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Maybe a shoulder rig or one of those undershirt holsters would be better, easier to conceal?
This is a discussion on Gun/work within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; OK, I've been wanting to ask this question for some time, but haven't had the chance.. This is my situation. I have a concealed weapons ...
OK, I've been wanting to ask this question for some time, but haven't had the chance.. This is my situation. I have a concealed weapons permit. I would wear it at work if I could. I have before for an entire day more than a few times. The thing is I deliver/merchandise bread, and contrary to logical belief my job isn't easy... I get up at 1:50am 5 days a week and the job is a race against the clock to get to all 12 stops a day and all stores receive product by certain times. All stores stop receiving at noon PERIOD...
I'm bending over countless countless times over and over I'll even jog sometimes to get from my truck to the back door sometimes and even to the bread aisle if there isn't anyone in the store yet. Lately I've been keeping my handgun in a gun case/sleeve and leaving it in the work truck when I deliver. I'm only away from my truck about 15-30minutes at a time at any given time, and there are usually other bread guys parked around or right next to mine. I lock all my doors and even the backdoor of my work truck, and sometimes I'll put the gun sleeve in the back of the truck where the bread is in case someone does break in they wont be too apt to want to steal the bread I hide it under some empty trays sometimes as well.
My question is what do you think I should do? Is what I'm doing stupid? Should I leave my gun at home even though I have a small 4 gun sized safe that I can't bolt down because I live in an apartment? Any suggestions would be appreciated! Also might I add, I live in the south its hot even now!! its about 75 degrees right now in december where I live, and I'm a big guy I sweat a lot as is. My biggest fear would be a store manager asking me to show me what the buldge is, and trust me I wouldn't put it past some of them to do this especially at a much more corporate store that much of us like to go to when we first get our permits. I have to bend over funny a lot when and if I do carry to help prevent printing
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Maybe a shoulder rig or one of those undershirt holsters would be better, easier to conceal?
I vote for a shoulder rig also. The holster shirts are good, but constant bending may cause the firearm to come loose and fall out unless it has a retention strap.
Well the bending over usually isn't conductive to belt carry. Shoulder rigs also tend to "dangle" when you bend over in my experience. You could try a smaller gun with ankle carry, a holster shirt, or <Lord, please forgive me for saying this...> thunderwear/smartcarry. I wouldn't want to leave it in the truck...for one, it doesn't do you much good there while you're spending a half hour running around.
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If I have ever heard of a situation demanding a small pocket j-frame, this is it. Pocket carry or possibly ankle holster. You don't have a lot of options otherwise.
Good luck.
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SmartCarry with the right gun... I used to drive a soda truck years ago, so I know the gig. You didn't say what you carry, but the "right" gun would be smaller in size with no hammer or pointy beavertail to poke you in the gut when you bend and enter/exit your truck, so something like a 1911 or my Sig 220 is out. You need a "smooth backside"... something like my Taurus 745 would work, but might be a tad heavy to be running around with all day...
Perhaps a smaller size 9mm Glock or XD, or a hammerless revolver...
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I have a rear pocket holster, looks like a wallet and stays concealed.
what kind of gun is it???
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My vote is for pocket carry.
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I carry an LCP in a pocket holster. I'm pretty sure it wouldn't get in the way of just about anything. A bit low on firepower, but I don't have to go anywhere without it.
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in november, max presented a paper at the inaugural annual china animation studies conference at chengdu university in china. he also provided live visuals for mad professor at clockenflap festival in hong kong. in october, max performed live with dj sniff, shane aspegren and sune petersen at the school of creative media in hong kong. max attended punto y raya festival at zkm center for art and media in karlsruhe, germany, where he was a jury member and presented a masterclass and a full-length screening of five. while in germany, max also gave a lecture on animation art and video activism at university of mannheim. in september, max was in beijing, where he gave an image power lecture at renmin university and presented III=III at the hong kong and macau visual art biennale at beijing minsheng art museum. since august, max is a fully-fledged, tenure-track assistant professor at city university of hong kong. in july, he spoke at the ridch conference on digital art and film at the open university of hong kong, and he was once again on the jury of the visual music award in germany. in june, max was in singapore as a speaker at the society for animation studies conference at nanyang technological university, and as a guest lecturer at lasalle college of the arts. collaborative mega project five premiered at k11 in hong kong as part of the electronic vibes exhibition. in may, max presented a guest lecture at scad hong kong. in april, all rot won the award for best abstract film at third culture film festival in hong kong, read the interview. in march, max's 3D stereoscopic animation III=III premiered at post pixel: animamix biennale 2015-16 in hong kong, and spring energy premiered on the 20-metre high video wall at hirmer in munich, germany. in february, max lectured in california at calarts, cal state la, and university of southern california. january saw the release of shapeshifter, the official festival trailer for stuttgarter filmwinter.
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in december, max moved to hong kong to take up a faculty position at the school of creative media at city university of hong kong. before leaving europe, he held a week-long masterclass at sint lucas antwerpen in belgium, lectured in germany at institut für musik und medien düsseldorf and cologne game lab, and in the uk at university of the west of england, goldsmiths, university of london and middlesex university. your highness screened as part of off the air: sports on adult swim. in november, stop the show won best commissioned film at bradford animation festival. max held a workshop at california institute of the arts, a lecture at university of southern california, and a retrospective screening at echo park film center in los angeles; he also taught in the uk at the royal college of art and at norwich university of the arts. in october, max was interviewed for the barbican film podcast. he presented a masterclass and was a judge at london international animation festival. he also spoke at london college of communication, london animation club and aalborg university copenhagen. in september, a preview of —O| was presented at museo de bellas artes in caracas, venezuela. max played at trendelenburg festival in spain, lectured in london at london met + national film and television school, and did a q&a at last friday shorts in southend on sea. in august, unclear proof received a diploma at golden diana film festival in austria. in july, a very large increase + unclear proof won awards at marin county festival of short film + video in san rafael, ca, usa. in june, max successfully completed his professional doctorate in fine art at the university of east london with the viva exhibition audiovisual abstractions. max was also on the jury + had a profile screening at fest anca in slovakia (interview). stop the show received a special mention at one shot international short film festival in armenia, and max was on the art of noise panel at festival 214 at topman in london. in may, max was in caracas, venezuela, where he led an animation workshop at the british council + presented a lecture at museo de arte contemporaneo. in april, max lectured at the school of creative media, city university of hong kong + performed hattler vs. hattler at itfs in germany. in march, a very large increase won first prize + stop the show received a special mention at the visual music award in germany. max did a q&a at tate britain in london. in february, max performed at reykjavík visual music · punto y raya festival in iceland, where shift scooped third prize in the short film competition. max lectured at middlesbrough institute of modern art as part of animex festival + in belgium at kask, kaskcinema + sint-lucas in ghent + at sint lucas antwerpen in antwerp. the wrong - new digital art biennale came to an end - it had featured as one of its pavilions wilderness of mirrors, curated by max + featuring work by sebastian buerkner, ian gouldstone, noriko okaku, memo akten, robert seidel, matt abbiss, papaya gonzales, sune petersen, marcus wendt + motomichi nakamura. in january, max was on the jury + played live at filmwinter in stuttgart, germany.
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The 2009 Census reveals that while couples in western and southern states marry more often, they also divorce at a higher rate than those in other areas of the US.
Andrew Cherlin, a professor of sociology and public policy at Johns Hopkins University, said, "Surprisingly, the south and west, which we think of as more socially conservative, have higher rates of divorce than does the supposedly liberal east. The reason is that young adults in the south and west tend to have less education and marry earlier, both of which lead to a higher risk of divorce."
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In a prayer before Saturday night's NASCAR Nationwide Series race in Nashville, Tennessee, Pastor Joe Nelms name-checked several big sponsors and supporters of the sport, thanking the Almighty for things like "GM performance technology," "Goodyear tires" — and of course his "smoking hot wife Lisa." He wraps up the whole thing "in Jesus' name, boogity boogity boogity, amen."
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Judge says no to restoring behavioral health funding
A federal judge refused to restore the funding to mental health providers that saw their funding frozen by the state Human Services Department.
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U.S. District Judge M. Christina Armijo on Thursday denied a request from eight nonprofit providers that asked the court to lift the state's suspension of Medicaid payments for mental health and substance abuse services to needy New Mexicans.
Five mental health providers from Arizona have signed contracts to provide mental health services in New Mexico.
The Taos News spoke to one of those providers.
This was the first time La Frontera had been contracted by the government of another state, the CEO said. A contract between La Frontera and the Human Services Department, seen by The Taos News, was signed by Ranieri June 18 and the department's general counsel June 19.
"Every time we have done this, we were approached by the other company," Ranieri said.
La Frontera has already established a spinoff in the state, however, known as La Frontera New Mexico. Ranieri said the group had already received or was in the process of securing the certifications and licenses necessary to operate in the state. None of the organization's Arizona-based clinical staff would practice in New Mexico, he added.
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The Elusive Small-House Utopia Is Still Pretty Big
If I say 'small house,' what comes to mind? A super wee micro-house or something like this? Or do you think of a structure containing roughly 1700+ sq. ft. of floor space? Because, hey, it's not a McMansion, so it must be small, right? I got to thinking about this subject after reading The Elusive Small-House Utopia, an article about Builder magazine's latest concept home and what it means for building trends in general.
That concept house, the Home for a New Economy designed by Marianne Cusato, measured in at the size of the average American home built in 1980, or around 1700 sq. ft. Then the housing market went insane, and soon it became not unusual to see newly built houses hovering out the 6000 sq. ft. mark!
When Cusato sat down to devise the Home for the New Economy, she tried to consider how families actually use their living areas. She started with a simple, symmetrical three-bedroom plan, excising extraneous spaces — the seldom-used formal dining room, for instance — while enlarging windows wherever she could and adding a wraparound porch. A result was a house that was compact, comfortable, bright and energy-efficient.
Sounds tasty, right? But at 1700 sq. ft., does it really seem particularly small? Maybe I'm just coming at the article with a bias – my house tops out at 1100 sq. ft. and we think that might include the finished basement – but even when I hear that in 2007 the average American house surpassed 2500 sq. ft., 1700 still sounds like a lot of space for the average family. Not huge, but big enough for comfort.
"Everybody hates the Calvinist sacrifice; they just don't want to hear of it," says the architect Andrés Duany, a founding father of the New Urbanist movement and a mentor of Marianne Cusato's. Duany argues that the sprawling homes of the last decade actually met a need, albeit imperfectly, by reproducing internally what suburban communities lacked: an exercise room substitutes for a park, a home theater for the Main Street cinema. Buyers will only accept smaller homes, he says, if their surroundings compensate them.
So let me ask you, my lovely readers, what you think small means when it comes to housing for, say, a family of three? How much space does a person really need, anyway?


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Action video game playing is associated with improved visual sensitivity, but not alterations in visual sensory memory
Action video game playing has been experimentally linked to a number of perceptual and cognitive improvements. These benefits are captured through a wide range of psychometric tasks and have led to the proposition that action video game experience may promote the ability to extract statistical evidence from sensory stimuli. Such an advantage could arise from a number of possible mechanisms: improvements in visual sensitivity, enhancements in the capacity or duration for which information is retained in visual memory, or higher-level strategic use of information for decision making. The present study measured the capacity and time course of visual sensory memory using a partial report performance task as a means to distinguish between these three possible mechanisms. Sensitivity measures and parameter estimates that describe sensory memory capacity and the rate of memory decay were compared between individuals who reported high evels and low levels of action video game experience. Our results revealed a uniform increase in partial report accuracy at all stimulus-to-cue delays for action video game players but no difference in the rate or time course of the memory decay. The present findings suggest that action video game playing may be related to enhancements in the initial sensitivity to visual stimuli, but not to a greater retention of information in iconic memory buffers.
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Individuals with extensive experience with action video games exhibit enhanced performance in a number of sensory, perceptual, and attentional domains, as compared with individuals with limited-to-no action video game experience. When compared with non-video game players (NVGPs), action video game players (AVGPs) tend to respond more rapidly (Castel, Pratt, & Drummond, 2005; Dye, Green, & Bavelier, 2009; Orosy-Filders & Allan, 1989; Yuji, 1996), can simultaneously apprehend and track a greater number of items (Green & Bavelier, 2006; Trick, Jaspers-Fayer, & Sethi, 2005), possess improved spatial (Boot, Kramer, Simons, Fabiani, & Gratton, 2008; Feng, Spence, & Pratt, 2007; Green & Bavelier, 2003, 2006, 2007; Okagaki & Frensch, 1994; Quaiser-Pohl, Geiser, & Lehmann, 2006; Terlecki & Newcombe, 2005) and temporal (Donohue, Woldorff, & Mitroff, 2010; Green & Bavelier, 2003; Li, Polat, Makous, & Bavelier, 2009; West, Stevens, Pun, & Pratt, 2008) abilities, and demonstrate better task-switching (Boot et al., 2008; Cain, Landau, & Shimamura, 2012; Colzato, van Leeuwen, van den Wildenberg, & Hommel, 2010; Karle, Watter, & Shedden, 2010; Strobach, Frensch, & Schubert, 2012) and strategic (Chisholm, Hickey, Theeuwes, & Kingstone, 2010; Clark, Fleck, & Mitroff, 2011) skills. Collectively, these behavioral benefits extend well beyond the specific context of the activities carried out in the games themselves and have spawned a line of experimental research aimed at identifying the specific capacities and mechanisms that are altered as a result of action video game experience.
Action video game play, for example, has been widely linked to enhancements in the spatial and temporal resolution of vision. As compared with NVGPs, AVGPs have lower contrast sensitivity thresholds and are therefore able to detect smaller changes in the levels of gray in grating patterns (Li et al., 2009). Similarly, AVGPs have improved target detection abilities that span across the useful field of view (Green & Bavelier, 2006; Feng et al., 2007) and exist for target stimuli, such as abrupt changes in motion direction (West et al., 2008). In addition to improved visual-spatial abilities, AVGPs have been shown to generally process visual information faster (Dye et al., 2009; Green & Bavelier, 2012; Green, Pouget, & Bavelier, 2010) and to exhibit a superior capacity to instantaneously extract information from visual displays (Green & Bavelier, 2006). Of note among these findings, it has been demonstrated that relative to NVGPs, AVGPs are able to enumerate rapidly presented items more accurately when displays contain more than four items (i.e., beyond the typical subitizing range; Mandler & Shebo, 1982). These, and other, findings suggest that action gaming experience may modulate the earliest aspects of visual sensory processing; however, the specific mechanisms enabling these enhancements is still an area of active debate.
Beyond these types of findings related to perceptual abilities, an interesting juxtaposition has begun to emerge in the findings relating AVGP experience to attentional abilities. Namely, while AVGP benefits have been observed in many facets of top-down "executive" attentional control, such as selective attention (Chisholm et al., 2010; Chisholm & Kingstone, 2012; West et al., 2008), divided attention (Dye et al., 2009; Green & Bavelier, 2006), and sustained attention (Clark et al., 2011), bottom-up attention driven by exogenous cues does not appear to differ between AVGPs and NVGPs (Castel et al., 2005; Dye, Green, & Bavelier, 2009; Hubert-Wallander, Green, Sugarman, & Bavelier, 2011; Wu et al., 2012). While some debate still exists as to the reliability of these findings (Cain et al., 2012; Irons, Remington, & McLean, 2011), a consensus is emerging that action video game experience is associated not only with an enhancement of attentional resources, but also with a more efficient allocation of these resources (Bavelier, Green, Pouget, & Schrater, 2012).
While findings such as those described above point to enhancements in sensory and attentional processing for AVGPs, the degree to which action video games might influence the retention of information in the various stages of memory is less clear. Previous studies have generally found modest enhancements in short-term memory tasks but little in the way of longer-term memory benefits. For example, AVGPs typically show better performance on N-back tasks (Boot et al., 2008; Colzato, van den Wildenberg, Zmigrod, & Hommel, 2013), better change detection abilities (Boot et al., 2008; Clark et al., 2011), and more accurate memory representations of objects (Sungur & Boduroglu, 2012) but no enhancements in short-term verbal recall (Cain et al., 2012) or in the capacity of visual short-term memory (Wilms, Petersen, & Vangkilde, 2013) and minimal—or possibly detrimental—effects in tasks that require long-term memory access. No previous studies, however, have sought to characterize the time course of visual sensory memory (VSM) as a function of action gaming experience. As such, it remains unknown whether AVGPs and NVGPs differ in their abilities to retain and utilize information in early memory buffers.
In light of the diverse behavioral benefits reported above, recent computational accounts of video-game-related learning have begun to provide a unifying framework under which such advantages may arise. In particular, it has been suggested that such performance benefits can result from the more efficient use of sensory information in order to better compute the probability that various choices are correct, given the evidence that is present (Bavelier et al., 2012; Green & Bavelier, 2012; Green et al., 2010). By applying a neural model of visual motion processing to behavioral motion discrimination data collected from AVGPs and NVGPs, it was found that the pattern of behavioral differences between the two groups was primarily captured through a single parameter change—the connectivity between the sensory and integration layers of the model (Green et al., 2010). This increase in connectivity was interpreted as AVGPs being able to accumulate information toward a decision more quickly over time than NVGPs. This enhanced ability has been referred to as improved probabilistic inference.
Mechanistically, improved probabilistic inference could arise from any of several possible differences in the visual-information-processing stream, and here we examine three candidates. First, these enhancements might result from an increase in perceptual sensitivity wherein more information is available to AVGPs as they are making a decision about how to act or respond to a stimulus. Second, initial visual sensitivity may remain unchanged, but sensory information may be retained longer in visual memory, thereby mitigating the natural decay of information in memory buffers as evidence is accumulated toward a particular decision choice. Third, there may be no differences in the initial sensitivity to visual information or in the retention of this information in rapidly decaying sensory memory buffers, but rather decision processes may be enhanced such that AVGPs are able to more quickly or reliably "read out" perceptual information (Gold & Ding, 2012), leading to improved performance.
To distinguish between these three possible mechanisms, we measured the capacity and time course of VSM (also called iconic memory; Neisser, 1967) for individuals who scored either high or low on a self-report video game experience questionnaire. Individuals participated in a partial report memory task (Sperling, 1960) in which they were cued to report the identity of an item from a larger display that was briefly presented but disappeared before the cue. Because participants did not know which item from this set would be cued for recall, performance on this task can be regarded as a random sample of the memory for the entire display. As such, this task provides a continuous measure of memory retention at delays spanning from sensory (Coltheart, 1980) through short-term (Long, 1980) memory durations. Importantly, the time course and capacity of memory captured in the partial report task can be quantified through the psychometric modeling of three parameters that map onto the three possible mechanisms under consideration here: a1 reflects the initial visual availability of stimulus information; τ indicates the decay rate and duration of sensory memory, thereby determining how much information is available for transfer into short-term memory; and a0 captures the amount of information that is retained in short-term memory (Bradley & Pearson, 2012; Graziano & Sigman, 2008; Kuhbandner, Spitzer, & Pekrun, 2011; Lu, Neuse, Madigan, & Dosher, 2005). By contrasting the persistence of visual information across these varying spans of memory retention, we are able to infer which mechanism(s) may underlie the broad differences observed between AVGPs and NVGPs.
The present study involved 130 individuals who participated in a larger research endeavor conducted in the Duke University Visual Cognition Lab. As part of the research protocol, individuals participated in two experimental phases: an individual-differences assessment phase and a behavioral-testing phase. Participants were recruited through campus advertisements and the Psychology Department participant pool and received either $10 per hour or course credit in compensation. An advantage of this two-phase design is that it reduces expectation biases (Boot, Blakely, & Simons, 2011), since the participants complete dozens of assessments without any being more notable than the others. As such, the participants in the present study had no reason to expect that their video gaming experiences (or lack thereof) were relevant to their experimental participation. All individuals were 18 or older (18–53 years, M = 21.45 years) and voluntarily participated under an experimental protocol approved by Duke University's Institutional Review Board. From the initial sample of 130 participants, 5 were removed as outliers on the basis of their behavioral performance (VSM parameter estimates; see below) falling more than 3 standard deviations beyond the mean.1 This left 125 participants in the final analysis (52 male, 73 female).
Individual-differences assessments
On the first day of a 2-day experiment, participants completed self-report assessments that measured characteristics across a broad scope of demographic, physiological, clinical, psychological, and pastime-preference information (for more detail on these measures, see Appelbaum et al., 2012; Donohue, Darling, & Mitroff, 2012). As part of a self-report video gaming experiences questionnaire, the participants were asked to rate their perceived level of expertise on each of eight different video game genres via 7-point (0–6, 6 being the highest) Likert scale expertise ratings. Participants were defined as AVGPs if they rated their expertise on "action/platforming" or "first person shooter" games as greater than or equal to 5. Individuals were categorized as NVGPs if they rated their expertise on "action/platforming" and "first person shooter" games as 0. These criteria yielded 31 AVGPs (26 male and 5 female) and 36 NVGPs (6 male and 30 female). These groups did not differ in mean age (AVGPs = 20.84, NVGPs = 20.64), t = 0.283, p > .77, and gender differences are explored further in the Results section, below.
Behavioral testing
On the second day, all participants performed a VSM task. This task was a modified version of the task used by Lu et al. (2005) and was identical to the task used by Appelbaum, Cain, Schroeder, Darling, and Mitroff (2012). In this experiment, visual stimuli were viewed by the participants from an approximate distance of 57 cm in a dimly lit room. Each trial began with a black fixation cross at the center of a gray (30 cd/m2) background. After 400 ms, eight black uppercase letters (each 1.3° × 1.3°) appeared arranged on an imaginary circle (3.50° radius) around fixation. The letters were drawn randomly, with replacement, from the set D, F, J, K, with the constraint that no neighboring letters were the same. After 105 ms, the letter display was replaced by a fixation cross, and then a red line (1° in length, with a circle at the end) appeared after a variable delay, or interstimulus interval (ISI), of 13, 40, 80, 160, 320, 640, 1,280, or 2,560 ms. The line pointed randomly to one of the eight letter locations and remained visible until response. Participants were to report the identity of the letter at the cued location using the corresponding key on a standard keyboard.
VSM performance was assessed by first computing the mean percent correct for each ISI. Percent correct were converted from four-alternative forced identification to d′ (a measure of sensitivity; Wickens, 2001). Next, to characterize the temporal properties of iconic memory, a one-phase exponential-decay function was fit to the d′ data using best-fit least squares method (Bradley & Pearson, 2012; Lu et al., 2005). This yielded three parameters; a1, the fast-decaying sensitivity that reflects the initial visual availability of stimulus information; τ, the time constant of the fast-decay sensitivity that represents the duration of iconic memory; and a0, the sensitivity at long delays that reflects the amount of information transferred into short-term memory without the benefit of cuing (see Lu et al., 2005). The goodness of fit between the observed data and the values predicted by the exponential-decay functions were good (AVGP, R = .91; NVGP, R = .98) and are in line with other reported studies (Bradley & Pearson, 2012). Statistical assessment of VSM performance for the AVGP and NVGP groups was accomplished using mixed-model analyses of variance, (ANOVAs), with nonsphericity correction of the degrees of freedom (Greenhouse–Geisser algorithm) where necessary, or using equal variance assumed t-tests and reporting two-tailed p-values.
d′ values and two-tailed paired comparison results contrasting action video game players (AVGPs) and non-video game players (NVGPs) at each of the eight interstimulus intervals
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Parameter estimates and two-tailed p-values comparing (A) all males and all females in the sample and (B) all males and all females who did not meet the criteria to be classified into either the action video game player or non-video game player group
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In light of the diverse behavioral and computational findings linked to action video games, the present study explored whether action video game experience is associated with changes in the initial sensitivity, time course, and/or capacity of visual information processing. For this purpose, we employed a modified partial report task (Sperling, 1960) that provides a continuous measure of memory retention by cuing participants at various delays to report the identity of a single item from a larger, briefly presented display. In this manner, the partial report task can be used to quantify the time course and capacity of memory retention, particularly as it relates to the initial sensitivity to stimuli immediately available for reporting, as well as the decay of information in sensory memory that occurs between the initial stimulation and subsequent cue.
Memory performance was markedly higher for AVGPs than for NVGPs, and this benefit was reflected by a relatively uniform increase across all stimulus-to-cue delays (ISIs). This vertical shift in the iconic memory curves, combined with the lack of difference in the τ parameter, suggests that while AVGPs have a uniformly greater capacity for VSM, there is no difference in the rate of memory decay for the two groups. In the Introduction, we presented three mechanistic accounts of how probabilistic inference could arise: (1) increases in initial perceptual sensitivity, (2) longer retention in iconic memory buffers, or (3) enhanced "readout" of perceptual information into working memory. The present results suggest that action gaming experience is related to differences in initial perceptual sensitivity and may not relate to changes in the duration or persistence of visual information in iconic memory or the ability to move information from iconic to working memory. Importantly, the improved initial sensitivity suggests that more information is available in the sensory memory buffer for AVGPs and, therefore, these individuals will be able to accumulate information toward a decision more quickly over time. As such, the present results provide a mechanistic account for the proposal by Bavelier and colleagues (Bavelier et al., 2012; Green et al., 2010) that AVGPs benefit from improved probabilistic inference wherein increases in neural connectivity are subserved by greater initial availability of information in the processing stream, rather than the prolonged persistence of this information.
The present results reveal a clear group difference between AVGPs and NVGPs in visual sensitivity and suggest that these differences are not due to simple gender differences. However, these differences are based upon a cross-sectional sample of individuals, and future work will be needed to examine the causal nature of these effects. A training study wherein NVGPs are tested on a partial report task before and after an intervention (i.e., either playing action video games or engaging in a matched control task) will allow for distinguishing between a preexisting explanation wherein those with heightened sensitivity self-select to play action video games and a learning explanation wherein the action video game exposure enhances sensitivity (for discussions of causal influences in video game studies, see Boot et al., 2011; Kristjansson, 2013). Regardless of such causal factors, the present results inform both the video game literature and the visual memory literature.
For the video game literature, this study provides a mechanistic explanation for the probabilistic inference theory proposed by Bavelier and colleagues (Bavelier et al., 2012; Green et al., 2010). Decisions about the properties of visual stimuli have been shown to involve the accumulation of noisy sensory information over time until an information criterion has been attained and a decision can be made (Gold & Shadlen, 2007; Ratcliff & Smith, 2004). The sensory information retained in iconic memory is accessible for several hundred milliseconds following the disappearance of a stimulus and is thought to be a primary source from which such evidence is accumulated (Nikolić, Häusler, Singer, & Maass, 2009). The present results suggest that decision making in AVGPs might benefit from the increased availability of information in these iconic memory buffers, but without the added contribution of increased persistence of information in these buffers. However, more work will be needed before we can fully understand how such differences explicitly manifest into decision mechanisms.
For the visual memory literature, the present data speak to the potential influences of experience on iconic memory. While iconic memory has historically been considered a preattentive store of visual information (Neisser, 1967), recent studies have indicated that iconic memory consolidation shares similar neural mechanisms with volitional attention (Ruff, Kristjansson, & Driver, 2007) and may, in fact, be dependent on attentional resources(Persuh, Genzer, & Melara, 2012). In particular, when placed under demanding dual-task conditions, iconic memory consolidation is impaired such that individuals maintain only gross representations of visual scenes, fail to properly categorize features, and often fail to detect perceptual changes (Persuh et al., 2012). While the present experiment was a single task, a possible interpretation of the present results is that AVGPs benefit from action-gaming-related top-down attentional enhancements, which could produce greater sensitivity even in relatively undemanding visual environments. In fact, such top-down attentional enhancements have been observed experimentally in a number of related contexts (Dye et al., 2009; Green & Bavelier, 2006; Chisholm et al., 2010; Chisholm & Kingstone, 2012; Clark et al., 2011; West et al., 2008). Future work in which cognitive load is manipulated specifically in the context of VSM performance may help to support this interpretation.
Among the 5 excluded outliers, 1 would have been categorized as an AVGP, and 1 would have been an NVGP.
This research was funded by grants to S.R.M. from Nike SST, Nike Inc., and the Army Research Office (#54528LS) and through a subcontract with the Institute for Homeland Security Solutions, a research consortium sponsored by the Resilient Systems Division in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) through Contract No. HSHQDC-08-C-00100. Support for L.G.A. was provided through DARPA grant D12AP00025-002. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of DHS or of the U.S. government. The study is approved for public release. We would like to thank Mr. Ken Roberts for providing statistical help and Dr. Tarik Bel-Bahar for his thoughtful comments on the manuscript.


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chillen, those are pretty sick, bump!
chillen where did you get those types of stickers?... are they paper ones?
u can get postals for free
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i have tried.. i live in canada and have been to the US postage site.. they dont send here.. people say that puralator stickers suck.
so give me an answer please. i use paper ones from avery, but they get soggy in the rain, or i use promotional stickers from companies ...black em out then make a sticker.
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my buddy gaen did that and stuck it in my book just before i left tallahassee, fl
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When the last Evans Collection was released some months ago, I couldn't see much in it for me... so I didn't go in and check it out, for me, it was a little bland. But not this time!
This is beautiful! When I put this on, I felt so comfortable and warm and fashionable... immediately. This is one of those items, you can wear through Winter, with many different items underneath and feel chic and sexy EVERY time!
The large hook-eye closure on the jacket is a little fiddly so it took me a couple of goes to get right - and then keep done up... But, once done up, the included belt wraps around you to keep you snug and happy. I love the position of the belt too - that it allows for a high empire waist, encouraging the bottom of the coat to fall from your high hip. Love this one!
Oh my gosh. I mean WOW. This dress blows my mind. I put this on and felt fabulous, immediately. The fabric is a lovely soft jersey, the detailing is cute and creates a sexy, feminine "Pirates of the Caribbean" feel. This dress ticks a whole heap of boxes.
I adore the neckline, puffed shoulders, breast rouching and detail, as well as the loose sleeves which are banded at the wrist. The fall of this dress, from the high waist creates a lovely, soft shape. I would wear this to work or out with my friends on the weekend,and I am sure, with the right heels and jewelry (maybe in deep green or blue), this would look beautiful on a night out.
Evans is ABSOLUTELY on to a winner with this dress.
In the photo below I am simply in a change room. Effortless. Not even a smile. I felt beautiful.
Now, done all the way up, this cardigan made my F-Cups look like Gazungas, so I unbuttoned the top couple of buttons. It's okay. I imagine some of you will make this look amazing either done up OR with something subtle and slinky underneath - but to me, this is a tad bland. The construction of the knit is comfortable but not thick (unlike the Beth Ditto Collection Heart Cardi which was amazing).
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- University of Michigan men's tennis head coach Bruce Berque announced the signing of Carter Lin (Bradenton, Fla.) to a National Letter of Intent on Thursday (May 1), officially joining current signees Runhao (Leo) Hua (Shanghai, China/Edison Academics) and Cameron Norrie (Auckland, New Zealand/Macleans College) for the 2014-15 recruiting class.
"We are very fortunate to find a player of Carter's caliber this late in there recruiting process," Berque said. "He brings a tremendous amount of passion for the sport of tennis and a great hunger to improve and compete. We were all very impressed with him on his visit, and he is exactly the type of player and person we are excited to welcome into the Michigan tennis family.
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|April 27th, 2006, 09:41 AM
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Is it unpatriotic to buy foreign cars?
I read this article and thought it is very interesting. I honestly think that our local economy is so driven by the American auto makers that people should drive American cars. I liken it to the old saying not to bite the hand that feeds you.
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Is It Unpatriotic to Not Buy American Cars?
By Roger Simmermaker
As I sat in an Orlando studio on Jan. 24 waiting to be interviewed on Fox News' "Hannity and Colmes" for the first time, that seemed to be the question I was going to be asked to answer if the introductory comments were any indication. In the studio in New York was Malcolm Bricklin, founder and CEO of Visionary Vehicles, who plans on importing cars from China by 2007. Ford had just announced plans to lay off 30,000 workers, and since even Mr. Bricklin (to his credit) says he doesn't want to see so many Americans join the ranks of the unemployed, it was a good question to ask. But the show started with asking Mr. Bricklin a different question and by the time the cameras pointed to me, I was given a different question as well, so I never really got to answer it.
But as I continue to think about it since that interview, the answer I would have given to Sean Hannity is the same as my answer today: If it's unpatriotic to destroy the American middle class, then it's unpatriotic to not buy American cars. As a country, we're drowning in a sea of red ink, and as consumers (those who really should know better, anyway) we're drowning is a sea of "what's in it for me."
Since President Bush has all but ruled out any government help for either Ford or GM saying they have to make a product that is "relevant" (did you know Mr. Bush himself owns a Ford pickup truck?) it's up to the American consumer to realize that a bankruptcy for Ford or GM or both is definitely not in the national interest. Not only would hundreds of thousands of workers lose their jobs, but about 450,000 retirees would be de-funded. These retirees on fixed incomes would see smaller pensions and reduced medical benefits. The workers that remained would see massive cuts in benefits as well.
Big deal, you say? At least American companies still offer their workers pensions. According to a recent article in The Tennessean, Nissan North America new hires won't be able to count on a company pension when they retire. And if you work for Nissan and didn't happen to reach the age of 65 by the end of last year, you won't be participating in the company-sponsored medical plan either.
If American companies can't remain successful and shoulder the burden of health care for their workers, the rest of us will likely pick up the tab in the form of higher taxes through expanded entitlement programs, which are already growing at a rate of 8 percent a year.
84% of all federal spending of our tax dollars already goes towards the "big three" untouchables: interest on the national debt, national defense (including homeland security) and entitlements such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. So much for conservatives who wish for smaller government. Generally speaking, few of us want to invite more government intrusion into our lives. But a significantly smaller government these days would result in benefit cuts that would ultimately affect all of us. The days of those who want tax cuts because it means more money in their pockets and means benefit cuts only for someone else are over.
So what's your reason for not buying American cars and trucks? I've heard (and disproved) them all but I'll list a few of the more popular ones here.
1. Quality. According to the latest J.D. Power & Associates Long-term Dependability Survey, Lincoln, Buick and Cadillac all made the top five for 2005. Lexus was number one and number two was mysteriously not reported by the CNN story highlighting the survey. What's even better (if you are a fan of American automakers) is that the average dependability of all GM and Ford models combined was greater than the average dependability for all the Japanese models combined.
2. Too much emphasis on "gas guzzlers." The hypocrisy in this statement is rampant since most people who make it are ardent supporters of the "free market." The trouble for these hypocrites is that a major free market principle is the law of supply and demand. According to Seattle Times columnist Shaunti Feldhahn, consumer demand for big, bad SUVs has doubled in the last 15 years. So much for the argument that American car companies aren't building what consumers want to buy. Just like American companies have been scrambling to satisfy the one percent of car buyers who want hybrids, Japanese car makers have been scrambling to catch up to Ford and GM by offering bigger and badder behemoths (at even worse gas mileage ratings than American SUVs). GM has more models with over 30 mpg. highway (2006 EPA estimates) than any other auto maker. Last month I revealed that my 1996 Lincoln Town Car now has over 160,000 miles with no signs of letting up. What I didn't mention is that my car has averaged 24 mpg since September 2001, which is a result of combined mostly highway driving during the week and mostly city driving on weekends. Not bad for a big luxury car.
3. Foreign car companies will pick up the slack. This argument implies that the hiring of American workers by foreign companies would never take place if there weren't layoffs by American companies first. Even if you view foreign investment as a good thing -- which it isn't -- foreign companies will still invest in America even if we support American companies so they can actually retain our own workers. This argument is almost as bad as the one that implies we need to destroy American manufacturing jobs in general so we can move American workers into high-tech jobs. Why not let the college graduates strapped with tens of thousands of dollars in student loans and other debts take these jobs, and protect American workers in the jobs they choose to have now?
4. American companies can do better. Better at what? What will it take for more American people to root for the home team again? Do you only root for your hometown sports team when they are winning, or do you root for them even when they are down -- no matter what? Let's see. American companies GM and Ford have won numerous quality awards, they have more domestic plants, employ more American workers, support more retirees along with their dependants and families, pay better wages than the non-union foreign-owned plants, have a higher percentage of domestic parts in their automobiles, pay more taxes to the U.S. Treasury, give more to charities for the benefit of this country, and donate more in the wake of disasters like 9-11. Need I go on?
5. GM and Ford need to make cars Americans want to buy. I saved this one for last since it the most ridiculous statement of all. General Motors has the highest market share of any automobile company. To say the company that currently sells more cars and trucks to more people than any other company in the industry -- even if that market share is falling -- is truly ridiculous. Yes, I know Toyota is gaining on GM and may overtake them this year (in worldwide market share -- not U.S. market share -- where GM has roughly twice the market share of Toyota) and GM used to command around 50 percent of the domestic market. But let's be reasonable, shall we? What company in any industry in today's super-competitive economy can command 50 percent of their market? Not even Coke or Pepsi can do that. Which reminds me -- Pepsi recently passed Coke to take the top spot in the beverage wars. Is Coke number two now because they aren't making beverages Americans want to drink? I haven't heard that one yet. Only in America and only in the automobile industry could number two be declared a loser brand. And only if it's GM, not Toyota.
The struggle for GM and Ford to regain much needed and much deserved traction has increasingly become a media war. And it's not just a media war as I reported in my September 2005 article titled Media Bias Against American Automakers. The bias towards foreign automakers has extended from journalists and other newsmakers to everyday Americans with vendettas against their home-team companies in the form of letters to the editor and blogs on the Internet. The Wall Street Journal recently ran a story titled "Are Rumours Hurting Sales" reporting on a Los Angeles resident who started a Web log called "GM Can Do Better." It's not that this individual has not heard the reports of numerous quality awards bestowed upon American automakers. It's that he's skeptical the reports are true.
So there you have it. Foreign car lovers will believe it if Toyota wins an award. But if General Motors' Chevy Impala is documented to have fewer customer complaints than the Toyota Camry, foreign car lovers will grasp at different false reasons to justify their foreign purchases. But the facts are in and their arguments no longer hold water. I'd almost be willing to bet these American car bashers haven't test-driven an American car in years. Right now it doesn't matter that GM has 82 major plants in America and Ford has 35. What matters is that Toyota, Honda and Nissan have eight plants each. It doesn't matter that Toyota and Honda average 65 to 75 percent domestic parts in their U.S. built cars while GM and Ford average 80% to 85%. If these percentages ever reverse, then it will matter to foreign car lovers. Facts simply don't matter to them when they don't happen to be in their favor. To them, as Business Week reported Dec. 12, 2005, "the economy is unstoppable as the Indianapolis Colts" and foreign purchases have no national negative effect. If you watched the Super Bowl last Sunday you probably noticed that the Indianapolis Colts weren't playing.
I'm sure that this article will not sit well with those who automatically receive it as part of their free "Buy American Mention of the Week" subscription and advocate the demise of GM and Ford. And I'm also sure I'll receive many "unsubscribe" requests as a result. But I don't really care. I don't like writing for people I don't like any more than I like giving speeches to groups I don't like. These articles are not designed to make anyone feel less of an American for their past foreign purchases, but rather they aim to persuade American consumers to make the right purchases in the future.
Those who do agree with the facts and the opinions I have presented, I urge you to forward or distribute my auto industry articles to fellow Americans that need to see them. Simply visit www.overthehillcarpeople.com to see the auto industry articles I've written since May 2005. I'm not sure how much time GM and Ford have left to turn things around given the obstacles they must overcome that have been put there for bogus and unpatriotic reasons. And remember, the next time someone accuses you of questioning their patriotism because of their foreign car, tell them that if it's not unpatriotic to destroy the American middle class, then it's not unpatriotic to buy foreign cars!
Roger Simmermaker, author of How Americans Can Buy American: The Power of Consumer Patriotism, published this article on his Web site, www.howtobuyamerican.com.
|April 27th, 2006, 09:58 AM
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In my opinion, the end consumers should not be the ones trying to level the playing field.
The end user, you or me, shoudl buy whatever is the best vehicle for them personally. If buying american is a requirement for you, thne buy american.
But forcing the end consumer to try to buy american, to prop up the local economy is nothing but a bandaid.
I support local shops and vendors whenever possible.
When it comes to buying a $30k vehicle that I'm going to live with and entrust my family's safety for the next 7 years(buying a new minivan soon), I will buy the vehicle that will do that the best, without letting silly things like patriotism getting in the way.
|April 27th, 2006, 10:20 AM
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I always buy cars from a country that bombed Hawaii 50 years ago.
and get rid of all the UAW workers that sit and watch tv all day, because there is no work for them out on the plant floor.
|April 27th, 2006, 10:40 AM
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I say yes, it is. The only reason I own one Jap vehicle is because there is no comparable American-made vehicle.
However, I think the gov't should do a better job at protecting the country and try harder to give our own automakers solid advantages over the imports.
|April 27th, 2006, 10:44 AM
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|April 27th, 2006, 11:16 AM
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Shouldn't the import tariff do that alone.. why should it be so hard for the big 3 to make vehicles that are reasonably priced and comparable to the imports? That would be especially easy if they wouldn't pay people 20 bucks for 5 dollar work.
|April 27th, 2006, 11:21 AM
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Apparently the Import Tarriff isn't high enough, as the imports are making enough money to pay it and still stomp on us. How about just raising it, not letting them build any more plants in the US to get around it, or imposing the tarriff on US-built vehicles produced by non-US-based companies?
I agree that there are union and pay issues, but I can't speak to that in an educated manner.
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|April 27th, 2006, 11:22 AM
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[QUOTE=kerryann] I honestly think that our local economy is so driven by the American auto makers that people should drive American cars. QUOTE]
Im not sure what that means or if you literally mean that,
sure and guns kill people like spoons make bigcountry o'donnell fat,
Im buying a 2006 honda tomorrow.
|April 27th, 2006, 11:24 AM
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The Europeans aren't making money hand over fist, they are hurt by the euro.
|April 27th, 2006, 11:26 AM
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So, I ask you people:
What is a foreign car?
Define it, please.
Is a Toyota truck built in texas foreign?
Is a DaimlerChrysler product foreign?
Will Saturn be american or foreign, once they become US rebadged Opels?
What about SAAB? Are they foreign?
Chevy Aveo?
|April 27th, 2006, 11:32 AM
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Im still stumped by kerryanns comment.
on that logic, we should only use unions or american products for everything.
where was your shirt made? what about the building your in, was it built by all union labor? how about the office furniture your sititng in, was that delivered and "installed" by unions or were there cut throats out there taking that work. name two or more television brands built in the u.s. Im just curious how far it goes. I understand that a car is a high ticket item to purchase, thus more money stays in the "u.s." we shouldnt buy any gas anymore since the majority of the crude comes from overseas.....
|April 27th, 2006, 11:41 AM
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I do not think it's about the brand as much as it's about american or even local labor forces manufacturing the item , if Toyota buys the ford wixom plant and makes trucks union or not I think it would be ok to purchase ...after all the money spent on dodge trucks, jeeps ect. flows thru a foreign owner/company but returns to our community via the workers.
My beliefs are to keep our community working as best we can.
|April 27th, 2006, 11:43 AM
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|April 27th, 2006, 11:44 AM
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Opel/Daewoo/Saab have a healty portion controlled by GM, same for Rover/Jaguar and Ford.
As far as I know, sales of those vehicles (Rover/Jag/Aveo/Saab) return money to support american corporations.
Toyota/honda/subaru/suzuki/mmc/etc all return money to foreign corps, no matter where they're made or who they employ.
|April 27th, 2006, 11:46 AM
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|April 27th, 2006, 11:47 AM
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I would define it as a vehicle produced by a non-US-based company that brought the car, or the production of the car to the US. I'm not 100% sure, but wording it that way may cover situations like DCX.
It would probably make sense to include restricting US automakers to produce vehicles destined for US markets within the US. Maybe US-content would go up.
While we're at it, close the borders.
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I love how a quality control issue can condemn an entire company for forever.
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I have metal support pole in my garage that is rusting out on the bottom due to melting snow from the cars during winter. I don't know how thick metal is but it looks bad. Are those poles filled with something or they hollow?
Some are, some are not, no way to tell from here.
Got a picture?
Your own garage, so probably one family house, so those columns are usually hollow. You can tap on it with a hammer to hear. The column is also 1/4" thick. Scrape the rust away and see how much of the metal you can remove. Those columns can rust away. I would recommend primer and paint, and trying to keep them dry.
carp's right,,, i always thought supporting columns had to be fill'd w/conc to meet fire code - heard it from an inspector/engineer/newbie laborer know-it-all on a job :laughing: maybe dan will chime in on this
Most are hollow in this area---
I've had to cut a couple that were older and they were concrete filled. However, I do know that they can be hollow. If your unsure with the tap test then just drill a small hole in it to find out if there's concrete inside. In any case It does have to be addressed before it rusts out completely.
Jack and hold with a 4 x 4, replace with a Galvanized pipe with 1/4 inch Galvanized Pads. Why Worry?
depends on whether lally columns or standard pipe columns where used. As stated tap and listen .....
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