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• Israel crowns 93-year-old as 'Miss Holocaust Survivor'

  14-10-2018 21:52
  A 93-year-old great-grandmother was crowned "Miss Holocaust Survivor" on Sunday in an annual Israeli beauty pageant designed to put a smile on women who endured the horrors of the Nazi genocide.
  
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• A year into #MeToo, survivors' stories resonate online and off: experts

  14-10-2018 16:25 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Jenny Wright remembers scrolling through her social media feed a year ago to find "every single woman" on her Facebook page issuing the same simple declaration: #MeToo.As the executive director ...
  
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• Secret supper clubs test appetite for cannabis-infused food ahead of legalization

  14-10-2018 16:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  VANCOUVER - One of the first questions chef Travis Petersen asks guests as they arrive to his supper club at a semi-secret Vancouver location is how they would gauge their ......
  
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• Doctors to debate medical pot as more patients expected to ask for prescriptions

  14-10-2018 14:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  VANCOUVER - Doctors with opposing views on whether medical marijuana should be prescribed for various conditions agree on one thing: their profession is ill-prepared to deal with patients asking for ......
  
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• Fall Head Over Heels for These 16 Headboards

  14-10-2018 13:00
  Your bedroom is probably the room in your home that your guests see the least. That doesn’t mean it should be ignored, though. You spend a good part of your day in your bedroom, and you want to be able to wow the occasional guest who walks through. Fortunately, a single addition to your room can completely transform it. It’s time to start shopping headboards.Adding an interesting headboard creates a focal point in your bedroom. A noteworthy headboard backing your bed is a multifuncti
  
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• Blowing the dust off the antiques trade

  14-10-2018 11:00
  A rising generation of dealers is using the internet to create new ways to sell old furnitureJack Laver Brister’s Instagram account looks like something from the archives of World of Interiors. Mahogany furniture, chintz and pots of pelargoniums abound. “I’d say my style is quite masculine and English,” says Laver Brister (above), whose home appears in Ros Byam Shaw’s recent book Perfect English Townhouse. “It’s that faded country house look.”Laver
  
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• The lost art of concentration: being distracted in a digital world

  14-10-2018 10:00
  We check our phones every 12 minutes, often just after waking up. Always-on behaviour is harmful to long-term mental health, and we need to learn to the hit the pause buttonIt is difficult to imagine life before our personal and professional worlds were so dominated and “switched on” via smartphones and the other devices that make us accessible and, crucially, so easily distractible and interruptible every second of the day. This constant fragmentation of our time and concentration h
  
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• Revisiting Matilda in an age of women’s rage

  14-10-2018 10:00
  Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake’s angry and unlistened-to young heroine’s time has surely comeWho would play me in a film of my life? Great question and thank you for asking. In adulthood, Nicholas Lyndhurst, with a pain au chocolat taped to his forehead because wigwork is notoriously pricey, and for the childhood years, Roald Dahl’s Matilda, drawn in pencil. As we enter the second act there’ll be a complicated montage sequence where Quentin Blake’s illustration become
  
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• My Irish border: would you put dogs and wire between you and your neighbours?

  14-10-2018 10:00
  A fully staffed military fence… in the rolling hills where I walk my baby son to sleep?The boy is gripped to my stomach in a sling as we head out of my dad’s house. I like the sling because it makes the country roads of the Derry/Donegal border easier to navigate than a pram, plus it has the added bonus of making me feel like that dude that carries Krang around in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.The fact that I was born and raised on the Irish border used to be the most boring part
  
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• The secret joys of schadenfreude

  14-10-2018 09:00
  It gives us gleeful moments of guilty pleasure. But finding fun in the misfortunes of others is also an emotion that plays a crucial part in binding society togetherRecently I went to my corner shop to buy some milk. I found myself pausing by the celebrity gossip magazines. My first instinct, just in case someone was listening in on my thoughts, was to think: “Ugh, who buys these terrible magazines?” Then I picked one up. There was the cellulite, the weight gained and lost, the bingo
  
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• The 10 best men's T-shirts on the high street – in pictures

  14-10-2018 08:00
  Go graphic with this autumn’s statement tees. A bold pocket detail or repeated slogan will look modern paired with jogging-style tailored trousers and white trainers Continue reading...
  
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• The 10 best men's jumpers on the high street – in pictures

  14-10-2018 07:00
  This season’s knits are colourful and crew-necked. Style over a button-down chambray shirt, then pair with tailored trousers and hiking-style boots for an AW18 update Continue reading...
  
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• Parsonage Grill, Oxford: ‘A lazy approach to cooking’ – restaurant review

  14-10-2018 07:00
  This pricey but forgettable Oxford establishment is a lesson in disappointmentParsonage Grill, 1-3 Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6NN (01865 310 210). Starters £8-£13, mains £17-£33, desserts £6.50-£8.50, Wines from £24Behold, the Oxford chattering classes at play. To my right is a senior gentleman, being talked at by a chap who must be at least two years his junior. So far, he has ranged across the deep valleyed landscape of human atrocity: from the Armenian
  
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• Nigel Slater’s drop scones recipes

  14-10-2018 07:00
  These easy old-fashioned comfort food classics are guaranteed to make your kitchen cosierThe kitchen roof has been letting in water for some time now, and repairs need to begin before winter sets in. I particularly appreciate the long, thin room – more of a galley, really – when the rain beats down on the skylights or a layer of snow sits on the glass, muffling both sound and light. It is then, with a cake in the oven or a deep pan of thickening polenta on the stove, that the kitchen
  
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• My daughter’s garden brings joy all year round

  14-10-2018 07:00
  Kala and I sow her garden in May – then I pop round for tea and weedingMy daughter Kala has been in my life since I was 19. We are still (of course) close. Kala lives four doors from me in London’s Kentish Town. I look over to her home from mine.We always sow her annual garden around her birthday in May. And what a year it’s been. Self-seeding poppies bursting through her patio. Extravagant oriental flowers a metre tall. Nasturtiums have swamped the space. Kala’s been rip
  
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• My boyfriend lost his virginity to a sex worker, then lied about it

  14-10-2018 07:00
  It was a long time ago and he’s clearly ashamed of it… Mariella Frostrup is puzzled by a woman’s angerThe dilemma I’m writing because my partner of seven years told me that he lost his virginity to a sex worker as a late teen while away with the army. He said he felt pressured by a so-called friend to do this and didn’t want to be the only virgin. I was shocked, because he’d always told me he’d lost his virginity to his first girlfriend. He insisted a c
  
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• Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter marries in Gatsbyesque splendor

  14-10-2018 02:30
  Hollywood stars joined Queen Elizabeth and her family for Britain's second major royal wedding this year, as the monarch's granddaughter Princess Eugenie married wine merchant Jack Brooksbank.
  
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