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• Europe horse meat scam: At least 66 people arrested

  16-07-2017 19:09 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BRUSSELS - Authorities have arrested at least 66 people in a European food scam which sold horse meat unfit for human consumption.European Union police co-ordinating organization Europol announced Sunday that ......
  
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• From Korben to Corbin – how many kids are really named after Corbyn?

  16-07-2017 18:00
  
  A survey suggested more than 50% of new parents would consider naming their child after the Labour leader – and one Jez-inspired mum has already gone with Corbyn CameronCara Montgomery has been a mum for five weeks. She waited to meet her son before deciding on a name to go with Cameron, her partner Garry’s surname. Two days later, inspiration struck. “I remember being drawn to this article on Facebook,” Montgomery, 26, says from her home in Edinburgh. “I just kind
  
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• Wine, protest and Macron: why southern French wine producers are so angry

  16-07-2017 15:00
  
  The ‘vinuous terrorists’ of Languedoc-Roussillon are battling changing French drinking habits and a new president as they seek to preserve the region’s traditionsThere is no love for politicians among the winemakers of the Languedoc-Roussillon. But in the vast stretch of vineyard that covers the south of France from the Rhône in the east down to the Spanish border, protest and dissent are as much a part of life as pétanque and vin rouge.It’s a sentiment with
  
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• Welcome to July’s OFM

  16-07-2017 15:00
  
  As high summer arrives, we get the barbecue out to try Tom Kerridge’s exclusive grill recipes, sit down to tapas with Colm Toíbín, and taste test picnic classics with Eleonora GalassoWe had taken the sardines down to the water’s edge and grilled them over coals on the most makeshift of barbecues, an old metal drum. As they came from the heat, their silver skins temptingly charred and blistered, we planned to stuff them between thick pieces of chewy, flour-dusted bread w
  
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• I would eat anything for lunch (but I won’t eat that) – how can I cure my aversion to eggs?

  16-07-2017 15:00
  
  Killian Fox has eaten termites, he’s tried crickets, but there’s one food he is afraid of. Can psychology and a brilliant young chef help?Why do fears exist, if not for us to confront them? This is what I’m telling myself as I enter Tim Spedding’s kitchen in east London on a brisk evening in late spring. On the face of it, it doesn’t seem like such a bad proposition: one of the most exciting young chefs in the city, who honed his skills at the Ledbury and the Clove
  
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• How to crowdfund a restaurant empire

  16-07-2017 14:00
  
  When award-winning chef Gary Usher was turned down by the bank for a loan to open a second restaurant, he set up a crowdfunding campaign. Now he’s about to launch his fourth restaurantAll restaurants have a coming-of-age moment, the point at which they survive and thrive, or go down fighting. For Gary Usher’s Sticky Walnut, in a two-up two-down house in Hoole, just outside Chester, that moment came in 2013, about 18 months after they had opened. Usher, like any ambitious young chef s
  
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• Colm Toíbín: Brexit expats, Trump's Irish influence – and the right way to gouge an eye

  16-07-2017 14:00
  
  If you’re having lunch with the Booker-shortlisted novelist, expect a wide-ranging discussionIf you were to go in search of a prime example of the genus “writer”, Colm Toíbín would have strong claims as exhibit A. There’s the face to begin with: meaty, heavy browed, quick-eyed, both grave and wickedly animated, the head and neck invariably rising, as today, out of a white shirt and a black coat. And then the voice, with the inflection of his native Co Wexfor
  
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• Vancouver drug users' group once considered militant have led prevention policy

  16-07-2017 13:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  VANCOUVER - A copy of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms graces a wall around the corner from where a woman lies on the floor as a needle full ...
  
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• Highlights of Vancouver drug-user group's accomplishments over 20 years

  16-07-2017 13:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users, or VANDU, is a 3,000-member advocacy group celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. Here's a list of highlights:— 1997: Drug users ......
  
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• Snap up a silvery delicacy from Lake Kivu, Rwanda

  16-07-2017 13:00
  
  The sweet yet slightly salty flesh of the fine-boned sardine-like sambaza is best sampled on the shores of this Rift Valley lakeEvery evening at sunset in the town of Gisenyi, a resort at the northern end of Lake Kivu in Rwanda, fishermen set out in wooden boats in search of the small, sardine-like sambaza that populate the deep waters.From the bar at hotel Paradis Malahide, on the lakeshore a few miles south of town, the fishermen can be heard singing songs for courage in Kinyarwanda (Rwanda&rs
  
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• OFM’s classic cookbooks: Yan-Kit’s Classic Chinese Cookbook

  16-07-2017 13:00
  
  Yan-kit So’s Classic Chinese Cookbook is a perfect gateway to the country’s cooking. Here, food writer Fuchsia Dunlop recalls her friendship with its author. Plus five brilliant recipesThe first Chinese recipes I ever attempted were from Yan-Kit’s Classic Chinese Cookbook. It was the early 90s, and I’d been a keen cook since childhood, but Chinese cuisine was mysterious to me. Yan-kit So’s book was the perfect place to start, with its clear instructions and mouthwat
  
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• Dan Aykroyd: ‘Squirrels? They taste better than rattlesnake’

  16-07-2017 13:00
  
  The Ghostbusters actor, writer and comedian on his perfect clambakes, eating with John Belushi – and alien appetitesI was at [New York restaurant] Elaine’s with Paul Simon, Lorne Michaels and Chevy Chase when I came up with the sketch for Saturday Night Live in which I demonstrated the Bass-O-Matic, a blender to grind up whole fish. The inspiration came from my aunt, Helen Gougeon, who was the Julia Child of Canada and had her own TV cookery shows. I was at her house when I was 13 an
  
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• How can we stop algorithms telling lies?

  16-07-2017 10:59
  
  Algorithms can dictate whether you get a mortgage or how much you pay for insurance. But sometimes they’re wrong – and sometimes they are designed to deceiveLots of algorithms go bad unintentionally. Some of them, however, are made to be criminal. Algorithms are formal rules, usually written in computer code, that make predictions on future events based on historical patterns. To train an algorithm you need to provide historical data as well as a definition of success.We’ve see
  
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• Candice Brown: ‘I still can’t watch my Bake Off final without getting emotional’

  16-07-2017 10:00
  
  The TV show winner on her first book, meeting Amy Schumer at the Ivy and what she’d like to cook for AdeleMore than 15 million people watched you win Great British Bake Off last year. How has your life changed since then?
  Wow, it’s changed quite a bit! I’ve been to the most amazing events, I’ve met the most amazing people. Every single day, I’m shocked at what I’ve been given the opportunity to do. And I wrote a cookbook. So I get to share a bit of my weird, c
  
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• Cottage with class: a short break on Ireland’s Donegal coast

  16-07-2017 08:00
  
  A renovated traditional stone homestead with its own beach is the first in a new collection of holiday lets that make idyllic bases for exploring elemental IrelandHigh summer in the north-west nook of Ireland and guess what? It was raining. Seriously wet Atlantic rain that persisted through the night and bounced rhythmically off the corrugated roof of our traditional Donegal stone cottage. You’d think it would be like trying to sleep inside a tin can. But the 200-year-old building had rece
  
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• Come friendly robots and take our dullest jobs | John Naughton

  16-07-2017 08:00
  
  As the legal chatbot DoNoPay shows, automation may only affect the repetitive parts of white-collar work. The middle classes can breathe againWe are currently going through one of those periodic phases of “automation anxiety” when we become convinced that the robots are coming for our jobs. These fears are routinely pooh-poohed by historians and economists. The historians point out that machines have been taking away jobs since the days of Elizabeth I – who refused to grant Wil
  
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• The real reason women freeze their eggs | Eva Wiseman

  16-07-2017 07:00
  
  It’s often assumed women freeze their eggs to stop the ticking of their fertility clocks so they can crack on with their careers. The truth is rather different…There’s a story that we’ve been told about why women freeze their eggs, which begins with ambition for a career and ends with them attempting to have it all, and it has always seemed a bit suss to me. I’ve spoken to a lot of women considering babies, both when researching egg freezing, and in my real life as
  
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• The eco guide to animal welfare

  16-07-2017 07:00
  
  Britain is an international leader in animal welfare and now, fortunately, the message is beginning to spread – importantly to ChinaAnimal welfare is one of the UK’s most successful exports. When the late Peter Roberts, a Hampshire dairy farmer, founded the charity Compassion in World Farming (ciwf.org.uk) 50 years ago, he rightly feared that industrialised farming would wreak havoc on animals and the planet. Even he couldn’t have envisaged today’s numbers: 70 billion ani
  
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• My mum and maths tutor are flirting, right under my nose | Mariella Frostrup

  16-07-2017 07:00
  
  Mariella Frostrup says watching a parent find a new partner is hard – and should be happening with more distanceThe dilemma Recently my mother found a maths tutor for me (I’m in Year 12). He’s a 45-year-old guy who seems very likeable and knows his stuff. When our first lesson ended, my mother invited him to stay for tea, and then after the next one and the one after that … My mother is divorced.He confessed to her a week ago that he is now in love with her and would lik
  
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• My first hour: five high flyers reveal their morning routines

  16-07-2017 07:00
  
  A daily phone call from India, a tough workout at the track, or a trip to the milking parlour? Six people tell Candice Pires what gets them out of bed in the morning“How have the cows got on overnight?” That’s the question that wakes me up at 4.30am every morning. We have 200 cows that we milk and a further 200 young stock, so something’s usually happened. Continue reading...
  
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• How babies sleep at festivals – and why adult brains can’t switch off

  16-07-2017 07:00
  
  Changes in our brains as we grow up mean we’re often on full alert. So pack earplugs for festivalsOne thing you notice at the family-friendly festival Latitude, now into its final day, is the effect of noise on the various age ranges here.You can see babies blissfully asleep where there is blaring music, because they are able to filter out noise. Human babies are among the most adult-dependent of all animal species which is what allows them to develop. This means they don’t have to b
  
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• Creativity and risk taking – what exactly is the link? Quiz

  16-07-2017 07:00
  
  Disagreeing with an authority figure in public is associated with creativity but having unprotected sex is not. Answer our questions to test yourselfCreativity has many different aspects, but one way to measure it is through its links with risk taking. Many pieces of art and music took risks by flying in the face of the accepted norms of the day (Michelangelo’s nudes for example). So, on a scale of 1 (extremely unlikely) to 7 (extremely likely), how likely are you to take risks in the foll
  
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• 'Star Wars' hotel, Epcot upgrades coming to Disney theme parks

  16-07-2017 03:25
  
  ANAHEIM, Calif. (Reuters) - An immersive "Star Wars" hotel, a new "Ratatouille" attraction and the first ever Mickey Mouse ride are just some of the high-profile features coming soon to Walt Disney...
  
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• Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz's baked kingfish with braised lentils

  16-07-2017 02:51
  
  The Porteño chefs reveal the secret behind one of the restaurant’s hit dishes, as well as the benefits of using an wood-fired oven• Ben Milgate and Elvis Abrahanowicz’s red wine braised octopus recipeThe Porteño team drew on their Argentinian heritage for this dish, creating a traditional guiso as a base for the fish. Of course there’s a twist, as Elvis Abrahanowicz explains – they lightened the stew by swapping beef stock for shellfish stock. Related:
  
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• Guide to slogan T-shirts: the wish list – in pictures

  16-07-2017 00:55
  
  Slogan T-shirts were everywhere on the summer runways. From Gucci and Ashish to Off-White and Sacai, the power of the word prevailed Continue reading...
  
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• Five ways to wear... men’s shorts – in pictures

  16-07-2017 00:50
  
  Make your shorts work harder this summer. These swim shorts from Saturdays NYC look more like chinos, so you can go straight from the pool to evening drinks, simply by adding a smart shirt (don’t forget to dry off first) Continue reading...
  
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