Rule 5 Saturday - Via the Wayback Machine - Kristy Hume

All the way back to the 90's: 

Kirsty Hume (born 4 September 1976) is a Scottish model who came to prominence in the fashion world in the 1990s.

Hume modeled for Dior, Givenchy, Chanel, Lanvin, Yves Saint Laurent, Christian Lacroix, Gianfranco Ferré, Claude Montana, Alexander McQueen, Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace, blah blah blah.

In 1996 Hume was the feature model for Chanel ads. She has modelled for Victoria's Secret. . . .

The usual.

Following a 1997 Paris, France showing of Karl Lagerfeld designs for Chanel, Hume was queried by a Russian TV reporter. He asked her what was the most exciting part of her job. She answered, Um, the money.

Honesty! I like it!

She seems to have been an early adopter of the notorious Panda eyes look.

Hume was married to rocker and actor Donovan Leitch, Jr. until 2011. They divorced in 2014, following a 3-year long separation. After getting married in Scotland in 1997, they drove all around Bali in a jeep. The couple has a daughter named Violet, born March 2004.

Hume and Leitch eschewed city life and relocated to Woodstock, New York. Hume began to study painting and paganism after their move.She is fond of wearing flip flops and Birkenstocks.

A hippy! A few NSFW shots. Linked at Pirate's Cove in the weekly "Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup." Wombat-socho has "Rule 5 Sunday: All You Need Is Kill" and "FMJRA 2.0: To Run Where The Brave Dare Not Go" up and running at The Other McCain.

Scottish Red Deer Not Scottish

Stone Age humans brought deer to Scotland by sea

Stone Age humans populated the Scottish islands with red deer transported "considerable distances" by boat, said researchers Wednesday who admitted surprise at our prehistoric ancestors' seafaring prowess.

DNA analysis revealed that deer on Scotland's northermost islands were unlikely to have come from the closest and seemingly most obvious places -- mainland Scotland, Ireland or Norway, said a study in the Royal Society journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

"Our results imply that Neolithic humans were transporting deer considerable distances, by sea, from an unknown source" some 4,500-5,500 years ago, co-author David Stanton of Cardiff University told AFP by email.

That puts it around the time of Stonehenge, which was started around 3,000 BC

"These results are surprising... The evidence suggests that we have misunderstood our relationship with this species," he added.

"Perhaps humans managed deer, having long-term relationships with herds that allowed them to plan, capture and transport deer on longer voyages."

It was known that late Stone Age humans had transported cattle, sheep and pigs by boat, but not large wild animals, and not over such vast distances.

I wouldn't want to be in a small leather boat with a bull elk, either.

Red deer, said Stanton, were central to life in Britain from the end of the last Ice Age about 11,000 years ago to the arrival of the first late Stone Age farmers.

The animals provided crucial nourishment, skins, sinew, bones and antlers -- used to till the soil, among other things.

Scientists say all animals, including deer, found on the islands today must have been introduced by seafaring people.

The islands were covered in ice during the last "glacial maximum", a period of deep Earth freeze, and have since been separated from each other and the mainland by spans of ocean too wide for deer to swim.

It was therefore thought the deer must have been brought from nearby, possibly from mainland Scotland, boat-hopping from island to island with short spurts of swimming in between.

But DNA analysis of Neolithic deer bones found that those on the most distant, northern islands, were genetically dissimilar to deer from Britain, Ireland, the western European mainland or Scandinavia.

"The hunt is now on to find the ancestors of these deer," said Stanton.

That seems to rule out most of the nearby regions, but how about Doggerland?

Doggerland was an area of land, now lying beneath the southern North Sea, that connected Great Britain to mainland Europe during and after the last Ice Age. It was then gradually flooded by rising sea levels around 6,500–6,200 BCE. Geological surveys have suggested that it stretched from Britain's east coast to the Netherlands and the western coasts of Germany and the peninsula of Jutland. It was probably a rich habitat with human habitation in the Mesolithic period, although rising sea levels gradually reduced it to low-lying islands before its final destruction, perhaps following a tsunami caused by the Storegga Slide.

The timing is not quite right, but where else would they come from?

Scots Vote to Keep Hands in English Pockets

As somebody, somewhere pointed out, Scotland trying to secede from the UK is not analogous to Texas seceding from the US because it's too liberal, but more like Oregon or Washington state seceding because the rest of the country is too conservative. Scotland is to a large extent the cold, wet extension of the welfare state into the arctic waste. They even liked to think of themselves as splitting off to form a Scandahoovian social democracy.  But how to pay for it?

Scots each get £1,600 more state cash a year spent on them than the English

The gulf in state spending between Scotland and England has hit a record £1,600 per head. Government spending in Scotland averaged £10,212 per person last year – £1,624 per head more than in England.

The staggering figures, buried in Treasury documents, reveal the gap increased by more than 15 per cent in only a year.
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Scots receive a range of services free of charge, including prescriptions, long-term care for the elderly and university tuition – all of which attract hefty charges in England.

Subsidising these services costs every family south of the border £420 a year.

Tory MP David Mowat said the Government's refusal to tackle the issue was ‘indefensible’. He added: ‘It is right that the Scottish government can set its own priorities and if it wants to prioritise free prescriptions, for example, that is fine. But it is not right that they end up with an extra £1,600 per person to pay for it.

‘This is quite wrong and will rightly cause indignation in England. Many MPs are having to defend deeply unpopular cuts. We do so on the basis that there is no alternative and that the deficit must be brought down.

Of course, one big source was to be North Sea oil, but that has peaked, and is fading relatively fast. I have no doubt but that where there's conventional oil, there's shale oil deeper available by fracking, but that's probably verboten to the liberal environmental crew expecting to take over if Scots voted to separate from the UK. Solar power is not a viable option in northern, cloudy Scotland, and wind power has yet to prove really economical anywhere without subsidies.

I guess they just decided staying was a better deal.