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Wednesday, October 23, 2013 – Daily News 3B FEATURES Describing sight differs from knowing how it works DEAR DOCTOR K: cialized cells: Rod cells perceive changes This isn't a medin light and dark, ical question — while cone cells I'm just curious. perceive color. How do we see? So how DEAR READdo all of these ER: It all begins parts work togethwith light. Light er to help us see? from the sun, Consider what moon, fire or (in happens when you the past century or Dr. K walk through a two) from electric by Anthony L. lights bounces off Komaroff, M.D. parking lot and spot your car. an object and What you are actually seeenters our eyes. The eye is like a cam- ing is the light reflected era. It has a lens that con- off the car. The light thrown off the tinuously focuses to sharpen the picture. Then surfaces of your car hits the eye sends the picture your cornea, where it is to the brain, which bent inward and passed processes the picture and through to the lens. The light rays bend further and does the seeing. Let's start with some get projected onto the retieye anatomy. (I've put a na. The retina absorbs the corresponding illustration on my website, AskDoc- light and turns it into electorK.com.) The eye's sur- trical energy. Those elecface is made up of the trical signals travel along sclera (the white part of a nerve — the optic nerve the eye that protects its — through your brain to interior) and the cornea. the very back part of it, The cornea is a clear, called the occipital lobe. dome-like window at the When those electrical sigfront of the eye that helps nals reach the back of the brain, the brain interprets focus light. The middle layer con- the image — the size, tains the iris. The black shape, color and distance hole in the center of the of your car. Other parts of iris is the pupil. By chang- the brain also are involved ing the size of the pupil, in interpreting the images the iris controls how much from your eyes. We understand what light enters the eye (more in dim light, less in bright parts of the eye and brain light). The iris has the are involved in seeing. But color that defines you as we only understand dimly blue-eyed or brown-eyed. how it really works. How Just behind the pupil does your brain know and iris lies the lens. The where a tennis ball speedflexible lens alters its ing toward you will be one shape, allowing the eye to second from now so that focus on objects at vary- you can position your racing distances. The shape quet to hit it? The answer the lens takes when you to that and similar quesare looking at a sunset is tions remains a marvelous very different from the mystery. shape it takes when you Dr. Komaroff is a read a book. physician and professor The lens focuses light Harvard Medical rays on the retina, the at To send light-sensitive layer at the School. go to rear of the eye. The macu- questions, or la is a small part of the AskDoctorK.com, retina that gives us sharp write: Ask Doctor K, 10 central vision. Within the Shattuck St., Second retina are millions of spe- Floor, Boston, MA 02115. Redding Veterans Home to open Friday The California Department of Veterans Affairs will hold the Grand Opening Event and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the new Veterans Home in Redding at 10 a.m. Friday, Oct. 25. This event, which has been highly anticipated by the veterans and community leaders in Northern California, will feature select guest speakers, dignitaries, entertainment and special presentations. These events will give the public a chance to view these state-of-the-art facilities and participate in the historic opening and dedication of the new Veterans Home of Redding. The Veterans Home of California – Redding is at 3400 Knighton Road. The ceremony will be highlighted with guest speakers including The Secretary Of Veterans Affairs Peter Gravett, Sen. Jim Nielsen, Assemblyman Brian Dahle and Senator (Ret) Maurice Johannessen. There will be many vintage military vehicles, helicopters, bagpipe band, ceremonial band, members of the Patriot Guard and Missing in Action Project, fire and emergency vehicles, a special National Anthem and a 2-plane formation flyover during the ceremony. All branches of the military will be involved along with the Naval Sea Cadets, Redding Police Department and the California Highway Patrol. The Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will also be in attendance. There will be a Ribbon Cutting ceremony following the Dedication Ceremony and guided tours of the Home will be given. A community open house will be held on the Saturday following the opening to allow the public an opportunity to tour the facilities and meet the staff. There will be a tri-tip barbecue put on by the Asphalt Cowboys, a live radio broadcast and Silverbridge, a local band, performing on the event stage. Elizabeth Emerson Lise Helseth from Norway is looking for you 360-425-5309 360-751-3351 Management favors my lazy co-worker takes these things seriously. Dear Annie: I love my Dear Annie: After havjob, but I constantly see ing no contact with us in 23 favoritism among the manyears, my husband's agement staff. One in parnephew decided to move ticular frustrates me. "Joe" back to our state with his was hired because of "what wife and build a new home. he brings to the table." My husband agreed to do What he brings to the table the plumbing for nothing, is sitting at his desk surfing the Internet, talking to his Annie's but at the very least expected to be paid a small amount friends and family, and for the three 40-mile trips he playing games on his phone. In the meantime, by Kathy Mitchell drove to perform the work. the rest of us are working and Marcy Sugar This apparently never entered his nephew's mind. hard and getting nowhere. Why is it that people who pre- Also, in the three years since the tend to work are the ones who get home was built, we never have been promoted? It just doesn't make invited to family gatherings there, sense. Are employers really that not even those that included the nephew's mother (my husband's blind? I've tried talking to my manager, sister). Should my husband say somewho does nothing, as well as human resources, which sends me thing or remain quiet in order to back to the manager. I get nowhere. keep the peace? — Annoyed Aunt Dear Aunt: First of all, if your I don't want to come across as a bitter employee or a tattletale, but it is husband said he would do the work frustrating to see this type of behav- for free, the nephew no doubt ior, and it brings down office assumed that included all associatmorale, causing tension and fric- ed costs. Of course, it would have tion. How do I make this stop? — been gracious and considerate to offer some reimbursement for the Working Hard Dear Working: If you have trip, but if your husband expected taken the matter to the manager and remuneration, he needed to make it human resources without result, clear from the start. Since he did there is nothing more you can do not, it's pointless to hold onto that through normal channels. What's grudge. Invitations are a separate left is your personal response. If matter. You had no contact with this you like your job and wish to stay, you'll have to ignore Joe and what- nephew for 23 years, so obviously, ever his "table" lacks, in the hope the relationship is not close. A dinthat someday he will be found out ner invitation would have been a and your hard work will be appreci- nice "thank you" for the plumbing, ated. Your second option is to look but it likely didn't occur to the for another job where management nephew to do so. 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