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Very nicely executed Russ. I like that design. The pyramids on the top's corners echoing the through-teneons is a nice element that really draws the eye.

Thanks, Glenn.Love the G&G Inspired Chest of Drawers thread. I just started a Arts & Crafts Dresser for the wife. Would like to build a G&G piece someday.

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BASEBALL: Jered Weaver wins 20th to keep Angels alive

Jered Weaver earned his 20th victory of the season in the Angels' 7-4 win over the Texas Rangers on Friday. (Tim Heitman / US PRESSWIRE)

ARLINGTON, Texas - It has been dismissed as an old-fashioned measure of a pitcher's worth, wins having been superseded by the WHIPs, FIPs and BABIPs of new-age stat-ology.

But Jered Weaver has a bit of the old-fashioned ace in him.

Weaver became the first 20-game winner in the American League this season and only the seventh pitcher in Angels history to win 20 games in a season, holding the Texas Rangers to two runs in seven innings of a 7-4 victory Friday night at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington.

"It's a great personal accomplishment, no doubt," Weaver said. "Go back to the no-hitter (in May) - I never thought in a million years I would throw a no-hitter in the big leagues. And I never thought I would win 20 games in the big leagues.

"A lot has to go your way to get to that and the guys picked me up again tonight. ... It's a great personal accomplishment, like I said. But I'm all for winning the World Series before any of that stuff."

Weaver's effort did little to move the Angels closer to that goal. The Oakland A's and Baltimore Orioles also won Friday, leaving the Angels the same familiar 2 1/2 games out of the first wild-card spot (the Orioles) and two out of the American League's final playoff spot (the A's). The Tampa Bay Rays did finally lose, snapping an eight-game winning streak and dropping a game behind the Angels in the wild-card race.

Weaver is in another race, competing with Rays left-hander David Price,

Detroit Tigers right-hander Justin Verlander and Seattle Mariners right-hander Felix Hernandez (primarily but not exclusively) for the AL Cy Young Award. Weaver finished second to Verlander last year, but Friday's win puts him first in the American League in wins, win percentage (.833) and WHIP (1.00) with the lowest batting average (.213), on-base percentage (.262) and OPS against (.597) while sitting third in ERA (2.73).

"We're not in a pennant race without him, obviously," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "If you just look at what he's done virtually every start, I don't think there's a more consistent pitcher in our league.

"No doubt, he's a frontrunner (for the Cy Young Award). I think he's pitched the way you would expect an ace to pitch. He's had the type of year a Cy Young winner has."

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Get Verification Of Permitting For Home Improvements...It's Your Job

Listing agents, it?s your responsibility to advise your seller client that any work that they had performed to their home needs to have a signed off permit on file.? If the work was never permitted, you have an issue to address.

The buyer?s agent should be advising his/her buyer that work performed should have been permitted, and they need to ask for verification of this task.? If the work was not permitted, it needs to be addressed.

This is a common happening today because homeowners do not want to increase their annual real estate taxes. ?Improvements can easily make that happen, so rather than do the work correctly starting with a professional pulling a permit the homeowner will find someone who is willing to do the work illegally.

Aside from the fact that that licensee could lose his license, the work may not be to today?s code. ?There may be some degree of danger within that improvement; there may be a lawsuit lurking in the future; and there may be unnecessary physical and financial harm as a result.?

This is an important task that many real estate agents do not think about; this is an important part of representing your client properly; and this applies to buyer?s agents and listing agents. ?Pulling a permit is the law whenever home improvements are performed.? There are very few improvements that do not require permitting.

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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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US drops Iranian opposition group from terror list

NEW YORK (AP) ? The U.S. has removed from its terrorism list an Iranian militant group formerly allied with Saddam Hussein.

The State Department says the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq hasn't committed terrorism for more than a decade. It credits the group for peacefully leaving its paramilitary base near Iraq's Iranian border.

The decision is effective Friday. Any assets the MEK holds in the U.S. are no longer blocked. Americans may do business with it.

Officials told reporters about the decision last week, ahead of a court-ordered Oct. 1 deadline.

Delisting the MEK infuriates Iran. It accuses the group of continued terrorism.

The MEK helped Islamic clerics overthrow the shah before turning against the Iranian government. It fought in the 1980s alongside Saddam in the Iran-Iraq war but disarmed after the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.

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Mindy Kaling on Chronicling the American Workplace - Anne ...

by Anne Kreamer??|?? 7:00 AM September 27, 2012

Mindy Kaling is a funny, fabulous actor, but she's also an important chronicler of the 21st century American workplace. As a writer of 24 episodes of The Office ? the equivalent of more than an entire season ? she tapped into the unspoken truths that lurk in the underbelly of office culture, and she spun those insights into sitcom gold. The Office is arguably one of the most incisive sitcoms about work life ever created. Now, as the creator, producer, writer and star of a new Fox series called The Mindy Project, the fictional workplace she's invented and inhabits has gone from a realm in which she had no first-hand exposure (paper manufacturing?) to something a little closer to home. Her character, Mindy Lahiri, struggles (as we all do) to craft some kind of work/life balance, all while building her career as an OB/GYN ? a premise based in part on observing her (real) OB/GYN mother's juggling act.

In a recent phone conversation, I asked her what she'd learned about real work from inventing fictional workplaces. Here's what she had to say:

On Work/Life Balance

Nothing makes people preemptively yawn more than hearing a show about 'balancing professional and personal life'. Also, so many shows that tell women-centric stories sacrifice edginess and comedy for softness, and viewers get bored of that. But there is a reason why these stories keep getting told ? because they are relatable. My strategy for a fresh take is simple: write honest and original observations about something that I am going through.

On Speaking Your Mind at Work

My character is impulsive, opinionated, and outspoken. She gets to do and say things on the show that I wish I could, but don't have the nerve to do. (I think smartly-executed wish-fulfillment is a great form of entertainment.) That comes from a kind of innate confidence that gets her into trouble, but is also very admirable. I hope people watching envy Mindy's confidence.

On Her Character's Busy Professional Life:

I chose to make my character an OB/GYN because I grew up with a mother who was an OB/GYN, which was essentially 33 years of research on the ins and outs of the lifestyle of an incredibly busy professional. Workplaces are a great thing to write about because even with our high unemployment rate, a whopping majority of people go to work everyday and have funny stories to tell about it.

On Her Own Busy Professional Life:

You wouldn't think that being an OB/GYN has much in common with being a network show-runner, but there are plenty of similarities between my work life and my character's work life. For instance, while my mother and I had very different jobs, our professional lifestyles have been very similar. I could call her from L.A. at 11 PM PST and she would be at the hospital in Boston waiting for a patient to give birth at 2 AM EST. Both jobs paid well and didn't give either of us very much free time, but we loved them. Neither is the kind of job you can do unless you really, really love it.

On Doing Her Market Research

Twitter is helpful, not so much for people sharing stories about their jobs, but for feedback ? both positive and negative ? about story lines they love. People use Twitter to quote lines they love, so it's the single easiest way to identify the funniest lines of a show.

On Being a Boss

At the risk of sounding like Michael Scott, I think I am a pretty damn good boss. I was a little worried about it at the beginning, because my inclination is to want everyone to like me. That always seems to get me into trouble, because I make promises I can't keep just to please everyone. But now there is simply no time for any of that. Because I am doing so much more on this show than at The Office, I have learned a cheerfully direct way of talking. I'm incredibly impatient, and while that's been a detriment in the past, it's an advantage as a boss, because it keeps things moving quickly. I recommend it to any leader: be impatient. By quickly and nicely shutting down lines of argument, and being decisive, I save the entire production hours and hours of work and money.

On Being a Female Boss

One thing I have noticed ? and this is really the first time I've noticed how being a woman has affected my job ? is that sometimes, after I've made a decision about something, there's a level of discussion that people think I am willing to entertain that probably wouldn't happen if I were a man. I have learned that when I make a decision, sometimes I just need to leave the room.

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Rare Disease Science Challenge- Your Call to Action!

If you or a loved one is unlucky enough to be affected by a rare disease then it can be a continued uphill struggle. Your doctor will likely never have seen a case before which means you suffer with symptoms while awaiting diagnosis, and this can sometimes take years. Even when an accurate diagnosis is reached there may be few treatment options; the pharmaceutical companies just aren t interested in developing drugs to treat such a small market. For the majority (>95%) of the 7000 rare diseases there is no FDA approved therapy. Perhaps the cruelest twist of rare diseases, however, is that so many of the patients are young children. The NIH estimates that 50% of rare diseases affect children, and 30% of pediatric cases die before they reach their 5^th birthday!

Collectively rare diseases are not rare. The fact is that while a disease might be labeled as rare , the number of persons suffering from one of the thousands of rare diseases is estimated at 10% of the population [1], or approx. 30 million people in the United States and 350 million people globally. Mainstream pharmaceutical companies have long ignored rare diseases. With the increasing de-centralization of scientific research, and the growth of the citizen science movement, however, there has never been a better time to tackle this problem head on. That s exactly what Assay Depot is doing by teaming up with the Rare Genomics Institute ? to bring awareness to the current broken system for diagnosing, treating and curing rare diseases.

The Rare Genomics Institute provides hope to children suffering with a rare disease. Most rare diseases are genetic in nature, caused by a mutation somewhere in the 3.2 billion bases of human DNA. The Rare Genomics Institute uses crowdfunding to pay for sequencing of the sick child s genome and then assembles a network of academic specialists who work together to identify the child s genetic mutation. Now Assay Depot has teamed up with The Rare Genomics Institute to take the process one-step farther, and go on the offensive with the Rare Disease Science Challenge.

The competition is open to researchers, foundations, or everyday people. Families with a child afflicted with a rare disease will have the opportunity to work with a network of academic researchers and use donated research services to develop research proposals tailored to their child?s needs. An expert panel of scientists will evaluate the research proposals with the final winner(s) selected by Facebook voting.

If we can improve the standard of care for just one rare disease we will bring relief to thousands of people, very likely children, who currently suffer. We think that is a dream worth fighting for. I am sure Chris and Hugh Hempel would agree. Their identical twin daughters, Addison and Cassidy, have been diagnosed with Niemann-Pick Type C, a rare, incurable and fatal genetic disease that causes progressive neurological deterioration. This week Global Genes, the leading rare and genetic disease patient advocacy organizations in the world, with the Kauffman Foundation is screening the Hempels story in Hollywood and revealing the grim truth; that diagnosing, treating and curing rare disease is moving at a tedious pace, and leaving heart-rending personal accounts in its path.

How can you help?

If you work for a company that offers research services or makes lab consumables, reagents or instruments ask them to get involved. The great thing about sponsorship is that it will cost your company very little, we re not asking for money, just a donation of time or resources. Does your company make antibodies? How about donating some production capacity? Do you sell DNA sequencers, or mass spec instruments? Could you run some samples in your lab for us?

If you put your mind to it there are a multitude of ways your company could get involved for very little cost, and in return get some great publicity, and help a very worthy cause.

For the rest of you please help publicize the Rare Disease Science Challenge, post it, blog it, tweet it, let s do everything we can to get the word out, and be a part of the solution.

References:

[1] NIH Rare Disease information site: http://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/RareDiseaseList.aspx

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Video: Jobless Claims & Durable Goods Down; Q2 GDP Up

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Akin, McCaskill both courting Republicans in Mo.

Missouri Republican Senate candidate, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., speaks during a news conference at the start of a statewide bus tour, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, in St. Louis. Akin is hoping that donors displeased by his much-criticized remarks about rape will reopen their checkbooks. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

Missouri Republican Senate candidate, Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., speaks during a news conference at the start of a statewide bus tour, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012, in St. Louis. Akin is hoping that donors displeased by his much-criticized remarks about rape will reopen their checkbooks. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) ? His spot on the ballot now guaranteed, Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin began rebuilding support Wednesday among fellow Republicans who shunned him after a remark about "legitimate rape" while Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill honed an election strategy that will use Akin's own words to portray him as an extremist.

Akin won a pair of high-profile Republican endorsements Wednesday from former presidential candidate Rick Santorum and tea party favorite Sen. Jim DeMint. Perhaps just as importantly, the National Republican Senatorial Committee ? which had pulled millions of dollars of planned advertising after Akin's remark ? said Wednesday that it hopes Akin wins and cracked open the possibility of again getting involved in the Missouri campaign.

While Akin attempts to shore up support among the Republican base, McCaskill is incorporating Akin's rape comments into a strategy courting politically independent voters and more moderate Republicans. In the coming days, for example, she plans to roll out a "Republicans for Claire" initiative featuring individuals such as Kansas City businessman Warren Erdman, who once served as chief of staff to former Republican Sen. Kit Bond.

McCaskill's goal is "to help folks realize that this election is about more than just party identification," said McCaskill spokeswoman Caitlin Legacki. "It's about a clear choice between Claire ? who is a moderate, independent senator for Missouri ? and Todd Akin, who is not just too extreme for Missouri, but in a lot of ways too extreme for his own party."

While McCaskill highlights a middle-of-the-pack ranking on a conservative to liberal scale, Akin is attempting to shift the focus away from his own remarks to McCaskill's ties to President Barack Obama and her support for his stimulus act and federal health care overhaul.

"For Akin, the strategy is to try to bring all the Republicans back home ? to try to remind Republican voters that he's their candidate and the alternative is electing Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, that many of them don't like," said Peverill Squire, a political science professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Akin got off to a good start on that Wednesday, a day after the deadline passed for Missouri candidates to get a court order to withdraw from the Nov. 6 ballot. Santorum and DeMint issued a joint endorsement describing Akin as a "principled conservative" and describing Missouri as an important battleground in Republican efforts to gain the four seats necessary to win control of the Senate from Democrats.

"We support Todd Akin and hope freedom-loving Americans in Missouri and around the country will join us so we can save our country from fiscal collapse," Santorum and DeMint said.

Santorum's Patriot Voices political action committee plans to donate to Akin and has hired staff for an on-the-ground effort in Missouri, said spokeswoman Virginia Davis. The Senate Conservatives Fund, which DeMint helped build, now also is considering coming to Akin's financial aid.

In a fundraising email, Akin said the Santorum and DeMint endorsements "are huge for our campaign and show that real conservative leaders are stepping up."

Akin has apologized repeatedly since a TV interview aired Aug. 19 in which he said women's bodies have a natural defense against pregnancy in cases of what he called "legitimate rape." He rejected calls from top Republicans ? including presidential candidate Mitt Romney ? to quit. Yet the National Republican Senatorial Committee and Crossroads, a group affiliated with Republican strategist Karl Rove, dropped plans to spend millions of dollars on ads that could have aided Akin.

On Wednesday, NRSC Executive Director Rob Jesmer hinted at the potential to reconsider that decision.

"There is no question that for Missourians who believe we need to stop the reckless Washington spending, rein-in the role of government in people's lives, and finally focus on growing jobs in this country that Todd Akin is a far more preferable candidate than liberal Senator Claire McCaskill," Jesmer said in a statement. "As with every Republican Senate candidate, we hope Todd Akin wins in November and we will continue to monitor this race closely in the days ahead."

Sen. Patty Murray, chairwoman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, described the evolving position of the Republican committee as "absolutely shameful." The Democratic committee already has spent about $1 million on TV ads in Missouri and has reserved $4.3 million of additional advertising between Oct. 9 and Election Day.

As the dropout deadline passed, McCaskill began running an ad in Missouri highlighting Akin's remark about rape as the culmination of comments he made over the past year-and-a-half expressing criticism of Social Security, Medicare, the federal minimum wage and federally financed student loans. But McCaskill's campaign may not pummel TV viewers by repeatedly re-broadcasting Akin's rape remark. Rather, McCaskill plans to use it to help illustrate a broader narrative against Akin.

On Wednesday, for example, Democrats were highlighting Akin's position on earmarks instead of his rape remarks. Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Mike Sanders, a former prosecutor, said he had filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and the Office of Congressional Ethics alleging Akin had solicited financial support from the Senate Conservatives Fund in exchange for switching his position on earmarks.

Akin has used earmarks in the past, and the Senate Conservatives Fund supports a ban on earmarks, which allot specific amounts of money to specific purposes in a specific state or congressional district. Akin said earlier this week that he supports the earmark ban.

Akin campaign adviser Rick Tyler said the Democratic complaint was "baseless" and "designed to distract voters from Claire McCaskill's liberal voting record."

Associated Press

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Rowling's first novel for adults goes on sale

An employee adjusts copies of "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

An employee adjusts copies of "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Copies of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling stand on a trolley ready to go on the shelves at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Copies of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling rest on a chair behind the sales counter to go on the shelves at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Copies of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling are displayed on shelves at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

A light from a video camera shines on copies of the "The Casual Vacancy" by author J.K. Rowling displayed on shelves at a book store in London, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2012. British bookshops are opening their doors early as Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling launches her long anticipated first book for adults. Publishers have tried to keep details of the book under wraps ahead of its launch Thursday, but "The Casual Vacancy" has gotten early buzz about references to sex and drugs that might be a tad mature for the youngest "Potter" fans. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

LONDON (AP) ? British bookshops opened their doors early Thursday and some grown-up Harry Potter fans lined up overnight as J.K. Rowling launched her long-anticipated first book for adults, "The Casual Vacancy."

The lines were shorter and the wizard costumes missing, but the book was published to some of the same fanfare that greeted each Potter tome, with stores wheeling out crates of the books precisely at 8 a.m. as part of a finely honed marketing strategy.

Published five years after the release of the last book in the boy wizard saga, "The Casual Vacancy" is already at No. 1 on Amazon's U.S. chart, and bookmaker William Hill put 2-1 odds on it outselling "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," which shifted 2.6 million copies in Britain on its first day.

Many of the early buyers were Harry Potter fans who, like the author, have moved on to more adult fare.

"I just like how much excitement there is about a book," said 23-year-old Grace Proctor, a "massive" Potter fan who was first to buy the book at one London store.

"I think there are going to be people who will hate it just because they can hate it," she said. "But she's such an amazing writer, I don't think she can go wrong."

A story of ambition, envy and rivalry set in the fictional English village of Pagford, the novel recounts the civic warfare sparked when the unexpected death of a town official leaves a vacancy on the governing body. Characters set on a collision course range from the affluent lawyer Miles Mollison to the Weedons, a ramshackle clan living in The Fields, the run-down housing project on the edge of town.

Rowling has said she was aiming for Dickensian sweep in the multi-character saga, whose doses of sex, satire and swearing mark a distinct departure from wholesome Harry.

Reviews have been mixed. The Associated Press judged it a challenging but rewarding read full of emotion and heart. AP's Deepti Hajela said that while its troubled characters mean "this isn't a book that's easy to fall in love with ... But what could have been an unreadable story becomes something else in Rowling's hands, thanks to her gift of being able to make her characters complex and really, just human."

The New York Times' influential critic, Michiko Kakutani, was damning.

"The real-life world she has limned in these pages is so willfully banal, so depressingly cliched that 'The Casual Vacancy' is not only disappointing ? it's dull," she said.

The Guardian newspaper's reviewer, Theo Tait, said it was "no masterpiece, but it's not bad at all: intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny."

The Independent's Boyd Tonkin found the sometimes "long-winded and laborious" writing soared when Rowling focused on her teenage characters.

Others, though, felt the lack of likable characters might alienate readers, and Daily Mail reviewer Jan Moir slammed Rowling's stark focus on Pagford's haves and have-nots as the work of a "left-leaning demagogue" painting "a bleak and rather one-sided vision of life in modern England."

It's likely nothing Rowling publishes will ever match the success of the Potter books, which have sold more than 450 million copies around the world.

But booksellers are confident "The Casual Vacancy" will be one of the year's best-sellers, whatever reviewers say.

"A lot of children have grown up with Harry Potter. They're now adults who love books," Susan Sinclair, divisional manager for the Foyles bookstore chain, said.

"I think it's going to be a really big seller at Christmas. It'll be an easy gift ? but also a good one."

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The Best 4 X 4 Accessories

MPV's are costly, no doubt about that. If you have such a vehicle, for sure you will be using the very best kind of security and care with different kinds of auto add-ons. Protection is the foremost thing you ought to consider but in addition there are the looks of the car that you ought to look at also. You will certainly locate many 4 X 4 add-ons for your MPV however discovering the ones which will certainly provide the defense in addition to improve the looks of your vehicle isn't too simple. The marketplace for 4 x 4 parts have actually come to be competitive not only with the presence of a multitude of traditional stores selling the product but ecommerce websites also that can quickly be accessed. The online stores provide clients with the benefit of shopping from their very own homes and the 4 X 4 add-ons can effortlessly be accessed with less effort and time.

If there's one thing that you should be purchasing its a front guard. The front guard secures the car from loss in the occasion of unfortunate accidents or bumps on the road. Acquiring the front guards can be a whole lot easier than you would anticipate given that apart from the traditional stores in the general area, numerous online shops provide different kinds of front guards.

A lot of people who own the 4 x 4 MPV leave the windows open while driving in order to enjoy the wind on the face and at the same time get an unhindered view of nature at its finest. There is additionally the possibility that the rainstorm water will damage the interior of the vehicle once it gets wet. It is for this purpose why the wind deflectors have actually pertained to become very beneficial auto accessories. With the wind deflectors, you can easily leave the windows open as it will certainly deflect the wind and the rain from the auto. Think about the amount of you will certainly minimize fuel ought to you open the windows instead of switching on the auto air conditioning unit.

Car accessories can supply both beauty and function and there are many 4 X 4 accessories. Just locate good quality stuff and ensure all the add-ons you get come with a guarantee. Get the very best out of the automobile by driving in comfort with all the automobile add-ons for the security and conveniences.

If you are looking for a method to take a road trip with really little expenditure for accommodations you might want to look at the most recent trend of camping equipment that people are using which is roof covering leading outdoors tents for your vehicle. These tents are made to offer you with convenience, resilience, security, and a terrific place to sleep using your car as your base. You and your family can now go anywhere, anytime, and have the flexibility to take a trip as you like utilizing this roof leading camping tent to cut expenses and enjoy your trip time in the coziness and convenience of your automobile that can easily house your entire family.

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Why 'Super-Earth' Alien Worlds May Be Unlikely to Support Life

So-called "super-Earth" alien worlds may bear little resemblance to our own home planet and thus could be less likely to support life than previously believed, a new study suggests.

Super-Earths ? alien planets bigger than Earth, but containing less than 10 times its mass ? may be undifferentiated hunks of rock, possessing neither a mantle nor a core, researchers found. Super-Earths may also lack magnetic fields, which help protect life on our planet by shielding it from harmful radiation.

The scientists modeled the thermal evolution of rocky super-Earths, whose internal pressures are many times greater than those found in Earth's interior. Such high pressures lead to large viscosities and high melting temperatures, the team discovered ? and these characteristics can have negative influences on a planet's habitability.

For example, the team's calculations suggest that super-Earths may not be separated into a rocky mantle and metallic core like our planet is. [The Strangest Alien Planets]

?Current understanding is that the terrestrial planets in our solar system formed rapidly ? in about the first 50 million years," Vlada Stamenkovic, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in a statement.

"The timescale of core formation depends strongly on viscosity," Stamenkovic added. "The high melting temperatures and the large viscosities that we?ve calculated for super-Earths suggest either a slow core formation or no core formation at all."

Earth's magnetic field is driven by the action of our planet's liquid metallic core. So if super-Earths lack such a core, they may lack magnetic fields as well, Stamenkovic said.

Even if rocky super-Earths are differentiated, convection would likely be sluggish, or stagnant layers could form deep in the mantle, researchers said. Either of these factors would reduce heat flow from the core and quash dynamo action that could generate a magnetic field.

The new study also found that the propensity for plate tectonics ? which are a boon for life on Earth, helping to bring vital nutrients up from the planet's interior ? decrease as a planet's mass increases. But water in a planet's crust can buffer this effect, so researchers can't say with confidence how likely super-Earths are to host plate tectonics.

Volcanic activity has also been vital to life on our planet, helping to establish Earth's atmosphere. The new research finds that the duration of volcanic outgassing generally decreases with increasing planetary mass, which could be more bad news for the prospect of life on super-Earths.

The new study also highlights how much is unknown about super-Earths, and the necessity of gathering more information about these mysterious worlds, researchers said.

"We will only be able to fully answer questions by gathering more data from high-pressure experiments and from spectroscopic observations of super-Earth atmospheres orbiting close-by bright stars," Stamenkovic said. "Theory shows the possibilities, which are far larger than previously thought, but remains full of uncertainties."

Stamenkovic will present the results at the European Planetary Science Congress in Madrid on ?Wednesday (Sept. 26).

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Twelve South HiRise takes iMacs and Apple displays to new heights, tidies up in the process

Many of those who buy iMacs and Apple-designed displays are eager to avoid clutter in the first place, which makes an organizer all the more logical for those who'd like Desk Zero almost as much as Inbox Zero. Accessory maker Twelve South's newly available HiRise aims to clean it all up -- and lift it up. The aluminum-and-steel frame elevates Apple's modern all-in-ones and screens to any one of six points while conveniently leaving storage space that goes with the local computing decor, whether it's to hold external hard drives or car keys. Although the HiRise is no trivial expense at $80, it's better for propping up an iMac than an old college textbook, and arguably more useful as a whole.

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People with shingles show no higher cancer risk

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Egypt denounces breaching of US embassy compound

CAIRO (AP) ? Egypt's presidential spokesman says the breaching of the U.S. embassy in Cairo during protests over an anti-Islam film was "unjustified," denouncing it in the strongest words to date to come from the nation's highest office.

Spokesman Yasser Ali's comments Sunday seem aimed to defuse criticism of President Mohammed Morsi, who condemned the breaching of the mission's perimeter only two days afterward, leading to tension with Washington.

Scores of Egyptian protesters scaled the embassy walls on Tuesday and entered its courtyard, tearing down the U.S. flag. Hours later, attackers in Libya killed four diplomats, including the ambassador, in an assault on the Benghazi consulate.

After three days of clashes in Cairo, authorities blocked off the embassy's street with a concrete wall. The visa section remained closed Sunday despite earlier plans to reopen.

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Cancer overtakes heart disease among US Hispanics

NEW YORK (AP) ? Cancer has overtaken heart disease as the No. 1 killer among Hispanics in the U.S., and the rest of the country may be only a few years behind.

The change is not exactly cause for alarm. Death rates for both cancer and heart disease have been dropping for Hispanics and everyone else. It's just that heart disease deaths have fallen faster, largely because of improved treatment and prevention, including the development of cholesterol-lowering drugs.

Overall, cancer will probably replace heart disease as the nation's top cause of death in the next 10 years, said Rebecca Siegel of the American Cancer Society, lead author of a study reporting the new findings. Government health statisticians think the crossover point could be reached as early as this year, or at least in the next two or three years.

The reason it has already happened among Hispanics is that they are younger on average than non-Hispanic whites and blacks. And cancer tends to kill people earlier in life than heart disease, for decades the nation's top cause of death.

The shift could bring about a change in disease-prevention efforts, government spending priorities and people's attitudes.

"We've been so focused on heart disease mortality for so long. ... This may change the way people look at their risk," said Robert Anderson, who oversees the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control branch that monitors death statistics.

The study is being published in the September/October issue of a cancer society publication, CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians.

Cancer society researchers looked at federal death data for 2009 and found that 29,935 Hispanics died of cancer and 29,611 of heart disease. It was the first year in which cancer deaths surpassed heart disease in that ethnic group.

Cancer is also the leading cause of death for Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders. And it is now the leading killer in 18 states, according to 2009 numbers from the CDC.

Hispanics are the nation's largest and fastest-growing major ethnic group, and many of them are young immigrants from Mexico. Most heart disease deaths are in people 65 and older. The vast majority of Hispanics in the U.S. are under 55.

The story is different in Mexico, which has an older population. There, diabetes is the biggest killer, with cancer No. 2, according to 2009 statistics from the Pan American Health Organization.

Interestingly, none of the states where cancer has overtaken heart disease is in the Southwest, which has large Hispanic populations. Instead, most are in the nation's northern tier, including Alaska, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, Wisconsin and the four states of upper New England.

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The Truth About Living Trusts

Within the estate planning community, there seems to be no greater controversy than that over revocable living trusts, and especially in Washington State.? Some advisors think everyone should have one, and some advisors think they are a waste of time, effort and money.? In this blog post, I?m going to explore living trusts; what they are, how they work, and what are the pro?s and con?s of using one for your estate planning.

What is a Living Trust?

In order to determine whether you need a living trust in your planning, you first need to understand what they are, and how they work.? A living trust is just one kind of trust.? There many different kinds of trusts, and each can be compared to a tool in a carpenter?s toolbox.? All trusts, however, have certain things in common, which would be a good place to start.

Think of a trust as a container for assets.? Someone needs to hold title to assets in order to own them.? A trust is a legal arrangement in which there is a Trustee, who holds legal title to assets in the trust, and follows the instructions that are given to the trustee in the trust agreement.? In addition to the Trustee, there are two other parties associated with a trust.? The first is the Trustmaker (also called a grantor, or trustor).? This is the person who creates the trust.? The other party is the beneficiary, who receives the benefit of the assets in trust.? What kind of benefit the beneficiary receives, and what responsibilities the Trustee has, come from the trust agreement, a written document, created by the Trustmaker.

Trusts can be irrevocable? or revocable.? Irrevocable trusts are generally used for a very specific purpose, such as holding assets to protect beneficiaries, or for charities, or to move assets out of the Trustmaker?s estate for estate tax or elder law purposes.? For the most part, irrevocable trusts cannot be changed once they are created, and with most irrevocable trusts, the Trustmaker can?t be Trustee or receive benefit (like everything in law, there are exceptions).? Revocable trusts, on the other hand, can be changed, and the Trustmaker can receive benefit.? Because of this, living trusts are used differently than irrevocable trusts, and are much more common.

While there are different kinds of living trusts, the most common living trust is used as a substitute for wills.? Generally speaking when you create a revocable living trust, you are doing it for three reasons. The first reason is to avoid probate.? The second reason is to provide incapacity protection. The third reason is to force yourself to organize all of your assets into one container.

What?s The Difference Between A Living Trust and a Will?

Because living trusts are generally considered will substitutes, it is important to understand how wills work.? A will is a written statement, outlining your desires for certain things to happen at your death, such as who your beneficiaries are, how they are to receive your assets, and who will be in charge of administrating your estate when you are gone.? Additionally, if you have minor children, the will is the instrument in which you nominate guardians for your children in case you die before the children become adults.

What?s Wrong with Wills?

Truthfully, there is nothing wrong with wills.? They have been used successfully for hundreds of years to pass assets to beneficiaries.? The criticisms of wills are mostly surrounding probate.? If you have a will, and your will controls any property, then when you pass away, there is a probate on your estate in order to transfer title of your assets to your heirs.? In some states, probate can be costly (attorney fees and executor fees, along with court costs and other fees) and can be very bureaucratic (lots of forms to file and court appearances to make) and can take quite a long time to complete the administration of the estate (the common word on the street is the average time in probate is 1 ? years).

So What is Probate?

Simply put, probate is the court process of transferring title of your assets to your heirs.? Financial companies and title companies need some sort of legal process to transfer ownership of your assets when you die.? Probate is the process to insure that happens.? Probate also provides and orderly process for paying your creditors, making sure the executor (in Washington we call them the Personal Representative) is doing their job, and also a process for beneficiaries to know and understand what is happening in the settlement of your estate.

Before you decide that you need to avoid probate, however, you need to understand that different states have different laws regarding probate.? There are a number of states (Washington State is included) that have streamlined probate rules, so that probate is generally less bureaucratic that other states.? There are states that have very cumbersome and expensive probate systems (California gets a really bad rap for their system).

So How Do You Decide if You Should Avoid Probate?

Although there is no science to this, here are what I consider to be the best reasons to want to avoid probate:

1. You have real estate in other states.? If you have real estate in other states, there will likely be a probate in every state where there is real estate.? This can be costly and time consuming.
2. You have stinky relatives.? In a situation where you know there is going to be extreme conflict over the administration of your estate, avoiding probate can save lots of attorney?s fees and grief.? If you?re disinheriting a child, or your children hate each other, avoiding probate can be a good thing.
3. If you live in a state with one of those horrible probate systems.? Talk to a lawyer in your state to see what probate is like.
4. If you have an extremely complex estate.? If you have a very large estate, or complicated assets such as business interests, mineral rights, partnerships, complicated investments, avoiding probate may be the thing for you.
5. You want privacy.? In most states, probate is a very public process.? That?s how we know what Elvis Presley had in his estate, and that Natalie Wood had 29 fur coats.? Your affairs become public in a probate, and your will is on file for anyone to see.
6. You want to be sure that if you become incapacitated, there is a smooth process for managing your assets for you, without a guardianship.? For me, this is one of the most compelling reasons to avoid probate.? With a will, if you become incapacitated, you have to rely on a Durable Power of Attorney, which has several short-comings.? Very often, if you start doing things with your assets that is not in your best interest because you are incapacitated, then someone has to stop you from doing that.? A guardianship is the process for that, and it is definitely a process you want to avoid if you can.

So What Do Living Trusts Do For You?

When people set up living trusts, they do so with the intention of avoiding probate.? Why do living trusts help with that?? Remember, probate is the process of transferring title of your assets to your heirs.? With a living trust, you set up a trust now, transfer those assets that would have to go through probate into the trust, and then when you die, there?s no need for probate on those assets, because you have already transferred title.? Your trustee simply follows the instructions you have left in the trust agreement, and is not required to file for, or go through the probate process for assets that are titled in the trust. In that way, living trusts help to avoid probate.

How Do Living Trusts Work?

Remember, earlier in this article I said that all trusts have some common characteristics.? The first is a Trustmaker, the creator of the trust.? The second is the Trustee, who has legal title to the assets, and who has to follow the instructions in the trust instrument, and third, is the beneficiary, who receives the benefit of the trust.? With a typical living trust, while you are alive and have capacity, you are all three of those people.? You make the trust, you manage the trust as trustee, and you receive the benefit of the trust.? Also typical, you can change the trust (amend it) any time you like, as long as you have capacity to do so.? In the trust instrument, you are given free rein to do anything you please with the trust assets while you are alive and have capacity.? You name a ?successor? trustee, who takes over if you become incapacitated or die, and when you die, your trustee follows the trust instrument, pays your creditors, files your tax returns, and transfers your assets to your beneficiaries, without the need for probate.

So If Trusts Are So Cool, Why Doesn?t Everyone Have One?

There are some downsides to trusts that are important to know:

1. Trusts only avoid probate for assets that are in the trust.? Many people have trusts drafted and then never transfer title of assets into the trust.? If it isn?t in the trust (or doesn?t pass by beneficiary designation or by operation of law) then there?s the potential for a probate, even if you have a trust.? Consequently, your assets need to be transferred into the trust, and once you have the trust, you have to remember you have the trust, so that any time you open a new financial account or purchase something that would go through probate, you put title in your trust.
2. Trusts are a hassle to set up. Remember, that when you set up a living trust, not only does the trust agreement have to be drafted, but all of your assets that are subject to probate have to be re-titled in the name of your trust.? That means all real estate must be deeded, business interests transferred, financial accounts re-titled, beneficiary designations changed, and so on.? That?s a lot of work!
3. Trusts are very long and complicated.? Because you are opting out of the statutory system, in order to a trust to operate properly, they end up being very long, very intimidating documents.? Many people are overwhelmed by how complicated the language in a trust is.
4. Trusts are expensive.? Usually, when an attorney drafts a trust, the legal fees for establishing the trust are several thousand dollars, and can go up even more if you have lots of assets and real estate the need to be transferred into the trust.? As such, whether you want to get a trust or not is a matter of doing a cost-benefit analysis.? If you have a simple estate, and probate won?t be a big deal, often going the will route is the right choice.

As I mentioned when I started this article, if you think of a living trust as a tool in your estate planning toolbox, you need to determine if it?s the right tool for you, based upon the circumstances and goals in your estate planning. One of the benefits of seeing the advice of a qualified estate planning attorney is that they can help you think through the pro?s and con?s of living trusts, and help you to come to a decision, based upon all of those factors, whether a living trust is the right tool for you.? There is no ?right? or ?wrong? when it comes to a living trust.? Ultimately, it?s about how you feel, based upon your own family, economic, and personal estate planning goals.

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