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• Lending a helping paw

  03-08-2018 21:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  It may come as a surprise, but some of the finest therapists in Manitoba have four legs.For the past 21 years, St. John Ambulance therapy dogs and their human handlers ...
  
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• Invasion of big, voracious lizards threatens U.S. South: study

  03-08-2018 20:25
  A group of South American lizards that can grow up to four feet long (1.2 meters) has established a home in the Florida wild after being brought to the United States as pets, and the reptiles could...
  
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• The Algonquin Hotel throws a 'purrty,' feline fashion show

  03-08-2018 20:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - There were "meowdels" wearing couture and a cat-tastic crowd: The annual feline fashion show at The Algonquin Hotel had both felines and cat fans purring in approval.The ......
  
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• Unique Japanese Samurai Scissors

  03-08-2018 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  You just never know when you have to defend your honor, it could be right when you’re working on a paper craft project and then it happens. Someone insults you – no Samurai sword around? But luckily you got your Japanese Samurai Scissors and the the honor of your family has been can be defended. You succeed! Now you can go back to whatever you were cutting or working on. I also love that you have a place for the scissor to stick into, to prevent accidents and it looks extremely cool
  
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• Your Lawn’s Not Just Eye Candy: The Environmental and Health Benefits of Turfgrass Lawns

  03-08-2018 19:00
  Turfgrass lawns aren’t just beautiful; they’re also practical. Image: Pacific Aina DesignA well-maintained lawn is central to your home’s curb appeal and even adds to the value of your property. However, your turfgrass lawn is more than just eye candy. It provides a variety of environmental and health benefits.Freshome asked Dan Sandor, a postdoctoral associate in turfgrass science at the University of Minnesota, to tell us more about the benefits of turfgrass lawns.Turfgr
  
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• Asham Stompers ready to make some noise

  03-08-2018 18:48 via winnipegfreepress.com
  The first week of Folklorama is just days away, and the Heather Curling Club is being transformed into a Canadian winter wonderland. For seven days, it will be home to ...
  
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• Learning to be the Llama

  03-08-2018 18:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Welcome to Jen Tries, a semi-regular feature in which Free Press columnist Jen Zoratti will try something new and report back. In this instalment, Jen Tries... being the Folklorama Llama.I ...
  
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• AP Interview: New Zealand leader finds new focus as a parent

  03-08-2018 17:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  AUCKLAND, New Zealand - Feeding. Poop. Sleep.New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said those are the things she has obsessed over the most as a new parent, and that the ......
  
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• Cocktail of the week: sweet pea

  03-08-2018 16:00
  Top a sugar snap pea-infused gin with prosecco and green chartreuse for this tasty refresherServes 1For the gin infusion
  ½ bottle gin (your favourite brand; we use East London Liquor Company)
  50g sugar snap peas Continue reading...
  
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• Clare Smyth, world’s best female chef: ‘I’m not going to stand and shout at someone. It’s just not nice’

  03-08-2018 16:00
  She was once told by Gordon Ramsay she wouldn’t last a week in his kitchen. Now, the chef patron of Core in London has been named best female chef at the food industry’s ‘Oscars’. But why is the business still dominated by men?For reasons I have never fully understood, egomania in the kitchen has traditionally been rewarded with a kind of monstrous glamour, making celebrities out of men whose management style in any other workplace would get them fired. For a&nb
  
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• No-alcohol beer – all the flavour without the booze

  03-08-2018 15:00
  The boom in low- and alcohol-free beer means you can now enjoy a daytime drink and not compromise on tasteIf you had told me two years ago that I’d be drinking a no-alcohol beer with as much pleasure as a full-strength one, I’d have said you were bonkers, but the quality has improved to such an extent that some are now almost indistinguishable from their full-strength equivalents. The rate of growth is such that breweries such as Big Drop, Small Beer Brew Co and Infinite Session have
  
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• In Paris, historic ties and designer takes on basketball

  03-08-2018 14:22
  France may have won the World Cup and be a football-obsessed nation, but it's the U.S. game of basketball that has some surprisingly old roots and expanding niches in Paris.
  
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• How to eat: Magnums

  03-08-2018 14:09
  The ice-creams on a stick – and their supermarket doppelgangers – are restorative in the hot weather. But do you lick it or bite it? And can you make yours last for 30 minutes? How to Eat is in no doubt about who its favourite Bond is. It has to be Roger Moore. Not for his work in the field of arched eyebrows and the perpetuation of xenophobic cliches about eastern European supervillains, but for his mysterious role in helping invent the Magnum ice-cream.Decades before Unilever began
  
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• Britain's GCHQ code-breakers to publish new puzzle book

  03-08-2018 14:01
  Britain's intelligence and security organization GCHQ is publishing a new book of puzzles in the Autumn aimed at those who fancy themselves as potential code-breakers.
  
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• 5 Ideas for Fold-Away Kitchen Storage

  03-08-2018 14:00
  If there’s one thing many of us feel we need, it’s more kitchen storage space. It seems like there’s always some new doodad to buy for the kitchen. And putting it all somewhere can get to be a challenge. But that’s why they invented fold-away kitchen storage.These design elements are defined by how they can fold or roll in some way to create more storage without visibly taking up more space. It’s practically like having a storage area bigger on the inside than the o
  
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• Not Kids' games! Dodgeball, Quidditch, mini golf go pro

  03-08-2018 13:55 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Dodgeball is not just a Ben Stiller movie or anxiety-inducing gym class activity. It's a professional sport.That's no Vince Vaughn joke.The World Dodgeball Association , founded in ......
  
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• My fiancee has complained on social media that I force her to work

  03-08-2018 13:43
  Some of the mums on Facebook are urging her to leave, saying I’m controlling. It feels as if she wants to be a kept womanMy fiancee and I are due to marry. I own my home and she moved in 18 months ago. She then left her job and fell pregnant. I pay the mortgage and bills and we put a small amount into a joint account each month for food and our child. My fiancee now has a one-day-a-week job and every pound she earns is hers, while I spend what I have left mostly on us and my daughter. She
  
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• Take this, suckers: fashion cashes in on plastic straw's demise

  03-08-2018 13:40
  Sustainability as a selling point is big in 2018, as in £145 sterling silver drinking tubesFashion has never been afraid to capitalise on a cause in order to sell products. So news that designers are jumping on the anti-plastic straw bandwagon by creating sustainable, fashionable alternatives in the run-up to 2019’s proposed ban will come as no surprise.From a Vogue-endorsed hand-blown Murano glass straw by creative design pair Duncan Campbell and Charlotte Rey, which costs £50
  
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• Beer maker Heineken strikes deal to expand in China

  03-08-2018 13:04 via winnipegfreepress.com
  BRUSSELS - Dutch brewing company Heineken says it's buying a 40 per cent stake in the company that controls China's biggest beer maker, China Resources Beer.Heineken said in a statement ...
  
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• Reece Prescod: 'Sometimes you just want to die, but you’ve got to keep going and keep running'

  03-08-2018 13:00
  The UK’s top sprinter on smoked salmon before a session, his love of a good javelin competition and how his grandad’s funeral inspired him to get into the sportWhat have you been up to recently? I’ve been in Berlin doing some photo stuff with Nike for its new shoe, the Pegasus Turbo. Then just seeing my mates in London quite a bit, watching the World Cup football, having barbecue and social with the lads … That’s about it. I’ve been pretty busy competing and
  
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• Raymond Blanc: three books that taught me how to cook | The cook’s cook

  03-08-2018 13:00
  The chef arrived in Britain 45 years ago with no English and no idea how to cook. But he quickly learned both – thanks to these greats ...When I first arrived in Great Britain in 1972, I didn’t know how to cook and I didn’t speak much English either. So I turned to cookbooks and learned to do both, simultaneously. Today I have so many cookbooks, but those authors that immediately spring to mind are Constance Spry, Edouard de Pomiane and Michel Guérard.I discovered Spry w
  
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• 10 great UK family adventure camps and day trips

  03-08-2018 12:33
  It’s action stations in this roundup of activity centre escapes, featuring watersports, circus skills, climbing and campfire cookouts – and with August bank holiday availability Soak up the views of the Brecon Beacons at this adventure camp in south Wales. Acorn takes advantage of its campsite’s proximity to Llangorse Lake with a variety of watersports, such as Kata Kanu and paddleboarding. Stays range from three to six nights, with a choice between its pre-erected tented villa
  
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• How to wash your running kit

  03-08-2018 12:25
  At what temperature should you wash technical gear – and should you put your trainers in the machine? We put the big laundry questions to an expertMost runners have found themselves at the sink dealing ineffectually with muddy, sopping wet trainers and wondering if they dare machine-wash them. Can you do it – and what is the best way to tackle a “rainproof” jacket that is starting to whiff? I asked Michaela Uzzell from appliance manufacturer Miele for her advice on the mo
  
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• Rüya, London W1: ‘Turkish via Dubai. Heroically awful’ – restaurant review

  03-08-2018 11:00
  The luxurious surroundings and extraordinary cocktails aren’t enough to make you forget you can find better food elsewhereRüya is a very fancy Anatolian restaurant in London’s Mayfair. It’s a place where you can rapidly rattle through handfuls of cash on wagyu kebabs, Black Sea pide and lamb-stuffed lahmacun. A clay pot of meatless güvec, for example, a vegetable stew similar to ratatouille, is £19.50. I do not normally begin reviews by dwelling on the cost, but
  
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• My life in sex: ‘While my husband was away, I discovered casual sex’

  03-08-2018 11:00
  The 54-year-old unfaithful wifeOn the outside, I am a happily married, respectable, middle-aged woman. My husband is great – generous, good company, a wonderful father and grandfather. We have an enjoyable, comfortable life. He’s 12 years older than me, but that was never a problem, and although sex was routine, I was faithful for almost 30 years.Then, three years ago, something changed. After a couple of operations, he fell into a long bout of severe depression, which resulted in a
  
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• The 10 best summer sandals – in pictures

  03-08-2018 10:00
  Go for bold with your sandals this summer – the brighter the better Continue reading...
  
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• A colder splash: ice swimming in Austria - in pictures

  03-08-2018 08:00
  While Europe swelters, members of the Austrian Ice Swimming Association spent three days in the Tyrol for training sessions in a kettle hole at the Nature ice palace inside the Hintertux glacier. Between 25 and 35 metres below the surface, the temperature of the glacier meltwater is -0.2C and the air temperature between 0C and 1C Continue reading...
  
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• Field of dreams: camping in West Sussex

  03-08-2018 07:30
  With all the comforts of glamping but not the high prices, a new off-grid campsite on a farm in the South Downs makes for a heavenly stayThe first time Mark Griffin went to a sheep fair, he wasn’t sure of the etiquette. “I didn’t know whether you needed to buy a sheep to get in, or what you were meant to do!” says the co-founder of Woodfire Camping in West Sussex.Griff (as he’s known) and his wife Stella were set on a new life: they wanted to ditch the city (he work
  
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• Law ending sperm donor secrecy helps Australian find her dad

  03-08-2018 03:17 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MELBOURNE, Australia - For Peter Peacock, fate arrived in the form of a registered letter.The letter, at least initially, looked to be a bit of a letdown. Peacock had gone ......
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,578

  03-08-2018 01:00
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