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Banks seek change in hard-asset ruleSome criticize proposal, saying it will limit disclosure By Thom Calandra, CBS.MarketWatch.comLast Update: 12:11 PM ET March 12, 2003 SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) - It may be much ado about nothing, but a proposed change to the way commercial banks handle commodities has some hard-asset investors riled up.The Federal Reserve, at the request of two giant banks, is considering a rule change that would let bank-holding companies take title of nearly all commodities, like barrels of oil, briefly. The request by Citigroup (C: news, chart, profile) and UBS AG of Switzerland (UBS: news, chart, profile) essentially would let banks deal in a wider range of hard assets when they are buying, selling or designing derivatives based on those assets.Right now, banks on American soil use derivative contracts when they are buying, selling or structuring a loan, swap or other transaction that involves commodities. As U.S. Federal Reserve rules now stand, banks can take title of only precious metals when they are in the world of hard assets.Commercial U.S. banks are said to hold more than $50 trillion of highly leveraged derivatives on their balance sheets, and even more on behalf of clients. The growing amount of such contracts, which take the shape of forward sales, futures, options and dozens of other paper-linked transactions, led insurance executive Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA: news, chart, profile) to declare derivatives "financial weapons of mass destruction."At the heart of the proposed rule change is the ability of banks to take title to hard goods on an "instantaneous pass-through basis." Critics contend that would limit or eliminate disclosure of derivative trades, say in the haywire energy markets. Such trades, involving billions of dollars of leveraged paper contracts, could ring alarm bells with investors if they became widely known, say some."It's just another rule change in a pattern of changes already well established, namely, to bend over backwards to give the banks everything they want regarding derivatives, including no disclosure," said James Turk, a former commodities financier and director of payment transaction company GoldMoney.com. "Basically my reading is that this change to the regulations is consistent with Fed policy to give banks what they want."The new rule, if it becomes effective later this spring, appears to allow banks to increase their business in the volatile energy markets, where many transactions are actually settled physically by two parties exchanging payment for goods such as crude oil, heating oil or other petroleum-based products.The Federal Reserve, in comments to the request for a change to so-called Regulation Y, said, "These requests arise in large part because, in certain over-the-counter forward markets (U.S. energy markets, for example), the physically settled derivative contracts traded by market participants do not specifically provide for assignment, termination or offset prior to delivery."Traders in these markets, said the Federal Reserve in its comments, "generally settle the derivative contracts by temporarily taking and making delivery of title to the underlying commodities." Banks, on the other hand, "generally enter into back-to-back derivative contracts with third parties that effectively offset each other." See: Regulation Y rule change.
I wish I could alway change the rules as I go through life to make things go my way.nas
Banks, in other words, want the same flexibility that non-bank traders have in energy and other physical-delivery markets. Offsetting contracts that are used now by banks ensure, theoretically, that on the maturity date of a derivative contract, the producer will deliver the goods and the buyer will accept them. That reduces the banks' risk of actually holding heating oil, or soybeans, or pork bellies."Citigroup and UBS contend that a bank-holding company that takes title to a commodity on an instantaneous, pass-through basis takes no risk that is greater than or different in kind from the risk that it has as a holder of a commodity derivative contract that meets the current requirements of Regulation Y," the Fed said in its comments.James Tu, director of investment research at commodities specialist Gerstein & Fisher in New York, said on the face of the rule-change request, one could interpret regulators are concerned about mounting risk for commercial banks. According to the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which tracks derivative exposure, U.S. commercial banks held $53.2 trillion of derivatives at the end of the third quarter 2002, up $3.1 trillion from the second quarter. Among individual banks at the end of 2002's third quarter, J.P. Morgan Chase (JPM: news, chart, profile) had the highest derivative exposure, followed by Citibank and Bank of America (BAC: news, chart, profile)."If their proposal is passed, that might permit banks legally to engage in shorting these commodities without limit," said Tu, who acknowledged he was speculating about the possibilities and had no direct knowledge of possible outcomes of the proposed rule change. "I guess we keep underestimating Fed's ability and willingness to stretch itself in order to save the butt of the big banks."
yeah, no wonder why miners went down hard these days....the insiders know about the dirivative rule changes....damn....they are work'n over time to save the damn banks.....this really sucks.....they created the derivatives....now they are changing the rules....simply because they know they are in trouble....I wish I was the creator !!! damn !!!we need more people to take pysical delivery.....as for China....sure isn't make'n much of a dent....ok.


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Chapter 7. Vision: From Eye to Brain
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Davide Castelvecchi People can detect flashes of light as feeble as a single photon, an experiment has demonstrated — a finding that seems to conclude a 70-year quest to test the limits of human vision. The study, published in Nature Communications on 19 July1, "finally answers a long-standing question about whether humans can see single photons — they can!" says Paul Kwiat, a quantum optics researcher at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. The techniques used in the study also open up ways of testing how quantum properties — such as the ability of photons to be in two places at the same time — affect biology, he adds. "The most amazing thing is that it's not like seeing light. It's almost a feeling, at the threshold of imagination," says Alipasha Vaziri, a physicist at the Rockefeller University in New York City, who led the work and tried out the experience himself. Experiments on cells from frogs have shown that sensitive light-detecting cells in vertebrate eyes, called rod cells, do fire in response to single photons2. But, in part because the retina processes its information to reduce 'noise' from false alarms, researchers hadn't been able to confirm whether the firing of one rod cell would trigger a signal that would be transmitted all the way to the brain. Nor was it clear whether people would be able to consciously sense such a signal if it did reach the brain. Experiments to test the limits of human vision have also had to wait for the arrival of quantum-optics technologies that can reliably produce one photon of light at a time. © 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 22461 - Posted: 07.20.2016
Jon Hamilton Letting mice watch Orson Welles movies may help scientists explain human consciousness. At least that's one premise of the Allen Brain Observatory, which launched Wednesday and lets anyone with an Internet connection study a mouse brain as it responds to visual information. "Think of it as a telescope, but a telescope that is looking at the brain," says Christof Koch, chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science, which created the observatory. The hope is that thousands of scientists and would-be scientists will look through that telescope and help solve one of the great mysteries of human consciousness, Koch says. "You look out at the world and there's a picture in your head," he says. "You see faces, you see your wife, you see something on TV." But how does the brain create those images from the chaotic stream of visual information it receives? "That's the mystery," Koch says. There's no easy way to study a person's brain as it makes sense of visual information. So the observatory has been gathering huge amounts of data on mice, which have a visual system that is very similar to the one found in people. The data come from mice that run on a wheel as still images and movies appear on a screen in front of them. For the mice, it's a lot like watching TV on a treadmill at the gym. But these mice have been genetically altered in a way that allows a computer to monitor the activity of about 18,000 neurons as they respond to different images. "We can look at those neurons and from that decode literally what goes through the mind of the mouse," Koch says. Those neurons were pretty active when the mice watched the first few minutes of Orson Welles' film noir classic Touch of Evil. The film is good for mouse experiments because "It's black and white and it has nice contrasts and it has a long shot without having many interruptions," Koch says. © 2016 npr
Keyword: Vision; Consciousness
Link ID: 22438 - Posted: 07.14.2016
By Karen Weintraub Researchers at Stanford University have coaxed brain cells involved in vision to regrow and make functional connections—helping to upend the conventional dogma that mammalian brain cells, once damaged, can never be restored. The work was carried out in visually impaired mice but suggests that human maladies including glaucoma, Alzheimer's disease and spinal cord injuries might be more repairable than has long been believed. Frogs, fish and chickens are known to regrow brain cells, and previous research has offered clues that it might be possible in mammals. The Stanford scientists say their new study confirms this and shows that, although fewer than 5 percent of the damaged retinal ganglion cells grew back, it was still enough to make a difference in the mice's vision. "The brain is very good at coping with deprived inputs," says Andrew Huberman, the Stanford neurobiologist who led the work. "The study also supports the idea that we may not need to regenerate every neuron in a system to get meaningful recovery." Other researchers praised the study, published Monday in Nature Neuroscience. "I think it's a significant step forward toward getting to the point where we really can regenerate optic nerves," says Don Zack, a professor of ophthalmology at Johns Hopkins University who was not involved in the research. He calls it "one more indication that it may be possible to bring that ability back in humans." © 2016 Scientific American
Keyword: Vision; Regeneration
Link ID: 22428 - Posted: 07.12.2016
By Shayla Love In 2005, astronaut John Phillips took a break from his work on the International Space Station and looked out the window at Earth. He was about halfway through a mission that had begun in April and would end in October. When he gazed down at the planet, the Earth was blurry. He couldn't focus on it clearly. That was strange — his vision had always been 20/20. He wondered: Was his eyesight getting worse? "I'm not sure if I reported that to the ground," he said. "I think I didn't. I thought it would be something that would just go away, and fix itself when I got to Earth." It didn't go away. During Phillips' post-flight physical, NASA found that his vision had gone from 20/20 to 20/100 in six months. John Phillips began experiencing sight issues during his time on the International Space Station in 2005, but was reluctant to say anything while in space. (NASA) Rigorous testing followed. Phillips got MRIs, retinal scans, neurological tests and a spinal tap. The tests showed that not only had his vision changed, but his eyes had changed as well. The backs of his eyes had gotten flatter, pushing his retinas forward. He had choroidal folds, which are like stretch marks. His optic nerves were inflamed. Phillips case became the first widely recognized one of a mysterious syndrome that affects 80 percent of astronauts on long-duration missions in space. The syndrome could interfere with plans for future crewed space missions, including any trips to Mars.
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 22422 - Posted: 07.11.2016
By Patrick Monahan Animals like cuttlefish and octopuses can rapidly change color to blend into the background and dazzle prospective mates. But there's only one problem: As far as we know, they can't see in color. Unlike our eyes, the eyes of cephalopods—cuttlefish, octopuses, and their relatives—contain just one kind of color-sensitive protein, apparently restricting them to a black and white view of the world. But a new study shows how they might make do. By rapidly focusing their eyes at different depths, cephalopods could be taking advantage of a lensing property called "chromatic blur." Each color of light has a different wavelength—and because lenses bend some wavelengths more than others, one color of light shining through a lens can be in focus while another is still blurry. So with the right kind of eye, a quick sweep of focus would let the viewer figure out the actual color of an object based on when it blurs. The off-center pupils of many cephalopods—including the w-shaped pupils of cuttlefish (above)—make this blurring effect more extreme, according to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In that study, scientists built a computer model of an octopus eye and showed that—for an object at least one body length away—it could determine the object's color just by changing focus. Because this is all still theoretical, the next step is testing whether live cephalopods actually see color this way—and whether any other "colorblind" animals might, too. © 2016 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Vision; Evolution
Link ID: 22402 - Posted: 07.07.2016
By Jessica Hamzelou Imagine if each of the words in this article had their own taste, or the music you're listening to played out as visual scene in your mind. For synaesthetes – a small proportion of people whose senses intertwine – this is the stuff of the every day. "Most people describe it as a gift," says Jamie Ward, a neuroscientist at the University of Sussex in the UK. Now, he and his colleagues have found a new form of synaesthesia – one that moves beyond written language to sign language. It is the first time the phenomenon has been observed. "People with synaesthesia experience the ordinary world in extraordinary ways," says Ward. In theory, any two senses can overlap. Some synaesthetes connect textures with words, while others can taste them. More commonly, written letters seem to have corresponding colours. An individual synaesthete may always associate the letter A with the colour pink, for instance. This type of synaesthesia has been found across many written languages, prompting Ward's team to wonder if it can also apply to sign language. They recruited 50 volunteers with the type of synaesthesia that means they experience colours with letters, around half of whom were fluent in sign language too. All the participants watched a video of sign language and were asked if it triggered any colours. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 22390 - Posted: 07.02.2016
When you walk into a room, your eyes process your surroundings immediately: refrigerator, sink, table, chairs. "This is the kitchen," you realize. Your brain has taken data and come to a clear conclusion about the world around you, in an instant. But how does this actually happen? Elissa Aminoff, a research scientist in the Department of Psychology and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University, shares her insights on what computer modeling can tell us about human vision and memory. What do you do? What interests me is how the brain and the mind understand our visual environment. The visual world is really rich with information, and it's extremely complex. So we have to find ways to break visual data down. What specific parts of our [visual] world is the brain using to give us what we see? In order to answer that question, we're collaborating with computer scientists and using computer vision algorithms. The goal is to compare these digital methods with the brain. Perhaps they can help us find out what types of data the brain is working with. Does that mean that our brains function like a computer? That's something you hear a lot about these days. No, I wouldn't say that. It's that computers are giving us the closest thing that we have right now to an analogous mechanism. The brain is really, really complex. It deals with massive amounts of data. We need help in organizing these data and computers can do that. Right now, there are algorithms that can identify an object as a phone or as a mug, just like the brain. But are they doing the same thing? Probably not. © 2016 Scientific American,
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 22379 - Posted: 06.30.2016
By Aviva Rutkin Machine minds are often described as black boxes, their decision-making processes all but inscrutable. But in the case of machine intelligence, researchers are cracking that black box open and peering inside. What they find is that humans and machines don't pay attention to the same things when they look at pictures – not at all. Researchers at Facebook and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg got humans and machines to look at pictures and answer simple questions – a task that neural-network-based artificial intelligence can handle. But the researchers weren't interested in the answers. They wanted to map human and AI attention, in order to shed a little light on the differences between us and them. "These attention maps are something we can measure in both humans and machines, which is pretty rare," says Lawrence Zitnick at Facebook AI Research. Comparing the two could provide insight "into whether computers are looking in the right place". First, Zitnick and his colleagues asked human workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk to answer simple questions about a set of pictures, such as "What is the man doing?" or "What number of cats are lying on the bed?" Each picture was blurred, and the worker would have to click around to sharpen it. A map of those clicks served as a guide to what part of the picture they were paying attention to. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 22378 - Posted: 06.30.2016
Worldwide voting for the BEST ILLUSION OF THE YEAR will take place online from 4pm EST on June 29th to 4pm EST on June 30th. The winning illusions will receive a $3,000 award for 1st place, a $2,000 award for 2nd place, and a $1,000 award for 3rd place. Anybody with an internet connection (that means YOU!) can vote to pick the Top 3 Winners from the current Top 10 List! The Best illusion of the Year Contest is a celebration of the ingenuity and creativity of the world's premier illusion research community. Contestants from all around the world submitted novel illusions (unpublished, or published no earlier than 2015), and an international panel of judges rated them and narrowed them to the TOP TEN.
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 22375 - Posted: 06.29.2016
By Vinicius Donisete Goulart The "new world" monkeys of South and Central America range from large muriquis to tiny pygmy marmosets. Some are cute and furry, others bald and bright red, and one even has an extraordinary moustache. Yet, with the exception of owl and howler monkeys, the 130 or so remaining species have one thing in common: A good chunk of the females, and all of the males, are colorblind. This is quite different from "old world" primates, including us Homo sapiens, who are routinely able to see the world in what we humans imagine as full color. In evolutionary terms, colorblindness sounds like a disadvantage, one which should really have been eliminated by natural selection long ago. So how can we explain a continent of the colorblind monkeys? I have long wondered what makes primates in the region colorblind and visually diverse, and how evolutionary forces are acting to maintain this variation. We don't yet know exactly what kept these seemingly disadvantaged monkeys alive and flourishing—but what is becoming clear is that colorblindness is an adaptation not a defect. The first thing to understand is that what we humans consider "color" is only a small portion of the spectrum. Our "trichromatic" vision is superior to most mammals, who typically share the "dichromatic" vision of new world monkeys and colorblind humans, yet fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and even insects are able to see a wider range, even into the UV spectrum. There is a whole world of color out there that humans and our primate cousins are unaware of. What is becoming clear is that color blindness is an adaptation not a defect.
Keyword: Vision; Evolution
Link ID: 22345 - Posted: 06.22.2016
By Sarah Kaplan Some 250 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and early mammals were little more than tiny, fuzzy creatures that scurried around attempting to evade notice, our ancestors evolved a nifty trick. They started to become active at night. They developed sensitive whiskers and an acute sense of hearing. Their circadian rhythms shifted to let them sleep during the day. Most importantly, the composition of their eyes changed — instead of color-sensing cone photoreceptor cells, they gained thousands of light-sensitive rod cells, which allowed them to navigate a landscape lit only by the moon and stars. Mammals may no longer have to hide from the dinosaurs, but we bear the indelible marks of our scrappy, nocturnal past. Unlike every other vertebrate on land and sea, we still have rod-dominated eyes — human retinas, for example, are 95 percent rods, even though we're no longer active at night. "How did that happen? What is the mechanism that made mammals become so different?" asked Anand Swaroop, chief of the Neurobiology Neurodegeneration and Repair Laboratory at the National Eye Institute. He provides some answers to those questions in a study published in the journal Developmental Cell Monday. The findings are interesting from an evolutionary standpoint, he said, but they're also the keys to a medical mystery. If Swaroop and his colleagues can understand how our eyes evolved, perhaps they can fix some of the problems that evolved with them.
Keyword: Vision; Evolution
Link ID: 22342 - Posted: 06.21.2016
By Stephen L. Macknik Every few decades there's a major new neuroscience discovery that changes everything. I'm not talking about your garden variety discovery. Those happen frequently (this is the golden age of neuroscience after all). But no, what I'm talking about are the holy-moly, scales-falling-from-your-eyes, time-to-rewrite-the-textbooks, game-changing discoveries. Well one was reported in this last month—simultaneously by two separate labs—and it redefines the primary organizational principle of the visual system in the cortex of the brain. This may sound technical, but it concerns how we see light and dark, and the perception of contrast. Since all sensation functions at the pleasure of contrast, these new discoveries impact neuroscience and psychology as a whole. I'll explain below. The old way of thinking about how the wiring of the visual cortex was organized orbited around the concept of visual-edge orientation. David Hubel (my old mentor) and Torsten Wiesel (my current fellow Brooklynite)—who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1981—arguably made the first major breakthrough concerning how information was organized in the cortex versus earlier stages of visual processing. Before their discovery, the retina (and the whole visual system) was thought to be a kind of neural camera that communicated its image into the brain. The optic nerves connect the eyes' retinas to the thalamus at the center of the brain—and then the thalamus connects to the visual cortex at the back of the brain through a neural information superhighway called the optic radiations. Scientists knew, even way back then, that neurons at a given point of the visual scene lie physically next to the neuron that sees the neighboring piece of the visual scene. The discovery of this so called retinotopic map in the primary visual cortex (by Talbot and Marshall) was of course important, but because it matched the retinotopic mapping of the retina and thalamus, it didn't constitute a new way of thinking. It wasn't a game-changing discovery. © 2016 Scientific American
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 22301 - Posted: 06.09.2016
By Jordana Cepelewicz Colors exist on a seamless spectrum, yet we assign hues to discrete categories such as "red" and "orange." Past studies have found that a person's native language can influence the way colors are categorized and even perceived. In Russian, for example, light blue and dark blue are named as different colors, and studies find that Russian speakers can more readily distinguish between the shades. Yet scientists have wondered about the extent of such verbal influence. Are color categories purely a construct of language, or is there a physiological basis for the distinction between green and blue? A new study in infants suggests that even before acquiring language, our brain already sorts colors into the familiar groups. A team of researchers in Japan tracked neural activity in 12 prelinguistic infants as they looked at a series of geometric figures. When the shapes' color switched between green and blue, activity increased in the occipitotemporal region of the brain, an area known to process visual stimuli. When the color changed within a category, such as between two shades of green, brain activity remained steady. The team found the same pattern in six adult participants. The infants used both brain hemispheres to process color changes. Language areas are usually in the left hemisphere, so the finding provides further evidence that color categorization is not entirely dependent on language. At some point as a child grows, language must start playing a role—just ask a Russian whether a cloudless sky is the same color as the deep sea. The researchers hope to study that developmental process next. "Our results imply that the categorical color distinctions arise before the development of linguistic abilities," says Jiale Yang, a psychologist at Chuo University and lead author of the study, published in February in PNAS. "But maybe they are later shaped by language learning." © 2016 Scientific American
Keyword: Vision; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 22291 - Posted: 06.07.2016
By Jane E. Brody Joanne Reitano is a professor of history at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens. She writes wonderful books about the history of the city and state, and has recently been spending many hours — sometimes all day — at her computer to revise her first book, "The Restless City." But while sitting in front of the screen, she told me, "I developed burning in my eyes that made it very difficult to work." After resting her eyes for a while, the discomfort abates, but it quickly returns when she goes back to the computer. "If I was playing computer games, I'd turn off the computer, but I need it to work," the frustrated professor said. Dr. Reitano has a condition called computer vision syndrome. She is hardly alone. It can affect anyone who spends three or more hours a day in front of computer monitors, and the population at risk is potentially huge. Worldwide, up to 70 million workers are at risk for computer vision syndrome, and those numbers are only likely to grow. In a report about the condition written by eye care specialists in Nigeria and Botswana and published in Medical Practice and Reviews, the authors detail an expanding list of professionals at risk — accountants, architects, bankers, engineers, flight controllers, graphic artists, journalists, academicians, secretaries and students — all of whom "cannot work without the help of computer." And that's not counting the millions of children and adolescents who spend many hours a day playing computer games. Studies have indicated 70 percent to 90 percent of people who use computers extensively, whether for work or play, have one or more symptoms of computer vision syndrome. The effects of prolonged computer use are not just vision-related. Complaints include neurological symptoms like chronic headaches and musculoskeletal problems like neck and back pain. © 2016 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 22262 - Posted: 05.30.2016
Bradley George All sorts of health information is now a few taps away on your smartphone, from how many steps you take — to how well you sleep at night. But what if you could use your phone and a computer to test your vision? A company is doing just that — and eye care professionals are upset. Some states have even banned it. A Chicago-based company called Opternative offers the test. The site asks some questions about your eyes and overall health; it also wants to know your shoe size to make sure you're the right distance from your computer monitor. You keep your smartphone in your hand and use the Web browser to answer questions about what you see on the computer screen. Like a traditional eye test, there are shapes, lines and letters. It takes about 30 minutes. "We're trying to identify how bad your vision is, so we're kind of testing your vision to failure, is the way I would describe it," says Aaron Dallek, CEO of Opternative. Dallek co-founded the company with an optometrist, who was searching for ways to offer eye exams online. "Me being a lifetime glasses and contact wearer, I was like 'Where do we start?' So, that was about 3 1/2 years ago, and we've been working on it ever since," Dallek says. © 2016 npr
Keyword: ADHD
Link ID: 22250 - Posted: 05.26.2016
By Jessica Hamzelou People who experience migraines that are made worse by light might be better off seeing the world in green. While white, blue, red and amber light all increase migraine pain, low-intensity green light seems to reduce it. The team behind the finding hope that specially developed sunglasses that screen out all wavelengths of light except green could help migraineurs. Many people experience sensitivity to light during a migraine. Photophobia, as it is known, can leave migraineurs resorting to sunglasses in well-lit rooms, or seeking the comfort of darkness. The reaction is thought to be due to the brain's wiring. In a brain region called the thalamus, neurons that transmit sensory information from our retinas cross over with other neurons that signal pain. As a result, during migraine, light can worsen pain and pain can cause visual disturbance, says Rami Burstein at Harvard University. But not all colours of light have the same effect. Six years ago, Burstein and his colleagues studied migraine in sufferers who are blind, either due to the loss of an eye or retina, or because of retinal damage. They found that people who had some remaining retinal cells had worse migraines when they were in brightly lit environments, and that blue light seemed to have the strongest impact. The finding caused a flurry of excitement, and the promotion of sunglasses that filter out blue light. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Pain & Touch; Vision
Link ID: 22237 - Posted: 05.23.2016
Sara Reardon Every time something poked its foot, the mouse jumped in pain. Researchers at Circuit Therapeutics, a start-up company in Menlo Park, California, had made the animal hypersensitive to touch by tying off a nerve in its leg. But when they shone a yellow light on its foot while poking it, the mouse did not react. The treatment is one of several nearing clinical use that draw on optogenetics — a technique in which light is used to control genes and neuron firing. In March, RetroSense Therapeutics of Ann Arbor, Michigan, began the first clinical-safety trial of an optogenetic therapy to treat the vision disorder retinitis pigmentosa. Many scientists are waiting to see how the trial turns out before they decide how to move forward with their own research on a number of different applications. "I think it will embolden people if there's good news," says Robert Gereau, a pain researcher at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. "It opens up a whole new range of possiblilities for how to treat neurological diseases." Retinitis pigmentosa destroys photoreceptors in the eye. RetroSense's treatment seeks to compensate for this loss by conferring light sensitivity to retinal ganglion cells, which normally help to pass visual signals from photoreceptors to the brain. The therapy involves injecting patients who are blind or mostly blind with viruses carrying genes that encode light-sensitive proteins called opsins. The cells fire when stimulated with blue light, passing the visual information to the brain. Chief executive Sean Ainsworth says that the company has injected several individuals in the United States with the treatment, and plans to enroll a total of 15 blind patients in its trial. RetroSense will follow them for two years, but may release some preliminary data later this year. © 2016 Nature Publishing Group
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Link ID: 22235 - Posted: 05.21.2016
By Daniel Barron No matter where we call home, where we were raised, or what we ate for breakfast, our brains process information pretty much the same as anyone else in the world. Which makes sense—our genomes are 99.6-99.9% identical, which makes our brains nearly so. Look at a landscape or cityscape and comparable computations occur in your brain as in someone from another background or country. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China. Credit: Chensiyuan, via Wikimedia Commons under GFDL Consider my recent walk through China's Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, an inspiration for James Cameron's Avatar. Some of our first steps into the park involved a 1,070 foot ascent in the Bailong elevator, the world's tallest outdoor elevator. Crammed within the carriage were travelers from Japan, India, China, the U.S.A., and Korea. No matter our origin, the Wulingyuan landscape didn't disappoint: the towering red and green rock formations stretched towards the sky as they defied gravity. Gasps and awes were our linguistic currency while our visual cortices gleefully fired away. The approximately 3000 quartzite sandstone pillars, with their unusual red and green contrasts, mesmerized our visual centers, demanding our attention. One of the brain's earliest visual processing centers, V1, lies at the middle of the back of our head. V1 identifies simple forms like vertical, horizontal, and diagonal edges of contrasting intensities, or lines. Look at a vertical line, and neurons that are sensitive to vertical lines will fire more quickly; look at a horizontal line, and our horizontal neurons buzz away. © 2016 Scientific American
Keyword: Attention; Vision
Link ID: 22204 - Posted: 05.11.2016
By Stephen L. Macknik, Susana Martinez-Conde The renowned Slydini holds up an empty box for all to see. It is not really a box—just four connected cloth-covered cardboard walls, forming a floppy parallelogram with no bottom or top. Yet when the magician sets it down on a table, it looks like an ordinary container. Now he begins to roll large yellow sheets of tissue paper into balls. He claps his hands—SMACK!—as he crumples each new ball in a fist and then straightens his arm, wordlessly compelling the audience to gaze after his closed hand. He opens it, and ... the ball is still there. Nothing happened. Huh. Slydini's hand closes once more around the tissue, and it starts snaking around, slowly and gracefully, like a belly dancer's. The performance is mesmerizing. With his free hand, he grabs an imaginary pinch of pixie dust from the box to sprinkle on top of the other hand. This time he opens his hand to reveal that the tissue is gone! Four balls disappear in this fashion. Then, for the finale, Slydini tips the box forward and shows the impossible: all four balls have mysteriously reappeared inside. Slydini famously performed this act on The Dick Cavett Show in 1978. It was one of his iconic tricks. Despite the prestidigitator's incredible showmanship, though, the sleight only works because your brain cannot multitask. © 2016 Scientific American,
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Link ID: 22114 - Posted: 04.19.2016
By Roni Caryn Rabin Here's another reason to eat your fruits and veggies: You may reduce your risk of vision loss from cataracts. Cataracts that cloud the lenses of the eye develop naturally with age, but a new study is one of the first to suggest that diet may play a greater role than genetics in their progression. Researchers had about 1,000 pairs of female twins in Britain fill out detailed food questionnaires that tracked their nutrient intake. Their mean age was just over 60. The study participants underwent digital imaging of the eye to measure the progression of cataracts. The researchers found that women who consumed diets rich in vitamin C and who ate about two servings of fruit and two servings of vegetables a day had a 20 percent lower risk of cataracts than those who ate a less nutrient-rich diet. Ten years later, the scientists followed up with 324 of the twin pairs, and found that those who had reported consuming more vitamin C in their diet — at least twice the recommended dietary allowance of 75 milligrams a day for women (the R.D.A. for adult men is 90 milligrams) — had a 33 percent lower risk of their cataracts progressing than those who get less vitamin C. The researchers concluded that genetic factors account for about 35 percent of the difference in cataract progression, while environmental factors like diet account for 65 percent. "We found no beneficial effect from supplements, only from the vitamin C in the diet," said Dr. Christopher Hammond, a professor of ophthalmology at King's College London and an author of the study,published in Ophthalmology. Foods high in vitamin C include oranges, cantaloupe, kiwi, broccoli and dark leafy greens. © 2016 The New York Times Company
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The Four Brontes: Myth vs. Reality
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Death came for him anyway. In an extraordinarily detached -- or maybe extraordinarily depleted -- letter to her publisher William Smith Williams, Charlotte writes on Oct. 28, 1848, "I do not weep from a sense of bereavement -- there is no prop withdrawn, no consolation torn away, no dear companion lost -- but for the wreck of talent, the ruin of promise, the untimely, dreary extinction of what might have been a burning and a shining light."
"My poor father naturally thought more of his only son than of his daughters," Charlotte adds bitterly in her memorial letter, ever sensitive to the predicament of women. This was an unwavering occupation of all the Bronte sisters, in their lives and their writing alike. These precocious, articulate female offspring of a meagerly paid minister had two options to counter the destitution that would await them upon their father's death: marriage or employment as either a governess or a teacher.
With the inevitability of the latter in mind, in 1831 the girls enrolled at Roe Head School, which is represented here in Charlotte's disarmingly pretty view of the school and in a landscape drawing Anne made when she was a student there. The Morgan offers several pictures by the girls in this undemanding mode. They foretell nothing but the most ordinary of fates, since middle-class wives and governesses alike were expected to master a pleasing academic style.
And governesses the girls became -- Charlotte and Anne anyway. Although Anne sustained the longest periods of employment away from Haworth, she often found the work unpalatable and drew on the experience in her depiction of the Bloomfield children in "Agnes Grey," just as Charlotte's own stint as a governess pervades "Jane Eyre." On display here is an earlier, firsthand account of Charlotte's governessing, in a letter to her friend Ellen Nussey in which she asks Ellen to "imagine the miseries of a reserved wretch like me" being thrown in the midst of "a set of pampered spoilt & turbulent children."
It was the quest for further education, which they hoped would equip them to open a school of their own, that probably advanced the Brontes farthest along their path toward writing their adult fiction. Leading her sisters in this, Charlotte in 1842 took Emily with her to study at the Pensionnat Heger in Brussels, where the girls' talent was recognized and honed by their professor, Constantin Heger. Charlotte reciprocated by working hard -- and by falling in love with Heger. It was in part this unrequited love that drew her back to Brussels for a second year, but she soon found herself pining for home.
As much as it may have isolated them, Haworth remained a source of strength for the Bronte sisters. There is a telling image, conveyed first by Mrs. Gaskell, of Charlotte, Emily and Anne writing together at the dining table, then standing up and walking in circles around it. As they walked, they read and discussed their work, as well as their hopes for the future. From this circle, they evidently drew much courage.
Charlotte's return from Brussels was characteristic. After a period of lovesickness and depression, she one day came across a notebook of Emily's poems and thought them, as she wrote later, "terse, vigorous and genuine." Charlotte persuaded Emily and Anne to join her in their first publishing endeavor, and so "Poems," by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell, the Brontes' gender-concealing pseudonyms, was printed in 1846, at the authors' expense. Although the book sold only two copies (examples of the original and a later edition are at the Morgan), Charlotte refused to be discouraged and decided that their fortunes more likely lay in the realm of fiction.
The sisters were soon ready with "The Professor" (Charlotte), "Wuthering Heights" (Emily) and "Agnes Grey" (Anne). "The Professor" was rejected, but Charlotte followed up with "Jane Eyre."
Reviewers focused on the "low tone of behaviour" and the "eccentricities of 'woman's fantasy' " common to all the Brontes' books, which are present here in first and other early editions, along with some of the sisters' responses to their critics. In her preface to the second edition of her next novel, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," for example, Anne writes: "I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels are or should be written for both men and women to read." Haunted by Death
Emily alone is not on record with a defense. "Wuthering Heights" was published in 1847, and in December of the following year she succumbed to tuberculosis. "Never may we be doomed to feel such agony again. It was terrible," Charlotte writes to Ellen Nussey. But agony was to revisit the ever-diminishing Bronte family, when Anne turned consumptive in the spring of 1849, and died that May in Scarborough, where Charlotte had taken her in fulfillment of her last wish, to see the sea. The Morgan presents a touching memento of Anne in a handful of pebbles collected on the beach.


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As a precursor to his forthcoming Honkey Kong LP, Apathy will first release the Primate Mindstate EP. While no date has been given for either, you can check a preview of the EP's artwork above.
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Legal tussle erupts over bones of Richard III
LONDON Hes been deposed, reviled, buried and dug up, and now a new battle looms over Englands King Richard III.
A British High Court judge on Friday granted a group of Richards relatives permission to challenge plans to rebury the 15th-century monarch in the central England city of Leicester, where his remains were found last year.
Judge Charles Haddon-Cave said the Plantagenet Alliance could take action against the government and the University of Leicester though he hoped the dispute could be settled out of court.
In my view, it would be unseemly, undignified and unedifying to have a legal tussle over these royal remains, the judge said, urging the opposing sides to avoid embarking on the (legal) Wars of the Roses Part 2.
Richard was deposed and killed in a battle near Leicester in 1485, and quickly buried without a coffin in a now-demolished church in the city, which is 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of London. A skeleton found under a Leicester parking lot last year was identified as the king through DNA tests, bone analysis and other scientific scrutiny.
The discovery thrilled history buffs but sparked a scuffle over where the last British monarch to die in battle should be reburied.
The government gave Leicester Cathedral a license to rebury the king, but the relatives group wants him interred in the northern England city of York, claiming it was Richards wish.
Richard belonged to the House of York, one of two branches of the Plantagenet dynasty involved in a 15th-century battle for the crown known as the Wars of the Roses.
Haddon-Cave said in his ruling that it was inevitable there would be intense, widespread and legitimate public interest and concern in many quarters as to the treatment and final resting place of Richard IIIs remains.
He said the case involves the remarkable, and unprecedented, discovery of remains of a king of England of considerable historical significance, who died fighting a battle which brought to an end a civil war which divided this country. The obvious duty to consult widely arises from this singular fact alone.
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Delek US Holdings: Conditions Aren't As Bad As They Look
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Mar. 31, 2015, 12:19 PM
- Delek US Holdings (DK -0.2%) discloses that it is in talks to buy some or all of Alon Israel Oil, one of Israel's largest fuel station and convenience store operators and the parent company of Alon USA Energy (ALJ +5.4%).
- A deal could give DK a stake in refineries and convenience stores in the U.S. and Israel; ALJ's refineries in Texas, California and Louisiana have an aggregate crude oil throughput capacity of 217K bbl/day and operates nearly 300 7-Eleven convenience stores in central and west Texas and New Mexico.
- Alon Israel had owned more than 50% of ALJ stock but now owns ~48% after giving up its majority stake through a share sale last month.
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- Delek Group (DGRLY) has raised 140M shekels ($40.47M) after underwriters of a secondary offering exercised an option to acquire 1.38M shares in Delek US Holdings (DK).
- Delek Group, whose stake in Delek US is falling to 7.5%, had already sold 9.2M shares as part of the offering.
Dec. 3, 2012, 5:17 AM
Australia's Woodside Petroleum (WOPEF.PK) agrees to acquire a 30% stake in Israel's massive Leviathan offshore gas field from the operators of the reserve, which include Noble Energy (NBL) and Delek Drilling (DKDRF.OB). Woodside will pay an initial $696M and as much as $550M once certain conditions are met, as well as revenue-sharing money of up to $1B a year. Noble's stake will fall to 30% from 39.66%. (PR)| Dec. 3, 2012, 5:17 AM
Sep. 9, 2012, 5:50 AMThe consortium that develops the Leviathan natural gas field off Israel's coast, in which Noble Energy (NBL) and Delek (DK) own large holdings, is considering offers from "leading international companies" to sell up to 30% rights to the field. Leviathan has estimated reserves of 17T cubic feet of gas, with the group hoping to find 600M barrels of oil as well. | Sep. 9, 2012, 5:50 AM
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Celebrate International Tiger Day and Meet our Malayan Tigers
July 29 is International Tiger Day and we invite you to come celebrate with us at the Malayan tiger exhibit in Cat Canyon. We will have special activities and presentations occurring throughout the day from 10:00am to 3:00pm, including opportunities to learn about tigers and conservation from our zookeepers and interpretive staff.
Meet our Malayan tiger brothers, Taj and Who-Dey! When Cat Canyon opened in 2012, the Zoo teamed up with the Cincinnati Bengals to help conserve these beautiful animals. Who-Dey was named by Cincinnati Bengals fans and Taj was named by Zoo supporters. The brothers, who turn seven on July 30, often come up close to the viewing glass at their exhibit. They enjoy relaxing in the pool, especially on sunny days, and getting meaty treats from their keepers during daily presentations for the public.
The Malayan tiger is one of the smallest of the six tiger subspecies, ranging from about 220 pounds to 400 pounds. Native to Malaysia and southern Thailand, it preys on deer, wild pigs and cattle, and has been known to travel up to 20 miles in search of prey. The orange-and-black stripes provide excellent camouflage in the forests where they live. Tigers also have white spots on the back of their ears, which are surrounded by black fur and give the appearance of false eyes. This is another form of camouflage, giving the impression that they are staring right at potential intruders when its back is turned.
The Zoo is committed to ensuring the survival of endangered tigers of which there are fewer than 3,200 remaining in the wild. Over the next three years, we have pledged to support the tiger conservation efforts of Panthera. Panthera is the leading international wild cat conservation organization with a mission to ensure the future of wild cats through scientific leadership and global conservation action.
To ensure the tiger's survival, Panthera works across Asia with numerous partners to end the poaching of tigers for the illegal wildlife trade, prevent tiger deaths due to conflict with humans and livestock, and protect tiger prey species and habitat. Through their program, Tigers Forever, Panthera works to protect and secure key tiger populations and ensure connectivity between sites so that tigers can live long into the future.
"When it comes to saving tigers, nobody gets results like Dr. Alan Rabinowitz and his team at Panthera. It is a crying shame that tigers are being illegally poached for their skin and bones, but by inspiring our visitors to the Cincinnati Zoo and partnering with Panthera, we remain dedicated to our belief that there is still room in this world for great cats." – Thane Maynard, Cincinnati Zoo Director
Taj and Who-Dey hope to see you at the Zoo on International Tiger Day!
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Successful Fixed Time Artificial Insemination in the Fishing Cat
CREW continues to make progress in improving the success of artificial insemination (AI) for propagating endangered
cats. In recent research, we incorporated treatment with oral progesterone (Regumate) into our AI protocol for domestic cats to down-regulate ovarian function prior to ovarian stimulation. This approach allows us to control ovarian activity more precisely and conduct AI procedures on a fixed time schedule.
Our first attempt using this method in exotic felids involved our fishing cat named Ratana,who was incapable of breeding naturally after losing a front leg due to injury. Ratana was fed a small amount of oral progesterone daily for one month to suppress her ovarian activity and then treated with gonadotropins to induce follicular growth and ovulation. Laparoscopic AI of both oviducts with freshly collected sperm from our resident male, named Gorton, resulted in conception and the birth of a male fishing cat kitten after a 69 day gestation.
This kitten was the first non-domestic cat born following the use of oral progesterone for fixed time AI, and represents the fifth cat species (fishing cat, ocelot, Pallas' cat, tiger, domestic cat) that we have produced with oviductal AI. This new approach could greatly advance our capacity to use AI for the genetic management of endangered felid species.
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An Experience like No Other: the Zoo Academy Story
Guest Blogger: Zoo Academy Senior, Sarah Franklin
To start off, my name is Sarah Franklin. I'm a Zoo Academy student here at the Cincinnati Zoo, and I love every minute of it. The Zoo Academy is a branch of Hughes STEM High School, and is offered to anyone who attends.
Here's a bit of my story on how I ended up here:
I was raised on a farm, not too far from Cincinnati, but in a small town that you've probably never heard of before. Growing up, my family and I had an array of animals on our farm. I used to love to go out with my father in the mornings or evenings to feed the animals. Any opportunity I had to go out with him, I'd jump right into my muck boots, (that came higher than my knees), throw on my coat or jacket, depending on the temperature, and run out right behind him. Some of my favorite memories from my hometown were right out on that farm with him.
At about the age of fourteen when my dad got remarried, I had the opportunity to move to Cincinnati and change schools. I wasn't particularly happy with my current school system, so I began to research about public schools in Cincinnati. During one of my searches, I came across Hughes High. They talked a lot about pathways on their website, and featured a pathway they called: (you guessed it) The Zoo Academy! I called up the next day to learn more about it, and actually spent time talking to Glen Schulte, who is now my current teacher. I fell in love the minute I learned about this amazing opportunity, and decided that this was where I wanted to start my new beginning. We packed up and moved soon after and that began my story here, at my favorite place on Earth.
The Cincinnati Zoo and Hughes High School have become second homes for me. I have had experiences here that I could experience nowhere else. I became a strong leader within my school, and the biggest Big Red Athletics fan they'd ever seen. Actually, this year, (my SENIOR year), I was recorded as the first girl in Big Red history to score points for the Hughes Football team. I even did a radio interview about it. That was an experience within itself, and I am so fortunate to have been a part of that.
Here at the Zoo, I do daily work with the keepers, animals, and currently the wonderful staff within the Education Department. Some of my favorite animal encounters have been during these last two years, having the opportunity to work with animals that range from insects to elephants. One of my favorite experiences was working with the cougars this past fall while in the Night Hunters department at the Zoo. I also met the love of my life here at the Zoo, a hyacinth blue macaw named Azul at the Bird House. I've enjoyed every lab I've participated in, and learned so much from the staff here. It is really an experience that is like no other, because the Cincinnati Zoo is the only zoo in the country that allows high school students to participate in labs and work alongside keepers on a daily basis.
In the upcoming future I plan on attending the University of Cincinnati and continuing on my story here at the Cincinnati Zoo. I feel as though my experiences here at the Zoo aren't ready to come to an end yet, so I hope I am able to continue on here after I graduate, whether it is as a volunteer or even a paid staff member. I love it here at the Zoo, and though this may not be where my career path ends, it is definitely a place that I would hope for it to begin. Thanks so much for reading my story! If you ever see me around the Zoo, stop me and ask any questions you'd like!
Best Wishes, Sarah.
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V.21 No.44 | 11/1/2012
The Daily Word in Hurricane Sandy, Gary Glitter and Prince.
By Nick Brown [ Tue Oct 30 2012 11:00 AM ]
Hurricane Sandy is deadly.
Watch Sandy blow down trees. "Oh, my gosh."
A brief overview of cars Obama has owned.
There actually are things you don't know about Prince.
Tyrannosaurus vs. Tryceratops.
The pastor was killed with a guitar.
The toughest bridge in the world. (Thanks, Tom!)
Gary Glitter is in trouble again.
Natalie Dylan is selling her virginity.
Tom Hanks: slam poet.
Axyl Rose talked on TV.
A park stabbing at 3rd and I-40.
A man stole some Toys for Tots money.
Hazmat in Doña Ana County.
Happy Birthday, Henry Winkler.
Thanks for the help, Tom Nayder and Constance Moss!
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There's never a shortage of storylines when the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers do battle. But that's especially true Sunday, as the two meet for the first time this season -- and the first time since last year's NBA Finals.
Here are just three factors that make Sunday's one of the most anticipated games of the regular season.
1. Shaq's wearing green in LA: Shaquille O'Neal knows all about this rivalry. Back in his LA days, O'Neal faced the Celtics 10 times, averaging 29.9 points per game and 15.1 rebounds. He shot an incredible 67.1 percent from the field in those games, as the Celtics countered with the likes of Mark Blount, Tony Battie, Vitaly Potapenko and even Dino Radja. In those years, Shaq averaged more only against the Nets and the Magic, his former team.
Shaq's dominance of Boston reached a new level on March 21, 2003. The Celtics tried to use their centers to front O'Neal, and the results were disastrous. Shaq went off for 48 points on 19-for-24 shooting, also adding 20 rebounds for good measure. Bill Russell had a front-row seat for what was arguably Shaq's second-best individual game (tough to beat his 61-point, 23-rebound game against the Clippers in 2000).
If he suits up Sunday, no one expects O'Neal to experience a one-game renaissance. He's seven years removed from his previous Celtics-Lakers game, not to mention five weeks from his 39th birthday.
But this weekend, O'Neal will taste the rivalry from the other side for the first time. He'll have to answer to Lakers fans now questioning whether his Celtics stint should preclude his number from being retired.
By no means is Shaq the first to see the rivalry from both perspectives, but the list of key players to do so is rather short.
Hall of Famer Clyde Lovellette won a title with the Lakers as a rookie. Nine years later, he came to Boston where he finished his career with a pair of championships, including one against the Lakers. Lovellette is the only player with a title as a member of both teams. But his Lakers ring came when the franchise was in Minneapolis, before the Celtics and Lakers had ever squared off in the NBA Finals.
How about Bob McAdoo? He spent 20 games with the Celtics in 1979 and later spent four seasons coming off the bench for the Lakers. Along with Lovellette, he's the only other Hall of Famer to play for both teams. But in truth, McAdoo was seemingly unwanted during his brief tenure in Boston. He's perhaps best remembered for bringing in the draft picks ultimately dealt for Robert Parish and Kevin McHale.
Gary Payton will almost certainly make it three Hall of Famers. Though he spent only one season with each team, both after turning 35.
Like Lovellette, Don Nelson and Mel Counts played in the NBA Finals for both franchises. In fact, Nelson lost to the Celtics in the 1965 Finals as a part-time player for the Lakers. The following offseason, he signed with the Celtics and was a key contributor to the team that beat the Lakers in the 1966 Finals.
Others, like Rick Fox and Brian Shaw, spent significant time with both franchises, but just not while both were contenders.
Shaq isn't the first player to taste the Celtics-Lakers rivalry from both sides, but he'll go down as the greatest to do so.
2. The road to home-court advantage: Think this is just another game in January? Don't underestimate the significance of Sunday's matchup for home-court advantage in the playoffs.
It's no sure thing that these two teams would meet in the Finals. With the best record in the NBA, the Spurs certainly will have their say down the line. Either way, it's these early head-to-head matchups that often determine who hosts Game 1.
Boston needs no reminder what that means. The last four champions had home-court advantage in the NBA Finals.
The Celtics and Lakers have squared off 12 times in the NBA Finals. The team with the better regular-season record has won 10 of those.
So what do the schedules tell us about who will end up with the NBA's best record?
Heading into this West Coast road trip, the Celtics have played the third-easiest schedule in the NBA. Of their 44 games, 25 were against sub-.500 teams. Boston is 20-5 in those games. The Spurs, who have made it through the season using only one starting lineup, are 22-1.
While the Celtics have certainly had it easy until now, no one has coasted as much as the Lakers.
As of Thursday, the Lakers had played the easiest schedule in the NBA, with opponents combining for a .453 winning percentage. L.A. is just 8-6 against teams .500 or better, while the Celtics are 14-5.
That's all about to stop for the Lakers, who have the second-toughest remaining schedule in the NBA. Only the Sacramento Kings have a more difficult road ahead.
Boston will also have a more challenging second half, but still just the 19th toughest in the league.
With the Celtics' roster finally getting healthy and the Lakers' challenging schedule, a win Sunday could help ensure that the TD Garden hosts any potential Game 1 in this rivalry.
3. How old is too old? Jerry West made headlines in Los Angeles last week by saying the Lakers were "getting long in the tooth" -- blaming their age for a lack of defensive consistency.
"If there's a loose ball now, how often do they get to it? The reason you can't play defense is because you can't," West said to a group of Orange Country car dealers.
Ten players on the roster are in their 30s, including four starters and the sixth man. The Lakers are indeed old.
But if the Lakers are getting long in the tooth, the Celtics must be losing their teeth.
After all, Shaquille O'Neal, the NBA's oldest player, is about to turn 39.
Ray Allen, 35, leads the team in minutes despite being one of the 20 oldest players in the game. He's the second-oldest player to have started every game this season. Throw in Paul Pierce (33) and Kevin Garnett (34), and the Celtics are relying on a core of aging stars.
Yet, the Celtics are just the fifth-oldest team in the NBA. Hard to believe, isn't it?
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the Celtics' average age is 28.6. The Miami Heat (30.4) are the oldest, followed by the Lakers, Mavericks and Nuggets.
Keep in mind, that number includes everyone on the roster. In Boston's case, that means Avery Bradley, who at 20 is the NBA's third-youngest player. But Bradley has played only 66 minutes all season and currently suits up for the Maine Red Claws of the NBA Development League. At 23, Luke Harangody is the team's second-youngest player, but he too has seen little action.
Contrast that with the Heat. LeBron James and Chris Bosh are only 26, while Dwyane Wade is 29. But if you look deep down their bench, you find Erick Dampier (35) and Juwan Howard (37).
Clearly, the Celtics are the older team where it counts.
In fact, the average age in the Celtics' starting lineup this season is 32.5. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, that's the oldest in the NBA this season. Even with Rajon Rondo somehow still only 24 years old, the Celtics have consistently been tipping off with the oldest starters in the league.
While West cited regressing defense as a product of age, perhaps a bigger concern should be the general rigors of an NBA season. Just how old did Ray Allen's legs feel in last year's Game 7? It was his 104th game of the season.
For some perspective, consider that the 1997 Chicago Bulls had the oldest starting lineup to win an NBA championship. On Game 1 of the Finals, Chicago's starters averaged 32.8 years, according to Elias.
The Celtics' usual starting four with O'Neal at center would be the oldest ever to win a title.
However, with Kendrick Perkins expected to regain his starting spot, the Celtics' starting lineup will get nearly 13 years younger.
The Lakers spent much of the week addressing West's comments about age. As long as they face the Celtics, age goes out the window.
In the end, all this talk of age likely ignores the true concern: minutes.
Among active players, only Jason Kidd has logged more career minutes than O'Neal, Garnett and Allen. Pierce is ninth on that list.
Jeremy Lundblad is a researcher with ESPN Stats & Information. He provides statistical analysis for ESPNBoston.com.


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OAKLAND (3-5) At BALTIMORE (6-2)Sunday, 1 p.m., CBSOPENING LINE - Ravens by 7 12RECORD VS. SPREAD - Oakland 4-4; Baltimore 3-5SERIES RECORD - Ravens lead 6-1AP PRO32 RANKING - Raiders No. 27; Ravens No. 9LAST MEETING - Ravens beat Raiders 21-13, Jan. 3, 2010LAST WEEK - Raiders lost to Buccaneers 42-32, Ravens beat Browns 25-15STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES - Raiders QB Carson Palmer played against Baltimore 13 times as member of Bengals, going 9-4 and passing for 3,202 yards. ... Ravens have won three straight in series. Oakland's only win in Oakland in December 2003. ... It's return home of sorts for Raiders WR Darrius Heyward-Bey, who played at Maryland from 2006-08. ... Oakland top draft pick OL Tony Bergstrom will be playing against brother-in-law, Ravens LB Paul Kruger. ... Raiders top two RBs, Darren McFadden and Mike Goodson, nursing sprained right ankles. ... Raiders have scored in final two minutes of first half every game this year. ... Oakland WR Denarius Moore has TD catch in three of last four games. ... Raiders' third of five trips to Eastern time zone this year. They have thus far lost to Miami and Atlanta. ... Ravens have won 14 straight at home, longest current streak in NFL. ... Baltimore RB Ray Rice needs 1 yard on the ground to reach 5,000 for his career. Jamal Lewis (7,801 yards) only Ravens player to top 5,000. ... Baltimore 8-1 when WR Torrey Smith has TD catch. ... Ravens WR Anquan Boldin needs 32 yards to reach 10,000 from scrimmage for career. ... Ravens LB Terrell Suggs has four sacks in his last three games against Oakland. ... Ravens 27-5 against sub-.500 teams under coach John Harbaugh. ... Baltimore cornerback Cary Williams has four INTs in last five games. Teammate Ed Reed posted 60th career INT in last week's win over Cleveland. ... Ravens rookie kicker Justin Tucker has made 15 of 16 FG tries, going 4 for 4 from beyond 50 yards.
NFL capsule: Raiders 7.5-point underdogs vs. Ravens
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July 4, 2008Several hundred people attended a fun day organised by Cosgrove Care at the Maccabi building in Giffnock. The event was opened by Jim Murphy, MP for Glasgow Eastwood. The MP took his three children who joined in with Israeli dancing. There was also a memory corner where visitors recalled their thoughts of the Cosgrove Care.
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In other news Monday, monsoon rains left wide sections of India under water. Officials reported at least 48 people have been killed in the north and east. In Libya, rebel fighters stepped up their push to conquer Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte. Continue reading
Although the rebels in Libya are now officially recognized as the government and control the capital, pro-Gadhafi forces continue to fight in the longtime leader's hometown of Sirte. James Foley of GlobalPost reports on the human toll of the daily firefights. Continue reading
In other news Monday, Wall Street struggled with more worries over the Greek debt crisis. Also, rebels in Libya tried to regroup to renew fighting against Gadhafi loyalists on two fronts. Meanwhile, efforts to form a new cabinet in the transitional government stalled as some cities complained they were underrepresented. Continue reading
Although the rebels have been unable to locate Moammar Gadhafi, they have captured his foreign minister, Abdul Ati al-Obeidi. International Television News' Lindsay Hilsum reports on the continued manhunt and the longtime leader's fresh vow to not surrender. Continue reading
Libyan rebel forces continue to hunt for Moammar Gadhafi as loyalists in his hometown of Sirte have refused to lay down arms, despite rebels imposing a Saturday deadline to surrender. International Television News' Lindsey Hilsum and Emma Murphy report from Tripoli. Continue reading
The Libyan rebels' hunt for Moammar Gadhafi has shifted east to the leader's hometown of Sirte, though there remains no reliable reports of his actual whereabouts. Margert Warner reports. Continue reading
As Libyan rebels shift their hunt for Moammar Gadhafi toward his hometown of Sirte on Monday, the leader's wife, daughter and two sons fled to neighboring Algeria. Margaret Warner discusses the rebels' latest efforts with The Washington Post's Simon Denyer. Continue reading
Since the rebels entered Tripoli last week, the city has grown increasingly calmer as they have rooted out pockets of regime loyalists, International Television News' Lindsey Hilsum reports. She spoke with Ray Suarez about the next steps in Libya's transition to becoming a new country that's not led by Moammar Gadhafi. Continue reading


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