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Review #21: Bull City Burger and Brewery (Durham, NC)
Scott's Review: Pittsburgh Style (Look At Me!)
On the surface, Bull City Burger and Brewery held so much promise: a great beer list, self-serve wine dispensers, Boylan fountain sodas (including Creme), that down-home, college-y atmosphere, and menu items with pleasingly weird names like "duck frites" and "bull nuts."
How can a burger joint that offers bull nuts not be fantastic?
To my dismay, Bull City's promise was not kept. The service was too spotty, the communal-style picnic tables too communal, the outdoor seating too overwhelmed by the WHIRR! of the A/C unit, and the food-ordering system—which featured having to stand in line yet again to add even the smallest item—just too annoying. But it's what really mattered, burgiatrically speaking, that left me feeling betrayed: The patty wasn't cooked correctly—and was just good, not great. Not much else to say about it because not much else stuck with me.
On the one hand, I might have been so annoyed by the aforementioned negative qualities to fully enjoy the burger, which really isn't fair. On the other hand, I might have been so annoyed by the aforementioned factors to fully enjoy the burger, which…well…is perfectly fair.
Scott's review: 2.75 out of 5.
Michael's Review: Pittsburgh Style (Look At Me!)
Bull City Burger and Brewery's way of doing business is an admirable one. It uses North Carolina pasture-raised beef, supporting local farmers. The leftover grain feeds the pigs it gets its bacon from, and it recycles the fry oil into bio-diesel. Moreover, BCBB bakes its own buns and makes its own condiments. As a fervent supporter of the local food movement, I applaud BCBB's efforts. It serves as a model of what a restaurant should be.
The burger was terrible. I had the BCBB burger of the day, which was served "Pittsburgh style," with "dirty fries," pickles, gruyere, and sweet slaw. The bun was chewy, actually requiring some forceful chewing to get through it at times. The patty was juicy and had good texture, but tasted as if it were marinated in Worcestershire sauce and coated in garlic salt. I ended up abandoning the bun and patty with about 20% left and just finished the toppings.
It pains me to give BCBB a bad review because I really like what it's trying to do. Now, if it put the same effort into its burgers as it does into its business practices, BCBB might have something. My rating is a 2.5.
John's Review: Build Your Own Burger (Classic Rocks)
Like Dr. Blumenthal, I disliked the layout and logistics of Bull City Burger and Brewery (BCBB). Like Dr. Marino, I applaud the focus on local support and the green approach, but I'm downright resentful of the burger.
Here's the thing…Anytime something is done differently, it'll strike a chord with some segment of the population and find followers. To those of you who love the ways in which BCBB and its burgers are different, please forgive me, for I am about to lay down some canonical burgiatric facts that are certain to offend your dilettante sensibilities.
If you have the word "burger" in the name of your establishment, you set high expectations for the burger-lovin' masses. You suggest that you know something about burger magic and that you can be counted on to deliver. Now, you won't get instant credit, and burger lovers will assume that you may not deliver true burger bliss, but they expect that you'll at least be in the ballpark. They expect that your burgers will taste something like burgers.
I ordered a standard Classic Rocks burger: cheese, pickles, lettuce, tomato, mayo. My expectations were soaring, based on the big B-word in the name and some of the buzz prior to the opening of the place. After waiting in line to order, then waiting in a separate line for a gin and tonic that I couldn't order at the main register 10 yards away from the bar, I jingled my change-laden pockets up a flight of stairs and joined my TSB brothers at an outdoor picnic table beneath the heavy drone of an HVAC unit, or similar industrial fan system. About 10 minutes later, an unpleasant "waiter" (grumpy food delivery person who can't take orders for a second drink, even if it's a soda) plunked an insult on a plate beneath my nose. It was served open-faced, with lettuce slip-slidin' against the top half of a dark bun, tomato adhered to the lettuce. On the bottom half of the bun was the patty, with cheese melted so thinly over it as to be difficult to discern, and (blink blink) a blob of mayo on the center of the patty. What the hell? "Pickles"—more like cucumber shavings in vinegar—were on the side.
I shook my head and reassembled. Scraped as much mayo onto the top bun as I could, placed a couple of "pickles" on the cheese, then lettuce, then tomato to meet and mingle with the mayo, as the canon dictates. I took a bite, with a last-minute flicker of optimism at the sight of the very fresh local ground beef. Alas, even that remaining hope was dashed—by heavy garlic, perhaps among other seasonings, worked into the patty. The bun was dense and chewy, with a wheaty flavor that combined with the funky "pickles" and over-seasoned patty to make this thing taste absolutely nothing like a cheeseburger.
It gives me no pleasure to write this review, and I was rooting for BCBB with high expectations and an appreciation for their business ethos. But BCBB made a promise by identifying itself as a burger place, then offended the burgiatric gods above with a blasphemy that shouldn't be called a cheeseburger at all. May those gods have mercy on BCBB. If you're a true and knowledgeable burger lover, go only out of morbid curiosity. If you could care less whether your cheeseburger tastes like a cheeseburger at all, go right ahead…you may very well like it.
Rating: .5
Update 03/15/2012: Scott and I revisited BCBB to do a review for WRAL Out & About and had a much better experience. Click here to check out our review.


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- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 09:00:29 -0600
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <email@example.com>
- cc: firstname.lastname@example.com
> >>> Sending 411 is HTTP/1.1 compliant. Failure to parse the chunked >>> encoding (and puking) would be non-compliance, but requiring a >>> content-length for a given resource is necessary for many reasons >>> (DoS and legacy system protection). >> >>This is a meaningless distinction. Consider this thought experiment: we have >>two HTTP servers, A and B. >> >>Server A can and does parse the chunked encoding. But it sends a 411 "Length >>Required" response with a "Connection: close" header in response to any >>request that does not include a "Content-Length" header. This is a compliant >>server. >> >>Server B understands no transfer-coding except "identity". It cannot receive >>or decode the "chunked" transfer-coding. It sends a 411 "Length Required" >>response with a "Connection: close" header in response to any request that >>does not include a "Content-Length" header. This is a non-compliant server. >> >>If we look at these servers as black boxes, observing their behavior only >>through their external interfaces, they are virtually indistinguishable >>(unless we look at the product tokens or something). So it's meanless to say >>that all HTTP/1.1 applications that receive entities must understand (be able >>to receive and decode) the =93chunked=94 transfer-coding. > >If the purpose of the text was to delineate one lame example from another, >then I'd agree with you. The reason it is there is to prevent an HTTP/1.1 >application from mistakenly thinking the chunked encoding is *no* encoding >and saving the chunk-sizes as part of the data. As far as the protocol >is concerned, recognizing Transfer-Encoding chunked, and responding with >411 and connection close, is equivalent to parsing the chunked encoding. > >Nobody is going to prevent you from building a server that responds with >411 to every request without implementing chunked. It would be a dumb >thing to do, but the standard doesn't prevent people from doing dumb things >(only things that won't interoperate with others via HTTP). > That's the clarification I was looking for. [Not that it's good news.] So, for interoperability, a client always needs to be prepared to fall back to Content-Length with "identity" transfer-coding, and it's just plain out of luck (or at least forced to buffer) if it cannot determine the message length in advance. Or should it fall back to HTTP/0.9 behavior and signal the end of the message by closing the connection? -Carl >....Roy >
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2nd. August 1972.
About this War Diary of mine!
My Dear Alan, Sheila, Mary and Murray.
I finished, two days ago, what I intended to be positively the last contribution to my side of the family story, quite certain that apart from minor corrections here and there nothing more could be added. Then I looked around for something to do. It occurred to me to look at my diary of War I which had been in my desk or on my shelves, almost unopened and unread, for over fifty years!
Indeed, only three persons had read it, namely John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir) who had asked for a perusal of personal war diaries for his History of the 15th. Scottish Division, my friend the late Dr. D.T. McAinsh, M.C., and the third, strange to say, my next-door neighbour, Chatwin. About a month ago, Chatwin had been talking about the Somme Offensive of which he was a survivor when I mentioned I still had my Somme Diary, and he asked for the loan of it to compare with his experience in that prolonged battle.
I am not quite clear why I wrote this diary, day by day, a scrappy record of a scrappy period. I had no literary or military ambitions. My parents did not read it. Perhaps it was to provide a kind of continuous alibi, to remind me where I had been, perhaps an interesting memorial if I failed to return.
Like cakes off a hot griddle, it was written as events occurred, or immediately thereafter, in four little brown leather-covered notebooks, and when the war ended these were in no state to last long for they were soiled and grubby, and, where written in pencil, the writing was fading. So, in 1919, I copied their contents, straight off, without editing, into two larger note-books, and destroyed the four little ones.
You, Mary, arrived last night from Hull, with your two children, and the talk drifted on to the Highlands and to my family history. Urged on by you, and by Judith, whose family roots in England go back a century or two further than mine in Scotland, urged too by your Mother, I'll type out a copy for each of you, for your deed-box, and for futurity!
Love to you all,
The Diary.
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on; not all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all thy tears wash out a Word of it".


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Leyton House Racing
Founded: 1991 (active 1991-1993) Technical Director: Adrian Newey |
March announced in January 1987 that it would be returning to Formula 1 with backing from the Japanese real estate company Leyton House. Robin Herd recruited Gordon Coppuck to be project engineer and Ian Phillips as team manager. In August that year Adrian Newey was appointed technical director. The team concluded an engine deal for 1988 with John Judd and hired Ivan Capelli and Mauricio Gugelmin to drive. The March-Judd 881 did well and in June 1989 Leyton House boss Akira Akagi decided to buy the team. March Racing changed its name to Leyton House Racing. Phillips was appointed managing-director of the new company and Harry Mandel was appointed team manager. The 1990 season was a disaster. Phillips contracted meningitis and was out of action after the Brazilian GP, leaving the inexperienced Simon Keeble running the team. Mandel soon left and Charlie Moody was appointed team manager. The CG901 chassis was not a success and in June Newey was replaced by Lola's Chris Murphy. Several other old March engineers departed soon afterwards.
At the end of the year Capelli and the team's test driver Andy Wallace gave the new Ilmor V10 engine its first shakedown runs but political problems continued with Phillips being dropped at the end of the year. The start of the 1991 season was disappointing and in April there was another management reshuffle with Keeble being axed and Mike Smith being left in charge of the team. Gustav Brunner was appointed technical director over the head of design director Chris Murphy and Yasutada Oda was named new chief executive.
In September that year Akagi was arrested for alleged fraud. The team was run by Akagi associate Ken Marrable but money was short and Capelli stepped down at the end of the year to make way for Karl Wendlinger. Capelli signed for Ferrari for the 1992 season and Gugelmin departed to Jordan.
The team was then sold to a consortium including Marrable, John Byfield, Tony Birchfield, Brunner and Henny Vollenberg. Smith then resigned and the team was renamed March F1. Karl Wendlinger was joined in 1992 by Paul Belmondo although in the midseason Marrable stood down and was replaced by Vollenberg. Towards the end of the year the team had to use other pay-drivers to stay afloat.
Attempts to sell the team in the winter of 1992 failed despite an announcement that the team had been sold to a Swiss investment company called Lysys. The team nominated Jan Lammers and Jean-Marc Gounon to drive in 1993 but there was not enough money available and the operation closed down in early 1993. (source: grandprix.com)
Car designation | Race years |
Leyton House CG901 | 1990 |
Leyton House CG911 | 1991 |


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THe Princess and the Goblin
Written by George MacDonald
Reviewed by Elida O. (age 11)
This book caught my attention the first time I saw it. I think if you saw it, then you would want to read it, but that is just my opinion. Keep reading this book review, and you can make that choice for yourself.
This book is about a little princess, named Irene, whose father is the king of a country with lots of mountains and valleys. Irene lives in a house on a mountain away from her father because her mother is too ill to take care of her, and her father is too busy running a country. She lives in the house with maids, cooks, and a nurse, which she calls Lootie, and her great-great-grandmother, who lives at the top of a mysterious staircase in her house. Under the mountain, goblins live there, and Irene's friend, Curdie, overhears one day while mining that the goblins are plotting to do something horrible. With the help of Irene's magic ring that her great-great-grandmother gave her, can she stop the goblins? Find out for yourself when you get this book.
I like how the author described because she was very specific and detailed. Sometimes he even used up a whole paragraph just describing one thing.
My favorite character is Curdie because he is a gentleman to Irene. One time in the book, the goblins were following Irene and Lootie, and he sang a song that the goblins hate so they would go away. I like how there was a mysterious staircase in Irene's house because it would be so cool if there was a staircase in my house that led to my great-great-grandmother.
There were a few illustrations in this book. Usually they were at the first page of each chapter, or sometimes one or two per chapter. The illustrations were very detailed, and they helped me figure out what was happening when I got lost.
I recommend this book to 5th or 6th graders who enjoy reading books that have paragraphs that only describe one thing, because I know that some people don't like books that are wordy.


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SALISBURY — A Salisbury man was sentenced to 20 years in prison this week for conspiracy to commit armed robbery this week after pleading guilty to his role in a pair of armed robberies in 2010.
U.S. District Court Judge Catherine C. Blake this week sentenced Christopher Foster, 32, of Salisbury, also known as "Capone," to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiracy to commit armed robbery and brandishing a gun in the furtherance of a crime of violence in connection with armed robberies in Salisbury in 2010.
According to Foster's plea agreement, from April to June 2010, he conspired with Charles Ayres, 22, of Snow Hill, and Angela Furniss, 29, of Salisbury, to commit armed robberies of businesses and individuals. On April 29, for example, Foster and Ayres entered a convenience store in Salisbury wearing ski masks and black clothing and threatened store employee. A firearm was brandished and an employee was injured and physically restrained during the robbery.
On May 10, 2010, Foster and Ayres robbed a marijuana dealer on Arthur Court in Salisbury. During the incident, Foster brandished a sawed-off shotgun, while Ayres threatened and robbed the victim. In his plea arrangement, Foster admitted his role in the robbery of the dealer and admitted later selling the marijuana for profit. Furniss was also implicated in the two armed robberies.
Foster and Furniss fled to Florida following the robberies, but were later extradited to Maryland to face state and federal charges. This week, Foster was sentenced to 20 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised probation. Ayres and Furniss previously pleaded guilty to their roles in the armed robbery spree. Ayres was sentenced to 12 years in prison, while Furniss was sentenced to just over two years.
Meanwhile, in a separate trial this week in U.S. District Court, a Lewes, Del. man pleaded guilty to two bank robberies in Salisbury and a third in Seaford, Del., in 2009 and 2010 and now faces as many as 60 years in prison.
The U.S. Attorney's Office this week announced Robert Joseph McLaughlin, 39, of Lewes, admitted to robbing three banks across Delmarva in 2009 and 2010. In December 2009, McLaughlin entered the Citizens Bank in Seaford and demanded the tellers fill a plastic bag he had brought with him with money. According to police reports, the tellers filled the bag with nearly $1,700 in currency along with dye packs. McLaughlin took the bag of money and removed the dye packs before leaving the bank.
On Feb. 27, 2010, McLaughlin entered the Shore Bank on South Salisbury Blvd., patted his pockets and mumbled he had forgotten something. He returned a short time later, now wearing a baseball cap and glasses, and demanded money from a teller, who handed over nearly $4,000 in cash. On Aug. 3, 2010, McLaughlin repeated the same basic robbery at the Farmers Bank of Willards on Milford Street in Salisbury.
He was later arrested and charged with each of the robberies. This week, McLaughlin pleaded guilty to the three robberies and now faces a maximum sentence of 20 years for each. As part of the plea agreement, McLaughlin has also been ordered to pay restitution for the full amount of the losses totaling $7,448. Sentencing has been set for Feb. 24 in U.S. District Court.
U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein commended several federal, state and local law enforcement agencies for their respective roles in the investigation and apprehension of McLaughlin and the aforementioned armed robbery cases including the FBI, the Salisbury Police Department, the Wicomico Sheriff's Office, the Wicomico State's Attorney's Office, the Ocean City Police Department and the Seaford Police Department.