The Snow Leopard cub at Milwaukee County Zoo has been busy playing with new toys and developing his skills. Patrons of the zoo are able to purchase toys and items from a wish list. The toys encourage behavior similar to what is seen in the wild, and they provide enrichment the growing zoo babies need to stimulate their minds and bodies — via ZooBorns
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Freshwater Kraken are amphibious little water monsters. They live in small, secluded ponds, lakes, swamps, and bogs. They are usually found in two forms, Juvies and adults but during the early spring, you can sometimes see them swimming about in the larval stage, much like tadpoles — via Etsy
The Evil One… slinking about in the shadows, looking to devour souls and drive the weak minded to insanity… or just eat all the biscuits, he’s not fussed… — via Etsy
Richard Attenborough, one of Britain’s best known actors and film directors, has died aged 90.
In a career spanning more than six decades, Attenborough appeared in dozens of films including World War II classic The Great Escape, the dinosaur blockbuster Jurassic Park and period drama Elizabeth.
The older brother of renowned documentary maker David won two Academy Awards as producer and director of 1983’s Gandhi.
We are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of esteemed filmmaker and former BAFTA president, Lord Attenborough,
the organisation wrote on Facebook.
His passionate support of BAFTA for more than 50 years was integral to who we are today. He will be sorely missed
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
Zoo keepers at the United Kingdom’s Chester Zoo have announced the birth of a baby Brazilian Tapir. Though he’s tiny now, the calf will double in weight in his first 14-21 days — via ZooBorns
David and his brother Jed recreated this braiding machine from an 1890’s machine they found in a surplus store — via Youtube
Sandcrawler, the new regional headquarters for Lucasfilm Singapore owned by Lucas Real Estate Singapore and designed by Andrew Bromberg of Aedas, has an innovative horseshoe form. Upon completion of the design, it inspired the naming of the building, rooting it with success of the renowned animation company — via ArchDaily
By offering you the benefit of a small storage space, a slot for mail and a hanging space, the Cubby by Materious Shop ensures you get the most out of of your wall/door hangers. It’s particularly useful when it comes to replacing a coat rack or hat rack by your door since you can come home, put down your keys and cell phone, store your mail in the slot and then hang up your coat and purse — via Homes and Hues
A prominent Australian psychologist has warned Australia is currently raising a generation of spoilt brats, because their parents are crap
and never say no
.
Dr Michael Carr-Gregg believes today’s parents have a lot to answer for, and there may be serious long-term consequences for Australia.
Dr Carr-Gregg attributes the rise of poorly-behaved children to five major parenting problems.
The first [problem] is that there are too many parents being doormats for their kids. They have got what I call a vitamin N deficiency, which is a failure to say no.
It’s incredibly important that parents set limits and boundaries and I don’t know that that’s happening at the moment.
Dr Carr-Gregg identified the helicopter parent
as another model of crap parenting
he was targeting in his work.
The high-strung, control-freak parents that want to smother their kids with so much love and attention and monitoring and supervision that they never, ever develop any self-reliance and can’t solve their own problems later on
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the 1960s, the United States Rubber Company (Uniroyal) introduced the world to their discovery of a supple synthetic leather substitute called Naugahyde, primarily for use as an auto seating leatherette material. It made its debut on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Their brilliant Mad Men
advertising idea was to create a fictional creature called the NAUGA from which the Nauga hyde
was harvested. Needless to say, it was a huge hit — via Arcane Images
This piece has 5 wooden planks and one 18” shelf with hole cut into it to access it from underneath. Its hole is an extra large hole and lined with sisal. The entire piece comes 11” away from the wall. Attaching all of the shelves is a stiff bottomweight fabric. Each post is very strong and reinforced with three layers of board and attach to the wall with large 4” brackets. Each raceway is built to be mounted between 16” studs — via Etsy
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Denver Zoo is now the new home of three Spotted Hyena cubs. Kelele (keh-LAY-lay), a male born on 26 June, arrived from the Buffalo Zoo on 31 July. On 1 August, two unnamed females, born 11 June, arrived from Kapi’yva Exotics, a private facility in Houston, Texas, that specialises in the propagation of rare and endangered species. The cubs must first pass a mandatory, month-long quarantine before visitors can see them — via ZooBorns
— via Maximumble
An Extremely Senior Australian Treasury Official
Originally aired on ABC TV: 28/08/2014 — via Youtube
This sharp little Honda CB360 from Federal Moto is a prime example of a budget build. Despite only being the Canadian workshop’s second build, it’s loaded with attitude and ticks all sorts of boxes. It’s based on two, non-runner ’74 CB360 donors that had to be Frankensteined into one—on a budget. The client is a young guy that lives, works, and parties downtown,
explains Federal’s Shaun Brandt, hence we’ve named it
— via Bike EXIFThe Couch Surfer
. He wanted a whippy little tracker that he could tear around downtown, jump curbs, and have fun with
The Sowden House, built by Lloyd Wright, the son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This beautiful, unique structure, sometimes referred to as the Jaws house
for its windows that resemble a shark’s open mouth, was built in 1926. The 5,600 square foot home in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles is currently for sale, listed at $4,875,000.
The house also has the dubious distinction of formerly belonging to a suspect in one of the most notorious unsolved murder cases in American history, the Black Dahlia (Elizabeth Short) murder. From 1945 to 1951, the Sowden house was owned by Dr George Hodel, who at one time was the prime suspect of the LA District Attorney in the Short murder. Hodel’s son, former LAPD homicide detective Steve Hodel, even wrote a book claiming that his father killed Elizabeth Short somewhere in the Sowden House — via Neatorama
Chester Zoo, in Upton-by-Chester, Chester, UK, recently welcomed four baby Rock Hyraxes. Born 20 July, at the zoo’s African Painted Dog Exhibit, the quad of babies were just a few ounces at birth, and they looked like miniature versions of their parents, with eyes and ears open — via ZooBorns
A Queensland disability pensioner with a love of dingoes has begun a personal crusade to save the animals from extinction in the wild.
Simon Stretton is battling biosecurity regulations and opposition from farmers as he tries to create a reservoir of purebred dingo genes to preserve wild populations.
Mr Stretton, who calls himself Dingo Simon
, has started his own sanctuary at Durong in the state’s South Burnett region.
What I’m trying to do is save dingoes from extinction, basically, due to interbreeding from the wild dogs [and] also from the State Government’s excessive use of 1080 baiting,
he said.
The dingo is considered to be a pest in Queensland — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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