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The staff members at Spool and Loop (sister fabric and yarn stores in Philadelphia) took their love of fabric designs and turned them in to a series of tattoos in a bonding-through-ink celebration — via CRAFT
A nurse charged with murder over the fatal nursing home fire in Sydney’s north-west was at the scene of the blaze yesterday.
Roger Dean, 35, was arrested last night and charged with four counts of murder over the fire that tore through Quakers Hill Nursing Home.
Dean, who was a nurse at the facility, was remanded in custody after appearing via a video link in the Parramatta local court today.
Police say they expect to lay more charges against the nurse, who will face court again next Thursday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
There are calls for tighter identity checks for people selling property in Australia, after several homeowners have been conned by so-called Nigerian scams.
The fraud involves identity theft, and using faxes and emails to try to sell a property without the true owner’s knowledge.
The latest attempt, in Sydney’s eastern suburbs, was foiled soon before the apartment was due to be auctioned.
It followed two successful frauds in Perth.
In all three cases, the real owners were living in Africa — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Rogue. Clown. Troublemaker. Caretaker. Reverend.
Stir in a good dose of testosterone, some survival instincts and plenty of humour, and you have the Firefly Les Hommes Poster Set. Created by designer Megan Lara using the sinuous lines, floral motifs and organic pastels that are characteristic of art nouveau, each of these gents smoulder with distinctive personality and masculinity — via Qmx
Yamaha’s underrated Virago from the 1980s is really gaining favour as a custom base. Classified Moto have already shown the way, and here’s another terrific example—this time from Greg Hageman of Doc’s Chops. It’s a 1982 Yamaha XV750, and it was built for Season Two of Discovery Channel’s Cafe Racer TV show. Hageman built a new subframe to support the lovely, wasp-like seat unit, and lowered the forks by two inches to improve the stance. There’s a Tarozzi fork brace to tighten the handling, along with Tarozzi rearsets and clip-ons for a better riding position. At the back is an adjustable, air-assisted shock and a simple Acewell unit has replaced the standard instruments — via Bike EXIF
This is what we’ve all been dreaming of folks! The tiniest glass octopus I could manage! Smaller than a penny they are the perfect size for earrings — via Etsy
Jacob Stateski, 6, was crushed
when he learned a new rule at his school, Earl Beatty Public School, means he can’t take his soccer ball with him any more to play at recess. Nor can he bring his football. And tennis balls are also forbidden.
He said, ‘Daddy, what am I going to do with all my friends?’ He wanted to change schools,
said his father, Chris Stateski.
So now he and his buddies play with a little, tiny, Nerf ball he got from his 3-year-old brother,
says Stateski.
The happy days of kicking a ball around at recess ended Monday after students took home a letter advising that henceforth, no child could bring a soccer ball, football, volleyball or even tennis ball to the junior and senior school in the area of Coxwell and Danforth Aves.
The letter stated that there have been a few serious incidents
in which staff and students have been hit, or come close to being struck, by flying balls. From now on, only Nerf balls or sponge balls can be brought to school — via redwolf.newsvine.com
If you need a little taste of warmer weather to carry along with you this winter, Heidi from Speckless has just the thing. Head over to her site to get the complete pattern and instructions for making her darling crocheted pear pendant. The mini pear looks great as a necklace, but they might also make fun ornaments for an offbeat Christmas tree — via CRAFT
The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has told mobile phone companies to begin blocking text messages containing obscene
words.
Mobile phone companies Telenor Pakistan and Ufone confirmed to the BBC that the PTA has sent them a dictionary
of banned words and expressions.
The PTA has reportedly ordered operators to begin screening text messages by 21 November.
Ufone say they are now working on how to block the offending words — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is perhaps the strangest/weirdest house we’ve ever featured — and amazingly, this architect-designed Tunnel Road Castle three-bedroomed house in Berkeley, California, USA is actually a fairly recent build.
Not that you’d guess. It has all the hallmarks of 1960s or ’70s excess. In fact, it was created by Ace Architects in 1996, inspired by the saxophone and the trumpet, depending on the angle you are looking at.
See the agent listing for all the images, well worth your while. It’s on the market for $998,000, which isn’t cheap, but compared to UK prices, isn’t a killer amount either — via WowHaus
Up to nine elderly people died when fire ripped through a nursing home in western Sydney this morning, in what fire crews are calling the city’s worst blaze for 30 years.
Fire crews were forced to crawl through thick smoke on their hands and knees to search beds and cupboards for residents after the fire broke out at the Principal home in Hambledon Road, Quakers Hill, shortly before 5:00am (AEDT).
Police say up to nine people lost their lives. Around 20 people have been taken to hospital. Most have smoke inhalation or minor burns, but some have suffered serious injuries.
At least one woman in her 80s has received burns to 20 per cent of her body — via redwolf.newsvine.com
More than 100 years after it was last seen, the giant Neptune’s cup sponge (Cliona patera) has been rediscovered off the coast of southern Singapore.
First discovered in 1822, the sponges grew so large — a metre or more in both height and diameter — that their cup-like structures were sometimes used as tubs for babies. But their size made them valuable to collectors around the world and they were overharvested until they disappeared from Singapore in the 1870s. The last time living sponges were seen was 1908, when collectors found some in West Java, Indonesia. The species was then thought to be extinct.
But in the 1990s, a few dead Neptune’s cup sponges turned near Australia, giving researchers hope that they might find these massive Porifera again in the oceans around Singapore.
And now that hope has been met: Two living Neptune’s cup sponges have been found near Singapore’s St John’s Island. The first specimen was found in March by biologists with the environmental engineering firm DHI Water & Environment (S) Pte Ltd. A second sponge was found 50 meters away
More damaging evidence has emerged of the German authorities’ failure to stop a group of neo-Nazi terrorists who killed 10 people, robbed 14 banks and planted two nail bombs during 13 years on the run.
On Tuesday, the Hessen branch of the domestic intelligence service, the Verfassungsschutz, or BfV, admitted that one of its agents had been present in April 2006 when two members of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) shot dead a 21-year-old Turk in an internet café.
It has now emerged that the agent, who was transferred to less-sensitive work following an investigation at the time, openly held rightwing views and was known in the village where he grew up as “Little Adolf”. When police raided his flat following the murder, they found a cache of guns, for which he had a legitimate licence, and extracts from Mein Kampf, according to Der Spiegel. There are unconfirmed reports that the man was present at three or more other neo-Nazi murder scenes — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In 1985, Ducati made a replica of its Pantah-based TT racers called the 750 F1. Around 1,500 were made, and won acclaim for their streamlined design and exceptional handling. This particular machine originally belonged to Lou Saif, the well-regarded restorer of TT2 and TT1 factory race bikes — via Bike EXIF
Internet giants went on the attack on Wednesday, claiming legislation aimed at tackling online piracy would create an internet blacklist bill
that would encourage censorship, kill jobs and give US authorities unrivalled powers over the world’s websites.
Internet firms including Wikipedia owner Wikimedia, eBay, Google, Twitter and others protested as Congress discussed the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (Sopa) now passing through Washington.
The act aims to tackle online piracy by giving the US Justice Department new powers to go after websites, both domestically and abroad, that host disputed copyright material. The act would allow the US to effectively pull the plug on websites and go after companies that support them technically or through payment systems. A vote on the bill could come as early as next month — via redwolf.newsvine.com
My company owns thousands of domains. Very few of them are registered with GoDaddy. Turns out that was a smart, unintentional business move. And that’s why we’re writing this review.
Our experience with GoDaddy has been a bureaucratic nightmare. They can literally freeze up your account and not give you access to domains that you’ve paid a lot of money for and that you’ve invested in developing if your company ever triggers their anti-fraud mechanism. And then your account could be locked up in-perpetuity if you’re unable (for legitimate reasons) to provide all the documentation that they request. To top it all off, when you call to talk to someone at GoDaddy about the frozen account, they tell you that they are not able to resolve fraud cases over the phone (at least the customer service guy we talked to and his supervisor said this) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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