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Greggs has always been the first port of call when I feel like a quick and tasty bakery item. I tend to visit a couple of times a month and always purchase something from the sandwich range or something from the pastie selection.
I think that Greggs has a good range on their menu, something for everyone which includes very tasty and moreish things to eat.
My favourite sandwich from Gregg's is the Chargrill Chicken oval bite which has a lovely taste, plenty of chicken and salad with a lovely honey and mustard mayonnaise. There is also a Mexican Chicken oval bite which is equally as nice.
The pasties are all good with a wide range of flavours to suit all tastes and well....what can I say about the cakes....I have a sweet tooth and whenever I go to Greggs I have to buy something from the cake counter such as a Belgian Bun or a cupcake.
There is a huge range of pasties, pies, sandwiches, cakes, pizza slices,pastas salads and soup. I like the take out coffee service and feel that Gregg's has come a long way since I used to visit just to get a Cornish Pasty. The prices are always kept reasonably low and the ingredients for all the things on the menu seem healthy and there are always new things to try and good deals such as the Breakfast deal for £2 consisting of a bacon or sausage bun and a hot drink or the Cake Deal which offers a drink with any cake for £2 and also the Sandwich deal with a regular drink for £3.
I also like the bread and buns from Greggs and find that they offer a good service to the community as every high street seems to have a Greggs.
I'm from Northern Ireland, so we don't have Greggs at home. I moved to Glasgow and oh...my. It was too much to take in, I got addicted and ate so much from Greggs that I sickened myself of it and had to go cold turkey for a few weeks to ween myself back onto it.
They cater for a wide range of edible goodies, sweet and savoury. You'll walk in and immediately have favourites, mine being an iced ring donut and a sausage roll, but it's great they have so much on offer there because you can stumble in (just having a look) and end up with a carrier bag full of all sorts of baked wonder.
The sweet things they make range from the simple Yum Yum which is basically just a strip of pastry coated in a light icing (it may be simple but wow it's good) to triple chocolate donuts and toffee crunches, boasting several different textures and texts beneath their baked exteriors.
The savoury stuff is great for a lunch on the run, things like sausage rolls or a steak bake are great to eat while walking. But like I said in my title, Greggs is great for those days when you just cannot be bothered to make something yourself. Just go in, £2 gets you an iced ring donut and two sausage rolls, lunch sorted. Easy.
One issue I have is that they pester you for an order as soon as you set foot in the shop. This is understandable when it's busy around lunch or dinner time, but I'm talking about the times when it's dead. Greggs couldn't be more empty sometimes and they still chip away at my sanity with a "can I help you here? Hello? What do you want? TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT!!!"
Ok, they don't shout like that last part, but they do go on and on. Like I said before, there's quite a variety, sometimes I genuinely want to go in and just have a look at what's there.
Another thing that's annoying, they stop making things come a certain time in the day, this is obviously understandable because once they close they have to dump everything they don't sell but it means for the last hour of business they have next to nothing compared to their usual variety which is always disappointing. It's usually around 4:30pm their stock starts to dwindle to a few rolls of whatever nobody wanted that day.
One good thing though, amazing actually, is that where there's a Greggs...there's usually three more round the corner. So if one doesn't have what you want, you're probably 5 or 10 minutes away from one that does. This is also great because it means you've easy to eat food nearby nearly all the time.
They have a £3.50 spend minimum if you want to use a card so just bear that in mind, £3.50 is just too much to spend on one trip if I'm honest, I love my Greggs but I'd struggle with that.
The prices are really reasonable, an iced ring donut is 55p, a sausage roll is 60p (I think) and everything else is between that and £1 mostly. With £2 you get plenty. They also do offers like 4 sausage rolls for £2 or packs of Yum Yums and there are boxes of loads of things like shortbread and donuts so there are plenty of options and ways to save a buck.
I do love my local Greggs! I have recently been taking my lunch to work these days to save a bit of money although on the odd occassion I've treated myself to something out of Greggs for lunch or breakfast, to be honest Its the only place I like to go!
I think it is great value for money, i like the quick and efficient queuing system and all the staff at my local branch are extremely friendly.
In particular I think that the breakfast deal is GREAT value for money. You can pick up a hot filled roll (sausage/bacon) with any hot drink (tea/coffee/hot choc) for £2.00 not often you get those sort of prices these days.
I must say however that I was recently disapointed to find out that lunch time 'meal deal' for £3 has changed. For those of you who don't know you used to be able to pick up a sandwich,crisps and drink for £3 (selected lines only) although now its £3 for a drink and 'meal deal' sandwich and you do not get any crisps. I also noticed alot of the previous sandwiches that used to be in the meal deal offer are not any longer so there is less to pick from and you are getting less for your money than you did previously.
I like that Greggs have such a wide selection of lunch time food/snacks ranging from the typical filled roll/baguettesandwich to hot pizza, sausage rolls, pies and hot savoury filled pastry lattices.
Despite the above point being made about the meal deal going down in value i do not feel guilty getting the odd lunch and always have change of a fiver, will mark down 1 star for the change in their meal deal.
Greggs is a high street retailer selling a selection of baked goods. It began as a family business in Newcastle in the 1930s and soon became known for its quality goods. It began growing and increasing stores nationwide, today there is around 1,600 stores and it is the largest bakery chain in the UK.
Greggs is well known for selling freshly baked good such as sausage rolls, pasties, bread and cakes and is a popular lunch time stop for those wanting a bite to eat.
Foods for sale
Greggs for me is one of the best bakeries to buy from, its reasonably priced and sells a wide range of goods. Some of the items for sale tend to be -
Pizzas (Cheese & Tomato, Chicken, pepperoni)
Pasties (Cornish large and small)
Bakes and slices (Steak bake, Cheese & Onion slice, ham & cheese slice, fajita chicken slice and other seasonal slices are sometimes on offer)
Sausage rolls
Sandwiches (a whole variety of different types includes cheese & onion, ham & coleslaw, tandoor chicken on a wide range of breads and rolls)
Breakfast range (bacon and sausage rolls, porridge, croissants )
Pasta salad boxes
Hot and cold drinks (Coffee, hot choc, tea, Oasis, Coca Cola, juices)
cakes, biscuits, buns, doughnuts (wide range of types and flavours to get and seasonal variations)
bread, rolls to take away for home use
They also sell regional goods such pease pudding in the North East area
Greggs also has a range of goods available to cook at home from Iceland
Greggs do a lunch time meal deal offer which include selected sandwiches, drinks and snacks for £2.75 for those on a budget or some selected sandwiches are priced between £1.10 - £1.50. Savouries such as sausage rolls, pizzas and slices are between 60p - £1.30 depending on what you buy and they do often have multi buy offers on some of these goods. I have also seen offers on pages such as MoneySavingExpert for deals like free doughnuts, BOFOF on sausage rolls and other deals so its worth keeping an eye out for these.
My thoughts
I do love a bit of Greggs for my lunch. I haven't tried everything they sell but I've tried quite a bit of it during the years! My personal favourites include sausage rolls, cheese and onion slice, bread and butter pudding and their tandoor chicken baguettes. Its all down to personal taste on what you might buy if you go in but I have only once had an item from Greggs that I didn't like, again that was my choice the product was still ok I just didn't enjoy the taste of it but others might. Price wise its definitely affordable, I would say its easy to go in there with £2 and get 2 items for lunch and still have change. One thing I must say is the Greggs policy on regional items, in my local (Leamington) store they used to do quiche and it was the best quiche Ive ever had, then they stopped doing it, I contacted them about this and they advised that it wouldn't be stocked at Leamington anymore but was available in Coventry as its a regional thing, why not sell quiche throughout?!
I would recommend Greggs to those who want a quick bite to eat at breakfast or lunch. Its cheap but still tastes great and will fill you up! Its important to note that some stores do get very busy so I would recommend going it around 11:30am time to avoid the queues and to avoid items selling out as is the case with my local.
~All about Greggs~
Greggs the bakers was founded as a family business on Tynside in the 1930's and has now been baking for over 70 years. Today, Greggs has nearly 1,600 bakeries and plan to open up over 600 more over the next few years.
All of Greggs products are baked in small amounts daily on the premises to ensure maximum freshness and their bakers understand that precision, timing and experience are extremely important to produce the highest quality baked goods.
~ What do they sell? ~
Greggs sell a huge array of baked goods, both savoury and sweet. Starting in the morning with their breakfast rolls, French pastries and porridge right the way through 'till lunch and tea time with their pastries, pasties, bakes, pizza slices, sandwiches, pastas, salads, soups and platters! To pair with these savoury delights Greggs also offers freshly ground coffee, tea, soft drinks and snacks such as crisps and popcorn. But if you're looking for something to hit your sweet tooth, Greggs is your dream come true with their cakes, buns, muffins, doughnuts, biscuits and seasonal treats!
~The bakery~
I have visited several Greggs over the years as they are everywhere and I always know that there will be something I like if I'm feeling peckish. Some of the bakeries have seating areas so you can eat in the bakery and some are just takeaway which is what I usually opt for anyway as the tables aren't usually clean as the staff are busy serving customers so it's up to you to put your rubbish in the bin before you leave.
The baked goods are kept in heated glass cabinets on trays so you can see what's on offer, behind these cabinets is the kitchen where you can see the ovens where the freshly baked goods are being made and cooked.
I have had mixed experiences with Greggs customer service. I have often found the people serving to be quite rude and not very friendly, especially during busier times which I guess is to be expected because they are rushed off their feet however a smile wouldn't go a miss!
~The food~
I have tried more or less every product greggs has to offer at some point, all with tremendous taste! However this is often ruined for me by the product either being cold when it should be hot or it being stale or dry because it's been sat there for a while - especially with the savoury products. According to Greggs everything is supposed to fresh, however this isn't so, if you don't get there at the right time when they are putting fresh food out you will most likely get the left overs which often look very unappetising and 'grey'. Yes you can ask them to re-heat the product and will usually get grunted at and they pop it in the microwave for you, however if the products already dry then putting it in the microwave will only make it drier and tougher! However, the flavour of greggs food is always fantastic, you always that home baked feeling when you dive into your lunch and you can always taste every element of what's supposed to be there, for example in the bacon and cheese pastry wrap (my favourite savoury item!) you get a good substantial amount of all the different components not just a slither of burnt bacon and a sprinkling of cheese, and this is the same with every product - all of the slices are always packed with plenty of tender meat and the sandwiches have a good amount of filling!
Going on the sweet goods, I don't really have any complaints about these at all. They always taste as good as they look and live up their expectations. I have always found their cakes and buns to be moist and their biscuits and cookies to have that home baked crispy edge with a nice chewy centre. Again, as with the savoury bakes, Greggs don't skimp on flavour with their sweet goods, every single one has that special element that packs a flavour punch, whether it be fruit, flavoured icing, jam or cream!
One thing that grabs me with Greggs is that they have such a large variety of foods that no one is excluded, even the health conscious! With their nutritional information on show and special low fat/calorie bakes such as their skinny muffins or low fat sandwiches you don't have to feel guilty when you're out and about and need a quick snack to keep you going!
~Over all opinion ~
I never get bored of Greggs. They are constantly bringing out new bakes to delight the taste buds and I'm always one of the first to be in there to try them! The only thing that lets them down is their staff and the way they keep and serve their savoury food - cold and stale! I would certainly recommend Greggs for when you're out and about as there's always sure to be one nearby and there will always be something you fancy!
I love having a sausage roll for my lunch or a lovely pasty from Greggs, and despite trying to loose weight I do still come here now and then.
At a lot of their stores they just have counters but the one near me has actually be renovated and now they have 4 tables in their small premises. A bit of a squeeze but this makes the experience even better, I prefer bakeries with indoor seating, so it doesn't have to always be take out "on the go" food.
The staff are always very busy so there's no time for conversation. They ask you what you want, you point, and before you even finish what you're saying the food is in the bag. This happens every time at my local, but I'd expect it from such busy staff, and I get my food quicker. The staff are friendly and polite, they even say thank you, but old ladies at the front of the queue wanting a chat are out of luck, they ask what you want and try to get you moving as soon as possible.
The stores are clean and tidy, although at the ones with tables inside they don't have staff to come round and clear tables, which means clearing your rubbish away yourself, and I find it disgustingly rude when customers don't do this. Greggs are trying their best to get 5 star food hygiene ratings and people just leave litter all over the store, it ruins the efforts of the hard working staff!
Their prices are very good actually, most stuff is less than a pound which means you can get a bag of crisps and an iced bun for lunch or a jumbo sausage roll and a cookie, all with just a £2 coin. The actual value for money is good too, they don't skimp on quality or size, and the cakes are all made with care. They don't look sloppy or badly made in any of the Greggs stores i've been to.
They give you recyclable bags for your pasty's and sausage rolls but for the bigger orders they do hand out plastic bags to keep all your stuff in. I rarely get these as its usually just an iced finger and sausage roll, both in bio-degradeable or recyclable bags, so at least they care about the environment by not handing out the plastic ones willy nilly.
Overall I really enjoy coming here, their food is tasty, good value for money and now they've put tables in my local one it's an even better experience. It shouldn't be about rushing you in and out, so at least they now have the option to use it like a cafe.
Gregg's is a very popular high street bakery, you can find at least one in most towns/ cities across the entire of the united kingdom. They are well known for their fine baked goods and are normally the number one choice for most.
Personally for me Greggs is not the first choice, my reasoning for this is the very high prices, when you put it in comparison with other things in today's inflated environment it may seem cheap but it is really not. A single sausage roll will set you back around 60 pence from Greggs, at first you may think, that isn't too bad, which it isn't if you were in a cafe or some sort of seated establishment, but you're not. For an extra 40 pence you can go to Cooplands and get an extra three of them. The deals also don't say much about them, i cannot remember the correct figure but the deals are similar to, and this is without exaggeration, 60p each or 2 for £1.19. I personally find that the offers they display are a little demeaning and almost implicating that I'm an idiot and going to fork out more and save nothing.
The actual food at Greggs i have to admit is great, i don't believe that any other high street baker compares to them when it comes to the actual foods. The meat they use, whether it is higher quality or not just tastes so much better. The pastry also tastes much better, it has a much more crisp firm feel as if it has been baked to a golden brown perfection where at some other bakeries it is much softer and crumbles more easily making you feel an idiot as you tuck into your pastry and are instantly covered in crumbs.
In conclusion i would suggest Greggs to others however i would not directly recommend it to them due to it's rather unfair prices, although they taste better i do not think that they taste that much better that they deserve to charge so much more for the food than other bakeries do.
Greggs are a super little bakery shop. I am always going out and about doing bits and pieces of shopping. There are very few places that I like to go to and have lunch or get a takeaway during lunchtimish hours. On of these believe is Mcdonalds. One of the other places is Greggs. The unfortunate thing about Greggs is that you cannot sit down in there and eat. However, they have some lovely food in their Bakeries and most at reasonable prices in my view. They sell a range of rolls , baguettes and sandwiches (although I think their baguettes are a little expensive).
The foods that I usually buy in Greggs are the following;
Sausage Rolls; I love their sausage rolls. They are about 70 pence per Sausage rolls or you can buy more and get them cheaper. They are very tasty! Greggs Sausage Rolls are my sons favourite.
Steak bake; Plenty of meat and lovely thick gravy inside.
Cheese & Onion Bake; Lovely and cheesy!
Tottenham Cake; I don't know why it is called Tottenham cake; but I love it. Tottenham cake comes in a large square portion; really nicely wrapped. It is delicious moist sponge with a pink soft icing topping.
Apple Danish; Talk about fattening! But lovely. This is my partners favourite; Occasionally I will buy this for him as a treat. You get loads of apple in this pastry; its sweet with a bit too much icing, but its good.
Chocolate Muffin; This is my daughters favourite; if we go to Greggs she usually asks for this. They are huge and very chocolaty.
Greggs do plenty of other cakes and savoury snacks. They also sell cold drinks and soups. They do a good range of freshly baked bread and rolls too.
Regarding queuing; I would recommend getting there just before mid day! They don't seem to employ that many staff and I have found that there are usually only 2 people serving. However, it is worth the wait if there is a long queue!
You will find Greggs in almost all major high street shopping areas.
I am going to give Greggs the full 5 stars because I think they deserve it. If you want to know more about Greggs they do have a web site; http://www.greggs.co.uk/
I must admit that whenever i am in town i like a good greggs pasty. I live in chesterfield and in chesterfield town centre alone there is at least 5 greggs... so they are not a little company... they are huge. I was pretty surprised last week when i came stagerign out of a night club at 2 in the morning to discover that greggs was open... yea strange i no.
They sell a wide selection of food from freshly baked pasties and sausage rolls, freshly prepared sandwiches and bagettes, and a really nice selection of cream cakes and buns.
Everything is such a good price. Pasties range from about 80p to £1.20 and they are all so nice.. my favourite is definately the cheese and onion pasty.
One downfall wih greggs is that it is always busy... but that does prove that everything in there is so nice, and the staff are always friendly and helpful.
I would like to share with you my recent experiences at a Greggs store, up in Newcastle upon Tyne.
As others before me have remarked, you are never far from a Greggs up north - and nowhere is this more true than in the bakery's very own home town! You can search for a store on their website, and I counted no less than 16 in the map view of my postcode (NE2). I won't pretend this search was necessary, as I'm a pretty frequent visitor to Greggs. Their stores are conveniently located and serve a range of affordable hot and cold food, sweet and savoury, to take away. A fair number also serve very reasonably priced hot drinks. I've tried the hot chocolate, and have found it to be perfectly adequate on a chilly morning.
Yesterday I went in to the big store on Northumberland Street, the main shopping street in Newcastle, to get a sandwich at lunch time. Considering it was peak time and the store was very busy, the staff were friendly and efficient. There is a separate queue for those wishing to be served from the range of pasties and pizzas etc, which in my experience tend to vary in their warmth depending on the time of day and corresponding rate of stock turnover in the store.
The self-service range of cold and hot sandwiches was well-stocked and nicely presented. On this occasion I chose a submarine roll with egg mayonnaise, bacon and tomato relish. This cost £1.55, which is an absolute bargain in my opinion. The white bread roll was soft and squeezably fresh, the sandwich amply filled. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that it was a tangy tomato relish, and not just plain old ketchup! The egg mayonnaise was a good consistency and the bacon complemented this just nicely. I am always a bit wary about the bacon in Greggs sandwiches, as it is streaky, sweet and very thin cut. Although my personal preference would be less fatty meat, I appreciate this might not reflect the choice of the majority, and to be honest it didn't detract from the sandwich on this occasion.
The only drawbacks of Greggs as a place to get your lunch are:
1. you have to take your food out - there's no nice environment in which to sit as you might find in competitor stores - not so good if it is raining (I believe some stores have cafe / sit in facilities but I've never come across one myself)
2. in my experience, you can't pay by card - which means drawing cash out (the rest of which I invariably spend)
Otherwise a relatively cheap, but brilliantly cheerful place to buy your lunch.
Before I begin this review, I'd like you to do a little leg work. Think of all the things that begin with the letter G. What springs to mind? Gardening... Gossip... Golf.... Geryl Gole??? For me, it is simply.... Gregg's!
My review today is on this institution which is said to be so indestructible, it can with stand even the greatest of floods, hurricanes and even hungry students on their dinner breaks.
If Charles Dickens was still alive today, I do believe he would concur "Gregg's the bakers, is an establishment of high esteem, (usually off the chicken bakes), in which one regularly visits on a daily basis, to satisfy ones festering appetite"... well, something like that!
The thing about Gregg's is, it's cheap, it's easy, and it's tasty. When in London, a similar lunchtime snack usually sets me back around £5, but in Gregg's you're talking pennies - not pounds. Everything is fresh and is made in store, and indeed the ovens are placed within view of the counter. There are also no sell by dates on any of the products because they are made and sold on the same day, so everything is very fresh.
There are currently over 1,400 Gregg's stores within the UK, with a further 600 planned. I think it's brilliant how in the north especially, you are never too far from a Gregg's. Indeed when searching the area around my uni "TS1", I found 15 Gregg's stores within walking distance!! I realise some may feel there are far too many stores, and that every high street looks the same, however I think they are simply catering for the demand of hungry shoppers, office workers and not to mention students. The smell of a Gregg's store is so incredibly tempting that if you do walk past the store, there is always another one nearby so maybe it is simply clever marketing!
Within the Gregg's stores, everything is freshly baked on site throughout the day. There are items for sale on shelves as you walk in, including a hot baguette section, and there is also food (such as sausage rolls and cakes), behind the counter. Generally, there is always a really good selection of things to choose from, so you should always find something that appeals to your taste buds, that is within a pocket pleasing price range.
There are a few disadvantages with Gregg's though, firstly the fat content in it's products which can be anywhere up to 20g if you buy one of the baguettes. Of course, Gregg's itself isn't the particularly healthy option, particularly if you are health conscious or on a diet. All of the nutritional values are on the website, so if you are concerned you can check the figures out for yourself. Although, in winter time I think we naturally crave something warm and filling, and Gregg's certainly fills this gap when it's freezing and you are starving on your lunch break!
I like how Gregg's move with the seasons in terms of themed products, i.e Halloween cakes and more recently, "The Festive Bake", comprising of chicken, bacon, cranberry and red onion. For 80p per bake (chicken, steak or festive) - you can't go wrong! Although they are a huge chain, it's clever how they embrace the seasons and well, not to mention taste!
On the downside, although the stores and generally very clean and well organised, I have found the staff seem to really dislike you giving them notes instead of coins. I was once told they couldn't serve me because they didn't have any change for £10, which was frustrating and I didn't understand why they didn't have the change, especially given as they are always so busy.
As much as I am fond of the savoury items, I have to say I don't think the cakes are always as good, particularly the Belgian buns which can sometimes be a little synthetic tasting on the icing. They also seem to sell some strange bread bun and squirted cream concoctions, which in all honesty don't look that appetising! However the chocolate star cakes are usually very delicious, so it's a mixed bag really. There are also many options aimed at kids, some of which have plastic toys attached to them.
Gregg's is not some 5 star establishment, it knows that. However when you are starving and just want something quick for lunch, it's perfect to go to and you're pockets don't have to suffer. Granted, it's not a healthy salad or a bowl of fruit, and perhaps they could introduce more healthy options within the counter food especially. However, it's a warm and friendly place you can rely on for a decent bite to eat, especially when you don't have much time or you are short on cash. I struggle to fault it!
And, just incase you're hungry...
I am a huge fan of cheap and cheerful Gregg's, there are 7 in Nottingham city centre with each one being no more than a 5 minute walk from my work place...very dangerous for my hips!!!
Gregg's was founded in the 1930's in Tyneside, but now has expanded to having approximately 1,400 shops throughout the UK. Its advertising slogan is 'The Home of Fresh Baking' and it obviously works as they sell millions of products every day.
Gregg's sells pastries, pizza's, cakes, sandwiches, soup and breakfast rolls. They are continuously growing and expanding there range of products to continue to attract new and repeat customers.
~~~~~The Savories~~~~~
Gregg's are most well know for there pasties and sausage rolls. They range from around £0.60 to £1.30 and have a variety of fillings including:
Cheese and Onion
Steak Bake
Sausage, Cheese and Bean Melt
Cornish Pasty
Chicken Bake
Sausage Roll
A more recent addition to the savories has been the introduction of the pizza's, available in Cheese and Tomato and Pepperoni.
My favourite in this section has to be the Steak Bake, with its flaky pastry and delicious tender chunks of steak in a rich gravy.
I was always totally hooked on Gregg's fresh filled baguettes until a few months ago when I started trying a few sandwiches, rolls and even wraps. There is now a great variety of different fillings to choose from too, they even have seasonal fillings to give you a change.
The one thing I love is that you can get the same filling on different breads which is great for those who don't always want there egg mayo for example of a white roll they can choose to have it on a brown or seeded instead.
Gregg's also offer a range of healthier option sandwiches too with no added mayo which is great if your watching your figure.
~~~~~The Cakes~~~~~
From muffins, doughnuts, gingerbread men, sweet pastries, fresh cream cakes, shortbreads, mince pies, biscuits and my all time favourite cupcakes! The cakes are an excellent price and always lovely and fresh, probably not to good for the waistline but perfect for an indulgent treat.
In the aim to become a one stop lunch shop Gregg's sells a range of crisps, drinks and snacks. This allows you to make more of a meal of your sandwich or pasty than a simple snack. More recently I have even seen pots of fresh fruit on sale to offer a more healthy option, although if I had a choice between fruit or a cake for dessert I think I know which option I would take!
~~~~~Other items~~~~~
Its not just about pasties anymore Gregg's now offer hot drinks at a fraction of the prices of the large coffee shops. Also soup is on the menu for lunch, although I do hope they start offering different flavours soon I like tomato allot but I like a variety too.
One of the best additions to the menu is the breakfast roll! You can have a sausage/bacon or sausage and bacon rolls with sauce and a hot drink or orange juice for £1.99. This to me is a complete bargain, they are also fantastic, with very fresh rolls, nice tasting sausages and back bacon. Much better than McDonalds and about half the price.
Gregg's now celebrates seasonal events such as Christmas, Easter and Halloween with theme goodies. I love the Gregg's viennese topped mince pies and the special seasonal cupcakes. Not only is it a great marketing tool but puts a smile on my face when I see something different for lunch too!
Gregg's might not be for everyone but to me it offers cheap, filling food for a excellent prices. It has long opening hours, good customer service (from what I have experienced) and freshly baked good's. Yes, most items are high in calories and fat but on an odd occasion and as part of a balanced diet who can refuse a cupcake or pasty once in a while!!
Gregs is a chain of bakers that sell a variety of cakes, pastries, sandwiches and warm snacks.
They are a great place to stop in your lunch break but is not very healthy when you are tempted by the lovely looking chocolate eclairs every day!
We use our local store in Nuneaton and it has an open entrance with a counter with glass displays for you to select your food.
One problem I often encounter is if you try and go at lunch time then the queue can sometimes be out of the door!, but the queue does tend to go down quite quickly so don't be worried that you are going to be there for hours! And it gives you plenty of time to decide what treat you are going to give yourself!
The prices are very reasonable and they also sell bottles of drink so you can buy your whole lunch there.
We have been a few times when they have sold bags of bread rolls, they were ok but I don't think they were fresh from that day, so won't be buying bread from them again.
If you buy a selection of cakes to take to work they will put them in a box container for you to make it easier to carry and not squash the cream cakes!
A great little shop if you are after lunch on to go or if you simply want to just treat yourself to a cake!
In my opinion greggs takes the trophy for Britain's best bakery, while herds of people might move to McDonalds for their tasty lunch, the secret is out that greggs tastes far better than a burger. Greggs bakery was established in 1939, later took over bakers oven and now has 1,400 bakeries. Greggs sells a wide range of foods however sandwiches, pasties and sausage rolls are a specialty, their chesse and onion pastie is heaven :p
However greggs is a guilty treat and in 2008 a study found that greggs is the retailer with the highest level of fat in it's product range, recently greggs has tried to make products more healthy although I don't think that people go to greggs because it is a healthy option, I think that the products are tasty and affordable and this is what has made greggs successful.
The general gist of this review is: if you haven't been to greggs your missing out on a lot, but DON'T GO IF YOU ARE ON A DIET!!!
A new shop has opened here in Llandudno and it is the bakery Greggs! Now this is going to be a mixed blessing for me as I love their sausage rolls and I fear that I may just be tempted to eat them a little more often than is good for me. When I lived in the Midlands my Greggs I always used to have one as a treat on Fridays when I finished my work as a merchandiser.
So what is Greggs all about then?
Well, Greggs is a nationwide chain of bakers which was started in 1951 when John Gregg opened a small bakery in Newcastle upon Tyne. This single shop has grown over the years into a chain of over 1,400 shops spread across the country.
Each shop has a basic range of foods plus regional specialities where applicable.
They sell bread, sandwiches, filled rolls, baguettes, cakes, sausage rolls, pasties, muffins, biscuits, drinks and snacks such as crisps. The food is cooked on the premises constantly during the day so all the items for sale are always fresh and the sandwiches, rolls and baguettes are prepared each day on the premises using the bread that has been baked there. The drinks available consist of tea, Fair Trade coffee and bottled cold drinks. Some of the branches also sell breakfast rolls until 11.30am and others even have a cafe on site.
To celebrate the opening of our new branch the local paper had a voucher for a free sausage roll so Dave and I just had to pay Greggs a visit - just to check that the food was still of the usual high quality of course!
I had the free sausage roll, Dave had a Cornish pasty and we each had a maple and pecan swirl which is effectively a Belgian bun with maple syrup flavoured icing topped with pecan pieces. The pasty and cakes cost just £2.10 and we thoroughly enjoyed all that we ate! Those maple and pecan swirls were gorgeous!
The prices in Greggs are always reasonable and there are always special offers - buy one get one free, buy two and get a price reduction etc. - which of course make the treat of visiting Greggs even cheaper.
There is a website at www.greggs.co.uk where you can find lots of information about the chain and the products that they make and sell. There is also information about the nutritional value of the food sold by Greggs and there is also a leaflet giving this information available in each of the shops. Mind you it might be a bit scary finding out how many calories there are in the sausage rolls!
Looking at the website I also found out that the owners and staff of Greggs also support charities such as Children in Need and a children's cancer charity so there is a moral responsibility there too.
In conclusion I would recommend a visit to Gregg's - the food is great and the prices are good - but as with any cakes and pastries we do have to be a little bit careful just how often we treat ourselves to their goodies!


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DPS seizes 934 pounds of marijuana north of Yoakum
By ADVOCATE STAFF REPORT
Feb. 18, 2011 at 6:02 p.m.
Updated Feb. 17, 2011 at 8:18 p.m.
A 23-year-old Mexican citizen was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday after he was found with more than 900 pounds of marijuana near Yoakum.
A Texas Department of Public Safety trooper found Manuel Salvador Pacheco-Penaloza to be carrying 934 pounds of marijuana in a white Ford F-350 after he stopped the driver on suspicion of speeding about one mile north of Yoakum on Alternate U.S. Highway 77-A at noon Thursday, DPS Trooper Gerald Bryant said Friday.
After stopping, Pacheco-Penaloza ran on foot into a pasture, Bryant said.
The Lavaca County Sheriff's Office and Yoakum Police Department helped set up a perimeter and a Lavaca County deputy caught Pacheco-Penaloza in the field, Bryant added.
Three bundles were found behind the driver's seat and 68 more bundles were found in a hidden compartment in the bed of the truck, Bryant said.
The street value of the seizure is about $765,000, Bryant said.
Pacheco-Penaloza was held on federal charges of possession of a controlled substance because he is not a resident of the United States.

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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by the lovely Bethany Brookshire for her Eureka!Lab blog at Student Science, part of Society for Science and the Public. You can check out the interview on Eureka!Lab or scroll down to watch the video.
I loved doing the interview, for three reasons. First, I like talking about my science (what scientist doesn't?). Second, Bethany is a friend and a blossoming science writer. But most importantly, Society for Science and the Public (SSP) is a great organization working to foster "understanding and appreciation of science and the vital role it plays in human advancement: to inform, educate, and inspire." They are the publishers of Science News and Science News for Students, and they organize the premiere scientific competitions for middle school and high schools. These competitions are what got me engaged with science and encouraged to pursue a scientific career. So I'm always happy to help SSP in any way I can.
The video interview below is aimed at communicating to middle school students about what I do as a professor and hydrologic scientist. After a somewhat awkward start, I hope I did a good job of sharing the excitement and challenges of what I do in a fairly non technical way.
Head over to Eureka!Lab to see a transcript of our conversation.


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Navarro's Rays Clock Ticking Faster
Somehow I knew the writing was on the wall for Tampa Bay Rays catcher Dioner Navarro. And not just because of the emergence of John Jaso, but because the once "stealthy" catcher had now become predictable. There was a time when Navarro would provide offensive mastery and blocks ball behind the plate like his dinner depended on it. But those days became far and end between in 2009, and beginning in 2010, you knew it was a make it or break season for Navi.
And with a Minor League option still attached to his name, it seems that a travel visa( ticket) is in the near future for the Rays former All-Star. But it has been a long time since Navarro has acted like his former All-Star self as his batting average and defensive skills have somehow diminished and all but guarantee his departure when Rays shortstop Jason Bartlett can come back off the disabled list on June 15th.
But is sending Navi down to the Triple-A Durham Bulls going to ravish his career, or will it be an immediate wake up call to either fight his way back to the Rays come September, or be vanquished to the minors and possibly traded later this year. It is truly a human gut check time for Navarro, and we might just see if the Rays own version of the Stay Puff Marshmallow man has the killer instinct and determination still in his belly to fight for his Major League Baseball existence.
Navarro has been down this road before after being signed as a free agent by the New York Yankees, he was thought to be the future catching star of the Pinstripes before his work ethic and his weight went different directions and the Yankees tired of his yo-yoing tendencies. He was quickly dispatched via a trade to the West Coast and the Los Angeles Dodgers where he was thought to be a buffer before current Dodger starter Russell Martin was ready to take the throne.
Even there, the effort and the talent seemed like polar opposites and he was again jettisoned to the Rays where it almost seemed like his last tango in Tampa Bay might be his last chance to show he had the talent and the ability to match up as a Major League catcher. And this team has never been known for their catching prospects, or even its starting catcher providing offensive numbers that make you take a positive second glance. Navarro had a middle-of-the-road beginning with the Rays before his 2008 explosion put him front and center in the company of the elite.
But just as fast as he risen to the top, he adamantly fell from grace in 2009 showing the "old" Navarro tendencies again and a lack of defensive fortitude in even remotely blocking balls bouncing all over the plate. He had relinquished the "stealth" side of his nature and again fell into the predictable mode. RRCollection
But the question now might just be which direction will he turn towards if demoted to the Bulls? Will he take it as a moral imperative to improve, reevaluate and resurgence to his career, or languish in pity and remorse for a bit before again striking out to rebuild?
This time June 15th might be the defining date of Navarro's career. And the steps he takes from that moment on will define his Major League Baseball chances, or be the beginning of his demise. I have been a conscientious observer of Navarro over the last several months and have seen his bat come alive at moment, but also seen him falter when needed in the clutch. But with this Rays team striving now to revisit the "Promised Land" again, can Navarro regain his former self to rejoin and step with his Rays teammates into that hallowed ground again?
It is up to Navarro right now to impress a certain former catcher, Rays Manager Joe Maddon, that this decision was not needed. That he had the heart and soul of this team vested close to his own heart and hit the ground running in Durham. Most important might be his indication to the team of his sweat and grit while down in the minor so if Kelly Shoppach or John Jaso fall to fall to injury or their own offensive woes, he is ready to don his catching gear at this level with the full confidence of his Rays Manager.
Gail Burton/ AP
This truly is going to be a gut check time for Navarro both as a person and as a professional athlete. How he reacts and interprets the final decision of Maddon and the Rays front office on June 15th will be critical to if they see him in the Rays future in 2010. I can end this with a few hundred different baseball cliché's as to what Navarro needs to accomplish in his time left with the Rays. But in the end, it will be how, and what Navarro does with this last few impressions that will set deep within the Rays organization's minds as to his viable future with this team beyond June 15th.
How Navarro carries himself out of that Rays clubhouse on that date could be the true telling point to his Rays career. Navarro can either stand tall and stride out of that Rays clubhouse with honor and a plan of action, or he can saunter out with bitterness and angst and hit Durham with a chip on his shoulder. This might be the biggest moment of Navarro career because it will define his future….even if it is not with the Rays.
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Adversity is one of the true tests of a man. How will he react?
How will he bounce beack? How will he respond? Adversity is necessary. It weeds out the less desirable and the less inclined who try not working through tough times. Does Jaso take full advantage is another question. That's Baseball! Love it.
It is the true test of a man.
That is all too true there. You hope he shows the fortitude and the courage to face it, but sometimes the odds seem to great when you focus too tight on the particulars.
I know that first hand myself.
But, if you value and trust in your abilities, the skies are the limit!
Rays Renegade
Baseball is like anything else, how you react to adversity is what makes a man… in my humble (and correct) opinion :-) I look forward to seeing what kind of man Navarro is… and I can't feel sorry for anyone who has made a living playing the grandest game of them all.
Got to say I personally know the road to redemption that Navarro is going to have to cover,and I hope he has the stomach and the girt to endure.
I am a shirt wearing "Been there, Done That" charter member who knows the stife and the doubt that can take you down for the count.
I actually see Navarro striving to either get into game shape to again help the Rays, or get traded and helpa oyunger team get a setting on the post-season.
Change of scenery is definitely in his near futre…but that is just my opinion.
Rays Renegade


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International School of Islamabad (ISOI)
- Mailing address:
International School of Islamabad (ISOI)
PO Box 1124
Sector H-9/1
- E email@example.com
- W www.isoi.edu.pk
- Memberships: South Asia International Schools Association (SAISA)Near East/ South Asia Virtual School
- State/Independent: Independent: private non-profit
- Lower School Ages: 4-11
- Lower School Sexes: Co-ed
- Lower School Numbers: 114
- Middle School Ages: 11-14
- Middle School Sexes: Co-ed
- Middle School Numbers: 48
- Senior School Ages: 14-18
- Senior School Sexes: Co-ed
- Senior School Numbers: 56
- Teaching Language: English
- SEN: SEN considered case by case
- Boarding: Not available
- Uniform: No
- School Year: Mid August to beginning of June 3 weeks Christmas, 3 weeks Easter, 2 Eid breaks Local bank holidays
- Fee Currency: US dollars
- Fee Details: 2016-2017 Annual Fees: Pre-Kindergarten: $10,495; KG1: $14,063; KG2 - Grade 5: $20,990; Grades 6 -12: $21,889. Application Fee: $250($150 for Pre-Kindergarten).
- Fee Extras: Development Fee for all new students: $5,900 (non-refundable).
- Religion: Non-denominational
Advanced Placement (AP) -
Advanced Placement courses are curricula and exams created by the College Board (who also run the SAT I and II) and are usually much more rigorous than the general course offerings (including those characterizedas "honours") at American high schools. They are also standardized: theAP Algebra III course and exam offered in Connecticut will be the sameAP Algebra III course and exam offered in Islamabad.
"Advanced Placement" means just that- many colleges and universities will award creditfor these coursesif the student has received a 3 or higher(orsome cases,just a 5) on the AP subject exam [All AP exams are for specificsubjects, and the highest score available is a5].Highly competitive first tier colleges and universities, however, do have their own set of requirements (see note below*).
Many good high schools offer 15-22 different AP courses, and - depending on the ones offered by that school- can allow a student to weight his course load with more things he really wants (ie Latin Literature, Latin Vergil or Physics B, Physics B: Mechanical; Physics B: Electricity and Magnetism), unlikemore circumscribedcurricula (ie the IB Diploma).
There are several advantages to taking AP courses:
- They are transferable for students changing schools (a student taking the APWorld History coursein one school or country in the autumn can move to another school and continue on with the same course in the winter if the new school offers that course);
- They give studentsstrong and challenging course work and show university admissions officesthat the student is taking the hardest classes available;
- If the student's university is willing to award credit for courses taken,it can represent a significant savings on tuition fees (it is conceivable that astudent could taketen or fifteen AP courses in high school, and find himself with a couple or three terms of university core studies under his belt, if some or all of the AP courses are similar enough to courses offered by the university).
- The American high school diploma does require that each student complete a certain range of subjects over 4 years to graduate, but there's room for electives and that's where serious students load up with their preferred AP (in addition to the AP versions of the required ones they're taking). That's probably the biggest advantage over other curricula....the advantages of a broad based curriculum, but one easier to fine tune for the more narrowly focused student.
AP coursesare now also accepted by some UK universitiesfor admission (except for some Oxford colleges).
*Top schools (for examplein the Ivy League)may not allow students to use AP courses for credit until their junior year in university, and then only if students achieved 5's on at least five of their AP tests in high school. Of course, they only admitted that student in the first place based on therigour of his course work (based on an IB diploma and/or a high number of AP courses!) and his excellent grades in same.
American High School Diploma (College Preparatory)
Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSACS or MSA) - Although definitely one of the six regional agencies authorised by the US Department of Education (which usually have ACS or CAS at the end of their acronym), this one usually goes by MSA (Middle States Association), or CSS-MSA (Commission on Secondary Schools- Middle States Association).
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Zeroes, goose eggs, clean sheets, or shutouts. However you want to term it, the Houston Dynamo defense has one often-elusive objective: keeping the other team off the board.
The importance of the team's shutout last Saturday against Real Salt Lake is paramount as the Dynamo gear up to face three of MLS' top attacking teams in the span of eight days.
Not only was the shutout at Rio Tinto Stadium good for the team's confidence, but the way Houston held one of the league's most dynamic offenses at bay should help going forward. Simply put, there is a formula the club wants to use in the coming weeks: break up chances and keep teams from getting good looks at goalkeeper Tally Hall.
"The fashion that we [shut out RSL] was good," Dynamo head coach Dominic Kinnear said. "They had one shot on goal, and then Andy Williams got a shot late, but the ball possession we had in the second half kept them away from goal."
A major part of executing the game plan was their organization, which starts with the center-back pairing of Bobby Boswell and Andre Hainault. The veteran duo does the bulk of the organizing in the back and has shown this season it can shut down opposing forwards en route to becoming one of the top center-back pairings in MLS.
"Bobby and Andre have been good," Kinnear said. "They both attack the ball well and have a good understanding of each other. I think Andre's having a good season for us, and Bobby's a good talker and is very calm on the ball, so it's a good combination that's working well for us right now."
After forging just their second shutout last weekend, Houston is looking to build on that momentum ahead of a tough three-game stretch that starts with the New York Red Bulls on Saturday, continues with a trip to face the LA Galaxy on May 25, and concludes with a home match against rivals FC Dallas on May 28.
New York and Houston played to a 1-1 draw at Red Bull Arena on April 2.
"I think you have to take practice serious," Kinnear said when asked how the Dynamo can duplicate their success at Rio Tinto this week against New York. "We know what happened on the weekend, and New York is going to look to correct what went wrong last time, so it'll be a challenge."
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com. Follow him on twitter at @Dynamoexaminer.


text: This will be my first attempt at a RR here. We normally do a FB album for our family then get a thousand comments like "Motorcycles are dangerous you know!" and a thousand questions like "Aren't you scared?" Here at least I'll be understood. Mostly. The route is not firm and is subject to whims, weather and quirks of Zumo. I'm hoping to meet up with a bunch from the Parallel Universe whom I've insulted and patronized for years now. I suspect that will get expensive. Basically, we're doing Toronto- upper US to Glacier NP - Calgary - Vancouver then down the PCH below LA then maybe Vegas and the Grand Canyon. We're launching Saturday Aug 24 for three weeks. The first few days will be full on Interstate slabbin' just to get out of here! I want to avoid Tourist Traps and big cities. We want the views in front of us to be mountains, lakes and ocean, not concrete and storm drains with the wild life in gas powered cages. Roughly speaking........ "Her" Ride: An '09 F650GS Twin that's actually an 800. Don't ask. Mods include Hyperpro suspension, Touring windscreen, Wunderlich handguards, TT crash bars, Givi skid plate, grip puppies, Carbon Fibre centre panel and beak extension to break up the red, Comfort seat and Vario luggage including a 1200GS topcase that has been bolted down to prevent further unscheduled departures. This is her third GS. The last one was caged to death and now she has a titanium right wrist. This will be our first long trip since the accident and hopefully she can handle hours of vibrating bars. Cockpit shot: I installed a Spark Brite voltage monitor LED you can see on the left. I really don't care what my voltage is to 3 decimal places nor do I wish to explain to her what numbers indicate a properly functioning system. Green is good. Red is bad. Fast flashing red is really bad. There are some inmates I know who would make a day of designing and fabricating an elabotate prototype mount for the LED, fitting it, modifying it, documenting it then painting it black. After a sucessful product he would then offer up the blueprints with a caveat that they won't print to proper proportion so don't blame him. I just put a glob of Auto sealant on it and taped it in place for the night. KISS! Bec is an office working Executive type whereas I'm a licenced Jet Mech yet she INSISTED that she get a new chain before we left. So I got her one: Hope it doesn't fall off the board while we're gone.


text: Bought a 2010 K1300 Gt to replace my 09 lost in a fire. This was a consignment sale from a Michigan dealer, bike had 4500 miles at purchase now has 5300 miles. Seeing some oil spots on rear wheel and can detect some seepage at rear drive seal. My warranty is up in July. Although a minor leak now my thoughts are its only going to get worse. My 09 started leaking at 45000 miles. I hear horror stories on the repair outcomes hope I have better luck. Will keep you posted. One dealer told me the bike was not used enough causing possible seal issue. Sounds like BS.


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Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710 - 1736)
Source for "Concerto per Flauto solo" in D major is a ms. from Musik-och teaterbiblioteket, Stockholm, RISM ID no. 190023528.
Source is ms Aalholm-samlingen I,5 AccNr. mu9709.2965, The Royal Library, Copenhagen. Gronenfeld in "Flöten Konzerte bis 1850", attributes this Concerto to J. A. Hasse. As a confirmation of this see the Hasse Concerto JAH271109 already published in this site. In any case it is a composition from "Naples School".
Main source is a ms of the score dated after 1900, from Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella, Napoli. In the same Conservatorio there is an ancient copy of the violin parts. Both sources are online available. The modern copy is quite different from the older one, not only on slurs and dynamics, but also in the development of parts.
The source is a ms of the score, Royal Library of Sweden, caption title: "Concerto per il Flauto Solo / in G. ♮. / a 4 Parte(sic)...".


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Hi .. i m from borneo.
Sitting on my porch, i saw 2 dead ..spiders ? or were they dead flowers falling onto "under" a leaf ?
Hoping it was a spider and not dead .. maybe i could snatch some photos ..
and what the .. it's not dead and it's not a spider either !
It's the biggest MITE flashed for a second through my mind. And tons of them on the plant !
On closer look ... ha ha ha ... They are just caterpillars.
It can flip over its thorny-fan-out tail to cover its body.
I picked up one and show it to my spouse and "YUCK ! Get it AWAY from ME ! It's the most UGLY thing .. OUT ! OUT !"
I guess i have to wait till it become a moth before i can identify it.
Any idea ?
(Click on the photo for extra large view)
I'm not an expert, however I don't think it's a caterpillar. I'd put my money on it being the larva of a beetle, possibly a Tortoise Beetle of some sort.
Although the larva in the example below isn't exactly the same as yours, it does show you what is going on here. The larva uses its faeces as a camouflage.
See the link below.
Holy shit ! No wonder its' tail looks like shits !
Thanks for your kind help ... and now i recalled my daughter brought back a couple of weird ladybugs, orange in color but with some sort of tranparent outer shell. Aaaaaa now i know .... they're Tortoise Beetle.
With this kind of camourflage and spike on body, i believed there won't be much predator goin after them.
And how WRONG i am ! I just caught a True Bug which suck out the juice from one of them.
After 2-3 days, it entered a "pupa" stage ... where it lost its shits covering, changed to orange color (with some old black skin remnant over the neck region), and remain very still except when touched it may flicker its body via its neck whilts its mouth continue to bite tightly on the leave. About another 5 days ... tada ! A cute little tortoise beetle appear.


text: When it comes to OT stories, I have trouble sometimes connecting with them because a. I associate them too much with their Sunday School simplifications, and b. Hebrew narrative is pretty terse, meaning readers were expected to do a bit more work than I'm used to as a lazy Westerner just wanting to be entertained/enthralled. However, I do love the story of David, especially the drama with Absolom. His lines, "O my son Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you—O Absalom, my son, my son!" upon finding out about his son's death, the son who was trying to kill David and usurp his throne, are heart-rending every time. Especially when David's general calls him out on being thankless to the men who were defending him, and the grieving father has stand up out of that and be a king once again. Powerful, very human stuff.


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Manchester United's bore draw with Chelsea was a brilliant riposte to the heavy weight of pre-excitement heaped upon it
Yawn. Sigh. And once again: yawn. It has, unexpectedly, been a big week for boredom and sport. So much so that boredom itself seems to be having a bit of a moment right now judging by the unusually nuanced degree of dissatisfaction with Monday night's 0-0 draw between Manchester United and Chelsea, which in turn followed complaints of widespread boredom induced by England's cricketers winning the Ashes in slightly the wrong way this summer. At Old Trafford, football's free-floating ambient furies were directed, for once, not at any specific action but instead at a sense of inaction, the apparently wilful decision not to entertain, the deliberate lack of pep, intrigue and attacking vim. Where exactly do they get off, these highly paid athletes, not being interesting enough?
There were, of course, some who took a more obviously refined, more doctoral-thesis-on-the-Dutch-second-division-1968-1972 approach, maintaining instead that this wasn't actually a boring match at all, not for those able to savour the insect-scale tactical pointillism beneath the fat wet smudges visible to the artisan. Better, though, simply to accept the truth. It was a boring match. To suggest otherwise is something far less palatable, a rejection of boredom itself as a legitimate response, when in fact the opposite is true. Boredom is good. Boredom is fine. Boredom is essential to all sport, and not only in the sense of a moment of stillness or a necessary pause, but proper, old‑school, dough-faced, semolina-breaths, sullen, graceless, lumpen boredom. Unfree your mind. Close your doors of perception. And come on in – the boredom's lukewarm.
In practice boredom has always been a huge part of sport, and in particular of the complex and attritional appeal of football. This is – and I cannot emphasise this enough – not wrestling. My favourite football quote of all time is effectively a paean to the wonderful power of boredom in football, a study of the crowd from the Daily Mirror in February 1907 entitled "Why Are Football Crowds So Melancholy?" The writer notes: "Faces devoid of any expression at all; gloomy faces; uninterested faces; faces not lit up by array of gladness or excitement; faces whose settled melancholy fills one with profound depression, and makes one ask in amazement: 'Why are they there?'" And this is essentially what football remains beneath its slick and noisome veneer: a painful, often senseless thing, a capricious affliction whose moments of balletic coherence have meaning only because they emerge out of this soup of opaque human activity.
I must declare an interest here as a massive advocate of boredom generally, someone who sees it as a kind of duty, professional and personal, to spread a little boredom everywhere, to leave every room a slightly more boring place. Boredom in its pure form is a resource to be cherished, the last great wilderness. It is basically what we've got left now, our shield, our bunker, our lead-lined helmet against the digital tinnitus, the unceasing transactional white noise of modern life. Against all this boredom stands as something cold and still and grey. Nobody has ever tried to sell you boredom. Nobody has ever successfully rebranded, celebrified or generally ruined boredom with money. In spite of which boredom remains an essential component of anything of any value: it is the thing that tells us what isn't boredom, a state out of which all elements of genuine fascination must emerge.
And yet there is no doubt boredom is being pushed to the margins. It is a devalued currency, not only to be avoided but to be revolted against entirely. Of course, nobody does this quite so urgently as the Premier League, a place of thrummingly over-marketed major chord excitements, where everything is massive, everything is top top top and nothing happening can never be allowed simply to happen.
The paradox here, of course, is that nothing is more tedious than being told repeatedly how excited you are and in its rejection of boredom modern televisual sport has created something even more vapid, a synthetic monotony without any of the redeeming features of genuine boredom. For example there is no doubt that things generally look more monotonous on television, now by far the primary experience of all sport. Things that may simply be boring in the flesh can appear crushingly flat when backlit by that watery televisual splendour. The first football match I went to was an extremely boring 0-0 draw between Millwall and Manchester United at the old Den, memorable only for one astonishingly malevolent collision between Bryan Robson and Terry Hurlock, a quadruple-footed coming together that saw Hurlock and Robson meet simultaneously on opposite sides of the poor old ball with an astonishing "whump", like the echo of some overheating soviet chemical plant exploding on the horizon. Not that you would have got any of that from the telly.
Beyond this there is undoubtedly a textural homogeneity to modern football at times, a mono-athleticism that can nullify many of the traditional consolations – physical variety, greater differences in tempo at start and finish – of a dull match. Perhaps most crucial, and with apologies of course to Jonjo Shelvey, players rarely have a thrillingly bad game in the way they once did, the slipping, scrabbling all-at-sea bad game. Antonio Valencia may have a bad game now and then, but only in the way a motorbike, or Nissan Micra or a high‑spec washing machine might have a bad game, so reliably refined and relentless is the physicality of elite players, so constricted the tactical bottleneck in which they operate.
And at the end of which Monday night's match starts to look like something else, perhaps even a brilliant riposte to the overbearing weight of pre-excitement heaped upon its shoulders. Given the scope and scale of the pre-match gurgles, the sense of some stage-managed pop-up thrill-ride being thwunked into place, this was really football's only sensible response, a wonderfully mule-like refusal to bend. It is actually very witty of football to have produced such deep soul boredom to order, a response that can only make you love it all the more. You can take away our terraces, our sense of geographically coherent sporting community. But you'll never take our boredom.


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I had a chance to work with Juan Cuevas (Ducase, Blue Hill, 81) while I was cooking at Blue Hill. One of the days that the restaurant was closed we had a party, and the most memorable part of it for me was his flan.
Before that party he let me take the spare ribs off of six pork bellies in preparation, which was also memorable. But the flan took the cake, if I'm allowed to mix metaphors so.
-- Douglas Hunter


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Muffin monsters will love these pumpkin-banana delights
I love the rituals of autumn. All those things and places that mark the passage of time that I wait for all year. Visits to apple orchards, raking leaves, pulling sweaters and sweatshirts from their summer storage, morning walks in the crisp air, apple crisp, weekend drives to enjoy the dazzling colors of fall - all the pleasant delights of the season that seem to slow down the rush and chaos of daily life.
It's the pumpkins, though, that seem to mark the official "Howdy!" of the season. Pumpkins are everywhere right now.
Members of the genus Cucurbita and the family Cucurbitaceae, pumpkins, as well as all that are collectively referred to as "winter squash" (including such offerings as acorn, butternut, delicata, kabocha, spaghetti, turban and many more) are rich in nutrients, subtle and sweet in flavor and robust in color and ornamentation.
Although I live in the woods in a house that isn't even visible from the road, I still can't stop decorating my front steps with pumpkins of all shapes and sizes and my age-old scarecrow. Indoors, there's a perfectly shaped round, bright orange pumpkin on my dining table with a branch of bittersweet.
My favorite part of the arrival of pumpkins, though, is all the ways they can be turned into edible delights, both sweet and savory. Years ago, my mother-in-law turned small round loaves of sweet and spicy pumpkin bread out of empty vegetable cans. My sister-in-law created uniquely shaped loaves of pumpkin bread by baking the batter in coffee cans. But me? I stick to muffins. I've convinced myself that I am completely unable to bake a beautiful loaf of quick bread. Too many times the loaves I've baked sink in the middle, the gooey underbaked middle collapsing onto itself. Not pretty.
So, my family is comprised of a bunch of muffin monsters. Over the years, I've baked tiny muffins for my two sons and larger muffins for the adults. Now my two sons eat the big muffins and their own children eat the size just perfect for small hands.
Granola-Topped Pumpkin-Banana Muffins began with the banana bread recipe I got many years ago from my neighbor, Hazel. She would deliver a loaf to our door, sometimes still warm, wrapped in waxed paper and foil. It's the best banana bread I've ever eaten. She did give me her recipe, and I do make it sometimes, but it never tastes as good as those loaves she shared with us.
With a little bit of tinkering to Hazel's recipe, an addition of lots of fragrant spices along with some pureed pumpkin, I came up with moist and flavorful muffins that I think my muffin monsters are going to love. The biggest monster of all has already given them his stamp of approval.
Since my grandchildren don't have the same appreciation for nuts that I do, I made a topping similar to granola, with oats and brown sugar and butter. I add broken pecan pieces to half of the granola topping. The nutty topping goes on the large muffins. The nutless topping gets sprinkled over the mini-muffins.
Now we can all be happy as we eat our muffins.
Use canned pumpkin puree or some of your own cooked pumpkin. Butternut squash can easily stand in for the pumpkin.
Leave the chaos behind. And, if you're at all like me, say good-bye to quick bread frustrations, too, and make Granola-Topped Banana-Pumpkin Muffins one of your autumn rituals.
Granola-Topped Pumpkin-Banana Muffins
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
3/4 cup buttermilk
3/4 cup butter (12 tablespoons), room temperature
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 large eggs
2 very ripe bananas, mashed
1 cup pureed pumpkin
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup chopped dates
Granola Topping:
1/4 cup old fashioned oats, uncooked
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 cup butter, room temperature
1/4 cup chopped pecans
Prepare Granola Topping by combining oats, flour, brown sugar, cinnamon and butter in a small bowl with a pastry blender or clean fingers. Mixture should resemble coarse meal. Add pecans. Set aside.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. In a 1-cup glass measure, dissolve baking soda in buttermilk and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, beat 3/4 cup butter with sugar until light colored. Add eggs and beat to incorporate. Add mashed bananas, pumpkin and vanilla and blend.
Sift flour, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and salt together. Add all at once to mixture in bowl and stir or beat on low speed just until dry ingredients are moistened. Stir in chopped dates.
Spoon batter into greased muffin pans, filling three-fourths full. Sprinkle Granola Topping evenly over batter in pans. Bake in preheated 400-degree oven for about 15 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center of muffin comes out clean. Yields 24 muffins.
Tips from the cook
--Mix your own pumpkin pie spice blend by combining 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg, 1/8 teaspoon allspice, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger.
--When the bananas on your kitchen counter become so ripe they turn very, very dark, just seal them into a freezer-strength zip-top bag and freeze them until you are ready to do some baking. Take the bananas you will need from the freezer. Allow them to thaw. Snip through the peel at the top of the bananas with a scissors and squeeze the banana right into your mixing bowl. No need to mash first.


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Discussion in 'Health & Fitness' started by pennc94, Jul 31, 2012.
Anyone ever try these?
Apparently Bogomolov endorses them.
Yes, I have.
They are okay, but I prefer Sorbothane.
If you want to try those, buy one size larger than you need. Unequal's foot insoles run small.
What did you like about the Sorbothane over the Unequal footbeds?
Do they add alot of weight? Sorbothane has alot of mass, do they weigh more than the Unequal footbeds?
So, they are bulletproof? Why does an insole need kevlar, to keep it from tearing?
Since I now go barefoot as much as I can, I have healthy feet and the regular insoles with my shoes work just fine.
Sorbothane has been in insole business much longer, so there are many more products to fit your needs. They come in various thicknesses, durometer and shape. Some "Air Sorbos" are the most cushiony insoles I have ever worn.
Unequal's Kevlar products tend to be more rigid, and this has its own benefits.
Both add significant weight. Shock absorption advantage goes to Sorbothane.
Kevlar is a great shock absorber.
I don't think these products are designed to stop bullets, just like the old ProStaff isn't going to stop bullets.
My custom orthotics are made with Kevlar. As hard as a tennis racquet.
I guess I'm mostly familiar with Kevlar tennis string and Kevlar weaved into a fabric. It is extremely hard to cut or tear, but I didn't realize it was good at absorbing shock.
Well I think it is good at absorbing shock considering that they make bullet proof vests out of it.
I thought the advantage of Kevlar in a vest is that it doesn't tear and let the bullet through and is very strong for the weight. If you get shot wearing a thin vest, you're going to be bruised unless you have a trauma plate under the impact point.
I'm not certain that's the same sort of shock absorption we expect with a footbed that flexes and dissipates impact given I don't have any really pointy pressure points on the bottom of my feet. I guess it won't tear or stretch.
Have you tried the Superfeet Orange?
Good support and with a thin footpad under the forefoot and a thicker heel cup they provide reasonable cushioning as well.
[Kevlar can be quite flexible if thin. An example is Kevlar tennis strings. Not sure you need Kevlar for the supporting material unless you have a history of breaking the plastic inserts in Superfeet products.]
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Hopefully on Sunday, you were able to read our in-depth look at the projects the city has planned for 2012. They are extensive and exciting, and include items we've long supported. The plan calls not just for new and improved streets, but roadways that take into account pedestrian traffic and drainage.
Is it possible that lighting, sidewalks and landscaping — largely absent from Russellville roadways — might be included in these plans? If so, the Department of Public Works will truly fulfill its new mission statement — "to provide safe, efficient and attractive roadways for the benefit of the citizens of our city, its visitors and prospective business investors."
The total cost for these projects is just shy of $18 million, but these are funds that have been or will be collected through a one-cent sales tax voters approved several years ago. We believe these projects are exactly what the voters thought they would be getting.
The plan is ambitious and far-reaching, but that's exactly what it needs to be. Too long have other Arkansas cities developed their infrastructure and public space while Russellville's remained relatively latent.
As with any major undertaking involving public funds, there comes great responsibility to exercise sound stewardship of tax dollars. From the planning and bidding process to the execution of the projects, taxpayers expect public funds to be used wisely and effectively.
We are happy to finally see projects that have languished on the "wish list" moving to the "to do list." It is time to use these funds as they were intended, and it appears the plan is in place for Russellville to begin actualizing its potential.


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Decal-like Sticker Will Make Solar Panels More Applicable
Solar panels have been popping up on everything from rooftops to parking garages and even Christmas lights. However, these stiff and rigid heavy panels often limit their applications. Fortunately, researchers at Stanford University have developed flexible, decal-like solar panels that can be peeled off like stickers and stuck to virtually any surface, from papers to window panes.
Unlike standard thin-film solar cells, peel-and-stick thin-film solar cells do not require any direct fabrication on the final carrier substrate. This is a far more dramatic development than it may initially seem. All the challenges associated with putting solar cells on unconventional materials are avoided with the new process, vastly expanding the potential applications of solar technology.
Thin-film photovoltaic cells are traditionally fixed on rigid silicon and glass substrates, greatly limiting their uses, says Chi Hwan Lee, lead author of the paper. And while the development of thin-film solar cells promised to inject some flexibility into the technology, explains Xiaolin Zheng, a Stanford assistant professor of mechanical engineering and senior author of the paper, scientists found that use of alternative substrates was problematic in the extreme.
"Nonconventional or 'universal' substrates are difficult to use for photovoltaics because they typically have irregular surfaces and they don't do well with the thermal and chemical processing necessary to produce today's solar cells," Zheng says. "We got around these problems by developing this peel-and-stick process, which gives thin-film solar cells flexibility and attachment potential we've never seen before, and also reduces their general cost and weight."
Utilizing the process, researchers attached thin-film solar cells to paper, plastic and window glass, among other materials.
While others have been successful in fabricating thin-film solar cells on flexible substrates before, those efforts have required modifications of existing processes or materials, notes Lee. "The main contribution of our work is that we have done so without modifying any existing processes, facilities or materials, making them viable commercially. And we have demonstrated our process on a more diverse array of substrates than ever before," Lee says.
"Now you can put them on helmets, cell phones, convex windows, portable electronic devices, curved roofs, clothing – virtually anything," says Zheng.
Moreover, peel-and-stick technology isn't necessarily restricted to thin-film solar cells, Zheng said. The researchers believe the process can also be applied to thin-film electronics, including printed circuits, ultra thin transistors and LCDs.
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(Fūton: Kazekiri) - Wind Style: Wind Cutter
Rank: C
Type: Supplementary
Range: Short
Chakra Cost: 15
Damage Points: N/A
Description: User will create a slicing wind gust which is used to divide and neutralize a Wind attack launched against him. It splits an incoming wind attack of lower or equal strength and makes it harmless.
Use your chakra to create a slicing wind gust to cut and neutralize a weak wind jutsu I will use on you.


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It's been a tough summer for Tony Parker. Mere weeks after his struggles contributed mightily to San Antonio's playoff collapse against Oklahoma City, he was struck in the eye with a shard of glass from a broken bottle during a nightclub brawl. That forced him to take a month off to recover and don a pair of protective goggles when he finally returned.
Then, Thursday. Looking like the MVP candidate he was during the NBA season, Parker lit up Lithuania to claim the best performance of the day among the Spurs' six Olympians.
Tony Parker: 27 points (9 for 14 shooting), 5 rebounds, 2 assists in France's 82-74 victory over Lithuania. Picking up where he left off in Tuesday's upset of Argentina, Parker had his first dominant game of the Olympics. Perhaps he's finally getting used to those goggles. At the very least, he's clearly getting his wind back, a very welcome sign for the Spurs.
Boris Diaw: 10 points (5 for 10 shooting), 6 rebounds, 8 assists. Staying out of foul trouble for the first time in the Olympics did wonders for Diaw, who stuffed the stat sheet in typical fashion while playing a team-high 38 minutes.
Nando De Colo: 8 points (3 for 7 shooting), 5 rebounds, 1 assist. Six points in garbage time made De Colo's impact appear greater than it was.
Patty Mills: 20 points (8 for 19 shooting), 4 rebounds, 2 assists in Australia's 81-61 victory over China. For those keeping track, Mills is now shooting 37 percent at the Olympics.
Manu Ginobili: 24 points (9 for 12 shooting), 6 rebounds, 2 assists in Argentina's 92-69 victory over Tunisia. If we were picking an Olympic MVP through three games, Ginobili would have to be the leading candidate. He was the best player on the court yet again, scoring 14 points in the first four minutes of the second quarter to dig Argentina out of an early 14-point hole.


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FLUSHING, N.Y., August 12, 2010 - The New York Mets today announced they are taking the following disciplinary action against pitcher Francisco Rodriguez: The team has placed Rodriguez on the restricted list for two days. He will be removed from the roster, will not be with the team, and will not be paid during that time.
"Ownership and the organization are very disappointed in Francisco's inappropriate behavior and we take this matter very seriously," said Mets COO Jeff Wilpon.


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Roger Stephen Clary entered the plea Thursday in federal court in Little Rock. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors dropped four counts of wire fraud against Clary.
An indictment accuses Clary of misusing about $1.6 million of a $4.5 million loan from Banc of America Leasing Corporation. According to court records, the loan was to pay for the purchase and outfitting of buses for his company, Destination Ventures. But prosecutors claim that Clary redirected nearly $1.6 million of that loan to two companies that weren't involved in the bus project.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, January 11, 2013, 9:39 AM
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District explores buying Bowman campus
Original post made on Jan 11, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, January 11, 2013, 9:39 AM
a resident of Palo Verde
on Jan 11, 2013 at 10:24 am
Expanding an existing school, particularly the smallest of three, is the obvious thing to do, rather than establish a fourth middle school.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jan 11, 2013 at 11:25 am
Great idea! School buildings are already built,just take down the fence. Bowman wants more space so needs to move elsewhere (where??? that's the rub...) This is land that originally belonged to Terman anyway.
a resident of Barron Park
on Jan 11, 2013 at 11:40 am
What creative thinking! It's a great idea. Bowman can't expand on that site either. Could be a win-win for PAUSD and Bowman students.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jan 11, 2013 at 12:23 pm
A classic case of sell low, buy high?!
They should have hung onto the land in the first place. Many of us disagreed with the decision to get rid of it - it is PRIME real estate.
I also think PAUSD should have kept Cubberley.
Anyone else recall how they almost closed Gunn??
Land is valuable around here and the school district should not have disposed of it so cavalierly. Thank goodness there was strong opposition to getting rid of Gunn! Maybe there would be a huge private high school or a high tech business campus there now.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Jan 11, 2013 at 1:36 pm
> Land is valuable around here
Yes it is. This is one of the reasons that the District should be building "up" and not "out".
Aerial View of Palo Alto High School:
Web Link
Aerial View of Gunn High School:
Web Link
Both of these schools are barely using 40% of the area of the school site for their educational/instructional purpose.
The elementary schools often show the same 40% use footprint, making additional 2nd story additions obvious answers to their growth requirements.
a resident of College Terrace
on Jan 11, 2013 at 4:25 pm
"Land is valuable around here and the school district should not have disposed of it so cavalierly. Thank goodness there was strong opposition to getting rid of Gunn! Maybe there would be a huge private high school or a high tech business campus there now."
They would have moved the middle school to the Gunn campus. PAUSD cannot sell the land at Gunn because it doesn't own it. Stanford does.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Jan 11, 2013 at 4:37 pm
> Maybe there would be a huge private high school or a high
> tech business campus there now."
No, not likely. As I understand it, the land reverts to Stanford control if the PAUSD ceases to use it for a school. If it were to be used for a private school, it would have to obtain Stanford's consent, and negotiate an acceptable lease with the University.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jan 11, 2013 at 5:13 pm
Stanford doesn't sell their land, they lease it.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jan 11, 2013 at 6:55 pm
I bet Stanford would have leased it out to somebody. I highly doubt such a visible plot of land as the one occupied by Gunn High, a key public high school, would be left vacant. Thank goodness they didn't close that school.
-From a Gunn alumna.
a resident of Adobe-Meadow
on Jan 11, 2013 at 11:30 pm
@Wayne Martin; EXACTLY!!!!!!!!! Why our district is eliminating playing fields and grassy areas for our kids to run and play rather than re-building existing one-story buildings into two-story is beyond me. I have to believe their is some rationale other than short-term cost savings or my head would explode.
@neighbor: PAUSD still owns 27 acres of Cubberley while the city owns 8 acres. PAUSD leases their 27 acres to the city for 6 or 7 million dollars a year. Nice income for PAUSD and they can take it back in the future if that is the most cost-effective use. I raise this because it's one of the smart things PAUSD did when it came to property.
a resident of Barron Park
on Jan 11, 2013 at 11:31 pm
You guys are missing the point. If Gunn closed, the middle school would have been moved there. PAUSD had no desire to have the land revert back to Stanford. Now, would they have then sold the land that JLS is on?
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jan 12, 2013 at 4:06 pm
They sold Terman to the City, now with the cooperation of the City they bought it back. However, the City still owns the playing fields at Terman.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jan 13, 2013 at 12:44 am
The city is giving back Cubberley and has wanted to for years. PAUSD's responsibility is to educate our kids, not to be a landlord to make a small fraction of the total budget at the expense of strategic facilities planning.
The above push to go two-story is kneejerk and the result of poor understanding of what is happening and the issues.
The district IS building up. Much of the new construction IS two story, even though it is hugely costly for less benefit than posters assume. Refer to p. 64 of State of CA
Public School Construction Cost Reduction Guidelines:
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"In general, it is not cost effective to use multistory construction just to save land cost. The multistory construction cost is more expensive than one story, and generally there is not a significant reduction in land usage (and therefore cost) to offset the additional construction cost."
The document suggests remedies which our district did not pursue in earnest.
Smart single-story redesign could have done a better job modernizing our campuses, because it would have let us redo far more of the campuses for the same money and probably rebuild Cubberley in the budget, because per square foot, it's simply much, much cheaper to build and operate. Redesigning larger swaths of the campuses with smarter one-story designs, and at the high school level, making Gunn and Paly SMALLER schools (rather than LARGER as currently, while rebuilding and reopening Cubberley) would have allowed for more open space at all. Multistory buildings cut off sunlight and close in campuses in other ways. Regardless, the current patchwork is the most expensive thing we could have done, accomplishing the least overall.
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Jan 14, 2013 at 3:34 pm
Hate to be a fly in the ointment but isn't the traffic almost unbearable in the mornings on Arastradero now. Another school there?
a resident of Crescent Park
on Jan 14, 2013 at 4:02 pm
It's not another school...it's expanding the existing school in place of an already existing private school.
Same purpose and usage...just changing over to public instead of private school usage.


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Ashanti Interviews Nelly About Hip-Hop, Chris Brown and Women's Thighs
Well, this is awkward. Ashanti, who is a correspondent for Fuse TV, interviewed her ex-boo Nelly. WTF?
Of course, the pair broke up a few years ago and are on good terms so this shouldn't be too uncomfortable for them, right?
During their 'Artist to Artist' interview, 'Shanti asks the St. Louis rhymer a few questions on how hip-hop has evolved from when he started to now. Nelly cites the digital age and social media being the biggest change for the genre.
Oddly, the R&B songbird then followed up with a question about Nelly's collaboration with Chris Brown on 'Merry Go Round,' which was released last year. This made us scratch our heads and wonder why she didn't ask him about his latest single, 'Hey, Porsche.' Hmmm? Did Fuse TV dump an old interview on us?
Ashanti then asks the 'Hot in Herre' rapper what he looks for in a woman, which seems like a weird topic to bring up since he once dated her. But Nelly gives an answer that we can't help but giggle at. "A nice set of thighs helps," he tells her. Oh behave, Nelly.
Finally, Nelly offers one quick tidbit of what he would have told himself back in 2000, when he first started blowing up with his chart-topping single, 'Country Grammar.'
"What I would tell myself [back] then is that appreciate what you are about to accomplish a little bit more while you doing it," he says. "Because it goes so fast and you never really soak that up…[until you look back]."
Overall, an entertaining and not so awkward moment between the two former lovebirds.
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