Archive for May, 2009
May 26, 2009 at 9:59 pm · Filed under Health Issues, Meds + Medicine, Shopping Tips
100% No-Cut, No-Flap, All-Laser LASEK and epi-LASEK laser vision correction is only available at Park Avenue Laser Vision.(Every other center is performing this or the older, less-advanced PRKin selected high-risk patients!)
Likewise, here are many classes and examples of special patients/situations
they can help with:
Patients with Lazy Eye
By this explanation for anisometropic amblyopia you
can see how we can help treat (or even prevent) lazy eye by lasering off the
prescription in the bad eye, making it have a prescription that is actually
better than the good eye so the brain can no longer neglect the bad eye,
because it is no longer really a bad eye!
So, the dozens of patients with lazy eyes were all adults,
and had been told over the years (or decades, in many cases) that their bad
eye could not be helped but this was often decades ago, before the excimer
laser was even invented by two of Dr. Chynn s MD colleagues while he was a
student at Columbia University.
Obviously, before performing surgery on any amblyopic eye,
Dr. Chynn will send the patient for a second opinion by a pediatric
ophthalmologist to make sure that the patient will not have diplopia or
double vision afterwards, and carefully explains to and consents the
patient!
Even better, because you have a pre-existing medical
condition, in most cases, your medical insurance will actually partially
pay for your laser procedure because it is not purely cosmetic, but is
correcting a medical problem!
Extreme prescriptions: myopia, hyperopia, astigmatism:
We at Park Avenue Laser Vision are the ONLY center in NYC performing
100% No-Cut, No-Flap, All-Laser LASEK and epi-LASEK laser vision correction.
For example, in 2008, Dr. Chynn treated Natacha Hildebrand,
who was working for him as an Assistant Laser Vision Coordinator, and she was a
-10.00! preop (or 3x legally blind or about 20/2,000!) and after her
LASEK on 1 eye, and epi-LASEK on the other eye, she is now seeing a PERFECT
20/20 which is quite remarkable.
May 26, 2009 at 6:43 am · Filed under Traffic Pulling Domains
When the Internet was very young, all you had to do to get a domain name was call a man named Jon Postel, and ask for it. Things have changed greatly with the popularity of the Internet. Now the competition for a good, short, generic domain name is fierce. If you want a domain name in the popular .com namespace, you have to settle for a long, sometimes confusing, domain name.
ICANN has been using a process of “rounds” to introduce new tlds. When they do create these new tlds, they are generic in nature, like .info or .biz. This creates trademark conflicts. Many companies hold the same word as a trademark, such as Apple Records and Apple Computers. Both are legal trademarks. Both have the legal right to use the word apple to sell their respective products and services.
So which one has the legal rights to apple.com or apple.biz? What if I start a company tomorrow called Apple Printing Services and get a trademark on the word apple to sell printing services? Do I not then have equal rights to use apple.com or apple.net as my domain name?
If ICANN would open the TLD market, so that any company with the technical expertise and the financial capability, could start a new TLD, we would have more option like apple.computer, apple.music, apple.printer. TLDs like .lyr, .atty, .cpa, would crop up. This would help eliminate trademark conflicts.
First come, first serve, in the demand for domain names was the method used and seemed fair when namespace was less congested. Now, if we are going to insure that future generations of people, who are not even on the Internet yet, or who have not even started their business yet, will have the opportunity to get domain names they want, we must create more tlds. ICANN claims there is no demand for new TLDS.
I disagree. Demand is far from being met. It is not fair business practice to have few TLDs where a few companies/people get short one word domain names while the rest must settle for two and in most cases three word domain names. By limiting space with few TLDs, ICANN makes the decision that businesses that were in existence at a certain point in time shall have an advantage over any business created at a later time.
As a city grows, more streets get paved and more buildings get built allowing for more businesses to get good locations, more corner lots if you will. As name space expands ICANN wants businesses to continue to build upward and not outward. They leave new businesses the equivalent of existing on the third and fourth levels Vs having a ground-floor storefront.
Cities grow outward to allow for more development. TLD space needs to grow outward to meet the same demand. Cities that stifle development and that are not business-friendly find their economy in ruin before too long. Cities that do their best to offer more development opportunities to businesses i.e. corner lots, breaks in certain costs, etc., prosper.
It would be uncommon for a city to tell a new business, “nope can build on that lot, you have to build onto existing buildings above your competitors, so that they have the ground floor and your customers must walk past your competitors to get to where you are.” That is the analogy. If you own design.com already, I must get something like webdesign.com (a 2nd floor location), the next business must get something like websitedesign.com, (3rd floor), the next few businesses can share the 4th floor with greatwebsitedesign.com, websitedesignplanet.com, etc. Others will get the 5th floor with even longer names as new businesses come to the web.
You might say well they only need their business name for their website and that should be easy to get. I would answer that many businesses have the same name and in addition to that, generic keywords in domain names are an advantage to only having your business name as a domain name. People are not searching the web for you, but they do search for what service or product you sell.
ICANN is currently forcing an unfair disadvantage to new business owners and to people new to the web by not allowing them to get good, short domain names for their personal or business use. Not allowing new tlds to be created is an unfair business practice and a restraint to free trade. It is also anti-free enterprise because they are telling me I cannot go into the domain name selling business and that only a few businesses they have selected can do so. They may also be in violation of laws written to avoid monopolies.
Chris McElroy has been an advocate for domain name owners and individual users of the Internet since 1995. He participates in working groups, mailing lists, and forums, that deal with issues regarding domain names, IP Number allocation, and the DNS. His current project at www.affiliatewebsitedesign.com (a 3rd floor location, when what I want is the opportunity to have a location on the ground floor, in a new neighborhood), deals with website promotion and domain names.
May 22, 2009 at 4:17 pm · Filed under To Read A Book
Everyone loves to read other peoples success stories. It provides us with evidence that amazing things do happen to normal people. By learning what they did to succeed we come one step closer to success ourselves. Such is the case with the ten stories told in Net Entrepreneurs Only - 10 Entrepreneurs Tell the Stories of their Success by Gregory K. Ericksen and Ernst & Young.
Ericksen interviewed ten of the most successful entrepreneurs at the turn of the century and presents their stories with a unique but effective use of lengthy quotes from the entrepreneurs. The quotes leave you with a feeling of having actually interviewed the entrepreneur yourself rather than reading a story about them. Each story is about 20 pages long but reads more like 10 pages because of the big print and free flowing pace.
The 10 entrepreneurs chronicled in the book are Jay S. Walker (priceline.com), Mike McNulty and Mike Hagan (VerticalNet), Christina Jones (pcOrder), William Porter and Christos Cotsakos (E*Trade), Gregory K. Jones (uBid), Russell Horowitz (Go2Net), Ken Pasterna (Knight/Trimark), William Schrader (PSINet), Pierre Omidyar (eBay), and Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner (broadcast.com).
Each entrepreneur has a unique story of how and why they saw the internet as a viable place to start a business, and each had a different way of getting there, but after reading all ten stories you can see some common threads between these extremely successful net entrepreneurs. Although this book was written at a time when internet business success was substantially easier (the book was published in 2000), many of the core competencies that these entrepreneurs possess can be applied in any era to any industry.
Each is extremely passionate about what they do to the point that they inspire others around them to have the same passion. Each is not afraid to take a risk, regardless of whether or not other people disagree with it. Along with that, each knows that failure is inevitable when taking risks and understands that future success depends on the ability to learn from failure and move on.
Another interesting thing that was mentioned in three of the ten stories is the fear of being blindsided by an opponent that they can’t see coming. They all talk about the proverbial kid in his basement or garage that comes up with the technology that puts them out of business. When talking about Mark Cuban, Todd Wagner said:
“I know Mark worries, among other things, about the proverbial 12-year-old in the garage [coming up with technological breakthroughs] and us being blindsided.”
This commonality is particularly interesting, and I suspect it comes from the fact that many of these entrepreneurs WERE THAT KID and they fear the second coming of themselves more than anything else. They probably fear that this “kid” will have the same passion and determination that they once had, and that, more than anything else scares them.
If I had read this book when it was written I would certainly have recommended it to any young entrepreneur. However, years later I recommend it EVEN MORE. I think that it’s a must read for anyone looking to go into business or currently in business.
The thing that you can do now that you couldn’t do when the book was written is find out what’s happened to these entrepreneurs and their companies in the time that has passed since the book’s publication. One of the biggest joys of reading this book was trying to guess whether or not these companies still existed and whether or not the same entrepreneur was still running them.
Knowing that there was the dot-com boom and subsequent crash around that time, I figured there was less than a 50/50 chance that these businesses were still around. I’m not going to ruin the individual surprises, but there was a fairly vast array of directions that these companies and entrepreneurs went after the dot-com crash.
Some of the entrepreneurs we’ve all heard of (Mark Cuban), and some of the companies we know still exist and are very successful (eBay), but many the average reader won’t be familiar with. Doing the research to find out where they are today adds an extra dimension to the book that a reader wouldn’t have experienced if they read it when it came out.
Net Entrepreneurs Only - 10 Entrepreneurs Tell the Stories of their Success by Gregory K. Ericksen and Ernst & Young is an extremely interesting for anyone who enjoys a good success story. However, it’s truly inspiring if you are that entrepreneur who strives come up with the next innovating breakthrough that puts one of these ten entrepreneurs out of business.
Adam McFarland owns the SportsLizard.com Network.
You can read Adam’s blog about being a young internet entrepreneur by going to www.sportslizard.com/blog/
May 21, 2009 at 9:02 pm · Filed under Business News
Working in Thailand as a non-Thai national usually means taking in an English teaching position. While there are lucrative English teaching jobs in universities like Thammasat or Chulalongkorn, the vast majority of such jobs offer little pay.
As a matter of fact, don’t expect a high salary for any job requiring skills, teaching or not. It doesn’t sound very promising, but in reality if you aspire to live in Thailand for a year or two, such low salaries aren’t a worry since Thailand is a cheap place to live, the infrastructure is the best in South East Asia, it’s a safe country, and you can still crawl up the job ladder because you can get a great work experience in Thailand.
But there’s a hidden dilemma that slowly presents itself after some time: you’ve been living in Thailand for a few years, you’ve gained decent work experience, your pay isn’t great, but so what : the cost of living is low so no problem. BUT, here’s the rub : You’ve not been able to actually BANK much money while you’ve been staying in Thailand. Airfares look very expensive in comparison to your salary. The price of things in your home country gets to frighten you when you compare your money earned in Thailand. This dilemma hits a lot of non-Thai nationals in Thailand a year or two after arriving there. Lasting plans can often be delayed because you don’t have the nest egg of money to realise any goal like purchasing a house, buying a car, or getting married.
Therefore, important point : when thinking about working in Thailand, also consider that it is incredibly challenging to save substantial quantities of hard cash when thinking about the costs of “back home”.
Yet, not everything revolves around money, does it? You can have a great time in Thailand, perhaps learn the Thai language, make new friends, travel around Thailand when you have time off work, and gain some precious work experience.
So what kind of work placements can you get in the Land of Smiles? Looking at jobs-quality.com - a website listing jobs in the Chonburi and Bangkok areas of Thailand - they have listed Human Resource work placements, Administration job placements in Thailand, sales executive work placements, safety officer work placements etc. Basically the types of work placements you’d discover in your home country. While the majority of these job posts may be seeking a Thai national who speaks Thai, you will still find English-speaking prerequisites for placements inside many international companies based in Thailand.
May 21, 2009 at 1:10 pm · Filed under Home Improvement Parlor, Layouting + Designing, Shopping Tips
The way a home is decorated is an important aspect for virtually all homeowners. People want décor to be a reflection of whom they are and what they like. Using table linens such as tablecloths, napkins, placemats, table runners, table skirts and chair coverings offer a great means for you to express yourself. Naturally you require table linens that complement the design of your kitchen and/or dining room. Therefore, you’ll have to acquire the right color and pattern. Still, one of the most important aspects that people frequently overlook is the fabric of the linen. The tone in your home can be set by the table linens you use and the fabrics you select.
An eat-in kitchen. When using a tablecloth in an eat-in kitchen or informal dining room, consider a long-lasting fabric such as 100% woven polyester. Available in a wide variety of colors, you are sure to find tablecloths to match any décor. Need more pizzazz in your kitchen? If a solid color tablecloth isn’t what you are looking for then think about a theme printed fabric like Apples & Cheese, Bistro, Arabesque or Monet. These tablecloth prints are produced from a blend of poly/cotton fabric that is machine washable and dryer safe. Laminated cloth is yet another choice for tablecloths. Sandbox, Simplicity and Waterfall are just a few of the print alternatives available in a laminated fabric. Best of all, you will not need to machine wash a laminated fabric following each use, it can be easily wiped clean. Altering the appearance of your kitchen is as easy as switching the tablecloth on your table.
The formal dining room. A tablecloth made from a damask fabric, satin or lace is a good option for the formal dining room. Prepare the table with 100% spun polyester table napkins or place mats to complement the tablecloth. Convey an even more formal tone by using chair coverings made from the same 100% spun polyester and add a bow produced from the fabric of the tablecloth. A beautifully decorated table is certain to make your dining room the showplace of the home.
Whether your dining is casual or formal, you will require tablecloths that are going to last over time. With such a wide variety of fabrics to choose from, the best tablecloth for your home awaits you.
May 19, 2009 at 7:55 pm · Filed under College of Printing, Online Marketing, Promotion
1. Name - Show both your name, how you would like to be addressed, and the name of your business. Leaving either out by mistake could cost you clients down the line. These should also me bigger font and stand out more at a glance. This will draw the attention there first.
2. Contact info - The minimum information you should have is your office number, cell number and email address. If necessary, your fax number should be added. Try not to bog the card down with to much information. With the raise of social media, it might be a good idea to insert your LinkedIn or Facebook connection. These are used for business and if you have social marketing be sure to add these. These should go to the bottom of your card.
3. Title - This is your title at the office. Sometimes it may not be necessary at all. If you are just starting out, you may just leave it blank, if you are an officer, to show status I would definitely add this in.
4. Tag line - This can be a company motto to help reinforce it’s purpose. This can be your personal branding, your oun motto. It is not necessary but could have a warm effect on the client, if written well. It can also, remint the customer of what the great things you can do for them.
May 13, 2009 at 9:24 pm · Filed under Health Issues, House Of Products, Meds + Medicine
If you want to get hold of cheap eyeglasses on line then you have to appreciate a few sensible steps before you get going. It is possible to save a vast quantity of cash as long as you know how to buy your eyeglasses wisely and it they will be perfectly sound for you to utilise as long as you become heedful of a few simple rules
Make certain that your new spectacles will fit well
If your current spectacles fit OK, then all you need to do is to measure them accurately and you must acquire perfect fitting new glasses online.
You need to know a few measures:
- the total width - A
- The lens height - “B”
- The Lens width - c
- nose/Bridge breadth - “D”
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Make sure that you measure the total width (A) properly. Providing you have go the accurate total width, it doesn’t really matter if you have not got the height or width of your lens to get your online glasses to be a good fit.
Ensure that you have the accurate lens prescription
There are but four parameters of your prescription that you will need to note:
- Sphere - The amount of long or short sightedness. The number deals with the strength of your lens. It always will have a plus (+) or a subtraction (-) symbol in front or above it.
- Axis - This will only appear if there is a value for cylinder, as it relates to the cylindrical lens and denotes a reference point that indicates the direction of the power of the cylindrical lens. It relates to a factor between 1 and 180.
- Cylinder - This is the measure for astigmatism. Once More, there is always a plus (+) or minus (-) sign present. There may not be a value of cylinder in your prescription.
- Pupillary Distance (PD) - This part of your prescription helps to centre the lens within your frame on your face. PD is the distance from the center of the pupil (black circle) in one eye to the center of the pupil in the other eye.
May 13, 2009 at 9:14 am · Filed under Uncategorized
Euromillions the smarter way to play! Have you ever dreamt of plucking them? Lingering in the midst of your brain that any day you will experience out-and-out financial independence or do you ever reckon that you will never have to go to the office again. Nonetheless, there are times when you learn about people winning the Euro lottery and then walking off with a bucket load of money.
Fortunate for them, for us though, it appears euro millions e-lottery syndicates are probably the most effective way to collectively pick those elusive euro millions lottery numbers. The idea exploits one simple pattern and that is the more lotto tickets your consortium purchases the greater your prospect of winning. There are nevertheless those individuals that benefit with only 1 ticket whilst they are uncommon though a couple of individuals are able to win the lotto by buying one or two lotto tickets on their way home from the office. Nevertheless increasingly people are joining lotto syndicates . This method gives you a lot more chances to profit by purchasing stacks of euro millions lotto tickets as possible. So then, why not become a lotto consortium leader
To be able to become the syndicate leader and buy the lottery tickets you must live in the UK. This does not mean that it is required for you to reside in the UK to take part in the UK lottery though. all that is required is to organise or sign-up to e-lottery syndicates consortium and then have the lottery tickets purchased in the United Kingdom. As soon as the lottery draw has been made then all you have to do is tick-off your individual lotto winning numbers. Colleagues, fellow workers and friends putting their money in the pot to buy multiple lottery tickets - is not a novel conception! In That Respect
umpteen stories of factory employees and co-workers that have attained the jackpot. Astonishingly though, still when they realise they have acquired a massive amount of money with their lottery numbers, they nevertheless go back to employment
as though nothing has happened.
May 12, 2009 at 2:14 pm · Filed under Technology Resources
There are a number of ways to stay connected to the rest of the world nowadays. One of the best ways is to get an efficient cable service, which enables you to enjoy your favorite TV programs while keeping abreast of what’s happening in your local area and the rest of the world. The providers of these services offer a number of cable packages that cater to different tastes and needs. New Orleans residents are fortunate to have a number of cable providers that offer packages catering to diverse tastes. Whatever the needs and desires you have for your cable package, there is sure to be at least one New Orleans service provider you can turn to.
Clients have changing needs, which is the reason service providers have come up with different services bundled together in convenient plans or packages. Some of the packages include two or all of the following services: cable TV, high-speed Internet connection and telephone service plans. These value-added bundles offer increased convenience to clients since they only have to deal with one provider for all the services mentioned. With one fully-efficient provider, clients can be assured of getting more than one service at the highest level possible.
Staying connected to the rest of the country (and the rest of the world) has never been easier. Gone are the days when only a privileged few are given the opportunity to afford efficient cable service; anyone can now choose a cable package that fits his or her own personal needs and wants. Having cable connection has evolved from being a luxury to being a necessity for a lot of people, and the residents of New Orleans are very fortunate to have a number of options when it comes to providers of cable and other services that ensure they stay connected to the rest of the world.
May 12, 2009 at 9:08 am · Filed under Financing
Struggling with debt can be a very stressful situation. Your finances can become a constant balancing act - trying to pay the ‘most important’ debts while paying what you can towards others.
Of course, any debt is a priority - and any problems repaying those debts should be addressed immediately.
There are different types and levels of debt - and as such, there are different debt solutions that might be more appropriate for each individual’s circumstances. Here we look at two debt solutions: debt consolidation and IVAs (Individual Voluntary Arrangements).
Debt consolidation
Debt consolidation is a way of combining your debts and simplifying your finances. It is usually most suitable for people who feel they are able to repay their debts within a realistic timeframe, but not necessarily on the original terms. A debt consolidation loan can also be useful for people who simply want to benefit from the convenience of a single monthly payment.
A debt consolidation loan is essentially a new loan taken out to repay your existing debts, after which you will repay your new lender in regular monthly payments. This means that instead of dealing with several separate debt repayments each month, you will only need to make one.
It is also possible to reduce your monthly outgoings with a debt consolidation loan. By spreading repayments across a longer time period than the original debts, your total monthly payment will be reduced - but be aware that this will lead to you paying more in interest than if you had repaid the debt in a shorter space of time.
IVA (Individual Voluntary Arrangement)
An IVA is for more serious problems with debt - usually £15,000 or higher - and is generally considered a preferable alternative to bankruptcy. An IVA involves making reduced monthly payments to each of your creditors, based on how much you can afford.
Before you enter into an IVA, you will work with a debt adviser or Insolvency Practitioner to draw up a proposal for your creditors, detailing how much you are able to pay each month. This proposal will then be submitted to your creditors, who will be invited to approve (or reject) it. Creditors accounting for a combined 75% of your overall debts must approve the proposal for the IVA to go ahead.
If your proposal is approved, you will begin the IVA and make regular monthly payments to your debt adviser, who will distribute the money on a pro rata basis (based on how much is owed to each creditor). This will usually continue for five years, after which the remaining debt will be considered settled.
Be aware, though: an IVA is a significant financial commitment that will leave you with little or no disposable income for the duration. If you are a homeowner, you will also be expected to free up some of the equity in your home in the 54th month of your IVA (half way through the fifth and final year), and this amount will also be distributed amongst your creditors.
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