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• Fields of dreams: Texas project seeks new corn strains for whiskey

  17-06-2018 22:23
  COLLEGE STATION, Texas (Reuters) - A master distiller and a crop scientist who specializes in corn breeding are working on a project they hope one day will help bring local identities to American...
  
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• Pay-what-you-can grocery opens in Toronto, but experts say model can be hit-or-miss

  17-06-2018 17:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  TORONTO - There's a reason you don't often see a pay-what-you-can grocery store, say marketing experts intrigued by a Toronto venture billed as the first of its kind.But chef Jagger ......
  
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• The Seagull Teaser

  17-06-2018 15:29 via feedproxy.google.com
  Meet this seagull teaser extraordinaire. And the seagulls get everything what they asked for, for their greed. Always snatching away our human food and pooping everywhere and being so noisy. If I would have been this guy dude though I would also have brought the windshield wipers and the horn into play as well. Even if they would fly away scared they would be back the next second. These flying rats can never say no to french fries. Watch the video below:
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• Thousands hold gay pride march in Ukrainian capital of Kyiv

  17-06-2018 13:32 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MOSCOW - Several thousand gay pride supporters have held a march in Ukraine's capital that lasted about 20 minutes despite opponents' attempts to block them.About 5,000 were on hand for ......
  
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• The Saudi Arabian women driving forward

  17-06-2018 10:00
  Next Sunday, women in Saudi Arabia will at last be allowed to drive, potentially transforming millions of lives. But the change has been overshadowed by the arrest of many of the activists who campaigned for decades against the banEnaam Alaswad has only risked getting behind the wheel of a car in Saudi Arabia once, sparked by the frustration of watching her driver try and fail, repeatedly, to squeeze into a tight parking space on the baking, dusty streets of her seaside hometown, Jeddah.“I
  
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• End of the great card payment rip-off? No, it’s just a new one

  17-06-2018 08:00
  Rules designed to protect the consumer from extra credit and debit card charges seem to have backfiredIt was meant to be the end of the rip-off that cost consumers hundreds of millions of pounds a year. In January, all extra charges for using a credit or debit card to pay for goods and services were banned to prevent nasty surprises at the checkout. However, five months on, increases in the cost of transactions by Visa and Mastercard mean consumers now face the prospect of paying more for goods
  
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• Dad raised 11 kids alone. How will I cope with one?

  17-06-2018 08:00
  Seamas O’Reilly’s father brought up a huge brood of children on his own. He also built their house and filled it with love, laughter and DIY catalogues. So how does that make Seamas feel now that he’s about to become a dad?Many’s the Father’s Day my dad awoke to the sound of soft padding at the carpet outside his room, and the doorknob stiffly turning as we emerged. In actual fact, no; he would have woken one hour earlier, to small, quick feet scurrying through the
  
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• Ace Ventura: oysters, craft beer and wildlife in California’s most laid-back town

  17-06-2018 08:00
  The quiet, unpretentious San Buenaventura is only an hour from Malibu – but a world apartThe San Buenaventura state beach is all but empty of sunbathers. The only bodies on display are the ones at Surfers Point, where a constant churn of frothy white peaks keeps them bobbing aloft on their distant boards. From there, the sands sweep south to infinity, or at least to the neighbouring town of Oxnard. It’s a 10-mile stretch of southern Californian coastline, less than an hour’s dr
  
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• This year’s bikinis are built for Love Island, not Center Parcs

  17-06-2018 07:00
  You really have to have the body of someone built for nothing but bikini wearing not to feel ridiculous in this summer’s garments, writes Eva WisemanLast weekend, I saw hell in a Topshop mirror. Hours I spent, whole ironed-out hours – time would go very slowly and then very fast and suddenly it was 5pm – in the changing rooms of a selection of high-street shops, trying on swimming costumes. I was going to Center Parcs on the Monday you see (by the time this is published I will
  
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• Nigel Slater’s lamb, spinach and feta and duck with couscous recipes

  17-06-2018 07:00
  Luscious lazy-day summer roasts so you can chill when it’s hotThis is a good summer, by which I mean there has already been a perfect balance of blue sky days for eating outside and enough rain to keep the growing courgettes fat and happy.These are days on which I prefer to start cooking early, before the sun turns the kitchen into a furnace Continue reading...
  
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• Life aquatic: water plants that thrive on dry land

  17-06-2018 07:00
  Aquascapes are lovely, but total immersion is not essentialI have recently fallen totally head over heels in love with aquascaping: the practice of creating miniature, submerged indoor landscapes using a range of exotic water plants. However, it was only after a trip to the UK’s leading tropical aquatic plant dealer, Aquarium Gardens, that I learned almost all of these submerged plants are commercially grown out of water.Almost all submerged plants are commercially grown out of water Conti
  
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• Laura Kenny: ‘I wish female issues weren’t taboo’

  17-06-2018 07:00
  The Olympic cyclist on being a mum, coping with asthma and breaking down barriers for girlsI didn’t really enjoy cycling when I started, but my dad used to work so hard that we only spent time together on the weekends and he’d want us to go cycling as a family. So I think that’s why I grew to love it, because it meant spending a couple of hours with Dad.When I was born I had a collapsed lung, which gave me asthma. It was pretty severe when I was a kid. When I was diag
  
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• Emu: 'a good bike at a fair price' – ebike review

  17-06-2018 07:00
  A smoothly finished British-built electric bike at under a grandFrom the number of bicycles you now see on the road, you’d think the cycle market was thriving. In fact, only one sector is growing – electric bikes. This is because people buying these bikes do not see themselves as cyclists but as commuters. They are often new to the joys of two-wheel travel and the addition of a labour-saving electric motor is just the push they need to try a bike.The only drawback is that ebikes have
  
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• Thomas Carr Seafood: 'It demands to be liked’ – restaurant review

  17-06-2018 06:59
  Some things are so right at this new seafood grill that you forgive them things that are so wrong, says Jay RaynerThomas Carr Seafood and Grill, 59 High Street, Ilfracombe, North Devon EX34 9QB (01271 555 005). Meal for two including drinks and service £60-£90. The Thomas Carr Seafood and Grill on the high street in Ilfracombe is that mate of yours who could be a huge success if only they got their act together; the one that leaves you tipping your head on one side sympathetically an
  
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• If it wasn’t for our kids, my husband and I wouldn’t be married | Dear Mariella

  17-06-2018 06:59
  If you want me to tell you to leave, you’ve written to the wrong agony aunt, says Mariella FrostrupThe dilemma I’ve been married for 18 years and the last three have been difficult. My interests differ very much from my husband’s. I want to be surrounded by people who understand me better. I have developed friendships where I feel I can be more myself. Our sex life would probably be described as good– varied, interesting, fulfilling for him. But I don’t feel any con
  
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• How Aristotle is the perfect happiness guru

  17-06-2018 06:59
  Happiness is not a state as far as Aristotle is concerned, it’s an activity, says Professor Edith Hall, and you just have to decide to become happierYou’ve got the Headspace app, know your downward dog from your black dog, and once read something by Freud, so what can a guy who lived 23 centuries ago tell you about the pursuit of happiness today? “Aristotle did it first and better. So why not go to the source, the original brain that figured all of this out?” says Profess
  
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• Daddy cool: father’s day fashion

  17-06-2018 00:50
  Four new dads speak out about the joys of parenthood – and celebrate Father’s Day in styleAndrew MacGregor, 36, sustainable artist, and Imaya, two Continue reading...
  
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