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• This $85 Million Mansion Reportedly Inspired The Great Gatsby Movie’s Set Design

  09-04-2017 23:00
  
  The estate includes three mansions, manicured grounds, spas, swimming pools, and more…Rebekah Bell
  
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• Sonoma’s Newest Restaurant Reinvents Fine Dining

  09-04-2017 21:00
  
  Photo by Eric Wolfinger
  Single Thread’s thoughtfulness takes dining to a whole new level…Michalene Busico
  
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• Is Tunbridge Wells too posh for a game of Monopoly?

  09-04-2017 19:00
  
  Despite 2,000 suggestions from the public for the spa town version of the board game, filling one of the cheapest spots on the board is proving trickyName: Tunbridge Wells.Prefix: Royal. Continue reading...
  
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• The New Volvo V90 Cross Country Wagon Is Muddy Good Fun

  09-04-2017 18:00
  
  The twincharged wagon is a luxuriant haven for those with adventurous souls…Laura Burstein
  
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• Hawaii LGBT couples seek equal access to fertility treatment

  09-04-2017 16:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  HONOLULU - Sean Smith and his husband paid more than $20,000 for a fertility procedure when they decided to have a child using a surrogate mother. They did not know at the time that if they were a heterosexual couple, they might have saved that money.Now, Smith and other members of Hawaii's...
  
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• Cluck me … it's the best chicken rice in Ubud, Bali

  09-04-2017 13:00
  
  If you like your chicken crispy, spicy, salty and sharp, head away from Ubud’s popular main drag to this backstreet cafeIn the 11 years since Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestseller Eat, Pray, Love thrust Ubud into the limelight, tourists have inundated this once-sleepy Balinese town encircled by rice paddies. The centre now has more restaurants selling smoothies, salads, and western fare than anything one might call authentically Indonesian. Yet away from the main drag, pockets of local cult
  
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• Grazie mille, maestro: Monteverdi’s Venice

  09-04-2017 11:00
  
  The 450th anniversary of Claudio Monteverdi’s birth is the cue for a year of music in his home townA raunchy Beyoncé video blaring from a tiny bar’s TV might seem an unlikely backdrop for an earnest discussion on the intricacies of reconstructing music from 400 years ago – but this is Venice, where sex and melody have always been close, and the composer we are talking about is Claudio Monteverdi. The first composer to break through convention and display the true nature
  
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• Social entrepreneur Josh Littlejohn: ‘I want to build a utopia for the homeless’

  09-04-2017 10:00
  
  The co-founder of Scotland’s Social Bite sandwich shops tried to help the homeless by feeding and employing them. Now he wants to build them a village…‘Do you know who I am?” asks a young man, his smile nervy, teeth jagged as a city skyline. It’s 9.30am on a recent Thursday at the Social Bite sandwich shop in Rose Street, Edinburgh, and he’s holding a half-eaten bap and a takeaway tea that is equal parts liquid and sugar. I’ve no idea who he is, so he l
  
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• Virgin couldn’t find Anytime at all for us to book a balloon flight

  09-04-2017 08:00
  
  I was given the vouchers in 2014 but after four cancellations its been virtually impossible to bookAs a 60th birthday present I was given vouchers for a Virgin balloon flight, ironically called 7 Day Anytime, for myself and two adult sons. That was in 2014. They both work full time in different cities and I also work, making booking a flight at weekends the only viable option. This is virtually impossible as the flight times and dates are only released a month in advance and seem to be fully boo
  
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• 20 apps to get you out and about

  09-04-2017 07:59
  
  Your smartphone needn’t keep you sedentary: these apps will soon have you cycling, exploring forests or gazing at night skiesWhy don’t you just switch off your smartphone and go out and do something less boring instead? Although with all due respect to the famous intro for children’s TV show Why Don’t You?, perhaps better advice for 2017 would be to keep your smartphone on – but seek out some apps that will get you out into the world.Whether you’re spotting wi
  
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• Trashy TV can reveal the ugly truths about domestic violence

  09-04-2017 07:00
  
  It’s often the soaps and daytime dramas aimed at housewives, and dismissed by critics, that get women’s stories of abuse just rightThere’s a kind of satisfaction when glamour gets chipped like varnish, and the dirty fingernail beneath is revealed. This is part of the appeal of the television show Big Little Lies, a seven-part melodrama in which Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman play “stay-at-home” mums, with big cars and secrets. We’re half way through the s
  
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• The eco guide to global goals | Lucy Siegle

  09-04-2017 07:00
  
  The UN’s 17-point plan to save the planet is ambitious but will keep humanity on trackIt’s important to have goals (I’m sure that’s what life coaches say). But even if you’re laidback about your own prospects there is no reason to lack ambition for the planet and humanity.On the face of it the 17 Global Goals (also called Sustainable Development Goals) ratified by the UN and adopted by all countries in 2015 are moon-shootingly ambitious. They aim to “end pover
  
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• The decline and fall of broccoli’s nutrients

  09-04-2017 07:00
  
  This cruciferous crop really is better the fresher you eat it, and now is the time to get the seeds in the groundThe old mantra of “the fresher the better” is one that is so frequently bandied about as a reason to grow your own that many of us believe unquestioningly that it must be true, particularly when it comes to the nutritional content of our crops. But is there any evidence to support this belief? Well, perhaps surprisingly, many crops actually show a measurable increase in ph
  
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• My mum’s behaviour led to me being raped when I was a teen

  09-04-2017 07:00
  
  Mariella Frostrup admires a reader’s attempts to come to terms with her past, but says she should be aware her mother may never take responsibilty for her actionsThe dilemma I am a 39-year-old mother who is struggling with memories of my own childhood. When I was 15 my mother put me in dangerous situations with older men which led to me getting raped. When I told her I was scared, she brushed it off and when I told her I was raped she told me to not be silly. She encouraged me to date men
  
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• Living by numbers: from factory to designer home | Tamsin Blanchard

  09-04-2017 07:00
  
  Television’s painting expert Pascal Anson shows Tamsin Blanchard around his converted factory home by the seaThe sun is streaming through Pascal Anson’s window. The converted factory where he lives and works is a short walk from Shoreham beach on a street on a spit of land behind the harbour. In the 1950s, when his home was built, fir trees from Norway would be unloaded in the harbour and dipped into a tar pit at the back of his building to be used as telegraph poles. This bit of coa
  
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• Le Cinq, Paris: restaurant review

  09-04-2017 07:00
  
  It was supposed to be a joyous trip to one of France’s famous gastro palaces – what could possibly go wrong?Le Cinq, Four Seasons Hôtel George V, 31 avenue George V, 75008 Paris (00 331 49 52 71 54). Meal for two, including service and modest wine: €600 (£520)There is only one thing worse than being served a terrible meal: being served a terrible meal by earnest waiters who have no idea just how awful the things they are doing to you are. And so, to the flagship Mich
  
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• Joe Trivelli’s spring vegetable recipes

  09-04-2017 07:00
  
  Artichokes, lamb’s lettuce, asparagus, peas – now’s the time for the bright, fresh flavours of classic Alpine dishesEaster time marks the march towards the brighter vegetables that I miss over winter: broad beans, asparagus and the first wild shoots feel like the first signs of spring. But the reality is that these things often take longer to arrive than we would like. If I’m left waiting for the next season’s produce, I eat greenly in a different way.
  As a teenager
  
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• Human expertise: it’s not what you know, it’s who…

  09-04-2017 07:00
  
  Sharing knowledge is a form of playing, say Steven Sloman and Philip Fernbach. And it depends heavily on others
  Most things are complicated – even things that seem simple. You wouldn’t be shocked to learn that modern cars or computers or air traffic control systems are complicated. But what about, say, toilets?If you take a minute and try to explain what happens when you flush one, do you even know the general principle that governs its operation? It turns out that most people don&rs
  
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• How to make a chicken last a week

  09-04-2017 07:00
  
  Angela Hartnett gets every lovely scrap of flavour out of a chicken, six nights in a rowAngela Hartnett doesn’t believe that avoiding food waste is a style of cooking. “It’s just what cooking should be,” says the Michelin-starred chef. “A chicken is a great way to show what is possible in terms of using every last bit, and Italian food is a very good example of how to cook with as little waste as possible.”
  Having worked on anti-food waste campaigns over the p
  
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• Felt IA14 time trial and triathlon bike: preview | Martin Love

  09-04-2017 07:00
  
  If you are looking for an aerodynamic advantage, Felt’s pacy race bike is the answerSpeed and distance have a tricky relationship. Increase one and you lower the other. But highly advanced time trial and triathlon racing bikes are doing everything in their power to mediate these troublesome variables. And this new out and out speedster from Felt manages to be faster for longer distances than most other rides. Designed in Irvine, California, but built and fully tested in Portsmouth by Wiggl
  
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• Wines full of spring | David Williams

  09-04-2017 06:59
  
  Joe Trivelli’s delicious seasonal recipes work well with the citrussy dry whites made with the vermentino grape. Here are three to tempt youLe Stelle Vermentino, Sardinia, Italy 2015 (£8.79, Waitrose) The hills are alive with the feelings and flavours of spring in Joe Trivelli’s recipes this week. And to be entirely faithful to the Italian Alpine inspiration you could try to root out a bottle of spring meadow-scented white from some of Europe’s highest altitude vineyards:
  
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• 6 Smart Suitcases Rolling Luggage into the Digital Age

  09-04-2017 01:00
  
  The new generation of cases can charge your phone, keep clothing crisp, and zip you across airports…Phoebe Neuman
  
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