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To: Glen Gordon who wrote (126)	8/5/1999 2:05:00 AM
From: Cal Gary	Respond to of 165

Scully: "Those are the most paranoid people I have ever met. I don't know how you could think that what they say is even remotely plausible." BTW, tiny gap up and nice solid white candle today. Check out yesterdays trades below, it should answer some of your Questions. 08/03/99 - 58 Trades for T:GBV Ex Time Price Change Volume Buyer Seller T 1999-08-03 15:34:20 1.620 .020 100 88 Versus 39 Midland T 1999-08-03 14:56:50 1.620 .020 300 88 Versus 33 Canaccord T 1999-08-03 14:52:00 1.650 .050 1200 9 Nesbitt 33 Canaccord T 1999-08-03 14:43:10 1.650 .050 2500 2 DS 2 DS T 1999-08-03 13:49:40 1.650 .050 1200 9 Nesbitt 79 Gundy T 1999-08-03 13:34:40 1.650 .050 1500 2 DS 95 Wolverton T 1999-08-03 13:10:40 1.650 .050 500 79 Gundy 95 Wolverton T 1999-08-03 12:33:50 1.600 .000 3600 79 Gundy 89 Goepel T 1999-08-03 12:33:30 1.600 .000 2000 95 Wolverton 89 Goepel T 1999-08-03 12:33:30 1.610 .010 1800 2 DS 89 Goepel T 1999-08-03 12:33:30 1.610 .010 1000 27 Deacon 89 Goepel T 1999-08-03 12:33:30 1.650 .050 1000 27 Deacon 89 Goepel T 1999-08-03 12:28:40 1.690 .090 300 79 Gundy 79 Gundy T 1999-08-03 12:28:40 1.690 .090 1700 79 Gundy 27 Deacon T 1999-08-03 12:28:40 1.690 .090 500 79 Gundy 79 Gundy T 1999-08-03 12:25:30 1.690 .090 300 79 Gundy 27 Deacon T 1999-08-03 12:22:30 1.650 .050 1000 2 DS 2 DS T 1999-08-03 12:22:30 1.650 .050 1000 27 Deacon 2 DS T 1999-08-03 12:19:40 1.700 .100 5000 7 Green Line 79 Gundy T 1999-08-03 12:11:10 1.700 .100 2500 2 DS 7 Green Line T 1999-08-03 12:11:10 1.700 .100 2000 2 DS 7 Green Line T 1999-08-03 12:11:10 1.730 .130 1000 2 DS 85 ScotiaMcLeod T 1999-08-03 12:11:10 1.750 .150 25800 2 DS 2 DS T 1999-08-03 12:11:10 1.690 .090 2000 2 DS 27 Deacon T 1999-08-03 12:11:10 1.700 .100 5000 2 DS 89 Goepel T 1999-08-03 12:10:00 1.680 .080 1000 2 DS 9 Nesbitt T 1999-08-03 12:10:00 1.610 .010 3100 2 DS 39 Midland T 1999-08-03 12:10:00 1.620 .020 1500 2 DS 27 Deacon T 1999-08-03 12:10:00 1.630 .030 2600 2 DS 79 Gundy T 1999-08-03 12:10:00 1.650 .050 3500 2 DS 2 DS T 1999-08-03 11:55:30 1.600 .000 500 79 Gundy 39 Midland T 1999-08-03 11:55:30 1.600 .000 1500 79 Gundy 33 Canaccord T 1999-08-03 11:55:30 1.600 .000 1000 79 Gundy 39 Midland T 1999-08-03 11:38:20 1.580 -.020 6100 79 Gundy 79 Gundy T 1999-08-03 11:36:50 1.580 -.020 400 79 Gundy 9 Nesbitt T 1999-08-03 11:36:20 1.580 -.020 3600 39 Midland 39 Midland T 1999-08-03 11:36:20 1.580 -.020 1400 79 Gundy 39 Midland T 1999-08-03 11:36:20 1.580 -.020 5000 9 Nesbitt 39 Midland T 1999-08-03 11:27:30 1.580 -.020 1000 39 Midland 39 Midland T 1999-08-03 11:18:50 1.600 .000 1000 85 ScotiaMcLeod 39 Midland T 1999-08-03 11:14:20 1.600 .000 600 7 Green Line 80 First Marathon T 1999-08-03 11:14:20 1.600 .000 900 27 Deacon 80 First Marathon T 1999-08-03 11:13:30 1.600 .000 1000 7 Green Line 39 Midland T 1999-08-03 11:13:10 1.600 .000 400 7 Green Line 39 Midland T 1999-08-03 10:41:30 1.560 -.040 50 27 Deacon 2 DS T 1999-08-03 10:41:30 1.560 -.040 400 39 Midland 2 DS T 1999-08-03 10:41:30 1.560 -.040 23500 2 DS 2 DS T 1999-08-03 10:32:20 1.560 -.040 6100 79 Gundy 79 Gundy T 1999-08-03 10:24:30 1.600 .000 1500 27 Deacon 79 Gundy T 1999-08-03 10:24:10 1.600 .000 1000 7 Green Line 79 Gundy T 1999-08-03 10:24:10 1.600 .000 1000 7 Green Line 79 Gundy T 1999-08-03 10:24:10 1.600 .000 1000 27 Deacon 79 Gundy T 1999-08-03 10:24:00 1.610 .010 1000 9 Nesbitt 79 Gundy T 1999-08-03 09:35:00 1.740 .140 5000 90 CT Services 39 Midland T 1999-08-03 09:30:40 1.700 .100 100 90 CT Services 27 Deacon T 1999-08-03 09:30:00 1.700 .100 1000 90 CT Services 27 Deacon T 1999-08-03 09:30:00 1.700 .100 900 90 CT Services 2 DS T 1999-08-03 09:30:00 1.700 .100 100 9 Nesbitt 2 DS

To: Glen Gordon who wrote (126)	8/9/1999 10:40:00 AM
From: Cal Gary	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 165

Mall Offers Close-Up of Eye Surgery (NOTE: NOT GBV) Sunday August 1 1:29 PM ET By PAUL TOLME Associated Press Writer FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - Squeamish shoppers beware: They're slicing eyeballs at the Fair Oaks Mall. No, they're not filming a schlock horror movie. It's just business as usual at the Visual Freedom Center, believed to be the first eye surgery center to open in a shopping mall. Passersby can watch the surgeries - intended to correct nearsightedness and farsightedness - live on a television screen. ``Ewwww,' squealed a teen-age girl when she saw a closeup of an eye being clamped open. ``Yuck,' said another mall rat as the eye was squirted with anesthetic and the cornea sliced and peeled back, exposing the area beneath, which was then zapped with a laser. It's an odd marketing strategy, but for every grossed-out passerby there are dozens of shoppers who can't help but stop for a peek. That's precisely what ophthalmologist Robert Johnston had in mind when he moved his office to the mall in February and began televising the operations. Bespectacled shoppers see how easy the procedure is and lose their fear, said marketing director Shannon Fredericks. Patients can choose to close the curtains on the operating room and turn off the television, but only a few do so. Tien Chau, 23, of Annandale, worked up the courage to have his eyes treated after watching his girlfriend, Thuy Nguyen, 23, have the operation the day before. Chau reasoned that doctors are less likely to butcher him with a crowd watching. ``My thoughts exactly,' said a woman waiting nervously alongside Chau in the waiting room. The surgery takes about 15 minutes and costs about $4,500 for both eyes. The operation, which reshapes the cornea so that images properly hit the retina, is called Laser in-Situ Keratomileusis, or LASIK. The center of a nearsighted person's cornea is pulsed with the laser to reduce the curvature. In a farsighted person, the periphery of the cornea is pulsed to remove tissue and add curvature. Laser eye surgery is performed by ophthalmologists across the country, although the Visual Freedom Center is believed to be the first center to be located in a shopping mall, said Jan Beiting, spokeswoman for the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery in Fairfax. ``There's definitely a buzz about it among our members,' she said. Since the center moved to the mall from Johnston's office in Leesburg in February, business has jumped about 40 percent, with about 15 patients treated daily, Fredericks said. The center has been so successful that a second shop will open in a Columbia, Md., mall in September. Two more are in the works for the Chicago and Washington-Baltimore areas by the end of the year, Fredericks said. David Karcher, executive director of the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, cautioned against trivializing the seriousness of the procedure and said this is as close as physicians have come to ``going retail.' Craig Conroy, head of Conroy Research Group and a former mall developer, said the Visual Freedom Center is part of the ``doc in a box' phenomenon in which physicians have moved out of their traditional sterile environments to attract customers. Dentists' offices have been in malls for years, and chiropractors have made the move too, he said. While people may get sweaty palms when they walk into a hospital, nobody's nervous about visiting the mall. ``Malls have become the town squares in many communities, and it makes sense for physicians to locate there,' he said. And there's one other perk: Patients get free videos of the surgery - for their friends who couldn't make it to the mall.