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Saturday, February 4, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Romania rescues children as Europe's freeze deepens (Reuters)
BUCHAREST (Reuters) ? Nine Romanian children were taken into care after a baby died in an unheated house, joining at least 189 others killed by a Siberian front which strengthened its hold over Eastern Europe on Friday and spread further west.
Temperatures plummeted to minus 37 Celsius (minus 35 Fahrenheit) in northern Slovakia and rescue workers dug through snow on mountain roads to rescue stranded bus passengers in the Balkans.
In Romania, 80 percent of the Danube river was frozen over stopping ships sailing to the Black Sea, but the biggest concern was for children in the European Union's second poorest country.
Child protection officers in the city of Iasi took three girls into care after a four-month-old baby died in an unheated house where temperatures dipped as low as minus 20C (minus 4 F).
"These children were already suffering from malnutrition. When the cold hit, their situation went from bad to worse to catastrophic," a spokesman told Reuters.
As many as 15,000 children in Iasi may be at risk from the cold and a further six children had been taken into care, the spokesman said. The cold snap has so far killed 24 people in Romania and 11 in neighboring Bulgaria.
The European Union said the supply of Russian gas fell further to some Eastern European states as well as Italy, Greece and Austria, but said it was not yet facing an emergency. All EU states have obtained extra gas from other sources.
In Ukraine 101 people have now died - a further 38 in the past 24 hours - and supermarkets are short of food as trucks struggle to make deliveries. Eight more have died in Poland since Thursday.
Clare Nullis, spokeswoman for the U.N.'s World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), told reporters that Europe's unseasonably warm December and January meant this would not be a record-breaking winter.
BALKANS BADLY HIT
However, those words were little comfort to many in the Balkans where fresh snow overnight added to the crisis.
The Serbian government has so far declared a state of emergency in 19 municipalities in the south and east, where six people have died from cold.
In the southern region of Svrljig, firefighters worked for hours to evacuate passengers from a bus stranded on a mountain road, while a second bus was trapped by an avalanche in the eastern Bosnian village of Krupac. No casualties were reported.
"The situation has worsened," said Predrag Maric, head of the Serbian Interior Ministry's Department for Emergencies.
A funeral procession near the border with Macedonia was stuck for four hours and had to transfer the coffin to a 4x4 jeep. In the northern town of Ecka, workers in a local fishery had to use pneumatic drills to break ice and get to the fish.
"I have not seen anything like this for more than two decades," said fisherman Nikola Kircic.
Local hunters were using tractors to take food to animals in the mountains of southwestern Satornja.
"Roe deer and other small game are on the verge of starvation as the grass is under heavy snow," said local hunter Momir Nikolic.
Albania registered its first casualty, a 63-year-old man believed to have died from the cold on his way home in the northern region of Bulqize.
German weather service DWD said it expected extreme cold to continue in central and eastern Europe for the next four days, but that temperatures would rise back above freezing point in most parts of France and Britain.
SKATING ON THIN ICE
As the Siberian front moved west, Dutch ice breakers cleared access to Rotterdam, Europe's biggest port.
But organizers of the Elfstedentocht - a 200km (125 mile) speed skating race across the country's waterways - were praying for thicker ice in the hope they could stage the competition for the first time since 1997. Dozens of over-enthusiastic skaters fell through the ice as they tested conditions.
Other sporting fixtures across the continent have been cancelled.
Croatia's Adriatic coast and many of its islands were blanketed in snow - rare so far south - covering palm trees in the port of Split and bringing some residents out on skis.
The island of Solta, just off Split, saw 30 cm (12 inches) of snow.
Across the Adriatic in Italy, the heaviest snowfall in the capital Rome since the 1980s closed tourists attractions including the Colosseum and the Forum.
An 82-year-old man became the first casualty in France after dying of hypothermia on Friday. The man had left his house in eastern France with just his pajamas to protect him from minus 14C (minus 7F) temperatures.
Lorry traffic across the south of the country was suspended.
In the Baltic states, no strangers to cold weather, parts of eastern Latvia and Lithuania saw record lows of minus 30C (minus 22F), and lender Swedbank warned some cash machines would break down.
The Czech Republic's capital Prague shut a major section of the city's ring road after a burst pipe sprayed water across the highway, creating a 400-metre-long sheet of ice.
An emergency services spokesman there said one man had apparently used the cold to commit suicide. "He drank a bottle of alcohol, took his clothes off and sat in a park."
(Additional reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic in Belgrade, Maja Zuvela in Sarajevo, Benet Koleka in Tirana, Nicholas Vinocur in Paris and Gilbert Reilhac in Strasbourg, Jan Korselt in Prague, Martin Santa in Bratislava, Aleks Tapinsh in Riga, Gabriela Baczynska in Warsaw, Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Writing by Matt Robinson; Editing by Ben Harding)
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'Shore' baby on the way? Forget about it!
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Despite rumors to the contrary, a rep for Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi insists the reality star isn't pregnant.
By Gina Serpe and Marc Malkin, E! Online
Lesson for the kids: always practice safe smooshing.
That, supposedly, is something that Jersey Shore guidette Snooki failed to do, as Star magazine is breathlessly reporting that the reality starlet is pregnant!
The 24-year-old certainly seems to be in a stable relationship with her boyfriend of a year, Jionni LaValle, but is Snooki really mother material?
Forget GTL--this news is more like OMG! That is, if it's true. So is Snooki readying herself for a Shore leave and expecting a bambino of her own? This rumor is...
MORE: Missed the latest Jersey Shore? Catch up with our recap!
So false!
Snooki's rep tells E! News that there is no truth to the rumors and that the MTV star is not pregnant.
The tabloid seemed to pin the rumor on the fact that Snooki was telling friends she had a "big announcement" coming soon. Well, it seems like her baby may have been simply of the professional variety, possibly to do with her "Jersey Shore" spinoff with pal JWoww.
PHOTOS: Jersey Shore Hits Hollywood
Just this week, it emerged that the Hoboken mayor rejected the production company's request for a permit to film in the city. Talk about a baby.
So there's no baby on the way for now, but the reality star has said she wants to be a mom one day. Do you think the party-loving Princess of Poughkeepsie is cut out for diaper duty and everything else that comes with it? Share your thoughts on our Facebook page.
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
Microsoft Office 15 goes out for testing
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The current version of Office.
By Suzanne Choney
The next version of Microsoft Office is being previewed and tested by some customers selected by the company. Later this summer, a beta version of what's being called (for now) Office 15 is expected to be available to the public.
"At this early point in our development cycle, I'm not able to share too much about Office 15, but I can tell you Office 15 is the most ambitious undertaking yet for the Office Division," said PJ Hough of the Microsoft Office Division on a company blog. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.)
With Office 15, "for the first time ever, we will simultaneously update our cloud services, servers, and mobile and PC clients for Office, Office 365, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, and Visio.?Quite simply, Office 15 will help people work, collaborate, and communicate smarter and faster than ever before."
Office 15 will likely work with older versions of Windows, the current Windows 7 OS and coming Windows 8, says tech writer Dwight Silverman, "but most Microsoft observers believe we?ll see a whole new Office interface for use with Win8?s Metro UI."
That user interface will be designed with touchscreens in mind, and relies on the tiled look and approach of Windows Phones, known as "Metro."
While there's plenty of time to get ready for 15, Tony Bradley of PCWorld says users should consider the testing phase a "wake up call that it is time to seriously consider getting off of Office 2003 or Office 2007, and at least catch up to Office 2010 to make sure you can continue to work smoothly with customers and partners that do make the switch to Office 15."
Still, with many users fiercely hanging onto Windows XP, Office 15 may take some hard selling to succeed.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012
New ACS Podcast: Easing concerns about a catastrophic release of greenhouse gases
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WASHINGTON -- The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions" podcast series puts forth the reassuring finding that concerns about global warming having a domino effect unleashing 600 billion tons of carbon in vast expanses of peat in the Northern hemisphere and accelerating warming to disastrous proportions may be less justified than previously thought.
In the podcast, Christian Blodau, Ph.D., explains that peat bogs wet deposits of partially decayed plants that are the source of fuel and gardeners' peat moss hold about one-third of the world's carbon. Scientists have been concerned that global warming might dry out the surface of peatlands, allowing the release into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and methane (a greenhouse gas even more potent than carbon dioxide) produced from decaying organic matter.
To see whether this catastrophic domino effect is a realistic possibility, Blodau and colleagues conducted laboratory simulations studying the decomposition of wet bog peat for nearly two years.
Far from observing sudden releases of greenhouse gases, they found that carbon release and methane production slowed down considerably in deeply buried wet peat, most likely because deeper peat is shielded from exchange of water and gases with the atmosphere.
In connection with previous work, they concluded that even under moderately changing climatic conditions, peatlands will continue to sequester, or isolate from the atmosphere, their huge deposits of carbon and methane.
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The new podcast is available without charge at iTunes and from http://www.acs.org/globalchallenges.
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions is a series of podcasts describing some of the 21st century's most daunting problems, and how cutting-edge research in chemistry matters in the quest for solutions. Global Challenges is the centerpiece in an alliance on sustainability between ACS and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Global Challenges is a sweeping panorama of global challenges that includes dilemmas such as providing a hungry, thirsty world with ample supplies of safe food and clean water; developing alternatives to petroleum to fuel society; preserving the environment and assuring a sustainable future for our children and improving human health.
For more entertaining, informative science videos and podcasts from the ACS Office of Public Affairs, view Prized Science, Spellbound, Science Elements and Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions.
The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 164,000 members, ACS is the world's largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
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WASHINGTON -- The latest episode in the American Chemical Society's (ACS) award-winning "Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions" podcast series puts forth the reassuring finding that concerns about global warming having a domino effect unleashing 600 billion tons of carbon in vast expanses of peat in the Northern hemisphere and accelerating warming to disastrous proportions may be less justified than previously thought.
In the podcast, Christian Blodau, Ph.D., explains that peat bogs wet deposits of partially decayed plants that are the source of fuel and gardeners' peat moss hold about one-third of the world's carbon. Scientists have been concerned that global warming might dry out the surface of peatlands, allowing the release into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and methane (a greenhouse gas even more potent than carbon dioxide) produced from decaying organic matter.
To see whether this catastrophic domino effect is a realistic possibility, Blodau and colleagues conducted laboratory simulations studying the decomposition of wet bog peat for nearly two years.
Far from observing sudden releases of greenhouse gases, they found that carbon release and methane production slowed down considerably in deeply buried wet peat, most likely because deeper peat is shielded from exchange of water and gases with the atmosphere.
In connection with previous work, they concluded that even under moderately changing climatic conditions, peatlands will continue to sequester, or isolate from the atmosphere, their huge deposits of carbon and methane.
###
The new podcast is available without charge at iTunes and from http://www.acs.org/globalchallenges.
Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions is a series of podcasts describing some of the 21st century's most daunting problems, and how cutting-edge research in chemistry matters in the quest for solutions. Global Challenges is the centerpiece in an alliance on sustainability between ACS and the Royal Society of Chemistry. Global Challenges is a sweeping panorama of global challenges that includes dilemmas such as providing a hungry, thirsty world with ample supplies of safe food and clean water; developing alternatives to petroleum to fuel society; preserving the environment and assuring a sustainable future for our children and improving human health.
For more entertaining, informative science videos and podcasts from the ACS Office of Public Affairs, view Prized Science, Spellbound, Science Elements and Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions.
The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 164,000 members, ACS is the world's largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
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IAEA, Iran see more talks ahead on nuclear issue (Reuters)
VIENNA (Reuters) ? Senior U.N. nuclear inspectors plan another trip to Iran soon after holding what both sides described as "good" talks about suspicions that the Islamic Republic is seeking the means to develop atomic weapons.
The talks represented rare direct dialogue in the protracted international stand-off over Iran's nuclear activity. Tension has worsened in recent weeks with the West pursuing a punitive embargo on Iranian oil and Tehran threatening retaliation.
Led by the International Atomic Energy Agency's global head of inspections, the IAEA team returned on Wednesday from three days of talks in Iran to try to end three years of deadlock in efforts to resolve questions about Tehran's nuclear work.
Tehran says its uranium enrichment program is solely for peaceful electricity generation and has repeatedly dismissed allegations of weapons aims as baseless and forged.
The fact both sides said talks would resume hinted that the round just completed at least created some basis for progress.
"We are committed to resolve all the outstanding issues and the Iranians said they are committed too. But of course there is still a lot of work to be done and so we have planned another trip in the very near future," Herman Nackaerts, IAEA deputy director general in charge of nuclear non-proliferation safeguards, told reporters after returning from Tehran.
Asked if he was satisfied with the talks, Nackaerts, who headed a six-member mission, said: "Yeah, we had a good trip."
He described the talks as "intensive discussions" but declined to comment on whether his Iranian counterparts had engaged in substantial dialogue or to give any more details, saying he first needed to brief his boss.
A Western diplomat based in Vienna, the IAEA's headquarters, said that meant the jury was still out on whether the mission accomplished anything concrete. "What we want to know the answer to is did Iran cooperate on substance here," the diplomat said.
Proliferation expert Mark Fitzpatrick described Nackaerts' statement after the trip about more meetings as a positive sign.
"The IAEA would not be scheduling another trip unless they had an expectation of progress in clearing away at least some of the questions about suspicious past nuclear activity," Fitzpatrick, a director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said.
In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi also said more talks would be needed but did not say when.
"We had very good meetings and we planned to continue these negotiations ... the team had some questions about the claimed studies ... one step has been taken forward," he told the semi- official Fars news agency in Tehran on Wednesday.
IAEA BOARD MEETING
By "studies," Salehi was alluding to intelligence reports indicating that Iran has covertly researched ways to design a nuclear weapon -- Western allegations that were backed up by a detailed IAEA report in November.
Salehi added: "We were ready to show them our nuclear facilities, but they didn't ask for it." Lower-level IAEA inspectors based in Iran have regular, if limited, access to Iran's declared nuclear installations.
Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, had already announced Iran's readiness to hold talks with major world powers and would issue a written invitation, Salehi added. "I hope this meeting takes place in the not too distant future," he said.
Western diplomats have often accused Iran of using offers of dialogue as a stalling tactic while it presses ahead with stockpiling enriched uranium, the key energy source in nuclear power plants or bombs, depending on the level of refinement.
They say they doubt whether Tehran will show the kind of concrete cooperation the IAEA wants.
Mark Hibbs of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace said the IAEA needed a "significant deliverable" to prevent the crisis from escalating at a meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's 35-nation governing board in early March.
"Nackaerts will soon tell member states whether he came back with that or whether he's close. Without the deliverable, next month we're headed for more pressure and more sanctions," Hibbs said.
Friction between Iran and the West has worsened markedly this year after the United States and the European Union imposed sanctions targeting Tehran's vital oil sector over its continued defiance of U.N. resolutions demanding it suspend enrichment, granted unfettered access to the IAEA and engage in negotiations addressing doubts about the nature of its nuclear activity.
The Islamic Republic has been open to resuming talks with six world powers frozen for over a year, but only to discussing broader international issues, not its nuclear program.
The new Western measures take direct aim at the ability of OPEC's second-biggest oil exporter to sell its crude.
Iran has rejected the oil sanctions as "psychological warfare" and threatened to cut off oil exports to EU countries before July 1, when the sanctions would take full effect.
Iranian officials have shrugged off the impact of sanctions, saying their country has become more self-reliant.
Top U.S. intelligence chiefs told legislators in testimony on Tuesday that Iran is feeling the bite from sanctions and that its nuclear program is now capable of yielding a weapon although Tehran had not yet decided on such a course.
(Additional reporting by Fredrik Dahl in Vienna, Tabassum Zakaria in Washington and Ramin Mostafavi in Tehran; Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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Cocktail Flow is a gorgeous bartending app filled with delicious recipes. This isn't you basic recipe list, however; Cocktail Flow keeps a list of what ingredients you have in your bar and populates a list of drinks you make with your current stock.
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