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Jonathan Sherry of La Grange recently graduated from Eastern Kentucky University, magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree in history.
He is a 2005 graduate of Oldham County High School and is the son of Dave and Pam Sherry of La Grange.
After spending the summer on an internship in Vienna, Austria, Sherry will attend the University of Pittsburgh on a full scholarship/fellowship to pursue his doctorate in history.
Officials are chugging along to preserve quiet zone
To the editor:
The July La Grange City Council meeting included an uninformed statement that nothing has been done by the city in the past six years to preserve the quiet zone.
Involved residents and merchants know this isn't true.
In 2003, CSX informed city officials that along with overdue safety improvements, the city needed to address new federal regulations related to a quiet zone in the downtown historic district.
Strong storms caused the Oldham County Fair to shut down early, forgoing the biggest night of the week.
After a crowd of a couple thousand Friday night, fair board members were hoping for a gate of about $30,000 for Saturday night with the draw of motocross competition. But the forecast said otherwise, board member Rae Anne Roley said. They were able to hold the talent contest Saturday afternoon in qualification for the state fair.
The loss of income could be devastating to the fair, Roley said.
A La Grange man who allegedly shot his girlfriend with a pistol in February has entered a not guilty plea.
Jason Cornett, 38, faces an assault charge after police say he shot his 22-year-old girlfriend, Ashley Frankrone. According to the police report, Cornett shot Frankrone in her side while he was handling two single-action revolvers in his home.
Frankrone received medical treatment at Baptist Hospital Northeast just after the shooting. Emergency crews later moved her to University Hospital in Louisville for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
Cody Malone, a 2009 South Oldham High School graduate, was recently awarded the Elizabeth Nall Sherry Children of the American Revolution Scholarship by the John Marshall Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution at their annual Flag Day Luncheon.
Malone is a member of the Jack Jouett Society, Children of the American Revolution and will attend Middle Tennessee State University in the fall.
He is the son of Scott and Becky Malone of Crestwood.
The most precious things in life are done by hand. We have marvelous washing machines for clothes and for dishes, but they have never made a machine to bathe a baby. Babies are bathed by hand.
Someone wrote these words:
"I almost weep when looking back
To childhood's distant day.
I think how those hands rested not
When mine were at their play.
I've looked on hands whose form and hue
A sculptor's dream might be.
Yet are these aged, wrinkled hands,
More beautiful to me."
SHELBYVILLE – Fans across the region are waiting to hear whether a Shelby County eighth-grader who played varsity basketball will transfer to North Oldham High School this fall.
Shelby County's Darryl Hicks and his AAU team The 'Ville took the championship in the 14-year-old division at the Adidas Super 64 Showcase in Las Vegas Sunday.
Hicks' AAU team topped Houston Select 83-78 in the title game, and Hicks led the way with 26 points.
Another school year, another race to have all schools ready in time for the start of classes. But this year, the obstacles aren't as great and the costs of failure aren't as high.
Oldham County Schools Director of Facilities Jim Ewalt said the $25.6 million renovation at North Oldham Middle and High schools should be finished in time for the start of school except for the new shared auditorium.
Name: Abigail Stewart.
School: Oldham County Middle School.
Sport: Basketball/soccer.
Age: 13.
Position: Center in basketball, center/midfielder in soccer.
Hometown: Buckner.
Accomplishments: Stewart is serving as a basketball camp counselor at Oldham County Middle School this week. Last season she played basketball for the Lady Colonels' sixth and seventh grade teams.
As a center, the 5-foot-7 Stewart averaged nearly six points a game for the Lady Colonels .
LA GRANGE – After catching a break in the district, the North Oldham Little League 10-11 year-old softball all-stars left little doubt as to who the best team in the state was.
The North stars romped by Olive Hill 12-4 in the state title game to complete a 4-0 record in pool and tournament play at Prestonsburg.
The title came after the all-stars didn't have to compete in the district tournament as there weren't other teams in the district.
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Unlocking the Key to Deep Sleep
By Sarah Fenske
Making the Ferguson Commission Matter
By Danny Wicentowski
My Fake Boyfriend Became a Real-Life Crush
By Lindsay Toler
Rep. Jeffrey Pogue Bill Would Ban Unisex Bathrooms
By Danny Wicentowski
Darren Wilson Gives Speech to Nonprofit
By Danny Wicentowski
Angel Stewart and Other Victims of Violence Ask for Mercy
By Jessica Lussenhop
Obama Praises St. Louis' LaunchCode
By Lindsay Toler
By Lindsay Toler
This is what they uncovered:
· Records showing that 16 of the 339 evidence guns that a county judge ordered destroyed in November 1994 were instead donated by Chief Williams to the Missouri Department of Conservation's hunter-education program. Two shotguns, also from the once-bulging evidence locker, showed up the next year in Overland police vehicles. Records appeared to show that the department misled the judge about those guns.
· Evidence that computer records -- records that fell under Kessler's charge -- may have been falsified to reflect compensatory time earned by the chief.
· Records of gun purchases, including information that the department was buying guns, at a discount, for friends and officials, including the mayor. A key file of department gun sales, however, was missing.
Gault also located records showing that Wilhoit inspected and serviced one of Chief Williams' personal revolvers in 1992; the serial number on the gun matched a city-owned gun supposedly destroyed in 1985. Another record showed that the department actually owned a World War II-vintage M-1 carbine that Williams had claimed as his own. Williams surrendered the two weapons after he was shown the documents. The records, Gault wrote, "typify the handling of firearms by the Overland Police Department."
In short, Brown and Gault found that the city was either buying guns that were ending up in private hands or was working with a gang that couldn't keep records straight.
On Feb. 26, 1996, the pair turned their findings over to the St. Louis County Police; a copy of the files was also provided to the FBI.
Mayor Munsch suggests that the internal investigation was getting out of control and that he directed that the county take charge. "As mayor, I finally turned this over to St. Louis County.... I think somebody was trying to push it too hard, just because of hatred." According to Munsch, "a couple bad apples" in the department were trying to "set up" Chief Williams.
But Gault says Munsch never wanted the investigation to go outside Overland. "He didn't want it to go to the FBI. He didn't want it to go to St. Louis County," Gault says. "We told 'em it had to go outside of Overland. The scope of it got to the point where somebody else needed to do something else with it."
By the time his officers turned the investigation over to county police and the FBI, Eddy Williams decided he'd had enough. In January 1996, with two years left in his term, the 50-year-old chief told the mayor he was retiring; he formally advised the city's Board of Aldermen on Feb. 12 that he was done. Asked at the time for an explanation, Williams told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "I have some other business opportunities coming my way, and I need to get everything in order."
Eddy Williams, by some accounts, started as a strong and popular chief, pushing for and getting better pay and benefits for officers. And he was determined to equip his cops with the very best -- the best handguns, plenty of ammunition and even heavy-duty firepower.
In 1985, three years after taking office, Williams approved the purchase of about 50 new Smith & Wesson .357 Magnums. The revolvers were standard police guns -- in the 1980s, more than 100,000 police officers across the country were equipped with Smith & Wesson sidearms. The Massachusetts-based company had long dominated law-enforcement sales, but by the late 1980s, it was losing ground to other manufacturers, including Austria's Glock GmbH, which produced popular semiautomatic pistols.
Glock and Overland began their courtship in late 1989, when Chief Williams approved the purchase of 66 Glock Model 19s. The 9mm semiautomatic came equipped with 17-round magazines. The five-year-old Smith & Wesson service revolvers were put up for sale in early 1990; about 30 police officers bought the guns for personal use. The rest were sold to city officials and others; several, according to records, ended up being purchased by Wilhoit. Former Chief Poeschel recalled paying about $300 to buy two.
When the department bought its first Glocks in late 1989, police officers weren't the only ones who benefited from the deal. At least a dozen of the brand-new Glocks ended up in private hands. Among the buyers were Chief Williams, Mayor Munsch, Public Works Director Charles Karam, Ald. Denny Golden and Mark Brown, and the co-owner of a local sporting-goods store. A record obtained by the RFT shows that those individuals each paid the department $326 per gun -- the same amount the city had paid. Because the guns were sold to a law-enforcement agency, the sale was exempt from the 10 percent federal excise tax. That savings -- and the volume discount the police department may have received -- was passed along to the individual buyers.
This was not Overland's last transaction with Glock, however.
Within a year-and-a-half, Eddy Williams approved the purchase of 23 new Glock Model 22s -- a .40-caliber semiautomatic equipped with a 15-round magazine. The department -- in another tax-exempt transaction -- paid $6,926 for the guns. Again the guns were resold, for $298 each. It was a good deal for the buyers: Even today, the Glock Model 22 is a popular handgun, priced at more than $500 retail. Mayor Munsch and Karam, the public-works director, again were buyers. So was Williams. Mark Brown, the alderman and owner of Mark's Quick Printing on Page Avenue, was also a buyer. At the time, Brown was a reserve deputy with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department, and he was instrumental in lining up the resale of Overland guns to several others on the rural department's payroll, including his friend Sheriff John Whyte.
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Letters to the Editor: 02.02.07
Do we really need an arena in Robs-town? Why must we continue to throw money down the drain with lawsuits and construction of an arena that cannot pay for itself and will just consume more tax dollars to maintain?
The county has so many needs that can help us all, so why should we continue to waste our tax dollars on an arena that we don't need? Please stop this needless waste of money and cancel the horse arena forever.
Mike Scott
Driving a privilege
Are you willing to be the next fatality?
I was reading the article (Jan. 29) about Police Chief Bryan Smith wishing to impound vehicles with no insurance. It is about time. I am so glad to see that someone in a position of authority is for law enforcement in this town.
The only way we are going to affect the bad driving habits of the Corpus Christi motorist is to enforce the current laws. Only then are we truly going to enjoy the better life of Corpus Christi, with reduced insurance rates, safer commutes, and just flat friendlier driving, as well as less congestion.
Obviously, Chief Bryan Smith is all about law enforcement, and this is what Corpus Christi needs. Driving on the highway is not a God-given right; it is a privilege that carries responsibilities. The only way to keep the privilege and responsibility components in balance is to search and penalize infractions, immediately. Failure to do so is going to result in the untimely death of someone you know and love.
Mark Duncan
War is for experts
You have got to stop this Bush and Iraq slashing. You are newspaper editors; you went to school to spell big words and fit them into little spaces, and most certainly were not taught how to fight wars.
War is very ugly business. But business it is and we as Americans have people we hired who went to school to learn how best to fight wars.
Did we not learn our lesson about having "new folks" and politicians who mostly went to law/sue school manage a war?
On Jan. 24, on page 8A, you shared with all that our military is "stretched," and how the Bush administration was not "trustworthy." ("U.S. is in no position to court war with Iran," editorial.)
You should be ashamed of yourselves. We hired that administration and it's their job description to take care of this mess. They took that class that taught you not to tell your enemies what you are up to. The media want to provide them with print and video on our plans. If you and your comrades get the heck out of the way, they can get this over with. Surely you know we can win this. Let the dogs out, George!
Carter L. Tate
Press power
After I wrote you some weeks back about some dogs on our street, it worked. The power of the press has helped us out in two weeks. We tried for five months calling the dog catcher.
We all thank the power of the press. Again, thank you.
P.S. The dog catcher just drove by again today.
De Rowe
Cut fuel cost
Ref. Scott Burns' article regarding our real tax burden ("Our real tax burden is 40 percent, study shows," Business, Jan. 28).
He explains how, adding up all our taxes, we are paying about 40 percent in taxes. The politicians talk only about the federal income tax, which varies from 10 percent to 35 percent.
What about Texas politicians who talk about how good deregulation of electricity has been? They said the competition would bring prices down. Why do they have to add on an average 88 percent fuel cost? Yes, 88 percent. Why such a high fuel charge?
For example, over a one-year period your basic kilowatt-hour costs totals $800, plus 88 percent fuel costs add-on of $1,504, or a total of $2,304. Perhaps this is why Texas has the highest electric bills in the country.
Texans must contact Austin and correct this situation.
Paul M. Winzey
Cheap books
Your recent article, "In a bind from book prices" (Jan. 29), provided some excellent information on the college textbook industry, but it missed a few key points.
Publishers are sympathetic to students' concerns about textbook costs and offer a range of options from which faculty can choose.
For example, there are 216 introductory psychology titles currently on sale around the country at retail prices ranging from about $25 to $120. These alternatives and a new and expanding range of technologies are helping more students pass their courses, stay in school and graduate sooner, saving students time and money while improving their success rates.
In fact, textbook prices, which account for less than 5 percent of the core higher education expenses for the average four-year student, are not rising as fast as other higher education costs, such as tuition and student fees. And the implication that new editions are released every semester is, simply, wrong. The average new edition comes out every four years.
As the cost of higher education continues to escalate, America's publishers are helping students get the most out of their tuition dollar by responding to changing needs.
Stacy Scarazzo Skelly
(Assistant Director for Higher Education,
Association of American Publishers)
(Washington, D. C.)
Salute GIs
I am the mother of a U.S. Army Ranger who is currently serving in the war. I know that not everyone agrees with the war or the president, but we need to remember all the soldiers who are over there fighting.
I would like to know how we could go about honoring all the local soldiers. That might mean picturing a local soldier who is currently serving our country once a week.
Please let us salute our local soldiers so we can let them know that we care, as well as honoring our fallen soldiers.
Tara Wooten
The Moody way
Re: Caller-Times article, "CCISD seeks to meet new course mandate" (Jan. 22).
I agree with Bargaret Bolick in the Jan. 22 article where she states that requiring students to take both math and science all four years in high school will better prepare them for college.
It gives me great pride to know that Moody High School is moving in the right direction. As the PTA president at Moody High School, I am grateful for the wonderful opportunities offered to our students.
The new T-Stem Academy at Moody and Cunningham Middle School will definitely prepare students for the new course mandate, which was included in House Bill 1 in June 2006. The T-Stem grant will help design innovative science, technology, engineering and math curricula to improve instruction and student performance in science and math.
Principal Conrado Garcia has established six academies along with the new T-Stem Academy. He sets high academic expectations for all students and implements continuous reform strategies that provide effective instruction and social support for students.
These academies have created a close, personal environment in which teachers work collaboratively to provide individualized attention and academic support so that all students excel academically. It's great to be part of the Trojan family.
Yvonne Guerra
Rush to rescue
Let's suppose you are at home on a Sunday afternoon and you hear someone breaking into your house. Of course, you call 911 to get an officer there as soon as possible. The nearest officer is miles away when he gets the call.
The officer has two choices: exceeding the speed limit, carefully going through red lights, or obeying all the traffic laws.
The first option will get him there quickly, perhaps quickly enough to apprehend the suspect and save the homeowner from harm. The second option will get him there eventually, probably not in time to apprehend the suspect or safeguard the homeowner. On the other hand, he won't be subject to criticism for violating traffic laws.
Every officer I know or have worked with will always choose the first option.
Why not lights and siren? Officers cannot run lights and siren unless there are extraordinary circumstances or they are responding to a call in which a person is injured. Despite TV and movie characterizations, emergency runs are relatively rare.
Luther Kim
(Retired Corpus Christi Police Captain)
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The Musuem's lepidosaur collection contains fossilised remains of lizards and snakes, and includes many specimens from British localities.
The Museum's lepidosaur collection includes the gliding lizard Kuehneosaurus, from Triassic fissure sites in the Mendip Hills, Somerset.
It also contains important type material of Early Cretaceous lizards from the Isle of Purbeck, and Late Cretaceous mosasaurs from Europe, North America and New Zealand.
Tertiary material includes 2 unique Lower Miocene amphisbaenids from Rusinga Island, Kenya:
Since the 1980s, a large number of Eocene lizards and snakes have been accumulated through:


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The Allora Paris Series Straight Soprano Saxophone gives you a professional quality horn that offers premium features like ribbed construction, Pisoni Pro pads, and hand engraving at a budget price. To make this an even more attractive saxophone deal, Allora includes two necks with each Paris Series soprano sax.
Allora Paris Series soprano saxophones have a range to high G. You have a choice of lacquer, black nickel, or antique finishes on your Paris sax. Allora delivers your Paris Series Professional Soprano Sax in a professional-style case to protect your investment.


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Sound Healing for Cats and Other Pets
In 1999 I decided to add sound healing to my massage and teaching
practice. I felt it would be an invaluable way to help animals that did
not trust touch as a way to soothe their bodies and minds. Healing with
sound is an ancient practice, extending back to the Egyptians, Greeks,
Tibetans, Chinese, Japanese, Australian aborigines, native Hawaiians,
and some of the native American cultures. In many cultures it has been
used right through to the present day. As I began to integrate it into
my practice I was amazed and delighted with the results. It has far
exceeded my expectations as a valuable healing tool.
By healing sound, I mean pure tones and harmonics produced by such
things as tuning forks, Tibetan singing bowls, bells, and cymbals,
gongs, drums, rattles, didgeridoos, and toning with voice. In my own
practice I use precision calibrated tuning forks, tingshaws (Tibetan
cymbals), Tibetan bells and my voice to produce healing sounds.
I began by integrating sound into my massages. Immediately, I noticed
that the animals enjoyed it and reached an even deeper level of
relaxation. Over the past months, I have used it more and more and have
seen remarkable results with the sounds applied on or near the body. For
tense and nervous animals, sound offers a wonderful new option for
soothing and relaxing as well as for building trust. For flighty animals
it can add grounding, helping them to concentrate better on their
lessons and competitions. For aged, dull, or lost animals it can bring a
sparkle back into their eyes and energy back to their bodies.
and Cats: a purrfect choice.
story of an Acutonics "Angel"
On my first visit to the farm I was called in to work on several of the
miniature horses. As I sat on a very small stool and applied a sound
healing treatment to first one and then a second miniature yearling, a
lovely calico perched herself above me on the beam of the stall's wall.
The cat waited patiently throughout the session. When I was finished,
she made her move.
As I got up to leave, Angel launched herself at my retreating shoulders.
To my great surprise I suddenly felt a fairly heavy weight land solidly
across my shoulders. The cat draped herself around my neck and refused
to leave. Clearly, she had enjoyed the horses' session and wanted one of
her own!
Earlier, while working on the young horses, I'd noted which sound
intervals the cat had seemed to enjoy. Chuckling to myself, I carefully
reached for three particular tuning forks and applied them over my
shoulders to Angel.
After a few minutes of this very awkward application of sound therapy,
Angel changed her position and draped herself across one shoulder, front
to back, like a sack of flour. There she stayed, half asleep, while I
continued to work on several other horses.
On subsequent visits to the farm, Angel stayed
close to me, always insisting on her own treatment no matter who else I
was actually called in to work on. This included her owner's sessions.
Whenever the owner had an Acutonics session, Angel would sit on some
part of her body, purring, and waiting for the moment when I used the
tuning forks she liked best.
She was never disappointed.
portrait © Sara Light-Waller, 2003
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Edison State College, a unit of the Florida College System, is conducting a national search for the position of Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and invites applications and nominations. A complete profile of this opportunity is available at: http://www.myersmcrae.com/skins/userfiles/file/Edison-Dean-A&S [1] Deadline for applications is January 18, 2013. Send nominations, inquiries, and letters of application (cover letter, curriculum vitae, and five references with full contact information) to: email@example.com [2]
Edison State College, a unit of the Florida College System, seeks an accomplished academic administrator to serve as Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. The Dean provides strategic vision, leadership, and direction for the School of Arts and Sciences. The review of applications begins immediately.
The Dean of the School of Arts and Science holds a highly responsible administrative-level position that oversees and administers the School and its respective academic programs college-wide. The Dean provides leadership and strategic direction to promote continuous improvement and programmatic growth consistent with the mission of the college.
In directing the School of Arts and Sciences, the Dean:
-- Provides leadership and direction to associate deans, directors, coordinators, faculty, and staff in the development and delivery of instruction
-- Promotes a culture that results in effective communication and the open exchange of ideas among faculty, staff, and administration
-- Provides opportunities for faculty participation in decision-making in accordance with the college's shared-governance model
-- Collaborates with appropriate college administrators to develop, evaluate, and deliver college credit courses effectively and efficiently college-wide to students, utilizing all educational delivery methods
-- Is responsible for ensuring the systematic completion of program reviews, monitors trends in education, and recommends programmatic enhancements and/or deletions to maintain a student-centered learning environment
-- Works with campus presidents and others to determine local workforce trends and employer needs
-- Oversees the development and execution of state approved articulation agreements with educational and industrial stakeholders
-- Monitors consistent and timely program updates to reflect consistency with state curriculum frameworks and regulations
-- Ensures the accuracy of programmatic information in the class schedule, college catalog, website, and promotional materials
The successful candidate will be a proven leader and academic innovator capable of enriching the profile of the School of Arts and Sciences and the College. A terminal degree earned from a regionally accredited institution of higher education in a discipline appropriate to the School is required.
Additionally, the qualified candidate must have the appropriate combination of education, training, and experience that includes, but is not limited to, knowledge and experience in program and curriculum development, program review and enhancement, continuous quality improvement processes, budget management, previous teaching experience in higher education, and a knowledge of the accreditation process for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).
The Dean will be an excellent communicator with a demonstrated passion for academia and the ability to cultivate a collaborative atmosphere within a large, vibrant division within the College. This academic and administrative leader will have utmost integrity, strategic vision, a thoughtful and deliberative approach, and a strong commitment to high academic standards and to the enhancement of teaching and learning.
Other requirements include:
-- Successful experience in developing academic curricula and student-centered, outcome-focused programs in arts and sciences
-- Demonstrated record of responsible higher education administrative experience, preferably in a community or state college
-- Full-time teaching experience in higher education
-- Personal and educational philosophy compatible with the mission, goals and objectives of Edison State College
A profile on this opportunity is available at:
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The School of Arts and Sciences at Edison State College offers a full array of both traditional and innovative courses. The School serves the mission of the College by way of a central role in providing the instruction and experiences that define a liberal arts education through a community of faculty, students, and staff who teach, learn, and mutually support one another in the achievement of their educational goals.
Established in 1962, Edison State College is the 13th largest community college in the Florida College System. The mission of Edison State College is to inspire learning; prepare a diverse population for creative and responsible participation in a global society; and serve as a leader for intellectual, economic, and cultural awareness in the community.
Edison State is the most accessible and most affordable institution of higher education in Southwest Florida. Edison delivers academic programs ranging from collegiate charter high schools through bachelor's degrees.
Edison's 25,000 students may pursue one of more than 18 associate degrees and 10 bachelor's degrees on the College's Lee Campus in Fort Myers, Collier Campus in Naples, Charlotte Campus in Punta Gorda, and the Hendry Glades Center in LaBelle. Edison also offers courses through Edison Online. Each of the campuses is uniquely positioned to address the needs of its community and the individual counties.
In Fall 2012, Edison became a residential college with the opening of student housing on the Lee Campus.
Edison State College is governed by its Board of Trustees composed of nine representatives from Charlotte, Collier, Hendry, Glades, and Lee counties. The members are appointed to four-year terms by the Governor of Florida.
Fort Myers is located in Southwest Florida, alongside the inviting waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Year-round balmy temperatures add to the charm of an area that provides an array of activities indoors, outdoors, on water, and on land.
The Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall on the College's Fort Myers Campus and The Philharmonic Center for the Arts in the Naples area offer a multitude of cultural activities. Also available is world-class dining and shopping and state-of-the-art medical care and resources.
Residents enjoy a variety of sporting events, including major league baseball spring training, minor league baseball and hockey teams, arena football and numerous community leagues. There are also plenty of championship golf courses, in addition to activities ranging from tennis, fishing, kayaking and canoeing to boating, biking and hiking.
Southwest Florida is home to numerous historical landmarks, parades, theatrical shows, and festivals. An international airport and several regional airports serve the area.
Edison State College is an equal access, equal opportunity institution.
Send nominations, inquiries, and letters of application (cover letter, curriculum vitae, and five references with full contact information) to:
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Application deadline is January 18, 2013.
Myers McRae Executive Search and Consulting is assisting Edison State College with this search. The consultant team leaders are:
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Lucas suffered the problem just 20 minutes from coming on in the second half in Saturday's 2-2 draw at home to Aston Villa following a challenge with Fabian Delph.
It is understood that the 27-year-old Brazil midfielder has damaged the ligament in his right knee.
The news comes as a blow to Reds boss Brendan Rodgers as he looks to guide the Anfield outfit back into the UEFA Champions League with a top four finish in the Premier League.
Rodgers has been using Steven Gerrard in a more defensive midfield role recently and is confident it is a position his captain can operate in.
The Northern Irishman was hopeful Lucas could return ahead of schedule and said: "First of all, personally I am disappointed for Lucas because he's been very, very important for our squad this season. It was something that was innocuous really and has put him out for a few months.
"Hopefully he'll get back sooner rather than later.
"He'd been in good form this season and had worked his way back into the Brazil squad. Knowing what he is like, he'll be back sooner rather than later - and he'll do everything in his power to get back.
"In the meantime, that leaves us short of a really good player."
When asked if the injury would affect Lucas's chances of representing hosts Brazil at this summer's World Cup finals.
"I'm sure Luiz Felipe Scolari will have a real good idea of who he is going to bring anyway and I don't think this injury for Lucas will deter that," Rodgers added.
"They've got their last squad get together in March. He was in the last one and I'm sure he impressed.
"They've got a big pool to pick from there, a lot of players, but I'm sure he has an idea of who he wants to pick already."


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As I was struggling to pull my drawings together, I realized that it
didn't matter how good my line got, because I couldn't tell what I was
looking at. The topic was the human body, and more specifically, the
back. If you've gone through life drawing, perhaps you know the
problem. You're sitting in your workshop, a reasonably muscular man is
posing, his back is turned to you, and... what is going on? What are
all those bumps and ridges?
"Bodies ... The Exhibition," currently housed in New York City's South Street Seaport, offers draftsmen the chance to draw from human specimens after hours. It's an opportunity New York City area artists shouldn't miss.
In this passage, which we had to cut from the print article in our Spring 2009 issue of Drawing for space reasons, artist-instructor Dan Gheno explains how the tanned portions of a nude model seem to stand out and push forward, and he reiterates the value of studying individual body parts.
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Chapter 10. Vision: From Eye to Brain
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|By Christie Nicholson Conventional wisdom once had it that each brain region is responsible for a specific task. And so we have the motor cortex for handling movements, and the visual cortex, for processing sight. And scientists thought that such regions remained fixed for those tasks beyond the age of three. But within the past decade researchers have realized that some brain regions can pinch hit for other regions, for example, after a damaging stroke. And now new research finds that the visual cortex is constantly doing double duty—it has a role in processing not just sight, but sound. When we hear [siren sound], we see a siren. In the study, scientists scanned the brains of blindfolded participants as the subjects listened to three sounds: [audio of birds, audio of traffic, audio of a talking crowd.] And the scientists could tell what specific sounds the subjects were hearing just by analyzing the brain activity in the visual cortex. [Petra Vetter, Fraser W. Smith and Lars Muckli, Decoding Sound and Imagery Content in Early Visual Cortex, in Current Biology] The next step is to determine why the visual cortex is horning in on the audio action. The researchers think the additional role conferred an evolutionary advantage: having a visual system primed by sound to see the source of that sound could have given humans an extra step in the race for survival. © 2014 Scientific American
By Susana Martinez-Conde Expanding and contracting circles, mutating colors, and false image matches dominated the 2014 Best Illusion of the Year Contest, held on May 18th in the TradeWinds Island Grand in St. Petersburg, FL. One thousand perceptual scientists joined artists and the general public to determine the TOP THREE illusion masters from a pre-selected group of TOP TEN finalists, chosen by an international committee of judges. Each winner took home a trophy designed by the acclaimed Italian sculptor Guido Moretti: the trophies are visual illusions themselves. It was the 10th annual edition of the contest, which annually draws numerous accolades from attendees as well as international media coverage. Las Vegas magician Mac King was master of ceremonies for the event, hosted by the Neural Correlate Society, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote public awareness of neuroscience research and discovery, and sponsored by Scientific American. Each of the 10 presenters displayed and described their creations for 5 minutes, to the sounds of music and confetti cannons, in an event unlike anything else in science. Afterwards, the audience voted on their favorite illusion while Mac King performed some of his signature magic tricks for the audience. The First Prize winner of the contest, an illusion by Christopher Blair, Gideon Caplovitz and Ryan Mruczek from University of Nevada Reno, took the classical Ebbinghaus illusion, where the perceived size of a central circle varies with the size of surrounding circles, and put it on steroids by making it into an ever-changing dynamic display. Blair rhymed his 5-minute presentation Dr. Seuss-style. Second Prize went to Mark Vergeer, Stuart Anstis and Rob van Lier from the University of Leuven, UC San Diego and Radboud University Nijmegen, for showing that a single colored image can produce several different color perceptions depending on the position of black outlines over the image. © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 19664 - Posted: 05.28.2014
By JAMES GORMAN H. Sebastian Seung is a prophet of the connectome, the wiring diagram of the brain. In a popular book, debates and public talks he has argued that in that wiring lies each person's identity. By wiring, Dr. Seung means the connections from one brain cell to another, seen at the level of the electron microscope. For a human, that would be 85 billion brain cells, with up to 10,000 connections for each one. The amount of information in the three-dimensional representation of the whole connectome at that level of detail would equal a zettabyte, a term only recently invented when the amount of digital data accumulating in the world required new words. It equals about a trillion gigabytes, or as one calculation framed it, 75 billion 16-gigabyte iPads. He is also a realist. When he speaks publicly, he tells his audiences, "I am my connectome." But he can be brutally frank about the limitations of neuroscience. "We've failed to answer simple questions," he said. "People want to know, 'What is consciousness?' And they think that neuroscience is up to understanding that. They want us to figure out schizophrenia and we can't even figure out why this neuron responds to one direction and not the other." This mix of intoxicating ideas, and the profound difficulties of testing them, not only defines Dr. Seung's career but the current state of neuroscience itself. He is one of the stars of the field, and yet his latest achievement, in a paper published this month, is not one that will set the world on fire. He and his M.I.T. colleagues have proposed an explanation of how a nerve cell in the mouse retina — the starburst amacrine cell — detects the direction of motion. If he's right, this is significant work. But it may not be what the public expects, and what they have been led to expect, from the current push to study the brain. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision; Brain imaging
Link ID: 19663 - Posted: 05.26.2014
By JAMES GORMAN Crowd-sourced science has exploded in recent years. Foldit enlists users to help solve scientific puzzles such as how proteins are put together. Zooniverse hosts dozens of projects, including searching for planets and identifying images of animals caught on automatic cameras. Eyewire, which came out of H. Sebastian Seung's lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology about a year and a half ago, is neuroscience's entry into the field. The EyeWirers, as the players are called, have scored their first scientific success, contributing to a paper in the May 4 issue of Nature by Dr. Seung and his M.I.T. colleagues that offers a solution to a longstanding problem in how motion is detected. Anyone can sign up online, learn to use the software and start working on what Amy Robinson, the creative director of Eyewire, calls a "3-D coloring book." The task is something like tracing one piece of yarn through an extremely tangled ball. More than 130,000 players in 145 countries, at last count, work on a cube that represents a bit of retinal tissue 4.5 microns on a side. The many branches of neurons are densely packed within. A micron is .00004 inches or, in Eyewire's calculus, about one-tenth the width of a human hair. Some of the players spend upward of 40 hours a week on Eyewire. These cubes are created by an automated process in which electron microscopes make images of ultrathin slices of brain tissue. Computers then analyze and compile the data to create a three-dimensional representation of a cube of tissue with every neuron and connection visible. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision; Brain imaging
Link ID: 19662 - Posted: 05.26.2014
By KATE MURPHY The baseball hurtles toward the batter, and he must decide from its rotation whether it's a fastball worth a swing or a slider about to drop out of the strike zone. Running full speed, the wide receiver tracks both the football flying through the air and the defensive back on his heels. Golfers must rapidly shift visual focus in order to drive the ball at their feet toward a green in the distance. Many athletes need excellent vision to perform well in their sports, and now many are adding something new to their practice regimens: vision training. The idea has been around for years, but only recently have studies hinted that it might really work — that it might be possible to train yourself to see better without resorting to glasses or surgery. "Vision training has been out there for a long time," said Mark Blumenkranz, a professor of ophthalmology at Stanford University Medical School. "But it's being made more respectable lately thanks to the attention it's been getting from psychophysicists, vision scientists, neurologists and optometrists." Vision training actually has little to do with improving eyesight. The techniques, a form of perceptual learning, are intended to improve the ability to process what is seen. The idea is that if visual sensory neurons are repeatedly activated, they increase their ability to send electrical signals from one cell to another across connecting synapses. If neurons are not used, over time these transmissions are weakened. "With sensory neurons, just like muscles, it's use or lose it," said Dr. Bernhard Sabel, a neuroscientist at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany, who studies plasticity in the brain. "This applies both to athletes and the partially blind." Vision training may involve simple strategies — for instance, focusing sequentially on beads knotted at intervals on a length of string with one end held at the tip of the nose. This is said to improve convergence (inward turning of the eye to maintain binocular vision) and the ability to focus near and far. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision; Miscellaneous
Link ID: 19659 - Posted: 05.26.2014
|By Ariel Van Brummelen The presence of light may do more for us than merely allow for sight. A study by Gilles Vandewalle and his colleagues at the University of Montreal suggests that light affects important brain functions—even in the absence of vision. Previous studies have found that certain photoreceptor cells located in the retina can detect light even in people who do not have the ability to see. Yet most studies suggested that at least 30 minutes of light exposure is needed to significantly affect cognition via these nonvisual pathways. Vandewalle's study, which involved three completely blind participants, found that just a few seconds of light altered brain activity, as long as the brain was engaged in active processing rather than at rest. First the experimenters asked their blind subjects whether a blue light was on or off, and the subjects answered correctly at a rate significantly higher than random chance—even though they confirmed they had no conscious perception of the light. Using functional MRI, the researchers then determined that less than a minute of blue light exposure triggered changes in activity in regions of their brain associated with alertness and executive function. Finally, the scientists found that if the subjects received simultaneous auditory stimulation, a mere two seconds of blue light was enough to modify brain activity. The researchers think the noise engaged active sensory processing, which allowed the brain to respond to the light much more quickly than in previous studies when subjects rested while being exposed to light. The results confirm that the brain can detect light in the absence of working vision. They also suggest that light can quickly alter brain activity through pathways unrelated to sight. The researchers posit that this nonvisual light sensing may aid in regulating many aspects of human brain function, including sleep/wake cycles and threat detection. © 2014 Scientific American,
Keyword: Vision; Biological Rhythms
Link ID: 19577 - Posted: 05.06.2014
Mo Costandi A vast project to map neural connections in the mouse retina may have answered the long-standing question of how the eyes detect motion. With the help of volunteers who played an online brain-mapping game, researchers showed that pairs of neurons positioned along a given direction together cause a third neuron to fire in response to images moving in the same direction. It is sometimes said that we see with the brain rather than the eyes, but this is not entirely true. People can only make sense of visual information once it has been interpreted by the brain, but some of this information is processed partly by neurons in the retina. In particular, 50 years ago researchers discovered that the mammalian retina is sensitive to the direction and speed of moving images1. This showed that motion perception begins in the retina, but researchers struggled to explain how. When light enters the eye, it is captured by photoreceptor cells, which convert the information into electrical impulses and transmit them to deeper layers of the retina. Individual photoreceptors are not sensitive to the direction in which an object may be moving, so neuroscientist Jinseop Kim, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, and his colleagues wanted to test whether the answer to the puzzle could lie in the way various types of cells in the retina are connected. Photoreceptors relay their signals via 'bipolar neurons', named this way because they have two stems that jut out of the cell's body in opposite directions. The signal then transits through 'starburst amacrine cells' — which have filaments, or dendrites, that extend in all directions similarly to light rays out of a star — before reaching the cells that form the optic nerve, which relays them into the brain. © 2014 Nature Publishing Group,
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 19576 - Posted: 05.05.2014
By Melissa Hogenboom Science reporter, BBC Radio Science Neuroscience is a fast growing and popular field, but despite advances, when an area of the brain 'lights up" it does not tell us as much as we'd like about the inner workings of the mind. Many of us have seen the pictures and read the stories. A beautiful picture of the brain where an area is highlighted and found to be fundamental for processes like fear, disgust or impaired social ability. There are so many stories it can be easy to be swayed into thinking that much more of the brain's mystery has been solved than is the case. The technology is impressive but one of the most popular scanning methods - functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) actually measures regional regional changes of blood flow to areas of the brain, not our neurons directly. Researchers use it when they want to understand what part of the brain is involved in a particular task. They can place a person in a brain scanner and see which areas become active. The areas that light up are then inferred to be important for that task, but the resulting images and phrase "lighting up the brain" can lead to over interpretation. Neuroscientist Molly Crocket from University College London explains that while fMRI is extremely useful, we are still very far from being able to read an individual's mind from a scan. "There's a misconception that's still rather common that you can look at someone's brain imaging data and be able to read off what they're thinking and feeling. This is certainly not the case," Dr Crocket told the BBC's Inside Science programme. 19th Century brain "A study will have been done which tells us something about the brain, but what [the public] really want to do is make the leap and understand the mind." She cites an article with the headline, "You love your iPhone, literally". In this case a team saw an area previously associated with love - the insula - was active when participants watched videos of a ringing iPhone. BBC © 2014
Keyword: Brain imaging; Consciousness
Link ID: 19574 - Posted: 05.05.2014
By Greg Miller As a journalist who writes about neuroscience, I've gotten a lot of super enthusiastic press releases touting a new breakthrough in using brain scans to read people's minds. They usually come from a major university or a prestigious journal. They make it sound like a brave new future has suddenly arrived, a future in which brain scans advance the cause of truth and justice and help doctors communicate with patients whose minds are still active despite their paralyzed bodies. Amazing, right? Drop everything and write a story! Well, not so fast. Whenever I read these papers and talk to the scientists, I end up feeling conflicted. What they've done–so far, anyway–really doesn't live up to what most people have in mind when they think about mind reading. Then again, the stuff they actually can do is pretty amazing. And they're getting better at it, little by little. In pop culture, mind reading usually looks something like this: Somebody wears a goofy-looking cap with lots of wires and blinking lights while guys in white lab coats huddle around a monitor in another room to watch the movie that's playing out in the person's head, complete with cringe-inducing internal monologue. We are not there yet. "We can decode mental states to a degree," said John-Dylan Haynes, a cognitive neuroscientist at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin. "But we are far from a universal mind reading machine. For that you would need to be able to (a) take an arbitrary person, (b) decode arbitrary mental states and (c) do so without long calibration." © 2014 Condé Nast.
Keyword: Brain imaging; Vision
Link ID: 19558 - Posted: 04.30.2014
by Helen Thomson A 22-year-old man has been instantaneously transported to his family's pizzeria and his local railway station – by having his brain zapped. These fleeting visual hallucinations have helped researchers pinpoint places where the brain stores visual location information. Pierre Mégevand at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, New York, and his colleagues wanted to discover just where in the brain we store and retrieve information about locations and places. They sought the help of a 22-year-old man being treated for epilepsy, because the treatment involved implanting electrodes into his brain that would record his neural activity. Mégevand and his colleagues scanned the volunteer's brain using functional MRI while he looked at pictures of different objects and scenes. They then recorded activity from the implanted electrodes as he looked at a similar set of pictures. In both situations, a specific area of the cortex around the hippocampus responded to images of places, but not to images of other kinds of objects, such as body parts or tools. "There are these little spots of tissues that seem to care about houses and places more than any other class of object," says research team member Ashesh Mehta, also at the Feinstein Institute. Next, the team used the implanted electrodes to stimulate the brain in this area – a move that the volunteer said triggered a series complex visual hallucinations. First he described seeing a railway station in the neighbourhood where he lives. Stimulation of a nearby area elicited another hallucination, this time of a staircase and a blue closet in his home. When stimulation of these areas was repeated, the same scenes arose. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Keyword: Learning & Memory; Vision
Link ID: 19540 - Posted: 04.26.2014
I am a sociologist by training. I come from academic world, reading scholarly articles on topics of social import, but they're almost always boring, dry and quickly forgotten. Yet I can't count how many times I've gone to a movie, a theater production or read a novel and been jarred into seeing something differently, learned something new, felt deep emotions and retained the insights gained. I know from both my research and casual conversations with people in daily life that my experiences are echoed by many. The arts can tap into issues that are otherwise out of reach and reach people in meaningful ways. This realization brought me to arts-based research (ABR). Arts-based research is an emergent paradigm whereby researchers across the disciplines adapt the tenets of the creative arts in their social research projects. Arts-based research, a term first coined by Eliot Eisner at Stanford University in the early 90s, is based on the assumption that art can teach us in ways that other forms cannot. Scholars can take interview or survey research, for instance, and represent it through art. I've written two novels based on sociological interview research. Sometimes researchers use the arts during data collection, involving research participants in the art-making process, such as drawing their response to a prompt rather than speaking. The turn by many scholars to arts-based research is most simply explained by my opening example of comparing the experience of consuming jargon-filled and inaccessible academic articles to that of experiencing artistic works. While most people know on some level that the arts can reach and move us in unique ways, there is actually science behind this. ©2014 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc
Keyword: Language; Vision
Link ID: 19528 - Posted: 04.24.2014
Associated Press Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa as a teenager, Pontz has been almost completely blind for years. Now, thanks to a high-tech procedure that involved the surgical implantation of a "bionic eye," he has regained enough of his eyesight to catch small glimpses of his wife, grandson and cat. "It's awesome. It's exciting - seeing something new every day," Pontz said during a recent appointment at the University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center. The 55-year-old former competitive weightlifter and factory worker is one of four people in the U.S. to receive an artificial retina since the Food and Drug Administration signed off on its use last year. The facility in Ann Arbor has been the site of all four such surgeries since FDA approval. A fifth is scheduled for next month. Retinitis pigmentosa is an inherited disease that causes slow but progressive vision loss due to a gradual loss of the light-sensitive retinal cells called rods and cones. Patients experience loss of side vision and night vision, then central vision, which can result in near blindness. Not all of the 100,000 or so people in the U.S. with retinitis pigmentosa can benefit from the bionic eye. An estimated 10,000 have vision low enough, said Dr. Brian Mech, an executive with Second Sight Medical Products Inc., the Sylmar (Los Angeles County) company that makes the device. Of those, about 7,500 are eligible for the surgery. The artificial implant in Pontz's left eye is part of a system developed by Second Sight that includes a small video camera and transmitter housed in a pair of glasses. © 2014 Hearst Communications, Inc.
Keyword: Vision; Robotics
Link ID: 19527 - Posted: 04.24.2014
|By Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez-Conde The Best Illusion of the Year Contest brings scientific and popular attention to perceptual oddities. Anyone can submit an illusion to next year's contest at http://illusionoftheyear.com/submission-instructions for the rules Decked out in a mask, cape and black spandex, a fit young man leaps onto the stage, one hand raised high, and bellows, "I am Japaneeeese Bat-Maaaaaan!" in a thick accent. The performer is neither actor nor acrobat. He is a mathematician named Jun Ono, hailing from Meiji University in Japan. Ono's single bound, front and center, at the Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Naples, Fla. (now called Artis-Naples), was the opening act of the ninth Best Illusion of the Year Contest, held May 13, 2013. Four words into the event, we knew Ono had won. Aside from showcasing new science, the contest celebrates our brain's wonderful and mistaken sense that we can accurately see, smell, hear, taste and touch the world around us. In reality, accuracy is not the brain's forte, as the illusion creators competing each year will attest. Yes, there is a real world out there, and you do perceive (some of) the events that occur around you, but you have never actually lived in reality. Instead your brain gathers pieces of data from your sensory systems—some of which are quite subjective or frankly wrong—and builds a simulation of the world. This simulation, which some call consciousness, becomes the universe in which you live. It is the only thing you have ever perceived. Your brain uses incomplete and flawed information to build this mental model and relies on quirky neural algorithms to often—but not always—obviate the flaws. Let us take a spin through some of the world's top illusions and their contributions to the science of perception. (To see videos of these illusions, see ScientificAmerican.com/may2014/illusions.) © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Vision; Consciousness
Link ID: 19525 - Posted: 04.23.2014
Mégevand P et al., Journal of Neuroscience (2014) Close your eyes and imagine home. Sharp details—such as the shape of the front doorknob, the height of the windows, or the paint color—assemble in your mind with a richness that seems touchable. A new study has found where this mental projection lives in the brain by inducing hallucinations in an epilepsy patient. A 22-year-old male was receiving deep brain stimulation to isolate where his daily seizures originated. His disorder appeared after he caught West Nile virus at the age of 10 and subsequently suffered from brain inflammation. His episodes were always preceded by intense déjà vu, suggesting a visual component of his disease, but he had no history of hallucinations. Brain scans revealed a shrunken spot near his hippocampus—the brain's memory center. Studies had shown that this region—known as the parahippocampal place area (PPA)—was involved with recognizing of scenes and places. Doctors reconfirmed this by showing the patient pictures of a house and seeing the PPA light up on brain scans with functional magnetic resonance imaging (images above show brain activity; yellow indicates stronger activation than red). Thin wire electrodes—less than 2 mm thick—placed in the PPA (yellow dots in right panel) recorded similar brain activity after viewing these pictures. To assess if the PPA was ground zero for seizures, the doctors used a routine procedure that involves shooting soft jolts of electricity into the region and seeing if the patient senses an oncoming seizure. Rather than have déjà vu, the patient's surroundings suddenly changed as he hallucinated places familiar to him. In one instance, the doctors morphed into the Italians from his local pizza place. Zapping a nearby cluster of neurons produced a vision of his subway station. The findings, published on 16 April in The Journal of Neuroscience, confirm that this small corner of the brain is not only responsible for recognizing places, but is also crucial to recalling a mental vision of that place. © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 19499 - Posted: 04.17.2014
By Ariel Van Brummelen The presence of light may do more for us than merely allow for sight. A study by Gilles Vandewalle and his colleagues at the University of Montreal suggests that light affects important brain functions—even in the absence of vision. Previous studies have found that certain photoreceptor cells located in the retina can detect light even in people who do not have the ability to see. Yet most studies suggested that at least 30 minutes of light exposure is needed to significantly affect cognition via these nonvisual pathways. Vandewalle's study, which involved three completely blind participants, found that just a few seconds of light altered brain activity, as long as the brain was engaged in active processing rather than at rest. First the experimenters asked their blind subjects whether a blue light was on or off, and the subjects answered correctly at a rate significantly higher than random chance—even though they confirmed they had no conscious perception of the light. Using functional MRI, the researchers then determined that less than a minute of blue light exposure triggered changes in activity in regions of their brain associated with alertness and executive function. Finally, the scientists found that if the subjects received simultaneous auditory stimulation, a mere two seconds of blue light was enough to modify brain activity. The researchers think the noise engaged active sensory processing, which allowed the brain to respond to the light much more quickly than in previous studies when subjects rested while being exposed to light. The results confirm that the brain can detect light in the absence of working vision. They also suggest that light can quickly alter brain activity through pathways unrelated to sight. The researchers posit that this nonvisual light sensing may aid in regulating many aspects of human brain function, including sleep/wake cycles and threat detection. © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Vision; Biological Rhythms
Link ID: 19482 - Posted: 04.14.2014
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Age-related vision loss is common and devastating. But new research suggests that physical activity might protect our eyes as we age. There have been suggestions that exercise might reduce the risk of macular degeneration, which occurs when neurons in the central part of the retina deteriorate. The disease robs millions of older Americans of clear vision. A 2009 study of more than 40,000 middle-aged distance runners, for instance, found that those covering the most miles had the least likelihood of developing the disease. But the study did not compare runners to non-runners, limiting its usefulness. It also did not try to explain how exercise might affect the incidence of an eye disease. So, more recently, researchers at Emory University in Atlanta and the Atlanta Veterans Administration Medical Center in Decatur, Ga., took up that question for a study published last month in The Journal of Neuroscience. Their interest was motivated in part by animal research at the V.A. medical center. That work had determined that exercise increases the levels of substances known as growth factors in the animals' bloodstream and brains. These growth factors, especially one called brain-derived neurotrophic factor, or B.D.N.F., are known to contribute to the health and well-being of neurons and consequently, it is thought, to improvements in brain health and cognition after regular exercise. But the brain is not the only body part to contain neurons, as the researchers behind the new study knew. The retina does as well, and the researchers wondered whether exercise might raise levels of B.D.N.F. there, too, potentially affecting retinal health and vision. © 2014 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 19451 - Posted: 04.07.2014
Visual illusions, such as the rabbit-duck (shown above) and café wall (shown below) are fascinating because they remind us of the discrepancy between perception and reality. But our knowledge of such illusions has been largely limited to studying humans. That is now changing. There is mounting evidence that other animals can fall prey to the same illusions. Understanding whether these illusions arise in different brains could help us understand how evolution shapes visual perception. For neuroscientists and psychologists, illusions not only reveal how visual scenes are interpreted and mentally reconstructed, they also highlight constraints in our perception. They can take hundreds of different forms and can affect our perception of size, motion, colour, brightness, 3D form and much more. Artists, architects and designers have used illusions for centuries to distort our perception. Some of the most common types of illusory percepts are those that affect the impression of size, length or distance. For example, Ancient Greek architects designed columns for buildings so that they tapered and narrowed towards the top, creating the impression of a taller building when viewed from the ground. This type of illusion is called forced perspective, commonly used in ornamental gardens and stage design to make scenes appear larger or smaller. As visual processing needs to be both rapid and generally accurate, the brain constantly uses shortcuts and makes assumptions about the world that can, in some cases, be misleading. For example, the brain uses assumptions and the visual information surrounding an object (such as light level and presence of shadows) to adjust the perception of colour accordingly. © 2014 Guardian News and Media Limited
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 19398 - Posted: 03.22.2014
Neuroscientist Bevil Conway thinks about color for a living. An artist since youth, Conway now spends much of his time studying vision and perception at Wellesley College and Harvard Medical School. His science remains strongly linked to art--in 2004 he and Margaret Livingstone famously reported that Rembrandt may have suffered from flawed vision--and in recent years Conway has focused his research almost entirely on the neural machinery behind color. "I think it's a very powerful system," he tells Co.Design, "and it's completely underexploited." Conway's research into the brain's color systems has clear value for designers and artists like himself. It stands to reason, after all, that someone who understands how the brain processes color will be able to present it to others in a more effective way. But the neuroscience of color carries larger implications for the rest of us. In fact, Conway thinks his insights into color processing may ultimately shed light on some fundamental questions about human cognition. Step back for a moment to one of Conway's biggest findings, which came while examining how monkeys process color. Using a brain scanner, he and some collaborators found "globs" of specialized cells that detect distinct hues--suggesting that some areas of the primate brain are encoded for color. Interestingly, not all colors are given equal glob treatment. The largest neuron cluster was tuned to red, followed by green then blue; a small cell collection also cared about yellow. © 2014 Mansueto Ventures, LLC.
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 19390 - Posted: 03.21.2014
|By Nathan Collins A car detects when a driver starts to nod off and gently pulls over. A tablet or laptop senses its user is confused and offers assistance. Such interventions seem futuristic, but in fact they may not require any technological breakthroughs: a recent study suggests that with the aid of a standard camera, a simple computer program can learn to read people's eye movements to determine what they are doing and perhaps how they are feeling. Psychologists at the University of South Carolina were curious if a computer could figure out what a person was up to based on their eye movements. They first had 12 people engage in four tasks, including reading lines of text and searching photographs for a specific printed letter. Each person repeated the tasks 35 to 50 times while a camera recorded how their eyes moved. Using a subset of those data, the team trained a simple computer program, called a naive Bayes classifier, to identify which of the four tasks each person was doing. In the remaining trials, the classifier correctly determined which task the person was working on 75 percent of the time, well above the 25 percent expected by chance. Because the computer program is based on a flexible algorithm that is simple but powerful, this set-up could most likely be used to identify emotions or mental states such as confusion or fatigue, the researchers suggest in the paper, which appeared in September 2013 in PLOS ONE. With only a brief training period, a car's onboard computer—existing models are more than powerful enough—could learn how a driver's gaze changed as he or she became more exhausted. Further work, the authors suggest, could lead to devices capable of identifying and aiding people in need of assistance in a variety of situations. © 2014 Scientific American
Keyword: Attention; Vision
Link ID: 19379 - Posted: 03.19.2014
by Tania Lombrozo St. Patrick's Day is my excuse to present you with the following illusion in green, courtesy of , a psychology professor at Ritsumeikan University in Japan. In this perceptual illusion, the two spirals appear to be different shades of green. In fact, they are the same. In this perceptual illusion, the two spirals appear to be different shades of green. In fact, they are the same. This image includes two spirals in different shades of green, one a yellowish light green and the other a darker turquoise green. Right? Wrong. At least, that's not what the pixel color values on your monitor will tell you, or what you'd find if you used a photometer to measure the distribution of lightwaves bouncing back from the green-looking regions of either spiral. In fact, the two spirals are the very same shade of green. If you don't believe me, here's a trick to make the illusion go away: replace the yellow and blue surrounding the green segments with a uniform background. Here I've replaced the blue with black: And here the yellow is gone, too: Tada! The very same green. The fact that the illusion disappears when the surrounding colors are replaced with a uniform background illustrates an important feature of color perception. Our experience of color for a given region of space isn't just a consequence of the wavelengths of light reaching our retinas from that region. Instead, the context matters a lot! ©2014 NPR
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 19375 - Posted: 03.18.2014


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On a crowded bus at midday, the narrator observes one man accusing another of jostling him deliberately. When a seat is vacated, the first man takes it. Later, in another part of town, the man is spotted again, while being advised by a friend to have another button sewn onto his overcoat. Exercises in Style retells this apparently unremarkable tale ninety-nine times, employing a variety of styles, ranging from sonnet to cockney to mathematical formula. Too funny to be merely a pedantic thesis, this virtuoso set of themes and variations is a linguistic rustremover, a guide to literary forms and a demonstration of imagery and inventiveness.
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Raymond Queneau (1903 - 76) was a poet, novelist, editor, scholar and mathematician. He is best remembered for Exercises in Style and Zazie in the Metro.
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Despite its well-publicized failure, the congressional supercommittee has generated meaningful discussions about tax reform, and proposals have surfaced on the campaign trail as well.
"Before we ask the question how much should we tax, the question is how can we tax better?" said Alex Brill, former senior adviser and chief economist to the House Ways and Means Committee.
Brill, who now serves as senior fellow in the economics department at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, spoke to a group of about 30 students, faculty and members of the public at Palm Beach Atlantic University's MacArthur Hall on Thursday.
He said he doesn't see the current budget fight in Washington, D.C., simply as a black-and-white tax issue. "Taxes matter. They matter because they affect decisions. They affect our economy. They affect our behaviors. But the truth of the matter is, they don't all matter the same," Brill said.
Brill believes that the current spending-cut-versus-tax-increase mentality among politicians ignores those differences.
"In my mind, a deal to address our entitlement issues … that resulted in a better tax code that was a bigger tax code could very well be a good trade," Brill said.
Presently, only about half of U.S. households pay federal income taxes. "I think that if we had a tax system that was broader because it included more households, we'd have more buy-in from the voters," he said. "And I think that would affect ultimately the decisions that policymakers, members of Congress and the president would make about how to spend those dollars."
At the last Republican presidential debate, which focused on national security, Brill had a chance to ask the candidates a question about what entitlement reforms they would make to address the country's long-term deficit, which is estimated to reach $11 trillion in the coming decade.
"We need to figure out how to get the system right and we need to figure out how to set the levels so that we're both paying for the costs that we're incurring and doing so in a way that does the least to distort or harm our economy," Brill said. "I think that's both sound economic policy and it's also sound national security policy."
During his talk, which included a question-and-answer session, Brill addressed the debt-limit debate and the proposed payroll tax cut extension, as well as the failed supercommittee, which has triggered concerns about future cuts in defense spending.
While there are efficiencies that can be realized in the defense department, the decision about how to allocate funds for defense "shouldn't be made with across-the-board cuts," he said.
Brill's talk was one of several guest lectures collectively known as the Global Events Forum. Prior to his speech, Brill spoke in two PBA macroeconomics classes. He also handed out copies of The Real Tax Burden: More than Dollars and Cents, a book he co-authored as part of the AEI's Values and Capitalism educational series.
The goal of the Global Events Forum is to foster critical thinking within the PBA community regarding global events covered by the American news media, as well as to promote an open exchange of ideas.
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Originally Posted by Suzanne Revy
I had never heard of her before, and having found her website, well...
I suppose she's very good at self promotion, because she is a profoundly mediocre photographer.
Suzanne you have said it all in your second sentence. I speak from personal experience having worked with her.
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Just to be contrary...
I enjoy this photograph. I think it captures exuberance and shows energy and motion in a very good way.
I don't know whether it succeeds as an artistic statement, but I doubt it was intended as such.
I do think it is worth viewing.
Originally Posted by bnjlosh
just wondering, were these her kids? maybe why she is most proud of it...
Just for the record - this was a commercial portraiture shoot, commissioned by the children's mother. AW allegedly spent all day on this.
I feel it is an effective photo. It is the only time I have heard her name.
I think that there are several ladies on this forum whose photos I am familar that regularly do better than the example shown.. One of them is your Australian compatriot.. Her photgraphic superiority,in my mind, compared to the example I been shown here, makes naming her redundant...since I believe many will feel likewise.
Claire (Ms Anne Thrope is in the darkroom)
Originally Posted by David H. Bebbington
....... AW allegedly spent all day on this.
and presumably all night laughing her way to the bank?
Reassured that it isn't just me with this opinion of AW. She obviously got in with the in crowd and they have feathered each others' nest for some years.
My very first thought when I looked at the photograph and the caption was "Why". Why was this the photograph she was most proud of. It begs the question, "is this the best you've got?"
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First off, I don't think this is much of a representation of her usual work. If it's a favorite of hers, perhaps it's simply because she enjoyed the feeling of doing something different from her personal status quo.
She's certainly a master self-promoter. I found her work a few years back via a portrait book she had just put out. I would not call her an amazing photographer by any means, but she does what she does consistently, so at least her clients know what to expect. She does rely heavily on assistants and make-up artists and stylists.
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21 injured in the running of the bulls of the San Fermin
The incident occurred when the riders were swallowed up at the entrance to the bullring, the arrival point of the race and one of the most dangerous places in the course of 848.6 meters through streets of the city.
A plug is formed at this point while two of the six bulls participating in the "bull run" rushed over the human mass, trampling some of the riders.
21 people were injured and hospitalized, including a Spaniard of 19 years who is in serious condition, told the media Dr. Javier Sesma, the emergency department of Navarra Hospital.
"It is a particularly serious injury who suffers from chest trauma with asphyxia syndrome," said the doctor.
Two of the injured were beaten horn, added Dr. Sesma.
This incident is the first of its kind since the early running of the bulls of the San Fermin, which attract each morning at 8:00, since July 7, thousands of runners in the streets of Pamplona and ends Sunday.
22 people were injured so far, including three on Friday, had beaten horn.
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Terumah: A Summary of the Parashah
God instructs Moses to collect gifts from the Israelites in order to build a Tabernacle so that God can dwell among the people; God describes to Moses the vessels and structures that comprise the Tabernacle.
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God has just told Moses "to come to the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, to receive God's Commandments." Moses goes up the mountain, and a cloud comes to cover it, hiding the mountain completely. On this mountain, within the presence of the Lord, Moses remained for forty days and nights.
God first instructs Moses how to fashion a Dwelling Place, a sanctuary for God's presence.
"In this sanctuary," God says, "the Israelites are to bring me gifts."
The gifts can be of any kind from any person whose heart moves them in a giving way. In this sanctuary, there shall be oil for the light and spices for the sweet incense and anointing oil.
God continues, "And let the people make Me this sanctuary so that I may dwell among them. This is the pattern of how the Tabernacle and furniture is to be made.
"The Ark must be a precise blend of acacia wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high. Overlay this Tabernacle with pure gold and golden rings and poles to carry the Ark. You shall make a cover of pure gold with two gold Cherubim on both ends of the cover.
"Into the ark, you shall you put the Testimony which I, the Lord, will give you. There I will meet with you at appointed times. I will speak with you from above the Cover, from between the two cherubim on the Ark of the Testimony.
"Make a table of acacia wood for the Ark and cover it with pure gold with a gold crown all around. Then adorn it with bowls, ladles, jars and jugs made of gold. Make also a pure gold menorah with six almond-blossom type branches and seven lamps to give light.
"In the Tabernacle, enclose the Dwelling Place with ten curtains of fine twined linen of blue, purple and scarlet. Make the tabernacle with wooden planks and silver rings and stakes of copper."
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I'm just curious, so don't take it wrong...
If somebody posted Benchmarks, comparing an HD5870 with its original drivers versus a GTX480, the gains would not be marginal. Let alone, if the GTX480 had its best drivers, from say several weeks from now, and the HD5870 had it's original drivers, the gains would definitely not be marginal.
The numbers would be the proof.
So far I have bookmarked 13, GTX480 Benchmarks/Reviews. This week I'm going to try and bookmark some original HD5870 benchmarks with its
drivers, and compare them with the GTX480.
The reason I'm so curious is, that asking if a GTX480 is worth an extra $75 after seeing the numbers comparing the two of them with the drivers I've suggested,
be asked. Just like it has been asked up until now. And isn't that fare? Or is it only fare to ask
you reverse the time-line? (That would be illogical, right?)
An extra 75$? How about an extra 200$. Also you cannot know if the GTX 480 is going to receive drivers that are going to perform better so comparing a 5870 with older drivers to a GTX 480 isn't fair. Nvidia has always had pretty good drivers at launch and no card of theirs has received 30% gains. You also need to keep in mind that it could take up to half a year for the perfect drivers to come out and by that time ATI is bound to have something better on the market.
The GTX 480 performs very good right now, but imho it should have outperformed two 5850s in order to be considered a good deal. No amount of updated drivers is going to bring its performance to that level.
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Six nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors (nucleoside NRTIs) and one nucleotide reverse transcriptase inhibitor (nucleotide NRTI) are currently approved; zalcitabine is no longer available in the United States. Data are available from clinical trials in human pregnancy for the nucleoside NRTIs zidovudine, abacavir, lamivudine, didanosine, emtricitabine, and stavudine and the nucleotide NRTI tenofovir. The nucleoside analogue drugs require three intracellular phosphorylation steps to form the triphosphate nucleoside, which is the active drug moiety. Tenofovir, an acyclic nucleotide analogue drug, contains a monophosphate component attached to the adenine base and, hence, requires only two phosphorylation steps to form the active moiety.
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Ohio Amish Toddler Run Over By Horse-drawn Wagon
MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio (AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old Amish boy was flown to a hospital after he was run over by the family's horse-drawn wagon.
Geauga County Sheriff's Office Lt. John Hiscox tells The (Willoughby) News-Herald ( ) that it happened Wednesday in Middlefield Township, east of Cleveland.
Hiscox says the father took the boy off the wagon, which was loaded with wooden boards. The child had run under the wagon when the horses began moving forward, and he was run over.
Hiscox didn't know how seriously the child was injured. There were no other details.
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