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• Designer Azzedine Alaia, known for clingy style, dies

  18-11-2017 20:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - Tunisian-born designer Azzedine Alaia, a fashion iconoclast whose clingy styles helped define the 1980s and who dressed famous women from Hollywood to the White House, has died.The French ...
  
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• Washington state delays Dungeness crab season

  18-11-2017 19:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SEATTLE - Officials in Washington state say they're delaying the start of Dungeness crab season by two weeks because of harmful algae.KING-TV reports (http://kng5.tv/2hAYDHh) that the Washington Department of Fish ......
  
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• Harry Styles, Miguel set for Victoria's Secret China show

  18-11-2017 19:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Singer Harry Styles and R&B star Miguel will perform at the Victoria's Secret fashion show in Shanghai on Monday.People magazine reports that Tony winner Leslie Odom Jr. ...
  
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• Widow of Grateful Dead's longtime lawyer auctions rare items

  18-11-2017 18:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  RENO, Nev. - The widow of the Grateful Dead's longtime lawyer is auctioning off treasures from their long strange trip with the psychedelic rock-and-roll band.Hal and Jesse Kant's memorabilia collection ...
  
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• Designer Azzedine Alaia, known for clingy style, dies at 77

  18-11-2017 15:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - Tunisian-born designer Azzedine Alaia, a fashion iconoclast whose clingy styles helped define the 1980s and who dressed famous women from Hollywood to the White House, has died at ......
  
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• Germany bans children's smart watches with listening app

  18-11-2017 15:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BERLIN - German regulators have banned certain types of smartwatches marketed to children, saying the devices have been used to listen in on school classrooms and run afoul of Germany's ...
  
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• ‘I don’t have many gadgets – I’m not even sure I have a blender’: Stevie Parle

  18-11-2017 13:00
  The pasta master thinks simplicity and green fingers are all that are required in the kitchen ...About two years ago we left east London for Kent. We wanted something interesting and fun, and more space for our kids. And we found this house – it’s quite unusual. Set in a acre of land inside a nature reserve, it is low-impact and environmentally friendly. Parts of it are very old, as it used to be the park ranger’s home. We have loads of solar panels, and bring water up from the
  
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• Here Are This Year’s Coolest Picks from Oprah’s Favorite Things

  18-11-2017 13:00
  Oprah’s Favorite Things list is kicking off the 2017 holiday shopping season. For the last 20 years, Oprah has featured gifts that are perfect for friends, family or that special person in your life. This year, she selected 102 items that range from fresh blueberries to a DNA testing kit — and they’re all available for purchase on Amazon. ‘Tis the season for giving, but always remember to treat yourself too!Here are some of our top picks from Oprah’s Favorite T
  
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• Just add water: how to take cuttings from houseplants

  18-11-2017 11:59
  I love to watch roots grow, particularly in winterI am the crazy cat lady of the house plant world. I have so many of them. Closing the curtains has become quite the task, as you snake between specimens all vying for light. And yet I continue to take cuttings.Many house plants are easily rooted in water. I love to watch roots grow, particularly in winter, when there’s something so cheering about a life so willing. Truth be known, it makes most sense to take cuttings in sprin
  
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• Jeremy Lee’s recipe for fudge-topped chocolate brownies

  18-11-2017 11:00
  All the bounty of a brownie – but topped with a decadent fudge sauce and crunchy nuts for all the gooeyness and bite one could ever ask forOnce when I was a young lad, having a thought to bake a cake, and so leafing through Fannie Farmer’s Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, my dad happened to walk past. As he did, ruffling my hair, he glanced down to have a look at what I was reading, as was his wont, and made one utterance.“Brownies! Chocolate brownies!” And then he walked
  
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• ‘It tears every part of your life away’: the truth about male infertility

  18-11-2017 11:00
  Men are facing a fertility crisis, so why is most practical and emotional support offered to couples struggling to conceive aimed at women?James and Davina D’Souza met and fell in love in their early 20s. They got married five years later, and three years afterwards had saved enough to buy a family home in a quiet cul-de-sac in London. Then, when Davina was 29 and James 33, they started trying for a baby.“I knew that the moment we bought a home, we’d start a family,” Davi
  
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• Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for parsnip and carrot mulligatawny soup

  18-11-2017 10:30
  Here’s my take on the classic soup of the British rajThe first time I ate mulligatawny, I was being watched by a man called Rudolph who was wearing stockings. In fairness to him, he was meant to be waiting the whole dining room at the hotel Windamere in Darjeeling, but I happened to be the only diner in it and the stockings were part of his “heritage British Raj” outfit.So that we didn’t both feel awkward, I commented on the soup he’d brought in – “Taste
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s sweet potato recipes

  18-11-2017 10:00
  There’s a whole world of sweet potatoes out there, just begging to be exploredAt Thanksgiving a year or so ago, I ate so much of one sweet potato dish that I almost made myself sick. The layered potato slices were topped with marshmallow and drizzled with maple syrup, so I should really have known better.I also wish I’d known that not all sweet potatoes are equally sweet, and that there are so many more varieties than the orange-fleshed ones (aka Jewel or Beauregard) that we see
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the owner of a 'dangerous' dog

  18-11-2017 10:00
  There is at least one incident every week where a dog goes out of its way to make friends. She doesn’t want dog friendsThe fact that she was muzzled the first time we met her at the rescue centre didn’t stop us falling in love with her amber eyes. She had been in kennels for 10 months and was the most “fear-aggressive” dog they’d ever taken in. So we were aware of her limitations. She’s a great indoors dog. Someone loved her once. We try not to think what she
  
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• I’ve seen how exclusive the fashion world is. Can the new Vogue change that? | Hadley Freeman

  18-11-2017 09:59
  I covered the fashion shows for almost a decade, where I could count the number of black women in the front row on one fingerWhen I was 22 I got my dream job offer: to work as an assistant at a major American fashion magazine. I was going to be independent and, I sang to myself, working with the most creative people in the world. And then I met my prospective boss.“So your annual salary will be $17,000 (£13,000),” she said breezily. The average salary in New York at that point
  
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• The best balm cleansers | Sali Hughes

  18-11-2017 09:00
  I believe the single most noticeably skin-improving treatment is to massage a balm cleanser into the face to loosen dirt and makeupI have been devoted to the hot-cloth cleansing method for more than two decades, and my mission to convert others continues. I believe the single most noticeably skin-improving treatment is to massage a balm cleanser into the face to loosen dirt and makeup, then buff off with a hand-hot, wrung-out, common-or-garden terry cotton flannel until spotlessly clean. A reluc
  
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• What links Richie Havens at Friday 5pm and Jimi Hendrix at Monday 9am? The Weekend quiz

  18-11-2017 08:00
  From a football club to Ophelia, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 What is inscribed with three versions of a decree issued at Memphis in 196BC?
  2 What is measured by the Gini coefficient?
  3 Which London football club now has “London” on its crest?
  4 The roofless St Michael’s Tower stands on what hill?
  5 Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter was a patron of what art form?
  6 Which fruit is known scientifically as the Persian plum?
  7 What question did philos
  
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• Is paying to attend a birthday party now normal?

  18-11-2017 08:00
  My brother has grand plans that don’t stretch to him forking outEvery 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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• Fit in my 40s: ‘I’m on a mixed ride, and I am intimidated’

  18-11-2017 08:00
  ‘Don’t fear the middle-aged men in Lycra,’ I’m told. ‘Most are retired.’ They don’t look very retired ‘A lot of women are intimidated by mixed rides because they think the men are going to go too fast.” I’m in Richmond Cycles, where Belinda, my ego-ideal from the Bella Velo club, has recently started working. Bella Velo still do a ton of women’s rides, but this is a mixed ride organised by the shop, and I am intimidated.“But
  
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• A letter to … my perfectionist parents, who tried to mould me in their image

  18-11-2017 07:45
  The letter you always wanted to writeYou are ostensibly a respectable, likable couple. You have had successful careers and are well thought of. Your home is decorated, equipped and maintained to the highest of standards. You dine at top restaurants and cook from scratch with produce bought at a high-end supermarket. You are always immaculately presented in expensive clothing.I never fitted into the image you created. This was a problem, from an early age, that needed to be fixed. I was too sensi
  
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• Kind neighbour has a snowblower

  18-11-2017 07:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  This sad day was brightened for me by a neighbour who appeared in my driveway with his snow-clearing apparatus and cleared my driveway, steps and all from the recent snowfall. ......
  
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• What happens when you fall in love across the religious divide?

  18-11-2017 07:30
  People assume that, because we are of different faiths, we must have major problems in our relationship. In fact, it has strengthened our bondWhen we – a Muslim and a Christian – fell in love, we didn’t think much about the differences in our religions. (People falling in love usually don’t think much, full stop.)We figured what we did share – similar values, similar worldviews, and a similarly strong faith in God – was enough. We crossed our fingers
  
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• 10 ways to help the parent of a child with autism

  18-11-2017 07:15
  I have a child with classic autism, another with Asperger’s and a third with learning difficulties. Having a friend to support you can be invaluableMy newborn didn’t cry. Instead she peered, owl-like, at her new environment. Instantly, I fell in love. She was adorable, her face and shoulders were covered in down-like peach fuzz. Her blue eyes were almond shaped and her mouth was tiny. Over the next few days in hospital, while I recovered from a caesarean, various professionals c
  
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• I was a dad at 17, now I’m a grandad at 40 – it saved my life

  18-11-2017 07:00
  Gary Meikle has forged a career in standup after finding inspiration from his life as a single dad. He also tried material about being a grandad, but audiences didn’t believe he was old enough to be oneWhen Gary Meikle was 17, he had sex in a cupboard at a party with a girl he barely knew. A child was conceived, and later born. In 99.9% of cases like this (I am making up the statistic, but you get the drift), a teenage dad would not play much part in raising his acciden
  
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• Blind date: ‘There was more chemistry in a GCSE English exam’

  18-11-2017 07:00
  What did Max, 22, research consultant, and 27-year-old postgrad student Thomas make of each other?What were you hoping for?
  A good laugh and maybe more – I don’t want to end up like Miss Havisham. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,831

  18-11-2017 01:00
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  18-11-2017 01:00
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