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The Toyota Yaris Cross has come out on top in a recent test to see how a car performs efficiency-wise against claimed manufacturer consumption figures. UK magazine What Car put a series of the latest vehicles through its Real MPG fuel economy testing procedure to see how close they would come to their claimed efficiency. It was the Toyota Yaris Cross which performed the best, posting a real-world MPG of 60.1, just 4.14% less than the 62.7mpg claimed by the manufacturer. In fact, Toyota has three vehicles within the top 10, with its Yaris Cross, standard Yaris and Aygo X all coming close to the...
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Butterflies and caterpillars need more than a friendly plant or two in the garden, and just like us humans, they also have certain preferences. In the case of butterflies, they like a spiral or three-dimensional garden bed with a variety of larval host plants. Such a bed is the ideal habitat for insects, according to the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU). A spiral bed winds its way upwards similar to an herb spiral, which becomes narrower towards the top and is bordered by large stones. The site should have room for a bed at least three metres in diameter, with the lower...
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Images of stormy winds throwing walls of fire, 10 metres high, towards hotels were seen around the world last year. The sheer horror facing tourists in Greek holiday hotspots will be remembered by many considering a trip there this summer. In July, some 20,000 tourists and residents in the south-east of the island of Rhodes needed to be evacuated in the space of just hours in July 2023, followed by a days-long battle against the flames. The fires left behind extensive damage, burnt houses and charred olive groves. Nevertheless, tens of thousands continue to spend their holidays on the island. ...
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You feel a cold coming on, or maybe it's already upon you: the telltale cough, sore throat and stuffy head. You swing by the drugstore, where a shelf full of over-the-counter products containing the mineral zinc claim to be able to shorten the duration of your symptoms. The promise of relief is tempting. But is it one these products can make good on? A new analysis of studies published on zinc and cold viruses concludes that there isn't enough evidence to say whether over-the-counter zinc treatments have any effect on preventing the common cold. For those who pop lozenges or inhale nasal spray...
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A square pizza baked on an oven tray might not seem like the real thing, but to any who doubts it, you just tell them it's called "pizza in teglia" and make an Italian gesture with your hand. Apart from the delicious fluffy dough, the advantage to this variety is it can be prepared in any conventional kitchen. You don't need any advanced pizza-spinning knowledge or complicated kitchen utensils. Because the dough, which contains a lot of water, is fluffier and thicker, pizza recipe blogger Julia Ma chooses an unusual topping for her tray-baked pizza. "There's nothing stopping you from putting p...
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If you're looking for a new job, there's often no way around LinkedIn, which continues to play a central role in career development. Berlin-based career coach Esther Kimmel says it's a great place to get noticed by consultants and headhunters, but also for in-house recruiting. "So I advise my job seekers to make themselves easy to find and to set the inhibition threshold for making contact as low as possible." She also advises applicants to focus on their own profile. "It should be about what I want more of in the future and not draw attention to what I want to leave behind." This is where a b...
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When a loved one dies, be it unexpectedly or after a long illness, the bereaved typically faces a challenge. "First of all, it's important to grasp the reality of the death and the need to accept it," says Marei Rascher-Held, co-chairwomen of Germany's Federal Association for Grief Counselling (BVT). Many experts in the field of grief psychology no longer speak of "stages" of grief that you passively go through, but rather of active "tasks" of healthy grieving, particularly in cases of traumatic losses such as the death of a child or death due to an accident, natural disaster, homicide or suic...
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After hitting a nerve with the public in a promotional video for its new iPads, Apple has apologized for the ad, which sees musical instruments and other creative resources being crushed by a gigantic press. In the video, viewers see the likes of a piano, trumpet, pots of paint, cameras, a sculpture and a video game machine twisting, shattering and bursting as they are compressed. Then, when the press opens again, all that's left is an iPad. The sheer level of destruction in the ad, which had been intended to sensationalize the capabilities of Apple's recently unveiled iPad Pro models, sparked...
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Strange thing: The recent 2011-17 films in the “Planet of the Apes” franchise, now joined by the chapter opening this week, follow a similar narrative cycle of peril, punishment, survival. And yet these these movies, spaced out in ways Marvel never learned to respect, feel just fresh enough to matter — as long as you don’t mind the adverb “grimly” in front of a word like “compelling.” “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” leaps roughly 300 years into the future, after the death of the great Caesar, rough-hewn, tender-hearted warrior leader. In the 2011-17 trilogy, Andy Serkis made this motion-ca...
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Berlin (dpa) — We've all wanted to play someone a song over headphones and then wished we could listen to it with them at the same time. Sharing one set of headphones can be tricky, if not impossible, but thankfully Bluetooth now makes it easier to use two headphones on one device. Some Android smartphones offer a handy feature called "Dual Audio" that allows you to connect two Bluetooth headphones to your device at the same time and play the same audio source on both headphones. You can see whether your device supports this feature in the device settings under the Connections or Bluetooth sec...
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