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• Long hair, scraggly beards a hot trend right now

  26-04-2019 22:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  What with being a crusading newspaper columnist with naturally curly hair and steely blue eyes, I am frequently called upon to answer sensitive questions from curious readers.Typically, most of these ......
  
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• From Ecocore to Hot Hot Hot: the thriving market for sustainable zines

  26-04-2019 18:59
  With the spirit of protest in the air, publications championing slow fashion and environmentalism are having a moment. Here are eight of the bestZines – pamphlet-like, often non-professional publications – have long been associated with grassroots activism as a means of raising awareness and challenging accepted narratives. While some exist simply to celebrate a cultural niche, others are a platform for those who feel their voice isn’t being heard elsewhere, typically offering
  
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• Lancaster County Amish population grows despite urban sprawl

  26-04-2019 18:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LANCASTER, Pa. - The Amish population in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County is continuing to grow each year, despite the encroachment of urban sprawl on their communities.Some experts are concerned that a ...
  
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• Ontario pharmacists now required to complete course in cannabis education

  26-04-2019 18:31 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - Ontario pharmacists have a little less than a year to get up to speed on weed if they want to practice in the province.The Ontario College of Pharmacists ......
  
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• Cocktail of the week: Brat's amontadillo and tonic | The Good Mixer

  26-04-2019 17:00
  Spring is finally here, so it’s time to enjoy the first cooling long drink of the seasonThis almond-spiked, sherry-based long drink has just a touch of smoke from the charred bay leaf. It’s a thirst-quenching cooler that makes it ideal for the first properly warm days of spring.Serves 1 Continue reading...
  
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• Sri Lanka counts cost as UK holidaymakers cancel trips

  26-04-2019 15:36
  Country faces financial blow after Foreign Office advises against all but essential travelAmid rising tension and fears of more terror attacks, Sri Lanka faces a massive blow to its economy as thousands of holidaymakers cancel trips after the UK Foreign Office (FCO) advised against all but essential travel.The change in guidance has prompted British citizens in the country to cut short their holidays and return to the UK, and many more to cancel forthcoming trips, causing a $1.5bn (£1.15bn
  
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• Old v new vintages – a tricky case | Fiona Beckett

  26-04-2019 15:00
  Why stockpile unreliable older vintages when there are some great European 2018s now arriving on the shelves?Although the wine world has moved on enormously in the past 20 years, there is still an excessive reverence for older wines.Don’t get me wrong: I like a treasured bottle as much as the next woman, but only as a special treat. That’s not what I drink every day, however, especially at this time of year, and I’m sure that most of you don’t, either. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘You do think: why me?’ The shocking rise of lung cancer in non-smokers

  26-04-2019 14:00
  The ‘smoker’s disease’ is affecting more and more people who have never lit up in their lives – and it is a particular problem among women. What do experts think is going on? ‘Don’t go home. Order a taxi, go to A&E and have a chest x-ray. I don’t think this is asthma-related. Something’s not right here.” Her GP’s words struck fear into Jenny Abbott.It hadn’t started out that way. A few weeks earlier, before Christmas 2017, she
  
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• How to wear: silk scarves | Jess Cartner-Morley

  26-04-2019 14:00
  I changed my mind about silk scarves somewhere between Alessandro Michele’s first year at Gucci and the second series of The Marvelous Mrs MaiselI am just so not the kind of woman who would wear a silk scarf. They are for women who are fussily ornamented and prissily polished. Like cufflinks and cummerbunds for a certain type of man. Silk scarves belong with purses that click shut, and tutting at noisy children in restaurants.Oops, my bad. Do you like my scarf? I love it. I make no apologi
  
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• How the west has won: it's time to say howdy to rodeo style

  26-04-2019 13:43
  Taylor Swift, Madonna, Topshop and Wild Rose herald high noon for a cowgirl trendThey are riding roughshod over the catwalk, lassoing shoppers on the high street and corralling stars of the big screen and music world. Rodeo trends are having a moment, with fringed jackets, stetsons and cowboy boots seemingly everywhere.Two of the biggest women in pop gave the style their seal of approval this week. Taylor Swift appeared in a fringed denim jacket in press images promoting her new single, Me!, whi
  
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• I don’t want children but my boyfriend isn’t sure yet – are we heading for trouble?

  26-04-2019 13:37
  He wants us to stay together for now, but is a breakup inevitable if he does decide he wants children?I’m a 31-year-old woman, and my boyfriend of two years is 32. We live together and are very much in love. Everything about our relationship is wonderful except that recently I realised I don’t want children. I confessed this to him, and he said he feels that he probably will, but isn’t sure.He wants us to stay together, as it all feels quite speculative. He may change his mind,
  
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• The 10 best outdoor accessories – in pictures

  26-04-2019 13:30
  Garden furniture has gone sleek and modernist: here’s how to shop the look Continue reading...
  
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• Greta Thunberg's train journey through Europe highlights no-fly movement

  26-04-2019 13:27
  Success of Sweden’s flygskam campaign means rail-only travel agencies are getting a boostWhen Greta Thunberg stepped on to the platform at Stockholm Central station on Thursday after completing her European tour to raise awareness of climate change, an unassuming 69-year-old who runs a tiny travel firm was there to greet her.Ivar Karlsson has found his business in the spotlight as appetite grows for alternatives to flying. It was Karlsson, whose company specialises in rail-only holidays, t
  
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• What is cultured butter and how do you make it? | Kitchen Aide

  26-04-2019 13:00
  ‘Cultured’ is just a swanky way of saying ‘going a bit sour’, and it’s so easy to make, you can almost do it by accidentEvery modern British restaurant these days serves “cultured butter” with its bread. What is it, exactly? And how hard is to make at home?
  Róisín, RichmondAs the name implies, cultured butter is essentially butter to which some form of live culture has been added. That could take the form of anything from buttermilk to yogh
  
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• From slippers to Villanelle in M&S: this week’s fashion trends

  26-04-2019 13:00
  What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this weekM&S Set to be worn by Killing Eve’s Villanelle, alongside Gucci and Isabel Marant, according to costume designer Charlotte Mitchell. Continue reading...
  
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• Anna Jones’ 30-minute recipes | The Modern Cook

  26-04-2019 13:00
  Two recipes for the time-poor: a potato, leek and chickpea traybake with a quick romesco and herby polenta topped with asparagus and a poached eggAlmost every meal I cook these days comes in at under 30 minutes. A side effect of my impatience perhaps, but more likely it’s the reality of being one of a pair of working parents. Dinner is a quick, post-work family meal, or something cookable in the time it takes the other to do bathtime. Kids or not, we are all short on time to shop and cook.
  
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• Spain hosts ‘world’s largest open-air art museum’ – in pictures

  26-04-2019 12:30
  Silo mural project in the little-visited La Mancha province turns Don Quixote land into giant art project Continue reading...
  
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• The rock and the reef: epic Australian road trips

  26-04-2019 11:22
  Australia’s awesome landscapes and open highways are an irresistible invitation to ignite the inner road tripper in us all. Take on two of its most scenic drives – with road trip tips from Flight CentreSo-named because of central Australia’s striking red sand, the Red Centre Way is a six-day, 700-mile loop that takes in the best of the desert – from flower-dotted valleys to gorges, swimming holes, canyons and towering monoliths. Continue reading...
  
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• Shanghai Modern, London WC2: ‘Comfortingly reliable’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent

  26-04-2019 11:00
  A decent Chinatown newcomer with a familiar menu featuring all the usual suspects, and a few surprisesChinatown didn’t appear to be broken before the planners set out to fix it. Still, here we are, many years later, with the new Central Cross, a gleaming, 48,000 sq ft plaza just off Charing Cross Road.Shanghai Modern is one of Central Cross’s first openings. It is yards from the former Dive Bar beneath the King’s Head pub, which at one stage was one of the West End’s most
  
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• My life in sex: the man who left his wife for his dominatrix

  26-04-2019 11:00
  I like to participate in scenarios with my girlfriend’s clientsI first had sadomasochistic fantasies when I was seven. The girls in my class played a game where they “imprisoned” the boys; I always let them catch me.I started visiting dominatrixes at 24, hiding this from my girlfriend. She found out after we married and did what she could to fulfil my fantasies, but her heart wasn’t in it. She couldn’t stand the sight of her strong, successful man wanting to be abus
  
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• Be wary of robot emotions; 'simulated love is never love'

  26-04-2019 09:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SAN FRANCISCO - When a robot "dies," does it make you sad? For lots of people, the answer is "yes" — and that tells us something important, and potentially worrisome, ......
  
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• The best tie-dye pieces for all ages – in pictures

  26-04-2019 08:00
  Tie-dye has had a modern reworking and is now set to be the season’s runaway trend. Pick soft pastel pink and blues for an elegant look, then add black accessories. Or go for bold-on-bold layering – a jacket looks punchy over an acid bright dress Continue reading...
  
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• £500 Hertz deposit that somehow went ‘undetected’

  26-04-2019 08:00
  It was supposed to be for a deposit which we were told would be refunded. But we can’t get it backI rented a car from Hertz at High Wycombe in June 2018. It took an imprint of my credit card for a £500 deposit that would be destroyed upon my return of the vehicle.At the end of the rental it advised me it would return the £500 once its card machine was up and operating. When it did not arrive, I was told they had a backlog of refunds they were getting through. After weeks of thi
  
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• 10 of the best things to do in Tallinn’s Kalamaja district

  26-04-2019 07:30
  This former industrial area in Estonia’s capital has been revamped with bars, boutiques and galleries, along with several festivalsWith its gothic spires, pastel-hued houses and cobbled streets, Tallinn’s Unesco-listed Old Town is undeniably a classic destination – and it’s also where most visitors head. However, if you don’t follow the crowds and, instead, turn left out of the main station (Balti jaam) and head north, you’ll find a different energy in the nei
  
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• Rear seats of cars need better safety equipment, study says

  26-04-2019 03:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says in a new report that safer restraint systems are needed for the back seats of cars. The study finds that rear-seat safety has ......
  
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• 'Superfan' of Japan's royals has followed them for decades

  26-04-2019 02:44
  Wherever Japan's royals go, there too goes Fumiko Shirataki:in summer heat and winter cold, to the ocean and to the mountains.
  
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• Sudoku 4,362 hard

  26-04-2019 01:00
  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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• Quick crossword No 15,278

  26-04-2019 01:00
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,805

  26-04-2019 01:00
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• Powwow to focus on missing, murdered Native American women

  26-04-2019 00:57 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - One of the largest annual gatherings of indigenous people in the United States begins Friday in New Mexico, where organizers of the two-day powwow say they want ......
  
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