Diving in from the fringes | Support for Special Needs

I?ve spent a decade on the fringes of this community. I?ve read special needs parenting blogs, led IEP meetings in English and Spanish, trained special education teachers, and designed church programs to include families affected by disability. A couple months ago, I even wrote a post here about disability and faith.

But at the end of the day, I could choose to disengage from the world of disability if I wanted to. Sure, a couple of chronic health conditions remind me that I?m not fully in the community not affected by disability, but on good days I can even forget about those diagnoses.

I can go to a park with my kids and not look for ramps or other measures of handicapped accessibility, like I did yesterday.

I can visit a church for my nephew?s baptism without worrying much about how my children will respond to that new environment, like I did a couple weeks ago.

And at times, though I?m ashamed to admit it, I can ignore it when people throw around the r-word and other hurtful words to the disability community because it?s not as personal to me as it is for the parent of a child with special needs.

Or at least I could do all those things. My world is about to change. In a few months, we?ll be formally ushered from the fringes of this community by a little girl named Zoe Amanda when she becomes our daughter.

She lives in a children?s home in Taiwan. She was born in October 2011 at 30 weeks gestation ? ten weeks early ? to a single teenage mom who couldn?t care for her. She has several small areas of periventricular leukomalacia (PVL) in her brain. Three leading pediatric neurologists in the US agree that her eventual diagnosis will be cerebral palsy. She was exposed to alcohol in the womb as well, though she doesn?t have any diagnosis of FAS/FASD at this point.

Knowing that we were planning to adopt a child with special needs at some point and knowing that I often advocate for adoption on my disability ministry blog, a friend of mine contacted us about Zoe Amanda?s need for a family. We thought it was crazy to consider because the timing and her age and her country of birth and so many other factors were different from what we planned. Despite those reservations, we agreed to pray about it because our Christian theology affirms the importance of adoption and the value of people with disabilities. And after a few days of praying for her, we realized that we were no longer praying for an orphaned baby girl on the other side of the world.

We were praying for our daughter.

So now after a decade on the fringes of this community, we?re all in. I?ll be blogging about our adoption journey here once a month. And I?d love to learn from y?all. I know we?re na?ve about some of the changes our family will face. I?m sure we?ll feel ill-prepared at times regardless of how much advice we get, but I?d love any you have to offer.

So if you were me ? a young wife and mom with a five-year-old daughter and a three-year-old son who will go to Taiwan with her husband in early summer 2012 to bring Zoe Amanda home ? what would you need to know to be ready? In other words, what do you wish you knew before you became the parent of a child with special needs??

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When she?s not researching all things Taiwan and CP in preparation for their adoption, Shannon Dingle is the mom to two young children, Robbie and Jocelyn, and the co-coordinator ? with her husband Lee ? of Access Ministry, the special needs ministry of Providence Baptist Church in Raleigh, NC. She writes TheWorksofGodDisplayed.com?(and tweets about it here) to equip churches to welcome all the people of God, and she blogs about family and faith and life in general at Dinglefest.com.

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Officials: Judge stabbed, officer shot in Washington state

By Phil Gast and Deanna Proeller, CNN

updated 8:46 PM EST, Fri March 9, 2012

Officers take cover outside the courthouse after the stabbing and shooting incident in Montesano, Washington.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Both of the wounded are in satisfactory condition
• A judge and an officer were wounded at a courthouse in Montesano, Washington
• Authorities scour neighborhood for suspect

(CNN) -- Officers from multiple agencies in western Washington state were looking for a suspect who fled a courthouse Friday after allegedly shooting a female officer and stabbing a judge who came to her assistance, officials said.

Undersheriff Rick Scott said the man gave his name as Michael Thomas when the officer approached him shortly after noon inside the Grays Harbor County Courthouse in Montesano.

"He attacked her with a sharp-edged instrument," Scott said. "The judge came to her aid. She attempted to draw her weapon" but the suspect fired twice, hitting her in shoulder. The judge was stabbed in the neck.

Superior Court Judge David Edwards and officer Polly Davin were in satisfactory condition at Grays Harbor Community Hospital, spokesman David Quigg said.

"They are comfortable and doing well," said Quigg, declining to detail the extent of their injuries.

The suspect was still on the loose, Scott told CNN.

CNN Seattle affiliate KIRO aired footage of officers in a residential neighborhood in Montesano.

"They believe he could be in a location in the area," said Trooper Russ Winger, a spokesman for the Washington State Patrol. "They believe he is armed."

Scott said officials were not certain of the suspect's true identity.

The incident occurred in Montesano, the county seat for Grays Harbor County, west of Olympia and near the Pacific Coast. Many offices and buildings were placed in lockdown.

According to KIRO, a man garnered the attention of courthouse employees and the officer approached him.

The suspect was well-dressed and possibly carrying a briefcase, Winger said.

Montesano Police did not immediately return phone messages seeking comment.

Gov. Chris Gregoire appointed Edwards to the bench in December 2007.

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/09/justice/washington-courthouse-incident/index.html?eref=rss_latest

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N. Korea makes progress on reactor: images

North Korea has made progress in recent months on a home-built reactor that experts fear could be used to bolster the communist state's nuclear weapons program, satellite images showed.

The images, released this week by a private Washington-based think-tank, were taken on February 3, nearly a month before February's surprise nuclear deal between North Korea and the United States.

The images of the Yongbyon nuclear site showed that the new light-water reactor's outside building appeared to be complete. Earlier pictures taken in September showed that it was still under construction.

However, the dome remained on the ground, indicating that the reactor was not yet operational.

"The most significant part is that construction is continuing," said Paul Brannan, a senior research analyst at the Institute for Science and International Security, which released the images.

"In North Korea, projects can sometimes go in fits and starts, so to see any progress tells you something," he said Tuesday.

North Korea first disclosed construction on a new reactor in 2010 to visiting US scientists and also showed them a uranium enrichment plant that was said to produce low-enriched fuel for the new facility.

While both were ostensibly for civilian power, the enrichment plant could be converted to produce highly enriched uranium for bombs. Scientists say that the light water reactor could also be run to produce plutonium.

North Korea, whose nuclear program is based on plutonium, has tested two nuclear bombs.

Under the February 29 agreement, North Korea agreed to a new halt in uranium enrichment along with nuclear and missile tests and to allow back UN inspectors. The United States said it would give North Korea some 240,000 tonnes of badly needed food aid.

North Korea said that the United States agreed to consider providing light-water reactors, a step Washington says would only come as part of new full-fledged six-nation talks on permanently ending the North's nuclear program.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/n-korea-makes-progress-reactor-images-183639115.html

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Terror indictment unveiled for Norway massacre

OSLO, Norway (AP) ? Norwegian prosecutors on Wednesday indicted Anders Behring Breivik on terror and murder charges for slaying 77 people in a bomb and shooting rampage but said the confessed mass killer likely won't go to prison for the country's worst peacetime massacre.

Prosecutors said they consider the 33-year-old right-wing extremist psychotic and will seek a sentence of involuntary commitment to psychiatric care instead of imprisonment unless new information about his mental health emerges during the trial set to start in April.

As expected, they charged him under a paragraph in Norway's anti-terror law that refers to violent acts intended to disrupt key government functions or spread fears in the population.

Breivik has confessed to the July 22 attacks but denies criminal guilt, portraying the victims as "traitors" for embracing immigration policies he claims will result in an Islamic colonization of Norway.

Eight people were killed when a bomb exploded in downtown Oslo and another 69 people died in a shooting spree on Utoya island outside the capital, where the youth wing of the governing Labor Party was holding its annual summer camp.

Reading from the indictment, prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh said 34 of the victims at Utoya were between 14 and 17 years old, 22 were aged 18-20, six were between 21 and 25 and seven were older than 25.

She said 67 died of gunshot wounds, and two died of fall injuries or drowning. In addition, 33 people were wounded by bullets, but survived.

Police spokesman Tore Jo Nielsen told Norwegian broadcaster NRK outside Ila prison in Oslo that Breivik had been "totally calm" when he was read the charges.

The terror charges carry a maximum penalty of 21 years in prison but prosecutors are working under the assumption that Breivik is legally insane and therefore unfit for prison. However, they said that this assessment could change during the trial.

A second, court-ordered psychiatric evaluation of Breivik is ongoing after an initial review, which concluded he was a paranoid schizophrenic, met widespread criticism. Some experts questioned whether someone suffering from a grave mental illness would be capable of carrying out attacks requiring such meticulous preparation.

Breivik himself rejected the diagnosis. He also rejects the authority of the Norwegian legal system, calling it a tool of the left-leaning elites he claims have betrayed the country.

Investigators haven't found any indications to support Breivik's claims that he belongs to a secret anti-Muslim resistance movement plotting to overthrow European governments and replace them with "patriotic" regimes.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/terror-indictment-unveiled-norway-massacre-112807781.html

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Fed likely to take wait-and-see stance next week

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - If you expect the Federal Reserve to launch another round of bond buying to stimulate growth at its meeting next week, you're almost certain to be disappointed.

Similarly, if you think the Fed will declare that recent gains in the job market mean it's time to throttle back its extraordinary support for the recovery, you're also probably off base.

Fresh off the decision in January to extend its promise on zero interest rates through late 2014, the U.S. central bank is keeping its options open on further bond buying, and it isn't expected to take any policy action at its meeting next Tuesday.

"They're in wait-and-see mode," said Michelle Meyer, an economist for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York.

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has made clear in four appearances since his post-Fed meeting news conference on January 25 that while the economic outlook has brightened a bit, the economy is far from roaring back.

But he also disappointed many in financial markets by giving no clear indication that he plans to push for another round of asset purchases, or quantitative easing, in a bid to spur faster growth.

The central bank cut overnight rates to near zero in December 2008 and has bought $2.3 trillion in securities to push down other borrowing costs and spur the economy.

In what some officials have termed a further effort to push down longer-term interest rates, it said after its January 24-25 meeting that it would likely keep short-term rates near zero for a year-and-a-half longer than it had previously suggested.

At his news conference, Bernanke also signaled that further bond buying remained an option if the recovery faltered.

But many policy makers feel the Fed has largely done what it can, and the appetite for more bond buying, barring a deterioration in an already sluggish pace of growth, appears low.

"There would have to be a significant change to my outlook to change my position on policy at this time," Sandra Pianalto, the president of the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank, said last week. Pianalto is a voter on the Fed's policy panel this year and is considered in step with the mainstream at the central bank.

Fed officials in January projected the economy would expand by a modest 2.2 percent to 2.7 percent in 2012, and the jobless rate would settle between 8.2 percent and 8.5 percent by the end of the year.

While the unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent in January - marking a sharp 0.8 percentage point decline since August - growth is still subdued, and policymakers at the central bank are not convinced labor market trends will be sustained.

"Continued improvement in the job market is likely to require stronger growth in final demand and production," Bernanke told Congress.

But even if the jobless rate levels off, it is not clear growth is weak enough to push Fed officials to act, given their already tepid expectations for the pace of the economy's recovery.

The Fed will get important information bearing on the outlook on Friday when the Labor Department issues its monthly jobs report.

If the payrolls report for February falls in line with consensus projections of 210,000 new jobs and a steady unemployment rate, the economy would be seen as following the same maddeningly plodding path to full recovery it has been on - that is, enough to keep the Fed on the sidelines but the option of further easing on the table.

Economists believe the central bank will need several more months of data to determine whether the recovery's trajectory is durable.

Many continue to believe the Fed will eventually be forced to buy more bonds to ensure progress in reducing unemployment and to keep at bay any risk of a troubling deflation.

"The Fed's core policy makers ... have sounded dovish in almost every public utterance," Vincent Reinhart, a Morgan Stanley economist and former Fed chief of staff, wrote to clients. "On balance, the logic for additional Fed action still seems compelling."

(Reporting by Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Leslie Adler)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fed-likely-wait-see-stance-next-week-234818407.html

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Internet marketing for online businesses comprises a wide variety of marketing methods, strategies and techniques that you can use to brand, market and sell your products or services. Marketing online is not easy however, it is so simple to learn. I personally am a great fan off all the free marketing methods which are extremely powerful, effective and residual. Why? Because whatever it is that you post online to market your online business, it will remain on the internet for as long as is exists, which is probably forever. Let me share with you some free methods that I use as well that are driving truckloads of visitors to my website.

Internet Marketing For Online Businesses ? 4 Free Powerful Marketing Methods

1. Video MarketingInternet Marketing for online businesses begins with video marketing. An extremely powerful marketing method which can drive a ton of (targeted) traffic to your website within just a few days.

Google, as well as people, absolutely love videos. The concept is simple. Find some hot blazing keywords relating to your business and produce a video about it. Keep the video short and informative. A good video is approximately 3-4 minutes. Use the keyword phrase for the title of your video and upload it to a bunch of video websites like YouTube, Vimeo, MetaCafe etc?. In the description box you want to include the keyword phrase and a link back to your website or blog. The same keywords or phrase should also be in the tags line, plus a few others that are related to the subject.

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Social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter are growing at the speed of light. Internet marketing for online businesses through social media should be dealt with in a delicate manner. Remember, it is social media so never ever market your business directly on these sites. Find like minded people by posting information that is helpful, useful or funny. You could post a link to a video you made or an article that you wrote. What also helps a great deal is to create some business pages on Facebook. (A module within FB, developed especially for the promotion of products, services or causes).

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The Truth About Prostate Cancer Cures | New Health and Fitness

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Every year, in the United States alone, around 185,000 men are diagnosed with some degree of prostate cancer. These new patients are in addition to the approximately five million previously diagnosed with the disease.

About 28,000 of those five million die each year. Therefore, the number of men with prostate cancer in the USA is rising each year, although some patients are ?completely cured? as well. The question is: what does ?completely cured mean??

In an article of this size, we can just mention, but not discuss in depth, the items brought up. These conclusions; are also my own, although I have reached them after conducting my own research.

However, I am not a doctor so it is possible that I have made errors of interpretation. If you are interested by the subject of this piece, please do your own research or and ask your physician.

This first thing to point out is that prostate cancer is a cancer and all cancers are very dangerous. That is obvious, but it needed saying. There is no cure for the thing we call cancer, whether it be cancer of the gums, cancer of the skin or prostate cancer.

You cannot go into a chemist?s, a medical doctor?s surgery or even an operating room with cancer and walk out entirely cured. Having said that people do survive cancers and one of the easiest to overcome is prostate cancer. However, it should be reiterated that there is no one complete cure.

There are several methods of treating prostate cancer and halting or slowing the growth of the cancer normally depends on a combination of treatments. Luckily for men, prostate cancer is one of the slowest growing cancers, particularly in the early phases.

It is necessary to catch cancer in the early stages, If doctors are to have a good chance of beating it. However, ?beating it? in this perspective means giving the patient a reasonable likelihood of living another five years outside hospital.

Prostate cancer is one of the easier ones to treat and about 90% (some state 98%) of patients will live for more than 10 years after treatment. As many men who get the illness are getting on anyway (60-70 years old), this puts them in the bracket where they would most likely die of something after 10 years anyway.

This reasons for this 10 year period of good health is referred to by some people as a cure, but all doctors advise their patients to keep having regular check-ups, because you never can tell with cancer ? it might come back again.

Doctors can kill cancerous cells or cut them out, but they do not know why they grow in the first place, so they cannot stop them returning. In this regard, there is no cure just surgery. You are not able to take a tablet to make it go away like you are able to with a toothache.

However, there have been excellent advances in prostate cancer treatments and it may not be long before further advances are made and once they have found out how to cure one cancer, perhaps the ideas and methods can be used on other cancers as well.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece, writes on a variety of subjects, but is now involved with natural cures for prostate cancer. If you want to know more go to What is the Treatment for Prostate Cancer?

Source: http://newhealthandfitness.org/2012/03/05/the-truth-about-prostate-cancer-cures/

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The future of plant science: A technology perspective

ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2012) ? Plant science is key to addressing the major challenges facing humanity in the 21st Century, according to Carnegie's David Ehrhardt and Wolf Frommer. In a Perspective published in The Plant Cell, the two researchers argue that the development of new technology is key to transforming plant biology in order to meet human needs.

Plants serve as the conduit of energy into the biosphere, provide food and materials used by humans, and they shape our environment. According to Ehrhardt and Frommer, the three major challenges facing humanity in our time are food, energy, and environmental degradation. All three are plant related.

All of our food is produced by plants, either directly or indirectly via animals that eat them. Plants are a source of energy production. And they are intimately involved in climate change and a major factor in a variety of environmental concerns, including agricultural expansion and its impact on habitat destruction and waterway pollution.

What's more, none of these issues are independent of each other. Climate change places additional stresses on the food supply and on various habitats. So plant research is instrumental in addressing all of these problems and moving into the future. For plant research to move significantly forward, Ehrhardt and Frommer say technological development is critical, both to test existing hypotheses and to gain new information and generate fresh hypotheses. If we are to make headway in understanding how these essential organisms function and build the foundation for a sustainable future, then we need to apply the most advanced technologies available to the study of plant life, they say.

They divide the technology into three categories: existing technology that isn't being applied for all of its potential uses; new, readily envisioned technology; and technology we'd like to have, but don't know how to create.

The technological overview includes expanding existing technologies such as DNA sequencing, RNA cataloguing, mass spectroscopy, fluorescence-based microscopy, and electron microscopy, among many others. A key focus is on the advances possible through advanced imaging technologies.

Ehrhardt and Frommer point out that many of the most often-cited academic papers related to the development new technology, demonstrating the interest of the scientific community. "We certainly expect that new technologies will continue to revolutionize biological research," they say. "Plant science has not often been the driver of innovation but often enough has profited from developments made in other areas."

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Latosha L. D. Rivers ? As busy moms, we are usually on the lookout for first birthday ideas that are resourceful and exciting but simple to approach and get ready. When all birthdays are very important, several are as monumental as your child?s first, so certainly you wish to honor this accomplishment that has a party. Organizing a gathering to get a one particular year outdated may be mind-boggling, and this tension doubles when you are the mother or father of twins. Many people will agree that twins may be demanding, especially in the first year, so celebrating their first birthday can be a like recognizing a milestone ? you survived, plus the party should be to suit your needs along with in your infants. So, allow it to be effortless on yourself and keep it simple. You don?t ought to commit the day managing close to attending to many particulars if you will probably be busy good enough trying to keep up together with your two fired up very little types. While you have possibly learned more than the previous twelve months, simplicity is bliss, so host the party in the home, keep the meals and decorations uncomplicated, go to with family and friends, and consider the time to enjoy the celebration. Moms of twins often experience the dilemma of trying to approach a joint party although still recognizing the individual personalities of each boy or girl. Considering that they won?t keep in mind their round cribs, it is not necessary to have individual celebrations; but, there are methods for making each twin feel specific although building it a lot easier and less difficult to suit your needs. Make them their particular very little cake or cupcake. You could allow them select the taste or design and style, or keep it theme related, but it surely is vital that there is a cake for every highchair tray and their particular candle to blow out. You could even choose to sing Pleased Birthday to each twin independently in order that they feel extraordinary and unique photographs may be taken.

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When my eyes serve my stomach

Public release date: 2-Mar-2012
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Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the world; they're affected by what's going on in our heads. A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people who've just eaten. The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that this change in vision happens at the earliest, perceptual stages, before higher parts of the brain have a chance to change the messages coming from the eyes.

Psychologists have known for decades that what's going on inside our head affects our senses. For example, poorer children think coins are larger than they are, and hungry people think pictures of food are brighter. Rmi Radel of University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France, wanted to investigate how this happenswhether it's right away, as the brain receives signals from the eyes, or a little later, as the brain's higher-level thinking processes get involved.

Radel recruited 42 students with a normal body mass index. On the day of his or her test, each student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of not eating. Then they were told there was a delay. Some were told to come back in 10 minutes; others were given an hour to get lunch first. So half the students were hungry when they did the experiment and the other half had just eaten.

For the experiment, the participant looked at a computer screen. One by one, 80 words flashed on the screen for about 1/300th of a second each, at a size that was just at the threshold of what that person could consciously perceive. A quarter of the words were food-related. After each word, the person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words they'd seena food-related word like gateau (cake) or a neutral word like bateau (boat). Each word appeared too briefly for the participant to really read it.

Hungry people saw the food-related words as brighter and were better at identifying food-related words. Because the word appeared too quickly for them to be reliably seen, this means that the difference is in perception, Radel saysit's not because of some kind of processing happening in the brain after you've already figured out what you're looking at.

"This is something great to me, that humans can really perceive what they need or what they strive for, to know that our brain can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs," Radel says. "There is something inside us that selects information in the world to make life easier."

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For more information about this study, please contact: Rmi Radel at remi.radel@gmail.com.

The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Evidence of Motivational Influences in Early Visual Perception: Hunger Modulates Conscious Access" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Lucy Hyde at 202-293-9300 or lhyde@psychologicalscience.org.

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Public release date: 2-Mar-2012
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Contact: Lucy Hyde
lhyde@psychologicalscience.org
202-293-9300
Association for Psychological Science

Our senses aren't just delivering a strict view of what's going on in the world; they're affected by what's going on in our heads. A new study finds that hungry people see food-related words more clearly than people who've just eaten. The study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that this change in vision happens at the earliest, perceptual stages, before higher parts of the brain have a chance to change the messages coming from the eyes.

Psychologists have known for decades that what's going on inside our head affects our senses. For example, poorer children think coins are larger than they are, and hungry people think pictures of food are brighter. Rmi Radel of University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France, wanted to investigate how this happenswhether it's right away, as the brain receives signals from the eyes, or a little later, as the brain's higher-level thinking processes get involved.

Radel recruited 42 students with a normal body mass index. On the day of his or her test, each student was told to arrive at the lab at noon after three or four hours of not eating. Then they were told there was a delay. Some were told to come back in 10 minutes; others were given an hour to get lunch first. So half the students were hungry when they did the experiment and the other half had just eaten.

For the experiment, the participant looked at a computer screen. One by one, 80 words flashed on the screen for about 1/300th of a second each, at a size that was just at the threshold of what that person could consciously perceive. A quarter of the words were food-related. After each word, the person was asked how bright the word was and asked to choose which of two words they'd seena food-related word like gateau (cake) or a neutral word like bateau (boat). Each word appeared too briefly for the participant to really read it.

Hungry people saw the food-related words as brighter and were better at identifying food-related words. Because the word appeared too quickly for them to be reliably seen, this means that the difference is in perception, Radel saysit's not because of some kind of processing happening in the brain after you've already figured out what you're looking at.

"This is something great to me, that humans can really perceive what they need or what they strive for, to know that our brain can really be at the disposal of our motives and needs," Radel says. "There is something inside us that selects information in the world to make life easier."

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For more information about this study, please contact: Rmi Radel at remi.radel@gmail.com.

The APS journal Psychological Science is the highest ranked empirical journal in psychology. For a copy of the article "Evidence of Motivational Influences in Early Visual Perception: Hunger Modulates Conscious Access" and access to other Psychological Science research findings, please contact Lucy Hyde at 202-293-9300 or lhyde@psychologicalscience.org.

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Engadget HD Podcast 288 - 02.28.2012

Despite the flood of phone and tablet news coming in from Mobile World Congress we have found a few HD related tidbits for this week's podcast. Thanks to Comcast, TiVo and Moxi there's plenty going on in streaming and DVR news, while Google Fiber is preparing its entry in Kansas City. Netflix fans should definitely pay attention, as there's only a few hours left until Starz Play titles are gone for good. We've also got a review of the Hauppauge Broadway, listen in to see how it compares to the SlingBox competition.

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00:17:44 - Comcast to launch Xfinity Streampix streaming video service, challenge Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon
00:24:01 - Starz Play movies disappear from Netflix streaming this week
00:25:36 - Samsung Galaxy Beam hands-on at MWC 2012
00:28:52 - Lumigon's T2 smartphone wants to control your TV, obey your commands
00:30:00 - Lumigon T2 hands-on at MWC 2012 (video)
00:31:40 - Google, Microsoft and Netflix want DRM-like encryption in HTML5
00:34:35 - Hauppauge Broadway review
00:39:15 - TiVo releases Q4 results, announces transcoder and IP set-top box on the way
00:46:35 - TiVo software coming to Pace set-top boxes
00:53:41 - Moxi whole-home six tuner DVR on its way to WOW! customers
00:56:44 - Google Fiber just got better? Big G asks for permission to provide video service to Kansas City
01:09:08 - Must See HDTV (February 27th - March 4th)

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