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News release: "An update of the widely-cited manufacturing “cost study” has been released by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), The Manufacturing Institute and the Manufacturers Alliance/MAPI shows that U.S. manufacturing is making progress in reducing its cost disadvantage against nine major foreign competitors but that high corporate tax rates now account for more than half of the burden."
The Tide Is Turning: An Update on Structural Cost Pressures Facing U.S. Manufacturers, November 2008

Jordan's Queen Rania has received YouTube's first ever Visionary Award
The 38-year-old royal was praised for launching an interactive channel to help dismiss stereotypes and misconceptions often associated with Arabs and Muslims on the video sharing website. http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7013079121

Department of Labor Final Rule on Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
FR Doc. 2008-26577, Filed 11/14/2008; Publication Date: 11/17/2008: This document provides the text of final regulations implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. The final regulations also address new military family leave entitlements included in amendments to the FMLA enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2008, which provide additional job-protected leave rights to eligible employees of covered employers who provide care for covered service members with a serious injury or illness and because of qualifying exigencies arising out of the fact that a covered military member is on active duty or has been notified of an impending call or order to active duty in support of a contingency operation.

I love words. It's something I gave up my career in software for. Every morning when I wake up I can't wait to begin exploring words and writing about them. I've been doing that for 14 years and wouldn't want to be doing anything else. Having said that, there are times when I feel I have to be ready to feed this beast -- A.Word.A.Day -- week after week after week. It opens its hungry maw every Monday and I had better be ready with another serving of juicy, delicious words. Anu Garg A.Word.A.Day

From weekly reaction to A.Word.A.Day
Miriam (miriaml savion.cc.huji.ac.il)
My favorite blended word is "huggle". When my kids were little, I always asked them if they wanted a "huggle" -- a combination of a hug and a cuddle.
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Susan L. West (westsl aol.com)
"Advertorial" elicited my coined word "gregacious" or "gregaciousness", stemming from "gregarious" and "gracious".
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James Welch (gneeby gmail.com)
"Bookazine" is another example of a portmanteau. A bookazine is in the format of a monthly magazine but focused on a single topic and is expected to have a shelf life of six months. Forbes 2009 Retirement Guide is an example of a bookazine.

November 18 is the 80th birthday of Mickey Mouse, as officially celebrated by Walt Disney. Mickey Mouse was actually "born" about six months before his official birthday, debuting in a cartoon where he played pilot Charles Lindbergh, but the cartoon failed to pick up a distributor. And so did a second cartoon, "The Gallopin' Gaucho," in which Mickey rides a rhea around Argentina, smoking, drinking, challenging men to duels, and acting like an outlaw. But in his third reincarnation, released on this day in 1928, the creators of Mickey found success, in a cartoon entitled "Steamboat Willie," shown at New York's Colony Theatre
November 18 is the birthday of novelist and poet Margaret Atwood, (books by this author) born in Ottawa, Ontario (1939). Atwood's first novel, The Edible Woman, came out in 1969. It's about a woman who finds that she can no longer eat after her boyfriend proposes marriage. Atwood is best known for her novel The Handmaid's Tale (1985), about an imaginary America where religious fanatics have taken over the government. The book became an international best-seller. The Writer’s Almanac