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• Now you know your ABCs...

  27-04-2018 23:46 via winnipegfreepress.com
  If you’re looking for a few reasons why Winnipeg is the greatest place in the country, I have excellent news.Look no further than the upbeat kids in Susan Pereles’s combined ...
  
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• Tweets about tragic events are a social media minefield, experts warn

  27-04-2018 22:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - Think before you post, social media experts say after an uproar emerged over messages that expressed sorrow over Toronto's deadly van tragedy while also appearing to promote shoes ......
  
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• Green ants and slow-roasted buffalo: tourists get real taste of Kakadu

  27-04-2018 22:00
  There’s more to northern Australia’s majestic national park than scenery or Crocodile Dundee-style shenanigans – and a festival of Indigenous food and culture aims to show just thatMandy Muir and Patsy Raiclar, both Bininj women, are walking us around the outskirts of the Warradjan cultural centre in the Kakadu national park for a lesson on bush tucker.Muir pulls down a branch and points out a nest of green ants, teeming inside a cocoon of leaves. She abruptly smashes the cocoo
  
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• Canadian designers get boost from Meghan Markle's love of their clothing

  27-04-2018 20:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - John Muscat was asleep on Nov. 27 last year when he became intertwined with a historical moment that will be remembered for decades, if not centuries.Having hosted his ......
  
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• Distracted by technology? Microsoft tries to help

  27-04-2018 20:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Technology companies whose devices and constantly scrolling online services have driven us to distraction are beginning to acknowledge that their products can be a waste of time. Some of them ...
  
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• Romaine lettuce outbreak update: 98 people sick in 22 states

  27-04-2018 19:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - The food poisoning outbreak linked to romaine lettuce has spread to three more states.Health officials on Friday said they now have reports of 98 cases in 22 ...
  
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• There ain't no brunch for the wicked

  27-04-2018 19:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  WASHINGTON — “How,” a woman next to me muttered, “can you have mimosas and no orange juice?”We were at the bottomless mimosa refill station at BrunchCon, a sprawling brunch festival ...
  
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• Sleep mode? Tech giants' kids' 'fixes' amount to baby steps

  27-04-2018 18:30 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Facebook is adding a "sleep" mode to its Messenger Kids service to let parents limit when their kids can use it.It's the latest concession that tech companies ...
  
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• Prince Louis: British royals William and Kate name their baby

  27-04-2018 18:04
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Prince William and his wife Kate have named their newborn son Louis Arthur Charles, a nod to both his grandfather and heir to the throne and one of his most beloved...
  
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• Restaurants calm customers, say their romaine is safe

  27-04-2018 17:06 via winnipegfreepress.com
  ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Restaurants' advice to their customers? Romaine calm.The government is still investigating how romaine lettuce from Yuma, Arizona, apparently became contaminated with E. coli bacteria. As of ......
  
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• Your success isn’t down to free will – luck determines everything

  27-04-2018 16:00
  Your social situation is a matter of luck, but then so are your underlying skills and characterThe philosopher Galen Strawson has a knack for translating big, abstract questions – the kind of things you might assume were of little interest outside philosophy lecture halls – into puzzles so personally troubling I can’t continue with my day until I’ve figured out where I stand on them, or at least been distracted by a sleepless baby or enticing
  
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• Was I right to pay for a prostitute for my husband?

  27-04-2018 16:00
  If you were hoping to add to his repertoire or experience, you will have failed, says Annalisa BarbieriMy husband and I have been together for six years. I married him when he was 18 and I was 24. I discovered, after we got married, that he had had sexual intercourse only with me; he’d had sexual encounters with other women, but hadn’t felt ready for intercourse. At first this wasn’t a problem, but now his younger brothers are sexually active and have had multiple sexual p
  
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• Thomasina Miers’ recipe for balsamic braised onion tart with blue cheese

  27-04-2018 15:00
  Buying ready-made pastry isn’t a cop-out – it’s just a platform for a homemade dish that you can make your ownMy first job in food was at a deli on Great Portland Street in London. Adjoining it was a bakery where, every afternoon, chef Angus would make puff pastry for the following day’s croissants, some filled with gruyere cheese, others homemade almond paste or Valhrona chocolate. Sadly, I have neither Angus’s giant roller nor his patience, but there are enough re
  
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• Facebook’s red notification box has controlled me for too long. No more…

  27-04-2018 15:00
  Supposedly, Facebook is about keeping in touch, but in reality it’s keeping scoreEven before Facebook was a menace to global politics, it was a source of personal terror: the terror of waking up to photos broadcast from the boozy night you thought was self-contained. Or the wasted time anxiously wondering if the invitation to play Trivia Crack from an ex is actually a message.Hours are lost poring over the ins and outs of lives you barely recall meeting. That’s the thing about having
  
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• EU moves to full ban on pesticides that harm bees

  27-04-2018 14:13 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BRUSSELS - The European Union made a key breakthrough on Friday to completely ban pesticides that harm bees and their crop pollination.The 28 member states got a large majority, representing ......
  
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• What I wore this week: earrings

  27-04-2018 14:00
  Many of us are obsessive about earrings: they are one of modern life’s great talking pointsI can’t function if I’m not wearing earrings. This sounds like an exaggeration, but it’s not, and while I don’t have a scientific explanation I swear it is the case. The way I feel about earrings is the way some women feel about lipstick. One morning at the last Paris fashion week, I was up early to write so I left my earrings (brass, enormous) to one side, intending to put th
  
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• Club Mexicana at the Spread Eagle, London: ‘Too much fun for Morrissey’ – restaurant review

  27-04-2018 14:00
  A normal gastropub experience in a fun and friendly boozerThe term “vegan pub”, which describes the Spread Eagle in Hackney, east London, is instinctively a funny one. Merely sprinkle “vegan pub” into any sentence, and it conjures up mental images of wan-faced fun-phobes sipping half-pints of unfiltered oatmeal stout in a room ripe with high-fibre flatulence. The vegan pub’s jukebox would offer one choice: an extended, 14-minute remix of Meat Is Murder by The Smiths
  
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• 20 Modern Family Room Decorating Ideas For Families of All Ages

  27-04-2018 14:00
  If your home has a family room or den, we’re guessing it’s probably the most popular room in the house (after the kitchen, of course!). It’s the perfect place to hang out, watch movies, play games, or just relax together.A contemporary family room that has everything you need: entertainment, a bar, a media area for watching movies and lots of comfortable places to sit. Image: Jim SchmidWant to spruce up your family room, or turn an unused space into a modern family room everyon
  
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• My partner still has some of his ex’s underwear

  27-04-2018 13:30
  He probably forgot her pants were in the drawer. But I’m worried it could be a sign that he is still attached to herI am in the initial stages of a relationship with a wonderful, loving man. I went to his flat while he was away and decided to put away his laundry. I found some panties in his drawer. I guess they are his ex’s, but they triggered doubts and vulnerabilities. Probably he forgot they were there, but could he unconsciously still be attached to her? Why didn’t she tak
  
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• My life in sex: ‘Monthly isn’t enough for my libido’

  27-04-2018 11:00
  The man whose wife doesn’t like sexWhen I met my wife, it was clear she didn’t enjoy sex in the way I did. I optimistically believed this would change in time, as we got on so well, and shared interests and values. Life was fun together, and 30 years later, it still is – apart from the area of sex.She initially convinced me her reduced interest in sex was because we were not married. Once we were, it was because she feared becoming pregnant. When we had two children,
  
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• Experience: I was trapped in a sewer for 12 hours

  27-04-2018 11:00
  I fell 25ft into a pipe and started sliding. The walls were slimy and cold, and the water smelled like a toilet. I thought I was going to dieEarlier this month, I was having a family picnic on Easter Sunday in Griffith Park, Los Angeles, with my auntie and cousins. While the little kids did an Easter egg hunt (I’m 13), me and my three cousins went off to play soccer. After kicking the ball around for a bit, we found an abandoned building on the edge of the park, so we climbed over the fenc
  
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• Spring break: 10 of the best lightweight jackets for men – in pictures

  27-04-2018 08:00
  It’s finally getting warmer – time to put that coat back in the wardrobe and grab a jacket instead Continue reading...
  
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• Cosying up to professional cuddlers

  27-04-2018 07:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  I sank into the memory foam mattress on the floor. Annie Hopson, a mama-bear type in her 50s, had put on some new-agey music. Her studio, an upstairs bedroom in ......
  
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• Holiday guide to the Llŷn peninsula, north Wales

  27-04-2018 07:30
  A haven for surfers and adventurers, ‘a timeless island feel pervades this often-overlooked peninsula’. Writers of the new Wild Guide Wales select the best coves and beaches, places to eat and seasonal campsitesWith tiny lanes lined with wildflowers leading to empty coves and rugged cliffs, this magical, often-overlooked peninsula has a timeless island feel – some say the Llŷn is like Cornwall 50 years ago. Welsh is spoken more often than not, and sacred places abound. But
  
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• Sudoku 4045 hard

  27-04-2018 01:01
  Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,967

  27-04-2018 01:00
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,494

  27-04-2018 01:00
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