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Battle at Dam No. 4
"Battle at Dam No. 4, Potomac River, between Butterfield's brigade and a large Confederate force. A desperate and disastrous action occurred on the banks of the Potomac, at Dam No. 4. General Butterfield's brigade, consisting of the Forty-fourth New York, Seventeenth New York, Eighteenth Massachusetts and One Hundred and Eighteenth Pennsylvania, were ordered to make a reconnoissance on the Virginia side. Crossing over at Dam No. 4, which is about six miles northwest in a straight line from Sharpsburg, and eight south from Williamsport, they had hardly landed when a most murderous fire was opened upon them from an entire division of the Confederate army, every volley of which told, as they had the Federals completely under range. The Federals made a desperate resistance, but they were compelled to retire before superior numbers, and retreated in moderate order across the river." —Leslie, 1896
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OneMy lungs and eyes burn white hot. I feel younger, as if I have been reborn. The chaos that is my mind evens out, becomes clearer. I feel as if chains of doubt are lifted from my very being; I am becoming light as a feather. Memories, emotions, power; these things course through my veins, energizing me. I am detached from this world… I am powerful… and yet…What measure is a god?As this mass of knowledge, this whirlwind of memories, this grand collection of souls courses into my body, this is the one thought, the only wonder that crosses my mind. The three beings standing before me, soldiers of my enemy, weapons raised as they watch, shocked, as I become one with the monster that has murdered so many within their little city… They do not threaten me. 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Her eyes glare at me through her Ruru, though I can tell that she is uncertain. She does not know what I am now. Not anymore. We have come a long way since she first met me. I am far more powerful now. I had hinted that this would happen when we first spoke. She did not listen. I am unfazed by her glare.To her left stands a Toa of Ice, white and silver-armored and scythe-wielding. His hood hides parts of his face, though I know what he feels. He does not fear me. I am but a remaining obstacle in this mission; he knows as well as I that I am the one thing standing between this group and Lyxek's finale. I do not intend on letting them through. I will be the one to finish our common enemy off; I will become immortal. The Dark Hunter thinks otherwise. He has struck down a monster before; I, too, will be struck down by his hand… or so he thinks. He is overconfident.At Sanshou's right stands another being. Another Dark Hunter; another female. She is a Toa, as well; her armor is silver and turquoise. Unlike her companion, she does not wear a hood. Her Mask of Emulation is completely visible; I can tell that she intends to use it against me. Unfortunately, it will not work; I am not affected by masks. I am a god; I make the rules now. And in my rules, my universe, Kanohi, keepers of identity, have no place. No one can hide from me anymore. Faces will be revealed, corpses turned about. Those who defy such laws will quickly be cast out, devoured.My partner says something to me; I do not hear it. It is drowned in my thoughts, and those of these new spirits, as I observe the soldiers. One of my partners has fled; the broken Toa, too cowardly, too fearful to risk staying near me. Perhaps he bears some sense in his shattered mind. A shame; when once I knew him he was so much more… and look at him now. My remaining partner says something again. I ignore him; he moves forward. As he does, I become aware once more of the gauntlet he wears.He says something. His voice is drowned by my thoughts. That gauntlet glistens in what light remains from the sun above us. It is powerful… I am powerful… I could become more powerful through it… "D…ia…?" He reaches out to me, seeks to snap me out of my trance. A foolish move, on par with offering a hand to a Takea…My apologies, I telepathically say in his head. This increase in power allows me to transmit the message in milliseconds. He has no time to comprehend this before I make my move.His scream of pain brings my senses back to normal. My face is expressionless at the sound. A mist of red and black dissipates in the air; my hand, held flat and sideways, is in the air, held aloft by my straightened arm, my slicing action invisible at the speed I can now move. My partner's is not so lucky. He stumbles back, clutching his wrist; his armored hand is gone. I raise my free hand, catching the severed one with ease; these tendrils of energy certainly make the task easier, carrying it into my palm, wrist first, without difficulty. Ignoring the fluid leaking from the severed wrist, I observe the glove. It is indeed powerful; a local creation, designed by my former master. Using cards, it implants powers into its wearer. It will suit me just as well as it had my partner…My nanobots surge forward, disintegrating the remains of the hand within the gauntlet, allowing me to slip it onto my own left hand. The warriors stare on with shock and disgust; I pay no heed. As my hand comes into contact with the inside of the glove, the locks activate. The Coder has become one with my being – and now I turn to deal with the others, ignoring the curses and growls from the downed Vailian."I recall you saying something a while ago, Sanshou…" I say quietly to the middle, green-armored warrior, my voice barely audible over the soft wind. A multitude of voices mixes with my own, creating an ethereal effect in the air around me; or perhaps that is just my imagination… "That we mortals were doomed to die, to be outlived by gods…" I raise my arms, my wings spanning out behind me. "But you fail to realize… we have the potential to become like those we worship. I am all-powerful now. I am the Mortal God. We are as One; and I am One… Forever…"She shakes her head, clenching her teeth. This amuses me. "You're insane," she says. I notice her grip tighten on the daggers in her hands. My mind brushes against hers. She is nervous; I can feel it. "You aren't a god, Dalmia; you're-""I'm what?" I interrupt her, taking a slow step forward. The three shift uncomfortably as I near. "I'm a monster? A fool? No…" I raise a hand toward her, my palm outstretched. "I'm one. I'm all encompassing. And you shall join with me." A soft green aura emanates from my being, dust-like in appearance; then a burst of energy shoots forward, a phantasm shape resembling my hand and forearm. It strikes Sanshou, stunning her as I intended, prompting them into action. She recovers; they move to attack me. A hand of ice emerges from behind me, aiming to crush my body. A blast of some sort of energy surges forth, attempting to destroy my mind. A knife is thrown toward my abdomen, a blade to impale my spirit.My expression remains blank as I will energy to lance forth. A glowing sphere appears around me, tendrils of darkness and pure energy arcing from my body and striking it, disintegrating and disrupting all of their attacks. The protective sphere strikes them all, knocking them back with such force that they can barely scream upon impact. Vailian, too, is caught in the blast; it knocks him away, out of sight.They are gone. I hear their screams and shouts of surprise as their life force rapidly drains away, causing their bodies to transform into stone. I hear their final thoughts… no; I devour them. So delicious… uncertainty; regret; sadness… I want more… and I shall get it, as they become another set of souls for me to take…Why?How?This can't be happening…It can't end now!It is too late for them now. They are gone. I lower my hand, willing my destructive field back into my being. The ground, once cool and covered in wet snow, is now scorched; a direct result of my release of energy. I feel no regret for my actions. I have risen above the limitations of normal beings. I am above Toa, above Artanians, above Skakdi and Vortixx, above Makuta and even – dare I say it? – Mata Nui himself. I am a god. I am perfection.I feel no regret.Thunder sounds above my head, deep within the clouds. I turn, staring up at the large mountain behind me, from which the shadowy clouds grow and expand. Therein lays the fabled Heart of Shadow, the Coeur d'Ombre. There lies my former master. Even now he seeks to reawaken He Who Once Was, the keeper of the grave. Soon, both halves of the Heart will be activated, as per the plan. Soon, the ultimate power will be unleashed, free to be taken.Soon, absolute power will fall into the hands of a mortal. The true power of the gods who once helped to shape this universe will become just another tool in the hands of the Toa.And soon, it will be mine. For I am the new Forever One… and so I will forever remain… I will change this universe. I will recreate it; build it in my own image. I will bring peace and tranquility to this world. Freewill shall be destroyed, replaced with obedience and trust. War will become little more than a nightmare, a thing of fear, a shadow in the corner, never spreading. I will become the ultimate power in the world, and all will bow before me. Light and shadow shall balance, creating a world of neutrality and equality. Or perhaps I'll simply break it further… only to rebuild it again… and again… and again… And I can…For I am the Forever One. The perfect being. A power absolute in its existence.
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Complete Results
IRVINE, Calif. -- The UC Santa Barbara Track and Field team completed day one of the Big West Championships with several strong performances. Currently the men have 55.5 points and women have racked up 34 points, both placing second in overall team score.
Snita Ashford qualified for the 100 meter dash with her time of 12.10 in the preliminaries and Beidi Beer qualified with his time of 10.78. Lauren Kodama ran 56.08 in the 400 meter dash and will compete in tomorrow's finals. James Martin ran 49.34 to qualify for the finals and Winton Nguyen ran 49.93 for fifth in his heat. Jessica Johnson ran 56.59 and Camille Petty ran 57.34. Jacob Vowels qualified for the 200 meters with his time of 22.11.
In the 800 meters, Cassie Brooker ran 2:12.54 and earning second in her heat while Justine Diaz ran 2:12.51 to place first in her heat. Sarah Vitug ran 2:12.25 and will join Brooker and Diaz in the finals tomorrow. For the men, Rusty Parker ran 1:51.90 while Ryan Martin finished in 1:50.42 to place first in his heat followed by Greg Dotson who ran 1:52.28.
Megan Petkovic finished fourth in her heat in the 1,500 meters with a time of 4:42.89 and will compete in the finals tomorrow. Callie Mulgannon qualified as well and ran a personal best of 4:40.21.
Breanne Strenkowski brought home a huge win and conference title in the 10,000 meters with her first place time of 34:57.59 and 12 seconds ahead of her nearest competitor. Danielle Moreno ran 35:55.84, Ari Selix ran 37.04.23 and Christine Cooperstein ran 37:37.40. For the men, Bhavik Kanzaria ran 30:46.03 in the 10,000 meters and earned seventh place. Michael Wysocki finished in 31:25.92 and Jeremy Acosta finished in 32:16.35.
Sean Johnson ran 14.89 in the 110 meter hurdles and Jessica Bragg ran 15.02 in the 100 meter hurdles . Alvin Go finished fifth in his heat in the 400 meter hurdles with a qualifying time of 53.87. Both Aislynn Mueller and Emily Gordon qualified in heat one of the 400 meter hurdles with their times of 62.25 and 63.14 respectively. Amanda Rodriguez qualified as well with her time of 62.37.
The highlights of the day were in the men's and women's steeplechase finals with Anthony Masci fighting hard until the end to earn a conference title and beating his personal best by 12 seconds. Julian deRuibra earned second place in the steeple with a time of 9:08.70 after not running for nearly six weeks due to injury. The women's race was just as spectacular as Andrea Jacobs crushed her previous best time by 20 seconds to finish second overall in 10:28.32. Ari Selix also had a strong performance, running 10:43.82 and setting a new personal record by 14 seconds and earning fourth overall.
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IT'S the traditional greeting for the coming of summer, but this year the Ebor Morris dancers used the May Day celebrations to mark an anniversary of their own.
This year marks the group's 40th birthday, and on May 1 dancers and musicians who have been part of the Ebor troupe across the years gathered to mark the occasion.
The group danced at the Lord Collingwood pub in Poppleton, the site of their first ever gathering, and member Tony Fenech said they saw old faces reappearing.
The May Day celebrations continue this weekend with a newer tradition which sees the dancers tour York performing around the bar walls.
Tony said: "The traditional thing to do is get up at the crack of dawn and go out into the hills. We tried that once and didn't like it, so this is a bit more civilised."
The dancers and musicians will meet at Walmgate bar at 11am on Sunday and head around the walls, performing at each bar and on the walls where space allows.
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Voyager 1 crosses the final frontier
So, it's official at last: NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft is the first man-made object to have left the solar system for the dark and mysterious realm of interstellar space.
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Melbourne University astrophysicist Alan Duffy says: "Not even NASA expected the craft to withstand the harsh environment of space for 36 years, much less bring fascinating results back of the kind of environment that exists beyond our solar system."
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Others say it's bounded by the outer edge of the heliosphere, where the sun's sphere of influence, through the solar wind, peters out. That gives a diameter of more than 27 billion kilometres.
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European Commission
Brussels, 22 January 2014
Questions and answers on the price report
Why is the Commission presenting this study now?
Rising energy prices are a major concern for European governments, citizens and businesses and they affect Europe's global competitiveness.
Europe has to invest billions of euros in the modernisation of its grid, new electricity infrastructure, gas import routes and low-carbon technologies. This creates costs, all of which have to be paid for, mainly via consumers' bills.
This study will help policy makers understand the context of recent price rises and their impact on energy consumers. It will ensure that policy decisions rely on thorough evidence-based economic analyses. Moreover, it provides an insight in price developments in an international context.
The report is also a response to the European Council in May 2013 which called on the Commission to carry out an in-depth analysis of the evolution of energy prices and costs in Europe.
What is the scope of the report?
The report mainly deals with electricity and gas prices, in particular it analyses how retail and wholesale prices have evolved in recent years in EU Member States. It explains in detail the drivers behind the price evolution and compares the situation in different EU Member States.
In addition, since our bills reflect total costs, rather than just prices, the report takes a closer look at energy costs of households and industrial customers, including energy intensive industries. It also compares the price landscape of the EU with that of other global economies. In the end it provides an insight into possible consequences of future price rises.
As there are no big discrepancies between oil and coal prices across the globe, these sectors are not specifically addressed.
What is the difference between energy costs and energy prices?
If energy prices rise, consumers can try to switch suppliers or pay more attention to their energy consumption, in particular by using smart meters. Smart meters can also help consumers shift their energy consumption to times of lower prices. By improving energy efficiency (i.e. through buying energy efficient products or by behavioural changes), consumers can help mitigate rises in energy prices and lower their energy costs.
What are the main recommendations of the report to keep energy bills in check?
The main proposals are:
The EU and Member States need to further assess and compare network costs and practices. More convergence in network practices (tariff regimes, network codes, integration of renewables) across Europe can improve efficiency, reduce network costs and thus reduce prices.
Which components make up the energy bill?
In general, energy bills consist of three parts:
These elements may vary, depending on market conditions and government policy.
The fuel cost is usually the largest element of the energy price, but in recent years its share has fallen while the share of taxes and network costs has increased.
How have prices developed?
Between 2008 and 2012 on average Europe has seen a significant rise in retail prices for households and industry.
Over the same period, wholesale electricity prices declined by one-third and wholesale gas prices remained the same. For electricity, wholesale prices in Europe declined over the period, are relatively low and are of a roughly comparable level to wholesale electricity prices in the US.
In the case of electricity retail prices, the energy component largely shadowed wholesale power prices. However, higher network tariffs and energy taxes/renewable subsidies significantly contributed to higher final retail prices.
Meanwhile, for gas retail prices, the energy component remained stable. Network costs and taxation elements had a relatively limited impact on price rises.
It is important to note that there are significant differences in price volatility across different industry sectors.
What is the reason for the large differences between individual EU Member States?
There are different influences on all three elements of the price: energy costs differ according to the fuel mix of a country; network costs also differ according to the quality, age and other characteristics of the network. Taxes and levies vary depending on how governments have decided to finance their general expenditure and energy/climate specific policies and measures.
With the energy element of price however, one of the results of better market integration should be more convergence across Member States. Such convergence is evident in wholesale markets, but is less clear, or even absent in retail markets. This confirms the Commission's concerns that markets are not working properly. It shows that competition is weak and so market forces are less effective at keeping costs down.
Why did the energy prices rise? Which elements have increased?
In the case of electricity and natural gas, price differences across different world regions have always existed, but the last few years these seem to be growing. For example, EU gas prices are sometimes linked to the (rising) global oil price, which is defined by global events. The shale gas boom in the US has brought gas prices down there, while sharply increased gas demand in Japan in the aftermath of Fukushima nuclear power plant accident has pushed up gas prices in Asia.
Whilst the energy cost element is still the largest part of the price in most Member States, rises have been highest in the taxes and levies elements. This includes taxes to reflect environmental costs and levies to finance certain low carbon energy and energy efficiency investments.
The network cost element of prices also rose, due to both rising maintenance and grid expansion costs as well as other costs sometimes incorporated into network costs and tariffs (e.g. production costs for electricity from Renewable Energy Sources). For example, between 2008 and 2012 the electricity network costs for retail customers rose by 18,5% for households and 30% for industry (before industry exemptions are taken into account).
Why did retail prices increase despite market liberalisation?
First, in some markets, competition between suppliers is extremely limited. Regulated prices and passive consumers also reduce incentives for competition. More market opening is needed to create incentives for new entrants, to increase competition and choice for consumers. This would encourage energy suppliers to improve their efficiency, lower their costs and so compete on price. This is beginning to happen in Europe – consumers have a growing number of suppliers and may now switch between them.
Second, even where there is competition, energy companies may face additional and unavoidable network costs due to the need to maintain and expand grids or deploy innovative, but more expensive technologies, such as renewables.
Third, when governments add taxes or levies, prices by nature rise for all suppliers, irrespective of the level of competition or market liberalisation.
Why are lower wholesale prices not passed on to consumers on retail level?
As in other industries, retail prices do not always reflect the developments at the wholesale markets. There are four main reasons for this:
How do energy prices in the EU compare with prices in other major economies?
Since 2007 wholesale gas prices have increased everywhere across the globe, except in North America. The price discrepancies between different regions have existed for decades, but the gap has been growing during recent years, in particular because of the USA's access to cheaper domestic shale gas resources. At the same time, some European long term gas supply contracts are at fixed higher prices, or at prices fixed to rising oil prices. These supplies are not able to take advantage of global reductions in gas prices.
Broadly speaking, today EU industry pays three to four times higher gas prices than industry in the US, India or Russia. The prices for EU industry are 12% higher than in China, but similar to those in Brazil and lower than in Japan.
At present exchange rates, EU industrial electricity prices (before taking account of tax or levy exemptions for energy intensive industries) are more than twice those in the US and Russia, 20% higher than China's but 20% lower than those in Japan. Here again, lower US and Russian gas prices (and subsequent lower coal prices) have helped bring down those countries' electricity prices.
It is difficult to compare like with like, due to cost of living and exchange rate differences. For example, although our power prices seem high compared to other regions, in the majority of Member States the supply of electricity (based on interruptions/fluctuations) is more reliable than that of the US and Japan, China and Russia. So to some extent we are paying for higher quality electricity supplies.
How do increased price gaps between the EU and its global competitors affect competitiveness?
Higher production costs for one manufacturer may present an advantage for his competitor. So for industries where energy costs are a significant component of production costs (i.e. for several energy intensive industries, such as glass, ceramics, aluminium steel etc.) rising price differentials can have a negative impact on competitiveness.
The EU has until now retained the lead in exports of energy intensive goods. But European industry's efforts to compensate for higher energy costs through constant energy efficiency improvements may need to go even further, bearing in mind physical limits, as competitors also increase their efficiency and as European industry decides to invest abroad to be closer to expanding markets.
What does the study predict about future trends?
The analysis confirms the Commission's 2050 analysis that energy prices will continue to rise in the short term – mainly due to rising fossil fuel prices as well as the need to invest in networks and in new power generation.
What is the political follow up to this report?
The report will be discussed by Head of State or Government at the European Council in March and by stakeholders.
The study will also contribute to the debate on the Commission's energy and climate proposals for 2030.
The aim is to use it to help develop an ambitious but credible climate and energy 2030 framework that is cost-effective and does not undermine European competitiveness. A thorough understanding of the evolution of energy prices and costs is an important part of this process.
More information
The full report on "Energy prices and costs in Europe" can be found here:
More information on the Commission's guidance to Member States on state intervention in electricity markets and the design and reform national support schemes for renewables here:
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
Israel's Water Authority on Monday officially declared the national water crisis to be over, and lifted its "severe drought advisory."
"The water crisis is over" and the situation is stable, but Israelis must not become complacent lest the nation find itself in a drought situation again, stated Water Authority Head Alexander Kushner.
Israel has suffered from dryer than usual winters for the past seven years, resulting in an overdraft of its national reservoirs, in particular the Sea of Galilee.
But, heavy winters rains and snow this year, combined with increased desalination efforts and conservatory behavior on the part of the public, has brought the Sea of Galilee to within two meters (six feet) of its capacity. Experts believe the lake will fill the rest of the way when the winter snow atop the Golan Heights melts later this year.
Over the past seven dry years, Israel established three large desalination plants along its Mediterranean coast that today provide the nation with nearly half of its drinking water. Two more plants are scheduled to come online in the near future.
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Firstly, many events affecting the nation and the lives of the French people occur or find their origin in the outside world: it is of the utmost necessity to foresee these events so as to better envision their consequences and the means required to aptly face these cases.
Secondly, in the context of a parliamentary diplomacy in expansion, the Senate has a role to play in order to contribute to the development of the influence of our country in foreign countries.
Lastly, the Senate's experience, in the realm of representing territorial entities and defending freedoms as well as, on a larger scale, in the field of legislative action and governmental control, renders it a greatly appreciated interlocutor and partner among foreign Parliaments; the Senate also ranks among the best defender of the bicameral idea in the world.
This outward-looking approach is not only reflected in the upgrading of the standard forms of international activities but also in the development of new initiatives.
international action of the Senate is organised around several
areas : the activity of both the President and the
standing committees, the senators representing natives
established outside France, the action of senatorial friendship
groups, the organization of economic meetings, the technical
interparliamentary cooperation, the participation of senatorial
delegations to the works of international institutions...
Assemblée Parlementaire de la Francophonie
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The presidential activity
The President of the Senate devotes a great deal of its schedule to the apprehension of international relations. This activity is marked by a lot of audiences held at the Palace of the Small Luxembourg, foreign trips in answer to governmental or parliamentary invitations and also the reception of parliamentary delegations in the Senate.
The activity of the Senate Committees abroad
The standing committees fully participate in international activities by sending, under the authorisation of the Senate, some of their members in order to study on the spot questions belonging to their scope of competence. Such visits allow senators to have a better knowledge of the situation on the field and to analyse the answers those countries find to certain problems, that also face the national territory.
Interparliamentary groups
The interparliamentary
groups are set up on the initiative of one or more senators to develop
contacts, relations of mutual information, work and friendship with the
political and economic authorities and also with members of parliamentary
assemblies of countries or group of countries, with which
The organisation of international economic meetings
In addition to the traditional activities deployed by senatorial friendship groups, new initiatives are being developed with the support of the International Relations Department to give full justice to economic issues in the senatorial reflection. In that regard, economic gatherings are frequently held since 1997 with the partnership of UbiFrance (former Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur) ( UbiFrance).
The technical interparliamentary cooperation
The Senate is more and more frequently sought to grant its cooperation to the Parliaments of the new democracies or the countries engaged in the process of democratization. The variety of the requests epitomises the referential status, acquired under very different latitudes, of the parliamentary procedure put in place by the Senate and its working and organisational methods as well as the appreciation carried about the skills of the administrative personnel. The two-chamber system is finally a spreading model in the world and the new formed senatorial entities look quite normally, and whatever their composition be, toward the French Senate to benefit from its experience.
Senates of the world
The number of Parliaments made of two chambers rises unequivocally and inexorably: the bicameral scheme has been reproduced in the space of thirty years in thirty countries (from 40 in 1970). This tendency towards the growth of the two-chamber system was worth some thoughts on its foundations, its appraisal and its perspectives. This is why the French Senate took the lead in reuniting the Senates of the world at the advent of a third millenary (in 2000, quite a symbolic year).
The participation to the works of European and international organisms
Some senators join in the activities of the Interparliamentary Union (UIP), the Assembly of French-Speaking Parliaments (APF), the Assembly of the North Atlantic Trade Organisation, the Assembly of the European Council, the Assembly of the Union of Occidental Europe (UEO), the Assembly of the OSCE and the Conference of Specialised Organisms in Community Affairs (COSAC). Most of the time, they publish information reports on the works to which they have been associated on behalf of the Senate and the proceedings of the sessions of these organisms.
The Assembly of French-Speaking Parliamentarians (APF)
The APF, which reunites 70 sections coming from African, American, Asian, Oceanic and European Parliaments, and whose General Secretary is the French Senator Jacques Legendre, implements actions in the fields of interparliamentary cooperation and the reinforcement of democracy. The French section comprises 150 members, namely 90 deputies and 60 senators. The International Relations Department deals with its secretariat..


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Treatments for kidney cancer
If you have kidney cancer, your healthcare team will create a treatment plan just for you. It will be based on your needs and may include a combination of different treatments. When deciding which treatments to offer for kidney cancer, your healthcare team will consider:
- the stage of kidney cancer
- whether one or both of your kidneys are working
- whether the cancer is in one or both kidneys
- the type of kidney cancer
- your overall health
You may be offered the following treatments for kidney cancer.
Surgery is the primary treatment for kidney cancer. It is used to remove part or all of the kidney. This surgery is called nephrectomy. The type of nephrectomy you have will depend on the size of the tumour and stage of the cancer. For example, doctors will use a partial nephrectomy whenever possible to leave part of the kidney in place. In some cases, they need to use radical nephrectomy, which removes the whole kidney, to try to completely remove a kidney tumour.
In some cases, the doctor will also remove lymph nodes around the kidney. Surgery to remove the lymph nodes is called lymph node dissection, or lymphadenectomy.
Surgery may also be used to relieve pain or ease symptoms of advanced kidney cancer. This is called palliative surgery.
Targeted therapy
Targeted therapy uses drugs to target specific molecules (such as proteins) on or inside of cancer cells. By targeting these molecules, the drugs stop the growth and spread of cancer cells while limiting harm to normal cells. The type of targeted therapy used will depend on the type of kidney cancer, the level of risk and any targeted therapies you have already received.
Targeted therapy is used to treat kidney cancer that can't be completely removed with surgery because it has advanced too far. This includes cancer that has spread, or metastasized, to other parts of the body and kidney cancer that comes back, or recurs, after treatment.
Arterial embolization
A kidney tumour needs blood to grow. Arterial embolization is a procedure that blocks the blood supply to a kidney tumour. It may be done before surgery so there is less bleeding when a large kidney tumour is removed. It can also be used to relieve pain when someone with advanced kidney cancer can't have surgery.
Ablation therapy
Ablation therapy is a procedure that destroys kidney cancer cells, while preserving as much of the surrounding kidney tissue as possible. It isn't used very often to treat kidney cancer, but it may be offered to people who can't have surgery or who need to keep as much of their kidney as possible.
There are 2 types of ablation therapy used to treat kidney cancer. Radiofrequency ablation uses heat. Cryoablation uses cold.
Radiation therapy
External beam radiation therapy uses a machine outside the body to direct radiation at a tumour and surrounding tissue. It is not usually given to the tumour in the kidney itself but may be used to treat areas where the cancer has spread, especially the bone and brain.
Radiation therapy is also used to relieve pain or to control the symptoms of advanced kidney cancer.
Immunotherapy is a type of biological therapy that uses the immune system to help destroy cancer cells. Cancer, and some cancer treatments, can weaken the immune system. Sometimes the immune system doesn't recognize cancer cells as different, or foreign, and so it doesn't work to destroy them. Immunotherapy boosts the immune system to help it recognize and fight cancer cells.
There are 2 types of immunotherapy used in Canada: immune checkpoint inhibitors and cytokine drugs. Cytokine drugs are rarely used in Canada because targeted therapies are better at treating kidney cancer. It may be used in specialized centres that have experience using immunotherapy.
Follow-up care
Follow-up after treatment is an important part of cancer care. You will need to have regular follow-up visits, especially in the first 3 years after treatment has finished. These visits allow your healthcare team to monitor your progress and recovery from treatment.
Clinical trials
Some clinical trials in Canada are open to people with kidney cancer. Clinical trials look for new and better ways to prevent, find and treat cancer. Find out more about clinical trials.
Questions to ask about treatment
To make the decisions that are right for you, ask your healthcare team questions about treatment.
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City Releases $70+ Million in Bond Funds for Affordable Housing Projects
The solicitation is the first to make Bond funds available to private entities.Read More…
Phone: 503-823-2375
fax: 503-823-2387
421 SW 6th Avenue, Suite 500, Portland, OR 97204
Commissioner Dan Saltzman, Portland Housing Bureau Director Traci Manning and others from the Bureau and community celebrated the grand opening of Innovative Housing Inc.'s Magnolia Apartments, in the vibrant Eliot neighborhood.
PHB invested $975,000 of HOME funds for financing gap, which provided a 12-1 leverage of directly invested City funds. The City is also providing $531,315 of SDC exemptions. We invest in changing neighborhoods with high opportunity that are at risk of gentrification. That way, residents can continue to live in places with access to vibrant cultural resources, great schools, fresh food, living wage jobs and excellent public transit.
Magnolia offers new, all brick construction of 50 affordable housing units and 1,400 square feet of commercial office space in the close-in Northeast Eliot neighborhood. Rents will be less than half of nearby market rate housing that is quickly becoming inaccessible to lower–income households.
Magnolia puts a focus on affordable, workforce housing. There are 42 one-bedroom units and eight two bedroom/one bathroom apartments. Five units are set aside for people who have experienced homelessness and will be restricted as Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH).
The project is expected to receive Silver LEED certification and will comply with PHB requirements for sustainability and energy efficiency.
Innovative Houing Inc.'s Resident Service Program will provide comprehensive resident services, including new tenant orientations, information and resource referrals, eviction prevention and tenant education with a strong sustainability focus.
The units are completely leased up and tenants will move in this month!


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this was really helpful loved it and thank you so much, i have used this as a homework assignment about reading strategies!?!?!THANKYO SO MUCH
Blogs About Reading
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Dr. Joanne Meier
Along with her background as a professor, researcher, writer, and teacher, Joanne Meier is a mom. Join Joanne every week as she shares her experiences raising her own young readers, and guides parents and teachers on the best practices in reading.
The value of mixed practice in teaching reading
Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits is a timely reminder about a few techniques that can reliably improve how much a student learns from studying. Techniques include alternating study environments, spacing study sessions, self testing, and mixing content. The research on these techniques suggests that "forcing the brain to make multiple associations with the same material may, in effect, give that information more neural scaffolding." If the context changes, the information is enriched, and forgetting slows down. Sounds like what we know about good vocabulary instruction!
I think the same is true for teaching reading. As teachers, we need to make sure we're providing enough mixed practice for our kids. Practically speaking, it means finding time across the week for different types of reading. This includes:
- Silent and oral reading
- Fiction and nonfiction reading, including poetry
- Reading material for the first time
- Rereading material
- Navigating texts with various structures
- Reading for speed
- Reading for pleasure
- Shared reading and/or choral reading
That's a pretty healthy list of reading practice types! But I believe that the variation of material and format will help develop more flexible, successful readers. What do you think? What's missing from my list?


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Iowa Laws Affecting Conserved Funds
See Iowa Code § 633.12.(West, Westlaw through Acts of 2006 Reg. Sess. & 1st Ex. Sess.).
As a representative payee, you should be sending the conserved funds of a deceased beneficiary to the probate division of the district court of which the deceased individual was a resident.
If the deceased individual was not a resident of any county in Iowa, then the conserved funds should be sent to the district court in which the deceased left property subject to administration. The Iowa State Court system has a website which lists the district courts and the counties which they serve.
The Web site can be found at: http://www.iowacourts.gov/About_the_Courts/District_Courts/
State Laws
The appropriate place to send conserved funds in Iowa is to the probate division of the district court in which the estate is being probated.
§ 633.10. Jurisdiction
In addition to the jurisdiction granted the district court under the trust code, chapter 633A, or elsewhere, the district court sitting in probate shall have jurisdiction of: 1. Estates of decedents and absentees. The probate and contest of wills; the appointment of personal representatives; the granting of letters testamentary and of administration; the administration, settlement, and distribution of estates of decedents and absentees, whether such estates consist of real or personal property or both.
See Iowa Code § 633.10.1. (West, Westlaw through Acts of 2006 Reg. Sess. & 1st Ex. Sess.).
To determine which district court is probating the estate, the Iowa Code provides:
§ 633.12. County of jurisdiction.
The court of each county shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction to administer the estates of all persons who are residents of the county, or who were residents at the time of their death, and all nonresidents of the state who have property, or who die leaving property in the county subject to administration, or whose property is afterwards brought into the county; to appoint conservators for nonresidents having property in the county; and to appoint conservators and guardians of residents of the county.


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I bought my E1L Outdoorsman several years ago as a Boy Scout, and it served me faithfully on many long camping trips and other shenanigans my friends and I would pull. One night, back in college, my coveted light went missing. We searched for it for hours the next day, but to no avail. It had bugged me for the last two and a half years that my light went missing, but I was somehow able to move on. Well, a while back, one of my friends who owns the house where I lost the flashlight said he figured out what had been clogging his hot tub, and he pulled out my light! It had been submerged in his hot tub and withstood the freezing temperatures and hot water of that tub for over two years. Yet, when I hit the tailcap, it still worked! This sort of reliability has only cemented my confidence and loyalty to the SureFire brand. Thanks for making such a great product!
David P.
Auburn, AL
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It was November 21, 2009. We were all sitting down to our family dinner, me, my wife, and my three daughters. It wasn't but 10 minutes from when the kitchen door had closed and the food was on the table when we all noticed smoke coming through the cracks around the door. My wife opened the door, and all we saw was a wall of orange fire and black smoke coming out. The fire licked its way out along the ceiling and literally chased all of us out of the house. My Randall knife was by the door, so I grabbed it. We had three Chihuahuas in a side room of the house with a separate entrance. For whatever reason I could not get my key to work on the door, so I used the knife to break out a window. More smoke and flames billowed out, and I backed off. Not once did I ever hear my dogs cry or bark. It was as if they lied down quietly so as to not distract us so we could all get out of harm's way. I still well up to this day just thinking about that.
The fire department didn't let us in until the next day. Everything was pretty much gone; the house was a total loss. I noticed on the now-collapsed dinner table my SureFire M6® Guardian®, [now superseded by the M6LT Guardian--Ed.] standing upright. It had been in the living room, and I guess one of the firefighters must have placed it there. I pressed the switch and it lit right up. The lanyard was burned off, part of the rubber switch was melted, and the lens glass was smoky, but the light still worked. Where everything else was destroyed in the living room, only the SureFire M6 survived. A true testimony to the quality of the product.The only two items I have from before the fire are my Randall knife and SureFire M6, two things needed for emergencies. The M6 is now in my glove compartment, where it has come to good use numerous times since. I am an ordinary guy; I don't work tactical in any way. I just believe that the few items a man has should be the best quality he can afford. You have a customer for life, SureFire.
Ken K.
Honolulu, HI
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I was bicycling in Anchorage, Alaska, when I noticed a reflection in the road up ahead. It was so bright that I had to stop to see what was making such a bright reflection. To my surprise, it was a SureFire E1L Outdoorsman that had been dropped and was still on. Judging from the scuffed-up exterior and the broken pocket clip, the flashlight had clearly been run over a number of times, yet it was still working perfectly. I've had this light for two years now, and I tell everyone the story of how I came to acquire such a nice flashlight.
Randy S.
Aiken, SC
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I am a Master at Arms (Military Police) in the Navy Reserve, and I have been activated and currently deployed in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. One of the benefits of being stationed in the Caribbean is great SCUBA diving.
On one particular dive, our group was diving on a wreck, in 48 feet of water, when one of the ladies in the group found a Surefire WeaponLight on the ocean floor. It had apparently been down there for some time, based on all the build-up on it. When we resurfaced and got back on the boat, she took the light apart and wiped it down thoroughly to clean off the crud and dry it. When she put it back together and hit the on switch, it still worked!
Any product that's built with such quality and durability to withstand time on the bottom of the ocean is an outstanding product, in my book. When I return to the States next month, I will be saving up the money to buy a SureFire light for my civilian job. I most definitely will be carrying it with me all the time, especially on my next deployment.
Gary B., Petty Officer 2nd Class
High Point, NC
I had just received my SureFire E2DL and wanted to test its brightness, so I decided to go out to the mining tower on the edge of town. I spoke with some of the guys who were working, and they told me I could go down into the mine and test it in complete darkness. I rode down on the elevator, and when I reached the bottom and turned it on, it lit up the whole mining shaft!
After looking around for a few hours, I headed back up. On the way up, I realized my light had fallen out of my pocket. After searching the elevator and bottom of the shaft for hours, I finally gave up and headed home. The next day, someone was knocking on my door. It was the manager of the mines, holding my E2DL. He told me that they'd found the light under the elevator, jamming the gears. He was amazed that it hadn't been crushed under the pressure, and so was I. Thanks, SureFire, for making such elite products that I now know will survive just about anything.
Zachary R.
West Frankfort, IL
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While in the "Sand Pit," en route to our RV, unbeknownst to me I lost my SureFire E1B Backup® out the window of our Humvee. The second and third Humvee both ran it over, and the driver of the last truck saw it get run over and actually turn on, bouncing and spinning on the road surface until it came to rest on the shoulder. He could see a beam of light shining, so he stopped to pick it up. When we arrived at the RV, the driver told his story to us, and I immediately checked my vest pocket to find that my Backup was gone. The driver handed me the light it was dented and the window was broken, BUT IT STILL WORKED! Thanks for making such a great product. I still use it to this day, and I'm saving up for a new Defender®.
Kelvin M.
Bangkok, Thailand
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I'm contracted at a local nightclub as an I.T. Manager/Surveillance Director, and my best investment has been the E1B®. I am constantly asked by security guards, bartenders, and police officers that I come in contact with, after they see my little light, what type of flashlight I use. I've dropped it from various heights (accidentally) about thirty times. This light should have been called "The Survivor." It has been submerged in the pool, accidentally run over by my 3,500-pound sedan, even found tumbling in the washer with the pants. Without fail, every time I use it, IT WORKS. I am a very happy customer with the Backup from SureFire.
Eric R.
Miami, FL
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Last January, my E1L Outdoorsman was lost in a near white-out snowstorm. A week later, I was using a tempered steel shovel to remove an eight-inch-thick ice dam from a gutter by my sidewalk. I found what I first thought was a garden-hose connector looming in the ice. I drove the point of the shovel into the end to pry it loose. When it came out, much to my surprise, it turned out to be the flashlight I'd given up on ever seeing again. I was even more surprised that worked perfectly. I think this SureFire is the toughest light I've ever owned.
Dave M.
Indianapolis, IN
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A couple of years back, when the SureFire L4 LumaMax® first came out, I got one of the first ones produced. I carried it every day for probably a year, and it endured countless drops onto concrete, dunks in water, and overall general rough treatment. Eventually, I gave the light to a friend of mine, as he didn't have a good flashlight of his own.
Well, one beautiful fall day, my friend and I were out on a hike in a wildlife preserve near where I live. We both really enjoyed the hike; however, upon our return to our vehicles, my friend noticed that the L4 I'd given him was missing. He was pretty distraught, but there wasn't much we could do it was getting dark, and we'd walked over five miles of trails, way too much to search after dark so he resigned himself to the loss. A few months later, my dad and I decided to go on the same hike at the same wildlife preserve. We jokingly told my friend that we'd keep an eye out for his L4, knowing there was virtually no chance we'd find it. Well, about an hour into the hike my dad said, "Look," and there, stuck in the mud, was my friends L4. I picked it up out of the mud and clicked it on, and it worked! That light had survived over a foot of snow, repeated freezing and thawing, and over two months in the elements, with no adverse effects.
I ended up trading my buddy another light for this L4, and I still carry it every day on my duty belt. Thanks for making such reliable products.
Micah L.
Homer, NE
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I just wanted to write and say how incredibly impressed I am with your products the E2D LED Defender®, to be specific. We have been having some pretty crazy weather up here in Washington State, and after a big snowstorm, my beloved E2DL fell out of my pocket while I was in a parking lot, without my knowledge. The snow was about a foot deep at that point and only got heavier as the days passed. I didn't notice it was gone until later that evening, and given the size of the parking lot, I thought I'd never find it. If it isn't testament enough that I returned to the parking lot almost every day, to search and kick up snow, finally, after two weeks, I finally found it. The light was frozen in a small block of ice and had clearly been run over by a car, as it was beat up pretty bad. I broke up the ice, picked it up, and turned it on. It powered up like it was brand new! The structure and function of this light were clearly designed to be bulletproof. I wouldn't give up on this light, and it clearly wouldn't give up on me. Thanks for an awesome light.
Seattle, WA
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I returned home from a trail ride to find that my home was burning. Three fire departments did what they could, but the cause was lost. I lost almost everything I owned. A couple weeks later I went into my burned home. I went into the room where the fire had started and used a shovel to dig through the rubble where I knew my duty gear would be. Approximately six feet from where the fire had started I found my SureFire 6P® Original and turned it on. It worked just fine and is still on my duty belt and on patrol with me every day. Thanks for making an excellent product.
Thad W.
Summersville, MO
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I'm in an Army EOD unit in West Virginia, and while setting up for the last shot of the day, the darkness began to creep in. I finished priming my shots and headed up-range to grab my trusty SureFire 6P Original with a high-output P61 bulb. I chose this light because when the fog sets in here it's about as thick as peanut butter. So I grabbed my 6P, fired it up, and headed back downrange to see where my initiators were. I got to the range to find my 2 initiators yelling, "FIRE IN THE HOLE!" I hear pop pop and see smoke, so I drop my 6P and beat feet back up-range to the demo bunker. While I'm in the bunker waiting for a blast, I realized that I don't have my 6P on me, but it's way too late to go back downrange. Suddenly, a thunderous blast hit, and I saw a flicker of light about 400 meters from where the blast went off. When it was all clear, I walked towards where I saw the flicker and found my 6P lying on the ground. It looked like it was hit by rocks and frag, but when I picked it up and turned it on it fired right up and worked just fine. SureFire flashlights are truly the finest that money can buy.
Eric Z.
Albany, NY
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My wife was insisting that our garbage disposal wasn't working properly, complaining that it was not adequately chopping up the lemon pieces she'd put in it. "Perhaps the blades are no longer sharp enough," she said. To investigate the matter, she grabbed my E1L Outdoorsman out of the kitchen drawer and promptly proceeded to accidentally drop it into the running disposal. Well, the blades were plenty sharp and did a number on my little flashlight. It may not look that pretty any longer, but, to my astonishment, it still works just fine. Thank you, SureFire, for making an outstanding flashlight.
Vincent F.
Newmarket, NH
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I have a Harley Davidson 1200 custom Sportster, and one night I was out for a ride when my headlight went out. Luckily I had my Surefire E2L Outdoorsman with me. I was using it to light my way down the highway when, suddenly, I dropped it at 65 mph. I pulled over and found it, and it was still on. I couldn't believe it got dropped onto hard pavement at that speed and it was still on. The impact barely scratched the body of the light, but it broke the metal clip. So I called SureFire the next day, and they sent me a replacement clip for free. SureFire makes the strongest, most powerful flashlight I've ever seen.
Arthur G.
Lewisville, TX
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Wallace State men's basketball team loses conference home opener despite career day from Jestin Lewis
HANCEVILLE – Jestin Lewis's career-high 28 points for Wallace State's men's basketball team wasn't enough to hold off Marion Military on Saturday, as the pesky Tigers escaped with a 52-50 victory at Tom Drake Coliseum.
Marion Military broke a 40-40 tie with 6:54 remaining in the game and never relinquished the lead, nursing no more than a six-point advantage until time expired.
Wallace State's Lewis doubled his season average in scoring, but the rest of the Lions (12-8, 0-3 Alabama Community College Conference) struggled to maintain any offensive consistency, dropping their fourth game in a row and conference home opener.
Both teams labored offensively. The game was tied at 21-21 at halftime, and the teams traded leads 12 times in the opening 10 minutes of the second half. After the Tigers gained control of the lead, Josh Murrell's jumper gave the Tigers a 46-40 advantage with 3:36 remaining.
Lewis later cut Marion Military's advantage to two points with 23.5 seconds remaining in the game, but Marion Military's Kenny Tablo answered with a fast-break bucket, sealing the game for the Tigers (11-10, 0-3 ACCC).
Sean Anthony added nine points for Wallace State in the loss and Jacquise Moore contributed eight.
Henry Baker finished with 15 points for Marion Military, Murrell had 14, Mike McCode nine and Kenny Tablo added seven.
Wallace State resumes conference play on Monday with a doubleheader, hosting both the Southern Union women and men's teams, beginning at 5:30 p.m.
For more information about Wallace State athletics, visit wallacestate.edu.
Russell Moore
Staff Writer
Wallace State Community College
P.O. Box 2000, Hanceville, AL 35077
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Read the latest blog from Steve Cornett.
This is a story I wish I had written. It is a story I want Michael Pollan and all his technophobic beef-hating fans to read. It is about the people who were—let me burrow into the foodies' mindset here for a moment—"emancipated" from their jobs when Cargill closed its plant in Plainview, Texas.
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Read it. http://stateimpact.npr.org/texas/2013/02/19/a-plant-closes-on-the-plains-and-a-community-ponders-its-future/
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electricvw wrote:Yes, I think the range issue is going to be a killer for the Leaf if they don't address it and fix it. My first dive into electric cars was many years ago when I converted a 64 VW Ghia to all electric. I had read up on hundreds of other builds and read that you could go 60 miles or more per charge. This was of course the days of lead acid. I said holy sh.t, I can do that and have an electric car I can drive to work. My very first lesson in believing what others have written on this subject were soon dashed as the absolute very best I could get on a full charge was like 25 miles driving at 55 mph. So I finally figured out that those 60 mile ranges were guys going golf cart speeds with no stops. That was how you attained those miles. I did not buy a car to drive like a golf cart. I did not buy a car to be driven in eco mode nor do I drive like a nanny or hyper mile.
It has been said that lithium batteries have made electric cars viable but if the pack is not large enough its still not practical. It is not practical to only get 3 to 4 years out of a vehicle before you can't go the distances you expected to go. First off the Nissan is NOT a 100 mile range car. NOT at all. No way in hell can you claim that unless you might be going 25 mph in a 30 zone with no stops and in eco mode. Actually Eco mode is totally worthless on the Highway.
A car needs to be planned on the absolute worst case. In the winter with the heater on and driving USA style at 65 mph minimum. If you can get a full 150 miles in that case and have that battery pack last at minimum 10 years with only a loss of 30% then you have a decent case for a decent vehicle.
We don't drive like you are in Japan. We drive like we are in America. The Leaf is a great car but that capacity life of the cells just plain sucks. Not a whole lot better than a good set of quality of lead acid for battery life. Lithium modules are far better, yes but if the life is in the realm of lead acid then they are not ready for prime time.
Rant Rant Rant but I must speak out.
My CALB LiFePO4 cells are good. Better life capacity than the Leaf Modules.
I also love driving my leaf, but unless I know there is a charger near my destination, I wont go further than 20 miles away from my house. If some one would only create a tow behind generator for the leaf? My understanding it that it cant be done.


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