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Got called a misogynist at work yesterday.. bit my fucking tongue really hard in an effort not to lose my job. Got called that by someone who knows my views regarding evo.psych, my philosophy of MGTOW, my hatred of feminism and everything it teaches women, from being irresponsible little children with no agency, to blaming all men for the worlds ill because of white privilege and holding women back, and for enabling a generation of women to ignore basic human biological reality and gorge like little piggies at the trough of sluttiny.

Because i have an opinion that actions have consequences and repercussions AND that men have the right to act in their own best interests rather than societies (read gynocrosity).. this equates that i have a deep hatred, mistrust and dislike of all women solely because they have a vagina.

Yes, i had an urge to kill yesterday. I had an urge to kill, not because she was a woman.. but because she showed such stupidity on an epic scale it boggles the mind.

And i have a serious skin allergy to stupid.

But i?m glad i held back. Instead of letting someone?s pure fucking ignorance and retardation set me off, i plan to use this to prove something concrete.

And i?m going to use this blog as a starting point.

To any and all fucking lurkers who pass by and think that i am a misogynist and wish to voice your concerns.. this is your chance. Have at it. Leave me a comment down below, this is your moment, and here?s the kicker.

BACK UP YOUR FUCKING ARGUMENT.

Why am i misogynist?

Prove that i hate all women.

Prove that i hate women because they are women.

Prove that i want to oppress women and put them back in the kitchen.

Prove that i wish to take away their rights and access to abortion.

Prove that i sincerely hate my girlfriend.

My mother.

My best friends 6 year old daughter.

Stingray. Carolina. Judgey Bitch. SSM. TarnishedSophia. And all the other redpill women of the sphere.

Hell, even try proving i hate my ex wife simply for the fact that she?s a woman.

Misogyny?/m??s?d??ni/?is the hatred or dislike of?women?or?girls. Misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including?sexual discrimination, denigration of women,?violence against women, and?sexual objectification?of women.

I DOUBLE FUCKING DARE YOU.

Show me i dislike women or girls. I love them. I HATE?stupid fucking feminists.

Show me i discriminate sexually? I discriminate against?stupid fucking feminists.

Show me where i denigrate women for being women? I denigrate stupid actions by stupid people where actions have consequences.

Show me where i condone violence against women? I condone violence against NO PERSON. I DO CONDONE a right to self defense, by either gender in the case of immediate assault.

You might get me on this last one of sexual objectification.. but even then i call BS. I have always treated the women i am with with the utmost respect. But let?s not blow sunshine up anyones ass. Objectification happens against both sexes equally. It?s just the objectification of men is socially acceptable in the current culture. Objectify him as a 6 pack hard bodied cock to use for a 1 night stand. Objectify him for his earning potential or status. Objectify him for what he can build for you or be a utility for you. Fuck.. if objectification is the sole marker for being classed as a Misogynist.. then gorramit, all men are guilty. But then all women become equally Misandrist so it all equals out in the end.

I so hate stupid people it?s not even funny.

This is now my GO-TO response to any and all miscreants, vermin and stupid troglodyte shit for brains who reflexively call me a misogynist because i openly identify as a man who rejects feminism, finds feminist ideology hateful, bigoted, perpetually victimizing, self absorbed, female superior, male problems irrelevant, all problems of the world are man created, female agency removing, reducing women to status of infants, it?s all patriarchy and simply intellectually incapable of speaking honestly for ALL women. It speaks for the broken ones that live outside the realm of ?normal?.

And that?s the worst part. They PRESUME to speak for all women. These fucking oddball miscreants that even the ?odd? kids consider odd. These outliers who are so outside the bounds of normal, trying to impose their extreme minority views on the majority.. such insecurity on display.

Embracing an ideology can be construed as hate, but not in rejecting one. Hating an ideology is not hating an entire gender. It?s hating the stupid people behind that ideology. Last time i checked, there were Mangina?s in the feminist movement too. Does that mean i hate all men as well?

If a i call a feminist a stupid cunt.. is that because i have a deep seeded hatred of all women?

No, it?s because she actually IS a stupid cunt. I would reserve stupid dick for a man, because i, unlike feminist gendertards, DO SEE GENDER separately, as male and female, with differences both physically and mentally.

Lord help me those stupid Swedes? oh wait.. i?m Atheist. Gorramit those retarded Swedes.

And let me help you out before hand. Calling me a misogynist because i rail against sluts means that every woman that has railed against PUA?s is a raving, man hating misandrist.

You ever generalize and say ?all men are assholes?.. you?re man hating scum.

You ever tell a guy to man up.. you?re a fucking oppressive bitch.

You say me telling men to learn game so they can ?trick? women into bed equals misogyny.. fine.. every woman who tricked a guy into marriage by promising he was her soulmate and they?d be together forever is a fucking man hating whore who tricked him into putting a ring on her finger and entering into a contract she had no intention of keeping. They got something they wanted without any intention of holding up their end of the agreement.

You say because i espouse a view that i think my friends daughter can aspire to do better than being an easy slut to be passed around makes me a hater of women? Because i shame sluts does not mean a shame women?s sexuality you stupid shit. I shame their gluttony of partners, not their ability to enjoy sex. Do you shame men who stay home and smoke weed all day in their moms basement? Do you shame the PUA community for teaching men how to get laid by not following the femcentric script? You might be a misandrist man hating fuck.

If i?m a misogynist for holding opinions on how women should behave and act in a proper society, then the entire femisphere of bloggers who hold even one iota of thoughts or ideals that deviate from mine must LOGICALLY mean that they hate ALL men because they disagree with me.

Yes?

I really shouldn?t get this riled up as i am. I should have better frame control. But you know what.. i don?t like being mischaracterized as something i?m not, especially in an environment where my job could end up on the line and i get put in a defensive position from which i?m guilty until proven innocent. I have no intention of playing a game of enumerating all my reasons why i am not a misogynist.

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I don?t?

I don?t want to have to talk about how i grew up watching my dad (being controlled by his evil mother) behave like the stereotypical patriarch towards my mother, thus instilling in me a wish to protect my mom (and all women by proxy) and never inflict that life of inequality upon a woman.

I don?t want to have to talk about how i grew up putting my hand down voluntarily so the girls could have a crack at answering the math questions, or how i was supposed to cheer super loud when Suzy got to 1st base but my hitting a homerun onto the roof of the school was old hat.

I don?t want to have to talk about how i routinely defended women?s stupid choices and absolved them of being idiots for sticking it out with the badboys they fucked.

I don?t want to have to talk about the women i consoled and comforted when they were assaulted, or kicked out of their house, or just broke up with their boyfriend, or how badly they were treated by that stranger they hooked up with last night.

I don?t want to have to talk about how i was a white knight stepping up and telling my game aware friends that their negs and barbs and unwarranted and unwanted advances were not welcome by the ?lady?.. who eventually went home to sleep with him.

I don?t want to talk about how i always put the feelings of women, friend and stranger alike.. over my own in every instance, even when it was against my own interest.

I don?t want to have to talk about how i treated my marriage, in a completely equal and egalitarian fashion where i did more of the housework cleaning chores than the wife, while working at a job, just so she could concentrate on creating her work from home business website.

I don?t want to talk about how when my wife became physically ill waking up to take our puppy out to go potty, i ended up taking over the ?nightly? duties of caring for the dog, even tho she was unemployed and i still had to get up at 7am. Her health mattered more to me than inconvenience.

I don?t want to talk about how she endured chronic debilitating lower back pain 3 times during our time together, and i was there dutifully and carefully helping load and unload her into the car to doctors visits and getting her whatever she needed no matter how inconvenient to me. A courtesy she did not return in kind when i ended up on my back for over a week after a massive lower back strain injury. She thought i was faking it for attention.

I don?t want to talk about how i put her career over mine by paying off her student loans and helping pay for her HR courses instead of taking classes myself to upgrade my skills.

I don?t want to talk about how i did not keep a leash on my wife, stalk her, be jealous or keep tabs on her, get mad at her, lay a hand on her, throw things at her, scream or yell at her. Even when she started straying from home to stay out to drink with her friends or visits and talks with my neighbor until 1am while i fell asleep in an empty bed.

I don?t want to talk about how following feminism?s ?IDEAL? of how to treat ALL women wrt to equality, consent and support ended my marriage with her telling me she needed to be with someone who could ?Put her in her place?.

I DON?T FEEL THE NEED TO REHASH ALL THIS SHIT TO A GROUP OF MISCREANTS WHO TRY TO PRESCRIBE A WAY OF BEING FOR ALL WOMEN TO FOLLOW WHEN THEY ARE THE ODD FUCKING MINORITY.

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I intend to play the game where the onus is on the person hurling the accusation that i am one to prove their claim and back up their bullshit they?re trying to cash.

So go for it internet. Step right up and swing for the fences. Tell me why i?m a misogynist.

I?m all ears.

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For the record, i told my girlfriend what went down. Her reply helped my urge to kill subside. Choice quotes from her texts to me:

GF: Did you tell her to shut the fuck up, by any chance?

M3: Nope. Bit.. my.. tongue. HARD

GF: Why would you do that? Tell her to fuck off next time.

GF: Then if she doesn?t stop I have the right to punch her.

M3: I want to keep it professional. Still live in a world where her viewpoint is seen as culturally acceptable and my views of feminism creates and instant backlash against the cultural narrative.

M3: Lol.

M3: Just noticed your last line

GF: Accusing someone of being a misogynist is NOT professional. That?s personal. She stepped over that line, bordering on harassment. She?s not the type of person you can freely debate viewpoints on sensitive subjects.

GF: Is she pretty? If she is, that?s why she acts like that. Because she knows she can get away with it. Ugly chicks wouldn?t dare. [M3: Guess my girl doesn't see many feminists in real life]

GF: If she wants to meet a real misogynist, then she obviously hasn?t met me yet.

M3: She thinks she?s pretty. She?s called herself a 7 once. [M3: After i had told her i consider myself a low 6, a shade above average, maybe a low 7 if i clean up in fancy duds. She thought she was a high 7.. low 8. All my guy friends later laughed with me and think she vastly overestimated her SMV. What else is new?] I don?t find her remotely pretty.

M3: She?s [personal info] and totally into the LGBT and BDSM scene, a slut walker type and 3rd wave feminist type

GF: Oh god. May i puke now?

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GF: You misogynist, you. Lol. That?s the funniest thing I ever heard someone call you!

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Obama to propose 'grand bargain'

By Steve Holland

CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee (Reuters) - President Barack Obama proposed a "grand bargain for middle-class jobs" on Tuesday that would cut the U.S. corporate tax rate and use billions of dollars in revenues generated by a business tax overhaul to fund projects aimed at creating jobs.

His goal, as outlined in a speech at an Amazon.com Inc facility in southeast Tennessee, is to break through congressional gridlock by trying to find a formula that satisfies both Republicans and Democrats.

"I've come here to offer a framework that might help break through the political logjam in Washington and get some of these proven ideas moving," Obama said.

Obama's proposal immediately drew fire from the office of Republican John Boehner, speaker of the House of Representatives. Bickering broke out as the White House said it had tried to tell Boehner's aides about the plan on Monday but "never heard back" from them, said Obama spokesman Jay Carney.

The contretemps reflected the hyperpartisan environment that has made negotiations nearly impossible in Washington. Efforts to reach a "grand bargain" between Democrats and Republicans on deficit reduction have been at an impasse for months.

Obama wants to cut the corporate tax rate of 35 percent to 28 percent and give manufacturers a preferred rate of 25 percent. He also wants a minimum tax on foreign earnings as a tool against corporate tax evasion and the use of tax havens.

In exchange for his support for a corporate tax reduction, Obama wants the money generated by a tax overhaul to be used to fund such projects as repairing roads and bridges, improving education at community colleges and promoting manufacturing, senior administration officials said.

"We're not lacking for ideas. We're just lacking for action. And for much of the past two years, Washington has taken its eye off the ball when it comes to the middle class," Obama said.

Boehner's spokesman Michael Steel criticized the idea even before the release of the plan's details, saying it further illustrates Obama's policies on taxes and spending "while leaving small businesses and American families behind."

Obama's proposal would generate a one-time source of revenue by, for example, changing depreciation or placing a fee on accumulated foreign earnings.

DETAILS LEFT VAGUE

The White House left vague many of the details about the so-called transition fee, saying these could be negotiated.

"Our main goal here as not to announce new details as much as to make clear the president is putting forward a new kind of grand bargain for middle-class jobs," said Gene Sperling, director of the White House National Economic Council.

Officials put no specific figure on how much money would be raised, but Obama called for $50 billion for infrastructure spending in his State of the Union speech in February.

Republicans contended that by spending the revenue, it would violate Obama's previous commitment to a "revenue-neutral" overhaul of corporate taxes.

The White House hopes the idea will gain some traction in Congress because Republicans want corporate tax reform and Democrats want spending for infrastructure, so this offers something for both sides.

Administration officials said they recognize, however, that the climate is difficult in Congress with Republicans adamantly refusing anything that is seen as increasing spending and Democrats in no mood to cut taxes and get nothing for it.

Senior administration officials said Obama is not giving up on a big deficit-cutting package, but since no agreement appears on the horizon, he is offering a new idea to try to follow through on his 2012 campaign promises to help the middle class.

Bob Corker, a Republican from Tennessee on the Senate Banking Committee, sounded a skeptical note, but said he has yet to see the proposal's details.

"It would have to be a massive deal, I think, for any kind of Republican to look at revenues as part of this," Corker said on MSNBC. He said it would have to include "transformative structural changes" for programs such as Medicare for the elderly and the Social Security retirement system.

Obama's speech in Chattanooga was the latest in a series aimed at making good on his promises to boost the U.S. economy in ways that help the middle class. He is also looking to breathe new life into his second term, which has so far found successes to be fleeting.

(Additional reporting by Susan Heavey; editing by Christopher Wilson)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-propose-grand-bargain-corporate-tax-rate-infrastructure-100321284.html

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Olive oil demand seen weak by oil world as users switch on price

World is a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide, i.e. anywhere on Earth.^[2]

In a philosophical context it may refer to: (1) the whole of the physical Universe, or (2) an ontological world (see world disclosure). In a theological context, world usually refers to the material or the profane sphere, as opposed to the celestial, spiritual, transcendent or sacred. The "end of the world" refers to scenarios of the final end of human history, often in religious contexts.

World history is commonly understood as spanning the major geopolitical developments of about five millennia, from the first civilizations to the present.

World population is the sum of all human populations at any time; similarly, world economy is the sum of the economies of all societies (all countries), especially in the context of globalization. Terms like world championship, gross world product, world flags etc. also imply the sum or combination of all current-day sovereign states.

In terms such as world religion, world language, and world war, world suggests international or intercontinental scope without necessarily implying participation of the entire world.

In terms such as world map and world climate, world is used in the sense detached from human culture or civilization, referring to the planet Earth physically.

The English word world comes from the Old English weorold (-uld), weorld, worold (-uld, -eld), a compound of wer "man" and eld "age," which thus means roughly "Age of Man."^[3] The Old English is a reflex of the Common Germanic *wira-al?iz, also reflected in Old Saxon werold, Old High German weralt, Old Frisian warld and Old Norse ver?ld (whence the Icelandic ver?ld).^[4]

The corresponding word in Latin is mundus, literally "clean, elegant", itself a loan translation of Greek cosmos "orderly arrangement." While the Germanic word thus reflects a mythological notion of a "domain of Man" (compare Midgard), presumably as opposed to the divine sphere on the one hand and the chthonic sphere of the underworld on the other, the Greco-Latin term expresses a notion of creation as an act of establishing order out of chaos.

'World' distinguishes the entire planet or population from any particular country or region: world affairs pertain not just to one place but to the whole world, and world history is a field of history that examines events from a global (rather than a national or a regional) perspective. Earth, on the other hand, refers to the planet as a physical entity, and distinguishes it from other planets and physical objects.

'World' can also be used attributively, to mean 'global', 'relating to the whole world', forming usages such as world community or world canonical texts.^[5]

By extension, a 'world' may refer to any planet or heavenly body, especially when it is thought of as inhabited, especially in the context of science fiction or futurology.

'World', in original sense, when qualified, can also refer to a particular domain of human experience.

In philosophy, the term world has several possible meanings. In some contexts, it refers to everything that makes up reality or the physical universe. In others, it can mean have a specific ontological sense (see world disclosure). While clarifying the concept of world has arguably always been among the basic tasks of Western philosophy, this theme appears to have been raised explicitly only at the start of the twentieth century^[6] and has been the subject of continuous debate. The question of what the world is has by no means been settled.

Parmenides

The traditional interpretation of Parmenides' work is that he argued that the every-day perception of reality of the physical world (as described in doxa) is mistaken, and that the reality of the world is 'One Being' (as described in aletheia): an unchanging, ungenerated, indestructible whole.

Plato

In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato distingues between forms and ideas and imagines two distinct worlds?: the sensible world and the intelligible world.

Hegel

In Hegel's philosophy of history, the expression Weltgeschichte ist Weltgericht (World History is a tribunal that judges the World) is used to assert the view that History is what judges men, their actions and their opinions. Science is born from the desire to transform the World in relation to Man; its final end is technical application.

Schopenhauer

The World as Will and Representation is the central work of Arthur Schopenhauer. Schopenhauer saw the human will as our one window to the world behind the representation; the Kantian thing-in-itself. He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.

Wittgenstein

Two definitions that were both put forward in the 1920s, however, suggest the range of available opinion. "The world is everything that is the case," wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein in his influential Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in 1922. This definition would serve as the basis of logical positivism, with its assumption that there is exactly one world, consisting of the totality of facts, regardless of the interpretations that individual people may make of them.

Heidegger

Martin Heidegger, meanwhile, argued that "the surrounding world is different for each of us, and notwithstanding that we move about in a common world".^[7] The world, for Heidegger, was that into which we are always already "thrown" and with which we, as beings-in-the-world, must come to terms. His conception of "world disclosure" was most notably elaborated in his 1927 work Being and Time.

Freud

In response, Freud proposed that we do not move about in a common world, but a common thought process. He believed that all the actions of a person are motivated by one thing: lust. This led to numerous theories about reactionary consciousness.

Other

Some philosophers, often inspired by David Lewis, argue that metaphysical concepts such as possibility, probability and necessity are best analyzed by comparing the world to a range of possible worlds; a view commonly known as modal realism.

Mythological cosmologies often depict the world as centered around an axis mundi and delimited by a boundary such as a world ocean, a world serpent or similar.

1. ^ Jean Chevalier and Alain Gheerbrandt. The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols. Editions Robert Lafont S. A. et Editions Jupiter: Paris, 1982. Penguin Books: London, 1996. pp.142-145
2. ^ Merriam-webster.com
3. ^ American Heritage Dictionary
4. ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003). A Handbook of Germanic Leiden: Brill. pg. 462. ISBN 90-04-.
5. ^ World Canonical Texts
6. ^ Heidegger, Martin (1982). Basic Problems of Phenomenology. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. p.?165. ISBN?0-253-17686-7.?.
7. ^ Heidegger (1982), p. 164.

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Debate over up-tempo offenses hits NFL where Chip Kelly's Eagles might have to apply brakes

The debate over up-tempo college football offenses has been an animated one this offseason in the SEC.

It started last fall when Alabama coach Nick Saban expressed concerns with the hurry-up approach and?had some questions on the topic?at SEC Media Days.?

Arkansas coach Bret?Bielema fueled the debate with his take at the SEC's spring meetings in June.

He then went on a a rant last week, which was in response to Auburn's Gus Malzahn saying he thought it was a "joke" when he heard someone said his hurry-up system leads to more injuries.

Now, the NFL is involved.

League insiders tell The Wall Street Journal the NFL has a pace to its games it intends to stick with.

Referees "aren't going to change just to accommodate someone's offense," Mike Pereira, a former NFL vice president of officiating who is now an analyst for Fox Sports told The Journal.

"We have to make sure teams understand that they don't control the tempo, our officials do," said NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino. "We're going through our normal ball mechanics, we aren't going to rush (unless) it's in the two-minute drill."

Kelly declined to comment.?

The Journal points to a couple of reasons for the NFL wanting to slow down the pace

"It's easy to see why the NFL might want to tap the brakes on these rampaging offenses. The league has long cherished the somewhat languorous breaks between plays, which are also attractive to broadcasters. There's also a safety concern: the more plays get run, the more tired players become and the more their technique suffers--increasing the risks of injury."

A couple of other things working against Kelly:

Referees, according to the report, are required to change balls after an incomplete pass or when a play ends out of bounds.?

Also, the referee who spots the ball in the NFL must be set behind the deepest offensive back before the offense can snap the ball.

Lastly, if an offensive team substitutes a player, Blandino said, the defense will also be allowed to make its substitutions.?

For the entire report, click here.

Source: http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2013/07/debate_over_up-tempo_offenses.html

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President Energy sees good flow rate potential from old Argentinian wells

() has revealed that old shut-in wells in Argentina are showing good potential for commercial rates after a programme of hydraulic stimulation.

The AIM-listed company has a 50% stake in wells PE-7 and PE-8 at the Pozo Escondido field in the Puesto Guardian concession.

PE-7 is in the process of being cleaned up, having been shut in for 27 years, and is demonstrating good flow rate potential as expected. It is swabbing at gross flow rate of liquids (oil and injection water) of 230 barrels of oil per day.

The oil cut is currently 30-40%, President added, and continues to rise steadily as the injection water is cleaned up.

After finishing the clean-up, the plan is a re-perforation of the deeper A6 sands with the well to be produced from both sections.

PE-8 is also showing potential for commercial rates, having just started the clean-up phase.

?The preliminary performance of the two Pozo Escondido stimulations is providing strong encouragement for the potential for reserves in the carbonate reservoir, and for considering further stimulation across the large portfolio of old wells in the concession,? the company said in a stock exchange statement.

Well DP 1001 meanwhile is now producing 85% oil after its stimulation.

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New ?World of Color: Winter Dreams? Show Coming to Disney California Adventure

Visitors to the Disneyland Resort and Disney California Adventure this holiday season will have a new special offering to look forward to this year, as it was announced this week that World of Color will be getting a new holiday update for the first time.

World of Color: Winter Dreams will be a new holiday spectacular using the same fountain and projection technology that World of Color has been using nightly since 2010. Led by Olaf, a snowman who appears in Disney?s upcoming film?Frozen, the new show will feature a number of new holiday-themed scenes from Disney films both old and new.

Here?s a video of Steve Davison, Vice President of Parades and Spectaculars at Walt Disney Imagineering, explaining a little bit more about the new show, courtesy of the Disney Parks Blog:

World of Color: Winter Dreams will begin November 15, 2013 at Disney California Adventure park.

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Panel backs lung cancer screening for some smokers

For the first time, government advisers are recommending screening for lung cancer, saying certain current and former heavy smokers should get annual scans to cut their chances of dying of the disease.

If it becomes final as expected, the advice by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force would clear the way for insurers to cover CT scans, a type of X-ray, for those at greatest risk.

That would be people ages 55 through 79 who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 30 years or the equivalent, such as two packs a day for 15 years. Whether screening would help younger or lighter smokers isn't known, so scans are not advised for them. They also aren't for people who quit at least 15 years ago, or people too sick or frail to undergo cancer treatment.

"The evidence shows we can prevent a substantial number of lung cancer deaths by screening" ? about 20,000 of the 160,000 that occur each year in the United States, said Dr. Michael LeFevre, a task force leader and family physician at the University of Missouri.

Public comments will be taken until Aug. 26, then the panel will give its final advice. Reports on screening were published Monday in Annals of Internal Medicine.

The recommendation is a big deal for many reasons. The task force, an independent group of doctors appointed by the government, in recent years has urged less frequent screening for breast and cervical cancers, and no screening for prostate cancer, saying PSA blood tests do men more harm than good. There are no good ways to screen for ovarian cancer or other less common types.

But lung cancer is the top cancer killer worldwide. Nearly 90 percent of people who get it die from it, usually because it's found too late for treatment to succeed. About 85 percent of lung cancers in the U.S. are attributable to smoking, and about 37 percent of U.S. adults are current or former smokers. The task force estimates that 10 million Americans would fit the smoking and age criteria for screening.

The American Cancer Society used to recommend screening with ordinary chest X-rays but withdrew that advice in 1980 after studies showed they weren't saving lives. Since then, CT scans have come into wider use, and the society and other groups have endorsed their limited use for screening certain heavy smokers.

The scans cost $100 to as much as $400 and are not usually covered by Medicare or private insurers now. But under the new health care law, cancer screenings recommended by the task force are to be covered with no copays.

"It's generally going to be covered by all health plans" if the advice gets final task force approval, said Susan Pisano of the industry trade group America's Health Insurance Plans. She said her group may develop a response during the public comment period but has had "high regard" for the task force in the past "because they rely so heavily on the evidence" in crafting their recommendations.

The task force considered lung cancer screening in 2004 but said there was too little evidence to weigh risks and benefits. Since then, a major study found that screening the age group covered in the task force's recommendation could cut the chances of dying from lung cancer by up to 20 percent and from any cause by nearly 7 percent.

Screening "is absolutely not for everybody," not even all smokers, LeFevre stressed. That includes President Barack Obama, who said a couple years ago that he had quit smoking. Obama is too young (he will turn 52 in a few days) and too light a smoker (he reportedly smoked less than a pack a day), to be in the high-risk group advised to get screening.

The potential benefits of screening may not outweigh its possible harms for people not at high risk of developing lung cancer. A suspicious finding on a scan often leads to biopsies and other medical tests that have costs and complications of their own. The radiation from scans to look for cancer can raise the risk of developing the disease.

"These scans uncover things, often things that are not important. But you don't figure out that for a while," and only after entering "the medical vortex" of follow-up tests, said Dr. Peter Bach, a cancer screening expert at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

The best way to prevent lung cancer is to quit smoking or never start, and screening doesn't make smoking safer, doctors stress.

"That's everyone's public health concern: People will see this as a pass to continue smoking," Bach said of screening. "I don't think it's likely," because people know how harmful smoking is, he said.

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The Muse, Transformational Grammar, and Writing | Speaking of ...

July 27, 2013 by Jimmie A. Kepler

Example of Transformational Grammar

Have you ever had a muse, or a muse-like experience where you felt so passionate, or ?taken over? by a creative spirit or compulsion to express and create? This is more than just ?in the zone? ? it?s almost as if someone or something takes over and writes for you.

Four examples of a muse in my life are shared below.

One ? I was taking a senior level English course with the ominous title ?Transformational Grammar and Advanced Creative Writing?. The course was exactly as the title ? a writing class that made sure you dissected the grammar. Remember diagramming sentences? This was far more interesting as it dismembered each sentence to parts of speech, syllables, suffixes/prefixes and even lower in structure. You could get credit for the class as a senior level English or Linguistics course. The professor was my first muse. She believed in and encouraged my writing. She was the first to point out the value of reading regularly, journaling, and submitting what you wrote. She helped get me published the first time in a university publication and then a historical article in a military magazine. She told me I should embrace a bohemian lifestyle and write full-time. She turned me on to Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac.

Two ? I was motivated to the point of being driven ? me driven, can you imagine? Anyway, I wanted to get into a doctoral program and needed to start getting published in my chosen discipline ? religious education. I went to the right conferences, met the right people, and paid the price. This wasn?t a once and done thing. It was getting one then two then three then four then five then six a year published. Sheer vanity ? I wrote some very good articles like ?What I Learned when a Church Member Died?, an article about preaching my first funeral and the shortcomings of the religious education curriculum to prepare the associate minister in this critical area is an example.

Three ? Nancy Karen Vandiver Garrison ? I know her from high school. We also went to the same university. We did prose interpretation and literary criticism together in University Interscholastic League competition way back 45 years ago. Thanks to social media and email we converse almost every day for years and still do, as recently as in the last few seconds. She holds me accountable to keep on writing and never give up. More than anything, she encourages me to not give up or listen to the rejections. She also says what?s next when I get an acceptance. She is a darn good poet and supporter of the arts. Plus, we both love The Monkees!

Four ? In 1992, I wrote 275 pages in one night for a nonfiction book I was working on. The damn broke, and it just flowed. I was on prescriptions that powered my writing. I was taking Seldane. Remember it? It ?wasthe first non-sedating antihistamine. It was later taken off the market in 1998. It fueled me as it is about 80% amphetamine. It taken with Celebrex we now know were causes of my first TIA (commonly known as a mini-stroke) as per the cardiologist and neurologist. I have had some 50 to 75 page experiences in writing that happen the same way without drugs to energize me. Sometimes the poems bounce around in my head and won?t quit talking until I relocate them to paper. It can be very surreal. I?ve had several magazine articles I wrote that I have sold to publications like Children?s Leadership and Preschool Leadership that just flowed almost perfectly.

I find the muse magically appears when I put my behind in the chair and write.

Background on Muses: The Muses, the personification of knowledge and the arts, especially literature, dance and music, are the nine daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne (memory personified). Hesiod?s account and description of the Muses was the one generally followed by the writers of antiquity. It was not until Roman times that the following functions were assigned to them, and even then there was some variation in both their names and their attributes:
? Calliope -epic poetry;
? Clio -history;
? Euterpe -flutes and lyric poetry;
? Thalia -comedy and pastoral poetry;
? Melpomene -tragedy;
? Terpsichore -dance;
? Erato -love poetry;
? Polyhymnia -sacred poetry;
? Urania -astronomy.

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Breakthrough in detecting DNA mutations could help treat tuberculosis, cancer

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Researchers have developed a new method that can look at a specific segment of DNA and pinpoint a single mutation, which could help diagnose and treat diseases such as cancer and tuberculosis.

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TKC BREAKING NEWS!!! EVERYBODY SHOULD TAKE THE DOWNTOWN TOY TRAIN STREETCAR SURVEY BECAUSE ALL OF KANSAS CITY IS GONNA PAY FOR THE MAYOR'S FAVORITE PLAYTHING!!!

Here's a look at local PR workers attempting to target their message properly . . .

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PLEASE SKEW AND SCREW UP THE DATA FOR THIS TOY TRAIN SURVEY GIVEN THAT THE RIGGED ELECTION IS GOING TO COST ALL OF KANSAS CITY IN THE LONG RUN!!!

Also . . . Mayor Sly and Council never really asked anybody but a measly 300 people about this effort . . .

Streetcar survey for Downtown employers, workers and residents

The Kansas City Streetcar Authority is conducting a behavioral survey of employers, workers and residents in the KC Downtown Transportation Development District (see attached map) to gauge perceptions and potential use of the Downtown streetcar and to aid in determining hours of operation.

The Downtown Streetcar, which will operate from Union Station to the River Market, is expected go live in about two years.

If you respond by Aug. 1, you will be eligible to win dinner for two from one of Downtown?s best restaurants.

Not only are you invited to complete a survey, but also the Streetcar Authority welcomes input from your employees, colleagues and friends in the TDD. Simply ask them to follow the link to get the survey that is appropriate for them:

Downtown employers: www.surveymonkey.com/s/Downtownemployers2013

Downtown workers: www.surveymonkey.com/s/Downtownworkers2013

Downtown residents: www.surveymonkey.com/s/Downtownresidents2013
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SbB LIVE FROM LA (Jul 27, 2013 @ 8:56am ET)

9:00 PM: CBS 4 Denver reports on a black bear that wandered into a bar in Estes Park, Colorado. A local resident followed the bear into the bar and tried to warn the people inside, but he said the patrons were "oblivious" to their new visitor.

8:45 PM: Minnesota Wild goalie Josh Harding has started a new charity called Harding's Hope to help raise awareness & funds for people battling multiple sclerosis. Harding was diagnosed with MS last September but continued to play last season.

8:30 PM: Video of Memphis Tigers QB Jacob Kaman playing piano & singing along with Breanna Bercegeay, an 11-year-old girl battling leukemia. The impromptu performance occured during a visit by Kaman to St. Jude Children's Hospital.

8:15 PM: WSB-TV reports on Zna Gresham, a 10-year-old girl who caught a 1-month-old baby that fell from a burning apartment in Decatur, Georgia on Thursday.

8:00 PM: A marijuana legalization advocacy group plans to air a pro-pot, anti-alcohol ad outside the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for this weekend's Brickyard 400 NASCAR race.

7:45 PM: New York Jets cornerback Aaron Berry is out for the season after suffering a torn ACL during practice Friday. Berry had collided with receiver Joseph Collins during a passing drill.

7:30 PM: Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer will not rejoin the team in Seattle as he will spend the series at home with his newborn twin daughters, who were born five weeks premature.

7:15 PM: Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has joined Twitter and presents this first tweet: "Hello Twitter. Expect no BS from me. Just straight fire!"

7:00 PM: Florida Gators football coach Will Muschamp has received a $250,000 raise, but is still only the 7th highest paid coach in the SEC.

6:45 PM: An Atlanta AAU basketball team at a national tournament in Las Vegas has been wearing "I Am Trayvon" shirts before & after games in honor of Trayvon Martin.

6:30 PM: In an interview with Fortune magazine, former FBI director Louis Freeh said there was criticism but "not one disputed fact" about his report on the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

6:15 PM: Chicago Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville has been signed to a three-year contract extension through the 2016-17 season.

6:00 PM: Receiver Braylon Edwards, who recently re-signed with the New York Jets, said about watching last year's team: "Nobody sells mouthwash that could wash the taste of that out of my mouth."

5:45 PM: Former Miami Dolphins player Donald Bessillieu was arrested in Columbus, Georgia on Thursday on charges of drug possession & driving without a license. Bessillieu had previously been arrested on drug charges last February after he was caught flagging down a known prostitute.

5:30 PM: Former NBA player Kenny Anderson said about finally revealing that he was sexually abused as a child: "This is therapy for me, and maybe people who follow me or are fans of mine, they went through this. More people will talk and let more people know what's going on in their lives, catch it early."

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The Scary, Passenger's Eye View From Inside the Crashed Southwest Plane

The newest installment in the saga of the Southwest 737 airplane that skidded to a fiery halt as its nose gear collapsed during landing gives us markedly different perspective than we've seen thus far. This time, personal footage has been released from one of the passengers onboard who just happened to be filming as things went awry.

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At least 77 dead in one of Europe's worst rail disasters

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Scores are killed and injured in a train derailment in NW Spain.

By Becky Bratu and Alastair Jamieson, NBC News

At least 77 people were killed and up to 145 injured when a high-speed train crashed in northwest Spain on Wednesday, triggering an investigation into reports that it was going too fast on a tight curve.

Images from the scene showed bodies covered in blankets and towels lying next to toppled and crushed carriages as a plume of smoke billowed from the wreckage near Santiago de Compostela. Rescuers worked to pull survivors out of broken windows.

"It was going so quickly. ... It seems that on a curve the train started to twist, and the wagons piled up one on top of the other," passenger Ricardo Montesco told Cadena Ser radio station, according to Reuters.

El Pais newspaper cited sources close to the investigation saying the driver stated immediately after the crash that he had been traveling at 118 mph on the curve, which had a speed limit of 49 mph.

Trapped in his wrecked cab, he reportedly told supervisors over the radio: ?"We're human! We're human," according to El Pais. "I hope there are no fatalities because they will fall on my conscience,"?he said, according to the newspaper?s source. NBC News was unable to immediately confirm the report.

There are reports of as many as 100 people wounded and doezens dead in a train derailment in northwestern Spain. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

All of the bodies had been removed from the wreckage by Thursday morning, with hospitals treating 145 injured according to a 9:43 a.m. (3:43 a.m. ET) update via state broadcaster RTVE. Three of the wounded were still unidentified.

Local residents lined up to donate blood.

"The scene is shocking, it's Dante-esque," the head of Spain's Galicia region, Alberto Nunez Feijoo, said in a radio interview, according to Reuters.

A woman told RTVE that she had still been unable to locate a relative, who had been a passsenger on the train, despite calling local hospitals for more than? 12 hours.

?We don?t know where our brother is,? she said. ?I spent the night calling all the hospitals in Galicia, all the numbers they?ve given us. And nobody tells us anything, absolutely nobody.?

The crash, which happened at 8:41 p.m. local time (2:41 p.m. ET) Wednesday, was Europe?s deadliest mainline train accident in more than 25 years.

It also cast a shadow of tragedy over the entire Galicia region, which had been due to celebrate a public holiday Thursday.

Santiago de Compostela had been preparing for the festival of Saint James, when thousands of Christian pilgrims from around the world pack the streets. It is likely the train was packed full with people traveling for the holiday.

Officials said all of the celebrations, including a traditional High Mass at the city?s centuries-old cathedral, were canceled.

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A group of volunteers waiting to give blood to help those injured in the train accident close to Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Wednesday.

"In the face of a tragedy such as just happened in Santiago de Compostela on the eve of its big day, I can only express my deepest sympathy as a Spaniard and a Galician," Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said in a statement ahead of a visit to the crash site.

The eight-car Alvia express train was carrying 218 passengers from the capital, Madrid, to the city of Ferrol when it derailed about two miles short of Santiago de Compostela station, national train operator Renfe said in a statement.

Spain?s rail network is one of the most modern and successful in Europe, following decades of public investment in high-speed connections between key cities.

Transport expert and author Christian Wolmar said it was not clear if high-tech safety systems, which override inputs by the driver, would have been in use at the time.

?On high speed lines, the European Train Control System should automatically correct the speed of the train, but this accident may have happened on a stretch of line which is not designated as high-speed,? he said.

Reuters reported that the mayor of Santiago Angel Curras told Cadena Ser radio: "It seems the speed of the train was likely not the right one."

Rail workers? union SEMAF expressed ?support for the comrade who has been implicated in this accident? as well as ?condolences? to the victims, according to RTVE.

The crash is Spain?s biggest disaster since the 2004 terror attack at Madrid?s Atocha station that left 191 dead.

In November 2000, 155 people were killed when a fire in a tunnel engulfed a funicular train packed with skiers in Austria.

In Montenegro, up to 46 people were killed and nearly 200 injured in 2006 when a packed train derailed and plunged into a ravine outside the capital, Podgorica.

NBC News' Brinley Bruton and Jason Cumming and?Reuters contributed to this report.?

This story was originally published on Wed Jul 24, 2013 9:23 PM EDT

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Nathan (Nate) Salter: Race cars and old cars were his passion ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]He lived for auto racing and the old car hobby. He loved nothing more than talking about racing and cars and not far behind, in second place, was his love of writing about them. He was always doing one or the other, ...

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Obama's Soaring Rhetoric Kept Aloft by Plenty of Hot Air

Yahoo asked Americans to respond to Barack Obama's speech on the economy on Wednesday and share whether their own lives match the president's words. Here's one perspective.

COMMENTARY | Once again, President Obama has addressed the nation in a speech loaded with lofty, yet mostly empty, rhetoric. As he has done on so many previous occasions, Obama acknowledged some painful truths while putting forth no real meaningful solutions to the problems plaguing our nation and, in this case, its struggling economy.

It was nice to see the president express his alarm at the nation's growing wealth gap, that "the income of the top 1 percent nearly quadrupled from 1979 to 2007, while the typical family's barely budged," or that "Washington doled out bigger tax cuts to the rich and smaller minimum wage increases for the working poor," or that the very bargain implicit in the "American Dream" -- "that your hard work would be rewarded with fair wages and benefits, the chance to buy a home, to save for retirement, and above all, to hand down a better life for your kids" -- has been broken.

But that's about where Obama's honesty ended. He then went on to claim that his administration "put in tough new rules on big banks," failing to mention that not a single Wall Street bankster has been jailed or that the so-called "financial reform" bill has been widely decried as "toothless." Same goes for Obamacare -- in his speech, the president claimed he "took on a broken health care system." How? By allowing insurance industry lobbyists to write key portions of the Affordable Care Act and by ensuring that the U.S. remains the only industrialized nation without some sort of single-payer universal health care program?

I personally cannot complain about my current economic situation. I am a 39-year-old who is employed as a writer, living in a San Francisco household where my partner earns more than enough to provide for all of our needs and more. But that doesn't change the fact that millions of Americans are suffering -- 46 million, or one out of every six of us, is poor. And the "recovery" Obama is touting is painfully sluggish; most of the employment being created is of the low-wage, part-time, no-benefit variety.

American will need more than soaring rhetoric and "God's blessing" to survive as we know it. It will need real change, change that this president has proven as unable -- or unwilling -- to deliver as any of his predecessors in living memory.

Brett Wilkins is the editor of Moral Low Ground.

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'Monsters University' holds off 'The World's End' at UK box office

Monsters University has topped the UK box office for the second consecutive weekend.

The Pixar prequel held off competition from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright's Cornetto Trilogy finale The World's End to secure the number one spot with a ?2.7 million haul.

The World's End earned ?2.1 million from its 530 locations nationwide, beating the ?1.6 million opening from Shaun of the Dead in 2004 but falling behind Hot Fuzz's ?5.9 million haul.

Last week's runner-up Despicable Me 2 drops to third place, while Pacific Rim and Now You See Me round out the top five.

Elsewhere, Nicolas Cage and Vanessa Hudgens's serial killer drama The Frozen Ground is the only other new release to make the top ten, landing at number nine with ?89,515 from its 126 screening venues.

The UK box office top ten in full:

1. (1) Monsters University - ?2,791,078
2. (-) The World's End - ?2,123,576
3. (2) Despicable Me 2 - ?1,850,549
4. (3) Pacific Rim - ?1,332,877
5. (4) Now You See Me - ?922,669
6. (6) World War Z - ?242,057
7. (5) The Internship - ?226,680
8. (7) Man of Steel - ?134,325
9. (-) The Frozen Ground - ?89,515
10. (8) This Is The End - ?74,270

Source: Rentrak

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Small Bites: 2 minutes with Rymdkapsel for iOS and Android

It might not look it, but Grapefrukt's Rymdkapsel is actually a deep and engrossing real-time strategy game, with a touch of tower defence thrown in for good measure.

It's just been stripped down, that's all.

In Rymdkapsel, you must command your little minions to build corridors. This will enable you to gain access to and research four mysterious monoliths in every corner of the map.

Along the way, you'll need to harvest resources to help pay for your fancy new corridors.

You've got blue boxes, which are automatically generated by reactors; red tiles, which come from extractors and sap energy from nearby particle fields; green slime, which grows in gardens; and yellow pyramids, which are made from slime and processed in kitchens.

You'll also need to hire more minions. You generate these in quarters by using the yellow pyramids. Oh, and another thing - every few minutes, a bunch of horrible space snakes will fly in and try to kill you. So, yep, you need to build a weapons room for defence.

Rymdkapsel is all about slowly and systematically building paths around the map. How? By plopping down Tetris-shaped blocks. But you need to keep on top of resources, and assign all your minions to different jobs to keep your little factory running smoothly.

Its got an ultra-stylised indie vibe, and looks like an infographic (or a city map), as made by some achingly hip design firm.

But Grapefrukt uses this highly economical visual palette to help explain what's going on. Everything's smartly colour-coded, so you can scan over the map and immediately know what's happening. And everything snaps neatly to a grid, like Lego bricks.

Ultimately, Grapefrukt does a fantastic job of taking the RTS genre and ruthlessly wringing it out until only the most fundamental DNA is left over. It's just units, resources, and enemies. Nothing more, nothing less.

Plus, Rymdkapsel feels fantastic on touchscreen, and isn't as fiddly on a phone as you might think.

So, if you missed this on PlayStation Mobile, or don't have a PlayStation Certified gizmo, do check this one out when it hits iOS and Android next week.

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Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez's wedding only had 60 guests.

A source told People magazine: "The wedding was very intimate and only for family and the closest friends. They wanted a romantic and private situation. I was very touched by the love they show for one another."

The 'Monster's Ball' actress has allegedly never been happier although she has two failed marriages behind her, friends say she has finally found the man of her dreams.

Another source told In Touch Weekly: "She feels like she's finally with the man she is supposed to be with."

Halle, 46, is also thrilled that her five-year-old daughter Nahla adores Olivier, 47, too.

The insider added: "Nahla seems to adore Olivier and was very affectionate with him at the wedding."

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Ohio construction jobs take a hit in June

The Buckeye State posted 176,300 construction workers for the month, down 1,900 positions from the previous month.

Staff Dayton Business Journal

Ohio saw its number of construction workers tumble in June.

The Buckeye State posted 176,300 construction workers for the month, down 1,900 positions ? or 1.1 percent ? from the previous month, according to the Associated General Contractors of America.

On a year-over-year basis, the numbers showed even greater losses.

The state lost 3,900 construction jobs ? or 2.2 percent ? compared to the previous June.

Across the U.S., construction jobs showed gains and losses spread evenly among states.

?Nearly all states lag their pre-recession peaks for construction jobs,? said Ken Simonson, the association?s chief economist.

Click here for the full state-by-state breakdowns.

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James Gunn Confirms Thanos for 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Says Rocket Raccoon Casting Reveal Coming Soon | /Film

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iPhone News: iPhone activations on Verizon grew 41 percent year over year, and analys

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'Beverly Hills Cop' Pilot Isn't Moving To A New Network

EW:

The "Beverly Hills Cop" TV spin-off planned for CBS seemed to be a foregone conclusion, with a star in place (Brandon T. Jackson), a TV vet as the new police chief (Christine Lahti), and even the promise of occasional visits from original star Eddie Murphy as Detective Axel Foley. But in May, it was announced that CBS had passed on the hour-long drama, leaving the pilot's future up in the air.

Read the whole story at EW

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Car leasing is back with a vengeance - Fortune Features

By Doron Levin, contributor

Get one cheap.

FORTUNE -- The Newport Beach, California periodontist who trades regularly among the latest Mercedes, BMW and Lexus sedans is typical of a client that prefers to lease, rather than to buy, vehicles. Now her assistant, who keeps his Honda Civic for a long stretch, is leasing as well.

The recovering U.S. auto market has been characterized, in part, by a rising percentage of customers who are leasing cars, notably non-luxury buyers. Last year the percentage of those leasing reached 22%; this year it could break through 25%, according to Edmunds.com. Low interest rates and strong pricing for used cars are two factors behind the trend.

"Luxury brands have for a long time relied on leasing to maximize their sales volumes. Now mainstream brands are riding that wave, drawing buyers with the promise of lower monthly payments through leasing," says Jessica Caldwell, an analyst for Edmunds.com.

MORE:?Detroit's bankruptcy is an utter defeat

Many younger buyers have been attracted by lease deals because they can more easily understand a monthly payment and the simplicity of returning a vehicle after a set period of time?as opposed to a fixed price that is complicated by a down payment and several financing options. Many also like the option of buying the car at a set price at the end of the lease period.

But those holding the lease (often the automakers themselves) may get burned if the so-called residual value of the car?the projected price at the end of the lease period?doesn't live up to expectations due to a soft market for used vehicles. Sometimes automaker lending arms create low monthly payments and unrealistically high residuals to disguise what actually is a financial incentive to buy.

Monthly payments for lease vehicles are usually lower than payments for purchased vehicles that are financed with a loan. But (as Edmunds.com points out) if a motorist decides to drive a car for six years or more, the purchase of a slightly used vehicle is more cost efficient than new or leased vehicles.

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Larry Dominique, president of ALG, a company that tracks residual values and lease rates, said "we have seen automakers that traditionally didn't lease, such as Hyundai and Kia, are embracing the practice due to increased residual values." Rising quality and tight availability of Korean brands has raised transaction prices of new vehicles, making used vehicle prices stronger as well.

A vehicle lease is an agreement whereby a third-party financial institution owns the car, the user of the vehicle agreeing to pay a monthly rate and return the vehicle after a specific period of time, with no more than a set number of miles on the odometer. The agreement usually contains a financial penalty for exceeding the mileage limit.

ALG is bullish on the continued increased in the strength of residual values, which comes from rising demand for vehicles. Used-car supply is tight, Dominique said, "which is causing an unnaturally high value on used cars. We don't expect the supply of used cars to return to where it was in 2007 [when the car market tanked] until 2017."

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A big disadvantage of a vehicle lease, getting stuck for a long time with a vehicle you don't like, has an up-to-date digital remedy. For a fee, Swapalease.com matches motorists who want to get out of their lease with those who might be interested in assuming them.

The auto companies have too fresh a memory of the last collapse to tempt a new one with residual values that wildly unrealistic. Still the threat of a new bubble is never too distant, which is why lower and lower monthly payments may trigger alarm bells.

Source: http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2013/07/22/car-leasing-is-back-with-a-vengeance/

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