Swatch Group, the world’s leading watchmaker, said on Monday that it would acquire the US jeweller and watchmaker Harry Winston for up to US$1 billion (S$1.23 billion) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service says 12 properties have been lost in a bushfire west of Coonabarabran, which also damaged the Siding Spring Observatory.
The fire in the Warrumbungle National Park has burnt out up to 40,000 hectares and has already forced the evacuation of over 100 residents.
The fire is presently burning in a northerly direction away from Timor Road and is about a kilometre south of Bugaldie.
The Rural Fire Service confirmed this morning that 12 properties had been lost on Timor Road — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The family of celebrated internet activist Aaron Swartz has accused prosecutors and MIT officials of being complicit in his death, blaming the apparent suicide on the pursuit of a young man over an alleged crime that had no victims
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In a statement released late Saturday, Swartz’s parents, Robert and Susan, siblings Noah and Ben and partner Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman said the Redditt builder’s demise was not just a personal tragedy
but the product of a criminal justice system rife with intimidation and prosecutorial overreach
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They also attacked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for not supporting the internet activist in his legal battles and refusing to stand up for its own community’s most cherished principles
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The comments came a day after the 26-year-old killed himself in his Brooklyn apartment on Friday night — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dolph Springer wakes up one morning to realise he has lost the love of his life, his dog, Paul. During his quest to get Paul (and his life) back, Dolph radically changes the lives of others — risking his sanity all the while
The Australian Bushfire Map combines near real-time information (hourly to daily updates) from multiple public agencies to give a composite view of fire incidents affecting Australia
Taking beta-blocker drugs may cut the risk of dementia, a trial in 774 men suggests.
The medication is used to treat high blood pressure, a known risk factor for dementia.
In the study, which will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting in March, men on beta-blockers were less likely to have brain changes suggestive of dementia.
Experts say it is too early to recommend beta-blockers for dementia.
The findings are preliminary and larger studies in men and women from different ethnicities are needed to see what benefit beta-blockers might offer.
People with high blood pressure are advised to see their doctor and get their condition under control to prevent associated complications like heart disease, stroke and vascular dementia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A simple spit test could identify thousands of children with severe asthma who are taking medication which will never help them, scientists say.
One in seven people will not respond to salmeterol, found in purple or green inhalers, which is given to tens of thousands of children in the UK.
A study of 62 children showed those patients could be identified and given effective treatment.
The results were published in the journal Clinical Science — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Arctic Fox #4, originally uploaded by Pat’s Pics36.
It was early November when Martha Keochareon called the nursing school at Holyoke Community College, her alma mater. She had a proposal, which she laid out in a voice mail message.
I have cancer,
she said after introducing herself, and I’m wondering if you’ll need somebody to do a case study on, a hospice patient.
Perhaps some nursing students just want to feel what a tumor feels like,
she went on. Or they could learn something about hospice care, which aims to help terminally ill people die comfortably at home.
Maybe you’ll have some ambitious student that wants to do a project,
Ms Keochareon (pronounced CATCH-uron) said after leaving her phone number. Thank you. Bye.
Kelly Keane, a counsellor at the college who received the message, was instantly intrigued. Holyoke’s nursing students, like most, learn about cancer from textbooks. They get some experience with acutely ill patients during a rotation on the medical-surgical floor of a hospital. They practice their skills in the college’s simulation lab on sophisticated mannequins that can die
of cancer, heart attacks and other ailments. But Ms Keochareon, 59, a 1993 graduate of Holyoke’s nursing program, was offering students something rare: an opportunity not only to examine her, but also to ask anything they wanted about her experience with cancer and dying.
She is allowing us into something we wouldn’t ever be privy to,
Ms Keane said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In 1967, Addams Family creator and New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams published a children’s book — The Charles Addams Mother Goose — in which he put his own irreverent spin on Mother Goose rhymes — via Neatorama
Subtle Patterns is created and curated by Atle Mo, whose goal is to be a high quality resource for anyone in need of tileable textured patterns, free to use
After a shootout claims the life of his partner in a condemned tenement building on Pearl Street, Detective John Tallow unwittingly stumbles across an apartment stacked high with guns. When examined, each weapon leads to a different, previously unsolved murder. Someone has been killing people for twenty years or more and storing the weapons together for some inexplicable purpose.
Gun Machine by Warren Ellis. Narrated by Wil Wheaton. Illustrated by Ben Templesmith. Directed by Jim Batt
Businesses will not be able to use pre-ticked boxes to gain user consent for the processing of their data under changes proposed by the European Parliament to new EU data protection laws.
In a new report, Jan-Philipp Albrecht, a rapporteur for the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee on the proposed EU data protection reforms, said that consumers should not have to opt out from automatic settings in order to avoid businesses deeming that they have given consent to their personal data being processed — via redwolf.newsvine.com
All you greying, half-deaf Def Leppard fans, listen up. A drug applied to the ears of mice deafened by noise can restore some hearing in the animals. By blocking a key protein, the drug allows sound-sensing cells that are damaged by noise to regrow. The treatment isn’t anywhere near ready for use in humans, but the advance at least raises the prospect of restoring hearing to some deafened people — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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A Volusia County man is in fair condition after he was beaten and dragged behind his ex-wife’s truck, according to investigators.
Three people are accused in the attempted-homicide of Robert Hall. Doctors do expect him to survive.
Officials said 46-year-old Joan Hobart of New Smyrna Beach was arrested Wednesday. Hall’s 61-year-old ex-wife, Jeanette Morris, and her brother, 63-year-old Harold Anderson, were arrested first.
Investigators said Morris still lives with Hall and learned he had another woman over while she was away.
Morris, Anderson and Hall were all drinking together when a fight began.
Deputies said Morris and Anderson beat up Hall, waved a gun around and used a stun gun on him. He was then tied up by Hobart and Morris and dragged from the back of a truck for about a half mile, according to authorities.
Hall told authorities that at one point they stopped the truck and were overheard saying that they were going to drive and find a hole to bury him in — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Men with brown eyes have more trustworthy faces than men with blue eyes, according to a new study that proposes sexual selection of women in Europe about 10,000 years ago could be the cause.
Various facial traits, such as larger noses and higher set features, have previously been associated with perceived traits such as trustworthiness, dominance and attractiveness, which in turn can indicate political success or salary of the person. But this was the first study that looked at eye colour and perceptions of trustworthiness.
Men with brown eyes tend to be perceived as more trustworthy than men with blue eyes,
concluded Karel Kleisner, from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, co-author of the story published in the journal PLOS One — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Turkish hacker group RedHack has leaked over 60,000 documents in its latest attack on the Council of Higher Education of Turkey (YÖK) website, unravelling hundreds of corruption investigations and documented incidents.
In a counter-move taken after last month’s clashes between students and police at the Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ), RedHack took over the YÖK website, defacing a sub-domain and leaking tens of thousands of cables.
A number of the documents were confidential, according to a RedHack statement released on Jan.9.
The documents consist of bank account information, parliamentary complaints, correspondence between YÖK and universities, as well as end reports of corruption investigations.
Financial schemes, mishandled student information and private agreements with banks in exchange for financial and material rewards can all be seen in the series of documents released by the anti-government hacker group — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia’s giant and record heatwave, which is sparking hundreds of bush fires across the land, has forced the country’s meteorologists to redraw their national temperature scales — upwards.
In an unprecedented move, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology has extended the temperature range on its charts from the previous cap of 50 degrees Centigrade — 122 degrees Fahrenheit — to 54 degrees C, which is more than 129 degrees in Fahrenheit terms.
At the same time, it has added two entirely new colours — deep purple and pink — to show the new extreme range on its interactive weather maps. A patch of purple, indicating 50+, is now visible on one of the temperature charts for next week.
This is thought to be the first time that any country in the world has actually redrawn its charts to take account of temperatures which are thought likely to go off the scale which had been previously applied, and climate scientists indicated it was a warning for the future — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The female Aardvark calf, which was born on 8 October, made her public debut at Henry Doorly Zoo on 27 December. Because her mother has a history of not caring for her offspring, the calf is being hand-reared by zoo staff. She is displayed next to her parents so she can become familiar with their scent and vocalisations — via ZooBorns
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