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• What Is Your State’s Most Popular Design Style? Google Knows!

  06-07-2018 19:00
  It’s amazing what you can find in an afternoon of playing with Google Trends. The site hosts a wealth of information if you know what to look for — even the most popular design style by state, according to what people are searching for.Luckily, Pots, Planters & More did most of the heavy lifting. The retailer analyzed recent Google search trends in each state to compare them to “national search volume averages.”The most popular design styles tend to happen i
  
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• 3 Ways to Use Chalkboard to Decorate Bedrooms

  06-07-2018 19:00
  Chalkboard paint has become a darling in the design world. It adds a unique twist to any room, not least of which is the bedroom. Since bedrooms are typically spaces that allow for imagination and creativity without disrupting the design of common areas, it makes sense to use chalkboard to decorate bedrooms. That way, potential drawings are endless, and they’re not permanent. Read on to see some amazing ideas for using chalkboard paint in the bedroom.A whole wall chalkboard design is perfe
  
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• Is This How We Talk About The Blockchain Currently?

  06-07-2018 18:47 via feedproxy.google.com
  And the Blockchain technology is already a decade old but when I talk about it, it feels like I talk like the people in this video talking about the World Wide Web. Hey man, that’s why we got this blockchain. You can do all kinds of cool things with it, it’s all open and stuff and will empower the people and cut out big companies. Yeah, that’s why we love the Blockchain. DUUUUUUDE!
  What will people think of us when they see current videos in 20 – 25 years from now talk a
  
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• Land-locked Brussels enjoys a day at the beach

  06-07-2018 18:31
  This summer, Brussels locals won't need to leave town if they want to bury their feet in the sand and soak up some sun.
  
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• Why I cycle: ‘Complete strangers see me on wheels and invite me into their lives’

  06-07-2018 18:20
  City commuters, wild off-roaders and two-wheeled travellers explain why life is better by bikeJosie Dew: ‘Travelling by bike attracts immense generosity and heart-warming spontaneity ’There is something just joyous about cycling. The freedom, the speed, the wind, the whirr of the wheels, the blur of the road inches from your feet, the therapeutic pushing of pedals, the thud of your heart as you pound up a hill.Continue reading...
  
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• It's coming home: 'Three Lions' back in UK charts amid World Cup fever

  06-07-2018 18:15
  "It's coming home, it's coming home" - England's 1996 soccer anthem is making its way back up the music charts this week as fans fantasize about World Cup victory in Russia.
  
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• Patients 'leap out of bed' to see P.E.I. horse who visits palliative facility

  06-07-2018 18:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  CHARLOTTETOWN - It's not unusual for patients at a P.E.I. palliative care facility to look out their windows and see a familiar horse staring back at them.Billy the Norwegian Fjord ......
  
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• Google Doodle celebrates birthday of civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond

  06-07-2018 16:59 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Civil rights pioneer Viola Desmond is being celebrated today with a Google Doodle slideshow.The doodle on the Google.ca homepage was created by artist Sophie Diao and features 10 panels depicting ...
  
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• Russia says to mint half-rouble coin if team reaches World Cup semis

  06-07-2018 16:20
  Russia's central bank said on Friday it would issue acommemorative half-rouble coin if the national soccer team beats Croatia in their World Cup quarter-final this Saturday.
  
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• 'Chupinazo' firework launches Pamplona bull racing festival

  06-07-2018 16:09 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PAMPLONA, Spain - A traditional firework known as the "Chupinazo" kicked off Pamplona's famed San Fermin running of the bulls festival on Friday.The bull runs are the highlight of the ......
  
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• In embattled Venezuela, beauty offers ladder out of poverty

  06-07-2018 16:08 via winnipegfreepress.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela - At a small home with a leaking tin roof near Venezuela's capital, Johandrys Colls proudly shows off two metal crowns with plastic gemstones and nine satin sashes ...
  
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• Thousands of revelers welcome Pamplona's annual bull-running fiesta

  06-07-2018 16:04
  Thousands of cheering revelers filled Pamplona's main square on Friday to watch the traditional "chupinazo" firecracker being set off, marking the start of the northern Spanish city's annual San...
  
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• Being sexually abused as a child has left me unable to trust partners

  06-07-2018 16:00
  You may not want to hear this, says Annalisa Barbieri, but more therapeutic talk is the key hereI’m 29 and in many ways successful: I’ve got top degrees, am reliable, have caring friends, a good job and own my own home. But I was sexually abused for many years as a small child. In my mid-20s, I had therapy, but stopped when I was able to have sex without having panic attacks. Continue reading...
  
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• Luxury tents, gourmet meals redefine camping on NYC island

  06-07-2018 15:34 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Just imagine it, a luxurious room on an island, with chef-prepared meals and a view of the Statue of Liberty and the Manhattan skyline.Hotel? Not exactly.It's actually ...
  
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• On train to Sochi, Russia fans eye semi-final spot

  06-07-2018 15:20
  When he bought a ticket last year for a World Cup quarter-final in Sochi, Russian soccer fan Yevgeny Yegorov guessed, based on form and pedigree, that he would most likely be a neutral spectator...
  
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• Skye Gyngell: how Alice Waters changed my life | The cook’s cook

  06-07-2018 15:00
  The Australian chef on the mussels dish by Alice Waters that influenced her cookingChez Panisse by Alice Waters is one of the very first cookbooks I got. My father gave me a copy for Christmas when I was 18, and it’s been with me ever since; it’s a beautiful book. In it, there is a dish of mussels, fennel, saffron and creme fraiche – it is simple and delicious, and relies on really good ingredients, which sums up what has made Alice such an influence in my life. It was probably
  
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• Vested interest: Southgate leads England in sartorial style

  06-07-2018 14:54 via winnipegfreepress.com
  MOSCOW - Gareth Southgate may do for the vest what Britain's future King Edward VII did for the tuxedo.Bereft of suit jacket, the England coach walks the sidelines at the ......
  
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• National Football Museum: ‘It’s running​​ loads of World Cup-themed events’ – review

  06-07-2018 14:07
  Football doesn’t need to come home: it’s already resident in Manchester, where memorabilia and interactive games and exhibits fascinate fans young and oldA large, engrossing collection of football exhibits and memorabilia over four floors in Manchester city centre, from shirts worn by greats such as Pelé, Stanley Matthews and Diego Maradona (the one he was wearing when he scored that goal against England at the 1986 World Cup), to a giant homoerotic portrait of Eric Cantona (w
  
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• Pasture, Bristol: 'This man seriously wants to feed you' – restaurant review

  06-07-2018 14:00
  It’s one of those menus that I adore: something for everyone and the devil hiding in a hundred raunchy detailsSix months into my tenure as your restaurant correspondent, I have decided that the city, after London, that excites me the most to eat in is Bristol. Yes, it’s a surprise to me, too. Bristol is remarkably self-effacing about its greatness. It’s almost as if it saw what happened to Brighton in the 1990s, when everyone with a fine arts degree, a will to procreate and a d
  
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• Should we stop trying to contact our half-sister?

  06-07-2018 13:38
  She lives with her grandparents, but when we wrote they said they wanted no contact. She may not even know we existMy sister and I have never met our 18-year-old half-sister. We don’t know if she is aware we exist. She lives with her grandparents because of her mum’s problems. My dad has never been allowed to see her due to issues between him and the grandparents 18 years ago. We know their address and she lives nearby. We have sent letters to the grandparents, who replied once sayin
  
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• TV the key to Sweden's long love affair with English football

  06-07-2018 13:06
  There will be mixed emotions for many Swedes when their team clash with England in their World Cup quarter-final, for almost 50 years they have had a love affair with the English game that has...
  
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• First new steps for Syrian girl who used tin cans for legs

  06-07-2018 12:38
  Eight-year-old Maya Merhi, who was born with no legs, had to shuffle around a camp in northern Syria on makeshift limbs fashioned from old tubing and tin cans.
  
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• My life in sex: ‘I was paid £1,500 a night for posh dinners and dull sex’

  06-07-2018 11:00
  The former escortI’d had six sexual partners when I met my now ex-husband at 23; by the time I left him 10 years later, I’d had nearer 106. I didn’t realise it at the time, but our relationship was grounded on my ability to disassociate sex and love, and his madonna/whore complex. He kept me at arm’s length emotionally, but there was nothing he wouldn’t do to me physically.As well as encouraging me to pick up one-night stands and visiting swinging clubs together, he
  
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• 'A gift that will light her up:' Alberta woman revives mother's favourite treat

  06-07-2018 10:01 via winnipegfreepress.com
  CAMROSE, Alta. - Every time Crystal Regehr Westergard would go out shopping as a youth, she would ask her mother if she wanted anything.There was only ever one request: Cuban ......
  
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• Feminists, animal rights groups reshape Pamplona bull fest

  06-07-2018 09:58 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PAMPLONA, Spain - The topics of sexual abuse and animal cruelty are dominating this year's San Fermin festival in Pamplona, which kicks off Friday for nine days and eight nights ...
  
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• Read books to combat 'brain drain'

  06-07-2018 07:33 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Q: What is your perspective on having kids do “homework” over the summer? My two kids (finishing fourth and second grades) both love to read and are above grade-level readers, ...
  
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• 8 of Scotland’s best beaches and coastal treasures

  06-07-2018 07:30
  The ‘Scotland the Best’ author has been touring the country for 25 years in search of its finest places. Here’s his pick of beaches and seaside villages
  Making a feature of Scotland’s less-travelled coast is a responsibility and a challenge. Even its quieter corners are seeing a tourist boom. Much of the rural north-west, deserted in the romantic imagination, is to all intents “full”. Skye, where accommodation is booked months ahead and camper vans form tailba
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,554

  06-07-2018 01:00
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• TSA-Approved ways to shorten the airport screening line

  06-07-2018 00:20 via winnipegfreepress.com
  The summer air travel season is shaping up to be the busiest ever, which could mean lengthy lines at U.S. airport security checkpoints. But you can use the faster lanes ......
  
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