Did you know this?

 

Coca-Cola was originally green.

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.
The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with. i.e. letter 'A'
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men!
It is impossible to lick your elbow.
People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you Sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.
It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze; you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as a substitute for Blood plasma.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than seven (7) times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
 Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty (50) years of age or older! .
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The King of Hearts is the only king WITHOUT A MUSTACHE
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one (1) olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise. (Venus is normally associated with women!)

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
Most dust particles in your house are made from! DEAD SKIN!
PEARLS MELT IN VINEGAR!
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs... but, not downstairs.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least six (6) feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. (Do not keep toothbrush in bath room please!)
Turtles can breathe! through their butts- amazing?

 
 

[Collected from e-mails & internet.]

25 important persons who changed the internet

1. Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Google Inc.
   

Two PhDs from Stanford University started work in the garage of a friend's. And they were defiantly not building steam engines! They were, however, creating the internet's most powerful search engine. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are arguably the world's most successful Internet entrepreneurs and developers in history. This enabled them to earn billions, while assisting everyone from high school students to particle physicists have an easy time searching for information over the internet.Google was first launched on Stanford's website (google.stanford.edu) and then finally on Google.com in 1997. It is estimated that GOOGLE is worth about a staggering $25 billion dollars.

 

1. David Filo and Jerry Yang - Yahoo! Inc.
   

Yahoo! too is the creation of two Stanford University's Electrical Engineer graduates, called Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yang started by listing web pages on the Internet and named it "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web". Then, he decided to switch it to Yahoo! and the initial URL was at akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo. In December 1994, that particular website had already received over a million hits. Realizing its potential, David Filo and Jerry Yang got serious and diversified Yahoo! as a web portal. David Filo's net worth is $2.9 billion dollars and Jerry Yang's is $2.3 billion dollars.

 

1. Bill Gates - Microsoft
   

William Henry "Bill" Gates III, is an American business magnate, philanthropist, the world's third richest person (as of February 8, 2008), and chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000. Gates also holds the record of being the Richest Person in the world for 15 consecutive years.

 

1. Steven Paul Jobs - Apple Inc.
   

Steven Paul Jobs is the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially successful personal computers. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven GUI (Graphical User Interface). After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. Jobs is currently the Walt Disney Company's largest individual shareholder and a member of its Board of Directors. He is considered a leading figure in both the computer and industries.

 

1. Mark Zuckerberg - Facebook
   

One of the most admired and successful youngster of the 21st century is a 24 years old Harvard graduate - the world's youngest billionaire, with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion. He founded Facebook, the online social networking website. Zuckerberg launched The Facebook (FaceMatch) from his Harvard dorm room in 2004 and started promoting it to all Ivy League schools and some Boston institutions. Soon, he bought over Facebook.com domain name. Facebook is now a household name with people of all ages, groups and interests, interacting with each other. Its business and pleasure at the same time!

 

1. Kevin Rose - Digg
   

You all know Kevin, don't you? Perhaps one of the most respected internet idealist and TV show host, Kevin Rose has definitely placed a huge impacts among all Digg users. He became well known as an on-air talent and later as a co-host working on TechTV's popular show The Screen Savers (which later became Attack of the Show! ) until his departure from the network on May 2005. He also co-founded Pownce and Revision3 besides his popular Digg.com, social-bookmarking website. He created Digg in 2004 by hiring a freelance programmer who Kevin Rose paid $12 per hour through eLance. Kevin Rose later bought Digg.com domain name for $1,200 and then went on to buy larger server space. Digg received an ultra boost of capitals when they received $2.8 million of venture capital from Omidyar Network, Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen and Greylock Partners.

 

1. Bram Cohen - BitTorrent
   

Best known as the developer, co-founder and author behind peer-to-peer sharing, Bram Cohen is the inventor of BitTorrent. The other day a cousin of mine said "Bit Torrent has made life easier!" That's how easily we can sum up the achievements of this man. Bram Cohen is also the co-founder of CodeCon and co-author of Codeville. In 2001, he quit his job at MojoNation to work in BitTorrent. He firstly revealed his ideas in a CodeCon conference and started luring beta testers by collecting free pornography. He then spent some time working with Valve, but quit his job later to work in BitTorrent Inc. with his brother and business partner Mike Morhaime - Blizzard Entertainment

 

1. Mike Morhaime - Blizzard Entertainment
   

Mike Morhaime is the president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, a video game developer located in Irvine, California and currently owned by Activision Blizzard. He is best know for his creation of a popular online gaming fantasy, World of Warcraft (WoW). It has over 10 million online gamers, raking Morhaime at least $1.5 billion every year.

 

1. Jimmy Wales - Wikipedia
   

Jimmy Wales is the co-founder of Wikipedia: a free and open content encyclopedia launched in 2001. He is also the co-founder of Wikia, a privately own web hosting company set up in 2004. Jimmy Wales at first started a peer-reviewed, open-content encyclopedia which is Nupedia. He then utilized the ideas of Nupedia with his "wiki" software to form today's Wikipedia. His work with Wikipedia, which has become the world's largest encyclopedia, prompted Time magazine to name him in its 2006 list of the world's most influential people.

 

1. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen - YouTube
   

Chad Hurley (aged 28) and Steve Chen (aged 27) became the founders of the popular San Bruno, California-based video sharing website YouTube, one of the biggest providers of videos on the Internet. Chad Hurley used to work for eBay's PayPal in the designing department where he designed their logo. Together with PayPal colleagues, Jared Karim and Steve Chen, Chad founded YouTube in 2005. Google later acquired YouTube at $1.65 billion dollars.

 

1. Jeff Preston Bezos - Amazon
   

Jeff Bezos is the founder, chairman of board, president and the chief executive officer of Amazon.com, a major e-commerce company that sells goods through the Internet. His net worth is currently at $8.2 billion dollars. He was named Time magazine Person of the Year in 1999.

 

1. Shawn Fanning - Napster, Rupture
   

Inventor of Napster, the first popular peer-to-peer file sharing platform, Shawn Fanning is a computer programmer who developed Napster when he was still pursuing his studies in Northeastern University, Boston. Soon after, however, Napster was the target of several music industry-backed lawsuits, which ultimately ended up causing the cessation of the service. In December 2006, Fanning developed Rupture, a social networking tool that facilitates profiles and communications of online gamers in World of Warcraft.

 

1. Pierre Omidyar - eBay
   

Pierre Omidyar is the founder of eBay, an online auctioning marketplace that connects buyers and sellers. With a net worth of about $7.7 billion dollars, Omidyar and his wife Pam, are one of those entrepreneurs that go beyond doing profits, which is by contributing to non-profits organizations and aiding start-ups. He wrote the source code of eBay when he was 28 years old in 1995. Initially, he decided to name his auction site after his consulting firm, Echo Bay but unfortunately, echobay.com was already taken. To save up his Internet service provider cost, he registered eBay.com.

 

1. Jack Ma - Alibaba
   

A similar site like ebay, was founded by Jack Ma, in 1999. It is basically a China-based business marketplace site that serves international businesses. Alibaba Group then founded TaoBao.com, which is an online auction website that is pretty much similar to eBay and instead of paying through PayPal, TaoBao's currency is AliPay. Yahoo Inc. then acquires 40% stocks worth over $1 billion dollars.

 

1. Craig Newmark - Craigslist
   

Craig Newmark is an Internet entrepreneur that invented the Craigslist, with over 14.1 million page-views a month, Craigslist.org is one of the most visited website on the Internet. Craigslist is a centralized network of communities, featuring free advertisements and forums on various topics.

 

1. Matt Mullenweg - WordPress
   

If it weren't for Matt Mullenweg creating WordPress, I would not have been here writing at this blog and you all wouldn't have been reading this article. At the age of 19, he invented the core of Wordpress, and later on when he turned 24, quit his job at CNET to fully focus on developing WordPress - a blogging platform. He is also the founder of Automattic, the business behind WordPress as well as famous spam fighter, Akismet.

 

1. Sir Tim Berners-Lee - World Wide Web
   

Sir Tim Berners-Lee; the father of World Wide Web. On 25 December 1990 he implemented the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server via the Internet with the help of Robert Cailliau and a young student staff at CERN. Sir Tim Berners-Lee is also the founder of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology which comprises of companies that are willing to create standards and improvements of the Web. From my point of view, if it wasn't for him, none of the above mentioned personalities existed. UPDATE (24/11/08)

 

1. Thomas Anderson - MySpace
   

Thomas "Tom" Anderson is the President of the social networking website, MySpace. He is one of the people identified as a founder of the site, along with CEO Chris DeWolfe. Since newly created MySpace accounts include Tom as a default "friend," he has become known as the face of MySpace. As of November 20, 2008, Tom has over 250 million "friends", a number which is constantly increasing due to new MySpace accounts being created. In 2003, working for eUniverse under the preview of Brad Greenspan he and a few other eUniverse employs set up the first pages of MySpace and the site grew from there. It is currently the most popular social networking website in the United States, and is the most popular website for teenagers as well. Interesting Fact: According to several sources, in 1985 then 14-year-old San Pasqual High School (Escondido, California) student Tom Anderson was a computer hacker operating under the alias "Lord Flathead". He was known for leading a team that broke into Chase Manhattan Bank computers, altered records and left a message saying that unless he was given free use of the system he would destroy records. He was never charged.

 

1. Garrett Camp - StumbleUpon
   

Garrett Camp is the co-founder as well as the chief architect of Stumbleupon, a social bookmarking site that lets you discover and share new websites from all over the world. StumbleUpon took-off in November 2001, and continued, until late 2005 when it was moved to San Francisco. To be more precise, StumbleUpon was founded by Garrett Camp, Geoff Smith, Justin LaFrance, and Eric Boyd during Garrett's time in post-graduate school (in Calgary, Alberta, Canada). The popularity of the software attracted Silicon Valley investor Brad O'Neill to take notice of the company and assist with a move to San Francisco. Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith now reside in San Francisco, where StumbleUpon is headquartered. According to its About page, Stumble Upon has over 6,443,266 users.The majority of which are between the ages of 18 and 45 (in English-speaking countries). Half in the United States, half abroad, and the majority using Firefox.

 

1. Linus Torvalds - Linux
   

Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish software engineer best known for having initiated the development of the Linux kernel. He later became the chief architect of the Linux kernel, and now acts as the project's coordinator. Initially Torvalds wanted to call the kernel he developed "Freax" - a combination of "free", "freak", and the letter X to indicate that it is a Unix-like system, but his friend Ari Lemmke, who administered the FTP server where the kernel was first hosted for downloading, named Torvalds' directory linux. Since Linux has had thousands of contributors, such a percentage represents a significant personal contribution to the overall amount of code. Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel. UPDATE (25/11/08)

 

1. Jon Postel - Internet Pioneer
   

Jonathan Bruce Postel made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly in the area of standards. He is principally known for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority until his death. The Internet Society's Postel Award is named in his honor, as is the Postel Center at Information Sciences Institute. His obituary was written by Vint Cerf and published as RFC 2468 in remembrance of Postel and his work. In its infancy, Jon worked on its development, from its early protocols, to the creation of TCP/IP. Documenter and co-developer many of the key Internet standards, including TCP/IP (basic Internet protocols), SMTP (email transfer), and DNS (name servers).
Jon's influence is felt throughout the Internet, in its protocols, in their documentation, in the DNS names we use and the 'dot' we use to separate them, and, in no small way, in the 'good engineering' that helped the Internet thrive from its inception in 1969 to today.

 

1. Caterina Fake - Flickr
   

Fake is best known as the co-founder, with her husband Stewart Butterfield, of Flickr, a photo-sharing service developed by Ludicorp in Vancouver and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. Flickr ushered in the so-called Web 2.0 integrating features such as social networking, community open APIs, tagging, and algorithms that surfaced the best, or more interesting content. Prior to founding Ludicorp she was Art Director at Salon.com and heavily involved in the development of online community, social software and personal publishing. She joined the board of directors of Creative Commons in August of 2008.

 

1. Stewart Butterfield
   

General Manager of Flickr In 2005. Butterfield was named one of Businessweek's Top 50 Leaders in the entrepreneur category and was awarded a TR35 award as one of 35 top innovators under the age of 35 by MIT's Technology Review. On 2006 he was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. UPDATE (26/11/08)

 

1. Marc Andreessen - Netscape
   

Marc Andreessen is known as an entrepreneur, investor, startup coach, blogger, and a multi-millionaire software engineer best known as co-author of Mosaic, the first widely-used web browser, and founder of Netscape Communications Corporation. He was the chair of Opsware, a software company he founded originally as Loudcloud, when it was acquired by Hewlett-Packard. He is also a co-founder of Ning, a company which provides a platform for social-networking websites. As of June 30, 2008, he is said to be joining the Board of Directors of Facebook. On September 30, 2008, it was announced that he had joined the Board of Directors of eBay.

 

1. Jack Dorsey - Twitter
   

Jack Dorsey is an American software architect and businessperson best known as the creator of Twitter - a free social networking and micro-blogging service. BusinessWeek called him one of technology's best and brightest. MIT's Technology Review named him to the TR35, an outstanding innovator under the age of 35. Dorsey, Stone and Williams co-founded Obvious which then spun off Twitter Inc. As chief executive officer, Dorsey saw the startup through two rounds of funding by the venture capitalists who back the company. In October 2008 Williams took over the role of CEO, and Dorsey became chairman of the board. As the service grew in popularity, Dorsey had to choose improving uptime as top priority— even over creating revenue, which as of 2008, Twitter was not designed to earn.

 

(Skidzopedia-17 People Who Changed the Internet Forever!-Posted on 21 Nov, 2008 )

Abraham Lincoln Said:

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You can not further the brotherhood of man by

encouraging class hatred. You can not help the poor by destroying the rich. You can not build character and courage

by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help permanently by doing for them what they could

and should do for themselves.

Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a Roman Catholic nun and founder of the Missionaries of Charity. In 1979 she was awarded the most prestigious prize in the world, the Nobel Peace Prize, for her humanitarian work.  Her labor made her so worthy that, in reality, she gave honor to the prize, rather than the other way around!

Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu was born in 1910 to Albanian parents in Skopje, which at the time was under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. (The city is now the capital of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.) When she was 18, she entered the Order of the Sisters of Our Lady of Loreto in Ireland. She trained in Dublin and in Darjeeling, India, before taking her religious vows in 1937. She took the name Teresa from Saint Teresa of Lisieux, the patron saint of foreign missionaries.

In September 1946, while riding in a train from Calcutta to Darjeeling to engage in 8 days of spiritual exercises, she received a divine calling from God "to serve Him amongst the poorest of the poor".

She served as principal of a Roman Catholic high school in Calcutta, and was moved by the presence of the sick and dying on the city's streets. In 1948 she was granted permission to leave her post at the convent and begin a ministry among the sick. That same year she became an Indian citizen.

In 1950 Mother Teresa and her associates were approved within the archdiocese of Calcutta as the Missionaries of Charity. The order was later recognized as a pontifical congregation under the jurisdiction of Rome. Members of the congregation take four vows on acceptance by the religious community. In addition to the three basic vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, a fourth vow is required pledging service to the poor, whom Mother Teresa described as the embodiment of Christ.

In 1952 Mother Teresa opened the Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) Home for Dying Destitutes in Calcutta. She and her fellow nuns took in dying Indians off the streets of Calcutta and brought them to this home to care for them during the days before they died, so that they might be able to die in peace and with dignity.

In serving the people abandoned by society, Mother Teresa put love into action. Her spirit of giving inspired many to follow her, and her work eventually expanded to many other parts of the world. Today over 5000 sisters, brothers, and volunteers run approximately 500 centers worldwide, feeding 500,000 families and helping 90,000 lepers every year.

In recognition of her efforts, Mother Teresa was bestowed many awards, including the Padma Shri award for distinguished service in 1962, The Pope John XXIII Peace Prize in 1971, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1985, and the Congressional Gold Medal in 1997. Mother Teresa accepted all awards on behalf of the poor, using any money that accompanied them to fund her centers.

Mother Teresa was forced to scale back her activities in 1990 because of declining health. On March 13 1997, she stepped down as head of the order and Sister Nirmala was chosen to succeed her as leader of the Missionaries of Charity.

On September 5, 1997, at the age of 87, the best loved woman of the century passed away. Her funeral service was on September 13, 1997, the 51st anniversary of her receiving her divine mission from God.

 

 

Facts about our Eyes

Nearsightedness (Myopia)- a vision defect in which objects are seen only when near to the our eye.

 

Farsightedness (Hyperopia)- a vision defect in which objects are seen only when far from the eye.

 

Astigmatism- an vision defect causing lines in some directions to be focused less sharply than lines in other directions.

 

Presbyopia ("My arms are too short " syndrome)

 

Cataracts -One of the most well-known eye diseases is cataracts. Cataracts are a "hazing" of the normally clear lens inside of the eye. The normal lens allows light to reach the retina for clear vision. Cataracts reduce vision, just as a dirty windshield diminishes a driver's view of the road. The number one cause of blindness in the world is cataracts. Although factors such as nutrition and genetics play a role in cataract formation, UV exposure is primarily responsible. The clouding of the lens is irreversible, and once the cataracts begin to impair daily activities, the only treatment available is surgical removal. The good news is that cataract surgery is relatively uncomplicated, and has a very high success rate.

Laser Vision Correction -for more information, click here

 

Dry Eyes - A functioning tear film is important for maintaining a healthy cornea and preserving clear vision. The tear film is an important source of eye nutrition, waste removal, and antibacterial action. Dry eye conditions can disrupt the tear film and compromise corneal health. These conditions can occur as a result of the normal aging process, of exposure to air pollution or other environmental factors, or in conjunction with systemic diseases such as Sjogrens Syndrome. Dry eyes can be a major impediment to contact lens wear.

 

Tears can be replaced by using eye drops called artificial tears. They replace the moisture that is missing and lubricate the eyes. They temporarily soothe dry eye symptoms. Artificial tears have provided a quick, short-term solution to dry eye. Today, tear-duct closure, which allows you to retain your own natural tears, may be the best solution. Closure of the tear drainage ducts involves the use of a non-disolvable, yet removable plug to seal the tear duct. This non-surgical procedure is painless and is performed in only a few minutes.

 

Macular Degeneration -In recent years, the public has become increasingly aware of this ocular disease that goes by many different names. Macular degeneration is a result of cell death in the central (macular) part of the retina. Like cataracts, it is thought to have nutritional, genetic, and UV exposure factors in development. It is rarely present before age 65, but increases to 20% prevalence between ages 75 to 85. It spares peripheral vision, but adversely affects central vision, similar to looking at a clock and seeing all the numbers, but not seeing the clock hands.

 

Laser Vision Correction - A New Option

 

For decades eyeglasses and contact lenses have done a phenomenal job of correcting vision problems. There is now a new option for correcting nearsightedness (myopia,) farsightedness (hyperopia,) and astigmatism. Laser vision correction (LVC) is a precise way to reshape the outermost part of the eye with a laser. Advanced technology and years of research allow surgeon-controlled lasers to help reduce or eliminate the need for eyeglasses and contact lenses for millions of people.

During the laser vision correction procedure, a cool-light beam reshapes the cornea by painlessly vaporizing microscopic amounts of tissue. Approximately 85% of the time, the result is 20/20 vision without glasses or contact lenses. Fewer than 10% of LVC patients receive additional benefit from an enhancement (a second laser procedure, at no additional charge) or mild part-time prescription for glasses after the first procedure.

 

PRE-OPERATIVE EXAMINATION

During this examination, your optometrist will determine your refractive error (prescription) and overall ocular health status. The laser correction options appropriate for you and your eyes will be presented, and your candidacy for the procedure will be discussed. If you elect to have the procedure, you will be referred to the surgeon for further evaluation and the procedure. Your optometrist will continue to examine and educate you during the pre- and post-operative periods.

 

THE DAY OF THE PROCEDURE

Laser vision correction is an outpatient procedure not requiring an overnight stay at a hospital or clinic. Two to four hours is the total expected time spent in the surgeon's office, though the procedure itself involves only seconds of laser time. Eye drops are used to numb the eyes, but you are awake and comfortable for the brief procedure. There are no needles or shots. Often, but not always, the improvement in vision is immediate. In other cases, the vision consistently improves during the first post-operative week.

 

POST-OPERATIVE CARE

Your optometrist or surgeon will examine you the first day following the procedure to assess your healing process and further counsel you. Ocular discomfort is usually mild and subsides within a few days of the surgery. Some patients experience blurry vision or gritty, dry eyes for a few days afterward. Generally patients return to work and resume most normal activities in one to two days. Five to six brief follow-up visits during the first post-operative year are important to ensure proper healing and visual improvement.

 

RISKS AND BENEFITS

As with any surgery, there are risks involved. Fewer than 2-3% of all LVC patients experience any unpleasant, long-term side effects. Some of these effects include under- or over-correction, glare, infection, or problems with vision at night. Undesirable side effects of any type are extremely rare, but can occur for anyone. Discuss these considerations with your eyecare provider prior to deciding if LVC is right for you. In the unlikely event that you do experience any of these effects after the procedure, your optometrist and surgeon can recommend ways to help decrease the effects.

 

AM I A CANDIDATE?

As individuals, we are all unique. To get personalized information specific to your eyes and prescription, a thorough examination is necessary. A competent LVC- trained doctor will not "sell" you on LVC, but will educate you on all of your option and help you come to your own decision. Discussion with your eyecare provider, and attending educational seminars are the first steps. The laser is capable of correcting approximately 90% of all prescriptions. Some extremely nearsighted or farsighted patients may not be good candidates for the procedure. Certain systemic disease such as severe arthritis, lupus, or uncontrolled diabetes can adversely affect proper healing and preclude your candidacy for LVC.

 

With the tremendous popularity and success of laser vision correction, chances are you know someone who's had the procedure. In 1999, nearly 950,000 LVC procedures were performed, and over 1.4 million procedures are estimated for 2000. Working closely with laser vision correction patients has been one of the most rewarding aspects of my profession. It is fascinating and exciting for both the patients and me. This is particularly true at the one day post-operative visit when the patient's vision is 20/20, and only one day prior they could not see "the big-E" on the eye-chart without glasses. Of course not every patient sees 20/20 on the first day after surgery, but the results are still dramatic enough to generate a great deal of enthusiasm on the part of the patient. In researching LVC, carefully consider the experience and training of the doctors you choose to work with, and your motivation for selecting LVC as an alternative to eyeglasses or contact lenses.

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