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Jindal rejects Romney's 'gifts' theory — LAS VEGAS — Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal forcefully rejected Mitt Romney's claim that he lost because of President Barack Obama's "gifts" to minorities and young voters. — Asked about the failed GOP nominee's reported comments on a conference call …
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS: ANALYSIS: Republicans Return Romney's Parting Gift
Pam Spaulding / Firedoglake: Mitt's Election Post-Mortem Conference Call — Another Heat-Seeking Missile of 47% #FAIL Into the GOP
Alex Pareene / Salon: Beware of false GOP rebranding efforts
Michael Falcone / ABCNEWS: Republicans Return Romney's Parting Gift (The Note)
Reid Wilson / NationalJournal.com: At Republican Confab, Romney Gets the Blame
Jed Lewison / Daily Kos: Bobby Jindal takes on Mitt Romney
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Bobby Jindal Rejects Romney's Assertion That "Gifts" Won Obama The Election
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Jindal Quickly Rejects Romney's Claim Obama Won because of Free Stuff "Gifts" to Key Constituencies (UPDATE)
Chad Hasty / News/Talk 790 KFYO: Chad's Morning Brief: Barack Obama Wants You to Leave Susan Rice Alone, Romney Says Obama Gave Out Gifts, & More
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine: Jindal Says Romney's Post-Election Analysis Is 'Absolutely Wrong'
Ashley Parker / The Caucus:
Romney Blames Loss on Obama's 'Gifts' to Minorities and Young Voters — Saying that he and his team still felt "troubled" by his loss to President Obama, Mitt Romney on Wednesday attributed his defeat in part to what he called big policy "gifts" that the president had bestowed …
Discussion: Politico, The Atlantic Online, First Read, American Prospect, The Daily Beast, News Desk, Shakesville, Paul Krugman, Gothamist, The Fix, Mock, Paper, Scissors, Hot Air, Betsy's Page, Taylor Marsh, 24Ahead, msnbc.com, AMERICAblog, Addicting Info, Mediaite, Weasel Zippers, New York Times, No More Mister Nice Blog, Mother Jones, Outside the Beltway, Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes', Eschaton, Liberal Values, Talking Points Memo, Mad Kane's Political Madness, Daily Kos and Wall Street Journal
Maggie Haberman / Politico: Romney tells donors he lost because of Obama 'gifts' to minorities, young voters (Updated)
Ta-Nehisi Coates / The Atlantic Online: Republicans Want 'Stuff' Too — Mitt Romney variates on a theme:
Paul Waldman / American Prospect: 47 Percent, Part 2 — Earlier in the week I wrote …
Alex Koppelman / News Desk: Romney Gets the Last Gaffe
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Today in Mitt Romney Is Still Terrible
Jen Chung / Gothamist: The Sorest Loser: Romney Claims Obama Won After "Gifts" To Minorities, Young Voters
Aaron Blake / The Fix: Why the GOP needs to do immigration reform — now
Tengrain / Mock, Paper, Scissors: Requiem For A Plutocrat
John Aravosis / AMERICAblog: Bitter: Party of one. Mr. Romney, your table's ready.
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: President Obama Should Rescind Invitation, Let Mitt Romney Drift Into Bitter Obscurity
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Romney: Obama Won Election By Buying Off Minorities And Young Voters With "Gifts"...
Andrew Rosenthal / New York Times: Romney Blames Loss on Obama 'Gifts'
Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Romney reflects on his loss in call with campaign donors — The stage from Mitt Romney's election gathering at the Boston Convention Center, left standing overnight following his electoral defeat. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times / November 7, 2012) — Mitt Romney told his top donors Wednesday …
David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement: Fischer: GOP Must 'Clamp Down' On Hispanics Who Are 'Socialists By Nature'
Devin Dwyer / ABCNEWS: As Obama Offers Olive Branch, Romney Dings President for 'Gifts' to Minority Voters
Aliyah Frumin / msnbc.com: Gov. Bobby Jindal to Romney: I couldn't disagree more!
Igor Volsky / ThinkProgress: Romney Says Obama Only Won Because He Gave 'Big Gifts' To Blacks And Latinos
Noam Scheiber / The New Republic: Mitt Romney: First As Farce, Then As Farce
Brett LoGiurato / Business Insider: Bobby Jindal Hammers Mitt Romney's 'Gifts' Comment: 'We Have Got To Stop Dividing American Voters'
Dan Berman / Politico: Mitt: Obama won because of 'gifts'
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine: Mitt Romney Still Hates 47 Percent of America
Charles Johnson / Little Green Footballs: Romney to Donors: Obama Won Because of "Gifts" to Minorities
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: Romney Tells Donors He Lost Partially Due To Obama's 'Gifts' To Minorities, Young Voters
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker: Mitt Romney Blames Election Loss on Obama's 'Gifts' to Impoverished Young Minorities
Justin Sink / The Hill: Obama plans to meet with Romney soon
Ryan J. Reilly / Talking Points Memo: Romney Co-Chair: Voter ID Would Have Won Us Wisconsin
Maeve Reston / Los Angeles Times:
Romney attributes loss to 'gifts' Obama gave minorities
Romney attributes loss to 'gifts' Obama gave minorities
Discussion: Wonkette, The Agonist and Real-Time News from Mobile
Michael A. Memoli / Los Angeles Times:
Jindal says Romney 'gifts' argument 'absolutely wrong'
Jindal says Romney 'gifts' argument 'absolutely wrong'
Discussion: The Hill
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
Jindal: 'Absolutely reject' Romney's explanation of loss
Jindal: 'Absolutely reject' Romney's explanation of loss
Discussion: Hit & Run, Talking Points Memo and Mediaite
Shikha Dalmia / Hit & Run: Romney Continues to Prove That He Is An Idiot
Benjy Sarlin / Talking Points Memo: Bobby Jindal: Romney 'Dividing American Voters' With 'Absolutely Wrong' Comments
Jeff Zeleny / The Caucus: Republican Governors Say Party Needs to Rebuild
Janean Chun / The Huffington Post:
John Metz, Denny's Franchisee And Hurricane Grill & Wings Owner, Imposes Surcharge For Obamacare … REACT: — FOLLOW: — Obama Health Care, Video, Hurricane Grill & Wings, John Metz, John Metz Dairy Queen, John Metz Dennys, John Metz Obamacare Surcharge, Obamacare, Obamacare Hiring Freezes …
Discussion: Right Wing News and NewsBusters.org blogs
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org blogs: Restaurant Chain CEO to Impose Obamacare Surcharge on Customers
James Nye / Daily Mail:
Denny's to charge 5% 'Obamacare surcharge' and cut employee hours to deal with cost of legislation — President Obama's election victory ensured his Affordable Care Act would remain the centerpiece of his first term in power - but that has left some business owners baulking at the extra cost Obamcare will bring.
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Hinterland Gazette and The Huffington Post
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Denny's To Charge 5% "Obamacare Surcharge" Along With Cutting Employee Hours To Deal With Cost Of The Law...
Janet Shan / The Hinterland Gazette: John Metz, Florida-Based Denny's Franchisee to Charge 5% Obamacare …
New York Times:
Frederick Humphries, F.B.I. Agent in Petraeus Case — By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT, SCOTT SHANE and ALAIN DELAQUÉRIÈRE — DOVER, Fla. — The F.B.I. agent who helped start the investigation that led to the resignation of David H. Petraeus as C.I.A. director is a "hard-charging" …
Janet Shan / The Hinterland Gazette: Frederick Humphries Identified as FBI Agent Who Sent Shirtless Picture to Jill Kelley
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: FBI agent named, houses staked out in Petraeus affair
Luis Martinez / ABCNEWS: Jill Kelley Loses VIP Privileges at Military Base
Rebecca Schoenkopf / Wonkette: Ladies And Gentlemen, We Present To You: 'The Shirtless F.B.I. Guy'
Margaret Hartmann / New York Magazine: FBI Agent's Shirtless Photo Was Decidedly Unsexy
Prairie Weather: "Hard-charging," "relentless." And a Republican toady in the run-up to the electionn?
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Shirtless FBI agent in Petraeus case getting a bad rap?
Taylor Berman / Gawker: Frederick Humphries Is the FBI Agent Who Emailed Shirtless Pictures to Jill Kelley
Spencer Ackerman / Wired: 'Shirtless' FBI Agent Who Hunted Petraeus Also Helped Stop LA Bombing
Massimo Calabresi / TIME: The Petraeus Case: Why Wasn't Obama Informed?
Charlie Spiering / Washington Examiner: 'Shirtless photos' F.B.I. agent revealed in Paula Broadwell case
James Nye / Daily Mail:
Revealed: FBI Agent Shirtless, the man who emailed topless pictures of himself to socialite Jill Kelley …
Revealed: FBI Agent Shirtless, the man who emailed topless pictures of himself to socialite Jill Kelley …
Tim Murphy / Mother Jones:
Top Georgia GOP Lawmakers Host Briefing on Secret Obama Mind-Control Plot — President Obama is using a Cold War-era mind-control technique known as "Delphi" to coerce Americans into accepting his plan for a United Nations-run communist dictatorship in which suburbanites will be forcibly relocated to cities.
Discussion: Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes', TBogg, The Raw Story, Addicting Info, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos and BobCesca.com
Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes': Georgia Republicans Met To Discuss Obama Mind Control Plot To Coerce Americans Into Dictatorship
David Edwards / The Raw Story: Georgia lawmakers meet over Obama's 'mind-control' UN dictatorship plot
Nathaniel Downes / Addicting Info: Tinfoil Hat Alert - Georgia Politicians Told Obama Can Control Minds (VIDEO)
Steve M. / No More Mister Nice Blog: THE UN'S NEFARIOUS PLOT TO TURN REAL AMERICANS INTO OBAMA BLOC VOTERS
Hunter / Daily Kos: Open thread for night owls: Georgia GOP briefed on dangers of Obama mind-control plot
Jerusalem Post:
Nearly 250 Gaza rockets batter South; 3 Israelis killed — Rocket on Eshkol wounds 3 IDF soldiers as barrage on South continues in aftermath of IDF's launching of operation to root out terror; IAF strikes nearly 200 terror targets in Strip; Palestinians say 13 killed.
Discussion: The Jawa Report, Weasel Zippers, Israpundit, Israel Matzav, National Review, Gawker and THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS
Carl / Israel Matzav: Breaking: IDF hitting terror sites in Gaza (UPDATED WITH PICTURE OF CAR SWARM)
Benjamin Weinthal / National Review: Israel's Pillar of Self-Defense
Neetzan Zimmerman / Gawker: Israel Kills Hamas Military Chief in Opening Salvo of Widespread Campaign; Hamas: Israel Has 'Opened the Gates of Hell'
Jerusalem Post:
UNSC divided on response to Gaza operation
UNSC divided on response to Gaza operation
Discussion: Reuters, The Independent, Israel Matzav, Guardian, normblog, americanthinker.com and IDF Blog
Joanna Paraszczuk / Reuters: Egypt recalls ambassador following Gaza strikes
Carl / Israel Matzav: Security Council can't agree on condemnation; State Department blasts Hamas (at what price to Israel?)
Peter Beaumont / Guardian: Egypt condemns Israeli air strikes in Gaza and demands ceasefire
Gaza rocket fire kills three Israelis
Gaza rocket fire kills three Israelis
Discussion: Truthdig, Guardian and Biased BBC
New York Times:
Attacks Resume After Israeli Assault Kills Hamas Leader
Attacks Resume After Israeli Assault Kills Hamas Leader
Discussion: msnbc.com and Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog
Dax Tejera / msnbc.com: NOW Today: Foreign policy, now front and center
Hugh Hewitt / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog: The War In Gaza
Wall Street Journal:
In Final Days, Petraeus Hurt by Libya Clash, Then Affair — WASHINGTON—In David Petraeus's final days at the helm of the Central Intelligence Agency, his relations with chiefs of other U.S. agencies, including his boss, National Intelligence Director James Clapper, took a contentious turn.
Discussion: Hot Air and emptywheel
Benghazi inquiry sparks Hill turf battle
Benghazi inquiry sparks Hill turf battle
Discussion: Business Insider, Corrente and The Hill
Walter Hickey / Business Insider: While John McCain Was Slamming Obama On Libya Yesterday, He Missed A Major Classified Briefing
Lambert / Corrente: ZOMG!!!! Teh Benghazi!!!!!
Julian Pecquet / The Hill: Obama defends UN Amb. Rice, invites critics to 'go after me'
Kevin Robillard / Politico:
GOP chief: Mystery black voters — The head of Maine's Republican Party is claiming unknown groups of black people showed up in the state's towns and cast ballots on election day. — "In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day …
Krister Rollins / WCSH-TV:
Maine GOP Chair Charlie Webster discusses GOP legislative losses
Maine GOP Chair Charlie Webster discusses GOP legislative losses
Discussion: Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes' and Mediaite
Cheston Catalano / Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes': Maine GOP Chief Complains About Mysterious Black Voters Casting Ballots On Election Day
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: Maine GOP Chair To Probe Possible Voter Fraud In Rural Areas: 'Nobody In Town Knows Anyone Who's Black'
Eric Russell / Portland Press-Herald:
Maine Republican chairman questions black voters
Maine Republican chairman questions black voters
David Weigel / Slate:
John McCain's Long War Against Susan Rice — From left, Sens. Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, and John McCain at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday — You probably don't need the lesson, but here's how the filibuster works. A nomination or bill is produced.
Discussion: ThinkProgress, The Daily Caller, Washington Post, Connecting.the.Dots, FP Passport, Daily Kos, Washington Examiner, Foreign Policy and Politico
Hayes Brown / ThinkProgress: McCain Defends Obama's Right To Name Cabinet But Says He'll 'Block' Susan Rice As Secretary of State
Jim Treacher / The Daily Caller: Apparently this is now a point of contention, even though Ambassador Rice …
Washington Post: President Obama's news conference in the East Room of the White House on Nov. 14, 2012 (Full Transcript)
Robert Stein / Connecting.the.Dots: Republican Rover Boys Return
Blake Hounshell / FP Passport: Obama's Susan Rice strategy: Dare Republicans to spike her nomination
Meteor Blades / Daily Kos: Obama challenges Susan Rice's detractors. McCain vows filibuster but doesn't have votes yet
Sean Higgins / Washington Examiner: Actually, yes, Susan Rice did say the Benghazi attacks were spontaneous
Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy: Senate opposition to Rice nomination mounts
Jennifer Epstein / Politico: Obama: Attacks on Susan Rice 'outrageous'
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Once again, Obama vs. McCain
Once again, Obama vs. McCain
Discussion: Boston Globe, Bloomberg, USA Today, NationalJournal.com and Capital New York
James Kitfield / NationalJournal.com: Obama Calls Out Bullies From the Bully Pulpit
Azi Paybarah / Capital New York: Obama visits recovering New York, aid level TBD
Linda Greenhouse / Opinionator:
Changing Times — When people talked during the presidential campaign about the potential impact of the election on the Supreme Court, most meant the impact on the court's membership: whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney would get to fill any vacancies during the next four years.
Discussion: Washington Monthly, Campaign Stops, SCOTUSblog, Washington Examiner, Hit & Run and thenation.com/blogs/167193
Nathaniel Persily / Campaign Stops: Is the Voting Rights Act Doomed?
Scott Douglas Gerber / Washington Examiner: New cases may signal Clarence Thomas' moment
Scott Shackford / Hit & Run: Supreme Court Declines to Tackle Prosecutorial Misconduct Case
Jobless Claims in U.S. Jumped Last Week After Sandy — More Americans than forecast submitted claims for unemployment insurance last week as superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc on the job market. — Applications for jobless benefits surged by 78,000 to 439,000 in the week ended Nov. 10 …
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
AP With / CNBC:
Sandy Spurs Jump in Jobless Claims; Inflation Nudges Up
Sandy Spurs Jump in Jobless Claims; Inflation Nudges Up
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit, Hot Air and Scared Monkeys
Russell Berman / The Hill:
Republicans say they will not back down — Congressional leaders took a hard line on taxes ahead of a meeting Friday at the White House, with rank-and-file Republicans expressing opposition to a "fiscal cliff" deal that would bring in more revenue to the government.
Discussion: Politico
Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online:
What Has Movement Conservatism Accomplished in the Last 15 Years? — The list isn't nearly as long as its boosters would have us think. — Flickr/Secret Pilgrim — Try as I might, I still can't find any evidence of Jonah Goldberg's claim that conservatives are the best at rigorously examining their own dogma.
Discussion: Prairie Weather and National Review
Jonah Goldberg / National Review: The Right Isn't Waving a White Flag
Euro zone falls into second recession since 2009 — (Reuters) - The debt crisis dragged the euro zone into its second recession since 2009 in the third quarter despite modest growth in Germany and France, data showed on Thursday. — The two leading economies both managed 0.2 percent growth in the July-to-September period.
Discussion: Hot Air, Outside the Beltway and The Lonely Conservative
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: It's official: Eurozone back in recession
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Eurozone Officially In Recession
Amanda Peterson Beadle / ThinkProgress:
United Nations Declares Access To Contraception A 'Universal Human Right' — For the first time, the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA) explicitly described family planning as a "universal human right." In its annual report, the organization said that improved access to contraception and other methods …
Discussion: Taylor Marsh
Allen West for Congress:
Gertrude Walker's Math Simply Doesn't Add Up — Every statement from St. Lucie County Supervisor of Elections raises more questions about election results — Stuart, FL - West for Congress released this statement regarding the growing inconsistencies and continued obfuscation coming …
Discussion: americanthinker.com, The Raw Story and Palm Beach Post
Thomas Lifson / americanthinker.com: Allen West needs your help now
Eric W. Dolan / The Raw Story: Rep. Allen West seeks court-ordered recount in Florida
Lydia Saad / Gallup:
Economy, Entitlements, Iran Are Americans' Top Priorities — Partisans agree on many top goals, but disagree on taxes and immigration — PRINCETON, NJ — Americans are very clear on what President Barack Obama's top priority should be in his second term.
Discussion: Political Watch, The Hill and Business Insider
Robert Schroeder / Political Watch: Millionaire tax may be on table for House Republicans
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill: Poll: Economy, benefits, Iran top priorities for Obama's second term


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The Emperor's New Language
In January 2004, Subaru announced a minor redesign for the Outback, one of the cars it sells in the United States. The vehicle frame will rise 1.4 inches higher above the road surface than the older model. But this seemingly immaterial alteration, along with a number of similarly minor modifications, will make a fundamental difference: it will allow the automaker to have its sedan reclassified as a light truck. And that means that a far less stringent fuel economy standard applies: 21.2 miles a gallon on average for the 2005 model year instead of 27.5 mpg for passenger cars.
Outback-like reclassifications could drive the final nails into the coffin of already feeble attempts to limit automotive energy consumption. Already, with light trucks capturing growing U.S. market share, average fuel economy is now at its lowest level in more than two decades. But if all passenger cars were modified to meet light-truck standards, annual gasoline consumption would rise by 30 percent or 17 billion gallons. In that case, kiss climate stability good-bye.
The Outback incident is far from an isolated development. Deceptive definitions and classifications -blurring distinctions, creating things that don't exist, defining unwelcome facts out of existence, turning the meaning of words upside down-have become widespread, both in the corporate world and in government. Consider some of the techniques being used to confuse, deceive, or conceal:
Now You See It, Now You Don't.
Creative terminology can help governments make unemployment-one of the key challenges of our time-look less severe than it really is. If some of the unemployed aren't counted, then they cease to exist in the public eye and will weigh far less in policy-makers' considerations.
In January 2004, for example, the German government-struggling with a stubbornly high joblessness rate of around 10 percent-stopped counting as unemployed those people who were enrolled in short-term courses designed to test their aptitude and job skills. Also uncounted were "non-unemployed welfare recipients"-jobless individuals age 58 or older. Even though they receive unemployment compensation, the government has decided that they are effectively too old to rejoin the workforce and thus relegates them to a state of quasi-retirement. Germany's "uncounted jobless" add up to about 840,000 people whose plight is not reflected in the official unemployment rate.
Full Employment at One Hour per Week.
If you trust the explanations offered by the U.S. media, joblessness in Europe is high because these societies are saddled with burdensome welfare states and rigid labor laws. The U.S. economy, by contrast, is a lean and mean job creation machine. Or is it?
The U.S. government counts anyone working as little as a single hour per week as employed (whereas the German government requires at least 15 hours per week). The United States also appears to be far more willing to drop people out of the statistics if, having lost hope of finding a job, they stop actively looking for openings.
At Wendy's and Burger King, Manufacturing Jobs Are Plentiful.
High unemployment is always a political problem for incumbent governments, but especially when the lost jobs are high-paying ones. In the United States, some 3 million well-paying manufacturing jobs have been lost since George W. Bush entered the White House, and total manufacturing employment is down to levels last seen a half century ago. What to do?
The 2004 edition of the annual Economic Report of the President has hit upon a solution. It suggests that perhaps jobs in the fast-food sector-where wages are on average one-third those in manufacturing-should be regarded as manufacturing jobs. The report asks, "When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a 'service' or is it combining inputs to 'manufacture' a product?"
Creative Management.
Healthy capitalism is supposedly about innovation, entrepreneurship, and intelligent risk-taking, with rewards going to the most innovative and successful. But some top executives have discovered a rather different path to profits and power. Over the past few years, corporations like Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat proved quite inventive at creating phantom assets and imaginary ventures and setting up complex shell games involving fake transactions. Such accounting artistry was designed to attract investors and confuse regulators. The inflated profits and stock values that followed allowed the executives to take over other companies and morph into politically powerful behemoths. These elaborate schemes enriched a handful of managers, until reality caught up and exposed the defrauding of millions of customers, shareholders, and employees.
Smiley-face PR.
Confronted with the discovery that the phone batteries it was selling had a tendency to overheat and explode, Kyocera Wireless Corp. issued a press release describing such outcomes as "rapid disassembly."
Attila the Compassionate.
The easiest way to conceal one's true intentions may be to call one's actions the direct opposite of what they are. The Bush administration, for example, has proven very imaginative in naming its actions and policy initiatives. "Clear Skies," "Healthy Forests," and "No Child Left Behind" all conjure wholesome, desirable visions of the future. But the results of these policies are more polluted air, denuded forests, and shortchanged education. The impact of "Clear Skies," for example, will be 50 percent more sulfur dioxide emissions, almost 40 percent more nitrogen oxides, and three times as much mercury pollution than if the 1970 Clean Air Act were fully enforced. The utility industry will be able to continue its violations of established law and reap higher profits, but at the cost of far more deaths related to air pollution.
Similarly, the U.S. Energy Department tried to reclassify highly radioactive waste in a way that would have permitted abandoning it in leak-prone underground storage tanks. Under the proposal, the material would be called "incidental waste."
Keeping Up Appearances.
June 30, 2004 was declared the day when the United States would "hand over sovereignty" to Iraq. But to whom? As of one month before the handover, Iraq's "transition government" does not exist. But perhaps that does not matter, for this entity, whose composition is a mystery, will have no authority to enact any laws or to revise those imposed by the occupiers. It will have no power over Iraq's armed forces, which are to be under U.S. command. Presumably, in "sovereign" Iraq, the roughly 20,000 employees of private military companies will continue to be referred to as "contractors" and "civilians" rather than as mercenaries. Growing insurgency and chaos will be billed as a "symptom of success" as Richard B. Myers, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, characterized it in mid-April.
The Emperor's New Allies.
Sometimes those in power have to invent distinctions and divisions that simply don't exist in the real world. In the months leading up to the U.S.-British invasion of Iraq in March 2003, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld spoke of "old Europe" opposing the Bush war plans as opposed to "new Europe," including José María Aznar's Spain, being firm supporters. The inconvenient fact that 90 percent of the Spanish population resolutely opposed the government's Iraq policy was swept under the rug. When Aznar's conservative party was ejected from office by irate voters after the March 2004 train bombings in Madrid, it was clear that the only real division in Europe was between the bulk of the population and a handful of governments more beholden to Washington's dictates than to democracy at home.
Sshh, It's Not Genocide.
Finally, if nothing else works, there's always the simple refusal to call things by their proper name. When the mass killings in Rwanda began in April 1994, the Clinton administration maneuvered carefully to avoid using the term "genocide." Why? Because acknowledging the facts would have obligated the United States (and other governments) to undertake steps to halt the killings, under the Genocide Convention. The administration squelched the feeble attempts to bolster a small UN peacekeeping force in Rwanda, even though early action could have prevented much of the mass killings that unfolded over three months.
Governments and corporations will always be tempted to portray things in a favorable light, and sometimes to hide the truth. But a variety of manipulative devices-deceptive definitions, false distinctions, blurred categories, distorted terminologies-can undercut accountability, undermine the use of language as a reliable tool for society at large, and ultimately weaken democracy.
Language is fundamental to society. In our fast-changing, increasingly interconnected world, accurate information and reliable language are becoming ever more indispensable for businesspeople, international diplomats, community activists, and "ordinary" citizens alike. But at the same time, it is in some ways also easier than ever before to distort reality. Computer software allows the alteration of images with ease, for example. "Reality TV" programs show anything but daily reality, while sidelining questions and issues of global concern. And consider the sophisticated advertising techniques that suggest that we're nothing if we don't consume, that we gain identity and meaning through corporate branding, that scaling the heights of consumerdom is more important than citizenship.
If words stop meaning what they mean by common convention, then the basis for community is lost. It is not necessary to go to the extremes of an Orwellian society where power and control rest on thought control, and where war is peace, slavery equals freedom, and ignorance is strength. What may appear to be minor changes in technical specifications, arcane details of bureaucratic classification, or choices of terms, may actually have grave implications for matters of human welfare, environmental quality, and war and peace.
Michael Renner is a Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute, and co-author of State of the World 2004.

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A creative dispute between a writer and a studio head over the direction of a prospective motion picture sounds like the kind of movie scenario only a lawyer could love.
But when the writer is cranky, crusty P.L. Travers, who means it when she says "I shall have my way," when the studio head is Walt Disney, unapologetic about proclaiming "I'm a man who usually gets what he wants," and when the film they're arguing about is the much beloved "Mary Poppins," things do get interesting.
Directed down the middle of the road by John Lee Hancock, "Saving Mr. Banks" has even more disadvantages to overcome. For one thing, how do you make an involving film about a situation whose outcome — Travers acquiesced, the film got made — everyone knows?
And, just as tricky, how do you make a genial Disney film, the kind that even Walt himself might have enjoyed, about a way-ornery woman going through one of the most difficult periods of her life?
Making all that happen is a savvy script that sticks to the truth only when it needs to and an actress who gives a gleeful, ripsnorter of a performance. If you've enjoyed Emma Thompson in anything, and even if you haven't, seeing her in this is a must. Though Tom Hanks as Uncle Walt is Thompson's nominal costar, her work is so potent it turns even this strong actor into essentially a supporting player.
The "Mr. Banks" script, written by Kelly Marcel and Sue Smith, is at its best giving Thompson's Travers the most savagely funny of retorts and ripostes. This is the kind of dismissive woman who point-blank asks a mother she meets on an airplane, "Will the child be a nuisance?" and informs a hotel bellman who offers to help her unpack, "If it's your ambition to handle ladies' garments, may I suggest you take employment in a launderette." And she's only getting warmed up.
The biggest part of the action in "Mr. Banks" deals with those weeks in 1961 when Travers, in serious financial trouble and considering selling the "Poppins" rights to Disney, came to Los Angeles to have intense script meetings with the songwriting Sherman brothers (Jason Schwartzman and B.J. Novak) and screenwriter Don DaGradi (Bradley Whitford). Marcel and Smith have structured the film to go back and forth between that period and the Australian childhood of Helen Goff (newcomer Annie Rose Buckley), the girl who grew up to become P.L. Travers.
The script shares the conceit of many Travers biographers that the idea for Mary Poppins and her interaction with the Banks family came out of Goff's childhood. But it goes further and posits that the battles the adult P.L. Travers had with Team Disney occurred because working on the film brought up unresolved issues from her past, a situation the "Saving Mr. Banks" title directly references.
With Colin Farrell as Goff's charming and charismatic but also feckless and alcoholic father, Trevor Goff, Ruth Wilson as her overmatched mother, Margaret, and the always welcome Rachel Griffiths as Margaret's sister, Aunt Ellie, "Saving Mr. Banks" invests considerable acting talent in this flashback part of the story, with uneven results.
With Hancock — responsible for the honestly sentimental "The Rookie" as well as the overly sentimental "The Blind Side" — at the helm, the soft direction "Saving Mr. Banks" is headed is a given. The film alternates between hitting the emotions just right when Thompson is on screen in the present and pushing them too insistently in the past when she is not.
From the first glimpse of Travers in her London sitting room, we can tell she is going to be trouble in Hollywood. Anyone with a copy of a book by Armenian mystic G.I. Gurdjieff on her coffee table is not going to see eye to eye with Walt Disney.
Travers has in fact been resisting, for close to two decades, Disney's entreaties, motivated by a promise he made to his daughters, to sell him the Mary Poppins movie rights. But now, much against her will, she is willing to at least take a trip to California to see what's on Walt's mind.
To say that every absurd and vulgar thing about Los Angeles, from its sunshine to its cheery optimism, makes Travers increasingly ill is, if anything, to understate the extent to which all she experiences horrifies her.
What happens at Disney really is the nadir for Travers. She hates the idea of Mary Poppins as a musical ("These books do not lend themselves to chirping and prancing," she huffs); blanches when Dick Van Dyke is identified as "one of the greats," an appellation she reserves for Olivier and Guinness, and dismisses Disneyland as "a dollar-printing machine." And she only barely tolerates Ralph (Paul Giamatti), the salt-of-the-earth chauffeur provided by the studio.
"Saving Mr. Banks" does not strictly hew to the historical record where the eventual resolution of this conflict is concerned, but it is easy to accept this fictionalizing as part of the price to be paid for Thompson's engaging performance. The film has the grace to end with a snippet of an audiotape recording of the actual barbed meetings between Travers and the Shermans, proof if we need it that those battles were as royal as they seem.
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I started blogging only since last year April. And its all influenced by a good friend Bee Bee from HoneyBeeSweets. And of course I learned alot from her. And because of her, I got to have this opportunity to join the gathering..:) Thanks Bee Bee, my dear dear friend!
Here's some photos that I'll like to share..:)
Meeting up @ MidValley
A beautiful flower for each of us by Nyonyapendekmelaka.
Yup, its on my dining table...;p
Packets of "bak-kut-teh" and "bunga telang" from Sonia
These are my favourite...yummy!
These are from ElinLuv
I don't really know what are these call, but at least I know how to use it! haha! My girl already wants me to make one for her tomorrow..:)
Sorry for the miss out bloggers, I'm too excited to post this, and I totally forgot about the list!
All of us in the gathering are:
Bee Bee of Honeybeesweets
Elin of Elinluv's Tibits Corner
Gertrude of My Kitchen Snippets
Swee San of The Sweet Spot
Tracie of Bitter Sweet Flavours
Pei Lin of Dodol Mochi
Sonia of Nasi Lemak Lover
Joanna ~ Elin's daughter
Joslynn of Petite Nyonya
Quinn of Quinn's Baking Diary
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Very thoughtful gifts. Love them all! I really feel bad that I didn't bring any exchange gifts along..:( Will probably do it better when we meet up the next time..;)
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City Re-Development Starts with Building Retrofits: What Happens When the World's Top Building Owners and Managers Debate their Future?
More than 1600 delegates convened at the 2012 Every Building Conference & Expo two weeks ago in Seattle, hosted by Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International. The conference gathered some of the industry's best minds and biggest investors for three packed days of learning opportunities aimed at professionals representing all types of buildings.
As a BOMA Cornerstone Partner, Cisco participated in three sessions during the conference, each of which focused on the role of technology innovation in shaping the future of the real estate industry. There's good news coming out of Seattle: Connectivity is, thankfully, no longer building specific; it's now all about the connectivity of neighborhoods and cities.Some themes emerged throughout all these three sessions, and these themes seemed to dominate the conversation – generating some buzz amongst those who attended our sessions during the conference:
Doing More with Less
Building owners, managers and tenants all wanted to better understand how their existing networks and infrastructure can be better utilized. The conference was primarily focused on commercial buildings and today every modern office building has a wireless network of some kind. How can we use these existing networks better or smarter to achieve better results?
So…the owners and managers are all looking for new ways to harness technology that is already embedded in their buildings, but they are stumped at how to identify cutting edge innovations that will increase efficiencies in their buildings with their existing networks, while still remaining attractive to current and prospective tenants. There is a big knowledge base gap among this audience on how to truly do more with less. I applaud BOMA for fueling this conversation during the conference.
BOMA sees its role in educating the industry on how to connect the dots between existing network solutions and creating smarter environments by helping get owners and managers more comfortable with the technology in their buildings. Through initiatives such as BOMA 360, they are taking the necessary steps to elevate the importance of excellence in building operations and management. This approach, along with inviting Cisco to present on technology innovation at the conference, is a huge indicator that BOMA is serious about playing a vital role in filling that knowledge gap.
BOMA — and other key organizations guiding the industry's future — are starting to embrace the technology agenda and make it central to their initiatives. However, the market is still highly fragmented. There are literally hundreds of thousands of managers and building owners, a fact which adds many layers of complexity to the challenge ahead. We have to be smart about how we approach this!
Future of work space
Smart and connected workspaces, whether located in the home or office or a third space, are essential for more than just the boss (who's hungry for greater worker productivity). It's also essential for the owner or manager offering competitive building environments to tenants. No longer are they competing with the building next door for tenants; they're focused on new kinds of buildings that are being conceived and developed to compete with the existing buildings. And these new arrivals may cause existing buildings, if it isn't smart and connected, to be become archaic and non-competitive
This topic is being driven by the need to make an attractive work space that fuels collaboration and hyper-productivity for the ever-growing millennial working population. Office space is shrinking, so how can building owners, managers and tenants reorganize the space they offer to be smart, while remaining competitive and fun?
During one of our three sessions the discussion quickly focused on future work spaces, among other items that were on my mind, I did share some of the results from a survey Cisco conducted. Office space decision-makers are increasingly aware of a growing impatience with office-space-business-as-usual. And they're sensing the need to quickly adapt their work environments to suit connected workers living hyper-connected lives. A smart, agile environment that also fuels remote collaboration can't be ignored.
Overall, audience reaction during these "Every Building Conference & Expo" sessions was enthusiastic. Some participants told us that they were especially excited that solutions are available today – ready to deploy today, ready to help organizations better utilize their network infrastructure. Bottom line: we are not future forecasting here; we're discussing how to be smarter in ways that are not just about the future…the technology and the need are here today, and ready now.
The broader conversation of smart cities, not just smart buildings, will continue during the upcoming October Meeting of the Minds event. Cisco will be gathering with other global leaders focused on urban futures, and we'll be sure to discuss innovations — in built environment, infrastructure, transport, architecture, planning, and finance – which can be used to grow connected and sustainable cities.
As we prep for the meeting, I'll keep you updated through the Meeting of the Minds Twitter feed @meetoftheminds.
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McLeish asks for 'controlled aggression'
Aston Villa manager Alex McLeish has stressed the importance for his players to control their aggression.
This comes after two of Villa's contrasting performances in the loss at Spurs and then draw at Swansea over the weekend.
McLeish was disappointed that his side have been unable to get their aggression levels right, with them picking up four bookings against the Swans.
"I was a wee bit disappointed with the bookings that we got," he told Villa's official website.
"We were a wee bit rash at times. We needed to keep our heads. We were too rash."
McLeish saw a contrast when his players appeared to show Tottenham far too much respect, slipping to a 2-0 deficit in the first-half.
The former Rangers manager admitted he asked for more from his players at the Liberty Stadium, though they took it a bit further than asked.
"There's nothing wrong with adhering to the team talk which from me was asking for real aggression - but I did call for controlled aggression. There's a difference," he added.
"I didn't want them to be reckless. I told them to be careful. I said 'let's not get early cards because you put yourself under pressure for the rest of the game'.
"It's about reading the game a wee bit and not getting drawn into heavy tackles," concluded McLeish.
"However, I didn't think every booking merited a yellow card but it was disappointing to see a couple of players getting yellow cards early in the match.
"When that happens you're playing the rest of the match walking or running on eggshells."
McLeish's players will have to be at their most controlled in the club's next fixture, when they welcome Manchester United to Villa Park on Saturday evening.News Now - Sport News


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2nd man arrested in 'bottle bomb' explosions
WASHINGTON (AP) — A second man has been charged in relation to soda bottles that were blown up inside movie theaters in the Washington area, authorities said Saturday.
Michael Hollingsworth, 23, of Takoma Park, Maryland, was arrested Friday and charged with two felonies in connection with a "bottle bomb" detonation last month at a theater in Largo, Maryland, fire officials said.
The first suspect in the bottle bomb explosions was arrested last week. Manuel Joyner Bell, 20, is facing felony charges in both Maryland and Virginia for six explosions at five movie theaters this spring. Authorities said Joyner Bell confessed to detonating bottle bombs, and the new arrest was the first indication that authorities believe he had an accomplice.
Investigators suspect that Hollingsworth was Joyner Bell's accomplice in all six of the incidents, said Mark Brady, a Prince George's County, Maryland, fire department spokesman. Hollingsworth could face additional charges in other jurisdictions, Brady said.
A bottle bomb is a crude device that's made by combining an acid and a base inside a sealed plastic bottle, causing it to explode. It can be made with household products such as baking soda and vinegar. No one was injured in the movie theater explosions, but authorities have said people could have been hurt by flying plastic, by the acid inside or during the panic that ensued after the explosions.
Investigators developed Hollingsworth as a suspect after Joyner Bell was arrested, Brady said Saturday. While Joyner Bell was charged in Maryland with detonating an explosive device, Hollingsworth was not, but he was charged with manufacture and possession of such a device, as well as conspiracy.
"Our arrest today is more of an accessory, a conspirator," Brady said. "He was the wheel man or the driver for the No. 1 suspect."
A man who answered the phone at the home of Hollingsworth's mother on Saturday morning said she was not available. Hollingsworth's grandfather declined to comment.
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Tips of the slung: Spoonerisms provoke giggles
Q. "You hissed my mystery lecture," the professor once rebuked a student, adding disgustedly, "You have tasted two worms." Both lines eventually became classics. What was going on here, and who was the speaker? E. Fudd
A. These are "Spoonerisms," letter or sound transpositions by the Reverend W.A. Spooner, Anglican priest and scholar of the early 20th century. When Spooner grew agitated by someone "missing a history lecture" and "wasting two terms," he inadvertently fired off the two classics. Presiding at a wedding with a reluctant bridegroom: "Son, it is now kisstomary to cuss the bride."
These are not believed to be Freudian but to originate in the deeper processes of language itself, says Harvard's Steven Pinker, author of The Language Instinct. Most slips are simply boring, the brain planning out a sentence and setting up a framework for the sounds– a series of slots for the nouns and verbs and vowels and consonants– that then get inserted wrong. Occasionally, when two sounds end up in each other's slots, the result is a surprising "tip of the slung," or Spoonerism.
Q. Worldwide, where are the romantic lovers? R. Valentino
A. Everywhere! answer Elaine Hatfield and Richard Rapson in Love & Sex: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. The old stereotype that amour flowers only in individualist cultures ignores reality. Survey samplings: When ethnic-American college students were asked if they'd ever been in love, 95 percent of Anglo Americans said yes, as did 86 percent of Mexican Americans, 72 percent of Chinese Americans.
And Elaine Hatfield's University of Hawaii students– their grandparents, parents, and they themselves coming from China, Europe, or the Pacific Islands, including the Philippines, Hawaii, Samoa, Guam, Tonga, Tahiti, and Fiji– all seemed vulnerable to that not-so-Western "many-splendored thing."
"If anything, it was the Pacific Islanders who were the real romantics."
When asked "Are you in love now?" 61 percent of Russian men and 73 percent of Russian women said "Yes," as did 53 percent-63 percent of Americans, 41 percent-63 percent of Japanese....
In cultures East or West, rich or poor, industrial or non-, the love beat goes on!
Q. You hear of couples having four boys, five boys, six boys and more without any girls. Or vice versa. Do boys or girls just run in certain families, stacking the offspring deck? R. Kennedy
A. The odds on having a string of boys (or girls) is the same as tossing a coin and getting a string of heads (or tails), says Yale biologist Robert Wyman: one half of all couples with two kids will have 2B or 2G; one quarter of couples with three kids will have 3B or 3G; 1/16 with 5 kids will have 5B or 5G. Just by chance. "So if you know 16 families with five kids, talk to them. Odds are, one will have five of a kind."
Real life is a little more complicated in that more boys are born than girls (106-100), says Wyman. One statistician who studied the issue, as reported by psychologist David G. Myers in Intuition: Its Powers and Perils, was prompted by a sister who said, "Jackson men produce boys" (not his real name). Indeed, eight Jackson men had produced 21 boys and three girls. So he analyzed 6,089 randomly sampled families and found no clear evidence of sex bias. For example, among 132 four-child families that started off with three children of the same sex, 69 had a fourth child of the same sex, 63 of the other, i.e., no significant stacking. And says Myers, "Since Jackson's sister made her remark, the Jackson men have had five more children, four of whom are girls."
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Denmark's Choir of Young Believers first warmed North American ears with a warm wash of cathedral grade, orchestrated bliss titled This Is For The White In Your Eyes....
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Martin Gardner, an acclaimed popular mathematics and science writer and author of Undiluted Hocus-Pocus: The Autobiography of Martin Gardner, would have had his 99th birthday this month. In honor of this special occasion, the mathematical community is putting together a number of birthday celebrations.
MoMath joins the fun on October 26th from 10:00 – 5:00 with a Celebration of the Mind.
At this family-friendly event, math fans of all ages will enjoy some close-up magic tricks, explore favorite Gardner puzzles, and make their own hexaflexagon to take home (how many people can say they have their own hexaflexagon?!). As an added challenge, try to spot the two exhibits that Gardner asked Museum directors to include in MoMath.
Later that evening, MoMath will welcome Martin Gardner's son James Gardner and a panel of experts for a discussion:
|Who is Martin Gardner? A Conversation with Friends, Colleagues, and Family
|Date and Time:
|Saturday, October 26, 6:30 pm
|What is it?
|A panel of people who knew Martin Gardner well will share their favorite stories about him and reveal just how important his contributions have been to mathematics and to math lovers around the world. Ask questions, talk with the presenters, and share your own memories and stories.
|Who is participating?
James Gardner (University of Oklahoma, Martin Gardner's son)
John Conway (Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University)
Mark Setteducati (President, Gathering 4 Gardner)
Neil Sloane (The OEIS Foundation and Rutgers University)
Colm Mulcahy (Spelman College and Author of Mathematical Card Magic: Fifty-Two New Effects)
National Museum of Mathematics
11 East 26th Street, New York, NY 10010
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Space will fill up for this event, so please pre-register here: http://momath.org/about/
There are many Celebration of Mind events taking place around the world. Check out the map (http://celebrationofmind.org/) to find events close to you.


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Typography for Breakfast
It is usually bad form to blog or tweet about your breakfast. But sometimes it's just too gooood. This morning a few of us from the studio went over to St.Paul for breakfast at the Copper Dome Restaurant. The type is served up hot as the walls in this place are covered with vintage flour milling ephemera. The pancakes were good as well.
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Oklahoma State Postgame Quotes - Transcripts
THE MODERATOR: We will ask Coach Gundy to make an opening comment.
COACH GUNDY: It's a tough way to lose the last two games. It's really hard on our team. I was proud of our effort. We had our chances.
Moving forward, we're very, very proud of the 28 seniors. They fought all the way till the end. We just didn't make the plays in the end. They made the last couple plays.
But the Cotton Bowl has been tremendous. The staff, hospitality, everything there, AT&T, the support, the stadium, we really appreciate the invitation. They've been first class.
It's hard on our team. That's a very, very disappointed locker room right now. Missouri had a good plan. You have to give them credit. They're a very good football team. Obviously you don't get into double digit wins playing in a major conference like they play in and we play in without being a very good football team.
Essentially we came up short the last two games of the year on basically what would be the last play of the game. So we have to find a way to win those games. The young players, I shared that with them in there. We have to work hard in the off season, continue to build this program, develop. Our future's bright. We have to continue to move forward.
THE MODERATOR: Questions for our student athletes.
Q. Clint, it seemed like a struggle for 43 minutes. What erupted from the late third on?
CLINT CHELF: You know, we just couldn't get in a rhythm. It seemed like we'd get a good gain, then we'd kind of stall out. We never really got our rhythm going.
Once we kind of found it, obviously we started rolling. Anytime you turn the ball over three times, that's obviously going to limit your opportunity to score points. That and not getting into rhythm were the big keys.
Q. Caleb, their touchdown that put them up before the fumble touchdown, you almost had an interception. Walk us through that play.
CALEB LAVEY: Shaun had told me to push through on that. They were checking down to it. He told me right before the play, come off fast, he's going to be throwing the ball.
What do you know, he was right. So I had my hands on it. But I wasn't able to reel it in. Looking back on it now, I wished I would have brought that sucker in. You can't dwell on the plays behind us. It's just one of those things.
Q. Can you talk about as much as you guys have accomplished in your career, how tough it is to go out with a heartbreaker like this.
CLINT CHELF: You know, obviously it's tough. We had two opportunities to do that and came up short both times. It's a great program. For us to go out with the guys that have been here before us, the winningest senior class, it's disappointing.
But looking back on it, I wouldn't change it for the world. We had a great group of guys that I've enjoyed being around for my last couple years here, five years here. So obviously it's unfortunate, but at the same time, you know, there's memories that will be with us forever.
SHAUN LEWIS: For myself, it's pretty tough. But, I mean, you want to get a win like that for the guys sitting next to me. It's unfortunate. But you learn from things that don't go your way in life.
It's going to be tough getting over this loss, but we'll get through it.
CALEB LAVEY: It hurts to lose, but this class, I've developed some relationships that I'll keep for the rest of my life. I couldn't be more proud to know these two guys. 28 seniors in all. We came up in the program together. We focused on the goal that we wanted to do. We made it happen for the most part.
All in all, you know, I love these guys, it's been a fun ride.
COACH GUNDY: If I could just add something to that. The losses, the last two, really for this organization, are hard now because they've had so much success. But these guys are trained to understand adversity will make them better. They know that. It will make them better the rest of their lives.
A loss like this will hurt forever, but they'll be better people for it in the future. They're quality, quality young men. That's why you get the response that you get, is because since they've walked on this campus four years, four years and five years, right, they've been trained that way. It's been instilled in them. They understand that.
It's very painful, but they also know that adversity will make them better.
Q. Shaun and Caleb, on the interception and return, the pass interference, did you see that play developed? Were you surprised a flag was thrown?
SHAUN LEWIS: I felt as if both guys were competing for the ball. I didn't really see the pass interference. It's unfortunate. That play would have turned the game.
But things worked out that way for a reason, so...
CALEB LAVEY: Yeah, I didn't see a replay or it happened. I just tried to get a block for Ty, so...
COACH GUNDY: What did you think?
Q. Haven't seen it.
Clint, can you take us through that last play with the fumble.
CLINT CHELF: We were going to take a shot at the end zone, kind of a deeper pass play. A drop back. Felt some pressure. I was trying to get rid of it. About to throw it away. Don't know what happened. Got hit from behind. Bad ball security.
Q. What do you think the future of Oklahoma State football is? Obviously you've developed a great foundation. It's been going on about a decade. Where do you see the program going from here?
CALEB LAVEY: You know, guys like Shaun and Clint, these seniors, they've really set a standard with leadership, with work. Coach Gundy and his staff have done a great job at recruiting the right guys.
In my opinion, there's only one way to go, and that's up. They do a great job at finding the right guys for the program. We've got a great underclassmen group right now. So I really look forward to the potential of this upcoming group.
SHAUN LEWIS: Being in the locker room and mingling with some of the guys, not only do we have like some of the best athletes competing in the Big 12, but we have some of the best character athletes, guys that have good values and guys that take their academics seriously.
So I think both athletically and academically the program is heading in the right direction. Things can only get better from here, so...
CLINT CHELF: You know, kind of echo what both of them said. Coach Gundy has done a great job with recruiting and getting guys in the locker room that are not only talented but high character guys. In the locker room right now you could tell the only place to go is up.
You see the young guys' faces. They're just as disappointed as we are as seniors. They wanted to send us off the right way. I think it's a good sign. Anytime a loss hurts those guys, it's going to help them in the off season.
There's a lot of guys that played for us this year that were young guys that contribute d in key areas. They'll be back. I think the program's headed in the right direction.
Q. Do you think the last four weeks, not playing in game, has hurt you at all?
CLINT CHELF: Well, Missouri didn't play in a game either. I think that kind of takes care of that.
We both had the same amount of time off for the most part. So, you know, whatever rust there was on either side, both teams had it, experienced it. I think we fought through it pretty well. Just came up short.
SHAUN LEWIS: I don't believe we can use that as an excuse because we had three or four weeks of high level practices. We got after it when we were supposed to. We took the time off when we were supposed to. You can't use something like that as an excuse from our perspective.
CALEB LAVEY: Yeah, I agree with both of them. It kind of throws you off a rhythm. It's a pretty even playing field for both teams not having played for a few weeks.
THE MODERATOR: Gentlemen, we'll let you go next door and coach will stay for questions.
Q. Mike, did you get an explanation on the pass interference call? If so, did it meet your satisfaction?
COACH GUNDY: They said 26 interfered, so I hadn't really gotten an explanation.
Q. What were you seeing from your offense for almost three full quarters that was stale, then they found a groove.
COACH GUNDY: We made some adjustments at halftime. That helped us as the game went on. Missouri has been good up front and defended the running game until we made those adjustments.
We missed some throws early in the game. Clint will tell you. We had two or three throws that would have gotten us down the field. I think one time we had a throw out there to Josh Stewart, pretty much catches it, he's going to score.
You miss a few throws. When you're playing a team as good as they are, there's not much room for error. Both teams had three turnovers. Obviously they got the big turnover at the end and scored. But for the most part it came down to the kicking game. We missed a fairly easy field goal and at that time the game would have been tied, either way you can look at it. Turnovers were somewhat equal.
They won the kicking game by hitting their field goals. One time they hit a long one, I think a 47 yarder. We missed a short one. Those things add up in close games when you're playing teams ranked as high as they are. There's not much room for error.
Q. I know you said you didn't get an explanation. You asked us what we saw. What did you see on the pass interference?
COACH GUNDY: I didn't see it. I just saw two guys competing for the ball. It's really hard for me unless I see the replay of what happened. Both the receiver and the defender have a right to the football. They said that our guy interfered with him. Obviously have to go with that.
Q. What did you see out of Maty Mauk for Missouri? Did you prepare for him?
COACH GUNDY: Where you from?
Q. Sports Illustrated.
COACH GUNDY: Sweet (smiling). That's awesome. Make sure you document this so you have all your research and your background.
We were prepared for both quarterbacks.
I thought that was a joke.
Q. What was your view of that fumble at the end of the game there? Could you take us through that play.
COACH GUNDY: Yeah, I was watching downfield, the receivers. Looked like we got beat at the right tackle spot. He tomahawked the ball from behind.
Q. Keeping time is not my strong suit, but I had the game at 4 hours and 12 minutes long. Any reason a college game that doesn't go into overtime should last more than four hours?
COACH GUNDY: Instant replay. I mean, that's what caused it, right? There was how many reviews? Four, five. I'm going to guess that pushes it over the four hour limit. There were a lot of forward passes: 40 for them and 57 for us. I think your instant replay pushes the game.
There's timeouts. A lot of timeouts in a game like this, people have to pay, pay the bills. I think there's a lot of timeouts.
Q. Does that hurt your momentum?
COACH GUNDY: You know, it's the same for both. It's like they said about the layoff. It's the same for both teams.
I think all of us would probably like the games to move along faster, but the networks put a lot of time and effort, it's where the money comes from, it's probably not going to ever change.
But I don't think that really factors into the game.
Q. When you look back now, you finished 10 3, do you feel you're a better football team than your record indicates?
COACH GUNDY: At times I think when I look at some of the tape and kind of did some research and study, at times it looked like we overachieved, and then at times we were really good.
That's a really hard question. I would say that we have a high round pick on our team, then we'll have some guys that will probably get into a camp. So if you try to evaluate it from that standpoint, guys played well.
You know, I said it earlier, it's doesn't make any difference, but we played the team that won the Sugar Bowl, a team that won 12 games. Basically we lost on the last play of the game.
We got a lot out of them. We just need to find a way to finish. We had a chance to make plays in both games. We need to find a way to finish those games and we'll push hard in the off season.
Q. What do you think of this place as an opening spot for the national championship game next year? Having been here this year, does it provide any motivation to get your team back next year?
COACH GUNDY: I don't think there's any question that they know how to put on a show at that facility. I've not been to any other NFL games. I was here this week with the Cowboys and the Eagles, and then obviously tonight. I just don't know if there's a better facility out there that puts on a show and is accommodating to the game.
It's very impressive. I think that whoever made the decision made a good decision to give these people the opportunity to have that national championship game.


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Lockheed Martin's leadership is still grappling with how to explain the near-term impact of Sikorsky's acquisition on its own operations and finances.
"I am still getting my head around describing Sikorsky and what the expectation should be" for the unit's impact, L-M EVP and CFO Bruce Tanner said in response to a financial analyst's question this week after the aerospace and defense giant reported first quarter results.
Sikorsky's performance in the quarter was "maybe slightly better than our expectations" from a revenue and an earnings-before-interest-and-taxes perspective, he said, adding that the parent company expects "sequential growth in sales at Sikorsky quarter over quarter" and similar results for the unit's profit margin.
L-M's overall Q1 net earnings slipped 9.6% to $794 million this year from $878 million for the same period last year. Net sales were up 15.7% over that period, from roughly $10.1 billion to $11.7 billion. That gain was supported substantially by a 51.8% leap in sales for L-M's Mission Systems and Training segment, the home of Sikorsky since it was acquired from United Technologies Corp. in November.
That segment's sales increase, in turn, "was primarily attributable to net sales of approximately $990 million from Sikorsky," L-M said. It noted that financial adjustments to account for the acquisition were made in 2015's Q4.
The segment's earnings rose 23.1%, to $229 million from $180 million in 2015's first quarter. (L-M's Aeronautics segment earnings were up 15.9% to $420 million from $371 million on a 21.2% rise in earnings, to about $3.8 billion from roughly $3.1 billion. Earnings for L-M's three other segments each dropped by double digits for the quarter.)
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The best seller is one who is highly motivated. A highly motivated seller is more likely to sell at a price that is less than his or her house is actually worth. And it matters that you find out why. Learning the reason why can help you get the price you want and help the seller get what they want: a timely sale.
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It is very unlikely that you get into a situation like this but I've seen the most weird problems people get into and it could happen to you too! You install upgrades on your laptop and the battery went down in the middle of process, the cat pushed a button in the powerbox and the lights went out..etc
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Lung Cancer
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death and is responsible for more than a quarter of all deaths due to cancer in the United States (ACS 2013a). It accounts for 13-14% of all cancer diagnoses, making it the second most commonly diagnosed malignancy in both men and women (not counting skin cancers) (ACS 2013a; ACS 2014a). Until the 20th century, however, lung cancer was a relatively rare disease. That changed with the advent of wide-scale cigarette smoking, which remains the leading cause of lung cancer today (Proctor 2001; A.D.A.M. 2013a; Hill 2003; OSH 2006).
There are two main types of lung cancer: non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and small cell lung cancer (SCLC). The majority of lung cancer patients have NSCLC, which usually grows and spreads more slowly and has a better 5-year overall survival rate than SCLC (NCI 2013a; NCI 2013c; A.D.A.M. 2013a; ACS 2013a).
The primary treatments for lung cancer are the same as those for most solid tumors: surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Their applicability and effectiveness depend on the stage at which the cancer is diagnosed, subtype classification, and genetic characteristics (A.D.A.M. 2013a; Hofmann 2006; Ellis 2012).
Although 1-year survival rates for lung cancer have improved in the past 3 decades thanks to better surgical techniques and treatments, the 5-year survival rate for all stages combined is still relatively poor at only about 16%. Patients whose cancer is diagnosed early, before it spreads, have a 5-year survival rate of 52%; however, just 15% of lung cancers are diagnosed at this stage. Overall, the 5-year survival rate for small cell lung cancer (6%) is lower than for non-small cell lung cancer (18%) (ACS 2013a; Dela Cruz 2011; American Lung Association 2014c; Youlden 2008; NCI 2014d).
Several efforts are underway to improve outcomes in lung cancer patients. Recommendations for routine screening of current and former smokers, emphasis on personalized genomic medicine with targeted therapies, and the development of highly specific drugs focused on destroying malignant tissue while sparing healthy cells represent key opportunities in the battle against lung cancer (Schabath 2014; Moyer 2013; Ma 2013; Clinical Lung Cancer Genome Project 2013; Heuvers, Hegmans 2012; Heuvers, Aerts 2012; Wouters 1999; Nascimento 2014).
In this protocol, you will learn about the fundamentals of lung cancer and lung cancer treatment, novel and emerging strategies such as cancer vaccines, as well as scientifically studied integrative interventions that may target some of the underlying mechanisms that drive lung cancer.