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Does the medical alert system come with other services? Some medical alert systems come with additional services such as medication reminders, glucose monitoring reminders, and the like. It's good to know what other services can be included with the purchase of your services, so make sure you ask what's included.
7. What happens if something goes wrong with my equipment? Most of us hate reading the fine print. I challenge anyone out there to read the "terms and conditions" of the 5 or 6 medical alert devices you want to evaluate (gives me a headache even thinking about doing that again). So that in mind, I would encourage anyone making a decision on a particular device to ask; What happens if your system goes down? Does someone come out to fix it? Will they send you another one asap? Do you need to send the dysfunctional system back? etc. Also, one other point… when you have narrowed down your choice, read the fine print by looking up the terms-and-conditions of the particular provider on their websites.
8. Does the medical alert system include "automatic fall detection"? Medical alert systems have come a long way in the last 5 years. Today's advanced systems can detect when a user has fallen automatically. It's all in the advanced algorithms developed by brilliant engineers and embedded into small devices which are saving lives everyday. These smart-systems can distinguish (in most cases) between when someone has actually fallen, and when someone has decided to sit down abruptly. "The big three" that (currently) offer automatic fall detection are Halo Monitoring Systems, Wellcore Personal Emergency Response, and Philips Lifeline with auto alert.
9. Am I purchasing these devices, or leasing them, or neither? Goes back to my prior suggestion about reading the fine print… Find out (ahead of time) whether the equipment is yours or not. What happens if you no longer require the equipment? What happens if you damage the equipment?
10. What is my total yearly cost? This gets down to "brass tax"… How much does this cost me each year (total cash outflow). Enough said.
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As the population ages, the range of services for seniors increases. The medical alarm is one of those pieces of technology that has grown in popularity. Where there were once only a few businesses offering medical alert systems, there are now dozens. So, how does one choose the best medical alarm out of the many options available?
One of the most important features of a medical alarm is the monitoring service. If an individual has made the decision that they need an alert system, then they have made the decision that they may need outside help in case of an emergency. If the monitoring system fails or is unsatisfactory, then the alert system is inadequate. A monitoring system should be a monitoring centre, not be a direct call to 911. Many people who utilize medical alert systems simply require outside support such as a friend or family member, not emergency services. A monitoring service can provide this support. Secondly, the provider of the medical alarm should own the monitoring service. This way, the professionals who answer the alarm are qualified by the standards of the medical alarm company.
Medical alert systems should be easy to install. Most should take a matter of minutes to set up. If a system's set-up seems too onerous or complicated, then the company has not fully considered the needs of their clientele. The installation should be easy or provided free-of-charge. They should also provide long-term, 24/7 technical support.
Another element to consider is the company's history and reputation. There are companies who have been in the business of medical alert systems for decades. These companies know their business and are more likely to have proven equipment. The company that only started offering medical alarms in the past couple of years is less likely to thoroughly understand the needs of their clients. The new company is also less likely to have amassed positive testimonials – do a simple Google search to find out what others say about the company and the services offered.
How a Medical Alert System helps you?
Consider a situation when you are taking a bath and suddenly you feel congestion in your heart, and are about to collapse. Or you suffer from epileptic fits, and are on your way to the market when you sense one is coming. In such life-threatening situations, the patients and their family members remain tense every moment and are therefore nagged by a feeling of insecurity that takes away their peace of mind, making it hard to focus on daily life. This demoralizing situation becomes worse with every passing day. This is where the Medical Alert Alarms come to your rescue, to restore your confidence and the feeling of security.
There are only a few things in this world that cannot be avoided, and aging is one of these things. The lifeline medical alert system is a special type of medical device that is designed to help save lives. The systems are linked to emergency response teams, in the event that a senior requires additional care. The systems are easy to operate. They are designed to be worn by the individual who has them. With a built in voice communicator, the systems can detect your voice, when you push a button for assistance. The easy push button will route you to an individual that can help you with whatever situation you are in.
The lifeline medical alert system is a great product that has helped millions of people all around the world. Allowing for an aging parent or an individual who has physical needs to still feel like they have their independence is a huge deal. People do not like to have to rely on someone else to consistently help them. With personal emergency response systems, the individual does not have to. They can live their own life and reach out for help if they need it.


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|A classic view of transmedia. Nothing wrong with it, except for the fact that no people are involved.
Picture from sonofhowell.com
Basically it is very easy to get lost in the myriad of storytelling, technical and other possibilities and connections outlined in the picture above. We need to remember that it is actual people who will design, develop, produce, distribute and market the content that is created; these people need to gel, at least in the context of the project, or else we'll have something worth less than the sum of its' parts, instead of the other way around.
|Five people we need to get to talk to and understand each other,
if a transmedia project is to be a success

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| Enter Iris and Axew!
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Enter Iris and Axew! (Japanese: アイリスとキバゴ! Iris and Kibago!) is the second episode of the Best Wishes series, and the 659th episode of the Pokémon anime. It first aired in Japan, as part of a one-hour special along with BW001, on September 23, 2010, and in the United States on February 12, 2011, once again premiering after In The Shadow of Zekrom!.
|Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.
After being struck by lightning, Pikachu is having trouble using its Electric-type attacks...but a second strange thunderstorm heals the Pokémon just as quickly! Attributing the ordeal to the Legendary Pokémon Zekrom, Professors Oak and Juniper agree that further research is needed.
Meanwhile, Team Rocket has arrived in the Unova region, and prepares to launch an operation designed to steal both Zekrom and Pikachu! Ash is eager to start his new journey, and armed with a new Pokédex and new Poké Balls, our hero sets out to meet as many Unova Pokémon as he can. While trying to catch a Pidove, Ash runs into a girl named Iris and her Pokémon Axew. It doesn't take long for Team Rocket to launch a plot to steal Pikachu, Pidove, and Axew, too! Of course, Ash springs into action, battling his old enemies Jessie, James and Meowth. He gets some help from an unexpected source: Oshawott, who has been following Ash and Pikachu since they left Professor Juniper's lab. Before long, all the Pokémon are safely returned, while Team Rocket mysteriously vanishes.
The group visits the Pokémon Center, where Nurse Joy restores Pikachu, Axew, and Pidove to perfect health. Iris admits that although Ash acts "like a kid," she is impressed with the way he sprang into action when saving their three Pokémon. And Ash wonders out loud why Oshawott helped them out the way it did...
After arriving in Unova, having being struck by blue lightning from a thundercloud and losing to Trip's Snivy, Pikachu is now in Professor Juniper's lab, and is being excessively charged by electricity. Oshawott watches from outside the room, while the two Professors, Professor Oak and Professor Juniper attempt to restore power to the lab's electronics. Meanwhile, a large blue lightning bolt continuously rains downwards, and the silhouette of the legendary Pokémon Zekrom is seen hiding within the clouds. Its wings glow bright blue and with a burst of energy, it flies up towards the sky.
Pikachu falls on all fours, screaming in pain. Ash, in an attempt to calm it down, immediately grabs Pikachu and is shocked by the electricity. Immediately, the blue lightning and the black clouds disappears suddenly and the sky is calm once again. Ash falls back onto the ground, and his mom, out of concern, rushes to his side. Pikachu lies on the ground on its belly, its cheeks emitting sparks. The electronic systems in the lab then mysteriously regain power.
Mrs. Ketchum, followed by Oshawott who walks up to Ash, both express their concern over him. Ash reassures them and gets up immediately, apparently worried about Pikachu. The Electric Mouse Pokémon gets up on its feet, smiles and then charges its tail with electricity, showing Ash that it has recovered. In order to test out Pikachu's electricity further, Ash commands Pikachu to use Thunderbolt and Volt Tackle on him. After Ash was given a decent shock from Pikachu, he comes to the conclusion that Pikachu is back to normal, before collapsing due to exhaustion.
Later that night, while having dinner together with Pikachu, his mother, and Professor Oak, Ash announces that he wants to begin a new adventure in Unova, to be able to meet new Pokémon and make new friends, and will be challenging the Unova League. Approving of his decision, Professor Oak tells him that he will take good care of his other Pokémon while he is away, while Ash's mother advises Pikachu to look after Ash. Professor Oak, as a researcher, then requests Ash to occasionally report to him about new Pokémon and discoveries. Right after their dinner, Professor Juniper gives him a Pokédex and five Poké Balls, and tells him that the first Gym is at Striaton City. She also reminds him that he may meet his rival, Trip, while on his journey.
As the sun rises in the morning, Ash is now prepared to leave for his journey. Meanwhile, Mrs. Ketchum, standing beside the two Professors, now rattles off a list of advice and to-dos for Ash on his journey. He tells her that he is not a small boy anymore, and when Professor Juniper informs him about the Pokémon Center after leaving the forest, he turns around and sets off, the three adults cheering him on. Oshawott watches from behind.
Ash walks into the forest, wondering what kind of Pokémon he will capture first. He then hears rustling from a bush he jogs past, and seeing something purple, he checks his Pokédex. The electronic gadget displays a picture of an Axew, apparently green in color. Talking about Axew's properties and behavior, Ash wonders why what he sees is so different from what it is being displayed. Nevertheless, without thinking, he throws a Poké Ball, and it hits... a girl's head! The girl rises from the bush, enraged at being thought of as a Pokémon. Apparently, it was actually her purple hair that Ash had spotted while she was picking fruits. Ash immediately apologies for his actions. Accepting his apology, the girl raises the fruit she had picked to her hair and an Axew pops out, grabs the fruit and lands on the ground, eating it.
As Pikachu walks forward towards Axew, it was spotted by the girl and was grabbed. She then starts playing with its cheeks, hugging it tightly and starts cuddling it. She asks Ash about Pikachu, and the two then formally introduce each other. The girl is actually named Iris. During the conversation, Pikachu struggles to breathe and discharges a lot of electricity, causing Iris to drop to the ground. Later on, Iris apologizes to Pikachu, and she questions Ash about the incident that happened yesterday. Upon hearing that Professor Juniper described the Pokémon as Zekrom, she starts further questioning him, but Ash and Pikachu, having spotted a Deerling, became distracted and chases after it.
Somewhere in a cave, Jessie, James and Meowth are reporting to Giovanni, who has learnt that their infiltration to the Unova region was successful. The Team Rocket trio, plotting to capture Pikachu and a legendary Pokémon they had encountered, requests to have their Pokémon that they had left in the Headquarters. However, Matori interrupts, and tells them that using Pokémon that are not native to Unova would raise suspicions, so they will have to catch Pokémon only found in Unova. Meowth then wonders if he will be alright, as he is not native to Unova. Giovanni takes his leave, and the three become very determined to succeed. Back at the HQ, Giovanni once again reaffirms his secretary's doubts by telling her that trusts the trio, and that he is sure that their operations will result in Unova's secret organization revealing themselves. Meanwhile, the trio are inspecting the 'Starter Kit' they have been sent (which comes with Poké Balls), when a colony of Woobat flies towards them.
Back in the forest, Ash spots a herd of Deerling near a pond, and checks his Pokédex. Without thinking again, he throws a Poké Ball at one of them, to which it easily deflected with its head. Iris then teases Ash for not battling the Deerling first, to which Ash responds he was trying his luck. Ash is about to send Pikachu into battle when suddenly, one of the Deerling alerts the herd, and they all run away. Apparently, the Deerling was alerted because a scurry of Patrat was on a rampage, rather than it being due to Pikachu's presence.
Night soon approaches and the sun begins to set. As Ash and Iris begins searching for food, Ash picks an apple from the tree and wonders if it could be eaten. However, Iris manages to obtain a mountain of apples from the same tree, significantly burying Ash and Pikachu underneath.
As night falls, Iris and Axew are sitting on the tree, while Ash and Pikachu are sitting on the ground, all four of them eating apples. They soon talk about yesterday's incident whereby Pikachu was unable to generate electric attacks due to Zekrom's mysterious powers. Iris then exclaims excitedly about encountering Zekrom, while Ash starts talking about the possibility of meeting mysterious Pokémon like Zekrom everywhere. Ash looks up, and realizes that Iris and Axew had fallen asleep.
Ash and Pikachu begin admiring the brilliant, star-filled night sky, when a shooting star, a symbol of good luck, runs across their field of vision. The two soon become excited about their journey, and as they drown themselves in a babble of energized chatter, Oshawott appears from behind a bush, oblivious to the two of them...
The next day, Ash wakes to find Iris missing, but nevertheless continues with his journey. He sees a Pidove flying above the forest, checks his Pokédex, and decides to catch it before giving chase. Reaching a clearing where a flock of Pidove had gathered, Ash tells Pikachu to engage the one closest to it. Pikachu, using its super-effective Thunderbolt against Pidove, causes it to faint. However, when Ash is about to throw a Poké Ball, the enraged flock of Pidove attacks Ash and Pikachu with Air Cutter and Quick Attack, buying enough time for the fainted Pidove to recover and flee. As the entire flock of Pidove flee, Ash starts feeling dejected, until one particular Pidove walks in front of Ash and starts pecking at the ground.
Grabbing this opportunity, Ash commands Pikachu to use Quick Attack, and Pidove is sent flying across the ground. It then manages to get onto its feet, recovers and tries to regain an awareness of its surroundings. As it was doing so, Pikachu jumps into the air and its tail hardens into block of shiny metal. With one fell swoop, it lands its Iron Tail attack on Pidove, causing it to fall back onto its belly. Ash quickly throws a Poké Ball, and Pidove turns into a red blob of energy that is soon drawn into the red-white sphere. The ball lands on the ground, and starts tethering back and forth. Ash and Pikachu watches quietly, waiting for the indication on the Poké Ball to signify Pidove's capture. For a moment Ash thought he had caught it, but the Poké Ball eventually burst open and Pidove escapes into the air.
Now, in retaliation, Pidove attacks Pikachu with Gust, Quick Attack and then an Air Cutter. Confident of itself, it attempts to finish Pikachu off with a second Quick Attack. This time, however, Pikachu jumps into the air in time and dodges it, and Pidove flies uncontrollably in the air, hitting a nearby tree. Pikachu then prepares a Thunderbolt attack as Pidove gets up, trying to avoid the attack, but fails - it was hit and became unconscious. Ash throws a Poké Ball again, Pidove turns into a red globe of energy and is, once again, drawn into the ball. The ball drops and shakes, Ash waits in anticipation. Will he be able to catch it? The red light soon disappears, and the ball stops moving. Ash has caught Pidove!
As Ash and Pikachu celebrate the success of their first capture in Unova, Iris shows up with an apple, saying that his celebration over catching a Pidove is typical of a small child's behavior. Ash then exclaims that he now has a new partner when competing in the Unova League. During the conversation, Axew splits the apple given by Iris and shares it with Pikachu. However, before the two Pokémon could finish eating, a pair of mechanical hands grabs them. Ash and Iris turn around to find the Team Rocket trio, standing beside the 'hands'-machine and reciting their new motto.
Iris questions who Team Rocket are, and she soon realizes that they are a group of people who steal Pokémon for their evil ambitions and aim to conquer the world. Iris immediately demands Team Rocket to return her Axew, but she also notices that Meowth is able to talk. As she is amazed, Meowth then self-proclaims that is it far more intelligent than all other Meowth. Team Rocket then places Pikachu and Axew in a glass cage, forcing Ash to send out Pidove. In an attempt to show how strong Pokémon from Kanto are, Jessie sends Meowth to battle, who attempted to use Fury Swipes. With great flaps of its wings, Pidove sends Meowth flying backwards with a Gust attack. Jessie then sends out a bat-like Pokémon which she had captured: Woobat (She only learns of the name only when Iris announces it). Woobat starts attacking Pidove with an Air Slash, but Pidove evades the attack and charges at Woobat with a Quick Attack. Woobat dodges to the side, turns around and uses Gust, knocking Pidove down. Pidove hits the ground and faints, and Woobat is recalled by its owner.
James then prepares a purple balloon, ready to escape from Ash and Iris. Desperate, Ash and Iris both climb a nearby tree and Ash jumps off from the top, ready to grab the glass box that was hanging steadily underneath the balloon. However, he misses and falls back all the way to the ground. Seemingly hopeless at rescuing Pikachu and Axew, Oshawott suddenly appears from nowhere and throws its scalchop at Team Rocket's balloon. Air escapes from their balloon and they now descend downwards towards the ground, eventually shattering the box which contains Pikachu and Axew. As the box breaks open and the captured Pokémon fly out, both Ash and Iris jump forward to catch their Pokémon, while Oshawott catches its scalchop, places it back at its belly, and jumps for joy.
However, Team Rocket will not retreat without a fight. As Ash and Iris refuse to hand over their Pokémon, Ash tells Pikachu to attack with Thunderbolt. Jessie immediately sends out Woobat, and the Bat Pokémon uses Air Slash on Pikachu and Axew before Pikachu's electric attack could hit. For a second time, Jessie tells Woobat to use Air Slash. Just before Woobat could perform its attack, Oshawott jumps in front of the two Pokémon and uses Water Gun on Woobat, sending it flying towards Team Rocket. Pikachu gets up. With a surge of electricity, it charges itself and attempts to run its Volt Tackle into Team Rocket. However, James throws a smoke bomb and a smoke curtain is formed, causing Pikachu to run into the smoke. When the smoke has cleared, however, Team Rocket had already disappeared. Pikachu and Axew, tired and exhausted, faint and collapse onto the ground. Ash grabs Pikachu and thanks Oshawott. Then, together with Iris, they both rush to the Pokémon Center. Oshawott stares blankly as they disappeared into the distance, puzzled as to what had happened.
Later that evening, Ash's Pikachu and Pidove and Iris's Axew were healed at the Pokémon Center. Nurse Joy exclaims that it is the first time she had seen and healed a Pikachu, and Ash makes his introduction. As she learns that Ash is from Pallet Town in the Kanto region and it is his first time visiting a Unova Pokémon Center, she formally welcomes him on behalf of all Pokémon Centers. Iris then thanks Ash for helping her rescue Axew, but Ash says that Oshawott should be thanked instead. As Ash wonders why Oshawott had helped them, the Sea Otter Pokémon secretly peeps into the Pokémon Center and observes Ash...
Major events
- Zekrom appears again, and Pikachu recovers his electric powers.
- Ash decides to remain in Unova and challenge its Pokémon League.
- Ash learns the first Unova League Gym is in Striaton City.
- Ash meets a mysterious girl named Iris and her Axew.
- Iris decides to follow Ash in his journey.
- Jessie and James are revealed to have left all their Pokémon at Team Rocket's Headquarters.
- Ash tries and fails to capture a Deerling.
- Ash captures a Pidove.
- Jessie captures a Woobat.
- Team Rocket changes to a new motto.
- Professor Juniper's Oshawott starts to follow Ash.
- For a list of all major events in the anime, please see the timeline of events.
Pokémon debuts
- Ash
- Iris
- Jessie
- James
- Nurse Joy
- Professor Oak
- Delia
- Professor Juniper
- Giovanni
- Matori
- Trip (flashback)
- Pikachu (Ash's)
- Meowth (Team Rocket)
- Axew (Iris's)
- Pidove (Ash's; new)
- Woobat (Jessie's; new; debut)
- Snivy (Trip's; flashback)
- Zekrom
- Oshawott (Juniper's)
- Deerling (multiple)
- Woobat (multiple; debut)
- Patrat (multiple)
- Pidove (multiple)
- Professor Oak's Pokémon Live Caster: Poké Balls
- Even though she debuted in the previous episode, Iris is officially introduced in this episode.
- This episode marks the first appearance of the redesigned Nurse Joy.
- This is the second time James has no Pokémon on hand and the first time Jessie had no Pokémon on hand.
- Also, as of this episode, this is the longest time a Trainer has gone without having a Pokémon on hand, lasting for 23 episodes. In the previous occurrence, A Poached Ego!, James had no Pokémon briefly, right before catching Cacnea at the end of the episode.
- Team Rocket's balloon has been redesigned from a Meowth to a purple balloon.
- This episode is the only appearance of the purple balloon.
- As of this episode, Wobbuffet is no longer a member of the main cast.
- The English dub of this episode aired as a one-hour special along with In The Shadow of Zekrom! making it the first time more than one new episode premiered during the same day since Tag! We're It...!, Glory Blaze! and Smells Like Team Spirit! aired together back on February 1, 2008.
- Music from Arceus and the Jewel of Life is used as background music.
- This episode, like BW001, was aired in Italy on DisneyXD one day after the American airing.
- This marks the first time an episode is aired in Italy one day after the American airing.
- Ash captured a Pidove and Jessie captured a Woobat, oddly, these Pokémon swarm in Nuvema Town after the player goes out whether in day or night.
- In the scene where Matori puts the coffee on Giovanni's desk, the yellow stripes on Giovanni's uniform are missing.
- When Team Rocket capture Pikachu and Axew, Pikachu is shown to be held in the left arm and Axew in the right. Later they are shown in the opposite arms.
- After Iris says "Axew isn't yours. It's mine", Pikachu's right cheek is missing.
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In other languages
|Влизат Ирис и Аксю!
|Mandarin Chinese
|Iris og Axew!
|Hier zijn Iris en Axew!
|Tavatkaa Iris ja Axew!
|Die Reise beginnt...!
|Γνωριμία με την Άιρις και τον Axew!
|Iris aur Axew ki entry!
|Iris dan Axew!
|Entrino Iris e Axew!
|새로운 친구 아이리스와 터검니
|Møtet med Iris og Axew!
|Nadchodzą Iris i Axew!
|Entram Iris e Axew!
|Entram em Cena a Iris e o Axew!
|Знакомство с Ирис и Эксью
|Latin America
|¡Entran Iris y Axew!
|¡Entran Iris y Axew!
|Iris och Axew!
|ไอริส กับ คิบาโกะ
|This episode article is part of Project Anime, a Bulbapedia project that covers all aspects of the Pokémon anime.
- Best Wishes series episodes
- Episodes written by Shinzō Fujita
- Episodes storyboarded by Takaomi Kanezaki
- Episodes directed by Tetsuo Yajima
- Episodes animated by Tomohiro Koyama
- Episodes focusing on Iris
- Episodes focusing on Pikachu
- Episodes focusing on Axew
- Episodes in which a main character obtains a new Pokémon
- Episodes in which a legendary Pokémon appears


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No. 100,531
The Kansas Offender Registration Act, K.S.A. 22-4901 et seq., requires that sex offenders register for 10 years on a first conviction and for life on a second or subsequent conviction. Because the legislature knows the distinction between juvenile adjudications and adult convictions and has set up a separate registration protocol for juvenile offenders, a juvenile adjudication does not qualify as a conviction for purposes of K.S.A. 22-4906(a).
Appeal from Riley District Court; DAVID L. STUTZMAN, judge. Opinion filed July 31, 2009. Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded with directions.
Carl Folsom, III, of Kansas Appellate Defender Office, for appellant.
Bethany C. Fields, deputy county attorney, Barry Wilkerson, county attorney, and Steve Six, attorney general, for appellee.
Before RULON, C.J., GREENE and LEBEN, JJ.
LEBEN, J.: Kansas law requires that certain sex offenders register with the state for 10 years "[u]pon the first conviction of a sexually violent crime" and for life "upon a second or subsequent conviction." K.S.A. 22-4906(a). When Adrian Reese was convicted of a sexually violent crime, the district court ordered him to register for life because he had a prior juvenile adjudication for a similar offense. But the legislature set up a different system--with registrations for no more than 5 years and the option of keeping the registration nonpublic--for juvenile offenders. And the legislature has shown that it knows how to differentiate between criminal convictions and juvenile adjudications in various statutes. We therefore reverse the district court's order of lifetime registration.
The State's argument on this issue is a classic resort to purposive statutory interpretation: the statute is designed to protect the public and keep a close eye on sex offenders, so let's broadly interpret "conviction" to include juvenile adjudications. But statutory interpretation focuses first on the words actually used by the legislature. If the legislature understands that there's a difference between an adjudication--the term used when a juvenile is found to have committed a crime--and a conviction--the term used when a person tried as an adult is found to have committed one--then we cannot lightly disregard the legislature's choice to say "upon a second or subsequent conviction" rather than "upon a second or subsequent conviction or adjudication."
The legislature understands this distinction quite well as we recently discussed in State v. Boyer, 40 Kan. App. 2d 318, 321-22, 191 P.3d 357 (2008). We reviewed several cases in which the Kansas Supreme Court and our court have concluded that a statutory reference to convictions didn't include juvenile adjudications. The Kansas Supreme Court reviewed our analysis of these cases and agreed with it: "This court and the Court of Appeals have repeatedly held that the legislature not only knows how to distinguish between juvenile adjudications and adult convictions, but it has done so in several statutes." State v. Boyer, 288 Kan. ___, 209 P.3d 705, 711 (2009).
The Kansas Offender Registration Act, K.S.A. 22-4901 et seq., is certainly one of these statutes in which the legislature demonstrated its ability to distinguish between convictions and adjudications. The statute contains a separate plan for the registration of juveniles. For "a person who is adjudicated as a juvenile offender for an act which if committed by an adult would constitute the commission of a sexually violent crime," registration is generally required for a 5-year period, not the 10-year period applicable on a first adult conviction. K.S.A. 22-4906(a), (h)(1). Moreover, the judge has the discretion to waive altogether the requirement that a juvenile sex offender register upon a finding of "substantial and compelling reasons," and the judge may as a matter of discretion provide that a juvenile's registration information be unavailable to the public. K.S.A. 22-4906(h)(2)(A). Those options are not available to judges in cases involving adult convictions.
So, for a first offense, a juvenile is subject to no more than 5 years of registration, and the judge may waive the registration altogether, while an adult is subject to a mandatory 10-year registration period. Yet the State would have us treat a juvenile adjudication as a first conviction. That reading simply is not consistent with the statutory language or scheme.
Even if there were some ambiguity in the statute so that we might consider reading "conviction" to mean "conviction or adjudication," we must take account of the rule of lenity. The Kansas Offender Registration Act is certainly a penal statute: failure to register as a sex offender is itself a level-5 felony offense. Under the rule of lenity, penal statutes are narrowly construed in favor of the defendant. Boyer, 40 Kan. App. 2d at 323. The rule of lenity is based on the notion that people should have fair notice of conduct that is criminal, State v. Edwards, 39 Kan. App. 2d 300, Syl. ¶ 1, 179 P.3d 472, rev. denied 286 Kan. 1181 (2008), and that concept has clear application to a statute requiring certain individuals to register with a local sheriff or be subject to imprisonment for a serious felony offense. See People v. Franklin, 20 Cal. 4th 249, 253-54, 84 Cal. Rptr. 2d 241, 975 P.2d 30 (1999) (applying rule of lenity to sex-offender registration law); State v. Stratton, 130 Wash. App. 760, 764-65, 124 P.3d 660 (2005) (same). We certainly cannot read "conviction" to mean "conviction or adjudication" without disregarding the rule of lenity's application to this statute.
Reese has raised several other issues in this appeal, but each of them is governed by recent decisions of the Kansas Supreme Court:
Because Reese was incorrectly sentenced as a persistent sex offender and incorrectly ordered to comply with sex-offender registration laws for life, we vacate his sentence and remand for resentencing.


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Bitmapped Sprites on the GirlTech IMME
with sprites by Eli Skipp,
extending Dave's LCD reversing,
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The GirlTech IMME is a fine platform for radio hacking and embedded programming, but the LCD of the device is by no means designed for lightning fast graphics. In this brief article, I demonstrate the method by which a sprite library can be constructed which abstracts away the less neighborly minutia of the LCD in favor of a row-wise framebuffer that gets flushed to the LCD as appropriate. This isn't fast enough for a port of Sonic the Hedgehog, but it's certainly sufficient for ZombieGotcha, a network disease simulation game that Eli Skipp and I are prototyping.
To quickly recap, the GirlTech IMME is a children's toy powered by the CC1110F32, which combines an 8051 microcontroller with a versatile sub-GHz radio. The toy also includes a text LCD controller and keyboard, making it a delightful platform for embedded systems hacking and prototyping. Thanks to Dave's article on attaching a debugger and reversing the LCD, it is possible to wire a GoodFET into the IMME, allowing for debugging and reprogramming of the device.
Since the days of the first raster displays, computers have been drawing images as rows, because that's the way that a television's electron stream is traced along the display. The IMME draws rows internally, but because it is intended to draw fonts, its rows are eight pixels tall. For example, the bytes {0x7f, 0x08, 0x08, 0x08, 0x7f, 0x00} are pushed to the LCD in order to draw an uppercase letter H in Dave's LCD Demo for the IMME. Drawing this on graph paper or rendering it by Python, it becomes clear that 0x7F represents a side of the letter, 0x08 represents the bar, and 0x00 is the space following the letter.
Rather than attempting to natively store a framebuffer in the LCD's format, I chose to internally index by row, then to translate during the export of the framebuffer to the LCD. My primary reason for doing this is to maintain portability of the ZombieGotcha code to custom hardware. It also simplifies the transcription of sprites from original bitmaps to C structures.
Having an internal framebuffer is not without cost, however. The buffer is 132 pixels wide and 64 pixels tall. Even with bit-packing, this is more than a kilobyte in size, consuming more than a quarter of the CC1110's 4kB of XDATA RAM. (Programs and sprites are stored in CODE Flash memory, of which there is 32kB, so this limit is not quite so severe as it sounds.)
My sprite toolchain is begun with bitmap images submitted by the artist. I cannot stress enough how important it is that your pixel artist understand pixels. Every sprite must be drawn at native resolution, with proper offsets of each frame and an understanding that the LCD is what it is, regardless of what Photoshop might render.
From the original bitmap sprites, PNM files are produced that are more easily parsed by Perl. This format consists of whitespace-delimited words for the format, width, and height of the sprite. In this case, the sprite consists of three frames, each of them being 24 pixels width and 32 pixels tall. Other sizes are possible, of course, but it is convenient for bit packing that the width is an even multiple of 8, so that the old pixels needn't be read back in.
It is then necessary to use an ugly Perl script to convert the sprite from a PNM to a C array of bytes. Pretty Perl won't work, of course, because such a thing doesn't exist. My script, sprite2c.pl, takes a 24-bit color PNM file and converts it to a 1-bit map that is byte-packed. Each of these is included by the preprocessor as a __code unsigned char[], with the __code keyword implying that the object should be stored in Flash rather than RAM.
Sprite animations are performed by storing the frame count along with the width and height in the C structure. Considering the resource constraints of this system, frame counts change very rarely and are stored within the C code.
Dumping the frame-buffer to the LCD is as simple as writing every stripe of data to the screen. Potentially, as an optimization, you could keep track of which stripes have been invalidated across what horizontal range, updating only where necessary.
Keeping in mind that the LCD is updated as stripes of 8 pixels in height, code such as the following will refresh the entire LCD from the frame-buffer. Be sure not to erase the LCD between writes, as that would cause unnecessary flickering.
The framebuffer elements themselves are grabbed by selecting the pixel index divided by 8, then masking off the selected bit. The following functions work admirably for this purpose.
If greater performance is required, a game should certainly be designed with a custom graphics library that optimizes the few things it does most. Performances can be gained by storing sprites and the frame-buffer natively in the row/stripe format that the LCD expects, simplifying conversion. Mike Ossmann used the technique of basing most graphics around vertical lines in his spectrum analyzer firmware, allowing for channels to be redrawned as they are scanned rather than flushed from a frame-buffer.
As the ZombieGotcha game is largely turn-based and the frame-rate is not a dire concern, I don't expect to optimize the sprite library much beyond what is presented here.
One major addition will be that of screenshots, as I'd like to produce animated GIFs of game action for the website. Screenshots can be produced by the method that I outline in CC1110 Instrumentation with Python, dumping the frame-buffer from XDATA with a GoodFET and writing that to disk. Alternatively, full-speed screenshots could be dumped by sniffing the LCD's SPI bus using a Total Phase Beagle or other SPI protocol analyzer.
For those of you with an IMME, Eli and I will be releasing the ZombieGotcha game at the Twenty-Seventh Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin this winter. We'll bring a bed of nails for reflashing IMME units on the spot, as well as GoodFET kits for modifying your IMME to be a development kit. (The ZombieGotcha will also run on full-custom hardware, but we are maintaining IMME support in parallel.)
As a final note, a teaser of the ZombieGotcha opening screen can be found here in the Intel-Hex format. I'll give a GoodFET40 kit to the first neighbor who sends me an animated GIF of it and a script to generate the same, either by a debugger or an emulator.
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- jrt-google said...
Used the Bus Pirate to sniff SPI, C program on PC to make PNM files, ImageMagick to render GIF.
The SPI bus ran too fast for Bus Pirate, so I had to hack the binary to lower the baud rate.
Will blog sources and method tomorrow.
Thanks for an evening's fun. Must sleep now...
- November 1, 2010 at 10:09 PM
- Michael Ossmann said...
jrt-google is a real man.
- November 1, 2010 at 11:49 PM
- jrt-google said...
Method and source code:
Thanks, that was a lot of fun :-)
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- PALMA said...
The GOODFET's microcontroller can be programed with the EZ430F2013??
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- Travis Goodspeed said...
Howdy Palma,
Every GoodFET is designed to be bootstrapped by USB. You do not need to already have a JTAG programmer of any kind in order to build it; just place the parts on the board and run 'goodfet.bsl --fromweb' to flash it.
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One very useful tactic is to turn the question on its head, and make the questioner be creative. It also is a very useful way of getting good insights. Ask them to tell you (a) what is their favorite/least favorite thing about working at the institution/in the department/in the city, (b) what surprised them the most about the job after having arrived, (c) what they wished they had known before taking the job. These are nice and open-ended, and will be useful for any interviewer. They also won't be in a position to re-answer a question with non-speaker-relative answer. I've gotten my most useful information / sparked great discussions with this tactic.
Other useful questions are: (d) what their vision for the direction of the department is, (e) whether/how they integrate philosophy into other units.
- February 2, 2011 at 4:59 PM
- KateNorlock said...
I've asked many schools what their opportunities for pre-tenure research leave are. This has yielded highly informative answers.
Like 4:59, I've also found asking about the future/vision/directions for the department (and for the college) quite useful.
Depending on the school, it may be helpful to ask if they have a standard teaching portfolio development process, or if the word 'portfolio' sounds nerdy, ask them how people there generally go about demonstrating teaching excellence at review-time. This is, of course, a more welcome question at places that actually care about teaching. (But of course we ALL do! Heh.)
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- February 2, 2011 at 8:08 PM
This is going to sound more cynical than it is, but asking people about their research is probably a good tactic. The non-cynical side of it is that you learn more about what people in the department are doing, which is obviously a legitimate subject of interest for a job candidate. The cynical side of it is that you get people talking about themselves, which takes the pressure off of you and probably gives them a warm fuzzy feeling about you, even if they don't realize why they feel that way. It's also a question that you can ask of everyone who asks you if you have any questions.
Other helpful follow-up questions would be whether they've received feedback on their research from their colleagues, whether they've had opportunities to present their research on campus, whether the department has supported them financially in presenting their research at conferences, etc.
- February 2, 2011 at 8:19 PM
After a certain point, I think it's appropriate (and wiser than asking sincere questions) to say something like "I think I've asked all of the questions that are most important to me at this stage in the process. But obviously if I get an offer from you, a lot more questions will quickly become relevant..." It's a perfectly honest way of saying you've run out of questions without conveying the impression that you're uninterested. In any case, often enough people are asking you if you have questions not because they're testing you but just because it's a way of getting you to set the topic of conversation. (Remember, most of the people you're dealing with are socially awkward academics who would feel a lot more comfortable having you set the conversational agenda than trying to do it themselves.)
- February 3, 2011 at 4:42 AM
If you are on a campus visit, you can ask for everyone's take on local housing. Where do professors live, what are the best neighborhoods, what would you be able to buy on an assistant professor's salary, etc?
Everyone has opinions on the local housing market, so you can ask everyone.
- February 3, 2011 at 2:28 PM
A word to the wise: Don't buy a house until you've secured tenure. You might want to leave in years 2 or 3 and a poor housing/rental market could stop you from doing so.
- February 3, 2011 at 2:44 PM
Ask about the ways the department sees itself changing or developing over the next few years. Ask about how the administration (esp. the dean) feels about the department's goals. Ask about how the department supports and encourages teaching and research. Ask about sabbaticals, how long, what are the terms. Ask about the service expectations for jr. tt faculty.
--SC member at a research university.
- February 3, 2011 at 5:56 PM
Ask how many philosophy majors they have, if they have a philosophy club etc. If no club express interest in starting one and volunteer to be the faculty liason.
--SC member at an undergraduate-teaching-matters-only school
- February 3, 2011 at 7:08 PM
FWIW, I've asked the do you have any questions question and, on numerous occasions (especially with meetings later in the day), been told "I think all my questions have been answered satisfactorily." This never bothers me in the least.
- February 3, 2011 at 10:19 PM
"Why does everyone keep pestering me about questions?"
- February 4, 2011 at 3:43 AM
Stock answers to this kind of a question are like jokes you know someone has been practicing -- they usually come off as socially awkward and uncomfortable.
You said: "Charming people skilled at small talk can probably do this easily. But we're philosophers."
What's interesting is that you seem to imply small talk is a skill, but then instead of thinking "Maybe we [philosophers] should work on that!" You go to the exact opposite place: don't work on it at all, and maybe make it worse by having a stock of situation-insensitive responses you can use.
It is possible to become more charming and get better social skills. Becoming better at human interaction really is one's number one job-search asset, and its one that's surprisingly underemphasized in the job search process. I've done it -- once I was super awkward, socially inept, badly dressed, mostly unlikable as a person, despite being not-awful on most days. Now I'm only sometimes awkward, equipped with slightly-better-than-mediocre social skills, dressed a bit better, and find that people [students, coworkers, cashiers at Starbucks, random strangers] seem to like me and want to to talk to me, like, actively. And it only really took a year of practice. (And some work with a really great therapy for social anxiety, which for many philosophers is probably not such a bad idea.)
Practice making small talk with people who are not philosophers and not about philosophy. At the bar. At the store in line. In the elevator. At the coffee shop. Waiting to cross the street. At the library desk. With the secretary and staff all over your campus. Smile at them. Say something -- anything -- that sounds friendly. Rinse. Repeat. You will have about a million awful socially awkward instances (at first people will think you are creepy, so you'll have to work on being not creepy), and somewhere will figure out how to do it. Then the sixtieth time someone asks you, "Do you have any questions?" You'll be able to say something charming, flattering, maybe a little bit funny, and make the asker like you more.
[You, bee tee dub, doesn't necessary apply to you, zombie, but to the broader audience of youse - those awkward philosophers I meet at every turn.)
- February 4, 2011 at 6:33 AM
Handling this "do you have any questions for us?" question is awfully stressful, I think. I think I destroyed what had been a good APA interview by asking a question (in response) in a way that, I've since heard, put the wrong idea in the interviewers' heads.
(It didn't occur to me that they were looking for someone who would teach all and only courses in just one of my AOS areas. (That's gotta be rare, right, unless you work in, say, ethics or logic, and even then. . . . ) So I used this question as an occasion to inquire about teaching opportunities in one of my other areas. This wasn't merely some bit of interviewing strategy, since I really did want to know what sort of teaching duties would come with the job, but I also wanted to draw attention to the fact that I wasn't only qualified to teach in the area we'd been talking about.
As it turns out, the other area I teach in is something their department's oldest and most unpleasant faculty member was extremely territorial about. So they were looking for someone who would be happy teaching X and only X, and my question scared them. I'm sure I scared them in other ways and that the other candidates were smarter and better, anyway, but still--this destroyed what had seemed like a good interview. They immediately seemed concerned, but they also avoided answering my question. And it wasn't like "there might be other opportunities down the road, but...." or "that's great--should professor L ever actually retire (please, dear God), then it would be nice to have someone who could do that," or "probably not--we're hoping to find someone who will be happy just teaching such-and-such." Instead, they just said "Oh--hmm, interesting question.")
So part of the challenge is thinking of a question that won't scare anyone.
- February 4, 2011 at 7:26 AM
- zombie said...
Anon 6:33, you're correct, of course.
But anyone who has interviews in the next month or so can probably use some helpful pointers while they work on the longterm charm offensive. I find, personally, that having well-rehearsed responses helps me to be spontaneous. That may sound counterintuitive, but consider an analogous situation: when I teach a class for the first time, even when I have extensive notes for my lectures, I feel less spontaneous and extemporize less. After I have taught a course a number of times, I know the material, I know how to pace my lectures, and I'm free and able to ad lib much more. I have taken a similar approach to interviews. Not an approach that works for everyone, of course.
- February 4, 2011 at 7:31 AM
"When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges"(J. Handey)
- February 4, 2011 at 12:00 PM
My program-of-current-employment had gone through an accreditation and had posted the documents - most relevantly, the self-study - online. This gave me a ton of concrete information to bolster the general questions. I got the job, and my impression was that they liked the fact that I was already thinking about helping the department's future in concrete ways. That's one twist one could put on the "What do you see as the future of the department?" kind of questions, supposing that there is enough info accessible to you ahead of time.
- February 7, 2011 at 1:18 AM
- Jason Brennan said...
I ask, "What does it take to be a good colleague in your department." It always reveals a lot about the department and signifies a desire to be a good colleague.
One time a department head--incidentally, a catholic priest, responded, "Son, that's a damn good question."
- February 7, 2011 at 3:06 PM
Anon 7:26 gave a useful anecdote. They want you to ask questions in part because of what those questions reveal about you. If you ask about teaching courses in a particular area, this tells them you want to do just that (a problem in the case reported by 7:26). If you ask about the philosophy society, this tells them you are interested in running it (a problem if there already is a faculty member who likes doing that). If you ask about pre-tenure research leave, this tells them you value research more than teaching (a problem at a teaching-oriented college.) If you ask what it takes to be a good colleague in their department, this might warn them you have had trouble being a good colleague before. I could go on, but you get the idea. Many seemingly innocent questions will tell them what they need to know in order to eliminate you from consideration.
- February 7, 2011 at 3:51 PM
- Jason Brennan said...
@ Anonymous 4:59 pm:
People can take any question the wrong way. But I can tell you from experience that I usually am complimented on the spot for asking the question, and I did rather well on the job market both times I tried it.
- February 7, 2011 at 5:31 PM
@ Jason Brennan
Good for you on doing well with that question. I still would not use it, considering that it invites the thought that anyone who needs to have collegiality explicitly spelled out is announcing they have a problem in that area. The very fact you cannot control people's interpretation poses specific problems for that and some other questions, but not all questions.
- February 8, 2011 at 5:02 PM
Don't you think specific positive evidence that a question works well defeats your speculative, unsubstantiated mere conjecture that it would backfire?
- February 8, 2011 at 5:47 PM
Jason Brennan (whom I once interviewed -- he did very well indeed) has nailed this question.
"Do you have any questions for us?," when asked at a first interview, is not an opportunity for you, the interviewee, to figure out how much you want the job. Rather, it is yet another opportunity for you to sell yourself as someone to hire.
Btw, it strikes me as paranoid to worry that someone who asks this question -- note the clause, in your department -- doesn't know how to be a good colleague. Anyone reasonable understands that departments differ in their expectations. And trying to placate the unreasonable, when you don't know in what respects they are unreasonable, is a mug's game. Please note that I don't mean this as an insult to an anonymous commenter who worried about this; the process is designed to feed paranoia.
I'm just saying: this is the best answer to the question that I've ever heard. I will admit that I don't take this sort of thing very seriously myself, and don't mind if an interviewee just punts it. But then I don't read letter of application, either. Others do.
- February 13, 2011 at 4:07 PM


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Taxpayers that used H&R Block's software to file their taxes this year are banning together in different class-action suits against the tax-filing company over a delay of their refunds.
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Last week, H&R Block reported up to 600,000 tax returns filed with its software could be delayed because of an issue with the student tax credit deduction. On Form 8863, filers can receive up to 100% of the first $2,000 of qualifying expenses and 25% of expenses higher than that amount. This year the IRS revised the form to require taxpayers to enter an "n" to confirm qualifications for eligibility. In the past, it was acceptable to leave the lines blank. Those who did not enter "n" will see delays, H&R Block says. Only those who filed between Feb. 14 through Feb. 22 are impacted. Now, two separate suits have been filed on behalf of taxpayers- one in California and another in Minnesota.
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H&R Block declined to be interviewed by phone, but says in an email statement that the IRS is continuing to work on the issue and client's returns are being processed.
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The spokesperson also noted that any issues with Form 8863 have been corrected and the scope and number of impacted clients were not only those who filed with H&R Block.
H&R Block CEO Bill Cobb apologized to consumers on the company's blog last week.
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Brain Aging Research with Dr. Pamela Greenwood (BSP 87)/
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Nuturing the Older Brain and Mind, by Pamela M. Greenwood and Raja Parasuaman provides a comprehensive review of the current research in cognitive aging. In the latest Brain Science Podcast (BSP 87), Dr. Greenwood explains that brain aging and cognitive aging are not the same thing; the typical brain changes that are associated with normal brain aging (such as shrinkage) are not reliable predictors of cognitive decline. Fortunately, even though normal brain aging is still not well understood, the discovery of brain plasticity is shifting the focus of research. Not only does brain plasticity offer new hope for people who suffer strokes and other brain injuries, it also suggests that life style choices influence cognitive function at all ages.
Nurturing the Older Brain and Mind is intended for an academic audience but it is accessible to everyone. This month's interview with Dr. Greenwood (BSP 87) focuses on dispelling the most stubborn myths about brain aging. We also talk about the practical steps we can all take to help maintain our cognitive performance.
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BSP 10: Introduction to Brain Plasticity.
BSP 26: Norman Doidge, author of The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science.
BSP 28: Edward Taub: applying brain plasticity to stroke rehabilitation.
BSP 68: Peter Whitehouse on dementia versus normal brain aging.
Nurturing the Older Brain and Mind, by Pamela M. Greenwood and Raja Parasuraman (2012).
The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science, by Norman Doidge.
Greenwood, P. M. (2007) Functional Plasticity in Cognitive Aging: Review and Hypothesis. Neuropsychology 21(6) 657–673.
Greenwood, P. M., and Parashauraman, R. (2010) Neuronal and cognitive plasticity: A neurocognitive framework for ameliorating cognitive aging. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience 2: 150.
Gould, E. and Gross, C.G. (2002) Neurogenesis in adult mammals: Some progress and problems. Journal of Neuroscience 22 (3): 619-623.
Taub, E., Uswatte, G., and Elbert, T. (2002) New treatments in neurorehabilitation founded on basic research. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 3 (3): 228-236.
Grady, C. L., McIntosh, A.R., and Craik, F.I. (2003) Age-related differences in the functional connectivity of the hippocampus during memory encoding. Hippocampus 13 (5): 572-586.
Colcombe, S.J., A.F. Kramer, K.I. Erickson, P. Scalf, E. McAuley, N.J. Cohen, A. Webb, et al.,
Cardiovascular fitness, cortical plasticity, and aging. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2004. 101(9): p. 3316-21.
Hertzog, C., Kramer, A. F., Wilson, R. S. and Lindenberger, U. (2009) Enrichment effects on adult cognitive development: Can the functional capacity of older adults be preserved and enhanced? Psychological Science in the Public Interest 9 (1): 1-65.
Kramer, A.F., Larish, J. F., and Strayer, D. L. (1995) Training for attentional control in dual tasking settings: A comparison of young and older adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied 1: 50-76.
Nagamatsu, L.S., Handy, T. C., et. al. 2012. Resistance Training Promotes Cognitive and Functional Brain Plasticity in Seniors With Probable Mild Cognitive Impairment.Archives of Internal Medicine 172 (8) 666-668.
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Willis, S.L. et. al (2006) Long-term effects of cognitive training on everyday functional outcomes in older adults. Journal of the American Medical Association 296 (23): 2805-2814.
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