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• Event tackles child malnutrition as economic imperative

  04-11-2017 23:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MILAN - The only woman to have been the first lady of two countries said Saturday during an international nutrition summit held in Italy that a major challenge in making ......
  
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• Ocean acidification could threaten Alaska crab populations

  04-11-2017 23:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  KODIAK, Alaska - Alaska researchers warn that the changing levels of ocean acidity could have grave consequences for red king crab populations in the Bering Sea.The acidity of waters off ...
  
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• Paintings by Indian elephant auctioned off in Hungary

  04-11-2017 17:09
  BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Paintings created by an Indian elephant who enjoys wielding a brush were auctioned off by a Hungarian traveling circus on Saturday.
  
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• 'I can’t live without pimentón': José Pizarro

  04-11-2017 13:00
  You have to be picky about your ingredients and kit, says star Spanish chef José Pizarro of his London home kitchenI live just south of the river in London, in an apartment over two floors. The kitchen and my office are upstairs, with great views: I wake up and have coffee looking at the Shard, the Tower of London and the City.The kitchen isn’t as big as I’d like, but it’s a lovely space, full of light. I didn’t change anything when I moved in. But when I do, it&rs
  
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• India exhibition seeks to gain investment in food industry

  04-11-2017 11:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW DELHI - India's top chefs on Saturday poured 800 kilograms (1,760 pounds) of rice and lentils into a giant pan on a sprawling New Delhi lawn as the country ......
  
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• Jeremy Lee’s recipe for a hearty brigade pudding

  04-11-2017 11:00
  Lining the stomach against the cold is the oldest prescription there is, and nothing does it better than something steamed. This brigade pud, with its plump suet casing, is an hearty optionApples! So many apples ... What to do with them all? What next can a canny cook do with an overwhelming harvest of as many varieties of this fruit as there are now leaves falling from the trees?Apple tarts and apple pies – apple strudel, too, for sure. But there are also suet puddings – a very good
  
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• Hookups, sexting and unwanted threesomes: first-time dating in the age of Tinder

  04-11-2017 11:00
  Dianne hadn’t been on a date since 1978. Satinder met his last partner in the mid-90s. What’s it like looking for love when so much has changed since you were last single?One cold mid-March night, I walked up a stranger’s cobbled path and knocked on his door. I was wearing my gym kit; I hadn’t showered; in a spur-of-the-moment decision, I’d taken two tubes and a bus in the rain to get there. He looked apprehensive. We’d never met, but had chatted for a few wee
  
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• Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for chickpea, chard and sunflower seed stew

  04-11-2017 10:30
  In India and Africa, we use melon seeds to thicken stews and add protein – and sunflower seeds work in much the same wayPeople often ask where I get my recipes. Well, here’s the truth: I watch what people put in their baskets at the supermarket and use the sight of something unusual as an excuse to start a conversation. I use innocent social occasions such as an appointment at the hairdressers and time waiting in post office queues to ask people what they cook for themselves in
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for winter vegetables as standalone meals

  04-11-2017 10:00
  There’s no reason cauliflower cheese, roast celeriac or braised carrots and leeks can’t be the stars of the show, rather than just the support actsEvery weekend, the glossy supplements of all the newspapers (this one included) are filled with recipes, and for the past seven years food writer Ed Smith has taken it upon himself to catalogue and digest those recipes on his blog, Rocket & Squash. In all that time, he noticed there was barely a handful of recipes for side dishes among
  
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• What I’m really thinking: the older man offered a seat on the bus

  04-11-2017 10:00
  To accept the seat is to accept that new status – elderly, needy, requiring care – a status I am not yet ready to embrace The teenager who offers me her seat is pretty, I notice. Am I still allowed to notice that? With the warmest of smiles, she rises and steps into the aisle with courtesy bordering on a curtsey. I am wrong-footed, then conflicted. “No,” I scream silently, stifling an internal laugh, “I come from a generation where I do that for you.” I r
  
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• The evidence is mounting – a man’s place is in the home | Hadley Freeman

  04-11-2017 10:00
  This isn’t about a single industry, a few bad apples here and there. This is about men. Men harassing women, men dismissing women “Oh, that’s just Fox News,” people said when Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly were exposed as revolting sexual harassers. “Oh, that’s just the movie business,” people said when the Weinstein scandal unrolled. “Oh, that’s just the fashion industry,” people said when Terry Richardson was blacklisted by Cond&
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,346

  04-11-2017 09:37
  An interactive version of today’s crossword is unavailable. The print version is available here. Special instructions: All solutions begin with the letter indicated and are to be fitted into the grid jigsaw-wise, wherever they will go.An interactive version of today’s crossword is unavailable. The print version is available here. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘Every day brings some new trauma’: keeping calm in an anxious world

  04-11-2017 09:00
  From Trump’s tweets to EU uncertainty and the threat of nuclear war, the stress-inducing headlines keep coming. Therapists share tips on how to cope
  In the immediate aftermath of the EU referendum and the US presidential election, it became common, on the losing side, to compare the experience to a death in the family. First came the punch to the gut, the thunderbolt of disbelief. Then came the days when you would find yourself going about your business as if nothing untoward had happened,
  
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• Beauty: the best makeup for brides on their big day | Sali Hughes

  04-11-2017 09:00
  During preparations for my wedding, I was asked frequently which products I planned to use, the implication being that I’d try something new and exoticBy the time this is published, I’ll have been married three weeks. During preparations, I was asked frequently which products I planned to use, the implication being that I’d try something new and exotic for the occasion. I understand why: one’s wedding is (ideally) once in a lifetime, the frock isn’t generally someth
  
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• In the USSR, what was Komsomol? The Weekend quiz

  04-11-2017 08:00
  From sculpture to sport, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 The Disney film White Wilderness is the origin of what animal myth?
  2 What 1714 act was read literally, now metaphorically?
  3 Which sculpture museum is in Florence’s Palazzo del Podestà?
  4 What sports team is owned by the US ambassador to the UK?
  5 “Where do you want to go today?” was whose slogan?
  6 Queen Victoria lent which gem to the Great Exhibition?
  7 In the USSR, what was Komsomol?
  8 Henderson Isla
  
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• Fit in my 40s: sedentary day job + stupid attitude = weekend warrior injuries

  04-11-2017 08:00
  I’m struggling to bounce back from my first ever sporting injury – and learning that I’m not aloneIt’s the first sporting injury of my life, sustained while I was training for a longer out-of-town cycle with BellaVelo. Another cyclist wearing tracksuit bottoms (this is relevant) undertook me, and his pocket hooked on to my drop handlebars. I didn’t realise – I just thought, well that’s bad luck, to lose control of your steering at the exact same time as
  
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• Is a £300 Dyson hairdryer worth it?

  04-11-2017 07:59
  I don’t know if it’s madness to even consider itEvery 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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• Making coffee is fraught with danger since my adult kids got in on the act

  04-11-2017 07:45
  My kitchen feels like a branch of Starbucks, full of twentysomethings slumped around, sipping my French roast from giant cupsCoffee drinking is one of those habits that signifies adulthood, the flat white, cappuccino or espresso clutched in your hand a marker of being a grownup at last. So, now that all my children are adult enough to be coffee drinkers, technically they should have left home. Except, of course, they haven’t.I have one coffee a day, at about 11am. The ritual is more specia
  
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• ‘I have become my daughter’s stalker’

  04-11-2017 07:45
  She has gone to university and, desperate for crumbs about her life, I track her on social media – her every move, her friends, even her tutorsI wake up, switch on my phone, go straight to Snapchat and touch my daughter’s name. There on Snap Map, in a city 60 miles from mine, I see where she is right now – what road, what building. Even if she is still asleep and hasn’t used her phone yet, I can glean whether last night was a late one, where she was, what s
  
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• Family life: ‘Messy’ Grandad and me; Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree; Mum’s french toast

  04-11-2017 07:45
  Readers’ favourite photographs, songs and recipesThis is a photograph of me holding my grandfather’s hand as we stand outside a shop somewhere in Glasgow, where I grew up. It would have been taken in about 1958 as I reckon I look about two, very smart in my coat, sandals and white socks. My grandfather and I seem rather bewildered and unhappy about something. He clutches my hand tightly as if to make sure I don’t run towards the photographer. My feet look as thou
  
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• Young people are just as preoccupied with class as their parents

  04-11-2017 07:44
  Britain’s social hierarchy still affects everything from our political system to our universities to our TV showsThe other day, while on a plane flying out of the UK, I spotted an article about the most British thing created for the internet since cyclist v motorist videos. I read that 8,000 of the UK’s super-elite use a classified, invitation-only network where they trade grouse-shooting tips, let out lavish holiday homes and funnel paid internships to their kids.Dubbed “Gumtr
  
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• A letter to … my children to tell them I am transgender

  04-11-2017 07:30
  The letter you always wanted to writeI still feel guilty that your mum and I separated and that she and I still don’t talk to each other. I know how painful the separation was for you, and I am grateful that you are still in my life. But now I feel I am going to cause you even further heartache and confusion when I tell you that I am transgender and hope to begin living full-time as a woman very soon.Indeed, I already live most of my life&n
  
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• ‘A lad in a frock’: the gay teen who inspired a West End show

  04-11-2017 07:15
  Jamie Campbell came out at 14, wore a dress to his school dance and dreamed of being a drag star. Throught it all, he was supported by his mother. Now, their lives are the subject of a musicalJamie Campbell had never thought of himself as a trailblazer, but, as he turned up for his school prom, aged 16, in a gorgeous frock, high heels and with a flowing blond wig – not knowing if he would be ridiculed by the schoolmates who had bullied him for being gay or, worse, turned away by his&n
  
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• Blind date: ‘She wielded a steak knife like a natural’

  04-11-2017 07:00
  Courtney, 22, student, meets Edwin, 22, government economistWhat were you hoping for?
  A nice evening with good conversation and good food. I was pretty open-minded.Continue reading...
  
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• Aisling Bea: ‘My father’s death has given me a love of men, of their vulnerability and tenderness’

  04-11-2017 07:00
  The comedian’s father killed himself when she was three. She was plagued by the fact he made no mention of her or her sister in the letter he left. Then, 30 years after his death, a box arrivedMy father died when I was three years old and my sister was three months. For years, we thought he had died of some sort of back injury – a story that we had never really investigated because we were just too busy with the Spice Girls and which one we were (I was a Geri/Mel B mix FYI). Then, on
  
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• Random acts of kindness: Giving thanks

  04-11-2017 06:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Just out of hospital with a total hip replacement, I got a text from a friend and former co-worker asking what I planned for Thanksgiving dinner. I laughingly said I ...
  
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• C is for candy sushi...

  04-11-2017 04:02 via winnipegfreepress.com
  In a last-ditch effort to get her fledgling business off the ground, Cori Poon travelled to Toronto in September 2015 to participate in a sugar-coated event called Canada’s Baking and ......
  
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• Sudoku 3897 hard

  04-11-2017 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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• Killer Sudoku 578

  04-11-2017 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 will cost £1.03 per minute, plus your phone company’s access charge. 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 stan
  
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• Quick crossword No 14,819

  04-11-2017 01:00
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