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So, hopefully the sabres can nab a couple of great players as they get spread around the league. That may put fannies in the seats and increase team revenue. Even if they decided to deficit spend in a year when the team looks like it is gelling - they can make that up with a nice playoff run and spend just as much as the Detroits of the league.

"I played one on one with him. I saw the look in his eye..." Whatever Jordan. Nice pick.

Well, that doesn't make much sense. Don't you need more Gretzky like players in order to have Gretzky like passes?

that article states the nets will move 2 feet closer to the end boards. They mean further don't they? Also, why was tag-up offsides ever eliminated?

where you gonna put the extra set of boobs?

if you got rid if the center red line how would you know where the center of the rink was???? The chaos would be tremendous...

I'm surprised you have ripe ones up there are my 1st ones came around last week. You should be a month behind. I water 2-3x a week, but they are in the ground. Maybe you need to water a little more deeply?

That's a bunch of crap! That cream stated it was for sun damaged leaves only! I bought it at Home Depot!

tomato plants of the year so far? I have a 7 footer (grape) right now with a couple of 6 ft cherries coming up the rear... Unless I get 9-10 ft stakes, these things will start to buckle over soon if they get any bigger!

Well, the "Jane" in "Mary Jane's Last Dance" by TP is just coincedental...

http://www.7-eleven.com/newsroom/articles.asp?p=2346 http://www.slurpee.com/

well, that is weird. I get forwarded to google UK whenever I type in google.com...

go to google.com and it forwards you to google.uk.co....

yeah, but the knuckle hair balances out the hair on the palms...

whoa, babe alert. You may wanna cover up - nothing but knuckledragging neandarthals around here..

http://news.inq7.net/breaking/index.php?in...&story_id=42142 TOKYO -- A 59-year-old Japanese psychiatric counselor set a world record of sorts Sunday by reciting "pi," or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, to 83,431 digits.

perhaps it was time for your afternoon tea when you got that part?

and while I am still fighting the good fight... there is something to know about some of the people who recommend the procedure after they have had it: "You've hit on a phenomenon psychologists call "cognitive dissonance." Here, it means that once you spend a ton of money on an irreversible procedure, with at least modest levels of discomfort or aberrations, you're likely to convince yourself you're happy with the results, in order to justify your decision, particularly with your surgeon insisting that you have a perfect result." I have seen this discussed about lasik for years...

I guess Kathy Griffin isn't all too happy above her 15 minute miracle... http://www.kathygriffin.net/lasik.php A summary from her recent interviews last week: "Kathy Griffin was a guest on Fox and Friends today, Wednesday June 22, from around 8:50 to 8:55 am (Eastern time). The first half of the interview was spent on what the host and she both called her "botched" Lasik eye surgery; the second half was spent trading quips and promoting a show she'll be doing in New York City this week. Her face and eyes looked perfectly fine to me (but that's true of a great many of us here whose problems are not visible to others in everyday life). Here's a paraphrase of what I recall her saying about the operation: It's about one month since surgery on her right eye to deal with epithelial ingrowth. The operation lasted 90 minutes and was done under general anesthesia (after which she threw up for days). The doctor put 17 stitches in her right eye; the stitches were recently removed. She says that the ingrowth is apparently gone, but the vision in her right eye is currently blurry, and she doesn't know if it will ever come back clearly. There was a brief exchange with a host about the issue of informed consent. Kathy Griffin said that in advance of her first surgery, she wouldn't have understood what "epithelial ingrowth" was, nor how it might matter to her as a patient."

Lawsuits commence against Alcon.... http://www.alconladarvision.com/ Their LADARvision machines seem to be very problematic. One shut down in the middle of surgery. FDA handing out warnings.... (I know I read that all these problems were "in the past".... I guess Alcon didn't get the message.)

If you are referring to me (in addition to Nick), I can say in my defense that I have a B.S. and M.S. in Optical Engineering and I have personally designed and aligned the beam-shaping optics on the front end of these types of lasers. While that doesn't make me an eye doctor, it does give me insight into the machines, the software, and the optical principles behind the procedure. BTW, the halo effect is often caused by an introduction of spherical aberration due to the fact that S.A. is strongly affected by lens shape. So at night, when your pupils are dilated the marginal rays are focusing to a different axial position than the paraxial rays. The transverse ray error at the retina varies as the cube of normalized pupil position of the entering ray.... But, I'm sure you know that already.

I don't mind being a bit in your face about it. So many people talk about it like it was a hang nail removal that it's hard to balance out the propaganda with just one voice. Here is another website where people talk every day about their experiences: http://surgicaleyes.infopop.cc/eve

You can focus on the success rate all day long. It appears to be very high - no argument there. But since it is not 100%, then to be truly informed you need get more than a paragraph of bad outcomes from an avalanche of positive propaganda. http://www.lasikmemorial.com/Home.htm Death and Dying Anonymous Author For the First Time Ready to Leave Broken By This Blow. This Low Blow At the Time When Possibility Lay Ripe. The Butchering Quick and Bloodless Consequences Hidden From Sight. The Damage Deep The Butcher Blissfully Unaware Of His Results. Yet Through it All The Organism Continues Its Struggle. The Mind Forced To Outwit the Body Utilizing All Its Trickery. Dying Can Not Be Followed By Death No Sir. Another Chance Awaits With Glorious Vision Restored and Whole. A Life Un-enslaved By Blurriness and Pain Constricting The Soul’s Flowering."

I didn't have it done. But I did research the cases that fail and what happens to these people. No one talks about them. No one hears their stories. Only a short list of watered down problems is presented.... Reading the accounts of some of these people at least bring into reality what could possibily happen. Only then does the patient understand the risk. Hearing "may cause dry eyes" doesn't quite compare to "I think about killing myself every day since my surgery...."

Just using your post as an example... How can you tell someone you have never met that shooting a laser in their is well worth it? What if he had 20/40 vision and only needed glasses at the movies? It would be a hard argument to make that lasik is worth performing on a pretty healthy eye in that case. It may have been worth it for you if your eyes were truly that bad, but the worse part about lasik is the casual "yeah, go do it - no worries mate" attitude that surrounds the entire industry.