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Best New Restaurant: Our ten winners over the past decade
Twenty-four hours from now, the Best of Denver 2013 will start hitting the street -- and the web. This year's edition is packed with more than 400 winners (we're still counting). The the very last category in our Food & Drink section was one of the toughest picks this year: Best New Restaurant. In advance of this year's unveiling, here's a look back at our last ten winners (eight still open) in the Best New Restaurant category.
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- Denver's ten best new restaurants of 2012
- Denver's ten best new bars of 2012
- Best of Denver 2012
Pinche Taqueria, 1514 York Street
Pinche Taqueria, our Best New Restaurant in 2012, is going so strong that it opened a second Pinche Taqueria this year, in Highland.
Best of Denver 2012 award description: More than 300 restaurants opened in metro Denver in 2011, and many of them added something new and special to an already vibrant dining scene. But none did it with the aplomb of Pinche Taqueria, a raucous, irreverent spot that grew out of Kevin Morrison's highly successful food truck. The menu here is focused and simple, featuring an array of gringified tacos packed with succulent meats and punchy flavors, as well as a handful of appetizers and the best churros we've ever tasted; the bar program is a frequently evolving homage to tequila, whiskey and debauchery. But this restaurant is so much more than a sum of its parts: Every time we stop by, we love it a little bit more. Pinche Taqueria feeds more than our bellies: It feeds our imagination, letting us enter someone else's magical world for a while so that we remember, again, what dining out is all about.
Euclid Hall, 1317 14th Street
Since Euclid Hall opened in August 2010, the restaurant has been a favorite with industry insiders, food fans and tourists alike; its chef, Jorel Pierce, was named a Rising Star semifinalist in this year's James Beard Awards.
Best of Denver 2011 award: Veteran Denver restaurateurs Beth Gruitch and Jennifer Jasiniski started with a clear vision for Euclid Hall: an American tavern, an unassuming place where diners could gather for beers and bar food, elevated well above bar level by making everything possible -- sausages, mustards, pickles -- in-house. With that articulate frame, they outdid themselves in every way imaginable. The space itself is beautiful, with history preserved in the brick walls and shiny wood floors, but washed clean of any memories of the grimy spots that inhabited the address before. The beer list is full of rare and stellar selections, and the contemporary cocktails are clever. But what makes Euclid Hall such an outstanding addition to the Denver dining scene is the menu: plump sausages in taut casings; a teetering stack of fried chicken and griddled sourdough waffles; a variety of poutines, hand-cut fries laden with gravy; cheese curds; and accoutrements ranging from mushrooms to foie gras.
Argyll, 2700 East 3rd Avenue - RIP
Argyll, which closed the year after it won this award, is gone but not forgotten -- in fact, Robert Thompson still has plans to open a new Argyll one day, perhaps in the Baker neighborhood.
Best of Denver 2010 award description: In the great gastropub movement that's marching through Denver, Argyll is doing its part to ensure that its contributions to the crusade don't go unnoticed. There's an awful lot to appreciate about this joint: the cask-conditioned ales, wickedly strong and poured only on the weekends; the bartenders and servers, who are quick with a smile and a good story; and the music, which always seems to pulsate with danceable one-hit wonders from the '80s. The wine list has come full circle, too, since owner Robert Thompson unlocked the doors last spring, and the patio? It's killer. But the real reason to grab a stool at Argyle's tartan-topped bar has everything to do with chef Sergio Romero's menu, which trumpets all sorts of triumphs, including the best corned beef hash in the galaxy; plump mussels steamed in an Indian-laced curry fragrant with lemongrass and cilantro; creamy, dreamy macaroni and cheese; well-crafted charcuterie plates; house-cured pork belly; house-brined pickles and the most amazing potato chips in the free world.
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Dawson County Arts Council and the Bowen Center for the Arts recently announced that it is membership 2009 kick off time.
The Dawson County Humane Society is set to host its annual Furball fundraiser from 6 - 11 p.m. on Oct. 11 at the Lakeview Center.
Family and friends of Sandy Olson, a local single-mother of four in desperate need of a heart transplant, hosted a walk Oct. 4 at War Hill Park to raise funds for Olson's medical expenses.
Editor's Note: United Way for Dawson County kicked off its annual fundraising campaign in September with plans to collect more than $100,000 for area social service organization partners. This is the first in a series of articles highlighting success stories from local agencies that receive assistance from United Way for Dawson County.
Young Life, a Christian youth ministry, hosted the third annual Dawson Dash, a 5K race, at Rock Creek Park Sept. 20, with 108 runners participating.
Etowah Water and Sewer Authority, one of several local businesses whose employees contribute to United Way for Dawson County, collected more than $600 last Thursday with a community hot dog lunch fundraiser.
Members of the Dawson County Woman's Club collapsed in exhaustion and civic pride Saturday evening after raising more than $8,000 for several local organizations with the club's annual Garage Sale-Abration at Rock Creek Sports Complex.
One of the largest crowds in the last eight years was in attendance last Tuesday for the county's annual community picnic at Amicalola Falls State Park.
The Ninth District of School Social Workers Association of Georgia announced this year's community awareness initiative will be to collect unused cell phones, as well as financial donations, on behalf of a Massachusetts-based non-profit organization, Cell Phones for Soldiers.
This Friday will be casual day for several local businessmen and women as they dress down and get their hands dirty for a Day of Caring.
The Etowah Masonic Lodge No. 222 will be celebrating its 150th birthday Oct. 28.
KARE for Kids, the organization that provides for Dawson County's children in need, is now gearing up for the upcoming holiday season.
The time has come for the Dawson County annual community picnic, one of the largest community events for the last 12 years.
The Bowen Center for the Arts is hosting a Southern Comforts Quilt reception on Sept. 5, from 5 - 7:30 p.m. The opening night will feature local artists from the Heart In Hand Quilt Guild and Big Canoe, who will debut their works of art.
It's a bizarre fundraising effort, but a lucrative one for two prize winners and a group of local women hoping to aid the fight against breast cancer.
The 2015 Relay for Life campaign is getting back to Dawson County roots, according to a local organizer.
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Woodrow Wilson Center Reports on the Americas, in "El Salvador's Democratic Transition Ten Years After the Peace Accord", Vol. 6, page(s): 39-46
The central question I want to address is: What is being constructed in El Salvador? Is it what I have elsewhere labeled a "hybrid regime?" Is it a democradura, that is, a "hard" democracy, or a dictablanda, a form of "soft" authoritarian rule? Is it, perhaps, a full-blown, consolidated democracy?
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If galaxies and stars will be moving away from each other then at one point in time would they be moving away from each other faster than the speed of light?
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Good question. No they would not. Even if both are moving at the speed of light somehow, their combined velocity could not be greater than the speed of light.
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First, let us look at what is meant by "stars moving away from each other". The expansion of the universe (as a result of the Big Bang) is not so much from galaxies physically moving away from each other, but rather that the intervening space in between galaxies are expanding - resulting in more space between galaxies. New theories suggest that it is a fundamental nature of space (or vacuum) to expand. Can this expansion go at such a rate as to be faster than the speed of light? We do not yet have enough data to make any kind of statement on that since we are barely beginning to understand this nature of vacuum. Observations suggest that the intervening space is expanding at an increasing rate, however, that expansion speed is very far from being at the speed of light. The rate of expansion might change, might have an upper limit, might reverse, we do not know yet.
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A good example of this is; if you shine a torch towards a point up in the sky, then sweep around fast, say 160 degrees, then there is a very distant point along that light beam (millions of light-years away) that actually travels faster than light.
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Superconductor model fits with extreme correlation
Physicists at the University of California have developed a technique that helps to explain the behaviour of electrons in a high-temperature superconductor.Superconductors are materials with zero electrical resistance when cooled below a critical temperature. While their unusual properties have been employed in MRI and particle accelerators, they have also posed a challenge to theoretical physicists.
Interactions between electrons are a key component of superconductors, and can be measured by photoemission spectroscopy: as light is directed onto the surface of the material, electrons are emitted and can be recorded in a spectrum. At high temperatures, superconducting materials give unusually broad spectra, indicating extremely strong interactions, or correlations, between electrons.
While Landau's Fermi liquid theory successfully models weakly-interacting electrons, it is less successfully applied to systems with extreme correlations. Professor Sriram Shastry has developed new calculations that accurately correspond with experimental data1. He has applied his model to data from high-temperature superconductors exposed to both low-energy lasers and synchrotron radiation.
Although the same material gives significantly different photoemission spectra when exposed to these sources, the model fits with absolute precision, suggesting that the two techniques are consistent with each other and that Shastry's calculations are on the right track2.
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- Extremely correlated Fermi liquids. B.S. Shastry. Phys Rev Letters 107 (5): 056403 [↩]
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As storytellers are wont to do, he launched into a soliloquy about the troubles and travels he had endured trying to find an Armani tuxedo for his daughters wedding. If I dont find one while Im here, Im never going to have enough time to get it altered before the wedding, he said.
He went to a couple of places looking for the tux, but a town the size of Portland is not exactly a hotbed of Armani activity. If he had been looking for a flannel tuxedo, he might have had more luck.
Finally, almost as a last-ditch effort, he wandered into the local Nordstrom. His personal shopper asked him to give her a little time to work on it. While he was there, she said, she wanted to get his measurements just in case they could match him with another tux. Dejected and nearly out of options, he left the store not really expecting too much.
The next day, he received a phone call from Nordstrom asking him if he was still looking for an Armani tuxedo. He leaped out of his seat. Absolutely! he shouted into the phone. They had found him a tux and it would be ready for him to pick up the following day.
Elated, he hung up the phone and, by his account, had one of the best speaking engagements of his career. The next day, when he walked into Nordstrom to pick up his tux, he decided he would try it on to see how much alteration would be required. To his utter amazement, the tux fit perfectly. Nordstrom had altered the tux for him. Almost as an afterthought, he asked how they had managed to find an Armani tuxedo when he had searched most of North America trying to find one, to no avail.
His personal shopper just smiled and coyly mentioned something about magic. He pressed a little further; he really wanted to know where they had gotten the tux. The personal shopper said she immediately began working on his request after he left and, through her connections, she found an Armani tux in New York. After calling New York to inquire about the tux, the distributor informed the personal shopper that they had put it on a truck bound for Chicago that very day. The personal shopper worked another web of contacts and, coordinating with the distributor, located the truck. The personal shopper then called the Nordstrom in that area and dispatched someone to meet the truck at a rest stop and retrieve the tux from the container.
Keep in mind that my friend had to press her for this information. She would have never told him the story unless my friend had asked.
Not only did Nordstrom go to those heroics to find the tux, the personal shopper was aware of my friends time constraints and instructed the local Nordstrom to quickly alter the tux according to his measurements. It arrived in Portland, via overnight carrier, the next day, ready to wear.
The kicker? Nordstrom doesnt even sell Armani tuxedos.
Brand Stories
Do you have a similar story to tell about your brand? Do you have stories that are as impressive as the one above? Would your employees even go to such lengths to serve your customers?
Nordstrom has never told this story publicly and they do not encourage their employees to do so. They figure if the stories are good enough, word-of-mouth will take them to the marketplace and the stories will carry even more credibility than if Nordstrom is caught tooting their own horn.
Such is the case with the famous Nordstrom tire chains story. A man walked into the main Nordstrom store with a set of used tire chains and insisted that he had purchased them there. Nordstrom sells clothing and the like. Without hesitation, the clerk refunded his money, even though the receipt clearly indicated another store. She paid him out of her own pocket. Then, on her lunch hour, she went to the store where the chains had been purchased and got her money back. Brilliant.
If you dont have stories like this to tell, your brand may be in trouble. If your customers arent telling positive stories about you, they may be telling negative stories about you. In short, if theres no word-of-mouth buzz about your brand, your customer service probably stinks. Adequate aint good enough anymore. A brand isnt something thats nice to have if you can afford it as some people have said. Its an essential ingredient to your business plan.
If you dont think storytelling is an important part of branding, count how many times you tell (or are tempted to tell) the Nordstrom story to co-workers, friends, peers, business acquaintances or people at conferences.
Three ways to start generating buzz:
Heroics As the Nordstrom story indicates, people love to hear stories about companies going the extra mile. Employers dont like to encourage their employees to take matters into their own hands because it can be expensive and their business format may not facilitate it. Heroics may well be expensive, but retaining customers especially loyal ones is far cheaper than getting new ones.
Foster an Internal Entrepreneurial Spirit This topic is a book in itself. Tell your employees you want them to go the extra mile and then give them the authority to do it. Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson gives his Virgin record store employees the authority to make decisions up to $500 in value if its the right thing to do for the customer. They dont even have to check with a manager. Tell your employees to treat your customers as if the business was their own. And then reward them handsomely for doing so. If someone makes an expensive mistake trying to help a customer, reward the employee for taking a chance, dont punish him or her for the mistake.
Get Involved in the Community Get involved with making your community a better place to live. Buy the local school some new playground equipment or computers. Sponsor a Special Olympics event in your area. Have a Lunch on Me day at the local park and give away hot dogs and hamburgers to everyone who shows up. Not only will your employees jump on this bandwagon, the community will see that youre serious about becoming a responsible corporate citizen.
What kind stories are being told about your company? If you dont know, why dont you know? If you do know and its not commensurate with the image youre trying to portray, you have some work to do. Many companies start by asking their customers if theyre doing a good job and they usually find out more information than they expected. But theres almost always an epiphany or two in the feedback.
The topic of my speakers tradeshow speech? Customer service quality in your business. The Armani tux seeker used the Nordstrom story as an example and created 250 new evangelists for Nordstrom.
Money cant buy that kind of publicity.
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GAHANNA, OHIO ... G. Scott McComb, President & CEO of Heartland Bank, is proud to announce the 14th Annual Charity Golf Classic is officially sold out and slated for a full field. Heartland Bank will host its 14th Annual Charity Golf Classic on Monday, September 12, 2011, benefiting America's Promise -- The Alliance For Youth. This year's beneficiaries are: Licking County Foundations for YES Clubhouse, Xempt Player Series for Youth Golf Professionals, Victory Ministries for Children's Outreach Programs, Special Olympics Ohio, and Masonic Learning Centers for Children with Dyslexia and Ohio 4-H Celebration of Youth. The Golf Classic has contributed over $249,000 to improving the lives of our local youth. The Heartland Charity Golf Classic is an 18-hole event played at the New Albany Country Club.
"One of Heartland Bank's deeply rooted shared values is its commitment to the enrichment of local communities through our involvement," McComb stated. "We pride ourselves on being a true community bank – service to the local community is a Heartland tradition."
Licking County Foundations for YES Club (Youth Engaged in Service)
The YES program is a service-learning project funded by a grant from the Ohio Department of Education. Due to the overwhelming number of participants and need for a safe haven for after school hours, YES moved to downtown Newark. The clubhouse currently serves 35-40 youth, ages 11-18 years of age, on a daily basis. Staff and adult volunteers provide mentoring, tutoring, life-skills and anger management classes, along with a daily meal.
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The Xempt Player Series is open to men, women and seniors who have the passion and talent to play professional golf, but never had the opportunity to prove it. If you don't have the financial ability to play and stay on a professional tour, Xempt Player series could be the answer to your dreams.
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Their Mission is to break poverty's cycle by addressing the physical, educational, emotional and spiritual needs of "economically disadvantaged" families in Central Ohio.
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The Center offers free one-on-one tutoring to children with Dyslexia as well as free training for individuals who are interested in becoming a tutor for these children. The positive impact of early intervention on the lives of these children and their families is enormous.
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Courtesy Sobeys Inc.This fall Sobeys Inc. is initiating programs to encourage Canadians to adopt healthier eating habits. Among the programs are changes in produce departments such as displaying potatoes based on uses and a guaranteed-ripe avocado program.Sobeys Inc. is on a mission to inspire and empower Canadians to eat healthier, with fresh produce at the heart of programs including revamped product assortments and a partnership with a celebrity chef.
Doug Brummer, senior vice president of marketing for Sobeys, said the chain, which has more than 1,500 stores across 10 provinces, is just beginning its efforts to develop a variety of "signature fresh product programs."
Results of market research conducted by the Stellarton, Nova Scotia-based chain spurred the action. Almost three out of four respondents — 73% — told the researchers they want to begin eating better than they have been.
"We recognize the needs of our customers are changing and so we're embarking on a journey to better meet those needs at Sobeys stores," president and chief executive officer Marc Poulin said in a news release.
Some changes are already in place in produce departments at the chain's retail banners, which include Sobeys, IGA, Thrifty Foods, Foodland, FreshCo and Price Chopper.
"In the produce department, we've started with a few programs," Brummer said.
"Tomatoes grouped by sweetness, potatoes displayed by usage and a guaranteed-ripe avocado program. But that's just the beginning. As we continue on our journey to bring better food to Canadians, additional programs and promotions will be revealed."
Chef Jamie Oliver is partnering with Sobeys Inc. beginning this fall to encourage healthier eating habits among Canadians.Another key element in the retailer's work to inspire and educate consumers about healthy eating habits is a partnership with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.
Oliver is known as an advocate for healthy food and will work with Sobeys to raise awareness about balanced nutrition, quality ingredients and fresh foods.
Oliver has been encouraging people to eat healthier for 15 years via books, an Emmy-winning television series and his global charity, the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation.
The foundation created Food Revolution Day two years ago as a catalyst for global action for what the chef calls "real food."


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Twice a year the Township shares exciting news about the latest in the Township through its newsletter. For your convenience, the current as well as past issues of the Township's newsletter are available here for you to either view on-line in text-only format or a PDF of the printed version.
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[b]Madness[/b] are to release their first new studio album since 1999 next year.
'[b]Lucky 7[/b]' the follow-up to 'Wonderful' is due for release in 2008, with a new single '[b]NW5 (I Would Give You Everything)[/b]' named after the London postcode for Camden set for release on January 14.
The track, the first taster of the new material, has just been added to the player on Madness' MySpace page.
The track has already been released alongside a new version of 'It Must Be Love' in Germany where both appear in the new film '[b]Neues Vom Vixxer[/b]'.
The band are touring the UK this December, hopefully previewing some of their new tracks, playing the following venues:
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Belfast Odyssey (7)
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In Alexis and Trevor Traina's living room, decorated by Thomas Britt, the walls, curtains, and sofa are upholstered in a velvet by Sabina Fay Braxton, and the vintage resin table is French; Britt designed the bone-inlaid tables and adjacent armchairs, the sofa is a Michael Taylor reproduction, the candelabras are from Jansen, and the artworks are by, from left, Hiroshi Sugimoto, John Baldessari, and Jackie Nickerson.
The card room at the Sag Harbor, New York, house of Chris Connor and decorator Steven Gambrel was painted shell-pink with a mix of casein and natural pigments; a framed collection of birds' eggs is displayed over the settee, and the floorboards are reclaimed 19th-century pine from Maine.
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This is a great article by Money Sense. I find the figures comparing income and debt load over the decades interesting — and alarming. Can you believe Canadians owe $1.27 for every $1 they bring in? That aside, I found the couple profiled in the article a bit of surprise.
At first glance, they seem to be doing everything right: no consumer debt, paying off their mortgage early, keeping their grocery expenses down, and sharing a vehicle. They even have two incomes. So why can't they find money in their budget to put away for retirement or build an emergency fund? They say they don't know, and the writer of the article doesn't know either.
Well, I do.
First of all, they're paying themselves last. Never ever do this. Savings isn't an extra to your budget. You don't save whatever is left over at the end of the month. Instead, make your savings goal first — it can be small like $100 or $200 each month — then adjust the rest of your budget to fit it. NEVER the other way around. Ever. Every financial book I've ever read was adamant you pay yourself first, and the reason for this is simple: it works. Steve and Krista need to commit to their emergency fund and RRSPs before anything else comes out of their accounts. It doesn't matter if they only put $50 towards each of these, as long as it's something.
Secondly, they made accelerated payments on their mortgage. Now, this is generally a good thing… if you can afford it. But they're all like, "We took six years off our mortgage. Omg where is all our monies?!?!!".
I mean, really?
Imagine they had just slowed down that accelerated payment plan and built up an emergency fund first. I'm not saying don't pay off your mortgage as fast as you can, I'm just saying cover the essential foundations of financial health first. I get that they were trying to save on the long term cost, but the overstretch forced them to put a $1000 truck repair on credit, and using credit for emergencies like that essentially cancels out much of the gain of paying of a mortgage quickly because the interest rates can be triple or quadruple on credit cards than what they are on a mortgage.
Furthermore, paying off that mortgage quickly by forgoing retirement savings is almost equally as bad. By failing to contribute now, they're missing out on a number of years of compounding that could really grow their retirement nest egg. I pointed out when I started my RRSP that waiting just five more years to start saving would have cost me nearly $100K by 65! When it comes to building wealth, your biggest asset is not necessarily the amount of money you have, but the amount of time. Start early, stay committed, and get rich. Period.
I'm not sure if Money Sense is profiling these people with overly-generous outpourings of sympathy because they genuinely believe these fools are getting screwed, or if they think these guys are as dumb with money as I do, but are writing them up this way so the equally dumb masses can relate. I just can't believe a financial writer can say he doesn't know where Steve & Krista's money is going. Maybe they just need to try keeping track of it for a month or two and finding out.


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CHANGES ARE IN the works at Marin French Cheese in Petaluma.
Out is Rouge et Noir, a name used since 1906, in favor of Marin French Cheese.
There also have been a number of upgrades facilitated by the 2011 purchase by Rians, a family-owned company that also owns Laura Chenel's Chèvre in Sonoma County. Among the changes — high-tech upgrades to its ripening rooms, packaging changes, a label redesign featuring scenes from its 700-acre Hicks Valley Ranch location and a plan to expand to the Midwest and East Coast next year.
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Marin French Cheese at Hicks Valley Ranch is at 7500 Red Hill Road in Petaluma. Call 707-762-6001, or go to www.marinfrenchcheese.com.
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Going strong at 32 years, the Mill Valley Wine and Gourmet Food Tasting will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. June 23. The afternoon tasting event features award-winning wines, handcrafted specialty beers and gourmet foods, with many local businesses participating, including Mill Valley's Balboa Café, Bungalow 44, El Paseo House of Chops, Mill Valley Beerworks, La Ginestra, Piazza D'Angelo, Shoreline Coffee Shop, Small Shed Flatbreads, Prabh Indian Kitchen and Tony Tutto Pizza.
Treats also will be provided by many local producers, including first-timers Belvedere Bake Shop's biscotti, CC Made caramels, Cobee Pesto premium pesto sauce, Genuto Gelato nondairy gelato, Mamies Pies take 'n bake apple pies and Weavers coffee, as well as returning Marin food producers, including the One Bar and McEvoy Ranch.
Mill Valley Beerworks and Moylans Brewing Co. will feature Marin-made beers, and Mill Valley resident Courtney Benham's Martin Ray Winery also will be pouring some of its award-winning wine.
Proceeds benefit the Mill Valley Chamber of Commerce's local economic development programs. Ticket prices are $40 and $50 at the door; discounts for groups of six or more. Participants must be 21, and no bicycles, strollers or dogs are allowed.
The event is at the Depot Plaza in Mill Valley. For more information and tickets, go to www.millvalley.org.
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Curious about the paleo diet? Why not join chef Pauli Halstead, author of "Primal Cuisine, Cooking for the Paleo Diet," for a book discussion and signing as well as lunch and ranch tour at Stemple Creek Ranch from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 23?
Enjoy a barbecue burger lunch with recipes from the book and using Stemple Creek's 100 percent grass-fed ground beef and Point Reyes blue cheese, followed by berries and Straus cream. Ranch owner Loren Poncia will conduct a tour, and grass-fed beef and lamb will be available for purchase. Sponsored by Marin Organic, the event costs $85 and $75 for members.
Stemple Creek Ranch is on Highway 1 in Tomales. Call 663-9667 or go to www.marin organic.org.
Dosa up
Larkspur's Table Café has been serving gluten-free dosas wrapped around organic, local ingredients for nearly 10 years. Now Corte Madera resident and owner Suzanne McGoldrick has launched a new package design and label for its popular dosa chips, which began distribution in 2011. Chocolate, curry and cinnamon sugar varieties are in the works.
Look for them in Marin at Paradise Foods, Andy's Local Markets, Mill Valley Market and Sans Gluten Free Grocery. For more information, go to www.dosachips.com. Table Café is at 1167 Magnolia Ave. in Larkspur. Call 461-6787, or go to www.table-cafe.com.
Anna Haight is a longtime Marin resident and an even longer foodie who blogs at Anna's Cool Finds, www.annascoolfinds.com. Her bread and butter column appears Wednesdays. Have news about chefs, restaurants and other foodie goodies? Contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com or on Twitter at http://twitter.com/annahaight.


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Reviewed by Joseph V. Montville
On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, Robert Satloff was walking in the middle of Manhattan's Fifth Avenue which was devoid of traffic in a city stunned by the terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers that morning. The question came into his mind: "Did any Arabs save any Jews during the Holocaust?" He judged, as did this writer after the second tower was hit, that Arabs were behind the deed. He wanted to teach Arabs about the Holocaust and the depths of its meaning for Israeli and Diaspora Jews. Satloff decided to answer his question, and this book is the result.
What establishes the nobility of Among the Righteous…is the conviction of its author, a historian, an Arabist and an American Jew, that there is much more to Arab and Muslim humanity than the destructive, suicidal rage that the 9/11 hijackers displayed that momentous day. While he had never heard of "righteous" Arabs—people who took great risks to protect Jews from the Nazis and their underlings–Satloff felt in his bones that he could find some. He did not believe that the apparent absence of knowledge or discussion about the Holocaust among Arabs was the complete picture.
The author thought that if he could prove that Arabs had saved Jewish lives during World War II, they might be induced to face the Holocaust squarely and understand its power in the final thrust to establish the Jewish state in Palestine. He hoped that the shared prosocial values of Islam and Judaism could induce Arab cooperation in his research and generate pride in Arab heroes. He cites Muslim and Jewish sacred literature to make his point. "'Whoever saves one life saves the entire world,' says the Qur'an, an echo of the Talmud's injunction 'If you save one life, it is as if you have saved the world.'" (p. 6.) In the process of searching for "righteous" Arabs in North Africa, Israel and Europe, Satloff has filled an important gap in the history of World War II, and he has also reflected the best traditions of Jewish humanism. It is not insignificant that Satloff is also executive director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy which the Jewish weekly, Forward, calls "a think tank known for its pro-Israel views and for its predominantly Jewish board."1
The narrative concentrates on the North African states of Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya under French—the first three—and Italian and therefore fascist colonial rule during the Vichy and Mussolini regimes. Half a million Jews lived in these countries, and the Nazi policy of degradation and ultimately destruction was meant to apply also to these trans-Mediterranean people. There were also 30,000 Libyan Jews who faced danger and abuse.
Biden/Obama Humiliated by Israel
March 18, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
"Wiping the Spit Off Their Faces"
By Uri Avnery
March 15, 2010 "Information Clearing House" — SOME WEEKS the news is dominated by a single word. This week's word was "timing".
It's all a matter of timing. The Government of Israel has insulted the Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, one of the greatest "friends" of Israel (meaning: somebody totally subservient to AIPAC) and spat in the face of President Barack Obama. So what? It's all a matter of timing.
If the government had announced the building of 1600 new housing units in East Jerusalem a day earlier, it would have been OK. If it had announced it three days later, it would have been wonderful. But doing it exactly when Joe Biden was about to have dinner with Bibi and Sarah'le – that was really bad timing.
The matter itself is not important. Another thousand housing units in East Jerusalem, or 10 thousand, or 100 thousand – what different does it make? The only thing that matters is the timing.
As the Frenchman said: It's worse than criminal, it's stupid.
THE WORD "stupid" also figured prominently this week, second only to "timing".
Stupidity is an accepted phenomenon in politics. I would almost say: to succeed in politics, one needs a measure of stupidity. Voters don't like politicians who are too intelligent. They make them feel inferior. A foolish politician, on the other hand, appears to be "one of the folks".
History is full of acts of folly by politicians. Many books have been written about this. To my mind, the epitome of foolishness was achieved by the events that led to World War I, with its millions of victims, which broke out because of the accumulated stupidity of (in ascending order) Austrian, Russian, German, French and British politicians.
But even stupidity in politics has its limits. I have pondered this question for decades, and who knows, one day, when I grow up, I might write a doctoral thesis about it.
My thesis goes like this: In politics (as in other fields) foolish things happen regularly. But some of them are stopped in time, before they can lead to disaster, while others are not. It this accidental, or is there a rule?
My answer is: there certainly is a rule. It works like this: when somebody sets in motion an act of folly that runs counter to the spirit of the regime, it is stopped in its tracks. While it moves from one bureaucrat to another, somebody starts to wonder. Just a moment, this cannot be right! It is referred to higher authority, and soon enough somebody decides that it is a mistake.
On the other hand, when the act of folly is in line with the spirit of the regime, there are no brakes. When it moves from one bureaucrat to the next, it looks quite natural to both. No red light. No alarm bell. And so the folly rolls on to the bitter end.
I remember how this rule came to my mind the first time. In 1965, Habib Bourguiba, the president of Tunisia, took a bold step: he made a speech in the biggest refugee camp in Jericho, then under Jordanian rule, and called upon the Arabs to recognize Israel. This caused a huge scandal all over the Arab world.
Some time later, the correspondent of an Israeli paper reported that in a press conference at the UN headquarters, Bourguiba had called for the destruction of Israel. This sounded strange to me. I made inquiries, checked the protocol and found out that the opposite was true: the reporter had mistakenly turned a no into a yes.
How did this happen? If the journalist had erred in the opposite direction and reported, for example, that Gamal Abd-el-Nasser had called for the acceptance of Israel into the Arab League, the news would have been stopped at once. Every red light would have lit up. Someone would have called out: Hey, something strange here! Check again! But in the Bourguiba case nobody noticed the mistake, for what is more natural than an Arab leader calling for the destruction of Israel? No verification needed.
That's what happened this week in Jerusalem. Every government official knows that the nationalist Prime Minister is pushing for the Judaization of East Jerusalem, that the extreme nationalist Minister of the Interior is even more eager, and that the super-nationalist Mayor of Jerusalem practically salivates when he imagines a Jewish quarter on the Temple Mount. So why should a bureaucrat postpone the confirmation of a new Jewish neighborhood in East Jerusalem? Just because of the visit of some American windbag?
Therefore, the timing is not important. It's the matter itself that's important.
DURING HIS last days in office, President Bill Clinton published a peace plan, in which he tried to make up for eight years of failure in this region and kowtowing to successive Israeli governments. The plan was comparatively reasonable, but included a ticking bomb.
About East Jerusalem, Clinton proposed that what is Jewish should be joined to the State of Israel and what is Arab should be joined to the state of Palestine. He assumed (rightly, I believe) that Yasser Arafat was ready for such a compromise, which would have joined some new Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem to Israel. But Clinton was not wise enough to foresee the consequences of his proposal.
In practice, it was an open invitation to the Israeli government to speed up the establishment of new settlements in East Jerusalem, expecting them to become part of Israel. And indeed, since then successive Israeli governments have invested all available resources in this endeavor. Since money has no smell, every Jewish casino-owner in America and every Jewish brothel-keeper in Europe was invited to join the effort. The Biblical injunction – "Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God, for any vow; for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God" (Deuteronomy 23:18) – was suspended for this holy cause.
Now the pace is speeded up even more. Because there is no more effective means of obstructing peace than building new settlements in East Jerusalem.
THAT IS clear to anyone who has dealings with this region. No peace without an independent Palestinian state, no Palestinian state without East Jerusalem. About this there is total unanimity among all Palestinians, from Fatah to Hamas, and between all Arabs, from Morocco to Iraq, and between all Muslims, from Nigeria to Iran.
There will be no peace without the Palestinian flag waving above the Haram al-Sharif, the holy shrines of Islam which we call the Temple Mount. That is an iron-clad rule. Arabs can compromise about the refugee problem, painful as it may be, and about the borders, also with much pain, and about security matters. But they cannot compromise about East Jerusalem becoming the capital of Palestine. All national and religious passions converge here.
Anyone who wants to wreck any chance for peace – it is here that he has to act. The settlers and their supporters, who know that any peace agreement would include the elimination of (at least) most settlements, have planned in the past (and probably are planning now) to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount, hoping that this would cause a worldwide conflagration which would reduce to ashes the chances of peace once and for all. Less extreme people dream about the creeping ethnic cleansing of East Jerusalem by administrative chicanery, demolition of houses, denying means of livelihood and just making life in general miserable for Arabs. Moderate rightists just want to cover every empty square inch in East Jerusalem with Jewish neighborhoods. The aim is always the same.
THIS REALITY is, of course, well known to Obama and his advisors. In the beginning they believed, in their innocence, that they could sweet talk Netanyahu and Co. into stopping the building activity to facilitate the start of negotiations for the two-state solution. Very soon they learned that this was impossible without exerting massive pressure – and they were not prepared to do that.
After putting up a short and pitiful struggle, Obama gave in. He agreed to the deception of a "settlement freeze" in the West Bank. Now building is going on there with great enthusiasm, and the settlers are satisfied. They have completely stopped their demonstrations.
In Jerusalem there was not even a farcical attempt – Netanyahu just told Obama that he would go on building there ("as in Tel Aviv"), and Obama bowed his head. When Israeli officials announced a grandiose plan for building in "Ramat Shlomo" this week, they did not violate any undertaking. Only the matter of "timing" remained.
FOR JOE BIDEN, it was a matter of honor. For Mahmoud Abbas, it is a matter of survival.
Under intense pressure from the Americans and their agents, the rulers of the Arab countries, Abbas was obliged to agree to negotiations with the Netanyahu government – though only "proximity talks", a euphemism for "distance talks".
Clearly, nothing will come out of these talks except more humiliation for the Palestinians. Quite simply: anyone building in East Jerusalem and the West Bank is announcing in advance that there is no chance for an agreement. After all, no sane Israeli would invest billions in a territory he intends to turn over to the Palestinian state. A person who is eating a pizza is not negotiating about it in good faith.
Even at this late stage, Abbas and his people still hope that something good will come out of all this: the US will acknowledge that they are right and exert, at long last, real pressure on Israel to implement the two-state solution.
But Biden and Obama did not give much cause for hope. They wiped the spit off their faces and smiled politely.
As the saying goes: when you spit in the face of a weakling, he pretends that it is raining. Does this apply to the president of the most powerful country in the world?
Uri Avnery's website http://www.avnery-news.co.il
France's Burka Dilemma
March 18, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Proposals to ban face veils provoked debate in France's Muslim community
By Zubeida Malik
France could become the first country in Europe to ban the burka. A draft law submitted to the French parliament would make it illegal for a woman to cover her face in public spaces such as hospitals and trains. But the proposal has divided the country's five million-strong Muslim community.
26 year-old Anisa wears a bright blue niqab, a piece of clothing that covers her completely except for her eyes and perfectly arched eyebrows.
You can't miss her among the crowds: maybe it is because of the colour of the niqab or because there is no other woman around who is covered up to this extent.
She has been wearing it for a year-and-a-half. Anisa's family, who are originally from Morocco, are against her wearing the niqab. But Anisa believes it is her religious duty.
According to official figures there are just 1900 women who wear the burka in France. Most of them are young and a quarter are converts.
But a report from the French intelligence services put this figure much lower at 367, out of an estimated population of five million Muslims, the largest in Europe.
When I met Anisa in the suburbs of Seine-Saint Denis, an area with the highest concentration of Muslims in France, she says that ever since she started wearing the niqab she has had unwelcome attention from the police, has been insulted in the street and is frequently stared at.
Women wearing the burka – a veil which covers the whole face – or the niqab in France are not as visible as those in Britain. But look hard enough in the suburbs and you can find them.
The mosque in the town of Drancy, on the outskirts of Paris, is currently the most controversial in France because the imam here has come out in support of the government's decision to ban the burka.
Imam Hassan Chalghoumi is now facing death threats and has been given police protection. Ignoring the advice of his advisors he spoke to the Today programme.
He says the burka has nothing to do with religion but the wearing of it was down to tradition.
And the imam added that the burka debate was diverting attention from the real problems facing the Muslim community, including racism, integration and young people dropping out of school early. The imam, who is originally from Tunisia, has the support of the mayor of Drancy.
Tempers are running high at the mosque and there are some it is hard to tell how many want the imam to leave. And there is also a lot of anger and frustration with the media and the police.
Friday prayers when I was there were tense. There were policemen present, plain clothes officers filming and an ambulance on standby, in case anyone got hurt.
Multiculturalism in France is different to that in Britain and the United States. One of the core principles of the Fifth Republic is "laicite", the separation of church and state.
Religion here is seen as a highly private matter, even more than in the US, where church and state are also constitutionally separated.
Pierre Rousselin from Le Figaro newspaper says that in France people still believe that ''foreigners can adapt to the French way of life''
A commission has spent six months looking into the burka in a review which took evidence from more than 200 people. It recommended proposing a ban on women wearing either the burka or the niqab in hospitals, schools, government offices and on public transport.
It is not the first time that the Muslim community in France feels that its been put under the spotlight. In 2004 a law was passed banning the hijab – or headscarf – and all other religious symbols, from state schools. Although the ban affects all religions, the Muslim community here feels that it was aimed at them.
Wider debate
The current controversy comes in the wake of months of debate and President Sarkozy's speech last year where he said the veils were not welcome in France, but which stopped short of calling for an outright ban.
A draft law has been submitted to parliament but any further action has been put on the back-burner until after the regional elections in France this month.
Sihem Habchi, who describes herself as a Muslim feminist, is director of Ni Putes Ni Soumise – "Neither Whores Nor Submissives", an influential feminist organisation. She says it is not a question of how many women wear the burka, but one of ''democratic principle''. And she too wants the burka banned.
Ms Habchi says that a ban would ''liberate'' the Muslim community from those who want to hold it back and ''use our religion''.
Adding that her Algerian background allows her to understand this issue and the wider one of women's rights as a whole, Ms Habchi says ''laicite'' actually protects religion because it means all religions have an equal footing.
Catherine De Wenden, an expert in the history of immigration in France, believes the timing of the current debate is political and is tied in with the regional elections in France.
Although she is personally against banning the burka, she says there it is part of a wider debate in France about national identity, adding that there are many forms of multiculturalism and that France regards religion as a private matter.
Ms De Wenden is concerned that if the ban happens then France will not be seen as a country which practises toleration, a core value of the French Revolution.
But any legislation could have the reverse effect. The young women I spoke to in Drancy said that if the ban became law then they would start to wear the burka for the first time.
The Day I Will Never Forget
December 31, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Nadja Dizdarevic
After Fajr prayers, I decided to go to sleep for a while, because I was up all night working on some brothers cases. These brothers (here in bosnia ) are detained in the immigration centre. I went to bed, but I could not sleep, for some reason I did not feel peace in my heart.
After half an hour of restlessness, I decided to get up. My children were surprised I was awake as I normally sleep longer on Mondays and Thursdays as I try and follow the sunnah for fasting on these days. I told them to go back to sleep, and I explained to them that I had to go to the immigration centre early so that I can get the brothers there to sign some legal documents. Soon I heard my mobile phone ring,
It was very bad news. Amar Hanci's deportation was going to be deported to Tunisia at 2pm this day. I felt the wind and colour drain from me, and words cannot really describe how despondent I felt at that moment. I had been so busy with his case and had sought a temporary injunction from the international court of law in Strasbourg with the aim of prohibiting his deportation. Everything we had asked in the Bosnian court of law had been refused.
I realised I was not thinking rationally as I was so in shock that this brother would be deported. I begam to frantically make a list of organisations and NGOs that I could contact to help. I made a call to Strasboug, then London. I then got confirmation from Strasbourg that they expect the lawyer to act in an urgent procedure, but this was not enough for me. My heart was pounding so much knowing the suffering this brother will face that I could feel it through my whole body. The phone rang again.
It was Amar, and he was extremely distressed, talking and crying in one breath. He said the authorities won't wait until 2pm, and they want to take him to the airport earlier. He asked me to come immediately. I was panicked myself, making calls to every institution I could letting them know that deportation had begun.
Amars wife was calling me crying and upset. I was scared to frighten her and cause her more distress, so I told her I am doing what I can with the help of Allah(Swt). When I got to the immigration centre, the gates were wide open with the van in the front yard. Even stranger was that I was asked to stay in the car fro 10 minutes. I have never been asked before to do this, as I am known to the authorities through my amnesty international work. I got out the car and asked to see the manager. I was afraid the authorities will take Amar in the van without giving me even the chance to see him or stop them.
From inside, I heard a sound so frightening and strange I was not aware it was even a human voice. My blood iced in my veins when I realised it was Amars voice painfully crying. I immediately demanded a meeting with the manager and they agreed. I was informed that brother Amar was in a bad state of health, doctors were around him giving him oxygen and medicines but nothing seemed to work, he was looking bad. I asked the manager to discuss this like a human being and forget our roles. I showed him the documentation I have, the reports, about brothers who have been deported and the torture they faced from the Tunisians when they went back.
I told the manager what I did in the morning, and that positive imminent news would arrive from Strasbourg. The manager became sympathetic and made some phonecalls, with the government agreeing to stay the deportation until the following Monday. I expressed my thanks to the staff and the manager in the centre for how they helped, emphasising that had they not intervened all these late actions would be for nothing.
After another long talk with the manager, he arranged for me to see Amar with the doctor and let him know the news. When I walked into where Amar was, his state of health and mental state shocked me, I had to hold onto the side of the bed to stop from fainting. Walahi I will never forget that scene and in my life I have already seen many terrible scenes. The brother was shaking uncontrollably, tears were streaming, his face was so white and his hands looked as if they were frozen. He begged to be killed rather than go back to the long torture that would await his return in Tunisia. He spent 3 days in a Tunisian prison before, and would rather be dead than have one more day of that torture. It took me a long time to get him to believe that the deportation is halted, and finally once he understood what I was saying he began to cry even more. It was not normal crying, but crying the likes of which I have never heard before. I took an oath with Allah(swt) in front of him that I would do all I could to stop the deportation, and that inshallah he would not be deported. He began to calm down, and asked that I contact his wife and mother in law to let them know what is happening.
I told him he should do this himself as it is better, and then in the meantime I will contact the organisations to pressurise the European court. Amars wife contacted me as she wished to see her husband but did not have the means. Whilst this was happening, I received notification from the court in Strasbourg that deportation has been stayed untl January 15, 2010 at 6pm. Allahu Akbar, how merciful Allah(swt) is!
I was crying now, but tears of relief and joy, but my children were scared that the deportation had happened and they were tears of sadness. They realised it was good news when I went into Sadja as a way of thanking Allah(swt) and they became happy themselves.
I then remembered to contact Amars wife and I arranged to drive her and her kids to see him. When I drove them back, they seemed happy and calm, but all I could see in my minds eye was Amars pain and desperation. I thank Allah(swt) on this day, where it ended well only because of His(swt) help. I fear for the next day that comes like this, and I ask you for your support and dua' that these situations are resolved. These brothers need all of our help and dua'. We rely on Allah(swt), we trust in Him(swt) and we accept His(swt) decree, Ameen.
This article has been translated from the story of Sister Nadja Dizdarevic. She works tirelessly for these brothers who have been abandoned and let down by those in the Western countries living in comfort and ease. She has spent her time, money and suffered greatly for this from the authorities, having been physically attacked on several occasions ( I will provide a personal appeal from her later on). If you wish to donate to this cause, please contact me and I will pass on the sisters details / donation information.
Who is Behind the Iranian Protests?
June 27, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Dr. Aslam Abdullah, TMO Editor-in-chief
There is no doubt that there are thousands of Iranian who yearn for real democracy. They are the ones's who are concerned about the detereorating law and order situation in their country. But what is interesting to note that those who are fomenting violence in Iran are those who have at their back several western intellligence agencies.
It is now a known fact that for the last 12 months these intelligence agencies have been supplying high quality communication devices in the thousands to Iranian youth to provide information in situation like these. Much of these electronic gagdets were sent to Iran from Los Angeles, by Iranian businessmen who recived the hidden grant from sources closer to intelligence agencies.
In 1953, western intelligence agencies played a similar game in toppling the Iranian democratic regime. Now many fear that the same game is being repeated.
The West has laid economic siege to Iran for 30 years. Recently, US Congress voted $120 million for anti-regime media broadcasts into Iran and $60-75 million in funding for opposition, violent underground Marxists and restive ethnic groups such as Azeris, Kurds and Arabs under the "Iran Democracy Program." Pakistani intelligence sources put the CIA's recent spending on "black operations" to subvert Iran's government at $400 million.It is true that majority of protests we see in Tehran are genuine and spontaneous, western intelligence agencies are playing a key role in sustaining them and providing communications, including the newest method, via Twitter.
The Tehran government turned things worse by limiting foreign news reports and trying to cover up protests.
Several western experts have accused Iran of improper electoral procedures while utterly ignoring their autocratic Mideast allies such as Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, which hold only fake elections and savage any real opposition.They have also ignore the voting irregularities that were witnessed in Florida and Ohio in 2000 and 20008, by officials close to republican Party candidate President Bush.
U.S. senators, led by John McCain, blasted Iran for not respecting human rights without making any reference to President Bush torture policy in Guantanamo Bay.
In fact the current feud is between the establishment and former establishment member Ali Akbar Rafsanjani who is waiting to pounce. He heads the Assembly of Experts, which theoretically has the power to unseat Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.his power revolves round him and his family. He is considered the msot shrewed politician of Iran. It is possible that he may manipulate situation to the best of his interests.
But we must not live under any illusion that Rafsanjani would be a pro-western leader. He is as dangerous as the previsiou leader when it comes to Iran's nuclear ambition.
All that we need to do is to wait and see before making a final pronouncement on the current situation.


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