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When Rimma Maksimova last spoke with her son, investigative journalist Maksim Maksimov, in a phone call on June 26, 2004, they talked about the comings and goings of family life: his approaching birthday, her plans to visit him the next month in St. Petersburg. Mother and son swapped calls in the next couple of days but missed each other. She rang him up one last time on July 3, leaving a message that wished him a happy 41st birthday.
By that time, Maksim Maksimov was gone. His mother would spend her trip to St. Petersburg, and the next eight years, trying to find out what had happened to Maksimov, who was last seen on June 29, 2004, in downtown St. Petersburg. He was never found.
Today, Maksimova is 73 and battling bone marrow cancer. She is also waging war on Russia's political and judicial machinery. Having sought justice, without success, from police, prosecutors, and the president's office, Maksimova turned to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France, where she filed a case in 2011 claiming that Russian authorities failed to uphold her son's rights to life, liberty, and freedom of expression. "Over the years, I have been through all the circles of hell imaginable--pain, helplessness, terrible suffering," Maksimova said in written testimony submitted to the court. "The pain of my situation was exacerbated from the very beginning by the attitude of the investigative authorities."
The case has implications not only for Maksimov's family but for journalists throughout Europe and Central Asia. If admitted, the case would be among the first heard in Strasbourg on a journalism-related killing in Russia. More significantly, Maksimova's representatives will also argue that her son's murder is part of a pattern of impunity in attacks on the press in that country.
"Because of the evidence that this was a systemic problem--because the number and nature of attacks on journalists is and has been for a number of years hugely concerning, hugely worrying, and it has not been dealt with--bringing proceedings in the Strasbourg court is one way of raising that problem and trying to tackle it," said Philip Leach, lawyer and project director of the London-based European Human Rights Advocacy Centre (EHRAC), which is representing Maksimova and which specializes in taking cases to Strasbourg.
Maksim Maksimov started working as a journalist in 1986 with a youth newspaper called Smena (Change). He then spent several years working for AZHUR, an investigative news agency, where he developed a reputation for reporting on corruption in law enforcement and the contract-style murders of local politicians. In July 2003, he went freelance, writing a regular column for Gorod newspaper. Around the time of his disappearance, colleagues say, Maksimov was investigating corruption in the 6th section of the operational detective bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
After their last phone conversation, Rimma Maksimova, who lives in Potsdam, Germany, traveled to Moscow in early July 2004 and on to St. Petersburg, her concern growing over lack of contact with her son. On July 9, she and two of Maksimov's colleagues went to the police station, where her statement was taken. Over the next two weeks, Maksimova hounded the police and an investigator from the Central District Prosecutor's Office, waiting hours in his office to find out what steps were being taken.
She got little information. Often it was suggested that Maksimov was simply away with a woman or had been sighted. When she asked the Central District investigator if the people who had last seen her son had been interviewed, she was told no--one of many leads the police appear not to have followed.
Maksimova went back to Germany in late July but returned to St. Petersburg near the end of the year at the distressing news that the public prosecutor's office had suspended work on the case. In April 2005, the suspension was revoked on grounds that the investigation was incomplete. This decision cited unexplored lines of inquiry, including an analysis of fingerprints found in Maksimov's car in late July 2004; interviews with Maksimov's colleagues; and a study of his computer. There was no explanation of why those steps had not been taken.
In 2009, CPJ conducted an investigation into the flawed official inquiry into Maksimov's disappearance, the results of which were published as part of a wider report on unsolved journalist killings in Russia, "Anatomy of Injustice." At the time, Sergei Baluyev, Gorod's chief editor, told CPJ that Maksimov's property, car, and savings had been found intact within a few weeks of his disappearance--but investigators conducted only a cursory review of the reporter's notes and his conversations with colleagues.
What evidence eventually emerged came mainly from Maksimov's colleagues at AZHUR. Yevgeny Vyshenkov, AZHUR's deputy director, told CPJ that he and his staff interviewed two people who said they were involved in Maksimov's disappearance. One person said he had been hired to lure the journalist to a local sauna under the guise of a business meeting, and that two Interior Ministry officers and two others were waiting there. After being ordered to leave the room, the person told Vyshenkov, he heard the men assault Maksimov.
Vyshenkov said he had also met with one of the assailants, an ex-convict, who told him that the men had strangled Maksimov, put his body in the trunk of a car, and driven in two vehicles to woods outside St. Petersburg. There, the two officers drove off on their own with the body and returned a half-hour later, Vyshenkov said he was told.
AZHUR presented its findings to the regional prosecutor's office. Vyshenkov said he had persuaded the front person and the assailant to tell prosecutors their story. Nikolai Sirotinin, the Maksimov family lawyer and a former government investigator, said that AZHUR's information was credible enough to warrant official investigation, but the prosecutor's office did not appear interested in following up. Sirotinin told CPJ that investigators would not clarify what leads they checked.
A.V. Zaitsev, a senior official with the regional investigative committee, told CPJ in a written statement in 2009 that his staff had indeed checked whether Interior Ministry officers were involved in the crime. He did not elaborate on what investigators had done or found. The two officers implicated in AZHUR's account were at one point charged with forgery, false statement, and abuse of office in an unrelated case (they were later acquitted) but have never been charged in the Maksimov case.
The Dzerzhinsky District Court in St. Petersburg declared Maksimov dead on November 30, 2006, at the behest of the family, which was seeking emotional closure as well as greater legal rights and more official attention to the case. A concerted search for Maksimov's body was finally undertaken in spring 2007, also at the insistence of his family. Sirotinin said he traveled to Moscow to persuade former colleagues in the Prosecutor General's Office to send a forensics team to assist. The search came up empty.
In total, the investigation was suspended and restarted three times between 2004 and 2011, with no substantial information provided to Maksimova on what steps were taken and why. Her phone calls were largely ignored, and from 2005 to 2009, Maksimova traveled from Potsdam to St. Petersburg more than a dozen times at her own expense. "The little I did find out was because I kept asking questions," Maksimova said in her testimony.
During this time, Maksimova wrote letters to officials at all levels of Russia's criminal system, including the minister for internal affairs and the Public Chamber, a governmental oversight body, requesting a thorough investigation, new personnel to oversee the case, or resumption of proceedings following a suspension. She made two appeals to President Vladimir Putin--one, a 2006 open letter published in Moscow Pravda titled "Will the President hear a mother's voice?" To all of these she has testified that she received cursory replies or nothing at all.
The toll on her physical and mental health was immense. She recently described to CPJ her last visit to St. Petersburg and a meeting she had in December 2011 with the general prosecutor for the Northwestern Federal District. "He turned our conversation upside down, as if I am demanding to prosecute an innocent person and they're guarding law and order," she said. "Following that meeting I had a nervous breakdown and contracted pneumonia, so they sent me to the airport in a wheelchair." In her last telephone exchange with the investigator, in August 2012, Maksimova told CPJ, "He openly told me that they did not restart the case, that all the investigative measures were fulfilled, and that there's nothing left to be done."
Sirotinin, the family lawyer, said his own requests to review the official case file were turned down. Russian procedural code gives investigators discretion to disclose details of an active inquiry to a victim's family and legal representatives; a family is entitled to access only when the investigation is formally finished. Although Maksimov's case is suspended, it has not been officially closed, which would allow the family and its lawyer to review the file.
Such languishing investigations into attacks against journalists are endemic in Russia. There have been no successful prosecutions in more than 90 percent of cases of journalists murdered or violently assaulted in connection to their work in Russia, according to CPJ research. Victims include internationally known figures like Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov, but many are like Maksimov, who report on local corruption, crime, and human rights abuses. Worldwide, Russia ranks ninth-worst on CPJ's Impunity Index, which calculates the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of each country's population.
Despite pledges from Russian leadership to address the climate of impunity, there has been little substantial progress. In the 2006 murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, authorities took promising steps, arresting several suspects and sentencing one as an accomplice but failing to pursue the crime's mastermind. "At least with regards to this case the investigative community does something," said Galina Arapova, director of Russia's Mass Media Defence Centre, which offers legal defense to journalists and has brought defamation-related cases to the ECHR. "They don't have political will to really finish the case but they feed society with little seeds. For the others, they simply just don't do anything; or they do a little bit and then close the case and say they haven't found any evidence or suspect to bring to the court."
Arapova said the problem is not one of capability; murder investigations are often effective in Russia. Investigative Committee chief Aleksandr Bastrykin once boasted that perpetrators are caught in four out of five cases. "Interestingly that doesn't apply to cases of journalists," Arapova said. "When it comes to murder of journalists, then you have 10 years of investigation that ends with nothing. Families are trying to struggle with the Russian law enforcement system and they just lose their faith in the result."
This was nearly so for Maksimova, who in a 2010 meeting with CPJ European and Central Asia Program Coordinator Nina Ognianova expressed her desperation to find new avenues to justice. They discussed the European Court as an option. Under the Council of Europe, the court hears complaints that signatory states have violated the European Convention on Human Rights if applicants can prove they have exhausted all domestic remedies. CPJ approached the EHRAC. Now, EHRAC lawyers Leach, Joanna Evans, and Bill Bowring represent Maksimova, as does Mark Stephens, a lawyer working in coordination with CPJ.
Maksimova v. Russia argues, among other points, that the authorities failed to conduct an effective investigation into Maksimov's death, a violation of Article 2 of the European Convention's right-to-life guarantee, which includes the obligation to investigate suspicious deaths. It also contends that the state is directly responsible for Maksimov's demise and that his disappearance is a case of unlawful detention--the argument being that evidence suggests he was abducted and murdered by parties from the police force--adding another violation of Article 2 and a violation of Article 5, which guarantees the right to liberty and security. Russian investigators also violated Article 3, the resolution addressing torture, in their disregard for Maksimova's well-being and rights, the suit argues.
The 52-page submission goes further to posit that because the case is one of a murder motivated by journalistic activity, and the journalism sought to expose official corruption, it is representative of "a systematic failure by the Russian state to protect the lives and well-being of journalists within its jurisdiction and/or to ensure the effective investigation and prosecution of those responsible for the harassment, harm, and killing of journalists within Russia (particularly those investigating and reporting upon areas of sensitivity)." By this reasoning, the applicant charges, Russia is guilty of a separate violation of Article 2 and a violation of Article 10's guarantee of freedom of expression.
A suit alleging that Russia violated Article 2 in the case of Politkovskaya was filed to Strasbourg in 2007; the court has not yet admitted it. But, according to Leach, Maksimova v. Russia is the first attempt to seek a judgment identifying a state pattern in which the authorities fail to effectively investigate murders of journalists and declaring that this behavior has a chilling effect on freedom of expression. In the 2007 murder of journalist Hrant Dink, the court ruled the Turkish state had violated freedom of expression by failing to protect Dink and convict all his killers, but it did not look at this link in a broader context. "It would be extremely significant if the court were to make a decision to the effect that these attacks on journalists or the authorities' failures in relation to the attacks on journalists are systemic," Leach said.
Though the court has been friendly to freedom of expression cases, it has mainly favored journalists in cases involving defamation, Arapova said. "We hope that cases from Russia relating to non-investigated murders of journalists will be considered in light of Article 10 and not only Article 2," she said. "We would like to bring attention to violation of other rights when the murder of a person takes place--especially if it is connected to his professional work as a journalist."
But any important precedents that the Maksimov case may set are a long way off. Because of Maksimova's age and cancer diagnosis, the representing team requested that the matter be expedited, but more than a year has passed since the court acknowledged it received the case submission. In late 2012, there had been no word on whether the case meets Strasbourg's criteria and the court will initiate proceedings. "It could be weeks, or months," said Leach.
Complaints of lengthy delays and backlogs are common in connection with the court, which in March 2012 had 150,000 cases pending. About a quarter of these hail from Russia. Last year the United Kingdom led a charge to reform the court, calling for shorter filing windows and restrictions on eligibility--and alarming human rights groups concerned that the move would curb the court's power rather than address inefficiencies.
Strasbourg decisions are binding, but member states often don't comply in full. Russia, for example, said Leach, will typically implement recommendations for financial compensation to victims, but is less amenable when it comes to politically sensitive recommendations like legislative reform. Still, Christof Heyns, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, believes the ECHR has much to offer other regions as a model. "The European system has a very high level of compliance, and its jurisprudence--in respect of accountability--is sophisticated," he told CPJ in an interview.
Past court decisions in cases where journalists have been killed, though favorable to the applicant, have had varied impact. In 2012, lawyers representing the Dink family wrote to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe excoriating Turkey for failing to execute Strasbourg's verdict and punish all of Dink's killers. Separately, Ukraine did not abide by the court's 2005 ruling that it pay damages for failing to protect the life of journalist Gregory Gongadze or investigate his death, although his widow, Myroslava Gongadze, told CPJ that Strasbourg's pressure on Ukraine kept the case alive in domestic courts. In 2012, she said she would launch new ECHR proceedings to appeal Ukraine's decision not to prosecute former President Leonid Kuchma for his alleged involvement in the murder.
Given her frail state of health, there is a good chance Rimma Maksimova may not live to learn what happened to her son, or to see if the case she has set in motion will change the way Russian authorities respond when journalists are threatened or attacked. She has named Maksimov's cousin, Sergei Kapustin, as the second applicant, to carry on the case in her absence. Regardless of the outcome, Maksimova has broken new ground in the fight against impunity. Journalists in Russia and elsewhere are indebted to her.
Elisabeth Witchel, CPJ's London-based consultant, served for many years as the organization's journalist assistance coordinator. She also launched CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The text has been corrected to reflect that the suit argues Russian investigators violated Article 3 in their disregard for Maksimova's well-being and rights -- not her son Maksimov's rights, as previously stated.


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I get it, I'm old.
Keith Richards has better hearing than me (that would be a Rolling Stones guitar player reference kids).
My eye site gets worse by the day. I wear contacts, but also need glasses to read anything smaller than a 24 font.
I just know my next pet will be a guide dog (sorry Buddy, but I need more than your sweet sweet love).
But old doesn't have to mean naive.
Or just plain stupid.
If you have kids, I'm begging you to be aware.
Here is what I see and experience on a daily basis.
Technology is great. But just like alcohol and cars, students are sometimes to young and/or immature to handle it.
The great thing about the world today is all of this new technology making the world smaller.
The bad thing for parents with teenagers is it's making the world smaller.
Trust your kids, but don't be a moron.
Check their Twitter accounts.
Then check their cell phone texts.
If you ask them if you can and they get mad or defensive, you're on to something.
As a tired old school administrator, I've learned a few things over the years.
One, never eat food prepared by a student (figured this one out the hard way).
Two, never ever smell anything when a student says "Hey, smell this!" Odds aren't in your favor that it's going to be good (if it's food they've prepared, revert back to my last sentence).
Lastly, anyone between the ages of 8 and 18 is a lot smarter than you might think.
My hope is when parents check their children's phone or social media they aren't surprised by what they see.
But I won't be surprised if they are.
Follow your kids on Twitter and Facebook. It can't hurt.

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If ever the word "perfect" could be used for a movie, it would be Days Of Heaven....and Badlands is my nomination for best first film by a director.
Quote from: SoNowThenIf ever the word "perfect" could be used for a movie, it would be Days Of Heaven....and Badlands is my nomination for best first film by a director.Couldn't agree more. I haven't seen TTRL...I am interested of course.
Badlands is my favorite, but Days of Heaven is by far the best of his works. The Thin Red Line is well done but it didn't do anything for me. I've watched it several times and am amazed and bored at the same time.Badlands is great....True Romance is basically a Badlands rip off.....they copied the music as well. True Romance, although it's enjoyable in a sort of superficial way, doesn't pull it off. Badlands on the other hand, is great. Among many other things, it has the character development that True Romance skipped, and it goes a long way.Malick is one of my favorite directors. Many seem to think that in order to be considered a great director you have to produce a bunch of consitently great films. One great film and everyone is anxious to see if you're a one hit wonder and just happened to get lucky. If your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th films suck...in many peoples' mind, you suck and the 1st is considerd a fluke.Those of you who have attempted or made a film, of any sort, know how difficult making a solid film is. In my opinion, if you pull it off just once, that's enough for me.
Yeah, I blind bought True Romance before I saw Badlands and thought it was decent. Then when I heard about how it ripped it off, I saw it and fucking threw TR away. I still have to buy Badlands actually.


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- Getting so distracted by husband's and my awesome conversation last night {that's my excuse anyway} that I'm pretty sure I dumped the entire contents of our garlic-salt container onto our food. The awkward moment spawned from husband's face after he took the first bite. And then with us trying to down the stuff with our noses plugged and gag reflexes galore.We would not fare so well on that one show where the contestants have to eat bugs and stuff. We can't even do garlic chicken.
- The giant hairball that collects underneath the armpit of my coat. And my mom picking at that hairball in the middle of Walmart.
- Trying to eat lunch at work and taking a bite at the exact moment someone important walks through the door. Excuse me while I just spit this out in my napkin ...
- Singing in the public restroom. ????????????
- An incredibly embarrassing moment that is probably way TMI for your sweet little brains. But it has to do with little miss monthly P. And a boy.
I am ashamed ...
- The number of times I had to explain to people that No, I am not missing an earring. It's supposed to be asymmetrical kiddo. PEOPLE these days. Honestly ...
- My newest graphic design assignment. I'm supposed to create a logo out of a belly button, a hunter and punching. Right then.
- People who iron their sheets. College students who iron their sheets.
Yes. I know one now. Blows your mind doesn't it??
- Being greeted at the library today: Well HELLO my good sir.
Hello yourself, you crazy.
- Husband actually requesting cottage cheese and ritz crackers in BED last night. Like the same bed where he hates crumbs and basically any food in general. I am in food-in-bed HEAVEN right now. You don't understand. This is like the apocalypse or something.
- This little set up that was on the kitchen counter when I got home from the grocery store last night. In case you were wondering, that's our hot chocolate maker. And that sucker was sent straight from heaven. Nectar of the gods I tell you.
- Grey nail polish!
- Giving into my cravings for a ginormous bowl of macaroni and cheese
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The Day of (a Mother's) Love
It was quite a tame Valentine's Day, celebrity-wise. Jessica took Jackpot Johnson out for a spin, Goop showed us the joy of cooking for one and apparently Brad gifted Angie with breath mints. So when in doubt, turn to the mothers. Vanessa Minnillo shared a page from her private family diary with PEOPLE. Full Story
Porny drunk and petty?
It's my favourite story this week. Remember when Jessica Simpson went out for dinner with her boyfriend at the same restaurant as her ex husband Nick Lachey and 'Nessa Minnillo? Click here for a refresher. According to Us Weekly, my Porny drank away her insecurities, and then let her bitch out, sniping to a server that, "I hope Vanessa likes her clothes because I bought them for her, since Nick took all my money. Full Story
The people around Porny...and her ex-husband
Jessica Simpson and her attachment Eric Johnson went out for dinner last night to Red-O in Hollywood. Also there, purely by coincidence, was ex-husband Nick Lachey with his long-time squeeze Vanessa Minnillo. No, no, no, I'm sure it wasn't awkward. But Eric was awfully extra about his affection towards Porny while they were leaving, leaning in from behind with the cameras in their faces, recognising a moment where he'd be extra needed. Full Story
Give up Grey Goose…
For this? The caption on these photos reads: Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo promote their vodka in Hollywood, CA And it's not like I don't understand the value of celebrity endorsements. I get it. Of course. But what in the f-ck of the what in the what is the purpose of vodka by Nick & Vanessa? Are they marketing this for Jersey Shore? Sh-t bitches, pour that Grey Goose down the drain. Full Story
NYE CarbFace and Bad Hair
In Miami at LIV at the Fountainebleau – Nick and Nessa in matching shiny sheen delight. But not really. Vanessa Minnillo is such a beautiful girl in real life. But her persistent pageant styles are for sh-t. And not sure what she's doing with that hair. Nick Lachey, after outselling his ex wife Jessica Simpson in their post-divorce album duel, has pretty much gone nowhere. Full Story
Carb Face and Pageant Girl: back to work
Been ages since Nick Lachey and his paqeant girl Vanessa Minnillo have been seen on the scene. But you know how these things work, right? Nick is the host of ABC's High School Musical Get in the Picture. The show premieres on Sunday... amazingly enough, Nick and Nessa turned up at Katsuya for dinner last night, greeted by the paparazzi. Full Story
Nick Lachey and gorgeous pageant queen Vanessa Minnillo were out for dinner last night at Katsu-ya looking like they just stepped out of 2002. Boot cut over pointy toe for her and borderline boyband/guido tee for him… not unlike what my mom sent over Full Story
A New View of Nessa
Some people are way better looking in person than in photos. Petra Nemcova is a good example. Not that she doesn't look good in photos, only in person, she's more than just a freakishly beautiful, garden variety supermodel. Vanessa Minnillo is also of this category. And you know already my thoughts on her pageant fashion pageant fashion Full Story
Carb Face in Person
Nick Lachey is very, very nice. Very well mannered, very professional, seemingly intelligent, and surprisingly well spoken. I think it would be hard not to like him. Quivering for him, however, is another matter entirely. But there were many people quivering for him last night at Matt Leinart's party, our second party of the evening, also in support of a charitable cause. Full Story
Happy Birthday Carb Face and the Beauty Queen
Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo celebrated their birthdays last night in Vegas at LAX. As you can see, his Carb Face is as pronounced as ever. And this poor girl – even when she's wearing cool clothes, she still turns it into pageant fashion. Incidentally, she's wearing the Alice + Olivia mentioned above, only hers is in navy. Full Story
A Pageant Pounding
They may be laywered now but something tells me…somehow they will leak. Nick Lachey and Vanessa Minnillo were on holiday in Mexico at a private resort – supposedly some photographer was able to zoom in on them going at it hardcore in the Jacuzzi. Like Hard.Core. Reportedly a variety of bendy positions, so sizzling, so dirty they're apparently right on par with One Night in Paris…only without the night vision lighting and Vanessa looks like she's a more interested participant. Full Story


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1st MINNEAPOLIS screening - FRI.26.April!
Mar 30, 2013
GIRL MEETS BIKE will have its first MINNEAPOLIS screening at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International film festival on Friday, April 26, 2013 at the St. Anthony Main Theaters. Showtimes and ticket information at: http://www.mspfilmfest.org
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Film Almost Finished!
Mar 30, 2013
With final sound mix underway and color correction finished on Monday, GIRL MEETS BIKE will be finished this week! We are now looking forward to our first MINNEAPOLIS screening on April 26th at the MPLS/St. PAUL film festival, and other Spring …
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Recording MUSIC for GMB
Jan 26, 2013
The past few weeks, I've been in the studio with bandmates, KEITH PATTERSON and DAN BOARDMAN, recording 10 tracks for the GIRL MEETS BIKE soundtrack. Much 60s and 70s garage R&B stylings, along with a strange nod to Lalo Shifrin. I just saw B…
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Danish & Swedish join DVD subtitles!
Jan 26, 2013
More supersonic news on the DVD front. Superstar, Kris Miklas of TRIUMPH CITY in Copenhagen, Denmark, has agreed to do DVD subtitles in Danish and Swedish. Other subtitles include Polish, German, French, Spanish and Chinese. This DV…
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Women's LARGE T-shirt SOLD OUT
Jan 26, 2013
We just sold the last LARGE size of the WOMEN'S (orange) T-shirt. The MEDIUM and X-LARGE sizes are fairly close in size, so consider those. We will be print another batch in the Spring, but hurry to get your shirts and other goodies. …
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Meet the BIKES of GIRL MEETS BIKE
Jan 09, 2013
THE MOTORCYCLES 1991 Moto Guzzi 1000s (owner Eric Tretbar) 949cc stock Le Mans V engine large valve head 40mm del Orto carburetors stock cam Bub conti replica exhaust 40mm Motocicliveloci clip-ons (Milan, Italy) Agostini rear sets…
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Fritz Fizzlesprocket was a tinker who one day was kidnapped by dark iron dwarves and forced to make a giant robot that would put presents which some actually had stolen goods from the Explorers' League vault hidden in them, under the tree, so later the dark iron dwarves could take the right ones at the Feast of Winter Veil without anyone knowing what was in them.
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College has two options
Re: RRC president under attack for spending (March 14). Somebody, somewhere in all this mess is either incompetent or irresponsible. Either fire the president if these expenses are not part of her contract (unless she makes minimum wage, which I doubt), or fire the board if they are.
And thanks to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation for revealing another example of upper-echelon hypocrisy. Nobody's above the law, but some in this college are above common sense and financial probity.
Two stories in the March 14 Free Press, one about the Red River College president's expense claims and the other about the new pope's expenditures (he takes a bus and makes his own meals), make for quite a comparative joke.
I doubt if the RRC president would even know which bus to take or how to make her own meals or, better yet, how to walk around a college wearing her so-called work shoes. Heck, she sounds more like a chauffeured golfing senator.
A shallow critique
The headline on Morley Walker's March 9 review of George Saunders' collection Tenth of December, Satirically demented tales for mainstream readers, was my first clue that he had missed a lot in his reading. Rather than being "satirically demented," Saunders' latest is full of pointed satire, beauty of the human condition and deep truths.
Walker's summation -- oh, these are some nutty stories -- is a shallow critique. To say that the title story is about a fat boy saving a cancer patient is like saying The Grapes of Wrath has something to do with fruit-picking in California.
The Semplica Girl Diaries points at consumer obsession and the coldness, and brutality, of making other people subservient to the level of ornamentation for a rich and ruling culture. Escape from Spiderhead speaks in pointed satire to a culture that worships at the temples of Viagra and Prozac.
Saunders got his genius grant for a lot more than just "dreaming up this stuff." I feel like the whole review was created so the final Alice Munro dig could be inserted.
Don't get me wrong. I love Munro's work -- both writers are geniuses in their own way. Clearly, Walker misses a lot of layers, and even the whole boat.
Ending the bullying
In his March 9 column, Why not anti-bully clubs?, Hendrik van der Breggen argues Bill 18 should refer to "anti-bullying clubs" rather than "gay-straight alliances."
First, Bill 18 does not prohibit general anti-bully clubs. Second, the critics are blind to the reality in our schools. Gay and lesbian students did not form GSAs on a whim. They formed them as a reaction to vicious bullying. If the bullying would go away, GSAs would soon go away.
Then some publicly funded schools banned GSAs, or insisted that they not use the word "gay." The GSA clause in Bill 18 is a reaction to that situation.
If some schools didn't target GSAs, there would be no need for Bill 18 to specifically state that GSAs are allowed when students want to form them.
The sad reality is there is a pressing need for GSAs, and there is a pressing need for Bill 18.
Bethany Epp (Letters, March 11) has an erroneous understanding of Christianity. It does not teach hate towards homosexuals.
Jesus's second commandment says, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." Most churches and the Old Testament condemn the acts and not the orientation.
Medically speaking, it is also unhealthy, and on evolutionary grounds, it is a dead end. Having said this, I do not mean that such individuals do not have a right to happiness and legal beneficiary rights.
Everyone is against bullying, but the majority object to promotion and indoctrination.
It is the right and responsibility of parents to teach their children. A truly free society always upholds this right. A totalitarian society always attacks this right, and tries to give it instead to the government.
Many years ago in our society, some parents gave permission to the government to handle part of the teaching of their children. The government was permitted to teach their children how to read and write. The government did this for a long time and did not exceed the mandate given to it.
However, about 25 years ago, the government decided to expand its own mandate, and forced its way into the domain of the parents. Over the protests of many parents, the government started to teach "sex education" in the schools, which it had no right to do. This in turn forced many parents to leave the public education system and either start private schools or begin home schooling.
The government continued to push further into the parents' domain, adding its own form of morality into its curriculum over the years. And now, under the umbrella of an "anti-bullying" bill, the government seems determined to force a new morality on everyone.
Morality is an integral part of religion, and so the government is in effect promoting the teaching of a new religion in all Manitoba schools. The new religion is not only to be allowed, it is to be supported, promoted and absolutely believed by all people. This is true bullying.
Re: Francis shows 'he is here to serve' (March 14). Thank goodness the pope charades are done. Perhaps the media can now concentrate on real news.
As illustrated by the opposition to Bill 18, we have freedom of religion, but freedom from religion, not so much.
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Any word on Iron Man 2 DVD exclusives? Planning on picking up the 2 disc next week, but I'm sure each store will have extra "goodies."
I went to this on Saturday with SWMBO and enjoyed it. Far from the greatest movie ever but good enough for popcorn. Won't say it's good enough for a sequel but I'm sure that's on the way regardless. The question in my mind though is this: What was the point of this being in 3D? Aside from my general dislike of 3D this went waaaaaaay beyond that. Throughout the movie I kept slipping the glasses down to see if there was anything happening and other than being blurry the answer for the most part was no. So I guess this then is how they jack movie prices by $3? And the ad at the start telling me to be green and recycle my glasses? Kiss my ass. If you'd let those responsible enough to retain their glasses and pay a reduced fee if they bring them it'd be a hell of a lot more environmentally friently than repackaging the damn things for every 3D movie that comes out. Gimme a break. If you are interested, then see it. If you've got the option to watch it in 2D for a reduced price, you won't be missing much of anything.
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1926 Taisho 15 Japanese Panorama Map of Tokaido, Japan (with Mt. Fuji)Tokaido-taisho15-1926
1926 Taisho 15 Japanese Panorama Map of Tokaido, Japan (with Mt. Fuji)Tokaido-taisho15-1926
Stunning chromolithograph panorama showing Mt. Fuji.
1926 (undated) 21 x 30 in (53.34 x 76.2 cm)
This uncommon type of map evolved from the exposure of traditional Japanese view-style cartography to western technology. Views like this began to appear in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea in the early 20th century. Generally speaking such maps coincided with the development of railroad lines throughout the once vast Dai Nippon Teikoku or Japanese empire. It is a distinctive style full of artistic flourish that at the same time performs a practical function. This particular example is both relatively early and exceptionally beautiful. It was printed via a multi-color chromolithographic process with delicately shaded tones and an easily comprehensible intuitive design.
Japanese cartography appears as early as the 1600s. Japanese maps are known for their exceptional beauty and high quality of workmanship. Early Japanese cartography has its own very distinctive projection and layout system. Japanese maps made prior to the appearance of Commodore Perry and the opening of Japan in the mid to late 1850s often have no firm directional orientation, incorporate views into the map proper, and tend to be hand colored woodblock prints. This era, from the 1600s to the c. 1855, which roughly coincides with the Tokugawa or Edo Period (1603-1886), some consider the Golden Age of Japanese Cartography. Most maps from this period, which followed isolationist ideology, predictably focus on Japan. The greatest cartographer of the period, whose work redefined all subsequent cartography, was Ino Tadataka (1745 -1818). Ino's maps of Japan were so detailed that, when the European cartographers arrived they had no need, even with their far more sophisticated survey equipment, to remap the region. Later Japanese maps, produced in the late Edo and throughout the Meiji period, draw heavily upon western maps as models in both their content and overall cartographic style. While many of these later maps maintain elements of traditional Japanese cartography such as the use of rice paper, woodblock printing, and delicate hand color, they also incorporate western directional orientation, projection systems, and structural norms. Even so, Japan's isolationist policy kept most western maps from reaching Japan so even 19th century maps appear extremely out of date. The early Japanese maps copy the great 1602 Chinese world map of the friar Matto Ricci. After Shiba Kokan's 1792 map, most Japanese cartographers used Covens and Mortier's 1730 copy of Jaillot's 1689 double hemisphere work as their base world-view. In 1862 Seiyo Sato based a new world map on Dutch sources dating to 1857, thus introducing the Mercator projection to Japan. By the late Meiji Era, western maps became far more common in Asia and Japanese maps began to follow modern conventions.


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First-Rate Veggie Plate
These exceptional recipes dish up delicious flavor and some stylish twists.
- Crowder Pea Succotash
- Crowder Peas
- Squash Casserole
- Grilled Sweet Onions
- Fresh Herb Vinaigrette
- Green Beans With Caramelized Garlic
- Not Yo' Mama's Mac 'n' Cheese
Condiments We Love
Sweet and spicy condiments are great complements to vegetable meals. Hot sauce, chowchow, pepper sauce, and relishes all add a tangy bite to squash, succotash, butter beans, and other mild flavors. Greens, especially, are enhanced by peppery sauces or sweet relishes. Supermarkets and specialty stores carry a wide variety of products, but pepper sauce, the simplest of the bunch, is the hands-down favorite of restaurants and home cooks across the South. It reigns supreme at our tasting table as well, but we also like homemade chowchow and Wickles Hoagie & Sub Sandwich Relish for topping peas and greens.
Assemble your own ultimate veggie plate from this tasty selection of favorites. One from several categories will make a lovely seasonal meal.
Something Yellow
- Tee's Corn Pudding
- Santa Fe Corn Pudding
- Buttermilk Fried Corn
- Creamy Fried Confetti Corn
- Summer Squash Casserole
- 2-Cheese Yellow Squash Casserole
- Yellow squash Casserole
Something Green
- Southern Turnip Greens and Ham Hocks
- Collards With Red Onions
- Uptown Collards
- Turnip Greens Stew
- Braised Kale With Bacon and Cider
- Green Bean Salad With Vidalia Onion and Mint
- Green Bean, Walnut, and Feta Salad
- Green Bean and Red Bell Pepper Toss
Something Fried
- Fried Pecan Okra
- Fried Okra and Potatoes
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Garlicky "Fried" Vegetables
- Simple Stir-Fried Okra
Peas or Beans
- Peppery Peas of Plenty
- Easy Black-eyed Peas
- Succotash Salad
- A Mess of Peas
- Butterbeans and Bacon
- Summer Succotash
- Quick Summer Succotash
- Simple Garlicky Lima Beans
Something Tomato
- Sliced Tomatoes in season―it's hard to improve on perfection
- Tomato Casserole
- Grilled Okra and Tomatoes
- Roasted Tomatoes with Shallots and Herbs
- Honey-Baked Tomatoes
- Tomato-Cucumber Salad
- Marinated Tomatoes With Basil and Balsamic Vinegar
Macaroni and Cheese
- Divine Macaroni and Cheese
- Caramelized Onion Macaroni and Cheese
- Mac and Texas Cheeses with Roasted Chiles
- Classic Baked Mac and Cheese
- Smokin' Mac 'n Cheese
- Creamy Mac 'n cheese
- One Pot Macaroni and Cheese
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According to the Prevent Blindness Vision Problems in the U.S. report, more than 22.3 million Americans have cataracts.Download Fact Sheet
This guide will help you learn more about:
The information will help you be more educated and involved in your eye doctor's treatment through diagnosis, surgery and recovery.
A cataract is a clouding of the eye's lens, which blocks or changes the passage of light into the eye. The lens of the eye is located behind the pupil and the colored iris, and is normally transparent. The lens helps to focus images onto the retina - which transmits the images to the brain.
Your vision may become blurry or dim because the cataract stops light from properly passing through to your retina.
Cataracts are a leading cause of blindness among older adults in the United States. More than half of all Americans have cataracts by the time they are 80 years old. Cataracts can also sometimes be found in young people or even newborn babies.
The exact cause of a cataract is unknown. Most often, a cataract is part of getting older. As you age, you are at greater risk of developing a cataract. There are also several possible risk factors for cataracts, such as:
Generally, a cataract does not cause pain, redness or tears. The following problems may indicate that you have a cataract:
Your eye works like a camera. A camera needs a lens to focus an image. But when the lens is dirty or cloudy, the camera can't take a good, clear picture.Learn More
Cataracts are probably caused by changes related to aging. Throughout our lives, our bodies replace old cells with new ones. As we grow older, the old cells in our eye's lens build up and block light as it tries to pass through. The end result is cloudy vision.
Besides getting older, other factors may cause cataracts to form. Eye infections, some medicines (such as steroids), injuries or exposure to intense heat or radiation may cause cataracts. Too much exposure to non-visible sunlight (called UV or ultraviolet light) and various diseases, such as diabetes or metabolic disorders, may also contribute to cataracts forming.
Age-related – 95% of cataracts are age-related, usually after age 40.
Congenital – These are present at birth, usually caused by infection or inflammation during pregnancy; possibly inherited.
Traumatic – Lens damage from a hard blow, cut, puncture, intense heat or chemical burn may cause cataracts.
Secondary – Some medicines, eye disease, eye infection, or diseases such as diabetes cause these cataracts.
Cataracts usually form in both eyes, but not at the same rate. They can develop slowly or quickly, or progress to a certain point, then not get any worse. As a result, you may not notice large changes in your sight right away.
Everyone who gets a cataract experiences it differently. But a person with a cataract commonly experiences cloudy or blurry vision. Lights may cause a glare, seem too dim or seem too bright. It may be hard to read or drive, especially at night. If you have a cataract, you may see halos around lights, such as car headlights, that make it hard to focus clearly. Colors may not seem as bright as they used to be. Or you may have to change your eyeglass prescription often.
If you notice any of these changes, make an appointment to see your eye doctor.
If you have a cataract, you may have symptoms that are similar to those of other eye diseases. Only your eye doctor can tell you for sure what's wrong.
To find out if you have cataracts, your eye doctor will want to:
After this exam, your eye doctor will determine whether you have cataracts, how much they interfere with your vision, whether surgery would help, and what types of treatment and lens replacements are best for you.
Cataract surgery has restored vision to millions of people. Every year in the U.S., more than two million cataract surgeries are performed.
The key to preventing vision loss is regular eye exams. If you are 65 or older, you should get a complete eye exam every one or two years, even if you have no problem seeing well. Be sure to ask your eye doctor for a dilated eye exam.Learn More


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I configured a Debian Squeeze virtual machine in VMWare on my laptop. I configured it with a very restrictive set of firewall rules using Firestarter. I then uploaded a copy of its disk image to use as a virtual private server on the internet.
On the internet version, I rather rashly removed my firewall settings via the following command:
apt-get purge firestarter
I've since realised I want to restore the firewall rules to their old state, which is still on the original virtual machine on my laptop.
My question is: how can I copy the firewall settings from the virtual machine on my laptop to the one on the internet?
I tried copying /sbin/iptables from the original virtual machine to the new one, but that hasn't had any effect (according to the output of
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A risk factor is something that increases your likelihood of getting a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop fibromyalgia with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing fibromyalgia. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
There are still many questions regarding the exact cause(s) of fibromyalgia, so risk factors are still being identified. Currently, risk factors include:
Although fibromyalgia may develop in men or women, women are more likely to develop fibromyalgia than men.
People between the ages of 20-60 are at the highest risk of developing the onset of fibromyalgia, although it may occur at any age.
There is some indication that genetic factors may be involved in the development of fibromyalgia. Studies have shown that people with family members who have fibromyalgia are at a higher risk of developing it themselves.
People who have recently experienced a traumatic physical or emotional event, such as a divorce or car accident, may be at a higher risk of developing fibromyalgia.
There is evidence that fibromyalgia and obesity may be linked. Fibromyalgia patients are more likely to be obese.
Many people with fibromyalgia report a history of psychiatric symptoms, but many others do not. There is no clear evidence that psychiatric illness causes fibromyalgia.
You may be at higher risk of fibromyalgia if you have rheumatic diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus or rheumatoid arthritis.
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Cash, traveler's checks, debit cards and major credit cards (VISA, MasterCard, American Express and Discover Cards) are accepted as payment at the tollbooth. WSF accepts most transit vouchers (available from local transit companies to businesses throughout the Puget Sound) as well as the ORCA card . WSF does not accept checks or unsigned credit cards.
A receipt will be issued for all sales. If a receipt is not issued, or if there is a discrepancy, please call WSF Customer Service at 206-464-6400 or send a description of the transaction to:
Washington State Ferries
Attention: Revenue Control
2901 Third Avenue, Suite 500
Seattle, WA 98121-3014
We offer seniors (age 65 and over), persons with disabilities, and passengers with a Medicare card or other eligibility verification travel at half the regular passenger fare. We also offer special rates for youth 6 through 18 years of age. Children 5 and under travel for free.
We also offer discounted fares for frequent use .
Safety and Security
WSF prohibits the following items on the terminal facilities and WSF vessels:
Gasoline containers having a total aggregate water capacity of 12 gallons may be carried in a vehicle, provided no single container exceeds a maximum water capacity of 6 gallons; the containers must be USCG or UL approved and in good condition. When evaluating the allowable limits, all tanks shall be considered full. All vehicles must have gas caps.
Regulations require that you shut off and tag all propane tanks prior to boarding, unless they are the primary fuel source for your vehicle.
Any number of full or empty tanks of propane may be transported in a vehicle, provided that the total weight does not exceed on hundred pounds (water weight equivalent). When evaluating the allowable limits, all tanks shall be considered full. To calculate the quantity of cylinders allowed aboard the vessel, use the following calculation: Water weighs approximately 8.4 pounds per gallon. A 5 gallon cylinder, 12.5" D x 17" H, would weigh approximately 42 pounds (water weight value). With this calculation, a vehicle could transport two 5 gallon propane cylinders and not exceed the 100 pound limit.
New propane tanks of any size, which have never been filled with propane, may be transported in any quantity, provided that the valves are closed and the shipper has a sales receipt proving the tanks are new. Used propane tanks of any size may be transported, provided that the shipper has documentation proving the tanks have been purged and rendered inert. Fixed propane tanks that are permanently installed on the frame or chassis of vehicles, including recreational vehicles and trailers, are not included within the allowable limit of portable propane tanks.
In cases where vehicles are carrying both propane tanks and gasoline containers, the total aggregate amount of both fuels shall not exceed 12 gallons (water capacity).
Example: A vehicle transporting one 5 gallon portable propane tank is limited to one 6 gallon approved gasoline container.
Please turn off your vehicle in the holding lanes. Vehicle emissions can be harmful to the environment as well as to other customers. Vehicle engines must be turned off while the vessel is underway. Do not restart your car until directed by a crewmember.
Notice: All vehicles subject to security screening
These signs give vehicle drivers and passengers notification that Washington State Patrol teams, or teams of officers, may be walking among vehicles in the holding lanes for the purpose of ensuring illegal explosive materials are not taken aboard.
Additional safety and security measures appear on our security page .
Smoking is not allowed on WSF vessels. All smoking materials must be extinguished before boarding the vessel. No smoking is allowed within 25 feet of the entry to WSF ferry terminal buildings.
For medical preferential loading information, call our information staff. Most terminals are accessible and all vessels are elevator-equipped. Please let us know at the tollbooth if you need elevator access.
Our schedule may be obtained in alternate forms by calling 206-515-3460 .
Vehicle reservations are available for the Anacortes/San Juan Islands, Anacortes/Sidney, B.C. international route, and for the Port Townsend/Coupeville route and are highly recommended. Note that reservations must be made at least 2 hours in advance. You can make reservations online or by phone.
Visitors, vacationers and commuters will be vying for limited car deck space for their vehicles, especially in July and August. Busiest travel times are Thursday and Friday evenings westbound and Sunday afternoons eastbound. In the San Juans, peak travel times from Anacortes are Thursday and Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings. Peak travel times from the islands are all day Sunday and Monday mornings.
Riders can avoid the busiest times and skip long lines with a tool that highlights the best times to catch a ferry. Listed below are links to color-coded sailing schedules that pinpoint the least and most congested sailing times for drive-on passengers.
How to read the best times to travel schedules
The tables are for vehicle traffic only. In almost all cases there is room for walk-on passengers. Congestion levels represent typical sailings for the season and do not account for special events or holidays. To minimize potential wait times, you should try to make travel plans for sailings with low to moderate congestion.
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Reservations are highly recommended for travel to Sidney, B.C., and must be made at least 2 hours in advance. See the Reservations section above for further information.
International Travel
Proof of citizenship is required for entry into Canada and the United States. Passports, Enhanced Driver's Licenses, and Nexus Cards are accepted for entrance into Canada for travelers 16 years old and older. Travelers entering the U.S. are required to present a valid Passport, Passport Card, or Enhanced Driver's License. Travelers must have required travel documents ready and in hand upon arrival at the ferry terminal tollbooth.
Vehicles and baggage are subject to inspection. Articles you bring into either country are subject to being taxed.
Please note: Individuals with felony or DUI convictions are routinely denied entry into Canada. Also, Canadian law prohibits individuals from bringing guns, mace, pepper spray and other personal defense products into Canada.
Traveling with Children
U.S. and Canadian citizens who are 15 years old or younger are allowed to travel with just a copy of their birth certificate, as are teens between the ages of 16 and 18 if they are part of an adult-supervised school, religious, cultural or athletic group. If both birth parents are not traveling with children, you must have written authorization from the parent(s) along with a telephone number where they can be reached to verify the authorization or proof of custody. Failure to provide such evidence may make the child inadmissible to Canada.
Customs and Immigration Contacts
For more information about cross-border travel, please consult the following authorities in advance of your trip:
Information Staff
Lost and Found
Persons who are deaf or hard of hearing may access the Washington State Relay by dialing 711 (WA only) and asking to be connected to 206-515-3460 .
Mobile Apps
WSDOT's mobile apps include ferry schedules and alerts, as well as the traffic, mountain pass and border wait time information.
Washington State Ferries
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Seattle, WA 98121-3014


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Marlins hope Jones can get in a groove
MIAMI -- Fans are seeing signs from time to time of what Garrett Jones can do in the middle of the Marlins' order. What Jones and the Marlins are looking for is consistency.
The Marlins are counting on Jones to offer protection in the cleanup spot behind Giancarlo Stanton. Manager Mike Redmond regularly bats the 32-year-old first baseman fourth against right-handed starters, and fifth or lower against lefties.
In the first two weeks, Jones' slash line is .230/.314/.361. He obviously wants the batting average to be higher, and he's drawing walks (eight), but he's striking out a lot (24 times).
Still, he offers power from the left side, and he has two homers, two doubles and eight RBIs in his first 16 games.
"A lot of times it's just confidence," Redmond said. "It's maybe one or two good games, and then all of a sudden, you take off. This guy is a big part of our team. We need him to produce and drive in runs in the middle of that order. He understands that."
Three times in his career, Jones has belted more than 20 homers in a season. But his past few seasons in Pittsburgh, he was used mostly in a platoon situation.
When the Marlins signed him as a free agent, they made it clear the first baseman would get an opportunity to play full-time. The feeling being, if he gets 500 at-bats, Jones could approach the 20-homer, 70-RBI plateau.
It's still a process, as he's working with hitting coach Frank Menechino.
"He's still working his swing out," Redmond said. "I know he's worked really hard with Frank. Not just on his swing, but his approach and staying aggressive on the fastball. I have seen some really good swings."


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Good roast chicken in greater Bay Area
SIX OF A KIND: Roast chicken
One of the best ways to judge the skill of a restaurant kitchen is how the chefs roast chicken.
It seems like a simple process, but what seems easy is often the most difficult. I've had to work my way through a lot of mediocre versions of roast chicken before finding ones that take flight.
Here are six of my favorites. They know no ethnic boundaries.
Limon Rotisserie
This Peruvian restaurant serves chicken roasted over open flames ($10.95 half/$19.95 whole). It's accompanied by three sauces - chimichurri, amarillo-huacatay and rocoto - plus two side dishes (French, sweet or yucca fries; rice; salad or stir-fried vegetables).
1001 S. Van Ness Street (at Mission Ave.), San Francisco; (415) 821-2134. limonrotisserie.com. Open continuously for lunch and dinner daily. Also at: 524 Valencia St., San Francisco; (415) 252-0918. 5800 Third St., San Francisco; (415) 926-5665.
Park Tavern
The small whole chicken ($26) is bronzed by the wood oven, standing straight up on a unique cast-iron plate. It nests on a bed of chopped spinach that becomes crisp on top from the oven, studded with tiny potatoes that look like eggs in the grass.
1652 Stockton St. (near Filbert Street), San Francisco; (415) 989-7300. parktavernsf.com. Lunch Friday; brunch Saturday-Sunday; dinner Tuesday-Sunday.
Beggar's chicken ($21.88) features a half bird wrapped in lotus leaves, encased in clay and baked. It's brought to the table with a mallet to break open the package and reveal the succulent, steaming bird. The chicken is accompanied by a stuffing of smoked pork belly, mushrooms and Brussels sprouts.
2030 Union St. (near Buchanan Street), San Francisco; (415) 929-8855. betelnutrestaurant.com. Open continuously for lunch and dinner daily (until midnight Friday-Saturday).
The whole chicken ($39) is brined and rubbed with lemon, garlic and ground annato seed, then spit-roasted until the skin is nicely browned and blistered. It comes with fire-roasted potatoes, rice with rajas, black beans with epazote, and freshly made warm tortillas.
2020 Shattuck Ave. (near University Avenue), Berkeley; (510) 926-6300. comal berkeley.com. Dinner nightly.
Restaurant 1833
The whole chicken ($39) is brined, then rubbed with generous amounts of truffle butter under and over the skin before being roasted in the wood oven. It's brought to the table with its browned, lightly charred skin and then returned to the kitchen and cut into pieces.
500 Hartnell St. (at Calle Principal), Monterey; (831) 643-1833. restaurant1833.com. Dinner nightly.
Zuni Cafe
Even after decades, this version of roast chicken ($48), cooked in the wood oven, is the standard bearer of a perfect bird, sporting crisp bronze skin and succulent flesh. It's served on a platter with a bread salad with dandelion greens, currants and pine nuts.
1658 Market St. (near Franklin Street), San Francisco; (415) 552-2522. zunicafe.com. Open continuously for lunch and dinner Tuesday-Sunday (until midnight Friday-Saturday).
Michael Bauer is The San Francisco Chronicle restaurant critic. Find his blog daily at insidescoopsf.sfgate.com, and go to www.sfgate.com/food to read his previous reviews. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @michaelbauer1


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Restaurant Guide: Four Perfect Days
We have assembled the ideal breakfast, lunch and dinner itineraries for Oahu, Kauai, Maui and the Big Island. This is a gourmand's fantasy trip—we set aside all earthly concerns, including logistics, calories and budget. Enjoy these, our recommendations for four flawless days' worth of Island dining.
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Start with a rarity in the Honolulu restaurant scene—outdoor dining. Plumeria Beach House, at the Kahala Hotel & Resort, seats you steps away from the ocean where you can spend the morning staring at the greenest green lawn imaginable, the deepest blue sea, an amazing sky and, in the distance, majestic Koko Head.
But you are here to eat, not sightsee. Tempted as we were by the full breakfast buffet ($30 for adults, $15 for children), we went with our server's suggestion and ordered the surf & turf eggs Benedict with hash browns ($20). From bottom to top: English muffin, beef tenderloin, crab meat, two poached eggs and bearnaise sauce. The evocative, briny smell of the crab hits as the plate is set before you. The crab worked well with the beef, both a bit sweet. And we can't say enough about the orange juice, so sweet and pulpy it seemed almost like an orange shake. 5000 Kahala Ave., 739-8760.
The plate lunch is Hawaii's lunch, as much a part of our multicultural plantation heritage as pidgin. Think of it as pidgin you can eat. One of the interesting developments in Hawaii culinary history was how the humble plate lunch partly inspired the Hawaii Regional Cuisine movement, and then was elevated by it. Case in point: Diamond Head Market & Grill, where chef-owner Kelvin Ro serves up foodie-grade plate lunches in a tiny building that once housed Burgerland—a greasy-spoon-type plate lunch place if there ever was one.
Ro has two operations going here. The indoor market side boasts a deli and bakery, serving such conventional gourmet offerings as tomato basil salmon salad, or a turkey sandwich with housemade chutney.
But we headed straight to the outdoor grill for the mixed plate—hamburger steak, teri chicken and char sui, with brown rice, tossed greens and the usual bed-o-shredded-cabbage ($8.50).The hamburger steak was thick, seasoned and grilled on the spot. Ditto the teri chicken.
And the char sui—even Chinese restaurants can render this inedibly oily, but here, you get long, thin slices that still taste like pork. All this, of course, has a terrific, fresh-grilled flavor.
Hawaiian-honey lemonade ($1.50 for a regular) was almost sweet enough to drink as a dessert, but we opted to eat a real dessert. So we grabbed a slice of red velvet cake ($3.75) from the market side of the operation.
OUR ADVICE: Hit the grill, get your lunch to go, take it to nearby Kapiolani Park so it's still hot while you sit in the shade and enjoy. Now that's a perfect lunch on Oahu. 3158 Monsarrat Ave., 732-0077
We visited during the first week of Chef Mavro's summer menu and as he greeted us at the table, Chef George Mavrothalassitis joked that we would be his guinea pigs. As if anything could go wrong. "Actually, by the time we present a new menu, the kitchen has made each dish at least 20 times," he explained.
At Chef Mavro, the seasonal menu is fixed, as well as the wine pairings, all fine-tuned by a tasting committee. You choose as few as three courses ($69, plus $48 for wine pairings), or, as we attempted to complete, the full 13-course "summer grand degustation menu" ($165, plus $95 for wine pairings).
Do so, and you've committed to an unusually focused dining experience, as if Mavro, chef de cuisine Kevin Chong and wine director/sommelier Todd Ashline were working just for you. The Grand Degustation takes two or three hours, as each course is explained and each paired wine are introduced. The pacing and portion size helps your stomach keep up with your palate, but we confess we had to take the Colorado lamb home with us. The small restaurant is quiet and intimate, so nothing distracts you from your tablemate and the courses.
And what courses! Marinated nairagi (striped marlin) and American caviar, with poached quail eggs, sunchoke chips, tomato confit, seasoned with Hanapēpē salt, paired with Domaine Laroche's 2007 Chablis St. Martin. Wagyu strip loin with burgundy-braised veal cheek, "no eggs no butter béarnaise" boulangère potatoes and essence of Sumida watercress, paired with Clos Les Lunelles' 2003 Cotes do Castillon. Lilikoi malassadas with guava coulis and pineapple-coconut ice cream, paired with Blandy's five-year-old Malmsey Madeira.
And 10 others, each a little work of perfection. "It's like food alchemy," said our dining companion.
The summer menu continues through the third week of September. 1969 So. King St., 944-4714


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Given how notorious Wall Streeters are for writing embarrassing e-mails that are later used against them in court (see: Libor scandal), they should really take note of this news.
The FBI has developed new software that scans e-mails for buzz words and phrases that indicate the sender (and receiver) or said mail are up to no good, the FT reports. There are over 3,000 words and phrases that would raise a red flag in the program.
Accounting firm Ernst and Young found out about this program after looking through evidence from corporate investigations in conjunction with the FBI.
"The language, which is a mix of accounting phrases, personal motivations and attempts to conceal, are very revealing," said Rashmi Joshi, Ernst & Young's director of fraud investigation and disputes services.
He said that the monitoring of email traffic played almost no role in the compliance efforts of companies looking for possible problems. "While most organisations only focus on the numbers when investigating discrepancies, what we are seeing are ways of analyzing words – emails, SMS or instant messaging – to identify and isolate wrongdoing."
Linguistic analysis software, which initially protects employee anonymity, can flag uncharacteristic changes in tone and language in electronic conversations and can also be tailored for particular types of employees, especially traders.
So phrases like, "nobody will find out," "call my mobile"," and "don't leave a trail" could now get you noticed.
You've been warned.


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The One Hundredth Thing About Caroline
The most useless and obnoxious thing in the world of eleven-year-old Caroline Tate is her brother, J. P., the genius with the photographic memory. But now, for the first time, she needs him. She needs him because upstairs, in the fifth-floor apartment, it seems that a mystery man named Frederick Fiske is researching obscure poisons so that he can murder Caroline and J. P. and marry their mother.
Caroline's best friend, Stacy, future investigative journalist, is intrigued - but only by the headline she envisions: WOOS MOM, SLAYS KIDS.
J. P., the electronics wizard, is the one with the know-how - and the wires, switches, batteries, and transformers - to turn an ordinary kitchen chair into a do-it-yourself electric chair and an unsuspecting dinner guest, Frederick Fiske, into a grilled cheese sandwich.
All the evidence to convict the murderer is waiting, hidden in a pair of forgotten galoshes. But one of the things about galoshes is that somebody's bound to put a foot into one sometime. And at least one of the hundred things about Caroline is that whatever happens, she's irresistible.
"Lowry's style is bright, fast-paced, and funny, with skillfully drawn, believable characters." -- School Library Journal ALA Notable Book


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Imagine a cold and lonely Christmas with no one to hug you, no presents under the tree, no stockings hanging with your gifts. Some children have nothing to hope for and no one to give them the love they need. Kids in foster care act out because they don't have the tools and knowledge to deal with their situation. Lost in the county run group homes, they feel like a whale in a tank. There is no motivation to go to school. No one to hug them or tell them that it's important to go to college.
John Williams was only nine when his parents died. For some reason, he fell through the cracks and never in foster care. At the age of 16, he had a vision. He would have an organization to support kids like himself.
Statistics say that "only 10% of foster kids go to college and of that only 2% graduate," said Petrie Alexandra Williams, President, Safety Harbor Kids, whose group gives full college scholarships for children with a 3.6 GPA Our goal is to get these kids tutoring. We bring music lessons and knowledge to their home. "Children who learn music get better grades and learn easily and have a higher earning power. Our goal is to get them training and education. Our kids are 13-17. Unfortunately, when they are 18, they are often kicked out of the foster care system with nowhere to go, no purpose, dream or mentor. We provide that. We take them to film sets, help them with jobs, and give them a reason to continue or finish school. Through Pepperdine Guardian Scholarship Program, we are able to help them with scholarships to further their education.
On December 8, 2013, you can help these kids at the 7th annual Safety Harbor Kids Founders Challenge. This year Hal Sparks will be hosting along with Malcolm McDowell and his guest Pierce Brosnan and Quincy Jones, with the group Blush, will play. In the seven years they've been in business, they have raised over 6,000 gifts and 1,000 holiday stockings stuffed with goodies and school supplies to more than 1,200 needed children.
How can you help? $35 gives a lonely child a present or $50 gives them a present and a stocking. $500 gives 10 children the gift of love. For only $360, you can sponsor a child for a whole year. Every sponsored child receives a holiday meal with all the trimmings, motivational speaker science guy Hal Sparks, special music performance, and fun music, art and woodcrafts to do. Tesla will have models displayed at the party. Due to limited seating, this event is for a limited number members and the children from the homes. If you are interested in attending, it's important that you donate and RSVP today.
It's $100 for an individual member and $200 for a family. They also request for their toy drive - a new or unused, unwrapped toy for a child of 13-17 to be dropped off at the Duke's Malibu restaurant on or before December 5, 2013. Toys left over go to the homeless shelter.
Be part of their founder's challenge, go to the web site, and click either gift or gift and stocking or write them. Their goal is to have 750 toys and stockings for needy kids to reach this year's bar. Top sponsors get their names and company logos in a newsletter that goes out to 10,000 people, along with a national press release, and their name is highlighted on the web site. Last year, Tesla partnered with us for our fundraiser and Astrid Hertz from the Hertz Foundation gave to many of our children. The year before a law firm out of Texas, Baker Botts, won the challenge.
Duke's Malibu is located at 21150 E Pacific Coast Hwy Malibu, CA 90265; (310) 317-0777
The organization has other fundraisers open to the public, as well, and one in March will be with Jackson Brown. A polo event is also planned, and as a member, you get extra benefits.
For more information write to Safety Harbor Kids at 23838 PCH #14, Malibu, CA 90265 or call Petrie Alexandra Williams at 800-277-0497


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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Is anyone else puzzled by the fact that Bob Woodward's1 tales of a military killing technology that he would "compare...to the Manhattan Project" and is supposedly responsible for most of the drop in violence in Iraq is not getting more comment than it is?
That sound, by the way, is from all the conspiracy theorists in the country simultaneously shitting themselves.
1 Washington-based journalist with reputation for making far-fetched claims about Presidents.
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- Anonymous said...
is not getting more comment than it is?
Yeah, I got'cher comments right heeere...
1) First of all, I note that the CNN article quotes an NSA advisor, and other linked articles quote army officials and politicians who appear to be upset at Woodward's implication that "The Surge Is Not Working," that the supposed drop in violence is due to the new tech instead of the Surge.
Of course, if we were actually fighting a war instead of a PR campaign, I should think most reasonable people would be pleased that new technology is alleviating the need for troops and innocent bystanders to be in harm's way. That is, of course, what the military tells us over and over and over again as they show us footage of the cruise missiles and drones and stealth bombers which are supposedly accurate enough to bust a zit on Saddam's nose without mussing his mustache. Precision warfare, right? So if we finally have a success story in this vein, we gotta keep it top secret?
But of course, we aren't actually fighting a war in Iraq, we are fighting for Dubya Bush's honor (and McCain's election chances.) For that, we gotta see some blood & guts, in order to keep the bloodthirsty voters happy, rather than invisible ultrasonic death rays from space.
2) At the beginning of the article, Woodward says the technology must be kept secret "or else it would get people killed". At the end of the article, Woodward says Al-Qaida already knows about this, "The enemy has a heads up". So -- if the enemy already knows about the weapon, whom are we keeping it secret from and why?
My own personal conspiracy theory: I'd put my money on some lame-ass attempt to produce an ethnic bioweapon. Supposedly argeting Persian "foreign fighters" as opposed to native Iraqis, or something like that. And if the DNA sniffer doesn't work quite as well as it should, and half the victims turn out to be local native Iraqis, well then they were "resisting arrest" or somesuch.
Testing an unproven Monsanto bioagent in the middle of a messy battlefield is something we would probably want to keep secret from the rest of the world, (not to mention the Iraqi population)... as opposed to keeping it secret from the enemy... (see my comment #2)
- September 11, 2008 at 4:27 PM
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Since 1978
2 Sites:
17,200 & 32,200 sqf
215 Employees
Exxelia Magnetics was formed through the merging of Exxelia Microspire and Exxelia N'Ergy, in 2016.
Exxelia Magnetics brings together all French based activities of design and manufacture of high-end electromagnetic components: transformers and inductors, electro-magnets, rotors and stators.
Exxelia Magnetics relies on more than 40 years' experience acquired by both companies, which have complementary know-how.
Standard Technologies
Linear winding: in RM, ETD, EP, EFD, ER, EQ and other formats
Toroid winding
Specific Technologies
- Design and manufacture of specific electromagnetic components with copper or aluminum conductors for power conversion embedded electronics.
- Moulding of electromagnetic components or cards (potting)
- Electric testing @ 50Hz or 400Hz
- Expertise in SESI, TT and CCM technologies
Harsh environment applications (shock, vibration, and high temperature, …)
Exxelia Magnetics' manufacturing sites are located in France and in several cost-effective areas (Exxelia Vietnam and Exxelia Maroc), offering competitive solutions.
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