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Begin with American-imposed economic sanctions on Iraq, depriving families of vital medicines. Then it invaded, its "shock and awe" killing, destroying and crippling Iraq. After 10 years of war it decamped, leaving a frightful legacy of death, destruction and despair.
On the 10th anniversary of that war, America is left with the shame and stain of one of the least justifiable wars in history. It was illegal, unconstitutional and immoral.
Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator but he controlled the sectarian tensions and hatred in Iraq. His eradication and the departure of Americans left the country at loggerheads: Shiites vs. Sunnis, Arabs vs. Kurds, Islamists vs. al-Qaida. The tattered country has been left with deadly suicide bombings, car bombings and other fatal attacks.
The Iraq War solved nothing.
Look at the sanctions. Children, deprived of medicines, were condemned to die an agonizing death, writhing in pain in a Baghdad hospital without pain relievers. As a British nurse recalled: "The kids were wasted by water-borne diseases, the fluids ran out of their bodies and left them appearing like withered, spoiled fruit."
The war toll is horrendous: 4,500 American killed and 30,000 wounded. Those who survived suffer post-traumatic stress disorder. Hundred of thousands of Iraqis were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. Cost to U.S. taxpayers $2.2 trillion, rising to about $4 trillion in interest on borrowed money.
All for nought. It just made the Arab World abhor America.
President G.W. Bush and his evil Vice President Cheney are war criminals. Yet Cheney and other architects of the war constantly appear on TV to defend their wrong-headedness.
The U.N. charter, ratified by the United States, makes it clear: the U.N. Security Council must authorize war. The council refused to do so. Why? The only reason the council approves of wars is self-defense. Self-defense was non-existent in Iraq.
Instead, Bush, Cheney and Secretary of State Colin Powell presented enormous lies, including one claiming Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. As the New York Times pointed out in an editorial: "The war was based on faulty intelligence manipulated for ideological reasons."
Moreover, you cannot blame the war on warmongers Bush and Cheney and their fellow Republicans alone. Democrats in Congress overwhelming passed the resolution authorizing use of military force. The Constitution clearly specifies a declaration of war.
Marjorie Cohn of the online Reader Supported News notes that Cheney's secret energy task force included a map of Iraqi oilfields, pipelines, refineries and terminals. It also contained "charts detailing Iraqi oil and gas and foreign seekers of Iraqi oil contracts." The date of the document: six months before 9/11.
Readers will understandably conclude: the war was all about oil.
Without a draft, war fever is easy. Relatively few Americans suffer the consequences. And most of those who do — the poor, the blacks and Latinos —see the military as a way to gain occupational skills while having free food and housing along with decent pay.
In its drive for global hegemony, the United States has much to feel guilty about, from deadly agent orange in Vietnam, senseless and secret bombing in Cambodia and all the unnecessary U.S. wars in between.
Jake Highton is an emeritus journalism professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.


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What CoP15 Means for Wildlife Conservation
This is a discussion on What CoP15 Means for Wildlife Conservation within the News forums, part of the AfricaHunting.com category; What CoP15 Means for Wildlife Conservation by Eugène Lapointe COP15 will be remembered for many of the high-profile listing proposals ...
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What CoP15 Means for Wildlife Conservation
by Eugène Lapointe
COP15 will be remembered for many of the high-profile listing proposals that failed to achieve the required two-thirds majority. But it would be wrong to conclude that little was achieved in Doha. Underlying the voting outcomes was a greater tendency by Parties to assert their sovereign rights and to acknowledge the limits of trade bans as a conservation tool. If maintained, this trend towards greater pragmatism will make CITES stronger and more trusted as an international conservation instrument.
CITES continues to struggle under the politicization of elephant conservation, but emotions have at least quelled to the point where discussions on downlisting proposals from Tanzania and Zambia were able to focus largely on management issues. A majority of Parties were accepting of the benefits of the sustainable utilization of ivory as a conservation tool, which is a measure of progress. On the other side of this equation is a growing recognition that banning the use of elephants has cultivated an environment for poaching which, when coupled with inadequate law enforcement and corruption, has undermined elephant conservation in parts of Central Africa.
Africa remains divided on the issue, but the countries with significant elephant populations are mostly united on the need to use their abundant elephant resources in a carefully controlled and sustainable manner. At CITES at least, it seems that the day has passed when Africans were viewed as selfless and virtuous only if they pursued prohibitions and trade bans. The benefits of the sustainable use approach in Southern Africa now reach beyond the greater number of elephants roaming freely in range states and into the political arena where the benefits of resource utilization are clearly demonstrable. The message for economic and social development could not be clearer: Africa must be allowed to utilize its resources in a sustainable manner.
In the oceans, CITES is still defining its role. Parties appear willing to consider certain species for listings but reluctant to become involved in commercial fishery management. This reluctance is wise because CITES does not have the capability, expertise or structure to become a fisheries body. But it is also doubtful whether its listings will have any discernible benefit on fish stocks, particularly since CITES cannot bring about reductions in bycatch or illegal fishing. The administrative and bureaucratic burdens that accompany listings, on the other hand, will inevitably put fishermen out of work.
One of the imperfections of CITES is the difficulty of achieving a downlisting once a species has recovered. Part of this comes down to philosophical reluctance, a belief held by some that without continued CITES protection a species will be over-exploited. But whatever the driver, COP15 demonstrated with its decisions on the American bobcat and elephants in Tanzania and Zambia that even when biological data clearly supports a downlisting, it is unlikely to happen. In the case of species hidden from view by the oceans in which they live, biological information is naturally much more limited and commonly based on projections and models that are created from limited data points. While this should be a sufficiently low threshold to persuade Parties not to list fish species in the first place, it would certainly be used by some Parties to prevent future downlistings. A listing of a fish species is therefore the closest thing CITES can come to a permanent listing.
The European Union and the United States make proposals to each COP. That some of these proposals originate from lobbying by animal rights groups is no secret. One of the problems is that the science behind proposals driven by lobbyists is often less robust than is required for a listing, as was most clearly the case with the polar bear, red coral and spiny dogfish at COP15. Lobbyist-driven proposals bring at least two negative consequences to CITES. In terms of wildlife conservation, they present distractions, diverting attention away from less charismatic species that may merit CITES attention. Second, they politicize the process, leading the media to judge the functionality of the institution as a whole according to the number of listings that are agreed or rejected. Inevitably, this leads to the casting of countries as heroes or villains, and these characterizations are stoked by the lobbyists themselves. CITES would work better if proposals originated from range states as a result of a systematic scientific process and appropriate consultations with other Parties, as was originally intended. This will require developed nations to exercise greater restraint on future proposals and focus on less ingratiating initiatives.
Finally, we would like to thank Qatar for hosting COP15 and doing so in such a professional, friendly and well-organized way. The smoothness of arrangements in the meetings and around the conference facilities has surely contributed to the constructive nature of the discussions themselves. It has been our pleasure to spend some time getting to know Qatar, its people and its customs. We could not have hoped for anything more from our hosts.
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What are some questions I can ask my doctor about bladder cancer?
As you cope with cancer and cancer treatment, you need to have honest, open talks with your doctor. You should feel free to ask any question that's on your mind, no matter how small it might seem. Here are some questions you might want to ask. Be sure to add your own questions as you think of them. Nurses, social workers, and other members of the treatment team may also be able to answer many of your questions.
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- What is the stage and grade of my cancer? What does that mean in my case?
- Are there other tests that need to be done before we can decide on treatment?
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- What is the goal of the treatment?
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Trumpetmaster wrote:Don't the engineers check for stress, wear and tear over time?
It just doesn't make sense.....
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2,027 bridges in New York City alone! Of course, that would include everything from the concrete-slab-over-a-ditch type all the way through to the majestic Brooklyn Bridge.
Selma in Sandy Eggo wrote:There's been a list of "deficient" bridges on one of the news websites - I don't recall which one and I'm too lazy to go hunt it up again. The San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge was on it. Twice.
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The Interestate Highway system was designed by President Eisenhower in the mid 1950s. My comment was that a bridge built in the '60s would be one of the oldest in the system, and therefore would probably have been designed to different standards than the bridges currently in the system. In my opinion, the bridges built by the government for the Interstate Highway system are designed lighter and more cheaply than bridges built prior to them. I realize there are new technologies and all that jazz, but my own unqualified observations lead me to believe that they have a lesser safety factor than 'traditional' bridges.
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"There's no question the season hasn't started off the way our team was hoping," Buescher said. "It's not because we haven't run well. I feel like we are always in contention for a win, but we've just been bitten by some bad luck so far and don't have the end result to show for it."
Kansas has become a special place for Buescher. The Turner Scott Motorsports driver recorded his first career truck win at this 1.5-mile racetrack. He won three more races during the 2012 season to capture the series championship.
"Kansas is definitely a special place to me and getting my first Truck Series win there was a dream come true," he said. "With the track being repaved last summer, I feel like it is a totally different track, but I feel like we can get a handle on the new surface and get the finish this team deserves."
While Buescher might be a little bit behind at this point of the season, rookie Jeb Burton isn't. The 20-year-old Burton has won the pole for the last two races -- Martinsville and Rockingham. He has finished no worse than seventh this year and is presently second in points (-16).
"This season has started out just the way we wanted it to, and I'm ready to keep the momentum going," Burton said. "Getting my first pole award at Martinsville Speedway was awesome, but doing it two weekends in a row really shows how hard my team is working for the results we're getting. I don't have a lot of experience at Kansas Speedway, so I'm definitely looking to gain more this weekend and walk away with another solid finish."
There have been 12 different winners in as many truck races at Kansas. Todd Bodine (2005), Hornaday (2008), Sauter (2010) and Buescher (2012) are those drivers competing in this race that have previously won here.
Kyle Busch and Logano are those Sprint Cup Series regulars on the entry list for this event. Busch will drive his own No. 51 Toyota, while Joey Logano is behind the wheel of the No. 19 Ford for Brad Keselowski Racing. Logano finished second at Rockingham. Kyle Larson won the race there but is not entered for Kansas.
Thirty-six teams are on the preliminary entry list for the SFP 250.
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I am working on a project that will have some vector graphics, perhaps using TikZ (or a similar tool). All of the graphics consists of lines, in shades of gray. However, the lines from TikZ appear too clean. Is there any way to make the lines appear as if they were produced by a graphite pencil?
I'm posting this just because you mentioned specifically the lines.
I modified the
Here is the output:
I'm currently studying the
Only for the fun, I took Marc's suggestion and I create a new decoration
In terms of regular (straight) lines,
that draws a straight line with some "jagging." The "jagging" parameters that influence the line drawing are
This requires a
This is another attempt to simulate hand drawn curves in Metapost. This is heavily inspired by the MetaFun macros. The main advantage of this approach is that you don't have change your drawing macros at all. Simply
Save the following as
The main macro is
To use these, you also need to load
which gives
Since the
The figure on the top shows the output without
And here is a slightly tweaked version of example 83 of metapost examples
In my biased opinion, this looks more natural than many of the other solutions.
There are lots of nice answers here addressing how to get that "hand drawn" look with the shape of the lines. I'm going to sketch an approach to getting the texture right. I spent a bit of time this afternoon staring at some lines drawn with a 9B pencil on paper and decided that what it looked most like was a brass rubbing. That is, the stroke of the pencil reveals the texture of the paper underneath. This is most like a fading in TikZ/PGF parlance.
The cheap and nasty paper that I buy doesn't have much of a grain to it (I have kids, they do art, I buy about 5 reams every six months). The pattern looks more like noise. So having learnt about Perlin noise recently, I thought that would be an appropriate thing to simulate the paper texture with. I soon decided that a TeX implementation would be daft, so went hunting for a Lua version and found one of the closely related Simplex noise (also due to Perlin; the link goes to a Lua implementation; the author uses strong language both in comments and function names). So I hacked that into a Lua file for LuaTeX and wrote a little demonstration LaTeX file.
I'm calling this an approach because it needs considerable work to be useful. For one thing, even though I'm using Lua to do the heavy processing then it takes time to render the fading. So given that noise isn't usually required to be too random, one should do a lot of caching: both of the original generated numbers and the graphic used for the fading itself. There's also a fair bit about fadings that I don't understand, particularly related to how the fading and the picture match up.
What should happen is that one uses one fading for the whole picture so that strokes laid over each other end up using the same noise and thus work as though they are on top of the same piece of paper. This would also need a little work to do with positioning.
The code isn't too complicated. Here's the LaTeX file:
Here's the lua file:
It is almost entirely just clipped out from the lua implementation linked above. There's no obvious licence information there, but consider it covered under whatever-licence-it-would-be-there.
Here's the result of that code:
Based on Marcs solution I tried to mimic the ps-tricks results (randomized/imprecise coordinates) shown by Werner using tikz:
Maybe someone can improve this, i.e. find a more general way to randomize coordinates, as this solution for example will not randomize all corners of a rectangle automatically.
Here are two pens with MetaPost (using ConTeXt format), I feel the code is pretty self-explanatory:
This is the first time I have used MetaPost with ConTeXt, and was happy how to see how easy it is to use.
You might want to create a brush (possibly with transparency) and apply it repeatedly on the paths created by the other replies, possibly with some transformations of the brush itself to make it appear even more random. Intensity effects can be achieved with a highly transparent brush and changing "velocity" of the path movement (or changing frequency of applying the brush).
See how a graphite effect is created in this drawing pad, or the airbrush tool in GIMP. I am not an expert in graphics so I cannot give much advice here; my feeling is that you will need to experiment quite a bit to achieve the desired result. (On that note: A sample drawing would help understand your question better.)
You can use marking decorations (Section 30.4 in the PGF manual). There is also an example that draws arrows along a path, so I'm pretty sure you can do the same thing with a vector or bitmap brush. This has been borrowed from the manual:
The size of the PDF will not be affected much because TikZ can be instructed to load the brush only once. However, rendering may take quite a while.


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I am overhelmed of tagging, contexting and all that priorization stuff.
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Would be great if in the Tips & Tricks if the exact search criteria could be included so we could copy and paste it.
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Hi j.johnson,
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For me its boxing.
As a spectator ...
1. Sumo wrestling
2. Boxing
3. Cycling
You can rest assured that I get VERY few opportunities to catch Sumo on the tube.
Almost as rare is an evenly-matched boxing match. Those seem to have gone the way of the dodo some 20 years ago, though I do catch the occasional terrific fight, though they are rare indeed. Classic Boxing on ESPN2 is 'bout as close as I come nowadays.
I'm lucky enough to get the CBC channel living in close proximity to the Canadian border. As a result, I get to catch the very occasional track cycling event. They don't show any of that in the states. That's the best. Up until a couple of years back, OLN carried full coverage of the Giro di Italia and the Vuelta de Espana as well as some of the one-day classics on the road. These were terrific! During the bulk of the Lance era, the TDF was pretty much a yawner so I mostly skipped it. Maybe now that he's left the building it'll be much more interesting (if we get any coverage at all).
And, of course, T & F remainis my favorite sport. But as a spectator it's live or nuthini' fer me. That crappy coverage on TV is worse than havin' none.
As a participant - cycling and lots of it.
cross country. does this count?
ok seriously, favorite? not fair, there are so many great sports and i love em almost 1/2 as much as doz guz and gals rounding round in circles.
not in order-
golf- maybe the hardest sport to truely master, the best in the world on a bad day are clowns.
football- to a lot of people just giant men falling down. not true! a human chess match.
f1 racing- the best drivers in the world in the fastest cars in the world going so fast its not to be believed.
nascar- i know what your thinking, hillbillies in stockcars dont amout to a hill of beans. WRONG!
boxing-when its good there's nothin better, when its bad there's nothin worse.
tennis! ice skating! gymnastics! ect ect.
ok, all things considered the greatest 3 hours of sport, becides track, ive had in my life is watching joe montana and my niners come back and win the super bowl!!
I'll watch almost anything including the America's Cup yacht races, NASCAR, syncro swimming, equestrian, competitive eating, etc . The one exception is tennis. I try...but I don't last more than ten minutes before dozing off.
Me too. Go Packers!
From someone who was brought up in a Soccer culture.
P.S. I also like cycling, swimming, Chess, Brazil and Argentina playing Soccer...
Rugby League
Rugby Union
Worst sports:
Anything involving boats, cars, horses and undernourished teenage girls.
I'm a really lousy sports fan in general--there are very few other sports that I know anything about or follow at all. I do watch most of the championship events-Wimbledon, Masters Golf, Super Bowl, Tour de Francne, etc. I actively despite "motor" sports and despite giving it some effort, don't get cricket. I enjoyed the Henley Regatta while living there, and really enjoyed an Australian Rules Football match a decade or so in Melbourne (at the MCG, or, as we would know it, the '56 Olympic stadium), but can't say I try to "keep up" with either of these. So, bottom line: I'm almost Puritanically "faithful" to t&f.
jeez !
i really need to abide by that ole quote my pappy gave me when sat on his knee:
"boy, never go out with a who can bench more than you !"
wish i'd listened to him & i woudn't be so beat up nowdayz !
i saw a documentary about that recently: apparently spassky had a winning record v fischer coming into the match !
the shenanigans in iceland upset him & he underperformed - he certainly wasn't worth a 6 - 0 thrashing ( or whatever it was )
we were robbed of the all-time classic in '75: fischer v karpov : fischer's dynamic style v karpov, the master torturer - what a match it wouda been !
remember how good karpov was - in the '81 match he was thrashing kasparov 5 - 0 ( first to 6 wins in a timeless match ) - kasparov just played for endless draws at this point until the wimpy karpov ran out of strength & levelled it up at 5 - 5, when they abandoned it
i'd say a prime karpov was near unbeatable
Golf and bowling are activities, not sports. By definition, any activity that can normally be successfully done by a smoker is not a sport.
I go with the "if a 70-year-old-woman can beat me, it's not a sport" rule. That rules out about 60% of the activities that people now call sport, INCLUDING any kind of distance running!
I'm with you all the way. And continue on until Steve Young's retirement. We were very fortunate around here. The Niners from about 1981 through about 1995 were a local franchise that most areas can only hope and dream of. Can't watch them now . . . they suck big time.
So no one has mentioned my second favorite sport – Baseball. Man, has the BALCO crap had that big an affect? No one thinks baseball is clean, but you football fans out there are really kidding yourselves if you think that sport is drug free . . .
Sorry, in my 'I've just driven about a million miles speed reading' I missed it.
Baseball is, next to T&F, the sport of the Gods . . .
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That is why I put in the 'normally' qualifier. While it is occasionally so, it is not normal for a T&F athlete to be a smoker.
FIS World Cup.
No need to tell you who my favourite Alpine Skiier is.
Fischer had never beaten him. Spassky won the first game. Fischer forfeited the second. Then Fischer won 7 out of the next 19, Spassky won one and 11 were drawn.
College Basketball, can you feel the Madness!!!!!!!
Go Titans!!!!!!
But I'll watch any competition, really, I've even watched a matches of Curling!!!
well you certainly think so(or maybe you know). why not go back the mj thread and respond to accelarator. he has called you out. you dont seem to answer.
sure thing smart guy. i think your on the wrong thread.
I don't know if it's the overwhelming commercial load on TV (which actually translates to a even worse product in person, because at home you can at least get up and dust a shelf or do something to be productive instead of just sitting there), but I'm starting to find most sports just too long and drawn out, with too much dead time. Of course, maybe there's just the chance that I'm turning in to a raging intellectual
not a good boxing match!!! 1 minute to rest.
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WASHINGTON - The nation was on the brink of a crippling national strike by railroad workers in the summer of 1963 when Congress stepped in to settle a years-long battle over how many men it took to safely operate a train.
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For decades in Omaha, each of the eight visiting College World Series teams has been assigned a service club as a host. Downtown Rotary this year hosted Oregon State. The club also helps sponsor the annual Outland Trophy banquet in Omaha.
Rotary provides international exchanges of adults and students. One of its causes is to help eradicate polio in the world; in that regard, Bren has been part of trips to Afghanistan, Pakistan and India.
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"We were neighbors standing side by side," he said. "Volunteerism never stopped. We did not hurt for volunteers."
Joining Suttle and Larry Gomez on a panel was Mary Lynn Reiser, director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.
UNO business graduates are eager to become involved in the community, she said, and service clubs like Rotary could try to recruit them. Omaha is a welcoming community, she said, for those who want to become civically involved.
When she was president of the National Association of Economic Educators, Reiser hosted a board meeting in Omaha. Board members "were just shocked that I could say 'Hi, Jim' to the mayor and that I knew both of our U.S. senators by their first names."
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Monday To Friday From 10:00 AM To 12:00 AM Saturday To Sunday From 09:00 AM To 12:00 AM
Neighborhoods: Northeast, Chinatown
A sure-fire hit for lunch with fresh dim sum. Excellent soup dumplings.
Great spot for late-night jook--also enjoy dim sum during the day (no carts, so it comes out of the kitchen hot). Engaging staff, too. And it's Obama approved!
Over-hyped restaurant with bad service, mediocre food, and a long wait time – As a native Chinese, I'm an avid fan of dim sum and have eaten at quite a few restaurants, but I don't have anything good to say about Great Eastern. The food was only average (the shrimp dumplings fell apart when we picked them up, everything was lukewarm, and there was layer over our porridge after it'd been sitting out too long), the decorations shabby, and the service was HORRIBLE. The waiters were downright curt with us, dumping our food on the table with a scowl before they whisked off somewhere else. No joke - I think I've been treated that way only once or twice in my life.
I think it had to do with the fact that we had dressed casually and weren't foreigners, sadly enough. Many popular Chinese restaurants I've tried have always looked down on the "native" eaters, with the assumption that we're not the worthy customers. Paranoia? No, this behavior's common in China too, and I'm only sorry that the servers had such big egos here.
My suggestion is to try a smaller, less-hyped restaurant. The food here is only mediocre, and it can be had for a lot cheaper at a family restaurant. (Yes, they look cramped and shabby, but the owners love their customers!) My $7.50 quail egg porridge is usually only $4 anywhere else I go - the prices are so inflated because they know they can get away with it.
Ugh. I'm sure many people have had great experiences, but I would never go back to that restaurant. This place is popular for food that I could get anywhere else for better service, less wait time, and probably a cleaner restroom as well (although in SF, that's hard to find).
great food – This is one of the best restaurants in Chinatown or anywhere else. The food is always fresh. Helpful friendly waiters. It can be very busy at lunch time but always a lot of tables. Always full of families and tourists.
great duck! mmm... – This place has really good duck! amazing duck! they also have a lot of other good chinese food but I can't get enough of there duck. For a chinese restaurant, it is very very clean. There is definitely a wait during the weekends!
Fantastic Cantonese – The last reviewer who said blah blah blah mentioned you wouldn't be happy with great eastern if you are looking for Mandarin or Hunan. Well, guess what? This is neither of those. It's Cantonese, and the flavors in Cantonese are much more subtle than throwing a heap of red peppers on something and calling it flavor. This is a great restaurant and I highly recommend it for Dim Sum and regular dining. If you want Hunan, don't go to a Cantonese restaurant then trash it because it isn't something it never purports to be.
Should be called Nothing great Eastern – I was completely underwhelmed with my experience of great eastern. There plates were so bland that it left me wanting, we family styled some 8-10 dishes, and none of them were exceptional, few were average and several were downright awful. With acess to so many fresh vegetables along Stockton, I was disappointed to see mostly canned goods making there way onto these plates, Rehydrated oyster and shitake mushrooms, cannned bamboo shoots and baby corn, zero ginger, crappy white sauces, frozen goyza potstickers. I could have put together a better meal at home. With the final bill coming to 165 USD, I was amazed to see people putting up with such poor food. Out of towners may like the feel of a Chinatown experience, but for locals looking for hunan and mandarin its blah, blah, blah.
Solid Decent Chinese Food – I've been here twice and the food is definitely solid. Solid, meaning there are definitely dishes here I would eat to satisfy my hunger for chinese food. There are alot of bad chinese restaurants in chinatown (ironically the better ones are in the suburbs), but for chinatown this restaurant is decent. Decor/ambiance is decent. Service has always been good the two times I was there. And they do have validated parking for two hours at the Holiday Inn (I think it's after 5pm though). I would try the Scrambled eggs and prawns chow fun. Interesting combination, but it's pretty good!
The dim sum is just ok.
A classic Chinatown restaurant specializing in Hong Kong-style seafood. – In Short
Cut-glass chandeliers and dark wood mingle with plastic signs advertising the multitude of live seafood served here. Oversized menus include photos of the dozens of dishes offered, with a focus on the seafood in giant tanks brimming with Dungeness crabs, giant prawns, lobsters and several varieties of fish. Non-seafood dishes range from Chinese broccoli in a bath of tangy oyster sauce to elaborately braised meats and stir-fry dishes.
Tasty food, good value – Their dim sum is excellent and a much better value than Yank Sing. We always order way more than we can really eat because most everything is delicious.
Service is ok.
best cantonese in sf – This is the best cantonese in the City. It's a bit pricey but it's worth it. Stick with seafood dishes and you'll do ok.
Great Quick Service – This restuarant beats any place for quickness. I ordered and 7 minutes later it came out. Plus, for a Chinese Restaurant the service was pretty good. I requested my fish to be cooked and certain way and they accomodated me happily. This is not one of those cheaper Chinese restaurants with sticky red seats and cups you have to re-wipe. It's a bit more expensive but the decor is nice, roomy, servings large, and service good. Plus they give you for free almond jello (heavenly taste) and OJ slices.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says the U.S. must shift cars and trucks off oil for good so the public can avoid spikes in gasoline prices.
In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama promotes a plan to direct $200 million a year into an energy security trust to fund research for alternatives like electric car batteries and biofuels. He says the trust would use revenues from federal leases on offshore drilling without adding to the deficit.
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The Republican answer to our gas crisis is only "drill more." They say Congress needs to act to open up more land to the oil companies.
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