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• Shares of online styling service Stitch Fix has flat debut

  17-11-2017 22:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Stitch Fix, an online clothing styling service, had a lacklustre first day on the stock market Friday.Its shares rose as much as 24 per cent after their ...
  
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• Steep alcohol taxes drive Turkey's drinkers to home-brew

  17-11-2017 20:36
  ANKARA (Reuters) - Carefully testing the temperature of a bucket of fermentingbeer, Onder Ceyhan pushes back the foam to add a touch of yeast to his latest batch of home-brewed drink.
  
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• Celeb chef Marcus Samuelsson opens new restaurant in Newark

  17-11-2017 19:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEWARK, N.J. - Chef Marcus Samuelsson launched a new restaurant in downtown Newark, New Jersey, on Friday, called Marcus B&P.B&P stands for "bar and provisions" but also draws on the ......
  
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• The gift of some mind-blowing cheeses is just a click away

  17-11-2017 18:29 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Gift-giving is supposed to be fun, but if you're an adult, by now you've learned that choosing gifts is one of the more stress-inducing aspects of the holiday. Luckily, here ...
  
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• Thomasina Miers’ recipe for roast pumpkin cake with ginger icing

  17-11-2017 18:00
  Want a light, moist sponge cake? Then add pumpkin to the mixOne of the boons of modern life is how much easier it is to buy great ingredients. This is especially true of fruit and veg. Although it can feel extravagant to buy a niche vegetable variety when the standard is often much cheaper, the taste can be revelatory – and I reassure myself that this kind of ingredient is a steal compared with the cost of meat (healthier, too). I am also seduced by the notion that my pennies are working i
  
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• AP's gift ideas for yogis, gym rats and wellness lovers

  17-11-2017 17:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MIAMI - We've rounded up the 10 best gift ideas for all your favourite gym rats from Weekend Warriors to barre lovers.STOCKING STUFFERSENSO SILICONE RINGSMetal wedding bands can be a ...
  
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• Let’s move to Stamford, Lincolnshire: it’s a real-life Jane Austen set

  17-11-2017 17:30
  Almost implausibly perfect, its film-star beauty never fadesWhat’s going for it? If you have a sense of deja vu in Stamford, it’s probably because you have deja vu-ed these streets before. Film crews after that Merrie-Olde-Englande-before-factories-and-uppity-plebs-ruined-everything look are 10 a penny here. The industrial revolution bypassed Stamford when local nob the Marquess of Exeter lobbied for the railway to go via Peterborough instead. In the 1960s they got a bypass, dec
  
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• Macron is popular - at least when he's imprisoned in a snow globe

  17-11-2017 17:29
  PARIS (Reuters) - His ratings may be down, but snow globes containing pictures of French President Emmanuel Macron are flying off the shelves in Paris - bought both by fans and by those who want to...
  
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• One World Observatory is a Winter 'ONEderland' for holidays

  17-11-2017 17:28 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - The observatory atop One World Trade got a makeover for the holidays.A "Winter ONEderland" opened Friday at One World Observatory.A snowy owl named Ollie is a mascot ......
  
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• Jerusalem cemetery goes deep underground with tunnel burials

  17-11-2017 17:13 via winnipegfreepress.com
  JERUSALEM - A beehive-like structure built deep underground in Jerusalem is providing an innovative solution for the holy city's chronic shortage of burial space for the dead.Tunnels stretching more than ...
  
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• Shares of online styling service Stitch Fix rise in debut

  17-11-2017 16:54 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Shares of Stitch Fix, an online clothing styling service, jumped 14 per cent in their stock market debut after the company raised $120 million in an initial ...
  
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• Get gooped for the holidays with a Gwyneth Paltrow gift

  17-11-2017 16:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Ridiculous but awesome might be a good place to start when it comes to Gwyneth Paltrow's gift selections via her lifestyle brand goop.Goop curates the heck out ...
  
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• Are our dreams trying to tell us something – or should we sleep on it? | Oliver Burkeman

  17-11-2017 16:00
  Night after night, elaborately crazy stories plant themselves in your mind through no choice of your own. Don’t tell me something intriguing isn’t going onWhat are dreams for? It’s one of those bottomless questions where the answer tells you mainly about the person doing the answering. Those who pride themselves on being hard-headed and scientific will say they’re meaningless nonsense or, at best, some kind of boring but essential process for consolidating the memories of
  
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• My partner has been leading a secret sex life

  17-11-2017 15:59
  He has confessed to going to sex parties to meet other partners. Am I nuts to stay with him? Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerMy partner and I are in our 60s and got together after long-term marriages. Although we are not married, we live together, share children and grandchildren and have built a very nice life together. He has always travelled a lot for work and exuded a sense of mystery. A year ago, he lent me his phone and I bumped into risque naked photos of him and a woman taken when he w
  
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• Model Gigi Hadid pulls out of Victoria's Secret China show

  17-11-2017 15:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SHANGHAI - Supermodel Gigi Hadid said Friday she will not be walking the Victoria's Secret fashion show in Shanghai next week, a few months after Chinese internet users accused her ...
  
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• Home, Leeds: ‘One holds food this ambitious to a higher standard’ – restaurant review | Rhik Samadder

  17-11-2017 15:00
  I’m in Leeds, I wail, I want something hot Can any restaurant called Home be good enough? When I go home – I mean primal, family home-home – there’s a way of doing things. It includes watching Frasier in my underpants, a critical inspection of the boiler and addressing my mother like a room service attendant. You will have your own ceremonies. But unless they include a seasonal tasting menu with wine flight (in which case, salut!), surely none of us can be truly accommoda
  
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• I’m against private schools, but could a new cheap ‘no frills’ option sway me?

  17-11-2017 14:29
  A plan to open a school with annual fees of £2,700 sounds superficially appealing – it wouldn’t be a place just for the richI must admit that I felt a slight, guilty thrill when I heard that an educational foundation in Scotland is trying to pioneer an “easyJet”-style, no-frills public school, charging £52 week – about £2,700 a year – for private education.I have opposed private schools all my life, on the grounds that only the rich can
  
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• What I wore this week: white boots | Jess Cartner-Morley

  17-11-2017 14:00
  Breaking out of a black shoe rut is an instant moderniserWhite shoes. So practical, in a British winter! Said no one, ever. And yet, a pair of white boots is probably the sensible fashion purchase of the moment. This is the refresh button your look needs, a one-retail-hit wonder to give your new-season wardrobe a kick. They don’t have to be high-heeled, or expensive. Although you will need to get nimble around puddles. Related: What I wore this week: silver | Jess Cartner-MorleyContinue re
  
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• Greg James: ‘My parents are both funny – Dad would do silly voices, Mum was the acerbic one’

  17-11-2017 13:59
  The radio DJ on forcing his dad to hide behind the hedge at cricket matches and why he loves to make his sister laughBoth my parents were teachers, so they had been around a lot of kids. My mum taught PE and history before becoming a special needs teacher. My dad was a headteacher. He had worked in some tough schools and, as often happens with the first child, my older sister had really tested their limits in her teens – all of which meant they could impart some good life lessons whil
  
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• Picking Flooring for Your Home: Make the Right Choice Every Time with our Step-by-Step Guide

  17-11-2017 13:00
  Flooring is one of the most important design decisions you can make. Image: ADM Flooring DesignThere’s no getting around it: Picking flooring for your home is a big decision. Between the cost of the materials, the time spent on installation and a continued need for maintenance, it’s easy to see why many homeowners are desperate to be certain they’re making the right choice before taking the plunge.If you’ve found yourself in a similar conundrum, you’re in the right
  
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• My estranged husband still won’t tell me the truth about his affair with a young woman

  17-11-2017 13:00
  He walked out on the family and I discovered he had slept with a woman 20 years his junior. He says it was a one-off, but I know it lasted longer. I still want to be with him but he has lied to meSeven months ago, my husband of eight years told me he was leaving me and moving out the next day. We have two young children and I pleaded for him to stay, but he refused. He denied anyone else was involved. Three weeks later, I found out that a 19-year-old girl (20 years his junior) had visited his ne
  
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• Confessions of a kitchen hoarder | Sue Quinn

  17-11-2017 13:00
  I learnt the hard way that you can collect all the kitchen gadgets you like – it doesn’t mean you’re a great chef. In the drawers of the best cooks, less is more all round ...It’s not that I’m blind to the seductive wink of kitchen equipment. As others desire the scarlet flash of Louboutin soles or the buttery kiss of a Balenciaga tote, I’m susceptible to culinary gadgets and utensils. Show me a cool square of mottled marble on which to roll out pastry, and I&
  
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• The evolution of the selfie: how our much-mocked photos have matured

  17-11-2017 12:54
  Against all odds, the selfie has evolved from an embarrassing teenage trend into a modern phenomenon. Now, some experts are beginning to see them as a good thingFew 21st-century trends have been as thoroughly maligned as the selfie, the digital self-portrait snapped at arm’s length on a smartphone. But since around 2013, when the word received the seal of approval from Oxford Dictionaries, the debate over what these images reveal about modern life has softened and shifted. It’s no lo
  
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• James Massiah: poet, producer, provocateur

  17-11-2017 11:41
  Through explosive writing and performance James Massiah is redefining the power of poetry. He’s the fifth link in The Chain. Scroll down to see images from his dayJames Massiah, the 27-year-old south London poet, producer and DJ – who last year featured on the Massive Attack single, Dear Friend – recently spoke at a 5x15 event (five creatives, each speaking for 15 minutes) alongside former Vogue editor-in-chief Alexandra Shulman.Continue reading...
  
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• Eataly World opens but leaves a bad taste in Bologna

  17-11-2017 11:19
  It’s the world’s biggest food park with over a kilometre of shops, big brands, even farm animals. But is Eataly World a betrayal of Italian gastronomy?Italy’s “City of Food” has a new attraction. After wandering the alleyways of Bologna’s Mercato di Mezzo – which is filled with local, family-owned grocers such as the well-known Atti & Figli bakery, or Tamburini of tortellini fame – visitors can now take a 20-minute shuttle bus from outside the
  
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• My life in sex: ‘I’m a very sexual person who rarely has sex’

  17-11-2017 11:00
  The long-term single womanIf I added up all the time I have spent in a relationship, it would come to about 18 months. For most of my 35 years, apart from the odd fling, I have been single.I’m a very sexual person who rarely has sex. I have a collection of racy underwear that no one sees, sex toys that I occasionally use alone, and wild fantasies that never make it out of my own head. I go days and even weeks on end without physical contact from another person. Sometimes, I
  
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• Experience: my workout nearly killed me

  17-11-2017 10:59
  I felt like a truck had hit me. I couldn’t move my arms. I could hardly talk. I was so tiredFitness has always been a big part of my life. I live in Orlando, Florida, and I’ve played softball competitively since I was three. I got a sports scholarship to college, which meant strict diets, strength and conditioning coaching, and the weight room every day until I was 21.After college, I started work as a fashion stylist, joined a gym and took fitness classes. By the time I was 27, I wa
  
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• How to nail the Christmas party look (clue: don’t try to be cool)

  17-11-2017 09:00
  The best-dressed person at a party is rarely the most dressed up. Here’s how to enjoy the season• Razzle-dazzle them: the All Ages team get ready to partyIt’s not cool to admit to liking Christmas parties. Cool people go large at pop-up rooftop negroni bars, or at Burning Man, then roll their eyes and make snide jokes about photocopiers when the Christmas Night Out rolls around. More fool them.I love a Christmas party. Because, first of all, mince pies. Also, panettone. Christma
  
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• Bones of contention: Australia returns ancient Aboriginal remains for outback burial

  17-11-2017 07:42
  SYDNEY (Reuters) - The 40,000-year-old remains of an Aboriginal man that prompted a drastic rewrite of Australian history were returned to his ancestral homeland on Friday after four decades of...
  
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• Sudoku 3908 hard

  17-11-2017 01:01
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls cost £1.03 per minute from a BT landline. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at standard rate). Continue reading...
  
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• Kakuro 1578 hard

  17-11-2017 01:01
  Fill the grid so that each run of squares adds up to the total in the box above or to the left. Use only numbers 1-9, and never use a number more than once per run (a number may reoccur in the same row, in a separate run).
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• Quick crossword No 14,830

  17-11-2017 01:00
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,357

  17-11-2017 01:00
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