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Monday, February 4, 2013
Super Bowl Workout Game! - Burn Super Calories During the Super ...
Just because it is Super Bowl Sunday this weekend doesn?t mean that you have to give up your workout for the day. Put the ?Super? in Super Bowl Sunday with these fun ideas!
Pre-Game Tips:
- Whenever there is a time out, drink some water to keep hydrated like your favorite players. Drinking enough water every day is a key part to staying healthy. And if you?re playing the Super Bowl Workout Game, below, you?re going to need the water!
- Reach for the celery instead of the wings. The wings may be calling your name, but silence them by crunching on their much healthier plate companion, celery sticks. Your waistline will thank you in the morning.
- Get up and move around during halftime. Whether you want to dance around to Beyonce or go outside and play some football, get off that couch and move around!
Keep reading to play the Super Bowl Workout Game!
Super Bowl Workout Game
Instead of just sitting in front of the TV, turn the Super Bowl into an exercise game for yourself and your friends with this fun Super Bowl Workout! You can modify this workout to suit beginner, intermediate, or advanced fitness levels.
Beginner:?Do the following exercises for 1 quarter in the 1st half and 1 quarter in the 2nd half (either 1st and 3rd quarters or 2nd and 4th quarters).
Intermediate:?Do the following exercises for 1 half (2 consecutive quarters: either the 1st and 2nd quarters or the 3rd and 4th quarters).
Advanced:?Do the following exercises for the whole game (all 4 quarters).
Here are the ?rules? of the game. If you want to add some friendly competition to it, get at least one friend to join in; you should each pick a team (or flip a coin to decide) and keep score according to the point system, below.
- Whenever there is a touchdown by either team, do 12 jumping jacks. Either you will be jumping for joy or jumping out of frustration. (This is mandatory for everyone who is playing!)
- Whenever your team scores, your friend must do 3 prisoner jump squats. After all, their team is your team?s ?prisoner? now. Note that this is in addition to the 12 jumping jacks that you both have to do!?(+6 points for you)
Prisoner Jump Squat
- Whenever your friend?s team scores, you have to do 3 prisoner jump squats. It?s?a two-way street! Again, this is in addition to the 12 jumping jacks. (+6 points for your friend)
- Whenever there is a field goal by either team, do 12 forward lunges (6 lunges for each leg). Outstretch your arms over your head while doing your lunges to mimic the referees saying the kick was good! (+1 point if your team kicked the field goal)
- Whenever there is a penalty flag, do 12 standing calf raises. It is a better alternative than simply tapping your foot waiting for the final verdict on the play to be made. (-1 point if your team got the penalty)
- Whenever there is a turnover, do 12 modified push-ups.?Either you will be pumped to do this because your team got the ball or you will be ?punishing? yourself because your team blew it. (-1 point if your team lost the ball)
- Bonus: Whenever there is a car commercial, do 12 squats. Outstretch your arms in front of you to pretend like you are holding the wheel to one of the cars in the commercial as you squat. (+2 bonus points!)
- Bonus: Whenever there is a beer commercial, do 12 bicycle crunches (6 for each side). You will keep that beer gut at bay by doing this exercise! (+2 bonus points!)
- Tiebreaker: If you and your friend are tied at the end of the game, see who can hold a forearm plank the longest. Whoever holds it the longest wins the game!
If you have any questions about how to properly do any of the exercises mentioned above, feel free to comment below, and I will gladly explain them in more detail for you! Let me know how you did being Super during the Super Bowl! Have fun!
Trainer Tip by Emily Lanzo, certified personal trainer and group fitness instructor at Lucille Roberts 42nd St.
Reposted from February 03, 2012
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Oldest known spider crabs discovered in fossil reef
The remains of eight new species of crustaceans, including the oldest known spider crabs that lived 100 million years ago, have been uncovered in a fossil reef in northern Spain, scientists report.
The fossils were found in the abandoned Koskobilo quarry alongside other species of decapod crustaceans (a group that includes crabs, shrimp and lobsters). The two oldest-known spider crabs, named Cretamaja granulata and Koskobilius postangustus, are much older than the previous record holder, said study author Adi?l Klompmaker, a postdoctoral researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida.
"The previous oldest one was from France and is some millions of years younger," Klompmaker told LiveScience, referring to the spider crabs. "So this discovery in Spain in quite impressive and pushes back the origin of spider crabs as known from fossils."
C. granulatawas about 0.6 inches (15 millimeters) long and showed distinctive features to suggest it was a spider crab, including two diverging spines coming out of its rostrum (the extended portion of the carapace, or shell, in front of the eyes) and a somewhat pear-shaped carapace. The fossil spider crab also sported spines on its sides at the front of the body. [See Photos of the Ancient Spider Crabs]
The reef where they were found seems to have vanished shortly after these creatures lived. "Something must have happened in the environment that caused reefs in the area to vanish, and with it, probably many of the decapods that were living in these reefs," Klompmaker said. "Not many decapods are known from the time after the reefs disappeared in the area," added Klompmaker, who details the findings in a forthcoming issue of the journal Cretaceous Research.
With a team of researchers from the United States, the Netherlands and Spain, Klompmaker collected fossils in the Koskobilo quarry in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
"We went there in 2008, and in the first two hours found two new species," Klompmaker said in a statement. "That's quite amazing ? it just doesn't happen every day."
With the new findings, some 36 decapod species are known to have existed at the abandoned quarry, making it one of the most diverse localities for decapods during the Cretaceous period (145 million to 66 million years ago), Klompmaker said.
The researchers also found there were more diverse ancient decapods living within the reefs ? where they fed, mated and sought shelter ? than in other parts of the ocean.
"One of the main results of this research is that decapod crustaceans are really abundant in reefs in the Cretaceous," Klompmaker wrote in an email. "The presence of corals seemed to promote decapod biodiversity as early as 100 million years ago and may have served as nurseries for speciation."
Last year, Klompmaker reported finding fossils of tiny lobsters huddled together in the seashell of an extinct mollusk known as an ammonoid. The "embracing" lobsters, found in a rock quarry in southern Germany, suggested these fearsome-looking crustaceans were sociable as long ago as 180 million years, when the little crustaceans lived.
"This is the oldest example of gregarious behavior for lobsters in the fossil record ? and not just lobsters but the entire group of decapods, which includes lobsters, crabs and shrimp," Klompmaker, who was at Kent State University, said at the time. "What this tells us is that this type of behavior of grouping together may have been very beneficial early on in the evolution of these crustaceans."
Klompmaker was also part of a team that discovered a new hermit crab at the same quarry, naming it after Michael Jackson (Mesoparapylocheles michaeljacksoni), as it was found around the time the singer died.
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
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Paraguay presidential hopeful Oviedo dies in crash
ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) ? Paraguayan presidential candidate Lino Cesar Oviedo has been killed in a helicopter crash, authorities said Sunday, ending a dramatic political career that included coups and repeated attempts to lead this impoverished 6.5 million-person country.
Oviedo was returning with his bodyguard from a political rally in northern Paraguay Saturday night when his pilot encountered bad weather. All three were killed in the crash, said Johnny Villalba, a spokesman for Paraguay's airport authority.
Defense Minister Maria Liz Garcia said she traveled to the scene Sunday with Oviedo's daughter, congresswoman Fabiola Oviedo, and confirmed that the helicopter "disintegrated."
"One resident who lives near the accident scene said they heard a single explosion Saturday night," she added. "The aircraft ended up disintegrated and out of respect to the families of the victims, I won't release details about the cadavers."
The air traffic control tower in the provincial city of Concepcion received the pilot's last communication, Garcia said ? a brief message that they were changing course due to a storm at 9 p.m. local time.
Lino Oviedo, 69, was running in April's elections as leader of Paraguay's third-largest opposition party, the National Union of Ethical Citizens.
A retired general and former army chief, Oviedo had tried for years to take the helm of his nation, and not always through democratic means.
As a colonel in 1989, Oviedo had been tasked with taking prisoner none other than Alfredo Stroessner, the feared dictator who had ruled Paraguay since 1954.
That bloody military coup sent Stroessner into Brazilian exile, but did little to diminish the hold on Paraguayan politics that his Colorado Party had cemented. Oviedo's role in the ouster was rewarded with a meteoric rise through the ranks of the army.
A diminutive cavalry officer, only 5-foot-3 inches (1.62 meters) tall, Oviedo was promoted to brigadier general three months after capturing Stroessner. By 1992, he had become a division general, and then President Juan Carlos Wasmosy named him army chief.
Membership in the Colorado Party had been a requirement for any officer during the dictatorship, but Oviedo's constant involvement in party politics generated frictions with the president.
In April 1996, a short-lived coup in which Oviedo participated and other maneuverings led to his firing and forced retirement. He ran as a candidate to succeed Wasmosy, winning the Colorado Party primary ahead of the May 1998 presidential elections, but was then convicted in a military court for his role in the coup, ending his candidacy.
His would-be vice president, Raul Cubas, instead won the election and immediately ordered the release of Oviedo, despite the judiciary's rulings.
Oviedo had an irrepressible desire to govern, and quickly became known as the power behind Cubas, angering other political leaders.
Cubas' vice president, Luis Maria Argana, was assassinated in 1999, and the slain man's relatives and followers accused Oviedo of being the mastermind. Cubas resigned in the resulting turmoil and Oviedo fled the country and renounced his Colorado Party membership, founding the UNACE party.
Facing Paraguayan arrest orders in the Wasmosy case, Oviedo remained a political refugee in Brazil until 2004, when he returned and was convicted.
The Supreme Court later exonerated Oviedo after military officers denied there had been a coup attempt, freeing him to run for president in 2008. He came in third, splitting the vote that gave former Catholic bishop Fernando Lugo the presidency and ended 60 years of one-party rule by the Colorado Party.
Oviedo was born in the small village of Juan de Mena, outside Asuncion, on Sept. 23, 1943. He graduated from the nation's military academy, and married Raquel Marin, an Argentine, with whom he had three children. Oviedo also had other children with two Paraguayan women before his marriage.
Oviedo's family now maintains his legacy in his UNACE party: His children Fabiola and Ariel are deputies in Congress, and his nephew, Lino Cesar Oviedo Sanchez, is a senator.
Oviedo "had an enormous capacity for work. At 5 a.m. he was in his office, receiving people until midnight, usually the poor, who came to him from their villages seeking help," former Sen. Enrique Gonzalez, a longtime political ally, told The Associated Press.
"He was an individual with great charisma, he spoke (Paraguay's indigenous language of) Guaran? perfectly, and he wove jokes in Guarani into his speeches. He had the spiritual strength to put up with being persecuted. His military preparation enabled him to put up with extreme situations. In December, he even managed to come out of a Brazilian hospital with two stents after a heart operation with more enthusiasm than ever."
U.S. Undersecretary of State Peter Romero had declared after the Wasmosy affair that Oviedo "lacks democratic credentials."
Gonzalez took issue with that label, noting that Oviedo also "founded a political party and participated in elections, building it into Paraguay's third-largest political force."
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Five reasons BlackBerry 10 bashers are wrong
I don?t blame anyone for making fun of older BlackBerrys. Seriously, stop carrying that Curve. But I just don?t get the latest trend of pooh-poohing any sort of a comeback for the company formerly known as RIM. In fact, BlackBerry haters are so venomous they?re looking for any tidbit to tear the brand down. Did you know Alicia Keys tweeted from her iPhone before she was named global creative director for BlackBerry. Shocking!
Does the new BlackBerry 10 platform have issues? Of course, as I noted in my review of the Z10 phone, the performance lags at times, the camera struggles in low light, and BlackBerry World is missing some key apps. Keep in mind, though, that the Z10 isn?t even launching in the U.S. until March, which gives BlackBerry some time to work out the kinks. Overall, the detractors don?t get that BlackBerry 10 offers a number of unique advantages for smartphone shoppers ? not just longtime CrackBerry addicts. Here are five reasons why the BlackBerry bashers have it wrong.
All of your stuff in one place
By swiping to the left from the home screen ? or up and then right if you?re in any other app ? you can access the BlackBerry Hub to check your email, BBM and also all of your social accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn). I just wish I could attach photos to outgoing social updates from within the Hub. I would have one less reason to use the dedicated apps.By day three of using the Z10, I started swiping up on my iPhone 5 to check for the latest messages. I think that?s a good sign of how useful the Peek feature is of BlackBerry 10.
More: Top 55 BlackBerry 10 Apps
BlackBerry offers the best touch keyboard. Period.
I?ve used nearly every smartphone keyboard on the market, and the touch keyboard on the Z10 is the best yet. I make a lot less frustrating typos than on the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S III, and I really like the word suggestion feature.
You can swipe up from the keyboard to accept suggestions, which really saves time when typing with one hand. Yes, there are plenty of third-party Android keyboards that are awesome, but one it comes to the typing experience you get out of the box, BlackBerry 10 can?t be beat. Anyone (not just business types) can appreciate that.
More: How to Move Predictive Text on BlackBerry 10?s Keyboard
TimeShift camera makes you smile
BlackBerry wasn?t the first to let smartphone owners choose the best faces in a group shot (that honor goes to Samsung). But I like the way the TimeShift camera handles this capability better.
By moving a little dial backward and forward in time, you get more control. No more blinking. BlackBerry also deserves credit for its Photo Editor, which lets you preview Instagram-like special effects in real time via a nifty slider.
More: How to Use the Time Shift Camera App in BlackBerry 10
Multitasking made simple
Every smartphone platform has a different way of doing it, but I actually prefer the way BlackBerry 10 handles minimizing and viewing recent apps. Just swipe up from the bottom of the display to see the last four apps you had open, and you can scroll down to view more.
Plus, with Active Frames, you can see things like the latest weather and your next appointment. With iOS and Android you get static icons. I love Windows Phones? Live Tiles, but you have to press and hold the back button to see your recent apps lined up vertically. Too much work.
More: How to Master BlackBerry 10?s Gestures
Beyond video chat
Maybe it?s just the geek in me, but I get a kick of innovations that redefine the way we communicate. With the new BBM in BlackBerry 10, you don?t have to look at your own face when you video chat. You can actually share what?s on your screen or see what?s on someone else?s display.
During my testing, I conducted three BBM video calls, and during each one, the picture streaming through looked clear. There?s only a moment of blur as the person on the other end switches screens. This feature could be a great way to give a quick presentation, share sensitive info or just get troubleshooting help from the IT department.
More: The Complete BlackBerry 10 Guide
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Saturday, February 2, 2013
Dung Beetles Use Cosmic GPS to Find Their Way
When the sun goes down, dung beetles rely on a galactic source?light from the Milky Way?to navigate, according to a recent report in Current Biology. Study co-author Eric Warrant, of Lund University in Sweden, explains how dung beetles see the starry night sky.
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Now for a surprising find from the insect world. The dung beetle, that insect known for sculpting little balls of animal feces that they roll around and later feast on. Well, it turns out that these beetles have a built-in cosmic GPS that helps them navigate around. Dung beetles use light - listen to this - use light from the Milky Way to orient themselves at night. It's all in a paper published earlier this month in the journal Current Biology.
My next guest is here to tell us more about how dung beetles see the starry - how do they see the starry night, a starry sky? Eric Warrant is a co-author of the dung beetle study in Current Biology, professor of functional zoology at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. Welcome to the program.
ERIC WARRANT: Thank you very much. It's nice to be here.
FLATOW: So dung beetles use the starry night, they use the Milky Way to navigate around?
WARRANT: They do indeed. Yes. It's a surprising finding, but they do indeed. Yeah. We discovered it almost by chance, really, because we were studying their mechanisms of navigating with regards to the moon, which is slightly more visible and obvious stimulus during the night sky. But we discovered on most parts of the month when the moon came up extremely late after midnight, particularly that until midnight, we suddenly discovered that the beetles were still able to navigate even without the moon. So we were quite puzzled by this, a bit alarmed actually at first because we were worried that our previous work was wrong. But then after further contemplation, we sort of realized that, well, maybe they were using the stars. And it turned out to be the case.
FLATOW: They can actually see the Milky Way at night time?
WARRANT: They can, yes. They probably don't see that many individual stars because their eyes really aren't sensitive enough to discern many more than probably the 10 or so brightest stars. But they can actually see the very dim stripe of light, which is - which makes up the Milky Way, especially in the Southern Hemisphere. It's very, very obvious actually compared to the Northern Hemisphere. And it's this broad and rather dim stripe of light which they're able to detect and to orient with respect to.
FLATOW: How do you craft an experiment to discover this?
WARRANT: Yes. Well, the first clue we got was that we covered their heads with little tiny cardboard hats, which we cut out of black card and then taped onto the back of their bodies so that they - the view of the night sky was removed. And when we did that, they were no longer able to orient. And the way they normally orient is that they roll balls of dung in straight lines directly away from the dung pad.
They have to do this because if they don't do this, they end up rolling back into the dung pad. And there's a lot of beetles there, all competing for this very valuable resource, and it's very likely that they get their dung ball stolen after quite a fight often. So they must get away from the dung pad in a straight line. That's the quickest and the most efficient way of leaving the dung pad, and so it's critically important for them that they do this. And so the stripe of light in the sky helps them to do this. They can actually orient with respect to it and orient in straight line away.
FLATOW: So what happens when it's a cloudy night and they can't see the sky? They just don't go out that night?
WARRANT: No, they do but they roll in circles. So it's actually a very dangerous night indeed for dung beetles.
(LAUGHTER)
WARRANT: But thankfully, in South Africa where we were working, cloudy nights are not all that common.
FLATOW: Wow. And so they must have developed this over the millennia, this ability to do this?
WARRANT: Well, we're not absolutely sure when and how and for how long it's evolved. But certainly, I daresay, it been around for a while because, as I say, it's a very important behavior that they have. Everything that they live for really has to do with dung. So - and the dung ball is incredibly important to them because they have to find a mate and lay their eggs in this ball. So it's a very valuable thing, this ball. So rolling away from the dung pile in a straight line with the help of the moon and - if it's present - and with the Milky Way if the moon isn't present seems to be something that probably has evolved some time ago. And they're probably not the only animals that are able to see it either.
FLATOW: Yeah. That was my next question. They must think - there must be other animals that do this too.
WARRANT: It's very likely. We - this is the first animal that we know of that's able to orient with respect to the Milky Way. But it's very likely that there are others. There are many night-flying moths and grasshoppers and locusts, for instance, that migrate considerable distances at night. And it might be the case that they, too, can use the Milky Way under a dark night.
FLATOW: Wow. Starry, starry night has a whole new meaning now.
WARRANT: Indeed it does.
(LAUGHTER)
FLATOW: All right. Eric Warrant, thank you very much for taking time to be with us.
WARRANT: A pleasure.
FLATOW: Good luck.
WARRANT: Thank you very much for having me. Thank you. Bye bye.
FLATOW: You're welcome. Eric Warrant is professor of zoology in the Department of Biology at Lund University in Lund, Sweden.
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