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• Escada honours the high-energy horse that gave it the name

  09-09-2018 23:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - How does Escada do New York Fashion Week for the first time? With the spirited horse that started it all 40 years ago and lots of updated ......
  
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• Students lead charge against sexual violence on campus and in halls of power

  09-09-2018 20:53 via winnipegfreepress.com
  They call it "the red zone": the first weeks of the school year when researchers say sexual violence spikes on campus.Students, particularly those in their first year, face a heightened ......
  
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• Kitchen Decor Just Got a Lot Easier With GE’s Matte Collection

  09-09-2018 19:00
  Kitchens are important to both homeowners and homebuyers. In fact, many homebuyers will walk away from a house based solely on the condition and style of the kitchen. That’s because the kitchen isn’t just a place where you prepare and eat food. It’s the home’s central location: where you bond with family, relax with friends and (try to) help kids with homework. The quest for the perfect kitchen can sometimes lead to buyer’s remorse, or you may grow weary of looking
  
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• Man sends email to 246 women, hoping one of them is the Nicole he met the night before

  09-09-2018 18:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  CALGARY - A young man on a quest to find a woman he met last week sent an email to more than 200 University of Calgary students with a similar ......
  
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• Stan Kroenke’s prohibition gangster style: will it bring Arsenal success?

  09-09-2018 16:00
  The American billionaire’s takeover of the club has alarmed many fans. But his mobster fashion sense – pinstripe, double-breasted suits – harks back to the Gunners most successful eraStan Kroenke’s recent takeover of Arsenal prompted consternation within the club’s fanbase, on account of the billionaire’s opaque plans and a track record at his NFL, NBA and Major League Soccer franchises once described by this paper as “abject”. However, his sartori
  
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• Doctors explore lifting barriers to living organ donation

  09-09-2018 15:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON - Surgeons turned down Terra Goudge for the liver transplant that was her only shot at surviving a rare cancer. Her tumour was too advanced, they said — even ......
  
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• Levi’s T-shirts: why they were everywhere you looked this summer

  09-09-2018 15:30
  Once seen as honest workwear, the brand also has rebel spirit. No wonder the T-shirt has been ubiquitous in 2018When historians look back on the summer of 2018, they will talk about the record-breaking heatwave, the World Cup – and Levi’s T-shirts. On the train, in the park, at the art gallery; they are everywhere.Levi’s says that revenues from online sales grew 19% in the second quarter of 2018. But why? Could it be that in these frighteningly uncertain times, a classic brand
  
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• Convenience shops go healthy as millennials choose wellness

  09-09-2018 15:08 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MIAMI - In convenience stores spawned by the wellness wave, kombucha slushies take the place of corn-syrupy treats infused with red dye, tortilla chips are made of cassava flour instead ......
  
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• 5 Ways to Incorporate Woven Textures Into a Home

  09-09-2018 14:00
  We hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page. Have you always liked wicker, but figured it was a material limited to outdoor patio sets? We have good news for you! Over the years, designers have found ways to bring woven textures right into the home. Wicker gives a room visual texture, so it’s a useful element to work with indoors. And depending on how it’s used, it can accent almost any home
  
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• Anja Dunk’s cucumber soup, chicken schnitzel and rhubarb tart recipes

  09-09-2018 13:05
  A second helping of our guest food writer’s German-inspired, tasty, comforting home cookingMy maternal grandparents – Omi and Opa – would arrive from Germany in a car laden with salami, pâtés, pickles, bread, biscuits, sweets, jams, meat, sauerkraut, butter… you name it and I’m sure they had it packed in. Everything in the car was wrapped in newspaper so that it stayed cool, or frozen in some cases, for the journey to Wales. We made a human chain and p
  
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• Kate Spade brand honors its late founder at New York fashion show

  09-09-2018 11:20
  Fashion brand Kate Spade on Friday staged its first runway show since its founder's death in June, paying tribute to the designer with cards placed on seats that recalled her "sparkle."
  
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• Imran Amed: meet fashion’s most influential man

  09-09-2018 11:00
  Imran Amed’s website, the Business of Fashion, is the oracle of the style world. As its top 500 power list is published, we ask how he’s got designers and editors hanging on his every wordPing! Six days a week, just before 6am BST, nearly half a million people receive an email from Imran Amed. Among these recipients are the most influential designers, CEOs and mavens in the fashion industry. They are based in around 190 countries around the world and, tellingly, almost two-thirds are
  
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• A world of good: volunteering opportunities

  09-09-2018 11:00
  Volunteering with one of these conservation projects or international charities could be a rewarding, even life-changing, experience. Plus tips on earning cash while you travel The Crees ecotourism project works in the Peruvian Amazon to restore biodiversity to land damaged by farming. It has more than 650 hectares under protection through replanting and working with communities on sustainable farming, but has bigger ambitions. The work is funded through paying guests and a volunteer programme.
  
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• Wanted, cat whisperer: the job ad that went viral

  09-09-2018 10:00
  When a cat-loving couple advertised for someone to look after 70 strays on a Greek island, they were deluged with CVs. Britt Collins reports on what happened nextHow’s this for a job description? Location: a small Greek island paradise in a nature reserve on Syros, with views of the Aegean. Own home. Job: to look after 70+ cats for four hours a day. Ideal candidate: “a mature and genuinely passionate cat lover” who enjoys tranquillity, nature and their own company. Desired skil
  
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• Don’t panic! Meet the experts with a steady hand when catastrophe strikes

  09-09-2018 09:00
  In an extreme life-or-death situation, would you be able to hold your nerve? Candice Pires speaks to the people whose job it is to make snap decisions in disaster situationsI was sitting on a remote beach with my husband and friends when our five-year-old daughter came running towards us screaming. She had a gash on her forehead and blood was streaming down her face. I felt sick and yelped, and then remembered I had to comfort her. My husband and I looked at each other and at her. For a second w
  
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• 20 of the best pubs with rooms in the UK

  09-09-2018 08:00
  With autumn in the air, what could be nicer than dinner at a country pub and a bed above? Here’s our pick of the UK’s bestDeep in foodie country sits a boutique inn that gives its Michelin-starred neighbours a run for their money. Six cosy minimalist rooms sit atop the characterful 18th-century red-brick pub, careful not to upstage the inn’s star attraction: its food. Freshly foraged ingredients travel from garden to plate, with the seasons dictating the menu.
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• The Buddha of Brixton whose spiritual quest started when his sister was shot

  09-09-2018 07:00
  When police injured his beloved sister, triggering race riots, Tony Young’s ‘rebirth’ as Mooji beganIt was 6.30am on a Saturday when Tony Young’s phone rang and a voice told him his sister Cherry had been shot. It made no sense – “I said, ‘What are you speaking about?’” – but the caller just told him to get himself down to Cherry’s house in Brixton as quickly as possible.The date was 28 September 1985 and, over the next few hours
  
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• I’ve worked hard at my studies, but only to escape loneliness | Dear Mariella

  09-09-2018 07:00
  Your fears are universal, Mariella Frostrup tells a reclusive medical student. Now apply the rigour with which you’ve approached your studies to finding kindred spiritsThe dilemma I’m 22 years old and going into my fourth year in medical school. I have been using study to escape loneliness, insecurity and anxiety that arose from the stress of the course and my failure to establish friends. Despite my struggles with being shy and lacking in confidence, I managed to remain part of a so
  
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• I love my stepchildren but I’ve trained myself not to care – until now | Kamin Mohammadi

  09-09-2018 07:00
  Being a stepmum is hard enough but being a sort-of-step-mother is about the most awkward position a mature woman can find herself inIt was when I was walking to my office, trailed by three young people whose ages range from 16 to 25, flowing down the corridor behind me like the tail of a kite, that I thought it for the first time.Blimey, I seem to have kids. You’d think I would have noticed before now. My secondhand family, as my friend Luigo calls it. And, obviously, in the 10 years I hav
  
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• Casa do Frango: ‘London needs this delightful piri piri chicken joint’ – restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  09-09-2018 07:00
  Fiery Portuguese cuisine in Southwark takes Jay back to the Algarve – and a general strikeCasa do Frango, 32 Southwark Street, London SE1 1TU (020 3972 2323). Starters and sides £4-£10, chicken £9, desserts £3-£5, wine from £20 a bottleIn the summer of 1978, while my family was on holiday at an all-inclusive hotel in the Algarve, the Portuguese government fell and a day’s general strike was declared. The hotel staff walked out, leaving the family w
  
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• My baby son’s first smile has arrived – finally

  09-09-2018 06:59
  Up until this point, even my most delightful skits and routines had garnered the same reaction of bored alarm I get from friends when I explain the chronology of the Fast & Furious movies‘Imagine having someone stay in your house for 40 days without smiling,’ my friend Mark said when his son was just a few weeks old. He spoke with the halting, far away speech of that guy in a horror movie who’s just seen his entire platoon eaten by giant centipedes. ‘Not one smile,&rs
  
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• A model with Down syndrome fulfills her fashion week dream

  09-09-2018 06:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Marian Avila, a 21-year-old Spanish model with Down syndrome, fulfilled her dream to walk at New York Fashion Week thanks to an Atlanta designer she met through ......
  
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