A Midlands man is in jail accused of working with two other people to defraud an insurance company by intentionally cutting a person’s hand off with a pole saw and then filing an insurance claim.
According to the US Attorney’s Office, Gerald B Hardin, 34, of Cayce, was arrested on charges that he and two other people committed mail fraud in May 2008 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Back in 1955, a little company called Nippon Gakki unveiled a 125cc 2-stroke motorcycle known as the YA-1. It won a couple of races and started selling at the blistering pace of about 200 units per month. Fast forward 57 years, and the company — better known as Yamaha — has gone back to its roots with the Y125 Moegi concept bike — via Retro Thing
Punk rock band The Sex Pistols have signed a record deal with Universal, it has been announced.
An expanded and repackaged edition of the band’s Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols album will be released later this year.
Universal said the release will tie in with the record’s 35th anniversary — via redwolf.newsvine.com
At Cremorne Veterinary Hospital, Dr Louise Stevenson said she prescribes about 10 times more
behavioural medication than a decade ago.
Twenty years ago there was not a single person in Australia who treated mental health in animals, said Dr Andrew O’Shea, incoming president of the behavioural group of the Australian Veterinary Association. Today there are specialists, university courses in veterinary behavioural medicine, and sophisticated drugs.
The segment has grown significantly,
agreed Andrew Palmer, a spokesman for Novartis, which sells Clomicalm, a separation-anxiety pill for dogs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Repo Man is coming out on Blu-ray but not here in the United States. Why?
Alex Cox: Universal Studios has an antipathy towards Repo Man and towards Walker. I don’t think they will ever bring out a good version in the US. I can’t understand why Universal won’t do a sequel given how much money they made off the original Repo Man. It’s an institutional animus. The kinds of people that get jobs in studios tend to be fearful of their superiors and that’s how they keep their jobs. The guys at Universal, even though they were 13 when Repo Man came out, they’ve been told by their superiors: We don’t like that film
. And that’s the official attitude from generation to generation in the studio. They have an institutional animus which almost makes you think that corporations really could be people
Then there’s the crisis of getting rights from studios.
Alex Cox: It’s so corrupt. Now they want to have longer copyright periods because they say the young artists are relying on this money. The young artists never see any money because they sign away that money to big media corporations, like Universal and Viacom. We, the artists, lose all of our rights to these massive corporations, who then come down heavy on these kids for downloading films and music that we never see a penny from. It’s complete bullshit. I want to encourage your audience to go and pirate a bunch of my stuff right away — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A former social worker has told how she was instructed to actively encourage young unmarried mothers to give up their babies for adoption at a Sydney hospital in the 1970s.
The woman, who wishes to be known only as Jan
, was a trainee social worker at Sydney’s Royal Hospital For Women when it was run by the Benevolent Society in 1972.
She has told ABC1’s Four Corners she has always felt awful about her part in pressuring young unmarried women 40 years ago.
Basically my job was to shut them up, stop them crying, get them to realise that giving up their baby was the best thing that they could do and get on with it,
she said.
Jan says it was made clear to her by her superiors that adoption was the only message to be delivered to unmarried mothers.
I was one of the people who was involved with telling the girls that if they kept their baby they were being selfish. They were being selfish to the baby and selfish to the adopting parents who really wanted to have a child,
she said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Maned Wolves at Sweden’s Nordens Ark Zoo had two pups in late January; one male and two females. The zoo’s breeding pair is a key pair in the Maned Wolf breeding program worldwide, making this birth especially important for conservation. Maned Wolf pups are born all black, and gradually change colour as they grow older. By around six months of age, they’ll be nearly completely reddish brown — via ZooBorns
Actress Lucy Lawless has been arrested, along with five other Greenpeace activists in Port Taranaki, New Zealand.
The arrests end a 77-hour protest at the top of a 53m drilling tower on Shell oil exploration ship the Noble Discoverer.
Protesters boarded the Arctic-bound ship and scaled the drilling tower on Friday morning, locking the access ladder to barricade themselves.
The protesters hung banners from the drilling derrick reading Stop Shell
and #SaveTheArctic
.
This chapter has ended, but the story of the battle to save the Arctic has just begun,
said Lawless, before being arrested.
Seven of us climbed up that drillship to stop Arctic drilling, but 133,000 of us came down
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Someone should tell that Octopus that scooters don’t run so well in the water — via Clinton Reno
This stunning 1969 Triumph TR6 custom is the work of Raccia Motorcycles, a low-key outfit based in a century-old bottling factory just north of Los Angeles. The lines and stance are simply perfect, and if you’ve ever tried to build a custom bike, you’ll know how difficult that can be. The builder of this machine is Mike LaFountain, and his philosophy is simple: I’m always trying to change proportions and form new lines to create a unique look, which stems from my love of vintage GP race bikes
— via Bike EXIF
Marine biologists are starting to get a good idea now of how squid hear and how they react to sounds in the ocean.
It is only recently that scientists have come to accept that cephalopods have any auditory capability at all.
But new experiments show noises of varying loudness and frequency will elicit a range of behaviours in the animals — such as jetting or inking, and even a change of colour.
The research has been featured at the biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting.
It was presented by Aran Mooney from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) of Massachusetts, US — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 39-year-old man was arrested early Thursday after he tried to rob two men in a motel room, dropping his gun and later returning to buy back his own firearm, Bradenton police said.
At about midnight, Cedrick Mitchell barged into a room at the Royal Motel, 1526 14th Street West. He asked the two men inside for pills.
When they said they had none, Mitchell pulled out a black handgun from his waistband and demanded everything you got
, said Bradenton police Capt. Warren Merriman.
The men began to fight. During the scuffle, Mitchell dropped his gun and one of the victims pepper-sprayed him in the face.
Mitchell ran away. But moments later, he was back at the motel room and begged the two men to buy his gun back for $40, Merriman said.
Mitchell was pepper-sprayed in the face again and ran away — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cybercriminals are using a modified version of the ZeuS computer Trojan that no longer relies on command and control (C&C) servers for receiving instructions, according to Symantec security researchers.
ZeuS is very popular in the cybercriminal world because it’s capable of stealing a wide variety of information, documents and login credentials from infected systems. For many years it was the weapon of choice for most fraudsters targeting online banking systems.
The Trojan’s source code was published on Internet underground forums last year, paving the way for many third-party modifications and improvements
Use your computer in style with this super fun, totally tentacular squid flash drive (memory card, jump drive, etc). It’s so unique and totally hand-crafted by the artist using a high quality animal/character replica — via ShanaLogic
June of Planet June has a new video showing her trick for secure stitching on amigurumi faces. She’s even demonstrated it in left and right-hand versions, so it’s easy to follow for anyone — via CRAFT
Sometimes, when two octopi love each other very much, they weave their bodies together and a very special heart is born — via W+K Studio
Located on 12-acres of quiet ranch land and adjacent to the buff-colored stone canyon bluffs directly east of Boulder, the site for this project [Semple Brown Design] was unique in that its orientation was not about distant views, it was about directing energy inward and creating a peaceful intimacy within the site itself — via CONTEMPORIST
There’s not enough Megashark and Giant Octopus love — via deviantART
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