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White Sugar – the New Villain on the Block
Governments across the globe have been striving to get people to quit smoking and have done so quite successfully. Rumor has it, that refined sugar is the emerging villain, with many medical professionals advocating that governments should take a similarly tough stance against those promoting foods packed with refined sugar.
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Food Options For Events Both Big and Small
Food is at the center of many celebrations. That means if you’re ever organizing some event, you have to know how to put together the menu and the serving options, regardless of the size of the gathering itself.
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5 Benefits that Come with Cafetière Coffee
A cafetière, sometimes referred to as a French press, is used to brew coffee. The raw grounds from somewhere like Seven coffee roasters are placed in the cafetière along with hot water, then a plunger is pressed down to leave nothing but the coffee itself. Whether you’re serving coffee in a café or providing it at the end of a meal in your restaurant, it makes sense to go for a cafetière, and here are just five reasons why:
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Hurricane Harvey: Families wade for their lives amid Texas floods
Thousands of people who survived the worst of Hurricane Harvey in Texas are now fleeing for their lives after the authorities opened sluice gates to relieve the city of Houston. Willis Breaux and his wife, Susan, had intended to wait out the storm in their home in Beech Creek. Then the Army Corps of Engineers released the floodgates on a rapidly swelling Lake Conroe, north of Houston. “We went to bed and things were fine. At 2am I woke up – my neighbour’s calling me. There’s water all around and then I hear they’ve released the gates,” he said.
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Mark Zuckerberg announces birth of second daughter, August
Mark Zuckerberg’s social network just got a bit bigger. The Facebook chief executive has announced that his wife Priscilla Chan has given birth to the couple’s second daughter, August. In a post on his Facebook page, they welcomed her into the family and talked about their hopes for her future. “Priscilla and I are so happy to welcome our daughter August! We wrote her a letter about the world we hope she grows up in, and also hoping she doesn’t grow up too fast.”
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Richard Eckersley, former Manchester United footballer, sets up packaging-free supermarket Earth.Food.Love
It helps to have deep pockets to shop at Britain’s only “zero waste” supermarket. Not only do none of its 200 products come with packaging, you have to bring your own containers. Earth.Food.Love was set up by the former Manchester United fullback Richard Eckersley and his wife Nicola. At the peak of his career Mr Eckersley, 28, fell out of love with football and into saving the world.
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Thousands of Twitter users ‘deceived by Russian agent’
Hundreds of thousands of Twitter users are reading pro-Kremlin propaganda by a suspected Russian troll posing as a Ukip supporter, evidence suggests. Analysis of tweets under the name @DavidJo52951945 indicates that they were likely to have been posted as part of a disinformation campaign.
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If you’re less than perfect, find another school
Imagine you’re a bright 17-year-old. After two years of sweating at GCSEs, trying to get the obligatory 11 shining A*s, you sit AS levels. Perhaps you’re a little burnt out; perhaps, as is common at this stage, you’re taking subjects — economics or philosophy, say — you’ve never studied before. Anyway, your AS grades aren’t the greatest. Bunch of Cs. Disappointing but not the end of the world: you can retake all your AS modules next year with your A2s to improve your grades.
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Disneyland bans boy, 3, from princess makeover
Disneyland Paris refused to let a three-year-old boy take part in its “princess for a day” experience because he was not a girl, his mother has said. Hayley McLean-Glass, from Paignton in Devon, said her son Noah was “buzzing with excitement” when he found out that the theme park offered the chance to dress up as princesses, including Elsa from Frozen, but when she tried to book via email she was told that the activity was not for boys.
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Where are the laurels for all our great Irish gardens?
How many gardens would you say are open to the public on the island of Ireland? One hundred, two hundred? Even inveterate garden visitors may be surprised to learn that there are more than 400. In Shirley Lanigan’s new book, The Open Gardens of Ireland (The Butter Slip Press, €22.50), the author visits and describes 427 Irish gardens. She was surprised to find so many. “In the month before I set out visiting, I was having my doubts about the whole project,” she says. “People were still scraping along after the recession, and it was all a bit ‘doom and gloom’. I was thinking, ‘This is going to be a…
