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• Vacation blackout: Power outage hits North Carolina islands

  28-07-2017 23:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  A man-made power outage — not an approaching hurricane — forced 10,000 tourists to flee two North Carolina islands and turned summer vacation into a messy nightmare for many.Cars lined ...
  
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• Roll with it

  28-07-2017 23:21 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Like a lot of teenagers, Roweliza Lulu applied at her share of fast-food joints when she was a broke high school student in desperate need of a part-time job.Considering Lulu ...
  
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• This eggplant gets sweet, sour thanks to vinegar, tomatoes

  28-07-2017 20:57 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Traditional recipes seem to be part of a collective conscience of sorts, and eggplant caponata is no exception. All around Italy (and the world), chefs and grandmothers and uncles are ......
  
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• Let them eat chicken ’n’ chips? Poor food and hunger in 21st-century Britain

  28-07-2017 20:22
  Phil Hearse on the time-poor and cash-poor; Dr Karen Postle on cheap chicken; Prof Trevor Hartley on capitalism and asparagus aspirations; Prof Julia Brannen and others on food and social status; Ibrahim Dogus on healthy takeaways; Sue Doggett and Gayle Letherby on children going hungryI recently spent a morning at Bury market, world centre of black pudding and just down the road from Blackburn, which you report has the highest concentration of fast food outlets in Britain. A casual glance round
  
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• Have a break, have a wasabi-flavoured KitKat

  28-07-2017 19:33
  Nestlé opens factory in Japan to sate taste for exotically flavoured versions of the venerable chocolate wafer, such as edamame bean or cherry blossomIn Britain the number of flavours available to KitKat fans can be counted on the fingers of two hands. In Japan the varieties on sale at any given time stretch to dozens, including purple sweet potato, edamame bean and wasabi, and owner Nestlé is opening a new factory to cater to demand.Opening on Tuesday in the western city of Himeji
  
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• FDA to target addictive levels of nicotine in cigarettes

  28-07-2017 19:11 via winnipegfreepress.com
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to lower nicotine levels in cigarettes so they aren't so addictive.FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced the move Friday. The federal agency has had ......
  
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• N. Carolina islands go dark, ending vacation for thousands

  28-07-2017 18:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  A dreamy summer vacation turned into a messy, sweaty nightmare for 10,000 tourists on the Outer Banks when the power went off and air conditioners stopped humming, and officials ordered ...
  
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• Police give naloxone to dog that got into owner's oxycodone

  28-07-2017 18:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  LYMAN, Maine - Police in Maine say a dog that got into its owner's oxycodone perked right up after police administered the opioid-overdose antidote naloxone.York County Sheriff William King says ......
  
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• The quick dish: Thomasina Miers’ recipe for tomato and fennel risotto

  28-07-2017 18:00
  Despite its humble origins, to me risotto has always seemed the epitome of luxuryIn Italy in the Middle Ages, rice was regarded as an exotic treat for the rich, and imported at great expense. Later, when the Italians started cultivating it themselves, rice became accessible to ordinary people, who often cooked it in stock along with whatever bits were to hand, and in the process turned rice into a food of the poor, or cucina povera. Ironically, it was this fall from the tables of the rich to the
  
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• Let’s move to Brockley, south-east London

  28-07-2017 17:30
  It feels like London used to feel, only with decent coffeeWhat’s going for it? I like Brockley. Gentrification advances, but has yet to overwhelm the place. Duck down the odd back alley, squint and you might have slipped down a wormhole to 1978 when it was full of sociology students from Goldsmiths, bohemians and the scent of wacky baccy and rosebay willow herb. A glance in an estate agent’s window might break the spell, but the geography of hills, valleys and crisscrossing railway l
  
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• Cocktail of the week: Oxo Tower’s English garden margarita – recipe

  28-07-2017 17:00
  An all-time classic cocktail gets a traditionally British makeoverHappy hour replaces high tea. For the Earl Grey syrup, make a 2:1 sugar: water syrup with 170ml water, add an Earl Grey teabag, stir to dissolve the sugar and leave to infuse for half an hour. Serves one.45ml tequila (I use Patrón Silver)
  15ml Cointreau
  20ml fresh lemon juice
  15ml peach liqueur
  15ml Earl Grey syrup (see above)
  Salt, for a salt rim
  1 sugar snap pea, to garnish
  1 mint sprig, to garnish Continue reading...
  
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• Outer Banks island visitors told to leave after power outage

  28-07-2017 16:16 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Thousands of tourists who spent the winter dreaming of summer vacation on the Outer Banks now face an abrupt end to their trip and what could be a chaotic ride ...
  
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• Conservationists strive to protect Lebanon's sea turtles

  28-07-2017 16:05
  EL MANSOURI, Lebanon (Reuters) - On Lebanon's beaches, endangered sea turtles have a human ally to help them in the face of myriad threats.
  
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• I have letters from a man I fell in love with 50 years ago. Should I return them?

  28-07-2017 16:02
  Although I was recently married, I had an intense but chaste relationship with a young man. I have his outpourings of love to me, but I don’t want my children to have to deal with thisWhen I was 22 and just married, I fell in love with an 18-year-old I worked with. He and I spent an emotionally intense but physically chaste summer together and, at the end of it, he went to university and I never saw him again. I am now 72 and trying to tidy my life. I have a bundle of letters and poems he
  
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• Flying terrifies me, but my daughter lives abroad and wants me to visit her

  28-07-2017 16:00
  My daughter has borderline personality disorder and wants me and her father to fly out to see her. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerMy daughter lives abroad. She has recently been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. She is receiving regular psychiatric treatment and counselling.She chose to go overseas for many reasons. She was seeking better career opportunities and the chance to live in very pleasant surroundings. She knows I have a lifelong fear of flying. Continue reading..
  
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• Common sense isn't always that sensible

  28-07-2017 16:00
  Injecting our offspring with germs, heating milk rather than keeping it cool: is it any wonder science and common sense clash?Why do people believe dangerous, anti-scientific nonsense, such as the claim that vaccines cause autism, or that climate change isn’t real? The usual answer is some combination of stupidity, misinformation and an unwillingness to face scary truths. But at the risk of making myself as popular as Gwyneth Paltrow at a meeting of the General Medical Council, I’d l
  
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• Business guru Connie Taylor on the power of 'omnichannel comms' – sketch

  28-07-2017 15:18
  In this excerpt from one of her exclusive business conferences, Connie Taylor – the “guru royale” of Agglomer8 – explains her unique vision for developing a communication strategy for SMEs. Starring Jessica Hynes Continue reading...
  
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• Xu, London W1: ‘Honestly: swoon’ | Marina O’Loughlin

  28-07-2017 15:00
  ‘Good Peking duck is one of my desert island dishes, but this shortrib boots that into the sea’Sitting in Xu’s narrow, dark-panelled interior, I fancy myself not in slightly grubby lower Rupert Street – not quite Soho, not quite Chinatown – but the waiting room of a 30s train station, back when women wore ruby lips and cigarettes didn’t kill you. It’s hard to believe that outside is all tourists trying to find Ripley’s Believe It Or Not!
  
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• Experience: my dog underwent gender reassignment surgery

  28-07-2017 15:00
  Molly seemed like a perfectly normal female pup at first. It was only when she started taking walks outside that we noticed unusual behaviourThe death of our collie Bonnie in 2006 hit my husband Frank and me so hard that it was almost a decade before we considered taking on another dog. But, late in 2015, my daughter mentioned that a friend of hers had a jack russell that was about to have pups. Familiar with female dogs, we decided that if there were any bitches in the litter we would take one.
  
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• Bouncy Safety Net Installation Encourages Museum Fun in Singapore

  28-07-2017 15:00
  How do you interact with children inside a museum to increase their cultural appetite? Atelier YokYok installed a giant safety net under the main dome of the National Museum of Singapore that allows visitors to witness the art works from a different perspective.Named Soft Dome, the temporary art installation is 36 ft (11m) wide and 22 ft (7m) high and was put together off-site before being delivered to the museum. The polypropylene net was especially created for the
  
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• Cat pics career: meet Bam, Instagram star

  28-07-2017 13:27
  Al English swore off posting any pictures of his cat online. But once one was out there, the floodgates were open“He’s always been the size of a not particularly small dog,” says Al English of his cat, Bam. A nine-year-old tabby and white, Bam has paws the size of russets and the bearing of Orson Welles. His sheer magnificence, haughty stare, and propensity for finding his way into snug spaces have earned a hefty Instagram following, with Al now providing a daily photo instalme
  
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• Holiday cooking: 20 lessons learned | Comment

  28-07-2017 13:00
  If you assume the worst with holiday food, you’ll always be pleasantly surprised. Just bring a pack of your own tea. And Tupperware. And maybe a roasting dish. Look, you can always eat out ...Here follows a series of lessons I have learned about eating, drinking and cooking on holiday.1 You can eat well and sleep well, or you can go camping. Don’t believe anyone who says you can do both. Continue reading...
  
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• Cooking on holiday: 20 lessons learned | Comment

  28-07-2017 13:00
  If you assume the worst with holiday food, you’ll always be pleasantly surprised. Just bring a pack of your own tea. And Tupperware. And maybe a roasting dish. Look, you can always eat out ...Here follows a series of lessons I have learned about eating, drinking and cooking on holiday.1 You can eat well and sleep well, or you can go camping. Don’t believe anyone who says you can do both. Continue reading...
  
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• Tennessee tourism launches new website to recruit retirees

  28-07-2017 12:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NASHVILLE - Tennessee tourism officials are launching a website that aims to recruit retirees to settle down in the state.A Tennessee Department of Tourist Development news release Thursday says Retire ......
  
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• Power outage sends visitors packing from Outer Banks island

  28-07-2017 09:14 via winnipegfreepress.com
  An estimated 10,000 tourists were ordered to evacuate an island on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Thursday after a construction company caused a power outage, leaving people searching for a ......
  
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• Kakuro 1562 hard

  28-07-2017 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 27,261

  28-07-2017 01:00
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