The Gillard Government has this week undermined the Labor Party’s long tradition of fairness and social justice. Enough’s enough, says party member Jenny Haines — and she’s not the only one.
Labor Party members are fed up. They are sick of being ignored, especially over refugee and asylum seeker issues. The divide between the politicians in government in Canberra and the party rank-and-file is growing — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Stacey Lee Weber does some amazing work with coins. She hammers them into a multitude of objects, including flags, bells, ladders, plumb bobs, hammers, and screwdrivers. This tape measure was made from nickels, silver, silver dimes, and silver quarters — via Neatorama
His name was Rocky, and he was a real-life underdog.
The 8-week-old Siberian Husky-mix puppy was a stray found in a remote section of western Canada, with nothing in his belly but worms on rocks
, Brier Cadden wrote in a 7 February 2010, email. No one wanted to touch him because they didn’t like what his eyes looked like.
Rocky had an eye condition and was almost blind.
Cadden, now 33, sent the e-mail to the Philadelphia-based Blind Dog Rescue Alliance, which she found by searching Google.
What followed was a remarkable transcontinental journey for the puppy. He was flown from the town of Smithers in northwestern British Columbia to Vancouver, then driven to Seattle. From there, he rode with a truck driver to Wisconsin, where he spent a night. He then spent a week being fostered in Michigan before travelling to Philadelphia to stay with Karen Belfi, president of the alliance. He was eventually adopted by a woman in Somerdale, NJ — via redwolf.newsvine.com
These are the new Shanghai Tang Scuba Class 888 dive watches. Although this Chinese luxury lifestyle brand was previously unknown to me, their new watches caught my eye. The 888
notation on the watch is both a reference to the water resistance rating (888 meters feet) — and of course the most auspicious of all numbers in in Chinese culture. A review of the Shanghai Tang web site indicates that the brand originated in 1994 and is known for promoting contemporary Chinese chic
— mostly clothing and accessories, with the new Scuba Class watch collection being its first foray into timepieces — via Perpetuelle
A 63-year-old California man with a hernia plunged a butter knife into his abdomen in an attempt to fix the problem, and later put a lit cigarette in the wound, police said on Tuesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
With a characteristically eccentric final flourish, Alexander McQueen has bequeathed £50,000 of the designer’s £16m fortune to his beloved pet dogs — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The illusion in this leather bracelet from Melissa of I Still Love You is really cool and fun. See how it’s done over on her blog — via CRAFT
If you haven’t already guessed, a Norley is a cross between a Norton and a Harley. In this case, we’re looking at a 1200cc Sportster motor shoehorned into a Norton-style frame. This bike was built for charity, and it’s more interesting than most machines of that ilk. It was created by Alain Bernard of Santiago Chopper in Florida, using a 4130 chromoly frame from JW Motorcycles in Wale — via Bike EXIF
Snuggling In, originally uploaded by Red Wolf.
Delivering his keynote address at this week’s annual CA Expo in Sydney, former Google CIO Douglas C Merrill added to the growing belief that punishing and demonising file-sharers is a bad idea. Merrill, who after his Google stint joined EMI records, revealed that his profiling research at the label found that LimeWire pirates were iTunes’ biggest customers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Remember the days of sitting in class, copying down what your teacher scribbled on the board? Now imagine the frustration you’d feel if you couldn’t see that board? Now imagine the frustration you’d feel if you couldn’t see that board. That’s the situation San Diego State University student Jeremy Poincenot found himself in almost three years ago after contracting an extremely rare disorder called Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy. As Poincenot shares in the above video, he’d lost his love for the college experience due to his inability to fully follow what was going on in class. That is, until he connected with Note-Taker, an assistive technology that helps low-vision and legally blind students take notes in class as quickly and effectively as their fully-sighted peers
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
The former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Lord Macdonald was warned by his own employees as far back as 2006 that there were a vast array
of News of the World phone-hacking victims.
Lord Macdonald, who has since been hired by the newspaper’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, was sent a memo nearly six months before the reporter Clive Goodman and the private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were convicted, revealing that the charges they were facing related to just a fraction of the potential victims.
However, the hacking investigation was never widened despite pressure on the police and Lord Macdonald, the head of the Crown Prosecution Service at the time, to do so — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The University of Calgary will soon be ending their partnership with Access Copyright.
For the past 15 years the U of C has had a license with Access Copyright — a copyright collective that ensures universities have licenses to use and distribute copyrighted works while giving the authors and publishers fair compensation for their works.
The current agreement between the U of C and the copyright collective has been called intrusive
by U of C’s copyright officer Wendy Stephens.
As of 1 September 2011 the U of C will start to manage their own copyright permissions.
This change will affect both students and staff at the university — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The potentially deadly hendra virus has been detected in another species.
Queensland authorities say a dog has tested positive for hendra antibodies but is not showing symptoms of the disease.
The dog was on a property where a horse recently died from the virus — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Researchers have discovered a new miniature frog species in Western Australia’s remote Pilbara region.
The Pilbara toadlet is thought to have gone unnoticed for a million years and has adapted to the harsh desert conditions.
The finding was made by researchers from the University of Western Australia, the West Australian Museum and the Australian National University — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Our hunt for interesting property has taken us across the Channel, with this 1970s architect-designed five bedroom house in Guarard, near Paris, France looking straight off a particularly hip movie set from that era.
Of course, film set-style living doesn’t come cheap, with this one selling for €1,090,000, which I make at £956,000. Find out more at Luxury French Property — via WowHaus
As hard as it may be to believe, it was just over two years ago that Research in Motion was still considered one of the premiere innovators of the smartphone industry.
Oh sure, the iPhone was considered to be much cooler than RIM’s assorted BlackBerry devices, but it didn’t have the same corporate email capabilities, it was only on one carrier and there was only one model of it. And besides, Google’s Android operating system hadn’t really produced any hit devices yet, so where else could non-AT&T smartphone users go?
Needless to say a lot has changed in the past two years. In this timeline we’ll take a look at how RIM fell from its peak in the spring of 2009 to where it stands today — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Eftel is on the road to becoming a wholesale aggregator for National Broadband Network (NBN) services, today announcing that it has signed a deal to take part in mainland trials with Dodo as its first wholesale customer — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Vitamin D deficiency is putting Australians at risk of developing diabetes, a landmark study has shown.
The largest study of its kind found that people with higher levels of vitamin D in their blood were less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those with lower levels. It could lead to at-risk patients using vitamin D supplements along with diet and exercise to stop the development of the potentially deadly condition — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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