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The skin is susceptible to damage in many occupations and workplaces. Skin irritation can be a significant problem when there is exposure to mechanical, physical, chemical and biological agents such as friction, excessive heat, wind and cold, sunlight, dust, metals, organic and inorganic chemicals, detergents, soaps, irritating plant and food materials. The damage to the skin can result in conditions ranging from dryness to severe irritant or allergic contact dermatitis.
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Tuesday, 4 May 2010
The comfort zone
Despite being a mother of a 2 year old and a full time step mom of a 9 year old, I often think I can get away with acting like a 19 year-old. Somewhere between my teenage years and my current life as a 30 year old wife and a mom, I missed that whole growing up and taking responsibility phase. A little embarrassing for a soon-to-be MD, PhD, ultramarathoner to admit. But I have always been good at pushing myself in academics and fitness, since I perceived those as important. However, when it comes to cooking and cleaning, my life is in shambles. When I got to college and I had never done laundry, washed dishes or even learned to how use a wash cloth, all my friends thought it was funny, but they also assumed I'd learn. Well, let's just say, I learned to barely get by taking care of myself, but when I was thrown into this motherhood of two and wife to crazy-busy physician and full time physician myself, I was not prepared.
I started this blog, Sea Legs Girl, to show people (including myself) that they should not be afraid of becoming a new person or of leaving the security of old habits behind. Just because I have spent a lifetime being a horrendous and lazy cleaner and generally unsuccessful cook, doesn't mean I can't change!
This blog is principally still going to document my journey to becoming the fastest female ultra runner in the world, but is now also going to document from time to time my domestic battles. And maybe even a domestic PR from time to time.
First I would like to document what happened when I decided to take control of the hidden and not-so-hidden "dust" in the living room:
Next, I had an idea for organizing our bedroom. This in "the running shelf", which I bought used at a bazaar. It is dedicated to running clothing, so we don't have to be digging through all of our other clothing to find the important stuff. My goal is that this will all eventually be clothing of a technical fabric nature, but that may require winning lots of races or running many races with Olga, assuming she'll continue to pass the same amount of clothing on to me :).
Finally, Natali had a friend over for dinner last night and I asked her friend what she liked to eat and the first thing she said was "spaghetti". Sounds easy enough, right? Well, I had never even attempted it before. Just to be clear, on those rare occasions that I do cook, I generally prepare Asian food. And I NEVER prepare meat, with the one exception of fish. But then, I found myself wondering if I really should embarrass Natali and get even more of a reputation as the crazy step mom or if I should just learn to make the stupid spaghetti. So I made it. And it had meat in it. Just to be clear, had it just been The Lorax I was preparing for, I never would have made meat, but Natali is old enough to have developed eating habits long before she met me, so I try not to give her too hard of a time, preferring that she most of all be happy. Not only did I make the spaghetti, but I did something else that is completely contrary to my food preparation beliefs, which is peeling. Yes I peeled the carrots, since Natali won't eat them unpeeled. After months of her not eating my carrots because they weren't peeled, I finally gave in. (Just as an aside, I would always leave the peels on believing that all kids exposed to the small amounts of bacteria and dirt, etc. benefit from having less allergies and acid reflux as an adult, due to this slow and safe development of their immune-system).
Here are the carrot peels.
Here are the happy kids eating spaghetti and a mother behind the camera claiming her first domestic PR.
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- mmmonyka said...
- 4 May 2010 at 13:24
- Ewa said...
I am so with you about peeling veggies. We try to eat organic and those I scrub well and my family has to put up with how I prepare them. They know better to complain.
I think importance of domestic skills is vastly overrated but I for one wish mine were better. It would take me less time to do anything in the house.
BTW, I am 52 and I am far, very far from being a good housewife. I figure (hope) I make up for it in other areas.
- 4 May 2010 at 14:31
- Barefoot AngieB said...
Nice job on the domestic PR!!
I have a therapist or a visiting teacher scheduled to come over about once a weeks so I know I have to clean at least that much!
- 4 May 2010 at 15:03
- Emily Pease said...
I agree about peeling vegetables, especially carrots. I used to love eating carrots "Bugs Bunny style" unpeeled and whole!
Great job on the domestic PR, although is that ketchup on the table being used as spaghetti sauce?
I wonder if Natali would accept a bit of spinach in the spaghetti? It adds a lot of nutrition without being too noticeable!
- 4 May 2010 at 15:10
- cherelli said...
Ha, well done! I am not the most dedicated domestic housecleaner around...I have trained Brett to put up with a few crumbs on the floor and I avoid vacuuming whenever possible. I don't separate whites from colours in the wash (figure if its cold water I shouldn't have to). But I have been working on my culinary skills a lot lately, it's kind of fun!
- 4 May 2010 at 15:20
- Diana said...
I think I read somewhere that there are a lot of nutrients in the outer layers of a carrot, so it's better to keep them unpeeled. If Natali likes them unpeeled, can you ask her to help you peel them? It can save you some time and teach her a valuable skill. Plus, you get the added bonus of together time in the kitchen.
I hope you don't get too frustrated that you aren't totally amazing at everything in your life. Besides, being good at domestic tasks is overrated. This is coming from someone who obsessively cleans and organizes, by the way.
Looks like everyone enjoyed the spaghetti. Delicious!
- 4 May 2010 at 16:02
- sea legs girl said...
Before the confusion gets out of hand: Emily Pease, that IS ketchup on the table, but it was NOT used as a substitute for the sauce :)! It is just a condiment Natali likes to add to everything, including spaghetti sauce. And I can assure you she would fish out any spinach I added, painstakingly.
Oh and Diana, she actually likes the carrots peeled. Maybe that's waht you meant, but you know, I just had to set the record straight.
- 4 May 2010 at 16:55
Feel free to use the old phrase
"A clean house is a sign of life wasted"...
- 4 May 2010 at 17:25
- sea legs girl said...
Malene, oh, just what I needed: another excuse! Thanks ;). I do like the saying, by the way.
- 4 May 2010 at 17:34
- SteveQ said...
I'd send you my recipe for spaghetti sauce, but the continuous skimming off of fat would probably make you retch.
I get to claim bachelorhood for my domestic slovenliness, but I also have to admit I scrubbed my bathroom just before the plumber came during an emergency to disguise the worst of it - and it then just looked like it needed scrubbing. I've gotten better over the years; inmy youth, I though curtains and bedsheets were interchangeable.
I have 15 cardboard boxes filled with just running t-shirts. Can't throw them away.
- 4 May 2010 at 17:36
- Marathon Princess said...
This is great and sounds a lot like me except I love cooking as long as meat isn't involved. Cleaning, well that is a another issue :) My husband, the biologist, is with you on kids needing a little dirt to help build the immune system, his latest question is is it also helps in cancer prevention in a small way.
Oh, and to finish my PhD I need to do clinical hours in opthalmology, can I come hang out with you? Kidding, but would probably make the hours a little more interesting.
- 4 May 2010 at 19:42
- Helen said...
I'm looking forward to the next post where you describe teaching Natali and The Lorax to cook and clean. Though I guess teaching someone something requires the teacher to have knowlegde... darn - just trying to help out!
- 4 May 2010 at 20:23
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- 5 May 2010 at 02:42
- sea legs girl said...
Steve Q, Of course I'd love the recipe. I adore cooking in theory, and even like reading recipes, but the chance that I'd actually use a complicated recipe is slim to none. But things may change. Nothing wrong with using curtains as bed sheets and vice versa.
Marathon Princess, interested research project your husband has there! I'll have to watch for related results. Please come to Denmark to do your ophthalmology clinical hours! It would be so fun. The people in my department are so nice. I know you're probably not serious, but just send an email if you are :).
Helen, oh trust me that transfer of very little knowledge is going to happen as soon as possible. Natali has already learned many of the essentials, such as setting the table and bathing The Lorax. And The Lorax has learned to pick up after himself and even use a rag to wipe his spot clean. So cute.
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EpicWin is another RPG productivity program that gives you points and prizes for your real-world tasks. Here again, you can choose your character and level them up as you go. You can't yet spend gold on things, but EpicWin is in the process of being developed.
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If the area of productivity you're struggling with is managing your finances, there are programs for that, as well. SaveUp is a program tailored to incentivize saving and making smart financial choices. It gives you credits for the choices you make, and you can cash them in to contests with real prizes, or you can cash them out. SmartyPig is a website that also focuses on saving, though a little less gamified than SaveUp. SmartyPig makes saving automatic, and it also rewards you for meeting your goals.
If you're not so interested in using apps or websites, gamification doesn't have to involve technology: you can use game elements on your own. The best way to go about it is to start by identifying the tasks that you have a hard time completing or that you want to incentivize. For each of those tasks, determine a point value. You may also want to assign them different categories. Maybe doing the dishes gets you two blue points, but cleaning the bathroom gets you eight red points.
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- Tense sniper gameplay
- Fabulous X-Ray Kill-Cam
- Smart, unpredictable gameplay
- Game world needs more interactivity
- Patchy and often dated graphics
- Miserly approach to checkpoints
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- Review Price: £27.99
Available on Xbox 360, PS3 (version tested), PC
Sniper Elite v2 feels of a different era, and we mean that in both a good and bad way. On the bad side, its graphics feel dated, its environments lack depth or any rich interaction, and if you're looking for the kind of cinematic presentation you might find in a Battlefield or Call of Duty, then you're not going to find it here.
Yet, on the good side, it's a game that harks back to the days when military shooters were about more than funnelling you through a level, blasting mindless goons as they popped into view and preparing for the next spectacular, semi-interactive cut-scene. It's not that Sniper Elite v2 is a World War II Deus Ex, giving you a big set of tools and the freedom to use them, but it does feel different to the modern norm. It's a slow-moving shooter that expects you to think a little about the situations you're going into and how to play them, and where planning and improvisation actually have a minor role.
Reboot or Remake?
Some of the game's anachronistic feel comes down to that it's a remake of a WWII shooter that hit in the last days of the Xbox/PS2 generation. The premise is the same as the original – an OSS agent is dropped into Berlin in the last phase of WWII, with orders to either extract or kill scientists working in the Nazis' rocket research program. The action takes place primarily in third-person, but with a first-person view for sniping, which – as you might expect – is very much the focus of the whole shebang.
While Sniper Elite v2 is a comprehensive reworking, with new locations, improved graphics and a whole lot of HD polish, it still doesn't look or play like a game being released in mid-2012. There are points at which it all looks brilliant, as Berlin's ruined architecture and the enhanced lighting engine combine to create impressive vistas, but up close the textures are muddy, the lighting primitive, the character models lacking in detail and the scenery a little boxy and angular. Sniper Elite v2 looks better than any PS2 or Xbox game, but playing the PS3 version it's hard to imagine that it's running on the same hardware as the Uncharted or Killzone titles. At times it's horrifically ugly.
It's also hard to ignore how limited and artificial its world seems. Full of doors that can't be opened, small chunks of rubble that can't be navigated and light bulbs that can't be shot out when you need to. Meanwhile, the game's PC origins come through in a miserly attitude to console checkpoints. Sniper Elite v2 is a reasonably challenging game where death, when it comes, often comes quickly. Having to slog through the same fifteen minute chunk of gameplay again because you didn't reach the next objective marker gets mildly infuriating over time.
Headshot City
This might be enough to damn some other games, but Sniper Elite v2 has three big points in its favour and these are big enough and good enough to make it worth a second look.
The first is that it does a really good job of the main business: sniping. The whole game is structured around taking Nazis and Russians our from a distance, and depending on your difficulty level you'll have to worry about movement, wind speed and the effects of gravity on your bullet as you shoot. While you have a silenced pistol to help in those parts of the game where you're sneaking around occupied buildings and enemy bases, not to mention a machine gun for close encounters, the general rule is that you won't last more than a few seconds in any serious firefight. Good sniping isn't just the best option, but the only way to get through each mission in one piece.
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Hosted by TheFunded.com and the Founder Institute, the Founder Showcase is Silicon Valley's leading international seed-stage startup event, gathering global technology founders and investors to hear from top experts, and help launch new companies to greatness.
The 16th edition of the Founder Showcase is scheduled for Tuesday, May 12th at the Microsoft Campus in Mountain View.
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Second, we have a pitch competition completely geared towards seed-stage companies. How is this different from other pitch competitions? Well, most other events feature companies raising their Series-A, but we go one step earlier, as our presenters are all less than 2 years old and have raised less than $250,000 in funding. In other words, we give you the chance to see some of the most interesting companies of tomorrow before anyone else. Our alumni have gone on to raise over $150 million in funding, and include companies like Udemy, Relay Rides, Thumbtack, Realty Mogul, Kaggle, and many more.
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CCG Consulting necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 224 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
Need a new logo that launch an aggressive new marketing strategy to grow our business. The logo needs to convey the sense of urgency that is the essence of JPW, a leading independent service provider of hand-held scanners and other technical devices. Every person in this family-owned organization is Passionate about servicing their customers. For over 20 years, JPW has competed successfully against large manufacturers… picture David vs. Goliath… because we do whatever it takes to get the job done!
JPW Associates. Tag Line: Keeping the power in your hands.
New, modern look reflects reliable, forward thinking and energetic service-oriented company. Will be basis for new website, printed documents, packaging, vehicles, etc.
Who we are... When you visit JPW office, you feel urgency in every single person. From owner to highly skilled technicians, everone is focused on fulfilling 2-day turnaround commitment on repairs. All will jump in to help, whether it's meeting a customer or working the shipping desk. Owner is as passionate about health and welfare of his employees as he is tenacious abou securing a new customer.
- We're open as to scheme or color. We've used green, blue and yellow in the past.
- We want to convey energy, focus, technical expertise, passion, commitment. Just because we're a B2B doesn't mean we have to be boring!
- Use name of company – JPW Associates. You can emphasize JPW and de-emphasize "Associates."
- Tag line: "Keeping the power in your hands" has many meanings: Power of decision to repair or buy new in hands of customer; we keep equipment running ("powered up"); A lot of equipment we service is "hand-held"... power in hand... get it? Lots of meanings in this tag line...
- We would like some sort of "mark" or "icon" that can become identifiable with JPW. This icon would be used throughout the website and on printed materials. Icon should be separate from name so it can be used on its own.
- If done right, JPW can be the "icon." Let's see how creative you can get!
- Typical formats: .ai; .eps; .jpeg. Would like a .jpeg with a transparent background so it can be inserted into documents and power point without the "white box." Also require all information on fonts, pantone colors, etc.
- Don't want anything too "cartoony" or frivolous. We're fun but we're very serious about our business!
- Nothing that uses only the colors red and yellow.
- Not too complex.
- Not too futuristic, high techie or cold.
- We do not want HANDS in the logo. This is a business to business operation.
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SEATTLE, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoBio Energy, Inc., a Colorado corporation (OTCQB: GBOE) ("GeoBio"), announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary El Gas North America, LLC, a Washington limited liability company ("El Gas NA") has placed i
SEATTLE, Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- GeoBio Energy, Inc., a Colorado corporation (OTCQB: GBOE) ("GeoBio"), announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary El Gas North America, LLC, a Washington limited liability company ("El Gas NA") has placed its data reporting and volume conversion instruments for field trials with two of the nation's largest utilities. Both utilities are based in the northeast. The first utility has a market capitalization of approximately $11 Billion and the second utility has a market capitalization of approximately $370 Million. GeoBio expects the field trial phases to be completed by April 1, 2013. The opportunity to place its instruments with two significant utilities, combined with El Gas NA's technologically-advanced, valuable product line, helps to put GeoBio in an excellent position to expand the El Gas NA business and deploy multiple instruments in the oil and gas industry.
Mark Cangany, President of El Gas NA stated, "Placement of our maxiDATCOM, a data reporting device, and our miniELCOR, a gas electronic volume corrector device, in two national utilities is highly critical towards gaining industry acceptance and recognition of El Gas s.r.o.'s products." Mr. Cangany further explained, "We expect to commence product sales in the United States upon completion of the field trials with an estimated 100-300 product orders to be placed shortly thereafter." Larry Shelver, CEO of GeoBio commented, "This is a wonderful opportunity, which represents significant progress in launching sales of El Gas NA's data reporting and volume conversion products."
El Gas NA is a fully licensed and exclusive distributor of El Gas s.r.o's natural gas volume monitoring and correcting equipment and data recorder products in the territories including the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean Islands. El Gas NA's products include the (i) maxiDATCOM, a battery data reporting device with an integrated GSM/GPRS modem, (ii) miniELCOR, a battery powered gas electronic volume corrector and (iii) maxiELCOR, a battery powered gas electronic volume corrector with integrated GSM/GPRS modem. GeoBio anticipates that El Gas NA's products will enhance and add significant value to the oil and gas services industry, which is currently utilizing and relying on old, mechanical, circular reporters and instruments. El Gas NA offers integrated, robust and flexible technology, in which GeoBio expects will help improve market standards and contribute towards a more efficient and effective industry.
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GeoBio Energy's business model emphasizes the development, acquisition and operation of existing companies in the oil and gas services and energy related products industry. As oil and gas exploration continues in the face of ever rising demand, facilitating delivery of oil and gas, monitoring and maintaining drilling sites to obtaining peak efficiency and production from existing, new and aging wells becomes increasingly important. GeoBio believes this to be a significant growth opportunity in its strategy to combine and consolidate companies in the oil and natural gas services sector. GeoBio's subsidiary, El Gas North America, LLC, has an exclusive license to sell Czech Republic based ELGas s.r.o.'s natural gas electronic volume corrector (EVC) and electronic data recorder (EDR) products in the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean, which products provide for the efficient monitoring and delivery of natural gas to consumers. For more information, please visit GeoBio's web site: www.geobioinc.com
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PRATT — For several years, the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) Hunter Education Program has offered a two-part alternative to the all-classroom hunter education course, called an "Internet-assisted" course. The course has used the International Hunter Education Association's Internet program for the first portion of the class — the online portion — but now the agency has replaced this with its own internet-assisted portion of the class.
For Internet-assisted courses, all students must complete an online course before they can attend a field day and testing session, which is the second portion of the course. To begin, go to the Internet assisted field day and testing schedule link found on the KDWPT website, www.kdwpt.ks.us under "Other Services/Education/Hunter/Internet-assisted Course." Then click the buffalo logo to find contact information for a field day that fits the student's schedule. After registering for the field day and testing session of choice, the student is ready to begin the course.
Within 90 days of the chosen session, students log onto the KDWPT website listed above. Students need access to a printer to work through this course. As each chapter is completed, students answer the review questions for that chapter and print the page with answers. These must be brought to the second portion of the course, the field day and testing session.
The end of the online portion of the course features a course completion test. This test is important because students see the same material covered on the pretest required to continue the course with the field day and testing session. Students cannot access the completion test until they have completed all the chapter review questions. They must present these chapter review pages and the course completion test to the instructor to get into the field day and testing session. The whole process takes a few hours, from the comfort of home.
The next step is to show up at the designated field day and final testing site. First, students hand in their online tests and take a 25-question quiz to show that they have completed the online work. To continue with the course, students must correctly answer 22 of 25 questions, an easy task for anyone who has gone through the online material. Following the short quiz, students will spend a short time in the classroom discussing hunter ethics, laws, and game identification. Then it's outside for the rest of the day as they participate in a simulated hunting trail walk, firearm handling, and live fire. The trail walk and live fire shotgun training are required.
The Internet-assisted course format is designed to meet the needs of those individuals with conflicting schedules. Like the traditional course, there is no required fee to take the KDWPT online course. KDWPT does accept two alternative Internet-assisted portions of the course, both of which charge a fee and may be linked to from the KDWPT Hunter Education page online.


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ATLANTA - Police in Atlanta say a man was defending himself when he shot and killed a suspected robber on Christmas Eve.
Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones says the attempted robbery happened Monday night on Jackson Street in southeast Atlanta.
Jones said investigators found that two men tried to rob a person, and the intended victim pulled his own gun to defend himself and shot one of the suspects.
Police tell The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (http://bit.ly/ZA2h7N) that the suspect who survived, a 21-year-old man, was taken into custody and is facing charges including armed robbery. Police said the dead man's name was not being released until relatives could be notified.


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How to Fix a Friendship
When friendships start to unravel it can really throw us for a loop. Learn how to set things right and make a fresh start.
Not long ago, I was browsing through a friend's Facebook page when I saw a discussion she was having with some mutual buddies about a party they were planning. It sounded like a lot of fun. The only problem: I wasn't invited. Should I call them? Ignore it? Do something sneaky, like ask if they were free for dinner on the date of their big bash? The incident reminded me that even though I'm no longer in middle school, my friendships are as important—and almost as emotionally charged—as they were back then. "Connections between women are so intimate that any bump in the road can make us feel vulnerable, hurt and betrayed," says Irene Levine, Ph.D., author of Best Friends Forever (Overlook Press). We asked the experts to weigh in on five of the most common friendship flaps—and how to solve them.
You've become good friends with the mom of your daughter's best friend. But the tweens have had a serious falling out and aren't speaking. Both of you feel it was your girl who was wronged, and now you're on the outs too.
When moms get involved in their kids' conflicts, bad feelings can escalate quickly because we all tend to be blind to our children's faults. So proceed with caution, says Karol Ward, a social worker and author of Find Your Inner Voice (New Page). "Call your friend on the phone or, even better, meet in a public place so you'll both have an incentive to control your temper," she suggests. "Start by saying, 'I'd really like to understand what's happening between us and our kids. I want to hear your perspective and give you mine.'" Bear in mind that for the conversation to be productive, you've got to hear each other out, talk about your feelings and, above all, stay calm. Discuss her child as little as possible; if you must rehash the girls' interactions, state only the facts or events you personally witnessed. Finally, it'll help to remind yourself that she's going to be as protective of her child as you are of yours. The ideal conclusion? You'll shake your heads, acknowledging that kids will be kids. And you'll agree to stay out of it and let them solve their own troubles.
Your BFF recently had major surgery, and while you were very concerned, you were so busy you forgot to call. She lets you have it in an angry, accusatory e-mail, and now you're steamed at her too.
E-mail and texting are great ways to stay in touch, but they have the same pitfalls for grown-ups as they do for tweens and teens—in the heat of the moment, it's all too easy to indulge negative emotions and let them get the better of you. "So sit tight and chill for at least 24 hours," advises Ward. "That's the only way to be sure you don't say something you'll regret." A prolonged silence could also worsen things, especially if your friend is used to a quick response from you. So just send a short note saying that you'd rather talk about things on the phone or in person in a day or two. Then, after you've both had a chance to cool off, explain why you didn't contact her and apologize. Lay some new ground rules by saying, "Going forward, let's try to give each other the benefit of the doubt and talk on the phone before blowing up online, okay?"
After your friend got laid off last year, you helped out by lending her several hundred dollars. Now she's got a new job, but she hasn't made a move to pay you back. Though you feel had, you're hesitant to bring up the subject.
Financial disputes can create rifts in even the closest friendships. "We all love the idea of doing good deeds like loaning money, but if we end up feeling taken for granted or taken advantage of, it's hard to talk about for fear of seeming petty," says Jacqueline Olds, a psychiatrist and author of The Lonely American: Drifting Apart in the Twenty-First Century (Beacon Press). Indeed, many of us would rather write off a loan—and sometimes a friendship—than confront the issue. Don't let that happen. Remind her of the debt in a way that won't make her feel guilty or put her on the defensive, advises Susan Newman, a social psychologist and author of The Book of No (McGraw-Hill). "You could say, 'I know you forgot about this since we're all so busy, but you owe me money and it would be great if you could get it to me as soon as possible,'" she suggests. If she still doesn't come through, ask yourself whether she's self-centered or disrespectful to you in other ways as well and assess how much you value the relationship. You'll have learned a valuable lesson, Newman adds: "In the future, if a friend asks you for money, it's all right to say, 'I'd like to help, but I just can't right now.'"
She recently got divorced, and she's morphed into a different person. She used to be involved in her tweens' lives but now she asks you to babysit all the time and picks them up hours late. You're shocked by her lack of responsibility.
Try putting yourself in her shoes—maybe she's going through a postdivorce crisis and needs extra leeway and understanding. At the same time, you've got to address your feelings of resentment, says Katherine Yost, Ph.D., a marriage and family therapist based in Bellevue, Washington. "Just don't launch into the problem right away," she advises. "Inquire about her life first and give her time to vent and pour her heart out. After you've paid your listening dues, you can gently raise the issue and try to come up with ways to share the load more evenly." Your other option: Back away and be less available, at least for a while. Keep the channels of communication open with an occasional phone call or e-mail, and you may be able to reunite once her life is back on track.
Your friend won't stop bragging about how well her teen son is doing at school—advanced placement classes, honors, awards and the like. Meanwhile, your boy is struggling and needs regular tutoring. Her insensitivity is creating a lot of tension.
Even with good friends, it's all too easy to get competitive about your kids' achievements. "We identify deeply with our kids, so hearing about another child's success creates tension, especially if yours is having a hard time," says Newman. It helps to remember that a braggart who otherwise treats you decently is most likely just being insensitive. "They're either boasting because they're insecure or they're just feeling proud and want to share their happiness with someone they care about," says Ward. To make yourself feel better, remember any given mom can brag at any given moment—there's always something to be proud of, like how hard your daughter worked on her paper or how sweet your son is with his little brother. If a friend repeatedly has to one-up you, try saying, "I'm not sure you're understanding what a tough time I'm going through with my son. I was hoping we could talk a little about that." If you're both motivated to maintain the relationship, that almost always helps to clear the air, says Ward.
Are You Really That Into Her?
We all know that some friendships, no matter how strong, don't last forever. A recent study found that most of us change half our good buddies every seven years. But that doesn't make breaking up any easier. "We tend to cling to friendships long after they're worth keeping, partly out of habit and because we feel guilty about ending them," says Irene Levine. There are, however, some red flags signaling that it's time to cut the cord:
- You get edgy and uncomfortable when you think about her or talk with her.
- Conversations all revolve around her life, and she wants to socialize only on her terms.
- You dread getting together and feel emotionally drained afterward.
- You don't feel safe confiding in her.
Speaking Up
Not every slight requires a heart-to-heart chat. But if you score 3 or above on the emotional scale below, it's time to schedule a friendship summit.
- You know she didn't mean it and didn't intend to hurt you.
- You're annoyed but philosophical—everyone screws up sometimes.
- Every time you see her you get angry because of things you've left unsaid.
- Simmering with resentment, you keep talking about the situation with your husband, other friends and anyone who'll listen.
- It's keeping you up at night.
Originally published in the November 1, 2011, issue of Family Circle magazine.


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I find it awfully strange that the photo community…not usually known for keeping their innermost thoughts to themselves…is so tight-lipped about the recent job-swap at New York Magazine…Jennifer Miller is out and Jody Quon is back as Director of Photography. About a month ago I noticed Miller's name was not up at the top of the masthead…then the editorial masthead disappeared completely in the past few weeks…and now the current issue has Jody Quon, fresh from her recent gig as Creative Director at W Magazine, listed once again as Photography Director.
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Drinking the Bottom Shelf: Cruzan Black Strap Rum
Will Gordon drinks his way through the bottom shelf of the liquor store...so you don't have to.
Hey, I've got an idea! Let's all fight about tiki drinks! Just kidding. Please don't yell at me about how the mai tais I adore at crappy suburban Chinese restaurants aren't authentic unless they contain four kinds of apricot liqueur and the bittersweet tears of a Tahitian virgin who just realized that her sailor is never coming back, but maybe that's for the best anyway because he has appalling hygiene, even by sailor standards.
Every now and then I'll charm my way into a properly mixologized rendition of the trashy tiki drinks I grew up guzzling at the dear, departed Double Dragon in Leominster, Massachusetts. These new-school drinks are leagues better than the lazy rum-rum-and-whatever-juice-is-handy mai tais, scorpion bowls, and suffering bastards of my youth. In fact, if some horrible monster made me pick just one favorite cocktail, I might go with the zombie at Green Street Grill, an otherwise delightful place that has the gall to serve you a tiki drink without offering you a scratch-off lotto ticket or a stick of beef teriyaki. Context is very important, and I just can't get comfortable taking my fake Polynesian medicine without red vinyl booths and an order-by-number menu.
This is only a problem when I live in New York. Manhattan's food scene is every bit as good as the tiresome, haughty transplants always tell you it is, with one notable exception: There are "real" Chinese restaurants where the rum punch and teriyaki joints are supposed to be. In fact, even though the new Serious Eats headquarters are in Chinatown, I never see any mai tai and eggroll references in the gloating afternoon updates about the daily lunch adventures. It's all "Just had the most amazing blowfish roe dumplings" and "OMG, I can't even look at another bowl of squid marrow soup!" Well bully for you, but where is the rum-fried rice?
So the last time I lived down there, I took matters into my own cocktail shaker and spent the better part of a month trying to figure out how to replicate the bad drinks that gave me so many good memories. I came up with some good stuff—lean heavy on the light rum and pineapple juice, be gentle with the dark rum and flavored coffee syrups, and everything else tends to sort itself out—but nothing quite like what I was after. I wanted to be reminded of sneaking out of Emily's parents' house at midnight on Christmas Eve to wait for Santa at Han Dynasty, an exquisitely inauthentic Chinese place squeezed in between the Home Depot and the other Home Depot on the side of the highway in Framingham. Instead I was reminded that making multi-ingredient drinks is a pain in the ass best left to the professionals.
Now that I'm back in Massachusetts, I'm no longer reduced to making my own low-end tiki drinks, but Emily's developed a bit of a dark and stormy problem lately. The problem is that she only remembers to order them when they're on the specialty drink menu, which means they cost $10 instead of the $6 they'd be if she just asked for a dark rum and ginger beer. I respect craft bartending and will pay a premium for a well made drink, but I'm not into double-figure highballs, so we need to take this little habit home.
Ginger beer's harder to come by retail than it should be, but I knew that if I wasted an afternoon hunting for it, I could score some Barritts or Regatta. Then it was on to the hard part: I didn't really have any idea what rum to use. I didn't want to resort to Myers's or Gosling's because I knew there had to be better or cheaper—or better and cheaper—stuff out there, but I didn't know what it was called or where it was sold. So a few weeks ago I asked the Talkers for tips on good Bottom Shelf-eligible dark rums. I was just looking for a respectable Myers's knockoff, but instead you dear souls hipped me to one of my new favorite spirits: Cruzan Black Strap.
First off, it must be established that this stuff is weird. If you take your dark and stormies very seriously and very specifically, this might not be the right rum for the job, but I assure you that all reasonable people will find some job for Cruzan Black Strap to do. It's the most interesting $14 bottle of booze I've had in a long time.
It smells like about seven different things at once, which isn't always a great sign in this price category, because three of the seven things tend to be burnt lemon, cheap caramel, and vanilla extract. Not so with the Black Strap. It's as molasses-y as all get out, as the name demands, but that's cut with coffee/Kahlua, cinnamon, floral, and clove notes that are at once impressive and confusing. I really like this rum so I'm not going to say it's muddled, but I will say that it will take some tinkering before I figure out its best application.
Its only weakness is a sort of grittiness, which further complicates things. Here on the Bottom Shelf, we're not accustomed to things that have complex flavors, so how are we supposed to deal with something that has a distinct texture, too? So far it's worked pretty well with the ginger beer and kicked Coke's ass: Even though the flavors would seem complementary, it was more a case of the stronger version overwhelming the weaker to the point where Coke didn't really add anything beyond bubbles. And rum-and-pineapple's undefeated streak continues.
You all led the way to this discovery in the first place. So now that I've bought the bottle and fallen in love, want to help a brother out with the user's manual?
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Frank Film, Frank MOURIS, 1973 by shortanimatedworld I can't believe I have lived so long without having encountered this film before. It won an Oscar in 1973 for Best Animated Short. Even with the commercial interruption and poor resolution it made my list of Best Shorts ever. What's on your list?


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Unlike awards annuals or traditional illustration directories, our publication gets personal. Artists are individually interviewed about their creative focus and artistic technique as well as your inspirations and aspirations. Additional imagery (sketchbook pages, studio shots, inspirational objects or personally illustrated anecdotes) are integral to each participant's spread, allowing the reader to take a peek into their work/life.
With the third edition, we are pushing the personal nature of Work/Life to a new level. This edition's theme is "An Illustrated Life" in which we explore the ups and downs of illustration and what it takes to stay creative. Each participant will offer their unique take on this theme. Each participant has created a bespoke illustration assignment specific to their interests and story.
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Honda will recall 374,000 Odyssey minivans and Acura MDX sport-utilities in the U.S. to fix a problem that can cause the airbags to deploy without warning.
The airbag system in such vehicles can trigger due to electrical interference, the company said. To prevent the malfunction, Honda plans to install an electrical noise filter adjacent to the system's control unit.
Honda said it has logged 23 cases of inadvertent airbag deployment in such vehicles in the U.S. and has seen an increasing number of complaints in recent months.
The vehicles contain a TRW computer chip similar to those used in airbag system control units installed in Jeep and Toyota vehicles that have been recalled for the same problem.
When the problem cropped up in Jeeps, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent out a warning to other manufacturers, telling them to watch for inadvertent airbag deployments in any of their cars that used the same or similar computer chips.
No crashes have been reported to Honda related to this issue, the company said.
The recall includes 318,000 Odysseys from the 2003-2004 model years and 56,000 MDXs from the 2003 model year.
Honda said it want owners of all affected vehicles to take their vehicles to an authorized dealer to get the repair as soon as they receive notification of the recall, which is to be mailed out in late October.
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Nick Nemeth, better known to wrestling fans worldwide as Dolph Ziggler, wasn't born into wrestling. He doesn't hail from a long line of wrestlers. None, in fact. One thing is quite evident however: the World Wrestling Entertainment superstar was born to wrestle.
These days, you can find Ziggler toting around the much coveted Money In the Bank briefcase, starring in main-event matches and establishing himself as a beloved bad guy; a very difficult feat in the wrestling business. On Sept. 9, Ziggler will be right here in the Limestone City as WWE presents SmackDown at Kingston, Ontario's K-Rock Centre.
At just five years of age, Nemeth fell in love with wrestling after attending his first live WWE event.
"I was hooked from that day on," Ziggler said over the phone during an interview this week. "I asked my dad if I could start wrestling. I think the season was coming around about two months later, and I started and I've never stopped since."
The season to which he refers is amateur wrestling. Google the name Nick Nemeth and amateur wrestling and you may be surprised by what you find. Nemeth is an accomplished -- and decorated -- amateur wrestler. In fact, he openly admits that he used amateur wrestling as a launching pad for his professional career.
"I love wrestling," he said, continuing "I've used it my whole life and I actually used it just to get my foot in the door because, years ago, when (former WWE superstar and Olympic gold medallist) Kurt Angle was doing so well, it gave people like me who had wanted to become superstars their whole lives a shot. And it actually got my foot in the door."
Unlike Angle, who built his whole WWE persona around his amateur background, Ziggler prefers to be known for his "well-roundedness".
"I kind of pride myself as a renaissance man superstar where I can be entertaining, have fun on the mic, have fun with kids, but also steal the show, be athletic, be a high flyer, a mixture of everything, and a ring general all combined into one. I like that I'm not painted with one brush. 'Oh, yeah, yeah, he's a wrestler.' No, I'm a superstar who can do anything and I pride myself on that. I think we don't harp on it as much because I have so many other things I can offer at the same time."
As he wrestled his way through high school and later university, Nemeth never lost sight of his dream to become a WWE Superstar. When that moment came, it was sweet. Really sweet.
"Honestly, it's hard to believe," Ziggler said when asked what it was like to sign that first WWE developmental contract. "When you're in grade school and high school, (you) go 'oh, I want to do this, I want to do that,' and everyone knew I wanted to be a wrestler. Even if people said 'yeah I think you can do it,' 'you're going to do it,' and I wanted to do, you don't know that it's going to happen for sure because (pro wrestling) is a business. It's about timing, it's about luck, it's about so many different factors ... To find out that you're actually hired by the WWE as a superstar -- even in a developmental talent stage -- you go 'wow, OK, that's the first step.'
But Nemeth has never been one to rest on his laurels.
"It wasn't time to celebrate, but it blew my mind," he said of the deal. From there, he says, it was "OK, that's one step down, now let's go be the best developmental talent; OK, get that down, let's be the best superstar; OK, let's go on to become the greatest of all time. It's constantly acheiving goals and using stepping stones to become the best."
While Ziggler may be on the brink of megastardom, his journey to becoming the best has been anything but easy -- or quick.
"Honestly, for years it was frustrating," Ziggler said of the eight-plus year journey that has been his WWE career. "It just goes along with everything that has happened in my career. I plugged along to make my college wrestling team. I wasn't recruited. And then when I made it, I became the best on the team to where I could get a scholarship. And I got a scholarship. Nothing has been handed to me no matter what I've done, in life or this business.
"As much as I wanted things to happen four and five years ago, I go 'people have been handed things and it doesn't always work out.' No matter what, at the end of the day, I know that I have earned this, and anything that comes to me now, the fans, or the world, or anyone who just has an opinion can't go 'oh yeah, he was handed this,' or 'yeah, he had a great two months ...' I have been on a constant build, clawing or scratching for every inch I've ever gotten in this business and I continue to do it to this day."
But eight years can teach one a lot about the business, Ziggler said.
"It's also about timing ... maybe someone gets hurt and you're not expected to be in a role and they put you in and you deliver and they go 'OK, we can get behind this guy,' " he said. Some people are picked from Day One -- 'This is going to be our guy, we'll see how it goes.' Some people have to claw and scratch every inch of every mile, and do it every week to prove themselves. I don't know that in eight years of being here that I've ever dropped a ball with anything. I've never done anything except deliver above and beyond and that has just got me to here."
All of the frustration, the hard work and the perseverance have certainly helped Ziggler come to appreciate what he has earned.
"Had I been handed it, it might not have worked out the same. I might not be as grateful for everything that's slowly but surely coming my way," he said. "But man I've been chomping at this main event scene for two, three years now, ready to go, and I think it's going hit right at the peak of my career, right when I'm starting to figure out more and more. I'm learning every day. I think it's just going to hit at the right time and it's just going to blow up."
That's not to say Ziggler's work is only now being appreciated. Far from it. He has, for years, been recognized as an up-and-coming talent, one who has few equals when it comes to his in-ring skills.
"When (former WWE superstar) Lance Storm was training me in (Ohio Valley Wrestling), I was the first one there, I was the last one to leave, I was staying after, I'd go 'I am not even going to just get this down, I'm going to have this so good that there is no reason that not only do they not want me on the main roster, they're going to be begging me to work with other people on the main roster. That's what I've always prided myself on. I continue to do that to this day. Had I not done that, who knows where I would be right now. I might not even be working here, I might not be on this roster, let alone inches away from the main event scene."
Anyone familiar with Ziggler's in-ring work knows that he has few equals, perhaps none when it comes to the art of bumping, which, in wrestling, is selling an opponent's offence. In fact, Ziggler's bumping skills, this columnist suggested, are right up there with legends like Ric Flair and Mr. Perfect Curt Hennig.
"I want to be different," Ziggler professed. "I want to stand out. (If) everybody's got short blonde hair, I'm going to have long blonde hair. (If) people are wearing black tights, trying to be serious, I'm going to out there and have a smile on my face and still have the best damn match on the card. Being compared with those guys a lot is great, but my mindset is to go out there (with the attitude that) 'oh, people are wrestling these boring matches, I'm going to do something different,' or 'everybody's doing these high-flying moves, I'm going to mix it up.' I want to stand out every single night and I push myself to do so.
"I've tried to make an artform out of being a bad guy who gets beat up and I go out there and I try to do it better than everyone else. Whether I'm a punching bag for 30 seconds or going out there and having a 30-minute classic, I find a way to stand out and do what I do better than everyone else.
Ziggler's most recent success was winning the Money in the Bank briefcase, which gives him a shot, any place, any time, for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. The briefcase represents far more than a title shot, however. It signifies a superstar's arrival at the top.
That fact is not lost on Ziggler.
"I've had the Intercontinental Championship, I've had the United States Championship ... those used to be stepping stones," he said. "Even though I thought I brought some tradition and pride back to those championships, this is the new stepping in our business. It is 'this guy is going to be World Heavyweight champion, most likely, at some point, and he's our next guy.' "
After eight years as a pro wrestler and many, many others as an amateur, it's hard to imagine that one could still get nervous. Not so, says Ziggler.
"Tonight, we're going to be doing a SmackDown show, and I can't wait to walk out there," he said. "I don't even know what I'm doing. I don't know my opponent, I don't know what's going on. I just love doing this job. You get these anxious butterflies, or you have maybe a little bit of doubt in your mind, like 'oh, can I do it tonight?' That's the exciting part about being a performer."
It's at this point in the interview that Ziggler delivers one of the most memorable and perfectly summed up lines this veteran wrestling columnist has ever heard.
"That's why we travel a five-hour car ride, find a gym, try and find somewhere to eat ... just for that 10 minutes of going out there and delivering to the world this product that we're so great at doing."
The last time Ziggler wrestled in Kingston, he left behind a Tweet that certainly got my attention. While I don't remember it verbatim, I do remember it was a swipe at this country and Canadians.
I called him out on it. Why, Dolph, why?
The answer was, quite frankly, honest.
"I'm a bad guy," he said. "When I'm in the United States, I'll make fun of wherever we are too. It's a blast (coming to Canada). My trainer, Lance Storm, is Canadian and I have such huge respect for him -- he taught me so much. I was like a teacher's pet when he was teaching me. It's fun to mess with Canada because we get messed with going through the border, and it's fun to have a good joke and a couple of extra boos when you go out there. It's all in good fun and I think everyone understands that."
Ziggler, who expects he'll face Randy Orton at the K-Rock Centre, parted with one promise -- that Kingstonians will be calling his match the best one of the night.
Knowing what I now know, that's pretty much money in the bank.
Jan Murphy is the news editor at the Kingston Whig-Standard and has written about wrestling for 15 years.


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Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs said he'll never come back to Japan after officials at an airport barred him from taking Ninja throwing stars aboard his private plane, SPA! magazine reported in its latest issue.
— Japanese tabloid SPA! Magazine via Bloomberg (c'mon Bloomberg–SPA!?) suggests that Apple CEO Steve Jobs' black turtleneck may actually be a part of his Shinobi Shozoku
"Steve did visit Japan this summer for a vacation in Kyoto, but the incidents described at the airport are pure fiction. Steve had a great time and hopes to visit Japan again soon."
— In its official comment on SPA!'s report Apple says that Steve Jobs is not a ninja.


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Mayor Coleen J. Seng invites the public to the dedication of Kontras Park at 10 a.m. Thursday, August 12 at South Cotner Boulevard and Aldrich Road.
"The residents of the neighborhood decided this area, known as the Piedmont Triangle, needed its own identity," said Mayor Seng. "The park is named for Gus and Sophia Kontras, who donated $45,000 for park improvements. This is another example of the generosity of citizens wanting to benefit the entire community."
In addition to thanking the Kontras family, Mayor Seng thanked the James Stuart family, who donated the land to the City in 1932. The park is nine-tenths of an acre, and the Kontras donation will be used for renovation of the gazebo, landscaping and an endowment for ongoing care of the park.
Speakers at the dedication will include Mayor Seng, Gus Kontras and Lynn Johnson, Director of the City Parks and Recreation Department. Refreshments will be provided by The Parthenon.
In 1925, when Gus Kontras was 12 years old, he immigrated to the United States from Greece with his mother and sister to reunite with his father. When Gus was 16, he worked in a steel mill and went to night school. By age 22, he had learned the shoe repair business and opened his own repair shop at 10th and "O" streets. In 1941, he and Sophia married. They lived in the Piedmont area for many years and raised their family there. The couple has two children, Dr. Margaret Sutton and Dr. James Kontras, and five grandchildren.
Parking for the dedication is on Aldrich Road. In case of rain, the ceremony will be postponed to 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, August 17.


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Taliban attacks leave 23 dead in Afghanistan
Twenty-three people have been killed in a spate of violence in southern Afghanistan, including civilians, policemen, insurgents, and a coalition soldier reportedly killed in a "green-on-blue" attack by Afghan policemen.
Three Afghan police officers were killed and seven wounded on Tuesday in an early-morning attack by insurgents on a joint US-Afghan base at Kandahar city, local officials said. Four insurgents – all wearing Afghan police uniforms, and armed with light weapons and hand grenades – attacked the outer gates of the base at 6 a.m., Javid Faisal, a Kandahar government spokesman, said.
He said that all four insurgents were killed after a 15-minute battle with Afghan security forces.
The Taliban in a website statement claimed responsibility for the attack, saying they had killed 40 "invaders" – a word the insurgents use to describe members of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan. The Taliban also claimed to have killed and wounded nearly 70 Afghan security personnel as well as wounding 14 coalition soldiers.
However, Major Martyn Crighton, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force, as the coalition is formally known, told McClatchy there were no reports of any ISAF fatalities. ISAF has a policy of not confirming details about wounded personnel.
Also on Tuesday, seven insurgents were killed in an attack on an ISAF forward operating base in the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province, according to Major Crighton, the ISAF spokesman, who said the incident occurred around 3:30 a.m. Crighton said that the insurgents had initially breached the outer perimeter of the base, "but all seven were subsequently killed by the ISAF forces."
The Taliban also claimed responsibility for this attack, and said in a website statement that its "mujahideen," or Islamic holy warriors, had barricaded themselves inside the base "and are engaging the enemy." Spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi claimed the "martyrdom attack" at Shah Wali Kot had killed and wounded "dozens of invaders."
The Taliban are known to regularly exaggerate claims of coalition casualties, and ISAF spokesman Crighton told McClatchy that there were no reports of ISAF fatalities.
Separately, ISAF confirmed that one of its service members was killed in southern Afghanistan Monday when three men in Afghan police uniforms opened fire on coalition troops. An ISAF statement said the three assailants had immediately fled the area and were being sought, but refused to release further details about the incident.
However, Kandahar government spokesman Faisal told McClatchy that the incident took place in the Senzarai area of Kandahar province's Zheray district. "We don't know if (the attackers) were really police officers or whether they were just wearing police uniforms," he said.
Faisal was unable to confirm the identity of the coalition soldier that was killed, but added that only the U.S. military operate in Zheray district.
The Taliban in a website statement said three Afghan police officers had launched an attack on coalition soldiers at a checkpoint at Senzarai "in which five invaders were killed and 12 others wounded."
Meanwhile, eight civilians – including women and children – were killed Monday when their vehicle hit a mine in the Musa Qala district of restive Helmand province, local officials said. Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said that five other civilians were wounded in the blast, and were transported by police to a nearby hospital.
The ministry said in a statement that the mine was placed by "the enemies of peace and stability" – shorthand for the Taliban-led insurgents who are battling Afghan government and coalition forces.
Afghan president Hamid Karzai said that "the enemies of Islam and humanity have once again shown their barbaric face to everyone by committing such a heinous act."
(Stephenson and Safi are McClatchy special correspondents)


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