Day: May 19, 2024

If we knew the price of power at any time of day, we could stack the deck in our favour. That was the theory, anyway

For a year I paid the real price for solar and I hated it – and loved it.

I eventually had to stop because I was starting to more-than-slightly obsess about it. For a while it was worse than my Candy Crush addiction, and it ended the same way.

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Modern life is stuck on a treadmill and its pace exceeds human limits. What would it look like to step off?

I can’t run right now – or what, for me, passes for running. I must walk, and I hate it. A tear in my right calf muscle has exposed me as a walking cliche of middle-class, middle-aged life: I overcompensate for a deskbound existence through bursts of physical exercise, but now with painful results.

This 43-year-old body isn’t what she used to be.

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An Iranian reformist news site cited an “informed source” as saying that the crash involving Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s helicopter was “serious” and that there was a “high probability” of injuries in the accident.https://t.co/bwGlIC0Uux

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) May 19, 2024

Azerbaijan Raisi – GS – https://t.co/rszTwptPOK

Iranian president’s helicopter makes ‘hard landing,’ rescuers …https://t.co/PoexdLZ5n5https://t.co/e7bUWmR60V › article › iran-president-aliyev-…
23 minutes ago — The aircraft, carrying Ebrahim Raisi, was involved in an…

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) May 19, 2024

julfa – Google Search https://t.co/FF3ChFJnDz pic.twitter.com/O9tBf6dAJB

— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) May 19, 2024

julfa iran – GS https://t.co/MTrkpDp0yt Al Jazeera
Helicopter carrying Iran’s president suffers ‘hard landing’: State TV
Iranian state media say search operations are under way after incident near Jolfa in Iran’s East Azerbaijan province.
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— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) May 19, 2024