[Nfbc-info] NFBC-Info Digest, Vol 144, Issue 5

Sat May 6 02:52:08 UTC 2017

Hello all,
I have been informed by, Jason Eien, who was supposed to be my roommate at the national convention  that he cannot afford it, and that it is to expensive  for him, and that he will not be able to go. So, that leads me back to the drawing board, and I am in need of a roommate for the national federation of the blind convention in Orlando. I already have a reservation at the Rosen shingle creek resort. If you are interested in being my roommate please call me at 9514547586, and 9517372752, and email me at jordanmirander at icloud.com. 

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>   1. NFBC, At-Large Chapter Monthly Meeting Reminder (Allison Depner)
>   2. A one-eyed horse named Patch has a chance of winning the
>      Kentucky Derby - The Washington Post (nancy Lynn)
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> Hello Everyone,
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> The next monthly National Federation of the Blind of California At-Large
> Chapter conference call meeting will take place on Thursday, May 11 at 7:00
> P.M.  
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> How to Call in
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> Simply call our free conference call number and follow the prompt to enter
> our pass code.  The conference call number and pass code are as follows
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> (712) 432-0175 
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> 184220 pound
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> Chapter Purpose
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> The At-Large Chapter provides a  an opportunity for those individuals
> throughout the state of California who are unable to attend a local chapter
> meeting to be involved in NFB activities and be informed of NFB related
> news.  Participants learn the details of conventions, NFB legislation, and
> available scholarships as well as other blindness related topics.  
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> Our meeting also provides a chance for us to become acquainted with members
> from all over the state.  Everyone is welcome to join in on our conference
> call, even if you are already a member of a local chapter.  However, if you
> do not attend local chapter meetings, we encourage you to become a member of
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> How to Become an Official member
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> If you wish to become an official voting member of the NFBC, At Large
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> Respectfully,
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> You Can Live the Life You Want!!
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> Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 22:49:44 -0500
> From: "nancy Lynn" <seabreeze.stl at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Nfbc-info] A one-eyed horse named Patch has a chance of
>    winning the Kentucky Derby - The Washington Post
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> A one-eyed horse named Patch has a chance of winning the Kentucky Derby - The Washington Post
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> By Eliza McGraw May 3
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> Meet the one-eyed horse set to run the Kentucky Derby
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> A one-eyed horse named Patch is set to run in the Kentucky Derby for the first leg of U.S. thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown. (Reuters) 
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> Patch looks a lot like the other Kentucky Derby contenders ? he?s a sleek, muscled, 3-year-old thoroughbred. At least, he looks like the other racehorses
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> from the right side. On the left, where others have an eye, Patch has an empty, ping-pong ball-size socket.
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> Patch lost his eye due to an ulcer that never healed; he came out of his stall one morning with a swollen and tearing eye, his trainer has said, and no
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> one knew why. The eye worsened and eventually had to be removed. Fittingly, and a little eerily, the colt was already named Patch.
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> As an underdog with a great story ? and 
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> a Twitter accoun
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> t ? Patch is easy to pull for, and he?s proving to be a fan favorite in the days leading up to the race on Saturday. But as a one-eyed racehorse, he?s
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> neither unique nor even the first to run in the Kentucky Derby: 
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> One ran in 1982,
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> another in 2004,
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> and 
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> another in 2007.
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> ?We very commonly have situations where racehorses have to have their eyes removed, and the majority of racehorse trainers don?t even think twice about
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> it,? said Nicole M. Scherrer, a clinical assistant professor of ophthalmology at the New Bolton Center of University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary
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> Medicine.
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> Sports fans will recall human athletes who have competed successfully with less-than-complete vision. Orioles 
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> pitcher Chris Lee
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> is legally blind in one eye, as was 
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> Wesley Walker,
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> a New York Jets wide receiver in the 1970s and ?80s. 
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> Bryan Berard,
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> a former NHL member, lost his eye playing hockey and came back to the ice.
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> Because of how a horse?s vision works, losing an eye likewise doesn?t have to end their athletic careers. We humans have small, round pupils that allow
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> us to see very well front and center. But we don?t have very good peripheral vision. Horses, by contrast, have the largest eyes of any land mammals, and
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> their long, horizontal pupils allow them to get an enormous view from side to side, said Janet L. Jones, a cognitive scientist who trains horses and has
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> written about how horses see the world.
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> Additionally, while human eyes move in tandem and give us a view of 140 or 150 degrees, horses can move their eyes separately for a view of about 350 degrees.
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> Jones says to imagine you are holding up a piece of cardboard with two small pinholes, centered to each of your eyes. You would easily see what?s directly
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> in front of you, but nothing of what?s behind you or to the side. To correspond to where a horse?s eyes would be located, you would crease the cardboard
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> down the middle, and add two long slots on either side.
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> ?You can see that you would get a totally different view of the world,? she said. ?And if you were just to imagine covering up the left slot on your horse
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> cardboards, and then run in great big circles to the left, you would have an idea of what this horse is attempting to do.?
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> So how does Patch do it? Scherrer said it has to do with that extraordinary side vision.
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> ?Just because the one eye was removed doesn?t mean that they can?t see anything on that side,? she says. ?So if the left eye is removed, the right eye
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> looks out in front, and can actually see a little bit to the left as well.?
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> Patch?s impairment could present a problem, Scherrer said, ?if a horse came out of nowhere and bumped him from the left side.? That?s unlikely to happen,
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> because bumping another horse during a race constitutes a foul. Also, Patch?s residual vision ? and his jockey?s guidance ? should prevent contact.
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> Patch adjusted quickly after losing the eye, his trainer, Todd Pletcher, 
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> told the Blood-Horse.
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> ?And after a couple weeks we were like, ?This horse is fine,'? Pletcher said. ?I mean, there is common sense stuff, like I don?t come up to him without
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> letting him know I?m there. You don?t want to startle him, things like that. But really, you really wouldn?t know it and you don?t really have to do anything
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> special with him either from a rider standpoint on the track or around the barn.?
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> Patch doesn?t wear a prosthesis, but some one-eyed horses do. There are two kinds for equine eyes, Scherrer said. One is an implant that a surgeon puts
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> in the sunken hole, and then closes skin over it. That gives the horse sort of a permanently mid-blink look that makes eyelessness tough to detect. Surgeons
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> can also place a false eye in the socket, to give a horse the appearance of having two eyes, more along the lines of a human glass eye. Scherrer said those
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> are usually used in horses ?that have a job based on their appearance,? such as show horses competing in a class in which the animals and riders are judged
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> on looks as well as performance.
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> ?Sometimes it just creeps people out to have the socket, but obviously the horse doesn?t care either way,? she said.
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> What?s more important is patience, said Scherrer, adding that horses that have lost an eye adjust better when in familiar surroundings and with known companions.
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> Scherrer has her own one-eyed horse, a former patient, and she initially rode his best friend and led her horse along from the saddle. Now they compete
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> over jumps.
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> ?I couldn?t ask for a better horse,? she said. ?He is better than the majority of two-eyed horses.?
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> Scherrer cited a retrospective study based out of New Bolton that followed up with horses that had had their eyes removed. The majority, she said, went
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> back to doing the same thing they were doing before they lost the eye. Those that didn?t were stymied by a perception that they?d be too changed to do
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> the same job, not because of any evidence that they couldn?t.
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> ?It definitely makes me very happy for [Patch] to go out and do this successfully and show people that horses with one eye adjust amazingly,? Scherrer
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> said. ?They?re so much more adjustable than humans.?
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> Correction: An earlier version of this story provided inaccurate information about the size of horses? eyes. It has been corrected.
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