Bayfield photographer’s photo goes viral

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10 August 2012
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Schoep + John Unger / Hannah Stonehouse Hudson

It’s an image that’s hard to look at without smiling.

A dog sleeps in blissful repose, head rested against the neck and shoulder of a pony-tailed man standing shoulder-deep in water. The man appears in profile, and he wears dark glasses, but his eyes seem to be closed. The smile on his face matches the dog’s contentment.

The photo has drawn the attention of thousands of people since being posted on Facebook last week. The story behind the photo is touching.

Professional photographer Hannah Stonehouse Hudson took it off Bayfield’s Reiten Beach in Lake Superior on Tuesday. The man is her friend John Unger. The dog, an ageing, arthritic shepherd mix, is named Schoep, after a brand of ice cream that’s popular in southern Wisconsin (the dog likes vanilla) — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Bat-eared Foxs / Prague Zoo

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Prague Zoo has a new litter of Bat-eared foxes. The first weeks of their lives involve snuggling close to mum within a safe underground burrow, but the quintuplets are now venturing out into their exhibit. The adult foxes in the zoo’s Bat-eared Fox family must patiently endure love bites and playful attacks from their young during these first weeks — via  ZooBorns

Force Mac OSX to Automatically Reconnect to VPN

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9 August 2012
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A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a great way to browse the web securely, and OS X has a VPN option built right into it. The problem is that it doesn’t always automatically connect when you boot up your computer, or after it disconnects for some reason. A simple Applescript over on Stack Exchange solves this problem — via Lifehacker

Hotkey EVE

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EVE helps you to learn shortcuts, in order to increase your productivity with MAC OS X. Every time you execute an action using the mouse, EVE will show you the matching shortcut

Whirlpool more accurate than AFR, says Conroy

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Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has delivered a fiery tirade against the media for constantly repeating misconceptions about Labor’s National Broadband Network project, singling out the Financial Review newspaper for particular ridicule and recommending that those interested in accuracy read broadband forum Whirlpool.

The Labor Senator opened a press conference held in Sydney yesterday to release NBN Co’s latest corporate plan by speaking in detail about what he said were a series of “misconceptions” regularly repeated in the media with respect to the NBN.

You often think if Malcolm Turnbull put out a press release saying ‘Cost blowout in the NBN due to the Earth being flat’, it’d probably lead the front page of the Fin Review lately, Conroy told the audience, which was composed of technology journalists from mainstream publications such as The Australian, The Financial Review and technology vertical outlets such as Communications Day, ZDNet and iTNews.

For those that are interested in a comprehensive discussion of these issues, I can recommend to you the Whirlpool website, particularly the thread entitled ‘fighting the FUD’, Conroy added. It is a very informative thread, and I would encourage you to take a look at it. because it does address quite a few of the issues which we debate regularly — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Einzeiger Limited Edition / Jorg Schauer

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The Einzeiger Limited Edition watch features a single handmade solid gold hand. Only 25 pieces of each colour will be made (cream, white, black and rhodium coated) Each hand is made personally by Jörg Schauer using 18 karat pink gold for this. The movement used is a very rare old stock movement made in Germany: the Durowe 7426-4. A beautiful hand made watch from a master German watchmaker — via Watchuseek

Seaside Single House / modostudio

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The house [modostudio] is located in the Monte Argentario National Park on the top of an hill with an amazing view facing the sea and the islands just in front of Tuscany. It is an old agricultural warehouse which has been completely rebuild in its shape using recovery stones from the old building — via ArchDaily

Mass grave in London reveals how volcano caused global catastrophe

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When archaeologists discovered thousands of medieval skeletons in a mass burial pit in east London in the 1990s, they assumed they were 14th-century victims of the Black Death or the Great Famine of 1315-17. Now they have been astonished by a more explosive explanation — a cataclysmic volcano that had erupted a century earlier, thousands of miles away in the tropics, and wrought havoc on medieval Britons.

Scientific evidence — including radiocarbon dating of the bones and geological data from across the globe — shows for the first time that mass fatalities in the 13th century were caused by one of the largest volcanic eruptions of the past 10,000 years.

Such was the size of the eruption that its sulphurous gases would have released a stratospheric aerosol veil or dry fog that blocked out sunlight, altered atmospheric circulation patterns and cooled the Earth’s surface. It caused crops to wither, bringing famine, pestilence and death — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Manchester NHS trust bans metal paper fasteners

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Health bosses have banned metal paper fasteners from GP surgeries, clinics and offices — because they are deemed a safety risk.

Staff at NHS Manchester are no longer allowed to use to the steel binders after a member of staff hurt their finger on one.

A memo sent to all of the health trust’s employees said the fasteners are now prohibited.

Instead it warns staff to use plastic ones to avoid injury — and urges them to dispose of the metal clips carefully.

Astonished staff have described the move as nannying — via redwolf.newsvine.com

European Lynx / ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

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One proud set of parents at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo have three reasons to celebrate this summer: the birth of European Lynx kitten triplets. The all-female trio, born in June to parents Maja and Timo, have spent their first weeks of life tucked up in their den but have just now begun to explore outside. This is the second litter of Whipsnade’s rare European Lynx, one of Europe’s largest predators — via ZooBorns

Ninety-Two / Hammarhead Industries

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Built from a beefy 2007-08 Triumph Bonneville body, Hammarhead Industries‘ new Ninety-Twomodel falls firmly in line with the bare-essentials aesthetic HHI has effortlessly grown to own. Originally designed and built as a one-off for the founder of Swedish workwear brand Dunderdon as part of their recent collaboration collection, the Ninety-Two turned out so well James Hammarhead and the crew decided to introduce it as a new model — via Cool Hunting

Thieves target acclaimed wildlife photographer

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One of Australia’s best-known wildlife photographers has had most of his photographic equipment stolen from a car.

Steve Parish was staying with his nephew at suburban Norwood in Adelaide and found his car windows smashed when he woke this morning.

About $200,000 of equipment was gone and Mr Parish admitted it was uninsured.

They’ve stolen my prized cameras. Some of the lenses are special lenses that I’ve had for a long time, they’re not actually manufactured any more, he said.

They don’t really have any market value but they have a lot of special micro-zoom lenses for photographing animals — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Annandale House / CO-AP

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The conceptual framework for this project [CO-AP] is very much influenced by its context. The long narrow site is closely bounded by residential units to the south-west and the Piano Factory warehouse apartment conversion to the north. The west and east offer framed views to established trees and green streetscape respectively.

Taking these issues into consideration, the new additions attach to the rear of the terrace and unfold along the length of the site, with new floor levels corresponding to the natural topography, resulting in a series of split levels and pocket courtyards with the eight-metre high stepped Piano Factory heritage wall along the northern boundary as their backdrop — via ArchDaily

For flock’s sake: Scared sheep send SMSes to Swiss shepherds

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Swiss boffins have been testing SMS-equipped sheep to see if they can send a warning text message when the big, bad wolf approaches, and it looks like they can.

The sheep don’t voluntarily send the message, but a heart-rate monitor fitted to a sheep’s collar can detect when the animal is stressed, and automatically sends an SMS message when that stress gets high enough, hopefully allowing swift intervention from the shepherd.

The trials, reported by the AFT, involved only 10 sheep who were fitted with collars and threatened with wolfdogs. Even the muzzled hounds were able to send the sheep into enough of a panic to trigger the text message, and the plan is to run (literal) field trials early next year — via redwolf.newsvine.com

Protect Your Car Doors from Your Garage with a Pool Noodle

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If you don’t have the space to fully open your car doors in your garage and sometimes hit the wall you may want to consider cutting a swimming pool noodle in half and bolting it to the wall.

This should avoid scratching your car doors as long as you don’t hit the bolt heads. I’d recommend taking a bit of leftover pool noodle material and gluing it to the bolt heads to prevent scratches from that surface — via Lifehacker

Build a Tumbling Composter

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Instead of turning your compost pile with a shovel or pitchfork you can build a tumbling composter that will automatically turn and aerate your materials to help form a rich compost. Commercially tumbling composters can be expensive, but if you have access to large plastic drums you can make one or more tumblers on the cheap.

Instructional site WikiHow shares basic plans on how to turn a 55-gallon drum into a tumbling composter. Basically you’ll need to purchase a length of two-inch PVC pipe that’s two feet longer than your barrel. Drill holes in the top and bottom of the barrel to fit the pipe. Now create the stand for the composter by nailing two sets of 2x4s into an x-frame and nail two more 2x4s across the top of the X’s. You should now be able to set the barrel with pipe on the stand and turn it freely. Cut a door on the side of the barrel and use simple hinges and a hasp to attach the door back to the barrel. Finally, bolt a piece of sheet metal to the inside of the barrel opposite the door; this will give you a mixing fin to stir the compost as the barrel is tumbled — via Lifehacker

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