Angola has extradited 37 Chinese nationals, accused of extortion, kidnappings, armed robberies and running prostitution rings.
They allegedly targeted other Chinese, kidnapping businessmen for ransom and sometimes burying victims alive.
They lured women to Angola, promising well-paid jobs, but then forced them into prostitution, Chinese police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, has died at the age of 82.
The former astronaut underwent heart-bypass surgery earlier this month, just two days after his birthday on 5 August, to relieve blocked coronary arteries.
As commander of the Apollo 11 mission, Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the moon on 20 July 1969.
An estimated 450 million people watched the grainy black and white broadcast that showed Armstrong, clad in a white space suit, climb down the lunar module’s ladder onto the Moon.
As he stepped on the moon’s dusty surface, he said: That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind
, words that endure as one of the best known quotes in the English language — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Buensalido Architects have sent us images of a townhouse they’ve designed in Manila, Philippines — via CONTEMPORIST
This stunning carpet is one of several works by Azerbaijanian artist Faig Ahmed, whose work, explores [the] composition of a traditional Azerbaijanian carpet by disjointing its structure and placing its canonic elements into open space
— via MAKE
In early August, keepers at Zoo Tel Aviv Ramat-Gan were thrilled to discover that mother cat, Rotem, had given birth to four wriggly little kittens. Initially there was concern that Rotem would be unable to care for so many kittens, but she has proven to be a capable mother for her curious youngsters. Now at three weeks old, the kittens have just begun to emerge from the den to the delight of visitors — via ZooBorns
Custom motorcycles are often about sacrifice. As looks improve, functionality suffers. And most of the time, it doesn’t matter, especially if a bike is only ridden for short blasts, or down to a local watering hole. But it’s good to see the occasional long-haul machine given the custom treatment — like this 1978 BMW R80/7 from Crowe Customs of Portland, Oregon — via Bike EXIF
The Big Buddhas at Maijishan, originally uploaded by Mark.
China has four major Buddhist cave complexes — by far the most visited being the Longmen caves. Less well known are the Maijishan Grottoes. Situated in Gansu Province in the northwest of China, this astonishing example of cave architecture hewn from rock consists of over 7,000 Buddhist sculptures not to mention almost 1000 square meters of murals — via kuriositas
Richard Mille describe their new diver as brown, but it’s more like a rich burst of orange, destined to glow in the murky depths and achieve stand out at any cocktail party. The RM028 has the same technical characteristics as its previous versions in titanium or titanium with a DLC coating: a skeletonised automatic movement, a rotor with variable geometry or the free sprung balance with variable inertia — via Watchuseek
— originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Two defining notions drove the design [Steve Domoney Architecture] for this new home in Hawthorn.
Firstly, the recognition that the street is currently in transition with the post war brick bungalow style dwelling giving way to more recent contemporary dwellings.
Secondly, with the establishment of a larger family home on the site than currently exists, the need to balance the perception of openness from within against a heightened need for privacy with the greater intensity of development now surrounding the site — via ArchDaily
New Zealand’s conservative party technology minister has hailed fibre to the home as the preferred option for national telecommunications infrastructure, stating during a visit to Australia this week that it made better fiscal sense
to deploy fibre all the way to the premise where possible, instead of only to neighbourhood ‘nodes’ as Australia’s Coalition is proposing.
Amy Adams is New Zealand’s Minister for Communications and Information Technology and a member of the National Party, which is a centre-right party in New Zealand similar to the Liberal Party in Australia. Currently the National Party holds Government in New Zealand. Adams was in Australia this week to launch a bilateral agreement on mobile phone roaming charges. In a joint press conference with Australia’s Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, Adams was asked why New Zealand switched from a FTTN-based rollout for its own version of the National Broadband Network to a predominantly FTTH-based deployment — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The neural code used by a mouse’s retina to communicate to the brain has been deciphered and used to successfully restore normal vision to blind mice, US researchers reported.
The two scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, who published their findings in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have also deciphered the retinal neural code of monkeys — which is essentially identical to that of humans.
It’s an exciting time,
said Sheila Nirenberg, a computational neuroscientist and lead researcher on the study. We can make blind mouse retinas see, and we’re moving as fast as we can to do the same in humans — via redwolf.newsvine.com
What better time to show off this Cthulhu wedding cake than on author HP Lovecraft’s birthday! It was made by Kerry’s Custom Cakes of South Park, Pennsylvania, for redditor lakshmispet‘s wedding. See more photos of it in the baker’s Facebook gallery — via Neatorama
Australian Music Group Holdings (AMG), which trades as Billy Hyde and Allans, has been placed into receivership by one of its creditors.
James Stewart and Brendan Richards from Ferrier Hodgson were appointed as administrators this morning by Revere Capital, a group of private investors owed around $27 million by AMG, and immediately placed the retailer into receivership.
Unsecured creditors are owed around $13.5 million, while employee entitlements are estimated at $3 million.
However, the company will continue trading while the receivers look at ways to restructure the group and sell some or all of the stores — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This is celebrity wow
rather than architecturally wow
, but with John Lennon‘s former home on the market, we had to mention Kenwood Mansion on the St George’s Hill Estate, Weybridge, Surrey.
According to the BBC, Lennon lived in the 1920s house from the mid to late 1960s, penning a number of songs from the Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album whilst living here. The house also features in home movies that formed part of the 1988 documentary Imagine: John Lennon. But if you are a fan of the man or the band, you probably already know that.
Well, if you want to live out your Lennon obsession, you will need to find somewhere around £15,000,000 — via WowHaus
The Government’s Internet security plan to store the web history of all Australians for up to two years has been put on the backburner until after next year’s election — even though submissions have only just closed for the Inquiry into reform of national security legislation.
It is likely that the Inquiry will agree to the push for expanded powers, and that legislative reforms will be enacted very early in the term of our next government, whether Labor or Liberal. The Cybercrime Legislation Amendment Bill 2011 was passed by the Senate this week. This occurred before the Joint Select Committee on Cyber-Safety got the chance to do its work and before the public was able to give evidence.
The haste to pass legislation before appropriate public and parliamentary debate reflects an international trend towards the enactment of harmonised laws to the detriment of national sovereignty — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Look what just rolled into Busch Gardens Tampa — a tiny Three Banded Armadillo born to proud armadillo parents Zowie and Ollie. Born 21 June, the baby was the size of a golf ball, now a month later he has grown to be the size of a tennis ball. When full grown adult Three Banded Armadillo’s are roughly the size of a softball. The youngster can be seen in Jambo Junction — via ZooBorns
Marc Fish has created a second edition of his Nautilus Table — via CONTEMPORIST
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