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• The Groundbreaking Tiffany & Co. Artisan You Need to Know

  04-02-2017 21:00
  
  Jewelry designs from the Rachel Lambert Mellon Collection of Jean Schlumberger
  New exhibit reveals broad selection of enduringly popular designs by Jean Schlumberger…Carolyn Meers
  
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• No tackling? Lawmaker seeks ultimate answer to football hits

  04-02-2017 15:29 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. - Growing evidence of a link between football hits and brain injuries has led all 50 states to pass laws aimed at protecting young people from concussions, but a New York lawmaker wants to go even further — banning tackle football."Football is the only major sport where on every...
  
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• Terry Waite: ‘Time takes on new meaning when you’re deprived of light’

  04-02-2017 15:00
  
  The humanitarian, 77, on torture, fear and being sustained by hopeI was a solitary child, content to be alone with books. Being the son of the local bobby was a factor. I was known by everybody in Styal, Cheshire, and constantly under observation, so if anything went wrong I was in for it.Hope sustained me during my five years in captivity. I’d inwardly say to my captors, you have the power to break my body and bend my mind, but my soul is not yours to possess. Although I was deprived of f
  
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• Ask Alys Fowler: I want to get rid of concrete slabs and create a garden

  04-02-2017 12:00
  
  Our gardening expert has some excellent adviceMy garden is paved with concrete slabs. I want to create a lawn and plant colourful bedding plants. I’d also like to add privacy to both side boundaries with shrubs no more than 2m high. Any ideas?A pat on the back for liberating your outdoor space. Do not do your back in removing the concrete slabs, and don’t use a spade to lift them – it will eventually snap. Wear steel toe-capped boots and gloves, too. Continue reading...
  
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• Floella Benjamin: ‘The Queen gave me a masterclass in people skills’

  04-02-2017 10:30
  
  The children’s campaigner on coming to Britain in 1960, why Diana, Princess of Wales envied her family, and why she owes a boy called Norman an apologyBorn in Trinidad, Floella Benjamin, 67, came to England aged 10. She appeared in several West End shows, including Jesus Christ Superstar, before becoming a household name in the 1970s as a TV presenter on Play School and Play Away. In 2004 she won a British Academy Children’s Award for her contribution to children’s TV. She is a
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s slow-cooked chicken recipes

  04-02-2017 10:00
  
  The longer you leave chicken to cook, the deeper and more intense its flavour will beI can almost see readers’ eyebrows raising whenever I suggest leaving a pot on the stove to cook slowly for an hour or two. I think I’m expected to justify the time involved, even though I’m not asking anyone actually to do anything in the kitchen while it’s bubbling away. Much of the work is done for you while it cooks, leaving you free to get on with something else.The advantages of slo
  
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• Why I always bring meat to a dinner party | Kitchen encounters

  04-02-2017 10:00
  
  Charcutier Sean Cannon on growing up off-grid, knowing how to handle gluts and shortages and why sausages are better to bring to parties than wineMy kitchen is … spacious and new. We went for a induction hob, which is handy to clean and safe with kids. It’s minimalist, all stainless steel. There’s a blackboard listing the kids’ schedule and everything we need to get done in the week. Lots of surfaces and lots of storage, with a dining table too.My favourite kitchen tool
  
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• Search me: should you Google your therapist?

  04-02-2017 10:00
  
  A therapist must be a blank slate, Freud said. Should analysts keep their lives offline – and is it OK if they look you up?Britain’s therapists have been busy over the past six months. In the weeks that followed the EU referendum, there was barely a client who didn’t kick off with Brexit. Some wanted to express feelings of disenfranchisement and anger, alongside guilt for not having done more to convince others of their opinion. Others, who had struggled with feeling excluded o
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the newlywed

  04-02-2017 09:59
  
  Did we do the right thing? We are so young: I’m 24 and he is 23It isn’t like the films I watched as a child. The saying “yes” part was easy. It is everything else that worries me. Did we do the right thing? We are so young: I’m 24; he is 23. What if we meet other people along the way? Our opposing views and playful bickering is exciting now, but will it wear thin as we grow older?We look at our friends with disposable incomes who date casually and still live wi
  
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• Modern tribes: the anti-march protester

  04-02-2017 09:00
  
  I’ve always loved women, love ’em to bits, but if you must march, don’t shout, don’t bloody swear and for Christ’s sake march against something sensibleLook I’m a complete feminist, probably been a feminist longer than you, so my point is, speaking totally in support of females’ equality and their gynae matters and whatever, you all made complete fools of yourselves, don’t get me started on the language, not clever not funny. So go on, wh
  
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• Beauty: the best brow pencils | Sali Hughes

  04-02-2017 09:00
  
  Your strokes need gaps, like real hairs: imagine you’re drawing parallel lines, not colouring between themChalks, pens, palettes, crayons, paints: brow products have become ludicrously over-engineered in the past three years. If I were allowed only one, I’d still have no hesitation in choosing a good old-fashioned pencil. There’s nothing better at filling sparse brows without fuss, perhaps tweaking their shape here and there. I favour a very fine, propelling pencil, u
  
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• What links Frank Sinatra, Hello, Gerard Kenny, Sting and the Pogues? The Weekend quiz

  04-02-2017 08:00
  
  From meteors to political murder, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 What distinguished the assassination of James Stewart, the first Earl of Moray, in Linlithgow in 1570?
  2 Who can be contacted at PO Box 3255, SW1P 1AE?
  3 “The sea is calm tonight” is the first line of which poem?
  4 Which Russian city was hit by a 500-kiloton meteor explosion in 2013?
  5 What are illustrated on a circle of fifths?
  6 Which cricket teams have contested the Anthony De Mello trophy since 1951?
  7 W
  
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• Skoda ‘writes off’ my six-year-old £20,000 car when it suffers a common fault

  04-02-2017 08:00
  
  I would have to pay £8,250 to repair the timing chain mechanism although many others have reported the same problemIn early October I drove my six-year-old Skoda Octavia vRS car into my local Skoda dealer with an intermittent fault that was causing a loss of power and strange engine noises. I was eventually told that the timing chain mechanism had failed and it needed a new 2.0 litre turbo engine – at a cost of £8,250.Continue reading...
  
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• My workout: ‘American football changed my life’

  04-02-2017 08:00
  
  Kalaba Chibwe, 26, on the pain and pleasures of American footballThe first time I played, my nerves were all over the place. I was in my third year at university. Both my flatmates at the time were American footballers, so I decided to join them. I remember seeing this massive person in front of me wearing these pads, and thinking, he’s going to kill me. I got tackled – hard. I was rattled. But then you realise, it’s just contact. You feel pain, he feels pain. You’re huma
  
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• Is it OK to use ticket resale sites like Viagogo?

  04-02-2017 08:00
  
  We have five gig tickets that we now can’t use and would like to make the money backEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Your husband could end his MBA with little but debt to show for it’ – our work expert responds

  04-02-2017 07:59
  
  Our careers expert – and you the readers – advise a DJ seeking stability, and a man debating whether to do an expensive MBAFor more than a decade I’ve been working in electronic music, and have been successful enough to make a fairly decent living as a DJ and music producer. Continue reading...
  
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• The love at the heart of our family’s wartime secret

  04-02-2017 07:45
  
  When Margaret Esiri and Andrew Evans’s mother died, they read her diary and unravelled a lifelong mysteryIn April 1939, Doreen Bates presented Bill Evans, the man she had been seeing for six years, with a sheet of paper. It listed, in two neat columns, the pros and cons of having a baby together. What made the list unusual was that Bill was married to someone else, and would remain so, until his death in 1974. Continue reading...
  
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• I’m online dating, somewhere between select’n’shag and meet’n’grief

  04-02-2017 07:45
  
  As I create my profile, I’ve no idea what I’m really looking for. No, that’s not true. What I really want is the life I had before Helen was ill“Dad, she’s way too nice for you!” commands Millie. “Look what she does; how she looks!” We’re sitting together scrutinising dating profiles, served up that morning in a happy, smiling, online lexicon of love.Millie is joking, I hope. She has a point, though. So many of the women not only look lovely
  
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• The primal thrill of sharks: the emotional case for rewilding the sea

  04-02-2017 07:30
  
  I was delighted to see giant basking sharks on a recent trip to Scotland, but such moments of wonder are rare. Creating fishing reserves would allow our oceans to recover – and preserve this incredible feelingI believe we possess a ghost psyche: a set of capacities that helped secure our survival in more dangerous times, but that now are vestigial. I picture this as a seam of intense emotion, buried so deeply in our minds that we can seldom find it.I believe this because, on rare occasions
  
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• Amanda Owen, Yorkshire shepherdess: ‘I like to give birth alone, like a ewe’

  04-02-2017 07:30
  
  Amanda Owen and her husband have nine children (‘It sort of just happened’). She tells Anna Moore about giving birth in an ambulance as the midwife threw up … in front of picnickers … and solo in the early hours so as not to wake anyoneA sign on the gate to Amanda and Clive Owen’s farm reads: “Slow Down, Free-Range Children.”There are certainly plenty of them. Nine, to be exact – aged from seven months to 15 years, along with dogs, horses, ponies
  
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• A letter to … My wonderful mum, whom I’ll never measure up to

  04-02-2017 07:30
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeI am the luckiest person in the world to have a mum like you. When I was growing up, you were the perfect mother. Our family was a safe, loving place full of laughter and fun, creativity and adventure. As a teacher you were well placed to inspire me to want to learn, explore and grow, always encouraging and supporting. You always put me first – you are so incredibly nurturing, so selfless. You have consistently made me feel so loved, as if I was your re
  
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• ‘We got it right. We’ve been good brothers’

  04-02-2017 07:00
  
  His big brother died aged 50. Now, as Tom Connolly reaches the same age, he imagines one more hour with the man who understood him like no one elseSomething about the prospect of turning 50 in March this year had been niggling me for some time, despite the fact that I’ve never taken much notice of birthdays. I was content to celebrate or not, was feeling somewhat blessed by the love and friendship and professional stimulation in my life, yet beneath it all something was troubling me. I beg
  
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• Tim Dowling: I’m away, so my wife has time to decide whether to leave me

  04-02-2017 07:00
  
  She’ll have a chance to crunch the numbers and see it makes no financial sense to goIt is a Thursday afternoon and I am skiing. I feel a bit suspect being in the Alps without my wife or my children, but it’s a brief and exceedingly cheap break, with a party of five middle-aged people, mostly friends whose partners don’t ski. The sun is out, there’s plenty of snow and nobody who knows me in a professional capacity has any idea where I am.On the chairlift I am telling my fr
  
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• Claire Ptak’s recipe for Lady Baltimore cake | Baking

  04-02-2017 07:00
  
  This southern belle hides a delicate, pale crumb and layers of figgy filling beneath a frilly bonnet of marshmallow-like icingWhen I was in training, every chef in the kitchen became known for something they did well. Apple-peeling knife skills, or perfectly balanced vinaigrettes; filigree crepes or beautifully blistered and bubbly pizza dough. I had a reputation for making feather-light almond cakes and not-too-sweet, but still very flavourful ice-creams and sherbets.At one point I worked with
  
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• Blind date: ‘I drank a lot more than he did’

  04-02-2017 07:00
  
  James, 34, fashion student, meets Lucas, 29, stylistWhat were you hoping for?
  A decent human being and some good food.Continue reading...
  
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• Berger & Wyse on a midlife crisis – cartoon

  04-02-2017 07:00
  
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• Why I love Emma Stone

  04-02-2017 06:59
  
  I first saw Stone Superbad. The film has many flaws, but she is not one of themSometimes, when it comes down to it, you just like a thing because it’s likable. No one reason looms large; generally it is just pleasurable. That’s kind of how I feel about the American actor Emma Stone. I simply want good things for her.I first saw Stone, 28, in 2007’s Superbad. The film has many flaws (is anyone this interested in teenage boys’ lives?) but she is not one of them. As Jules, s
  
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• 5 Incredible Concept Cars from the International Automobile Festival in Paris

  04-02-2017 06:06
  
  Aston Martin, Renault, and Jaguar are among the many marques presenting prototypes…Viju Mathew
  
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• Whiskey of the Week: Knob Creek 2001 Limited Edition Bourbon

  04-02-2017 02:00
  
  Knob Creek 2001 ($130)
  A one-time release that celebrates master distiller Booker NoeRichard Carelton Hacker
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,585

  04-02-2017 01:00
  
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  04-02-2017 01:00
  
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• First-Hand Look: Glashütte Original Unveils New Sixties Iconic Square Chronograph

  04-02-2017 01:00
  
  The Sixties Iconic Square Chronograph ($9,700)
  Limited to 25 pieces each, these bright new chronographs bring a proper ’60s vibe back to the Glashütte catalog…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• Riva Yachts Reveals 2 New Models

  04-02-2017 00:00
  
  Riva 110
  Italian yacht icon Riva unveiled plans for a new 110 flybridge and a 56-foot open yacht… Danielle Cutler
  
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