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|Matthew Chapters 5 to 7
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapters 5 to 7
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
This discourse may be divided into the following parts [1]: The character and the portion of those who should be in the kingdom (v. 1-12). Their position in the world (v. 13-16). The connection between the principles of the kingdom and the law (v. 17-48). [2] The spirit in which His disciples should perform good works (Matt. 6: 1-18). Separation from the spirit of the world and from its anxieties (v. 19-34). The spirit of their relation with others (Matt. 7: 1-6). The confidence in God which became them (v. 7-12). The energy that should characterise them, in order that they might enter into the kingdom; not however merely enter, many would seek to do that, but according to those principles which made it difficult for man, according to God the strait gate; and then, the means of discerning those who would seek to deceive them, as well as the watchfulness needed that they might not be deceived (v. 13-23). Real and practical obedience to His sayings, the true wisdom of those that hear His words (v. 24-29).
[1] In the text I have given a division which may assist in a practical application of the sermon on the Mount. With respect to the subjects contained in it, it might perhaps, though the difference is not very great, be still better divided thus: Matthew 5: 1-16 contains the complete picture of the character and position of the remnant who received His instructions -- their position, as it should be, according to the mind of God. This is complete in itself. Verses 17-48 establish the authority of the law, which should have regulated the conduct of the faithful until the introduction of the kingdom; the law which they ought to have fulfilled, as well as the words of the prophets, in order that they (the remnant) should be placed on this new ground; and the despisal of which would exclude whoever was guilty of it from the kingdom; for Christ is speaking, not as in the kingdom, but as announcing it as near to come. But, while thus establishing the authority of the law, He takes up the two great elements of evil, treated of only in outward acts in the law, violence and corruption, and judges the evil in the heart (22, 28), and at all cost to get rid of it and every occasion of it, thus showing what was to be the conduct of His disciples, and their state of soul -- that which was to characterise them as such. The Lord then takes up certain things borne with by God in Israel, and ordered according to what they could bear. Thus was now brought into the light of a true moral estimate, divorce -- marriage being the divinely given basis of all human relationships -- and swearing or vowing, the action of man's will in relationship to God; then patience of evil, and fulness of grace, His own blessed character, and carrying with it the moral title to what was His living place -- sons of their Father who was in heaven. Instead of weakening that which God required under the law, He would not only have it observed until its fulfilment, but that His disciples should be perfect even as their Father in heaven was perfect. This adds the revelation of the Father, to the moral walk and state which suited the character of sons as it was revealed in Christ. Matthew 6. We have the motives, the object, which should govern the heart in doing good deeds, in living a religious life. Their eye should be on their Father. This is individual. Matthew 7. This chapter is essentially occupied with the intercourse that would be suitable between His own people and others -- not to judge their brethren and to beware of the profane. He then exhorts them to confidence in asking their Father for what they needed, and instructs them to act towards others with the same grace that they would wish shown to themselves. This is founded on the knowledge of the goodness of the Father. Finally, He exhorts them to the energy that will enter in at the strait gate, and choose the way of God, cost what it may (for many would like to enter into the kingdom, but not by that gate); and He warns them with respect to those who would seek to deceive them by pretending to have the word of God. It is not only our own hearts that we have to fear, and positive evil, when we would follow the Lord, but also the devices of the enemy and his agents. But their fruits will betray them.
[2] It is important however to remark that there is no general spiritualisation of the law, as is often stated. The two great principles of immorality amongst men are treated of (violence and corrupt lust), to which are added voluntary oaths. In these the exigencies of the law and what Christ required are contrasted.
The revelation of the Father's name
There is another principle that characterises this discourse, and that is the introduction of the Father's name. Jesus puts His disciples in connection with His Father, as their Father. He reveals to them the Father's name, in order that they may be in relation with Him, and that they may act in accordance with that which He is.
The rejection of the King; consequent position and conduct of His followers
This discourse gives the principles of the kingdom, but supposes the rejection of the King, and the position into which this would bring those that were His; who consequently must look for a heavenly reward. They were to be a divine savour where God was known and was dealing, and would be a spectacle to the whole world. Moreover this was God's object. Their confession was to be so open that the world should refer their works to the Father. They were to act, on the one hand, according to a judgment of evil which reached the heart and motives, but also, on the other, according to the Father's character in grace -- to approve themselves to the Father who saw in secret, where the eye of man could not penetrate. They were to have full confidence in Him for all their need. His will was the rule according to which there was entrance into the kingdom.
The discourse pronounced in Israel before the kindgom is set up
We may observe that this discourse is connected with the proclamation of the kingdom as being near at hand, and that all these principles of conduct are given as characterising the kingdom, and as the conditions of entrance into it. No doubt it follows that they are suitable to those who have entered in. But the discourse is pronounced in the midst of Israel [1], before the kingdom is set up, and as the previous state called for in order to enter, and to set forth the fundamental principles of the kingdom in connection with that people, and in moral contrast with the ideas they had formed respecting it.
[1] We must always remember that, while dispensationally Israel has great importance, as the centre of God's government of this world, morally Israel was just man where all the ways and dealings of God had been carried out so as to b ring to light what he was. The Gentile was man left to himself as regards. God's special ways, and so unrevealed. Christ was a light, to reveal the Gentiles, Luke 2: 32.
The beatitudes: the character and portion of those in the kingdom
In examining the beatitudes, we shall find that this portion in general gives the character of Christ Himself. They suppose two things; the coming possession of the land of Israel by the meek; and the persecution of the faithful remnant, really righteous in their ways, and who asserted the rights of the true King (heaven being set before them as their hope to sustain their hearts) [1].
[1] The characters pronounced blessed may be briefly noted. They suppose evil in the world, and amongst God's people. The first is not seeking great things for self, but accepting a despised place in a scene contrary to God. Hence mourning characterises them there, and meekness, a will not lifting up itself against God, or to maintain its position or right. Then positive good in desire, for it is not yet found; hungering hence and thirsting after it, such is the inward state and activity of the mind. Then grace towards others. Then purity of heart, the absence of what would shut out God; and, what is always connected with it, peacefulness and peace-making. I think there is moral progress in the verses, one leading to the next as an effect of it. The two last are the consequences of maintaining a good conscience and connection with Christ in a world of evil. There are two principles of suffering, as in 1 Peter, for righteousness' and Christ's sake.
The disciples' position in the world
This will be the position of the remnant in the last days before the introduction of the kingdom, the last being exceptional. It was so, morally, in the days of the Lord's disciples, in reference to Israel, the earthly part being delayed. In reference to heaven, the disciples are looked at as witnesses in Israel; but -- while the only preservative of the earth -- they were a testimony to the world. So that the disciples are seen as in connection with Israel, but, at the same time, as witnesses on God's part to the world (the kingdom being in view, but not yet established). The connection with the last days is evident; nevertheless their testimony then had, morally, this character. Only the establishment of the earthly kingdom has been delayed, and the church, which is heavenly, brought in. Matthew 5: 25 evidently alludes to the position of Israel in the days of Christ. And in fact they remain captive, in prison, until they have received their full chastisement, and then they shall come forth.
The obedient man, the Lord from heaven
The Lord ever speaks and acts as the obedient man, moved and guided by the Holy Ghost; but we see in the most striking manner, in this Gospel, who it is that acts thus. And it is this which gives its true moral character to the kingdom of heaven. John the Baptist might announce it as a change of dispensation, but his ministry was earthly. Christ might equally announce this same change (and the change was all-important); but in Him there was more than this. He was from heaven, the Lord who came from heaven. In speaking of the kingdom of heaven, He spoke out of the deep and divine abundance of His heart. No man had been in heaven, excepting Him who had come down from thence, the Son of man who was in heaven. Therefore, when speaking of heaven, He spoke of that which He knew, and testified of that which He had seen This was the case in two ways, as shown forth in Matthew's Gospel. It was no longer an earthly government according to the law; Jehovah, the Saviour, Emmanuel, was present Could He be otherwise than heavenly in His character, in the tone, in the essence, of His whole life?
The character of Christ identified with heaven
Moreover, when He began His public ministry and was sealed by the Holy Ghost, heaven was opened to Him. He was identified with heaven as a man sealed with the Holy Ghost on earth. He was thus the continual expression of the spirit, of the reality, of heaven. There was not yet the exercise of the judicial power which would uphold this character in the face of all that opposed it. It was its manifestation in patience, notwithstanding the opposition of all around Him and the inability of His disciples to understand Him. Thus in the sermon on the Mount we find the description of that which was suitable to the kingdom of heaven, and even the assurance of reward in heaven for those who should suffer on earth for His sake. This description, as we have seen, is essentially the character of Christ Himself. It is thus that a heavenly spirit expresses itself on earth. If the Lord taught these things, it is because He loved them, because He was them and delighted in them. Being the God of heaven, filled as man with the Spirit without measure, His heart was perfectly in unison with a heaven that He perfectly knew. Consequently therefore He concludes the character which His disciples were to assume by these words: "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect." All their conduct was to be in reference to their Father in heaven. The more we understand the divine glory of Jesus, the more we understand the way in which He was as man in connection with heaven, the better shall we apprehend what the kingdom of heaven was to Him with regard to that which was suitable to it. When it shall be established hereafter in power, the world will be governed according to these principles, although they are not, properly speaking, its own. The remnant in the last days, I doubt not, finding all around them contrary to faithfulness, and seeing all Jewish hope fail before their eyes, will be forced to look upward, and will more and more acquire this character, which, if not heavenly, is at least very much conformed to Christ.*
{*Those who are put to death will go up to heaven, as Matthew 5: 12 testifies, and the Apocalypse also. The others, who are thus conformed to Christ, as a suffering Jew, will be with Him on Mount Sion; they will learn the song which is sung in heaven, and will follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth (on earth). We may also remark here, that in the beatitudes there is the promise of the earth to the meek, which will be literally fulfilled in the last days. In verse 12 a reward in heaven is promised to those who suffer for Christ, true for us now, and in some sort for those who shall be slain for His sake in the last days, who will have their place in heaven, although they were a part of the Jewish remnant and not the assembly. The same are found in Daniel 7: only, remark, it is the times and laws which are delivered into the beast's hands, not the saints.}
The multitude, and the Lord's power and character
There are two things connected with the presence of the multitude, v. 1. First, the time required that the Lord should give a true idea of the character of His kingdom, since already He drew the multitude after Him. His power making itself felt, it was important to make His character known. On the other hand, this multitude who were following Jesus were a snare to His disciples; and He makes them understand what an entire contrast there was between the effect which this multitude might have upon them, and the right spirit which ought to govern them. Thus, full Himself of what was really good, He immediately brings forward that which filled His own heart. This was the true character of the remnant, who in the main resembled Christ in it. It is often thus in the Psalms.
The salt of the earth and the light of the world
The salt of the earth is a different thing from the light of the world. The earth, it appears to me, expresses that which already professed to have received light from God -- that which was in relationship with Him by virtue of the light -- having assumed a definite shape before Him. The disciples of Christ were the preservative principle in the earth. They were the light of the world, which did not possess that light. This was their position, whether they would or no. It was the purpose of God that they should be the light of the world. A candle is not lighted in order to be hidden.
Men's opposition to the establishment of the Kingdom
All this supposes the case of the possibility of the kingdom being established in the world, but the opposition of the greater part of men to its establishment. It is not a question of the sinner's redemption, but of the realisation of the character proper to a place in the kingdom of God; that which the sinner ought to seek while he is in the way with his adversary, lest he should be delivered to the judge -- which indeed has happened to the Jews.
Relationship with the Father: prayer in dependence
At the same time the disciples are brought into relationship with the Father individually -- the second great principle of the discourse, the consequence of the Son being there -- and a yet more excellent thing is set before them than their position of testimony for the kingdom. They were to act in grace, even as their Father acted, and their prayer should be for an order of things in which all would correspond morally to the character and the will of their Father. "Hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come,"* is, that all should answer to the character of the Father, that all should be the effect of His power. "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven" is perfect obedience. Universal subjection to God in heaven and on earth will be, to a certain point, accomplished by the intervention of Christ in the millennium, and absolutely so when God shall be all in all. Meanwhile the prayer expresses daily dependence, the need of pardon, the need of being kept from the power of the enemy, the desire of not being sifted by him, as a dispensation of God, like Job or Peter, and of being preserved from evil.
{*That is, the Father's. Compare Matthew 13: 43.}
The special application of 'The Lord's prayer'
This prayer also is adapted to the position of the remnant; it passes over the dispensation of the Spirit, and even that which is proper to the millennium as an earthly kingdom, in order to express the right desires, and speak of the condition and the dangers of the remnant until the Father's kingdom should come. Many of these principles are always true, for we are in the kingdom, and in spirit we ought to manifest its features; but the special and literal application is that which I have given. They are brought into relationship with the Father in the realisation of His character, which was to be displayed in them by virtue of this relationship, causing them to desire the establishment of His kingdom, to overcome the difficulties of an opposing world, to keep themselves from the snares of the enemy, and to do the Father's will. It was Jesus who could impart this to them. He thus passes from the law,* recognised as coming from God, to its fulfilment, when it shall be as it were absorbed in the will of Him who gave it, or accomplished in its purposes by Him who alone could do so in any sense whatever.
{*The law is the perfect rule for a child of Adam, the rule or measure of what he ought to be, but not of the manifestation of God in grace as Christ was, who in this is our pattern -- a just call to love God and walk in the fulfilment of duty in relationship, but not an imitating of God, walking in love, as Christ has loved us and given Himself for us.}
The beginning of the Lord's testimony in the midst of Israel
Then, in Matthew 8, the Lord begins in the midst of Israel His patient life of testimony, which closed with His rejection by the people whom God had so long preserved for Him, and for their own blessing. He had proclaimed the kingdom, displayed His power throughout the land, and declared His character, as well as the spirit of those who should enter the kingdom.
The character of the Lord's miracles
But His miracles,* as well as the whole Gospel, are always characterised by His position among the Jews and God's dealings with them, till He was rejected. Jehovah, yet the man obedient to the law, foreshowing the entrance of the Gentiles into the kingdom (its establishment in mystery in the world), predicting the building of the church or assembly on the recognition of His being Son of the living God, and the kingdom in glory; and, while detecting as the effect of His presence the perversity of the people, yet bearing on His heart with perfect patience the burden of Israel.** It is Jehovah present in goodness, outwardly one of themselves: wondrous truth!{*The miracles of Christ had a peculiar character. They were not merely acts of power, but all of them of the power of God visiting this world in goodness. The power of God had been often shown specially, from Moses, but often in judgment. But Christ's were all the deliverance of men from the evil consequences sin had brought in. There was one exception, the cursing the fig tree, but this was a judicial sentence on Israel, that is, man under the old covenant when there was great appearance but no fruit.}
{**I subjoin here some notes, made since this was written, as throwing, I think, light on the structure of this Gospel. Matthew 5-7 gives the character required for entrance into the kingdom, the character which was to mark the accepted remnant, Jehovah being now in the way with the nation to judgment. Chapters 8, 9 give the other side -- grace and goodness come in, God manifest, His character and actings, that new thing which could not be put into the old bottles -- still goodness in power, but rejected, the Son of man (not Messiah) who had not where to lay His head. Matthew 8 gives present intervention in temporal goodness with power. Hence, as goodness, it goes beyond Israel, as it deals in grace with what was excluded from God's camp in Israel. It includes power over all Satan's power and sickness and the elements, and that in taking the burden on Himself, but in conscious rejection. Matthew 8: 17-20 leads us to Isaiah 53: 3, 4, and the state of things calling for the wholly following Him, giving up all. This leads to the sad testimony that, if divine power expels Satan's, the divine presence manifest in it is insupportable to the world. The swine figure Israel thereupon. Matthew 9 furnishes the religious side of His presence in grace, forgiveness, and the testimony that Jehovah was there according to Psalm 103, but there to call sinners, not the righteous; and this was especially what could not suit the old bottles. Finally, this chapter practically, save the patience of goodness, closes the history. He came to save Israel's life. It was really death when He came: only, wherever there was faith in the midst of the surrounding crowd, there was healing. The Pharisees show the blasphemy of the leaders: only the patience of grace still subsists, carried out towards Israel in Matthew 10, but all found to be of no avail in Matthew 11. The Son was revealing the Father, and this abides and gives rest. Matthew 12 develops fully the judgment and rejection of Israel. Matthew 13 brings Christ as a sower, not seeking fruit in His vineyard, and the actual form of the kingdom of heaven.}
The healing of the leper: God manifest in grace and goodness
First of all, we find the healing of a leper. Jehovah alone, in His sovereign goodness, could heal the leper; here Jesus does so. "If thou wilt," says the leper, "thou canst." "I will," replies the Lord. But at the same time, while He shows forth in His own Person that which repels all possibility of defilement -- that which is above sin He shows the most perfect condescension towards the defiled one. He touches the leper, saying, "I will, be thou clean." We see the grace, the power, the undefilable holiness of Jehovah, come down in the Person of Jesus to the closest proximity to the sinner, touching him so to speak. It was indeed "the Lord that healeth thee."* At the same time He conceals Himself, and commands the man, who had been healed, to go to the priest according to the ordinances of the law and offer his gift. He does not go out of the place of the Jew in subjection to the law; but Jehovah was there in goodness. {*One who touched a leper became himself unclean, but the blessed One did come thus close to man, but removed the defilement without contracting it. The leper knew His power, but was not sure of His goodness. "I will" declared it, but with a title which God only has to.}
Sovereign grace to a Gentile
But in the next case we see a Gentile, who by faith enjoys the full effect of that power which his faith ascribed to Jesus giving the Lord occasion to bring out the solemn truth, that many of these poor Gentiles should come and sit down in the kingdom of heaven with the fathers who were honoured by the Jewish nation as the first parents of the heirs of promise, while the children of the kingdom should be in outer darkness. In fact the faith of this centurion acknowledged a divine power in Jesus, which, by the glory of Him that possessed it, would (not forsake Israel, but) open the door to the Gentiles, and graft into the olive-tree of promise branches of the wild olive-tree in the place of those which should be cut off. The manner in which this should take place in the assembly was not now the question.
Peter's wife's mother healed: present intervention in temporal goodness and power
He does not however yet forsake Israel. He goes into Peter's house, and heals his wife's mother. He does the same to all the sick who crowd around the house at even, when the sabbath was over. They are healed, the devils are cast out, so that the prophecy of Isaiah was being fulfilled: "Himself took our infirmities and bare our sicknesses." Jesus put Himself in heart under the weight of all the sorrows that oppressed Israel, in order to relieve and heal them. It is still Emmanuel, who feels for their misery and is afflicted in all their affliction, but who has come in with the power that shows Him capable of delivering them.
Conscious rejection
These three cases show this character of His ministry in a clear and striking manner. He hides Himself; for, until the moment when He would show judgment to the Gentiles, He does not lift up His voice in the streets. It is the dove that rests upon Him. These manifestations of power attract men to Him; but this does not deceive Him: He never departs in spirit from the place He has taken. He is the despised and the rejected of men; He has nowhere to lay His head. The earth had more room for the foxes and the birds than for Him, whom we have seen appear a moment before as the Lord, acknowledged at least by the necessities which He never refused to relieve. Therefore, if any man would follow Him, he must forsake all to be the companion of the Lord, who would not have come down to the earth if everything had not been in question; nor without an absolute right, although it was at the same time in a love which could only be occupied by its mission, and by the necessity that brought Him there.
The storm permitted for the trial of faith and to manifest Christ's dignity
The Lord on earth was everything or nothing. This, it is true, was to be felt morally in its effects, in the grace which, acting by faith, attached the believer to Him by an ineffable bond. Without this, the heart would not have been morally put to the test. But this did not make it the less true. accordingly the proofs of this were present: the winds and waves, to which in the eye of man He seemed to be exposed, obeyed His voice at once -- a striking reproof to the unbelief that woke Him from His sleep, and had supposed it possible for the waves to engulf Him, and with Him the counsels and the power of Him who had created the winds and waves. It is evident that this storm was permitted in order to try their faith and manifest the dignity of His Person. If the enemy was the instrument who produced it, he only succeeded in making the Lord display His glory. Such indeed is always the case as to Christ, and for us, where faith is. Now the reality of this power, and the manner of its operation, are forcibly proved by that which follows.
Divine power expels Satan's power; the divine presence insupportable to the world
The Lord disembarks in the country of the Gergesenes. There the power of the enemy shows itself in all its horrors. If man, to whom the Lord was come in grace, did not know Him, the devils knew their Judge in the Person of the Son of God. The man was possessed by them. The fear they had of torment at the judgment of the last day is applied in the man's mind to the immediate presence of the Lord: "Art thou come to torment us before the time?" Wicked spirits act on men by the dread of their power; they have none unless they are feared. But faith only can take this fear from man. I am not speaking of the lusts on which they act, nor of the wiles of the enemy; I speak of the power of the enemy. Resist the devil and he will flee from thee. Here the devils wished to manifest the reality of this power. The Lord permits it in order to make it plain, that in this world it is not merely man that is in question whether good or bad, but that also which is stronger than man. The devils enter into the swine, which perish in the waters. Sorrowful reality plainly demonstrated that it was no question of mere disease or of sinful lusts, but of wicked spirits! However, thanks be to God, it was a question also of One who, although a man on earth, was more powerful than they. They are compelled to acknowledge this power, and they appeal to it. There is no idea of resistance. In the temptation in the wilderness Satan had been overcome. Jesus completely delivers the man whom they had oppressed with their evil power. The power of the devils was nothing before Him. He could have delivered the world from all the power of the enemy, if that only had been in question, and from all the ills of humanity. The strong man was bound, and the Lord spoiled his goods. But the presence of God, of Jehovah, troubles the world even more than the power of the enemy degrades and domineers over mind and body. The control of the enemy over the heart -- too peaceful, and alas! too little perceived -- is more mighty than his strength. This succumbs before the word of Jesus; but the will of man accepts the world as it is, governed by the influence of Satan. The whole city, who had witnessed the deliverance of the demoniac and the power of Jesus present among them, entreat Him to depart. Sad history of the world! The Lord came down with power to deliver the world -- man -- from all the power of the enemy; but they would not. Their distance from God was moral, and not merely bondage to the enemy's power. They submitted to his yoke, they had become used to it, and they would not have the presence of God. I doubt not that that which happened to the swine is a figure of that which happened to the impious and profane Jews who rejected the Lord Jesus. Nothing can be more striking than the way in which a divine Person, Emmanuel, though a man in grace, is manifested in this chapter.Synopsis by John Darby


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Property Division Overview
Welcome to the Property Division of the Dallas County Public Works Department. The Property Division is one of four main divisions that make up the Dallas County Public Works Department. The Property Division is responsible for real estate acquisition and/or conveyance functions that involve the purchase of private property for a Dallas County Government need or the conveyance/exchange of county owned land/title interests to private owners, other government entities or third party owners. Under this responsibility the primary function of the Property Division is to acquire land for right of way purposes on County thoroughfare transportation improvement projects.
All real estate transactions are processed by the Property Division in strict compliance with the Dallas County Real Estate Policy (the Policy) and the various State regulations that must be followed including federal laws/regulations which govern on federally funded projects. The Property Division administers the Policy in a consistent and fair means within these rights of all persons under Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI) and 1968 (Title VIII), (P.L. 90-284).
An additional responsibility of the Property Division is to manage and coordinate the disposition of tax foreclosed properties struck off to Dallas County at the Sheriff's Sale. Tax Foreclosed Properties For Sale by Dallas County are posted and resold in compliance with the Dallas County Tax Foreclosure Resale Policy and V.T.C.A. Tax Code, Section 34.05. For general information about tax resales, please check our FAQ page. For additional information regarding tax resales, please contact Pam Easterling.
The Property Division is headed by the Assistant Director of Public Works, Selas Camarillo, who can be reached at 214-653-6400. The support staff is comprised of thirteen employees and is divided into three sections: Property Acquisition, Property Appraisal and Property Management.
For information on "Landowners Bill of Rights" please click the website linked below:

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Thank you!
In Portuguese:
First of all, sorry for my english.
In version 5.0 of Nmap is a database of Fingerprint (fingerprints) that are scannings made by others and submitted to the site of nmap (Nmap - Free Security Scanner For Network Exploration & Security Audits.), forming a basis for recognition of systems and equipment.
For this, run some commands at the shell:
Step 1:
# gedit /usr/sbin/update-nmap-os-db
Passo 2:
# Mauro Risonho de Paula Assumpção A.K.A firebits
# email@example.com
# Backtrack Brazil
# Script Update fingerprint Nmap 5.00
# update-nmap-os-db
# Nmap 5.00 ( Nmap - Free Security Scanner For Network Exploration & Security Audits. )
# Qui 24 Set 2009 16:53:50 BRT
set -e
umask 022
if which wget >/dev/null ; then
DL="wget -O $DEST $SRC"
elif which lynx >/dev/null ; then
DL="eval lynx -source $SRC >$DEST"
echo >&2 "nmap-os-db: não foi localizado o comando wget ou lynx (Portuguese)"
echo >&2 "nmap-os-db:was not found wget or lynx (English)"
exit 1
if ! $DL ; then
echo >&2 "nmap-os-db: download falhou (Portuguese)"
echo >&2 "nmap-os-db: download failed (English)"
rm -f $DEST
exit 1
echo "Terminado"
echo "Done."
Step 3
# chmod + x /usr/sbin/update-nmap-os-db
Then just run at any time, as root or sudo and its database of fingerprints will always be updated.
Note: You discover new machinery, equipment and operating systems may make additional fingerprints or correct them. For this, go to link:
* Http://insecure.org/cgi-bin/submit.cgi
"The end!"
Thank you!
Great script thanks


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Reference number
First name & Surname of deceased
Age at death, sometimes in the earlier entries this is not recorded and the letter NR are given (not recorded)
Deaths Civil Registration NZ – History
Civil registration in New Zealand dates from 1848 when it was under the control of the Colonial Secretary's Office. At first only births and deaths were recorded with marriages six years later in 1854. This applied to all New Zealand residents and was not compulsory until 1856. The separate registration of Maori marriages started in 1911 with separate birth and death registers starting in 1913. In 1961 the registration for both Maori and non Maori were combined. A timeline for changes in civil registration requirements is given at the end of this lesson.
Deaths Civil Registration NZ – What is on the indexes ?
The civil registration indexes in New Zealand give similar information to those for England & Wales. You can expect to find on the online deaths indexes the following
There are two booklets that can be used in conjunction with these indexes to decipher the reference number thus giving the district in which the event took place. "District Keys to the NZ Registration Indexes 1848-1920" and "District Keys to the NZ Registration Indexes 1921-1955". Both of these booklets are published by The New Zealand Society of Genealogists. http://www.genealogy.org.nz/default.aspx
Deaths Civil Registration NZ – What is on the printouts ?
Printouts, which aren't legal documents, have more information than certificates and are the preferred option for family history. However if you require a legal document for some reason then you will need to purchase a certificate. Printouts are cheaper than certificates. Printouts can be sent by email whilst certificates have to be sent by mail.
At various times different information has been required to be recorded in the birth, marriage and death registers. Below is a summary of what you can expect to find on a printout for a death entry. Bear in mind that if the information was unknown or not given then there will be a gap in the printout.
Deaths 1847 – 1875
- Local reference number
- When and where died
- Name of deceased, sex, age, rank or profession, cause of death
- Signature, description & residence of informant
- Date death registered
- Signature of deputy registrar
Deaths 1875 – 1998
- Local reference number
- When and where died
- Name of deceased, rank or profession or occupation, sex, age
- Where deceased was born, how long in New Zealand,
- Where deceased was married, age at marriage,to whom married
- If deceased has children still living the number, age and sex of issue
- Cause of death, duration of last illness
- Medical attendant by whom certified and when he last saw the deceased
- Name of father, rank or profession or occupation
- Name of mother including maiden name
- When and where buried
- Name and Religion of Minister or name of witness of burial
- Signature, description and residence of informant
- If the entry is a correction of a former entry signature of witnesses
- Signature of registrar, date of registration
Maori Deaths 1913 – 1961
- Where and when died
- Name of deceased, sex, age, residence, Tribe,
- Name of husband or wife
- Name of father, residence and Tribe
- Name of mother, residence and Tribe
- Degree of Māori blood
- If deceased has children still living the number and sex of issue
- Cause of death, duration of last illness, name of medical practitioner, date when medical practitioner last saw the deceased
- When and where buried
- Name and religion of minister
- Name, residence, degree of relationship to the deceased and occupation of informant
- Name and signature of registrar
- Date of registration
War deaths 1918 and 1945 – Register of Deaths out of New Zealand of Members of Expeditionary Forces and Other
- When and where died
- Name of deceased, occupation, usual residence in NZ, sex, age
- Where deceased was born, marital status
- Name of father, rank or profession or occupation
- Name of mother including maiden name
- Military or other rank or rating
- Place of burial
- Cause of death
- Proof of death
- Name, description and residence of informant
- Signature of registrar
- Date of registration
Deaths 1998
- When and where died
- Name of deceased, sex, age at death, birth date, occupation
- Where deceased was born, ethnic group
- Whether deceased of Maori descent
- Home address
- Where deceased was married/civil union, age at marriage/civil union,to whom married/civil union, sex and age (if still living) of partner
- If deceased has children, age and sex of issue
- Cause of death, certifying doctor, date last seen
- Date of burial or cremation
- Name of father, occupation
- Name of mother including maiden name, occupation
- Signature, description and address of informant
Deaths Civil Registration NZ – Where can the indexes be found?
The historic civil registration indexes are available on the Birth, Death and Marriage Historical Records website along with a facility to order copies of certificates and printouts. There are restricted time periods for these indexes, deaths have to have occurred at least 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago.
Timeline of Changes to Civil Registration in NZ
|Birth and Death Registrations Introduced (Colonial Secretary's Office).
|Marriage Registration Act Introduced.
|Registry Office Marriages Introduced.
|Marriage details/age and birthplace of Parents recorded on birth registrations. Occupation, parental details, where born, when and where buried, marriage details, ages of children of deceased, length of time in NZ recorded on death registrations.
|Oct 1880
|Parental details recorded on Marriage registrations and the residence of each party to the marriage.
|Separate Registration of Māori Marriages introduced.
|Age of widow and degree of Māori blood recorded on Death registration. Official registration of stillborn births provided for, however some stillborn births were registered prior to this date.
Separate Registration of Māori Births and Deaths introduced. Age and sex of live siblings recorded on Birth registration plus number and sex of deceased siblings.
|Recording of First World War deaths.
|Introduction to re-register the birth of any child "subject to an adoption order". Original birth entry closed. New entry registered stating adoptive details.
|Dissolution endorsements recorded on marriage entries.
Registration of births not registered within 2 years. No set time after 2 years to allow the Register-General the authority to register birth. Prior to the above there were other Acts allowing the Registrar-General to register a late birth, however there were specific times set e.g. within one year. Acts were called Extension or Amendment Act.
Word "Illegitimate" to be omitted from birth registration. Registering Deaths of Naval forces. Amendment to the Coroners Act by permitting inquests to be held in cases where the body is irrecoverable and the deaths able to be registered.
Minimum Age of Marriage raised to 16 years. Prior to this it was 14 years for males & 12 years for females.
Births, Deaths & Marriages transferred from the Department of Internal Affairs to the Department of Justice. Change made to information registered on Māori Births and Deaths.
|Registration of children born overseas and adopted in New Zealand.
Recording of Marriage relating to a Service person solemnised outside New Zealand. Cause of death could be amended if error disclosed by post mortem examination.
|Recording of Second World War plus any future Service personnel death e.g. Korean, Vietnam.
|Separate Māori marriage registration now combined into General Register.
Deed poll Endorsements recorded on Birth Registrations. Prior to the above Deed Polls were lodged at the nearest Supreme Court to where the applicant lived. No provision to notate the relevant birth registration.
Issue of Certificate of No Impediment to New Zealand citizen wishing to marry in a foreign country. Introduction of the Marriage Act 1955 which is still in force today.
Separate Māori Birth and Death registrations combined into the General register. Adoptions made in the Māori land court ceased. All adoptions then processed by the Magistrates Court.
|Birth and Death registrations now in A4 loose leaf form (previously recorded in large registers).
|Adult Adoption act provided for requests of Pre Adoptive birth certificate by adoptee. Vetoes on disclosure able to be lodged by either adoptee or birth parents.
NZ Post Office agencies withdrawn. Local authorised agencies established. Commemorative birth certificates available for the year marking 150 years of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
Births, Deaths and Marriages transferred from the Department of Justice to Department of Internal Affairs. Became known as the Central Registry. Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995 came into force. The associated Registration Regulations included prescribed information and forms.
|Centralisation of registration processes.
|Computerisation / Imaging of Pre 1998 Birth, Death and Marriage registrations commenced.
Commemorative millennium birth certificates available for children born in 2000. All birth and death agency work withdrawn from the courts and local authorisation agencies. All register books archived.
|Computer imaging of registrations completed.
Bilingual birth certificates introduced. Addresses printed on back of certificates.
Civil unions introduced. Status of children legislation allowing for 'other parent' to be included on a birth registration. Human Assisted Reproduction Technology legislation introduced allowing registration of donors & donor offspring through fertility clinics.
|Citizenship status determined for children born in New Zealand after 1/1/2006.
|Decorative birth certificates introduced and available for all births.
Amendments leading to the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Relationships Registration Act came into force on 25 January 2009 changing access requirements. Allows for internet services to be introduced. Name change register was established to record name changes processed after this date for overseas born persons.


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When it comes to tales of the paranormal, City Hall isn't unique. Stories about hauntings in the northern end of Utah's capital city stretch from downtown to Memory Grove to the city cemetery that overlooks the Salt Lake Valley.
Here are 10 such places scattered around the northern end of the city, along with brief explanations of the urban legends and/or documented events gathered from newspaper archives, the Utah Historical Society and Grimm Ghost Tours. Believe it or not.
1. Rio Grande Depot • (300 S. Rio Grande St.) The historic depot, which opened in 1911, is supposedly home to several ghosts the most famous being the Purple Lady. There are several versions of the story, but all agree that a beautiful woman (perhaps named Gloria) and her fiancé argued on the train platform. One of them threw her engagement ring onto the tracks; the Purple Lady was hit and killed by a train when she tried to retrieve it. In another version of the story, it was her fiancé who pushed her.
Open to the public? • The Utah State Historical Society at the Rio Grande Depot is open Monday-Friday from 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
2. City Hall • (451 S. State St.) This building, which opened in 1894, houses as many as five ghosts, including two children reportedly killed while playing there, as well as their heartbroken mother. And some claim a former Salt Lake mayor possibly George Montgomery Scott or Robert Newton Baskin roams the halls above, while the ghosts of prisoners and/or guards haunt the underground tunnel below the building.
Open to the public? • 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday
3. Capitol Theatre • (50 W. 200 South) Built in 1913 and restored in 1978, this downtown theater has a long history as a vaudeville house, a movie theater and a performing-arts center. It's also said to be host to a variety of ghosts, including women in period costumes, malevolent forces and perhaps a misbehaving teenager popularly known as George. There's no record of a George, but Salt Lake Tribune archives record that 17-year-old theater usher Richard L. Duffin was killed during a fire at the theater in 1949.
Open to the public? • During performances, with a valid ticket.
4. Shilo Inn • (206 S. West Temple) A child or children are said to haunt the hotel, particularly the 11th floor and the pool area, and the disembodied laughter of a woman is sometimes heard. Most of the stories indicate the children are playful, rather than malevolent, but one story has it that a female hotel guest was found drowned in the pool with unidentified, child-sized wet footprints around her. On Aug. 3, 1978, Rachel David threw her seven children off an 11th-floor balcony at what was then the International Dunes Inn, then jumped to her own death. Only one of the David children survived.
Open to the public? • Only to paying guests. Hotel management discourages interest.
5. Salt Lake City Cemetery Lilly E. Gray grave • (200 N St.) The eerie inscription on the headstone has drawn much attention: "Lilly E. Gray, June 6, 1881-Nov. 14, 1958, Victim of the Beast 666." And there are reports of a ghostly presence at the site. Yet research by Richelle Hawks indicates not all is what it seems. Seems the deceased's name is spelled wrong (Lily, not Lilly); and her actual birthdate is June 4, 1880. Hawkes postulates that the weird message on the headstone may have been put there by her husband, Elmer L. Gray, who was himself a colorful character.
Open to the public? • 8 a.m.-dusk, 365 days a year.
6. Salt Lake Cemetery Jacob E. Moritz tomb • (200 N St.) Legend has it that if you circle the tomb chanting, "Emo, Emo, Emo" apparently derived from Jacob EMO-ritz and then look into the barred window, you'll see either the glowing red eyes or ghostly face of its inhabitant. The story goes that Moritz was some kind of devil worshipper who was burned at the stake by outraged Salt Lakers. Actually, Moritz was a German immigrant who founded Salt Lake Brewing Co., got rich, was involved in Utah politics, helped draft the Utah Constitution and died on a trip to Germany in 1909.
There's some dispute as to whether his ashes were shipped back to Utah and placed in the tomb, but the legend that has grown up around his tomb seems in no way related to the facts of Moritz's life.
Open to the public? • 8 a.m.-dusk, 365 days a year.
7. Devereaux Mansion • (334 W. South Temple) There are tales of the ghost of a young girl who can be seen in the windows of the mansion, which was built in 1857. She sometimes throws things and slams doors. Also, a young man is thought to haunt the premises.
Open to the public? • No. It's a private reception facility.
8. McCune Mansion • (200 N. Main St.) A pair of ghosts are reported to inhabit the home a man in a black cape and a young girl in white, who is said to resemble a girl in a portrait found in the house. Items are said to move around the house with no explanation.
Open to the public? • No. It's a private reception facility.
9. Fort Douglas • (32 Potter St., University of Utah campus) The spirit of a Civil War-era soldier, known as Clem, is said to haunt the museum. Reports include everything from feeling cold breath on the back of one's neck to full-body apparitions. Fort Douglas dates to 1862, and there are plenty of documented deaths of soldiers from the mid-19th century on.
Hauntings at Fort Douglas are the subject of Brian Jackson Fetzer's film "The Ghostly Guardians," which will be screened at the Salt Lake Freedom Film and Storytelling Festival on Saturday, Nov. 10, at 3:30 p.m. in the Fort Douglas Post Theater, 245 South Fort Douglas Blvd., U. campus, Salt Lake City.
Open to the public? • Tuesdays-Fridays, noon-5 p.m. (except for Thanksgiving and Christmas).
10. Memory Grove • (300 N. Canyon Road) The story most frequently repeated about this city-owned park tells of a female ghost who was killed in a car accident in the 1930s or 1940s there just before her wedding.
Open to the public? • Dawn to dusk.
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Hi, I am running BT4 on vmware. Everything is working fine except for a problem with SSLStrip.
Most of the time it is working fine, but from time to time I get a error message when trying to start SSLStrip, and this comes after the startup command:
Traceback ( most recent call last )
File "/usr/bin/sslstrip", line 254, in <module>
File "usr/bin/sslstrip", line 246, in main
server = ThreadingHHTPserver ((,"listenPort) StripProxy)
File "usr/lib/python2.5/SocketServer.py", line 330, in _init_
File "usr/lib/python2.5/BaseHTTPServer.py", line 101, in server_bind
socketServer. TCPServer.server_bind(self)
File "usr/lib/python2.5/SocketServer.py, line 341, in server_bind
File "<string>", line 1, in bind
Type error: an integer is required
Any suggestions?
What command did you type, exactly? sslstrip ... ?
I have tried all commands I have found on this forum and after googling, i.e.,
python ./sslstrip -l 8080 ( in a blank terminal window,)
sslstrip -l 8080 ( after opening SSLStrip from Backtrack>privilege escalation>sslstrip )
I have tried different ports and everything else I can think of.
If opening a new terminal window directly i have tried python ./sslstrip.py -a -f -l 8080 ( or other port numbers )
If starting from Backtrack>Privlige Escalation>SSLStrip: ssltrip -a -f -l 8080 ( or 10000)
I have also tried all cammand variations found in this forum, or by googling sslstrip


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The zone manager is a useful property class for managing level loading.
The zone manager is a powerful property class that manages dynamic loading (loading of the map files that are required at a given time in the game) but it can also be used for single map loading for simple games. A commonly used scenario is to setup the zone manager with a single map file for geometry and another file for entity descriptions.
The following concepts are defined in the zone manager:
iPcZoneManager->Load() method which accepts a VFS 'path'
and a 'file' accepts both normal Crystal Space world files or else
an XML zone description file. In the first case the zone manager will
automatically setup a region and a zone which are both called 'main'.
The other case is where you pass a XML zone description file to the
Load() method (of course you can also setup the zone manager purely
with API calls but using an XML description file is more flexible
and easier). Here is an example of such a description file:
<level name="SuperLevel" description="Super Complex Level"> <mount vfs="/sl/part1" real="$*data$/levels$/part1.zip" /> <mount vfs="/sl/part2" real="$*data$/levels$/part2.zip" /> <mount vfs="/sl/part_trans" real="$*data$/levels$/part_trans.zip" /> <mount vfs="/sl/textures" real="$*data$/levels$/textures.zip" /> <region name="part1"> <map name="part1_entities" path="/sl/part1" file="entities.xml" /> <map name="part1_world" path="/sl/part1" file="world" /> </region> <region name="part2"> <map name="part2_entities" path="/sl/part2" file="entities.xml" /> <map name="part2_world" path="/sl/part2" file="world" /> </region> <region name="part_trans"> <map name="part_trans_entities" path="/sl/part_trans" file="entities.xml" /> <map name="part_trans_world" path="/sl/part_trans" file="world" /> </region> <zone name="zone1"> <region>part1</region> <region>part_trans</region> </zone> <zone name="zone2"> <region>part2</region> <region>part_trans</region> </zone> <start> <region>part1</region> <name>Camera</name> </start> </level>
In this example we have created three levels in our 3D modeller program: 'part1', 'part2', and 'part_trans'. The last one is a transition level that connects 'part1' and 'part2'. Preferably this is a small level like a corridor which should ensure that from 'part1' you can't see anything of 'part2' by looking through 'part_trans' (and vice versa). Every level zip files contains a 'world' file with geometry and an 'entities.xml' file for entity descriptions.
For every map file (geometry and entities) we have a region. Finally we create two zones. Both zones contain the transition map as that is always needed. As soon as the player enters the transition map both zones will be activated and everything will be in memory. If you want to avoid this then you need to define two transition maps.
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7th plenary meeting , 26-27 November 2012
Strasbourg, Council of Europe
AGORA Building, Room G01,
2 p.m.
1. Opening of the meeting
2. Adoption of the agenda
3. Information given by the President, Bureau members and the Secretariat
2 pm – 3pm (26 November 2012)
Presentation by Mr Stanislas FROSSARD, Executive Secretary of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS) concerning a draft International Convention on arranged competitions. The CCPE could be invited to appoint one of his members to assist to the next meetings of the drafting group, in particular the specialised meeting on the questions on "Law enforcement" of 15-17 January 2013 and the next meeting of the APES on 20-22 March 2013.
Information documents
Recommendation CM/Rec(2011)10
of the Committee of Ministers to member states
on promotion of the integrity of sport against manipulation of results, notably match-fixing
Enlarged Partial Agreement on Sport (EPAS)
Framework and timetable for the process of negotiating a draft international convention
to combat the manipulation of sports results
4. Discussion of the CCPE draft Opinion No.7 on the management of the means of prosecution services
The delegations are invited to examine the draft text and send their comments, if any, to the Secretariat before 9 November 2012.
Working documents
Draft Opinion No.7
Compilation of comments on the draft Opinion
Compilation of the replies to the questionnaire by the member States
5. Preparation of Opinion No.(2013)8 of the CCPE
In accordance with its terms of reference for 2012 and 2013, the CCPE has to adopt in 2013 an Opinion on the relations between prosecutors and the media.
The CCPE should decide whether it is useful to adopt a questionnaire on this topic.
Working documents
Draft questionnaire for the preparation of Opinion No. (2013)8
Terms of Reference of the CCPE for 2012 and 2013
6. Election of the President and Vice-President
According to Resolution Res(2011)24, the CCPE shall proceed with the election of its Chair and Vice-Chair.
During the last plenary meeting of the CCPE, Mr João Manuel da SILVA MIGUEL (Portugal) and Mr Antonio MURA (Italy) were re-elected respectively Chair and Vice-Chair of the CCPE for 2012. Their respective terms of office cannot be renewed.
Any member wishing to put forward his/her candidature must inform the Secretariat about it before 26 November 2012, 17.00 in writing.
7. Election of one member of the Bureau
According to Resolution Res(2011)24, the CCPE shall proceed with the partial election of its Bureau.
During the last plenary meeting of the CCPE, Mr Cédric VISART DE BOCARME (Belgium) was elected member of the Bureau for 2012 and 2013. Mrs Raija TOIVIAINEN (Finland) was member of the Bureau from 2009 to 2012 and she cannot be re-elected. The election will therefore concern only one member of the Bureau.
Any other member wishing to put forward his/her candidature must inform the Secretariat about it before 26 November 2012, 17.00 in writing.
8. Election of the members of the CCPE-GT for 2013
According to Resolution Res(2011)24 ("Where necessary, in order to expedite the progress of their work, committees may entrust a rapporteur or a limited number of committee members with a specific task to be fulfilled by their next meeting, using primarily information technologies"), the CCPE can decide to set up a Working Group which will be entrusted with the preparation, before its 8th plenary meeting, of the draft Opinion for 2013. The members of the Bureau of the CCPE will also attend the CCPE-GT meetings.
The CCPE should entrust its Bureau with the designation of the Working Group members on the basis of the list of candidates which will be prepared by the Secretariat.
Any member of the CCPE wishing to become member of the 2013 Working Group must inform the Secretariat in writing during the plenary meeting.
9. Relations between the CCPE and other bodies inside and outside the Council of Europe
- Recommendation CM/Rec(2012)11 of the Committee of Ministers to member States on the role of public prosecutors outside the criminal justice system
Morning (in principle) of 27 November 2012
Presentation of the text by Mr Simon TONELLI, Secretary of the CDCJ.
Information documents
Recommendation CM/Rec(2012)11 of the Committee of Ministers to member States
on the role of public prosecutors outside the criminal justice system
- Participation of the CCPE in various European and international events concerning prosecutors
The delegations are invited to enumerate the events (since November 2011) where they presented the work of the CCPE.
10. Gender issues
11. Any other business
12. Next meetings of the CCPE
Background documents
Resolution Res(2011)24
on committees and subordinate bodies, their terms of reference and working methods
Report of the 6th plenary meeting of the CCPE
Report of the 11th working group meeting of the CCPE
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RUSTY'S SURF RANCH NEW YEAR'S EVE with THE FUDOGS on the Santa Monica Pier
Rusty's Surf Ranch rustyssurfranch.com
Monday, December 31, 2012 at 8:00 PM
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Ska & Reggae never sounded so good! Local favorites, The Fudogs, make every night a party and New Years Eve something special. With their intoxicating blend of old and new they will make this a New Year's to look back on. The music starts at 9:00 and don't forget to bring your dancing shoes, because you won't be able to sit still!
Between sets enjoy the fresh ocean air and star filled night from our heated patio, or during a romantic stroll along the Santa Monica Pier. Rusty's will be featuring our award-winning menu so make your reservation early!
Ticket includes party favors (hats & noisemakers and a champagne toast at midnight. Please note, this event is 21 and over only. Tickets are non-refundable.
We do accept reservations for dinner in our game room and patio (heated and covered) with pre-purchased tickets. There will be no seating in the main room as it will be reserved for dancing. The game room will be open to the main area. There is a minimum purchase required of $25 per person for food and beverage (tax & gratuity not included). For any minimum not met, the difference will be added to your bill. For your convenience on groups of 6 or more, we will add an 18% gratuity to the check(s).
Please note that due to limited space we cannot guarantee we will be able to add more guests to your table if they are added at a later date.
When calling for a dinner reservation, please have your ticket number available.
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256 Santa Monica Pier
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Monday, December 31, 2012 at 8:00 PM
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Carrie Ann Inaba: "I'm Proud of Paula Abdul"
The Dancing With the Stars judge dishes with BettyConfidential on her pal Paula Abdul, her dream contestant and more.
-Diedre Johnson
Dancing With the Stars doesn't return to TV till March 22, but judge Carrie Ann Inaba is already getting ready for the new season (the show's 10th!). The dancer, choreographer and TV Guide red carpet host opened up to BettyConfidential about who she's like to see on the show, what Paula Abdul told her about leaving American Idol and what she doesn't like about being a judge on the hit show.
Who are your dream contestants for Dancing With the Stars?
I would love to see someone like Roger Federer, a male tennis player. I think there are so many great male tennis players and they are so agile. I want to see how that would translate onto the dance floor. I would also like to see somebody who's a little bigger.
Read The Betty Interview: Nina Garcia
Bigger in what way?
Size-wise, a bigger man. Not an athlete but maybe someone who can learn the joy of movement and maybe it would really do a lot for them. I would be curious to see how that would turn out.
What's the scoop on Paula Abdul, is she going to be a guest judge this season?
I don't know about that. When she left American Idol, there were rumors and then we finished up the season and she never appeared.
I mean, it would be great to have Paula as a guest judge every once and awhile. We had [Moulin Rouge director] Baz Luhrman on last season. That was a dream come true!
But I think Paula's going to do X Factor with Simon [Cowell], which would be good for her and I'm sooo happy because it killed me to see Paula sort of walk away from something that was so good.
But you know the one thing about Paula, and we had a talk about this, she said, "I have to make a stand for myself," and I'm really proud of her. She walked away from a very well-paying high-profile job. Her life was perfect but she did it for really strong reasons and I think she set a really good example for women out there, to stand up for what you believe in, and I have a feeling that things will work themselves out. She will probably be on X Factor with Simon Cowell and things will be great again.


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John Block has dedicated his professional career to the fields of agriculture, food and health.
Last week, I talked about the farm bill and prospects for passage. This week, I want to focus on a series of current issues. These are my thoughts:
We desperately need to get it done. If we don't, who's going to milk the cows? Who's going to butcher the hogs? Agriculture is pushing to pass the legislation. Even president Obama is behind a bill. It's certainly not done yet, but I am still optimistic.
We don't have any consensus here. The House budget, according to Paul Ryan, if it passed, would bring us into balance in 10 years. The Senate budget relies much more on new taxes. Unfortunately, it doesn't do anything to deal with the run-away entitlement programs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. President Obama's budget takes a small step toward reducing the entitlement programs, but still projects deficits as far as the eye can see.
There is one item in the President's plan that has gone almost unnoticed. In order to raise more money, he wants to take away the relief that small businesses and farmers got with estate tax changes passed at the end of last year. He wants to raise the tax rate from 40% to 45% and lower the exemption from $5 million to $3.5 million – also eliminate the inflation index. After the improvement in the law that we just got, he wants to take it away.
I don't expect that will happen. I don't think any of the three budgets will be enacted. Will we get a compromise bill? Even that is doubtful. A side note is that Senator Max Baucus (D-MT), Chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee, has announced his plan to retire at the end of this term. He has been a champion for ag interest – a supporter of immigration reform and a defender of reducing the burden of the death tax. I worked with Max Baucus when I was Secretary of Agriculture. He will be missed.
There is no easy solution. Do we arm the opposition? Do we establish a "no fly" zone? President Obama is being criticized for not doing enough. I think he is right to hold back. The thing we don't need is another war. Let the Middle East boil in their own oil. They don't want us to help them anyway.
In closing, I would encourage you to access my website which archives my radio commentaries dating back 10 years and will go back 20 years when complete. Check on what I said back then. Go to www.johnblockreports.com.
Next week, I will be down on the farm. Let's get that planter in the field.
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Time for new thinking / Op-ed: Notion that Palestinians should get greater sovereignty a recipe for violence, instability (YNetNews.Com -Yedioth Internet) Yoel Meltzer Published: 03.26.12, 00:30)
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Roughly 20 years ago Israel made a decision to bring back from exile in faraway Tunisia its most bitter enemy, Yasser Arafat, and deposit him together with his close associates on our own doorstep. Still further, not content with the shock value of such a startling move, the leaders of the day outdid themselves by actually helping to arm and train Arafats newly created police force.
Underlying this odd yet bold course of action was the assumption that the only way to achieve stability in the region is to boost Arab sovereignty - a kinder way of referring to the minimization of Israeli sovereignty. By now, there is no doubt that this belief has had an enormous influence in shaping the policies of successive Israeli leaders for nearly two decades.
Moreover, although it´s true that when the Oslo process was launched many observers believed that the reasoning behind such gamble was sufficiently sound, two decades of experience have demonstrated the fact that the essential assumption was clearly wrong: Reduced Israeli sovereignty does not lead to local or regional stability. It never did and it never will.
In fact, the very opposite is true, as this school of thought exudes a defeatist attitude and projects a message that "we´re wrong, the land is not ours." This, in turn, empowers our enemies to act in a more brazen manner. The result is that local and regional instability is perpetuated, not eradicated.
Tit-for-tat reprisals
This flawed line of reasoning, despite some good intentions, is the real driving force behind the many diversified attacks on Israel since the dawn of Oslo. Moreover, it makes no difference whether the attacks are against Israel´s legitimacy, such as the international BDS campaign or annual "Apartheid Week," or against Israel´s very existence, such as the countless terrorist attacks or missile barrages from Gaza. Ultimately, they´re all a result of Israel´s indefatigable attempt to grant further Arab sovereignty at the expense of Israeli sovereignty.
What´s more, when facing military attacks, Israel is reluctantly drawn into yet another round of tit-for-tat reprisals you kill, we kill, you kill, we kill which do little, if anything, in diminishing the constant Arab-Israeli tension. In order to finally change the seemingly endless cycle of insanity for both Jews and Arabs, Israel needs to take a clear look at reality and change the paradigm. As the only source of real stability in the entire Middle East, its a no-brainer that the exact opposite of the Oslo assumption is true. Namely, real stability can be achieved only by increasing Israeli sovereignty, not reducing it, while increasing Arab sovereignty will only lead to Israel´s demise.
Although such change in direction at this late stage of the game would not be easy for Israel, it´s simply a must, not just for those of us who happen to be alive today but for future generations as well. (Copyright 2012 © Yedioth Internet 03/26/12)
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A 100-Fold Improvement in Lithography Resolution Realized with a 150-Year-Old "Perfect Imaging" SystemJuan Carlos Miñano and Dejan Grabovičkić
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The idea of "perfect imaging", that is a resolution less than the wavelength of light producing the image, was first proposed in the mid-19th century by famed Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell. For the next 150 years, it was widely believed that such was impossible due to the fact that light diffracts around points that are the same size or smaller in wavelength. Then, in 2009, Ulf Leonhardt, of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, theoretically analyzed the phenomenon and demonstrated its focus was not restricted by the diffraction limit.
A research team at the Cedint Polytechnic University of Madrid used simulation to demonstrate Leonhardt's proposal and prove that diffraction limits can be surpassed. The team proposed using a device to do this, which they called a spherical geodesic waveguide (SGW).
Using COMSOL Multiphysics and the RF Module, the research team was able to demonstrate that these SGWs could be manufactured for certain applications such as microwaves. Their next goal is to design a dielectric SGW that will work in the visible spectrum.
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Raheem Morris has to be done. They've been destroyed multiple times this year, Freeman has regressed and Morris has flew off the handle multiple times this year.
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Raheem Morris has to be done. They've been destroyed multiple times this year, Freeman has regressed and Morris has flew off the handle multiple times this year.
Josh McDaniels is my guess as new KC coach; Pioli loves him
Yeah, I don't really see the point in firing either. Haley for him dealing with injuries and Sparano because you know the interim isn't going to replace him.
What was the deal? On one hand, if the Chiefs are thinking Crennel (cue much laughter from Factory of Sadness), I can see some sense in giving him a probation period to see what he does, but with those injuries, what can he do?
Everyone knew they were going at the end of the season anyway (only 3 games away) and you still have to pay them. Don't understand.
Out of the rest, I think Morris in TB's gone - they've fallen on their faces spectacularly. Caldwell may not as you never know with the Colts (they'd be better served with a full house clear-out. Polian's done little in years). Turner's 95% gone (only if they won the division in a turnaround a la 08).
Agree on Spagnuolo being on thin ice.
The rest is unsure. Gailey'll be given another year. Reid is tricky. Shanahan may be given one more year, depending how Snyder feels. Others in bad seasons, like Frazier in Minnesota, should be okay. Carroll's probably done just enough.
Quite a few new coaches coming (inc Jaguars' new coach).
Reid has at least one more year. Trust me.
Gailey is definitely going to be given another year along with Garret.
Morris might be fired. Norv will be fired. Spags might be fired, although I can't see why.
I really didn't think that Haley would be let go because it makes Pioli look bad for hiring him in the first place. Sounds like their relationship was so bad that Pioli couldn't take it anymore. Haley is a pretty good coach but he's such a dick that it makes it hard to want him on your team.
I think that Morris gets another opportunity. Last year, they had their first winning season in a long time, but struggled against teams with winning records. We could have suspected that they would struggle this year, with a more difficult schedule. Morris will get his opportunity to right the ship.
As for Todd Haley, there is something that is not right with that guy.
Haley is not a disciplinarian but rather a brow beater. When you have a HC or any manager that tries to fear and intimidate all the time, the message gets real old real fast. I think he need to go to the college level where he can put that kind of fear into kids instead of grown men. I've never seen a coach get into it with so many players. If he stays in the league as an OC, I guarantee someone is going to knock him out. He's one of those people that thinks he's a tough guy and he's really not because he's probably never been in a fight in his life.
The only reason Morris may stay on is that he makes relatively no money for the cash strapped Glazer family. He's lost his team (how do you go up by 14 to the Jags and then give up 41 points to a team that hadn't scored more than 21 all year?). He's very cocky and not even tempered. I think though he stays because of his light contract and that this team is young. The only way he gets let go is if a coach like Cowher or Fisher say they want the job but its going to cost a lot to get either.
The guy that should go the minute the season is over is Jim Caldwell. It's been proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he does nothing. What's his calling card? Have the Colts made any adjustments in an effort to win all year? At some point in any walk of life you have to make a decision that if I am going to go down then its going to be by my hand. Where's the ball control offense (I know they have a poor line but any olineman would prefer to run block versus pass any day) to control the clock and keep that small d off the field? Where's the adjustments in the return game to give that ball control offense better field position? These are things that Caldwell didn't or more importantly couldn't do because he was clearly a figure head and nothing more. I lost all respect for him when he called timeouts in an attempt to score a meaningless TD. If I were Harbs, I would've blitzed Orvlosky until he tapped out. That's just bush on Caldwell's part.
It's a shame that he ever got that job because it's beyond obvious that he was simply going to watch Manning run the team and never thought about what would happen if he truly had the keys to the car.
I really like Raheem Morris. Yes he's having a difficult season but expectations were very high given his overachieving results the past couple of years. That isn't a roster full of talent. Like every team this season they've had a crazy amount of injuries but have little depth to fall back on. He's earned a bad season. You don't want to be a team that is rebuilding every 4th year.
If he does get fired he'll be snapped up as DC somewhere
I like Spagnuolo, hope he gets more time
I agree with others, Jim Caldwell has done nothing to show he deserves his position.
Broncos were struggling too but John Fox made some decisions and adjustments and turned it around.
Caldwell seems to be passive and letting the season drift past him.
I think Raheem has lost his team. Its one thing to lose to the Jags (we out to know) but to get annihilated is another thing altogether. This is the same team that went to GB and gave them all they could handle yet they go to Jacksonville and don't compete. That's a tell tale sign that he's lost his team and because the team is so young, they won't be jettisoning these guys.
I think he's a lot like Mike Singletary in that he means well but his message gets lost in translation. The difference is that Singletary was rigid and inflexible 100% of the time while Morris is Coughlin one minute and then Pete Carroll the next.
Which one does he want to be?
I know there is dissent and criticism but it's not like they are going to go out and hire the big name coach. They're going to look for another rookie head coach or someone off the scrap heap willing to coach for the cheapest contract in the NFL. Is that really a much better option than giving Raheem 1 more season to show that last year was not a fluke? If he can't do it next year then I would get rid of him. He'll have had a full training camp and offseason program at that point to right the ship. Just hoping to get lucky with the next unknown coach doesn't sound like a great plan to me.
Raheem Morris, maybe.
Chan Gailey? No way. This Bills team is better than they've been in years. They lost A LOT of people on both sides of the ball.
Andy Reid should be fired. He's been there too long and hasn't really been consistent in a few years.
Spags? Probably fired. I'd be surprised if he wasnt.
Caldwell? Probably fired. They'll be looking to make a splash. I've heard they're really interested in Jeff Fisher and Bill Cowher.
Sparano? Probably fired.
Ken Whisenhunt is another one I'm surprised hasn't been on the hot seat.
Norv Turner? Definitely gone after this season.
Tom Coughlin? Could be fired if the Giants don't make any noise in the playoffs.
Jason Garrett? Could be fired.


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There's Colorado Mex, Tex Mex, Cali Mex and New Mexican Mexican food, best exemplified in this city by the three Little Anita's outlets (soon to be joined by a fourth). But one Little Anita's item erases all borders: the complimentary sopapillas at the end of every meal. Little Anita's starts making these fried treats every day at 10 a.m., guaranteeing that the warm pillows of dough are always fresh when they arrive at your table. Land of Enchantment, indeed.
Breakfast King has always been there for us, through early-morning breakfasts and late-night breakfasts; breakfasts when the sun is just peeking up over the horizon and we haven't yet been to bed; and breakfasts at four in the afternoon when we've just woken up from whatever the night before had brought us. And no question, when Denver's night owls are in need of a feed, Breakfast King is the place to go. There are nights when this venerable 24-hour diner looks like something out of Quentin Tarantino's wet dreams — a weird conglomeration of club kids and criminals, night-shift blue collars and just plain folk who've found themselves a little bit lost on the wrong side of midnight. The King is there for all of us, helping us get up or come down, chill out or straighten up. In fact, the King has never once locked its doors in all the years it's been operating. And honestly, we're not sure what this city would do if it ever did.
Chef Ian Kleinman is a magician. Not just because he manages to make thoroughly impossible food (carbonated grapefruit, grape caviar, floating bacon and the like) that people come from all over the country to eat, but because he somehow figured out a way to do this at a hotel restaurant in Westminster, Colorado. Magic, indeed. In addition to watching over the regular menu at O's Steak & Seafood, Kleinman personally oversees a brilliant molecular-gastronomy menu that changes completely every week — and he has yet to blow the place up, burn it down or accidentally freeze himself in liquid nitrogen. A single taste of his instant peanut butter sorbet, watermelon powder, Miracle Fruit pills or guacamole space foam and you will never, ever look at food the same way again.
It seems like such an obvious idea: a restaurant dedicated entirely to the glory of the pig, serving pork and pork products. And yet Denver had no all-pig restaurant until Andy Ganick came along. His brainchild is the Berkshire, a restaurant whose menu is like something out of the sickest, most indulgent food fantasies: all pig, all the time. Pig for lunch, pig for brunch (a plate of bacon and a can of Pabst as the house "hangover special"), pig for dinner (bacon flights!) and a little pig in between. Almost every plate has pork worked into it somehow; if Ganick could get away with it, he'd even garnish the bar's cocktails with pig. But there is bacon-infused vodka for those who like to take their pig in liquid form. We go hog wild for the Berkshire.
While American Indian food may be the original American cuisine, not many of us have experienced much past fry bread. But Tocabe, a new fast-casual spot that got its start in Denver, does a perfect job of fusing the old with the new. In a Chipotle-esque setting, and at Chipotle-esque prices, you can get Medicine Wheel Nachos and delicious green chile, as well as pillowy fry bread. Made to order, these delicious edible plates are ideal for holding a variety of meats (including buffalo) and other toppings, as well as a slightly spicy ancho-chile sauce. Conclude your meal with more fry bread topped with honey, and you're guaranteed to become one with nature.
Shrimp and grits. Buffalo chicken wings and Rhode Island calamari. Memphis ribs, Louisiana etouffee, Maine lobster rolls and Chicago-style hot dogs. Steuben's isn't just an American restaurant, it's an All-American restaurant — a restaurant dedicated to the preservation and glorification of our mutt, immigrant canon; our staples and standards; our occasional flashes of brief genius. And while opinions may differ as to whether Steuben's is making the best version of some regional favorite, opinions always differ on every regional favorite. The fights over the Steuben's recipe for trout amandine, its green-chile cheeseburger or the truck-stop chocolate cake started even before the place opened, and they haven't stopped yet. The probably never will. And they all make for delicious conversation over a meal in this popular, comfortable hangout.


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Like a cleft apricot, the logo of Fred 62 diner sits above a stretch of Vermont Avenue pavement in Los Feliz, where the smoking, chattering masses talk too much and too, like, loud as they ease your suffering soul.
These are the outdoor tables, at which alcohol is not served, street gazing is optimal and the smell of good cigarette smoke ignites your fantasies as they walk by, partners attached.
Never mind.
Fred 62 is 24/7. Technically, this means that you never need to eat at home, a thought both tempting and expensive.
When you wait, in the singular, for a seat inside (since there has only ever been one of you), you will end up at the counter within skin-sticking distance of other diners, decades too young, partners attached.
Never mind.
You're here for the buzz; for the waitress who looks like Mary Steenburgen; for the Cabernet whose succulent, dry taste has you straining to read the label.
For the waiters in black T-shirts with JESUS IS OUR DISHWASHER and EAT PORK on the back — and a professionalism that keeps their fingers off the wine glass rim while more touted establishments remain oblivious.
But crucially, you're here for the plates of edible art they make of every menu item.
Who knew apple slices could channel Venus flytraps? That grilled shrimp could live alongside bendy oblong tofu in a swath of creamy penne? Or that the salmon slab in the dish called Fairfax High could taste just like the raw bacon you sneaked at 12?
At 4 a.m., or 7, at Christmas or Halloween or on July 4, there will be people in here, either alone and nodding off or in validating groups, while flames erupt in back amid loud laughs, and gravied mashed potato craters whisper, "Eat me. Eat me, why should you be denied?"—Mel Yiasemide
First-timers at the Brooklyn Bagel Bakery, a squat factory in a part of town now better known for burritos and Filipino sinigiang, are often put off by the display in the cramped retail vestibule, glass cases full of blueberry bagels and strawberry bagels, cranberry bagels and chocolate bagels, banana-nut bagels and other affronts to the proud tradition Brooklyn Bagel has been carrying on since Sandy Koufax still pitched in his native borough. The most crowded bin is the one holding the puffy, blown-out, oversweetened plain bagels more or less identical to the ones at suburban bagelries. Has Brooklyn Bagel sold out? Posterity will have to decide. But the signature product survives here as Hearth-Baked Bagels — just another flavor here perhaps, like pumpernickel or jalapeño-cheese, but these plain bagels are dense, chewy, taut-skinned and properly boiled before baking. They are still the best bagels west of the Hudson.—Jonathan Gold
The Cobb salad was invented at the old Hollywood Brown Derby when owner Bob Cobb, faced with either an overfull refrigerator or a starlet with troublesome bridgework, chopped the elements of a standard chef's salad into chunks no larger than a pea. He was always a couple of steps ahead, that guy, just as you would have to be if your fortune was based on chiffon cake and the Hollywood Stars baseball team. A great Cobb salad is less a feat of cuisine than an exercise in customization: If you can't express exact preferences on chopped bacon, chopped avocado, chopped chicken or chopped egg yolk, tossed or not tossed, dressing mixed in with the salad or meted out on the side, you probably don't belong in Hollywood. It may seem like a modest innovation, chopping a chef's salad, but Cobb salads were on the menu of practically every restaurant in America through the '60s, and continue to this day not just at the Hamburger Hamlet but in, say, the Asian-inflected Thai Cobb salad at Tiara. The Brown Derby is long gone, but the time-honored Beverly Hills Hotel variant known as the McCarthy Salad, which includes shredded cheddar cheese and beets, is permanently on the lunch menu at the Polo Lounge — no matter how much the establishment may prefer to feed you warm goat cheese or ahi tartare.—Jonathan Gold
Los Angeles, as has been amply proven, is a melting pot of world hot dog culture, a city where it is possible to find persuasive versions of Chicago hot dogs, New York street dogs, Okinawan-Jewish-Mexican hot dogs, Dodger Dogs, Chinese hot dogs, West Virginia coleslaw dogs, Colombian hot dogs and Chez Panisse–influenced organic hot dogs with pedigrees more impressive than a prize Pekinese. Some would argue that the city's most vital contribution to the hot dog diaspora is the chilidog at Pink's, and those people are probably correct — right now, even if you are reading this at a rainy 2:30 a.m., 112 people are probably lined up outside Pink's waiting for a chili kraut dog with everything. But I can't help thinking that the most important homegrown hot dog is probably the L.A. street dog, also known as the Danger Dog, the Tijuana Dog, the Ghetto Dog and the Dog Dog — you know, the mayo-slathered, chile-sluiced, grilled onion–smothered bacon-wrapped wonders bought from bootleg griddle masters outside Staples Center after a Lakers game or on Hollywood Boulevard after the clubs close. Those dogs, as the saying goes, are so good they're illegal: Cops tend to impound the griddles on the spot, and the dash of illicitness (or is it salmonella?) seems to add a certain flavor to the meat. You could take your chances on a cart downtown, where your entrée may come with a side of handcuffs. Or you could go to Fab, a Reseda joint that actually specializes in a kind of deep-fried New Jersey–style hot dog called the Ripper, but prepares a drippy, spicy, crunchy version of the street dog, served with homemade tater tots instead of a misdemeanor warrant.—Jonathan Gold
We are living in an age not just of cupcakes but of cupcakes with publicists, exquisitely art-directed confections whose geometric decoration owes less to Betty Crocker than to Josef Albers. Cupcake manufacture seems to occupy the midlife-crisis Plan Bs that used to be reserved for interior decoration or jewelry design. Eat them, arrange them prettily on a conference room table, mount them on the wall — it really makes no difference. The cupcakes in the display case at the Eagle Rock hamburger stand Oinkster, Andre Guerrero's shotgun marriage of fast-food culture and classic French technique, look like examples of the new breed: pretty, swirly, just lumpy enough to give a Gourmet cover a peppy summer look. It is easy to imagine a box of the carrot-cake cupcakes sitting uneaten on a Stickley sideboard until they eventually stale, or the sticky, snowy coconut cupcakes at a society lunch with precisely one bite taken out of each. But Guerrero is neither a corporate lawyer nor a party planner with a truck-tire-size Rolodex — he's a chef. So the fluffy peanut-butter-and-jelly cupcakes taste like peanut butter and jelly, and those dense, cream-cheese-frosted carrot cupcakes would probably also be the best carrot cake in town if they happened to compete in that category too.—Jonathan Gold
Angelenos are spoiled for choice when it comes to roast chicken, from the smoky Peruvian-style chickens at Lola's or Pollos a la Brasa to the garlicky Armenian birds at Marouch and Carousel, the soft, savory hens at Brentwood's Reddi-Chik to the oregano-kissed chicken at Papa Cristo's in the Byzantine-Latino district. Nowhere else that I know of can you duck into a place like Zankou and walk away with a fragrant rotisserie chicken in about the time, and for about the price, of a soul-killing meal at Burger King. Still, even among the feathered plenty, the chickens at Grill Masters stands a cluck or two above the rest: extravagantly seasoned fowl cooked on rotating spits, perfumed with smoke, slow-roasted and glistening with juice, basted in its own fat plus probably a dozen other things, soft enough to eat with a spoon. And the skin! Like a thin sheet of crackly caramel, salty and drippy and saturated with herbs, chewy but taut and crisp enough to give way under your teeth with a magnificent thwack. But find a tree to eat under — the hot, succulent bird does not travel well. Grill Masters bright red catering wagons fold out like Mr. Haney's truck at local farmers markets, including the Tuesday Manhattan Beach market, the Wednesday noon downtown market, the Thursday South Pasadena market and the Sunday market on Larchmont.—Jonathan Gold