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• Settlement reached in mom's breastfeeding suit against YMCA

  10-12-2017 20:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A lawsuit alleging a Rhode Island YMCA would not allow a mother to breastfeed in public has been settled.The American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island on ......
  
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• Egypt reveals artifacts, mummy from tombs in ancient city of Luxor

  10-12-2017 18:05
  LUXOR, Egypt (Reuters) - Egypt's authorities on Saturday revealed artifacts and a linen-wrapped mummified body, possibly that of a top official, from two tombs that were discovered two decades ago in...
  
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• National blood shortage prompts call for dog donors at clinics in Alberta

  10-12-2017 16:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  EDMONTON - Parker is not yet five years old and has been giving blood regularly for nearly three of them."He just gave his 12th donation," said Hans Granholm of Edmonton.What ...
  
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• Happiest place on Earth: Alberta daycare captures fairy-tale imagination

  10-12-2017 16:05 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MORINVILLE, Alta. - Once upon a time, in a town north of Edmonton, there was a man who dreamed of building something magical.After a year of construction, using $3 million ......
  
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• Mince pies taste test: seasonal sensation or festive flop?

  10-12-2017 15:00
  We buy about 370m mince pies each year in the UK. Once upon a time, supermarket varieties were ‘generally unspeakable’ – have they improved?There is a Premier Foods factory in Barnsley that, in the runup to Christmas, fires out 2.3m mince pies a day. That’s 180m each season. A staggering figure, yet it accounts for less than half of the 370m mince pies sold in the UK each year.These days unrecognisable from its medieval origins as a spiced ox tongue and beef suet pastry,
  
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• Dunking sweet and salty osmania biscuits in Hyderabad, India

  10-12-2017 13:00
  Fresh from the ovens, osmania butter cookies are the perfect accompaniment to a cup of Irani chai. At Nimrah bakery, thousands of both are consumed every dayIn front of the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, India, is an ordinary-looking bakery selling cakes, bread and biscuits.It’s easy to miss: all around is the bustling Laad Bazaar, with locals selling everything from cheap bangles and strips of gum to piles of pomegranates. The air hums with the call to prayer. Scooters purr around the 16th-ce
  
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• The fine art of saying sorry

  10-12-2017 11:00
  The sexual harassment scandal has added extra layers of absurdity to the art of the apology. Jay Rayner reveals why so many public figures get it so wrongOn 20 November the American journalist and writer Dana Schwartz launched a new website. It was called the Celebrity Perv Apology Generator, and it did exactly what it said. At the click of a “try again” button it generated new apologies for lazy celebs, accused of appalling sexual misdemeanours, who couldn’t be fagged to get t
  
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• ‘Pretend your food is disgusting’: Romesh Ranganathan’s Christmas survival guide for vegans

  10-12-2017 10:00
  Vegans have an unfair reputation as difficult guests, especially at Christmas. So here are my tips on what to say, what to serve – and why you probably need to pack your own puddingVeganism is a point of contention all year round. So much so that many vegans cut themselves off from the rest of society, huddling together for warmth and smugness, and using online forums to vent their disgust at the morally corrupt dairy- and meat-eating savages who make up most of the populace. But at Christ
  
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• Jodie Foster: ‘I make movies to figure out who I am’

  10-12-2017 10:00
  Directing a new Black Mirror film gives Jodie Foster the chance to look back at her own upbringing. The Hollywood titan talks to Tim AdamsLast week Charlie Brooker was recalling for me the moment he learned Jodie Foster would direct an episode of Black Mirror, his inspired series of one-off dramas about the ways our gadgets are colonising the idea of “human”. Brooker had written a script for the new series in which a neurotic single mother uses technology to spy on her young daughter
  
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• Have your cake and eat it: Thomasina Miers’ recipes for Christmas baking

  10-12-2017 09:30
  Christmas baking is all about keeping the work to a minimum and the flavour to the max’Tis the season to be jolly, but while many of us would love to sit back and bask in the warm glow of Christmas, most of us know that it takes a lot of work to get there in one piece as we navigate the office parties, family gatherings and long shopping lists. So I’ve pulled together a celebratory collection of festive puddings that shouldn’t tie you up in knots and that will, hopefully, have
  
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• Dying to get clean: is ibogaine the answer to heroin addiction?

  10-12-2017 09:00
  Ibogaine is a drug harvested from the roots of a plant found in Gabon. When all else fails, some heroin addicts have used it to conquer their cravings. But is it effective and are the serious risks it carries worth it?At the age of 12, Jay was smoking cigarettes and weed; by 16, he was snorting coke; two years later he was taking heroin and crack – but he says by the time he left university he was a “functional drug addict”, able to get up in the morning, put a suit on, travel
  
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• Burning issue with Allianz as it rejects modest claim for travel essentials

  10-12-2017 08:00
  Our hotel in Gran Canaria was engulfed by a forest fire, but the insurer refuses to reimburse usIn September my partner and I went on holiday to Gran Canaria. On the second day, while we were out walking with only minimal belongings, our hotel was engulfed by a huge forest fire. We were unable to return as the police had closed the roads, or to contact the hotel by phone (the line was down). We managed to get through to the hotel group headquarters in Madrid, which told us to go to another hotel
  
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• The eco guide to Christmas trees

  10-12-2017 07:00
  Do you keep it real or try and fake it? When it comes to Christmas trees try and find an organic one and, if possible, a living one so you can dust off the tinsel and keep it going for next yearThis year I’m going real. Given the plastic pandemic, my goodwill doesn’t extend to manufacturers of oil-based fake trees shipped across the globe.From an ecological point of view, all cut trees are imperfect. Three-quarters of the trees put up this Christmas in the UK will be grown here (this
  
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• The afternoon I met Princess Diana in the ladies’ loo at Le Caprice

  10-12-2017 07:00
  It’s 1990, Mayfair, and a starstruck journalist finds herself having a girly chat with the people’s princessIt was the summer of 1990 and I’d been having a dispiriting lunch with a publisher in Le Caprice, the classic restaurant round the corner from the Ritz in London. We’d been perched at the bar, so it wasn’t until after he left that I looked round and there, sitting discreetly in the corner, was Princess Diana. I watched, transfixed, as she stood up and made her
  
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• Simpson’s in the Strand: ‘I can’t love it any more’ – restaurant review | Jay Rayner

  10-12-2017 07:00
  After serving Londoners for 189 years, Simpson’s needed a makeover. But did they have to change the menu, too?
  Simpson’s in the Strand, 100 Strand, London WC2R 0EW (020 7420 2111). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £200There is a great difference between wanting to love something, and genuinely loving it. I want to love Simpson’s in the Strand. I want to adore it, in the way I once did; as you might a dotty elderly relative who can be infuriating, but is still a
  
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• Nigel Slater’s steamed pudding and chocolate biscuits recipes

  10-12-2017 07:00
  Sugar and spice and all things sweet and comforting… a pudding and biscuits to make your home smell of happinessThere is a little wooden cupboard in the kitchen we refer to as “the baking cupboard”. The door sticks. You gain entry only with a firm punch from the side of your clenched fist.As the door springs open you are greeted by a whiff of vanilla and sweet spice, and the sight of white shelves stained with the tell tale rings from where the black treacle has sat. There is
  
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• Lady Bird, my mum, my daughter and me | Eva Wiseman

  10-12-2017 07:00
  In Greta Gerwig’s wonderful new film it’s the mother rather than the teenage daughter who grows upGreta Gerwig’s directorial debut Lady Bird has become the best reviewed film of all time. Until now, Toy Story 2 was number one on Rotten Tomatoes, which aggregates critics’ reviews, but since its release in the US, Lady Bird – a film about a teenage girl who wants more – has leapt ahead. Which pleases me. Not that I wish ill on an animated sheriff or his thick sp
  
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• I love my girlfriend, but I want to have a threesome | Dear Mariella

  10-12-2017 07:00
  A man in a happy relationship says he’s repressing his promiscuous side. Mariella Frostrup says he may be with the wrong womanThe dilemma I’m in a sweet, monogamous relationship with my girlfriend. We’re in our early 40s. She’s beautiful and we have a happy sex life. But I’m also fascinated by her friend, who leads a libertine lifestyle. I keep thinking about threesomes and other kinky games. I love my girlfriend, but I find other women attractive, too.I’m loy
  
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• Bring back conversation… by shutting up and listening | Celeste Headlee

  10-12-2017 07:00
  Face-to-face conversation reaps rich rewards, but it’s a dying art. Here’s how to revive itIt seems that we’re talking more than ever. And it’s true that we have more platforms for connection and communication than ever before. But what feels like conversation is actually just talking. Conversation – the exchange of ideas and thoughts between two people in which both understand one another and respond to each other – is disappearing underneath the mountains of
  
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• Barns, beams and a French bulldog on the Welsh borders

  10-12-2017 07:00
  Escaping the capital for rural Hereford, offers the chance to bring a wonderful old farm back to lifeThere were moments when Adriaan Koppens doubted the wisdom of restoring a rundown farm in Herefordshire. Winter nights were the worst as gales whistled down from the Welsh mountains and branches rattled against the caravan where he sheltered during the project. But the next day, when the clouds lifted, revealing frosted hawthorns and sheep-speckled fields, Koppens remembered why he and his partne
  
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• UK Princes William and Harry announce sculptor for new Diana statue

  10-12-2017 01:06
  LONDON (Reuters) - A sculptor who produced the image of Queen Elizabeth used on Britain's coins has been chosen to create a new statue of Princess Diana, the office of Princes William and Harry said...
  
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