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SALEM - Both adults and children can help fight blindness while learning to create some sweet treats with icing during Cakes for a Cure, a cake decorating class set for Oct. 27 in Salem.
Sponsored by Eyes for Olivia and Giant Eagle, the event will be held from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Emmanuel Lutheran Church Education Building with all proceeds going to the Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation, a parent-formed group trying to raise money for research.
Salem resident Kim Hoffman and her husband, Mike, joined the foundation after their 8-year-old daughter Olivia was diagnosed at age 4 with the rare CRB1 version of the degenerative retinal disease known as Leber's Congenital Amaurosis, which eventually causes blindness.
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Olivia Hoffman, an 8-year-old Salem second grader who suffers from a degenerative retinal disease, stands next to the sign-up sheet in the bakery area of Giant Eagle for a cake decorating fundraiser sponsored by Giant Eagle and Eyes for Olivia from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 27 at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church Education Building on South Broadway Avenue in Salem. All money raised will go to the Curing Retinal Blindness Foundation. (Submitted photo)
They set up a website at www.eyesforolivia.org and Facebook page known as Eyes For Olivia to educate visitors about what's happening with Olivia and keep people informed about their various fundraisers for the foundation.
Their most recent fundraiser, the Scrabble Run and Carnival for a Cure, raised more than $9,000 after expenses, with all the money going to research through the foundation, which has a website at www.crb1.org.
"I'm overwhelmed at how the community has supported the family and helped out with Olivia," Hoffman said. "It's been great."
She explained that Kim Coy, a member of their church, Emmanuel Lutheran, is a cake decorator at Salem Giant Eagle and has held fundraisers before with cake decorating classes.
Coy organized Cakes for a Cure and said Giant Eagle owner Mark Siegal donated all the icing, cupcakes, cakes, tips and material needed for the class which will be for beginners, both children and adults. This is the third cake decorating fundraiser they've held, with the first one known as Cakes Against Cancer in honor of the late Pam Lederman, a Giant Eagle cake decorator who lost her battle with the disease. They also did one for St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital.
"It's just a nice thing to do to help people out," Coy said, adding the other Giant Eagle cake decorators are helping, too.
People should sign up at the Salem Giant Eagle bakery or call 330-332-2027 and leave a message with phone information.
The requested donation for the class will be $20 for adults and $10 for children.
In the adult class, students will make a single layer round decorated cake with a pumpkin and sunflowers and a cupcake decorated with a rose. The class includes the cake, cupcake, icing, colors for icing and cake board. Kits will be available for purchase for $8 which will include tips, bags, rose nails and couplers, with all money from purchases going to the foundation.
Students are asked to bring with them a cake decoration spatula, turntable, small pointed scissors, two damp dish cloths, four empty containers for icing colors with lids and four tablespoons for mixing colors, along with any decorating equipment they may have, specifically tips #3, #352, #104 and #18, a rose nail and four deco bags and couplers (or buy them in a kit).
In the children's class, children will make a big-eyed monster cupcake and a pumpkin cutout cookie, with everything provided, including a kid's beginner decorator kit which has two tips, two couplers and two decorating bags. A snack of one juice box and bag of popcorn provided by the church will be included. Parents may want to dress children in play clothes.
Hot dogs, pop, water and popcorn will be available for purchase.


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Self-employment also means handling your own health care.
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Managing Your Own Benefits
Workers leaving their 9-to-5 jobs to set up shop for themselves often look forward to the freedom of being their own bosses, setting their own hours, and charting their own courses.
Then sometime between the office goodbye party and the final paycheck, reality hits. Self-employed workers are also their own benefits managers, responsible for finding and paying for their own health insurance and any other benefits they may need. Where to start?
Keeping the Company Plan
In its 1998 survey, the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics found that more than 10 million people are self-employed, either full-time or part-time.
The soon-to-be self-employed who are leaving a job with health care benefits may be covered under a federal law commonly called COBRA (the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconcilation Act of 1985). Under this act, group health plans sponsored by employers with 20 or more workers must let ex-employees continue their coverage for up to 18 months, although the worker pays the entire premium and it can be pricey.
Another option is to investigate whether you can be added to your spouse's plan.
Striking Out on Your Own
If neither of these applies to you, begin your research by examining your health insurance needs, advises Gene Fairbrother, a spokesman for the National Association for the Self-Employed. Look at what health care services you've used in the past, and figure out what you may need in the future. "When it comes to health insurance you can't just plan for today," he says.
It's also a good idea to research the market in your state, and find out what your state law requires of insurance carriers, says Madelyn Flannagan, spokeswoman for the Independent Insurance Agents of America, Inc., a national trade group in Alexandria, VA. Trends, rates, and options vary greatly from state to state, Flannagan says. Consider a call to your state department of insurance, or check out its Web site.
An Array of Options
As your own boss, you're not limited by what any one company offers in the way of health plans. You can choose whatever plan works best for you: traditional fee-for-service or a managed care plan. Another potential option is a medical savings account, says Flannagan, but this route isn't chosen often by newly self-employed workers because of the relatively high cost.

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AP source: Cavs, Bynum agree to 2-year deal
CLEVELAND -- The Cleveland Cavaliers are taking a chance on Andrew Bynum and his creaky knees.
The free agent center, who never played one second with Philadelphia last season because of knee injuries, has agreed to terms on a two-year contract with the Cavs, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.
Bynum accepted the deal on Wednesday night, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has not announced the agreement.
The 7-footer was traded to the 76ers last summer as part of a four-team blockbuster. Bynum, a former All-Star with the Lakers, was expected to help Philadelphia contend, but the 25-year-old never stepped on the court and underwent surgery on both knees in March.
The Cavs, who beat out Atlanta and Dallas for Bynum, are only guaranteeing $6 million and one year to Bynum, the person said. The team has an option on the second year.
In Cleveland, Bynum will be reunited with Cavs coach Mike Brown. The two spent one season together in Los Angeles and Bynum had his best season as a pro, averaging 18.7 points and 11.8 rebounds in 60 games.
Bynum, if healthy, should move the Cavs from one of the Eastern Conference's worst teams to a playoff contender. Cleveland won just 24 games last season and has won 66 in the three years since LeBron James left.
Bynum has plenty of playoff experience and he would give the Cavs another proven star to go along with All-Star point guard Kyrie Irving.
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Leading the class will be Kevin King, pastor of Bettsville Salem United Methodist Church, and his wife, Kelly. The Kings were assigned to the church this past year, after returning from an internship in Sweden. The two said they were surprised to learn many families in the surrounding area were interested in a course to help them build stronger marriages.
"When we get appointed to new churches, they like for us to look at demographics and see what statistics say about the area," Kevin said.
"There's a Web site that takes a lot of information from the census bureau and compiles it. That Web site pointed out that our area — Tiffin, Fremont, Fostoria, Bettsville and Green Springs — had a great desire for a marriage enrichment course."
In an online search, Kevin found a course called Dynamic Marriage, developed by Joe Beam and Willard Harley. The program is not faith-based, but participants are free to incorporate religion if they so choose. Kevin said he was impressed with the positive comments from couples who had completed the course. He and Kelly decided to be trained as facilitators.
"When we looked at the cost of bringing someone in, we found a place where we could go and be trained to facilitate a class. We'd have repeatability.
"We'd be able to do it over and over again. It was actually cheaper for us to do that than to bring in a professional," Kevin said.
The Kings went to Cincinnati for an intensive, three-day training, a condensed version of the course they would be teaching. Kelly said the couples had about four hours of homework to do each night in addition to the class sessions.
The Kings said the training sessions revealed much about their own relationship and brought about improvements. Kelly said she gained a better understanding of the different ways of thinking between men and women.
"During break times at our session, there was lots of talk like 'I'm so glad you shared that, because I thought I was the only one.' People were really learning from each other," Kelly said.
"This (program) gives you a common vocabulary to work from. When you speak to each other, you understand what the other is talking about. That is just huge," Kevin said.
Those who take the course with the Kings are to meet 6-8:30 p.m. every Tuesday for eight weeks. Couples also are asked to complete assignments which form the basis for the next segment in the series.
"They have homework out of these two books every night," Kelly said. "The classes are very student-led. They're doing a lot of sharing about their own discoveries about their marriage. It's not as much of us teaching in a classroom setting as it is everybody learning from each other's experiences."
"The homework will encourage them to talk all through the week," Kevin said.
Each week, participants are to be asked to answer a set of questions they are to look over and discuss in advance. Then they can share some of their insights in class.
Enrollment can be as few as six couples, but the maximum number of 12 couples is considered to achieve the best level of learning. If more than 12 couples register, they are to be put on a list for the next session. Kelly said the course is suitable for people with good marriages, as well as those in crisis.
"This is also good for people who are engaged, but they recommend that they be only within six months of getting married," Kelly said. "Hopefully, we'll end up with a good mix of people … to learn from each other."
"This will save those in crisis, dramatically improve those that are stagnant, and enrich those that are good," Kevin said.
A pre-session is set for 6 p.m. Jan. 8 at the church, 106 Michael St. (SR 590), Bettsville. Participants are to get an overview of the eight-week course and receive their materials — two workbooks each, highlighter pens, a CD, tote bag and a hardcover text, "His Needs, Her Needs."
"The women will highlight in pink and the guy will highlight in blue," Kevin said.
"It's to let the spouse know what they got out of the reading. You just highlight it and let them read it," Kelly explained.
The cost of the course is $130 per couple, which can be paid all at once or at $16.25 per week. The fee is mainly for the materials. The Kings say the cost does not reflect the benefits that can result from the classes.
"If I went out to eat with my wife, I've spent that, and it hasn't changed my relationship at all," Kevin said. "You want a healthy marriage because of the benefits to the kids, benefits to the community, and to each other."
The Kings said friendships tend to develop among those enrolled.
Participants are encouraged to stay in touch with one another after completing the course, but there is no formal follow-up.
"Once you've taken the class and paid the cost, you can forever take the class whenever it's offered, with no extra fee … like a member for life," Kelly said.
More information about Dynamic Marriage can be found online at www.familydynamics.net. To register for the class, call Pastor King at (419) 986-6001.
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Archive for September, 2012
Ever had the experience of not being able to get a decent picture of a garment you're really pleased with? Or then there's the project that you're not very happy with that nevertheless seems to photograph well. How much effort do you go to for project pictures? I started thinking about this because recently I […]
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Down but not out
Thanks so much for all the feedback on the stripy dress. It is really helpful to get unbiassed opinions! I'm not giving up; I'm going to look for a heavier and darker striped fabric (maybe navy and white?), change the direction of the stripes on the front bodice, and lower the neckline a bit. But […]
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The wrong fabric
Some you win, some you lose. I've been banging on about my striped version of Burda 117-02-2012 for weeks. I finished it last week and…it just doesn't work. Here's the evidence. The back view's not so bad. But the front is Wrong. I used to have a housemate who could pronounce 'Wrong' so that you […]
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The refining process
Recently I made up a pattern three times in the same fabric. I've made multiples of a few patterns but never with exactly the same fabric before. I can recommend it: the third dress is a definite improvement on the first. Repeating the project meant I could experiment with techniques to see what really worked. […]
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Batch processing
Thanks so much for all the really positive feedback about my colour-blocked dress. It's definitely growing on me but I think the solid versions of that pattern are still my favourites. I have my planned stripey version cut out now, so it'll be interesting to see how that turns out by comparison. I don't know […]
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Flying the flag?
Thanks for all the feedback on coating choices! I think it's going to have to be the chartreuse boiled wool, although Alice and Mary Nanna have got me wondering if I can get away with pink after all. This is one of the great things about sewing. It seems so much less risky to make […]
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Autumn sewing
Summer's definitely over in my part of the UK. The schools have gone back for the autumn term, the nights are drawing in rapidly, and I even needed to get my winter coat out one evening last week. I'm sorry the summer's gone, but on the other hand I really prefer the autumn and winter […]
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Marie Antoinette loses her head, the Cuban Missile Crisis begins, Baby Jessica is pulled from the well, and the Million Man March takes over Washington, D.C., all on this day.
1968: United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the U.S. team for participating in a Black Power salute during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. When the American national anthem began playing while they were are on the podium, Smith, who had won the gold medal in the 200-meter race, and Carlos, who won bronze, each bowed their heads and raised a black-gloved fist and kept them raised until the anthem had finished.


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Adam Shostack here, with part four of my threat modeling series. This post is a little less philosophical and a lot more prescriptive than the one about flow. It explains exactly how and why I changed a couple of elements of the process. The first is the brainstorming meeting, and the second is the way trust boundaries may be placed.
The brainstorming meeting is a mainstay of expert threat modeling. It's pretty simple: you put your security experts in a room with system diagrams and a whiteboard. Usually, you put your system designers in there, and make them promise not to strangle your experts. Optionally, you can add beer or scotch. Sometime later, you get a list of threats. How long depends on how big the system is, how well its requirements are documented, and how well your experts work together.
We like having our developers threat model. There are a lot of reasons for this. Not only do they know the system better than anyone else, but getting people involved in a process helps ensure that they buy into it.
Now this desire is great, but it leads to some issues, first and foremost is that many of the people who are now involved aren't security experts. This means that they lack both direct experience of the process and the background that informs it. This isn't a slam on them. I lack experience in the database design process, and I don't have years of experience to help orient me. So I'd make mistakes designing a database, and someone who isn't a security expert may make mistakes in security. For example, someone might try to use encryption to mitigate tampering threats. (The SDL crypto requirements cover this, and I try to gently correct them to integrity mechanisms like MACs or signatures.) This is a reality that we have to account for at the process design level.
Adding Structure to Chaos
So how does this relate to the brainstorming meeting? It's a dramatic increase in the need for structure. Where experts may think they do better threat modeling with scotch in hand, , it certainly doesn't lead to beginners having a flow experience. So we need a structure, and we need to provide it.
We encourage people to get started by drawing a whiteboard diagram. Almost everyone in software draws on whiteboards regularly, and this makes it an ideal first step. It's an ideal first step because everyone can do it, see that they've done it, and feel like they're making progress.
The core mechanism we've used to provide it is the STRIDE/element chart. (I'll talk a lot more about its origins and limits in a few posts, but for now, let's pretend it's gospel, and enumerates all possible threats.) Given this gospel, it becomes possible to step through the threat modeling diagram, "turn the crank," and have threats come out. "Item 7 is a data flow? Let's look for T,I and D." (Tampering, Information disclosure, and Denial of service.)
Similarly, we have four ways of addressing threats – redesign, standard mitigations, new mitigations, and risk acceptance. We have training on mitigating threats, we have explanation of why and when to use each (and they're presented in a preferred order).
Lastly, we provide advice about how to validate the threat model and it's relation to reality.
Between these four steps and the hamster wheel which ties them together, we give people the structure in which they can take on the process. The other thing I wanted to address is how we respond to consistent "errors" that we see.
Where Trust Boundaries Show Up
We used to give people clear guidance that trust boundaries should only intersect with data flows. After all, you can't really have a process that's half-running as admin, and half as a normal user. Logically, you have two entities. And people kept drawing trust boundaries across processes and data stores. It drove me up the wall. It was wrong.
As people kept doing it, I decided to swallow my pride and accept it. I now tell people to put their trust boundaries wherever they believe one exists. And they've continued exactly as before, but I'm a lot happier, because I've found a way to help them draw more detailed diagrams where they need them. Which includes anywhere a trust boundary crosses a process or data store. They're happier too. No one is telling them that they're wrong.
I was going to title this post "Lord grant me the strength to change the things I can, the courage to accept what I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference," but, first, it's too long, and second, if we started that way, it would be wrong to add beer or scotch.


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Elizabeth Ann Cole and Nathan Paul Wirick exchanged wedding vows on Sept. 25 in the rose garden at the Mooreland Mansion in Kirtland.
The bride is the daughter of Robert and Lu Ann (Limestahl) Cole of Salem. The bridegroom's mother is Bonnie Wirick of Canton.
Dr. Nick Mager officiated the couple's double-ring ceremony. Music was provided by a brass quintet comprised of Andrew Schuller, Susan Sexton, Jennifer Howenstine Mollenkopf, Rebecca Howenstine Ciabitarri, and Willian Ciabitarri. Several of the musical selections were special arrangements prepared by the bride's father.
The bride was escorted and presented in marriage by her father. She appeared in a Maggie Sottero gown of Vienna cream taffeta with rushing and embellished beading. The back featured a full corset finished with a chapel train and she wore a beaded fingertip veil. She carried a bouquet of hydrangeas, roses and calla lilies wrapped in satin ribbon and adorned with a broach belonging to her grandmother, Virginia Limestahl.
The bridal party consisted of Kelly Przygocki, maid of honor, and bridesmaids Jennifer Fawcett Geissler, Sheila Boyd and the couple's sister-in-law, Channa Wirick. They wore chocolate brown and black taffeta gowns with matching bolero jackets. Their bouquets were similar to the bride's.
Justin Wirick served as his brother's best man. Groomsmen included Kevin Kohman, Fred Saylor, Jeremy Flack and Nicholas Link.
The reception began with the cocktail hour during which music was provided by Gary and Cheryl Kekel. Out-of-state guests attending the wedding celebration came from Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas and Virginia.
The couple honeymooned on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands and reside in Richmond Heights where they are employed as a registered nurse and pharmacist by the Cleveland Clinic Health System.


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Monday's District 10 girls volleyball highlight, Sept. 23
- Girard 3, Union City 0: At Union City, the YellowJackets picked up a non-region win by scores of 25-15, 25-16, 25-15.
Erika Totleben had nine kills, while Maria Welch had eight. McKenzie Miller contributed with 24 assists for the YellowJackets (3-3).
Sabrina Nirmaier had eight kills and Noelle Wienczkowski recorded seven for the Bears, and Taylor Miller dished out 20 assists.
Union City dropped to 4-3.
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New mini-ET in the making December 15, 2014Posted by Tom Froese in Technical.
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Adam Spiers is currently developing a mini version of the Enactive Torch. In addition to the smaller design, this ET features a new output modality in addition to vibration: skin stretching. A pilot study comparing these two modalities is currently being planned.
In the above photo the new skin-stretch output can be seen below the user's thumb.
The existing version of the Enactive Torch will continue to be available from Creative Robotics. Note that only the full-sized version has the complete data recording and transfer capabilities.
How to get an Enactive Torch August 14, 2014Posted by Tom Froese in General, Technical.
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There are two ways of obtaining an Enactive Torch:
1) For people with experience in engineering and electronics, there is the option of building your own device. We manage the Enactive Torch as an open source project, so all the technical details are freely available.
2) For people who do not have the time or experience to build their own Enactive Torch, they can also buy one from Creative Robotics. Please contact them at the following e-mail address: email@example.com.
Thank you for your interest!
The Enactive Torch in the news August 12, 2014Posted by Tom Froese in Uncategorized.
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The Enactive Torch in the news…
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have started testing the Enactive Torch for use by people who are visually impaired. Here are two reports:
Robinette, T. (2014, August 11). 'Seeing' through virtual touch is believing.University of Cincinnati News. Retrieved from http://www.uc.edu/news/
Rivas, A. (2014, August 11). Visually impaired will benefit from new infrared device: Enactive Torch helps the blind to 'see' without canes. Medical Daily. Retrieved from http://www.medicaldaily.com/
IEEE Haptics Podcast on the Enactive Torch January 11, 2013Posted by Tom Froese in General, Presentations, Publications.
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Our paper on the Enactive Torch, entitled The Enactive Torch: A New Tool for the Science of Perception, which was published in IEEE Transactions on Haptics, is discussed in that journal's latest podcast. The coverage starts at 11:00.
New technology for consciousness science July 11, 2012Posted by Tom Froese in Publications.
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In this forthcoming paper the motivations and methods for the Enactive Torch are described in more detail:
Using Human–Computer Interfaces to Investigate 'Mind-As-It-Could-Be' from the First-Person Perspective
Tom Froese • Keisuke Suzuki • Yuta Ogai •Takashi Ikegami
There is a growing community of researchers who are interested in establishing a science of the experiential or 'lived' aspects of the human mind. This shift from cognitive science to consciousness science presents a profound challenge to synthetic approaches. To be sure, symbolic artificial intelligence constituted the original foundation of cognitive science; subsequent progress in robotics has helped to pioneer a new understanding of the mind as essentially embodied, situated, and dynamical, while artificial life has informed the concept of biological self-organization. However, with regard to the development of a science of the experienced mind, the relevance of these synthetic approaches still remains uncertain. We propose to address the challenge of first-person experience by designing new human–computer interfaces, which aim to artificially mediate a participant's sensorimotor loop such that novel kinds of experience can emerge for the user. The advantage of this synthetic approach is that computer interface technology enables us to systematically vary the ways in which participants experience the world and thereby allows us to systematically investigate 'mind-as-it-could-be' from the first-person perspective. We illustrate the basic principles of this method by drawing on examples from our research in sensory substitution, virtual reality, and interactive installation.
IEEE Transactions on Haptics July 11, 2012Posted by Tom Froese in Publications.
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What is it like to use the Enactive Torch? The first systematic study of the experience of using this devise is going to come out soon in IEEE Transactions on Haptics. The title and abstract are as follows.
The Enactive Torch: A New Tool for the Science of Perception
Tom Froese, Marek McGann, William Bigge, Adam Spiers, and Anil K. Seth
The cognitive sciences are increasingly coming to terms with the embodied, embedded, extended, and experiential aspects of the mind. Exemplifying this shift, the enactive approach points to an essential role of goal-directed bodily activity in the generation of meaningful perceptual experience, i.e., sense-making. Here, building on recent insights into the transformative effects of practical tool-use, we make use of the enactive approach in order to provide a definition of an enactive interface in terms of augmented sense-making. We introduce such a custom-built interface, the Enactive Torch, and present a study of its experiential effects. The results demonstrate that the user experience is not adequately captured by any standardly assumed perceptual modality; rather, it is a new feeling that is mediated by the design of the device and shaped by the overall situation of the task. Taken together these findings show that there is much to be gained by synergies between engineering and the cognitive sciences in the creation of new experience-centered technology. We suggest that the guiding principle should be the design of interfaces that serve as a transparent medium for augmenting our natural skills of interaction with the world, instead of requiring conscious attention to the interface as an opaque object in the world.
Video of talk February 17, 2012Posted by Tom Froese in Presentations.
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A few years ago Tom Froese was invited to give a talk at Test_Lab: Multimodal about the Enactive Torch. The footage of this presentation has now been made available in YouTube:
Test_Lab: Multimodal: Tom Froese
This was still the first version of the Enactive Torch!
Tech sheet for Enactive Torch February 7, 2012Posted by Tom Froese in General.
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The website of Creative Robotics Ltd is currently undergoing some maintenance work. In the meantime here are the technical specs of the latest Enactive Torch v3.0.
As before, you can use this information to build your own Enactive Torch under the Creative Commons license, or you can contact Bill Bigge directly to order one ready made.
The Use of a Distal-to-Tactile Sensory Substitution Interface Does Not Lead to Extension of Body Image February 7, 2012Posted by Tom Froese in Presentations.
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Marek McGann presented our team's ongoing research at the The International Conference SKILLS 2011, which was held in Montpellier, France, December 15-16, 2011.
The Use of a Distal-to-Tactile Sensory Substitution Interface Does Not Lead to Extension of Body Image
Marek McGann, Tom Froese, William Bigge, Adam Spiers, and Anil K. Seth
A range of studies in the past decade and a half indicate significant impacts of tool use on body image. In cases of intentional action, contractions of near space or experienced extensions of limbs have been shown when using tools such as rakes. It remains unclear whether the changes in body image are effected by the tool enabling perception at a distance or action/manipulation of the environment at a distance. We studied this issue using a new research tool, the Enactive Torch, a sensory substitution device specifically designed for research into perception and bodily action. The Enactive Torch allows perception at a distance without the capacity for distal action. We report a first experiment indicating that its use on a navigation task has no effect on body image.
The full paper can be downloaded as a PDF here.
How do I obtain an Enactive Torch? October 26, 2011Posted by Tom Froese in General.
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When demonstrating the Enactive Torch at various public events we frequently receive inquiries about the possibility of obtaining ETs for research purposes.
The About page has now been updated to give information about the 3 ways in which you can get your hands on an Enactive Torch (for non-commercial purposes only):
- You can build an Enactive Torch given the information provided by Creative Robotics Ltd
- You can contact us to receive an Enactive Torch on a short loan
- You can contact us to buy an Enactive Torch at cost price
Our hope is that this will facilitate the spread of enactive interfaces and thereby raise awareness about the need for designing technology with consciousness in mind.


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Time magazine names Obama
President Barack Obama has been named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2012.
"We are in the midst of historic cultural and demographic changes, and Obama is both the symbol and in some ways the architect of this new America," Time Editor Rick Stengel said on NBC's "Today" show Wednesday.
Obama also received the honor in 2008, when he was President-elect.
In an interview with Time, Obama said his re-election "may have been more satisfying a win than 2008."
"We've gone through a very difficult time," Obama told the magazine. "The American people have rightly been frustrated at the pace of change, and the economy is still struggling, and this president we elected is imperfect, and yet, despite all that, this is who we want to be. That's a good thing."
Pope wins top prize on NBC's 'The Voice'
Cassadee Pope, who was country singer Blake Shelton's prot�g� on the third season of NBC's "The Voice," has won the show's competition.
The 23-year-old singer is stepping out into a solo career after performing with a band called Hey Monday. Her victory over Scottish native Terry McDermott and long-bearded Nicholas David was announced at the end of this week's two-hour show.
"The Voice" has grown into a hit for NBC and was the key factor in the network's surprising success this fall.
The show's status was affirmed by the stream of hitmakers who performed on the finale. They included Rihanna, Bruno Mars, the Killers, Smokey Robinson and Peter Frampton.
McCain, Feinstein dispute 'Zero Dark Thirty' assertion
The movie "Zero Dark Thirty" suggests the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques led the U.S. to Osama bin Laden. Sen. John McCain watched the movie Monday night and said it left him sick -- because it's wrong.
McCain, who spent 5 1/2 years enduring brutal treatment by his North Vietnamese captors during the Vietnam War, has insisted that the waterboarding of al-Qaida's No. 3 leader, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, did not provide information that led to the bin Laden's compound in Pakistan.
Yet the movie indicates that's how the United States found the al-Qaida leader. The filmmakers fell for it hook, line and sinker, McCain, R-Ariz., said.
Last year, McCain asked then-CIA Director Leon Panetta for the facts, and he said the hunt for bin Laden did not begin with fresh information from Mohammed. In fact, the name of bin Laden's courier, Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, came from a detainee held in another country.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, backed up McCain's assessment that waterboarding of Mohammed did not produce the tip that led to bin Laden.
Deschanel's divorce from husband final
A judge finalized Zooey Deschanel's divorce from her rocker husband of three years.
The actress officially split from Death Cab for Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard on Wednesday in Los Angeles.
Gibbard and Deschanel, who stars in Fox's "New Girl," were married in September 2009. They had no children together.
The actress filed for divorce in December 2011 after separating two months earlier.
Deschanel was nominated last week for a Golden Globe for her work on "New Girl."
CW's 'Gossip Girl' ends run with surprising revelation
CW's "Gossip Girl" ended its six-season run this week with a major revelation: The identity of its tattletale blogger.
Known only as Gossip Girl and given narrative voice by actress Kristen Bell, she turned out to be a he. The finale revealed Gossip Girl was secretly the work of character Dan Humphrey.
His Gossip Girl blog was a sassy tell-all account of the lives of the privileged young adults who made up the CW drama.
At the end, Dan fittingly pronounced Gossip Girl dead.
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BREAUX BRIDGE – A divided school board voted last week to spend another $500,000 to try and stop leaks in the St. Martinville Jr. High School roof.
Several board members questioned why repairs to the roof on the parish's newest school — it was formally dedicated five years ago this month — are not covered by the manufacturer's warranty or by the general contractor.
But Joey Picard of Breaux Bridge, a roofing expert hired by the board to review the SMJH problems, said the five-year warranty by the company which provided the materials does not cover the poor workmanship, which appears to be the main cause of the leaks. Picard pointed out that the board has already signed an agreement accepting the job as complete, "so you can no longer hold the contractor liable (for the poor workmanship issue). We have no recourse."
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Repairs were made on the roof several months ago, but were apparently not very successful as numerous leaks have been noted since the hurricanes that hit the area at the beginning of September. Extensive leaks have been noted in the gym and cafeteria areas.
Board member Steve Fuselier said the repair work done earlier this year cost the board about $20,000 and a stretch of relatively dry weather over the summer was part of the reason the leaks were not noticed until last month.
The hurricane winds were not believed to have caused the new leaks.
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Estimates put the cost of replacing the entire roof at around $1.5 million. The board, by a 6-4 vote, opted to have a rubberized coating applied to the roof for $500,000.


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CBS Dedicates Camera To Track Johnny Manziel Vs Alabama
Have we reached the point of oversaturation with Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel? CBS certainly doesn't think so.
Alabama's visit to A&M on Saturday is the network's first SEC broadcast of the season and for what could be the biggest game of the college football regular season, there will be "Johnny Cam," a camera isolated on the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback.
From SI.com:
"No matter where he is and no matter what part of the game it is, we will have a shot of it," said Craig Silver, the coordinating producer of college football for CBS Sports. "If he is anywhere in sight of that camera, we will catch it."
Just think, if there was a Johnny Cam this offseason, the NCAA's investigation into accusations that Manziel took cash for autographs wouldn't have been so drawn out.
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The irrepressible Suckling played host while wearing a T-shirt inscribed with the legend, "100 points."
On the basis of what I tasted last night, I'd say it's an exceptional vintage for sure.
Brunello di Montalcino could use a boost, after the so-called Brunellopoli scandal.
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The usual range of styles was on display last night, including wines made with heavy new French Oak influence, to the more traditional wines raised in neutral vessels.
I tend to prefer the latter, although it's hard to resist the upfront appeal of some of the more modern Brunelli.
The Casanova di Neri Tenuta Nuova was one of these, an incredibly pure, spicy and complete wine that should only get better for the next decade. Proprietor Giacomo Neri was one of dozens of producers who came to New York for the occasion.
Christina-Mariani May, the co-CEO of Banfi Vintners, only had to travel from Old Brookville Long Island for the tasting. Banfi has been in the Mariani family for three generations and their '06 lineup was on form.
Their regular Brunello usually represents one of the best values out there and the '06 is terrific. I also loved Altesnio, La Serena, Il Poggione and Valdicava.
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i have it for a few days now and i think the sword fight can be better but its nice.. lets see whats gonna happen in the next RS.
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i would rate the game 9/10 and the controls 4/10
do you believe there will be a red steel 2, i hope so the first one was good but could have had some improvments. If they can improve the multiplayer, the graphics, Voices, and swordplay that would make it one freaking amazing game
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Part II
Chapter IV
The meal over she got up, went to the door, and stood awhile looking down the gully towards the seashore. It was getting dusk, and the night was strangely cold. The wind sweeping in from the north-east felt rough and harsh. No screen or protection of any sort was to be found upon this side of the island. Worse still, fuel was scarce and dear. As a rule, the poor suffer less in Ireland from cold than from most of the other ills of life. A smoke-saturated cabin is warm if it is nothing else. Turf; too, is generally abundant; often to be had for the trouble of fetching it home. In the Aran isles there are no bogs, consequently there is no turf, and the cost of carriage from the mainland has to be added, therefore, to its price. The traffic, too, being in a few hands, those few make their own profit out of it, and their neighbours are more or less at their mercy.
Upon Inishmaan, the most retrograde of the three islands, turf is scarcer and dearer than on either Aranmore or Inisheer. Sometimes the supply vanishes utterly in the winter, and until fresh turf can be fetched from the mainland the greatest suffering prevails; dried cowdung and every other substitute having to be resorted to to supply its place. Grania was always careful to lay in a good supply of turf in the autumn, and the sisters rick was noted as the tallest and solidest on the island. This year, however, it had melted mysteriously away, much earlier than usual. They had burned a good deal, for the winter had been a severe one, and the sick woman suffered greatly from cold. Still Grania had suspicions that someone had been tampering with their rick, though, so far, she had said nothing about the matter to Honor, not wishing her to be troubled about it.
It was nearly time now to go down and see if the kelp fire was burning, and to set it in order for the night—the last task always in the day during the kelp-burning season. Murdough Blake had promised to meet her there, and the consciousness of this made her feel dimly remorseful at the thought of again leaving Honor, although the kelp fire had to be seen to, and she had no intention of lingering a minute longer than she could help. With this idea in her mind she turned to look at her sister, a mere shadow now in her dusky corner, from which the hacking sound of a cough broke, with mournful iteration, upon the silence. A sudden feeling of pity, a sudden intense sense of contrast, swept over the girl's mind as she did so. She would have been incapable of putting the thought into words, but she felt it, nevertheless. Herself and Honor! What a difference! Yet why? Why should it be so? Honor so good, so patient, she herself so much the contrary! With that strong pictorial faculty which comes of an out-of-door life, she already saw herself racing down the hill towards the shore where the kelp fire was built ; already felt the gritty texture of the rocks under her feet, the peculiarly springy sensation that the overhanging lip of one ledge always lent as you sprang from it to the next beyond; saw herself arriving in the narrow stony gorge where the kelp was burnt; saw the glow of its fire, a narrow trough of red ashes half covered and smothered with seaweed; saw Murdough Blake coming through the dusk to meet her. At this point a mixture of sensations, too complicated to be quite comfortable, came over her, and she left her momentary dreams for the reality, which at least was straightforward enough.
'Is there e'er a thing I can do, sister, before I go?' she asked.
'Ne'er a thing at all, child. 'Tis asleep you'll find me most like when you come back,' Honor answered cheerfully.
Grania left a cup with water in it within the sick woman's reach, covered the fire with ashes, so that it might keep alight, laid her own cloak over Honor, and went out.
She was already late, and Murdough, she knew, had the strongest possible objections to being kept waiting; accordingly she hurried down the rocky incline at a pace that only one accustomed from babyhood to its intricacies could have ventured to go.
As she hurried along her own movements brought the blood tingling through her veins, and her spirits rose insensibly. She felt glad and light, she hardly herself knew why. Leaping from one rocky level to another, her feet beat out a ringing response to the clink of the grooved and chiselled rocks against which they struck. Once she stopped a moment to clutch at a tuft of wood sorrel, springing out of a fissure, and crammed it all, trefoiled leaves and half-expanded pale grey flowers, into her mouth, enjoying the sweet sub-acid flavour as she crunched them up between her strong white teeth.
Better fed than most of her class, her own mistress, without grinding poverty, the mere joy of life, the sheer animal zest and intoxication of living was keener in her than it often is in those of her own rank and sex in Ireland. Of this she was herself dimly aware. Did others find the same pleasure merely in breathing—merely in moving and working—as she did, she sometimes wondered. Even her love for Honor—the strongest feeling but one she possessed—the despair which now and then swept over her at the thought of losing her, could not check this. Nay, it is even possible that the enforced companionship for so many hours of the day and night of that a pitiful sick-bed, the pain and weakness which she shared, so far as they could be shared, lent a sort of reactionary zest to the freedom of these wild rushes over the rocks and through the cold sea air. She did not guess it herself, but so no doubt it was.
The dusk lingers long in the far northwest, and upon the Aran islands longer apparently than elsewhere, owing to their shining environment of sea and still more to their treeless rain-washed surfaces, which reflect every atom of light as upon a mirror. It was getting really dark now, however, and the sea below her was all one dull purplish grey, barred at long intervals with moving patches of a yet deeper shadow. Splashes of white or pale yellowish lichens flung upon the dark rocks stood out here and there, looking startlingly light and distinct as she neared them. They might have been dim dancing figures, or strange grimacing faces grinning at her out of the obscurity. Over everything hung an intense sense of saltness—in the air, upon the rocks, on the short grass which crisped under foot with the salty particles as with a light hoar-frost. Fragments of dry crumpled-up seaweed, like black rags, lay about everywhere, showing that the kelp fires were not far off.
She hastened her steps. Was Murdough already there? she wondered. He was. As she came round the corner she saw him leaning against a big boulder, a 'Stranger' like the one that blocked the mouth of their own gully; ice-dropped granite blocks whose pale rounded forms stud by thousands the darker limestone of the islands.
'My faith and word, Grania O'Malley, but it is the late woman you are to-night!' he said, straightening himself from his lounging posture and speaking in a tone of offence.
'I know I am, Murdough agra!'
There was a tone of unusual submissiveness about the girl's voice as she advanced towards him through the dusk; a look almost of shyness in her eyes as she lifted them to his in the dimness.
'My faith and word but it is the long time, the very long time, I have been kept waiting. And it is the ugly lonely place for a man to be kept waiting in!' he continued in the same aggrieved tone. 'And it was not to please myself I came either. No, it was not, but just to help you with the kelp fire. And it is not one foot of me I would have come—no, nor the half of a foot—if I had thought you would have served me so.'
'Honor kept me. 'Tis sick she is this evening, worse than common,' Grania answered simply. 'Was it wanting me very badly you were, Murdough agra?' she added, in the same tone as before.
'Yes, it was wanting you very badly I was, Grania O'Malley, for it was the Fear Darrig I could not help thinking of; and that it was just the place to see him, and it was that made me want you, for they say two people do never see him at the one time, and it is not I that want to see him now, nor at any time—not at all, so I do not!'
'My grandfather, he saw the Fear Darrig many's the time,' Murdough continued, presently, in a more amicable tone; 'he would, maybe, be setting his lines at night and it would look up at him sudden out of the water. Once, too, he told my grandmother he was up near the big Worm hole and it run at him on a sudden, and danced up and down before him, for all the world like a red Boffin pig gone mad. Round and round it ran as clear as need be in the moonlight, laughing and leaping and clapping its hands, and he praying for the bare life all the while, and shutting his eyes for fear of what he'd see, and not a single saint in the whole sky minding him, no more than if he'd been an old black Protestant bellringer!'
'You have never seen the Fear Darrig, have you, Murdough?' Grania asked with a slightly mocking accent, as she began to busy herself with collecting the dry sea-weed and heaping it upon the smouldering fire.
'Well, then, I have not, Grania O'Malley, but a man that is in Galway and lives near Spiddal—a tall big man he is, by the name of O'Rafferty—he told me that he had seem him not long since. He was going to a fair to sell some chickens that his wife had been rearing—fine young spring chickens they were—and he had them tied in an old basket and it on his back. And he had to go across a place where the sea runs bare, and the tide being out, there were big black rocks sticking up everywhere. It was a strange, lonesome place, he said, full of big hollows between the rocks, and he didn't half like the look of it, for the day was very dark and he was afraid every minute the tide might be coming in on him, and the basket on his back kept slipping and slipping with every step he made, and not another creature near him, good or bad. "Arrah! what will I do now, at all, at all?" says he to himself, when, all of a sudden, he heard a sort of a croaking noise behind him, and he turned round, and there on the top of one of the rocks sat a little old man with a face as red as a ferret, and an old red hat on his head, and he croaking like a scald crow and squinting at him out of the two eyes.'
Murdough paused dramatically, but Grania merely went on stacking her seaweed, and he had to continue his narrative without any special encouragement.
'Well, O'Rafferty, he just took one look he told me, no more, and with that he dropped the basket that was on his back, with the spring chickens in it and all, and he set to running, and he run and he run till he was over the place, and away with him across the fields beyond, and never stopped till he had run the breath all out of his body, and himself right into the middle of the place where the fair was held! And it was the devil's own abuse he got from his wife, so it was, he said, when he got home that night, for letting her fine spring chickens be drowned on her, which she had been months upon months of rearing.'
'Then it is the cowardly man I think he was,' Grania said scornfully, lifting her head from her work for a moment. 'If it had been me, I would have looked twice, so I would, and not anyway have let the young chickens be lost and drowned in the sea.'
'Then I do not think he was the cowardly man at all,' Murdough replied warmly; 'and for chickens, what is the use of fine spring chickens or of money itself, or of a thing good or bad, if a man's life is all but the same as lost with him being terrified out of his senses with looking at what no man ought to be looking at? It is quite right, I think, Patrick O'Rafferty was, and it is what I would have done myself—yes, indeed I would.'
Grania answered nothing, but, her face did not relax from its indifferent, scornful expression, as with skilful hand she rapidly fed the kelp fire from the big black heap of seaweed hard by.
Murdough, however, was by this time in the full swing of narrative. All he cared for was an audience, whether sympathetic or unsympathetic mattered little.
'It is a very strange thing, so it is, a very strange thing, but it is not the worst things that give a man often the worst frights, so it is not,' he said, in a tone of profound reflection. 'I have been out in the boats many and many a time when the sea would be getting up, and the other boys about me would be screaming and praying, and in the devil's own fright, fearing lest they'd be drowned. Well, now, I was not frightened then—no, not one little bit in the world, Grania O'Malley, no more than if I had been at home and in my bed! The very worst fright ever I got in my life—well, I cannot tell you what it was that frightened me so, no, I cannot! I was out by myself in Martin Kelly's curragh, fishing for the mackerel, and it was getting a bit dark, but the sea was not wild, not to say wild at all; there was no reason to be frightened, no reason in life, when all at once—like that—I took the fright! I did not want to take it, you may believe me, and I cannot tell you, no, I cannot, to this day, nor never, what it was frightened me so. It was just as if there were two people in the inside of me, and one of them laughed at the other and said, "Why, Murdough Blake, man alive, what the devil ails you to-day?" but the other he never answered a single word, only shook and shook till it seemed as if the clothes on my back would be all shaken to pieces.'
'And what did you do?' Grania asked, pausing in her stacking, and leaning upon her fork to listen.
'Well, then, I will tell, you what I did, yes I will, Grania O'Malley. I just shut my eyes tight, and I rowed, and I rowed. How I rowed and my two eyes shut tight, I cannot tell you, but I did. If I had opened them ever so little I made sure I should have seen—God alone knows what I would have seen, but something worse than any living man ever saw before. Once I heard a gull scream close to my head, and I screamed myself too, yes, I did, my faith and honour, never a word of lie. The clothes on my back they were wet as the sea itself with sweat, what with the fright and the way I was rowing, and when I got close to the rocks I just opened my eyes a little weeshy bit—like that —and peeped out between my eyelids, trembling all the while from head to foot with what I might see and saying every prayer I could remember, and—Well! there was nothing there—nothing at all, no more than there is on the palm of my hand!'
And he opened it wide, dramatically, to demonstrate his assertion.
This time Grania listened without any protest, mental or otherwise. Like every Celt that ever was born she perfectly understood these sudden unexplainable panics, more akin to those that affect sensitive animals, horses particularly, than anything often felt by more stolid and apathetic bipeds. Though. not overflowing in words, as Murdough's did, her imagination was perhaps even more alive than his to those dim formless visions which people the dusk, and keep alive in the Celt a sense of vague presences, unseen but realisable—survivals of a whole world of forgotten beliefs, unfettered by logic, untouched by education, hardly altered even by later and more conscious beliefs, which have rather modified these earlier ones than superseded them.
The kelp fire was by this time made up, and after beating down the top of it so that it might keep alight all night, they turned and walked back together through the darkness. The wind, which had been rising for an hour past, blew with a dreary raking noise over the naked platforms. Stepping carefully, so as to avoid the innumerable fissures, slippery as the crevasses upon a glacier, they presently reached a narrow track, or 'bohereen,' which led between two lines of loosely-piled walls back to the neighbourhood of the O'Malleys' cabin.
It was almost absolutely pitch dark. Below them the sea was one vast indistinguishable moaning waste. A single tall standing stone—one of the many relics of the past which cover the islands—rose up against it like some vaguely-warning signpost. Stars showed by glimpses, but the clouds rolled heavily, and the night promised to be an unpleasant one.
Grania felt vaguely irritated and unhappy, she did not know why. That sense of elation with which she had run down over the rocks an hour ago had passed away, and was replaced by a feeling of discomfort quite as frequent with her as the other, especially when she and Murdough had been for some time together. Everything seemed to irritate her—the wind; the stones against which she stumbled; the clouds tossing and drifting over her head; even the familiar moan of the sea had an unexplainable irritation that night for her ear. Looking up at him as he strode along beside her, a dim but substantial shadow in the darkness, this sense of intense, though causeless, vexation was especially strong. There were moments when it would have given her the deepest satisfaction to have fallen upon him and beaten him soundly then and there with her fists, so irritated was she, and so puzzled, too, by her own irritation. Of all this, fortunately, he knew and suspected nothing. His own private and particular world—the one in which he lived, breathed, and shone—was as far apart as the poles from hers. A vast untravelled sea stretched between them, and neither could cross from one to the other.
They parted at last upon the top of the ridge, close to the head of the sprawling monster which always lay there, half buried beneath the rocks, Murdough keeping straight on along the bohereen towards Alleenageeragh, Grania turning short off across the lower platform, which speedily brought her home.


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January 29, 2011, 08:09 PM
I see references to the A2 and A3 stock when it comes to fixed stocks. What are the lengths of each? Are there others that are CMP/NRA legal
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January 29, 2011, 09:11 PM
A1 length stock yields 1/2 inch shorter length of pull than A2. A3 I am not sure of that one. The only other stock I know of is a collapsible carbine stock.
January 29, 2011, 09:17 PM
I'm no expert on black rifles but doesn't the A2/A3 designation refer to the rear sight. A2 elevation only and A3 elevation and wind age adjustment? Looking to see replys from other members. Have to learn somehow. deadeye
January 29, 2011, 09:20 PM
I expect you were referring to A1 and A2 fixed stocks.
An M16A3 is identical to the M16A2 except for full auto fire instead of burst so it shares the A2 fixed stock. The M16A1 used the shorter A1 stock.
A3 (erroneously) and A4 refer to flat top upper receivers and A1 and A2 refer to integrated carry handle receivers.
January 29, 2011, 09:28 PM
My bad. A1 and A2.
Sorry for confusion,
January 29, 2011, 09:30 PM
Deadeye, the A1 rear sight has windage adjustments but no elevation, that's done at the front sight. The A2 integrated carry handle and A3/A4 removeable carry handle have windage and a ranging adjustment for elevation but the normal procedure is to zero for elevation with the front sight. Then you turn the carry handle's elevation knob to 4 for 400 meters, 5 for 500 and 6/3 (cranked out) for 600. Otherwise it's cranked back down to 6/3. The A2 actually goes to 800 (8/3).
January 29, 2011, 10:20 PM
A1 is shorter than A2. A2 and A3 are the same length
January 30, 2011, 01:00 AM
A1 is shorter than A2. A2 and A3 are the same length
I would say "The A1 is shorter than A2. The M16A2 and M16A3 use the A2 length stock."
There is not a third A3 length.
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