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Tips for a healthier and better sleep

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Family Features Sleep can sometimes feel like self-care that can wait or a reward you need to earn. However, the opposite is true. While you sleep, your body is busy healing and repairing itself, learning and actively preventing chronic diseases. For most adults, getting healthy sleep means sleeping for at least 7 hours each night without waking up frequently, going to bed and waking up at roughly the same times each day and waking up feeling refreshed. Healthy sleep helps the body boost immunity, manage weight, reduce stress and lower the risk of chronic diseases such as diabetes, ...

Get ready to soar with snowbird travel tips

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Family Features During the winter months, many sun seekers put beach and desert destinations at the top of their travel lists. Chasing the winter sun can be a rewarding vacation experience, made even better when you can enjoy homelike accommodations. “Snowbirding isn’t just for retirees anymore,” said Melanie Fish, Vrbo travel expert. “More flexibility at work allows travelers of all ages to escape the cold and stay in warmer places for days or weeks. Private vacation rentals provide all the comforts of home and allow snowbirds to travel in flocks and spend the winter month ...

Galient to build one-of-a-kind luxury mountain home

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Newswire.com Award-winning premier luxury home builder Galiant Homes announces that construction is underway on a new custom home just outside of the Denver-metro area. Known for designing luxurious mountain homes that utilize only the best materials and building techniques, Galiant Homes stands out from the rest. Their work has garnered them various awards throughout the years, with some of their most recent accolades coming from the Colorado Springs Parade of Homes, which awarded them with the Best Overall Home & People’s Choice Award $1.4M+ category. “Whether building a new ...

Octogenarian brothers’ colorful posters go global

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By CLAUDIA TORRENS The Associated Press NEW YORK — For years, Miguel and Carlos Cevallos made a living by drawing posters for neighborhood nightclubs, taco trucks and restaurants in Queens, painting in the businesses’ basements or on their tables and attracting clients by word of mouth. Until an Instagram account changed a lot of that. Now, hip Brooklyn ice cream shops and Manhattan retro diners wait their turn to get one of the brothers’ colorful signs. They’re in demand in San Francisco music stores, national restaurant chains, bars in Belgium and bakeries in South ...

Pearls aren’t the only surprise found in seafood restaurants

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By TIANA KENNELL Asheville Citizen Times ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — One guest’s dinner may be another guest’s treasure at a seafood restaurant. Chefs and line cooks are known to unearth unexpected items within shipments that are more than what they bargained for from natural pearls to mysterious oceanic creatures. The Lobster Trap line cook Brandt Crabbe estimates he shucks about 75,000-100,000 oysters a year, and in seven years of shucking, he has found nearly 15 pearls hidden inside ranging in shape and usually less than a centimeter in size. Crabbe’s collection features ...

Travelers are skipping challenging drives with the convenient RV delivery

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By SALLY FRENCH NerdWallet RV delivery is a growing trend that allows travelers to enjoy all of the conveniences of staying in an RV without actually having to drive it. Several companies offer delivery services for customers who rent, which can not only be more convenient, but also more affordable. Renters can save on lodging costs, particularly in destinations with limited hotel availability. Insurance for a delivered RV will also be cheaper. It might not work for everyone, though, because not all campgrounds allow delivery, and some delivery fees might eat into the potential ...