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Mexican Solidarity: Citizen Participation and Volunteering. Edited by Jacqueline Butcher. Springer, (forthcoming December 2009). 300 pages. Cost: US $129. To order:http://www.springer.com.
This comprehensive volume presents research on Mexican practices of solidarity where citizens were engaged in working towards helping others voluntarily. It set out to investigate the nature and quality of the work and time that volunteers give towards obtaining the common good, in a country where the awareness of the importance of social capital needs to be reinforced for the development of democracy.
The purpose of this research was not only to present numbers, facts, and data on a national scale but also to explore the depths of citizen participation in the everyday lives and activities of the Mexican population. Mexico's Solidarity provides a strong contribution by finding ways to promote and maintain social cohesion through the best volunteer practices. The techniques and findings of this case study on Mexico provide a valuable contribution to the Nonprofit and Third Sector research internationally.
Charity in Islamic Societies. By Amy Singer. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 264 pages. Cost: Hardback £ 48, US$88.99; Paperback £16.99, US $29.99. To order: http://www.cambridge.org/us/Muslim beliefs have inspired charitable giving for over fourteen centuries, yet Islamic history has rarely been examined from this perspective. In Charity in Islamic Societies, Amy Singer explains the basic concepts and institutions of Muslim charity, including the obligation to give on an annual basis. Charitable endowments shaped Muslim societies and cultures in every era. This book demonstrates how historical circumstances, social status, gender, age and other factors interacted with religious ideals to create a rich variety of charitable practices, from the beginnings of Islam to the present day. Using written texts, buildings, images and objects to anchor the discussions in each chapter, the author explores the motivations for charity, its impact on the rich and the poor, and the politicisation of charity.
The Worth of the Social Economy: An International Perspective. Edited by Marie J. Bouchard. Bruxelles: Peter Lang Editorial Group, 2009. 268 pages. Cost: C36.20 , £29,60, US $50.95
To order: www.peterlang.com
What is the worth of the social economy? What worth does the social economy produce? Co-operatives, not-for-profit and mutual benefits organizations as well as foundations share common values that color the way they perform and how they manage to do so. Yet, little is known about how the social economy is actually being evaluated, and how evaluation may reinforce or weaken this specificity. This book fills a gap in the literature about the social economy. It seeks to make a critical assessment of the interests to which the social economy of today must cater and for which questions of evaluation appear to be the most telling.
A first set of contributions is made up of four theoretical papers inspired by various disciplinary fields: management, economy, sociology, philosophy. A second set of contributions is composed of seven national analyses of how the social economy is evaluated in different institutional contexts: France, Québec (Canada), United Kingdom, United States, Brazil, Portugal and Japan. The conclusion of the book summarizes the findings of this study and formulates some questions addressed to policy designers, evaluation specialists and social economy actors.
New publications from the UK Third Sector Research Centre
The Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) conducts research into a range of issues surrounding the sector in the UK. Launched in 2008, the Centre has now published a series of papers, some of which are especially relevant for the sector internationally. These include a substantial amount of research on Social Enterprise – exploring how this growing subsector addresses issues such as homelessness, the delivery of housing services, or environmental concerns. A newly released paper also begins to explore the little talked about topic of failure within social enterprises.
Research is also available on 'below the radar' organisations – small, community based organisations that often don't appear on formal registers. The Centre is attempting to map some of this large and diverse subsector, and is exploring the implications this may have for policy makers.
Research teams at the Centre are also focusing on how the third sector can be defined, measured and evaluated. The importance of third sector organisations and the role they play – whether in service delivery, societal development or community well-being – rests on a belief in the positive contribution they make to society. Recently published papers explore the concept of 'value' in the sector and ask how we can appropriately measure its impact.
All research papers are available here. (http://www.tsrc.ac.uk/Publications/tabid/500/Default.aspx)
Policy Initiatives towards the Third Sector in International Sector. Edited by Benjamin Gidron and Michal Bar. Springer, (forthcoming December 2009). 215 pages. Cost: US $129. To order: http://www.springer.com.
The editors of this volume offer a new way to address the changing reality of the third sector. Policy Initiatives provides information about this complex process involving different fields of practice, different levels of government, and different types of third sector organizations. Contributions from eight countries that have recently enacted policy initiatives towards the third sector include: UK, Canada, Hungary, India, Germany, Ireland, Israel and Japan, and review the current policy, enacting new laws, supervisory mechanisms, and modes of funding.
The thorough analysis in this volume will provide a new understanding of the policy initiatives in the eight countries studied, as well as guiding principles for other countries that may implement such initiatives in the future. The resulting work will give researchers in sociology, social work, third sector research, and international economics a new framework for understanding the Third Sector: its role in society, and its relationships with government, the market, and the citizens of the country.
The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society: A Global Perspective. By Jason Powell and Jon Hedricks. Springer, 2009. 376 pages. Cost: US $129. To order: http://www.springer.com.
In recent years, major social forces such as: aging populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence social policy at a national and local level. Among the many ramifications of these changes is that globalizing influences may hinder the ability of individual nation-states to effect policies that are beneficial to them on a local level.
The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society is divided into two major sections: the first draws from a number of leading social welfare researchers from diverse countries who point to the nation-state as case studies; highlighting how it goes about establishing and revising social welfare provisions. The second portion of the volume then moves to a more global perspective in its analysis and questioning of the impact of globalization on citizenship, aging and marketization.
Understanding the Social Economy: A Canadian Perspective. By Jack Quarter, Laurie Mook and Ann Armstrong. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (forthcoming November 2009). 344 pages. Paper: $35.00; Discounted Price: $28.00. To order: www.utpress.utoronto.ca
In Understanding the Social Economy, Jack Quarter, Laurie Mook and Ann Armstrong integrate a wide array of organizations founded upon a social mission – social enterprises, nonprofits, co-operatives, credit unions, and community development associations – under the rubric of the 'social economy.' This framework facilitates a comprehensive study of Canada's social sector, an area often neglected in the business curricula despite the important role that these organizations play in Canada's economy.
Invaluable for business programs that address issues such as community economic development, co-operatives, and nonprofit studies and management, Understanding the Social Economy presents a unique set of case studies as well as chapters on organizational design and governance, finance and accounting, and accountability. The examples provide much needed context for students and allow for an original and in-depth examination of the relationships between Canada's social infrastructure and the public and private sectors. With this work, Quarter, Mook and Armstrong illuminate a neglected facet of business studies to further our understanding of the Canadian economy.
Globalization, Philanthropy, and Civil Society: Projecting Institutional Logics Abroad. Edited by David C. Hammack and Steven Heydemann. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. 320 pages. Cost: $45.00. To order: www.iupress.indiana.edu
This groundbreaking volume reflects pioneering efforts to study the global movement of ideas and institutions, and highlights a wide range of research, paying close attention to the realities of particular situations and to current thinking about general processes.
The essays in this book reflect pioneering efforts to study the global movement of ideas and institutions. They deal with topics of significant contemporary importance: initiatives to address the AIDS epidemic in East Africa; to protect the peoples and ecosystems of the Amazon; to advance the "truth and reconciliation" process in South Africa and in other areas of great conflict; to promote "civil society" in Eastern Europe and Central Asia; to advocate for environmental protection in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and Japan; and to spread Rotary Clubs and encourage "social entrepreneurship" throughout the world.
Regulation of the Voluntary Sector: Freedom and Security in an Era of Uncertainty. By Mark Sidel. London, UK: Routledge-Cavendish, (forthcoming August 2009). 144 pages. Cost: paperback US $37.95. Order: www.routledge.com
Have we gone too far in enacting laws, promulgating regulations and announcing policies that threaten freedom of association, either now or 'in waiting' for the future?
Regulation on the Voluntary Sector focuses on the legal and political environment for civil society in an era in which counter-terrorism policy and law have challenged civil society and civil liberties in a number of countries. The ways in which counter-terrorism law and policy affect civil society can and do differ dramatically by country and region. Through the lens of developments since September 11th, Mark Sidel provides the first comparative analysis of state responses to voluntary sector activity. Comparing the situations in the UK and the US, as well as Australia, Canada, India and within the European Union, he surveys the increasing efforts to delimit and restrict voluntary sector activities – such as fundraising and grant-making—as well as opposition to them.
Buying Respectability. Philanthropy and Urban Society in Transnational Perspective, 1840s to 1930s. By Thomas Adam. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2009. 256 pages. Cloth: $39.95. To order: www.iupress.indiana.edu
In 19th-century Leipzig, Toronto, New York, and Boston, a newly emergent group of industrialists and entrepreneurs entered into competition with older established elite groups for social recognition as well as cultural and political leadership. The competition was played out on the field of philanthropy, with the North American community gathering ideas from Europe about the establishment of cultural and public institutions. For example, to secure financing for their new museum, the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art organized its membership and fundraising on the model of German art museums. The process of cultural borrowing and intercultural transfer shaped urban landscapes with the building of new libraries, museums, and social housing projects. An important contribution to the field of transnational history, this book establishes philanthropy as a prime example of the conversion of economic resources into social and cultural capital.
Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates -- Current Outlook (2009 edition). By Steven Lawrence and Reina Mukai. 13 pages. New York, NY: Foundation Center, 2009. Download free of charge:www.foundationcenter.org/GainKnowledge
In the midst of a deepening economic crisis, the more than 75,000 U.S. grantmaking foundations nevertheless increased their giving 2.8 percent in 2008 to an estimated $45.6 billion, according to Foundation Growth and Giving Estimates: Current Outlook (2009 Edition).
Although foundation giving grew modestly in 2008, it did not grow as much as had been expected due to the extreme nature of the current economic downturn. Just under a third (29 percent) of the more than 1,200 foundations that responded to the Foundation Center's annual "Foundation Giving Forecast Survey" a year ago — before the economic crisis took hold — said they expected to reduce their giving in 2008. But according to findings from the latest survey conducted in early 2009, close to half of the top U.S. funders (47 percent) actually reduced their giving in 2008.
Findings from the Foundation Center's latest survey suggest that in 2009 foundation giving will decrease in the range of the high single digits to low double digits, even though estimated foundation assets declined a far greater 21.9 percent in 2008. Most respondents (67.1 percent) say they expect to reduce their 2009 giving to at least some extent, with community foundations being most likely to anticipate a decrease. Given the continuing instability in the economy and stock market, it is also likely that foundation giving will decline further in 2010.
Other key estimates for 2008 giving include:
• Independent and family foundations — which represent close to nine out of 10 foundations — increased their giving 2.5 percent to $33 billion in 2008.
• Corporate foundation giving held steady at $4.4 billion in 2008.
• Community foundation giving rose 6.7 percent to $4.6 billion in 2008, surpassing corporate foundations for the first time.
The complete report, part of the annual Foundations Today Series on foundation growth and giving, can be accessed at no charge at the Gain Knowledge area of the Foundation Center's web site.
The Right to Information: A Global Perspective. By Prof. KM Shrivastava. New Delhi, India: Lancer Publishers, 2009. Hardcover. 184 pages. Cost: Hardcover, US $20.00. To order: www.lancerpublishers.com.
This book will be the first comprehensive book on the right to information, which is experiencing increasing global importance.
The right to information (or freedom of information) has emerged as a key component in credible democratic governance and is vital for promoting 'open governance' and the accountability of public decision makers. In addition, it strengthens transparency, participation and the rule of law. The right to information is not only fundamental for an open and democratic society, but is a key weapon in the fight against poverty and corruption leading to accelerating human development.
More than 80 countries already have an FOI/RTI law and others are proceeding towards it. The Right to Information looks at the subject from a global perspective and attempts to fill the voids left by country-specific manuals and studies.
Giving Circles. Philanthropy, Voluntary Association, and Democracy. By Angela M. Eikenberry. Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009. 192 pages. Cost: Paperback: $21.95; Cloth: $55.00. To order: www.iupress.indiana.edu
In the contemporary United States, third parties are being relied upon to deliver social services that were once chiefly the responsibility of government. Among the new philanthropic associations that have arisen in this environment are voluntary groups known as giving circles. Their purpose is to bring people together to pool resources and then collectively decide how to distribute them. Giving circles have been seen as the most democratic of philanthropic mechanisms, working to meet social needs and solve community problems, while enhancing the civic education and participation of their members. Angela M. Eikenberry examines this new phenomenon and considers what role voluntary associations and philanthropy can or should play in a democratic society.
Aid from International NGOs. Blind Spots on the AID Allocation Map. By Dirk-Jan Koch. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009. Hardcover. 240 pp. Cost: US$150.00. To order:http://www.routledgeeconomics.com/
International NGOs are increasingly important players within the new aid architecture but their geographic choices remain uncharted territory. This book focuses on patterns of development assistance, mapping, while analyzing and assessing the country choices of the largest international NGOs. Koch's approach is interdisciplinary and uses qualitative, quantitative and experimental methods to provide a clear insight in the determinants of country choices of international NGOs.
The book aims to discover the country choices of international NGOs, how they are determined and how they could be improved. This work, which uses a dataset created specifically for the research, comes to the conclusion that international NGOs do not target the poorest and most difficult countries. They are shown to be focusing mostly on those countries where their back donors are active. Additionally, it was discovered that they tend to cluster their activities, for example, international NGOs also have their donor darlings and their donor orphans. Their clustering is explained by adapting theories that explain concentration in for-profit actors to the non-profit context.
The book is the first on the geographic choices of international NGOs, and is therefore of considerable academic interest, especially for those focusing on development aid and third sector research. Furthermore, the book provides specific policy suggestions for more thought-out geographic decisions of international NGOs and their back donors.
Cooperative Challenges. Food, Credit, Democracy and Development. By Jean-François Draperi, Editor, in collaboration with Jesse Bryant, Jordane Legleye, Sylvie Mosser and Caroline Naett. Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009. Collection: Cahiers de l'économie sociale. 530 pp. Cost: 30. To order: http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp
Cooperatives often lead the way with innovations and open new paths abandoned by government, with or without public funding. The evolution of cooperatives is, however, complex, as they have had to grapple with powerful international regulations that sometimes ignore or hamper them. Simultaneously, civil society, largely a victim of a financial capitalism that produces social exclusion, economic inequality and environmental disasters, expects alternative solutions from the social economy and particularly from the cooperative movement.
The question that arises is: Are cooperatives capable of sparking different demands than those that the capitalist economy creates? Transforming society's demands – in terms of the standards of production and consumption, the relation to credit, the development model and its oversight and goals – is probably the most important challenge that society has to tackle today if we hope to avert the foretold environmental and social catastrophe.
This book is a collection of research papers that were presented at the 22nd International Research Conference of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA). This conference was jointly organized on 19-22 October 2006 in Dourdan (France) by the research committee of the ICA, the Groupement national de la coopération (GNC), the Centre d'économie sociale travail et société at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (CESTES/Cnam, Paris) and Recma (Revue internationale de l'économie sociale).
The UK Civil Society Almanac 2009. By David Kane, Jenny Clark, Sarah Les-niewski, Jenny Wilton, Belinda Pratten and Karl Wilding. London, 2009. Paperback. 165 pp. £125.
To order: http://www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/shoppingbasket/
The 2009 edition of the Civil Society Almanac aims to provide a single overview of the size, scope and dynamics of the groups, societies and organisations that comprise civil society. This is the second edition of the Almanac to include figures on the wider civil society, in addition to the usual core of the voluntary and community sector and uses data provided by GuideStar Data Services to compile the analysis of general charities.
This year's figures for the voluntary and community sector explore:
• income type - earned, voluntary, investment
• income source - government (local, central,
European), lottery, individuals, voluntary sector
• characteristics of sub-sectors
• headline figures for the regions
• data on expenditure and assets.
The Almanac also includes:
• a summary of the UK Giving report
• a chapter on volunteering (kindly written by
colleagues at the Institute for Volunteering Research)
• analysis of the workforce based on Labour Force
• a look ahead at the prospects for the voluntary and
community sector in the recession
The Almanac again looks at other parts of civil
society, including analysis of:
• housing associations (thanks to the National
Housing Federation)
• co-operatives (thanks to Co-operatives UK)
• universities (thanks to the Higher Education
Statistics Agency)
• political parties
• trade unions (thanks to the Certification Office)


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Council tax letters a scam say police
POLICE are warning residents to be on the look out for a possible scam operating in Calderdale.
Some householders have received letters from a company claiming to operate in the Bradford area.
The letter asks for address details and signatures and claims to provide a service to submit applications to the Valuation Office Agency which deals with council tax valuations.
Sgt Chris Norbury, from the Upper Valley Neighbourhood Policing Team, said: "If you receive something like this through the post which you weren't expecting then be on your guard. If you are suspicious then simply ignore it."
Tim Eden, director of council tax at the Valuation Office Agency, said: "We have become aware of a number of scams against council tax payers in recent months. People are being promised a council tax rebate claiming that their property was in the wrong band.
"If anyone has reason to believe their council tax band is wrong, they should contact the VOA directly where we will deal with their inquiries.
"This service is free. People should be careful if asked for an up-front fee by anyone, as this could end up being a scam."
Rude Kirklees man calls Dewsbury woman a 'joke' after delay in delivering food parcel
DewsburyTanisha Bramwell was stunned by the X-rated messages sent by one of her regular clients in Kirklees
Sheffield United FCSheffield United stance on recalling Luke Freeman from Nottingham Forest in JanuaryThe midfielder is on loan at the City Ground and the Championship outfit has an option for making the move permanent at the end of the season
Live snow weather updates for Huddersfield, Leeds, Sheffield and North Yorkshire with yellow warning for snow and ice
SnowDrivers have been warned to expect delays this morning
Tributes to Sheffield 'cheeky chappy' Paul Ali who tragically died after being hit by ambulance on 999 call
SheffieldPaul Ali, 57, died after being knocked down by an ambulance in Burngreave Road, Sheffield

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The island of Naga or Nagadeepa (Nainathivu) which became sacred with the arrival of Lord Buddha glittered with Poson illuminations on the full moon day (15) exclusively created to celebrate the arrival of Arhath Mahinda centuries ago and the 2600 Sri Sambuddhathwa Jayanthi.
With auspices of the Chief Incumbent of Nagadeepa Temple and Sangha Nayaka of the Northern Province Ven. Navadagala Padumakitti Tissa Thero, Northern Command Sri Lanka Navy made all arrangements to erect an attractive pandol at the temple site giving a novel experience to many islanders.
�This is the first time that such a religious programme was organized in this historical island. This pandol depicting the Sama Jathakaya was made especially for the people of the islands,� Ven. Anuradhapura Ariyakitthi Thissa Thero of the temple said.
Commander Security Forces - Jaffna (SF-J) Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe and the Commander Northern Naval Command Rear Admiral Ravi Wijegunratne inaugurated the celebrations switching on lights of the pandol at auspicious time.
Coinciding with the main celebrations, sailors organized a Dansala and distributed lunch packets and boiled gram to all who were present.
The most interesting event was that people of the island organized a separate Danasla where all pilgrims were offered biscuits with soft drinks.
�People of the Nagadeepa irrespective of racial and religious differences gave their fullest support in organizing the festival,� Ven. Anuradhapura Ariyakitthi Thissa Thero commented.
Commander SF-J, during his address at the opening of the ceremony appreciated Ven. Navadagala Padumakitti Tissa Thero for his dedication to protect this invaluable sacred land of Buddhists. Maj. Gen. Hathurusinghe thanked the Commander Northern Naval Command and all sailors of the Northern Base for their support extended to arrange this year�s festival.
Priests of Hindu and Islam faith, Divisional Secretary of Velanai Mr. Nandagopal, a large number of Army, Navy and Police personnel and civilians had gathered to watch the pandol and other decorations which will end on the 18th.
A special boat service has been arranged from the Nagadeepa island by the Navy till midnight for the convenience of pilgrims during the celebrations.


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Q: Instancing the Application class in Unit Tests I am attempting to write Unit Tests on an Android project, but have run into a roadblock with creating an instance of the Application class. The project uses Retrofit and LiveData with Android Architecture Components.
Currently, I am trying to test my AuthRepository 's login function, but I can't create an instance of the repository because it is dependent on a custom SharedPrefs class which is dependent on a Application class.
AuthRepository
@Singleton
class AuthRepository @Inject constructor(
    val retrofitService: RetrofitService,
    val sessionData: SharedPrefs
) {

    fun login(username: String, password: String): LiveData<LoginResponse> {

        return getCSRF().then {
            if (it.result is GenericResponse.ErrorType) {
                // Error Accepting Terms
                val mutableLiveData = MutableLiveData<LoginResponse>()
                mutableLiveData.value = LoginResponse(listOf(LoginResponse.ErrorType.Generic()))
                mutableLiveData
            }
            else {
                retrofitService.postLogin(LoginBody(username, password))
                    .map {
                        val res = LoginRemote.parseResponse(it.response)
                        return res
                    }
            }
        }
    }
}

SharedPrefs
class SharedPrefs @Inject constructor(context: Application) {

    private val sharedPrefs = context.getSharedPreferences("com.company.project.domain.PREFERENCE_FILE_KEY", Context.MODE_PRIVATE)

    private val PREF_KEY_SESSION_COOKIE = "sessionCookie"

    // SharedPreference Variable Management
    var sessionCookie: String
    get() = sharedPrefs.getString(PREF_KEY_SESSION_COOKIE, "")
    set(value) = saveString(PREF_KEY_SESSION_COOKIE, value)

}

With this set up this way, is it possible for me to run plain old UnitTests for my AuthRepository? Or is the dependency on Application going to force me to use Instrumentation Tests in order to test my AuthRepository?

A: 1.You can mock Application class using Mockito:
@Mock private lateinit var context: Application

@Before fun setupTasksViewModel() {
    MockitoAnnotations.initMocks(this)
}

*or mock SharedPrefs object
@Mock private lateinit var prefs: SharedPrefs

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2013 Sadler's Alaska Challenge features world's best hand cyclists
by Coast Staff • June 11, 2013 • trailmix • Comments (1) • 950
The 2013 Sadler's Alaska Challenge, which is set for July 14-21, has been called "The Longest and Toughest Handcycle Race in the World" – and for good reason.
The event, now run every other year, covers some 260 miles and offers $25,000 in prize money. As such, it's attracted some of the most competitive athletes in the world.
"This is going to be a great race this year," said Beth Edmands, chief executive officer at Challenge Alaska, the primary organizer behind the Sadler's Furniture-sponsored race. "This is our 27th running of the race. This year, it was very competitive to get in. We only selected 20 people from over 50 applicants."
This year's roster includes athletes from four nations – the United States, Poland, Germany and Austria – and boasts three Paralympic medalists. The race will include four categories.
"This year we also have the biggest women's field with four racers," Edmands said.
In the Women's Handcycle division, Muffy Davis, London 2012 triple gold medalist, will be competing in her first Sadler's Alaska Challenge.
German racer Peer Bartels is returning to see if he can reclaim the titles he won in 2005 and 2006 in the Men's H2 division, although he will have to battle Walter Ablinger of Austria, another London 2012 gold medalist.
To complete the gold medal circle, the H3 division also includes a Paralympic champion, Rafal Wilk of Poland, who also will try to win the longest and toughest handcycle race in the world.
And, Edmands said, despite the international flavor of this year's field, there is always room in the Sadler's Alaska Challenge for Alaskans. This year's sole Alaska competitor is H3 competitor Larry Coutermarsh from Fairbanks.
"He has done the race almost every year," Edmands said. "I told him if he ever exceeded 20 times, he would have honorary free entrance for life. We always want to have our Alaskans in this race."
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This is a traditional drink made in the Comtoise region of Burgundy. If you have some spare rhubarb, give it a try.
Wash, peel and chop the stems of rhubarb. Sprinkle the sugar over the chopped rhubarb and mix together.
Leave it for an hour. Boil then water and then pour it over the mixture.
Cover over the hot mixture and leave it to macerate for a further 2 hours. Then sieve it through a muslin (or similar) cloth on a cloth and bottle it. Refrigerate and serve cold garnished to your taste.


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by Cameron Macht
Five years ago our State Legislature set a goal to place Minnesota in the top five states in the nation for broadband access and speed. To develop policies that would promote the expansion of broadband, the state established the Governor's Task Force on Broadband, the Governor's Broadband Subcabinet, and the Office of Broadband Development, which is housed at DEED.
According to the 2015 Annual Report released by the Governor's Task Force on Broadband in January of 2016, data showed that 91.5 percent of Minnesota households had broadband access at a speed of at least 10 Megabits per second (Mbps) download and 5 Mbps upload. While the report shows that the state has made progress toward reaching its broadband speed goals, it has not yet achieved universal access. Only 80 percent of rural Minnesota households have a broadband connection that meets these speeds.
The Task Force is working to implement "an action plan for identifying and correcting disparities in access and adoption of broadband in all Minnesota communities - urban, rural, and suburban - helping to ensure that homes, schools, hospitals, and businesses have access to the technology and information resources they need to grow and thrive."
To that end, the Office of Broadband Development has a wide range of information and resources available on DEED's website (mn.gov/deed/programs-services/broadband) to help Minnesota residents understand the broadband options available. The office provides planning resources and tips for communities, opportunities for financial assistance to help pay for broadband services, and information on the Border-to-Border Broadband Development Grant program which included about $10.6 million in funds for unserved and underserved regions across Minnesota in 2016.
The site also includes a wide list of maps and data, including maps of the state's broadband service inventory, percentage of households served by broadband services, density of broadband providers, broadband growth, and maximum residential upload and download speed. DEED also offers an interactive available broadband service map for Minnesota, where users can type in their location and see a list of available providers.
Technologies and broadband applications have changed quickly over the past five years and will continue to change, which will require higher speeds moving forward. In response the Task Force is encouraging the legislature to update Minnesota's statutory broadband speed goals in 2016, helping the state seize the opportunity to stay on the leading edge of this transformative technology.


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The management of acute back pain and chronic back pain differs, yet the physician should always consider the risks for acute pain becoming chronic and persistent. Acute pain management focuses on physical therapy, stimulating the patient to move as soon as possible, use of pharmacological analgesia and stimulation to relieve pain. By contrast, the management of chronic back pain is often more complex and involved. Reduction in chronic back pain is best achieved through a program involving multimodal management, in which physical and sport therapy, psychological support and management, stimulation therapy, and pharmacotherapy are used in combination according to the patient's pain diagnosis and individual needs. It is rare that a single management or therapeutic approach can address the problem of chronic back pain.
Chronic pain often involves more than one mechanism. It is seldom controlled by a single pharmacological principle.
A combination of drugs, or use of agents combining more than one analgesic mechanism of action, targets multiple pain pathways and offers the potential of synergy of effect.7 Certain agents that are associated with risk of severe side-effects, for example, NSAIDs and COX inhibitors, and a patient's individual risk, for example, treatment-related gastrointestinal bleeding or cardiovascular adverse effects, should be considered.6, 8 When drugs have complementary pharmacokinetic profiles, they can be used together, possibly offering a reduced side-effect profile as compared with higher-dose single agent treatment.
1 Chou R et al. Diagnosis and treatment of low back pain: a joint clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society. Ann Intern Med. 2007; 147:478-91.
2 Forde G Adjuvant analgesics for the treatment of neuropathic pain: evaluating efficacy and safety profiles. J Fam Pract. 2007; 56(2 Suppl Pain):3-12.
3 Grabois M. Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2005;84:S29-41.
4 Hayden JA, et al. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2005;3:CD000335.
5 Savigny P, et al. BMJ. 2009;338:b1805.
6 National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). NICE clinical guideline 88.Low back pain: Early management of persistent non-specific low back pain. 2009. Available at: http://www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/live/11887/44343/44343.pdf.
7 Morlion B. Pharmacotherapy of low back pain: targeting nociceptive and neuropathic pain components. Curr Med Res Opin. 2011; 27:11-33.
8 Roelofs PD, et al. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008;1:CD000396.
9 Varrassi G et al. Pharmacological treatment of chronic pain – the need for CHANGE. Curr Med Res Opin. 2010; 26(5):1231-1245.


Welcome to the Pilots and Petards Podcast! This is the podcast with nothing much ado about aircrafts, and potentially everything ado with first episodes of a filmic series. Join Drew and Jimbo with special guest V as they cast judgement and determine if the political military/espionage thriller "Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan," will be hoisted, or not hoisted: that is the question!
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South Korea's Moon Says Next DPRK Leader Kim's Visit to Seoul to Happen Soon
South Korean president Moon Jae-in announced on Thursday that he second US-North Korea summit as well as DPRK leader Kim Jong-un's visit to Seoul would take place "soon".
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Moon Jae-in said at a news conference that the upcoming Kim Jong-un's visit to Seoul as well as the second US-North Korea summit which according to South Korean leader will happen "soon," will be turning points to cement peace on the Korean peninsula.
South Korean President also said in his New Year's address, as broadcast by local TV channels that South Korea seeks to cooperate with the United States and other interested countries for lifting international sanctions imposed on North Korea.
Photo: AP/Korea Summit Press Pool.
"We will maintain our cooperation with the United States and other countries for the soonest settlement of the remaining issue of international sanctions … We go along a road of peace on the Korean Peninsula and we will go along this road faster this year," Moon said.
Moon argued there will be "one more breakthrough" in the settlement of the crisis on the Korean Peninsula in the near future, noting the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was expected to meet US President Donald Trump for the second time and to pay a visit to Seoul.
The South Korean president added that the settlement of the sanctions issue depended on the pace of North Korea's denuclearization.
"North Korea should make more decisive and real moves for the denuclearization," Moon noted, saying that determining these actions would be a key task of the upcoming Kim-Trump meeting.
Moon said Kim had assured him during their latest summit that his understanding of the "full denuclearization" did not differ from the denuclearization that China, Russia, South Korea and the United States called for.
Kim recognized that the denuclearization and reaching the formal end to the war between the South and the North was not related to the status of the US military forces in South Korea, Moon argued.
Various economic and diplomatic sanctions have been imposed on North Korea in response to its repeated missile launches and nuclear tests carried out in violation of UN resolutions.
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Automated tape laying (ATL) and automated fiber placement (AFP) are processes that use numerically controlled machines to lay one or several layers of carbon fiber material onto a mold to create a structure.
Recent advancements in automated composite fabrication machines are generating much excitement – and with good reason. Driven mostly by aerospace, but with technology quickly transferring to other industries, productive automated composite lay-up machinery is a reality. One of our goals here is to help bring about understanding and transparency to the process of programming automated composite machinery by introducing the key components of machine independent off-line programming software. We will discuss key terms, applications, design for manufacturability, and supplemental processes to fiber placement.


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Minneapolis Mayor Reprimanded Police Chief Over Press Conference On Ballot InitiativeMinneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey wrote the city's former police chief Medaria Arradondo a formal letter of reprimand for his press conference last October on the controversial ballot question over the future of the city's police department.
'We're Really Worried': Rent Assistance Orgs Face Influx Of Calls As State Program Abruptly Stops ApplicationsLess than a year after it began taking applications, the "Rent Help MN" program will stop taking them – setting a deadline for 9 P.M. Friday night.
NBA-Best Suns Roll To 9th Straight Win, Topping Timberwolves 134-124Devin Booker scored 29 points, Chris Paul had a triple-double with 21 points, 14 assists and 10 rebounds and the NBA-leading Phoenix Suns won their ninth straight game, beating the Minnesota Timberwolves 134-124 on Friday night.
ASPIRE Athlete Of The Week For Feb. 14, 2014
By Mike Max February 14, 2014 at 11:17 pm
Filed Under:High School Sports Rally, Mike Max, Zach Parise
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — He can score, and he can create. That's why Bloomington Jefferson hockey player Johnny Panvica is our Athlete of the Week.
He's got a knack for scoring goals, it's part of his offensive mind set.
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"Since I've been young, I've always scored some goals," Panvica said. "It's nice to do that my senior year and make some good memories with Jefferson."
Not only does he create space for himself to score, Panvica can also hit the open man, according to Bloomington Jefferson head coach Jeff Lindquist.
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Panvica's role model is a member of the Wild and the U.S. Olympic team – Zach Parise.
"He works every single shift, and I think that's what most hockey players aspire to do," Panvica said.
That hard-working mentality is something Lindquist sees in Panvica.
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"Puts a lot of dedication into his hockey and into his studies," the coach said. "So, I would say, he's a good kid."
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Interview: Burnistoun boys Florence and Connell – 'It definitely doesn't feel like a farewell episode'
Jay Richardson
Burnistoun boys Robert Florence and Iain Connell are back with characters both old and new
Robert Florence and Iain Connell are picking themselves up, dusting themselves down and licking their wounds when I speak to them. Two of their new Burnistoun characters are a pair of clubbing survivors in their late 30s. 'They're about mine and Iain's age and paranoid about it,' Florence explains. 'A bit sensitive to the fact they're going bald and they don't know if they've still got enough energy for a night out.'
The Burnistoun creators have just left the set of their TV special, a one-off episode without laughter track, set on a Saturday night in their whimsically oddball town. It features the familiar faces of the 'For Real!'-exhorting Jolly Boy John, 'quality polis' Toshan and McGregor and the incredulous 'Up Eh Road' guys, as well as plenty of other new characters besides.
'I'm always covered in bruises!' Florence reveals. 'Even if there's a sketch where we're just sitting at a table, having some dialogue, I always come away bashed. But there's always a bit of pratfalling with the polis sketches. I was feeling it more this time as I'm older and definitely get up more slowly.'
Few things in entertainment are more physically demanding than a live sketch show, especially with all the costume changes when you play most of the roles. Yet following their triumphant debut at the Glasgow Comedy Festival, Burnistoun: Live and for Real is back for three more dates in August. Florence admits to being 'taken a wee bit by surprise' by the reception their first stage outing received: 'having done one, we can make a few tweaks to make it even better'.
Connell remembers 'entering at the back early on, through the stalls, and we could sense the buzz before we actually did anything at all. The crowd were definitely up for it!' They had assumed rightly that their more expressive characters, such as the irrepressible Jolly Boy John, would go down well. 'It was odd because there were certain sketches where we thought this is maybe a quieter one,' admits Florence. 'Yet it doesn't work out that way. If you have a slightly slower or quiet one, the crowd is so responsive that you can have a bit of back and forth with them. And the great thing about doing things live is that if you ever feel the pace is dropping you can always speed it up.'
Such was their enjoyment of the experience that they've been asking themselves why they took so long to actually do it. 'I don't know what we were waiting for,' adds Connell. Reaction to these latest live dates and the TV special will dictate if this is Burnistoun's swansong. 'It definitely doesn't feel like a farewell episode or anything like that; the new characters make it feel quite fresh again,' Florence says.
Regardless, one of their next projects will also be on stage with a comic play. 'It'll be nice to do something a bit longer form where we can focus more on our performances, without worrying about how quickly we can get our jackets off,' states Florence.
Before that, Florence is making his second micro-budget film, a vampire comedy-horror. Featuring Burnistoun's supporting cast, he wants to première it at next year's Glasgow Film Festival. Unfortunately, his chosen leading man, one Iain Connell, has yet to confirm his participation. 'We're still in negotiations,' Florence explains. 'It's complicated by the fact that we've both got the same agent and we're asking them to choose between us.'
'He thinks he's Terrence Malick and I'm just going to jump,' Connell sighs.
'I'm a Glasgow Woody Allen!' Florence counters. 'I think everyone wants to work with me!'
Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Thu 27–Sat 29 Aug.
Burnistoun: Live and For Real
The whole gang heads to the city centre including McGregor and Toshan the quality polis, Jolly Boy John, deceased ice cream brothers Paul and Walter and even the stubborn voice recognition lift who doesn't understand Scottish. For Real.


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Hemp is thought to have originated in central Asia and the Himalayas thousands of years BC, and eventually spread throughout the rest of the world. It belongs to the plant species Cannabis sativa, which is part of the mulberry family, and is distantly related to the hop. There are several variations of the species that are mostly cultivated for the fibre, its nutritious seed often being neglected. The variety Cannabis indica yields the narcotic drug also widely cultivated... but we don't deal with this varietal in our baking, sorry.
Hemp hearts (shelled hemp seeds) are a very high source of protein, containing all 20 known amino acids, including the 9 essential amino acids our bodies can't produce. The major portion of hemp protein is made of the globulin protein Edestin, which aids digestion, almost phosphorus-free, and considered the backbone of the cell's DNA. The rest of hemp seed protein is Albumin, which is similar to the globulin protein found in egg whites.
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Ethiopians in the capital, Addis Ababa and the northern city of Gondar took to the streets on Thursday, protesting the death of Simegnew Bekele, the project manager of a $4 billion Ethiopian dam was found shot dead in his vehicle.
Crowds in Addis Ababa marched to the state television station's headquarters chanting "No to killings" and "Justice for Simegnew".
Hundreds also packed the streets of his birthplace, Gondar.
Amongst our requests is the repatriation of his body back to his own city.
"Amongst our requests is the repatriation of his body back to his own city," said one protester, who only gave his name as Geremew.
People in the crowds said they believed Simegnew Bekele had been murdered, though there was no immediate confirmation from the authorities, or details of any motive.
"We have confirmed that engineer Simegnew Bekele was shot dead … He had a bullet wound behind his right ear," the head of Ethiopia's Federal Police Commission, Zeinu Jemal, told reporters.
Zeinu said a Colt pistol was found in the vehicle in the city's Meskel Square – a massive road junction and open space usually packed with vehicles and pedestrians during daylight hours.
A Reuters photographer saw blood stains along an arm rest inside his vehicle – a gold Toyota Land Cruiser – before an ambulance took away the body.
Ethiopia's new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was "saddened and utterly shocked" by the death, his chief of staff said in tweet.


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Myelopathy describes a disease of the spinal cord where the spinal cord is dysfunctional. This may be secondary to mechanical compression or non-mechanical reasons. A patient may develop symptoms after an accident or the patient may develop gradual symptoms. Commonly, the cervical spine is a site of myelopathy where bulging discs, thickening ligaments within the spinal canal, or protruding bone spurs may compress and deform the spinal canal. This results in decreased blood flow to the spinal cord and spinal cord dysfunction.
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This design was part of the original series of forty-eight designs completed by October 1931 but is not currently known from later printings. Note that the title-caption is spelled incorrectly for English. In this version the background is largely left uninked, but near the bases of the plants are deliberate drifts of pale gray bokashi which might be mistaken for soiling.


The U.S. military has killed al Shabaab militants in drone strikes in Somalia for some time. But Foreign Policy reports that in the Sahel, the drones have until recently been used only to collect intelligence.
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My husband came home with three bunches of flowers for me yesterday, as I searched around my home for places to put them and items to display them in, I thought hey I must check this out on Flickr.
Flickr has become a massive inspiration for me for everything from, fashion, interior design to where to go on holiday and now how to arrange your flowers.
These were some of my favourites, I have never though of putting flowers in a tin.
So I wonder how do you arrange yours and what do you use as a vase, I am up for some inspiration.
Here are the Flowers my hubby treated me too.


Are you tired of the eyesore of your disorganised cables? It may seem an overwhelming task to tackle the cable monster but there are various tools that you can use.
In this article, I'll walk you through how I cleaned up my TV's cable mess. This TV is atop a rotating table and is shared between 2 rooms. The cables behind the TV are highly visible.
Because of the unique position of this TV, it is not wall mounted and the TV's back is visible in one of the rooms when it is rotated. The cables need to be flexible to make sure the TV can rotate freely. It's a very challenging task to hide this mess.
The typical solution for hiding cable wires from the TV is to mount the TV and put a tube inside the wall where the wires can pass through. Another solution is to mount everything under a table, including the wires. However, because of the unique placement of this TV, these options are not possible. The TV can not be wall-mounted. It sits on a lazy susan-like table on a window between 2 rooms. The TV rotates and can be used on either room.
As you can see from the photo, I have already mounted the Apple TV behind the TV. Now that's one less clutter.
You can buy different types of mounts depending on your needs. What I've used is the ReliaMount Apple TV Mount.
Using the Reliamount is very easy. Just wipe the surface first with alcohol before installing with the included adhesive. Make sure that it is within six inches of the edge of the TV to avoid issues with the remote reception.
I've decided to retain the cable box on its current location as I use its display as a digital clock. But there are mounts available for digital cable boxes.
Remember – out of sight, out of mind. Transform your room by getting the cables out of sight. It is liberating and motivating to have a clutter-free space.
In this TV project, I've hidden 2 things – the cables and the power strip.
It's easy to hide the power strip or extension cord. I've used a power cable storage box as seen below. Choose a size for your power strip and just place it inside.
I've recently discovered the cable management sleeve and it made a big difference! In using the sleeve, I have found that grouping together cables coming from the same source helped. Use one sleeve for each group. Make sure to start putting the sleeve nearest the source as shown in the photo below.
For any remaining loose cables, use cable ties to neatly bundle them together. Hooks can be used to hang loose cables.
Here's the final outcome. No more eyesore!
This motivated me to start working on my desktop setup at my home office.
Do you have tips on how to organise and hide cables? Share your experience and questions in the comments below.
You said that people put a tube inside their wall where the wires can go. If I had a mounted TV I might think about getting that done. There might be better ways that would make it easier to move also.
I like the idea of just hiding the various cables in plastic boxes or behind the wall. It makes sense that fewer cables would look better than a lot of cables showing. I'll have to keep this in mind because having dedicated data cabling in each room would be a good way to avoid extension cords and other wires from being shown.
Totally agree that fewer cables would look better than a lot of cables showing. If for some reason, you can not hide the cables, tie the cables together tightly – it would make a big difference!


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Ourselves Volume 4 Book II Chapter 7
THE RULINGS OF CONSCIENCE IN THE HOUSE OF BODY: FORTITUDE
Fortitude.—Botticelli's picture of Fortitude, and Ruskin's interpretation of it are among the lessons which Conscience should get by heart. This 'Fortitude' is no colossal figure, standing stark, bristling with combative energy. Noble in stature, she yet sits, weary after long-sustained effort; wistful, too, as who should say, 'How long?' But, though resting, she is wary and alert, still grasping the unsheathed sword which lies across her knees. She is engaged in a warfare whose end is not within sight; but hers is not the joy of attack. She is weary indeed, yet neither sorry for herself nor pleased with herself; her regard is simple. She has the 'single eye' which looks upon the thing to be done, not upon herself as the doer—the thing to be borne, rather, for Fortitude suffers.
The Bible hardly commends Fortitude to us by name as a Christian grace, yet therein we shall find our best exemplars. Our Lord, who bore more than we are able to express, says of Himself, "I am meek and lowly of heart"; and this saying, perhaps, gives us a key to the meaning of Fortitude,—less
a valiant than a patient grace, memorable more for what she suffers gladly than for what she does.
As St Paul would image the fullness of Christ in the characters of Charity, so Isaiah gives us an image of Fortitude in setting forth the humiliation and sufferings of Christ. Fortitude grows up within us, a tender plant, is without form or comeliness, bears griefs and carries sorrows, endures chastisement, suffers and is dumb, does no violence, nor speaks deceit, is put to grief, yet—divides the spoil with the strong. There is only one true Fortitude among men, the fortitude of Christ; and every little bit of cheerful bearing that we are able for, without self-pity or self-complacency, comes of that divine fortitude.
Moses was the meekest man that ever lived, and his meekness was Fortitude. For forty years in the wilderness he bore with the waywardness of Israel; and, when the offences of the people had, so he thought, exceeded the patience of God, he prayed, "Yet now, if Thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me also, I pray Thee, out of the Book of Life."
St Paul, too, after much bearing,—"in journeyings often; in perils of waters; in perils of robbers; in perils by mine own countrymen; in perils by the heathen; in perils in the city; in perils in the wilderness; in perils in the sea; in perils among false brethren; in weariness and painfulness; in watchings often; in hunger and thirst; in fastings often; in cold and nakedness,"—could wish that he, too, were accurst for his brethren.
Perhaps Fortitude has always an element of tenderness, and always means bearing for love's sake; if it be only the fortitude of a child who bears toothache cheerfully that he may not distress his mother.
The tradition of Fortitude was carried on in the Middle Ages rather in the school of chivalry—a school wherein the teachers were manifold distresses—than in the discipline and self-mortification of the monastery. Roland and Oliver, and each of the 'champions of Christendom,' has a record of distresses comparable with that of the Apostle. "Endure hardness," says St Paul to Timothy; and to endure without wincing and without resentment was a law of knightly bearing.
Sir Kenneth, in The Talisman,[1] brings home the notion of knightly Fortitude in a way possible for ourselves.
Fortitude in Poverty.—"'May I see your sick squire, fair sir?' The Scottish knight hesitated and coloured, yet answered at last, 'Willingly, my Lord of Gilsland; but you must remember, when you see my poor quarters, that the nobles and knights of Scotland feed not so high, sleep not so soft, and care not for the magnificence of lodgement, which is proper to their southern neighbours. I am poorly lodged, my Lord of Gilsland,' he added, with a haughty emphasis on the word, while, with some unwillingness, he led the way to his temporary place of abode. . . . Sir Kenneth cast a melancholy look around him, but suppressing his feelings, entered the hut, making a sign to the Baron of Gilsland to follow. . . . The interior of the hut was chiefly occupied by two beds. One was empty, but composed of collected leaves, and spread with an antelope's hide. It seemed, from the articles of armour laid beside it, and from a crucifix of silver, carefully and reverentially disposed at the head, to be the couch of the knight himself.
The other contained the invalid, of whom Sir Kenneth had spoken, a strong-built and harsh-featured man, past, as his looks betokened, the middle age of life. His couch was trimmed more softly than his master's, and it was plain, that the more courtly garments of the latter, the loose robe, in which the knights showed themselves on pacific occasions, and the other little spare articles of dress and adornment, had been applied by Sir Kenneth to the accommodation of his sick domestic."
Here we have an example of Fortitude under very difficult circumstances, where pity and tenderness for dependants, personal dignity and high courage, go along with extreme poverty. The man who shows this manner of fortitude is a hero. The knight it is, and not that strange hermit-monk of the Lebanon, his body scarred with penitential wounds, who braces us by an example of Christian fortitude.
Fortitude under Vexatious Provocations.—Indeed, we are grateful for high lessons fitted to homely occasions, and we can at least understand how it was nothing less than high fortitude that Mrs Garth showed in the presence of an undeserved and vexatious calamity.
Mrs Garth[2] is at one and the same time making pies, superintending the baking and the washing, and teaching 'Lindley Murray' to her youngest boy and girl. Fred Vincy comes to see her husband, and, by and by, Caleb himself comes in.
"'Mr Garth, I am come to tell something that I am afraid will give you a bad opinion of me. I am come to tell you and Mrs Garth that I can't keep my word. I can't find the money to meet the bill after
all. I have been unfortunate; I have only got these fifty pounds towards the hundred and sixty.'
"Mrs Garth was mutely astonished, and looked at her husband for an explanation. Caleb blushed, and after a little pause said—
"'Oh, I didn't tell you, Susan: I put my name to a bill for Fred; it was for a hundred and sixty pounds. He made sure he could meet it himself.'
"There was an evident change in Mrs Garth's face, but it was like a change below the surface of water which remains smooth. She fixed her eyes on Fred, saying—
"'I suppose you have asked your father for the rest of the money, and he has refused you.'
"'No,' said Fred, biting his lips, and speaking with more difficulty; 'but I know it will be of no use to ask him; and unless it were of use, I should not like to mention Mr Garth's name in the matter.'
"'It has come at an unfortunate time,' said Caleb, in his hesitating way, looking down at the notes and nervously fingering the paper. 'Christmas upon us—I'm rather hard up just now. You see I have to cut out everything like a tailor with short measure. What can we do, Susan? I shall want every farthing we have in the bank. It's a hundred and ten pounds, the deuce take it!'
"'I must give you the ninety-two pounds that I have put by for Alfred's premium,' said Mrs Garth gravely and decisively, though a nice ear might have discerned a slight tremor in some of the words.
"'And I have no doubt that Mary has twenty pounds saved from her salary by this time. She will advance it.'
"Mrs Garth had not again looked at Fred, and was
not in the least calculating what words she should use to cut him the most effectively. Like the eccentric woman she was, she was at present absorbed in considering what was to be done, and did not fancy that the end would be better achieved by bitter remarks or explosions. But she had made Fred feel for the first time something like the tooth of remorse.
"'I shall certainly pay it all, Mrs Garth—ultimately,' he stammered out.
"'Yes, ultimately,' said Mrs Garth, who, having a special dislike to fine words on ugly occasions, could not now repress an epigram. 'But boys cannot well be apprenticed ultimately: they should be apprenticed at fifteen.' She had never been so little inclined to make excuses for Fred. . . . Fred turned and hurried out of the room.
"'I was a fool, Susan.'
"'That you were,' said the wife, nodding and smiling. 'But I should not have gone to publish it in the market-place. Why should you keep such things from me? It is just so with your buttons; you let them burst off without telling me, and go out with your wristband hanging.'"
Mrs Amos Barton,[3] too—what a record of gentle and dignified fortitude is the story of her life and death in that poor parsonage house!
Cheerful, Serviceable Fortitude.—We think of Mark Tapley[4] with relief; he found 'no credit in being jolly' when things went well; but for cheerful, serviceable Fortitude, can any bit of knight-errantry exceed the 'jolly' way in which he made the best of things in 'Eden'? The foes he fought
were nothing more romantic than fever, famine, querulousness, helplessness in every member of that poor colony; and what a plucky, unostentatious fight it was! Mark Tapley deserves a place among our bosom friends; but he might think there was no credit in being jolly in such a niche.
Nor need we go to 'Eden' to find place for Fortitude. A birthday dinner cooked (!) by her loving family gave occasion to the 'old girl' (otherwise Mrs Bagnet, who is to be found in Bleak House[5] )for much cheerful serenity.
What a contrast she is, by the way, to Mrs Wilfer (Our Mutual Friend[6]) who lets the world know she is enduring by tying a black ribbon round her face. How many of us do the like with the metaphorical black ribbon of a sullen temper and a falling countenance! Instead of gradually ascending, we have come down from the high ideal of Fortitude to commonplace, even absurd, examples; but these fit our occasions; and it would not be a bad plan to keep a note-book recording the persons and incidents that give a fillip to conscience in this matter of Fortitude.
The Roll of our Heroes.—Time fails to tell of Nansen, Gordon, Howard, Livingstone, Collingwood, Raleigh, Galileo, Florence Nightingale, Calpurnia, Mackay of Uganda, Grace Darling; for the roll of persons notable for their Fortitude is, in fact, the roll of our heroes, and our little 'Book of Fortitude' will come to be a book of heroes, whether in small things or great. The reader will perhaps object that Fortitude belongs to the mind and the heart rather than to the body; but, when the body is not kept in
its proper place, trained to endure without murmur, Fortitude has no chance. It is in the body we must endure hardness, and the training comes in the cheerful bearing of small matters not worth mentioning.
The Song of the Lotos-Eaters has music for us all:—
"All things have rest: why should we toil alone,
We only toil, who are the first of things,
And make perpetual moan,
Still from one sorrow to another thrown:
Nor ever fold our wings,
And cease from wanderings,
Nor steep our brows in slumber's holy balm;
Nor hearken what the inner spirit sings,
'There is no joy but calm!'
Why should we only toil, the roof and crown of things?"[7]
therefore we have need of Fortitude, without which no man or woman has ever yet brought life to any purpose: "So fight I, not as one that beateth the air; but I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection."
[1] By Sir Walter Scott.
[2] Middlemarch, by George Eliot.
[3] Scenes of Clerical Life, by George Eliot.
[4] Martin Chuzzlewit, by Charles Dickens.
[5] By Charles Dickens.
[7] Tennyson.
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Mayor Mitch Landrieu's office announced the request for proposals in a Tuesday news release.
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bigbaddragon
As the title says, my group wants to try a new system and we would be grateful for every recomendation and experience you can share.
Group background: so far we played 3.5, G.U.R.P.S. (can't remember which edition though), Warhammer FRP and Dark Heresy. Most of the time we played 3.5 and enjoyed it fairly enough. G.U.R.P.S. was the worst gaming experience so far, mostly because of the DM at the time but even if we disregard him we still didn't like the system. Warhammer was by far the best gaming experience so far ... small set of simple rules, much fewer supplements and no need to have a caster in the party probably helped us devote ourselves to RP instead of optimization (all that and the great campaign). Dark Heresy was very pleasing too ... what could be not pleasing when you're playing hairless psychotic maniac with force sword hacking and force barraging heretics and eldar around and every now or then making the whole party hate you, especially the Tech-Priest when the Machine Spirit rejects you :smallbiggrin:.
I tossed all this informations so that those of you who played/DMed already mentioned and other systems could get a feel of what would suit my group. The things we are considering currently are new World of Darkness and Call of Cthulhu so I'm mostly looking for your opinions/experiences on those two.
Exalted is a no no ... at least two members of the group dislike it and the group counts four people.
Anything else besides already mentioned is welcome and appreciated :smallsmile:
bosssmiley
Call of Cthulhu rocks, and it uses the same basic system as other classics like Runequest, Pendragon, Elric/Stormbringer.
WoD is... not so rock.
If you want some rules-light dungeon crawling try Labyrinth Lord. It's an expy of 1983 vintage (Moldvay) Basic D&D and it is love.
I presume you'll be playing Rogue Trader (*squeeeee!*) at some point?
kamikasei
I've been playing some Mutants & Masterminds lately and enjoying it a lot. It's a very open system, entirely fluffless, where you're basically given a toolbox of purely mechanical powers that you use to give your character the abilities you want which you can then describe however you like. You can make nearly anything in it, although the system is designed with superheroes in mind so the powers let you achieve fairly superhuman feats pretty easily. Still, it's very flexible and refreshingly up-front about saying "here you go, make what you want of it, it's up to you not to break everything". However, note that it has no default setting or anything like that - you need to make up everything except how to adjudicate the effects of the characters' actions.
NeoVid
Since you're considering WoD already, I will confirm that it is Win(TM), and with the large array of different games in the setting, you're very likely to find one that fits your whole group.
I'll add Swords and Wizardry (which, like Labyrinth Lord, can be gotten for free online) to the list of clone games. It's an excellent little book if you, or the DM, are willing to bend it to your will.
BRP (i.e., the system Call of Cthulhu is built on) has a fantasy version which is very good. Probably one of the best out there, really, and better than its Rune Quest incarnation.
West End Games D6 Fantasy is quite nice as well. Very simplex and worth the time if that's the thing you're looking for.
Outside of fantasy? Insert standard plug for Alternity here. Also, West End Games does a D6 "universal" game which is excellent. I also recommend Savage Worlds highly.
Thank you for your suggestions so far, we'll look into as many of them as possible :smallsmile:
@bosssmiley: I'm unfamiliar with Rogue Trader but google did its job. What is your experience with it?
West End Games had a number of d6 roleplaying games that you might want to check out. I've only read the Star Wars Roleplaying Game books, but I seem to recall there being others. The system is pretty mechanically simple: you have a pool of dice for each stat (like in the WoD games) and you roll and sum that many d6's against a difficulty (like in d20) to determine the degree of success/failure. It's like a supersimplified hybridization of White Wolf's d10 and the d20 system. You'll learn it in under an hour, leaving the rest of your time for fluff.
Totally Guy
I've just placed an order for the Burning Wheel system.
I don't know what it'll be like really but I believe it uses a D6 dice pool mechanic as above.
Kantur
I definetly agree with this. All that's really needed is a good story to make it a great experience - very simple mechanics, character gen takes maybe 15-20 minutes for your first character and about 5 for any characters after that. And that's if you ignore the character templates (Smuggler, Failed Jedi, Wookie First Mate, etc), with templates it's about 5 minutes for your first character and maybe 3 for future characters as all you have to decide are skills and a name.
As you'vegot some experience with 3.5 as well, you can probably use the Wizards of the Coast Star Wars campaign guides/era rules and convert them easily for WEG Star Wars play. Only the DM really needs the rulebook, and they tend to be fairly cheap second hand on Amazon.
I've never played the WotC Star Wars game, but I would definetly recommend the West End Games version. It's exactly what you would want for Star Wars - It's simple and fast, there's still a fair amount of stuff out there for it if you want and Jedi tend to start off a little weaker than most other characters but the force skills can make up for that late into a campaign when they're reliable at using them.
eepop
My group has been having a lot of fun with Alpha Omega lately.
It may not meet your simplicity requirements though. It has a lot of rules you can use, but many of them don't hurt the game much if you don't use them right off the bat. It seems to lend itself quite well to slowly adding in the rules a bit at a time.
But if you can accept the complexity, it does a lot of really cool things that I hadn't seen get a lot of play in many other games:
1) Dice mechanic is very cool. Every combat round you get 6 dice for your "to-hit" rolls so to speak. Most people get 2 actions per combat round. You have to decide how you want to split up those dice across your two actions. You can throw them all into 1 action to do something spectacular, or you can do two actions of a lesser effect by using 3 of your dice for one and 3 for the other (or 4 and 2 or 5 and 1, etc).
2) Multiple actions in a combat round. The way this game handles it is so awesome. I know several other games have allowed this, but the fact that in AO you still only get your 6 dice each round means that when you get to your 3rd action, you are reducing the effectiveness of each of those actions to a degree since you are probably only using 2 dice per action instead of 3. The amount of investment it takes to get to that 3rd action seems pretty fair too, to the point that I can see a character shooting for it, but it doesn't feel like its cost effective for everyone to shoot for it (like can happen in Shadowrun).
3) More open magic system. Its like having every spell use metamagic. So you can adjust what you are doing on the fly. But you can also write down what it takes to make a given effect and have a spell list if that works out better for you.
4) Classless point buy system for characters that uses 99% of the same rules for character creation and character advancement. All too often in classless systems, the points you use for creation and development and completely different, which means costs have to be listed twice, etc and it can get a bit confusing. AO cleared this up quite a bit.
5) Visually stunning. The art and just general layout design is A+++.


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Painkiller expert available to comment on opioid crisis
He's a UK tech start-up and invented wearable drug-free painkiller and rehabilitator
A new wave of bioelectronic medicine tackles pain without the need for drugs and rehabilitates injury. Its maker says his MiTouch device is the answer to the painkiller and opioid epidemic.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock is on the lookout for drug painkiller alternatives, and here it is. The device can help such a wide range of injuries and chronic pain, pain associated with diabetes
Health tech inventor Rick Rowan is available to comment on the latest government announcement that all opioids must now carry prominent addiction warnings on their labels as he believes his device is the answer to the painkiller and opioid epidemic
MiTouch technology is the first pain relief device to use new 'quadwave microcurrent' technology developed by London based health tech startup, NuroKor.com
Used by athletes to rehabilitate muscles, and sufferers of back pain, MS, diabetic complications, arthritis, PMS symptoms and more. It's a world first combining pain killer and anti-inflammatory in one wearable device
The MiTouch is a hand-held device which applies three types of bioelectrical pulses through the skin: MCS (microcurrent), NMS (neuromuscular stimulation) and PNS (peripheral nerve stimulation).
While there are other devices which have trialled bioelectrical technology for the treatment of pain, this is the latest science applied to treatment and world's first to incorporate a new generation of microcurrent known as 'quadwave'.
The device comes with several sticky pads that attach to the affected area, so they can be used during the day, while relaxing or even while sleeping. Athletes and fitness fans use the device on certain settings while training for extra strength gains.
The pads deliver gentle bioelectrical pulses through the skin. They mimic the body's natural electrical microcurrent system, which helps cells to regenerate and repair and reduces inflammation. It treats pain by sending pulses through the skin to the nerve endings in the affected area, blocking pain signals from travelling to the brain.
What it treats
The product, designed and developed in the UK by healthtech startup NuroKor, is already used by doctors, physiotherapists, chiropractors, sports scientists, well-known athletes and patients around the globe and is now available to buy online by the public.
It's used to treat chronic back pain, post-surgery pain, sports injuries, cramps, symptoms of MS and even headaches when applied to the neck area. Current ongoing research has shown it can help diabetic patients at risk of lower limb damage by increasing circulation to this area of the body.
Endorsed by athletes
Among the A-list athletes using NuroKor's technology are 2016 Olympic gold medallist Susannah Townsend MBE. Susannah was struck with a knee injury before the Rio 2016 Olympics and puts her quick recovery down to daily use of a bio-electrical stimulation.
She says: "I was using bioelectrical muscle stimulation four times a day and I was even using it on the plane to Rio. I don't think I would have made it onto the field, let alone go on to win a gold medal, if it weren't for this kind of technology."
Pippa Funnell MBE, an equestrian eventer, is also a proponent of the technology in between training.
She says: "I've used many bioelectrical devices like this before, but there's nothing likethedevices developed by Rickbecause the technology is so advanced."
NuroKor CEO Rick Rowan quit his career in real estate to develop the MiTouch device technology when, several years ago, he was looking for a solution for a back problem he'd suffered from for 30 years, doctors told him to 'just take Paracetamol' every day for the rest of his life. While looking for drug- free pain remedies, Rick came across research into bioelectric treatments and saw its potential.
Wanting to show people that natural pain relief is an option, Rick moved his young family from Australia to the UK whilst founding NuroKor and threw himself into the research, which resulted in the development of MiTouch.
He says: "I hope the MiTouch can bring relief to millions of people - not just people with injuries and health conditions but also recreational sports people who want to rehabilitate their strains more quickly. I created earlier versions of the technology but through NuroKor we have developed the technology to createa newKorOS operating system, and there's no treatment like it in the world."
Rick is available for interview, quick quotes or to write opinion pieces on topics including:
- The opioid crisis
- Painkiller drug epidemic
- The need for Medics to embrace alternatives to painkillers
- Technology behind the new wave of bio-electrical medicine
- How to treat sports injuries using this device
- Tips for marathon runners/other athletes on rehabilitating muscles using this bioelectrical technology
The NuroKor MiTouch is sold for £399. For more info visit:
https://nurokor.co.uk/
For further comment, photos or request for a quote please contact:
Amanda Ruiz @ 07711 419595 email: hello@amandaruiz.co.uk
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