| Blind aviator comes to aid of visually impaired
Visual impairment is not a big problem and those, who remain mum thinking that they are blind, are not aware of their potentialities, said Miles Hilton-Barber, a blind aviator and adventurer. "The only limits in our lives are those that we accept ourselves. Strong determination, and most importantly the support from all, can lift the bar of physical challenges," said Miles, who arrived in Dhaka on April 2 on a three-day goodwill visit to support the fund raising for Standard Chartered Bank's 'Seeing is Believing' programme. While talking to journalists at a press conference at a city hotel organised by Standard Chartered Bank, Miles said, "Sight is a wonderful gift many take for granted. Whilst I will never see again in this life, but many people of the developing countries may get back this priceless gift by the money being collected through our flight." On March 7, Miles ventured out on his latest challenge 'Flight for Sight' to become the first blind aviator in history to fly halfway around the world through a specially customised microlight plane and since then he had travelled 20 countries, the organisers said.
High-definition Vision Clearly a Boon for the Eyes
Raleigh — High-definition television offers a crystal-clear image compared with older, standard TV sets. What if people with poor eyesight could see with new, crystal-clear vision?Doctors are doing just that with a new laser-and-lens procedure. Margaret Nehrke's eyesight was never great, but it got worse as she aged. "I couldn't read. I couldn't see anything without my glasses," said Nehrke. Now she sees better than ever thanks to a laser-and-lens procedure called "high-definition vision.""High-definition will give better color, better clarity, better contrast," said Dr. William Rand with the Rand Eye Institute in Miami. High-definition vision combines "Custom-Vue" LASIK surgery' with the latest lens-exchange techniques, and it can give almost anyone better than perfect vision.In TV terms, the new vision is like adding more pixels, more picture detail with more visual definition.
Eye Implant Presented At Hanover Fair
When the idea appeared several years ago, it sounded persuasive: Implanting electrodes at the defective retina of blind subjects and connecting them with a mini camera in order to re-establish vision. However, the first clinical tests yielded quite sobering results: Following the surgery, the patients could not even distinguish simple shapes. Neural computation scientists at Bonn University will introduce a software system at the Hanover Fair that is hoped to change this: with the aid of this software, the visual prosthesis "learns" to generate exactly those signals, which are expected and can be interpreted by the brain. The learning visual prosthesis will be exhibited between April 16th and April 20th at the community booth of the Science Region Bonn (hall 2, booth D35). Nearly two dozens of patients in Germany and the U.S.
Phallic Symbols Ready? On Guard!
There have been plenty of testosterone fueled conflicts but the first architectural confrontation of phallic symbols have been brought to the San Diego skyline courtesy of the Mormon and Roman Catholic church. The towering spire of St Erectile Tishoe built by the generous contributions of the poor faithful Mexican-American Catholics of San Diego's Old Town rises across the blue city sky while just across an urban plaza the new Mormon Temple's giant shaft dedicated to Jesus Christ of Ladder-like Saints seems to cross swords with the Catholic skyscraping pinnacle. Citizen faithful of both religions have tried to prevent the competing cataract."Everyone knows that the male phallus has been much more identified with Mormon BigLove, lds Theologian, Polly Gamist argued, "Catholics competed in the days of Pray, Pay and Obey but now that contraception is a Catholic as gargling with Holy Water after oral sex, Mormon religion has become the dominant male skygod principal" Traditionalist RC Bishop Phirm Bona disputed Gamist's findings: "RC's still beat lds in denial of rights to women and gays.
Wales at heart of cosmetic surgery boom
INCREASING numbers of women in Wales are going under the knife in a bid to beat the ageing process, according to cosmetic surgeons. The cosmetic surgery market is undergoing rapid growth as such operations become both more commonplace and more affordable. New clinics have opened around the country and some of the UK's top surgeons are now operating in Wales. The boom is being fuelled by Wales' ageing population. It is thought that the large number of extreme makeover programmes showcasing the potential results have also helped to make cosmetic surgery more acceptable. Figures published by The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) reveal there has been a 31% increase in cosmetic surgery in the last year alone across the UK. .
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