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Manufacturer HTC today on its Facebook page gave word that its initial round of Ice Cream Sandwich updates will be available by the end of March. First up are the HTC Sensation, Sensation 4G and Sensation XE, with the Sensation XL to follow. (Note to HTC: Got enough versions there?)
That's just for starters, of course. Back in November, HTC told us that the Rezound, EVO 3D and EVO Design 4G also would receive updates as well. And today, HTC has added the Vivid, Incredible S, Desire S and Desire HD to the update list. There's no word on when they'll be updated (other than "later this year"), but it's certainly a good start.
Here's HTC's full statement:
HTC has been working hard to get its Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades ready, and we're excited to announce that our first round of ICS upgrades will roll out by the end of March for the HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation 4G and HTC Sensation XE, followed soon there after by the HTC Sensation XL.
In addition, we can confirm Ice Cream Sandwich upgrades will be coming later this year to the HTC Rezound, HTC Vivid, HTC Amaze 4G, HTC EVO 3D, HTC EVO Design 4G, HTC Incredible S, HTC Desire S and HTC Desire HD. Stay tuned for more updates on Ice Cream Sandwich releases in the coming weeks.
Not a bad roster, indeed. But notabily absent remains the likes of the HTC ThunderBolt, one of the more popular Verizon smartphones of early 2011. Anyone feeling left out?
Source: HTC Facebook; thanks to everyone who sent this in!


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Book of the Month: Geared for Guys
It's that time again, Book of the Month time at Fat Quarter Shop!
For the month of June, and in honor of Father's Day coming up, we are featuring
Emily Herrick's
Geared for Guys Quilt Book
. Emily is here today to take us on a little walk-through on how her book is geared for guys.
And remember, the
Book of the Month
all month long!
If I could do a cartwheel, I would be doing one right now! I am
excited that Fat Quarter Shop has chosen my book, Geared for Guys, as their June book of the month! Thanks Kimberly and crew for giving me the chance to tell you a bit about it.
I'll start by giving you a little background about me.
I am wife to one of the most patient men in the whole wide world, and mother to 3 terrific and rowdy kids (12, 10 and 7). We live in the beautiful state of Utah.
About 5 years ago I got a wild hair and started a quilt pattern company called Crazy Old Ladies. This adventure has been so rewarding and led to some of the most amazing opportunities (including posting here on Fat Quarter Shop!)
Two and a half years ago I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Although not life threatening, there was still a myriad of hospital visits, surgeries, treatments, and changes to my everyday life. During that time I designed my first fabric collection. I joined the team at Michael Miller fabrics as a licensed fabric designer and released my first collection "Going Coastal" in the spring of 2011. Since that time I released "
Hall of Fame
" last fall, and my latest creation "
Shore Thing
" will be in shops this summer. I am so blessed and have to keep pinching myself that I am where I am today.
But you're here to hear about my book- so let's get to it!
At one time or another we have all thought of making a quilt for one of our guys. We head over to the local quilt shop and we have one of 3 choices in fabric. No, not 3 collections- 3 bolts.
John Adams a.k.a.
(who is a featured designer in the book) summed it up perfectly in this statement:
"Contrary to popular belief, most men do not hunt down a 12-point buck in the morning, grab a wrench and tune up their car in the afternoon, and then settle down with a cold frothy mug of beer in the evening while they grill the striped bass they caught on their fishing trip last week."
Let's face it, these categories work for a select few, but many of the guys I know want something 'cooler' than the latest novelty fabric categorized as "manly". I want my guy's quilt to be one that he loves to use, not a quilt that he is embarrassed to curl up in.
"Helix" is one of my favorites. Can you believe that this quilt has fabric in it with prints that closely resemble flowers? Shhhh... don't tell your guy. He would never know because the overall pattern is so striking and all he sees is the contrast in color.
Helix Quilt
I also love "Urban Decay" designed by John Adams. He took a traditional quilt block and threw it a curve ball with his twist on modern design.
Urban Decay Quilt
My goal was to design this book with 'YOUR' guy in mind. There are eight new quilt patterns to choose from, each with their own unique character and style. However, I really don't know your guy. But you do. For this reason I also include four teaching sections to help you when making a quilt for your guy. The same rules that we follow when making quilts for ourselves don't apply in the same way when making a quilt for a guy. My thoughts on choosing colors, finding fabrics, design elements and quilting style will help take out the guess work when you start on that quilt for your man.
My boys are 10 and 12. They are done with cute boy fabrics and ready to be teenagers. When it came to making them quilts I was completely stuck. I used the principles outlined in my teaching sections to come up with their quilts (both featured as patterns).
The older of the two is my video-game fanatic and the reason I designed "Gamer". It has elements of design that speak his language without being juvenile.
Gamer Quilt
The 10 year old is a die-hard basketball player. The design elements and color choices (but
the name) in "OddBall" were chosen with him in mind. Even if he grows tired of basketball, he will never grow out of this quilt.
Oddball Quilt
I promise, when you get done with this book and finish that quilt for your guy it's going to be one that he loves. And guess what? He's going to love you more, too. :o)
See you soon!
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Former Prosecutor: Criminal Justice System is Designed for Control
This week marks the three-year anniversary of the death of Eric Garner, who died during an arrest by NYC police officials. They had used a banned chokehold and continued after he was already on the ground, despite Garner's repeated protests that he couldn't breathe. The video of the incident sparked outrage across the nation, becoming one of the many police-involved deaths protested by the Black Lives Matter movement. Yet, Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor says police violence and selective enforcement are legal components of the American criminal justice system, set up to give police "super powers." He joins Soledad O'Brien to discuss his recent book "Chokehold," where he asserts the criminal justice system is designed to control African American men and why police officers are not to blame.


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Hate Crime?: Tennessee Man Hangs A Noose Hanging On Front Porch, Waves Guns & Spews Racial Slurs!
Channel 5 reports "LA VERGNE, Tenn. - A Middle Tennessee man could face federal hate crime charges after he was videotaped making a racial slur. A neighbor in La Vergne videotaped a confrontation between Tim Taylor and Mark Winker on Friday. Winkler is heard on the video yelling racial slurs. At one point, he showed a gun to threaten Taylor, a neighborhood handyman who is black. Winkler, who is white, also had a noose hanging on the front porch. It also appears that he tried to sic his dog on the handyman" Credit to Frank
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Global Recognition
Degrees from Australian schools are recognized all over the world. Graduates from Australian schools are highly sought after by both Australian and international employers. This is due to the impressive international reputation of the Australian education system, which is highly regulated by their government in order to keep up with the high standards of education in the country.
Quality of Education
Australian universities are well known for the high quality of their teaching and research. Students in Australia are taught by experts in their industries, and provided with real-world skills that will be invaluable to them upon graduation. Australian scientists and researchers have been responsible for many major breakthroughs and technological advances around the world; Australia boats eight Nobel Prize winners amongst its best-known achievers. The Australian higher education system is federally regulated, meaning that the Australian government regulates every university in the country each year to ensure that they are maintaining Australia's high standard of education. Students who study abroad in Australia can be well assured that they are receiving a world-class education during their time in Australia.
Education Services for Overseas Students Act
In 2000, Australia introduced the Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS) Act. Under ESOS, institutions are obliged to meet certain requirements in order to enroll international students. Every Australian institution that meets these requirements is listed on the publicly available Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS). The requirements covered under ESOS include stringent standards for marketing activities, education delivery, facilities, and students support services. If an institution does not meet the standards for any one of these requirements, it isn't registered, and cannot enroll international students. For this reason, potential employers know that students who have studied in Australia have received some of the highest quality educations available. It is important to note, however, that people who enter Australia on a non-students visa do not have the assurance provided to most international students under ESOS.
Australian education institutions are required to ensure that the marketing materials they provide to international students (such as brochures and handbooks) are accurate and not misleading. Institutions must provide international students with current and accurate information before issuing proof of enrollment. They must also support international students in adjusting to life in Australia, and must provide them with information on legal services, emergency and health services, facilities and resources, and any student visa conditions relating to course progress and/or attendance. International students in Australia can be secure in the knowledge that their school has their best interests at heart.
Qualification Recognition
After graduating from an Australian university, a student's education qualifications are recognized by international employers and education institutions around the world. This is due to the fact that all Australian education qualifications are included under one national system—Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF). The AQF makes it easier to progress to the next AQF level anywhere in Australia by linking school, vocational, and university qualifications. Because of the AQF, it is also easier for overseas governments to recognize education qualifications. International employers know that the AQF stands for a world class education in a modern and technologically advanced society. Because of this, students who study in Australia but choose to pursue careers elsewhere find it easier to find work following graduation. International students in Australia can be confident that the education qualifications they receive during their time in Australia will service them well throughout their lives, no matter where life takes them.
Australia also has a system to recognize students' qualifications from other countries: the National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition (NOOSR). The NOOSR allows Australian institutions to recognize education qualifications from overseas, making it easy for international students to continue their educations in Australia.
Education institutions in Australia are among the best in the world. International employers recognize the value of a degree from an Australian university, making it far easier for students who study in Australia to find work in their chosen field following graduation.


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WASHINGTON – Its access to classified intel and depiction of detainee torture have made it a target on Capitol Hill. Now, you can see for yourself as "Zero Dark Thirty" hits theaters nationwide.
Nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, the film reunites director Kathryn Bigelow with writer Mark Boal after their Iraq War thriller and Oscar triumph "The Hurt Locker" (2008).
The duo originally set out to tell the 10-year hunt for Osama bin Laden, until reality re-wrote their ending with Bin Laden's killing on May 2, 2011 at 12:30 a.m. The timing gave it a new title and a more satisfying conclusion, avoiding the fate of David Fincher's "Zodiac" (2007), where audiences complained that the killer was never caught.
Move over, Jodie Foster. There's a new heroine orchestrating a night-vision climax in the monster's lair.
Jessica Chastian gives an Oscar-nominated performance as Maya, a determined C-I-A agent who starts off timid, then builds enough guts to look C.I.A. Director Leon Panetta (James Gandolfini) in the eye and say that she's the "mother you know what" that found bin Laden. Even in her deepest despair, she remains defiant, saying, "I'm gonna smoke everyone involved in this op, and then I'm going to kill bin Laden."
Unlike Clarice's quest to silence her childhood lambs, Maya's backstory is virtually nonexistent. While this might doom most movies, the absence of context here underscores that Maya's life is the mission, reflected in the final scene where a pilot asks her, "Where do you wanna go now?" Are her tears the culmination of relief, or the bittersweet realization that the mission is over? Will she return to Washington? Or will she return to the desert like Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker?"
Bigelow has truly found her niche in capturing gritty tales of valiant heroes. Thanks to an Oscar-nominated script and Oscar-nominated editing, Bigelow's pace is swift, covering a decade of al-Qaeda attacks in an on-going chess match between Maya and bin Laden. The film moves so well that it's easy to overlook the symbolic details, showing the culture clash between U.S. choppers and Pakistani goats and foreshadowing danger with a black cat crossing the screen before a suicide bombing.
Perhaps her greatest strength is knowing that "less is more." Rather than using parallel action to show bin Laden scrambling inside the compound, we experience the raid strictly from the P.O.V. of the SEALs. Bin Laden's killshot has no artificial buildup; just a shot in the dark needing further confirmation. Even after Bin Laden is dead, we don't see a full shot of his face, only quick images on a cell-phone camera and a partial beard protruding from a body bag.
Some lawmakers have complained about the film's implication that enhanced interrogation led to the discovery of bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti. Indeed, the film depicts horrific waterboarding, dog-leash humiliation and a claustrophobic box, all at the helm of interrogator Jason Clarke, who brilliantly shifts from intimidating to conciliatory. However, the key piece of info is actually revealed during a bluff scene at a picnic table. Was this the result of all the torture in previous scenes, or is Bigelow saying the truth finally came out in a moment of calm?
The way you interpret it probably depends on your own politics. Bigelow knows the truth is murky and remains as impartial as possible, showing both the strategic fruits and moral horrors of harsh interrogation. Unlike National Geographic's "SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden," which was re-editing to include more of President Obama just before the 2012 Election, the president only appears once in "Zero Dark Thirty," on a television during his "60 Minutes" interview proclamation that "America doesn't torture." Bigelow doesn't want to be a politician; she wants to be a documentarian.
Her style seems hell-bent on realistic military tradecraft, matching the true-to-life tactics of "Act of Valor" (2011), only with real actors like Chris Pratt, whose impressed reaction to Maya's mission is priceless. The realism is brought to life by Oscar-nominated sound editing, from the silenced whoosh of the Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters to the pop of the SEALs' laser-guided fire. As the choppers take off over the mountains under the cover of night, composer Alexandre Desplat's escalating score brings us chills, though he was nominated instead this year for Ben Affleck's "Argo" (2012).
The fact that "Argo" and "Zero Dark Thirty" were nominated for Best Picture while "Skyfall" was not, shows that the best C.I.A. tales are plucked from reality. Ironically, Affleck and Bigelow were snubbed for Best Director, a category the latter won for "The Hurt Locker." Perhaps voters felt she's had her turn, despite the "Hurt Locker's" inferiority to "Zero Dark Thirty." In life and Oscar politics, the power of the present (a gritty Iraq War flick) can distract us from the long game (an epic hunt for bin Laden).
Fifty years from now, when listmakers compile their best lists, "Zero Dark Thirty" may be the one chosen to represent the Bigelow-Boal partnership. Their collaborative lens will mark our time of war, mining Oscar gold from Middle Eastern sand and proving film cameras can deliver the most powerful shots heard round the world. And so we'll look back on Maya as a proxy for Bigelow: both determined women showing the boys how it's done, achieving the ultimate success in their respective careers, only to be asked, "Where do you want to go from here?"
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The above rating is based on a 4-star scale. Follow WTOP Film Critic Jason Fraley on Twitter @JasonFraleyWTOP or check out his blog The Film Spectrum.
(Copyright 2013 by WTOP. All Rights Reserved.)
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The following email came into Double Taxation HQ today from one of my firm's high-ranking auditor types, and it seemed befitting of its own post:
Dear Tony,
You look very handsome today; I just thought you should know. Is the below email I had forwarded to me true, or is this just someone that doesn't understand what they are reading?
> Have you seen this?
> When does your home become part of your health care?…….. After 2012!
> Your vote counts big time in 2012, make sure you and all your friends and family know about this!
> I thought you might find this interesting, — maybe even SICKENING! The National Association of Realtors is all over this and working to get it repealed, — before it takes effect. But, I am very pleased we aren't the only ones who know about this ploy to steal billions from unsuspecting homeowners.
How many realtors do you think will vote Democratic in 2012? Did you know that if you sell your house after 2012 you will pay a 3.8% sales tax on it? That's $3,800 on a $100,000 home, etc. When did this happen? It's in the health care bill, — and it goes into effect in 2013. Why 2013? Could it be so that it doesn't come to light until after the 2012 elections? So, this is a change you can believe in?
> Under the new health care bill all real estate transactions will be subject to a 3.8% sales tax. If you sell a $400,000 home, there will be a $15,200 tax. This bill is set to screw the retiring generation, — who often downsize their homes. Does this make your November, 2012 vote more important?
> Oh, you weren't aware that this was in the Obama Care bill? Guess what; you aren't alone! There are more than a few members of Congress that weren't aware of it either.
I hope you forward this to every single person in your address book.
Thanks for your help, Tony. Did I mention you look handsome today?
Hugs and Kisses,
[Ed note: we may have taken some creative liberties with the auditor's email for presentation's sake, but the thrust of the question and the forwarded chain email remains unchanged.]
To answer your question, Jeff: whoever forwarded the email is perfectly right to be confused by the implications of Obamacare. Whoever crafted this email, on the other hand, is an idiot. Not because they misinterpreted the Patient Protection Act — that's a simple mistake — but because they got so righteously indignant while all the while being grossly misinformed. Unless of course, the chain email was authored by Mitt Romney, in which case, he's stupid like a fox.
As we've previously discussed, starting in 2013 Obama will indeed tack an additional tax of 3.8% on a taxpayers' net investment income — which would include gain from the sale of a home — but this is an additional income tax, not a sales tax.
The designation is important, because income tax is only paid on realized and recognized gains that are not otherwise excluded from income, while sales tax — as is indicated in the chain email — is paid on the absolute sales price.
Why does this matter? Because assuming the home being sold is a primary residence and otherwise satisfies the requirements of I.R.C. § 121, a married taxpayer can exclude up to $500,000 of gain from the sale of the residence. Thus, even though a taxpayer may recognize a $499,999 gain from the sale of a home, if it is excluded from taxable income under Section 121, there is no taxable gain upon which to assess the 3.8% additional tax.
The originator of the email above would have you believe that the 3.8% tax would be assessed on the purchase price, and that is simply not the case. Since no gain is recognized courtesy of Section 121, no capital gains tax — including the 3.8% addition provided for in Obamacare –is assessed on the sale.
Section 121 takes out much of the sting of the 3.8% tax increase, but there are other limitations to the Obamacare surcharge as well. For example, the tax is only assessed on those with adjusted gross income in excess of $250,000. If your AGI is below the threshold, the 3.8% increase won't kick in.
Of course, as with all chain emails, there is some truth to be found: if a taxpayer sells a home in 2013 and either 1) the gain exceeds $500,000 or 2) Section 121 doesn't apply for some other reason, AND the taxpayer has AGI in excess of $250,000, the taxpayer will pay an additional 3.8% tax next year. However, as noted above, that 3.8% tax will be assessed on the net gain, not the sales price.
Hopefully this clears things up. For more information, consult your local library.


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Sure, I can sell it or swap it if we can work out a deal. I opened the box and sprayed it twice to compare it to my first bottle, so I would say it's 99.9% full lol
If you want to buy it, I'm willing to cut you a break and sell it for $50. What interests me from your wardrobe is Hanae Mori H.M., Prada Amber Pour Homme and Allure Homme. Are you willing to part with any of those?
Would you be willing to sell me your second Pure Malt? If so, how full is it, and how much are you looking for, or would you rather swap. Just look at my wardrobe, I would be willing to swap a lot of them.
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You might think you don't need flood insurance if you live in an area that is considered "high and dry." Although some areas are more susceptible to flooding than others, flooding can occur anywhere. With heavy rains, spring thaws, or rapid accumulation of rain after a wildfire, flooding can occur in places that are not generally considered at risk. How Does Flood Insurance Differ from... Read Article
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Soup in a slow cooker: A tasty winter prescription
With so many people sniffling, blowing, coughing and sneezing, the Rx most touted is soup. If you're trying to adapt a regular soup recipe to your slow cooker or to improve one you've already made, keep these key tips in mind and you can't go wrong. A slow-cooker is a tool like any other, and you'll get better at cooking with it the more you use it.
Some ingredients stand up to -- and benefit from -- longer cooking times better than others. All of these can be added at the very start of cooking.
Robust vegetables: Onions, root vegetables such as potatoes and carrots, winter squashes, tomatoes, celery, cauliflower and broccoli
Meats: Lean cuts from the shoulder and rump of beef, lamb, goat, pork, whole chickens, chicken thighs and chicken legs
Spices: Most spices can and should be added at the beginning of cooking. One exception is rosemary, which can become bitter over the longest cooking times and is best added last.
These are quicker-cooking ingredients that won't hold up over hours of cooking but they give fresh flavor to a slow-cooked dish. Add all of the following ingredients in the last 30 to 45 minutes of cooking.
Softer vegetables such as peas, corn, bell peppers and spinach
Meat, such as chicken breast, fish and other seafood Check the chicken breast for doneness at the end of cooking, and give it a little more time if it's still pink in the middle.
Pantry Items Rice, noodles and other grains. You can add these already cooked, although uncooked grains are helpful for soaking up excess liquid and it makes them more flavorful. Beans can go either way -- at the end so they retain some firmness, or at the beginning, if that's easier.
Dairy products Milk, yogurt, sour cream, cream cheese. Coconut milk also is best added at the end.
This helps all the ingredients cook more or less at the same rate.
It's always tempting -- and sometimes necessary -- to just dump all the ingredients into the slow-cooker and press "go." This is perfectly fine and will give you a nice, warm dinner to come home to. But, if you have a few extra minutes and want to take that soup up to the next level, brown the veggies and sear the meat before putting them in the slow cooker. You'll be rewarded with richer, more intense flavors in your soup.
There is very little evaporation in a slow cooker. If you're adapting a regular soup recipe, it's likely you won't need to use all the liquid called for. Put all the ingredients into the slow cooker, then pour broth over the top. It should cover the vegetables by about half an inch. If you have excess liquid at the end of cooking, remove the lid for the last 30 minutes to let some evaporate.
Meats and root vegetables will take longer to become tender than, say, cauliflower. Nestle those items around the bottom and sides of the slow-cooker, where they will have more direct contact with the slow-cooker's heating element.
Recipes with meat, such as chili and pork shoulder, are best when cooked for at least six hours and up to 10 hours. Vegetarian recipes are best cooked for around four hours, but can do a minimum of two hours or maximum of six hours (after which the vegetables start to get mushy).
1 (3-pound) whole free-range chicken
1 onion, quartered
1 (2-inch) piece of fresh ginger, peeled and sliced
6 cloves garlic, crushed
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Splash of soy sauce
Splash of fish sauce (nam pla)
1 cup hot vegetable stock (optional)
Bunch of scallions, finely sliced, for garnish
1. Preheat the slow cooker, if required. Put the chicken, upside-down, into the slow cooker, and add the onion, ginger and garlic. Season with salt and pepper.
2. Pour in enough water to cover the chicken. Cover with the lid and cook on low for 6 to 8 hours or on high for 3 to 4 hours.
3. Remove chicken from the broth. Set aside until cool enough to handle.
4. Remove the skin from the chicken and discard, then remove all the meat from the bones.
5. Strain the broth from the slow cooker into a clean, heavy-based pot. Add the chicken and stir in soy sauce and fish sauce.
6. Add some or all of the vegetable stock, then simmer gently to warm through. Taste and season. Ladle into warmed soup bowls and garnish with scallions.
Makes 4 to 6 servings.
From Heather Whinney's "The Slow Cook Book" (DK Publishing, $25).
2 teaspoons vegetable oil, divided
1 large yellow onion, peeled and diced
3 ribs celery, diced
3 carrots, peeled and diced
1 to 3 teaspoons salt, divided
1 to 3 cloves garlic, to taste
1 1/2 pounds (about 6) chicken thighs, preferably bone-in
1 bay leaf
2 quarts chicken stock, divided
1/2 pound noodles of your choice
1. Warm a teaspoon of oil over medium heat in a Dutch oven or soup pot. Add the diced onions, celery and carrots with a pinch of salt. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the vegetables just start to soften, 3 to 5 minutes. Clear a space in the middle of the pot and add the garlic. Cook until aromatic, about 30 seconds, then stir the garlic into the vegetables.
2. Remove the skin from the chicken thighs, but leave the bone in. (Boneless chicken thighs also work fine in this recipe, but the bones add richness to the broth.) Move the vegetables to the edges of the pot and warm the remaining teaspoon of oil in the middle of the pot. When oil is hot, add the chicken thighs in a single layer. Cook without moving for about 3 minutes, until the undersides are golden. Flip the thighs and sear the other sides until golden.
3. Add the bay leaf and 1/2 teaspoon salt to the pot. Pour in 1 quart of broth, reserving the remaining quart for later. Bring to a simmer, then reduce the heat to medium-low. Simmer for 30 minutes.
4. Move the pot from heat and, using a slotted spoon, transfer the chicken to a plate. Use two forks to pull the meat into shreds (or chop into cubes with a knife). Remove and discard any bones.
5. Cook noodles until barely al dente, then drain (or add the second quart of stock to the soup, bring to a simmer and cook the pasta in the broth itself).
6. Put shredded chicken in the soup and bring to a simmer. Add the cooked noodles. If a thinner broth is desired, add more chicken stock. Remove the bay leaf. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Makes 6 to 8 servings.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - During a single year when the Dutch government covered the costs of counseling and drugs to help smokers quit, calls to a national smoking-cessation hotline rose 10-fold, and the number of smokers in the country dropped significantly, according to a new study.
The results, reported in the journal Addiction, suggest that more people may enroll in smoking cessation programs if their governments or insurance companies offer to pay for the therapies and medications, according to the study's authors.
"We can only speculate about what this means for individual smokers. But I believe that many smokers really appreciate smoking cessation support being reimbursed," said Marc Willemsen, the study's lead author and a professor at Maastricht University in The Netherlands, in an email.
He added that smokers may see cost as a barrier to getting the help they need, and removing that barrier gives them the incentive or motivation to make that call.
"I would go as far as saying that this signals to smokers who have a hard time quitting their habit, that the government cares and that the fact that they are fighting a serious addiction, is taken seriously," Willemsen said.
Starting in January 2011, the Dutch government agreed to reimburse its citizens for their smoking cessation treatments, which included group, face-to-face or telephone counseling. Providers of the therapies were encouraged to incorporate medications, such as nicotine replacement products or the antidepressant buproprion, into the treatment program.
The initiative was promoted through a large-scale media campaign, which Willemsen and his colleagues say reached 80 percent of the country's smokers. But the government ended the program after only one year, when the researchers say it was stopped for political and economic reasons.
The program's short lifespan gave the researchers the opportunity to see what impact - if any - it had on the number of people calling the cessation hotline and enrolling in programs in 2011 compared to 2010 and the first half of 2012.
In 2010, when there was no reimbursement system, 848 smokers enrolled in the hotline's smoking-cessation programs, which are run by STIVORO, the Dutch expert center for tobacco control that employs Willemsen and one of his co-authors.
In contrast, 9,091 smokers enrolled in the hotline's programs during 2011, the year the reimbursement offer was in effect - a more than 10-fold rise over the previous year.
During the first four and a half months of 2012, however, 151 smokers enrolled in the program - a decline even from 2010 rates. By mid-May in 2010, 323 people had enrolled.
The researchers cannot say how many people who enrolled in the smoking cessation program actually quit smoking successfully, but they point to national statistics for 2006 through 2010 showing the proportion of the population who smoked remained fairly steady at around 27 percent.
The figure for 2011 was 24.7 percent.
That does not prove the reimbursement system influenced smoking rates.
But, the evidence seemed clear to others.
Willemsen told Reuters Health that members of parliament and health organizations protested, and the reimbursement system is being reinstated.
"So Dutch smokers can now be reassured that they will receive full reimbursement for smoking cessation in 2013," said Willemsen, who expects to see another large surge in quitters next year.
SOURCE: bit.ly/QwJl1M Addiction, online September 20, 2012.


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Do Android Security Apps Kill Your Batteries?
Previous tests have used a multimeter to measure amps and volts used, and from those measurements calculate the watts. Stelzhammer pointed out that since precise synchronization of the measurements isn't possible, these results can't be very accurate.
Instead of trying to get between the battery and the phone, AV-Comparatives purchased a device made by Agilent Technologies that completely replaces the battery and overrides the phone's own power management. Since all power going into the phone comes from the device, extremely precise measurements are possible, down to the nanowatt. It's an expensive solution, but an effective one.
For a fair comparison between data obtained using different devices and different apps, it's important that the wireless and 3G signals stay consistent. To this end, AV-Comparatives set up their own local wireless LAN and UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) sources, keeping them at the same distance from the testbed for every test. By measuring power usage with no security app running, with the app running in the background, and with the app actively working, they'll be able to very closely monitor each app's battery drain.
Stelzhammer explained that this test setup is still very, very new. Researchers have only tested one product so far, as a test to make sure the measurement process is working correctly. Full results will come in the Mobile Review, planned for release at the end of July. We'll report on the results as soon as they're available.
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Gibson blow for Everton
Everton midfielder Darron Gibson will be out for four to five weeks with a thigh strain.
The 24-year-old has figured in all three of the Toffees' Barclays Premier League matches so far this season but was forced off 20 minutes into the first half of the most recent contest, a 2-0 defeat at West Brom on September 1.
Toffees boss David Moyes, however, remains hopeful the former Manchester United midfielder could make a quicker-than-expected return.
The Scot explained: "Darron's got a thigh strain and will probably be out for four to five weeks now.
"He's had two weeks now so hopefully we are a couple of weeks down the line already because of the international break - so he may have only a couple of weeks to miss."
Gibson recently told Republic of Ireland manager Giovanni Trapattoni he was still suffering from the disappointment of playing a limited role at the Euro 2012 finals and did not want to be considered for selection in their World Cup qualifying campaign.


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Rob Gronkowski is who he is.
The New England Patriots tight end likes to drink and socialize and dance. Oh, how he loves to dance. This usually happens in the company of other large men named Gronkowski, who all exist in a world where shirts are optional and WWE wrestling moves are always in play.
We suspect all this would still be the case even if Gronk weren't a multimillionaire football star.
It's all relatively harmless in the grand scheme of things (BREAKING: 23-Year-Old Male Gets Drunk, Does Dumb Things With Friends), but criticism of Gronkowski has mounted of late. As the story goes, Gronkowski's lifestyle puts himself -- and by extension, his team -- at risk.
NFL Network's Willie McGinest -- a star defensive end during the Patriots' good old days -- says his talk with Gronk would've already happened were he still on team owner Robert Kraft's payroll. In the present day, McGinest believes quarterback Tom Brady might serve as the ideal messenger.
"The only guy on that offense that could probably say anything is Tom," McGinest said, via the Boston Herald. "He has the years in. Or maybe Wes (Welker). It has to be guys (Gronkowski is) around all the time. I don't really know the dynamics of that team.
"Our defense and offense all coincided together. It didn't matter who was talking. But a lot of their guys are young. Gronk's young. It would have to be an elder statesman like Vince (Wilfork) or Tom (to speak up). Someone who's been there for a while. But Tom might be the one. I'm sure someone will have a word with him."
Since this is the Patriots, any conversation about Gronkowski's social life will take place -- and surely remain -- behind closed doors. The question is whether the Patriots are actually concerned about Gronk's behavior, or if this is simply the case of media folk looking to pass the time in a post-Super Bowl wasteland.
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NOTE: These depth charts will be updated sporadically throughout the winter. Players set to be free agents are listed under their 2017 teams. Soon after free agents begin to sign new deals, we will debut our 2018 depth charts page.
This is a file I've done in the past -- previously known as the "Tamme Index" -- and it's important to note it does not necessarily reflect a player's position on his NFL team's depth chart.
A player listed in the "starter" column is the most valuable running back on his team in terms of fantasy value.
A player listed under "handcuff" should see increased fantasy value if the starter becomes injured or sees his role diminish.
The "value" column reflects the likely upside that player would have in standard leagues if he becomes a starter: RB1 (top 10), RB2 (11-20), flex (21-30), bench (worth adding to your bench as a flier), waivers (not worth adding as a free agent).
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Mafia II Trophies
Trophy (Level)
|A Lesson in Manners (Silver)
|Show that you know how to treat a lady.
|A Real Gentleman (Bronze)
|Help the woman fix her car in Home Sweet Home.
|Back in Business (Bronze)
|Do your first job for Mike Bruski.
|Big Brother (Bronze)
|Protect Francesca.
|Card Sharp (Silver)
|Find all of the Wanted posters.
|Chasing the Dragon (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 12.
|Checking Out (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 10.
|Chop Chop! (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 13.
|Collector's Item (Bronze)
|Find at least one collectible in the game.
|Cruise Control (Bronze)
|Keep any vehicle at 30 mph or over for 5 or more minutes.
|Dream Handling (Bronze)
|Upgrade one of your cars to the maximum level.
|End of the Rainbow (Silver)
|Settle the score with the Irish once and for all.
|Exporter (Bronze)
|Sell 5 vehicles to Derek at the dock.
|Finish Him (Silver)
|Finish what you started.
|Get Rich or Die Flyin' (Bronze)
|Get all wheels of your car into the air for at least 20 meters and then touch the ground again.
|Good Spirits (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 5.
|Hairdresser (Bronze)
|Kill 5 enemies in rapid succession with a headshot.
|Hard to Kill (Bronze)
|The police want you dead. Survive for 10 minutes!
|He Who Pays the Barber (Silver)
|Improve the dockworker's haircuts.
|Hey Joe (Silver)
|Clean up after Joe.
|Home Sweet Home (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 2.
|Knucklehead (Bronze)
|Kill a total of 30 enemies using melee attacks.
|Ladies' Man (Silver)
|Find all of the Playboy magazines.
|Last Respects (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 7.
|Made Man (Gold)
|Finish the story on Medium difficulty or higher.
|Mail Man (Bronze)
|Sell all the gas stamps before the time runs out.
|Man of Honor (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 9.
|Met at Work (Silver)
|Complete Chapter 14.
|Night Shift (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 4.
|One Careful Owner (Bronze)
|Travel a total of 50 miles in one vehicle.
|Our Good Friend (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 11.
|Out for Justice (Silver)
|Learn what it means to be a Scaletta.
|Pedal to the Metal (Bronze)
|Travel at 125 mph.
|Petrol Head (Bronze)
|Drive at least 30 different vehicles.
|Platinum Trophy (Platinum)
|Unlocked when all trophies collected.
|Proper Scapper (Bronze)
|Sell 5 vehicles to Mike Bruski at the scrapyard.
|Sharp Suiter (Bronze)
|Buy your first luxury suit.
|Stuck Up (Bronze)
|Rob 5 stores in under 5 minutes.
|The Enforcer (Bronze)
|Kill 50 enemies.
|The Mafia Never Forgets (Silver)
|Pay a visit to an old friend.
|The Price of Oil (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 3.
|The Professional (Bronze)
|Obtain the ration stamps without raising the alarm.
|The Wild Ones (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 8.
|Time Well Spent (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 6.
|Tough Nut (Gold)
|Finish the story on Hard difficulty level.
|Tuned Ride (Bronze)
|Upgrade one of your cars one level.
|Viva la Resistenza! (Bronze)
|Complete Chapter 1.
|Wake Up Call (Bronze)
|Help Leo out of a tricky situation without getting caught.


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HOUSTON (AP) - Experts are watching to see if Texas is heading for another severe drought.
State climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon told the Houston Chronicle that continuing dry weather is likely to persist at least into the spring. Nielsen-Gammon, who's also a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, says "it's probably going to get worse before it gets better."
The U.S. Drought Monitor on Thursday indicated 85 percent of Texas is between abnormally dry and in extreme drought, compared to about 29 percent a year ago.
Tropical Storm Hermine drenched Central Texas in September.
Since then large swaths of Texas have received less than 10 percent
of normal rainfall levels.
The six-month hurricane season ended Nov. 30.
Dry conditions have led at least 80 Texas counties to enact burn bans.


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|Algae-based biofuels are being actively studied as an energy source. But writing in the journal Industrial & Engineering Chemical Research, scientists look to refine that process, engineering diatoms to actively produce and excrete oil products for industrial harvesting. "Secretion by and milking of diatoms may provide a way around the puzzle of how to make algae that both grow quickly and have a very high oil content," they say. In this segment, we'll talk about the research and what advantages it might bring to the field of alternative fuels.


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By Elizabeth O'Brien
The Most Obvious Headline of the Week Award goes to this recent take on saving for retirement: How Not Having Kids Can Help You Save For Retirement. But David Bakke of Investopedia, reviewing some research by Bankrate.com and others, does highlight some interesting data. Particularly eye-catching: the cost of raising a single child to the age of 17 was $235,000 in 2011, up 3.5% from 2010 on increases in the cost of schooling, transportation, daycare and food. And that number doesn't even include college tuition.
Regarding the overall premise, as a mother of two small children, all I can say is: Duh.


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The steel beams of one structure can be seen from Interstate 93 and the foundation of another has been poured. The development of Assembly Square in Somerville is becoming a reality.
"This all started in 1998 and we've talked about Assembly Square every day," Mayor Joseph Curtatone of Somerville said last week. "Now it's year 15, and look what's happening."
Work has begun on two of four buildings expected to be completed in 2014 as part of the first phase of Assembly Row, a massive mixed-use development site that, when completed, is expected to include more than 800,000 square feet of retail space, about 1.75 million square feet of offices, and more than 2,000 apartments.
Maryland-based Federal Realty Investment Trust owns nearly half of the developable land in the 145-acre area east of I-93 along the Mystic River that makes up the Assembly Square neighborhood district. It's named for the former site of a Ford Motor Co. assembly plant, which offered hundreds of local jobs when it operated from 1926 to 1958. While the area was home to several other large businesses, most were shuttered by the late '70s, and Somerville since then has sought to revive it.
The plan is finally in motion. The first phase of Assembly Row includes four buildings that will hold about 450 apartments, an AMC movie theater, and 330,000 square feet of retail space, enough for 50 to 60 stores and restaurants, said Don Briggs, the Federal's senior vice president of development.
The apartment buildings, AVA Somerville and Avalon at Assembly Row, are expected to begin to fill in the summer of 2013. Retail spaces will open over the course of 2014, Briggs said. The first phase also includes a 6-acre park along the banks of the Mystic River that is expected to open next summer.
The first Assembly Row tenant opened for business in November, when Burger Dive began serving food in a small building near the future entrance of the development.
More than $400 million has been spent on the first phase between Federal Realty and partner
AvalonBay Communities , Briggs said. Federal sees Boston's high-tech industry poised for growth; companies in Cambridge and Boston are ready to branch out, and they don't want to go far.
"Those companies used to go out to 128 or 495, but they don't want to anymore," Briggs said. "The people who work at those companies live here."
Wig Zamore, a local community activist who often serves as a spokesman for the Somerville Transportation Equity Partnership, said creating an "upper-story" base of research and development jobs, which, in turn, creates a "lower-story" job base, is the key to the long-term success of Assembly Square.
"If the city and the developers are able to make progress with landing a long-term stream of research and development connected with the research universities in Boston, then it will play out extremely well with the community of Somerville," Zamore said.
"I do believe that Federal Realty is great at creating main street retail, which can be the basis for urban mixed use development," he said. "The danger is that we just create another residential and shopping area like anywhere else in the country, without local flavor."
Legal C Bar, owned by Legal Sea Foods, and Papagayo Mexican Kitchen have signed leases in Assembly Row, and a wave of retailers claiming space is expected to be announced early next year, Briggs said.
'Those companies used to go out to 128 or 495, but they don't want to anymore. '
In the next phase, Federal Realty has its sights set on four more buildings, expected to be a combination of hotel, office, and retail, Briggs said, but those plans remain fluid and will depend on future partnerships. Federal Realty announced early this month its plans to purchase a 12-acre adjacent parcel owned by Swedish furniture company Ikea, which announced in July it had decided against opening a store on the site. It will be developed into a grocery store and two other mixed-use buildings.
Curtatone, an opponent of casinos, has ruled out any such development on the property, but he views a soccer stadium to host the Robert Kraft-owned New England Revolution as a possibility.
"We've spoken to the Kraft family for the last couple of years," he said. "They're one of the best community partners anyone could dream of. We'll see where that discussion ends."
But a stadium would have to be built on the remaining parcels not owned by Federal Realty, which doesn't see pro soccer in its development plans.
"I don't think it fits," Briggs said.
About $130 million in public funds and more than $1.5 billion in private money has been invested in the Assembly Square area, according to Curtatone. Somerville's assessment office estimates about $2.3 million in tax revenue from three-quarters of the land owned by Federal Realty will come in 2015, plus about $950,000 in state taxes and $5 million in one-time fees.
Curtatone said the development is expected to bring in $17 million in tax revenue when finished. "And that number will go up," he said.
Alderman at Large Bill White said Assembly Square's value to the city is the growth in tax revenue from businesses.
"I think the key for the city is to have more commercial development for Assembly Square as opposed to residential development," he said. "Commercial properties pay a higher tax rate and Somerville has a small commercial tax base. That would shift the tax burden off of residential homeowners.
"One way to do that is to have large office and research and development buildings. That brings office workers into the city."
Included in the public investment is $29 million to build a new stop on the MBTA's Orange Line next to Assembly Row, expected to open in 2014.
Work crews will spend most of next year building the station's structure and station systems, including electrical, plumbing, and wiring, MBTA spokesman Joseph Pesaturo said. "There will be more traffic but the Orange Line stop and walking and biking can cut the traffic in half," said Zamore. The original plans projected 100,000 car trips a day to the site, but the new plans indicate only 50,000, he said.
"Long-term, the more people that we have and employ in the urban core, the lower the total energy consumption and greenhouse gas consumption by the people of Massachusetts," Zamore said. "Energy use, especially from transportation, gets cut in half when you have people living and working in the urban core."
The new Orange Line station will be the conduit, White said.
"I think once the T stop is complete, it will make Assembly Square a much more attractive site for offices and research and development," he said.
"It brings workers to Somerville and that means that they're going to be spending money in the community. That generates a higher property tax revenue and places less demands on city services."Globe correspondent Liam O'Kennedy contributed to this story. Jarret Bencks can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Being Cool Is A Key To Victory, And We're Not Talking About Sporting A Pair Of Oakleys In The Pits
If the engine in your race car gets too hot, it shuts down. Your body is no different. If you get too hot, you're going to shut down; that's something you don't want, especially if you're taking the white flag en route to your first feature win.
"In closed-car environments, the risk of heat stroke and heat exhaustion is real," says Kyle Keitzman of Bell Racing. But just what exactly is heat stroke, and why should a racer care about it?
Heat stroke and its two less severe cousins, heat exhaustion and heat cramps, are caused when the body cannot lose or dissipate heat. They are serious medical conditions and can even be fatal if not properly and promptly treated. Symptoms of heat stroke can sometimes mimic those of heart attack, and in certain cases, a person experiences symptoms of heat exhaustion before progressing to heat stroke. The symptoms of heat exhaustion may include fatigue, weakness, dizziness, headaches, muscle cramps, nausea, and vomiting-none of which you want to experience while in a race car.
To understand how to combat heat-related problems, we have to understand how our bodies work. During normal activity, the human body generates up to 50 degrees of added/excess heat in 24 hours. That is heat that your body must get rid of if it is going to maintain its internal core temperature of 98.6 degrees. When you strap into your race car on a hot summer night, your body is going to generate excess heat that it must dissipate.
There are four ways that it can accomplish this, and radiation is the most effective. Your body will radiate heat when the air temperature is lower than your body temperature. Next is evaporation, which is the release of perspiration through the sweat glands on the skin's surface-still very effective at keeping us cool. Convection is heat loss to air/water vapor, which must be lower than your skin temperature. Finally, there is the least effective way to cool your body: conduction, or the transfer of heat from warmer to cooler objects by direct contact. Ironic when you think about that, isn't it? What's the first thing we do when our bodies are overheated? Douse ourselves with water and a cold cloth. Yet that is the least effective way to get cool.
Now, when the temperature around you is over 95 degrees, radiation, convection, and conduction stop working, leaving only evaporation as the way to cool your body. "Big deal," you say, "we all sweat in the race car." Consider this: NASA did a performance study on how external temperatures affect the number of mistakes a person makes when performing a specific task. They found out that over the course of one hour, the average person made five mistakes when the temperature was 80 degrees. At 90 degrees, they made only nine mistakes during a 60-minute span. But when the temperature reached 95 degrees, the number of mistakes spiked to 60 in one hour. That's one goof every minute. Why? Because evaporation cannot handle the task of cooling the body all by itself. This is especially significant in a race car because firesuits do not let your body maximize evaporation.
Keep A Cool Head
"You can increase your performance by staying cool," says Jill Swanson, owner of Fresh Air Systems Technology (F.A.S.T.), the Illinois manufacturer of driver cooling products. "Keeping your body in better shape translates to keeping your mind in better shape. That means you can race longer, race harder, and think clearer."
Ultimately, making better decisions on the track can yield that prized trophy at the end of the race. But don't worry; you don't have to drop $3,000 on some fancy Nextel Cup cooling system to keep yourself in race-winning form.
In order to maintain optimum performance, you need to keep your body's core temperature at about 98.6 degrees F. Swanson says one of your goals should be to cool your chest area. While you can wear special shirts under your uniform to accomplish this, the first order of business is to make sure your lungs are getting cool, clean air. This fresh air is the beginning of keeping your core cool. But getting that fresh air to our lungs is a little complicated. Unlike Derek Jeter, Shaquille O'Neal, or other athletes, we race car drivers have a little something we call a helmet in our way.
Those of us who were Boy Scouts learned that one of the primary areas where heat escapes your body is through your head. As racers, we cram our noggins into foam-insulated, composite-wrapped chambers each time we strap into the car, and they can get hot. Helmet manufacturers have gone to great lengths to solve that problem by designing systems that maximize airflow.
"Our goal [in helmet design] is to return the body to a more natural form of cooling," says Bell's Keitzman. That means maximizing the airflow. When you sweat, moisture builds up. If that moisture can't evaporate, first comes heat cramps, then heat exhaustion, and finally, heat stroke. Keeping your body cool is all about helping that moisture evaporate through good airflow. Since air has a hard time flowing through a firesuit, the helmet becomes exceptionally critical in speeding evaporation.
Most racing helmets from reputable manufacturers usually have some type of ventilation system built in. These vents are actually channels that funnel in air from the front of the helmet up onto your face. Some helmet designs have outlets on the back that allow the air coming in from the front somewhere to escape.
Vented helmets rely on the air coming into the cockpit to keep you cool. A step up from the traditional vented helmet is a forced-air-style helmet. These helmets are designed to circulate fresh air from outside the car directly into the helmet.
There are essentially two different styles of vented helmets. One has a side-entry pipe, where the fresh air is vented across your chin and up around your face, and the other features a pipe on the top that funnels into channels or a bladder that dissipates the air around your head.
Side-entry-pipe helmets came first, but the top-entry ones are gaining popularity. Locating the pipe on the top of the helmet instead of the side allows for increased driver head movement because the pipe does not interfere with the protective head surround of the latest safety seats.
These forced-air helmets work by increasing pressure inside the helmet, which accelerates airflow into the area in the front of the helmet, thereby maximizing ventilation and cooling. "These designs evaporate the moisture that builds up around the head," says Keitzman. That is, of course, the key to keeping a cool head during a hot race. "If you do not have proper air circulation, your body temperature will go up," says Swanson.
In both helmet designs, one end of the hose is attached to the pipe while the other is attached to some type of filtration and/or cooling system mounted elsewhere in the car.
Air Cooled Drivers
There are a number of manufacturers making cooling systems for the racer. The biggest factor to consider is the type of racing that you do. A series of three to four 25-lap contests will have a different effect on your body than a 150-lap ARCA race. F.A.S.T. makes a unit called the FA-129 Racer Series helmet blower. It's perfect if you're racing in an area of the country that is fairly temperate, such as Elko Speedway in Minnesota. This is a 105-cfm blower that has a filter mounted to the inlet. The small motor sucks fresh air through the filter and blows the clean air into the hose that is affixed to your helmet. The result is a constant flow of clean, fresh air.
Of course, you have to have a forced-air helmet to accommodate the blower system. However, it is not a problem if you don't. F.A.S.T. will convert your helmet for as little as $200. Add the blower system and you'll have cool, filtered air for $350.
Now if you race at, say, Ark-La-Tex Speedway in Louisiana, where the temperature gets a bit warmer in the summer months, you're going to want an upgrade over the FA-129. F.A.S.T.'s FA-130 boosts the blower rating to 150 cfm, delivering more fresh air to your lungs faster. Shafer Enterprises, which manufacturers the Cool Shirt, also makes blowers, offering 135- and 235-cfm blowers with HEPA-4 air filters.
Of course, it can get really hot in those dog days of summer. When it does, that air system may need an extra boost to keep your core at that all-important 98.6 degrees F. To get that extra boost, many manufacturers have added an inline cooling system between the blowers and the helmet. In a nutshell, the air being sucked in by the blower is passed through a cooler full of ice. Warm air goes in, cool air comes out.
Nice Duds
Born out of the needs of the medical industry, the Cool Shirt has been around since the late '80s. There are several types on the market, but they all have the same basic design. Chilled liquid is pumped through tubing that is sewn to an undershirt. The shirts can be straight cotton or Nomex/CarbonX blends.
Rich Shafer, president of Shafer Enterprises, which manufactures the Cool Shirt Personal Cooling System, says that the only real way to reduce your body's core temperature is to cool your blood. "Drinking cold fluids will rehydrate you but it won't cool you down. To cool your core, you need to cool your blood."
With heavy perspiration, up to one half of your body's normal blood supply flows to your skin's surface to aid in evaporation. This leaves the other half of your blood supply to operate your brain, muscles, and vital organs, resulting in fatigue, weakness, aches, poor decision making-you get the point. The Cool Shirt and others like it cover 30-40 percent of the skin's surface with temperature-controlled cool water, ranging from 45 to 60 degrees F. "As the liquid pumps through the shirt, it cools the surface of the skin, which, in turn, cools the blood," says Shafer. "That cooled blood returns to the internal organs so vital in keeping your mind alert and your reaction times up."
While Cool Shirts have been around for almost two decades, racer acceptance is still the biggest challenge for both Swanson and Shafer, who says, "The hardest thing is to get them to try it. Once they try it, they're sold."
Cooling, The Next Generation
Several years ago, two Stanford University PhDs, Dr. Dennis Grahn and Dr. Craig Heller, developed a new way of cooling the body. Their patented CoreControl system works for your body basically the same way the radiator works for your engine, from the inside out. And get this-the only area it touches is the palm of your hand.
"It's a more direct path to cooling the blood," says Mark Smith, executive vice president and director of R&D for AvaCore. Smith explains that there are specialized blood vessels in the palms of your hands that are specifically for heat dissipation purposes. These vessels allow large amounts of blood to flow directly beneath the skin. By targeting that specific area, the CoreControl system can cool the internal body temperature very quickly.
The portable handheld unit features a small cooler that holds ice water, with tubes running to a pistol-grip handle enclosed in a case. To use it, you flip the switch on, stick your hand through a hole in the case, and grab the grip. Crank down the wrist cuff to create a slight vacuum around your hand, sit back, and relax. The vacuum enhances blood flow while allowing the unit to operate at a colder temperature, which, in turn, cools the body's core quicker.
CoreControl is a versatile tool that can be used by just about everybody on the team: the pit crew during the race, the driver between heat races, and even spouses in the infield. AvaCore is currently working on prototypes for systems that could be used by drivers in an actual race.
Keeping body temperature down should be a top priority for all racers. Whether you choose to go all-out with a top-shelf cooling system or just go for a helmet with front and rear venting, do something to keep yourself cool. And remember, the most effective way to cool your body is to keep core temp down and fresh air coming into your lungs. By doing so, you will be able to think clearer and make better decisions. Your body will respond quicker during the race and feel better after it. Don't lose the race because your body gives out.


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Agric. Téc. v.67 n.4 Chillán dez. 2007
Agricultura Técnica (Chile) 67(4):414-421 (Octubre-Diciembre)
Neural Network Model for Land Cover Classification from Satellite Images
Figure 1. Study area in Córdoba, Argentina.
The areas for agricultural production have mainly summer crops (soybean and corn) and, to a lesser degree, winter cereals (wheat, Triticum aestivum L.). Sowing of crops responds to climatic conditions, particularly rainfall distribution.
Figure 2. Scheme of a neural network of the multilayer perceptron type.
This decision was made after comparing the results of each model, when the hidden neuron number varied between 50 to 200% from total input neuron number. When the neuron number in the hidden layer was lower than the number of neurons in the input layer, the overall accuracy classification was poor, while using a large number of neurons in the hidden layer did not yield a better classification.
where Tanh = hyperbolic tangent, exp (x) = exponential function.
Table 1. Overall, producer and user accuracies and Kappa statistic for the models performed with different combinations of input data.
The results in Table 1 show that the networks constructed with NDVI and EVI (M1 and M2) values have a similar behavior, which is reflected by totally similar accuracy values. The Kappa statistic of the NDVI based model corresponds to the very good category, while the index of M2 corresponds to the good category. M2 presents differences in the accuracy values (producer/user) for corn.
Figure 3. Average values (dimensionless) of the vegetation indexes and reflectances, for the three classified categories.
The designed network that jointly includes RED and NIR values (M5) as input variables showed the highest results in statistic validation. The total accuracy value reaches 93% approximately, with values for each class in the interval of 80 to 100%, and with an excellent Kappa statistic. From this first evaluation, it can be stated that, if the information is available, the utilization of the two reflectance values is the best combination to estimate land cover.
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The Office provides staff to both the County Civil Service Commission and to the County of Cattaraugus as a Personnel and Labor Relations office.
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National Bankshares, Inc. (NKSH) operates as the bank holding company for the National Bank of Blacksburg, which provides a range of retail and commercial banking services to individuals, businesses, non-profits, and local governments in Virginia. This dividend achiever has increased dividends on its common stock for 12 years in a row.
The company's last dividend increase was in May 2012 when the Board of Directors approved a 16.70% increase to 53 cents/share.I uncovered this hidden dividend star in my weekly review of dividend increases.
Over the past decade this dividend growth stock has delivered an annualized total return of 12.30% to its shareholders.
The company has managed to deliver 6.60% in annual EPS growth since 2002. Analysts expect National Bankshares to earn $2.56 per share in 2012 and $2.49 per share in 2013. In comparison National Bankshares earned $2.54/share in 2011.
The bank has managed to maintain a high net interest margin of 4.00% – 4.80% since 2002. This period included an increase in Fed Funds rate from 2003 – 2007 followed by a decrease in Fed Funds rate from 2008 – 2009. Net interest margin is the difference between what the bank lends capital at, minus the cost of that capital. As interest rates are expected to remain low until 2014, the company's cost of capital should be low. The level of profitability is especially noteworthy during current difficult economic environment. The bank is very conservatively run, which has resulted in a very low amount of non-performing assets of 1%. In addition, it has a solid balance sheet, with a tangible common equity of 12.50%, vs 7.50% for peers.
This conservatively run bank would likely not be found on most investor's radars.The Dodd-Frank act will likely have an impact on it, as it will have to increase overhead to comply with act and also face limitations on certain fees it can charge its customers. Another factor that would limit income growth is decrease in interest rates on the investment securities the bank owns in its investment portfolio, which account for approximately 33% of total assets.
Only 27% of the company's stock is held by institutions. This means that investors would not be competing with mutual funds for this stock. When few institutional investors are following a stock, there is an opportunity to uncover a good company and purchase it at a bargain price.
The return on equity has been declining since hitting a high of 15% in 2003, although it has been stabilizing since 2007 - 2008. Rather than focus on absolute values for this indicator, I generally want to see at least a stable return on equity over time.
The annual dividend payment has increased by 8.20% per year over the past decade, which is higher than to the growth in EPS. The company pays semi-annual distributions to its shareholders.
An 8% growth in distributions translates into the dividend payment doubling every nine years. The current semi-annual payment is twice the amount of dividends paid 9 years ago.
Between 2002 and 2004 the dividend payout ratio increased from 34% to 40%. Since 2005 however, this indicator has been flat around 40%. A lower payout is always a plus, since it leaves room for consistent dividend growth minimizing the impact of short-term fluctuations in earnings.
Currently, National Bankshares is attractively valued at 11.50 times earnings, yields 3.50% and has an adequately covered dividend. I would consider initiating a position in the stock subject to availability of funds.
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Mark McMorris and Jamie Anderson snag gold in slopestyle at the 2012 Dew Tour in Breckenridge
The slopestyle contest at this years Dew Tour was crazy for a number of reasons. The first reason it was crazy was becasue of the level of riding in the woman's event. All of the girls are riding at a really strong level and it's cool to see girls like Spencer O'Brien, Enni Rukajarvi, and Jamie Anderson just all out kill it. Spencer has one of the most stylish switch backside 540's out there, and Enni has an awsome backside 540 indy. It's sick. But those tricks couldn't keep Jamie Anderson from taking the win. She really knows how to ride a slopestyle course. Jamie ended up taking the win, with Spencer taking second place, and Enni rounded out third.
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correction will not happen right away, as a cheap dollar will still encourage investors to seek higher-yielding assets for a few more months, leading economist Nouriel Roubini said Thursday. Roubini, one of the few economists who accurately predicted the
magnitude of the financial crisis, said the U.S. dollar will eventually recover some of its losses, but only in "six to 12 months from now, not any time soon."
I have nothing against Roubini; doomsayers are a dime a dozen (see my previous post). What I find incredible is how professional columnists at self-proclaimed "leading business networks" mindlessly genuflect at the alter of stopped clocks.
You've heard the old joke about how economists have successfully predicted 10 out of the last 2 recessions. Eric Tyson has a nice little piece claiming that Roubini is among these tireless prognosticators; see here. That's right, Roubini called the recession in 2004, 2005, 2006 and in 2007. As the old saying goes, even a stopped clock is correct twice a day. The puzzle is why there is such a large and persistent demand for stopped clocks.


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"It seems like more players get drafted from the most successful teams so I didn't know what I was going to do," Bailey said.
But the Trojans' resurgence under Ed Orgeron convinced Bailey to follow his original plans and the junior announced Monday he would make himself available for the NFL draft.
"I feel like I've done a lot at USC,'' Bailey said. "There's not much more I can prove."
Bailey said USC's constant coaching changes did not affect his decision. He said a meeting with Steve Sarkisian left him with a higher opinion of the new coach but felt it was time to turn pro.
"He said he is a resource for me," Bailey said. "It wasn't him being a recruiter when we met. He wasn't here to recruit me to come back. I respected that."
Bailey will sign with Athletes' First, the same sports agency that represents former USC wide receiver Robert Woods.
"I'm just praying and hoping for one team to give me an opportunity," Bailey said.
Bailey said he drew inspiration from former USC cornerback Nickell Robey, who was not drafted last year but is having a strong rookie season with the Buffalo Bills.
"It just shows where you get drafted doesn't matter," Bailey said.
Bailey was a strong supporter of former Orgeron but offered mixed feelings on Sarkisian's comments that he would try to hire Orgeron back.
"Coach O doesn't want to be an assistant coach," Bailey said. "But I'm hoping on a star that he wants to come back."
Marqise Lee update Wide receiver Marqise Lee said Monday he has not met with any coaches yet to discuss whether he would return or make himself available for the NFL draft. Lee said he was at USC to perform rehabilitation on his knee and would decide what to do in the next two weeks.
"He's going to have to make his decision," Bailey said. "I don't know what he'll do but I'm sure he'll make the right decision."
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Sarkisian said he hired Washington strength coach Ivan Lewis to a similar position at USC. Lewis worked at USC with Sarkisian and followed him to Washington.


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The presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain have made their opinions known about the role of innovation in America, responding to questions posed by ScienceDebate2008 (view their full responses here.)
Barack Obama: "Ensuring that the U.S. continues to lead the world in science and technology will be a central priority for my administration. Our talent for innovation is still the envy of the world, but we face unprecedented challenges that demand new approaches. ... My administration will increase funding for basic research in physical and life sciences, mathematics, and engineering at a rate that would double basic research budgets over the next decade. We will increase research grants for early-career researchers to keep young scientists entering these fields. We will increase support for high-risk, high-payoff research portfolios at our science agencies. And we will invest in the breakthrough research we need to meet our energy challenges and to transform our defense programs."
John McCain: "I have a broad and cohesive vision for the future of American innovation. My policies will provide broad pools of capital, low taxes and incentives for research in America, a commitment to a skilled and educated workforce, and a dedication to opening markets around the globe. I am committed to streamlining burdensome regulations and effectively protecting American intellectual property in the United States and around the globe. ... Nurturing technology and innovation is essential for solving the critical problems facing our country: developing alternative fuels, addressing climate change, encouraging commercialization of new technologies, deploying technology to manage cost and enable new jobs, stopping the spiraling expense of health care, and better educating our children and our workforce.... Above all, my commitment to innovation is a commitment to the well-established entrepreneurial spirit and creativity of America's thinkers and tinkerers whose inventions have improved our lives and promoted prosperity. To maintain American leadership, I believe we must nurture the conditions under which entrepreneurs can continue to prosper by bringing new innovators to market and the American people can reap the rewards."
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