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This morning on Today, Kim, Kourtney and Khloe—while promoting their "sisterhood autobiography"/beauty and style advice book Kardashian Konfidential—said the worst part of "being famous for being famous" is not being recognized as the entrepreneurs they are.
Their book hits stores tomorrow, but a sneak peek highlights a few fun facts that are revealed within its pages, like the story of Khloe losing her virginity to an older man (when she was 14), how Kourtney organizes her baby's closet according to color, and that the infamous O.J. Simpson white Bronco police chase started at the Kardashian home.


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Chia seeds, couscous and quinoa are just some of the foods adults over the age of 60 have never tried, despite their increasing popularity among younger generations.
A study into the eating habits of older adults shows many avoid the latest food fads loved by millennials, with 35 percent opting for a traditional 'meat and two veg' option over more typically modern foods.
As such, 52 percent have never touched avocado on toast, while 53 percent have never tried quinoa. Even olives are alien to a number of over 60s along with foods such as aubergine, vegan burgers, and tacos.
While shunning newer food crazes such as flax seeds and goji berries, this age group have tried some of the more well-known traditional superfoods, with blueberries, beetroot, broccoli and spinach among the top foods these adults have sampled.
Commenting on the research, Dietitian Dr. Carrie Ruxton, spokesperson for The Chilean Blueberry Committee, which carried out the study said, "With all the buzz around new food trends and superfoods, it's interesting to see a divide between what the younger generation prefer to eat, and how this compares with those in later life, who tend to prefer more well-known foods."
The study of 2,000 adults aged 60 and over, conducted via OnePoll.com reveals two thirds of those over 60 say they like their food to be colorful and interesting, which could explain why they avoid neutral-toned foods such as quinoa, couscous, and chia seeds.
Dr. Ruxton added, "It's true that we eat with our eyes just as much as we do with our taste buds and foods like blueberries are a great food to tick these boxes."
Even foods like duck, aubergines and asparagus are untouched by more than one in 10 people nearing or in retirement. Parsnips crisps are foreign to more than a third of those polled, while 26 percent have never tucked into a bowl of granola cereal.
But despite the apparent lack of adventure, adults in this age category do class themselves as having a healthy diet, with 71 percent believing they are getting all the nutrients and vitamins they need.
"It's interesting that the over 60s refuse to bow to the latest trends and instead stick with foods that they know taste good as well as doing them good," said Dr. Ruxton. "Blueberries are an excellent snack as they are naturally low in calories and rich in antioxidant compounds, called anthocyanins, which have been linked with optimal heart health and cognitive function. Blueberries are also high in vitamin C which supports immune function."

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text: On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 at 9:50pm, Robert G. Brown wrote > In a nutshell, the "cost of going cheap" isn't linear, with or without > student/cheap labor. For small clusters installed by somebody who knows > what they are doing and e.g. operated and used by the owner or the > owner's lab including students, operated by departmental sysadmins with > cluster experience and enough warm bodies to have some opportunity cost > labor handy -- sure, go cheap -- if a node or two is DOA or fails, so > what? It takes you an extra day or two to get the cluster going, but > most of that time is waiting for parts -- OC time is much smaller, and > everybody has other things to do while waiting. But as clusters get > larger, the marginal cost of the differential failure rate between cheap > and expensive scales up badly and can easily exceed the OC labor pool's > capacity, especially if by bad luck you get a cheap node and it turns > out to be a "lemon" and the faraway dot com that sold it to you refuses > to fix or replace it. The turnover from cheap to much more expensive > than just getting good nodes from a reputable vendor (which don't > usually cost THAT much more than cheap) can happen real fast, and the > time wasted can go from a few days to months equally fast. One thing I haven't seen addressed is to look at the proposed usage of the cluster. If most of the code to be run on the cluster is embarrassingly parallel, then the cost of a node going down or the network being less than optimal is fairly low. In this case, IMO, it's pretty easy to make the argument to go the DIY route (depending on size and available labor pool, of course, as others have mentioned). If, OTOH, you intend to run tightly coupled MPI code across the entire cluster, then it becomes very valuable to ensure that everything is working together just so. There a turn-key vendor (and/or highly skilled third party) can make more sense. In other words, the answer, as always, is "It depends." -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF


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DENVER — State Sen Kevin Lundberg, R-Berthoud, got more than 80 percent of the delegates' votes cast in the GOP's 2nd Congressional District Assembly on Friday, advancing his name to the Republican primary election ballot in this year's contests for that seat.
A Lundberg campaign aide said Saturday that the senator had received 368 of 2nd CD Republicans' 455 votes at the assembly.
Adams County Republican Tom Janich, another candidate for the seat, got 64 votes, and 23 delegates wrote in other names. Janich needed 30 percent of the assembly delegates' votes to get his name onto the 2nd CD's June Republican primary ballot.
Janich said in a Saturday interview, however, that he hasn't shelved his aspirations for federal office. He said he next intends to seek Colorado Republicans' votes in a 2014 U.S. Senate bid, when the seat now held by Eldorado Springs Democrat Mark Udall will be up for election.
A third Republican candidate for the 2nd Congressional District seat, Boulder businessman Eric Weissmann, bypassed the assembly and turned in petitions earlier this month in an effort to get into the primary. The Colorado Secretary of State's Office notified Weissmann last week that the petitions he turned in fell short of containing the needed 1,000 validly submitted signatures from registered 2nd CD Republicans, but Weissmann has said he plans to appeal that ruling in Denver District Court.
At stake is the chance to be the Republican Party's standard-bearer in next fall's general election matchup with incumbent U.S. Rep. Jared Polis, D-Boulder.
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text: At 04:27 PM 4/7/2005, Mark Hahn wrote: > > > > No mention of PowerPC which runs far cooler (1/2?) than Intel/AMD: > > > > > >except that it doesn't. > > > > > > > http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/apple/power-useage.pdf > > > > > >lovely graph. alas, the numbers are pure fantasy. yes, I actually > > >did measure a dual xserve g5 (not heavily configured) and it was 200-210W, > > >quite comparable to dual-opterons and even dual-xeons. > > > > > > Leaving aside such tantalizing issues as what is a GHz, in terms of useful > > work. > >is there some reason to believe I'd deliberately arrange an unfair >comparison? in any case, these factors don't matter that much. >the point is that the true dissipation of 200-210W is drastically differt >from the macophile reputation of these machines. at the time, what >I had to compare with were duals like HP Dl145 (8G, 1.8's). iirc >those are around 220W; the same machine with a 2.2 peaks at 240. >obviously, the new opteron rev would be noticably cooler. This what I would imagine off hand... Comparable computational power of a given IC fabrication technology (feature size/voltage/etc) will dissipate similar amounts of power. And this is what you said you measured. Nobody has any special physics, so differences will come in the suitability of processor/computer architecture (data path widths, cache sizes, etc.) to the computational problem being attacked. And, to a lesser degree, to the sophistication of the design, in terms of parts selection, etc. For one thing, most PCs have fairly inefficient power supplies. Why bother eking out a few percent better Joules/calculation, when the power supply is only 70% efficient. You'd be better off spending your pennies on a 80% efficient power supply. And, for what it's worth, lower voltages may make the processor lower power (for a given amount of computational work), but you might lose overall, because it's less efficient to regulate to low voltages, and the IR losses in ancillary components (PC board traces, solder joints) are higher. This might be a worthwhile trade for a manufacturer, since it might make their thermal design easier. > > However, if we do a straight watts/GHz, Xeon is 34.375, G4 is 33.8 ... not > > too much difference. > >I'm not sure where those numbers come from - I hope you're not just using >Intel's TDP numbers (which are not max-dissipation numbers.) I used the (fantasy) ones off the graph in the linked pdf. Divided Watts by GHz, on the simplistic assumption that 2GHz does the work exactly twice as fast as 1GHz. The real point is that the numbers for the biggest and smallest bars in the chart (I didn't bother to do the rest) are essentially the same, within a few tens of percent. >W/GHz is amusing; here are some other numbers: >http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/intel%20dual%20core%20preview%20part%202_040605110408/6838.png > > w ghz w/ghz >amd 143 2.2 65 >intel sc 214 3.0 71.3 >intel dc 242 2*2.8 43.2 > >of course, the AMD looks even better if you scale by performance rather >than clock. > > > One also needs to look at important ancillary issues like power > consumption > > of the cache, bus drivers, etc. And, of course, instruction stream > makes a > > big difference. > >kind of obvious, don't you think? when I said peak, I meant peak, >and I'm quoting power dissipation measured at the wall plug (kill-a-watt). >for these systems, running two compute-intensive programs maxes out; >messing with memory or disks only adds a few watts (percent). James Lux, P.E. Spacecraft Radio Frequency Subsystems Group Flight Communications Systems Section Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mail Stop 161-213 4800 Oak Grove Drive Pasadena CA 91109 tel: (818)354-2075 fax: (818)393-6875


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Prosecutor brings $5M tax-fraud case against Messi
A Spanish prosecutor filed a fraud complaint Wednesday against Lionel Messi, alleging the Barcelona and Argentina star owes $5.3 million in back taxes.
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A Spanish prosecutor filed a fraud complaint Wednesday against Lionel Messi, alleging the Barcelona and Argentina star owes $5.3 million in back taxes.
The complaint names Messi and his father, Jorge Horacio Messi. Both are accused of defrauding millions on income tax returns for 2007, 2008 and 2009.
"We are surprised," Messi said on his Facebook account, "because we have never committed any infringement. We have always fulfilled all our tax obligations, following the advice of our tax consultants who will take care of clarifying this situation."
The complaint, signed by prosecutor Raquel Amado, was submitted for trial at the courthouse in Gava, the upscale Barcelona suburb where the Argentina forward lives.
In it, Amado says from 2006-2009 Messi "obtained significant revenue derived from the transfer to third parties of his image rights, income which should have been taxed."
The complaint says Messi "circumvented his tax obligations" by using shell companies in tax havens such as Belize and Uruguay.
A judge at the courthouse must accept the prosecutor's complaint before charges can be brought against Messi and his father.
Messi had the day off Wednesday after playing for his national team in Quito, where Argentina was held to a 1-1 tie with Ecuador on Tuesday night in a qualifying match for the World Cup.
Argentina coach Alejandro Sabella has said Messi was expected to be in the lineup for an exhibition against Guatemala on Friday.
Barcelona declined to comment on the complaint. The 25-year-old Messi has won four straight FIFA world player of the year awards. He has scored 133 goals for Barcelona over the last two seasons.
Forbes rated Messi as the world's 10th highest-paid athlete. He reportedly earned $41.3 million to June this year, with $20.3 coming from his club salary and $21 million in endorsements.
Sports finance analyst at the University of Navarra, professor Sandalio Gomez, said if found guilty of evading tax on his image rights, Messi could be liable for a fine amounting to 150 percent of the earnings concealed.
Gregor Reiter, a German attorney specializing in sports law, said Messi's difficulties show "how important it is for athletes to have excellent and highly-trained counselors and agents" to handle their financial affairs. Player payments often travel across international borders and complicate tax assessments.
Stefan Szymanski, the Stephen J. Galetti Professor of Sport Management in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan, said tax authorities can create "a demonstration effect - everybody takes notice. Everybody thinks, I'd better pay my taxes."
He noted that different tax rates and regulations across Europe could prompt Messi to consider playing for a club in a more tax-friendly country. "If Spain is going to become as strict as northern European countries, then maybe at that point he decides that he's willing to move," Szymanski said.
Szymanski cited a 2009 study by the London School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley that found top tax rates influence where soccer players end up.
Messi signed a two-year contract extension with Barcelona in February that keeps him at the club through June 2018 - when he will be 31. He joined Barcelona when he was 13 and made his debut with the first team three years later.
The forward scored 60 goals in all competitions this season, leading Barcelona to the Spanish league title. With Messi struggling to recover from a leg injury, Barcelona was eliminated from the Champions League in the semifinals.
Spain has been cracking down on tax evasion as it tries to repair the country's public finances amid the recession and collapse of its real estate sector.
Finance Minister Cristobal Montoro warned soccer players in April they should make sure they are "comfortable" with their tax affairs.
Associated Press writer Barry Hatton in Lisbon, Portugal, contributed to this report.
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I've been interested in Scratch for a while now.
An interesting, fun (and free) piece of software, it's a good place to start if you want the students in your class to learn to do some basic animation and programming.
Scratch is in the beginning stages of a renaissance in my classroom as my kids have discovered it on our new laptops. At this point kids are just playing with it, trading around some information and spending some time with it. A budding Scratch club is building.
As I have the world's most organized educational assistant working in my classroom, I had her make a set of these Scratch cards and print off one of the manuals (pdf) so we'd have it in the classroom. I've also put the manuals on our tablets so that kids can have access to it in a few different ways.
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Highlights of the Shape Shake by foodspring
- Natural plant-based feed for our cows
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- Inulin fibre from the chicory root
- L-carnitine amino acid supports your body toning training
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Shape Shake is perfect as a protein shake. The mix of whey protein and casein protein in the basic formula contains very little fat and carbohydrates and is rich in premium quality protein elements. As part of a body toning regime, protein should be your preferred nutrient as it supports healthy body toning.
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That is why a sufficient supply of essential amino acids (BCAAs) for the muscles must be ensured. They play a central role in maintaining muscle mass during a low-calorie diet. The objective of any successful diet should be the reduction of the body fat percentage (BFP) while at the same time optimising maintenance of existing muscle mass.
Body toning efforts can also be supported with the addition of inulin fibre from the chicory root. A diet high in fibre and rich in protein will make it a lot easier to stick with a low-calorie diet needed to reduce body fat (negative overall energy balance) and see the desired training results faster.
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Our Shape Shake is a perfect meal supplement - for example at dinner time - because of the high-quality protein source it contains in combination with inulin fibre. Of course you can also enjoy a Shape Shake for breakfast or lunch. Our recommendation to have one with your dinner stems from the fact that most food cravings occur in the evening.
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The idea behind the Shape Shake is to supplement one meal per day so that the person feels less hungry overall. We are more than happy to advise you on how to adapt your workout and nutrition as part of a diet. Our objective is always to help our customers achieve long-term, healthy weight loss.
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In creating our Shape Shake, we purposely chose not to use soy. Many diet concepts use soy to increase satiety. However, the origins of these soy beans is often unknown. Chicory is healthy and creates a lasting feeling of fullness. That's why our Shape Shake combines the benefits of chicory root with high-quality protein from grass-fed milk and L-carnitine, which helps you stay in shape on every level. It also means we don't need to use artificial sweeteners. The proteins from grass-fed milk have a higher biological value, and – more importantly – a better taste. The neutral flavoured Shape Shake contains absolutely no sweeteners so that you can drink one whenever you want. Our Shape Shake is gluten-free. May contain traces of gluten due to being produced in an environment with other gluten-containing products.
No matter what your goals are, a healthy diet and staying active are crucial to achieving your dream body and keeping it. Unlike classic formula diets and diet drinks that simply shoot for fast weight loss, we intentionally take another approach with our Shape Shake. To lose weight in a healthy way, we suggest that you only supplement one meal with the Shape Shake and continue to get the majority of your daily calories through solid foods. Your meals should always be built around complex carbohydrates, essential fatty acids and high-quality proteins, plus fresh fruit and vegetables.


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PITTSBURGH—BirdBrain Technologies, a Pittsburgh startup that commercializes projects developed by Carnegie Mellon University's CREATE Lab, will loan 1,000 of its Finch robots to school districts or educational groups during Computer Science Education Week (CSEdWeek), Dec. 8-14.
"We want to support Computer Science Education Week's Hour of Code initiative, which seeks to demystify computer code with a one-hour introductory activity for 10 million students," said Tom Lauwers, a Ph.D. graduate of the Robotics Institute and the founder of BirdBrain. "Finch was developed at the Robotics Institute specifically to make computer programming more compelling for novices, so we want to make the robots available to as many students as possible that week."
BirdBrain will loan the robots to up to 20 school districts or educational organizations. The deadline for applications is Oct. 4. Further information is available on the company website, http://www.finchrobot.com/one-thousand-robots.
The low-cost, tabletop robot with bird-like features is based on four years of educational research by the CREATE Lab that was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. BirdBrain began marketing the robot in 2011.
BirdBrain will cover the costs of shipping and will provide a detailed, one-hour exercise for students to program Finch. The company will ship five robots to each participating organization early in November to allow teachers time to prepare for CSEdWeek. The remainder of the robots will be shipped to arrive by Dec. 4.
CSEdWeek is an annual program dedicated to showing K-12 students the importance of computer science education. Organized each year by the Computing in the Core coalition and Code.org, CSEdWeek is held in recognition of the Dec. 9, 1906, birthday of computing pioneer Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.
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Oaxaca al Gusto: An Infinite Gastronomy
Diana Kennedy bursts over the phone line like a dynamo. She's in California and we're discussing Oaxaca al Gusto (University of Texas Press).
"It is not a book for Americans to cook Oaxacan food. It is how Oaxacans eat," Kennedy explains.
This distinction tells us why Kennedy received Mexico's Congressional Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest award given to a non-Mexican. Over more than 50 years she has become Mexico's ambassador to an international following of cooks waiting to benefit from her ventures into little-known reaches of the Mexican countryside. In this new book, she documents and shares the life ways and foods found throughout Oaxaca.
An earlier Mexican version of the book was categorized in typical cookbook format with chapters on appetizers and entrées. The U.S. publication categorizes content by Oaxaca's diverse regions. Kennedy doesn't expect readers to use all of the recipes. More importantly, she would like to encourage interest in the great variety of ingredients, particularly chiles, and further their use in today's world market.
"It is not a book for Americans to cook Oaxacan food. It is how Oaxacans eat."
Diana Kennedy on Oaxaca al Gusto
I ask how she found specific dishes that fill the pages. She says ethno-botanists have told her about interesting things they were eating. She would also go in search of other sources.
"The city of Oaxaca is a meeting place for people to find jobs from all over the state. And so I'd be recommended to somebody from one part of the state, and I'd talk to them, and they'd say, Oh, well you know Grandmother does this, that, and the other," Kennedy says.
"And so off I'd go into the mountains with my sleeping bag and my cot and spend a few days up there learning what they did—and paying for any ingredients, too, when it was appropriate. I like to pay for a day's work, and if I went back, I'd take them a present—a new mill or grinder, or something like that."
In addition to her written records, Kennedy also took the hundreds of photographs (with a few exceptions) that grace the pages of Oaxaca al Gusto. When I first saw it, I thought it strange that, rather than food, an olla filled the front cover. Once I viewed the book front to back, it made perfect sense. The olla is the traditional cooking pot that's used in some form or another across geography and time—the vessel that holds all of Mexico's food.
Many of these recipes use ingredients we will never encounter. Much of it is foraged near people's homes or raised seasonally. Foods are not wasted but used "nose to tail." I mention a wasp nest comb used in a hot meal.
"Free protein!" Kennedy exclaims. "That's the thing about all these wild things. It's free protein. Wild things have marvelous food value."
But, regardless of the enormous amount of information in Kennedy's masterwork, she maintains one constant: "Anything you make should be delicious."


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At the tender age of 2 months old, many American babies appear to be taking their first steps on the road to obesity, helped along by parents who may be preoccupied, pushy or uninformed about the care and feeding of babies for optimal health, a new study says.
The latest research found that in a population of predominantly low-income mothers and infants, 2-month-old babies routinely spent long hours either in front of a television or being fed or cared for by a parent watching TV, were frequently put to bed or left to feed themselves with a propped bottle, and rarely got the recommended amount of daily "tummy time" that challenges a baby's physical development.
Those are just a few of the parenting practices that have been linked by large population studies to a child's later risk of becoming obese. Others include early introduction of solids (most often by putting cereal in a baby's bottle), giving a baby sweetened drinks such as fruit juices, and encouraging a baby to keep feeding after she no longer shows interest in continuing.
The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, found that, when it comes to care and feeding practices thought to raise a baby's obesity risk, differing ethnic and racial patterns emerged.
Latino caregivers were more likely than white parents and black parents to encourage a baby to finish a bottle or breast-feeding even after it lost interest. And nearly 4 in 5 Latino moms (virtually all the caregivers were female) did not put a baby down for more than a half-hour a day of "tummy time."
But nearly half of Latino mothers breast-fed their babies for at least half of their feedings at 2 months of age -- more than white (40%) or black mothers (23%). And the practice of adding cereal to a bottle (generally done to induce a feeling of fullness in the baby) was most rare among Latino caregivers, and fully 63% said they rarely or never watched TV while feeding their baby.
Among the study's white parents, roughly 60% said they watched TV more than half the time they fed their baby (compared to 73% of African American caregivers). But white and black moms were roughly equally likely to give their baby the prescribed amount of "tummy time" -- between 45% and 46% of such parents let their baby scramble around on her belly for a half hour or more per day.
African Americans in the study were most likely to fortify their babies' bottles with cereal at 2 months (23.5% did so, compared to 15.9% of whites and 3.8% of Latinos). They were least likely to be breast-feeding at 2 months (33% still did at least sometimes) and they were most likely to prop a baby's bottle for more than half of the baby's feedings (compared to 10% of whites and 4% of Latinos).
The new research "adds further texture" to what experts know about feeding patterns and ethnicity, said the authors, who followed caregivers and their babies at sites in North Carolina, New York, Tennessee and Florida. That, they added, should help researchers and clinicians devise culture-specific interventions that may reduce the practices that predispose babies to grow into obesity.
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Soundings is a literary and visual arts journal that serves as a creative outlet for the students, faculty, and alumni of OklahomaChristian University. We publish annually in the spring through the Department of Language and Literature and the Rho Mu chapter of Sigma Tau Delta English Honors Society.
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Part Three of Three in Project Inform's "Considering Treatment and Your Health Care" Booklet
January 2013
Getting Your Health Care Covered
You may never need to file for disability, but for simplicity we present these options in terms of pre- and post-disability. Disability is a formal claim that must be made with your doctor and approved by Social Security. To find programs you may be eligible for, it's important to consult local resources such as benefits counselors, case managers, social workers or attorneys as programs differ greatly from state to state.
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Is Your Doctor Experienced in Treating HIV?
You will need to find a doctor who's able and willing to treat HIV, ideally one who already has experience with HIV. Depending on how and where you get health care, you may not have many choices.
Experienced doctors usually keep up with recent developments in treating HIV. They also have a better sense of preventive health care. If you can, it's also important to find other doctors like gynecologists, eye doctors and dentists who have HIV experience.
Doctors with less or no HIV experience may need to consult resources that can help them provide the best medical care for you. Resources are available that can help you and your doctor make informed decisions.
The WarmLine (National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center) provides expert clinical advice to medical professionals. It's available Monday-Friday, 8am-8pm, Eastern Time. (See below.)
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(Reuters) - Dynavax Technologies Corp said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked for additional safety data on its experimental hepatitis B vaccine potentially delaying its approval and sending its shares down as much as 30 percent.
Analysts said the company will be required to conduct an additional trial on Heplisav - Dynavax's most advanced clinical candidate.
Cowen and Co analyst Phil Nadeau said the outcome of Dynavax' meeting with the FDA was disappointing.
"We project a 2016 Heplisav launch and that Dynavax must spend over $300 million in R&D prior to Heplisav's approval," Nadeau said in a note.
He was expecting Heplisav to be approved for use in a limited population of hepatitis B patients next year.
Shares of the Berkeley, California-based company touched a near three-year low of $1.72 in early trade, but recovered slightly to trade down 28 percent at $1.75 on the Nasdaq.
Dynavax said it would meet with the FDA shortly to discuss the protocol for collecting additional safety data, which it expects to include in its current approval application.
The FDA denied approval for Heplisav in February saying the safety data provided by the company was insufficient to support an approval.
"We believe the FDA reasonably understands that a safety study designed to include say 30,000 patients is not economically feasible for a small company like Dynavax," CEO Eddie Gray said on a conference call on Monday.
Gray, however, added that obtaining additional safety data at a scale roughly consistent with that discussed by the FDA's advisory committee was possible.
The advisory committee said in November that data from 10,000 or more ethnically diverse patients from a higher risk population would support the vaccine's benefits.
Dynavax had included data from 5,845 patients in its marketing application.
The company has two other therapies in early-stage development. It is collaborating with GlaxoSmithKline Plc for a therapy for autoimmune disorders and inflammatory diseases. It is also jointly developing an asthma treatment with AstraZeneca Plc.
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39-A: Een Reisverhaal Van Eindeloos (A Travel Tale Of Interminable) is an experimental film that challenges and subverts the typical elements of documentaries, thus making us all reflect upon important questions in documentary filmmaking such as What material can be trusted, can the voice-over narrator be trusted, where does documentary end and fiction start? Besides these questions, that the film raises, it has managed to convince the jury by it's unusual and alienating collage of super 8 footage, by its investigative style and suspense. The film is putting audiences continuously on the wrong track yet consistently intriguing, leaving the viewer bewildred and pensive. Through its hybrid form, 39-A: Een Reisverhaal Van Eindeloos (A Travel Tale Of Interminable) is showing inventive ways of dealing with documentary footage and transforming reality into film. – Webcuts.11
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… a high brow spoof on art theory, deconstruction, documentaries, and reality itself. – D Magazine
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6 Things To Know About 'Torchwood'
On Friday, July 08, Starz will premiere its latest original series, "Torchwood: Miracle Day."
Except it's not an original series. "Torchwood" was originally a sci-fi series on BBC that ran for three seasons. And while it's true that "Torchwood: Miracle Day" is essentially a chance for the series to find a bigger audience (thanks in part to a larger production budget), the fact remains that this is essentially the fourth season.
The premise for "Miracle Day" is intriguing enough that it could have been made independently of "Torchwood" entirely. On one amazing day, no one Earth dies. The population takes it as a miracle on a grand scale, but this miracle has a price. Because everyone on Earth has seemingly become an immortal overnight, the planet will run out of resources within just a few months, leaving the human race in everlasting suffering.
That's where the Torchwood team comes in. It's their job to find out what caused "Miracle Day" and figure out a way to stop it over the course of ten episodes.
Of course, that's just the short version of what you might expect. But if you really want to understand "Torchwood: Miracle Day" without watching three seasons straight, these six items will tell you everything you need to know to appreciate the new season.
What is Torchwood?
The "Torchwood" series is a direct spinoff from "Doctor Who," but they aren't so closely tied together that you need to watch both to enjoy them. In fact, "Torchwood" is a considerably darker show, so if you like sex and violence… you know the drill.
The concept of Torchwood first appeared during the second season of "Doctor Who." In 1879, the Doctor (David Tennant) encountered Queen Victorian (Pauline Collins) during an attack by an alien race (that seemed to resemble werewolves) that wanted to infect her. It's debatable whether the aliens succeeded, but the Queen came to view the Doctor as a threat to Great Britain and she formed the Torchwood Institute to confront all of her country's "enemies beyond imagination."
For over a century, Torchwood hunted aliens and seized their technology until 2007, when Torchwood accidentally unleashed a dual invasion of Daleks and Cybermen. With the organization in disarray after that, the Doctor's former companion, Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) stepped up to transform Torchwood in his own image. The "Torchwood" TV series follows Captain Jack and his team as they serve as a modern day "X-Files."
Gwen Cooper
Gwen Cooper (Eve Myles) is the female lead of "Torchwood" and arguably the co-lead of the series alongside Jack. As a police officer, Gwen noticed Jack and his team investigating strange cases and she soon learned that they were tracking down alien threats. Impressed by her abilities, Jack offered her a place on the team and she has gone on to become one of his top field agents.
It has also been broadly hinted that Jack is in love with Gwen, despite the fact that she's gone on to marry her longtime boyfriend, Rhys Williams (Kai Owen). Rhys even became aware of Torchwood and he assisted them on several occasions.
This is the rest of the original Torchwood team: Ianto Jones (Gareth David-Lloyd), Gwen, Jack, Toshiko Sato (Naoko Mori) and Owen Harper (Burn Gorman).
You may have noticed that Ianto, Tosh and Owen are nowhere to be seen in "Miracle Day." And that's because they all died horribly. There's a high mortality rate on this show and despite its premise, there's every reason to believe that not all of the main characters will survive the season.
Captain Jack Harkness
Jack Harkness was first introduced all the way back in the first season of the "Doctor Who" relaunch as a former time traveling con man who became one of the Doctor's companions and bravely stood by him during a Dalek Invasion in the far future. Jack was killed and subsequently resurrected in a way that rendered him virtually immortal. Jack still ages (albeit at a much slower rate than everyone else) and he can still be hurt. But when Jack is killed, he usually revives a few minutes later with no aftereffects.
Although Jack has a sometimes skewed morality, he's still an extremely heroic figure. He's like Captain America, if he was secretly British… and he liked guys.
What? I didn't mention that Captain Jack is bisexual?
Actually, I think It's kind of disingenuous to call Jack bisexual. He may have had wives in the past and a longstanding crush on Gwen, but he clearly prefers men and he even formed a lasting relationship with his male teammate, Ianto Jones.
So in that regard, Jack is the rare gay action hero. If you have a problem with that, then maybe "Torchwood" isn't for you.
Everyone is Bi-Sexual
This may due to the influence of "Torchwood" creator Russell T Davies ("Queer As Folk"), but on this show nearly every character has had a fling with someone of the same sex. And when I say everyone, I mean EVERYONE.
Owen brought home a girlfriend and her boyfriend for a one night stand, Tosh had a relationship with another woman and even Gwen "snogged" a woman once.
As for Ianto, he was so devoted to his girlfriend, that he hid her in Torchwood's basement even after she became part cyber… woman?
Maybe Ianto could be called a cybersexual before he finally hooked up with Jack, in what seemed to be a rebound relationship because Jack couldn't be with Gwen.
The point is that this happens a lot on "Torchwood" and it will likely continue on "Miracle Day." So don't look so surprised if John Barrowman makes out with Mekhi Phifer at some point during the new season.
Torchwood Can Be Dangerously Incompetent
Fans of the original "Torchwood" series may not like to admit this, but the team has a tendency to f*** up on a global scale.
Before any defenders start shouting, let me ask this: whose fault was it that a giant soul sucking entity called Abaddon ran wild in Cardiff? That's right, the Torchwood team let him loose after being easily manipulated into turning on Jack.
That wasn't their first or only screw up. Even Owen's initial death at the hands of a deranged individual seemed to happen because the team got too complacent. Prior to that, they practically let one of their former members, Suzie Costello (Indira Varma) run wild as a serial killer for weeks under their noses!
Even Captain Jack has been guilty of this. During the "Children of Earth" miniseries, Jack arrogantly confronted the alien menace known as the 456 and told them to leave Earth immediately. In response, the 456 killed everyone in the building, including Jack's lover Ianto.
If Jack had approached that situation with an actual plan, maybe things would have played out very differently.
The Big Ideas
The best reason to watch "Torchwood" is that the premises can be truly evocative and thought provoking.
"Torchwood" seemed to struggle to find its identity during the first two seasons, but in the third season the show was revitalized in the form of a miniseries called "Children of Earth." In that story, an alien race (nicknamed "the 456" by the British government that had previously made contact with it) came to Earth and demanded that humanity hand over a large percentage of their children… whom the aliens essentially used as their recreational drugs!
To hide their complicity with the 456, the British government nearly succeeded in wiping out Torchwood, including a particularly gruesome death for Jack that saw most of his body destroyed by a bomb before the flesh slowly (and painfully) grew back.
In the end, Jack was forced to make a choice: sacrifice his own grandchild and drive off the aliens or attempt to find another child to sacrifice at the risk of losing even more children. He opted not to wait and Jack's grandson died as a direct result of his actions.
In his shame and loss, Jack fled Earth and seemed unlikely to return. And yet, he'll be back in time for "Miracle Day;" which may push Torchwood even further than before. Alongside a new team consisting of Rex Matheson (Mekhi Phifer), Esther Drummond (Alexa Havins) and Dr. Vera Juarez (Arlene Tur), Captain Jack and Gwen may be facing their toughest challenge yet.
"Torchwood: Miracle Day" could raise the stakes for the series once again with its newfound international scale. So be sure to check it out this Friday night on Starz!


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It's the Tuesday night before the iPad Air goes on sale, and that means ... here come the reviews. No surprise, it's a hit. If there's any "but" in the messages of this first wave of reviewers, it's that shoppers should sheath their credit cards until the arrival of the Retina-screen iPad Mini, which will likely be the Air's biggest threat this holiday season.
The gist is summed up by Walt Mossberg of The Wall Street Journal and AllThingsD.com, who praises the tablet for being thinner and lighter while getting faster and maintaining "industry-leading battery life." Mossberg writes that he ran the tablet for more than 12 hours straight, and others also experienced 10 or more hours while running fairly aggressive video and wireless regimens.
(Read more: Apple's earnings call)
This is good news for Apple, because one of the key criticisms of the season's other major iOS launch, the iPhone 5S, is that its battery life is not as long as many of its competitors. With no performance issues to be concerned with, this new 9.7-inch iPad is simply a better option than the ones that came before it, for the same price.


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Three quarters of UK students believe serious change is needed if human civilisation is to survive into the next century.
2007-08 Future Leaders Survey
Forum for the Future and UCAS have surveyed over 25,000 university applicants for the 2007-08 Future Leaders Survey sponsored by Friends Provident. They told us how they expect the world to change, what they really want to happen in the future and where they think action is needed
The world in 2032
Asked what life would be like in 2032, respondents painted a sobering picture of social and environmental degradation. The majority believe…
- Oil will be prohibitively expensive (89%)
- Climate change will be affecting their lives (85%)
- The frequency of natural disasters will have increased (80%)
- Inequality will have increased, both within the UK and between rich and poor countries (over 70%)
- The Amazon rainforest will have disappeared (61%)
- A nuclear weapon will have been used (53%)
Given these views it's not surprising that over 78% of respondents believe serious change is needed if society is going to survive into the next century.
Who's doing what to bring about change?
Only 16% think that the government is doing 'a lot' to bring about change, compared to an alarming 6% for business. Less than a quarter (23%) agree that Gordon Brown is genuinely committed to tackling climate change. For David Cameron the figure is 22%.
Legislation seems to be favoured as a means of delivering change. A surprising 41% think personal carbon quotas would be good for them personally, and nearly half (49%) think these would benefit society as a whole.
Behaviour change: To fly or not to fly?
Today's university applicants have an acute awareness of the costs of consumption; 86% support the idea that material consumption must reduce and nearly a third describe themselves as 'environmentalists'.
40% think a tax on air travel would benefit society as a whole, but only 25% think it will benefit them personally. 82% are keen to visit exotic places before they disappear, with only 16% planning to avoid taking a flight for environmental reasons in the next 10 years.
What will make them happy?
Our future leaders were asked what factors will be important to their personal happiness in the next 10 years. The top seven are shown below.
% of respondents saying this will be 'very important' to their happiness in the next 10 years:
- Having a job they find interesting (82%)
- Spending time with family (68%)
- Owning a home (46%)
- Spending time with friends (46%)
- Being in a long-term relationship (45%)
- Having a job that contributes to society (40%)
- Having a job that pays well (39%)
Commenting on the findings, Peter Madden, Chief Executive of Forum for the Future, said:
"This generation of students has a heavy burden to bear. They're the first to be fully aware of the damage that human beings are doing to the planet and the last with a chance to save it. That's quite some burden, but one that our future leaders seem confident they can carry."
Anthony McClaran, Chief Executive of UCAS, said:
"This survey provides a fascinating insight into university applicants and their hopes and fears for the future. It's a timely reminder to everyone working in the higher education sector of the importance that students place on the delivery of the tools and resources needed to continue to secure a sustainable future."
Ashley Taylor, Friends Provident Plc Senior Manager Corporate Responsibility, said:
"Leading a business in the twenty-first century will require the explicit management of corporate behaviour and the stewardship of the natural resources on which it relies. At the heart of this agenda is the understanding of future constraints and expectations, so we can define priorities for action, and engage in the worldwide debate."
The report can be downloaded from http://www.futureleaderssurvey0708.org.uk
Forum for the Future – the sustainable development charity – works in partnership with leading organisations in business and the public sector. Our vision is of business and communities thriving in a future that is environmentally sustainable and socially just. We believe that a sustainable future can be achieved and that it is the only way business and communities will prosper. UCAS is the not-for-profit central organisation that manages applications for full-time undergraduate courses at UK universities and colleges.


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But the FDA's proposal fails. Miserably. Because their proposal is based on the wrong premise: that e-cigarettes should be regulated under the Tobacco Control Act.
|Let's not confuse e-cigarettes with the products that
kill a half million Americans every year. They're different.
Since when is a sheep the same as a wolf?
E-cigarettes are NOT tobacco products. They do not contain tobacco. They're technology products. And they should be regulated as such.
We've been waiting patiently since April 2011 when the FDA first announced its plans to regulate e-cigarettes. To say that their proposed regulations disappoint doesn't even begin to touch how those of us in the industry feel.
Clearly, the FDA doesn't understand the entire point of e-cigarettes. The reason e-cigarettes were invented was to mitigate the harm caused by cigarettes and other combustible tobacco products.
Putting them in the same category as tobacco products is like calling a sheep a wolf. One grazes and bleats. The other kills and eats.
E-cigarettes have grown overnight into a $1.2 billion industry because they address a key problem. One in every five – about 42 million Americans – still smokes, despite the well-known health risks. And that number hasn't budged in years.
At least half of all smokers try to quit at least once – and many try to quit several times. But many are unsuccessful, because nicotine, which is NOT a carcinogen, is highly addictive. Quitting cold turkey is hard. The nicotine patch doesn't work, for obvious reasons. Smokers are addicted to nicotine, but they're also hooked on the habit.
The e-cigarette is a game changer in the smoking cessation market. (Yes, I just said "smoking cessation." Please don't report me to the FDA.)
All of the anecdotal evidence from millions of people who have switched to the e-cigarette is that they've reduced or eliminated smoking cigarettes altogether. They're no longer taking in 4,000 chemicals and 60 known carcinogens into their lungs.
And while nearly a half million people have died every year of smoking-related diseases, not one person has died from e-cigarettes.
Sure, there have been some mishaps. Sure, we have a ways to go to ensure that these products and the e-liquids are as safe as possible. We also welcome and will propose regulations to prevent e-cigarettes from falling into the hands of minors.
However, I continue to laugh at the assertion that e-cigarettes are a gateway to smoking, given the fact that vaping is not just safer; it's also cheaper than smoking. I don't know one person who would switch to a product that will cost them more – do you?
I have a lot more to say about the FDA's pending regulations. But I'll save that rant for another day.


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INTERVIEW: Mark Tremonti
In our interview, Mark Tremonti talks about the Tremonti Project and their appearance at Ballonfest on Saturday, Wolfgang Van Halen, and the best way to celebrate his drummer's birthday while in El Paso.
To hear the audio of our interview with Mark, click on the jump link. It is right below this sentence.


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Biological Sciences
Research Highlights
March 2012
Taking Stock of Subsurface Microbial Communities at Hanford
Census improves understanding of how microbes influence contaminant behavior
Results: Taking a census provides valuable information about residents' ages, employment, makeup, living conditions, etc. Most censuses are taken door to door or by mail. But if the community lives in areas that are inaccessible by typical methods, how do you get a meaningful census? That's the question scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory faced when they wanted to tally the microbes within a cross section of the Hanford Site subsurface in south-central Washington state.
It turns out that collaboration is the key. Using gene sequencing provided by the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute and samples from a DOE Integrated Field Research Challenge (IFRC) site at Hanford, the scientists were able to obtain the largest census of subsurface microbes taken to date.
Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory used samples from an Integrated Field Research Challenge site at the U.S. Department of Energy's Hanford Site in Washington State to obtain the largest census of subsurface microbes taken to date.
The results, which appear in Environmental Microbiology, indicated a region just below the contact between the two major geologic areas of the site that is a zone of active biogeochemical redox cycling. These biogeochemical activities are known to also transform metals such as chromium, uranium, and technetium, which are important contaminants at the site.
Why It Matters: The 1518-km2 Hanford Site is a laboratory unto itself, as its sediments, rock layers, and groundwater host communities of microbes that react with each other and their surroundings. This gives scientists fertile ground-perhaps a better term is layers-for exploring areas as diverse as carbon sequestration and environmental sustainability.
Despite their ecological importance, determining the number and distribution of subsurface microbes has been more difficult than that of other microbial ecosystems. This is because it's hard to retrieve authentic, uncompromised samples from the subsurface.
The site also contains multiple subsurface contaminant plumes that can include metals, radionuclides, nitrate, organic solvents and/or complexing agents. Fundamental science questions about how to best remediate these plumes remain unresolved, which has driven DOE-funded research at the site.
Methods: The PNNL team investigated microbial diversity in subsurface sediments at Hanford by analyzing 21 samples recovered from depths of 9-52 m. The samples were collected over distinct geologic strata at the Hanford IFRC site.
They analyzed approximately 8000 nearly full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences across geologic strata that included Hanford formation, Ringold Formation sediments, and the weathered basalt group, with more than 6500 near full-length 16S rRNA gene sequences from Bacteria and 1500 from Archaea.
The scientists characterized the geochemical properties and structure of the microbial community across these different sedimentary formations. The structure and richness of these assemblages of organisms within a specific habitat varied substantially across the geologic strata.
"Some strata had high relative abundances of poorly described bacterial taxa," said Dr. Allan Konopka, PNNL Laboratory Fellow and senior author of the article. "The high numbers of these novel organisms make them likely to catalyze important biogeochemical reactions."
Given the stratigraphic and redox differences between the Hanford formation and the oxic and reduced Ringold units, it was unsurprising to find dissimilar microbial communities in sediments from these zones. However, the scientists also found significant differences in community composition among samples from the same geological stratum, which suggests that these subsurface sediments also comprise diverse microbial habitats, presumably driven by small-scale physical and chemical heterogeneities.
What's Next? Scientists are not certain which particular organisms catalyze specific redox processes nor what energy sources are driving these reactions. Possible energy sources are organic matter in groundwater or in sediments, iron sulfide minerals in the sediments, or gasses diffusing up from deeper sediment layers. More work is necessary to distinguish among these possibilities.
Acknowledgments: This research is supported by the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental Research's Subsurface Biogeochemistry Research Program's Scientific Focus Area (SFA) and IFRC at PNNL. The sequencing work was performed at JGI, and by the University of California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The research team includes former PNNL staff member Xueju Lin; and Allan Konopka, David Kennedy, Jim Fredrickson, and Bruce Bjornstad, all PNNL.
References: Lin X, DW Kennedy, JK Fredrickson, BN Bjornstad, and A Konopka. 2012. "Vertical Stratification of Subsurface Microbial Community Composition Across Geological Formations at the Hanford Site." Environmental Microbiology 14(2):414-425. DOI:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2011.02659.x


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[Illinois] Neuroengineering IGERT 2012: High Resolution Brain Machine Interfaces Using Flexible Silicon Electronics
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The first annual student-led IGERT Neuroengineering Symposium, to be held on June 16th, 2011, this one day event is designed to highlight the growing neuroengineering presence at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. In addition, we hope that the symposium will expose students, faculty, and guests to neuroengineering work being pioneered across the country. The symposium will highlight three key areas of neuroengineering: audio information processing, neuro-imaging, and brain-computer interfaces. Each of these areas will feature short presentations from University of Illinois faculty and one-hour presentations by invited speakers. An extended lunch break will showcase demonstrations from some of the University of Illinois laboratories and tours of a selection of Beckman Institute facilities. The day will close with a student poster session, a one hour key-note lecture, and an evening happy hour reception. This symposium is an open event. We are excited to welcome any and all who have an interest in neuroengineering or related fields.
(Source: http://igert.beckman.illinois.edu/symposium_11.html)
Jonathan Viventi is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University and an Assistant Professor of Neural Science at New York University. Dr. Viventi earned his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.Eng. and B.S.E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. Dr. Viventi's research applies innovations in flexible electronics, low power analog circuits, and machine learning to create new technology for interfacing with the brain at a much finer scale and with broader coverage than previously possible. He creates new tools for neuroscience research and technology to diagnose and treat neurological disorders, such as epilepsy. Using these tools, he collaborates with neuroscientists and clinicians to explore the fundamental properties of brain networks in both health and disease. His research program works closely with industry, including filing five patents and several licensing agreements. His work has been featured as cover articles in Science Translational Medicine and Nature Materials, and has also appeared in Nature Neuroscience, the Journal of Neurophysiology, and Brain. Dr. Viventi has received several awards for his work, including the Mahoney Institute of Neurological Sciences / Neuroscience Graduate Group Flexner Award for Best Neuroscience Thesis at the University of Pennsylvania, Solomon R. Pollack Award for Best Thesis in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Nano/Bio-Interface Center Graduate Research Award for Best Graduate Research on Nanotechnology Applied to Biology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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National Disaster Search Dog Foundation
National Disaster Search Dog Foundation - the mission of the Search Dog Foundation is to produce the most highly trained canine disaster search teams in the nation. The job of these teams is to find people buried alive in the wreckage of natural disasters and terrorist attacks.
To create these teams, SDF recruits rescued dogs from shelters and breed rescue groups, gives them professional training, and partners them with firefighters and other first responders at no cost to their departments. We ensure lifetime care for every dog in our program: once rescued, these dogs will never need to be rescued again.
SDF receives no government funding, and relies on our supporters throughout the country to provide these services.


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A Sydney mother has described the moment she was sexually assaulted while holding her two-year-old daughter in a public swimming pool.
Cassandra Sunners was swimming with her children when a man took advantage of her, forcing his hands insider her swimmers.
The mother of two said there was no mistaking the intent behind his actions.
"It took three to five seconds for a disgusting vile man to make me a victim," she wrote on Facebook.
The 26-year-old immediately screamed and removed herself and her children from the whirlpool at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre.
She said she originally thought it was her seven-year-old son reaching for her.
However, she realised exactly what happened when her eyes locked with her attacker.
"As soon as he made eye contact with me he put his head under water," she said of the man believed to be in his late teens to early 20s.
The Olympic Park Authority confirmed the offender had been taken into custody by police.
He's been charged with assault, indecent assault and act of indecency.
According to Mrs Sunners it's not the first time someone's been assaulted at the pool.
She said guards told her it was a common place for predators and she wasn't the first to have been assaulted.
On Facebook, the mum revealed she'd learned of one incident in which seven girls were assaulted by a 33-year-old man in 2013.
"Do not let your children in there. Don't do it," she warned.
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It's one of the most common causes for marital strife and one of the most common reasons that couples separate. It's not always an easy subject to broach -- a lot of people have differing spending habits, different ways to handle money, and sometimes, those differences can't be easily solved.
Here are some tips for handling money in a relationship:
1) Don't make the money talk into a big production. While one partner may spend while the other is a saver, it's important that you're both open and honest about the way you handle the finances.
2) Come up with some mutually agreed upon reasonable guidelines for ways to handle money. It can be as simple as running purchases over X dollars by your partner BEFORE spending it.
3) Come up with some reasonable goals for your life -- saving for college, trips, and how to keep on top of all the holiday spending so you're not constantly dipping into savings.
4) Set up a savings account, and each week, put five dollars in there. It sounds like chump change, but it can add up over time.
5) Decide whether or not you should have mutual bank accounts or separate ones. This can be a huge help for couples who have different ways of handling money.
6) Begin to track your spending before putting together a budget. Each day, write down how much you've spent and on what using a shared spreadsheet. This can help you identify things you're overspending on and ways you can make the budget work.
7) Create a realistic budget that actually works for you. It may appear that the weekly Starbucks runs are indulgent, but perhaps this is how your partner blows off steam and gets away from work for awhile.
8) Set aside some money as "fun money" for the month. Use it to do dinner out, see a movie, or buy something for the house. You don't want to feel guilty for having fun -- just make sure that it's within the budget.
9) Have weekly meetings about the budget and make them fun, not super serious and scary. In those meetings (maybe make some popcorn?), make sure you check in with each other as to how you're both handling the budget, if it's working, and plot out any upcoming bills.
10) Work together to make sure your finances are under control and that you're both on the same page with the money stuff. It's awkward to talk about at first, especially if you're not accustomed to it, but remember that you're a team -- you can do this.
Any other advice for handling money in a marriage?
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Grimes Auto Service Tech Question On Your TransmissionNov 5th, 2013
Grimes Auto Service Tech Question:
My name is Suzanne. We were taking a camping trip at our favorite GA state park over a three day weekend. About half way to our campsite, the transmission went out on our vehicle. It took all weekend to get towed out and get back home.
What can I do to prevent transmission problems in the future?
Grimes Auto Service Answer:
Transmission repairs can be expensive at Tifton auto service centers. On top of that poor Suzanne was in the GA backcountry. Her vacation weekend turned into three days of car repairs.
Look, vehicle transmissions are tough and durable. All you have to do to maintain them is replace the fluid on schedule. The fluid gets contaminated with bits of clutch plates and metal. Dirty transmission fluid under pressure acts like liquid sandpaper, eating away at important gaskets and seals. Then your transmission doesn't shift as well. It can start to leak and overheat. And then you could end up like Suzanne.
Another thing: if you carry heavy loads or tow a trailer on Tifton highways, your transmission is working much harder and running hotter than under normal conditions. Your transmission fluid may need to be changed sooner. Check your vehicle owner's manual for your severe service schedule or talk with your friendly and knowledgeable professionals at Grimes Auto Service about when you should have your transmission serviced.
Tifton drivers who do a lot of towing may want to consider adding an external transmission cooler to reduce transmission operating temperatures and extend its life.
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