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Eric Hekler, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Director, Center for Wireless & Population Health Systems
Department of Family Medicine & Public Health, CalIT2/ Qualcomm Institute
Design Lab Faculty, University of California San Diego
Dr. Eric Hekler, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine & Public Health in the University of California, San Diego. His research focuses on individualized and "precise" behavior change for fostering long-term health and well-being.
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Founding Director Emeritus
Kevin Patrick, MD, MS
Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UCSD
Former Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Preventive Medicine
Director, Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems, Calit2
Kevin Patrick, M.D., M.S., is a Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine in the UC San Diego School of Medicine. He is also the Director of the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems in UCSD's Qualcomm Institute/Calit2. He is Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health Data Exploration Project. His research, funded by the NIH, NSF, CDC and RWJF, is focused on improving the use of information and communication technology to measure and improve health-related behaviors of individuals and populations. For 20 years (1994-2013) Dr. Patrick served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine and he has served on the Secretary's Council for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and on the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board.
Chaitan Baru, PhD
Director, Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Development, UCSD
Dr. Baru is a distinguished scientist at the San Diego Supercomputer Center where he works on applied and applications-oriented research problems in scientific data management, database systems, and cloud computing. He has participated in a number of data cyberinfrastructure projects, including as project director of the Geosciences Network, (GEON); director of the NEES Cyberinfrastructure Center, (NEESit); and cyberinfrastructure lead of the Tropical Ecology, Assessment and Monitoring network (TEAM). He was co-PI of the Cyberinfrastructure Testbed for the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) and served as a member of the founding senior management team of NEON. He is currently PI of Opentopography.org, co-PI of the CUAHSI Hydrologic Information Systems (HIS), co-PI of CYCORE, Cyberinfrastructure for Comparative Effectiveness Research, and a member of the How Much Information? project.
Cinnamon S. Bloss, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychiatry, UCSD
Co-Investigator, Health Data Exploration Project, Calit2
Dr. Cinnamon Bloss recently joined The Qualcomm Institute/Calit2 and UCSD as a co-investigator on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded Health Data Exploration Project. She was formerly an Assistant Professor and Director of Social Sciences and Bioethics at the Scripps Translational Science Institute.
Dr. Bloss' research focuses on the impacts of new biomedical technologies on individuals, patients, families, health care providers, and society. Most recently, Dr. Bloss has done extensive work evaluating consumer behavioral and psychological response to direct-to-consumer genomic testing. This work has been highlighted at several national and international scientific and health policy meetings, including a presentation of invited testimony before the Food and Drug Administration Advisory Panel to inform consumer genomics policy. Dr. Bloss is a California-licensed clinical psychologist and has worked with adults, families and children with a wide range of issues.
Emilia Farcas, PhD
Project Scientist, Qualcomm Institute, Calit2
Dr. Emilia Farcas is an Assistant Project Scientist at the UCSD's Qualcomm Institute, the San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Her research interests are software-engineering methodologies for managing the complexity of cyber-physical systems, focusing on modeling requirements, architectures, and service-oriented engineering, while addressing concerns such as governance and reliability. Her research is applied in various cyber-infrastructure projects at UCSD in the fields of health sciences and clinical trials, large-scale oceanographic observatories, and fail-safe automotive systems.
Dr. Farcas received her PhD degree from the University of Salzburg, Austria in 2006 in the area of component models, programming languages, and scheduling algorithms for real-time distributed systems. Her research on network scheduling algorithms received the best paper award for Factory Automation at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation. After she joined UCSD in fall 2006, she focused on integrating large-scale systems and foundations for service-oriented architectures. Until 2010, she was subsystem lead architect for the Cyber-infrastructure and also the Sensing and Acquisition components of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) project. There she researched governance, messaging infrastructures, scientific data models, and novel methods for data distribution and control of oceanographic experiments. Since 2010 she has been leading the requirements engineering, architecture, and development for the CYCORE project, to deliver an innovative cyber-infrastructure that meets stakeholders' needs. She has also been researching value-based engineering and quality assurance in cyber-infrastructures.
James Fowler, PhD
Professor, Medical Genetics and Political Science, UCSD
Dr. Fowler's current interests include social networks, behavioral economics, evolutionary game theory, political participation, the evolution of cooperation, and genopolitics (the study of the genetic basis of political behavior). His research on genopolitics with Chris Dawes was featured in New York Times Magazine's 2008 Year in Ideas. His research on social networks with Nicholas Christakis was featured in Time's Year in Medicine in both 2007 and 2008, and in Harvard Business Review's Breakthrough Business Ideas for 2009.
Job Godino, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health
Director of Research and Applied Technology, Exercise and Physical Activity Resource Center
The majority of Dr. Godino's research focuses on the development, conduct, and evaluation of complex interventions that utilize mobile and wearable technology (e.g., smart phones, accelerometers, and heart rate monitors) to promote healthy changes in physical activity, sedentary behavior, and diet for the primary and secondary prevention of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Mobile and wearable technologies that capture data and contextualize health behaviors in real-time provide a mechanism through which theory-based interventions can be personalized and widely disseminated. Furthermore, they empower individuals to collect large amounts of personal health data, which, if appropriately leveraged, has the potential to transform the conduct of epidemiological research and reduce health disparities. Dr. Godino is broadly interested in the prevention of chronic diseases and disorders that disproportionately afflict minority and medically underserved populations and has worked on several NIH-funded projects in this area. In his role as Director of Research and Applied Technology for the Exercise and Physical Activity Resource Center (EPARC), he is actively engaged in the development and evaluation of on- and off-body sensors that measure various components of human physiology and behavior.
Dr. Godino joined UCSD in September 2014, after completing a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics of Aging Training Program at the Johns Hopkins Center on Aging and Health and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research where he studied age-related decline in physical function. In 2013, he received his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Cambridge, where he studied the effects of brief personalized information on objectively measured physical activity. His research was conducted within the MRC Epidemiology Unit, a world leader in the development and evaluation of valid and reliable methods for measuring complex health behaviors. In 2009, he received his MS in Epidemiology from Temple University and was inducted into Delta Omega, a national honor society for graduate studies in public health. In 2007, he graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Anthropology from the Honors Program at Temple University and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, a national honor society for undergraduate studies in the liberal arts and sciences.
William Griswold, PhD
Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
Dr. Griswold received his PhD in computer science from the University of Washington in 1991, and his BA in Mathematics from the University of Arizona in 1985. His research interests include ubiquitous computing, educational technology, aspect-oriented software development, software evolution and design, and software tools. He is a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Linda Hill, MD, MPH
Director, UCSD/SDSU General Preventive Medicine Residency Program
Professor, Family and Preventive Medicine, UCSD
Dr. Hill is a Professor in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at UCSD, and the Director of the UCSD/SDSU General Preventive Medicine Residency. San Diego Family Care, a Federal 330 Community Health Center, is the site of her clinical activities, as Medical Director 1980 to 2001, and Senior Staff Physician since 2001. She is the Medical Director of the UCSD Training, Research and Education for Driving Safety (treds.ucsd.edu) and Co-Director of the UCSD Injury Epidemiology and Prevention Research Center. She is engaged in prevention research and teaching with current/past support from the NIH, the California Office of Traffic Safety, Robert Wood Johnson, American Cancer Society, and Health Services Resource Administration, including research in injury prevention, obesity, decision making, compliance, physician training, and refugee health. Dr. Hill serves as Chair of the Graduate Medical Education Committee for the American College of Preventive Medicine. Her hobbies include classical piano and ocean sports.
Jeannie Huang, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology
Fellowship Director, Program in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Dr. Huang's current research interests focus on how the health of individuals with chronic disease can be improved through the creative use of widely available personal wireless and networked technologies and ubiquitous computing. She developed MD2Me, a SMS and web-based intervention designed to increase health-related self-efficacy and healthcare engagement among adolescents with chronic disease, and Fit4Life, a SMS and health counseling intervention to improve weight management in childhood survivors of leukemia. Both interventions were tested in randomized controlled trials with demonstrated efficacy in targeted outcomes. Dr. Huang also currently leads a NIH-funded project evaluating computer vision technology for assessing pain in children. She is also a co-investigator on NSF-funded projects enabling the use of health sensor and multisource data to monitor and improve health. Dr. Huang currently receives and has received funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the American Cancer Society for her work.
Jacqueline Kerr, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Family & Preventive Medicine, UCSD
Dr. Kerr leads several NCI-funded projects collecting and processing GPS data, including developing software to aggregate and process GPS data. She has led a review and several workshops on this topic and can help researchers include GPS data in their projects with protocols for IRBs, data collection, processing, matching with GIS etc.
Dr. Kerr works on several NIH-funded R01 projects with Dr. Jim Sallis on neighborhood correlates of physical activity in children, teens, adults and older adults, including two IPEN studies in adults and teens.
Dr. Kerr is PI of three NCI-funded R01 grants using machine learning techniques to classify physical activity types and sedentary behaviors from raw accelerometer, GPS and heart rate data. Annotated truth images from a SenseCam person worn camera are employed in this work and Dr. Kerr is helping to advance this field.
Dr Kerr's expertise in physical activity and location measurement inform improved evaluation of behavior change interventions. An example is the NHLBI funded MIPARC study in Continuing Care Retirement Communities, which includes community advocacy.
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Ingolf Krueger, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
Director, Service-Oriented Software and Systems Engineering Laboratory
Director, Software & Systems Architecture & Integration (SAINT)
Dr. Krueger's major research interests are service-oriented software and systems engineering for distributed, reactive systems, software architectures, description techniques, verification and validation, and development processes. The application domains to which he applies his research results span the range from networked embedded systems to Internet-wide business information architectures.
Dr. Krueger's team of software professionals work on a wide variety of large-scale software and systems engineering projects involving the design and implementation of service-oriented integration architectures, infrastructures, and applications for projects in areas such as homeland security, disaster response, decision support, command and control, automotive, and telecommunications. His team members combine practical experience with cutting-edge research to develop next-generation "systems of systems" that require flexibility, security, safety, scalability, and robustness.
Simon Marshall, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UCSD
Dr. Marshall grew up in Zambia and in different parts of the UK (parts where the rain comes at you sideways). As his dreams of becoming a professional cyclist faded, he completed a bachelor's degree in Sports Science at Liverpool Polytechnic (UK), followed by a master's degree in kinesiology from SDSU. He returned to the UK in 1998 to complete a PhD in exercise psychology, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in physical activity and public health. From 2002-2012, he served as professor of exercise and nutritional sciences at SDSU. In addition to his faculty role at UCSD, Dr. Marshall serves as associate director of UCSD's Exercise and Physical Activity Resource Center (EPARC) in the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems. He has over 16 years of experience in designing and implementing methods for measuring and evaluating physical activity. Since 2004, Dr. Marshall's externally funded research has focused predominantly on physical activity and exercise promotion in the Latino community. He served as principal investigator (PI) for Pasos Adelante, a Spanish language physical activity program funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and he currently serves as PI for Academia Fit, a CDC-funded translation study of supervised, grouped-based exercise classes offered in public parks and recreation centers. He has authored over 60 articles and book chapters on physical activity and sedentary behavior, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. When not working he tries to keep up with his professional triathlete wife, Lesley Paterson, who continually reminds him that exercising in San Diego is as close to paradise as it comes.
Camille Nebeker, EdD, MS
Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, UC San Diego Director/Founder, Collaborative for Advancing Professional and Research Integrity (CAPRI)
Dr. Camille Nebeker is an Assistant Professor in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Nebeker is affiliated with the Divisions of Behavioral Medicine and Global Health in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health. She also holds an adjunct faculty appointment with the San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health and is an affiliated investigator with the UC San Diego Research Ethics Program. Dr. Nebeker's research focuses on the design of research/bioethics educational initiatives designed for traditional and non-traditional learners with a goal of trainee's understanding and appreciation of factors that influence the ethical and responsible conduct of research. Project BRIC (Building Research Integrity and Capacity), for example, has developed research ethics education for community members who have little/no formal academic research training yet, assist academic researchers to implement community- and clinic-based health research. Dr. Nebeker is also exploring the ethical dimensions of biomedical research (i.e., informed consent, risk assessment, data management) that leverages emerging technologies to collect personal health data (PHD). Dr. Nebeker is project director/principal investigator for the Connected and Open Research Ethics (CORE) initiative supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the UC San Diego Chancellor's Interdisciplinary Collaboratory Fellowship program and Project BRIC, which is supported by the federal Office of Research Integrity (ORI). Dr. Nebeker's research has received continuous support from intra/extramural sources since 2002.
Jeanne Nichols, PhD, FACSM
Chief Exercise Physiologist, Exercise & Physical Activity Resource Center, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
Professor Emeritus, School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences, San Diego State University
Jeanne Nichols is the Chief Exercise Scientist with the Exercise & Physical Activity Resource Center (EPARC) in the Department of Preventive and Family Medicine at UC San Diego, and Professor Emeritus in the School of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences at Cal State, San Diego. She also is an adjunct professor at the SDSU Graduate School of Public Health. Her primary research interest is on musculoskeletal health across the lifespan, in populations ranging from young athletes to frail elderly. She has a particular interest in bone health in children and adolescents, and in fall and fracture prevention in older adults. She volunteers with San Diego County Aging and Independence Services, which is the federally designated Area Agency on Aging, to develop, implement, and evaluate exercise programs targeted to improve strength, balance and mobility and reduce falls among older adults. She also serves as Principal Investigator on Project SPIRIT (Sports Injury Research in Teens), which is an on-going investigation of the Female Athlete Triad syndrome among high school athletes, and is Past President of the Female Athlete Triad Coalition, an international consortium of clinicians and researchers dedicated to improving prevention, recognition, and treatment strategies for Triad-related disorders.
Fred Raab / Systems Consultant
Fred Raab is the lead systems engineer for the PACE research group and the Center for Wireless and Population Health Systems in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at UCSD. He is developing and evaluating wireless applications for collecting and analyzing data in the areas of physical activity, energy balance, and nutrition. He is the designer of e/Balance™, a smart-phone application that supports energetics and active-living research. e/Balance is both a hardware and software platform incorporating wireless sensors such as accelerometers, GPS receivers, and heart-rate monitors. In addition, Mr. Raab teaches the Qualcomm BREW software development classes for UCSD Extension's CDMA and Embedded Engineering program.
Before relocating to San Diego in 2003, Mr. Raab was a founding member of LiveSky Solutions, a wireless developer in Boston, and was instrumental in the development of interactive multimedia and new media technologies. While in his last year of college, he founded Telematic Systems, a pioneering and award-wining videodisc development firm commercializing technologies developed at MIT's Media Lab for clients such as AT&T, Digital Equipment Corp, Ford, and General Motors. In 1987, as vice president for production at Interactive Media Communications, he led the firm's development and production teams in the creation of interactive multimedia training programs in industrial health and safety.
Dr. Rosing's research interest is energy-efficient computing for embedded and wireless systems. Prior to her work in the SEE Lab (System Energy Efficient Lab) at UCSD, she was a researcher at Hewlett-Packard Labs, and at Stanford University she led the research of a number of graduate students and taught graduate-level classes. Her PhD in dynamic management of power consumption was earned in 2001 from Stanford University, concurrently with a master's degree in engineering management. She also had a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Arizona, where her research was in high-speed interconnect and driver-receiver circuit design. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Dr. Rosing worked as a senior design engineer at Altera Corporation. She has served on a number of technical paper committees, and is currently an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.
Sameer Tilak is an Associate Research Scientist in the Qualcomm Institute, the UC San Diego division of Calit2. His research interests include sensor networks, stream data processing, mobile computing, and cloud computing. Tilak is also involved in designing and developing cyberinfrastructure for large-scale sensor networks. He has served as PI/Co-PI/Senior Personnel on numerous grants from NSF and private foundations. He is the PI of NSF-funded Sensor-Rocks award that is developing a novel integrated framework to improve software Operations and Management (O&M) and power management in environmental observing systems. He is also the PI of NSF-funded SenseHealth award for developing a platform to enable personalized healthcare through context-aware sensing and predictive modeling using sensor streams and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) data. In particular, this project is developing a novel cyberinfrastructure (CI) to automatically process and incorporate volumes of real-time data from sensors tailored to the individual in the context of personal EMRs and available environmental data. A core component of the CI is a collection of quantitative, predictive models that are sensitive to concerns across age, diseases, and health and variety of patient situations (ranging from low priority with no consequence on patient management to high priority requiring emergency evaluation), and sensor failures. The models will be integrated with a distributed real-time stream data processing system and a complex event stream processing engine to process sensor data in a scalable and fault-tolerant manner. In essence, SenseHealth is an essential step toward providing a real-time 360-degree snapshot of health to optimize patient-centered, evidence-based decisions and to empower patients to participate in their own healthcare.
Nadir Weibel, PhD
Research Scientist and Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
Research Health Science Specialist, VA San Diego Health System
Dr. Weibel's background is in computer science (BSc, MSc, and PhD from ETH Zurich, Switzerland 2000–2009) and cognitive science (postdoctoral fellow at UCSD 2009–2012). His research on human computer interaction and ubiquitous computing is situated at the intersection of computer science, cognitive science, communication, health, and social sciences.
As a computer scientist he investigates novel tools, techniques and infrastructure supporting the deployment of innovative interactive multimodal and tangible devices in context. As an ethnographer he develops novel methods to study and quantify the cognitive consequences of the introduction of this technology into everyday life.
Dr. Weibel's main interests range from software engineering to human-centered computing, including mobile health, computer supported cooperative work, social media, medical informatics, and mobile and ubiquitous computing. In his current work, he is developing theory and methods, designing representations, implementing prototypes, and evaluating the effectiveness of interactive multimodal physical-digital systems such as pen-based and touch-based devices, depth-cameras, and mobile devices in the setting of critical populations such as health care and education. He is a co-investigator on several research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
Jordan Carlson, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UCSD
Dr. Carlson received a PhD in Public Health from UC San Diego in 2012 and an MA in Psychology from San Diego State University in 2009. He is currently an NIH-funded Postdoctoral Fellow in the T32 Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology program and a member of the UCSD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine's Division of Behavioral Medicine. Dr. Carlson works with Dr. Jim Sallis on physical activity policy and environment studies and Drs. Kerr and Patrick on physical activity technology studies. His primary research interest is around scalability of physical activity interventions for population impacts. Dr. Carlson is an emerging leader in GPS and physical activity research through his work with the CWPHS. He is currently pursuing measurement projects that involve using visual computing to develop automated systems for assessing physical activity in environments and incorporating these systems into built environment evaluations and public health surveillance.
Marta Jankowska, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UCSD
Dr. Jankowska received her PhD in Geography from San Diego State University and University of California Santa Barbara in 2013. Her dissertation research focused on children's perceptions of environmental health hazards in Accra, Ghana using digital photography and GPS devices. Throughout her dissertation she worked on numerous projects at SDSU as well as UCSB including: focus group research on adult health in Accra, Ghana; multilevel modeling of neighborhood effects on women's health in Accra, Ghana; geodemographic assessment of San Diego ethnic communities; and modeling of climate change effects on children's malnutrition in Mali.
As a Post-Doctoral researcher at CWPHS, Dr. Jankowska is developing methods and computational infrastructure for processing and analysis of large GPS and GIS datasets as related to physical activity studies. She has also contributed to the theoretical exploration of place as an integral aspect of understanding human health. She is currently leading two pilot projects on the environmental components of healthy aging in conjunction with STEIN, as well as on methods development for assessing spatial uncertainty in GPS and GIS data for physical activity studies.
Katherine Ellis
PhD Candidate Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, UCSD
Katherine Ellis is a fifth year PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her research interests are in machine learning with applications to physical activity measurement and context awareness. She is currently working on activity classification algorithms for the Transdiciplinary Research in Energetics and Cancer initiative with Jacqueline Kerr. Ms. Ellis received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 2010, and grew up near Portland, OR. In her free time, she enjoys cycling, running, triathlon, and most things involving the outdoors.
Gina Merchant, MA Experimental Psychology
PhD Candidate Public Health
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UCSD
Gina is a behavioral scientist with a strong background in psychology and measurement. Her research focuses on testing novel applications of technology for health promotion and disease prevention. Gina's current projects examine the role of social networks in supporting individual-level behavior change and how Facebook can be used as a platform for promoting weight-related behavior change. She is particularly interested in how friends influence physical activity and dietary behaviors online (versus face-to-face), and exploring the impact of computer-mediated communication on behavior. As an active member of the Human Nature Group (http://hng.ucsd.edu/index.html), Gina seeks to enrich her work in behavioral science by learning from other scientific disciplines.
Gina received her MA from Cal State San Marcos in 2011 and was awarded the Dean's Outstanding Graduate Award for the College of the Arts and Sciences. She is also a former fellow of two NIH training grants through San Diego State University and the University of California San Diego. In her spare time, Gina enjoys cooking, gardening, playing soccer, spending time with her husband and dog, and running with her teammates from Prado Racing Team, a competitive running team in San Diego.
Mohammed Moghimi, MSc
PhD Candidate of Computer Science
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, UCSD
Mohammad Moghimi is a PhD candidate of Computer Science at the Computer Science and Engineering department of UCSD. He started his PhD after receiving MSc in Computer Engineering from Sharif University of Technology. Mohammad is a member of the Computer Vision lab at UCSD and is supervised by Prof. Serge Belongie. His research interests center around Computer Vision and Machine Learning. He is currently working on analysis of SenseCam images and designing the next generation annotation system to facilitate image annotation for physical activity machine learning research.
Michelle Takemoto
PhD candidate in Public Health, Health Behavior,
Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, UCSD
Michelle Takemoto graduated from UCSD in 2007 with a bachelor degree in both Cognitive Science and Psychology. She worked at the UCSD Stein Institute for Research on Aging with Dr. Dilip Jeste for a little over 6 years before joining the JDP for Public Health. Through the program, she works with Dr. Jacqueline Kerr and her main research interest involves promoting successful aging in the older adult population through increased preventive health including increasing physical activity and decreasing sedentary behavior.


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Maps for the Land Plan Challenge
The links below got to the map templates that you will need for the Land Plan Challenge activity (small version). Print all six maps in color from the links below. Print multiple sets of the six maps for larger groups. Remember to label the back of each map with the letter and number code. At the conclusion of the activity, students will put their maps together as shown at the left and get a sense of the larger landscape. Go back to the activity description for PDF versions (free for members).
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Kosovo and Serbia in Twitter
Last Sunday Kosovo declared its indepence from Serbia. It is not that often that a new country declares its independence, especially in Europe. I had a look at the Twitter activity in Kosovo and in Serbia.
A lot of Twitter users are twittering about Kosovo, especially newsfeeds are publishing numerous article refering to Kosovo. Have a look at the trendgraph produced by Twittermeter for Kosovo.
The question I had was how many Twitter users might be present in this new country ? According to Twitter itself there are 6 users in Kosovo, Twitdir is able to find 5 users in Kosovo, and finally Terraminds finds 3 users in Kosovo. Looking a little bit deeper it looks that there are 8 different Twitter accounts in Kosovo :
For a country of 2,2 million people (figures from 2005), there is a Twitter user acount for every 275,000 inhabitants.
In Serbia there are clearly more Twitter users. Twitter reports 74 Twitter users for Serbia, Twitdir reports 63 Twitter user, Terraminds reports 56 Twitter user. Combining these sources and further analysis gives me a total of 120 Twitter users in Serbia. For a population op 7.5 million people, this implies a Twitter user account for every 62,500 inhabitants. For Iceland, a tiny island with 300,000 inhabitants the Twitter user density is 3,725, for Australia the Twitter user density is 5,823.
It looks like the people of Kosovo have currently other things on their mind then registering themselves on Twitter and publishing Twitter messages. I can image that for quite a lot of people in Kosovo it is currently party time. Other people are perhaps protesting against the declaration of independence.


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Hi friends!
As some of you may know, I work as a Clinical Exercise Specialist in Cardiac Rehabilitation. When I went into this profession, I had no real reason. My family does not have a strong history of heart disease. I just liked exercise, talking about exercise and counseling others on how to live a healthier life. Over the years, my reasons have changed. One of the big reasons are the people who become my patients that make me enjoy my job.
Today I'm Blogging My Heart Out to raise awareness for this disease that has touched all of us at some point.
When someone has a heart event, often times they feel scared, alone and not sure of what the future holds for them. Cardiac Rehabilitation is medically supervised program to help patients recover quickly and improve their overall physical, mental, and social functioning after an event. Essentially, it's an exercise, education and support program to help patients learn how to live a healthier life. Research shows that patients who participate in Cardiac Rehab live longer and have a better quality of life than those that don't.
I've seen a wide range of people who have been affected by heart disease whether it's from Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (CABG), Myocardial Infarction (MI), Stable Angina, Cardiomyopathy, or Valve Replacement/Repair. When I first entered the field 10+ years ago, most of my patients were at least 70 and older. While we still see older patients, we have also begun to see people in their 30s and 40s. One thing that has not changed over the years, is the amount of women who attend Cardiac Rehab after their event.
Heart disease is the number killer of women.
Yet men are still the predominate participant in rehab. Why is that? There are numerous reasons why this might be. Physicians not referring, insurance coverage (or lack of), and being afraid to exercise. Statistics show that under 20% of those eligible ever go to rehab, and women and minorities go less often than white men. We need to promote cardiac rehab for everyone.
So what can you do to help your friends, family and community know that such a resource exists for people with heart disease or risk factors for heart disease? Spread the word about the facts!
- Many physicians are unaware of the known benefits of cardiac rehab. Primary care physicians too often believe their active or older patients won't benefit.
- Rehab patients not only live longer, but they have a better quality of life.
- Rehab also offers social and psychological benefits no matter what your age.
- Supervised rehab is safe, even for the very old.
Being diagnosed with cardiac disease is scary but the good news is you're not alone. There are plenty of resources to help modify risk factors to live a healthier life.
For more information about heart disease, please check out the following links:
More ways to follow Happy Fit Mama
Twitter → @happyfitmama
Instagram → HAPPYFITMAMA
Pinterest → HappyFitMama


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About us
The Healthcare and Assistive Technology Society has been set up to support practitioners working in the healthcare and assistive technologies industry, who deal with members of the public or clinical staff.
Members of the Society are committed to working to a code of best practice and are bound by the Code of Professional Conduct:Code of ProfessionalConduct - MEMBERS.pdf
The Society's membership base therefore covers a wide diversity of skills and experience gained by;
product specialists,
customer service personnel
and anyone else who assesses or advises on the use of a piece of assistive technology.
The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) - Accredited Register
The Society aims to recognise job competences and raise standards, as well as giving Members of the public, and healthcare professionals the confidence that if they deal with a Member they are dealing with someone who is bound by a Code of Conduct and is trustworthy. To this end, the Society is putting together its application to the PSA to hold the national Voluntary Accredited Register for the assistive technology sector. Progress on the application continues.
The proposed Code of Professional Conduct for Registrants is currently being developed. The current DRAFT version is: Proposed Code of ProfessionalConduct - REGISTRANT.pdf
This is subject to PSA approval.


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APX changes name to Vivint
PROVO, Utah—The new way to spell APX Alarm Security Solutions is Vivint.
The summer-model giant announced today that it has rebranded to Vivint—a name the company said was chosen to convey the concept of "living intelligently."
The new name reflects the company's expansion beyond home security into home automation services such as automatic door locks, video surveillance, and lighting and small appliance control, according to Alex Dunn, Vivint COO. The company announced earlier this month that it had acquired Meter Solutions, an installer of smart meters for utilities.
"We're really evolving into a much more broad company with much more broad service offerings and APX Alarm doesn't convey in any way that vision," Dunn told Security Systems News.
Today, APX technicians will be replacing more than 500,000 oval, blue-and-white APX lawn signs at customers' homes around the country with round, orange-and-white Vivint signs.
Dunn said Vivint is entering the home automation market in a way he described as unique.
Vivint, he said, "is really going to be the first company in the home automation space that delivers simple, affordable, whole-home automation to the average Joe."
Home automation systems typically are complicated and expensive, costing a homeowner many thousands of dollars up front and coming with virtually no servicing, Dunn said. However, he said, Vivint is offering cutting-edge technology that's consumer friendly and the company also will be "switching the paradigm and using the same paradigm we've used in security."
He said Vivint's message to customers is that, with a low upfront cost, "you get all the features, you sign not just a monitoring, but a servicing agreement, and now we're there to help make sure all of those things are working right, all of the time."
The company said its current 24-7-365 monitoring and customer service support will be extended to home automation.
Dunn declined to discuss specific price offerings at this time.
He stressed that Vivint will retain all its security offerings. "We're not in any way compromising the mission of the company in the past in moving forward," he said.
The name Vivint is derived from the French verb "vive" meaning "to live," and the English "intelligent," the company said.
"In using this combination, Vivint's mission is clear: to help families "live intelligently" by creating simple, affordable, home automation systems where all devices work together to enhance safety and convenience and improve energy efficiency," the company said in a statement.
Dunn said that Vivint's salespeople, whether they are summer door-knocking teams or inside sales personnel, won't take the approach of selling security first and offering home automation as an upgrade. Instead, he said, "we're really going to be offering the whole package as the lead."
He said customers still can get security services alone, but he said that once they learn about the package, he expects "very high adoption" on all available services.
Dunn said he expects the package that Vivint is offering will make it easier for the company to recruit top summer sales staff. "It certainly differentiates us being able to have something this cool to sell at the door," he said.
Kristi Knight, the company's VP of corporate communications, said, "Really, what we're doing is bringing home automation to normal people. It's been a bit of an elitist technology up until now and it is no longer."
She and Dunn said today's launch—which will include changes ranging from a new web site to everything from new business cards for staff to rebranded service vehicles—is actually the culmination of about three years of work on the part of the company.
To prepare for moving into home automation, the company began installing its GO!Control panels for all new customers last year.
Today, the company said, 170,000 of its 500,000 customers have the LCD touch screen panel, which centralizes all features and gives customers remote control access via the Internet or smart phones. And, more than 15,000 of the GO!Control panel customers chose to have home energy management features which APX introduced in 2010.
"We've been launching these services kind of one by one in a beta environment," Dunn said.
He said that rollout has been "more of a test for us." Now, he said, Vivint's home automation package "is ready for prime time."
The company in the fall announced that it had upped its debt financing by $125 million to a total of $565 million. When asked if the new investment was part of this launch, Dunn replied: "To create these customers and make it affordable, the access to capital markets is an important component of our strategy."
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Alain Wong Spotlights The Hiveometric-Kuppersbusch Showroom Retail Interior Design
Alain Wong, the project leader of the displayed design Award Winning Hiveometric - Kuppersbusch Showroom Retail Interior Design explains, The client looks for creative design to well represent the brand. The name 'Hiveometric' is formed by two words 'hive' and 'geometric', which simply tells the main concept and visualize the design. The design is inspired by the brand's hero product, a honeycomb-shaped electrical hob. Envisioned as a cluster of honeycombs, wall and ceiling features in neat finishes seamlessly connect and interplay complex geometric forms. Lines are delicate and clean, resulting in a sleek contemporary look to symbolize infinite imagination and creativity. .
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I think a few groups of these lovely antiqued and mercury glass hurricanes by Skogsberg & Smart would put me in the spirit!
Unfortunately I'm not in the spirit just yet, I'm running all over the place like an idiot at the moment trying to finish of a few projects before I head home for a much needed holiday. I haven't been back to Australia for 2 years, first time for Christmas for at least 3yrs, and my little sister is getting married, so excited! So...you might not hear from me til the new year...in which case, I wish you all a fantastic 2012, I have a feeling it'll be a good one! (although I say that each year, don't I?)
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Should Parking Rules Favor the Handicapped?
It's reasonable to give the disabled a longer parking limit than others, but they should pay the same as everyone else.
Q. For many years, motorists with a parking tag for the handicapped hanging from their mirror have been allowed to park free all day at any meter in my city. Do you think this is a justifiable freebie?
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A. No, I don't. I believe that legitimately handicapped drivers are owed a good supply of parking spaces convenient to the entrances of places where they work, shop and enjoy their leisure. And it's reasonable to give them a longer parking limit than others might get, plus meters that are wheelchair-accessible and take credit cards. But the disabled should pay the same as everyone else.
As a general principle of ethics, most government subsidies should be means-tested -- that is, based on the beneficiary's financial need. We shouldn't equate being handicapped with being poor. Handicapped people generally don't park free at commercial garages or ride mass transit free, so why a freebie at publicly owned street spaces?
Parking in urban areas is a highly valuable commodity, and free, all-day parking for the handicapped has led to three bad situations in many cities: a proliferation of undeserved parking permits, abetted by overly cooperative physicians (and perhaps dishonest civil servants); the improper lending or renting of permits to able-bodied family members and friends; and the theft of parking permits for sale on the black market. Activists for the handicapped note that fraudulent use of permits makes it hard for legitimate users to find the parking they need.
All of this has led to investigations and revision of parking rules in cities such as Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. (The municipal revenue crunch of the Great Recession also played a role, as it prompted cities to calculate the lost income.)
In Washington, before free parking for vehicles with handicapped permits was recently abolished, virtually all the metered spaces on streets surrounding some federal office buildings were filled with cars displaying handicapped permits, many of which were suspect. Putting a price on this parking greatly reduced abuses of the system.
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A bit of a release date shuffle today and man are these titles hard on my lisp:
- Sinister, the horror thriller from director Scott Derrickson and starring Ethan Hawke and Juliet Rylance moves back a week from October 5th to October 12th, 2012.
- The Sessions, from director Ben Lewin and starring John Hawkes, Helen Hunt and William H. Macy moves up from October 26th to October 19th, 2012.
- The Starbuck remake by Ken Scott (the writer/director of the original 2011 film) has been bumped from September 28th of this year to March 29th, 2013. Starbuck stars Vince Vaughn, Chris Pratt and Cobie Smulders.
Hit the jump for synopses and posters.
All release date info comes courtesy of Box Office Mojo. Here's a look at the latest poster and synopsis for Sinister:
SINISTER is a frightening new thriller from the producer of the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY films and the writer-director of THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE. Ethan Hawke plays a true crime novelist who discovers a box of mysterious, disturbing home movies that plunge his family into a nightmarish experience of supernatural horror.
The Sessions:
Based on the poignantly optimistic autobiographical writings of California-based journalist and poet Mark O'Brien, THE SESSIONS tells the story of a man confined to an iron lung who is determined–at age 38–to lose his virginity. With the help of his therapists and the guidance of his priest, he sets out to make his dream a reality.
Starbuck remake:
At 42, David lives the life of an irresponsible adolescent. He coasts through life with minimal effort and maintains a complicated relationship with Valerie, a young policewoman. Just as she tells him she's pregnant, David's past resurfaces. Twenty years earlier, he began providing sperm to a fertility clinic in exchange for money. He discovers he's the father of 533 children, 142 of whom have filed a class action lawsuit to determine the identity of their biological father, known only by the pseudonym Starbuck.


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The Making of Canetti
The Torch in My Ear
The first volume of Elias Canetti's autobiography told of his birth, in Bulgaria, into a Sephardic Jewish family and a community where a form of Ladino—Romanisch—was still a living language; his move to England in 1911, when he was six years old; his schooling in Manchester, until his father's shockingly sudden death in 1913, when he migrated to Vienna. There he was confirmed in his love of the German language. He described how he left wartorn Austria to move to neutral Switzerland in 1916, where he was on the whole happy as a schoolboy in Zurich, until 1921, when his formidable mother decided that the time had come to move her family from their Swiss idyll to what she conceived to be the "real" world.
This meant another change of country, for the Canettis now migrated to Frankfurt am Main; and it is with this move that the second volume of the autobiography, The Torch in My Ear, begins. The titles Canetti has given to the different sections of this volume, which first appeared in German in 1980, clearly mark stages in his new experiences and his development: "Inflation and Impotence (Frankfurt 1921-1924)"; "Storm and Compulsion (Vienna 1926-1928)"; "The Throng of Names (Berlin 1928)"; "The Fruit of the Fire (Vienna 1929-1931)."
The English translation of the title of the first volume, The Tongue Set Free, is slightly misleading. The German original is not Die befreite Zunge, but Die gerettete Zunge; it says that the author's "tongue" was menaced but then rescued or saved. The menace and the rescue are literal in the nightmare incident that opens the first volume: a macabre joker threatens to cut the boy's tongue out with a pocketknife. But the menace and rescue also have to be seen as metaphorical, of course, in that the future novelist and dramatist had to find his own tongue, his own German language, in the Babel of languages in which he grew up. And beyond this, the title suggests something further: speech has to be "rescued" from silence, the tongue that refuses its office when confronted with profound or horrifying experiences has to be "saved" from its own impotence.
Whereas the title of the first volume pointed to one pole of the author's task—learning to speak his own, authentic language—that of the second volume points to another: learning to hear, to listen. Die Fackel im Ohr (The Torch in My Ear) again unites several meanings. First it presents us with a synaesthetic image—"speak that I may see thee," the "ear" needs "illumination." If taken literally, it is a painfully disquieting image. Above all, it refers to one of the central experiences recounted in this book and in several essays that preceded it: the profound and lasting impression Canetti received from his regular attendance at the readings and recitations of the great Viennese satirist Karl Kraus, who published his text in a journal called Die Fackel.
The second volume should be of supreme interest to anyone who wants to understand…
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ROCHESTER — The Spaulding High School boys hockey team was a 4-1 winner over Windham/Pelham (3-3-1) in Division II on Saturday.
The Red Raiders improved to 7-0-1, and got a pair of shorthanded goals early in the second period to take the lead. Brent Phillips and Brendan Colson scored the shorties. Phillips had two goals on the night. Justin Jewell had two assists and Ben Williams also lit the lamp. Derek Scott made 22 saves.
Spaulding hosts Keene on Friday at 7 p.m. at the Rochester Arena. Wednesday's game was postponed because of snow.
Phillips scored twice with a pair of assists to lead the Spaulding High School hockey team to a 5-1 win over Somersworth/Coe-Brown (1-6) in Division II action on Jan. 9.
Kyle Carignan scored assisted by his brother Adam. Brian Chick and Drew Healey also scored for the Red Raiders. Scott made 21 saves.
Warriors tip Spaulding girls
HAMPTON — The Spaulding girls basketball team lost to Winnacunnet on the road in D-I action Tuesday, 48-38.
The Red Raiders (1-8) were led by Kara Lavertu and Emily Benway with eight points each. Ashley Lemery added six.
Spaulding hosts Nashua North Friday. Winnacunnet is 4-3.
The Red Raiders won their first Division I game of the season, beating Trinity, 53-39, Friday.
Lemery led the Red Raiders with 16 points (five 3-pointers), Chloe Routhier added 12, Benway tossed in 10 and Seana Flynn had six.
Tiger boys upset Campbell
FARMINGTON — The Farmington boys basketball team won a thrilling 70-65 overtime decision over Campbell on Friday night in Division III, handing the Cougars (7-1) their first loss of the season.
Austin Healey scored 20 points to lead the Tigers (4-2) while Kevin Poulin scored 19 points and Tanner Gibbs scored 11. Spencer Deland pulled down 17 boards for the Tigers. Farmington (4-2) led 24-21 at halftime. Campbell tied the game 62-all with a 38-foot buzzer-beating 3-pointer at the end of regulation.
The lost on Tuesday to Prospect Mountain, 75-50.
Men's hockey: DeNiro pulls into first place
ROCHESTER — DeNiro Development beat Merrimack Mortgage, 6-2, in Rochester Men's Hockey League action Monday and pulled into first place in the process.
DeNiro (7-3-3) received a goal and two assists from Tom Gillum, while Brett McKay added a goal and an assist. Also scoring were Micah Ruel, Dan Houston, Matt Genest and Josh Curry. Tom Breslin added three assists. Pat Giguere made 35 saves.
John Zoeller and Steve Fowler scored for MM (2-9-2). Derek Colwell stopped 29 shots.
RSA Realty steamed past Seacoast Kettlebell, 6-1, as Todd Spenser scored twice.
RSA (5-5-3) also received goals from Craig Gwynn, Jeff McCutcheon, Logan Hatch (assist) and Pat Rahn. Casey Cox stopped 34 shots.
Zach Joy scored for Seacoast (7-5-1). Keith McKenzie made 26 saves.
Towle Pallet walked over Finishing Touches, 10-4, as Scott Brown had three goals and two assists.
Jeff Nolin added two goals for Towle (6-6-1), while Kyle McGlone, Cody Chisholm (assist), Sean Desmarais, Casey Goodell and Brian Casey also scored. Dan Trepanier made 28 saves.
Nick French had a hat trick and an assist for FT (6-5-2). Tad Smith also scored Ethan Baker stopped 30 shots.


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"We find conflict in so many places today, within ourselves, in relationships, between countries, and even in places we associate with peace, like the Himalayas. What is the solution? The Buddha teaches that violence leads to more violence. So how can we be actively engaged in change, yet not caught in patterns that perpetuate suffering? Meditation can create a working basis for changing the fundamental causes of suffering and moving toward natural liberation."
Lama Tsultrim Allione, author and international teacher, is the founder and spiritual director of Tara Mandala, a Vajrayana Buddhist community in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. In 2009, Lama Tsultrim was selected by an esteemed committee of scholars and practitioners to receive the International Outstanding Woman in Buddhism Award given in Bangkok, Thailand.
Women, Buddhism and the Absolute and Relative Truth
When I think about women and Buddhism, the first thing that always comes to mind is the story of Tara's vow. This story expresses our situation so very clearly and applies equally well to both ancient and modern times. It is a story that originated when Mahayana was integrating with tantra, ultimately forming what became Vajrayana in India. It is emblematic of a wave of stories that followed about powerful women who valued themselves as women within Buddhism. Many of the stories from that era in India (around 700–800 CE) tell us what was happening both sociologically in the culture, and developmentally in Vajrayana. During this period, for the first time Buddhism had women teaching men. It was also the dawn of female buddhas and the feminine wisdom principle, which began with Prajnaparamita, the "Mother of All the Buddhas," in the Mahayana period.
The story tells us that Tara was a princess named Wisdom Moon, who was very devoted to the dharma and had a deep meditation practice. When she was close to enlightenment, raising the intention to reach enlightenment for the benefit of all beings, a monk approached her and said what a pity it was that she was in the body of a woman, because she would have to come back as a man before she could become enlightened. The princess answered back brilliantly, demonstrating her understanding of emptiness and absolute truth, saying, "Here there is no man; there is no woman, no self, no person, and no consciousness. Labeling 'male' or 'female' is hollow. Oh, how worldly fools delude themselves."
She went on to make the following vow: "Those who wish to attain supreme enlightenment in a man's body are many, but those who wish to serve the aims of beings in a woman's body are few indeed; therefore may I, until this world is emptied out, work for the benefit of sentient beings in a woman's body."
From that time onward, the princess dedicated herself to realizing complete enlightenment. Once she accomplished that goal, she came to be known as Tara, the Liberator. I like to say that Tara is the first "Women's Libber" and that Green Tara is the spiritual leader of the Green Party, guardian of the forest, fast acting and compassionate, with one foot in the world and one foot in meditation; a place where many of us find ourselves.
As a practitioner of Buddhism, I don't think about myself in terms of gender. When I am in my retreat cabin meditating I try to cut through such concepts and rest in the true condition of unborn and unceasing luminous emptiness, the ground of being. However, I have continued to be committed to the reemergence of the sacred feminine in the Buddhist tradition. I don't see any conflict or dissonance in these two views. This commitment has manifested at Tara Mandala, my retreat center in southern Colorado, where we have built a three-story mandala temple dedicated to the twenty-one Taras, all various aspects of the enlightened feminine. The interior of the temple is home to life-size golden statues of these Taras circling the ground level, similar to the ancient goddess temples of India….
Tsultrim Allione discusses the concept of the Divine Feminine and what it means in personal as well as cultural terms in the video below.


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Interferon can kill viruses and prevent
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immune system to fight viruses, including the human
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Interferon is given by
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schedule is 3 injections a week for 3 weeks or 2 injections a week for 8 weeks,
depending on the type of interferon. You are treated in your doctor's office or
Interferon also comes in a cream form that can be applied
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Interferon should not be used during pregnancy, because it may harm the
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interferon cream can be helpful, but it is not available everywhere.1
Interferon injected into warts has side effects such as:
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Perun Eagle (3.5e Epic Spell)
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|Conjuration (Summoning, Creation) [Air, Fire, Electricity]
|Spellcraft DC:
|Casting time:
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|600 ft.
|Colossal electrified eagle made of numerous air and fire elementals
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|1,800,000 gp, 36 days, 72,000 XP. Seeds: summon (DC 14), life (DC 27). Factors: summon elemental (+10 DC), CR partially based on caster level (ad hoc +60 DC), summon amalgamation (ad hoc +10 DC), summon special creature designed by spell with numerous special powers (ad hoc +200 DC), increase duration by 500% (+10 DC), increase duration by 1 round/caster level (+4 DC), increase range by 600% (+12 DC), +30 bonus to caster level checks against dispelling (+60 DC), slow self-recharging artifact alternative material component loses all charges instead of being consumed (ad hoc anti-mitigation +8 DC). Mitigating factors: increase casting time by 1 minute (−2 DC), expensive material components worth total 120,000 gp (−48 DC), burn 6,000 XP (−60 DC), exclusive to followers of a specific deity (ad hoc −100 DC), summoned creature is allied to caster but is able to disobey orders (ad hoc −5 DC).
Invoking the name of Perun and holding the god's holy symbol aloft, you toss forth the piece of dryad-oak wood with the embedded emerald and ruby to call forth the primal elements he commands — the lightning and the fire — to create a gigantic eagle made of air and fire elementals. The eagle cries out loudly, then lifts off and launches lightning at your foes. You smirk triumphantly as the carnage unfolds, watching Perun's pet smite the infidels who defy his will.
You summon a Colossal eagle, with a wingspan well over 100 feet wide, made of numerous air and fire elementals. This great eagle is essentially an exemplar of Perun's power, dispatched to aid the caster, and as such, it has numerous unique characteristics. The Hit Dice of your Perun eagle is equal to your caster level, so statistical values that are dependent on level/Hit Dice (like base attack bonus, ranks in skills, and base saving throw bonuses) aren't included or factored into the statistics block. You'll have to calculate those for yourself. (The Perun eagle prefers to take ranks in Spot, Listen, Hide, Move Silently, Tumble, Sense Motive, and Intimidate, but Diplomacy, Survival, and Spellcraft are also considered class skills for it. Diplomacy is only a class skill because of its use of White Raven maneuvers.)
The Perun Eagle[edit]
|Perun Eagle
|Colossal Elemental (Electricity, Fire, Air)
|Hit Dice:
|N/A (number of hit die treated as being equal to caster level) (Same as caster ×3 hp)
|Same as caster
|20 ft. land, 150 ft. fly (good)
|Armor Class:
|62 (−8 size, +30 Dex, +30 natural), touch 32, flat-footed 32
|Base Attack/Grapple:
|N/A/+29 (size +16, Str +13) (add elemental base attack bonus)
|Talon +3 melee (3d4+13 plus 3d6 electricity plus 3d6 fire) or slam +3 melee (2d8+6 plus 4d6 electricity plus 4d6 fire) or wing +3 melee (2d6+6 plus 3d6 electricity plus 3d6 fire) or bite +3 melee (3d8+6 plus 3d8 electricity plus 3d8 fire) or lightning ray +22 ranged touch (4d10+25 electricity) or flame ray +22 (4d10+25 fire)
|Full Attack:
|2 talons +3 melee (3d4+13 plus 2d6 electricity plus 2d6 fire) and slam +3 melee (2d8+6 plus 3d4 electricity plus 1d6 fire) and 2 wings +3 melee (2d6+6 plus 3d6 electricity plus 3d6 fire) and bite +3 melee (3d8+6 plus 3d10 electricity plus 3d10 fire) and lightning ray +22 ranged touch (6d10+25 electricity) and flame ray +22 ranged touch (6d10+25 fire)
|20 feet/20 feet
|Special Attacks:
|Lightning Ray, Flame Ray, Improved Grab, Pounce, Snipe, Spell-like abilities, Maneuver-like abilities, Thundaza, Firaza, Burn, Whirlwind, Air Mastery
|Special Qualities:
|Eagle's Perception, darkvision out to 120 feet, low-light vision, elemental traits, Improved Evasion, spell resistance 45, damage reduction 10/epic and cold iron, fire absorption, electricity absorption, electricity anti-resistance (immunity and absorption-overriding) 60, fire anti-resistance (immunity and absorption-overriding) 60
|Fort +7, Ref +30, Will +25
|Str 36, Dex 70, Con 24, Int 14, Wis 60, Cha 28
|N/A (Figure them out yourself!)
|SniperB, Skill Focus (Spot)B, Flyby AttackB, Sharp-EyedB, Combat Expertise (1 HD), Improved Flyby Attack (3 HD), Multiattack (6 HD), Combat Reflexes (9 HD), Blocked Opportunity (12 HD), Stand Still (Tome) (15 HD), Improved Multiattack (18 HD), Dynamic Potential (21 HD), Ability Focus (Whirlwind) (24 HD), Subtle Cut (27 HD), Focused Energy (Electricity) (30 HD), Focused Energy (Fire) (33 HD), Ability Focus (Thundaza) (36 HD), Ability Focus (Firaza) (39 HD), Combat Siege Shot (42 HD), Arcane Bore (45 HD), Extended Shot (48 HD), Bolster Technique (Dexterity, Combat Reflexes) (51 HD), Goad (54 HD), Damage Reduction (Complete Epic) (57 HD), Witch Slayer (60 HD)
|With caster (works best in wide-open spaces)
|With caster
|Challenge Rating:
|N/A (same encounter as caster)
|N/A (same encounter as caster)
|Same as caster
|By caster level
|Level Adjustment:
The Perun eagle may have a large full attack routine and some maneuver-like abilities, but don't be fooled - it's not a melee fighter. Its poor Strength score for its size category condemns its melee attacks to have virtually no chance of connecting, especially if your caster level is low and its BAB isn't up to snuff. Where the Perun eagle shines is in ranged combat. It has a pair of rays that it can use every round as an attack action; it can fire one of them as a standard action, or it can fire both of them as part of a full attack action. (Rather sensibly, it uses the rays as its primary weapon, leaving all of its physical attacks save for its talons as secondary weapons. The melee weapons other than the talons are seldom used in a standard attack action or charge, due to their being weak and inaccurate.) On top of the rays, the Perun eagle has a wide range of spell-like abilities, many of which it can use at will, possessing both offensive and supporting techniques. It also has a few big-gun attacks that it can use to put huge amounts of hurt on the opposition!
The Perun eagle will attempt to aid the caster to the best of its ability (though, as previously mentioned, it may also end up relying on its caster to help it out as well). The caster can direct the eagle not to attack, to attack particular enemies, or to perform other actions, but while the eagle generally defers to the caster's wishes, it might disobey if it deems a different course of action to be more tactically sound. The eagle never outright betrays the caster, and always acts in what it perceives to be the caster's best interest. (For example, it may prioritize attacking somebody engaged in melee combat with the caster over attacking whomever the caster ordered it to attack, especially if the designated target is not likely to be defeated quickly or the caster is being overwhelmed by immediate direct threats.)
Lightning Ray (Su): Perun is the Slavic deity of lightning and fire. His avatar, the Perun eagle, is a master of both elements. As an attack action (a standard action or part of a full attack), the Perun eagle can fire a ray of lightning from its wing. This ray is a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 100 feet (maximum range is 15 range increments, −2 penalty to attack roll for each range increment). If it hits, it does 6d10 electricity damage. The Perun eagle adds its Wisdom modifier to the damage roll. The lightning ray has a threat range of 19-20 and has a critical hit multiplier of ×2. It gains a +3 bonus to attack rolls against metallic foes, foes wearing metal armor, or foes carrying a lot of metal.
Flame Ray (Su): Perun is the Slavic deity of lightning and fire. His avatar, the Perun eagle, is a master of both elements. As an attack action (a standard action or part of a full attack), the Perun eagle can fire a ray of fire from its wing. This ray is a ranged touch attack with a range increment of 100 feet (maximum range is 15 range increments, −2 penalty to attack roll for each range increment). If it hits, it does 6d10 fire damage. The Perun eagle adds its Wisdom modifier to the damage roll. The flame ray has a threat range of 19-20 and has a critical hit multiplier of ×2. It gains a +1 bonus to damage rolls against metallic foes, foes wearing metal armor, or foes carrying a lot of metal.
Improved Grab (Ex): If the Perun eagle hits an opponent with a talon or bite attack, it may attempt to grapple the foe as a free action. If it wins, it seizes the foe in its talons/beak and may deal energy damage to them each round. The Perun eagle usually doesn't even try to grab foes of Huge or larger size, as it can't lift them off the ground very well; however, against Large and smaller opponents, it has a penchant for carrying them high into the sky and then dropping them. It then proceeds to pepper them with rays, spell-like abilities, and perhaps a Thundaza or Firaza as the foe plummets to the ground, unable to alter their descent path and evade the attacks.
Pounce (Ex): The Perun eagle may follow a charge with a full attack. Because its melee is subpar, however, it rarely does so. Still, it is an eagle, and eagles are known to dive-bomb their prey...
Snipe (Ex): The Perun eagle may make an attack of opportunity with any ranged attack it possesses that it could use as part of a regular attack action (this includes its Lightning Ray and Flame Ray, but not its spell-like abilities, including Thundaza or Firaza, not even spell-like abilities that involve ranged touch attacks). The Perun eagle treats each range increment as equivalent to two when making a ranged attack of opportunity, halving its maximum attack distance and doubling its ranged attack penalties, because it has to make its attack hastily to catch the foe off-guard (and compensate for any motions they might be making). Anything that could provoke a normal attack of opportunity, except for a normal move action (moving one's speed), always provokes a ranged attack of opportunity. (A double move action, run, charge, bull rush, or other reckless motion still provokes a ranged attack of opportunity.) However, the Perun eagle still has to realize that a foe's left itself open in order to take advantage of the opportunity; this is accomplished with a success on a Spot check with a DC equal to the target's opposed Hide check + 1 for every 25 feet of distance between the Perun eagle and the opponent in question. The Perun eagle may use any other feats or abilities that involve attacks of opportunity, such as Combat Reflexes, with the Snipe ability (though some may be rendered useless by explicitly requiring melee combat). Likewise, any abilities a target may have to avoid provoking attacks of opportunity in melee when they normally would, such as Improved Bull Rush or Improved Combat Casting, also enable it to avoid provoking ranged attacks of opportunity. The Perun eagle cannot make more than one attack of opportunity (whether melee or ranged) for a given opportunity, and its ranged attacks of opportunity count against its normal limit for attacks of opportunity in a round. A ranged attack of opportunity does not itself provoke a ranged attack of opportunity (this is to prevent a two-way barrage of ranged attacks of opportunity that only ends when one creature runs out of ammo, runs out of attacks of opportunity for the round, fails to spot the opportunity, or dies or is otherwise incapacitated).
Because of the Perun eagle's Stand Still (Tome) feat's BAB +6 benefit, a target moving its speed provokes a ranged attack of opportunity from it, just like it would provoke an attack of opportunity in melee, as long as the Perun eagle has The Edge on that enemy (has a higher base attack bonus). Treat this as a benefit of Stand Still as well as a benefit of Snipe.
Spell-like Abilities: At will: bull's strength, cat's grace, bear's endurance, fox's cunning, owl's wisdom, eagle's splendor, flame strike, delayed blast fireball, fire storm, chain lightning, call lightning storm, stasis energy field. 1/3 rounds: Perun bolt. Save DCs are Wisdom-based. (Because of the Perun eagle's Dynamic Potential feat, the save DCs are equal to 20 + caster's spellcasting modifier + ½ the Perun eagle's HD + the Perun eagle's Wisdom modifier + other modifiers.)
Maneuver-like Abilities: The Perun eagle's maneuver-like abilities are primarily drawn from the Aerial Ace and White Raven disciplines. It may use each of them once before needing to refresh as a full-round action. It may also refresh one maneuver for every 20 damage it absorbs through its energy absorption qualities. It uses its natural weapons to perform the maneuvers. The Perun eagle's maneuver-like abilities may be initiated as ranged attacks, even if the maneuvers they imitate cannot. The Perun eagle's initiator level is equal to its HD. Maneuver-like abilities: red tornado, mantle of Jurikan, sudden updraft, razor wind, infinite barrel roll, exploding thunder strike, rocs fall, everyone dies, heroes affinity, order forged from chaos, white raven hammer, all for one, one for all.
Thundaza (Sp): One of the Perun eagle's big knock-'em-dead attacks, this high-level electricity spell is sure to leave a stinging mark. Once every eight rounds, as a standard action, the Perun eagle can call upon its master's power to generate a massive electrical discharge. This electrical discharge forms a 100-foot-radius sphere of crackling lightning anywhere within 300 feet of the Perun eagle, even in midair. Any creature within the sphere when it forms (or unfortunate enough to wind up inside during the following round) takes 4d8 electricity damage per hit die the Perun eagle possesses, but is allowed a Reflex save for half damage. Victims also suffer paralysis for 1 round per 10 points of damage taken, plus one additional round for each die on the damage roll that came up as a natural 8 (success on the Reflex save goes a long way towards mitigating the paralysis). However, they are also entitled to a Fortitude save to mitigate the effect; succeeding on this secondary save reduces the paralysis duration by 20 rounds (to a minimum of 0). Paralyzed creatures that were flying may drop out of the sky, and creatures that were swimming can't swim and might drown. Because of the Perun eagle's Dynamic Potential feat, the save DC is equal to 20 + spellcaster's spellcasting modifier + ½ of the Perun eagle's Hit Die + the Perun eagle's Wisdom modifier + other modifiers (such as Ability Focus).
Firaza (Sp): One of the Perun eagle's big knock-'em-dead attacks, this high-level fire spell is sure to leave a stinging mark. Once every eight rounds, as a standard action, the Perun eagle can call upon its master's power to generate a massive flame burst. This flame burst forms a 100-foot-radius sphere of roaring fire anywhere within 300 feet of the Perun eagle, even in midair. Any creature within the sphere when it forms (or unfortunate enough to wind up inside during the following round) takes 4d8 fire damage per hit die the Perun eagle possesses, but is allowed a Reflex save for half damage. Victims must also succeed on a Fortitude save or contract soul burn. Success on the Reflex save grants a creature a +20 bonus on the Fortitude save, and success on the Fortitude save by 10 or more allows a victim to not contract soul burn at all. Use the save DC of this ability instead of soul burn's DC for this initial save. Because of the Perun eagle's Dynamic Potential feat, the save DC is equal to 20 + spellcaster's spellcasting modifier + ½ of the Perun eagle's Hit Die + the Perun eagle's Wisdom modifier + other modifiers (such as Ability Focus).
Burn (Ex): This works just like a primal fire elemental's burn ability, except that it uses the Perun eagle's HD and ability modifiers. Furthermore, the Perun eagle inflicts electricity damage along with fire damage whenever its burn ability activates, and the burn ability works through all of the Perun eagle's natural melee weapon attacks, not just its slam attack. Opponents striking the Perun eagle with natural weapons or unarmed attacks take the fire and electricity damage of the slam attack.
Whirlwind (Su): This works just like a primal air elemental's whirlwind ability, except that it uses the Perun eagle's HD and ability modifiers. Furthermore, the Perun eagle inflicts 12d6 fire damage and 12d6 electricity damage per round to all opponents caught in its whirlwind form.
Air Mastery (Ex): Airborne opponents take a −2 penalty to attack and damage rolls made against the Perun eagle.
Eagle's Perception (Ex): Eagles have very sharp vision, and this is doubly so for the Perun eagle. It has a +12 racial bonus on Spot checks, has Sharp-Eyed as a bonus feat, and gains an insight bonus equal to its Wisdom modifier (if positive) to its AC and saving throws against any opponent it can see. (These bonuses are not reflected in the statistics block.)
Improved Evasion (Ex): Whenever the Perun eagle is targeted by an affect that allows a Reflex save for half damage, it instead takes no damage on a successful save or half damage on a failed save. The Perun eagle cannot benefit from improved evasion if it is helpless.
End of the Spell[edit]
When the spell expires or is dispelled, or the Perun eagle has its HP reduced to 0 or is otherwise "killed" (death effect, Constitution reduced to 0, negative levels = HD, etc.), the Perun eagle disperses into its constituent elementals, which immediately return to their own planes. Perun eagle has a +30 bonus to its DC for resisting dispel checks.
Final Notes[edit]
Though this spell refers to Perun, you may substitute whichever god is most appropriate to your campaign, such as Zeus or Thor. Change the name of the spell accordingly. Whichever deity you choose to associate this spell with, it is only available to followers of that deity.
Material Component: A strip of wood from a dryad's oak tree, an emerald worth 60,000 gp, and a ruby worth 60,000 gp. You may substitute a heart of air with 20 charges for the emerald and a heart of fire with 20 charges for the ruby (you may substitute for either gem or both of them in this fashion). You must have attuned yourself to a heart of element to use it as a material component for this spell. If you use a heart of element as a material component in this fashion, the heart is not consumed (as it is an artifact, even epic spells cannot destroy it), but all 20 of its charges are expended, leaving its spell-like abilities unusable until it is recharged.
Focus: A silver holy symbol of Perun worth 3,000 gp. For a cleric, druid, or other divine spellcaster, this can be the same holy symbol you use to cast your other spells, but it must be made of silver and worth at least 3,000 gp in order to cast Perun eagle. (The focus is not expensive enough to affect the Spellcraft DC.)
XP Cost: 6,000 XP.
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|Same as caster +
|Article Balance
|Moderate +
|Luigifan18 +
|Challenge Rating
|N/A (same encounter as caster) +
|Air +, Fire + and Electricity +
|With caster (works best in wide-open spaces) +
|3.5e Epic Spell +
|Level Adjustment
|Undiscussed +
|Conjuration +
|Colossal +
|Spellcraft DC
|200 +
|Summoning + and Creation +
|Electricity +, Fire + and Air +
|A spell that draws upon the power of Perun, opponent of Veles and Slavic deity of lightning and fire, to conjure up his servant and symbol — a mighty eagle made of lightning and fire. +
|Perun Eagle +
|Elemental +