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• Pigs make surpise appearance during yoga session in Aldergrove, B.C.

  24-06-2018 23:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ALDERGROVE, B.C. - Yoga practitioners in Aldergrove, B.C., had some unlikely company during a string of sessions on Sunday.Five pigs, a chihuahua and turkey wandered between mats, with one pig ......
  
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• Tatar's national dessert chak-chak is a hit in Kazan

  24-06-2018 16:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  KAZAN, Russia - There are arguably more chak-chaks for sale in Kazan's shops, cafes and restaurants than fans attending World Cup matches in the colorful city on the Volga river.Traditionally ......
  
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• Three bags are better than one: Rihanna nails fashion’s most functional look

  24-06-2018 15:00
  The singer was seen at Paris fashion week with three Louis Vuitton bags. She’s not alone – at Fendi, Acne Studios and Stefan Cooke, multi-bagging was all over the catwalk
  A fashion show can last anything between eight and 13 minutes. And yet at Thursday’s Louis Vuitton show, in the damp heat of Paris, Rihanna attended with enough bags for a weekend minibreak.Her three came from the spring 2019 Louis Vuitton collection designed by its new artistic director, Virgil Abloh, and, in
  
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• When The Heaven Flood Gates Are Opening

  24-06-2018 13:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  Just imagine you’re standing right under these stream / flood of rain from above. I honestly think you could drown. What really goes straight over my head – where is all that water coming from. I mean I know the general concept of condensation and all but this amount of water weight a ton and it was just floating around the atmosphere before rushing down to the surface of the earth. CRAZY! Let your jay drop by watching this time-lapse of this tsunami from heaven.
  
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• Swiss Alps: old huts to chic chalets

  24-06-2018 11:00
  Surrounded by Alpine peaks and wild flowers, once abandoned farming huts have been converted into cool, ultramodern holiday cabinsAfter a long ascent via hairpins through smaller and smaller villages in the Swiss Alps, the bumpy track around the mountainside eventually petered out into a stony path, indicating we had reached the end of our journey.I had the sinking feeling that we were in the wrong place. There should have been a collection of high-design chalets around here somewhere, all floor
  
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• How I learned to love the three-generation holiday | Eva Wiseman

  24-06-2018 09:00
  A week away with children and grandparents has all the ingredients for a nightmare. Here’s how to make it a triumph…“How was the trip to Center Parcs with three generations of your partner’s family?” friends are asking politely. And to them I reply: “I’m still processing.” Here is what I learned:The trick to spending time with children is to give up all pretence of adult life and descend willingly into a world where those over eight are simply use
  
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• Picture resort: from sandy beaches to stunning art galleries in St Ives

  24-06-2018 08:00
  The Tate St Ives extension gives art lovers a perfect excuse to revisit this beguiling townSt Ives is a British seaside resort like no other. It has sandy beaches, the paradisal kind Brits dream of all winter and habitually get on aeroplanes for. This old fishing town in western Cornwall has not one, but five of them, and on these pebble-free playgrounds you will find retro cafes and chi-chi, cocktail-shaking restaurants. It has utilitarian shops, too, selling buckets and spades and Tupperware,
  
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• VanMoof Electrified S2: ‘One of the smartest bikes you’ll ever ride’ | Martin Love

  24-06-2018 07:00
  With its next-gen technology this sleek city bike is on a mission to outsmart thievesVanMoof Electrified S2
  Price £3,198, but the first 2,000 orders are £2,198, vanmoof.com
  Charge 4 hours
  Range 93 miles“We can carry on building bigger and tougher locks,” says Taco Carlier, “or we can truly solve the problem of cycle theft by making bikes which are pointless to steal in the first place…” Taco, along with his brother Ties, co-founded the VanMoof bike bran
  
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• Tim Booth: ‘I want to grow old but die suddenly’

  24-06-2018 07:00
  The James singer on yoga, meditation and his ‘shadow side’I’m the Woody Allen of health and wellbeing. I’m not a hypochondriac but I did suffer a lot of illness when I was younger. A liver condition I had from the age of 10 hospitalised me when I was 21. I was actually dying. But it changed my life for the better. I was eating all the wrong foods and my liver couldn’t deal with it. So that threw me into Eastern medicine and things that in 1980 were considered to be
  
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• The house and tower on the Suffolk coast that’s a peaceful artists’ residence

  24-06-2018 07:00
  It can be bleak in winter but it’s always beautiful, and it’s a place that inspires you to be creative, and ambitious, says the owner, Caroline WisemanCaroline Wiseman was enjoying her morning dip in the sea off Aldeburgh, Suffolk where two brick towers once served as sailor’s lookouts, when an epiphany struck. “I noticed a ‘for sale’ sign on the south tower and fell into reverie, dreaming about how it would make a wonderful place for artists to work,” s
  
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• Ten ways to make fashion greener

  24-06-2018 07:00
  Sustainable style is back on the agenda after MPs announced an inquiry into ‘fast’ clothes. This is what a greener clothing future might look likeTo forecast the fashion of the future is a perilous business. Many years ago I road-tested compostable clothes for this newspaper. The corn-starch separates promised much: they potentially allowed us a guilt-free way of consuming fashion at a frenetic pace without the nagging thought of them festering in landfill for eternity. Unfortunately
  
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• From the archive: the male nude in 1972

  24-06-2018 07:00
  It may be the summer of Love Island and burnished male torsos, but it wasn’t always thus…Little did Titian know that 500 years on from his classical masterpieces real life Adonises and Venuses would congregate in a villa in Mallorca clad in small Lycra loincloths, on a television show called Love Island.Whether you watch religiously or actively abstain, say what you like about this year’s contestants but they are certainly not shy about baring their honed flesh. Which brings m
  
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• Beauty tips: the joy of highlighters | Eva Wiseman

  24-06-2018 07:00
  Shine on with everything from a subtle glow to cyber chicRihanna has basically reinvented the highlighter, lifting it (with Fenty Beauty’s high-impact Killawatt Duos) from gentle glow to the final, crucial step in one’s big, bold beauty routine. On the catwalk make-up artist James Kaliardos strobed the cheeks, temples and inner corners of models’ eyes, layering and blending to look sexy, rather than robotic. Not that the two are mutually exclusive, jeez. Continue reading...
  
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• St Leonards, London: ‘Not so much a meal out as a funfair ride’ – restaurant review

  24-06-2018 06:59
  It’s so cutting edge you could slice your arm off on it, but talk about ups and downs…St Leonards, 70 Leonard Street, London EC2 (020 7739 1291). Meal for two including drinks and service £75-£120.There is a thin line between “That’s genius” and “What in God’s name were they thinking?” At St Leonards, a new restaurant from chefs Jackson Boxer and Andrew Clarke of Brunswick House in Vauxhall, they walk both sides of that line. If what y
  
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• Nigel Slater’s preserved tomatoes recipes

  24-06-2018 06:59
  Roast tomatoes and preserve them in oil for treats all weekA rag-bag of assorted tomatoes, baked with herbs then bottled in their cooking juices has been a boon this week, forming the base of a fettucine supper, a light lunch with green beans and sesame, and a midnight feast with fat, oily anchovies and green olives.The tomatoes were roasted at a low temperature, hidden among sprigs of thyme and rosemary and whole cloves of garlic, under a deep layer of olive oil. Shorn of their skins and seeds,
  
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• My ex told me years ago she’d been abused. Is it too late to help? | Dear Mariella

  24-06-2018 06:59
  Mariella Frostrup identifies with a man who grew up amid the sectarian violence of Northern Ireland and says his failure to act when he was a teenager would be a common scenarioThe dilemma I was born in Belfast in 1965. I fell in love with a girl in 1983 and at the time she fell in love with me. To cut to the chase, she told me that her brother had sexually abused her and her two sisters. However, the abuser was heavily involved in a terrorist organisation. You can have no idea what it was like
  
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• I couldn’t bring myself to read my parents’ love letters for years

  24-06-2018 06:59
  Before her mother died, she handed over a shopping bag of private and personal letters sent long ago between her and her father. But what would Sabine Durrant learn about the man who died shortly after she was born?My father died just after I was born and I knew very little about him until I was in my 30s. I was a journalist then, and I approached it like an investigation, writing a memoir about what I discovered – his unhappy childhood, his life as a pilot in the navy, and his disappearan
  
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• Zsa Zsa, the English bulldog, wins World's Ugliest Dog title

  24-06-2018 06:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PETALUMA, Calif. - A 9-year-old English bulldog was named the winner of the 2018 World's Ugliest Dog contest in the San Francisco Bay Area.Zsa Zsa won the title Saturday night ......
  
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• Millions gather as fireworks brighten St Petersburg's skies

  24-06-2018 06:00
  ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - Soccer fans from all over the world were treated to a spectacular celebration in St Petersburg on Saturday as millions of people gathered in the city center for Scarlet...
  
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• Flower power takes hold at Dior in break from menswear past

  24-06-2018 03:41
  PARIS (Reuters) - A giant sculpture made of pink and black flowers set the tone at Christian Dior's catwalk show in Paris on Saturday as new menswear designer Kim Jones stamped his style on the...
  
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• The edit: summer blouses

  24-06-2018 00:45
  Pretty tops were everywhere at the spring/summer shows. Look for bright colours, ruffles and lace – and a fresh take on romantic Victorian Continue reading...
  
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