South Florida most vulnerable to hurricanes in October

October is when South Florida's sweltering summer heat gives way to comfortably warm afternoons ? and when this region is most likely to be clobbered by a hurricane.

More hurricanes ? 19 ? have struck here in October than any other month since tropical records started in 1851. Next in line are September with 15 hits and August with 11.

As of early October, the so-called Cape Verde season, when storms form near Africa, starts to shut down. Meanwhile, systems are more apt to pop up in the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico and the western Atlantic, not far from our shores.

"This means that systems can form and affect us with relatively short notice," said meteorologist Robert Molleda of the National Weather Service in Miami.

The good news this year: A weak El Ni?o should emerge in time to temper the remainder of the season, experts say. El Ni?o is an atmospheric pattern that creates strong wind shear, inhibiting storm formation.

Todd Crawford, chief meteorologist for WSI, a part of The Weather Channel, said historically tropical seasons "often end rather abruptly as El Ni?o advances.

"In fact, no more than three named storms have developed after Sept. 20 during the last four appearances of El Ni?o events," he said.

Just the same, experts say more storms are likely to emerge over the next two months.

During October, wind shear increases and ocean waters cool. But cold fronts descending across the United States can trigger tropical storms over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico or Caribbean.

Because the fronts tend to guide storms in our direction, Florida is frequently is in the line of fire, as evidenced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005, Hurricane Irene in 1999, Hurricane Isbell in 1964, and Hurricane King in 1950.

"Obviously, storms recurve northward, so if you were to get a storm anywhere in the southern Gulf or the Caribbean, it would recurve toward Florida," said Dan Kottlowski, AccuWeather.com senior meteorologist.

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Cricket Live Score of Australia vs South Africa 19th Match - Colombo on 2012. Get Cric Live Score of South Africa vs Australia, 19th Match of ICC World Twenty20 2012. South Africa vs Australia 19th Match begins at 30 Sep 2012 onwards at Colombo. Get Full Scorecard of Australia vs South Africa, 19th Match ICC World Twenty20 2012 online free. Get batting and bowling figures of 19th Match match starting at 2012, 30 Sep 2012. Online Live Match of Australia vs South Africa 19th Match - ICC World Twenty20 2012 live from Colombo.

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What?s the Difference Between Life and Death?

A 1728 oil painting by Cornelis Troost depicting an anatomy lesson using a cadaver

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Two hundred years ago, a Scottish medical student named Robert Christison watched a human vivisection.

It was inadvertent; the subject was meant to be dead. But in the days before people willingly left their bodies to science, surgeons stole them. The aftermath of judicial hangings was a competition between ?the relatives and the [surgical] students?the former to carry off the body intact, the latter to dissect it,? Christison wrote in his autobiography. ?Thus dissection was apt to be performed with indecent, sometimes with dangerous haste. It was no uncommon occurrence that, when the operator proceeded with his work, the body was sensibly warm, the limbs not yet rigid.? Hangings were sometimes ineffective, and the condemned survived. No wonder then that occasionally, in their rush, surgeons got it wrong and opened up a body to demonstrate its anatomy only to discover it was not yet a corpse.

Even if you're in less of a rush, simple observation has always been worryingly fallible when it comes to distinguishing life from death. When I was a junior doctor, I recall the hairs on the back of my neck slowly rising as I walked toward a patient's room. His family had just stopped me at the end of their visit, saying ?I think we'll come back tomorrow, we've been sitting with him for an hour and he's seemed awfully quiet.? He would forever remain that way. I found I often made the reverse mistake: Walking into the room of an elderly patient, it could take some time to recognize their stillness as that of sleep.

Preceding generations adopted technological aids to help them. Holding a mirror over a face to see if it misted up could be genuinely useful. The stethoscope?invented by a French doctor, Rene Laennec, who was embarrassed by putting his ear to his patient's bosom?meant that respiration and heart sounds could be listened for more accurately. All this helped, but it didn't fully solve the problem.

The precise division between life and death has always been unclear. In the 18^th century, the chemistry of living (organic) and nonliving (inorganic) things was held to be fundamentally different. Into the former, God placed a spark of life?meaning that biochemical processes were absolutely different from the chemical reactions that could be created by mankind or the natural world. That belief was shown false in the 1820s, when a German chemist, Friedrich W?hler, synthesized the first organic molecules. But even today it lingers on: The vague way in which organic is used as a euphemism for healthy and good is its relic. Throughout the 19^th century, the exact spark of life remained an object of great interest, and also of great doubt.

Discussions of the soul tended to lead nowhere, since that word meant so many different things to different people. It was hard to prove when the soul left the body because it was something whose nature and identity no one could agree on. Hence a favorite distinction between the living and the dead rested directly on the word of God. Leviticus 17:11 and 17:14 were clear: Blood?was the stuff of life. William Harvey, who discovered how blood circulated, wrote that it was ?the first to live and the last to die.? Blood was life. So long as it was liquid, life remained.

Hence Christison's alarm as he watched the surgeon cut into the warm body. ?Fluid blood gushed in abundance from the first incisions through the skin ? Instantly I seized [the surgeon's] wrist in great alarm, and arrested his progress; nor was I easily persuaded to let him go on, when I saw the blood coagulate on the table exactly like living blood.? Peer pressure overcame his qualms, however, and he not only released the surgeon but remained part of the attentive audience. He was convinced that the man was alive, but he became willing to watch all the same.

John Hunter, the greatest surgeon of the 18^th century, also believed that those whose blood was liquid were still alive, yet he had no problem slicing their hearts out?or even, in the interests of science, tasting them. (Wishing to explore human sexual function, he acquired the corpse of a man who died in the moment before ejaculation. When held in the mouth, Hunter reported, the dead man's semen had a slightly spicy taste.) An appetite for knowledge has never been a guarantee of compassion or of respect for the wishes of the dead.

In the years since Hunter, though, these concerns have genuinely advanced. We're better at saying where life ends and better at honoring the physical remains and the last wishes of our fellows?which is not to say there isn't still room for improvement. For many decades, we accepted that people died when their heart stopped beating, that is, when it stopped circulating blood. Why did we hold onto that notion, even long after we understood that electrical activity was the fundamental substrate for our lives? Once more, the limitation was partly technical?a heartbeat is relatively easy to detect?and partly not. The idea that blood was the stuff of life lingered on, aided by the dual meaning of ?heart? it helped bequeath to our language and our thoughts. Did the body Christison saw being opened still have a beating heart? Was it, in any real way, alive? It certainly was in Cristison?s eyes, but whether it would have been in ours is harder to say.

Once we became confident about the primacy of electrical activity in the brain as the sign of life, we were able to be more positive. The need for donated organs pushed changes in our definition of death, especially because an organ-transplant recipient?s prospects for survival are much better when the organ is taken from a donor with a beating heart. In 1968, the wonderfully named Ad Hoc Committee of Harvard Medical School argued that death should no longer be regarded as occurring when the heart stopped, but when electrical activity ceased in the brain. Once that was gone, so was the person.

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Beaverton receives $1.6 million grant to provide health care programs

The city of Beaverton announced Friday that it received a $1.6 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control to fight health problems such as obesity and develop a health and wellness center.

The money will support the Beaverton Community Health Partnership, a group of about 10 health care providers. They include Community Action, Lifeworks Northwest and the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center. The partnership has been named an Oregon Solutions Project for building strong relationships between a public agency and nonprofits.

Part of the money will support the development of a Beaverton health and wellness center, a go-to spot for a variety of health resources. Officials have explored the vacant Westgate property near the Round at Beaverton Central as one potential location.

The partnership also hopes to reduce the frequency of diabetes and lower the rate of heart attacks and strokes.

The grant is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Community Transformation Grants. The money supports public programs that reduce chronic diseases, promote healthier lifestyles and manage health care spending.

Overall, the department has awarded roughly $70 million in grants to improve the health of communities that have fewer than 500,000 people. Beaverton has a population of about 90,000 people.

-- Dominique Fong

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Why you shouldn't hate business - Fortune Management

By Jack and Suzy Welch, contributors

FORTUNE -- "You didn't build that." "Corporations aren't people." With the first, a revealing gaffe, and the second, a wildly cheered campaign refrain, one party has certainly made it clear how it feels about American business these days.

Well -- big surprise -- we don't agree. Business can't operate unfettered, of course, without any form of oversight or control. But in our view, business is a source of great good for society, with the power to create hope and opportunity like no other institution going.

Indeed, the positives so outweigh the negatives that lately we've been trying to identify why some people hate business so fervently. After all, the risks of this movement's efforts to demonize business are frighteningly high.

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Here's where we've landed. First, there's clearly a group of people who disdain business because they support some or all of the fundamental leveling tenets of socialism. This ideology is too multifaceted to summarize here, but suffice it to say that its adherents believe, as the President once put it, "You've got to spread the wealth around."

Then there are people who hate business not because of ideology but because of personal experience -- they've been wrongly fired, endured a dreadful boss. These individuals see business as a place where good people get burned.

For still others, their hostility derives from the recent financial meltdown, when the sheer negligence of many financial institutions and rating agencies, they believe, resulted in blameless Americans losing their jobs and homes and threatened to bring down the entire economy.

Finally, and perhaps most pernicious because of its outsize influence, is the hostility toward business that radiates from the intellectual elite -- the opinion leaders in journalism, academia, and government. To them, business is rotten because it's just so completely unfair. Otherwise, how do you explain the success of the party animal who lived down the hall in college?

You know what we mean. You have a group of people who once took their studies very seriously and protested for social justice in their free time. After graduation, they took jobs where they felt they could fight the good fight. That was all well and good until 10 or 15 years out, when they started hearing stories about the obnoxious loudmouths who majored in playing the angles and minored in beer pong. These "lightweights" (in their view) had struck it rich on Wall Street. And not by making the world a better place. No -- simply by showing up and chumming around.

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Okay, so maybe that is enough to make you hate business. Except you shouldn't. First of all, even if Wall Street shows up in movies and on TV as the archetype, far more of U.S. business comprises consumer and manufacturing companies making and selling real stuff, family-run enterprises, startups, farms, corner stores -- you name it. American business is what America does every day.

But just as important, you shouldn't vilify American business, since it's our only road back to a thriving country. Everyone knows that our economy must improve, but it can improve only in an environment that encourages business -- and, yes, even loves it. Atmosphere matters. When hostility reigns, big enterprises worry about the regulations coming down the pike, and most hunker down on the capital-spending front, human and otherwise. Entrepreneurs worry it's not the right time to expand.

Look, if you want jobs -- and who doesn't? -- you have to come to terms with reality. Hating business doesn't just hurt business.

It destroys the way forward for everyone.

This story is from the October 8, 2012 issue of?Fortune.

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Sharp says it's making enough iPhone 5 displays

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Sharp is making "adequate volumes" of displays it is known to supply for Apple's new iPhone5, a company executive said, indicating that a possible bottleneck in supplies of screens may have eased.

Analysts had blamed a shortfall in supplies of display for leaving Apple with too few iPhones to meet burgeoning demand at its launch this month.

At the end of Aug., three weeks before the new iPhone went on sale, Sharp, which was supposed to be mass producing at its Kameyama plant in central Japan, had fallen behind schedule, a source earlier told Reuters.

Sharp, the source said, was struggling to improve low production yields, raising the question of whether Apple would be prepared to sweeten financial incentives to secure an acceleration of production.

Apple also buys screens from Japan Display and Korea's LG Display.

Apple began offering the iPhone?5 on Sept. 21, selling over 5 million in the first three days, topping the iPhone 4S, which sold more than 4 million units in its first weekend. On the fourth day, Apple said it had run out of its initial supply and many pre-orders were scheduled to go out in Oct.

"The iPhone 5's 4-inch low-temperature polysilicon (LTPS) touch-panel display with in-panel switching (IPS) is exceptionally difficult to produce at high yields," Deutsche Securities analyst Yasuo Nakane said in a report on Sept. 14.

Nakane estimates iPhone screen capacity at Japan Display and LG Display at eight million a month each, and at six million at Sharp. Displays for Apple's first lot of new iPhones likely came from only LG and Japan Display, Nakane added.

Sharp and Japan Display do not publicly admit to the relationship even though Apple, in a list of component makers published last year, identified both Japanese companies as suppliers.

The Sharp executive made the comment at a press briefing in Osaka, western Japan, speaking on condition he wasn't identified.?

(Reporting by Tim Kelly and Yoshiyuki Osada; Editing by Muralikumar Anantharaman)

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Regular refs to work Thursday game after agreement

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2011, file photo, officials confer in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and Houston Texans in Houston. The NFL and referees' union reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, to end a three-month lockout that triggered a wave of frustration and anger over replacement officials and threatened to disrupt the rest of the season. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 4, 2011, file photo, officials confer in the fourth quarter of an NFL football game between the Atlanta Falcons and Houston Texans in Houston. The NFL and referees' union reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, to end a three-month lockout that triggered a wave of frustration and anger over replacement officials and threatened to disrupt the rest of the season. (AP Photo/Dave Einsel, File)

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2012, file photo, officials walk towards the field for an NFL football game between the Buffalo Bills and the Washington Redskins in Orchard Park, N.Y. The NFL and referees' union reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday, Sept. 26, to end a three-month lockout that triggered a wave of frustration and anger over replacement officials and threatened to disrupt the rest of the season. (AP Photo/Bill Wippert, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2011, file photo, officials confer in the third quarter of an NFL football game between the Denver Broncos and the Tennessee Titans in Nashville, Tenn. The NFL and referees' union reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, to end a three-month lockout that triggered a wave of frustration and anger over replacement officials and threatened to disrupt the rest of the season. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2011, file photo, referee Ed Hochuli (85) signals during the second quarter of an NFL football game between the Detroit Lions and the San Diego Chargers in Detroit. The NFL and referees' union reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012, to end a three-month lockout that triggered a wave of frustration and anger over replacement officials and threatened to disrupt the rest of the season. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

FILE - In this Sept. 5, 2012, file photo, Commissioner Roger Goodell gestures to fans before an NFL football game between the New York Giants and the Dallas Cowboys in East Rutherford, N.J. The NFL and referees' union reached a tentative agreement on Wednesday, Sept. 26, to end a three-month lockout that triggered a wave of frustration and anger over replacement officials and threatened to disrupt the rest of the season. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File)

NEW YORK (AP) ? The NFL's regular officiating crews are back. Their return couldn't have come soon enough for many players, coaches and fans.

After two days of marathon negotiations ? and mounting frustration throughout the league ? the NFL and the officials' union announced at midnight Thursday that a tentative eight-year agreement had been reached to end a lockout that began in June.

The deal came on the heels of Seattle's chaotic last-second win over Green Bay on Monday night in which the replacement officials struggled. Commissioner Roger Goodell, who was at the bargaining table Tuesday and Wednesday, said the regular officials would work the Browns-Ravens game at Baltimore on Thursday night.

"We are glad to be getting back on the field for this week's games," NFL Referees Association president Scott Green said.

And plenty of players echoed that sentiment.

"Welcome back REFS," Buffalo Bills running back C.J. Spiller tweeted shortly after the news broke.

The tentative deal must be ratified by 51 percent of the union's 121 members. They plan to vote Friday and Saturday in Dallas.

For the Packers, Redskins, Lions and other teams who voiced their displeasure with calls that might have swayed games, the agreement doesn't change their records. But after having replacements for the first three weeks, triggering a wave of outrage that threatened to disrupt the rest of the season, Titans quarterback Matt Hasselbeck probably spoke for his peers by simply echoing Spiller: "Welcome back."

The agreement hinged on working out pension and retirement benefits for the officials, who are part-time employees of the league. The tentative pact calls for their salaries to increase from an average of $149,000 a year in 2011 to $173,000 in 2013, rising to $205,000 by 2019.

Under the proposed deal, the current defined benefit pension plan will remain in place for current officials through the 2016 season or until the official earns 20 years' service. The defined benefit plan will then be frozen.

Retirement benefits will be provided for new hires, and for all officials beginning in 2017, through a defined contribution arrangement. The annual league contribution made on behalf of each game official will begin with an average of more than $18,000 per official and increase to more than $23,000 per official in 2019.

Beginning with the 2013 season, the NFL will have the option to hire a number of officials on a full-time basis to work year round, including on the field. The NFL also will be able to retain additional officials for training and development, and can assign those officials to work games. The number of additional officials will be determined by the league.

"As you know, this has to be ratified and we know very little about it, but we're excited to be back. And ready," referee Ed Hochuli told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. "And I think that's the most important message ? that we're ready."

The longest contract with on-field officials in NFL history was reached with the assistance of two federal mediators.

Replacements have been used both to play and officiate NFL games before. In 1987, the players went on strike and three games were played with replacement players. In 2001, the first week of the regular season was officiated by replacements before a deal was worked out.

One big difference: The replacements 11 years ago generally came from the highest levels of college football. These officials were from lower college divisions or other leagues such as Arena Football.

After Seattle's 14-12 victory against the Packers, their ability to call fast-moving NFL games drew mounting criticism, with ESPN analyst Jon Gruden calling their work "tragic and comical."

The Seahawks beat Green Bay on a desperation pass into the end zone on the final play. Packers safety M.D. Jennings had both hands on the ball in the end zone, and when he fell to the ground in a scrum, both Jennings and Seahawks receiver Golden Tate had their arms on the ball.

The closest official to the play, at the back of the end zone, signaled for the clock to stop, while another official at the sideline ran in and then signaled touchdown.

The NFL said in a statement Tuesday that the touchdown pass should not have been overturned ? but acknowledged Tate should have been called for offensive pass interference before the catch. The league also said there was no indisputable evidence to reverse the call made on the field.

That drew even louder howls of disbelief. Some coaches, including Miami's Joe Philbin and Cincinnati's Marvin Lewis, tried to restore some calm by instructing players not to speak publicly on the issue.

Fines against two coaches for incidents involving the replacements were handed out Wednesday.

Patriots coach Bill Belichick was docked $50,000 for trying to grab an official's arm Sunday to ask for an explanation of a call after his team lost at Baltimore. And Washington offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan was tagged for $25,000 for what the league called "abuse of officials" in the Redskins' loss to Cincinnati on Sunday. Two other coaches, Denver's John Fox and assistant Jack Del Rio, were fined Monday for incidents involving the replacements the previous week.

"I accept the discipline and I apologize for the incident," Belichick said.

Players were in no mood for apologies from anyone.

"I'll probably get in trouble for this, but you have to have competent people," Carolina receiver Steve Smith said. "And if you're incompetent, get them out of there."

And now they are out.

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AP Sports Writers Tim Reynolds in Miami, Steve Reed in Charlotte, N.C., and R.B. Fallstrom in St. Louis contributed to this story.

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Meet-the-Mechanic: Scott at Rad Air Westlake | Rad Air

Scott standing next to his plaques at the Westlake Rad Air.

When you walk into the Westlake Rad Air you can instantly feel the passion Manager Dino Cuffari and his team of technicians have for honest, expert repairs and superior customer service. ?One of the Master Technicians in the shop, Scott, shared how much he loves working with his teammates and the family atmosphere in the shop. ?We squeezed some information out of Scott for this blog post even though he was dreaming of working on a 1964 Corvair he was assigned to repair. ?Here are ten things you don?t know about Scott at our repair shop!

1. As the son of an auto mechanic, Scott grew up fixing cars with his dad. ?He says, ?Cars were always a part of my life. I?ve been doing it forever.?
2. Scott was born and raised in Parma, Ohio. ?In addition to his high school curriculum, Scott participated in a general automotive program at Parma High School.
3. His prized possession is a 1967 Chevy C-10 truck. ?He is restoring the truck and hoping to add some hot rod features!
4. The truck has been stripped to its frame and Scott has added floor pans, cab corners, brand new body panels and installed a ?rebuilt a 350 Chevy engine.
5. When the truck is finished it will resemble the original ?67 truck and will be dark blue and white.
6. He enjoys spending time with his beautiful wife of 3 years who is a math teacher at a local Cleveland school.
7. Bif, Bubba & Pecos. ?No, not his nicknames ? the names of his two cats and pet cockatoo.
8. Scott?s favorite thing about working in automotive repair is the sense of satisfaction he receives when he is able to fix something correctly for a grateful customer.
9. His favorite jobs in the shop are working on classic cars and the different challenges they present!
10. Most of all, Scott believes his coworkers are his family and hopes to spend his career working side by side with these great technicians!

    This is what Scott hopes his truck will resemble in the future!

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RIM posts narrower than expected Q2 loss despite stalled BlackBerry sales

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Prominent Kremlin critic faces criminal charges

MOSCOW (AP) ? A Russian tycoon who has financed a newspaper critical of the Kremlin and supported the opposition was charged over an incident during a TV talk show a year ago in which he punched another businessman, the country's top investigative agency said Wednesday.

Alexander Lebedev faces charges of hooliganism and assault, the State Investigative Committee said. In Russia, filing criminal charges marks the start of a criminal probe, which may or may not lead to a trial.

He posted a scan of the official document outlining the charges against him on his blog, but wouldn't make any immediate comment. Lebedev, whose net worth was reported by Forbes magazine to be $1.1 billion, made his money in the banking industry. He has financed Novaya Gazeta, which is fiercely critical of the Kremlin, and British newspapers the Independent and the Evening Standard.

Lebedev's son, Yevgeny, tweeted that his father is "being targeted by people who don't like his stance against corruption, and hate Novaya."

Lebedev himself said last month that he was forced to sell his assets because of pressure by Russia's Federal Security Service, the main KGB successor agency. He said the pressure was rooted in corruption investigations by Novaya Gazeta, alleging that some of its officers were involved in corruption.

Lebedev and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev own a 49 percent stake in the newspaper, while the remaining shares are controlled by Novaya's staffers. Novaya Gazeta's relentless criticism of the Kremlin, and its investigations into official corruption have put many of its journalists under fire. Four of Novaya Gazeta reporters have been killed since 2000, including Anna Politkovskaya, a fierce critic of the Kremlin and its policies in Chechnya who was gunned down in the elevator of her Moscow apartment building in 2006. Others have been harassed and attacked.

Lebedev has also supported Alexei Navalny, a charismatic anti-corruption crusader and blogger who was a key driving force against massive protests in the past winter against Vladimir Putin's rule. Lebedev, a KGB veteran like Putin, so far has avoided blaming the president for his woes, blaming security services for the campaign against him.

Lebedev owns the National Reserve Bank and also has a stake in Russian flag carrier Aeroflot as well as his own Red Wings airline.

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Right Livelihood Awards, or 'alternative Nobels,' to activists in US, UK, Afghanistan, Turkey

STOCKHOLM - A British anti-arms trade campaign and promoters of peace, human rights and the environment from the United States, Afghanistan and Turkey have been named as winners of this year's Right Livelihood Awards, also known as the "alternative Nobels."

Gene Sharp, an American developer and promoter of nonviolent revolution techniques, will share the ?150,000 ($195,000) cash prize with Afghan doctor and human rights defender Sima Samar and the Britain-based Campaign Against Arms Trade.

Turkish environmentalist Hayrettin Karaca, who co-founded the TEMA foundation that has grown into an international movement that combats soil erosion and protects natural habitats, will receive an honorary prize for "a lifetime of tireless advocacy and support for the protection and stewardship of our natural world," the jury said.

The awards were founded in 1980 by Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull to recognize work he felt was being ignored by the Nobel Prizes.

The prize jury said that Sharp, whose research into peaceful protests has inspired thousands and influenced social movements in Iran, Myanmar and Egypt, was cited for developing "strategies of nonviolent resistance and supporting their practical implementation in conflict areas."

He has written widely on the subject, and has advised governments and social movements on how to end oppression without using violence.

Described by the jury as "a doctor of the poor," Afghanistan's Samar was honoured for her "longstanding and courageous dedication" to human rights in her homeland. She has helped establish hundreds of schools and dozens of health-care clinics aimed at helping the poor, especially women and children, through the Shuhada Organization and the Shuhada Clinic, founded in 1989.

Samar also helped establish Afghanistan's first Ministry of Women's Affairs. Since 2004 she has chaired the country's Independent Human Rights Commission.

The Campaign Against Arms Trade, or CAAT, was cited for increasing public awareness of the global arms trade. Through its campaigning, the jury said, CAAT has exposed "the corruption, hypocrisy and lethal consequences around this trade and has been instrumental in holding the U.K. government and arms companies to account for the same."

The prizes will be presented to the winners at a ceremony in the Swedish Parliament on Dec. 7, three days before this year's Nobel Prizes are handed out.

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Tips To Get The Best Deal On Home Improvement | Exact Article

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Since it involves making your home the way you want it, home improvements are vital. You have to research first so you avoid wasting a lot of money or possibly doing harm to yourself or your family. There are some effective thoughts in this article to help you start.

Are you contemplating selling your home? Many home improvement projects are simple affairs, and can dramatically add value to your home?s price. One very simple home improvement that adds value to your home is replacing ancient kitchen appliances with new ones.

For some fun wall stencil designs, pick a design you delight in by either finding and printing it from the Internet or making your own. Have a few copies of the pattern laminated at a copy store, and cut out the patterns using a craft knife. Use painter?s tape to place the stencil against the wall, then roll on the paint of your choice. Next, place the new stencil underneath the ancient stencil, alternating as you go around your room.

Use a excellent primer for your wall before painting if it was painted first with a glossy or oil-based paint. It will help the paint stick to the wall and keep it from peeling. Priming is essential when you are painting over a dark color with a lighter one, because you will not need to apply so many coats.

Find out how you are plotting to remove the debris from the area. Any kind of renovation makes debris, especially if demolition is involved; the debris can be an eyesore and get in the way of your work if you aren?t sure how you will get rid of it, before you start your project. Therefore, you should either borrow a friend?s large truck or rent a dumpster in order to get rid of the debris so you can resume your renovations.

Hardwood is a better investment than laminate. Laminate might look passable as real wood, but it can?t be refinished. This means they?ll have to be completely redone if a new look is desired.

Change the look of your bathroom by installing a new wallpaper border or adding some new artwork into the decor. Wallpaper trim doesn?t cost much and comes in such a fantastic variety of designs that will complement any color and style of decor imaginable. Border trim is also quite simple to place into place. With a small artwork that is simple, yet affordable and elegant, you can turn the look of your bathroom upside down.

Natural building materials are strongly preferred for interior home renovation projects. Natural materials such as wood, ceramic or stone are nearly always superior to synthetic alternatives. They are more durable and attractive than man-made alternatives. More expensive natural materials can be cheaper in the long run because synthetics will have to be replaced more frequently.

Be mindful of weather conditions. If it rains a lot in your area, installing a patio outdoors may not be the best investment. Patio covering and equipment to break the wind might help, but if you don?t want the extras it might be wise to skip that thought.

As stated earlier, just having a few tips under your belt can help you improve your home?s market value within a reasonable budget. If you choose to sell, you can make your house stand out by making the right improvements.

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Many people have at some point considered starting a business online. But the eternal question always arrises? ?what to sell?? So in this article I will break it down for you, a simple guide to starting your own business selling stuff online.
Three options
Broadly speaking there are three ways to sell stuff online ? 3 business models if you will. You can sell discounted products, be a retailer, or offer differentiated products. It is all about your USP (unique selling point) and figuring out a way to set yourself apart.
Be a discounter
Discounters compete on price ? the key is finding stuff to buy at a low enough price that you can sell it below the retail value. If you can do this then eBay is a potential sales avenue, so making sales shouldn?t be too hard.
Competing on price means that your margins will get squeezed though, so you have to keep a careful eye on your costs and find ways to make everything efficient.
Be a retailer
If you want to sell retail stock, at or close to it?s retail price, finding suppliers won?t be too hard in most niches. But finding a way to set yourself apart might be? Chances are that what you want to sell is already being sold by plenty of other businesses.
Additionally, eBay probably won?t be a good avenue, as you will not be able to sell cheaply enough. Your key goal here is to find a way to set yourself apart without having to rely on price. Perhaps you can offer a valued added service by being more personal, or your website could offer better advice and features to help customers make a buying decision.

Be differentiated
The best way to sell at a good price without having to fight off competition is to sell a unique or differentiate product. Unfortunately, there?s not a lot new under the sun these days; So finding a way to differentiate your produce might not be that easy.
Craft type businesses are ideal for this sort of business model, but your products will have to be really good ? and you will have to sell yourself well and get people to buy into your product. Remember, it may be very meaningful to you, but your customers will only buy if you can get them to buy into the story behind the product.

Summary
So there you go ? 3 ways to sell online. Which of these three business models you choose really depends on you, what you are interested in and where your skills lie; Are you great at finding bargain deals? Can you design really nice, and innovative websites? Are you a bit crafty?
Nisha represents a site called Webtistic. She enjoys writing about online business and social media. Feel free to visit her site for more information.

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This Piece of Glass Can Store Data Forever [Memory]

Data, like all things, eventually dies. Your music, your movies, your documents, your files, your computer. You don't expect it to live forever but... what if it did? Hitachi claims that they've developed a new quartz glass plate that can store data forever. More »

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A Chrome update with a side of gaming coming right up

In today?s Chrome Stable release, we?ve added support for more natural gaming on web apps. If you enjoy 3D gaming, check out the technical details on the Chromium blog. For everyone else, sit back, relax, and enjoy today?s bundle of Chrome goodness through automatic updates.

Posted by Jason Kersey, Technical Program Manager and Cat Herder

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Romney and the 47%: Part of the same tax problem - The Term - CNN

FORTUNE -- We've been hearing endless yammering lately about two seemingly unrelated things: that 47% of U.S. households don't pay income tax, and that Mitt Romney paid a lower effective tax rate on his $13.7 million of 2011 income than most American workers pay for just Social Security and Medicare.

But you know what? Romney and the 47% are joined at the hip, as well as at the checkbook. How so? They're both taking what the tax code gives them, and the result isn't very pretty.

Ironically, the reason so many U.S. households don't pay income tax, one of the conservatives' current laments, is largely attributable to policies pushed by two Presidents beloved by low-tax types: Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. Reagan expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Bush doubled the child care credit. Romney either didn't know this when he made his denigrating remarks about "the 47%," or else chose not to mention it. Putting things in perspective doesn't make for good applause lines.

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Now, to Romney's taxes. He has the cluelessness -- or maybe it's gall -- to boast about not deducting some of his charitable contributions, in order to boost his effective tax rate to 14%. Give me a break. People earning less than $110,100 pay an effective rate of 15.3% in just Social Security and Medicare tax on every penny of salary they make (including the employer's portion, which analysts say comes out of workers' pockets). Plus in many cases, they pay income tax, too. So forgive me for not being impressed with Romney's 14% effective rate. The fact that he could have paid only 10%, perfectly legally, is pretty appalling.

But we need some honesty and consistency in this discussion. If you're fine with the 47% taking full advantage of current tax law, you lose your standing to rag on Romney for doing the same thing. If you say that it's perfectly fine for Romney and other supposed job creators to pay less than what average workers pay just for Social Security and Medicare, you don't have standing to complain about the 47%.

The real problem here, I think, is that by using the tax code to advance social policy rather than to merely collect revenue, we've lost sight of the idea that all of us Americans are supposed to be engaged in a joint enterprise.

In an intellectually and morally honest system, we'd collect taxes from everyone. Then we'd mail checks to lower income people instead of giving them tax credits. We would also send checks to compensate people for some of their mortgage interest, real estate taxes, charitable contributions, and dividend and long-term capital gain income, rather than giving them tax money indirectly, via the tax code.

However, mailing checks would count as government spending while tax breaks don't. In addition, higher-income people would get bigger government checks than lower income people would. That sure wouldn't play well.

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So we bury social policies in the tax code, and obscure what techie types call "tax expenditures." Among the things obscured, according to the Tax Policy Center, is that a tenth of 1% of taxpayers get half the benefit (call it $38 billion) of having dividends and long-term capital gains taxed at preferential rates. The center says non-paying households are down to 46.4%, but I'll keep using Romney's 47%.

In my ideal world, everyone would pay at least a nominal income tax, in recognition of the fact that all of us Americans are engaged in a common enterprise. We would reduce or totally eliminate the advantage that income from investments has over "earned income" like salaries. And we'd certainly close the noxious "carried interest" loophole that allows Romney and a handful of other ultra-high-income types to pay ultra-low taxes on their piece of the profits realized by investors in buyout funds and hedge funds.

Changes like these would require the return of compromise and civil discourse to our national conversation. I'm a congenital optimist, so I've convinced myself that this will actually happen. Someday. Until then, though, we'll have to put up with the yammering about "the 47%," Romney's tax returns, and other topics du jour. More's the pity.

Additional reporting by Doris Burke

Source: http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/25/romney-taxes-47-percent/

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Walmart?s Passage to India

Thunder Down Under. (Mark Graham / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Hardline American Republicans tasted a blast of buckshot from Down Under after Wayne Swan, Australia?s deputy prime minister, declared them responsible for the global economic malaise. In a speech to financial-services executives in Sydney, the feisty Aussie from the left-leaning Labor Party made it clear that he had no stomach for Tea Party types: ?Let?s be blunt and acknowledge that the biggest threat to the world?s biggest economy are the cranks and crazies that have taken over a part of the Republican Party.? While the conservative opposition was swift to condemn Swan for his ?immature contribution? and, perhaps hyperbolically, for ?peddling hatred,? Australia?s prime minister, Julia Gillard, stood by her man. ?America is, of course, a global economic giant and what happens in the U.S. economy matters to the world economy and it matters to us,? she said. ?Wayne Swan was making that very common-sense point.?

Since its founding in 1962, Walmart has chalked up an impressive corporate history. Missing from the company mantelpiece, however, has been a trophy that it could well pick up in the coming weeks: the bringing down of a national government. After Prime Minister Manmohan Singh signed off on a flurry of economic reforms?including a decision to let foreign supermarkets like Walmart invest in India?key partners in his rickety coalition withdrew their support, leaving his government vulnerable to collapse. Walmart has been a particular focus of Indian ire, allowing many to give vent to the anti-Americanism that is ingrained in Indian politics. ?The tragedy is that our prime minister has begun to worship the U.S.,? said Sitaram Yechury, a veteran Communist Party leader, striking a somewhat hysterical note. ?Congress [Singh?s party] wants Indians to be slaves and foreigners to be our masters. We will not accept foreign direct investment in retail. We will protest this decision till our last breath.?

For years, the Egyptians mediated between the Israelis and the Palestinians, trying to coax a peace agreement out of implacable opponents. When those efforts bore no fruit, they applied themselves next to the equally futile task of trying to reconcile Hamas and Fatah, the two competing power centers of Palestine. Having failed at that, too, Cairo is now peeling yet another layer off the Palestinian onion?trying to repair a rift within Hamas itself. Set to visit the Egyptian capital are Ismail Haniya, prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, and Khaled Mashal, Haniya?s main Hamas rival, currently exiled in Qatar. Will it be third time lucky for the indefatigable Egyptians?

Proscovia Alengot Oromait, all of 19, has become the youngest legislator in the world. Alengot, who belongs (not surprisingly) to Uganda?s ruling party, was elected to Parliament in a by-election for the Usuk seat, previously held by her father, who died in July. (The New Vision, a Ugandan daily, reported titillatingly that he ?is said to have died of natural causes.?) The teenage lawmaker may yet regret not going to university instead: according to the Associated Press, Usuk, Alengot?s parliamentary district, is ?thoroughly impoverished, even by Uganda?s standards.? So much so that a senior politician from her own party observed that ?this is not a constituency you want to give a child of that age to shoulder.?

A first lady fights back. (Wolfgang Kumm / dpa-Corbis)

A former first lady of Germany has sued Google for defamation because the search engine?s ?auto-complete? function?by which Google attempts to surmise what a searcher is looking for when he types in a word?consistently offers ?prostitute? in response to her name. Enter ?Bettina Wulff? and you will get, in German, the word ?prostituierte.? Other Google prompts are ?escort,? ?rotlicht? (or red-light), ?tattoo,? and ?escort service.? Frau Wulff, married to Christian Wulff, Germany?s president from 2010 to 2012, does indeed sport a tattoo; but the other nouns, she contends vehemently, are simply slanderous. The New York Times reports that the rumor of a seamy past was spread by opponents of her husband in 2006, the year in which he met her.

With Luke Darby and Jane Teeling

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/09/23/world-on-a-page-walmart-s-passage-to-india.html

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Speaking frankly ? Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and ...

Posted by?Andrew on 23 September 2012, 9:33 am

Even within the realm of writing-about-statistics, there are things I can say in a blog that are much more difficult to include in an academic article. Blogging gives me freedom.

But I want to distinguish between two different sorts of frankness.

1. Obnoxiousness: In a blog I can write, ?I hate X? as rudely as I?d like without needing to justify myself.

2. Openness: In a blog I can write about the limitations of my work. It?s a real challenge to discuss limitations in a scholarly article, as we?re always looking over our shoulder at what referees might think. Sure, sometimes I can get away with writing ?Survey weighting is a mess,? but my impression is that most scholarly articles are relentlessly upbeat. Sort of like how a magazine article typically will have a theme and just plug it over and over. In a blog we can more easily admit uncertainty.

Overall, I think blogs are more celebrated for feature 1 above (the freedom to say what you really feel, to be rude, partisan, and politically incorrect), but I think feature 2 (the freedom to express uncertainty) is important too.

Source: http://andrewgelman.com/2012/09/speaking-frankly/

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