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As the Syrian opposition gains control of large swaths of territory in the country's north, local councils are emerging as the first alternative authority after 21 months of revolt.
It is still unclear if the civilian councils can impose order in war-torn areas where rebels have the power of arms. And at least parts of major cities remain in the hands of President Bashar Assad's forces.
However, as humanitarian aid trickles in, these activists hope the balance of power will shift to an elected civilian authority and fulfill the dreams of the revolt, which include democracy in Syria.
"We have established a number of offices, financial relief, medical and refugees," says a lawyer from the city of Idlib, in the northwest. He's taking a break from a lively council meeting in a barely furnished office in southern Turkey.
He's part of an 18-member council, elected in early December when 250 activists held a vote. The council members cross the Turkey-Syria border for meetings because it's safe. Like most local governments, this council has come together to discuss the budget.
"We are going to find ways for people in need," says Yasser, a lawyer, who can't be fully named for his security.
He pulls a bank book from his pocket to show that there is something to discuss. The government of Qatar donated $8 million to Syria's provincial governments in a meeting in Istanbul this month. Idlib's share is $800,000. But the gift won't go far, he says.
"Flour, food and some for the displaced people," he says. "We will make a vote in a democratic way."
Local Councils Are Strongest In The North
These formal local councils are strongest in Idlib and Aleppo province where the regime's hold, even over the central cities, is weakening.
The local councils, which now exist in all 14 Syrian provinces, are linked to the newly formed Syrian National Coalition, now recognized by the U.S. and more than 100 governments as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. The new structure, an opposition group outside the country, with direct ties to the leadership in the provinces, is intended as a building block for a new government.
"Money will create social legitimacy, " says Gokhan Bacik, an assistant professor of international relations at Fatih University in Gaziantep, Turkey, and a specialist on Syria. "If it's used correctly, the opposition groups can create local authority."
But the humanitarian crisis is driving budget decisions.
The crucial problem is bread, a staple of the Syrian diet. There isn't enough to go around, and prices are soaring, in some places up 200 percent. The Syrian air force has targeted bakeries, the fuel has run out, and the basic commerce has broken down.
For the Idlib council, bread is the most important issue: how to get it into the province and how to pay for the flour. The projects for a salaried civil police department will have to wait.
Growing Food Shortages
The food crisis is especially dire in Aleppo province, where the main city, Aleppo, has been without water and electricity for weeks.
"There is hardly any bread," says Syrian journalist Samir Kanjo, who lives in southern Turkey but still has family in Aleppo. People who still have money can buy bread at 20 times the price, but 70 percent of the people in the city can't afford bread at any price, he says.
The civilian authority in Aleppo, called the Transitional Revolutionary Council, is a group of well-known activists headed by Dr. Jalal Edeen Kangi, a civil engineer and a professor from Aleppo University.
"Aleppo is led by people who are educated professionals; many of us were educated abroad," he says. "It's not a group of conservative, religious people."
Aleppo received $1 million from the Qatari donation, which immediately went to purchase wheat. Other needs were put on hold — like paying the salaries for 400 police officers and collecting a mountain of garbage festering on the city's outskirts.
"We have 6 million people in the province. We need 1,200 tons of bread a day," says a former city official who has been advising the council. He asked not to be identified by name for his security. "What is happening is crisis management. We are only thinking of the crisis."
The crisis is the first test of the governing skills of the Transitional Revolutionary Council. The legitimacy of this local leadership will depend on their ability to supply bread for an increasingly desperate population.
But the success of the local council depends on the international community, says Kangi, the head of the Aleppo council.
After recognizing the Syrian National Coalition in Morocco last week, Western and Arab governments pledged more than $200 million to back the new group. For Kangi, the money needs to come soon, because, he says, the councils need to provide more than bread to survive.
Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.


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Unless you're actually driving around the West Bank — sailing down the freeways Israel has built atop Palestinian land or steering down the two-lane roads etched into the hillsides topped with more than 200 subdivisions, little bits of California atop stone hills straight from Bible story books — it's difficult to appreciate the reality of what Israel calls its "settlement project." But a geography specialist named Danny Seidemann found a vivid point of reference for the new part of it Israel announced over the weekend: "The doomsday settlement."
If the U.N. has moved to declare Palestine is a state, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then has a few things to say — and do — about that. The 1.6 million Palestinians living on the Gaza Strip are already separated by 40 km (25 miles) from the 2.4 million on the West Bank. The project Netanyahu's government began moving forward on Friday would cut the West Bank itself in half, dividing its north from its south while barricading off a bit of Jerusalem in the bargain, and with it, in all likelihood, the plans to name the Arab sections of the city as Palestine's capital. "The impact," says Seidemann, whom foreign embassies routinely consult as an expert on settlements and the boundaries of the contentious city, "is basically the creation of facts on the ground that would make the two-state solution dead. It's not only a game changer, it's a game ender."
The reaction to Netanyahu's bold move, both in Israel and abroad, was swift and negative. Britain and France summoned Israel's ambassadors to hear protests, and reportedly were considering ordering their own envoys home, a move without precedent. Washington condemned the move, which came just hours after U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice forcefully delivered a speech of solidarity with the Jewish state on the floor of the General Assembly.
In Israel, both the right and left wing of the Hebrew press asked why, after losing the U.N. vote 138 to 9, an Israeli government would announce a move sure to further its international isolation. (Technically, the way Palestine is run hasn't changed because of the vote; the Palestinian Authority simply has a different status — which happens to have the word state in it — within the international organization, with a few new legal prerogatives.) In Ma'ariv, the conservative columnist Ben-Dror Yemini called Netanyahu's move "Pavlovian" and wrote, "Rather than thank the American administration for its amazing support on Thursday at the U.N. vote, the slap in the face came on Friday with the announcement of the construction of thousands of additional housing units." In Yedioth Ahronoth, Nahum Barnea reported from the Saban Forum, a Washington, D.C., gathering of prominent Israeli and Americans in which the rules constrain attendees from saying who said what. The gist of a speech by a prominent American politician (identified in the same paper the next day as Obama's former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) was: "You Israelis are ingrates. You've screwed yourselves." Barnea's conclusion: "Something bad has happened over the years to the production line in Israeli politics."
The "doomsday settlement" would be built on a section of land labeled E1 on planning maps of Jerusalem and its surroundings. The land is currently a park — the visually striking western slope of a hillside leading toward the Jordan Valley and a massive Jewish settlement already in place, Ma'ale Adumim. All the land is Palestinian, but Israel has occupied it since 1967, and by filling it with Jewish housing would make it impossible to travel from, say, Ramallah to Hebron. On maps, what looks like open space to the east is in fact the depths of the Jordan Valley, hundreds of meters below sea level where the Dead Sea lies.
"The administration warned Netanyahu publicly last Friday, 'Please don't do it,''' Seidemann says, who goes on to describe the Israeli Prime Minister's decision to ignore the advice as consciously flagrant.
Meanwhile, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas returned from New York City to cheers. "We are now a state," he told a throng of 3,000 loyalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah. "The world is with us, and history is with us, God is with us, and the future is ours." The new paradigm was displayed down the length of a nearby building, where a banner unfurled in hazard yellow read, in English, Arabic and Hebrew: "Warning! This Is Illegally Occupied Land. State of Palestine, 29/11/2012."
"Let me just say that we are standing at a very big Palestinian wedding," said a delighted Talal J'bara, 65. "It is the first time the world recognizes who we are and that we even exist."
"The most important thing now is that our leaders do whatever it takes to stop the expansion of the settlements and all of Israel's wrongdoing," said Khateem Khatab, a retiree who had traveled from Jerusalem to Ramallah for the celebratory rally. "Negotiations will only prevail once the Israelis stop all their provocations against the Palestinian people and their land." (Netanyahu also announced Israel would hold back more than $100 million in tax revenues owed to the Palestinian Authority, a punishment that Washington also had urged Israel to forgo. )
Abbas framed the bid for statehood as a last-ditch effort to revive negotiations begun almost 20 years ago aimed at creating a Palestinian state beside Israel, roughly on the border that separated the two populations until 1967, when Israeli forces defeated Arab armies and began occupying the West Bank and Gaza. But as the negotiations dragged on, Israel continued settling its people on the land — they now number 500,000, including neighborhoods built in East Jerusalem.
Having forsworn violent resistance, Abbas argued that diplomatic leverage was the only kind available to check Israel's military and other advantages. The U.N. vote naming Palestine a nonmember state opens the door to the International Criminal Court, where individual Israelis could be charged for violations of war crimes, a threat Abbas says he will hold in abeyance for now. A period of sorting and settling is likely underway. Though both sides say they are wiling to return to negotiations, each are likely to be addressing mostly their own constituencies for the next few months. Netanyahu is facing an election set for Jan. 22, a prospect that Seidemann and others say may help account for his decision to brandish E1 — it plays to the rightist and settler constituencies that have recently all but overwhelmed his Likud party. Abbas, meanwhile, is under new pressure to find a way to reconcile with Hamas, the militant Islamist group that governs Gaza, and bring the two Palestinian territories under a unified administration, especially now that they're nominally a state.
But in a conflict that's finally, ultimately, about land, the lessons of November were not lost on Palestinians.
Hamas launched 1,300 missiles into Israel during the military offensive aimed at stopping the launches, and in return won territorial concessions. Under the terms of the cease-fire brokered by Egypt, Gaza's fishermen doubled the distance they can travel from shore before encountering Israeli gunboats, and Palestinian farmers won access to the one-third of the enclave's arable land that abuts the border fence with Israel proper. A week later, Abbas, who heads the secular Fatah party, won the lopsided vote at the U.N., and Israel's response was to appropriate another chunk of the West Bank for its own use. "We have one goal, and to be honest, it doesn't matter whether it is Fatah or Hamas, the most important thing is that we achieve our freedom," says Manar Fathi, 40, at the Ramallah rally. "As long as the world is with us, I don't think we even care about what Israel is and what they can do to us."
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A quick test can help you determine if your shower is a good candidate for a shower head replacement: Turn on the shower to the normal pressure you use, hold a bucket that has been marked in gallon increments under the spray, and time how many seconds it takes to fill the bucket to the 1-gallon (3.8-liter) mark. If it takes less than 20 seconds, you could benefit from a low-flow shower head. A top quality, low-flow shower head will cost $10 to $20 and pay for itself in energy saved within 4 months. Lower quality shower heads may simply restrict water flow, which often results in poor performance.
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A relatively common assumption is that washing dishes by hand saves hot water. However, washing dishes by hand several times a day could be more expensive than operating some automatic dishwashers. If properly used, an efficient dishwasher can consume less energy than washing dishes by hand, particularly when you only operate the dishwasher with full loads.
The biggest cost of operating a dishwasher comes from the energy required to heat the water before it ever makes it to the machine. Heating water for an automatic dishwasher can represent about 80% of the energy required to run this appliance. Average dishwashers use 8 to 14 gallons (30.3 to 53 liters) of water for a complete wash cycle and require a water temperature of 140°F (60°C) for optimum cleaning.
But, setting your water heater so high could result in excessive standby heat loss. This type of heat loss occurs because water is constantly heated in the storage tank, even when no hot water is used. Furthermore, a water heater temperature of 120°F (48.9°C) is sufficient for other uses of hot water in the home. The question, then, is must you give up effective cleaning for hot water energy savings? The answer is no.
A "booster" heater can increase the temperature of the water entering the dishwasher to the 140°F recommended for cleaning. Some dishwashers have built-in boosters that will automatically raise the water temperature, while others require manual selection before the wash cycle begins. A booster heater can add about $30 to the cost of a new dishwasher but should pay for itself in water-heating energy savings in about 1 year if you also lower your water heater temperature. Reducing the water heater temperature is not advisable, however, if your dishwasher does not have a booster heater.
Another feature that reduces hot-water use in dishwashers is the availability of cycle selections. Shorter cycles require less water, thereby reducing the energy cost. The most efficient dishwasher currently on the market can cost half as much to operate as the most inefficient model.
If you are planning to purchase a new dishwasher, check the EnergyGuide labels and compare the approximate yearly energy costs among brands. Dishwashers fall into one of two categories—compact capacity or standard capacity. Although compact capacity dishwashers may appear to be more energy efficient, they hold fewer dishes and may force you to use the appliance more frequently than you would use a standard-capacity model. In this case, your energy costs could be higher than with the standard-capacity dishwasher.
Turning the hot-water faucet off while shaving or brushing your teeth, as opposed to letting the water run, can reduce water-heating costs. An efficient automatic dishwasher can consume less energy than washing dishes by hand, particularly when you only operate the dishwasher with full loads.
Like dishwashers, much of the cost—up to 90%—of operating washing machines is associated with the energy needed to heat the water. Unlike dishwashers, washing machines do not require a minimum temperature for optimum cleaning. Either cold or warm water can be used for washing most laundry loads; cold water is always sufficient for rinsing. Make sure you follow the cold-water washing instructions for your particular laundry detergent. Washing only full loads is another good rule of thumb for reducing hot-water consumption in clothes washers. As you would for dishwashers, consult the EnergyGuide labels when shopping for a new washing machine. Inefficient washing machines can cost three times as much to operate as efficient machines. Select a machine that allows you to adjust the water temperature and water levels for the size of the load. Also, front-loading machines use less water and, consequently, less energy than top loaders.
However, in this country, front loaders are not as widely available as top loaders. Keep in mind that the capacity of front loaders may be smaller than that of most top-loading machines.
Smaller capacity washing machines often have better EnergyGuide ratings. However, a reduced capacity might cause you to increase the number of loads you wash and possibly increase your energy costs.
Faucets, shower heads, dishwashers, and washing machines are only destination points for hot water in your home. The journey of your hot water before it reaches these outlets can be fraught with opportunities for energy losses. Fortunately, you can reduce the incidence of water heat loss from the point of departure to the point of arrival by applying a few basic measures.
This document was produced for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), a DOE national laboratory.


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After I'd made the kitchen towel flowers I thought I might try some out of dried baby wipes, because they have that fabric like soft texture. I stuck a handful of baby wipes out to dry and then cut them to be square. This time I wanted to make smaller flowers for the kids to make a bouquet for grandma, so I cut each square into four smaller squares, then made the flowers in exactly the same way that I had done with the kitchen towel. They came out about palm sized.
I'd died a packet of wooden BBQ skewers green ages and ages ago with food colouring, originally because I thought I might use them in the cardboard flowers craft we did, but in the end the pipe cleaners worked better for that, so we still had the green skewers handy. I used a couple of plastic beads to sandwich each flower onto the end of a skewer with some hot glue. Quick and painless way to make a stem for them.
Again the kids painted them up with watered down food colouring. They really got into this, to the point where after they had painted the first four, I ended up making them six more, so grandma will have a bunch of ten daisies. Maybe we should give each grandma five daisies though. Cool thing is that both grandmas are 5000 miles away and these are going to be nice and light to mail to them!
They are pretty well formed, even after being soaked and smashed by the kids painting them. I could give them a quick squirt with liquid starch I suppose if I was being picky, but really I think they are fine as is.
They might make a cute and inexpensive gift for a teacher too, and I'm sure they would look a lot classier if you used some nicer beads for the centers.


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Squirt some lubricant on anything that slides, such as sliding glass doors, windows and doors once a year. But, first, clean out the "gunk" that's accumulated in and around the tracks.
If you have vinyl windows, use caution, warns the Family Handyman. Oil lubricants can damage the vinyl, so he recommends using a dry PTFE (Polytetrafluoroethylene) spray lubricant (such as WD-40® SPECIALIST®) ". . . on the contact points and wiping it off with a rag."
Out of commercial lubricant? Use a small dab of petroleum jelly on door hinges. Again, this will attract and hold dust and dirt, so don't use the oily substance on the window tracks.
Channel your inner Sherlock Holmes
Some of the annual inspections that the experts recommend can be knocked out in less than 10 minutes. Do one every weekend and you'll have this part of your home maintenance chore list whittled down to where you'll have more time for fun on the weekends.
- Dust and test your smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, according to the user's manual instructions. Change the batteries, if needed.
- Check the water heater for rust. Open the burner chamber and look for rust flakes. Also take a look at the flame – it should be blue. If it contains yellow coloring, the jets may need cleaning.
- Test the ground fault interrupter outlets by pushing the "test" button. The "reset" button should pop out. Push it and you're finished.
- Check the garage door opener for safety issues. Bob Vila recommends pulling the handle to put the system into manual mode and lifting the door three feet from the ground. It should remain open. If it doesn't, call a garage door professional. Put the system back into automatic mode and open the door completely. Place an obstacle under it, such as a garbage can and press the button to close the door. If it doesn't stop when it meets the obstacle, call a garage door professional as soon as possible.
- While you're lubricating the windows and doors, inspect the weather stripping for signs of wear.
- Scale can build up on the water valves under your sinks and behind the toilets and you can prevent this by turning each one off and then back on at least twice each year.
- Open the breaker box and check to ensure there are no scorch marks around the fuses or breakers.
Only you can prevent home fires
Most home fires are preventable, so including safety maintenance chores on your list may save lives. All of these tasks take just a few minutes.
- Check the clothes dryer ducts for lint buildup. Unplug it and move it away from the wall. Disconnect the ductwork and examine the opening in the wall for lint. Use a vacuum to clean out any buildup you find. For step-by-step instructions on how to thoroughly clean your dryer vents, visit bobvila.com.
- Inspect the fire extinguishers. The experts at All State Insurance recommend that you inspect them at least once a month. First, check to ensure the safety and tamper seals are intact. Check the pressure gauge to ensure it has the proper pressure. Some extinguishers have a test button. Press it and watch the gauge to ensure the pressure is adequate. Finally, check the tank for signs of corrosion or leaking.
- Check each electrical outlet in the home by touching them. If they feel hot to the touch, call an electrician.
- Frayed wires are fire hazards so take a few minutes to check the cords on appliances, electronics, lamps and other electric products. Don't run extension cords under rugs, by the way.
- Inspect the fireplace flue for blockages, such as bird nests. Open the damper and use a flashlight to look for obstructions. According to Bob Villa, "You should be able to see daylight at the top."
Take 10 minutes to perform each of these tasks and over the course of a few weeks you will have considerably shortened your home maintenance to-do list.


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Restarting the SME credit market in Europe: what role for securitisation and the capital markets?
In the aftermath of the crisis, the 23 million EU SMEs – amounting to 99 % of all enterprises - remain more than ever the backbone of the EU economy. It is of utmost importance that they have the financial capacity to restore economic growth. Yet the European real economy is mainly financed by credit – up to 80 %, unlike that of the United States. This figure highlights the crucial balancing act for European policymakers – the need to create a broader financing base in the long run, but also support alternative ways of boosting credit in the medium term.
Securitisation earned itself a bad name with the economic and debt crisis as the originate-to-distribute model was perceived to be over-reliant on ratings agencies and vulnerable to lax lending standards and informational opacity. However, there is a consensus once again that SME loan securitisation has not created toxic assets and should not be discredited by bad commercial practice elsewhere. With this in mind, UEAPME, ACCA and AFME recently organised a round table called 'Restarting the SME credit market in Europe: what role for securitisation and the capital markets?'' hosted by Othmar Karas, MEP and moderated by Corien Wortmann-Kool, MEP at the European Parliament in order to discuss and raise further awareness on this funding diversification tool.
Othmar Karas, MEP Chair of the event said: "SMEs need to gain even more the support of the financial world through a revitalised dialogue between institutions, stakeholders, banks and businesses. At the same time, we need to learn lessons from the crisis and foster sustainable financing bases for enterprises to secure, in the long run, economic growth, employment and prosperity in Europe. Today's debate on restarting the SME credit market in Europe and the role of securitisation for reviving lending to SMEs features prominently in the on-going work of the European Parliament and myself."
Corien Wortmann–Kool, MEP, who moderated the debate, highlighted that "It is important to look to the future. When the economy starts its recovery, the need for access to finance for SMEs will rise considerably. It is important to continue the dialogue on this issue in order to achieve progress. The European Parliament has put SMEs at the heart of its work, namely on the CRDIV issue where it has successfully included an SME supporting factor to allow for a differentiated assessment of risk associated with lending to SMEs."
Participants agreed that this is a welcome step, but further support mechanisms are necessary to help boost the supply of credit for, and encourage investment in, SMEs. They echoed MEP Karas and stressed that SME lending, alternative solutions such as crowd-funding and equity financing combined with collateral or guarantees through public funds need to be enhanced and alternative ways of evaluating and rating risks should be sought to better reflect business realities.
Emmanouil Schizas, Senior Economic Analyst at ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) argued "while CRD IV in its current form presents a good compromise between financial stability and SME growth, the Basel III paradigm for capital and liquidity regulation in general will tend to make SME lending more expensive, and force banks to shift their business models away from SME lending. Securitisation provides one way of avoiding this. Investors' appetite for SME credit as an asset class is quite strong. As long as this is not matched by banks' appetite for SME loans, the potential will exist for securitisation to fill the gap."
There was a consensus amongst panellists that securitisation, used in the right way, could spread risk intelligently. The European Commission and the European investment fund are supportive of the tool and are committed to promote access to SME bond markets and securitisation. The newly published Green paper on long-term finance includes a section covering securitisation, though some speakers regretted that this Green Paper seemed too soft on the regulatory incentives against investing in SMEs.
The future of the market is dependant on several factors such as transparency and standardisation, to restore the trust of investors. It was also pointed out that securitisation is only another way of combining the same raw materials of finance: information, control, collateral, and risk. The more it relies on information, the better the outcomes for all parties. One way of reducing the cost of producing information is through credit rating agencies, but it was highlighted that current proposals for rating agency liability could make ratings impossible and cause the market to freeze, just as they did in the US in the early days of the Dodd-Frank Act. It was stressed that the Americans corrected their mistake within a year, but this is time Europe cannot afford to waste.
Gerhard Huemer, Director Economy Policy at UEAPME, pointed out that "Europe is in a very critical situation regarding SMEs' access to finance and this will get worse when the economy restarts. 80% of SMEs are financed by loans. You will not be able to find banks ready to take the risk to finance an innovative project, as they are deleveraging, they are forced to take less risk. There might be alternatives, but less than 1% of SMEs have access to this kind of finance. We are trying to motivate SME owners to do more equity finance, but tax systems are a barrier in some European countries. One of the ideas is to bring bundles of SMEs to the stock exchange. The other idea is securitisation – to sell the risk of SME to the investor market. At present the tax-payer is carrying the risk, but we need private investors to take that risk for long-term solutions."
Richard Hopkin, a managing director at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe concluded "High quality securitisation, of SME loans and other real economy assets, has a crucial role to play in funding growth. We appreciate the increasing number of positive statements from senior policymakers which support securitisation, including in the Commission's recent Green Paper, but it is essential that this is translated into evidence-based, sensibly calibrated and non-duplicative regulation on the ground".
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1. ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) is the global body for professional accountants. We aim to offer business-relevant, first-choice qualifications to people of application, ability and ambition around the world who seek a rewarding career in accountancy, finance and management.
2. We support our 154,000 members and 432,000 students in 170 countries, helping them to develop successful careers in accounting and business, with the skills required by employers. We work through a network of over 80 offices and centres and more than 8,400 Approved Employers worldwide, who provide high standards of employee learning and development. Through our public interest remit, we promote appropriate regulation of accounting and conduct relevant research to ensure accountancy continues to grow in reputation and influence.
3. Founded in 1904, ACCA has consistently held unique core values: opportunity, diversity, innovation, integrity and accountability. We believe that accountants bring value to economies in all stages of development and seek to develop capacity in the profession and encourage the adoption of global standards. Our values are aligned to the needs of employers in all sectors and we ensure that through our qualifications, we prepare accountants for business. We seek to open up the profession to people of all backgrounds and remove artificial barriers, innovating our qualifications and delivery to meet the diverse needs of trainee professionals and their employers.
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The human visual system is a complex network including the eye, ocular nerves, and key brain areas that process visual information. Under most circumstances, we use information from both eyes to create a single visual image. This ability to converge information from both eyes is called binocular vision. In some cases, the eyes fail to seamlessly meld visual information into a coherent image. An eye care provider can assess vision to determine if there are problems with binocular vision that require further care.
How Does Binocular Vision Work?
Unlike some other animals, humans' eyes are both set on the front of the face, permitting binocular vision. Each eye has a field of view, which is the area that you can see when you close one eye. The center of the eyes' fields of view overlap with one another, although visual information in the periphery can only be detected by one eye. This information is transmitted to an area of the brain in the back of the head, which synthesizes the overlapping visual information to make a single coordinated image.
Binocular Vision and Depth Perception
One of the reasons that binocular vision is so important is that it allows us to perceive depth and relationships between objects. Each eye sees slightly different spatial information and transmits these differences to the brain. The brain then uses the discrepancies between the two eyes to judge distance and depth. The result is the ability to see a 3-D image and distinguish the relationships between objects. Depth perception is technically called stereopsis or stereoscopic vision.
Causes of Binocular Vision Problems
If the eyes can no longer maintain their correct position or focus on the same object, the result is problems with binocular vision. In cases of strabismus, or cross-eye, the eyes are not properly aligned, with one is drifting from its normal position. Strabismus causes the brain to have difficulty synthesizing visual images from each eye, resulting in impaired binocular vision and depth perception. Amblyopia, or lazy eye, is another condition that causes binocular vision problems. Amblyopia occurs when the brain ignores input from one eye, affecting depth perception and other visual abilities.
Fortunately, most problems with binocular vision are easily treated through eyeglasses, vision therapy, or surgery. Receiving a thorough annual optometry exam -- especially during childhood when the visual system continues to develop -- is essential to detect these eye problems. Your eye care provider can recommend treatment options that correct or manage problems with binocular vision.


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