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Our Board
Abby Attias
Vice President
(ex-officio; non-voting) Ph.D., English, Rutgers University; B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton. Managing Director, Curriculum & Training Design of the Center for Supportive Schools, Princeton, NJ. Former international consultant for diversity training and organizational communication; former teacher of university and high school English.
Sherry Barr
Vice President
(ex-officio; non-voting) Psy.D., School Psychology, Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, Rutgers University; B.A., Psychology, Millersville University. Managing Director, Operations & Evaluation of the Center for Supportive Schools, Princeton, NJ. Visiting faculty member, Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University. New Jersey-certified school psychologist. Previous co-investigator for a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded study, Enhanced Peer-Based Interventions During the Transition to High School. Project director for a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-funded project to replicate and evaluate a teen sexual health peer education program in rural communities in North Carolina.
G. Frits Besselaar
M.A., Real Estate Development and Finance, Columbia University; B.A., International Relations, University of Richmond. President, OmniVest Group, LLC, Princeton, NJ. Alumnus of Princeton Day School's Peer Leadership Program, class of 1983.
Fatimah Burnam-Watkins
M.A., Secondary Education, John Hopkins School of Education; B.S., Political Science and Afro-American Studies, University of Maryland. Senior Vice-President of Executive Leadership & Learning, Teach For America. Board member, KIPP New Jersey, BRICK Avon Academy Schools, and Someone's Daughter. 2012 Power Woman in Education, Freeholder's Association. 2013 Fellow, Pahara-Aspen Education Fellowship.
Lea Crusey
Master's in Public Policy, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago; B.A., Claremont McKenna College. Founder, Allies for Educational Equity. Former middle school teacher working with high-needs students; served in various capacities in the public, private, non-profit sectors. Alumnus of Princeton High School's Peer Leadership Program, class of 1999.
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M.B.A., Harvard Business School; A.B., Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Principal, General Atlantic, New York, NY. Board of Directors, Too Faced Cosmetics (Irvine, CA) and Zimmermann (Sydney, Australia).
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M.B.A., Finance, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; A.B., Politics, Princeton University. Vice President and Senior Institutional Client Advisor, PNC Institutional Advisory Solutions, Washington, DC. Works with non-profit organizations to invest and manage assets. Board of Directors, National Education Association Foundation.
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(ex-officio), A.B., Philosophy, Princeton University. CEO of the Center for Supportive Schools, Princeton, NJ. Founder and leader of several schools and not-for-profit organizations, including Teach For America.
R. Christopher Owens
J.D., Columbia University Law School; B.A., Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought; Psychology, Amherst College. Vice President and Counsel, TD Bank, N.A., Mount Laurel, NJ. Leadership Council Member, World of Money, New York, NY.
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Masters in Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Bachelors in Science, University of California. Chief Financial Officer, UMassFive College Federal Credit Union, Hadley, MA. Chartered Financial Analyst.
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B.A., School of General Studies, Columbia University. Teacher, Lewis School of Princeton, Princeton, NJ. Former Wall Street portfolio manager. Co-founder, S.S. Columbia Project.
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B.S. in Business Marketing and Management, Cornell University. Director, Finance & Operations, Citi Foundation. Formerly with The Learning Project, a start-up educational management organization, and Goldman, Sachs & Co.


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Eight strategies to make cows, sheep and other cud-chewing, or ruminant, livestock a more sustainable part of the food supply are outlined by Rothamsted Research scientists in a Comment piece in Nature this week. The Comment was led by Mark Eisler and Michael Lee, University of Bristol UK and Graeme Martin, University of Western Australia, Perth.
Raising animals for milk and meat is often considered at odds with the challenge of feeding a growing human population, but there are health benefits to eating animal protein. Furthermore, cows, sheep and some other livestock can be fed grass and crop residues that humans cannot eat, the authors point out. "We must figure out how to keep livestock in ways that work best for individuals, communities and the planet," say the authors.
Working to boost yields from local breeds makes more sense in the long term than importing breeds that are successful elsewhere, Eisler and colleagues write. For example, kept under controlled conditions and in temperate climates in Europe and North America, Holstein dairy cows can produce 30 litres of milk a day. Tens of thousands, at least, of these animals have been exported to Asia and Africa in attempts to alleviate malnutrition. But exposed to hot climates and tropical diseases, the cows produce much less milk, and require more expensive care and feeding than native breeds do.
Simple dietary supplements can help to boost productivity. These alter microbes in the rumen to improve animals' nutrition, meaning that in some cases, animals can produce more milk and meat for proportionally less greenhouse gas.
Finally, the authors explain how a network of research farms — known as farm platforms, exemplified at Rothamsted Research, North Wyke, UK; Future Farm, Perth Australia, and Silent Valley, Kerala, India — is starting to evaluate economic and environmental benefits of these and other farming practices.
Professor John Crawford leads Rothamsted's Sustainable Systems Strategic Programme, which is strategically funded by the BBSRC, and he said: "In order to answer questions about sustainability of agriculture, scientists are increasingly dependent on the too few remaining long-term research platforms around the world. This paper is a welcome reminder of the need for long-term strategic investment to secure future food supply.
Only by studying the behaviour of the whole production system, including total inputs, total outputs and its productivity over sufficiently long time can we eliminate unintended consequences such as intolerable levels of soil degradation, greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss.
North Wyke leads the way for next generation platforms capable of providing all the necessary data, and the global network ensures the widest possible translation of research into practice change".
Professor Melanie Welham, BBSRC Executive Director, Science, said: "It's great to see the benefits of BBSRC's national capability funding being recognised in this way. North Wyke Farm Platform and the other BBSRC national capabilities are valuable resources for UK bioscience, helping world-class research take place to deliver economic and social benefits for all."

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Serve with celery sticks, tortilla chips, potato chips, pretzels, and French bread.
1/3 cup Buffalo Blue Cheese Popcorn Seasoning
8 oz. cream cheese - room temperature
1/3 cup milk
~ With an electric mixer, beat together all ingredients.
~ Chill at least 2 hours before serving.
~ For a warm dip, microwave on 100% power for 1 minutes, stir, and microwave an additional 30 seconds.
Recipe: Buffalo Chicken Wontons
Creamy blue cheese and buffalo filling with chicken in a crispy fried won ton.
1/3 cup Buffalo Blue Cheese Popcorn Seasoning
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup milk
6 oz. can (or 3/4 cup) chicken, drained
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1 egg, beaten
oil for frying
~ With an electric mixer on low, beat together Buffalo Blue Cheese Popcorn Seasoning, cream cheese, and milk until smooth. Stir in chicken.
~ Place a scant Tablespoonful of cream cheese mixture onto the center of each wonton wrapper.
~ Brush egg on the edges of the wrappers, fold over in a triangle shape, and press to seal edges.
~ Place filled wontons in a single layer on a baking sheet lined with waxed paper. Freeze wontons completely (takes approx. 1 hour).
~ Deep-fry wontons in 375 degree oil, turning once, until golden brown. Drain on cooling racks or paper towels.
Recipe: Baby Buffalo Bites
Scrumptious little pinwheels filled with spicy buffalo wing sauce, blue cheese, and chicken.
1/3 cup Buffalo Blue Cheese Popcorn Seasoning
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup milk
(6 - 8) 12" flour tortillas
1/2 - 1 pound thin-sliced roasted deli chicken
~ With an electric mixer on low, beat together Buffalo Blue Cheese Popcorn Seasoning, cream cheese, and milk until smooth.
~ With a butter knife or spatula, spread Buffalo Blue Cheese mixture over a tortilla to about 1/8" thick.
~ Arrange chicken slices in a single layer over the tortilla.
~ Roll up tortilla tightly and set aside.
~ Repeat with remaining ingredients until you run out of meat or dip.
~ Using a sharp knife, slice rolls into 1" sections. Wipe the knife blade with a damp kitchen towel or paper towel every few slices.
~ Arrange rolls close together on a platter, stacking in a pyramid shape if necessary.
~ Refrigerate at least 1 hour before serving.
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I think I can handle that.
Mr. Smarty has been the journaler in our family. At least he's the one who's been most consistent with it over the years. In 2009, he journaled every single day. And for the past several years he's maintained a work-out log, documenting each run, cycle or swim. And I love that he's kept those. Really. I am so thankful that he has written down simple, everyday moments that in time will be treasured details of what our life was like.
But then I saw this book. And wondered why I always thought he had to be the one to record our life. Did I think my vantage wasn't worth writing down? (if that is the case, why do I blog?) Do I think I wouldn't follow through or stick with it? (maybe...likely)
I still want his side documented, too. I just want to give this a try. How fun and telling (and maybe even sad at times) it will be to look back in 5 years to read one line a day?
I think this will help me be more deliberate in adding to the journals I keep for the kids, too.
Do you journal or keep any sort of life log? Any tips for being consistent?


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My life among the Dalits
21 February 2006
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Sr Alphonsa Fatima FMM
In the year 1992, we four sisters opted to live among the Dalits in Pallapalayam village, Indira colony at Udumalpet Taluk in Coimbatore District Tamil Nadu.
Dalits are the untouchables of the society and so we opted to live because they are the Dalits, among the Dalits, because they are scavengers, who do all kinds of dirty work, like cleaning the public toilets, gutters of the streets in the villages and towns, burying dead animals and so on. Also they are considered very low in the status and looked down on by all the people in the country. They are called 'sakkiliar'. We chose such people to live with because we learned that they are the majority in our district and whose socio, economic, political and cultural rights were curtailed. They were denied their basic human rights, especially by the caste people and the local landlords.
The residence of the Dalits in almost all the states of India is the same for they do not have houses or land of their own. They fully depend upon the local land owners or government for work. It is impossible for them to get government jobs because they are illiterates, and if they are employed by the government it would be for scavenging work, and they are paid very low wage and considered as `D´ grade workers. Eg. I found only three male and two female primary school teachers in Udumalpet taluk among the Dalits of this particular caste.
Women and men were going for 'coolie' work and children too were accompanying their parents to graze the cattle for the land owners or working with their parents for daily wages.
We learned that only 12 children were going to primary school, and many of them were bonded to the landlords in whose fields their parents were bonded labourers. That is, they work for the same land owner from generation after generation faithfully with low wages. We regularly visited the families and built a rapport with them. We also went to work with them in the fields of the landlords. The landlords were suspicious of our going to work and so strictly told the women not to bring us to work with them. They worked more than eight hours, but they were not aware of it. We contacted 10 more colonies of the same type of people; there too we found the same type of oppression.After learning the situation of the people for six months, we started literacy classes for the women and the youth. For the children we started special coaching classes and so we were able to send many children to the schools. The children were enthused to do their studies well and so the people of the area demanded we take tuitions for their children too, which was very impossible for us because they asked us to come to their areas (because they would not send their children into a Dalit colony.)
There are 200 families in the colony -- they had no leaders among them and for any disputes they would approach the local leaders who are non-Dalits. Our stay among them brought some changes in their lifestyle and they began to solve the problems by themselves through meetings and so on.E.g. There were lots of superstitious beliefs, the people were going to receive blessings for sicknesses such as diarrhea or fever etc instead of going to the hospital. The women stopped completely going to the temple priest for the blessing.The women and children were organised and simultaneously regular awareness and literacy classes were conducted and so, the people of the area, the non-Dalits questioned the women and men of the colony and learned all the details of the programmes and the changes in the colony.E.g. There were no children to graze the cattle and women were going to work irregularly, for they had their own self-help scheme (ie micro credit unit.)
With our help and guidance the children were faring well in their studies. Apart from that the women and the children were encouraged with a small savings scheme and so they were confident to educate their children and then onwards they were independent to take decision for their children and the family.
We took part in all the activities of the people in the colony such as their temple festivals, family functions, joys and sorrows which brought us close to people to know more about their culture and their attitudes about caste discrimination. We found that they have been oppressed in all the ways possible (e.g.) socially, economically, politically and religiously. The more we got involved the more they strengthened their confidence in us and accepted us.
Our regular meetings and discussions on human rights, women's rights and various caste-based issues created in them confidence and courage which made them move to take part in different meetings organised by the Dalits movements and women's movements in various places. Usually they do not go out of their place because they do not know to read and write and fear meeting outsiders.
If the police entered the colony the people would hide themselves for fear of them. Our constant accompaniment and follow-up in creating awareness and teaching to read and write made them go ahead in their activities. This helped them to participate actively in movement meetings, strikes, hunger strikes and so on.
It had taken nearly two years of time, and then began the problems for us. Our stay among the people was at risk, for the local landlords who were Hindu fundamentalists questioned some of the men in the colony and forced them to vacate us from there, for we have come to convert them to Christianity. With the help of some men in the colony they arranged to pick a fight among men and women who were involved in the micro-credit unit. They confused the entire situation of colony which led us and the women to the local police station and then to the local magistrate court, a signature campaign, petition to the collector and so on.
The more we were troubled, the deeper were our strength and courage to commit ourselves and to stand by the people, and be with them until the situation was ended. We were asked to leave the place by the provincial for fear of further troubles and danger to our lives. We were away from the place for two days but returned. It was a hard task for us to maintain peace among the people because there was an attempt to split the people and create fights among them. We were extremely careful to tackle this issue without any breakout of fights. We used peaceful tactics, that is, not to pick a fight with anyone, even if it wounded them very much and so women were very careful and did not react to anyone and to any situation. Almost every day we discussed the issue and finally the decision was made to forgive all those who caused us to suffer. The solution was to deepen the commitment of women in this issue and to create clarity on their rights, and to be united to work together.
The children played a very important role in this issue. They refused to eat at home and sign the signature campaign paper. They questioned people who were bribed by other caste men to send us away from the colony. When two children were threatened to say to the police that we taught prayers, the rest of them shouted together to the police that these children were saying lies. Finally, we all discussed to put an end the problem and to rebuild the unity and bring peace in the colony.
As the temple feast was approaching it was an appropriate opportunity at that moment so we planned to join those who created problem to celebrate the temple feast. So the women took initiative and the feast celebration put an end to the situation. The government officials did not support us very much for they were reluctant to get involved in this issue for fear of their officials who were non-Dalits. We too sent petitions to the collector for not allowing us to do the service to people which was in collaboration with the government scheme; the micro-credit unit.
The Hindu fundamentalists tried their level best to chase us from the colony by arranging public meetings in front of the colony to influence the people, also they bribed the police to threaten us and so the policemen came to call us to the station for an enquiry. Our petition to the Superintendent of Police (S.P.), made them come enquire in the colony. The entire village gathered, nearly 2000 people might have gathered to see what the Deputy S.P. (D.S.P.) would do to us. Many of the people thought that he would arrest us and so the women and children were crying bitterly for fear of our arrest.We were told by the D.S.P. not to leave the colony and not to convert the people. Then the local Magistrate (Thasildar) took a further step to put an end to those Hindu fundamentalists and the landlords who were the cause, he called out the parents of those men for discussion and warned them not to allow them to get involved in this issue.
I lived among them for 12 years empowering women, youth, and children and learned that the poor have many values to teach us: especially sharing, love for the neighbor, love for the nature so on. They are very human and affectionate people. I found meaning for my religious commitment in being and living a simple life – for they were living a very simple and contented life. Now, our sisters are continuing the work but moved to another area and continuing the contacts and the programmes with the people


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Oh, well. On to business.
Today I thought I would bring you a section of the book dealing with Vasyl, Sabrina's protector/husband/vampire. But before I get into this, I thought I would explain how I decided how I would write all these other character's POV in Vampire Caprice. I realized while writing it that if I didn't go mind-dipping into each of my main characters, this book would be extremely short... and basically boring. Well, except for all the sex scenes--tee-hee.
But seriously, if I stayed in Sabrina's 1st person voice the whole while, readers would not get the broad spectrum of the whole story--which wound up being each of these character's story. I had to figure out how I was going to do their voices. No. Not in first person, otherwise people would wonder who's head I was in. I wanted something different and, possibly experimental, but I've seen other writers write like this too. I went with 3rd person on each character, and dipped into their pasts (see below).
In this scene Vasyl discovers that Sabrina has been taken away by Tremayne, who has been able to keep him busy elsewhere while setting Sabrina up. So, I bring you a portion of that scene today. I hope you enjoy it! I'll try and get another one up soon from another character, and keep on bringing them up to and after I've gotten the book out. I am still working on a third read-through of the book, and hope to have this thing ready to go to Amazon in another week or so. It's a very long book, and I want to make sure it's solid before it goes to be published.
Also, from time to time I'll have individual snippets from the book at facebook group "Fans of Sabrina Strong Series, if you want to join me there and join the group, you only need to ask.
Sabrina's house came into view and he slowed, made a circle around the house about fifty feet above. Nothing seemed out of place, except, for Sabrina's missing presence—and her Jeep. Certainly she couldn't be staying over-night at her brother's house.
His indecision kept him hovering. The eastern horizon glowed orange-red and hastened his descent to the house and finally landed on the roof. He had no choice but to enter the domain and stay there for the duration of the day. He knew where the extra key was hidden, and entered. Inside he found the abode silent. The lack of a human heartbeat confirmed it: Sabrina was gone.
But the scent of Sabrina and two others still lingered. Sacrebleu! I should have known! One was a vampire, this he knew by the scent. His whole being sank in spirit, and dread filled him. This very scent had been on Sabrina from time to time. Bjorn Tremayne. The master who had hired her for his own dealings, and had nearly got Sabrina killed on a number of occasions. Vasyl had never met Tremayne, but he knew that scent anywhere. Tremayne had never been to her house, until now.
The other visitor was more difficult to determine. But he was neither vampire nor demon. He, she, or it didn't smell like a vampire or demon, or human for that matter. Perhaps he was something other, but he was not simply human.
Another more troubling scent was that of Ba'al demon. It was as strong. Possibly one, or all of them, had dealt with a Ba'al at some point during the night. Was the demon the danger? Surely, when it came to Tremayne, Sabrina never seemed overly frightened of the master, although she should be.
Vasyl prowled through the house, his dread and anger building. He stopped at the threshold of Sabrina's bedroom where the sliding oak door stood open. The bed still made. But scattered upon it were articles of clothing. Some were still folded, and others in a hap-hazard disarray upon the bed, as though gone through. Drawers were left slightly open.
Curious, he opened her closet. A number of hangers were bare.
It wasn't difficult to put together the scenario. "So, she left with Tremayne! The swine!"
Clenching his fist, Vasyl turned away. He could curse the magnate up and down until he was blue, but that would do him no good. He now understood what had happened. Tremayne had taken Sabrina while Vasyl had been detained by his minions all night. Vasyl believed it wasn't so much against her will since she had packed a bag. But Tremayne must have used extremely devious and persuasive measures. Who knew how bent he could get if he wanted something badly enough? He knew the master vampire had tried to woo Sabrina on a number of occasions. She had confided in him once about those times she had spent with him.
Vasyl wasn't sure what Tremayne's plans were with Sabrina, the sibyl, but he didn't like the idea she was with him. She was vulnerable to him, since he'd had her blood. The blood bond was strong, but it was only vampire-to-human. Vasyl's blood bond with her was stronger, since he had shared his blood with her twice, now. He was certain she had never drank any of Tremayne's blood.
Could he have tricked her into doing so? No. She was not a stupid woman.
He reached out again to find her. Sabrina's spirit was too weak to locate. She must have been miles and miles away. Too far away for him to get to her in a night's trip. And certainly not now with the sun rising.
Vasyl swore under his breath, ran fingers through his long hair, and strode into the kitchen. He stopped. The sun's rays were gleaming through the gaps of the kitchen curtains, glancing in off the table, and a few appliances.
To keep himself safe from harmful rays, he stayed tight to the wall, and angled to the refrigerator. Opening it, he looked for the one thing he knew would be inside. One black bottle of Organic Red. Vasyl did not always have need of bottled blood, but Sabrina always made sure she had some on hand, just in case, which was wise of her, but unnecessary. He had long ago made adjustments in feeding from animals, instead of humans, in order to look for the sibyl and not desire her blood. He'd had it, purposely, only once. Once was enough. The nectar of it was incredibly sweet, and it had given him a slight high, like a glass of very good wine for a human. A lesser vampire, should he drink even a small amount, would find it difficult to stop drinking the richness of her ichor-like blood. To spill her blood would be sacrilege to him.
Vasyl paused to consider why Tremayne would have taken her. He was a master who had lost his crown—so he was told. Tremayne was now considered a rogue. What would a rogue want with the sibyl?
Better yet, what would Tremayne want with Sabrina?
It didn't take him more than a few seconds to come up with the reason. He wanted to mate with her. His mating would fulfill the age-old prophecy.
"Two masters who are polar opposites in appearance, and beliefs, will seek the sibyl. She who holds the ring, and who has Knowledge. Two powers shall struggle to take over the new continent. The last sibyl holds the key. The descendant of the Watchers hold the seed, in the abduction there shall be salvation. Redemption shall overrule revenge. And a new race shall be born."
"Sacrebleu!" In other words Tremayne knew of this prophecy too. Who would not look at these lines of the prophecy and not presume the two who were opposites were he and Tremayne? If he was successful, Tremayne might be reinstated as a master by the Powers That Be.
Vasyl let go a frustrated roar that filled the house. He picked up a lamp and threw it. It crashed on the floor. Tremayne was despicable!
He looked at the lamp he'd destroyed. He would buy her a new one. "Damn him to hell and back!"
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The image is Called - Let's make a Pic-nic! and you can get her over at The Paper Shelter!
I would also like to enter my card into the following challenges:
1. Divas by Design - Spots and Stripes
2. The house that stamps built - Spring challenge with Pastel Colors
3. Little Darlings Challenge - Pearls
4. Scrapbook Sisters - Spring Flowers
5. Scrapalicious - Anything Goes
6. Simon Says Stamps - Anything Goes
7. The Sisterhood of Crafters - Use a digi
8. OWH Challenge - Use a digi
9. Ladybug Crafts - Pink and Girly
10. Party Time Tuesday - Anything Goes
That's it from me for today!
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The Audi TT, not your average hairdressers car
This new model has big shoes to fill as the previous model was rather successful. In order to do that Audi needed to up the game a bit more. The look is unmistakably TT yet does differ from the previous generation in some regards. The materials inside are nicer, smoother, more TT-ish. Power and drive might be important to some buyers but let's face it; the looks are going to sell more of these than anything else.
It looks like a TT, albeit a more grown up one. The previous generation was a decent evolution of the originals curvy design but this one really does look like a car that belongs in this decade. It's more pointy and angry looking, as if someone in the Audi design team heard someone say that the TT is a hairdressers car. They decided to rectify that problem and in doing so have made this new TT more stylized, more purposeful, and it really works, well for me at least.
The interior is super slick as well. The climate control is built into the air vents which are smart and the clean look really suits the car. This feels like an interior that moves ergonomics on a bit. However the vents are not the real party piece, that belongs to the speedometer and rev-counter setup. It's something special, you see, all the information that you could possibly want is within the drivers instrument binnacle. Audi call it the virtual cockpit, so if you want a traditional speedometer set up you can have it, if you want a giant satnav map instead, you can have that too. How about the trip computer and car setup menu? That's there as well. Even the infotainment options are all displayed on the screen right in front of you.
This is actually a very clever feature. Sure, it might take some getting used to but once you get the hang of it (which could take a while) the benefits are rather substantial. The tech is impressive; it puts you in utmost control without having to take your eyes off of the road, and because everything can get controlled via the steering wheel your hands will be in the right place as well.
This new car is based on the MQB platform like many other models from the stable. This platform is brilliant to say the least and proof of that is that the cars that are based on it keep winning awards. The steering is decently weighted, it doesn't seem to suffer from that old Audi foible of being a bit dead. Audi will be offering two derivatives of the TT, a quattro model and a front-wheel drive model (R558 000). Both cars are fitted with the same 2.0l turbocharged engine which delivers 169kW and 370Nm of torque. The quattro will get you to 100kph in around 5.3 seconds whereas the FWD version will take slightly longer at 5.9 seconds. Audi do have plans to introduce the TTS, a sportier and more powerful version towards the middle of this year. They might also introduce a 1.8l turbo model as well as a TDI model at a later stage. Unfortunately, no roadster versions will come our way.
This new TT feels every bit the sports car that Audi says it is. I think it looks good and it sure does drive well. The quattro all-wheel drive system gives that extra grip and a level of security to the driver. Especially when you are out here in the Lowveld with these gloriously twisty roads. The front-wheel drive version is probably the biggest surprise really, you see, the TT is so well balanced that you can't really feel which is which. You really have to drive the front-wheel drive version right into the danger zone to get it unsettled.


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Soooooo, I'm giving myself a fresh start! Some of you may know me already, but I'm Katie from Simply Creative in KY. I'm headed in to my 4th year of teaching 2nd grade at a little school just outside of Lexington, and I work with the BEST people ever. Here's a little snapshot of some of us celebrating the end of the year.
I've been married for 3 years, and I have the most supportive husband on the planet.
He's been so encouraging as I've started my little TPT shop, and he's been my biggest advocate to get my butt in gear when it comes to blogging! For over a month now I've been telling him, "I'm going to start blogging again, but I just don't know what to say!" So one day my husband texts me, "Check your email. I wrote your first blog post."
Apparently I have a lot to say. He totally hit the nail on the head. Here's part of what he typed up for me, and I was literally DYING as I read it:
"As a teacher there are few things more fulfilling than those first weeks of summer vacation. Things always seem a little brighter and easier those first couple of weeks. The days of writing lesson plans and making copies have faded away and in their place now sit fun, family vacations to the beach and countless hours hanging by the pool working on my summer tan. I breathe easier knowing that I can sleep in a little later each day and not worry about finishing report cards or about unannounced classroom observations by my school's principal.


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Lesson Taught to the Nations
By SUMNER WELLES, Under-Secretary of State of the United States At the meeting of Foreign Ministers of the American Republics, Rio de Janeiro, January 15, 1942
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. VII, pp. 249-254.
THE peoples of the Americas face today the greatest danger which they have ever confronted since they won their independence. We are meeting together under the terms, and in the spirit, of Inter-American agreements to take counsel as to the course which our governments should take under the shadow of this dire threat to our continued existence as free peoples.
We meet as the representatives of nations which in former times have had their differences and controversies. But I believe that I may speak for all of us, and not least in the name of my own government, when I say that we all of us have learned by our past errors of omission and of commission.
We are assembled as representatives of the twenty-one sovereign and independent republics of the American continent, now welded together as no continent has ever before been united in history, by our faith in the ties of mutual trust and of reciprocal interdependence which bind us, and, most of all, by our common devotion to the great cause of democracy and of human liberty to which our New World is dedicated.
The calamity which has now engulfed humanity was not unforeseen by any of us. Just five years ago, at the Inter-American Conference for the Maintenance of Peace of Buenos Aires, we met because of the clear signs that the earth would be engulfed by the tidal wave of a world-wide war. By common accord we determined upon measures indispensable to our common security.
At the Inter-American Conference at Lima further measures were taken. After the war broke out, at the meetings of the Foreign Ministers at Panama and Havana, the American republics adopted additional far-reaching measures of protection and of cooperation for their common safety.
We were thus in many ways prepared for that eventuality, from which we then still hoped we might be spared the involvement of the Americas in the war which has been forced upon mankind by Hitlerism.
I regard it as my obligation here on behalf of my government to inform you with complete frankness of the course which it has pursued up to the time when, on Sunday, December 7, my country was suddenly attacked by means of anact of treachery that will never be forgotten by the people of the United States, nor, I believe, by the people of any of the other American republics.
My government was never blind to the ultimate purposes and objectives of Hitlerism. It long since realized that Hitler had formulated his plans to conquer the entire world. These plans—the plans of a criminal paranoiac—were conceived before he had even seized power in Germany. They have been carried out step by step, first through guile and deceit, later by fire and sword. No evil has been too monstrous for him. No infamy has been too vile for him to perpetrate.
Time and again, as you all know, the President of the United States, with your knowledge and with your approval, made every effort in earlier years, by fervent appeal and by constructive and just proposal, to avert the final holocaust.
All of us learned a bitter lesson in those years between 1936 and 1941. We learned by the tragic experience of others, that all of those standards of international decency and of international law, upon which the hopes of a law-abiding and a peaceful world were based, were utterly disregarded by Hitler and by his ignominious satellites.
Those free nations who sought ingeniously, by the very innocence of their conduct and by the very completeness of their neutrality to maintain at least the shadow of their independence, were occupied more promptly and ravaged more cruelly than those who resisted the attack of Hitler's armies.
We have been taught this lesson—which it took all of us a long time to learn—that in the world of today, confronted by Hitlerism and all of the black reversion to barbarism which that evil word implies, no nation can hope to maintain its own independence, and no people can hope to maintain its liberty, except through the power of armed might, and through the courage and devotion of men and women in many lands, and of many races, but who all of them love liberty more than life itself.
The people of the United States learned that lesson. And for that reason, because of their determination to defend their country, and to safeguard the security of our common continent, they determined to lend every form of assistance to that gallant band of nations who against great odds continued nevertheless to defend their own liberties.
We had learned our lesson so clearly that we saw that the defense by these peoples of their independence constituted likewise the defense of our own independence and of that of the Western Hemisphere.
Then suddenly, last June, Hitler, distraught by the realization that he could no longer attempt successfully to invade Great Britain, but intoxicated by the easy victories which he had achieved in other parts of Europe, perfidiously attacked the Soviet Union with which he had only recently entered into a pact of non-aggression.
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad." Many months ago Japan entered into the tripartite pact with Germany and Italy. My government learned that this arrangement, which made of Japan the submissive tool of Hitler for the primary purpose of preventing the United States from continuing to give assistance to Great Britain, was not supported by certain elements in Japan.
These elements clearly foresaw the ultimate destruction of Japan if the Japanese Government dared to embark upon an adventure which would ultimately bring Japan into conflict with all of the other powers which had direct interests in the Western Pacific.
These elements in Japan also realized that, while Hitler had been able to inveigle the war lords in control of the Japanese Government into believing that should Japan carry out German orders, and were the Western democracies defeated, Germany would permit Japan to control the Far East,
Hitler would, of course, take her spoils from Japan whenever he saw fit.
My Government sought over a period of more than ten months to negotiate with Japan a peaceful and equitable adjustment of differences between the two countries so as to prevent the outbreak of war in the Pacific.
The United States, however, utterly refused to agree to any settlement which would infringe upon the independence or the legitimate rights of the people of China, who for four and a half years had been bravely and successfully resisting every effort on the part of Japan to conquer their ancient land. Nor would the United States agree to any proposal offered by the Japanese Government which would contravene those basic principles of right and justice for which, I am proud to say, my country stands.
We know now that at the very time that the present Japanese Government was carrying on, at its own urgent request, the pretense of conducting peaceful negotiations with the United States for the purpose of reaching a settlement which would have averted war, every plan in its uttermost detail had already been made to attack my country's territory.
During those last two weeks before December 7, when Japan's notorious peace emissary was protesting to my Government that his country desired nothing except peace and profitable commercial relations with the United States, the airplane carriers were already on their way to Pearl Harbor to launch their dastardly attack upon the United States Navy.
The Japanese war lords, under the orders of their German masters, adopting the same methods of deceit and treachery which Hitler has made a stench in the nostrils of civilized mankind, while peace negotiations were actually still in progress in Washington suddenly attacked a country which had been Japan's friend and which had made every honorable effort to find a basis for a just and lasting peace in the Pacific.
A few days later Germany and her satellites declared war upon the United States.
And so war has been forced upon some of us in the American continent.
The greatest assurance that our great association of sovereign and independent peoples—the American family of nations—can survive this world upheaval safely lies in the unity with which we face the common peril.
Some of us by our own power, by our own resources, by the extent of our population, are able successfully beyond the shadow of a doubt to defend ourselves. Others of us who do not possess these material advantages, equal though they be in their courage and in their determination to resist aggression, must depend for their continued security upon the cooperation which other members of the American family may give them.
The only assured safety which this continent possesses lies in full cooperation between us all in the common defense; equal and sovereign partners in times of aggression as in times of peace.
The record of the past two years is ever before us. You and I know that had there existed during the past decade an international order based upon law, and with the capacity to enforce such law, the earth today would not be subjected to the cruel scourge which is now ravaging the entire globe.
Had the law-abiding and peaceful nations of Europe been willing to stand together when the menace of Hitlerism first began to become manifest, Hitler would never have dared to embark upon his evil course. It was solely because of the fact that these nations, instead of standing together, permitted themselves to hold aloof one from the other, and placed their hope of salvation in their own neutrality, thatHitler was enabled to overrun them one by one as time and circumstances made it expedient for him.
The security of the 300,000,000 of people who inhabit the Western Hemisphere and the independence of each of the countries here represented will be determined by whether the American nations stand together in this hour of peril, or whether they stand apart one from the other.
I am fully aware of what the representatives of the Axis powers have been stating to some of you, day in and day out during the past months.
I know that Hitler's representatives have said to some of you that Germany has not the slightest thought of dominating the Western Hemisphere. All that Germany wants, they have told you, is complete domination over every part of Europe, of Africa, and of the Near East, the destruction of the British Empire, the enslavement of the Russian people, the overlordship of the Far East, and when this is accomplished, only friendship and peaceful trade with the Americas.
But Hitler's representatives have omitted to mention that in such a fateful contingency we would all of us then also be living in a Hitler-dominated world.
You may remember that a few days ago Hitler publicly denounced President Roosevelt as the greatest warmonger of all time, because the President had declared that the people of the United States did not want to live in the type of world that Hitler wished for.
In a Hitler-dominated universe not one of us could trade except on Hitler's terms. Not one of us could live except under a Gauleiter appointed for us by Hitler. Not one of us could educate our children except as Hitler dictated. Not one of us could enjoy our God-given rights to think and to speak freely and to worship the Deity as our conscience may dictate.
Can even Hitler wonder that we are not willing to live in such a world as that?
I know what representatives of Japan have been saying to some of you. They are telling you that the Japanese Government is sure that the governments and peoples of the American republics will certainly not be influenced by any thought that Japan may harbor ulterior motives toward them. They are telling you that Japan desires nothing but peace with you and the maintenance of profitable commercial relations. You will remember that they told us that also.
The Japanese Government is even telling you that they are soon going to send ships to the Pacific ports of South America to take cargoes of your goods.
But they did not add that were some Japanese ship to be foolhardy enough to attempt to make such a trip, it would not be able to travel many miles after leaving the port of the Americas to which it had gone, except under the naval custody of Japan's adversaries.
But there is no useful purpose to be served by our dwelling on the lies with which the Axis governments still attempt to deceive us. We all of us know that no sane man can place the slightest shred of credence in any solemn or sworn assurance which the Axis governments give.
We likewise know full well that the sole aim, the ultimate objective of these partners in crime, is conquest of the surface of the entire earth, the loot of the possessions of every one of us, and the subjugation of free men and women everywhere to the level of serfs.
Twelve months ago Hitler solemnly assured the German people that before the end of the year 1941, Germany would complete the defeat of all her enemies in the greatest victory of all time.
On October 3 last Hitler swore to his people that before the first of the New Year of 1942 Russia would be crushed, "never to rise again."
What are the facts? Today the German armies are retreating from Russian territory, routed and dispersed by the magnificent offensive of the Russian armies. Hitler has lost over one-third of his air force, over one-half of his tank force, and more than 3,000,000 men. But more than that, the German people now see for themselves the utter falsity of the promises held out to them by the evil charlatan who rules them. Their morale is running low.
In North Africa the British armies have utterly destroyed the Axis forces in Libya and are clearing the Southern Mediterranean littoral of Axis threats.
In the Atlantic the British and United States convoys are moving ever more safely to their destinations, and the loss of merchant shipping through German submarine action has steadily diminished during the past six months.
In the Far East the United States and Great Britain have met with initial reverses.
We all remember that as a result of the Washington Limitation of Armaments Conference of 1922 the powers directly interested in the Far East, in order to assure the basis for peaceful relations between them, pledged themselves not to increase the fortifications of their possessions in that area.
During all of the years that the treaties agreed upon at that conference remained in effect the United States consequently took no steps to fortify the Philippines. But we also now know that, counter to her sworn obligations, Japan during these same years was creating naval bases and feverishly constructing fortifications throughout the islands of the South Seas which she had received as a mandate from the League of Nations.
Furthermore, at the request of the Philippine people the Government of the United States had pledged itself to grant full independence to them in the year 1946.
The infamous attack by Japan upon the United States consequently found the Philippine Islands largely unfortified and protected solely by a modest army of brave Filipino soldiers, supported by only two divisions of United States troops, with a small air force utterly inadequate to withstand the concentrated strength of the Japanese.
But the control of the Pacific Ocean itself rests with the Allied fleets. Japan, after suffering disastrously in her four-year-long war with China, is surrounded on all sides. She possesses no resources. Once the material which she is now using is destroyed it can only be replaced by what Japan herself can produce. And that replacement will be inferior in quality and small in quantity without the raw materials which Japan will now be largely unable to secure.
The commencement of the year 1942 has marked the turn of the tide.
The United States is now in the war. Our industrial production, the greatest in the world, is fast mounting toward the maximum. During the coming year we will produce some 60,000 airplanes, including 45,000 military airplanes, some 45,000 tanks, some 300 new combatant ships, from the mightiest battleships to coastal patrol craft, and some 600 new merchant ships. We will attain a rate of 70,000 per year in the training of combat airplane pilots.
We have drafted for military service all of our men between the ages of 20 and 44 years, and of this great total we will soon have an initial army of 3,000,000 men fully trained and fully equipped.
We will spend fifty billions of dollars, or half of our total national income, in the year thereafter in order to secure the use of every ounce of our national resources in our war effort. Every weapon that we produce will be used wherever it is determined that it may be of the most service in the common cause—whether that be here in the Western Hemisphere, on the deserts of Libya, on the steppes of Russia or in the territory of the brave people of China.
Those of us who have joined fn this holy war face a ruthless and barbarous foe. The road before us will be hard and perhaps long. We will meet unquestionably with serious reverses from time to time. But the tide has turned, and will run swiftly and ever more swiftly until it ends in the flood of victory.
As each of you know, my Government has made no suggestion, and no request as to the course which any of the governments of the other American republics should pursue subsequent to the Japanese attack upon the United States and the declaration of war upon it by the other Axis powers. We do not function in that way in the American family of nations.
But I may assure you from my heart today that the spontaneous declaration of war upon the enemies of mankind of nine of the other American republics; the severance of all relations with Germany, Italy and Japan by Mexico, Colombia and Venezuela, and the official declarations of solidarity and support by all of the other American republics, including our traditional and unfailing friend, in evil days as well as good, the great Republic of Brazil, whose guests we all are today, represents to my Government and to my fellow-citizens a measure of support, of strength and of spiritual encouragement which no words of mine would be adequate to express.
May I merely say that these acts of faith in our commondestiny, so generously realized, will never be forgotten by the people of the United States. They have heartened us all. They have made us all the more anxious to be worthy—not in words but in deeds—of your confidence. They have made us all the more desirous of showing our gratitude through the extent of the cooperative strength which we can furnish to insure the ultimate triumph of the cause to which we are dedicated.
Each one of the American governments has determined, and will continue to determine, in its own wisdom, the course which it will pursue to the best interest of its people in this world struggle. But of one thing I feel sure we are all convinced. In accordance with the obligations we have all undertaken under the provisions of our Inter-American agreements, and in accordance with the spirit of that continental solidarity unanimously proclaimed, those nations of the Americas which are not engaged in war will never permit their territory to be used by agents of the Axis powers in order that these may conspire against, or prepare attacks upon, those republics which are fighting for their own liberties and for those of the entire continent.
We all of us are fully aware of the record of the activities of Axis agents in our several countries which the past two years have brought to light.
We know how the Axis diplomatic representatives—taking advantage of the immunity which international custom has granted them for their legitimate functions—have been doing their utmost to poison Inter-American relations; to create internal discord, and to engender domestic strife, so as to try and pave the way for subversive movements financed with funds obtained through extortion from residents in our midst, or transferred from the loot they have procured in the occupied countries of Europe.
We know that their so-called consular officials have in realty been the directing heads of espionage rings in every part of this hemisphere. The full history of this record will some day be published in full detail when the divulging of this information will no longer be of assistance to the enemy.
So long as this hemisphere remained out of the war, all of our governments dealt with this ever-increasing dangerin the manner which they believed most effective, exchanging intelligence one with the other, as existing agreements between them provide, whenever such exchange was mutually helpful.
But today the situation has changed. Ten of the American republics are at war, and three others have severed all relations with the Axis powers. The continued presence of these Axis agents within the Western Hemisphere constitutes a direct danger to the national defense of the republics engaged in war.
There is not a Japanese, nor a German consul, nor a consul of Hitler's satellite countries, in the New World at this moment who is not reporting to his superiors every time a ship leaves the ports of the country where he is stationed, for the purpose of having that ship sunk by an Axis submarine.
There is not a diplomatic representative of the Axis powers anywhere in the Americas who is not seeking to get for his masters information regarding the defense preparations of the American nations now at war; who is not conspiring against the internal security of every one of us; who is not doing his utmost, through every means available to him, to hinder our capacity to insure the integrity of our freedom and our independence.
Surely this danger must be of paramount concern to all of us. The pre-eminent issue presented is solely that those republics engaged in war shall not be dealt a deadly thrust by the agents of the Axis ensconced upon the soil, and enjoying the hospitality, of others of the American republics.
The shibboleth of classic neutrality in its narrow sense can, in this tragic modern world, no longer be any real neutrality as between the powers of evil and the forces that are struggling to preserve the rights and the independence of free peoples.
It is far better for any people to strive gloriously to safeguard its independence; it is far better for any people to die, if need be, in the battle to save its liberties than, by clinging to the tattered fiction of an illusory neutrality, succeed only by so doing in committing suicide.
Our devotion to the common cause of defending the New World against aggression does not imply necessarily engagement in war. But it does imply, I confidently believe, the taking over of all measures of cooperation between us which redound to the great objective of keeping the Americas free.
Of equal importance with measures of political solidarity, defense cooperation, and the repression of subversive activity are economic measures related to the conduct of war against the aggressor nations and the defense of the Western Hemisphere.
All of the American republics have already taken some form of measures breaking off financial and commercial intercourse between them and the non-American aggressor States and to eliminate other alien economic activities prejudicial to the welfare of the American republics.
It is of the utmost importance that these measures be expanded in order that they may prevent all business, financial and trade transactions between the Western Hemisphere and the aggressor states, and all transactions within the Western Hemisphere which directly or indirectly redound to the benefit of the aggressor nations, or are in any way inimical to the defense of the hemisphere.
The conduct of war and the defense of the hemisphere will require an ever-increasing production of the implements of war, and an ever-increasing supply of the basic and strategic materials necessary for their production. The spread of the war has cut off many of the most important sources of strategic materials, and it is essential that the American republics conserve their stocks of such commodities, and byevery possible means encourage the production and the free flow within the hemisphere of the greatest possible quantity of these materials.
The universal character of the war is placing increasing demands upon the merchant shipping facilities of all of us. The increased production of strategic materials will be of no avail unless adequate transportation can be provided, and it is consequently of vital importance that all of the shipping facilities of the Americas be mobilized to this essential end.
The Government of the United States is prepared to cooperate whole-heartedly with the other American republics in handling the problems arising out of these economic warfare measures. It stands prepared to render financial and technical assistance where needed to alleviate injury to the domestic economy of any of the American republics which results from the control and curbing of alien economic activities inimical to our common defense.
It is ready to enter into broad arrangements for the acquisition of supplies of basic and strategic materials, and to cooperate with each of the other American republics in order to increase rapidly and efficiently their production for emergency needs.
Finally, it stands ready through the United States Maritime Commission to render every assistance in the efficient operation of merchant vessels in accordance with the plan of August 28, 1941, of the Inter-American Financial and Economic Advisory Committee.
My Government is also fully aware of the important role which imported materials and articles play in the maintenance of the economies of your nations. On December 5, 1941, I advised the Inter-American Financial and Economic Advisory Committee in Washington that the United States was making every effort consistent with the defense program to maintain a flow to the other American republics of materials to satisfy the minimum essential import requirements of your economics.
I added that the policy of my Government was being interpreted by all of the appropriate agencies as calling for recognition of and provision for the essential needs of the American republics equal to the treatment accorded United States civilian needs.
The attack by Japan and the declarations of war by the other members of the tripartite pact have resulted in greater and unprecedented demands upon our production facilities. But I am able to state today, as I did on the 5th of December, that the policy of the United States toward the satisfaction of your essential requirements remains firm.
On December 26, 1941, after the outbreak of war, the Board of Economic Warfare of my Government resolved unanimously:
"It is the policy of the Government of the United States to aid in maintaining the economic stability of the other American republics by recognizing and providing for their essential civilian needs on the basis of equal and proportionate consideration with our own."
Pursuant to this declaration of policy our allocation of 218,600 tons of tin plate for your needs during this year has been followed by further allocations, which I am privileged to announce today.
The Office of Production Management has advised me that allocations have been made to you for the next quarter in amounts adequate to meet your needs for rayon; for twenty essential agricultural and industrial chemicals, including copper sulphate, ammonium sulphate, soda ash, and caustic soda; for farm equipment; and for iron and steel products.
In addition, I am able to announce that a special mechanism has been organized within the Office of Production Management which is now facilitating the clearance of your individual priority applications.
In the light of this action, it seems appropriate to recognize that the arsenal of democracy continues mindful of its hemisphere responsibilities.
I am confident that your people will join the people of the United States, who are sharing their civilian supplies with you, in recognizing that military and other defense needs must continue to be given precedence over civilian demands.
All of these economic measures relate directly to the conduct of war, the defense of the hemisphere, and the maintenance of the economies of our several nations during the war emergency.
Obviously our greatest efforts must be extended toward victory. Nevertheless, the full consummation of victory must include the building of an economic and social order in which all of our citizens may subsequently enjoy the blessings of peace.
My government believes that we must begin now to execute plans, vital to the human defense of the hemisphere, for the improvement of health and sanitary conditions, the provision and maintenance of adequate supplies of food, milk, and water, and the effective control of insect-borne and other communicable diseases.
The United States is prepared to participate in and to encourage complementary agreements among the American republics for dealing with these problems of health and sanitation by provision, according to the abilities of the countries-involved, of funds, raw materials and services.
The responsibility with which we are all charged requires that we plan for broad economic and social development, for increased production of the necessities of the world, and for their equitable distribution among the people.
To this end we must plan for broad economic and social development, for increased production of the necessities of the world, and for their equitable distribution among the people.
If this economic rehabilitation of the world is to take place it is indispensable that there be a resurgence of international trade—as was declared by the second meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs at Havana, "conducted with peaceful motives and based upon equality of treatment and fair and equitable practices."
I urge upon you all the imperative need for unity between us, not only in the measures which must presently be taken in the defense of our western world, but also in order that the American republics, joined as one, may prove to be the potent factor which they should be of right in the determination of the nature of the world of the future, after the victory is won.
We, the American nations, are trustees for Christian civilization. In our own relationships we have wished to show scrupulous respect for the sovereign rights of all States, we have sought to undertake only peaceful processes in the solution of controversies which may have arisen between us, and we have wished to follow the course of decency and of justice in our dealings with others.
When peace is restored it is to the interest of the whole world that the American republics present a united front and be able to speak and act with the moral authority to which, by reason of their own enlightened standards, as much as by reason of their number and their power, they are entitled.
The prayer of peoples throughout the world is that when the task of peace-making is once more undertaken it will be better done than it was in 1919. And we cannot forget that the task this time will be infinitely more difficult than it was the last time.
In the determination of how these stupendous problemsmay best be solved, the united voice of the free peoples of the Americas must be heard.
The ideals which men have cherished have always throughout the course of history proved themselves to be more potent than any other factor. Nor conquest, nor migrations, nor economic pressure, nor pestilence, nor revolt, nor assassinations have ever yet been able to triumph over the ideals which have sprung from men's hearts and men's minds.
Notwithstanding the hideous blunders of the past generation; notwithstanding the holocaust of the present moment, that great ideal of "a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free" still stands untarnished as the supreme objective of a suffering humanity.
That ideal will yet triumph.
We, the free peoples of the Americas, must play our full part in its realization so that we may hasten the daywhen we can thus insure the maintenance of a peaceful world in which we, and our children, and our children's children, can safely live.
At this time the issue is clearly drawn. There can be no peace until Hitlerism and its monstrous parasites are utterly obliterated, and until the Prussian and Japanese militarists have been taught in the only language they can understand that they will never again be afforded the opportunity of wrecking the lives of generation upon generation of men and women in every quarter of the globe.
When that times comes men of good will must be prepared and ready to build with vision afresh upon new and lasting foundations of liberty, of morality, of justice, and, by no means last perhaps, of intelligence.
In the attainment of that great achievement the measure of our devotion will be the measure of the world's regeneration.


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An immigrant health clinic that opened in the spring has now received base funding that will help ensure its continued operation.
Windsor immigrant health clinic receives annual funding
An immigrant health clinic that opened in the spring has now received base funding that will help ensure its continued operation.
The Victorian Order of Nurses in Windsor, a charitable organization, runs the clinic. The Erie St. Clair Local Health Integration Network is now providing a total of $380,779 in annual funding to help keep the clinic running.
The clinic was established in April 2016 as an interim measure to assist newcomers and, in particular, an influx of Syrian refugees. Over the past year, the clinic has provided help to more than 600 newcomers to Windsor and Essex County.
"I am very thankful for the help of the people at the VON clinic," said Jamal Omais, who is from Lebanon and came to Windsor with his wife and three children via Brazil. "They have helped make it easier for my children to attend school, ensure my family is healthy and allowed us to become part of the community."
The immigrant health clinic offers care for immediate health issues and comprehensive medical screenings as well as introductions to local physicians and clinics that are accepting new patients.
"The VON Immigrant Health Clinic is an excellent example of community partners coming together to help service a population of people who are at risk of becoming marginalized," said Ralph Ganter, acting CEO of the Erie St. Clair LHIN.
"Ensuring that newcomers and immigrants have the opportunity to be a healthy member of the community is the right thing to do."
Editor's note:This story has been corrected since it was first published to indicate Jamal Omais and his family are originally from Lebanon and came to Windsor via Brazil.


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"Don't think you have a corner on all of virtue, vision and the country."
It's no secret that my favorite series on this blog is Fridays for Friday, my continuing homage to one of my great heroes and role models, Mr. Jack Webb.
Well, I found this excellent verbal reprimand of some long haired liberal punks made soft by their instant orange juice very relevant today! Enjoy!
In Webb We Trust!


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The George Washington Award was presented to Every Kid Counts Executive Director and Co Founder Rob Perelka, on November 18, 2000 by the Freedom's Foundation Award Presentation.
"ROB PERELKA" is the President and Co-founder of Every Kid Counts. Since its inception, its mission has been to mentor the youth. To give them encouragement, knowledge, guidance and self-esteem in order to foster a better way of life and future for themselves. In doing so Rob helps make our community a far better place for all of us. Every Kid Counts is totally dedicated to helping today's youth become tomorrow's leaders. Thank you Rob for being you, for seeing a need and filling that need, for giving the youth of our community's a sense of who they are and who they can be in the future. Frances Wheeler, Awards Chairperson
- EKC was voted one of the finalist in the Scottsdale Chamber event.


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WASHINGTON, DC — "New Environmental Protection Agency regulations that limit mercury and other toxic air pollution from power plants will not cause widespread power outages, according to the Congressional Research Service.
"[I]t is unlikely that electric reliability will be harmed by the rule," the nonpartisan CRS said in a Jan. 9 report first flagged Wednesday by BNA, a trade publication.
The regulations — which require coal- and oil-fired power plants to install technology to reduce harmful air pollution — might cause some plants to shut down, but the electric system has the capacity to make up for the closures, the report stated.
'[A]lthough the rule may lead to the retirement or derating of some facilities, almost all of the capacity reductions will occur in areas that have substantial reserve margins,' the report stated."
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March 21, 2002United States
For immediate release Contact: Lisa Shields, Director of Communications, 212.434.9888 March 20, 2002 – The Council on Foreign Relations has named Bennett Freeman, a former senior official a…
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu campaigned on his tough diplomacy and his relationship with U.S. President Donald J. Trump. What happens now for the Palestinian peace process?
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Today is my last day at CFR. I'm joining ReNew Power, India's largest renewable energy firm, as their CTO. I'm excited for a new adventure but sad to leave the Council, which has given me support and…
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Background reading on the future of the global nuclear trade and the commercial opportunities and national security risks that it presents to the United States.
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This blog post is adapted from a new discussion paper from the Energy Security and Climate Change Program: "Applying Blockchain Technology to the Electric Power Sector."
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Stewart Patrick argues that the United States can protect its sovereignty while advancing American interests in a global age. He clarifies what is at stake in the sovereignty debate, arguing that the…
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Kim Jong-un has accelerated North Korea's buildup of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, while also modernizing its large conventional force.
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Blockchain does not singularly address the various challenges that the electricity sector faces, but it should be one of a portfolio of technology options to address those challenges. And its potential as a platform technology might be transformative.
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Ryan Tedder Planning New OneRepublic Material for Early 2012
After he finishes up a loaded songwriting slate that includes work with B.o.B, Carrie Underwood and Cobra Starship, Ryan Tedder plans on focusing solely on his band OneRepublic's follow-up to 2009 sophomore album "Waking Up."
"We have probably eight or nine ideas, but we start the writing process for OneRepublic in about two weeks, and that's when I really dive in and start doing it and go until it's done," Tedder tells Billboard.com. "Our goal is to have the first single on the next album out by the beginning of 2012, or sometime in the early portion of 2012."
Ryan Tedder 'Admires and Respects' Kelly Clarkson After Falling-Out
Tedder has seen a few recent collaborations become pop singles, including "Not Over You," the lead single from Gavin DeGraw's forthcoming album, and Colbie Caillat's latest hit, "Brighter Than the Sun." Meanwhile, Tedder was approached during the Billboard Music Awards to help flesh out a new Beyonce song, "I Was Here," barely a month before her new album "4" came out.
"There was one song came in at the last minute that was a Diane Warren-written song," says Tedder. "It was just a vocal, just Diane singing basically, and didn't have any real music behind it. We did the entire thing on two airplanes, from Vegas to Boston and then returning from Boston to Vegas two days later. It was absolutely bizarre, but the song sounds great."
Beyonce Delivers Hit-Filled Glastonbury Performance: Video
Tedder says that he's wrapping up work on Cobra Starship's next album, and that he worked on five songs for K'naan's sophomore effort, which will feature producers like Will.i.am, Benny Blanco and RedOne. He also collaborated on three new songs with Carrie Underwood, whom he calls "one of the top three vocalists I've ever worked with."
However, Tedder seems most excited about his contributions to B.o.B's new album: the rapper worked with producers like Stargate and Benny Blanco on the follow-up to 2010 debut "The Adventures of Bobby Ray," and Tedder says that "there are some monsters" on the forthcoming disc.
"The last song I did with Bob sounds like nothing he's ever done," says Tedder. "It's almost like if Bob got in the room with Fleet Foxes and Mumford & Sons, or something like that. It's a total trip, and musically divergent from anything I've ever done."


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Great Southern Billiards Win for White
Great Southern Billiards Win for White
Great Southern Billiard Tour / Lynchburg, VA
by InsidePOOL Staff
Brian White went unchallenged through the field at the Great Southern Billiard Tour's August 20-21 stop to claim the title over Ron Park in the finals. The $1,500-added event attracted 57 amateur players to vie for top honors at The Clubhouse Bar and Billiards in Lynchburg, VA.
In the winners' side final four, White matched up with Park for the first time and sent him to the one-loss side 10-7. In the other winners' side match, Doug Schulz easily handled Greg Taylor 9-2. White then had little trouble dispatching Schulz to the west side with a 10-4 win.
Forced to make his bid from the left side of the bracket, Park started by eliminating Tommy Cook in fifth place 9-4. Tying with Cook was Taylor, who went double-hill with Brian Bryant before being ousted 9-8. The following round saw Bryant engage in another hill-hill bout, but this time he was the one going home early 9-8 as Park advanced to the semifinals.
Park handled Schulz easily in the next round, sending him home in third place with a 9-4 win. But in the finals, White was too strong, and it was White who won the title 10-4.
1st Brian White $1,000
2nd Ron Park $630
3rd Doug Schulz $450
4th Brian Bryant $275
5th Tommy Cook $150
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7th Scott Roberts $100
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Could This Be The Real Arrow Season 6 "Big Bad?"
NewsSpoilers February 6, 2018 Craig Byrne
It seems that someone is pulling Cayden James' (Michael Emerson) strings — and it's possible Arrow may have just cast the actress to play that person.
TV Line has revealed today that Helix and Travelers actress Kyra Zagorsky has been cast to play "Athena," a former League of Assassins member with a Merlyn-associated agenda. Here's how the character is described:
Bearing a scar across her face as an example of her fearlessness and determination, Athena aims to maintain the legacy of Malcolm Merlyn, her fallen commander — and thus sees anyone who was once associated with him as a potential threat.
Could this be the person who sent James a fake video from Corto Maltese? And is she possibly the character or threat that Nyssa will warn of when she returns later this season?
We will have to watch and find out. Arrow airs Thursdays at 9PM on The CW — photos from upcoming episodes can be found here.


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Company News, 2002-11-18, 01:00 AM
ThyssenKrupp to partner PUR tour in 2003
PUR, Germany`s most successful pop group, is going back on tour from October 17 to December 12, 2003, playing 20 venues from Kiel to Zurich. They will have the backing of their partners, the ThyssenKrupp Group. Since the start of their cooperation in early 2001, PUR and ThyssenKrupp have already chalked up a number of highly successful joint projects. The band found the ThyssenKrupp image campaign so appealing that they agreed to allow their music to be used for advertising purposes for the first time. PUR`s hit "Abenteuerland", which plays a central role in the Group`s TV commercials and image film, soon became a kind of "anthem" for ThysenKrupp employees. A specially staged concert for more than 10,000 employees helped forge a new corporate identity. The previously unreleased English version of "Abenteuerland", entitled "Never-never-land" was brought out for the ThyssenKrupp commercial and on the ThyssenKrupp website, allowing the Group to make full use of its image media on the international markets. Dr. Jürgen Claassen, Head of Communications at ThyssenKrupp: "PUR`s honest and likeable image is in keeping with the values of the ThyssenKrupp brand. The cooperation is a key element of our branding strategy and has proved a hit with our employees, customers and business associates."
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So my Alex arrived last week, and I've had a lot of fun playing with it. I have to say that this was an easy review to write. I've found very few things wrong with the Alex, and in general, I like it.
You might also want to read my other posts on the Alex. They cover my first and second impressions of the device, and that's where you'll find my opinion on the hardware. I also found an unboxing video yesterday.
You can browse with just the LCD screen, and it will feel much like your standard, vanilla, Android browsing experience. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) But then there is something that the Alex can do that no one else can. You can display a web page on both the LCD and epaper screen. You can't interact with the page as shown on the epaper screen, though; it's just there for display.
I do like browsing with the epaper screen. Learning how to do it was easy, and I rarely made mistakes. If I wasn't wedded to my laptop, I'd probably use the Alex for some of my browsing (RSS feeds, blogs, forums).
I had high hopes for this. didn't work for me. All of my email is tied into my Gmail account, and the Alex refused to accept the security certificates from Google. And do you know what's really odd? I can still log in to Gmail with the browser. This was a waste of time. The email client isn't very good, and it only works on the LCD screen. I much prefer using the browser to access Gmail. That way I can use the epaper screen as well as the LCD.
BTW, I'd had trouble before because the time and date were wrong on my Alex. I didn't realize that would cause problem.
Yes, you can install third party apps on the Alex. Some will not work, and you can't use any of them on the epaper screen. When you use an app, it will feel like you're using it on an Android phone. It's too small for me.
But it's still a nice feature. I've installed the eReader Android app, and I like that I can have 2 ebooks open at once. Another good use would be to have Twitter (or some other social networking app) open while reading an ebook. You could tweet while reading. Again, it's not for me, but I can see the value in it.
The Reading Experience
If you've looked at pictures of the Alex, I'm sure you've noticed that it's longer than most other 6' ereaders. If you're concerned that it might be awkward to use, don't be. I think the page turn buttons are just right for holding the Alex in my right hand. I can't hold it in my left, true, but that's fine by me. It's quite good as an ereader. I think that will satisfy almost everyone.
BTW, you can hold it in your left hand if you leave the LCD screen on. There's a white icon on the screen that's labeled "ePUB". It acts as a right page turn button.
The in-book menu takes a little getting used to. There's the white icon on the left, and on the right is the book title and author and a slider bar that shows your current location in the book. There is a row of 12 icons along the bottom: Library, table of contents,the annotation options, dictionary, font size, go to page, and ad to collection.
The row of icons turned out to be a better idea than I originally thought. I could tell at a glance what each icon did, and even though they're not all on the screen at once, it was easy to scroll the row to find the one I wanted.
The Alex has quite a lot of annotation options: bookmark, highlight, text note, voice memo, and you can link to external files (audio, video, PDF) as well as linking to web pages. At first I was concerned about the in book menu; the icons are small and I thought I'd have trouble selecting the right one. I was wrong. It was surprisingly easy to use, and very rarely did I mess up.
I've read several ebooks on the Alex, and I've tried out all the annotation options. In general, I like it both as a basic reader and for its annotation abilities. I did find one problem, though. This is a small niggle, but I quickly learned to turn off the LCD screen when not in use. The brightness of the LCD really bugged me when I was trying to read off the epaper screen.
Reading Addendum
I discovered last night that the Alex has a second fully functional reading mode. I went to see a movie last night, and of course I brought the Alex with me so I could read during the trailers. When the lights dimmed, I turned on the LCD screen and kept reading during the opening credits. I synced the LCD screen so it showed the same contents as the epaper (scrolling was required). I tapped the screen to turn the page.
This second mode isn't going to win out over the epaper screen, but it's nice that Spring Design gave us the option.
A Second Reading Addendum
Someone pointed out that I forgot to discuss specific format support. Epub support is great, PDF not so much. You cannot use all the neat annotation features with PDFs. Also, the Alex does not reflow PDFs.
The Alex doesn't have the best library interface, but it's pretty good. There are 5 menu options: recent downloads, my collections, titles, authors, and latest read. You can sort the title list by author, title, or date. The author list is an actual index of authors, not just another list of the titles. I'm glad it's there because that's how I like to organize my library ebooks. You can also search the contents of the library by title or author.
On the downside, I did find a quirk with the library: it can't see folders. It's not just that you can't use a folder inside the library; it's that the software can't see folders at all. If you copy a folder full of ebooks on to the Alex, they will not be seen and added to by the library. Weird, huh?
But the library works well, so it's not a big deal.
As you probably know, the Alex has Wifi and you can download ebooks from the web. In order to make this easier, Spring Design put a bookstore on the Alex. Now, I expected to see the bookstore. But I didn't expect that it lists multiple ebook sources, including several that only carry free ebooks: Feedbooks, Google Books, and Project Gutenberg. Yes, all those sites are available online, but this makes it a lot easier for the average user to find ebooks. This was a pleasant surprise.
BTW, the bookstore isn't an app. Clicking on one of the stores takes you to the website. The bookstore experience is web browsing, basically.
I do like the Alex. It has a solid hardware design and it's both easy to use and very capable. If you buy one, I bet you'll be very happy with it. On the other hand, it costs $400 and I'm not sure it's worth the money.


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Boas-vindas especiais aos nossos participantes internacionais.
A WSA é uma feira que reúne todo o mundo do calçado e acessórios numa excitante apresentação de novos estilos, designs e tendências. Sendo este o maior e principal mercado internacional do sector, por certo você não quererá faltar.
The U.S. Department of Commerce's International Buyer Program is supporting The WSA Show July 2008. Working through American embassies and consulates abroad, IBP will work to promote international attendance to The WSA Show and recruit delegations of qualified buyers to visit this premier footwear industry event.
Through increased international attendance, WSA exhibitors will have the opportunity meet more buyers and increase their chances of finding the right international business partner.
International buyers who join U.S. Commercial Service-organized buyer delegations will receive assistance will registration and show logistics and the use of an on-site International Business Center where they can meet privately with prospective U.S. partners and obtain assistance from experienced U.S. Commercial Service Staff. Find the U.S. Commercial Service office in your country.


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We have been waiting a whole year for this! Blast of Bubbles! WFQ's fourth annual quilt show!
From all early indications, this is going to be an amazing quilt show for Sedro-Woolley. So much enthusiasm about the theme, about the venues, and about quilting!!
Threadmongers will be there, among other fine vendors. Visit www.woolleyfiberquilters.blogspot.com for more information. And be sure to come to the show!