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• Nevada Republicans whip up fears of California's influence

  20-10-2018 22:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LAS VEGAS - The Republicans running in Nevada's hotly contested races for governor and U.S. Senate are taking aim at a common target as they try to maintain GOP control ...
  
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• Maggie Aderin-Pocock: ‘On a Chilean peak-top observatory, I’d go out and eat with the moon’

  20-10-2018 19:00
  The astronomer and Sky at Night presenter on alien diets, 3D food printers and living with a severe dairy allergyMy parents split up when I was four. I sometimes lived with my mum, sometimes with my dad. At one point my mother lived above a sweet shop, which was exciting – BlackJacks and Fruit Salads were half a penny each – then she married a vicar. My diet changed, from my father’s traditional Nigerian food to the more English cooking of my mother. Maybe because I comfort ate
  
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• Immunotherapy scores a first win against some breast cancers

  20-10-2018 18:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  For the first time, one of the new immunotherapy drugs has shown promise against breast cancer in a large study that combined it with chemotherapy to treat an aggressive form ......
  
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• California's growing shadow looms over Nevada's midterms

  20-10-2018 17:52 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LAS VEGAS - The Republicans running in Nevada's hotly contested races for governor and U.S. Senate are taking aim at a common target as they try to maintain GOP control ...
  
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• In Reno, a boomtown resurgence leads to a housing crisis

  20-10-2018 17:45 via winnipegfreepress.com
  RENO, Nev. - Dozens of motor lodges left over from Reno's early days as a casino boomtown have found new life as the housing of last resort for the city's ...
  
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• Look on the bright side: inside a psychedelic Margate home

  20-10-2018 17:00
  Cartoon colours clash with animal prints in this flamboyant house inspired by Del Boy and Changing RoomsThe exterior of Amy Exton’s Margate home is painted an innocuous shade of cream. From the outside, there’s no hint of what’s to come. But entering Exton’s house is like stepping into a psychedelic screensaver. Acidic yellows, pinks, blues and purples coat the floors, walls, stairs and ceilings. The effect is disorientating: 3D shapes are rendered 2D and, as the light ch
  
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• Romesh Ranganathan: ‘If someone says “did you enjoy that?” I know I’ve died on my arse’

  20-10-2018 15:00
  The comedian, 40, talks about being a maths teacher, a near-death experience and trying to be funny when he met Jack DeeBeing a comedian wasn’t ever the plan. I loved stand-up, but I never thought you could do it as a job. It’s like saying: “I’m going to be a Hollywood actor.” It doesn’t feel like a career path. The ambition was to be a teacher who had comedy as a hobby.I chose to be a maths teacher because I thought the marking would be easy. You’d just
  
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• Home run! Yankees cap hits the headlines – with a £315 price tag

  20-10-2018 15:00
  Perennial baseball favourite has moved from pitch to celebrity centre stageMore than the kits of the Chicago Bulls or LA Lakers or the recent World Cup strip of Nigeria, the New York Yankees cap has found favour far beyond the pitch. A long-time celebrity favourite, stalwart of the streetwear scene and perennial on the high street, versions of the cap with its interlocking “NY” logo have this season become a high-fashion favourite, too.Last week Gucci released a £315 monogramme
  
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• Clever Ways to Hide an Ugly HVAC Unit

  20-10-2018 13:00
  Find ways to blend your air conditioner into your home’s exterior design. Image: New Eco LandscapesDon’t let an unsightly HVAC unit or pool pump ruin your home’s outdoor aesthetic. There are plenty of great materials and ideas available to help your air conditioner blend in with the rest of your home. While we like to think design first, your HVAC system needs to be clear of leaves and debris and placed far enough away from any obstructions that could compromise airflow an
  
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• 10 of the best small and affordable ski resorts in Europe: readers' travel tips

  20-10-2018 13:00
  Less-obvious locations in eastern Europe offer great-value, though our readers reveal bargains in quiet ski resorts in the Alps, tooJust 2½ hours from Milan Malpensa, passing Lake Como, Madesimo has varied and extensive skiing with 60km of uncrowded pistes between 1,550 and 2,880 metres. Highlights are the pisted and off-piste runs of the Val di Lei, and Canalone and Camosci expert off-piste itineraries. Lunches on-mountain cost €20 with wine. Apres ski is quintessentially Italian, w
  
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• Great ski kit on a budget – in pictures

  20-10-2018 12:00
  Designer ski gear can cost as much as an actual holiday so shop around and look the part at high-street prices Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I love it when the leaves fall in’: the flat that takes open-plan living to extremes

  20-10-2018 11:59
  Fashion designer Maureen Doherty’s stunning mews home is as un-private as they comeAs you mount the narrow stairs up to Maureen Doherty’s home, there is a distinct smoky smell. I am in the home of a style doyenne, so assume it’s one of those fashionable, charcoal-scented candles, burning expensively in a corner. But no. “Cigarettes,” she laughs. Like Doherty herself, it is unexpected: in this sanitised world, who smokes in their own living room? But then, who has an
  
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• A family ski trip: Le Buet, the French Alps

  20-10-2018 11:00
  A fun, communal ski week for families is perfect for both beginners and more experienced skiers – and offers the chance to learn a few unexpected skills, too‘And this is your circus instructor...” Those words, both intriguing and slightly alarming, are not what you expect to hear at the start of a week’s skiing. But this wasn’t a typical ski trip. For a start there were 80 of us, complete strangers at the beginning, sharing a youth hostel. Then there was the unusual
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s super-cheap recipes for students

  20-10-2018 10:30
  How to make a three-course meal out of two tins of chickpeas and a few other store cupboard ingredients
  If I remember anything from my days as a philosophy student, I’d say this is a valid syllogism: “All students are vegan. All vegans have a couple of tins of chickpeas in their cupboard. Therefore, all students have a couple of tins of chickpeas in their cupboard.” Now, despite those two premises being not terribly empirical, I have a feeling that, in 2018, this is not too far
  
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• 'I feel I might die any waking moment': can I escape the grip of PTSD?

  20-10-2018 10:00
  Years after a violent attack left me with post-traumatic stress disorder, I needed to calm my racing mindSpring 2016.“Tell me what you can smell, what you can hear.” Continue reading...
  
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• Miguel Barclay’s easy meals for £1

  20-10-2018 09:30
  Four pocket-friendly yet tasty dishes, perfect for a speedy lunch or dinnerPrep 10 min
  Cook 20 min
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• The best cruelty-free skincare brand in the US | Sali Hughes

  20-10-2018 09:00
  I witness a downturn if I skip even a week of Drunk Elephant’s serumThree years ago a contact told me about a new US cruelty-free skincare brand with a “cleaner beauty” manifesto. A range free, she said, of what the founder called “the suspicious six” – silicone, essential oils, chemical sunscreens, sulphates, fragrance, dyes and alcohol. Despite broadly loathing the clean-living cult and being sufficiently numerate to know that’s seven, I was intrigued.
  
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• 'Everyone I know buys vintage': the Depop sellers shaking up fashion

  20-10-2018 09:00
  The fast-growing social media app combines Instagram-style image creation with digital market bargainingCaitlin Young is one of millions of teenagers and 20-somethings who are shaking up the fashion industry by digging out their parents’ cast-offs, raiding charity shops and scanning boot sales to build mini businesses online.Young picks up 1990s and “Y2K” early 2000s “vintage” gear from charity shops and jumble sales and then styles or customises them for her 22,500
  
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• Adriene Mishler: ‘Focus on three things intimately rather than 300 things half-arsed’

  20-10-2018 09:00
  The YouTuber and yogi on the need for proper sleep, spending more time with her parents and sticking to the right foodI love, love sleeping. I prioritise it now more than ever. Once you get privy to the information about how much sleep affects every functioning organ, you can’t forget it. It kind of changes when you’re single; you get to redesign your sleeping routine. I had to go through the whole “It’s so weird to sleep in a bed alone” for a little bit, but now, I
  
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• Pensions: could you claim part of a £19bn cash mountain?

  20-10-2018 08:00
  People lose track of pensions when they change jobs or home – but it’s not hard to find themIs there an old pension plan out there with your name on it? A new study this week estimated there are more than £19bn of lost and forgotten pension pots waiting to be reunited with their owners, many of them worth thousands of pounds.This is typically money that people paid into a former employer’s pension scheme and then forgot about, or lost track of. The good news is, locating
  
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• Katrin Quinol was the face of which chart-topping act? The Weekend quiz

  20-10-2018 08:00
  From Electro Shuffle to the Yuan dynasty, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Who was a “great poster”, according to Elizabeth Asquith?
  2 What were transported in a Wardian case?
  3 What citizen journalist website was founded by Eliot Higgins?
  4 Katrin Quinol was the face, if not the voice, of which chart-topping act?
  5 Which book is a dialogue between a falconer, a fisherman and a hunter?
  6 Biman is the national airline of which Asian country?
  7 What has six functions, accordi
  
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• Four plant-based plates from Bosh! | Four favourite recipes

  20-10-2018 08:00
  Classic Italian, Chinese, Caribbean and Mexican dishes get a plant-based makeoverPrep 10 min
  Cook 45 min
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• Fit in my 40s: ‘Athleisure and active wear are hard to tell apart' | Zoe Williams

  20-10-2018 08:00
  The technology of sweat is now in a new leagueHere’s a small life dilemma for you: athleisure. It’s the new shoulder pads, a sartorial norm in which structure and adornment have given way to slouch and utility. Basically, if you go out to lunch looking as if you could happily sprint 15 miles home, and defeat a foe with kick-boxing on the way, that’s good. But don’t mistake it for active wear. Active wear is when you dress for the gym, but your true intentions are coffee a
  
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• 20 affordable skiing holidays with a difference

  20-10-2018 08:00
  These ski trips aren’t only about the slopes; they take in the resorts’ stunning backdrops and everything from mountain art to romantic railwaysCombine zooming down the slopes with a week of language lessons at the Apple Languages school in Kitzbühel, a medieval mountain village full of chic shops and cosy cafes and one of the most famous locations in the skiing world. The small school’s director is a former ski instructor who often joins students up the mountain, where th
  
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• Sears subverted racial hierarchies

  20-10-2018 07:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Monday’s announcement that Sears would file for bankruptcy and close 142 stores came as little surprise to anyone who has followed the retail giant’s collapse in recent years. Still, the ......
  
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• Young voters make it count

  20-10-2018 07:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ATTENTION young people: Uncle Doug has just looked at his desktop calendar and it turns out there are only four more sleeps until civic election day.Uncle Doug knows what you ...
  
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• Turn today’s leftover porridge into tomorrow’s breakfast pancakes | Waste Not

  20-10-2018 07:00
  Judging quantities for porridge is tricky and often leaves a surplus. But don’t let it go to waste – instead, transform it into a treat
  I ran an alpine chalet in my early 20s, and each morning I’d serve the creamiest, most decadent porridge: sweet and rich, like a dessert, and probably best not eaten every day. Then a Scottish guest requested it be made with nothing but water. I was sceptical but found that, cooked slowly and with the addition of salt, this frugal approach beca
  
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• Blind date: ‘He probably thought me too eager’

  20-10-2018 07:00
  Did things add up for Shawn, 30, trainee lawyer, and Tom, 33, accountant?What were you hoping for?
  An interesting and exciting evening. Continue reading...
  
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• Lotto fever grips U.S. as Mega Millions jackpot hits $1 billion

  20-10-2018 05:44
  The drawing for the second-largest lottery prize in U.S. history, a cool $1 billion, was held on Friday as lotto fever gripped the U.S.
  
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• California hopefuls blame incumbents as farm towns struggle

  20-10-2018 02:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  HURON, Calif. - A rooster signals the start of the day as workers wearing sombreros and ball caps emerge from the shadows and shuffle past boarded-up businesses in this tiny ...
  
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• The 25 best women's coats for autumn

  20-10-2018 01:15
  Button, belt or zip it with our 25 best coats for women• The 25 best coats for men Continue reading...
  
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• The 25 best men's coats for autumn

  20-10-2018 01:15
  Button, belt or zip it with our autumn pick of the best coats for men• The 25 best coats for womenContinue reading...
  
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• Sudoku 4196 hard

  20-10-2018 01:01
  Click here to access the print version.Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. Continue reading...
  
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• Killer sudoku 628

  20-10-2018 01:01
  Click here to access the print version.Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 15,118

  20-10-2018 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,645

  20-10-2018 01:00
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