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Raleigh City Council members discussed local transportation needs, and the importance of getting the public on board with local transit plans. In particular, they reviewed the proposed $75 million Union Station downtown, which would provide a hub for Amtrak passenger trains.
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Grilled Chicken Liver Pate and Blackberry Crostini
Published: July 2012 Servings: 6-8
- 1 pound chicken livers (about 2 cups)
- 2-3 cups whole milk
- Extra-virgin olive oil (for brushing)
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 10 tablespoons (1 1/4 sticks) chilled unsalted butter, cut into 1/2' cubes, divided
- 2 tablespoons minced shallot
- 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves
- 1/3 cup bourbon
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1/8 teaspoon (or more) ground allspice
- 8 1/4'-thick slices country-style rye bread
- Blackberry Salad (click for recipe)
- 1 bunch radishes (about 6 oz.), trimmed, very thinly sliced
Nutritional Information
Seven servings, 1 serving contains: Calories (kcal) 440 Fat (g) 30 Saturated Fat (g) 13 Cholesterol (mg) 270 Carbohydrates (g) 22 Dietary Fiber (g) 3 Total Sugars (g) 4 Protein (g) 15 Sodium (mg) 390
PREPARATIONView Step-by-Step Directions
Combine livers and enough milk in a medium bowl so livers are submerged. Chill and soak to mellow their flavor for at least 1 hour or, covered, overnight.
Drain livers; discard milk. Using kitchen shears, trim any fat and veins from livers. Rinse, drain, and pat dry with paper towels.
Build a medium-hot fire in a charcoal grill, or heat a gas grill to high. Place a wire rack on top of grill grate. Rub livers with oil; season with salt and pepper. Grill livers on wire rack, turning occasionally, until nicely charred but still rosy inside, about 3 minutes. Transfer to a food processor.
Melt 2 Tbsp. butter in a small skillet over medium heat (keep remaining butter chilled). Add shallot and thyme; cook, stirring often, until shallot is translucent, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat. Add bourbon (careful: Mixture may ignite). Return skillet to heat; cook, stirring often, until reduced to 3 Tbsp., 2-3 minutes.
Transfer shallot-bourbon mixture to food processor with livers. Add cream and 1/8 tsp. allspice; purée until smooth, occasionally scraping down sides. With motor running, add remaining 8 Tbsp. butter, 1 cube at a time; purée until smooth. Season with salt, pepper, and more allspice, if desired.
For a smoother pâté, press liver mixture through a fine-mesh sieve into a medium bowl. Pack into a 1 1/2-cup jar or small bowl. Cover with waxed paper and chill overnight. DO AHEAD: Pâté can be made 3 days ahead. Keep chilled.
Build a medium-hot fire in a charcoal grill, or heat a gas grill to high. Brush bread with oil; season with salt and pepper. Grill bread until golden brown on both sides, about 1 minute per side. Cut crostini in half on a diagonal.
Spread each warm crostini with pâté, then garnish with some Blackberry Salad and sliced radishes.
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Club Barbarossa Hotel is nestled at the shores of Çukurbag, a romantic peninsula of Kas in Antalya, Turkey. Situated right by the beach, with its own beach bar and restaurant, Barbarossa provides a great place for chilling out all day long. Club Barbarossa 's pride are its seawater swimming pools, which are set into its surrounding promenades in such a way as to make you feel as though you could swim straight into the Mediterranean. The healing effects of the Bucak Bay waters will do wonders on your body and soul. Just lay by the beach, listen to the song of birds, and inhale the sweet smell of wild flowers. When you are ready for a sightseeing tour you only need to ask Club Barbarossa's tour advisor to put you a program together. Offering family suites for a party of 4-5 in a suite setting with two independent rooms, Barbarossa can also cater for large parties or single travellers. Just let us know the type of accommodation that will best suit you, we will make it happen.
Tourism in Kas: Tourism in Kas is international and tends to be of the more elite kind. The town is especially popular with the English, the Germans, the Scandinavians, the French, the Belgians and the Dutch, who come here in search of privacy, peace and quiet, comfort, nature, culture, active pursuits and fine cuisine. There is no mass tourism in Kas - no sprawling (all-inclusive) resorts or apartment complexes with organized entertainment. Many hikers pass through Kas as they walk The Lycian Way (a 509 km way-marked footpath around the coast from Fethiye to Antalya). The Lycian coast - and Kas especially - is famous for its beauty. Kas is recommended in various travel guides and is a stop over for the cruises in traditional wooden Gulets: the Blue Voyages.
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You can go swimming and snorkelling during the trip. Lunch is usually included and is consumed in one of the little restaurants on the waterfront in Kekova. After lunch you have time to go and see the castle of Kekova and the Lycian graves. You can also go on a boat trip to one of the many little islands just off the coast. If you hire a car, you can visit the ruins of the ancient city of Myra, the St Nicholas basilica at Demre, the waterfall between Kas and Kalkan and the stunning Saklikent Gorge all on the same day. Try to be at the gorge around lunch time if you can, so you can lunch on the floating platforms on the river. Lovers of antiquity should also make a point of visiting the highly recommended ruins of Tlos along the way. A trip to Xanthos, which is inland from Kalkan, is also definitely worth doing.
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On this website you will find details of and links to a number of concepts that are important if we are to understand our future. My work is often about developing new ways to understand what we do in the wealth creation system – I avoid the term business or capitalism as far as possible because I think we are moving towards a very diverse set of ideas on what it means to work and create wealth.
A very significant aspect of that is the rapid move toward externalizing functions that enterprises have thought belonged inside their walls or that have done be done externally- design, innovation, social media. People are also being tempted, also, into the crowd labor force. Crowd labor, where thousands of people perform microtasks of one kind of another, in place of people who currently do jobs with a variety of roles involved, will be the outsourcing model of the next decade. But it can also mean crowdfunding or crowd-based innovation.
Many people now have multiple businesses (take a look for example at Dave Asprey's Bulletproof. Dave works in Cloud infrastructure yet runs an entirely different, coffee-supply company in his spare time). A lot of people in corporate settings now run businesses on the side. The freelance lifestyle is, catching on, with one million extra people joining the free agent labor force in the USA in 2012. Individuals have also changed the enterprise IT landscape by insisting on using their own devices. So change is driven by us in our day to day activities, as well as by new infrastructure and new business ideas.
Politicians don't generally understand the direction of change today. Instead, they use the language of Keynesian and monetarist policies. They are familiar with these concepts and often addicted to them. But we live in a world where business is now conducted through complex global ecosystems> that we understand very little about.
The economics of business ecosystems or how to promote good behaviour in ecosystems is a mystery to us, though a very important one (I maintain also that business ecosystems are attractive to us because we are increasingly comfortable with a new naturalism, a language that uses natural metaphors to explain what's going on in business.)
In fact a major theme of my work is the randomness of economic events and what succeeds online.
In this new world, companies will rely less on their research labs or even their research networks and more on their capacity to be adaptive in new types of markets. I've called this adaptive quality radical adjacency. You can see why by clicking on the link.
There's another way of putting this – John Donovan at AT&T recently told me he thought product development was less and less a management skill and more and more a function of the crowd.
Companies that practice radical adjacency master their external environments. In a study for the Harvard Business Review in 2010/2011 I found that business writers have progressively become more focused on the external, rather than the internal, environment of the firm.
Go back to the 1990s and 2000s and the focal point was almost wholly internal, when it came to really hard-nosed analysis of what firms were trying to do. From 2006 onwards the focal point is the external world.
We need new concepts to help us understand our behavior and relationships in this new environment, so I coined radical adjacency as an indication of external mastery – the ability to enter any market without historical experience, at will, anywhere.
Radical adjacency goes hand in glove with mass differentiation. We are creating a new global middle class with different tastes and needs. Yet there are also commonalities. Companies need to learn how to cater for global markets that don't just want western products. But as most products now have a strong service component it is becoming ever easier to take a core product – like the iPhone – and differentiate it many times over – through apps. That means mass markets but highly differentiated products too because of the service layer.
Differentiation though doesn't always rest with the product originator. Much of Apple's differentiation rests with the customer who selects apps, and the developer community that makes them. This ecosystem of developers and customer is ideally suited to producing for an era of mass differentiation.
Ecosystems take some of the innovation burden off the originating company and allow it to focus on managing its strategic options. In The Elastic Enterprise, Nick and I focus heavily on the strategic options portfolio as a new management concept.
By Elastic Enterprise we mean companies that were able to scale their businesses without incurring a disproportionately high overhead burden. We also wanted to convey that these companies can retract from growth if a product or market looks unpromising.
As the economy evolves I tend to think of an elastic economy as well as an elastic enterprise. Companies are increasingly seeking out new levels of adaptability.
These adaptive enterprises absolutely must seek out and utilize any mechanism to allow themselves to change. In some cases that means they see their core skills (or core competency, to use an older term) as a moveable feast. Young CEOs especially don't think of their core competency as fixed. But it can also mean that they have to use many different strategies to secure change, and it means those strategies will change over time.
If those are some of the concepts on the enterprise side, you'll also find concepts that describe changes in how we behave and how we organize our lives. Work-life integration is becoming a common term but I think it should be the other way round. Life-work integration would help us prioritize our needs more
I believe we are moving towards a human interest model of business where the language of social, crowd, customer, peer, indicates the need for us to become more aware of the new emotional layer of products, and also of work. So many people spend their personal lives engaged in work that they need more emotional return from the work place. This human interest model should force us to think "crowd, peer, social, emotion" when we think of a business.
Finally before this page gets too long, I've written a few times about personal innovation lifestyles, deliberately setting out to reconstruct our lives around the rewards that interest and fulfill us.
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Another great opentable find and was also recommended by the locals. The food was good and beer was cold. They have a decent selection of house b
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Been here many times. Great beer, great food, slow service at times, but nothing outrageous. My favorites are the Blackened Salmon Salad and the Jamba
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I didn't care for the food, nor atmosphere. I ordered the filet mignon and scallops and was underimpressed....
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Off Lawrence expressway is a nice place to go out and have a nice time. Came here for a girls night out. The food was fabulous. you have to try the
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Service does not match the menu prices. Beer selection is good. The food is okay and and a little overpriced. Service is not good. Servers ask for c
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Largest producer of eggs and great performance over a long period of time. They're very efficient with their cash and operate with low levels of debt. A bit pricey at its current valuation but should be a safe place to park some extra cash over the next decade.
I don't see the egg production business experiencing any major headwinds or major disruption for the time being.
Outperform - 5 years
Protein is what people know to eat. Eggs are good for you.
The egg man.
This company is the market leader in the U.S. egg business.
I first bought this dividend paying egg stock back in 2007. I intend to hold onto it for at least another 5-7 years.
Eggs-egg whites have all the essential nutrients to make baby chickens(life). I like where this companies heads at, offering alternative methods for the hippy vegans and conducting food research. There is a crisis occuring overseas I expect to see Turf overtake the Surf on this food. Both long term and short, but I like to see my results quick fast and in a hurry. Keep foolin' fools. If you see that %K make a knifepoint you best be hoppin back in for a few points. Expect strong continuation. Also, I believe there may be a purposeful mishap with the dividend date being inaccurate.
I love eggs!
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Certainly is a "No Brainer".
From inception of my initial investment @ $12.60, chickens have been working overtime. This Company is a money machine. It stands high on my very Long term Hold investments.
Calm has Mastered overseas shipping of organic fresh eggs to Europe. Its profits are split treating stock holders like owners and once you research corporate policy on dividends & how they are handled, Most will place this symbol on their watch list. Many will discover they too want to sell Eggs.
Clam has split 2 for 1 during my holding and my indicators are showing a similar turn in the near future.
Nest with Calm.
Good consistent growth and valuation ok for a dearly valued market at this time (11/11/2013)
CALM Long. Eggs. Revs up 18% E up 17%. Lots of cash. I'd expect a higher dividend to be announced sometime soon.
Trying my modified MFI screener, which adds EV/EBITDA and EV/FCF criteria.
I remember coming across CALM a few years ago and seeing the high short interest. Seeing as the stock has not cratered in the past few years, I believe this is a good short squeeze candidate (though I have to be surprised, the shorts have to pay the dividend unless they are covering prior to ex-div). I may buy in MRLP and collect the dividend. Another note - Whole Foods stock has recovered and is trading quite high. I will treat this as a trade along the same lines, but CALM has the low valuations to offset the one-product risk. Perhaps I am being naive here, and rising feed and energy prices, will eventually let the shorts win.
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CALM will struggle with higher feed prices but the company is so well managed and they've done a good job of converting customers to higher priced eggs over their lower priced ones. Since their dividend is based on earnings, they won't strap themselves paying divs when they lose money in a quarter but good quarters will handsomely reward the patient investor.
expansion, specialize, profitable: What's not to like?
could rock.
You never know
I'm swinging from bear to bull on this one. As noted previously, CALM rose in the past on overseas sales. When the dollar is weak, overseas sales are a no-brainer. There are two results from this dynamic: 1. domestic retail prices soar and 2. so do company profits. 2010 is looking a lot like 2006-7.
I'm in with real money.
Cal-Maine owns the farms involved in the salmonella outbreaks. They'll have trouble digging out from that, especially given the likelihood of fines and lawsuits due to their repeated problems with sanitation and health of their flocks.
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A week in Dunedin has left me no clearer about the future of Test cricket. By the time England's match against New Zealand ended in stalemate, any sting in the contest had long been drawn by the lifeless pitch. Even the finale was muted. The players broke for a drinks break during the final session. Was it a pause or a full stop? Eventually the two groups ambled slowly towards each other - a truce had been agreed and everyone trudged off. I momentarily imagined the challenge of explaining events to an uninitiated American.
The revealing aspect of Dunedin was that the game didn't make much sense from behind the glass window of the BBC commentary box. Only when I got down to grass level did I discover the rhythm of the occasion. The ground's capacity was only 5300, most of them sitting in temporary stands. The press box was a tent. The thud of bat on ball had the dull, low-pitched noise that follows from lifeless pitches. The fans were only a few feet from the boundary. Jokes were passed to and fro, banter exchanged. It was very similar to an "outground" in the county championship when a club or school pitch is turned into a first-class venue for a week.
Attempts to "jazz up" Dunedin left a baffling impression. I wonder who, if anyone, benefited from the piped 1970s music that preceded each day's play? Was anyone asked? When the spectators are huddled together wearing winter coats, drinking coffee just to keep warm, I'm afraid the opportunity for glamour and razzmatazz has already been missed. For grounds such as Dunedin, antique charm is the best available strategy.
Yet Dunedin seemed unsure whether to embrace its rural quietness. That is a good metaphor for the state of Test cricket as a whole. It doesn't know whether to stick or twist. Unsure how to adapt, worried about alienating its faithful fans, Test cricket muddles along, hoping a solution will emerge.
There are two polemical columns that can be written about Test cricket. One is culturally conservative, the other economically liberal. The first one goes something like this. Money-grabbing barbarians are ruining the game we love above all others; no one makes a decision based on any motive beyond greed; Test cricket is being squeezed out by the vulgar appeal of T20 and the dull expanses of ODI tournaments; men with a "feel for the game" are urgently required to make decisions "in the long-term interest of the sport"; there is not much time left.
The second column takes the opposite view, praising the benefits of economic innovation and the profit motive. This column instructs the game to look to new markets, engineer a snappier product, invest in better marketing. This version of past and future stresses the contribution of men motivated by business rather than duty. After all, Kerry Packer - whose motives were only "half-altruistic" (and that was by his own reckoning) - helped to modernise and improve the quality of international cricket. The second column will stress that "the conservative blazers" have usually been wrong about what it is good for the health of sport. Did you know, for example, that when professional sport was first broadcast on radio and television, it was assumed that no one would ever pay to watch at the ground? The mass media was expected to kill professional sport. Instead, it made sport what it is today.
Anyone interested in how entrepreneurs can influence the evolution of sports should listen to this BBC podcast, led by the excellent economist and broadcaster Evan Davis. I don't agree with it all, by any means, but Max Mosely, Barry Hearn and Tim Wright make powerful arguments about how sports really evolve.
Over the years I've explored versions of both the first and the second column. But I'm afraid this columnist can no longer rouse the cultural conservative nor the economic liberal within him. Instead, let me list the reasons why I think Test cricket has found it hard to adapt to the modern world, why the argument should not be reduced to a simple polemic.
First, cricket - especially Test cricket - is not really a sport; it never has been. It has more in common with a religion. It is loved, revered, bound up with ritual and belonging. I only really understood this after I'd retired. Expecting rational decisions from people who love cricket is like expecting rational decisions from the Church of England synod. Indeed, it is precisely because cricket's conservatives are so deeply in love with the game that so many commercial opportunities have been left wide open to outsiders, men such as Packer and Modi.
|Dunedin seemed unsure whether to embrace its rural quietness. That is a good metaphor for the state of Test cricket as a whole. It doesn't know whether to stick or twist
There is also a fundamental problem with ownership. Who runs cricket, who has the final say? It is easy to talk nobly about stakeholders and the rights of fans, but it is not so easy to translate those sentiments into a practical mandate. The ICC is notionally in charge. But the ICC consists of the sum of its members; in other words, the national boards, who, in turn, must balance the interests of players, sponsors and (one hopes) fans. Above all, they are terrified of alienating the players, who are being perpetually wooed by the Indian rupee.
Cricket's governance is still in transition from the old days when it was run from Lord's simply because it always had been. American sports, in contrast, have long been run according to a very simple business model. Each independent franchise agrees to strong centralised leadership from the NFL, NBA or MLB. It's not perfect, but at least it is clear. Cricket has never been "governed" in such a definite sense. Test cricket is not the only institution facing gradual decline. Newspapers are another. Should proprietors abandon old-school editors with ink on their hands and in their hearts, and throw in their lot with technological wizards with their eyes on the next new thing? Or will preserving the core values of newspapers - trust, reliable reporting and original comment - enable them to endure a passing technological storm? Damned if I know for sure. Do you?
T20 has unsettled cricket in the same way that the internet unsettled newspapers. Suddenly the old product looked static and dated, even if it retained a strong core following. Newspapers have tried joining the web conversation by giving their content away free. They have also tried to protect their business with paywalls. They have, unfairly, been accused of stupidity for doing both.
My point is that it's time to move beyond the idea that every problem has an easy solution. In place of the default position, "They're all idiots", I suggest the assumption, "This is pretty difficult to solve."
Ask yourself: how would you protect, improve and coordinate Test cricket if you were the game's philosopher king? A Test championship? Good idea. But in a league in which every team plays each other equally often, the immediate effect, ironically, would be a higher proportion of low-quality matches. And how would you fit in a grand tradition such as the Ashes into a new timetable of round-robin series?
How about two divisions with promotion and relegation? Again, nice idea, but good luck pursuing the approving votes of those cast into the lower league. And, anyway, cricket cannot have a philosopher king in the first place, only muddle and consensus.
Test cricket's future, I suspect, will owe more to luck than planning. That's why my own agenda is pretty prosaic: to start with, let's have some bouncy, spinning pitches, please.
Former England, Kent and Middlesex batsman Ed Smith's new book, Luck - What It Means and Why It Matters, is out now. His Twitter feed is hereFeeds: Ed Smith
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Tyler Marolf of San Juan Capistrano quit a lucrative job in finance to become a working musician. The journey led him to create the Los Rios Rock School for kids at his home in California's oldest neighborhood. And now the growing business has a new location that had its grand opening Saturday.
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Tyler Marolf was 12 years old when he heard the music – a rumbling bass line in the night swaggering up to his bedroom window in the Los Rios Historic District of San Juan Capistrano.
He sneaked out, followed his ears to the home across the street and knocked. The music stopped.
The door cracked open and a guitarist peered through the opening, a bushy eyebrow raised. "Yeah?"
"I got a bass for Christmas. And I play bass," Marolf said, and waited.
The guitarist let him in, and Marolf played 12-bar blues with him and his buddies all night.
"It changed everything," Marolf said.
Music would stay with Marolf, now 36. He lost the melody briefly when a friend introduced him to the finance industry and making money took precedence. But the idea of making music as a career was stuck in his head like a catchy pop song.
Two years ago he quit his job, started a band called The In Between and wrote his first album. Now he's turned a side business giving music lessons into the Los Rios Rock School, which currently has about 40 students and occupies a new 3,000-square-foot learning and performance space at 32124 Paseo Adelanto in San Juan. The location had its grand opening Saturday.
"There's not a lot of gray area when you have a vision and an idea," Marolf said.
The Los Rios Historic District is the oldest continuously inhabited neighborhood in California, with buildings that date to 1794. Adobes there once housed the workers who built Mission San Juan Capistrano. Walking through streets lined with old trees and vintage homes, you can hear insects chirp in the silence left by trains departing the nearby rail depot.
That's where Marolf began to teach guitar, drums, vocals and bass guitar – in a two-bedroom, 1,200-square-foot historical Craftsman cottage, the walls ineffectively soundproofed by foam mats.
"A rock school in a historic district ... well, let's just say you could tell it was there," Marolf said.
Neighbors complained and the space was cramped. But Marolf didn't have many options. A musician's income couldn't pay the bills, and he briefly relied on unemployment benefits.
Meanwhile, his band was gaining traction and one of its songs was featured on an A&E television show in 2009. He needed money to keep the momentum going.
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We thought this was pretty cool and hope it pushes Audi to make the Quattro Concept. AutoCar got to spend some time with this special A5. How is it different? It is built off a custom aluminum chassis with aluminum body pieces and a CFRP hood and trunk. It weighs only 3,000 pounds about 700 pounds less than the standard V6 A5. The TT-RS motor is tweaked to put out 400 horsepower. This car is intended to show what the Quattro Concept would drive like if it were to be produced and AutoCar states it is the best handling Audi they have ever it driven... it just might convince the board to give the green light. ...Published on 02-24-2011 05:32 AM
These RS A5 rumors don't want to settle down which is fine with us. Last week we showed you a rendering of the front of the RS Q5. This time we get the back of it done by Acerbus. Is it going to come? We don't know, but the rumors of a 408 hp supercharged RS Q5 based on the 3.0 TFSI supercharged V6 continue. ...Published on 02-23-2011 10:00 PM
This is one of the Autocar quick 90 second review which definitely keep up with our attention spans. Some quick notes, they state the steering is a bit vague. Additionally, they seem to believe one should go with the traditional steel spring suspension setup over the air suspension option and would agree with this especially for enthusiasts who might want to add an aftermarket coil-over later. We do disagree that one should opt for the diesel, the 3.0 TFSI is our choice especially with its ability to be tuned. ...Published on 02-23-2011 10:31 AM
This is the type of thing we like to see. APR has posted their own graphs but they tend to do them in crank horsepower which is, well, pretty annoying. A customer took his car for before and after dyno pulls on a Mustang and went from 297 awhp to 361 awhp with tune only. Impressive? Yes. The car in question is a 2011 Audi S4 with a custom Milltek exhaust and the APR 93 octane tune. ...Published on 02-22-2011 07:34 AM
Top Gear is entertainment above all but sometimes they do some good comparisons. Here we have a video where they take the competition package M3 vs. the new Audi RS5. Audi has had plenty of time to work on the RS5 but it still is not able to top the M3. What really opens eyes is the fact the Top Gear test track is wet and the M3 still outlaps the RS5. That is very surprising but no surprise the hefty RS5 routing its power to all 4 wheels does not make as efficient use of its power as the M3 which out handles and out accelerates it. Sorry Audi, the M3 is still the king. ...Published on 02-21-2011 02:06 AM
Audi has released concept sketches of their A3 sedan. The car is set to be unveiled at the Geneva car show as a concept. The fascia is modified from the standard A3 with a more aggressive and updated design. It is also longer than the A3 hatch by about half a foot. We should have more details in two weeks but what is really interesting is the suggestion of a modified TT-RS 2.5 liter inline 5 turbo with about 400 horses. We hope it makes it to production. ...Published on 02-18-2011 10:57 AM
This is Brian Henderson's very, very low V8 A4 avant. The car is lowered on an accuair air suspension which allows him to get very aggressive with the stance. The wheels are from rotiform and contrast with the dark bodywork. This car has been all over the web and is certainly opening eyes. We like it as it is different and believe he pulled it off well. What do you think? Check out the very high quality video. ...Published on 02-18-2011 06:00 AM
The Q3 will debut next month at Geneva. AutoExpress got their hands on some spyshots and also has a rendering. The car will be based on the VQ tiguan platform and will offer a 2.0t under the hood. A 2.0 liter diesel will be available in Europe but we do not know if it will make it to the United States. ...Published on 02-18-2011 02:32 AM
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AutoExpress got their hands on the new Audi A7. Note, this is a diesel version they are driving and there really aren't and performance numbers but they do provide some nice impressions. They feel the car is one of the best looking in the Audi range. In addition, they state it handles fairly well for its size and offers pretty good feedback. The tester seems to imply it offers a better connection to the driver than the new CLS. ...Published on 02-16-2011 05:16 AM
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Audi put up a question and answer video from the Chicago Auto Show regarding the US version of the TT-RS. They took questions from facebook and even though this is Audi controlled there is some great information such as the car being manual only. The Recaro seats will also not make their way over which is obvious due to United States crash test standards, check out the video for full details. ...Published on 02-15-2011 06:35 AM
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I've got my hops, in sanitized mesh bag...sitting in the keg.
Keg is at 38F and 35 psi (force carb.)
I didn't weight down the bag, didn't put dental floss or fishing line on it....it's just in there.
Questions: when to remove...or do I leave it in there? Or...do I open, add some sanitized glass beads to weight it down...
You don't have to do anything beyond what you've done. I often dry hop in serving kegs using whole cones in muslin bags just tossed in without weight, just as often as I stick in a piece of the wife's stainless serving ware (the gravy ladle works best!).
And if I'm dry hopping in a serving keg I leave the hops in 'til the keg kicks. From experience, the ~34°F holding temperature either prevents or substantially retards the development of any "grassy" notes (I've yet to experience any).
Good luck with the burst-carb...
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But I've found that I need at least a few days of dry hopping at ferm temps to get the hop flavors I'm looking for. I usually put the hop bag full of hops in the bottom of my clean serving keg, rack the beer into the keg, seal the keg with a blast of CO2, and let it sit in my ferm chamber for 7-10 days. I then just move the keg into my keezer and start carbing it. I don't pull the hops until the keg's empty and ready to be cleaned.
What about dry hops in a keg at 54F serving temp? I'd assume that a single cone of something like an East Kent Fuggles would be fine wouldn't it?
I wouldn't think a single cone would do much of anything, good or bad.


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Time to head off to PAX Prime!
In the hopes that this may prove useful to someone, have a Final Fantasy XIV event timer. Eventually I might simplify the JavaScript so that it can be used as an embeddable "widget" but for now it's just that page.
Currently it shows the active events (at least, the ones that have been announced) and the weekly/daily reset times. (At least, I think those are the correct times based on what Square Enix has said.)
I've bought an Evolution Controllers "Drone" bluetooth controller. It's a very nice, small little controller designed to work with tablets and phones for gaming on the go. To aid with this, it supports a variety of "input modes" that define how it works.
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PAX Prime is over. The time to write up stuff will probably be later.
Or never, considering I've yet to do a writeup for PAX Aus.
PAX Australia has come and gone. I'll try and post some thoughts and stuff later.
It's less than a week away now: PAX Australia! Wait, what?
Oh yes - I will be going to PAX Australia.
And why not?
Stay tuned for more from there. Hopefully including pictures and stuff. We'll see.
I meant to post this a while ago, but I wanted to post photos taken of Boston Common the Sunday following the marathon. Unfortunately they didn't come out (they're backlit, so you can't see any of the people in them).
But it was nice to see that the Common was packed with people and that Boston is getting back to normal after the bombing.
As (sort of) promised, here are some of the pictures I've taken from PAX East:
The entrance to the BCEC and PAX East
And that's it, PAX East is now officially over. It was a great three days (and an exhausting three days), but it's all over.
Well, I'm a bit tired - tired enough that I never got around to writing a summary of Day 2 last night. So I guess it's time to write up what I've got to say about it.
The only new game I really saw was Watchdogs, but there's really nothing new to say about it. Unless the PS4 release is news. It's a game set in a computer-controlled Chicago that the player character can "hack" with his smartphone. Still looks as interesting as it always did, but it's still made by Ubisoft which makes me wary about the DRM that will kill the PC version.
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