— via Youtube
There are no Z-rays. Raymond Massey stars in this 1950s warning about the dangers of quacks — via Youtube
Reuters investigative reporter Megan Twohey spent 18 months examining how American parents use the Internet to find new families for children they regret adopting. Reporters identified eight online bulletin boards where participants advertised unwanted children, often international adoptees, as part of an informal practice that’s called private re-homing
. Reuters data journalist Ryan McNeill worked with Twohey and reporter Robin Respaut to analyse 5,029 posts from one of the bulletin boards, a Yahoo group called Adopting-from-Disruption.
Separately, Reuters examined almost two dozen cases from across the United States in which adopted children were privately re-homed. Twohey reviewed thousands of pages of records, many of them confidential, from law enforcement and child welfare agencies. In scores of interviews, reporters talked with parents who gave away or took in children, the facilitators who helped them, organisations that participated in re-homing, and experts concerned about the risks posed to the children and the legality of the custody transfers. Twohey also interviewed children themselves. They talked about being brought to America, discarded by their adoptive parents and moved from home to home — via redwolf.newsvine.com
At least they were observant drug dealers, authorities say.
A group of pushers from Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, texted their hours to customers and warned that they closed for Shabbat, according to an indictment unsealed Tuesday.
The indictment accuses the five men of conspiracy for sending texts to customers announcing drugs for purchase, such as DOB
for the brand name of heroin sold.
And the messages repeatedly warned customers against arriving after sundown on a Friday or before sundown on Saturday, the indictment alleges.
We are closing 7.30 on the dot and we will reopen Saturday 8.15 so if u need anything you have 45 mins to get what you want,
an 12 April message to over 50 recipients read.
The men are accused of peddling heroin, oxycodone, cocaine and other drugs from their Bedford Ave. drug warehouse — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Recent events surrounding Syria have prompted me to speak directly to the American people and their political leaders. It is important to do so at a time of insufficient communication between our societies.
Relations between us have passed through different stages. We stood against each other during the cold war. But we were also allies once, and defeated the Nazis together. The universal international organization — the United Nations — was then established to prevent such devastation from ever happening again.
The United Nations’ founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America’s consent the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.
No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorisation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Morning Sky, originally uploaded by Red Wolf
If you hadn’t guessed it from the title, this video brings you through the creative process of my crafting automata, specifically the three Cutie Mark Crusaders sold at the Cutie Mark Convention charity auction in Cincinnati. I was actually invited to do a live panel at first but I’m terribly shy to a fault so I cooked this up instead — via Youtube
It’s the last pool party of the season. Our baby raccoons have all grown up and are ready to be released — via Youtube
Australia’s electronic spy agency reportedly has access to a top secret program that has successfully cracked the encryption used by hundreds of millions of people to protect the privacy of their emails, phone calls and online business transactions.
Documents disclosed by US intelligence whistleblower Edward Snowden reveal the program run by the US National Security Agency, codenamed Bullrun, has been used to secretly descramble high-level internet security systems globally.
They show the NSA and British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) have successfully cracked the encryption used in personal communications such as email and telephone calls as well as global commerce and banking systems.
An undated briefing sheet
on the program, provided to British analysts when they are cleared for access to Bullrun, was published on Friday in The New York Times and The Guardian newspapers.
It states that the Australian Signals Directorate — until recently called the Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) – was expected to be granted access — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Lookit him, looking all moody with his right hand of doom and his crazy samurai hair. Maybe he’s being moody because he’s missing a friend… — via The Geeky Hooker
Caracal Kitten, originally uploaded by Anthony Ponzo
etall: Kindly consider voting for me — via Wil Wheaton
Music video from the Norwegian talk show I kveld med Ylvis — via Youtube
Peter Bellerby – The Globemaker from Cabnine on Vimeo.
A short film about Peter Bellerby, artisan globemaker and founder of Bellerby and Co Globemakers
Directed by Charles Arran Busk & Jamie McGregor Smith
www.cabnine.com
www.jamiemcgregorsmith.com
twitter: @cabninefilms
When retired US Army Staff Sergeant Justin Madore has nightmares, his dog Cody is there to wake him up.
Cody gets up in my bed and starts pounding on me — it’ll knock my wife right out of bed,
said Madore, 37, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. The dogs become a part of us — they know when there’s something off.
Cody, a 3-year-old Labradoodle, a Labrador retriever and poodle mix, has had special training. He and Madore met up at K9s for Warriors in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, where the non-profit center has trained dogs for two years to help veterans who suffer from PTSD and traumatic brain injuries, said executive director Shari Duval.
A US Veterans Affairs report reveals that of about 830,000 veterans treated at VA medical centres over the last decade, 29 percent had a diagnosis of PTSD, and 22 percent were suffering from depression.
K9s for Warriors offers veterans a three-week in-house program to meet and learn how to work with their dogs.
The dogs are not as highly trained as seeing-eye dogs for the blind, said Duval, but they do have special skills — via redwolf.newsvine.com
27kg, 76cm: Not your average measurements for a newborn. But when you’re dealing with a baby Eastern Black Rhino, it’s fair to expect things to be a bit outsized. The little
rhino, a boy, was born 26 August at Lincoln Park Zoo in Illinois. He’s the first offspring for 8-year-old mum Kapuki and 27-year-old dad Maku and the first rhinoceros born at the zoo since 1989 — via ZooBorns
An experimental vaccine implant to treat skin cancer has begun early trials in humans, as part of a growing effort to train the immune system to fight tumours.
The approach, which was shown to work in lab mice in 2009, involves placing a fingernail-sized sponge under the skin, where it reprograms a patient’s immune cells to find cancerous melanoma cells and kill them.
It is rare to get a new technology tested in the laboratory and moved into human clinical trials so quickly,
said Glenn Dranoff, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and part of the research team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Annual photo contest entrant — via The Nature Conservancy
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