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The former child star of "One Day at a Time" returned to the Oprah Winfrey Show today to defend her decision to write her bombshell book "High on Arrival," in which she confessed to engaging in a 10-year consensual sexual relationship with her father, rock star John Phillips, the lead singer for the '60s group the Mamas and the Papas.
"It's been heartening and heartbreaking at the same time …with the way my family's reacting," she said about the response to her appearance on Wednesday.
Mackenzie, 49, spoke to Winfrey Friday by satellite. Her half sister Chynna Phillips, whose mother is actress Michelle Phillips, appeared live in Winfrey's studio. Chynna, an actress and singer who is now half of the Christian duo Chynna and Vaughn, said she wanted to appear separately so that her words would not be "convoluted."
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She described the conversation in which Mackenzie first told her about the relationship. Chynna was in an airport, when her sister, with whom she wasn't always close, called her.
"She said, 'There's something you need to know...I had this consensual relationship with dad for over 10 years,'" Chynna recalled. "You could have dropped a piano over my head and I wouldn't have felt it."
Chynna said Mackenzie told her about a month before the book was published that she was planning to go public with the relationship. Chynna said she wished that she had had more time to prepare for her sister's bombshell.
"It's 13 years later and I still haven't digested this information," she said.
Mackenzie responded: "I'm really sorry Chynna to put you in this position, but I don't regret writing the book."
Winfrey also read a letter from Mackenzie's other half sister, singer-actress Bijou Phillips. Bijou was 13 when Mackenzie first told her she had a consensual sexual relationship with their dad. But Bijou said Mackenzie denied it shortly after. She said her older sister's memories are also "clouded by 30 years of drug abuse."
Bijou also wrote that if the man who raised her as a single parent from the time she was three was capable of sexual abuse, "it's heartbreaking to think why would (my family) leave me alone with him."
A teary Mackenzie responded that she never thought her younger sister was in danger of being sexually abused, adding, "I did take her out of there at one point when I thought she wasn't being properly cared for."
Mackenzie also responded to a statement from her stepmother, Michelle Phillips, also a member of the Mamas and the Papas, who told the Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday that she believed the allegations were false.
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This funny and tender book is the result of her decision to roam around the world as an informal student, taking lessons and courses in such things as French cooking in Paris, Border collie training in Scotland, traditional Japanese arts in Kyoto, architecture and art in Havana. With warmth and wit, Steinbach guides us through the pleasures and perils of discovering how to be a student again. Along the way, she also learns the true value of this second chance at educating herself: the opportunity to connect with and learn from the people she meets on her journey.
"Steinbach had so much fun running off to Europe to find herself, as recounted in her first book (Without Reservations), she decided to quit her job writing for the Baltimore Sun and devote herself to similar educational adventures. Following the advice of Japanese poet Basho ('To learn of the pine, go to the pine'), Steinbach takes off again and recounts eight endeavors, including studying French cooking in Paris, attending a Jane Austen convention in England and meeting geishas in Kyoto. She captures the uniqueness of each setting, aided by a sharply curious sensibility she claims stems as much from her childhood admiration for Nancy Drew as from her reportorial training. That spirit of openness also enables her to strike up many spontaneous conversations easily, frequently launching other discoveries. A search for a bonsai garden in Florence, for example, winds up becoming a tour of several palaces normally closed to the public, which leads to an old priest's tale of rescuing priceless paintings from a flood. Yet for all Steinbach's attention to others, her account remains resolutely personal, as her experiences unleash bittersweet childhood memories, and an ambiguously romantic relationship with a Japanese gentleman is never far from her thoughts. Her stories are powerfully seductive to anyone who's ever been tempted to get up and go, following interests wherever they may lead. Even during the occasional setbacks, from language barriers to confusing geographies, Steinbach makes such a life look highly desirable. Agent, Gail Ross. (On sale Apr. 6) Forecast: Steinbach's book could be a reading group favorite. The publisher plans to advertise and target literary and women's interest Web sites and book clubs." Publishers Weekly (Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information, Inc.)
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Without Reservations" sets out on a new series of foreign journeys--to Kyoto, Prague, Scotland, Provence--this time to study a few carefully chosen subjects, and to learn a great deal more in the process.
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I love E3, I hope they keep doing it. I love the press conferences and all the overblown nonsense that surrounds it. I would trade my piece-of-shit job to be stuck in a stinky conference hall in LA looking at video games in a heart beat.
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If you have a limited income and you are considering a PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, don't think you can't afford a PC. If you have enough money to buy one of those you have enough money to buy yourself a great PC. Trust me, as someone who is a first time PC gamer going on 2 years now - I've never been happier. I've also been able to rebuild most of my Xbox 360 library (including the Market Place items that are not compatible with Xbox One) on the PC. It's actually a lot less expensive then you think.
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I don't think you understand what he was saying. If we found a bunny fossil dated to the Cambrian period, evolution would be wrong. If we found a triceratops fossil dated to the most recent ice age, evolution would be proven wrong. Period.
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Actually, the Triceratops example is flawed, but the bunny example is spot on. The argument doesn't work in both directions. By the last ice age, Triceratops had already existed. Rabbits didn't exist until long after the Cambrian period. The argument hinges upon the notion that there is a distinct evolutionary progression through time, and that some forms (or groups) originated before others.


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Britney Spears has kept most things about her upcoming album under wraps, but at least one of the producers she's collaborated with confirmed what many have speculated — that the singer, like her recent head-turning photo spreads in the New York Times, W and Elle, is definitely going in a more adult direction.
"We went in the studio and cooked up something hot for the dance floor, made something real sexy," P. Diddy told MTV News backstage at the Video Music Awards last week. "It's going to be great."
Diddy declined to give song titles, since the tracks aren't finished and the album isn't due until November. While other producers who have worked with the singer, including the Matrix and Fred Durst, have described Britney's new material as having a trip-hop vibe reminiscent of Madonna's "Ray of Light" (see "Who's Been Hooking Up With Britney? We Got 'Em To Talk" ), Diddy said Spears actually has a wider range on the upcoming album, which MTV got a sneak preview of earlier this summer (see "Britney Previews LP, Denies Rumors Of 'Cry Me A River' Response" ).
Besides ballads, dance tracks and Middle Eastern rhythms, Spears also raps on one track, "Brave Girl." "I think she's giving you a lot to work with," Diddy said. "She's broke out of that just pop [style], just being a pop artist. She's being a trendsetter. She has many styles. You don't know how she's going to come and hit you next."
Diddy said he came out of the sessions with a newfound respect for Spears and found that she had taught him a thing or two as well.
"As a performer, as an artist, as a songwriter, she ain't no slouch," he said. "It was great working with her. She was real quick, real quick. I wouldn't go into the studio with nothing that wouldn't motivate me. The way she did it her way, that motivated me to get with her and give her a bit of my flavor mixed with hers, to get her to do something combustionable.
"Is that a word?" he asked, laughing.
Spears plans to unveil two new songs during her performance at the NFL Kickoff concert, which will be televised live on ABC at 8 p.m. ET September 4 (see "Britney Spears To Perform Two New Songs On NFL TV Special" ).
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Nuclear standoff could hurt Iran's cancer patients
TEHRAN, Iran The human impact from the wrangling between Iran and the West over its nuclear program could fall first in nuclear medicine clinics around the country, where hundreds of cancer patients a week get treatment with radioactive isotopes.
Iran says fuel for the Tehran research reactor that produces the isotopes will run out in September next year, leaving it without the materials needed to diagnose and treat some 850,000 cancer patients across the country.
A deal for the West to provide fuel for the reactor has all but fallen apart in the deadlock over Iran's broader nuclear program, and Iran's drive to produce the fuel on its own has brought condemnation from the U.S. and Europe. They fear the program could boost what they contend is the secret goal of Iran's nuclear ambitions: to produce a bomb.
Iran denies the claim, saying its program is only for peaceful purposes and has touted the need for medical isotopes to justify its program.
Negotiators from Iran and the United States and its allies are expected to meet soon - likely late this month or early next - in their first direct nuclear talks in more than a year. A deal to provide Iran with fuel for the research reactor may be on the agenda - but U.S. officials have already expressed pessimism that one can be reached.
At the nuclear medicine ward in Tehran's Shariati Hospital, Ghodratollah Ghalavand fears the standoff could eventually leave him without his lifeline. Every week, he comes in for treatment of his thyroid cancer with iodine-131 isotopes produced by the reactor.
"I'm not familiar with politics. I'm a rural person. I only know that not giving fuel is wrong. It will endanger my life. Humanitarian issues are different from politics," said Ghalavand, a man in his 50s from a village in southwest Iran.
The Tehran reactor is fueled by rods made from uranium that has been enriched to a level of 20 percent. It has been running on fuel rods that Iran imported from Argentina more than a decade ago to produce medical isotopes like iodine-131, used to treat thyroid cancer.
Iran imports some ready-made isotopes, but it has faced greater restrictions under U.N. sanctions and has to pay higher prices to get them. Sanctions do not directly ban the sale to Iran of medical equipment, but they make foreign producers more reluctant to provide it, and those who will sell it do so at inflated prices.
"We are paying twice the value of this product to import it from Turkey," said Mohammad Reza Ramezani, an official at Shariati Hospital, pointing to a cargo of technetium-99, the most common radioisotope used in diagnosis, that arrived from Turkey at day earlier.
Uranium enrichment lies at the heart of Iran's dispute with the West. Low-enriched uranium - at around 3.5 percent - can be used to fuel a reactor to generate electricity, which Iran says is the intention of its program. But if uranium is further enriched to around 90 percent purity, it can be used to develop a nuclear warhead.


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"Time On Earth" is Crowded House's first record in 14 years. The New Zealand band reformed after being shocked by the suicide of drummer Paul Hester. The remaining members regrouped and recorded this relatively low-key set with Beck's former drummer Matt Sherrod filling the hole left by Hester. All these years later, despite having a huge hit with "Don't Dream It's Over," Neil Finn remains one of the most under-rated songwriters of our time. I hope someday he gets his due. Be sure to check out "Farewell To The World," the double disc and DVD documenting Crowded House's last show before they originally broke up. It was also released this year, and is excellent. Welcome back to the world! If only Paul were here.
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41. GORILLAZ — "D-Sides"
"D-Sides" is Gorillaz's fifth release. It collects all the tracks left over from the sessions for recording 2005's "Demon Days." The animated band's rejects are just as good as their keepers, so this is truly excellent. A limited edition double disc version is also available with remixes of the "Demon Days" singles.
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43. AIR — "Pocket Symphony"
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Here's more hard-edged blues rock from Jack and Meg. This time we get Jack White's best Iron Butterfly impression on the title track, and a strange but cool cover of the Patti Page song, "Conquest."
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McCormack Baron Salazar, one of the area's largest tenants looking for office space, has signed a lease to move 110 employees to the Laclede Gas Building this summer. McCormack Baron is leasing 37,000 square feet at the building at 720 Olive St.
"We decided to vacate our lease early at 1415 Olive to accommodate the St. Louis Public Library's $74 million Central Library renovation project and the growth of downtown's newest charter high school, Confluence Academy," President Kevin McCormack said in a statement.
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McCormack Baron is one of the country's largest for-profit, mixed-income residential developers. Its St. Louis developments include the 100-unit Allen Market Lane Apartments in Soulard, the 140-unit St. Louis Brewery Apartments north of downtown, and the downtown Westin Hotel at Cupples Station.
The company has about 50 local employees. Its affiliated management company, McCormack Baron Ragan, and the not-for-profit Urban Strategies total another 60 workers. All are moving from the Farm Credit Bank Building.
The administrative offices of the St. Louis Public Library system and its 125 employees will move from the Central Library at 1301 Olive St. to 1415 Olive.
In 2009, Confluence Preparatory Academy opened a high school in the Farm Credit Bank Building, and a $15 million renovation is under way on the property. McCormack Baron is providing $13 million in New Markets Tax Credits.
The Laclede Gas Building's occupancy is now 85 percent, said Jeff Kaiser of CB Richard Ellis, who, along with Matt Aljets of CB Richard Ellis, represented Hertz in the deal. Patrick Reilly of Gateway Commercial represented McCormack Baron.
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This week's two-hour mix by Metropolis host Jason Bentley includes the Marc Kinchen remix of Storm Queen's "Look Right Through," a brand new Flume track, Diplo remixing Grizzly Bear, and a healthy dose of Cut Copy and Special Request (a.k.a. Paul Woolford).
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Just got my positive about an hour ago!
I'm so excited, this will be our first. I had no hope that I would get a positive this month because we've been trying for a while with no luck and my December charting had been spotty and our timing not as good as other months, and I had none of those "could be AF approaching or pregnancy" symptoms. I basically only took the test to get my husband from asking me twice a day whether I had gotten my period. So totally unexpected, since I had already convinced myself to write this month off
my due date is September 10th.
Serena- There's also an option for one of us to invite you. Would you like us to do that?
Chispita- me too, I was so sure I wasn't gonna get pregnant this month coz I had no symptoms at all lol
Congratulations Chispita!!
I was convinced I wasn't pregnant as well, so it was a nice surprise :)
I also just got my positive a couple of days ago! So excited. :)
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hello ladies! I may be jumping to conlusions here, but I think I may be part of this!
I have an 8 month old and was using breastfeeding as bc, well life got REALLY busy since he turned 6months and I've been meaing to start charting again. BD on 30th, ovulated on the 2nd...been cramping since the 5th, wake up ravenously hungry in the middle of the night...
so ladies, congrats to all with the BFP and for me, I guess we'll see.
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The day we started our journey sometimes feels like it was just yesterday, even though we've done quite a bit of time together. I chanced across this collage Kelvin put together when he gave us our coffee table book and well, memories of the happy day came flooding back. I guess I really ought to get my act together with the wedding video… which is still all living on HD casette! Chetz, make sure you get a proper videographer!
A few weekends ago, I took part in my first adventure race in years. Stupidly, I did zero training and I just went into it with a positive outlook and two really great teammates. And you know what? I died.
Yes, we finished the race – well, all 53km that we were able to complete before the cut off point anyway. We fell short of 7km which was the last bit of running. But nevertheless, we did it.
The day after, I could hardly walk. But according to the husband, I was the calmest and happiest I had been in a really long time. He said that my 'tank' was full and that I should probably consider doing stuff like this for myself more often.
Not the reaction I thought I'd get. I thought I'd get a 'whyyy did you leave me and the kids for an entire day?!!'
Life surprises you like that sometimes.
One very cool thing that was able to happen whilst we were in Vancouver was our meet up with Hubba's ex-bowling coach, Ron. Ron had pretty much been a secondary father figure to Hubba during his competitive days and I had heard so much about this man and how he taught Andrew many life lessons.
Having never known the Andrew that most people knew or read of, there always was a missing piece of his past that I never felt I could get a sense of. But seeing his face light up at the sight of Ron and him beaming the entire time just made me light up too. Ron had many kind words and memories to share as well, and this made me feel really happy – to see a side of Andrew that I may not have otherwise seen.
I am really glad we got to meet up. It was such a great day that we completely forgot about the peanut butter he'd brought us from Seattle! Ah well, what's a bit of peanut butter when you've got tonnes to catch up on?
Do you find that as each year passes, life starts to pass you by even quicker than it did previously?
These days, the days and months just fly by. It felt like just the other day I was talking to E about our planning meeting and just like that, it's over. How is it almost September?
Meanwhile, my girls are growing up fast. Naomi is becoming such a polite little girl and Charlotte such a ray of sunshine. They're starting to talk and play with each other and there's no need to prompt them to hug and kiss – they're so affectionate, they just do it themselves. I sit back sometimes and just take it all in, and watch them interact…
… and a great big smile appears on my face.
And I realise how much I absolutely just love being a mother.
Yes, it might be hectic sometimes but most recently I have discovered that despite how you feel sometimes, they are just such a blessing and I couldn't be happier about having them in my life. I look at Hubba and I just think, wow. What was life like before? I cannot even recall.
Slow down. Take a deep breath.
Savour the time.
There are indeed many lessons to be learned from being on the bike.
For one, that almost anything in life is relative. Something may seem really hard on one day, then lot easier the next – and only because you've tried something even harder that day.
A month ago, we were riding up to the base of Mt Fromme and it felt so steep that I panted so hard and I felt like my heart was going to stop. My legs burned so bad and no amount of zig zagging made it any easier. We then spent a lot of the day climbing the mountain just so we could ride down it. Gracie reckoned we'd done a total of about 12km uphill that morning.
Today, I ride up the usual roads I take to get to the trail and it feels like no effort at all – yet I was huffing and puffing up these roads before our trip.
I suppose the real lesson is you don't know what you're truly capable of until you push that much harder and suffer a little. Innit.
I've always intended to put one of these together for Charly but life does sweep you away sometimes. So thanks to a kind reminder from my Mum and a few here and there from my Dad, I've gotten my act together and done a one year video compilation – similar to the one I did for Nae shortly after her 1st birthday.
It's so funny to see how different they are, yet so alike. I don't know if that makes any sense when I say it but in my head it sure does. While Nae was a happy baby in her own right, Charly just seems to be a ball of laughter. And they're both such sweethearts. There's little doubt that their parents love them oh, so much. That they are just loved oh, so much. And I hope one day when they look back on these videos, that's the one thing they take away – with no mistake at all about it.
Meanwhile, a little tip of the day… I've discovered the Peekaboo Moments app which is just the coolest thing since sliced bread. It's an online baby journal which magically logs the date stamps on all your photos and puts them all in a timeline for you so you can always refer to how they looked or sounded like at any given milestone. And trusted family and friends can input into the timeline too, so you never miss a moment. Best app find for all tech-dependent mums and very eager family!


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Also contrary to expectations of the researchers, men were more likely to report being happy in their relationship, while women were more likely to report being satisfied with their sexual relationship. The couples, more than 1,000 from the United States, Brazil, Germany, Japan and Spain, where together an average 25 years.
The study from the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior, is the first to examine sexual and relationship parameters of middle-aged or older couples in committed, long-term relationships. Research efforts to understand the place of sexuality in human lives rarely involves intact couples in ongoing relationships.
"You hear repeated research and commentary about divorce; but it's important to note that though divorce rates are high in the U.S., couples tend to stay married -- more than 50 percent of U.S. couples remain in their first marriage, and that number goes up to 90 percent in Spain," said Julia Heiman, director of The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction and lead author of the article. "We know from other research that being in a long-term relationship has some value to health. Perhaps we can learn more about what makes relationships both sustainable and happy."
Participants in the study were 40- to 70-year-old men and their female partners, either married or living together for a minimum of one year. The study included around 200 couples from each country. The men and women answered gender-specific questionnaires and were assured that their responses would not be shared with their partner.
"This study on heterosexual couples provides a basis for future research on sex and gender, such as how same-sex couples may or may not show similarities and differences in relationship and sexual satisfaction," Heiman said.
For men, relationship happiness was more likely if the man reported being in good health and if it was important to him that his partner experienced orgasm. Surprisingly, frequent kissing or cuddling also predicted happiness in the relationship for men, but not for women. Both men and women reported more happiness the longer they had been together, and if they themselves scored higher on several sexual functioning questionnaires.
Across all five nationalities, for both men and women, the Japanese were significantly happier with their relationships than Americans, and Brazilians and Spanish reported less relationship happiness than Americans.
Men and women both were likely to report sexual satisfaction if they also reported frequent kissing and cuddling, sexual caressing by the partner, higher sexual functioning, and if they had sex more frequently. On the other hand, for men, having had more sex partners in their lifetime was a predictor of less sexual satisfaction.
Men did report more relationship happiness in later years, whereas for women, their sexual satisfaction increased over time. Women who had been with their partner for less than 15 years were less likely to report sexual satisfaction, but after 15 years, the percentage went up significantly.
"Possibly, women become more satisfied over time because their expectations change, or life changes with the children grown," Heiman said. "On the other hand, those who weren't so happy sexually might not be married so long."
Compared with the U.S. men, Japanese men reported significantly (2.61 times) more sexual satisfaction in their relationships. For women, Japanese and Brazilian women were more likely to report being satisfied sexually than Americans.
"We recognize that relationship satisfaction and sexual satisfaction may not be the same thing for all couples, and in all cultures," Heiman said. "Our next step is to understand how one person's health, physical affection and sexual experiences relate to the relationship happiness or sexual satisfaction of his or her partner. So, we hope for more couple-centered than individual-centered understanding on relationship functioning and satisfaction."Read more stories from our Sexuality Articles category
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Wanted — one Indian Riverkeeper.
Kevin Stinnette, who has been a well-known voice for the Indian River Lagoon and the Treasure Coast environment, is retiring from his post to teach a new marine science academy at Forest Grove Middle School in Fort Pierce.
"A Riverkeeper is a fulltime job," Stinnette said. "It's the most active and successful of conservation and environment movements in the world today. And it really requires a fulltime person to patrol the water body and gain grass roots support."
A special needs and science teacher by trade, Stinnette helped assemble the Indian Riverkeeper organization in 2002. But he went back to teaching to earn a living after money ran out to pay his salary as a fulltime environmental advocate after just two years.
But Stinnette remained heavily involved with environmental advocacy.
"Kevin has always been steadfast in his role as a Riverkeeper, and we're going to miss him," said Leon Abood, chairman of another local environmental advocacy group, the Rivers Coalition. "The Riverkeeper program has always been highly respected since its inception and implementation throughout the United States."
But there has been some grumbling the Riverkeeper was not putting up enough of a fight to clean the water.
Stinnette said he would remain on the board of the Treasure Coast Environmental Defense Fund, the nonprofit organization that sponsors the Indian Riverkeeper.
But he realized he would need more of his time to teach 100 aspiring aquatic scientists and couldn't serve as Riverkeeper while running the program.
Starting in the fall, Forest Grove begins its new Marine Oceanographic Academy Prep, with Stinnette at the helm. The program lays the foundation for students to join Fort Pierce Westwood High School's academy of nearly the same name, in conjunction with Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute at Florida Atlantic University.
At the middle school, there are new labs and an ambitious plan to teach the sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders about habitat restoration, water quality and aquaculture.
"We can get these kids' feet wet and let them experience our beautiful habitat, the Indian River Lagoon and the St. Lucie Estuary," Stinnette said. "They will basically be reinforced in the science curriculum."
But even as he plans lessons and experiments designed to engage his students with hands on experience in habitat restoration, water quality testing and raising tilapia, Stinnette said the river organization was looking for a replacement who could continue his work.
"We need a keeper," he said.
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