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Looking for a slightly different but tasty work day meal that is easy to cook, Create a gourmet-style meal with this effortless chicken dish served with zesty butter and caper sauce. · Ingredients: · - 4 Chicken Breast Fillets (about 250g each), halved horizontally - 100g butter, diced - 1/4 cup (50g) drained baby capers (if you like capers, add in lots more!) - 3-4 lemons, zested, juiced - 1/2 cup coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley…

Once upon a time some 20bn letters were pushed through UK letterboxes annually, a figure that has slumped to 6.7bn since smartphones took off. However, for many people, there’s still something special about receiving a personal update in the post. · “There’s a real sentimental value attached to more traditional methods of communication. I think that’s true for everyone, but especially older people,” says Nadine Callcutt, UK communications…

New Zealand women went to the polls for the first time, on November 28, 1893, just 10 weeks after the governor, Lord Glasgow, signed the Electoral Act 1893 into law, making this country the first in which women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections. · Despite the short timeframe for voter registration, 109,461 women – about 80% of the eligible adult female population – enrolled to vote in the election. On polling day 90,290 of them…

When you get a cold, the first thing that comes to mind is that it is caused by the cold weather. But what if you develop a cold when the weather is hot? While the winter season typically brings along coughs and sneezes, summer colds are more common than you can imagine. If you’re suddenly suffering from a runny nose, cough, or throat pain this season, don’t panic! We’ve got expert-backed home remedies that can help. · What causes summer colds?…

On November 24, 1974, paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson was looking for something very specific in the gravel-strewn landscape of northeastern Ethiopia. A year earlier, Johanson and a colleague had made a thrilling discovery in the very same region—a perfectly preserved knee joint from an ancient human that walked those hills 3.4 million years ago. That was nearly a million years older than the oldest known human fossil at the time. · But a…

ÇHas tuna been cancelled? Unfortunately, for all of us who enjoy a regular tuna and cucumber baguette, tuna pasta salad or a steaming baked potato piled high with tuna mayo, the latest evidence is that mercury levels in one in two cans of tuna tested at random are higher than the recommended levels, with some environmental groups calling for tuna to be banned completely. · “It has always been recommended to limit tuna due to mercury,” says…

An estimated 35 million new cancer cases by 2050 would mark a 77 percent rise in the global cancer burden. · Approximately 2 to 8 percent of cancers worldwide are related to workplace exposures. This highlights a growing concern: the presence of carcinogens in our environment. · The increase in cancer rates globally has been linked to prolonged exposure to environmental contaminants. These contaminants disrupt normal cellular processes, leading…

We have all come across this type of headline: "Fatal car crash — cops say driver was using mobile phone"  · Mobile phones have become indispensable, yet their impact on road safety remains insufficiently examined, particularly the distractions associated with maladaptive mobile phone use.  · Defined broadly, maladaptive practice occurs when excessive use adversely impacts work and social relationships. · It refers to several phenomena…

According to a statement released by the University of South Florida, Davide Tanasi and his colleagues have identified evidence of hallucinogens in a 2,000-year-old mug shaped as the head of Bes, an ancient Egyptian god or guardian demon. It had not been known if such mugs were used in daily life, or if they were reserved for religious purposes or in magic rituals. “For the first time, we were able to identify all the chemical signatures of the…

27 November 1849 · The formidable Ngāti Toa leader had dominated Te Moana-o-Raukawa – the Cook Strait region – from his base at Kāpiti Island for nearly 20 years. · Te Rauparaha spent the last year of his life at Ōtaki. By this time his influence had declined, in part because of the humiliation of his imprisonment by Governor George Grey in 1846. He had had eight wives in the course of his life, and 14 children, some of whom survived him. Te…