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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Whale's streaming baleen tangles to trap food

Public release date: 13-Mar-2013
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Diving and plunging through the waves to feed, some whales throw their jaws wide and engulf colossal mouthfuls of fish-laden water while other species simply coast along with their mouths agape (ram or skim feeding), yet both feeding styles rely on a remarkable substance in the whales' mouths to filter nutrition from the ocean: baleen. Alexander Werth from Hampden-Sydney College, USA, explains that no one knew how the hairy substance actually traps morsels of food. 'The standard view was that baleen is just a static material and people had never thought of it moving or that its function would be altered by the flow of water through the mouth', he says. Werth became fascinated with the substance during his postdoc days, when he worked with the Inupiat Eskimos of Barrow, Alaska, and decided to find out more about how the flexible material filters whale-sized mouthfuls of water. He publishes his discovery that baleen is a highly mobile material that tangles in flowing water to form the perfect net for trapping food particles at natural whale swimming speeds in The Journal of Experimental Biology at http://jeb.biologists.org.

Explaining that baleen is composed of keratin the same protein that makes hair and fingernails Werth also describes how the protein forms large continually growing plates, each with an internal fibrous core sandwiched between smooth outer plates. Whales usually carry 300 of these structures on each side of their mouths arranged perpendicular to the direction of water flowing into the mouth and Werth explains that the plates are continually worn away by the tongue to form bristly food-trapping fringes on the tongue-edge of each plate. In addition, the baleen fringes of the skim-feeding bowhead whale's bristles are twice as long as the lunging humpback's. Having obtained baleen samples from the body of a stranded humpback during graduate work at the New England Aquarium and collected samples from ram-feeding bowheads in Alaska, Werth began to compare how well the baleen trapped minute latex beads carried in flowing water.

First, he tested a small section of each type of baleen in a flow tank as he varied the flow speed from 10 to 120 cm s and altered the inclination of the baleen to the water flow from parallel to perpendicular. Monitoring the fringes and recording how many beads became lodged for 2 s or more, Werth saw that the bristles trapped most beads at the lowest speeds, and as the flow increased the bristles began streaming like hair, increasing the fringe's porosity and reducing the number of snagged particles: single baleen plates are less effective filters at higher swimming speeds.

However, Werth says, 'It doesn't make sense to look at flow across a single plate of baleen, it's like looking at feeding with a single tooth; you can't chew anything with just one tooth, you need a whole mouthful.' So, he built a scaled down rack of six, 20 cm long baleen plate fragments and tested how well they trapped the latex beads.

This time, Werth could clearly see the fringes from adjacent baleen plates becoming tangled and more matted as the flow increased, trapping the most particles at speeds ranging from 70 to 80 cm/s, which corresponds exactly with the swimming speed of bowhead whales skimming through shoals of copepods. However, when he compared the porosity of the baleen of both species, he was surprised by the similarity of the performances, despite the whales' different feeding styles.

Having found that baleen filters best at the natural swimming speed of skim-feeding bowheads, Werth is keen to scale up and investigate how full-sized 4 m long baleen plates perform
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REFERENCE: Werth, A. J. (2013). Flow-dependent porosity and other biomechanical properties of mysticete baleen. J. Exp. Bio. 216, 1152-1159.

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Whale's streaming baleen tangles to trap food Public release date: 13-Mar-2013
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Contact: Nicola Stead
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The Company of Biologists

Diving and plunging through the waves to feed, some whales throw their jaws wide and engulf colossal mouthfuls of fish-laden water while other species simply coast along with their mouths agape (ram or skim feeding), yet both feeding styles rely on a remarkable substance in the whales' mouths to filter nutrition from the ocean: baleen. Alexander Werth from Hampden-Sydney College, USA, explains that no one knew how the hairy substance actually traps morsels of food. 'The standard view was that baleen is just a static material and people had never thought of it moving or that its function would be altered by the flow of water through the mouth', he says. Werth became fascinated with the substance during his postdoc days, when he worked with the Inupiat Eskimos of Barrow, Alaska, and decided to find out more about how the flexible material filters whale-sized mouthfuls of water. He publishes his discovery that baleen is a highly mobile material that tangles in flowing water to form the perfect net for trapping food particles at natural whale swimming speeds in The Journal of Experimental Biology at http://jeb.biologists.org.

Explaining that baleen is composed of keratin the same protein that makes hair and fingernails Werth also describes how the protein forms large continually growing plates, each with an internal fibrous core sandwiched between smooth outer plates. Whales usually carry 300 of these structures on each side of their mouths arranged perpendicular to the direction of water flowing into the mouth and Werth explains that the plates are continually worn away by the tongue to form bristly food-trapping fringes on the tongue-edge of each plate. In addition, the baleen fringes of the skim-feeding bowhead whale's bristles are twice as long as the lunging humpback's. Having obtained baleen samples from the body of a stranded humpback during graduate work at the New England Aquarium and collected samples from ram-feeding bowheads in Alaska, Werth began to compare how well the baleen trapped minute latex beads carried in flowing water.

First, he tested a small section of each type of baleen in a flow tank as he varied the flow speed from 10 to 120 cm s and altered the inclination of the baleen to the water flow from parallel to perpendicular. Monitoring the fringes and recording how many beads became lodged for 2 s or more, Werth saw that the bristles trapped most beads at the lowest speeds, and as the flow increased the bristles began streaming like hair, increasing the fringe's porosity and reducing the number of snagged particles: single baleen plates are less effective filters at higher swimming speeds.

However, Werth says, 'It doesn't make sense to look at flow across a single plate of baleen, it's like looking at feeding with a single tooth; you can't chew anything with just one tooth, you need a whole mouthful.' So, he built a scaled down rack of six, 20 cm long baleen plate fragments and tested how well they trapped the latex beads.

This time, Werth could clearly see the fringes from adjacent baleen plates becoming tangled and more matted as the flow increased, trapping the most particles at speeds ranging from 70 to 80 cm/s, which corresponds exactly with the swimming speed of bowhead whales skimming through shoals of copepods. However, when he compared the porosity of the baleen of both species, he was surprised by the similarity of the performances, despite the whales' different feeding styles.

Having found that baleen filters best at the natural swimming speed of skim-feeding bowheads, Werth is keen to scale up and investigate how full-sized 4 m long baleen plates perform
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IF REPORTING ON THIS STORY, PLEASE MENTION THE JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY AS THE SOURCE AND, IF REPORTING ONLINE, PLEASE CARRY A LINK TO: http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/7/1152.abstract

REFERENCE: Werth, A. J. (2013). Flow-dependent porosity and other biomechanical properties of mysticete baleen. J. Exp. Bio. 216, 1152-1159.

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Monday, March 11, 2013

Freed U.N. peacekeepers cross into Jordan from Syria

AMMAN (Reuters) - Twenty-one United Nations peacekeepers held by rebels for three days in southern Syria crossed into Jordan on Saturday, after an ordeal which highlighted how Syria's civil war is ratcheting up tensions on its volatile borders.

The Filipino peacekeepers - part of the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) that has been monitoring a ceasefire line between Syria and Israel in the Golan Heights since 1974 - were seized by the Martyrs of Yarmouk rebel brigade on Wednesday.

They were taken by the rebels on Saturday to the Jordanian border, about 10 km (6 miles) south of the village of Jamla where they had been held since being captured.

"They are all on the Jordanian side now and they are in good health," said Abu Mahmoud, a rebel who said he had crossed over into Jordan with them.

In the Syrian capital, Mokhtar Lamani, who heads the Damascus office of U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi, confirmed that the men had crossed into Jordan.

Jordan appeared surprised by the arrival of the peacekeepers - who had been expected to be retrieved instead by a U.N. convoy inside Syria and possibly taken to Damascus - and Syria expressed dismay at how they were spirited across the border.

The move would "encourage terrorists to repeat these events", the foreign ministry in Damascus said, adding that Syria had complied fully with its commitment to ensure the peacekeepers' safety.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed the release of the peacekeepers but called on "all parties to respect UNDOF's freedom of movement and the safety and security of its personnel", Ban's spokesman said.

The peacekeepers had been held in Jamla, a village one mile east of the Israeli-occupied Golan and 6 miles north of the Jordan border. After their capture insurgents described them as "guests" and said they would be freed once President Bashar al-Assad's forces withdrew from around Jamla and stopped shelling.

A brief truce was agreed on Saturday morning to allow for the peacekeepers' retrieval. Although the two-hour window of that ceasefire passed at midday (1000 GMT) before they could be extracted, the relative calm prevailed long enough for the rebels to take them south to Jordan, rebels said.

A rescue effort on Friday was delayed by heavy bombardment and abandoned after nightfall, U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said.

REGIONAL SPILLOVER

Syria's two-year-old civil war has spilled periodically across the Golan Heights ceasefire line and Syria's borders with Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey, threatening to engulf the region. The conflict began as peaceful protests, but turned violent when Assad ordered a crackdown on the demonstrations.

Ladsous warned on Friday that once the peacekeepers were freed, "we would strongly expect that there would not be retaliatory action by the Syrian armed forces over the village and its civilian population".

Syrian U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari said the army had been targeting areas outside Jamla where he said the rebels were concentrated, not the village itself. "We know for sure what we are doing and we know where the peacekeepers are," he said.

"The Syrian government forces are doing exactly what they have to do in order to bring back safely the peacekeepers, guarantee the safety and security of the inhabitants of these villages (and) get these armed group terrorists out of the area."

In several videos released on Thursday, the peacekeepers said they were being treated well by civilians and rebels.

The United Nations said the captives had been detained by about 30 rebel fighters, but Abu Issam Taseel, a Martyrs of Yarmouk activist, said the men were "guests", not hostages, and were being held for their own safety.

Under an agreement brokered by the United States in 1974, Israel and Syria are allowed a limited number of tanks and troops within 20 km of the disengagement line.

(Additional reporting by Dominic Evans and Mariam Karouny in Beirut, Michelle Nichols at the United Nations and Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva; Editing by Angus MacSwan and Stephen Powell)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/u-n-convoy-retrieve-golan-peacekeepers-delayed-rebel-121933449.html

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Iran passes three-month stop-gap budget as sanctions hit revenue

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's parliament has passed a three-month stop-gap budget while it debates President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's full-year spending proposals, delivered nearly 90 days late at a time when economic sanctions have cast doubt over future revenue.

This year will be the third in a row that parliament has been unable to pass a full-year budget in time for the March 21 start of the Iranian calendar and fiscal year. Western sanctions over its disputed nuclear program have cut oil exports by more than half over the past year, sharply reducing Iran's income.

"This short-term budget shows that planning beyond 90 days has become impossible because of sanctions," said Iranian-born economist Mehrdad Emadi of the Betamatrix consultancy in London. "The government faces huge uncertainties."

The temporary "three-twelfths" budget authorizes spending of 450,000 billion rials total for the first quarter of the year, Fars news agency reported. That is roughly equivalent to a single month's spending in rial terms in last year's budget, or $13 billion at the current open market exchange rate.

Ahmadinejad proposed the temporary budget as a stop-gap last month when he asked lawmakers to consider his long overdue draft for the full year.

His full-year budget foresees a 31 percent increase in spending in domestic currency, amounting to a cut in dollar terms as the rial has halved in value over the past year on the open market.

Ahmadinejad, coming to the end of a second and final four-year term, has often quarreled with parliament over economic policies, including cuts in subsidies for food and fuel.

Iranian state media quoted lawmakers who saw the temporary spending bill as a necessity but expressed frustration with the need to resort to such bills. Parliament needed a two-month stop-gap before it passed last year's budget.

"Last year the government presented two-twelfths to parliament and this year it is three-twelfths. Maybe next year it will be four-twelfths," said member of parliament Mehdi Sanaei, according to state news agency IRNA reported. "This sort of budget-writing is incorrect and it must be reformed."

The International Energy Agency, which advises rich countries, estimated last week that Iran's oil exports may have dropped below 1 million barrels per day in January, from 2.2 million bpd in late 2011.

New sanctions imposed by the United States and European Union since the start of 2012 banned Iranian oil sales to Europe, and made it difficult for other countries to pay for Iranian oil or for ships that carry it to get insurance.

Western countries accuse Iran of seeking a nuclear weapon. Tehran says its nuclear program is peaceful and the sanctions are a form of economic warfare.

The temporary budget must be ratified by the parliamentary Planning and Budget Committee and the 12-member veto-wielding Guardian Council of jurists and clerics, Fars reported.

DEPENDENCE ON OIL

The full draft budget amounts to 7,305,000 billion rials - $595 billion at the official exchange rate, but only around $200 billion at the free market rate. The 2012 budget was 5,560,000 billion rials.

In a television interview before the budget draft was presented, Ahmadinejad said it would reduce Iran's dependence on oil income and boost non-oil exports, to limit the impact of "heavy factors active from outside".

He said non-oil exports of goods and services could reach $75 billion in the coming year, a 50 percent increase compared to estimated figures for this year.

The draft budget did not give an estimate for oil exports for the forthcoming year. Iranian media said it was based on an average oil price of $95 per barrel. Brent crude oil is now at about $110 a barrel.

The approval process for the budget is likely to be hampered by the deep political divisions between the president and a mainly hostile parliament who accuse him of reckless financial management they see as a major cause of Iran's economic pain.

The president also drew parliamentarians' ire by proposing to increase funding for the executive branch while cutting the budgets of other state bodies, including parliament.

(Additional reporting Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Peter Graff)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/iran-passes-three-month-stop-gap-budget-sanctions-154806011--business.html

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Saturday, March 9, 2013

Reader recommendation: The Passage of Power

It took three tries and several weeks, but I finally finished ?Passage of Power by Robert Caro, the fourth volume in the?study of?Lyndon Johnson. It was worth it and is as revealing as the other three.?

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'Fox And Friends' Interviews Thomas Jefferson Impersonator (VIDEO)

Ann Coulter Calls Obama "Retard"

Ann Coulter <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/23/ann-coulter-obama-retard_n_2004828.html">called President Obama a "retard"</a> during the 2012 election. She made the remark on Twitter after the third and final presidential debate between Obama and Mitt Romney. "I highly approve of Romney's decision to be kind and gentle to the retard," she tweeted.

Karl Rove Argues With Fox News About 2012 Election Night Call

In one of the wildest moments of the 2012 election, Fox News contributor <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/fox-news-argues-obama-ohio_n_2085817.html">Karl Rove challenged the network's decision to call the race for President Obama</a> on the night of the vote. The network made its projection, but Rove said it was "premature" and "early" to make any real decisions. Anchor Megyn Kelly then walked backstage to speak to the number crunchers, who then explained that Rove was wrong.

Geraldo Rivera: "I Think The Hoodie Is As Much Responsible For Trayvon Martin?s Death As George Zimmerman Was."

Geraldo Rivera caused a huge uproar in March 2012 when he blamed Trayvon Martin's hoodie for his death. Martin, an unarmed teenager, was shot and killed by George Zimmerman. Rivera <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/geraldo-rivera-trayvon-martin-benjamin-crump-hoodie_n_1532576.html">doubled down on his attacks</a> on what he called Martin's "thug wear," though he eventually<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/27/geraldo-rivera-apology-trayvon-martin-hoodie_n_1382814.html"> issued a public apology</a> for his explosive comments. Even Rivera's son said that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/23/geraldo-rivera-trayvon-martin-hoodie_n_1375080.html?ref=media">he was ashamed of his father's remarks</a>.

Bill O'Reilly: 'Whitney Houston Wanted To Kill Herself'

Bill O'Reilly came down hard on Whitney Houston the Monday after she died. "Whitney Houston wanted to kill herself," he said. "Nobody takes drugs for that long if they want to stay on the planet. She follows in the footsteps of Elvis, Janis Joplin, Michael Jackson, and scores of other entertainment figures. The hard truth is that some people will always want to destroy themselves, and there's nothing society can do about it."

Fox News' Liz Trotta On Women Raped In Military: 'What Did They Expect?'

Fox News contributor Liz Trotta was reacting to news that the military will allow women to work closer to the front lines when she made a series of incendiary statements about rape. She said that the rate of sex crimes committed by army personnel was up, and continued, <blockquote>Now, what did they expect? These people are in close contact, the whole airing of this issue has never been done by Congress, it's strictly been a question of pressure from the feminists.</blockquote> Trotta also alleged that "feminists" have demanded too much money to fund programs for sexual abuse victims. "You have this whole bureaucracy upon bureaucracy being built up with all kinds of levels of people to support women in the military who are now being raped too much," she said. She <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/20/fox-news-liz-trotta-rape-military_n_1288769.html">later doubled down</a> on her original remarks.

Keith Ablow: "Don't Let Your Kids Watch Chaz Bono On 'Dancing With the Stars'"

Keith Ablow, a Fox News contributor and the network's resident psychiatrist, has generated controversy with his dubious theories, which include his assertion that Chaz Bono's appearance on "Dancing With the Stars" would lead children to reconsider their gender. He also suggested that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/21/keith-ablow-fox-news-newt-gingrich-marriages_n_1220761.html" target="_hplink">Newt Gingrich's infidelity would make him a better president</a>, and that <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/keith-ablow-joe-biden-debate_n_1967272.html" target="_hplink">Joe Biden showed signs of dementia</a> during the vice-presidential debate.

Steve Doocy on Hillary Clinton: "Face Lift, Perhaps?"

Steve Doocy speculated that Hillary Clinton recently had a face lift. "Is this the face of presidential ambition?" Doocy said. "Days after retiring as Secretary of State, somebody has launched a website for her, showing off this glamorous new face. Face lift, perhaps? Well, that?s fueling rumors about a run for president in 2016, but her aides say it?s simply a way for fans and the media to reach her."

Megyn Kelly: Pepper Spray Is "Food Product, Essentially"

Megyn Kelly and Bill O'Reilly were discussing the pepper spray incident that rocked UC Davis when Kelly wondered whether the spray used by police had been diluted. She said pepper spray is "a food product, essentially," adding that the spray was "obviously abrasive and intrusive."

Eric Bolling: Obama Hosted 'A Hoodlum In The Hizzouse'

Eric Bolling <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/13/eric-bolling-accused-of-r_n_876214.html">courted allegations of racism</a> when he criticized Obama's visit with the president of Gabon, saying, "It's not the first time he's had a hoodlum in the hizzouse." As he said "hizzouse," a picture of rapper Common appeared on the screen.

Brian Kilmeade: 'We Keep Marrying Other Species And Other Ethnics'

In reference to a study that claimed people who stay married are less likely to suffer from Alzheimer's, Kilmeade said that the results do not apply to the United States because: "... we keep marrying other species and other ethnics. See, the problem is the Swedes have pure genes. Because they marry other Swedes .... Finns marry other Finns, so they have a pure society. In America we marry everybody, we marry Italians and Irish."

Sean Hannity: Obama Wouldn't Have Killed Bin Laden 'If He Had His Way'

Sean Hannity was reluctant to credit President Obama with killing Osama bin Laden. He was discussing Obama's foreign policy with Republican pollster Frank Luntz: "They?ve got a foreign policy that shows a lot of weakness," Hannity said. "I know the President will say they got bin Laden, putting that aside." "And the public gives him credit for that," Luntz said. Hannity replied, "But it wouldn?t have happened if he had his way, and I think that could be proven as well on tapes."

Ann Coulter: 'Can We Get The Ad To Find Obama's Cocaine Dealer?'

Ann Coulter called for someone to put out an ad to <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/ann-coulter-obama-cocaine_n_933151.html">find President Obama's "cocaine dealer"</a> during an appearance on Sunday's "Fox and Friends." Coulter's comment came as she was opining that the media have given Republican presidential candidates a harder time than Obama ever got when he ran in the 2008 election. She noted that someone has already taken an ad out asking, "have you had sex with Rick Perry?" "Can we get the ad to find, you know, Obama's cocaine dealer now that he's two years into his presidency?" Coulter asked,

Fox News' Liz Trotta Jokes About Killing President Obama

Fox News contributor Liz Trotta joked about killing President Obama. She was discussing Hillary Clinton's reference to RFK's assassination when defending her decision to stay in the race until June 2008. Trotta accidentally said that someone was talking about "Osama" getting knocked off, instead of "Obama." "Well, both if we could," Trotta then joked, laughing.

Ann Coulter To Hannity: 'Our Blacks Are So Much Better Than Their Blacks'

In 2009, Ann Coulter said that conservatives blacks are <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/ann-coulter-herman-cain-our-blacks_n_1069172.html">"so much better"</a> than liberal blacks. "Our blacks are so much better than their blacks," Coulter told Fox News. "To become a black Republican, you don't just roll into it. You're not going with the flow. You have fought against probably your family members, probably your neighbors, you have thought everything out and that's why we have very impressive blacks in our party."

Brian Kilmeade: 'All Terrorists Are Muslims'

"Fox and Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade defended Bill O'Reilly after his infamous visit to "The View." "Not all Muslims are terrorists," Kilmeade said, "But all terrorists are Muslims." Later, he addressed the remarks, saying, "What I should have said, and I?d like to clarify, is all terrorists who killed us on 9/11; with the Cole; and the Khobar; and the ?98 embassies; that?s what I should have said."

Bill O'Reilly: "You Want Me To Give You My Hard-Earned Money So You Can Have Sex?"

Bill O'Reilly <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/03/bill-oreilly-sandra-fluke-limbaugh_n_1318249.html">did not hesitate to take Rush Limbaugh's side</a> in the furor over the radio host's comments about Sandra Fluke. "Let me get this straight, Ms. Fluke, and I'm asking this with all due respect," he said. "You want me to give you my hard-earned money so you can have sex?"

John Bolton: Hillary Clinton Has "Diplomatic Illness"

John Bolton, former U.N. ambassador and Fox News contributor, alleged that Hillary Clinton was <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/18/john-bolton-hillary-clinton_n_2322782.html?utm_hp_ref=hillary-clinton">faking a "diplomatic illness"</a> to avoid testifying about Benghazi. Clinton's testimony was postponed after she fainted and suffered a concussion in December. Bolton claimed "every foreign service officer in every foreign ministry in the world" is familiar with coming up with such "diplomatic illnesses" when they "don't want to go to a meeting or a conference, or an event." "And this is a diplomatic illness to beat the band," he said.

Bob Beckel: "I went swimming. My eyes blew up, and it made me look Oriental."

Bob Beckel: "When's the last time you heard about rape on a college campus?"

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/08/fox-and-friends-thomas-jefferson_n_2838526.html

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Host a St. Patrick's Day Party in Your Apartment

Chocolate Stout cupcakes with Bailey?s Irish Cream frosting. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

St. Patrick?s Day is the perfect day for a party. The food, the drinks, and the first hint of spring in the air puts everyone in a good mood. If you?ve decided to host a get-together in your apartment for St. Patrick?s Day this year, get ready to have a great time (without a lot of effort!).

After you send out your invites, start planning the menu. Start off with some veggies and this Irish Cheddar and Stout Fondue. A great fondue is not only a fun way to eat but it also provides the ideal gathering spot for guests. Consider making Irish Stew, Corned Beef and Cabbage, or Shepherd?s Pie for the main course. You?ll want a nice soda bread to go along with your meal, and consider wrapping things up with these Chocolate Stout Cupcakes.

Next, plan the space. If your apartment is small, you might want to rearrange furniture so that you have a large, open space for people to gather. If you need more table space, consider using a card table, a folding table, TV trays, or even a door placed between two short bookcases, chairs, or end tables to form a long ?table.? Place unnecessary furniture in another room so it will be out of the way, and be sure to remove clutter from surfaces so your guests will have plenty of space to set down plates of food or drinks. You?ll want places for people to sit, but arrange chairs in small groups around the room to encourage your guests to mingle.

Decorating for a St. Pat?s Day party is easy ? just think green: green streamers, green balloons, shamrocks, and gold foil-wrapped chocolate coins are all inexpensive ways to dress up your space. Find pictures of Ireland (or leprechauns or shamrocks) on the computer, enlarge them, and print them out to set (or hang) around your apartment. Find a rock to be your blarney stone and set it in a prominent location.

Next, plan your drinks. Guinness, of course, is the St. Patrick?s Day drink du jour, but you can also consider adding some mixed drinks, some Irish coffee, or serve a non-alcoholic green punch ? just mix together ginger ale, lime sherbet, frozen lemon, and frozen lime juice in a large punch bowl. Add a drop or two of green food coloring to make the color a little more vibrant (if you want), and be sure to buy extra of everything ? this punch goes fast and you will probably have to make at least one more batch. If you want to serve green beer, add a few drops of food coloring to each ?pint? before serving.

Finally, plan your entertainment. Your playlist could include some of these Irish tunes. Challenge guests to an Irish step dancing contest and award prizes to the best dancers. Hide some ?gold? (gold-wrapped chocolate coins) and drop hints throughout the evening as to the location. The guest who finds the gold gets to keep it. Have a limerick-writing contest, or hold a ?green? contest ? with the prize going to the guest who shows up at your party dressed in the most creative ?green? outfit. If you?d rather take the party outside, plan a pub crawl after dinner if there are pubs within walking distance from your apartment.

No matter what your plans are for St. Patrick?s Day, stay safe. Make sure your guests have a designated driver if there will be alcohol at your party. Also, be sure to tell guests where they are allowed to park since many apartment communities have designated areas for non-residents. Keep your party fun, but be considerate of the residents who live around you.

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Friday, March 8, 2013

China pushes for Arctic foothold, from a thousand miles away

As global warming pushes back the Arctic Sea ice, uncovering new natural-resource deposits, China is looking to establish its presence in the north.

By Mike Eckel,?Contributor / March 7, 2013

The crew of the US Coast Guard Cutter Healy, in the midst of their ICESCAPE mission, retrieves supplies for some mid-mission fixes dropped by parachute from a C-130 in the Arctic Ocean in this July 2011 photo.

Courtesy of Kathryn Hansen/NASA/Reuters

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Way up above 66th parallel north, the jousting and jostling for the mother lode of oil, gas, mineral, fish, and other resources being exposed by the rapidly receding Arctic sea ice is well under way.

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'Dino Idol': Vote For Fossil to Be Unveiled

Canada's next rock star may be between 71 million and 75 million years old ? and it won't be music that propels him or her to fame.

The Canadian Museum of Nature has launched a contest called "Dino Idol," in which the public can vote on which of five dinosaur fossils that have been tucked into storage for the past century will see the light of day.

Visitors to the Ottawa facility can view a temporary exhibit of the five specimens, still in their boulder-size "jackets" of burlap, plaster and surrounding rock material, and pick the one to crack open. Based on the labels attached to each specimen ? the only information to suggest what paleontologists will find inside ? options range from a snarly tyrannosaurid to a more placid duckbill.

"Usually, when the public goes to a museum, they'll see the dinosaurs on display. They'll see the fruits of our labor, so to speak, but they don't see what goes on [beforehand]," said Jordan Mallon, a post-doctoral fellow and dinosaur expert who joined the museum recently.

"When it comes to opening a jacket, or even what these jackets are, they often don't know about the research that will go on all these dinosaur fossils."

Most of the dinosaurs were unearthed in Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that bills itself as "one of the world's richest dinosaur fields." [See Photos of the Park & Hidden Dinosaurs]

Paleontologists still wonder how more than 40 dinosaur species thrived during the same period, between 75 million and 76.5 million years ago, in an area less than 29 square miles (75 square kilometers) in size, Mallon said.

The park was a treasure trove for fossil hunters in the early 1900s, particularly for the Sternberg family. Using horses and scows, Charles Sternberg and his sons brought the five Dino Idol fossils (and many others) out of the wilderness between 1912 and 1924.

The family then shipped the fossils by train to Ottawa, about 1,860 miles (3,000 kilometers) east.

Given the Sternbergs' prolific work for the Geological Survey of Canada, it wasn't much surprise that some fossils are still unopened nearly a century later, said Mallon, who did his doctoral research at the University of Calgary in western Canada, which is relatively close to the dinosaur park.

"Often the Sternbergs would go out in the field and collect 20 and 30 dinosaurs," Mallon said. "Given that each one of those will usually take somewhere on the order of one to five years to prepare, and they had many field seasons, [the fossils] just added up."

Here are the five choices for the next paleo-star:

A mystery jaw from a tyrannosaurid, a carnivorous dinosaur, collected in 1914 that may belong to earlier cousins of Tyrannosaurusrex: Gorgosaurus libratus or Daspletosaurus torosus.
The skull of a horned dinosaur, possibly the rare Arrhinoceratops, which was collected in 1924.
The skeleton of a duck-billed dinosaur called Edmontosaurus regalis.
The skull of a hadrosaur, or a duck-billed dinosaur, found in 1914. The rest of its body likely washed away long ago.
The hips, tail and bony club of an ankylosaur, possibly from the species Euoplocephalus tutus, collected in 1915.

Deadline for voting in the Dino Idol contest is March 17, and the winner with the most votes will be announced March 19.

Mallon isn't sure if there will be a Dino Idol 2. He does, however, hope to have a greater say in which fossil will be opened next.

"We can't always let the public decide which one to view," he joked.

Follow Elizabeth Howell @howellspace, or LiveScience on Twitter @livescience. We're also on Facebook& Google+.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dino-idol-vote-fossil-unveiled-123912004.html

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Marvel Unlimited Is A Severely Limited Subscription Comics Service For iOS

The only thing I want in this world is an all-you-can-read monthly comic subscription service, which I can use on the iPad. Which is why Marvel launching Marvel Unlimited on iOS seemed like a dream come true. But in actual fact, it's like promising a feast and delivering a few mouldy Saltines. I'll eat them because I'm starving, but I won't like it.

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