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  Tunnel vision - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The same view with tunnel vision from retinitis pigmentosa.
Tunnel vision is a visual problem or symptom of another problem which produces loss of peripheral vision, as illustrated.
Tunnel vision is a metaphor for narrowmindedness, particularly in describing those who pursue an investigation with their conclusion already decided and proceed by only accepting evidence that supports their conclusion and excluding any evidence that contradicts their assumptions.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tunnel_vision   (237 words)

  
 Vision Aids for Impaired Peripheral Vision or Tunnel Vision
The loss is circular, hence the term: "tunnel vision" to describe the person’s remaining, functional vision.
The person has visual acuity correctible to 20/40 or better and sees clearly using his or her "central vision." If best corrected acuity is 20/70 or poorer, the person should go to a “Low Vision Clinic” and request that both problems be addressed: (a) the reduced acuity … and then (b) the reduced visual fields.
If binocular vision can be established, for both direct viewing and for seeing through two, centered, parallel tubular FX devices, then the person may retain functionally better visual acuity with the two eyes than with either eye alone.
www.abledata.com /abledata_docs/Peripheral_Vision.htm   (6140 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
Entering the mouth of this tunnel means leaving the light of day and the sounds of birds and the wind through the trees for a cool, dark, silent and damp journey into the spine of Oahu.
But at the end of the branch tunnel, the steady streams of water pouring from the ceiling explains why this one is the wet bulkhead.
Tunnel tours are usually restricted to those 12 and over, but Wilson Elementary School first grader Rory Kakuna won the board's poster contest, so he got to bring his class on the tour.
starbulletin.com /2000/05/15/features/story1.html   (663 words)

  
 Egypt: Tour Egypt Monthly: Tunnel Vision, About the Great Pyramid   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As Mark explained, the basic problem with the classical explanation was that Ma'mun’s tunnel is rather too accurate for comfort, it tracks into the pyramid in a direct line for the all important junction between the descending and ascending passageways.
It is often cited that Ma'mun had to turn the tunnel sharp left to discover the original passageways, a fact that Ralph and Mark had in the back of their minds when they first visited the Great Pyramid.
The only practical solution was to force a new tunnel from the junction of the descending and ascending passageways, horizontally through the core blocks of the pyramid and into the open air.
www.touregypt.net /magazine/mag03012001/magf5.htm   (3057 words)

  
 Tunnel Vision
In some cases, the tunnels are elaborate; media reports indicate that some have wood paneling, electricity, lighting systems, air ducts, communications equipment, rails, wagons--even elevators.
Some of the tunnels are meant for more than smuggling: In one report, Israeli engineers expressed concerns that the tunnels would be used to transport captured Israeli soldiers.
Tunnels can also be used for complicated attacks against Israeli military targets.
weeklystandard.com /Content/Public/Articles/000/000/002/994qvpoj.asp   (652 words)

  
 Tunnel Vision?: The Future Role of Tunnels in Transport Infrastructure - 13 January 1997   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Firstly, and most importantly, the many benefits offered by tunnels in terms of reduced disruption, avoidance of conflict with activities on the surface, protection of sensitive environmental or cultural sites, can simply not be taken into account in the cost-benefit appraisal used in transport schemes.
Thirdly, the greater engineering uncertainties in predicting the cost of tunnels means that decisions are often made on a ‘worst-case’ assumption, which may well include contingencies of 50 per cent.
The report also looks at other aspects of tunnelling, including that of safety, and the various factors which contribute to costs and which might be amenable to further reduction.
www.parliament.uk /post/9701.htm   (725 words)

  
 Sport Rider-Testing Suzuki Hayabusa and Kawasaki ZX-12R aerodynamics in the wind tunnel
The tunnel we used was built in 1940 and has a 10 foot wide by 6.5 foot high test section, which provides comfortable room for a motorcycle.
The NRC wind tunnel uses a 2000 horsepower DC motor to generate the airflow that blows past the bike, which is mounted on a balance to measure drag.
Wind tunnel testing is essential to optimize drag, downforce and lift for different racetracks, and the top teams put every car in the tunnel for aerodynamic fine tuning, done on the spot by sheet metal artists.
www.sportrider.com /tech/146_0106_aero   (3055 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Scotland | Tunnel vision takes the biscuit
It asks them to choose what they would like to hear and smell as they pass through the tunnel, as well as their preferences for colours and shapes.
Kathy said there was no definitive explanation of where the tradition originated, although it was believed that children held their breath because they were going under water.
The council is currently undertaking a £9m project to replace the tunnel linings, due for completion in April next year.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/scotland/4530153.stm   (906 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Flying fox favours tunnel vision
But some have begun flying the full length of a 130ft (40m) tunnel, planted with vegetation to encourage them to fly to reach their feed.
Dozens of wild tomato, fig, melon and cape gooseberry plants are now growing in the tunnel's earth floor, having germinated from seeds which had passed through the bats.
Two young bats have been born in the tunnel this year, suggesting the animals are happy with it.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3624430.stm   (558 words)

  
 Changing Currents | Tunnel Vision
Qanats are subterranean tunnels that tap the groundwater and lead the water to human settlement and agricultural lands through the use of gravity.
The system consists of a tunnel that is intersected on regular intervals with hand dug airshafts that provide oxygen for the diggers and cleaners who maintain the channels.
However, decades of migration and family conflicts caused the tunnels' maintenance to be ignored.
www.tve.org /cc/doc.cfm?aid=931   (681 words)

  
 Tunnel vision bill: $391m a kilometre - National - www.smh.com.au
Sydney's next motorway tunnel will cost $1.8 billion but still won't be long enough to prevent crippling bottlenecks as traffic tries to enter and leave the city centre, the State Opposition warns.
Mr Brogden called for another kilometre to be added to the tunnel so it finished at the foot of the six-lane bridge leading to the city.
Construction of the tunnel is due to be completed by the end of 2009 or early 2010 - just in time to do away with the M4's existing $2.20 toll and replace it with the $5 levy.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/06/26/1088145022527.html   (477 words)

  
 Tunnel Vision
I was bitten by the bug carrying the "tunnel vision" virus.
"Tunnel vision" is a virus on handicappers who otherwise know the sport inside and out, and who clearly understand the principles of winning handicapping.
Tunnel vision destroys well-researched wagers and wipes out more confidence than perhaps any other flaw in methodology.
www.madjacksports.com /nolan/article830.shtml   (1080 words)

  
 Tunnel-Vision in Gaza - Middle East Quarterly - Summer 2004
Of course, some of the cross-border smuggling, overland or by tunnel, involves contraband and drugs—economic smuggling that occurs across all borders (and all of Israel's borders).
The numbers suggest its scale: the IDF discovered and destroyed ninety-four tunnels in the Rafah region in the period from September 29, 2000 to January 1, 2004.
[5] Tunnel smuggling is estimated to be the main source of income for the Rafah region, and local Palestinians desperately need to keep the smuggling tunnels operational.
www.meforum.org /article/630   (4109 words)

  
 Youth Sports Parenting, How To Avoid "Tunnel Vision" - MomsTeam.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When the intensity level reaches a certain point, parents move into "Tunnel Vision." By that I mean they literally lose sight of what is important in youth sports and focus narrowly on their child, to the exclusion of everything else.
Tunnel vision is often the reason parents act out at the game.
When a parent cannot stay out of tunnel vision during a youth sporting event he is far more likely to act inappropriately.
www.momsteam.com /alpha/features/parenting/tunnel_vision.shtml   (726 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Will the Channel Tunnel Rail Link restore our faith in the railways?
As for the Channel Tunnel itself, when it eventually opened (late and with a reduced service) in June 1994, its cost had risen to £10bn from the original £6bn, after endless contractor and financial troubles.
Today, the tunnel operation remains crippled by debt, while the train line leading to it has only lately (with the 2003 opening of the high-speed leg through Kent) ceased being a source of shame by comparison with the network on the French side.
A further, and crucial, factor has been that some of the key players in the construction project, including Bechtel, have agreed, in effect, to take on a waiver if there are delays and cost overruns, paying some of the costs themselves: this has concentrated their own minds, and reassured their insurers.
www.guardian.co.uk /transport/Story/0,2763,1493487,00.html   (2934 words)

  
 Resources - Brisbane transport: exhaust fumes and political smokescreens - 01 May 2003
But a tunnel, well a tunnel doesn't come down anywhere, it just burrows along until it pokes its head up in the middle of, guess what, a Road.
The tunnel goes in, more people use their cars, as it becomes more convenient in the short run, buses are squeezed out by congestion, and the status quo is maintained.
Tunnel vision, as Councillor Prentice put it with unconscious irony in her press release about the Liberal Party's five-tunnel plan, is simply that.
www.brisinst.org.au /resources/nightingale_john_tunnels.html   (1106 words)

  
 JS Online: Tunnel vision
Planners say the tunnel is a large part of the solution to the problem of the nasty stuff that has backed up into area basements during heavy storms and caused untreated sewage to be dumped into local waterways.
The tunnel is expected to be completed in four years, said Bill Graffin, a spokesman for the district.
A number of those working on the crews also worked on the deep tunnel system, the 17-mile storage system that opened in late 1993, the cornerstone of a plan that was to be a virtual cure-all for the problems of sewage contamination of area waterways.
www.jsonline.com /news/metro/apr03/133192.asp   (986 words)

  
 Tunnel Vision
On a rainy sunday night in April, young fl men are lining up at the Tunnel's metal detector, outfitted in typical hip-hop-wear: Mecca hats, Avirex jackets, FUBU jeans, and.
Welcome to New York's hardest of hard-core hip-hop parties, where shoes are inspected for drugs and weapons, ballpoint pens are contraband, and fights decide hit records.
Most promoters spurn the kind of crowd the Tunnel pulls in, which in many ways is a throwback to the days of rough-and-tumble B-boy nightspots like Union Square and the Latin Quarter.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/nightlife/barsclubs/features/1166   (359 words)

  
 Cascadia Scorecard Weblog: Tunnel Vision?
But what neither the city, nor anyone else, has decided is how to pay for the tunnel, which the state estimates could cost more than $4 billion.
That way, city officials can claim credit for implementing their Tunnel vision, but pass off the blame for the cost.
But given the cost of the tunnel, I think the smartest strategy is *not* to buy into the idea that we absolutely have to replace the traffic capacity on the Viaduct.
cascadiascorecard.typepad.com /blog/2005/02/a_little_help_p.html   (2644 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Opinion: Tunnel vision on viaduct ignores simpler, better retrofit
The proposed tunnel to replace the viaduct is an absurd and fatally flawed solution that I feel is being pushed by big downtown developers for their own self-interests.
The cost would be staggering, somewhere between $4 billion and $11 billion, depending on whose figures you believe (think of the monorail, and it's déjà vu all over again).
Let's not spend billions on a tunnel or an entirely new viaduct when the present structure can be brought up to modern safety and seismic standards and be serviceable for many, many years.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/opinion/2002718619_frankhansen04.html   (723 words)

  
 Tunnel Vision
If you develop and use a tunnel vision approach in any business, you will eventually make your fortune through a logical progression of accumulation, leverage and natural diversification.
Once I learned, developed and used a tunnel vision approach in my wig business, I made my fortune through a logical progression of accumulation, leverage and natural diversification.
Throughout the years, I have observed that all successful business people have developed that all-important tunnel vision approach in their businesses.
www.businesslyceum.com /tunnel.html   (1828 words)

  
 Asheville's tunnel vision / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
As the new tunnel through Beaucatcher Mountain neared completion in 1928, the prospect of expanding eastward toward Black Mountain excited local business leaders – especially the Board of Trade, whose mission was to promote Asheville's image as a modern, progressive, "New South" city.
Instead, it smacks of the kind of cloned franchises found in almost any medium-sized town or city in the nation and is scarcely recognizable as a distinct urban place in the mountains.
And if Asheville once again embraces that same tunnel vision, the prosperous 1990s may eventually come to be seen as yet another funeral decade for this city.
www.mountainx.com /opinion/2005/1005ready.php   (1226 words)

  
 eMedicine - Neuro-ophthalmic Examination : Article by Edsel Ing, MD, FRCS(C)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It is not uncommon for patients with keratoconus (warped corneas) to present to the neuro-ophthalmologist with diplopia or blurry vision.
Correlation of the distance vision with the near acuity is invaluable.
If near vision is better than distance vision or vice versa, ensure that the best refraction was in place and that the distance at which the near card was held was appropriate.
www.emedicine.com /oph/topic643.htm   (7839 words)

  
 Urban Legends Reference Pages: Photo Gallery (Tunnel Vision)
The tunnel is 4,800 feet long from portal to portal, and it was built by the immersed sunken tube method, comprised of 15 prefabricated segments each 300 feet long and with two 2-lane bores, placed by lay-barges and joined together in a trench dredged in the bottom of the harbor, and backfilled over with earth.
Four percent (4%) maximum grades are utilized in the tunnel, and a 60 mph design speed.
The traffic lanes in the tunnel are 13 feet wide, with 2.5-foot-wide ledges on either side of the roadway, and with 16.5 feet of vertical clearance from the roadway to the ceiling.
www.snopes.com /photos/architecture/bridgetunnel.asp   (498 words)

  
 Tunnel Vision
This list may be subject to additions or removals, but for now it's the official list of participating game centers at which you can compete in Tunnel Vision events - check it out in the Find a Center tab up top.
The problem was each tunnel was only capable of reading upto 7 mac addresses on 1 network.
Once the software is updated each tunnel will almost be unlimited to how many xboxes it can read on 1 network.
www.tunnelvisionusa.com   (636 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Football | News | Ferguson says Wenger has tunnel vision on Van Nistelrooy
Speaking at the United training ground, Ferguson revealed that his club had compiled a dossier on last weekend's tunnel fracas and would submit it to the Football Association with a view to redressing what they see as unfair criticism from Arsenal.
He suggested that Arsenal had broken a gentlemen's agreement by leaking criticism of United to the London press and he believes that his club have enough evidence to force the FA to take action against the London side.
Ferguson claims that the two clubs agreed to cast a veil of silence over the tunnel fracas in the immediate aftermath of the game, but United are unhappy about what they perceive to be leaks to the media from Arsenal.
www.guardian.co.uk /Football/News_Story/0,1563,1339652,00.html   (915 words)

  
 TrekEarth | Tunnel vision Photo
Your eye is either carried from left to right following the lines to the center of hte tunnel or from teh center of the tunnel back to the camera.
The was a very similar photo posted on TE some time ago but it was of cars going through a tunnel.
It reminds me of the photo "motion in a tunnel" by Maciekda which can be seen here on TE..
www.trekearth.com /gallery/Europe/Denmark/photo28990.htm   (1352 words)

  
 Iraq Diaries: Tunnel Vision   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But what I do (and it is my sense that the colonel does this also) instead of opening up my field of vision to include things that I don't understand or agree with is to make my field of vision even narrower.
The colonel seemed very confident that the vision of the world he described was an accurate and complete one.
Within his extremely limited world-view, his vision was indeed clear.
electroniciraq.net /news/1994.shtml   (757 words)

  
 stu nicholls | CSS PLaY | tunnel vision
Hover the mouse over the central area to reveal a picture at the end of a tunnel.
Redone to give a larger image and a colourful tunnel.
The impression of the tunnel is produced by border-art and the image at the end is just a background image on a grid of links that gives the appearance of a static image as each link is selected.
www.cssplay.co.uk /menu/tunnel.html   (78 words)

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