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• New York art turns Bulgarian village into outdoor gallery

  04-08-2018 21:59
  With fewer than 500 inhabitants, Staro Zhelezare in southern Bulgaria is a world away from the mean streets of Manhattan, but its houses and barns have now been painted with some of the most famous...
  
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• Bring on the cake: France's baby panda has his 1st birthday

  04-08-2018 19:23 via winnipegfreepress.com
  PARIS - France's first baby panda celebrated his first birthday Saturday with a cake of bamboo, honey, apples, oranges, strawberries and lemons.The panda named Yuan Meng — which means "accomplishment ......
  
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• Nadiya Hussain: ‘Pot Noodles are my true love’

  04-08-2018 15:00
  The cook and author, 33, on Bake Off triumph, arranged marriages, and meeting Mary BerryAfter Bake Off I just wanted to bake, I had no intention of being a role model or a representative. Why did it matter that I’m brown, a woman and Muslim? But now I understand – I need to be here, and it’s important for me to stay: to make space for people like me in this industry. I was banned from my local park as a teenager. When you’re one of six children you don’t get new toy
  
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• The Data Is In: These Are the Top 2018 Home Trends Buyers Are Falling For

  04-08-2018 14:00
  Each year, Fixr.com releases a comprehensive report — called the Single-Family Home Trends Report — that compiles data on what today’s buyers are looking for in their properties, according to industry pros like builders and real estate agents. This year’s report offers some surprising insights into which 2018 home trends are flourishing and which old standards may be falling by the wayside. Let’s take a look at the highlights:Green features like solar panels ar
  
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• 'I love colour and excess': Gretchen Röehrs’ San Francisco apartment

  04-08-2018 12:00
  The artist’s residence is filled with plants, vintage furniture – and dogsWhen Gretchen Röehrs graduated in 2012, she moved from her parents’ rural Missouri house to California with $20 to her name. She slept on a friend’s sofa in Palo Alto and wrote “lovely letters” to Apple, Google and other digital behemoths, looking for a job. She had studied fashion design but not long into her degree realised it wasn’t for her. It was while she was an intern a
  
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• How to care for roses | Alys Fowler

  04-08-2018 12:00
  The quickest route to good health in roses at this time of year is liquid feedI inherited a Rosa ‘Albéric Barbier’; it was placed halfway down the garden and did what a rambler is wont to do – namely, spread all the way over into the neighbour’s garden. It was an unwise choice for such a tiny garden and I felt our time was up; I wanted my space back. But when I came to dig it up, I felt a pang of guilt, it being such a beast of a plant. I have a back fence that is
  
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• 'You’ve had what we call a cosmic orgasm': the rise of conscious breathing

  04-08-2018 11:00
  You do it more than 23,000 times a day, but are you breathing properly? From a rebirthing session to holotropic breathwork, Richard Godwin inhales the latest wellness crazeAre you sitting comfortably? Airways clear, back straight, no respiratory conditions? OK. Take a series of short, deep breaths. Activate your diaphragm, pull the air right down into your belly, let the chest fall. Repeat 30-40 times. Feeling a little floaty? Fingers tingling? Don’t worry. It’s just oxygen saturatin
  
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• Thomasina Miers’ barbecued ancho-marinated lamb with coriander salsa

  04-08-2018 11:00
  A tangy spice rub will transform barbecued butterflied leg of lambIn summer, there are few things I love more than cooking over coals. But of all the things you can barbecue, there is a special place in my heart for a butterflied, grilled leg of lamb. Lamb sits happily with so many global cuisines and I am often pounding exotic lamb marinades with influences from the Levant, Africa, India and, of course, Mexico. This one is inspired by a particularly good lunch I had in Oaxaca a few years ago. C
  
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• Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for black rice salad with greens and miso

  04-08-2018 11:00
  The bite of the rice, the freshness of the broccoli and the crunch of the raw veg are the perfect foil for an umami-rich dressingIn the 1990s, black rice, once rare and “forbidden” to all but the Chinese emperor, was cross-pollinated with a variety of Italian risotto to create a beautiful rice, called black venus, that is now widely available. At around the same time, a Japanese seed scientist crossed Chinese kale with broccoli to produce a new vegetable in which the stem is as delic
  
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• Yotam Ottolenghi’s seafood recipes

  04-08-2018 10:30
  Summer’s a time when seafood takes centre stage, so try a mussel and barley stew, squid with giant couscous, or prawn and corn frittersSeafood releases its flavour very swiftly, so is ideal for cooking with grains – pasta, barley, bulgur, rice – because the timings for both the protein and starch are roughly the same. We’re all familiar with boiling grains and serving them with a rich sauce or stew on top, but there’s a lot to be said for cooking them in the sauce i
  
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• Can I trust a website for a reliable handyman?

  04-08-2018 09:00
  We are looking for someone to do some home repairs for my elderly parentsEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection of the best answers will appear in next Saturday’s paper.In search of a handyman for my elderly parents I’ve been looking at various websites that promise “trusted” workers. Has anyone found a site that delivers good tradesmen, or should I ask the neighbours instead? Continue rea
  
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• What links Barney Rubble, Frank Spencer and Don Draper? The Weekend quiz

  04-08-2018 08:00
  From a beetle to bats, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 What 1960 film prompted Observer critic CA Lejeune to resign from her job?
  2 What capital was declared an official German letter in 2017?
  3 Which singer wore a jumpsuit embellished with GFOS?
  4 What dung beetle was revered by the ancient Egyptians?
  5 Which society’s motto is “Nullius in verba” (“Take nobody’s word for it”)?
  6 What lies roughly between Hamilton, Miami and San Juan?
  
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• Virgin Media’s battle with UKTV infuriates customers

  04-08-2018 08:00
  Subscribers lose 10 channels and say it’s ‘hell’ trying to get company to downgrade their packagesVirgin Media customers trying to downgrade their television packages following the loss of several popular channels are being told that they can only do so if they sign a new 12-month contract.Two weeks ago a financial dispute between UKTV and Virgin led to the cable provider withdrawing 10 of its most popular TV channels – including Dave, Drama and Yesterday. The move led to
  
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• The sheer hell that is heading off on holiday from Britain

  04-08-2018 08:00
  A passing thunderstorm was enough to throw Stansted into near-complete disarrayIn Stansted airport, it’s Friday and the start of the great summer holiday get-away. So around half of the security scanners are closed, and we patiently join the queues snaking along the nylon barriers wondering nervously if we should have paid for fast track. But there are even queues there.Past this stage, it usually gets better. Shops, drinks, and a holiday mode set in. But last Friday, 27 July, what unfolde
  
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• Six of the best cooling summer drinks

  04-08-2018 08:00
  Chill with these five-minute thirst-quenchers: choose from a grapefruit and mint lemonade, a zesty pineapple crush or a herby mandarin coolerMakes 1 litre Continue reading...
  
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• Once upon a summer: celebrities’ most memorable holidays

  04-08-2018 08:00
  Cerys Matthews slept in a Hebridean phonebox and Michael Rosen in a communist’s cupboard. Musicians, authors, TV presenters and comedians tell of their life-changing tripsReaders on their summer holiday memoriesLast year, rock band Thunder invited me and my wife, Lil, on a two-week charity motorcycle ride. They’ve done this for the past six years: it is open to anyone – you just have to cover your costs and guarantee to raise £1,000 for Childline Rocks. There were about 4
  
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• 'Find your passion' is bad advice: study

  04-08-2018 07:44 via winnipegfreepress.com
  “Find your passion” is a mantra dictated to everyone from college students to retirees to pretty much anyone seeking happiness.But according to a forthcoming study from Stanford and Yale-NUS College ......
  
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• Choosing Manitoba's microscopic MVP

  04-08-2018 07:41 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Call me a courageous fool with naturally curly hair if you must, but today I am going to stand up for the smallest Manitobans.And by “smallest Manitobans,” I, of course, ...
  
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• How to get the most from courgettes

  04-08-2018 07:00
  Don’t chuck the vine, flowers or leaves – there’s a lot more to eat on a courgette plant than you might thinkI’ve tried to grow a few vegetables in my life with varying success. I’ve planted pumpkins only to see them beheaded by slugs, brassicas that failed to appear and radishes that were too tough to eat. But my experiences with courgettes are very different. The vines always grow large and bear plentiful edible gifts. Just one plant in a flower pot will give gene
  
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• Killer sudoku 617

  04-08-2018 01:01
  Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines. Continue reading...
  
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• Quick crossword No 15,052

  04-08-2018 01:00
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• Prize crossword No 27,579

  04-08-2018 01:00
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