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• Italy's Emma Morano, the world's oldest person, dies at 117

  15-04-2017 21:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ROME - Emma Morano, at 117 the world's oldest person who is also believed to have been the last surviving person born in the 1800s, died Saturday at her home in northern Italy, her physician said.Dr. Carlo Bava told The Associated Press by phone that Morano's caretaker had called him to say she...
  
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• Charlie’s Angels Star Cheryl Ladd Designs Home at Cordillera Ranch

  15-04-2017 21:00
  
  The four-bedroom home is located at Cordillera Ranch, an 8,700-acre private residential community near San Antonio…Rebekah Bell
  
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• World's oldest person, last one of 19th century, dies in Italy at 117

  15-04-2017 20:50
  
  ROME (Reuters) - Emma Morano, who at 117 was believed to be the world's oldest person and the last surviving child of the 19th century, died on Saturday, swearing to the end on her diet of two raw...
  
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• Sotheby’s Hong Kong Watch Auction Is Marked by Strong, Diverse Sales

  15-04-2017 20:00
  
  The auction is a great indicator that the collector market is still strong, and buyers’ tastes continue to diversify…Justin Mastine-Frost
  
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• Jewelry Designer Q&A: LA’s Laura Freedman Talks Must-Have Gems

  15-04-2017 19:00
  
  Broken English boutique owner Laura Freedman reveals her favorite designs and the artists that bring her inspiration… Carolyn Meers
  
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• Exploring San Diego by City and by Sea

  15-04-2017 18:00
  
  An inside look at the newly opened Pendry San Diego and the recently renovated L’Auberge Del Mar… Rebekah Bell
  
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• Dressed to ingest: foodie fashion – in pictures

  15-04-2017 18:00
  
  Photographer Kelsey McClellan and prop stylist Michelle Maguire first met in Ohio in 2013 while working on an ice-cream recipe book. This led to Wardrobe Snacks, a photographic series of appropriately sherbet-hued outfits matching various foods. The photos are inspired by people eating away from tables: Michelle’s stepfather, who rests his sandwich on his thigh in between bites while he watches action movies; a commuter on a crowded bus; a lunch-breaker on a park bench. “They’r
  
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• Zelectric Motors Turns a Porsche 911S Targa into a Clean Dream Machine

  15-04-2017 16:00
  
  The electrified convertible can cover zero to 60 mph in 7 seconds as it bolts to 150 mph…Viju Mathew
  
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• Sweet on Cuba: riding the Hershey town train

  15-04-2017 13:30
  
  The town of Hershey once supplied the US chocolate giant with sugar for its bars – and Easter eggs – and the railway line built for it is an original way to get around an area, east of Havana, rich in beaches and beauty‘We had the best sugar in the world… and we lived like kings. We had our own baseball club, bands, dances, concerts and movies,” 93-year-old Amparo de Jongh told me in her house in the model town of Hershey, Cuba.De Jongh, the first person to be born
  
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• Plant of the week: bleeding heart

  15-04-2017 12:00
  
  If you’ve got a spot in light shade, make space for this cottage garden classicA cottage garden classic that’s an elegant option for light shade. In spring, it bursts out of nowhere with its fern-like foliage and heart-shaped pink-and-white flowers on arching stems. Its new Latin name is Lamprocapnos, but you may also know it by its former one, Dicentra. Continue reading...
  
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• Ask Alys Fowler: what can I grow on the cheap to act as a screen from a busy road?

  15-04-2017 11:59
  
  Our gardening columnist has the answerI’ve recently taken possession of an allotment that’s right next to a road and overlooked through an ugly chain-link fence. What can I grow as a protective screen? I’m on a budget and can’t afford hedging plants.
  The cheapest option is a grapevine from a supermarket or value store; they often have cheap five-litre pots. However, it’s never advisable to eat anything that’s been grown next
  
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• How the beery vision of brewing a small fortune can fall flat

  15-04-2017 10:59
  
  Tax relief, light regulation and crowdfunding has spawned nearly 2,000 craft beer firms in the UK with experts predicting the bubble to burst very soon Barley, hops, yeast and water: the basic formula for beer is staggeringly simple. Equally simple, it sometimes appears, is the formula for setting up your own brewery. Quit the day job, buy the requisite kit and brew up batches of foaming nut-brown ale. Continue reading...
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for Easter lamb

  15-04-2017 10:00
  
  Traditional roast lamb has its place, but try something new this Easter by looking to China, north Africa and Thailand for inspirationLamb, for all its associations with anchovy, rosemary, garlic and the Easter weekend, is a wonderfully non-denominational meat. As much as I thought I was going to stick with tradition this week, I’m tickled as pink as a just-cooked fillet with how global (and, therefore, pan-religious) my recipes for lamb are. There’s a salad that takes inspiration fr
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the 24-year-old virgin

  15-04-2017 10:00
  
  I feel weird about sex because I want it but at the same time I’m scaredYes, I’m 24 and I’m a virgin. It hurts. I know there’s nothing wrong with me, but it feels as if there is. Most people lose their virginity when they are teenagers. I feel like a loser.Why am I still a virgin? It’s complicated. When I was a teenager, I was shy; I was always the “quiet one”. As I’ve got older, things have got worse. Instead of my confidence improving, it&rs
  
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• Prize Crossword No 27,172

  15-04-2017 09:35
  
  We are unable to display Maskarade’s Esater Prize puzzle online in the normal interactive format. Please click here use the PDF version to complete the crossword.Clues are in the alphabetical order of their solutions, which should be entered jigsaw-wise in the grid, as they will fit.For each initial letter, one of the solutions, with no further definition in its clue, is part of a theme: 13 forming one group and the other 13 a closely associated one. Four solutions from one group must be p
  
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• Beauty: must-haves for small handbags

  15-04-2017 09:00
  
  Want to lighten your daily load and downsize your handbag? Here’s my pick of the makeup essentials to take on the runI have just bought a new handbag that’s the size of an A5 envelope. My daily cargo – laptop, purse, at least a dozen products for column-testing, plus the well-worn favourites (six rose lipsticks, anyone?) – had reached critical mass and I’d begun to stoop like a retired donkey. So I dumped everything on the bed and decided I had to lighten my load.I&
  
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• Modern tribes: the spring enthusiast

  15-04-2017 08:59
  
  Here’s my hellebores in an enamel jug, eight likes, well it was lateWow yesterday’s blossom got 33 likes! Don’t know why but I can’t seem to stop posting flower photographs, did you see my early primroses in an egg cup? The forget-me-nots in a jam jar – 24 likes in one morning? Here’s my hellebores in an enamel jug, eight likes, well it was late, maybe I should have said they’re double-flowered ones, quite precious.And this one I’m quite proud
  
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• What links the Human League, Subbuteo, University Challenge and economics? The Weekend quiz

  15-04-2017 08:00
  
  From Mount Zion to Macduff, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which writer lost the use of his left arm at the Battle of Lepanto?
  2 Which summer visitor is a brood parasite?
  3 What took place in the Upper Room, Mount Zion?
  4 What is removed by the Swiss water process?
  5 Founded in 1953, what is Britain’s oldest chamber music group?
  6 What sport is “violence punctuated by committee meetings”?
  7 Where did Bevin Boys work?
  8 What does Michiko Kakutani contribute to the Ne
  
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• My workout: ‘I don’t think there’s any other game as fast as ice hockey’

  15-04-2017 08:00
  
  Tim Smith, 28, has a gruelling scheduleWhen I was eight years old, some players from the Sheffield Steelers ice hockey team visited my primary school, promoting the sport within the community. They gave us free tickets to watch a game. I went with my family and was instantly hooked, playing first on rollerblades on the estate where I lived before transitioning on to the ice when I was 14. I now play for the Sheffield Steeldogs in the second highest league in the UK.I don’t think there&rsqu
  
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• My wife has been quoted £1,800 to have her teeth whitened – is it worth it?

  15-04-2017 07:59
  
  We can just about afford it but wonder if this is a good price? Will they fade and is the procedure painful?Every 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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• Going nuts over squirrels

  15-04-2017 07:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  When Nancy Rose and her husband were house hunting last year, the first question she’d ask whenever they visited a property was, “Are there squirrels?”The confused real estate agents would invariably reply: “Are you scared of squirrels?”“I’d say,...
  
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• I want my children to have a positive memorial to their mother

  15-04-2017 07:45
  
  Stained-glass panels will be constant reminders of her in our house, overlooking the lives of which she is still a partStella has to be the worst pub singer in the world. That phrase “pub singer” reeks of the past but is fitting because I’m sitting in the sort of northern pub I thought only existed in old newsreels or reruns of Get Carter.It’s not even karaoke night, but a paid performance as Stella, of “Starlit Stella” billing, belts out The Way We Were
  
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• A letter to … Identical twins, who truly know what it’s like to be one of a pair

  15-04-2017 07:45
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeYou know what it’s like, don’t you? The double-takes as you walk along the street together, the teachers who could never remember which was which, the strangers who wave and smile, and you just wave and smile back because you know it’s a case of mistaken identity, and it’s not their fault.“Isn’t being an identical twin just the best thing?!” one said to me a while back, and how could I not agree? It’s like havin
  
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• Stirring up some marital discord

  15-04-2017 07:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  As a crusading columnist with naturally curly hair, the thing I enjoy most about my job is the opportunity to help couples who are experiencing marital strife.Just such an opportunity presented itself last weekend when my wife and I joined my buddy Bob, who also happens to be my boss, and his
  
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• Lots of new gear to lure anglers

  15-04-2017 07:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  As we wait for the transition from frozen to open water, it’s time to go through the tackle and clean up the boat. I always like to spend this time of the year looking up new tackle on the market and planning some of my fishing adventures for the open-water season.Over the years, my use
  
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• Mothers with autism: ‘I mothered my children in a very different way’

  15-04-2017 07:30
  
  Women with autism are twice as likely to be undiagnosed as men. Amelia Hill speaks to four mothers who only recognised their own condition after researching their children’s behaviourBeing a girl or woman with autism is hard: it’s only in the past two to three years that many professionals have begun to recognise that the condition is not limited to boys and men. But what’s harder is to be a mother with autism – and harder than that, is to be a mother with autism, of chil
  
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• 15 ways to support someone who is grieving

  15-04-2017 07:30
  
  There are many ways you can offer practical help to the recently bereaved including what not to say1. Never avoid someone who has been bereaved. It’s confusing and hurtful. Texts, emails and letters are all acceptable – it’s the contact that matters. Grief can make you feel scared and alone. Saying “I’m sorry” is enough if you can’t think of anything else. But if you have any memories of the person who has died they will be most welcome as, once someone
  
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• Why mothers should expect less of themselves and more of their partner

  15-04-2017 07:15
  
  Tiffany Dufu had motherhood and her return to work all planned out – until her scheme fell apart. But her crisis became her salvationThe day she went back to work after her first maternity leave was the day Tiffany Dufu realised that the political was personal, and that the rules of her domestic life would have to change. That morning, she’d been buoyant. Happily married, she’d landed her dream job, found a childcarer she trusted and negotiated space to express her milk while s
  
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• Why I love… Dave Chappelle

  15-04-2017 07:00
  
  I will never not laugh at his bit on chicken and racismBack when easy streaming was a twinkle in some young executive’s eye, some TV was just… unavailable. If you were desperate to watch that US TV show, you could try the dodgy VHS guy down the market (ahem). So for a long time, I just heard about US comedian Dave Chappelle’s legendary show. When I finally got to watch, on a grainy DVD copy, I laughed so hard I cried.Dave Chappelle, 43, moved to New York as a te
  
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• Tim Dowling: ‘He stuck large needles into my flesh. Six or seven’

  15-04-2017 07:00
  
  Tristran shows me a model of a human shoulder and points to the likely spot where a nerve has become trappedAt some point in the autumn my left arm started to hurt for no reason. After a while most of the pain transferred to my shoulder and neck, but the arm remained stiff and underpowered. I did nothing.Actually I did do something – I complained. I complained to my wife, who eventually supplied me with the phone numbers and email addresses of practitioners supplied by friends of hers. I d
  
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• Blind date: ‘He said I reminded him of Eddie Redmayne, but he was drinking very strong beer’

  15-04-2017 07:00
  
  Did Ben and Joe hit it off over a curry?What were you hoping for?
  Once I’d determined he wasn’t the grumpy-looking fellow, I was happy. Continue reading...
  
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• A Sailing Journey through the Greek Cyclades

  15-04-2017 01:30
  
  A select group of Robb Report VIPs recently embarked on a 10-day adventure along the coast of Greece…A Robb Report Partner Experience
  
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• Sudoku Killer 549

  15-04-2017 01:01
  
  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.
  For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls will cost £1.03 per minute, plus your phone company’s access charge. Calls from other networks may vary and mobiles will be considerably higher. Service supplied by ATS. Call 0330 333 6946 for customer service (charged at stan
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,645

  15-04-2017 01:00
  
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• Drove for Uber? Rented out your home? Here are some tax tips

  15-04-2017 00:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - If you're driving for Uber or renting out a room through Airbnb to make some extra cash, don't forget — you likely need to pay taxes on what you earned, even if it's a part-time gig.Unlike full-time jobs, where taxes are automatically withheld from every paycheque, it's usually up to...
  
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• Whiskey of the Week: Hochstadter’s Family Reserve Straight Rye Whiskey

  15-04-2017 00:00
  
  This premium rye whiskey is an homage to pre-Prohibition spirits…Dan Dunn
  
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