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Residents of Los Gatos filled a the Town Hall chambers Monday night for a public hearing about a new fishing and gun store, which opened in December.
Opponents at the meeting said that Los Gatos town officials didn't conduct a public review of the permit process, though officials have said such a process wasn't required. ABC7 reported.
Critics also are worried about how close the store is to Van Meter Elementary, ABC7 reported.
"When I heard about a store being opened that warehouses guns 2,000 feet from our school, just around the corner, I felt a bit sick at heart," opponent Donna Matier told the station.
Templar Sports, a gun and fishing store, opened days after a gunman killed 20 children and six adunts in Newtown, Conn. Residents attending Monday's Town Council meeting in Los Gatos carried signs honoring victims of the massacre.
"The opening of Templar Sports, a gun shop, has created a huge division in our town," Los Gatos resident Cynthia Schneider said.
Supporters of the store also showed up, waving bright orange signs, the station reported. The store, supporters say, followed necessary rules in leagally opening their business.
"Treating this gun store, or treating this sporting goods store, as a pariah in affect treats all of us sportsmen and sportswomen in the same fashion and I think Los Gatos is a better town than that," said Robert Oneto, a gun store supporter.
The crowd would not fit in the council chambers and overflowed into the lobby.
Town staff members presented a report suggesting future rules for more of a public review, however it would likely impact only future gun stores interested in locating in the town, the station reported.
More than 100 people signed up to make a public comment and by about 11 p.m., they had only gotten through about half of those people.
Los Gatos officials last month said Templar Sports has met all conditions for opening its business on University Avenue.


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LUNA SEA to release best-of album in March
It's been revealed that LUNA SEA will be releasing a new best-of album, 'COMPLETE BEST -ASIA LIMITED EDITION-', on March 27th.
The upcoming best-of album will be sold only for a limited period. It will be a 3-disc set consisting of the band's 2-disc best-of album, 'COMPLETE BEST', which was released in March of 2008, along with 11 new tracks. The album will be released simultaneously with their live DVD & Blu-ray featuring footage from their standing live at Zepp Tokyo in December.
LUNA SEA recently held a special live for members of their official fan club 'SLAVE' at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on February 17th. They have proved to be going strong after holding their nationwide Zepp tour, 'The End of the Dream ZEPP TOUR 2012: Kourin' (November), concerts at Osaka-jo Hall and Sendai Sun Plaza Hall (December), a 6-day Nippon Budokan live (January), and an Asia tour.
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'Caps aiming to end winless run vs. Galaxy
Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Whitecaps FC has an uphill battle to end its seven-game winless run as it welcomes the Los Angeles Galaxy to BC Place on Saturday.
The 'Caps made a bright start to the season by winning its first two matches, but they have not collected three points from a match since.
Things will not get any easier with hosting Los Angeles, a club that has claimed five more points than Vancouver despite playing one less match.
The Galaxy are coming off of a 1-0 home loss to the Houston Dynamo, a result that is sure to have the two-time defending champions highly motivated.
They have welcomed Robbie Keane and Todd Dunivant back to training this week, though it is unclear whether either will play a role in the club's trip north of the border or if they will be rested with eyes on the team's road trip to the east coast looming.
"They're looking good. Anything is possible," Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena told the club's official website. "We're watching these players and they're heading back into full fitness so there is no reason to believe that they're not going to be a choice for one of these games."
Vancouver undoubtedly would prefer to host a Galaxy side that is without Keane. The 'Caps have conceded two goals in three straight MLS league matches and the proposition of allowing the Ireland international to run rampant in tandem with Landon Donovan cannot inspire a great deal of confidence.
The Whitecaps most recently suffered a 2-0 defeat at Real Salt Lake, a contest that set off alarm bells for midfielder Nigel Reo-Coker.
"Right now we have to face it and be realistic with the situation," Reo-Coker said after the defeat. "It's not about the coaches or management. It's time for us as players and for me, it was soft. Best way to describe us was soft. We were a soft team. We don't compete enough. We didn't compete enough today and we were just soft and that's the best way to put it.
"Being hard at football doesn't mean going around and tackling and smashing people, being hard means competing and being hard to beat, hard to face as an individual, helping your teammate out. We didn't do any of that today. So for me at the moment the realization of it is we have to be honest with ourselves we're soft and we need to toughen up, real quick."
Young-Pyo Lee echoed Reo-Coker's analysis, insisting that the Whitecaps have all of the pieces to compete at a high level and that they simply need to turn their fortunes around.
"Everything is perfect, we have good technical team, and we've been training well the past couple of days and we were better than today," Lee said after the defeat at RSL. "This problem is with our players as individuals. We need to think about our things mentally and focus on the next game."


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Of all the post mortems that have followed the attempted Christmas bombing of the Delta airliner, the weakest in my view is the criticism of Senator Jim DeMint for having placed a legislative hold on Erroll Southers, the nominee for head of the Transportation Security Agency. Other things being equal, it's better that the TSA have a head, rather than an acting head. But it's more important that the person in charge of the TSA be a good choice for the job.
That's why Sen. DeMint has done a service by placing a hold on Southers. The basis for the hold is that Southers has not answered a simple question: does he believe that TSA employees should be allowed to bargain collectively with the government on workplace rules and procedures?
There is reason to believe that Southers does believe this. As the editors of the Examiner point out, his nomination was greeted warmly by John Gage, president of the American Federation of Government Employees.
The matter is not a trivial one. As the Examiner explains, there are at least four reasons why it's reasonable to be concerned about collective bargaining at the TSA. First, it would probably impede the agency's flexibility to move people and change protocols in response to what it believes is a specific terrorist threat. Second, it might well force TSA managers to share sensitive intelligence information with union negotiators, thereby increasing the likelihood of leaks. Third, TSA managers would likely be limited in their ability to reward high-performing screeners and fire poor performers. Fouth, a substantial number of TSA screeners would be diverted from the jobs they were hired to perform so they can set up the negotiating framework required for collective bargaining.
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The Central Connecticut men's golf team wrapped up their final round of the Whiting Turner Towson Invitational on Tuesday and finished in fifth place on the team leader board. The Blue Devils (308/313/310/931) shot a 310 on day three of the tournament and improved from their 9th place standing on Monday.
The three day, three round tournament was held at Prospect Bay Country Club in Grasonville, MD. Towson University hosted the event which began with the first round on Sunday, March 31st and concluded on Tuesday, April 2nd.
Winning the tournament was William & Mary (291/292/305/888) who led the event on all three days. Loyola-MD (302/302/309/913), Rutgers (300/304/310/914), Indiana (PA) (305/298/315/918), and Central rounded out the event's top-five.
The Blue Devils finished 67 strokes over-par which placed them ahead of sixth place Fairfield University (305/317/311/933) by two strokes. Central finished ahead of all Northeast Conference schools in competition.
Senior Captain Dan Fanion (74/77/77/228) improved to a 13th place tie after round three. He led his team on the individual leader board. Fanion shot his best round on Sunday carding a 74, and finished just one stroke out of the individual top-ten.
Following Fanion was teammate and senior Matthew DeJohn (77/74/81/232). DeJohn saw the 14th place seat on Monday but dropped to 24th place after Tuesday's round. Sophomore Monte Mullen (80/84/74/238) shot a team-best 74 in the tournament's final round after an 80 and 84 in rounds one and two. Mullen placed tied for 49th individually.
Sophomore Kevin Jud (79/78/83/240) finished tied for 66th while freshman Jack Ayers (78/86/78/242) finished tied for 76th in his debut tournament.
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She was only too glad to get away from us, especially after her father started singing made-up camp songs in line during registration (mortifying her is one of his many talents; singing is not).
She's at an age where we are no longer her favorite people to spend time with — or even be seen with, really. But to her, camp is more than an escape: She thinks it's fun. I went to camp once, and let me tell you, she's wrong.


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One fact I've learned from my experience working with kids in economically disadvantaged areas of Dallas this past summer is how critical mentoring can be to the educational achievement of a child.
Children are faced with instructors of various types – their teachers in school, their parents, their sports coaches, and the supervisors at the volunteer centers in which they spend their days. But oftentimes the guidance that an adult provides falls on deaf ears compared to the guidance offered by a mentor who is closer to their age.
A mentor is a powerful role model for a young student because a mentor represents a physical embodiment of achievement and the results of positive habits. While an adult can offer advice or chastise a child for acting out, working with a mentor shows to the student that they can accomplish success if they work hard.
I worked with a group of third-graders on a research project this summer, and one of my students was researching Slinkys, their history, and how they came to be, and ran into a rut because he couldn't find anything interesting about Slinkys. As a part of the project, the students had to find a certain number of articles and "wow facts" to create a power point presentation, and he was becoming frustrated and didn't want to finish his project. I guided the student with some questions, and asked to look into who invented Slinkys, and to research into their life, and sure enough, he found out that Richard T James, the inventor of the Slinky, came up with the original branding message and jingle during his time with a cult in Bolivia!
Sometimes students need a push and reinforcement to peak their curiosity to want to reach the expectations their instructors have for them. Just as in Homer's Odyssey when Telemachus needed the eponymous Mentor's guidance to achieve his destiny of saving his father, mentors can have a tremendous impact on a student's life even in day-to-day activities.


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Snoop Dogg Celebrates His 40th Birthday
Happy 40th birthday, Snoop Dogg! Today, Oct. 19, the Doggfather turns the big 4-0! It seems like just yesterday that a 23-year-old Snoop was rolling up in a pimped-out convertible rapping about "sippin' on gin and juice" with his fellow Death Row crony Dr. Dre.
To celebrate his momentous birthday, Snoop Dogg, his family and his closest friends gathered at the Rolling Stone Lounge in Hollywood, Calif. for some festivities. Some of the guests that hit up the suaree were Dr. Dre, Dre's step brother and Snoop's good friend Warren G, P-Funk member/James Brown collaborator Bootsy Collins, and vocal powerhouse Chaka Khan.
At the party, Snoop stood next to his wife Shante as he was presented with a very special, personalized birthday cake. The cake was actually made up of two cakes — one was a '4′ and the other was a '0′ (to make a '40,' duh!), but instead of having a hole in the middle of the '0′ cake, it was replaced with a confection version of a bottle of Colt 45. Snoop still knows how to drink malt liquor like a champ, apparently!
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by Jim Harris
According to the Weavers Way website, "After 30 years of wear and tear, and almost 4 million shoppers (we didn't actually count—but it's close) we are renovating our Mt. Airy store to provide our members with some much overdue improvements … This summer's planned Mt. Airy renovation will involve temporarily closing the doors at 559 Carpenter Lane, but Weavers Way will be open for business at Greene St. and Carpenter Lane throughout the summer … "We have known all along that a renovation of this magnitude would require a store closure, which is one of the reasons it was deemed necessary to wait until after we had a second store where our members and others could shop in the meantime. We had expected we would need to wait three or four years after opening our Chestnut Hill store before we had the funds necessary to take on this renovation, so we are very pleased and excited to be doing it so soon … "
I have managed to obtain a copy of the top-secret plans to renovate Weavers Way co-op in Mt. Airy. This was supplied to me by an undercover operative known only as "Captain Jack" in return for a cashiers check in the amount of $17.95. I don't normally like to pay for information; it's much easier to just make stuff up, but this story is so compelling I felt it was worth the price.
Perusing the blueprints, I immediately noticed that gourd-shaped passenger gondolas will run throughout the store on rails. Pure genius. Not only will this keep customers from bumping into each other in the narrow aisles, it will streamline the whole operation. And with the addition of Hollywood-style sets and special effects, the shopping experience promises to become an adventure so exciting that it will make other grocery stores pale by comparison.
In the newly-renovated store, customers will be able to grab a gob of Gruyere from the Victorian Cheese Carousel, snatch some sauerkraut while whizzing through the Fermented Forest or pick a pod of peas in the Land of Legumes. The basement will be converted into a medieval wine cellar complete with chanting monks, and the second floor will be a fully working farm with live barnyard animals.
In addition, colorful costumed characters, including Mr. Peanut, Mr. Potatohead, The Jolly Green Giant and Chiquita Banana will roam throughout the store, giving out free samples and offering tips on organic gardening. The original California Raisins will sing, dance and slice meat behind the deli counter, and a Euell Gibbons impersonator will give hourly lectures on "How to survive in the wilderness by eating nuts and berries."
Those offenders who flunk the exam given on the content of those lectures will be tied to a spice rack in the Chestnut Hill Weavers Way and flogged with parsley until they take the test again and pass it.
What I discovered next was even more frightening. Apparently the entire building will be able to detach from its foundation and move about on treads like a huge military tank. It will have a 4,000-horsepower turbine engine that runs on vegetable oil, and as far as I can tell, the structure will also be seaworthy.
I estimate that such a ship could carry enough food and fuel to keep a crew of 50 at sea for over a year. Add to this the fact that there are onboard cannons and giant battering rams fore and aft, and you have to wonder if the Co-op's plans for expansion might be even more ambitious than anyone had imagined. But on a positive note, the new setup will create dozens of additional jobs, including stevedores, galley slaves, beekeepers and skilled swordsmen.
A word of warning: you may have seen entirely different representations of these proposed renovations in other newspapers — boring, innocuous changes like "wider shelving" or "energy efficient lighting." Captain Jack assures me that this is deliberate misinformation being disseminated to lull the other "healthy food" stores into a sense of false security.
Most people probably think of the hippie-like Weavers Way way of doing things — trusting each other and all that — as being as guileless as a biology classroom skeleton, but Captain Jack assures me there are plans in the works that are not so innocent. For example, he says they will be selling prison soap, pre-chewed baby food, a liquid vitamin that makes men's hearts glow in the dark, a new mortician service whose slogan is "Let us urn your business," having a pet acupuncturist who specializes in treating porcupines, making keys for doors that have no locks and offering classes in a new language currently spoken only by 1,000 people in India. It's called "Tech Support."


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First, it was "no reason to think otherwise." Then it was, "I don't have a clue." Then it was "a distraction."
And on Day Four, it's finally, "I have no doubt."
After days of questions, Texas Gov. Rick Perry said unequivocally that he believes the president is an American citizen.
"I don't think I was expressing doubts," he said of his previous comments about the validity of the president's birth certificate in an interview with Tampa's Bay News 9 to be aired Sunday, per the St. Petersburg Times. "I was just having some fun with Donald Trump."
Asked if he believes President Obama is an American citizen, Perry responded, "I have no doubt about it."
Perry's flirtation with birtherism, which began Sunday in an interview published in Parade Magazine, resulted in at least a partial overshadowing of his rollout of a flat tax-based economic plan in Gray Court, S.C., yesterday. Perry implied that his questions about Obama's birth certificate were meant in "fun" during an interview with CNBC's John Harwood, but he also appeared to sympathize with Trump's skepticism that the president's birth certificate -- which he made public in an April press conference -- is real.
"I don't have a clue about ... what his birth certificate says," Perry told Harwood. "But it's also a great distraction."
But in the interview in Tampa, where Perry held a fundraising event Wednesday, the Texas governor dismissed the whole controversy as a joke.
"It's fun to... Ya know, lighten up," he said.
GOP '12 candidate Rick Perry is now saying he has no doubt President Obama is an American citizen, while Mitt Romney now says he backs Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio, "110 percent" on a collective bargaining measure.
Perry also challenged his competitors to reveal other personal documents, including college transcripts. (Perry's recently published grades at Texas A&M reflected his academic struggles.)
"Let's lay out our income taxes," he said. "Let's lay out our college transcripts. Mine's been on the front page of the paper. So if we're going to lay out all these things, let's lay them all out.
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PERRY: "I don't think I was expressing doubts. I was just having some fun with Donald Trump. So I...."
ADAM SMITH, ST. PETE TIMES: Are you comfortable that he's an American citizen?
PERRY: Oh yeah. It's fun to.. Ya know, lighten up.
SMITH: So you have no doubt he's an American citizen?
PERRY: "I have no doubt about it. But here's the more interesting thing. Let's lay out our income taxes. Let's lay out our college transcripts. Mine's been on the front page of the paper. So if we're going to lay out all these things, let's lay them all out."


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Friday, June 6, 2008
Age, Gender and WoW
Not too many of you know this, but I am a soon-to-be 20 female who plays WoW. This isn't overly special in and of itself; there are many women in my guild and in my old guilds, and I am friends with many more of all age groups. This isn't actually, well, not completely, about being a young woman playing video games. This is more about being a young woman playing video games with older men.
Sounds awkward, doesn't it? Say it out loud. Sounds even more awkward.
Personally, I've not had a problem with it. Thanks to the great interaction the WoW blogging community has experienced lately, I've met so many wonderful and amazing people, and age is just something I rarely think about when I'm on the internet, as little as I think about it in real life. I'm more focused on playing the game and having fun with people who want to play with me and enjoy my company.
Reality, however, is a cold, harsh mistress.
I still live with my parents, and sometimes I forget my headphones at one of their houses and then they'll hear Vent, and the deep, masculine voices on the other end. And they start to ask questions. The obvious, concerned parent questions. Who is that? Who are you playing with? They sound…older.
Now, I was raised a little sheltered, a little protected. I was warned every single time I went online about giving out information and watching who I talked to and if I was going on that myspace thing to not use any personal pictures. I never did, and to this day I am very leery about putting my picture online. I'm a bit more open than before, but most of my "internet is an unsafe place" training is still locked in.
Besides this, a lot of modern cultures have an element of female paranoia (understandably) pervading the rearing of children. You're taught not to trust strangers, especially men. Women do not walk alone, especially not at night. We need pepper spray and knives, and we have to watch our drinks constantly lest someone slip us something. We have to be careful and make sure someone is really being a nice guy, not just trying to trick us into going down a dark alley never to be seen again. Men can't play with little children not their own without being seen as "too friendly."
So, where does this leave me?
I can't lie to my parents, I refuse to. I'm still in awe that, even with the whole generation gap, these people find me interesting and worth their time. I've been to plenty of social events where I've been stuck in an awkward place, too young to talk with the adults and too old to chill with the angsty preteens. My only recourse is generally to play make-believe with the small children and run around being dragons and care bears (though, honestly, I do really enjoy that). Needless to say, though, when you answer "he's a something year old man living in such and such a place" it can set off warning bells in any parent's mind. After all, it is difficult to imagine what interest a man over a decade or so a girl's senior can have in her.
Even writing this post is awkward. I look over it and wonder how I can say this without offending my friends or putting people on their guard. Yes, the internet is a dangerous place, you have to be careful. You can get taken advantage of and hurt and tricked and fooled. But at the same time, the internet is changing the world. I can play WoW with a twelve year old girl and organize a raid with a 40 year old man. I can chat about blogging with a grandfather and help a 15 year old spec their druid. The internet becomes a sort of equalizer, and WoW moreso. Most people just want to play the game, and they find friends who are good players and just go from there. You find things in common, chat about interests, have a good time and get your goretusk livers along the way.
Times, they are a-changin'. I'm still going to be careful when I'm online, and I don't just hang out with anyone who comes along. But I'm not going to let something silly like age dictate who I play with. That would lock me out of meeting and hanging out with some of the coolest people I've known to date.
22 comments:
- Armond said...
The internet helps remove the illusion that age matters, and helps encourage the belief that friends should be made by their virtues, not their statistics.
- June 6, 2008 at 6:11 PM
- Tox said...
Well, I've got nothing important to say...other than that I totally agree with your sentiments and you've probably worded them more eloquently than I could have in all my 20 years of life :P
Good Hunting,
- June 6, 2008 at 6:50 PM
- Dezdemone said...
As a 25 year old female WoW player and blogger I know exactly what you mean. It's definately important to be careful with your private information in order to protect yourself. However 99.9% of the people that you and I are playing with are genuine, intelligent, and not-at-all-creepy.
- June 6, 2008 at 7:36 PM
- Pike said...
Waaaay back over ten years ago when the word "internet" was first coming into popular lingo my own parents were pretty strict about it. These days, they're much more lax-- my dad doesn't know much about computers, actually, but my mom is a blogger herself (for various non-WoW subjects =P) and is part of several mailing lists and for that reason she really understands the internet friendship thing. It helps that my boyfriend and I met online, and he's loved by my whole family! =P
My mom is actually very proud of my "blogging accomplishments" and it's nice to have that support.
I agree though, you do have to be careful. For all the friendly people you meet out there, there are still, sadly, the creepy ones.
- June 6, 2008 at 7:52 PM
- Convalescence said...
Keep on'a blogging me, baby.
Haha, unconventional and possibly out of place, I think the metaphor can fit well, still.
I do hope I've become one you like to play and talk with. ><
Seriously, though! Keep writing, love. <3
- June 6, 2008 at 8:14 PM
"We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals."
Quote from the Hacker Manifesto, that same culture pretty much expands to online gaming. In the game it doesn't really matter who the other person is outside. We judge each other based on how we behave in game, and we create relationshps based on our game experiences.
To me, that's one of the great things about online gaming, and i believe it makes us better people, despite what the ignorant think about videogames and the effect they have on people.
- June 6, 2008 at 8:17 PM
- Ratshag said...
This is a really good post. It deals with some very real issues, ones that I've never seen addressed in our WoW blogosphere. And I'm gonna leave a clumsy, rambling comment. Oh well.
Don't often talk about it, but I'm the father of a WoW-playing girl. And I keep a pretty close eye on what she's up to in the game, particularly when I notice she's partied with someone. I'm not worried, I'm not concerned, but I do feel it's important to be aware. And so, even though you are a number of years older, I can completely understand your parents still taking note, and wanting details, when they hear those older male voices.
One of those voices sometimes may be mine. I've been lucky enough to meet a number of interesting, intelligent, pleasant people through WoW. Grandmothers, men my own age, young married couples, and a few soon-to-be 20 women. People I never would have met in real life. And I'm really glad that the internet has changed the world like this.
Now, I know that I'm a decent, trustworthy, (mostly) harmless guy who's just looking to have some fun killing murlocs or whatever with my friend. A friend who is nice and bright and cracks me up. But I'm not the least offended or put out by your pointing out that not everyone is like that. Because it's true, and it's important to remember.
But I'm glad that it doesn't mean people can't be friends, just because they were born in different decades.
- June 6, 2008 at 9:34 PM
- Megan said...
LFG, my van, will pass on all candy!
- June 7, 2008 at 11:04 AM
- Bell said...
@megan - sweet deal, I'm in.
- June 7, 2008 at 11:16 AM
- Alyse said...
I highly doubt that people are playing WoW are any real social threat. I've thought of most people who can't find a place in their life, akward at social situations in large amounts, or just very shy. Theres nothing wrong with any of that, but I doesn't scream pedophile or rapist.
Although you never know. I had my suspicions of you... :P
- June 7, 2008 at 11:54 AM
- Bell said...
@alyse - WoW is like any community. The odds of finding a bad seed are small, but they're still there.
And yes, I'm a horrible influence.
- June 7, 2008 at 11:58 AM
I'm a 40-year-old guy, and while I don't have any kids of my own, I do have two young (14) cousins who I love dearly and I worry about them being accosted on-line by some perv or weirdo or "ERP" devotee in WoW. The good thing is that (at least for now) I'm more computer savvy than they are, so I can monitor their Facebook and MySpace pages for things that don't add up. Their dad does it as well, but I'm the computer nerd in the family.
I approve of the fact that you're guarded with personal information, pictures and so on. I've seen some bloggers jokingly 'dare' the internet to stalk them... going so far as to publish their home addresses or phone numbers and it makes me cringe. You're very smart to be careful, and I'm glad you are. Keep it up!
If your parents are concerned, ask them to sit and watch you while you interact and talk to people. Let them listen in. Kinda weird, sure, and let your guildmates or whoever know in advance so nobody talks about the poop quests, but it would probably ease their minds. Or freak them out completely. One of those. ^_^
- June 9, 2008 at 10:29 AM
- Daxenos said...
I'm on the other side of the fence as the 40ish year old man that may need to explain, to his wife, the young female voice coming from the speakers...lol.
There are times when I skirt around using gender specific pronouns so I don't get "the look". And I have what I'd consider a pretty good marriage...
- June 10, 2008 at 9:12 AM
- Kestrel said...
Bell, I think this may be your best article ever. And what an insightful, thought-provoking one, at that. You make me proud to be part of the WoW blogging community.
~Grandpa Kes~
- June 10, 2008 at 1:55 PM
- Jandrae said...
Great article dealing with real life issues that seem to be ignored in WoW blogs. Keep it up =).
- June 10, 2008 at 4:53 PM
Wow, Bell.
Nice blog. I had never really thought of it other than abstractly. I play with people ranging from 13 to 68. Men and women, and we all get along very well. I never thought of how it might sound if someone's parents heard vent. Though even my parents have questioned me talking to strangers on vent, and I'm a 30 year old man...
I may have to blog on this topic...
- June 11, 2008 at 10:13 AM
Interesting post... but your claim that "it is difficult to imagine what interest a man over a decade or so a girl's senior can have in her" seems somewhat disingenuous.
Here's a hint. It's not her conversation. If you're still really not sure, ask Ratshag. I am quite sure he'll be happy to explain in more detail. With pictures.
But on a more serious note, both my daughters play Wow. One's almost your age, one's only 11. I don't really worry about them very much, to be honest. I keep a mild eye on the younger one, but the worst she gets is bad language, and she gets that worse from her father.
On the other hand, I've always told my kids NEVER to give out private details on the internet. I don't do that myself. I hate it when people ask "Where are you from? What do you do? What's your name?" I always think, and usually say, it's none of their damn business.
- June 11, 2008 at 6:15 PM
- Bell said...
@sweetpetal - Actually, I'm good friends with Ratshag, who is much older than me. And I would please like to ask you to consider how your tone comes across in text, because that seemed almost derrogatory towards my fellow blogger and compadre. I'm also great friends with Bear and Kestrel, and Fimlys and many others. All male, all older, with children and wives and some with grandchildren, and some without any romantic affiliations. And to say it is disingenuous is actually the point; the fact that you immediately thought that proves it. It's exactly the same conclusion the majority of people jump to. Which is, in the end, the point of this post.
This could eventually devolve into a debate of that ever-elusive topic, of whether two people of a gender attracted to each other (male-female, female-female, male-male, and so on) can ever have a truly platonic relationship. However, the need to group together and the relative safe anonymity of the internet (when you follow the proper rules) can lead to great friendships between people who would find it awkward to form such relationships "IRL."
I think it's great you watch out for your children and yourself. It's a great habit to get into. However, generalizing people under one label will cut out a lot of your friendship opportunities.
- June 12, 2008 at 1:59 AM
- John W. S. Marvin said...
LOL, I'm a 52 year old guy who sings (badly) in vent when the raid takes a break. Now I have to worry about young ladies' parents hearing me... ;)
- June 17, 2008 at 7:07 PM
- andrew123 said...
I agree though, you do have to be careful. For all the friendly people you meet out there, there are still, sadly, the creepy ones.
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- September 12, 2008 at 6:29 PM
- andrew123 said...
A friend who is nice and bright and cracks me up. But I'm not the least offended or put out by your pointing out that not everyone is like that. Because it's true, and it's important to remember.
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- September 12, 2008 at 6:31 PM
Nice post Bell! Not a subject that I would have dreamed of reading about in my search for information and tips for resto druids and I am impressed that you actually have taken time out to contemplate this subject and you are effectively still a teenager. That is not meant to be a derogatory remark rather an enlightening thought from a 40 year old father of 5 children ranging from 12 to 22. It just goes to show that age really does not mean that much behind the confines of a keyboard! I Have been playing wow now for perhaps 3 years on and off and have a 80 druid that is reasonably well geared in all specs. I meet many people in WOW of varying ages and of course many different cultures playing on the European servers and coming from Sweden we are very mixed.
With regards to being careful with stalkers, pedofiles, general social misfits and capital punishment candidates, I think that it is just good general practice to be careful about distributing your personal information or contact details. I do think that it is the parents job to give the children the tools to be able to indentify and judge for themselves the good from the bad people out there (and there are a great deal of bad people out there unfortunately). This i believe can only be done by allowing the children to form their own opinions and impressions of the people they meet not merely by telling them that they can´t talk to this person or that person.
It does horrify me actually to think that the parents of some of the girls I play with in my guild when raiding would view me as a potential threat for their 19 year old daughter.
Great blog and definitely food for more thought on my part!
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Marcus, grinning as usual, goes on to point out the ease with which he keeps his wood-burner running. "Since my furnace is located outdoors the way it is, I never have to carry fuel down into the cellar and haul ashes back up the basement stairs the way most folks with a wood furnace have to. I just stack my logs out back of the house any which way, and they're always right there where I want them when it's time to feed the stove. I like to burn softwood during the day and hardwood — which heats longer — at night. It's only in the very coldest weather that I'll throw in an extra stick or two from time to time in addition to my regular twice-a-day stokings."
Steven, one of Ashley's sons, adds: "Dad's furnace holds between 5 and 8 cubic feet of wood and he really needs to fill it only once a day. But he likes to toss in a little something extra when he puts the cats out at night and whenever he wants to feel useful around the place."
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Sunday, September 8, 2013
Two Week Road Trip - In Textures!
My lovely spouse and I decided to take a drive from Kansas City to the Northern California Redwoods, down the entire coast, and back again via the Grand Canyon. Shortly before leaving, I had a dream where I chronicled the trip only with close-up textures from our travel. Sometimes when I dream things, I do them. It's just the kind of crazy cat I am!
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- Shelly said...
What an interesting way to document a trip. And I love the photos. Such interesting textures.
- September 8, 2013 at 5:26 PM
Google says you're the first to take an extreme closeup of the Grand Canyon.
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2003 edition / $250.00 plus s/h
Hero Tales
Children's Encyclopedia
Living Long Ago
Wild Places
Granny Hans Breakfast
I Can Read It
The Best Trick
Little Bear
A Big Ball of String
The Bravest Dog Ever: The True Story of Balto
Poems to Read to the Very Young
James Herriot's Treasury for Children
The Apple & the Arrow
My Father's Dragon
The Hundred Dresses
Johnny Appleseed
The Light at Tern Rock
Five True Dog Stories
The Family Under the Bridge
Twenty and Ten
Dolphin Adventure
Dolphin Treasure
The Story of Ping
The Story of Dr Dolittle
In Grandmas Attic
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The House at Pooh Corner
A Grain of Rice
Richard Scarrys Please and Thank You Book
Instructors Guide for World Cultures
Instructors Guide and worksheets for Science
Instructors Guide and worksheets for Language Arts
Weeks 1-36 dividers
My First Picture Dictionary
Language and Thinking for Young Children by Ruth Beechick
Finding Out About Everyday Things
Science Activities, Volume 2
First Book of Nature
Children's Encyclopedia
Sonlight - Introduction to World History, Part II - 2003
IG and notes for WH Part II
4/5 day schedules
IG and notes for LA 2
IG General Science 2 4/5 day
Study Guides for: Readers, Read Alouds and History
$30 plus s/h
Sonlight - 2000
Studying God's World (K)
Basic Course Guide and Teacher's Manual
$10 plus s/h
Sonlight - 2000
Intro to World History (2) Basic Course Guide and Teacher's Manual
$10 plus s/h
Sonlight - 2003
LA Advanced 3 IG
Book List, Weekly Schedules
Activity Sheets and AS Answers
$30 plus s/h
Sonlight - 2002
$20 plus s/h
Sonlight - 2007
Diamond Notes
$8 (never used) plus s/h
Apologia 2002
Exploring Creation w/Physical Science
Textbook and Solution Manuel
$55 plus s/h
Apologia 2004
Exploring Creation w/Biology
Textbook and Solutions/Test Manuel
Multimedia Companion CD
$65 plus s/h
Saxon - Math I - 1997
Teachers Guide - $15 plus s/h
Saxon Math 2
Student Workbook (Part 2)
$5 plus s/h
Teaching Textbooks - First Edition
Algebra I Complete
Includes: Text, Answers, Lectures and Solutions
PERFECT Condition - pages are not written on, bent or torn
$160.00 plus s/h
Wordly Wise - Answer Keys
Books A & B - $2 plus s/h
Wordly Wise - Teacher's Key
Book 4 - $2 plus s/h
Wordly Wise - Teacher's Key
Book 7 - $2 plus s/h
Idea Book for Cuisenaire Rods at the Primary Level
PK-2 - $8 plus s/h
Singapore Primary Math 3A
3rd Edition Workbook
$5 plus s/h
Singapore Math 3B
Home Instructors Guide
$5 plus s/h
Alpha Omega Publications
Mastering Lifepac
2001 - $2 plus s/h
Alpha Omega Publications
Diagnostic Test for BIBLE 200-800
$2 plus s/h
Learning Language Arts Thru Literature
The Gray Book - Teachers Book
for 8-9th grades
$15 (never used) plus s/h
Power Glide Children's Spanish
Teacher/Student Books plus 5 cassette tapes
$15 plus s/h
Mind Benders
Instructions & Detailed Solutions Book
$2 plus s/h
Hooked On Phonics Reading Power Kit SRA
1992 - $40 plus s/h
It includes the complete set as follows:
4 cassette tapes
3 sections of power builders; 1-34, 35-67, 68-100
Instruction Guide and
Student Record Book
LONG list of home school items!!!!
Are your children done using their curriculum? Trade it to someone else!
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DETROIT, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. automobile and light truck sales rose 12.8 percent in September compared with September 2011, Autodata Inc. said Tuesday.
Total sales reached 1,1888,865 in the month with 600,956 passenger cars and 587,909 light trucks sold.
With sales all but derailed a year earlier due to a major earthquake in March, sales rose highest year-over-year at Toyota Motor Sales, where sales climbed 41.5 percent.
At Honda Motor Co. sales rose 30.9 percent. At Volkswagen Group, sales rose 32.4 percent in September compared to the year-ago period.
Among U.S. automakers, Chrysler posted the largest gain from 12 months earlier. With 142,041 vehicles sold, Chrysler sales rose 11.5 percent compared with September 2011.
Sales at General Motors rose a relatively paltry 1.5 percent on 210,245 vehicles sold, while sales at Ford Motor Co. fell 0.2 percent, Autodata said.
Year-to-date sales are up 23.9 percent at Chrysler, 5.3 percent at Ford and 3.4 percent at GM.
Among foreign brands, year-to-date sales are up 31.6 percent at Toyota, 24 percent at Honda and 32.3 percent at Volkswagen.


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Nov. 25, 2006
The Lipscomb Lady Bisons may not have walked away with the championship in the Lady Tiger Classic at the University of Memphis, but they came away with a better understanding of the type of team they can be.
"We have taken our game to a higher level," Lipscomb coach Frank Bennett said.
Playing without the services of starting forward Tiffany Arnold, the Lady Bisons managed to stay close to host Memphis, falling 57-55 Saturday night in the championship game at the Elma Roane Fieldhouse.
"We never could tie them or take the lead," Bennett said. "We came within two points several times, but couldn't get any close."
The Lady Bisons played much the same way that they played against Austin Peay in the 56-55 first round win Friday night.
The Lady Bisons, who trailed 29-22 at intermission, kept it close for most of the game, trailing by 10 at 32-22 with 19:46 left in the second half.
Neither team hit a field goal in the second half from 14:31 to 11:51 when Necaise scored for Memphis for a 40-34 lead.
The Lady Bisons cut the Memphis lead to 47-45 on a 3-point shot by Catie Woods at 8:14. At 8:01 the Lady Bisons once again were within two points at 49-47 on a lay-up by Rachel Davis.
Free throws down the stretch helped keep the Lady Bisons close. Davis hit one of two shots at 1:41 to cut the Memphis lead to 57-53. Woods then hit a pair of free throws to make it 57-55, but could not find the magic in the closing seconds for the second night in a row.
The Lady Bisons hit only 16-of-42 shots from the field (38.1 percent) and 8-of-19 from 3-point range (42.1 percent). The Lady Bisons went to the line 25 times, but his only 15 for a 60 percent rate, well below their 20-of-24 against Austin Peay.
Memphis shot only 36.8 percent from the field hitting 25-of-68 shots. Memphis hit only one of 17 attempts from 3-point range. Memphis was 6-of-15 from the free throw line.
The Lady Bisons committed 26 turnovers, 18 in the first half. Nineteen of the first half points for Memphis were created by Lady Bisons turnovers.
"The turnovers, especially in the first half, really put us in the hole," Bennett said. "We did a good job on defense, but we let them have too many shots inside and we let them get too many points off of turnovers."
Woods led the Lady Bisons with 11 points from her point guard position. Forward Julie Martin added 10. Center Penny Jones grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds.
Memphis was led in scoring by Paris Leonard with a game-high 14 points. Devin Necaise added 13. Robin Jones tossed in 12.
The Lady Bisons, 2-3, will play host to Tennessee State Monday night at Allen Arena in the first game of a doubleheader with the Bisons. The Bisons will play Winston-Salem State at 8:15 p.m.


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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
UPDATED: The Nazi's and Track Cycling
Definite accident of history, and posted in follow-up to my discovery last week of a reference to track cycling in Albert Speer's "Inside the Third Reich."
UPDATE: I reformatted the embedded video player because some readers were having difficulty accessing the iframe'd content. For that reason, I'm also including a screen capture below. What was 166m around, made of wood, located in Berlin, and stood in the Sportpalast?
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Craft Platters
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Rotisserie Chicken Wings
Breaded Mushrooms
Crispy Buttermilk Chicken Goujons
Mixed Kefalonia Pitted Olives
Halloumi Fries
Grilled Halloumi & Pineapple
Hunter's Chicken Bites
Hunter's Chicken Bites Chicken, bacon, Cheddar & mozzarella cheese in BBQ sauce coated in crispy breadcrumbs. Smothered in more BBQ sauce & melted Cheddar cheese.
Bacon Popcorn
Crispy bacon nuggets served with HP Brown sauce for dipping.
Buffalo Cauliflower Popcorn
Cauliflower florets bound in buffalo style sauce & coated in seasoned breadcrumbs. Served with tomato salsa for dipping.
Chip Shop Bites
Chip Shop Bites * Peas & potatoes seasoned with salt & vinegar in a crispy cider vinegar batter. Served with a mint sauce dip.
Seaside Wedges
Crispy potato wedges in a salt & vinegar batter.
Chicken Madras Bites
Chicken breast pieces seasoned with Indian spices in a light & crispy batter.
Beer Battered Onion Rings
With BBQ sauce.
Baked Camembert
Box-baked French Camembert rubbed with garlic & olive oil. Garlic bread, celery sticks & caramelised red onion chutney.
8 Fresh Rotisserie Wings
Choose your sauce -
Nacho Sharer for Two
Cheddar cheese, guacamole, sour cream, salsa & sliced red jalapeños.
Today's Soup
With rustic bread & butter.
Breaded Mushrooms
With either garlic mayo or BBQ dip.
Creamy Mushroom Pâté
A rich mushroom, tarragon & parsley cream cheese pâté, garlic bread, caramelised red onion chutney & a mixed leaf garnish.
King Prawn Cocktail
With rustic bread & butter.
Double Gloucester Cheese, Red Onion & Hobgoblin Tart
A cheesy shortcrust pastry tart filled with red onion & Hobgoblin chutney topped with Double Gloucester Cheese sauce, roasted red onion & cheesy crumble.
Ploughman's Lunch
Wedges of Brie, Stilton & mature Cheddar, served with a mini pork pie, rustic bread, homemade kale slaw, caramelised red onion chutney & mixed leaves.
Create Your Own Rotisserie Experience
Step 1, Pick Your Chicken
8 Wings
With a choice of sauce & 2 sides.
16 Wings
With a choice of sauce & 2 sides.
With a choice of sauce & 2 sides.
With a choice of sauce & 2 sides.
Ideal for Two
A Whole Chicken + 4 buttermilk chicken goujons, A choice of sauce & 4 sides.
Step 2, Add Your Sauce
Red Hot Chilli
Tennessee Whiskey BBQ
Hunter's No.1
Sticky BBQ sauce, crispy bacon & melting Cheddar cheese.
Chicken Gravy
Our own special recipe.
Piri Piri
Hot & spicy chilli sauce.
Garlic Mushroom
Our own recipe of sliced button mushrooms, cooked in a creamy garlic & parsley sauce.
Hot & spicy chilli sauce.
Thai Sweet Chilli
Tangy & sweet with a bit of heat.
Step 3, Add Your Side
Skin-on Fries
Mac & Cheese
Mac & Cheese
Jacket Potato
Mashed Potatoes
Step 4, And finally... Pick Another Side
Homemade Kale Slaw
Corn on the Cob
Asian Slaw
Shredded red cabbage, spring onion, coriander, carrots, sweet chilli, soy sauce & a squeeze of lime.
Side Salad
Fancy a Little More?
Add 2 Rotisserie Chicken Wings, 2 Cripsy Buttermilk Chicken Goujons or a Chorizo Pinwheel
Street Kitchen
A Range of Chicken Dishes Inspired by Food Trends from across the World!
Chicken Tacos
Soft flour tortillas with pulled rotisserie chicken, guacamole, salsa, jalapeños & spring onion. Skin-on fries & corn on the cob.
Chicken & Waffles
A sweet Belgian waffle, topped with pulled rotisserie chicken & crispy buttermilk chicken goujons, with chilli maple syrup on the side. Skin-on fries & kale slaw.
Katsu Chicken Curry
Japanese-style katsu curry sauce topped with a panko coated chicken breast. Rice & prawn crackers.
Mac & Cheese
Topped with crispy onions & fresh spring onions. Garlic bread, beer battered onion rings & mixed leaves.
A large flour tortilla filled with red peppers, butternut squash, cannellini beans, red kidney beans, black turtle beans, lentils, pearl barley, pinto beans & quinoa in a lightly spiced, smoky tomato sauce. Rolled & topped with tomato salsa & melted Cheddar cheese. Served with a side salad & skin-on fries.
Have it How You Like
Three mini brioche slider buns with your choice of filling topped with mayo, BBQ & piri piri sauces. Skin-on fries, beer battered onion rings & kale slaw.
Buttermilk Chicken & Pulled Rotisserie Chicken Sliders
Quorn™ Southern Style Sliders
Street Kitchen Snacks
Tiger Tops
Our speciality tiger fries (skin-on fries mixed with sweet potato fries), with a choice of toppings & a mixed leaf garnish.
Tikka Spiced Rotisserie Chicken
Yoghurt & mint dip.
Piri Piri Rotisserie Chicken
Cheddar cheese & sour cream dip.
Crispy Buttermilk Chicken Goujons
Cheddar cheese & Thai sweet chilli dip.
Salsa, guacamole, sour cream, Cheddar cheese & red jalapeños.
Sensational Salads
We start with mixed leaves, red onion, cherry tomato, carrot spirals & a drizzle of olive oil, the rest is over to you!
Step 1, Select Your Star...
Pulled Rotisserie Chicken
Avocado & Cherry Tomato
Step 2, Add one of These for Free...
Pilau Rice
Giant Spiced Couscous
Wholegrain Mustard Potato Salad
Step 3, Now add another one for Free...
Kale Slaw
Asian Slaw
All our burgers are stacked in a toasted sesame seed bun, with lettuce & sliced beef tomato. Served with skin-on fries or chips, beer battered onion rings & homemade kale slaw, unless otherwise stated.
Go XL & Double up!
Your Burger will come with a Extra Steak Burger or Buttermilk Chicken Goujons
The Classic Beef
With mustard mayo.
Bacon & Cheddar Cheese
With mustard mayo.
Double Bacon Burger
Crispy back bacon, bacon nuggets & BBQ sauce.
Competition Winning Dish...Katsu Chicken Burger
Crispy panko chicken topped with pulled rotisserie chicken smothered in Katsu curry sauce. Served with Asian slaw & spiced mayo.
Buttermilk Chicken
Crispy buttermilk chicken goujons, topped with bacon & Cheddar cheese. With chicken gravy on the side.
Two Way Chicken Burger
Crispy buttermilk chicken goujons topped with Cheddar cheese, pulled rotisserie chicken, marinated in your choice of jerk or piri piri sauce.
Veggie Burgers
Our veggie burgers are stacked in a toasted sesame seed bun, with lettuce & sliced beef tomato. Served with skin-on fries or chips, beer battered onion rings & homemade kale slaw, unless otherwise stated.
The Classic Veggie
1/4lb plant based burger.
Southern Style Bites
Quorn™ Southern style bites, topped with Cheddar cheese served with mustard mayo.
Halloumi & Red Pepper
Grilled halloumi topped with chargrilled red pepper, served with Asian slaw.
Boost Your Burger even more!
Pub Favourites
If you'd like to swap your sides for either a different type of potato, vegetables or dressed side salad, just ask.
Fish & Chips
Marston's beer battered fish with chips, garden or mushy peas & tartare sauce.
Whitby Wholetails of Scampi
Chips, garden peas & tartare sauce.
Wiltshire Ham & Eggs
Hand-carved Wiltshire ham, two free-range fried eggs, chips & caramelised red onion chutney.
Competition Winning Dish... Creamy Chicken & Mushroom Risotto
Rotisserie chicken & fresh watercress, served on a bed of risotto with creamy Stilton & mushroom sauce.
Beef & Pedigree Ale Lasagne
Minced beef & smoked bacon in a rich tomato sauce between layers of pasta & a creamy Pedigree ale béchamel sauce. Garlic bread & a dressed side salad.
Steaks & Grills
With skin-on fries, a beef tomato wedge, a flat mushroom & rocket, unless otherwise stated.
8oz Rump Steak
8oz Sirloin Steak
10oz British Ribeye Steak
With a crispy onion cluster.
Add one of our speciality sauces...
Mixed Grill
4oz rump steak, 5oz gammon steak, grilled chicken breast, lamb chop & Cumberland sausage.
Chicken & Steak
Half a rotisserie chicken & a 4oz rump steak.
Sticky BBQ Baby Back Ribs
Smothered in sticky BBQ sauce, with skin-on fries, corn on the cob & homemade kale slaw.
½ Rack (8oz)
Whole Rack (16oz)
10oz Gammon Steak
Grilled & topped with a free-range fried egg & a freshly grilled pineapple ring. With chips & garden peas.
Upgrade your chips or skin on fries to...
Sweet Potato Fries.
Choose one of our delicious pie fillings from the range below & we will top it with a crisp puff pastry lid & bake to order, served with chips & garden peas.
British Beef & Pedigree Ale Pie
Enriched with Cheddar cheese, chips, garden peas & gravy.
Light Bites- Classic beef & ale pie, chips & your choice of peas.
Creamy Mushroom & Spinach
Sliced flat mushrooms in a classic creamy sauce with mushrooms, spinach, a touch of garlic & a hint of rosemary & thyme.
Pulled Rotisserie Chicken, Creamy Mushroom & Spinach
Pulled rotisserie chicken in a classic creamy sauce with mushrooms, spinach, a touch of garlic & a hint of rosemary & thyme.
Pulled Rotisserie Chicken Tikka
Pulled rotisserie chicken in a mildly spiced tomato & onion sauce, flavoured with coriander.
Tikka Pie
Pieces of plant based protein in an aromatic Tikka Masala sauce.
Flavours of the World
Paneer & Roasted Vegetable Makhani
Cubes of Paneer cheese & roasted red pepper in an indulgent Makhani sauce. Served with pilau rice & fresh watercress.
Chicken Tikka Masala
Pulled rotisserie chicken in a mildly spiced tomato & onion sauce, flavoured with coriander. Served with rice, naan bread, a poppadum & mango chutney.
Tikka Masala
Pieces of plant based protein in an aromatic Tikka Masala sauce. Served with rice, naan bread, a poppadum & mango chutney.
Roasted Sweet Potato & Chickpea Tagine
Served with giant spiced cous cous and fresh watercress.
Add Extra Poppadums & Dips
Two Rotisserie Chicken Wings
Skin-on Fries
Tiger Fries
Sweet Potato Fries
Onion Cluster
Bacon Popcorn
Buffalo Cauliflower Popcorn
Cheesy Garlic Bread
Garlic Bread
House Salad
Homemade Kale Slaw
Asian Slaw
Mac & Cheese
Beer Battered Onion Rings
Chorizo Pinwheel
And For Afters
Prefer custard or cream or love ice cream instead? We've suggested what we think works best with our desserts, but if that's not for you, just say & we'll do it your way.
Apple Pie
Sweet deep-dish Bramley apple pie, delicious hot or cold. With custard.
Melt in the Middle Chocolate Pudding
Warm & rich chocolate pudding with a chocolaty middle, especially delicious with double cream.
Cookie Cup
Warm chocolate chip cookie with a rich Belgian chocolate centre. Topped with vanilla flavoured ice cream.
Zesty Lemon Roly Poly
A tangy lemon curd infused roly poly sponge pudding, served warm with custard.
Flat White Cheesecake
A crisp biscuit base with a flat white coffee cheesecake & a creamy frosting. Served with vanilla flavoured ice cream.
Sticky Toffee Pudding
Rich toffee & date sponge pudding with buttery toffee sauce made with Welsh cream. Served warm with custard.
Tiramisu Rum Ba Bar (V) 3% Abv. 18+
Creamy mascarpone & marsala mousse sandwiched between layers of rich buttery savarin dough drenched with coffee rum syrup. Topped with more mascarpone mousse & lightly dusted with cocoa powder. Served with vanilla flavoured ice cream.
Apple, Gooseberry & Toffee Crumble Tart
An individual pastry case filled with a chunky apple, gooseberry & toffee compote, topped with an oaty crumble. Served warm with custard.
Caramelised Biscuit Cheesecake
Crunchy caramelised cinnamon biscuit base, layered with a creamy vanilla cheesecake swirled with Lotus Biscoff biscuit spread. With double cream.
Salted Caramel, Pecan & Fudge Brownie
Rich chocolate brownie topped with fudge pieces, pecan nuts & drizzled with salted caramel. With vanilla flavoured ice cream.
Ice Cream
Chocolate Brownie Sundae
Chocolate & vanilla flavoured ice creams topped with chocolate brownie cubes, whipped cream, a Cadbury® Flake & drizzled with chocolate sauce.
Banoffee Sundae
Banana & butterscotch & vanilla flavoured ice creams layered with slices of fresh banana & toffee fudge sauce, topped with whipped cream.
Tropical Sundae
Beechdean™ coconut ice cream & vanilla flavoured ice cream layered with freshly grilled pineapple & a tropical fruit coulis.
Keep it Simple
Choose any three scoops of our delicious ice creams. Ask one of the team for today's selection.
Ice Cream Sundae
Three scoops of Beechdean™ coconut based vanilla flavoured ice cream.
Hot Drinks
Mocha Latte
White Coffee
Hot Chocolate
Choose your favourite coffee style & add your flavour...
Brew Tea Company
Straight talking, no rubbish; just amazingly good tea, for folks with amazingly good taste. Everything is loose leaf, just the way it ought to be.
English Breakfast
Earl Grey | Fruit Punch
Moroccan Mint
Decaffeinated Tea
Additional Information
Menu Information
Food Information
Photography is for illustrative purposes only. All food is prepared in kitchens where nuts, gluten & other allergens could be present & our menu descriptions cannot include all ingredients. If you have a food allergy please let us know before ordering. 1oz = 28.3g. All weights are approximate prior to cooking. (V) Suitable for vegetarians or vegetarian option available. (Ve) Suitable for vegetarians and vegans or vegetarian or vegan option available (V)* (Ve)* we cannot guarantee that our vegetarian & vegan ingredients have been cooked in separate fryers from our meat lines. Please ask a member of staff for more information. Dishes with fish & rotisserie chicken may contain bones. †We only select fish from sustainable sources; please ask when ordering for today's fish. ‡Our scampi is made from more than one tail of Langoustine caught in UK waters. Drinks listed throughout this menu are subject to availability.
Calorie counts are for guidance only & are based on the complete dish as listed on the menu, excluding any additional seasoning or sauces added by the customer. All dishes with these symbols state the calories they are less than. Portion sizes may vary slightly from those upon which the calorie calculations have been based, therefore values may not be identical or exact. Cadbury® is a registered trademark of Mondeléz International. Full allergen information is available at: rotisserie.marstons.co.uk


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Since early 2010, Google has put its name on a series of smartphones under the Nexus brand. Typically, these flagship phones are tied to the release of a new version of Android, and the hardware is designed to show off the software.
The Nexus phones are unique in that, while Google's hardware partners build them, they are "pure" Android, without interface overlays and crapware normally associated with mainstream Android devices. As a bonus, the Nexus products also get Android updates in a timely fashion, as carriers and handset makers don't have to test and approve the update before they're pushed out.
As a result, the Nexus phones are beloved by the geekerati. But they don't get much traction among mainstream users because of their limited distribution, though recently (as in the case of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus) carriers have begun to offer them.
Now, Google has extended the Nexus brand to a tablet. The Nexus 7 is, as the name implies, a 7-inch device in the same vein as Samsung's original Galaxy Tab or Amazon.com's Kindle Fire. As with the Nexus phones, it has a clean installation of Android – in this case, version 4.1, known as Jelly Bean. Google has begun marketing this tablet in a very mainstream way, complete with family-oriented, warm/fuzzy television ads.
I've been playing with a Nexus 7 for a few weeks now, and on the surface it is an impressive tablet. It's thin, light and feels very comfortable in your hands. The hardware is fast, the screen responsive and the interface feels very natural and fluid.
But for some reason, I can't get particularly excited about the Nexus 7. When people have asked me what I think, I've been saying this: "It's nice, but you know, it feels like just another Android tablet."
About the most compelling thing about the Nexus 7 is its price. It sells for $199, which is also what Amazon's asking for its Kindle Fire tablet, which has inferior hardware. This may be the best buy in a tablet at the moment, at least in the 7-inch form factor.
But it strikes me that the way Google's getting to that low price point may be what mutes my enthusiasm for the Nexus 7. The $199 version comes with a minimal 8 GB of storage; a $249 model gets you a still-paltry 16 GB. There's no way to expand the storage – there's no microSD card slot.
Google wants you to rely heavily on its cloud-based services for storage-intensive things like music and movies – there's a big emphasis on selling you media through its Google Play online store – but that's on a device that connects to the Net via Wi-Fi only. There's no mobile broadband version of this tablet, which means if you don't have Wi-Fi, all that stuff you've stored in the cloud is inaccessible.
(This limitation is actually hammered home in the ad I've included above, in which a father and are seen "camping" in the woods, their experience enriched by a Nexus 7. It turns out the woods actually are in the backyard of a fairly swanky home . . . which, presumably, has a decent Wi-Fi router nearby.)
The ASUS-built Nexus 7 has a powerful quad-core nVidia Tegra 3 processor and 1 gigabyte of RAM. The 7-inch display has a 1200-by-800 resolution which, while not considered retina quality, is decent. It has a front-facing, 1.2-megapixel camera designed primarily for videoconferencing, but no back-facing camera. It's also got Bluetooth, a full GPS and a Near Field Communications (NFC) chip. The latter enables mobile payment capabilities.
These features are packed into a 12-ounce case that's less than half an inch thick. It has a rubberized back that makes its easy to hold. Because it's light and comfortable, this is a great device for reading or watching videos in a chair or in bed.
The Nexus 7 also has excellent battery life. With regular use, I've gone several days at a time without having to charge it, and extended periods of watching video over Wi-Fi put only a few-percent-points dent in its battery life. Google claims the Nexus 7 can play up to 9 hours of HD video, and that seems about right, based on my usage.
This newest version of Android is the most polished yet. Google has worked hard to make Android 4.1′s interface feel more fluid as part an initiative called Project Butter. While it still doesn't match the intuitiveness and attractiveness of Apple's latest iOS, Jelly Bean is a big step forward for Android.
(There are some other, interesting features of Android 4.1, such as Google Now, that I'll address in a later TechBlog post.)
When I first got the Nexus 7, I asked my Twitter followers who have Android tablets what apps they recommended that support the larger screen. I tried several of them, but none particularly impressed me in the way that iPad apps do. For example, several mentioned Plume as a good, tablet-oriented Twitter app. But it doesn't stack up in terms of design and usability against Tweetbot or Echofon on the iPad. Despite Android's interface gains, developers have yet to take advantage of Android tablet real estate in an elegant way.
Because of this, I don't really see the Nexus 7 as competition for the 10-inch iPad. Instead, it goes head-to-head with the 7-inch Kindle Fire . . . and the Nexus 7 wins handily. If you're looking for an fast, lightweight, 7-inch Android tablet, the Nexus 7 is clearly your best choice – even with its storage and connectivity limitations.
[A postscript: This endorsement of the Nexus 7 over the Kindle Fire may not last long. Amazon has a product announcement coming Sept. 6 that's expected to include a new version of that tablet, with improved specs and possibly a lower price. And Apple is also rumored to be launching its own 7-inch iPad. If you're interested in the 7-inch form factor, you may want to wait, watch and learn.]


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