| In the eye of the beholder | | Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 2:57:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Linette Hwu had been warned by doctors that she was not a candidate for laser eye surgery: Her corneas were too thin, her pupils too large, and she was extremely nearsighted. The 33-year-old lawyer for Discovery Communications said she had resigned herself to being permanently tethered to the glasses she had worn since third grade. But four months ago, Hwu underwent one of several relatively new procedures, this one known as Epi-Lasik, which is designed for patients who can't have conventional laser surgery because it removes too much corneal tissue. An eye exam last month showed she could see 20/20 without glasses. "It's pretty great," Hwu said of the elective surgery that cost her $5,900. "I never thought I'd be able to wake up and see the alarm clock or be able to learn to surf, which has been my dream." Alice Corbett, 53, of suburban Washington, D.C., had been told a few years ago that the shape of her corneas made her a questionable surgical risk, but recently approved technology revealed otherwise.... | |
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| | | People's Union Our Ukraine congress draws to a close | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 1:09:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | KYIV. Nov 12 (Interfax-Ukraine) - The People's Union Our Ukraine party's congress closed two ours before midnight on Saturday after running for eleven hours. The congress opened at 11 a.m. in Kyiv and ended at 10 p.m. with several recesses called to coordinate positions. The delegates backed the decision to join the opposition, but the ballots cast in a vote fell short of the minimum, required to change the party's name to Our Ukraine. The procedure of electing leader sparked heated debates, especially the proposal for electing leader by the congress, not by the party's council. President Viktor Yushchenko remains honorary president of the party, set up in spring 2005. The delegates, who stayed after some of the regional delegations went home in the evening, elected a new council, which has 214 members now, compared with the previous 185.... | |
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| | | Essilor Standardizes on ILOG Rules for .NET as Part of SOA Initiative | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:05:58 PM by Blog57 Team | | ILOG(R) (Nasdaq: ILOG; Euronext: ILO, ISIN: FR0004042364), today announced that Essilor International, the world leader in ophthalmic optical products, has selected ILOG Rules for .NET(TM), a key offering in ILOG's Business Rule Management System (BRMS) product line, as a key part of its service-oriented architecture (SOA) initiative that will provide a single platform for all business and financial applications deployed by Essilor across Europe. One of the first applications to be put in production will use ILOG Rules for .NET to streamline the management of customer contracts. This application will enable Essilor sales managers to improve time-to-market for new pricing policies, while ensuring that company policies better address local market requirements and regional market growth objectives and remain compliant with Essilor's corporate policies.... | |
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| | | Hourly breaks from reading and close work can prevent vision changes | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:56:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | Washington, Oct 19: A researcher from the Queensland University of Technology says people should take a short break from reading or close work at least every hour, as exposing eyes to continuous stress may lead to change in their shape. Dr. Scott Read says that the upper eyelid's pressure and its opening keep changing the shape of human eys throughout the day. The biggest changes happen amongst the people who maintain a downward gaze for a long time while reading or doing close work. He derived these conclusions from the two studies he conducted. Dr. Read said that the first study was conducted for over three days, and each day human eyes were observed at 9am, 1pm and 5pm. He said that they saw highly significant changes to the contours of the cornea throughout the day."The study found horizontal bands of distortion appeared on the cornea where the eyelid would have been sitting and that this increased during the day but went back to normal by the next morning," he said.Dr.... | |
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| | | Essilor: Q3 2006 Sales | | Posted Thursday, October 19, 2006 2:54:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | LE-PONT, France, October 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Essilor, the world leader in ophthalmic optics, today announced its consolidated revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2006: *Based on a comparable scope of consolidation and at constant exchange rates. Consolidated revenue totaled EUR2,022.6 million for the period, an increase of 7.8% like-for-like and 12.2% as reported. Companies acquired or consolidated in 2005 and 2006 accounted for 3.2% of the growth, while the currency effect declined but remained slightly positive at 1.1%. Revenue rose 6.4% in the third quarter. At 6.1%, like-for-like growth remained generally strong, amounting to 6% in Europe and North America, 6.2% in Asia-Pacific and 8.9% in Latin America. Changes in the scope of consolidation accounted for 2.4% of third-quarter growth while the currency effect was a negative 2.1% due to the appreciation of the euro against most other currencies.... | |
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| | | Sight Test and Glasses Could Dramatically Improve the Lives of 150 Million People With Poor Vision | | Posted Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:52:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | A simple sight test and eyeglasses or contact lenses could make a dramatic difference to the lives of more than 150 million people who are suffering from poor vision. Children fail at school, adults are unable to work and families are pushed into poverty as a result of uncorrected visual impairment. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040610/CNTH001LOGO ) To mark World Sight Day, 12 October 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) has released new global estimates which, for the first time, reveal that 153 million people around the world have uncorrected refractive errors (more commonly known as near-sightedness, far-sightedness and astigmatism). Refractive errors can be easily diagnosed, measured and corrected with eyeglasses or contact lenses, yet millions of people in low and middle income countries do not have access to these basic services.... | |
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| | | Multifocal lens lets cataract patients see near and far They can see clearly now | | Posted Friday, October 06, 2006 6:54:43 AM by Blog57 Team | | A retired Kutztown University music professor who wore bifocals to play the piano and trifocals for nearly everything else read music without any glasses days after a surgeon replaced his clouded right lens with a new ''multifocal'' lens implant. Frank Siekmann of Greenwich Township was delighted that the change in just one eye allowed him to play the trumpet sans spectacles in Reading's Labor Day parade. .... | |
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| | | They can see clearly now | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 12:54:12 PM by Blog57 Team | | A retired Kutztown University music professor who wore bifocals to play the piano and trifocals for nearly everything else read music without any glasses days after a surgeon replaced his clouded right lens with a new ''multifocal'' lens implant. Frank Siekmann of Greenwich Township was delighted that the change in just one eye allowed him to play the trumpet sans spectacles in Reading's Labor Day parade. .... | |
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| | | Bad things coming in 3s for Huskies | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 2:56:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | Neither third quarters nor third-down conversions have been kind to Northern Illinois. The Huskies have yet to score a touchdown in the third quarter and haven't scored at all in the quarter since Chris Nendick's 37-yard field goal in the season opener at Ohio State. On third-down conversions, NIU is 10-for-37 overall (27 percent), including 2-for-9 in the third quarter (22 percent). "It's a concern," coach Joe Novak said. "But every year it's different. A couple of years ago, we were slow starters. We came out and didn't play well in the first half, and I started thinking my pregame talks weren't worth a darn. The next year, we played well at the beginning, and the second half we had a lull. I thought maybe our adjustments weren't worth a darn. "Who knows? Sometimes, two or three games, things just happen that way." A nettlesome reality tucked inside NIU's third-down upstreaming is the non-impact of Garrett Wolfe.... | |
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| | | Project Runway | tv : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY | | Posted Friday, September 22, 2006 10:56:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | Just when I thought I had lost my last opportunity to make snide jokes involving rosettes and/or straitjackets, the good people at Project Runway handed me a pair of beautiful presents wrapped in an excess of black and white fabric: the unexpected, terrifying, and blessedly temporary return of Vincent and Angela, each of whom was given one more chance to show exactly the kind of specialness that got them run out of TV Land once already. Forget the silly ''everyone who won a challenge gets a second chance'' rationale (they conveniently neglected to mention Keith, who won the very first challenge this season): This was really an excuse to inject a booster shot of crazy into a final fivesome that was beginning to look a little sedate. And did the demented duo let us down? They did not.... | |
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