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• Bone fragment scare forces Sabrett hot dog recall

  15-07-2017 22:56 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - The maker of Sabrett hot dogs is recalling more than 7 million pounds of hot dogs because they may contain bone fragments.The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food ......
  
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• Researchers looking to develop longer strawberry season

  15-07-2017 20:13 via winnipegfreepress.com
  DURHAM, N.H. - Strawberry season in the Northeast usually lasts only four to six weeks, but New Hampshire researchers have figured out how to stretch the harvest form July to ......
  
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• The Earth, in plane sight – in pictures

  15-07-2017 18:00
  
  Californian artist Julieanne Kost started her photo series Window Seat while travelling for business. Creatively frustrated by the environments she found herself in – hotels, convention centres, airports – she started taking photographs of landscapes from her plane seat. This allowed her to see the environment in a new way, she says: ‘I now view the scenery not as the Earth 30,000ft below, but as an immense, constantly scrolling image.’ The project, for which she now phot
  
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• Drought in High Plains the worst some farmers have ever seen

  15-07-2017 16:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BEULAH, N.D. - Drought in North Dakota is laying waste to fields of normally bountiful food and hay crops and searing pastures that typically would be home to multitudes of ......
  
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• ‘If the children grow it themselves, they’re more likely to eat it’ | School meals

  15-07-2017 13:00
  
  Since taking control of its own catering, a Cornish community primary school has enthused pupils with a love of fresh produce, putting food at the heart of their education“These are peas,” says a tiny girl in a red bucket hat, her face a tapas of freckles. “We eat them for snack time. They just taste like ordinary peas; like you’d eat for your dinner.”I am standing in the Marlborough School allotment, tucked into the side of a sunny hill in Falmouth, Cornwall, surro
  
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• Walking in Serbia's year-round playground

  15-07-2017 12:00
  
  The alpine-like Zlatibor region in south-west Serbia offers forested peaks, waterfalls, pretty villages – and a few more eccentric attractionsThe horses seemed tame enough. One, a chestnut, ambled towards me as I trooped up the path to Čuker’s 1,359-metre peak. Not accustomed to meeting horses on Serbian mountains, I carried on before the chestnut could get a sniff of my lunch. I’d been saving my burek, a cheese filo pie found all over the Balkans, as my reward after walki
  
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• My caravan home: ‘Why choose between country or city when we can live in both?’

  15-07-2017 12:00
  
  She’s writing a book, he’s a locum doctor: when Laura Gray and her husband realised they could work anywhere, they downsized into a mobile homeAsk my friends to name a belonging that defines me and they would probably reply that it’s my clothes rail. Industrial-strength, double-height, stretching the length of the room, filled with choice pieces I have picked up over the years. As an ex-costume and textiles curator, it’s my collection. To my psychiatrist husband Ashim, th
  
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• 'Spices are a good way to tell kids where food comes from' | A cook’s kitchen

  15-07-2017 11:00
  
  Travel oddities, pilfered herbs and stack of spices embellish the rather narrow kitchen of kids’ food specialist Claire ThomsonWe moved here a couple of years ago. It is an old railway cottage, long and narrow – a funny-shaped house. Railway workers used to get free coal, so instead of an attic, we have a large cellar with a hole in the outside wall, through which they must have poured it in. We have plans to knock through a wall to expand the kitchen. For now though, we have a big m
  
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• ‘I was pretending to be a boy for a variety of reasons’: the strange case of Gayle Newland

  15-07-2017 11:00
  
  She was convicted of sexually assaulting a female friend while disguised as a man. How? Simon Hattenstone hears a tale of loneliness and betrayal in the digital ageJudge David Stockdale QC is a serious man with a hangdog expression and a lugubrious manner. He speaks in a basso profundo and looks as if he may never have smiled in his life. But he is measured and scrupulously fair: the perfect lawyer to preside over last month’s retrial of 27-year-old Gayle Newland in Manchester. In Septembe
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for an outdoor summer feast

  15-07-2017 10:00
  
  Summer menus don’t get more summery than this: polenta with summer greens, beef shin cooked in pomegranate and beetroot juice and, to finish, roast peaches with kaffir lime, raspberries and sabayonThere’s something delightfully bonkers about having a full-on outdoor feast. The set-up is impractical, the weather unpredictable and the logistics of keeping the food warm and the drinks cold unworkable. The only option, when the chance to eat under the open sky presents itself, is to go a
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the father of the brides

  15-07-2017 10:00
  
  You, my daughter, are marrying another woman. Your mother and I now feel all the same protective parental urges for our new daughter as we do for you“You should speak at the reception,” my wife says. “It’s tradition, she should have that.” Your marriage, however, is not traditional. You, my daughter, are marrying another woman. The old cliches about father-of-the-bride speeches do not apply, though I desperately want to say something that you and your lovely bride,
  
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• 'The lipstick effect': Britons treat themselves as budgets tighten

  15-07-2017 10:00
  
  Beauty products and womenswear sales both all up on last year as shoppers shun expensive household items due to shrinking disposable incomeWant to know where the economy is heading? Then read my lips. The boss of John Lewis has pointed to a return of “the lipstick effect” – when a rise in sales of beauty products heralds a consumer squeeze.With disposable income under pressure, shoppers are holding off on buying big ticket household items like sofas, beds and washing machines.
  
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• Sali Hughes: the 50 best ethical beauty buys

  15-07-2017 09:00
  
  The Guardian’s beauty editor picks the best vegetarian, vegan and cruelty-free productsA few months ago, I decided to write a column on the best beauty products for vegans, and soon realised that one column wasn’t going to cut it: I probably had enough for 30. The cruelty-free (no animal testing), vegetarian (no byproducts of animal slaughter) and vegan (no animal ingredients at all) beauty market has exploded in recent years.Previously, vegans were barely catered for, with some unin
  
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• What links five piano concertos, one opera, nine symphonies and 16 string quartets? The Weekend quiz

  15-07-2017 08:00
  
  From a podcast to poison, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Erotic novel Belinda Blinked is the subject of what hit podcast?
  2 Gangkhar Puensum in Bhutan has what mountaineering distinction?
  3 What is the hardest tissue in the human body?
  4 Mosque Maryam in Chicago is the HQ of which group?
  5 Which race meeting features eight Group One races?
  6 Who was the highest-placed woman on the BBC’s Greatest Britons poll?
  7 Which harbour was depicted in Monet’s Impression, Sunrise?
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• The ultimate hike: three tasters of Canada’s Great Trail

  15-07-2017 08:00
  
  The world’s longest trail, ready this year, traverses the entire country. It’s a busy path, our intrepid writer is told, so there shouldn’t be bears …When I was a teenager, I met someone who had done the Pennine Way long-distance footpath. And I gazed with awe on him. After all, 267 miles seemed a heroic achievement, requiring several bars of Kendal mint cake and the courage to face aggressive sheep dogs. I recall that man as I step out, for the first time, on Canada&rsq
  
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• ‘I have the body of someone who's been sitting still for decades’ | Zoe Williams

  15-07-2017 08:00
  
  My glutes barely engage at all; my arse quite literally can’t be arsedNyambe Ikasaya, 38, no longer wants to be called a personal trainer. He floats “fitness and wellbeing facilitator”, and I tell him I’ll think of something better. (Gyms make me obnoxiously dominant. I can’t win a squat-off, but I can pour scorn on words like “facilitator”.) The blood tests, the hypoxic chamber, those results are all on their way: I’m having a full-body
  
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• A weighty issue: is there something fishy about tins of tuna?

  15-07-2017 08:00
  
  Are we getting the exact amounts promised by food manufacturers? We look at accusations about John West chunksRoss Jennings is a fan of John West canned tuna. He’s doing the 5:2 diet and eats two or three tins a week, weighing them so he can stick to his regime accurately. And over 18 months, he says he has found a pattern that can’t be just chance.The graphic designer from east London says: “Whenever I use John West tuna chunks, the drained weight is usually around 90g –
  
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• Is it worth switching to LED lights and fittings?

  15-07-2017 07:59
  
  I’ve heard the claims but I’m not yet sold. Please convince meEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.This week’s question: Continue reading...
  
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• I know too much about my children’s sex lives

  15-07-2017 07:45
  
  Noise is the worst part of living with sexually active young adults and it annoys their siblings tooIt’s been years since I could pack the children off to bed early, leaving Ed and me with the whole evening to ourselves. Now when we eventually stagger upstairs, exhausted, we are always the first to turn off the lights. In the darkness, we’re aware of the rest of the household, wide awake, and just outside our room. The sound of guitar strumming, running footsteps, arguments and the g
  
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• Forget the kids’ club – here is the best kind of family holiday

  15-07-2017 07:45
  
  All children really want from a holiday is attention from their parents – even if they’re teenagers. So ditch the tech and engage them in chats, banter and eye contactThis summer’s trip is, without question, going to be the world’s worst holiday. That is the current view from two thirds of my family, namely our four children (who are all fully blown teenagers, or just about to be). The trip in question? Ten days walking in the French Alps. Without much in the way of scree
  
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• A letter to... My father-in-law, who can’t see beyond the end of his cigarette

  15-07-2017 07:44
  
  The letter you always wanted to writeI’ve heard in-law relationships can be the most tense and fraught. I can well believe that, and not because of any envy or resentment I feel when you walk into my home and motion me out of the way to spend time with your grandchildren – I love that you love them as dearly as you do. My husband would not be the wonderful man he is were it not for your dedication and commitment to raising him to be kind, thoughtful and generous.But I cannot abide yo
  
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• Dear mosquito, Oh, how we miss thee!

  15-07-2017 07:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  There’s no easy way to say this, so I’m going to just blurt it out — I really miss those guys!And when I say “those guys,” I am, of course, ......
  
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• ‘Why rest in peace?’ The artist who honours her family by using their ashes for art

  15-07-2017 07:30
  
  Making a work with time, effort and love from her grandmother’s gallstones and great-uncle’s ashes is the artist Bea Haines’s way of paying tribute to her familyThe artist Bea Haines is explaining why she has turned the ashes of her great-uncle into paint to create a work of art. It was inspired by the death of her grandmother 10 years earlier. “When my grandmother died of cancer, we were left with her house,” she says. “Going round her home, there were traces
  
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• My parents sent me to Russia for a month, aged 13 – never again

  15-07-2017 07:14
  
  Communism had fallen, and her host could offer her little food and no hot water in their freezing flat, and there were strange noises coming through the walls too …When I was 13, my parents sent me to live in Russia for a month. It’s only relatively recently that I’ve realised how odd that sentence sounds. Now, when I tell friends that I went to live at the top of a Soviet-era tower block with no running hot water before I’d even hit puberty, they tend to fall silent and
  
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• The man who may have secretly fathered 200 children

  15-07-2017 07:00
  
  When Esther-Louise Heij’s son asked if she could trace his genetic father, she began a battle to find out whether she was deceived by her late doctor, Jan Karbaat, who is suspected of fathering up to 200 of his patients’ childrenTwenty five years ago, when she was 35, Esther-Louise Heij made two decisions that would shape the rest of her life. The first decision went entirely to plan: it gave her the children she longed for. But the second decision would play out in a bizarre twist s
  
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• Blind date: ‘He was stunned by my taste for strong cocktails and disco classics’

  15-07-2017 07:00
  
  Dan, 34, youth service manager, meets Chris, 28, charity workerWhat were you hoping for?I went in without expectation, while ready for anything positive that might unfold. Continue reading...
  
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• As Japan falls out of love with sake, the world orders another glass

  15-07-2017 06:00
  
  Number of breweries is falling along with sales, but exports are rising as the West develops a taste for the rice winePerched on the side of a hill deep in the forests of Tokyo’s western fringe, Ozawa Shuzo has been turning rice into sake for more than 300 years.
  Drunk chilled – and at a sensible pace - its premium labels are regarded as the perfect accompaniment to the delicate flavours of Japanese cuisine. Continue reading...
  
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• Tie one on

  15-07-2017 01:12 via winnipegfreepress.com
  We’re not sure how much traffic the Winnipeg Free Press website generates in Nigeria, but Guylain Nkongolo hopes Oshole Kanabe, his childhood friend who lives in the West African nation, ......
  
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• Throwing in the towel

  15-07-2017 01:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  One of the most famous quotes in sports history states: “Winners never quit and quitters never win.”Those words are typically attributed to legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi, who ...
  
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• Sudoku killer 562

  15-07-2017 01:01
  
  Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.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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• Quick crossword No 14,723

  15-07-2017 01:00
  
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