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suziryder 5 years
I love salt on the rim of my margaritas. Yum! Although a sugar rim has its place, too...
Talldiva45 5 years
No salt...not a fan on salt on anything in general.
MsMO 5 years
Sugar on my glass please!
Lyngay 5 years
No salt on my 'ritas, either. I love salt, just not in my beverages.
hyzenthlay20 5 years
Salt if it's a non-blended margarita. I don't like salt on the rim for blended margaritas . . . but for true margaritas, it is SO GOOD!
miamixo 5 years
I like salt on my glass...YUM!
superfoxml 5 years
I really don't like salt on my ritas,
fuzzles 5 years
Beer + green olives = a Milwaukee Martini!
Pampire 5 years
I love salt but not with my margaritas! Some people drink their beer with salt too!
shoneyjoe 5 years
Salt is delicious.
Spectra 5 years
I love salt...salty margaritas are a definite must.
MeggyPoodles 5 years
danizzle, i'm with you! i prefer sugar over salt on my margs.
danizzle 5 years
mmmm how about sugar? i love patron pomegranate margaritas with a sugar rim..try it! :)
doogirl 5 years
I prefer my tequila in shot form!
filmgirl81 5 years
salt all the way please!
simplyfab87 5 years
No salt, it ruins the drink for me
fuzzles 5 years
Bon AppeOink, Chieftain!
Food 5 years
I like tequila shots, but for some reason, the salt is just too intense on the rim of a margarita.
mamasitamalita 5 years
omg party such a good idea!!!!! to me it all depends on the margarita... I make a really legit one with real lime juice and limeade concentrate, so its tart and salt would mess it up, but if im out and they use sweet and sour or margarita mix, the salt can cut the sugary taste
chiefdishwasher 5 years
Hmmmm......fuzzles has a good idea!
fuzzles 5 years
Bacon rimmed, all the way!
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I like salt, but even better is a spicy mixture of salt and chili powder!
chiefdishwasher 5 years
Lips that touch liquor will never touch mine.........................................not! But no salt!


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My partner and I decided to go to Hawaii as we had never been before.. We were booked into the Hilton Hawaiian Village by our travel agent. I was quite surprised at how much it cost for 5 nights for a "partial ocean view room" (You only see the ocean when you stand on your deck and look sideways). You may as well pay for a room without a view.
We arrived on the Friday night, check in was fast, but the girl on reception treated us just like a number, I asked how full the place was and she said 100% full, so no chance of an upgrade there. We watched the fireworks which was pretty cool, a nice welcome to the island. Then decided after our 6 hour flight we would go get some dinner at the tropics restaurant, we were told it will be a 45minute wait. What the? Luckily the Italian restaurant on site had room available in the bar area and we ordered dinner and cocktails there. The cocktails were delicious, and the staff there very friendly and accommodating. As a side note we had an early dinner one night at the tropics bar (it was 4:30pm) we managed to get a table by the beach. We ordered a pesto and chicken pizza and some fries, and I have never seen anything so bad, we took two bites and left the rest. Imagine a dogs dinner, and that's what it looked like. After that we decided to eat out of the resort for lunch & dinner.
The ABC stores on site are overpriced, we brought pineapple and sugary cereal for breakfast everyday and the pineapple cost $3.99 for a small plastic container of it. Isn't Pineapple grown on the Island??! It was very tasty pineapple, but I just think it should be cheaper.
We were in the Tapa tower, unfortunately its a bit dated, instead of trying to sell us their timeshare stuff they should spend the money on upgrading this resort. I hear the rainbow tower is more modern. Our bed was nice and comfy, but no jug to boil hot water for cup of tea. You pay $25 resort fee daily for internet, movies, and resort tours of which we didn't use. You come out of the lifts and its like walking into a shopping mall, its so busy with people everywhere. The first night we found it hard to get to sleep, you can hear people slamming their doors in the rooms around you. Even if they don't slam them, they shut really nosily. Then the room next to us had some idiot banging and kicking the door, he had obviously got drunk and left his key with his friend in the room. This happened 2 our of the 5 nights, the second time it was a bunch of teenagers yelling and carrying on down the hallways. One of the nights we called security and they were excellent and came up straight away to deal with the noise. But you shouldn't have to put earplugs in when your staying at a resort.
On a positive note, the location of the resort is great, its right on the beach, and 10min walk to the city. We had our most fun at the beach, and laying by the pool one of the days drinking cocktails. If your a family, or you love crowds, perhaps this is the place for you, but if your a couple I would choose somewhere else.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is a movie based on the Disneyland Park area that aims to get back to the original '50s-style futurist vision that inspired Walt when he built the park. Starring George Clooney and directed by The Incredibles' Brad Bird, the picture is far less dark and bombastic than what you're getting from most of the sci-fi/superhero franchises out there lately.
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Vollen Bakeri: A genuine local, top quality bakery
This is a wonderful local bakery that produces their own stuff , not some kind of factory outlet. They are linked to Kafe Oscar (see my tip).
They produce a wide selection of fairly traditional cakes and breads, and do things by order, too.
They are consistently using ecologically certified raw materials.
Favorite Dish: Youghurt bread and the "Vollen Bread".
And terrifyingly, a lot of different cakes....
For Christmas I will order their "kransekake", a towering dry almondpaste cake (not marzipan) that is absolutely delicious.... They apparently have success with making these to order.
Open: Mon-Sat 9-17, Sun 10-17 during regular working hours.
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Super Kebab House: At Bjerkås, surprisingly tasty food, big menu
I am not a fast food fan. But there is fastfood and fast food. And some food you reserve for fasting, and some places you go after a fast.
What's behind a menu? Good food entrepreneurs who come out of a family cooking tradition and who love satsified customers. and no chain restaurants....
For the average fast kebab eaters there are kebabs, and large servings. The finer script on the meny reads also Indian food. In this fairly unlikely localtion for indian food, none of the Indian food has been left floating in a pan for half a day. Nor du you get the same sauce on yur chicken curry as with the rogan josh. It's all cooked to order. Forget the kebabs - the Indian food here is great, affordable and honest.
Open Mon-Fri: 11:00-22:00; Sat-Sun: 12:00-22:00.
Favorite Dish: Lamb curry. Very good. The other stuff is also good. Big servings, all condiments arrive unasked for, like raita.
Take out, delivery, too.
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Big Horn Steak House: For carnivores....
Big Horn Steak House is a chain restaurant that just opened a branch in Asker, too.
The specialty is beef steaks, but they do have lots of variations of that theme, as well as some game meat and good salads.
You write your own order where you indicate how you want your steak done. Quite an informal place, and the prices aren't over the top. Slightly western decor inside.
Opening hours: Mon-Wed 16-22, Thu-Sat 16-23, Sun 15-22
Favorite Dish: Mexican beef steak - grilled
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several: Cost of beer in Asker
The price difference of beer ranges up to NOK 30 for half a litre. If you are a beer dog, beware of Baracoa outside Asker Kulturhus (centre) that have some kind of happy hour until 5 pm, NOK 46 per 0,5 L. Not exactly a bargain, but... The same place charges NOK 53 for the same after 5 pm. Pavarotti at Vollen, a very nice and maritime eatery charges NOK 58 for its pint, Misto in Asker centre NOK 59. The most expensive is at snobbish Holmen Fjordhotell where a 0,44 L cost NOK 55=NOK 69 per half litre, enough for an involuntary mouth to mouth resuciation afterwards. Hvalstrand, also upmarket, but at least you know what you are in for, will charge NOK 49 per 0,4 L= NOK 61 for the pint.
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Coopting a neigbouring municipality restaurant again, Skytterkollen serves excellent food. So good that people travel from afar to get here.
Serves up hearty meals based on game and fish. Their red deer steaks are great.
Need to prebook during weekends.
Located near a shooting range, and originally established as some sort of club house for the shooting club, it is now a restaurant and a day conference centre in its own right.
Excellent hikig nearby, and many people combine a day hike with dinner upon returning to the Skytterkollen car park.
Favorite Dish: Wild game, deer or roe deer preferably.
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Tveter Gård (farm): Restaurant in the countryside
Tveter Gård is a municipally owned farm at Semsvannet lake just above Asker centre. While farming jher is obsolete, there are other activities in tha area. Considered the most beauriful farm in Asker. The main market is the local one and they regularly hold Sunday dinners, special events, holidays and connect food service to their other cultural and sports activities. Linked to the reknown (in oslo area at least...) restaurant company "Sult". See web site for further details.
Favorite Dish: Specials vary from time to time and season to season.
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Pose og Sekk or Vollen Grillservice: Your own BBQ party
Asker is a summer consicentous community and a local friend told me when I needed a part-size grill/BBQ that surely there must be someone renting out such ones?
So, through local research I came across the Vollen Grillservice also called Pose og Sekk, run by Christian Reffheng in Heggedal.
Cost of a medium sized grill (I did for 25 people), coal, delivery, cleaning and pick up was NOK 725 per day/night.
They can also do the actual provisioning of the food, the BBQing etc. also, but it is not a real catering company. Odd place, difficult access etc no problem.
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Dolly Dimple's: Dolly Dimple's in Asker
Dolly Dimple's is part of a large internatinal chain and thus not very exciting, and rather predictable. But they do good quick dinners and very good pizza for the Askerianians ("askerbøringene").
They have a sit-down option, take home-option or they-bring-option.
Favorite Dish: Got to be pizza.
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Kosmos: Mexican out, Kosmos in!
After saying good-bye to our Mexican fav Mucho Mas (you still find their restaurant in Oslo), Kosmos has moved in on the same premises.
Aiming at being a family restaurant for a modern and well travelled clinetele, there isn't much that sounds like Norway on the menu. Nor do they seem to have much in terms of a food line. Very eclectic, in other words, and something for everybody, presumably. Very close to an American diner. Sort of place I think I would tire from, I like profile and ethnicity and strength in one direction or the other.
Favorite Dish: Tuna salad is good here!
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Misto: Misto, a place I have not been to...
OK, got to admit it; I never went here.
But let me list it for future review:
Misto mixes a cafè and restuarnat concept, they do parties, Christmas buffets and catering, take-out, contains a delicatessen shop and food gift shop. How could I have missed it????
Favorite Dish: - need to try it out first...
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Haveli: Asker's only South Asian
Haveli will probably object to being ticked off as Indian restaurant (VT categories...). They proudly advertise themselves as Haveli Pakistani Tandoori Restaurant. With a sizeable Pakistani local population also frequenting Haveli, the food got to be good.
Given that apart from Nagina's over in Sandvika it's also the only South-Asian (diplomacy employed here...) food restaurant in Asker, there is little other choice...
Outdoor serving also.
Open Mon-Sat 15-23, Sun 14-22.
Favorite Dish: Tandooris here are good.
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Intermezzo Cafe/restaurant: Lunch in Asker centre - Intermezzo
Intermezzo is located in Trekanten shopping centre.
The food is youngish oriented, international with a bit of fashion flavour to it. Here you can get a variety from sushi to tapas, but it's the lunch menu that stands out. Good set lunches.
Open Mon-Thu 11-24, Fri, Sat 11-01, Sun 15-23.
Age limit 20 yrs after 8pm.
Favorite Dish: Lunch menus. Food in a dead shopping centre after hours isn't my thing.
I went here recently again, with others including children. The service was very bad, waiters inflexible when it came to adjust the food to children's needs, the portions small and prices high. I felt there was more focus style and design and Asican chic rather than service and actual food for the stomach.
Not recommended for people with children.
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These are all eateries located in the Trekanten shopping centre:
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Haveli Tandoori (separate tip) 66784200
Intermezzo (separate tip) 66795760
Haveli Kaffebar 66900728
Kulinaris 48030527
Lille Trille (separate tip) 48154321
Petit Chocolaterie 98236925
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EUR ASIA Internasjonal Mat: Missing Asia? Help is on the way
Not a restaurant, but a pan-Asian grocery located in Sandvika. If you live in Asker or visit Asker for prolonged holidays (or a picnic in one of the nice coves here), you can stop by Sandvika - by car, bus or train - and do your Asian grocieries and other food items and necessities shopping here at EUR ASIA International Food.
Open: Mon-Fri 9-19, Sat 9-18, Sun 12-18.
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Tangen Pizzakro: Pizza while waiting for the Asker islands boat
Down by the harbour in Sandvika some 10 km east of Asker you will find Tangen Pizzakro, open Mon-Thu10-24, Fri-Sat 10-02:30, Sun 12-24.
If you missed your boat out to the islands of Asker/Bærum ("Rigmor," see transportation tip), you can crash here and burn your time coiled around a pizza. Or, when coming back from a sunny day on the islands, or Kalvøya with the kids, drop by here for an easy dinner that makes everyone happy, including the cook.
Outdoor and indoor, take-out.
Some sort of happy hours 16-21, but I did not investigate whether this was valid for drinks too!? Doesn't sound real in this country.
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I went through some of my old stuff from my Elementary days, and most of it was when I thought i wanted to be an artist caused I loved drawing.
Who would have thought I found my old drawings of cartoons, specifically DBZ and Sailor Moon.
I drew Tuxedo Mask and I drew all of the sailor's pens that they used for their transformation sequences, and even Serena's (english name) brooch.
This is what got me into anime, some 12+ years later. Sailor Moon was the pinnacle of my fandom into anime. Which I didn't know it was anime back then.
Great articles, lots of history about just getting the show that I knew, but this expanded it even more
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|I was pretty young myself, but I do remember catching that rabbit episode (09) of Dragon Ball on UPN, and a bunch of Sailor Moon in the morning. So when it came onto Toonami years later, it felt like a rerun to me despite not having seen all of it. I can't remember any other anime from that time, aside from the occasional OVA or movie on Sci-Fi's Saturday Morning block; wouldn't that make a nice column.
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I'm REALLY curious to know if anyone here, regardless of what age, had their fan art shown on Toonami or knew people who had their fan art shown whether it was Sailor Moon or whatever else.
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I was one of those few kids who caught Sailor Moon in that first early morning syndication, and it fascinated me in a way that few others shows of the time did. In those days, there were no female leads in animated shows (because some execs decided boys would think them icky and not watch, a notion which is fading but not entirely gone). It looked completely different from anything I had seen before, and I still remember fondly all the drama that came with that first season finale, where Serena and Darien had to reveal their secret identities to one another, as well as the ultimate battle between Beryl and Sailor Moon in Princess mode. To my junior-high self, it was some quality drama and it more than made up for the repetive nature of the show the rest of the time.
I tried to catch it as much as I could when it moved to Toonami, but they showed it at 2:30 PM locally, so unless we had the day off from school or an early dismissal, I didn't get to watch it very much.
Sadly, junior high me never connected that this Sailor Moon show was connected to the larger world of anime, so I never considered seeking it out on video or DVD. By the time I was an anime fan, those DVDs were long gone and outside of the singles for Seasons 3 and 4, way out of my price range. My boyfriend's brother has those ADV boxsets, along with the one for Season 3, and I still stare at those things with naked envy and longing. At least my library has the S movie, which is OK for being essentially an extended episode. I will agree that Promise of the Rose is the best of the movies, and I could ever find a decently priced copy, I would snatch it up in a heartbeat.
I've really been enjoying the manga and it's one of the few I've been keeping up with as it's released. It's a lot more focused, plot-wise, than the show was, and I like that Mamoru/Tuxedo Mask has a much larger and more useful role to play than to toss roses, make a speech, and bugger off. Of course, it goes without saying that I look forward to the new anime, and I hope that its creation and inevitable licencing in the US just might spur a licence rescue for that first show. I wouldn't necessarily need it redubbed - I would just like to have the whole thing, so I could savor something that made me so happy as a kid.
Also, since you asked, my favorite sailors are the Outer Senshi. Uranus and Neptune were just so cool with their "we'll help you if it suits our needs' attitude, and I've always been fond of Pluto for some reason. I can never tell if it's the fact that she controls time or just some little-girl-esque fascination with her long, dark hair and big-ass key.
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This is what got me into all this Japanese cartoon nonsense for sure - I still remember trying (and usually failing, but trying!!) to get up in the morning to watch however much of it I could catch. It sure was a relief when it aired on Toonami reliably.
I do remember watching it one early morning with a friend and seeing the episode where that certain doomed romance came to its end - totally shocking stuff at the time.
Sailor Mercury was my favorite back as a kid, so I guess I'm among those people.
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I remember watching Sailor Moon at godless hours of the morning when I was a child. During the summer, I would religiously rise early to watch The Sci-Fi Channel's 'Animation Station' (they changed it to something else later), which showed a mix of series from Robotech to Bionic Six to some weird thing that involved time travel and laser tag. Oh yeah, and Captain Scarlet! I don't remember if Sailor Moon aired before it or during some show that I preferred to miss, but I know that I did see it quite often.
I never quite liked it, but something about it kept me from abandoning it. I think part of it was the fact that it featured girls doing the fighting. I faintly remember wanting to see more female characters in active roles even as a child. (I was a weird kid, I guess) The way that the fighting in Sailor Moon played out with the Sailor Scouts getting knocked around for an act or two until Sailor Moon just got it over with by throwing jewelry at the baddies or Tuxedo Mask (I hated Tuxedo Mask) showed up, annoyed me, but it was refreshing. Besides, I think that I might have dug Sailor Jupiter a little. (I'm not sure if I was old enough at that point to appreciate how 'talented' she was or not; I just thought that she was cool)
I remember it being shown on Toonami too. I used to want it to be replaced by something else, but that was, in retrospect, silly of me.
I never really grasped its popularity back then. I was a weird nerd, so if I liked something, nobody else had heard of it and it was probably doomed to early cancellation. (Or, as was the case for my beloved The Critic, already cancelled by the time that I saw it) The only contemporary inkling that I had was during a field trip to an elementary school for high school creative writing class. We had to write children's books and read them to the students at an elementary school. Afterward, we played hangman with them. My choice of word, bagpipes, flummoxed them, but another student in my class got raves by choosing Sailor Moon and briefly stumping for the show too. She never struck me as the nerd type, which I didn't realize as remarkable at the time.
I saw Dragonball Z in syndication a few times, but now that I think of it, I watched more, and liked more, Sailor Moon than Dragonball Z, although I'm not much for either franchise.
Still, I'm very curious to see what the new series turns out to be. Could be fun. Maybe I've just been in denial.
Wouldn't the opposite of a boycott be a girlcott? Well, probably not that either. It's derived from a proper name, so don't know if it's even morphologically divisible.
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|I'm bit of sailor Jupiter fan myself due to her tomboyish attitude, kick-ass nature etc. Also great article I didn't know how much trouble sailor moon had to go through to get all the seasons we did have. holy crap.
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At which point I nearly died choking on the water I was drinking.
UGH those Tokyopop manga releases... I was fine with the translation, 90's as it was, but jeez did my young heart break when the pages started falling out of some of the volumes. As someone who takes pretty good care of my books, it really freaked me out.
I've always been a Venus girl. Jupiter was my second favorite, but Venus really resonated with me.
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|i can't wait for the sailor moon remake i have all the first 5 mangas the new ones i only have to get the volume 10 with eternal sailor mini(chibi) moon on it like until the last volume COMES OUT NEXT YEAR Yep EVEN THE sailor moon reboot anime is coming next year too how cool i love sailor mars/raye hino she's my top sailor scout of all time!
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|The sailor scout I always preferred was Venus, I have no idea why Sailor Mercury was the most popular sailor scout, she barely twirls when she transforms.
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I watched my first episode of Sailor Moon in 2010. So I have none of the nostalgia for this series. And to be quite honest, this show is pretty bad. There are a number of similar shoujo series that came before and after Sailor Moon that are quite better, and it's a pity they never made it over here (although it should be said that Sailor Moon is arguably the most accessible). But looking at Sailor Moon today, it is a bad show. The artwork on the first season is terrible, even for early nineties. And while the writing has it's moments, the whole reset button really sucked. Not that killing everyone off would have been better (although it would have prevented Chibi-Usa, whom I shall henceforth refer to as Scrappy) but the reset completely invalidates all the sacrifices previously made, turning the story into a complete wash. Sailor Moon R has a much better animation and character writing, but the plot does have not holes inasmuch as it is just one big hole in it's entirety. If you complied a list of 'Things Not To Do in a Time Travel Story', Sailor Moon R would have done all of them. Sailor Moon S is pretty good, all things considered, the villains are compelling, the characters are interesting, and the show flows really well. Scrappy does show up again (I believe the International Astronomical Union's decision to demote Pluto was based entirely on the fact that Sailor Pluto wouldn't stop Scrappy from time traveling), but she was toned down enough not be that annoying. Sailor Moon SuperS, which I'm have currently watched about a third, is really bad again. Scrappy is now front and center and the other Sailors are basically ignored, with several episodes where they don't even appear. There is also the problem of villain escalation--every villain has to be badder than the next, and so now they only way they can win is to use the powers of a mystical pegasus, despite the fact that the villains are often utterly incompetent. It turns the battles (and Sailor Moon has been able to do some real good battle scenes) into jokes.
In the whole, Sailor Moon is a rather mediocre series. And it would have been another one of those forgotten shoujo series in America, if it didn't hit at the just the right nexus of history to propel itself in to fame. For that it should be celebrated. For its quality--eh, not so much.
//Favorite Sailor is Mercury, because she's so cute.
///I have to pick up the pace, I want to finish all of it before the new season airs.
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Oh man, I used to have that Moon Cycle. Actually, all three of the Sailor Moon films (R included) are 60 minutes a pop, not 40. I happen to have marathoned the trilogy Friday night with my cousins. Good times!
Sailor Jupiter was always my favorite, before the Uranus/Neptune romance won me over. Hng.
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I was lucky enough to catch Sailor Moon the day it premiered on Toonami. Normally my afternoons were spent watching reruns of Spider-Man on Fox Kids, but that day I decided to see what else was on (probably because it was a Hydro-Man episode, blecch), and when I saw this I was instantly hooked.
My favorite as a kid was Mars because she was so tough, but watching it again a few years ago, I just hated her attitude. If I had to pick one today, it would probably be have to be Jupiter, mostly for her thighs.
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Sailor Moon not only got me into anime (bright and early every day while I was getting ready for school, before I even knew it was anime or that anime existed), but led me to some of my best friends (two of my bridesmaids were girls I met through a Sailor Moon RPG mailing list almost a decade earlier). It's more than a show, it's an entire era of my life. I'm buying the Kodansha manga re-releases now, and thoroughly enjoying the nostalgia. Based on how much I love them, and how much I loved the live-action drama, I expect to be addicted to the new show next year.
My favorite senshi is Sailor Uranus. Reading character summaries online before I ever got to see Sailor Moon S (seriously, "Sailor Moon" was the first internet search I ever performed), she seemed like such a bada** that I couldn't wait to actually see her on tv--and she was just as awesome as I expected (not just a tough fighter, but with a strong sense of duty as well). I had to sell a lot of my Sailor Moon collectibles, but I still have a whole shelf of Sailor Uranus figures. I'm so excited about being able to buy new figures when the new show comes out
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|I was always a Neptune fan, because I saw pictures of all the Sailors before I even saw the series and liked her appearance and character description the best.
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According to Billboard Russian authorities have denied a visa request from pop singer Selena Gomez. The singer was to perform in Minsk, Belarus and Kiev, Ukraine and next week in St. Petersburg, but all of the performances have been removed from her intinerary.
Organizers of the tour believe that the visa denial is the result of Russia's new law banning "propaganda" promoting non-traditional sexual relationships. Gomez has openly supported gay rights, and joins fellow entertainers Madonna and Lady Gaga who have also been affected by the law.
Gomez's planned trip to Russia inspired gay rights activist John Becker to launch a Change.org petition urging the singer to "stand up for Russia's LGBT community" while touring the country. Since news of the concert cancellations, the petition has received more than 10,000 signatures
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Kerry Brown: Hu Jintao's Legacy
Kerry Brown is professor of Chinese politics and director of the China Studies Center at the University of Sydney and team leader of the Europe China Research and Advice Network.
The most noticeable feature of China's outgoing president, Hu Jintao, is his dullness. In his 10 years in power, he's on record making one joke: about hair dye. His dullness is even more startling because the county he heads is one of the most dynamic, fractious, and energetic places on Earth. Although Hu presents a blank face to the world and speaks only in the sterile, generic language of Chinese officialdom, the cities he oversees can change beyond recognition in weeks. Skyscrapers race up, sometimes as fast as a floor a day. Since Hu came to power in 2002, the country has built a multibillion-dollar high-speed rail network from scratch. As the world's eyes turned to China for the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in 2008, Hu simply declared, "The Beijing 2008 Games have opened." Those connected to the party secretary say, with absolute finality, that their leader doesn't do emotion.
Hu's dullness, however, stems from his immense self-control, and it is an integral part of a political personality one can only assume, in the highly strategic world of elite Chinese politics, was chosen very early on. Early biographies state that while a student at Qinghua in the 1960s, Hu was a keen dancer. When did he lose this slight hint of spontaneity? In his decade in power, Hu has maintained rigid control over the nine members of the Politburo Standing Committee, the absolute summit of decision-making in China, which in turn maintained a strong grip on Chinese society. The disgrace of key leaders, like former Shanghai party secretary Chen Liangyu in 2006 and Chongqing party secretary Bo Xilai in March, led to no noticeable fissures or dissent. Hu has adroitly handled unpleasant surprises, like the Tibetan riots in 2008, albeit with vast influxes of central funding and security spending. (Makers of close-circuit televisions in China have grown rich under Hu; rare for a country not fighting an armed rebellion or a civil war, spending on internal policing has outpaced national defense.)
But the world's most cautious, most seemingly egoless leader has made a massive gamble, the results of which will determine his legitimacy. Hu has bet that his half-decade-long strategy of pursuing economic growth instead of political or legal reform will be proven right. He hopes that China does not have to address its immense governance issues until it is wealthy enough to deal with them in a way that minimizes risk. Many party analysts believe that Soviet leaders' decision to reform politics before fixing the economy caused the fall of the Soviet Union: By ensuring strong growth, Hu ensured that China would not repeat the same mistake -- at least not on his watch. But as Hu and his Standing Committee colleagues have focused nearly single-mindedly on growth, the hard and soft costs of policing an increasingly unbalanced China have been rising sharply...
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There is so much to see and do in the Lake District, so whether you are here on a short hotel break in the Lakes or just visiting the area for the day, here are five of our favourite easy walks with children. Continue reading
Blencathra – An Emotional Ownership
Lancaster House General Manager and keen fell walker, Tim Bell, tells us why this mountain is deserving of a special place in his heart.
Growing up in the North Cumbrian town of Penrith, the view directly west from my home was the distinctive and unique shape of "Saddleback", or better known as "Blencathra". It rises majestically and powerfully on its own from the gently undulating, low-lying moors which separate Keswick and the market town where I spent the first 18 years of my life. Continue reading
A summer walk on a Lakeland Legend: Helvellyn
When Tim Bell, General Manager at Lancaster House isn't exploring local Lancashire walks and attractions on his doorstep, he also enjoys hoping across the boarder to Cumbria. Making the most of the fine weather, Tim heads up one of our most famous mountains…
With the heralding of summer, and the (theoretical) elimination of the risks of ice and snow in the Lakeland fells, for me this change of environmental conditions opens up the ability to tackle walks that one wouldn't even contemplate undertaking in wintry conditions.
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A Family Day Out to Ingleton Waterfalls
Naturally, as a Cumbrian-based company, we're a little biased sometimes celebrating the seasonally changing beauty and countryside of the Lake District. Lancaster House also lies just 20 miles from another great National Park, the Yorkshire Dales, and I've been out with my family exploring one of the jewels in the Yorkshire crown.
A little under half an hour's drive from the hotel is the picture-postcard village of Ingleton. Home to many a quaint gift shop, tea room, but also one of the Yorkshire Dales' most iconic attractions, the famous Waterfalls walk.
Seen Send: the Next Generation of Art inspired by the Lake District
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By using the hashtag #seensend on twitter users can send their images to J.A.C. who will select three that inspire him the most. He will send the winner a copy of the art they have influenced free of charge.
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Charity 3 Peaks Challenge: Sometimes, you just have to ask yourself "Why?"
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The second guest blog post from Tim Bell (General Manager of Lancaster House Hotel) and his team as they prepare for the ultimate British Mountain Challenge – Ben Nevis, Sca Fell Pike & Snowdon in 24 hours in aid of English Lakes Hotels sponsored charities Open Arms International and the Primrose House Trust. Follow the teams progress here and on Facebook with further information on how to donate to the charities to follow soon.
Saturday night, and it's the aftermath of another walk. This one felt a
little different though to last week's disorientating snow-scramble up
Helvellyn. Sure, it was fun, scenic, peaceful – all the usual stuff I look for
in a good Lakeland Trek. But this one was……well……erm……kinda…..it's
hard to put my finger on it. Oh, I've got it! It was "5 HOURS OF FEMUR-BENDING,
But do you know what? Now that my body has been submerged for 1 hour in a
deep bath consisting of 5% water and 95% radox, and my heart-rate no longer
sounds like the kind of frantic drum beats that can often be heard bellowing
from those Vauxhall Corsa's dressed up in Halford's accessories, I can still
look back on today's experience and pigeon-hole it into the "Yeh, that was a
good day" box. I like that box, and I think I need to get a bigger one.
walk and the plight of the ozone layer, (and my colleagues and friends will tell
you that I REALLY can waffle! In fact, I waffle so much, I come with choice of 2
toppings), I guess I must address the question posed in the title of this
do warn you now, are not pretty! First and foremost, it's the pain! Starting in
your lungs, your ever-increasing pulse seems to accelerate wave after wave of
muscle-stretching anguish to every fibre and nerve-ending in your body. Granted,
I'm sure this doesn't happen to everyone, especially those "zero-fat" lunatics
who actually run up mountains for fun, but I think I represent the average
person here. I like a beer or two, enjoy a slab of red-meat when presented with
the opportunity. But the thought of spending my life looking like the character
from the pepparani adverts just to avoid mountain-induced pain isn't tempting!
And I'd probably be as angry as pepparani-guy if I ate the diet these guys
probably have to eat to stay that fit, and that thin! Leaves and moss probably!
And for anyone thinking there's an ounce of glamour in this pastime, forget it!
You sweat….a lot! The journey upwards is a constant battle with the
perspiration ducts. You start off with 4 layers because you've checked the
weather forecast and it looks a little ropey. And then you start the
ascent…..and then you turn into an onion! Before you know it, you're peeling
off every sweat-drenched layer until you realise that you're actually walking in
your Damart thermal underwear, and let's face it, it's no Ann Summers is it? You
reach the summit, it's flippin freezing, so you put all the creased clothes that
have been crammed in to your woefully small rucksack back on again, along with
the obligatory woolly hat. And that hat will truly re-shape even the most rigid,
wire-like of hair do's. I'm fortunate not to have a well-stocked barnet, but I
have seen hair-styles on those mountains that could only be likened to the
aftermath of a Bonfire…….after the Fire Brigade have emptied 1500 litres of
water on it!
imagination there.
snow yellow in front of your sister, and you now have to put the washing machine
on before a rainbow forms above your laundry pile. So, I ask myself
into your frozen ear and dig deep into the grey matter. Here I'm glad to say, it
all starts getting a whole lot better. Let's talk neurotransmitters. Serotonin
is released with the elation and happiness of accomplishing a mountain peak. Not
just once, but probably every time you recant the story of how good it felt to
stand at the summit and gaze upon that fantastic view. No doubt the great
outdoors and 6 hours of sun exposure will produce melatonin which helps keep the
happy levels above any "danger levels" and avoid those winter "blues". And then
there's endorphins which are released when actually doing exercise. Again,
bringing about a natural "high" and a feeling of elation. In short, we're
starting to feel good.
you're happy! And that happiness stays so much longer than the aching muscles,
blisters and the sweaty/mossy aroma on your Berghaus fleece. Actually, that last
part is not true, so just deal with it and buy a can of lynx.
even add a third or fourth flavour to my toppings menu. Experiences evoke
memories, and they stay with you forever, and no bio-detergent is ever going to
shift them! The changing scenery, the skies, the weather – they all add to the
richness of the outing and gives you plenty of waffle-fodder for years to come.
It can be a hugely sociable experience, spending hours with a good friend or
family member with no interruptions so one can talk until your hearts content.
Today for instance we covered relationships, favourite foods and even the funny
side of flatulence. And that's quite a subject! You occasionally come across
other walkers, and what a smashing bunch of people they all are! Always up for a
chat, and happy to share the tales of the mountain, past and present. After all,
they are here for the same reasons you are. However, every now and again you
will come across a large group of walkers, all of them keenly strolling their
way across the baron, steep fellsides, except for the one person who's 60ft
behind them and by the look on their face (which can only be likened to a
clenched fist), one can tell that they would rather be gorging on a Bic Mac and
watching the Hollyoaks Omnibus on this fine Sunday morning. That person clearly
isn't enjoying the experience, and probably volunteered themselves for something
that sounded like a fun stroll in the park. But I'm sure they will still get the
"chemical" thing, and I bet they will be back for more.
people, myself included will take a solitary stroll, deliberately choosing walks
where I know I won't bump into dozens of fellow ramblers. Sometimes, you just
need a little "me" time, a chance to think and digest the worries of the world
and put life back into clear perspective. It's not uncommon to meet perhaps just
1 or 2 people over a 6-hour stroll over certain Lakeland peaks. And who said the
Lake District was congested?
exercise, but in magical surroundings and who wants to hear about your 90-minute
treadmill work out?
anonymous solitary reader who wants to know. Well, today's route was, on paper,
a medium/hard walk taking in 4 peaks along the long Helvellyn range. However,
the Ordnance Survey didn't recognise the official route up to Calfhow Pike, and
I don't blame them. It was a full-on slog, with more silent swearing than I've
probably ever done before. I thought the west flank of Kirk Fell was tough, but
this was in a whole new ball park. Throw in some ice, constantly changing
temperatures and the knowledge that this ascent is only taking you to the lowest
of today's summits, and you've got yourself a classic ridge walk – a bucket load
of pain to get to the ridge plateau, then mile after mile of gentler, undulating
slopes which swallow up the "Wainwrights" effortlessly. Superb!
which is fantastic! I'm sure you've all got friends who would like to support
our group and its causes so please invite as many people as you can. We're
relying on you.
thing in to top gear. We'll have our justgiving.com link up soon and also full
details on the fantastic competition where all people who donate get the chance
to guess the exact time it will take us to do the challenge, and possibly win a
superb prize!
Thank you for reading, thank you for supporting and let's all make a
difference and raise money for our great charities Open Arms International & Primrose House Trust.
The 3-peakers
Charity 3 Peaks Challenge: It's got to start somewhere!
English Lakes Hotels Charity 3 Peaks Challenge
The first of many guest blog posts from Tim Bell (General Manager of Lancaster House Hotel) and his team as they prepare for the ultimate British Mountain Challenge – Ben Nevis, Sca Fell Pike & Snowdon in 24 hours in aid of English Lakes Hotels sponsored charities Open Arms International and the Primrose House Trust. Follow the teams progress here and on Facebook with further information on how to donate to the charities to follow soon.
So, it's the witching hour, March
3rd 2010 and yesterday I created a Facebook page for our 24-hour 3-peaks Charity
Challenge. The initial over-excitable idea once flirted over a cup of tea with
colleagues at work is now really starting to take serious momentum. Time to wake
up and smell the Bovril Tim!
Blog 1, and I guess this first encounter
should really tell you, the blog-reader (is there a "proper" term for them? If
so, then please let me know because I really need to be kept on the straight and
narrow with this type of thing!) where this whole crazy idea started and where
it initially intended to go.
Bit of background first I guess. I'm
Cumbrian born and bred, and like so many of us, I never truly really appreciated
what was on my doorstep. Sure, we spent family days in the Lakes when I was
young; Inflatable "Woolworths" dinghy's on the shores of Ullswater, my Uncle Ian
(and his set of small, black & white books about the Lake District, but more
of that later) lifting me effortlessly on to his shoulder's as we rambled though
Kentmere. Then there was camping with scouts in the cold, dense forests of
Lowther, and of course the compulsory school geology field-trips into deepest
Lakeland to see how Continental drift and Igneous intrusions had forged this
magnificent landscape. (zzzzzzzzz – How on earth did I remember
Did I appreciate it back then? Well, maybe I did, but only as much
as a kid or a teenager could ever expect to. Hey, my time was dedicated to BMX
bikes, accumulating a music collection to annoy my parents, and staring
endlessly at a poster of the famous page-3 girl, Maria Whittaker on my bedroom
wall. But times moved on, and so did my career and years spent moving from
county to county, from Berkshire to Perthshire, and several places in
But in winter 2003, I moved back to the North-west, to northern
Lancashire, and for me, as close to my original home as I would probably like to
be. I was nearer to my family, and my good friends in Manchester, and of course
the county of my birth, and the beautiful district it holds so proudly in its
boundary, like an artist
clutching their definitive masterpiece.
During the years and my various
career moves, the Lake District had grown in to something different in my mind,
something to be proud of and brag about to colleagues, something familiar and
yet mysterious. And here I was, back on its doorstep, and eager to forge a new
relationship with it, minus the woggles, text books and acne of
re-discovering the lakes, mainly from behind a steering wheel I must confess
though! And then one september afternoon in 2007 whilst camping at Parkfoot on
the shores of Ullswater, I convinced Sarah Garton that we should take a casual
stroll up one of those ominously beautiful peaks. Armed with nothing but a
bottle of Evian and a Twix Bar (which were consumed within about 30 minutes), we
headed up the Glenridding ascent of Helvellyn. No stepping stones here then. Sod
the "Helm Crags" and "Haystacks", let's go for a full on attempt of Lakeland's
most notorious summit. Perhaps Wainwright was spot on when he said of this
mountain – "….it is the objective and ambition of the tourist who does not
normally climb". I think if the great man knew what "LOL" meant, he would've
probably slipped this annoying abbreviation in to his pictorial guides as a sly
dig at every man or woman who felt the pain this under-estimated mountain can
bring to the novice, wet-eared walker.
I'm not going to bore you with the
gory details, but one can only describe that experience as an assault on every
sense my body feels! "Shock and Awe" hardly seems strong enough in this
instance. But this was a defining moment nonetheless, and it told me, in a
language as blunt as the great Cumbrian dialect itself, that :- a) I love this
place, and b) Thou's not in grand fettle Tim!
Two and bit years have now past
since that sweat-drenched, lung-stretching, muscle-breaking, but more
importantly – life changing day! Gone are the sleeveless Nike shirts, holiday
shorts and market-leading chocolate bars. They have been replaced by Berghaus
fleeces, Ronhill thermal layers, Camelbak ruck-sacs and Bananas. My love for the
Lakeland mountains is serious, and to truly appreciate them, my attire had to
step up to the mark too!
So when English Lakes Hotels
announced it's commitment to Open Arms International at the same time I joined the board of
trustees for Primrose House the answer to that ever-burning question –
"How can I do my bit to help?" became as clear as a mountain-top view on a
cloudless day! I've got to do the 3 peaks!
My sister had successfully done the
challenge the previous year, but somehow I never felt I could rise to that kind
of challenge. After all, she's been casually trotting up Sca Fell Pike and
various other "Top 10" mountains for several years now! But my love of this
pastime, combined with the desire to make a difference for those less fortunate
than myself, led me to make a commitment. And now in my 30's, I really am
conscious of my "101 things to do before I die", and this one ranks right up
there with the best of them! And let's face it, who's gonna trust me with a
Bugatti Veyron? Let's get realistic here!
So, here we are in March 2010, 3
months before the big "off", and we have now assembled a small but highly
dedicated clan of 6 volunteers willing to give up hours, neigh, day after day of
their precious free time to train hard, prepare, and actually "do" Britain's
biggest mountain challenge.
As I sit here now, I feel a
multitude of emotions about the whole thing. I'm excited sure! But I'm also
nervous and apprehensive. Dazed and confused, Motivated, but melancholy. Is this
the usual cocktail of feelings a "3-peaker" experiences? Maybe, maybe not. But
we're going to do it, and do it properly. We're going to raise money for two
great causes. I'm in no doubt that despite how much training we do between now
and June, we're going to go way beyond any physical boundaries we may have
previously set as our tolerable limit. I'm sure there will be sweat, tears and
blood, but hey, the latter doesn't bother me on the basis we have one of
Britain's best paramedics in tow.
So, I'm conscious that this first
blog has very much been "my story", but this whole thing isn't about me. It's
about a group of volunteers, who have made a commitment to raise money for two
great charities, doing something they love! Well, saying that, you'd find that
statement hard to believe if you heard the foul language that can emit from
one's mouth when tackling a particularly steep and frustrating mountain path. I
get the buzz from reaching the summit, others in the group get there's from the
adrenaline-fuelled rush of stretching one's physical limit. We're all different,
we do different things, in different ways, in different places. But we are bound
by our charitable goals and a love of the Lakeland mountains.
So, if you're still reading this,
"Congratulations!" You're either our biggest fan, or more probably, you've got
bugger all else to do and "Corry" isn't on tonight. Stay tuned reader!


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