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• Accreditor of for-profit colleges loses appeal to stay alive

  12-12-2016 23:26 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Federal education officials are standing by their decision to cut ties with the nation's largest accreditor of for-profit colleges — a ruling that will bar hundreds of schools from providing federal financial aid and likely force some to close.The Accrediting Council for...
  
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• Food trends for 2017: Filipino fare, fancy mocktails, vegetable innovations

  12-12-2016 23:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  TORONTO - Filipino food, fancy fizzes, twists on traditional Jewish mainstays and artisanal jerky are a few trends that foodie insiders are seeing in their culinary crystal balls for 2017.Filipino fare includes adobo — one of the island nation's traditional dishes, not to be confused with the
  
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• First lady: Skiing does for her what golf does for president

  12-12-2016 22:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama says skiing does for her what golf does for President Barack Obama.Appearing at a children's hospital Monday and answering some patients' questions, Mrs. Obama said her favourite winter activity is skiing because it helps gets her out of a White House that is
  
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• Deep River recalls potato chips for possible salmonella risk

  12-12-2016 22:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  DEEP RIVER, Conn. - A Connecticut snack maker is recalling some of its potato chips for possible salmonella contamination.Deep River announced its voluntary recall of certain bags of its sour cream and onion kettle chips sold nationally through retail and food service outlets.The recall
  
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• The 12 Whiskeys of Christmas: Day 1

  12-12-2016 21:00
  
  Jack Daniel’s 150th Anniversary Limited Edition
  This year, we’re filling the 12 days before Christmas with the best whiskeys on our wish lists… Richard Carleton Hacker
  
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• Fallas UNESCO Cultural Heritage Celebrations In Valencia

  12-12-2016 19:58 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Yesterday we celebrated the inclusion of the Fallas Festival to the list of UNESCO world cultural heritages. And a celebration it was. Earlier that day I walked by the Torres de Serranos to get an idea what they’ve planned. Right away I noticed the fireworks set up on top of the city gate. In that moment I knew we’re going to be in for a treat.
  Below you find a video of the fireworks and some pictures. Needles to say that Fallas 2017 is going to be huge. So in case you’re plann
  
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• First lady pays Christmastime visit to children's hospital

  12-12-2016 19:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  WASHINGTON - Michelle Obama has made her final Christmastime visit as first lady to a Washington children's hospital.She was joined Monday by television and radio host Ryan Seacrest.They read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to a group of children and answered some of their questions.Mrs....
  
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• Tory handbags at dawn: sneering about clothes reveals the person beneath

  12-12-2016 19:31
  
  The war of words between Downing Street and former education secretary Nicky Morgan is the perfect way to end a year marked by the resurgence of misogyny in western politicsI see that there is a bit of to-do in the papers about Nicky Morgan’s criticism of Theresa May’s trousers. What’s going on?Steve, by email Continue reading...
  
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• Has Mills & Boon managed a feminist rebrand?

  12-12-2016 19:28
  
  The romantic-fiction house claims its new Modern Girl’s Guides are ‘funny, feisty and feminist’. But it’s more Five Go Gluten Free than The Second SexMills & Boon is best known for what is euphemistically described as “escapist fiction for women”, a genre it first embraced in the 1930s. The company is reported to account for almost three-quarters of sales of romantic fiction in the UK. In 2008, a Mills & Boon paperback was sold in a UK bookshop on aver
  
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• Surge in drug-affected newborns driven by rural opioid use

  12-12-2016 19:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  CHICAGO - A surge in U.S infants born with symptoms of withdrawal from heroin or strong prescription painkillers is driven largely by rising drug use among women in rural areas, a new study found.The study, led by University of Michigan researchers, estimates that about 21 per cent of newborns
  
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• Robb Report’s Party in the Presidential Suite

  12-12-2016 19:00
  
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• How to manage your child’s tech usage and online activity

  12-12-2016 18:49
  
  It’s important to strike the right balance between being considerate and in control when it comes to managing children’s time with tech. Here are five tips on how to achieve itIt’s natural for parents to worry about what their children do online and with technology in general. But the mistake many make is to think that managing their behaviour in the digital world is different from how they would supervise it anywhere else. Related: Win a 10.1-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab AContinue
  
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• Tool up your tablet: five tips for enhancing your family's tablet experience

  12-12-2016 18:48
  
  From optimising settings to buying accessories, these five tips will boost the time you and your family spend using your tabletA great strength of tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab A is their simplicity: because they run Google’s lean, focused operating system, Android, they are considerably lower-maintenance than laptops and PCs. If you’ve decided that a tablet is a good option for your children, a bit of judicious setting up will stand it in great stead for many years of fuss-
  
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• The best educational and learning apps for Android tablets

  12-12-2016 18:47
  
  With the right apps, high-performance tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab A morph into powerful educational toolsA tablet such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab A isn’t merely a source of entertainment to keep the kids busy while you’re attending to some pressing business. Thanks to the boundless ingenuity of the vast community of developers making Android apps, it can work as a powerful educational resource. What’s more, many of those educational apps teach children as they play.Re
  
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• The 10 best family-friendly games for Android tablets

  12-12-2016 18:46
  
  The proliferation of tablets, such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab A, has fuelled a veritable explosion of fine games for Android devices. Here are 10 of the best We’re all gamers now, whether we know it or not. Kids and parents alike are often enjoying the same games and even playing against one another; which means games that appeal to families are at a premium. The Samsung Galaxy Tab A, with its long battery life and super high-resolution display, is a top tablet for portable gaming. Find out
  
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• Ethereal Staircase in Parisian Expansion

  12-12-2016 18:09
  
  The expansion of this Parisian apartment by Les Ateliers Tristan & Sagitta began when two clients wanted more room for their two young children. The clients already owned the ground floor flat, but they bought the floor above their apartment to build a children’s area as they grew their family.In Parisian apartments, space is a precious commodity. The primary challenge of the renovation was making the new staircase as discreet an addition as possible, according to the archite
  
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• Atlanta zoo names twin giant pandas 'Elegant' and 'Joy'

  12-12-2016 18:07
  
  (Reuters) - Thousands of giant panda fans from around the world have chosen the names Ya Lun and Xi Lun for the new female twins at the Atlanta zoo, officials said on Monday.
  
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• Add This Austrian Vineyard to Your List of Dream Homes

  12-12-2016 18:01
  
  House T is nestled in the rolling hills of southern Austria, overlooking a beautiful vineyard.  Although architect Ulrike Tinnacher built a new structure, the design kept the beautiful, vaulted wine cellar of the old vintner’s house that stood on this site.The rectangular cube and gabled roof at one end also pay homage to the original home.  They create the most visible shape rising above rows of grapes.  The design further emphasizes the monolithic structure with uniform bu
  
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• Ready for breaded cutlets of a different kind? Cauliflower!

  12-12-2016 17:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Let's say that one of your New Year's resolutions is to eat healthier and lose some weight. Join the crowd, right?In practice, what we probably mean — among other things — is that we plan to eat more vegetables and less meat. It's a challenge. But if you try this dish — a wonderful vegetarian...
  
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• Hendrix and Prince guitars expected to make noise at auction

  12-12-2016 17:28
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - A guitar owned by American rocker Jimi Hendrix is expected to fetch more than 80,000 pounds ($101,000) when it goes under the hammer in London on Thursday as part of the annual...
  
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• Two by two, pantomime horses trot charitably through London

  12-12-2016 17:04
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Competitors galloped and neighed through the streets of southeast London on Sunday in a pantomime horse race.
  
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• How Zegna Is Helping Preserve the History, Heritage, and Landscape of Italy

  12-12-2016 17:00
  
  The restoration of Punta Mesco, a farm with historic buildings overlooking Italy’s Ligurian coast,will be completein 2020
  The Zegna family and its Fondazione Zegna are dedicating humanitarian efforts to the motherland…David Coggins
  
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• Where do we expect our homeless people to go?

  12-12-2016 16:00
  
  Doorways, park benches and bus shelters are now designed so that no one can sleep there. It is a cruel humiliation that belongs to the 18th centuryI saw a heap of damp duvet, a suitcase and bit of carpet in some bushes in the park this morning. It has been there for two days now. Somebody’s winter bedroom, probably, but where is that somebody? Impaled on nearby pavement spikes while trying to rest? Or perhaps they were hosed down by security guards while napping in a doorway, got pneumonia
  
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• Bob Dylan to perform in Sweden in April after Nobel no-show

  12-12-2016 14:17
  
  STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan will perform in Sweden in April, offering the singer a chance to give the lecture that is a requirement for getting the $870,000 prize.
  
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• Squid’s in! How to cook Britain's new national seafood

  12-12-2016 13:57
  
  If climate change’s tiny silver lining is that we get more cephalopods on our plates, we should at least do them justice and cook them properlyI know I ought to be sad about the news that climate change may spell the end of the great British fish supper as we know it – that human greed is sounding the death knell for cod stocks in the North Sea is not something to celebrate, and that’s the least of the problems rising sea temperatures will cause. Related: Squid set to top chipp
  
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• The ‘social sickie’ – a sure-fire way to avoid the Christmas party

  12-12-2016 13:26
  
  More than a third of us dread the work do – and many of us even come down with a mysterious ailment to avoid it. Here’s a handy guide to prevent you being trapped in a corner by the office boreDreading your work Christmas party this year? You’re not alone. It has been reported that some of us hate office parties so much that we’ll invent a “social sickie” – a convenient minor illness – to get out of them. As a chronic sufferer of social sickies (I&
  
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• Vegetarian Christmas: recipes from Anna Jones

  12-12-2016 13:00
  
  A festive feast that eschews the nut roast in favour of a celebratory pie with all the not-so-traditional trimmings will have the sprout-haters coming back for seconds and everyone fighting over the gravy. Welcome to meat-free ChristmasChristmas always creeps up on me. I’m never quite sure how, because talk of where we will spend it start as soon as the summer ends. This year we are heading to Anglesey, the beautiful little island off the coast of north Wales where we got married last summ
  
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• We want children, but my husband struggles to climax through intercourse

  12-12-2016 09:00
  
  We have worked around the problem and had a fulfilling sex life. But now we are trying for a family, it has become an issue, yet he refuses to discuss itMy husband and I have been together for eight years. Throughout our relationship, he has struggled to reach climax through vaginal intercourse. We worked around this and have had a mutually fulfilling sex life. But now we are now trying for a family, it is causing problems. I have tried many times to talk about it with him, but I have been met w
  
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• Christmas side recipes from Nigel Slater

  12-12-2016 09:00
  
  Cheesy salt-crust potatoes, onion gravy, and turkey stuffing with cranberry sauce – side dishes that outshine the main eventYou can have the turkey. Just give me the gravy. And I’ll have the chipolatas and bacon rolls too, the cranberry sauce and the stuffing. At Christmas dinner, it is the accompaniments that interest me as much as, or even more than, the big bird. The chewy, scrunchy savoury bits that are traditionally part of the feast can be sublime either on the side or served a
  
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• Is too much protein bad for you?

  12-12-2016 08:45
  
  The market for protein supplements is now mainstream – but many of us already eat twice as much protein as the World Health Organisation recommendsCarbohydrates are causing an obesity epidemic and fats silt up your arteries. But protein? It provides the building blocks for essential stuff such as cells, muscles, bone, nails, hormones and enzymes. The word “protein” comes from the Greek and means first, as in most important. We can’t get enough of it. Bodybuilders take pro
  
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• The world's largest mince pie factory - in pictures

  12-12-2016 08:36
  
  The world’s largest mince pie factory in Barnsley produces 720 pies a minute, rolling off three production lines. Photographer Christopher Thomond gets a tour Continue reading...
  
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• Everything you ever wanted to know about hangovers (but were too queasy to ask)

  12-12-2016 08:30
  
  The Romans treated hangovers with raw owls’ eggs; the Assyrians went for powdered birds’ beaks. Do any of the ‘miracle cures’ really work?Reflecting on life in 1920s New York, F Scott Fitzgerald opined that “the hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta”. But while 21st-century bosses may not be quite as accommodating as the Wall Street tycoons of the roaring 20s, hangovers are certainly part of the Christmas party season.Whet
  
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• Venting our anger on Yodel’s approach to parcel delivery

  12-12-2016 08:00
  
  It couldn’t find the letter box and it was impossible to speak to someone on the phone to explain the problemCan you help with a long-running saga I’ve been having with parcel delivery company Yodel? The problem started because our letterbox is in our back door. Royal Mail and some couriers know this, but unfortunately Yodel could only be bothered stuffing its card in a cellar vent under our front door. It stuck two cards in before we even realised they were there. I rearranged the d
  
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• Someone I recruited has been promoted above me – what should I do?

  12-12-2016 08:00
  
  I am more experienced and generate twice as much income for our law firm, so I can either complain or swallow my pride and carry on
  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 am a salaried solicitor in my late 40s employed at a medium-sized firm. I was recruited to build and run a de
  
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• It's a tough job, but someone has to gobble up the turkey

  12-12-2016 07:36 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  A famous person whose name I cannot recall once famously said: “There’s no free lunch!”I’m willing to bet that famous person wasn’t a big-shot newspaper columnist, because if I’ve learned anything in my career it is this — you can find a lot of free...
  
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• Meet the Ma family: How millennials are changing the way China thinks about money

  12-12-2016 07:14
  
  SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Ma Yiqing, 24, is typical of China's younger generation - he uses his credit card frequently and borrows from online platforms to fund his shopping habits. In a pinch, he is...
  
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• 17 Reasons Why Wine Lovers Will Love Vienna

  12-12-2016 05:00
  
  Famed for its composers and pastries, the Austrian capital is one of the top destinations for wine…
  Michalene Busico
  
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• 6 Festive Afternoon Meals That Will Get You Into the Holiday Spirit

  12-12-2016 00:00
  
  From retro lunches to charitable teas, these once-a-year events will keep your plate full this holiday season…Anush Benliyan
  
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