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Add 10 to 12 ice cubes to a medium mixing bowl and fill with cold water. Set aside.
Place 4 cups of water in a medium saucepot and bring to a rolling boil over medium-high heat. Add the snap peas and blanch for 1 minute. The pea pods will turn bright green and become tender. Remove immediately with a slotted spoon and place in the ice water; this will stop the cooking. Transfer the peas to a double layer of paper towel to wick away the water.
Heat a large skillet on medium-high heat. Add the oil and get it hot, 1 to 2 minutes. Place the radishes cut-side down in the skillet. Season with the salt. Turn down the heat to medium. Cook the radishes until the bottoms just begin to brown and the radishes feel tender when tested with a knife, 10 to 15 minutes. Remove from the heat.
While the radishes are cooking, trim 20 to 24 wooden kebab skewers (depending on how many radishes are in your bunch) to 3 1/2 inches long--kitchen shears should do the trick. Thread the peas on the skewers to prepare the bites.
Five minutes before the radishes finish browning, prepare the brown butter sauce. Heat a skillet on medium-high heat until hot. Add the butter. It will immediately sizzle and foam. Stir with a wooden spoon for 4 to 5 minutes. The butter will begin to darken. Add the rosemary. The butter will crackle and foam again and release the fragrance of the rosemary. Continue to cook until it turns a beautiful, deep brown color yet doesn't burn, another 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from the heat.
Add the radishes to the skewers and finish each with 1 radish leaf. Place the bites on a cake stand or platter. Drizzle with the brown butter. Serve immediately.
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The european patent office has withdrawn the controversial patent on embryonic stem cells from the university of edinburgh after three years
Every year, the european patent office (epo) grants around 400 gene patents. As a rule, both the applications and the grants are reviewed by several experts. This was also the case with an application from the university of edinburgh in 1999. The scientists wanted to secure the rights to use stem cells for industrial, i.E. Commercial purposes. However, the three reviewers entrusted with the review of the proposal seem to have had a bad day: they overlooked the fact that the patent to be granted referred not only to plant stem cells but also to animal stem cells. But that was not the end of the complications, because embryonic stem cells were also patented and, according to the english language, the definition of "animal" includes humans (the european patent office inadvertently granted a patent that also covers genetic modifications in humans).
Following prompt complaints from 14 european parties, including germany, italy and the netherlands, the munich-based epo corrected the 1999 decision today (wednesday). The joy was on the side of a large number of parties, institutions and organizations. German spd justice minister herta daubler-gmelin, for example, was delighted and, in an interview with inforadio berlin-brandenburg, considered the appeal to have been "fully passed". The deputy chairwoman of the cdu "the cultivation of human (!) embryonic stem cells must not be patented." other parties, environmental organizations and medical associations were also pleased with the decision.
According to the decision of the munich office, embryonic stem cells can no longer be patented, as this would allow the creation of genetically modified organisms. Two aspects of the "edinburgh patent" was thus restricted again. From now on, researchers will not only be restricted to so-called adult stem cells, but will also have to refrain from using animal embryonic material. According to herta daubler-gmelin, medical research is in no way affected by the law.
The correction of the three year old scandal patent was made possible through the backdoor. It was not the patent itself that was directly corrected, but rather it was retroactively declared to be inconsistent with the provisions of the "european patent convention" (european patent office releases patenting of plants and animals). The fact that this includes not only technical but also ethical aspects was seen by the environmental organization greenpeace as a decisive victory in the legal dispute with the scottish researchers. The organization’s spokeswoman, carmen ulmen, saw the munich decision as a precedent for future applications involving human stem cells. After all, ulmen said, the epo already had "dozens of applications in the stockpile" (new accusations from greenpeace against the european patent office). Greenpeace also believes that all patents already granted should be reviewed in light of today’s munich decision. Patents on embryos, parts of the human body, other living beings and their patents should be banned without any restrictions.
The winners cheered loudly today, but the question of who actually has an interest in the preemptively banned patents on embryonic stem cells threatens to recede into the background. A look at the university of edinburgh’s cooperation partners provides some insight. Here is the name of the australian company specializing in the cultivation of human stem cells "stem cell sciences" (scs) (greenpeace discovers another patent application that includes human embryos). The otherwise highly praised public-private partnership between public research institutions and private-sector companies takes on a very unique perspective here: under the prere of economic competition, ethical standards are in danger of being overtaken by economic interests. This trend is likely to intensify as the state withdraws from its duty and private partners gain the upper hand. Against this background, it is not surprising that the patent-applying university is located in great britain, where the privatization of the education system is already quite advanced by european standards.
So it’s all just a defensive struggle? According to christoph then, a genetic engineering expert at greenpeace, it will be at least more difficult for the industry to enforce comparable patents in the future. However, this is still not ruled out. Therefore, the european patent law must be changed in such a way that the patenting of living beings and genes is fundamentally excluded.

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Seek the physician’s guidance before embarking on Finasteride
Finasteride treatment is exclusively for men and it is also known as Propecia. Propecia is one of the major ways of combating hair loss and it is approved by pivotal organizations in hair loss in men.
The treatment is orally administered and it is at times taken with Minoxidil a popular hair loss treatment for women. With Finasteride, you will have to swallow a single tablet a day normally containing 1mg or 5mg to help increase male hormones (testosterone) and activate the cells in the scalp. Normally, hair loss or baldness occurs due to degeneration of cells, which causes a slower or no growth rate.
How to use it
- It is a powerful hair loss treatment, but also associated with a number of side-effects. For the best results, first consult a surgeon or a dermatologist before you start using the treatment.
- The doctor will instruct you depending on the extent of your hair loss, expected reactions, and the results to be obtained
- Any medicines that contain Finasteride elements pose different threats to patients, especially women. On the use of the treatment, a woman will experience increased body hair growth that is uncontrollable. It may also damage cells within the body
- Some men who have used it report a decreased sex drive, erection issues, and reckless decisions due to headaches
- Women must not take the medication while pregnant
Reasons why you can take the treatment for better results
- It is an ideal baldness or hair loss treatment for those who may not afford a hair transplant
FDA discovered that men who take the medication experienced hair growth rate by 280 hairs per square inch before a year elapsed

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The birthstone of August is Peridot it reflects the colors of late spring and autumn through its beautiful green color. Some people believe that the peridot gemstone is used to calm anger, attract friendship, and bring good cheer to life. Peridot earrings look so fashionable whether wear them with a set of pendants or bracelets. Choose from hoop earrings, dangle earrings, stud earrings, and other designs. Visit the Wholesale Silver store to get a pair of august peridot earrings.
No matter what color peridot you choose, these earrings are sure to make a statement. Made with 925 Sterling Silver, these earrings feature teardrop-shaped peridots that dangle elegantly from the ear. Whether you're looking for a gift for a loved one or a special treat for yourself, these earrings are a perfect choice.
Peridot is a beautiful green gemstone that has been cherished for centuries. And while all peridots are lovely, there's something special about peridots in different colors. Perhaps it's the way they catch the light, or the way they seem to change color when viewed from different angles. Whatever the reason, color peridots are simply stunning.

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President Trump is perhaps the least demonstrably Christian U.S. president ever. When he and First Lady Melania Trump attended the funeral service for George H. W. Bush on Dec. 5, 2018, they did not recite the Apostle's Creed that was printed in the program. Seated next to them, Barack and Michelle Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton recited the prayer.
But how do contemporary Christians perceive him?
It can be tricky to pin down what evangelicals think of Trump, in part because it's an impermanent demographic based on self-identification.
First, it's important to note the decline in Christian influence in the United States. Many commentators have suggested that Christians are making a kind of "deal" with the man who happens to have gained power, someone who — just perhaps — they otherwise would not have admired.
Nina Burleigh wrote for Newsweek on April 16, 2018 that white evangelicals have experienced a sharp demographic decline over the last decade. Burleigh attributes this to their children "leaving the faith in droves over its anti-LGBT and anti-science positions"; today, 92 percent of white evangelicals are over age 30. "During the 2016 primary season, white evangelicals were largely divided in their opinion of Trump...But once Republicans nominated him, his favorability among white evangelicals jumped to 61 percent in September 2016...Now, according to a poll conducted in late March , after the Stormy Daniels story was widely discussed, support has risen to a record 75 percent." This suggests that this demographic is substantially unconcerned "by his lawyer’s hush money to Stormy Daniels," "revelations that the married President had a year-long affair with an adult film actress after First Lady Melania gave birth to their son Barron," and "shady business deals".White evangelicals "went from being the least likely to the most likely to agree that a candidate’s personal immorality had nothing to do with public service," an article in the New York Times said in June 2018, referencing a September 2017 article in the paper.
John Pavlovitz wrote a searing indictment of this inconsistency. In January 2018, he wrote an open letter addressed to "White Evangelicals," berating them:
For eight years [during the Obama administration] they watched you relentlessly demonize a black President; a man faithfully married for 26 years; a doting father and husband without a hint of moral scandal or the slightest whiff of infidelity.
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you never once suggested that God placed him where he was,
you never publicly offered prayers for him and his family,
you never welcomed him to your Christian Universities,
you never gave him the benefit of the doubt in any instance,
you never spoke of offering him forgiveness or mercy,
your evangelists never publicly thanked God for his leadership,
your pastors never took to the pulpit to offer solidarity with him,
you never made any effort to affirm his humanity or show the love of Jesus to him in any quantifiable measure.
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And yet you give carte blanche to a white Republican man so riddled with depravity, so littered with extramarital affairs, so unapologetically vile, with such a vast resume of moral filth — that the mind boggles.
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They see that pigmentation and party are your sole deities.
They see that you aren’t interested in perpetuating the love of God or emulating the heart of Jesus.
They see that you aren’t burdened to love the least, or to be agents of compassion, or to care for your Muslim, gay, African, female, or poor neighbors as yourself.
They see that all you’re really interested in doing, is making a God in your own ivory image and demanding that the world bow down to it.
They recognize this all about white, Republican Jesus — not dark-skinned Jesus of Nazareth.
Ross Douthat wrote for the New York Times in September 2018 that a new survey by the Cato Institute’s Emily Ekins for the Voter Study Group found that whether a Trump voter attends church predicted their views on race. Among Trump voters who never go to church, only half had positive feelings about Black people, and a quarter said their own whiteness was "very important" to their identity. Among Trump voters who frequently go to church, 71 percent had positive feelings about Black people, and only 9 percent said their own whiteness was "very important" to their identity. While the religious and secular groups in the survey had similar incomes, the secular people were "less likely to have college degrees, less likely to be married and more likely to be divorced; they’re also less civically engaged, less satisfied with their neighborhoods and communities, and less trusting and optimistic in general." (Emily Ekins wrote a separate article about it, concluding that "encouraging conservatives to disengage from religion...may in fact make it even harder for left and right to meet in a more compassionate middle.") But why did the churchgoing people vote for Trump, if they disagree with him about race? It seems they made "a pragmatic bet that his policies on abortion and religious liberty were worth living with his Caligulan personal life and racial demagoguery." Early Christianity made such a bet with the Roman emperor Constantine. However, with Trump, it's "the reverse sort of situation: A Christian community trying to make the best of its decline, and allying with a leader whose core appeal depends upon and possibly furthers the de-Christianization of conservatism....it’s hard to see how it can reverse de-Christianization, and easy to see how it might accelerate it."
Others have a different interpretation. Neil J. Young, author of We Gather Together: The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics, notes the study's conclusion that "religious participation may serve a moderating function in our politics" [emphasis mine] and he clarifies that he believes that "white evangelicals are no moderating force. They are the core of our extremist president’s support." [emphasis mine] Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, an Episcopalian, and an openly gay man running as a Democratic candidate for President in 2020, said in an April 2019 television interview that evangelicals' "hypocrisy is unbelievable" when it comes to their support for Trump.
Whether or not conservatism today is stripping Christianity of its religious content, it is giving it power, and this does reverse the decline of the influence of Christian institutions. Katherine Stewart, author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's Children wrote in a May 2018 op-ed for the New York Times:
"There is a story going around, on both the left and the right, that America’s 'true believers' are a declining force and are now conducting desperate, defensive maneuvers in a secularizing society. But that is not how the leaders of the Christian Nationalist movement see it — because it is not true. They played a key role in putting President Trump in power. They are protecting him now, as they giddily collect their winnings in legislatures and in the courts. Why should they doubt that they can pull off the same trick again?
What Christian nationalists know — and many of us have yet to learn — is that you don’t need a majority to hijack a modern democracy. You just need a sizable minority, marinating in its grievances, willing to act as a bloc, and impervious to correction by fact or argument. Make this group feel good about itself by making other people feel bad about themselves, and dominion may well be in reach."
Franklin Graham, son of the late Billy Graham, planned ten "campaign-style rallies" throughout California in late May and early June 2018 in advance of that state's primary election. The goal is to turn out the evangelical vote. Other kinds of Christians are not receiving the same outreach to attend these rallies, "a tactic that plays directly into the growing separatist sentiment among many white evangelicals," according to Neil J. Young, author of We Gather Together: The Religious Right and the Problem of Interfaith Politics. Of this attempt to stoke "white evangelical resentment and outrage," Young wrote: "Such a dark and alarmist vision might seem to contradict the hopeful joy evangelicals claim their faith provides, but it aligns perfectly with the cynical and conspiratorial worldview Trump has brought to the center of American politics. As such, white evangelicals’ support for Trump doesn’t expose their hypocrisy, as plenty have contended, so much as it plainly reveals their heart." On 13 June, even Graham told the Christian Broadcasting Network that Trump's policy of separating would-be immigrant families at the border is "disgraceful, it’s terrible to see families ripped apart and I don’t support that one bit." He stopped short, however, of holding Trump accountable: "I blame the politicians for the last 20, 30 years that have allowed this to escalate to where it is today."
Whether Christian power is seen to be declining or rising, many see the new administration as an opportunity to advance a theocratic-leaning political agenda. The theologian Roger E. Olson wrote for Patheos in August 2018 in "Is Trump “Our Cyrus?"
Here I’m not talking about those evangelical Christians who, among others, voted for Trump in order to vote against Hilary Clinton as the “lesser of two evils.” I’m talking about the many evangelical Christians who are now lionize Trump as a kind of new national messiah—not on a par with Jesus Christ but...on a par with whom?
A growing common answer is "He’s our Cyrus.'
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During his approximately thirty year reign he [Cyrus] released the Hebrew people in exile to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple that was destroyed earlier by the Babylonians....the Hebrew people did not consider Cyrus one of them, of course, but a powerful ally—and one raised up by God to deliver them from exile and bondage."
Olson issues a warning: "I strongly suspect that he [Trump] is manipulating his conservative Christian 'base' and would turn on them in a moment if it suited his agenda to be powerful."
Is it hypocritical? Well, yes. Kathleen Parker on Aug. 31, 2018 in the Washington Post decried "the utter hypocrisy of allowing such a foul-mouthed, race-baiting misogynist to occupy the Oval Office after many of these same paragons of virtue impeached Bill Clinton for lying about his irresponsible affair with an intern." But it can be politically expedient to ignore the personal failings of one's own candidate. James Traub wrote in the Atlantic on July 18, 2018:
Elected Democrats lined up to denounce President Bill Clinton’s private behavior during the Monica Lewinsky scandal, though none deemed it worthy of impeachment. Donald Trump’s vastly more outrageous behavior has provoked far less opprobrium from his own party. Republicans aren’t less decent than Democrats; rather, they have come to see political struggle in such apocalyptic terms that no merely personal form of shameful behavior can compete with the political stakes. Thus Christian conservatives hold their tongue rather than jeopardize their chances of getting a Supreme Court justice who will overturn Roe v. Wade. The party of personal morality thus becomes the party of indifference to personal morality.
On another front, where Christians are trying to consolidate political power, it isn't exclusively white Christians who are doing so.
Katherine Stewart profiled Jim Domen for the New York Times on June 20, 2018. Domen (who considers himself a "former homosexual") founded Church United and has led it since 2014. It is "a multiethnic group of pastors from a variety of traditions — including Pentecostal and Catholic clergy members" with a mission of “helping pastors transform California at the government and church level.” Domen supports Trump, saying that he has “done more for the Church than many Christian presidents have.” Church United's work to "politicize pastors," as Stewart put it, "started with six affiliated pastors in 2014. The group now counts approximately 500 member pastors."
Some people feel torn.
An example of a middle-of-the-road position is given by Rev. Samuel Rodríguez, who serves at a church in Sacramento, Calif. and who has had private conversations with Trump in the White House. He publicly condemned Trump for his misogynistic, crude comments on the Access Hollywood tape and is also fighting Trump's immigration agenda, but he is willing to work with Trump overall. In May 2018, Rodríguez told BBC World:
"Trump ha hecho más por el movimiento evangélico que cualquier otro presidente desde la época de Ronald Reagan. Se puede medir. Hay 20 puntos que uno puede decir claramente: aquí firmó una orden ejecutiva, aquí firmó una ley, aquí avanzó..."
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"El movimiento latino evangélico no está casado con Donald Trump. Tampoco estaba casado con Obama. Estamos casados con una agenda que va mucho más allá de la personalidad."
Independently of whatever "deal" may be struck here, what do evangelicals feel about Trump's character?Many are disappointed. Molly Wicker wrote for the New York Times on May 19, 2017:
"Evangelical voters have long demanded that politicians exemplify Christian character and morality in the public sector. In Donald Trump, however, evangelicals were confronted with a candidate who pledged allegiance to conservative ideals, but embodied none of them.
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Claire Waugh, a senior from Woodbridge, Va., told me that she refused in November to have a Trump vote on her conscience, and that she hates to see the country being "led by a man who spews vitriol against anyone who is unlike him, a man who tries to invoke God’s name when he is acting utterly ungodly.""
Some Christians think that theology, not secular politics, is the way forward.
David Kuo, who worked for the George W. Bush administration, wrote in his 2006 memoir Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction when he was facing a terminal illness (pp. 262-263):
"We Christians need a short fast from politics.
We need to eschew politics to focus more on practicing compassion. We need to spend more time studying Jesus and less time trying to get people elected. Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars every year in support of conservative Christian advocacy groups such as the Family Research Council, Eagle Forum, and the panoply of similar groups, let's give that money to charities and groups that are arguably closer to Jesus' heart. And we Christians should spend less time arguing with those on the other side and more time communing with them."
More recently, Daniel Burke wrote for CNN on 13 June 2018 about the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting in Dallas that "a small but significant slice" of the 10,000 participants objected to the planned address by Vice President Mike Pence. Younger people seemed more concerned with evangelizing the message of Jesus (what they call "The Great Commission") than with aligning themselves with the Republican Party. Garrett Kell, a pastor, said alignment with the Republican Party was also strategically fraught as it could affect the Southern Baptists' interracial and international relations. (The Southern Baptists formed as a pro-slavery splinter group in 1845, and Pew's 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study found that the Southern Baptists remain 85 percent white.) Pence did address the Convention that day, and Burke followed up, saying that "much of Pence's speech was dedicated to praising the accomplishments of his boss, President Donald Trump." He added: "The denomination's executive committee will consider a motion to cease inviting elected officials to speak at national conventions."
Jonathan Merritt, writing for The Atlantic on 16 June, said that the crowd at the annual meeting was significantly younger than he remembered from his childhood. He quoted Baylor University history professor Barry Hankins as saying that this demographic change "has thrust the group into the middle of an identity crisis". They elected 45-year-old J.D. Greear as the president of the Southern Baptists who has promised to make an effort to proportionately represent women and people of color in leadership roles. The denomination addresses public policy through its Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which opposes President Trump, and Greear said that inviting Pence to speak "sent a terribly mixed signal" about whether the Southern Baptists stood for religion or politics. At least some Southern Baptists, Merritt said, "appear to recognize that tethering themselves to Donald Trump...places the moral credibility of the Southern Baptist Convention at risk." Furthermore, although "Southern Baptists have criticized more liberal denominations for their declines," they, too, are experiencing the same decline; they have lost 1 million members in the past 15 years. Tying themselves to conservative politics is therefore, many conclude, not the answer to reversing this trend.
Carol Kuruvilla wrote for Huffington Post in April 2019:
"In a 2011 poll from PRRI and the Religion News Service, 60% of white evangelicals surveyed said that a public official who 'commits an immoral act in their personal life” cannot still “behave ethically and fulfill their duties in their public and professional life.' But in October 2016, right after The Washington Post published an 'Access Hollywood' recording of Trump making lewd comments about sexual assault, the number of white evangelicals who weren’t willing to give politicians a pass for immoral behavior dropped to 20%. ...white evangelicals were even less likely in late 2018 to connect politicians’ private and public lives in this way. Only 16.5% said they believed privately immoral behavior translates to unethical professional conduct."
In the most recent study, people did not seem to be responding based on principle as much as they seemed to be responding to a particular politician. When white evangelicals had Bill Clinton in mind, they were four-and-a-half times more likely to say that privately immoral behavior was relevant to public life than when they had Donald Trump in mind.
In May 2019, the Jim Bakker show offered viewers the chance to buy a coin with the faces of Cyrus and Trump for a $45 donation. On the show, Lance Wallnau described Trump as "a Cyrus to navigate through the storm" of American politics. He described the coin as "a point of contact" to use in prayer.

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First Promo of 'American Idol' Season 11 Teased
"American Idol" are boasting its judges' and host's star power in a sneak peek for the first promo of season 11. The 30-second clip features Randy Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler and Ryan Seacrest casually hitting the streets. They easily get people's attention and soon find themselves being followed by these youngsters.
The full version of the promo video will be unleashed during World Series game on Sunday, October 23 on FOX. The new installment of the singing competition show itself will premiere on January 22, 2012 following the NFC Championship Game.
The three judges, as well as host Seacrest, have recently wrapped the audition stage in several cities including St. Louis, Portland, San Diego, Pittsburgh, Charleston, Denver, Houston and East Rutherford.
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- Leonardo DiCaprio Reunites With Nina Agdal After 'Caught Flirting' With Another Woman at His Gala
- Watch Henry Cavill Walk Around in Mask and Hilariously Prank Will Smith at Comic-Con
- Comic-Con: New 'Fantastic Beasts' Trailer Shows Newt Scamander Recapturing the Creatures
- Gwen Stefani's Son Kingston Sings Blake Shelton's Song While Face-Swapping With Him
- Comic-Con: Check Out Trailers for 'Flash' Season 3, 'Arrow' Season 5 and 'Legends' Season 2
- Refusing to Enter Rehab, Lamar Odom Walks Out of Family's Intervention
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Lunch at the Library Expands
More community leaders are recognizing the need to build on the resources that already exist in their communities to support the wellbeing of children when school is out. Public libraries and summer meal programs are among those resources, that, when brought together, can help combat summer learning loss and summer hunger — while providing the nucleus around which more community partnerships can be built.
Lunch at the Library, a collaboration between the California Summer Meal Coalition and the California Library Association, is expanding to additional communities in California, in an effort to facilitate more partnerships between summer meal providers and public libraries. Read more about the expansion here .

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text: Wetlands are areas consisting of both aquatic and terrestrial conditions whereby the environmental characteristics are usually determined largely by hydrologic processes in relation to climate and geographic location of the area. About 10% of the land surface of Tanzania is covered by wetlands which provide a wide range of ecosystem functions thus exhibit significant economic, social, cultural and biological values. Masurura Swamp supports a variety of flora and fauna through which the communities living around derive various products and services. It provides habitat for a variety of wild fauna such as hippopotamus and crocodiles, a variety of waterfowls as well as a variety of fish species of economic importance. This book aims to encourage various communities to learn about and ensure sustainability of wetlands found within their areas. It will also help extension officers, project managers and other leaders to take an active role in protecting Masurura Swamp and other wetlands to ensure survival and sustainability of existing biodiversity for current and future generations.

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text: We have primarily a fix-and-flip business but a brief history is in order. Jamell and I began flipping houses in May 2010. In our first 23 months together, we flipped 5 houses on Long Island and purchased 56 apartments in 5 buildings over 4 individual purchases. In April 2012, we decided to focus on buying fix-and-flips on Long Island and set a goal of 50 deals by the end of 2013. That would have been a 1,200% annualized growth rate. Lofty, but we purchased 39 houses at that time. In the past 2 years, we have flipped just under 30 houses annually and generated about $1,000,000 in revenue plus I have been the lender and received a similar amount in interest.

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“Tackling worklessness, particularly in young people is one of our key objectives. The ‘Green Team’ members have the opportunity to gain real employment skills and experience, whilst at the same time delivering work that will benefit RBH tenants and their local communities. That is why this project has our full support.”
Eugene Wilson, RBH Director of Property ServicesGroundwork teamed up with Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) to develop a programme to address the high number of unemployed young people in the Rochdale borough whilst also tackling unsightly public places. A highly successful Green Team model has been developed – combining employment, training and work experience on green-spaces across Rochdale.
Opportunity for employment The six-month programme provides paid employment to young unemployed Rochdale residents. The aim is to help increase their skills, confidence levels and work experience so they are in a better position to gain full-time employment. Whilst enrolled on the programme participants work to improve public spaces and designated grot spots on land managed by RBH.
Each Green Team has four team members who are supported and mentored by a Groundwork supervisor. Green Team participants gain accredited training and employment support as well as links to local employers to help identify permanent job opportunities. Green Team members complete a number of training courses including; literacy and numeracy, manual handling, health & safety, Entry into Construction and the CSCS training and test.
Transforming individuals, community spaces and housing stockEarly jobs included path clearance, vegetation management and snow clearance around RBH managed properties. As the programme progressed and skill levels increased, more demanding work was completed including fencing and flagging.
Since the start of the programme in November 2009, the Green Teams have completed 167 jobs and removed 593 tonnes of waste, transforming community spaces and housing stock throughout the Rochdale borough. 79 local people have been employed on the scheme, 87% of whom have progressed into employment as a direct result of involvement.
"Green Team is really good as it’s helped me to gain new skills and increased my work experience. Before starting I was unemployed for 12 months and not doing anything. The project in Littleborough is just one of seven I have worked on since I started and it feels good completing projects that benefit people across the borough." Ashley, aged 18 and from Littleborough.
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Telangana Congress spokesperson Boreddy Ayodhya Reddy said Chief Minister, K. Chandrashekhar Rao owes an explanation to people of Telangana on what he called ‘substandard’ work in the renovation of Yadagirigutta temple as it was linked to the sentiments of people.
At a press conference here, he said people and political parties welcomed the renovation spending ₹1200 crore but there seems to be lack of sincerity leading to corruption. It is reflected in how the renovated temple could not stand just one big rain with leakages seen everywhere. “It hurt the sentiments of the devotees and people in general,” he said.
He said if the government doesn’t order an inquiry, the Congress would approach the Constitutional bodies for enquiry given the sentiments attached to it.
Sanjay comments condemned
Congress spokesperson Addanki Dayakar and former MLA, Malreddy Ranga Reddy lashed out at BJP state chief Bandi Sanjay for his ‘communal’ comments and said they were insult to Telangana culture. They asked whether demolition of masjids was the agenda of the BJP and wanted to know if that was the development that the Prime Minister was talking about.
Mr. Dayakar said the BJP has no clue on governance and to hide its failures the leaders were resorting to sensational statements creating fear among people. If Congress had united people of all faiths BJP was working overtime to divide them with fake narratives.

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Qantas launches ‘green tier’ for carbon-conscious travellers
Qantas Frequent Flyers who make sustainable choices at home and when they travel will be rewarded with extra points and status credits under a new Green membership tier.
The Green tier will sit alongside existing flying tiers, and is designed to educate, encourage and reward the airline’s 13 million frequent flyers for everything from offsetting their flights, staying in eco-hotels, walking to work and installing solar panels at home.
Qantas will be the first airline in the world to reward frequent flyers for being more sustainable in the air and on the ground.
One of the key components of the launch is the new Offset Your Home and Car product (powered by TEM’s BlueHalo® technology) on the Qantas Rewards Store. Included in the Green Tier program, customers can now use cash or points to offset their household footprint and support powerful TEM offset projects in Australia and around the world. To promote the launch and boost uptake, early customers will also go into the draw to win a holiday to the Great Barrier Reef.


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If you have Crohn’s disease, you may have to pay more for travel insurance because of the risk of falling ill and needing medical treatment while you’re away.
When you fill in an online quotation, you’ll be asked if you have what is known as a ‘pre-existing medical condition’ and given a list of options from which to choose. It is important to answer with full and accurate information because, if you don’t, you might not be able to claim the policy.
The increase in your premiums will be determined by the severity of your condition and the treatment you received and received in the past.
If your condition is particularly aggressive, you may find that the number of insurance firms willing to provide a quote, even at higher prices, is reduced. They may also restrict or reduce the cover on offer.
What is Crohn’s disease?
Crohn’s disease is an inflammatory bowel condition that causes tissue in parts of the digestive system to swell periodically or continuously.
The charity, Crohn’s & Colitis UK has found that 1 in 123 people in the UK currently have inflammatory bowel disease.
What do I need to declare about my Crohn’s disease?
When applying for travel insurance, you’ll need to provide information, such as:
- whether you’ve been prescribed medication or attended a medical facility due to your condition within the last two years
- whether you’re on a waiting list for treatment or investigation
- the number of operations you’ve had to treat the condition within the past five years
- whether you’ve taken drug injections or infusions within the last 12 months
- the number of bowel obstructions you’ve had in the last five years.
What if I do not declare a pre-existing condition?
You could invalidate your policy if you try to claim due to an issue arising from a condition that you are aware of but did not mention when applying for cover. Your insurer may not pay out if it checks your medical records and finds that you’ve withheld relevant information.
If you have to pay for medical treatment and possibly repatriation back to the UK yourself, the bill could run into many thousands of pounds.
What happens if I have Crohn’s-related problems while away?
Use the emergency contact number provided in the policy documentation to notify your insurer as soon as possible. Provided it has enough time, it should pre-authorise your treatment and arrange for its payment.
If you’re unable to contact your insurer straight away, due to a medical emergency, for example, you will have to pay any bills upfront, and claim the costs back. It’s important that you keep receipts for treatment so you can provide your insurer with copies.
You may have difficulty claiming back undocumented costs.
If you are traveling in Europe, you should take an EHIC or GHIC card with you so that you can obtain medical treatment on the same terms as a local – see below for more details.
What should I do if I’m taking medication abroad?
You will need a doctor’s letter explaining what your medication is for if you carry it in your hand luggage.
Remember to take enough medication to last the duration of your holiday and make a note of what you are taking, and the doses, in case you lose them.
In some instances you may not be allowed to take certain medications across a country’s border. To find out what medication you can take with you, contact the country’s embassy or high commission.
How do I find travel insurance for Crohn’s disease?
To find the cover you need at the most competitive price try running quotes using a travel insurance comparison tool such as ours.
Policies including £3,000 for trip cancellation and a relatively generous £10 million for medical costs for seven days in Spain, starting from £35.
This is based on a 30-year-old traveler who has been prescribed medication or attended a medical facility in the last two years due to their Crohn’s disease, and has experienced two to four bowel obstructions in the last five years, the last one being one to three years ago.
If a traveler has additionally had two or more operations to treat their condition within the last five years, they can expect to pay around £10 more for the same level of cover.
This compares to a starting cost of £8 for a traveler without Crohn’s disease.
EHICs and GHICs
It’s important to take a European Health Insurance Card (EHIC) or its replacement, the UK Global Health Insurance Card (GHIC) with you if you are traveling to a country in the EU.
These cards grant the carrier access to state medical treatment on the same terms as a local in the country in question.
They are not a replacement for travel insurance as they do not cover costs for private treatment or repatriation, for example. However, some travel insurers will waive any excess charges on policies where a traveler has used such a card.
EHICs last for five years from the date of issue. You can obtain a GHIC free of charge from the NHS.
What else will my travel insurance policy cover?
In addition to cover for emergency medical costs, trip cancellation and lost or stolen baggage, many policies also offer other types of cover, including for travel delays or missed flights, if the cause was outside your control.
Cover for you and your equipment, if you’re planning to take part in sports or other activities, may be included as standard or at an additional cost.


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Had a nice day out with my dad, kept it light (or so we thought) doing standard routes up Challenger, then to KC via avenue, and then back and down. But I'm here to talk about the shit show that is the north ridge up Challenger. Like many, I've been seeing a lot of commentary on it, but would like to emphasize the current state of conditions for the sake of public servitude. After all, we live in a society.
I found this stretch on the North Ridge (for clarity, right as you leave the lake and begin the altitude schlepping), to be my least enjoyable 14er experience in recent memory. From a choss, slippery, and danger perspective (missile city), I honestly found the last ~600 feet to gain the ridge sketchier at times than ridge-gains like Broken Hand Pass and Little Bear up to ridge from Lake Como. Feel free to debate me and I'm not trying to be a 14er hardo here, but the point I'm making is don't look at this and think "oh Class 2, right on, I'll rip right up that with my 60 year old dad". Wrong. I'm really not trying to be dramatic, but what inspired me to write this post was a large missile came down from above on us with some SERIOUS speed, thankfully it was about ~25 yards to our climbers left, but if this thing caught someone it'd be instant bye bye. Again, I'm not trying to be dramatic, but as a disclaimer I've been smoked by couloir rock fall before and landed in the ER, so maybe I have a PTSD-driven bias that's an outlier to a statistically relevant reality. But whatever, take my commentary and decide what you wish.
Also, it seems like a lot more people these days are going north ridge up Kit and then down this shit on Challenger. That's awesome, super sick climb, but please pay attention to these posts b/c it's even worse going down. Point of this whole post is just keep your wits about you out there b/c it's a narsty, unpleasant climb in its current state. Late summer monsoons will only make it worse.


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Harrison Hills ATV Trail
Over 50 miles of state-funded summer trails on county land. Hundreds of miles of ATV routes in five townships that surround the Harrison Hills. We also have access into and out of the village of Gleason on the south end of our trail system. Connects with the Parrish Highlands Trail in neighboring Langlade County.
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Responding to a draft version of an upcoming IPCC report on climate change mitigation obtained and reported on by Reuters on Wednesday, former US vice president and well known climate change activist Al Gore says that any plans to execute "geoengineered" solutions to global warming are "insane, utterly mad and delusional in the extreme."
"We are already engaged in a planet-wide experiment with consequences we can already tell are unpleasant for the future of humanity. So the hubris involved in thinking we can come up with a second planet-wide experiment that would exactly counteract the first experiment is delusional in the extreme." –Al Gore
Though the draft IPCC report, as presented by Reuters, does not seem to advocate strongly for some of the most outrageous proposed schemes, the report does say that the inability of the world's governments to reduce emissions will necessitate more aggressive and pro-active measures in the future to avoid the global temperature increases the scientists are now predicting.
As the Guardian's Suzanne Goldenberg reports:
The UN climate panel, in the next edition of its blockbuster reports, will warn that governments might have to extract vast amounts of greenhouses gases from the air by 2100 to limit climate change, according to a draft copy of the report seen by Reuters.
But the former vice president of the US said that searches for an instant solution, which he said were born of desperation, were misguided and could lead to an even bigger catastrophe.
"The idea that we can put a different form of pollution into the atmosphere to cancel out the effects of global warming pollution is utterly insane," he told a conference call for South African reporters.
He added: "The fact that some scientists who should know better are actually engaged in serious discussion of those alternatives is a mark of how desperate some of them are feeling due to the paralysis in the global political system."
Long a fixation for some, a multitude of geoengineering schemes have been floated based on the idea that if human interference (ie. widespread industrial and carbon pollution) has caused the planet to warm, some kind of additional human interference with nature can reverse the trend.
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Just last week, as Common Dreams reported, a study by University of Reading researchers showed that a plan to employ "stratospheric aerosols" to block solar heat could bring a "new unintended side-effect over a large part of the planet" that could be as bad as the effects of rising CO2.
And as journalist and climate activist Naomi Klein articulated last year, in an interview with Earth Island Journal, geoengineering is the "ultimate expression of a desire to avoid doing the hard work of reducing emissions, and I think that’s the appeal of it. I think we will see this trajectory the more and more climate change becomes impossible to deny. A lot of people will skip right to geoengineering. The appeal of geoengineering is that it doesn’t threaten our worldview. It leaves us in a dominant position. It says that there is an escape hatch."
"If we start tinkering with the earth’s thermostat — deliberately turning our oceans murky green to soak up carbon and bleaching the skies hazy white to deflect the sun — we take our influence to a new level." –Naomi Klein
Of course, a distinction is necessary between sustainable mitigation plans, emission reductions and large scale geoengineering projects. As nearly all experts agree, there will be significant technological and scientific solutions necessary to help lessen (if not solve) the destructive impacts of global warming but what Gore and Klein are specifically rejecting are large scale projects like seeding the oceans or the clouds with chemicals in vain attempts to reverse the damage wrought by the industrial age.
"The most discussed so-called geo-engineering proposals – like putting sulphur dioxide in the atmosphere to reflect incoming sunlight – that's just insane," said Gore in the conference call. "Let's just describe that clearly – it is utterly mad."
He added: "We are already engaged in a planet-wide experiment with consequences we can already tell are unpleasant for the future of humanity. So the hubris involved in thinking we can come up with a second planet-wide experiment that would exactly counteract the first experiment is delusional in the extreme."
And as Klein wrote in the New York Times in 2012:
The scariest thing about this proposition is that models suggest that many of the people who could well be most harmed by these technologies are already disproportionately vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Imagine this: North America decides to send sulfur into the stratosphere to reduce the intensity of the sun, in the hopes of saving its corn crops — despite the real possibility of triggering droughts in Asia and Africa. In short, geoengineering would give us (or some of us) the power to exile huge swaths of humanity to sacrifice zones with a virtual flip of the switch.
The geopolitical ramifications are chilling. Climate change is already making it hard to know whether events previously understood as “acts of God” (a freak heat wave in March or a Frankenstorm on Halloween) still belong in that category. But if we start tinkering with the earth’s thermostat — deliberately turning our oceans murky green to soak up carbon and bleaching the skies hazy white to deflect the sun — we take our influence to a new level. A drought in India will come to be seen — accurately or not — as a result of a conscious decision by engineers on the other side of the planet. What was once bad luck could come to be seen as a malevolent plot or an imperialist attack.

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I am having such a wonderful time at home on my free skip day, while my peers are safely attending school. I am thankful that everyone at school is safe and I am just as safe at home, and that I can do whatever I want, including playing Mario. Anyway, what’s up?
Bored at home
Dear Bored –
Nothing much. But maybe you should consider that the school board and superintendent deemed the school safe enough for attendance. Your fellow students felt comfortable enough to trust our school’s safety and pursue their education, and you should have done the same. It is not impressive or cool that you skipped school because your parents said you could. You should not brag and boast about the fun times you had while essentially skipping school. However, for those who legitimately feared for their safety, worry not. The police investigated and determined that our lives were safe. At the end of the day, for those who took advantage of a serious situation, shame on you. For those who feared for the lives of themselves and others, do not be frightened.


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(SNews) – Investigative reporter James O’Keefe confronted transgender Dylan Mulvaney in LA about the issue of male inmates being housed in women’s prisons.
However, rather than comment on the issue, Mulvaney ran away from O’Keefe and refused to respond.
“I’m James O’Keefe, with OMG News, outside the Four Seasons hotel in Beverley Hills where Dylan Mulvaney is inside the women’s restroom right now,” O’Keefe said.
“So I’m going to ask him for comment about our story regarding women being raped in prison by men claiming to be transgender.”
Mulvaney exited the women’s restroom and headed across the lobby of the Four Season.
He was then approached by O’Keefe who grilled him on the subject.
“Dylan, this is James O’Keefe, OMG,” he said, addressing Mulvaney.
“Women are being raped in a prison in Washington state by men claiming to be transgender.
“There’s footage of them talking about the rape.
“Do you have a comment on the story here, of the women being raped by the men claiming to be transgender?”
Mulvaney avoided O’Keefe, walking into an elevator.
“Please don’t come in the elevator with me,” Mulvaney said as a hotel staff member blocked the door.
“So we’re here with Dylan,” O’Keefe said.
“Haven’t had much Bud Light recently but we’re very interested in the women’s prison. Dylan?”
The elevator doors closed.
JUST NOW AT FOUR SEASONS IN LA.: James O’Keefe Questions @budlight’s Dylan Mulvaney on OMG Jailhouse footage showing women inmates testifying on being housed with male rapists claiming to be transgender.
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Also beware that there are 2 types of " plug and play wringing harnesses. You might be tempted into getting this one which simply taps into the brake and turn signals. Don't get it. Due to the increased load of the trailer turn signals, the flashers will not flash properly or at all due to the thermal/mechanical/electrical flasher relay. Same principle as LED turn signals but opposite.
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Instead you need the more complicated harness that has the relays in it. This is the factory method of adding trailer wiring
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International Journal of Navigation and Observation
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 356975, 15 pages
Performance of Deconvolution Methods in Estimating CBOC-Modulated Signals
1Departartment of Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, Tampere 33720, Finland
2Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Received 3 November 2010; Revised 8 March 2011; Accepted 11 April 2011
Academic Editor: Olivier Julien
Copyright © 2011 Danai Skournetou et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- G. McGraw and M. Braasch, “GNSS multipath mitigation using high resolution correlator concepts,” in Proceedings of the ION National Technical Meeting, pp. 333–342, San Diego, Calif, USA, January 1999.
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- D. Skournetou and E. S. Lohan, “Non-coherent multiple correlator delay structures and their tracking performance for Galileo signals,” in Proceedings of the European Navigation Conference in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ENC-GNSS '07), pp. 247–258, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007.
- E. S. Lohan, A. Lakhzouri, and M. Renfors, “Feedforward delay estimators in adverse multipath propagation for galileo and modernized GPS signals,” EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2006, Article ID 50971, 19 pages, 2006.
- M. Z. H. Bhuiyan, E. S. Lohan, and M. Renfors, “Peak tracking algorithm for Galileo-based positioning in multipath fading channels,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC '07), pp. 5927–5932, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 2007.
- D. Skournetou and E. S. Lohan, “Discontinuity-based code delay estimator for GNSS signals,” in Proceedings of the 4th Advanced Satellite Mobile Systems (ASMS '08), pp. 213–222, Bologna, Italy, August 2008.
- M. S. Braasch and A. J. van Dierendonck, “GPS receiver architectures and measurements,” Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 87, no. 1, pp. 48–64, 1999.
- S. K. Kalyanaraman, J. M. Kelly, M. S. Braasch, and J. Kacirek, “Influence of GPS code tracking on carrier-phase multipath performance,” in Proceeding of the IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings, pp. 1677–1686, March 2004.
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- L. Garin and J. Rousseau, “Enhanced strobe correlator multipath rejection for code and carrier,” in Proceedings of the 10th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of the Institute of Navigation (ION-GPS '97), pp. 559–568, Kansas City, Mo, USA, September 1997.
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- “Galileo Open Service signal in space interface control document OS SIS ICS,” September 2010, http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/satnav/galileo/open-service/index_en.htm.
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- M. Fantino, P. Mulassano, F. Dovis, and L. Lo Presti, “Performance of the proposed galileo CBOC modulation in heavy multipath environment,” Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 323–339, 2008.
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Q2: Who does net neutrality benefit?
Q3: How do you think the appeal of net neutrality would affect you?
“If You Don’t Understand Net Neutrality, This Burger King Ad Could Help” (Simplemost, January 2018)
“7 Reasons Net Neutrality is Idiotic” (Dailywire, July 2017)
“Questions and Answers on ‘Net Neutrality’” (phys.org, December 2017)
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pocket magnifying glass, a mummified falcon from Egypt, a hand-scissored paper silhouette. Several used tennis rackets, an antique blanket chest, an old book of didactic tales for children. If novels were attics, ''The Strength of the Sun'' would be a small but overstuffed one, the sort of place you could spend hours browsing in.
But there's no superfluous junk moldering under the eaves of Catherine Chidgey's fascinating second novel. Every one of the objects she has gathered plays a role in her intricate narrative plan, mediating between past and present, between persons lost and persons left behind. A miscellaneous collection it may be, but in the assured hands of this New Zealand writer (whose first novel, ''In a Fishbone Church,'' won a Commonwealth Writer's Prize), it manages to suggest an entire world.
Chidgey begins with two widely separated incidents occurring on the same day in 1988. In northern New Zealand, a 15-year-old girl named Laura Pearse sets out alone in her rusted Mini to watch a solar eclipse from a nearby hillside. She never returns home. Meanwhile, after watching the same eclipse on television in England, Patrick Mercer, a curator of rare manuscripts, decides to leave the wife he has clearly tired of. While both of these incidents are disappearing acts of a sort -- the one mysterious and unusual, the other ordinary to the point of banality -- they seem to have little else in common. But there are subtle, serpentine connections between them, and the tracing of those connections is the substance of Chidgey's novel.
The first link in the chain of association doesn't emerge until 11 years after the eclipse, when Colette Hawkins, a young woman living in New Zealand, starts receiving form letters from a group in England called the Friends of Patrick Mercer. Patrick, it seems, has fallen into a coma after a serious car accident. His ''friends,'' finding Colette's name in his address book, have taken it upon themselves to send her updates on his condition and solicit letters that can be read aloud to Patrick in the hospital. It's not an unreasonable request, and Colette would be more than willing to oblige, except for one small problem -- she has no recollection of ever meeting an Englishman named Patrick Mercer.
The form letters, moreover, begin to arrive just as Colette is leaving her insufferable mother (escape is a persistent theme in the novel) to go to college in another part of the country. Distracted by her move but intrigued by this unknown Englishman, she arranges to have future letters forwarded to her, then sets off for a new life away from home. As her first act of independence, she finds a room to rent -- in a house that just happens to be owned by Malcolm and Ruth Pearse, the parents of the girl who disappeared 11 years earlier.
To summarize any more of the plot of ''The Strength of the Sun'' would do the book an injustice. Chidgey's story doesn't proceed along the inexorable dramatic line of traditional missing-person novels. And while the book does have its share of suspense (the paired mysteries of Laura's disappearance and the unexplained letters provide plenty of narrative tension), Chidgey's concerns go beyond the simple unraveling of plot convolutions. Instead, she seems most interested in exploring the whole notion of connectedness, the ways in which our words and possessions serve as links between us, makeshift lifelines in a reality where human attachments are constantly eroded by the forces of loss and misunderstanding, by the passage of time.
Objects and documents are never just stage props in this novel. They function more like forensic evidence, markers left behind by the dead, the lost or the emotionally absent as proof of their existence. These markers might be as mundane as the everyday items belonging to a missing girl: ''Laura had left traces of herself, things useless to all intents and purposes, and of no interest to the police or to the careful searchers. She'd left her tennis rackets, her hair clips, her little bottles of nail polish stored in the fridge to keep them liquid. She'd left earrings, school blouses, half a bag of toffees, three rented movies.'' Those movies aren't returned by Laura's mother until they are long overdue, and for a good reason: Ruth Pearse ''hadn't forgotten about the tapes. On the contrary, she'd kept them stacked on top of the television, in full view, for when Laura returned home and flopped into her armchair and aimed the remote control.''
But the novel abounds with other, more calculated mementos: Patrick's most valued possession, for instance, is an 800-year-old instruction manual outlining the mechanics of manuscript illumination -- one 12th-century monk's attempt to provide a lasting monument to his craft. Patrick's distant and unsympathetic father leaves behind an assortment of unopened Meccano construction kits; the toys are his idea of a savvy financial investment (they appreciate in value when left sealed in their boxes) but also a perfect symbol of the enormous missed opportunity that was his life. And in one of the novel's more elegant twists, Patrick's mother defiantly reshapes this legacy into one of her own: after her death, Patrick finds in her toolshed a colossal sailing ship model constructed from parts of her dead husband's now-opened Meccano sets, a posthumous expression of solidarity with the son she could never defend while her husband was alive.
It's difficult to articulate exactly what gives this novel its unassuming power. Chidgey's characters aren't particularly vivid, often failing to rise above their own dogged conventionality. And the plot, while adeptly constructed, offers surprises that are more quietly satisfying than earthshaking. Instead, it's the author's shrewd manipulation of imagery that seems to make the novel work.
As in a piece of music, motifs keep resurfacing, slightly transformed each time (like the sun of the book's title, whose rays appear at different points either eclipsed by the moon or else intensified by the lens of a magnifying glass, and to disastrous effect in both cases). In combination, the disparate elements of Chidgey's novel create a dense and multifaceted whole, an arresting portrait of a world where the past never disappears entirely, but keeps returning to us -- however imperfectly -- in countless small and unexpected ways.
Gary Krist's new novel, ''Extravagance,'' will be published later this year.


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In early 2011, the rumors were hard to ignore and it seemed inevitable that Google was going to get into the mobile payments business. It was one year ago that we got all the details. Google announced Google Wallet with much fanfare, but right from the start things looked bleak; problems included limited device and card support, a slow city-by-city rollout, and carrier tie-ins.What followed was essentially a comedy of errors as Google seemed alternatively disinterested and desperate to get Wallet off the ground. Why has it gone so badly, and is there any chance of a turn around? Let’s take a long, hard look at Google’s foray into mobile payments to find out.
The May announcement was really the high point for Google Wallet. It seemed like a cool idea, and the free $10 credit was nothing to sneeze at. The first hints of problems arose when the app simply failed to appear. Other than a limited beta test, it took months for users to get access to Wallet.When Wallet finally showed itself in September, it was restricted to a single phone: the Nexus S 4G on Sprint. This was a fine device, but it never sold particularly well -- it was based on a six month old design when it came out. None of the unlocked GSM Nexus S versions were permitted to access the Wallet app.
It was just a few months later when the Verizon Galaxy Nexus brought Android 4.0 the the US, but something was amiss(Opens in a new window). Google had failed to insist that Verizon give the new Nexus access to Google Wallet. So the flagship Android device in the US was lacking Google’s contactless payment solution. It truly painted Google as uninterested in Wallet, or unable to deal with the hurdles that were presented.
It’s unclear why Google wouldn’t have jumped at the chance to get Wallet on the Galaxy Nexus -- it’s not like there were many other phones compatible with the service. Google Wallet relies on near field communication (NFC) chips. In late 2011, almost no phones had NFC. There were the Nexus phones and a few variants of the Samsung Galaxy S2, but that was it. Google’s entire strategy for breaking into payments relied on NFC, and it was unable to convince its OEM partners to put out phones with the technology.
Perhaps, in some ways, it was a good thing that Wallet didn’t take off in late 2011. If it had, there would have been many more users to be outraged about the security holes. The modding community found two exploits in Google Wallet that could allow someone to steal your money. The first hack relied on a user being rooted. An attacker could copy important Wallet files from a phone, then brute-force crack the passcode, which was a simple 4-digit number.
The second hack was easier, and that made it more startling that Google missed it. All you needed to do was clear the data from the Wallet app, choose a new PIN, and you had access to whatever ballance was on the Google prepaid card beforehand. It took Google weeks to work out a solution, and in the interim it disabled all new prepaid cards. It was bad PR, bad engineering, and bad customer service.
For all these reasons, Google Wallet isn’t taking off, and Sprint is still the only carrier with official Wallet phones. Google Wallet is currently a failure almost on the level of Buzz or Wave, and Google needs to pivot fast.
Next page: Why Wallet failed and how to make it work...
Why is this happening?
If the Wallet debacle has taught us anything, it’s that Google has very little power over how Android works at the consumer end. Google codes Android, creates great backend services, and manages the Play Store. But they don’t make or sell the phones, and that’s why Wallet is failing.
Google needs OEMs to design devices, and carriers to market and sell them. Before Google Wallet was announced, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon all signed on to work with an NFC payment system called Isis. The carriers didn’t need Google, so what little leverage the search giant had with them was gone.Google’s business is search and the ads that go along with that. Android, in addition to being the dominant mobile operating system, is a platform for delivering ads. Google needs Android to exist for future advertising revenue security. Google doesn’t have the clout to force OEMs to make NFC phones, or to make carriers allow an app on their networks. To do so could endanger Android’s favored status among Google’s partners.
NFC payments seem like such a good idea in the abstract, and it has been a success in Japan. Why not here? Much of this goes back to the poor state of public transit in the US. Contactless payments using Japan’s FeliCa system gained popularity when it was used first used for train and subway tickets.Millions of Japanese consumers make use of public transit, and thus were acclimated to using NFC in phones and other devices. In the US, we don’t really have this kind of driving force behind the new contactless systems, and you can’t really blame Google for that.
How to fix it
It might not be too late to save Wallet, but Google has to work fast. Google I/O is coming up in a few weeks, and there is no better time to announce how it will fix Wallet. Waiting any longer is foolhardy in the extreme. Apple will be refreshing the iPhone before long, and Google could be in a world of trouble if that device has NFC and Apple decides to back a different payment system.
Before it can hope to stand up to any challenger, Google needs to fix the phone situation so people can actually use Wallet. A few weeks ago, Google sent out an email notification that there were four new Google Wallet phones, bringing the total to just six if you count the older ones. It’s telling that three of the four are on Sprint, and the other is an unlocked device.
Google should stop asking for permission to load its apps on phones, because it’s never going to get it with these entrenched interests. If a phone has an NFC chip, the Wallet app should show up in the Play Store. Like they say, it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than permission. Would Verizon or T-Mobile wrestle Google Wallet away from its customers after the fact? Probably not.While Google can’t make an OEM build phones with NFC, it can provide incentives. Maybe NFC phones could get additional ads in the Play Store to promote the service, or they could be featured prominently in emails like that sad 4-phone announcement above. NFC-equipped phones could also be added to the Google Play phone store with the lonely unlocked Galaxy Nexus.
Even if Google can manage to get Google Wallet on more phones, how can it make people use it? Like so much else in life, the answer is probably money. Some Sprint phones are now coming with a total of $50 in prepaid Google Wallet money. That’s a start, but the bonus should be expanded to anyone that uses Wallet. It's not like Google is hurting for cash.
There should also be more credit card support, and maybe that will require more payouts. The MasterCard tie-in was useful to get access to the PayPass readers, but Citi cards only? That won’t do. If more types of cards were compatible, that could only improve matters.It is up to Google to decide if it wants to be in the payments business. Google has had the playing field almost entirely to itself for a year. Isis has yet to launch, Apple is silent, and PayPal is actively discouraging the use of NFC. This is the time for Google to use its lead and reform Wallet into something people will be able to use. If not, Google will have somehow managed to lose to competitors that aren’t even in the market yet.


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Vegan, kosher and non-GMO. When you see that on a product label, your reaction might be “that’s nice.” You’re missing a bet, however, if you don’t consider how these ingredients (or lack of certain ingredients) can make a difference to your clients. There may be a new audience out there that you’re missing by not offering or recommending vegan, kosher and non-GMO products.
Vegan is a more restrictive vegetarian way of eating that avoids animal proteins and fats in all forms, including fish and poultry, eggs, milk and other dairy products. Vegans typically don’t use animal products either, such as leather, fur or wool or ingredients in supplements that are derived from animals, such as gelatin (made from meat) and other animal-derived ingredients. Approximately half of the 16 million vegetarians in the U.S. are vegans.
Kosher is food that is prepared, cooked, and sold according to Jewish religious requirements and laws. This refers to how animals are handled and prepped before consuming. This also includes what foods can be mixed and how to cook according to Jewish religious principles. Approximately 21 percent of the 5.3 million Jews in America keep kosher.
GMOs, genetically modified organisms, are created in a laboratory by inserting genes from one plant or animal into another. GMO salmon is one of the latest foods – genes from eels are implanted into salmon to increase growth rates. GMOs are very controversial, however, and research indicates there may be health problems over the long term from eating GMO foods. The only kosher certifying agency for organic foods recently announced that non-GMO ingredients would not be allowed in kosher foods. This is related to concerns that GMOs increase the risk of allergies and other health problems.
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