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It was many years ago, in a small town Ohio public library, in the back where there weren’t any book jackets, that I first found Georgette Heyer. I was moving along the rows searching for something new to read. I pulled a volume down to investigate. And I was hooked.
I don’t remember which novel it was. Arabella? Faro’s Daughter? I do know I gobbled up every Heyer the library possessed in short order. I was entranced by her writing, her humor, her rich casts of characters, the wit and sophistication of the Regency society she so wonderfully portrayed. I also found, that day, a source of inspiration. I already longed to be a writer myself, and in Heyer I found so many things I wanted to learn.
For one thing, her stories were fun. I laughed out loud as I read. Think of the end of Friday’s Child, where complications pile on complications and misunderstandings multiply as the poor hero just tries to find a moment to declare his love. Smile at the Duke of Sale, juggling the antics of pugnacious young Tom and witless Belinda in The Foundling. Admire Hugo Darracott’s masterly manipulation of a scene out of farce in The Unknown Ajax.
Heyer’s tales also have an essential humanity. Her heroes most often achieve their HEAs by showing kindness – taking in an abused chimney sweep, humoring an irritating father-in-law, befriending a prickly young brother, recognizing the heroine’s practical needs and fulfilling them.
At the opposite pole, her villains are selfish, like Kitty’s guardian Matthew Penicuik in Cotillion, or Lord Darracott of Ajax, two self-centered, tyrannous old men. The Reluctant Widow’s Lord Bedlington betrays his country out of greed. His son and nephew think only of themselves – the one ruinously indulgent, the other coldly ruthless. Heyer’s values resonated with mine.
I also appreciated the way she portrayed true love as a process. Of course, we can all be dazzled by a wild physical attraction. But for Heyer and for me, desire alone doesn’t make a true match. Her couples challenge each other and reveal their true characters through action before they find their happy endings.
Finally, over time I realized that I admired Heyer’s scope. She doesn’t tell the same story over and over with different dresses. She created a range of character types and narratives. If you’ll allow me the comparison, I think her Regency novels have something in common with Shakespeare. Their appeal changes as the reader does. When I first read her work, I mooned over the alpha heros – the brooding Byronic Damerel in Venetia, the omniscient Robert Beaumaris in Arabella, Sir Waldo Hawkridge of The Nonesuch. When I re-read today, older and maybe wiser, I am much more taken with her less domineering men. Adam from A Civil Contract, the not really hapless Freddie in Cotillion, the soft-spoken Duke of Sale. These men inspire love without the overweening alpha aura, and I like that.
The romance novel has evolved since Heyer’s time. Readers want to enter the hero’s point of view now, as well as the heroine’s. Many of them are keen to follow couples beyond the bedroom doors. Way beyond sometimes. They’re also interested in what was happening outside the ballrooms of the Regency upper classes. And that’s great. It opens up all kinds of exciting opportunities and storylines for today’s writers.
My sources of inspiration have expanded, too. In many ways. But these basics have remained the same for me. It’s always my intention to create believable, humane characters; stories in which two people learn about each other and find their way to recognition and love; and to give readers a bit of fun.
Jane Ashford discovered Georgette Heyer in junior high school and was entranced by the glittering world and witty language of Regency England. That delight was part of what led her to study English literature and travel widely in Britain and Europe. Born in Ohio, she has lived in New York, Boston and LA.
Jane has written historical and contemporary romances. Her books have been published in Sweden, Italy, England, Denmark, France, Russia, Latvia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Spain, as well as the U.S. She has been nominated for a Career Achievement Award by RT Book Reviews. Jane can be found on Facebook and JaneAshford.com.


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I’ve always been a person with anxious leanings. It’s kind of my M.O.
When I was a kid I would stress myself into a frenzy over school projects and grades and friend drama. When I was dating my husband I would worry that he had crashed on the drive home if he didn’t call me immediately. My mind just naturally has always seemed to come up with the worst case scenario or obsess over life’s tiniest minutiae.
When I became a mom it got worse. Suddenly everything seemed to make me anxious. My thoughts were basically an endless loop of, “The baby didn’t eat enough. Or maybe the baby ate too much. Why isn’t he sleeping? Maybe there’s something wrong with him…he must be trying to tell me something! Why is he sleeping so long? He usually wakes up by now. Is he still breathing? I should probably check his breathing…”
With each child my anxiety increased. When I had my first baby it was manageable, with the second it increased and when baby #3 joined our family, the change was exponential. A pile of toys left on the floor was enough to dissolve me into a heap of tears. It all felt incredibly overwhelming.
I went to a therapist for a while and was given some good tools that helped a bit, but I still felt stuck. I had honestly just gotten used to the idea that this was just me and my new normal and I needed to learn how to acclimate…learn how to be less stressed and grumpy and snappy at my husband and kids on my own. Somehow. It felt impossible, until recently when I made one simple change in my life that had a dramatic affect on my anxiety.
With an 8-month-old baby and stubborn baby fat still hanging on, I decided it was time to change my diet and start exercising. I am no stranger to dieting, but instead of some “quick fix” diet, I decided this time to try an overhaul of my lifestyle. In the past I would cut out entire food groups like dairy or gluten and be miserable for a specified amount of time in exchange for weight loss. Afterward, I would binge on all the junk and go back to my regular eating habits. This time though, the change has been slow and gradual.
I’ve been eating more intuitively and with the intent of fueling my body. Eating less of the foods that make me feels sluggish and bloated (for me that means less dairy, gluten and sugar) and more of the foods that make me feel strong and healthy (i.e. proteins like lean meats and beans, vegetables and fruit, etc.). And if I really want an ice cream cone? Well, I have it without regret. I’m losing weight slowly, but more than that I feel better. I feel less tired and foggy and I can already tell that this feels different. Like a journey toward health and not just another crash diet.
In addition to making diet changes, I also joined a gym. Initially, my motivation was to go use the treadmill so I could have a guilt-free excuse to watch trashy TV and get out of the house. I’ve always loathed working out, viewing it as a necessary evil, but it’s recently become so much more. I legitimately crave having that time in my day to sweat and get my endorphins flowing. If I go a day without working out, I don’t feel guilty, but I do miss it. I miss having that time to myself to watch my guilty-pleasure shows and listen to non-kid music and getting my heart pumping. It’s turning into a beloved part of my daily ritual.
While these changes weren’t earth-shattering, they have dramatically changed my moods. I knew I felt good, but I didn’t really think about my anxiety, until one evening my husband mentioned it. He said I seemed much happier and less anxious recently and I agreed. At first, I couldn’t really figure out why, until I remembered my small lifestyle changes and realized that maybe they were a lot bigger than I’d realized. I knew that diet and exercise could affect mood, but I had never experienced it myself in such a dramatic way. My anxiety is the most in-check it has been in years and it’s because I finally took the time I needed for myself — even it was for something so incredibly basic.
This entire experience has been eye-opening and has affirmed just how important self-care is. As moms we have a lot of balls to juggle and it can be easy to let self-care slide, but we truly are the best moms for our kids when we take the time to care for ourselves. Nourishing our bodies and our spirits is so important and really make all the difference.
Is there anything you’ve demoted from your priority list when it comes to self-care? Perhaps it’s painting, or going to happy hour with friends, or wearing real pants? Maybe it’s eating healthy foods and exercising. Whatever that thing is for you, know that you are not selfish for making time for yourself.

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New York, NY – Today, the Republican-led U.S. Senate voted on strictly partisan lines to approve a new tax plan that will increase taxes on working- and middle-class Americans while lowering taxes on billionaires and wealthy corporations. In response, Tamara Draut, Vice President of Policy and Research at Demos released the following statement:
“With this tax bill, President Trump and Senate Republicans have ripped-off millions of working- and middle-class Americans to give a hand out to billionaires and wealthy corporations. This legislation will severely harm working and middle class families struggling to get ahead or even get by – and worsen already severe economic inequality in our country.
“Working Americans deserve a tax code that addresses the gross injustices in our economy and raises the revenue our nation needs to fix our crumbling roads and poisoned water systems and invest in our students, schools, teachers and future. This bill is not a solution, it’s a scam.”
In addition, Demos’ Vijay Das recently spoke at a rally on Capitol Hill urging the Senate to reject this Republican tax scam and stand up for working Americans.

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Leanne’s day job has been teaching English, Creative Writing, and Women’s Studies for Northwest Community College since 1991. This year she will teach one on-line class each semester because she has just begun a PhD program called Languages, Cultures, and Literacies at Simon Fraser University. She will be commuting there from Shawnigan Lake on Vancouver Island. She anticipates plenty of opportunities for “poeming” on BC Ferries.


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The rumors started out of an Israeli sports Web site and quickly picked up steam in major US outlets, in part because Allen Iverson is a draw, and in part because there are a segment of Allen Iverson fans stuck in a decade-old time warp, convinced that if teams just saw him play they’d give him another chance in the NBA. (Teams have seen him play and it’s not happening.)
So the buzz starts — Iverson is going to sign with Maccabi Haifa, an Israeli team that later this month will be in the United States for exhibition games against the Warriors and Timberwolves. It would be a draw. And the coach of Haifa is former Sixers GM Brad Greenberg. So….
Not. Going. To. Happen. Never was. From the fantastic international site Sportando.
Contrarily to reports from Israeli media, mostly from Sport5.co.il, Allen Iverson won’t be joining Maccabi Haifa for the two exhibition games in NBA against Golden State Warriors and Minnesota Timberwolves. Sportando’s David Pick spoke with Brad Greenberg, Maccabi Haifa coach and ex 76ers GM, who denied all the rumors: ‘It is natural for people to link us up but I have not spoken to Allen in years’ said Greenberg.
Folks, can we move on here? Iverson is never going to play in the NBA again. Sorry. The risk is not worth the reward to teams. It in no way diminishes what Iverson was and how he changed the game and the culture around it. However, time marches on.
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Occupy Wall Street — from grassroots to Astro-turf
It may have begun as a genuine grassroots movement (and a rather lame one too boot) but the professional left is now taking it over and it is a true Astro-turf movement now.
Don’t believe me? Listen and learn:
Yes friends, that’s the SEIU’s Stephen Lerner telling you what the plans are for the rest of the week. For instance, notice that the Chicago protest is a planned protest ginned up by the SEIU (most likely with bussed in protesters). Notice too that the visits to millionaire’s homes in NY City isn’t a “Occupy Wall Street” event per se, but one planned by the SEIU.
That’s Astro-turf in the political sense.
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HP bets big on future of hybrid work with $3.3bn Poly buy
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HP Inc sees the future of its business as one supporting a workforce partially based at home and partially in the office, and appears to have bought office telecom giant Poly for that reason.
Formerly known as Plantronics, Poly changed its name shortly after it acquired Polycom in 2018. HP didn't mention in its acquisition announcement whether or not it would keep the Poly brand separate, but it's still early: the deal is not expected to close until the end of the 2022 calendar year.
HP described the $3.3 billion purchase ($40 per share) as a bid to refocus its portfolio on growth and take advantage of what it said is a massive growth opportunity due to the likely permanence of hybrid work.
Seventy-five percent of office workers, HP said, are continuing to invest in their home office setup "to support new ways of working," which in turn triggers a transformation in businesses' own offices as they rush to turn meeting rooms into hybrid-capable spaces.
"Currently, there are more than 90 million rooms, of which less than 10 percent have video capability. As a result, the office meeting room solutions segment is expected to triple by 2024," HP said.
Plantronics and Polycom have long had a considerable presence in the enterprise space, with Polycom's and Plantronics video conferencing hardware and headsets likely familiar to people in the world of work.
Plantronics itself has a history reaching back to early airline headsets and the Apollo 11 mission: It's a Plantronics headset that relayed Neil Armstrong's "one small step" back to Earth.
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The value of peripherals like headsets hasn't declined in the years since, with HP saying the peripheral market is growing 9 percent annually and is worth $110 billion. Workforce solutions, like conference room telecom equipment, represents a $120 billion market segment that HP said is growing 8 percent yearly.
HP expects the acquisition to boost its revenue growth, margins and non-GAAP EPS as soon as it's completed. It further predicts "$500 million of revenue synergies by FY25 and Poly's revenue growth [accelerating] to an approximately 15 percent CAGR over the first three years after closing."
With those figures in mind, HP CEO and president Enrique Lores said that the purchase will make HP more profitable and stronger in the long term, and expanding into hybrid environments is a chance it can't pass up. "The rise of the hybrid office creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity to redefine the way work gets done," Lores said. ®

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Ed Sheeran is one of the UK’s most hotly tipped young singer/songwriters. Parts of the story of his rise to fame are familiar: making music from a young age, couch-surfing at friends’ places, playing open mics all over the country before running out of money. But some things set him apart, like playing over 300 gigs in 2009, buying a ticket to LA in 2010 with no shows booked, being spotted by Jamie Foxx, selling 7,000 copies of his No.5 Collaborations Project EP and reaching number 1 in the iTunes chart without any label or promotion. Fast forward to Summer 2011, and Ed has deservedly caught the attention of the mainstream. His single ‘The A-Team’ debuted at number 3 in the UK singles chart, before he played to a packed stage at the world-renowned Glastonbury festival.
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GRAMMY and MPG award winner Guy Massey, whose coup de gras was remastering The Beatles in 2009, recorded two tracks on Ed’s album. “One track was guitar and vocal and the other was piano and vocal – it was all live. I used a ribbon mic and the Focusrite ISA430 MkII. Both songs are just very pure recordings really, and when we came to tracking we had a few preamps to choose from, but I just chose the ISA430 MkII because you can just dial things in so quickly. It’s very intuitive in its layout and I always find it very easy to get a great sound, whether it be a clean and pure vocal or slamming drum destruction.
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"Wheat has matured and thrips that lived on wheat have found a new home as cotton has emerged. Thrips normally infest seedling cotton and cause damage which results in slow growth and disfigured leaves.
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An Israeli soldier killed a Palestinian teen along Gaza’s boundary when the detained youth tried to escape, according to a reporter who witnessed the shooting.
The slain Palestinian, identified as Ahmad Abdallah Abu Naim, 17, was one of seven killed during mass protests along Gaza’s boundary with Israel on Friday.
Journalist Muhammad Mahawish said that Abu Naim was among a group that had crossed the fence along central Gaza’s eastern boundary with Israel.“The occupation forces fired directly towards them, which led to the injury of one Palestinian,” according to Muhawish, who describes the incident in the above video.
When soldiers tried to detain the wounded protester, the latter attempted to flee.
“After he tried to escape, he was shot and immediately executed,” Muhawish stated.
An image appears to show the soldier in close contact with Abu Naim just before the teen was fatally shot:Al Mezan, a human rights group based in Gaza, said that Abu Naim was shot in the stomach with live fire.
Two others among the group of around 20 protesters who breached the Gaza-Israel boundary fence and approached army positions were also killed, the Israeli military told media.
Israel’s Ynet reported that the group had used a bomb to explode part of the fence. After the group crossed the fence, “soldiers responded with open fire, pushing them back into Gaza. However, three Palestinians continued to approach the [army] post and were shot to death as a result.”
Palestinians carried the bodies of the slain protesters back to Gaza, according to the military. No Israeli soldiers were injured during the incident.
In addition to Abu Naim, Al Mezan reported the killing of three protesters along the eastern boundary of central Gaza: Ahmad al-Tawil, 22, Abdallah al-Daghma, 25, and Muhammad Ismail, 29.
Two protesters were also killed east of Gaza City: Muhammad Abbas, 21, and Afifi Afifi, 18. The health ministry reported that Tamer Iyad Mahmoud Abu Armana, 22, was killed east of Rafah in southernmost Gaza. All were injured by live fire, according to Al Mezan.
Graphic video shows the moment when Abu Armana was shot:More than 160 Palestinians, including 33 children, have been killed during mass demonstrations along Gaza’s boundary with Israel since the launch of the Great March of Return protests six months ago.
Israel is withholding the bodies of 10 Palestinians slain along the boundary, including two children, according to Al Mezan.
More than 250 others were injured during Friday’s protests, some 180 of them by live fire, the rights group said. A paramedic and four media workers were among those injured.
Ismail Haniyeh, head of Hamas’ political wing, was injured by tear gas fired by Israeli soldiers during the protests:
Israel to halt Gaza fuel deliveries
Israeli defense minister Avigdor Lieberman said that he had ordered a halt to fuel deliveries to Gaza after the breaching of the boundary fence, a measure of collective punishment against Gaza’s vulnerable population.
“Israel will not tolerate a situation in which fuel tankers are allowed to enter Gaza on the one hand, while terror and violence are used against [Israeli] soldiers and Israeli citizens on the other,” Lieberman stated.
Several truckloads of fuel funded by Qatar were brought into Gaza via Israel in recent days as stocks needed to keep essential services running amid a longstanding electricity crisis depleted over the past several weeks.
“Over the month, the number of trucks per day is expected to rise to 15,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesperson for the United Nations secretary-general, stated on Tuesday.
“In addition to other long-term efforts underway to increase the energy supply, additional fuel for the Gaza power plant remains the fastest and most immediate way to increase electricity to help alleviate the humanitarian and related public health needs on the ground,” Dujarric added.
The UN has been brokering indirect talks between Israel and Hamas in order to pull Gaza back from the brink of collapse after more than a decade of siege, repeated military assaults and an impasse between the Palestinian authorities in Gaza and the West Bank.
Citing Hamas sources, Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar newspaper reported on Friday that UN humanitarian coordinator Jamie McGoldrick delivered a list of Israel’s preconditions for easing the tightened blockade on Gaza and returning the status quo that followed the August 2014 ceasefire that ended 51 days of bombardment in the territory.
Israel’s demands include an end to provocations including the planting of explosives along the boundary and an end to the launching of incendiary balloons from Gaza.
Hamas is in turn calling for a 50 megawatt increase of available electricity as a first step towards resolving the crisis entirely, according to Al-Akhbar. Households in Gaza have on average only four hours of electricity per day.
The resistance group and political party also reportedly demands the expansion of the permitted fishing area off Gaza’s coast to 12 nautical miles initially and then to 20 miles, as is stipulated in the Oslo accords signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the 1990s.
Hamas also wants Israel to permit unrestricted imports and exports from Gaza, permits for 5,000 laborers from Gaza to work inside Israel, and the establishment of a commercial waterway to Gaza.
Al-Akhbar reported that the UN sought to link improvements in Gaza to the approval of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, but his continued rejectionism prompted the UN, which seeks to restore Palestinian Authority governance in Gaza, to implement first steps without Abbas’ blessing.
Those initiatives include the import of fuel to Gaza’s sole power plant and the transfer of $25 million to Gaza to pay civil servants’ salaries and for electricity.
The PA has protested these measures by pressuring the Israeli company contracted to transfer fuel to Gaza for power generation into stopping delivery by threatening to end its contracts to supply Gaza with gasoline for transportation.
The UN is therefore seeking out Israeli companies immune to PA pressure for the job, a Hamas source told Al-Akhbar.
Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel is due to visit Tel Aviv, Ramallah and Amman next week to push a long-term truce between Israel and Hamas, according to the newspaper.
The West Bank-based authority also sent a complaint to the UN secretary-general against Nickolay Mladenov, who has been leading the indirect talks, alleging that the UN envoy is undermining Palestinian national unity.
Palestinian dies in Israeli prison
Meanwhile on Friday, Wissam Abd al-Majid Nayif al-Shalaldeh, 28, from the occupied West Bank town of Sair, died in Ramla prison in central Israel.
The Palestinian Prisoners Society said that the cause of death was unknown.
Al-Shalaldeh, a married father of four, had been held by Israel since 2015 and was serving a seven-year prison sentence, the Ma’an News Agency reported. He is the fourth Palestinian to die in Israeli custody so far this year.
A photo of al-Shalaldeh circulated on social media after the announcement of his death:A Palestinian woman, Ayesha Muhammad Rabi, 48, was reported to have died from head injuries after the car in which she was traveling was attacked by stone-throwing settlers near Zaatara checkpoint south of the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday.
A photo published in local media showed the seats of the car covered in blood and debris following the attack.
Photos of al-Rabi and her husband Yaqoub, who was also injured during the incident, were published after the announcement of her death:The Israeli human rights group Yesh Din published video of Israelis from the settlement of Yitzhar, south of Nablus, throwing stones at cars on Friday as soldiers stand by without intervening. It was not clear if the video shows the incident in which which Rabi was killed. Late Thursday, Israeli forces arrested a 19-year-old Palestinian suspected of stabbing and moderately wounding a soldier near the West Bank city of Nablus earlier in the day.
A woman bystander was lightly injured when Israeli forces opened fire.
A Palestinian suspected of shooting and killing two Israelis at his place of work in a West Bank settlement industrial zone on Sunday remains at large.
Referring to Ashraf Walid Suleiman Naawla, the suspected gunman, Israeli defense minister Lieberman said, “The account with him will be settled quickly.”
Israeli forces have arrested Naawla’s family members, including his mother, and mapped his family’s home in preparation for destroying it.


Dave Forsey, the former chief executive of Sports Direct, is reportedly to face a criminal trial over the collapse of USC.
Forsey had tried to block the prosecution brought forward by the Department for Business, The Sunday Times reports, saying that only the secretary of state, or someone acting under their authority, could bring the proceedings.
However, on 19 May two judges said Forsey’s case was covered by the Carltona principle, which states that actions of government officials are synonymous with the actions of the secretary of state in charge of them.
Forsey and accountant Robert Palmer will now face trial for failing to give the business secretary at least 30 days’ notice that 84 warehouse workers in Ayrshire were set to lose their jobs. USC was then bought by another of Sports Direct’s fascias, Republic.
Forsey resigned from his position at Sports Direct in September.


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President-elect Joe Biden has said he will put democracy front and centre of US foreign policy. But after the turbulence of recent years, reversing the global trend towards autocracy will need a strategy and strong alliances. What do we know about his plans?
It is tempting to think that the Biden administration will simply turn back the clock in its foreign policy – re-joining the WHO, re-committing to the Paris Climate Accords, re-starting the Iran agreement, and renewing U.S. support for NATO and the rules-based international system. But the global context has evolved since Biden was last in the White House and his pledge to host a Summit of Democracies is a clear signal that he sees a decline in democratic values as a threat to US and Western interests. If the Summit is held while the UK is chairing the G7 and COP26 next year, then transatlantic collaboration will be key to its success.
Join us in this live online event as our top guests unpack and explain the key pillars of Biden’s plans to rebuild global democracy and the transatlantic dynamics. Our panellists are either directly engaged in this planning or close observers and can shed light on the key priorities, including human rights, corruption, countering hostile states, and tackling climate change. They can also discuss the mechanics of the transition from the Trump administration and what we can expect over the coming months.
- Dr Frances Z. Brown, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Alex Thier, Senior Democracy Fellow, Freedom House
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Today is my last day here in my home and with my family. Tomorrow evening, I leave and the rest still lies unknown.
They say people have a great ability to adapt when the need arises. But just as easily, they can resist it. It’s like that for me now. Change is inevitable yet as I allow myself to be a part of that change, I also am resisting it, if not externally, internally – that is, it is within me. I resist the change, the idea of change mainly because it separates me from the people I cherish most and the things that I have grown accustomed to. On the other hand, I also have learned to be flexible and to be flexible I must be with all the sudden changes that are about to happen. This is not just puberty. I have a feeling that this will determine a large chunk of me which involves making decisions in the years to come. Continue reading “Parting Words”


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The federal government shutdown has barely begun, but we’ve already come across plenty of rhetoric to fact-check.
Here’s a selection of claims we’ve checked that address the federal shutdown. We’ll update this article as we publish new fact checks in the days ahead.
• "The American people support defunding Obamacare and oppose shutting down the government," said U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. Mostly False.
Rubio makes it sound as if he has support from the public for his main objective, which is defunding Obamacare. He doesn’t. When asking the public about Obamacare, word choice matters, and "defund" leads to a different result than "repeal." While the law isn’t popular, a recent Kaiser poll found 57 percent opposed cutting off funding. On his second point, he’s right that most people told pollsters leading up to the shutdown that they didn’t want a government shutdown. But we’ll point out that both sides in the budget battle in Congress said they didn’t want a shutdown. We rated his statement Mostly False.
• "The United States Senate — Democrats and Republicans — acted responsibly by voting to keep our government open," said President Barack Obama. Mostly False.
The president has a point that 25 Republicans backed a procedural motion to proceed to the bill itself. But experts said that when analyzing Obama’s comment, it’s more important to note that not a single Republican ultimately voted "to keep our government open" when the chamber took up the bill itself. The final measure passed by a 54-42 margin, with two Republicans not voting. All 54 who voted for the measure were either Democrats or independents who caucus with the Democrats. All 42 who voted against the measure were Republicans We rated the claim Mostly False.
• "Today, the House of Representatives did what Washington pundits only a few weeks ago said was impossible: a strong bipartisan majority voted to defund Obamacare," U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. False.
On the final vote, the measure -- which paired continued funding for the government with a defunding of Obamacare -- passed by a 230-189 margin. But those 230 votes in favor broke down to 228 Republicans and just two Democrats, Reps. Mike McIntyre of North Carolina and Jim Matheson of Utah. (One Republican, Rep. Scott Rigell of Virginia, broke ranks and joined the Democrats.) Proclaiming that two Democratic votes out of 190 provided a "strong bipartisan majority" led us to rate this claim False.
• Shutdowns are "a normal part of the constitutional process," with 12 shutdowns under Democratic House Speaker Tip O’Neill and two under Newt Gingrich, said Gingrich. Half True.
Gringrich is right on the number, but the shutdowns under O'Neill were quite different in nature than either of the ones under Gingrich, or the current one. It’s also dubious to suggest that shutdowns are part of the normal constitutional process. Just because they have been relatively common doesn’t mean they are the way the founders intended government to operate. We rated Gingrich’s claim Half True.
• "Eighty-five percent of government's running right now. Only 15 percent of government spending is shut down," said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. Half True.
Due to the big role of entitlement spending in the federal budget, Paul is likely in the ballpark when he measures "government" by the yardstick of spending. However, measuring government in other ways, such as the percentage of federal employees being furloughed in major departments, would make the impact appear bigger. And when he said that "85 percent of government" is operating right now, that’s more of a stretch. We rated his statement Half True.
• The shutdown is projected to result in "$10 billion in costs to the economy per week, said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston, and chair of the Democratic National Committee. Mostly True.
That number comes from an investment report from Goldman Sachs. We found other estimates from financial firms that were slightly larger and slightly smaller than the $10 billion figure, but they were in the same ballpark. A key point here, though, is that these are estimates. Experts agree that caution and caveats are needed. We rated her statement Mostly True.
• "Obamacare is an entitlement like Medicare and Social Security is, and so the entitlement carries on even under a government shutdown scenario, said U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who is also the House budget chairman. Mostly True.
Two months before the shutdown, PolitiFact wrote that most of the key parts of the law -- the insurance marketplace, the premium subsidies, and the taxes and regulations -- should continue unimpeded. But we cautioned that shutdowns are rare and unpredictable, so we couldn’t be certain what would happen. We rated this claim Mostly True based on the information we had available before the shutdown.
Meanwhile, here are a few other links to our reporting on the shutdown:
• PolitiFact pulled together a guide to federal government websites that were initially out of commission or not up to date due to the shutdown.
• The first few days of the shutdown coincided with the start of open enrollment period that allows poor and middle-income consumers to sign up for health insurance through the online exchange run by the federal government for the states that declined to set up their own -- including Florida. The Miami Herald reported that there were technical problems in the first few days including that many who tried to look up health plans couldn’t create an account to verify their eligibility though others were able to get in. HealthCare.gov received more than six million unique visitors during the first 36 hours.
See a claim about the shutdown or other topics worth fact-checking? Tweet us #politifactthis or email us at [email protected]
Miami Herald, "Obamacare exchange woes continuing," Oct. 3, 2013
Miami Herald’s FL Health Watch blog, "Another day, more delay appears likely for Obamacare exchanges," Oct. 3, 2013
U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, HealthCare.Gov, Accessed Oct. 3, 2013
Wall Street Journal, "Lawmakers: military pay law covers civilians, contractors," Oct. 2, 2013
Interview, Commander Bill Urban, Department of Defense spokesman, Oct. 3, 2013
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The HTR2B variant of a serotonin neurotransmitter receptor in the brain makes Finnish men violent if they drink. The HTR2B variant occurs at a much higher rate in violent felons.
A multinational research team led by scientists at the National Institutes of Health has found that a genetic variant of a brain receptor molecule may contribute to violently impulsive behavior when people who carry it are under the influence of alcohol. A report of the findings, which include human genetic analyses and gene knockout studies in animals, appears in the Dec. 23 issue of Nature.
"Impulsivity, or action without foresight, is a factor in many pathological behaviors including suicide, aggression, and addiction," explains senior author David Goldman, M.D., chief of the Laboratory of Neurogenetics at the NIH’s National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). "But it is also a trait that can be of value if a quick decision must be made or in situations where risk-taking is favored."
This is an example of why it is valuable for individuals to get their genomes tested. Direct-to-consumer genetic testing ought to be available without regulatory barriers in the way (please tell the FDA and the California and NY state governments). Whether you carry a genetic variant that is liable to make you violent under the influence of alcohol is knowledge that teenagers ought to know. It could save lives, prevent maiming, and keep our prisons less crowded.
Scientists will discover all the genetic variants that make some people dangerous when drunk. I say the sooner the better.
"Interestingly, we found that the genetic variant alone was insufficient to cause people to act in such ways," notes Dr. Goldman. "Carriers of the HTR2B variant who had committed impulsive crimes were male, and all had become violent only while drunk from alcohol, which itself leads to behavioral disinhibition."
The researchers also found that knocking out this gene in mice caused the mice to become more impulsive. The researchers are currently trying to determine whether alcohol makes those mice even more impulsive. Obviously, this could lead to a genetic test to determine whether it is safe to let your pet mouse drink alcohol.
Other genetic variants that increase impulsive and violent behavior are likely to be found.
"Although relatively common in Finland, the genetic variant we identified in this study is unlikely to explain a large fraction of the overall variance in impulsive behaviors, as there are likely to be many pathways to impulsivity in its various manifestations," says Dr. Goldman.
They found that 7.46% of the violent offenders had the mutation, compared with 2.32% of controls.
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Walz's math isn't merely fuzzy - it's fantasy
You’d think I’d be used to it by now. Politicians saying one thing, doing the exact opposite, and assuming the voting public is too dumb to notice. But nothing prepared me for Tim Walz’s May 1 Post-Bulletin guest column.
The column was entitled "National debt will drag us down if we don't act quickly." In the first third of the column Walz spells out how spiraling debt is going to hit this country like a sledgehammer on a tomato. And on that point he’s right. Our politicians have been handing out money like Kleenex at an allergy convention. It’s turning the United States of America into a third-rate banana republic.
But then Walz tries to pull a Jedi mind trick. He lists ways that he’s made the deficit grow, and then claims he’s made it shrink.
At the top of the list is health care reform. Walz repeats the well-worn statement that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) score shows the health care reform bill will actually lower the deficit.
But what Walz doesn’t say is that the CBO can’t question the unrealistic assumptions Congress gives it. As one former CBO director described it "Fantasy in. Fantasy out." The health care reform bill adds a trillion dollars in new spending. (That’s the real part). Then says that future Congresses will make deep cuts in Medicare, thus causing an overall decrease in the deficit. (That’s the fantasy part).
Congress has never followed through with Medicare cuts this deep, and the Health and Human Services Actuary calls them "unrealistic." But the CBO is forced to include all of Congress’s promises of future spending cuts.
For example, to lower the deficit, the CBO requires that Congress follow through on a promised 21 percent cut in what Medicare pays doctors. Without this cut alone, the health care bill increases the deficit, and (surprise! surprise!) as of April 15, Congress has put off those cuts. As of this moment, the health care bill increases the deficit.
And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
We have a built-in deficit every year mainly because of two runaway entitlement programs – Social Security and Medicare. Combined they account for almost 40 percent of the federal budget, and they’re on pace to take 100 percent of the budget by 2050. But now instead of two runaway entitlement programs, we have three.
So at time when we can’t afford the entitlements we already have, Tim Walz voted for a trillion-dollar new entitlement, paid for it with gimmicks, and is calling that fiscal responsibility.
By comparison the rest of Walz’s misinformation is small potatoes, but misinformation nonetheless. Walz claims that the $787 billion stimulus bill will lower the deficit even though the CBO said it will increase the deficit. Walz brags that Congress has instituted "Pay-as-You-Go" budgeting, but doesn’t mention that Congress bypasses "Pay-as-You-Go" whenever they feel like it. Walz praises President Obama for proposing a three-year freeze on non-defense discretionary spending, but leaves out the fact that Obama has already increased that same spending by 84 percent.
But again the real key are the entitlements. Social Security. Medicare. Now health care reform. All paid for with IOU’s and by shifting fantasy money from one broken entitlement to another. Once in place they never go away, because voters who get "free" stuff from the government fight for a bigger piece of their pay and don’t care how the country as whole suffers.
And there are plenty of politicians who count on that. Local liberals have said it right here on the Post-Bulletin’s Opinion page: Once people get used to all the new benefits, the health care reform will be set in stone and will only expand. As liberal columnist Joe Klein recently wrote "Economic crises come and go, but entitlements are forever."
Which is why I shouldn’t have been surprised by Walz’s brazenness. Walz ran as someone who was going to expand entitlements and also was going to lower the deficit. You can’t do both.
But then again, politicians' double talk is really a mirror of our own contradictions. We like politicians who tell us what we want to hear. Or at least we have.
There are some signs that things might be changing. Paul Ryan, a Congressman from next-door Wisconsin, has laid out a real plan to put the country back on a sound path. It protects current retirees, but for the rest of us it’s going to require a change in our thinking, just like a person who lives in credit card debt has to change their way of thinking to become debt free.
We can get there. But we won’t get there with gimmicks. We won’t get there by claiming huge new entitlements lower the deficit.


The abortion meant that I could continue going to school, says Elisabeth, who was raped when she helped her mother deliver soaps. Since 2010 there are now more possibilities to terminate unwanted pregnancies safely and legally.
Before 14-year-old Elisabeth went in for the procedure over a month ago, she had never heard of an abortion. She did not know what sex was either and has never had a boyfriend. Indeed, the story behind her abortion is also the story of the vulnerability of girls and women in a tough reality.
Elisabeth is a promising pupil and football player. She looks younger than her 14 years and is quite shy and softly spoken. Her mother makes soap, and in the evening the children help her to distribute it to customers. On one such evening a couple of months ago, Elisabeth's world was turned upside-down.
“When I came to this man's house, he suddenly closed and locked the door and then forced himself on me. I couldn't scream because he put his hand over my mouth. Afterwards he said that I wasn't allowed to tell anyone, or else something terrible would happen.”
Scared and completely exhausted, Elisabeth did not tell anyone about what had happened.
“My body was so tired and I was in such a daze when I came home that I didn't know what to say. And so I was ashamed.”
When she realized she had missed her period, Elisabeth eventually spoke with her older sister, who promised to help her so that she would not be thrown out of school. They looked for the man who had raped Elisabeth but he had moved out. All she wanted was to continue to attend school, and the man who had caused her suffering had disappeared.
The possibility to have an abortion safely and legally in a clinic was her way out. Her older sister had heard about the clinic in Kisumu, a member of Family Health Options Kenya which has nine clinics in seven different locations throughout the country. This is not something that Elisabeth is concerned with. For her, the most important thing was that she avoided subjecting herself to unnecessary risks and joining the global statistic as one of the women who die every minute from pregnancy-related complications.
Until very recently, abortion was in principle illegal in Kenya. A complicated inquiry was required in order to receive permission to have an abortion. Since the new constitution came into force in Autumn 2010, it has become significantly simpler, and the approval of a qualified healthcare professional is all that is required in order for the procedure to be allowed.
Following this, Kisumu became the town with the highest number of abortions carried out in clinics. Phoebe Wafula is a nurse and has performed many of these abortions.
“At first I thought that abortions were unethical, that you're killing someone. But then my friend died after having a backstreet abortion; we found her in a pool of blood. The same thing happened to my cousin. At nursing school I realized that if you do it right, do it well and give support at the same time, you help others.”
Even though the conditions in Kenya today are infinitely more favourable, the statistics still tell a dreary tale. Muraguri Muchira, head of Family Health Options Kenya, explains that in Kenya alone, 300, 000 unsafe or incomplete abortions are carried out every year, from which 3000 women die, constituting around 30 per cent of maternal mortality in the country.
“Abortion must become less of a taboo and more a matter of health,” says Elly Mungumya, head of IPPF's regional office in Kenya.
He feels that after years of campaigning, there has been a breakthrough, and finally legislation is in place which gives women a greater say over their pregnancy. What remains now is to increase awareness of women's rights and to increase the accessibility and scope of the service.
The names of the women in this article are fictitious and certain facts have been changed, as they wished to remain anonymous and yet tell their stories in order to increase understanding of abortion and related issues.


Contamination is the current “go to” defence in doping in all sports, whether the athlete has deliberately cheated or not.
In FEI Tribunal decisions, you will read many far-fetched excuses as well as credible ones. The endurance community was recently entertained by the case of trainer Ismail Mohammed, banned for two years for a testosterone positive from Shaddad. Shaddad was the world-ranked number one endurance horse at the time, from Sheikh Mohammed’s premier MRM stables in Dubai.
Ismail Mohammed attributed contamination via the groom (blaming the groom being the other fall-back defence), who had allegedly been using a cream containing testosterone (a banned steroid) for muscle soreness on his own shoulders, didn’t wash his hands and transferred it to Shaddad by mistake. Expert opinion deemed this “highly implausible.”
In view of this trainer’s past run-ins with Tribunal, you would have thought he could have argued something a bit more believable. There have been plenty of jokes on social media like “when we say someone should ‘grow a pair,’ we didn’t mean on the shoulder blades….’”
But for genuine victims of contamination, it is no laughing matter. Since November 2017 in FEI sport, there have been 41 positives which all parties have agreed are due to contamination. Twenty have involved the banned stimulant synephrine. These are mostly attributable to contaminated feed, notably teff hay grown in Mexico, Spain and South Africa. Synephrine is also naturally occurring in citrus plants, i.e. orange and lemon trees.
When a spike in synephrine positives came to attention this spring, the FEI launched its own investigations and issued a warning.
The first two of these 20 legal cases were recently resolved, both from the Carmona CSI** on the Spanish winter tour – the Slovakian horse Famorku and the Finnish horse For Fun. Their riders had both bought contaminated hay direct from organiser.
In the synephrine cases, the riders are highly unlikely to be fined or suspended. But there is an obligatory disqualification from the competitions where they were tested, even where the riders have been exonerated. It is also arguable that too much time is being spent on this kind of case by FEI Legal and Tribunal when they should be chasing down the real cheats. For the riders, a contamination case brings stress and unrecoverable financial outlay.
Eleonora Ottaviani, Director of the International Jumping Riders Club (IJRC) reckons that riders who understandably panic after receiving notification of an “adverse analytical finding” run straight to a lawyer and probably pay 50,000 euros for a basic consultation.
Because of contamination, the backlog of Tribunal cases is the longest ever. It could be that this workload discouraged the FEI from substantially beefing up sampling where it is needed, i.e. in endurance, where there is usually a return of positives of at least 12% – literally 10 times the strike-rate of any other horse sport.
The IJRC has lobbied the FEI about contamination for some time. All its anxieties were aired again at its recent meeting in Rotterdam, which can be seen on video here. There was an especially heartfelt speech by world number one Steve Guerdat, who described sleepless nights while his poppy seed contamination case lumbered through the legal system in 2015, before he was wholly exonerated.
Other top riders such as Max Kuhner and Henrick von Eckermann spoke passionately about victims of contamination being labelled dopers by an uninformed social media, and how an official declaration of innocence even within weeks can never undo the reputational damage.
Aine Power, the FEI’s deputy legal director, and the FEI head of veterinary Goran Akerstrom attended the meeting. There was long and candid debate.
Take-aways offered by the FEI included:
• Contamination is what the FEI means by i) naturally occurring substances not deliberately given, such as oripavine (from poppy seeds) that blows into a field where your horse is grazing; and ii) environmental contamination, of which stable cleanliness and security at shows are high priority. Stake-holders must take some responsibility for reducing these risks. The FEI does not proactively publicise these cases;
• Riders feed their horses supplements at their own risk, so a straight “no fault” defence is not available for a contaminated supplement positive. It is well known that some manufacturers are less reputable than others, and often mis-label products;
• The FEI has to do some “homework” to establish if there is true contamination – otherwise the real cheaters will get away with it. The FEI is not out to punish anyone with an innocent explanation. “We like it when the other side has a good lawyer, as we only want to catch the people who are guilty;”
• The fairly new category of “specified substances” (including caffeine and oripavine) recognises that a substance may have been ingested by the horse not for performance. But it does not follow they are less dangerous than banned or controlled substances;
• The FEI is not necessarily your adversary. Do not go straight to a lawyer – not all lawyers are good or even experienced in this specialist field. Contact FEI legal who will do their best to advise;
• Do not blame the FEI for the anti-doping rules. The FEI has signed up to WADA (World Anti Doping Agency) and equestrian is “stuck with it” if we want to be in the Olympics. It seems unfair riders are automatically deemed guilty and must prove themselves innocent, but that is the burden of proof WADA requires;
• Automatic disqualification from the competition is another WADA requirement, even when the rider is exonerated and receives no further punishment. Yes, this is unfair, but it is incorrect for a horse to compete with a performance-enhancing or harmful substance in its system, even accidentally;
• The FEI prohibited substances list is much longer – 1,400 items – than WADA’s because, for instance, horses may not compete on painkillers. The FEI list is re-evaluated annually, based on science and feedback from the four horseracing laboratories the FEI uses around the world. The testers are not “chasing molecules;” if anything, leeway is on the generous side.
• National federations are urged every year to suggest changes to the list, but usually only Switzerland bothers.
After listening to all this, Kuhner emphasised that riders still want “something else,” not WADA. The riders have many radical ideas. These include developing an app which can anonymously notify the latest positives; opportunities to submit samples for pre-show testing (at present this elective testing is only available before major championships and the Olympic Games); obligatory certification of stable hygiene by show organisers and withdrawal of stable tours for media and sponsors or anyone else who may stroke a horse and transfer something topically by mistake.
The IJRC also suggested consequences for organisers, paying riders’ costs and compensation when clearly liable for the positive test, especially where buying feed and bedding from the organiser is a condition of entry. Though Ludger Beerbaum said that if the latter were enforced, “within a minute” you’d have no one willing to run a show.
I am at a loss to know how we reduce an innocent rider’s reputational damage. How can the general equestrian public see the distinction between blatant cheating, careless breaches of controlled medications protocols, and the unlucky riders maybe competing abroad for the first time, blissfully unaware the hay supplied by the organiser contains orange leaves?
The FEI press department has worked very hard on this. Headlines screaming “doper” now rarely appear in mainstream media coverage of controlled meds offences. But it is impossible to educate social media on this complex subject, especially one communicating in short sentences and emojis.
Not even experienced competitors seem to know. Last year I wrote about the different “tiers” of offence and was astonished to receive thank-you messages from senior riders, saying they had not previously understood.
I don’t think bundling both sets of FEI rules under one label – the Equine Anti-Doping and Controlled Medication Regulations (EADCMRs) – gives the casual reader the right idea. The term “prohibited substances” is used to cover all categories. It’s surely also misleading to list the Tribunal’s controlled medication notices under the large heading “Equine Anti-Doping Decisions” on the FEI website.
Alas, though, I doubt refining the lexicon will make much difference to genuine victims of contamination. Once social media has a whiff of trouble for any famous name, image-battering is like a runaway train. The only guaranteed winners are the lawyers.


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Derbyshire Police have released a number of recordings of hoax calls they say were made by a 16-year-old girl and 20-year-old woman.
A 16-year-old girl was given a youth rehabilitation order today after admitting wasting police time.
More top news
Harvey Hadden Sports Village has opened today following a £16m transformation.
Sunny spells and showers, feeling cool in a northerly breeze.
Scattered, locally heavy showers. A cool northerly breeze.


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Positive outlook for Merinos at field days
Stud breeders at last week's Newdegate Machinery Field Days say confidence in the industry is on the up.
Both Merino and non-Merino breeders said inquiries were high on both days.
In the second year of the Better Choices Merino marquee, Bayer's Matt Atkinson said the number of studs taking part increased from 14 to 20. "The Better Choices tent is putting Merinos back on the map in Newdegate with some really good studs setting up and exhibiting," Matt said.
"Having an extra 20 studs really gives people a reason to come to the Newdegate field days if they aren't into broadacre cropping, and even if they are, they can come and have a look at Merinos and the cropping gear."
Travelling 350km from Mukinbudin was Athol Ventris, from Calcaling stud, which has increased the number of rams for sale this year by 20 to cater for the increased confidence.
"Wool prices have made a big difference and some are turning back to Merinos," Athol said.
"Talking to people here, the general feeling is the season is reasonable. Most are looking for a good rain to finish the season off."
Lewisdale Wickepin stud breeder Ray Lewis said the task now was to build up the Merino flock.
"Having the marquee is the best thing for the Merino industry.
"The genetic gains are available so we are working as an industry and not competing against one another."
Non-Merino breeders also reported high levels of interest including Kaya Dorpers and Allstock's veterinarian Michylla Seal.
"There has been quite a few people inquiring as well as in the Allstock side with interest in AI and ET," Dr Seal said.
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There are a few reasons that people learn to drive. For some, it is a necessity. Getting to work, moving home or getting the kids to school. For others, it is about freedom and exploration. And exploration comes in many forms. It can be locally, heading to nature reserves or huge lakes.
Or, you might be ready to finish your driving lessons, pass your driving test, and head off on some of the most beautiful roads in the world. Because of course, you can rent a car almost everywhere you go.
So here are some of the best long roads for driving on - all over the world.
Atlantic Road, Norway
This road is mind-blowing. The scenic route is surrounded by water a was voted the engineering feat of the century for Norway. It is the type of road that has to be seen to be believed. This 8-kilometre beauty (that's 5 miles), takes you over the ocean, and you'll drive by some stunning mountains too.
The Atlantic Road is not only breath-taking on those blue-sky days, but when it gets rough, it's quite something else.
To really make the most of the road, take an easy pace, and put on your favourite songs. It's worth it.
Valley of Fire Road, Nevada
If you are a gamer or a lover of fantasy films that have incredible scenery, then the Valley of Fire Road, Nevada is one for you. It is a huge 80km long, (50 miles), and takes you through the Valley of Fire State Park.
Why is breath-taking? Due to the bright red sandstone landscape. The formations are unbelievable.
When the sun hits the orange and red stones, they look like giant dancing flames - which is where it gets its name from.
You won't be surprised to hear that it has been featured in a number of films.
NOTE: It costs $10 per car to drive through the park.
North Coast 500, Scotland
We already know that Scotland is stunning. But this road, for any driver, is a must-do. The North Coast 500, is a phenomenal 830- Kilomterer loop, (516 miles). It starts and ends at Inverness Castle, in the north of Scotland.
The road is long, winding, and decorated with some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. It is made up of country roads and long stretches of between smaller villages.
You're going to need at least 6 days to do this justice though. You are likely to need to slow down for sheep, deer and other wild animals crossing the country roads.
So there are three breathtaking long roads that are so perfect for driving along. All you'll need is the perfect playlist and your camera.
Just remember that you should do make sure that you run through a list of checks on your car to make sure it is ready for long trips.

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So today Angelina Jolie had double mastectomy, which is the removal of one’s breasts, to prevent Breast cancer. So instead of praising Angelina on her bravery, men on Twitter decided to ridicule her, even calling her stupid for removing her breasts. For those of you on Tumblr that are attacking Feminists for being delusional about sexism against women and misogyny here’s your fucking proof that sexism and misogyny exists.
The Sun Blasts Out Two X-Class Flares, Strongest of the Year
The Sun gets active! On May 12, 2013, the Sun emitted what NASA called a “significant” solar flare, classified as an X1.7, making it the first X-class flare of 2013. Then earlier today, May 13, 2013, the Sun let loose with an even stronger flare, an X2.8-class. Both flares took place just beyond the limb of the Sun, and were also associated with another solar phenomenon, a coronal mass ejection (CME) which sent solar material out into space.
Neither CME was not Earth-directed, and according to SpaceWeather.com, no planets were in the line of fire. However, the CMEs appear to be on course to hit NASA’s Epoxi, STEREO-B and Spitzer spacecraft on May 15-16. NASA said their mission operators have been notified, and if warranted, operators can put spacecraft into safe mode to protect the instruments. Experimental NASA research models show that the CMEs were traveling at about 1,930 km/second (1,200 miles per second) when they left the Sun.
The sunspot associated with these flares is just coming into view, and the next 24 to 48 hours should reveal much about the sunspot, including its size, magnetic complexity, and potential for future flares.
image 1: A close-up of an an X1.7-class solar flare on May 12, 2013 as seen by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. credit: NASA/SDO/AIA.
image 2: SDO image of an X2.8-class flare on May 13, 2013. Credit: NASA/SDO
A Guatemalan court has convicted former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, sentencing him to 80 years in prison.
The 86-year-old former general is the first former Latin American leader ever found guilty of such a charge.
A three-judge tribunal issued the verdict after the nearly two-month trial in which dozens of victims testified about horrific atrocities.
Rios Montt denies having knowledge of the massacres that happened involving indigenous people while he was in power.
That’s also why guys have nipples.
wow i actually didn’t know that
How does anyone not already know this?


The Thin White Line podcast you’ve been hungering for – in-stadium catering!
Ah, we mean, FOOD!
Food, glorious food! Hot sausage and mustard at exorbitant prices!
We take a trip around the world talking about food at the football. Marvellous!
Bozza tells us about his souvlaki preferences, Ian speculates as to what is actually in a meat pie, and Ben tells us what food vendors chain to bikes in Mexico.
There’s also a stern message for the administrators of AAMI Park. You’re on notice.


Yes, a second control moment gyroscope failing affects my job. How? We build the carrier that takes them to orbit.
We’ve already got one carrier built and most of a second one is in our clean room. I had my [gloved] hands on it this morning, showing it to a couple NASA badges. There’s a minor mechanism question, so they wanted to see the actual hardware.
That’s a fundamental truth of flight hardware–drawings are nice, but the actual piece part is soooooo much better.
As you can see, there are four CMG’s on orbit. When all four are working everything is keen. I think two is the minimum nominal number to have running and not need to use thrusters to stay aligned.
Why is alignment a concern? Power. ISS runs on solar power, and you want your solar panels facing the sun. This means that you turn the station to keep the solar arrays pointed at the sun. If you can’t turn the station, well, then you’re out of juice, and that sucks.
How do these work? Pretty simple. Ever played with a gyroscope? Know what it’s like to turn it while it’s spinning? Yeah, you get a torque feedbacking your hand. Now when you do it on the ground, no biggie–you’re not going to move much, since your feet are on the floor. In space, when you gimbal a gyroscope, there’s nothing holding the station in attitude, so it moves in response.
These things just break. It’s they way they go.
Oh well … more work for us. Yay. The work is always good, even when it means that I’m at work at 0615 and still here at 1630. 🙂