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• Industrial-size bags of flour now part of national recall

  16-06-2017 20:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  OTTAWA - A national recall of flour due to E. coli contamination that began in March has been expanded again, this time to a product aimed at hotels and restaurants.The ......
  
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• Thanks, Dad

  16-06-2017 20:31 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  Father’s Day is Sunday, and to celebrate, we asked a handful of Free Press staffers to write about some advice — or “dadvice,” if you will — their fathers have ...
  
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• Pies and freedom: A Father's Day look at a dad who roamed

  16-06-2017 18:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  MORRISTOWN, N.Y. - A year ago this Sunday, I was making berry pies in the kitchen when I glanced outside: Dad had taken another face-plant in the grass.Time to get ......
  
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• The weekend cook: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for roast aubergine, red rice and pomegranate salad, and Turkish kofte

  16-06-2017 18:00
  
  Pomegranate molasses has a gorgeous, sweet, sticky sourness that transforms all kinds of vegetable and meatEntertaining in summer is so much easier than in winter. You can cook outside, which feels more liberating than being glued to the stove, plus you can eat outside, where things always taste better. And, maybe because the summer food is a little lighter, there doesn’t seem to be quite as much washing up afterwards, although I have yet to do a scientific study on this. Today’s rec
  
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• Cocktail of the week: beetroot collins recipe

  16-06-2017 18:00
  
  Give a traditional collins a DIY-flavoured vodka twistFlavoured vodka is very easy to make. You need only 70ml per serving here, but it’s not worth making in much smaller quantities than this.For the beetroot vodka
  200ml vodka
  55ml honey syrup (1:1 honey: water, warmed until the honey melts)
  1 raw beetroot, sliced
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• Try crab curry from Sri Lanka that's exploding with flavours

  16-06-2017 17:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  As any fan of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain knows, food is more than raw ingredients. To understand a bowl of noodles or a perfectly formed dumpling, a foodie must understand ...
  
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• Let’s move to Helensburgh, Argyll & Bute: ‘The air seems to sparkle’

  16-06-2017 17:30
  
  I’m surprised more artists haven’t settled here, but a quick eye on local history shows they were beaten to it by Johnny PoshWhat’s going for it? There’s no escaping the waters in Helensburgh. They’re in front of you (the Clyde), to the side (Gare Loch) and behind (Loch Lomond). So much liquid does something funny to the light – the air seems to sparkle, while the brooding landscape of smoky, blue-green hills bleeds into the sea like watercolour flicked f
  
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• 'A road trip in space': inside the live-streamed studio session at Demon Dayz festival

  16-06-2017 17:29
  
  Three emerging artists, selected by Gorillaz, worked overnight by solar power to create a brand new song. We joined them to see how it wentHear a preview of the track at the bottom of this articleAfter four hours of being cooped up in a glorified motorhome, Colombian tropi-pop artist Lao Ra is starting to go a bit weird. “I feel like I’m on a road trip. A road trip in space,” she mumbles, rubbing her eyes and staring out of the window at the ink-black 3am sky. “It’s
  
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• Great-granddaughter celebrates the 'Mother' of Father's Day

  16-06-2017 17:26 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LOS ANGELES - This Father's Day, Betsy Roddy will write two cards: one to her dad, and the other to her late great-grandmother, Sonora Smart Dodd.The second card is a ...
  
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• The 10 best typography pieces for your home – in pictures

  16-06-2017 17:00
  
  From gnat tiles to an ampersand wall clock – if you want to update your pad, you’ve got to know your type Continue reading...
  
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• Amazon buying Whole Foods in bold move into brick and mortar

  16-06-2017 16:57 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Amazon is buying Whole Foods in a deal valued at about $13.7 billion, a stunning move into brick-and-mortar retail that sets the stage for more radical store ......
  
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• The best summer of my life? The year I moved to Margate

  16-06-2017 16:13
  
  After years living out of a rucksack, I fell in love with a seaside town. Swapping a life of travel for daily swims in the tidal pool turned out to be a great adventure
  See below for a chance to win your own perfect summer
  As a travel writer, if I ever want to disgust friends and alienate strangers, I can reel off a long list of thrilling summers spent around the globe. But the summer that shines brightest saw me closer to home. Last May, after three years of near-constant travelling for work, p
  
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• London fire may have destroyed DNA needed to ID victims

  16-06-2017 16:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  LONDON - The devastating fire that struck a high-rise tower in London may have been so powerful that it destroyed much of the DNA evidence needed to identify its victims.As ...
  
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• Walmart to acquire online men's clothing retailer Bonobos

  16-06-2017 16:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  NEW YORK - Walmart says it's buying online men's clothing retailer Bonobos for $310 million in cash, showing that its appetite for hip clothing brands shows no sign of abating ...
  
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• What’s more frightening than an evil world leader? A stupid one

  16-06-2017 16:00
  
  What makes stupid people so dangerous is that you can’t refer to their own self-interest to predict or explain their actionsAs you’ll have noticed, there’s an awful lot of stupidity afoot in the world. To take the obvious example, consider the principle the journalist Josh Marshall calls “Trump’s razor”, after the philosophers’ rule known as Occam’s razor: when trying to decode the president’s actions, the stupidest explanation you can think
  
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• My parents moved to a new area after my mother retired and now she is really isolated

  16-06-2017 16:00
  
  She is in her 50s and has always been happy and busy. Now, though,my dad is at work all day and she has struggled to meet new friends. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerA year ago, once my siblings and I had left home, my parents moved to the other side of the country. They have made a beautiful home and love their new, wild surroundings. My dad still works, but Mum retired early last year and is now struggling and becoming increasingly unhappy and isolated. She is still young, in her 50s, and t
  
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• Experience: I went into labour after running a marathon

  16-06-2017 15:00
  
  I had gone in with no expectations, but I felt good, so I just kept going. Half an hour after finishing, I felt the first contractionsI found out I was pregnant two days after my husband, Joe, and I had signed up to run the 2011 Chicago marathon and each paid the $145 (£113) entry fee.It was my second pregnancy and would be my eighth marathon. My PB was 3hr 25min, so I wasn’t an elite runner, but I took it very seriously. Running has always been a huge part of my life and I ran a lot
  
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• Bilson Eleven, Glasgow: ‘The arse-clenching pretension of it all’ – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin

  16-06-2017 15:00
  
  The pole-up-jacksie staff robotically recite every component of every dish with the animation and charm of a Theresa May interview How dare I? How dare I be critical about a small, new indie restaurant, its name an elision of the chef/owner’s two sons (and the number of tables they, er, used to have)? Where it’s clearly the work of the bleeding inevitable passionate maverick who has dedicated his life, soul, savings? I usually don’t dare: these are the reviews I hate to write,
  
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• Am I unreasonable to leave my boyfriend over his lack of basic hygiene?

  16-06-2017 13:00
  
  When we met, he didn’t look after himself. Now, although I have helped him smarten up, he doesn’t take care of his nails and hands or do anything about a wart, and this is a complete turn-off for meI have been with my boyfriend for 10 months. When we met, he did not look after himself in terms of health and personal grooming, although we get on well and he is a decent and kind person with a successful career. I was tough on him and he has resolved some medical issues – includin
  
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• China's Great Wall repaired with simple tools, bricks of old

  16-06-2017 12:44
  
  BEIJING (Reuters) - At one of the most treacherous and least restored stretches of China's Great Wall, a line of pack mules halted upon emerging from the gloom of a dense forest draped in mist and...
  
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• How to help people with autism? Just be nice

  16-06-2017 09:00
  
  When you have a child on the spectrum, you get used to disapproving looks from strangers. But if people learned to be kinder and more understanding, it would benefit everyoneOne of the most difficult things about autism is the judgment of other people. That has been my experience of having a son on the spectrum. Throughout his life, from trips to the park as a toddler to restaurant visits now as an 11-year-old, it has been the reactions of strangers that have really hurt. Sometimes Zac finds soc
  
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• From bleeps of 'Pong' and 'Mario,' game music comes of age

  16-06-2017 08:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  PARIS - The electronic bleeps and squawks of "Tetris," ''Donkey Kong" and other generation-shaping games that you may never have thought of as musical are increasingly likely to be playing ......
  
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• Milk products recalled in B.C. due to 'harmful extraneous material'

  16-06-2017 08:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  
  OTTAWA - Quebec-based dairy giant Agropur is recalling some of its milk products distributed in British Columbia due to what the federal health agency calls "harmful extraneous material."In a news ...
  
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• Male, female or X? Oregon adds third option to driver's licenses

  16-06-2017 02:23
  
  (Reuters) - Oregon on Thursday became the first U.S. state to allow residents to identify as neither male nor female on state driver's licenses, a decision that transgender advocates called a victory...
  
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• Kakuro 1556 hard

  16-06-2017 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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• Cryptic crossword No 27,225

  16-06-2017 01:00
  
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