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Gig review: THERION – O2 Islington Academy, London, 20 December 2013
Posted on January 9, 2014 by Yiannis
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Support Acts: Arkona
Review & Photos by Yiannis (John) Stefanis
It was around the end of November that an acquaintance of mine asked me to name my favorite gig of the year to which my response was "It's too early to tell – ask me again in a month's time".
I was then forced to explain that I simply could not provide a definitive response before attending the show that the Swedish Symphonic Metallers Therion had scheduled for the 20thof December. Why? Well, apart from the fact that the performance would include a rendition of the band's 1998 opus "Vovin" in its entirety, there would also be the opportunity to listen to excerpts of the Rock Opera that Christofer Johnsson and his 'troops' are currently working on.
All this, together with my appreciation for this unique band and the opportunity to once again interview Kristofer Johnsson in person, brought me to the entrance of the venue quite early on in the day.
Having conducted what I consider to be a quite successful and thoroughly enjoyable interview with both Christofer and his band's front man Thomas Vikström, I was asked politely by Napalm Records to be inside the venue by 19:00 so as not to miss the performance from the Russian Pagan/Folk Metal quintet Arkona – something I intended to do anyway as I had heard positive things about the band's music and stage performances in the past.
My intention was to make it to the photo pit early enough to take a few good shots for this review but, by the time I entered the venue, the place was packed. I stood back to enjoy the band's performance – one that left me with mixed feelings.
As far as passion and energy on stage are concerned, the Russian combo had them by the bucket load and that is mainly due to the way Maria "Masha Scream" Arkhipova conducts herself when behind the mic.
Covered in layers upon layers of animal skin, the diminutive singer was pacing the stage like a woman possessed, one moment urging the crowd to sing along to the band's melodic tunes while at other times choosing to throw shapes with her closest band mate, much to the enjoyment of the band's numerous and fairly loud fans.
As far as style is concerned, these Russians do not sound that much different from bands like Eluveitie, however, what I found both off-putting and not very fitting were Arkhipova's Death Metal growls – growls that were present throughout the band's ten track set and which ruined the good vibe that her normal sounding vocal melodies had created when combined with the use of traditional folk instruments like bagpipes and kettle drums.
In saying so, however, it looks like I was part of the minority as the band received a raucous response from the crowd, with songs like "Akraim", "Zakliatie" and "Arkona" prompting great rounds of applause.
It became fairly evident, moments after Therion began their "Vovin" set with the all-time classic "The Rise Of Sodom And Gomorrah" that the stage of The O2 Islington Academy was too small for a band of their stature but that did not stop Christofer Johnsson and Co from providing us with a brilliant show!
Supported by a clear powerful sound and choreographed to absolute perfection, the band, with the focus firmly set on Lori Lewis, won their fairly mixed London crowd in no time, while Thomas Vikström, the band's outstanding front man, added a touch of brilliance on the follow-up "Birth Of Venus Illegitima".
While a few people were still left wondering whether the man holding the bass on stage was indeed Snowy Shaw or not (note: actually it was a thoroughly entertaining giant of a man called Malle Pahlsson), Kristofer Johnsson and lead guitarist Christian Vidal compared their riff shredding skills during "Wine Of Aluqah", while "Clavicula Nox" brought the band's softest nuances to the surface.
With the remainder of the "Vovin" album having been performed with equal splendour and attention to detail, the time came for us to be introduced to excerpts of the band's work-in-progress Rock Opera and the signs could not have been more positive. Kicking off with an eerie orchestral theme and led by Malle Pahlsson's fat bass tunes, "Overture" is a commanding piece filled with intelligent time signatures on the guitar, while "End of Dynasty" is a commanding piece, written with Thomas Vikström's powerful vocals in mind.
Far more theatrical and featuring brilliant performances from both male and female singers in the band, "Who's Your God?" was by far the most impressive composition of all, with the pompous "Onda Toner" finishing not far behind. Having received the encouragement needed in order to continue with this gargantuan musical concept, Therion performed a few more classics for their passionate fans.
Even though renditions of both "The Flesh Of The Gods" and its follow up "Muspelheim" were highly enjoyable, it was when material from 1996's "Theli" were performed, namely "Invocation Of Naamah" and "To Mega Therion", that the venue was finally in danger of being set alight, while a clearly pleased Johnsson wrapped up things with a somewhat rushed but still professionally performed version of "Lemuria".
Even though I strongly feel that a band of the stature and importance of Therion do not need any form of musical licence and direction from anyone, including their own fans, I was fairly pleased by the truly warm welcome that London provided the band with on the evening of the 20th of December.
Even though the stage of the O2 Islington Academy was not big enough, what this group of amazingly talented musicians have offered us in return was perhaps the most impressive and truly memorable live experience this year on UK soil. See – sometimes, it really pays to wait a while before compiling one's 'best of' list for the year…
Arkona Set List:
"Arkaim"
"Ot Serdtsa K Nebu"
"Goi, Rode, Goi!"
"Zakliatie"
"Pamiat"
"Slav'sja Rus'!"
"Stenka Na Stenku"
"Yarilo"
Therion Set List:
"The Rise Of Sodom And Gomorrah"
"Birth Of Venus Illegitima"
"Wine Of Aluqah"
"Clavicula Nox"
"Eye Of Shiva"
"Raven Of Dispersion"
Rock Opera Excerpts
"End Of Dynasty"
"Who's Your God?"
"Onda Toner"
"Sad End"
Continuation of main Set + incorporated Encore
"The Flesh Of The Gods"
"Muspelheim" (without the Intro)
"Invocation Of Naamah"
"To Mega Therion"
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FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE
Outing Cult Leaders & the September, 2022 Federal Anti-SLAPP Bill
"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." — Elie Wiesel
"Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly." – Mahatma Gandhi
Anyone who has been harmed by a power hungry, abusive cultic figure has the basic human right to speak out the truth about that cultic figure and his or her group. It doesn't matter whether a person willingly joined that cultic figure's group or was an "outsider" or "enemy" targeted by that cultic figure. Truth needs to be spoken and spoken well. If abuse and wrongs have been committed by cultic figures and their groups then we owe it to ourselves and to others to speak out the word of warning about them. Not to do so is selfish and cowardly, and on some level shows the same cold-hearted indifference to others that cultic figures and their groups show to people. We need to care.
Anger can indeed be a strong motivator for outing a dangerous cultic figure, but that anger needs to be tempered with true concern for the truth and for others' well-being. Speaking out the truth about cultic figures cannot be merely about vengeance.
My efforts to expose the spiritual and financial predatory actions of my cult figure brother Ken "Pastor Max" Parks, a limited purpose public figure, began after consultation with attorneys to discuss the best means to try to put an end to my brother Ken's very publicized defamation, stalking, death-threatening terrorist campaign against me, my husband, my mother, and dozens of other innocent people. Unlike most of my brother's victims, I knew about his criminal records and the child abuse investigations against him. The fact that my brother Ken was promoting — and continues to promote — himself everywhere, especially on the worldwide Internet as a trusted spiritual leader of his "ministries" and as a photographer and computer expert, has made himself a public figure open to public scrutiny.
If a power hungry, abusive cultic figure is publicly promoting him or herself, and you have indisputable facts, such as public criminal or civil court records, or a verifiable record in their own writing such as a death threat, sexual harassment or other harassing content, or any other incriminating statements, then you have the right, and perhaps some may argue the duty, to truthfully out those cultic figures in the same public manner that they use to deceitfully promote themselves.
Over the years I've have been contacted by my brother Ken "Pastor Max" Parks' other victims asking if I knew why he was targeting, publicly defaming, harassing, and threatening so many private individuals. Some of them provided alarming and disturbing written statements my brother Ken had sent to them, which I then in turn published, again due to the fact that my brother Ken has been promoting himself in public to gain "public trust" — my brother's own written words — and oftentimes using defamation against innocent people in order to appear victimized and thereby manipulate people into feelings sorry for him. Some of these people my brother Ken defamed and harassed tried to assure themselves that if they just ignored him that he would just grow tired and go away. I told them that extremely aggressive attention seeking stalkers like my brother Ken will never tolerate being ignored and will certainly never go away. The only method that has worked to deter his fraudulent publicity efforts and his use of defamation to gain sympathy from naive, unsuspecting people is publicly outing him, such as I've done in my websites and in my book Fighting for Justice: Religious Fraud, Mental Illness, and the Collapse of Law & Order (www.fightingforjusticebook.com and https://www.amazon.com/Paulette-Buchanan/e/B09N4ZBGY2%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share). My publishing of the public criminal and civil records against my brother Ken and his own incriminating statements, as well as other people publicly posting truthful statements against him on social media, have done much good in getting the word out and warning other people about who and what my brother really is. Consequently, Ken has lost a lot of support (a fact that he himself has complained about in his public social media posts), and his defamatory attacks against me and others have diminished because he knows that if anyone does a search on my name or his other victims' names they'll find my websites and my book that reveal the truth about him.
Starting years ago and continuing up to the present point in time, my brother Ken — a self-professed hacker — stalks and defames his former friends, acquaintances, and high school classmates, and there are strong indications that his stalking includes hacking into these people's social media accounts. Apparently, my brother Ken hacks his victims' social media accounts for three reasons: 1) to use their accounts he hacked in order to post flattering, supportive statements on his own public social media pages to make it appear that those people absolutely adore him; 2) to use his victims' hacked accounts to post messages to his other targeted victims on social media to find out everything he can about their private lives; and 3) if or when his victims find out that he has presumably hacked their accounts, he apparently gets a real rush from exerting terrorizing power and control over them.
My brother Ken the self-professed hacker posts up on his public social media pages (Facebook, for example) horrific defamatory statements referring to people's privately posted medical information or other private details. Other than hacking and/or setting up fake accounts in other people's names, there is no other way he could have obtained such personal details from people that we know for a fact have told him and others that they want nothing to do with him. In some cases when my brother Ken has apparently hacked and taken over these people's social media accounts there are indications that he locks these people out of their own accounts. Further indications point to him then setting up new fake accounts in those people's names, using photos and information found in their original account to make the new fake account appear legitimate. My brother Ken then apparently proceeds to use his victims' public friends list found on their original account to send out new friend requests for the new fake account he apparently set up in his victims' names. Of course, Facebook rarely responds to serious violations like this, and this problem could most likely be avoided if people set up very strong passwords, and changed those passwords periodically, and gave only bare bones information on their social media accounts. Since Facebook, being such an immensely unethical and powerfully lucrative corporation, refuses to enforce its own terms of service, it's left up to victims to warn others about my brother Ken "Pastor Max" Parks, and others like him, who apparently use social media as hunting grounds to hack into victims' accounts and set up new fake accounts using their names.
Attention seeking cultic figures must be outed, but outed in the right way. If you've been targeted with publicized defamation and libel by a cultic figure who has made him or herself a public figure, limited purpose or otherwise, then talk to an attorney who specializes in free speech rights. You have a right to speak out against that cultic figure's use of public defamation and libel against you and/or others, but you need to speak out in the right way, using the right words and forums. Might the abusive cultic figure file a meritless lawsuit in response to you exercising your freedom of speech rights? Yep. And if they are as aggressive in seeking public attention and "punishing" you as my brother Ken "Pastor Max" Parks has been when he filed nine legal actions against me and my husband — admitting that he only did so to cause us to incur defensive attorney fees — then whether you speak out or not they may still stalk you through the courts by filing harassing, utterly meritless lawsuits, just as my brother Ken did (we obtained both state and federal injunctions prohibiting my brother Ken from so easily abusing the court system against us or anyone else ever again). As our attorneys told us, if someone wants to sue another person for no good reason whatsoever, our broken courts allow them to do that — up to a point. Fortunately a number of states have anti-SLAPP laws that can dismiss those meritless lawsuits fairly quickly, but unfortunately the financial damage you incur to pay an attorney to defend your innocence will, no doubt, give endless delight to the abusive cultic figure because rarely will you be able to get the cultic figure to pay up the judgment amount awarded to you by the court. I will be writing another article later on about creative ways that victims of abusive sue-ers like my brother Ken "Pastor Max" Parks can financially recover from the legal expenses incurred from defending their innocence.
On September 15, 2022, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) introduced the SLAPP Protection Act in Congress — https://raskin.house.gov/_cache/files/f/b/fbb6b8d1-fa69-4c17-adbb-6445ff63b8a0/291D1533375A72AC20E4EB67F9244109.bill-text—slapp-protection-act.pdf . SLAPP stands for Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation. On one hand, if Rep. Raskin's bill were to be enacted into law it could require instantaneous judicial review and thereby put a quick end to any meritless defamation lawsuits filed in federal court, with very limited financial cost to the innocent defendants. But it could also be used to dismiss legitimate defamation lawsuits. Alarming lies — such as defamation per se, in which you are being accused of violating laws and of being a criminal — that are intended to incite some form of harm against the person is not protected free speech, and the courts have upheld that principle, including in states that have anti-SLAPP laws (such as my home state of Tennessee). I still very much believe that lucrative media and Big Tech corporations like Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, and all others need to be sued into oblivion for all the defamation, defamation per se, threats, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, etc. that they make money from publishing, and their leaders should also face multiple criminal charges. These Big Tech corporations publish their terms of service — contracts between themselves and users and non-users alike — yet second-by-second every single day these Big Tech entities violate their own contractual terms of service. That is fraud at best, and complicity with murder, drug and human trafficking, and other serious crimes at worst.
In summary, we cannot let some pathological bully cultic figure silence or intimidate us from speaking well-verified truth, and the laws are on our side. We have a basic human right to defend ourselves and to speak the truth, and to speak it well. Refuse to be silenced, out of self-respect and out of respect for other victims and potential victims.
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2. Achieve dynamic loading of plugins. A plugin normally consist of two parts, a plugin description file which is an xml
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    systems, in the form of a dll. It can also have an optional third part, the i18n files. By reading the description file,
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As my cat, Snulia, a 14 year old siamese, jumps in my lap and on my keyboard repeatedly, I begin my life as a blogger. Welcome! As I attempt my first blog, I will do my best to share my thoughts, life activities, work ideas, and creative juices that ebb and flow... more likely flow than ebb... I am a massage therapist who specializes in orthopedic injury work and massage for the cancer patient. I just recently opened my own practice and am working on building my clientele. Check out my website if you'd like: http://www.helpinghandsmusculartherapy.com/. I hope this finds everyone well. I'll be back on to blog in the next week.
I graduated in 1995 with a BS in Biological Psychology from Buffalo State College, and then later graduated from Boston University with a Master's in Neuropsychology and has an additional two years of graduate work in Behavioral Neuroscience at Boston University School of Medicine. I then graduated from a 900 hour/two year muscular therapy program from the Muscular Therapy Institute, in Watertown MA in 2006. I became Nationally Certified in 2007, and furthered her education and specialization in orthopedic injury work and massage for the Cancer patient, and became Reiki Level II Certified. Jill is licensed by the State of New York and is a Professional Member of the American Massage Therapy Association.


The streamers of polychrome satin fabric that hang from the skirt's white cotton waistband are decorated with floral and butterfly patterns. Adorned with small bells, the streamers bear the same patterns on the two sides. Two broader streamers made of plain red satin with linings of blue jacquard fabric are called "skirt door" (the flat and non-pleated panel of a skirt). Embroidered with butterfly, floral, and sea wave patterns, the "skirt door" of this piece are trimmed with weaved tassels and bordered with black satin bearing bat and floral motifs, which symbolize prosperity and good fortune.
This colorful strip skirt has been fashioned in the typical "Min style," which derived from Fujian areas in southern China. It was a popular dressing style at the time of its creation, usually worn over Mamien (horse-face) skirts, a type of skirt consisting of several wide pleats, specifically designed with broad and rectangular polychrome woven strips at the front and the back, as decoration during wedding ceremonies.


Following his keynote presentation at the 2016 ITS World Congress in Melbourne, ITS International caught up with Esri founder Jack Dangermond.
It is getting close to half a century ago that Jack Dangermond and his wife Laura founded the Environmental Research Systems Institute – known today as Esri - of which he remains president. We caught up with him after his presentation in Melbourne and started by asking how GIS, as we know it today, began?
Simultaneously, in 1964 at Northwestern University in Illinois, Howard Fisher was creating one of the first computer mapping software programs, known as Symap. A year later, he established the Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and Spatial Analysis. The Lab attracted talented geographers, planners, computer scientists and others from many fields who invented and synthesised some of the modern concepts that underpin computer mapping and spatial analysis.
So, in 1969, Dangermond and his wife Laura, founded the Environmental Research Systems Institute (Esri).
"From the beginning, we recognised that what was (and still is) interesting about GIS is that it can be applied broadly to many applications. We realised this could be done by organising data into maps and layers that can be combined and integrated to address a wide array of questions and issues.
Mapping of transit accessible housing and jobs can inform decisions about land use and future transport needs.
"The modelling potential was there from the beginning but, as I said earlier, the technology was primitive. Even then, we had begun to realise that all types of geographic information could be put into the computer as overlays to analyse complex problems.
In 1981, the company released its first commercial GIS product known as Arc/Info and it was that technology which started Esri's evolution into a software company. How far, beyond any expectations, has this technology been employed?
"Our initial product enabled each user to apply our software and methods to create their own digital map layers and do GISrelated applications much as we had been doing in our consulting practice. Over time, our users not only created data and did their own projects, they also began to share and collaborate with each other. We started to envision that, collectively, our users' work could form a continuous, overlapping and interoperable GIS database for the world—about virtually all subjects.
Today, this vision is rapidly becoming a reality, enabled by cloud computing and the Internet. Dangermond says there are now literally hundreds of thousands of organisations sharing their work with billions of GIS maps being created and used every day.
"These maps not only tell stories, they can be overlaid, combined and analysed to help us understand patterns and relationships about everything in the world.
"Today, we are starting to see where organisations everywhere are applying GIS technology to address problems at all scales. It is becoming a kind of nervous system for the planet, in which we are increasingly measuring everything that moves and changes, feeding it into the collective GIS of the World that is being used for understanding, decision making and connecting. Geography, the science of our world, is the basis of this platform, combining all disciplines (the'-ologies' such as biology, sociology, geology, climatology and so on) together, increasingly in real-time. This system is becoming a platform for all human behaviour and will ultimately play a major role in the evolution of the planet.
"The application of GIS to transportation is a big part of this." What are your thoughts, hopes and fears for the future of urban and rural transport?
Auckland is using GIS mapping to monitor its transit system and to communicate that information to passengers.
"We are actually hopeful that as humans, we can take new, more balanced approaches by applying GIS. As in most other fields, we need to tackle our transportation issues in a holistic fashion, looking at how we go from designing and implementing transportation systems from a narrow perspective to one in which we are more balanced and broad with our considerations and visions. GIS provides us the capacity and tools to address our needs more holistically.
He sees one of the key challenges as finding the resources to build effective public transport systems that will support urban environments, while also supporting new technologies to make cars cleaner and safer and to encourage diversity in travel options. Planning and designing these new systems in a more balanced and environmentally conscious way is another challenge. "The idea that these goals, needs and considerations are mutually exclusive is no longer the default point of view," he adds.
What impact can these transport systems have on the environment and how can this be mitigated?
"Perhaps most obvious, we must limit our use of fossil fuels. We have probably passed the worst point in terms of consequence to our urban areas of our past transportation choices. I think there is a universal recognition that we have to do better for the future, and designing effective and environmentally responsible transportation systems will need to lead this effort. As I've indicated, GIS will provide a key platform for doing this.
Mapping the location of road incidents helps the US DoT carry out safety and crash analysis.
If you were dictating tomorrow's transport systems what would they look like?
"In the past, transportation systems were usually designed independently of other city functions and services. This approach dictated urban forms, leaving each community to rebalance those systems after the fact to integrate them into more healthy urban environments. Communities need to find ways for government and citizens to collaborate more effectively and to plan more holistically for new transportation solutions. We think GIS is the way to begin doing this now. For example, at Esri we are learning to 'Think Green' and encouraging our users to do the same.
"This is about using Green Infrastructure as a framework for sustainable growth – balancing the development of modern and efficient transportation systems - as well as other 'grey infrastructure' - with natural environments; activities that are critical to building vibrant and sustainable communities.
With today's computer modelling technology, can we see that future and detect the shortcomings and the opportunities?
"GIS integrates data about everything and at the same time is a platform for intuitively understanding this data. For scientists, this GIS nervous system is profound as it will provide a framework for advancing scientific understanding, integrating and analysing all types of spatial knowledge (the '-ologies) – to better understand our world.
Esri map with cameras and traffic data.
"For people everywhere, it will provide a platform for understanding what's going on locally and globally, a way to comprehend the complexity of our world and to address and communicate the issues we face using the common language of mapping.
"As I indicated earlier, the capability to apply GIS to address our transportation needs more holistically is a critical aspect of this." Are authorities considering the longer-term consequences of the decisions they are making today and how could they make better informed decisions?
"Every day, we see examples of this forward-thinking gaining traction. Sure, some [authorities] are in denial about this and we need people to take action.
"Looking to the future, our world will increasingly be challenged with expanding population, loss of nature, environmental pollution and how to move people and goods – as well as the increasing dilemma of climate change and sustainability. To address these challenges, it's going to take our best people, the most effective methodologies and technologies, our best thinkers, designers and scientists of many types to collaborate to create a sustainable future collaborating to create a sustainable future.
"Our view is that GIS and GIS professionals will play an increasingly important role in how we address our challenges. My belief is that GIS not only helps us increase our understanding but also provides a platform for decision-making and collaboration—a platform for collective problem-solving.


Iceland was not amongst the countries invited to take part in a conference on the world's oceans, due to the continued practice of whale hunting.
RÚV reports that the conference – Our Ocean – is hosted by US Secretary of State John Kerry. Many countries around the world have been invited to take part in the two-day conference, where subjects such as pollution and sustainability in our world's oceans will be discussed.
Iceland, despite having sought to participate, has not been invited to take part in the conference, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says this because of whale hunting.
While current Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson declined to comment, former Foreign Minister Össur Skarphéðinsson told reporters that the snub was "the most serious action that the Americans have used in their fight against Icelandic whaling", adding that more punitive measures should be expected in the future.
The news should be of little surprise to many Grapevine readers. As reported last April, the White House issued a statement, signed by US President Barack Obama, which outlined a number of directives the US planned against Iceland due to whaling.


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Assistant Professor- World Environmental History
Job Type: Tenure Track
Application Deadline: November 12, 2013
Minimum number of years and type of relevant work experience:
Candidate should be an economic, intellectual, or cultural historian working on transnational exchange and environmental transformation in the modern and/or early modern periods. Ideal candidates are scholars whose work on the global circulation and movement of knowledge, capital, or organisms advances understanding of environmental and social change in regions such as the Atlantic, Pacific, and/or Mediterranean worlds.
Applicants should be committed to scholarship and undergraduate teaching in environmental history, and must be comfortable and committed to working in interdisciplinary settings with students and colleagues in the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities.
Principal duties:
This assistant professor position is shared by the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Department of History in the College of Letters and Science, and carries with it a commitment to the three important functions of teaching, research, and outreach, as well as professional and university service as appropriate to faculty rank. It is expected that the appointee will play an active role in the research, teaching and service activities of both units.
General teaching responsibilities will include core courses in Environmental Studies and in History, including responsibility for teaching a world environmental history survey course for the new Environmental Studies major. The teaching load will be 2 courses per year in the Nelson Institute and 1 course per year in the History Department with at least one being a large enrollment undergraduate course each year. It is expected that all three courses would be cross-listed in both units and draw students from a wide range of departments across campus, even for graduate seminars. Supervision of graduate and undergraduate research is also expected.
The candidate is expected to participate in service to the community, state, nation, and profession in a manner consistent with the appointment. Specifically, it is expected that the appointee will play a leadership role in advancing the Nelson Institute's Center for Culture, History, and Environment (CHE; http://che.nelson.wisc.edu), which is home to an interdisciplinary group of faculty, graduate students, and community members interested in understanding the changing relationships between people and environments over time. CHE's activities include a biweekly colloquium series, annual graduate student conference and place-based workshop, biennial film festival, and graduate certificate, among others events and programs.
Review of applications will begin on close of business on November 12, 2013.
Applications should include a letter of application and c.v., three letters of recommendation, and a writing sample (strongly preferred length: under 50 pages of text). The writing sample may be a self-standing essay, or a chapter from a dissertation or book project. Chapters should be accompanied by a brief outline or statement (less than 2 pages) that sets the chapter in the context of the larger work and its argument. Electronic submission of documents is preferred.
Cover letter should be addressed to Professor Gregg Mitman, Search and Screen Committee Chair.
Materials should be sent to:
Kelly Rupp (kcrupp@wisc.edu)
Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
122 Science Hall
Unless another application procedure has been specified above, please send resume and cover letter referring to Position Vacancy Listing #77368 to:
Gregg Mitman
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
122 Science Hall, 550 N. Park Street
Email: kcrupp@wisc.edu
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As Microsoft's forthcoming office suite takes clearer shape, we report on the latest beta version, and its implications for companies' IT strategies.
The message from Microsoft's Beta 2 preview session held in San Francisco at the end of February is that Office 2003 (previously known as Office 11) will 'transform knowledge workers into information workers'. The forthcoming suite will also form a major plank in Bill Gates's strategy for Microsoft to 'double productivity within a decade'. Fine words -- but Microsoft really has been busy in radically re-working its office suite for the 2003 incarnation: the core Office 2003 applications use XML as a native format; new Office 'family' programs have appeared; and Office 2003 support services are provided by Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2003 and SharePoint Portal and Team Services version 2. All of the Office 2003 applications are enhanced over their XP counterparts, the most significant for everyday use being a much-needed overhaul of Outlook's Inbox. Meanwhile, the OneNote personal workbook is a brand-new addition to the Office family that will undoubtedly give the Tablet PC more appeal. However, the major innovations in Office 2003 are aimed at corporate information strategists. New developments include a thorough implementation of XML across the suite, the appearance of InfoPath (previously known as X-Docs), which is aimed at supporting XML-based information gathering within the enterprise, the incorporation of Information Rights Management and better integration of collaborative working. All of these innovations will have major implications for enterprise information management and IT infrastructure strategies.
'The largest repository of business information is to be found not in structured databases but in business documents such as Word and Excel files'. Jean Paoli, Microsoft's XML Architect for the Office 2003 project uses this attention-getting line to explain his vision for Office 2003. Under Paoli's enthusiastic guidance, Office 2003 has been reconstructed so that the major Office 2003 applications work natively with XML and use .xml as a core file format. The goal is to make these large Office document information repositories searchable and reusable. Central to Paoli's vision is that Office 2003 should make it easy for organisations to create and work with their own custom XML schemas. XML schemas are the specifications of document structures and content expressed as XML 'tags' that allow different applications -- Access, Word and Excel (say) -- to interpret a data string tagged as 'Quarter3IncomeWidgets', for example, as a value and store and display it appropriately. The Smart Document is one Office 2003 technology that has been developed from the new XML implementation. Paoli describes a Smart Document as a business process encapsulated within a Word or Excel document. Smart Documents usually require complex programming and will be tools developed as part of an organisation's information strategy. An example of a Smart Document is a reusable Excel worksheet created to analyse annual financial results. As part of its construction, the worksheet is programmed to use Web Services to retrieve information specified by XML tags -- Quarter3Income', for example -- to retrieve the corresponding information from an Access or SQL database. When the analysis is completed, a report could be generated in which the XML tagged information is formatted appropriate within Word table. A second technology that also piggybacks upon Office 2003's XML implementation is InfoPath (previously called X-Docs). InfoPath is a new Office family application that's specialised for the rapid design of forms that have a much richer structure and appearance than the conventional electronic form, and in which data is stored and identified by XML tags. Once created, an InfoPath form could be distributed via email or Microsoft's SharePoint Team or Portal Server. Once completed, information could be extracted into a data repository using XML Web services. Microsoft sees InfoPath as suitable for supporting organisation processes such as help desk queries, sales data collection, travel expense claims, team surveys and inventory management.
Based on Windows Server 2003 kitted out with the new Rights Management services, Office 2003 should allow documents and email to be protected from being leaked, copied or forwarded to individuals who are not on a permissions list. Microsoft claims that its IRM security will even extend to preventing browser access by unauthorised individuals. As well as requiring Windows Server 2003 with Rights Management services installed, Microsoft's IRM implementation also requires the following infrastructure: Active Directory to identify individuals by their email addresses; Exchange Server 2003 to support the use of distribution lists to manage access control for groups; and SQL Server to manage the users' rights database. On top of all this, Office Rights Management components need to be installed on each desktop system. Initially, system administrators assign IRM rights by issuing certificates to individuals. At the time of document or email creation from the Office UI, the author selects -- from the authorised list of individual or groups -- who can see it and whether they can read, write, delete or forward it. To support mobile users, a restricted document or email can be taken offline for disconnected reading. However, each document will have to be opened online and authorised by a certificated Rights Management server before it can opened in disconnected mode. Any documents or emails not authorised in this way cannot be opened. An Internet Explorer certificated 'patch' will be required to give browser access to protected documents. A 'starter kit' will be available to allow small and medium-sized businesses to explore and evaluate IRM. Controversially, Microsoft is currently insisting that each desktop system in an organisation must connect to Microsoft to have IRM activated. This requirement should provoke some interesting discussions over the coming months.
Office 2003 collaboration -- document sharing and reviewing, document libraries, discussion and instant messaging -- will depend on version 2 of SharePoint Team services and SharePoint Portal Services, which will be available at the same time as Offuce 2003. Team and Portal differ in their scope: both require Windows Server 2003 SharePoint Services, but Team services is designed to connect individuals into teams while Portal services is designed to integrate across an organisation by providing cross-team-site searching and information management. Team Services can automatically create team-level sites for support document libraries, calendars, discussions, announcements and surveys. From within Office 2003 applications, team members connect transparently to collaboration sites using Web Services with document check-in, check-out and versioning facilities.
Microsoft proposes that developments in Publisher 2003 and FrontPage 2003 will be of immediate benefit to small business users. Both of these applications include enhancements aimed at decreasing the uniformity in look and feel of documents and Web pages created with them -- the idea is that small businesses will be helped to produce paper and electronic publications that better reflect their individual characters. Tools will also be provided to help ensure consistency of look and feel across all of a company's output -- including email. To help with the daily grind of generating income, Office 2003 will also offer Small Business Contact Manager for Outlook. Targeted at businesses with less than 25 employees, this Outlook add-in will help track contacts, manage sales opportunities and run reports. To use the current jargon, Office 2003 will present enterprises with 'opportunities and challenges'. With its XML implementation Microsoft has firmly grasped the nettle and addressed the problem of information management and control in a full-blooded way. For most organisations, responding to Microsoft's vision of information reuse through XML and Web services will require a major rethink of their information management strategies and IT infrastructure. The new collaboration and IRM offerings can be implemented independently of an XML strategy, but both require significant developments in IT expertise and infrastructure, and will have an impact on an organisation's online culture. In Microsoft's terminology, transforming 'knowledge workers' into highly productive 'information workers' is likely to be a long and potentially painful process.


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Got Moths? Celebrate National Moth Week and Global Citizen Science
Entomology Today July 26, 2016 1 Comment
By David Moskowitz and Liti Haramaty
Spot any underwings lately? These popular moths, known for revealing their true, vibrant colors when their wings are fully spread, will be spotlighted this summer as National Moth Week marks its fifth consecutive year across the U.S and around the world. This year National Moth Week is being held July 23 through July 31.
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Moth-ers (the noun to describe those that engage in the verb mothing) will be looking for underwings and other moth species at hundreds of private and public mothing events. Online registration is in full swing with events already registered around the world in backyards, parks, cities and some of the most remote places around the globe.
Moths have always had a loyal fan base among entomologists and hobbyists, but National Moth Week has helped to increase their popularity among the general population. By bringing them to light, so to speak, this global citizen science project is educating people about their beauty, diversity and value to the environment.
National Moth Week (NMW) shines a much-needed spotlight on moths and their ecological importance, as well as their incredible biodiversity. While moths often have taken a back seat to their Lepidoptera kin, the butterflies, there is growing interest in their role as pollinators and as a food source for other animals. Scientists also look for the impact of climate change on their numbers and distribution. With possibly as many as 500,000 species, moths can provide an endless opportunity for exploration. For most species, basic life history and distributional information is lacking or poorly understood, allowing citizen scientists a wonderful opportunity to contribute meaningful observations.
Anyone can register a public or private event or find one to attend in their area by checking nationalmothweek.org for public events. Any location is suitable, from a backyard to a park to a vast, remote area. Registration is free for individuals, groups, and organizations. Last year, more than 400 events were registered in all 50 U.S. states and more than 40 other countries, representing more than a thousand "moth nights."
Catocala concumbens. Photo by Carl D. Barrentine.
Studying moths can be as easy as turning on a porch light and waiting for them to come, or shining a light on a white sheet in a backyard or park. Special blacklights or mercury vapor lights are often used to attract the widest suite of species and ambitious moth-ers also coat tree trunks with a sticky, sweet mixture of fruit and stale beer that is very attractive to many species of moths. However, mothing isn't only for those with poor sleeping habitats or the inclination to be outside at ridiculous hours of the night. Searching for caterpillars and day-flying moths is a good activity for daytime and a perfect opportunity to explore other aspects of moth ecology. The NMW website offers many tips on attracting moths. The techniques are the same, whether they are done by a professional entomologist or novice citizen scientist.
National Moth Week also promotes data collection about moths. Participants are encouraged and invited to contribute their photos and findings to NMW partner websites, as well as the NMW Flickr group, which now has nearly 15,000 moth photos from around the world.
This year's spotlighted moths, commonly known as underwings, comprise the genus Catocala, which is part of the large Erebidae family. There are more than 250 known species of Catocala, with about half found in North America, while the rest are in Europe, Asia, and the tropics. Their dull-colored forewings, serve as camouflage while at rest. However, when they spread their wings, they reveal strikingly colorful or bold hindwings with orange, red, black, white, or blue markings. As the underwings show, moths, like butterflies, display some of the most vibrant colors and patterns found in nature.
National Moth Week originated from very humble beginnings at local community moth nights held each summer in East Brunswick, New Jersey. Following on the success of those events, we decided to try and expand the reach of these nocturnal explorations of moths and biodiversity. National Moth Week was the result, founded in 2012 by the Friends of the East Brunswick (N.J.) Environmental Commission that we co-founded. The Friends is a nonprofit organization dedicated to environmental education and conservation. National Moth Week has become one of the most widespread citizen science projects in the world. It is coordinated by an all-volunteer team in New Jersey, New York, Ecuador, and Belize. For the past four years, public and private mothing events have been held annually in all 50 states and 66 different countries. The NMW website features an events map showing the locations of events around the world.
For more information about National Moth Week, visit the website at nationalmothweek.org, or write to info@nationalmothweek.org.
Dr. David Moskowitz and Liti Haramaty are the co-founders of National Moth Week. David holds a PhD in entomology from Rutgers University for his research on the tiger spiketail dragonfly and is a senior vice president with EcolSciences, Inc. in Rockaway, New Jersey. Liti holds a master's degree in ecology for her work on morphology and ecological adaption in corals. She has worked at SUNY Stony Brook and Brookhaven National Lab, and since 1999 has been employed at the Rutgers University Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Biographies of the rest of the amazing all-volunteer National Moth Week team can be found at http://nationalmothweek.org/the-team.
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I have a friend whose idea of heaven is a big, fat juicy T-bone steak smothered in sautéed onions, served with a "loaded" baked potato, a Caesar salad and a bowl of ice cream. This same friend claims popping a Lipitor with a red-wine chaser negates the effects of his deliberate cholesterol overload.
I know, what do recycling and cholesterol have in common? Simply put, just because there's a Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) where human beings and machines sort paper, plastic and glass doesn't mean you should buy cases of bottled water when a residential water purification system or Brita water filter will provide great tasting filtered water without having to recycle plastic bottles.
Protecting the environment is all about choices; just because an item is "recyclable" doesn't mean you should buy it.
Choose cloth instead of paper napkins.
Choose a gift bag instead of wrapping paper when wrapping gifts for friends and family.
Choose NOT to buy pre-cut fruits and vegetables, which typically come in "recyclable" throwaway plastic containers; instead wash; slice, dice, cut and chop these items yourself.
Choose glass or BPA-free plastic containers instead of using Glad or Hefty-brand re-usable/disposable leftover containers, which, due their extremely porous nature will end up in the recycle bin sooner rather than later.
Choose inexpensive, dishwasher-safe utensils and BPA-safe plastic cups for poolside dining and picnics instead of using throwaway plastic utensils and plastic cups.
Choose to use reusable bags instead of paper or plastic when shopping. If you forget to bring your own bags, opt for paper, which is easier to recycle than plastic.
Choose to purchase an artificial Christmas tree, which can be used year after year without having to worry about watering and picking up loose pine needles. If you miss the smell of a live tree, buy a candle.
Choose to terminate the barrage of paper catalogs, newsletters, political solicitations, magazines and telephone books (but not your daily newspaper) by canceling the subscriptions and relying instead on the Internet for the most up-to-the-minute news and fashions.
Choose to return items for re-use rather than automatically recycling them. For example, plastic plant flats can go back to your local garden center to be re-used by the plant vendors; wire hangers can be returned to the dry cleaner; glass vases of any size or shape can be returned to any florist for re-use or dropped off at your local Hospice center or hospital where they will be used to brighten a patient's day. And my personal favorite, Styrofoam "peanuts" can be "returned to sender" (pun intended) to any FedEx Office or UPS Store for re-use.
If each and every one of us makes a conscious effort to adopt a smarter, more considerate lifestyle where we respect the environment and consider alternate choices, others will follow suit and make better, more environmentally conscious choices as well. The more we do, the more instinctive these actions will become.


Happy New Years everyone! I know we are a couple of weeks in already! Last year is finally behind us and I'm looking forward to a fresh start in 2016!! As most of you are recovering from the stresses of the last month I'm looking forward into the year optimistic for great things to happen. I truly believe that this is going to be a year of big changes within the chronic world. For anyone wanting a look into the CRPS world, a new movie called Trial by Fire by Charles Mattocks is coming to an independent theatre near you. Hopefully this will open a few eyes as to what my world can be like at times! For a trailer of the movie go to http://www.trialbyfiremovie.com/.
Closer to home in the last few months I have taken the steps of writing emails to both our Premiere and our Health Minister. Why? I want changes to start happening in the medical community and within all levels of government so that chronic illness is seen for what it really is. For most of last year I've been thinking about various ways that I could do my little part. How can I do my little piece in bringing about change in perception and treatment, in those of us living with chronic illness. Sometimes you can overthink the answers that are right there in front of you. None of us would wish what we go through on a daily basis on anyone else right. We come up with all these great ideas of how we want to see and create change but that's all they are most of the time is ideas. We never do anything about them because it requires putting ourselves out there and then it becomes too real!
So a while ago I decided I was tired of not putting myself out there. I made the decision I was going to take baby steps , and open myself up to taking different risks and seeing how they all play out. Its much like a relationship with God you have to open yourself up and make yourself vulnerable if you want to see change in your life. CRPS may have tried to steal a lot of different thing from me but I can use those things in so many positive ways. I don't want to sit around and watch life pass me by because I know God has challenged me to do amazing things with the life He has given me. Are you willing to step over the line and take that same risk?
So I decided to start with something simple and wrote two emails. The first was one that went to the Premiere of our province explaining what my life had been like living with a chronic illness along with concerns within our health care system. Except I multiplied that by the thousands of us out there who live chronic lives, asking him to make Nov.2 a CRPS and Chronic Illness Day here in our province. Several weeks went by and I hadn't received any type of a response.Then one day I opened up my email and there was a letter from the Premiere saying that he would pass it on to the Minister of Health. A few months had gone by and I had received no response from the Minister of Health so at that point I decided I had nothing to lose so I took steps once again and wrote another email.
Two days before Christmas I opened my email and to my surprise it was an email explaining that my request was going to be put forward in legislation, making Nov. 2, 2016 CRPS & Chronic Illness Day here in our province of Saskatchewan. It gives me hope and I was encouraged that if I could write a letter and receive a positive response like this, then what else can I do to create change or make a difference. Doing my small part is going to help the greater cause and no part is insignificant! What I'm trying to say is look at what you can do and not what you can't do.
It takes an army to win a war and every person in that army has a roll to play. Think about an army of ants, each ant has a specific job that they have to carry out. They work together towards reaching and obtaining a goal like getting food or building their home. There are a million different examples that I could provide you but the point is that we can't obtain our goals unless we work together in getting there. What does your little roll look like? Maybe its something as simple as sharing your story with someone who needs to be encouraged! Or maybe its taking on a greater roll within advocacy? So I challenge you to look at where you are at right now in this moment. Ask yourself what can I do to make a difference? If your having trouble trying to figure everything out then have a conversation with God because nobody knows you better and can provide some of the answers that you are looking for.
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Who can forget the black day of 26/11 where innocent people lost their lives? Just one year after the incident, people of Mumbai pay tribute to the martyrs. Bollywood stars paid their homage to the victims in their own way. Among them were Amitabh Bachchan and Shahrukh Khan. Shahrukh paints red the wall at Marine Lines at 12.30 am to pay tribute to the heroes and victims of 26/11. He was joined by BJP spokesperson Shaina N C and Mumbaikars from different walks of life.
Whereas Amitabh Bachchan sung the song 'Ungli uthe to, koi bare to, kardegi bagawat' written by Subbu and sung by 15 singers Sonu Nigam, Shankar Mahadevan, Sunidhi Chauhan, Kunal Ganjawala, Kailash Kher, Roop Kumar Rathod and Hariharan.
He wrote on his blog, "Ugly scenes on the TV mar the daily and collective morals of a nation that witnesses the outcome of the 26/11, looming large within a couple of days. But we must not bend, we must not turn back and we must not stop — in this our relentless pursuit for those that sacrificed their lives for us".


The first hotel in Spain aimed entirely at women is to open on the popular holiday island of Mallorca in spring 2019. Run by Spanish chain Som Hotels, the four-star Som Dona Women Only will be located in Porto Cristo on the island's west coast and will be open to women over 18 years old.
On announcing the project at the weekend, Som Hotels president, Joan Enric Capellá said the idea came from a "growing business trend focused on female audience" that was confirmed by surveys carried out by the hotel chain, which found its female customers liked the idea of a women-only hotel.
"We want the most employees possible to be women, of course respecting Spain's parity laws," the hotel's president, Joan Enric Capellá told i. "One of our objectives is also to give a certain visibility to women doing traditionally masculine jobs," he added.
The whitewashed, three-floor hotel is situated in grounds with palm trees, sun loungers and a pool. Inside, the colour scheme in its 39 rooms revolves around whites and pinks; what the hotel refers to as "bold decoration and feminine features".
Tapping into recent wellness and self-care trends, the hotel will offer "the best healthy cuisine made with 'zero-kilometre' products, a wellness area, pool, sky lounge, and a unique atmosphere designed for women".
Female-only holidays, whether going solo or with a group of friends, are on the rise, and the new hotel could provide an extra feeling of security for solo female travellers looking for an easy escape.
"Women are going on more holidays with groups of friends, so I think this hotel is filling a gap in the market. Some women feel more comfortable in a female-only environment and I can see it appealing to friends who want to spend a few days switching off," travel writer and Spanish hotel reviewer Annie Bennet told i.
"Security is an issue for women in hotels and it is increasingly usual to have a woman-only floor, which has proved very popular with women who are travelling alone for work," she said, adding that it would be interesting to see how the hotel did once the novelty had worn off – could it be welcoming men by 2020?
It is not the first hotel to try out female-only accommodation. Bella Sky Comwell, in Copenhagen, became the first hotel in Europe to offer women-only floors in 2011, but in 2014 the practice was ruled unlawful and the hotel guilty of gender discrimination after two men complained.


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The total area of this BOA is 2466ha, 194ha of which are Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and only 34ha are Local Wildlife Sites. The western section of the escarpment running from Letcombe to the county boundary, divided into two core sections that correspond to the areas identified in the AONB Chalk Grassland report. These sections have the main areas of chalk grassland and significant archaeological features such as Uffington White Horse and Castle, Wayland Smithy and Segsbury Camp. The area extends south of the most steeply sloping escarpment to the Ridgeway. It also includes slopes along hills running south into Berkshire, in the vicinity of Seven Barrows, and land including Kingston Down and Ashdown Park. Besides the further areas of chalk grassland this section is rich in archaeological features.
Landscape Types: Chalk Downland Slopes.
Geology and geomorphology: Chalk with a number of coombes.
Topography: A north and north west facing escarpment and east and west facing steep banks in the southern area.
Chalk grassland: Extensive areas of chalk grassland at White Horse Hill and Hackpen Hill. The main site in Berkshire is at Seven Barrows while there are remnants in some other locations.
Woodland: The main sites are near Uffington, within the SSSI and at Ashdown Park. There are a few plantations.
Parkland: Ashdown Park has some good veteran trees and includes an SSSI for the lichen flora on sarsen stones.
Species: the arable land supports a good flora and the area is good for farmland birds. Stone curlew have been recorded in this area.
Geodiversity: there are a number of sites with sarsen stones including Ashdown Park and Parkfarm Down. Uffington Hill has important geomorpholoical features associated with the coombes.
Access: Open access at Whitehorse Hill. A number of areas are included in Countryside and Rights Of Way Act. The Ridgeway and other bridleways. There is also some access on National Trust land at Ashdown Park.
Targets and opportunities: Chalk grassland management and restoration. Protection of archaeological and geological features. Management for arable wildflowers and farmland birds. Veteran tree and woodland management at Ashdown Park.


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New Biochemical Technology For The Treatment Of Diabetes
New Biochemical Technology For The Treatment Of Diabetes.
A imaginative bioengineered, minimal organ dubbed the BioHub might one day offer people with specimen 1 diabetes freedom from their disease. In its final stages, the BioHub would mimic a pancreas and work as a home for transplanted islet cells, providing them with oxygen until they could establish their own blood supply. Islet cells hold back beta cells, which are the cells that produce the hormone insulin. Insulin helps the body metabolize the carbohydrates found in foods so they can be hand-me-down as fuel for the body's cells read full report. The BioHub also would provender suppression of the immune system that would be confined to the area around the islet cells, or it's achievable each islet cell might be encapsulated to protect it against the autoimmune attack that causes type 1 diabetes.
The principal step, however, is to load islet cells into the BioHub and transplant it into an scope of the abdomen known as the omentum article source. These trials are expected to begin within the next year or year and a half, said Dr Luca Inverardi, operative director of translational research at the Diabetes Research Institute at the University of Miami, where the BioHub is being developed.
Dr Camillo Ricordi, the skipper of the institute, said the obligation is very exciting. "We're assembling all the pieces of the puzzle to replace the pancreas. Initially, we have to go in stages, and clinically check the components of the BioHub. The first step is to test the scaffold assembly that will effect like a regular islet cell transplant".
The Diabetes Research Institute already successfully treats archetype 1 diabetes with islet cell transplants into the liver. In type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease, the body's unsusceptible system mistakenly attacks and destroys the beta cells contained within islet cells. This means someone with genus 1 diabetes can no longer start the insulin they need to get sugar (glucose) to the body's cells, so they must replace the lost insulin.
This can be done only through multiple habitually injections or with an insulin pump via a tiny tube inserted under the film and changed every few days. Although islet cell transplantation has been very successful in treating type 1 diabetes, the underlying autoimmune circumstance is still there. Because transplanted cells come from cadaver donors, kin who have islet cell transplants must take immune-suppressing drugs to prevent rejection of the unripe cells.
This puts people at risk of developing complications from the medication, and, over time, the exempt system destroys the new islet cells. Because of these issues, islet cell transplantation is principally reserved for people whose diabetes is very difficult to control or who no longer have an awareness of potentially unsafe low blood-sugar levels. Julia Greenstein, vice president of Cure Therapies for JDRF (formerly the Juvenile Diabetes Research Institute), said the risks of islet room transplantation currently outbalance the benefits for healthy people with type 1 diabetes.
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Affordable Care Act Went Into Effect
Affordable Care Act Went Into Effect.
Although problems persist, more Americans had significantly less grate on getting and paying for needed medical tribulation in 2014, as the health insurance expansions of the Affordable Care Act kicked in, a budding survey suggests. The edition of working-age adults who said they didn't get the care they needed because of the cost dropped to 66 million in 2014 from 80 million in 2012 - the fundamental decline since 2003, according to The Commonwealth Fund's up-to-date Biennial Health Insurance Survey discover more. At the same time, fewer adults - 64 million in 2014 versus 75 million in 2012 - reported medical beak problems, and that's the initial decrease since 2005.
So "This new announcement provides evidence that the Affordable Care Act's new subsidized options for people who deficit insurance from employers are helping to reverse national trends in health care coverage and affordability," Commonwealth Fund President Dr David Blumenthal said in a dirt conference with reporters Wednesday afternoon joint.herbalous.com. Uninsured rates tumbled to their lowest levels in more than a decade, the study found.
A all-out of 29 million working-age adults (16 percent of the population) were uninsured in 2014, down from 37 million (20 percent of the population) in 2010. It is "the sooner statistically significant refuse measured by the survey since it began in 2001," noted Sara Collins, vice president for haleness care coverage and access at The Commonwealth Fund, which publishes the nation's longest-running nonfederal scan of health insurance coverage.
The Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," broadened access to constitution coverage through Medicaid and private health insurance subsidies. Just 26 states and the District of Columbia expanded Medicaid in 2014, after the US Supreme Court allowed states to opt out of that requirement. Beginning in September 2010, the healthiness rehabilitate law made it credible for young adults under the age of 26 to remain on their parents' health insurance plans.
The size up shows young adults realized the greatest gains in coverage of any age group. Among 19- to 34-year-olds, 19 percent were uninsured in 2014, down from 27 percent in 2010. Low-income adults also maxim huge improvements in their insurance status. Among adults with incomes below 200 percent of the federal dearth level, or $47100 for a family of four, the percentage unconsumed uninsured fell to 24 percent in 2014 from 36 percent in 2010.
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IVF Increases The The Risk Of Thrombosis
IVF Increases The The Risk Of Thrombosis.
Women who became rich through in vitro fertilization (IVF) may have an increased gamble of developing blood clots and potentially fateful artery blockage, Swedish investigators suggest. Although the risk remains small, the advantage are especially high during the first trimester compared to women who become pregnant naturally, the researchers said. Blood clots - called venous thromboembolism - can come out in the leg veins and weary free, traveling to the lungs and blocking a main artery get more information. This condition, called pulmonary embolism, can cause tribulation breathing and even death.
So "There is an increased incidence of pulmonary embolism and venous thrombosis surrounded by women pregnant after IVF," said lead researcher Dr Peter Henriksson, a professor of internal medication at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. "Embolism is the leading cause of maternalistic mortality during pregnancy here i found it. The diagnosis can be elusive, so physicians should be aware of this risk to facilitate the diagnosis".
The peril of clotting during pregnancy isn't confined to women who undergo IVF, another experts said. "Any pregnancy carries a hazard of clotting," said Dr Avner Hershlag, governor of the Center for Human Reproduction at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY. This is because hormones, only estrogen, increase during pregnancy. "This changes what we call the clotting cascade. There are many factors in blood clotting that can be studied by hormones - especially estrogen".
In addition, the enlarging uterus puts sway on pelvic blood vessels, which can lead to clotting. Some women are advised to set their movement to reduce the risk of clotting. Although it's unclear why women who sustain IVF have a greater risk of clotting, Hershlag speculates that it could be due to fertility treatments that snowball estrogen even beyond levels normally associated with pregnancy.
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Head Injury With Loss Of Consciousness Does Not Increase The The Risk Of Dementia
Head Injury With Loss Of Consciousness Does Not Increase The The Risk Of Dementia.
Having a injurious genius injury at some rhythm in your life doesn't raise the risk of dementia in old age, but it does increase the odds of re-injury, a supplemental study finds. "There is a lot of fear among people who have sustained a brain harm that they are going to have these horrible outcomes when they get older," said senior author Kristen Dams-O'Connor, deputy professor of rehabilitation medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City vigrx. "it's not true. But we did stumble on a risk for re-injury".
The 16-year meditate on of more than 4000 older adults also found that a recent traumatic brain injury with unconsciousness raised the chances of death from any cause in subsequent years. Those at greatest risk for re-injury were people who had their wit injury after age 55, Dams-O'Connor said homepage. "This suggests that there are some age-related biological vulnerabilities that come into show in terms of re-injury risk".
Dams-O'Connor said doctors need to look out for health issues to each older patients who have had a traumatic brain injury. These patients should try to circumvent another head injury by watching their balance and taking care of their overall health. To investigate the consequences of a distressing brain injury in older adults, the researchers collected data on participants in the Adult Changes in Thought study, conducted in the Seattle breadth between 1994 and 2010. The participants' unexceptional age was 75.
At the start of the study, which was published recently in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, none of the participants suffered from dementia. Over 16 years of follow-up, the researchers found that those who had suffered a upsetting intellectual injury with loss of consciousness at any time in their lives did not increase their risk for developing Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia.
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New Treatments For Knee Arthritis
New Treatments For Knee Arthritis.
Pain-relieving treatments for knee arthritis all post better than doing nothing - but it's vigorously to point to a clear winner, a new research reassess concluded. Using data from almost 140 studies, researchers found all of the widely used arthritis treatments - from over-the-counter painkillers to pain-relieving injections - brought more easement to aching knees over three months than did placebo pills visit this link. But there were some surprises in the study, according to skipper researcher Dr Raveendhara Bannuru, of Tufts Medical Center in Boston.
Overall, the biggest aid came from injections of hyaluronic acid (HA) - a healing some professional medical groups consider only marginally effective. Hyaluronic acid is a lubricating haecceity found naturally in the joints. Over the years, studies have been mongrel as to whether injections of synthetic HA help arthritic joints, and the treatment remains under debate get more info. Bannuru cautioned that ignoring his team's positive findings, it's not clear whether hyaluronic acid itself deserves the credit.
That's because his band found a large "placebo effect" across the HA studies. Patients who received injections of an unmoving substance often reported pain relief, too. As a whole, they did better than kin in other trials who were given placebo pills. According to Bannuru's team, that suggests there is something about the "delivery method" - injections into the knee joint, whatever the import - that helps ease some people's pain.
But there's no not guilty explanation for why that would be. He and his colleagues report their findings in the Jan 6, 2015 originate of Annals of Internal Medicine. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 27 million Americans have osteoarthritis - the "wear and tear" serve as of arthritis where the cartilage cushioning a intersection breaks down. The knees are all the most commonly affected joints.
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Television Advertising About Stop Smoking Are Most Effective If It Uses The Images And The Testimonials
Television Advertising About Stop Smoking Are Most Effective If It Uses The Images And The Testimonials.
Television ads that inspirit kinsfolk to rid of smoking are most effective when they use a "why to quit" strategy that includes either graphic images or offensive testimonials, a new study suggests. The three most common broad themes hand-me-down in smoking cessation campaigns are why to quit, how to quit and anti-tobacco industry, according to scientists at RTI International, a into or institute related site. The study authors examined how smokers responded to and reacted to TV ads with abundant themes.
They also looked at the impact that certain characteristics - such as cigarette consumption, lust to quit, and past quit attempts - had on smokers' responses to the extraordinary types of ads site here. "While there is considerable variation in the specific execution of these broad themes, ads using the 'why to quit' procedure with graphic images or personal testimonials that evoke specific stirring responses were perceived as more effective than the other ad categories," lead author Kevin Davis, a chief research health economist in RTI's Public Health Policy Research Program, said in an society news release.
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The Role Of The Man In The American Family Changes Every Year
The Role Of The Man In The American Family Changes Every Year.
For dads aiming at marital bliss, a strange work suggests just two factors are especially important: being pledged with the kids, for sure - but also doing a fair allotment of the household chores. In other words, just taking the children outside for a game of catch won't picture it. "In our study, the wives thought father involvement with the kids and participation in household slave are all inter-related and worked together to improve marital quality," said Adam Galovan, bring author of the study and a researcher at the University of Missouri, in Columbia in June 2013 vigrxbox.com. "They deliberate being a good father involves more than just doing things involved in the care of children".
Galovan found that wives surface more cared for when husbands are involved with their children, yet helping out with the day-to-day responsibilities of running the household also matters. But Galovan was surprised to recover that how husbands and wives specifically divide the work doesn't seem to material much discover more. Husbands and wives are happier when they share parenting and household responsibilities, but the chores don't have to be divided equally, according to the study.
What matters is that both parents are actively participating in both chores and child-rearing. Doing household chores and being plighted with the children seem to be prominent ways for husbands to connect with their wives, and that bearing is related to better relationships. The research was recently published in the Journal of Family Issues.
For the study, the researchers tapped evidence from a 2005 study that pulled marriage licenses of couples married for less than one year from the Utah Department of Health. Researchers looked at every third or fourth union commission over a six-month period. From that data, Galovan surveyed 160 couples between 21 and 55 years familiar who were in a first marriage. The majority of participants - 73 percent - were between 25 and 30 years old.
Almost 97 percent were white. Of participants, 98 percent of the husbands and 16 percent of the wives reported they were employed fullest time, while 24 percent worked break up time. The mean couple had been married for about five years, and the unexceptional income of the participants was between $50000 and $60000 a year.
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The Health Of Children Born Prematurely
The Health Of Children Born Prematurely.
Over the ago two decades, the vigorousness of children born with the help of fertility treatments has improved substantially, according to a unusual study. Fewer babies are being born prematurely or with low birth weight. There are also fewer stillbirths or children in extremis within the first year of life, researchers in Denmark found. The weigh was published in the Jan 21, 2015 online edition of the journal Human Reproduction here. "During the 20-year space of our study, we observed a remarkable decline in the risk of being born preterm or very preterm," Dr Anna-Karina Aaris Henningsen, of the Fertility Clinic at the Rigshospitalet, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, said in a minute-book story release.
Medical advancements and the skill of doctors played a job in those improvements. But, the study authors said the positive changes are primarily due to policies apropos the transfer of just one embryo at a time during fertility procedures continue reading. "These data show that if there is a national policy to cart only one embryo per cycle during assisted reproduction, this not only lowers the rates of multiple pregnancies, but also has an noted effect on the health of the single baby".
She explained that by transferring only one embryo, doctors can avoid multiple births. They also from the need for reduction procedures after successful implantation of more than one embryo. The researchers reviewed the salubrity outcomes of more than 62000 single babies and nearly 30000 twins born with the assist of assisted reproduction. The babies were born in Denmark, Finland, Norway or Sweden between 1988 and 2007.
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Victims Of Sudden Cardiac Arrest Can Often Be Saved By Therapeutic Hypothermia
Victims Of Sudden Cardiac Arrest Can Often Be Saved By Therapeutic Hypothermia.
For kith and kin plagued with sudden cardiac arrest, doctors often place to turn to a brain-protecting "cooling" of the body, a procedure called therapeutic hypothermia. But late research suggests that physicians are often too quick to terminate potentially lifesaving supportive care when these patients' brains be to "re-awaken" after a standard waiting period of three days read this. The probing suggests that these patients may need care for up to a week before they regain neurological alertness.
And "Most patients receiving normal care - without hypothermia - will be neurologically awake by day 3 if they are waking up," explained the go first author of one study, Dr Shaker M Eid, an second professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. However, in his team's study, "patients treated with hypothermia took five to seven days to path up" source. The results of Eid's bookwork and two others on therapeutic hypothermia were scheduled to be presented Saturday during the conclave of the American Heart Association in Chicago.
For over 25 years, the prognosis for salvage from cardiac arrest and the decision to withdraw care has been based on a neurological exam conducted 72 hours after incipient treatment with hypothermia, Eid pointed out. The new findings may sling doubt on the wisdom of that approach.
For the Johns Hopkins report, Eid and colleagues planned 47 patients who survived cardiac arrest - a sudden loss of heart function, often tied to underlying goodness disease. Fifteen patients were treated with hypothermia and seven of those patients survived to nursing home discharge. Of the 32 patients that did not receive hypothermia therapy, 13 survived to discharge.
Within three days, 38,5 percent of patients receiving orthodox disquiet were alert again, with only mild mental deficits. However, at three days none of the hypothermia-treated patients were cautious and conscious.
But things were different at the seven-day mark: At that point, 33 percent of hypothermia-treated patients were on guard and had only mild deficits. And by the time of their hospital discharge, 83 percent of the hypothermia-treated patients were lookout and had only mild deficits, the researchers found. "Our evidence are preliminary, provocative but not robust enough to prompt change in clinical practice," Eid stated.
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Excess Weight Is Not The Verdict
Excess Weight Is Not The Verdict.
For the triumph time, researchers have shown that implanting electrodes in the brain's "feeding center" can be safely done - in a offer to bring out a new treatment option for severely obese people who fail to shed pounds even after weight-loss surgery. In a beginning study with three patients, researchers in June 2013 found that they could safely use the therapy, known as crafty brain stimulation (DBS). Over almost three years, none of the patients had any straight-faced side effects, and two even lost some weight - but it was temporary read more here. "The cardinal thing we needed to do was to see if this is safe," said lead researcher Dr Donald Whiting, depravity chairman of neurosurgery at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.
And "We're at the point now where it looks equal it is". The study, reported in the Journal of Neurosurgery and at a meeting this week of the International Neuromodulation Society in Berlin, Germany, was not meant to study effectiveness found here. So the big remaining call in is, can deep brain stimulation actually promote lasting weight loss?
"Nobody should get the intimation that this has been shown to be effective. This is not something you can go ask your doctor about". Right now, deep planner stimulation is sometimes used for tough-to-treat cases of Parkinson's disease, a movement disorder that causes tremors, ceremonious muscles, and balance and coordination problems. A surgeon implants electrodes into established movement-related areas of the brain, then attaches those electrodes to a neurostimulator placed under the skin near the collarbone.
The neurostimulator continually sends teeny-weeny electrical pulses to the brain, which in turn interferes with the anomalous activity that causes tremors and other symptoms. What does that have to do with obesity? In theory deep wit stimulation might be able to "override" brain signaling involved in eating, metabolism or feelings of fullness.
Research in animals has shown that electrical stimulation of a separate area of the brain - the lateral hypothalamic area - can stimulate weight loss even if calorie intake stays the same. The new ponder marks the first time that deep brain stimulation has been tried in that brain region. And it's an well-connected first step to show that not only could these three severely obese people get through the surgery, but they also seemed to have no crucial effects from the brain stimulation, said Dr Casey Halpern, a neurosurgeon at the University of Pennsylvania who was not tangled in the research.
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Jennifer Esposito Height, Weight, Bra, Bio, Figure Size
Jennifer Esposito is a famous American film and television actress, model and dancer that ruled on the hearts of the people with her super hot looks and stylish appearances that attracted the people of the country to watch and like the acting of the actress a lot.
Jennifer Esposito was born on 11 April 1973 in the city of New York, United States. The mother of the actress named Phyllis that was an interior designer and the father of the actress named Robert Esposito that worked as a computer consultant and a music producer in the American film industry and was well known in the industry as well.
The actress Jennifer Esposito belongs to an Italian descent and she started her performance in the film and television series in her child age and was highly fond of working as an actress in the American film industry.
Jennifer Esposito started her professional career as an actress and appeared in the first television presentation named Law and Order in 1996 and after that directly joined the television series named Spin City.
Jennifer Esposito got married with actor Bradley Cooper in December 30, 2006 and just after a year they divorced in 2007 and soon after that she tie the knot with tennis player Mark Philippoussis.
Jennifer Esposito performed in many of the hit films and television productions that are highly appreciated by the people of the country and they really praise the talent and the skills of the actress that got the attention of the people all around the country very quickly in few years.
In 2011 she was suffered with the disease of Celiac disease and after sometime a book was published on the struggle of the actress with the celiac disease by Da Capo Lifelong Books.
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Some of the most famous films and television performances of the actress Jennifer Esposito are like The Sunshine Boys in 1996, A Brother's Kiss in 1997, A Brooklyn State of Mind in 1997, Charlie Hoboken in 1998, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer in 1998, The Proposal in 2001 and Four Single Fathers in 2009.
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Q: DD Android to PC is not copying I have to do a forensic analysis on a device (GT-I9505) for my thesis and I'm trying to get an image of the user data partition.
Device is rooter, with custom recovery and busybox as well. I followed a tutorial I found from another topic and it works but not as it should be, I think.
I have run this
adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:5555
adb shell
su
/system/xbin/busybox nc -l -p 5555 -e /system/xbin/busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p29

My problem is that from time to time this is what is happening.  Is it normal?

A: (Posted on behalf of the OP).
I did it again and i left my computer all night without doing anything else and it worked. I don't what was the problem before but it works now.

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