‘Clot nets’ help stroke recovery

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Using small nets to extract blood clots from patients’ brains may be the future of stroke care, according to two studies.

Clots block blood vessels, starving parts of the brain of oxygen, which leads to symptoms such as paralysis and loss of speech.

Two studies, presented in the Lancet medical journal, suggest extracting clots with nets could improve recovery.

The Stroke Association said it was very excited by the treatment’s potential.

There are already techniques for reopening blocked blood vessels in people’s brains.

Some patients will be given clot-busting drugs, but this needs to be in the hours just after the stroke and is not suitable for everyone — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Gunpowder Mill / Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects

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In the 18th century, the Royal Gunpowder Mills housed the largest gunpowder works in Britain, and it remained a centre for the production of and research into explosives until 1991.

Two early 20th century buildings, the Power House and the Water Tower, have been converted [Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects] to form a new headquarters office for the client, while remaining faithful to the industrial history of the site. A new three-storey glazed structure completes the office complex and incorporates a top-floor terrace which links all three buildings and gives magnificent views out over the adjacent water meadows — via ArchDaily

Pac-Man / Romain Jerome

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After the success of the iconic Space Invaders watches, Romain Jerome is once again taking you on a crazy round of video games with a limited series of 80 watches designed after the cult Pac-Man. In association with Namco Bandai Games, Romain Jerome is bringing the famous yellow character back to life with four different models of 20 pieces each — paying tribute to the flagship Eighties icon — via Perpetuelle

US soldiers ‘plotted to kill Obama’

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A group of American soldiers formed an anarchist militia and spent $US87,000 ($83,922) on weapons in an elaborate plot to overthrow the government and ultimately assassinate the president, a court heard.

The soldiers allegedly made themselves into a group called FEAR, standing for Forever Enduring Always Ready, and bought land in Washington state from which to launch attacks.

They were said to have planned to blow up a dam and poison apple crops in Washington state, bomb a park in Savannah, Georgia, attack vehicles belonging to Department of Homeland Security employees, and take over an ammunition control point at the sprawling Fort Stewart army base in Georgia.

Prosecutors said its long-term goal was revolution; bringing down the US government and killing President Barack Obama. It is not known over what period of time this alleged plot would have taken place — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Creationism not appropriate for children, says Bill Nye

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Bill Nye the Science Guy spoke out this week against parents who teach their children creationism.

In a video that appeared on the website Big Think, Nye said that denial of evolution was unique in the United States and that teaching creationism holds the country back.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology, said Nye in the video.

It’s analagous to trying to do geology without believing in tectonic plates.

You’re just not going to get the right answer. Your whole world is just going to be a mystery instead of an exciting place, he added — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Grum Botnet: Down One Month, No Impact on Spam

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It’s been over a month since the spam-spewing Grum botnet has been shut down, but spam experts say there hasn’t been a noticeable impact on global spam volume.

Security researchers from FireEye worked with Internet service providers in Russia, the Netherlands, and Panema to shut down the command-and-control servers controlling the Grum botnet.. The last server Ukraine was shut down July 18. Symantec researchers at the time estimated that Grum was responsible for one-third of all spam being sent worldwide, and its takedown led to an immediate drop in global spam email volumes by as much as 15 to 20 percent, according to July’s Symantec Intelligence Report.

However, the drop was only temporary, since in the days since, the global volumes have been creeping up, Eric Park, an Abuse Desk Analyst at Symantec, told SecurityWeek. In fact, if the present trend continues, August may wind up with a higher global spam volume than in July, Park said. According to Symantec’s July report, global spam volume was 67.6 percent (1 in 1.48 emails was flagged as spam), an 0.8 percent increase over June.

There’s been minimal to no change in spam as a result of the Grum takedown, Park said — via redwolf.newsvine.com

1929 Harley-Davidson JDH / Buzz Kanter

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28 August 2012
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Two years ago Buzz Kanter, Editor-in-Chief of American Iron Magazine, rode his 1915 Harley-Davidson across most of the United States in the first Motorcycle Cannonball endurance ride. And now he’s about to do it again on this very rare 1929 Harley JDH. That’s 6,366 km on an 83-year-old bike.

This JDH will be a little quicker than the machine Buzz rode two years go: It’s essentially a detuned factory race engine in a standard JD street chassis. Harley offered the JDH Two Cam in very limited quantities, and only during 1928 and 1929. Many believe there are less than 1,500 real JDHs left in the world, and most of them are in museums or private collections — via Bike EXIF

Surgeon rides child’s bike to get through traffic nightmare for surgery

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Baton Rouge surgeon, Catherine Baucom, MD of Elliot Mastology Centre, was on her way to surgery at BRASS Surgery Centre Wednesday morning when she found herself caught in the traffic caused by the accident that shut-down Interstate 10 early Wednesday morning.

According to officials at BRASS Surgery Centre, Dr Baucom tried to navigate the gridlock to no avail, so she decided to take matters into her own hands.

Dr Baucom remembered a friend that lived a few blocks from her position in the mayhem and made her way to his house.

Catherine called, she was outside my house. She said ‘Hey do you have a bike?’ I walked outside and said yea, its a kids bike, said Dr Brian Barnett. After a quick test run, Dr Baucom decided the bike was her only choice to get to the hospital. I got the air pump out and aired the tires up as much as I could.

He gladly loaned her his seven year old daughter’s bike and helmet and the nearly six foot tall surgeon resumed her journey to the surgery centre.

It was hot pink and small, Dr Baucom said, describing the bike. The helmet was pink with princesses. He added he was laughing so much he couldn’t get video of her before she peddled away. But she did utilise the plastic basket on front, to put her cell phone in. Showed her experience with the bike — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Ranco House / elton léniz arquitectos asociados

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The house [elton léniz arquitectos asociados] is located in a privileged area of ground in terms of views, orientation, etc so the shape of the house adapts to the existing, respecting the existence of a large rock cliff and a number of native trees. Both the shape of the house as its program does not serve the purpose of intervening the natural landscape. that is why the house is composed of two volumes connected by a bridge way around the rock and adapt to the position of the trees — via ArchDaily

Man dressed as Sasquatch hit and killed near Kalispell

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A man wearing a Sasquatch suit died after being struck by two cars Sunday evening on US Highway 93 south of Kalispell.

The Flathead County Coroner has identified the victim as Randy Lee Tenley, 44, of Kalispell.

Montana Highway Patrol Trooper Jim Schneider says friends of the victim said Tenley was wearing a military-style camouflage ghillie suit in hopes of creating a Bigfoot hoax — via redwolf.newsvine.com

New camo face paint protects soldiers against bomb blasts

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For millennia, face paint has helped soldiers avoid being seen by enemy forces. This Wednesday, however, a team of scientists from the University of Southern Mississippi announced that a new type of face paint may soon also be able to protect against the heat of bomb blasts and other explosions. Additionally, a clear version of the paint could be used by civilian fire-fighters.

The team created the material at the request of the U.S. Department of Defence, which was looking for an unobtrusive way of protecting soldiers’ exposed skin from the thermal blasts created by weapons such as roadside bombs.

It was definitely a challenge, as the scientists weren’t able to use traditional hydrocarbon-based make-up ingredients, as they are flammable when exposed to intense heat. Instead, they used silicones, as the wavelengths at which they absorb radiation are outside of the intense heat spectrum.

Making things more difficult was the fact that the paint did have to include DEET, the flammable insect repellent — the US military stipulates that all camouflage make-up it uses must be composed of at least 35 percent DEET. In this case, the researchers got around the problem by encapsulating the DEET within a hydrogel, to keep it from igniting — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Crunching Numbers G4 / re:form designs

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27 August 2012
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At one time in their lives, these G4 towers were Apple’s flagship workstations — possibly cutting hundreds of hours of footage or editing thousands of photos. But today they’re barely useful as paperweights and probably best suited as a pair of stylish supports for this Crunching Numbers coffee table.

$US600 might seem a little steep for a pair of defunct computer towers and a large piece of glass, but there’s probably quite a few man hours involved in turning the hardware into a centrepiece for any Apple fanatic’s living room. The addition of a brightly painted shock absorber in-between is a little odd, as are the non-functioning cranks on the towers, but let’s just chock those up to design for design’s sake — via Gizmodo Australia

Rare coins expected to fetch more than $1m

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Three rare Australian coins to be auctioned in Melbourne tonight are expected to fetch more than $1 million.

One of the coins is a Hannibal Head holey dollar, created in New South Wales in 1813 from a silver dollar minted in Peru.

Also on offer are one of Australia’s first gold coins, the 1852 Adelaide Pound and an 1813 Colonial Dumps — via redwolf.newsvine.com

A Cheetah Cub’s Tail / Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre

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A Cheetah Cub’s Tail is a live streaming video channel that follows the lives of a litter of Cheetah cubs at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre (HESC) from their birth to their hopeful reintroduction into the wild. First time Cheetah mum Salome (which means peace) gave birth to the 3 cubs at HESC on 2 May. Since then viewers have been watching the cubs learn, play and grow on the live streaming channel — via ZooBorns

Who inherits your iTunes library?

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Many of us will accumulate vast libraries of digital books and music over the course of our lifetimes. But when we die, our collections of words and music may expire with us.

Someone who owned 10,000 hardcover books and the same number of vinyl records could bequeath them to descendants, but legal experts say passing on iTunes and Kindle libraries would be much more complicated.

And one’s heirs stand to lose huge sums of money. I find it hard to imagine a situation where a family would be OK with losing a collection of 10,000 books and songs, says Evan Carroll, co-author of Your Digital Afterlife. Legally dividing one account among several heirs would also be extremely difficult.

Part of the problem is that with digital content, one doesn’t have the same rights as with print books and CDs. Customers own a license to use the digital files—but they don’t actually own them — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Black teenager ‘stopped 50 times’ plans to sue Met police for harassment

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26 August 2012
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A black teenager who says he has been stopped about 50 times by the Metropolitan police is planning to sue the force, claiming he has suffered almost four years of harassment and false charges, which he believes have been motivated by racism.

Between the ages of 14 and 17, the college student says he has faced a series of charges of which he has either been found not guilty or which have been dropped before getting to court, as well as numerous stops and searches and two strip searches, none of which identified any criminal activity. He says he has also been detained several times in police cells after which he was released without charge.

Last week the teenager appeared at Bromley youth court, south London, charged with assaulting a police officer. The case collapsed after CCTV footage contradicted the evidence in court of PC John Lovegrove, who claimed to have been assaulted by the youth during a stop and search.

The Crown Prosecution Service has admitted it did not review the case fully before it went to court and is to apologise to the youth for allowing the case to go ahead — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Frank Gehry designs new Facebook campus

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26 August 2012
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Award-winning architect Frank Gehry has been commissioned to design a fancy new campus for Facebook.

Frank was the perfect architect, Facebook spokesman Slater Tow said, Mercury News reported. Gehry is best known for designing the Guggenheim Museum in Balboa, Spain and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles.

The design, which Facebook unveiled on Friday, shows off a long, one-story, warehouse like building — via redwolf.newsvine.com

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