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Every first Sunday in June, members of the Moses clan gather for an annual reunion at "the old home place", a sprawling hundred-acre farm in Arkansas. And every year, Samuel Lake, a vibrant and committed young preacher, brings his beloved wife, Willadee Moses, and their three children back for the festivities. The children embrace the reunion as a welcome escape from the prying eyes of their father's congregation; for Willadee it's a precious opportunity to spend time with her mother and father, Calla and John. But just as the reunion is getting under way, tragedy strikes, jolting the family to their core: John's untimely death and, soon after, the loss of Samuel's parish, which set the stage for a summer of crisis and profound change.
In the midst of it all, Samuel and Willadee's outspoken 11-year-old daughter, Swan, is a bright light. Her high spirits and fearlessness have alternately seduced and bedeviled three generations of the family. But it is Blade Ballenger, a traumatized eight-year-old neighbor, who soon captures Swan's undivided attention. Full of righteous anger, and innocent of the peril facing her and those she loves, Swan makes it her mission to keep the boy safe from his terrifying father.
With characters who spring to life as vividly as if they were members of one's own family, and with the clear-eyed wisdom that illuminates the most tragic - and triumphant - aspects of human nature, Jenny Wingfield emerges as one of the most vital, engaging storytellers writing today. In The Homecoming of Samuel Lake she has created a memorable and lasting work of fiction.
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"Wingfield writes complex, believable heroes... with redemption trumping tragedies in scenes ripe with tension and dread." (Publishers Weekly)
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Near the top and I listen to lots of books.
On par with A Prayer for Owen Meany. Made me laugh, made me cry, made me want to seek justice against awful people.
Loved her narration and I'm a narration snob. Didn't use fake southern accents. Great job.
hmmmm...good question. Throughout most of the book I thought the title wasn't a good one. The book was about so much more than just Sam Lake. In my opinion, Swan is the strongest, most dominant character in the book. Maybe I would name it A Moses Never Lies
I highly recommend this, especially for readers who like Southern literature. It was hard to listen to at a times because the subject matter was so upsetting but it was a great book.
I enjoy mysteries, NOT thrillers, contemporary fiction, especially about diverse cultures, and sometimes history, if it doesn't involve too many dates. I often listen to a book multiple times, discovering unnoticed details in the retelling.
"One of my favorites for 2011...!"
I can't remember a book I've liked this much for ages! I listened to it several times, just to continue savoring each character and to enjoy the friendships and understanding which emerge. These are brave folks who we can learn from.
"A great read"
One of the best books I've read in ages! I'll be looking for more by Jenny Wingfield. The narrator was terrific, as well.
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I loved the reader. SO appropriate for this book. The story really kept me looking for the good! And I was not disappointed!
"Compelling and heart felt story"
This book grabbed me from the beginning and held me throughout! The characters are believable and endearing and the narrater gets an A+! I can really see this becoming a movie!
"Excellent listen."
I loved this story. Based on the summary alone, I would not have listened to it. It was recommended to me so I bought it. The story is about family, faith and how we will sacrifice for the ones we love. The story is well told and will make you laugh and cry.
"Reminiscent of To Kill a Mockingbird"
Not quite as perfect plot-wise, but close. The characters are real and touching, and the experience of seeing the world through a feisty young girl's eyes is again magical. The writing and narration are a pleasure. Highly recommended.
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Very well written and colorful story. Tells how bitter sweet life can be but through God all will prevail.
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The story pulled me in and I really felt like I got to know the characters, especially since it was told from each main characters point of view at different times. It was funny at some parts, and I had tears running down my face at other parts. The narrator had the perfect voice for this book.
I have a book addiction and an 2 hour commute, thank god for the sanity of audible
"Touching story of family love and endurance"
This book is not written from just one characters view, but you are able to get glimpses inside their heads at times. Well managed, could of been messy, but this was a joy to listen to!
Without spoilers, It was nice to see a loving family, not perfect by any means, come together to help each other through rough times and just to see how life can change your view in an instant.How the family came together in different ways to manage life's detours and forks was heartwarming and felt true to life. I will listen to this book again!!! I also ADORED the daughters name!
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Set of folded stationery cards printed on bright white, smooth card stock to bring your personal artistic style to everyday correspondence. Each card is blank on the inside and includes a soft white, European fold envelope for mailing.
great abstract!
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Good one Angelo...I was afraid someone would ask me that 8)
LOL, @Angelo! Love the colors and design of this abstract, Amber :-) That's one form of art I have never attempted, but you certainly did well with it.
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1996 Ford Mustang - Fighting for HonorWritten by on July 1, 1997 Modifying the 4.6L Mustang for speed!
Some Ford enthusiasts greeted the '96 4.6L Mustang with more than a little concern. Granted, the all-new engine was a technological tour de force, but it was way down on displacement compared to its 5.7L-powered GM rivals. It's a well-built vehicle that looks great and is comfortable to drive, but most hot rodders have "There is no replacement for displacement" tattooed somewhere on their bodies. Pair off with a Camaro or a Firebird in the stoplight-to-stoplight derby and you could risk a serious waxing. So what's a Blue Oval lover to do? Get over it by ordering some parts, whipping out the wrenches and bolting on some power. And if you aren't going to do that, we are. HOT ROD has researched the aftermarket parts available for the new 4.6L Mustang and found enough pieces to get this pony galloping. This month we kickoff our Project Pony Power. Watch as we make horsepower and e.t. gains in an effort to reclaim the Mustang's honor on the street.
While true speed junkies feel lukewarm about the new Mustang's power, a lot of people love to drive them. Just look at the streets—the '94-'96 Mustangs are everywhere. Obviously, Ford knows how to give the masses what they want. Unfortunately, that seems to include a drivetrain that just doesn't have the kind of snap we're looking for.
Historically, most first-year engine combinations from the O.E.M.'s have conservative power, and the 4.6L engine doesn't stray from that mode. But when you look at the parts loaded into it, you realize it has the potential for power. First, the intake manifold is made of plastic to reduce weight and lower the intake charge temperature (because the intake stays cooler). The 281ci (4.6L) single-overhead-cam engine uses a cast-iron block, aluminum heads, lightweight pistons and connecting rods, and a lightweight valvetrain to keep the overall and reciprocating/rotating weight down.
Ford's EEC-V computer system controls all the vitals, which is good and bad. The good part is that all the aftermarket computer chip companies agree that Ford's Electronic Engine Control (EEC) programming makes it a superior engine management system. The bad part is that the system is very complex and Ford likes to change parameters on a yearly basis, making it practically impossible for enthusiasts to get software to optimize their combinations. HOT ROD has been told that about 50 horsepower is being held back by the computer to ensure parts durability. The sad part is that getting that power to the street is not an option—yet.
Ford Motorsport SVO (Special Vehicle Operations) is testing various components that may end up in the SVO catalog, such as underdrive pulley kits, cams, headers and cylinder heads, but the thorough testing the company does precludes the serious parts from coming to the aftermarket before late 1996 or early 1997. SVO does have a throttle body, pulley kit and headers available that will pick up the horsepower. We've been told that Roush could make some ponies with a reprogrammed computer for the meager price of a few thousand dollars—so don't be holding your breath for that.
Beyond the quarter-mile, the Mustang is fun daily transportation. It can compete with any sport coupe in daily driveability and handling. On the daily grind, the car is solid and quiet, with excellent ergonomics. And on the twisties, the car pushes just slightly on entry and is hard pressed to oversteer on exit. In the stoplight chingo, the fast way to leave is to slip in the clutch just below 3000 rpm, otherwise, the car becomes the world's prettiest smoke machine.
Actually, spinning the rear tires is never difficult from a stop. Which is really annoying, because once the tires stop spinning, the motor pulls down and you don't get set back in your seat—you just methodically drive away.
Overall, the Mustang is a nice car, but we need to give the engine some juice to make the car run with the big dogs. Stay tuned.
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The Mustang looks great in the bleach box with smoke billowing out of the wheelwells, but it ran only a corrected 15.03 at 91.51 mph. We will improve on this time with a target in the 13s.We love the fact that this GT doesn't have the rear wing. The clear-plastic vertical taillights closely resemble those of the early Mustang, and they look great at night.In bone-stock form, the Mustang rolled 190.1 horsepower at 4250 rpm and 261.4 lbs-ft of torque at 3250 rpm on K&N's chassis dyno in Riverside, California.The low and wide 4.6L single-overhead-cam engine fills the engine bay, so fitting a blower or other hi-po equipment will be tough. Headers are said to be a true test of patience, but we'll make it work.A suspension kit from HP Motorsports in Omaha, Nebraska, was ordered to increase the forward bite of the car. After the rear gear is added and the engine starts making power, this bolt-on kit will help plant the tires off the line for solid e.t.'s.
The most impressive addition to the car will be a centrifugal blower from Paxton Superchargers in Camarillo, California. The blower should add more than 150 horsepower to the Mod motor, putting us solidly into the 14s.The Paxton unit is nestled in a cutout area of the passenger-side fender. A small portion of the inner fender panel will be trimmed away. The area has been traced out using the Paxton-supplied template. We'll show you the rest of this job in the next installment of Project Power Pony."More gear" is a common chant from the peanut gallery, so we're sliding a Precision Gear 3.55 combo into the 8.8-inch rearend. If that isn't enough, we'll go to a 3.73, and if that isn't enough, we'll go for more. But the more gear, the less driveable the car is on the highway, so we'll just sneak up on it.


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Can cosmetics and household products mix? We're about to find out as one South Korean conglomerate mulls on a takeover bid for an American beauty company.
LG Household & Health Care Ltd, a South Korean cosmetics and beverage company that also makes household cleaning products, is considering a bid for fragrance maker Elizabeth Arden Inc, as it looks to expand its reach by snatching up its rivals.
The Seoul-based conglomerate is looking at "big deals" on the domestic and international from, and that includes possibly buying over the American cosmetics company, says Lee In Ick, a spokesman for the LG Group unit.
LG Household would become a global luxury beauty company with the Elizabeth Arden deal, which could be valued at 1 trillion won (RM3.15bil) or more, plus goodwill, so says Maeil Business Newspaper citing an investment bank official.
LG Household plans to ally itself with institutional investors in South Korea to take a controlling stake in Florida's Miramar city-based Elizabeth Arden, before buying out the remaining shares, Maeil reported.
Elizabeth Arden is known for making celebrity-branded scents for pop stars Britney Spears and Justin Bieber. The company, which owns fragrance brands such as Halston, Guerlain and Nautica, cut its fiscal 2013 profit forecast in January, citing slower holiday sales. Elizabeth Arden, which earns 33% of its revenue from global markets including China, also pointed to weak international sales.
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Short Selling Ban Returning To Insolvent European Countries Near You
"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
- Albert Einstein
Back in August 2011 Europe ushered in the totally idiotic idea of reinstating a short selling ban in financial stocks. We predicted at the time that the result would be a sheer disaster: "To those who may have forgotten, on September 18, the SEC banned the shorting of all financials here in the US. Below is a chart of the carnage that ensued... The same chart is coming to Europe first. End result: 48% drop in under a month." Sure enough, a week later we were right: "European banks are already unchanged compared to the day of the ban and in France they are now negative! What next: selling is illegal or "Speculation" is a felony? We expect to find out soon..." Why do we bring this up? Because according to Spanish daily Cinco Dias this last sugar high recourse of a collapsing system is soon coming back to an insolvent European country near you. From MarketWatch: "Spanish stocks rebounded from a sharp opening loss on Friday lifted by gains across the banking sector and led by a 26% rise for Bankia SA ES:BKIA +26.37% after a media report on a possible ban on short selling of banks. The IBEX 35 index defied losses across Europe to gain 1% to 6,596.40. Spanish daily Cinco Dias reported Friday, citing banking sources, that banks in the country want market regulator, CNMV, to reinstate a ban on short selling of domestic banking stocks."
At this point we are going to go out on a limb and say that if indeed true, and if it happens in Spain it means it will have to happen everywhere in Europe as well for it to be effective, the ramp higher will last for all of 48 hours tops, just as it did last time, and realistically will be shorter due to the habituation side-effects of a liquidity addicted market, and then proceed to lead financial stocks to new lows, resulting in the same outcome we saw after the last short selling ban: another coordinated global intervention to save the world from collapse. Only this time the OIS is already at +50, cut from +100 previously. What next: the Fed will hand out USDs in FX swap at no cost, or even better, negative?
And when this now biannual intervention fails, what then?
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Yeah 'capitalism' is failing again although some might think it's Govt sucking the life out of capitalism that's the problem
let's have more Govt intervention in the free (cough) markets (splutter) ...like Spain has ruined their energy sector for example. The windmills worked so well in Spain they attached deisel engines to them to generate electricity (revenue) when the wind wasn't blowing
another fuking brilliant public-private scheme (scam)
Short selling ban on Bank shares? What the hell has become of bankers, these spoilt brats want nappy changing just about every 5 minutes
A short selling ban is like a public announcement in a theater that no-one is to rush for the exits. Riiigggghhhhtttt.
Aside from the general level of panic inducement, it's also an immediate shutdown of 50% of the market volume. Which to add to your analogy, is sort of like "saving" the theater by instantaneously sucking all the oxygen out. Yeah, sure... Now It ain't gonna burn. But everyone's still fucked.
It is the big boys (the banksters) who profit more by short selling of their less-lucky compatriots then Joe Blow from Jersey. This move is all part of the ever-increasing drive to remove risk from any kind of financial action. There are many who feel that folks should NEVER lose money even if they do wacky things, refuse to do their due diligence and make unsound choices. That kind of "control" will bring about a sterile landscape faster than anything.
Yeah ban everyone from shorting except the big boys. It's a professional move, only we can do that. LOL.
Recall what happened right after they removed the uptick rule in the US? Yep, they knew it was coming.
I thought last year's short ban was on NAKED shorts of financials. No?
From the Wall Street Crash of 1929 to the Global Financial Crisis of 2007
It all started with the big crisis of 1929. The American economy reached a deadlock because of its social "pathogenesis"; a deadlock that led it to economic crisis in a different - faster- pace than the rest of the industrial forces of that time. Important decisions had to be made - mostly social - and the Whites didn't like that, especially the Whites' rulers, the Anglo-Saxons. The USA society had to either be homogenized and "forget" about racism against black people or find itself in a permanent deadlock that would threaten it with social uprising. If they didn't equate the black working people with their white colleagues so that there wouldn't be an issue with the salaries that threatened the national currency, they couldn't avoid reactions and all that goes with it.
The problem which began as social but was turning into economic was simple. As long as the economy functioned adequately and the Blacks worked and asserted what they deserved for their work, the white employers had to "fund" the white working force with extra money because of their skin color. To avoid complaints from a white worker who received the same salary with his black colleague, the employers had no choice but to give them more money. The demands of the Blacks were used as an excuse by the Whites to demand more and everything ended up in the same pocket, since they were under the same employ. The problem that arose from this "strange" tactic was that the increased takings of the "superior" White employers were seeking outlet in investments and that threatened the capital. Having higher salaries, they bought more houses; they bought stocks and so on.
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Because markets can only be allowed to go up. How is that going to work for retirement again? You can on pay in, but you can never take it out? FAIL.
Sounds like hotel California.
Or actually, sounds like California.
That would be Burnt Orange ZG! :-)
Sounds like dealing with some of my colleagues at the office.
To quote Monty Python, "Doctor, my brain hurts!"
I guess no one has heard of the stats 101 concept of spurious correlation. The short ban hardly led financials down 48% the last time it was implemented. How about considering the possibility that the conditions that brought about the panicked short ban is what caused the decline? C'mon guys, let's be reasonable here.
Yes sir the government banning shorts tells the holders of the equity that everything is completely fucked so they hit every bid they can. Simple really.
Reasonable? With the 4 horsemen peeking over the horizon, with the 4th cycle of the Kronnig Winter coming Nov 5.
quite right...I don't exactly come to this site for a balanced outlook, I should know better
You're missing the point. Distorting markets to inspire confidence in failed institutions is somehow seen as a noble endeavour, and when those efforts fail (like they always do) and actual price discovery is imminent, they lock out market participants because the idea of tranferring wealth to people who refused to see the emporer's new clothes is unacceptable.
Capitalism is supposed to be brutal. Bad actors are supposed to get trampled to death and the people who backed those bad actors should lose all their money. That's how people learn the difference between what works and what doesn't. Interfering with that process to keep schmucks in charge doesn't help anybody.
This ain't Candyland.
The idea that no one should ever be penalized for a stupid decision or for not researching the facts or for listening to "experts" tell them what to do is rapidly gaining ground in the public and the political arena. (The JPM is an example, losing 1/1000 of its assets with money that was neither taxpayers nor investors.) The notion that folks can buy houses they can't afford, live like kings using debt or buy things they don't need with money they don't have is ludicrous but popular.
I'm not missing the point--the *article* is missing the point by suggesting the short ban has anything to do with the subsequent declines. Yes, price discovery is delayed with a short ban, but it's not like preventing shorts in any way changed the underlying prospects of the companies or the macro-environment that drove their prospects. That notion is just absurd.
Naked shorting, if it was going on, shouldn't be tolerated any more than naked buying. The notion of price discovery is great in theory, but naked shorting, I'm sure you would agree, is a manipulation of that process, and actually distorts the price discovery process. If that is occurring--I'm not taking a position on that, just challenging the absurd thesis in the original post.
I disagree that the article makes the assertion you're seeing. The article is about panicked central planners changing the rules to the game while they make "a plan." When they want to disable market participants, it means things are really bad. Banks stocks don't go down because there's a short selling ban, they ban short-selling because bank stocks will be going down.
Say, Ben, would you rub some of this powder on my lips?
Speculators ARE bad (except when they speculate on the market going up).
They deserve everything they get.
PSA - brought to you by populists everywhere
Yes indeed, just like the elite are "job creators". So why are these owners not called "job destroyers" when their companies are going bankrupt and they are handing out pink slips?
So with no one to squeeze to force markets up, do they hope standing around squeezing their own penises will help markets?
A ban on naked short selling without stock being borrowed makes more sense than a ban on normal short selling done with borrowed stock.
But then what would sense have to do with this decision ?
As long as they don't ban women wearing daisy dukes, I'm fine with it. The only thing getting between those shorts ought to be me. LOL
Banks can't make money without volatility. If you know the play, you make the hay.
It is all about jerking the markets around to steal alittle more wealth from the wannabees. Unfortunately, they have to do it across so many platforms now, we get a continuous announcement of the latest lever.
Yes, paper-pushers (who contribute nothign of real value) steal more wealth on the back of your labor. Same as it ever was and still unsustainable.
the debt cycle has certainly peaked
..but don't put it passed Bernanke and Draghi to trash the country further in order to save the bankers
Good trade-off that ..more 'winning policies' coming out of Davos
Excellent observation max. Ever tightening, ever accelerating fractal implosion of history. What a time, what a time!
You guys really want armageddon???????
Rightly or wrongly, the modern world must have a stable finance system for ordinary life to continue. To openly want the world as we know it to crash and burn and not understand the consequences for everyone, including yourselves, is sheer stupidity.
I enjoy having food available, emergency services, modern comforts etc etc. I ceratinly wouldn't want to have to carry a gun, or stand lookout 24 hours a day.
Guess what moron, a "stable financial system" requires trust. Trust requires that the fucking rule of laws and contracts are enforced. The financial world had a chance in the 70's, the 80's, 2001, and 2008 to prosecute the fucking fraud and restore the fucking rule of law. Instead, easy money was used to buy the fucking politicians and change the laws such that what was crimminal behavior was no longer criminal.
Now you expect it to get fixed and the youth to strap on the chains of debt slavery so you can have a comfortable retirement. Let me put this as clearly as possible for you, FUCK YOU.
When I used to tell people about my shorting of stocks, most would call me a traitor, anti-American, or someone who liked to profit off others' misery. 1 person called me a "financial terrorist".
The 401K crowd only wants stocks to go up. Of course, after adjusting for inflation, none of them will make any money, but that's beside the point!
Facts are inconvenient & threatening. Ban them too!
Peak cognative dissonance- same as it ever was. Watch yourself, when the groupthink mentality takes over the owners will make sure those of us who took the red pill will be the first targets.
I like short selling bans, especially naked ones ;)
But seriously fact most short selling is indeed done 'naked', i.e. without loaning the shares sold to unsuspecting others. Ergo that ensures a failure to deliver later on. That's simply counterfitting. True even in the US.
So unless & until that issue is fixed, why allow any shorting?
Despite protests from bankers that (really) all shorts are covered, there is really little done to verify that.
Ergo they are selling thin air & using OUR (taxpayer) money in case things do not go right. So why allow it in the first place?
I agree. Ban all shorting, puts, and gambling etc. Also make all margins 100% if you want to buy some crude oil futures, you must take delivery. Go ahead, end these paper games, I dare you.


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Runaway by Wendelin Van Draanen
Holly is in her fifth foster home in two years and she's had enough. She's run away before and always been caught quickly. But she's older and wiser now--she's twelve--and this time she gets away clean. Through tough and tender and angry and funny journal entries, Holly spills out her story. We travel with her across the country--hopping trains, scamming food, sleeping in parks or homeless encampments. And we also travel with her across the gaping holes in her heart--as she finally comes to terms with her mother's addiction and death.


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Members of the Boise City Council are (back, L-R) council members TJ Thomson, Ben Quintana, Lauren McLean, Scot Ludwig (front, L-R) Council Pro Tem Elaine Clegg, Mayor David H. Bieter and Council President Maryanne Jordan.
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Boise, Feb 5, 2003 - Once again the community answered the call and helped local police officers and firefighters raise some $23,000 during last weekends Penguin Plunge, a frosty fund raiser for Idaho Special Olympics.
The $23,000 raised does not include some corporate donations that are pledged but not yet collected.
Boise Police Officer Tim Beaudoin was joined by Boise Firefighter Lance Sellers, Meridian Firefighter Mike Myers, KQFC Radio deejay Cory Mikhals, Eric Willis of Home Mortgage of Idaho, and dozens of other community supporters who showed up at different times throughout the 48 hour plunge to take an icey dip in a pool set up in the Wal Mart parking lot in West Boise.
One group of students from Fruitland High School, led by members of the Fruitland High girls basketball team, showed up at the Penguin Plunge to donate a whopping $2,500 in donations the students had collected.
"It was really cold, and we were really tired, but seeing the community rally with support was well worth it," said Officer Beaudoin. "Knowing that so many people in this community see how truly remarkable the Special Olympics athletes are, that's what keeps you jumping in that icey water hour after hour!"
The law enforcement community all over Idaho has adopted Special Olympics as a favorite cause, and many officers from dozens of agencies statewide donate many hours to help raise money for Idaho Special Olympics. The Law Enforcement Torch Run is the grass roots fundraising arm of Special Olympics World Wide. During the final leg for the Law Enforcement Torch Run in 2009 officers from around the world will come to Idaho to carry the flame of hope for the Olympics.
The next local fundraiser will be the Law Enforcement Torch Run in Boise Feb. 25th. Look forward to details on that event soon!
Police & Fire Officers ask Public's Support for Special Olympics fund raiser!
Who: Officer Tim Beaudoin, Boise Police; Firefighter Lance Sellers, Boise Fire; Firefighter Mike Myers, Meridian Fire; Cory Mikhals, the Big 98 KQFC radio; and Eric Willis, Home Mortage of Idaho. These brave souls will be making the plunge every hour for 48 hours!
Where: the Wal Mart parking lot at Fairview and Eagle.
When: The plunge begins at 1:00 p.m. Thursday, January 31st, and wraps up Saturday, February 2 at noon.
How to Donate: Log onto www.idso.org, or call the Special Olympics office Thursday or Friday 323-0482.
Update: Boise, Jan. 30, 2008 - In support of the Idaho Special Olympics, The Boise Police Association challenges Treasure Valley businesses to help meet or match the BPA donation to the Penguin Plunge of $2,500. If business support contributions do help meet or match the initial $2,500 donation, the BPA will contribute an additional $2,500, making the BPA contribution a total of $5,000.
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Boise, Jan. 23, 2008 - Officers from Boise Police, Boise Fire, Meridian Fire and supporters from private business are about to be "freezin' for a reason" as they take part in the annual Penguin Plunge, a frosty fund raiser for Idaho Special Olympics.
And the officers are asking the public to support them once again as they take the plunge every hour on the hour for two straight days! The frosty fun begins Thursday, January 31st.
The plunge definitely makes a splash in raising money and awareness for Idaho's Special Olympians. Local law enforcement, with the help of local Fire Departments and business supporters, has organized the Penguin Plunge every year, but it's also open to the public! Anyone who pledges or raises $100 or more for Special Olympics can join in the plunge!
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Chapter 7. Vision: From Eye to Brain
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by Rachel Ehrenberg It was the dress that launched a million tweets. In February, a mother-in-law-to-be sent a picture of a dress she was considering wearing to her daughter's Grace's wedding to Grace and her fiancé. The couple couldn't agree on the dress's color: was it blue and black or white and gold? (White and gold, obviously.) The disagreement prompted the daughter to post the picture on social media, recruiting other opinions. That post caused such a stir that BuzzFeed picked it up, asking the masses to weigh in. And then the Internet went haywire. Within a few days, the original BuzzFeed article had more than 37 million hits. Serious news outlets interviewed neuroscientists and psychologists about color perception and optical illusions. Bevil Conway, a neuroscientist at Wellesley College, was one of those scientists. At the time, he thought the hullabaloo was interesting mostly because it showed how passionately people feel about color (as in, insanely riled-up and deeply offended by alternative views). He joked with NPR's Robert Siegel, off air, that the story was "fluff," Conway told me. Well, there's nothing like a little research to turn fluff into gold (or blue or black). Conway, coauthor of a study appearing online May 14 in Current Biology that explores people's perceptions of the dress, now calls the phenomenon "profound." "I think it will go down as one of the most important discoveries in color vision in the last 10 years," Conway says. "And all because of a crazy photograph." In those February interviews, Conway (and some other scientists) explained the disparity of opinions on the dress in terms of "color constancy," a feature of perception that allows us to identify colors under different lighting conditions. If we see a red poisonous snake or a red delicious apple, we need to be able to identify it as red (and dangerous or delicious), whether in bright sunlight or the gloom of clouds. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2015
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 20937 - Posted: 05.16.2015
By C. CLAIBORNE RAY Q. I heard that people can't look at a color in one room and then pick it out of a set of similar colors in the next room. But there are people with perfect pitch, so are there people with "perfect hue"? A. "The short answer is no," said Mark D. Fairchild, director of the program of color science at the Munsell Color Science Laboratory of Rochester Institute of Technology. "Color is almost always judged relative to other colors," Dr. Fairchild said, and the human ability to remember colors over any period of time, or even from room to room, is extremely poor. "Based on memory alone, we can probably reliably identify tens of colors, with some people perhaps able to study hard and get up to a hundred or so," he said. "If we were to learn a systematic way to scale colors, we might be able to get up to several hundred." If colors are compared side by side, however, "then we can easily distinguish several thousand colors, and some estimate more than a million," Dr. Fairchild said. Such ability is somewhat analogous to differentiating tones in hearing, he said. Almost everyone can distinguish tones when they are compared in close succession, he said, but only a very small percentage of people have what is called perfect pitch or absolute pitch: the ability to recall and identify tones after a considerable period of time, without a reference tone for comparison. "Unfortunately, color appearance seems to be even more difficult to remember," Dr. Fairchild said, "to the point that we don't speak of anyone as having perfect hue." © 2015 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 20916 - Posted: 05.13.2015
by Bethany Brookshire Certain images conjure up intense emotion: crying children, a bloody face, a snake rearing for a strike. When people take in pictures that hold deep meaning for them, they actually see the images more vividly. For them, emotion gives the world an extra burst of Technicolor and increases the odds that they will remember the scene. But the amount of visual boost — called emotionally enhanced vividness — varies from person to person. Some of this variability is in our genes, a new study finds, suggesting that people really do see the world in different ways. Many of us are familiar with the chemical messenger norepinephrine as a stress chemical. But it doesn't just dictate whether we fight or flee, says Rebecca Todd, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Norepinephrine is also very important for emotional memory. "It's important in the initial perception of emotional stimuli," she explains. "It weighs down emotional memories so they burn brighter." Norepinephrine is produced in an area of the brain called the locus coeruleus. In an ideal system, the cells in this area produce norepinephrine in response to a signal such as stress. The norepinephrine signals pass to other areas of the brain, but some chemical messenger remains, binding to receptors called alpha2b adrenoreceptors on cells in the locus coeruleus. These adrenoreceptors act as a brake, stopping the production of norepinephrine before things get out of hand. The receptors are produced by the gene ADRA2b. But a substantial proportion of Europeans and Africans have a variation on ADRA2b that deletes the alpha2b adrenoreceptor, possibly cutting some of the wires on the norepinephrine brakes. People with this deletion had stronger memories of emotionally charged events, a 2007 study found. Todd and graduate student Mana Ehlers wanted to see if this deletion might affect how people perceived emotional images. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2015.
Keyword: Emotions; Genes & Behavior
Link ID: 20903 - Posted: 05.09.2015
by Laura Sanders On a test of visual perception, children with autism perceive moving dots with more clarity than children without the disorder. The results, published in the May 6 Journal of Neuroscience, reveal a way in which children with autism see the world differently. When asked to determine the overall direction of a mess of dots moving in slightly different directions, children with autism outperformed children without the disorder. Other tests of motion detection didn't turn up any differences. The results suggest that children with autism may be taking in and combining more motion information than children without autism, says study coauthor Catherine Manning of the University of Oxford. This heightened ability may contribute to feelings of sensory overload, the researchers suggest. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2015
By Jocelyn Kaiser One of the most heralded successes of gene therapy may not be the permanent fix that many had hoped. Leaders of two clinical trials report this week that a treatment that restored some vision to blind patients begins to fade within a few years. A third group, however, says their patients, who received a different version of the therapy, are retaining their improved vision, and a company is moving ahead with efforts to gain regulatory approval for their treatment. It is not a huge surprise that the treatment effects may not last, says eye disease researcher Mark Pennesi of Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, who is running a similar trial. "These are complex diseases and everything that's been done is sort of first generation," he says. "The fact that there was biological activity at all is a milestone." At issue is gene therapy for a rare form of inherited blindness known as Leber's congenital amaurosis (LCA) that results in complete vision loss by about age 40. About 10% of cases are due to a mutation in retinal pigment epithelium 65 (RPE65), a gene that codes for an enzyme that helps retinal cells make rhodopsin. The pigment is needed by photoreceptor cells—the retina's light-sending rods and cones—and when RPE65 is mutated, the photoreceptor cells gradually die. In 2007, in the first-ever effort to use gene therapy to treat people with blindness, three separate teams in the United States and the United Kingdom launched clinical trials for the RPE65 type of LCA. A surgeon injected one eye of each patient with a solution containing a harmless virus that ferried a good copy of RPE65 into retinal cells. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 20892 - Posted: 05.05.2015
By Gretchen Vogel BERLIN—A German neuroscientist who has been the target of animal rights activists says he is giving up on primate research. Nikos Logothetis, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, says he will conclude his current experiments on macaques "as quickly as possible" and then shift his research to rodent neural networks. In a letter last week to fellow primate researchers, Logothetis cites a lack of support from colleagues and the wider scientific community as key factors in his decision. In particular, he says the Max Planck Society—and other organizations—should pursue criminal charges against the activists who target researchers. Logothetis's research on the neural mechanisms of perception and object recognition has used rhesus macaques with electrode probes implanted in their brains. The work was the subject of a broadcast on German national television in September that showed footage filmed by an undercover animal rights activist working at the institute. The video purported to show animals being mistreated. Logothetis has said the footage is inaccurate, presenting a rare emergency situation following surgery as typical and showing stress behaviors deliberately prompted by the undercover caregiver. (His written rebuttal is here.) The broadcast triggered protests, however, and it prompted several investigations of animal care practices at the institute. Investigations by the Max Planck Society and animal protection authorities in the state of Baden-Württemberg found no serious violations of animal care rules. A third investigation by local Tübingen authorities that led to a police raid at the institute in late January is still ongoing. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Keyword: Animal Rights; Vision
Link ID: 20882 - Posted: 05.05.2015
by Andy Coghlan These neon cells may be blinding, but targeting them could also help preserve sight. In this close-up image of blood vessels – shown in blue – that supply blood to the retina of a one-week-old mouse, the nuclei of cells lining their walls appear in fluorescent colours. The bright-yellow cells are the ones of interest: they could be targeted to help prevent blindness in ageing eyes. Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, often strikes in middle age, causing a person's vision to deteriorate. A key driver of the disease is excessive growth of obtrusive blood vessels in the retina. A team led by Alain Chédotal of the Institute of Vision in Paris has now discovered that a protein called Slit2 contributes to the rapid increase in offending blood vessels. The yellow cells in the picture are the ones that are dividing. When this activity occurs in middle age, it triggers the excessive increase in blood vessels that results in AMD. By blocking Slit2, it might be possible to reduce this effect, says Chédotal. When the team genetically altered mice so that they couldn't produce Slit2, the animals no longer overproduced the blood vessels that lead to blindness. The researchers think that drugs targeting Slit2 could generate new treatments for AMD. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 20839 - Posted: 04.23.2015
By LISA FELDMAN BARRETT and JOLIE WORMWOOD THE Justice Department recently analyzed eight years of shootings by Philadelphia police officers. Its report contained two sobering statistics: Fifteen percent of those shot were unarmed; and in half of these cases, an officer reportedly misidentified a "nonthreatening object (e.g., a cellphone) or movement (e.g., tugging at the waistband)" as a weapon. Many factors presumably contribute to such shootings, ranging from carelessness to unconscious bias to explicit racism, all of which have received considerable attention of late, and deservedly so. But there is a lesser-known psychological phenomenon that might also explain some of these shootings. It's called "affective realism": the tendency of your feelings to influence what you see — not what you think you see, but the actual content of your perceptual experience. Affective realism illustrates a common misconception about the working of the human brain. In everyday life, your brain seems to be a reactive organ. You stroll past a round red object in the produce section of a supermarket and react by reaching for an apple. A police officer sees a weapon and reacts by raising his gun. Stimulus is followed by response. But the brain doesn't really work this way. The brain is a predictive organ. A majority of your brain activity consists of predictions about the world — thousands of them at a time — based on your past experience. These predictions are not deliberate prognostications like "the Red Sox will win the World Series," but unconscious anticipations of every sight, sound and other sensation you might encounter in every instant. These neural "guesses" largely shape what you see, hear and otherwise perceive. © 2015 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision; Emotions
Link ID: 20819 - Posted: 04.20.2015
By Chris Cesare The beautiful color of a sunset might be more than just a pretty picture. It could be a signal to our bodies that it's time to reset our internal clock, the biological ticktock that governs everything from sleep patterns to digestion. That's the implication of a new study in mice that shows these small rodents use light's changing color to set their own clocks, a finding that researchers expect will hold for humans, too. "I think this work opens up how we're just starting to scratch the surface and look at the environmental adaptations of clocks," says Carrie Partch, a biochemist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the new study. Scientists have long known about the role light plays in governing circadian rhythms, which synchronize life's ebb and flow with the 24-hour day. But they weren't sure how different properties of light, such as color and brightness, contributed to winding up that clock. "As a sort of common sense notion people have assumed that the clock somehow measures the amount of light in the outside world," says Tim Brown, a neuroscientist at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom and an author of the new study. "Our idea was that it might be doing something more sophisticated than that." To find out, Brown and his colleagues targeted an area in the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN, a region common to all vertebrates. It's where the body keeps time using chemical and electrical rhythms that last, on average, 24 hours. The team wanted to know if color signals sent from the eyes reached the SCN and whether that information affected the timing of the clock. © 2015 American Association for the Advancement of Science
Keyword: Biological Rhythms; Vision
Link ID: 20815 - Posted: 04.18.2015
By Jonathan Webb Science reporter, BBC News Living in total darkness, the animals' eyes have disappeared over millions of years A study of blind crustaceans living in deep, dark caves has revealed that evolution is rapidly withering the visual parts of their brain. The findings catch evolution in the act of making this adjustment - as none of the critters have eyes, but some of them still have stumpy eye-stalks. Three different species were studied, each representing a different subgroup within the same class of crustaceans. The research is published in the journal BMC Neuroscience. The class of "malocostracans" also includes much better-known animals like lobsters, shrimps and wood lice, but this study focussed on three tiny and obscure examples that were only discovered in the 20th Century. It is the first investigation of these mysterious animals' brains. "We studied three species. All of them live in caves, and all of them are very rare or hardly accessible," said lead author Dr Martin Stegner, from the University of Rostock in Germany. Specifically, his colleagues retrieved the specimens from the coast of Bermuda, from Table Mountain in South Africa, and from Monte Argentario in Italy. One of the species was retrieved from caves on the coast of Bermuda The animals were preserved rather than living, so the team could not observe their tiny brains in action. But by looking at the physical shape of the brain, and making comparisons with what we know about how the brain works in their evolutionary relatives, the researchers were able to assign jobs to the various lobes, lumps and spindly structures they could see under the microscope. © 2015 BBC.
Keyword: Evolution; Vision
Link ID: 20769 - Posted: 04.08.2015
By Kate Galbraith Most evenings, before watching late-night comedy or reading emails on his phone, Matt Nicoletti puts on a pair of orange-colored glasses that he bought for $8 off the Internet. "My girlfriend thinks I look ridiculous in them," he said. But Mr. Nicoletti, a 30-year-old hospitality consultant in Denver, insists that the glasses, which can block certain wavelengths of light emitted by electronic screens, make it easier to sleep. Studies have shown that such light, especially from the blue part of the spectrum, inhibits the body's production of melatonin, a hormone that helps people fall asleep. Options are growing for blocking blue light, though experts caution that few have been adequately tested for effectiveness and the best solution remains avoiding brightly lit electronics at night. A Swiss study of 13 teenage boys, published in August in The Journal of Adolescent Health, showed that when the boys donned orange-tinted glasses, also known as blue blockers and shown to prevent melatonin suppression, in the evening for a week, they felt "significantly more sleepy" than when they wore clear glasses. The boys looked at their screens, as teenagers tend to do, for at least a few hours on average before going to bed, and were monitored in the lab. Older adults may be less affected by blue light, experts say, since the yellowing of the lens and other changes in the aging eye filter out increasing amounts of blue light. But blue light remains a problem for most people, and an earlier study of 20 adults ages 18 to 68 found that those who wore amber-tinted glasses for three hours before bed improved their sleep quality considerably relative to a control group that wore yellow-tinted lenses, which blocked only ultraviolet light. Devices such as smartphones and tablets are often illuminated by light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, that tend to emit more blue light than incandescent products. Televisions with LED backlighting are another source of blue light, though because they are typically viewed from much farther away than small screens like phones, they may have less of an effect, said Debra Skene, a professor of neuroendocrinology at the University of Surrey in England. © 2015 The New York Times Company
By Jan Hoffman As adults age, vision deteriorates. One common type of decline is in contrast sensitivity, the ability to distinguish gradations of light to dark, making it possible to discern where one object ends and another begins. When an older adult descends a flight of stairs, for example, she may not tell the edge of one step from the next, so she stumbles. At night, an older driver may squint to see the edge of white road stripes on blacktop. Caught in the glare of headlights, he swerves. But new research suggests that contrast sensitivity can be improved with brain-training exercises. In a study published last month in Psychological Science, researchers at the University of California, Riverside, and Brown University showed that after just five sessions of behavioral exercises, the vision of 16 people in their 60s and 70s significantly improved. After the training, the adults could make out edges far better. And when given a standard eye chart, a task that differed from the one they were trained on, they could correctly identify more letters. "There's an idea out there that everything falls apart as we get older, but even older brains are growing new cells," said Allison B. Sekuler, a professor of psychology, neuroscience and behavior at McMaster University in Ontario, who was not involved in the new study. "You can teach an older brain new tricks." The training improved contrast sensitivity in 16 young adults in the study as well, although the older subjects showed greater gains. That is partly because the younger ones, college students, already had reasonably healthy vision and there was not as much room for improvement. Before the training, the vision of each adult, young and older, was assessed. The exercises were fine-tuned at the beginning for each individual so researchers could measure improvements, said Dr.G. John Andersen, the project's senior adviser and a psychology professor at the University of California, Riverside. © 2015 The New York Times Company
Keyword: Vision; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 20763 - Posted: 04.07.2015
by Andy Coghlan Who needs sight to get around when you've got a digital compass in your head? A neuroprosthesis that feeds geomagnetic signals into the brains of blind rats has enabled them to navigate around a maze. The results demonstrate that the rats could rapidly learn to deploy a completely unnatural "sense". It raises the possibility that humans could do the same, potentially opening up new ways to treat blindness, or even to provide healthy people with extra senses. "I'm dreaming that humans can expand their senses through artificial sensors for geomagnetism, ultraviolet, radio waves, ultrasonic waves and so on," says Yuji Ikegaya of the University of Tokyo in Japan, head of the team that installed and tested the 2.5-gram implant. "Ultrasonic and radio-wave sensors may enable the next generation of human-to-human communicationMovie Camera," he says. The neuroprosthesis consists of a geomagnetic compass – a version of the microchip found in smartphones – and two electrodes that fit into the animals' visual cortices, the areas of the brain that process visual information. Whenever the rat positioned its head within 20 degrees either side of north, the electrodes sent pulses of electricity into its right visual cortex. When the rat aligned its head in a southerly direction, the left visual cortex was stimulated. The stimulation allowed blind rats to build up a mental map of their surroundings without any visual cues. During training, blind rats equipped with digital compasses improved at finding food rewards in a five-pronged maze, despite being released from one of three different arms of the maze at random each time. © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd
Keyword: Vision; Robotics
Link ID: 20757 - Posted: 04.04.2015
Jon Hamilton A biotech company and two scientists hope to change that. On Wednesday, Avalanche Biotechnologies in Menlo Park and the University of Washington in Seattle announced a licensing agreement to develop the first treatment for colorblindness. The deal brings together a gene therapy technique developed by Avalanche with the expertise of vision researchers at the University of Washington. "Our goal is to be treating colorblindness in clinical trials in patients in the next one to two years," says Thomas Chalberg, the founder and CEO of Avalanche. Dalton the squirrel monkey during the color vision test. i Dalton the squirrel monkey during the color vision test. Courtesy of Neitz Laboratory The agreement has its roots in a scientific breakthrough that occurred six years ago. That's when two vision researchers at the University of Washington used gene therapy to cure a common form of colorblindness in squirrel monkeys. "This opened the possibility of ultimately getting this to cure colorblindness in humans," says Jay Neitz, who runs the Color Vision Lab at UW along with his wife, Maureen Neitz. The couple knew that transferring their success from monkey to man would be a challenge. But they were determined, says Maureen Neitz. "We've spent our entire careers writing NIH grants where we say our goal is to improve human health." © 2015 NPR
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 20725 - Posted: 03.26.2015
By Rachel Feltman I'm not usually one for heartstring-tugging ads, but this collaboration between Valspar Paint and EnChroma, a company that makes color-boosting sunglasses for the color-blind, is pretty cool. And the coolest thing about the glasses in the above video is that they weren't designed to help the color-blind at all. Smithsonian Magazine reports that EnChroma Labs founder Don McPherson (a materials scientist) had originally engineered the glasses with surgeons in mind. The lenses contained rare earth iron and absorbed a ton of light to protect surgeons performing laser eye surgery. The boosted absorption also made colors pop more vibrantly, allowing them to more easily distinguish among different tissues during surgery. But the stellar eye protection and vibrant colors meant that many surgeons wanted to wear them outside the operating room. McPherson himself started using them as regular sunglasses. And when a color-blind friend tried them on, he was amazed: He could distinguish orange traffic cones from the grass and pavement around them. He was perceiving color in a way he never had before. Now EnChroma sells the glasses (which have been specifically tailored for color blindness since the accidental discovery) for a few hundred bucks a pop. McPherson explains that all people have three photopigments in the eye, also known as cones, which are sensitive to blue, green and red. Blue operates fairly independently, while the red and green cones, in most humans, overlap, affecting the perception of certain colors. For example, if 10 photons landed on the red cone and 100 landed on the green cone, the object viewed would appear more green. Whereas if an equal number of photons landed on the red and green cones, the color perceived would be yellow.
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 20720 - Posted: 03.25.2015
|By Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen L. Macknik All visual art is illusory in that it involves a departure from reality, a filtering through the mind of the artist. This subjectivity applies not only to abstract works but also to representational art, in which the artist translates his or her perception into a physical object capable of inducing a similar perception in the viewer. Painters render the three-dimensional world on a flat surface. These representations are enough to suspend our visual system's disbelief and trigger barrages of neuronal firing that become visions of bathers, bridges and water lilies. It is never about reality but about how the artist sees and wants to portray it. This artistic vision is a mishmash of expectations, memories, assumptions, imagination and intent. It is also, in a sense, a reflection of neural shortcuts and basic visual processes. The picture becomes even more complicated when painters suffer from pathologies of the eyes or brain that force them to see their surroundings in ways that diverge from standard experience. The artwork produced by such artists allows us to participate in their perception—and misperception—of the world. For example, failing vision can translate into an eerie loss of precision and detail in paintings. The pictures of American artist Georgia O'Keeffe became flatter and less intricate as she developed bilateral age-related macular degeneration, a retinal disease that affects central, high-resolution vision. The later works of American painter Mary Cassatt similarly show an uncharacteristic absence of delicacy in faces as she developed cataracts. French impressionist Claude Monet also had cataracts, which rendered his paintings imprecise and muted in color. After he underwent successful cataract surgery, his paintings regained definition and vibrancy. As the examples in this column attest, the effects of vision or brain diseases can sometimes be traced in great works of art. © 2015 Scientific American
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 20710 - Posted: 03.24.2015
Elie Dolgin The southern city of Guangzhou has long held the largest eye hospital in China. But about five years ago, it became clear that the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center needed to expand. More and more children were arriving with the blurry distance vision caused by myopia, and with so many needing eye tests and glasses, the hospital was bursting at the seams. So the centre began adding new testing rooms — and to make space, it relocated some of its doctors and researchers to a local shopping mall. Now during the summer and winter school holidays, when most diagnoses are made, "thousands and thousands of children" pour in every day, says ophthalmologist Nathan Congdon, who was one of those uprooted. "You literally can't walk through the halls because of all the children." East Asia has been gripped by an unprecedented rise in myopia, also known as short-sightedness. Sixty years ago, 10–20% of the Chinese population was short-sighted. Today, up to 90% of teenagers and young adults are. In Seoul, a whopping 96.5% of 19-year-old men are short-sighted. Other parts of the world have also seen a dramatic increase in the condition, which now affects around half of young adults in the United States and Europe — double the prevalence of half a century ago. By some estimates, one-third of the world's population — 2.5 billion people — could be affected by short-sightedness by the end of this decade. "We are going down the path of having a myopia epidemic," says Padmaja Sankaridurg, head of the myopia programme at the Brien Holden Vision Institute in Sydney, Australia. The condition is more than an inconvenience. Glasses, contact lenses and surgery can help to correct it, but they do not address the underlying defect: a slightly elongated eyeball, which means that the lens focuses light from far objects slightly in front of the retina, rather than directly on it. © 2015 Nature Publishing Group
Keyword: Vision; Development of the Brain
Link ID: 20703 - Posted: 03.19.2015
|By Erez Ribak and The Conversation UK The human eye is optimised to have good colour vision at day and high sensitivity at night. But until recently it seemed as if the cells in the retina were wired the wrong way round, with light travelling through a mass of neurons before it reaches the light-detecting rod and cone cells. New research presented at a meeting of the American Physical Society has uncovered a remarkable vision-enhancing function for this puzzling structure. About a century ago, the fine structure of the retina was discovered. The retina is the light-sensitive part of the eye, lining the inside of the eyeball. The back of the retina contains cones to sense the colours red, green and blue. Spread among the cones are rods, which are much more light-sensitive than cones, but which are colour-blind. Before arriving at the cones and rods, light must traverse the full thickness of the retina, with its layers of neurons and cell nuclei. These neurons process the image information and transmit it to the brain, but until recently it has not been clear why these cells lie in front of the cones and rods, not behind them. This is a long-standing puzzle, even more so since the same structure, of neurons before light detectors, exists in all vertebrates, showing evolutionary stability. Researchers in Leipzig found that glial cells, which also span the retinal depth and connect to the cones, have an interesting attribute. These cells are essential for metabolism, but they are also denser than other cells in the retina. In the transparent retina, this higher density (and corresponding refractive index) means that glial cells can guide light, just like fibre-optic cables. © 2015 Scientific American
By Lily Hay Newman When I was growing up, I had a lazy eye. I had to wear a patch over my stronger eye for many years so that good-for-nothing, freeloading, lazy eye could learn some responsibility and toughen up. Wearing a patch was really lousy, though, because people would ask me about it all the time and say things like, "What's wrong with you?" Always fun to hear. I would have much preferred to treat my condition, which is also called amblyopia, by playing video games. Who wouldn't? And it seems like that dream may become a possibility. On Tuesday, developer Ubisoft announced Dig Rush, a game that uses stereoscopic glasses and blue and red figures in varying contrasts to attempt to treat amblyopia. Working in collaboration with McGill University and the eye treatment startup Amblyotech, Ubisoft created a world where controlling a mole character to mine precious metals is really training patients' brains to coordinate their eyes. When patients wear a patch, they may force their lazy eye to toughen up, but they aren't doing anything to teach their eyes how to work together. This lack of coordination, called strabismus, is another important factor that the game makers hope can be addressed better by Dig Rush than by "patching" alone. Amblyotech CEO Joseph Koziak said in a statement, "[This] electronic therapy has been tested clinically to significantly increase the visual acuity of both children and adults who suffer from this condition without the use of an eye patch." One advantage of Dig Rush, he noted, is that it's easier to measure compliance with video games.
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 20667 - Posted: 03.09.2015
by Sarah Zielinski Before they grow wings and fly, young praying mantises have to rely on leaps to move around. But these little mantises are really good at jumping. Unlike most insects, which tend to spin uncontrollably and sometimes crash land, juvenile praying mantises make precision leaps with perfect landings. But how do they do that? To find out, Malcolm Burrows of the University of Cambridge in England and colleagues filmed 58 juvenile Stagmomantis theophila praying mantises making 381 targeted jumps. The results of their study appear March 5 in Current Biology. For each test leap, the researchers put a young insect on a ledge with a black rod placed one to two body lengths away. A jump to the rod was fast — only 80 milliseconds, faster than a blink of an eye — but high-speed video captured every move at 1,000 frames per second. That let the scientists see what was happening: First, the insect shook its head from side to side, scanning its path. Then it rocked backwards and curled up its abdomen, readying itself to take a leap. With a push of its legs, the mantis was off. In the air, it rotated its abdomen, hind legs and front legs, but its body stayed level until it hit the target and landed on all four limbs. "The abdomen, front legs and hind legs performed a series of clockwise and anticlockwise rotations during which they exchanged angular momentum at different times and in different combinations," the researchers write. "The net result … was that the trunk of the mantis spun by 50˚relative to the horizontal with a near-constant angular momentum, aligning itself perfectly for landing with the front and hind legs ready to grasp the target." © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2015
Keyword: Vision
Link ID: 20663 - Posted: 03.07.2015


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It may be cheaper and easier to buy a parts kit, otherwise check Apex.
I have compiled a list of parts needed to finish my AK build, I'm having a hard time fining some of them. Perhaps some of you know where I can locate them. Here goes,
Lower handguard retainer
Locking lever
front and rear trunions (found)
selector lever stop
trigger guard for stamped receiver (found)
receiver cover
pistol grip screw and nut (also on ak-builder)
hammer spring
sear spring
hammer trigger pin (found)
safety lever
barrel (found)
barrel bushing lock
gas block retaining pin (found)
front sight block and post (I have a front sight just missing the post and block)
I know I'll need a rivet set and center support but those are everywhere so if there is a better set somewhere please let me know,
Thanks for the help and all the info on here, i can't tell you guys how much I've learned so far yet still feel like an idiot trying to figure out all the different types and parts needed....
Last edited by AndrewCampbell; 03-27-2012 at 11:27 PM. Reason: updating what i still need
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It may be cheaper and easier to buy a parts kit, otherwise check Apex.
it looks like you have one or two parts. list them and say you need everything else.
555th said it right. just buy a kit from APEX and then go from there.
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I have to agree, it sounds like you need almost everything, I'd buy a kit and after you finish the build sell off the left overs.
Go over to APEX, they have an AK section with individual parts listed, add up everything you need. Then look at kit prices
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Agree with everyone above! Buy a kit and sell off what you do not need, after the build is complete. Here are some links.....
AK47 Parts Kit Romanian
US 7.62x39 Chrome Romanian Model Barrel $94.98
I thought I had a decent amount of parts but you guys are right, after compiling the list of what I still need it'd be about the same price to buy a non barrel kit and have some spare parts.
We have to be guided as a species by our best evidential understanding of reality in order for us to have a clear sense of whats important....
Here are some links for parts kits.
What A Country, Inc. - Parts Kits
Parts Kits
Parts Kits
AK47, AK74, Galil Webpage
Arms Of America - Parts Kits
Cope's Distributing
Centerfire Systems - Parts Kits
RGUNS - Gun Parts - Rifle Parts - AK Parts
New Bulgarian Ak - 47 Replacement Parts Kit - 762757, Tactical Rifle Acc at Sportsman's Guide
This is just some of them there are many more online.
Good Luck with your build!
Shotgunner great list thanks for placing those links up for us
"Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway." - The Duke
That's the way to go. Order the kit of choice, and then you will only be in need of compliance parts. And maybe a few miscellaneous items, like a dis-connector spring.


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DODGE CITY, Kansas — The city known as the "Queen of the Cowtowns" is a must-visit for those interested in the Wild West. The West was rarely wilder than in Dodge City, which from 1872-1885 was a key stop on cattle drives coming up the Santa Fe Trail.
Notables, including Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson and Doc Holliday, spent time in the town, which was also immortalized in the long-running "Gunsmoke" TV series.
Dodge City celebrates its history with its "Get the Heck into Dodge" campaign; the town was recently awarded the "Cowboy Keeper" award by the National Day of the Cowboy Association for its efforts in promoting the cowboy way of life.
The city embraces its past, but looks to the future as well, with a new casino that sits beside the 5,500-seat United Wireless Arena, which hosts sporting and entertainment events.
Interested in some of Dodge City's history? Here are five stops to make on the trail:
500 W Wyatt Earp Blvd.
More than 60,000 artifacts from the Old West era populate the Boot Hill Museum, Many were collected by Chalkley Beeson, former sheriff and part-owner of the famed Long Branch Saloon. The brand ambassador for Boot Hill Museum, Brent Harris, is a wonderful source of information about all things Dodge City, and can tell fascinating stories from the attempted assassination of Wyatt Earp to the ghost of Ed Masterson. An audiovisual program in the museum simulates the look and feel of a buffalo stampede in the days when those animals still roamed the prairies in huge herds. In the summer, the museum hosts dinners, mock gunfights and variety shows.
400 W Wyatt Earp Blvd.
If you go during the summer, the 1-hour trolley tour provides an overview of the area and some of its most famous stories, leading up to the current status of the town as a top meatpacking area. Riders will see the location of the original Long Branch Saloon on Front Street (since burned to the ground), as well as Fort Dodge, which now serves as the Kansas Soldiers Home.
201 E Wyatt Earp Blvd.
The former El Vaquero Harvey House and Depot has been renovated to its 1898 appearance, where it now houses the Depot Theatre. The former hotel lobby now has been restored to its original appearance, as a photo hanging in the room shows. Many original fixtures, flooring, woodwork and windows are part of the lobby.
The depot still serves its original purpose as well — the Amtrak stop in Dodge City is staffed by volunteer. The Harvey House dining room has been restored and can be used as meeting space.
MUELLER-SCHMIDT HOUSE, 112 E Vine.
Called the "Home of Stone," this 1881 limestone house was built for the family of boot maker John Mueller. After the 1886 blizzard, he sold it to the Schmidt family, which lived in the house until 1965, when the home was sold to Ford County for use as a museum. From Memorial Day to Labor Day, visitors can tour the home, filled with period furniture and clothing. The knowledgeable tour guides are dressed in period attire and tell the stories of the only two families to ever live in the home.
The Dodge City Trail of Fame Inc. is a walking tour of the Old Dodge City historic district. Sidewalk medallions commemorate famous Dodge Citians, real and fictional. The 8-foot statue of lawman Wyatt Earp, dedicated in 2005, is a highlight of the tour.
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Chennai, Nov 17 (IANS) Popular independent musician Shrikanth Sriram has composed a promo song in Hindi titled "Manzil" for upcoming English adventure−drama "Life of Pi". He says the song recounts the journey of life from an allegorical context.
"There's a vague metaphorical parallel between the song and the journey of life. We never wanted to draw a parallel, but as we composed, it just happened," Shrikanth told IANS.
Written by K.C. Lloyd and Shrikanth, "Manzil" has been crooned by playback singer Suraj Jagan, known for hits such as "Give me some sunshine" and "Jaa chudail".
How did you get the opportunity to compose the promo song?
"I was approached by Fox (Fox Star Studios) and Sony (Pictures), who briefed me about the context of the song. I composed the tune in London, and was later joined by Lloyd, who helped me to pen the lyrics," Sriram added.
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Portrait with a rose by ~Alexxxx1 is a stunning vector that uses shadows and lighting to capture the mood perfectly. ( Featured by lemontea )
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Beautiful art work I love it... I think you don't mind if I'll take your imagen and make a portrait with a frame for me.
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Would love to add this in my group's collection..
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