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• Stars flock to the Dior debut of Kim Jones at Paris menswear

  23-06-2018 23:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - In a week marked by big debuts, it was designer Kim Jones' turn at Dior Men on Saturday.The British designer drew stars from the worlds of film, music ......
  
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• Kim Jones makes Dior debut with Paris menswear show

  23-06-2018 20:56
  The British designer’s first collection drew on the fashion house’s rich heritageFor his first, hotly anticipated Christian Dior collection, Kim Jones went back to the beginning. The British designer mined the Dior archive for inspiration to pay tribute to the man who established the fabled brand in 1946.“The collection is really based on Mr Dior’s personal life,” Jones told the Observer at a preview in the Rue Marignan atelier. “It is the idea of looking at d
  
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• Alaska city honours Guardsmen killed in crash after '64 quake

  23-06-2018 18:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A month after the second most powerful earthquake ever was recorded, the Alaska port community of Valdez remained in ruins.A hulking Alaska National Guard cargo plane's mission ......
  
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• World Cup fans enjoy Tatar culture at Summer festival

  23-06-2018 16:18
  KAZAN, Russia (Reuters) - Football fans from around the globe visiting Kazan for the World Cup got a taste of traditional Tatar culture at the Sabantuy Summer festival on Saturday.
  
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• MicroBot – Smart Button Pusher

  23-06-2018 16:16 via feedproxy.google.com
  I don’t know what it is but this smart button pusher presses all kinds of my buttons It’s kind of funny, silly and but year useful. The MicroBot claims to turn dumb gadgets into smart gadgets, triggering a button push via the timer or wifi. I’m trying to come up with some useless usages for it but for some reason I can’t come up with anything. Are you more creative then me? Let me know by leaving a comment.
  From the product page:
  The robotic button pusher, MicroBot Push,
  
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• Lawn Equipment You Need to Make Your Lawn Look Great

  23-06-2018 15:00
  Summer should be the season for enjoying your yard, but for many homeowners, tending to a lawn is as time- and labor-intensive as a part-time job. Granted, it’s important to maintain a lush lawn for several reasons. Curb appeal increases your home’s value, and a grass-gone-wild yard nets death stares from your neighbors. However, these six pieces of lawn equipment can make your lawn look great with less effort, so you can spend more time actually enjoying it.Robotic mowers are a no-h
  
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• Tiny microbes produce perfect plant food

  23-06-2018 12:00
  How to make a protozoa soup to help your plants thriveA healthy, resilient plant gets all its strength from what its feet sit in. A healthy root system has the tools to take on slugs, rain, wind and whatever else summer is going to throw at us.There are, in very basic terms, two types of soil that garden plants like: fungally or bacterially dominated. Perennials, shrubs, fruit bushes and trees like fungally dominated soils. Annuals, including most vegetables and nearly all grasses, like bacteria
  
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• How to turn your potato peel into crisps | Tom Hunt

  23-06-2018 11:00
  Make a zero-waste snack out of spud skins – it’s simple, tasty and nutritiousIt’s not surprising that the many people are up in arms about how much food we waste, and potatoes are part of the problem: about half of all potatoes bought by UK households are thrown away. That’s nearly 6m spuds a day, at a yearly cost of £230m.My mum always made the best chips: skin-on, hand-cut, cooked once, and served doused in malt vinegar and ketchup. The skin adds flavour, colour a
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for vegan salted date caramel biscuit slices

  23-06-2018 10:30
  An indulgent, gooey treat that’s leagues ahead of any normal biscuitAt worst, biscuits can be dry, hard and functional, built for basic survival, and to fuel stamina in long work meetings. Somewhere in between are the biscuits that are easy to dispatch – chocolate-coated, jam-sandwiched or dipped in tea; good enough to eat, but not to linger long in the memory. And then there are those in a class of their own, challenging the very meaning of the word ‘biscuit’ with their
  
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• The secret to dealing with a family estrangement

  23-06-2018 10:29
  Reflect on the reasons and seek to build bridges, but don’t obsess over what may be a productive separationStay safe. If there has been abuse of any kind, it may not be safe or healthy to reconnect with a family member, no matter how tempting it is to think things will be different now. Consider seeking advice from a specialist organisation or a counsellor.Consider the causes. Reflect on the reasons for the estrangement. It will be much harder to repair the relationship if you don’t
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s courgette recipes

  23-06-2018 10:00
  A spanakopita-like filo pie with courgette instead of the usual spinach, and shaved raw courgettes that add bite to a seasonal saladI associate courgettes with summer holidays in Greece, where the pale-skinned, pear-shaped variety are sold by the roadside and served in every taverna. Luckily, there are as many ways to cook courgettes as there are courgettes in Greece, and each has a different effect: maximise courgettes’ freshness by serving them raw, marinated, pickled or grilled; or roas
  
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• Going it alone: why I chose single motherhood

  23-06-2018 10:00
  From choosing a donor to the surprise of twins - my complicated, anxious, joyful journey to becoming a motherThe hardest thing about having a baby alone isn’t the expense, the fear or the loneliness. It isn’t the process of getting pregnant, with its cycles of raised and dashed hopes, or the term “sperm donor”, with its unsettling connotations. It’s not even the queasy feeling that what you are doing sets you apart from other people and that the reason you are doing
  
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• The best online-only shampoos and conditioners | Sali Hughes

  23-06-2018 09:00
  The time has come for hair brands to circumvent traditional retailingAfter mattresses, tights, shower caps and those weird (though curiously tempting) felt slippers, the time has inevitably come for hair brands to circumvent traditional retailing, market relentlessly on Facebook and follow consumers creepily around the internet. “Disruptive brands” are all the rage, and they’re working – I’ve rarely known a more requested product review than one for New Wash, a sulp
  
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• What links Zinedine Zidane, Bob Paisley and Carlo Ancelotti? The Weekend quiz

  23-06-2018 08:00
  From a fanzine to bird flights, test your knowlege with the Weekend quiz1 What did 176,632 people claim as their religion in the 2011 census?
  2 Karelia is divided between which two countries?
  3 Which earthwork is named after an eighth-century king of Mercia?
  4 Which philosopher was the subject of the fanzine Judy!?
  5 Olympus Mons is 16 miles high and 374 across. Where is it?
  6 Who was jailed in 1927 for writing and performing in a play called Sex
  
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• Walking Spain's most spectacular coastline

  23-06-2018 08:00
  Galicia’s new Lighthouse Way connects fishermen’s ways and farm tracks – and is a more meditative walk than the busy Camino de Santiago
  Guide to mysterious inland GaliciaHave we hit peak Camino de Santiago? Almost, according to a copy of the El Correo Gallego newspaper I found lying in a bar in the harbour town of Muxía in north-west Spain: a record 301,036 walkers completed the pilgrim trail last year – 98.6% capacity, said a professor.I mention this because Mux&i
  
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• Is it worth buying expensive sun cream?

  23-06-2018 08:00
  My partner insists on buying products that cost more than £4o, while I prefer own brandEvery 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.Help end a family dispute. My partner insists on spending a fortune on expensive Ultrasun suncream. I’m quite content with Lidl own brand, which I think does just as good a job, for me and the kids – if I can
  
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• Fit in my 40s: ‘Zumba's fun, but a natural twerker is born not made’ | Zoe Williams

  23-06-2018 07:59
  Never has anything so closely resembled the function of the squat thrust, while being so much more funMy sister is a big Zumba fan: the way she tells it, the instructors are all really hot. There’s one who looks exactly like Benicio del Toro in the Usual Suspects, and his classes are so full that on a Friday night all the bars are empty because everyone’s in a municipal gym trying to twerk. Every instructor has a favourite musical bent, either salsa, soca (soul of calypso), Latin or
  
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• Enough drool to make a pool isn't cool

  23-06-2018 07:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  It’s official — when it comes to drooling, I am the king.My ability to produce astonishing quantities of drool was driven home earlier this week when I found myself stretched ...
  
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• Holiday guide to inland Galicia, Spain: vineyards, hotels and restaurants

  23-06-2018 07:30
  One of Spain’s most mysterious regions, Ribeira Sacra is home to spectacular gorges and rivers, ancient monasteries and some of the country’s best wine
  Walking Spain’s most spectacular coastStraddling the provinces of Lugo and Ourense in the middle of Galicia sits La Ribeira Sacra, one of Spain’s least known and most mysterious areas. Its rivers, Miño and Sil, which meet at the region’s heart, mould the landscape, gouging out vast canyons and vertiginous vall
  
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• Blind date: ‘What was I hoping for? A pulse’

  23-06-2018 07:00
  Polly, 23, PR, meets Joab, 24, charity workerWhat were you hoping for?
  Some tasty grub, and someone who didn’t take themselves too seriously. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 15,016

  23-06-2018 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,543

  23-06-2018 01:00
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• Mexican players can have beef again at the World Cup

  23-06-2018 00:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MOSCOW - Mexico's mantra for this World Cup is "No Excuses," and that includes no complaining about the menu.The team brought two tons of food to Russia, along with everything ......
  
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• Facebook launches Messenger Kids in Canada, despite controversy in U.S.

  23-06-2018 00:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Facebook says it has launched its messenger app for kids in Canada.Messenger Kids is an app that allows kids to video call and message friends and family using a smartphone ...
  
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