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Conroy is an immensely gifted stylist…. No one can describe a tide or a sunset with his lyricism and exactitude.—Chris Bohjalian, The Washington Post
Conroy writes with a momentum that's impossible to resist.—People, 3 of 4 stars.
Beautifully written throughout…. Conroy is a natural at weaving great skeins of narrative, and this one will prove a great pleasure to his many fans.—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Conroy is a master of American fiction and he has proved it once again in this magnificent love letter to his beloved Charleston, and to friendships that will stand the test of time.—Bookpage
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Leopold Bloom King has been raised in a family shattered--and shadowed--by tragedy. Lonelyand adrift, he searches for something to sustain him and finds it among a tightly knit group of high school outsiders. Surviving marriages happy and troubled, unrequited loves and unspoken longings, hard-won successes anddevastating breakdowns, as well as Charleston, South Carolina's dark legacy of racism and class divisions, these friends will endure until a final test forces them to face something none of them are preparedfor.
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Leandro Barbosa last wore a Phoenix Suns uniform in Game 6 of the 2010 Western Conference Finals. He scored 7 points on 3-of-9 shooting while dishing out two assists.
It was a quiet finish to what had been a pretty stellar run with the team, as the Suns shipped him to Toronto in the offseason in exchange for Hedo Turkoglu.
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Tricolored Macaroni-On-The-Fly
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A quick adaptation of the traditional Italian macaroni recipes -- the ones that use white sauce and are baked. Also lower in calorie than those traditional preparations. ...
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|Finely chopped carrot
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1. Boil the macaroni with half tbsp salt and 1 tsp oil. Drain when boiled.
2. Heat the butter in a fry pan, add the chopped onions and saute till golden pink.
3. Add the remaining vegetables and salt to taste, mix well, cover, and allow to cook for a few minutes, stirring occasionally.
4. When the vegetables are cooked tender, add the milk, stirring continuously, and bring to boil. (Be careful so it doesn't curdle.)
5. Add the boiled macaroni.
6. Add more salt if required, and pepper.
7. Serve hot.
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Difficulty Level:Very Easy
Feel:Light And Airy
Preparation Time:10 Minutes
Cook Time:10 Minutes
Ready In:20 Minutes
StoryMy regular blog readers know how much I hate cooking usually. I'm always on the lookout for recipes that can be cooked within minutes. And this is one such instant recipe for cooking macaroni, that I tried sometime last year. Usually, people cook macaroni with white sauce. That was my original plan too, but at the very last minute, I found out that I didn't have any cornflour to make the sauce! I thought I would make it in Chinese style instead, with all the Chinese sauces. But guess what! I didn't have any soya sauce and chilli sauce either that day! So I decided to improvise. The mistake I did was that I added less than half a cup of milk. I wasn't really sure what would happen -- whether it would curdle instantly, or if it would taste soggy. But, later when we tasted the dish, it felt a bit dry in the mouth. That was when I realized that a little more milk could have given it the creamy texture of the white sauce, without its extra calories. Anyway, I made this dish in like less than half an hour (which included the veggie chopping). And it has very little calories as compared to usual macaroni dishes. I didn't use any cheese either, as you can see. Moreover, it looks kind of healthy too... colorful and fresh... doesn't it? This post was first published at miss_teerious. You can see more pictures of it on that link.
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Buddhist ethics as a field of academic study in the West is not new, but in recent years has experienced a considerable expansion, as seen, for example, in the very successful Internet Journal of Buddhist Ethics. The schools of Buddhism have rich traditions of thought on ethics, though this is often scattered through a variety of works which also deal with other topics. This book aims to be an integrative over-view of ethics in the different Buddhist traditions, showing the strong continuities as well as divergencies between them. It seeks to do this in a way that addresses issues which are currently of concern in Western thought on ethics and society, so as to clarify the Buddhist perspective(s) on these and make Buddhist ethics more easily available to Western thinkers on these issues. In exploring Buddhist ethics, this work aims to look at what the scriptures and key thinkers have said as well as at how things work out in practice among Buddhists, whose adherence may be at various levels, and who naturally operate in a world in which their religion is only one of the factors that affect their behaviour. Even when Buddhists fall short of their ethical ideals, the way that they tend to do so itself tells one something about the way the religion functions as a living system.
Chapters 1–3 prepare the way for looking at ethical issues by exploring the framework of Buddhist ethics in terms of the foundations of ethics in Buddhism's world-view(s), and the key values which arise from this. While the ethical guidelines of different religions and philosophies have much in common, each is based on a certain view of the world and of human beings' place in it. Such a world-view gives particular emphases to the related ethical system, gives it a particular kind of rationale, and provides particular forms of motivation for acting in accord with it. A religion is more than beliefs and ethics, though, so its ethics also need to be understood in the context of its full range of practices.


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Yes, I think there was some useful stuff in there. Then again, I finished the book and I'm here further procrastinating by writing a review of it rather than doing my homework.
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This book is so dry and academic that even shortening it could not hold my interest. The author is obviously a credible and intelligent person, but he is unable to hold my interest on the subject of procrastination. Not useful to me really at all.
I"m not sure what the author was trying to accomplish here. The first 3 chapters are focused on him, and frustrating to get through at all. After that, the book takes on a high-level academic tone that neither provides deep substance nor provides riveting or "ah-ha" moments. It is almost as if someone outlined an academic paper. No juice. No glitz. I think this would have been better as an academic book of greater volume. It is too dry and doesn't create the epiphanies I was seeking. Sort of like the teacher in Ferris Beuller's Day Off.
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Intended to give a short introduction to a complex subject, along with immediately applicable first steps to changing behavior, the book hits its mark. Pychel steps aside from scholarly writing in the interest of getting to the points of interest to the self-identified procrastinator. He does not offer a quick fix but rather suggests specific ways to change life-long habits. He is encouraging without promising overnight miracles.
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There were no injuries in a Saturday morning fire well before dawn that destroyed a home in south Mexia.
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In answer to a request for the information at last month's regular monthly meeting, trustees will be presented with figures on the number of students reading below grade level, and the number of students held back a year in each grade.
In new business, trustees will consider and vote on a suggestion that a thank-you note or card be placed in statements sent out to delinquent taxpayers by the law firm that does collections for the district.
A house that had been located on Sumpter Street makes its way westward along Milam Street (U.S. 84) Thursday morning, with a man on the roof to make sure the home didn't snag wires or traffic lights. The home entered the highway at Red River Street, destined for its new site along U.S. 84, according to a representative of Patterson House Moving & Leveling, which handled the move.
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"We're even higher on the Drought Index than we were before, and it's pretty much consistent around the county," said County Judge Daniel Burkeen, referring to the Keetch-Byram Drought Index, which measures moisture in the land.
No one disagreed, so no action was taken.
In preparation for the upcoming election, the final votes were taken at Monday's meeting on preparations for the Nov. 5 Constitutional Amendment Election.
The court agreed to designate the Courthouse, Room G6, as the main early voting polling place; and also designate the Courthouse annex in Mexia as a temporary polling place for early voting.
To read more, pick up a copy of Saturday's Mexia News, or subscribe to our e-edition.
Limestone County Attorney Roy DeFriend is asking for the public's help to keep two convicted rapists in prison.
The Moon brothers – Frank and Vernon – were convicted of aggravated sexual assault and sentenced to 99 years in prison for a March 18, 1984 rape that took place outside Mexia.
Their victim was, at the time, a high school student.
The brothers followed her from a Mexia convenience store, used flashing red lights to get her to stop, dragged from her car, took her to a remote area and the brothers and a third man – Robert Wayne Spikes – each raped her. She was left barely clothed on FM 39 and after a while stopped a passing car and was rescued.
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When counterfeit bills were passed in Waco recently, the public was told to be careful to watch for the fake bills. Bill Wright, of Mexia, however, thought to himself, "Well how in the world are we going to be experienced enough to understand when we pick up a $20 bill and know if it's counterfeit?"
When he posed that question to the Mexia Police Department, he found that there are often differences that give away bad greenbacks people should be aware of.
Subsequently, Mexia Police Officer Cpl. Brian Bell spoke on counterfeit currency to the Mexia Lions Club, upon Wright's invitation.
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Rhonda Bass, left, of Groesbeck's Maffett Memorial Library, and Shien Dee Pullman, of Mexia's Gibbs Memorial Library, ask Limestone County commissioners for additional funding at Monday's meeting.
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Limestone County commissioners court continues to move toward a tax increase and an income raise for county employees, with so far no comment from voters, but also in the face of a possible loss of more revenue from taxes paid by NRG Energy power plant.
No county resident showed up to make comments about the proposed tax rate hike at Monday's public hearing on the subject. A second hearing is scheduled for Thursday morning at 10 a.m. at the county courtroom of the Courthouse, in Groesbeck.
"We seldom have anyone show up at the hearings, and even more seldom have any questions or comments," County Judge Daniel Burkeen said. "I assume that those who have questions have already gotten their answers through the newspaper stories, asking me, looking at the budget, etc."
The first meeting for Limestone County's next Relay for Life is this Saturday, Sept. 14, at 10 a.m. at Mexia's Coffee Cabaret.
The highly successful American Cancer Society fundraiser called Relay for Life is set for Friday, Oct. 26, at Fort Parker State Park, but it involves weeks of planning and a lot of fun pre-event activities,
The theme of this year's Relay is "A Ray of Hope… Wishing on a Cure."
For those who have no idea what Relay for Life is, it's a 12-hour fundraiser filled with fun competitions between teams whose proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society. The society provides direct service to cancer victims as well as funds for research to find a cure for the disease.
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disposing said mask intermediately of said lens and a source of particular wavelengths of radiant energy preselected for effecting a refractive index change in the material of said lens by exposure;
exposing portions of said lens around said opaques of said mask to said radiant energy for a period of time sufficient to alter the refractive index of said lens material in said portions around said opaques substantially without affect upon remaining portions protected by said opaques whereby the resulting differential of refractive index in said lens produces a detectable facsimilie of said coding characters.
2. The method according to claim 1 wherein said opaques form the boundaries of said configurations of said coding characters and said exposed portions of said lens altered in refractive index by said exposure to said radiant energy are in the shape of said coding characters.
3. The method according to claim 1 wherein said opaques are in the configurations of said coding characters themselves and said exposed portions of said lens include the surrounds of the configurations of said coding characters, said surrounds being altered in refractive index by said exposure to said radiant energy.
4. The method according to claim 1 wherein said mask includes a slide of material which is highly transparent to said particular wavelengths of radiant energy and said opaques are applied to said slide.
5. The method according to claim 4 wherein said slide is formed of quartz.
6. The method according to claim 4 wherein said slide is placed adjacent to one surface of said lens.
7. The method according to claim 1 wherein said opaques are applied directly to one surface of said lens.
8. The method of claim 1 wherein said particular wavelengths of radiant energy are within the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
9. The method according to claim 1 wherein said step of exposing portions of said lens is effected by optically projecting an image of said mask upon said lens.
10. The method according to claim 9 wherein the radiation used to project said image of said mask is within the ultraviolet region of the electromagnetic spectrum.
1. Field of the Invention
Lens marking with particular reference to the coding of plastic artificial intraocular lenses (pseudophakoi) for establishing in each case a permanent record of particulars such as, for example, date and place of manufacture and monomer used.
2. Discussion of the Prior Art
In the manufacture, use, and sale of intraocularly implantable artificial lenses which are referred to in the art as pseudophakoi, it is essential for various reasons including law that a permanent record be made upon the article of particulars which may include date and place of manufacture and monomer used. Encoding with ciphers, i.e. seven characters and/or digits, affords countless separately identifiable bits of decodable information.
The application of such coding to the product, however, has heretofore presented serious problems for the following, to name a few, reasons:
The lenses of pseudophakoi are of necessity only approximately 5 mm in diameter and a center section of approximately 3 mm in diameter must be retained clear for visual use. Additionally, in each case, a substantial portion of the remaining approximately 1 mm margin must be utilized for attachment of the haptic section (lens clips) of the pseudophakos. Thus, there has been the serious problem of reducing character size of heretofore painted, leached, or engraved coding sufficiently to fit the space allowed while maintaining legibility. Additionally, painting, chemically leaching or engraving operations are not only difficult, tedious, time-consuming and expensive to perform particularly under the requirements of the aforesaid miniaturization of characters, but require special skills and equipment not always available or possible to make available at times and/or places of need.
Still further, painting, chemically leaching or engraving produce raised edges or depressions and systems of scratches or roughnesses which in any or all cases are potentially medically hazardous. Lens surface irregularities allow stagnation of body fluids and promote growth of micro-organisms. Surface interruptions or scratching caused by engraving can also be incipiative to lens material stressing or fissuring, either of which is potentially destructive to the lenses. Additionally, the inaesthetic readily discernable or undisguised nature of prior art coding by etching, leaching, or painting can be disconcerting to the observer of a pseudophakic and/or to the pseudophakic himself.
In view of the aforesaid and related drawbacks to prior art lens coding practices and with the urgent need for improvements in intraocular lens coding, it is an object of the present invention to provide a method for marking lenses which, in addition to being simple and economical to perform, will overcome the aforementioned and related problems and drawbacks of the prior art. More particularly, an object of the invention is to provide a method for marking lenses which, in addition to being simple and economical to perform, will provide readily decodable miniaturized caricatures undetectable to the naked eye, nondestructive to the lens article and nondisruptive of optimum surface smoothness but, on the other hand, readily discernable for interpretation either by direct reading or decoding with no more required than the aid of ordinary ophthalmological instruments.
Other objects and advantages of the invention will become more readily apparent from the following description.
The aforesaid and corollary objects of the invention are accomplished by exposing the ultraviolet radiation selected portions of a lens surface which either form the boundaries of desired coding characters or portions which are in the form of the coding characters themselves. This produces a differential in the refractive index of the lens material which renders detection and reading of the coding possible before and/or after intraocular implantation.
The coding process is nondestructive to material of the lens and noninterruptive to the smoothness of its customary optical finish. The method affords permanent recordation of pertinent lens data on the article itself in a medically safe manner and is aesthetically substantially invisible to the naked eye of an observer of a pseudophakic and nonobstructive to the pseudophakic's vision.
Details of the invention will become more readily apparent from the following description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a view in rear elevation of an exemplary form of pseudophakos having coding applied thereto according to one technique contemplated by the invention;
FIG. 2 is a front elevational view of the pseudophakos of FIG. 1;
FIGS. 3 and 4 are plan views of masks which are useful in practice of the method of the invention;
FIGS. 5 and 6 are diagrammatic illustrations of contemplated uses of the masks of FIGS. 3 and 4 respectively; and
FIGS. 7, 8, and 9 are diagrammatic illustrations of modifications of the method of the invention.
In FIGS. 1 and 2, there is illustrated one of the many forms of pseudophakoi currently used to produce retinal images and re-establishment of binocularity in cases of aphakia.
Pseudophakos 10 comprises an optical section (lens 12) and a haptic section (iris clips 13), the latter being in the form of posterior loops for iris diaphragm fixation.
While various forms of fixation devices including anterior and posterior loops, struts and/or clasps are used according to the needs and preferences of the surgeons, common to all is the lens whether plano-convex, double convex or of any other design. The plano-convex configuration of lens 12 has been selected here for purposes of illustrating principles of the invention. It should be understood, however, that the present method is applicable to any and all shapes and sizes of lenses.
Lens 12 is formed of a cast methylmethacrylate resin (e.g. biologically neutral, chemically pure polymethylmethacrylate) and its opposite sides are ground and optically polished.
The marking of lenses according to the invention involves the application thereto of a code 14 which may comprise letters, numbers, hieroglyphics or other symbols and/or combinations thereof. Numbers 1-7 have been used to illustrate the invention. For this illustration only, the code 14 has been shown in reverse image form on the posterior side 16 of lens 10 for reading in its true form from anterior side 18, i.e. the side facing the cornea after implantation.
The method of applying permanent markings such as code 14 according to the invention is as follows:
One surface of lens 12 is masked throughout areas thereof surrounding the code 14 or, alternatively, in areas forming the coding characters themselves. In connection with the latter, master 20 (FIGS. 3 and 5) which is in the form of a plate or slide 22 is constructed of a material such as quartz which is transparent to the short wavelengths of ultraviolet radiation. Painted, printed, transferred or otherwise applied to slide 22 are opaque masks 24 each in the configuration of a preselected code character. The masks 24 are arranged in a relative juxtaposition and preselected orientation corresponding to the arrangement desired of code 14.
With slide 22 interposed between lens 12 and a source 26 of ultraviolet radiation, preferably with the slide immediately adjacent to the posterior surface 16 of lens 12, the major portion of lens 12 is exposed to radiation 28 from source 6 while areas thereof corresponding in shape, size and position to masks 24 are shielded from such exposure.
This treatment alters the refractive index of the areas of lens 12 which are exposed to rays 28 leaving the areas protected by opaque masks 24 substantially unaltered in refractive index. The resulting refractive index differential produces a facsimilie of masks 24 which is readily discernable with the aid of side illumination and/or polarizing filters or variously reflected light.
Since the means which may be used to detect and read the facsimilie of masks 24 (i.e. the code 14) can be an ordinary slit lamp or any of many other forms and/or combinations of viewing aids including a simple magnifying glass, details of these instruments or devices will not be dealt with herein since they form no particular part of the present invention. The invention is related more particularly to matters of marking lenses by producing refractive index differentials in the form of coding in the lens bodies.
This refractive index differential need only be slight, e.g. in the order of 0.001 and while shown as being effected near the edge of lens 12, it may equally as well be applied to a more central portion of the lens if desired. Wherever placed, it will not adversely affect the pseudophakic's vision.
It should be understood that use of the expression "lens" in this specification and appendant claims is not intended to be exclusive of any or all of its various forms which may include buttons or blanks of lens stock whether unfinished or semifinished. Lens marking according to the invention may be effected before or after finishing of the lenses to their final shapes, sizes and/or surface textures.
Exemplary of reductions to practice of the invention are the following:
Using a lens blank or button formed of polymethylmethacrylate of 12.7 mm diameter and 6.0 mm thickness having an index of refraction of 1.500, the unmasked portions thereof were exposed to ultraviolet radiation of approximately 2537 Angstroms at an intensity of approximately 940 microwatts/sq. cm. from a distance of approximately 5 cm. for a period of approximately 45 minutes. The result was the creation of a refractive index differential of approximately 0.001 penetrating at least 3 mm of the blank or a change in refractive index of the exposed portion from 1.500 to 1.501 while the refractive index of portions of the lens protected by masks used to produce the code remained substantially unchanged, i.e. at 1.500.
A similar result was obtained with a lens blank formed of polymethylmethacrylate but with a shorter exposure time of approximately 10 minutes at an intensity of 12,000 microwatts/sq. cm.; the distance between the lens and source of radiation was approximately 5 cm. and the wavelength of radiation was approximately 2537 Angstroms.
A change in wavelength to 3660 Angstroms and intensity to approximately 160 microwatts/sq. cm. with other factors substantially similar to Examples I and II produced substantially the same results.
Ultra violet lamps used to effect the above-mentioned exemplary reductions to practice were obtained with Ultra-Violet Products, Inc. of San Gabriel, Ca. and are readily commercially available.
Referring more particularly to FIGS. 4 and 6, there is illustrated a technique for creating a change in refractive index of areas of lens 12 which are in the configuration of the code 14 characters themselves, i.e. the boundaries of these code characters and all remaining portions of the lens are shielded against the radiation used to produce the index differential in lens 12. Master 30 comprises slide 32 having opaque coating 34 extending over all portions thereof except areas 36 which are in the configuration of the code 14 characters to be applied to lens 12. Thus, ultraviolet radiation 38 from source 40 is permitted to impinge upon lens 12 substantially only in areas thereof immediately adjacent to the uncoated areas 36 of slide 32.
It should also be understood that masks such as 24 of FIGS. 3 and 5 or 34 of FIGS. 4 and 6 may be applied directly to the surface of the lens, if desired. For example, masks 42 similar to masks 24 of FIG. 3 may be applied to the posterior surface 16 of lens 12 and the lens accordingly exposed to ultraviolet radiation 44 from a suitable source 46 as shown in FIG. 7. Alternatively, similar masks 48 (FIG. 8) may be applied to the anterior surface of lens 12 and that surface of the lens exposed to ultraviolet radiation 50. It should be understood that while masks of the general type shown in FIG. 3 has been illustrated as in FIGS. 7 and 8, it is also contemplated that the form of masking illustrated in FIGS. 4 and 6 may be used directly upon either of the surfaces of lens 12 should the need or desire to do so arise.
For those interested in techniques available for producing masks such as those illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4, there is a commercially available photographic image transfer system known to the trade as i.n.t. (image n transfer). It is sold by Industrial Graphics Division, 3M Company, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. This has been found to offer a convenient, economical and highly effective system for producing masters 20 and 30 and/or code characters such as 42 and 48 (FIGS. 7 and 8) particularly in cases where a coding such as 14 need be of exceptionally small size yet readily legible. A photographic image transfer system permits the reduction of coding character size as desired with crisp, clear and readily discernable image reproduction. Image enlargement, of course, is possible whenever desired.
A modification of the method of the invention is illustrated in FIG. 9 wherein the image of a mask 52 which may be similar to one or another of masters 20 and 30 (FIGS. 3 and 4) is projected upon the lens, e.g. lens 12 to be coded. A suitable projection system may include a light collimating lens 54 and objective lens 56 wherewith ultraviolet radiation 58 from a suitable source 60 may be projected upon lens 10 in the form of image of the coding characters formed upon mask 52. Lenses 54 and 56 are formed of a material which is readily transmissive to the relatively short wavelengths of ultraviolet radiation, e.g. quartz.
Those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that there are various modifications nd adaptations of the precise forms of the invention here shown which may suit particular requirements and that the foregoing illustrations are not to be interpreted as restrictive of the invention beyond that necessitated by the following claims.
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