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• Insider Q&A: Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann talks AI, rivals

  29-10-2017 17:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Pinterest often gets lumped in with social media apps like Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook, but people don't use it to meet new people or to keep in ......
  
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• How to cut Halloween haul: swap, substitute and donate

  29-10-2017 16:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - Neighbourhood kids flock to Farhad Khan's house each Halloween for good reason: She owns a candy store.But parents like to stop by, too, says the eastern Ontario entrepreneur, ......
  
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• Peru’s ‘hearty’ street food snack now served at Lima's top restaurants

  29-10-2017 13:00
  Anticuchos go back to the Inca empire but celebrity chefs such as Gastón Acurio are giving the sliced beef heart snack a modern twistAromatic smoke wafting from a grill on a Lima street can only mean one thing: anticuchos, the city’s favourite night-time snack of sliced meat – traditionally beef heart, marinated in ají panca (a hot, smoky chilli), cumin, black pepper, garlic and vinegar – skewered and grilled.The Inca take on kebabs was made with llama, but in the
  
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• Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm

  29-10-2017 11:00
  In this very personal essay, Catherine Mayer remembers her friend Michael Hutchence, and wonders if our hunger for celebrity gossip is debasing our societyThese days I know lots of dead people, but 20 years ago my ghosts were few and elderly. Then, on 22 November 1997, Michael Hutchence died, the first close friend of my age to do so. Grief doesn’t always manifest in tears and pain. For months afterwards, numb and fizzing with a demented energy, I walked into walls and tripped over paving
  
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• Art for eats' sake: four recipes from the new kitchen at the ICA

  29-10-2017 11:00
  Resolving to treat art lovers to their particular take on simple British fare, east London’s Rochelle Canteen has just opened its second outlet at the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Here are four of its masterfully unfussy classicsServes 4
  6 white onions, thinly sliced
  2 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
  2 bay leaves
  2 tbsp thyme, finely chopped300ml cider (preferably Breton)
  100ml double cream
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• Why we love a fright at Halloween | Daniel Glaser

  29-10-2017 10:30
  The startle response is a universal human reaction – and with trick or treat, we create it in a controlled way for pleasure, says Daniel GlaserHalloween is here again and although it seems to get more commercial each year, one constant remains – giving each other a good fright. The startle response, whether from a particularly convincing trick-or-treater on your doorstep or a fright in a horror movie, seems to be close to a human universal. When we look at other animals, even very si
  
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• What women want: a vivid portrait of female lives around the world

  29-10-2017 10:00
  For their book 200 Women, Geoff Blackwell and Ruth Hobday asked influential females the same questions to create an inspiring portfolio of interviews and photographsPrimatologist and conservationist Continue reading...
  
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• Why we need a 21st-century Martin Luther to challenge the church of tech

  29-10-2017 09:30
  It’s 500 years since Martin Luther defied the authority of the Catholic church. It’s time for a similar revolt against the hypocrisy of the religion of technologyA new power is loose in the world. It is nowhere and yet it’s everywhere. It knows everything about us – our movements, our thoughts, our desires, our fears, our secrets, who our friends are, our financial status, even how well we sleep at night. We tell it things that we would not whisper to another human being.
  
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• After Mexico quakes, Day of the Dead parade honors rescuers

  29-10-2017 09:16
  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Dancing devils, towering skeletons and altars festooned with marigolds made their way down Mexico City's main thoroughfare on Saturday to commemorate Day of the Dead in a...
  
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• AP sources: DeVos may only partly forgive some student loans

  29-10-2017 08:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - The Education Department is considering only partially forgiving federal loans for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, according to department officials, abandoning the Obama administration's policy of erasing that ...
  
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• In Grandpa’s footsteps on the shores of Carlingford Lough, Ireland

  29-10-2017 08:00
  Hannah Louise Summers uses a new ferry service – a lake crossing on which her grandfather once worked – to explore both sides of Carlingford Lough, which straddles the Irish borderEvery school holiday was the same. For hours we’d trundle south from Belfast in my grandpa’s battered blue minibus – a journey dotted with punctures, Werther’s Originals and mugs of tea. We’d cross the border, stop for a loaf of bread and a scratchcard, and finally pull into Om
  
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• Hertz drives up the cost of car rental for US holiday

  29-10-2017 07:01
  We arrived late to drop off the vehicle and were charged more than £500 extraIn August I rented a car from Hertz through Holiday Autos. We collected the car at Memphis airport and arranged to return it in Brooklyn, New York, eight days later. The cost was £548, paid upfront. We were two hours late arriving at the drop-off location and found it had closed at noon. The Hertz helpline told me to take the car to another location – West 34th Street. The staff at the drop-off locatio
  
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• Three of the best wines from the new Tesco Finest range

  29-10-2017 07:00
  Leading lights in the UK’s biggest wine retailer’s rangeTesco Finest Tingleup Riesling, Western Australia 2017 (£8.50)
  It’s been a while since I’ve covered Tesco here, mostly because there hasn’t been all that much to write home about. But a recent tasting of 130 or so of the retailer’s own-labels suggests the company is emerging from a period of retrenchment. Not everything impressed: as with so many supermarket wines these days, too many relied on gene
  
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• The Game Bird, London: ‘This is a love letter’ – restaurant review

  29-10-2017 07:00
  This plush bolthole unapologetically serves up classic British dishes without froth or fuss – and long may it continueThe Game Bird, The Stafford, 16-18 St James’s Place, London SW1A 1NJ (020 7518 1234). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £140It takes guts to write a menu full of original dishes nobody has ever heard of before. But just how much more courage does it take to write a menu full of the blindingly familiar; of dishes most people have tried and have opinions
  
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• The eco guide to sanitary products

  29-10-2017 07:00
  Menstrual pads are hard to talk about, and also an eco disaster on our beaches – but we need to change our waysThis column nearly didn’t happen. When a manufacturer of eco friendly menstrual pads bounded up to me and asked me brightly in public: “Are you a flusher or a binner?” I stared at her in total horror. Menstrual products and their disposal represent one of the last great consumer taboos – odd in a society which cheerfully discusses the vajazzle. It’s a
  
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• Nigel Slater’s lemongrass recipes

  29-10-2017 07:00
  It’s one of the most subtle and delicious aromatics. Use it in soup, and save some for pudding, tooAt the bottom of the fridge is a little plastic box of aromatics: a hand of ginger, an assortment of red and orange chillies, a tuber of galangal and a tight bundle of lemongrass stalks. This is the box of tricks that comes out when I make pho or any sort of coconut milk curry or soup (the lemongrass neatly cuts the fattiness of the coconut). Today it comes out for a classic and a curiosity.T
  
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• My bridesmaid keeps being nasty. Should I uninvite her? | Mariella Frostrup

  29-10-2017 07:00
  A reader feels hurt by the cruel behaviour of her friend. Mariella Frostrup is mystified as to what drew them together in the first placeThe dilemma My dilemma is over one of my bridesmaids for my upcoming wedding. I no longer feel that she should be a bridesmaid, but we work together so it is a very difficult situation. It started off as little put downs, like her telling me how I need to lose weight (I only weigh 7½st (48kg)). Then she began distancing herself from me publicly and on so
  
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• My bridesmaid keeps being nasty. Should I uninvite her? | Dear Mariella

  29-10-2017 07:00
  A reader feels hurt by the cruel behaviour of her friend. Mariella Frostrup is mystified as to what drew them together in the first placeThe dilemma My dilemma is over one of my bridesmaids for my upcoming wedding. I no longer feel that she should be a bridesmaid, but we work together so it is a very difficult situation. It started off as little put downs, like her telling me how I need to lose weight (I only weigh 7½st (48kg)). Then she began distancing herself from me publicly and on so
  
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• Modern styling in the heart of rural Devon

  29-10-2017 07:00
  When a couple of architects upped sticks and moved to the West Country, they decided to start from scratchWhen Mark Camillin and Liam Denny moved to Devon, they received a note through their letterbox from the parish council. “It basically said: ‘Welcome to the village with no pub and no bus service, but plenty of social activities,’” says Mark. After city life, this was exactly what they were looking for. “We came with the idea of continuing to run our architecture
  
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• Feel the burn: chefs with a passion for spice

  29-10-2017 07:00
  Think your vindaloo is on the bland side? Three hot new restaurants are experimenting with chilli and discovering flavours that will tingle jaded tastebudsXu, Som Saa and Ikoyi are three of the most fêted new restaurant openings in Britain. Xu is Taiwanese, bringing the style of old Taipei to central London. Som Saa in Spitalfields serves Thai food as you might find it in Thailand, without a bland red or green curry in sight. Ikoyi in Piccadilly, the newest of the three, riffs expansively
  
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• Awe inspiring: do moments of wonder make us nicer people? | Caspar Henderson

  29-10-2017 07:00
  Experiencing awe helps us to feel more human, says Caspar Henderson. We would do well to seek it outMy daughter recently had to make a rainstick for school, so she pulled a cardboard tube out of the recycling, found some dried beans to create the sound of rain when it’s shaken, and taped up the ends. The noises from her new creation were underwhelming compared to those from a model you can buy online for a few quid but they were enough to bring to my mind a simple and beautiful poem by Sea
  
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• A year on from Trump’s pussy grab, nothing has changed | Eva Wiseman

  29-10-2017 07:00
  Despite the shocking revelations, it’s déjà vu all over againOur intentions are good but our memories are short. It was exactly a year ago that the recording of Trump boasting about that “pussy grab” led to an online flood of women sharing their own experiences of sexual assault. There were the formative flashings, the inappropriate doctors, there were women who relived the abuse they’d suffered as children, tweeting into space and risking plenty in order to
  
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• The Latest: DeVos may only partly forgive some student loans

  29-10-2017 03:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - The Latest on the Education Department considering a change in policy on college loans. (all times local):6:35 p.m.The Education Department is considering only partially forgiving federal loans for ......
  
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• Five ways to wear... a cardigan – in pictures

  29-10-2017 00:50
  The statement cardigan is this season’s cosy essential. Spotted on the catwalk at Gucci and Prada, style yours with a belt, sock boots or cords Continue reading...
  
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