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so jambidays...animal life is more important to you than a human life?
This dude gets 30 days for killing a man and mike vick gets 2 years for killing dogs!!!!!
Let me get this straight. This dude gets 30 days for killing a man while driving drunk and mike vick gets 2 and some change in prison for fighting and betting on dog fighting. What is wrong with the legal system!!!!!

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Senior safety Davis Cazares was named to the All-Independent Defensive team, while offensive linemen sophomore Andy Cunningham and senior Davonte Wallace, along with junior wide receiver Austin Franklin and senior linebacker Trashaun Nixon all earned honorable mention honors.
Cazares (Monrovia, Calif.) led the Aggies in tackles for the second straight season with 109, ranking him in the top-10 in the country in total tackles. Cazares also led the team with two interceptions. He ended his career in Crimson & White with 245 total tackles, six tackles for a loss, six pass break-ups, two forced fumbles and a blocked kick.
Nixon (Oxnard, Calif.) recorded 93 tackles on the year, leading NM State with 14 tackles for a loss and three sacks. For his career, Nixon tallied 189 tackles in just two seasons with NM State, adding five sacks and 23 tackles for a loss.
Franklin (Dallas, Texas) caught 52 passes for 670 yards and seven touchdowns in just eight games this season. He played in 33 games for the Aggies over the last three seasons, catching 160 passes for 2,439 yards and 19 touchdowns, all of which rank him in the top-10 in school history. Franklin recorded 10 games during his Aggie career with over 100 yards receiving, while leading the team in receiving in 2012 and 2013.
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This was a fast brush to paper while I was waiting for guests on Dec. 25th. I'm trying to get to the point where I'm able to use the things I've learned without thinking about it. This was a "quick, tell me what you see" study. 140 lb. coldpress with Cotman watercolors.
Catherine, this is very nice!
This is very good. I could not do that well in a "quick study". All the parts; flowers, table and vase are done very well.
Very nice for a "quick" Study wow
Thank you jcurry, Charlie and RAUL! It's really fun to just paint and not think so much.
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Wow, I cannot believe how busy I have been. Nine months or more without being able to blog here due to my latest movie project, which is in post-production as I type this.
Anyway, for now, I will post the trailer of my last movie, The Search (2007) .
cheers everyone!
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61xkQdMUx_M p.s. got 109 feeds to go through!
wow, seems like yesterday when I got a few seconds of glory - more like one second - on the screen in a Taiwanese TV advertisement. Check it out
Now, that was back in 2006! I doubt anybody could have seen me, but I am in the background on the first second of the clip! very important supporting role!
Ah, but it was worth a while! I definitely has some good times with Anthony Wong!
As most of you should (or must) know, CJ7 is the name of a 2008 movie by Maestro Stephen Chow. If you thought CJ7 was ony a car model, then please stop reading my blog now
I thought this movie was very surprising, three years after the great KUNG FU HUSTLE, a movie about aliens! But not ugly and attacking aliens, the movie is about friendly aliens who bring love to the world.
CJ7 is a movie that is tender and soft to the eye, it reaches all kinds of audiences from kids to grownups; definitely Chow has become an outstanding director! Not only can he direct himself and other actors like the kids, the teachers, etc.. but the CGI alien, what a superb job done with that little creature.
SPOILERS>>> Now, the scene when Chow dies and the son is taken home is worth the whole movie alone. It is a little masterpiece in itself, I am sure many tears were shed by the audience. <<<SPOILERS
I had the chance to participate in CJ7's press conference here in Taipei and had a great time, as you can see on the following video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaVjF2yLRGE
Yes, that was me . Now, this is not the first time I see Stephen Chow, I met him briefly during the 5th World Wushu Championships in HK in 1999. I wish I could scan our picture together, but that is not possible now.
Hello again, have been very busy with my new production which is scheduled to be filmed in July. On my spare time have been surfing Alive Not Dead getting used to the site and the different features it offers. I am not a hight tech person, but I am very impressed so far.
I was able to catch the Forbidden Kingdom here in Taipei, I enjoyed the movie very much, watching such mega stars together was great. That first dialogue they have after their introduction fight is priceless!
Not so happy having Jackie Chan's mandarin voice being dubbed, also I do not consider the foreign actor up to par for what is should have been required for this movie. But the rest was very well done. Yuen Woo Ping and his team continue to re-invent themselves every time, it's amazing!
Other than that, I am enjoying some Korean Cinema lately, director Kim Ki Duk:
Breath (Noom) 2007
Samaritan Girl 2004
Hello everybody at Alive not Dead! Hope to be able to share with you some of my previous experiences and passions.
Up to this moment I have made three movies. The first one is "The Way of the Tiger" in 2003. It took one year to complete. It was entirely filmed in Taipei. The original language was Chinese and it is 45 minutes duration.
The second movie was filmed right after (2004-2005) and it is called "Delivery Kid" . Delivery Kid was a more ambitious project and a long duration movie, 90 minutes. It was filmed both in Taiwan and Spain and involved people of 16 different countries. The original language is Spanish. From beginning to end it took also one year to complete with many problems in its post-production stage. It was finally finished at the end of 2005 and its Taiwan premiere took place in December of 2005. Later there was also a Spanish premiere held in Madrid (March of 2006).
The third movie is a short movie (35 minutes duration) called "The Search" . It was entirely filmed in Taiwan. The pre-production took around three months but the movie was filmed in only two weeks with a very tight schedule that almost everyday ended up with me until 3 or 4 in the morning reviewing and editing the day's tapes to make sure nothing was missing. In this production I was helped by some students and friends of the Taiwan's University of Art hoping to improve the quality and using the University equipment. The movie original language is Chinese and it had enter many movie festivals around the world.
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Pastries of Demark's Petit Fours
By Mabel Suen
Miss Leon's Serves Some of St. Louis' Best Comfort Food
By Cheryl Baehr
Fort Taco Is Your Newest Addiction
By Cheryl Baehr
Planter's House Debuts New Spring Cocktail Menu
By Patrick Hurley
Gooseberries Pleases Herbivores and Omnivores Alike
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By Mabel Suen
No. It was true. Joseph's serves pasta primavera in red sauce.
I don't claim to be the world's leading authority on Italian cuisine. Hell, when I was a kid, chicken Parmesan meant a Weaver breaded chicken patty topped with Kraft shredded mozzarella in Ragú sauce. And I loved it. If I ever want to get unstuck on the novel I'm writing, I'll whip up a batch and jump-start a Proustian moment.
107 N. 6th St.
St. Louis, MO 63101
Category: Restaurant > Italian
Region: St. Louis - Downtown
Italian vegetable appetizer $12
Pistachio crusted goat cheese salad $9
Gnocchi diablo $15
Carbonara tortellini $14
Pork saltimbocca $22
But I do know that pasta primavera cannot possibly be served in red sauce. It's a contradiction in terms.
I'm a man of principle. I couldn't eat such a thing. So I ordered the pork saltimbocca instead.
Traditionally, saltimbocca is made with veal. Thin slices of veal. Executive chef Jared Lewis substitutes a massive pork rib chop. If this pork chop were any bigger, you'd get your name inscribed on a plaque for finishing it. As is custom, Lewis wraps the pork chop in a slice of prosciutto and stuffs it with herbs. Which herbs sage is commonly used in saltimbocca I couldn't tell you. Whether the prosciutto was true prosciutto di Parma or di San Daniele, I couldn't tell you. Subtlety of flavor was the collateral damage in this pork-on-pork assault.
It's an audacious dish. And on a primal level, very satisfying. The crisp slice of prosciutto combined with the seared pork chop offers the carnivorous pleasure of a steak from your backyard grill. If it had been any bigger, my name would have been on that plaque.
That's the problem, though. Saltimbocca means "jump in mouth" as in: It's so good it'll jump right up into your mouth, maybe do a little boogie while it's there. In other words, it's a playful dish. The notion of a chef playfully pairing two cuts of pork as different as prosciutto and a rib chop the delicate and the meaty is intriguing, but Lewis doesn't pair them so much as fuse them. The result is filling but unmemorable (aside from the size). On my way home, all I could think about was that episode of The Simpsons where Homer commands Bart, "Bacon up that sausage, boy!"
Joseph's opened in 1994, on Sixth Street just north of Kiener Plaza, as Joseph's Italian Cafe. "Joseph" was Joseph Consolo III. New owners Joel Kulander, Chris Whitworth and John Donahue, who reopened the restaurant in December of last year for lunch only and added a dinner menu in April, shortened the name to Joseph's. Kind of odd, I thought, given that Joseph is no longer involved. Then again, the Italian food St. Louis Italian, that is: safe, sauced and blandly satisfying remains.
Lewis seems to be striving for something more in the kitchen, but he continually falls just short. An "Italian Vegetable Appetizer" should have been flawless. It's a bright, fresh antipasto platter: marinated artichoke hearts, roasted red and yellow peppers, an Italian sausage, a traditional olive tapenade and a "tapenade" of sun-dried tomatoes. The tomato tapenade looked like a clump of tomato paste but tasted delicious, tart and sweet. The "mild" sausage had a surprisingly deep, autumnal fennel flavor. But the platter didn't include anything on which to spread the tapenades or artichoke hearts except large, airy slices of Italian bread, too flimsy to hold such substantial spreads.
"Peppered Beef Carpaccio" was a tantalizing garnet red, but the meat had been sliced too thick and the lemon-caper vinaigrette was way heavy on the lemon. "Pistachio Crusted Goat Cheese" salad was excellent. Well, the salad was fine how excited can you get about baby greens, no matter how fresh? but the cheese was fantastic, a disc of chévre coated with slivered pistachios, then baked golden-brown. I would have ordered the cheese on its own. In truth, I wish I could have: The portion that accompanied the salad was small, and it lost its strength when spread around all the greens. These are small considerations, but they add up. (Speaking of small considerations, the wine list is brief, and stocked with twelve-buck supermarket labels Rosemount Estate shiraz, Robert Mondavi "Private Selection" pinot noir, etc. When we asked for an espresso at the end of dinner, we learned that Joseph's doesn't have an espresso machine.)
Other dishes fell prey to more fundamental breakdowns. The grilled chicken in the "Chicken and Wild Mushroom Risotto" added no flavor, just body. This was a shame, because the risotto itself was quite good, thanks in part to a verdant bite from the sautéed spinach that was folded in. The cutlets for the veal marsala were appropriately thin, but they'd been on the heat too long. Not unpleasant, but they'd lost the tenderness that makes veal so exquisite. Worse, Lewis plated the dish with mashed potatoes, which killed the delicate flavor of the marsala reduction, turning what should have been a light dish into a chore.
Lewis fares better with pastas (pasta primavera in red sauce notwithstanding). "Gnocchi Diablo" featured house-made gnocchi that were perfect substantial but far from leaden and the mild heat of the sauce brought out the sweetness in the sausage and peppers. Carbonara tortellini wasn't a carbonara at all; but it was hard to argue with the ricotta-stuffed pasta combined with crisp bacon, fresh peas and tomatoes, dressed with a straightforward alfredo sauce.
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Hello to y'all from Nashville! I have safely arrived and couldn't be more excited to be here. Last night, I had the privilege of eating at Monell's. It was freaking delicious. The chef decides what you eat—all you do is sit back with a glass of sweet tea and watch dish after dish of family-style Southern cooking emerge from the kitchen! My friends and I had fried chicken, roasted chicken, stuffing, fried pork chops, green beans, macaroni and cheese, biscuits with gravy, biscuits with peach preserves, banana bread pudding… and I'm probably even forgetting a thing or two.
Lest you think that this post is solely about my describing how I consumed a heart attack on a platter, let me get to the point. Over dinner, one friend lamented that she doesn't know what to do about decorating her apartment. I feel like a lot of my friends also had this problem when we finished college—and given that it's graduation season, I wanted to recommend two fantastic books that are great inspiration for home décor, especially for that first "grown-up" home.
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Both of these beautiful hardcovers are authored by former Domino magazine editors, and they are packed to the brim with gorgeous images and inspiration. As someone who felt emotionally devastated by the news that Domino was folding in 2008, these two books are a great way to fill that void. (I know that this sounds melodramatic of me, but seriously… if you read Domino magazine, you know what I am talking about). My husband teases me by saying that I still read "picture books," but hey—when the pictures are that amazing, who cares if there's scintillating copy! (And, for the record, there is. Double win).
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It's so tough for me to leave Bristol Rugby - James Phillips
Posted: June 10, 2010|
JAMES Phillips has revealed how leaving Bristol was one of the toughest decisions he has had to make – but admitted he had little choice.
The 22-year-old No 8 and full-back Luke Arscott this week became the fourth and fifth players to quit Bristol in the wake of their failure to win promotion to the Guinness Premiership.
They both joined Exeter – Bristol's conquerors in the Championship play-off final – and will soon link up with their new team-mates for pre-season training.
Phillips will be leaving Bristol for the first time in his life when he moves to Devon later this summer – and the enormity of the events of the past fortnight have not yet fully sunk in for the man from Hanham.
"It is difficult to leave Bristol; it really is," said Phillips. "I have found it really hard to leave the club, but I have got to do it.
"I am still gutted about what has happened and it hasn't really sunk in yet. I suppose that will only happen when I turn up at Exeter.
"I really didn't want to leave Bristol to start with, but I know it's the best move for my career to be playing in the Premiership and I think people will understand that."
Whatever happens during his time at Sandy Park, Phillips will remain grateful to Bristol and the club's supporters for the part they have played in his career.
Used sparingly by Richard Hill in the Premiership, the powerful ball-carrier became a first-team regular under Paul Hull and John Brain in the Championship.
He started 26 matches during the 2009-10 campaign, scoring 11 tries, and was named the club's players' player of the season.
"I was given a big chance by Bristol to play virtually every game last season – and I now need the next challenge: to be playing in the Premiership," said Phillips.
"I didn't really get much of a run at Bristol at the start – then Paul Hull and John Brain put me in and gave me my shot. I would like to thank them for everything they have done for me.
"I will miss the club and I will miss the fans. It was always good to see so many fans at the Memorial Stadium and they gave me great support and encouragement."
Many of Bristol's players are still reeling from the club's ultimatum of taking a 50 per cent pay-cut or moving on – and Phillips feels desperately sorry for those he is leaving behind.
"It came as a big shock to everyone – none of us thought this was going to happen," he said. "I am really sad to be leaving, but, with the things that have happened, it had to be done in the end.
"I couldn't even speak to the lads after they found out the news last week. I just didn't know what to say to them. Hopefully the club can be built back up, because it is a great club in a great city.
"It is going to be strange for me moving away from Bristol – but I am really committed to buying into Exeter. I have lived in Bristol my whole life, so maybe it will be a good thing to move away and buy into exactly what those guys are doing down in Exeter."


text: No recent wiki edits to this page. HistoryAs the Director of the American Central Intelligence Agency, Hot Coldman claims he was the one who set up Operation Snake Eater and convinced the higher-ups in Washington that the only way to deter a future war with the Soviets over the Virtuous Mission fiasco was to send Naked Snake to kill The Boss. Sometime after Snake Eater, Coldman was transferred to Central America to serve as the Station Chief.Originally, he was the one who raised the "Peace Sentinel" forces in Costa Rica and sold their invasion of the country as a way to fight Soviet influence in Central and South America. Secretly, he was working on the Peace Walker project with roboticist Huey Emmerich and AI researcher " Dr. Strangelove." His theory was that Mutually Assured Destruction would not hold in the face of human influence, but an AI-controlled tank armed with nuclear missiles would make the best choice, free from bias, about how to retaliate and maintain order. Once the world knew about Peace Walker, no one would ever use nuclear weapons again, America would have all the leverage it needed, and Coldman could become the Director of the CIA once again.When Huey learned that Peace Walker would be used to launch live nuclear missiles in a demonstration to coincide with the SALT II arms limitation talks, he began arguing with Coldman over the project, and Coldman responded by shoving him down a flight of stairs. Upon realizing that Big Boss and the MSF were going to be a threat, he decided to aim Peace Walker's nuclear missile at MSF's Mother Base. Not only would the nuclear missile destroy the base and everyone inside, but the fallout would poison the air, land and water of Costa Rica, Nicaragua and other parts of Central America. No one would retaliate, leaving Coldman free to force the affected inhabitants to build more Peace Walkers for him.Before Coldman could carry out his plan from a US missile base in Nicaragua, Coldman's KGB contact Zadornov betrayed him and forced Strangelove to re-target Peace Walker's missile at Cuba for his own goals - framing America for nuclear assault on a Communist country and rallying Central America under the Soviet cause. Then the KGB man tried to force Paz to shoot Coldman. When she refused, Zadornov shot him anyway. Big Boss and the MSF managed to stop everyone at the last minute. However, as Coldman was being flown back to Mother Base, he used his last breath to enter in the code to make Peace Walker launch at Cuba anyway, while sending fake targeting data to NORAD that would force the US to face whether his theory of nuclear deterrence was the right one. He died without telling anyone the abort code, forcing Big Boss to take down Peace Walker the hard way.


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Front-office gatekeepers can kill your client relationships
By Sandy Schussel
Sandy Schussel, LLC
Referrals come from clients who tell stories about the exceptional service they have experienced. You need to be certain that you and your staff are making magic in your practice — right out of the gate.
If you want to grow your practice, you need to be certain that you've spelled out for your staff how to handle the phones and how to greet people, and you need to be sure that they're following your instructions. This means listening in on a prospective client call and having someone report to you about how they are treated while they're waiting for you. Don't assume that just because you're being treated well by your assistant that he or she is treating your clients in the same way.
I recently had an encounter that showed me just how important the front-of-office assistant really is to the client experience. I had been limping around for three weeks with a pain across the top of my left foot that didn't seem to be getting any better. I made it through five straight days on my feet for two workshops and an active vacation, but the pain did not subside. So, I finally decided to visit a local orthopedist.
I called the doctor's office and an unhappy-sounding scheduling assistant treated me as if I were a huge interruption to his day. He was abrupt, unsympathetic and annoyed when it took me a couple of seconds to give him precisely the information he demanded. He advised me that the doctor I wanted wouldn't be available in this century and offered me some alternatives. And he became noticeably agitated when I wasn't satisfied with the first available appointment. After all, who did I think I was? He worked for a doctor and was very busy. I was just one more bother in his bothersome day.
When I arrived at the office, the staff was annoyed that I didn't notice the big, hand-written "sign in here" sign at the window and that I thought it was OK to approach the busy person sitting behind the desk instead. When I went back to the sign-in desk, the lady handled our entire transaction — from the clipboard to the insurance card and picture ID — without ever looking up to see my face. Believe it or not, your staff may be treating people like this, and no matter how good you are at what you do, or how kind and considerate you might be, your clients are will think, "I'm not coming here again" if you have a front-office gatekeeper like the one I encountered.
Maybe, as it was in the case of this doctor, you have so many people waiting to see you that you can afford not to know how your staff is behaving. But if you're like most professionals, it matters to you that clients who have experienced something like this aren't staying with you, and that they will tell others to stay away, as well. To prevent alienating clients, you can can specify the basics for your front-office team with a formalized procedure that includes, at least, all of the following points.
1. Identify the office and yourself. Everyone who answers a phone should use his or her name.
2. Be pleasant. No matter how frenetic your office might be, every caller deserves to feel that he or she is not an interruption in someone's busy day.
3. Offer to help. The identification should be followed by, "How may I help you?" or "How may I direct your call?" or, well, anything that's genuinely helpful.
4. Don't rush the caller. No matter how busy you are, clients want to ease their stress, not to confront yours.
5. Own the call. Until the caller is connected elsewhere, the person answering the phone is responsible for the caller's experience.
These are just some of the basic rules. Nearly an hour later, when I finally got to see the orthopedist, I found him to be extremely competent and a genuinely nice human being. He advised me that I had fractured a bone, but I wasn't willing to face his staff for the follow-up appointment. I ended up taking my foot elsewhere.
Referrals come from clients who tell stories about the exceptional service they have experienced. You need to be certain that you and your staff are making magic in your practice — right out of the gate.


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What is muscular dystrophy?
Muscular dystrophy (MD) is a broad term that describes a genetic (inherited) disorder of the muscles. Muscular dystrophy causes the muscles in the body to become very weak. The muscles break down and are replaced with fatty deposits over time.
Other health problems commonly associated with muscular dystrophy include the following:
heart problems
scoliosis - a lateral, or sideways, curvature and rotation of the back bones (vertebrae), giving the appearance that the person is leaning to one side.
The most common forms of muscular dystrophy are Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and Becker muscular dystrophy. The two forms are very similar, but Becker muscular dystrophy is less severe than DMD. Girls are rarely affected by either of these two forms of muscular dystrophy.
What causes muscular dystrophy?
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a genetic disease which means it is inherited. Our genes determine our traits, such as eye color and blood type. Genes are contained in the cells of our bodies on stick-like structures called chromosomes. There are normally 46 chromosomes in each cell of our body, or 23 pairs. The first 22 pairs are shared in common between males and females, while the last pair determine gender and are called the sex chromosome pair: females have two X chromosomes, while males have one X and one Y chromosome.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy is caused by an X-linked recessive gene. "X-linked" means that the gene causing the trait or the disorder is located on the X chromosome. Genes on the X chromosome can be recessive or dominant, and their expression in females and males is not the same because the genes on the Y chromosome do not exactly pair up with the genes on the X. X-linked recessive genes are expressed in females only if there are two copies of the gene (one on each X chromosome). However, for males there only needs to be one copy of an X-linked recessive gene in order for the trait or disorder to be expressed. For example, a woman can carry a recessive gene on one of the X chromosomes unknowingly, and pass it on to a son, who will express the trait or disease.
Therefore, half of the daughters have the gene and can pass it to the next generation. The other half do not have the gene and therefore cannot pass it on. Half of the sons do not have the gene and cannot pass it on. The other half of the sons have inherited the gene and will express the trait or disorder (in this case, DMD).
What are the symptoms of muscular dystrophy?
Muscular dystrophy is usually diagnosed in children between 3 and 6 years of age. Early signs of the illness include a delay in walking, difficulty rising from a sitting or lying position, and frequent falling, with weakness typically affecting the shoulder and pelvic muscle as one of the initial symptoms., with weakness typically affecting the shoulder and pelvic muscle as one of the initial symptoms. The following are the most common symptoms of muscular dystrophy. However, each child may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
clumsy movement
difficulty climbing stairs
frequently trips and falls
unable to jump or hop normally
tip toe walking
facial weakness
inability to close eyes or whistle
shoulder and arm weakness
A tell-tale clinical characteristic for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is Gowers' sign. Children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy find it very hard to get up from a sitting or lying position on the floor. They first pull up to their hands and knees. The child walks his/her hands up their legs to brace themselves as they rise to a standing position.
Another classic symptom of muscular dystrophy is known as the "slip through" symptom. Your child's physician puts his/her hands around the sides of the child's chest, right up under the arms. As the child is lifted up, the shoulders weaken and move upward, almost allowing the child to slip through your child's physician's hands.
In addition, children with muscular dystrophy often have very large calf muscles due to the large amounts of fatty deposits that are replacing muscle.


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Gunman Kills More Than Two Dozen at Connecticut School
It's a statistical fact that you are safer at school than you are anywhere else.
The chance of something happening to you like what happened at a school in Connecticut on Friday is as close to zero as you can possibly get.
That's why when something so horrible does happen, it's news.
On Friday, a 20-year-old man walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and killed at least 26 people, including 20 kids and the school's principal.
He then killed himself.
Police say the man also killed his mother at her home before going to the school.
According to published reports, his mother had been a teacher's aide there.
There were reports that the gunman had a history of mental illness.
But as of Friday evening, it was still not clear why he did what he did.
And apparently, this was not a case in which the guns that were used were acquired illegally.
According to CBS News, the three weapons found on the gunman had been bought legally and were registered to his mother.
At a news conference on Friday, President Obama's eyes filled with tears as he spoke about the kids who were killed. "They had their entire lives ahead of them – birthdays, weddings, kids of their own," he told reporters at a White House news conference.
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Licensed paramedic uses new skills
Remember how I got my new license in the mail last week? Tonight I got to use one of my new 'licensed' skills! I stareted an IV on an unconscious patient--a pretty big one, first try, in his hand--woohoo! It's funny, last year when we were learning how to do IVs on people, I almost fainted in class starting an IV on the FAKE ARM--which my classmates will never let me live down--and here I am starting large bore IVs on real live people without batting an eye. Seriously, in class I had to sit down on the floor in the middle of the room because it was spinning so badly, and I knew I wouldn't make it the five feet to the nearest chair! Then to top it off I started crying! Jeepers. Sometimes it still doesn't feel real that I have this license--I keep having to remind myself of it. Hooray!
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that's awesome mel. way to go. you're gonna make a fantastic licensed paramedic.
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A raised flooring system having a sub-work surface is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of pedestal assemblies, a plurality of base floor pads for placing and securing the pedestal assemblies, and a locking assembly for securing the pedestal assemblies to the base floor pads. The locking assemblies include a plurality of projections extending from the pedestal assemblies, a receiving aperture located in each of the base floor pads for receiving the projections in a first position, and a locking aperture in communication with the receiving aperture for locking the pedestal when in a second position to relative to the base floor pad. Inserting the projections into the receiving apertures and rotating the pedestals from the first position to a second position secure the pedestals to the base floor pads, one to another, thus providing exact registration of the pedestals for the ultimate installation of the work floor panels.
1. A support system having multiple floors of a sub-work surface utility line containment system comprising:
a) a plurality of pedestal assemblies;
b) a plurality of base floor pads for placing and securing said pedestal assemblies, each pedestal assembly connecting at least two base floor pads;
c) a locking assembly for securing each pedestal assembly to at least two of said base floor pads when said pedestal assemblies are positioned about said base floor pads, said locking assembly comprising:
i) a plurality of projections extending from each pedestal assembly;
ii) a receiving aperture forming a first discontinuous opening located in each of said base floor pads for receiving said projections in a first position, the first discontinuous opening being formed from first and second arc; and
iii) a locking aperture forming a second discontinuous opening in communication with said receiving aperture for locking said pedestals when in a second position to said base floor pad, said second discontinuous opening being formed from said first arc of said first discontinuous opening and a third arc, the third arc being smaller than said second arc such that the locking aperture comprises a smaller opening than said receiving aperture, inserting said projections into said receiving apertures and rotating said pedestal assemblies from said first position to a second position rotates said corresponding projections into said locking apertures thereby securing said pedestals to said base floor pads;
d) each of the pedestals includes a cap defining a work floor support surface for support of work floor panels;
e) whereby rotating each of said pedestal assemblies from said first position to a second position in attaching at least two base floor pads forms a jig for self-aligning respective pedestal assemblies for supporting said work floor panels by said pedestal assemblies.
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This invention relates to an accessible raised floor system for use in office buildings or the like, and more specifically, a locking floor system designed for quick assembly.
Historically, building owners have not had to deal with tenant requirements for supplemental cooling, power and cabling, with the exception of special purpose computer or trading rooms. These special purpose rooms have been dealt with almost as if they were separate structures. Unless a building was occupant owned, a tenant had to deal with these requirements. Now, due to the changes in market economies, frequently landlords are forced to solve problems of substantial increases in power requirements, additional cooling and cable distribution.
As the use of office space has evolved since the development of personal computers (PC), there has been an escalation in the need for and frequency of re-organization and re-configuration of office space. Enormous amounts of effort and study have gone into the planning and design of office space in order to render its use more flexible and sympathetic to user functions. Most of these efforts have been concentrated in modular space planning and systems furniture engineered to accommodate PCs.
Modem day office requirements have placed burdens on heating/cooling, electrical power distribution and cabling systems which were never anticipated when even the most modern office buildings were built. The rates of reorganization and reconfiguration have escalated from about 10% to 15% per year, U.S. averages in the early 1990's, to 35% to 50% in the mid 1990's, with some companies and industries exceeding 100% per year. The technological life expectancy of local and wide area networks cabling and connectors is currently about eighteen months to two years.
Physical concentrations of PCs and other electrical enhancements such as facsimile machines, copiers, printers, scanners, and in particular, the personnel operating the equipment, have placed extra-ordinary burdens on the most sophisticated and powerful heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems. These concentrations of equipment and personnel generated heat are most frequently offset by increasing the velocity of chilled air from overhead diffusers, usually at the expense of other areas, and to the discomfort of personnel.
Traditionally and technically there have been roughly seven predominant methods of distributing heating/cooling, electrical power and cable in horizontal planes from vertical sources, whether from a building core or from other vertical chases. They have been:
1) Through a ceiling plenum;
2) Through the use of conventional raised flooring systems, as have been used in computer rooms;
3) In-floor conduits or proprietary ducts;
4) A combination of plenum and under-floor distribution through rigid conduit into poke-through outlet boxes to the floor above;
5) Through stud and drywall partitions and/or column enclosures;
6) Through power poles; and,
7) Through system furniture panels.
All of these systems require the feeding of electrical power wiring and cabling through studding, systems furniture, in-floor conduit or ducts. Convenient, horizontal retro-feeding of electrical power wiring or cabling through finished stud and dry wall partitions is particularly difficult, costly, disruptive and sometimes, impossible unless sufficient conduit has been pre-installed.
The most flexible and common of these systems has been the use of ceiling plenums. This plenum approach has severe difficulties and limitations. All work must be performed from ladders or scaffolding. Most connections to work surfaces must be through stud and dry wall partitions or so-called power poles vertically to work surface or floor levels and then distributed horizontally using more stud and dry wall partitions, systems furniture or in-floor conduit or duct.
Once additional power is in place, an undesirable result is a comparable increase in generated heat, requiring more cooling. Typically such additional heat loads have not been anticipated nor dealt with in the base building design or construction.
Localized cooling solutions are being dealt with by trying to increase the output of existing systems such as pushing more air by using higher blower velocities. Increases in air velocities result in increased noise levels and are really nothing more than cycling air more rapidly through the base system which has a finite heat absorbing capacity.
There have been proposals for retrofitted auxiliary flooring systems all of which suffer distinct disadvantages. With one proposal, a lower forced air plenum would be provided for conducting supplemental cooling air to a workspace where heat generating electronic equipment has been installed. Other flooring components would be formed to define enclosed ducts above the air plenum for power cables and communication conductors. It is necessary that these enclosed ducts have imperforate walls to prevent spread of an electrical fire. In the event of such a fire, the egress of the supplemental conditioning air from the plenum would obviously be undesirable. It is for these reasons that building codes require all wiring be encased in fire resistant conduit.
Prior proposals for supplemental flooring systems have all been excessively complex such that they required skilled installers for disproportionately long periods of time. Further, prior proposed systems have not been fully modular and had inadequate provision for access to service lines extending through such a system.
Simple to install supplemental flooring systems which will accommodate power cable, communication wiring, and supplemental cooling to meet the demands of both current day and future electronic equipment are described and claimed in Applicant's U.S. Pat. No. 6,061,982 issued May 16, 2000; U.S. Pat. No. 6,508,037 issued Jan. 21, 2003; and U.S. Pat. No. 6,857,230 issued Feb. 22, 2005, each entitled Raised Flooring System & Method and each is incorporated herein by reference. As systems described in the patents have been developed, a need has evolved for a more economical and expeditious setup floor panel assembly having an increased forgiveness to deviations in panel orientation and in cumulative tolerances for attachment. In addition, a need has developed for increasing the structural integrity of the floor systems by providing a locking method and apparatus that allows for quick assembly, yet more secure and resistant to racking and forces imposed on the system.
The present disclosure is directed to a raised flooring system method and apparatus having an enhanced structural design providing greater structural integrity to the system as well provides a design for faster assembly. In one embodiment, the system provides a plurality of pedestal assemblies and base floor pads for placing and securing the pedestal assemblies. The system further includes a locking assembly for securing the pedestal assemblies to the base floor pads where the locking assemblies include a plurality of projections extending from the pedestal assemblies, receiving apertures located in each of the base floor pads for receiving the projections, and locking apertures in communication with the receiving apertures for locking the pedestals to the base floor pads. Each of the pedestals includes a cap defining a work floor support surface for support of work floor panels. By inserting the projections into the receiving apertures and rotating the pedestals, advances the projections into the locking apertures thereby securing the pedestals to the base floor pads.
In an exemplary embodiment, the projections include a recess for aiding an enhanced setup process. The recess contains a wedge profile that aids in guiding the pedestal projections into corresponding receiving slots found within the base floor pads. The recess configuration in conjunction with the twist-and-lock system also assists in relaxing the individual and cumulative tolerance requirements between base floor pads. Because the receiving slot provides a larger opening than the corresponding size of the projection, less readjustment or disassembly is required because of improper base floor pad orientation, configuration, and the like. The projection recess further relaxes the overall tolerances as well aids in positioning the projection within the penetrating or receiving slot of the base floor pad.
Additional advantages of the disclosed locking system allows an assembler to quickly place the base floor pads throughout any room requiring a raised floor assembly. The lightweight design and enhanced tolerance allotment allows the pads to be easily and expeditiously maneuvered into position. The pedestals are then placed into corresponding slots located within each of the base floor pads. By turning the pedestals, a locking position is acquired, which guarantees that the pedestal caps are in the proper location for receiving the much heavier and more difficult to maneuver work floor panels. A work floor panel depending on the application can be made from any number of materials, including wood, aluminum, stone, or most commonly, a steel pan filled with approximately one-inch of concrete. Therefore, the importance of proper pedestal positioning should be appreciated when it results in the successful positioning of a two-foot by two-foot steel square filled with one-inch thick concrete.
The locking construction therefore provides reassurance to even an unskilled assembler that the positions between pedestals are properly located for the installation of the work floor panels. In addition, the increased tolerances in the locking assembly construct reduces, if not eliminates the need to reposition the base floor pads, thus saving time and money.
In yet another embodiment, the projections comprise an angle complementary to the locking aperture surface profile. In one embodiment the angle is 45 degrees reducing the tendency for movement in the flooring system resulting from racking or axial forces. Another feature of the flooring system is extending the projection profile along the length of the locking aperture to further strengthen the system against undesirable forces.
In yet another feature of the raised flooring system includes a locking assembly comprised of a pedestal having a foot or locking projections made from a rigid material such as plastic to further resist racking or axial loading of the pedestals. In one embodiment the rigid material is metal based such as cast aluminum.
Another feature of the flooring system is the addition of an adhesive member to the cap portion of the pedestals. The adhesive member then attaches to an underside of the work floor panels. The adhesive members aid in reducing lateral movement of the working floor panels as well enhances the overall system's structural integrity.
In yet another exemplary embodiment introduces stabilizing pedestals for providing additional support to the working floor panels in areas requiring additional support. The pedestals can be positioned within the base floor pad apertures, thereby requiring little if any adjustment to a leveling assembly within the pedestal. Alternatively, the stabilizing pedestals can be positioned on the work floor pads typically requiring an adjustment the pedestal leveling assembly.
These and other advantages and features of the exemplary embodiment of the raised floor assembly are described in detail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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The upper and lower separator plates are each flat and made from plastic or metal sheets with corner cutouts to receive appropriate portions of the pedestals 15. The separator plates 17 and 19 have corner cutouts 39, each of which constitutes a quarter of a circle such that four adjacent panels collectively are capable of surrounding a central conical segment 18 of a single pedestal 15.
Pedestal caps 23 are threaded for engaging the top the pedestals 15, and provide a flat top surfaces 25, which function as support surfaces for work floor panels 26 that make up a fourth and top level, as shown in
Alternatively, the stabilizing pedestal 13 shown in
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While the Applicant's prior flooring systems having a snap connection between the pedestals and base floor pads represented an advancement in the prior art, the present invention's locking configuration is a significant improvement. Such construct between the feet 28 and slots 30 provides several novel advantages of the claimed disclosure. One advantage is an increase in the amount of locking surface area between the foot 28 and the locking portion 31, as shown in
Another advantage of the current twist-and-lock configuration is the ease of setup and disassembly over the prior art. The with a snap-type connection the cumulative tolerances between base floor pads were very small, only a few thousands of an inch, allowing little if any deviation in tolerance or spacing between base floor pads in order to snap the pedestals into the base floor pad. The twist-and-lock structure permits higher individual and cumulative tolerances in the spacing between base floor pads 12, since the penetrating portions 31 are oversized relative to the size of the foot 28. For example, the twist-and-lock connection can allow for 0.25″ tolerances between pads, which is much greater than the few thousands of an inch tolerance allowed by the snap-type connection assemblies. The current assembly's enhanced user-friendly configuration over the snap-type connection allows the base floor pad to be used more like a jig for quick placement and removal of pedestals 15.
Yet another advantage is that the foot material is no longer limited to flexible "snap-like material", but can be made from harder materials, including metals. In addition, the cumulative tolerances are capable of being further relaxed because of a recess 36 designed in the foot 28, as shown in
In an additional embodiment, the flat cap surface 25 of caps 23 for the pedestal 15 and/or stabilizing pedestals 13 contain an adhesive member 50, as depicted in
Although the invention has been described in its preferred form with a certain degree of particularity, it is understood that the present disclosure of the preferred form has been made only by way of example and that numerous changes in the details of construction, operation and the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and the scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed.
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I'm a huge fan of the Humble Bundle project, which is a change to snag a whole lot of games for a very low price, give money directly to developers, donate to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (which, among other things, fights for your right to Unlock, Root, and Jailbreak) and the Child's Play charity. The latest bundle for Android, Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux started off strong with Crayon Physics Deluxe, Superbrothers: Swords & Sworcery EP, Splice, Eufloria, and Walking Mars all on a pay-what-you-want basis, with Machinarium as the initial 'reserve' game.
Now in addition to Machinarium, if you pay above the average price ($6.43 at the time of writing), the Humble team will throw in Avadon: The Black Fortress, Canabalt, Cogs, Swords & Soldiers HD, and Zen Bound 2. If you were buying all eleven games at full price, that would work up to $195 in games.
While I already regularly play Canabalt and Zen Bound, I would pay $6.43 just to get my hands on Avadon… if I didn't intend to play it on my iPad, which the Humble Bundle can't support–blame the iTunes App Store's gifting policies.
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This elective for Phase I and II students is a reading and discussion seminar that explores the poetry, prose and graphic art of healthcare issues. In addition to weekly meetings at the Health Sciences Library, students spend an afternoon at the Denver Art Museum on "Museum Rounds" to sharpen observational skills.
Materials include selected writing from On Doctoring and works of William Carlos Williams.
This elective for Phase I and II students explores the doctor-patient relationship as represented in literature and film providing students with the opportunity:
Materials include poetry by William Carlos Williams, John Stone, Rafael Campo and Raymond Carver; short fiction by Susan Mates, Irving Yalom, Richard Selzer, Adam Haslett, Jay Baruch, Anton Chekhov, Leo Tolstoy, and Helena Viramontes; documentary films such as The English Surgeon, Illness As Experience, Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter, and Darius Goes West.
This intensive, two-week elective seminar for Phase IV students explores the long-standing and well-documented relationship between movies and psychiatry. For many non-physicians, fiction and documentary films have provided the main exposure to the personal experiences of patients and professionals grappling with mental illness and to the symptoms and treatments of psychotic or personality disorders. For many physicians, such films have provided ready access to the storehouse of images that dominate the unconscious and to the complex motivations that make up an unforgettable character-patient. Students will have an opportunity:
This course is organized into four sections: "Breaking Cinematic Ground" which includes the films Snakepit (1947) and Titicut Follies (1969); "The Family and Mental Illness" which includes the films Ordinary People (1980) and Out of the Shadow (2004); "Society, the Individual and Mental Illness" which includes One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Ma Vie En Rose (1999) and The Bridge (2006); and "Relationships and Mental Illness" which includes A Beautiful Mind (2001), Half-Nelson (2004) and What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1994). Readings include literary materials, historical and cultural analyses, and selections from psychiatry and film studies.
This intensive, two-week elective seminar for Phase IV students approaches HIV/AIDS as a biomedical, social, political and creative phenomenon. We will examine how epidemics solidify barriers among social groups throughout the history of western culture and investigate the discourse and images of AIDS in journalistic writing, autobiography, fiction, poetry, film, television, and photography. Students will have an opportunity:
Materials include examples of plague histories and chronicles throughout western culture; cultural analyses such as Sontag's AIDS and Its Metaphors; physicians' narratives such as Zugar's Strong Shadows and Campo's The Poetry of Healing; and films such as And the Band Played On, Philadelphia, The Smith Family, and Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt.
This elective for Phase I and II students blends creative writing and the visual arts to provide students with an opportunity:
Each class session has a different topic, and students have a choice of different written or visual representations assignments. Part of the class is devoted to discussing readings, writings, and sharing projects.
This elective is designed to encourage pharmacy students to reflect upon the humanistic issues associated with health, disease and treatment through the lenses of film and literature. It is anticipated that the course will promote an understanding of how the representation of a situation can influence the perception of disease and treatment and, in so doing, enhance a student's ability to empathize and communicate more effectively with individual patients and the general public. It will provide students with an opportunity:
The Materials include films such as Miss Evers' Boys, The Constant Gardener, Requiem for a Dream, Super Size Me, Iris and Wit; literary works such as David Sheff's "My Addicted Son," Irving Yalom's "Fat Lady," Sue Miller's "Appropriate Affect," and Anatole Broyard's "Doctor, Talk to Me."
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For Democrats looking for some early consolation heading into a midterm election in which their party seems fated to suffer the loss of the Senate, the New York Times provides some comfort. A piece by John Harwood in today's paper claims that while a Republican Senate would blight the last two years of the Obama presidency, it might well guarantee the election of Hillary Clinton in 2016. But while there is a superficial logic to his thesis the notion that the former secretary of state should be rooting for Mitch McConnell to become majority leader next January is a bit of a stretch.
The argument that a Republican Senate would help Clinton's presidential hopes is simple. If the GOP controls both the House and the Senate heading into the 2016 election, that will make it even easier for Democrats to run against what they will undoubtedly label a "do-nothing" or "obstructionist" Congress. The confrontations between the Republicans and the White House would escalate in 2015 with the president seeking to govern on his own via executive orders. At the same time, as Politico notes in an interesting preview of 2015, McConnell is planning a series of actions meant to stymie Obama's attempts to circumvent constitutional checks and balances that could lead to a veto battle and Republicans daring Obama to shut down the government in order to force them to fund his pet projects. These struggles will feed into the media's favorite meme about dysfunctional government in which both parties will, not without some justification, be damned as part of the problem rather than the solution.
But the notion Harwood advances that this will allow Clinton to present herself as an outside-the-Beltway figure who is not tied to this fracas is hard to swallow.
The longer an unpopular president and his more-unpopular partisan adversaries battle to a standstill, the easier it is to offer herself as a fresh start.
"It would be bad for the country," said Stanley B. Greenberg, President Bill Clinton's former pollster, but "total gridlock would allow Hillary to be the change."
Mrs. Clinton has had as many political personality changes as she's had hairdos in her decades in the public eye, but the idea that this grizzled veteran of Washington could present herself as "the change" that voters want is laughable.
Clinton's in a strong position to win the presidency no matter what happens in November 2014. As the prohibitive favorite for the Democratic nomination, unless a credible left-wing alternative emerges to force her to abandon her criticisms of Obama's foreign-policy failures, she has already begun the pivot to the center that most candidates can't attempt until after they've won their party's nod. More than that, as the potential first woman to be elected to the presidency, she has a compelling narrative as well as the loyalty of most party activists even if they are to her left on many issues. And with so many Republicans defending Senate seats in 2016 as the class of 2010 seeks reelection, Democrats will, with the help of their traditionally large presidential-year turnouts, have a chance to take the Senate back.
But after hanging around the capital in one guise or another and engaging in some of the nastiest gutter fights there for more than 20 years, Clinton can't pretend to be a breath of fresh air in hyper-partisan Washington. Nor, after serving as secretary of state for four years, can she completely evade the tag of running for a third term for the Obama administration.
Just as important, if, as is likely, the next two years are marked by more bitter partisan warfare, the likely Democratic presidential candidate in 2016 won't be able to stand aloof from Obama's struggles with Congress. While the GOP House and Senate will undoubtedly make for attractive targets for Clinton's scorn, that will tie her even more closely to Obama's autocratic governing style rather than allowing her to distance herself from his troubled presidency. Republicans will be able to point out that Clinton's own positions on the environment and immigration will make her just as likely to try to override the will of Congress as Obama has been.
As Harwood points out, President Obama will likely see a Clinton victory as the best chance to solidify his legacy. So will the voters. Moreover, Clinton's opponent in 2016 won't be McConnell or House Speaker John Boehner, much though she would love to run against either of them. In contrast to Clinton, the Republican nominee may turn out to be someone who actually is from outside the Beltway or one of those members of the Senate who are seeking to stop the business-as-usual approach to politics that Clinton embodies.
It may be that Clinton's strengths will enable her to overcome the handicap of being tied to an unpopular and unsuccessful incumbent. But a Republican Senate won't make that any easier. The loss of the Senate will be a body blow to liberal plans to expand government even more than Obama has already done. Doing so may not stop Clinton from winning in 2016, but it won't make it any easier for her either.


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Review | Kim Wah Chinese BBQ
By Edmund Tijerina : September 12, 2013 : Updated: September 17, 2013 12:00am
Kim Wah serves excellent authentic Chinese food, including Peking Duck served with Duck Soup.
Green beans with pork is among the dishes on the expansive Kim Wah menu.
Photo By BOB OWEN/San Antonio Express-NewsKim Wah's Duck Fried Rice has shredded duck and a bit of egg and is accented by a topping of green onions.
Photo By BOB OWEN/San Antonio Express-NewsSnow Pea Leaves at Kim Wah us a healthier menu item.
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Kim Wah Chinese BBQ,
7080 Bandera Road between Huebner and Eckhert roads, 210-520-2200, www.kimwah.com
Hit: Peking duck, salt toasted pork chop
Miss: Too-sweet sauce in sweet and sour fish
Noteworthy: To-go orders only during last half hour of business
Lighter choice: Steamed chicken, steamed fish
Report card:
Food: ***
Service: ** 1/2
Ambiance: ** 1/2
One Last Bite: Still one of the best authentic Chinese restaurants in town, but order carefully.
Price range: Most items, $6.95-$12.95; Peking duck (for 2), $26.95
Hours: 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., 5-9:30 p.m. Monday-Friday; 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Saturday
Ratings key: **** Excellent |*** Good |** Average |* Poor | Express-News dining critics pay for all meals.
Kim Wah Chinese BBQ
There's something magical about the way a sliver of crisp, lacquered skin contrasts with the moist and tender meat in a bite of Peking duck.
It's the star of an expansive menu at Kim Wah Chinese BBQ, which has long been known as one of the best Chinese restaurants around town. Keep in mind, though, the best items are on the authentic Chinese menu, not the Chinese American classics.
An order of the Peking Duck, deboned and sliced when it arrived at the table, included the requisite green onions and a small ramekin of hoisin sauce. Instead of the traditional Mandarin pancakes, the duck here includes steamed buns made from rice flour. Open up a steamed bun and fill it with some duck, onions and sauce and it almost looks like a Chinese taco. Most important, it's good, and reminds why the dish is the closest item to a national dish of China.
Generally, dishes here are prepared Cantonese style, much more renowned for relatively mild seasonings and preparations that emphasize the pure flavor of ingredients, as opposed to the heat of the popular Szechuan and Hunan styles.
Perhaps the best example of this treatment showed in the snow pea leaves. Sautéed in a wok with a bit of neutral oil and just enough garlic to accentuate the light flavor and convey a hint of the essence of snow pea pods, it was an example of the glory of Cantonese vegetable cooking. Ask if it's available and snag it when it is.
The treatment of green beans, tossed with a minced pork, proved another success. The serving we received was a touch greasy — a quality Cantonese chefs avoid — but it wasn't so much that it distracted from the flavor and texture of the dish.
Duck fried rice kept the approach simple, with shredded duck meat and a bit of egg enlivening the rice. A topping of green onions added color and an extra accent of flavor.
An order of pork chops, cut into bite-size pieces with the bone on, coated in cornstarch, deep fried and tossed in a salt and pepper mixture, also proved satisfying.
The menu wasn't all about subtlety and balance. The steamed wonton with a spicy sauce included a punch of salt and heat, and our group almost ordered seconds. The wontons, filled generously but not too much with a flavorful minced pork mixture, would have worked without any sauce, but a generous topping of soy sauce and chile oil added extra dimensions that elevated the pleasure.
Alas, not every item on the Chinese menu succeeded. The thick coating of batter that helped give the pork chop so much texture muted the flavor of salted pepper shrimp.
And a dish called Sweet and Sour Fish topped otherwise competently prepared fried white fish pieces with a cloying sauce that overwhelmed the flavor of the delicate fish.
Maybe a visit is in order to try classic Chinese American items such as the orange beef or General Tso's Chicken. But why do that when there's some funky intestine dishes, beautiful glazed pork ribs or soy sauce chicken?
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I have never had raw oysters before & now I know why...those suckers are nasty! I enjoyed the tomato mixture a lot but it would have been even better w/out the sliminess of the oyster. I'm giving four stars because I don't think it's fair to rate an oyster recipe low just because I have an aversion to raw oysters. I'll stick to Bloody Mary's from now on....sorry.
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