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Rocco is helping to sniff out imperfections at Grants Whisky distillery in Girvan A NEWLY employed sniffer dog helping with quality control at a whisky maker will report back to appropriately named boss Chris Wooff. Rocco, a one-year-old cocker spaniel, is helping to sniff out any imperfections in wood used to make the barrels at the Grant’s Whisky distillery in Girvan in Ayrshire. Wooff said: “Wood is a natural material, and the distilling of whisky is an organic process, so our job ...

One- year-old cocker spaniel Rocco has landed a dream job at Grant's grain whisky distillery - with a new boss named Mr Wooff.

A team of McMaster University researchers who studied heart patients found that stair-climbing routines, whether vigorous or moderate, provide significant

Medically Reviewed People with mesomorph body types tend to see big gains from strength and interval-type workouts. But longer cardio training is important, too. Jakob Lagerstedt/Stocksy How do you know if you have a mesomorphbody type? You might love Tabata and other high-intensity interval training (HIIT) workouts, but find long bouts of cardio arduous. You may naturally enjoy the weight room because that’s where your strengths — no pun intended — lie. “A mesomorph is generally define...

Poet Airini Beautrais. I’m always anxious about answering the question of what I’m reading. At the moment due to work, life and mental health, my reading practice isn’t stellar. I am reading The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest by Stieg Larsson. Im enjoying all the Swedish placenames and feeling a weird technological nostalgia for the early 2000s. I keep renewing a book from our local library, An Encylopaedia of Plants in Myth, Legend, Magic and Lore, by Stuart Phillips. Im completely...

Dr Stuart Phillips says rural practices are suffering under a shortage of GPs. “We can’t physically look after them... if you try and squeeze too many people then youre working on eight-minute consultations, and then you start to make mistakes, or people dont get heard properly.” Wait times for appointments average three weeks in Phillips’ practice. With the frustration and stress that both rural patients and doctors feel, he can see small practices dying off. Phillips is the only pe...

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Tom Brady: The strict diet and exercise plan followed by Super Bowl quarterback Chelsea Ritschel Related video: Tom Bradys future Tom Brady will have his 10th Super Bowl appearance - more than any other NFL player - and possibly his seventh Super Bowl win, when he walks onto the field on Sunday to face off against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV. The accomplishment also comes as the Tampa Bay Buccaneersquarterback, 43, is set to officially become the oldest NFL player to...

The Globe and Mail Published February 7, 2021 Back in 2010, researchers at McMaster University proposed a heretical idea. To build big muscles, they suggested, you don’t necessarily have to lift big weights. Instead, their research showed the same benefits from lifting light weights or heavy weights or pretty much any weight you want—as long as you lift to the point of failure, when you’re incapable of completing another rep. The simplicity of this prescription is a welcome counterpoint...

Tom Brady: The strict diet and exercise plan followed by Super Bowl quarterback OLD Chelsea Ritschel © Provided by The Independent Tom Brady will have his 10th Super Bowl appearance - more than any other NFL player - and possibly his seventh Super Bowl win, when he walks onto the field on Sunday to face off against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV. The accomplishment also comes as the Tampa Bay Buccaneersquarterback, 43, is set to officially become the oldest NFL player...