Bird centre's £5,000 target to save the sight of Angel the eagle owl

By Western Morning News  |  Posted: August 22, 2014

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  Angel the Siberian Turkmanian Eagle Owl needs over £5,000 for an operation to remove his cataracts. Photos: Richard Austin
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  Angel the Siberian Turkmanian Eagle Owl needs over £5,000 for an operation to remove his cataracts. Photos: Richard Austin

The fight is on to raise £5,000 to save the sight and life of a spectacular eagle owl.
The eight-month-old Turkmenian Eagle Owl called Angel has developed congenital bilateral cataracts in both her eyes and the condition will only get worse as she gets older.
Now Karen Andriunas, owner of the Devon Bird of Prey Centre, says she needs to raise £5,000 for a life-saving operation for Angel.
Karen, who has over 20 years of experience of training and rearing birds, realised very early on that something wasn’t quite right. As Angel was living at home with Karen, as all of the imprints do to start with, she was monitored very closely. Karen noticed Angel wasn’t as responsive as she would have expected her to be and this continued as she grew. Angel was slow to explore her surroundings and was lacking the usual co-ordination skills.
Jim Carter, one of Europe’s top specialists in veterinary ophthalmology, diagnosed Angel’s condition.
Said Karen: “These birds have such amazing presence and personality and can live a long time in captivity. Angel has already captivated everyone that has met her and has formed very strong bonds with my team of handlers. She is currently at our Escot site, near Honiton, where she can be seen in all her glory.
“We are devastated by the diagnosis, but we have been reassured by Mr Carter that her eyesight can be restored if she has an operation to remove the cataracts and replace her lenses. Obviously such specialist procedures are costly so we are looking to raise £5,000 for her operation and ongoing veterinary care.”
Donations can be made by paypal to angelseyesfund@outlook.com or in person at either the Ipplepen or Escot sites. The centre is planning a special event, following Angel’s surgery, for all of
those who have donated to meet her in person and see first hand what the incredible surgery will mean for her.
For further information please contact Karen by email Karen@devonbirdofprey.co.uk or on 07801325070 or via website www.devonbirdofprey.co.uk

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Study creates 'time travel' illusion

Virtual reality can be used to give the illusion of going "back in time", according to an exploratory study.

In this virtual world, subjects were able to reduce how many people a gunman killed, an event they had unknowingly been part of.
Going into "the past" increased the level of guilt the participants felt.
Writing in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, the team says that virtual time travel could help people overcome traumatic experiences.
Most interesting, the researchers add, was the emotional impact virtual time travel had on the participants.
"The more the participants felt the illusion, the greater the sense of their own morality," explained co-author Mel Slater of the ICREA (Catalan Research Institute) and University College London.
Mutable past In the virtual world, participants could walk, talk and move similar to how they would in real life, and previous studies have shown that people strongly associate with their virtual selves.
"In virtual reality, the brain's low level perceptual system does not distinguish between the virtual and the real world; the brain takes what it sees and hears in a surrounding environment as given," added Prof Slater.
"Therefore, if they had an experience with the illusion of time travel, there is implicit learning that the past is mutable, that is: 'my own past decisions don't matter because they're changeable'-."READ MORE

To Nicky my sister

This is a hard to write this bit for my blog, why you ask , will its a plea to my sister nicky after my dads funeral, see previous post. Anyway when I heard a talk by dean and saw his passion for his lost friend I was reminded how when me and nicky were very close when young. I admit to being angry, upset, confused after dad's death but I hope she reads this we can at least be on talking terms and I am going to say sorry is the hardest word. And I hope we can speak again and I don't mean this in a nasty way but I hope shr aldo makes a small effort with mum, mum and dad haf a strange relationship but loved each ovet or ehy else stay together gor 50 years  plus, no one is perfect. So that's start again as I don't wish to be on bad terms as it hurts, your brother mark.

RETIRED BREEDING POLAR BEAR

VICTOR -1,058 lb(450 kg) a polar bear is enjoying retirement-stud bear-at YORKSHIRE PARK,DONCESTER.Think only polar bear  in england?-the 15 year old bear came from HOLLAND and is being housed in a new facility-project bear.

i am normal as you please treat me well.

LYMPHANGIOMA-is a condition of LYMPHATIC SYSTEM that causes extreme inflammation resulting in doughy masses forming in certain parts of the body .HAMARTOMA-a benign type of tumor caused by the body producing too much of a certain tissue type.Both could be behind this boy in picture with deformed hands .As we all know this problem your tended to be treated as a freak or ignored, by family and others but is treatable.

Swimming lesson for seal pup

Zoo keepers at Living Coasts in Torquay are teaching a tiny seal pup how to swim.
She had to be hand reared because her mother Grace was unable to produce milk. Now, keeper Libor Mach has taken to the water to give her swimming lessons.
But how do you teach a seal pup to swim? Living Coasts' Clare Rugg explained: "In the wild the mother would simply take them into the water and keep them afloat until they got the hang of it. So we have to do pretty much the same!
"She has a natural instinct but needs Libor, her surrogate mother, for confidence. She can't get in or out of the water by herself yet, she does doggy paddle and blows bubbles and every so often she gets a little nervous and heads back to the shore!"
Living Coasts, a registered charity, is auctioning the right to name the pup on eBay to raise money for conservation. You can bid by going to http://bit.ly/seal-pup. Bidding closes on 26th July.
Meanwhile, Sainsburys in Paignton are donating 300ml of double cream every day to help feed her. South American fur seal Grace gave birth early on the morning of Tuesday 3rd June. For more information go to www.livingcoasts.org.uk or ring 0844 474 3366.

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HEDGEHOGS HELPED

Support small s

I like the idea of the school helping those with a need  of a boost in life. I too when I was at school was kept back a year by the headmistress, a girl also was but forgotten  name. For this I was behind at school and later when I went to senior school I was in remedial class for a while but this helped me as I won a award for my work. My opinion for what its worth is no one is stupid we all have a skill and all born equal. And that's why I am in  support for the small school.

Cfz family ode

Dressed in a white suit top the dude is like the thin white Duke, his wife is his rock and beloved, alexi sayle look alike does thr search on expedition but yet to find Yorkshire tea in a alien land, pilot jobs run from driving to finding a screw for that odd job, zombie picks up the dog poo, the odd blog and is a bit odd, don't forget the animal loony s all, pru, archie and the cats sounds like a punk band for gonzo to sign, the intern suffers french words and a cough doing a typing job, her hubby runs a fb site and photos too, dont forget the kids their alright, cfz a family all so come and join its not a cult at all. Talked to the editor who give me stick, and it the sectury that types, the intern is  sashca youg in age, well what a twat I am

Cfz

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Crass - Mother Earth (1979)

The Art Of Punk - Crass - The Art of Dave King and Gee Vaucher - Art + M...

Crass

Crass

The most politically influential band of the first wave of punk rock bands, as the second wave began, they stopped playing since they promised themselfs to stop in 1984. Crass was against government, organized religion, and all that good stuff, they pointed out problems in the punk scene itself, with their song Punk is Dead. Their most remembered song today is probably Banned From the Roxy

Without crass, anarchy wouldnt be a popular movent today, and you couldnt buy anarchy wristbands from the counter-revolutionaries (hot topic) while paying tax for them, which is the biggest condradiction of brainless mtv generation kids wearing the anarchy symbol, which most of them think means chaos and disorder, the misconception started by counter-revolutionaries themselfs, to make people sub-conciously believe that anarchy will result in chaos, and not work.

JUMP TEDDY

The teddy bears were almost  unbearable to watch as their  took  turns to drop off ST.GEORGE CHURCH,GEORGEHAM,DEVON in parachutes.This was done  to raise  money  for a church facelift-£546.00 -refurbishment of tower clock as part of  first world war memorial.

Amazing photos show baby seal entangled in litter before snorkeler removes it in first for Lundy Island

A YOUNG female grey seal amazed the community on Lundy Island by allowing a snorkeller to get close enough to remove a plastic ring it was entangled in.
Warden of the island Beccy MacDonald said this was the first time she can recall a seal allowing a person to remove an entanglement.
Lesley Harper of Seastyle Diving came across the seal while snorkelling on a recent visit on charter boat Jessica Hettie.
Lesley said: “The seal suddenly appeared with this plastic ring wrapped around it. Luckily I managed to coax it off and stuff it in my pocket. The seal was acting like it was a toy.”

Read more: http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/Amazing-photos-baby-seal-entangled-litter/story-22701371-detail/story.html#ixzz3AfuB9bu9

SNAKE HAS A FROG IN MOUTH

A grass snake was trapped in a grating with a frogin its throat,it was saved by a passing local vet at Sidmouth by cutting it cut
  of grid well that was the idea untill the snake slipped free via lubricant,grass snakes eat-amphibians,sometimes mammals ,fish.

Hemp fibres 'better than graphene'

The waste fibres from hemp crops can be transformed into high-performance energy storage devices, scientists say.

They "cooked" cannabis bark into carbon nanosheets and built supercapacitors "on a par with or better than graphene" - the industry gold standard.
Electric cars and power tools could harness this hemp technology, the US researchers say.
They presented their work at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco.
"People ask me: why hemp? I say, why not?" said Dr David Mitlin of Clarkson University, New York, who describes his device in the journal ACS Nano.
"We're making graphene-like materials for a thousandth of the price - and we're doing it with waste.
"The hemp we use is perfectly legal to grow. It has no THC in it at all - so there's no overlap with any recreational activities."
Secret sauce In countries including China, Canada and the UK, hemp can be grown industrially for clothing and building materials.
But the leftover bast fibre - the inner bark - typically ends up as landREAD MORE

SEAGULL -NOT THAT BAD

Yes i know seagulls can be a problem when scavenging scraps.But it is our fault for encouring them to ffed,i dot agree with spraying them with water -similar to riot
control.

Climate 'key driver' in European forest disturbances

Europe's forests have experienced increased disturbances throughout the 20th Century from wind, bark beetles and wildfires, a study has shown.

A team of European-based scientists identified climatic changes as a "key driver behind this increase".
However, they added, how the expected continuation of climate change would affect Europe's forests in the future remained unresolved.
The findings have been published online by the journal Nature Climate Change.
The researchers wrote: "Natural disturbances, that is, large pulses of tree mortality from agents such as wildfire, insect outbreaks or strong winds, are integral drivers of forest dynamics and contribute to the diversity and adaptive capacity of ecosystems."
But co-author Rupert Seidl from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna observed: "These disturbances have intensified considerably in recent decades, which increasingly challenges the sustainable management of forest ecosystems."
The authors said the frequency and severity of large wildfires had increased around the globe over the past decade.
They added: "In addition, recent bark beetle outbreaks, for example, in North A;READ MORE