Video of President Barack Obama incorrectly pronouncing the word ‘Corpsman’ twice at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, February 4, 2010.

President Obama was speaking at the National Prayer Breakfast and was telling the story of a Navy Corpsman who assisted the suffering people of Haiti.
corpsman |ˈkôrmən|
noun
an enlisted member of a military medical unit.
• a member of a civilian corps, esp. a paramedical corps.

What is Cadillac Tax?
A tax on those insurance companies who offer more expensive medical coverage to those who can afford it.

Arguments against the Cadillac tax comes from powerful labor unions, who claim that in many cases middle-class union members gave up wage increases in return for better medical coverage and more extensive healthcare benefits.

The proposed excise tax amounts to a 40% levy on health care plans over a certain dollar amount. The tax is to be levied on insurance companies who are then free to pass it on to companies and workers.

Overnight Thursday to Friday (Jan. 14/Jan. 15) President Barack Obama and leaders of Congress decided and announced that unions will be exempt for eight years. State and local government employees, which constitute an increasing percentage of the U.S. workforce, will also be exempt from the new tax until 2018.

AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka
Labor leader who got concessions from
Democrats on taxes of high-end health plans.

“NUI” or natural user interface. Incorporating more natural forms of interaction such as touch, speech, gestures, handwriting, and vision.

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Here are the results of the most annoying word phrases, from a telephone survey conducted by Marist University in August 2009 …

Whatever (especially disliked in the Midwest/55%) — 47% chose it as most disliked

You know — 25% chose it as most disliked

It is what it is — 11% chose it as most disliked

Anyway — 7% chose it as most disliked

At the end of the day — 2% chose it as most disliked

National poll of 938 residents
The survey of 938 United States residents was conducted on August 3rd through August 6th, 2009. Residents 18 years of age and older were interviewed by telephone. Telephone numbers were selected based upon a list of telephone exchanges from throughout the nation. The exchanges were selected to ensure that each region was represented in proportion to its population. To increase coverage, this land-line sample was supplemented by respondents reached through random dialing of cell phone numbers. The two samples were then combined.

Results are statistically significant at 3.2%. The error margin increases for cross-tabulations.

Wonder if these were in the running over at Marist?
Here are some more suggestions from The Cardinal …

Awesome! (e.g., when used responding to something like ‘I just got my nails done’)

Cool (especially when used by someone who has no idea what ‘cool’ is)

Dude (eg., ‘Dude, please don’t call me ‘Dude’)

My friend (when directed at someone in total disagreement in an argument)

Amazing (especially when used while yawning)

I mean (especially when used more than two times in the same sentence)

sick (in case you don’t know ‘sick‘ has replaced ‘cool’ in the younger generation)

Look (used condescendingly when someone doesn’t agree with the same spin that the orator is spewing)

Shame on you (when use for something that has nothing to do with morality to express an opinion)

People (used when addressing a group … really only acceptable when used by totally dominating extraterrestrial aliens, as in the short form of ‘People of earth’)

SOURCE:
Marist Poll: 10/7: “Whatever…” Takes Top Honors as Most Annoying

Soft Lockdown
‘Soft Lockdown’ is term that defines a protocol in a school to respond to a threat outside the school without immediate threat to the students inside the school.

During a Soft Lockdown the building perimeter is secured with staff stationed at the doors. Visitors may not enter the building during a ’soft lockdown.’ Teaching proceeds as usual. Depending on the conditions, class period changes are allowed.

Some schools have protocols with options to collect cell phones with the objective of preventing misinformation or confusion of communication with friends and family outside of the school.

Some schools release part-time employees in a ’soft lockdown’ situation.

Hard Lockdown
A ‘Hard Lockdown’ is defined as protocol that keeps students locked in their classrooms. Students are instructed to remain seated — out of sight through windows or doors. Lights are usually turned off and teaching lessons stop until the threat passes. ‘Hard Lockdowns’ are usually utilized when an intruder is known to be inside the building, or some other serious threat inside the building or on the school property is identified.

Mission creep is the expansion of a project or mission beyond its original goals, often after initial successes. The term often implies a certain disapproval of newly adopted goals by the user of the phrase. Mission creep is usually considered undesirable because each success effects more ambitious, and perhaps reckless, attempts until a final, often catastrophic, failure occurs. ‘Mission Creep’ was originally applied exclusively to military operations, but has recently been applied to many different fields, mainly the growth of bureaucracies.

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