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• Where there's smoke there's fire

  05-10-2018 23:51 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Does getting high make you want to get it on?While there isn’t a wealth of studies examining the intersection of marijuana and sex, a budding number suggest the link is ...
  
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• Melania Trump loses footing with elephant, but not with kids

  05-10-2018 20:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NAIROBI, Kenya - Melania Trump briefly lost her footing when a baby elephant startled her with a sudden move, but the first lady was anything but out of step when ...
  
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• Therapy dogs can spread superbugs to kids, hospital finds

  05-10-2018 19:35 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NEW YORK - Therapy dogs can bring more than joy and comfort to hospitalized kids. They can also bring stubborn germs.Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore were suspicious that ......
  
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• Rwandan entrepreneur woos drinkers with beetroot wine

  05-10-2018 19:21
  Rwandans enjoy eating beetroot but entrepreneur Assumpta Uwamariya has found a novel use for the vegetable - turning it into a red wine that has proven popular with customers in several African...
  
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• How to Design a Small Dining Space (Without It Feeling Totally Cramped)

  05-10-2018 19:00
  Just because your home doesn’t have room for a full, formal dining room doesn’t mean you still can’t create a great space for entertaining. Working with a small dining space can be tough, but with a little planning and forethought, you can make nearly any amount of square footage work for you.Don’t believe us? Keep scrolling. We’ve brought you our best tips on how to design a small dining space without leaving it feeling overly cramped. Read on to see which ideas wi
  
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• France airlifts two bears into Pyrenees, evading roadblocks

  05-10-2018 18:32
  France have airlifted two bears from Slovenia high into the Pyrenees to help bolster their tiny population in the mountains that border Spain, defying protests by farmers who complain the animals are...
  
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• Oregon vineyards face losses amid concerns about smoke taint

  05-10-2018 18:26 via winnipegfreepress.com
  SALEM, Ore. - Some Oregon lawmakers and winery owners scrambled Thursday to help a dozen vineyard owners who face the prospect of tons of grapes withering on the vine after ...
  
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• Artist to issue 'Swiss passports' in London installation

  05-10-2018 18:12
  Ever wanted to hold a Swiss passport in these uncertain times?
  
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• What do your doodles say about you?

  05-10-2018 18:11
  Have you ever found yourself making a few scribbles when you’re bored? Your mindless doodles can actually reveal a lot about your personalityIf you’ve ever been unwillingly stuck in a classroom, lecture hall or company meeting with a notepad and pen, there’s a good chance your mind went wandering and you absentmindedly drew some shapes. While these days one might be more likely to scroll through emails or social media, “there’s a lot to be said for putting down your
  
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• How can I stop worrying about not having a second child?

  05-10-2018 16:00
  Try to understand what’s going on, says Annalisa Barbieri, and take control where you canI am 35, married, with a five-year-old. I have been trying to get pregnantfor three-and-a-half years. In that time, I have had a miscarriage and an ectopic pregnancy, for which I received nonsurgical intervention.My husband has come around to the fact that it may never happen for us again. He seems to accept we may be a family with just one child, and I want to be able to accept that, too. I know it&rs
  
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• Melania Trump dances to African beat, feeds baby elephants

  05-10-2018 15:37 via winnipegfreepress.com
  NAIROBI, Kenya - Melania Trump sashayed to the beat of African music as she was welcomed to an orphanage in Kenya on Friday.Children living at The Nest in Nairobi greeted ...
  
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• Queen Elizabeth to vacate her Buckingham Palace rooms for refit: aide

  05-10-2018 15:04
  Britain's Queen Elizabeth will vacate her private rooms at Buckingham Palace in 2025 as part of a 10-year refit of the building to prevent a catastrophic disaster such as a fire or a flood, a senior...
  
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• 20 of the Best Items in Truly Scary Halloween Decor

  05-10-2018 14:00
  Give your neighbors a real freight with these spooky Halloween decorations. Source: Between Naps on the PorchWe hope you like the products we recommend. Just so you are aware, Freshome may collect a share of sales from the links on this page. One of the best parts about Halloween is getting to build a horror movie set right in your home. It’s especially fun when you’re using scary Halloween decor to set the stage for a haunted house party. With so many different Halloween decora
  
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• Is ‘fitness snacking’ the best way for the busy but sedentary to get in shape?

  05-10-2018 13:57
  One writer tries out the little-but-often approach to working out endorsed by Samantha Cameron and Naomi Campbell’s personal trainer Good news: fitness snacking is the key to getting into shape, according to Samantha Cameron’s personal trainer, Matt Roberts.The less good news is that there are no actual snacks involved – sadly it doesn’t mean going for a walk with a packet of crisps. Fitness snacking is doing short periods of exercise throughout the day. Ideal for sedenta
  
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• Move over micro bags, big handbags are making a comeback

  05-10-2018 13:49
  Forget the impractical miniatures worn by the style elite, outsize bags promise to create a bigger impressionThe reign of the micro handbag is ending, according to Paris fashion week, and the big bag is poised to make a comeback.Though most could fit little more than a credit card, mobile phone and small set of keys, the miniature bag was a hit with Instagrammers and the likes of Kate Moss. Away from social media, however, wearers were often forced to carry a second and even a third bag to trans
  
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• My colleague abandoned me when she began a new relationship. Can we reconcile?

  05-10-2018 13:30
  I was there for her when she had issues with her previous partner, but when she found a new one, she had no time for me. Now, we’re not talkingAbout a year ago, I fell out with a colleague. She had been having issues with her relationship and I had been there to support her. When she began a new relationship, I was happy for her, but she never had a spare evening to spend with me, despite us being so close. When I raised this, she was extremely defensive and we stopped talking. She has now
  
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• From Lady Gaga to polo-neck hair: this season’s fashion trends

  05-10-2018 13:00
  What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this autumn/winterLady Gaga’s second coming First the Celine bag. Then A Star Is Born. We smell an Oscar. Or a fashion award. Continue reading...
  
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• Anna Jones’ pancake recipes | The Modern Cook

  05-10-2018 13:00
  A quick chickpea and carrot crepe makes a superb sandwich stand-in, and a potato, polenta and cheese pancake makes a moreishly crunchy light lunchPancakes are my obsession. From syrup-drenched stacks delivered by waitresses with name badges to farinata cooked with nonnas, I’ll eat pancakes at any time of day. The crisp edges and soft insides are a perfect pair of textures, and always make for a thrill when eaten at dinnertime. Not least these two. The first is a chickpea flour pancake, a s
  
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• How to make perfect Galician crêpes

  05-10-2018 12:26
  Known as filloas, these Spanish-style pancakes make for an indulgent dessert ideal for sharing over a casual dinner Pancakes shouldn’t be reserved for a yearly treat, especially when they’re enlivened with the Moorish flavours of sweet cinnamon, lemon zest and dark chocolate. Using extra-virgin Spanish olive oil and a sprinkling of salt will ensure a smoother, richer chocolate sauce. Serve these extra-special pancakes on a big platter with fresh berries, and watch them disappear. Con
  
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• Maltese family keeps ancient salt-harvesting tradition alive

  05-10-2018 11:24
  Under the scorching Maltese sun, Josephine Xuereb carefully sweeps salt originating from the Mediterranean Sea into small piles, a job generations of her family have done since 1860.
  
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• Roots: York has a new star attraction – restaurant review | Grace Dent

  05-10-2018 11:00
  The posterboy for British hospitality has another surefire hit on his handsFor many children of the 80s, the city of York is synonymous with one attraction only: the Jorvik Viking Centre, a place where history came alive and where, after the bunfight queues to get in, one could trundle in a cart through staged scenes of ye olde animatronic Jorvik chick-keepers. Some of us knew it just from Blue Peter, but others dared to dream and visited on school trips.My main memory is that the Jorvik piped i
  
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• My life in sex: ‘I no longer want to make love to a person who wishes they didn’t have a penis’

  05-10-2018 11:00
  The woman whose husband is transitioningI’ve been married 27 years to a man I love very much. We’d always been happy and our sex life was passionate until 10 years ago, when he announced he wanted to live as a woman. There was no warning, no discussion, and I was shell-shocked; I told him that were he to have surgery, the marriage would be over.We eventually arrived at a truce, whereby he agreed not to have surgery and I am trying to live with the way he presents himself, which is st
  
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• Experience: I was stabbed in the eye by a drawing pin

  05-10-2018 11:00
  It was immediate and total agony, the worst pain I’d ever feltI was in my first term at Brighton University in 2013. One November weekend, I visited my then girlfriend Mel at Sussex University. There was a party in her halls of residence. It was rammed, with about 30 people dancing, playing beer pong and generally running riot.Around midnight, I was chatting to a fellow student on a sofa when I felt an excruciating pain in my left eye. It was immediate and total agony, the worst pain I&rsq
  
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• Palmyra priest statue among haul of recovered Syrian relics

  05-10-2018 08:51
  A stone image of an ancient priest is one of hundreds of stolen antiquities recovered by the Syrian government and put on display in Damascus this week, a reminder of the mass looting of Syria's...
  
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• Restorative powers: a stay at historic Llwyn Celyn

  05-10-2018 07:30
  As the Landmark Trust opens this 600-year old house in Wales’s Black Mountains, Owen Sheers finds its period details offer a richly atmospheric stay We arrive in a storm. It is late, the night alive with wind and slanting rain. For the last few miles the narrow lanes, lit by the car’s headlights, have been strewn with a winter confetti of leaves, twigs and branches. In contrast to all this wild movement and scattering through which we’ve been driving, our destination, Llwyn Cel
  
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• The 10 best dresses on the high street – in pictures

  05-10-2018 07:00
  This autumn’s dress is mid-length and printed (extra points for leopard). Shirt dresses, wrapovers and high necks are ideal for wearing to the office, then style with oversized earrings for the evening Continue reading...
  
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• Cryptic crossword No 27,632

  05-10-2018 01:00
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