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Home & Garden > Architecture New home designs for aging baby boomers
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Why not go green? Straw bale construction is on the rise. Straw has never been such a reasonable building material. If you ask the owner of a straw bale home there are more and more each year you'll hear that the 3 little pigs didn't have it exactly right; straw, wood, and mortar together can make one solid domicile. Just loo... More..

Hobbies & Games > Board Games Highest scoring Scrabble word
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The highest scoring English word in the game of Scrabble is "Quartzy," at least 82 (double letter on the 'r' and connected to a 3-point word on the u,a or t) and upwards of 165 points for playing across one of the four spots for a 7-letter word to collect 2 double word scores. BUT, there are many words in scrabble (ones we ma... More..

Arts & Humanities > International Writers & Literature Past and present in Canadian literature
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There is a good amount of ground for a current non-fiction book on Canadian literature to cover - if any literary scholars are looking. I will suggest that the publicly recognized canon of Canadian books has made a shift over the last 50-75 years from themes of physical and environmental survival now towards narratives of cul... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Clowns
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"run the clowns... outta town"toss the keys into a sockthrow in a lockor even a rockswing it up and bring it downthere is no need to frownhe was just a freaky clownand together, you and Iwe'll run the clowns... outta town More..

Hobbies & Games > Board Games Scrabble strategies: Tips to help you win
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Here's the deal. Scrabble is fun, plain and simple, but only if you're not playing the guy that pulls "zax" (a tool for cutting roof slates) out of nowhere on a triple word score, then follows it up with "quire" (to arrange sheets of paper in sets of twenty-four). It's hard to like that guy.... that is until you become one. B... More..

Food & Drink > Drinks (Other) What is your favorite beverage?
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agua, l'eau, acqua, wasser, , , , , H20 - Yes, what's wrong with water?If you think coffee picks you up or milk does a body good or guinness fortifies, just listen to this:- A reduction of 4-5% in body water will result in a decline of 20-30% in work performance.- On an average fall day, 3-4 cups of water are lost through bre... More..

Sports & Recreation > Sports & Recreation (Other) Indoor rock climbing: Getting started
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Recently I was watching the beginning of Mission Impossible 2. You know, where Tom Cruise is hanging freely from an outcropping on a mountain, no safety equipment in sight. And I thought to myself - being a licensed rock climbing and ropes course instructor - this is unwise. Where's Tom's helmet for when he swings back into t... More..

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