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Mega Bloks, best known for their over-sized, LEGO-like building toys for ham-fisted infants, is releasing Halo Wars-themed toys this summer.
The deal cut between Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising, which handles licensing for the teen-rated game, and MEGA Brands will see the toy maker developing construction toy sets based on the key characters and vehicles of Halo Wars under the Mega Bloks name.
The blocks are due out this summer.
"We're excited to have this exclusive opportunity to partner with Microsoft and 20th Century Fox Licensing & Merchandising and build on the immense success of the Halo franchise," said Vic Bertrand, Chief Innovation Officer of MEGA Brands. "We look forward to bringing the iconic characters and vehicles of the video game to life through Mega Bloks."
"We consider MEGA brands to be one of the premiere leaders in the constructible toys and games category. Their reputation for creativity and innovation is inspiring and we look forward to seeing it applied to the legendary Halo franchise," noted Michael Peikoff, Senior-Vice President U.S. Licensing, Twentieth Century Fox Licensing and Merchandising.
Not the absence of Microsoft, Ensemble or Bungie quotes.
What's next Grand Theft Auto Tonka Toys?

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October 2009
A healthy coral reef in the Red Sea, Port Ghalib, Egypt. Photo: J. Hutsch.
A magical ecosystem
If you have ever dived or snorkelled on a coral reef, you will know the experience is truly magical. It is a world of bewildering color and diversity that instills a sense of profound tranquillity. Yet, these beautiful ecosystems are fragile, and they are now possibly the most threatened ecosystem on Earth. To understand why reefs are in such a threatened state, we need to understand how they function.
A coral reef is a formation that is created by the external skeletons of coral plants in shallow ocean waters.
Corals are, quite literally, the backbones of the reef system.
Corals build limestone skeletons that create the largest living structures on Earth—so large that they are clearly visible from space.
The reef itself provides the habitat for almost all other life in the ecosystem—it provides food, shelter, and meeting places for thousands of animals.
Corals are an evolutionary success story, and they build the most diverse and structurally complex marine habitats on the planet.
Their success is largely attributable to an intimate symbiotic relationship with tiny plant cells that live in the coral's body (host). These plant cells, known as zooxanthellae,1 harness the sun's energy like any other plant cells, and these provide an important source of energy to their coral hosts. In return, the zooxanthellae receive a predictable and safe place to live, and a steady supply of nutrients to enable them to grow. The energy acquired from the zooxanthellae helps the coral convert carbonate ions found in the surrounding seawater into solid calcium carbonate—a form of limestone. Corals use the limestone skeleton to support themselves and provide shelter; consequently, they, build layer upon layer of limestone reef.
Coral reefs and climate change
The 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is one of many studies that illustrate scientific evidence for the current rise in global average temperatures; it attributes the rise to an increase in concentrations of anthropogenic (from human activity) greenhouse-gases.2 Carbon dioxide (CO2) is one of a number of greenhouse gases that are responsible for global warming. Since the industrial revolution in the 1700s, human activities such as burning fossil fuels, industrial manufacturing, and deforestation have increased the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by 36%.3
We sometimes overlook the fact that CO2 is not an atmospheric issue only; it can affect water resources and their ecosystems, too (see Figure 1). You do not have to be a scientist to see the effects of climate change on life in the oceans. Recreational divers are alarmed by the dramatic changes in coral reefs. Oceans absorb CO2, and its rapid rise is causing two quite distinct—yet catastrophic—impacts on the world's coral reefs: coral bleaching, and ocean acidification.
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Ocean carbon cycle. (2009). In UNEP/GRID-Arendal Maps and Graphics Library. Retrieved 04:00, October 21, 2009 from http://maps.grida.no/go/graphic/ocean-carbon-cycle. Source: IPCC, 2001. Cartographer: Riccardo Pravettoni, UNEP/GRID-Arendal.
Coral bleaching
During the 20th century, sea temperatures rose on average of 0.74ºC (1.33°F) and sea levels rose by 17 cm (6.7 in).3 Elevated sea temperatures cause problems for the zooxanthellae when they attempt to photosynthesize inside the coral. Photosynthesis is the plant cell's way of harnessing the sun's energy to convert CO2 and water to sugar; however, the plant cells are sensitive to the amount of sunlight they absorb. As noon arrives, there is usually excess light, and the coral has various ways of channelling the extra light energy into non-harmful pathways safely. When sea temperatures are unusually high—sometimes only 1°C (1.8°F) above the normal summer maximum—part of the photosynthetic machinery is damaged, and dangerous oxygen free radicals are formed. As a result, the coral host begins to expel the zooxanthellae. Under severe temperature conditions, the majority of zooxanthellae are expelled, and the coral's body is left as a colorless, translucent layer sitting upon its limestone skeleton. This often causes the coral to die. Given that the skeleton is a brilliant white without its plants and animals, the overall effect resembles a bleaching of the entire reef; and it is arguably one of the most poignant natural distress calls of any ecosystem.
In 1998, unusually warm sea temperatures caused massive coral bleaching throughout the world, and approximately 16% of all reefs4 suffered a significant loss of corals within a few months. While many reefs have experienced good recovery, a troubling number have shown little recovery in the decade following this event, and indeed, some of the corals that died may be as large as a garage or small house—these may take centuries to regenerate. Other mass coral-bleaching events have occurred since 1998—the worst took place in the eastern Caribbean in 2005, which caused extensive damage to reefs in the Virgin Islands.5 With rising global temperatures, coral bleaching events could occur every few years in the future, and the likelihood that corals can recover between such frequent catastrophes is slim.6
Ocean acidification
The oceans have absorbed approximately one-third of the CO2 pumped into the atmosphere by humans.7 In preindustrial times, the oceans had a pH of around 8.2, which is mildly alkaline.8 Unfortunately, when CO2 is absorbed by the ocean's surface, it forms a mild acid. Since the industrial revolution, the absorption of CO2 into the oceans has reduced its pH by 0.1 pH unit,8 which may not sound impressive. However, this constitutes a 30% increase in the concentration of hydrogen ions, which are the basis of acidity in fluids. Corals build their own skeleton out of calcium carbonate. The problem with an increase in acidity, therefore, is that the extra hydrogen ions react with dissolved carbonate ions in the water and form bicarbonate. As this happens, the availability of free carbonate ions in the water plummets, which makes it harder for corals to access the carbonate they need to build their skeletons.
Pillar coral (Dendrogyra cylindricus) in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Photo: Commander William Harrigan, NOAA Corps (ret.), NOAA's The Coral Kingdom Collection.
The effects of ocean acidification on corals are only just beginning to emerge. As corals struggle to sequester carbonate from the water for conversion to limestone, their skeletons may become increasingly brittle, and the growth rate of the coral may fall quite dramatically (figures of up to 30% have been reported already). Scientists are concerned about these coral growth changes because these changes undermine one of the most important aspects of coral reefs—building reef structures. These structures house millions of plants and animals, and they form a natural breakwater along thousands of coastlines.
To put the problem into a human context, consider the landscape of a city like New York City. Like a coral reef, New York City is a complex structure with hundreds of skyscrapers—capable of housing a huge number and diversity of people. Now, consider if there had been a shortage of concrete during the construction of this city, and that the builders used inferior products during the city's construction. Presume these products failed to protect the buildings from wear and tear; consequently, the buildings deteriorated quickly. Under this scenario, New York City would have probably resembled the more modest structures of Newark, NJ, and it would have housed far fewer people. This mirrors the fate of coral reefs because climate change and ocean acidification depletes the coral's building materials. Corals will suffer frequent bleaching events as well as short-lived periods of growth between bleaching events; and they will become less and less constructive—quite literally.
How losing healthy reefs affects us
Unless we take action to reduce the effects of climate change and CO2 emissions, scientists expect a bleak future for the world's coral reefs.8 If we continue to allow reefs to deteriorate, the damage will affect people throughout the world—often in surprising ways, including:
- eroding beaches;
- losing favorite recreational activities;
- decreasing fish choices for aquarium hobbyists;
- depleting fisheries that harvest coral-reef fish; and
- losing building materials in some parts of the world.
For many people living thousands of miles from a coral reef, the allure of reefs is often associated with luxury vacations that include palm-fringed beaches, exotic fare, and warm, turquoise seas. Indeed, relaxing on the soft white sand of the Caribbean is one of life's great pleasures. The sand we take for granted is made of limestone, however, and much of it has coral origins. Perhaps more importantly, coral reefs provide a natural breakwater that prevents sand from being washed away by storms. Losing the reef means that the rate of sand erosion will increase dramatically, and this could change the sand in the idyllic beach in the holiday brochures to barren, hard pavement. The common approach to dealing with this problem is to dredge more sand from behind the reef and to deposit it back onto the beach. Unfortunately, this process can create so much sand in the water that it smothers the remaining corals, and actually, this accelerates the cause of the problem—dead corals.
Millions of people visit coral reefs to fish, scuba dive, or snorkel. Imagine your disappointment if you were to encounter a brown seascape of seaweed and jellyfish—instead of a vibrant cityscape of riotous color and sizzling fish action. It has already happened to many coral reefs, and this will continue to worsen—unless climate change is controlled.
Some of the first casualties of a dead coral reef are the brilliantly hued fish that either feed on the coral or take shelter in its branches. Now, many of these fish support a multibillion-dollar aquarium trade that supports thousands of anglers in some of the world's poorest countries. Clearly, a loss of reef health not only threatens many aquarium hobbyists, but certainly, the effects of climate change and ocean acidification on coral reefs are potentially devastating in many parts of the tropical world. Tens of millions of people depend on coral reefs for their main source of proteins, building materials, and their livelihoods.
Under a changing climate, poverty is likely to worsen, and the coastal zone will become a more difficult place to live with limited coastal protection from storms, faster beach erosion, and dwindling incomes. In time, this may lead to a mass migration of people away from coastal areas, and even among continents—particularly where entire nations currently live at, or near, sea level. People who move because of environmental disruptions are sometimes referred to as environmental refugees, and researchers have proposed adding the term climate refugees to encompass human migration caused by a changing climate.
What we can do
We still have time to take the steps necessary to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and to reduce the costly consequences to the environment. Most people are aware of the practical steps they can take to protect the environment—examples include avoiding the use of a car to get to work, switching to more energy efficient products, and so on. Much can be done to avert the problems facing coral reefs directly, as well. It is more important than ever that we try to reduce the local human-induced stresses imposed on reefs.
A male Bicolor Parrotfish (Cetoscarus bicolor) is at home on Indo-Pacific coral reefs, North Horn, Osprey Reef, Australia. Photo: Richard Ling.
To achieve this we can:
avoid catching too many fish;
use less fertilizer on farms in coastal regions;
stop clearing foliage from hillsides—a practice that causes massive amounts of soil to flood the reef each time it rains;
be conservation minded when vacationing in areas that offer coral reef recreation;
cease dining on coral reef fish that are considered at risk, such as most grouper species,9 or species that perform essential tasks on the reef, such as parrotfish, which are considered a delicacy in countries of the Pacific and the Caribbean10 (parrotfish are herbivores, and they play an important role in keeping the levels of seaweed under control, which helps corals grow and recover after bleaching events).
Overall, the plight of reefs will improve if we see value in sustaining them. One practical step that visitors can take is to support local forms of tourism so that a larger proportion of the coastal community benefits from tourism; therefore, the community has an economic incentive to maintain an inviting, healthy environment for all. To continue to enjoy both the economic and the aesthetic values of these beautiful and fragile environments, we must work together to prevent its demise—directly and indirectly.
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This model will have a simple user interface where the user can drag/drop a variety of shapefiles and enter the values for particular variables in order for the model to run effectively. Once the model has finished running, a new shapefile is created that lays out the most cost effective Collector Cable route for a wind turbine from point A to point B.
I'd like to know if such a functionality/extension already exists in ArcGIS so i don't have to re-invent the wheel.
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YouTube videos of unknown musicians covering classic songs is nothing new. In fact, it's kind of old. But Vancouver's Michelle Kwan really knocks it out of the park with her version of Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses.
Kwan (no, not the figure skater) is a Vancouver teenager who has been playing the gezhou, a Chinese instrument with 18 or more strings, for over 12 years.
"After spending numerous years playing classical music, I decided to venture out and use the guzheng to play other genres," Kwan writes on her YouTube profile. "I've also been experimenting using guitar pedals (distortion, delay, wah, chorus, etc.) on the guzheng."
The combination of musicianship and experimentation results in a very cool sound. Her amazing Guns N' Roses cover alone, has received over 45,000 views since it was posted on Sept. 21.
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Amidst all the commentary about the recent rioting in Britain, one simple fact has been consistently ignored: for all their scale, the rioters represent a tiny minority of British "young people", or even "lower-class British young people". (Most of the rest, no doubt, are cowering at home with everyone else.) Those who interpret the unrest as proof of the foolish callousness of the government's austerity measures, or of the moral corruption of the welfare state, or of the decline of British culture, are therefore carelessly extrapolating from a few hoodlums to an entire generation of Britons.
Max Boot is more on target: whatever the "root causes" of the rioters' violent impulses--of which the most significant is no doubt the inevitable, inherent predilection of a certain fraction of humanity for mayhem--the direct cause of the riots has been simple opportunity, provided by negligent policing. We can say this with considerable confidence because the pattern unfolding in Britain--years of gradually increasing laxity in law enforcement, culminating in rampant lawlessness--is a near-perfect replica of the history of America during the latter half of the twentieth century.
From the mid-1960s through the early 1990s, riots in large American cities were frequent and devastating, and crime was rampant. Not only had huge swaths of every large city been turned into de facto "no go" zones, where criminals ruled and the police were effectively absent (allowing riots such as the LA riot of 1992 to spin out of control unimpeded), but even outside those areas, crime--including violent crime--was simply considered a normal element of city life. (I recall one New Yorker recounting to me his tale of being mugged in the middle of a Macy's department store.)
And then, following a massive crackdown on criminality--literally millions incarcerated, a flood of newly stringent laws, law enforcement rules and sentencing guidelines, and a revolution in sophisticated policing techniques--crime rates and criminal unrest finally peaked in the early 1990s, beginning a spectacular decline that has continued to this day. Most young urban Americans these days (outside a few still-dismal spots such as Detroit and Washington, DC) see the chaos in places like London and Paris and simply shake their heads, unaware that until a couple of decades ago, the head-shaking was all going in the other direction.
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Direct variation is taught using a simulated oil spill, using toilet paper tissues (to represent land) and drops of vegetable oil (to simulate oil).
Use a scene from Alice in Wonderland to introduce negative exponents and the rules for dividing powers.
Explore quadratic functions by using a motion detector known as a Calculator Based Ranger (CBR) to examine the heights of the different bounces of a ball.
Use cubes and grid paper to interpret shapes in both two and three dimensions.
Manipulatives visually represent the steps taken to obtain the solution to an algebraic equation.
The class learns about basic recursion by exploring patterns in the data they generate from two simple probability-based experiments.
Find the feasible region in a linear programming problem, graph a family of profit lines and find the optimum point.
Provides an introduction to solving equations and inequalities numerically (using a table), graphically, and algebraically.
Compare the speed at which you write with your left hand to the speed at which you write with your right hand In order to understand the three different types of possible solutions to a system of two equations with two unknowns.
Examine the difference in the number of revolutions for each of two gears in a model, in order to undertand the significance of the radii of the gears.
Algebraic notation and variables are used to recognize patterns and represent situations.
This introduction to exponential functions considers the world population since 1650. In a simulation, the population grows at a random yet predictable rate.
Write an equation of a linear function when given a set of data. Interpret the meaning of the slope and y-intercept and then use the equation to find other values of x and y.
Exponential functions are used to represent population growth.
Study quadratic functions by examining the family of functions described by = a (x - h)2 + k.
Compare the heights of a fixed amount of water poured into cylindrical containers of different sizes to the area of the containers' bases.
Factor trinomial expressions of the formx2 + bx + c. Use algebra tiles to identify the binomial factors and the graphing calculator to verify the result.
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How Graham beat the tea party threat
Part of an occasional series on the hottest races of the 2014 midterm election.
SUMMERVILLE, S.C. — Sen. Lindsey Graham recognized the threat years before it had a chance to form — and knew immediately what he had to do.
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After the tea party wave in the 2010 election, right-wing groups were itching to get one of South Carolina's newly elected conservative congressmen to challenge Graham, the blunt-spoken, deal-making congressional veteran of two decades. Rep. Mick Mulvaney, a favorite of the grass roots, was high on their list.
So when Graham got wind in 2012 that Mulvaney wanted a seat on the House Financial Services Committee, he quietly lobbied his longtime friend, Speaker John Boehner, to make it happen. During regular dinners and breakfast meetings, the senator made clear to Mulvaney and other up-and-comers in the delegation that he was there to help with their districts' needs. All the while, Graham was busy assembling a daunting multimillion-dollar political operation.
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Lo and behold, Mulvaney and others thought better of taking on Graham when the time came. "Not being able to win is a really good reason not to run," Mulvaney said in an interview.
Graham's deft maneuvering shows why he's become the dominant political figure in this deeply red state and is skating to another six years even as he's angered the base on immigration and other hot-button issues. Far from pandering to the party's tea party wing in order to get reelected, he's challenging it head-on: Graham warns that the GOP is caught in a "death spiral" with minorities, says it needs to get real about climate change and defends his move to open debate on gun control legislation after a school massacre.
His legwork to protect his seat could serve as a model for other endangered incumbents looking to fend off more conservative challengers.
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"There's a head wind for all incumbents," Graham, 58, said over a dinner of chicken livers and fried green tomatoes in nearby Charleston last week. "I've tried to insulate myself."
The losses of GOP Sens. Bob Bennett of Utah in 2010 then Dick Lugar of Indiana two years later showed how longtime incumbents who look unbeatable can be upended in primaries by more conservative challengers.
"Perhaps I was not as concerned as I should have been about the challenge in my primary," Lugar said in a recent interview.
( On the Ground Colorado: GOP civil war)
No GOP incumbent on the ballot this fall has done more to heed that lesson than Graham. Even as he cruises in the polls, the senator has blanketed the state with more than $1 million worth of ads promoting his work. He faces several lesser-known, underfunded candidates — including state Sen. Lee Bright, pastor Det Bowers, businessman Richard Cash, attorney Bill Connor, attorney Benjamin Dunn and Nancy Mace, a consultant and the first female graduate from The Citadel military college — in the June 10 primary.
They're trying to keep Graham under 50 percent and trigger a runoff, which would give Republican outside groups that have sat out the race a chance to rally behind a single candidate and potentially hurt Graham.
But his opponents have not demonstrated much viability. One of them even credited Graham with ensuring a lackluster GOP field.
( On the Ground Arkansas: Democratic legacies on line in 2014)
"I think he's done a good job of keeping these congressional candidates out of the race," Bright said, pointing to Reps. Mark Sanford and Jeff Duncan as primary opponents who could have provided "such a contrast that Graham could have been in trouble."
Asked if he jumped into the race because no one in the congressional delegation would, Bright said: "I really didn't want to do it. Of course I didn't want to run for state Senate either. I hate this stuff."
As he travels the state attending rallies offering free barbecues and breakfasts, with crowds larger than any he's experienced during his career, Graham repeats a warning you wouldn't expect to hear in a GOP primary: Republicans need to be more inclusive and to work with Democrats or risk becoming a party that can't win national elections. He said it repeatedly to a Summerville Country Club crowd of 350 people and the next day to 100 seniors gathered at a retirement community in Charleston.
( On the Ground Mississippi: Anatomy of a takedown)
"You know who wants 30 pure Republicans? Harry Reid," Graham said, referring to the oft-quoted line from his former South Carolina colleague, Jim DeMint, that the party would be better served with 30 rock-ribbed conservatives than 60 who aren't. "What I want is a party that can grow. … What's my big sin: 1-in-10 [votes defecting from the party line]? If we're going to build the party around universal agreement, we become a club."
Building the Graham machine
Soon after helping his close friend John McCain's presidential bid in 2008, as the tea party began to show its strength in 2010, Graham began preparing for what an aide called "Armageddon." He enlisted an army of paid staff and volunteers — including some 5,200 precinct captains — to help build six regional offices throughout the state.
And he amassed a staggering war chest, aimed partly at scaring off prospective opponents. Many donors have been reluctant to give money to anyone but Graham for fear they will be blacklisted by the senior senator, his adversaries said. And some big-dollar contributors are starting to put money behind a Graham-allied super PAC created by a former state party chairman, Katon Dawson.
Through the end of the first quarter, Graham had raised $11.6 million with nearly $7 million remaining — none of his opponents have cracked the half-million-dollar mark. Even though Graham's periodic defections from the conservative line have landed him in hot water — his support for President Barack Obama's two Supreme Court nominees and flirtation with proposals controlling climate change were three such occasions — the senator said his fundraising has been bolstered by his reputation as a voice of reason in the Capitol.
"Ideological people don't give you a whole lot of money," Graham said.
Also key to Graham's approach is how meticulously he tends to the details, from constituent service to reaching out to local politicians. Any major meeting of South Carolina business types is likely to have a Graham aide on hand. He is known to treat problems at a water treatment facility or an effort to deepen the Port of Charleston every bit as seriously as a debate over Benghazi on the Senate floor.


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- News
Ecclestone confirms Long Beach talks
- Drivers:
- Bernie Ecclestone
- Circuits:
- Long Beach Street Circuit
Bernie Ecclestone says he has held talks with the organisers of the Long Beach Grand Prix about Formula One replacing IndyCar when its agreement to race on the Californian street circuit expires next year.
"We are not in deep discussions with Long Beach but we have spoken to them," he said.
His comments follow mounting speculation that F1 is considering making the circuit its west coast home in the United States. It also follows the inaugural United States Grand Prix in Texas last year which was widely considered to be a success.
Sponsorship agent Zak Brown and Chris Pook, the original founder of the Long Beach Grand Prix, are reportedly attempting to buy the contract to the race from its current owners, motorsport entrepreneurs Kevin Kalkhoven and Gerald Forsythe.
However, Kalkhoven has said that "Gerry and I are not interested in selling Long Beach" and would only consider it if "stupid money" was on offer. Jim Michaelian, the president and chief executive of the race added that "this is a story that keeps bouncing around every year or so, despite the fact that the race isn't for sale and there's been no contact between anyone and Kevin about a sale."
The race was launched in 1975 as a round of America's Formula 5000 championship. It became an F1 race the following year and stayed until 1984 when it switched to CART then Indycar.
Ecclestone says he still has hopes of resurrecting the stalled race in New Jersey which was meant to take place this year. He adds "we are talking to different people in the States but who knows."


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This last post of 2010 will start with a declaration. One of my famous "Thus Sayeth Dr. Dick" sorta things, if you please.
I categorically reject the concept of sexual addiction that has been floating around in the popular culture for the last 20 years or so.
And yes, I know this will rankle a bunch of you, but you'll just have to get over it. You see, there is no such thing as a sexual addiction. Period!
Nowadays people bandy about the term addiction as if it can be applied to any and all obsessive behaviors. I have an addiction to chocolate; I'm addicted to shopping; I'm addicted to video games; I'm addicted to porn—or, I'm a sex addict. NONSENSE!
That being said, I hasten to add that I do believe there are sexual obsessions and compulsive sexual behaviors, plenty of 'em in fact. However, obsessions and compulsions are not addictions, and addictions, while they may involve irresistible impulses, are not the same thing as compulsions. Get it? Got it? Good!
I want to be absolutely clear about this. An addiction is a very specific condition. It denotes a dual dependency, physical as well as a psychological.
- A physical dependency occurs when a substance is habitually used to a point where the body becomes reliant on its effects. The substance must be used constantly, because if it is withheld, it will trigger symptoms of withdrawal.
- Psychological dependency occurs when the substance habitually used creates an emotional reliance on its effects. There is no functioning without it. Its absence produces intense cravings, which if not fed will trigger symptoms of withdrawal.
Check it out. With the help of my handy-dandy dictionary, a good place to start in discussions of this sort, I discovered these three very distinct definitions:
Addiction: The need for and use of a habit-forming substance (as heroin, nicotine, or alcohol) characterized by well-defined physiological symptoms upon withdrawal. Broadly: persistent use of a substance known by the user to be harmful. A state of physiological and psychological dependence on a drug.
Compulsive: Driven by an irresistible inner force to do something; i.e., a compulsive liar.
Obsession: A persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling.
See? Different words. Different meanings. Not a particularly complex notion to grasp, right?
And listen, just because a bunch of yahoo afternoon talks show hosts and even a load of my esteemed professional colleagues banter these words about like they were interchangeable doesn't make it so. In fact, we do ourselves a huge disservice by muddling these very specific concepts into a jumble. My fellow therapists should be the first to recognize this because finding help for an addiction or an intervention for an obsessive/compulsive disorder will be as specific as the problem itself.
One thing is for certain: identifying one of the things, as the other will complicate the problem solving. It's like going to the doctor with a headache, and when the doc asks where does it hurt, you point to your stomach. It just won't do.
Hi Dr. Dick,
I recently found out my boyfriend has been cheating on me. He wants me to forgive him, but he keeps on doing the same thing over and over again. He's like addicted to sex or something. I love him very much, but I feel dirty just by being around him and knowing what he's doing. It also makes me feel stupid putting up with all of this and at the same time I still love him, please give me some advice. Thank You.
— Darlene
Before we turn our attention to your boyfriend's behavior, let me make a quick observation about you. You're a big fat ball of contradictions, huh? How can you say that you love the person that makes you feel dirty and stupid? You're deceiving yourself about at least one of those feelings. And if I had to guess, I'd say what you've got with your man ain't love—it's an obsession.
Your boyfriend probably has you figured out by now, and he knows that you will tolerate his misbehavior, which gives him tacit permission to do whatever he feels like doing. From where I sit, you're the real sap. If you're really serious about reining in your wayward BF, you'd better come up with a clear, unambiguous message about what you will and will not tolerate. Until you do precisely that, he'll just think that he can roam wherever he wants and whenever he wants.
If the two of you are supposed to be living in a sexually exclusive relationship, and he's taking his business elsewhere, then he's got a problem, too. However, I caution you against thinking that his sexual behaviors are an addiction. Because they're not. And thinking they are will not help you find the solution to the problems you folks are having.
There are root causes for his behavior, just like there are root causes for your behavior. To get to the bottom of all of this, each of you will need to invest a good deal of time and energy with a qualified therapist. One can only hope that there's a big enough bank of goodwill between the two of you to carry the day because overcoming your obsession and his compulsions will demand all of your emotional resources.
Dear Dr. Dick,
I have been in a relationship for five years now and truly love my partner, however I can never seem to get enough sex. I am 30 and he is 29, but I constantly find myself in the chat rooms lookin' for younger guys to have sex with. It's more than just a hobby—it's a habit! I've actually lost jobs because he'd be out of town and I'd spend almost every waking hour on the PC with a cocktail looking for sex, not caring about anything else. It's like I'm addicted to sex. He knows I have played around (I actually have talked him into three-ways a few times), but he has no idea how extreme it's become. I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm not unhappy with him. I just can't seem to stop wanting sex with younger guys. Any suggestions?
— Brian
It's interesting that you should tell me about your compulsive sexual behavior in the same breath that you tell me of your love for your partner. As you've probably guessed already, there isn't really much of a connection between the two. Love and sex are two very different things. Sometimes they go together, but not always or even often for that matter.
It appears to me that you've really got two problems happening simultaneously: First, your compulsive prowling of the internet for sex (complicated, I might add, by your alcohol consumption). Second, the deception you're practicing on your partner. Let's deal with each of these in turn.
Your particular sexual activity, like any compulsive behavior (overeating, excessive shopping, etc.), is more than just a bad habit. It's a serious psychological dysfunction. Take it from me: breaking this behavior pattern will be nearly impossible without some professional help. If the problem is as serious as you say, then you'd better seek help right away. This sort of thing, if left untreated, will not only destroy your relationship, it will ruin your life. When you seek that professional help, I encourage you to include information about your alcohol consumption. If there is an addiction in all of this, it's the alcohol, not the sex. And in your case, the addiction may be fueling the compulsion.
Now, regarding your relationship. It's imperative that you come clean with your partner about your sexual obsessions and compulsions, as well as your probable alcohol addiction. Not only will you feel better about not lying to him anymore, you're going to need his support in overcoming the difficult obstacles you face. I suggest that you attend to this right away. There's not a moment to lose.
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USC coach Lane Kiffin named sophomore Cody Kessler as the Trojans' starting quarterback Monday afternoon as the Trojans officially ended their two-quarterback system.
Kiffin informed Kessler and fellow sophomore Max Wittek during a meeting Monday morning. The decision means Kessler is not supposed to share playing time although there is no guarantee he would not make a change the way USC's offense struggled during its 10-7 loss to Washington State on Saturday.
"I'm taking it personally that we won't play like that again," Kessler said.
Kessler completed 8 of 13 passes for 41 yards with no touchdowns and one interception. He also rushed for a 4-yard touchdown.
In two games, Kessler had a QB rating of 89.8 compared with 75.3 for Wittek.


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When Peeke has time to stand at the stove, she makes a small bowl of Irish steel-cut oatmeal and tops it with a handful of chopped walnuts, a half-cup of blueberries, and a dash of cinnamon. The oatmeal is full of cholesterol-lowering fiber. Blueberries provide potent antioxidants to boost her immune system, and walnuts offer protein and omega-3 fatty acids.
Peeke's weekends are full of physical activity, and she says, "This breakfast fills me up and gives me all the energy I need." She also squeezes a glass of "true juice" in her juicer. Her favorite combination: an apple with three carrots and a small piece of ginger.
Cindy Sherwin, R.D., nutritionist, personal trainer, and triathlete in New York City
On early mornings when Sherwin has to train, she packs a breakfast of one cup of Fage Total 0 Percent Greek Yogurt (for calcium and protein) mixed with a cup of fiber-rich berries (preferably raspberries or blackberries), an ounce of nutrient-dense almonds and exactly two Brazil nuts.
Why two? "You need only two for a full day's supply," she says of the nut, which is one of the best sources of selenium, an antioxidant that can reduce the risk of cancer and some degenerative diseases. She also likes to grab a cup of green tea, usually Mighty Leaf Mountain Spring Jasmine, with skim milk.
Sherwin loves to pick up a loaf of whole-grain olive bread from the farmer's market (though any whole-grain bread will do; just look for brands that offer about three grams of fiber per piece). She cuts off a thick slice, then spreads a couple of slivers of avocado over it for protein, and covers them with three cooked egg whites and a piece of calcium-rich Cabot 50 Percent Light Cheddar Cheese.
"I've tasted a lot of light cheeses, and I like this one best," she says. A breakfast like this is sure to be satisfying enough for training for an upcoming triathlon or for just walking the dog.


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|iParty with Victorious
|Season 4 (iCarly), Episode 11-13 (iCarly)
|First Aired
| June 4, 2011 (Movie premiere in Los Angeles)
June 11, 2011 (US Television premiere)
August 27, 2011 (Extended version)
|Production Code
|311-313 (iCarly)
|Dan Schneider
|Steve Hoefer
|Viewed By:
|7.316 million
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iParty with Victorious is an iCarly and Victorious crossover. However, it is only counted as an iCarly episode, and not a Victorious episode. It officially aired on June 11th, 2011. The extended version aired on August 27th, 2011. It aired on Nickelodeon UK on October 11th, 2011. The episode is part of iCarly's fourth season.
Carly Shay is dating a boy named Steven who divides his time between his divorced parents who live in Seattle and Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Tori is also spending time with her new boyfriend who, unbeknownst to her, is the very same boy Carly is seeing. Elsewhere at Hollywood Arts, André is psyched because Kenan Thompson has offered to let him throw a small party in his awesome new house, but the party spirals out of control when Rex sends a mass tweet. Back in Seattle, Sam suspects that Steven is cheating on Carly after seeing a photo of him and Tori together and plans a trip to Los Angeles to catch him in the act. After Carly catches Steven, she convinces Tori that Steven is cheating on both of them. Carly and Tori come together to plot their revenge at the party. Amidst all the scheming, Rex challenges Sam to a rap battle. Elsewhere, Trina brings two children she is supposed to be babysitting to the party and loses them, while Sikowitz tries to scare Beck to no results. During the party, Kenan Thompson and André try to catch a panda who keeps running around hitting people. At the end, the whole cast sings Leave It All To Shine.
Extended Scenes
- At the beginning when Mrs. Benson makes an appearance (which lasted more than the first one), Sam and Freddie mention Steven.
- Mrs. Benson asks Spencer why he is in his sculpture. Before he can answer, she cuts him off.
- In the first scene of Victorious, dancers were shown for a short period of time before the camera switched to Jade, André, Beck, Tori, and Robbie at the lunch table.
- Jade is seen arguing with Tori about why it is "wrong" to dip French fries in mayonnaise.
- Gibby is shown in class balancing quarters on his elbows which he breaks a kid's glasses.
- A while after entering the house, Cat says through her headband, "I wish someone would pay attention to me."
- André sees a small kitty at the party and said, "Aw!" before leaving a second later.
- Tori and Beck's scene is a little longer, there's more added to the beginning of it.
- This is the first time in Victorious that Tori has been cheated on by a guy.
- Tori, Beck, and Jade are seen in the hallway arguing about the lyrics to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
- Festus is shown giving Tori a mushroom pizza and runs away when Cat shows up with her new voice. This scene takes place before Trina runs towards her to talk about the party. After their conversation about the party, Trina traded Tori's pizza for her pizza after finding out that hers has mushrooms in it. Sinjin then takes Trina's pizza that was given to Tori so now she is seen going back to the Grub Truck.
- Mr. Howard is talking about Sacajawea before he calls Carly and Sam up.
- About three kids (including the kid that Tori mentions), in the rap battle, rapped against Rex but he triumphed them all.
- Before Gibby enters the room with the blonde kid he punches, Gibby asks people in a different room where the fake mole is.
- Tori shows Trina and Cat her new charm bracelet that Steven gave her.
- There is another jacuzzi scene where Spencer, Sikowitz, Jade, and Beck are playing an improv game (which Spencer is new at) that Jade mentions after Sinjin falls in.
- Sikowitz, Jade and Beck all splash Spencer because he lost the game that they were playing.
- Jade, Beck, Sikowitz and Spencer, including the children that Trina are babysitting, are seen with corn dogs instead of nothing (like the first movie).
- Kenan Thompson made a special appearance at the end of the crossover, singing along with Tori, Carly, and the gangs.
- This episode was shot between Seasons 1 and 2 of Victorious. Its placement in the chronology of Victorious is unclear, given multiple statements from the production team, but it would appear to be sometime before Beggin' on Your Knees given Jade's hair.
- Both casts of iCarly and Victorious performed a mash-up of both their theme songs which is called Leave It All To Shine.
- iParty with Victorious aired on Saturday June 11th, 2011; however, it was scheduled to air on June 10th, 2011.
- Spencer wasn't recognized by anyone at Kenan's house and didn't need any special facial make-up, despite the fact that he's made a few appearances on iCarly.
- In the UK, this is counted as the 1st episode of Season 2, as it is called "iParty".
- In this episode, Kenan Thompson complains that everyone wants to borrow money from him, including Andy Samberg and half the original cast of All That. Thompson works on Saturday Night Live with Andy Samberg (Matt Bennett, who plays Robbie Shapiro, bears more than a striking resemblance to Andy Samberg, which has been referenced several times on the show). All That was Dan Schneider's first TV series for Nickelodeon, and Kenan Thompson was a member of the original cast. Tori herself comments that she used to love that show, and a disapproving non-fan of Robbie's rapping says to him "Shut up, Samberg!".
- Freddie claims that Tori is hotter than Shelby Marx, referencing the fact that they are both played by the same person (Victoria Justice).
- In the scene where Steven and Tori are watching the iCarly webcast, Carly and Sam can be heard singing lyrics of Gloria Gaynor's 1978 song I Will Survive
- Cat's only lines of dialogue—all other times she either uses her app, writes on paper (in the extended version), or sings—are "It's true", "Oh" (in the extended version), "Yay! I love karaoke!", and "What?".
- Cat was also missing at the Asphalt Café scene when André invited every one to Thompson's house.
- During Beck and Tori's improv scene, Dan makes a reference to a former Nickelodeon show "Avatar the Last Airbender" twice: when Tori says all they can wish for is more hope (a parody of Katara, a hope-obsessed character) and when the comet hits (referring to the finale when Sozin's Comet arrived).
- Two songs from iCarly, The Joke is on You and Number One, can be heard playing in the background at various points during the party.
- Near the end of the episode, the characters briefly mention needing a 'good burger'. This is a reference to a movie made by Dan Schneider starring Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell called "Good Burger." "Good Burger" is based on a series of sketches from Schneider's show All That, also starring Kel Mitchell and Kenan Thompson.
- Kennan enters the house with a stuffed giraffe, just like Cat bring her giraffes around.
- This episode continues the running gag of Tori's high cheekbones and Robbie being mistaken for Andy Samberg.
- An extended version of the episode aired on August 27, 2011.
- In the painting of ducks playing poker hanging above Sikowitz's classroom door, the second duck from the left looks similar to the Disney character Dewey, Donald Duck's nephew. "Ducks Playing Poker" is a spoof of C.M. Coolidge's 16 oil paintings of "Dogs Playing Poker."
- Tori was so scared by Sikowitz that she peed.
- Sam and Rex make a reference to the show "Laverne and Shirley" during the rap battle (confirmed on Dan's blog).
- Gibby wears a Drake and Josh baseball cap (this was confirmed on Dan's blog).
- Jade has her tan from Season 2, but still has her season 1 hair, mainly because this was filmed in between seasons.
- Spencer mentions that his ex-girlfriend does special effects makeup and when they ask if she can make them look completely, he responds that "She does Hasselhoff", a reference to actor and TV personality David Hasselhoff.
- This is the second time Liz Gillies/Jade West wears a bikini. The first was in Survival of the Hottest.
- Trina's line "I hate everything!" was said by her sister Tori in another episode (Ice Cream for Ke$ha).
- When the extended version aired, it was revealed during the commercial break that T-Bo was in the panda suit. This may or may not have been written with the original script; it is possible that it was just made up by Nick for the hosting of the extended version.
- It is revealed in this movie that Robbie and Rex have seperate Slap accounts and that Rex unfollowed Robbie, leaving him with only 13 contacts, an unlucky number.
- It has never been explicitly stated if the crossover is within the series canon of iCarly and Victorious; it was acknowledged that the Victorious cast met Freddie on TheSlap, but some of the comments on TheSlap do not agree with the episode's plot.
- Likewise the casts of the two shows do not seem to know each other on Sam & Cat but this could be due to the fact that only Tori has any meaningful interactions with the iCarly trio.
- Just before they sing the mash-up, the DJ tosses Carly a microphone which is a reference to the Victorious opening sequence, where Tori is tossed a microphone in the same manner.
- This is the final 90 minute special iCarly special.
- Liz Gillies describes this episode in an interview: "It was a lot of fun. It was crazy to work with iCarly and have all those crazy energies and personalities in one room together. 'Cause our characters are crazy, but we're all crazy, too. It was wild, throwing this all together. There was never a dull moment. The movie was lots of fun; I spent a lot of time in the hot tub, which was fun. We do a really great singing scene. It was a blast."
- Beck said that nothing can scare him, but he has been scared by things multiple times before. In this same episode, he showed fright when Sinjin fell in the hot tub; in Jade Dumps Beck, he was freaked out when a Rottweiler dog was attacking his dad; in Wi-Fi in the Sky he was shocked by a close up of Trina's butt; in Freak the Freak Out, he showed fear while babysitting Trina; in Locked Up!, he shows fear when Tori gets taken away and when the Yerbanian soldier burst in the hotel; and in Helen Back Again he also raised his hand when Sikowitz asked if anyone else was afraid of Helen. In fact, he would later outright confess to Tori, in Tori Fixes Beck and Jade, that he was scared of Jade.
- Also, it has been said by Sikowitz that because he is "unscareable," he cannot portray terror convincingly, but he does so quite well in the third episode of You Need to Know This, "People Who Become Briefly Terrified on TheSlap."
- When Steven said, "I thought I'd swing back early and say hey" during lunch, Jade picks up her soda. When he ask how everybody's doing, the camera points to Beck, Jade, and André and Jade is putting her hands on Beck, but she didn't put her soda down. Then, it points at just Jade, André, Rex, and Robbie. During that part, you can see Jade putting her soda on the table. See that scene here at 00:05-00:08 to be more specific.
- During the crossover song Leave It All To Shine, Trina sings beautifully, when every other time we hear her sing, she is terrible, except when she sings in Shut Up N' Dance in April Fools' Blank and Five Fingaz to the Face in Driving Tori Crazy.
- Despite Robbie accidentally frying the music system, music can still be heard after that point, and the DJ was still able to play beats for anyone who wanted to rap.
- When Cat is trying to warn André about the panda, the headband didn't say the sentence until she had finished typing it all, however earlier and after that, the headband says the word right after it has been typed by Cat.
- Tori said she peed when she was scared by Sikowitz, yet her clothes are still dry.
- When Sikowitz blows his trumpet, Steven was very close to him. Blowing a trumpet or any loud instrument so close to someone can damage their ear drums; Steven seems to hear fine after this as well as after Kenan does the same thing.
- The iCarly trio makes a big deal that Tori resembles Shelby Marx from the episode iFight Shelby Marx, as both characters were played by Victoria Justice, but no one notices that André looks like Harper from iCarly Saves TV, even though both characters were played by Leon Thomas III, or that Trina looks like one of the girls who attended Nora's party in iPsycho, even though both characters were played by Daniella Monet. In the latter case, it is likely that they simply didn't recall the Trina-lookalike, as the trio didn't interact much with her, nor do they interact much with Trina. Likewise, their interaction with André was minimal and they only saw his face during very active moments, compared to seeing a static picture of Tori, so it is possible that they simply didn't get a good enough look at him to make the connection.
- Cat has a throat problem for the entire episode and has to use a special headband and phone app to speak, but can be heard singing perfectly fine during Leave It All To Shine. It is possible that she could have talked but the doctor didn't want her to, her throat problem healed, or, given her addictive personality, she just liked using the app.
- Give It Up can be heard during the party. However it is the version sung by Jade and Cat which couldn't happen as they sung it once as karaoke and it was not recorded.
- Rex mentions Twitter although TwitFlash is a parody of it in the Victorious universe.
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Karzai blames NATO 'failure' in Afghanistan attacks
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Monday blamed an intelligence failure by his government and especially NATO for a wave of suicide attacks in Kabul and three provinces a day earlier that Afghan and NATO officials said they suspected were led by a Pakistan-based extremist group.
Should the suspicions about the Haqqani network prove accurate, seriously frayed U.S.-Pakistan relations could suffer a fresh blow just as Washington and Islamabad appear poised to begin trying to repair ties.
Karzai broke his silence hours after the last of 36 insurgents were killed early Monday in Afghan security force assaults on two Kabul buildings from which the attackers fired at embassies, government offices and U.S.-led NATO coalition facilities.
The capital returned to its usual traffic-clogged state as Afghan police and U.S. advisers removed weapons and swept the buildings for booby traps and evidence while the dead gunmen lay where they were cut down.
"The situation is too bad, it's too bad," said Khoja Matiullah Sidiqi, 29, an unemployed computer programmer, who fled with his family from their home when gun-firing insurgents stormed into the building across the street in the Wazir Akbar Khan diplomatic enclave. "We don't know our future. We're very afraid."
Four civilians and 11 Afghan security force members died in Kabul and Logar, Nangarhar and Paktia provinces, a presidential palace statement said. Thirty-two civilians and 42 Afghan police and troops were wounded.
But the return of relative calm Monday also brought sharp questions: How could the insurgents plan such complex, coordinated strikes without being discovered? Who were they? Did they receive help from operatives inside the Afghan security forces?
The attackers smuggled stocks of arms and ammunition into what are supposedly the well-secured hearts of Kabul and the provincial capitals of Puli Alam, Jalalabad and Gardez. In Kabul and the Logar capital of Puli Alam, they drove their small arsenals through workday traffic to multi-story buildings that they seem to have commandeered with little trouble.
Split into squads, the gunmen loosed gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades at Afghan and foreign targets. In Kabul, they aimed at the U.S. Embassy, other foreign missions, the Parliament, a compound of the Afghan intelligence service, the headquarters of the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force and two ISAF bases.
The attacks triggered fierce firefights with Afghan anti-terrorist police that in two locations in Kabul _ where security had been no tighter than usual _ lasted more than 18 hours.
Karzai told a meeting of his Cabinet that the attacks represented "an intelligence failure for us and especially NATO," according to a presidential palace statement. The Afghan leader's criticism came despite the fact that Afghan forces took control of Kabul last year at the start of ISAF's gradual handover of security responsibilities.
His comments were in line with an ongoing narrative designed to reassure Afghans that "this will all be better" when foreign combat forces have left by the end of 2014, said Martine van Bijlert of the Afghan Analysts Network.
In Washington, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta acknowledged that the attacks showed "that the Taliban is resilient, that they remain determined." But he downplayed the significance of the attacks, saying, "There were no tactical gains here. These are isolated attacks that are done for symbolic purposes, and they have not regained any territory."
With 20,000 U.S. troops preparing to leave later this year in the second phase of the international troop drawdown, many Afghans said the attacks increased their worries.
"We don't trust the (Afghan) security forces. We don't trust the government. We have all these foreign troops here, and they (insurgents) can still attack," said Sidiqi, who hid with his family in their basement garage. They then drove to his mother's home near Parliament, only to find Afghan security forces fighting insurgents firing from a nearby building.
Afghan, NATO officials and some experts said, however, that Afghan security forces responded with proficiency and courage.
"My impression is that they did perform well, and there is a perception among Afghans that they performed well, which is very important," said van Bijlert. "But I think there was an overstatement by ISAF that they are ready to do this on their own."
Some Afghans wondered why it took the deeply unpopular Karzai more than 24 hours after the attacks began to make a statement. One Afghan sarcastically wrote on Twitter, "He couldn't talk, he was counting the shots."
The strikes threatened to damage efforts by the United States and Pakistan to repair a relationship that's deteriorated since U.S. forces mistakenly killed 24 Pakistani troops manning border posts in November. Pakistan's Parliament opened the way for the delicate process to begin Thursday, approving new guidelines _ widely believed to have been set by the powerful army _ to guide Islamabad's future relationship with Washington.
U.S. officials hope that one result will be the reopening of supply routes from the Pakistani port of Karachi to U.S. forces in Afghanistan, which Pakistan closed following the border incident.
The Haqqani network, a Pakistan-based Afghan insurgent group that U.S. officials have linked to Pakistan's main spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate, is suspected of playing the leading role in the suicide assaults, Afghan and NATO officials said. The ISI denies any links with the group.
Afghan and NATO officials stressed, however, that the investigation had just begun and that it was too early to draw conclusions.
The attacks "have all the hallmarks of the Haqqani network," said a NATO official, who requested anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss the issue publicly. Their "sophistication and nature" were similar to a series of spectacular strikes the group carried out last year in Kabul against the British cultural center, the Intercontinental Hotel and the U.S. Embassy, he said.
In September, Adm. Mike Mullen, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and now retired, accused the ISI of supporting the attacks on the Intercontinental Hotel and the U.S. mission, calling the Haqqani network a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's army-run intelligence agency.
U.S. and Afghan officials have long accused the ISI and the Pakistani army of supporting the Taliban, the Haqqani network and other Afghan insurgents as a means of wielding influence in Afghanistan after the departure of foreign troops.
Several experts cautioned against immediately blaming the Haqqani network, explaining that it suited Karzai's government to hold the group accountable at a time that it is trying to lure the Taliban into peace talks.
Gen. Bismillah Mohammadi, the Afghan interior minister, told a news conference that an insurgent captured in the Nangarhar capital of Jalalabad "confessed he had received training outside of Afghanistan, and affiliates himself to the Haqqani network."
Two suicide bombers arrested in Kabul before they could carry out a plan to assassinate Karim Khalili, the country's second vice president, were determined to be Haqqani operatives, said Lutfallah Mashal, spokesman for the National Directorate of Security, Afghanistan's main intelligence service.
"All of these operations were led and organized by the Haqqani network," asserted Gen. Ghulam Sakhi, the police chief of Logar province, where Afghan security forces fought fierce battles with two teams of insurgents that seized two multi-story buildings.
There also were suspicions that the Taliban cooperated in the attacks. One of their spokesmen issued statements by cellphone while the attacks were underway, claiming responsibility and giving accurate details of the targets, as did the group's website.
(Safi is a McClatchy special correspondent.)


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Any single Atheists attending the Reason Rally is DC this weekend?
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After party? Do you have details?
There is a rally this weekend? I was not aware.
Me, my wife, and my two oldest boys are going to have a great time in Washington DC.
I would love to go--assuming that I could get back by Sunday morning--but I do not drive and I don't know anyone from my immediate area (just west of Philadelphia) who is going. So, it looks as though I won't be going.
I didn't know there were such things as rally buses. Checking online, I find there is one leaving from 30th St. Station in Philadelphia at 5:44 AM--but since buses don't run from West Chester to Philadelphia at, say, two in the morning, I'd have a tough time getting there. Alas!
I live with my Moslem sister, Moslem brother-in-law, and Moslem nephews. The latter do not drive and the former, while generally accommodating, might be less than thrilled with driving for an hour (and back) in the wee hours of the morning so that I could catch a bus to a rally that is somewhat less than dedicated to supporting their religious beliefs. <Smile>
Thank you. But, of course, if I don't go, that'll be another day I can devote to working on my collection of philosophical essays tentatively entitled Why I Don't Believe in God...and Why You Shouldn't, Either: Conceivability Is Not Good Reason for Belief. Not that there's any guarantee that I'll spend even part of the day working on it!
Isn't it amazing that here on AtheistNexus, the ad at the top of the page as I write reads "Bibles for a new season" and advertises Christianbook.com?
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The weather in my neck of the woods: Sunny, but Cool Crisp temps. It's gonna get cold at night thought.
Book I'm reading: None at the moment.
What's on my TV today: Lots of things… we are clearing out the DVR, Castle, CSI":Miami, Bear Swamp Recovery…. and later who knows…. hubby won't tell me what's on TV tonight!
On the menu for dinner: We still aren't having real dinners yet, because with the Oral Surgery, Norm can't eat most foods. So I make whatever the kids want, and I will have whatever is laying around.
On my To Do List: At least 2 more loads of laundry. And I would like to do something creative this evening.
New Recipe I tried or want to try soon: I want to find a good pumpkin fudge recipe. Still on the hunt!
In the craft basket: Oh My! What isn't in there?? I am currently working on making paper beads.
Looking forward to this week: Spending some tiem with the kids, with NO WHERE to go! Cheer & Football are over, and the kids have 3 days off this week… so it's Pajama week here…. no going to the store, no appointments… NOTHING
Tips and Tricks:
My favorite blog post this week: Hey it's still monday….. we will see what the week brings!
Blog Hopping (a new discovered blog you would like to share with the readers):I have an awesome blog I want to share, but can not find the link, or remember the title… I will look for it!
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Lesson learned the past few days: My kids are wonderful little people! The twins have both developed GREAT sportsmanship!
On my mind: I need to have more tolerance of other people!


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In the last decade, more attention has been paid to making hospitals cozier and homier: flowers and champagne for new mothers, age-appropriate wall-hangings and cartoon dolls for sick kids.
Newer hospitals have consulted the hospitality industry to make the health-care environment more inviting and less threatening.
However, most of us do not choose a hospital; that choice is made by our physicians and limited by our rural locality.
Without question, many hospitals have been austere and some downright dingy. In contrast are the billionaire royalty flying to North America by private jets for medical care and enjoying hospital suites the equal of five-star hotels. Perhaps, trickle-down transition from being institutional to being much more inviting and warm is appropriate and overdue.
Im not sure about inviting, but I can see the reasoning for warm. Its a comfort issue. Consider emergency rooms and intensive care units any hospitality there? That is a really tough question: People arrive in mental and physical pain, scared, insecure and even unable to communicate. Urgency of pain relief, treatments and procedures are foremost inviting is hardly part of the vocabulary. Here is one example from an ER before design guidelines for inviting and warm existed.
On a mid-afternoon, I took a call from an ER physician at a Navajo reservation hospital somewhere west of Farmington. He was sending us a German couple, tourists who had been injured in an automobile collision and were stable enough for transfer. I asked our staff members to locate and summon a German translator.
Upon the couples arrival, the translator proved of no use; husband and wife were deaf and unable to speak mute. However, the husband, an engineer, could read and write English. Seeking the circumstances of the accident and the potential for injury, I scribbled questions on a notepad.
What did you hit? brought a quizzical look. I said: truck, car, horse, cow? He circled car and on we went.
After examination and a few X-rays came discharge from the ER and disposition. They had no transportation and no place to go. The staff members seamlessly arranged for a motel, someone to pick them up and delivery of a replacement rental car. They asked to pay the ER charges.
Another phone call came from the reservation doctor sending another German couple to our ER, this time English speaking. The first couple, glancing at a map, had swerved from behind a stopped truck and hit the oncoming second couple. The wife had some broken ribs and was admitted. Moreover, we had the routine down, arranged the motel pickup and replacement rental, Hertz the first was Avis. They, too, wanted to pay. Again, I asked the staff to low-ball the charges. Warm? They were our guests.
Paul Gibson, Mercy Regional Medical Centers emergency department director, informs me that things are better. The hospital subscribes to a Language Line phone translation service, via three-way speaker phone, for more than 175 languages. Stranded? The ER has bus tokens and taxi vouchers. Payment? Only foreigners ask. Medical billing is now so complex, it is very difficult to render charges promptly. Go figure.
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Quite obviously you've never been through a natural disaster or other event which you cannot prepare for or handle. Some folks are not so lucky.
It establishes at least basic protections should be provided
based upon a series of taxes levied upon the citizens.
Because not everyone gets lucky enough to avoid tragedy,
I'm amazed at how right wing the world is becoming
Not to mention how when the country's in a mess, who by far and beyond get drafted and even in peacetime fill the enlisted military positions? Or to put a finer point on it, whose children get to die for the security of the privileges they never had?
Draft or not, military service is the main route out of the hood, as I know very well.And I enlisted in the military in the mid 60s and came from a well to do family. I met people in the service from all walks of life, so what's your point?Where do most of the soldiers that guard the precious privileges and foreign assets come from?But oh yeah, they get paid and have the VA for healthcare when they get out, what a deal!I received a first class education in electronics as part of my military service and it set me up for a very successful and satisfying career is civilian life after those four years. And I consider my decision to enlist in the service one of the best decision I ever made. It may not be the best path for everyone but like so many things in life it is what you make of it.Sorry Lefty but if you really knew poor, you wouldn't think the draft is all that sucks.I have no doubt that being poor sucks. Life is not fair and the universe cares none about ones station in life. But that aside there are many many people that start out in life poor and find a way to improve themselves. The military is but one way many have found to be path out of poverty either by the education gained in an single enlistment or by making it a career. And of course there are people born rich that later in life lose it all in poor decisions or just bad luck. I ask again what is your point, that life is not fair? That somehow all people should be equal in wealth? I just think too many typical ideology class warfare battles have left you too wounded to think logically or practical. Lefty


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Cursed with the paradox of choice, I'd sometimes take so long to make a decision about what to cook that I'm too hungry to start cooking. Or the supermarkets are close by the time I finally settle on something to make. So I just end up ordering takeout. (Yes, cookbook authors do resort to takeout semi-regularly. At least this one does.)
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Recently I endured a 2-week long case of the flu and had stocked up on ginger for tea and soup. With some extra ginger on hand, I decided to make a ginger hoisin chicken stir-fry. As with the cooking the garlic beef, the Hoisin Garlic sauce was the only thing I needed for the marinade. (It made the meat very tender, without needing to marinate it in cornstarch.) With some grated ginger, onions, broccoli, and a few extra flavorings for the sauce, this turned out to be another very easy and delicious meal that satisfied the hunger pangs.
The heartiness of the hoisin sauce, combined with the clean, sharp flavor of ginger, was exactly what I was craving.
I wish most decisions could be this easy.
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Serves 4
- 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breast or thighs, cut into thin slices
- 1/4 cup Soy Vay Hoisin Garlic Sauce and Marinade
- 3 cups broccoli florets
- 1 tablespoon peanut or vegetable oil
- 1 1/2 tablespoons minced or grated ginger
- 1 medium yellow onion, diced
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoons sesame oil
- In a large bowl, combine the chicken with 2 tablespoons of the Hoisin Garlic sauce. Allow the chicken to marinate for 10 minutes at room temperature.
- Meanwhile, bring a pot of water to boil. Cook the broccoli for 2 minutes, then drain and set aside. (Tip: If you want the broccoli to maintain a bright green hue, add about 1/4 teaspoon baking soda to the boiling water before adding the broccoli.)
- Heat the oil in wok or large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken, spread it evenly around the base of the pan, and allow it to sear on one side untouched for 1 to 2 minutes. Then stir-fry for another 1 minute, until it begins to lose its pink hue on both sides. Add the ginger and onions and cook for another 2 minutes.
- Add the remaining 2 tablespoons of Hoisin Garlic sauce, the soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sesame oil. Stir until everything is well coated. Add the broccoli and give everything one last stir. Transfer to a large plate and serve.
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