I was inspired by the farsightedness of putting country before politics.
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It will take even more courage and farsightedness to save it.
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Edwards' farsightedness required him to wear glasses while jumping, which tended to get fogged up midair.
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Age-related farsightedness is thought to be caused by changes in the eye's lens and muscles.
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Snake wine is also thought to cure a number of physical ailments, from farsightedness to hair loss.
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In the absence of gravity, bones become more brittle, fluids in the body move upward and vision sometimes shifts toward farsightedness.
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Increased pressure in the skull could cause the flattening of the eyeballs seen in some astronauts, pushing their vision toward farsightedness.
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Newsom acknowledges that the help was invaluable but insists that it was his own farsightedness and hard work that made PlumpJack grow.
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Meanwhile, more people are choosing specialty lenses meant for people with astigmatism (a deviation from spherical curvature of the eye) or presbyopia (farsightedness).
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Mr. Ryu, a Ph.D. student, said that what seemed to be farsightedness in older bonobos had been noticed before, but not rigorously studied.
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Though Verily will continue research on smart lenses to address farsightedness and cataracts, the end of the glucose monitoring project itself is hardly surprising.
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And you can trace some of that farsightedness to the Brooklyn Bridge, built after the United States tore itself apart in the Civil War.
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Other advances to help those with presbyopia, or age-related farsightedness, include the ringlike corneal inlay, which is implanted under the eye's outer surface.
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Other advances to help those with presbyopia, or age-related farsightedness, include the ring-like corneal inlay, which is implanted under the eye's outer surface.
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Other advances to help those suffering presbyopia, or age-related farsightedness, include the ring-like corneal inlay, which is implanted under the eye's outer surface.
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Verily has started working on a "smart" contact lens for age-related farsightedness, as well as a "smart" lens for improving sight after a cataract surgery.
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"Japan's foreign policy is based on courage and farsightedness and this has been proved for many times in historical ties between the two countries," Araghchi said.
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LASIK can correct nearsightedness and farsightedness, but not presbyopia, the loss of near vision that causes pretty much everyone to need reading glasses sometime after age 40.
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The doctor then reviews the results, looking for signs of nearsightedness, farsightedness, or astigmatism based on the test's algorithms and how the test quantified your visual perception.
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The shoe fits in with other projects from Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences), which include contact lenses for farsightedness and a special spoon for people with movement disorders.
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This combination of empathy and farsightedness makes Sansa the Stark sister whose long game fits within the goals of the new unified Westeros that Jon, Tyrion, and Dany are working toward.
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged China's leaders on Wednesday to move ahead with "trust, courage and farsightedness" after Beijing and the Vatican struck a landmark agreement on the appointment of bishops.
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The pope's five-page message included a section in which he addressed Chinese government leaders directly, saying he wanted to "renew my invitation to continue, with trust, courage and farsightedness, the dialogue begun some time ago".
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And while it may difficult for those in the sterile, pharmaceutically fixated West to wrap their minds around how 30-plus-year cobra wine can cure farsightedness and hair loss, in China, elixirs of this kind go back millennia.
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I revere good writing and art and music, but it seems to me that only science, aided by human decency, common sense, farsightedness, and concern for the unfortunate and the poor, offers the world any hope in its present morass.
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A remedy for farsightedness evidently succeeds to the degree that it restores a woman or man to the comfortable consumption of texts, email, ecommerce, and social media on a glazed rectangle of aluminum alloys held at a standard reading distance of 16 inches.
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Aside from the shoes, Verily is working on several other hardware projects, including a stabilizing spoon to help people with movement disorders eat, a smartwatch for its clinical research efforts and a "smart" contact lens for age-related farsightedness or improving sight after a cataract surgery.
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The most common visual abnormalities associated with 1p36 deletion syndrome include farsightedness (hypermetropia), myopia (nearsightedness), and strabismus (cross-eyes). Less common but still recognized are blepharophimosis, cataracts, ocular albinism, optic atrophy, optic disk pallor, and optic nerve coloboma.
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He spoke at the Knesset about Israel's right to security and in favor of Palestinian state, a speech praised by diplomatic adviser Hubert Védrine as a "masterpiece of Mitterrandian farsightedness, tact, and courage."Tiersky, Ronald. François Mitterrand: A Very French President, 2003. Page 366.
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Every corrective lens prescription includes a spherical correction in diopters. Convergent powers are positive (e.g., +4.00 D) and condense light to correct for farsightedness/long-sightedness (hyperopia) or allow the patient to read more comfortably (see presbyopia and binocular vision disorders). Divergent powers are negative (e.g.
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The PERK study demonstrated that people who undergo RK continue to drift toward hyperopia ("farsightedness"). Additionally, many of these people have reached the age where presbyopia occurs. Some also develop cataracts. Their vision can still be restored with Epi-LASIK, photorefractive keratectomy, LASIK or phakic lens extraction, or cataract surgery.
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Although it may be accompanied by yellowing, clouding and yellowing can occur separately. This is typically a result of ageing, disease, or drug use. Presbyopia is a visual condition that causes farsightedness. The eye's lens becomes too inflexible to accommodate to normal reading distance, focus tending to remain fixed at long distance.
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The procedure can be used to treat astigmatism, nearsightedness, and farsightedness. During the procedure, the epithelium is displaced using a diluted alcohol solution. LASEK has advantages over LASIK in that it avoids added complications associated with the flap created during surgery. The procedure may also reduce the chances of dry eye symptoms after surgery.
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Aphakia is the absence of the lens of the eye, due to surgical removal, such as in cataract surgery, a perforating wound or ulcer, or congenital anomaly. It causes a loss of accommodation, high degree of farsightedness (hyperopia), and a deep anterior chamber. Complications include detachment of the vitreous or retina, and glaucoma. Babies are rarely born with aphakia.
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Presbyopia is a normal part of the aging process. It occurs due to age related changes in lens (decreased elasticity and increased hardness) and ciliary muscle power of the eye, causing the eye to focus light behind rather than on the retina when looking at close objects. It is a type of refractive error along with nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism. Diagnosis is by an eye examination.
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Distinctive ocular features of the ZTTK syndrome are deep- set eyes, down-slanting palpebral fissures and horizontal eyebrows. Children with ZTTK syndrome may present with vision problems including optic atrophy and cerebral visual impairment, resulting in poor visual responses. Strabismus; misalignment or crossing of the eyes when viewing an object, direct hypermetropia; farsightedness, and nystagmus; eyes making repetitive and uncontrolled movements, are frequently present.
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The memorial statue of Duke Magnus II von Mecklenburg (died 1503) is said to be the most complete form of an epitaph. In his right hand he holds a dagger and wound around his head is a death bandage. Magnus was an energetic ruler, enacting fundamental land reforms which showed his farsightedness concerning economic and financial matters. Two similar statues are on display in front of the Pribislav chapel.
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Nearsightedness (myopia), and blurred vision are common due to connective tissue defects in the eye. Farsightedness can also result particularly if the lens is highly subluxated. Subluxation (partial dislocation) of the lens can be detected clinically in about 60% of people with Marfan syndrome by the use of a slit-lamp biomicroscope. If the lens subluxation is subtle, then imaging with high-resolution ultrasound biomicroscopy might be used.
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The major components of the therapy are riboflavin injection and UVA irradiation, and the procedure is followed by a course of topical antibiotics and corticosteroids. PiXL is appropriate for patients with low myopia or hyperopia (mild nearsightedness or farsightedness) as a second line to conventional refractive surgeries (i.e. SMILE, LASIK, PRK, intraocular lens), and for patients who require correction of residual refractive error or refractive regression after conventional refractive surgeries.
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Meetings with Henry Ford resulted in McGregor obtaining a personal agreement that allowed him to form and finance a company to manufacture and sell Ford products in Canada. Additionally, he obtained the right to sell Ford products in the then-existing British Empire, exclusive of the British Isles. This farsightedness on the part of McGregor resulted in Ford of Canada having wholly owned subsidiaries in South Africa, New Zealand and Australia.
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Incomplete achromatopsia is a milder form of the condition that allows some color discrimination. Achromatopsia also involves other problems with vision, including an increased sensitivity to light and glare (photophobia), involuntary back-and-forth eye movements (nystagmus), and significantly reduced sharpness of vision (low visual acuity). Affected individuals can also have farsightedness (hyperopia) or, less commonly, nearsightedness (myopia). These vision problems develop in the first few months of life.
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In 1974 a refractive procedure called Radial Keratotomy (RK) was developed in the USSR by Svyatoslav Fyodorov and later introduced to the United States. RK involves making a number of cuts in the cornea to change its shape and correct refractive errors. The incisions are made with a diamond knife. Following the introduction of RK, doctors routinely corrected nearsightedness, farsightedness, and astigmatism using various applications of incisions on the cornea.
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If onset is during adulthood, it is more likely to result in double vision. Strabismus can occur due to muscle dysfunction, farsightedness, problems in the brain, trauma or infections. Risk factors include premature birth, cerebral palsy and a family history of the condition. Types include esotropia, where the eyes are crossed ("cross eyed"); exotropia, where the eyes diverge ("lazy eyed" or "wall eyed"); and hypertropia where they are vertically misaligned.
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Snakes are widely believed to possess medicinal qualities and the wine is often advertised to cure everything from farsightedness to hair loss, as well as to increase sexual performance. In Vietnam, snake wine (Rượu rắn) is widely believed by some individuals to improve health and virility. A similar drink is made with dehydrated geckos or sea horses rather than snakes. Snake wine, due to its high alcohol percentage, is traditionally drunk in shot glasses.
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694 although six of them had been educated at the Inns of Court. The large number of meetings and sheer volume of work produced also suggests that there was little dissent and argument.Cotterell (1968) p.695 John Hostettler, in his biography of Hale, has suggested that if the measures had been put into law immediately, "we would have been honouring such pioneers for their farsightedness in enhancing our legal system and the concept of justice".
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Lenticular lenses are sometimes used as corrective lenses for improving vision. A bifocal lens could be considered a simple example. Lenticular eyeglass lenses have been employed to correct extreme hyperopia (farsightedness), a condition often created by cataract surgery when lens implants are not possible. To limit the great thickness and weight that such high-power lenses would otherwise require, all the power of the lens is concentrated in a small area in the center.
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He has demonstrated a bold and flowing style with unconventional composition, subtly displaying a touch of Zen. In 2017, Ma's second Ink Painting Exhibition was held at Fo Guang Yuan Changhua Art Gallery (Hong Kong). The ideas of the exhibits in ‘Everyday Chan Implications: Ma Sing Yuen’s Ink Painting Exhibition' are drawn from the vast ocean of Chan stories. The artist has translated the wisdom and farsightedness of these stories into a humorous style of Chinese ink painting.
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He is very receptive of advises, feedback and suggestions that reach him through various sources. He comes across as a leader with conviction and farsightedness. In his public speeches as well as his other discourses he has been regularly stressing the importance of development. He is deeply critical of the propagators of crime and corruption in the country that remain major obstacles in the path of nation's development and has been quite vocal about in all his media interactions.
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CooperVision is the contact lens unit of CooperCompanies, serving contact lens wearers and eye care practitioners. CooperVision was incorporated in 1980 and today is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of soft contact lenses. Its contact lenses and related products are sold to eye care practices in over 100 countries. Products include a range of daily, two-week and monthly disposable contact lenses, and other spherical, toric and multifocal lenses for astigmatism, nearsightedness and farsightedness, and presbyopia.
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St. Mary's Residential Central School, Ramankulangara Kollam is managed by St Mary's Educational and cultural society Thiruvalla. St. Mary's Educational and cultural society, a charitable organization was registered in 1974, with a view to render its service in Educational and social service . To begin with, the same year, St. Mary's Residential Central School was founded by eminent educationist Dr. P. T Abraham, a person with a vision and farsightedness .He followed the footsteps of his brother, the late Chev.
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In this study, 13% had at least +1.25 D hyperopia (farsightedness), and 28% had at least 1.00-D difference between the two principal meridians (cycloplegic autorefraction) of astigmatism. For myopia, Asians had the highest prevalence (19%), followed by Hispanics (13%). Caucasian children had the lowest prevalence of myopia (4%), which was not significantly different from African Americans (7%). A recent review found 25% of Americans aged 40 or over have at least −1.00 diopters of myopia and 5% have at least −5.00 diopters.
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The school was destined to grow under the leadership of Professor Yerger with his long-range planning and farsightedness, the hearty cooperation of the school board and the confidence of the people. In a short while, the building consisted of four rooms and four teachers. In 1915, a second story was built and three teachers were added. An annex for domestic science was added to the seven-room elementary building with funds secured from the Jeans and Sister Funds, later the Rosenwald Fund and General Education Board.
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Because of his scholarship, knowledge and near perfection in following monastic rules of discipline (vinaya), and far farsightedness in all his actions he gained recognition above all his seniors. In 1917, at the age of 39 he was elected the Anunāyaka of the Amarapura Sri Dhammarakshita sect and on August 5, 1918 he was elected the Mahānāyaka or Chief Prelate, which position he held until his death in 1955. He was the youngest to be appointed as Mahanayaka. On that occasion the honorific title "Sri Dharmarkshita Vamsālankāra Dharmakirti Sri" was conferred on him.
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Neumann was advocate of the Unitarien Point of View: All blood cells shall be descended from this post embryonic stem cell. As it is well known, a quarrel broke out between dualists and unitarians (Paul Ehrlich). Neumann's farsightedness demanded a stem cell culture for the completion of the quarrel: "Perhaps a final decision will only arrive, if it possible, to isolate the individual colourless cells and to study its life events in vitro culture for some time, as Robert Koch demonstrated with the bacteria" (Neumann 1912, B.P., p. 329).
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Most eagles have excellent vision. Generally, eagles do not suffer from myopia (nearsightedness) and hyperopia (farsightedness); those who have these defects cannot hunt easily and eventually starve to death. Eagles have the unique feature of the pecten. Its function is not clearly understood, but the general belief is that it helps to nourish the retina, keeps it healthy without blood vessels, facilitates the fluids to flow through the vitreous body at an appropriate pressure, absorbs light to minimize any reflections inside the eye that could impair vision, helps perceive motion, creates a protective shade from the sun, and senses magnetic fields.
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The trial and error procedures adopted by firms to improve along a technological trajectory (S.F.2) have taken Dosi to assess the issue of uncertainty. At a general level, trial and error procedures imply that firms might not be able to forecast completely the outcome of a choice they make; in fact, if they could foresee the error, they would presumably avoid it because it is costly. Such a fact is strongly at odds with any assumption of "perfect rationality" or "farsightedness" on the side of economic agents, which is a foundational element of the Neoclassical approach.
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Seattle skyline as seen through a corrective lens, showing the effect of refraction Corrective lenses are used to correct refractive errors by bending the light entering the eye in order to alleviate the effects of conditions such as nearsightedness (myopia), farsightedness (hypermetropia) or astigmatism. The ability of one's eyes to accommodate their focus to near and distant focus alters over time. A common condition in people over forty years old is presbyopia, which is caused by the eye's crystalline lens losing elasticity, progressively reducing the ability of the lens to accommodate (i.e. to focus on objects close to the eye).
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The amplitude of accommodation is about 11 to 16 dioptres at age 15, decreasing to about 10 dioptres at age 25, and to around 1 dioptre above age 60. Convex lenses have positive dioptric value and are generally used to correct hyperopia (farsightedness) or to allow people with presbyopia (the limited accommodation of advancing age) to read at close range. Concave lenses have negative dioptric value and generally correct myopia (nearsightedness). Typical glasses for mild myopia have a power of −0.50 to −3.00 dioptres, while over the counter reading glasses are rated at +1.00 to +4.00 dioptres.
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Proceeding to the interior you certainly feel that Graeme Gunn, the architect, must have used the analogy of climbing a tree with the series of half floor stairs spirally linking the five levels. At first it appears quite dark and your eyes need to adjust between the intriguingly designed internal spaces and the openings with tantalising views of the surrounding forest and the occasional glimpses of sea and coastline. Baronda is also an important early example of passive and active environmental design. This is an extraordinary dwelling; the successful outcome of a client, architect and builder who shared values of understanding of place, beauty, courage and farsightedness.
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According to Gammel, "In her controversial tome of 1913, The Accumulation of Capital, as well as through her work as a co-founder of the radical Spartacus League, Luxemburg helped to shape Germany's young democracy by advancing an international, rather than a nationalist, outlook. This farsightedness partly explains her remarkable popularity as a socialist icon and its continued resonance in movies, novels and memorials dedicated to her life and oeuvre". Gammel also notes that for Luxemburg "the revolution was a way of life" and yet that the letters also challenge the stereotype of "Red Rosa" as a ruthless fighter.Revolutionary Rosa: The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg.
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Very little is known about the early foundings of the fraternity. After groups of men were denied admission to other fraternities at Yale University because of their religious and racial backgrounds in 1895, Frederick Manfred Werner, Louis Samter Levy, and Henry Mark Fisher were determined to start something new. They decided to start the first fraternity that was "a fraternity in which all men were brothers, no matter what their religion; a fraternity in which ability, open-mindedness, farsightedness, and a progressive, forward-looking attitude would be recognized as the basic attributes."The Founders' Period History of the Fraternity Chapters at other universities started soon after.
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It is Day 39, October 30, 2004, on the island, Locke and Boone Carlyle (Ian Somerhalder) build a trebuchet in an effort to break open the hatch window. When this fails, an exasperated Locke pounds the hatch. Boone notices a shard in Locke's leg but Locke says he feels no pain and that night he discovers he is losing the feeling in his legs. Meanwhile, James "Sawyer" Ford (Josh Holloway) is suffering from headaches and a sensitivity – Jack Shephard (Matthew Fox) diagnoses this as farsightedness caused by the strain placed on Sawyer's eyes due to his large amount of reading since arriving on the island.
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Sihappu Naada weekly praised the director and mentioned "Kadhal Enum Nadhiyinile is a must watch for lovers, failed lovers, successful lovers and couples who loves after marriage". The Hindu wrote that the film will make the younger elements to think twice before getting involved in serious love affairs that may have far reaching consequences is told with conviction and a certain amount of farsightedness. Dinamani said that the film will be much loved by college students. Ananda Vikatan wrote that, even though the film is a love triangle, the director has presented it in a unique way without the usual cliches of caste and status in society and gave 42/100 marks.
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In prescriptions for both farsightedness and nearsightedness, the lens curve flattens toward the edge of the glass, except for progressive reading adds for presbyopia, where seamless vari-focal portions change toward a progressively more plus diopter. High minus aspheres for myopes do not necessarily need progressive add portions, because the design of the lens curvature already progresses toward a less-minus/more-plus dioptric power from the center of the lens to the edge. High plus aspheres for hyperopes progress toward less-plus at the periphery. The aspheric curvature on high plus lenses are ground on the anterior side of the lens, whereas the aspheric curvature of high minus lenses are ground onto the posterior side of the lens.
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Mannerheim Square among the Mannerheimintie street in Helsinki, with an equestrian statue of Mannerheim. Today, Mannerheim retains respect as Finland's greatest statesman. This may be partly due to his refusal to enter partisan politics (although his sympathies were more right-wing than left- wing), his claim always to serve the fatherland without selfish motives, his personal courage in visiting the frontlines, his ability to work diligently into his late seventies, and his foreign political farsightedness in preparing for the Soviet invasion of Finland years before it occurred. Mannerheim's birthday, 4 June, is celebrated as Flag Day by the Finnish Defence Forces. This decision was made by the Finnish government on the occasion of his 75th birthday in 1942, when he was also granted the title of Marshal of Finland.
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She spent more than 12 years helping to gather signatures for petition and writing letters to officials and local papers to halt potential development of two strategic parcels of land on the Rye Harrison border that were critical for flood protection. Read's successful efforts were lauded along with those of "the Little Garden Club of Rye, the Rye Garden Club, the Ceres Garden Club, the League of Women Voters and the Rye Conservation Society in insuring that open space and natural areas are preserved for the future. Their collective farsightedness has been instrumental in making the public increasingly aware of the necessity for conserving and preserving our natural resources." Not surprisingly, when a Rye-Oyster Bay Bridge was proposed in the 1960s by Robert Moses, Read voiced her opposition to the project.
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The residents of Hyderabad provided the rations and Amil Panchayat footed the bill. Later, Sir Charles Napier met Mukhi Tarachand Sagharani and others in his camp at Gidu Bunder and thanked them for their farsightedness, and for the food that they had supplied. This information was disclosed to Diwan Bherumal Meharchand Advani by Mukhi Mangharam Gurdinomal and was on records in the India Office, London. Diwan Bherumal Meharchand Advani further writes that it was learnt from records maintained by Pinda Badaldas Bulchand of Sindhi Dharamshala Haridwar, that wife of Amil Mukhi Tarachand Sagharani expired in the year 1835 and Mukhi Assanand along with Jethmal Bhambrai served as kandhi [pallbearer](Kandhi words relates to kandh meaning area between neck & shoulder on which kandhi supports the "Kaai") , for his wife, carrying her ashes for performing the last rites at Haridwar.
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William Ascher (born January 3, 1947) is the Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, where he served as Academic Vice President and Dean of the Faculty (2000–2005). Previously, as Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, he directed Duke University's Center for International Development Research (1985–2000). He studies strategic planning, policymaking in developing countries, natural resource and environmental policy, Latin American and Asian political economy, political psychology, and forecasting methods. He has authored Forecasting: An Appraisal for Policymakers and Planners (1978), Scheming for the Poor: The Politics of Redistribution in Latin America (1984), Natural Resource Policymaking in Developing Countries (1990), Communities and Sustainable Forestry in Developing Countries (1994), Why Governments Waste Natural Resources (1999), and Bringing in the Future: Strategies for Farsightedness and Sustainability (2009).
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It is reportedly chiefly owing to his farsightedness that the school system of Westphalia, which was on the decline, began in a short time to show signs of new life. His first care was to place on a better financial footing the poorly paid teachers of the time who were chiefly dependent on the contributions from the parents of their pupils. A still extant programme of studies of the Pauline Gymnasium for the year 1551, entitled Ratio studiorum scholae Monasteriensis, saeculi, XVI,in Driver, Bibliotheca Monasteriensis, Münster, 1799, 165-72 shows that as teacher he laid greatest stress on a thorough grounding in Latin and Greek, advocating also the study of Hebrew, but utterly disregarding the exact and historical sciences (Realien). He required a high degree of skill in the preparation of written work, and careful and constant practice in oral recitation.
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Moreover, it seems that Jinnah would have made his own calculations that at least for the time being playing for time was the best policy in dealing with Sir Sikandar Hayat's policies based on maintaining the status quo model in Punjab politics. Muhammad Ali Jinnah was a man of vision and farsightedness and he fully understood the limitations of the Punjab Muslim League analysing that Iqbal was a poet-philosopher and Barket Ali had personal grievances against Sikandar; and that putting undue pressure on Sir Sikandar was not in the best interest of the Punjab Muslim League. The next biggest move by the Muslim League was passage of Lahore Resolution,S. Q. Abid, Lahore Resolution and Punjab in K.F. Yusuf, (Ed.) Pakistan Resolution Revisited, in March 1940 which entailed the dismemberment of the Punjab and the division of India into Hindu and Muslim states.
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" – Pope Francis lauded Kohl as "a great statesman and committed European [who] worked with farsightedness and devotion for the good of the people in Germany and in neighbouring European countries." – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called Kohl the "great old man" of European politics and "Hungary’s friend". – Italian President Sergio Mattarella called Kohl one of Europe's founding fathers, and said that "he who was, rightly, described as 'the Chancellor of Reunification', worked with far-sightedness and determination, in years marked by deep and epochal changes in world equilibria, to give back unity to his country in the framework of the great project of European integration. As an authentic statesman, he knew how to combine pragmatism and a capacity of vision, furnishing a courageous contribution not only to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, but also to overcoming the dramatic divisions which, for decades, had torn Europe.
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Medical professionals characterize refractive errors such as nearsightedness, farsightedness, astigmatism, and presbyopia (the age-related blurring of near-point vision) as consequences of the eye's shape and other basic anatomy, for which no evidence shows that any exercise can alter. Bates, however, believed that these conditions are caused by tension of the muscles surrounding the eyeball, which he believed prevents the eyeball from sufficiently changing shape (per his explanation of accommodation) when gaze is shifted nearer or farther. Bates characterized this supposed muscular tension as the consequence of a "mental strain" to see, the relief of which he claimed would instantly improve sight. He also linked disturbances in the circulation of blood, which he said is "very largely influenced by thought", not only to refractive errors, but also to double vision, crossed-eye, lazy eye, and to more serious eye conditions such as cataracts and glaucoma.
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This means that shortsightedness is not inherently female, nor is farsightedness inherently male. Li illustrates this point by describing a hypothetical situation in which there is someone with “a woman's body and a man's vision,” someone who is both female and not only values engaging in conversation of the “transcendent,” but also understands that attachment to the ever-changing things of the material world is not worthwhile. He makes reference to notable “farsighted” women of the past, such as Yi Jiang (King Wu's ninth minister) and Wen Mu (also known as Tai Si, King Wen's consort and a “sage” whose “virtuous behavior” set such a high standard that it “rectified” the customs of the southern regions). Li Zhi asserts that it is only a shortsighted man who would anger at the idea of women being farsighted, and that a truly farsighted man would neither engage with nor desire the approval of shortsighted men (for, if he did, it would only make him one such shortsighted, “small-minded” man himself).
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