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• 3 Miss America officials resign, 1 apologizes to ex-winner

  23-12-2017 22:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The top leadership of the Miss America Organization, implicated in an email scandal that targeted past pageant winners for abuse based on their appearance, intellect and ...
  
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• The Latest: Outgoing Miss America president apologizes

  23-12-2017 21:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The Latest on the Miss America email scandal (all times local):3:55 p.m.The outgoing president of the Miss America Organization is apologizing to a former Miss America ......
  
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• Swedish roofs can handle Santa's sleigh - if he's careful

  23-12-2017 21:38
  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's houses should be able to cope when Santa and his sleigh land on their snowy roofs this Christmas - as long as he doesn't try to deliver too many presents in one go.
  
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• Miss America leadership resigns in email shaming scandal

  23-12-2017 21:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The top leadership of the Miss America Organization has resigned, sweeping out officials implicated in an email scandal that targeted past pageant winners for abuse based ......
  
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• One more thing to ask Alexa: Where's Santa on Christmas Eve?

  23-12-2017 18:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  DENVER - Alexa, Amazon's voice-activated computer service, is enlisting in the military-run program that takes phone calls from children asking when Santa will arrive on Christmas Eve.NORAD Tracks Santa will ......
  
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• Gift wrap or tape in 1 hour: How Amazon aids procrastinators

  23-12-2017 15:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - With five days until Christmas, someone in New York urgently needed 10 rolls of wrapping paper. Another person needed a bag of potatoes and aluminum foil baking ......
  
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• My kitchen at home: Chez Panisse founder Alice Waters | A cook’s kitchen

  23-12-2017 14:00
  For chef and activist Alice Waters, an open fire, handmade spoons and commemorative glasses are the perfect treasuresI live in north Berkeley, California about a mile from Chez Panisse. I’ve been here for 34 years, just about the same age as my daughter Fanny. I remodelled it immediately – it had a small kitchen with a tiny back porch. The house was built in 1908 and it had such a great feel to it – I didn’t want to change the character of it but we took down the porch, o
  
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• Let’s be honest: a lot of us can’t cook turkey | Phil Daoust

  23-12-2017 13:00
  If you don’t make a good job of the Christmas turkey, just give up. Let someone else take a turn in the kitchen next yearSome people will eat any old muck at Christmas. The Caribbean island of Dominica echoes to the slurping of tripe soup. The Inuits of northern Greenland treat themselves to kiviak, made by sewing hundreds of auks inside a seal skin and burying the lot for up to 18 months, after which the birds’ heads are bitten off and their guts squeezed out. In the UK, the undiscr
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for light and easy post-Christmas relief

  23-12-2017 10:00
  The last thing you need right now is more dishes to add to the groaning Christmas table, so instead here are a few platefuls of sanctuary for the days aheadHalf the challenge at this time of year is to plan what you’re going to eat on Christmas Day and to stick to it, so the last thing you need from me is more ideas about what to cook. Sure, every year there are recipes that claim to be the ultimate and only way to cook a carrot, potato or turkey, but the menu you devised way before 2017&r
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the reluctant Christmas Day guest

  23-12-2017 10:00
  I wish you realised I find it a little painful seeing the indulgence of the childrenSo it’s that day again. I guess I will accept your invitation to spend Christmas with you, my lovely daughter, and your family, but, like last year, I will try to convince you that I am very happy by myself at home. I repeat that I won’t be lonely and 25 December is just like any other day to me – apart from the luxury of the fact that the world seems to pause for a moment. I know you feel guilt
  
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• 'I'm a magpie, a collector of facts and curiosities': secrets of a quizmaster

  23-12-2017 10:00
  The fiendish setter behind the Weakest Link, the Chase and the Guardian Weekend quiz tells allTackle Thomas Eaton’s tricky Christmas quiz hereI can’t pinpoint the exact moment I realised that quizzes would play a major part in my life, but the Cubs’ Mastermind tournament seems a good place to start. I was 10, and my specialist subject was Lenin. (The irony that the Scout movement had been banned in the USSR was lost on me.) I did, however, win – and from then on was not s
  
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• How to cope with a solo Christmas? Relish every moment

  23-12-2017 10:00
  I have had many big family Christmases and, no question, they can be wonderful. But throughout my 20s I often chose to do Christmas on my ownChristmas on one’s own has a bad reputation, for reasons I understand but will never accept. How To Cope With A Solo Christmas is a headline that turns up this time every year, studded among the 10 million other headlines about the “easy” way to cook a Christmas dinner for 35 people, and how to buy the perfect present for every person you
  
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• Can you complete Thomas Eaton’s fiendishly difficult Christmas quiz?

  23-12-2017 10:00
  Full of festive fun (and/or frustration)• Want to get inside the mind of the setter? Thomas Eaton reveals all here1 Which seasonal figure was murdered by his brother, Boleslaus the Cruel?
  2 Why does a Welsh hamlet in the Tywi Valley get extra post at this time of year?
  3 A Brit award winner in 2017, which singer’s stage name was inspired by watching Steptoe and Son?
  4 Why was “covfefe” in the news in May?
  5 What festive item was first recorded in Britain on Cornhill in 144
  
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• ‘It's part of the fun to suffer’: hitting the great outdoors this Christmas

  23-12-2017 09:00
  Meet the river swimmers, paddleboarding Santas and others who won’t be spending Christmas on the couch. By Daniel MasoliverNormally, there’s only one way to get into 4C water: in a hurry. From Southampton to Sydney via St Petersburg, an in-and-out New Year’s Day dunk is a long-established custom; the image of hordes of swimmers charging en masse to meet the wintry waves a familiar one. But go down to the picturesque banks of the river Stour at Dedham in the early morning of 1 J
  
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• Beauty: last-minute Christmas perfume shopping on the high street

  23-12-2017 09:00
  It’s not too late to pick up a scent for a loved one without it looking like an afterthoughtWe’re now at the last-chance saloon stage of gift-buying, when so many of the men in my life reluctantly and needlessly visit the shops at the most dizzying time imaginable. Perfume may seem a route-one choice, but it’s entirely possible to dash in and out of your local Boots or John Lewis, for a high-quality, mass-market scent that seems more thoughtfully chosen than it perhaps is.
  
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• It’s been a long time since I wrote the words ‘snowed in’. If I ever did | Howard Jacobson

  23-12-2017 08:59
  I email to cancel engagements in London. In Cotswolds, roads impassable, see you when I see youSnowed in. Come and get me. It’s a long time since I wrote those words, if I ever did. But I did speak them in a desperate phone call to my father – it must have been 50 years ago – when a blizzard brought my Austin A40 to a standstill somewhere near Bolsover in Derbyshire.Everyone rang my father when they were in this kind of trouble. He was known to be a man who would come
  
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• The best travel discoveries of 2017 – chosen by Guardian writers

  23-12-2017 08:00
  This year the Guardian Travel team enjoyed a Hooghly in India, meditated in Bali and hitched a wagon in the Wye valley – among other unforgettable experiencesIn the summer, we drove from Naples through Campania and Calabria, then took the ferry to Sicily. Along the way, we broke the journey at fantastic agriturismi and guesthouses but the most intriguing place was EcoBelmonte, Calabria’s only albergo diffuso. This ancient, car-free village was once home to 3,000 people, now there are
  
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• A letter to … my sister, who has conquered her depression

  23-12-2017 07:44
  The letter you always wanted to writeFamily stuff happened and those wounds in you festered and festered. No one knew at the beginning. You hid it well under your sleeves and at the back of your eyes.Before it all happened, I sometimes looked at you and thought that this would happen to you. It is the way you used to hold your emotion. It is as if you were full to the brim with it, but you forced it down, shoved it into a box  and hid it away. It was stran
  
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• The year that would never end

  23-12-2017 07:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  How to do a pop culture year-in-review for a year that just seemed to go on and on? The Oscar snafu over Best Picture, the scandal over that misbegotten Kendall ......
  
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• With few options, Israeli couples turn to rogue weddings

  23-12-2017 07:07 via winnipegfreepress.com
  JERUSALEM - A growing number of Israeli couples are defying the country's Chief Rabbinate and marrying in unsanctioned weddings.The couples include people who have difficulty proving their Jewishness to the ......
  
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• Tim Dowling: the Christmas-tree seller emerges from a cabin, scowling

  23-12-2017 07:00
  I’m always optimistic about the tree expedition, hoping to recreate a magical childhood memory which, in hindsight, may belong to someone elseIt is the time of year when my wife and I enter our annual dispute about the correct date to purchase a Christmas tree. My wife always wants to buy it too soon, and regards my insistence on waiting as part of my traditional bid to ruin Christmas. It’s not: I’m always optimistic about the expedition itself, hoping to recreate a magical chi
  
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• Blind date: ‘He ordered six desserts’

  23-12-2017 07:00
  Harry, 21, journalist, meets Ivan, 24, activist and writer Continue reading...
  
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• Rio ballerinas struggle amid Brazil's financial crisis

  23-12-2017 01:11
  RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Rio de Janeiro's opulent Municipal Theatre has gone quiet this year as months of unpaid wages emptied its calendar of major works and pushed many ballerinas and opera...
  
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• Sudoku 3939 hard

  23-12-2017 01:01
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 0906 200 83 83. Calls cost £1.03 per minute from a BT landline. 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 standard rate). Continue reading...
  
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• Prize Crossword No 27,388

  23-12-2017 01:01
  We are unable to display Maskarade’s Christmas Prize puzzle online in the normal interactive format. Please click here use the PDF version to complete the crossword.Each clue consists of two parts, the first providing the solution
  for the left-hand grid and the second for the right-hand grid.
  However, a letter must be added to one of each pair of solutions
  before entry in its grid. All 26 letters of the alphabet are used
  once and the new words thus formed are not defined in the
  clues. The
  
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• Killer Sudoku 585

  23-12-2017 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 stand
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,861

  23-12-2017 01:00
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