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Although this spare and abstract work has only a tenuous relationship to its original subject matter—a house and dormer window—it maintains a connection to the physical world. Consisting of two flat sculptural pieces balanced in dynamic tension on a corner edge, and characterized by a fluorescent color scheme, the work hums with its own palpable presence.
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MIAMI (Feb. 15, 2014) – Rutgers baseball dropped both ends of a doubleheader to FIU by the scores of 13-1 and 5-0 Saturday at FIU Baseball Stadium. Nine different Scarlet Knights made their collegiate debut on the day, bringing the total up to 12 on the opening weekend.
RU (0-3) will next look to salvage the series finale against the Panthers (3-0) Sunday at 1 p.m. Redshirt freshman Kevin Baxter (Waterford, N.J.) will get the start on the mound for Rutgers in his career debut.
The Scarlet Knights fell behind early and could not recover in a 13-1 loss in the first game of the day. FIU jumped out with four runs in the first inning and six (all unearned) more in the third to build a 10-0 advantage. The lead eventually went up to 13-0, as the Panthers pounded out 20 hits overall.
RU scored its run in the ballgame in the top of the eighth after senior Lou Clemente (Union, N.J.) singled and came around three batters later on a sacrifice fly by freshman TJ Perkowski (South Brunswick, N.J.). Perkowski also drew a walk in a previous appearance to log two productive trips to the plate.
Junior Jon Young (Old Bridge, N.J.) (0-1) took the loss in his fourth career start and first in a weekend game, lasting three innings. Ty Sullivan (1-0) earned the win with two scoreless innings for the hosts, as starter Robby Kalaf had to leave the game early due to injury after four shutout frames.
Similar to the first game, FIU pounced early with three runs in the first and never looked back to earn a 5-0 victory in the nightcap. Redshirt freshman Kyle Driscoll (Toms River, N.J.) highlighted the contest for Rutgers with four effective innings in relief, holding the opponent to two hits and one run in his debut.
Offensively, RU was held down by FIU starter Mike Ellis (1-0), who pitched five shutout innings to pick up the win. Freshman Donovan Waller (Forked River, N.J.) (0-1) suffered the loss in his first college game.
Both Clemente and freshman Mike Carter (Bloomfield, N.J.) reached base in two-of-three plate appearances, but RU was held in check by the Panther staff in a shutout defeat.
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The purpose of this part is to promote a philosophy of independent living, including a philosophy of consumer control, peer support, self-help, self-determination, equal access, and individual and system advocacy, in order to maximize the leadership, empowerment, independence, and productivity of individuals with disabilities, and the integration and full inclusion of individuals with disabilities into the mainstream of American society, by—
(1) providing financial assistance to States for providing, expanding, and improving the provision of independent living services;
(2) providing financial assistance to develop and support statewide networks of centers for independent living; and
(3) providing financial assistance to States for improving working relationships among State independent living rehabilitation service programs, centers for independent living, Statewide Independent Living Councils established under section 796d of this title, State vocational rehabilitation programs receiving assistance under subchapter I of this chapter, State programs of supported employment services receiving assistance under part B of subchapter VI of this chapter, client assistance programs receiving assistance under section 732 of this title, programs funded under other subchapters of this chapter, programs funded under other Federal law, and programs funded through non-Federal sources.
Source(Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 701, as added Pub. L. 105–220, title IV, § 410,Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1217.)
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A prior section 796,Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 701, as added Pub. L. 102–569, title VII, § 701(2),Oct. 29, 1992, 106 Stat. 4443; amended Pub. L. 103–73, title I, § 114(a),Aug. 11, 1993, 107 Stat. 728, related to purpose of program to provide assistance for independent living for individuals with severe disabilities, prior to the general amendment of this subchapter by Pub. L. 105–220.
Another prior section 796,Pub. L. 93–112, title VII, § 701, as added Pub. L. 95–602, title III, § 301,Nov. 6, 1978, 92 Stat. 2995, provided Congressional statement of purpose of former subchapter VII, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 102–569, § 701(1).
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Want to spend a year or two after graduation making a difference in the country and/or world? Committing to full time service and/or public service fellowships after graduating from college has grown increasingly popular in the past 40 years. In fact, many of today's distinguished leaders in fields including politics, business, and journalism have completed such terms of service through national and international programs. As critical needs become more pervasive and apparent, young idealists armed with their college educations are joining these programs to meet these needs, gain real-world experiences, and hone their own skills. Alumnae of these programs not only gain the satisfaction of having contributed to the public good, but may leave with that edge needed to attain acceptance into lucrative grad programs and professional positions in their fields.
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The following are fellowship opportunities for undergraduates in public service and public policy. For more information and assistance in applying for these opportunities, students should visit/contact the Drexel Fellowships Office.
Boren Scholarship (December)
For undergraduate or graduate study in non-Western countries critical to US national security, in any field, especially including study of "critical languages." Requires government service post-award. http://www.iie.org/nsep/
Echoing Green (usually November)
Through our two-year Echoing Green Fellowship program, we provide start-up capital and technical assistance to help new leaders launch their organizations and build capacity. http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellowship
Humanity in Action (HIA) Fellowships (January)
The HIA Fellowship brings together groups of students and recent graduates from universities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine and the United States to explore national histories of discrimination and resistance, as well as examples of issues affecting different minority groups today. http://www.humanityinaction.org/programs/14-hia-fellowship
JW Saxe Memorial Fund (March)
A prize of $2000 will be awarded to one or more college or university students involved in public service. The award is meant to enable the student to gain practical experience in public service by taking a no-pay or low-pay job or internship during a summer or other term. http://www.jwsaxefund.org/
Public Policy and International Affair (November)
(PPIA) is a national program that prepares young adults for an advanced degree and ultimately for careers and influential roles serving the public good. PPIA has an outreach focus on students from groups who are underrepresented in leadership positions in government, nonprofits, international organizations and other institutional settings. http://www.ppiaprogram.org/
Rotary International Ambassadorial Scholarships (April 2012 for 2013-14 award)
For undergraduate, graduate, or language study overseas, in any field, to promote international understanding and goodwill. www.rotary.org
Pickering Undergraduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship (January)
For students committed to international affairs/Foreign Service. Covers 2 years of undergraduate work and 1 year of Masters in International Studies at participating school. Service obligation following award period. Min 3.2 GPA; apply as a sophomore. http://www.woodrow.org/public-policy/undergraduate.php
Truman Scholarship (Campus Nomination Required)
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Udall Scholarship (Campus Nomination Required)
The Udall Foundation awards approximately 80 scholarships of up to $5000 to outstanding sophomore and junior level college students committed to careers related to the environment, tribal public policy, or Native American health care. Udall looks for evidence of exceptional commitment and leadership from students in a wide range of fields. http://www.udall.gov/OurPrograms/MKUScholarship/MKUScholarship.aspx
The following profiles feature Drexel alumni that have engaged in public service programs following graduation. Feel free to contact them directly for questions/support related to post-graduation public service opportunities.
Starbuck Ballner, 2008
My name is Starbuck Ballner, I'm a 2008 recipient of a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Drexel's LeBow Business School. In 2009 I was selected to a Corps Member position in AmeriCorps NCCC, the National Civilian Community Corps, a federal service program for 18-24 year olds. I applied to AmeriCorps NCCC because I knew it would grant me the opportunity to develop my own service projects, travel the country, and experience a diverse engagement of service fields. During my 10 months of service, my team was assigned to; lead volunteers and development community revitalization projects in New Orleans, clean up homes after a flood in Tennessee, engineer bunk beds for a summer camp in Virginia, construct hiking trails in Washington, learn wild land fire fighting practices in a state forest in Maryland, and build low income family homes in Maine. My experience working within a diverse team with various skills, abilities, and backgrounds in partnership with local community non-profit organizations led me to my current position as a Project Coordinator with All Hands Volunteers, an international non-profit that manages volunteer projects in communities affected by natural disasters. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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My name is Justin Bradley and I graduated from Drexel in 2009 with a degree in Psychology and minors in Political Science and Economics. While at Drexel, I participated in the Center for Civic Engagement's Drexel Community Scholars program working on a project to engage students in developing service projects. Shortly after graduating, I left the City of Brotherly Love to do a year of AmeriCorps with Habitat for Humanity of East King County near Seattle where I worked with volunteers to build decent, affordable homes for families with a low-income. Upon finishing up my year of service, I went after the big money... with another year of service as an AmeriCorps VISTA with GRID Alternatives, a non-profit based in Oakland, California that uses volunteers to install Solar Electric systems for homeowners with a low-income across the state of California. I helped develop a national expansion plan that I'm proud to say will begin next year with GRID Alternative's first project outside of California! I currently work for an awesome solar leasing company in Oakland called Sungevity and I still maintain a few service projects on the side including a non-profit called Power to the People that installs solar electric systems on rural schools in Nicaragua and Tanzania. In addition to being a wonderful experience, my three years of national service through AmeriCorps prepared me for my career in ways no school or training could have. I feel I had a real impact on the organizations and communities I worked in and I grew greatly both professionally and personally. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Joel Gerstman
Peace Corps
Hello, my name is Joel Gerstman. I graduated from Drexel in 2009 with an undergraduate degree in Finance. As of right now I am serving a 2 year stint in the Peace Corps in a village in southern Thailand. I joined Peace Corps for probably much the same reason anyone would decide to join, namely to help people, live in a foreign country, and challenge myself to be able to adapt to a new language and new way of living. My previous work experience in finance jobs left me largely unfulfilled and yearning to do more meaningful work. In Thailand, I've helped in various community development roles in my village, including organic farming promotion, youth development activities, safe sex and drug education, and disaster relief work. The experience has helped me to get a great insight into development work at the grassroots level, while also giving me the opportunity to build wonderful lifelong relationships with many of the locals here. I don't yet know what I'll do after returning home in March 2012, but I am certain my experience as a Peace Corps volunteer will benefit me greatly in whatever lies ahead. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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I was going to create an ongoing blog series that focused on historical figures who were famous but no one remembers why. It was going to be called "Relics of Obscurity". I decided that the first subject would be Millard Fillmore.
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Several times a week, people come into the library looking for a Chilton's manual to help them while they are working on their cars. There are so many different makes, models and years of cars, so it can be difficult to find the exact manual you need at the library when you need it. Luckily you are now able to access that information online, either at the library or from the convenience of your own home, instantly.
With the decade of the eighties turning thirty in 2010, various eighties icons have published their memoirs. As they look back on their bad haircuts (i.e. mullets) and their bad fashions (i.e. leg warmers and Members Only jackets), you can, too.
The following is a sample of some of the eighties icons who have published their memoirs in 2010. All of the books are available at MCPL.
Ever been searching the catalog and come across a listing that says Electronic Resource? Do you sit there and say to yourself, "What the heck does that mean? Can I get this or not?"
Well the answer is yes. While "electronic resource" can mean a few of different things, the upshot is that the title is usually available, just not physically.
The American Legion Boys State of Missouri took place this year June 12-19th at the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, MO. 1,000 of the top high school students come together and build an entire government in the week they are there. Using their unique abilities and beliefs, the boys create a working political system which includes law enforcement, court systems, and all the other aspects of government.
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Evaluating the Credibility of Online Resources
Like Superman, we too sometimes fight a never ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way! Therefore, I'll suggest some tips about evaluating the credibility of online resources. Certainly, common sense is always helpful in determining the credibility of any informational resources. However, online resources can sometimes make the evaluation of information more challenging.
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Best known as the bassist from Joy Division and New Order. Peter decided to honour the outstanding work of his first band and the undoubted genius of the late Ian Curtis by giving people the opportunity to hear both of Joy Division's masterpiece albums, "Unknown Pleasures" and "Closer", live and in their entirety. Backed by his new band The Light, Hooky first played "Unknown Pleasures" at the Factory club in Manchester on May 2010, before taking the show on the road throughout Europe, Australia/NZ and the United States.
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I am going to comment specifically on the article presenting information about Cal Poly SLO. I'm a 1979 Electronic Engineering grad from there.
The facts presented in the article don't seem to paint an accurate picture of the institution. The issue I have is the quoted tuition. It is a good number as far as it goes, i.e. $8,742 for tuition. However, the cost of attending Cal Poly from their own website is estimated at $24,177 or nearly 3 times the tuition! Doesn't this more closely reflect the expected cost of getting an education at this institution?
Another BIG issue with the article is that there are TWO California Polytechnic Universities. Cal Poly Pamona is a great school too with a similar reputation in industry. Shouldn't the article have mentioned both?
They have different locations but similar educational philosophies.
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The programme "International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange" (IODE) of the "Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission" (IOC) of UNESCO was established in 1961. Its purpose is to enhance marine research, exploitation and development, by facilitating the exchange of oceanographic data and information between participating Member States, and by meeting the needs of users for data and information products.
Vacancy for a Programme Specialist/OBIS Project Manager: A vacancy is opened for the prosition of a Programme Specialist (P-3 level) who be be charged with the coordination of planning and implementation of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS). The vacancy notice can be consulted fully through https://careers.unesco.org/careersection/jobdetail.ftl?job=1BESC+0002RP&lang=en#.VA8N-2NS9Pk.link
Candidates should apply through the above mentioned URL ONLY. The closing date to apply is 9 November 2014.
Ms LIU is currently following an Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Maritime Spatial Planning. Previously she worked as a research engineer in Singapore and Hong Kong on hydrological and environmental modelling based on geospatial and remote sensing data.
During the next 5 months she will contribute to the second phase of the Caribbean Marine Atlas (CMA2) project, in particular related to MSP activities and marine biodiversity (OBIS) in the Caribbean Sea.
CMA2 will contribute to better Integrated Coastal Zone (ICZ) and shared Living Marine Resources (sLMR) Governance and Management in the Caribbean Sea, by providing key stakeholders a gateway to spatial data and information, guides to standards and best-practices and decision-support applications.
Supervisor: Ward Appeltans (IOC-UNESCO/IODE/OBIS)
The Indian National Center for Ocean Information Service (INCOIS) and IOC signed a Memorandum of Agreement in July 2013 for cooperation in conducting training courses at the International Training Centre for Operational Oceanography (ITCOocean) set up by ESSO-INCOIS in Hyderabad, India. The centre will operate as a contribution to IOC's training and capacity development activities in mainly the Indian Ocean rim countries. It will cooperate with IODE's OceanTeacher Global Academy by providing a regional training centre. ITCOOcean is now organizing the "Ocean Colour Remote Sensing – Data, Processing and Applications" in Hyderabad, India between 10-14 November 2014. More information on the course can be found on http://www.incois.gov.in/Incois/ITCOocean_OCRS.jsp. There is no course fee charged for the training course. The participants are expected to make their own arrangements for all expenses, including International to and fro travel. However, INCOIS can provide local...
The Second Session of the JCOMM-IODE Steering Group for the Global Temperature-Salinity Profile Programme (SG-GTSPP-II) was held at the IOC Project Office for IODE, Oostende, Belgium between 17-20 June 2014.
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Indonesia announced the establishment of its National Oceanographic Data Centre, which is based at the Badan Informasi Geospasial (Agency for Geospatial Information) in Jalan Raya Jakarta. The IODE national coordinator for data management us Mr Dodi Sukmayadi. More information on the new Centre can be found through the web site http://www.big.go.id and in the IODE web site's NODC/DNA page http://www.iode.org/nodc


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As we close the celebration of Black History Month and head into Women's History Month, it is notable that historic preservation is back in the news.
Last week, the Library of Congress reported that nearly 80 percent of all motion pictures filmed before 1930, as well as countless sound recordings, have been lost.
The world's largest library system has a solution and is working hard to preserve more than a million films and recordings that are archived. The solution is to digitize as much of this cultural history as possible before time and the elements speed the process of disintegration.
Recorded sound and film have been around for more than a century. Sound was a phenomenon that men like Thomas Edison were able to capture in the late 19th century.
A century-and-a-half later, recordings of campaign songs, popular music, films of the silent era and the talkies that folloowed are stored in basements, garages, barns and attics all over the U.S. The Library of Congress and other museums attempt to secure them when they are made available.
Locally, the Calumet Archives is housed at Indiana University Northwest and Stephen McShane is doing what he can to preserve materials of value to our history. A walk through his archives illustrates how sensitive his documents are to light, heat, humidity and human touch.
As mentioned last week in this column, Tom Clark's Lake Central High School history classes are also preserving local history in the form of letters, mementos, medals, and other artifacts from local veterans killed in wars from the 20th century through today.
Clark and his students were spotlighted Thursday on a segment of television's CBS Evening News. His students should be commended for their tireless work collecting materials now preserved in wooden cases that line Clark's classroom and fill his garage.
Hopefully, with preservation making the news, we will grow to appreciate all that is out there and give the people doing the hard work their just desserts. Historical societies in towns like Highland, Munster, and Griffith, to cities like Hammond, have managed to save a great deal of the valuable documents that we will need to tell the rich story of this area.
In this little corner of the state, we have contributed to the history of this nation by the steel we produced to build the great modern cities to the soldiers that marched off to war in places near and far. Where the Library of Congress has preserved film and music, we have contributed to that as well.
Growing up in a house filled with music, we appreciated the history of all types of music. We had 45s as well as the old 78s. Later we would add 8-track tape players and cassette tapes. Much later, CD players came along. Each of these recording types changed the way we listened to our favorite tunes much like MP3 players and other handheld devices have changed the way we listen to music today. What hasn't changed is the need to preserve the sound.
Thankfully, there are people doing just that. The history they are preserving is too important to throw away.


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Oh yes, because we write it!
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This story in the Huffington Post last week speculated that CBS News senior correspondent John Miller might be appointed to run the New York City Police Department's counterterrorism unit, now that Bill Bratton has been named police commissioner by Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio.
The story makes sense. Miller and Bratton are close friends and Bratton had Miller running counterterrorism in Los Angeles when he was police chief there. Miller — who began his career in the 1970s as a reporter for local New York City TV outlets before being promoted to the networks — had served as the NYPD's deputy commissioner for public affairs during Bratton's first tour running the NYPD in 1994. And just before coming to CBS in 2011 he had held senior positions at the FBI and in the office of the Director of National Intelligence.
But here's why CBS should do everything possible to make sure Miller doesn't leave — and why a newspaper or magazine editor would be smart to assign a profile of him: If major league television news organizations named a Most Valuable Player the way baseball does, Miller would get the honor this year, hands down.
Whether on CBS's resurgent morning and evening news shows, or on its "60 Minutes" juggernaut, Miller seems to have been everywhere since he joined the network, with scoops or with reports that dive deeper than the competition into stories that everyone else is covering. From the Boston Marathon bombing, to Sandy Hook, to drone strike strategy, to the Snowden leaks, to the shooting of TSA officers in Los Angeles, to the Justice Department's leak investigations that targeted reporters, Miller consistently seems to have the smartest, sharpest take.
There are all kinds of intriguing angles a story about Miller could explore. For starters, is his success simply a matter of getting old law enforcement colleagues to leak to him more than to his competitors? Or, as I assume, is there more to it than that, including the possibility that his actual experience on the inside makes him more able not only to ask the right questions but to ask the right people?


text: Union president Joseph Barney is apologizing on behalf of Detroit EMS taking way too long to get to medical emergencies."We're sorry. The men and women of Detroit EMS, the technicians, we're sorry about this. We're sorry we can't get to you in a timely fashion. Trust me, if we could, we would," he said."We pretty much run no units available all the time. You have calls that will go an hour, two or three hours without being serviced.""Generally we're around seven to ten rigs per day right now. At the lowest point last month, we were down to five rigs for the whole city.""We had a crew the other day did 23 runs. Think about that. 23 runs in twelve hours."The city has contracted with private ambulances to help, and Detroit EMS is grateful to the brothers in blue. Detroit police officers have been taking people to the hospital because no ambulances can get there."The police officers know it's important, and they will transport," said Police Chief James Craig.He said they have to transport about 50 percent of the injured children encountered by his officers because Detroit EMS can't get there in time."This is all-time low for I think the city and for the fire department," Barney said.We reached out to the fire commissioner for comment, but we have yet to hear back.A spokesperson for Mayor Dave Bing told us new ambulances are on the way from the business community. The mayor will announce when later this month. However, EMTs still have to be trained to operate them, and they must be maintained.Until that new fleet of 23 ambulances is up and running, Detroit EMS is asking for help from the public. Don't call unless it's truly an emergency."Quite frankly we can't afford to keep responding to all these non emergency calls, especially when you only have seven to ten trucks," Barney said.


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McGurk effect
The McGurk effect is a perceptual phenomenon that demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception. The illusion occurs when the auditory component of one sound is paired with the visual component of another sound, leading to the perception of a third sound.[1] The visual information a person gets from seeing a person speak changes the way they hear the sound.[2] People who are used to watching dubbed movies may be among people who are not susceptible to the McGurk effect because they have, to some extent, learned to ignore the information they are getting from the mouths of the "speakers".[3] If a person is getting poor quality auditory information but good quality visual information, they may be more likely to experience the McGurk effect.[4] Integration abilities for audio and visual information may also influence whether a person will experience the effect. People who are better at sensory integration have been shown to be more susceptible to the effect.[2] Many people are affected differently by the McGurk effect based on many factors, brain damages or disorders.
- 1 Background
- 2 Internal factors
- 3 External factors
- 4 Other languages
- 5 Hearing impairment
- 6 Infants
- 7 See also
- 8 Bibliography
- 9 References
- 10 External links
McGurk-MacDonald effect. It was first described in 1976 in a paper by Harry McGurk and John MacDonald titled "Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices".[5] This effect was discovered by accident when McGurk and his research assistant, MacDonald, asked a technician to dub a video with a different phoneme from the one spoken while conducting a study on how infants perceive language at different developmental stages. When the video was played back, both researchers heard a third phoneme rather than the one spoken or mouthed in the video.[6]
This effect may be experienced when a video of one phoneme's production is dubbed with a sound-recording of a different phoneme being spoken. Often, the perceived phoneme is a third, intermediate phoneme. As an example, the syllable /ba-ba/ is spoken over the lip movements of /ga-ga/, and the perception is of /da-da/. McGurk and MacDonald originally believed that this resulted from the common phonetic and visual properties of /b/ and /g/.[7] Two types of illusion in response to incongruent audiovisual stimuli have been observed: fusions ('ba' auditory and 'ga' visual produce 'da') and combinations ('ga' auditory and 'ba' visual produce 'bga').[8] This is the brain's effort to provide the consciousness with its best guess about the incoming information.[9] The information coming from the eyes and ears is contradictory, and in this instance, the eyes (visual information) have had a greater effect on the brain and thus the fusion and combination responses have been created.[9]
Vision is the primary sense for humans,[2] but speech perception is multimodal, which means that it involves information from more than one sensory modality, in particular, audition and vision. The McGurk effect arises during phonetic processing because the integration of audio and visual information happens early in speech perception.[7] The McGurk effect is very robust; that is, knowledge about it seems to have little effect on one's perception of it. This is different from certain optical illusions, which break down once one 'sees through' them. Some people, including those that have been researching the phenomenon for more than twenty years, experience the effect even when they are aware that it is taking place.[8][10] With the exception of people who can identify most of what is being said from speech-reading alone, most people are quite limited in their ability to identify speech from visual-only signals.[2] A more extensive phenomenon is the ability of visual speech to increase the intelligibility of heard speech in a noisy environment.[2] Visible speech can also alter the perception of perfectly audible speech sounds when the visual speech stimuli are mismatched with the auditory speech.[2] Normally, speech perception is thought to be an auditory process,[2] however, our use of information is immediate, automatic, and, to a large degree, unconscious[10] and therefore, despite what is widely accepted as true, speech is not only something we hear.[10] Speech is perceived by all of the senses working together (seeing, touching, and listening to a face move).[10] The brain is often unaware of the separate sensory contributions of what it perceives.[10] Therefore, when it comes to recognizing speech the brain cannot differentiate whether it is seeing or hearing the incoming information.[10]
It has also been examined in relation to witness testimony. Wareham and Wright's 2005 study showed that inconsistent visual information can change the perception of spoken utterances, suggesting that the McGurk effect may have many influences in everyday perception. Not limited to syllables, the effect can occur in whole words[7][11] and have an effect on daily interactions that people are unaware of. Research into this area can provide information on not only theoretical questions, but also it can provide therapeutic and diagnostic relevance for those with disorders relating to audio and visual integration of speech cues.[12]
Internal factors[edit]
Both hemispheres of the brain make a contribution to the McGurk effect.[13] They work together to integrate speech information that is received through the auditory and visual senses. A McGurk response is more likely to occur in right-handed individuals for whom the face has privileged access to the right hemisphere and words to the left hemisphere.[13] In people that have had callosotomies done, the McGurk effect is still present but significantly slower.[13] In people with lesions to the left hemisphere of the brain, visual features often play a critical role in speech and language therapy.[12] People with lesions in the left hemisphere of the brain show a greater McGurk effect than normal controls.[12] Visual information strongly influences speech perception in these people.[12] There is a lack of susceptibility to the McGurk illusion if left hemisphere damage resulted in a deficit to visual segmental speech perception.[14] In people with right hemisphere damage, impairment on both visual-only and audio-visual integration tasks is exhibited, although they are still able to integrate the information to produce a McGurk effect.[14] Integration only appears if visual stimuli is used to improve performance when the auditory signal is impoverished but audible.[14] Therefore, there is a McGurk effect exhibited in people with damage to the right hemisphere of the brain but the effect is not as strong as a normal group.
Dyslexic individuals exhibit a smaller McGurk effect than normal readers of the same chronological age, but they showed the same effect as reading-level age-matched readers.[15] Dyslexics particularly differed for combination responses, not fusion responses.[15] The smaller McGurk effect may be due to the difficulties dyslexics have in perceiving and producing consonant clusters.[15]
Specific language impairment[edit]
Children with specific language impairment show a significantly lower McGurk effect than the average child.[16] They use less visual information in speech perception, or have a reduced attention to articulatory gestures, but have no trouble perceiving auditory-only cues.[16]
Autism spectrum disorders[edit]
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) showed a significantly reduced McGurk effect than children without.[17] However, if the stimulus was nonhuman (for example bouncing a tennis ball to the sound of a bouncing beach ball) then they scored similarly to children without ASD.[17] Younger children with ASD show a very reduced McGurk effect, however, this diminishes with age. As the individuals grow up, the effect they show becomes closer to those that did not have ASD.[18]
Language-learning disabilities[edit]
Adults with language-learning disabilities exhibit a much smaller McGurk effect than other adults.[19] These people are not as influenced by visual input as most people.[19] Therefore, people with poor language skills will produce a smaller McGurk effect. A reason for the smaller effect in this population is that there may be uncoupled activity between anterior and posterior regions of the brain, or left and right hemispheres.[19]
Alzheimer's disease[edit]
In patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), there is a smaller McGurk effect exhibited than in normals.[20] Often a reduced size of the corpus callosum produces a hemisphere disconnection process.[20] Less influence on visual stimulus is seen in patients with AD, which is a reason for the lowered McGurk effect.[20]
The McGurk effect is not as pronounced in schizophrenic individuals as in normal individuals. However, it is not significantly different in adults.[21] Schizophrenia slows down the development of audiovisual integration and does not allow it to reach its developmental peak. However, no degradation is observed.[21] Schizophrenics are more likely to rely on auditory cues than visual cues in speech perception.[21]
People with aphasia show impaired perception of speech in all conditions (visual-only, auditory-only, and audio-visual), and therefore exhibited a small McGurk effect.[22] The greatest difficulty for aphasics is in the visual-only condition showing that they use more auditory stimuli in speech perception.[22]
External factors[edit]
Discrepancy in vowel category significantly reduced the magnitude of the McGurk effect for fusion responses.[23] Auditory /a/ tokens dubbed onto visual /i/ articulations were more compatible than the reverse.[23] This could be because /a/ has a wide range of articulatory configurations whereas /i/ is more limited,[23] which makes it much easier for subjects to detect discrepancies in the stimuli.[23] /i/ vowel contexts produce the strongest effect, while /a/ produces a moderate effect, and /u/ has almost no effect.[24]
Mouth visibility[edit]
The McGurk effect is stronger when the right side of the mouth is visible.[25] People tend to get more visual information from the right side of a speakers mouth than the left or even the whole mouth.[25] This relates to the hemispheric attention factors discussed in the brain hemispheres section above.
Visual distractors[edit]
The McGurk effect is weaker when there is a visual distractor present that the listener is attending to.[26] Visual attention modulates audiovisual speech perception.[26] Another form of distraction is movement of the speaker. A stronger McGurk effect is elicited if the speakers face/head is motionless, rather than moving.[27]
Syllable structure[edit]
A strong McGurk effect can be seen for click-vowel syllables compared to weak effects for isolated clicks.[28] This shows that the McGurk effect can happen in a non-speech environment.[28] Phonological significance is not a necessary condition for a McGurk effect to occur, however, it does increase the strength of the effect.[28]
Females show a stronger McGurk effect than males. Women show significantly greater visual influence on auditory speech than men did for brief visual stimuli, but no difference is apparent for full stimuli.[27] Another aspect regarding gender is the issue of male faces and voices as stimuli in comparison to female faces and voices as stimuli. Although, there is no difference in the strength of the McGurk effect for either situation.[29] If a male face is dubbed with a female voice, or vice versa, there is still no difference in strength of the McGurk effect.[29] Knowing that the voice you hear is different from the face you see - even if different genders – doesn't eliminate the McGurk effect.[10]
Subjects who are familiar with the faces of the speakers are less susceptible to the McGurk effect than those who are unfamiliar with the faces of the speakers.[2][24] On the other hand, there was no difference regarding voice familiarity.[24]
Semantic congruency had a significant impact on the McGurk illusion.[30] The effect is experienced more often and rated as clearer in the semantically congruent condition relative to the incongruent condition.[30] When a person was expecting a certain visual or auditory appearance based on the semantic information leading up to it, the McGurk effect was greatly increased.[30]
Self influence[edit]
The McGurk effect can be observed when the listener is also the speaker or articulator.[31] While looking at oneself in the mirror and articulating visual stimuli while listening to another auditory stimulus, a strong McGurk effect can be observed.[31] In the other condition, where the listener speaks auditory stimuli softly while watching another person articulate the conflicting visual gestures, a McGurk effect can still be seen, although it is weaker.[31]
Temporal synchrony[edit]
Temporal synchrony is not necessary for the McGurk effect to be present.[32] Subjects are still strongly influenced by auditory stimuli even when it lagged the visual stimuli by 180 milliseconds (point at which McGurk effect begins to weaken).[32] There was less tolerance for the lack of synchrony if the auditory stimuli preceded the visual stimuli.[32] In order to produce a significant weakening of the McGurk effect, the auditory stimuli had to precede the visual stimuli by 60 milliseconds, or lag by 240 milliseconds.[2]
Physical task diversion[edit]
The McGurk effect was greatly reduced when attention was diverted to a tactile task (touching something).[33] Touch is a sensory perception like vision and audition, therefore increasing attention to touch decreases the attention to auditory and visual senses.
The eyes do not need to fixate in order to integrate audio and visual information in speech perception.[34] There was no difference in the McGurk effect when the listener was focusing anywhere on the speakers face.[34] The effect does not appear if the listener focuses beyond the speakers face.[2] In order for the McGurk effect to become insignificant, the listeners gaze must deviate from the speakers mouth by at least 60 degrees.[34]
Other languages[edit]
People of all languages rely to some extent on visual information in speech perception, but the intensity of the McGurk effect can change between languages. Dutch,[35] English, Spanish, German and Italian language listeners experience a robust McGurk effect, while it is weaker for Japanese and Chinese listeners.[36] Most research on the McGurk effect between languages has been conducted between English and Japanese. There is a smaller McGurk effect in Japanese listeners than in English listeners.[35][37][38][39][40][41] The cultural practice of face avoidance in Japanese people may have an effect on the McGurk effect, as well as tone and syllabic structures of the language.[35] This could also be why Chinese listeners are less susceptible to visual cues, and similar to Japanese, produce a smaller effect than English listeners.[35] Studies have also shown that Japanese listeners do not show a developmental increase in visual influence after the age of six, as English children do.[37][38] Japanese listeners are more able to identify an incompatibility between the visual and auditory stimulus than English listeners are.[35][38] This result could be in relation to the fact that in Japanese, consonant clusters do not exist.[35][39] In noisy environments where speech is unintelligible, however, people of all languages resort to using visual stimuli and are then equally subject to the McGurk effect.[35][39] The McGurk effect works with speech perceivers of every language for which it has been tested.[10]
Hearing impairment[edit]
Experiments have been conducted involving hearing impaired individuals as well as individuals that have had cochlear implants. These individuals tend to weigh visual information from speech more heavily than auditory information.[42] In comparison to normal hearing individuals, this is not different unless there is more than one syllable, such as a word.[42] Regarding the McGurk experiment, responses from cochlear implanted users produced the same responses as normal hearing individuals when an auditory bilabial stimulus is dubbed onto a visual velar stimulus.[42] However, when an auditory dental stimulus is dubbed onto a visual bilabial stimulus, the responses are quite different. The McGurk effect is still present in individuals with impaired hearing or using cochlear implants, although it is quite different in some aspects.
By measuring an infant's attention to certain audiovisual stimuli, a response that is consistent with the McGurk effect can be recorded.[2][10][43][44][45] From just minutes to a couple of days old, infants can imitate adult facial movements, and within weeks of birth, infants can recognize lip movements and speech sounds.[46] At this point, the integration of audio and visual information can happen, but not at a proficient level.[46] The first evidence of the McGurk effect can be seen at four months of age,[43][44] however, more evidence is found for 5 month olds.[2][10][45][47] Through the process of habituating an infant to a certain stimulus and then changing the stimulus (or part of it, such as ba-voiced/va-visual to da-voiced/va-visual), a response that simulates the McGurk effect becomes apparent.[10][45] The strength of the McGurk effect displays a developmental pattern that increases throughout childhood and extends into adulthood.[44][45]
See also[edit]
- Duplex perception
- Ideasthesia
- Lip reading
- Motor theory of speech perception
- Multisensory integration
- Speech perception
- Viseme
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- Wright, Daniel and Wareham, Gary (2005); "Mixing sound and vision: The interaction of auditory and visual information for earwitnesses of a crime scene," Legal and Criminological Psychology, Vol 10(1), pp. 103–108.
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- ^ a b c Bastien-Toniazzo, M., Stroumza, A. & Cavé, C. (2009). Audio-visual perception and integration in developmental dyslexia: An exploratory study using the McGurk effect. Current Psychology Letters, 25 (3), 2-14
- ^ a b Norrix, L., Plante, E., Vance, R. & Boliek, C. (2007). Auditory-visual integration for speech by children with and without specific language impairment. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50, 1639-1651
- ^ a b Mongillo, E., Irwin, J., Whalen, D. & Klaiman, C. (2008). Audiovisual processing in children with and without autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 38, 1349-1358
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- ^ a b c Norrix, L., Plante, E. & Vance, R. (2006). Auditory-visual speech integration by adults with and without language-learning disabilities. Journal of Communication Disorders, 39, 22-36
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External links[edit]
- A constraint-based explanation of the McGurk effect a write up of the McGurk effect by Paul Boersma of University of Amsterdam. PDF available from academic webpage of author.
- Try The McGurk Effect! - Horizon: Is Seeing Believing? - BBC Two
- McGurk Effect (with explanation)


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The Journal Sentinel business department follows developments in the local retail industry
Culver's headed to Florida
The Culver's restaurant chain said Monday it is planning to open at least three locations in western Florida next year.
Restaurants are currently in the planning stages in the Naples, Fort Myers and Sarasota areas, Culver's Franchising System Inc. said.
"We're looking forward to bringing the Culver's experience to guests in Florida," said Phil Keiser, president and chief operating officer. "We know there are many people from the Midwest who know the Culver's brand. They'll be great ambassadors for our food and hospitality."
Culver's, based in Prairie du Sac, has 473 restaurants operating in 20 states.
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I was surprised by the lack of Culver's in Florida, but especially in Central Florida near Disney and Universal. Many families from Culver's markets travel there often and you cannot find custard easily (or possibly at all) near the attractions in greater Orlando. I hope they consider a location on International Drive soon too!Hide replies
I was surprised as well Culver's overpriced menu fits right in with Disney's price gouging tactics.
Be careful what you wish for, Culver's. Because I only have two words for you in SW Florida: Cheeburger!! Cheeburger!!
I go to Culvers here and there for their burgers and other sandwiches which think are pretty good compared to other "fast food" places, but I'm not all that impressed by their custard. Whenever I have friends or relatives in from out of town, even if they have a Culvers where they're from, I take them to Kopp's or Oscar's to show them what REAL Milwaukee frozen custard is all about!
Look out Florida retirees, your rxtra high cholesterol in a bag is on its way!
This is welcome news for Florida heart surgeons across the state.
Culver's will do well in Florida. It seems to be like catnip for old people.


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On Tuesday, the country will either re-elect president Obama to a second term or to elect Gov. Romney as the new president. No matter who wins, this country can't afford to stay on its current fiscal path, along which government size and scope have reached unprecedented levels. Here are the policies I hope the next president, whoever it is, will pursue in the next four years.
* Reduce government spending: Spending as a share of gross domestic product grew from 18.2 percent in 2001 to 23.4 percent in 2012 -- a 29 percent increase in real terms. Overspending is a bipartisan problem, as we witnessed during President George W. Bush's terms in office. It's time to put Washington on a diet. That means cutting more than waste, fraud and abuse, even in legitimate areas of federal spending such as defense. It also means returning many functions, such as education, to the states where they belong.
But to end the spending crisis that we are facing, programs like Social Security and Medicare must be reformed. If they aren't, the country will be locked into a completely unsustainable transfer of wealth from the relatively young and poor to the relatively old and wealthy in society. This generational warfare isn't just costly, it's also profoundly unfair.
* Reform the tax code: For decades now, the tax system has been used for social engineering rather than tax revenue collection. As a result, two American taxpayers making the same amount of money today may have significantly different tax bill depending on whether they are married or single, have a child or not, earn income from capital or wages, own or rent their home, etc. This is unfair and inefficient. Fundamental tax reform that gets rid of deductions and lowers marginal tax rates for all -- ideally resulting in a flat-rate system -- would address these problems. Particularly if it were combined with reforms to eliminate the double taxation of income that is saved and invested. However, no pro-growth tax policy will be achievable and durable unless it is accompanied by serious and deep reforms to control the growth of federal spending.
* End cronyism: Private interests, such as banks, energy companies (whether oil, gas or green), automobile companies and farmers continue to get special treatment from the federal government in the form of tax breaks, subsidies, loan guarantees and more, with little consideration of the cost and damage of these political favors. The Mercatus Center's Matt Mitchell has the best description of the negative consequences of cronyism: "Whatever its guise, government-granted privilege [to private businesses] is an extraordinarily destructive force. It misdirects resources, impedes genuine economic progress, breeds corruption, and undermines the legitimacy of both the government and the private sector."
With a trillion-dollar deficit, it should be obvious that we need to put an end to these politically motivated favors including bailouts of entire industries.
* Rein in regulations: Regulations are continuously added to the Federal Register without much review or performance measurement. A statute requiring regulators to do economic analysis of their regulations would be a start. Such a mandate would force regulators to think about basic questions such as whether there is actually a problem that requires intervention, whether regulators are the ones who should try to solve it and whether they can even solve the problem at all. Subsequently, massive regulations such as Dodd-Frank need to be entirely revisited and old regulations should be reviewed for potential abolition.
There is be much more to add to this list. But I hope that no matter who is in power on January 2013 will be a true agent of change and will realize that there are serious limits to what the government can and should do.
Examiner Contributor Veronique de Rugy is a senior research fellow of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.


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Meat has become the poster of everything that's wrong with the modern food system. But can it also be good, clean and fair? Slow Food USA tackles a hot topic with its first ever 'Slow Meat' event, to be held in Denver from June 20 – 22. In the first Slow Food event of its kind, Slow Meat will bring together ranchers, butchers, policy experts, producers and of course consumers to investigate the good, the bad and the ugly in the meat production system in America. More than one hundred delegates from across the USA will share their ideas and expertise to identify what can be done regarding five different aspects from field to fork: land and water use, animal husbandry, processing and distribution of meat, marketing and healthy food retail, and consumption and nutrition. "Our current industrial meat grid confines animals, wealth and choices," said Richard McCarthy, Executive Director of Slow Food USA. "In an effort to maximize efficiency and minimize price, we have abandoned common sense and moved away from traditional animal husbandry practices and land management. Slow Meat addresses these issues to create a move toward free-range animals, choices and resources." Keynote speaker Allan Savory, the Zimbabwean biologist, farmer, soldier, exile and environmentalist, will frame meat within the context of climate change. The symposium will also include a guided bison butchery workshop run by local butchers; a tasting event open to the public which will highlight top US producers, cooks and meats, as well as locally crafted beers, wines and spirits; a dinner featuring the bison prepared by internationally renowned chefs; and a Slow Food Youth Network Disco Soup. Representatives from Slow Food convivia will take part in workshops and networking, and come up with an action plan for Slow Food communities across the USA, to put into practice in the coming year. For more information on Slow Meat visit: slowfoodusa.org
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