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• US school districts weigh duty to youth migrant shelters

  18-08-2018 21:47 via winnipegfreepress.com
  When San Benito, Texas, school leaders learned of an influx of children to a migrant shelter in their small town near the U.S.-Mexico border, they felt obliged to help.The superintendent ......
  
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• Schools grapple with obligations to migrants in shelters

  18-08-2018 17:25 via winnipegfreepress.com
  When San Benito, Texas, school leaders learned of an influx of children to a migrant shelter in their small town near the U.S.-Mexico border, they felt obliged to help.The superintendent ......
  
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• Cool Kitchen Backsplashes to Whet Your Appetite

  18-08-2018 14:00
  The basic function of kitchen backsplashes is to prevent water, food and other types of liquids and solids from damaging the wall behind your kitchen counters. However, backsplashes can be both functional and stylish. There’s a dizzying array of styles to choose from, but we’re skipping the most popular backsplashes (since you’ve probably seen them anyway) so we can highlight some of the coolest options.Art glass backsplashA photo of the city’s skyline is the inspiration
  
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• Wild west Wales: beaches, birds and a brew

  18-08-2018 13:00
  The coastline of Pembrokeshire’s Marloes peninsula is glorious and uncrowded, the wildlife on nearby Skomer island is superb, and a new cafe on the way to both is the icing on the cake At Musselwick beach, the yellow sand, hemmed in by black slate cliffs, is an idyllic picnic spot, as we discovered after persuading our two scowling boys to walk the 20 minutes from Marloes village. They duly built acomplicated sand fort just in time for the tide to roll in and destroy it – the beach i
  
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• Make A Bumble Bee Your Pet

  18-08-2018 12:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  Thinking of it, I haven’t seen any Bumble Bees in a long time. But if you come across one you can make the little Bumble Bee your pet friend by putting some honey on your hand and transferring it from a flower to your hand. That little insect will be in such a honey rush that you could even softly bet it. Best though, is to leave these little cute fuzzy friend alone but if you’re tempted please make sure it’s really a bumble bee and not a hornet for example. Otherwise your vid
  
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• Meera Sodha’s recipe for ratatouille

  18-08-2018 11:00
  These caramelised vegetables slick with tomato and garam masala, topped with crunchy almonds, make a failsafe crowdpleaserYou could never accuse my mum, Nita, of not keeping things fresh in the kitchen. Over the years, she made a dynamite mushroom paté blazing with green chillies, a pizza base made using chapati flourtopped with tomato masala and okra, and avocado and coconut milkshakes, long before either ingredient was popular. But more often, and especially when entertaining, she made
  
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• Biking the Baltic: a cycle tour from Vilnius to Tallinn

  18-08-2018 11:00
  Beautiful shores and historic towns are the backdrop to this epic ride through Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – but it’s the region’s fascinating history that makes the journeyOutside Vilnius’ neoclassical Presidential Palace a freestanding sculpture proclaims “#LT100”. It commemorates100 years since Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia declared independence from Russian Empire in 1918 (although the USSR would rule them again from 1940 to 1991).A set of sunken footpri
  
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• The secret to sleepovers that actually involve sleep

  18-08-2018 10:30
  Limit numbers, agree lights-out time and tire them outThe more the merrier doesn’t apply here: merrier is never a good thing when we’re talking other people’s children at 3am. For pre-teens and under, stick with one or two guests. Three or four for teens, who are (sometimes) more susceptible to reason. Be wary of hosting very young guests, even if the parents claim they’re independent and will be fine.Agree lights-out time upfront. Accept that staying up later than normal
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s tomato recipes

  18-08-2018 10:29
  Whether tinned or as paste, tomatoes add robust flavour to this delicious duo Just look at all the pantry staples made with tomatoes – tinned, paste, passata, sun-dried and more – each a variation on the bright-red theme. It’s that desire to capture summer in a jar, tin or tube that provides cooks with some of their snappiest tools for layering tomatoey flavours. Yes, there’s nothing quite as glorious as a perfectly ripe, raw tomato, but in cooking, adding all its derivat
  
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• The best volumising mascaras

  18-08-2018 08:59
  After wearing a different product on each eye daily for more than a fortnight, I found not one, but three, that hugely impressedRegular readers will know I’m rarely moved to rave about mascara, because so few seem up to the job of transforming my sparse, bristle-straight lashes into the long, thick, bovine pelmets of my dreams. But this month, after wearing a different product on each eye daily for more than a fortnight, I found not one, but three, that hugely impressed. What they share is
  
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• Summer on the lake: ‘It’s as Canadian as ice hockey’

  18-08-2018 08:00
  In Canada, the summer ritual of decamping to the lakeside is passed down through generations – especially in Ontario ‘cottage country’, where our writer’s great-grandmother built a hideaway in the 1890sIt’s 9pm on a sweltering summer Friday. There’s neither a soul nor a breath of breeze on Lake Muskoka, 120 miles north-west of Toronto. On a long wooden dock, we load our scruffy 1966 Cutter, one of the first fibreglass runabouts on the lake. Ripples from the sh
  
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• Student finance: here’s how to plan for the start of term

  18-08-2018 08:00
  From loans to accommodation, here’s our guide to managing your money at university
  •Students on their money: ‘I regret spending a lot on takeaways’The long wait was finally over this week, with tens of thousands of young people finding out on Thursday morning that they had got into their first-choice university. Thousands of others whose A-level results didn’t go to plan will pick up a place on a course through the clearing process.But whether they are celebrating th
  
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• ‘I earn £3m a year, but I don’t just throw money away’

  18-08-2018 08:00
  Businessman Simon Dolan on how he invests his cash – and his passions for cars and guitarsI might be a millionaire now but life wasn’t always like that. When I was 21, I had nothing. Debt was spiralling, I was three months behind on my mortgage, and I was totally desperate. I ended up placing a £10 advert in a local paper offering to do people’s accounts. It’s the only thing I knew – I’d previously worked at an accountants for 18 months. A florist respon
  
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• What rank was Prince Harry when he left the army? The Weekend quiz

  18-08-2018 07:59
  From artificial sweetener to Marmee, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which toy giant was founded by Ole Kirk Christiansen?
  2 Which insectivore is the world’s most-trafficked mammal?
  3 What 1970 announcement began “Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow”?
  4 What rank was Prince Harry when he left the army?
  5 In 1879, what was the first artificial sweetener to be synthesised?
  6 Where is the Ayrton light and what does it indicate?
  7 What old unit was the distanc
  
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• Tamal Ray’s recipe for orange custard tart with roasted figs

  18-08-2018 07:00
  A velvety dessert encased in crisp pastry and topped with caramelised fruitFind the best figs you can for this tart: the fat, rounded ones with deep-purple skin and soft, sweet flesh. Roasting them with a little brown sugar, until their edges darken and caramelise, enhances their flavour and makes them a perfect accompaniment to the delicate orange custard they sit upon.Prep 10 min
  Cook 40 min
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• Eighth Grade a 'timeless teen classic'

  18-08-2018 02:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  There’s a scene in Eighth Grade in which our painfully awkward protagonist, Kayla (Elsie Fisher), is laying in bed, scrolling, the blue light from her iPhone illuminating the acne-covered crescent ......
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,591

  18-08-2018 01:00
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