| From LASIK to Lenses - Complete Vision Care in One Location
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - The LASIK Vision Institute and Eyeglass World, a top retailer of eyewear are opening a combination LASIK-eyeglass store in metropolitan Indianapolis. The LASIK Vision Institute and Eyeglass World are both wholly owned subsidiaries of Vision Care Holdings, LLC. "This new facility will let people take care of all their vision care needs in one place, and receive care from some of the most experienced optometrists and LASIK surgeons in the country," said Christopher Edwards, Chief Marketing Officer for Vision Care Holdings, LLC. "The new combination store is truly focused on the consumer, giving people many vision care options all under one roof." Laser vision correction surgery technology has exceeded industry and patient expectations during recent years.
Night of horror 'our Anzac Day'
IT is a blight on Macarthur's history but hundreds of people are expected to gather to commemorate the Appin Massacre on Sunday, April 15.
A memorial ceremony will be held at Cataract Dam from 1pm to 3.30pm to remember the Dharawal people who were killed on April 17, 1816.
On that fateful night a squad of soldiers under the command of Captain Wallis arrived at Broughton's Farm, near Appin. By moonlight they rushed the Dharawal people. Many were shot but many fled in terror and fell to their death over the clifftops.
Fourteen bodies were recovered the following day. Only two women and three children survived.
It is not known how many others plunged to their death.
Sister Kerry from the Winga Myamly Reconciliation Group said she believed remembering the Appin Massacre was as important as Anzac Day.
Year one of the immigrant rights movement
A year ago today, half a million or more people marched up Broadway in downtown Los Angeles and surrounded City Hall in a vast sea of humanity. Dressed in white, the multitude held aloft flags, banners and placards protesting a bill in the House that would have criminalized illegal immigrants and anyone who aids them. It was a massive, historic, astonishing event. Eddie "El Piolin" Sotelo, whose nationally syndicated radio program was credited with mobilizing his audience to hit the streets, proudly roared to the crowds from a podium at City Hall that their march constituted the "start of a new era."
But did it really?
Months after the demonstrations of March 25, April 10 and May 1 — called the largest the city had ever seen — the immigrant-rights momentum gradually sputtered and withered away.
A fresh eye on family dynamics
Growing up, Herman (Toshy) Wolfman was different, and not in a good way. Born in Toronto in 1916 to a Russian Jewish immigrant and the daughter of Galician immigrants, he grew up with a cleft lip, a speech impediment and the belief that someone with his "defective tools" had nothing to offer the world except trouble. When he was 20, that notion was confirmed when he was sent to prison for 11 years, convicted of stealing a diamond that belonged to the employer of his oldest sister, Bessie. Bessie was a young widow with a child to support. Both she and Toshy's other big sister, Lil, a medical student, knew he was innocent. Lil had been with Toshy at the scene of the crime: she could have saved his hide. But when you're the deformed younger brother of a widow and of a medical student with the potential for a long, successful career, you take the fall, no matter the consequences.
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