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It seems that Sinwar has met his end. He was running from house to house with two of his body guards when they took the monster out. They say that the Ear had advised the IDF to stave the bastards in Gaza until they would sell the bastard out for a few crumbs of bread for their little monsters-to-be. Somehow they knew the murderer could not get food into the underground caves that he needed. He left the tunnels because he was hungry and afraid that the Ear had paid off those that knew his underground location. The Ear tricked Sinwar into believing that he could escape from Gaza to Iran. The Iranians who were part of the scheme are now in the US.
The Ear has left Gaza to return to the US. He has penetrated the inner security of Iran. If I were Ali Khamenei I would be sucking Putin’s dick for protection. We hear that the Ear doesn’t give a shit about what Putin has to say because he has his finger on the button that keeps Putin alive. Nuclear war maybe on the horizon because Putin doesn’t want to go out like Saddam or Qaddafi. Putin especially doesn’t want to go out like Qaddafi who was killed by rebel forces in his own country. Putin believes that he has eliminated any opposition in his country. But like every other leader on this planet, he fears that he will one day see the Ear in his rear view mirror. That means death.
Sinwar thought that he was smarter than the Ear. Now Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal are running for their lives. The brother of Sinwar has a target on his back and has remained in the tunnels, but the IDF has his boxed in. News in a few.
We along with the rest of the world have been wondering were the Ear was. We know that he was running things in the US. But, we were very sure that he left for the West Bank and Gaza because of the moments of Biden. Kamala had been insisting on him staying in the US, but he said that if Biden could leave the country, then the actually acting POTUS could do as he pleased. So he left under cover of stealth. We believe that he shut down the Avenue to prevent such as us from broadcasting his moves.
His money and influence has led to a complete penetration of the Hamas network. He is advising the IDF on how to pick the remaining leaders off one by one. Recently the new top level of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants tried meeting in a school in Jabaliya. They thought that they would be safe because they insisted that the school be operational at the time. The Ear told the IDF to “bomb the fucking school, fuck the teachers and students.” They did and killed both the Hamas and Islamic militants and some of the teachers and children.
This homicidal manic must be stopped. He will travel to the ends of the earth to kill a perceived enemy and he doesn’t care who he has to kill to get that enemy.
Those of you who had relatives in the Abu Hussein school in Jabaliya can now join a line that stretches around the world. It is full of people who want this animal killed.
Our intel says that the Ear is still in the Middle East, He is looking to make a major strike on the Hezbollah militant group. We believe that he is in central Beirut. He traveled with the US military that was sent to Israel. We know that he was one of the personnel that landed in Israel, but we lost him a few days ago. Now that he has surfaced again, we are on his track. We may announce his death soon. We are speaking hear to put the fear of the Devil into this Demon’s heart. We are after you and we will not rest until we get you.
It is said that you do not fear God because you are in league with the Devil. We will go through the Devil to get to you because our God, Allah, is GREAT, and he will prevail.
The Jews are claiming it was a lucky encounter that got Sinwar, but we know that it was the two guards that were paid off by the Ear to turn Sinwar in. He thought he was going to make it to Iran and then Qatar. The “shoot out” has been staged to make it appear that three Arabs were killed. The truth is the two traitors have been put on a flight to the US. They were the ones that gunned down Sinwar. He did not die from a Jew bullet. They were bought off by the Ear. The Ear will pay for this.
Yahya, Yahya, hee, hee, yada, yada, yada. The Ear is a bad motherfucker. Looking forward to more things by the swashbuckler.
Wow! Now the major grocery chains have found a way to raise prices at will, and to do it to different races at different times. What else will we allow the billionaires to get away with? Kroger’s Plan to Use Facial Recognition Raises Concerns About Surge Pricing.
https://gizmodo.com/krogers-plan-to-use-facial-recognition-raises-concerns-about-surge-pricing-2000512685
Return the aircraft that you took near Mount Rainer. While you were authorized to defend yourself from the aggressive behavior of US aircraft, you are not allowed to keep their bodies or the aircraft. Wreck it and toss it. That is an order
They got the guy who planned the Oct7th massacre.
Photos appear to show body of slain Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar
https://nypost.com/2024/10/17/world-news/photo-appears-to-show-body-of-hamas-leader-yahya-sinwar/
He looks like he was shocked that he was discovered. They dropped a bomb on his ass.
Nikita Klenkov, a deputy commander in Russia’s Glavnoye Razvedyvatelnoye Upravlenie Was brought home to Moscow to lead the new division dedicated to bring down the Ear. He was shot dead in the village of Melenki, less than 20 minutes from the Special Operations Forces Training Center, where Klenkov served as deputy commander, and where he was to head up his new unit.
Witnesses reported that at least three shots were fired into the side window of Klenkov’s car as he was driving. The vehicle continued moving until it collided with a fence.
Klenkov, described as a senior figure in Russia’s military intelligence, died instantly.
Authorities are searching for a grey Mitsubishi Outlander believed to be involved in the assassination. Fuck with the Bull, Get the Horns.
The Jews know they have been handed Sinwar. They are just fucking with us to hide the details.
Why any woman would vote for a republican candidate is beyond me.
Why the 19th Amendment Did Not Guarantee All Women the Right to Vote | HISTORY
https://www.history.com/news/19th-amendment-voter-suppression
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There are an estimated 3 million shipwrecks around the world, some dating back to thousands of years ago.
Did You Know
The phrases “on Broadway” and “off Broadway” don’t refer to the geographic location of a performance, but the capacity of the theater in which it is performed. “On Broadway” venues can seat 500+ viewers, whereas “off Broadway” venues seat 100-499 viewers (the rarely used “off-off Broadway” refers to venues with less than 100 seats).
Did You Know
Kinder Surprise Eggs, a hollow chocolate candy with a toy hidden inside, are banned from import into the United States because FDA regulations ban the inclusion of non-nutritive objects in confectionery products (unless the non-nutritive objects have functional value).
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The scientific name for the common red fox (the largest and most widespread of the true fox species) is “Vulpes vulpes” which, translated directly from Latin, becomes “Fox Fox”, hinting at the particular prominence of the red fox.
Liam Payne was on drugs and tearing up a hotel room in Argentina. The cops went up to his room and he started cussing the out. They beat the shit out of him and were clubbing him when another guess told them who he was. So they threw him out of his balcony window to cover up the asskicking they had given him.
Now the cover-up begins in Ernest.
It is crazy what this homicidal maniac is doing. While the Harris and Biden whitehouse is encouraging Netanyahu to use the killing of Sinwar as a pivotal moment to end the war in Gaza, the Ear is telling Netanyahu that if he stops he will be prosecuted as a war criminal. The Ear wants to inflict more suffering upon the people of Gaza because he wants to force Iran into a battle. Why?
We hear that the Ear’s ultimate goal is to confront Putin over Iran. That idiot will bring about WWIII. He sent a huge bomber squad to bomb Yemen. They dropped tons of bombs on the ansar Allah, Houthis. Soon he will order a carpet bombing of Beirut.
Next, he will order a coordinated attack against Iran. A lot of key Iranian leaders will be killed and the world will see what can happen to a nation as big, well armed, and well connected as Iran. It will be momnentous.
The Ear, a Demigod with a vision, the rest of the world, little men with a desire to control their sections of the world for profit.
Our argument is that we should announce ourselves in Egypt. It was there that we helped create the greatest civilization on Earth.
Your involvement with Egypt occurred 4,000 plus years ago in Qurta around a 100 kilometers from Luxor. To be exact about 17,000BC. You were there some 19,000 years ago when the Egyptians were mere herding aurochs and wild bovid. You taught them respect for the Hippo even though 20,000 years ago beef was the main food for the nomads. You provided them the Savana grasslands.
The you interfered to tilt the entire Earth off its axis by about half a degree. This had the profound effect on the climate. You did that to change the habits of the early Egyptians. They were nomads that followed the seasonal rains. Your tilt changed all that and forced them to become what you wanted them to be. You drove them to Nabta Playa and forced them to settle into communities and depend upon the summer rains. You did all this to force them to develop a way to chronicle time. They had to because they needed to predict the summer rains. Thus came the world’s oldest calendar.
You promptly went off to show us how you had sped up the developement of humans on Earth. You bragged that soon you would make Egyptian weather forecasters astronomers so that when you made yourselves visible to them you could come from the skies they worshipped. You trained their minds to subliminally everything in their life to the sky. Every Tomb, temple, monument would be aligned to the heavens, to the very gods you claimed to be when you appeared as deities from the heavens.
How about when they appeared as Hadthor, the cow goddess as a woman 35 foot tall with cow’s ears? How clever they thought they were becoming the animal the community relied upon the most for their daily existence.
It was Hathor not Hadthor. And we gave them religion so that they could form a lasting community.
You created a people whose belief was that they could take what they accumulated in life with them after death. You did this by openly appearing and allowing certain members of the community to gather up their belongings and leave on your ships with them. That gave them the belief that something happened beyond death and hence forth they mummified their dead and put their belongings in their graves with them so that when you came with your space ships they could leave with them. You made them believe that death was simply a transition(trip to another place) into another state of existence and you made them believe they would need everything they needed in their life on Earth. You did this to show the rest of us how easily it was to transplant one civilization to another planet without starting all over again.
Don’t leave out the fact that they dried up all sources of water to keep the Egyptians in the area they wished them to be in. After drying up all the other sources of water, they gave them the White and Blue Nile. The flooding of the Blue you used to create fertility in a desert and called it Egypt. You created a soil so fertile that it could grow anything. You wanted the land to give the people everything they needed. So 7,000 years ago you forced a people to migrate towards their only source of water, the Nile, to survive.
Along the banks of the Nile, from Faiyum to the arena Bend, you created the two lands of Egypt. You decided to develope two distinct cultures one in the upper Nile and one in the lower Nile.
El Kab, located to the south of the Qena Bend is where you began your experiment of creating a civilization based on the values of your world.
Let’s not leave the E*/` out of this tale. They were the ones that taught the mumificators that a skeleton wasn’t good enough. They wanted all parts of the body for their elaborate dinners. So the taught the Egyptians how to preserve every part of the human body before putting the body in its last resting place.
E*/`made them believe that unless they mummified their dead in this way the dead would lose their souls.
Are you forgetting we gave the world their first writing in 3250 BC? The Egyptians were taught to collect taxes and they needed writing to record their accounting of the tax taking.
You set the upper and lower Nile kingdoms against each other to produce the “meat” you needed for your special dinner. You rewarded King Narmer, the dumber of the two kingdoms, with the victory because he promised you the greater number of body parts for your special dinner. Then you bragged about united the two Kingdoms into a great society.
In 3100 BC We united the two adversaries into the First Nation state. The world’s first writing, hieroglyphic script is because of our efforts. Yes, we made Narmer the first king of Egypt. We came down as the cow goddess, Hathor to protect him.
Let’s not forget you appeared as a Falcon and proclaimed to be the god of kingship. This would have been an act of interference if Earth had been under the realm of the ´Â∏‰‰O‰.
It was not and the benefit was that for the next 3,000 years every Pharaoh emulated King Narmer. This can be affirmed in the temple of Seti I at Abydos. They would go on to be 300 Pharaohs organized into 30 dynasties. We are proud of our accomplishments.
Those of you complaining about the capture and attempted domestication of the Harpy eagle need not worry that your kids will get caught up in that situation. You can continue to allow your children to spend a portion of their youth in the form of the Harpy eagle.
The greatest threat to your kids is the deforestation to the rain forest by humans. You will be authorized to take measures to discourage humans from this act.
So Hamas has refused to return the prisoners. I guess that the Ear was correct when he said that Israel should continue to starve the savages and level the landscape in Gaza and the West Bank. It shows that when the Ear advised the IDF to flood the tunnels in Gaza with lethal gas and they refused less they kill the hostages, that that refusal prolonged the war.
The Ear has been the most wanted man on the planet for almost a year now. But he continues to operate in the open and has no fear of traveling to wherever he feels his power can be used best. He is the most feared and as POTUS, the most powerful man on the planet Earth. Yet, he has not used that position to enrich himself. I may not like all the things he does, but I can’t think of any person on earth that I would trust with the power and position he has.
So Hamas has refused to return the prisoners. I guess that the Ear was correct when he said that Israel should continue to starve the savages and level the landscape in Gaza and the West Bank. It shows that when the Ear advised the IDF to flood the tunnels in Gaza with lethal gas and they refused less they kill the hostages, that that refusal prolonged the war.
The Ear has been the most wanted man on the planet for almost a year now. But he continues to operate in the open and has no fear of traveling to wherever he feels his power can be used best. He is the most feared and as POTUS, the most powerful man on the planet Earth. Yet, he has not used that position to enrich himself. I may not like all the things he does, but I can’t think of any person on earth that I would trust with the power and position he has.
Where will this guy surface next? Some say he is working on an Iran surprise.
WannaBet? I hear he has his hands full trying to avoid death in a Gaza tunnel. Rumor has it that he and the few men he has left are down to hand to hand combat. I hope he doesn’t die like our martyred Yahya Sinwar. I want his death to be slowly, and his body drug through the streets of Gaza, the West Bank and Beirut.
the case of Robert Robinson on death row in TX is just another example of what you get when you allow white men to control the justice system. The DA there and the justices are attempting to execute a man for shaken baby syndrome. The problem is the prosecutor says he got it wrong. And the whiteboy justice system scheduled a meeting with the prosecutors to discuss the issue. The catch is that meeting is scheduled to occur AFTER Robinson has been executed.
Just goes to show that the whiteboy today is doing to whites what they have been doing to non whites since forever.
Note as or if you peruse all these links that I am not supporting Israel’s attempt to remove Palestinians from their homes. I can understand their reluctance to trust a people who profess to believe that Israel doesn’t have the right to exist. But, I believe in the long run, this unfair treatment of Palestinians simply because they are Palestinians will never solve the problem of co-existence. Israel has to figure out a better way than the one they are practicing today. I am not asking them to have one bit of sympathy for the Islamic murders, but if they can spare the lives of the Islamic women and children without endangering their soldiers, that should be done in ALL cases.
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When Should You Use “Which” Instead of “That”?
ich” and “that” are a lot like identical twins, in that they’re pretty easy to mix up at first glance. But just like identical twins have unique traits that set them apart, so do these similar yet distinct terms. One reason we mix up “which” and “that” so often is the words were used interchangeably until the 1700s, and old habits die hard. But under today’s grammatical guidelines, there’s an appropriate context for “which,” and separate occasions for “that.”
Both “which” and “that” are relative pronouns, meaning they can refer to any related or previously mentioned nouns. But to understand how they differ, it’s useful to define the concepts of restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses. A restrictive clause adds essential information to a sentence: “The album that came out after her child was born changed her musical style.” In this example, the restrictive clause of “that came out after her child was born” is crucial to the meaning of this sentence.
A nonrestrictive clause, however, works as a conversational aside, adding nonessential information: “The band’s first album, which was my favorite, had great backup singers.” It might be nice to know that you like an album, but the point of this sentence is the prowess of the backup singers, so the clause within the commas is considered nonrestrictive. As these examples show, it’s appropriate to use “that” in restrictive clauses, and “which” in nonrestrictive clauses.
Nonrestrictive clauses often appear at the end of sentences, not just in the middle like in our example above. For example, “David Bowie’s album Young Americans had famous backup singers, which included Luther Vandross.” Here’s our memory tip: If you need a comma, you’re probably dealing with a nonrestrictive clause, meaning “which” is almost always the correct choice. Commas set off info that, when removed, doesn’t impact the sentence’s clarity or meaning. If you don’t need a comma, use “that.”
“That” has a variety of usages “which” cannot serve. It can act as a definite article referring to a specific noun (“That is my favorite album”), as a conjunction to connect two clauses (“I didn’t know that it was their first time performing together”), or as an adverb to add context before an adjective or verb (“I don’t want to spend that much money on concert tickets”). This makes “that” more versatile than “which.”
Is the Ear also Anonz?
That is a good question. But if they cloned the man and released him, they must have added a cold blooded streak he never had.
The Ear is in the Middle East. Iran’s leaders are hiding because they know that the Ear paid off Sinwar’s two body guards to shoot him in the head. They are somewhere in the US. But the price on their heads and their families will continue to rise until they are dead.
We know that he is in this area with his huge sums of various currencies. Sinwar had more than ten thousand dollars worth of various currencies on his person. He was obviously tricked into believing that he could escape to safety of Iran and then Qatar. Qatar did not want to get on the bad side of the Ear so they informed him. But this was never an option for Sinwar because it was a scheme planned by the Ear to get him out in the open and allow his paid assassins to murder him.
The Jews placed his body on a couch after they had a tank fire into the ruins of the building his body was found in. Witnesses said they saw the IDF surround a man and cut off his finger and thumb. The video was manipulated to make it seem that Sinwar was alive and swinging a stick at a drone. But the witnesses said that he had a bullet hole in his head that said he was dead.
We know who assassinated Sinwar. If we get the Ear, his body will be paraded over the length of the Middle East. This demon must be captured.
We are chasing the beast. He is in the enclaves in Gaza. 300 dedicated soldiers from the al-Qaasam Brigrade’s military wing have been dispatched to locate and capture the Ear. He entered the tunnels against the IDF’s advice because he said the only way to put pressure on Mohammed Sinwar was to go after his family and the remaining members of Yahya Sinwar’s family. He entered with a few of his personal guards to engage and kill whoever he finds in the area of the tunnels where he believes that Sinwar hid his family before he launched the Oct 7th attack against Israel.
He will be encircled and captured or killed. الله أكبر
The Ear tracked Yahya Ssinwar’s by placing a tracker in her $10,000 Birkin bag. He knew that she would take it with her when she went into the tunnels.
The Ear knew that to successfully purchase a Birkin bag, many customers invest considerable time and effort in building a relationship with their Hermès sales associate. This relationship can be crucial, as sales associates often have the discretion to decide who is eligible to buy these highly sought-after bags. Since the Ear is a regular customer, he had access to Sinwar’s wife’s Hermes’s associate.
Looks likes Hermes screwed up big time. This will affect the value of their bags,
That was no $10,000 bag. It was a $23,000 bag that the Ear offered Sinwar a chance to buy for $10,000. Sinwar was worth $3 billion dollar, but the Ear knew that he would be too cheap to pass up such a bargain. So he saved $13,000 and lost his live as a result.
It’s his money, in Islam a husband is required to provide for his wife.
Imran Khan’s wife, too, had an expensive hand bag while Pakistan was reeling from floods.
Calling Sinwar a murderer does not do justice to the injustice of the Israeli occupation forces. The real murderers are IDF, Netanyahu and the genocidal Israeli state.
Whites in america always give themselves deference when it comes to stating the obvious about their actions. Take this article while it is very true on the facts, when it comes to answering the questions it asks, the author refuses to just say – the white race in america is racist as fuck. The other answer to his other question is that they have been lying about doing these racist things to non whites since the origin of this country. They have always lied about why they do racist things to non whites to appear other than the rabid racists they are.
The only thing different today is they are doing those disgusting racists things to whites now. Same old shit, just added more people to do it to.
Democratic panic runs much deeper than Kamala Harris’ polls
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/democratic-panic-kamala-harris-donald-trump-polls-rcna176170
Facts About Glaucoma: Causes, Treatment and Prevention
Glaucoma risk factors
Everyone is at risk for glaucoma, but some folks are more vulnerable, such as people who:
Are African American, Asian American or Hispanic
Are over age 40
Take steroids
Have a family history of glaucoma
Have a past eye injury
Have diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease or sickle cell anemia
Smoke
Wear glasses or contacts to correct nearsightedness or farsightedness
Glaucoma symptoms
Alarmingly, there are often no noticeable symptoms of glaucoma, which is why getting regular, comprehensive eye exams is so critical in detection. (You cannot test for glaucoma at home.)
However, people with the less common angle-closure glaucoma can experience symptoms of an acute attack, including:
Headache
Nausea and/or vomiting
Seeing rainbow-colored rings or halos around lights
Severe eye pain
Sudden blurry vision
Anyone with these symptoms should be checked by their ophthalmologist or vision care specialist as soon as possible; angle-closure glaucoma can cause irreversible vision loss if not treated right away.
Glaucoma treatment
Regular checkups and proper glaucoma treatment can help slow or prevent vision loss, especially if symptoms are detected early. “There is a risk of losing significant vision from the disease. But for most people, the earlier we can catch it, the more we can save…. Early diagnosis is paramount,” Iwach says.
While glaucoma damage cannot be reversed, Iwach says, most patients can typically control and manage the disease with medicated eye drops, in-office laser treatment or surgery.
Medication for glaucoma
Prescription eye drops, used every day, are the most common way to lower eye pressure and control glaucoma. Your doctor may prescribe one, or more to be used in combination. Some tackle glaucoma by reducing the amount of fluid your eye produces; others increase the amount of fluid that drains out of the eye.
Prostaglandin analogs are the treatment of choice for many patients. They lower pressure by increasing the outflow of fluid in the eye. This category includes latanoprost (Xalatan), travoprost (Travatan), bimatoprost (Lumigan) and latanoprostene bunod (Vyzulta).
Other drugs, Rho kinase inhibitors, which include netarsudil (Rhopressa), also lower IOP by helping with the outflow of fluid. Rocklatan, another option, contains netarsudi and latanoprost, a combination that can be very effective.
Another advancement in medicated eye drops is the development of a preservative-free latanoprost, Iwach says. Preservatives, which are added to formulas to prevent infection, are known to cause eye irritation for some folks. As people get older, it’s not uncommon to have glaucoma and dry eye. “For these patients, the impact of preservatives can be more pronounced,” he says. Preservative-free formulations allow people to deliver the medication into their eye without this unpleasant side effect.
Though prescription eye drops can be effective, they’re not necessarily practical. Some patients may forget to use them; others find it challenging to get them into the eye (a particularly tricky endeavor for people with shaky hands). Durysta is a dissolvable pellet, injected into the eye during a five-minute in-office procedure; it slow-releases IOP-lowering medication and is designed to last for up to six months.
Glaucoma surgery
Laser surgery
The most common type of laser surgery performed for open-angle glaucoma is selective laser trabeculoplasty (SLT), in which a laser opens clogged channels in the trabecular meshwork to increase the outflow of fluid.
SLT is typically used in patients whose glaucoma is being controlled by eye drops, but it can sometimes be used in place of medication. “There has been data to suggest that there are side effects with medications taken every day and they are inconvenient for patients, and that maybe we should consider doing laser treatments before we even start drops,” Iwach says. “There was an interesting study out of the [United Kingdom], which recommended considering doing selective laser trabeculoplasty treatment — which can reduce pressure in approximately 80 percent of patients — and delay the need for eye drops for some patients.”
A follow-up study published in 2023 found that after six years, the SLT treatment was more effective in preventing disease progression compared to eye drops and reduced the need for surgery. “The past 10 years, there’s been a gradual migration to using lasers earlier in the treatment regimen, though they are not appropriate for everyone. Some patients are happy with a daily eye drop,” Iwach says.
Non-contact lasers
When doing SLT, eye doctors use a gonioscope (an instrument including a contact lens placed directly over the cornea). Though the procedure isn’t painful, there is a certain, well, ick factor. Direct selective laser trabeculoplasty (DSLT) is performed through the limbus (the border between the cornea and the sclera, the white of the eye) and doesn’t involve a lens, so there’s no contact with the surface of the eye. What’s more, it takes less time to perform than selective laser trabeculoplasty: “about a second or less for the whole treatment,” Iwach says. Alcon, a company that produces vision care products, has newly acquired the technology, which has clearance from the Food and Drug Administration, and expects to make these devices available to physicians by the end of 2024.
Traditional surgery
If eye drops and laser treatments aren’t doing the trick, or you can’t handle the side effects from medications, then your ophthalmologist may recommend conventional surgery to create a new way for fluid to leave the eye. In a trabeculectomy, an opening is made in the sclera to allow excess fluid to drain out of the eye and into a small reservoir, which is hidden under the upper eyelid.
From there, the fluid is absorbed by tissue around the eye. Implant devices also increase the outflow of fluid. A tiny drainage tube is inserted into the front chamber of the eye, leading back behind the eye, where a small collection area is created to drain off excess fluid.
The standard treatment for closed-angle glaucoma is laser peripheral iridotomy. “A laser is used to make a tiny hole in the iris to help release fluid behind the iris,” says Anne L. Coleman, M.D., a professor and chair of the UCLA Department of Ophthalmology. These procedures are very comfortable and are usually done at the ophthalmologist’s office or an outpatient facility.
Microsurgery
Several techniques and devices are being used to address glaucoma that don’t have the complexity or carry the risks of traditional surgery, Iwach says. These newer, faster, less invasive procedures, called MIGS (short for micro-invasive glaucoma surgeries), use microscopic equipment and tiny incisions. These procedures are performed in an operating room and can take as little as five minutes. Because these procedures aren’t as effective in lowering eye pressure, however, they’re more appropriate for those in the early-to-moderate stage of the disease. Talk to your doctor and insurance company about coverage.
MIGS can be done as a standalone procedure but are more commonly done at the time of cataract surgery. “When patients undergo cataract surgery we open the eye, take the cataracts out and put lenses in,” Iwach says. “That gives us opportunity to have access to the trabecular meshwork.”
Performing a two-in-one surgery can also cut down on complications. “One of the risks when doing eye surgery is that the incision can create a potential pathway for bacteria and infection,” Iwach says. “But here you’re making a smaller incision, so there’s less of a chance of that happening.” If you’re going to have cataract surgery, it may be worth asking if your doctor would consider doing one of these procedures at the same time.
Glaucoma prevention
It’s scary stuff, but here’s the good news: If glaucoma is diagnosed in time and treated, you may be able to stop additional vision loss and prevent blindness. “The prognosis is excellent, but people often take their eyes for granted and forget about them until they notice symptoms,” Coleman says. “That’s why it’s important to get examined to assess what your risk is.”
The American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends that adults, beginning at age 40, get regular comprehensive eye exams with an ophthalmologist. People who are 65 and older should get an eye exam every one to two years. Those with chronic conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure, known eye diseases or other risk factors may need to get checked more often.
Editor’s note: This article, originally published on January 7, 2019, was updated to reflect new medical developments.
The cowardly IDF is afraid to enter the tunnels and assist the Ear. Biden and Harris are livid, but for different reasons. Biden loves the guy and says that if he dies, he will hold Israel responsible. Who knows what his last act as POTUS will be against the Jews.
Harris on the other hand is mostly afraid of the parading of the Ear’s body for the world to see, and the connection to the White House this would represent. She is also very afraid of what Biden will do to punish Israel if that happens to the Ear. America’s October Surprise may just be a few days away.
This may only be fiction, but I hear that at least half of his 20 man team is dead and three are wounded. No info on if the Ear is dead or has been injured. The Jews will be dropping some of their heaviest hardware in Gaza and Lebanon simultaneously. How this will help the Ear I don’t know. Maybe the Jews just want to destroy the Ear’s body so that it won’t be displayed.
Your solution is ridiculous because humans seldom practice eudaemonism.