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• Paris' 30th 'Diner en Blanc' starts at Les Invalides

  03-06-2018 22:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Parisians and tourists wearing seasonally appropriate all-white outfits enjoyed gourmet picnics Sunday in front of the French capital's 19th century Les Invalides monument, a meal heightened by a preceding mystery.The ......
  
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• A taste of the East Coast: King of Donair bringing N.S. favourites out West

  03-06-2018 22:09 via winnipegfreepress.com
  HALIFAX - They're spicy, they're sweet, and now, they're moving West.Traditionally, the donair wrap — a beloved Nova Scotia delicacy consisting of a warm pita with spiced meat, donair sauce ...
  
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• In key governor's races, Democrats split on education

  03-06-2018 18:25 via winnipegfreepress.com
  DENVER - A subterranean divide among Democrats between backers of teachers unions and those of charter schools and other education innovations is helping shape key gubernatorial primaries, even as red-meat ......
  
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• Latino movie producer opens theatres in rural, poor areas

  03-06-2018 17:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  For nearly 10 years, residents in a California farming community have had to drive nearly 40 miles (64 kilometres) to see the latest film, a rare trip for some in ...
  
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• Industry looks to graduate fashion week for sustainable heroes

  03-06-2018 14:03
  Sustainability is intrinsic and not an afterthought for many designers taking part in this year’s eventThe future of fashion is sustainable if graduate fashion week is anything to go by. The annual four-day event event at London’s Old Truman Brewery comprises installations, catwalk shows and two prize-giving ceremonies and promises to uncover the torchbearers of “considered design”, according to the event’s creative and managing director, Martyn Roberts. Roberts bel
  
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• Many breast cancer patients can skip chemo, big study finds

  03-06-2018 13:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  CHICAGO - The largest study ever done of breast cancer treatment finds that most women with the most common form of the disease can skip chemotherapy without hurting their chances ......
  
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• Products Nobody Needs – Beer Saving Cap?

  03-06-2018 12:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  Honestly, who saves a beer unless it’s maybe a 15 liter bottle or something. I open a beer, I’ll drink it. This is how beer drinking works. Done! I got nothing to add to this!
  From their product page:
  Beer Savers are the world’s first durable, stretchy silicone beer bottle cap charms designed to help keep beer fresh after opening. They make a great gift for any beer lover. Home brewers can keep their beer bottles clean and sterile before bottling with these caps.
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• Moped Hair Salon – Washing And Drying Included

  03-06-2018 11:55 via feedproxy.google.com
  I’m not really sure where this was filmed but I think chances are pretty high that it was in Vietnam, there their scooters are so integrated and big part of their daily life. So coming up with additional uses of your moped makes total sense. So why not treat yourself to a nice and fast moped hair salon treatment and you’re ready to go for the rest of the day or. Can anyone confirm that it’s from Vietnam?
  
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• Whisky galore: in fine spirits on Raasay, Inner Hebrides

  03-06-2018 08:00
  Raasay, off the east coast of Skye, is launching its first real distillery and it’s a state-of-the-art affair. But it’s the beautiful island itself that retains the starring roleReaching Raasay is about as elaborate a journey as you can undertake in Britain before you start to wonder why you have not simply gone to Mexico instead. It lies in the Inner Hebrides, just off the east coast of Skye, six miles or so from the mainland across the Applecross sound. I had woken up in Finsbury P
  
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• Winning patterns: a Northumbrian renaissance

  03-06-2018 07:00
  The rich colours of Tuscany reign in designer Susi Bellamy’s home near NewcastleLike a corner of northern Italy transposed to Northumbria, Susi Bellamy’s house has all the confidence and swagger of a modern palazzo. Tousle-haired busts gaze at gilded frames and silvery mirrors keep company with Susi’s own designs: velvet cushions, tables or lampshades in deep oranges, Borgia reds and Medici greens. Even the architecture of this five-bedroom apartment carved from a vertical slic
  
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• ‘Surviving’ cancer is a journey of readjustment

  03-06-2018 07:00
  Having been treated for head and neck cancer, Genevieve Fox looked for the yellow brick road back to her old, pre-cancer self, but the truth is it really isn’t like that“Hey cancer, you picked the wrong bitch.”“Been there. Beat that.” Continue reading...
  
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• Nigel Slater’s pan con tomate and foccacia recipes

  03-06-2018 07:00
  Now’s the time to tear into fruit cooked with the freshest breadThe open-textured breads – sourdough and ciabatta – toast splendidly, their rough edges catching and crisping in the heat and their generous holes allowing the butter or olive oil to trickle teasingly through to your fingers. Torn rather than sliced, those jagged edges are sharp enough to grate a cut clove of the new season’s softly fragrant garlic, something I like to do when there are good tomatoes in the h
  
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• My relationship with my daughter is now as bad as with my ex | Dear Mariella

  03-06-2018 07:00
  The father of a teenager struggles to keep things civil with her – just as he used to with her mother. Mariella Frostrup says the couple’s ‘emotional hangover’ is hurting everyoneThe dilemma I don’t know what to do with my teenage daughter (she’s turning 18 this month). I left her mum five years ago, and moved into a flat close by. Since then she has not sent me a text or a card or anything on my birthday or at Christmas, never invited me to a birthday party o
  
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• Jamie Oliver: 'I like to laugh, which is all that matters at my age'

  03-06-2018 07:00
  The celebrity chef, 43, discusses happy families, healthy eating and why he wishes he wasn’t famousThe only way I can achieve a balance between home life and work is to stick to a strict schedule. I’ve got a group of people who manage my time very well and help me protect my kids’ school moments and weekends. I work hard but I have good-quality home time, too.It’s not always easy to switch off but I unwind by cuddling my kids, spending time with Jools, sitting in the gard
  
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• Googling the French for ‘dickhead’ in a Paris café | Nikesh Shukla

  03-06-2018 07:00
  OK, I overreacted badly but do I look like a waiter?I am sitting in the window of a café in Paris. I am writing. I haven’t spoken to anyone in 12 hours. I’ve been thinking hard about a project I’m working on. I’ve been on a lot of trains in the past 48 hours and I’m due to be on a lot more when I leave the city in a few hours’ time. I pause at the end of my sentence and pick up my coffee to sip as I stare at Parisian life outside.Two men are sitting out
  
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• Blade runners: the joy of moss lawns

  03-06-2018 07:00
  Your lawn is a disaster. Abandon the uphill struggle, switch to the low-maintenance alternativeI know I mess with the hallmarks of traditional British gardens at my peril, but there is one that I still struggle to love: the grass lawn. Of all garden features, to me at least, it has to be the one that provides the most work and worry, while offering possibly the least in return. This is particularly the case if you are growing a lawn on a “problem site” that suffers from compaction, w
  
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• At times I can’t tell where I end and my migraines begin | Eva Wiseman

  03-06-2018 07:00
  Migraines are excruciatingly painful, but it’s more personal than that, says Eva Wiseman, a regular suffererMy hand goes first. I’ll watch with interest as it shrinks, and floats suddenly very far away to return four times its size. Around once a month I will spend an entire day yawning compulsively, and every other laugh or smell or song will trigger a new déjà vu, sending me into confused flurries of misplaced nostalgia. It’s like when an IT technician remotely
  
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• Royal Enfield Classic 500 Pegasus preview: ‘The famous Flying Flea rides again’ | Martin Love

  03-06-2018 06:59
  It played a pivotal role in many campaigns through the Second World War, and now a special limited-edition of the RE/WD 125 is back in actionRoyal Enfield Classic 500 Pegasus
  Price £4,999, royalenfield.com
  Engine 500ccThis great brute of a motorbike, which is being released by Royal Enfield next month, was inspired by the ‘Flying Flea’, the company’s legendary Second World War motorcycle. The Flying Flea, or to give it its proper name the RE/WD 125, was the first proper m
  
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• Birnam Brasserie, Gleneagles: ‘Cassoulet is a £23 travesty’ - review

  03-06-2018 06:59
  It’s easy to find yourself in the rough at the new all-day brasserie at GleneaglesBirnam Brasserie, Gleaneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Perthshire PH3 1NF (01764 694 270). Meal for two, including drinks and service £140Scotland is full of extraordinary sights. One of them lies a few miles from the town of Auchterarder. You sweep down off the barren calm of the Ochil hills and quickly find yourself in the midst of a boutique shopping parade flogging cashmere thongs, wild pearl earrings a
  
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• What’s it like to be 6ft 8in tall?

  03-06-2018 01:05
  Nicholas Kulish is dizzyingly tall. No, he doesn’t play basketball. Yes, the weather’s fine up here. He’s so heard it all before, now he’d like to give some back. Here, he presents his very own view…In a moment of near-constitutional crisis here in the United States last year, the people of this deeply polarised country managed to find common ground and no small measure of comic relief in the travails of one very tall man. Caught at an event with newly inaugurated
  
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• The wind in my hair: one woman’s struggle against the hijab

  03-06-2018 01:05
  Masih Alinejad has paid a high price for letting her hair down. She’s been sentenced to prison, fled her native Iran and is unable to see her family. Here, she reveals why all she wants is to give women the choice to wear the hijab or notMasih Alinejad unties her hair, and a sea of corkscrew curls cascades down her shoulders. It looks amazing, but the significance of Masih’s hair isn’t looks – it’s politics. Masih is an Iranian activist who has spent her life fighti
  
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• Playing with style: how football tackled fashion

  03-06-2018 01:05
  From Pelé and George Best to David Beckham, footballers have always been fashion iconsI love nothing more than to contemplate Andy Carroll’s man bun. I am fascinated by the bravado of Marcos Rojo’s “Pride” and “Glory” leg tattoos. I never fail to marvel at the transformative power of Jamie Vardy’s skinny suits (he cleans up well). Where others see reasons for mockery – a swishy sarong, a bleached mohawk, a camo-painted Bentley – I see
  
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• How to wear...neutrals

  03-06-2018 00:45
  Add some neutral tones to your wardrobe this season for easy pairing and versatility Continue reading...
  
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