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• Caitlyn Jenner talks of suicide, secrets in new book

  24-04-2017 22:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Caitlyn Jenner opened up Monday about her frank new memoir detailing her now 2-year-old transition and the bumps along the way, including her three failed marriages, thoughts of suicide while she was relentlessly pursued by paparazzi, and, finally, freedom to be her true self.And,
  
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• Songwriter Beyries finds solace in her debut album after two cancer battles

  24-04-2017 21:52 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - Amelie Beyries has felt life slipping out of her grasp.It first happened when she was diagnosed with cancer at 28 years old. Coming out of treatment, she thought everything would improve. Except it didn't — it got worse.But 10 years later, the Montreal-raised singer is still here to
  
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• At Tribeca, Bourdain reluctantly plays the role of activist

  24-04-2017 21:49 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Anthony Bourdain is not one for activism. Tattooed on his arm in Greek is "I am certain of nothing."But at the Tribeca Film Festival, Bourdain has, a little reluctantly, presented a documentary, "Wasted! The Story of Food Waste," in which he argues passionately against the issue of...
  
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• Sheryl Sandberg's new book a tale of grief, resilience

  24-04-2017 21:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Though perhaps best known as Facebook's No. 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg is also a mentor, a mother, a billionaire and an author. When her husband Dave Goldberg died suddenly in 2015 while they were vacationing in Mexico, she added "widow" to the list."The grief felt like a void,
  
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• Excerpts: Sandberg recounts grief and building resilience

  24-04-2017 21:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - A few weeks after her husband died, Sheryl Sandberg was talking with a friend about finding someone to fill in for a father-child activity. Crying, the No. 2 Facebook executive told the friend, "But I want Dave." He put his arm around her and said, "Option A is not available. So let's
  
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• SpaceX Will Fly Two to the Moon Next Year

  24-04-2017 21:00
  
  SpaceX will transport passengers to the Moon via autonomous Crew Dragon spacecraft…Mary Grady
  
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• London’s New Residential Project Brings the English Countryside to the City

  24-04-2017 21:00
  
  Priced from $4.5 million, the apartments and penthouses are next to Holland Park…Rebekah Bell
  
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• Lesbian Methodist bishop faces challenge to her election

  24-04-2017 20:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Karen Oliveto clutched a friend's hand, closed her eyes and wept when she learned last year she had been elected a bishop of the United Methodist Church. Oliveto, who is married to another woman, had become the denomination's first openly gay bishop.Within minutes, a formal complaint
  
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• Thailand reaches for the stars with new Michelin Guide

  24-04-2017 20:29
  
  BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will be the latest country to have a Michelin Guide, its state tourism agency said on Monday, taking its place on the culinary world map just days after authorities...
  
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• The women behind Prince: ‘The respect he showed us speaks volumes’

  24-04-2017 19:25
  
  Throughout his career, Prince championed female musicians, unlike many of his peers. We speak to some of those he influenced – and who, in turn, inspired himPicture the scene: Prince’s 2005 Grammy’s afterparty, where Maceo Parker, Larry Graham and Stevie Wonder are jamming while Prince solos on guitar and keys at the same time. Comedian Kevin Hart and Patti LaBelle are in the audience. Matthew McConaughey is on percussion, shirtless, “having the time of his life”. N
  
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• Study finds Samsung's S8 phones more prone to screen cracks

  24-04-2017 19:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Samsung's latest phones feature big wraparound screens and lots of glass. SquareTrade, a company that sells gadget-repair plans, says the phones also appear to break more easily.The nearly all-glass design of Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus makes them beautiful, SquareTrade says, but...
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner tells all in new memoir

  24-04-2017 19:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Caitlyn Jenner opened up Monday in an Associated Press interview about her rocky road to transition and why she wrote a tell-all memoir, "The Secrets of My Life."Jenner says she just needed to get it all out, from thoughts of suicide as she was pursued by paparazzi to the women she
  
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• Michael Caines’s Delicious New English Countryside Retreat

  24-04-2017 19:00
  
  The Michelin-star chef’s new Lympstone Manor is a luxurious gastronome’s getaway…Phoebe Neuman
  
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• Luxury shoe brand Jimmy Choo goes up for sale

  24-04-2017 18:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - Shares in Jimmy Choo have leapt 11 per cent after its board put the luxury shoe brand up for sale.The gains bring the market value of the firm that began in east London to over 700 million pounds ($896 million).The firm, which counts Jennifer Lopez, the Duchess of Cambridge and
  
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• Blurred lines – how music bridges the generation gap

  24-04-2017 18:29
  
  The latest music borrows heavily from the past and collaborations and remakes are adding to its cross-generational appeal. For Peter Robinson, though, pop mustn’t lose its ability to provoke When it comes to the way families consume music, some rituals have always been sacred: the tribalist mentality that pits one brother or sister’s favourite act against another’s; the solidarity achieved when siblings come together to rebel against their parents’ taste; that belief that
  
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• Greubel Forsey’s Million-Dollar Grande Sonnerie Will Be Music to Your Ears

  24-04-2017 18:00
  
  The company devoted 11 years and more than 900 components to the creation of the chiming watch…James D. Malcolmson
  
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• Weird weather means wonky asparagus – at lower prices

  24-04-2017 17:08
  
  This year’s crop has grown into odd shapes, prompting Morrisons to sell one of the UK’s most expensive vegetables cheaplyA wonky version of one of the UK’s most expensive vegetables, asparagus, has gone on sale this week for just £1 at a major supermarket chain, in a drive to stop the crop – misshapen as a result of this spring’s fluctuating temperatures – from being wasted. A warm early spring has encouraged asparagus shoots to push up early this year.
  
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• Liz Weston: Allowances Don't Teach Kids About Money - You Do

  24-04-2017 17:08 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Many parents tell me they feel guilty about allowances.They aren't consistent about when and how they give their kids money. They wonder if allowances should be tied to chores. Even how they dole out money can be a problem. Cash is easiest, but much of what kids want to buy — downloads of a
  
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• In late April, Dutch tulip bulb farmers chop off the flowers' heads

  24-04-2017 16:32
  
  AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - As the end of April approaches, Dutch tulip farmers prepare for "topping", when they run cutting machines through the fields across the north and west of the country, lopping...
  
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• Mushroom & cheese burritos are perfect for Meatless Mondays

  24-04-2017 16:26 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Mushroom and Cheese Burritos are a delicious vegetarian dish hearty enough to satisfy even the most die-hard carnivore in your family: a burrito stuffed with portobello mushrooms, chiles and cheese. It's perfect for Meatless Mondays and — bonus! — all the ingredients are cooked together in a
  
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• Chinese, Russian visitor surge push Dubai toward 20 million target

  24-04-2017 16:18
  
  DUBAI (Reuters) - The number of Chinese and Russian visitors to Dubai surged in the first three months of the year, boosted by the United Arab Emirates' recent decision to grant visas on arrival to...
  
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• Sheryl Sandberg picks 'Option B' in her book on resilience

  24-04-2017 16:09 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Though perhaps best known as Facebook's No. 2 executive, Sheryl Sandberg is also a mentor, a mother, a billionaire and an author. When her husband Dave Goldberg died suddenly in 2015 while they were vacationing in Mexico, she added "widow" to the list."The grief felt like a void,
  
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• Bring back squatting! The best way to solve our unnecessary housing crisis

  24-04-2017 13:12
  
  I dream of a gigantic, coordinated, nationwide flash squat of multiple empty sites all at once. Perhaps it could come trueI can’t understand this housing crisis. Nobody needs to be homeless. We have 200,000 empty homes in England, with 4,297 in Birmingham alone. And that’s only the houses. There are countless empty cinemas, theatres, hospitals and stations that have been derelict for decades, and probably a few bunkers if you’re worried about nuclear holocaust. What a waste. Wi
  
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• Anna Jones’s toddler-friendly tagine recipe | The modern cook

  24-04-2017 13:00
  
  Small changes to familiar flavours will encourage kids to open up to a more exciting range of recipes. Try a toddler friendly tagine and build-your-own tacos to spice things upBefore I became a mum, I was probably quite sanctimonious about feeding kids. I envisaged my own children sipping green smoothies every morning and thought that if you exposed kids to a food often enough, they would eat it.Not true. Little ones have likes and dislikes as much as adults do, and with their super-sensitive pa
  
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• Crossword blog: meet the setter – Chifonie

  24-04-2017 10:48
  
  The latest in our series where we turn the tables on the torturers. Under the spotlight this time is John Dawson, AKA ChifonieChifonie has been setting cryptics for the Guardian since 1994; he also sets for the Financial Times as Armonie and has posed fiendish barred-grid challenges as Symphonia. He can be devious in a way that is frequently funny and always fair; for example, the clue “Deer takes one for a ride (4)”. So, let’s meet the setter. Continue reading...
  
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• Who needs to know how to grow vegetables? It's learning how to cook them that counts

  24-04-2017 09:00
  
  If we’re to quit our addiction to packaged food and ready meals, it’s life skills we need, not lectures. Step one: focus on ease, speed and value for moneyThe other morning, having digested the disquieting but not altogether surprising statistic that the UK now eats almost four times as much packaged food as fresh – in 2015, we each of us bought 1,547 calories’ worth of packaged produce per day – I did a little audit on what we consume in our house. Hmm. It started
  
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• Nigel Slater’s comforting fish recipes

  24-04-2017 09:00
  
  Smoked haddock and spinach tart, fried whitebait with whipped feta, and salmon with pickled rhubarb brighten the flavours of classic fish dishesA fish tart with soft smoky filling, flecked with spinach; a plump little prawn cake eaten like a burger; a tangle of crab pasta with a sauce made from its shells; and a bright salmon salad with the piquancy of rhubarb. Here are just some of the fish recipes that have been in my kitchen already this spring. Continue reading...
  
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• ​How ​my potentially fatal allergy was cured – with 70 wasp stings

  24-04-2017 09:00
  
  Four years ago, Gavan Naden nearly died from anaphylactic shock after being stung by wasps. He became fearful of going outside, but a drastic immunotherapy regime has saved himOver the past three and half years, I’ve had 70 wasp stings injected into my left arm. Voluntarily. This hasn’t been an exercise in masochism, but rather to ensure I can go outside without screaming from fear.Every year in the UK, there are between two and nine deaths from anaphylaxis caused by b
  
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• I can’t maintain an erection during sex

  24-04-2017 08:59
  
  I am putting myself under pressure based on previous experience. How can I break the cycle?I am 25 years old and struggle with erectile dysfunction. I can get an erection but can’t maintain it during intercourse. I have been to my doctor for tests and am relatively healthy. I think that it’s in my head; I am putting myself under pressure based on previous experience and need to break the cycle.A “cycle”, as you put it, can certainly become established after a man experien
  
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• Is running the best exercise?

  24-04-2017 08:50
  
  Running is cheap, easy and reduces the risk of heart disease and early deaths. But do the health benefits outweigh those from other activities, such as walking, cycling or swimming?According to a review of evidence in the journal Progress in Cardiovascular Disease, runners live three years longer than non-runners. You don’t even have to run fast, or for long, to see a benefit. You can drink, smoke, be overweight and still reduce your risk of dying early by running – by between 25% an
  
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• I want to put coaching at the heart of my work – how can I do that?

  24-04-2017 08:00
  
  I’m wondering if I should set up as an independent coach or whether it would be better to join a company
  Twice a week we publish problems that will feature in a forthcoming Dear Jeremy advice column in the Saturday Guardian so that readers can offer their own advice and suggestions. We then print the best of your comments alongside Jeremy’s own insights.I’m in my mid-50s and work for a company that recently terminated a successful internal coaching programme due to “lack
  
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• Baby boomers not included in task force guidelines for hepatitis C screening

  24-04-2017 07:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - The average Canadian adult does not need to be screened for infection with hepatitis C, a blood-borne virus that can in time cause cirrhosis or cancer of the liver, says a task force that develops practice guidelines for primary-care providers.In its first hepatitis C screening...
  
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• It's not easy being greenery

  24-04-2017 01:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Spring is in full swing, which means it’s time once again for Mr. Doug’s Annual Spring Fashion Report, the seasonal feature Mr. Doug does every year unless, of course, he forgets — and which he did this year because he has been spending far too much time lying on the couch and...
  
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• Indonesia’s Exotic New Private-Island Resort

  24-04-2017 01:00
  
  Cempedak Island has opened on a secluded 42-acre isle in Indonesia’s picturesque Riau archipelago…Daven Wu
  
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