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The penthouse view
The upstairs one-bedroom flat at Casa Oasis Troncones offers panoramic beach and ocean views, with no man-made structures to block your enjoyment of the pristine tropical landscape. (Even the shower has a spectacular view). Watch whales and dolphins frolicking or check out the surf from your own comfy, private sofa.
The penthouse living area
The spacious living area at Casa Oasis Troncones is open to the sea air, but covered, so you get the best of outdoor living, in breezy, shady comfort. And you can hear the birds and the waves—and not much else. (The bedroom is completely screened, with huge double glass doors that open onto a beachfront balcony with hammock.)
The penthouse kitchen
Casa Oasis Troncones features a spacious full kitchen with an amazing ocean view, as well as a large pantry and bar area. Perfect for those of you who love to cook (and eat), so you can act fast when the fish arrives fresh at our door…
The penthouse bedroom
The spacious screened bedroom at Casa Oasis boasts amazing views of the ocean and the garden, as well as a king size bed and a twin day bed, two closets, and a huge ensuite bathroom complete with double sinks, water closet and a shower with an awesome view. Yes, you can see the ocean from bed!
The plunge pool
A pool with a view. Small but super refreshing, with a stellar view of the ocean as well as down the beach, our pool is just the ticket when you've had enough of the warm sea and you're ready for an invigorating fresh water dip.
All the beauty of nature…
At Casa Oasis, we're serious nature lovers, which is why we created our vacation rental on this pristine, nearly virgin corner of Troncones beach. The practically private stretch of sand in front of the house is habitat to sea turtles, egrets, cranes, pelicans and hundreds of other birds, iguanas, vultures, skunks, and even the occasional crocodile. It doesn't get much better than stepping out of the comfort of Casa Oasis and into this natural paradise…
with all the comforts of civilization.
…Except maybe coming home, after a long day of sun, sand and sea, to its domestic comforts—like a clean, airy, fully-screened bedroom with a huge, comfy bed, soft cotton sheets, and lovingly crafted towel art which reminds us of the wonders waiting just outside.
Three units to choose from or combine
Casa Oasis now offers three units: the upstairs Penthouse flat (1 bedroom, spectacular views). 2. The downstairs beachfront flat (two bedrooms, right on the ocean), and the Treehouse loft, our garden apartment with 360° treetop, beach, and mountain views. All nestled in nature on our nearly private beach (with sandy swimming area) out front.
The central garden
Casa Oasis ' lush central garden is full of tropical plants, exotic flowering trees, and medicinal plants. Lotus blossoms bloom in the fountain, and there are even fresh organic lemons and limes (in season). It's also a great spot to enjoy tropical birdwatching — join one or two of our cats in keeping an eye on the brightly-colored songbirds.
Evening at our place
Horseback riders meander in front of Casa Oasis on a particularly gorgeous tropical evening. A perfect end to a perfect day on a perfect beach. But maybe it's not over yet…bonfire, anyone? May you enjoy many peaceful Troncones sunsets!
Moonlight at the Oasis
Casa Oasis by night. The penthouse flat comprises the entire top floor. With a separate entrance and beach access, it's incredibly private—your own romantic beachfront world, with a world-class ocean view.
The Downstairs two-bedroom is the entire bottom floor, with two living areas. Separate entrances and the roar of the waves (which drowns out most sound) ensure each unit's privacy.


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22 October 2015
South Africa is to play a major role in a new global HIV vaccine clinical trial scheduled to start early next year.
According to Times Live researching Scientists will give 1500 women in sub-Saharan Africa, and 2400 gay men in the US and South America, "broadly neutralising" antibodies through an intravenous drip to see if the antibodies protect them from HIV.
Broadly neutralising antibodies protect against multiple strains of HIV but only some people produce them naturally.
It is believed that if a vaccine can "teach" the body to make this type of antibody the recipient will be protected from HIV.
Researchers at the HIV Vaccine Trials Network will make the antibodies in a laboratory and give them to people through a drip every two months during the three-year trial.
"We don't know if this will be effective," said Glenda Gray, head of the South African vaccine trial and a member of the network.
"We are in the golden era of HIV vaccine research. It has taken us 30 years to get here."
Gray is leading the South African trial, in which 252 participants are being given a slightly modified version of the R144 vaccine, which gave Thais a 31% reduced probability of contracting HIV.
The modified R144 vaccine is being evaluated concurrently with the broadly neutralising antibody study.
South African participants will receive eight injections over 18 months. If the results indicate that the vaccine is effective it will be tested on 5000 people next year.
South Africans will be given an extra injection and a booster to make the vaccine last longer and increase its efficacy.

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We lost a great raconteur and writer when Sam McAughtry passed away on March 28, 2014.
Sam was a storyteller first and foremost: all his stories were told with great wit and compassion and never failed to enthral the listener.
I served with him for many years on the executive committee of the Irish Writers' Union with great enjoyment.
I became the newsletter editor under Sam's chairmanship, and Sam regaled me in private with his tales of his own editorship of something similar in Belfast. On occasions when no material was to hand he would write a pseudonymous letter to himself as editor to create a stir. He would then respond to it using more fictitious names if no readers took the bait to his satisfaction.
He was free with his advice on a book contract of mine: "Ask them for double that advance," he said in a soft Belfast accent.
I did and he was right; it was worth double the offer.
Long before I got to know Sam I had followed his remembered exploits on radio and in print.
His 2003 memoir On the Outside Looking In, ranks with Saroyan, in places, an opinion I happily was able to express to him years before a long illness began for Sam.
When he could no longer travel to Dublin and had retired from the IWU committee, I posted him a collection of my own published stories of mad people I encountered in humorous situations.
He was kind enough to write back to say he was enjoying the stories and reserved the reading of each new episode for his return from hospital treatments.
Sam was a kind man, a caring guide and a resolute warrior for what he believed in.
He is at peace.
Thank you Sam.
Brendan Nolan


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Joern, ----- Original Message ----- From: "joern turner" <firstname.lastname@example.com> To: "Ivelin Ivanov" <email@example.com>; <email@example.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 11:38 AM Subject: Re: XForms contribution? (Repost) >i quickly scanned through your XMLForm tutorial to get familiar with it and i think there are some really interesting ideas in it. Thanks. >Your Schematron package looks very good, but you mentioned that you validate 'currently through Schematron'. Does this imply that this is not a final decision? Could you also validate datatypes (XML Schema types) with it? Validation is organized like a framework, where XML Schema, RELAX NG and Sampletron can be plugged in. Schematron is just one of the implementations. Personally I think it is a very convenient one for form processing. > After that release (if we had done our job right) we planned to integrate Chiba into Cocoon as a kind of component. excuse, i'm still not skilled enough in Cocoon to decide how and where - Action, Transformer, something else? Any hints would be very welcome. You probably want to deploy Cocoon 2.1 from CVS and study the source of the XMLForm demo under webapp/samples/xmlform There are multiple framework components that you may want to study as well: org.apache.cocoon.actions.AbtractXMLFormAction org.apache.cocoon.transform.XMLFormTransformer org.apache.cocoon.components.xmlform.* org.apache.cocoon.components.validation.* >Would that be of any interest for you? Most certainly. >And a last question. Do you intend to implement XForms calculations? Are there any ideas/documents about that already or did i miss something? I am not sure that XForms calculations are ready for prime time. Since XMLForm does not depend on client side scripting, I think that you can do with Schematron the same as with calculations. Schematron is pretty consice and expressive. Maybe you can prove me wrong. >definitely have to spend more time with Cocoon and XMLForm but i hope we can approach it in steps ;) I like iterative work too. Ivelin --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, email: email@example.com
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Enjoy the second part of Shannon and Kyle's wedding day!
The ceremony was held at the First Lutheran Church and the reception was held at Colbert Hills Golf Course in Manhattan, Kansas.
Such a happy smile!
First kiss
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Georgian Dancing – Georgian Dancers of Amazing Grace
Georgian Dancing! Come and see the Cowper and Newton Museum's 'Georgian Dancers of Amazing Grace', at the 'William Cowper Day' pillar, MK Rose, Campbell Park, Milton Keynes on Wednesday 26th April. 18th century dancing in costume, displaying etiquette of the era, you will be treated to:
In between these performances we'll enlighten you with short talks on 18th century life. Plenty of opportunity to find out more about our heritage stories, to plan your visit and maybe even arrange a group booking with a dedicated tour guide.
Where? MK Rose, Campbell Park Pavilion, 1300 Silbury Blvd, Milton Keynes MK9 4AD.
MK Rose is a new public space for Milton Keynes where everyone can commemorate, celebrate or remember a special person or event throughout the year. Created by internationally renowned artist Gordon Young, the MK Rose features a calendar of days important to the people of Milton Keynes. These are represented by 105 pillars arranged in the geometric design of a flower. So far, 62 pillars have been inscribed and 43 others have been left for future dedications.
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Compete, reduce energy, win prizes!
EnergySmackdown is an annual 6 week competition for the Cornell campus to reduce or eliminate energy use in our personal lives and between buildings. Win prizes, learn how to conserve, and together as a campus we can focus on learning behaviors that help us reduce our carbon footprint.
Cornell University is committed to carbon neutrality by 2035. That means we all have a role to play in reducing our energy use and changing behaviors. Together, staff, faculty, and students can co-create an enduring culture of sustainability on campus - for our people and our planet.
2017 Competition Details
Compettion Dates: Saturday October 14th - November 30th, 2017
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Individuals can participate, but you can also compete as a building. Organize a team in your building to compare results week to week! Here's how to get started:
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- Each week, prize winner will be drawn on Friday at 5pm. Entries to Facebook are due Friday at Noon.
Every week, each building's energy consumption and standings results will be posted on the Cornell Building Dashboard. All reductions compare to a unique baseline for each building.
Energy Smackdown Past Winners
- 2016: MVR East (College of Human Ecology), Akwe:kon (New Student and Residential Programs)
- 2015: Beebe Hall (College of Human Ecology), Ecology House (New Student and Residential Programs)
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Discussion in 'NDS - Console and Game Discussions' started by noctambulant, Aug 4, 2006.
Hey just wondering if anyone knows of any other games like Nanostray?
I wish there was, shmup's are my fav genre :'(
The only ony other shooters on ds that i know of are homebrew games.
Shoot & Score
R-type clone
Some of these are old now so if you have trouble finding them you can just grab them all from my site.
In the downloads section, under Nintendo DS Software / Homebrew Games.
Thanks for that I'll give those ones a go.
I have only tried it a couple of times quickly but I found it to be ROCK hard. Unbelievably hard.
Thought I was a hardcore gamer, obviously not!
Not for the DS...but rather 2 shmups for the GBA
Link for SHMUP 1
Link for SHMUP 2
wow HC the first one really looks nice
and about the secondone...i prefer the pc version, i never really got into the gba version of it :/
Remake Snes Area51 for DS... and i'll be singing
I think the co. also made some GBA games (I might be wrong since I mix up the too many games I play)..
you may want to check out Iridion II in particular as that has a similar style & viewpoint.
Raptor: Call of the Shadows for the win!
Yes yes. Raptor kicks arse, but it hasn't been ported to any handhelds yet.
(loved playing with that death laser )
Nanostray is pretty cool, reminds me of axelay on the SNES. Sideway shmup king R-Type is my all time favourite.
I think he's not looking for games that are DS exclusive. If you want some sweet shoot 'm ups, try MAME ;]. MAME has awesome shmups
Maybe this great site will add some help in what you're looking for.
Classicgaming.com : SHMUPS
I thought this guy was looking for ds specific shooters ?
If you want to take a look at other consoles then pce, sega saturn, dc and ps2 have the best shumps out there.
I recommend Magical Chase and Coryoon on the pce. Radiant Silvergun, Layer Section and Soukyugurentai for the Saturn.
Ikaruga and Border Down on dc. Dodonpachi Dai-Ou-Jou, ESPgaluda, Mushihimesama, Ibara and Gradius V for the ps2.
Now if only Cave would port Ketsui to ps2 i'd be happy as larry. But from what i was reading at the shmups forums it seems very unlikely
I think you meant Area 88/UN Squadron. That could be released on GBA, easily. Gradius Galaxies is on GBA, so you can play it on your DS
I bet some of Kenta Cho's games could run on the DS.
I'd love to play a danmaku where the ship is controlled with the stylus and the player uses the shoulder triggers or something to shoot. I think I'll do that once I decide on a flashcart.
i want some ikagura
Yeah I want more games like nanostray. I'm eagerly awaiting Raid over the River.
Raid over river looks great, cannot wait
treasure better make some shooters for the ds.


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What Is Considered High Protein In Urine
What are considered high levels of protein in urine?
Proteinuria: Protein is normally not found in urine. The usual system used to quantify protein is 0, trace, and then 1+ to 4+. So there is a source of protein in the urine and the meaning of this needs to be looked at with any other lab abnormalities, signs/symptoms, clinical context. ...Read more
Urine (Definition)
Urine is the product of the kidneys, which is produced to eliminate the waste products of metabolism, manage body fluid balance, &maintain acid-base balance. The blood is first filtered by the kidneys, and the composition of the resulting fluid is then altered depending on the body's needs. It is composed of mostly water, and breakdown products from blood cells impart ...Read more
What is considered high levels of protein in urine mine tested 555? How dangerous is this number?
Guideline: Protein in the urine measuring more than 30mg is considered abnormal and over 300mg is considered significant and indicative of some degree of kidney pathology. This is best evaluated by a nephrologist(kidney specialist) for diagnosis and treatment. ...Read more
What is a considered high protein level in urine?
Proteinuria: Protein is normally not found in urine. The usual system used to quantify protein is 0, trace, and then 1+ to 4+. So there is a source of protein in the urine and the meaning of this needs to be looked at with any other lab abnormalities, signs/symptoms, clinical context. ...Read more
What is high protein in urine caused by?
1. Temporary rise in the levels of protein in urine include: cold exposure, fever,
heat exposure, strenuous exercise
2. Persistently elevated levels of protein in urine include: amyloidosis, certain drugs
chronic kidney failure, diabetes,
glomerulonephritis, heart failure, hypertension, kidney infection
leukemia, lupus, malaria...... ...Read more
What causes young men to have high protein in urine?
The amount of protein over 24h, whether it is present supine and standing, the level of kidney function, and the presence of other diseases all contribute to the diagnosis.
See a nephrologist for a diagnosis. ...Read more
I am 58 .Recently turned down for life ins , high protein in urine. Smoke 2 pks a day for years . Now have cough that won't go away. Had for weeks?
Immediate physicial: exam. High urine protein can indicate kidney problems or hyperporteinemia. You will need a repeat urine analysis and a 24 hour urine collection for protein analysis, Please consult a nephrologist. ...Read more
Can poor nutrition and moderate alcohol consumption cause high protein in urine and can it be corrected by getting healthy?
See doctor: All laboratory results need to be interpreted in the clinical context and the doctor who ordered the tests is usually in the best position to do that. Having said that, it is imperative that you see your doctor to determine the cause of protein in urine, as it can be an early sign of kidney disease. Poor diet and alcohol may not explain the finding. ...Read more
Preeclampsia is caused by high protein in urine. Is that caused by eating too much protein, as is too much egg, milk, etc?Please explain. Avoidable?
Pre eclampsia causes:
Pre Eclampsia is not caused by high protein in urine.But Pre Eclampsis causes High Protein in urine.It is a complication of pregnancy.
It is not caused by eating too much protein in any form ...Read more
What can cause high urinary output without excessive intake, electrolytes off in blood and 24hr urine. Also, High protein in urine, low nitrogen ua?
Polyuria: Diabetes is number 1 reason for symptoms you just described. Other reasons could be entirely kidney related like nephrotic syndrome etc etc ...Read more
Any feedback on high urinary output without excessive intake, electrolytes off in blood and 24hr urine. Also, High protein in urine, low nitrogen ua?
Nephrologist: A kidney specialist is best qualified to evaluate and advise you. High urinary output out of proportion to fluid intake could be due to a pituitary gland problem,diabetes mellitus, or primary kidney disease. High protein in the urine suggests kidney damage. The nephrologist will order the appropriate tests and diagnose your problem. ...Read more
My prenatal care provider said high protein in urine and suggested water and cj. But kidneys still ache. Should I go to er.
Cranberry juice!?: You either have a urinary tract infection or you don't. To treat only with cranberry juice and not an antibiotic is inappropriate. Perhaps there is a misunderstanding. Get with a physician in whom you have confidence. ...Read more
Is +1 protein in urine and leu +2 high ? Or slight ?
Depends: What type of urine sample was taken? If you only have results from a urine dipstick test and there is a concern for infection or other issue a better test would be a urinalysis with culture. The more sterile the sample the better ...Read more
What should be done for high levels of protein in urine?
High urine protein: To treat high proteinuria (p), you need to get a diagnosis. The first step is to have a 24 hour urine collection to assess kidney function and quantify the p/day. Blood work will also need to be taken to arrive at a diagnosis. If the p is due to a type of glomerulonephritis, certain drugs can be given to treat it. If the p is due to diabetes, certain drugs such as ace-i's are used to lower the p. ...Read more
What are possible causes of high levels of protein in urine?
See Nephrologist:
3 levels of protein in urine:
microalbuminuria--less than 300 mg a day
tubular--300-1000 mg a day
nephrotic--more than 3500
if there is blood in the urine you may have a glomerulonephritis and this may be a very serious condition that causes rapid loss of kidney function.
In general the more protein in the urine the worse the prognosis.
There are too many diagnosis to list.
You need a workup. ...Read more
What does foam in urine mean! Can protein in urine be high even if cretanine is ok. What can be done to lower protein. Thanks.
Urine: appearance is variable. A urinalysis is needed for measurement of protein, sugar, blood etc. ...Read more
If one has high levels of protein in urine, what can be done to decrease it (diabetic )?
Bs and bp control: To prevent progression of kidney disease, blood sugars and blood pressure should be kept well controlled. A medication in the ace or arb family of BP meds is generally recommended even if the blood pressure is normal. ...Read more
What does it mean if I have high nitrates and protein in urine?
Abnormal urine: Under normal conditions, urine contains no nitrates (n). N may be a sign of a uti. You should see a physician have a urine sent off of a culture and, if there are bacteria take a course of antibiotics. Repeat the urine analysis and if you still have protein, you should see a nephrologist for a 24 hour urine collection for creatinine clearance and protein as well as getting some blood work. ...Read more
If my GFR stays in low 40s and cr is high but I have no protein in urine does that mean i don't have CKD or does that mean the kd isn't bad yet?
Stage 2-3: You have kidney disease. You just did not have significant amounts of protein in the urine at that sample. Egfr. ...Read more
Blood work shows iron at 178 and a/g ratio at 2.8 both high. Also protein in urine. Everything else normal. What could be?
Lab values: Your iron level is normal and you have a high a/g ratio. Causes of this are, such as genetic disorders, high protein/high carbohydrate diets, and a few genetic disorders are some of the conditions where a high a/g ratio will be present, among others. Your proteinuria is a problem. Collect your urine for 24 hours to get a measurement of your renal function and how much proteinuria you have/day. ...Read more
My bun was a 10 and my creatine was 0.8. Could i still have kidney failure or would those levels have to be high? I have protein in urine regularly!
Not Likely: Those are healthy kidney numbers. However, you can have other causes of proteinuria or renal insufficiency and should follow up with a nephrologist or your regular doctor. ...Read more
My lab results show high levels of protein in urine 27 mg, urine creatinine 316.3 mg but levels of protein/creatinine ratio 90 mg. What does it mean?
Ur Protein/Cr ratio: The urine protein to urine creatinine ratio is an estimate of the 24hr urine protein. It is less cumbersome and quick. A urine protein to creatinine ratio of 0.15 or less would be consdered normal. For example urine protein of 30 and urine creatinine of 300 would be a upc of 0.1. ...Read more
I have high levels of protein in urine from 24 hour urine collection. I have been referred to nephrologist. What can you expect on an initial visit?
Nephrologist visit: You can expect to give your medical history and have a physical examination done by the nephrologist. You will be asked to collect a 24 hour urine collection for creatinine clearance and protein, to see at level your kidneys work and to quantify the amount of protein in your urine/24 hours. A renal ultrasound will be ordered. Depending on the urine results, more blood tests may be ordered. ...Read more
My lab results show high levels of protein in urine 27 mg, urine creatinine 316.3 mg but levels of protein/creatinine ration 90 mg. What does it mean?
Protein in urine: The results mean that you probably have a lot of protein in your urine. To determine how much, you need to see a nephrologist and have a 24 hour urine collection to assess the amount of protein in your urine as well as your renal function. Depending on the amount of protein in your urine, you may need to have additional blood tests to see if you have any type of glomeulonephritis or diabetes. ...Read more
Does gatorade cause protein in urine? I took a urine sample today and my doctor told me to stop drinking it. What are other causes of high protein?
Confusing!: Gatorade isn't a protein drink. Protein drinks do not cause protein in the urine. I've not heard of gatorade, which is convenient electrolytes in water, causing proteinuria. Misunderstanding? The most common cause of protein in the urine is some people who get this from standing -- check the first-voided morning urine. If it's up, your physician will want to check further. ...Read more
What conditions would cause high wbc, blood & protein in urine. Along with 5months chronic severe flank pain?
Kidney stone?: I strongly suspect you have a kidney stone that has become infected. A kidney cancer is unlikely at age 28 and you need a workup to get at the cause and get you treated. (there are a few other possibilities.). ...Read more
Can i take lisinopril, amlodipine, and furosemide for high creatinine and protein in urine, while i also have high uric acid levels?
Meds for proteinuria: Lisinopril (l) is an excellent drug for reducing proteinuria (p) and blood pressure control. With a high creatinine, you need to be under the care of a nephrologist (n) to make sure you can preserve your kidney function as long as possible. You also need to have a 24 hour urine collection to assess your kidney function and to see how much p you have. A n can also help with your uric acid problem. ...Read more
High WBC count, extremely high neutrophils, protein in urine, fatigue, night sweats, no appetite. What is going on?
Seriously sick: You have bacterial endocarditis until proved otherwise. If it was TB instead, I woudn't be surprised. Or any of several other entities that are all serious but manageable. Get with a competent physician who can proceed with a proper workup without delay. ...Read more
Cause of elevated WBC in blood in diabetic? Protein in urine, no fever and no other symptoms.
Many possibilities: An elevated WBC is typically seen when you have an infection. It is not directly related to having diabetes, but diabetics are more prone to getting infections, such as urinary infections. High protein in the urine can be from a urine infection, but can also be a sign of diabetes affecting the kidneys and causing leakage of protein. This would need treatment. You should see your doctor about. ...Read more
What causes protein in urine?
Protein in urine: A small amount of protein in the urine is not unusual but it is not detected by a urinalysis. The number one concern for the finding of urine is kidney disease. Other causes include urinary tract infection and inflammation of the urinary lining like a kidney stone. www.peedoc.com @drhtay. ...Read more
What causes of protein in urine?
Cause protein/urine:
There are three ways protein enters the urine.1due to overload of protein in the serum called overflow protenuria
2due to decrese in absorption in proximal tubule of kidneys 3due to disease in the glomerulus.It can be caused by biological like Avastin (bevacizumab) used in cancer, and some drugs like nonsteroidal analgesics or drinking more than 4 liters of liquids in a day.High fever, chf, sle, diabetes&hypertensi. ...Read more
Protein In Urine (Definition)
Protein is an expensive commodity for the body. The kidneys are entrusted to return protein back to the body during filtering, and not lose it to the urine. Losses > 150mg/day are indicative of a problem with the filtration mechanism of the kidney. A nephrologist should be consulted ...Read more
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What started out as a simple product shoot for a steampunk corset, soon turned into a "fashion with a story line" session. Coupled with what I can only describe as the most insane sunset I've ever witnessed in my time living in the Southwest, this represents my best body of work to date.
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The Kindling Trust reports on building a sustainable food movement in Manchester.
Like many cities across the UK, here in Manchester individuals and groups are getting serious about the environmental and social impacts of our food and organising in new and enterprising ways to challenge the economic might of supermarkets and agri-business.
Historically, good food, an understanding of farming and empathy with farmers, has largely been a rural affair. If you think 'local food' you are probably conjuring up images of farmers' markets in market towns or perhaps box schemes in affluent suburbs.
In post-industrial towns and cities, policy and projects have focused on getting 'the poor' to eat more healthily: to eat their five portions of fruit and veg a day. This has meant making food cheaper and more accessible. Soup kitchens, food banks and cooking classes at the local youth centre are the order of the day.
Today, as cities like Bristol and London start to grapple with the twin needs of reducing their carbon emissions and becoming more resilient, and as new food groups focus on the inequality of food, a new generation of farmers, activists and entrepreneurs are starting to do things differently. And crucially policy makers are starting to understand the huge, complex and inter-related impacts our food choices make.
The list of challenges and problems seems endless: countering the power of supermarkets; concern about genetically engineered food; growing obesity problems; dwindling fish stocks; an ageing farming sector; animal welfare issues and rising food prices. And in cities and communities across the UK there is growing recognition that no one food issue is more important than another and co-operative solutions are key.
Here in Greater Manchester, groups have been discussing these problems for a number of years, now via FeedingManchester – a loose network of social enterprises, charities and activists who are working to build a 'sustainable food' movement.
What do we mean by sustainable food? We define 'sustainable food' as food that is good for everyone in the supply chain, from farmers to family businesses and shop workers to the consumer. Our movement encourages people to buy, grow, sell and promote food that:
And crucially, food democracy is key. You can go to almost any supermarket and buy products which meet some of the criteria above, whilst the supermarket itself decimates local high streets, destroys local jobs, forces small farmers out of business and generates vast amount of food waste.
Helen Woodcock, a founding member of FeedingManchester, explains where it all started: "FeedingManchester is a network of sustainable food practitioners: commercial growers and retailers, community gardens, educators and so on. It meets three times a year and discusses what the barriers are to sustainable food production, and what solutions we can come up with. Ultimately FeedingManchester is about nurturing food democracy, reconnecting people to food and taking responsibility for it, ensuring control by and fairness among local producers, suppliers and consumers, and working to reduce inequality in the food supply chain."
FeedingManchester's mission has led to three main co-operative solutions:
Greater Manchester Land Army
The Greater Manchester Land Army, made up of volunteers and trainees helping out on local farms. Inspired by the women's land armies of the World Wars, the Land Army offers a solution to a number of challenges faced by local organic growers, including labour issues and costs at busy periods. So for example, because harvesting of soft fruit is really labour intensive, picking it either leads to very expensive fruit, or fruit being left on the bush to rot. The Land Army is on hand to send a minibus of volunteers out to help, when it is called upon.
Manchester Veg People
Manchester Veg People is another very practical and collaborative initiative. It is a co-operative bringing together the five organic farms closest to Manchester and a range of buyers, including both small caterers and cafés and bigger buyers such as the University of Manchester. We think it is the UK's first ever 'Supply-Chain Co-op' of both local farmers and local buyers, working together to provide fresh, seasonal food of the highest possible quality. This unique partnership means those who have traditionally competed with each other (the grower to get the best price for his produce) and the buyer (who wants to maximise his profits by paying as little as possible to the farmer) are working together.
It was established to tackle both the lack of variety of organic food coming into Manchester and the fact that organic growers struggle to sell their produce and cover the real costs of production, which results in rural poverty and an exodus from farming.
Organic farmers plan crops each year based on their conversations with buyers and get a more secure market. Particularly central to the project is involving the public sector (schools, universities, prisons, hospitals) in procuring sustainable food. "It is about making a wider range of people access fresh, local produce, even if many don't feel they can afford it in their personal shopping," says Helen Woodcock.
Manchester FarmStart is a planned incubator farm (being established in early 2013) for people new to the industry. The Kindling Trust wants to help people become farmers, whether part-time or full-time, and encourage more supply of local organic food into Greater Manchester.
New farmers will be able to rent out small plots to trial their farming plans. As their business ideas prove successful they will be able to expand their acreage.
They will be supported by a farm manager who will provide cultivation services using farm-scale machinery, and by Kindling which will facilitate access to markets (if required), through Manchester Veg People or appropriate alternatives. Kindling will also provide mentoring and training support.
With a growing acceptance that we can't compete directly with supermarkets (at least not until local and national governments create a level playing field) we need to build co-operative solutions that build alternative food systems that provides sustainable food at prices that are fair to farmers, workers, independent businesses and crucially consumers.
The food revolution across the UK:
Growing Communities: Transforming food & farming through community-led trade in Hackney, London.
Organic Lea: A workers' cooperative growing food in London
Cultivate Oxford: Grow fruit & veg on a five acre market garden site near Oxford to sell on their Veg Van
The Community Farm: Between Bristol and Bath this community-owned farm grows organic vegetables on 22 acres of land selling through a vegetable box delivery service and a wholesale business
Caerhys Organic Community Agriculture (COCA): An agricultural scheme run for and supported by, the local community in St Davids, Wales
The Fife Diet: A regional food campaign build around a New Food Manifesto
If you know of equally inspiring and practical sustainable food solutions across the UK, Ethical Consumer would love to hear about them – get in touch.
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Prejudice Quotes (66 quotes)
Wenige sind imstande, von den Vorurteilen der Umgebung abweichende Meinungen gelassen auszusprechen; die Meisten sind sogar unfähig, überhaupt zu solchen Meinungen zu gelangen.
Few people are able to express opinions that dissent from the prejudices of their social group. The majority are even incapable of forming such opinions at all.
Few people are able to express opinions that dissent from the prejudices of their social group. The majority are even incapable of forming such opinions at all.
A few days ago, a Master of Arts, who is still a young man, and therefore the recipient of a modern education, stated to me that until he had reached the age of twenty he had never been taught anything whatever regarding natural phenomena, or natural law. Twelve years of his life previously had been spent exclusively amongst the ancients. The case, I regret to say, is typical. Now we cannot, without prejudice to humanity, separate the present from the past.
A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a mana man of restless and versatile intellectwho plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric, and distract the attention of his hearers from the real point at issue by eloquent digressions and skilled appeals to religious prejudice.
A person by study must try to disengage the subject from useless matter, and to seize on points capable of improvement. ... When subjects are viewed through the mists of prejudice, useful truths may escape.
Above, far above the prejudices and passions of men soar the laws of nature. Eternal and immutable, they are the expression of the creative power they represent what is, what must be, what otherwise could not be. Man can come to understand the: he is incapable of changing them.
Almost everyone... seems to be quite sure that the differences between the methodologies of history and of the natural sciences are vast. For, we are assured, it is well known that in the natural sciences we start from observation and proceed by induction to theory. And is it not obvious that in history we proceed very differently? Yes, I agree that we proceed very differently. But we do so in the natural sciences as well.
In both we start from myths—from traditional prejudices, beset with error—and from these we proceed by criticism: by the critical elimination of errors. In both the role of evidence is, in the main, to correct our mistakes, our prejudices, our tentative theories—that is, to play a part in the critical discussion, in the elimination of error. By correcting our mistakes, we raise new problems. And in order to solve these problems, we invent conjectures, that is, tentative theories, which we submit to critical discussion, directed towards the elimination of error.
In both we start from myths—from traditional prejudices, beset with error—and from these we proceed by criticism: by the critical elimination of errors. In both the role of evidence is, in the main, to correct our mistakes, our prejudices, our tentative theories—that is, to play a part in the critical discussion, in the elimination of error. By correcting our mistakes, we raise new problems. And in order to solve these problems, we invent conjectures, that is, tentative theories, which we submit to critical discussion, directed towards the elimination of error.
As lightning clears the air of impalpable vapours, so an incisive paradox frees the human intelligence from the lethargic influence of latent and unsuspected assumptions. Paradox is the slayer of Prejudice.
Break the chains of your prejudices and take up the torch of experience, and you will honour nature in the way she deserves, instead of drawing derogatory conclusions from the ignorance in which she has left you. Simply open your eyes and ignore what you cannot understand, and you will see that a labourer whose mind and knowledge extend no further than the edges of his furrow is no different essentially from the greatest genius, as would have been proved by dissecting the brains of Descartes and Newton; you will be convinced that the imbecile or the idiot are animals in human form, in the same way as the clever ape is a little man in another form; and that, since everything depends absolutely on differences in organisation, a well-constructed animal who has learnt astronomy can predict an eclipse, as he can predict recovery or death when his genius and good eyesight have benefited from some time at the school of Hippocrates and at patients' bedsides.
But the idea that any of the lower animals have been concerned in any way with the origin of manis not this degrading? Degrading is a term, expressive of a notion of the human mind, and the human mind is liable to prejudices which prevent its notions from being invariably correct. Were we acquainted for the first time with the circumstances attending the production of an individual of our race, we might equally think them degrading, and be eager to deny them, and exclude them from the admitted truths of nature.
But, contrary to the ladys prejudices about the engineering profession, the fact is that quite some time ago the tables were turned between theory and applications in the physical sciences. Since World War II the discoveries that have changed the world are not made so much in lofty halls of theoretical physics as in the less-noticed labs of engineering and experimental physics. The roles of pure and applied science have been reversed; they are no longer what they were in the golden age of physics, in the age of Einstein, Schrödinger, Fermi and Dirac.
Can science ever be immune from experiments conceived out of prejudices and stereotypes, conscious or not? (Which is not to suggest that it cannot in discrete areas identify and locate verifiable phenomena in nature.) I await the study that says lesbians have a region of the hypothalamus that resembles straight men and I would not be surprised if, at this very moment, some scientist somewhere is studying brains of deceased Asians to see if they have an enlarged math region of the brain.
— Kay Diaz
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at any rate, without the distortion of prejudice, and reasons from them in accordance with the dictates of sound judgment. And science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live. We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth. We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Error is often nourished by good sense. The meaning is, that the powers of the understanding are frequently employed to defend favourite errors; and that a man of sense frequently fortifies himself in his prejudices, or in false opinions which he received without examination, by such arguments as would not have occurred to a fool.
For it being the nature of the mind of man (to the extreme prejudice of knowledge) to delight in the spacious liberty of generalities, as in a champion region, and not in the enclosures of particularity; the Mathematics were the goodliest fields to satisfy that appetite.
Geneticists believe that anthropologists have decided what a race is. Ethnologists assume that their classifications embody principles which genetic science has proved correct. Politicians believe that their prejudices have the sanction of genetic laws and the findings of physical anthropology to sustain them.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form.
Husserl has shown that mans prejudices go a great deal deeper than his intellect or his emotions. Consciousness itself is prejudicedthat is to say, intentional.
I do not forget that Medicine and Veterinary practice are foreign to me. I desire judgment and criticism upon all my contributions. Little tolerant of frivolous or prejudiced contradiction, contemptuous of that ignorant criticism which doubts on principle, I welcome with open arms the militant attack which has a method of doubting and whose rule of conduct has the motto More light.
I hope that in due time the chemists will justify their proceedings by some large generalisations deduced from the infinity of results which they have collected. For me I am left hopelessly behind and I will acknowledge to you that through my bad memory organic chemistry is to me a sealed book. Some of those here, [August] Hoffman for instance, consider all this however as scaffolding, which will disappear when the structure is built. I hope the structure will be worthy of the labour. I should expect a better and a quicker result from the study of the powers of matter, but then I have a predilection that way and am probably prejudiced in judgment.
If I set out to prove something, I am no real scientistI have to learn to follow where the facts lead meI have to learn to whip my prejudices.
If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions to be observed, it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their enquiries; or, in other words, that they will lay down, or at least suggest, rules and conditions to be (hereafter) observed in the construction of bridges, or, in other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement to-morrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of to-day.
[Objecting to any interference by the State with the freedom of civil engineers in the conduct of their professional work.]
[Objecting to any interference by the State with the freedom of civil engineers in the conduct of their professional work.]
If this critical openminded attitude is wanted, the question at once arises, Is it science that should be studied in order to achieve it? Why not study law? A judge has to do everything that a scientist is exhorted to do in the way of withholding judgment until all the facts are in, and then judging impartially on the merits of the case as well as he can. Why not a course in Sherlock Holmes? The detectives, or at least the detective-story writers, join with the scientists in excoriating dogmatic prejudice, lying, falsification of facts, and data, and willful fallacious reasoning.
If we would indicate an idea striving to remove the barriers which prejudice and limited views of every kind have erected among men, and to treat all mankind, without reference to religion, nation, or color, as one fraternity, one great community, fitted for the attainment of one object, the unrestrained development of the physical powers. This is the ultimate and highest aim of society.
In the enfranchised mind of the scientific naturalist, the usual feelings of repugnance simply do not exist. Curiosity conquers prejudice.
In the first papers concerning the aetiology of tuberculosis I have already indicated the dangers arising from the spread of the bacilli-containing excretions of consumptives, and have urged moreover that prophylactic measures should be taken against the contagious disease. But my words have been unheeded. It was still too early, and because of this they still could not meet with full understanding. It shared the fate of so many similar cases in medicine, where a long time has also been necessary before old prejudices were overcome and the new facts were acknowledged to be correct by the physicians.
In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, than that he will divest himself of prejudice and repossession, and suffer his reason and feelings to determine for themselves; and that he will put on, or rather that he will not put off, the true character of man, and generously enlarge his view beyond the present day.
In the training and in the exercise of medicine a remoteness abides between the field of neurology and that of mental health, psychiatry. It is sometimes blamed to prejudice on the part of the one side or the other. It is both more grave and less grave than that. It has a reasonable basis. It is rooted in the energy-mind problem. Physiology has not enough to offer about the brain in relation to the mind to lend the psychiatrist much help.
It always bothers me that according to the laws as we understand them today, it takes a computing machine an infinite number of logical operations to figure out what goes on in no matter how tiny a region of space and no matter how tiny a region of time I have often made the hypothesis that ultimately physics will not require a mathematical statement, that in the end the machinery will be revealed and the laws will turn out to be simple, like the chequer board with all its apparent complexities. But this speculation is of the same nature as those other people makeI like it,I don't like itand it is not good to be too prejudiced about these things.
It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to become current, and the older men who ought to be capable of taking them in freely, will not do so through prejudice.
It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom.
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really important things in life, physics would be an essential study for everybody.
It must, however, be confessed that this species of scepticism, when more moderate, may be understood in a very reasonable sense, and is a necessary preparative to the study of philosophy by preserving a proper impartiality in our judgments and weaning our mind from all those prejudices which we may have imbibed from education or rash opinion.
It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.
Men have been talking now for a week at the post office about the age of the great elm, as a matter interesting but impossible to be determined. The very choppers and travelers have stood upon its prostrate trunk and speculated upon its age, as if it were a profound mystery. I stooped and read its years to them (127 at nine and a half feet), but they heard me as the wind that once sighed through its branches. They still surmised that it might be two hundred years old, but they never stooped to read the inscription. Truly they love darkness rather than light. One said it was probably one hundred and fifty, for he had heard somebody say that for fifty years the elm grew, for fifty it stood still, and for fifty it was dying. (Wonder what portion of his career he stood still!) Truly all men are not men of science. They dwell within an integument of prejudice thicker than the bark of the cork-tree, but it is valuable chiefly to stop bottles with. Tied to their buoyant prejudices, they keep themselves afloat when honest swimmers sink.
Mr. [Granville T.] Woods says that he has been frequently refused work because of the previous condition of his race, but he has had great determination and will and never despaired because of disappointments. He always carried his point by persistent efforts. He says the day is past when colored boys will be refused work only because of race prejudice. There are other causes. First, the boy has not the nerve to apply for work after being refused at two or three places. Second, the boy should have some knowledge of mechanics. The latter could be gained at technical schools, which should be founded for the purpose. And these schools must sooner or later be established, and thereby, we should be enabled to put into the hands of our boys and girls the actual means of livelihood.
One of the largest promises of science is, that the sum of human happiness will be increased, ignorance destroyed, and, with ignorance, prejudice and superstition, and that great truth taught to all, that this world and all it contains were meant for our use and service; and that where nature by her own laws has defined the limits of original unfitness, science may by extract so modify those limits as to render wholesome that which by natural wildness was hurtful, and nutritious that which by natural poverty was unnourishing. We do not yet know half that chemistry may do by way of increasing our food.
Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way, and many events are uncaused in any conventional sense of the word. Perhaps our gut feeling that it cannot be so reflects only our hopes and prejudices, our desperate striving to make sense of a complex and confusing world, and not the ways of nature.
Science has taught us to think the unthinkable. Because when nature is the guiderather than a priori prejudices, hopes, fears or desireswe are forced out of our comfort zone. One by one, pillars of classical logic have fallen by the wayside as science progressed in the 20th century, from Einstein's realization that measurements of space and time were not absolute but observer-dependent, to quantum mechanics, which not only put fundamental limits on what we can empirically know but also demonstrated that elementary particles and the atoms they form are doing a million seemingly impossible things at once.
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our guesses are guided by the unscientific, the metaphysical (though biologically explicable) faith in laws, in regularities which we can uncover—discover. Like Bacon, we might describe our own contemporary science—'the method of reasoning which men now ordinarily apply to nature'—as consisting of 'anticipations, rash and premature' and as 'prejudices'.
Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.
Several very eminent living paleontologists frequently emphasise the abruptness of some of the major changes that have occurred, and seek for an external cause. This is a heady wine and has intoxicated palaeontologists since the days when they could blame it all on Noah's flood. In fact, books are still being published by the lunatic fringe with the same explanation. In case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices, let me state categorically that all my experience (such as it is) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record
So many people todayand even professional scientistsseem to me like someone who has seen thousands of trees but has never seen a forest . A knowledge of the historic and philosophical background gives that kind of independence from prejudices of his generation from which most scientists are suffering. This independence created by philosophical insight isin my opinionthe mark of distinction between a mere artisan or specialist and a real seeker after truth.
The great thing [about Kants philosophy] was to form the idea that this one thingmind or worldmay well be capable of other forms of appearance that we cannot grasp and that do not imply the notions of space and time. This means an imposing liberation from our inveterate prejudice.
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we can have in this world is to discover new truths; and the next is to shake off old prejudices.
The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions. The development from a religion of fear to moral religion is a great step in peoples lives. And yet, that primitive religions are based entirely on fear and the religions of civilized peoples purely on morality is a prejudice against which we must be on our guard. The truth is that all religions are a varying blend of both types, with this differentiation: that on the higher levels of social life the religion of morality predominates.
The kinetic concept of motion in classical theory will have to undergo profound modifications. (That is why I also avoided the term orbit in my paper throughout.) We must not bind the atoms in the chains of our prejudicesto which, in my opinion, also belongs the assumption that electron orbits exist in the sense of ordinary mechanicsbut we must, on the contrary, adapt our concepts to experience.
The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the West.
The purpose of science is to develop, without prejudice or preconception of any kind, a knowledge of the facts, the laws, and the processes of nature. The even more important task of religion, on the other hand, is to develop the consciences, the ideals, and the aspirations of mankind.
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true. We have a method, and that method helps us to reach not absolute truth, only asymptotic approaches to the truthnever there, just closer and closer, always finding vast new oceans of undiscovered possibilities. Cleverly designed experiments are the key.
There are, and always have been, destructive pseudo-scientific notions linked to race and religion; these are the most widespread and damaging. Hopefully, educated people can succeed in shedding light into these areas of prejudice and ignorance, for as Voltaire once said: Men will commit atrocities as long as they believe absurdities.
Theres pretty good evidence that we generally dont truly want good informationbut rather information that confirms our prejudices. We may believe intellectually in the clash of opinions, but in practice we like to embed ourselves in the reassuring womb of an echo chamber.
These Disciplines [mathematics] serve to inure and corroborate the Mind to a constant Diligence in Study; to undergo the Trouble of an attentive Meditation, and cheerfully contend with such Difficulties as lie in the Way. They wholly deliver us from a credulous Simplicity, most strongly fortify us against the Vanity of Scepticism, effectually restrain from a rash Presumption, most easily incline us to a due Assent, perfectly subject us to the Government of right Reason, and inspire us with Resolution to wrestle against the unjust Tyranny of false Prejudices. If the Fancy be unstable and fluctuating, it is to be poized by this Ballast, and steadied by this Anchor, if the Wit be blunt it is sharpened upon this Whetstone; if luxuriant it is pared by this Knife; if headstrong it is restrained by this Bridle; and if dull it is rouzed by this Spur. The Steps are guided by no Lamp more clearly through the dark Mazes of Nature, by no Thread more surely through the intricate Labyrinths of Philosophy, nor lastly is the Bottom of Truth sounded more happily by any other Line. I will not mention how plentiful a Stock of Knowledge the Mind is furnished from these, with what wholesome Food it is nourished, and what sincere Pleasure it enjoys. But if I speak farther, I shall neither be the only Person, nor the first, who affirms it; that while the Mind is abstracted and elevated from sensible Matter, distinctly views pure Forms, conceives the Beauty of Ideas, and investigates the Harmony of Proportions; the Manners themselves are sensibly corrected and improved, the Affections composed and rectified, the Fancy calmed and settled, and the Understanding raised and excited to more divine Contemplations. All which I might defend by Authority, and confirm by the Suffrages of the greatest Philosophers.
This Excellent Mathematician having given us, in the Transactions of February last, an account of the cause, which induced him to think upon Reflecting Telescopes, instead of Refracting ones, hath thereupon presented the curious world with an Essay of what may be performed by such Telescopes; by which it is found, that Telescopical Tubes may be considerably shortened without prejudice to their magnifiying effect.
On his invention of the catadioptrical telescope, as he communicated to the Royal Society.
On his invention of the catadioptrical telescope, as he communicated to the Royal Society.
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
Twin sister of natural and revealed religion, and of heavenly birth, science will never belie her celestial origin, nor cease to sympathize with all that emanates from the same pure home. Human ignorance and prejudice may for a time seem to have divorced what God has joined together; but human ignorance and prejudice shall at length pass away, and then science and religion shall be seen blending their particolored rays into one beautiful bow of light, linking heaven to earth and earth to heaven.
We all have a tendency to think that the world must conform to our prejudices. The opposite view involves some effort of thought, and most people would die sooner than thinkin fact they do so.
When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.
While the method of the natural sciences is... analytic, the method of the social sciences is better described as compositive or synthetic. It is the so-called wholes, the groups of elements which are structurally connected, which we learn to single out from the totality of observed phenomena... Insofar as we analyze individual thought in the social sciences the purpose is not to explain that thought, but merely to distinguish the possible types of elements with which we shall have to reckon in the construction of different patterns of social relationships. It is a mistake... to believe that their aim is to explain conscious action ... The problems which they try to answer arise only insofar as the conscious action of many men produce undesigned results... If social phenomena showed no order except insofar as they were consciously designed, there would indeed be no room for theoretical sciences of society and there would be, as is often argued, only problems of psychology. It is only insofar as some sort of order arises as a result of individual action but without being designed by any individual that a problem is raised which demands a theoretical explanation... people dominated by the scientistic prejudice are often inclined to deny the existence of any such order... it can be shown briefly and without any technical apparatus how the independent actions of individuals will produce an order which is no part of their intentions... The way in which footpaths are formed in a wild broken country is such an instance. At first everyone will seek for himself what seems to him the best path. But the fact that such a path has been used once is likely to make it easier to traverse and therefore more likely to be used again; and thus gradually more and more clearly defined tracks arise and come to be used to the exclusion of other possible ways. Human movements through the region come to conform to a definite pattern which, although the result of deliberate decision of many people, has yet not be consciously designed by anyone.
You are surprised at my working simultaneously in literature and in mathematics. Many people who have never had occasion to learn what mathematics is confuse it with arithmetic and consider it a dry and arid science. In actual fact it is the science which demands the utmost imagination. One of the foremost mathematicians of our century says very justly that it is impossible to be a mathematician without also being a poet in spirit. It goes without saying that to understand the truth of this statement one must repudiate the old prejudice by which poets are supposed to fabricate what does not exist, and that imagination is the same as making things up. It seems to me that the poet must see what others do not see, and see more deeply than other people. And the mathematician must do the same.
~~[Not in his own words]~~ Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.


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SKU: MR0099G Net Weight: 3.5 oz ea. Total Servings: 1 Sandwich Total Calories: 320 Shelf Life: 3 Years Dimensions (LxWxH): 6 1/4" x 3/4" x 6" Allergen and Specialty: Shellfish Free Food Type: Main Entrees Packaging: Retort Pouch Preservation: Vacuum Stabilized Storage Requirements: Click to Read Storage Requirements
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Servings Per Container About 1 SandwichAmount Per ServingCalories 320Calories from Fat 70% Daily Value*Total Fat 8g12%Saturated Fat 4g20%Trans Fat 0gCholesterol 0mg0%Sodium 340mg14%Total Carbohydrate 53g18%Dietary Fiber 3g%Sugars 19gProtein 5g%Vitamin A6%Vitamin C15%Calcium6%Iron2%*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.INGREDIENTS: Bread (Flour [Bleached Wheat Flour, Malted Barley Flour, And Fungal Alpha Amylase], Water, Palm Oil, Strawberry Flakes [Sugar, Vegetable Oil {Palm Oil, Palm Kernel}, Wheat Flour, Malic Acid, Natural Flavor, Caramel Color, Natural Colors {Fruit And Vegetables, Invert Sugar, Citric Acid}, Tri-Calcium Phosphate, Sodium Citrate, Soy Lecithin], Glycerol, Yeast, Salt, Sucrose Ester, Dough Conditioners {Wheat Flour, Monoglyceride , Diacetyl Tartaric Acid Esters Of Mono & Diglycerides {DATEM}, Ammonium Sulfate, Enzymes, Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid], Gum Arabic, Calcium Sulfate, Xanthan Gum, Butter Flavor, Sorbic Acid, Turmeric Extract), Cherry Filling (High Fructose Corn Syrup, Water, Dried Red Tart Cherries {Cherries, Sugar, Sunflower Oil, Ascorbic Acid, Citric Acid}, Dextrose, Dried Cranberries [Cranberries, Sugar, Sunflower Oil, Ascorbic Acid, Citric Acid, Natural Cherry Flavor], Corn Syrup, Apple Concentrate, Cherry Juice Concentrate, Glycerol, Starch, Artificial Cherry Flavor, Xanthan Gum, Locust Bean Gum, Natural Color [Vegetable Juice, Invert Sugar, Citric Acid])
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Hollyoaks fans are already getting excited about the show's upcoming Point of View week, so we've done some more snooping to find out exactly what's in store.
Jessica Fox and Ashley Taylor Dawson announced the big news on ITV's Lorraine today (August 11), promising an experimental week of episodes focusing on the suspects in the Patrick Blake murder case.
As revealed earlier, each episode will be set on the same day but told from different perspectives as key players in the storyline each take turns in the spotlight.
So who'll actually be featuring? Well, Digital Spy can confirm that Nancy and Darren will have an episode focused on them (of course!), as will Nico Blake, Sienna Blake and Maxine Minniver.
As for the other episode? Well, although he may not be a suspect himself (given that he was in prison when Patrick was killed!), one episode will also be focused on everyone's favourite bad boy Warren Fox.
Of course, as all of these characters are so closely linked at the moment, they'll all be featuring in each other's episodes too - playing key roles in each other's journeys.
One other interesting point is that while your typical week of Hollyoaks is jam-packed full of different storylines, Point of View week will be focusing just on this plot.
This gives the Patrick story the screen time and pay-off that it deserves, building up to the moment that the police finally charge someone for the murder...
Point of View week launches on Monday, September 5 at 6.30pm on Channel 4. And it's just the beginning of an explosive autumn season for Hollyoaks...
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President Poroshenko, U.S. Special Envoy Hochstein agree to raise role of Ukrainian gas transport system in EU energy security
In particular, the Ukrainian president and the U.S. special envoy agreed to coordinate efforts to increase the role and importance of the Ukrainian gas transport system in ensuring gas transit to the EU countries and energy security of Europe.
"The parties discussed further reformation of the energy sector of Ukraine, diversification of energy supply sources of our country and attraction of American investments and technologies in the energy sector of our state," reads a report.
Also, the Ukrainian president and U.S. special envoy discussed the issues of further reform of the Ukrainian energy sector, diversification of energy supply sources of Ukraine and attraction of U.S. investments and technologies in the energy sector of Ukraine.
In addition, President Poroshenko thanked Amos Hochstein for the U.S. assistance provided to Ukraine to construct an arch for the new safe confinement for the Shelter Object at the Chornobyl NPP, improvement of nuclear safety and reduction of energy dependence of Ukraine.
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The Google Master Plan: Comedy, Conspiracy, or Correct?
A few weeks ago, I first came across this tongue-in-cheek site that supposedly listed Google's Master Plan online for the world to see. This is pretty funny stuff.
- Clone Army?
- GoogOIL?
- Index All Sheep in the Universe?
- Crop Circles?
Today, I found MasterPlanTheMovie.com. Ozan Halici and Jürgen Mayer have created an interesting movie. This production is apparently related to a Bachelor's thesis they worked on for the University of Applied Sciences Ulm, Germany.


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A weapon which uses a focused blast of sound to attack the enemy
Sonic Weapons use polarized sonic vibrations to effectively, violently shake apart a target, even an organic one, resulting in an explosion.
They almost always have an antennae dish at the end.
- Sonic Requiem: A high powered sonic weapon used by Artorious. It can level a mountain and pulverize a Kaiju to sludge but it requires he devote all of his body's energies to the weapon, resulting in him having another alternate mode just to use it.
- Sonic Requiem Mini: A smaller version used by Map Buster, while nowhere as powerful as the real one, it is strong enough to shatter Transformer Armor and Transmetal.
- Sonic Scalpel: A powerful Sonic Weapon, the high output causes a Photo-thermal effect. There is also a medical devise with a similar name.
- Sonic Ray: A powerful Sonic Weapon, the high output causes a Photo-thermal effect. Unlike the scalpel it just pulverizes the target.


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How is Transit of Lord Sun for Pisces Zodiac
When the Sun is in Pisces in a chart, the individual may tend to be a poet. The native's eyes reveal that he/she is very emotional. The native possesses a tendency to oppose himself like the sign Pisces, which contains two fish facing opposite directions. Such an individual takes a totally different line of action. He/she is the kindest and most charitable of all the signs. The native tends to make many sacrifices for others. It is a trait that he/she shares with the opposite sign. At times, the individual also has monk or priest-like aspirations. The individual can do very well in medical and caring professions. With a great desire to be a poet, a Piscean may aspire to write in verse. The native can make a good dancer, be involved in the fine arts and makes a warm lover. His/her body area is the feet. The tendency to worry may lead to stomach problems. When the Sun transits the twelfth house in a chart, it may lead to withdrawal tendencies in an individual. The native may be an introvert and lack self-confidence. Being the house related to waste and expenditure, the Sun may bring desperate tendencies in the individual. He/she may be a spendthrift and waste both time and money on unproductive work and habits. The individual must guard against such tendencies.
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Dear Ms. Hoffman:
I am a relatively health 59 year old woman who suffers from severe osteoarthritis of my hip. I have therefore unfortunately entered the endless cycle of waiting for surgical services in Alberta. I am trying to understand why our wait times are so long, but am having an extremely difficult time finding the right information to explain this backlog. According to my doctor and other front line medical workers, the waits are not due to a lack of staff or facilities. Instead, they are due to a lack of funding for surgeries. Again, I have a difficult time understanding this lack of funding when we have such a healthy budget for healthcare in our province. As you are aware, our province spends $21.4 billion per year on healthcare, or over 45% of the total provincial budget.
I beg of you to please find a way to streamline our system. I know I am just one of the thousands of Albertans who are forced to give up on our dreams, change our lives, and sit back and wait for help for what ails us. I must face the reality of changing my life from a very active and involved community member to someone sidelined by pain. Instead of spending my early retirement years fearlessly taking on new adventures and challenges, volunteering for community events, and so on, I now must face different challenges. Simple tasks have become difficult. Instead of taking pride in parking in the farthest spot from the shopping mall's doorway so I could get in a few extra steps, I am now looking for a small store with parking close to the door so I can handle the trek in and out of the store. Shopping malls are becoming my enemy, as they are too large to navigate. I now look for a grocery store that has free shopping carts near the doorway so I can lean on the cart while I shop. Instead of going about my daily activities without even a second thought, Going to the bank, taking care of the house, and taking care of the yard have become activities that I have to think carefully about so I can find the most pain-free way to get them done. In other words, at less than 60 years old, I have joined the army of seniors with mobility challenges.
Not only are my daily activities now more difficult, but my health is challenged.
Last year I was very active. I managed to lose weight, reduce my cholesterol and blood pressure, and become a very healthy Albertan, other than what was then moderate arthritis. But this year, reduced mobility is starting to take a toll. When I do walk, my gait is misaligned so my other joints are stressed. I feel my knee and foot starting to suffer. I believe that by the time I have surgery, I will have seriously damaged my other hip, knees, and feet from the stress put on them when I try to compensate for a sore hip. I also am finding it difficult to maintain a high fitness level, leaving me vulnerable to other health challenges. In my opinion, the longer I wait for surgery, the more of a burden I will become to the health care system because of problems resulting from dealing with the pain.
I also ask you to consider the overall decline in my quality of life resulting from an outrageous wait for surgery. I had all sorts of plans for my early retirement years, including finding rewarding part-time work and volunteer activities. I worked hard my whole life so that I could fulfill them. But most of these are now gone. From start to finish, this process will take over two years, including the basic recovery time. I will have lost some of the prime years for reaching my dreams. As an Albertan who has actively contributed to our economy and society, I find this possibility very depressing.
Yes, I know you can argue that I can still find a rewarding life – and yes, I can still be involved in many things, and offer a positive contribution to our society. And yes, I know my problems are small compared to many other very ill Albertans. And you would be right. But that doesn't mean my plight should be minimized or rationalized. . The ridiculously long wait system has robbed me of my choices, of my plan for my life. I am the one who has to deal with the pain every time I take a step, or move my leg. I am the one who has to deal with a lack of sleep difficult because it is difficult to get comfortable at night. I am the one who has to look longingly at those who simply walk pain free to the neighbour's house for a visit. I am the one of the many who has to suffer while we hopefully wait for that magical phone call from the surgeon's office saying that they finally have a date for surgery. I ask you to consider those of us who suffer daily with pain while we wait, and wait, and wait, and wait, and the wait some more, for help from our health care system. I beg of you to find a way to make our system more efficient so that people like me are not face with interminable waits for so-called elective procedures.
I ask you to consider the following information, which I am sure is typical of the thousands of Albertans like me who are stuck in our system. Look at our wait times and ask yourself what you can do to make this insanity stop. http://waittimes.alberta.ca/
Date of my initial referral from frontline practitioner: January 16
Date of Diagnostic X-Ray – February 21
Date of Diagnosis through Chinook Bone and Joint Clinic – March 16
Date of Initial Surgeon Appointment: June
Probable number of weeks before surgery after June appointment: 48 – 60 (10 – 14 months)
Total anticipated wait time from initial referral: 80 – 90 weeks, or 20 months, or almost 2 years.
Full recovery time – 6 months to 1 year
Total time lost: As long as 2.5 to 3 years from initial referral to full recovery
Enough said. Make it stop.
"A Hurtin' Albertan"