what’s not to like?Last year, I was lucky enough to have lunch with Madhur Jaffrey, and she was every bit as regal as you’d imagine. Among the things we spoke about, two subjects that struck a perfect chord were how brilliant Mac’s red lipsticks are and how fascinating the food of the Indian diaspora is.Indians have been leaving the motherland for years, but no matter how well they assimilate overseas, they never quite give up their
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s late-summer tomato recipes

  23-09-2017 10:00
  The tomato season is nearing its end for another year, so make the last of the summer vineThere’s no fruit or vegetable I associate more with summer than tomatoes. Sweet, small cherry tomatoes, mainly, eaten by the handful, as though they were grapes. So many of the dishes with which I’ve had summer flings over the years have had this little “love apple” at their heart. The rusk-like Cretan dakos biscuits I fell for a couple of years ago, for example, piled high with chop
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the adult with autism

  23-09-2017 10:00
  I don’t want a cure: I value the unique insights, talents and attention to detail Last year I took some tests at my local adult autism centre and it emerged that I tick all the boxes for Asperger’s. I am in my 40s, and I am not alone. There has been a huge surge in adults, especially women, tested in the last five years.Why was it not noticed sooner? I was a very odd child: I rarely played with or talked to other children in my early years, out of choice, and spent most of my teens o
  
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• ‘We have never lived together. Is that so strange?’: the married couples who live apart

  23-09-2017 10:00
  They’ve been married for 25 years, and raised twins – but have never lived in the same house. Is this the secret to long-term happiness?‘Goodnight, honey,” I say. “Goodnight, sweetheart,” my husband says. I turn over to go to sleep. He turns to the door to catch the train home.That has been my nightly routine for 25 years. Well, not every night. Occasionally, there’s some reason John needs to be in my neighbourhood early in the morning. Or, now that we&r
  
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• Nigella Lawson: ‘Instagram can make a cook despair’

  23-09-2017 09:00
  Food doesn’t have to be photogenic – and the best recipes are thrown together. The TV cook on how the internet has changed the way we eatExclusive recipes from Nigella Lawson’s new book
  I have always taken photographs of everything I eat. You could argue that holding up a meal with a cameraphone is marginally less embarrassing than in the days when you had to take your photos to the local chemist to be developed. I was always looked at a little oddly when they gave me back my h
  
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• Beauty: the best new highlighters

  23-09-2017 09:00
  Charlotte Tilbury’s Hollywood Beauty Light Wand is the best highlighter I’ve ever usedIt would be bold to declare the Charlotte Tilbury Hollywood Beauty Light Wand (£29) the best highlighter I have ever used, but, well, I think it may be the best highlighter I’ve ever used – and I daresay I’ve tried several hundred others.This new launch is my favourite, because it fixes every problem I’ve ever had with the rest. It has a cream-gel texture that
  
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• Unusually, what can wax moth larvae eat? The Weekend quiz

  23-09-2017 08:00
  From bile to bedwetting, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Who went from being North Studio to Old Man Crazy to Paint?2 In what game might a bidding box be used?
  3 Unusually, what can wax moth larvae eat?4 Byrhtnoth’s death in 991 is the subject of which poem?5 Where is bile stored in the body?6 Which US state has two Ivy League colleges?7 What is formed in Burma by the N’mai and Mali rivers?8 What London society awards the Frink medal?What links:
  9 Chinese crested; Peruvian
  
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• Are online promo codes worth using any more?

  23-09-2017 08:00
  None seem to be exceptional, but perhaps I’m missing somethingEvery 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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• A letter to … my older brother, who tormented me throughout our childhood

  23-09-2017 07:44
  The letter you always wanted to writeLife, as we were growing up, was always a contest for you. You needed to win, no matter what. Cheating at every game. Changing the rules in your favour. Blaming me for your mistakes. Telling on me for any misdemeanour you deemed me guilty of.Everything was a competition – I was always the competition. You taunted me. Humiliated me. You kept me insecure. You resented me and I could never figure out how to please you. Continue reading...
  
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• Up and autumn -- fall's a season to embrace

  23-09-2017 07:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Prepare to crack open the champagne, kids, because fall is finally here.That means it’s time to pack away your Bermuda shorts, sunscreen and Frisbees, bundle up in down-filled parkas and ...
  
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• Exercise is more than swEating calories

  23-09-2017 07:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Frozen margarita, anyone? A calorie-counting app will tell you a 12-ounce margarita contains between 650 and 700 calories; for a 150-pound person, that would equal about 60 minutes of spinning ...
  
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• The death of a sibling: ‘It makes no sense and never will’

  23-09-2017 07:30
  When the poet Joanne Limburg’s brother killed himself, she simply couldn’t accept it. Christina Patterson, whose sister also suddenly died, finds out how she copedWhen my sister died, I lay down on the floor of my office and howled. My father’s phone call telling me the news remains the most shocking moment of my life. Colleagues brought me tissues and queued up to tell me they were sorry. I took the tissues, but I couldn’t really talk. Later, I met a friend for a drink.
  
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• Orgasm addicts, sex doesn’t have to be red hot

  23-09-2017 07:15
  You don’t need to be whipped, tied up or pant athletically towards climax to have a very good time in bed. There are plenty of slower sexual experiences that emphasise pleasure and sensationIt has been said too many times that having children ruins your sex life. Or even that being married for a reasonable number of years does the same thing. It is generally expected that one’s sex life will wane to nothing, or close to nothing.This is absurd. We’ve been brainwashed into believ
  
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• The power of silence in the smartphone age

  23-09-2017 07:00
  In our always-on digital era it’s all too easy to disconnect ourselves from peace and quiet, and the inner wealth it can bringWhenever I am unable to walk, climb or sail away from the world, I have learned to shut it out.Learning this took time. Only when I understood that I had a primal need for silence was I able to begin my search for it – and there, deep beneath a cacophony of traffic noise and thoughts, music and machinery, iPhones and snow ploughs, it lay in wait for me. Silenc
  
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• Blind date: ‘Describe him in three words? Just my type’

  23-09-2017 07:00
  Do Will, 25, TV development assistant, and Marion, 24, think tank assistant, hit it off?Continue reading...
  
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• Frida the rescue dog emerges as hero of Mexican earthquake

  23-09-2017 06:16
  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - For a country still in mourning and counting its dead from Tuesday's devastating earthquake, Frida the Navy rescue dog has emerged as a source of inspiration and pride in the...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,783

  23-09-2017 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,310

  23-09-2017 01:00
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• Obama-era guidance on campus sexual assault gets scrapped

  23-09-2017 00:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - The Trump administration on Friday scrapped Obama-era guidance on investigating campus sexual assault, replacing it with new instructions that allow universities to require higher standards of evidence when ...
  
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