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What happened when I tried to be a mindful parent

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When I had my son James, I tried to be mindful for the first time in my life.

I had practised yoga and meditation and read books on Buddhism and spiritual enlightenment before. I even did a 10-day juice detox during which I hallucinated colours while in a particularly intense reiki session. But I dont think much of it sank in. Id go through these phases of being present while half-starving on brown rice and spirulina tea and then return to eating canap dinners and moaning about my charming commitment-phobe boyfriend of the moment.

But as I found out fast after my son came shrieking into the world, there is really no way of caring for a newborn other than to surrender to the experience. As the old gospel song says, you gotta walk that lonesome valley for yourself aint nobody else gonna walk it for you.

Being alone all day with a baby, I quickly realized, is much easier if you can quiet your mind and go to the baby place in your brain. This is a state where you can spend several minutes, and eventually hours, simply laying on the floor and empathizing with your infant by feeling the sun on your face and occasionally thinking, Oooh, look how my fingers move. I think I might do a poo now.

Of course, many books will have you believe that to effectively care for a newborn you must spend your days sterilizing, pumping and swaddling according to a strict, incremented schedule, but I didnt do any of that. I just sort sloped around braless for a few months, silently communing with Jamess oceanic ego and changing an endless stream of diapers.

Eventually I went back to work and before I knew it Id turned into that mother the one in the supermarket lineup scrolling through work e-mails, snapping at the five-year-old to put down the candy NOW and nearly driving off leaving the baby in the cart.

So I started reading up on the practice of mindful parenting, which incorporates the techniques of mindfulness into family life. There was no shortage of material to choose from: In the past few months alone, several new books have come out on the subject. I started reading the daily tips on The Mindful Parent website and even signed James up for toddler yoga and meditation classes at my local wellness centre.

Much of the advice effective breathing techniques, strategies to still the racing mind, tips for existing in the moment rather than ruminating about the past or fretting about the future is stuff Ive read before. Cultivating stillness is difficult, but its also simple.

After all this theory, it was time for practice. I decided to start with one of the most basic exercises on The Mindful Parent blog. The idea is to gather your family together and suggest a minute of silence, and in this way, insert a pause at a time when everyone is otherwise caught up and engaged in the doing of things. How sweet, I thought, imagining my stepson Freddie and James clasping hands around the kitchen table and doing cleansing breaths.

I decided Saturday breakfast was my best window of opportunity. First, I made sure my English husband had gone out to buy the paper because, although he is very good at being silent and calm, he has an admittedly low tolerance for what he calls North American hippy bollocks. Once Freddie and James were finished munching their muesli, I announced in my best Mary Poppins voice that we were going to play a game called being silent for one minute. The boys stared at me in confusion, but I persisted. Doesnt that sound fun? So on the count of three we all say nothing and keep very still for one minute. Okay, one, two

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Live from Space! National Geographic, NASA Team Up for Cosmic TV Event

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TV-viewers around the world will be treated to an unprecedented live tour of the $100 billion International Space Station next month when the National Geographic Channel airs a two-hour special from the astronauts' orbital home.

During the "Live from Space" TV event, NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata two of the six spaceflyers currently living on the station will show how they stay fit, conduct science experiments and even use the toilet in microgravity. They'll also talk to viewers via video chat, according to Nat Geo. Meanwhile, veteran NASA astronaut Mike Massimino, who is perhaps most famous for his spacewalking repairs the Hubble Space Telescope, will be partaking in the two-hour event, live from Houston.

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The TV special, which will air in mid-March, is meant to coincide with the reboot of Carl Sagan's popular "Cosmos" miniseries, according to Nat Geo. The new iteration of the show, called "Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey," is hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the first episode is set to air March 9 on Fox and the National Geographic Channel.

The International Space Station is the largest manmade structure ever built in space. Five different space agencies representing 15 countries contributed to its construction and rotating crews of astronauts have continuously occupied the orbiting lab since 2000.

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NASA Astronauts Talk Space Fitness with US Olympic Bobsled Team

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Two NASA astronauts on the International Space Station connected with the United States Olympic bobsled team in Sochi, Russia before the 2014 Winter Games kick off Friday (Feb. 7).

Astronauts Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio chatted fitness in space and on the ground with Curt Tomasevicz and other members of the U.S. bobsled team during a NASA-sponsored Google Hangout about the upcoming games and how astronauts exercise in space. Tomasevicz spoke to Hopkins and Mastracchio from Sochi, where he will compete in the coming weeks.

NASA astronaut Jeannette Epps, CrossFit Games Champion Rich Froning Jr., and Houston Texans professional football player Jared Crick also spoke with the space station astronauts from the ground during the Hangout. [Photos: 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics and Space Travel]

"We do a lot of science, we do a lot of maintenance on the station," Hopkins said during the event. "But one of the most important things that we do and one of the big reasons we here, obviously today is to talk about fitness and exercise. We have between an hour and a half to two hours a day that's [a] dedicated part of our work time to exercise."

Mastracchio and Hopkins spoke to the group from their gym on the space station that holds three specialized pieces of equipment they can use to work out in microgravity. A treadmill, stationary bike and the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) are all available to help the astronauts get in their exercise while in space.

The ARED allows astronauts to put a specific amount of resistance on their bodies, helping them weightlift in weightlessness.

The astronauts exercise for about two hours each day to keep up bone density and prevent muscle loss during their time in space. Before launching into space, astronauts work with trainers on the ground to develop a plan for exercise while in orbit.

While the astronauts are in space, Mission Controllers on the ground analyze the data collected during Mastracchio and Hopkins' workouts in order to determine their fitness.

"Within two weeks of launching and being up in space, my fitness level as they [Mission Controllers] defined it had dropped 15 percent," Hopkins said. "From that point on, it's just a battle to get yourself back to that shape that you were in before you launched."

Mastracchio and Hopkins are both planning to watch the Olympics while in orbit. They showed off a "Team U.S.A." flag hanging in the exercise area, and said they have a picture of Tomasevicz and other Olympians on the station with them.

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Space Station Instrument Will Be the Coldest Thing in the Universe

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The International Space Station is set to become the coldest place in the known universe. Credit: NASA

When temperatures fall to record lows, some hardy folks like to boast that they went about their daily tasks unfazed by the wind chill warnings. Well, if sub-zero bragging rights are at stake, the International Space Station will soon have the entire universe beat.

In 2016, a new instrument due to be added to the ISS NASAs Cold Atom Laboratory will become the coldest location in the known universe. The instrument is capable of achieving a temperature of 100 Pico-kelvin, or one ten-billionth of a degree above absolute zero. For perspective, the average temperature of space is a balmy 2.7 Kelvin, or -454.81 degrees Fahrenheit.

At these extremely low temperatures, ordinary concepts of solid, liquid and gas are irrelevant. Matter can be in two places at once, objects behave simultaneously as particles and waves, and nothing is certain.

The temperature isnt the only thing thats cool about the Cold Atom Lab. Scientists will use the instrument to study the behavior of a strange form of matter known as Bose-Einstein condensates. Bose-Einstein condensates occur when atoms get so cold near absolute zero that they coalesce into a single wave of matter.

Diagram of the Cold Atom Lab. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cal-Tech

The Cold Atom Lab has one big advantage over Earth: microgravity. Earthbound cooling chambers need to use a lot of energy and powerful magnets to counteract the forces of Earths gravity in order to hold a molecule in place for observation. As a result, they can only observe molecular behavior for a second at a time and cannot achieve 100 pico-Kelvin temperatures. Without gravity, and with the aid of magnetic traps, scientists on the ISS can observe molecular behavior for up to 20 seconds at a clip, and drop the temperature closer to absolute zero.

Scientists on the ISS plan to mix two Bose-Einstein condensates together, and no one is really sure what will happen in a hyper-cold, microgravity environment.

If scientists can drop the temperature low enough in the Cold Atom Lab, theyll be able to assemble atomic wave packets as wide as a human hair large enough for the human eye to see.

A deeper understanding of Bose-Einstein condensates could lead to important technological innovation. Studying this unique state of matter has already yielded new laser and optical physics, such as an atom laser, which promise to improve electronic chip and circuit construction.

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Russian Soyuz rocket launched to International Space Station

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A Russian Soyuz rocket boosted an unmanned Progress supply ship into orbitWednesday, kicking off a six-hour rendezvous with the International Space Station.

With a sky-lighting burst of flame, the Progress M-22M/P-54 spacecraft climbed away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at11:23 a.m. EST(GMT-5,10:23 p.m.local time) at roughly the moment Earth's rotation carried the launch complex into the plane of the space station's orbit.

The space station passed 260 miles above Kazakhstan within a few minutes of liftoff, giving the lab's crew a glimpse of the rocket's fiery climb go space.

"We got a pretty good view of the first stage," flight engineer Rick Mastracchio told NASA flight controllers in Houston. "After (stage) separation, we pretty much lost it, but it was a good show for a few seconds."

The climb to space went smoothly and the Progress supply ship slipped into its planned preliminary orbit, with a high point of around 150 miles and a low point of roughly 120 miles, about nine minutes after liftoff. A few moments later, the spacecraft's solar panels and antennas deployed as expected.

"We have confirmation of separation of the Progress vehicle (from the Soyuz booster) and also deployment of the solar arrays and the appendages associated with the automated rendezvous and docking system," commentator Kyle Herring reported from NASA's mission control in Houston.

If all goes well, the cargo ship will carry out an automated four-orbit rendezvous with the space station, gliding to a docking at the Earth-facing Pirs module at6:25 p.m.As usual, Russian cosmonauts aboard the lab complex planned to be standing by in the Zvezda command module to remotely take over manual control of the approaching Progress if necessary.

The spacecraft is loaded with 2.8 tons of equipment and supplies for the station's six-man crew, including 2,897 pounds of spare parts, experiment hardware and general supplies, 1,764 pounds of propellant, 926 pounds of water and 110 pounds of oxygen.

The next space station resupply mission will be carried out by a commercially developed SpaceX Dragon supply ship launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. Liftoff is expected in mid March.

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James Webb Space Telescope Flight Instruments and Primary …

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The amazing mirrors that will fly aboard NASAs James Webb Space Telescope will allow the James Webb Space Telescope to see farther away and further back in time to detect the light from the very first and most distant stars and galaxies. In this photo, an engineers crystal clear reflection is seen on the surface of one of the primary mirror segments. The image is so clear you can see an expression of concentration in the engineers face. Behind the engineer looking into the mirrors surface, the top part of the canister that the mirror was shipped in hangs from four straps. Other engineers use flashlights to inspect the mirror segment. Photo Credit and Caption: NASA/Chris Gunn

At NASAs Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md., in a1.3-million-cubic-foot clean room, now rests all 18 gold-coated primary mirror segments for NASAs James Webb Space Telescopethe successor to the space agencys aging Hubble Space Telescope. All four of the telescopes science instruments are being kept within walking distance of the mirrors, and nowwith four years to launchtechnicians at Goddard are ready to assemble what will become the most powerful space telescope ever built.

The Hubble Space Telescope has already rewritten the science books. Going from Hubble to the James Webb Space Telescope is like going from a biplane to the jet engine, said MarylandSenator andChairwoman of the Senate Appropriations CommitteeBarbara Mikulski at a news conference held at Goddard on Feb. 3. As Chairwoman, Ive continued to fight for funds in the federal checkbook to keep the James Webb Space Telescope mission on track, supporting jobs today and jobs tomorrow at Goddard. NASA Goddard is home to leaders in Marylands space and innovation economies, making discoveries that not only win Nobel Prizes, but create new products and jobs. The James Webb Space Telescope will keep us in the lead for astronomy for decades to come, spurring the innovation and technology that keep Americas economy rolling.

NASA engineer Ernie Wright looks on as the first six flight ready JWST primary mirror segments are prepped for final cryogenic testing at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center. Photo Credit: NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham

With most of the major hardware now under one roof, assembly of the massive space-based observatory is expected to begin as soon as thetelescopes structure arrives at Goddard, with assembly expected to be completed in 2016. Once complete, Webbwith its69.5 ft x 46.5 ft instruments-protecting sunshield deployedwill be the size ofa Boeing 737 airplane. Hubble, in comparison, isabout the size of a large tractor-trailer truck or bus. Webbs 6.5-meter diameter primary mirror will also be bigger, much bigger. The telescope will have nearly seven times more light collecting area than Hubble, allowing for unprecedented infrared observations of distant objects from the dawn of the universe some 14 billion years ago. Its mirror and instruments will capture images of the universe and break down the spectra of incoming light to analyze the properties of galaxies, stars, and the atmospheres of planets beyond our Solar System.

The recent completion of the critical design review for Webb, and the delivery of all its instruments to Goddard, mark significant progress for this mission, said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden. The design, build, delivery and testing of these components took meticulous planning and action here at Goddard and with teams across the country, as well as with our international partners. Its very exciting to see it all coming together on schedule. And I want to thank our good friend Senator Barbara Mikulski for her support. We wouldnt be here today without her championing of this critical capability for NASA. I know she understands just how important it is to continue to push the boundaries of what we can do in space.

A joint project between NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), Webb will have been in planning, design, and development for over 20 years when it is launched atop an Ariane-5 rocket fromArianespaces ELA-3 launch complex at the European Spaceport located near Kourou, French Guiana, in 2018.

This past year has been one of significant progress for the Webb telescope, said Goddard Director Chris Scolese. The NASA Goddard team is working tirelessly with our partners to keep the program on track as we develop this newest scientific tool to explore the universe.

The program has not been without its own share of problems and was nearly cancelled by theUnited States House of Representatives appropriations committee on Commerce, Justice, and Science in 2011, citingbillions of dollars over budget and plagued by poor management as the reasoning behind killing the program. Congress, however, reversed the cancellation plans and instead capped additional funding to complete the project at $8 billionfour times more expensive than originally proposed, with a new launch date at least seven years later than originally planned.

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NASA Chief Treads Carefully on James Webb Space Telescope Budget

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GREENBELT, MD. The $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, now in what is expected to be the most expensive year of its protracted development, could find itself back in trouble if Congress cannot keep the money coming, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.) said here Feb. 3.

Were right on the cost-line, Bolden told reporters at the Goddard Space Flight Center here. Stability in the budget is critical. Its being able to know that the next year, and the next year, and the next year, right up to launch, were going to have the funds.

JWST, a flagship astrophysics mission, is expected to launch in 2018 on a five-year primary mission to observe the infrared universe from a gravitationally stable perch 1.6 million kilometers from Earth. Congress last month approved $658.2 million for the project for 2014. Before JWST entered development, around the turn of the century, program officials projected it would cost $1 billion to $3.5 billion and launch between 2007 to 2011, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Jan. 8.

Now, after lengthy delays and billions in added costs, JWST is entering its peak development years, in which major subsystems will be put together, tested, integrated with one another, and tested again. It will be, according to Bolden, one of the most difficult parts of JWSTs construction.[Photos: Building the James Webb Space Telescope]

This is our tough budget year, Bolden said. It is also the most expensive, according to projections the White House released last April with its 2014 budget proposal.

Bolden spoke to the press here after he and Mikulski, JWSTs biggest ally in Congress, held a town hall meeting at Goddard, the center in charge of building the massive infrared observatory. Both NASA employees and executives from some of JWSTs major industry contractors attended.

Mikulski told reporters that automatic budget cuts known as sequestration, which reduced NASAs 2013 appropriation to about $16.9 billion, resulted in furloughs, shutdowns, slowdowns [and] slamdown politics [which] are exactly what could derail or cause enormous cost overruns to the James Webb.

The chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and its commerce, justice, science subcommittee, said at the town hall that we would not have been able to do what we needed to do on JWST if NASAs 2014 budget had remained at the sequestered 2013 level of $16.9 billion.

However, JWST, a favorite project of Mikulskis, got exactly what the White House requested for 2013: $627.6 million, sequestration notwithstanding.

NASA and other parts of the federal government received partial relief from sequestration in 2014 and 2015 as part of the deal crafted by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.). The Consolidated Appropriations Act for 2014 (H.R. 3547), signed Jan. 17, subsequently gave NASA $17.65 billion for 2014, and $658.2 million for JWST.

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NASA, Saylor Foundation Collaborate to Offer New Free Space Systems Engineering Course

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Space Systems Engineering, a new massive open online course or MOOC from NASA and the Saylor Foundation, launches on Monday, March 3, 2014. The six-week, general-audience course is available to the public at no cost and provides a unique opportunity to learn from and alongside NASA's engineers. Students who participate can earn a free certificate.

The Space Systems Engineering MOOC, the result of a months-long collaboration between the non-profit Saylor Foundation, Washington, D.C., and personnel from NASA, examines basic systems engineering and teamwork as well as project life cycle, scoping, requirements, and trade studies. Saylor Foundation staff contributed technical, audio-video, and instructional design support, while course content consists of existing and augmented NASA materials.

Video lectures from personnel supporting the James Webb Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite missions at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., form the backbone of the lessons. NASA project manager Jeff Volosin, NASA mission systems engineer Mike Menzel, and Nobel laureate Dr. John C. Mather will provide the lectures.

"This is a good way to understand the big picture of what system engineers do; you have to understand how you fit into the team," said Jeff Volosin, project manager for the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission, one of the main instructors during the course. "Whether you are going to be a systems engineer or work with them you have some background because every engineer has to work in an area where systems engineering is a part of their life."

In producing this course, the Saylor Foundation stepped outside of its usual format to seize an opportunity deemed too good to pass up. David Rose, the foundation's content analyst and project lead for the course, said, "Being able to partner with such a storied agency like NASA is truly exciting for us. Our shared goal of enabling the public to access useful, compelling information makes us natural collaborators. As with our other courses on Saylor.org, we have repurposed exceptional resources freely available on the web, but this time we have the support and guidance of the people behind those resources."

That's a distinction that pays real dividends to students, Rose says. "It has been extremely rewarding working with brilliant minds at NASA, and I encourage anyone - everyone - to take advantage of the opportunity to learn from them."

Students can enroll prior to March at the course registration page and may also join the course at any point thereafter. Each week, registered students will receive an email detailing their assignments, questions for discussion, and opportunities to interact with one another and course designers, including NASA staff, through discussion forums.

Live Google+ Hangouts present a unique chance to engage with those behind the course; the first of several will be held on Friday, March 7, with Jeff Volosin. Students who successfully complete the course (by passing a final exam) will receive a free certificate of completion. There will also be an optional project, and the winners of the project competition will be awarded a tour of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., as well as a Google+ Hangout with the instructors of the course.

The many contributing materials to this course are all in the public domain and will remain on the Saylor Foundation's website indefinitely. Regardless of when they join the course, registered students will be able to revisit the materials whenever they wish and can incorporate the resources into other learning objects. In this respect, the Saylor Foundation's take on space systems engineering serves a continuing role as open courseware built entirely of open educational resources. The content for this MOOC was derived from a more extensive course developed by NASA engineer Lisa Guerra, during her tenure at The University of Texas at Austin. The original space systems engineering course is intended for undergraduate engineers as a supplement to their capstone design work.

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Testing CATS in Space: Laser Technology to Debut on Space Station

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While felines in space may be what youre thinking, the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS) is a much more helpful accompaniment planned for theInternational Space Station. CATS will study the distribution of aerosols, the tiny particles that make up haze, dust, air pollutants, and smoke.

When IcelandsEyjafjallajkull volcanoerupted nearly four years ago, for example, officials grounded flights in Europe because particles contained within its massive plume could damage aircraft engines, resulting in potentially deadly consequences for passengers. NASA couldnt dispatch aircraft-borne instruments for the very same reasons European officials had grounded commercial aircraft. When the next volcano erupts, NASA will have a new tool in orbit that can monitor the spread of particles in Earths atmosphere from its space-based perch.

ThisEarth remote sensinginstrument is scheduled to launch to the space station in September 2014 as a demonstration project. Its sensors will help researchers determine for the first time what state-of-the-art, three-wavelength laser technology can do from space to measure tiny airborne particlesalso known as aerosolsin Earths atmosphere.

Developed by NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center scientist Matt McGill, and his team, CATS will be able to see the character as well as vertical and horizontal distribution of aerosols in a whole new light. When CATS begins operations from its docking port on the Japanese Experiment Module-Exposed Facility (JEM-EF), the refrigerator-sized sensor will continue measuring atmospheric aerosols using the same two-laser wavelengths as NASAs Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission the 1064 and 532 nanometer wavelengths.

Third Wavelength Added

What makes CATS stand out is the addition of a third laser wavelength at 355 nanometers. This will deliver more detailed information and could help scientists differentiate between the types of particles in the atmosphere. CATS is also equipped with extremely sensitive detectors capable of counting individual photons, delivering better resolution and finer-scale details.

"You get better data quality because you make fewer assumptions, and you get, presumably, a more accurate determination of what kind of particles youre seeing in the atmosphere," said McGill.

While CALIPSO can deliver 20 pulses of laser per second, using, as McGill described it, a whopping 110 milliJoules of energy in each of those pulses, CATS will fire 5,000 laser pulses per second, with only about 1 milliJoule for each pulse. The greatly simplified CATS power and thermal requirements are a huge plus for space-borne applications.

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Top 10 Hottest Redheads in the World – Brosome

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Oh man, redheads! Theres just something about them, right? When theyre not hot, boy theyre really not hot at all, but when theyre hot, you need to look out! Red hair may be one of the hardest hues to pull off, but when someone gets red right theres nothing better!!!

With their fiery looks, cute freckles and stunning light skin, ginger hotties are that rare breed of beauty capable of making even the most stunning blonds and brunettes seem pretty normal. Bruce Springsteen once sang (and I happen to agree with him): Brunettes are fine, man, and blondes are fun, but when it comes to getting a job done I need a red headed woman.

So to honor these ravaging beauties, weve put together this kick ass list with the top ten hottest redheads in the worlds right now. We havent included Jessica Rabbit or other redheads popular years ago, just todays awesome redheads. Lets start with #10.

Best known for her roles in The Wrestler, Across the Universe and for being the crazy vampire goddess in True Blood, this girl is one of the most beautiful redheads on TV. She used to be in a creepy relationship with Marilyn Manson and we didnt liked that at all, but last year they broke up and then she even revealed shes Bisexual so one more reason to love her and feature her in our list, right?

Im pretty sure most of you dont even have a clue who she is and all I can tell you is that shes a young English model who took the word by storm with her unique ginger looks. Shes been featured in numerous magazines across Europe and shes still in college so if you ever imagined a perfect girlfriend from Europe, she might be the one. She looks a bit weird in a couple of photos youll find with her, like a smoking hot alien or something but shes just.. amazing!

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A subreddit created to celebrate the glory of the redheads. To share the joy of the gingers, the fun of the firecrotches, the rage of the rusty ones and the bodies of the blood nuts.

Rules on posting to /r/redheads.

You must have a post that links directly to an image or an album. If your posts links to a site that contains more than the image or group of images it will be removed. This includes in the comment section.

If you do a source link and it goes to a site with more then the images it will be removed. If you want to source try a search engine (google, yahoo) result or a imgur album.

No penises at all. No videos. No blog sites.

Images not hosted on imgur, minus, flickr, or deviantart will be removed.

Special note to spammers. We love reporting you and watching you get banned.

This subreddit is NSFW, it has lots of porn. Even if some of the pictures are SFW. If you have to ask or point out that a picture is SFW and marked NSFW you are a moron.

If you are going to report a post please use the message the moderators link and let me know why it is being reported.

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Husqvarna Red Bull team goes global with WIL Sport

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Mangakinos Kayne Lamont is going from strength to strength.

Fresh from his sensational MX2 (250cc) class win at the 53rd annual New Zealand Motocross Grand Prix at Woodville just over a week ago, Lamonts Husqvarna Red Bull New Zealand Race Team is thrilled to report they have secured an additional high-profile sponsor.

Internationally-recognised Kiwi company WIL Sport Management Limited, owned by West Aucklands Phil and Cheryl London, has signed on to support the motocross race team, a further diversification of the assistance they already offer New Zealand sporting endeavours, after previously supporting Kiwi motorcycle road-race heroes overseas such as Orewas Avalon Biddle, Rangioras Jake Lewis and West Aucklands Connor London.

WIL Sport Management already backs Kiwi athletes in sports as diverse as ice hockey, gymnastics, netball and diving, for example.

"We will receive massive support with our travel expenses from WIL Sport Management," said Husqvarna Red Bull New Zealand Race Team manager Stu Lamont.

"Im over the moon about it. It takes a lot of pressure off me and the team. It is a real boost for the team," he said.

The race team is on the road this week and heading to the first of four rounds in the New Zealand Motocross Championships near Timaru on Saturday, with rounds to follow in Tokoroa, Pukekohe and Taupo. The team then packs up and heads across the Tasman to race the 10-round Australian Motocross Championships as well, starting in March.

"We will undergo some re-branding in the next week or so, and should have updated graphics on the bike before round two (of the New Zealand series) in two weeks time," said Lamont.

"The team has amazing support from all its sponsors and we cant think enough individuals like Workshop Graphics owner Darryl Blom, Patrick Stafford of Husqvarna New Zealand, Red Bulls Brendan Thomas and Reece McLeod from and Fox and Shift apparel. They have been awesome for us."

From the WIL Sport Management perspective, the new arrangement fits in well with their strategies.

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Seeing RED on Friday

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Everone urged to wear red, Syracuse building will be lit up in red

Wear red on Friday, as part of awareness of women's heart disease

To do on Friday: wear red.

It's the American Heart Association's effort to raise awareness of heart disease as the #1 killer of women.

Many Central New York businesses urge their staffers to be involved (including CNY Central, where you'll see a lot of red in our broadcasts on Friday).

Many Syracuse buildings will also be illuminated in red, to raise awareness.

Kathryn Ruscitto, who heads up St. Joseph's Hospital, and also heads up the local effort for American Heart, says you can also start prevention by knowing your numbers: cholesterol, blood pressure and BMI (Body Mass Index) and doing something about those numbers. (Her interview from Saturday's Weekend Today in CNY is attached)

For more information: American Heart Association at 234-4700, or http://www.goredforwomen.org

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The Bristol Post commented Bristol volunteer heads to aid flood victims for Red Cross

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Roy Marshall from Henleaze and international warehouse operative Derek Hall (background). Credit: Victoria Wood-Matthews/BRC

A BRISTOL man has joined the latest emergency response to flooding on the Somerset Levels.

Roy Marshall from Henleaze joined a British Red Cross crew in a second 4x4 vehicle sent from the charitys international warehouse in Warmley to support with transferring people through flood water.

The Landrover Defender is in addition to the 4x4 Unimog vehicle the charity dispatched last week to transport fuel and supplies through the flooded back roads to the cut-off village of Muchelney.

In total the Red Cross has a team of six volunteers in three 4x4 vehicles on the ground in the Somerset Levels as part of the multi-agency response aimed at keeping residents safe.

Three additional volunteers have been dispatched to assist the authorities with the setting up of a rest centre at North Petherton Bowling Club, on the edge of the Somerset Levels.

More volunteers are being placed on standby to continue the response tonight and into tomorrow, with more bad weather on the way.

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