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- willow May 21, 2006 07:26 PM
I'm in the market for both since we're buying a new house. I miss my old bottom freezer refrigerator (sold with our old house -- don't miss the house, just the appliances!)
Now I want a french door bottom freezer refrigerator! What could be better, and the Amana has that big deli tray compartment that could actually accomodate collards, leeks . . . and perhaps a brussels sprouts stalk.
Anyone have experience w/ a french door bottom freezer refrigerator? LG? Amana? kenmore?
As for dishwashers, I'm leaning towards buying two (2!). Not the Fisher & Paykel drawers, but two full size ones. I find after a big dinner I end up with a sinkful of dirty dishes the next a.m. that I couldn't load into the dishwasher because it was running. I think I would trade up(!) from a Bosch to 2 Kenmores.
I have a GE monogram bottom freezer that works very well. My dishwasher is a Miele and both my wife and i love it.
I have the Maytag MFF2557HES french door bottom mount freezer and my wife and I are huge fans. When shopping for a new fridge we couldn't believe the limited choices for bottom mount fridges. As for dishwashers I have a Kitchenaid KUDL02FRSS. Works fine but it is not as quiet as I wish it were and I like the new models that allow you to put a large amount of detergent instead of filling it up everytime.
If you'd like a retro look, consider a Northstar refrigerator. It has a bottom freezer and comes in lots of colors.
Rather than buy two dishwashers you might consider what I did which was to buy a commercial under-the-counter dishwasher. It is a Hobart LXi series. It has a two minute cycle and almost everything fits into it. All my big stock pots and Le Crueset can go through the dishwasher in two minutes. It is very expensive but it is the last dishwasher you will ever buy.
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yes I read your post and responses and decided to post my own inquiry because there were not strong recommendations. I'm leaning towards the Amana bottom freezer refrigerator and two Kenmore dishwashers. (I would choose Bosch but I want 2 and get can 2 Kenmores for the price of one Bosch.) Am intrigued by a Hobart dishwasher. Clearly sub-zero and Hobart are top of the line. But I'm a legal aid lawyer so my kithcen budget is, uh, limited!
Our Miele dishwasher has been great. We wanted either the Miele or Bosch because they're both so quiet, and ended up with the Miele because it has a built-in water softener and we have well water that's very hard. It also does a great job cleaning although the cycle time is longer than for the typical American products, which I understand is typical for the higher end European dishwashers.
The top-of-the-line counter-depth Kitchen Aid refrigerator bought at the same time has been less satisfactory. It's quite noisy - the owner's manual admitted as much but also said you get used to it, which is true, more-or-less. The vegetable drawer likes to freeze things on occasion, even when the 'fridge compartment is set to the warmest setting. The ice dispenser, works fine but has the annoying feature that it sounds like it's about to explode. Minor irritations, perhaps, but irritations nonetheless.
We got a Kenmore 16032 and it's great--Consumer Reports "Best buy," too. Very quiet, cleans perfectly, holds tons, and reasonably priced.
[By the way, I'm stymied by where to post things on this site. I've had posts deleted for being in the wrong place and this thread is a perfect example of how little I know. I would have put this on the General board, and it would have been deleted with a message telling me that Dishwasher and Refrigerators are discussed on the Home Cooking board. Oh well, I'll get it someday. Maybe.]
We have the Amana French Door refrigerator and I love it! It is relatively new, but we have had no problems with it at all. I love the deli tray and the pull out shelves. Even the door shelves have pull out trays that are easy to clean when you have a spill.
We also have the Asko dishwasher. We wanted one with the buttons on the top. We really like it, and it's very quiet, but I wouldn't say that I love it quite as much as my fridge.
Good luck!! Lots of fun decisions ahead.
re: MalinDC
what is the model # of the Amana. I am looking at them....
I hate the Bosch dishwasher that my wife bought to replace our KitchenAid. The dish baskets are cheaply built and the dishes do not sit upright with maximum surface exposed. The tableware basket is misshapened and the compartments are too small to jar caps. The top pullout basket has sharp little protrusions that have scratched me several times. The machine is an expensive piece of crap. It also takes forever to do a batch of dishes.
I can't afford premium appliances, so I always buy what's cheap and/or on sale. I can't say I love them -- I guess I don't get as emotionally attached to my appliances as some people -- but they've all done the job (my $400 fridge has never been the "wrong" temp anywhere) and been quite reliable. I just replaced my $200 dishwasher that lasted 13 years with another cheap (close-out at Sears) dishwasher that works just fine -- maybe it's not as quiet as a Miele, but it's quiet enough for my purposes (plus it has a delay function, so you can always set it to run after you've gone to bed).
If I were going to look for the dishwasher of my dreams, the most important thing would not be how quiet it was, but the configuration of the racks, which can vary quite a lot and may or may not be suited to the way you use your dishwasher.
Kenmore Elite dishwasher is excellent quality for a reasonable price. So quiet that I have to literally put my ear to the door to figure out if it's running or not, cleans beautifully and holds tons. The upper rack is adjustable to allow taller glasses or whatnot. And there are all sorts of optional racks and stuff that you can take out if you don't use them or put in if you do - like a knife rack, a small items basket, a little upper rack for I-don't-know-what thingies. I bought it in January and I absolutely love it. Service is easy to get and parts are available, being Sears after all - not that I've had to find out but I will tomorrow because one of our weekend guests idiotically yanked the door off the detergent dispenser and I have to get it replaced.
Don't love mine, but, saw the neatest thing on a TV show - maybe MS - redoing a kitchen w/ GE? appliances. The fridge had a drawer that you could adjust the temp to cool things super fast. Would be great for stock etc.
The link below to Garden Web, appliance forum should be very helpful. You can post your question or scroll through or search what is there. These people are very serious about appliances. I hope it helps!
I have the Maytag Ice2O, french door with the bottom freezer and it is the best of all worlds. I haven't had any problems with it. I may someday change brands - who knows - but will never have any other style.


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Investigations of the Dephosphorization of Liquid Iron Solution Containing Chromium and Nickel
- Miroslaw Karbowniczek,
- Elzbieta Kawecka-Cebula,
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The most up-to-date trends in stainless steel production—aiming at the reduction of production costs—consist of the substitution of steel scrap by hot metal, coming from the reduction of iron-chromium ores. This process requires a more extensive dephosphorization. The dephosphorization process, when applied to chromium steels, requires slag with high dephosphorization properties, as either chromium or chromium oxide entering the slag decreases distinctly the efficiency of the process. The results of laboratory investigations on the dephosphorization of liquid iron solutions containing chromium and nickel are presented. In particular, the study was focused on the selection of the optimal slag composition and the way the slag should be added. The slags based on calcium and fluorite with cryolite additions were considered. It was shown that the variables with the greatest impact on the dephosphorization process include chromium and nickel levels, temperature, and slag basicity. A statistical analysis was performed and regression equations were set. The results may be of use for the design of new methods of production of high-chromium steels.
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But hold! Isn't it the demand of enlightened people that all within these borders have a right to work without being hassled by the INS or kindred state agency? You can argue whether Linda Chavez treated Marta Mercado, her sometime Guatemalan employee, well or badly, and that poor treatment might disqualify her as Labor Secretary. But the spectacle of Democrats like Senator Tom Daschle solemnly denouncing Chavez for giving work to an undocumented Latina was nauseating.
Here's Chavez, who has appalling views on almost every issue relevant to the job for which she was briefly nominated, and the Democrats finally home in on her for the one decent deed on her record, if you believe the testimony of Marta, to whom Chavez appears to have behaved well.
Chavez has been cruelly taken from them, but what an immense favor Bush/Cheney did the Democrats by putting up Ashcroft and Norton! It's hard to stir up liberal passions over Powell at the State Department or Rice as National Security Adviser, or even O'Neill at Treasury. How could you be worse than Madeleine Albright or Samuel Berger? And who cares about O'Neill, when the effective ruler of the economy is over at the Fed?
But with Ashcroft scheduled for the Justice Department there are rich political and fundraising opportunities for the Democrats, berating the Naderites, We told you so, and painting lurid scenarios of the Klan Grand Wizard taking up residence in the DOJ. Here comes the Beast: Ashcroft, the foe of choice; Ashcroft, the militia-symp; Aschcroft, the racist hero of the old Confederacy. What can you say for the guy, except that he's probably marginally to the left of Eminem, great white hope of the rap crowd and currently in line for four more Grammies.
But will Ashcroft be effectively worse than Attorney General Janet Reno? This time eight years ago she was four months away from incinerating the Branch Davidians at Waco and on the edge of a tenure that has seen her fervent support for the "war on drugs," a k a war on the poor, most especially blacks; her contributions to the crime bill of 1994 and the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996; the targeting of minority youth; her complaisance toward expansions in the power of the prosecutorial state against citizens; and onslaughts on the Bill of Rights? It's a tough act to follow.
The environmentalists see similar rich opportunity with Gale Norton, graduate of the Mountain States Legal Foundation, an anti-environmental think tank based in Denver, Colorado, headed by James Watt, greatest fundraiser for environmental causes in our history. No doubt about it, Norton is scarcely nature's friend. Her dreams are of Exxon's Grand Canyon and Disney's Yosemite. But once again, we should retain our perspective.
Consider, for example, Bill Clinton's exit order, banning roads and logging across 58.5 million acres of public land. Then look at the exceptions: Clinton's ban excludes timber sales now in the pipeline, which can be grandfathered in over the next six years. Other huge loopholes include an OK for logging for "ecological reasons," like firebreaks and deer habitat. There's also an OK for roads for mining and grazing allotments, and for fire control. In all, the order envisages a less than 3 percent reduction of total timber sales in national forests, which isn't much.
If she's smart, Norton will reverse the order simply by choosing one of the other options offered in the environmental impact statement that formed the basis of Clinton's order.
There's likely to be a big fight over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, where outgoing Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has just done Norton and the oil industry a big favor by advising Clinton that to designate ANWR a national monument would be "a meaningless gesture" that would invite the Republicans to reverse all such designations made in Clinton time. You can read this as a startlingly forthright admission that national-monument status doesn't mean much, which is true; also that Babbitt is as gutless as ever. To have made ANWR a national monument would have drawn a line in the sand, or in this case, the snow, a bit deeper, and made the forthcoming onslaught on ANWR a little tougher for the Bush/Cheney crowd.
What else can Norton do that Babbitt hasn't already set in motion? Not much. Last year Babbitt's Fish and Wildlife Service put a moratorium on the listing of endangered species, and he's smiled on the privatization of public assets through land trades, whereby timber corporations get old growth and we get the cut-over terrain. Salmon protection? The Clinton Administration has let the Republicans off the hook on that one, decreeing that the dams on the Snake River won't be breached. Oil leasing off the continental shelf? For Bush/Cheney it would be political suicide. Reagan tried and had to back off. Norton will go after the National Environmental Protection Act, but here again Babbitt and Gore paved the way, with their habitat conservation plans, which have ushered so many corporate foxes into the coop.
Over at EPA, Christine Todd Whitman may be bad, but she's no James Watt; and at USDA could anyone be worse than Dan Glickman, friend of factory farms and saboteur of organic standards?
So, all in all, the Bush/Cheney directorate has done a fine job of rallying the Democrats, just as the Democrats, with their weak-kneed surrender to the Florida putsch and talk of bipartisanship, have given ammunition to the radicals denouncing the two-party consensus. For the activists, there's plenty of opportunity. Militant green groups, including the reinvigorated Greenpeace, are fired up, and right here on the doorstep is the prospect of a national fight for microradio, whose future has been sabotaged by the National Association of Broadcasters. The NAB, with the complicity of that darling of the Democrats, NPR, shepherded through a legislative rider late last year that outlaws new low-power stations in most urban areas.
So we're back where we were in the dawn of Clinton time, with courageous people asserting their rights and defying corporations and the state. What else is new? Welcome to Bush/Cheney time. The basic map hasn't changed.
Many of George Bush's supporters say that his recent nominations of Colin Powell as Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice as National Security Adviser and Rod Paige as Secretary of Education prove that he is serious about racial diversity. Moreover, his nomination of a Latino and two white women to his Cabinet suggests that compassionate conservatism boasts enough room for all sorts of minorities. But before we count the votes for Bush's celebrated--or is it calculated?--display of racial leadership, let's at least acknowledge that we may have run into some dimpled chads.
Powell's nomination is a no-brainer, which, as it turns out, may perfectly suit Bush's presidential profile. To take credit for nominating a national hero to extend his stellar record of public service is only a little better than taking credit for inventing the Internet. Powell's halo effect may redound to Bush, but his choice of Powell owes nothing to Bush's fundamental bearing as a racial statesman. Powell and Bush are at significant odds on crucial issues. Powell's vigorous support of affirmative action, his belief in a woman's right to choose and his advocacy for besieged urban children put him to the left of the Bush dogma. To be sure, Powell is no radical. His moderate racial principles are largely acceptable to many blacks because they're not bad for a guy who buys the Republican line, some of its hooks and not many of its sinkers. Unlike Congressman J.C. Watts, the black Republican from Oklahoma who'd just as soon fish all day with his conservative colleagues than cut the race bait. Indeed, Powell's beliefs run the same blush of racial centrism that coursed through the Clinton Administration over the past eight years. The difference is that such moderates, and a sprinkling of liberals, had plenty of company in the Clinton Administration. In a Bush Administration, Powell is, well, a hanging chad.
Of course, Powell's beliefs will have little substantive impact on his future boss's domestic policies, because he has been dispatched to foreign fields where Bush surely needs the help. So what looks like a plum for black folk may be a pit. True, no black person has ever served as Secretary of State. But once we get past the obligatory gratitude black folk are called on to display when conservative whites finally do something halfway decent, the fact is that Powell will have little influence on the public policies that may hamper black progress under a Bush Administration. Powell has not been nominated as Secretary of Health and Human Services, so his input on welfare, for instance, is lost. Instead, if confirmed, Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson will practice his widely praised variety of welfare reform, a policy that on both the local and national level has had a horrendous effect on millions of poor blacks. Neither is Powell slated to be the Attorney General, where he may choose the civil rights czar, who carves the policy groove on race in the Justice Department. Instead, that honor may fall to John Ashcroft, an ultraconservative whose opposition to black interests is destructive. An omen of things to come was glimpsed starkly in Ashcroft's contemptuous scuttling of the nomination of black Missouri Supreme Court Justice Ronnie White for the federal bench. Not only is Powell's value to Bush on race largely symbolic, that symbolism will more than likely be used to cover policies that harm the overwhelming majority of black Americans who were never persuaded by Powell to join the party of Lincoln (Continentals).
Rice and Paige may be lesser-known political quantities, but they are nonetheless instructive of Bush's racial politics. Rice, the former Stanford provost and assistant national security adviser for President George H.W. Bush, is not as vocal a supporter of affirmative action, preferring a lukewarm version of the policy that may comport well with Bush's nebulous "affirmative access." At Stanford, Rice was not nearly as aggressive as she might reasonably have been in recruiting black faculty, failing to match the efforts of equally conservative universities like Duke. And her record of advising the senior Bush on national security matters indicates that she was a blue-blood conservative in black face.
As for Paige, his my-way-or-the-highway methods have yielded mixed results for the predominantly black and Latino students in Houston, where he has served six years as superintendent of schools. A proponent of annual standardized tests, a measure heartily supported by Bush, Paige has overseen rising test scores while all but abandoning students who couldn't pass muster. Moreover, Paige supports the use of tax money to fund private education, a policy favored by Bush and many blacks but that could have deleterious effects on poor families. The lure of vouchers is seductive, but it fails to address the fact that there is hardly enough money available to make a real difference to those students whose parents are financially beleaguered.
With Rice's nomination, the point may be that a black can be just as staunch in spouting conservative foreign policy as the next wonk. With Paige, the point is that a black can promote the sort of educational policies that help some black folk while potentially harming a larger segment of the community. It is clear that such a state of affairs does not constitute racial progress. The irony is that Powell, Paige and Rice were chosen in part to prove an inclusiveness that is meaningless if their very presence comes at the expense of representing the interests of the majority of black folk, especially those poor and working-class folk who are vulnerable and largely invisible. The lesson the Republicans would have us learn is that not all blacks think alike, that we are no ideological monolith in liberal captivity. The real lesson may be that a black face does not translate into a progressive political presence that aids the bulk of black folk. Especially when that face must put a smile on repressive policies that hurt not just most blacks but those Americans committed to radical democracy. If that counts as racial progress, we need an immediate recount.
Linda Chavez's withdrawal as George W. Bush's nominee for Labor Secretary after mounting evidence that she violated the law by employing an illegal immigrant and then tried to hide the fact should embolden Democrats to mount vigorous challenges to Bush's other Cabinet nominees.
The most dangerous lesson that can be taken from the Chavez fiasco (see David Moberg, page 12) is the theory that Bush's Cabinet picks can be blocked only if they have failed to keep their personal affairs in order. Where does such a calculation leave a John Ashcroft, Bush's archconservative choice for Attorney General? By all accounts, Ashcroft behaved like a gentleman while a member of the exclusive club that is the US Senate. Even some progressive Democrats, like Russ Feingold and Paul Wellstone, have expressed personal regard for their former colleague and intimated that their experience could influence them to approve his nomination.
But the fact that Ashcroft or Gale Norton or Ann Veneman might be good company is not sufficient qualification for Senate approval. Policies ought to matter more than personalities. In the administration of a President who appears to lack interest in the details of governing, Cabinet secretaries will wield immense power and could vigorously push right-wing policies that the overwhelming majority of Americans oppose.
The Constitution does not require senators to rubber-stamp the Cabinet nominations of Presidents elected under normal circumstances, let alone those who are to be sworn in under a cloud of illegitimacy. Senators, especially Democratic senators who claim to stand in principled opposition to Bush's policies, have a responsibility to assure that positions of public trust are not filled by a wrecking crew bent on destroying government's ability to do good for any but the wealthiest Republicans. They must not shirk that responsibility.
As soon as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney take up the reins of government, they'll give a big boost to waging war in and from space. Under their leadership, right-wing advocates of US global dominance and corporations eager for contracts will join forces with a military eager to make space the battleground of the twenty-first century.
Indeed, Star Wars--"missile defense" in current Newspeak--is emerging as a central goal of the new Bush Administration. It is "an essential part of our strategic system," declared Colin Powell upon being named Secretary of State.
"I wrote the Republican Party's foreign policy platform," claimed Bruce Jackson, vice president of corporate strategy and development at Lockheed Martin, the world's largest weapons manufacturer [see William D. Hartung and Michelle Ciarrocca, "Star Wars II," June 19, 2000], which is deeply involved in space military programs. In a recent interview, Jackson said that although he was "the overall chairman of the Foreign Policy Platform Committee" at the Republican convention, he hasn't led the advocacy for the full development of Star Wars because "that would be an implicit conflict of interest with my day job" at Lockheed Martin.
Such advocacy, he said, has fallen to Stephen Hadley, George W. Bush's pick for deputy director of the National Security Council. Hadley, Bush Senior's assistant secretary of defense for international security policy and a member of his National Security Council, is a proud member of the Vulcans, an eight-person foreign policy team formed during the Bush campaign that includes future National Security Council director Condoleezza Rice and Reagan Administration superhawk Richard Perle. The Vulcans named themselves after the Roman god of fire and metallurgy, and for a statue in Rice's hometown, Birmingham, Alabama, commemorating its steelmaking history.
Besides being a Vulcan, Hadley is a partner in Shea & Gardner, the Washington law firm representing Lockheed Martin. Hadley has also worked closely with Bruce Jackson on the Committee to Expand NATO--based in the offices of the right-wing American Enterprise Institute--Jackson as president, Hadley as secretary. The committee sought to enlist Eastern European countries in NATO--which would, of course, build the client base for Lockheed Martin weapons.
"Space is going to be important. It has a great future in the military," Hadley told the Air Force Association Convention in a September 11 speech. Introduced as an "adviser to Governor George W. Bush," Hadley said that Bush's "concern has been that the [Clinton] Administration...doesn't reflect a real commitment to missile defense.... This is an Administration that has delayed on that issue and is not moving as fast as he thinks we could."
To remedy that, Bush has named as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, whom the Washington Post calls the "leading proponent not only of national missile defenses, but also of U.S. efforts to take control of outer space" [see Michael T. Klare, page 14]. In 1998 Rumsfeld's commission reversed a 1995 finding by the nation's intelligence agencies that the country was not in imminent danger from ballistic missiles acquired by new powers, declaring that "rogue states" did pose such a threat. The answer? Missile defense. Trusted adviser to and financial supporter of the right-wing Center for Security Policy, Rumsfeld has been awarded its Keeper of the Flame prize. On the center's advisory board are such Star Wars promoters as Edward Teller--and Lockheed Martin executives, including Bruce Jackson.
"This so-called election was a victory for putting weapons in space, at enormous cost to world stability and to US taxpayers," declares Bruce Gagnon of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space (www.space4peace.org). He points to Bush campaign statements about deploying "quantum leap weapons" and about Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories playing a major role in the development of "weapons that will allow America to redefine how wars are fought." Both labs have been deeply involved in space-based lasers, an integral part of Star Wars. In 1998 the Defense Department signed a multimillion-dollar contract for a "Space-Based Laser Readiness Demonstrator" and this past November solicited final comments on development of the program, estimated to cost $20-$30 billion. Lockheed Martin, TRW and Boeing are the contractors. (Lynne Cheney has just resigned from the board of Lockheed Martin. Dick Cheney has been on the board of TRW.)
The military's would-be space warriors, meanwhile, are bullish. The US Space Command's top general, Ralph "Ed" Eberhart, exhorts the Air Force to "be the space warfighters our nation needs today...and will need even more tomorrow." The Air Force command's Almanac 2000 touts "defending America through the control and exploitation of space." The Air Force in the twenty-first century must be "globally dominant--Tomorrow's Air Force will likely dominate the air and space around the world."
The Vulcans, Keepers of the Flame and Lockheed Martin et al. will be cheering them on.
When W. gave the nod to New Jersey Governor Christie Todd Whitman for the top EPA spot in his administration, the tone-deaf national press corps praised the appointment of a "moderate" (largely on the basis of Whitman's inconstant pro-choice positions). A little digging would have revealed that Whitman has been an unmitigated disaster for New Jersey's environmental protection. Under her governance, fines of air and water polluters have plummeted 70 percent. Indeed, after her nomination the head of the Chemical Industry Council of New Jersey praised her to the Newark Star-Ledger for having restored "balance" to the state's enviro policies after the aggressively antipolluter measures taken by her Democratic predecessor, Jim Florio.
Thanks to Whitman's evisceration of state enviro regs as well as a raft of subsidies and tax cuts to developers, suburban sprawl gobbled up more open space and verdant land during her tenure than at any other period in New Jersey's history. Moreover, she decapitated the state Department of Environmental Protection staff by 738 employees in her first three years in office, cut the remaining staff's workweek by five hours, eliminated fines of polluters as a source of DEP revenue and made large cuts in the DEP's budget. That's why the New Jersey Sierra Club's Bill Wolfe has warned that Whitman might "dismantle [federal] EPA and take it out of the enforcement business. I believe that this is precisely the policy Whitman has presided over and legitimized in New Jersey." One mechanism was the Office of Dispute Resolution, which she established to mediate conflicts over environmental issues (usually resolved in favor of business). She also installed an Office of Business Ombudsman under the Secretary of State (the Star-Ledger labeled it "essentially a business lobby") to further grease the wheels of the bureaucracy for polluters and developers, and to act as a counterweight to the DEP.
If Senate Democrats want to take a serious look at Whitman's record in the Garden State, they should start with "Open for Business," a three-part exposé by the Bergen County Record in 1996. After a ten-month investigation, The Record detailed dozens of cases in which Whitman's corporate-coddling policies had circumvented laws designed to protect the environment. Often, those getting favored treatment were big campaign contributors, like Finn Caspersen, then chairman of Beneficial, at the time the nation's largest independent consumer-loan company. The firm got more than $182 million in taxpayer subsidies in the form of road construction designed to ease traffic around its lavish office complex in Peapack--improvements that increased the value of an open 700-acre tract that Beneficial owned nearby. While all this was going on, Caspersen, his family and their political action committee gave the state GOP $143,250.
A more recent example: For the past three years, Roche Vitamin, a manufacturing plant in Belvidere, has been "belching out 300 tons of methanol annually--at least 10 times the rate state permits allow," according to the Star-Ledger. And Clinton's EPA has been fighting Whitman's proposals to further dilute state regs controlling water pollution and coastal development, which would sanction gigantic increases in pollution and hand over environmentally sensitive lands to rapacious developers. No wonder The Weekly Standard's David Brooks praised Whitman's nomination (and that of her anti-enviro counterpart proposed for Interior, Gale Norton) as reflecting the Bush Administration's "corporate mentality."
Whether the Dems have the stomach for a real fight against Whitman is an open question--her nomination has already been endorsed by her state's influential senior Democratic senator, Robert Torricelli. (Says a knowledgeable state Dem: "This is The Torch's way of paying back [Woodbridge mayor] Jim McGreevey," whose aggressive politicking in the gubernatorial race caused Torricelli to abort his plans to run this fall. "With Christie at EPA, McGreevey's GOP opponent, State Senate president Donald DiFrancesco, becomes acting governor and gets a big advantage.") Whitman and The Torch also get campaign cash from many of the same corporate polluters, and such bipartisan influence-buyers are likely to go all out in lobbying Senate Dems on Whitman's behalf.
The surprise selection of Donald Rumsfeld as Defense Secretary provides a clear signal of President-elect George W. Bush's intent to transform radically the military policy of the United States. Of all the candidates considered for this position, Rumsfeld is the most ardent advocate of ballistic-missile defense and a tougher stance toward Russia and China. A longtime Republican activist with markedly conservative views, Rumsfeld is also known for his opposition to all arms-control measures and for favoring the deployment of weapons in space.
Along with other members of Bush's national security team--Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice--Rumsfeld can be expected to push hard for the establishment of a full-scale National Missile Defense system. In 1998 he authored a report on ballistic missile threats that ignited the Republicans' current drive for a national missile shield. Now, as Defense Secretary, he will be in a strong position to lead the charge for NMD.
But while NMD deployment will be Rumsfeld's top priority, it is by no means his only major objective. With the blessing of President-elect Bush, Rumsfeld will campaign for a wide range of policy shifts. These will include a greater emphasis on warfare in space, the accelerated procurement of high-tech weapons and a diminished commitment to UN peacekeeping operations. It all looks depressingly like the cold war era, when "national security" meant distrust of all other states and the pursuit of ever more potent weapons.
Rumsfeld's service to Republican Presidents (and presidential hopefuls) goes back to the Nixon Administration, when he became director of the Office of Economic Opportunity after several terms in Congress. While at the OEO, Rumsfeld impressed the White House staff with his managerial skills, and in 1970 he was made counselor to the President. (It was at this time that Rumsfeld developed close ties with Cheney, who had served as his special assistant at the OEO.)
Fortunately for Rumsfeld, Nixon appointed him ambassador to NATO in 1972, thus sparing him from possible association with the Watergate scandal. When Nixon was forced to abandon the presidency, Rumsfeld was brought back to Washington by the new President, Gerald Ford, to serve first as White House Chief of Staff and later as Defense Secretary. Although not remembered for any major innovations during his fourteen months at the Pentagon (late 1975 to early 1977), Rumsfeld shielded the military from any major penalties following its defeat in Vietnam and laid the groundwork for procurement of a wide range of new weapons systems, including the B-1 bomber and M-X missile.
Following the election of Jimmy Carter, Rumsfeld left Washington for the private sector. From 1977 to 1985 he served as chief executive officer and then president of G.D. Searle, a major pharmaceutical corporation later acquired by Monsanto. Several years later, he took control of another large company, the General Instrument Corporation. As at Searle, he slashed costs (mainly by eliminating staff) and boosted profits, giving him a reputation as a skilled, tough-minded corporate manager.
During his years in the private sector, Rumsfeld retained his links to the military establishment (serving for a time as chairman of the RAND Corporation, a prominent military think tank) while developing new ties with conservative figures in the corporate world. Among his close confidants is Theodore Forstmann, a corporate buyout specialist who owned Gulfstream Aerospace (in 1999 he sold it to General Dynamics for $4.8 billion) and managed the buyout of General Instrument, giving Rumsfeld a paper profit of $11 million. Forstmann is also the major figure behind Empower America, a political advocacy outfit boasting many prominent Republicans (Rumsfeld among them) on its board of directors. Described by the New York Times as "a home for Washington's conservative elite," Empower America has campaigned for big tax cuts, space defenses and school vouchers.
Urged no doubt by his conservative buddies, Rumsfeld agreed in September 1996 to take over management of Bob Dole's failing presidential campaign. Although he was unable to secure victory at the polls, Rumsfeld did breathe some life into the campaign by persuading Dole to promise mammoth tax cuts and to adopt a tougher stance on military policy. Under prodding from Rumsfeld, Dole lashed out against President Clinton on his handling of the Iraq situation and called for the deployment of a national missile shield by the year 2003. In this sense, Rumsfeld laid the foundation for George W. Bush's 2000 campaign against Vice President Al Gore.
After the 1996 election, Rumsfeld returned to the corporate world--he took over Gilead Sciences, a biotechnology firm, and sat on the board of several corporations (including Asea Brown Boveri, a giant European electrical firm, and the Tribune Company)--while continuing his support for right-wing military causes. Especially significant was his close association with the Center for Security Policy, a think tank established by former Reagan Administration official Frank Gaffney Jr. to campaign for the deployment of "Star Wars" defenses.
Having gained renewed stature among the Republicans in Congress for his hard-line views, Rumsfeld was selected in 1998 to chair the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States. Composed of six Republicans and three Democrats, the Rumsfeld Commission (as it came to be called) examined classified intelligence data on the ballistic missile programs of Iran, Iraq and North Korea in order to calculate their future capacity to attack the United States. By employing worst-case reasoning to the often contradictory data on these countries' military capabilities, the commission concluded that one or another of the "rogue states" could deploy missiles capable of striking the United States in as little as five years--half the time predicted by the CIA.
Although these findings were challenged by Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet and prominent figures in the arms-control community, the Rumsfeld commission's report was seized upon by Republican activists as incontrovertible evidence that the United States must proceed rapidly with the development of a full-scale missile defense system. This is the "most important warning about our national security system since the end of the cold war," House Speaker Newt Gingrich asserted at the time.
Fearful of being portrayed by Congressional Republicans as ignoring a major threat to US security, President Clinton agreed in early 1999 to proceed with development of a limited NMD system--one aimed at protecting the Western United States against a hypothetical North Korean missile attack--while putting off a decision on actual deployment. But this did little to satisfy the hawks on Capitol Hill, who sought to develop a much more robust system covering the entire nation. At Rumsfeld's urging, moreover, Bush made this a central theme of his campaign.
While a candidate, Governor Bush articulated other themes originally crafted by Rumsfeld during the Dole campaign of 1996. These include a promise to get tougher on Saddam Hussein and other "rogue state" leaders, to pursue the development of new high-tech weaponry and to abjure involvement in UN-sponsored peacekeeping missions. Together, these themes came to represent the skeleton of a new approach to national security--one that favors protection of the United States and its overseas assets rather than, say, the construction of a stable world order or the enforcement of international law.
Throughout the campaign, Bush declared his intention to undertake a sweeping transformation of US military policy. At the very least, this would entail the development and procurement of new high-tech weapons and a greater emphasis on war in space. But more than this, it would involve a shift in the very orientation of US strategy. "Our military requires more than good treatment," he declared at the Citadel in September 1999. "It needs the rallying point of a defining mission."
Although unclear on the details, Bush sketched out the broad outlines of this new mission. In place of the "vague, aimless and endless deployments" of the Clinton era (read: Bosnia, Haiti, Somalia, Kosovo), US military power would henceforth be reserved for more pressing objectives--to protect US national interests around the world and to defeat any power that might be so foolhardy as to threaten these key interests. More emphasis will also be placed on "homeland defense," meaning the protection of the United States from missile attack and other hypothetical threats from rogue states and terrorists.
In announcing Rumsfeld's selection as Defense Secretary, Bush made it clear that he expects his top military official to carry out this strategic transformation. "We must work to change our military to meet the threats of a new century," Bush declared on December 28. "And so one of Secretary Rumsfeld's first tasks will be to challenge the status quo within the Pentagon, to develop a strategy necessary to have a force equipped for warfare of the twenty-first century."
In his response to Bush, Rumsfeld indicated that he has every intention of conducting a major overhaul of military policy. "It is clearly not a time at the Pentagon for presiding or calibrating modestly. Rather, we are in a new national security environment. We do need to be arranged to deal with the new threats, not the old ones."
It is still too early, of course, to calculate all the consequences of this shift in outlook. Many of the initiatives favored by Bush--the development of high-tech weapons, the acceleration of research on ballistic missile defenses--have already been undertaken by the Clinton Administration. But there is no doubt that Bush and Rumsfeld will push much harder for deployment of a national missile shield and for the deployment of weapons in space. They are also likely to abandon the ABM treaty, which prohibits missile defenses of the sort they favor.
In pursuing these policies, the new administration will inevitably inflame US relations with Russia and China, thereby precluding any further progress on arms control. It is very likely, in fact, that Russia and China will respond to US initiatives by expanding their own nuclear arsenals and by forging a closer military relationship. Relations with China will become particularly tense, especially if--as is expected--Bush approves the delivery of new warships and antimissile weapons to Taiwan. The result will be a more unstable and polarized environment, producing exactly the sort of world in which the Republican's instinctive preference for cold war-like policies will find a natural outlet.
The pursuit of missile defense and the abrogation of the ABM treaty will also alienate many US allies, most of whom oppose NMD. One likely result is the further development of an autonomous European military posture, with all that this entails. And, of course, we can expect diminished US support for the UN. Where all this leads is anybody's guess, but it is hard to believe that the final outcome will be a more peaceful world.
In the end, Linda Chavez undid her own nomination through her disingenuousness. Bush's first nominee as Labor Secretary withdrew after a storm of publicity about her relationship with a Guatemalan woman who was illegally in the United States and doing chores at Chavez's home while living with Chavez and being given money by her.
Chavez apparently broke federal laws in her actions, but if providing a room and money to Marta Mercado had really been a humanitarian act and not a way of getting housework done on the cheap, Chavez might have survived a tough fight. But she was not upfront about her past with members of the Bush transition team, and they essentially abandoned her.
Chavez was right to decry the "politics of personal destruction," which focuses on finding personal shortcomings and minor legal violations to undermine political figures, but she was a hypocrite in the extreme in her invocation of that charge. Few people have engaged in such political blood sport with as much energy as Chavez, who blasted Clinton's 1993 nominee Zoë Baird for having employed an immigrant; who engaged in barely concealed race-baiting and gay-baiting against her 1986 Maryland Senate race opponent, Barbara Mikulski; and who regularly attacked even the most modest and established regulations of the economy, like the minimum wage, as "Marxist."
The real reason that Linda Chavez should have been defeated--or withdrawn, or never nominated--is that she was unfit for the job by virtue of her steadfast and ardent opposition to the laws that she would have been charged with enforcing.
She held various Democratic policy jobs in the early 1970s before taking a job as an assistant to American Federation of Teachers president Albert Shanker in 1977. As part of a small but influential labor network of hawkish Social Democrats, she shared Shanker's opposition to most affirmative action, and she recruited conservatives such as William Bennett, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Robert Bork to write for the teachers' magazine. In the years since, she has continued to fight against affirmative action. But the Labor Secretary is responsible for monitoring affirmative action compliance by federal contractors, who employ about 22 percent of the civilian labor force.
Chavez opposed increasing the minimum wage even when it was at a postwar record low, opposed family and medical leave, derided the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace, opposed measures to eliminate inequitable pay distinctions and endorsed employer discrimination against workers who refuse overtime. And she has attacked efforts of workers, such as doctors, to organize unions.
Chavez tried to cloak herself in humanitarian robes as she withdrew, pulling together personal testimonials of individuals, especially poor immigrants, whom she had helped, but as Labor Secretary, with the policies she advocated, she would have done immense damage to millions of workers, especially poor immigrants, minorities and women. This appears to be the essence of "compassionate conservatism"--handouts for a few individuals, the boot for the vast majority.
Unfortunately, Chavez's departure, however welcome, is only a minor victory. By appointing her, Bush made it clear that his administration will be vigorously antilabor. As unions have strengthened their political operations in the past three election cycles, Republican and conservative efforts to undermine unions have escalated.
Despite the dramatic 1998 failure in California of the "paycheck protection" initiative, which would have required prior written approval of union political expenditures by each member, Vice President-elect Dick Cheney has already signaled that the Bush administration will push for similar federal legislation. There are fears that Bush may either temporarily suspend or even try to overturn new ergonomics regulations for better-designed workplaces, just implemented after a ten-year battle, and that his administration may try to revive the 1996 political fundraising scandal involving former Teamsters leaders as a tool to attack the Democrats and the AFL-CIO, especially secretary-treasurer Richard Trumka. (The presence of two current Teamsters officials on the Bush labor transition team--the only unionists on a list of corporations, trade groups and antilabor law firms--gives weight to these worries.)
Republicans in Congress have also made it clear that they want to overturn current federal regulations requiring overtime pay for more than forty hours of work in a week, to open the door to now-outlawed company-controlled "unions" (through the TEAM Act), to weaken enforcement of workplace health and safety regulations, and to give employers greater latitude in classifying workers as independent contractors, making it easier for employers to abuse and underpay workers, who are in turn denied the right to organize. The latter two initiatives were pet projects of former Missouri Representative James Talent, who was widely mentioned as a possible replacement for Chavez.
It seems, from the names mentioned, that the next Bush choice as Labor Secretary might be easier to get approved by the Senate but will be no more sympathetic to the needs of workers or the legitimate role of unions in American society. The fight over Chavez, which the AFL-CIO was preparing to launch just as she pulled out, is only the beginning of what promises to be intense combat in the years to come.


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The magazine's vehicle testers ranked the car comparably to the smart fortwo, one of the most consistently criticized vehicles on the market today, according to CR and most automotive enthusiast magazines and websites. Consumer Reports deemed the iQcar "amazingly small", reflecting both its most positive and negative qualities that earned it its place as the second-lowest scoring car in the magazine's review history.
Consumer Reports delivered a shocking evaluation calling the iQ "toy-like" and recommending a more "civilized" vehicle. Both sides of the car are taken up almost entirely by the doors, and trunk space has been substituted with a foldable rear seat. Also noted by the reviewers is the ill-placed headrests on the rear seats, which limit rear vision via the mirrors. A lack of modern sound deadening material prompted CR to describe its road test as "nervous, busy, and choppy."
Cars as small as the IQ set up expectations that they ill have astronomical fuel economy. But the IQ's combined 34 mpg disappoints in this category, as does the smart fortwo and Fiat 500. As with its two rivals, the best attribute of the iQ is the ease with which it slips into small parking spaces. That makes these mini cars more popular in congested cities of Europe than they are likely to ever be in the U.S.
Priced at over $16,000 dollars, CR concluded its pretty rough review by advising readers look elsewhere for more value, as well as quality. "While the iQ's fuel economy is good within its class, it requires drivers to endure a lot of trade-offs just to save at the pump--Its $16,205 sticker price is no bargain either," said David Champion, Sr. Director of Consumer Reports Automotive Test Center. Champion noted that Scion's own xD and the Honda Fit would be better choices.
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The Molecular Ecology Research Group of the Department of Animal & Plant Sciences at The University of Sheffield is delighted to be hosting the 48th Population Genetics Group Meeting. This year the meeting will be running from January 6-9, 2015, in Sheffield.
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Red & White Wine Bistro
- Address:
Toyota Center
1510 Polk Street
Houston, TX 77002Neighborhood:
- Cuisine:
AmericanPrice: $31 to $50
Red & White Wine Bistro
- Dining Style: Fine Dining
- Website: http://www.redandwhitewinebistro.com/
- Phone: (713) 758-7534
- Hours of Operation:
Red & White Wine Bistro is open for Rockets' games & other select Toyota Center events. Please call for details.
- Payment Options: AMEX,Carte Blanche,Diners Club,Discover,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: European, American, Asian
- Executive Chef: Eddie Romero
- Dress Code: Business Casual
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Banquet/Private Rooms, Bar Dining, Beer, Chef's Table, Farm to Table, Full Bar, Gluten-free Menu, Non-Smoking Restaurant, Wheelchair Access, Wine
- Private Party Facilities: Red & White Wine Bistro offers a private banquet room accommodating up to 250 guests.
- Private Party Contact: Andres Guerra 7137587523
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It's all about the food as the Houston Rockets blast off for the 2011-2012 season. Hold on for a culinary adventure as Levy Restaurants takes your taste buds on a delicious ride. The Red & White Wine Bistro, located on the Arena's lower suite level, features vaulted ceilings and hardwood floors. Guests can indulge in the very best contemporary cuisine, including our extensive dessert experience. The bar is flanked by two 1500 bottle wine towers offering an array of popular vintages and little-known treasures from around the world. Each game the Red & White Wine Bistro offers a spectacular "Chef's Table" buffet featuring a variety of world cuisines, an assortment of delectable desserts, and other special items for $39.95. Kids age 6 thru 12 eat for half price $19.95. Adjacent to the Red & White Wine Bistro is our VIP Banquet Room, which is the premier location in Houston for your guests to enjoy delicious cuisine and cocktails for a private party or before the big game.Continued
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Red & White Wine Bistro reviews from OpenTable diners
11 reviews since July 30, 2014
- Food4.2Service4.5
- Ambiance4.7Noise LevelModerate
special occasion (5)fit for foodies (4)scenic view (4)great for brunch (2)good for groups (2)hot spot (2)kid-friendly (1)vibrant bar scene (1)great for lunch (1)notable wine list (1)Show More
- Delicious DessertsRowdyRodDined on 11/14/2014The food was good......none of the entree items were a stand out, but for a buffet it had variety and the quality of meats was good. The desserts however would be the reason we will be back! They were amazing! We were celebrating our 15yr wedding anniversary and had a nice dinner with a great view of the game! The service was great.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- It's just a buffetTracyVIPDined on 11/8/2014The server was good and we like to convenience of the location, but the food was not very good. It is hard to keep food moist and warm on a buffet. All in all it was not worth the price we paid.
- Birthday CelebrationMimos4birthdayboyzsDined on 11/6/2014I took my grandsons to celebrate there birthdays , from the moment we enter the Toyota center we were greeted by this nice young man he walk us all the way to the dining area, the kids wanted to stop and shop at the Adidas gift shop he waited on us and when we arrive at the dining area ther was a pregnant young lady who sat us promly and she was so sweet,, are waiter was a man that was foreign but he was the nicest guy ever he really made our night pleasant the boys really like him and wanted to take him home with us,he really took care of us. Thank you for a beautiful evening.Special Features:
- Rockets Game NightJenJoTXDined on 11/6/2014This is a fun place to dine before or during a Rockets game. The buffet has a wide selection of foods and desserts, all beautifully presented. When we dined we had fried turkey with cranberries, pork tenderloin, chicken breast, beef tenderloin, shrimp, scallops, asparagus, baked sweet potatoes, creamed kale and bacon (best ever!!!!), key lime pie, bread pudding, and enormous chocolate chunk cookies. (this is just a small sampling of what they served when we were there). They kept the food stations stocked at all times, constantly replenishing whenever necessary. Table servers are attentive and helpful. Buffet is $42.95 per person and absolutely worth it. I highly recommend making reservations, as you may not get a table otherwise.Special Features:
- Rockets Basketball arena BistroRobertDined on 11/1/2014Excellent place to have dinner prior and during basketball games. Small but addicuate wine list. Food is served at stations. Excellent selection and prepaired well. Stations are keeped clean and food is fresh and good. I recommend it.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- The following 251 reviews are from the Red & White Wine Bistro reviews archive.
- great as usualMarlVIPDined on 4/14/2014Food was excellent - well-presented and prepared. Great variety. Easy to navigate the buffet. Service was attentive. Great way to dine before a Rockets game.Special Features:
- Rockets Dining ExperienceRocketsFanDined on 4/12/2014The entire waitstaff was engaging and attentive to my specific needs/requests.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Birthday CelebrationRocketdineDined on 4/12/2014Everything was wonderful except we were put in the back room on the right when you first walk in. The ambiance was not good. It needs to be decorated better. For the price we paid, it was disappointing because it was a birthday celebration. The food was excellent but the appearance of the room made the experience not as enjoyable. We have been there multiple times and this was the first time we were put in the back room.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- seafood GreatnessyummVIPDined on 3/29/2014The shrimp at the red &white have been large and good way to go chief RamosSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great buffetMarlVIPDined on 3/27/2014Great place to eat. Food selection is large, well-presented, and well-prepared. Service was attentive. Fun place to go when attending a Rockets game.Special Features:
- Unbelievable food!RangerDined on 3/17/2014Had a great time with family, food, fun and a Rockets win!!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Rockets!Alatina99VIPDined on 3/17/2014This is a great place to be for the Rockets games.good view,good food,not as loud but still feel like you are in the midst.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Birthday outtingOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 3/9/2014Took my fiance' here as a birthday outing to watch the Rockets vs Trailblazers. AHMET, our server, was so accomodating and generous. He made sure we were taken care of and even engaged us in some good conversation! Ahmet was what made this expericence an excellent one. I observed other servers and they had no energy and didn't smile or act like they wanted to be at work. Though it was a buffett, Ahmet made us feel like we were at a sit down dinner and served us like we were VIP.Special Features:
- Great venue for clients orOpenTable Diner Since 2011Dined on 3/9/2014Great venue for clients or for special occasions. I have visited before and will do so again. Service is great, fod selection was good for all.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Dinner and a Rockets gameOpenTable Diner Since 2013Dined on 3/9/2014We always come to the Red & White Bistro before the Rockets' games. It's easier and we don't fight the parking crowds. The food is always very well prepared and presented. The staff are attentive. Sometimes the servers are too busy to check often for drinks, but it's not too bad. This last time the beef chunks in the beef stroganoff dish was very tough. It must not have been braised correctly. The roast beef was tender. All else was delicious. My husband especially loved the desserts with the crème broule custard being his favorite.Special Features:
- Turkey MeatballsyummVIPDined on 3/4/2014The hint of citrus in the turkey meatballs was alwsome thanks chief all the food was great lovew eating at the Red & White at the Toyota Center.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Very Enjoyable DiningfanfriendlyDined on 3/1/2014This was my third time to enjoy the dining and watch the Rockets game. My friends really enjoyed the restaurant. Everyone commented on the service and food. We are planning another outing before the season is over.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Had a great time...loved ourOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 3/1/2014Had a great time...loved our waiter Ahmed ...will be back again!!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- wide range of dinner possibilitiesHowardFanDined on 2/5/2014wide range of dinner possibilities exist just always remember to take your plate from the table when you go to the food barsSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Loved itMbsguyVIPDined on 2/1/2014Great food and service. Fabulous food. Awesome desserts. Pricey but worth it. Go hungrySpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great place to dine if youYankeeFanVIPDined on 2/1/2014Great place to dine if you are attending an on site event at the Toyota CenterSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Better?JD83VIPDined on 1/28/2014Perhaps you might consider switching to one type food each night - Italian one night; Greek one night; Mexican one night.; BBQ one night. trying to have ALL the different options makes none of them really great. what about offering "game fare" - burgers, hot dogs, etc - in a sit down setting.
- chef Claudia does a greatronaldDined on 1/22/2014chef Claudia does a great job for the Toyota CenterI would recommend this to a friend.
- Game NightOrangeMochaFrappacinoDined on 1/20/2014Best option for Rockets game night. Park, dine, game....convenient with great quality. Why do anything else? Perfect for business entertaining.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- The Red & White Wine BistroMarlDined on 1/18/2014The Red & White Wine Bistro is a first class experience of gourmet dining stations with a reasonably priced high end wine list. It is a real treat to take my wife and customers. Only issue is with the early seating which is typically 15 or 30 minutes prior to the Toyota Center doors open. We always have to debate with the security folks that we have reservations then end up simply being late for our reservation - frustrating situation to debate with valued customers in tow.Special Features:
- Great Pre Game MealRobertTDined on 1/18/2014The food is really good considering it is buffet style. Upside is the quality of food and convenience of location in Toyota Center for pre game...downside is the expense especially cocktails and overpriced wine list. Steer clear of wine list and a party of four can anticipate spending about $250 including tip for dinner. Great desert buffet :)Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Birthday treat..OKC gameCJAMDined on 1/16/2014Enjoyed the game ambiance... food was great...service was very good too. Just not enough time to fully appreciate the cuisine because of time limitation.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- first time experienceCalvinDined on 12/31/2013we would definitely go again as the food is much better than the other center options. the prime rib and bbq were well prepared meats as well as the Louisiana style shrimp with sausage. the chicken and salmon were average. excellent vegetable options especially the warm cauliflower and grilled vegetables. also a nice selection of cheeses and fruits. dessert choices were limited but more interesting than on most buffets. next time if we dine during the game, we will ask for a table closer to the court where we could see all of the superior screen without people in between. the waitstaff especially our server adhmet made us feel welcome and appreciated. we would have stayed longer but our regular seats have a better view of the gameSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Rockets RestaurantRobertDined on 12/31/2013This is a great place to have dinner before are during the Rockets game. The buffet is excellent quality and the wine list is small but has something for everyone taste. You can view game and have a great dinner.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great RestaurantLeeSVIPDined on 12/28/2013This is a great place to eat before or during the rockets game. The food is very good, ample selections are available and they have a nice bar and wine list.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great outing!DdogDined on 12/28/2013We greatly enjoy dining at the Red& White Wine Bistro then attending the Rockets game. Food, selections, service are all great. Makes for a very fun, enjoyable outing. Love it!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Red & White Wine BistroKennyDined on 12/23/2013Patrons attending the Rockets' games who also eat at the Red & White Wine Bistro for the first time are pleasantly surprised to learn that a restaurant of its quality is located within Toyota Center.............. I think its existence needs to be better communicated among the business industry and/or advertised. When I have business guests accompanying me it gives you a good 1-1/2 hours to chat and kind of bond............ I think the restaurant is a rousing success for new comers and old, but I feel the attraction could be better utilized.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Perfect before the grimeCindy8000VIPDined on 12/18/2013Food and service is excellent. Always new and fresh food on the buffet A real treatI would recommend this to a friend.
- Way over priced for a serveEpicurianVIPDined on 12/18/2013Way over priced for a serve yourself Buffett. I felt like I was at Luby's except the food is better at Luby's. I will not be back.
- A secret dining spot in the stadiumTiffanyCDined on 12/6/2013A friend recommended Red & White Bistro to me and it seems that I have been let in on a well-kept secret dining spot in the Toyota Center. The food was delicious, well prepared with compelling combinations. Our server was friendly and quick, often anticipating our needs in advance. And the dessert bar, well, let's just say to remember to leave room for dessert!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Awesome10PAYVIPDined on 12/4/2013Excellent server , food was amazing. Endless options and great quality . This was our 6th visit and the best pricey at 45.00 pp but well worth it . Way to go ! Bon Apetite !!!!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great OutingDLittleDined on 11/29/2013Red and White Wine Bistro Buffet is great, dining cuisine and deserts were awesome.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Absolutely wonderful food.Timmay40Dined on 11/29/2013Absolutely wonderful food. The chef never disappoints. Always excellent. Always delicious.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Go Rockets !10PAYVIPDined on 11/29/2013Perfect Pre- Game Experience. Food choices excellent, Pricey but you get what you budget for. Highly Recommend !Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great FooddragonladyVIPDined on 11/29/2013The last 3-4 times we've eaten here the food was just mediocre but it was fabulous this time. Hopefully the chefs are reading the reviews on Open Table. They had a nice selection. The salmon topped with a jalapeno sauce was excellent as was the garlic shrimp and steamed (perfectly!) rice. The fruits and cheeses are always yummy but the strawberries were larger than large lemons, they were sweet and divine! Tried the Yao Ming Cab (2009) and it was very smooth!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.