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CHARLESTON, W.Va. ? The West Virginia coal mine blast that killed 29 men has yielded a wide-ranging and historic $210 million settlement proposal to compensate victims' families, pay fines and improve underground safety in response to the worst U.S. coal mining disaster in decades, an attorney with knowledge of the settlement told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

The agreement between federal authorities and the new owners of the Upper Big Branch mine includes $46.5 million in criminal restitution to the miners' families, $128 million to fund cutting-edge mine safety upgrades, research and training, and $35 million in penalties for federal mine safety violations. It also does not prevent the future prosecutions of individuals on criminal charges in the April 2010 blast.

The person was not authorized to talk about the details before an official announcement and asked for anonymity. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin, of West Virginia's southern federal court district, has scheduled a Tuesday morning press conference at the Robert C. Byrd U.S. Courthouse in Charleston.

The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration, meanwhile, expected to brief the victims' families and then the media Tuesday on its final report from the disaster. Federal investigators have previously blamed the Raleigh County blast on a combination of methane gas, coal dust and broken or malfunctioning equipment in the underground mine.

Massey Energy Co. operated Upper Big Branch through a subsidiary at the time of the explosion. The Virginia-based Massey has since been acquired by rival Alpha Natural Resources, which reached the sweeping agreement with federal officials.

Alpha has agreed to pay $35 million for all citations against Massey's former mines, including $10.8 million in violations that MSHA will announce in Tuesday's investigative report.

The $46.5 million in criminal restitution aims to guarantee that the families of the 29 miners and two co-workers who survived the explosion each receive $1.5 million. Several families have already received this portion of the agreement, by settling with Massey in the months following the disaster.

The Virginia-based Alpha will also invest $48 million in a mine, health and safety research trust, and another $80 million to improve safety at all of its underground mines with the latest technology and equipment. The upgrades include sufficient workers and gear to coat mines with crushed limestone to dilute the explosive coal dust that accumulates during mining.

These investments will also fund a state-of-the-art training center in southern West Virginia that will host a laboratory capable of testing safety conditions in ways that would be too dangerous to attempt in actual mines.

Alpha has also agreed to audit all of its underground mines, correct any shortcomings found within 90 days and report those results to federal officials. The company must similarly share the findings of its internal investigation into the disaster.

The agreement appears to be among the largest resulting from a U.S. mining disaster. The settlement is sizable by Massey standards. In 2009, Massey and subsidiary Aracoma Coal Co. agreed to pay $4.2 million in criminal fines and civil penalties related to a January 2006 fire that killed two miners at the Alma No. 1 mine.

Don Bragg and Ellery Elvis Hatfield died after getting lost as they tried to flee the sprawling underground Logan County mine. Their widows had settled a wrongful death lawsuit for undisclosed terms in 2008. Four mine supervisors later pleaded guilty to federal misdemeanor charges that they failed to lead crews on required escape drills at various times in 2005 and 2006.

Gary Quarles, whose son Gary Wayne died in the explosion near Montcoal last April, said he wasn't told about the purpose of the Tuesday morning teleconference, but he was hoping for criminal indictments.

"Somebody's got to pay for what's been done," he told The Associated Press late Monday.

Quarles, a miner for nearly 40 years and a former Massey employee, had been inside Upper Big Branch and knew that his son faced bad conditions every day he went to work. But in the eight months since the blast, previous MSHA briefings and comprehensive reports by independent investigators and the United Mine Workers of America have revealed "it was worse than what we thought ? a lot worse," he said.

The United Mine Workers of America, the nation's largest coal miners' union, said last month that conditions were so dangerous that Massey executives and managers should be prosecuted for "industrial homicide."

MSHA's final report is likely to include a list of specific violations that contributed, but the agency also refused to comment on the report before its official release. Nor would officials there answer questions about the settlement.

Alpha, which bought Massey and Upper Big Branch in June, has said it's still reviewing the explosion but hasn't indicated whether or when it might issue a report. The state mine safety office, meanwhile, expects to complete its report by the end of January.

But all the reports so far agree on the mechanics of what happened: Poorly maintained machines cutting into sandstone created a spark that ignited both a small amount of naturally occurring methane gas and a massive accumulation of explosive coal dust. Malfunctioning water sprayers allowed what could have been a small flare-up to become an epic blast that traveled seven miles of underground corridors, doubling back on itself and killing men instantly.

All three also say the explosion could have been prevented or contained. Had the mine been sufficiently dusted with pulverized limestone to render the coal dust inert, the spark wouldn't have had the fuel to propagate.

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Just as we were geeking out to the Jaguar 7's Ice Cream Sandwich demo and anxiously awaiting the Transformer Prime, Ingenic and MIPS completely took us by surprise by announcing the Ainol-branded NOVO7, the very first commercially available tablet with Ice Cream Sandwich officially loaded. To be specific, the device isn't brand new -- it's been previously available as a Honeycomb tablet and is now shipping with ICS pre-loaded. It's packing an Ingenic JZ4770 mobile applications processor and 1GHz MIPS-based XBurst CPU, which means this Android 4.0 slab isn't going to be the toughest workhorse in the market. What more would you expect from a $99 tablet? The Novo7 also comes with a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen, a Vivante GC860 GPU clocked at 444MHz, 1080p video decoding, rear 2MP camera with VGA front-facing cam, USB 2.0, HDMI 1.3, microSD slot and an endorsement from Andy Rubin himself. If temptation is just too much to overcome, you can head over to the More Coverage link to order one. However, if you'd rather wait a while to save a few bucks in shipping -- it's over half the cost of the tablet itself -- MIPS informed us that it'll be coming to the States and other parts of the world over "the next several months," and 8- and 9-inch versions of the NOVO are in the works as well. Head below for a video and press release. Oh, and existing NOVO7 customers may be wondering why their tablet hasn't received ICS yet; MIPS assured us that there's an upgrade path for those customers as well, though no announcements have been made.

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Zoologger is our weekly column highlighting extraordinary animals ? and occasionally other organisms ? from around the world

Species: Belgica antarctica
Habitat: putting penguins to shame on the west Antarctic peninsula and surrounding islands

Antarctica is busy enough in summer, but in winter it's virtually deserted. Male emperor penguins huddle together incubating their eggs, their mates hundreds of kilometres away at sea. Some Weddell seals also hang around, and there is plenty of life in the water beneath the ice sheets. But the continent itself is close to uninhabitable during the long polar night.

However, an unlikely long-term resident can be found lurking in the snow of west Antarctica. The Antarctic midge is the only insect to spend its entire life on the continent, despite being regularly frozen, dried out and sprayed with salt water.

They are so resilient, in fact, that they can survive even if they lose over two-thirds of their body water. That's almost certainly a record for an insect, and allows them to claim a unique title: no insect lives further south.

Two years of refrigeration

Well, actually one does, but it is cheating. A flea called Glaciopsyllus antarcticus has been found further south, but that's because it's a parasite that lives on seabirds. Antarctic midges do not stow away on the skin of warm-blooded animals: they survive the hard way.

They spend most of their lives as larvae, typically taking two years to reach adulthood (see photo). The 5-millimetre-long adults eat nothing and survive only 10 to 14 days, during which time they must mate and (if they're female) lay eggs. Males outnumber females six to one, so the competition for mates is fierce. The adults must have access to liquid water and a reasonably moist habitat or they die.

It is the larvae that are the tough nuts. They must survive not just the Antarctic summer, which is quite cold enough, but also the depths of the winter. Nicholas Teets of Ohio State University in Columbus is trying to find out how they cope.

During the three-month Antarctic summer, life is good. The larvae feed on flourishing algae and other microorganisms. They make their homes near penguin and seal colonies, which produce a lot of effluent for the algae to eat. Many sites are close to the shore, so the larvae are often sprayed with bracing sea water.

The larvae can cope with a wide range of stressors, many of which would kill other insects. Instead, the stress toughens them up: tipping them into sea water helps them tolerate freezing and dehydration, while dehydrating them in turn helps them shrug off both heat and deep freezing.

Teets says he once tried to obtain samples from some larvae by placing them in a toxic solvent that both kills cells and preserves them. But to his horror the experiment was ruined when the larvae failed to die. "24 hours later they were still swimming around in it," he says.

Freeze, larva!

When a larva feels a chill coming, it has two options. It can stay unfrozen but rapidly shed body water, or it can conserve water but risk damage from ice crystals by letting itself freeze. Most insects can follow only one of these strategies, but Antarctic midge larvae have both at their disposal.

If the larva opts to freeze it hardens its body, which protects it ? although Teets says it's not clear how. It also produces a cocktail of "antifreeze" chemicals that protects its vital organs. These include the sugar trehalose, which is also found in the tissues of plants and animals that can tolerate dehydration. Despite the gathering cold, the larva doesn't completely shut down until the temperature drops below zero.

Being frozen is not that big a risk for the animals, Teets says, because they spend the winter under rocks where it doesn't get all that cold. The real problem is loss of drinking water as it freezes. Humans die if we lose 15 per cent of our body water, but the larvae can survive a 70 per cent loss.

The larvae cope by clustering together, which minimises water loss. As dehydration sets in they start expressing different genes and change the proteins that control the shapes of their cells. Special proteins called aquaporins shuttle water around and help protect the larva's vulnerable guts.

However, Teets has found that surviving dehydration does have its costs. The larvae must burn their stores of carbohydrate to make protective chemicals, and these stores are depleted with each dehydration. In his lab, Teets found that the larvae could happily survive four cycles of dehydration and rehydration, but five was too many and killed over 35 per cent of them.

In the wild, the larvae may have to undergo several bouts of dehydration over the course of the winter. Apparently five times is too many ? tough they may be, but a larva's got to know its limitations.

Journal reference: Journal of Insect Physiology, DOI: 10.1016/j.jinsphys.2011.11.011

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ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2011) ? A co-evolutionary arms race exists between social insects and their parasites. Army ants (Leptogenys distinguenda) share their nests with several parasites such as beetles, snails and spiders. They also share their food with the kleptoparasitic silverfish (Malayatelura ponerophila). New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal BMC Ecology shows that the silverfish manage to hide amongst the ants by covering themselves in the ant's chemical scent.

Myrmecophilous (ant-loving) silverfish live their lives in and amongst army ants. To avoid being killed or rejected from the nest the silverfish must be able to somehow persuade the ants to believe that they are not invaders. These ants have limited eyesight and live in a world of chemical cues, recognizing their colony members by scent. Christoph von Beeren and Volker Witte from the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, collected L. distinguenda ants and M. ponerophila silverfish from the tropical rainforests of Ulu Gombak, Malaysia and found that, while the ants had 70 distinct hydrocarbon compounds on their cuticles, silverfish had none that are distinct for them. Instead, they carried the host colony scent, a phenomenon known as chemical mimicry.

By tracking the transfer of tagged hydrocarbon from host ants to silverfish, it became apparent that the latter pilfered their host's scent, preferably by rubbing against defenseless 'callows' (immature ants). To avoid ant aggression silverfish must continually top-up this scent. Isolating silverfish from the colony resulted in them losing their protective scent and being targeted for chasing, seizing and biting by worker ants, sometimes resulting in their death.

Prof. Witte explained, "It seems that silverfish and ants are engaged in a co-evolutionary arms race. The ants have equipped themselves with a complicated scent recognition system to safeguard their nest from predators and parasites. While the ants were developing their nest protection strategy the silverfish evolved elaborate behavioral patterns, pilfering the hosts own recognition cues, to outwit the ant's chemical defenses. Consequently, the silverfish have access to food and shelter in the inner part of the ants nest without giving anything in return."

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Let's face it: this is Justin Bieber's world. We merely live in it.

The superstar has been everywhere this holiday season, and not solely because some moron named Mariah Yeater sued him for paternity of her son. Bieber has released a Christmas CD and has spent weeks promoting it via talk shows, live performances and official video releases. The latest example of the latter? This duet with Mariah Carey.

So it's only appropriate that Bieber - along with friends Usher and Busta Rhymes - was featured on last night's tree lighting ceremony at Rockefeller Center in New York City. Watch the teenage icon do his thing in the following two performance videos: