| Canadian Company With Strong Swedish Roots is the European leader in Online Retail Sales of Contact Lenses | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:06:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | Coastal Contacts (TSX:COA, www.coastalcontacts.com) is an online retailer of contact lenses and they are number two in the world with Cdn$81 million in sales last year, with more than 60% of sales coming in Europe. They are Europe's number one online retailer of contacts and the leading retailer of contacts in Sweden - both under the lensway.com and mylenses.nl brands. Coastal is also one of the fastest growing companies in Canada. The acquisitions of Sweden's Lensway.com (www.lensway.com) and Yourlenses Scandanavia AB, and of MyLenses.nl (www.mylenses.nl) in the Netherlands over the last few years have been a critical factor and catalyst in helping make Coastal the number two international online retailer of contact lenses. The European centre of operations in Stockholm includes a new multi-lingual call centre and distribution facility, which has better positioned the company to capitalize on expanding European markets in recent years and for the future.... | |
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| | | Fine lines | | Posted Thursday, January 25, 2007 1:18:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | "You mean this? This is just a personal grooming appliance." - Riddick (Vin Diesel) in Pitch Black (2000), referring to his shiv (a sharp pointed weapon). This movie turned out to be a phenomenal hit when it came out and it also gave the main actor Vin Diesel a chance to step out of anonymity. In Pitch Black Diesel plays a convict being transferred in a spaceship that crashes on a planet with three suns. But as bad luck would have it, the crew and passengers of Hunter/Gratzner, the night they crash-land is the night when all three suns are aligned and the planet goes totally dark. And with the dark comes carnivorous monsters that have been waiting and waiting for food. Pitch Black is filled with many humorous moments as well as conversations that debate various topics besides action. Diesel had to wear special contact lenses for the role and after the first day of filming the lenses wouldnt come off.... | |
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| | | Would you consider having laser eye surgery? | | Posted Thursday, January 11, 2007 3:09:13 PM by Blog57 Team | | Ellen says yes, I'd consider it. After struggling for years with thick glasses, I got contact lenses at 26. I wondered why I hadn't done it sooner. The only thing that has kept me from exploring the possibility of laser eye surgery has been the expense. Now that the procedures are becoming less costly and more common, it's a real possibility that one day I may go contact lens-free. If I seek the surgery, I'll do my due diligence and find a highly qualified physician. I know there are risks and I'd weigh them carefully. My nearsightedness worsened gradually until it leveled off with contact lenses. After age 40 came the reading glasses on top of the contacts. Without my contacts, I can't see far away but can see up close just fine. With the contacts, I can see everything pretty well except for up close.... | |
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| | | Eyes wide open | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 1:10:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | In the 1999 drawn Munster hurling semi-final between Clare and Tipperary, David Fitzgerald gave one of the greatest goalkeeping performances of the decade. As well as an impeccable handling display, he made the save of the season from Paul Shelly before scoring the equalising goal with a penalty in stoppage time. Fitzgerald deservedly won the man-of-the-match award but, with five minutes remaining, a Tommy Dunne ?65 landed on the roof of the net for a Tipp point. Fitzgerald privately admitted afterwards that he never saw the ball because he was looking into the sun. The sliotar grazed the crossbar. If it had ended in the net, Clare would have been beaten and the high-class quality of Fitzgerald?s contribution would have lost all its value. .... | |
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| | | NASA To Broadcast Live HDTV From International Space Station | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 3:09:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | The space agency is working with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Discovery HD Theater, and Japanese broadcast network NHK to produce two live broadcasts. By K.C. Jones InformationWeek Nov 14, 2006 02:44 PM NASA will broadcast the first live high-definition television feed from space next week. "HDTV provides up to six times the resolution of regular analog video," said NASA Principal Investigator Rodney Grubbs in a statement. "On previous missions, we've flow HDTV cameras but had to wait until after the mission to retrieve the tapes, watch the video, and share it with the science and engineering community, the media, and the public. For the first time ever, this test lets us stream live HDTV from space so the public can experience what it is like to be there." The U.S.... | |
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| | | Cutting edge gifts for your pet | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 1:22:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | It's said that adults often give children presents that the grown-ups would really like for themselves. That's doubly true with today's collection of high-tech gifts for pets. Animal and owner will be equal beneficiaries. CATGENIE: It took a rocket scientist (for real!) to dream up this ingenious self-cleaning toilet for our feline friends. One to four times a day (depending on your preference), a scooping mechanism pulls the deposits out of the round bowl. Then water and a sanitizing detergent wash the scooper, the permanent (litter-like) bed of granules, the bowl and the deposit-holding tank (where detergent breaks down the contents). After the gunk is neatly flushed away, a heater warms and dries the bowl and granules, leaving the premises so whistle-clean, claims CatGenie's Rick Mellinger, that "my cats like to sit in it." Resembling a human toilet (a round bowl is easiest to spin clean), the white, polystyrene-encased CatGenie is set up in a bathroom or laundry room.... | |
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| | | Digital Film Tools Releases 55mm 7.0 | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:05:20 PM by Blog57 Team | | (PRWEB) November 13, 2006 -- 55mm is the definitive set of digital optical filters meant to simulate popular glass camera filters, specialized lenses, optical lab processes, film grain, exacting color correction as well as natural light and photographic effects -- all in a controlled digital environment. The set of plug-ins includes: Black and White, Black Mist, Bleach Bypass, Blur, Center Spot, Chromatic Aberration, Color Compensating, Color Conversion, Color Correct, Color Grad, Color Infrared, Color Spot, Cool Mist, Cross Processing, Day for Night, Defog, Defringe, Depth of Field, Diffusion, Double Fog, Dual Grad, Edge Glow, Enhancing, Faux Film, Flashing, Fluorescent, Fog, F-Stop, GamColor Gels, Gels, Glow, Gold Reflector, Grain, Halo, Infrared, Kelvin, Lens Distortion, Light, Light Balancing, Low Contrast, Mist, Mono Tint, ND Grad, Night Vision, Old Photo, Overexpose, Ozone, Pencil, Photographic Filters, Polarizer, Printer Points, Rack Focus, Radial Exposure, ReLight, Rosco Gels, Selective Color Correct, Selective Saturation, Silver Reflector, Skin Smoother, Soft Effects, Split Field, Split Tone, Star, Streaks, Strip Grad, Sunset/Twilight, Telecine, Temperature, Three Strip, Tint, Two Strip, Ultra Contrast, Vari-Star, Vignette, Warm/Cool, Warm Black Mist, Warm Mist, Warm Soft Effects and X-Ray.... | |
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| | | Making Yahoo work better with e-mail | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:32:50 AM by Blog57 Team | | Q: Whenever I try to e-mail from a Web site -- by clicking the "Contact us" link, for example -- Windows opens a blank Outlook e-mail message form. This is frustrating because I don't use Outlook for e-mail. I use Yahoo's Web-based e-mail. Is there a way to change the default so that Yahoo Mail opens when I click a mail-to link on the Internet? [Podcast: It's Ryan Kim and Benny Evangelista on PlayStation 3 and Sony CEO Jack Tretton; review on PS3 and rivals; and David Einstein's computer Q&A. ] A: There is. What you need to do is download and install Yahoo Messenger (at yahoo.com.). It's instant messaging software, but it also lets you configure Windows to use Yahoo as your default e-mail client. After installing Yahoo Messenger, go to the Windows Control Panel (on the Start menu), and double-click Internet Options.... | |
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| | | Tiger struggles in first round in China | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 3:19:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | SHANGHAI, China (AP) -- Tiger Woods missed opportunities on his first day at work in five weeks and was even-par 72 after the first round at the HSBC Championship, seven shots off the pace. India's Jyoti Randhawa took his chances Thursday, making seven birdies in a 7-under 65 for a one-stroke lead over a group of three including 2005 U.S. Open champion Michael Campbell. New Zealander Campbell was level at 6-under with Scotland's Marc Warren and South Korea's Yang Yong-eun. Padraig Harrington, who clinched the 2006 European Order of Merit title at Valderrama, Spain two weeks ago, was a stroke further back with Thailand's Plaphol Chawalit. "I was right there in a position to get to 4-under," said Woods, who was in a share of 27th-place. "Unfortunately, it didn't happen that way -- it went the other way -- and I left myself an awful lot of work with three days to go." Retief Goosen and K.J.... | |
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| | | Crystal-clear tips for buying eyeglasses | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:13:44 PM by Blog57 Team | | Before getting an eye examination, you should familiarize yourself with the basics of lenses and frames. For low price and optical quality, CR-39 plastic lenses are the best choice. (We found prices ranging from $29 to $129 for single-vision lenses.) But they are less shatter-resistant than other lenses, and with strong prescriptions they look like Coke bottle bottoms. If you are active in sports, you should instead choose polycarbonate lenses ($50-$180). For a strong prescription, get thinner polycarbonate, high-index ($49-$275) or Trivex ($100-$135) lenses. When shopping for frames, keep in mind that plastic frames break more easily than metal ones, but they are fine for people susceptible to allergies. Metal frames made of stainless steel or titanium also are non-allergenic, unlike those made of nickel alloy, which can irritate the skin.... | |
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