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The imperialists have always been very good at labeling their opposition. Better at labeling them than beating them sometimes. Everybody called the National Liberation Front, the opposition in South Vietnam, the "Viet Cong" or "VC." Still, to this day, they are called that. Few realize that "Viet Cong" was a label invented by Everest Bumgardner, a US army PsyOps officer in 1956 to discredit the opposition, and then "sold" to the newspapers. They never could beat the VC, but the name stuck.
Personally, I think the term "moderate revolutionary" is an oxymoron, and I've never heard the thuwar apply it to themselves, although it is almost universally used by the bourgeois media and the Imperial Left to define those who might be worthy of our support in the Syrian conflict. As I said in "barrel bombs," they aren't doing the Syrian revolutionaries any favor by labeling them as "moderates" as the term alone will cause those demanding change to look to the "radicals," which are defined by the bourgeois commentators and, quite ironically, by the "anti-imperialists" as well, as exclusively the right-wing radicals of Islam.
Historically, and as a practical matter, "moderate rebels" have been defined by the imperialists as those fighting the Assad regime that they have vetted and found acceptable by their anything-but-revolutionary criteria. More recently, they have updated their definition of "moderate rebels" to mean those more interested in fighting ISIS than fighting Assad. This makes it all the more a mystery why the term is used so universally and uncritically by large swaths of the Left.
The Syrian revolution has now been presented with the dual tasks of overthrowing the Assad regime and taking back previously liberated areas from Daesh. I would call all who are willing to join in these tasks, the revolutionary coalition. Other observers would apply a religious test and demand that "moderate rebels" also be secular, or at a minimum "moderate Muslims," however they define that.
|Rev. M.L. King, Jr.
|Malcolm X
They are doing this in the service of an argument that the only really substantial forces in Syria now are the Assad regime and the jihadists, "jihadists" in this case meaning the pejorative term created by the imperialists, not the term as understood by Muslims. That being the case, Assad, the butcher, becomes the lesser of two evils and the "progressive's choice." The wonderful simplicity of this position was expressed recently by Patrick McCann in a letter he posted to the Veterans for Peace board and chapter contact lists recently:
Dear Friends,I want to leave aside the media driven notion that although the Assad regime has been beheading little girls since 2012, and has been responsible for 95% of the civilian casualties, that Daesh is the barbaric trend. I have addressed the laughable notion that the Assad regime, which has been so instrumental in the genesis of ISIS, should be seen as an ally in the fight against ISIS elsewhere. Here I wish to deal with the notion that there is no longer any "moderate opposition" in Syria, which is code for saying that none of the groups or people fighting against the Assad regime are worth supporting.
I've investigated Syria these past few months, trying to proceed from investigation, rather than 'a priori' narrative. I have yet to find an organizational expression of 'moderate' Syrian rebels.
Where does that leave us? It makes me (reluctantly) support the current government of Bashar Al-Assad. It is the barbaric trend (Al Nusra, Daesh/ISIL, etc.) that is the #1 danger now.
First, on this question of the existence of the "organizational expression of 'moderate' Syrian rebels" that Patrick McCann can't find, Charles Lister who "has spent the past two years coordinating an intensive process of face-to-face engagement with the leaderships of over 100 Syrian armed opposition groups" has written an important new piece in The Spectator, 27 November 2015 that explodes the myth that there is no "moderate opposition" in Syria:
Most of this substantial Lister article is taken up by a detailed breakdown of the many groups that make up this moderate opposition, their numbers, areas of operation, etc. Its important information and I recommend reading the whole thing, but for my purpose here, we'll skip those details and cut to his conclusion:
Yes, there are 70,000 moderate opposition fighters in Syria. Here's what we know about them
Yesterday David Cameron told Parliament that there are 'about 70,000 Syrian opposition fighters on the ground who do not belong to extremist groups' who could help fight Islamic State.
The Prime Minister's number was the result of an internal assessment made by the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC), backed up by serving British diplomats overseas whose jobs focus on the Syrian opposition. Such a large number struck many as political exaggeration. The chairman of the Defence Committee, Julian Lewis, said he was 'extremely surprised'. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn may issue a formal demand for clarification. So do these fighters exist and who are they?
Having studied Syria's armed opposition since the first months of the country's uprising in mid-2011, I can say with confidence that the Prime Minister and the JIC are about right. More...
Had the West more definitively intervened in Syria early on, we would undoubtedly have more moderate, more cohesive and more natural ally-material opposition to work with. Unfortunately, things took a different path. Our subsequent obsession with the extremists and refusal to tackle Syria's complexity has clouded our vision. A 'moderate' opposition in culturally attuned terms does exist in Syria, we need only open our eyes to it. Only these groups – and certainly not Assad – will ensure the real extremists such as ISIL and Al-Qaeda eventually lose their grip on power in Syria.Fighting groups in Syria have been very fluid, and our evaluation of the revolutionary forces in Syria must look well beyond the current political and military groupings and what their leadership says about themselves. If we want to know who can be won to the fight for a democratic and revolutionary future for Syria, we must understand the individual fighters and their motivations, even in the most backwards groups.
This struggle has gone on for more than four years and in that time individual fighters have moved into and out of the struggle, into and out of Syria and into and out of a variety of organizations. Which organizations is determined by the practical conditions on the ground, like who has ammunition, who can pay, and most importantly, who is winning victories. Ideology may be everything when judging the different groups from afar, but in the practical instance of battle, it isn't the biggest draw, or turn-off. The case of Eric Harroun, the former US Army private I profiled in "barrel bombs", is a good example. He started out fighting with the Free Syrian Army but ended up fighting with al Nusra. All his reasons had to do with battlefield conditions in the fight against the Assad regime, nothing to do with Islam or any caliphate. This piece in the New Yorker tells that story:
The fighters set off in a convoy of pickups. Along the way, another rebel brigade joined them. They struck Harroun as more professional-looking than Abu Kamel's men. They travelled in vehicles mounted with black flags.It was as simple as that. Even among the hard-core al Nusra, which fights the regime, and Daesh, which collaborates with it, the average jihadist foot soldier is no more likely to be a deep-seated Islamic extremist than the average foot soldier in the imperialist army is likely to be a monopoly capitalist. Neither is our enemy.
Leave it to a writer from a divinity school, Alireza Doostdar, to warn us of the danger of taking religion too seriously in analysing ISIS. His How Not to Understand ISIS, 2 October 2014, also deserves to be read in full. Skipping to the section I want to bring to your attention here:
Information about the militants who fight for ISIS is likewise scarce. Most of what we know is gleaned from recruitment videos and propaganda, not the most reliable sources. There is little on the backgrounds and motives of those who choose to join the group, least of all the non-Western recruits who form the bulk of ISIS' fighting force. In the absence of this information, it is difficult to even say what ISIS is if we are to rely on anything beyond the group's self-representations.He warns us against assuming we understand the rank-and-file of these groups based on what the leadership says:
First, we lack a good grasp of the motivations of those who fight for or alongside ISIS, so we assume that they are motivated by Salafism and the desire to live in a caliphate. What information we do have comes almost entirely from ISIS propaganda and recruitment videos, a few interviews, and the occasional news report about a foreign fighter killed in battle or arrested before making it to his or her destination.
Focusing on doctrinal statements would have us homogenizing the entirety of ISIS' military force as fighters motivated by an austere and virulent form of Salafi Islam. This is how ISIS wants us to see things, and it is often the view propagated by mainstream media.
For example, CNN recently quoted former Iraqi national security adviser Muwaffaq al-Ruba'i as claiming that in Mosul, ISIS was recruiting "Young Iraqis as young as 8 and 9 years old with AK-47s… and brainwashing with this evil ideology." A Pentagon spokesman is quoted in the same story as saying that the U.S. was not intent on "simply… degrading and destroying… the 20,000 to 30,000 (ISIS fighters)... It's about destroying their ideology" [6].
The problem with these statements is that they seem to assume that ISIS is a causa sui phenomenon that has suddenly materialized out of the thin ether of an evil doctrine. But ISIS emerged from the fires of war, occupation, killing, torture, and disenfranchisement. It did not need to sell its doctrine to win recruits. It needed above all to prove itself effective against its foes.
|Tunisia revolutionary with "Che" in 2011. Tunisia has sent fighters to Syria at highest rate.
It is this western perspective that Salafism is the beginning, middle and end for evaluating these groups that causes them to lump Daesh and al Nusra together. Daesh has Iraqi leadership, is largely foreign based, and collaborates with the Assad regime. Al Nusra has Syrian leadership, is largely Syrian, and collaborates with other opposition groups to fight both the Assad regime and Daesh. From the point of view of the revolution, what separates the two is far more important than what unites them. From the point of view of the Left, the keys questions should be 1) can the rank-and-file be won to revolution? and 2) if yes, how? Doostdar continues:
A large number of ISIS fighters in Syria (as in Iraq) are indeed foreign, but the majority are local recruits. The emphasis on ISIS' Salafi worldview has tended to obscure the many grievances that may motivate fighters to join an increasingly efficient militant group that promises to vanquish their oppressors. Do they need to "convert" to ISIS' worldview to fight with or for them? Do they need to aspire to a caliphate, as does ISIS leadership, in order to join forces with them? These questions are never asked, and "beliefs" are made simply to fill the explanatory void.The imperialists, whether in the US camp or the Russian camp, have made it clear that their strategy is to destroy ISIS with air strikes. Their intention isn't just to neutralize the leadership with a few targeted strikes, they hope to decimate the rank-and-file with massive raids. Clearly they will fail in this because each new air strike will create more potential recruits for ISIS than it will kill. We've seen this movie translated to many languages already.
Second, the puzzle of foreign fighters is no less obscured by an overemphasis on the allure of Salafism. Again, the tendency here is to ignore any motivation except the overriding call of the Salafi jihadist who persuades converts of the truth of Islam and of their responsibility to wage war in defense of the Islamic community. In ISIS' case, the aspiration to create a caliphate is added to the equation. Foreign fighters must be joining ISIS, we are told, because they desire to live in a pristine Muslim utopia.
Some analysts allow the possibility that the jihadi convert is mentally unstable, a privilege usually reserved for white non-Muslim mass murderers. But rarely do they consider that sensibilities and motivations other than or in addition to mere commitment to Salafi Islam or a desire to live in a utopic state may guide their decisions.
For example, could it be that a sense of compassion for suffering fellow humans or of altruistic duty—sensibilities that are very much valued and cultivated in American society [9]—has prefigured their receptiveness to a call to arms to aid a people they consider to be oppressed?
The imperialists know that the militants who make up the rank-and-file of al Nusra and Daesha are too far gone ever to be plugged back onto the imperialist grid, so it has no problem with murdering them for being jihadists. They can, however be won to an alternate vision of change. Only the Left can defeat Daesh by winning its rank-and-file, and would-be recruits, to a progressive vision of revolution. But that can't be done by the Imperial Left we have today. Before that can happen, the Left has to take out the trash and reclaim itself.
See also:
"Well, what about the barrel bombings that kill thousands?"
Qui profite? Who benefits from the Paris attacks?
The Imperial Left's sarin song: still "Regime Change" after all these years!
Syria is the Paris Commune of the 21st Century!


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is also buried in Annapolis mo.At the Lewis cemetery.I would like to gather more information on John Lee JACKSON,like where he died where he was buried.He had two children that I know of Samuel Webb JACKSON 1874-1931 and JOHN Lee JACKSON 1863-1956.There is also a Thomas who died in 1885,and a James possibly.Thomas is also at Lewis cemetery. If you have any information I would love to here it.Thanks, Jeff Jackson I have heard this line of JACKSON`S may have come from Dyers-burg Tn.
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African water authorities receive space-tool training
African researchers tackling water resource management problems have gathered at ESRIN, ESA's Earth Observation Centre in Frascati, Italy, from 24 to 28 July 2006 for a free five-day TIGER Initiative training session aimed at facilitating the integration of satellite radar data into their work.
ESA's TIGER Initiative was launched in 2002 following the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg. The primary objective of TIGER is to help African countries overcome problems faced in the collection, analysis and dissemination of water related geo-information by exploiting Earth Observation technology.
Freshwater is a scarce commodity across much of Africa and is projected to grow scarcer still. The continent's share of global freshwater is only 9% - a static resource in an ever-thirstier world. Availability of freshwater is important not just for drinking and sanitation but also to ensure food security - 60% of African food production comes from non-irrigated agriculture, leaving it vulnerable to climatic variations.
Researchers from Ethiopia, Cameroon, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Namibia, Morocco, Madagascar, Botswana and South Africa representing selected African universities, research centres and public administrations involved with ongoing TIGER research projects are learning how to incorporate Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) image processing into their projects.
The SAR instrument onboard ESA's ERS satellites and the Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) onboard ESA's Envisat satellite use radar to map the surface of the planet below, with several different modes that allow broad views or detailed snapshots. It is able to work day and night and penetrate clouds and bad weather to map the shape of the land, profile waves and ice, monitor land use and types of vegetation and measure some of the properties of the surface.
Topics being addressed at the training session, organised by Planeteck Italia, include SAR principles and processing techniques, microwave techniques for hydrological applications, soil moisture estimation, flood mapping, vegetation monitoring and the fusion of SAR images and optical images.
Prof. Paolo Ferrazzoli of the University of Tor Vergata is one of the key lecturers and is teaching the trainees some basic physics in order to better understand the content of SAR images, such as the variables for water-related applications.
"The information content of microwaves is different than optical information content, so by complimenting these two different information sources, we improve our capability to monitor all aspects related to water such as soil moisture, vegetation and wetlands," Ferrazzoli said.
The trainees all come from different regions of Africa and face specific water-related issues. For example, Madagascar's Fanja Vololona Razafindramasy of the University of Antananarivo wants to incorporate radar data into her study of erosion.
According to the World Bank for Madagascar, the country has a 'world-record erosion rate', which is a serious problem for a country whose economy relies on agricultural production. The erosion is filling and clogging coastal waterways with sediment, which has resulted in some port facilities having to be moved inland to prevent ships running aground. By using SAR, it is possible to identify changes in land surface related to severe erosion process.
Freshwater is a limited natural resource in South Africa, which receives only around half the average rainfall of other countries. The Department of Water Affairs and Forestry (DWAF) is responsible for managing the country's water resources, which includes implementing the country's National Water Act of 1998. The National Water Act is based on the principles of sustainability of use and equity of water distribution and requires all water users to register their water use. The water use will be licensed in an economical manner to include the demographics of the population.
South Africa's Willem Vorster from the Satellite Applications Centre (CSIR) said: "We are working with the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry to help them monitor the new National Water Act that is starting to be implemented nationally. We want to see if we can monitor the effectiveness of this Act by using radar images."
One of the major development resources facing Morocco is the sustainable management of its water. According to the United Nations, in 2000 58 percent of the rural population lacked access to adequate sanitation, and 42 percent lacked access to drinking water. Some two-thirds of Morocco's agricultural exports are produced by irrigated agriculture and consume 92 percent of the country's freshwater resources.
Dr. Ahmed Er Raji of the Centre Royal de Télédétection Spatiale in Morocco is collaborating with the local Agence du Bassin Hydraulique du Souss-Massa on a project which aims to integrate ASAR and optic remote-sensing data into the ground-water exploration process, to monitor the extension of agricultural exploitation in the upstream region of the watershed and to detect the vulnerable zones related to the excessive pumping of ground water.
"When I return to Morocco we are planning to organise a training session with our partners and colleagues so I can share this information with them," Er Raji said.
At the end of the training course all the participants will receive a license of ERMapper, an image processing software that will allow them to apply the techniques they learned during the course to their ongoing research projects in their respective countries.


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Cattle QuikFence® 4/48/24
A reliable and visible electric net for cattle.
A prefabricated fence that has 4 horizontal conductive twines; is 48" tall installed, and has large white plastic vertical struts every 24" White PVC posts are built into the mesh every 12.5'.
The black and white colors provide 24/7 visibility to both humans and animals against light and dark backgrounds.
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|Cattle QuikFence® 4/48/24
|48" installed
|Horizontal Strands
|4 conductive
|Vertical Strands
|Plastic struts, spaced every 24"
|Roll Length
|50' or 100'
|Premium Superconductor
|Electrical Resistance
|48 Ω/per 1000'
|Line Post Options
|Double Spike (DS)
|Line Post Material
|White PVC, 0.75" diameter
|Spike Length/Diameter
|Distance Between Posts
|Horizontal Spacings
|12", 12", 12"
(from bottom to top)
Each roll comes with 1 Warning Sign and 1 Repair Kit.
- #208002 - $1.10 per ft (100' roll with double spike posts).
- #208001 - $1.34 per ft (50' roll with double spike posts).
See PDFs and videos above for additional installation instructions.
Warning! Due to risk of fire, do NOT use continuous output energizers with electric netting or electro-plastic conductors such as rope, twine or tape. Use only with a low or wide impedance intermittent pulse energizer. (Fi-Shock™ brand energizers which are sold as low impedance, continuous current output should NOT be used with electric netting.) All energizers sold on Premier's website use an intermittent pulse and are suitable for use with electric netting.
Dry conditions and wintertime usage may reduce the effectiveness of electric fencing. Ice and heavy snow can flatten netting and thereby damage it.
Dry or frozen ground may cause post spikes to bend or break if inserted with force. Pilot holes may be needed. We recommend using drivable or single spike posts in hard soils. Double spike posts provide more stability when the ground is soft.
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Thick galvanized coating protects posts from the elements. Excellent supports for portable, permanent and high-tensile fence systems.$21.00
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Thick temporary posts for electric fences. Useful corner support on low-tension fences.$6.10
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Fiberglass-reinforced support posts for ends, corners and major directional changes. Commonly used with electrified net fences.$6.98
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5-Light Wireless Fence TesterItem #200006 -
Low cost 5-light wireless tester to measure approximate fence voltage. Used to determine if your energizer/charger is working properly.$15.00
Kube 4000 EnergizerItem #115110 -
A 110v wide-impedance electric fence energizer used for medium length fences. Safe to use with all polywire, polyrope, tape and electrified netting.$159.00
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Warning SignItem #346000 -
Attaches to an electric fence or netting to warn people that the fence is electrified.$1.20
ElectroFence Gate (7.5 ft x 48" tall), black/white with black postsItem #340616 -
Easy access in/out of net enclosures without having to turn off the energizer!$58.00
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NetPost 19/48/DS (white) - For: PermaNet 10/48/6, PermaNet & Plus 12/48/3, Horse and Cattle QF 4/48/24 or ElectroFence & Plus 11/48/12Item #207046 -
Replacement line posts for Premier's netting. Designs for each type of net, double or single spike.$3.50
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Clip (replacement only) for QuikFenceItem #325312 -
A replacement clip for the bottom of any of our QuikFence posts.$0.50
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Repair Kit for Sheep QuikFence, Pig QuikFence, Cattle QuikFence & Deer QuikFenceItem #201721 -
A handy repair kit that includes all of the essentials to patch tears and holes in electric net fences.$2.00
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Brass Ferrules for NettingItem #200500 -
Neat item used to repair broken horizontals in electric netting.$0.14
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Replacement - Electrical clip for nettingItem #200900 -
This clip is designed to connect all the horizontals on any electrified netting together electrically.$0.25
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Replaces lost, misplaced or broken plastic caps (for posts 0.75" in diameter) on netting posts. Holds top strand of net in place so there is less sagging.$0.21
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Anke Y from New York
Very good fence. Easy to install. Ordering more.
Peter P from New Hampshire
Using several of these to rotational graze my Herefords when there is grass. I have one out this winter (not energized) to keep cows away from my stored wrapped Haylage bales. Very effective. Only issue I have is they are a bit heavy and tangle easily on the spikes when being moved.
Stephen G from Idaho
Great fence, works very well with the PRS solar energizers.
Need ties on both ends of each section
Robin S from ohio
Easy to put up. Put our mini cows (accustomed to electric fencing) out in an area to graze that we hadn't fenced yet. They were fine for a few days (out a few hours each day). Then...broke out. The fence did "break away" so no animals were injured and remarkably, the fence was not damaged (the caps came off the tops of the rods and the net pulled away from the rod). Spent a few hours finding the critters. Fence was easy to repair/put back together. Nothing really beats permanent fencing. I should have spent the $$ on hiring the local farm kids to help fence instead. The fiberglass rods bend/flex easily so they don't stand straight after a few moves of the fence. The metal forks bent out of shape fairly easily. Great product for a small area and extremely short term solution. Not something I really want to use on a regular basis, so I recommend, but only for extremely short term use.
Audry S from LA
This is a great fence. It was easy to install. The double spike is great to get into the ground because it can be "hammered" in at the spike. The post slides as needed along it's section of fence. It also came with a repair kit. We even moved the bottom section down in a few places.


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What is the best way to achieve this, ideally I only want to set up the RMI once, is the only way to achieve this is to set up a RMI server on each client too?


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"A novel of immeasurable sadness, in a league with Graham Greene's The End of the Affair. John Boyne is very, very good at portraying the destructive power of a painfully kept secret." —John Irving
"A moving and deeply felt tribute to a love that dared to speak it's name once—or maybe twice—and then forever held its tongue. We suffer in silence, we love in silence, and we regret and learn to live our unlived lives in silence as well."—André Aciman author of Call Me by Your Name
"John Boyne has produced a gripping, superbly plotted novel, filled with surprises that are by turns confounding, disturbing and tremendously moving. For all its spellbinding narrative momentum, The Absolutist is, in the end, a sober meditation on the heartbreak that ensues when people and principles collide." —Paul Russell, author of The Unreal Life of Sergey Nabokov
"A relentlessly tragic yet beautifully crafted novel." —Publishers Weekly
"A thought-provoking and surprising page-turner that for some readers may recall Ian McEwan's Atonement." —Reba Leiding, Library Journal
"Extraordinary…The narrative is by turns surprising and tragic in equal measure while its troubling conclusion will stay with readers long after they've closed the book." —Carlo Gebler
"Powerful, poignant and beautifully written. This will become a classic war novel." —The Bookseller
"John Boyne brings a completely fresh eye to the most important stories. He is one of the great craftsmen in contemporary literature." —Colum McCann
"A wonderful, sad, tender book that is going to have an enormous impact on everyone who reads it." —Colm Toibin
"Political, personal, powerful…a fiercely interrogative novel that asks not just what it means to be a man but also what it means to be a human being in the extreme circumstances of war." —Irish Times
"(In) Boyne's fiction, there's a sense that people are fundamentally the sum of their traumas…Boyne's narrative grip is strong." —Literary Review
"The Absolutist is surprisingly slim. Boyne conveys the period accurately and elegantly, but the characters—specifically Tristan, who narrates—are the stars. This isn't a novel about WWI; it's a novel about the unique horror of one man's experience, and Boyne makes every word count." —BookPage
"An outstanding read, very highly recommended." —Historical Novel Society
"What begins as a slow-building World War I period piece…grows deeper, more curious, and uneasy as it progresses–and midway through this sad and beautiful story, you realize you're in the hands of a quiet master. Piling questions atop half-truths, John Boyne…has crafted a taut and tragic tale of love and war, with a kick-in-the-gut ending" —Amazon (Amazon's Best Books of the Month list)
"You will hold your breath, you will smile, and you may cry, but when it's all said and done the story will end as it was always meant to." —Examiner
"What is most memorable here is the timelessly doomed relationship between Tristan and Will, marked by tenderness and confusion and cruelty in the face of their own internalized repression, as British as it is of its time. This is a wonderfully crafted tragedy that will stay with the reader for days." —The Daily Beast (Hot Read)
"The Absolutist needs to be read, for society always needs to be reminded that war and civilization are mutually exclusive, and that if we still have war, then we're not yet civilized." —The Coffin Factory
"This story…can be darkly graphic and emotionally brutal. An outstanding, thought-provoking look at the passionate choices we make, and how we react to life-changing situations. Much recommended for all readers, five full stars out of five." —Yahoo (Editor's pick of the month)
"In this relentlessly tragic yet beautifully crafted novel, Boyne documents the lives of two inseparable men navigating the trenches of WWI and the ramifications of a taboo involvement." —Publisher's Weekly
"Poetic, passionate, and poignant, The Absolutist is about self-discovery, friendship, and how far bravery can take us." —Interview Magazine
"The Absolutist is a slim, tightly wound novel of love and disaster." —The Millions
"A powerful story about love, hate, courage, guilt and war where nothing is simple and everything might not be as it seems." —Shelf Awareness
"An unforgettable story that transcends genres." —Huntington News
"This is a different kind of journey into the darkness of war, told by a gifted, powerful novelist, and the result is a book with an often staggering emotional punch." —Book Page
"The Absolutist is a riveting look into what drives the relationships we have in spite of the world around us." —Seattle Gay News
"This is great modern literature with fantastic artistic appeal and superb writing, a story of duty, honor, love, high passion and integrity." —Book Reporter
"Writing of this sensitivity and simply verbal beauty is rare. Boyne is rapidly becoming one of the great writers of the century." —Literary Aficionado
"It's an outstanding, thought-provoking look at the passionate choices we make, and how we react to life-changing situations. It's much recommended for all readers." —Echo Magazine
"For me, the world totally ceased to exist while I was reading The Absolutist…If you plan on reading just one book this winter, this should be it." —Washington Blade


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It's a bit of an old cliche to say that 'things were different back in the old days of F1', but in the case of top-level/F1 motorsport and, more particularily, the drivers themselves and the people directly involved, nothing could be further from the truth.
The 1960s (and to some extent, the early '70s) are often regarded as the golden age of motorsport and Formula One for many unique reasons. Most companies and manufacturers involved at the time were small independents and some survived race-to-race in the hopes of winning some prize money to further their livelihood and passion over the coming season.
Comraderie between drivers was commonplace – everyone hung out with one another and most drivers became the best of friends. They all shared a common passion that few people could relate to. It was family, pure and simple as that. Families vacationed together, the wives of the drivers and team-owners assisted by time-keeping and keeping various things in line… It was people helping people that also cared about one another.
Whether you drove for Ferrari or Tyrrell or Lotus or Brabham, it didn't matter… You were family. You looked out for one another… and also grieved together whenever there was a loss of life from an accident which, sadly, happened all too often.
One man from that era of Motorsport that seemed to shine in his own irrefutably unique way though, was Graham Hill. If there ever was a man to be labelled 'a true gentleman' of the sport, then Graham would easily claim that designation. He was a charismatic, charming, highly-knowledgeable, caring and incredibly talented driver that won the World Championship twice (in '62 and '68) and earned the unofficial title as 'Mr. Monaco' after winning that Grand Prix 5 times.
Last night I was watching a documentary DVD called 'Jackie Stewart: The Flying Scot' and during a section of the interview, Jackie took a moment to talk about Graham, and how Graham was his earliest mentor during his formative F1 years in the early '60s when Jackie was driving 2nd-string below Graham for the BRM team. What struck me was when Jackie said that in all of his years/decades of racing and being involved in Motorsport, never had he known a more intriguing, intelligent, handsome, witty, talented, ruthlessly skillful (he was also a phenomenal mechanic) and charming personality than Hill. He was one of a kind… And, as they say, they 'broke the mould' after Graham was born.
It would be impossible for me to write about all of the amazing stories and various idiosyncrasies that made Graham Hill such a treasured, respected and sorely-missed man. It was such a sad and undeserving end for Graham when his private-plane crashed in '75, killing himself and all his teammates onboard. Moreso, it saddens me that top-level Motorsport (especially F1) has gradually become the exact opposite of everything that Graham and the drivers/families/teams involved from that golden era represented and genuinely felt, experienced and discovered with one another…
This well-made BBC Documentary on the life of Graham Hill offers a fine glimpse into the man himself – the sort of man that we'll probably never see the likes of ever again. Enjoy…
-Blake J.


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School sponsorship is a great way of supporting the long-term development of education in rural Africa. In return for your support, we will keep you updated on our work and the progress of the schools we work with.
By making a regular donation, you provide a steady and predictable flow of resources that allows us to plan our work effectively in support of rural schools and make the most of your gift. We use your donation to make schools a better place for children to learn and grow, through strengthening the skills of teachers, headteachers, communities and district education officials. This method is effective and leads to lasting change, but it takes time. That is why the regular support provided by school sponsors makes a real difference.
How much does it cost?
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School Sponsors play an invaluable part in making Link's work a success. Your donations give us the freedom to be creative, come up with innovative solutions and demonstrate them with our school, community and district partners. When we find something that works, we collaborate with government to scale this up to all the schools in a district, so we impact on the whole district rather than creating islands of excellence.
With your support Link can:
- Train teachers so that children learn more in the classroom.
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Your support will enable us to assess how well schools are doing in every area from curriculum and teaching, to planning and management, and beyond. We do this in partnership with schools. Their communities and government using our innovative School Performance Review cycle. Through discussion of each school's strengths and weaknesses we help the school to develop their own plan to make the school a better place to learn. We then work with the teachers, parents, community and the district education authorities, to help the school see that plan through. This approach means that the work is owned by the school and community themselves, making sure that the changes that we help bring about are sustainable and long-lasting.
This is long term work - which is why your regular support as a school sponsor is so valuable.
This regular stream of support is particularly valuable to us because it is predictable and long term. Most of our project funding comes in three year cycles and some donors do not fund the full cost of a project, training for our African partners or the essential costs of running an office. Without these things Link would not be able to deliver our high quality projects which make a real difference to children's lives. School Sponsorship allows us to fill these gaps and to provide continuous interventions over a longer period of time, so we can realistically measure change. This means that we can plan the support to schools, districts and communities more effectively, and make your money go further.
Does my sponsorship impact the local community and district?
Yes, it does. Sponsoring a school gives you the chance to be part of a wider change for good. That's because Link's approach acknowledges that no school operates in isolation. To make lasting improvements in the quality of education in individual schools, change must involve the headteachers, teachers, parents, local community, district education offices and ultimately the national policy makers that surround and support each school.
So, by becoming a sponsor, you will also be investing in Link's work with the local communities and district education authorities that monitor and support schools to improve. This work strengthening and supporting district authorities enables us to influence the quality of education provided by every school in the district.
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When you sign up to become a sponsor we will send you a certificate and a detailed profile of one of the schools we support. This will contain photos and stories from children, parents and teachers at the school as well as information about the projects the school is involved in and how this has affected the school.
Sponsorship is designed to give you an insight into the everyday workings of a rural community, the challenges they face and the work we are doing to help overcome these challenges. We are committed to keeping School Sponsors up to date with our work and the impact it has on children, teachers and communities in Africa. To do this we will send you:
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Does Link always work with the same schools?
Our aim is to design and demonstrate innovative solutions to entrenched obstacles to quality education, such as lack of teacher training, low government funding and overcrowded classrooms. Then we work to integrate these solutions into government policy and practice. As our work evolves we work intensively with different sets of partner schools, districts and even countries.
The way we work enables us to reach as many schools and children as possible in a sustainable way, so we make the most of your donation. We might not always be able to send you updates on the same school, but we are committed to keeping School Sponsors up to date with our work and the impact it has on children, teachers and communities in Africa.


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Bird flu infects 23 more in China, says World Health Organisation
London: Another 23 people in China have been infected with the H7N9 strain of bird flu in recent days, the World Health Organisation said on Monday, adding to at least 24 new cases last week and confirming a fresh surge in the virus.
Among the new cases, reported from several different provinces of China, was a 38-year-old man who died on January 9 and a five-year-old girl from Guangdong province who became ill on January 14 and is now stable in hospital.
Many of the other new patients were either in a serious or critical condition in hospitals, the WHO said. Several had reported recent exposure to poultry or poultry markets, but the WHO said the source of infections was still under investigation.
The H7N9 bird flu virus emerged in March last year and has so far infected at least 199 people in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, killing 52 of them, according to an update from WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl.
Several clusters of cases in people who had close contact with an infected person have been reported in China, but WHO reiterated on Monday that "so far, there is no evidence of sustained human-to-human transmission".
Mr Hartl told Reuters last week that the United Nations health agency had noted the recent rapid increase in human H7N9 infections and was keeping a watchful eye.
"So far we haven't seen anything that causes us to change our risk assessment," he said.
The WHO's assessment is that "the current likelihood of community-level spread ... is considered to be low".
Experts say the northern hemisphere's winter flu season is probably largely to blame for a significant increase in the number of cases of human H7N9 infection in recent weeks after they dwindled to almost nothing in July and August of 2013.
But they have cautioned that public health authorities and doctors must be on alert for any signals that the more widely circulating virus might be adapting or mutating to become easily transmissible between people.


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Holy Week at Halifax Minster, 2017 Canon Chris Barber
Maundy Thursday
Today, tomorrow and Sunday, I want to take you on a pilgrimage. Pilgrimages have been popular from the earliest days of the Christian church, and a must-do for many other religions too, like your Muslim neighbours here in Halifax. But for this one you will not go outside these church walls, except in imagination. All the same, we shall be seeking for God, as all true pilgrims do -seeking for him to tell us something about himself and ourselves, both as individuals and as a church.
It will start on an actual pilgrimage, though -one on which Mary and I and a miscellaneous party of Christians and non-Christians went to the Holy Land in Holy Week 1986. Our aircraft landed at Tel Aviv, a totally uninspiring place, on Maundy Thursday, and a coach tookus past modern kibbutzes straight to Jerusalem. Our hotel was on the Mount of Olives, but our first task was to go through the streets of Old Jerusalem to St.George's Anglican cathedral for the same service as we are all having today. All at once we were taken back through the centuries as we trod those narrow winding streets with their open shop fronts and their paving stones worn by the feet of countless pilgrims -even perhaps the steps of Jesus himself.
But it was what we did there at the cathedral, and after, which gave new meaning to the breaking of bread and the washing of feet. The church, with its congregation of Palestinian and Christian Jews -and us -seemed to expand to include the whole world, and the time seemed to include all time. It seemed to us as we shared the bread and the wine, as if we are taking them from Jesus himself at that timeless Last Supper, and the sermon (in English) from the Arab
Bishop of Jerusalem seemed to take us out of the narrow box of our Anglican church life, and speak to the whole world.
We began to understand what God in Christ had done for us and for all this world -responding to those words which we ourselves have just heard "do you know what I have done for you?" We felt so much more clearly how God was sharing his creative and sacrificial love for us in Christ, and how we were called to share it with one another. Not just that multi-national congregation there, not just this congregtion here: we were called to share our love and concern for all God's widely different, and often threateningly different, children -starting right here in our own church as we cope with the challenges of living together as a very diverse family -going out to our local community with all its strains (and all its needs) -andbeyond them to a world which needs God's love and care so much.
As we share in the washing of our friends' and neighbours'feet, share with them in the communion of the bread and the wine, and give thanks to God for all he gives us to build up this part of his family, so we look outside these walls to a city and a world for which also Christ died, to feet which we must also wash, and minds with which we must also share the message and the reality of God's love.
But why should we do all this? Tomorrow I am going to take you on an amazing walk as our pilgrimage goes to the Garden of Gethsemane and we get an answer to this question.
The hymn on the extra sheet will perhaps give you a hint of this, and will be something to guide your thoughts if you stay toshare the Maundy Watch.
Good Friday
Yesterday, as shared the Eucharist and "did this in remembrance of him", we almost felt ourselves to be in that upper room with Jesus: we felt something extra of what "communion" means as we shared the fellowship of each other and the Lord. It helped us to see what is meant by being a Christian family, united at the table of the Lord. The foot-washing showed graphically how we need to care for each other as Jesus cares for us, and extend our care wherever it is called for. Today we ask the question "why? What sort of God commands us to do all this? Indeed, if there is a God, what is he like?"
But back for a moment, to our pilgrimage. The Passion story which we have just heard mentions some very specific places -Gethsemane, the High Priest's palace, Pilate's judgement seat, the place of the cross, and finally the tomb. Pilgrimages have always sought (and sometimes invented) holy places and holy things -Jerusalem, Rome, Compostella, Canterbury, Lourdes, Walsingham. There is nothing wrong with that, providing that it leads to the deepening of faith, not the worship of a place or a thing. Our own pilgrimage took us, immediately after the end of the Maundy Eucharist in St.George's cathedral, to walk in silence through the dark streets to a garden, rough and stony and filled with nothing but ancient olive trees, some of them perhaps dating back to the time of Jesus. We stood without a word for some minutes and felt the atmosphere of the Garden of Gethsemane. Later on we were to go to many places associated with the passion , death and resurrection of Christ, but for me it was there that he felt closest, because there he faced the cross and saw it as God's will, and said "thy will be done".
And this is the answer to the question I posed earlier "why? What sort of God commanded him to do all this? If there is a God, what can he be like?" The answer is in front of us -a rough cross,
standing for an even rougher death -and a strange answer it is. Strange to those who imagine God just as an all-powerful and all-knowing explanation for the very existence of this world. Stranger still to those who have imagined God as a merciless judge before whom we must all give account (and there has been more than a little of this in a lot of Christian thinking and preaching). Totally impossible to those of any faith who cannot see God as "the Merciful", but only as the destroyer of unbelievers. Yet this is what Christ faced, and this cross is what we face.
This cross is not a denial 0f God as creator and judge -rather is affirms the amazing richness of his creation and his longing for it to live up to the huge possibilities that are in it. It states in an only too tangible form what Jesus had already said in words in St.John's Gospel, spelt out in John's first Letter (4.16), "God is love". Now we can see what this really means. Bill Vanstone in his poem "Morning Glory" says it in verse far better that my prose can say it:
Therefore he who shows us God
Helpless hangs upon the tree;
And the nails and crown of thorns
Tell of what God's love must be
Here is God: no monarch he
Throned in easy state to reign:
Here is God, whose arms of love
Aching, spent, the world sustain.
What God did is all summed up in the cross "love's agony, love's endeavour, love's expense". What an extraordinary picture of God! No-one whowanted to win over people to his views would present them with a God like this. Yet this is what the cross tells us; this is the cross with which we were all marked in baptism, and this is the cross we are all called upon to follow. Like Peter, we
often can't face the consequences and duck out of them, but Jesus (again in John's Gospel) still tells him to "follow me".
Pilgrimages often lead to shrines which may seem impossibly (0r improbably) holy, unlike the world outside. The Holy Land, or parts of it, was like this. But high on the city walls of Jerusalem, above the crowds of pilgrims, sat an Israeli soldier with his machine gun, reminding us of how much this world needs this costly gospel of love -how much hate and evil there is in a world which God made free to love him -most of all in the words of preachers of hate. Well, this is what God, the God of love, is like. Go on then and touch the cross to say that this is the God you want to worship. And then go, as a Christian and as a church, to live it out in the world.
Easter Day
Easter Day is a landmark on a pilgrimage. Those of you who have been with me here on Maundy Thursday and Good Friday will know that I was recalling an actual pilgrimage to the Holy Land on which Mary and I went in Holy Week 1986. Some of the highlights from that journey have helped me to shed light on these days too. There was the washing of the disciples' feet and the sharing of bread and wine, which pointed to the church's constant task of care and love for each other and the world. There was the stillness of the Garden of Gethsemane when Jesus faced the reality of the cross, and we too had a glimpse of the eternal love of God which brought him there, and leads us onward on our pilgrimage.
So today we find ourselves at the tomb in the garden, withMary Magdalene and John and Peter -and no body. We too in 1986 went to the Garden Tomb and shared Holy Communion there. It's only the "traditional" site of the tomb, but all the same, on that day and in that place, we could sense the presence of the living Lord whom even Mary Magdalene didn't recognise until he called her name. It was a feeling we experienced later in the week, sharing Holy Communion in a church overlooking the Sea of Galilee, and then crossing the sea on a boat and stopping to look at the same skyline as Jesus saw and feeling the "Sabbath rest by Galilee…and calm of hills above"
But was it -is it -all just "atmosphere"? Was there really a Resurrection, and is there really a risen Christ, perhaps even with us here today? The disciples for sure were totally confused about it, and the New Testament accounts differ -there is no tidy story.
Whoever put the New Testament together didn't edit the accounts to present the same evidence. Their stories are those of men and women totally crushed by what had happened when Jesus died, yet trying to make sense of a series of episodes which gradually opened their eyes to a Jesus who was still with them -in the garden, in the upper room, by the sea-shore, on the mountain-top.
Despite everything that Jesus had said to them, they had even less idea of what resurrection could mean that our own present godless generation has. Yet these demoralised and confused people were to transformed by the experience they had -transformed enough to take the experience out to the whole world. A new age really had started in those unlikely people. That really happened -it was never fake news.
But if the news had merely been about a charismatic religious leader who had been killed by the regime and was somehow now alive, it would have died by the time the next page of history had turned. There was something far more than that -they called it "the Gospel", the Good News. It included all they had learnt from Jesus, and pointed to all that was still to be learnt -about the God of love whose nature had been displayed for all time in Jesus' cross and who drove them on to tell the world (often heroically) what love really means.
Of course they were only human they were scarred by their experiences, such as meeting the risen Christ, and were constantly hampered by human sins and weaknesses which blinded people to the Good News.All that isn't just history; it's present fact, true in the world-wide church and true in each Christian community. The Gospel, the Good News, that God is love and calls his people to be people of love and care for each other, in each community -in this church, in this town, in this world, is as true as it ever was. And it seems as impossible as it ever has been.
But those few confused and dispirited Christians knew one thing for sure. It was the continued power and presence of Christ, who was "risen and still with them" as his words had promised. He is here and with us today in Holy Communion, and has promised "to be with us always, to the end of the age"
Happy Easter!


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News from 2006
Stuart Timson, Director of our incredible Conservation Project in Peru gives us all the news from the Taricaya Research Centre.
The beginning of December saw Projects Abroad Senegal help to coordinate an AIDS awareness day in the Pikine district of St.Louis.
On December 1st Projects Abroad Mongolia made a donation to the State Second Maternity hospital in Ulaanbaatar.
Sugar Bay Children's Camp in South Africa won an award last month as the best service provider in South Africa.
Sarah Gregson, has been on our Conservation Project in Thailand since the start of October, here she tells us about a recent beach clean-up project that the volunteers got involved in.
Congratulations to the winner, Stacey Edwards and two runners-up, Erin O'Quinn and Katie Arneil. Stacey wins a weekend trip for two to Paris.
Projects Abroad volunteers and staff were surprised to meet Senegalese International footballer and Bolton striker El-Hadji Diouf in St Louis last month.
Romania Country Director - Gabriela Badea-Gheracostea tells us about some extra activities that our Care & Community volunteers have recently been involved in.
Tim DeWinter, the director of our Projects Abroad Peru programme tells us about his incredible recent discovery of an Inca settlement.
The first outing for our brand new Projects Abroad Cambodia 'Dirty Weekends' is a clean up day at the Lighthouse orphanage just south of Phnom Penh.
Alongside their regular medical project, many volunteers go out once a week to different schools and care homes in their area on our Medical Outreach project, to take care of the wounds and cuts of the local children.
Medical volunteer Mohit Singh, from Canada, has left a lasting legacy following his placement in Sri Lanka.
Matt Baker was a teaching volunteer with Projects Abroad in Ghana. Since returning to the UK he has raised £1000 to donate to the schools where he worked.
Journalism volunteers in Romania are continuing to take the Projects Abroad newspaper The Brasov Visitor from strength to strength.
British volunteer Georgina-Kate Adams last night gave a live television interview on BBC News 24 to counter recent media reports that have questioned the merit of gap-years.
Former Care & Community volunteer Erin O'Quinn would really appreciate your support for her children's library initiative in St Louis, Senegal.
A group of Projects Abroad volunteers in Bolivia chose an unusual way to spend their evening on June 24th.
Radio journalism volunteers in Senegal may soon find their fame spreading far beyond the town of St Louis, as they broadcast over the Internet.
10 doctors and 15 volunteers worked together to treat over 1000 patients on Sunday, June 11th at a Projects Abroad medical camp in Rayagiri.
For all you photographers out there, we are giving away 2 tickets for an STA Travel Key Accounts Eurostar weekend away in Paris. Runners up will each receive a Lonely Planet guidebook of their choice.
Last month ten volunteers on our Conservation in Thailand project embarked on a four day, four night live-aboard trip to the Similan islands.
British volunteer, Catherine H. stay in Ghana has inspired her to build a community library for the village of Kwamoso in the Akuapem Hills.
Schools separated by over 5000 miles in Mexico and Scotland have been brought together by two retired Projects Abroad volunteers.
In Cambodia tradition dictates that when a new house or building is in use, Buddhist monks should attend a ceremony to officially bestow their blessings.
Stuart Timson, Director of our incredible Conservation Project in Peru gives us all the news from the Taricaya Research Centre.
From the first time she set foot on the beach in St Louis teaching volunteer Danielle Paffard wondered what could be done to help clear the litter that spoils an otherwise idyllic spot.
Sajani Amatya, Director of Projects Abroad - Nepal was recently chosen to receive an Unsung Heroes of Compassion award from his holiness the Dalai Lama.
Last week four Leatherback turtles came ashore at our Tecoman Turtle camp to lay their eggs.
Laura Tovey, Assistant Country Manager in Ghana tells us about a new project in which our journalism volunteers are getting involved.
Projects Abroad - Bolivia, are working jointly with Maria Christina Orphanage to restructure the home and provide care for girls, boys and young adults with mental disabilities or special needs
Volunteers on Teaching, Care & Community or Spanish placements in the Peruvian Sacred Valley have the chance to join the Projects Abroad football team during their stay.
If we could choose a destination of the year for our website, this year Mongolia would probably win! 2006 marks the 800th Anniversary of the founding of the Mongolian Empire and the country is dedicating the entire year to celebrating the occasion.


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SEATTLE (12-5) at ATLANTA (13-3)
Sunday, 1 p.m. ET, Fox
OPENING LINE - Falcons by 3
RECORD VS. SPREAD - Seattle 12-5; Atlanta 9-6-1
SERIES RECORD - Seahawks lead 8-5
AP PRO32 RANKING - Seahawks No. 5; Falcons No. 4
LAST MEETING - Falcons beat Seahawks 30-28, Oct. 2, 2011
LAST WEEK - Seahawks beat Redskins 24-14; Falcons had bye.
STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES - Teams meeting in playoffs for first time. Falcons have won last three games in regular-season series, including wins in Seattle in 2010 and 2011. ... WR Julio Jones had 11 catches for 127 yards and Michael Turner ran for two touchdowns in win over Seattle last season. ... Seattle coach Pete Carroll is 0-3 against Atlanta. Falcons coach Mike Smith is 2-0 against Seahawks. ... Seahawks have outscored opponents 217-74 in six-game winning streak. ... Seattle overcame 14-point deficit, largest of season, in last week's win at Washington for first road playoff victory since 1983. ... Including last week's win, Seahawks have scored more than 20 points in 10 consecutive games. ... QB Russell Wilson's 27 TD passes, including playoffs, are most by rookie in NFL history. He also has rushed for four TDs, all in last four games. ... Wilson had 100.0 passer rating in regular season, only second rookie to reach that mark. Wilson has seven TD passes and one interception in last four games. ... RB Marshawn Lynch tied franchise record with 132 yards rushing against Redskins. Lynch set career high and ranked third in NFL with 1,590 yards rushing. Lynch has rushed for 100 yards in nine of last 11 games. ...Since November 2011, Lynch leads NFL with 2,663 yards rushing, including playoffs. Lynch was chosen for third Pro Bowl. ... RB Michael Robinson had first career postseason TD last week. ... WRs Sidney Rice and Golden Tate share team lead with seven TD catches. Rice had 52-yard TD catch against Falcons last year. ... Seahawks led NFL with fewest points (245) and TDs (25) allowed in regular season. Seattle allowed 203 net yards - 99 passing and 104 rushing - last week against Redskins. ... CB Richard Sherman tied for second in NFL with eight INTs. ... DE Bruce Irvin led NFL rookies with eight sacks. Irvin to start following injury to DE Chris Clemons. ... Another rookie, LB Bobby Wagner, leads Seattle with 139 tackles. ... S Earl Thomas had first postseason INT against Redskins. ... Falcons 0-4 in playoffs since win over Rams in 2004 divisional round. ... Falcons have reached playoffs in four of five seasons, including three straight for first time in franchise history. Falcons are 0-3 in playoffs with Smith and QB Matt Ryan. ... Ryan's 56 regular-season wins as starter are most by any quarterback in first five seasons. ... Ryan set franchise records with 4,719 yards passing, 32 TD passes, 422 completions, 615 attempts and 68.6 completion percentage. Ryan has career-high 99.1 passer rating. ... Including playoffs, Ryan is 33-6 at Georgia Dome. .... Ryan made every start this season for fourth time in five seasons. His only two missed starts came in 2009. ... Falcons 32-1 when Ryan has QB rating of at least 100. ... Ryan has 71.2 rating with three TD passes, four INTs, in three playoff games. Ryan was under 200 yards passing in each of three playoff losses, twice finishing with 199 yards. ... Falcons' 369.1 net yards per game are second best team history. ... RB Michael Turner led team with 10 TDs rushing, fifth straight season with 10 or more TDs. ... Turner's 800 yards rushing set low mark for his five seasons with Falcons, and his 3.6 yards per carry was career low. ... Turner's 62 TDs rushing since joining Falcons in 2008 are second most in NFL. ... Jones (1,198) and WR Roddy White (1,351) are first Falcons teammates to reach 1,000 yards receiving in same season since 1998. White has reached mark team-record six straight years. White's 585 catches since 2007, including playoffs, lead NFC. ... Jones has 133 catches for 2,157 yards and 18 TDs in first two seasons. ... TE Tony Gonzalez selected to 13th Pro Bowl. Gonzalez joined by teammates Ryan and WR Julio Jones on Pro Bowl roster. ... Gonzalez has fifth season with 90-plus catches, most by TE in NFL history. He has NFL-record 14 consecutive seasons with at least 60 catches. Streak began after he had 59 catches with Kansas City in second NFL season in 1998. ... DE John Abraham leads NFL active players with 126 sacks, including team-high 10 this season. LBs Stephen Nicholas and Sean Weatherspoon share Falcons lead with 95 tackles. ... CB Asante Samuel has INT in three straight games. Samuel holds NFL postseason record with four career interception returns for TDs. Samuel's seven career INTs in playoffs tied for sixth in NFL history and rank second among active players. ... S Thomas DeCoud led Atlanta with six INTs, second most among NFL safeties. DeCoud and William Moore (four) were only duo of safeties to each have at least four INTs.
Online:http://pro32.ap.org/poll andhttp://twitter.com/AP-NFL


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Pharmacy residents completing the UC San Diego Postgraduate Year Two (PGY2) Psychiatric Pharmacy Practice Residency will be described as advanced mental health practitioners who will be able to make complex medication recommendations in a variety of psychiatric practice settings. This program is also designed to facilitate growth in areas of effective communication, critical assessment and management of psychopharmacology drug treatment, and leadership. Graduates of this PGY2 residency will possess intense, focused and marketable job skills that should prepare them for career opportunities in any mental health practice setting and be eligible to sit for board certification in psychiatric pharmacy examination.
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The PGY2 resident will gain the skills to function as a psychiatric pharmacist during the required and elective rotations. Primary service responsibilities include rounding with the interdisciplinary team (inpatient experiences) to design, recommend, monitor, and evaluate patient-specific therapeutic regimens that incorporate the principles of evidence-based medicine. The resident will also learn skills needed to function within a multi-disciplinary mental health treatment team. Daily activities will include: participating in treatment rounds, reviewing each patient's profile for appropriateness of drug therapy, providing provider, nursing and patient education, validating pharmacy orders on patients, and overseeing and directing PGY1 resident and pharmacy student activities. This integration of staffing and clinical services prepares the resident for any type of practice environment they may encounter in their future jobs by emphasizing the development of essential skills required for an advanced pharmacy practitioner: independent practice skills, multi-tasking and prioritization. During ambulatory care experiences, the resident will learn to integrate psychopharmacology knowledge in the care of specialty clinic patient populations.
The resident will be provided with two-three six-week elective rotations during the residency year. The other electives can be selected from the list below (additional rotations may be available).
Teaching is a large component of our program. The PGY2 resident will have many opportunities to precept/teach and their training will include learning how to incorporate teaching into their clinical responsibilities. UC San Diego is a teaching institution affiliated with UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (SSPPS) and UCSD School of Medicine. The PGY2 psychiatry resident will be a conference facilitator for 3rd year pharmacy students at UCSD SSPPS for the Therapeutics Course (Psychiatry/Neurology Modules). The resident will be required to participate in weekly preconferences and serve as a facilitator for a group of students. The resident will create patient case and SOAP keys for teaching purposes and may assist with creating/grading oral and written exams and simulation exercises. The resident will also be given opportunities to provide didactic lectures within the course. The PGY2 resident will also have multiple opportunities to precept 4th year SSPPS pharmacy students and PGY1 pharmacy practice residents, as well as to work with UCSD physician interns, residents and fellows on most, if not all, rotations. In addition, the resident will be asked to give many educational lectures to their colleagues throughout their residency year.
Grand Rounds: The resident will deliver a 1-hour CE lecture to the pharmacy staff regarding a topic in psychiatry. Allied health professionals are welcome to attend. Presentations are accredited for continuing education through California Accreditation for Pharmacy Education (CAPE).
M&M/ Medication Safety Related Topic: The resident is required to provide one medication safety related topic presented to pharmacists, faculty, preceptors, residents, students, and technicians. The resident will be assigned a topic and present during their Administration rotation. Topics will be assigned by the M&M preceptor, Medication Safety Specialist, Dr. Sally Rafie.
Psychiatry Clinical Forums/Journal Club: The resident is required to present 3 "mini" grand rounds and 3 journal club presentations during the year at our Psychiatry Clinical Forum. The mini grand rounds are 20-minute lectures on various didactic topics related to the ASHP supplemental standard for an Advanced Practice Residency in Psychiatry and will be relevant to the patient population the resident is currently involved with from a rotational perspective. The objective of journal club will be to select and critically review a recently published journal article related to psychiatry/neurology.
Outreach Presentation: Residents participate in community outreach programs addressing the public regarding neuropsychiatric disease prevention and wellness promotion.
In-Services: Residents are required to provide several medication and/or disease state in-services to medical teams, students, pharmacy preceptors and pharmacy staff as assigned by preceptors. Topics will be based on requests by the nursing or medical staff, recommendations from the resident, or assigned by the preceptor.
The PGY2 resident has the option of participating in the San Diego Pharmacy Residency Leaders (SDPRL) Teaching Certificate Program which includes a seminar series with residents from other county-wide residency programs. Seminar topics will focus on teaching and preceptor development. Alternatively, the resident may select certain seminars to attend based on his/her interest areas.
The resident will be responsible for conducting 1 research project throughout the academic year that will be presented at the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists (CPNP) Annual . The resident is expected to submit the research findings to a peer-reviewed journal for publication. A list of project ideas will be generated from the preceptors and resident is expected to select a project during the first month of the residency year.
The resident will be required to write a manuscript suitable for publication by the end of the residency year. The purpose of this requirement will be the development of scientific writing and communication skills. The types of publishable literature can include any of the following types of manuscripts:
Residents complete a concentrated training rotation. During training, the resident will work with members of the Pharmacy Staff in the Central Dispensing Area, as well as with several of the floor pharmacists, to gain an insight into the clinical and distributional functions of the centrally and floor based practitioners. The resident will learn to manage and supervise the medication dispensing and delivery activities of the pharmacy technicians. The PGY2 resident will be trained to cover the psychiatric/medicine units at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest during the residency year. The PGY2 resident will be required to staff 16 weekends (which includes 1 minor holiday weekend AND 1 major holiday). The resident will receive 13 paid days for holidays and 12 sick days for the academic year. Vacation time will be in accordance with GME rules and will be defined as 20 days of vacation PLUS 5 days for professional leave to attend meetings or conferences.
The resident will have the opportunity to attend various professional meetings throughout the year. Resident receives an annual travel stipend that is variable based on available funding. The resident will receive a set stipend for the year which can be used at his/her discretion for registration, travel, accommodations, etc. The cost of attending the CPNP Annual Meeting (or an equivalent conference) will be deducted from the travel stipend, along with any other conferences the resident chooses to attend. Attendance at CPNP Annual Meeting is mandatory along with one additional meeting for recruitment purposes.
Our PGY2 Psychiatric Pharmacy resident completing this program will be advanced practitioners proficient to:
Our resident will learn to provide concise, applicable, comprehensive, accurate, and timely responses to requests for drug information pertaining to the care of individuals with psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders by using appropriate biomedical literature and assist the organization in achieving compliance with regulatory requirements related to the use of psychiatric and neuropsychiatric medications.
By consistently using an efficient and comprehensive pharmacy practice methodology, our graduating residents will become leaders in medication safety and have enhanced patient outcomes by integrating patient- and evidence-based disease-specific pharmacotherapy at the level of an advanced practitioner in various neuropsychiatric settings.
Our graduating residents will effectively strengthen their knowledge, skills, and abilities in all key areas of practice management. These areas would include, among others, exploring their own professional growth improving the quality of one's own self-assessment, developing effective negotiation skills to resolve conflicts, and demonstrating a commitment to advocacy for the optimal care of patients.
Our graduating residents will become proficient in educating health care professionals, patients, and students on psychiatric and neurologic topics. Our residents will also be able to provide concise and accurate responses to requests for psychopharmacology drug information from health care providers.
Our graduating resident will contribute to the maintenance of the organization's formulary for medications used in individuals with psychiatric and neuropsychiatric disorders by recommending modifications to the organization's formulary and identifying alternatives to medications in real/hypothetical shortage situations.
Our graduating residents will learn skills to be able to participate in continuous quality improvement (CQI) projects and psychiatric pharmacy practice research projects using effective project management skills. The resident will learn knowledge and skills required to conduct research in a responsible and ethical manner.


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In Athletics, Cajuns Have the Right to Say "We ARE Louisiana" – From the Bird's Nest
Every so often, the debate on what Louisiana's athletic teams call themselves and what they SHOULD be calling themselves comes to the surface.
Kind of like gout. Or shingles.
But this time, it's gotten blown WAY out of proportion.
There are plenty of rumors going around about the latest tete-a-tete. Some of the stories you see have facts in them. Some do not.
Now, before anyone writes another editorial on what the university should be called, let me educate you on one thing. What the university calls itself from an athletic standpoint is separate from what they call themselves in all other phases of the university. There is a statement in the law regarding athletics, but, according to most people who have a clue, it once again refers to "University of" and not simply "Louisiana."
That's the first and most important thing you need to know. If you write an editorial regardless of where you're located and don't understand this fact, then you have little credibility.
And, before we go any further, let me give you full disclosure. This is an opinion piece based on the facts. And, the first person to publicly refer to the Ragin' Cajuns athletic teams as Louisiana was me... The day the name change went into effect. On that date, I asked the administration how they wanted to be referred. The response was how they DIDN'T want to be referred: Don't ever call us ULL (UL Lafayette was presumably okay) and don't ever call us just 'Lafayette', as that is another institution entirely. (Easton, PA, where they make baseball bats).
There were two stories in the last few days concerning what UL (yep, I called them UL...because I can) is doing to try to brand themselves athletically as 'Louisiana.' The Advertiser's Tim Buckley wrote an article referencing a statement saying the Sun Belt takes no position on the issue.
THAT statement was in response, we assume, to a tweet by ESPN play-by-play man Joe Davis, saying the conference office along with the worldwide leader had given the edict that Louisiana-Lafayette be used.
Joe was half right. Davis formerly worked as the voice of the Sun Belt Network. At the time, former Commissioner Wright Waters was adamant that Louisiana-Lafayette and the dreaded ULL be used. Davis, I assume, assumed the policy was still in place.
The Monroe News-Star, like the Advertiser, is owned by Gannett. The beat writer who covers the University of Louisiana at Monroe, Tabby Soignier, wrote an article as well, and had many quotes from North Louisiana legislators who suddenly, after fourteen years, are speaking on the issue. Naturally, the article was not favorable to UL (I can legally say that) or its efforts and was approached by the legislators as a "letter of the law" issue.
Which, when it comes to athletics, has nothing to do with any of that.
(It should be noted that both Buckley and Soignier, in addition to being professional colleagues, are also personal friends of mine. I, neither professionally or personally, have any issue with the articles that were written.)
Naturally, folks in Monroe are incensed by the "controversy." And, folks in Acadiana have taken Soignier off their Christmas card list.
UL's (man, there I go again) aggressiveness in using the brand "Louisiana" for athletics has become more pointed in the last four or five years. After understanding they were breaking no laws, the sports information department began requesting "Louisiana" be used.
And, with exception of long-time Sun Belt foes and schools in Louisiana, the request has been honored. Arkansas, Kansas State, Akron, Texas State and Western Kentucky have all referred to the Ragin' Cajuns as Louisiana on their websites and fact sheets. They also got that respect by public address announcers. Note: At no time did anyone ask that the school be referred to as "The University of Louisiana."
It's a very slow educational process. but it's taking root.
While other schools around the state have their issue with "Louisiana," ULM seems to have the biggest problem with it... And as a member of the same conference, that's understandable. But while the squawking continues from Ouachita Parish, here's what many have forgotten, or perhaps didn't even know.
ULM tried like hell to be known as Louisiana themselves.
Don't believe it? Check out the history of the helmets used. After the name change, the football helmets simply said "Louisiana" with an arrow running through it. The baseball caps were an L with a feather coming out. A couple of other uniforms said Louisiana as well.
But, when the school formerly known as Indians were told by NCAA mandate to change its mascot, ULM made what I thought was an excellent marketing decision. Their thought was, there's more than one Louisiana, but there's only one ULM. They changed the mascot to Warharks, designed a new logo and created a new brand.for themselves.
And frankly, I thought it was very, very well done. The logo was sharp and unique. The nickname was unique as well. They asked to be known as ULM. Not "Monroe" not "Louisiana-Monroe." And, people complied with the request, including the fans in Acadiana.
But that decision left "Louisiana" to the Ragin' Cajuns. And, they got more aggressive in creating their brand. In logos. In facilities. In apparel. In uniforms.
And, they complied with the law. If you look at apparel that is sold, Louisiana, Ragin' Cajuns and combinations of the above are all used, legally. But if apparel has the UL insignia, you'll find "Lafayette" underneath. Legal as well.
Notice, I've talked about nothing but athletics here, right? Good. Just checking.
And so it continues. Or, in this case, reappears. Like psoriasis. And, still, folks outside of Acadiana still don't understand "Louisiana" is NOT the same as "The University of". And, while one may imply the other, that isn't illegal, either.
This blog will not make folks in Lake Charles, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Hammond, Thibodaux, Natchitoches, Ruston and Monroe suddenly comply with UL's (oh, gosh, there I go again) request to be known as "Louisiana."
But now, they just might know what they're talking about when they bring the issue up.
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My house smelled divine while this was baking! How did yours turn out? Is it a keeper?
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I made mine gluten free, the family loved it, but they want more rhubarb jam next time :) It was devoured in record time!
Oh, my goodness, I LOVED this stuff! It was so very easy to make (although my hand started to cramp while grating the dough – haha) and very delicious!! I will DEFINITELY be making this again!!
Yes, a keeper…but with a few adjustments…
I did make a few adjustments/…I reduced the sugar by a quarter… but yes the house was smelling of butter.. and I think that's why it was much appreciated at home…
I used store bought plum conserve and did not dust the bars with sugar…felt they looked pretty just as they were!!! :)
I almost didn't make this because of the pound of butter and because I don't like shortbread (too dry). But I'm glad I did, because it was really good. I am shocked that I managed to not eat the entire thing since I made it on Friday (am sending the rest to work with hubby tomorrow). I made cranberry jam since I had no rhubarb and tons of cranberries. And I used my food processor to grate the dough, so it was super easy. I'd make it again for super special occasions.
This lovely "shortbread" is light and delicious. This one is definitely a keeper and the possibilities for fillings are endless. As usual, I am amazed at the creativity this group of bakers brings to the table! Here is a little history on how Gale Gand acquired the recipe:
Definitely a keeper but with some "reductions".
I've cut down on sugar and butter and tasted really really yummy
Nice to be baking along with you.
Would you mind sharing specifics?
I was planning on writing a comment earlier but I was still in a sugar/butter induced coma, but a totally worth it coma. The house smelled amazing and my husband growled when I suggested we share some, so it is a keeper.
I thought it was great and surprisingly easy, definitely a keeper. Would be a nice addition to any tea, cookie bar, or even after-dinner.
I do think it's kind of funny how many of us are gobsmacked by the amount of butter, though. It's *shortbread*. What, you want it light? :D
Hi Everyone – Patricia from ButterYum here. This is my first time joining the group. I baked half the recipe in an 8-inch square pan and used sugar-free raspberry jam that I had in the fridge. Delish!!
This turned out soooo well! I cringe a little at the butter content, but oh well ;) I have to say… I'm amazed each week at the incredible variety that everyone comes up with in these recipes! Both in terms of adjustments we make to the recipe to suit taste/dietary needs/what we have on hand/etc, and also just in how each batch turns out… it's incredible! :) Totally loving baking with you all!
Our post won't appear 'til Friday – I wrote down the post date as May 7th and realized my mistake when I started to see everyone else's posts. From what I can see, we're in for a treat!
Oh no! I somehow had it in my head that this recipe was due on Tuesday, May 8th. I've been so, so busy with school and making the Hungarian Shortbread for the recipe group was the thing I was really looking forward to doing on Monday after my last final exam :( I'll still make it anyway but it isn't the same. Good to know most people liked the recipe, it looks so yummy! I love rhubarb. Now I just need to find some, we don't even have leaves on the trees yet where I live (Alaska) so fresh rhubarb is still a ways off.
I just made this for Mother's Day and it was delicious. Only made a half recipe and did it in a tart-shaped pan. I'll post my adventure tomorrow or the following Tuesday. (OK to post on any Tuesday?)