Friday, May 6, 2011
No Gloom Here
The final sentence in a Spurs Nation article titled "Sobering SI story predicts gloom for Spurs after Memphis series loss" goes as follows:
"...Does Spurs Nation believe the rest of the country has been too quick in writing the obituary for the Spurs’ dynasty?"
Of course they have. The only issue with our roster is Richard Jefferson... SIGH!
We are a couple of young, athletic 6'7"-6"9" guys from a perfect roster. Tim's got another year or two. Splitter, Neal, Anderson, and Blair will all be better next season. And of course, Da'Sean Butler is a perfect 6'7" compliment to step in and contribute some sweet defense and athleticism.
Sign a middle-of-the-road big man to back up Tim, Tiago, and DeJuan.. and it's all complete.
No doubt in my mind this team will be fine for a while.
Rush Quote
"...it was President Obama single-handedly and alone who came up with the strategy that brought about the effective assassination of Osama bin Laden... thank God for President Obama."Source
As we all know, he had a ton of help. But not from very much that was done by the Bush administration. But hey - thanks Rush for acknowledging that our President did something your president could not.
MSNBC's Lawrence O’Donnell - "America Overreacted to 9/11"
Lawrence O'Donnell is an admitted socialist, and by posting this video, I am in no way supporting his political stance.
However, re-visiting some of John Kerry's comments from a 2004 debate, it's quite interesting to think about what it is he said - 7 years ago. (The video starts, "Time for tonight's rewrite.." so if that's not the first thing you hear, then try clicking on "playlist" in the lower right corner, and then on the top-left video containing Bush's face.)
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However, re-visiting some of John Kerry's comments from a 2004 debate, it's quite interesting to think about what it is he said - 7 years ago. (The video starts, "Time for tonight's rewrite.." so if that's not the first thing you hear, then try clicking on "playlist" in the lower right corner, and then on the top-left video containing Bush's face.)
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Can Dogs See Colors?
by Stanley Coren, Ph.D., F.R.S.C. in Canine Corner at Psychology Today Dot Com
Probably one of the most frequently asked questions about dog's vision is whether dogs see colors. The simple answer-namely that dogs are colorblind-has been misinterpreted by people as meaning that dogs see no color, but only shades of gray. This is wrong. Dogs do see colors, but the colors that they see are neither as rich nor as many as those seen by humans.
The eyes of both people and dogs contain special light catching cells called cones that respond to color. Dogs have fewer cones than humans which suggests that their color vision won't be as rich or intense as ours. However, the trick to seeing color is not just having cones, but having several different types of cones, each tuned to different wavelengths of light. Human beings have three different kinds of cones and the combined activity of these gives humans their full range of color vision.
The most common types of human colorblindness come about because the person is missing one of the three kinds of cones. With only two cones, the individual can still see colors, but many fewer than someone with normal color vision. This is the situation with dogs who also have only two kinds of cones.
Jay Neitz at the University of California, Santa Barbara, tested the color vision of dogs. For many test trials, dogs were shown... Click here to continue on to the rest of the article..
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Probably one of the most frequently asked questions about dog's vision is whether dogs see colors. The simple answer-namely that dogs are colorblind-has been misinterpreted by people as meaning that dogs see no color, but only shades of gray. This is wrong. Dogs do see colors, but the colors that they see are neither as rich nor as many as those seen by humans.
The eyes of both people and dogs contain special light catching cells called cones that respond to color. Dogs have fewer cones than humans which suggests that their color vision won't be as rich or intense as ours. However, the trick to seeing color is not just having cones, but having several different types of cones, each tuned to different wavelengths of light. Human beings have three different kinds of cones and the combined activity of these gives humans their full range of color vision.
The most common types of human colorblindness come about because the person is missing one of the three kinds of cones. With only two cones, the individual can still see colors, but many fewer than someone with normal color vision. This is the situation with dogs who also have only two kinds of cones.
Jay Neitz at the University of California, Santa Barbara, tested the color vision of dogs. For many test trials, dogs were shown... Click here to continue on to the rest of the article..
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Doggy Halloween Costume
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What a cool idea - that is if you're going to walk your dog while your kids are trick-or-treating, or something..
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