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• Palliative Manitoba provides more than end-of-life care

  26-05-2017 23:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Karalee Grant was a vibrant 19-year-old when she was diagnosed with a rare sinus cancer.During Karalee’s treatment for the disease, she touched many lives by speaking to students about cancer ...
  
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• Fidget spinners: concentration aids or toys?

  26-05-2017 23:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  You’ve probably seen a kid spinning a thing that looks like a miniature alien spaceship on his thumb and wondered what that was all about. Or maybe you’ve noticed a ...
  
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• Rolling like Thunder

  26-05-2017 22:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  You know that song from Sesame Street, the one that goes: “One of these things is not like the others / One of these things just doesn’t belong”?That song was ...
  
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• Britain's real-life 'Iron Man' has high hopes for jet suit

  26-05-2017 19:33
  SOMERSET, England (Reuters) - The British inventor of an "Iron Man"-style jet suit has lofty hopes that his project, which started out as fun experiment, could become a practical tool for industries...
  
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• Ohio hospital drops rule requiring women to wear pantyhose

  26-05-2017 19:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  AKRON, Ohio - Women at an Ohio hospital system can once again skip the pantyhose while wearing dresses and skirts because a revised dress code was put in place this ...
  
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• Chicago inmates can order fancy Italian pizza made in jail

  26-05-2017 18:52 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CHICAGO - How can you get a gourmet Italian pizza delivered right to your door for no more than $7? Get locked up at Cook County Jail in Chicago.Inmates in ...
  
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• Melania Trump wears $51K Dolce & Gabbana jacket in Sicily

  26-05-2017 18:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TAORMINA, Italy - Melania Trump's first outing in the Sicilian sunshine was in a colorful floral applique jacket by Dolce & Gabbana that comes off the rack at $51,000.Mrs. Trump ...
  
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• The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ picnic recipes – poached chicken with freekeh salad and kamut chocolate brownies

  26-05-2017 18:00
  
  Our weather may not be up to much, but the British need no excuse to eat outdoorsHalf-term is upon us, and I’ll be spending as much of it as possible outdoors. Whether or not you are in the grips of school holidays, eating outside is something we do justice to in Britain, not least because we are stoically unfazed by the weather, no matter our age. So arm yourself with rugs, jumpers and, if time allows, something homemade. Today’s chicken salad, inspired by a trip to Georgia, is burs
  
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• Cocktail of the week: classic rum punch recipe

  26-05-2017 18:00
  
  You can’t beat a proper Caribbean rum punchA lovely lady in Barbados taught me this ditty: “One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong and four of weak.” Hey presto, perfect (if rather lethal) punch. The ratio works for just about any punch. Serves one.1 shot fresh lime juice
  2 shots sugar syrup
  3 shots rum
  4 shots water
  1 dash Angostura bitters
  Nutmeg, to garnish Continue reading...
  
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• Let’s move to Ilford, east London: ‘One of today’s boomtowns’

  26-05-2017 17:30
  
  As inner London becomes supergentrified, it’s suburbs such as this that are left for the likes of you and meWhat’s going for it? Ilford’s attraction is not immediate. I rise past it most weeks on the North Circular; you might be in any outer London suburb, Kingston or Kingsbury, Bromley or Barnet. If you squint hard (health and safety warning: not when you’re driving), you could even be in Los Angeles. Maybe. Look, Ilford has its moments. Indeed, as central London becomes
  
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• Wine, sake and orange juice makes a memorable cocktail

  26-05-2017 16:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  As any food lover knows, our culinary creations have a natural best friend, one that is so ingrained in the food world that the Culinary Institute of America has entire ......
  
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• Think you’re self-aware? Think again | Oliver Burkeman

  26-05-2017 16:00
  
  Genuine self-knowledge relies on coming to see yourself as a stranger The psychologist Tasha Eurich reports that 95% of people think they’re self-aware – that is, conscious of what really makes them tick and how they come across to others – yet only about 10-15% of us truly are. The discrepancy shouldn’t come as a surprise, since one thing people with no self-awareness are going to lack self-awareness about, you’d assume, is their lack of self-awareness.Doubtless yo
  
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• My husband wants a divorce after 30 years. What do I tell our two adult children?

  26-05-2017 16:00
  
  He says he stuck around until they left home to protect them from a messy split – and I knew we were incompatible once we had finished raising our family. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerSome time ago, out of the blue, my husband told me he wanted a divorce. I was horrified and astonished – we had been together for more than 30 years and I was looking forward to celebrating our wedding anniversary. At my request, we went to counselling, but it became apparent that he thought t
  
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• CEO pay by the numbers: How big were last year's raises?

  26-05-2017 15:42 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The typical big-company CEO raked in $11.5 million last year in salary, stock and other compensation, according to a study by executive data firm Equilar for The Associated Press. That's ...
  
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• London's Chelsea Flower Show in full bloom

  26-05-2017 15:34
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's most prestigious flower show is taking place this week with hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of floral delights from Alium to Zantedeschia.
  
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• Where The Light Gets In, Stockport: ‘The most exciting food I’ve eaten in years’ – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin

  26-05-2017 15:00
  
  Not so much new Nordic as new northern, this is a procession of brilliance Let’s get it out of the way from the get-go: Where The Light Gets In serves the most exciting food I’ve had in years. And it’s not in London, Copenhagen or Portland, Oregon; it’s in Stockport. Never have I trudged so dutifully to a destination only to exit at the other end quite so starey-eyed and evangelical.Stockport: seriously? Before high horses are clambered upon, chef/owner Sam Buckley is equ
  
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• Experience: I made peace with my daughter’s killer

  26-05-2017 15:00
  
  This is not about forgiveness. What happened cannot be changed; this is our way of dealing with it My daughter Renske met her boyfriend Samarie on the train. She was heading from the Netherlands to Switzerland; he was an asylum seeker from Benin. They got chatting and exchanged phone numbers. That was how it started. They had a good relationship. He was attentive and they were very respectful towards each other. They spent holidays with me and my wife Lieuwkje.Just before midnight on 13 April 20
  
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• A sister uses her gifts to send messages to fallen soldier

  26-05-2017 14:43 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEENAH, Wis. - She begins each time by sharpening her tools, with the sound of metal on metal echoing through the sunlit old house she calls both home and workshop. ...
  
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• Ruby Wax: ‘The kids didn’t know I had depression until they were older. My husband covered for me’

  26-05-2017 14:30
  
  The comedian talks about her mother’s obsessive compulsive disorder, her own depression and marrying her husband for his familyI was born and raised in Evanston, outside Chicago. My dad, Edward Wachs, and my mum, Bertha, fled Austria in 1938. My family were Jewish but they never practised, so it’s not something I really identify with. My dad ran a catering company so we ate a lot of different kinds of hot dogs. We lived on a lake and if you saw it you’d think, “Oh my
  
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• Children don’t listen to adults – and that’s just as it should be

  26-05-2017 14:30
  
  Parents should be living examples of the qualities they want their children to adopt – so show, don’t tellA new Harvard University study suggests that rather than sex education comprising a single, awkward lesson, it should form part of a continuing conversation. Emotional education is very much part of this – the report comes with a series of talking points for parents to discuss with their children, ranging from what romantic love is and what it feels like, to lessons they ha
  
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• German kindergartens to name parents who skip vaccine advice

  26-05-2017 14:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  BERLIN - The German government wants kindergartens to inform authorities if parents fail to prove they have attended a doctors' consultation on child vaccinations.The measure is part of a government ...
  
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• What I wore this week: soft jackets | Jess Cartner-Morley

  26-05-2017 14:00
  
  Functioning sleeves, a soft silhouette and definitely no shoulder pads... welcome to shoulder-robing without the dramaThe big news this week is that I’ve finally cracked shoulder-robing. I don’t mean I’ve mastered how to do it (still struggling with how not to crick my neck, drop the jacket in a puddle, or both), but I’ve figured out what it means. Shoulder-robing is to the serious jacket what a rolled sleeve is to the crisp, white shirt. It is power dressing fo
  
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• How can I pay my friend’s gym fees without making her feel bad?

  26-05-2017 13:35
  
  I want to pay my friend’s gym fees so we can carry on our regular visits, but don’t want to cause upset by doing soMy problem is that my friend and I – both in our 70s – meet two or three days a week at our local, council-run, gym. My friend’s pension is rapidly decreasing, as she has come here from a country which is having economic problems, while mine – thanks to the triple lock increases annually – is doing OK. My friend cannot afford the gym fees fo
  
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• What I learnt from following Delia’s How to Cook | The Delia project

  26-05-2017 13:00
  
  As Stephen’s year-long mission to cook his way through Delia Smith’s How to Cook draws to a close, her lessons have finally taken hold – and the result is a more confident cookDelia and I are seeing other people these days, but like all important relationships, I’ve changed, for the good, and hopefully forever. Apart from the changes to my figure, which I hope to have reversed by the autumn.The biggest change is in bread. I am, now, both very aware of the taste of preserv
  
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• Watch the evolution of TV in under two minutes

  26-05-2017 12:51
  
  From John Logie Baird’s ‘televiser’ to the arrival of streaming services, what we watch and how we watch it continues to change at a lightning rate. Take a look at how TV has evolved over the years.
  Find the TV you loveWith Virgin TV you can watch the TV you love, brilliantly brought together. Visit www.virginmedia.com for more information, and more fun.
  Cabled areas only. Virgin TV subscription, Virgin TV Anywhere App and WiFi required. Selected recordings to stream are availa
  
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• Fashion designer Laura Biagiotti, Italy's 'Queen of Cashmere' dies

  26-05-2017 12:19
  ROME (Reuters) - Laura Biagiotti, who helped transform her mother's business from a small tailoring shop in Rome to an internationally recognized ready-to-wear fashion brand, died on Friday aged 73,...
  
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• Italian fashion designer Laura Biagiotti dies at 73

  26-05-2017 11:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  ROME - Laura Biagiotti, an Italian fashion designer who conquered global markets with her soft, loose women's clothes and luxurious knits that won her the nickname "Queen of Cashmere," died ......
  
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• Viral sea lion video prompts renewed warnings

  26-05-2017 07:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Port officials in Steveston, B.C., a seaside community on the West Coast now known as the site of the viral sea lion yanking incident, have issued several warnings:“Don’t feed the ...
  
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• Baseball for the blind takes flight in Cuba

  26-05-2017 07:06
  HAVANA (Reuters) - Yubis Zapata had to stop playing baseball when he lost his eyesight during military service due to an explosion, so for him, it is a miracle to be able to play once more, in Cuba's...
  
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• Texas pushes ahead with 'bathroom bill' as others shy away

  26-05-2017 04:31 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas - As "bathroom bills" targeting transgender individuals falter across the U.S., fizzling even in conservative bastions like Kansas and Arkansas following the upheaval over a North Carolina law ......
  
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• 1 step forward, 2 steps back for LBGT rights in Asia

  26-05-2017 04:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  A first-ever ruling in favour of same-sex marriage in Asia. A public caning in Indonesia. A soldier convicted in South Korea.For LGBT rights, it was one step forward, two steps ...
  
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• Botulism outbreak seems limited to 1 nacho-cheese sauce bag

  26-05-2017 02:18 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - A deadly botulism outbreak linked to nacho-cheese sauce confiscated from a California gas station appears to be limited to an opened bag of the sauce, state health ...
  
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• The Latest: Botulism outbreak seems limited to 1 cheese bag

  26-05-2017 01:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO - The Latest on a botulism outbreak linked to nacho-cheese dip sold at a California gas station (all times local):4:35 p.m.California health officials said a botulism outbreak linked ......
  
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• Vietnam's spirit mediums revive once forbidden ritual

  26-05-2017 01:27
  HANOI (Reuters) - Dressed in the bright silk garments of a woman and dancing with candles between his fingers, Nguyen Duy Nam leads a temple of worshippers in a ceremony honoring mystical goddesses...
  
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• Kakuro 1553 medium

  26-05-2017 01:01
  
  Fill the grid so that each run of squares adds up to the total in the box above or to the left. Use only numbers 1-9, and never use a number more than once per run (a number may reoccur in the same row, in a separate run).Buy the Guardian tomorrow or subscribe to our Digital Edition to see the completed puzzle. Continue reading...
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,207

  26-05-2017 01:00
  
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• The Red Turtle: a moving meditation on our relationship with the natural world

  26-05-2017 00:58
  
  Fairytales and myths are the inspiration for Michael Dudok de Wit’s first feature film, a magical tale of a castaway, made in collaboration with the renowned Studio GhibliThe legendary Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli knows a thing or two about talent. Co-founded by the great auteur Hayao Miyazaki, the company is the home of classic films such as Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, My Neighbour Totoro and the Tale of the Princess Kaguya. But until the gorgeous Oscar-nominate
  
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• Hair stylist Rinaldo, made famous by Mila Mulroney's bob, dead at 82

  26-05-2017 00:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  OTTAWA - An Ottawa hair stylist whose scissors tended to the tresses of some of the country's biggest political players has died.Rinaldo Canonico died Wednesday after undergoing heart surgery at ...
  
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