This coming Monday is Earth Day and Pioneer has decided to commemorate this day of action with just a little bit of inaction (in a good way!). What could be better than walking somewhere local for a candlelight dinner made with locally sourced food inspired by local hops?
Two of our favourite people have joined forces to create an Earth Day event everyone will want to attend. Anne Sorrenti, executive chef at Morgan's and Troy Burtch at Great Lakes Brewery, teamed up for Lights Out - an candlelight evening of local beer and local food.
Great Lakes Brewery is Toronto's original craft brewery, and so Sorrenti has created a four-course local menu that integrates their famous ales - including dessert (think coffee and cake...mmmm). The four courses will be paired, of course, with tasters of some new brews and old classics. If you've never been to a beer dinner before, they are great fun.
Tickets are a measly $50 - which is great value for a four course dinner with drinks especially from the Morgan's kitchen. Event starts at 6:30 with some apps and a pint.
For more info, there are lots of options! Call Morgan's and make a reservation (416 461-3020), check out details on Facebook here, or head to GLB's website here.
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Refugees Northwest believes that every person forced to flee war, persecution and terror can heal, thrive, and enrich our community with their unique gifts and strengths. We work with thousands of refugees and asylum-seekers each year to build upon the strength and courage that got them here, and to support their hopes and dreams. Our programs include trauma-focused mental health support, torture treatment, unaccompanied minor foster care, asylum assistance, complex medical case management, and a variety of community programs that help develop new skills, gain citizenship, and build fulfilling connections.
The majority of Refugees Northwest staff came to the United States as refugees or seeking asylum. Speaking more than 17 languages, our dedicated and experienced staff have walked in the shoes of those we serve, giving us unique insight.
History and Mission of Refugees Northwest
For close to forty years we've proudly served as part of Lutheran Community Services Northwest (LCS), where we have always pursued compassionate, innovative, and effective practices. LCS mission is to partner with individuals, families and communities for health, justice, and hope. LCS is proud to work with and serve people from different faiths, backgrounds, nationalities, cultures and sexualities. Founded in Portland, OR in 1926 to address the needs of struggling families and individuals, LCS now has 43 offices in three states. LCS is structured so that common services like human resources and information technology are shared, while local offices design and deliver programming to best fit community needs.
Refugees Northwest began with two programs close to forty years ago – cross cultural mental health (originally called International Counseling and Community Services) and unaccompanied minor foster care (originally called Refugee and Immigrant Children's Program). Over time, multiple services were created so that there was a comprehensive continuum of care in King County for those that were persecuted and forced to flee their home. In 2016, we rebranded to Refugees Northwest to show the connection between our many programs. Refugees Northwest programming now includes:
Torture Treatment
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Refugee Elder Support
Asylum Assistance
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Refugees Northwest believes that refugees and asylum seekers are survivors with a great resilience, skills, and gifts. It is our privilege to walk alongside individuals, families, and communities as they move towards health, seek justice, and find hope.
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If you want to adopt a pet, but do not know which one to choose for apartment living, we will try to narrow down your choice and help you make the right decision. The problem of living space can be quite horrid of people, but animals can also have difficulties with too large or too small spaces. None of us wants to bring an animal home and then realize that the space is not appropriate for it.
hamsters are social animals, which makes them great for children, too.
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All the countries in the world have some of the most amazing retail companies that make people want to visit them every single day. These retailers have all the amazing things that you want to have and are stuffed with the best items. One of such retailers is Kroger. Kroger has been in the business for past fifty years and is one of the most reliable retailers for its customers. The revenue earned by the company is more than a hundred billion every year and this is solely because of its strong customer base which is increasing every year! Along with that, the company is growing with a rapid pace with its stores in almost all the big cities in the world. According to the statistics, Kroger is the third biggest retail company in the world. However, keeping in mind its rapid growth, it soon might move ahead if Walmart soon in terms of growth and customer base. The company has hundreds of mini stores as well as super markets all-around the world.
Like every other company in the world that values the feedback of its customers, Kroger always ensures to get to know about the points of view of its customers. It makes sure that with every passing moment, it gets to know what the customers think about it. This helps the company in knowing what its best features are and is the ones that need a bit of effort and innovation. The points of view of the customers are collected through a Kroger Feedback Customer Satisfaction Survey that is done online. Once the customers complete the survey, they get a chance to win a grand prize. The prize includes a grocery shopping card.
In order to be a part of the survey and increase your chances of winning the gift card, you need to be more than eighteen years old. Along with that, having an internet connection is mandatory as only then you would be able to get into the required website www.krogerfeedback.com. This can also be done through a phone if you have a stable internet connection.
If you want to be a part of the survey, you do not need to make a recent purchase as this is a free survey that anyone can become a part of. Along with that, there is no limit to which you have to complete the Let's Do Survey. You can do that as many times as you want to.
Once you enter the website, you would have to find the appropriate language that you would use to answer the questions. You have the options to go for English as well as Spanish.
The first question that you would have to answer is the department from where the purchase was made. There would be a number of departments mentioned there and you need to choose the right one. The next page will take you to a number of questions that would require you to tell your level of satisfaction you had in the various manners.


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Initial title: Feeding on plant wounds: An underestimated ressource for ant nutrition?
Extrafloral nectaries (EFNs) allow plants to engage in mutualisms with ants preventing herbivory in exchange for food. EFNs occur scattered through the plant phylogeny and likely evolved independently from herbivore-created wounds subsequently visited by ants collecting leaked sap. Records of wound-feeding ants are, however, anecdotal. By surveying 38,000 trees from 40 species, we conduct the first quantitative ecological study of this overlooked behavior. Ant-wound interactions were widespread (0.5% of tree individuals) and occurred on 23 tree species. Interaction networks were opportunistic, closely resembling ant-EFNs networks. Fagaceae, a family lacking EFNs, were strongly overrepresented. For Fagaceae, ant occurrence at wounds correlated with species-level leaf damage, potentially indicating that wounds may attract mutualistic ants, supporting the hypothesis of ant-tended wounds as precursors of ant-EFNs mutualisms. Given the commonness of herbivore wounds, wound sap as steadily available food source might furthermore help to explain the overwhelming abundance of ants in (sub)tropical forest canopies.


Tampa was on the shortlist of places we thought about moving before ultimately deciding on Jacksonville. Our first visit was in 2013 and we bounced around spending time in Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg. We visited again for my birthday in 2018.
One of our favorite stops during our visit was the Florida Aquarium. We did the Behind the Scenes Tour allowing us to get a Birdseye view of the large aquarium. It was really cool. The sharks and stingrays would swim to the surface so we actually got to see them from a really close distance. We also got to feed penguins and learn about the different species that call this place home.
We spent a few hours enjoying Bayshore Blvd view. The homes on this street are spectacular. Another favorite was the Sail Pavilion and Riverwalk. This is a really fun area to grab dinner and drinks. The city views are fantastic. We grabbed a drink and watched the sunset before dining at Jackson's Bistro Bar and Sushi.
We made a quick visit to The Tampa Museum of Art. It is small, but it had some special pieces.
No trip to Tampa is complete without a stop in Ybor City and of course the world-famous Columbia Restaurant. The atmosphere is super fun and the food is outstanding. We also had a chance to check out some of the nearby breweries and bars making stops at Cigar City Cider and Mead and a few places that had live music. We stopped by Coppertail Brewing too, which is just outside of the Ybor City district.
St. Petersburg is our favorite place to visit in the area. I am a huge Salvador Dali fan and the The Dali Museum is outstanding. There are several of my favorite pieces on display. The location is great too – right on the bay which provided an amazing backdrop for the outdoor art on display.
Another favorite is Mazzaro's Italian Market. This place is always packed! But for good reason. It's an Italian market and deli so you can pick up fresh made pasta and imported olive oil while also getting one of the best Italian sandwiches ever! We also enjoyed some local brews at 3 Daughter's Brewing and Green Bench.
It's no surprise where Clearwater gets its name – the water is absolutely stunning! While the beach is gorgeous, there isn't a whole lot to do in the area so we didn't spend very much time there.
Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater are so close to each other that you can easily see all three during a weekend trip.


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They have played headline shows in London for Parallel Lines and Soundcrash, performed at the Wire-curated Drill Festival (with Vessels, Grumbling Fur, Savages, Young Fathers etc) and currently are the resident band at the newly-formed London clubnight No One's Watching, which features "deviant pop, DIY electronics and weird bangers from around the globe". It has already seen them billed alongside a diverse selection of London's underground including Hessle Audio's Pangaea, Lia Mice, Lol K, Julia Star, Loraine James, DEBONAIR and Harmergeddon.
They are on a vibe at the moment – each set ramping up the energy levels with brand new material, reworks of tracks from their 2017 debut album Spring and sneaking in twisted hints of everything from Cardi B to SHANTI CRISIS. They have new singles ready to go this spring and they have started emitting some captivating livestream transmissions.


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Schaefer, Gerald and Roman Starosolski. "A Comparison of Lossless Image Compression Algorithms for Colour Retina Images." Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems, edited by Nilmini Wickramasinghe and Eliezer Geisler, IGI Global, 2008, pp. 238-243. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch033
Schaefer, G., & Starosolski, R. (2008). A Comparison of Lossless Image Compression Algorithms for Colour Retina Images. In N. Wickramasinghe, & E. Geisler (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems (pp. 238-243). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch033
Schaefer, Gerald, and Roman Starosolski. "A Comparison of Lossless Image Compression Algorithms for Colour Retina Images." In Encyclopedia of Healthcare Information Systems. edited by Wickramasinghe, Nilmini, and Eliezer Geisler, 238-243. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-889-5.ch033
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A Comparison of Lossless Image Compression Algorithms for Colour Retina Images
Gerald Schaefer (Aston University, UK) and Roman Starosolski (Silesian University of Technology, Poland)
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In this article, we present experiments aimed to identify a suitable compression algorithm for colour retina images (Schaefer & Starosolski, 2006). Such an algorithm, in order to prove useful in a real-life PACS, should not only reduce the file size of the images significantly but also has to be fast enough, both for compression and decompression. Furthermore, it should be covered by international standards such as ISO standards and, in particular for medical imaging, the Digital Imaging and Communication in Medicine (DICOM) standard (Mildenberger, Eichelberg, & Martin, 2002; National Electrical Manufacturers Association, 2004). For our study, we therefore selected those compression algorithms that are supported in DICOM, namely TIFF PackBits (Adobe Systems Inc., 1995), Lossless JPEG (Langdon, Gulati, & Seiler, 1992), JPEG-LS (ISO/IEC, 1999), and JPEG2000 (ISO/IEC, 2002). For comparison, we also included CALIC (Wu, 1997), which is often employed for benchmarking compression algorithms. All algorithms were evaluated in terms of compression ratio which describes the reduction of file size and speed. For speed, we consider both the time it takes to encode an image (compression speed) and to decode (decompression speed), as both are relevant within a PACS.
Image compression: Reduction of the amount of memory used to store an image.
Diabetic retinopathy: A common complication of diabetes leading to progressive damage of the eye's retina.
DICOM: A medical imaging standard describing how image information can be exchanged.
Screening: Checking for a disease in people without symptoms.
Ophthalmology: The science of eye medicine.
Lossless Compression: Compression from which the original information can be recovered without loss.
Retina: A thin layer of neural cells which lines the inner eyeball.


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Жан Миха́йлович (, более известный как Жан Михаи́л ; 5 июля 1896, , Румыния — 12 марта 1963, Бухарест, Румыния) — румынский кинорежиссёр и сценарист. Один из зачинателей румынского кинематографа.

Биография
Окончил Академию музыкального и драматического искусства. В 1917—1919 годах работал в разных театральных труппах. В 1919—1923 годах учился кинорежессуре в Вене. Работал в Германии и Франции. Часто писал сценарии к своим фильмам. Снимал как игровые, так и документальные ленты.

Фильмография

Режиссёр
  — Грех / Păcat
  — Манассе / Manasse (по )
  —  / Cererea în căsătorie
  — Лия / Lia
  —  / Povara
  —  / Viaţa unui oraş
  —  / Televiziune - Ce va fi mâine
  —  / Aur
  — Первая любовь / Prima dragoste
  — Поезд-фантом / Trenul fantomă
  — Румыния / România (с Паулем Кэлинеску)
  —  / CFR - o simfonie a muncii
  — Деревенская рапсодия / Rapsodia rustică
  —  / De vorbă cu fraţii plugari
  —  / Poporul român în lupta pentru democraţie
  —  / La clacă
  —  / În permisie
  —  / Cu fruntea-n soare (APACA)
  — Город никогда не спит / Oraşul nu doarme niciodată (д/ф)
  — Юбилей Пушкина / Aniversarea lui Puşkin (д/ф)
  —  / Bulevardul 'Fluieră Vântu'
  — Бригада Ионуца / Brigada lui Ionuţ
  — Чёртов овраг / Râpa dracului

Литература
 Кино: Энциклопедический словарь / Гл. ред. С. И. Юткевич. Москва, Советская энциклопедия, 1987. — с. 270

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The dachshund breed according to recent surveys by American Kennel Club continues to be popular and consistently appears in the top 10 dog breeds of America.
Is the dachshund breed the dog for you?
Check out this information, before you buy or adopt a dachshund.
The breed is separated into two sizes Standard Dachshund and Miniature Dachshund; both are similar in nature and character.
There are three dachshund coat types, smooth haired, long haired and wire haired, each has their own unique traits that set them apart. They also appear in a wide variety of colors and patterns, more than in most other dog breeds.
This is the larger of the Dachshunds and comes in the three coat varieties short haired (smooth), long haired and wire haired.They were originally breed to hunt badgers and foxes, so are built for strength and power.
This is the smaller of the dachshunds and it seems to have become a very popular size. This small lighter built dachshund was originally bred to hunt rabbits that were destroying crops.
Short haired or smooth which is the dog that really holds the title of sausage dog or wiener dog which is German for hot-dog. This coat is very short, dense and shiny so fairly easy care.This little dog is always full of fun and interested in everything.
Next is the long haired coat which is thought to be a short haired crossed with a spaniel, this dachshund has a more aristocratic look with long coat similar to an Irish Setter. This type tends to be a littler quieter and with their long coat they are not suitable for tunneling so they are a bird dog.
The wire haired is the last of the group he is a bit of a character with a rough coat a beard and bushy eye brows he hardly looks like he's related. He is a tough, strong, energetic little dog, breed to hunt badger, foxes and rabbits.
This is a very eye catching pattern; which can occur in all coat varieties and colors. The coat will have lighter and darker colors intermingled with dappling appearing in small areas of the coat or all over.
The piebald pattern has become very popular in recent years; it can be breed in any color and coat variety as long as one parent is piebald. This pattern will have a base coat that's white with a solid color over it.
The sable pattern is unusual and is not easy to recognize, can appear in short haired and long haired coats. Brindle pattern appears as stripes more than often black and chocolate over the dominate coat color, the red brindle is the most popular.
As dachshunds were originally bred as hunters they tend to be independent and courageous with a big personality, they can be a little stubborn, but are very smart and show great affection.
Dachshunds maybe small in stature but they make up for it with their attitude, they make excellent companion dogs or family pets.
This is an overview of the American Kennel Club (AKC) breed standard for the Dachshund, this describes the breeds general appearance and characteristics. We discuss the three coat varieties and also the different patterns and colors found within the breed.
We look into the past to see where the dachshund breed originated from and what they were initially breed for. Other interesting facts about them and how the Dachshund name came about.
As you can see the Dachshund breed is truly unique, they really stand out from the crowd and they just love people.


Billy Beane, general manager of MLB's Oakland A's and protagonist of Michael Lewis's Moneyball, had a problem: how to win in the Major Leagues with a budget that's smaller than that of nearly every other team. Conventional wisdom long held that big name, highly athletic hitters and young pitchers with rocket arms were the ticket to success. But Beane and his staff, buoyed by massive amounts of carefully interpreted statistical data, believed that wins could be had by more affordable methods such as hitters with high on-base percentage and pitchers who get lots of ground outs. Given this information and a tight budget, Beane defied tradition and his own scouting department to build winning teams of young affordable players and inexpensive castoff veterans.


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Impress your family, friends, and everyone on the campground with the beautiful 2020 Jayco Eagle 336FBOK! This 5th Wheel is sure to turn heads! You can find this model now at All Seasons RV, one of the top Michigan RV dealerships! If you're driving to or through Muskegon, stop by our lot at 4701 Airline Rd Muskegon Michigan 49444! To talk to one of our RV experts about this model, call us now at 231-739-5269!
This RV has a hitch weight of 2128 lbs. and a sturdy GVWR of 13750 lbs! You'll enjoy the fresh air of outdoor living under the shade of the 20' 0" power patio awning!
Days of outdoor fun can leave you pleasantly tired at night. That's when you'll appreciate the superb master bedroom! It's roomy and comfortable with its spacious Queen bed where you'll cozy in, close your eyes, and be asleep in no time! Up to 5 people can sleep comfortably on the furniture inside this RV! Cook up breakfast, lunch, and dinner outside with the outdoor kitchen! There's so much to love in the Jayco Eagle 336FBOK, especially the roomy loft space! Kids especially will love climbing up at the end of the day and snuggling down into their own cozy bed where they can drift off to dreamland in no time!


We offer convenient, reliable and safe taxi services in Hersonissos and all over Crete.
We offer the most dependable and highest quality taxi services, anytime all over Crete.
Taxi Club specialized in 24 hours airport transfer service.
We offer taxi tours all over Crete of various durations and complexity.
By applying our application you can call a taxi from the Taxi Club company distinctive title Hersonissos Taxi and Transportation Services.
Login with your credentials to access your account and book your transfer direct.
Taxi Club is here to provide you with more information, answer any questions you may have and we create an effective solution for your transfer.
Used the taxi service every day while on holiday, wherever you are they will always stop and always reliable.
We ordered a taxi from hotel and came within 5 minutes to take us to Hersonissos and had a Mercedes arrive in sparkling white.When we wanted our return a white Mercedes returned and took us swiftly to our hotel excellent service throughout.
We used Taxi Club a few times on our recent holiday, clean and fast service, reasonable rates and very friendly and helpful drivers, giving us their expertise of where to visit and what foods to try, really excellent company.
Lovely people, always very chatty towards their passengers, Just down to earth people trying to make a living over the holiday season. Reasonable prices and excellent service.


Mold and mildew can wreak havoc inside your home in more ways and places than you may have previously considered. One area where mold and mildew are susceptible to growing is inside or near your clothes dryer vent. Even though this may at first seem less than intuitive, keep in mind that a clothes dryer must dispose of water in the form of evaporated vapor; if anything should interfere with this process before the water vapor passes to the outside, the chance of moisture accumulation increases.
If you are looking to have your carpets cleaned, you want to find a company that will do a great job at an affordable cost and that will do more than just wash the carpet. You want the carpet to be cleaner for the health of those in your home, you want the rooms to smell fresh, and you want the cleaning expert to help remove the stains. When you start to call around to get prices, ask about the following options from the carpet cleaning service providers near you.
Owning a historical home comes with significant responsibilities. You want to keep it in excellent condition while preserving its "period" look. Recognizing and correcting deterioration of the exterior, particularly if it's made of brick, is essential. If you want to be a steward of your historical home, you need to inspect it for damage and arrange for repairs. Mortar Problems When a home has older brick, you will need to have it tuck-pointed at times over the years.
Removing paint from wood can be a painstaking process. There are many ways to go about it, and some paint jobs can be very stubborn, whether they are extremely old or recently painted. This article uses the example of wooden siding to explain two different approaches to paint removal. Of course, most of the same rules and techniques apply with other painted wood surfaces. You will learn if it is more practical to remove your paint with power sanders or chemical stripping agents.
Having windows on your foundation can help let in natural light to the basement and allow for proper ventilation, helping to eliminate musty smells in the basement area. Unfortunately, basement windows can also let in huge amounts of water during a storm, resulting in basement flooding issues. Window wells are designed to prevent water from collecting near the foundation and are often installed if a basement windowsill is at or below the level of soil adjacent to the window.


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You can express the folks you care for how much you appreciate them on Christmas by presenting them the excellent uncommon Christmas gifts. You should attempt to keep in mind the distinctive favors, hobbies, tastes of the people to whom you are about to pick a gift, and you'll wonder how much possibilities can be found.
Making present of gift cards may not appear to be a well-thought-out or exclusive Christmas gift, however it can be if done properly. Do not give gift cards from Sears, Target, Walmart etcetera. The most important thing in presenting special gift cards is your ability to display that you bear in mind the passions, concerns, tastes of the ones you love. This Christmas think earnestly about what your friends and family want or need and surprise them with a memorable gift of comprehension giving them a special gift card from a unique place, for example from a good restaurant or fashion store.
A picture may convey a lot of memories, emotions, special time together, a selected memory, a special place. If you're gifted with paints, you can describe suchlike moments on the picture. You may be not too much into canvas, but even though you can make postcard size paintings and place them at a nice frame.
handmade hot chocolate mix, a chocolate lover's cookbook or a box of European chocolates are all excellent Christmas gift ideas for the ones who appreciate qualitative chocolate. Bought in store or handmade chocolate biscuits and candy pastry are always welcome in a chocolate lover's home. The chocolate possibilities are borderless and only limited by your Christmas gift budget.
Remember that your aim is to pick up an unusual Christmas gift that will not only be useful for your friends and family, but will also be appreciated for its uniqueness and originality.


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Third Way Route Jams Trade: Kemp Op-Ed in Financial Times
Jack Kemp • August 2, 1999
There is an international movement hard at work to concentrate power over economic decision-making--public, private, and across national boundaries--in a "global elite" that is unaccountable to the popular will of any nation. This "third way movement" is trying to create a centralised New Economic Order while hiding behind the facade of pro-labour and pro-environment rhetoric. We cannot let them succeed. Trade policy is high on the third way agenda, and the movement is focusing on the World Trade Organisation's ministerial summit in Seattle in November. Interest groups are mobilising to use the meeting to dramatise their protectionist and "big government environmentalism" agenda.
Public Citizen and Global Trade Watch, two US lobby groups, tell their ardent followers that "international environmental NGOs [non-governmental organisations] are planning to get accredited and then find seats near the table to speak truth to power." Unfortunately, power is already speaking many of the "truths" that these more radical elements in the environmental movement are trying to foist on the world trading system.
Unless policymakers, including the WTO, hold their ground in favour of free trade, our global trading system will be captured by third way forces that will regulate the life out of the world economy.
The evidence for this is all around us. Earlier this year, the WTO opened the door for countries to build trade barriers based on their own domestic environmental policies.
In the so-called "shrimp-turtle case," the US sought to bar imports of shrimp harvested in a way that it did not like, but that was acceptable to the country of origin (Thailand). The US government's opinion was that the harvesting practices posed a small threat of ensnaring sea turtles.
Obviously nations can disagree on how to conserve and protect wildlife, but it is not normal practice to use trade barriers to impose one country's priorities on other nations.
In the shrimp-turtle case, the WTO ruled against the US on procedural grounds, but left the door wide open to allow these kinds of "conservation measures" to interfere with trade. That is a slippery slope we should not be starting down.
The environmental NGOs--well-funded, aggressive advocacy groups--are always eager to push a "green" version of managed trade. That is, free trade is fine so long as its rules can be deployed to advance global green restrictions on growth. That makes trade just another powerful regulatory device, rather than the engine of worldwide growth.
Other green barriers to free trade are popping up all over the place. Japan is proposing a differential tax on vehicles based on their fuel efficiency, which will put US vehicles at a disadvantage. The European Commission may freeze out US-produced, genetically modified maize, based on very preliminary evidence that its pollen may indirectly harm butterflies. And hormone-treated beef has been the subject of endless controversy between the US and Europe.
Why does all this matter? First, any interference with free trade and open markets is anti-environment to begin with. Economic progress and wealth creation are what clean up the environment and minimise pollution, as any comparison of first world and developing country ecosystems demonstrates.
On a more fundamental level, entangling the rules of free trade with each nation's individual vision of what constitutes green regulatory and tax policy is asking for trouble. Trade among sovereign nations creates enough controversy on its own, linked as it is to domestic issues of labour, investment and economic development. We cannot burden the trading system with so much regulatory freight that it will collapse in on itself.
Finally, trying to use the WTO, or any other global forum affecting trade, to impose extreme forms of green regulation on the world is harmful to the environmental movement itself. Just as the US system of federalism allows states to experiment with novel approaches to governance, regulation, and social policy, so should our institutions of global co-operation encourage diverse and innovative approaches to economic development and regulatory policy.
That means, at a minimum, letting each country learn from its mistakes before exporting them, untested, to the rest of the globe. Competition in ideas is as important as competition in goods and services, and it would be ironic indeed if the apparatus of free trade were used to throttle that kind of competition before it had a chance to begin.
The WTO needs to stick to its basic mission. So far, its pronouncements have been consistent with its need to remain focused on trade and the rules of trade. The WTO has resisted the integration of a multitude of freestanding bilateral and multilateral environmental accords with its own trade charter. Yet it is also showing signs of drifting toward the green trade agenda. The shrimp-turtle case is a bad sign that the WTO may be moving further in that direction.
The business community also needs to stand up and be counted, because turning trade into an instrument of global economic regulation will destroy jobs and stifle innovation.
We cannot afford to let the trading system become like the US tax code, which is overwhelmingly used for social and industrial policy rather than for the core purpose of raising revenue. We need to stop the corruption of the trading system before it is too late.
If sovereign nations let the WTO, or any other body entrusted with global regulation, dictate their internal tax, environmental or agricultural policies, they will be heading towards world government--not democracy, and certainly not capitalism.
In trade, as in taxation, regulation and every other policy area affecting day-to-day economic decisions, there is no third way. There is only a right way, which values freedom and opportunity, and a wrong way, which encourages statism and bureaucracy. The author is a fellow of the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a former legislator in the US House of Representatives
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Ren Michael Pedersen OAM (born "Rene") 4 February 1971, Atherton, North Queensland, Australia), is a prominent international advocate for children's brain cancer research.

After the death of his daughter Amy from a brain stem cancer known as Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), Pedersen founded the independent Australian arm of The Cure Starts Now.

In 2012 and 2017, Pedersen was nominated for Australian of the Year award in recognition of his efforts to fund research into holistic cancer cures, via targeting the most challenging paediatric brain tumours. He was awarded the Rotary International Harris Medal in 2012, Lauren Hill Full Court Press Award in 2017 and Pride of Australia Medal in 2018.

Pedersen was awarded an Order of Australia Medal in the 2022 Australia Day Honours for service to the community.

Early life
His family were direct descendants of pioneering convict settlers, John Warby and Sarah Bently. He is the first born of Ken and Marie (née McMahon) Pedersen. His family owned Australia's second oldest continually operating hotel, The Royal Hotel, in Herberton, North Queensland. In 1975, following a marriage breakdown, Marie moved to Atherton with her two sons.

The family relocated to Ayr, North Queensland in 1978, where Pedersen completed school at St Francis primary school and later, Ayr High.

Career
After successfully completing Senior, Pedersen left home and became a qualified Horticulturalist with the Burdekin Shire Council. Moving to Townsville around 1990, Pedersen started a small landscape gardening business, before accepting an offer to experience professional rugby league with the Canterbury Bulldogs, then Wests, soon after.

Upon arrival in Sydney in early February 1992, Pedersen also trialled for the Randwick Rugby Union club under the pseudonym of "John Keller", and was graded after scoring four tries in a single game during an Open club trial. The offer to play rugby union was declined.

After serious knee and facial injuries and major operations in 1992 and 1993, Pedersen was convinced to re-establish first grade credentials with the NRL feeder club Newtown Jets. Although attaining solid employment in Sydney at Port Botany Container Depot, Pedersen returned to Townsville by 1994, disillusioned with sitting in the stands from injury and fed up with "city life".

After immediately gaining employment as a stevedore in Townsville, Pedersen played centre in University's unsuccessful Grand Final tilt on 18 September 1994. Pedersen credits his greatest achievement in rugby league as making two complete sets of six tackles in a single game against the Burdekin, earlier that same season. He retired from league soon after, but made a few, uninspiring attempts to rekindle past glories, eventually making "A" Grade with Teachers Wests Rugby Union and University Rugby League sides in the early 2000s.

Ceasing employment at the port in 2004, Patriot Crane Hire was formed in 2005.

He has three children, oldest Jack born in 1997 and Riley in 2012. The legacy of middle daughter, Amy Pedersen (2000–2009), has inspired a nation. His passion for promoting positive health pathways for children is firmly recognised across Australia's media landscape. A prominent social angler, he is heavily involved in the fishing sector and is a regular contributor to FM radio's North Queensland Fishing Show.

Following the death of his daughter, Pedersen formed The Cure Starts Now (Australia) in efforts to honour a promise to Amy that he "Would never give up!" and give future brain tumour children, both in Australia and internationally, a shot at life.

Charity work
The Cure Starts Now was founded in 2007 by Cincinnati's Keith and Brooke Desserich with Ren Pedersen the former director of the independent Australian branch of this astounding international organization.

Ren Pedersen is universally acknowledged for 'fathering' Australia's DIPG movement.

 March 2009 – The Cure Starts Now (Australia) established by Pedersen.
 June 2009 – Board and formal structures implemented. The Cure Starts Now (Inc) becomes official DGR Registered Australian charity (Incorporation #IA37656)
 2010 – After intense lobbying, the most dreaded term in all fields of cancer, "Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma"/DIPG, is recognised in its own right as a distinct ailment in Australian medical institutions. Previously, DIPG was merely classified as a "Miscellaneous CNS Tumour".
 2011 – $100K revolutionary "Robotic Screening Technology" Grant approved for The Children's Cancer Institute of Australia.
 2011 – Founding member of the DIPG Collaborative.
 2011 – National DIPG Autopsy Donation protocols implemented across major Australian hospitals
 2012 – He was nominated for Australian Of The Year and Pride of Australia awards.
 2012 – Pedersen awarded Rotary's Paul Harris Fellowship Award.
 January 2013 – $100,000 "PANEO Drug Protocol" Grant to CCIA
 May 2013 – Australian DIPG researchers showcased for first time at esteemed international DIPG Symposium in Chicago
 November 2013 – $109,000 Monash Institute of Medical Research Grant to fund "Targeted Drug and Stem Cell Therapy" trials
 2014 – National Registry implemented, fusing autopsy and clinical data from all major Australian hospitals.
 2014 – The Cure Starts Now internationally recognised and featured at world's most prestigious cancer conference, ISPNO in Singapore.
 2014 – Musically inept Pedersen plays piano at Australian High Commissioner's Residence in Singapore.
 March 2015 – $103,615 "F.A.C.T/CBL1037" Grant to Children's Cancer Institute of Australia (CCIA) equating to the largest private DIPG donation in Australian history, at the time
 October 2015 – $190,000 CCIA "Feretinide" Grant
 February 2016 – The Cure Starts Now (Australia) implements national Monkey In My Chair program.
 October 2016 – $180,000 provided to CCIA through the "DCA" Grant.
 December 2016 - CCIA "Benefactors Award" presented to The Cure Starts Now at Government House, Sydney, Australia.
 January 2017 - Pedersen nominated for "Australian Of The Year".
 May 2017 – Pedersen awarded "Lauren Hill Full Court Press Award" in Cincinnati, USA.
 June 2017 – Australia's Monkey In My Chair Co-Ordinator, Di Marthick, announces full implementation of this amazing scheme across the nation.
 October 2017 – National Media Event: upon arrival by helicopter, $236K cheque awarded to CCIA's Dr Laura Franshaw on behalf of DIPG Collaborative for "PCK1" Grant. By far, the largest private DIPG research donation in Australian history.
 February 2018 – He addresses international DIPG Collaborative conference in Washington DC.
 February, 2018 - Director of The Cure Starts Now (Australia) awarded Pride of Australia Medal  for achievements toward eradicating "The Deadliest Cancer Known To Man".
 March 2018 – Pedersen officially announces Sydney's hosting of the 2019 international DIPG Symposium, potentially one of the most important gatherings in Australian medical history.
 August 1, 2019 - International DIPG Symposium  held in Sydney, regarded as potentially one of the most important medical conferences ever held upon Australian shores:
 August 22, 2019 - WA Telethon Institute's Prof. Terry Johns awarded $73464.25 "Ion Channel Inhibition" grant.
 November 2019 - The DIPG Collaborative presented a research grant cheque for $146,298.29 to Dr Han Shen at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research.
 December 2019 - The Cure Starts Now Australia donated $151,468 to Sydney Children's Hospital to develop new epigenetic combination treatments against DIPG.
 September 2020 - Hunter Institute of Medical Research's "COMBATT/Paxalisib" project commenced @ $203 522.00
 October 2020 - Children's Cancer Institute's "Epigenetic Players" initiative started @ $150 379.00
 February 2021 - Esteemed scientific publication NATURE COMMUNICATIONS announces stunning new results from CSN's seed funding of the CCI's exciting DFMO/AMXT1501 research project.
 15 April 2021 - Stunning new clinical trial announced, stemming from CSN's 2015 FACT/CBL0137 Grant.
6 October 2021 - $136,561.00 donated to  Dr. Laura Genovesi  for  research into "Innovative Models of the Brain Microenvironment to Identify New Treatments for Medulloblastoma".
10 October 2021 - $266 741.00 donated to Dr. David Ziegler of Sydney Children's Hospital for research into "Phase I/II Study of Oral DFMO + AMXT1501 for DIPG/DMG".
10 October 2021 - $68 280.00 donated to Dr. Danielle Upton of the Children's Cancer Institute for research into "Developing Novel Combination Therapies for DIPG".
24-25 March 2022 - Inaugural National Children`s Brain Cancer Conference co-hosted by The Cure Starts Now, uniting scores of Australia`s leading paediatric oncologists, scientists, nuerosurgeons and researchers for the first time in Brisbane, Queensland.

To date approximately $5 million has been directly raised by Pedersen and The Cure Starts Now (Australia)  for DIPG brain tumour research, since 2009 inception

Additionally, Pedersen has indirectly assisted in acquiring an additional $7.5m (approx.) worth of Australian DIPG/BT research funding via alternate funding streams, i.e. CCIA, NHMRC Grants, etc.

Collective pooling of resources and processes has realized around $21m worth of new international DIPG/BT research via the DIPG Collaborative, of which The Cure Starts Now (Australia) is a Foundational Member.

He sat upon the Cure Starts Now's internationally acclaimed Strategic Advisory Council, which has overseen the approval of approximately $25M AUD worth of new BT/DIPG research projects in the past decade.

Ren is no longer formally aligned with any charitable enterprise.

References

External links
 thecurestartsnow.org.au
 DIPG: The Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma Resource Network
 Notes Left Behind

Australian health activists
1971 births
Living people


Had President Donald Trump known the social media backlash that would result from his feeding the National Champion Clemson football team Big Macs and Whoppers at the White House on Monday, he might have postponed the invitation.
The good news for the Tigers? They should be able to eat just about anywhere they like – at least until they actually accept one of the many offers that have been extended in the past couple of days.
From former NFL great and "Good Morning America" co-host Michael Strahan, who offered to feed the Tigers "lobster and caviar," to celebrity cook Ayesha Curry, who is open to hosting the team at one of her barbecue restaurants in Houston or San Francisco, members of the Twitterverse are coming out of the woodwork to offer special culinary delights to Clemson coach Dabo Swinney and his players.
Citing the government shutdown, which has impacted the White House kitchen staff, Trump fed the team an assortment of fast foods during their visit to the White House on Monday.
To the Tigers' credit, the players appeared to enjoy the White House fast food, which was probably a welcome reward for some players whose diets are typically closely monitored during the season.


Succulents and espresso? Count us in.
It's no secret that New York City's coffee scene is strong and that people are always asking for suggestions on where to go. So here are a few of the best plant-friendly coffee options in the city– places we love to go not only because they serve great coffee, but because you can drink it while admiring a succulent.
O Cafe, on 12th and 6th Avenue, serves coffee from Miami favorite Panther coffee, and focuses on recycling and taking care of the vines growing out of the wall and trees in the window. They've even been known to decorate their trees by filling the pots with gourds.
Stumptown Coffee Roasters at the ACE Hotel offers house-roasted direct trade coffee– and cult-beloved nitro coffee– amidst monsteras, firestick succulents, and shelves accented with potted plants. Stumptown also offers an array of sandwiches and pastries from other New York originals like Roberta's Pizza, Ovenly (try their incredible peanut butter cookie!), Black Seed Bagel, and Donut Plant.
You can also keep the hotel cafe vibe going with a stop at PAPER Coffee at the MADE Hotel. This boutique neighborhood gem is defined by its rustic exposed wood furniture and stylish inclusion of potted succulents. Try their hot buttered americano then head up to Good Behavior, the hotel's stunning, plant-filled 18th floor lounge, for evening drinks with a view of the city.
Devocion, the beloved Williamsburg staple, has one of the best plant walls we've ever seen and an indoor umbrella to really get the mood going. Go for the wall but stay for the coffee and the soothing fruit infusions (tea made with cut fruit that's been steeped in hot water).
While in Williamburg, be sure to check out coffee lover hot spots Blue Bottle, Toby's Estate, and hip, plant-filled Sweatshop, each within a 10-minute walking radius from Bedford Avenue.
Sweatshop, which is run by Australians with the Tame Impala playlist to prove it, is known for its flat white, a traditional Kiwi-Australian coffee drink made by pouring microfoam milk into espresso. Purists take note: this cafe also serves vegemite– so if you're coming from the UK or down under and missing a taste of home, this is the spot for you.
Just a few blocks north, the floral wallpaper at Bakeri's location in Greenpoint is, at this point, Instagram-famous– but that doesn't make it any less worth seeing. The sun comes up through the doors at just the right angle in the morning, so you can get your coffee and granola and eat it with the sun dancing across your table.
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Monalisa Chinda To Remarry At 41
Current news making
waves in the social media has it that Rivers State born Nollywood actress,Monalisa Chinda who clocked 41 years last year is set to remarry traditionally this February to her heart throb Victor Coker who hails from Niger Delta.
The actress, who is presently engaged, had her introduction and bride things in December 2015 and has picked February 20th as traditional wedding date to be held in her father's compound in Port Harcourt.
Only a selected few including her celebrity friends will receive her invitation, while the wedding billed for May 2016 is slated to be held in Greece.
It would be recalled that Monalisa Chinda was married to Segun Dejo Richards briefly and they had a daughter together before their marriage crashed years back on allegations of Domestic Violence.
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Guns Should Be Legalised In Nigeria – Iyabo Ojo
Popular Nollywood actress, Iyabo Ojo has stressed the need for guns to be legalizeds in Nigeria to deal with child molesters.
The mother of two made this known while reacting to a video posted by comedienne, Princess, on her Instagram page.
Princess, whose foster daughter was allegedly sexually abused by Yoruba actor, Baba Ijesha, shared a video of a four-year-old girl who was sexually assaulted by her teacher.
Alongside the video, Princess wrote: "Abuse of minors has become the new trend in Nigeria and only a few people are speaking up. Even in the animal kingdom, it's not this bad. Our society stigmatises, even threatening victims and their parents, while the perpetrators like Baba Ijesha walk freely.
"Our children are being destroyed daily and most people see it as cruise."
Reacting, Iyabo Ojo made it clear that anyone who messes with her children will be dealt with.
The mother of two wrote: "Can they just legalise guns because some demons need to be taken out as soon as possible?
Comedian AY, Wife Welcome Second Child After 13 Years
Popular Comedian, Ayodeji Makun, also known as AY, has welcomed his second child after13 years.
He announced this in a video shared on his Instagram page.
The birth of their second child is coming thirteen years after they had their first child, Michelle.
Alongside a video, AY wrote: "Our prayers in the last 13 years has been answered. Ayomide, thank you for making Mabel and I 'Mummy and Daddy' again.
"Thank you for making Michelle a big sister. Thanks to everyone who kept us in their prayers and never stopped feeding us with positive vibes.
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways submit to him and he will make your path straight.
"God's time is the best."
Living In Nigeria Becoming Crazier – Basket Mouth's Wife
Elsie Okpocha, wife of popular Nigerian comedian, Bright Okpocha, popularly known as Basket Mouth has called out President Muhammadu Buhari's government over the increment in prices of groceries and foodstuffs.
Basket Mouth's wife, in a recent post said is unfair that Nigerians have to constantly deal with the regular increase in prices.
According to her, it's getting 'crazier trying to survive in the 'Giant of Africa'.
She urged the Buhari-led government to help Nigerians by making life livable.
On her Instagram story, she wrote: "Our dear government, do you want us all to leave this country for you.
"It's unfair how we constantly have to deal with the regular price increment of foodstuffs and groceries.
"It's getting crazier trying to survive in this country that's supposed to be the giant of Africa.
"Abeg you people should help us and make life in Nigeria livable ."
The Tide source gathered that the prices of foodstuffs in the past few months have continued to increase in markets across the country.
Many Nigerians have taken to social media to lament the cost of eggs, bread, beans and other foodstuffs.


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O 2º Grupo de Artilharia Antiaérea - Grupo José Bonifácio e Fernando de Noronha é uma unidade militar do Exército Brasileiro, situada em Praia Grande, São Paulo.

História
Criado em 3 de dezembro de 1940, com a denominação de 1º Grupo do 2º Regimento de Artilharia Antiaérea, o Grupo seguiu para o Arquipélago de Fernando de Noronha em 1942, guarnecendo os canhões "Krupp" na missão de defesa da ilha, até 7 de novembro de 1944. Entre os anos 1940 e 2004, a unidade ficou baseada na cidade de Osasco. Nesse período, um de seus comandantes foi o então Coronel Ernesto Geisel. e também o Coronel Erasmo Dias.

Desde o início de 2005, ocupa a tradicional Fortaleza de Itaipu, cuja construção iniciou-se em 1902. Nesse prédio histórico esteve, a partir de abril de 1960, o 6º Grupo de Artilharia de Costa Motorizado, que foi transformado em 6º Grupo de Lançadores Múltiplos de Foguetes e transferido para Formosa, em Goiás.

O Grupo recebeu a denominação histórica e estandarte histórico de "Grupo José Bonifácio e Fernando de Noronha", por meio da Portaria Nº 948 do Comandante do Exército, de 21 de dezembro de 2004. A designação Grupo Fernando de Noronha representa justa homenagem pela participação do 1º / 2º Regimento de Artilharia Antiaérea na defesa do Arquipélago de Fernando de Noronha, durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial.

A designação de Grupo José Bonifácio foi dada ao 6º Grupo de Artilharia de Costa Motorizado e representa uma justa homenagem ao representante da Baixada Santista, que teve destacada participação no processo de independência nacional. O 2º GAAAe é o guardião da história dos pracinhas que defenderam Fernando de Noronha durante a 2ª Guerra Mundial e dos Artilheiros de Costa que ocuparam a Fortaleza de Itaipu, para defenderem o Porto de Santos a partir de 1902.

Desde 1999 porta a insígnia da Ordem do Mérito Militar, concedida pelo presidente Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Em 2006, estranhamente teve a insígnia concedida mais uma vez, agora pelo presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Capitão Galileu Ramos
Notável Capitão do 2ª GAAAe, participante da 2ª Guerra Mundial.

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Date 2019-12-05 CategoryNewsTagsNASA / Robot Car
"A little robotic explorer will be rolling into Antarctica this month to perform a gymnastic feat - driving upside down under sea ice.
BRUIE, or the Buoyant Rover for Under-Ice Exploration, is being developed for underwater exploration in extraterrestrial, icy waters by engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. It will spend the next month testing its endurance at Australia's Casey research station in Antarctica, in preparation for a mission that could one day search for life in ocean worlds beyond Earth.
There are moons throughout the solar system believed to be covered in deep oceans hidden beneath thick, frozen surfaces. Scientists like Kevin Hand, JPL lead scientist on the BRUIE project, believe that these lunar oceans, such as those on Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, may be the best places to look for life in our solar system. But first, they'll need a tough aquatic explorer capable of navigating solo through an alien ocean locked under ice sheets that could be 6 to 12 miles (10 to 19 kilometers) thick.
"The ice shells covering these distant oceans serve as a window into the oceans below, and the chemistry of the ice could help feed life within those oceans. Here on Earth, the ice covering our polar oceans serves a similar role, and our team is particularly interested in what is happening where the water meets the ice," said Hand.
The Antarctic waters are the closest Earth analog to the seas of an icy moon, which makes them an ideal testing ground for BRUIE technology. Three feet (1 meter) long and equipped with two wheels to roll along beneath the ice, the buoyant rover can take images and collect data on the important region where water and ice meet, what scientists call the "ice-water interface."
"We've found that life often lives at interfaces, both the sea bottom and the ice-water interface at the top. Most submersibles have a challenging time investigating this area, as ocean currents might cause them to crash, or they would waste too much power maintaining position," said lead engineer Andy Klesh. "BRUIE, however, uses buoyancy to remain anchored against the ice and is impervious to most currents. In addition, it can safely power down, turning on only when it needs to take a measurement, so that it can spend months observing the under-ice environment."
During several Antarctic field tests, the rover will remain tethered to the surface as Hand, Klesh, mechanical engineer Dan Berisford and University of Western Australia engineer Dan Arthur test its suite of instruments, including its two live, high-definition cameras.
"BRUIE will carry several science instruments to measure parameters related to life, such as dissolved oxygen, water salinity, pressure and temperature," said Berisford, who will attach the science instruments if early tests go well. But life on other worlds like Enceladus and Europa may be difficult to measure. "Once we get there," he added, "we only really know how to detect life similar to that on Earth. So it's possible that very different microbes might be difficult to recognize."
While the team has previously tested BRUIE in Alaska and the Arctic, this is the rover's first trial in Antarctica. Supported by the Australian Antarctic Program, the crew will travel to lakes and the seashore near Casey station, where they will drill holes in the ice in order to submerge BRUIE. The rover could even make some friends - curious penguins and seals sometimes investigate when the science teams drill through the ice.
The team will continue to work on BRUIE until it can survive under the ice for months at a time, remotely navigate without a tether and explore the ocean at greater depths. NASA is already at work constructing the Europa Clipper orbiter, which is scheduled to launch in 2025 to study Jupiter's moon Europa, laying the groundwork for a future mission that could search for life beneath the ice."
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Zwieback Finale
Last day of the Alphabet Challenge: my dictionary random selection offers me a snack. Zwieback, filling the niche between toast and biscuit, is an egg rich loaf that is sliced and further baked: zwieback means 'twice baked.' Cinnamon would be a nice addition, although the recipe I looked up had nutmeg.
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Today is not for baking, there is too much garden work to do, so I'm leaving this link here to get back to when the next batch of planting and repotting is done. For my finale, I have put all of my randomly selected words into one sentence, and found that there is a kind of story in it, because every sentence has a sort of implied story to it, because story underpins everything we do, because more than bones or dust, story is our existence and our legacy. No wonder we are drawn to this reading and writing lark!
April 2014 A-Z Finale Sentence:
After an abysmal banister conclusion at my domicile lead me to expostulate, dressed in a frill, with some passing gentry, we left in heavy hail, where an illustrious jaguar kiss brought a light-hearted cry of 'mayday,' and a nonagenarian smiled, though old, she said she delighted in a polonaise and would never quit: that was her reported speech, she had a lilt like a sonnet, the up and down lilt, it held you as a vice, even in wet cold weather; hazardous weather, marked xn; and so together we contemplated the reach of Yggdrasil as we crunched zwieback snacks and watched the sun re-emerge.
View from and including breakfast table: toast over done.
Should have baked it!
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Yggdrasil And The Line In The Clavicle
The name of the tree that binds heaven, earth and hell.
In the Old Norse tongue it was spelt Yggdrasill, apparently, but the significance of this extra consonant is not explained.
No pronunciation guide in the Writer's Dictionary: perhaps there is a companion book, a Reader's Dictionary?
Significance of the tree and of the binding is apparent, though all these interpretations have a personal element. Heaven, earth and hell, as bound by Yggdrasil and regarded by myself, form a set. They represent life and consequences. They represent the present moment, potential futures; a body of knowledge and experience passed on by all the souls that have lived.
Further ruminations are interrupted by a phone call that leads to a family trip to hospital with Girl and Little Granddaughter, who has fallen from a chair in a hard-floored kitchen and broken her left clavicle. We all look at the x-ray, at a fine line in pale etched bone. Girl is blinking tears, they are ruining her Brave Face.
'Look, those are your bones,' we say to the Little One.
'It's people!' She says: she is watching the CCTV screen, drawn to colour and movement. She didn't much care for the x-ray machine, or the sling (until Teddy had one too) but she was pleased with the sticker the nurse gave her. On the way home we stopped to buy her a comic. She asked for pizza too, because apparently the wind had blown her breakfast off the table and all over the floor, leaving her hungry.
'Is that what happened?' Girl smiles. (She had turned her back to fetch a tissue to wipe a dot of spilt egg: heard the horrible thump.)
'Yes,' Little Granddaughter says, 'it was the wind. I didn't have my breakfast and the wind blew it: all over the floor. I like my sticker.'
It's all about choices, I think: too much exists to think of it all. So we choose. We set our own bindings.
Little Granddaughter has a look, when I first walk in, ready to take her to the hospital: I have not seen the look on her before. It is a hurt confusion, because she has not experienced a broken bone before. It is her look that tells me we should go to get an x-ray; that this is outside the usual brandishing of a miniscule scratch. But how quickly she employs her customary imagineering: and brings the situation back within a comfort zone: lets her mind grow over it, fix it in a known place.
X.N.
On this final week of the Alphabet Challenge, I have reached for The Oxford Writer's Dictionary, which gives a writer a fast and easy aid to usage, style and spelling. X is a tricky letter but it covers some interesting stuff like xylography, the printing of wood block books. However the random choice is… x.n. I have never heard of it, unsurprisingly, as it means 'without the right to new shares.' It belongs to a tricksy financial world (Lord of the Rings reference: I'm thinking of Mordor) which is in a galaxy far far from here (Star Wars, thinking Death Star.) On a disinterested Google search, Xn shows up as a chemical hazard code, meaning harmful, before it appears in a Reuters post about steel and stock markets.
[Cue scrunched-face thinking moment.]
I do not, actually, despise money. Currency is a sort of metaphor, where an object represents being equal in value to another, and often is composed of pleasant artifacts: notes and coins hold fascination with pictures, with history. Nor do I, even, despise business, which comes (debatably) from a division of labour within a society that can be beneficial to our quality of lives. It has an element of play that has enabled me to survive those brief sales jobs, and even that seminar on how to sell mobile phone contracts (not sure how they survived me.) One needn't sell people things they won't find useful, after all. But at that time there was no bonus available to those merchants that had the happiest customers, only quantity was to be counted.
[Concludes simply, by nodding head and typing:]
When business folk get greedy, they ruin the game, they no longer deserve any new shares.
Taiwanese dollars are perky colours
Black Belt Trials: Round Two And Always
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At Bristol Academy, 163A Church Road, Redfield, Bristol:
It is crowded. While our nervous yet determined students are working up a sweat in the hall upstairs, I take a walk around St George's Park. It rains, light heavy, and snows cherry blossom. Over the pond each drop patters, sends out loops. Ducks waddle on the path. They all look as I pass: quack, contended. Nice weather for ducks. Chestnut trees have flowers that stack like wedding cakes. Spring is for beginnings. Summer to autumn for fruition, winter for the hack back to skeletal basics. Spring is for beginnings… There's something about the combination of a mass meeting of like minded people, the creative surge of nerves and knowledge (plus espresso) makes my brain splurge: before I have put a foot back to the Academy words are pinging. In the porch, simply conversing, words become attached to potential actions.Mr appears, from his hall upstairs perch. He is smiling. No results till Tuesday: but he is happy that all of our participants this weekend (twelve in total) have done their best. For us, this is what we have asked of them. We both smile. On the way home we call to see the new home of Niece Kate: vaguely dilapidated, fantastically picturesque, fire lit flat in the stable block of a fading stately home. We eat bolognaise, talk Tae kwon-Do, talk dreams.
She says: something like: you can say wouldn't have been nice if, or wasn't it nice when? In the car, on the final home leg, then, the drift of reality settles. Potential can be made real. Those that graded today: if you did your utmost, you did well. Carry it on: something like: you can say wouldn't have been nice if, or wasn't it nice when?
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Warwick Deeping: A Review
It had been one of those days where the rain had given up and allowed the sun to prevail. There was a jangle of change in my pocket and some of the coins where even the shiny important sort: I was thinking perhaps I would treat myself to a beetroot or a bulb of smoked garlic, from the greengrocer in the White Hart Market. Across the tiny market lane the secondhand bookstore had a box of tired old books, three for a pound. Three books for a pound, irresistible: that's a fact. I found a David Lodge, a Bernard Cornwell, and a 1946 cotton covered hardback titled The Impudence of Youth. The author, the eponymous Warwick, had written quite a list, I saw, and something about the whole package had a pleasant feel to it. And I had enough pennies left over to purchase a bunch of celery.
Settling outside for a read, the words were dated, and that was most of the charm of the piece. It had a mix of 'come on, there's a plot that needs to proceed' briskness and distracting details that were possibly designed to build a scene but I found quite comic. For example:
'What do they call this place?'
'Monk's Wood.'
'How utterly right. Where do we come to? Nowhere, and everywhere?'
'Yatley Heath. But it isn't quite a heath.'
Why wasn't it a proper heath? Why did the reader need to be aware of this? In the rest of the book it receives all the honours due to a heath. There were also little gems of character description; 'her garden was like her self, of a large simplicity.' And then a suicide was the grand finale! The last line: 'He had gassed himself. THE END' Distinctly odd, and that's what I liked about it most.
The plot: JJ Pope is a child genius with a small body and a big head. He is raised by his Aunt Jane. He gets a scholarship to Cambridge, is bullied but stalwart, makes a good friend, Peter, who is the heir of Pratten's Pills. He becomes a doctor although being a know-it-all and marrying Kitty the pretty milliner make it very difficult to advance his career. He is working on cures for dyspepsia and period pains. Money runs out, Aunt Jane dies, Kitty loses the baby, gets tuberculosis, it is all horrible. Cue Mr Pratten Snr offering a job making pills for these very interesting cures JJ has been slaving over. Kitty is sent to a lovely sanatorium, she recovers. Peter is killed in a car crash, JJ becomes heir to Pratten's Pills. Mr Pratten Snr also dies. JJ is now rich. He builds a house and a sanatorium in the vicinity of Yatley Heath but is unable to save the chap who used to bully him. The End!
If you want to pretend it's 1946, I recommend reading this book in a tea shop. Also, wear a hat.
"...One set out to see life and its realities, its pathos and heroism, and I have managed to find it more splendid than sordid. A negative cynicism seems to me to be a form of cowardice."
"…to get the best out of life one must begin with some sort of purpose. We must begin by wanting something that is worthwhile, and by setting ourselves passionately and stoutly to possess it."
Find out more about lovely Warwick here :-)
My W word for today's A-Z challenge, by random dictionary selection is: wet. It is raining heavily over the fields today, a good thing for the crops, but I have washing to dry. It reminds of JD Salinger: and this always makes me smile:
'Poets are always taking the weather so personally.'
(Very busy, this weekend, lots of our superb Tae Kwon-Do students are bracing themselves for The Black Belt Grading and we are visiting my brother and sister-in-law, who are moving back to Taiwan next month: if you visit my blog and leave a comment and a link to your blog, I will get back to you... dreckly.)
Potentially edgy, I thought, on first reading today's random word, though Fowler's is concerned with the noun signifying a clamp (vise, in American English, this word coming from the Latin for 'vine') and the titular application, as in vice admiral (meaning next in line or in place of. This word from the Latin for 'change.') But the idea was to take the word as a starting point: was it? I forget my own purpose, here, and stare out of the window.
Daydreaming like most habits can be considered as a positive behaviour or as a vice (the naughty kind, which word stems from the Latin for 'fault.') It is a matter of perception and balance. Cake, for example, and let's make it a big creamy chocolate stack, is not packed with nutritional necessities. A lot of it will cause you harm. A little (or enormous) slice now and then, however, is a reminder to have fun in your life. If you get the balance wrong, your health suffers. It would be sensible to rethink your behaviour at this point. Wisest and most pertinent: if your behaviour detrimentally affects others, you need to change it, or them (preferably by kindly debate.)
So, the fault does not always lie with the act, it can be rooted more in lack of action. Beautiful view, from my window, here, but I had better walk my dog. And, later, perhaps I'll bake a cake.
In foreground: lime tree, needs potting.
Background: Dog, bored.
In Fowler's, this phrase refers mainly to geographical terms: down south, up north. Growing up in Cornwall was somewhat insular and we referred to everything that was placed northerly to us as being 'up country.' Only when you are a mere infant it is more 'Upcountry,' as though it forms a different land.
If you go Upcountry, they'll put allsorts in, call it a pasty, 's a disgrace.
And, if there is an up and a down, who says the earth is flat?
Stuff is simple and yet puzzling when you are four.
On a tilted link, then; sliding into childhood language; here are some words I use that I rarely remember are dialect:
Addled (broken)
Cack (poop)
Cakey (feeble, from the saying 'put in with the cakes took out with the buns')
Chacks (cheeks)
Cheel (child, usually a girl)
Furze (gorse bush)
Gawky (stupid)
Heller (naughty)
Kiddlywink (unlicensed beer shop, also I love 'kiddly broth' for cheap soup)
Mind (remember)
Scat (hit)
Smeech (smoke from burning fat)
Tacker (toddler)
And ones that I do remember are dialect but are pleasingly distinctive:
Backalong (a while back)
Better way (it would be better if you did)
Crib box (lunch box, not a euphemism btw)
Cuss (curse, as in swear)
Dreckly (not immediately)
Emmet (tourist, from the word for 'ant')
Knockers (underground spirits)
Maid (girl or female friend)
Oggy (a pasty, a proper one!)
Pisky (pixie)
Proper (good, suitable)
Some of these have been scooped up into general usage, carried along: others, set down in time, ring archaic down the steep old streets.
Castle Beach, Falmouth: The childhood haunt :-)
The most ordinary word that my random dictionary searches have given up do far: the most frequently used word in the whole of the English language. Used to add specifics to a noun, though some explanations say it is used to restrict a noun's meaning: both views are valid. The result is the same: it points to a particular, a definite, hence the title. It is something I like to look out for whilst editing (and I self-edit so if you find numerous examples of a misplaced 'the' please be kind) because whilst attempting to type at the speed of thought one does chuck out rough words and clogged up phrases and whether a thing is any thing or that specific thing and why care about it is easily overlooked. It makes a difference though.
'The birds in the hedge' specific yet bland
'Birds in a hedge' could be any place with birds and at least one hedge, allows space for reader to relate to own experience
'Birds in this hedge' specific and more lyrical
'These birds in a hedge' specific birds and more quirky, almost the language of setting up a joke
So while I like to present sensations of immediacy in my writing, here is revealed the background scene of deliberation. And outside these walls birds, unseen, sing from trees, from hedges, from rooftops. (One use of definite article only here, 'the background' to emphasise that this is my deliberation, though doubtless other writers will relate to this process. I chose to use birds in hedges for examples because though I am working indoors I have open windows, and I eat most of my meals outside watching hedge sparrows being impossibly busy.)
Couldn't find the picture of birds in hedge I was looking for-
opted for a Little Grandson with Dog!
Sonnet, Later
A poem composed of 14 lines.
[Reads dictionary explanation, yawns: not fully attentive]
The English convention is 10 syllables for each of these, and a choice of styles: Petrarchan, Shakespearian or Miltonic being our main three. They differ in rhyme scheme and pacings of octaves (first eight lines) and sestets (last six lines, aka sextets.) And it should be Iambic (the rhythm that runs soft LOUD soft LOUD.)
[Nods head absentmindedly: facts are read with some recall, except:]
'Why these particular numbers?'
[Scratches head to denote thought]
They are pleasantly even
They fit musical forms (sonnet from the Italian, 'little song')
They are long enough to set up and answer a question or two, not so long the reader loses track/interest
Long enough to play with form and make different styles from one format: a sort of literary franchise?
It proved popular, so writers kept at it
The Shakespearian form breaks mostly into 3 quatrains (4 line stanzas) followed by 1 couplet (2 lines). The first 3 quatrains set up a surprise in the final two lines.
[Considers writing in this format. Pictures how the current pile of projects is stacking up]
'UnwielDY? Is that Iambic?'
[Sighs. Eats a sandwich]
Posting late today- blaming those Little Grandchildren for their persistently welcome distractions. Today we went chocolate making at the Eden Project. Back home to build a bonfire, eat homemade burgers, watch Frozen (love the summer smitten snowman) eat some more chocolate and finally ease sleep in to the seriously overtired with several Dr Seuss stories.
This week's dictionary of choice is the R.W Burchfield's 1998 revised third edition of New Fowler's Modern English Usage. It gives me a phrase, but I think it counts, and it makes my late post an easy post so I accept it.
Last night:
The Little Grandchildren played tug of war. Grandad joined in.
Little Grandson (Age 4) suggested to Little Granddaughter (Age 2) that, together, they could beat Grandad. She, being in agreement, promptly dropped the rope and punched Grandad in the chest.
Quite a nice punch too, Granma noted, but mostly she was laughing.
Quit Not
Mr, Boy and me have been building a shed. This project started October 1st 2012, when we turned up in the car park of a supermarket that was refitting its trolley bays. Mr had a vision, permission to remove the decommissioned bays and a hired van. It was excellent and perilous fun (like giant Meccano that can fall on you and squish your bones.) We took three of the old bays, I think, with some minor flesh wounds. Last summer Project Polytunnel commenced (going well, although more space is used storing the future shed flooring than for growing.) This year, Project Shed is under way. The satisfaction layers up: that we saw potential, that we worked hard, that we took a risk, that people who thought we were bizarre may still think that but they also have visible shed envy, that here is a space we made coming to fruition. Not until the light is fading and the last of the outer paneling fixed is the daily writing routine approached. I almost can't be bothered to find a random word, all I want to do is sing songs of The Legendary Project Shed. As though the dictionary feels slighted, the word is quit.
'Pah!' I said; closing the dear old book, putting it back on the table with a friendly pat. 'When the shed is finished I shall have to take you up there.'
The more you make things, it seems, the more life you sense, even in these inanimate pieces. It blooms, it roots; it beats and flows. It quits not.
Polska The Irrepressible
Polonaise, the dictionary selector dumps on me this morning. A what? I can read the definition but what to make of it in terms of producing a post that contains any kind of illumination?
Some further research is pursued.
Strong coffee is brewed.
Notes, gleaned from the Encyclopedia Brittanica:
'polonaise, Polish polonez, dignified ceremonial dance, 17th-19th century, opened court balls. Origin- warrior's triumphal dance? Music used 1573, coronation Henry of Anjou, King of Poland. Dancers, in couples according to social position, promenaded, gliding steps accented by bending the knees slightly on every third step. 3/4 time. Used as musical form by Beethoven, Handel, Mussorgsky, Chopin.'
I am then distracted (or am I being inspired? That's a perpetual conundrum of any writer) by something not revealed in the dictionary definition:
'robe à la polonaise, woman's garment of the later 1770s and 1780s similar revival style 1870s inspired by Polish national costume. Gown with a cutaway, draped and swagged overskirt, worn over a petticoat. Late nineteenth century, polonaise also described a fitted overdress which extended into long panels over the underskirt, but was not necessarily draped or swagged.[ Wikipedia]'
The term was revived for styles in the 19th and 20th centuries, is little used in the 21st. There is some catty fashion debate of use here that holds the potential for amusement at the expense of human habits…
Now there is so much to write of!
(The writer here exudes a confused sigh.)
All of this, perhaps, detracts from the source: Polska- known to us as Poland: most populous post-communist member of the European Union. A population which has been subject to hundreds of years of rollercoaster history: which only regained such populousity in the 1970s: after the shocking statistics of the Second World War, after Treblinka, after Aushwitz.
'90% of casualties were non-military'
(Here the writer feels that foul cold touch: the deep horror: the dread and wrench of so much loss. All we have to do is be nice to each other: why not do that? One job, humanity, you had one simple job!)
Strong coffee pours into a simple mug. The sun is shining.
There was the Golden Age, there was Casimir the Third, full of warm acceptance and bright learning… and a penchant for bigamy.
There is over a thousand years of history, here.
One blog post cannot match that.
So, where is this journey of discovery going to rest? And what treasures will be brought back?
Music, that's how it started: return to the beginning and try not to get lost. Polish music, in particular: ah yes, most people have heard of Chopin: oh, and what's here? Disco Polo? A derivative of disco and folk music, popular in the 1990s? This can only be fun, life affirming, bursting with good-natured comedic simplicity.
'Disco polo could be heard mostly at country picnics, country depots, weddings or during political campaigns in Polish parliament and presidential elections. Disco polo is generally perceived as kitschy in its artistic value. It is often looked down upon as a provincial genre of music.'
A quick forage to youtube then, with visions of disco balls spinning from mossy boughs in ancient forests; full skirts in folk art colours, meat pies on a trestle table, wild boar snuffling in the undergrowth, promises for future prosperity, bunting and vodka…
Presenting Shazza, Queen of Disco Polo: her real name is Magdalena. The video contains a variety of historic and cultural costume that, in some gorgeous kitschy way, stitches together a feeling of the redemptive power of eccentric jollity.
'Bajao Bongo'
Old Ramblings
So far the random word selecting process has given a random list, this was not a surprise. But yesterday's nonagenarian and today's old seem at first too similar. The first definition of old in this week's dictionary is
'1. Having existed or lived for a relatively long time.'
Ah, but old is a word related to a wider concept of time, I like the last one best:
'2. Having a specified age…
3. Dear or cherished through long association.'
The next column in the O section is taken up with associated words: old boy, olden, Old English, old-fashioned, old hat, old man's beard, Old Master, old school tie, oldster, Old Testament, old-timer, old wives' tale, Old World. It's a lovely jumble, though it occurs to me that many of these words can be used with affection or in a derogatory way. That long association can also breed contempt, I suppose. The difficult thing about hanging around for some time is to keep (and to express) a fresh view. But isn't that what I said yesterday? Hmm. There we go, all ready repeating myself!
I shall go and walk my dog, I think, for the sun is shining and the sharp breeze all warmed up. In the hedges grow sour mustard flowers and nectar rich primrose and perfumed violets. I shall reflect on the dual nature of cherishing, and how a little acerbic humour is part of life's full palette.
Ninety Each And The Nexus Of Juice
(Iris Apfel: portrait from Pinterest)
Nonagenarian is the word of today's random selection (from the Latin nonageni - ninety each.) Spoken aloud (say nonna-j'n-airian) it has a lively, almost flirtatious feel. Which is how one would wish to be, in one's tenth decade of living.
My How To Be Old Wish List includes:
I will wear mostly sequined dresses and Wellington boots
I will sunbathe nude in a fragrant garden
I will swim in wild water
I will walk and meditate and, after some kindly thought to the matter, tell the blunt truth always.
More people are living longer and staying lively, it seems; this study is fairly typical: Lively Nineties Trend: reassuring for those of us who relish the idea of being old and delightfully sparky, of concentrating eccentricities and allowing Buddha-nature full bloom.
But: uh oh: there's a but!
'While the study suggests people are living better after 90, they have to make it to their 10th decade first, Christensen said. Younger elderly people have more illnesses such as obesity and diabetes, he said.'
Poor diet, lack of exercise, a lack of social connection, a feeling of not being in control of one's self or life, the inability to choose happiness: these are the impediments to pleasant ageing. None of them make for a lively time at any age, actually. Let us not take life for granted. We can't know if we will be given ninety each: we can only press what we have for every drop of juice.
[NB: Nexus noun: connecting principle or link]
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By:Clyde Wilson | January 19, 2015
Today, January 19, is a memorable date, the birthday of one of the greatest of all Americans. Robert E. Lee was born in Tidewater Virginia in 1807. Two uncles signed the Declaration of Independence and his father was a notable cavalry officer in the War for Independence. He was later to wed the granddaughter of Martha Washington.
He was graduated second in his class at West Point, an institution of which he was later a distinguished superintendent. As an army officer he worked on many useful engineering projects and was distinguished under fire in the Mexican War and later on the Texas frontier. Unlike the greatest figure on the other side of the great sectional conflict of 1861—1865, who was an inveterate office-seeker but never performed any service for his fellow citizens.
In 1861 he was offered command of all the armies of the United States, the height of a soldier's ambition. But the path of honour commanded him to choose to defend his own people from invasion rather than do the bidding of the politicians who controlled the federal machinery in Washington.
His command of the Army of Northern Virginia is one of the greatest military epics of human history. By genius, daring, and the valour of his men he again and again defeated immensely larger and better supplied armies. He was aided by a lieutenant whose birthday is only two days later: "Stonewall," born of January 21 in 1824. In the last days of the war his army inflicted casualties on the enemy that were greater than its own numbers, but he succumbed finally to an enemy commander willing to make any sacrifice of his men to exhaust the dwindling numbers of Confederates.
His actions after the war illustrate his nobility. He refused invitations to lend his name to business ventures that would have made him a rich man. Instead, he became head of a struggling college and devoted himself to setting an example for his people of quiet rebuilding. His opponent in the last period of the war was President of the United States for eight years and presided over the greatest political corruption in American history.
Lee was admired not only by his own people, but by all the world, including his opponents. For a long time he was celebrated by nearly all as a great American. The attacks on his name and fame in recent years coincide exactly with the progressive deterioration of all the higher values of American tradition.
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Stratford Hall offers free admission today. Last year my kids enjoyed the birthday cake and displays. We didn't get down to the grist mill, however. I had hoped to do so this year but there's this flu thing sweeping the country. Oh well. Happy Birthday, General Lee!
Highly Irregular
Were Lee's descendants active in post-war politics? Are they active today?
robert m. peters
coushatta, louisiana
When my camp of the SCV hosted the Lee-Jackson Banquet for the Northwest Brigade in January a few years ago, we drank out of shot glasses a butter-milk toast to General Lee and out of others lemonade-toast to General Jackson. Some of the compatriots likely had vest flasks with other libations. This is also our 44th wedding anniversary. So, to the good wife for her longsuffering and love and to General Lee for his service and sense of duty!
Ray Olson
Thank you for the timely reminder, Dr. Wilson. I had forgotten--IF I ever knew it firmly--General Lee's birthday. When I was a kid in the '50s, Minnesotans were taught that he was a brilliant general and a noble man--the greatest Southerner next to Washington and one of the greatest Americans. Nothing I've learned since then has shaken his status in my eyes. Let me add that two years after his birth, another great Southerner was born on January 19--Edgar Allan Poe. Though hardly in Lee's league as a hero and a gentleman, Poe was the first great American poet and literary critic, the foremost progenitor of three strains of modern genre fiction (the detective story, the horror story, and science fiction), and probably the most influential American writer of all time.
Bryan Fox
We are in the final year of the ballyhooed sesquicentennial and I am preparing my mental armor for the onslaught of histrionic tripe and comic book history of the Union saved and emancipation. May I suggest for reading Dr. Richard McCaslin's "Lee in the Shadow of Washington", Scott Bowden's eight part series "Robert E. Lee at War" and Walter H. Taylor's "Four Years with General Lee". Bowden tells me one can only speculate if Lee had been given command of the Confederate forces in Virginia from the onset of the Federal Centralist invasion. Certainly there would have been very different outcomes in 1861-62. It deeply saddens me such a fine man, great American General is impugned by the Goebbels like cabal of Centralist Statist pundits and court historians.
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