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A group of business leaders in Clark County's startup community want to revive plans for a small-business incubator to help nurture growing companies in Vancouver.
But a lack of public funding or cheap space available for the project means it will likely need much more private support to move beyond the idea stage, supporters say.
Following a traditional model, an incubator would provide work space with rents below market rate to qualifying businesses and pooled resources such as information technology, legal and accounting services. Such a space would bring like-minded entrepreneurs together to support each other and share ideas.
"You're increasing the probability these companies will be successful and add jobs to the community," said Kathy Sego, co-owner of Sego's Herb Farm in La Center and a member of the Columbia River Economic Development Council's advisory board.
Sego, who has been working closely with Vancouver start-ups offering business advice and access to her extensive network of contacts, says such resources are essential to businesses hoping to reach the next level. But Clark County suffers from a lack of institutional or other community-based help for startup businesses, especially in technology-related fields, at a time when the region desperately needs jobs, she says.
Rent relief key
The city of Vancouver is interested in the concept of an incubator focused on research and development in the manufacturing sector, said Alisa Pyszka, business development manager for the city. She envisions making 2,000- to 3,000-square-foot industrial spaces available at a reduced cost for startups to test their technologies before they hit the market, she said.
Government assistance has been available to small businesses in the form of tax breaks, but many companies aren't generating enough revenue to benefit from that, she said. Instead, Pyszka has heard from local companies that rent relief would be much more beneficial in helping them stay afloat.
But the city doesn't have much beyond anecdotal evidence to justify an incubator initiative, Pyszka added.
"We'd love to hear what the need is out there," Pyszka said. "We'd (also) love to support exploring it, but unfortunately we have no money (for a feasibility study)."
The development council similarly supports the idea, but isn't ready to throw its weight behind the effort.
Recurring attempts to build an incubator in Southwest Washington haven't gotten results in recent years, said Bart Phillips, president of the council. He cites a proposal in 2008 by the Washington Technology Center in Seattle to build a $16 million Semiconductor Component Testing Laboratory at Washington State University Vancouver. The new building would have held a satellite office of the center, as well as research laboratories to serve as an incubator for new technology companies.
The project is now on the back burner after the WTC failed to secure enough funding for the project from the 2009 Washington Legislature.
Even in good times, incubator projects are hard to launch, largely because it's not clear how to fund them and whether such investments would generate an adequate return for the community.
If they lease the space for less than it costs the incubator, there has to be some other source of revenue to fill the gap, Phillips said.
"Incubators are the costliest and riskiest way to get into entrepreneurial development," he said.
WSUV a candidate?
That's why Sego is hatching a less-costly plan for a nonprofit "accelerator" that would provide the shared services of an incubator without renting out below-market space. The incubator would consist of six to eight individual offices around a shared conference space. Attorneys, accountants and other service providers would get free or reduced-cost office space at the incubator in return for providing at least eight hours per week of free service to start-ups. Collecting them all in one place would be key to providing a one-stop shop for early-stage businesses that need guidance and support.
Companies that use the incubator's services wouldn't be charged initially, but instead would give up 1 to 2 percent equity that the incubator would redeem if the company is sold, attracts investors or goes public, Sego said.
The plan, however, still hinges on finding a suitable space for those service providers.
Sego hopes to land space at WSUV's under-construction Applied Technology Classroom building, which was originally planned to adjoin the Washington Technology Center's incubator. Part of the rationale for building the engineering classroom and office space was to provide additional support for the Vancouver tech community, Sego argues. Now that the WTC's incubator project is on hold indefinitely, the university should consider moving ahead with a scaled-down incubator in a building that's been funded.
When the WTC finds funding, the accelerator could then expand into a full-service incubator, she said.
An incubator is one possible use of a portion of the Applied Technology building, said Dave Smith, director of Capital Planning and Development at WSUV. But the university is under its own space constraints as it continues to expand enrollment without winning funding for additional capital projects.
"To the extent the university incurred cost, it would have to be in the budget and approved by the board of regents," Smith said. "Honestly, at this point I don't know where we'd find the room for something like that. We're starting to feel the crunch already for classroom and office space."
Community effort
An incubator provides the most benefit to companies if it offers both services and space, said Tim Strege, executive director of the nonprofit William M. Factory Small Business Incubator in Tacoma. Companies that occupy the same building benefit from collaboration and support. But charging market-rate rent from tenant companies also ensures they're serious and viable businesses that move there to grow.
"The only reason they go there is to use the services, because that's what they're most in need of," Strege said. "There's not a shortage of space; where there oftentimes is a need is to have on-site engineering, information technology, business law and administrative support services."
Developing such a full-service incubator that provides both space and services will require a much larger private investment. And that also means mounting a broad-based community effort to ensure the project's success, CREDC's Phillips said.
"I don't believe, stand-alone, it would have an impact," Phillips said.
A successful incubator also needs support services like a robust Small Business Development Center, a public loan fund, venture capital and risk funds, space and a nexus to the university, he said.
Sego hopes to build on the momentum generated by the Southwest Washington Workforce Development Council's PubTalk networking events to generate enthusiasm and support for the incubator. Under way since December, the bimonthly events draw about 100 entrepreneurs, investors and service providers interested in building Clark County's startup community.
"If somebody with a lot of money wants to support an incubator, we can expand on this," said Sego, who doesn't want to wait for a public agency to pick up the cause. "Then the cost to the community is very low, and the benefit is very high."


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You may have heard people talking about the popular Original Stacker 2 with Ephedra or the Stacker 2 Lite, but never have known exactly how a stacker fat burner works. Stacker fat burners actually use a combination of ingredients in order to help you lose weight and keep up your muscle mass.
Stacker fat burner utilizes what is called the ECA stack. The ECA stands for ephedra, caffeine and aspirin. There are some stacker fat burners which are ephedra free, and they substitute another herb which works similar to the ephedra.
The ephedra found in a stacker fat burner is often found in the ingredient listing as ma huang. You'll find the aspirin component as Willow Tree Bark and the caffeine is usually found in Kola Nut. While you might see some variations of these ingredients, the ECA stack is what is important. staplare

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FORT WORTH, texas — When Klein Kubiak thinks about an advantage Rice might have over Air Force in Saturday's Armed Forces bowl game, he doesn't have to rely on family roots in football to figure it out.
When your kicker, Chris Boswell, makes field goals of 50 yards or longer as if they are chip shots, the answer is obvious. You're hoping to have the ball in the closing minutes needing only a field goal to win the game.
"I have a lot of faith in Chris, and our team has a lot of trust in our kicking game," said Kubiak, the holder for Rice's field-goal and extra-point attempts. "Chris has a great leg and he gives our offense a lot of confidence. Anytime we cross the 50-yard line, we have a chance to score."
Anyone associated with football in Colorado knows all about the Kubiaks. Klein's father, Gary, is the head coach of the NFL's Houston Texans and a former Broncos quarterback and assistant coach. Two of his sons, Klay and Klint, played college football at Colorado State.
Klein is a junior wide receiver for the Owls and holder on the kicking teams. "The holder is an important part of the kicking unit, but the center is just as important," Kubiak said. "It's a team effort, and every part of it has to be about perfect."
Boswell has done his part. He tied an NCAA record by kicking three field goals of at least 50 yards in one game. He is 6-for-7 on field goals of 50 yards or longer this season. The junior has kicked 49 field goals in his career.
"He has tremendous range," Air Force coach Troy Calhoun said. "He'll be especially dangerous on the FieldTurf we'll be playing on (at TCU's stadium)."
Calhoun knows Klein. Calhoun coached alongside Gary Kubiak on the Broncos staff during the 2003-05 seasons when young Klein often tagged along with his dad.
"I was a ball boy for the Broncos," Kubiak said. "I used to help the assistant coaches."
Kubiak knows the Texans and Broncos, currently the respective No. 1 and No. 2 seeds in the AFC, could well meet in the playoffs in January. He won't have any trouble taking sides.
"I'm not much into predicting the outcome of games, but I support my dad in everything he does," Kubiak said.
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I was bored and i'm still not ready for the massive project i have planned so heres an edit i made of my NO EXCUSES background... it took me 15 minutes so sorry for the quality and all
Its true. MLPD here it means My little Pony Dusk, that what you find in the search engine. But MLPD is also a german communist Party, ok only a very smal and minor. So this pic is a nice joke.
Mother equestria mate ^_^
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Radio Shack is offering this Samsung R-355 No Contract phone with full QWERTY keyboard for $9.99 with free shipping! Regular price is $99.99. Not sure how long this will last!
February 1, 2012 12:30 pm | online deals
Samsung No Contract Phone for $10 Shipped (from $100)
I scored 2! Great price! I've been needing a new phone. Thanks for the heads up!


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Type: Wish
Status: Closed
Priority: Minor
Resolution: Won't Fix
Affects Version/s: None
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Component/s: core/index
Lucene Fields:New
When positions are used in queries with many terms, each term in each document causes a seek in the positions, and in large indexes these seeks can be far apart even when the terms are in the same document.
The number of (disk) cache misses of such position seeks might be reduced by putting the positions for all terms in the same document directly behind each other. This should have a noticable effect when terms are alphabetically close, for example for truncations, and it should also help when the documents have few enough positions to fill a cache entry (disk page, cache line).
This might also help the performance of highlighting based on indexed positions.
- All
- Comments
- Work Log
- History
- Activity
- Transitions
This was more or less suggested in:
"Compressing Term Positions in Web Indexes", Hao Yan, Shuan Ding, Torsten Suel, SIGIR '09.
in sections 7 and 8, and especially the last sentence: "... one could even consider storing the parsed documents themselves in highly compressed form and accessing these during a position data lookup, instead of keeping the positions in inverted lists."
Currently positions are stored in this order (see the index file formats for positions):
TermPositions are ordered by term (the term is implicit, from the .tis file).
Positions entries are ordered by increasing document number (the document number is implicit from the .frq file).
The idea is to change this order such that positions are ordered first by document and then by term.
Perhaps this also speeds up segment merging, as there is no more need to uninvert the positions.
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Reviewed By Andrew B (Killeen, TX) Reviewed for a 1990 Ford Bronco —2/29/2012 4:30 PM
Definitely an improvement over the Monroe's that were previously installed.
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as far as the lift goes , it's ok .I was disappointed in the fact it did not come with everything I needed . I was not told that i had to extend the gear shift and transfer linkage . if told i would of ordered what i needed to do so .


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Silly me, I thought this backpack was for me.
Silly me, I thought this backpack was for me.
Interesting, you live with a cat and thought something in the cat's space was for you. :)
List exceeds allowed characters. So I'll just say I'm plum and kiwi loving FOT!
I actually live with three. As he was using my Synapse, one of the girls had pulled my Imago to the floor and was laying on that while the other girl was asleep on the cardboard box from the last Bihn shipment.
They like things with the caregiver(s) smell(s) on, that is also true for dogs.
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Established for over 30 years, Dedicated Micros (DM) is an international market leader in the field of specialist CCTV control equipment. Dedicated Micros success stems from its invention of the world's first video multiplexer, a monitoring product which records continuous images from a number of cameras onto a single video cassette source. This pioneering attitude has earned DM a place in the surveillance industries hall of fame. They are multi award winners and conduct some of the best R&D in the market today.
DM's products are used in security systems in a broad range of commercial and community applications across the globe. These include New York's 911 building, Heathrow Airport in London, the Oman Bank, BP petrol stations across the UK, Manchester United's Old Trafford Football Ground, the French Postal Service (the PPT) and the US Government.
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Headquartered in Dallas Texas, Veilux has grown to deliver to the security industry over 100 leading products. With distribution and sales facilities in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York, Veilux not only strives for 100% customer satisfaction but is also branching its roots into North America and the rest of the world with international locations including Shangzou - China, Seoul - S.Korea, Amman - Jordan, Cairo - Egypt, and London - UK.
Veilux products are used in a range of high end installations including the Raytheon Technical Services Co, NASA facilities in Houston - Texas, Navy Region Southwest, USAF Misawa Air Base, US Army, and Washington State Dept of Fish and Wildlife. With all products 100% tried and tested, Veilux is and still is continuing to lead the way with its mark in the security industry.
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A big name in the CCTV industry since 1987, Toshiba Surveillance & IP Video Products Group market a large range of video surveillance products including network-based IP cameras, analog cameras, digital video recorders, software, video servers and accessories. Their goal is to provide superior technology, service and value for money by consistently introducing new innovative products into the market.
Headquartered in Irvine, California, Toshiba Surveillance & IP Video Products Group is responsible for all sales and marketing in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Latin America. The inerrant advantage in dealing with one of the big names in the industry is their service and support teams. Toshiba is no exception to this with a great online knowledge base as well as dedicated support staff ready to answer any question and solve any problem.
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- Used In Ex-proof Area For Monitoring
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make fans even more annoying than ever!
make fans even more annoying than ever!
LOL! That was great and totally true! I feel sorry for spouses not totally on board. :)
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My DH doesn't get it...but me and my BFF are NUTSO over the show!!! We will still force our men to watch it this season. ;)
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Hahahaha. That was too funny.
Shannon mom to the A team.
Ashlyn (7/05)� Allison (8/07)� Annalise (8/10)
My dh thought I was nutso when I became obsessed with Lost. He saw a few random episodes here and there on TV and didn't get what the fuss was about. I told him to watch Pilots one and two and then make a decision on the show and before deciding to call me a nut job. LOL He did and lo and behold he has watched every episode since while I rewatched with him and he became one of the "annoying" fans.


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Introduction / Domestic Travel / Transporting Luggage and Animals / Hand Luggage
Hand Luggage
Valid from 14 December 2014
Hand luggage is understood as any easily portable item which can be placed above or below a passenger's seat...
The passenger transports hand luggage himself/herself, and places it above or below the seat which he or she occupies on the train. Alternately, it can be on the passenger's lap. Exceptionally, luggage that cannot be placed above or below the seat occupied by the passenger but does not exceed the dimensions 90 x 60 x 40 cm is also regarded as hand luggage. In certain types of carriages it is also possible to transport hand luggage in special luggage racks. It is not permitted to store hand luggage on the seat or inside sanitary facilities (toilet, washroom) on the train.
The transport of hand luggage on ČD trains is free of charge.
The following are examples of hand luggage:
- skis with poles
- snowboards
- sleds
- sleigh
- a small folding or children's kick scooter with wheels smaller than bicycle wheels, at most 12 inches
- a golf bag
- small live animals in closed crates with impermeable bottoms
- a folded collapsible pram (a pram for an accompanying child is always transported free of charge)
What can't be transported as hand luggage?
Hand luggage must not contain items the properties of which could cause damage to the carriage, harm to the life and health of persons, or to their property, or items that could be suspected of being an explosive device, or bulky items. Such items include in particular items which can cause infection or an item which cannot be placed in the vehicle in the space intended for placing luggage, or an item weighing more than 50 kg, loaded guns, explosives, poisonous, radioactive, volatile and caustic substances, as well as items causing repugnance. A violation of this ban is considered a violation of the transport terms and conditions, and the passenger will pay a surcharge in the amount of CZK 500 (this amount is reduced to CZK 100 if paid immediately). If the passenger refuses to pay the surcharge, he or she is required to present identification so that a confirmation of ČD's receivable vis-à-vis the passenger can be written up, and the passenger will be excluded from transport.
What items are allowed in hand luggage?
Hand luggage that is carried on board the train may contain a portable steel bottle of liquid heating gas for household use and weighing not more than 10 kg, a securely sealed container of heating oil with a volume not exceeding 20 l, a completely empty container for motor vehicle fuel or an accumulator filled with electrolyte secured against short circuits and with aerating vents.
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transporting oversized luggage
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Seiichi Yamamoto: Crown of Fuzzy Groove
Crown of Fuzzy Groove
File under: concert experiences seared into your subconscious. Lollapalooza, 1994. Boredoms founder Yamatsuka Eye leapt a good eight feet into the air, shrieking as if someone had just jammed a firecracker into his sneaker. Jocks with backward baseball caps, and their slack-jawed girlfriends, didn't know what the hell to make of this ragged Technicolor orchestra. Still, they knew Boredoms were post-rock for sure. What the assembled crowd got that day was rock's flaming shards, the fallout.
Since then, Boredoms have rejected their place amid rock's ruin. They've changed from no-wave pranksters into Funkadelic cosmonauts raised on manga comics and hippie drum circles. They've rewritten Stockhausen's tape edits with guitar, bass, drums, and voice: whomp, whiz, whoosh, tape-splice-noise, ka-chunk. They've gone from swindling alt-rock on Reprise's dime to raising the game for the entire Japanoise generation with three epic slabs of space jam: 1998's Super AE, 1999's Vision Creation Newsun, and its remix, 2001's Rebore V.0: Vision Recreation. Rebore goes beyond mere remixing: It's 40 years of studio tricknology warping its parent album like hot wax. A cousin to Terry Riley's all-night flights, the album severs Boredoms from their presupposed need to rock or funk or, well, do anything.
Rechristened Voordoms (minus their guitarist and bass player), the band readies its new album, which is set for release in 2003. Curious about any missing pieces in the meantime? Check guitarist Seiichi Yamamoto's recent solo record, Crown of Fuzzy Groove. From a guy called Yamamotor, this album is decidedly soft sell and soft-shoe--not a distorted riff or noise ejaculation in sight. No octopus drumming, either. Yamamoto peels back layer upon layer of gentle guitar fuzz and cymbal swoosh. Listen closely and you'll find dearly departed Juan Esquivel and his lazily insouciant exotica. Pansonic's blips and bloops beam in from Finnish darkness. Hallucinatory references to Brian Eno's ambient ecologies surface briefly. Everything's still, like crystals in suspension. And then it's over, takeoff to touchdown, without leaving your bed.
So call it trip-hop, if trip-hop is the ambient noises of Yoda's bog world. Or downtempo, if downtempo isn't just wallpaper for the Wallpaper set. Or just call it Boredoms, if you like--it's the only description you can be sure of.
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text: ICPSR Metadata record for Social Effects of Minor Tranquilizer Use: Detroit, 1981 ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Social Effects of Minor Tranquilizer Use: Detroit, 1981 Caplan, Robert D. Andrews, Frank M. French, John R.P. Jr. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2005-11-04 8415 doi://10.3886/ICPSR08415.v1 This study examined the effects of diazapam (Valium) use on a number of social-psychological variables related to mental health. These included stress, coping, perceived performance, and quality of life. A longitudinal survey was conducted in which a heterogeneous group of persons recently prescribed diazapam was interviewed four times, six weeks apart. In addition, questionnaire data were obtained from a significant other in the respondent's personal life and, if employed, from a significant other at work. The same procedure was followed for a group of non-users of diazapam. UniverseScheme08415 Organization08415_1 NACDA.IV AHRQMCC.I ICPSR.IX drugs health mental health quality of life United States survey data All persons 18 and older in the Detroit metropolitan area who had been prescribed diazepam or a nonaxiolic drug in the six weeks prior to the survey. The sample was not intended to be a random sample. The pool of respondents was selected to represent a broad array of social and demographic characteristics. Nearly all of the respondents were selected from pharmacy records. Forty-eight percent of those contacted agreed to be interviewed. Eighty-five percent of those who were interviewed in phase one continued through to phase four. ICPSR AVAILABLE. This study is freely available to the general public. The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Rearch ICPSR Ann Arbor MI http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ firstname.lastname@example.com Hoffman-LaRoche, Inc. 2005-11-04 ICPSR 2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions. StudyUnit08415 1) Several changes have been made to the data since the preparation of the codebook. All memoranda regarding these changes must be carefully noted. The printed codebook should also be checked against the machine-readable dictionary to verify length and placement of the variables. 2) The codebook is provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site.


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connecting curriculum and creativity through art
I love your art! Congratulations for starting a blog as well. It seems like we enjoy much of the same stuff. I'm going to add you to my side bar.
Your dragonflies are amazing! The colours on your blog cheer me up every time I visit. Thank you!


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Yuniesky Betancourt has been a disaster this season, unable to hit or field or, for the life of him, take a pitch. Until two weeks ago, his batting average was higher than his on-base percentage. Then, the M's made noise about benching him, and all of a sudden he found some patience. On Friday night, he walked twice. Ichiro homered twice that game, and Ichiro never homers. It was only the fourth mult-home-run game of Ichiro's career. And it was only Betancourt's fifth multi-walk game. He followed it up with another walk on Saturday. Then he made a big error on Sunday.
While it's easy to be disappointed in Yuni, I imagine a dude who was allegedly smuggled here by a dealer, at no expense to himself, via Tijuana (with a fake Mexican passport) via the Bahamas via speedboat from Cuba and is now making $2.3 million per isn't sweating it too hard.


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I am so ready to give it up, but not sure how. We co-sleep for half the night and my lo man wants to suck most of the night. UGH, how can I cut this out? I don't want my milk to dry up because I am donating milk, I just want to cut him off!!!
who is still breastfeeing?
-Amber, CPST & mom to:
Alex 03/01/09, FF in Radian80SL (rf until 4yr, 2mo)
Jonathan 01/15/11, ERF in Radian80SL
Dianageorge: I tried several times to cut down on DS's feedings With absolutely no success before we were successful.
Mommy and wife to a Sailor
I am still nursing my 22 month old and have a 5 week old that I am nursing as well. I nursed all through pregnancy hoping that she would self wean or I would dry up. she nurses more than ever now that my supply is up. She does sleep in a toddler bed though now that the baby is here.
WOW nursing two at a time - bless your heart. I bet 22 month old is loving that - that your supply is booming. Which most of the time I just feel like a pacifier b/c he wants to keep sucking after he pretty much drains me.
He did pretty good last night once he got in the bed with us. I told him no, just go to sleep, kept patting him and whispering to him and he left my boobs alone and went back to sleep. (YAY!)
I will go to the extended breastfeeding site - didn't know one existed. Thanks for all suggestions/ideas/comments.
I don't know what to do either. Aurora still nurses to go to sleep and if she wakes up during the night, will go for it. Otherwise she doesn't really ask for it just when she's tired or maybe really upset. I know it's good for her with her heart but I really did not want to be nursing a toddler.
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For STTN I did the super nanny thing where you put them in bed abd stand by thd door and Everytime they get up just take them back to bed. First night she got up 40 times, second was 15 third was like 3 . She sleeps till 630 then comes in our bed; but a lot of times sleeps through till 8!
Married to my true love Evan 10/23/09
Our sweet baby girl Brooklyn Hartlee was born 1/2/11
I'm still breastfeeding my daughter; in fact, I just did because she was cranky and clearly needed to go down for a nap. I don't know how many times a day I BF her because I don't really keep count. She usually gets good access in the mornings but gets cut off later in the day. My husband and I alternate on which kid we put to bed each night so she only gets the boob before bed every other night.
Regarding nightweaning: I was having a hell of a time with it, and no matter whose advice I followed, I couldn't get anywhere. But I noticed that my daughter had terrible eczema (just like her older brother), and even using CeraVe and hydrocortisone cream, we weren't getting anywhere. So I made an appointment with the nearby pediatric dermatologist, and sure enough, the eczema was irritating her skin and making her wake up during the night. Once I got the eczema under control (with a little help from an antihistimine syrup she took at night), I was able to get her to sleep through the night in her own crib. I did spend a few night sleeping on her floor at times on a mattress wearing a tshirt to cover the goods. It gave her the comfort that mommy was there but the reminder that she was a big girl and needed to go back to sleep by herself. I don't guarantee that this will work for anyone else, but if you're dealing with something external like eczema (or an illness like a cold or something), it could be disrupting their sleep and you're fighting an uphill battle. Good luck!
On a side note, I do have to say that LO NEVER got sick when he was nursing and has had 2 runny nose colds since weaning. Before hand he could play with kids who had colds ane never got the cold. I know it's cold season, but we did not go through this last year when he was crawling and putting everything in his mouth. UGH! I totally believe that the milk kept him healthy for almost 2 years. I am thankful I could give that to him because it certainly helped his immune system.
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Tancredo said he switched back to the GOP on Tuesday "because they're the only game in town."
Tancredo said his decision to join the American Constitution Party was "opportunistic," but he and the party had an understanding that he would not stay with the party.
"It was opportunistic on both of our parts. I needed ballot access and they needed majority party status. We both got what we wanted," Tancredo said.
Jim Clymer, national chairman of the umbrella Constitution Party, said he was disappointed and surprised that Tancredo has decided to leave the party.
"I guess we both saw an opportunity. There was an opportunity for the Constitution Party to be advanced by his candidacy, and an opportunity for him to get on the ballot. There was not an expectation that he would run for governor and leave. That was not my expectation at all," Clymer said.
Amanda Campbell, secretary of the Colorado American Constitution Party, said Tancredo promised to stay with the ACP and was she was disappointed he had switched back.
Tancredo said the state Republican Party needs to get rid of the "old guard" and members he believes lack vision, including former Gov. Bill Owens.
Owens said Tancredo failed in his bid for governor and he shouldn't be welcomed back to the state GOP.
"Tom reminds me of a little kid who is always making excuses for his failures. Tom, it's not my fault you keep losing," Owens said.
GOP state chairman Dick Wadhams, who clashed publicly with Tancredo over criticism of the Republican Party, said everyone is welcome to join the Colorado GOP. He refused to say whether he thought Tancredo would be welcomed back.
It all began when Tancredo, fed up with what he considered to be two weak GOP primary candidates for governor, left the party and signed on as the ACP gubernatorial candidate. Tancredo lost to Democrat John Hickenlooper on Nov. 2 but finished in second place with 36 percent of the vote, which under state law made the ACP a major party.
Tancredo held no leadership position with the ACP.
The Republican candidate, Dan Maes, got 11 percent of the vote—just above the 10 percent threshold needed to keep the GOP's status as a major party.
Maes said Tancredo "is a dangerous political figure who needs to be taken very seriously and not underestimated."
"Tom is free to join any party he wishes, but this is just a continuation of his hypocrisy," Maes said.
Tancredo said he never got the financial support he expected from the Constitution Party, but he has no other complaints about the party.
"They asked me if I would be a loyal American Constitution Party member and I said no," Tancredo said.
He said he feels the same way about going back to the GOP.
"I just think they're the only game in town. Political parties don't mean that much to me. I don't have any great allegiance, I have a philosophy. The party is just a mechanism. When I took the oath of office, I took it to the constitution, not to a party," he said.
Asked if he thought he would be welcomed back by the GOP, Tancredo said he wasn't sure.
"Some will, some won't. I never thought about it and I don't care," he said.


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d'Get what you want, or you will be forced to like what you get.' --BERNARD SHAW
OUR system of broadcasting is frequently described and justified. as being democratic. If this is the fact, the broadcaster is accountable to the public and the public should have the final voice in radio's operation. How far is this true in practice?
We have previously described the system as one of free, competitive enterprise within a framework of governmental regulation. But this is inadequate as a definition since it omits, except by implication, any reference to the public. We might better describe our system as involving a triangular relationship comprising the industry, the FCC, and the listening public.1 The public constitutes the base of the triangle.
That our system was intended by its authors to be democratic, in theory, at any rate, is borne out by some of the facts already reviewed. The air waves belong to the people. Broadcasters have only temporary and conditional access to them. The primary condition of such access has reference to public interest. Both the extent and the limitations of the FCC's powers like-____________________


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Ellie Ridinger
A memorial celebration of the life of Ellie Ridinger will be held in the dining room of Friends Care Center on Wednesday, April 28. Friends may gather any time after 2 p.m. to view slides and mementos of Ellie's life.
Charlotte A. Jordan
Charlotte A. (Adams) Jordan died Monday, March 23, after a lengthy illness. She was 86. Charlotte was born Feb. 22, 1924, in Yellow Springs to Della Baber and Lewis Adams. She professed her faith in Christ at a young age and was a member of Central Chapel A.M.E. Church.
Sarah Verdone
Sarah Verdone, cherished wife of Tucker Viemeister and mother of Josephine and Louisa, died on March 11 at the age of 45.
Kathie Jackson
Kathie (Trollinger, Duffey) Jackson died Thursday, March 4, at the Greene Oaks Nursing Home in Xenia. She was 58.
Marion S. "Marty" Meigs
Marion S. Meigs, former Yellow Springs resident and retired U.S. Army major, died on Feb. 3 in Chase City, Va. after a battle with cancer. He was 81. Local friends knew Major Meigs as "Marty."
Jaesun Q. Ingles
Jaesun Q. Ingles, originally from Wilberforce and lately of Riverside, Ill., died on Wednesday, March 10, in Midlothian, Ill. He was 31. Jaesun was born in Dayton on July 29, 1978 and attended Yellow Springs High School, where he played basketball. Jaesun is survived by his mother, Yolanda Little, by his father, Clifton Ingles, and […]
Rickey Dean Godwin Sr.
Rickey Dean Godwin Sr. of Yellow Springs, formerly of Troy, died at his home on Thursday, March 4, 2010, surrounded by his family and friends.
Don McAllister
Don Thomas McAllister of Yellow Springs died at Kettering Medical Center on Thursday, March 4, with his wife of 55 years, Patty, at his side. He was 78.
Jo Ann Molk
A memorial service will be held on March 13 for Jo Ann Molk, who died in February. The memorial service will begin at 2 p.m. in the Glen Helen Building.
David McLellan
David Stanley McLellan, a retired professor of political science at Miami University and the author of several books about international affairs, died Sunday, Feb. 21, at his home in Yellow Springs. He was 85.


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OpenStack Ready for Deployment
By David Dale, Director of Industry Standards at NetApp
OpenStack seems to have come a long way since the last OpenStack Summit last October – certainly the hype hasn't abated; almost all customer conversations about internal cloud infrastructure include the topic of OpenStack; and we are hearing more about production deployments. Consequently I've have been looking forward to this week's OpenStack Summit in Portland.
Beth Pariseau wrote a good pre-show piece in SearchCloudComputing focused mostly on the new features in the latest release of OpenStack (named Grizzly), but I wanted to assess the whole thing for myself. In particular I was looking for a sense of the commitment of the OpenStack Foundation member companies, the state and quality of the latest code release (Grizzly), customer engagement and the velocity of deployment growth, and NetApp's visibility in the initiative.
OpenStack Foundation Member Commitment
At the last Summit, the OpenStack Foundation has only just recently been launched, but much of the focus of the event was on the development community, as it had been for previous events. Apart from the fact that Platinum and Gold Members had shown their commitment to the Foundation by paying the hefty dues, it was tough to figure out what their adoption plans were.
This week's event was quite different. Most of the Platinum and several of the Gold member companies made extensive presentations about their commitment, productization and/or deployment plans for OpenStack. In addition a wide range of member companies talked about their contribution plans in the panel sessions.
With almost 4000 people in attendance, most of them developers, this commitment also made this the biggest OpenStack Summit yet. There's no question in my mind that a broad range of companies are committed to making OpenStack the most ubiquitous cloud platform in the industry. I didn't have that sense before.
The Grizzly Release
At the last Summit, much of the buzz was on the much-anticipated new features of the latest release (Folsom). Some of the reason was that previously there had been big gaps in functionality that were a barrier to deployment. For the latest release, there is interesting new functionality, but most of it is not filling critical gaps, but bolstering scalability and availability, and broadening the range of OpenStack-enabled products – features that may not matter so much in pilot deployments, but do matter for production deployment. Interestingly, though, there was an equal amount of buzz on code quality and resiliency. The OpenStack Foundation has dramatically increased the focus on QA in the development process, with numbers like a 600% increase in code test coverage being mentioned. The community is getting serious about releasing production-deployment quality code.
OpenStack Deployments
This is where this week's Summit was dramatically different from the previous one. At an analyst panel during the October event, a recurrent question was "where are the deployments". The same panel this year was saying "OK – we see the deployments, what workloads are missing".
The OpenStack overview said there are now 100 production deployments of OpenStack around the world. The conference agenda featured case studies from (in no particular order) HubSpot, Samsung, Best Buy, PayPal, RackSpace, MercardoLibre, NSA, CERN, Comcast, Enter.it, KIO Networks, IBS Datafort, NTT and EIG. Many of these are production deployments; some are on the cusp between pilot and production. I believe that this represents a critical mass that will accelerate customer interest in OpenStack.
However, deployment isn't for the faint of heart. It's complicated. You'd be advised to have an excellent team, good partners and a limited-deployment strategy. But I expect to see a dramatic increase in deployments in the coming 12 months.
NetApp Visibility at the OpenStack Summit
This was NetApp's 5th OpenStack Summit, and we are starting to be broadly recognized for our participation. The NetApp booth was constantly busy when the expo was open. Our customer briefing calendar was completely full. And we had excellent visibility in the sessions:
- Val Bercovici did a great presentation to a packed audience - Top 10 Things We've Learned About OpenStack. One of the goals was to provide a strong storage vendor perspective on OpenStack, while underscoring NetApp's heritage in open source and cloud standards, and encouraging the OpenStack developer community to support NetApp's latest proposal for a file-services contribution.
- Jeff O'Neal was interviewed by SiliconANGLE on NetApp's contributions to the community – check it out here. The story was subsequently picked up by InfoWorld and StorageReview.com
- Rob Esker participated in a panel discussion, Enterprise Vendors in the OpenStack Ecosystem, emphasizing NetApp's contributions to the community.
Altogether a great showing, underscoring our strengths, and creating visibility for our solutions.
For more information on NetApp and OpenStack check out the NetApp Communities OpenStack page. I have also written several Standards Watch blogs on the topic over the past year: A Big Year for OpenStack; NetApp and OpenStack; and OpenStack – Ready for Deployment?
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BJHS, Sparkman split boys', girls' gamesPublished 9:49pm Friday, January 7, 2011
Four Patriots scored in double digits Friday to lead the Bob Jones boys' basketball team to victory over the rival Sparkman Senators, 72-64.
The Patriots jumped out to a commanding lead early in the game, leading by as much as 10 in the opening quarter.
The Senators came storming back to cut the deficit to 27-24 at the half, before taking the lead in third quarter.
Sparkman took a one-point lead early in the second half, and the game was back-and-forth throughout the third quarter.
Following the Senators' go-ahead three, Kyle Dennis answered with a three to put the Patriots back on top.
Jamar Pope, however, answered the three to regain the Senators' lead.
The ensuing Patriot possession brought the crowd to its feet when Dennis hit Levi Randolph for an ally-oop dunk, but the Senators answered once again when Pope put down a thundering dunk on the next possession.
Cade Johnson tied the game for the Patriots on a pair of free throws to end the third, and then Bob Jones outscored the Senators 24-16 in the final quarter to take the win.
Jeffrey Moss led the Patriots with 18 points, followed by Randolph with 17 points, Reggie Ragland with 16 points and Dennis with 11.
For Sparkman, Pope had a team-high 17 points, followed by Andre Thurman with 14 points.
Dominique Henley scored a game-high 15 points Friday to lead the Sparkman Lady Senators to a 50-36 victory over the Bob Jones Patriots.
The Senators held a seven-point lead at the half, but the Patriots cut the lead to five in the third quarter before Sparkman pulled away in the final quarter.
Alexis Butler was next for the Senators with 13 points, followed by Sharin Rivers and Alexis Jennings with nine points apiece.
For Bob Jones, Rikeyah McKinnon, Jasmine Jones and Tierra Jones each had eight points.


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My 1998 Dean Castanza
Wow, that Dean Castanza is stunning.
After a short time cycling (18 months back) I bought a Trek 1.9 frameset in 60cm and built it with a DA7800 groupset. After I'd finished and had ridden it a bit, I realised it was a tad too big:-
Then I found and built-up a used 2009 Defy2 frameset:-
Currently sitting on my 2012 CAAD10 Team frameset - which is where it'll stay!
CAAD10 Berzerker Ultegra6800 - CAAD10 Team Ultegra6800 FOCUS Mares CX Ultegra6800 Jamis Xenith Elite DA9000
The Giant frame looks as big as the Trek frame!!
I do all my own work and only have a few bicycles that I received complete while the rest have been put together from the frame up and most have hand built wheels.
This also required the use of a torch... I still have a custom stem in the works and also hand built the wheels and built up the custom freewheel.
We did the custom powder in our shop as well.
I have taken it on moderately paced road rides in a more stripped down form with racing slicks and had no problem keeping up but really designed it for touring and travel as it will break down and fit in a suitcase.
It does not get much better than the Moulton either... few bikes combine ride quality and performance like these do and 20 inch wheels seem to be that point where any smaller requires some suspension / dampers.
The 20 is one of my most ridden bicycles and for a time it was seeing 500 + km a week... it is always fun to catch people on road bicycles and have them do a double take when they see these small wheels speeding along. The cartridge bearings hubs I used are also incredibly smooth and the bars can be dropped for a more aggressive riding position if desired.
Smaller wheeled bicycles have really come into their own and improvements in tyre technology have made the most difference... you can get the same racing tyres for a 20 inch wheel as you can a 700c and these are 40% lighter and have an aero profile that is only 60% of a full sized wheel.
I have a new wheelset in the works for my 20... will be going to a lighter 28 spoke rim (more than strong enough on a small wheel) and a 9 speed cassette which will allow for a slightly higher top gear, the current wheels will be going into another custom 20 build.
i'm so glad i dumped this p o s.
Two wheels good. Four wheels bad.
Just because.
Traded away the frame to a fellow in Montreal for some useful bike parts.
Rescued frame, fork and headset from the bike co-op.
Wanted a single speed winter ride.


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Kent man allegedly threatened with gun
Published 7:00 pm, Sunday, November 18, 2007
According to reports, Slater was found at the scene involved in the disturbance. Further investigation resulted in Slater being charged with carrying a pistol without a permit, criminal attempt to commit robbery in the first degree and criminal attempt to commit larceny in the sixth degree, according to police.
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Minooka Mud Run set for March 16By Emily Reed Published 11:54am Friday, January 18, 2013
"A lot of times with mud runs people will get a team of friends together and race and it is more about having fun with one another," Arrington said. "There are some hard core racers who focus on how much time it takes them to finish and being first ,but for the most part people who participate in this type of race are in it to have a good time."
Arrington said racers should wear clothing that can get wet and muddy including tennis shoes that are breathable for water.
"Everyone that is thinking about participating needs to know they will get muddy," Arrington said.
The race will start at 8 a.m. with racers being separated into "flights."
Arrington said the number of flights in the race will be dependent on how many show up but those in a team will not be separated and can participate in the same flight.
Those interested in racing are encouraged to register early and can pick up applications at both Cornerstone Fitness and Wellness in Clanton or at Minooka Park in Jemison.
Applications are also available online at www.minookapark.org, www.active.com, or www.cornerstonefitnesswellness.com.
Arrington said those that pre-register for the race are guaranteed a Minooka Mudder T-shirt and those that register the day of the race will more than likely receive a shirt but there are no guarantees.
"It would be best for everyone to pre-register because you will be guaranteed a T-shirt," Arrington said. "We will have T-shirts at the race but it will be hard to know how many we might have racing so it would be better to pre-register."
The course is 3.2 miles long and open to all ages that are interested in racing.
"We think this is going to be a great event with a lot of fun," Baker said. "I have already been talking to people who are trying to get some teams formed and they are really looking forward to it."
Arrington also added there will be an area for racers to wash the mud off after the race.
Arrington said the race will end in the RV campground so anyone participating or wanting a good view of the finish line should call for reservations in the campground at (205) 312-1376.


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Aratana Therapeutics Announces Additions To Board Of Directors
KANSAS CITY, Kan., Feb. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Aratana Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETX), a pet therapeutics company focused on the licensing or acquisition, development and commercialization of innovative biopharmaceutical products for cats, dogs and other companion animals, today announced additions to its Board of Directors. The Board has appointed two new members; Laura Brege, President and Chief Executive Officer of Nodality, Inc., a privately held life sciences company, and Merilee Raines, former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of companion animal health company IDEXX Laboratories. Mses. Brege and Raines will serve on the Audit Committee of the Board, with Ms. Brege as Chairperson. Aratana also announced the resignation of Board member Ronald Meeusen, Ph.D., Managing Partner of Cultivian Ventures, one of Aratana's early investors. Jay Lichter, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board of Aratana Therapeutics, stated, "We are pleased to welcome Ms. Brege and Ms. Raines to our Board and to our Audit Committee. We expect to benefit from Ms. Brege's strong background in finance and extensive executive leadership experience at life sciences and biotechnology companies. We also look forward to leveraging Ms. Raines' experience as Chief Financial Officer of a public animal health company. The Board also thanks Dr. Meeusen for his guidance and support for Aratana as an investor and Board member during our transition from private to public ownership."Steven St. Peter, M.D., President and Chief Executive Officer of Aratana Therapeutics, stated, "As Aratana continues to evolve, we are pleased to enhance and strengthen our Board with such talented individuals. We expect to benefit from their leadership and past board experience." Prior to joining Nodality, Ms. Brege was Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs of Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., serving previously as Onyx' Chief Operating Officer and Chief Business Officer. Prior to Onyx, Ms. Brege served as Chief Financial Officer at COR Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company, and Flextronics, Inc., a supply-chain solutions company. Ms. Brege currently serves on the board of directors of publicly-traded Acadia Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Delcath Systems, Inc. and Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and served previously on the board of Angiotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Baseball keeps expanding the All-Star Game rosters to avoid criminal omissions, yet Sunday's selections were among the worst in recent memory. It's certainly the case since the world transitioned from dial-up to DSL.
Those left out include the Reds' Joey Votto, who is making a case for MVP honors in the National League, and every pitcher on the Padres, despite the fact they lead baseball in ERA. But for the sake of space, let's keep this argument local.
How in the world can Rockies catcher Miguel Olivo not be on the National League all-star team?
He was a victim of a three-party system of sabotage. First, the fans voted in St. Louis' Yadier Molina. He's an outstanding catcher but hasn't hit a lick this season. His .229 batting average would be the lowest by an all-star starter since Cal Ripken Jr. in 1993, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. You can't hit .229 and be on the all-star team. You are lucky to be starting on your own team with that kind of number staring back at you on the Jumbo-Tron.
The second problem for Olivo? His peers overlooked him. In recent years, the player voting has been terrific in recognizing first-half achievement even if it was off the radar. But the players took the safe approach, voting on habit rather than merit. So Atlanta's Brian McCann is back in the All-Star Game.
NL manager Charlie Manuel of the Phillies could have corrected the omission by carrying three catchers. He decided not to. So Olivo stays home — even though he entered Sunday leading major-league catchers in slugging (.540), OPS (.905) and triples (five) and ranking second in home runs (11). And Braves utilityman Omar Infante goes because the NL team needs versatility. Ugh.
Manuel's preference to carry only two catchers doesn't irk me as much as the players' error. They know who's having a big season. They know when a guy influences a game well beyond the stats. Olivo has done just that. He has thrown out 20 baserunners in 39 attempts. That prevents anyone without real speed from even thinking about going. He's also caught nearly every outing by baseball's top two pitchers the last two seasons — Kansas City's Zack Greinke and Colorado's Ubaldo Jimenez.
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By Suzanne Struglinski - 02/18/11 12:11 AM EST
Finding a way to cross a go-to neighborhood restaurant with a fine dining destination is a hard goal to manage, but Ashok Bajaj has somehow figured out how to do just that at the newly updated Ardeo+Bardeo in Cleveland Park.
The restaurant was once two distinct but related establishments — Ardeo, a dining room, and Bardeo, a wine bar. The redesign puts a bar in the middle of the expanded space, with huge, throwback, black-and-white photographs of restaurant scenes plastered on the wall. The simple design and neutral palette lets diners know they are in an upscale place, but does not distract from the food. Wine flights are available, and cheese plates, "small bites" and charcuterie can create a lively evening for a group clustered around one of the pub tables. But the space also has intimate, quiet options in its booths and tables for two.
The new menu offers wide-ranging options. Diners can enjoy brunch or salads and pizzas for a quick bite, or linger over modern American dishes from steak to scallops to suckling pig for a drawn-out dinner.
Garyantes comes to the restaurant with plenty of experience. He was the chef and co-owner of the acclaimed Restaurant 821 in Wilmington, Del., and in Washington worked under celebrity chef José Andrés as the executive sous chef at Café Atlantico. In 2009 Garyantes created dishes for Andres's concept restaurant-within-a-restaurant, Minibar. He also made an appearance last September on Food Network's Iron Chef America, competing in Kitchen Stadium as a sous chef with Minibar's Ruben Garcia and Katsuya Fukushima during their victorious cook-off against Iron Chef Jose Garces in Battle Mahi Mahi.
At Ardeo+Bardeo, Garyantes takes simple and familiar flavors and turns them into fine dining dishes, but does not allow them to lose their classic tastes.
For brunch, the restaurant takes on a modern diner persona, with a more casual feel as servers continuously refill coffee cups and casually let patrons catch up over plates of eggs and other dishes. The one element that goes beyond the diner feel is the helping of chocolate chip biscuits and raisin bread that arrives quickly upon being seated. The bread basket is paired with a deliciously soft butter.
But Garyantes proves that even the tried-and-true brunch menu has room for creativity. Salmon rillettes come in a tiny pot accompanied by a matching pot full of cream cheese and chives with a mini-everything bagel.
The rillettes — similar to paté — is salty, as it should be, and has a good smoked flavor, which nicely cuts the oniony cream cheese that comes with it. The "everything" bagel, however, runs out before the spreads do. Meanwhile, the beef carpaccio, also available at dinner, delicately balances thinly sliced beef with a sweet slaw mixture and crispy cheese crisps, making it a must-order-again appetizer.
Brunchers can have oatmeal or yogurt with fresh fruit, but those seeking more heft in their meal can feast on the crab omelet breakfast pizza.
The omelet comes stocked with lump crab meat, topped with chunks of avocado and bathed in hollandaise sauce. It is a rich breakfast, and surprisingly lacked Old Bay or any other salt-based seasoning, but is satisfying as is.
The breakfast pizza is big enough to share, and comes as a brick-oven crust topped with a spicy sausage, bacon, roasted garlic and eggs. At first it appears awkward to eat, with an over-easy egg sitting tenuously atop the pie. But the ensuing yolk river can easily be sopped up with the pizza crust.
For dinner, the rock shrimp risotto has a slightly soupy consistency, but the garlic-based sauce meets its perfect sponge in the accompanying bread. Fat pieces of shrimp and rice struggle to swim in the sauce; a good dose of lemon helps balance what could otherwise be a heavy dish.
A Pork Milanaise appetizer takes a tenderized, pan-fried chop and tops it with a dollop of goat cheese. The crispy but not-overly-fried breading pairs well with the rich cheese, and another dose of lemon from the kitchen helps balances the dish.
For entrees, the slow-roasted suckling pig benefits from care. It's incredibly tender, and comes on top of a mound of black-eyed peas and roasted peanuts, garnished with a pork rind. The nuts add a welcome crunchy texture to the otherwise mushy peas. The meat, though, is the star here. It falls apart with just the touch of the fork — no knife needed.
In the seafood department, the silver-dollar-sized Day Boat Scallops arrive with lemon-braised artichokes and an artichoke puree with pumpkin seeds, which enhances the texture. This dish is the favorite at the table, primarily because it's not every day you get scallops so large that they yield four or five bites each.
Dessert shouldn't be ignored. The lemon meringue pie surprises diners with its square shape. Creamy lemon filling strikes a nice note (if not an unfamiliar one, considering the presence of lemon elsewhere on the menu), and the portion is mercifully moderate. The pecan pie arrives as a round tart and has a bourbon caramel ice cream on the side. Not too sticky, the dessert stays true to tradition with a gooey middle and a generous helping of pecans.
Ardeo+Bardeo's transformation isn't just superficial. The dining room's new sophistication matches the food the kitchen produces, but the Cleveland Park establishment also knows well enough to make itself approachable to the neighborhood walk-ins.


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If 30 years in show business has taught Bob Zany anything, it's you have to be tenacious, witty and determined to reach your dreams.
Columbus residents will have the opportunity to see why when he returns to the YES Cinema stage Saturday. Presented as part of the cinema's comedy showcase series, Zany will perform shows at 7 and 9:30 p.m.
All proceeds from the show benefit programs provided through the Lincoln-Central Neighborhood Family Center.
Since he made his comedic debut at age 15 on the amateur talent contest "The Gong Show" in 1976 (yes, he was gonged), Zany was determined to be a successful comedian.
The southern California native spent a decade honing his craft while working for KLOS Radio in Los Angeles before returning to "The Gong Show" as a guest judge in the mid-1980s. From that point forward, everything fell into place.
Zany, whose real name is Robert Tetreault, credits his family, including a witty mother and tenacious father, with fostering his interest in comedy. His ability to give everyday life's absurd moments a dry, comedic slant is firmly rooted in his experiences growing up in a dysfunctional family with a sister and two brothers.
The trademark cigar that's always in his hand is a nod to the old-time comics, Zany said. But you won't see him light up.
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"I took it onstage one evening, and it stuck," Zany said. "I haven't smoked it in 17 years."
If you've never heard Zany's material or seen him live, he considers himself to be a PG to PG-13 act with an R-rated chaser.
Unlike comedians who often resort to the profane to get a laugh, Zany said years of working in radio conditioned him to be more restrained.
"I'm as good as my audience," Zany said. "If my audience is getting the jokes, I can play. If not, I'm a bit more confined."
Zany says things that a lot of people wish they had the courage to say themselves, said Diane Doup, outreach coordinator of the Lincoln-Central Neighborhood Family Center.
If you're looking for a comparable comic, think Drew Hastings, Doup said.
"Zany looks at things from such a dry perspective; it is one of the things that makes his comedy so unique," Doup said. "He doesn't make a lot of appearances here in the Midwest, so this is a great opportunity to see him."
A veteran of the syndicated "Bob & Tom Show," Zany has hosted "The Zany Report" for more than a decade, and regularly tours domestically and internationally. His résumé includes work in the television and film industries, with recent appearances in "23 Minutes to Sunrise" with Eric Roberts and "The Informant" with Matt Damon. But Zany said his heart is still behind the mic onstage.
"Stand-up is who I am," Zany said. "And who I always will be."


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Animation pioneer Jules Engel, who passed away Sept. 6, 2003 at the age of 94, was loved by many and inspired many generations of animators by way of his teaching, art and animation career. ANIMATION WORLD MAGAZINE will pay tribute to this inspirational man in a collection of thoughts and pictures from those who knew and admired him. We have been receiving many e-mails already from people who were touched by him. Please add your remembrances, anecdotes, express your feelings about him as well as any photos or drawings you would like to share in this online memorial to Jules Engel. Just e-mail us at firstname.lastname@example.com by Sept. 23 to be part of this tribute article to be published Sept. 25. Contributions may be edited for space, but we will include something from every one. Please include your title and where you are from.
Following is the official obit issued by CalArts, regarding his death and funeral services on Sept. 13, 2003:
Jules Engel, a true pioneer in the art of animation and one of the most beloved educators in the history of CalArts, died on September 6 in Simi Valley, CA, following a short illness. He was 94.
Engel's illustrious career as an animator, producer, film director and fine artist ranged from working on the Walt Disney classics FANTASIA and BAMBI to creating groundbreaking cartoons for the United Productions of America (UPA) and Format Films, and, later, to his own internationally celebrated abstract animations and live-action films.
In 1970, Engel founded CalArts' Program in Experimental Animation, widely recognized as one of the world's foremost centers for animation arts. In 2001, CalArts hailed his indelible contribution to the arts by conferring on him the title of Institute Fellow, the highest honor it awards to faculty.
"Jules' death is an enormous loss for us at CalArts," said Steven D. Lavine, president of CalArts. "Jules was the spiritual center of our School of Film/Video in that he always championed the personal vision of the individual artist.
"Over the years, CalArts students have always appreciated his keen advice, generosity and personal graciousness. Jules summed up his teaching philosophy perfectly when he said, 'It's not what I give to my students that's so important; it's what I don't take away.' He will be greatly missed by the entire CalArts community."
Engel was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1909 and moved to Oak Park, Illinois, when he was a boy. Inspired by the work of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo while in high school, he came to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the arts. Once in Los Angeles, he was first hired by a local artist to sketch landscapes.
Engel began his career in animation at the studios of Charles Mintz, where he was first employed as an inbetweener. In the late 1930s, he moved to the Walt Disney Studios and used his expertise in capturing movement to design the choreography for several key sequences in the landmark animated feature FANTASIA, including "The Chinese Dance," "The Russian Dance" and "The Dance of the Hours." While at Disney, he also worked as a key colorist on BAMBI, one of the studio's all-time masterpieces.
During World War II, he served in the Hal Roach Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Corps.
Engel was one of the founders of the innovative animation studio UPA, where he, along with Robert Cannon and others, developed theatrical cartoons such as GERALD MCBOING-BOING, MADELINE and MR. MAGOO, from 1944 to 1959. Engel, who had been a fine artist since the 1930s, drew on contemporary art to design sophisticated color palettes that gave UPA animations their distinctively modern look and sensibility.
In 1959, Engel joined forces with friends and UPA colleagues Herb Klynn and Buddy Getzler to launch Format Films. There, he worked on several popular cartoon shows including THE ALVIN SHOW and THE LONE RANGER. Engel also collaborated with Dr. Seuss author Theodore Geisel and Oscar-winning filmmaker and designer Saul Bass. In 1962, he directed and produced the Oscar-nominated animated short, ICARUS MONTGOLFIER WRIGHT, based on a script by science fiction writer Ray Bradbury.
Other important Engel works include the experimental film COARAZE (1965) and the animations ACCIDENT (1973), TRAIN LANDSCAPE (1974), RUMBLE (1975), SHAPES AND GESTURES (1976), VILLA ROSPIGLIOSI (1988) and AVIARY (1997).
In 1968, his friend Anaïs Nin introduced him to Herb Blum, the first dean of CalArts' film school, who then hired Engel to start an animation program at the new CalArts campus in Valencia. Engel launched the Program in Experimental Animation in 1970 and continued to direct it until 2001. Later that year, he was named Institute Fellow. He was the third recipient, following filmmaker Alexander MacKendrick and composer Mel Powell, of CalArts' highest honor.
In more than 30 years at CalArts, Engel was an influential educator and a cherished mentor to generations of animators, filmmakers and artists. Many of his former students are leading figures in the world of film and animation today. They include John Lasseter (director of TOY STORY and A BUG'S LIFE, exec producer of FINDING NEMO and SPIRITED AWAY), Henry Selick (director of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS and JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH), Tim Burton (director of BATMAN, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS and ED WOOD), Stephen Hillenburg (creator of SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS), Joanna Priestley (director of UTOPIA PARKWAY and SURFACE DIVE), Christine Panushka (creator of the award-winning Website ABSOLUTE PANUSHKA), Ellen Woodbury (supervising animator on THE LION KING and HERCULES), Paul Demeyer (director of RUGRATS IN PARIS: THE MOVIE), Eric Darnell (co-director of ANTZ), Kathy Rose (Guggenheim Fellowship-winning filmmaker and performance artist), Joyce Borenstein (director of ONE DIVIDED BY TWO and THE MAN WHO STOLE DREAMS) and Mark Kirkland (director on THE SIMPSONS), among numerous others.
Engel's films were screened around the world and honored at film festivals in Venice, Edinburgh and Oberhausen. Throughout his career, he won five Golden Eagle Awards, an Annie Award and a Jean Vigo Award. He received the Winsor McCay Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Animated Film Society (ASIFA-Hollywood). Engel also won the Norman McLaren Heritage Award from the Association Internationale du Film d'Animation (ASIFA-Canada) for his "inspiring achievements as a mentor at CalArts."
In addition, he collected the "Friz" Lifetime Achievement Award from the Santa Clarita International Film Festival and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Black Maria Film and Video Festival. Earlier this year, Engel was the subject of a retrospective at the ANIMAC International Animated Film Festival in Lleida, Spain, and was also honored with the Pulcinella Award for Career Achievement at the Cartoons on the Bay Festival of International Animation in Positano, Italy.
Engel also served on the executive committee of the Shorts Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for 35 years.
Engel's paintings, drawings and prints have been shown at museums and galleries since 1945, including exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. He is represented by Tobey C. Moss Gallery in Los Angeles.
A retrospective of Engel's films will be held on November 23 at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT), the new arts venue housed in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles. The one-night tribute to Engel will feature prints restored by the iotaCenter, a Los Angeles organization dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the art of light and movement. In addition, a biography of Engel written by film scholar and CalArts alumna Janeann Dill is forthcoming from London-based publishers John Libbey & Co.
Engel survived two wives, Irene and Elaine. He was still creating animation and fine art when he was hospitalized three weeks ago.
Services will be held at Forest Lawn Memorial Park-Hollywood Hills in Burbank on Saturday, September 13, beginning at 2:30 pm.
In lieu of flowers, friends suggest donations to the Jules Engel Scholarship Fund at CalArts (661) 253-7814) or the Jules Engel Preservation Project (310) 433-4655 or email@example.com.
Further information, call Forest Lawn at 800.204.3131 or Tobey C. Moss Gallery at (323) 933-5523.