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LIVING May 9, 2010 PUZZLES E2 COMMUNITY E3 OBITUARIES E6-7 THE SUNDAY JOURNAL Abq journal.com Tuning up Northwestern taste buds By Matt Andazola Journal Staff Writer A lbuquerque-bred band The Shins was, for a while, the biggest thing going in the world of indie rock. But all that begins must end, and, for the chile-loving former New Mexicans in Portland, the end of one journey with The Shins has been a big blessing. Drummer Jesse Sandoval now runs the award-winning Nuevo Mexico food cart in one of the busiest food courts, and despite being fired from the band, says he has never been happier. definitely in a stage now where I have to be thankful for everything I he says in a phone interview. Sandoval says he moved to Oregon in about 2001 while still with the band.

The Shins was huge in the Aughts, scoring two platinum hits on the soundtrack of the 2004 movie hit and earning a Grammy nomination for the Night album. Looking to his past, examining the skills he could draw on for his next venture, Sandoval says he zeroed in on time he spent traveling with his mom, who operated a food cart at events around the state, including Zozobra and the Fiestas. He also saw a big opening in his new city, because Portland is more open to food carts was definitely not something people embraced in and because there was almost nowhere to go for real New Mexican food. realized I was sitting on a gold mine of sorts because there going to be much competition in terms of New Mexican he says. So he has the lock on green JOURNAL FILE PHOTO Jesse Sandoval, one-time drummer of indie-rock darlings The Shins, lives in Portland, where he runs a New Mexican food stand.

The Shins comprised, left to right, bassist Dave Hernandez, frontman James Mercer, Sandoval and keyboardist Marty Crandall. Ex-Shins drummer brings N.M. flavors to Portland food court See EX-SHINS on PAGE E4 slug: Top Ten Reviews Logo where: Standing Art Logos Features Top Ten Reviews artist: Cathryn size: 1 col and col date of proof: April 20, 2009 colorbw col 4p 1 col 5p2 top reviews 10 top reviews 10 top reviews 10 top reviews 10 Details improve Internet searches By Leslie Meredith Top Ten Reviews I magine walking into a grocery store and asking for peas. The clerk could send you to the canned vegetable aisle, the frozen food aisle or the produce section, where you might be led to sugar snap peas, snow peas, garden peas or a bag of wasabi peas. To get what you want, you have to be more specific, and so it is with Internet searching.

Typing in a single keyword in the Google search box results in more than 44 million items. Even first page results contain links to websites covering the fruit, the band Black Eyed Peas and scrapbooking fonts called peas. Learning some simple and quick ways to search for information can save time. Remember the simple language of logic taught in grade school math classes? Words like AND, OR and NOT are called Boolean operators and are one of the simplest ways to narrow a search. In the pea example, you might search peas AND recipe if looking for side dishes featuring peas.

If you had used OR instead of AND, search results would include all pages containing peas and all pages containing recipe, expanding the universe of results rather than narrowing it. If you want a recipe for black-eyed peas, then use the NOT operator and add music in the typed string to eliminate sites about the band. Remember to capitalize the operator to let the search engine know it is an operator, not a word in a phrase. Using quotation marks If looking for results around a specific phrase, put the phrase in quotation marks. Perhaps you want a gift that expresses the idea peas in a and type the phrase with quotes around it.

Results include a boxed pea pod candle wedding shower favor, a T-shirt and a book. Results also include an explanation of this popular idiom but show listings for the maternity store A Pea in the Pod because it an exact match as indicated by the quotation marks. Try adding when looking for an alternative to an object you have in mind rather than because you will get a broader range of alternatives to consider and avoid sites that load their pages with the word You also can use this technique when looking for a similar object by typing me along with the word or phrase used as See on PAGE E4 Former police officer, paralyzed after shooting, pushes ahead with both arms By Jean Merl Los Angeles Times OS ANGELES Arms are Tim Pearce seized hold of the thought. He was in a cramped hospital waiting area shortly before midnight on a Saturday in June 2006. His wife, Kristina Ripatti, like him a Los Angeles Police Department officer, had been shot three times.

At first, nobody expected her to make it. Then doctors brought news that was both heartening and devastating. Ripatti would survive, but her spinal cord had been severed. She would be paralyzed from the chest down. She would, however, have use of her arms.

Sports had been a linchpin of life, and her husband sensed that she would recover more quickly and fully if she could resume the activities she loved biking, surfing, fishing even with limitations. With arms, he thought, that would be possible. With arms, the activities she cherished could still be part of her life. Pearce recalled a documentary he had seen about surfer Jesse Billauer, who was paralyzed in a surfing accident at age 17 but was able to return to the ocean and ride waves with specialized equipment. got to find Pearce thought, she can surf Solace, independence Ripatti grimaces with effort.

Her vibrant blue eyes are clamped shut, her mouth twisted, as she strains for one more pull-up. At a gym near the home in Los South Bay area, trainer lifts her so she can reach the bar on the equipment; he holds her upright to compensate for her wasted abdominal muscles, grasping her by the handles on a vest that Pearce designed for these workouts. Ripatti spends an average of two hours a day, five days a week, in the gym, using weight machines to train the muscles on her upper back, shoulders, triceps and biceps pretty much the only ones she can still use. Those muscles allow her to help care for and play with her children, Jordan, 5, and Lucas, 2. They enable her to get in and out of her wheelchair unassisted and break it down and toss it into her car, which she drives with hand controls.

With those muscles, she has completed the Boston and L.A. marathons, covering the 26.2-mile distance on her hand cycle. When Ripatti was a young police officer, her arduous Kristina Ripatti, a veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, who was shot and paralyzed from the chest down while pursuing a suspect, works out at Gym with a personal trainer in Redondo Beach, Calif. just give up; giving up is not an Ripatti says. As she laughs, Jordan pulls her mother, Kristina Ripatti, close.

care, they just want their mommy or daddy there, they care what state Ripatti says about the unconditional love of her children. See FORMER on PAGE E4 LIZ O. AN ELES Kristina Ripatti, left, has friends and family over to her house to celebrate the birthday of her son, Lucas, in Redondo Beach, Calif. Lucas, center, opens a gift with the help of friend Rosy Rojas, at right. Ripatti is a veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department.

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