Held on Monday, Jan. 25, 2010:
Riverside Township’s Lions Club is collecting used eyeglasses, including old prescriptio glasses, and non prescription glasses, as part of the 2010 Lions in Sight Day,
Lions Clubs around the state, country and world participate in this day to showcase the Lions Club’s work in sight and provide used eyeglasses for those who need eye glasses. (more eyeglasses…)
Eyeglasses are as old as the Renaissance, but even now we still need trained professionals to fit them, it’s a nightmare for developing countries. In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, there’s only one optometrist for around 1 million people. There optmetrists and eye doctors are badly needly to check eyeglasses pescription for the local people. That’s no problem for the Western world, such as USA, which has around one optometrist for roughly every 10,000 people. People in USA can get their glasses prescription very quickly.
So I think we should do something for the people there, we can gather our unwanted eyeglasses, recheck the used glasses and sent them to the poor people. If we can collect a lot of eyeglasses, we also can sent some optometrist work there so that the people there can get more correct prescription glassses.
There are numerous ways to detect the change in seasons, from keeping close tabs on the weather to, say, checking out the length of women’s skirts.
In the summer, many gentlemen pull out their lovable eye glasses for its clean and pure look as well as its smooth feel.
So it should come as no surprise that some fashion eyegalsses for customers in summer. (more eyeglasses…)
Eyeglasses comprising a primary lens frame having a first pair of lens holders separated by a bridge portion having a major magnetic member disposed therein, said major magnetic member disposed within the bridge portion on a rear side of the bridge portion such that a surface of the major magnetic member is exposed and faces rearward. The eyeglasses further include an auxiliary frame having a second pair of lens holders separated by a bridge portion formed to include a protruding grip extension that extends perpendicularly outward from the auxiliary frame. The grip extension includes an upward lip with a minor magnetic member disposed therein such that a surface of the minor magnet member is exposed and faces forward. The auxiliary frame is coupled to the primary lens frame from the bottom such that the grip extension extends under the bridge portion in the primary lens frame and the upward lip engages the bridge portion of the primary lens frame on the rear side of the bridge, said major and minor magnetic members magnetically coupling together, thereby further securing the auxiliary frame to the primary lens frame.
Summer is coming, we’re always in search of the hottest summer fashions that will really turn heads. Well, now I bring to you some funky and freaky summer eyeglasses that will certainly turn heads, but it may not be for the right fashionably-sound reasons! (more eyeglasses…)
The study, published in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, was conducted by researchers from The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of School of Public Health in Baltimore, the Vision Research Institute in Africa, and Australia’s International Center for Eyecare Education and the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
The study estimated nearly 158 million people globally suffer with vision impairment resulting from uncorrected refractive error — which can usually be eliminated with an eye examination and a pair of eyeglasses. (more eyeglasses…)
Thieves have been making off with expensive eyeglasses from Lexington optical stores over the past week, and police want help in finding the suspects.
At least three optical centers — The South Hill Eye Center at 535 South Upper Street, Richardson Vision Center at 1757 Alexandria Drive and Eye Care Center at 114 East Reynolds Road — have been struck by the same three suspects, according to Lexington police. (more eyeglasses…)
Vancouver, British Columbia (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 14, 2009 — Clearly Contacts, Canada’s largest online optical store, has introduced progressive eyeglasses to its ever expanding line of vision care products. The company announced the launch of progressive lens eyewear targeted to the “baby boom” generation, as a follow up to the wildly successful single vision eyeglasses launch in February, 2008. Presbyopia is a common eye condition where individuals experience a reduced ability to focus on near objects. Symptoms normally surface between the ages of 40-50.
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People living in remote mountain villages in Afghanistan will soon be getting used prescription glasses from Hawaii.
The Lions Club and the Rotary Club are collecting thousands of pairs of used glasses from all over the state.
Volunteers measure the strength of the glasses lenses, label them, clean them and pack all the eyeglasses up.
Next month, U.S. military postal service will fly all the glasses to Afghanistan.
“The two members of the Lions Club who will be traveling there will be taking these glasses to separate mountain villages, escorted by the tribal leaders and distributing the glasses to the people who live in those villages,” said Dr. Hugo Higa of the Aesthetic Vision Center. (more eyeglasses…)