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• Neiman Marcus names Ralph Lauren exec to be CEO

  05-01-2018 22:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus Group is naming a Ralph Lauren executive to succeed its CEO and President Karen Katz, who is retiring.The Dallas-based retailer, which has been ......
  
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• Big designers step off London men's catwalk amid digital disruption

  05-01-2018 20:50
  LONDON (Reuters) - Models will strut their stuff on catwalks when London's menswear fashion week gets under way on Saturday, but absent will be some big industry names who have chosen to skip the...
  
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• Crowds pack Spanish streets for colorful Epiphany parades

  05-01-2018 19:07 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MADRID - Parents and their children are packing city sidewalks across Spain to watch colorful parades celebrating Epiphany, the day Christians observe the visit the Three Kings made to the ......
  
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• Smart Roof Extension Boasts Panoramic City Views in Beirut

  05-01-2018 19:00
  Brussels practice Notan Office completed a roof extension and water tank project in a crowded urban area of Beirut, Lebanon. The unconventional extension has a total surface of 250 square meters (2,691 square feet).“In Beirut roofs are inhabited, private or shared, terraces or technical roofs,” the architects explained. “The extension was built on a flat roof that had to host water tanks as well. To make it habitable, a volume rises and contains the water in a common tank
  
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• Thomasina Miers’ recipe for soba noodles with rainbow vegetables in a sesame seed dressing

  05-01-2018 18:00
  Need an antidote to January? This spicy sweet-sour noodle salad is just the ticketMore food: really? After two weeks of leftover roast potatoes dipped in mayonnaise for elevenses (because it’s Christmas), cake in the middle of the afternoon (ditto), mince pies drowning in rum butter and cream after practically every meal, endless cheese? I very rarely say this, but I’m ready for a break.Not a break full stop – I have a greedy reputation to uphold, after all – but more a b
  
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• What’s the best diet for losing all the weight you put on over Christmas?

  05-01-2018 17:18
  There are many diets you can follow if you want to live more healthily, but it’s hard to know which has the best long-term effects? Luckily, a team of experts has done the researchLosing weight is a common new year’s resolution. Even when dressed up as a pledge to eat more healthily, it can be tinged with self-loathing. Those pigs in blankets, mince pies and Baileys. Why, oh why? But at least anyone who wants to improve their diet has a fantastic resource to help them. With perfect t
  
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• Dog guards body of dead owner for weeks over Christmas

  05-01-2018 16:41
  BUDAPEST (Reuters) - A dog has been rescued by animal protection services in Hungary after being found lying alongside the body of her mistress who died weeks before.
  
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• January’s cold, dark, wet and miserable – so cheer yourself up with a nightcap

  05-01-2018 16:30
  Raise the spirits in this gloomiest of months with a little nip of something warmingA lot of you will have by now embarked on dry January (good luck!), but I’m adopting an alternative strategy: the one-drink-a-day regime. That could be anything of course, from a glass of prosecco to a hearty (but not huge) glass of malbec with spag bol, but my favourite option at the end of an otherwise alcohol-free day is a nightcap. Continue reading...
  
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• I’m bored by my daughter, and she is distant and critical of me

  05-01-2018 16:00
  I’m so frustrated by the lack of communication and wonder whether I should stop seeing her. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerI feel constant frustration and powerlessness regarding my relationship with my daughter, whom I have loved dearly since the day she was born when she was pretty like a doll and looked at me in a very direct and critical way (already). She is still good looking, but not in a flashy way and she is not the sort to make much of it.I am 68 and my daughter is 33. I also
  
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• Got high hopes for 2018? Lower them, or you may be setting yourself up for a fall | Oliver Burkeman

  05-01-2018 16:00
  If you’re looking to the new year to give you a fresh start, maybe dial down your expectations if you want to avoid disappointmentPresumably you’ve abandoned your New Year resolutions by now, unless you’re truly wise, in which case you never made any to begin with. Yet even in the absence of specific plans for the coming year, it’s almost impossible, in early January, to avoid the phenomenon that researchers have unsurprisingly labelled “the fresh-start effect&rdquo
  
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• Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara expecting second baby

  05-01-2018 15:56
  LONDON (Reuters) - Zara Tindall, the granddaughter of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, is pregnant with her second child, her spokeswoman said on Friday.
  
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• Wellbourne, Bristol: ‘A curate’s egg of an evening’ – restaurant review | Felicity Cloake

  05-01-2018 15:00
  One of the few downsides of this gig is that if you see something weird on a menu, you feel duty bound to order itI’m excited about Wellbourne. It’s in Clifton Village, the higgledy-piggledy Bristol neighbourhood where I spent many happy evenings as an annoying youth – though, as I keep hearing from smug residents, the city’s food scene has moved on since those halcyon days of Whiteladies kebabs and half-pints of scrumpy.My local mole highly recommends the Wiper And True
  
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• For a happy family life, think free-form jazz | Tim Lott

  05-01-2018 14:29
  Running a successful household requires kindness, respect, intimacy, shared meals, phone-free times – and the ability to improviseI am coming to the end of my time as a Guardian Family columnist, so I thought I would use my final contributions to summarise what I have discovered or pondered over during the last four years – a few principles worth thinking about if you hope for a functional family life.First, relax and do what you think is right. There are as many views about par
  
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• From psychoactive drugs to silent spas: 2018's weirdest wellness trends

  05-01-2018 14:00
  Forget turmeric lattes and Fitbits – this year is all about brain supplements, tiger nut milk and tracking your own mindfulness“Like Netflix, but for spin classes” might seem an obvious pitch, but it’s taken a while for the perfect storm of rapidly improving tech and outrageously priced real-life classes to kick in, making at-home training an increasingly preferable prospect. Why, after all, should you drop a purple note to be yelled at for 45 minutes in a darkened room,
  
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• Should I stay near friends or move close to family in my old age?

  05-01-2018 13:17
  I’m worried about planning. Moving to be near my sister could be a wrench, but staying where we are, if my husband dies first, could mean I am lonelyI’m worried about how to plan for old age. I am in my 60s, my husband is in his 70s, and we have retired. We live in a city suburb, are involved in local groups and activities and have good friends around. My only sibling lives at the other end of the country, and her grown-up children are scattered around. We have no other close family,
  
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• 4 Interior Design Optical Illusions That Change the Way You See Your Space

  05-01-2018 13:00
  These interior design optical illusions can totally transform your space. Image: Klopf ArchitectureIf there’s one goal of interior design, it’s to make the most out of your interiors. Sometimes, the space you’re working with is ideally set up and all it takes is a few small tweaks. Other times, you need to consciously work toward changing the entire perception of the room. On these occasions, it’s all about harnessing the power of interior design optical illusions to crea
  
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• Tuna goes for $323,000 at Tokyo fish market's final New Year auction

  05-01-2018 12:41
  TOKYO (Reuters) - In the final New Year's auction at Tokyo's famed Tsukiji fish market on Friday, the owner of an international sushi restaurant shelled out more than $300,000 for a prime bluefin...
  
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• Experience: I was given new hands for Christmas

  05-01-2018 11:00
  ‘The hands cost $130,000 each and my insurance refused to pay for anything electric. Essentially, they viewed the hands as luxury items’The man who was about to shoot me was already in the phone shop when I walked through the door. It was August 2015 and, having retired from my career as a counsellor at a Kansas school, I was due to start truancy volunteering the next day.As I approached the desk, a young man stepped out waving a gun and said, “Everyone to the back ro
  
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• Keen Islamic prayer activists bring a new dawn to Gaza

  05-01-2018 07:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  GAZA, Palestinian Territory - In recent weeks, Gaza residents have been jolted awake in the dead of night to a raucous mixture of Quranic phrases, Islamic supplications and prayers delivered ......
  
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• The heat is on

  05-01-2018 07:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  A few hours after 1882 Fruit-based Hot Sauce made its official debut at a downtown farmers’ market in early November, owner Patrick Michalishyn posted a self-mocking message on his business’s ...
  
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• Kakuro 1585 medium

  05-01-2018 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).Buy the Guardian tomorrow or subscribe to our Digital Edition to see the completed puzzle. Continue reading...
  
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• DNA analysis of mummified remains alters notion of how Renaissance-era child died

  05-01-2018 00:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - An international team of disease detectives has shed new light on a virus that kills almost a million people around the world each year by probing an unusual ......
  
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