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• Mold, gas leaks and other hazards loom for Harvey evacuees

  01-09-2017 23:09 via winnipegfreepress.com
  HOUSTON - Bound for their Harvey-soaked home east of Houston, Lakeithia Bankhead and her four children left the mass shelter at the city's convention centre Friday after five nights sleeping ......
  
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• Calgary sculpture never meant to be Indigenous: mayor and Treaty 7 chiefs

  01-09-2017 18:38 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Calgary's mayor and seven chiefs in southern Alberta say a controversial sculpture along a city interchange was never meant to be Indigenous art.Naheed Nenshi and Treaty 7 leaders have released ...
  
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• Sculptors build 55feet sandcastle in Germany to claim world record

  01-09-2017 17:55
  DUISBURG, Germany (Reuters) - Using almost 4,000 metric tonnes of sand, 19 sculptors have built a 55ft tower featuring a number of famous landmarks to claim the world record for tallest sandcastle.
  
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• Let’s move to Arundel, West Sussex: land of turrets and tea rooms

  01-09-2017 17:30
  No, this is not Frozen’s Arendelle. But it’s an easy mistake to makeWhat’s going for it? Arundel or Arendelle? Sometimes it’s hard to tell them apart. Both fairytale towns, with romantic skylines, turreted castles and gothic twiddles. Both dominated by benevolent if powerful rulers: King Agnarr and Queen Iduna of the Ancient House of Frozen, or the Dukes of Norfolk, whose castle and Catholic cathedral loom over Arundel. There’s no escaping the Norfolks here. They ha
  
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• Would you pay $1 to find out how many other people have paid $1? A new website shows curiosity pays

  01-09-2017 17:22
  Johan McCubbin’s site is the latest in a line of ridiculous but lucrative internet stunts, from the Million Dollar Homepage to the I Am Rich appJohan McCubbin has an offer for you: pay him $1 and he will tell you how many other people have paid him $1 to find out how many people have paid him $1.It is a stupid idea. It shouldn’t work. Who would pay? Yet, by the time his website crashed on Thursday night under the weight of interest, and PayPal limited his account due t
  
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• Campaign to fight MS spearheaded by Christine Sinclair raises record funds

  01-09-2017 17:10 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - A&W's "Burgers to Beat MS campaign," spearheaded by Canadian soccer captain Christine Sinclair, raised a record $1.85 million this year.The restaurant chain has raised more than $11 million ...
  
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• Apple brandy and cider mix with vinegar for a fall cocktail

  01-09-2017 16:22 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Most seasons have a signature cocktail. We drink fresh and fruity in the summer, brown and brooding in the winter. But what do we drink in the fall, other than ...
  
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• I’ve told my mum I’m transgender, but she ignored it. What now?

  01-09-2017 16:00
  At first she made me promise to ‘stop being trans’ but now acts as if I never told her – and I daren’t tell my dad. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerI am 18 and started identifying as a transgender boy when I was 15. Last year, I came out as transgender to my mother. She was very angry and upset, and said some unpleasant things. She made me promise to “stop being trans”. Since then, she has acted as if I never told her, and it hasn’t really come up.My f
  
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• Don’t treat love or leisure like a job

  01-09-2017 16:00
  Recognising the dedication of carers, spouses or parents is well-intentioned, but let’s not treat every contribution to society as ‘work’In an old cartoon by the American Roz Chast, a waiter approaches a woman with food on her plate. “Are you still working on that?” “No, in fact, I’m completely exhausted,” she replies. “Maybe if you wrap it up, I can finish working on it at home.” The title is Another Day In The Salt Mines. The idea tha
  
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• Spanish farmer goes out on a limb for cow legs cured à la Iberian ham

  01-09-2017 15:37
  Inspired by the revered jamón ibérico, Alfonso García Cobaleda is trying to do the same thing with beefIn the chilled chambers of an industrial estate on the edge of a small Extremaduran town and the rolling pastures at the foot of the Sierra de Gata, a lawyer-turned-cattle-farmer is engaged on a quest for gastronomic alchemy.Alfonso García Cobaleda’s raw material is, to begin with at least, less than mouth-watering. From a hook hangs 66kg of cow leg, its deep r
  
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• The India Club, London WC2: ‘I go back again and again'

  01-09-2017 15:00
  I love it in the same way I’m drawn to the novels of Anita Brookner or EM ForsterUp two flights of what look like flophouse stairs, accessed via an easily missed entrance at the Aldwych end of The Strand, is a restaurant that has no business existing in the centre of one of the world’s most rapacious cities. A blackboard announcing Happy Hour in their “1940s lounge bar” has collapsed over a cracked lobby mosaic; I’m not sure if this is deliberate impe
  
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• Experience: ‘I stopped a terrorist attack’

  01-09-2017 15:00
  He was doing these commando moves, but I grew up in Glasgow… I knew a wee forearm smash would sort it outIt’s 10 years since I found myself in the middle of the Glasgow Airport terror attack. It was 30 June 2007. I was at the airport, picking up my brother, sister-in-law and niece from holiday. As I walked through the terminal, I noticed people being ushered out the way I’d come in. I wasn’t sure what was going on – there was no panic – but I thought that if
  
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• If you’re looking for advice on raising kids, don’t rely on religious leaders

  01-09-2017 14:30
  Buddha wasn’t exactly an attentive father and Jesus wasn’t big on family. Muhammad seems to have been the most impressive dadIn my quest to discover the secrets of successful families – having used inherited wisdom, Woman’s Hour, and assorted How to … books – I have decided the time has come to look at the scriptures.The trouble is that I don’t remember Jesus saying much about kids. Matthew presents him as a fan – “Truly I tell you
  
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• My life in sex: ‘Sexual activity at our age can seem like a pilates class’

  01-09-2017 14:00
  The long-term monogamistIt was 50 years ago this summer that we first had sex together – in a tent in Cornwall – and it is still something we enjoy. Monogamy suits us. Apart from one short and ill-advised venture off-piste, caused by midlife angst, we have remained faithful. We don’t make love so often these days – three to four times a month compared with three to four times a week in our heyday – but our sex life has matured as we have. As students, we could,
  
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• Lynda La Plante: ‘Did you write Prime Suspect? asked my mother – three series in’

  01-09-2017 13:59
  The screenwriter and novelist talks about growing up on Merseyside with a sports-mad father, mother and grandmother, and adopting her son Lorcan at 57I was the middle child. My oldest sister, Dale, died before I was born, so it was Michael, me and Gillian. My parents never underlined it, but Dale was always there – and she had been the most beautiful child.My parents gave us an incredibly free life. And of course I was really trouble – once I had a hair salon in the garage and I cut
  
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• Jeremy Lee’s recipe for chocolate fridge cake | King of puddings

  01-09-2017 13:30
  A frosty tuckbox treat with humble origins is transformed into a darker, decadent, chocolatey mouthful packed with nuts and moist prunes“Bake it in the fridge overnight”. Well, if that won’t confuse a novice cook, I don’t what will. It’s surely an instruction that would confound even the most seasoned cook. Such a command is on a par with the one given to a hapless youth who was despatched to find a can of tartan paint – the fate of a young chef I once worked
  
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• I can’t tell my best friend I’m gay as he is a straight man who has romantic feelings for me

  01-09-2017 13:19
  I value our friendship but it worries me that I can’t be honest with him because of our historyI am a woman in my mid-20s and my best friend is a straight man. In the past, he has expressed a romantic attraction to me and I’ve turned him down (on three occasions over four years). The final time was quite blunt; I said I was not attracted to him and that wasn’t going to change. Recently, I have been going to gay bars alone, and talking to women online, and I think I may be gay.
  
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• Posh lemonade taste test: which supermarket fizz is the biz?

  01-09-2017 13:18
  Lemonade has come a long way since R White’s, with the sugary drink undergoing a radical ‘premiumisation’ in recent years. But which store’s is the pick of the bunch?
  Furtive as his late-night fridge-raiding may have been, 40 years later, R White’s “secret lemonade drinker” embodies a more innocent age. Back then, and for decades after, lemonade was a cheap, if not always cheerful drink, necked by thirsty kids on hot summer days with zero thought given t
  
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• The most delicious vegan Instagram feeds

  01-09-2017 13:00
  Our pick of the best vegan Instagram feeds shows that plant-based eating offers a feast for the eyes as well as the stomach ... Continue reading...
  
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• Herman Miller Connects Furniture to the Cloud via Live OS

  01-09-2017 13:00
  Herman Miller is the go-to brand for cool, mid-century and contemporary office furniture. And now it’s looking to the future with internet-connected office furniture.First, let’s take a look at some of its most iconic furniture pieces:The Aeron ChairImage: Herman MillerThe Noguchi TableImage: Herman MillerThe Eames Lounge ChairImage: Herman MillerAnd now Live OSImage: Herman MillerIts new Live OS is not really a furniture piece but a smart system. It’s designed by Yves B&e
  
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• A police chief's guidance to the grieving: Go see a medium

  01-09-2017 07:17 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BARRINGTON, R.I. - A police chief in Rhode Island gives out some unorthodox advice for those who have lost a loved one: Seek a connection to the afterlife by meeting ......
  
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• It's called a lavvu

  01-09-2017 06:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Jennifer Robins chuckles when a reporter takes a stab at the word lavvu, which just so happens to be the signature item available through her online, environmentally friendly home decor ...
  
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• Sudoku 3842 hard

  01-09-2017 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 1567 medium

  01-09-2017 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 14,764

  01-09-2017 01:00
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,291

  01-09-2017 01:00
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• Restaurant shuts after word of owner's gift to ex-KKK leader

  01-09-2017 00:07 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - A Chinese restaurant open in Santa Cruz for almost four decades has closed its doors after a boycott and online backlash against the owner's 2016 campaign ......
  
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