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The City of Alamosa to receive Starburst Award
The Alamosa Multi-Use facility and Ice Rink at 2222 OId Sanford Road in Alamosa. The City of Alamosa will accept the Starburst Award from the Colorado Lottery Nov. 17. (Courtesy photo)
DENVER – The City of Alamosa will receive a Colorado Lottery Starburst Award for using Lottery proceeds to construct the Alamosa Multi-Use Facility and Ice Rink that serves a huge portion of the region.
The new pavilion was made possible thanks to a $350,000 Lottery-funded grant from Great Outdoors Colorado (GOCO).
The award will be presented to Alamosa Mayor Ty Coleman during the first intermission of the 1 p.m. San Luis Valley
Youth Hockey Association game on Nov. 17 taking place at the new rink.
"There is no doubt this project has positively impacted the San Luis Valley and increased our quality of life through an
affordable recreation amenity that is drawing youth and adults from an entire region," said Andy Rice, City of Alamosa parks
recreation and library director.
At the center of the multi-use facility is a 200-foot by 85-foot sized ice rink that is open during the late fall to spring months.
Nearly 80 kids participate in the city's youth hockey program and the venue sees up to 200 ice skaters during the weekend.
The ice rink is the only refrigerated venue in the San Luis Valley. The facility also includes full locker rooms and event
space, opening opportunities to host concerts, tournaments and other large events.
The Colorado Lottery Starburst Awards recognize excellence in the use of Lottery proceeds in outdoor recreation and
conservation that enhance a community's environment.
The City of Alamosa will receive a Colorado Lottery Starburst Award for using Lottery proceeds to construct the Alamosa Multi-Use Facility and Ice Rink that serves a huge portion of the region.


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Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research
Fig. 6 | Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research
From: Combined therapy with oncolytic adenoviruses encoding TRAIL and IL-12 genes markedly suppressed human hepatocellular carcinoma both in vitro and in an orthotopic transplanted mouse model
Validation of intra-tumor oncolytic adenoviral replication and the expression patterns of the encoded TRAIL and IL-12 transgenes. Three days post-treatment of HCC-bearing mice with PBS, Ad-ΔB, or Ad-ΔB/TRAIL+Ad-ΔB/IL-12 (at a dosage regimen of 1 × 1010 VP in 200 μL PBS of each virus; repeated three times every other day), the mice were euthanized under general anesthesia and their liver tumor tissues were harvested and investigated to validate intratumor viral replication and expression of TRAIL and IL-12 transgenes. a and b represents intra-tumor TRAIL expression at its mRNA and protein level, respectively, and (c) and (d) represents intra-tumor IL-12 expression at its mRNA and protein level, respectively. Data are represented as Mean ± SE. e represents the expression of Ad E1A protein (an indicator of viral production) by western blot assay

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If grandparents received awards for perfect attendance, Tom would have been first on the list. Though he was blind, he listened intently at all of their functions. But nothing was better than when he would take them to see his beloved Phillies: T-shirts all around. If his T.V. was on odds are he'd be beating contestants at Wheel and Jeopardy. Tom was raised in Swedesboro (one of the last of the remaining Peeltown Gang) and spent his youth on the basketball court at St. Joe's and the football field at St. James. Earlier years found him working as a dispatcher at Universal Supply Co., in Gloucester City.
Thomas was the husband of the late Patricia and is survived by his daughter, Tara Morrison-Smith (Shawn); his son, Joe (Laura) Martin; his sisters, Sr. Mary Ella Morrison, O.P., Kathleen Vuk (Robert) and Margaret Mary Kain (Joe); and 4 grandchildren.
Come celebrate 69 great years Sunday 4-6 p.m. and Monday 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. at Daley Life Celebration Studio, Swedesboro. Mass of Christian Burial 10 a.m. at St. Joseph Church, Swedesboro. Interment Hillcrest Cemetery. Donations in lieu of flowers to Guardian Angels School, 717 Beacon Ave, Paulsboro 08066 or Padua Academy, 905 N. Broom St., Wilmington 19806 will be appreciated.
I'm so sorry Tara, Shawn, Kaitlynn and Kimberly for your loss. God Bless all of you with all the happy memories you have. Dad is in a better place, reunited with Mom.
Tara, We are so sorry for the loss of your father. We will keep you and your family in our thoughts and prayers.
Tom was one of the kindest and well meaning men I have ever worked with. He was someone that I wanted to do well for when I drove for him and I knew that he cared about the people around him. He came to a number of my family reunion BBQ's over the years we worked together and I have a lot of great memories of him. I am sorry for your loss and will keep you and him in my prayers.
Our deepest sympathy to you and your family during this difficult time. Although we never met your Dad, the stories you have told – he was a wonderful Dad and Grandfather. Do know you have your parents as your very special Angels!
You are surrounded by love of your family and friends!!
To all of you, may the Lord comfort you during this time of "so long." May beautiful memories of your times together bring you peace. May your loved one find eternal rest. My condolences to each of you.


The weather in Preston is set to be brighter today, as forecasters predict sunny spells throughout most of the day and warmer temperatures.
This morning will see sunny spells and cloud, with the temperature reaching 9C by 12pm.
This afternoon will then see sunny spells throughout, with the temperature increasing to its peak of 10C by 1pm and remaining so throughout the afternoon.


Nara Brahmani To Replace Kesineni Nani In 2019 ?..
Nara Brahmani To Replace Kesineni Nani In 2019 ?
Speculations rife that Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu is likely to encourage his daughter in law Nara Brahmani to contest from Vijayawada as an MP in 2019 General Election. Recently Party MP Kesineni Srinivas was forced to apologise the Transport Commissioner N. Balasubramaniam. By supporting the bureaucrat and making the MP apologise over RTA tussle, the Chief Minister reportedly wanted to put a check on Kesineni Srinivas as he was reportedly considered as a hurdle. Probably, to avoid any competition, Chandrababu Naidu wants to send her to the Parliament as an MP. The name of Balakrishna for MP post is also making the news.


Join Orin, Sanaya, and all who are studying the seven qualities of Divine Will to transform their lives. This information assumes that you are working with Orin's Divine Will: Living a Soul Life audio course program 11: Creating a Supportive Environment. See links at bottom of page for more Divine Will links and information.
You can join the Divine Will study group, and contact Divine Will with or without using Orin's audio course course, Orin's Divine Will: Living a Soul Life course Program 11, Creating a Supportive Environment. However, you may get the greatest shift from using both the audio course in addition to the online written material that follows.
This is a journey on working with Divine Will to bring about an environment that supports you in living a soul life, a life that has the right amount of quiet, light, energy flow, and everything you need to live your life purpose and to feel supported in the world.
Open to receive a stream of energy from the Will to Initiate. Feel this pure, raw power, the electrical energy of this Will. Bring it down through the top of your head to the base of your spine, linking your personal will with your soul's will, and awakening new consciousness, awareness, insights, and revelations about what environment would support you in living a soul life.
As you link with the Will to Initiate you can gain a new awareness of your environment--an awareness of the way energy flows, of the light around you, of the air you breathe, and of all the energies you live in and around. With Divine Will you are initiating the consciousness to recognize the changes that need to be made so that your environment can support you in living a soul life and in creating your life purpose.
You can work with the Will to Initiate to have new insights about your environment and the energies about you. With more awareness you have a greater ability to know, to see, to become aware of, and to create your ideal environment. Think of your environment now, and bring in a new awareness of the energies you live in and around as you connect with the Will to Initiate.
Observe and write about any new feelings, experiences, or insights as you work with this and all of the following Wills to create a supportive, ideal environment.
Draw in the magnetic love of the Will to Unify that is flowing out from the Great One transmitting this quality of Divine Will. It is the Will to Unify that assists you in being in right relationship with all life. Broadcast this Will to your neighborhood, to your community, and to the plants and animals around you. This is the Will that brings love and unity with all energies you are around.
As a personality, blended with your soul, radiate a magnetic love that unifies you with all the energy around you. Become magnetic to love and good energy as you fill up with the Will to Unify. Become magnetic to soul energies and to energies of light. You can enhance all the life force energy around you with your radiance, your connection to your soul, and with the Will to Unify flowing out of you.
Link with the Will to Evolve, to the Great One who is transmitting this energy that evolves your consciousness and the forms in your life. With this Will streaming into you, get silent within. Let go of the plans of your personality and any desires that you have for your ideal environment. Open to the vision and plans of your soul, to its wisdom of what your ideal environment would be like. Let in your soul's power to create your ideal environment.
Feel your creativity expanding as you link with the Will to Evolve. A wealth of ideas are pouring into you of new ways to create your ideal environment, of new aspects about your ideal environment. As you link with this Will you can strengthen your ability to see the specific steps you need to take to create a supportive environment. You are able to plan, strategize, and analyze what is needed. As this Will flows into you, your consciousness is evolving -- your ability to sense, to know, and to create your ideal environment.
Work with the Will to Harmonize to release limitation. This is the Will of balance and emotional flow, the Will that assists in creating beauty in everything it is transmitted to. Draw in this Will and see it flowing out into your environment, adding a wave of beauty as it moves outward, touching every object around you. Transmit this energy to the walls of your house, to the outdoors, all the way into your community, then further and further out.
Let these waves of harmony travel through you, bringing beauty, light, and harmony all about you. Your soul loves beauty, harmony, and light. As you bring these qualities into your life, you are expressing yourself as a soul, doing the work of your soul. You have the ability to create an environment that supports you, that nurtures you, and that adds to your light.
Call to you the energy of the Will to Act, to enhance your ability to think and act in ways that lead to your liberation. As you do this you release your attachment to the forms in your life, to any that no longer serve you. You can more easily release any form, environment, or anything you have created that cannot hold your new light. Imagine that the new forms that represent your greater light--forms that will bring you freedom, and that will leave your soul and spirit free, are coming to you.
Draw the Will to Act into your mind so that you can see clearly what to bring into your life and what to release. This knowledge will come to you at the right time, and in the right way.
Stand in God's pure light. Let it move through you and flow out into your environment, adding this pure light to all the energy around you. Take time now to picture this pure light flowing into everything you can think of as you hold it and radiate it.
Link with the Will to Cause, the urge to creative action based on the ideals of your soul. Fill up with this energy and transmit it to your environment. This is the Will that will bring about your soul's ideals in every area of your life. Work with this Will to add light, beauty, harmony, order, and love to your environment. You are creating an environment that allows you to better carry out your soul's goals and to become a brighter light, so that you can add love and light to the world in easier and better ways. You are creating an ideal environment that serves you in living a soul life.
The Will to Cause strengthens your ability to release any forms that do not serve you, usually created by your personality, based on personality ideals. If there is anything that you need to release or change about your environment, let this come into your mind. Draw in the Will to Cause and say to yourself, "I now Will this to leave my life," knowing as you say this that Divine Will is working through you and with you for this to happen.
Connect with the Will to Express, bringing the energy of this Will into you. This is the quality of Divine Will that brings into physical manifestation all the inner work you have been doing to create a supportive environment. It is this Will that propels light to go forth from the higher realms into the physical world, so you can experience in physical reality what you have been creating in your mind.
With this Will, and all the work you have done with the other qualities of Divine Will, you are ready to create about you your ideal, supportive environment. You can manifest your ideal environment so that where you live, the people you are around, and all the energies about you are in alignment with your soul.
As the Will to Express flows through you, you are setting the energy for the creation of your ideal environment -- an environment with beauty, music, art, nature, light, and all that you need. With this Will you manifest with care to detail, with focus and precision. You have the persistence and patience to bring about your ideal, supportive environment. The changes will come in right timing, step by step, in a rhythmic, orderly way.
You can transmit the Will to Express to your environment to bring the angelic kingdom into your environment. Invite the angelic kingdom into your home and life, if you choose. Let ideas come to you about what you could create in your environment - music, art, beauty, fragrances, flowers, plants, and so on that would be inviting to the Angelic kingdom.
Let all 7 Wills flow through you, radiating in waves outward, organizing everything around you into a higher pattern of greater beauty.
Orin's book, Personal Power Through Awareness which will teach you how to tune into all the energies around you.


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TV & Radio Reviews
Mary McAleese: 'As a family, we were just devastated'
TV Review: Ex-president reveals what World Meeting of Families means to her 'modern family'
Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 10:40
Peter Crawley
Mary McAleese: Irish people are adapting to 'cultural Catholicism'
When Carol Lennon opens her door to Mary McAleese, her dog becomes too enthusiastic as it joins the welcome. "He's assassinating the President!" Carol shouts. "Stop!"
There are many examples in Mary McAleese's Modern Family (RTÉ One, Wednesday, 9.35pm) of how much Irish society and Irish families have changed in the 40-ish years between papal visits, but none quite as gleeful. Here is a former president, arriving unescorted to a family home in Co Meath, an approachable authority figure greeted with reciprocal honesty and good humour, not timidity and deference.
Compare that to one person's memory of Pope John Paul II's visit in 1979: "It was a difficult time in Ireland. And someone of that calibre thought we were good enough to come see!"
Throughout the programme, you get a sense of a nation's hard-won confidence, its myriad different families, and their right to be recognised.
That is not happening with Pope Francis's visit to Ireland for the World Meeting of Families, which removed images and references to LGBTI+ families from its literature, sending a message, both deliberate and hurtful, that not all people are good enough to be seen.
"As a family, we were just devastated," McAleese says of her own family. Her son Justin is a gay man and was a public campaigner in the 2015 Marriage Equality referendum. "We realised we were not welcome."
As the church lags centuries behind the times, resisting change, shielding abusers and castigating victims, many more feel excluded. McAleese, a trenchant critic of religious intolerance, is remarkably even-handed in assessing the role of spirituality and the church in modern Ireland. It's the people who are adapting, often to "cultural Catholicism", even as Irish culture divests itself of Catholicism's more oppressive hold.
The mother of one "blended family", with children by previous relationships, has her child baptised for the sake of the schools; a devout mother of 11 now finds "the presence of god more outside the church"; and Lennon, whose assassin dog is still at large, was carried through single motherhood, financial hardship and the challenges of raising four autistic children by her faith, but not for an institution. "I believe in God, and all that," she says, "but I think the church is very corrupt."
McAleese paces outside the World Meeting of Families construction site in the Phoenix Park, where the papal mass will be held, and the show hardly needs to argue hard that other religious structures are buckling.
Among its supporters there is much hand wringing. The church is caught "between a rock and a hard place", says sociologist Tom Inglis, while adherents are "drifting towards a form of cultural Catholicism which is, in many ways, Protestantism". Of course, that would be an ecumenical matter.
More moving, though, is the story of Erney Breytenbach and Vivian Cummins, a mature same-sex couple, who fostered a five-year-old boy, Brandon, in rural Ireland. "At the end of the day the lads gave me the nourishment, the care, everything I needed," says Brandon, now 18.
The programme knows that such families must be seen, appreciated and welcomed. If the church becomes graceless, we can believe in each other.
Mary Mcaleese
Tom Inglis
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Stefán Karl Stefánsson, LazyTown's Robbie Rotten, dies aged 43
Rose of Tralee review: 'We need to look past the colour of our skin'
Cecelia Ahern teams up with Nicole Kidman for 'Roar' TV series
Derry Girls' Lisa McGee named among most powerful people in British TV
Rose of Tralee: Contestant stuns audience with news parents were heroin addicts
Rose of Tralee: Pickup-style questions, job-interview answers
Joyful Mysteries unfold like a Terrence Malick film
Easy Rider at 50: 'Unwatchable' – unless you're stoned
Atlantic Podcast A three-part series exploring the mystery of Peter Bergmann - the man who came to Sligo to disappear


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"6 Over - The Movie." Regular Edition.
Two years in the making, "6 Over" is a film about six people who love and build motorcycles: Jeremiah Armenta (Love Cycles), Kim Boyle (BCM), Eddie Cleveland (Chun), Caleb Owens (Cro Customs), Max Schaaf (4Q), and Jason Webber (ATR).
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Trish Murphy responds to a question from an Irish Times reader whose partner's hyperviligilance following a disclosure of psychosis is causing them stress.
This appeared in the Health and Living Supplement of the Irish Times on 04/12/18.
Q I am a 31-year-old female; I have a really good job and more or less a fantastic life. I met my partner threeyears ago and we got engaged six months ago. We plan to get married early in spring.
My life has not always been so wonderful. W hen I was 23, I had a very brief but very traumatic psychotic episode. I spent two weeks in a psychiatric hospital during which time I felt low, heard voices and had some very unusual thoughts.
Before this happened I had just finished my college exams and was going through a relationship break-up from my childhood sweetheart. My psychologist and psychiatrist attributed my brief illness to stress.
However, I do have a strong family history of mental illness, so have always been conscious that I may be vulnerable to such experiences. Since I was discharged I have attended regular appointments with a psychiatrist, completed a programme of CBT and developed a WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan).
I have never let this one incident define me and in fact I didn't tell my partner that I had been hospitalised until just after we got engaged and started to talk about having children. I realised I should have told him earlier and I don't think I was ashamed, I just never really felt it was that significant.
He did know that I had some mental health difficulties in the past, just not the extent of the issues. He was completely supportive, and that is actually the issue. He has now started to treat me like someone who is sick; he checks that I have taken my medication every day. He is terrified that I get stressed and he has stopped telling me about difficulties that he is having at his work. He has even started to take over all of the wedding planning in case it "over- stimulates me".
His hypervigilance is causing me more stress. I am still the same person I was when he met me. I am aware that I am more likely than most to experience psychosis again, but I need him as my lover, my friend and my supporter – but certainly not my carer.
A You are right that you need a lover and a friend and not a carer but your partner needs to learn more about your capacity to manage your own condition and not live in fear of you relapsing.
He feels very protective of you and this may have been his way of expressing his love but now this has taken on a claustrophobic aspect on your life. He is probably doing his best to care for you but he does not realise that this type of care is denying you your own self-agency and self-management. No doubt you have tried to explain this in as caring fashion as you can but it seems he has been unable to hear of your frustration and if the situation continues the relationship will be put under unnecessary strain.
You have not only accepted your psychotic episode but you have taken full responsibility for your wellbeing – this is the main factor in anyone's recovery. This is also what you want in terms of good parenting: self-awareness and an ability to address whatever issues arise. Your future husband could relax in the knowledge that he will have a partner who will be able to take care of herself when the need arises.
However, the fact that it took you so long to reveal your past may now be having an effect. Your partner may believe that you will hide things from him and so he is becoming over-vigilant. He may also lack knowledge of psychosis and what it means and so good communication is what is needed.
It might be good to put time aside for you both to address this fully: you could both write down all the fears you have and then take each one seriously and delve into them until there is full understanding. You do not have to fix or answer each fear but rather organise to come back again to the conversation with reflections or further questions. Try to be as explicit about the fears as you can, ie your fear that he may stifle you to the point of infantilising you or his fear that if you have children, you will not be able to cope.
It may be that your partner will need the inclusion of professional advice so that he can allay his fears. Is it possible to contact your previous psychiatrist or psychologist and ask to meet with them with your partner? This would not only offer an objective opinion but would demonstrate the commitment both of you have to your future relationship.
This is the first big bump on the journey of your relationship and the measure of the robustness of what you have will be demonstrated in your willingness to engage fully in what is happening and in your willingness to withstand the difficulties.


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Koronavilkku (Swedish: Coronablinkern, English: Corona signal) is a COVID-19 app and a digital contact tracing mobile app developed by the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare to inform citizens of when they may have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus. The free app became available for download on Google Play and App Store on August 31, 2020 and was downloaded one million times in the first day. By November 5, 2020, the app had been downloaded more than 2.5 million times.

The app is designed so that it does not tell the user the source of a potential infection, in order to ensure personal privacy. In a case of possible infection the users will receive a code that is entered into the application. Then the app notifies those who have been in proximity to the infected individual that they may also have been exposed to the virus. The app does not collect any personal information such as identity or location. The regularly changed and randomly generated codes guarantee that the users cannot be directly identified from the codes.

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Q: How to convert "like each" into a functional form? Let's say I have a column of a table whose data type is a character array. I want to pass in a functional select where clause, where the column is in a list of given strings. However, I cannot simply use (in; `col; myList) for reasons. Instead, I need to do the equivalent of:
max col like/: myList

which effectively gives the same result. However, I have tried to put this in functional form
(max; (like/:; `col; myList))

And I am getting a type error. Any ideas on how I could make this work?

A: A nice trick when dealing with this problem is using parse on a string of the select statement you want to functionalize.  For example:
q)parse"select from t where max col like/: myList"
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Or specifically in your case you want the 3rd element of the result list (the where clause):
q)(parse"select from t where max col like/: myList")2
max ((/:;like);`col;`myList)

I even think using this pattern in your actual code can be a good idea, as functionalized statements like max ((/:;like);`col;`myList) can get pretty unreadable pretty quickly!
Hope that helps!

A: it should be: (max;((/:;like);`col;`mylist))

A: (any; ((/:;like); `col; enlist,myList))

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Let There Be Light: Todd Drezner's Loving Lampposts, A Contrast to MacNeil's Autism Now
Having examined PBS's Autism Now in an earlier posting and noting its overall negativity, I'd like to turn to a documentary on autism that I can recommend: Todd Drezner's Loving Lampposts.
Released March 29 on DVD is a new documentary called Loving Lampposts. The director, Todd Drezner, has recently written three posts at Huffington Post, "Learning to Embrace Autism," "Reconsidering the Nature of Autism," and "Autism: The Most Popular Disability" to create awareness of his documentary. This film is well-crafted and for folks familiar with the autism community, many of the more well-known autistic adults and activist parents are featured in the film, as are Richard Roy Grinker, Paul Offit, and Simon Baron-Cohen.
Much like Kathleen's and my Autism Blogs Directory, this documentary is all inclusive, with most points of view represented. Parents who think vaccines are to blame, who use all manner of biomedical and alternative treatments, to parents who support a neurodiverse perspective are represented and treated respectfully, as is a father-daughter duo who have been a part of the facilitated communication movement since its inception in America.
I enjoyed watching this documentary and actually viewed it all the way through three separate times in working on the posts relating to it. It held up very well through all three viewings, and I think, based on my children's reactions as they wandered in on me viewing it, that it is an appealing documentary across the board. The children showcased in this piece are charming and engaging (and again, some of them are known to the community at large).
Watching Kristina Chew with Charlie was a neat experience, and being able to tell the girlies that there was my friend Kristina with her son was lovely experience; the kids like to listen to the blogposts I share with them (and I try to do that, to give them the chance to connect with other autistic kids, to see others like them so that they know they are a part of a wider community).
This is a documentary that most of us in the community can watch with our families and walk away with a positive feeling.
What isn't here, though, what must be acknowledged, is that the darker sides of autism are not focused on. Severely disabled autistic individuals are not represented here, nor are the struggles of those families, and I think that will strike those families who live in that reality as an oversight that is unforgivable. However, I think that the reality is that more families deal with mild to moderate disabilities than deal with the severe, and that this documentary represents the perspective of the director and his experiences with autism.
In the end, we see the world from our own vantage point. Drezner worked to widen his perspective and ventured out into the autism community; he met and talked with a pretty good swath of that community, although he avoided the harshest landscapes. But it's because he did so that I can recommend this documentary as something you can safely view with your children, and something that you probably should view with your family. It's a great launching point for more serious discussions.
Kathleen Leopold and I were able to put together some questions for Todd Drezner, director of Loving Lampposts.
Kim: In my review, I noted that you had avoided the harshest landscapes of the autism world while still surveying a wide swath of it. In your director's statement, you write "I've met parents of severely autistic children whose patience, acceptance, and support of their kids are truly inspiring." Did you meet parents who didn't accept, who weren't coping well? Were there families that you met and interviewed that didn't make it into the documentary?
You also write that you "can't help but be optimistic" at the end of making the documentary; I think that many watching the documentary will feel that way, as well, but that those families whose situations are grim, who are struggling to help children who are severely impaired with multiple co-morbid conditions, who reject the concept of neurodiversity (because they define it differently), will reject the documentary and the optimism. What would you say to those families and individuals? What do you think the autism community and the larger community could do to help these families?
Todd: It's true that the film does not show any autistic person engaging in harmful or self-injurious behaviors. There are a couple of reasons for this.
Partially, it's because I didn't happen to film anyone who engaged in those behaviors. This wasn't a choice; it just worked out that way (although there are a couple of families who I filmed who didn't make it into the movie, it had nothing to do with the severity of their children or their lack of acceptance of autism).
But perhaps a more important reason is that I felt that that kind of behavior has been shown too much in recent portrayals of autism. I started my film in 2007, shortly after "Autism Every Day" came out. I have a lot of problems with that film and with other portrayals of autism that suggest it is always and only horrible. As someone says in my film, "The scales have been tipped too far in the direction of misery." I think the wider world needed to see a different view of autism.
That being said, I think it's not entirely accurate to say that "Loving Lampposts" doesn't address issues of importance to severely autistic children or their families. I'm thinking particularly of the interview with Ralph James Savarese, who specifically says that advocates of neurodiversity need to do a better job of reaching out to parents of children who "bang their heads against the wall and punch holes in the wall 40 times a year."
Although he's not a child, I also think about 60 year old Lyndon and his mother Lila. Here is someone who didn't speak until he was ten years old, who grew up in the 50s and 60s when autism was unknown, and who was recommended for institutionalization. In other words, a fairly "severe" case. Although I don't say this explicitly in the movie, the issues that Lila has been dealing with for years--how to give Lyndon as much independence as possible, how to provide him with the support he needs--are the same issues that parents of severely autistic children will face as their children get older. The fact that Lyndon is doing relatively well now doesn't make his and Lila's challenges any less relevant to parents who are struggling with severely autistic children today.
Then, too, there is a problem of definition: what exactly do we mean by severely autistic? A viewer of my film might look at, for example, Charlie Fisher and see a minimally verbal child with limited reading and writing ability and occasional "challenging behaviors" and think of him as severely autistic (he was probably one of the people I had in mind when I wrote my director's statement). And if we don't think of him that way, then why not? Because Kristina Chew doesn't refer to him that way? Because Kristina and Jim are fairly happy? Or for some other reason? Whatever the answer, it's clear that like autism itself, "severe autism" is not easily defined and is largely subjective.
It's also important to note that no one's place on the autism spectrum is static. The film spends a bit of time on this point when I talk about "high functioning" and "low functioning," but it's worth bringing up here as well. Autistic people, like anyone else, can have a bad day, week, month, or year. A child who is engaging in harmful or self-injurious behaviors today may not always be doing so. A family that's feeling very grim about its situation may feel better about it a year from now (and vice versa).
To try to sum up, neurodiversity is not a philosophy that only applies to optimistic people whose autistic children are "doing well." It's an approach to thinking about autism that is as relevant to a parent of a severely autistic child as to a parent of a child with Asperger's. I hope that families whose situations are grim and whose children are impaired with multiple co-morbid conditions are able to get their children help for those conditions. But if and when those conditions improve, those families will still have autistic children. How will they think about autism? I think neurodiversity offers the best approach.
Kim: How long has the documentary been complete and what have you learned in that intervening time that you wish you had been able to show in your documentary?
Todd: I finished filming in the first part of 2009 and finished the final edit in April of 2010. We've certainly seen some more developments on the vaccine front and the Andrew Wakefield saga since then, although I'm not sure how much of that I would have put in the film. One point that comes up in this weekend's NY Times Magazine story about Wakefield is that there is some research that shows that autistic people may have more gastrointestinal problems than other people. However, doctors have been reluctant to address parents' concerns about this because "doctors associated those concerns with quackery and vaccine fears and the false hope that a diet could cure the autism itself." I think I would have put a point like this into my film because it shows how our obsession with cures is actually setting back scientific research that could help alleviate medical problems that autistic children are more likely to have.
Kim: What surprised you most as you made the documentary and met autistic individuals and their family members?
Todd: We all hear a lot about the great variety of the autism spectrum, but it's something else to see it. What was always the most interesting was to meet a new autistic person and find out what was unique to him or her. At the same time, as different as they all are from each other, I could usually find a trait or two that they had in common with each other and/or with my son. One of the great benefits of making the film (and I hope of watching it) was to understand that I'm not alone. And neither is Sam. He has a community, and we will be raising him to take his place in it.
Kim: Is there anyone you wanted to interview for your documentary who you didn't get? Do you hope to do a sequel in the future?
Todd: I was very lucky that just about everyone I approached agreed to be in the film. As for a sequel, autism is obviously going to be a lifelong interest of mine, and I would never say never. But from a filmmaking point of view, I think I need to try something different, and so I think my next film or two will be about other topics.
Kim: Who do you hope to reach primarily with this documentary: members of the autism community or the wider world?
Todd: Well, yes. Both. More and more, people from the wider world will be meeting autistic people, and I hope that they will not view autism only as a terrible tragedy. And of course, some people from the wider world will eventually become part of the autism community. I hope my film might be helpful to parents or other family members who've just gotten a new diagnosis for a child or even to potential parents who are worried about autism. I think many people in our society could benefit from thinking in new ways about autism.
Kathleen: What inspired you to make this documentary? What made you do this now, while he was still so young?
Todd: Partially, it was because I had edited other documentaries and was looking to make one of my own. This topic was on my mind, and my son's obsession with lampposts seemed like a good way into asking some central questions about autism. Although there are many great documentaries about individual autistic people, I thought there was room for one that looked at how the culture thinks about autism at a time when it's more well-known than ever before.
As for why I made it when Sam was so young, doesn't every parent of a newly diagnosed child have a fantasy of talking to everyone else who's ever dealt with or thought about autism? I actually got to live out the fantasy, and making the film was part of the process of coming to terms with Sam's diagnosis. It's not like I was expert in all of these topics when I started. I may not be an expert now, but I can bring what I learned to my parenting of Sam, and if I hadn't made the film, I might be parenting him from a much more scared or confused place.
Kathleen: Has your son seen it, and if he has, what does your son think of it? Did he like it? Did you explain to him what and why you were doing this?
Todd: He's seen some of the parts that he's in and especially likes watching himself at the lampposts. But the central questions of the film and my reasons for making it are over his head right now, as they would be for any kid his age. I plan to show it to him when he's old enough to follow it, and I'll be very curious to hear his opinion about it.
Kathleen: What audience did you make this film for? What are you hoping to accomplish with this film?
Todd: I think I covered this one in the earlier question about who I hope to reach with the film.
Kim: Is there anything else you'd like to share about this film, any concluding thoughts you'd like to offer?
Todd: No, I think we've covered a lot of ground. Thanks for the thought provoking questions.
sharon Morris said...
Really like the movie, like this interview too.
Kelsi said...
I have a 3 copies of this amazing video for giveaway prizes on my blog! Check it out at http://modernmomredefined.blogspot.com/2011/04/lovin-lamposts-review-and-giveaway-x3.html
Great blog!! I'm a new follower =)
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Several images showing the refurbished Galaxy Note 7 have recently appeared on the Internet. They come out of Vietnam, a country where the Korean manufacturer has several manufacturing facilities. This fact proves that Samsung may be planning a launch of the updated Galaxy Note 7 in the near future.
The device has a new safe 3,200mAh battery. The capacity went 300mAh down compared to the original Galaxy Note 7, which means it is physically smaller and fits the device perfectly. The handset has the model identifier N935, whereas the original Note 7 had the model identifier N930. Quite possibly, Samsung will change the device name to avoid references to the negative reputation of the Galaxy Note 7. Android 7.0 is installed on the smartphone.
The release date and countries of availability of the new model remain unknown. All we know is that Samsung won't sell refurbished Galaxy Note 7 units in the USA and India. The device may be targeted at emerging markets as a cheaper competitor of last year flagship smartphones.


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Q: Sending a Checkbox to Specific URL For example; if a user clicks pop and rock boxes i want to send the page to www.mysite.com/?view=listen&tag[]=pop&tag[]=rock
If i use form code below it works on Firefox and IE fine. But if user clicks with Google Chrome, page goes to http://www.mysite.com/www.mysite.com/?view=listen&tag[0]pop&tag[1]rock&  equal signs in front of tag names disappear. How can i get worked on google Chrome too?
<form action="http://www.mysite.com/">
    <input type="hidden" name="view" value="listen" />
    <input type="checkbox" name="tag[]" value="pop" />pop

    <input type="checkbox" name="tag[]" value="rock" />rock

    <input type="checkbox" name="tag[]" value="indie" />indie

    <input type="checkbox" name="tag[]" value="electronic" />electronic

    <button type="submit">submit</button>
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A: I tried this. In google chrome, it does post the form to correct url with square brackets and equal sign:
Here is your code:
Form URL: http://jsbin.com/ihagon/1
When I select pop and rock and press submit, it goes to this url:
Target URL: http://jsbin.com/ihagon/1?view=listen&tag%5B%5D=pop&tag%5B%5D=rock
Here's the HTML code:
<!DOCTYPE html>

<meta charset=utf-8 />

  <form action="http://jsbin.com/ihagon/1">
    <input type="hidden" name="view" value="listen" />
    <input type="checkbox" name="tag[]" value="pop" />pop

    <input type="checkbox" name="tag[]" value="rock" />rock

    <input type="checkbox" name="tag[]" value="indie" />indie

    <input type="checkbox" name="tag[]" value="electronic" />electronic

    <button type="submit">submit</button>
</form>

Let me know if I am missing something.


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Hampstead Village BID in the High Court: Pub landlord's fight continues as other businesses rally against BID
Published: 10:00 AM January 29, 2020 Updated: 2:03 PM October 14, 2020
King William IV landlord Jimmy McGrath with barrister Robert Griffiths QC. Picture: Sam Volpe - Credit: Archant
With a Hampstead pub primed to take on the local Business Improvement District (BID) in the High Court on Wednesday, a number of business owners are stepping up a campaign for the BID's abolishment.
More than a year after first bringing a case to Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court, Jimmy McGrath - landlord at the King William IV pub in Hampstead High Street - will continue his fight against paying the BID levy.
The levy is a charged added to business rates of organisations in Hampstead and collected by Camden Council - as per legislation - on behalf of the BID itself.
Mr McGrath was told to pay the £6,900 bill, which he had refused to settle, by magistrates in April 2019, but has appealed this and his case is set to be heard by two High Court judges.
He has told this newspaper: ""We are extremely confident that we will win and get it thrown out."
The landlord will be supported in court by members of the Hampstead BID Abolishment campaign, who have spent recent months gathering signatures in opposition to the BID and criticising its operation.
Camilla Delmaestro - who has run a boutique in Perrin's Walk for 11 years and is now secretary of the BID Abolishment Campaign - told the Ham&High: "I am not anti-BID in principle. They are all over the country. I just don't think it is needed in Hampstead. I will be at the High Court in solidarity. He [Mr McGrath] is not the only one who feels this way, he's just the only one who's been brave enough to say anything."
Ms Delmaestro, one of the architects of an open letter and petition against the bid that has garnered upwards of 50 signatures, added
The BID's manager, Marcos Gold, told this newspaper: "My view hasn't changed: I am here to help business in any way they see fit.
"Whether that's meeting with them, helping with social media, holding events or doing practical things."
Mr Gold said the BID's raison d'etre had always involved being able to take advantage of collective bargaining to get better deals for businesses and he cited a waste management deal he said would save "82 businesses £25,000 a year".
Regarding the court case, he added: "I don't want to prejudice what will happen. But whatever the decision, we will mark a line in the sand and move on. At the end of the day I am here to work with the businesses whether they have criticisms or not."


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Sorry. I was checking that quote thing out on phpBB3. I just grabbed the first post I saw.
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Nice. I will have to take a look at it. Thanks!
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That is interesting. I never knew Icy had such a thing. I was going to try another install of it tomorrow. Got my server fresh and clean and ready to roll.
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I'm not alone in being captivated by the Arashiyama bamboo forest — this glowing natural grove is one of the most photographed places in one of Japan's most photogenic cities, Kyoto.
The scale is part of it. The grass (as I remembered that bamboo is a grass, not a tree!) towered over us and I felt so small.
Also, there was the vibrant color of the trees. The path is shaded, but the canopy glows a citrusy lime green through the reflected rays of the sun.
The path offers a chance to meditate on the simple beauty of light and color and nature.
The Arashiyama Bamboo Forest is a 10 min walk from Saga Arashiyama train station (JR Sagano line) and a 15 min walk from Arashiyama train station (Henkyu railway). It's best paired with a visit to the Tenryu-ji Temple, the grove is right in back.
Thanks, Jenna! It was such a interesting place tucked in behind one of Kyoto's 1,000+ shrines and temples. There's so much beauty in that city!
Cassie, I love your photos of the bamboo. Unfortunately we did not see this the first time we went to Kyoto, so we're planning another trip…maybe next summer.


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CD Projekt Announces "Ambitious" Game Coming From Newly Acquired Studio
CD Projekt has acquired a Boston studio founded by BioShock, Halo, Guitar Hero, and Rock Band veterans to make a new game.
By Eddie Makuch on October 22, 2021 at 8:55AM PDT
The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 studio CD Projekt has acquired the Boston-based independent studio The Molasses Flood, which made the games The Flame in the Flood and Drake Hollow. The team was founded in 2014 by veterans of the BioShock, Halo, Guitar Hero, and Rock Band series.
CD Projekt CEO Adam Kicinski said The Molasses Flood will "bring a lot of talent and determination" to the company going forward. The team will be working on a new "ambitious" game set in an existing CD Projekt universe, but no other details were divulged. Presumably this would be a new Witcher or Cyberpunk game, but we don't know for sure.
CD Projekt has acquired The Molasses Flood
The Molasses Flood studio head Forrest Dowling added, "When CD Projekt approached us about the possibility of working together, we saw an incredible opportunity to reach a much wider audience through a collaboration with a company we love, creating games in worlds we love."
According to a press release, The Molasses Flood will retain its independence and autonomy as it works in "close cooperation" with CD Projekt Red. In its own statement, The Molasses Flood said the studio will be able to hire many more people thanks to its sale to CD Projekt. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Exciting news for us today! We've joined the CD PROJEKT family, and are working on a project within one of their existing universes 😍🤯 pic.twitter.com/8jhWylIfKh
— The Molasses Flood is hiring! (@molassesflood) October 22, 2021
The Molasses Flood gets its name from the 1919 disaster where a storage tank holding more than 2 million gallons of molasses broke open in Boston. More than 20 people died.
This is CD Projekt's second big acquisition of 2021, following its buyout of Canadian studio Digital Scapes, which co-developed Cyberpunk 2077 with CD Projekt Red.
In other news, CD Projekt recently delayed the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S editions of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077 to 2022.
In addition to being known for The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt runs the DRM-free games store GOG.
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package web;

import agent.Agent;
import agent.Block;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JavaType;
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.boot.context.embedded.LocalServerPort;
import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
import org.springframework.boot.test.web.client.TestRestTemplate;
import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
import org.springframework.test.context.junit4.SpringRunner;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;

import static org.hamcrest.CoreMatchers.is;
import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;
import static org.hamcrest.core.IsNull.nullValue;

@RunWith(SpringRunner.class)
@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = SpringBootTest.WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT)
public class AgentControllerTest {

    private static final String AGENT1 = "A1";
    private static final String AGENT2 = "A2";
    private static final String AGENT3 = "A3";

    @LocalServerPort
    private int port;
    private URL baseUrl;

    @Autowired
    private TestRestTemplate template;

    private final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();

    @Before
    public void before() throws Exception {
        baseUrl = new URL("http://localhost:" + port + "/agent");
    }

    @After
    public void after() throws Exception {
        Thread.sleep(500);
        deleteAllAgents();
    }

    @Test
    public void getEmptyAgent() throws IOException {
        final Agent a = getAgent("NOT_EXIST");
        assertThat(a, is(nullValue()));
    }

    @Test
    public void addGetDeleteAgent() throws Exception {
        final String name = AGENT1;
        final int port = 1001;
        Agent a = createAgent(name, port);
        assert a != null;
        assertThat(a.getName(), is(name));
        assertThat(a.getPort(), is(port));
        assertThat(a.getBlockchain().size(), is(1));
        a = getAgent(name);
        assert a != null;
        assertThat(a.getName(), is(name));
        assertThat(a.getPort(), is(port));
        assertThat(a.getBlockchain().size(), is(1));
        Thread.sleep(500);
        deleteAgent(name);
        a = getAgent(name);
        assertThat(a, is(nullValue()));
    }

    @Test
    public void getDeleteAllAgents() throws Exception {
        createAgent(AGENT1, 1001);
        createAgent(AGENT2, 1002);
        createAgent(AGENT3, 1003);
        List<Agent> agents = getAllAgents();
        assert agents != null;
        assertThat(agents.size(), is(3));
        deleteAllAgents();
        Thread.sleep(500);
        agents = getAllAgents();
        assert agents != null;
        assertThat(agents.size(), is(0));
    }

    @Test
    public void createBlockSingleAgent() throws Exception {
        final String name = AGENT1;
        final int port = 1001;
        createAgent(name, port);
        final Block b = mine(name);
        assert b != null;
        assertThat(b.getIndex(), is(1));
        assertThat(b.getCreator(), is(name));
        Agent a = getAgent(name);
        assert a != null;
        assertThat(a.getName(), is(name));
        assertThat(a.getPort(), is(port));
        assertThat(a.getBlockchain().size(), is(2));
        deleteAgent(name);
        a = getAgent(name);
        assertThat(a, is(nullValue()));
    }

    @Test
    public void createBlockMultiAgent() throws Exception {
        createAgent(AGENT1, 1001);
        createAgent(AGENT2, 1002);
        createAgent(AGENT3, 1003);

        mine(AGENT1);
        final Agent a1 = getAgent(AGENT1);
        assert a1 != null;
        final String hash = a1.getBlockchain().get(1).getHash();
        final Agent a2 = getAgent(AGENT2);
        assert a2 != null;
        assertThat(a2.getBlockchain().get(1).getHash(), is(hash));
        final Agent a3 = getAgent(AGENT3);
        assert a3 != null;
        assertThat(a3.getBlockchain().get(1).getHash(), is(hash));

        mine(AGENT2);
        mine(AGENT3);

        List<Agent> agents = getAllAgents();
        assert agents != null;
        assertThat(agents.size(), is(3));
        for (Agent a : agents) {
            assertThat(a.getBlockchain().size(), is(4));
        }

        deleteAllAgents();
    }

    @Test
    public void sendBlockchainToNewAgent() throws Exception {
        createAgent(AGENT1, 1001);
        createAgent(AGENT2, 1002);
        IntStream.range(0, 2).forEach(value -> mine(AGENT1));
        IntStream.range(0, 2).forEach(value -> mine(AGENT2));
        final Agent a1 = getAgent(AGENT1);
        assert a1 != null;
        assertThat(a1.getBlockchain().size(), is(5));
        final Agent a2 = getAgent(AGENT2);
        assert a2 != null;
        assertThat(a2.getBlockchain().size(), is(5));
        final Agent a3 = createAgent(AGENT3, 1003);
        assert a3 != null;
        assertThat(a3.getBlockchain().size(), is(5));
        assertThat(a1.getBlockchain().equals(a3.getBlockchain()), is(true));
        assertThat(a2.getBlockchain().equals(a3.getBlockchain()), is(true));
    }

    private Block mine(final String name) {
        final ResponseEntity<String> response = template.postForEntity(String.format("%s/mine?agent=%s", baseUrl.toString(), name), null, String.class);
        try {
            return response.getBody() == null ? null : mapper.readValue(response.getBody(), Block.class);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }

    private Agent getAgent(final String name) throws IOException {
        final ResponseEntity<String> response = template.getForEntity(String.format("%s?name=%s", baseUrl.toString(), name), String.class);
        return response.getBody() == null ? null : mapper.readValue(response.getBody(), Agent.class);
    }

    private Agent createAgent(final String name, final int port) throws IOException {
        final ResponseEntity<String> response = template.postForEntity(String.format("%s?name=%s&port=%d", baseUrl.toString(), name, port), null, String.class);
        return response.getBody() == null ? null : mapper.readValue(response.getBody(), Agent.class);
    }

    private List<Agent> getAllAgents() throws IOException {
        final ResponseEntity<String> response = template.getForEntity(String.format("%s/all", baseUrl.toString()), String.class);
        JavaType type = mapper.getTypeFactory().constructParametricType(List.class, Agent.class);
        return response.getBody() == null ? null : mapper.readValue(response.getBody(), type);
    }

    private void deleteAllAgents() {
        template.delete(String.format("%s/all", baseUrl.toString()));
    }

    private void deleteAgent(final String name) {
        template.delete(String.format("%s?name=%s", baseUrl.toString(), name));
    }
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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redpile.behavior('cell_update', {'LIFE'}, function(node, messages)
    if node.alive == 1 then
        node:surrounding_each(function(found)
            found:send('LIFE', 0, 1)
        end)
        if messages.count < 2 or messages.count > 3 then
            node.alive = 0
        end
    elseif messages.count == 3 then
        node.alive = 1
    end
end)

redpile.type('EMPTY', {}, {})
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Consistency of Performance in Simulated Situations
Frederiksen, Norman O.
Office of Naval Research, Behavior Rating Scales, Personality Measures, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Situational Tests, Test Reliability
This paper is concerned with the amount of consistency displayed by subjects in simulated situations which vary in amount of similarity to one another. Odd-even reliabilities measured consistency of performance within a situation, while "alternate form" reliabilities measured consistency between administrative performance in which 232 elementary school principals took four in-basket tests. In three of the in-basket situations the subjects played the role of principal of a simulated elementary school. In the fourth in-basket they acted as Executive Officer of a division of the Bureau of Business, a simulated situation which differed considerably from the school situation. Each half of the in-basket, composed of odd- or even-number items, was scored by a different scorer. For each of the four in-baskets, scores on 34 categories of behavior were selected for use in the present study. The odd-even and "alternate form" reliabilities of these scores were compared, in order to investigate consistency in behavior with in-baskets, between pairs of school in-baskets, and between school and Bureau of Business in-baskets. Conclusions included: 1) No marked differences found in odd-even reliabilities of scores from the school and business in-baskets; 2) odd-even reliabilities were markedly higher than the "alternate form" reliabilities for all in-baskets' 3) "alternate form" reliabilities were generally higher for pairs of a school and a business in-basket; and 4) influence of the background situation (school or business) on consistency of behavior was small compared with the difference between odd-even and "alternate form" reliability. (JGL)


How to cite: Lin, J.; Liu, H.; Chen, K.; Cheng, D. Modeling the Strategies for Improved Efficacy and Crosslink Depth of Photo-Initiated Polymerization and Phototherapy. Preprints 2018, 2018110396 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201811.0396.v1). Lin, J.; Liu, H.; Chen, K.; Cheng, D. Modeling the Strategies for Improved Efficacy and Crosslink Depth of Photo-Initiated Polymerization and Phototherapy. Preprints 2018, 2018110396 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201811.0396.v1).
Lin, J.; Liu, H.; Chen, K.; Cheng, D. Modeling the Strategies for Improved Efficacy and Crosslink Depth of Photo-Initiated Polymerization and Phototherapy. Preprints 2018, 2018110396 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201811.0396.v1). Lin, J.; Liu, H.; Chen, K.; Cheng, D. Modeling the Strategies for Improved Efficacy and Crosslink Depth of Photo-Initiated Polymerization and Phototherapy. Preprints 2018, 2018110396 (doi: 10.20944/preprints201811.0396.v1).
Optimal conditions for maximum efficacy of photoinitiated polymerization are theoretically presented. Analytic formulas are shown for the crosslink time, crosslink depth and efficacy function. The roles of photoinitiator (PI) concentration, diffusion depth and light intensity on the polymerization spatial and temporal profiles, for both uniform and non-uniform cases, are presented. For optimal efficacy, a strategy via controlled PI concentration is proposed, where re-supply of PI in high light intensity may achieve a combined-efficacy similar to low light intensity, but has a much faster procedure. A new criterion of efficacy based on the polymerization (crosslink) [strength] and [depth] is introduced. Experimental data are analyzed for the role of PI concentration and light intensity on the gelation time and efficacy.
polymerization modeling; kinetic; photoinitiator; optimal efficacy; crosslinking.


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Reinforcement of Monitoring and Learning Capacities for Tostan
Itad is providing a core team to strengthen and refine the monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) efforts of Tostan in West Africa.
Tostan's mission is to "empower African communities to bring about sustainable development and positive social transformation based on respect for human rights". Tostan works in eight African countries, primarily in West Africa implementing and refining its Community Empowerment Program (CEP), the goal of which is to provide holistic, participatory, non-formal education to adults and adolescents who live in rural African areas and have not had access to formal schooling.
Itad's role is to work with Tostan's core team to strengthen and refine the monitoring, evaluation, research and learning (MERL) efforts of Tostan in West Africa, to create a system that will enable effective capturing and demonstration of results, improved internal and external learning and advocacy, and stronger, evidence-based management decision-making which will strengthen Tostan's position and work for years to come.
Itad is fielding a highly skilled bilingual team, with the range of skills and experience needed to implement this assignment successfully. Our methodology recognises two separate focus areas for this assignment – human and systemic capacity development – although in reality these two areas have significant overlap and both have elements that are functions of the interaction with the other. Interviews and surveys are being undertaken with Tostan staff in each country to gather information on staff needs and capacities, supplementing this with our own review of documents. The organisational capacity will also be addressed using a detailed, adapted set of capacity assessment tools.
This information will be used as basis for the development of the two key frameworks for this assignment: one relating to the MERL system itself; and secondly the two training programmes for the core MERL staff, and the training-of-trainers. In parallel, we will be designing the monitoring system, which will involve two broad areas: firstly the conceptual understanding of the system and the key concepts that relate to its design and operation; and secondly the management information system itself.
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8 Best Electric Go-Karts for Kids
Electric go-karts for kids are not only fun, but they're also extremely convenient and practical, as they don't require much maintenance apart from recharging. Being designed for kids, these electric go-karts are lightweight, robust and are equipped with several safety features in order to ensure that your child is well protected.
Not only are they easy to ride and have several parental speed controls, but they are also practical to transport on family trips and be easily stored at home or in the trunk of a car. There are plenty of motorized karts on the market to choose from. In this review, we'll be taking a look at the best electric go-kart for kids and we'll go through some of the relevant aspects in the buying guide.
1. Ninebot Electric Go-Kart Kit
Suitable for kids aged 8+
Collapsible design
Compatible with Ninebot S
Ninebot Electric Go-Kart Kit: Specifications
Power Source: 400W Ninebot S (Not Included)
Speed: 10 mph
Range: 13.7 miles
Weight Limit: 220 lbs
Recommended Ages: 8+
Dimensions: 40″ x 32″ x 18″
Ninebot Electric Go-Kart Kit: Motor & Battery
The Ninebot Electric Go-Kart Kit has a very unique and interesting concept. Essentially, it's a go-kart frame that is designed to work with Segway's Ninebot S which is a self-balancing electric hoverboard. When this hoverboard is attached to the Ninebook Electric Kart kit, the frame turns into a powerful electric go-kart that can reach speeds of up to 10 mph in just seconds.
Powered by the dual 400W motors of the Ninebot S, the kart has a total range of 13.7 miles, which is enough to provide a lot of fun to kids and also adults (rider heights of 4'3" to 6'5"). Please note that the Ninebot S is not included in this kit and would need to be purchased separately.
Ninebot Electric Go-Kart Kit: Features
The Ninebot Electric Kart is the best electric go-kart for kids as it's well designed and contains plenty of great features. It's suitable for many different age groups thanks to a maximum weight capacity of 220 lbs and an adjustable frame. Other than providing a thrilling experience, the kart also focuses on safety – it comes with dual-layer impact protection that keeps kids safe in case of an accident and a double braking system that utilizes a footbrake as well as a handbrake.
The Segway Ninebot Electric Go-Kart kit also has a lot going for it in terms of sheer fun. The mechanical handbrake can be used to drift the kart very naturally and also allows the driver to control the speed. It's also capable of going in reverse, unlike many other electric karts on the market.
Moreover, it looks absolutely stunning too, with its futuristic and streamlined design language and its white-and-black color scheme. Thanks to its collapisbledesign, it's also very convenient to travel with!
2. Razor Force Drifter Kart
Great for drifting
Ability to shoot sparks
Razor Force Drifter Kart: Specifications
Power Source: 250W Electric Motor
Dimensions: 38.19″ x 26.38″ x 15.35″
Razor Force Drifter Kart: Motor & Battery
The Razor Force Drifter Kart comes with a 250W electric motor that enables it to reach a maximum speed of about 12 mph. Paired with two 12V rechargeable batteries this electric go-kart has a total run time of 40 minutes. Both speed and range are ideal for kids who love to enjoy casual racing and drifting.
Razor Force Drifter Kart: Features
The Razor Force Drifter Kart is designed for children who are at least 8 years of age. It can handle a weight of up to 140 lbs so many different types of kids are able to use it. As its name suggests, it's designed as a drifting kart and comes with a hand-operated brake to achieve drifting at high speeds. The solid steering system helps to keep the electric go-kart under control while a drift is initiated.
What's cool about this kart is the addition of a Spark Bar at the rear which creates visible sparks while your kid is drifting around. Other features of this electric go-kart include a thumb trigger for controlling the acceleration, aluminum wheels that have super slick tires, and a very durable steel body with an improved rear axle for extra support and maneuverability.
It looks very unique too, with a very low physical profile which makes children feel like they're gliding on the road! If you're looking for an electric go-kart for kids that has drifting features, this may just be the one!
3. Radio Flyer Ultimate Go-Kart
Suitable for kids aged 3 – 8
Parental speed control
Adjustable seat
Radio Flyer Ultimate Go-Kart: Specifications
Power Source: –
Speed: 2.5, 5 & 8 mph
Weight Limit: 81 lbs
Recommended Ages: 3 – 8 Years
Dimensions: 43″ x 30.25″ x 37.2″
Radio Flyer Ultimate Go-Kart: Motor & Battery
The Radio Flyer Ultimate Go-Kart is a small electric go-kart designed for younger kids and is equipped with a 24V electric motor. The great thing about this go-kart is that it has the option for parents to control the speed. This speed control is a great safety feature, especially for younger kids. The speed can be set at either 2.5, 5, or 8 mph. Depending on the speed of the kart, it can run for up to 45 minutes on a single charge.
Radio Flyer Ultimate Go-Kart: Features
The ideal age range for this kart is 3 to 8 years. It can support a weight of 81 lbs so older children and heavier children are not recommended to use it. It also comes with an adjustable seat though so you can be fairly confident that your child will find the right fit.
The Radio Flyer Ultimate is a great way to let your children get used to racing and drifting action. Drifting is great in this go-kart, due to the slick rear wheels. This is helped by the rubber that is used on the front tires. The kart also employs a strong steel frame that is coupled with plastic to provide a great balance of safety and low weight.
All of this comes packed inside a kart that looks like it belongs on a racetrack, with its classic red-and-white color scheme and a very streamlined body design. While the Radio Flyer Ultimate Go-Kart caters to younger kids, it offers fun for all types of children.
4. MotoTec Mud Monster Go-Kart
Suitable for kids aged 13+
Unique looking kart
Rollplay Flex Kart: Specifications
Speed: 10/20 mph
Recommended Ages: 13+ Years
Rollplay Flex Kart: Motor & Battery
The MotoTec Mud Monster Go-Kart is an electric go-kart that is designed for slightly of drivers and comes with a a powerful 48V battery and 1000W electric motor that allows for a top speed of up to 20 mph. This is definitely one of the faster electric go-karts for kids, so ensure that your child is able to operate it. There's also a speed selector for 10 mph and 20 mph.
Rollplay Flex Kart: Features
The MotoTec Mud Monster Go-Kart is suitable for children between the aged 13 years and older. It supports a maximum weight of 150 lbs and is best driven on rough terrain. The best thing about this kart is the fact that it has a safety belt and a roll bar for extra protection.
The large tires gives kids a comfortable ride, no matter the terrain. It features a rugged design and is great for outdoor racing. It also features a forward and reverse gear, plenty of leg room for taller kids and also a foot-operated hydraulic brake system.
The overall appearance looks different than most other electric karts because of its rugged design, which gives it an off-road buddy or ATV-style look. All in all, the MotoTec Mud Monster Go-Kart is a great choice for older and more adventurous kids.
5. Razor Dune Buggy
Great for off-road racing
Can be stored vertically
Razor Dune Buggy: Specifications
Speed: 9 mph
Dimensions: 41″ x 26.5″ x 17.5″
Razor Dune Buggy: Motor & Battery
Equipped with a powerful 350W electric motor, the Razor Dune Buggy is a great choice if you're looking for a durable and safe off-road style electric go-kart for your kids. It manages to reach a maximum speed of 9 mph, which is a good balance between adventure and safety. The kart has a total runtime of 40 minutes, which allows your kids plenty of fun before having to recharge it again!
Razor Dune Buggy: Features
The Razor Dune Buggy is designed for older kids of ages of 8 and up and supports a maximum rider weight of 120 lbs. The bucket seat that is part of this kart is padded to provide a lot of comfort and also comes with a seat belt for added protection.
With the thumb-trigger acceleration system and a handbrake, kids can go as fast as the kart can take them and bring it to a quick stop with a simple squeeze of the handbrake. Due to its larger knobby tires, the Razor Dune Buggy really shines in off-road racing. It's off-road capabilities are further highlighted by it's design.
It comes with a bright red frame and diamond plate floorboards to give off a very cool and rugged vibe at the same time. Its shape also allows the kart to be stored vertically, hence taking up much less space as it would if stored normally. All things considered, the Razor Dune Buggy is a durable, great-looking, and a safe off-road electric go-kart that's suitable for adventurous kids
6. Baja Electric Off-Road Go-Kart
Top speed of 20 mph
Great safety features
Baja Electric Off-Road Go-Kart: Specifications
Power Source: 1000W Electric Motor
Speed: 13, 16 & 20 mph
Baja Electric Off-Road Go-Kart: Motor & Battery
The Baja Electric Off-Road Go-Kart is the fastest kart on this list with a whopping speed of up to 20 mph! This is achieved thanks to the powerful 1000W brushless electric motor. The 48V battery pack ensures that the kart can run continuously for about 40 minutes before requiring a recharge.
Baja Electric Off-Road Go-Kart: Features
Suitable for children of ages 8 and above, the Baja Electric Kart is a more advanced option in terms of its speed and capabilities. It can hold up to a weight of 175 lbs and perfect for climbing uneven terrain. This is a 4-wheel-drive off-road kart that will require some training before it can be driven at the highest speed. That is why it comes with a parent-controlled speed lock that can lock the top speed at 13, 16, or 20 mph.
This allows younger children to get comfortable with the kart while being safe before they get exposed to higher speeds. The kart also has a foot pedal for a realistic driving feel, as well as a footbrake. The included seat belt and head support offer good protection and peace of mind for worried parents. The large pneumatic tires and high ground clearance allow the kart to be driven on various terrains!
And to top it all off, the kart looks absolutely stunning with its bright-colored design. Keep in mind that this electric go-kart is designed for slightly older children who want to experience off-road racing!
7. Costzon Electric Go-Kart
Designed for younger kids
Equipped with seat belt
Costzon Electric Go-Kart: Specifications
Dimensions: 34" x 25.5"x x19"
Costzon Electric Go-Kart: Motor & Battery
Equipped with a small electric motor, the Costzon Electric Go-Kart can achieve a speed of about 2 mph. That's because this electric go-kart is designed for very young kids and therefore extra emphasis is placed on safety. The 6 volt battery allows for a maximum runtime of about 60 minutes, which is longer than most electric karts.
Costzon Electric Go-Kart: Features
The Costzon Electric Kart is suitable for children aged 3 to 8 and supports a maximum weight of 55 lbs. This makes the kart ideal for mostly younger children only, especially given the top speed of 2 mph.
For young drivers, however, this is a very convenient kart. It comes with a very easy-to-use foot pedal that allows the kart to move when pressed and causes it to automatically stop when released. Kids don't have to fumble around for brakes so they can enjoy driving in a very simple way, which also makes the go-kart safe.
There are two buttons that allow the kart to move forward or reverse. The kart also comes with a seat belt for extra protection and has durable wheels that are suitable for different terrains. The Costzon Electric Kart comes in a very colorful design and the kart is equipped with LED lights and even music.
8. Huffy Flat Kart
Profiled tires
Good for mixed terrain
Huffy Flat Kart: Specifications
Speed: 2.5 mph
Dimensions: 34.65″ x 10.43″ x 25.79"
Huffy Flat Kart: Motor & Battery
The Huffy Flat Kart is another great electric go-kart for children. It's equipped with a low-powered motor and a 6V battery that achieves a total runtime of about 40 minutes. This go-kart reaches a top speed of 2.5 mph, which is suitable for young children. It features enough power and battery life for young kids to enjoy a fun session of go-karting.
Huffy Flat Kart: Features
This electric kart is designed for children between the ages of 2 and 5, and it has a rider weight limit of 65 lbs. Young children who receive this kart as a gift will instantly fall in love with it because of the comfort it provides. The seat, unlike many other karts in this category, features a high-back design that makes the electric go-kart look like a tiny race car.
The steering wheel follows the same race-inspired design language. One cool feature that the kart has is the inclusion of manual pedals that children can use to drive back home if they run out of power during their adventures.
The wheels of the kart are durable and have a profile on them, which allows the kart to be driven on different types of terrains. Sporting a cool blue color and racing graphics at the front, the Huffy Flat Kart is definitely a favorite amongst younger kids.
Buying Guide – Electric Go-Karts for Kids
When it comes to buying an electric go-kart for your kids there are several important aspects to keep in mind. Depending on the age, height, weight and preference of your child you may have a hard time deciding which go-kart would be the most appropriate. The following buying guide aims to help you with your purchase decision, as we'll explore the different features of electric go-karts that are designed for kids.
Electric go-karts that are designed for children should be safe and you should always consider the overall build quality, as well as the materials used. While it's common for the body kit of an electric go-kart to be made of plastics such as polypropene, the frame of the go-kart should be made of metal.
It's best to avoid electric go-karts that have a pure plastic construction, as this can affect the structural integrity of the kart over time. In order to support the weight of your child, you'll want to look out for metal frames. Most often you'll be able to find the materials used on the product page.
Electric Go-Kart With Steel Frame
Electric Go-Kart With Plastic Bumpers
Depending on the age of your child, you'll want to make sure that the electric go-kart has an appropriate top speed. For younger children, it's usually recommended to set the speed lower, due to safety reasons. Kids who are slightly older will be able to handle the go-kart more easily and should be able enjoy higher speeds.
You'll need to assess how well your child is able to handle the go-kart and its respective speed. Below is a guideline that I have created that you can use for reference.
Kids aged 2 – 4: Top speed of 2 – 3 mph
Kids aged 8 – 12: Top speed of 8 – 14 mph
Kids aged 12+: Top speed of 14+ mph
Each electric go-kart will also have a range or runtime. The range is indicated in miles, whereas the runtime is indicated in minutes. Electric go-karts that are designed for kids usually have a runtime of about 30 – 60 minutes.
The runtime is calculated by the output of the motor, capacity of the battery and the weight of the go-kart. If your kid plans to use the go-kart for longer sessions, it may be useful to opt for an electric kart with a longer maximum runtime.
When it comes to electric go-karts for kids, the importance of safety can't be stressed enough. You'll find that the best electric go-karts for kids are usually equipped with extensive safety features that ensure your child is well protected.
These safety features can be various mechanisms or components that the go-kart is equipped with. An example for that are handbrakes, seat belts, a strong and sturdy metal frame, and many more.
When selecting an appropriate kart, you should always keep in mind that the fun factor and driving experience should always be second to safety.
Electric Go-Kart With Seat Belt
Safety features to look out for:
Preset speed settings
It's important that you take the weight limit of an electric go-kart into considering, as it indicates the maximum load the go-kart can withstand. A manufacturer does extensive testing in order to determine the maximum driver weight, and the maximum load depends on the materials used, as well as the build quality.
The same thing can also be said for a manufacturer's recommended age indication. Electric go-kart manufacturers take into account the average height and weight ranges for kids at certain ages. Therefore you should ensure that the recommended age range of the go-kart matches the current age of your child.
As you've noticed, electric kid go-karts come in various shapes, designs and themes. The outer appearance of a go-kart doesn't affect its performance and it's usually best to pick a theme and style that suits your child.
The price of an electric go-kart that is designed for kids is about $250 to $500, but usually varies in price. This is because manufacturers use different types of designs, styles and materials. Entry-level karts usually feature a more simple design with a smaller electric motor and battery compared to premium models.
I've done quite a bit of research on the price of kid go-karts. I've grouped them into several categories and created a reference list for you below.
Entry-level electric go-kart for kids price: $100 – $249
Average electric go-kart for kids price: $250 – $499
Premium electric go-kart for kids price: $500 – $800
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Gyle 59 The Queens Legless Liz
Gyle 59 The Queens Legless Liz (500ml, 3.8% ABV)
Brewed for a pub called The Queens in Corton Denham, Dorset, Legless Liz is an interesting proposition: a Belgian farmhouse beer with relatively low alcohol and a dose of American hops.
The bottle suggests you can drink this with or without the sediment mixed in, so I try half a glass of each. The first half looks like it's come from a dehydrated athlete; the second looks like they're about to be stripped of their medals.
Thankfully, the taste is a lot better than this suggests.
It pours with a mass of foam that can only be described as Belgian – it's huge and lasts long enough for the more artistic to make a quick sculpture. The tart apricot aroma may seem odd to the aficionado of British ale, but is typical of a Belgian saison yeast.
At 3.8% it's a predictably light-bodied beer, but this by no means translates to a lack of flavour. It positively bursts with citrus, apricot and nectarine flavours, while also showcasing a lip-smacking tartness. It's juicy, thirst-quenching and very, very drinkable.
In the second, yeastier half of my bottle the fruit flavours were more muted, but the body seemed thicker, and the texture more like a milkshake. Personally, I'd opt for the clearer pour, but the choice is yours.
The Queens must be chuffed to have a beer like this on tap. It deserves to sell by the bucket-load.
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Last week, I shared the story of how my ability to forgive an offender required an uncomfortable lesson in praying for him. No. I don't mean praying for an eighteen-wheeler to accidentally park on his head, but praying for good. Sincere, eternal good.
But forgiving one long-held grudge hasn't made me a graduate of the school of forgiveness. Since we don't live under a rock (or perhaps I should speak for myself), the offenses and frustrating behaviors of others will continue to affect our lives. From injuries that wound so deeply they leave twisted scars that forever alter us, to the feather-ruffling annoyances that pass soon enough, to those repeat offenses that scratch the skin just enough to draw little beads of blood, day after day.
And yet, I know I'm not perfect. I may live in a fantasy world sometimes (it's okay, I'm a novelist) but I'm not delusional. I am well aware that I have my moments. What polite name should we give them? Hiccups? Bad hair days? Stress?
It's important for me to be honest about this stuff, because once in a while, my temptation to hold a grudge over an offense is coupled with a humbling reminder that I'm no one to judge. I am guilty of making mistakes. I sometimes act thoughtlessly. Speak critically.
What if that phrase "forgive us as we have forgiven" doesn't mean while, as I'd always assumed, but in the same way? What if God were to only forgive me of my mistakes and sins in the same way and in the same measure that I forgive others?
"But some people are such jerks," you mutter beneath your breath. (Don't deny it, I heard you.) I completely agree! I have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness without being abused or disrespected or belittled. Or scammed. Cut off in traffic. Cheated. Lied about. Hurt.
I have the right to protect myself from harm.
But Jesus (if you've been around a bit, you knew a "But God" was coming) had rights too—full rights to the very throne of heaven as the Son of God, Prince of Peace, King of Kings. He had the right to be honored and revered and adored, to receive loyalty and total allegiance.
Yet he gave up those rights and walked resolutely through our decaying world of sin, pain, evil, suffering, abuse, offense—the worst those jerks we could throw down. Turning the other cheek. Enduring the scourging. Taking the nails. Because he had a single, unwavering purpose in mind.
To demonstrate through both his life and his death the beauty of God's immense, holy grace.
No. I was going to say "as much as the next person," but who am I to judge?
I don't know what Jesus wrote in the sand, but I do know I have no business throwing stones. Am I without sin? Maybe I'm not guilty of the same evil as the one offending me, but can I honestly stand with stone in hand ready to demand justice as though I have never been guilty of offending my gracious Lord?
The double barrels of Judgment and Justice that I aim at an offender could spin a one-eighty and aim their sights on me. I'd best not even pick it up. Besides, vigilante justice (bitterness, criticalness, grudge-holding) taken into my own hands never satisfies any laws; it just creates more sin.
It's not easy, yet I must leave justice with God, in whose hands I find no grudge-holding, no stones for exacting justice, only the grace and mercy in Christ that I need.
Gracious Lord, please fill my hands to overflowing with your grace until there's no room left for stones.
Which is harder: Forgiving the offenses of others, or admitting your own?
A great reminder of God's grace and His command for us to forgive!
Sometimes I think about the level of forgiveness I've granted others. If I still am tempted to speak in a degrading way, still want to mull over the sin, still want to vent about it…I probably have some further forgiving to do.
Sooooo true, Jan. Exactly what I had to face honestly (blogged about this last week). I still catch myself doing this, though not near as much as in the past, thank the Lord. I'm grateful to see growth in my ability to recognize this grudge-holding tendency more quickly, catching it before it permeates my spirit & comes out in my words. I'm so grateful for the help & nudges (& patience) of the Holy Spirit.
Thanks for your honesty, Jan.
Thank you for, once again, sharing so honestly.