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Management Science: What to Expect
Management Science majors learn under accomplished faculty in the field at the prestigious Darla Moore School of Business. As a Management Science major, you will explore the analytical use of information in business management. You have the option of specializing in three areas: Business Information Systems, Business Information Management, or Global Supply Chain and Operations. Each of these programs consists of cutting-edge courses and encourages students to enhance their academic experience through internship opportunities.
The Global Supply Chain & Operation Management (GSCOM) program at the Darla Moore School of Business is the primary track of the Management Science major. The program is truly unique and stands apart from other business school programs in Operations and Supply Chain Management. GSCOM majors are taught courses with material that prepares them for careers in global manufacturing firms, service firms, and consulting firms. Even while pursuing other majors in the Darla Moore School of Business, GSCOM knowledge and skills provide valuable complementary competencies. What makes our program stand out from the rest is the opportunity for our students to get the actual lean-six-sigma green-belt certification from the industry through a rigorous coverage of lean-six-sigma approach to supply chain and operations management, a formal written green-belt exam from Sonoco Product Company (a $4 billion global manufacturing firm), and completion of a major certified project in one of our center partner firms to meet the "project requirement" for green-belt certification. There is no other program that provides such a rich opportunity in lean-six-sigma certification from industry to its undergraduate students in business.
The following courses fulfill some of the course requirements for a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Management Science:
Business Information Systems
- Program Design and Development
- Business Information Systems
- Information Systems Analysis and Design
- Business Telecommunications
- Information Systems Development
- Database Management for Business
Business Information Management
- Business Information Systems
- Computer-Based Decision Making for Business
- International Information Systems
- Information Systems Analysis and Design
- Business Telecommunications
- Information Systems Development
- Decision Support and Expert Systems
- Database Management for Business
Global Supply Chain and Operations Management
- Business Process Management
- Service Operations Management
- Global Sourcing Strategies and Application
- Supply Chain Planning and Execution
- Fundamental Business Skills
A detailed list of degree requirements can be found in the Undergraduate Bulletin.
Enhancing your Experience
Study Abroad allows you to earn academic credits toward your USC degree while seeing the world! Overseas study can complement any academic program or major. Business students have studied in a variety of locations including Italy, France, Japan, Mexico, Spain, England, Brazil, Austria, Sweden, Australia, and Argentina. Each summer, there are faculty-led study abroad programs offered in a variety of places including countries throughout Europe and Africa. Studying abroad will allow you to develop more advanced foreign language skills, take courses that may not be offered in the United States, and attend classes with students from all over the world. You will be able to develop an increased sense of independence and adaptability and expand your cultural awareness and understanding of lifestyles different than your own. You may also choose to intern, volunteer, or conduct research abroad. You are encouraged to visit the Study Abroad Web site for more information on opportunities to broaden and extend your knowledge and perspectives.
Student Organizations can be instrumental in helping you adjust to life on campus and network within your field. The University of South Carolina has a family of nearly 300 student organizations, including nearly 20 business and professional organizations within the Darla Moore School of Business. Some are honorary and by invitation, some are by election, and others are open to all students. By participating in these organizations, you will have the opportunity to hear from speakers who have been successful in the business field as well as get involved in a wide variety of service projects. Getting involved in an organization that interests you can help you network, meet new friends, and develop leadership skills. You can also get involved in annual competitions, such as the Page Prize Competition, an annual competition to foster and reward curriculum innovation in the area of environmental sustainability. Get involved and find a student organization on campus that interests you!
Graduate School is one of many possibilities following graduation. Darla Moore School of Business graduates often continue their studies in top-ranked graduate programs at University of South Carolina. Many graduates attend law school or medical school.
Departmental Scholarships may be awarded to outstanding entering freshmen or current students. Each year Darla Moore School of Business awards more than 50 scholarships to outstanding students.
Internship and Research Opportunities
Internships can be an important asset to your overall educational experience. Internship experiences often help you confirm your career interests, give you hands-on experience in a professional setting, help build your resume, reinforce what you've learned in class and can often lead to full-time employment. Likewise, pursuing professional research opportunities as an undergraduate student can also help enrich your academic experience while at the University. As an undergraduate student, you can work closely with faculty research mentors and explore a discipline that interests you. Both internship and research opportunities help you build a competitive edge in the job market.
As a USC student you will have numerous resources at your disposal to assist you with locating internship and research opportunities. The USC Career Center is the central location at USC for assisting students with internship preparation and finding an internship. In addition, be sure to visit your academic department as many programs offer supplemental internship guidance specific to your major. The Office of Undergraduate Research assists all USC undergraduates by providing research and scholarly experiences in their chosen fields.
Business majors at the University have had a wide range of exciting and unique internship opportunities. Students have interned at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch, Michelin, Deloitte and Touche, Target, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and 3M. Students have also participated in a variety of internships and research opportunities throughout the world. Additionally, GSCOM students have interned and found high-profile full-time positions with Boeing, C.H. Robinson, Colonial Life, Cooper Tools, Eaton, Ingersoll Rand, Johnson & Johnson, Macy's, Palmetto Health Richland, Polo Ralph Lauren, Raytheon, Tyco, and Wipro.
Career Opportunities
Graduates with a degree in Management Science often are employed as business and operations managers, business owners and executives, entrepreneurs and business consultants, and human resource managers. Students in the GSCOM program are taught course material that prepares them for careers in global manufacturing firms in production, purchasing quality control, distribution, and supply chain management; in service firms for general operations management and logistics/supply chain management; and in consulting firms as business process and quality improvement consultants. The average base salary for Spring 2011 Darla Moore School graduates is $42,176, with many GSCOM graduates starting at $50,000 or higher.
You can find more information about career options in the US Department of Labors Occupational Outlook Handbook.
The USC Career Center offers numerous resources which provide more information about career opportunities for students in this major. Once admitted, a Career Development Coach
About the Darla Moore School of Business
The Darla Moore School of Business has received numerous top academic and research rankings over the last several years. The Moore School's undergraduate International Business Education program is ranked #1 according to U.S. News & World Report. Our professors are known for their excellence both as teachers and scholars. They work closely with their students, have won local and national teaching awards, and remain at the forefront of business. The Moore School blends fundamental coursework in the liberal arts and sciences with a strong business core to provide its students with a comprehensive education that prepares them for the global marketplace. Undergraduate students are able to specialize in one of nine programs of study: Accounting, Business Economics, Finance, Risk Management and Insurance, International Business, Management, Management Science, Marketing, and Real Estate.
Points of Pride
- The Darla Moore School of Business has received numerous top academic and research rankings. Academic rankings include:
- #1 in undergraduate International Business by U.S. News & World Report in its September 2012 annual survey "America's Best Colleges Guide."
- #1 public university MBA program for International Business and #3 among all institutions in that specialty by U.S. News & World Report in its reputational survey of "America's Best Graduate Schools 2011."
- #3 for 'fastest return' on an MBA student's education investment by Business Week.
- The Darla Moore School of Business faculty has also received top rankings including:
- International Business faculty has been ranked #1 in research productivity by the Journal of International Business Studies.
- Moore School faculty are ranked #1 of the top 50 U.S. universities and #2 of the top 50 universities worldwide in terms of total number of research articles published.
Additional Resources
Management Science Website
Darla Moore School of Business Website
University Career Center
Undergraduate Bulletin


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The three-story complex will house 15 classrooms and four academic departments
(Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) - The Executive Committee of the Moravian College Board of Trustees yesterday unanimously authorized the immediate construction of a new academic building at the heart of Moravian's Main Street Campus. The three-story complex will house 15 classrooms and four academic departments in more than 55,000 square feet. Construction will begin September 17 and will take approximately 12 to 15 months to complete.
"Our decision to build the academic complex reflects real vision, courage, and commitment," said Priscilla Payne Hurd, Chair of the Board of Trustees. "We have stepped up to a challenge and a dream that has existed at Moravian for almost three decades," she said.
The new academic complex will be constructed across from the Haupert Union Building (HUB) entrance on Monocacy Street. A beautifully landscaped pedestrian plaza will adjoin the building with the Collier Hall of Science and the walkways that lead to Reeves Library and other nearby buildings.
"Although we have much more work to do, our entire campus community should take pride in this visible sign of our progress and focus on academic excellence," said Ervin J. Rokke, president. "The new academic building will enable Moravian to meet the specific demands of modern pedagogy. Technology-enhanced classrooms, in a variety of seating configurations, will facilitate innovative teaching techniques, enhancing the educational experience for our students," said Rokke.
To accommodate construction of the new academic building, the offices of Student Affairs, Multicultural Affairs, and International Study were moved during the summer to four houses just north of Elizabeth Avenue on Main Street. "We have already completed demolition and preparation of the site," said Doug Plotts, Moravian's director of facility services. "Construction timelines are notoriously tenuous, but our current target for completion is fall 2002. If we meet that ambitious target, the new building could be ready for classes by spring 2002," he said.
In addition to the fifteen technologically advanced classrooms, the complex will include two tiered lecture halls, with a total seating capacity of 631. All classrooms will be smart classrooms, with a computer station for the instructor, selected multimedia equipment to match the use of the room, and a ceiling-mounted projector.
One classroom is designed as a mock teaching space for kindergarten-through-twelfth-grade teacher training. Laboratories will include a computer laboratory with 30 student workstations, a data and statistics laboratory, an experimental teaching room, three observation rooms for psychology, and four small student and faculty research rooms. Conference or breakout rooms will lend themselves to small group discussions and seminars.
The building will house four academic departments: Mathematics and Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology, and Education, with individual offices for permanent faculty members and four group offices for adjunct faculty. The placement of faculty offices for the four academic departments in proximity to each other will promote the College's multidisciplinary efforts, while proximity to the classrooms and to student/faculty common areas will provide for easy student/faculty interaction on a one-to-one basis.
"The new academic building's affect on the classroom will be dramatic," said Dr. Curtis A. Keim, dean of the faulty. "This substantial addition of classroom space will mean smaller class sizes and greater flexibility when scheduling courses. Our students will receive even more personalized attention from the faculty."
The construction of this new academic facility will address one of the most pressing needs identified by Moravian's Commission on the Future: not merely additional space to accommodate an increasing enrollment, but technologically-enhanced space to meet the demands of modern pedagogy.
Alvin H. Butz, Inc., of Allentown is the construction manager for the project and the firm H2L2 of Philadelphia is the architect.
Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective liberal arts college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its founding to 1742, it is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college. Visit the Web site at www.moravian.edu.

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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. - The radar room and control tower here never shut down. The air traffic controllers who oversee Cherry Point's airspace and runway operations issue clearances and feed information to pilots, aircrews and ground crews.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Special Operations Command is using unprecedented outreach and collaboration to develop what its commander hopes will be revolutionary capabilities: a suit that's been likened to the one worn by the "Iron Man" movies superhero.
WASHINGTON - The Department of Defense announced the transfer of Yusef Abbas, Saidullah Khalik and Hajiakbar Abdul Ghuper from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the government of Slovakia, according to a DOD news release.
WASHINGTON - Initial airlift operations are complete in the Central African Republic, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said.
SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. - A major yet mostly transparent change to automatic identification technology is expected to save the Defense Department at least $5 million a year in transportation and distribution costs.
ARABIAN GULF - Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James F. Amos, Sgt. Maj. of the Marine Corps Micheal P. Barrett, and distinguished guests visited the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer to thank Marines and sailors assigned to the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit and the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group for their service.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called Egyptian Minister of Defense Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to offer the Defense Department's assistance in investigating the attacks in Mansoura, Nasr City and Sharkiya province, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement.
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - When NORAD Tracks Santa, it's an event that begins at the top of the leadership chain with Army Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr., commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, who this year has his son, Army 2nd Lt. Charles Jacoby III, an infantry officer, visiting for the holidays.
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - The North American Aerospace Defense Command annually tracks Santa Claus around the world from his home at the North Pole, an event enjoyed by millions of children worldwide, which requires a vast crew of Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard members, international military partners, and civilian volunteers.
WASHINGTON - Senior defense officials praised the governor of Okinawa, Japan, for his approval of construction of a long-postponed air base to replace Marine Corps Air Station Futenma-Camp Schwab in Henoko Bay.
GRAFENWOEHR, Germany - Like many service members currently serving, a surge of patriotic fervor following the events of 9/11 catapulted Adam Driver into the military. And though Driver, now an actor, is no longer a member of the Marine Corps, his connection to the military continues.
PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. - The North American Aerospace Defense Command's NORAD Tracks Santa Program exceeded its own records in the number of calls, emails and social media followers this year.
WASHINGTON - The governor of Okinawa's decision to approve the landfill permit request to build the Futenma Replacement Facility at Camp Schwab-Henoko Bay is a critical part of the realignment of U.S. forces on Okinawa, Japan, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a statement released today.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama signed House Resolution 3304, which provides pay and bonuses for U.S. service members, enhances counterterrorism efforts overseas, builds security capacities of key U.S. partner-nations, expands efforts to prevent sexual assault and strengthens protections for victims.
KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the commander of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, made a Christmas Day trip to the southern part of the country to visit with coalition troops and thank them for their service and sacrifices.
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP S.D. BUTLER, Okinawa, Japan - Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Vilma T. Rodriguez received a phone call from President Barack Obama on Christmas Day.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel called service members taking part in current U.S. operations to wish them a Merry Christmas, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Adm. John Kirby said in a statement.
WASHINGTON - The Department of Defense welcomes the announcement in Tokyo that the United States and Japan will negotiate a framework to further address environmental stewardship of United States military activities in Japan.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama wished all Americans a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and provided special holiday greetings and thanks to U.S. military members, veterans, and their families for their service and sacrifice to the nation.
WASHINGTON - American officials including Secretary of State John F. Kerry have made calls to leaders throughout Africa and the world seeking a solution to the crisis in South Sudan, U.S. State Department spokesman Jen Psaki said.
WASHINGTON - First Lady Michelle Obama took phone calls from boys and girls from across the country asking where Santa was located as part of the annual NORAD Tracks Santa program run by the North American Aerospace Defense Command at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado.
WASHINGTON - At a racetrack complex near Miami, Fla., eight robots recently took their first steps into the future, one that scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency envisioned for them as the world watched the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster unfold in 2011.
LAGHMAN, Afghanistan - There were holiday decorations all around the room and not one, but two Christmas trees in the dining facility's reserved room at Forward Operating Base Fenty Dec. 18.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel released a statement following the first successful audit of a military service. The U.S. Marine Corps was granted an unqualified favorable audit for its current-year budget.
WASHINGTON - Former Army Cpl. Rodolfo "Rudy" P. Hernandez, an Army veteran who earned the Medal of Honor for his actions with G Company, 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team, near Wontong-ne, North Korea, May 31, 1951, died Dec. 21 in Fayetteville, N.C.
WASHINGTON - Strategy and budget realities are two aspects of the Defense Department's new Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap, a report to Congress that charts how unmanned systems fit into the defense of the nation.
WASHINGTON - The commander of U.S. Africa Command is repositioning forces in East Africa in an effort to attain maximum flexibility to respond to State Department requests, Pentagon spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said.
WASHINGTON - The holidays are work days for many service members, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey reminded Americans, adding that their military is deployed worldwide, performing missions that keep their fellow citizens safe.
WASHINGTON - Navy Adm. Cecil D. Haney, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, fosters a command culture that demands integrity, encourages leadership and teamwork, and inspires trust.
ROME, N.Y. - New York Air National Guardsmen from the Eastern Air Defense Sector in Rome, N.Y., will play a key role as the North American Aerospace Defense Command tracks Santa Claus and his reindeer on their annual global Christmas Eve journey.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama wrote to Congress that he's considering taking additional steps to protect U.S. citizens, personnel, and property in South Sudan.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel sent statements of condolences to the family of soldier, author and diplomat John S.D. Eisenhower, who died Dec. 21 at age 91 in Trappe, Md.
WASHINGTON - Acting Deputy Defense Secretary Christine H. Fox shared insights into the upbringing that helped lead her to the Pentagon's No. 2 post and said she's committed to help the Defense Department tackle pressing issues ranging from sexual assault to fiscal challenges.
WASHINGTON - NATO began Status of Forces Agreement negotiations with the government of Afghanistan, Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Adm. John Kirby said in a statement.
WASHINGTON - Four U.S. service members were injured when their aircraft came under ground fire in South Sudan during a mission to evacuate American citizens in Bor, according to a statement issued by U.S. Africa Command.
WASHINGTON - A Navy psychiatrist has been presented the U.S. Special Operations Command Patriot Award for treating 68 Special Forces operators for traumatic brain injuries and psychological health conditions.
WASHINGTON - Eliminating sexual assault in the U.S. military is one of the Defense Department's highest priorities, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said in a statement, adding that the department welcomes President Barack Obama's continued leadership on the issue.
WASHINGTON - Navy Secretary Ray Mabus announced new measures to assure contracting integrity and to prevent fraud amid an on-going criminal investigation into Navy contracting during a news conference at the Pentagon.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has instructed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey to continue efforts to make substantial improvements to the military's sexual assault prevention and response.
SOUTHWEST ASIA - An Air Force food services team works to bring food and cheer to service members and civilians deployed overseas during the holiday season.
WASHINGTON - The challenging and ever-changing strategic environment requires a "vigilant, flexible and innovative" force able to prepare for and respond to threats to U.S. national security, the commander of U.S. Strategic Command said.
WASHINGTON - First Lady Michelle Obama lent a hand to the Marine Corps' Toys for Tots campaign and saluted military families at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON - The budget that passed Congress means the page is turning on a prolonged period of fiscal uncertainty, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said during a joint news conference with Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
WASHINGTON - The United States is still at war, and DOD leaders will continue to focus on Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has spoken by phone with Egypt's Defense Minister, discussing a range of issues including his recent visit to the Middle East.
WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration is expanding its Precheck expedited screening benefits to all U.S. service members including members of the U.S. Coast Guard.
WASHINGTON - The Department of Defense announced the transfer of two detainees from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the government of Sudan.
STUTTGART, Germany - U.S. Marines, the USO and the U.S. Army Garrison Stuttgart have delivered new toys to underprivileged children in Germany.
WASHINGTON - Volunteers at the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado Springs, Colo., will field children's questions about Santa's annual Christmas Eve journey around the globe.
WASHINGTON - Two U.S. C-130 aircraft have evacuated 120 people from South Sudan following recent fighting in the country.
WASHINGTON - A month after taking the helm of U.S. Strategic Command, Navy Adm. Cecil D. Haney is moving full steam ahead to continue bolstering the deterrence that protects Americans from what Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel describes as "the world's most complex and dangerous threats."
WASHINGTON - A program initially launched to help African partners prevent pandemics has been expanded by U.S. Africa Command to encompass preparedness for a full range of natural or man-made disasters.
WASHINGTON - The United States is providing the Philippines with an additional $24.6 million in humanitarian aid to help on-going recovery efforts from last month's devastating typhoon, U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry said during a visit to Tacloban, Philippines.
SOUTHWEST ASIA - Twin brothers Billy and Barrington Medeiros were sent to different foster homes when they were boys. Today, they're Air Force airmen serving together in Southwest Asia.
WASHINGTON - The new 2014 basic allowance for housing rates for service members represent an average increase of 5 percent, or up to $75 to $80 per month.
WASHINGTON - The Labor Department has announced a $5,586,385 grant to assist about 900 transitioning military personnel from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
WASHINGTON - Federal officials are evaluating efforts to respond to threats at military installations following the deadly shooting spree at the Washington Navy Yard in September.
WASHINGTON - The military's top enlisted service member has debuted a new noncommissioned officer and petty officer book, calling the work a significant moment for all enlisted leaders.
WASHINGTON - The office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence is reorganizing and streamlining its programs to better prepare for future strategic challenges.
CLEVELAND - Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Daniel Barker was taken by surprise when his stepdaughter revealed she intended to join the Marine Corps.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - American Forces Network viewers can tweet live with Bill Cosby Dec. 20, during the network's airing of "Far From Finished," the comedian's first TV comedy special in 30 years.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu conducted their inaugural video teleconference to maintain an open dialogue and defense cooperation.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has spoken by phone with Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon, continuing their close consultations on shared regional security challenges and defense cooperation.
WASHINGTON - All four active services have met or exceeded their numerical accession goals for the first month of fiscal year 2014.
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department has sent another transport plane from Burundi to the Central African Republic in support of the African Union-led International Support Mission in that beleaguered nation.
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - From the Vietnam War to Operation New Dawn, a 39-year Air Force veteran is still jumping out of airplanes.
ARLINGTON, Va. - Volunteers placed more than 143,000 wreaths on gravesites at Arlington National Cemetery as part of the 22nd annual "Wreaths Across America" event.
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department has expanded its zero tolerance for the use of illicit drugs to include synthetic marijuana, also known as "spice," the director of DOD's drug testing and program policy said.
WASHINGTON - The national debt burden is a long-term national security issue, and Air Force officials are committed to being a part of the solution as the defense budget takes shape, Acting Air Force Secretary Eric Fanning said.
WASHINGTON - Budget battles in Washington are causing tectonic shifts in the Air Force, the service's leaders said during a Pentagon news conference.
WASHINGTON - Recognizing the growing threat of an attack in the Middle East and Central Asia involving weapons of mass destruction, U.S. Central Command officials are working with partner nations to prevent one and, if it occurs, to be able to respond quickly to mitigate the consequences.
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas - Wounded troops in San Antonio soon will be trading their rifles for wrenches as they gear up to participate in a newly launched car restoration and repair program dubbed "Automotivation."
WASHINGTON - On the day that Lockheed-Martin delivered its 100th F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter to the Air Force, the service's leaders marked the milestone and outlined the aircraft's value.
WASHINGTON - All eligible service members, dependents and retirees -- including same-sex couples -- are now able to obtain Defense Department identification cards in every state, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said.
PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - Defense Department and Coast Guard military and civilian personnel have the opportunity to affect their organization's readiness through use of the newest release of the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute's Organizational Climate Survey.
MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. - Marine Corps Sgt. Xavier Velez works hard at his computer job because of his passion to excel and desire to support his young son.
WASHINGTON - The family life chaplain is hosting a parent support group Dec. 13 at the Pentagon for families of special needs children of all ages.
WASHINGTON - Seventeen teams will take their multi-limbed, capable-looking robots through eight realistic disaster-response tasks that will make up the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's Robotics Challenge Trials Dec. 21-22 at Florida's Homestead-Miami Speedway.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a bipartisan budget agreement that would ease some of the sequester-caused fiscal pressure on the Department of Defense.
WASHINGTON - The United States-Singapore relationship takes on particular importance in light of the Defense Department's strategic rebalance to the Asia-Pacific, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and his Singaporean counterpart have reaffirmed both countries' longstanding defense relationship during a meeting at the Pentagon.
WASHINGTON - The Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University in New York has expanded eligibility to enroll in its Veterans Career Transition Program to spouses of eligible veterans and active duty service members.
WASHINGTON - Senior defense officials from the United States and Georgia met at the Pentagon for the U.S.-Georgia Bilateral Defense Consultations.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel warned his Ukrainian counterpart against using the military to quell demonstrations over President Viktor Yanukovych's decision to shelve a trade agreement with the European Union.
WASHINGTON - With sequestration cemented as law into the foreseeable future, the Air Force's top officer discussed some tough choices the service faces as its leaders try to pare $12 billion from the budget.
WASHINGTON - Strapped for operating funds due to sequestration, the Army's I Corps commander said he is channeling the resources he has where it matters most: into training junior troops and developing future leaders.
WASHINGTON - The United States wants the Afghan government to sign a proposed bilateral security agreement "as soon as possible," a senior Defense Department official with responsibility for Afghanistan told Congress.
WASHINGTON - "The Noncommissioned Officer and Petty Officer -- Backbone of the Armed Forces," may not have been possible without the cooperative efforts of a unique team of senior enlisted service members, two of the book's leading contributors said.
WASHINGTON - Two U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft and a small command and support team are on the ground in Uganda, preparing to conduct airlift operations in support of ongoing peacekeeping operations in the Central African Republic, Defense Department spokesman Army Col. Steve Warren said.
WASHINGTON - The chief of the National Guard Bureau is hosting his first Facebook town hall meeting on the National Guard's 377th birthday.
WASHINGTON - A senior Veterans Affairs Department official outlined progress made by the Veterans Benefits Administration in reducing the backlog of veterans' disability compensation and pension claims by 36 percent since March.
PHOENIX - Arizona Army National Guard Spc. Rashaad Gregory nearly died in a severe car accident, but he survived and has returned to drill duty.
WASHINGTON - U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan now can use secure mobile handheld devices and infantry-tailored apps to access digital maps, set up and share routes, execute sudden mission changes and store critical information for use back inside the wire.
WASHINGTON - An exercise underway in Japan is giving U.S. forces an opportunity to apply the leadership and problem-solving skills they developed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
DOHA, Qatar - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel wrapped up a six-day trip to the Middle East and Southwest Asia, after telling service members "the first priority and the real reason I was out here and spent time was to thank our troops, thank our men and women who do so much for all of us."
DENISON, Texas - Members of the Texas Army National Guard were called out to help motorists during a recent winter storm that crippled parts of the state.
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff arrived in Afghanistan as part of his USO holiday tour, with plans to visit with and entertain U.S. service members, civilians and contractors.
CAMP HIGASHI-CHITOSE, Japan - Music bridged the cultural and language gaps during a meeting of Japanese and American army bands.
WASHINGTON - Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, hosted a National Guard Christmas Tree dedication in her office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON - The remains of a U.S. serviceman still missing from the Vietnam War have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has reaffirmed the strong U.S. defense relationship with Saudi Arabia during a meeting with senior Saudi officials in Riyadh.
WASHINGTON - At the request of France, the U.S. military will airlift African forces to the Central African Republic to help end on-going violence there.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel discussed a range of security issues with senior Pakistani officials during his visit to Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has held what a senior defense official called a "positive, warm and engaging" meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
PEORIA, Ill. - Air Force Senior Airman Ryan J. Lane, a member of the Illinois Air National Guard, earned a prestigious award for his duty performance as an aircraft loadmaster in Afghanistan and for his military leadership and teamwork.
PARK CITY, Utah - U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program soldiers defended home snow as if Olympic dreams depended upon their performances at the International Bobsled & Skeleton Federation's 2013 World Cup stop, Dec. 6-7, at Utah Olympic Park.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spent a full day with two sets of people he seldom sees in Washington: deployed U.S. troops and Afghan military leaders.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel will travel to Pakistan for the first visit by a U.S. defense secretary in nearly four years.
SOUDA BAY, Greece - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff visited the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stout and U.S. Naval Support Activity Souda Bay in Greece as part of his annual USO Holiday Tour.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met with senior Afghan leaders shortly after arriving in Afghanistan, but said his visit is aimed mostly at encouraging and thanking U.S. troops deployed for the holidays.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel traveled to Afghanistan for meetings with U.S. military leaders and Afghan officials, as well as the traditional holiday visits to deployed service members.
MANAMA, Bahrain - In a speech before the Manama Dialogue security conference in Bahrain, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel emphasized the strength of America's presence in the Middle East and called for closer cooperation with the Gulf states.
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department's Chief Information Officer has recognized three individuals and teams at the 13th annual DOD CIO Awards ceremony.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met with His Majesty King Hamad al Khalifa of Bahrain at Safria Palace in Bahrain and the two leaders exchanged views on shared regional security challenges, including Iran and the signed joint plan of action between the P5+1 and Iran, Assistant Pentagon Press Secretary Carl Woog said.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met with Saudi Deputy Minister of Defense Prince Salman bin Sultan on the eve of the Manama Dialogue in Bahrain to discuss regional issues, including Iran, Egypt and Syria, Assistant Pentagon Press Secretary Carl Woog said.
WASHINGTON - The security alliance between the U.S. and South Korea is key to the Asia-Pacific region's peace and stability, Vice President Joe Biden said in Seoul, South Korea.
ST. PAUL, Minn. - Soldiers and airmen in the Minnesota National Guard now have an additional resource in the fight against sexual assault.
WASHINGTON - The Department of Veterans Affairs has posted an alert on its Facebook page warning of a marketing scam targeting veterans.
ARLINGTON, Va. - National Guard Units are on duty in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, standing by to respond to a major regional winter storm.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama issued a proclamation declaring Dec. 7, 2013, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day.
WASHINGTON - An Atlas V rocket launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., carried a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored nanosatellite into space -- and with it, the potential for more reliable and less expensive communications for troops around the world.
MANAMA, Bahrain - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel spoke with troops in Manama, Bahrain, and discussed Iran, military pay, women in combat, and other issues.
MANAMA, Bahrain - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel started his first full day in Bahrain this week by visiting service members and civilian mariners aboard the USS Ponce, which he called "a purely remarkable ship."
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not shy away from controversy during his first Facebook Town Hall, addressing the issue of sexual assault in the military saying the services are changing the way these cases are handled.
WASHINGTON - The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff answered a wide range of questions from around the world during a virtual Town Hall held on Facebook.
WASHINGTON - The efficiency reforms announced by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel are about leading by example, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr. Jim Miller said.
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department has offered a technical solution for removing the worst chemical weapons from Syria by Dec. 31, and is readying the capability for early January if the OPCW accepts, senior defense officials said.
MANAMA, Bahrain - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Bahrain where he will speak on U.S. security strategy in the Middle East at the Manama Dialogue.
LAJES FIELD, Azores - An Air Force noncommissioned officer at Lajes Field in the Azores was recently selected for commissioning as a first lieutenant in the Medical Service Corps.
WASHINGTON - The Defense and State departments will continue to implement a strategy for "careful, calibrated" reengagement with the Burmese military in pursuit of peace, a senior Pentagon official told the House Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.
WASHINGTON - First Lady Michelle Obama hosted a group of military spouses and children during a preview tour of this year's festive Christmas holiday decorations adorning the rooms of the White House.
WASHINGTON - The Department of Defense announced the transfer of Djamel Saiid Ali Ameziane and Bensayah Belkecem from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the government of Algeria.
WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has announced wide-ranging changes intended to save money and better align the department's structures and resources.
WASHINGTON - U.S. Africa Command is making headway in helping militaries across Africa confront the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff praised the members the Veterans Treatment Court Convention for helping veterans, especially a generation of service members that has lived through 12 years of repeated deployments into intense combat.
JOINT BASE MYER-HENDERSON HALL, Va - Army Capt. Michael Marano, a world-class skeet and trap shooter, turned to the sport after an injury left him no longer able to play football.
HONOLULU - Wounded warriors were honored at Honolulu's Aloha Stadium during a Nov. 30 football game between the University of Hawaii's Warriors and the Black Knights from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
CAMP ATTERBURY JOINT MANEUVER TRAINING CENTER, Edinburgh, Ind. - Individual Replacement Deployment Operations conducted on Camp Atterbury, Ind., is a world-class training program for deploying contractors and civilians who are authorized to accompany U.S. military forces in combatant commands operating overseas.
WASHINGTON - The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is looking forward to interacting with a range of people during a town hall meeting on Facebook.
WASHINGTON - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen called for a U.S.-Afghan security accord to be signed in a timely manner, as he opened the NATO Foreign Ministerial in Brussels.
AUGUSTA, Maine - Army Warrant Officer Candidate Nick Emery yearns to fly side by side with his brother as an Army pilot.
WASHINGTON - Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter recently signed a memorandum putting in place a DOD instruction designed to streamline the acquisition process.
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama has appointed Christine H. Fox to serve as acting deputy defense secretary.
WASHINGTON - With a month left before the start of tax season, service members should begin gathering documentation to file their 2013 taxes, said Barbara Thompson, the director of the Pentagon's office of family policy and children and youth.
WASHINGTON - Senior Defense Department, White House and congressional leaders bade farewell to Deputy Defense Secretary Ash Carter during an emotional ceremony at the Pentagon marked by both laughter and tears.
WASHINGTON - A program that has helped ease the post-deployment process for thousands of Guard and reserve members and their families will remain vital even after combat operations wind down in Afghanistan.
WASHINGTON - Donald Mason, a member of the Congressionally-chartered Legion of Valor, is committed to exposing people claiming to have earned military medals to which they are not entitled.
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From D&S collective member Smriti Rao; I am posting this belatedly:
India-watchers across the world celebrated the unexpectedly strong victory of the Congress-party–led coalition in Indian elections, interpreting it as a victory for centrism over extremism of both the religious and (left) economic kind. Journalists for the mainstream press in the west seemed as relieved about the poor performance of the left parties in India as they were about the defeat of the right-wing nationalist party, the BJP. Every report on the Indian elections seems to end by predicting that the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, can now push forward with reforms—the codeword for economic liberalization—now that his hands are no longer 'tied' by a strong Left party presence in the government.
And yet, as these same journalists attempt to explain why the Congress won, they usually point to India's relative insulation from the current economic crash—a result of its moderation in the pursuit of economic liberalization (staying away from further financial sector liberalization, for example)—and its institution of some social safety net programs—particularly a national employment guarantee scheme in rural India. As left commentator Vijay Prashad points out, both 'achievements' were at least partly the result of pressure from the very same Left parties these journalists seem to criticize as holding India back and neither would suggest that this government should interpret its victory as a mandate for further liberalization. (See this Counterpunch article.)
The recent appointment of Congress Party veteran Pranab Mukherjee as Finance minister suggests that while the Prime Minister is planning to push the liberalization process forward, he may be willing to proceed cautiously. While Mukherjee cut his political teeth in the Congress' socialist days, he is best known for being a political survivor, able to reinvent himself as the environment around him changes. He was instrumental in pushing forward the recent nuclear deal with the US—a far cry from the days when political upheavals in India were routinely attributed by the Congress Party to the foreign hand' of the US. And he is clearly on board with the broad idea of economic reforms—the government yesterday announced it was considering removing its decades-long program of subsidizing gas prices (see this Reuters report). However, unlike one of the other possible candidates for the Finance Ministry post, he is not considered a free-market ideologue. Let us hope he, and the Prime Minister, vindicate the faith the Indian voter has placed in them.


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My life revolves around My pain. Sometimes I wish I could smoke maryjane. In hailing and
exhaling, Sitting back relaxing not a care in the world its truthfully unfailing.
The blue, purple and gray smoke filling up the room. No sense of impending doom.
Everything is quiet every thing is calm. So quiet a pin would sound like a thermonuclear
My pupils are dilated, my mussels aren't tense. I sit hear with out pain in sudden suspense.
I don't understand I can't fathom why this stuff is illegal when it helps me not to cry.
There so many kinds from skunk to kine form purple haze to Pennsylvania dutch. This is the
kind I smoke way to much.
The doctors they say that narcotics will do. But there all addictive and could kill you
to. When Pot is out there and no one can smoke it. But me I'll put it in a pipe and down I
will choke it.
We got alcohol and cigarettes cocaine and whiskey all of which could potentially kill me.
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Jackson Ellis is freaking out.
In late April, the 26-year-old publisher of the independent music and fiction magazine Verbicide got word that starting on July 15, his shipping rates would increase by somewhere between 30 and 40 percent. "It's not going be the thing that kills me, but coupled with the lack of advertisements and the general slump in print publications, it could be the thing that pushes me over the edge," he explains via phone from his Vermont office. "I'm already operating at a loss, and I can't keep doing this forever. These new regulations don't give me an opportunity to grow."
It's a sentiment that Ellis shares with plenty of other independent publications such as The Nation, The National Review and Mother Jones, who are baffled by the fact they'll be paying more in periodical postage while larger publications will only pay around ten percent more. Then again, maybe it's not all that surprising once you learn where the proposal originated: Time Warner.
The media conglomerate's proposal was accepted by the Postal Regulatory Commission on March 19, in lieu of a universal increase that the United States Postal Service suggested an unprecedented occurrence that implies something even scarier: the privatization of the USPS that could, in effect, undo 215 years of universal postal policy.
"The bottom line is that the Postal Regulatory Commission just doesn't care," Jackson says with a sigh. "They got lobbied by these billionaire publishers and that said enough to them. They aren't concerned with free press and keeping it affordable. Whether or not the postal rates are high or low, at least they've always gone up the same amount for everyone until now, whether you're Time Warner or my company, Scissor Press."
And that's not the only problem for small publishers. In addition to the price of stamps increasing from 39 to 41 cents, the USPS is also discontinuing international surface mail and raising the rates for media mail, both of which were created to make the distribution of information affordable and accessible.
"The new postal policies are definitely going to affect our rates, but we're not going to stop doing what we do," says No Idea Records' mail-order manager, Matt Sweeting. "I hate to put it in these terms, but the days of the two-dollar seven-inch are over, and that's kind of frustrating. Unfortunately, if we can't send our music via media mail, we're going to have to pass on our extra costs to consumers, because that's the way a business works." Although No Idea currently sells its LPs for seven dollars and its CDs for seven to nine dollars, these new rates are inevitably going to cause the label's prices to creep up and quite possibly force it to rethink its business model altogether.
While many independent labels are making a shift to digital media, labels like No Idea are best known for their highly collectible and limited-edition vinyl releases, things that can't be captured in ones and zeroes."I see the attraction of digital and giving up the physicalness, because it seems like everything in the economy is encouraging people to go that way," Sweeting admits, when asked about eschewing the post office altogether. "However, I think there's something you can't get from having a file of something but the Postal Service definitely is making that harder."
No one knows how much harder the USPS is making things than Anne Elizabeth Moore, Punk Planet's co-editor and the author of the upcoming book, Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press).
"The periodical rate hike doesn't affect Punk Planet as much because our circulation is so small, but independent media magazines like The Nation can't afford to be strained financially any more than they are," she explains via phone from her Chicago office. "There's no coincidence that this increase is going into effect at the same time that the United States Postal Service is launching a campaign to promote the Star Wars movie franchise."
Moore is referring to the fact that last month the USPS announced that 400 boxes would be painted like R2-D2, to coincide with the unveiling of a line of Star Wars collectible stamps. "When you go look at a mailbox, the resemblance to R2-D2 is too good to pass up," the USPS' chief marketing officer, Anita Bizzotto, recently wrote in a press release about the new boxes, which are currently available in 300 different cities (including St. Louis). While these boxes seem harmless, the case they make toward the privatization of the USPS is anything but.
"The crazy thing is that, yeah, I love Star Wars, too," says Moore. "But the Postal Service is not where I need to learn about the kind of media that I should be concerned with. The Postal Service is a government-regulated system designed to give me information about the wide variety of media that are available in the world and should not be involved in marketing or advertising in any way, period."
In other words, while media giants such as Time Warner and Gannett are likely rejoicing over the Postal Regulatory Commission's decision, even the Postal Service itself seems uncomfortable with the new policies.
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Betting 'Big Monday' games
Why Marquette and Iowa State are good bets in ESPN's 'Big Monday' games
With football season now over, college basketball has taken the spotlight for gamblers. That means it's time for your weekly chaser columns to turn to hoops, which has games every night across the country, so there are plenty of opportunities to try to beat the lines.
Every Monday, we'll take a look at the two games airing on ESPN from a gambling perspective, with a pick on the game from Ted Sevransky here on Insider.
Syracuse Orange at Marquette Golden EaglesSpread: Syracuse -1.5
These two teams are part of a three-way tie (along with Louisville) behind Georgetown for second place in the Big East. For either team to have a realistic chance at winning the conference, it must win tonight. This game has even higher stakes, as it will be the last time these two teams play a regular-season game as fellow members of the Big East.
Syracuse is coming off a defeat at home to Georgetown on Saturday in front of the biggest crowd in program history (35,012) on a day when the Orange retired Carmelo Anthony's jersey. The loss ended Syracuse's 38-game home winning streak.
Syracuse has four players averaging in double figures in points, but none higher than Brandon Triche's 14.8. Syracuse's typically stingy 2-3 zone is causing problems for opponents once again, holding the opposition to a .371 field goal percentage, best in the Big East.
Marquette is coming off a weekend loss to Villanova, but returns to its home floor where it has won 23 straight (14-0 this season), second best in the nation behind South Dakota State (30 in a row). Buzz Williams has led the Golden Eagles to four straight NCAA tournaments since taking over from Tom Crean. Over its past three games, Marquette has been tremendous on the glass, outrebounding its opponents by an average of 13.7.
Ted Sevransky says: "The Orange just aren't the same team right now as they were a month ago. They've lost four of their past eight in straight-up fashion, and were favored in three of those four defeats. Their biggest issue in all four losses has been a poor shooting touch. As a team, Syracuse shot only 34 percent from the floor in their double-digit home loss to Georgetown on Saturday.
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Affirming the consequent is a formal logical fallacy confusing the directionality of if-then propositions, and named after the consequent in the conditional statement (Q in "if P, then Q"). It is a special case of the non sequitur.
[edit] Forms of the argument
[edit] Propositional logic
- If P, then Q.
- Therefore, P.
In formal terms, the fallacious argument is stated as .
[edit] First-order logic
- If P is true of x, then Q is true of x.
- Q is true of x.
- Therefore, P is true of x.
In formal terms, the fallacious argument is stated as .
[edit] Fallaciousness
Affirming the consequent related to the generic phrase that "all x are y, but not all y are x" in that the formal fallacy fails to recognise the "not all y are x" part. Its statistical equivalent is confusion of the inverse, where two conditional probabilities are mistaken to be equal when this is not necessarily true.
As a formal fallacy, it is an error in the underlying logic of an argument or proposition and, similar to how denying the antecedent can be remedied, is corrected by replacing the directional condition "if" with the bidirectional equivalence of the "if and only if" statement. This would mean that P necessitates Q and, equally, Q necessitates P. While this will correct the formal logic and the hypothetical assertions made, it can still form a not even wrong argument if the "if and only if" premise happens to be not well founded.
[edit] Examples of the argument
[edit] Propositional form
- If it is sunny today, then I will go swimming.
- I will go swimming.
- Therefore, it is sunny today.
- If Bill Gates owns Fort Knox, then he is rich.
- Bill Gates is rich.
- Therefore, Bill Gates owns Fort Knox.
- If the Bible is true, then Jerusalem is a real city.
- Jerusalem is a real city.
- Therefore the Bible is true.
- If God answers prayers, then the tumor will be benign.
- The tumor is benign.
- Therefore, God answers prayers.
- If the bible is true, then a One World Government will emerge.
- [Insert bogeyman here] is starting a One World Government[1]/there is a currently a One World Government[2]
- Therefore the bible is true.[3][4]
[edit] First-order form
- Fascists support a strong military.
- John Q. Warhawk supports a strong military.
- Therefore, John Q. Warhawk is a fascist.
[edit] See also
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Assuming us Skeptics are wrong, to which there is no evidence
- ↑ For future readers just in case it does happen.
- ↑ This also falls under self-fulfilling prophecy since the bible never states when. If the prophecy doesn't state when, then it is self-fulfilling, as it could happen in any time period and be considered "fulfilled". Another bible prophecy like this is the city of Damascus being destroyed.
- ↑ Of course they realized this, so now they're going on about how other religions were created by the Illuminati, how Evolution and Atheism were created by Them, complete with fake whistleblowers! Of course when someone even suggests Christianity was created by the Illuminati, they talk about how much of a lie that is, and how the person who dared to say that is a shill. Special pleading at its finest.


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Espoo and Cupertino kiss and make up
It was one of the biggest tech court cases of recent times, with two of the largest companies at loggerheads over patent infringements. And now it's come to a close with a whimper rather than a bang, as Apple has agreed to license tech from Nokia, paying a one off fee as well as ongoing royalties. That's right, all patent litigation between the two companies has ceased, and they've agreed to play nice.
The specific details of the deal are confidential, but Stephen Elop, president and chief executive of Nokia said in a press release, "We are very pleased to have Apple join the growing number of Nokia licensees. This settlement demonstrates Nokia's industry leading patent portfolio and enables us to focus on further licensing opportunities in the mobile communications market."
Nokia was accusing Apple of infringing no fewer than 46 of its patents, through the ITC, US, Dutch, German or British courts.
So, at last some good news for Nokia, following its recent woes.
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The increasing strangeness of Joe Hockey…
He's now said — accurately, I'm sure — that each of us works a month each year to support another person, and it's wrong we should do that.
But that person might be our mother-in-law. Or she might be our mother. Or she might be our disabled cousin. Or our daughter, qualifying for a music degree on a scholarship our taxes pay for. Or it might be our old demented dad in a state subsidised nursing home. It would be one of these, for sure.
And what is wrong with this? He thinks our relatives are undeserving, and his relatives, who get millions from his wife, are 'entitled'.
Why is Joe so dumb? Some theorists believe anaesthetic brain damage during his stomach reduction, or during the fight, long ago, in which Tony Abbott broke his jaw. But others think he may simply lack the numeracy gene. Some do, it is a well-known medical fact, and he is showing the symptoms.
A numerate person would note as well, though Joe does not, that we work four months of the year to enrich our landlord; a fortnight each year to enrich, with Foxtel payments, newspaper subscriptions and tickets to Fox movies, Rupert Murdoch; ten days a year to pay the salaries of Liberal MPs we didn't vote for. And he does not find this unfair. No: he calls this contributing to the good of our civilisation, as fair-go Australians do, and should.
But he seems, on the face of it, himself not to be a fair-go Australian. He is a dog-eat-dog eye-for-an-eye Middle Easterner, or so it would seem, and he does not understand the country he is in, the one where bushfire fighters risk their lives to save their neighbour's property, and strangers donate their kidneys to people they have never met, as a nice woman did to Mark Colvin.
And, worse than that, he cannot even add.
He does not 'get' that refusing 150 million a year to the motor industry will cost him, in lost revenue after 2016, about two and a half billion a year; and, in unemployment benefits he must pay to half of the 250,000 workers in the car industry and in tributary industries he ruined by daring Holden to go away, a further one and a half billion a year. Which means no surplus before, oh, 2035, when I will be ninety-three.
Let me repeat that. To save himself 150 million a year, he has cost himself four billion a year.
And he doesn't get any of that. He can't add. He literally can't add. He lacks the numeracy gene. He really does. And he should, along with Andrews — who thinks driving young people to suicide is good economics — be psychiatrically tested.
Perhaps the Senate could move he be sent away for those tests.
He is now whingeing about the Budget not getting through. He didn't see this coming. He thought his unAustralian budget would be embraced by Australians. He's as dumb as that.
He's as dumb as that.
And it's a pity.


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(AP) WELLINGTON, New Zealand - New Zealand passed a law Wednesday that strengthens the powers of its foreign spy agency to operate domestically.
The law now explicitly allows the Government Communications Security Bureau to spy on New Zealanders in cases when the agency has a warrant from a domestic agency. The contentious change was passed in a 61-59 vote on party lines, and the law is likely to take effect in late September.
Supporters said the bill helped clarify a legal gray area while opponents said it's an unwarranted expansion of the agency's powers.
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Happy Monday, everyone!
Perhaps I would have discussed this on Friday, on the actual holiday, however, we celebrated Valentine's Day on Saturday the 15th this year.
Because we wanted to stick it to the man.
Well. Also, we had a friend's birthday celebration that happened to be on Valentine's Day, but again, we didn't care.
It's a silly day. One that creates competition in the workplace of who got the biggest floral arrangement, and causes singles to drink and gorge in misery or rage or just because they have nothing better to do because all of their friends with significant others were being all mushy with their forced romanticism (see my Valentine's Day of 2012).
So last year, when my boyfriend and I were approaching our first Valentine's Day celebration, we discussed the topic with apprehension. Or at least until we realized our feelings towards the Hallmark holiday were generally the same.
In the end, we decided to hit up a nearby hole in the wall for Thai food. And the only reason we didn't order it to go was because the place was empty. Completely empty. And we felt kinda bad about it.
For good measure, we did also get each other Valentine's Day gifts. I gave him random pantry items from the Walgreens around the corner from my office. "I love how cheesy you are" (mac n' cheese) and "so glad you're never a jerk" (beef jerky). He got me a coffee table book about Justin Bieber.
Match made in heaven.
So this year, we discussed maybe doing something nice and a bit more formal/romantic, but why fix what's not broken?
He got me an immersion blender that I've had on my wish list for years. His reasoning was not so much because I wanted it (I really did), but to "keep me in the kitchen where I belong".
Smart ass. Don't take that the wrong way- he really just loves my cooking and baking.
Besides… he knows who the boss is in the house:
Dinner again was Thai food (after we took a trip to Home Depot because we are, in fact, the most romantic couple in the entire world). Same local hole in the wall. We've started a tradition now. Which is awesome because I have no problem forever associating pad woon sen with February 14th.
Plus, the leftovers are always bomb diggity.
And that's important.
The End.
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Mark Halperin of Time magazine writes this:
In a move as predictable as Lucy pulling the football away from Charlie Brown, Democrats are using Social Security scare tactics to gain ground before the November election. President Barack Obama is not only tolerating this classic old politics maneuver by his party — he is leading the charge.
Halperin adds:
Obama is living in a parallel Vulcan universe if he thinks he and his strategists can spend the next two months using campaign appearances, advertising, robocalls and other voter communication to demonize Republicans on Social Security, and then turn around in January and try to make a deal on that same issue. … It is hard to imagine that Obama can be the leader of such a process in 2011 if he takes the current, sky-high level of personal and political mistrust and elevates it further by using Social Security as a weapon of distortion in September and October. And yet it appears that the White House believes there is no contradiction or connection between those two sequential presidential goals. Obama may be a hyper-rational guy, but his current rhetoric on Social Security defies logic if he wants to have a productive 2011.
This Social Security gambit, which will fail politically (as has so much of what Obama and his aides have tried), is simply more evidence that the core premise of the Obama campaign — that he would transcend the usual divisions in American politics, that he would elevate our discourse and reach across the aisle in an unprecedented way, and that he would act reasonably and responsibly in facing America's challenges — was a mirage. It was an effective optical illusion, but it was, in fact, an optical illusion. And every week, it seems, it is being revealed as such.


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Today's editorial cartoon was inspired by our feature story on long-time locals' nicknames for North Okaloosa County landmarks.
Here, one of our military service members moves to the area with her family, but gets lost on the way to her new home.
And good-natured natives' directions don't help the situation!
We hope you enjoy this humorous take on things.
Ryan Massengill's cartoons featuring commentary on North Okaloosa County issues appear in each Wednesday edition of the Crestview News Bulletin and on CNB Online's Opinion page.
Email News Bulletin Editor Thomas Boni, follow him on Twitter or call 850-682-6524.


text: Check out this awesome "piece" by artist Micah Lexier. This is someone you would never want to play Scrabble against. The thing I want to point out about this, is that there is more than one way to get your message across using the same materials. And often times if you can pull that off the results are even better and more impressive. As they say, the sum is greater than the parts.


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Stephen Younge adds:
I can echo the point about soft snow. I skied Torreys (Steven's Gulch) last Saturday. While it was easy to walk on the crust most of the way up, it would have been miserable on the way out without skis or snowshoes. Enjoy the snow while it lasts, it's a good year!
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Kevin Noonan enters his first year as a graduate assistant in the Sports Information Department. He is the primary contact for women's ice hockey, baseball, and men's and women's tennis, and is also the secondary contact for men's ice hockey. He is studying in the MBA program at Quinnipiac.
Noonan graduated from Quinnipiac with a degree in Journalism with a concentration in Broadcast Journalism while minoring in Sports Studies. Along with his classes, Noonan was part of the Quinnipiac Bobcats Sports Network (QBSN) and the Communications Honor Society, Lambda Pi Eta. He was on the Dean's List every semester as an undergraduate student.
Noonan has done a wide variety of work in the field of communications. With QBSN, Noonan was the Chairman of the organization and provided Play by Play and Color Commentary for many Quinnipiac sports. Noonan also provided game recaps and features for theqbsn.com as well as feature stories for QBSN: The Magazine. Outside of QBSN, Noonan covered the men's and women's ice hockey teams for USCHO.com for the 2013-14 season and was part of USCHO's coverage of the 2014 Women's Frozen Four at High Point Solutions Arena.
Outside of Quinnipiac, Noonan worked for the Mystic Schooners of the New England Collegiate Baseball League for three seasons, and was named the Director of Communications and Operations his third year. Part of his duties were to provide Play-by-Play and Press Releases for 42 game regular season as well as playoffs.
Noonan is from North Stonington, Connecticut and currently resides in North Haven, Connecticut.