A Vatican department advised Ireland’s Catholic bishops in 1997 not to report priests suspected of child abuse to the police, a newly revealed letter shows — via redwolf.newsvine.com
One of Japan’s largest glass manufacturers debuted on Thursday a new glass designed for smartphones and tablet PCs that is considerably tougher than conventional glass.
Asahi Glass said its Dragontrail glass is about six times as tough as typical chemically-treated soda lime glass and should be better suited to the rough-and-tumble life to which portable gadgets are subjected — via redwolf.newsvine.com
E-mails between a client and attorney are no longer considered privileged and confidential if the client writes the messages from a work e-mail account, a California court of appeals has ruled — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Yahoo is forging ahead with a move to IPv6 on its main Web site by year-end despite worries that up to 1 million Internet users may be unable to access it nitially.
Yahoo’s massive engineering effort to support IPv6 — the long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet’s main communications protocol — could at first shut out potential www.yahoo.com users due to what the company and others call IPv6 brokenness
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
FotoFrame makes the process of resizing your photos extremely straightforward. Tell it where your photos are, where you want to copy the resized versions and the resolution of your frame, and it does the job automatically. You can tweak settings such as image types included and the quality of the resulting JPG files, but for most uses the defaults will be just fine.
FotoFrame is a free download for Windows
Pawz is the world’s only disposable and reusable, waterproof dog boot. Made of natural rubber, Pawz are 100% biodegradable. Pawz are designed to go on easily and fit securely without zippers or straps. Fashionable yet durable, Pawz offers serious paw protection. Pawz is the most natural-feeling boot your dog can wear because without padding your dog feels the ground, providing a needed sense of security. Like a sock, Pawz moves with your dog, allowing full paw motion and maximum comfort. And imagine never losing another expensive dog boot again! Pawz come 12 in a package and each boot may be worn many times
Indian police are hunting for a killer rooster after the fighting bird slashed its owner’s throat with razor blades attached to its legs for the cruel sport of cockfighting.
Police say the dangerous rooster
is thought to have killed Singrai Soren after being forced back into the ring soon after his last fight, — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new species of giant crayfish literally crawled out from under a rock in Tennessee, proving that large new species of animals can be found in highly populated and well-explored places, researchers said on Wednesday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Audit Bureau of Circulations’ attempt to bring greater transparency to newspaper figures has taken longer than anticipated, with a pre-Christmas deadline missed and the flood emergency creating further delays — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This cottage is designed for a couple with a young son and will serve as a center-point for the gatherings of a greatly extended family and will one day become the family’s primary residence. The challenge was to implement an architectural strategy that breaks down very large programmatic requirements and, as a result, the seeming bigness of the proposed home. The spatial system therefore is conceived as a porous and open ground-floor that supports a solid, “private” volume above. All of the primary living and communal functions, such as the indoor and outdoor living rooms, kitchen and eating area, and sauna open either literally or volumetrically to the surrounding lakeshore — via ArchDaily
After losing almost everything in the floods, the Butcher family thought they had also said goodbye to their 14-year-old border collie, Rue — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Environment officials from the European Union are preparing to prosecute the Swedish government after it again allowed the hunting of wild and endangered wolves — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I encountered a problem recently where Word would not save, and Photoshop and other applications would not launch after an upgrade to 10.6 from 10.4.
Essentially what I needed to do was reset the printing system. While this was easily achieved in 10.5/10.4 it’s not so easy in 10.6 especially when CUPS would not launch — via Mac OS X Hints
The Hobart Cat Centre is treating several kittens which it believes were attacked with scissors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The United Commercial (UCO) Bank has opened the country’s first lockless branch at Shani Shinganapur in Maharashtra, even as the Centre has made hi-tech security mandatory for all nationalized and private sector banks. Shani Shinganapur is a small village in Ahmednagar district whose presiding deity is Lord Shani. More than 5,000 devotees visit the temple every day, while on weekends the number crosses the 1 lakh mark.
We took note of the general belief and faith of the people. Ever since the most revered temple came into existence several years ago, the village has not witnessed a single crime. In fact, all houses in the entire village have no doors. We took the risk and started the lockless bank a week ago,
a senior bank official said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The Australian National University in Canberra could soon house artefacts from Washington’s Smithsonian Air and Space Museum after a landmark agreement between the two institutions — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Mariel Clayton photographs dioramas of Barbie dolls in grisly scenes that juxtapose the glamor of Barbie with the savagery of her hidden violence. It’s like all this time she’s always been a female version of Dexter Morgan — via Neatorama
The new De Bethune DB25T Tourbillon Regulator manual-wind watch features a self-regulating twin-barrel movement and a feather-light tourbillon escapement with jumping seconds.
Powered by the DB25T hand-wound movement, the watch sports an ultra-light (the company claims that it is in fact the lightest of its type) silicon/titanium tourbillon carriage, which is made of fifty parts and tips the scales at 0.18 gram — via World Watch Review
Bates Masi Architects designed the Northwest Peach Farm in East Hampton, New York.
This residence is primarily used when the clients’ extended family comes from England for long visits. They come to relax and to reconnect with their family and with nature, away from city crowds and traffic, at a retreat they neither want nor need to leave for a month. The design objective was to make every day of that month unique by providing a range of destinations within the site with diverse scales, functions, and views: from gathering in the expansive living room overlooking the fields of the former peach orchard to reading alone on a shaded bench between the library and the edge of the forest. Multiple paths and hallways connect each destination, further increasing variety. Finally, each detail and custom furnishing is designed to make mundane rituals into thoughtful events — via CONTEMPORIST
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