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• For witnesses, calling out sexual harassment is complicated

  17-12-2017 17:40 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Life was going well for Christopher Partee when the woman approached him in tears.The forklift operator had recently been made a permanent employee at a Memphis warehouse ......
  
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• The childhood gift we always wanted – would it change our lives today?

  17-12-2017 15:00
  We asked writers and readers to share memories of the present they could never convince their parents to get them. How would they feel when the Guardian delivered those elusive gifts decades later? Continue reading...
  
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• The best thing I ate in 2017

  17-12-2017 12:00
  From Jamie Oliver to Nadiya Hussain, a star cast select their highlights of the year: roast pork in Tahiti, poached brain in Paris, crisps in Cambridgeshire …Stuffed squid, Salina, Sicily
  Jamie Oliver: cook, activist, food writerThis year, me and Gennaro spent a day with a lovely 92-year-old Italian nonna called Franchina, on Salina in the Aeolian islands. The local fisherman caught a squid – and Franchina made this incredible stuffing of capers, lemon zest, garlic, pecorino, breadc
  
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• Justin Gellatly's indulgent Christmas baking recipes

  17-12-2017 12:00
  Finnish spiced biscuits, boozy macadamia and brown butter cake, orange and ginger amaretti: 6 seasonal recipes from OFM’s favourite bakerI’ve always been massively into Christmas. When I was growing up, it was one big feast, with breakfast rolling into a huge lunch and then glorious leftovers on Boxing Day. Brandy butter was my favourite treat – I remember eating it cold from the fridge – but I loved Christmas pudding, too. My mum would start making it in January and it w
  
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• Poo, nits and handsy dads: what childcare professionals think about your kids

  17-12-2017 10:00
  Every day our little darlings pass through the hands of experts: the doctors, party entertainers, nit nurses, teachers and nannies. But behind the warm smiles, how do they really feel about our kids – and about us, the parents? Assured of anonymity, they reveal allOur whole ethos is to make children feel comfortable, as if they’re having their hair done. We use a treatment to kill living lice and then dehydrate eggs using heated air. Then we nit comb and forensically remove everythin
  
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• Winter-flowering plants that are self-decorating Christmas trees

  17-12-2017 07:00
  Light up your yuletide with these amazing festive plantsThe people on my street really go to town with outdoor Christmas decorations: intricately arranged frosted willow boughs, great garlands of fairy lights, animatronic Santas, the works! However, for lazy gardeners like me there is a group of trees and shrubs that will literally decorate themselves, as if by magic, adorning their branches with shiny red baubles every year, perfectly in time for the holiday season. No struggling with cables, m
  
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• The best restaurant in London? You literally can't get a table

  17-12-2017 07:00
  A make-believe restaurant serving pretend food to imaginary customers for fake reviews… What Tripadvisor reviews tell us about the way we liveThere is a raw kind of beauty to the Tripadvisor review. Let your eye flow down the page and poetry emerges. “Like a plate of blood / I wanted to scream / The worst / The worst / The worst pasty in London.” My boyfriend runs a deli – they had their favourite bad Tripadvisor review printed on tea towels: “When I’m lying
  
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• Step away from the stuffed peppers: your guide to a vegan Christmas

  17-12-2017 07:00
  A wide range of animal-free festive foods means Christmas dinner is a treat for everyoneTo non-vegans, the idea of a plant-based Christmas dinner may smack of Scrooge crouched over a miserly candle, sucking on a single slice of tofu. There are few holidays more dedicated to tearing up the five-a-day-guidelines than this one, so if you take away not only the meat but the cream, then what’s left?
  Actually, this year there’s a lot left, as supermarkets are increasingly wise to the idea
  
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• Palatino: ‘Better than in Rome’ – restaurant review

  17-12-2017 07:00
  You don’t have to fly to Italy to sample Roman cooking at its simple best – just catch a cab to Palatino in Old Street
  Palatino, 71 Central Street, London EC1V 8AB (020 3481 5300). Meal for two, including drinks and service: £60 to £90The late AA Gill was once so infuriated by the quality of the food he was served at a London Italian that he left the restaurant, hailed a cab to Heathrow, jumped on a plane and a few hours later was eating the real thing in Rome. It was a b
  
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• Nigel Slater’s Jerusalem artichoke hotpot recipe

  17-12-2017 07:00
  Midwinter calls for something hearty and wholesome – and there’s no better place to start than a veggie hotpot
  I honestly don’t mind the rain when there is something in the oven. A roasting pumpkin, perhaps, with a dark and bosky stuffing, or a hotpot of root vegetables in a sauce with a deep whiff of smoked garlic.The rich, mushroomy, smoky stock gives this hotpot its deep, mellow flavour Continue reading...
  
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• I’ve fallen in love with the friend who saved my life | Dear Mariella

  17-12-2017 07:00
  Mariella Frostrup tells a boy of 16 to bide his time before declaring his love to the girl who helped him through depressionThe dilemma I am a 16-year-old boy and have been struggling with anxiety and depression, for which I have sought counselling and support. In my darkest moments, a friend of mine has been there for me unwaveringly and I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say she has saved my life. My dilemma is that I have fallen in love with her. I would love to tell her, but h
  
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• Are you and your partner a good match? Personality quiz | Ben Ambridge

  17-12-2017 07:00
  Do you vote the same way and have similar personalities? Ben Ambridge reveals whether these things matter in a relationshipDo opposites attract? The old cliché says they do. But is it true, or do we prefer partners who are similar to ourselves? And if so, similar in what way? To find out, take the quiz below and if possible ask your partner to as well.On a scale of 1 to 7, to what extent are you:
  a extremely left wing (1) to extremely right wing (7)?b extremely liberal (1) to extremely co
  
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• A CDC ban on 'fetus' and 'transgender?' Experts alarmed

  17-12-2017 01:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Health leaders say they are alarmed about a report that officials at the nation's top public health agency are being told not to use certain words or ......
  
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• Observer Killer sSudoku

  17-12-2017 01:01
  Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within grey lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by grey lines.
  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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• Guide to party sparkle: the wish list – in pictures

  17-12-2017 00:50
  Hit the party season with an abundance of sparkle, from glitter and sequin-coated bags, boots and shoes to earrings that put a disco ball to shame Continue reading...
  
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