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This bibliography provides a selected list of U.S. archival collections in Communication Studies, with an emphasis on Advertising, Broadcasting, Film Studies, Speech Communications, and Women in the Media. For Journalism libraries, see the Poynter Institute's Libraries with Journalism Bibliography.
These pages are produced by the Electronic Resources in Communication Studies Committee of EBSS (http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/about/sections/ebss/ebsscommittees/electronicresourcesincommunicationstudies/electcomm.cfm). Please contact the committee chair if you are interested in contributing or editing.
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Academy Film Archive http://www.oscars.org/filmarchive/ Includes more than 15,000 film and video materials from the earliest period of cinema to the present. Especially significant holdings include (among others) the Blackhawk collection (covering the silent film period), and the Academy War Film Collection (which originated during World War II).
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences: Margaret Herrick Library http://www.oscars.org/library/index.html Provides extensive holdings of materials on the subject of motion pictures, including 27,000 books; 1,800 periodical titles; 60,000 screenplays; 200,000 clipping files; 25,000 posters; over 7 million photographs; and over 300 manuscript and other special collections. Other materials include (among others) sheet music, oral histories, sound recordings and music scores, and costume and production sketches.
American Film Institute Collection http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/mpcoll.html#2 This collection at the Library of Congress has more than 27,000 titles, which primarily includes "theatrical features and shorts (1894-present), as well as substantial numbers of newsreels, documentaries, and television programs." Especially significant collections include (among others) the Black Film Collection, which includes more than 100 films starring or produced by African Americans, and the United Artists Collection of Warner Brothers Releases from 1920-1950, which includes approximately 1,500 shorts and 1,175 features.
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfalibrary/ This archive has an extensive collection of films and videos (over 10,000), and many other film studies materials, such as (among many others) 7,500 posters, and 1,500 audiotapes of filmmakers that have visited the archive. The collection also houses 95,000 "documentation files" with materials such as (among others) press kits, film reviews, and articles on filmmakers and various genres.
Duke University AdAccess http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/adaccess/ This archival collection provides access to more than 7,000 advertisements online. The collection primarily covers U.S. newspapers and magazines published between harga tablet advan the years of 1911 and 1955. The archive is searchable, and organized into five thematic categories: "Beauty and Hygiene, Transportation, Radio, Television, and World War II."
Gifts of Speech: Women's Speeches from Around the World http://gos.sbc.edu/ This is an online archive of speeches by influential contemporary women from around the world. The archive is searchable by keyword, and users can also browse chronologically or alphabetically by name.
Library of American Broadcasting http://www.lib.umd.edu/LAB/ Founded in 1972, this broad collection of materials (such as "audio and video recordings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, personal collections, oral histories, photographs, scripts and vertical files") focuses on the history of broadcasting. An extensive alphabetical listing of descriptions of the laptop acer collections is available on the library web site. This collection was formerly located in the headquarters of the National Association of Broadcasters in Washington D.C., but became part of the collections of the University of Maryland Libraries in 1994.
Library of Congress: Motion Picture and Television Reading Room http://www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/ This site provides an overview of the film and television resources available at the Library of Congress. Includes links to online finding aids, as well as digital materials from the collection (such as online films available through the American Memory project).
Library of Congress American Memory Project: Coca-Cola Television Advertisements http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ccmphtml/colahome.html This online collection includes never broadcast, experimental footage, as well as various television advertisements for Coca-Cola. The collection is searchable by title and keyword, and includes links to various resources, including (among others), a selected bibliography of related print resources, and a brief overview of the history of television advertising (written by a curator of the Library of Congress' Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division).
Museum of Broadcast Communications http://www.museum.tv/ This museum has extensive archival resources. The site of the museum has an online catalog for searching the collections, which include 13,000 television programs, 4,000 radio programs, 11,000 television commercials, and 4,500 newscasts.
National Public Broadcasting Archives http://www.lib.umd.edu/NPBA/index.html Housed at the University of Maryland at College Park, this collection provides archival holdings of U.S. non-commercial broadcasting sources, such as (among others) National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Service, and Children's Television Workshop. Also includes collections of personal papers of individuals who have made significant contributions to public broadcasting.
National Women and Media Collection: Western Historical Manuscript Collection Columbia at the University of Missouri http://www.umsystem.edu/whmc/nwm.html This site provides listings and descriptions of primary source materials from the National Women and Media Collection at the University of Missouri (Columbia). The collections include (among numerous other materials) the papers of Donna Allen (founder of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press), historic records of the National Federation of Press Women, and records from the Women in Journalism Project of the Washington Press Club Foundation (including transcripts of interviews with 53 female journalists).
PoynterOnline Resource Center http://www.poynter.org/resource_center/ This list includes links to over 50 journalism libraries, research centers and organizations throughout the world with journalism library resources. Bibliographers and subject specialists maintain many of the academic Web pages.
Smithsonian Archives Center: Advertising, Marketing & Commercial Imagery Collections http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d-7.htm The most heavily used materials in this collection include advertising cards, booklets, labels, letterheads, posters, and trade catalogues. The collection also has sizeable collections of "commercial ephemera," including cigarette packaging, greeting cards, matchbooks, postcards, and sports trading cards. The collection is organized into 538 geographic and subject categories. Twenty-four finding aids for various areas of the collection are available online, including (among others) the "Pepsi Generation Oral History and Documentation Collection," and the "Breck Girls Collection."
Smithsonian Archives Center: Film, Video and Audio Collections http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d-4.htm Significant audiovisual holdings in this collection include "the Groucho Marx Collection, Tupperware films in the Ann and Tom Damigella Collection, the Medical Sciences Film Collection, and films in the records of Western Union and Hills Brothers Coffee Co." The site includes five online finding aids for different areas of the collection, including (among others) the "Jazz Oral History Program Collection," and the "National Zoo Training Films Collection."
University of California at Los Angeles Film and Television Archive http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/ This collection houses more than 220,000 television and motion picture titles, as well as more than 27 million feet of newsreel footage. Television programs include (among others) more than 40 years of Emmy Awards broadcasts, and more than 10,000 television advertisements from 1948 through the mid 1980s. Major film collections have been donated by organizations such as (among others) the American Film Institute, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Advertising Collection http://door.library.uiuc.edu/cmx/collections/adcollections.htm The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign has extensive print advertising collections. The D'Arcy Collection of the UIUC Communications Library has nearly two million advertisements dating 1890 between 1970 from sources such as magazines, newspapers, journals, signs, brochures, and programs. The university also houses the Advertising Council Archives, which provide a historical overview of public service advertising since World War II. In addition, the university provides access to the Woodward Collection of Advertising, which has approximately four million advertisements from national magazines and newspapers published from the late 1800s through the 1980s.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/ This archival collection includes more than 30,000 television evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, as well as over 9,000 hours of "special news-related programming" (such as presidential press conferences). The archive has been developed since 1968. Institutions can subscribe to the searchable database of abstracts of the news programs. Vanderbilt also is working to digitize selected programs for institutions that subscribe to the database. Videotapes of the news programs can be ordered from Vanderbilt for a fee.
Washington Press Club Foundation: Women in Journalism Project http://npc.press.org/wpforal/ohhome.htm The Women in Journalist Project documents the contributions of more than 50 female journalists who were active in the profession since the 1920s. This is an oral history project, which includes interviews with the women journalists. Many of the interview transcripts are available on the project site. In 1998, the Women in Journalism Project won the Forrest C. Pogue Award for outstanding and continuing contributions to oral history.
Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/wcftr This archive has 15,000 motion pictures and television shows and tapes, several thousand sound recordings and two million promotional graphics and photographs. It also includes more than 300 manuscripts from film and television actors, designers, directors, producers and production companies, and writers. The strongest collections focus on the film industry from 1930 to 1960, popular theater from the 1940s and 1950s, and television between the 1950s and 1970s.
Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers and Broadcasters During World War II http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/wcf/wcf0001.html This Library of Congress online exhibit features photographs, articles, and other materials on eight women broadcasters, journalists and photographers of World War II. Also includes a more extensive list of women who worked as accredited correspondents during the Second World War.
Women in Journalism: Selected Primary Sources from the Sophia Smith Collection http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-jour.html This page is a selected list of women journalists whose papers are included in the Sophia Smith Collection of archival materials at Smith College. Prominent figures include (among others) Helen Gurley Brown (editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine), and Gloria Steinem (co-founder and former editor of Ms. Magazine).
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cloud computing-based "global trade management" services provider Amber Road (AMBR) this afternoon reportedQ1 revenue that topped analysts' expectation, forecast a slightly higher-than-expected net loss this quarter, and projected full-year results above consensus.
It was the company's first report since going public on March 21st.
Revenue in the three months ended in March rose 29%, year over year, to $15 million, yielding a net loss of 3 cents, excluding some costs.
Analysts had been modeling $13.61 million in revenue and a 41-cent loss per share.
CEO Jim Preuninger said the company was "pleased" with the results, which included "solid execution across all of our market segments."
"Our results reflect the increasing demand for our solutions which are changing the way companies conduct and manage trade globally, and the increased investments we have been making in sales and marketing to drive awareness and adoption."
For the current quarter, the company forecast revenue of $15.1 million to $15.4 million, and a net loss of 13 cents to 14 cents per share. That compares to the average investment of $15.05 million and a 13-cent loss.
For the full year, the company sees revenue of $62.2 million to $63 million, and a net loss of 32 cents to 35 cents. That compares to the average estimate for $61.15 million and 56 cents.
Shares are up 13 cents, or 15%, at $12.60, in late trading.

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There is a perception that – perhaps you would say unfairly – contracts are not being well managed. How would you answer that?
Gazidis: Clearly the club has been on quite a long journey from the early 2000s when we could have been complacent about our position in the game and took some really significant decisions to push the club forward. That was a very ambitious step for the club and it involved a really bold move.
The club knew in taking that step that it was going to have some challenges along the way. I don't think anybody in the game anticipated the way that salaries would explode over the course of that decade but nevertheless, even in that environment, primarily through Arsene's good judgment, the club has consistently remained at the top of the game.
The overall journey that the club embarked on was to make it one of the leading clubs in the world and to do it in a way that would be sustainable.
Not to do it for a moment in the sun but be able to count ourselves in the ranks of Manchester United, Barcelona and Bayern Munichs of this world over the next generation. That's a tremendously difficult thing to envisage, let alone achieve.
Along the way the environment became more difficult and I think Arsene has done an absolutely masterful job within the constraints he has – they are a club that is doing this on its own two feet without an outside benefactor – to make really smart decisions over time.
He hasn't got every one correct but broadly fantastic decisions on players, the development on the team, the need to keep the team competing at the top of the game.
We have been in Europe for 15 straight years. We are ranked sixth in Europe by Uefa – those things are taken for granted but they are fantastic achievements through the process of building a stadium and catapulting the club forward.
We are coming to the end of the stadium journey now where some of the commercial deals that we tied into the stadium move, which were fantastic deals for us because they enabled us to get the stadium built, are coming up for renewal. We have got the opportunity as a club to really catapult our revenues forward again.
I am very conscious of the fact that it sometimes sounds like I talk about Arsenal in terms of revenue streams and so on. Partly that's because it's a big part of my job, but really all of this is about football.
It's about putting this football club at the top of the football map and in the modern world, you have got to have the revenues to be able to do that.
This club has a really simple financial model. I wouldn't call it a business model because it is not like any other business I know or could imagine.
We generate revenue and we reinvest all of that revenue in football. We don't pay dividends, the money doesn't come out of the club.
All of the money we make is made available to our manager and he has done an unbelievable job in managing that spend. When we evaluate how well we are doing, I think there are three factors.
Firstly, whether we are able to compete financially at the top of the game. That depends on the environment that we are in which I believe has been somewhat irrational in terms of player spending but is becoming more rational as the game wakes up and demands regulation.
We see that in FFP moving at a tremendous rate at Uefa level, and also there is serious discussion happening at the Premier League level domestically.
Although there is a lot of scepticism about those chances and we think they are very good for the sustainable environment of the game.
The second element is how much the club can generate within that environment. We try to be responsible in the way we generate revenue but at the same time we look to grow it.
As we come to the end of these commercial deals, the opportunity to renew our primary sponsorship deals at a significant increase which will propel us forward as a club in terms of revenue.
Revenue is important because, especially under FFP, it determines how much ultimately you can spend on players.
Lastly, it is about how efficiently you spend the money. As I have said, we don't take money out of the club.
It is all available to spend on the football but you can waste money very quickly in football and large amounts if you are not careful. We have a manager who has got an outstanding record in making difficult football judgements.
It's not all about which players you sign in the transfer market, although that is one element of it, but managing the football club is far more complicated than that.
There are many different factors to it: efficient management of player contracts, good talent identification, good talent development, succession planning, the dynamic within the squad, the ability to create something between the players that is more significant than the individual players themselves which insulates you from individual player comings and goings.
All of those elements are thought about extremely deeply in making our contract decisions and those are ultimately decision that are made within the overall financial constraints by Arsene on the basis of his footballing judgment.
While we can get into extensive debate about individual decisions – and I would certainly say we don't make mistakes because, like all clubs, we are not perfect in our judgment – the ultimate arbiter of whether you are spending your money efficiently is a very absolute hard judgment which is where did you finish in the Premier League versus your overall spending.
It's far easier to have your performance outperform your spend for a couple of years because you can make short term decisions that deliver a quick hit but may not be sustainable.
It is far more difficult to outperform your spend on a consistent mid or long term basis and when you look at what Arsene has done within the overall constraints, he has outperformed our spending every single year he has been manager.
It is an extraordinary record and that's why the board have faith and trust in Arsene and will continue to do so.
What is the projection on what difference the new commercial deals will make after 2014?
Gazidis: In terms of the financial impact on the club, although it isn't represented in concrete, it will be as significant a step forward for the football club from a financial viewpoint as the stadium was in 2005. It's a significant and dramatic football step.
Of every major club, we have the most potential for growth in that area. Already, we are ranked as fifth.
I think Chelsea, because of the year they just had, will leapfrog us for a year or so, but once that kicks in on a really sustainable business, it kicks us into the top five clubs in the world with separation from the rest. That's a fairly extraordinary thing.
Our board gets much maligned along the way, but what they don't do is treat the football club as a popularity contest.
Everything they do is only for the good of the club. And actually, the way this club has driven itself forward from where it was is something I am slightly in awe of.
To be sitting at the top of the game in 2001-02 and make a decision like they made. Let's imagine the two worlds. It's not pie in the sky – it is going to happen.
We will be separated away as one of the top five clubs in the world in revenue, versus had we stayed at Highbury and we stayed with six or seven other clubs in the same ballpark position, we would be in amongst them scrambling somewhere between mid to upper table in financial terms.
That would be the financial constraints he would be operating under. Even he might struggle in that situation.
We get accused of a lack of ambition or complacency because apparently the board are only interested in the top four – that is absolute rubbish. To me this is the most ambitious football club I know. To be able to execute the vision is amazing to me.
Traditionally managers and clubs are judged on silverware. We can debate as to whether winning the FA Cup is more important than the top four. But is Arsenal committed to trophies?
Gazidis: It's what we're trying to do. We're trying to win. In fact, we try to do more than that, we try to win with style. We have a certain way of playing football that we take pride in.
So again, it's a high ambition. I know we haven't achieved that in recent years. There's no one at this football club that doesn't feel the pain of not being able to do that in recent years.
But absolutely that's what we're trying to do and we want to do it on a sustainable basis going forward. We're very optimistic about this season, even through the loss of a player as important as Robin van Persie.
We went through some major challenges last season and yet still came near the top of the game. But it's not what we're aiming to do. We're absolutely trying to win silverware and we're trying desperately hard to do it this year.
Presumably having led you through that tough period, you want to see Arsène Wenger lead you through those good time as well?
Gazidis: It's not a sense of sentimentalism, not a reward for our services, it's a belief that we have an incredible manager who loves this club and is the best man to lead us forward.
We're really confident about the direction that the club is heading. We're coming through strongly and we believe we're really well placed. We hope and believe that Arsene will be a part of that as we move forward.
At the same time, as a club, we have to make sure that all of the things that Arsene has brought to the club are enshrined in our DNA to make sure that when the day comes when Arsene decides it's time to hang up your boots – I don't know what the expression is as a manager – that we are in a position to take his ideas and work forward.
The values that Arsène has brought to the club together that the values the club had before Arsene are what will inform us – and I don't want to give any indication that this is happening – and give us the framework as to who might take over from him in the longer term.
He is written into our DNA. He's incredibly fit, has played in some staff games recently. I've watched him on the sidelines in his brogues and he doesn't look too good. But when you put him out on the football field, he is still fit, quick and a good footballer.
He is still fit, ready to go and enthusiastic about the players we've got, particularly the younger players – and often that's the thing that gets him most excited. Which, again, is quite unusual.
It's fantastic to see his endless enthusiasm and I really have learnt from Arsene, and players learn from him as well. We're not dominated by fear and yet we live in an environment in football where fear is really prevalent.
Players feel fear all the time and yet actually Arsène never succumbs in his thinking about players, his thought process and how players can develop to his worst fears. He's always looking forward. He's never governed by fear.
The football club was never governed by fear a long way before Arsene was here, and that's why I think we all get on so well.
I think he could stay on longer, absolutely he could. We haven't discussed it yet but I believe he could. He's fit, 62 years old, he's in fantastic shape and he's as driven as he's ever been, as enthusiastic and excited as ever and I feel he can keep going for a long time.
Can you keep your top players happy and on top contracts at the club in Premier League terms?
Gazidis: I think we have to have a team that is competing at the top of the game, a team which represents modern Arsenal and to do that we've got to manager our player contracts well. We've got to be responsive to the marketplace even when they're governed by factors we can't control.
We give that a lot of thought and broadly we make good decisions that are within the responsible financial capability of the club which is growing, our financial capability is growing.
But we're very disciplined about not making decisions which may jeopardise that and I understand that, at times, that can be frustrating.
But the club is on a really positive path, it's really healthy, we've got a really healthy squad and the foundation and the lifeblood of that is the young players who come through.
A year ago, no one was talking about Oxlade-Chamberlain. Two years ago no one was talking about Jack Wilshere. Kieran Gibbs is another example. We give young players a chance.
You go through the transfer window and there is a near hysterical environment created where the only measure of potential and success is how much a club spends on transfer fees. I don't want to say that's not relevant, it's one of the relevant factors in how a club can succeed.
But a club's success is far more complicated and multilayered than how much you spend on transfer fees in a transfer window. Balancing al of those factors is something Arsene does really well.
Lots of players are on big money throughout the squad. Do you need to restructure to keep the stellar players happy and on big contracts?
Gazidis: We have a wage structure which we think works for us, it's not fixed in stone – we adapt it over time. There are no absolute hard and fast rules.
We look at situations not just individually but in the context of the whole, in the context of what we are trying to do. We are adaptive and, in the end, our performance against our spend is judged on the pitch every year and I think we have got an excellent record.
Can you compete with the top clubs like that? Should you be paying more?
Gazidis: We are an incredibly transparent football club. We publish our accounts and they get analysed.
I don't think there is a big secret what our financial capability is. We are also very explicit about the fact that we live within our means.
There is no great mystery about this. Can we compete at top salary levels? Yes we can, but we have an ethos at the club – the way Arsene expresses it is that it is not about individual players, it is what happens between them.
The way we train, the way we play is all about passing, communication, movement, intelligence, anticipation and technical execution. All of these types of things, it is very much a team ethos.
I think it is one of the things that makes us resilient to the loss of an individual player and, over time, we have seen Arsenal lose some really significant players but bounce back strongly.
That's not something that just happens by accident. It doesn't happen by accident that Ian Wright is succeeded by a Thierry Henry is succeeded by an Adebayor is succeeded by a van Persie. It is not just happy coincidence.
It is part of the ethos of the club, very much based around a team, very much based around giving young players an opportunity to step up and step forward and show what they can do.
We give a lot of thought to our wage structure. Within an overall constraint, if you are paying four or five players superstar wages, it restricts what you are able to do with other players and there are no hard and fast rules on any of that.
We think very very carefully about it and there is a pretty hard and fast measured stick by which you can judge or overall decisions over time.
Will Financial Fair Play actually happen in England and in Europe?
Gazidis: I think the perception of FFP at the moment is lagging behind the reality. I think there is a perception that Michele Platini devised an evil plan in his bath to go after English football. That's just simply not the case.
The FFP proposals were developed by Uefa in very close consultation with the ECA representing clubs all across Europe. An incredible amount of work went into those regulations.
They were endorsed and supported by football clubs. They are not rules coming down on high, they are actually rules the clubs themselves developed in conjunction with Uefa and absolutely support.
Not only do we see that at the European level, but we are seeing support for this type of regulation in the Football League, we are seeing very serious discussions within the Premier League about introducing these regulations domestically.
Some form of financial regulation has extremely broad support among the Premier League clubs. So, I would be less optimistic if the rules were not being generated by football clubs themselves.
Football clubs are demanding that football has a more sustainable environment. We have enormous amounts of revenue and increasing revenue being generating by the game.
But we still have an environment where all of that money and more than just the additional money that is being generated is being spent. That creates an unsustainable environment. We can see consequences all across the game, in England and overseas.
Clubs are crying out for some kind of stability, some kind of predictability, some kind of regulation that will allow more clubs to compete and more clubs to develop themselves through more than simply on players. Spending on player development, spending of stadiums for example.
All of those sentiments are enshrined in those FFP regulations and I think the closer you get to decision makers in the game, you hear not just an acceptance of those regulations but an endorsement of them and an expectation that they will be strictly enforced.
That is the expectation in the game, that is the expectation that Uefa are delivering and increasingly that is what clubs in the Premier League are demanding.
I always have a healthy scepticism but very optimistic that we are going to see football moving into an era of more responsibility that will be really healthy for the game and really healthy for supporters who won't have to have the kind of concerns they have had about the financial health of their football clubs.
And then we can get on to playing the game and that is what we really want to see.
Is it a positive sign that the Premier League clubs seem happy to embrace it and bring in their own FFP rules?
Gazidis: I think it's a result of a realisation of where does all this end. What's the end game in just simply seeing ever increasing, spiralling spending. Many owners are saying, how can I stay involved?
Owners are also finding that they cant find good custodians for their football club to come in. Who would want to get involved in an environment when you are going to have compete and, along the way, probably be vilified. It's not the most attractive proposition.
At the end of the day I think I would rather be buying a season ticket. I do think the way football is moving towards an environment in which you don't have to lose enormous amounts of money, where you can break even means that we are more likely to have more local owners who can be involved.
Far more interest from good ownership from around the world.
I think in the longer term that will mean better ownership, more responsible ownership from football clubs. I think fans of the game will benefit from that environment. It's a really healthy development.
I think more and more people are recognising the benefits. It's become mainstream. There are very few voices, very few, who are speaking out about FFP. I'm not even sure I know any.
They are in the wilderness at this point. It's going to happen and it is happening faster than people realise.


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Christmas celebrated in Le Marche, Italy is not complete without a heart-warming bowl of cappelletti in brodo or little stuffed hats in broth. I was once told is a dish served for only those you love because it takes so much time & patience to make! In our area this dish is traditionally served on Christmas day for lunch and New Year's Eve for dinner.
Take the time and make it from scratch, buy the freshest eggs (it will make the color of the dough nice & golden) and enjoy this homemade pasta the way it was meant to be eaten - surrounded by family. (Plus they freeze well so you can have them on-hand, at the ready all winter long!)
Cappelletti in Brodo
1 whole chicken in pieces
1 beef bone
1 tomato
2 stalks of celery, chunked up
2 carrots, chopped in chunks
2 large onions, chopped in chunks
sprig of parsley
1 tomato
2 stalks of celery, chunked up
2 carrots, chopped in chunks
2 large onions, chopped in chunks
sprig of parsley
healthy pinch of salt
In a large stock pot add all ingredients and cover with water. Bring to a boil, skim the fat and impurities that come to the top.
Then lower to a very low simmer.
Simmer for 3-4 hours.
Strain stock - discard vegetables.
Simmer for 3-4 hours.
Strain stock - discard vegetables.
Now you have a delicious stock to be used in an array of dishes & soups.
Pick the meat off the bone & use in the soup, chicken salad or any other dish.
Pick the meat off the bone & use in the soup, chicken salad or any other dish.
(Stock will last a week in the fridge or you can freeze in usable portions.)
Pasta Dough Recipe:
(serves 4)
400 grams of flour (type 0)
pinch of salt
4 eggs
To make the dough - follow our recipe - click here
6 oz. lean beef cubed
4 oz. pork loin, cubed
half a chicken breast, cubed
1 sausage, without casing, cubed
1 carrot, diced finely
salt & pepper
a healthy pinch Nutmeg
handful of grated parmesean cheese
1 egg
pad of butter
glug of olive oil
salt & pepper
In a pot, melt the butter & toss in all the meat & carrot.
Cook over medium heat, until meat is cooked & 2/3 of the liquid is reduced.
Set aside & let cool.
When the meat is cool toss it into the food processor & pulse until it resembles ground beef - not a paste.
Add the egg, salt & pepper, nutmeg & cheese - mix with your hands. (It will hold a ball when squeezed together, but not wet)
Roll out pasta dough into about 2mm thick sheets.
It may help at this point to watch this clip on youtube (fast forward to about 6 minutes in): How to close your cappelletti: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYUR8KSY8hI)
Cut into 1 inch squares. Place a pea size amount of filling in each square.
Fold the square into a triangle - making sure to seal the edges very well! (Super important)
This is when it gets difficult to explain...Then take legs of the triangle & pinch them together.
Make sure not to over-stuff your cappelleti & to seal them properly - otherwise they will burst when you boil them.
Boil in brodo (broth) until they float - if they are fresh about 2-4 minutes. Jason suggests that when they start floating - try one.
To freeze for later: Let the pasta sit & dry overnight in a cool dry room in a single layer with parchment paper underneath.
Approved clip found on youtube - next year we'll have to make our own video - but she makes them right!! (Spoken language: Italian with English subtitles)


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My 10 month old cavalier Kayla has just peed on my couch. My husband put her there first thing in the morning but she didnt attempt to get down and tell us she needed to go right then. Usually she waits. I cant believe she did. My husband wants to ban her from sofas forever. I am so upset.
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So far ,of course, I was angry with her told her to stay in her bed an refused her affectionate pleas to pet her. Now I am at a loss. Do I just forget about it.!!!!! icon_yikes


text: "Saturday is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement for the Jews. The Rider volleyball team will attempt to make amends for losing its last four matches when it hosts Loyola University Maryland in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference match, beginning at 3pm. ... The last time Rider defeated the Greyhounds was during the 2001 season. Time for the Broncs to atone for that." [GoRider] (H/T an offended ZS)


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North Korea has accused the United States of plotting atomic war against the communist regime, saying President Barack Obama's recent reaffirmation of nuclear protection of South Korea only exposed his government's intention to attack.
The accusation comes as Washington and regional powers consider a new South Korean proposal to meet soon to find a way to resolve the global standoff over the North's nuclear programs.
In North Korea's first response to last week's meeting between Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in Washington, its government-run weekly Tongil Sinbo said that Obama's commitment to South Korea's security, including through U.S. nuclear protection, only revealed a U.S. plot to invade the North with nuclear weapons.
"It's not a coincidence at all for the U.S. to have brought numerous nuclear weapons into South Korea and other adjacent sites, staging various massive war drills opposing North Korea every day and watching for a chance for an invasion," said the commentary published Saturday.
The weekly also said the North will also "surely judge" the Lee government for participating in a U.S.-led international campaign to "stifle" the North.
Tension on the Korean peninsula has spiked since the North defiantly conducted its second nuclear test on May 25. North Korea later declared it would bolster its atomic bomb-making program and threatened war in protest of U.N. sanctions for its test.
North Korea says its nuclear program is a deterrent against the U.S., which it routinely accuses of plotting to topple its communist regime. Washington, which has 28,500 troops in South Korea, has repeatedly said it has no such intention and has no nuclear weapons deployed there.
In what would be the first test case for the new U.N. sanctions, U.S. officials said Thursday the U.S. military had begun tracking a North Korean-flagged ship which may be carrying illegal weapons. The officials said the ship left a North Korean port Wednesday.
On Sunday, South Korean television network YTN quoted an unidentified South Korean intelligence source as saying the ship is believed to be sailing toward Myanmar. Seoul's Defense Ministry, Unification Ministry and the National Intelligence Service said they could not confirm the report.
On Saturday, a South Korean Foreign Ministry official said Seoul has proposed five-way talks with the U.S., China, Russia and Japan to find a solution to the North's threats.
The U.S. and Japan have agreed to participate, while China and Russia have yet to respond, the official told The Associated Press, requesting anonymity because he was discussing a plan still in the works.
North Korea and the five countries began negotiating under the so-called "six-party talks" in 2003 with the aim of giving the communist regime economic aid and other concessions in exchange for dismantling its nuclear program. In April, however, the North said it was pulling out of the talks in response to international criticism of its controversial April 5 long-range rocket launch.
The South Korean official said it remains to be seen where or when the meeting — if it materializes — will take place, but one possibility is on the sidelines of a regional security forum scheduled in Phuket, Thailand, in July.
He said the North could be approached for talks, as they are scheduled to attend the Phuket meeting. The communist nation has little interaction with the world, but it does attend the annual ASEAN Regional Forum.
The Foreign Ministry official said Lee proposed the idea of bringing together officials of the five countries during his summit with Obama.


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A few weeks ago, I went to a vegetarian potluck dinner. I was hoping to meet some fellow vegetarians and vegans in my suburbia of a hometown, and to eat some good vegan food.
That much was a success, but it's not why I'm telling this story.
What made the night memorable (and pretty entertaining) was the presence of a older woman that came to it. She was there for one purpose: to argue with everyone, trying to convince us that this vegetarian stuff was all "bullshit," and that eating meat is healthy and there's nothing at all wrong with it.
Though I completely disagreed with what she was saying, I actually found some bit of respect for this woman for having the balls to do something like this. She knew she'd be alone in her views and the antagonist at the dinner, yet she felt strongly enough about her views to do it anyway. Sort of badass, really.
But then she said something that made me think. Backpedaling a little bit in an argument with someone, she said the words, "Meat is just fine, in moderation."
"In moderation"
I know that this woman doesn't eat meat in moderation. She wouldn't have been so anti-vegetarian if she did. But she probably tells herself that it's moderation.
And that's why I hate moderation as a diet strategy: "Moderation" can be any amount that's convenient, and it's a slippery slope from healthy moderation to excess.
For me, moderation only works with things I don't like all that much anyway. I can drink a soda once every two months, really enjoy it, and not want it again for another two months. But that's because I just don't like soda that much.
For things I really like, such as a cup of coffee or a good craft beer, that doesn't work. I'm either on a kick where I'm trying to avoid it, or on a kick where I'm having one every day. (The beer waits until evening, I swear.)
I can understand that moderation in diet does work for some people, even if not for me. But when the "moderation" argument goes beyond diet, I have no patience for it.
Moderation is a recipe for mediocrity
You've heard it a million times, applied to diet, exercise, and pretty much anything else:
Everything in moderation.
I think that's the worst advice ever. If we listened to that, we'd all be the same boring person.
Most of you don't eat meat in moderation. Instead, you don't eat it at all. Why? Because you're passionate about it. You believe that it's either terribly unhealthy or very wrong. Because you care about one of these things, you don't eat meat, ever.
If you're not vegetarian, it's something else. Maybe it's running. I know that if I had run in moderation, I sure as hell would have never qualified for Boston. Running is not something that came naturally to me, at all. But when I signed up this morning to run Boston next year, it sure felt good to know that all those hours on the track and the refusal to miss a workout were worth it. (If you're planning to run Boston in 2011, by the way, you had better get over there and sign up.)
Michael Phelps didn't win eight gold medals in one Olympics by practicing swimming in moderation. He does multiple workouts every day, at the expense, I'm sure, of other interests and even relationships. But swimming is more important than these other things to him, and that's why he's the best at it.
My friend Robert Cheeke doesn't practice moderation when he tours the country to reach as many people as he can as an advocate for veganism and health. Karol Gajda wouldn't be Ridiculously Extraordinary if he traveled in moderation or practiced minimalism in moderation. "Own 500 things" just doesn't have the same power to inspire that 100 or 50 or fewer does.
When people tell you to practice moderation, it's because they like the status quo
I learned this from Tony Robbins, and I didn't believe it at first. But looking back, I realize that anytime someone told me to take it easy with a certain interest that I was spending all my time on, whether it was playing drums in high school, gambling and lifting weights in college, and more recently, running like a madman or experimenting with diets that seem excessive, it was because they didn't want me to change.
They liked me the way I was, and change was threatening to them in some way. It wasn't for my own good they did it, but for theirs.
I'm not saying people are wrong for this. I probably do it to my friends too. But it's what happens, and I'm glad that I'm aware of it now.
If you've practiced moderation all your life, starting practicing moderation in moderation. For a while, go batshit crazy with whatever you're passionate about at the moment. Ignore anyone who tells you to chill out. See how that treats you. I can't imagine being happy any other way.
(There is, of course, one good kind of moderation…the kind I do in the NMA forums! Get in there and join the conversation if you haven't yet.)
Congrats to Baltimore Running Festival finishers!
Just a quick shout out to a few friends who I got to see at the Baltimore Running Festival this weekend. Congratulations to Pete, who ran his first half, his brother Matt, Joe, and other NMA readers who said they'd be there but that I didn't get a chance to see.
I was planning to run part of the relay in place of my cousin, who got injured, but I woke up puking on Thursday and didn't eat for two days, so I figured running would be a be a bad idea. Fortunately, my wife, Erin, filled in for me and did a great job on such short notice. Thanks, E! 🙂


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1 Scilla mischtschenkoana AGM
Not easy to spell and it doesn't look like a scilla either, so think early puschkinia here. And that's how it was discovered, mixed up in a bag of puschkinias. The bulb forms mounds of starry grey-blue snowflakes that nudge through the bare earth with the snowdrops.
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Sophomore men's golfer Monte Mullen was named to the All-Northeast Conference Second Team on Friday. Mullen most recently finished in a tie for 22nd place at the Northeast Conference Championships in Daytona Beach, FL.
Mullen shot 81-77-74 to finish +16 in the NEC Championships, improving his score by seven strokes on day two of the tournament. The first 36 holes were played on the same day.
On the year Mullen was the most consistent golfer for the Blue Devils, averaging 75.1 strokes through 25 rounds and finishing with five top-10 performances on the season.
Mullen won the CCSU Invite in the Fall with round of 74 and 67. His best round of the year came at Yale when he shot a 66. He had two rounds in the 60's on the year and five rounds at 71 or better.
Mullen also tied for first place at the St. Peter's Metro Honda Peacock Invitational in April. The Blue Devils finished second as a team in the tournament.


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Miley Cyrus can't stop.
The pop singer was a crowd favorite at the iHeartRadio music festival day event Saturday in Las Vegas. Before she hit the stage, the crowd of a few hundred chanted: "Miley! Miley! Miley!"
The 20-year-old emerged onstage in all white, wearing a tight corset and high wasted shorts that revealed some of her backside.
Her four-song set opened with the anthemic "We Can't Stop," where people onstage were dressed in flower, mushroom and rainbow costumes. She gyrated and slapped a dwarf-sized dancer's butt onstage. She followed the colorful performance with "Party In the USA."
But it was her emotional rendition of "Wrecking Ball" that was her set's highlight. Cyrus' mascara was running as she left the stage after the song and the performance comes days after she announced she was no longer engaged to actor Liam Hemsworth. She thanked the audience for helping the song top the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week.
"I couldn't have done it without all you guys," she said.
Cyrus broke a record with the debut of the song's provocative video, which features her in the nude. It became the fastest music video to reach 100 million views on VEVO.
The wild child singer said she knows "things I'm doing that's getting me into trouble and it's just me doing what my heart and soul is telling me what to do."
Everything she's done is "inspired by the music," she said.
Cyrus, who will release her new album "Bangerz" next month, also sang a cover of Melanie Safka's "Look at What They've Done to My Song." The guitar tune featured lyrics like "They think I'm half insane" and "I wish I could find a book to live in."
Cyrus has been added as one of the main performers for the second night at iHeartRadio's festival at the MGM Grand Arena, joining a list that includes Justin Timberlake, Bruno Mars, Paul McCartney and Drake. Elton John, Katy Perry and Chris Brown performed Friday.
Saturday's day line-up also featured Jason Derulo, Avril Lavigne, The Wanted, The Band Perry and others.


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Valentines Drink Recipes
For the Chocolate Lovers: Valentine's Day Dessert Recipes
Valentine's Day is right around the corner and I've been brainstorming ideas of how to celebrate it. Little Aria is a chocolate lover and I've been showing her many ways of eating chocolate. I put up some recipe suggestions in case you're planning to cook and bake as well. Naturally you'll want to pick the dishes that your sweetie likes; Aria's favorite is a simple square of quality chocolate and chocolate mousse. Joyeuse Saint-Valentin!
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Valentine's Day Recipe Round Up
Valentine's Day is this Thursday, and I've been brainstorming ideas of how to celebrate it. I put up some recipe suggestions in case you're planning to cook as well. Naturally you'll want to pick the dishes that your sweetie likes. Here are some recipes that are sure to help get you in a romantic mood. Joyeuse Saint-Valentin!
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Valentine Dinner Ideas
If you're planning to cook up a storm for your sweetheart to celebrate Valentine's Day, you might search for red, pink-colored or heart-shaped dishes. You could start with heart appetizers, a heart-shaped pizza and finish with heart-shaped chocolate cookies. This might sound cheesy but I think whether the menu you've planned is simple or super complex, your sweetie will appreciate the effort that you put into it.
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Romantic Dinner Menu for Valentine's Day
It's that time of year again. Valentine's Day is this weekend, and I've gone through the recipes I've published and put together a list for you in case you're preparing a romantic dinner for your sweetie. I've included every kind of dish you could want to make, from soups and salads to main courses and desserts. The recipes I picked are relatively easy to make, so that you aren't stuck in the kitchen all evening.
So get out the candles, put on some nice romantic music, and prepare a delicious meal for the one you love. Joyeuse Saint-Valentin!
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Hot Chocolate
Every once in a while, the girls enjoy making their own hot chocolate. They usually top it with whipped cream and marshmallows. But with Valentine's Day coming soon, I wanted to make a special version of chocolat chaud for my husband. I used cocoa powder, real chocolate, cream, milk and a few spices such as nutmeg, clove and cinnamon. I added espresso coffee because it enhances the flavor of chocolate in the drink. This ingredient in particular is an easy way to give a new twist to an old classic. As another option, you could also give the drink additional heat for Valentine's Day by using red chiles.
I personally don't think you have to wait until Valentine's Day to make a cup hot chocolate for your special someone. They'll appreciate it just as much if you make it tonight!
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Karen wrote:Know what? That was always my answer too. Know what happened? His co owner (not my idea long story off topic old history) and breeder started booking dates for the freakazoid. She had to use her own dog to fill the quota. So been there done that won't do it again. Nothing with balls and 4 legs in this house again. Co owns either for that matter.
First. He is not co-owned. I've had him for all of five days, and if I decide he's not a good fit for me he will be going back to Chris. If I decide to keep him, he is mine.
Second. I did the co-ownership thing with Ruby. (well, breeding contract, but it's the same principle) That arrangement nearly cost her her life. I own my pets or I don't own my pets. I don't share that with anyone.
And FINALLY. This discussion, as it pertains to me and Riggs, is really quite pointless. If I were ever to decide to breed him it would be after he is titled in protection, weight pull, obedience and conformation. Then there would be all necessary health tests. Then there would be finding a female that had met all of the same criteria as I set for Riggs in addition to her being the right match in temperament and physical attributes. That's not happening any time soon.
So let's drop it.


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Flames overcome slow start with strong finish against Hokies
January 20, 2013 | Lynchburg, Va.
Senior forward Rick Turner, the leading scorer on Liberty University's Division I men's hockey team who is tied for fourth in the ACHA with 57 points, netted the go-ahead goal and put the game against rival Virginia Tech on ice Sunday night with a well timed assist to Lindsay LeBlanc. That helped the Flames roast the Hokies, 5-2, in their first home game at the LaHaye Ice Center since Dec. 8.
"He hadn't scored in a couple games so it was definitely a big goal on the power play," said Liberty head coach Kirk Handy, who returned to the bench after missing the team's trip to West Virginia following the birth of his fourth son, Porter. "He was on the point, stepped in and made a real nice shot. That's what we rely on Rick for, that kind of shot."
Virginia Tech (13-7), coming off a 10-3 rout over its top rival, Virginia, on Friday night, opened the scoring at the 12:24 mark of the first period. Greg Kubrak, a junior forward from Blacksburg, watched his straight-on shot from 25 feet out deflect into the air over Liberty goalie Clayton Brown, who lost sight of it as it flipped into the back of the net.
The Hokies, who are 11-0 at home this season but only 2-7 on the road, led 1-0 and that's how the score remained for exactly 24 minutes.
"This was our third game in three days and it was obviously a little bit of an emotional letdown for us at the beginning of the game," Handy said. "We had to get our guys in the game we had to get them focused. They're a Division II team and you start thinking about all that stuff in your head. But we regrouped in the second and I thought the turning point in the game was Ryan Kerr's shorthanded goal."
With 8:24 left in the second period, the Flames tied it up at 1-1 with 16 seconds left on the Hokies' power play when Kerr regained possession of the puck in the right circle by tapping it through the skates of a defender and pocketing a shot on the fly past goalie Walker Detweiler.
"We were looking for something to gain momentum our way and that was definitely it," Handy said. "A shorthanded goal, that's a big goal. That's the way Ryan Kerr plays. He's a momentum changer for us. In that moment there, he changed the whole complexion of the game."
Liberty went ahead less than two minutes later with its second of three goals in a span of less than three minutes. Defenseman Jackson Kuhn poked a steal away from a Virginia Tech player up to Brent Boschman, who started a break before Turner finished off a return feed from Kuhn.
"It was just at the end of the power play," Turner said. "We were kind of scrambling around a little bit, but the puck ended up on my stick and I just wanted to throw it off the net and good things happen. LeBlanc on the far side ended up getting the rebound and gave it to Kuhn up top and they all collapsed on him. He threw me the puck and I was wide open on the side and just let a shot go and hoped it went in."
A minute later, the Flames seized a 3-1 advantage when defender Matt Sherry's shot from the top of the right circle deflected off the knee of freshman forward Paul Ingles into the left side of the net.
"He'd probably say he tried to do that, but I think it was a fluke," Sherry said. "He was in the right place at the right time. I was just trying to hit the puck through and when you get the puck through, good things happen and luckily it hit our guy and went into the net and we capitalized off it."
After Kubrak scored his second goal for Virginia Tech through the legs of Brown, trimming the Flames' advantage to 4-2, and Brown saved a penalty shot by James Lazzarotti in the closing three minutes, LeBlanc put away a pass from Turner on transition following a steal by Kuhn on the defensive end.
"Kuhner made the steal and as soon as I saw him pick the puck up I turned around and started going towards the net," Turner said. "He fed me a perfect pass and I knew that the defensemen and the goalie were going to look at me to shoot it so I baited them in a little bit and I saw (LeBlanc) going to the net so I put it right on his stick and he knew what to do with it after that."
Liberty only had five defensemen available with B.J. Pirus and Cam Bakker sidelined by injury but Kuhn and Sherry came up big with steals and physical play around the cage. When Brown came out of the net to try to clear the puck near the Virginia Tech bench early in the second period, Sherry slid to his knee to make a leg save of a follow-up shot.
"They went up on us by one but we knew we had to keep our composure and play our game," Sherry said. "Coming back showed the character and depth that we have, especially being short a couple guys today. We had five (defensemen) and a couple forwards were out, too, so the win meant a lot.
"Any time you play Virginia Tech, you know you're going to have a game, especially with the rivalry," he added. "After not having played at home for a while, it was kind of a double whammy and we're happy with the outcome."
The Flames (19-9-2) take a five-game win streak into next Friday and Saturday's home rematch with Arizona, where the streak began a day after a shootout loss at top-ranked Arizona State.
"They played us tough two games there," Turner said, noting Liberty erased two-goal deficits in the third period of 7-6 and 7-5 wins against the Wildcats. "We expect nothing less when they come here."
"They'll be coming back trying to get some revenge," Sherry added. "That's a game where if we come out like (they did against Virginia Tech), it'll be a different story. We've got to really come out and play 60 minutes instead of 25 or 30."
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Once a month, we will be keeping you posted on SCARPA athletes goings-on, whether they're breaking new records, winning wild races, or are just out there having fun.
May 30 – Scott Simmons completed the fastest ascent of Mount Hood in 1:26:28. Keep up with Scott on his blog.
June 6 – Alex Puccio came in 10th place in Vail, Colorado's IFSC Climbing World Cup. Stay up to date with Alex on her Facebook.
June 9 – Scott Bennett set the speed record on the Naked Edge in Boulder, Colorado's Eldorado Canyon in 00:29:53. His friend, Bill Wright, wrote a trip report.


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When Andrea Bird was laid off from her retail job last year, the single mom could no longer afford after-school activities for her son and pulled him out of karate and soccer.
While hunting for a job and trying to fight foreclosure on her home, she has relied heavily on After School Daze, a city-run drop-in program at Providencia and William McKinley elementary schools that caters to low-income children.
But looming budget cuts have left the free program — which costs the city of Burbank $62,689 a year in staffing and serves more than 300 children — in jeopardy.
"It's just not an affordable model, no matter how you look at it," said Parks, Recreation and Community Services Director Judie Wilke.
A task force created last year after the program barely survived another round of budget cuts is evaluating whether to restructure the program or scrap it altogether.
Made up of city staff, school district officials and community members, the task force has discussed contracting out the supervisor jobs, teaming up with the Boys & Girls Club, or charging parents for the service.
But parents are rallying to maintain the status quo.
Bird joined more than 300 elementary school parents and students last week in signing a petition imploring the City Council to keep the program as is.
"[After School Daze] here is a huge financial relief," Bird said one rainy afternoon while picking up her 9-year-old from Providencia.
Plus, she said, she knows her son is safe and socializing.
The program's seven other sites — which run parents $120 a month — will likely not be cut, Wilke said.
While some McKinley and Providencia parents have told Wilke they'd be willing to pay, many of them just can't.
In 2010, roughly half of the children at Providencia and McKinley qualified for the federal free- or reduced-cost lunch program, according Ed-Data, which compiles K-12 education data in California.
"I wouldn't know what to do," said Veronica Cortez, who has a 9-year-old fourth-grader at McKinley and often works late.
Without the program, her daughter would have to walk home alone, let herself in and spend a few hours a day unsupervised, Cortez added.
Alternatives are either too in-demand or costly, parents said.
The Boys & Girls Club's After-School Education and Safety Program, which only costs $50 a year, has a waiting list and isn't offered at McKinley.
The school district's Around the Bell program costs between $50 to $120 a week, depending how many hours each child stays, said Joanne Brenner, the district's coordinator of child development programs.
Brenner added that the program, which has designated homework times, is more structured and has an adult-to-child ratio of one to 14.
"My salary certainly wouldn't cover that," said parent Marilyn Whitney, while her fifth-grader at Providencia pulled the strings of her neon-colored lanyard.
"The kids don't have anywhere to go," said Mary Waldorp, who picked up her granddaughter from McKinley just before her night shift at Walmart in Santa Clarita.
Cutting the program wouldn't be cost-efficient, said ASD supervisor Lynn Lehman, because lack of supervision may turn the kids to the streets. Plus, he and his team help the kids with their homework, since many of their parents don't speak English, he said.
"Some of the responsibility of the city is to take care of ones who can't take care of themselves," Lehman said. "They're our future."
The next task force meeting is scheduled for Dec. 13. A decision on the program will likely be made early next year before parents sign up for the following academic year's after-school programs in the spring.
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2005 Mercedes-Benz CLK-Class ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
Sporty elegance and luxury.
The Mercedes-Benz CLK offers sporty performance, elegant design, and interior luxury. The CLK-Class represents a full line of two-door coupes and convertibles. With its stylish exterior and elegant interior, the CLK is a treat just to look at or sit in, and carries Mercedes cachet to the front door of any destination.
Out on the highway, the CLK is even more satisfying, with responsive performance. The ride is firm but comfortable on high-speed interstates; with confident, level cornering the CLK is even more satisfying on backroad curves.
Drivers seeking high performance can opt for the powerful V8 in the CLK500, and the enthusiast might even take on the CLK55 AMG, but most owners will be very happy with the 215-horsepower CLK320. The CLK320 has a five-speed automatic transmission with manual override. The mid-level CLK500 has been upgraded for 2005 with a new seven-speed automatic transmission.
Its relatively small size makes the CLK easy to park and maneuver. At the same time, with back seats roomy for two adults, this is no cramped sports car limited to two occupants.
Three models comprise the CLK-Class and each is available as a two-door coupe or cabriolet. Each offers progressively higher levels of performance, but are otherwise similarly equipped.
The CLK320 coupe ($45,250) and cabriolet ($52,700) are powered by a 3.2-liter V6, which develops 215 horsepower at 5700 rpm and 229 pound-feet of torque from 3000 to 4600 rpm. Power is transferred through a five-speed electronically controlled automatic transmission with software that adapts shift points to suit the driver's style. The TouchShift system allows the driver to shift manually.
The CLK500 coupe ($53,750) and cabriolet ($61,200) get a 5.0-liter V8 that produces 302 horsepower at 5600 rpm and 339 pound-feet of torque from 2700 to 4250 rpm. The engine is coupled to a seven-speed electronically controlled automatic transmission with driver-adaptive shift points and TouchShift, now with steering-wheel-mounted gearshift buttons.
The CLK55 AMG coupe ($69,900) and cabriolet ($80,850) are limited-production, ultra high-performance models with a 5.4-liter V8 rated at 362 horsepower at 5750 rpm and 376 pound-feet of torque at 4000 rpm. The CLK55 is fitted with an AMG-modified SpeedShift five-speed driver-adaptive automatic transmission that can be shifted manually using the gearshift lever or Formula 1-style controls on the steering wheel.
All CLK models boast a long list of standard equipment including: 10-way adjustable power seats with three memory settings; ABS with emergency brake assist; electronic stability control; and dual-zone climate control with pollen and dust filter. All boast extremely well-equipped and attractive interiors, with two-tone leather and aluminum trim available as an option on the CLK500 and an exclusive, monochromatic black interior on the CLK55 AMG. An appearance package featuring 17-inch five-spoke alloy wheels, low profile tires and various chrome, brushed-aluminum interior burl wood trim pieces is now standard on the CLK320.
A notable addition to the line's robust list of standard features is Mercedes' Tele Aid system, which calls an emergency response center and gives the car's location in the event any seatbelt tensioning retractor or airbag deploys. The cabriolet also boasts a new design of side-impact airbag mounted in the front seat that adds head protection to the usual chest protection expected from such systems.
Options include a navigation system combined with a computerized management system for stereo and air conditioning ($2,210); Distronic, an adaptive, radar-based cruise control ($3,010); SIRIUS Satellite Radio ($679); a Comfort Package available only on the CLK320 and CLK500 and consisting of ventilated seats and multi-contour front seats ($1,200); a keyless automatic-unlocking and engine-start system ($1,060); and Parktronic, a park-assist system ($1,080).
The Mercedes-Benz CLK is automotive elegance, restrained and sophisticated, reeking of high-end European class.
The three-pointed star stands proudly in the grille. That emblem has been a hallmark of Mercedes coupes, making them immediately identifiable on the Autobahn, and suggesting that drivers of lesser cars skedaddle into the right-hand lane.
The coupe dispenses entirely of the B-pillar, an attractive touch reminiscent of an earlier age of sporty coupes. The rear windows slide all the way down into the body, creating an exceptionally open environment.
With its fabric top up, the cabriolet is nearly indistinguishable in silhouette from the coupe, with only the barest hint of a break in the roofline where it meets the trunk lid. The fabric top is fully lined and insulated and tucks neatly into the boot, where it fills up about a third of the trunk's limited space, which already gives up almost 2 cubic feet to the coupe's. Rearward vision is impressive for a convertible, although not the equal of the coupe. In the event of an imminent collision or roll-over in the cabriolet, two roll bars deploy and lock in place within 0.3 seconds. Until needed, they are stylistically integrated into the rear-seat head-restraints.
A nice touch is the absence of any visible antenna for radio, cellular telephone or navigation system. This is made possible by replacing the conventional steel trunk lid with a composite design that allows the integration of the antennae into the lid's structure.
It's a tribute to the CLK's design that the car looks much smaller than it actually is. The CLK shares its platform with the C-Class, and despite its compact appearance it's actually longer than the C-Class sedan.
Details distinguish the three models: The CLK320 has neutral-tinted glass and gray vanes on its grille; the CLK500 gets blue-tinted glass, high-gloss black vanes with chrome trim on its grille, and an AMG rear spoiler; the CLK55 is distinguished by a styling package that includes a front valance with three separate sections and mesh grillwork, and unique rocker panels, rear valance and alloy wheels.
The CLK320 and CLK500 are equipped with 17 inch wheels, 7.5 inch wide in front and 8.5 inch wide rear, with 225/45ZR17 tires front and 245/40ZR17 rear. The wheels on the CLK320 are a light-alloy five-spoke design and on the CLK500 are AMG-styled monoblock design. The CLK55 AMG has 18 inch front wheels, 7.5 inch wide in front and 8.5 inch wide rear, in a high-polished double-spoke AMG design, with lower profile 225/40ZR18 tires front and 255/35ZR18 rear.
The Mercedes-Benz CLK is almost 2 inches longer than the previous generation, and all the benefits accrue to interior space. Mercedes claims to have increased interior space by 2 inches, but it feels like considerably more. The first-generation CLK coupe and cabriolet were classic in both exterior appearance and a relatively cramped cockpit. The new CLKs offer generous room even for tall drivers.
Even better, the back seat actually does have enough room for two adults to travel comfortably. You might not want to take a couple friends for a daylong jaunt, but no one is going to get out of the back seat looking like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. This latest-generation CLK is roomier than the first generation. Rear-seat knee room, for example, has grown 1.5 inches in the coupe and 1.7 inches in the cabriolet.
Mercedes made access to the rear seat easier with handy quick-release front seats that slide forward and up. Seatbelt 'presenters' automatically extend forward from behind the door opening to make the seatbelts handy for front-seat occupants, then retract. The coupe's rear seats are split 60/40, and fold down to add to the cargo capacity of the coupe's 10.4 cubic-foot trunk.
The interior materials are the finest in any recent Mercedes. Soft polyurethane sprayed onto the dashboard provides an attractive appearance and a luxurious feel. While there have been complaints about the use of plastic in the M-Class and C-Class, it's hard to imagine anyone not being seduced by the look and feel of the CLK interior. Nice touches of wood and gathered leather on the doors panels make for a very attractive cabin. The cabriolet has a beautifully lined top. The cup holder on the passenger side is attractive but cantankerous, and was the only thing negative we could find in the interior.
The instrument panel is a departure for Mercedes, but it works admirably. A large round speedometer and tachometer dominate the center of the gauge cluster. Small thermometer-like gauges for the fuel level and coolant temperature flank them, harking back to a Mercedes design of the 1950s. While they take some getting used to in a brief test drive, the design has the look of something so intuitive for daily use that it's a wonder nobody else uses it.
The sound system has been upgraded for 2005 to a Harman/Kardon LOGIC7 system with seven-channel digital surround sound.
Driving Impression
The Mercedes CLK is a luxury two-door you can drive hard without even realizing it. The chassis has the kind of stiffness with which Mercedes has only in recent years endowed its upscale SL roadsters. Torsional rigidity has increased a very welcome 40 percent in the coupe and 10 percent in the cabriolet compared with the previous-generation CLKs.
In mixed driving along a stretch of Detroit's Woodward Avenue that varied from 1900-style brick to pool-table smooth asphalt, the coupe's suspension swallowed unpleasant bumps without complaint while communicating steering input fluently back to the steering wheel.
A few miles north of downtown Detroit, on the winding lakeside roads of Oakland County, the coupe handled curves at speed with the easy grace of a thoroughbred horse stretching out in the home stretch.
A spirited romp in the cabriolet along the California coast and through the Golden State's coastal range was similarly impressive and more enjoyable. Unlike many convertibles, the CLK feels solid, like it's carved from one thick piece of rigid material. Extensive use of high-strength steel alloys of varying thickness in the cabriolet's unibody panels and structure combine with liberal reinforcements of transmission tunnel, cross struts and rear bulkhead to add torsional stiffness and bending resistance and minimize vibration. Mercedes claims that the stiffness of the cabriolet's body is equal to that of the coupe. All of this contributes to its precise handling and taut but comfortable ride quality.
The CLK's front suspension combines two low-mass lower control arms with a strut, coil springs, dual-tube shocks and a stabilizer bar. Mercedes chose to use the two lower control arms to improve impact absorption for better wheel control and damping. The rear suspension is the latest refinement of Mercedes proven multi-link design. It has been tuned for improved absorption of vibration and more predictable handling when driven hard. The CLK has very little squat or dive during hard acceleration or braking.
We found some apparent differences in handling between the CLK320 and CLK500, perhaps a factor of weight differences or suspension tuning. The CLK320 seemed a little softer than the CLK500, with steering that was a little lighter on center and a little more play. Response when turning from left to right to left, and turn-in for corners didn't seem quite as crisp. The net result was handling that was more comfortable, but a little less involving on the CLK320 when compared to the CLK500.
Mercedes continues to improve its electronic stability program, which can help the driver maintain control by reducing skidding. In the CLK, the system is virtually transparent, intervening unobtrusively to prevent wheel spin, but without the heavy-handed reduction in power that marred some of its early applications.
The brakes on the CLK are superb. They're easy to modulate for smooth stops in normal, everyday driving, and respond very linearly.
The Mercedes V6 and V8 engines perform admirably and both benefit from a five-speed automatic transmission. The 215-horsepower CLK320 has all the power most drivers need, accelerating ably from a stoplight and driving the car smoothly through the gears.
The 302-horsepower CLK500 is a refined German muscle car, delivering thrilling acceleration performance with barely any deterioration in handling in spite of its greater weight. The CLK500 cabriolet can accelerate from 0 to 60 mph in about 6 seconds, according to Mercedes. The automatic transmission is very responsive. The engine exhaust makes a pleasant sound.
The coupe, with its smooth aerodynamics and quiet manners is an excellent car for all seasons, but the convertible may be your preference if you enjoy top-down driving. Buffeting from the wind when the top down is fairly low with the windblocker in place. Put the top up and there's very little wind noise.
The Mercedes-Benz CLK is among the best of its class, a rolling statement of style and taste, and a design that's likely to age well.
The CLK320 is an excellent entry-level offering, and will satisfy most owners, while the CLK500 is a superb automobile in every respect, kicking everything up another notch. The CLK55 AMG is strictly for enthusiasts. As driving enthusiasts, we can certainly understand the desire for more performance, but it's hard to imagine needing all the performance of the CLK55AMG in most typical driving situations.
New Car Test Drive correspondent Tom Lankard filed this report from Santa Barbara, California, with Mitch McCullough in Los Angeles.
Model Lineup
Mercedes-Benz CLK320 Coupe ($45,250), Cabriolet ($52,700); CLK500 Coupe ($53,750), Cabriolet ($61,200); CLK55 AMG Coupe ($69,900), Cabriolet ($80,850).
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New London 'feast' brings the community together
New London — In 1929, Marianna Dipollina gave birth to her youngest daughter, and the infant was gravely ill.
Every day for a year, Dipollina prayed to the Virgin Mary to let her child live. If Mary would only help her, Dipollina would be forever in her debt, said her granddaughter, Cheryl Shaw, of East Longmeadow, Mass.
That prayer was part of what led to the Feast of the Assumption in New London. Dipollina, her husband and others in the Italian community organized the first "feast" in 1930, which honors the assumption of Mary into heaven.
On Sunday, hundreds attended an open-air Mass at 9:30 a.m. at Fort Trumbull.
Shaw wiped away tears as a young woman sang "Ave Maria."
"It just brings me closer to my grandmother and my mother," she said. "I feel it when I drive into New London. I'm so full of emotion."
This is the first year the Mass has been held outside. Tony D'Angelo, whose grandfather was among the event's founders, said he wanted to give the feast new life.
"We're just trying to bring it back a little bit," said D'Angelo, owner of Tony D's Restaurant in New London.
Traditional dollar bill donations
Monsignor Robert L. Brown, chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich, gave the homily, which was also delivered by the Rev. Joseph Castaldi in Italian. Pastors from St. Mary Star of the Sea and St. Joseph Church and the parochial vicar of St. Joseph Church participated.
After the service, people marched in a procession behind a statue of Mary, pulled on a cart. The statue would wind its way to St. Joseph Church for a blessing of the sick, then return to Fort Trumbull. People stuck dollar bills on the statue before it left.
"That's part of the Italian tradition — to give a gift," said Bob DelPaine, of New London. The money goes to the church and charity, he said.
DelPaine has attended the festival for years.
"To me, personally, the symbol of Mary gives people hope when there is no hope. It's a mother's unconditional love," he said.
Preparing a community feast
As the statue departed, D'Angelo prepared for a massive afternoon picnic at the Fort. He and others cooked sausage and peppers, roasted chicken, hot dogs, hamburgers, and made potato salad and Italian-style tomatoes with red wine vinegar, basil, parsley and red onion.
He had 100 pounds of sausage and 600 pieces of chicken.
"We can't be short, you know?" he said.
Jordan Pezzello, of New London, attended with her husband and daughters, ages 4 and 1. "It just brings the community together," she said. "It makes it special for everybody to get together."
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ALTO - Rev. Coy Gene Finch, 73, passed away Monday, June 2, 2014.
Rev. Finch was born August 26, 1940, in Wausau, Fla. He retired from BFI in Lawrenceville. He was a Baptist minister and a member of Shiloh Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife of 27 years, Judy Caryle Finch; daughters, Wanda Lamb, Winder, and Deborah Croley, Luverne, Ala.; stepchildren, Brian Parker, Jefferson, Anthony Garner, Braselton, Tressey Parker, Winder, and Misty Pittman, Danielsville; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; sisters and brothers-in-law, Barbara and Bobby Register, Abbeville, Ala., Margie and George Owen, Dothan, Ala., and Fay and Lawrence Rogers, Abbeville, Ala.; brother and sister-in-law, James Earl and Linda Finch, Slocomb, Ala.; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Thursday, June 5, in the chapel of Flanigan Funeral Home with the Rev. John Talley officiating. Interment will follow at Broadlawn Memorial Gardens in Buford. The family will receive visitors at the funeral home on Wednesday, June 4, from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m.
To express condolences, please sign our online guest book at www.flaniganfuneralhome.com.
Arrangements by Flanigan Funeral Home, Buford.
Rev. Coy Finch (06-02-14)
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The answers are in opposites.
Training horses is very simple and very complicated.
Before you start you ought to know the horse's natural instincts in order of significance. You ought to have a basic understanding of behavior modification techniques, such as "flooding" or "successive approximation", and you ought to know how to substitute for a "primary motivator."
You ought to know the correct definition of the bit being used, and how it works. You ought to know if your saddle fits.
You ought to know where you want the horse to put his feet so no matter the exercise, he remains balanced and isn't being subjected to unnecessary stresses. (Here's an opposite: in order for muscle or bone to be strong so it won't break down, it has to be weakened by moderate stress. It is not the stress that makes the bone stronger, however, it is the rest period (no stress) when the strengthening takes place. The same is true for muscles.)
Before anyone attempts to train a horse, they ought to spend more money on education than they do chaps or English breeches.….but seldom is that the case. Here's an opposite; they try to teach something they haven't yet learned.
Horse training can be complicated because it is so simple.
The answers are in opposites. That single piece of information can make training quicker and easier for horse and rider.
Example: if you want a horse to go forward slowly, get him to go backward quickly. That's the simplistic part of training…the complicated part is in knowing how to get him to go backward…and it has nothing to do with "pulling back on the reins." In fact, that's another opposite…when backing you don't want to "pull back on the reins"…you want to be squeezing with your legs as if you were going forward. The complicated part of training is in knowing how the horse's mind and body work so you can shift him to reverse gear.
The greatest and most important element to training is an opposite--the "release."
To communicate through the reins, you make contact with the bit in the horse's mouth and that creates discomfort, so the horse responds in a way the trainer hopes. But that doesn't train the horse; the training comes when and if the trainer "releases" the contact and restores comfort.
It's the reward of being comfortable that teaches the horse the correct frame, or gait or movement. The pressure of leg, rein or bit causes an action; the release causes learning.
Another opposite: most riders focus on trying to get perfect responses, perfect body position, perfect movement. They are always struggling to look perfect and be perfect. But it's the opposite that benefits the horse. If the rider focuses on the mistakes and correcting them, then teaching occurs.
Stop trying to be perfect and be delighted with mistakes. Mistakes need to be understood so they can be avoided.
To be perfect, avoid mistakes.
Training horses would be simple if it wasn't so complicated.
But once the complications are understood—the correct footfall sequence for a particular maneuver, for example—horse training becomes very simple. The rider correctly asks and the horse correctly responds.
Of course, the law of opposites continues to hold true…if you want the horse to learn quickly…..go slowly. The highest levels of performance result from the mastery of a single step.
The most unfortunate opposite: confrontation is a requirement of learning; therefore those who would train with only kindness and gentleness do the horse the greatest disservice. The horse does not learn from those he doesn't respect.
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