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The National Audubon Society is looking to hire a communications coordinator for its Mississippi River Delta Restoration Campaign. This position may be located either in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, or Washington, D.C. Here?s the scoop:

The communications coordinator for the Mississippi River Delta Restoration Campaign will play a key role in building nationwide awareness and support for restoration of the Mississippi River Delta on behalf of the National Audubon Society, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the National Wildlife Federation. The coordinator will work closely with other staff members to create and produce content for web and print, conduct media outreach, and distribute key information to campaign staff.

Audubon is looking for candidates with about three years of experience in public relations, journalism or other communications and marketing fields with a demonstrated record of success. To learn more about the position, click this link: Environmental Communication Position.

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Chavez set to begin new round of cancer treatment

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, smiles at supporters while embracing his daughter Rosa on a balcony of the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday Aug. 27, 2011. Chavez said during a televised Cabinet meeting on Saturday that he will undergo his next round of chemotherapy in Venezuela instead of Cuba, where he has had previous cancer treatments. He is expected to check in to the Military Hospital in Caracas on Saturday night to begin his third phase of chemotherapy. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, smiles at supporters while embracing his daughter Rosa on a balcony of the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday Aug. 27, 2011. Chavez said during a televised Cabinet meeting on Saturday that he will undergo his next round of chemotherapy in Venezuela instead of Cuba, where he has had previous cancer treatments. He is expected to check in to the Military Hospital in Caracas on Saturday night to begin his third phase of chemotherapy. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, acknowledges cheering supporters while holding his daughter Rosa's hand, right, on a balcony of the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday Aug. 27, 2011. Chavez said during a televised Cabinet meeting on Saturday that he will undergo his next round of chemotherapy in Venezuela instead of Cuba, where he has had previous cancer treatments. He is expected to check in to the Military Hospital in Caracas on Saturday night to begin his third phase of chemotherapy. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, right, laughs while embracing his daughter Rosa on a balcony of the Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday Aug. 27, 2011. Chavez said during a televised Cabinet meeting on Saturday that he will undergo his next round of chemotherapy in Venezuela instead of Cuba, where he has had previous cancer treatments. He is expected to check in to the Military Hospital in Caracas on Saturday night to begin his third phase of chemotherapy. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

(AP) ? Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez checked in to a military hospital Saturday night to begin a third round of chemotherapy, this time getting the cancer treatment at home rather than Cuba.

Chavez walked into the Dr. Carlos Arvelo Military Hospital accompanied by his daughter Maria and aides. He said his treatment has been going well and aims to prevent reappearance of cancer cells more than two months after he underwent surgery.

"I'm coming in the best shape," Chavez said on television as he was led through the hospital. "I'll come out of here strengthened."

He said earlier on television that he and his team of Cuban and Venezuelan doctors decided it would be all right for him to undergo chemotherapy in Venezuela after his latest round of medical tests Friday. "The conditions are in place to do this third cycle here," he said.

"I'm determined to continue living," Chavez said at the hospital. "It's not time to die. What we have to do still is a great deal."

Chavez, who was first elected in 1998, has vowed to bounce back and win re-election in 2012.

Before going to the hospital, Chavez appeared on a balcony of the presidential palace waving to a crowd of cheering supporters. They included a group that played Afro-Venezuelan music, beating on drums and dancing. Some chanted: "Onward, commander!"

The leftist leader swung his hips to the music and saluted black Venezuelans, saying: "Down with racism."

Chavez expressed optimism that he is overcoming cancer, referring to the "illness I had." He said he was making arrangements with his vice president, Elias Jaua, and other officials in order to "continue with this rhythm of treatment."

Chavez underwent surgery in Cuba that removed a cancerous tumor from his pelvic region in June. He has not specified where the tumor was located but said the latest follow-up tests haven't detected any sign of malignant cells in his body. He said the chemotherapy is a preventive measure.

Chavez has appeared with his head shaved the past few weeks after his hair began to fall out as a result of chemotherapy.

The president said during a televised Cabinet meeting on Saturday that he expects to disappear from public view in the coming days but will remain in contact with government officials and his supporters by phone and Twitter.

"In the coming hours, between today and tomorrow we'll be preparing for the third cycle," Chavez said.

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Review: Deus Ex: Human Revolution?(PC)

Posted by Chad M. on August 27, 2011 ? 1 Comment?

The Way You?re Wired

The announcement of a new entry into a series whose original game tends to inspire fresh installs every time it?s mentioned is a big undertaking. Warren Spector?s original Deus Ex is widely considered to be a classic PC game, so many fans have waited with bated breath to see if Eidos Montreal?s prequel is worthy of the name (especially after the second entry in the series, Invisible War, was poorly received).

Deus Ex: Human Revolution?puts you into the biomechanically-augmented?body of Adam Jensen, a security agent for Sarif Industries. While investigating an anti-augmentation group?s attacks on the company, Adam gets drawn into a much larger conflict. The most spoiler-free I can get regarding the story is that it?s pretty excellent, with plenty of intrigue and twists.

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The game is a hybrid first-person shooter and action-RPG (as was the original). While you?ll spend a considerable amount of time in combat, the sheer amount of non-combat stuff to do is impressive. There?s plenty to explore, and exploration yields rewards in several forms: you can pick up extra quests, find new items and even gain a few XP with a little bit of footwork. While you can just follow the arrow to your next objective, it?s a lot more fun to get lost in Detroit or one of the other locations in the game. You can learn a lot about the environment and the world of 2027 just by asking around, and even more by rooting around. You can read other people?s email, pick up eBooks, and eavesdrop on conversations. Heck, you can even pick up a basketball and shoot some hoops.

The combat system is interesting. While shooting is a major part of the gameplay, it isn?t all there is to do. Combat often requires a tactical approach, using cover and the element of surprise as a major advantage. You?re given the choice of both lethal and nonlethal weapons, in addition to grenades that can knock out machinery or daze opponents. The cover system, which switches you to a?third-person viewpoint, is?well-implemented. ?However, my favorite parts of the combat repertoire are the ones that require a little subterfuge. Find the right computer terminal and you can turn gun turrets and patrol bots on their masters (which also, helpfully, means they won?t attack you). You also have a variety of Arkham Asylum-style takedowns at your disposal, both deadly and nonlethal. It?s fun to sneak up on someone and stick a couple of knives in his back; however, sometimes it?s just as satisfying to knock someone out cold after a particularly aggravating conversation.

Augs let you drop off buildings without risk. As well as lots of light.

Scene-Stealing Hack

You?re also capable of hacking computers and keypads to open doors, safes, and terminals; thankfully, the minigame is fun. You have a limited number of attempts on any object and each node takes a certain amount of time to capture and has a certain percentage chance of detection. If your hacking is detected, then you?re given a time limit and have to finish the hack before the timer hits zero. You also have a few tools at your disposal ? you can fortify a node to make it take longer for a trace to get through, you can use software to stop the timer briefly or capture a node silently. As opposed to, say, BioShock or Mass Effect, where hacking is an annoyance, these can actually be quite fun in their own right.

This brings me to another part of the gameplay that enhances the others ? your augments. The augmentations, which grant you special abilities, are what makes it a Deus Ex game after all. When you level up (or pick up a Praxis kit), you?re given a Praxis point, which can be used to unlock your abilities. These all serve to enhance your abilities in one way or another, and there are quite a few choices. You can take points that make you jump higher, let you survive falls from the tops of buildings, perform takedowns on multiple opponents, and chuck a cardboard box with enough force to kill the poor bastard hiding in it. You can also use?them to enhance your radar so you can see enemies from further away, or to see through walls (and there is?a weapon that exploits this). You can also level up various aspects of your hacking skills, and of course, bend light around you to become invisible. Temporarily, of course,?because most of these powers sap some of your Bioelectric energy, which must be restored by scarfing energy bars or (presumably) snorting protein powder.

The setting is really cool. Set in a Golden Age of scientific discovery (with undertones of discontent, paranoia and fear of the new technologies), the look is both traditionally Blade Runner-esque?cyberpunk and Renaissance-inspired. And it really, really works. You?ll see a wide variety of places ? from Adam?s noirish?apartment, to Sarif?s ultramodern offices, to a TV station that looks like it was designed by Apple employees, in addition to places I don?t want to spoil. The storyline and setting also have the perhaps dubious honor of being one of the most plausible futures I?ve seen depicted in a videogame.

The one sticking point I find in the game are the boss battles. Seriously, whose idea was it to put forced combat situations in a game that otherwise allows you to play however you like? If I?m playing Adam as a hacker or stealth specialist, how am I supposed to deal with a big bullet sponge who doesn?t even respond to me trying to shoot the weapon out of his hand? In the original Deus Ex there were two forced confrontations, but each had a go-around that allowed you (if you did enough poking around) to take them out without so much as drawing your gun. The game is not optimized for head-on combat, yet that?s pretty much what the?bosses force you into. I can only assume that the boss fights were designed by a separate team who weren?t informed that the combat in other parts of the game assumes you can avoid direct exposure to enemy fire. The fights just seem shoehorned in by someone who assumes that all games need boss battles. It doesn?t mesh well with the style of gameplay or the ?play it how you want? spirit of the game.

A more minor complaint (and this may be a PC or even Steam-exclusive issue) is that the prerendered?cutscenes all seem to be heavily compressed, and as a result look kind of rough. It doesn?t affect the gameplay at all, but it?s definitely a letdown when the prerendered scenes look less crisp than what my video card can render.

Future Perfect

Those complaints aside, Deus Ex: Human Revolution?is a superb game. It?s easily one of the best I?ve played all year. It?s an example of what a good team can do with an almost forgotten franchise by not forgetting or discounting what made the original so great in the first place (and yes, that is a jab at 2K?s X-Com?reboot/abomination). Eidos Montreal, my mirrorshades are off to you.

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Results of medication studies in top medical journals may be misleading to readers

Results of medication studies in top medical journals may be misleading to readers

Friday, August 26, 2011

Studies about medications published in the most influential medical journals are frequently designed in a way that yields misleading or confusing results, new research suggests.

Investigators from the medical schools at UCLA and Harvard analyzed all the randomized medication trials published in the six highest-impact general medicine journals between June 1, 2008, and Sept. 30, 2010, to determine the prevalence of three types of outcome measures that make data interpretation difficult.

In addition, they reviewed each study's abstract to determine the percentage that reported results using relative rather than absolute numbers, which can also be a misleading.

The findings are published online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

The six journals examined by the investigators? the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, the Annals of Internal Medicine, the British Medical Journal and the Archives of Internal Medicine ? included studies that used the following types of outcome measures, which have received increasing criticism from scientific experts:

Surrogate outcomes (37 percent of studies), which refer to intermediate markers, such as a heart medication's ability to lower blood pressure, but which may not be a good indicator of the medication's impact on more important clinical outcomes, like heart attacks.

Composite outcomes (34 percent), which consist of multiple individual outcomes of unequal importance lumped together ? such as hospitalizations and mortality ? making it difficult to understand the effects on each outcome individually.

Disease-specific mortality (27 percent), which measures deaths from a specific cause rather than from any cause; this may be a misleading measure because, even if a given treatment reduces one type of death, it could increase the risk of dying from another cause, to an equal or greater extent.

"Patients and doctors care less about whether a medication lowers blood pressure than they do about whether it prevents heart attacks and strokes or decreases the risk of premature death," said the study's lead author, Dr. Michael Hochman, a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA's division of general internal medicine and health services research, and at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' Los Angeles Medical Center.

"Knowing the effects of a medication on blood pressure does not always tell you what the effect will be on the things that are really important, like heart attacks or strokes," Hochman said. "Similarly, patients don't care if a medication prevents deaths from heart disease if it leads to an equivalent increase in deaths from cancer."

Dr. Danny McCormick, the study's senior author and a physician at the Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School, added: "Patients also want to know, in as much detail as possible, what the effects of a treatment are, and this can be difficult when multiple outcomes of unequal importance are lumped together."

The authors also found that trials that used surrogate outcomes and disease-specific mortality were more likely to be exclusively commercially funded ? for instance, by a pharmaceutical company.

While 45 percent of exclusively commercially funded trials used surrogate endpoints, only 29 percent of trials receiving non-commercial funding did. And while 39 percent of exclusively commercially funded trials used disease-specific mortality, only 16 percent of trials receiving non-commercial funding did.

The researchers suggest that commercial sponsors of research may promote the use of outcomes that are most likely to indicate favorable results for their products, Hochman said.

"For example, it may be easier to show that a commercial product has a beneficial effect on a surrogate marker like blood pressure than on a hard outcome like heart attacks," he said. "In fact, studies in our analysis using surrogate outcomes were more likely to report positive results than those using hard outcomes like heart attacks."

The new study also shows that 44 percent of study abstracts reported study results exclusively in relative ? rather than absolute ? numbers, which can be misleading.

"The way in which study results are presented is critical," McCormick said. "It's one thing to say a medication lowers your risk of heart attacks from two-in-a-million to one-in-a-million, and something completely different to say a medication lowers your risk of heart attacks by 50 percent. Both ways of presenting the data are technically correct, but the second way, using relative numbers, could be misleading."

Still, the authors acknowledge that the use of surrogate and composite outcomes and disease-specific mortality is appropriate in some cases. For example, these outcomes may be preferable in early-phase studies in which researchers hope to quickly determine whether a new treatment has the potential to help patients.

To remedy the problems identified by their analysis, Hochman and McCormick believe that studies should report results in absolute numbers, either instead of or in addition to relative numbers, and that committees overseeing research studies should closely scrutinize study outcomes to ensure that lower-quality outcomes, like surrogate makers, are only used in appropriate circumstances.

"Finally, medical journals should ensure that authors clearly indicate the limitations of lower-quality endpoints when they are used ? something that does not always occur," McCormick said.

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5 Tips for Sparking a Grassroots Movement Online (Mashable)

Anne Driscoll is the vice president of business operations at Ning, where she is responsible for marketing, communications, creative services and human resources. Prior to joining Ning, Anne led communications and brand initiatives at Google. "Social action" comes easy to those who understand the value of service, helping others and devoting themselves to making the world a better place despite challenges. The trick is turning that personal motivation into a widespread and impactful movement. Grassroots communities are a way to get actionable success even with limited budgets and resources.

[More from Mashable: 12 Incredible Internet Activists Changing the World Through Social Media]

On such organization, Amplifying Education, is an initiative focused on creating a safe space for students to collaborate and share, inspire others to act, build connections around a cause and start conversations to drive momentum. In just three months, the organization called on a grassroots community to collect 6,238 books for New Orleans schools and help raise more than $250,000 for education programs including Teach For America and City Year Denver.

It's further proof that you don?t have to be a millionaire to have an impact. It?s easier than ever to take an idea and ignite a movement. Thousands and thousands of people are leveraging the power of community through social websites to create grassroots support. Here are five tips for sparking your own grassroots movement online.

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1. Don?t Raise an Issue, Tell a story


Many of us might start an issue-based campaign by talking about the goal. However, people are drawn in by the story. Build an emotional connection with your audience by sharing a true story of a real person?s life and struggle.

Simply combining facts and emotions into a powerful narrative conveys far more than a 40-page proposal. Through storytelling, you make a human connection between your audience and the cause.


2. Reward Your Supporters


A story may secure a one-time donation, sell cookies or land a Facebook ?Like,? but you need to recruit a passionate group of volunteers to make a cause sustainable and scalable. We?re all constantly bombarded with requests to help, so a solid reason to participate is essential to get an initial connection to your cause.

Creating a sustainable program builds momentum and promotes growth. A campaign can ensure that volunteers become a bigger part of the story and its success with each action by rewarding people for their participation.

Getting to know your audience helps you build a compelling activity they?ll want to join and support. A grassroots movement is about building something self-sustaining. Enable and reward your biggest evangelists to increase their participation. They will in turn help you create momentum and spread your message.


3. Amplify your Message


Create an army of evangelists who will tell your story, spread the message and influence their social graphs. The social web helps you get in front of a massive audience but a dedicated community lets you spread the message with even greater reach and influence.

Build awareness for your cause or campaign across the social web using any social network you can, including Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Make it easy for your advocates to promote your cause with predefined hashtags and shareable content.

Build a campaign hub where you can broadcast online actions which your supporters can then share on their social graphs. Building this hub is like creating a ?virtual campaign office? where you can communicate to all your volunteers at once, helping them drive your messages and build momentum for the cause.


4. Remove Barriers to Participation


Letting people participate on their own terms helps build a base of support. Participation comes in many forms, and every dollar, ?Like? or signature will push your cause forward. Understanding how different people are motivated will broaden the appeal of your cause.

The first action is often the hardest. Emphasize the importance of low-commitment activities such as ?Liking,? +1'ing, or sharing. These, coupled with rewards, can transform passive supporters into more engaged members of the community.

Creating a central and clear call to action is key to getting folks involved in the next level of support. In addition to participation, make fundraising goals and tools a prominent part of your outreach so people can easily ? and safely ??contribute to your movement.


5. Empower Your Volunteers


Developing brand evangelists is the best way to scale. A volunteer application form on your site, for example, makes it easy for potential supporters to raise their hands. Giving them a space to share experiences, meet new friends and build relationships will build long-term support and commitment.

Set clear expectations on what it means to get involved and what they will receive in return. Keep volunteers in the loop and share how they have played a part in your success. Strengthen your bond with volunteers by sharing photos and videos of the impact they've had. Don?t ever forget to say ?thank you? and don?t be afraid to shout your appreciation out loud.


Conclusion


Today, the social web offers solutions to make organizing, fundraising and outreach easy for anyone. Building a successful grassroots movement is also about your idea, passion and ability to inspire others to join you in taking action.

What has your community done to inspire positive change? Let us know in the comments below.

Disclosure: The author is a member of the Amplifying Education group, which is hosted on Ning, the author's company.

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The essay looks at key human resource issues likely to be faced by Macro X company upon expanding into the international market. Owing to the fact that the company already markets its products in the European market, then chances of succeeding in the international market are high. besides this, the company has a solid human resource background characterised by performance management systems, strong commitment to learning and development, mechanisms for employee involvement and sophisticated selection and recruitment methods. (Wilkins, 2004)


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iRadar: 3 Video Game Review Sites You Must Look At Before Your ...

3 Video Game Review Sites You Must Look At Before Your Next Purchase:

video game review websitesVideo game reviews are big business. There are entire websites out there whose whole purpose is nothing but reviewing video games. On top of that, there is a whole subset of websites who only take the scores from those various video game review websites and aggregate them into an average. Unless you have a particular loyalty to a certain review site, I think this is the best way to find out the competency of a game because you are getting a wider cross-section of the gaming media as a whole, and not just the informed opinion of one person.

I think video game reviews are far more important than a review of any other entertainment category. This is simply because video games cost a lot more than a movie or a CD. When you are trying to decide if something is worth $60 of your hard-earned money, then you had better make sure you do the research. This way you will know if the game is something that will work for you. That is why you absolutely must refer to these aggregators before you take the plunge on your next video game purchase.

GameRankings is the review aggregator I have been personally using for as long as I can remember. I can?t remember the last time I have gone out to the store to buy a video game that I did not pull up game rankings first to see what the average review score was across the board.

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When you first visit GameRankings you are greeted with a box telling you what games are currently hot, and what games were most recently released. There are also links across the top for the various platforms, so if you only have one console, you don?t have to see reviews for all the games you cannot play anyway. There is also a search feature, which is what you will probably use the most. Type in the name of any game, and it will give you the average review score across all major game review publications.

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Possibly my favorite feature of GameRankings are their All Time Best and All Time Worst pages. It?s fun to take a look back in time and see what the best games were for a particular platform, or across all platforms. You can tweak the results by platform, year, genre and what letter the game starts with. This allows you to really fine tune the results you want to see.

MetaCritic is one of the most popular review aggregators for movies, but they are no slouch in the video game department either. They are similar to GameRankings in that they take review scores from various sites and average them out. They have a much different layout; they focus more on being aesthetically pleasing than GameRankings.

What I really like about MetaCritic is that they have embraced the iPhone as a gaming platform much more than other sites. They feature a full suite of iPhone reviews that they aggregate. Even though iPhone games are cheap and aren?t a major purchasing decision that a console game is, it is still nice to know what is worth looking at and what isn?t from more than one perspective.

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Since MetaCritic features movie, TV and music reviews, you can get all review needs taken care of in one place.

ReviewTrax is a little different from its counterparts because it isn?t as concerned with numbers, but more of a general reception for a game. They rank games based on a Poor to Excellent scale. I think this is a cool approach, because it allows you to just focus on whether the game is good.

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You don?t have over analyse and think ?well this game got a 92.4 and liked it, but this new one I am looking at got a 91.6, so is worth it?? With this site you can simply look and say ?Okay this is excellent, I should play this game.?

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ReviewTrax also feature iPhone game reviews, although not as many as MetaCritic.

This is a site I was not as familiar with as the other two when I started my research, but after messing with it for a while, I am going to add it to my video game bookmarks and use it regularly.

Conclusion

Before you buy a video game you should always refer to at least one of these three websites. $60 is no small investment, and you want to make sure you are getting a product that is worth it. By checking these review aggregators you are able to get a good idea of how the game review community feels about a particular product, and you can make a more informed decision.

Have you ever been burned with a bad video game? Perhaps you purchased Superman 64 and felt that you did not get your money?s worth. Let us know in the comments; I would love to hear some video game horror stories.

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Watch Love on Sacred Love's Empowered Relationships TV : Fashion News

August 26, 2011 by admin?

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U.S. Merriam-Webster dictionary adds "tweet," "bromance" (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) ? Crowdsourcing tweeters bonding in bromance and tracking cougars earned an official place in the English lexicon on Thursday when Merriam-Webster announced the addition of 150 words to its 2011 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

Social media-influenced terms like "crowdsourcing," which is "the practice of obtaining information from a large group of people who contribute online," joined pop culture-informed words such as "bromance" -- a "close, nonsexual friendship between men" and a new definition for "cougar" -- a "middle-aged woman seeking a romantic relationship with a younger man."

"From the dramatic events of the Arab Spring to the scandal that brought down Congressman Anthony Weiner, tweet is a word that has been part of the story," said Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster's editor at large.

"Now we feel (these words') meanings have stabilized enough to include them in the dictionary."

Sports fans can now reference terms like "duathlon," a three-part long-distance race where competitors run, bike, and run; and walk-off, "ending a baseball game immediately by causing the winning run to score for the home team in the bottom of the last inning."

New sport "parkour," combining efficient running, climbing and leaping over environmental obstacles, also made the cut.

The latest dictionary will reflect changing parent-child relationships with "helicopter parent," which is "a parent who is overly involved in the life of his or her child," and "boomerang child" -- "a young adult who returns to live at his or her family home especially for financial reasons."

President Barack Obama may not be feeling much of an occasion lately for the "fist bump" gesture he made famous, but he can now find the official definition in Merriam-Webster.

How does a word enter what Merriam-Webster says is the best-selling U.S. dictionary?

"The answer is simple: usage," according to Merriam-Webster.

Editors devote hours each day to monitoring which words people use most often and how they use them in books, newspapers, magazines and electronic publications, says the website of Merriam-Webster, an Encyclopaedia Britannica Company.

(Editing by Jerry Norton)

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