Siberian cold stops German bicycle tourist

Wounded soldier's North Pole trek
A Welsh guard who was wounded in Afghanistan is among injured Soldiers hoping to trek to the North Pole. Steve Young, 28, from Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, was told he would never walk again after breaking his back in an IED blast. He hopes to raise £2m with injured soldiers, two of whom hope to be the first amputees to make the journey unsupported. The team, to be joined by Prince Harry, hopes to begin the challenge in March. Their aim is to reach the North Pole with four wounded soldiers, in...

Ancient Denisovans and the Human Family Tree
© MPI-EVA, Leipzig Ancient molar tooth from Denisova Cave in Siberia. Scientists obtained the genetic information of the tooth, as well as of a finger bone found in the caves, revealing a connection to people living today. Last month scientists revealed remarkable evidence of a new group of ancient humans called Denisovans that interbred with our species and left behind a genetic trace in people living in south east Asia today. An international team, including scientists at the Max Planc...

Little Siberia
This is the resort we've all been waiting for. It's a once in a lifetime chance to experience the joys of Collective living in Siberia without the expense of traveling to the Motherland. No need to worry about flight delays or Airport Security. We're just a 15 minute dog sled ride from the local town's 19th century (restored to original) Train Station. Traveling by auto? Our snowy delights are only 45 minutes west of I95. Snow? We've got plenty. We received 6+ inches today. The tundra was alrea...

Prince Harry hopes to join North Pole trek
LONDON - Prince Harry is hoping to join a group of disabled Military Veterans as they try to ski to the North Pole. The team is due to begin a four-week, 200 mile (320 kilometer) trek from Siberia across the polar ice cap in March in aid of the charity Walking with the Wounded. Harry is patron of the charity, which helps servicemen and women who have been seriously hurt or lost limbs. Prince Harry's office at St. James' Palace said Wednesday that 26-year-old Harry "would love to join the e...

Wounded veterans' Pole attempt
Prince Harry is to join four wounded British Army Veterans when they attempt to ski to the North Pole in April. The team will embark on a four-week, 200 mile trek from Siberia across the polar ice cap in aid of the charity Walking with the Wounded. The Prince, who is patron of the charity, is planning to join the team for part of the trek, and has been working on his fitness. Each man will pull sleds weighing more than 100kg in temperatures varying between minus 15C to minus 50C. The BBC'...

Saving Polar Bears by Killing Them?
CHURCHVILLE, VA — A recent article in the British journal Nature warns that Polar Bears are increasingly mating with Grizzly Bears—because man-made Climate Change is rapidly melting the Arctic Sea Ice on which the Polar Bears love to hunt seals. Breathlessly, we’re told that a hybrid grizzly/polar bear was discovered in 2006. More recently another bear shot by a hunter also had mixed DNA. The offending hybrid bears should be “culled”—a kinder word than “...

Prince Harry hopes to join North Pole trek (AP)
LONDON – Prince Harry is hoping to join a group of disabled Military Veterans as they try to ski to the North Pole. The team is due to begin a four-week, 200 mile (320 kilometer) trek from Siberia across the polar ice cap in March in aid of the charity Walking with the Wounded. Harry is patron of the charity, which helps servicemen and women who have been seriously hurt or lost limbs. Prince Harry's office at St. James' Palace said Wednesday that 26-year-old Harry "would love to join the...

Prince Harry hopes to join North Pole trek
Prince Harry is hoping to join a group of disabled Military Veterans as they try to ski to the North Pole. The team is due to begin a four-week, 200 mile (320 kilometer) trek from Siberia across the polar ice cap in March in aid of the charity Walking with the Wounded. Harry is patron of the charity, which helps servicemen and women who have been seriously hurt or lost limbs. Prince Harry's office at St. James' Palace said Wednesday that 26-year-old Harry "would love to join the expedition" for ...

Magnetic North Has Shifted 10 Degrees, A Full Magnetic Flip Is Overdue
Following up on The Tampa Tribune's report that the Tampa, Florida airport authority had its runway landing sights repainted to reflect Magnetic North's lurch into Siberia, mainstream TV news has picked up on the story and ponders whether the planet is due a complete polar reversal. . ...

Teacher Fired After Allowing Students To Sled After Class
In Wales, Design teacher Richard Tremelling has been sacked. He was not fired for poor teaching or hitting on Students or even habitual lateness. He was fired because he let two 15-year-old Students go sledding after his class at Cefn Hengoed Community School in Swansea — failing to prepare a “risk assessment” and getting prior written approval. That’s right, the Students asked if they could try out a sled that he brought into class as a design object. He said yes and now...

Rhode Island gears up as major storm bears down
Steven Rego, DOT heavy equipment operator, mixes salt and sand together at the Department of Transportation facility in Portsmouth in preparation for Wednesday’s anticipated snowstorm. Snow that emptied the world’s busiest airport and caused six Southern Governors to declare emergencies Monday is heading for us Tuesday evening, with the National Weather Service already advising Southern New England emergency planners to cancel the Wednesday morning commute. A winter storm watch has b...

Important 2010 movies that weren't released in most of the USA
These are the ones that are popping up most often on the "Best of 2010" lists, although some of them have earlier formal release dates, often because of Cannes.  Most of these have been shown only in New York and Los Angeles, but they all are likely to appear on Netflix and some are there already. 1. Valhalla Rising, an English-language but Danish production about early Scandinavian visitors to the New World.  It's violent and arty at the same time and it was on...

Young Goldman Prop Traders Leave To Launch $300 Million Hedge Fund (GS)
Email Sent! You have successfully emailed the post. Two young prop traders are leaving Goldman's principal strategies desk in London to launch a Hedge Fund. The pair have secured a $300 million investment from Brummer & Partners, the largest Scandinavian Hedge Fund. No word on the name of the fund or whether they'll stay in London. Ever since the Volcker Rule was written into the FinReg bill that passed this summer, Goldman traders have been disbanding and making plans of their own. Morgan...

Food foragers find fun and cash amid the wild fungi
Hunting may get more attention as a primal human endeavor, but for Connie Green, there's something even deeper and older: gathering. "I think it triggers something in people's brains that we're hard-wired for," she says. It "involves the joy of finding food, and it's really quite beyond our control in some way." Green is a professional forager. She makes her living gathering wild foods in the woods and selling them to chefs, stores and the occasional very lucky individual. Her tramps through Nor...

Massive bird kill in Turkey
© Ria Novosti The Turkish authorities are investigating the mysterious death of thousands of starlings at a highway in the town of Karacabey. Starting on New Year's Eve, several cases of massive bird and fish kills were registered in Sweden and Italy, as well as in the United States, where some 4,000 blackbirds fell from the sky near the town of Beebe in Arkansas. Мне нравится114 . ...

Russia to reopen space tourism in 2013: company
Russia will reopen its Soyuz space ships to paying tourists in 2013 after a hiatus since 2009, the US-based company that organises the trips with Russia's space agency said Wednesday. From 2013, three space tourists per year will be able to book seats on Soyuz flights to the International Space Station (ISS), the Virginia-based company, Space Adventures, said in a statement. The company has signed an agreement with the Russian space agency and Energia, the state-owned company that designs the ...

Russia blames Polish crew in Kaczynski air crash
MOSCOW - Russian officials investigating the Plane Crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski placed the blame squarely on the Poles on Wednesday, saying the crew was pressured to land in bad weather by an Air Force commander who had been drinking. Kaczynski and 95 others, including his wife, died in April 2010 when their plane crashed while trying to land in Smolensk, Russia. There were no survivors. Officials of the Interstate Aviation Committee, which investigates crashes in much...

This week in the Middle East | Brian Whitaker
Russia has been accused of supplying Iran with an unhealthy tiger. Photograph: Mathieu Belanger/Reuters A weekly look at the Middle East, focusing on some of the issues and debates that you may have missed. I have spent a lot of time over the last few days following the Tunisian uprising on Twitter. With reporting on the ground severely curtailed by the authorities, with the western media slow to catch on to the significance of the events, and the Arab media - with a few rare exception...

Kaczynski plane crew under pressure: probe
Top Polish officials present in the cockpit of the plane of president Lech Kaczynski that crashed in Russia put pressure on the crew who ignored advice to land at a different airport, investigators said. Kaczynski died with 95 others when his presidential jet crashed on April 10, 2010, as it attempted to land in fog near the city of Smolensk in northwestern Russia. Tatyana Anodina, head of the Moscow-based aviation commission investigating the tragedy, confirmed on Wednesday that top Polish offi...

Russia blames Polish crew in Kaczynski crash
Russian officials investigating the airplane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski are placing the blame squarely on the Poles, saying the crew was under pressure to land in Bad Weather from an Air Force commander who had been drinking. Kaczynski and 95 others, including his wife, died in April 2010 when their plane crashed while trying to land in Smolensk, Russia. Officials of the Interstate Aviation Commission, which investigates crashes in much of the former Soviet Union, said Wed...

Hewitt beats Youzhny at Kooyong Classic
Lleyton Hewitt upset Russia's Mikhail Youzhny 7-5, 4-6, 6-4 at the exhibition Kooyong Classic on Wednesday to gain some momentum ahead of the Australian Open. The 54th-ranked Hewitt beat the 10th-ranked Youzhny in his first appearance at Kooyong, where several top stars are tuning up for the season's first Grand Slam starting Monday. Frenchman Gael Monfils got in shape with a 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-4 win over defending champion Fernando Verdasco of Spain, and Russia's Nikolay Davydenko beat Czech Tomas...

Russia blames Polish crew in Kaczynski air crash
Russian officials investigating the Plane Crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski placed the blame squarely on the Poles on Wednesday, saying the crew was pressured to land in Bad Weather by an Air Force commander who had been drinking. Kaczynski and 95 others, including his wife, died in April 2010 when their plane crashed while trying to land in Smolensk, Russia. There were no survivors. Officials of the Interstate Aviation Commission, which investigates crashes in much of the former...

Polish president's aides 'pressured air crash pilots'
Top Polish officials present in the cockpit of the plane of president Lech Kaczynski that crashed in Russia put pressure on the crew who ignored advice to land at a different airport, investigators said on Wednesday. Kaczynski died with 95 others when his presidential jet crashed on April 10, 2010, as it attempted to land in fog near the city of Smolensk in northwestern Russia. Tatyana Anodina, head of the Moscow-based aviation commission investigating the tragedy, confirmed that top Polish offi...

Kaczynski presence a factor in fatal crash: Russia
Moscow | Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:51am EST Moscow (Reuters) - Late Polish President Lech Kaczynski's presence aboard the plane that crashed in Russia last April may have led to the crash that killed him and 95 others, Russia's aviation officials said on Wednesday. "The main passenger's expected negative reaction" to a recommendation not to land "placed psychological pressure on crew members and influenced the decision to continue the landing," Tatiana Anodina, head of Russia's Interstate Aviation C...

update on the queensland flooding
twelve people are confirmed dead, with one other possible. the qld. Police Commissioner stated that they expect that to rise. the loss of animals, including livestock and pets, is unknown but very high. the fed. government has said that the expect that cost of this disaster to be at least 1% of Australia’s GDP for the next year, and that prices of food and commodities globally will rise significantly. qld. was the largest exporter of thermal and coking coal, and several mines are completel...