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• Recalls this week: children's robes

  02-06-2017 20:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  More than 7,000 children's robes are being recalled this week because they fail to meet flammability standards.Here's a more detailed look:CHILDREN'S ROBESDETAILS: Eight styles of children's 100 per cent polyester, ......
  
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• An Invincible passion

  02-06-2017 19:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Brent Piniuta readily admits he’ll never be mistaken for a salty dog, a tag given to those who spend an inordinate amount of time sailing the seven seas.Sure, he was ...
  
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• Thomasina Miers’ recipes: homemade fish fingers with mushy peas and tartare sauce, plus blueberry pancakes

  02-06-2017 18:00
  
  There’s an art to mushy peas, starting with a proper portion sizeI ordered fish and chips in a very respectable pub the other day, and the mushy peas that came with it were a travesty: flavourless and boring, and in a mingy little pot; the portion was the size of a dollop of ketchup. In my book, if you’re going to offer mushy peas on a menu, you’d better make sure you serve plenty.So, to set the record straight, here is my own recipe which, along with the ta
  
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• The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for veal meatballs with courgette and spaghetti, plus lemon meringue parfait

  02-06-2017 18:00
  
  Ignore the spurious dietary claims about spiralised veg – they are a great tool for delivering flavourI was very late to the party when it came to cutting vegetables into ribbons. Having had battles with food in my 20s, I now take issue with all diets, and it seemed to me that the spiralising fad demonised perfectly friendly carbs that many of us already ate happily. What I overlooked, however, was the taste: dress a pile of light veg “noodles” – be they crisp and raw or
  
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• Rotating wooden drum aims to help child development

  02-06-2017 17:57
  
  WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish musician has created an unusual interactive instrument - a larger-than life music box bristling with xylophones and drums - that he says can help educate children and aid...
  
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• Let’s move to… Dorchester-on-Thames: ‘A little utopia’

  02-06-2017 17:29
  
  This Oxfordshire village, with wisteria-stewn cottages and water on three sides, is cute as a dormouseWhat’s going for it? Dorchester-on-Thames is one of those English villages that get me all misty-eyed with patriotism, if only patriotism hadn’t been hijacked by the Kippers. Thanks to an illustrious history some time in the seventh century when it was, briefly, capital of Mercia, it carries itself with a certain grandeur. Its parish church is an abbey, it has the confidence to hold
  
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• This Summer berry trifle is perfect for a July 4 barbecue

  02-06-2017 16:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  The stars aligned when our forefathers signed the Declaration of Independence right in the middle of berry season. And while maybe that wasn't part of Thomas Jefferson's agenda, we really ......
  
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• How can I cope with my manipulative mother?

  02-06-2017 16:00
  
  I am doing my best, but sometimes I feel overwhelmed by guilt about not doing enough. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerI am a woman in my 50s looking for advice on how to cope with my needy and manipulative mother, who is in her 80s. Physically, she is in really good shape: she is active, has a good social life, lives independently in a retirement property and drives a car. Her neighbours are lovely and she has settled in well, joining in with activities and helping others.Mentally, she is
  
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• Bored? Now you know why

  02-06-2017 16:00
  
  Boredom feels more intolerable, these days, because there’s so much stimulation to be hadAmerican researchers just published what they’re calling “the most comprehensive empirical account of the experience of boredom” ever conducted. And they’ve solved the mystery of what causes boredom: people feel bored, they concluded, when they’re doing boring things! Which is a less boring finding than it seems, since it puts paid to one of the favourite admonis
  
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• Breast cancer survivors go fly-fishing for solace, healing

  02-06-2017 15:50 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MOSCOW, Vt. - Each spring, more than a dozen women in different stages of treatment for and recovery from breast cancer participate in a free weekend fly-fishing retreat in Vermont ...
  
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• Experience: I lost the ability to orgasm

  02-06-2017 15:00
  
  I hadn’t even had much sex yet, and I felt that a part of myself that I hadn’t explored was already lostA couple of weeks after my 30th birthday, in October 2013, I woke to find my body had gone numb from the waist down. I could still walk, but with difficulty. I thought I’d put my back out, but a few days later my GP sent me to A&E, where they used a can of ice spray on my legs to test my levels of sensation: I could barely feel anything.After more tests, I was diagno
  
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• Arbequina, Oxford: ‘It sees me ordering a second bottle at lunch’ – restaurant review

  02-06-2017 15:00
  
  Arbequina’s tortilla is perfect: blistered exterior, alluringly sloppy interior, the potatoes collapsing among properly caramelised onionsHow you feel about overt restaurant plagiarism depends very much on how precious you are. On the one hand are the don’t-give-a-monkey’s brigade. So a restaurant has “borrowed” from another? Who cares if the food is good? On the other – and I have on occasion fallen into this pursed-lips camp myself – is the irritation
  
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• I’d rather be a loser than a wally

  02-06-2017 14:30
  
  To lose is not a disaster – it is part of life, part of growthWhen Donald Trump suggested we should label those behind the Manchester bombing as “losers” – rather than “evil” – it occurred to me that I can recall a time when “loser” was not used as an insult, but was a simple description of a circumstance or outcome.It is hard to check such things; perhaps Hitler was calling Churchill and Stalin losers in the second world war, altho
  
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• I’ve been working for the same company for 18 years and feel stuck in a rut

  02-06-2017 13:20
  
  My job is interesting and rewarding, but it is also increasingly stressful and frustrating. Although I’m at a senior level, I keep thinking I should spend more time with my childrenI have been working at the same company, in increasingly senior roles, for the past 18 years – almost all my working life (I am 45). I’m starting to feel like a freak; in my industry, it is unusual to stay for longer than five years. I have periodically thought of leaving. The main drivers have been
  
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• ‘No other nation goes weak at the knees at the thought of a sticky toffee pud’ | Comment

  02-06-2017 13:00
  
  Nowhere is pudding held in higher esteem than in Britain. While other nations flirt with these sweet stalwarts, only the British give them the love they deserve...To some, it might be heresy for a Flemish woman to have written the first complete history of British puddings. But, because I don’t live in the UK, I can see its food with fresh eyes. It has made my Dutch readers reconsider it as a food destination – most continentals still think of fish and chips and greasy fry-ups. But I
  
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• History Unerased aims to cast light on gay Americans in schools

  02-06-2017 12:09
  
  LOWELL, Mass. (Reuters) - For generations, young Americans could go all the way through high school without learning that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have long been part of their...
  
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• Frozen berries recalled as precaution while tests for hepatitis A continue

  02-06-2017 11:08
  
  Creative Gourmet mixed berries 300g product, sold at at IGA, Foodworks, Foodland, SPAR and Supabarn affected
  Frozen berries sold in independent supermarkets across the country are being recalled as a precaution while tests for hepatitis A continue.Entyce Food Ingredients has recalled the Creative Gourmet mixed berries 300g product, sold at at IGA, Foodworks, Foodland, SPAR and Supabarn with a batch code of PP150118. Continue reading...
  
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• Pre-school punks and ex-raver mums: the families making killer playlists

  02-06-2017 10:52
  
  Jude Rogers reviews the playlists you entered in our Spotify Family competition – and reveals who has won a year’s subscriptionThe hills of Britain are alive with the sound of music – as are the gardens, Alphabetti Spaghetti-spattered kitchens and heaving motorways, if our Spotify Family subscription competition is anything to go to by. Thank you so much for your avalanche of entries, which have been blasting and banging through my Lego-strewn living room, showing me just how l
  
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• Ananya Vinay wins the 2017 U.S. Scripps National Spelling Bee

  02-06-2017 09:05
  
  OXON HILL, Md. (Reuters) - Ananya Vinay of Fresno, California won the Scripps National Spelling Bee on Thursday, taking home a $40,000 cash prize after 12 hours of picking her way along a precarious...
  
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• Not just for nanna: five delicious ways to discover a love of sherry

  02-06-2017 08:53
  
  Bartenders know the value of this versatile wine but you don’t have to work with liquor for a living to savour its joysIs sherry cool again? It depends on who you ask. Within the liquor industry, sherry has been hot property for some time: no self-respecting sommelier or cocktail bartender would profess their ignorance about the fortified wines of Spain’s Jerez region. In tandem with this interest, the quality of the sherry coming from Jerez has made huge leaps and bounds over the pa
  
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• My colleague moans about being too busy, but refuses any help

  02-06-2017 08:00
  
  They have also complained to my manager that I don’t support them. What should I do?
  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 work in a small team for a large professional services company and have a colleague who, while constantly bemoaning how busy they are, refuses any hel
  
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• State experiments with court advocates for abused animals

  02-06-2017 07:29 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. - Many states have victim's advocates or child advocates, people in the judicial system who represent those affected by crime or abuse. Now, one state has created legal ......
  
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• Unflappable Ananya Vinay wins National Spelling Bee

  02-06-2017 07:24 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  OXON HILL, Md. - Ananya Vinay never looked all that impressed by any of the words she was given in the finals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee.The 12-year-old from ...
  
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• Sudoku 3764 hard

  02-06-2017 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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• Kakuro 1554 hard

  02-06-2017 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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• Quick crossword No 14,686

  02-06-2017 01:00
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,213

  02-06-2017 01:00
  
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• Tattoos have city buzzing

  02-06-2017 00:55 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  For years, the dream followed Rich Handford through hotel rooms and exhibition halls across Canada. The dream squirted out when he squeezed bottles of bright ink, and buzzed in his ...
  
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