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• Shovels at the ready

  09-02-2018 22:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  During the Jan. 31 National Hockey League game between the Winnipeg Jets and Tampa Bay Lightning — a tilt the home side won 3-1 — Jets forward Matt Hendricks logged ...
  
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• Heart's in the right place

  09-02-2018 22:15 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Valentine’s Day is right around the corner, and as every commercial on television suggests, we should all be on the hunt for the perfect token of love for our partners. ...
  
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• Glass ceiling for dogs? Males win Westminster almost twice as often

  09-02-2018 21:38
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - After the German shepherd Rumor won the top prize at last year's Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in New York, she had her first litter of puppies and retired from competition,...
  
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• Guess: Committee will probe sexual harassment allegations

  09-02-2018 21:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Guess Inc. says the board formed on Wednesday a special committee comprised of two independent directors to oversee an ongoing probe into allegations of improper conduct by ......
  
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• Front-of-package symbols proposed for foods high in sodium, sugar, saturated fat

  09-02-2018 21:29 via winnipegfreepress.com
  OTTAWA - The federal government wants to make it easier for consumers to choose healthy foods with front-of-package warnings on items that contain high levels of sodium, sugar or saturated ...
  
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• Carolina Herrera hands creative director role to Wes Gordon

  09-02-2018 20:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Designer Carolina Herrera is stepping down as creative director of her fashion label, and handing the reins to young American designer Wes Gordon.Herrera, who founded her label ...
  
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• Love is in the air (over Brandon, apparently)

  09-02-2018 20:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  With Valentine’s Day bearing down on us like the hot kiss at the end of a wet fist — OK, even I have no idea what that means — it’s ...
  
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• Recalls this week: laptops, chairs, lamp sockets

  09-02-2018 20:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  More than 80,000 laptops with a potentially defective battery are among this week's recalled consumer products. Others include lamp sockets and crystal mugs.Here's a more detailed look:LAPTOPSDETAILS: 14 inch ThinkPad ...
  
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• Unlimited movie-theatre deal could be too good to survive

  09-02-2018 19:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - MoviePass is trying to bring to movie theatres what Netflix did for DVDs and online streaming: Let subscribers watch as many movies as they want for $10 ......
  
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• Flu season still getting worse; now as bad as 2009 swine flu

  09-02-2018 19:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - The flu has further tightened its grip on the U.S. This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago.A government report out ...
  
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• Citing fraud, LL Bean imposes limits on its return policy

  09-02-2018 18:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  FREEPORT, Maine - L.L. Bean's generous return policy is going to be a little less forgiving: The company, which has touted its 100 per cent satisfaction guarantee for more than ...
  
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• An end to the dreadmill? Zwift launches a running platform

  09-02-2018 17:48
  The hugely popular virtual cycling platform now has a version for runners. But can running through a virtual world persuade a treadmill-phobe to hop on the belt? I have a theory about treadmill running. Much as a dog year supposedly equates to seven human years, so a mile run on a treadmill equates to seven run outdoor. It doesn’t matter what tricks I try to make it more interesting, time on a treadmill passes slower than a snail on Valium through molasses. But could a saviour finally be a
  
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• Let’s move to Deptford, south-east London: love it, hate it? Worry not

  09-02-2018 17:29
  It will regenerate again before longWhat’s going for it? Deptford has been regenerated. It’s like what happens occasionally in Doctor Who, only with bollards and negroni bars. Like Doctor Who, regeneration comes accompanied with not a little controversy. And, like Doctor Who, this is very much not the first time. The neighbourhood seems to have been in permanent regeneration mode since Henry VIII stuck his dockyard here. Deptford’s latest shape appears to be Peckhamdalstonhackn
  
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• Seoul food: 10 of the city’s best restaurants

  09-02-2018 16:50
  From a fried-chicken joint to a Michelin-star blow out, the Seoul-born founder of three Korean London restaurants picks her favourite places to eat in the South Korean capital
  A Seoul institution, the speciality here is gomtang, a highly nutritious beef bone soup (and a great hangover cure) - which has been made the same way since the restaurant opened in the 1930s. In fact gomtang is the only thing on the menu, although there are several variations. The beef stock is boiled for a long time with
  
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• Don’t knock Donald Trump for playing so much golf. Here’s why | Oliver Burkeman

  09-02-2018 16:00
  It really is good that he is out in natureSpending time in nature, as you’re surely aware by now, is good for your mental health. Like, really, really good. People criticise Donald Trump for whiling away so many hours on golf courses, but they’re wrong: imagine the damage he’d wreak if his rage and repressed self-loathing weren’t offset by the restorative benefits of all that greenery! So there’s nothing intrinsically surprising about a new study, led by Viren Swami
  
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• Gigi Hadid bookends Jeremy Scott's Popple-themed runway show

  09-02-2018 15:52 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Model Gigi Hadid says time's up for abuse in the fashion industry.Before taking the runway at Jeremy Scott's New York Fashion Week show Thursday, Hadid praised those ......
  
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• LL Bean dropping its unlimited returns policy

  09-02-2018 15:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  FREEPORT, Maine - L.L. Bean's generous return policy is going to be a little less forgiving: The company, which has touted its 100 per cent satisfaction guarantee for more than ...
  
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• Thomasina Miers’s easy recipe for brussels sprout gratin with fennel salami

  09-02-2018 15:00
  Give sprouts a new lease of life with this creamy simple supperWhen it has been this cold and grey for so long, it’s hard to shake yourself from the winter torpor. Thank goodness, then, for the optimism of the pagans: Imbolc, or St Brigid’s Day, is a Gaelic festival at the start of February, halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox. It’s a celebration of the first signs of spring, and milk-based dishes traditionally mark the occasion. In keeping with that, here&rs
  
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• Roganic, London W1: ‘Already a place for chefs, bloggers and blaggers’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent

  09-02-2018 14:00
  L’Enclume’s new sister restaurant in London is a multi-course expedition that inspires and alarms in equal measureOn entering Roganic, it was clear I needed a new false name for booking tables. “Mitford”, after my beloved Nancy (not her Hitler-loving fruitcake sister Unity) had lasted exactly four critical ambushes before being sussed and spread across hospitality’s intelligence network. Actually, that makes the chef grapevine sound far too chic and diligent. In rea
  
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• Love nests for Valentine’s Day – in pictures

  09-02-2018 13:48
  Feel the love at these properties in romantic settings, from Dorset to London’s Southbank Continue reading...
  
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• New Bollywood film tackles taboo of menstrual hygiene

  09-02-2018 13:08 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW DELHI - It's an unlikely scene in deeply conservative India: A hugely popular Bollywood male star grinning widely as he holds up a sanitary pad and talks of menstrual ......
  
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• My mother is unhappy that I don’t want to invite my cousins to my wedding

  09-02-2018 13:00
  Although I get on with my cousins, we don’t have much in common – but my mother can’t accept our decisionI am 32, male and getting married in August. It’s not a massive wedding, about 70 close family and friends. We have decided it will be ‘no children’, which rules out inviting five of my younger cousins. However, we have also decided only to invite three of my adult cousins and their partners to the evening do. This is because we only see them at Christmas e
  
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• How To Style a Chic Galentine’s Day Brunch

  09-02-2018 13:00
  As soon as stores swipe the tinsel off the shelves, it’s replaced by heart-shaped boxes and all things bright red and pink. When it comes to Saint Valentine’s Day, there are people who love it, others who passionately hate it, and those who remain indifferent to the romance and expectations of the day.Admittedly, I have dabbled in the indifference category for several years now. I normally love any excuse to celebrate. But Valentine’s Day plans often come with too much pressure
  
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• Sparkles, fake fur, and an '80s LA vibe at Tom Ford

  09-02-2018 12:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Tom Ford recently moved to the Los Angeles sunshine after a number of years in London, and his runway show Thursday was a fanciful ode to his ...
  
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• Eurostar to launch London-Amsterdam direct service in April

  09-02-2018 12:00
  Tickets to go on sale in February for new rail service expected to challenge airlines
  Eurostar direct rail services between London and Amsterdam will begin on 4 April, the company has announced, in an eagerly awaited move expected to spark a price war with airlines.Tickets for the two daily trains – starting from £35 one way – will go on sale on 20 February. The services will allow passengers to travel from St Pancras station in central London direct to the Netherlands in three
  
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• Starry, starry nights: dark skies festival in North Yorkshire

  09-02-2018 11:58
  The UK’s Dark Skies Festival begins today, offering stargazing in the best light – real dark. Our writer spies the heavens in North Yorkshire
  Scroll down for more UK dark sky festival eventsAlmost everything we know about the universe has come from observation of the night sky but true darkness is becoming harder to find. Dark skies help to maintain our circadian rhythm – and enable us to sleep soundly. They also keep the natural behaviour of animals in line with the seasons. I
  
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• Dippy the dinosaur unveiled in Dorset on first leg of UK tour

  09-02-2018 11:03
  Diplodocus skeleton that graced Natural History Museum begins new life on Jurassic Coast For more than a century Dippy the dinosaur amazed and inspired visitors to the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London.On Friday, the diplodocus skeleton cast was unveiled 130 miles away near the Jurassic Coast at the Dorset County Museum in Dorchester on the first stage of an eight-stop tour of the UK.Continue reading...
  
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• My life in sex: ‘I've tried to instigate love-making with my husband. It doesn't go well’

  09-02-2018 11:00
  The wife who sleeps aloneI was something of a late starter sexually, losing my virginity to a rather unpleasant boy at the age of 17. However, I soon made up for it, like one of those toy racing cars that you rev up and then release to watch it zoom erratically away.Once I’d got going, there was no stopping me. I found out that I really liked sex, and that boys (and some girls) really liked having sex with me. I was rarely monogamous, but in the main completely honest about my ap
  
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• Experience: I rescued someone from an underwater cave

  09-02-2018 11:00
  I couldn’t see the entrance, because it was so clouded with silt. After searching for about 10 minutes, I ran into her legsFifteen years ago, I moved from Portland, Oregon to Florida to set up a cave-diving business on Merritt’s Mill Pond, a man-made lake in Marianna. I also became a member of International Underwater Cave Rescue and Recovery (IUCRR).There are hardly ever any cave rescues: by the time someone is reported missing and an IUCRR diver gets to the scene, the person is alm
  
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• Karoake mics and speakers recalled due to overheating danger

  09-02-2018 08:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - Certain karaoke microphones and speakers sold through Walmart Canada are being recalled because they could overheat, burn, melt or possibly explode.The federal agency says about 70,000 of the ......
  
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• The best leather pieces for all ages – in pictures

  09-02-2018 08:00
  Whether it’s real or faux, leather will lend a hint of toughness to any outfit. The key to wearing it? Soften it with tailoring and contrasting textures Continue reading...
  
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• A foodie tour of South Korea

  09-02-2018 07:30
  With the Winter Olympics shining a spotlight on this hi-tech country, a new culinary trip introduces visitors to zingy rice dishes and the world’s best bibimbap – all with a pleasingly messy disregard for formalityI’m not particularly hungover, having stuck to local Hite beer the evening before, but the restorative effects of Korean haejang-guk, or “hangover soup” would probably cure even the pain of a truly big night out.At 8am there’s already a queue outside
  
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• Archive: food minister declares men are better cooks than women - 9 February 1943

  09-02-2018 07:02
  9 February 1943: While speaking at a Dig for Victory conference, Mr William Mabane said ‘there is no reason why women should cook as badly as they do’Mr. William Mabane, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Food, who is a bachelor, declared yesterday: “Fundamentally men are better cooks than women, but this is no reason why some women should cook as badly as they do. Many people in this country have never really tasted vegetables; all they know is the sodden pap produced
  
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• Stuart Weitzman steps out in chunky heels for New York Fashion Week

  09-02-2018 02:25
  (Reuters) - Luxury shoe brand Stuart Weitzman stepped into New York Fashion Week for the first time with a brand new creative director who added chunkier heels designed for comfort to the brand's...
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,428

  09-02-2018 01:00
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• Em Rusciano: 'I keep hoping I’ll find the magic fix to make me look like Halle Berry'

  09-02-2018 00:12
  For our series Beauty and the books, the comedian talks about devouring NK Jemisin’s sci-fi series and why Reef Oil reminds her of being a 80s kid She’s provocative and occasionally controversial, but if there’s one thing comedian and presenter Em Rusciano appreciates, it’s beauty products. And sci-fi. And Mills and Boons novels. Continue reading...
  
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