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Back in 2011 I was given the chance by Volkswagen?s head of research and development, Ulrich Hackenberg, to drive an early prototype of the XL1 through the streets of the Qatari capital of Doha.
Back then, there wasn?t any clear assurance that it would ever see production. But this didn?t mask the fact that the butterfly door touting coupe was, and remains, an extraordinary feat of engineering. Despite its supercar like silhouette, access to the cabin was easy and more straightforward than the radically looking Volkswagen?s low stance suggested.
Inside, there was a surprising amount of room thanks to the staggered positioning of the seats, with a reclined driving position providing a sporting touch to the driving experience. The quality of the materials used through the interior of the early prototype, which also starred on the German car maker?s stand at the Qatar motor show that year, was stunning ? as good, if not better, than any of Volkswagen?s current road cars.
And the driving? The heft required by the unassisted steering made the XL1 somewhat of a chore at lower speeds. The skinny front tyres also lacked outright purchase as I piled into a series of roundabouts, although this probably had more to do with the high pressure they were running for maximum fuel economy than any fundamental flaw with the chassis. However, it was the complex diesel?electric driveline that really grabbed my attention.
Volkswagen had clearly focused a lot of attention at achieving maximum efficiency, and it was manifested in the way I spent a good deal of time simply coasting around Doha?s streets.
As I lifted off the accelerator the tiny two-cylinder diesel engine instantly shut down to preserve fuel and went silent, leaving only the sound of the tyres rolling across bitumen. When I got back on the accelerator to pick up speed, the diesel kicked back into life with a hearty thrum and accelerated the XL1 with impressive urge.
It?s no rocket ship ? and was never intended to be, but with a low kerb weight it doesn?t take much to push the sleek two-seater up to posted city limits. The hybrid driveline?s combined 51kW and 140Nm are more than enough for spritely acceleration and, with long gearing from the quick shifting seven-speed dual clutch gearbox, relaxed cruising qualities.
Back then, it was clear the diesel-electric system would require some further work to solve vibration issues at higher engine speeds and during start up, but it proved convincing enough for me to ask Hackenberg when he thought such a car would likely go into production.
The resulting smile gave the game away.
Fast forward to 2013 and the XL1 has progressed into a fully road legal production car. We?re yet to drive the finished product, but there?s little doubt this new Volkswagen provides a blueprint for the future of the car: lightweight construction, small capacity engines with electric assistance and outstanding aerodynamic qualities. Think of it as a new-age supercar ... one that swaps a 300km/h plus top speed for sub 1.0L/100km economy.
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Mastering Xcode 4: Getting Help
The Help Menu
You'll start with the most obvious place first. If you're familiar with Mac OS X, you should be familiar with the Help menu. Starting with Mac OS X 10.5, the Help menu (Figure 4.1) features a standard Search field, which shows you not only help topics but main menu items that match your search term.
Figure 4.1 The Xcode Help menu
Beneath the Search field are menu choices to open some of the more important help libraries with which you should familiarize yourself. A link to Xcode's release notes is also listed there. Most of these will open the Organizer window, which you saw in Chapter 3.
Xcode Help
The Xcode User Guide menu item opens a splash page containing video and links about how to find help in Xcode.
Xcode User Guide
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The Documentation and API Reference menu item simply opens the Organizer window in Documentation mode so you can browse or search the installed documentation libraries. It will remain on the currently selected page without navigating away and simply show the window.
The Rest
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Angels crush Astros 9-1 with 8 extra-base hits (Sep 13, 2017)
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) A team looking to set the tone early could not have done much better than the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday night.
Powered by five extra-base hits, they scored five runs in the first inning, and left-hander Tyler Skaggs started putting up zeros on the mound.
And when it was over, the Angels had romped their way to a 9-1 victory over the Houston Astros to remain two games back of Minnesota for the second AL wild card with 14 to play.
''When we got pitches to hit tonight, we did not miss them,'' manager Mike Scioscia said.
The Angels made it a tough night for spot starter Mike Fiers (8-10). He allowed eight runs and 10 hits in 3 2/3 innings.
''He just couldn't get into the game,'' Houston manager A.J. Hinch said. ''Five extra-base hits in the first inning is a tough tone to set.
''We really didn't come back and it made for a long night.''
Houston's magic number to clinch the AL West title remained at five.
Skaggs (2-5) missed 85 games this season with an oblique injury. In his first seven games back, he was 0-4 with a 5.61 ERA.
But on Wednesday he was in complete control. He held the Astros to three hits in his seven innings, walking one and striking out five. It was his first victory since April 22.
''I hope Tyler can bottle that,'' Scioscia said. ''That's a tough lineup. You couldn't pitch much better than he did tonight against those guys.''
The Angels finished with 13 hits, eight for extra bases. They had six doubles by six players, a two-run homer from Luis Valbuena to cap the five-run first and a solo homer from Justin Upton off Tyler Clippard in the sixth.
It marked the 250th career homer for Upton, who is in his 11th major league season. It also gave him 100 RBIs on the year.
Valbuena's home run was his 20th of the season and the ex-Astro added an exclamation point with a big bat flip that did not go unnoticed by Fiers.
''I took it as disrespect,'' Fiers said.
The next time Valbuena came up, Fiers unleashed a pitch at least 2 feet over his head that sailed to the backstop. Home plate umpire Cory Blaser immediately warned both benches. Hinch would not comment on the pitch.
''If you think it's deliberate, you can throw him out of the game,'' Scioscia said. ''Obviously he's not that wild.''
Said Valbuena: ''I enjoyed my home run. If they want to hit me, that's OK. But if I hit another home run, you'll see what happens.''
The loss was Houston's fifth in its last six games, making this a tough September stretch.
''We'll be fine,'' Hinch said. ''We had a tough one tonight.''
After allowing two singles in the first, one on a bunt, Skaggs cruised the rest of the way. He faced the minimum over his last 19 batters, aided by a double play.
''I thought I mixed it up well tonight,'' Skaggs said. ''It was a strong game to hopefully build off.''
Skaggs said the early lead helped his cause, but he focused on being aggressive.
''It was definitely nice, but I still went out there and attacked,'' he said.
Astros: CF Jake Marisnick left in the third inning after failing to stretch a bloop hit into a double. He injured his right thumb on the slide into second. Hinch indicated Marisnick would fly back to Houston on Thursday ahead of the team. ''It doesn't look good,'' Hinch said.
Angels: 3B Yunel Escobar, out since Aug. 8 with a strained oblique, is still restricted from baseball activities after aggravating the injury during his rehab stint.
Astros: RHP Brad Peacock (10-2, 3.05 ERA) is scheduled to start the series finale Thursday. Peacock is 3-2 with a 4.64 ERA in 10 games (seven starts) against the Angels.
Angels: Struggling RHP Ricky Nolasco (6-13, 5.19) will attempt to get back on track against his favorite opponent. Nolasco is 7-2 with a 3.82 ERA in 12 appearances vs. the Astros, his highest winning percentage (.778) against any major league team.
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The Sound Bite.
F**kin' amazing, innit? Talk about his inadequacies as a manager, the people were dead on. Where's your media handlin' skills, ey Joe?
The Complete Transcript.
Ah, and some people say the English language is one of the most beautiful of all languages. How quaint, how charming. Did you miss a F-word in between the C-words and all? Yes, well, feat not, here's the entire transcript for your complete enjoyment!!! Do kindly share it in English class, your teacher will definitely love you for contributions in exposing the vibrancy that is the English language. Oh, the Queen would have been utterly proud!!! Read on:
Joe Kinnear: Which one is Simon Bird [Daily Mirror's north-east football writer]?
Simon Bird: Me.
JK: You're a c**t.
SB: Thank you.
JK: Which one is Hickman [Niall, football writer for the Express]? You are out of order.
Absolutely f**king out of order. If you do it again, I am telling you you can f**k off and go to another ground. I will not come and stand for that f**king crap. No f**king way, lies. F**k, you're saying I turned up and they [Newcastle's players] f**ked off.
SB: No Joe, have you read it, it doesn't actually say that. Have you read it?
JK: I've f**king read it, I've read it.
SB: It doesn't say that. Have you read it?
JK: You are trying to f**king undermine my position already.
SB: Have you read it, it doesn't say that. I knew you knew they were having a day off.
JK: F**k off. F**k off. It's your last f**king chance.
SB: You read the copy? It doesn't say that you didn't know.
JK: What about the headline, you think that's a good headline?
SB: I didn't write the headline, you read the copy.
JK: You are negative b**tards, the pair of you.
SB: So if I get a new job next week would I take the first day off? No I wouldn't. If I get a new job should I call my boss and tell him I am taking the first day off?
JK: It is none of your f**king business. What the f**k are you going to do? You ain't got the balls to be a f**king manager. F**king day off. Do I want your opinion. Do I have to listen to you?
SB: No, you can listen to who you want.
JK: I had a 24-hour meeting with the entire staff.
SB: Joe, you are only here six weeks, you could have done that on Sunday, or Saturday night.
JK: No, no, no. I didn't want to do it. I had some other things to do.
SB: What? More important things?
JK: What are you? My personal secretary? F**k off.
SB: You could have done the meeting Saturday night or Sunday. You could have had them watching videos, you could have organised them.
JK: I was meeting the f**king chairman the owner, everyone else. Talking about things.
SB: It is a valid point that was made in there. A valid point.
JK: I can't trust any of you.
Niall Hickman: Joe, no one could believe that on your first day at your new club, the first-team players were not in. No one could believe it in town. Your first day in the office.
JK: My first day was with the coaches. I made the decision that I wanted to get as much information out of them.
NH: But why Monday, no one could believe it?
JK: I'm not going to tell you anything. I don't understand where you are coming from. You are
delighted that Newcastle are getting beat and are in the state they are? Delighted, are you?
NH: Certainly not. No one wants to see them get beaten, why would we?
JK: I have done it before. It is going to my f**king lawyers. So are about three others. If they can find something in it that is a court case it is going to court. I am not f**king about. I don't talk to f**king anybody. It is raking up stories. You are f**king so f**king slimy you are raking up players that I got rid of. Players that I had fallen out with. You are not asking Robbie Earle, because he is sensible. You are not asking Warren Barton? No. Because he is f**king sensible. Anyone who had played for me for 10 years at any level ... [but] you will find some c**t that ...
Other journalist: How long is your contract for Joe?
JK: None of your business.
SB: Well it is actually, because we cover the club. The club say you are here to the end of October, then you say six to eight games which would take it to the end of November. We are trying to clarify these issues. We are getting no straight answers from anyone. How long are you here for. It is a dead simple question. And you don't know ...
JK: I was told the length of contract. Then I was told that possibly the club could be sold in that time. That is as far as I know. That's it finished. I don't know anything else. But I have been ridiculed. He's trying to f**king hide, he's trying to do this or that.
(There follows an exchange regarding the circumstances under which Kinnear had met the owner Mike Ashley and executive director (football) Dennis Wise.)
Steve Brenner (football writer for the Sun): We are all grown men and can come in here and sit around and talk about football, but coming in here and calling people c**ts?
JK: Why? Because I am annoyed. I am not accepting that. If it is libellous, it is going to where I want it to go.
Newcastle press officer: What has been said in here is off the record and doesn't go outside.
Journalist Well, is that what Joe thinks?
JK: Write what you like. Makes no difference to me. Don't affect me I assure you. It'll be the last time I see you anyway. Won't affect me. See how we go at Everton and Chrissy [Chris Hughton, assistant manager] can do it, someone else can do it. Don't trust any of yous. I will pick two local papers and speak to them and the rest can f**k off. I ain't coming up here to have the piss taken out of me. I have a million pages of crap that has been written about me. I'm ridiculed for no reason. I'm defenceless. I can't get a point in, I can't say nothing, I can't do nothing, but I ain't going to be negative. Then, half of you, most of you are trying to get into the players. I'm not going to tell you what the players think of you, so then you try and get into them in some way or another, so I've got a split camp or something like that, something like that. It's ongoing. It just doesn't stop.
Journalist: It's only been a week.
JK: Exactly. It feels more like a year.
Journalist: It's early days for you to be like this.
JK: No, I'm clearing the air. And this is the last time I'm going to speak to you. You want to know why, I'm telling you. This is the last time. You can do what you like.
Journalist: But this isn't going to do you or us any good.
JK: I'll speak to the supporters. I'm going to tell them what the story is. I'm going to tell them. I don't think they'll interpret it any different, I don't think they'll mix it up, I don't think they'll miss out things. I mean, one of them last week said to me ... I was talking about in that press conference where you were there, I said something like "Well, that's a load of bollocks ..."
Journalist: "Bollocks to that" is what you said.
JK: Bollocks to that. And what goes after that?
Journalist: That was it.
JK: No it wasn't, no it wasn't. What was after it? I don't know if it was your paper, but what went after it?
Journalist: I don't know.
JK: It even had the cheek to say "bollocks to Newcastle".
Journalist: I didn't write that.
JK: That was my first f**king day. What does that tell you? What does that tell you?
Journalist: Where was that? Which paper said that?
JK: I've got it. I can't remember. It was one of the Sundays, not a Saturday. It was a Sunday.
Journalist: But you didn't say that to the Sundays, you said that to us. That was during the Monday press conference.
JK: I'll bring it in and show it to you. Why would I want to say that?
Journalist: Are you saying that someone has reported you saying "bollocks to Newcastle?"
JK: Yes. Lovely.
Journalist: I don't know who's reported that.
JK: I'll tell you what, I'll bring it in.
Journalist: That's obviously going to damage you. That's not a good thing. But I don't think someone's done that. We have to have some sort of relationship with you.
JK: So have I. But I haven't come in here for you lot to take the piss out of me. And if I'm not flavour of the month for you, it don't f**king bother me. I've got a job to do. And I'm going to do it to the best of my ability. I'm not going to spend any more time listening to any crap or reading any crap. Stick to the truth and the facts. And don't twist anything.
Journalist: You know, you know the game ...
JK: Of course I know, but I don't have to like it.
Journalist: Today we'll print the absolute truth, that you think we're c**ts, we can all f**k off and we're slimy. Is that fair enough?
JK: Do it. Fine. F**king print it. Am I going to worry about it? Put in also that it'll be the last time I see you. Put that in as well. Good. Do it.Much, much later after long discussions over whether Kinnear had promised Alan Shearer and Kevin Keegan would be returning to the club
Press officer: Let's get on to football. Let's have an agreement that everything said so far, if anyone has got their tapes on, it's wiped off and we're not discussing it.
Journalist: But that's what Joe has said he thinks of us.
Press officer: I'm saying don't push it. Let's accept what's been said and try and move on.
Journalist: Move on to not doing any more press conferences?
PO: No, to doing something now.
Journalist: What, one press conference only?
Journalist: Any knocks?
PO: Come on, let's go football.
Journalist: What are your plans for training in the next three days? How's the training going?
JK: It's going very well. No problems at all.
Journalist: Enjoyed getting back in the swing of things?
JK: Absolutely. I've loved every moment of it.
The Background.
So, how did this mess emerge from the gutters of England and be laid nakedly bare for all the entire world to perceive? Hence forth is the background, before the tirade began…
Newcastle United Football Club is in a shambolic state that disgraces even the least loyal of fans. Newcastle United is one of the best supported clubs in England, if not the world. Mind you, Newcastle is the only football club in England that carries the distinction of being the sole club in a big city. In Manchester, there is Manchester United & Manchester City. In Liverpool there is Liverpool FC and Everton. But in the region of Tyneside, there is the one and only Newcastle United. So, the fan-base is huge and so are the expectations for the club. But for decades, the club never did manage to achieve the heights that all Newcastle fans had hoped it would reach.
Looking at the current situation now, the doom and gloom will darken even the most optimistic of fans. Recently, the club was bought over by an American billionaire, Mike Ashley, but now he wishes to sell out completely to the highest bidder. The so-called messiah of Newcastle United, Kevin Keegan, resigns in protest to the managerial structure that was created when the takeover took place. Keegan has no say in the transfers of his players, and that is like saying a driver has no control of his brakes. A certain Mr. Dennis Wise has control over the transfer policies, and this is not so wise a policy according to Kevin Keegan and he duly resigns.
And this is where our motor-mouth of a manager enters the lion's den of the journalist's attention. Our colorful Joe Kinnear took over the reigns of the club, and that is only after a reportedly 15 managers rejected the post before him. Kinnear, a senior in English football but hardly the most popular, takes over on a game-by-game basis. But to the fans, a club that is of Newcastle's stature should not employ such a pitiable individual. From day one, Kinnear was bombarded by the press for his inadequacies as a football manager and also for the dismal lack of respect that he commands from his players that he is in charge of. A certain journalist by the name of Simon Bird from the 'Daily Mirror' newspaper in the UK enters the fray and runs a report claiming that on Kinnear's first day at office, due to lack of confidence by his players on Kinner, was no where to be seen during a scheduled meeting with the players. A tabloid story made up to sell more papers or is it just simply true? You decide.
But whatever it may be, this episode of explosive emotional outburst will definitely go down as one of the most dramatic, if not most colorful, dramas to ever engulf the world of English football. The 2nd most memorable incident? Coincidentally, it was a man we hear all so often recently; it was Mr. Kevin Keegan himself. But that's another story. In the meantime, I would 'lurve' it to see Dennis Wise get kicked out of Newcastle United and Kevin Keegan be re-instated as the manager of the club, I would absolutely 'lurve' it. And Kinnear as his assistant. The world of English football would be as explosive as ever. And oh, bring back Jose Mourinho. I would definitely LURVE that…


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One of New Directions' most-beloved alumni is coming home for the holidays.
In newly released photos from next week's Thanksgiving episode of Glee, Quinn (Dianna Agron) returns home from Yale to reunite with her old classmates ... and her old boyfriends!
Glee spoiler photos: Get a sneak peek at what's ahead
Quinn's hopefully triumphant return comes after major speculation about her status on the hit series after she was not featured in the main Season 4 cast photo.
Fortunately, the photos seem to indicate our favorite teen-mom-turned-rebel-turned-cripple-turned-graduate will get lots of singing time in while she's home, namely alongside her BFFs Santana (Naya Rivera) and Brittany (Heather Morris) and a few of her former flames. Who are we referring to? Check out the photos here to see Quinn's hometown visit as well as Sarah Jessica Parker's return to Glee.
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Oh noes, dashi is trendy now
In the past few years, the popularity of Japanese food has exploded, with sushi leading the way. You might think that as the owner of a blog that is mainly dedicated to Japanese cooking, I'd be ecstatic about that.
I am happy, sure. It's gratifying to gradually see the cuisine of my birthplace being recognized as something special. But on the other hand, I'm more than a bit skeptical. I wonder if, in a few years, hipster 'foodies' are going to turn their noses up at Japanese cuisine. "That was so naughties" they might be saying sometime in 2015, as they tuck into the latest craze for - I don't know what.
There's still a lot of misinformation bandied about about Japanese cooking. Take this article in this week's New York Times Food Section, about how trendy chefs who are trained in traditional French techniques are using dashi more and more. It's great to see this fundamental base of Japanese cooking (it's so important that it's the first basic Japanese recipe I ever posted here, almost 5 years ago) being embraced by Western chefs, but why the need to describe it as a substitute for meat flavor? Dashi certainly did not develop as a way for compensating for a lack of meat. There's a pretty simple reason why kombu (a seaweed) and katsuobushi (dried fish shavings) are the most popular combination for making dashi: they both come from the sea. If you look at a map of Japan, it's quite obvious why this would have come about. Even before the eating of four-legged animals was formally banned in the late 17th century by the Tokugawa Shogunate (生類哀れみの令), the staple protein for most Japanese people was fish, not meat - simply because most people lived near the coasts than inland. This may be more obvious if one looks at other popular dashi ingredients, like niboshi (small dried fish).
In any case, it's no surprise that dashi has become popular. It's so much easier to prepare than a meat based stock, and the base ingredients are easy to store. It's so handy to make that any home cook can make a dashi as good as that of professional chefs - and many do, even though even easier to use dashi granules are available. (Do you know many people who still maintain a stock pot? I don't.)
I just hope that the use of dashi doesn't turn out to be a fad, along with the rest of Japanese cuisine. But if it happens, I won't be surprised, given the fickleness and the food-as-fashion thinking that drives much of the culinary world.
(Footnote: Someone reminded me that Swiss cuisine has been a big victim of food-trendiness. First there was fondue, which was wildly popular in the '70s and then became oh-so-totally passé after that. Then there was the mid-'90s craze for making piles of food on top of rösti, the crispy potato pancake that is a staple of the German parts of Switzerland. What do we call trend-chasing food dilettantes - foodistas? Food victims? :))
16 October, 2008 - 03:16
I agree that food fadishness
I agree that food fadishness is somewhat eye roll inducing, but two points:
One, it is a nice way of introducing new things. And after the fad fades, items from it tend to stick around or go mainstream. It's just no longer special (and de-exoticizing foreign cultures is a good thing generally, isn't it?
Two, food fadishness works both ways with Japan. As many trends are imported into the country as exported! And trends get old there quite quickly. :)
I love that people are
I love that people are becoming more familiar with a cuisine that I love, but like you some of the misinformation can be frustrating. Also frustrating is the lumping of all Asian cuisines together when they are so very different. Here's to perpetuating the use of dashi!
I don't like the idea that food can be trendy - I like food that tastes good, and it doesn't change with how "IN" it is at one time or another. I don't think Japanese food can become passe - I mean, it's been trendy/hip/in for what seems like forEVER here in NYC (ok, maybe 10-15 years, when it went from "EW, you eat sushi?" to "Let's go get sushi"). I don't know. If it's good, it'll last the test of time... and Japanese food is good ;) This is where I always feel it's better to never be completely hip/trendy... that way you can never be out!! :)
16 October, 2008 - 17:08
My favorite summation of food trendism
What happened to Brie and Chablis?
Both Brie and Chablis used to be
The sort of thing everyone ate
When goat cheese and Napa Merlot
Weren't purchased by those in the know,
And monkfish was thought of as bait.
And why did authorities ban
From restaurants all coq au vin?
And then disappeared sole meuniere,
Then banished, with little ado,
Beef Wellington--and Stroganoff, too.
Then cancelled the chocolate eclair.
Then hollandaise sauce got the boot,
And kiwis stopped being the fruit
That every chef loved to include
Like quiches, or coquilles St. Jacques,
They turned into something to mock--
The fruit that all chic chefs eschewed.
You miss, let's say, trout amandine?
Take hope from some menus I've seen:
Fondue has been spotted of late
And--yes, to my near disbelief--
Tartare not from tuna, but beef.
They all may return. Just you wait.
Calvin Trillin, "What Happened to Brie and Chablis?", The New Yorker, September 8, 2003, p. 69
sushi 4 life
I'm that sushi has moved beyond "stylish" and will persist, in North America at least, until the ingredients become unavailable to us. Don't worry too much about your beloved dashi either; it's a simple solution for fish stock and has so many practical applications it will likely be around for the long haul.
17 October, 2008 - 10:12
Japanese Food..
Interesting idea...We are looking for more Japanese sushi recipes as well as any other type of Japanese food...
Possibly you can post some of your recipes on recipebuddys.com
we have had a lot of requests for them...thanks
17 October, 2008 - 13:33
O hai Maki! Wow, I haven't been around here in a while. Is in crunch mode and I'm trying to crawl out of bed.
The article does sound a bit off-puting, but I suppose people can only speak of something new with reference to something already familiar. Maybe dumbed down a bit to reach a wider audience. But yeah I don't think chefs would use it as meat-flavour substitute, but more as new source of umami (but with all the comparisons in the article, maybe not). I don't think this is just a fad, since it is simple to make. I'm reaching the end of The Elements of Cooking (no dashi in it), and there are mentions of fish sauce as a source of umami.
What I hope is just a fad are all those all-you-can-eat sushi places here in Montreal. Pre-sliced fish to speed up assembly doesn't seem right (and doesn't taste as fresh). -_- friends love the quantity...
17 October, 2008 - 22:10
Re: Food Trends
It is indeed a conundrum. I live in LA, and 23 of Los Angeles Magazines' annual "Top 100 Restaurants" last year were Sushi bars. It will be interesting to see who sticks around for another year or two. Also, thank you Betsy for your great post! Well said! I remember when Thai was all the rage around 20 years ago. Although exposure to new cuisines is part of our continued "globalization", there are plenty of opportunities for people to learn about new flavors as well. We've come a long way since the "#2 Tempura & Chicken Teriyaki Combo" And although umami might be all the rage right now, trends do have the opportunity to introduce people to new flavors that they otherwise might never have known about. The food "fashionistas" and "celebrity chefs" will eventually hop onto the next fad, but there will also be those who have been educated to a whole new world of flavors because of the exposure. For instance, I hung onto my original Fondue Pot. Now it's considered "retro-hip" and vintage.
18 October, 2008 - 16:05
Japanese Food Abound..
I work at Saltwater, a Michael Mina 4 diamond restaurant at MGM Grand in Detroit. Since we opened, we have had a Miso Glazed Chilean Sea Bass on the menu. At the beginning, it had scallop mousse/ginger/lime dumplings, shiitake mushroom consomme, baby bok choy, and the miso/soy/sake/brown sugar marinated then pan roasted sea bass. We just changed the menu for the season, and the same bass is now served over house made nori udon with pickled daikon, shaved radish, cucumber sprouts, and a dashi with a rather strong tilt toward bonito.
It is perfect for the autumn/winter months; dashi is perfect confort food with those big fat udon!
Oh noes, dashi trendiness
I hear you Maki. I grew up eating Japanese food in some good restaurants, and then got some cookbooks and started making it for myself (though I wasn't raised with it in the home). I guess you can never predict what the next foodie trend is going to be, but my feeling is that I was making dashi before the trend, and will continue to do it after the trend. If the trend means that others will learn the goodness of Japanese food, so much the better. If not, the rest of us will carry on. But I definitely understand your unease. :(
Robert Haynie
19 October, 2008 - 15:45
Food on rosti?
Hmm... Okay, I never heard of that "fad"... it's an interesting idea, though. Stacking various foodstuffs on top of rosti, would be...
That's rather like...
Oh, LORD-- we're talking Swiss Okonomiyaki here! ^_^
19 October, 2008 - 19:34
I don't know that I'd be
I don't know that I'd be too, too worried about Japanese food as a whole becoming "passé."
I mean, sushi and all that first became really trendy in the 80's and nineties, and 20 years later, it's not trendy: it's standard fare. I live Alberta, land of beef and cowboys, but I still eat decent sushi on a regular basis. There's miso and nori in my local grocery store, one of the most popular fast food restaurants in my city (for about the past 10 years) specializes in donburi.
I see the newfound popularity of dashi more as chefs discovering a new ingredient, which in time will become more everyday and common-place, not out-of-style.
21 October, 2008 - 04:44
house made nori udon?!
Wow! That sounds amazing! I want that recipe!
And as far as the trendiness goes, I agree, it'll just become common and those of us who now have to scrounge the corners of stinky markets will be able to find our goodies everywhere!
31 October, 2008 - 03:45
Ta, must dashi
(sorry couldn't resist)
It's always weird to me when something I've been using/doing for years becomes a fad. Fortunately when I started using it, it was pretty easy to find even in Albuquerque. Now I'm in the Bay Area and you can sometimes even find it in regular supermarkets here.
/I was into dashi before it got famous
I find the whole grand-chef food fad culture of today completely bizarre. Surely cooking is not about chefs but about food... The fads do not work anyway - I have yet to find a sushi shop in London that has sushi as good as a "fast food" restaurant in Japan. And would you believe it, one of the sushi chains here in the UK does not put salt to edamame. Now that is a disgrace.
In any case, I am off to try out your recipe for glazed sweet potatoes! :)
3 December, 2008 - 21:51
trendy dashi?
Well it's going to happen sooner or later. There's pros and cons. In our society nowaday, the world is such a smaller place so food from other countries are more accessible. So yeah, certain ethnic food will become "trend" but trends come and go.
It will happen with certain ethnic food like "Pho" for Vietnamese. I mean a couple of decades ago Chinese food was a new fad. ^_^
Still, I think learning about food from all around helps you become a better cook. I like food so I really don't think it's a bad thing. Professional chefs travel all over the world to learn new ways of cooking and new ingredients and such. So, I really don't think it's a bad thing.
6 December, 2008 - 15:54
Dashi is my favorite stock.
Since I started working at an Asian market 15 months ago (resigned yesterday) I've discovered so many great ingredients, I don't think dashi is ever going to disappear. I'm not one for fish done the western way, but I do love sushi, and I do love dashi. its' beautiful smoky (almost meaty) aroma works a wonderful game of contrast with its sea brine flavor. Dashi is not going to disappear because it is everything food should be.
In general I think that we are all moving towards a more global conscience because technology connects us all, and this reflects in the awareness to different cultures and cuisines. but that's the macro... on the specifics, Dashi rocks. :)


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One of the reasons people used to give for using MySQL over PostgreSQL (just 'Postgres' from here on in) was that Postgres was considered hard to install. It's a shame, because it's a great database (I've been using it for personal and some work projects for years, like my current side project, sendcat). Luckily it's now really simple to get it going on your Mac to give it a try. This is how you do it.
What this guide is
This is a guide to getting PostgreSQL running locally on your Mac, then configuring Rails to use that for development.
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- Suitable for using in production.
- Anything to do with why you might want to use PostgreSQL over any other database.
You can get binaries for most systems from the Postgresql site, but it's even easier if you've got homebrew installed, if you haven't got homebrew it's worth it, pick it up here. I'm going to assume you are installing from Homebrew for this post, but you should find the information useful even if you are installing directly or using Macports.
With homebrew just run:
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You will get a load of output, but the most important part is this:
If this is your first install, create a database with: initdb /usr/local/var/postgres If this is your first install, automatically load on login with: mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents cp /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.4/org.postgresql.postgres.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.postgresql.postgres.plist If this is an upgrade and you already have the org.postgresql.postgres.plist loaded: launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.postgresql.postgres.plist cp /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.4/org.postgresql.postgres.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.postgresql.postgres.plist Or start manually with: pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start And stop with: pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres stop -s -m fast If you want to install the postgres gem, including ARCHFLAGS is recommended: env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg
There's a lot to read, but don't worry, you don't need most of the information there. You can get to that information again by running:
brew info postgres
As the instructions say, if this is your first install, create a database with:
$ initdb /usr/local/var/postgres
Do this now. You should see output like this:
$ initdb /usr/local/var/postgres The files belonging to this database system will be owned by user "will". This user must also own the server process. The database cluster will be initialized with locale en_GB.UTF-8. The default database encoding has accordingly been set to UTF8. The default text search configuration will be set to "english". creating directory /usr/local/var/postgres ... ok creating subdirectories ... ok selecting default max_connections ... 20 selecting default shared_buffers ... 2400kB creating configuration files ... ok creating template1 database in /usr/local/var/postgres/base/1 ... ok initializing pg_authid ... ok initializing dependencies ... ok creating system views ... ok loading system objects' descriptions ... ok creating conversions ... ok creating dictionaries ... ok setting privileges on built-in objects ... ok creating information schema ... ok loading PL/pgSQL server-side language ... ok vacuuming database template1 ... ok copying template1 to template0 ... ok copying template1 to postgres ... ok WARNING: enabling "trust" authentication for local connections You can change this by editing pg_hba.conf or using the -A option the next time you run initdb. Success. You can now start the database server using: postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres or pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l logfile start
Again, there's a lot of output, but you can pretty much ignore most of it.
Next, as the instructions suggest you can set Postgres to start and stop automatically when your mac starts. Run these three commands to have this happen (Postgres will start when you run the last command so there is no need to manually start it if you do this):
mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents cp /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.4/org.postgresql.postgres.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/org.postgresql.postgres.plist
I've done this because I use Postgres for all my personal projects. If you're just experimenting and want to control when it is running you can start and stop Postgres with these commands (perhaps with a shell alias). EDIT: Someone on the Hacker News thread suggested Lunchy for managing launchctl stuff, I've not tried it, but it looks useful.
Start Postgres:
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start
Stop Postgres:
pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres stop -s -m fast
That's it, Postgres is up and running. You can see it in the process list. Run "ps auxwww | grep postgres" and you should see output like this:
$ ps auxwww | grep postgres will 33206 0.4 0.0 2435116 528 s004 S+ 6:52pm 0:00.00 grep postgres will 33011 0.0 0.0 2445360 880 ?? Ss 6:41pm 0:00.14 postgres: writer process will 33007 0.0 0.1 2445360 2412 ?? S 6:41pm 0:00.25 /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.0.4/bin/postgres -D /usr/local/var/postgres -r /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log will 33014 0.0 0.0 2441392 420 ?? Ss 6:41pm 0:00.03 postgres: stats collector process will 33013 0.0 0.0 2445492 1460 ?? Ss 6:41pm 0:00.03 postgres: autovacuum launcher process will 33012 0.0 0.0 2445360 504 ?? Ss 6:41pm 0:00.10 postgres: wal writer process
Create a user and database
Now that the Postgres server is running we need to create a database for use in our rails app. This is really simple using the shell commands that ship with Postgres. First lets create a new user. Running the createuser command you will get an interactive prompt asking some questions about the user, answering 'n' is OK for all of them:
$ createuser shawsome Shall the new role be a superuser? (y/n) n Shall the new role be allowed to create databases? (y/n) n Shall the new role be allowed to create more new roles? (y/n) n
Next create the two databases you will need, development and test. Here you can see the options are given on the command line, the -O specifies the owner of the database (the user we just created) and -U specified the character encoding scheme to be used in the database.
$ createdb -Oshawsome -Eutf8 shawsome_development $ createdb -Oshawsome -Eutf8 shawsome_test
You can verify everything worked by connecting. Postgres ships with a shell just as MySQL does, it's called 'psql'. Run the following command, you should find yourself at a database prompt:
$ psql -U shawsome shawsome_development psql (9.0.4) Type "help" for help. shawsome_development=>
That's the DB all done with. Hit ctrl-d to exit the shell. Next install the postgres gem.
$ sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install --no-ri --no-rdoc pg Building native extensions. This could take a while... Successfully installed pg-0.11.0 1 gem installed
For Macports you might have more luck with:
$ sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/opt/local/lib/postgresql84/bin/pg_config
If you want to read further on these commands check out the docs for createuser, createdb and psql.
Create the Rails app
Now we need to create the app. Run "rails new" but specify –database=postgresql to get a database.yml pre-configured. We won't need to edit the database.yml from the generated file, but it does contain some information that could be useful if you're using Macports so open it up and see what got generated.
$ rails new shawsome --database=postgresql … Much output
Head into the new app and create a scaffold. It's not going to be anything fancy, just enough to get some data into the database:
$ cd shawsome $ rails g scaffold Post title:string author:string body:text invoke active_record create db/migrate/20110528180734_create_posts.rb create app/models/post.rb invoke test_unit create test/unit/post_test.rb create test/fixtures/posts.yml route resources :posts invoke scaffold_controller create app/controllers/posts_controller.rb invoke erb create app/views/posts create app/views/posts/index.html.erb create app/views/posts/edit.html.erb create app/views/posts/show.html.erb create app/views/posts/new.html.erb create app/views/posts/_form.html.erb invoke test_unit create test/functional/posts_controller_test.rb invoke helper create app/helpers/posts_helper.rb invoke test_unit create test/unit/helpers/posts_helper_test.rb invoke stylesheets create public/stylesheets/scaffold.css
You will now have a migration. We're going to edit it a bit from the default to add some sensible restrictions and an index.
Run your super shiny migration:
$ rake db:migrate (in /Users/will/shawsome) == CreatePosts: migrating ==================================================== -- create_table(:posts) NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "posts_id_seq" for serial column "posts.id" NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index "posts_pkey" for table "posts" -> 0.0060s -- add_index(:posts, :author) -> 0.0033s == CreatePosts: migrated (0.0097s) ===========================================
Now start up a Rails server.
$ rails s
Poking around in the database
Add a few posts and you can re-run the database shell (see above) and start poking around. You can use ? to get help in the shell, but we will jump straight to dt to get a list of tables:
shawsome_development=> dt List of relations Schema | Name | Type | Owner --------+-------------------+-------+---------- public | posts | table | shawsome public | schema_migrations | table | shawsome (2 rows)
Great, our posts table is there, lets take a look at the posts table in more detail:
shawsome_development=> d posts Table "public.posts" Column | Type | Modifiers ------------+-----------------------------+---------------------------------------------------- id | integer | not null default nextval('posts_id_seq'::regclass) title | character varying(255) | not null body | text | author | character varying(255) | not null default 'Anonymous'::character varying created_at | timestamp without time zone | updated_at | timestamp without time zone | Indexes: "posts_pkey" PRIMARY KEY, btree (id) "index_posts_on_author" btree (author)
You can see we get a fair amount of detail here, including column type, null/not null flags, and default values, as well as any indexes on the table. Lets select some data. This should be familiar to anyone who has used a relational database before (hint: try tab completion, it's really good in the Postgres shell)
shawsome_development=> select id, title, author, created_at from posts; id | title | author | created_at ----+----------------+-----------+---------------------------- 1 | Book 1 | Anonymous | 2011-05-28 18:09:13.965425 2 | Bobski's dream | Anonymous | 2011-05-28 18:09:30.122767 (2 rows)
What now?
Check out the Postgres docs, they're really good, and go forth and develop excellent sites on top of PostreSQL!


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Hey, if he's the only protester, doesn't that make him the 0.1% in a crowd of a thousand?
Romney wasn't thrown by this at all. He waited for the crowd to drown out the protester, and then reminded people how fortunate we are to live in a country where dissent is not stifled, although he wished it had been presented with "respect and civility." I was a little surprised that there was only one outburst; I expected another, but it never came. The Derry police showed a great deal of restraint in this case, standing by the man to let him have his say, and then escorting him out when the moment was over … even if the Occupier hadn't quite figured that out.
Otherwise, the speeches were standard campaign fare, but clearly Romney wants to stick to the economy and encroaching federal regulation as the basis of his campaign against Obama. Haley and Ayotte never strayed far from those themes, either, and Haley emphasized them when she told the crowd that her biggest headache as Governor doesn't come from the state itself, but interference from Washington DC. Both were effective, but Haley showed that she can charm a crowd. Eventually, we might see Haley headlining presidential primary events. Romney stuck with economic arguments almost completely, in the last few minutes changed to more of an inspirational call to patriotism and duty by quoting from "America the Beautiful." He then stuck around for about a half hour to shake hands and talk with people before going into another room to do a couple of media interviews.
I'm posting the Haley and Ayotte speeches in their entirety, and Romney's conclusion to his speech below, but this post would not be complete without mentioning that another candidate dropped by the auditorium after Romney left. I think I've found Jazz Shaw's dream presidential candidate:
This is what makes covering American politics fun. A local police officer told me the boot is on his head because Mr. Supreme wants to give politicians the boot. He had no idea what the half-dozen ties meant, and Mr. Supreme didn't explain it during his brief but memorable appearance.
Here are the three videos. Enjoy. I'll be at a Santorum event later and will have video and more observations later today.


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WHEREAS, pursuant to the Tax Reform Act of 1986 and Act 51 of the 1986 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature, Executive Order No. KBB 2004-21 was issued to establish: (1) a method for allocating bonds subject to private activity bond volume limits, including the method of allocating bonds subject to the private activity bond volume limits for the calendar year of 2004 (hereafter "the 2004 Ceiling"); (2) the procedure for obtaining an allocation of bonds under the 2004 Ceiling; and (3) a system of central record keeping for such allocations;
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Quote from: georgiapeach on March 06, 2011, 12:44:31 PMI don't see anything given away yet... A survivor... reduced to tears after being sent home. In what way does Matt looks like the type of guy who would be reduced to tears?? If he does indeed, it will be a real shocker in my life.Russell on the other hand, with all his pride/ego dashed and just voted off like that, is bound to break into some sort of fits or rage and cry like a whiney baby on the spot!
Oh boy... i can't wait.
Jeff tweeted several times today again reminding the east coast viewers to watch the show LIVE, and that he will be tweeting during the show. Again, he said it's HUGE and I think he wants to get initial reactions from the viewers concerning the redemption challenge results.
Russell is pissed, the whole tribe lied to him!! NOW YOU KNOW HOW IT FEELS!!!!!
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This week's content themed Spotify playlist featuring St. Vincent, Death Cab For Cutie, The Antlers, Lady Gaga, Patrick Wolf and a few more, for good measure. Click here to listen to it, will you!
1. St. Vincent - 'The Party'
We nearly had a party ourselves when we found out that Annie Clark is to release her new record in September. But we didn't. We're saving the festivities for when the actual record, which is called Strange Mercy, comes out. That's September, by the way. September 12. 4AD.
2. Suede - 'The Power'
Yes, this is a remastered version of 'The Power' as featured on the remastered version of Dog Man Star, which gets released on Monday. Click here to read our review of it. It contained a whole bunch of extra bits and bobs, as you'd expect.
3. Battles - 'Ice Cream'
The new Battles record, Gloss Drop, is quite good. Problem is that it just isn't VERY GOOD. I hesitate to use the word "disappointing" but some of it does verge on it, despite the peaks actually still being quite high. Well, that's my personal verdict anyway. For the official DiS review head here.
4. Tom Vek - 'I Ain't Saying My Goodbyes'
For so long I thought that Tom Vek was American. In fact it wasn't until his comeback that I found out he wasn't and I am still unsure if this makes him less or more cool. Either way, American or British, his new record comes out on Monday and was reviewed here. Some good bits in it, innit.
5. Emmy The Great - 'Edward Is Deadwood'
We've had an Emmy The Great overload this week, of sorts. On Monday she compiled a mixtape for us, for Mixtape Monday, obviously then, a couple of days ago she released a video for 'Iris' and yesterday some tour dates were announced. New album out soon, in case you didn't work it out.
6. Mo Kolours - 'Biddies'
Single of the Week. Wendy Roby says: "One Handed are one of perhaps ten labels I trust almost implicitly, however oxymoronic that may sound. This means I have to Do It Properly and listen hard to their releases, rather than making a snap judgement based solely on the aesthetic perfection (or otherwise) of the sleeve / inanity of the press release / hairstyle of the artist. And although you (as in, you) should never underestimate the transgressive joy of frisbeeing a promo CD into the bin based solely on an ill-chosen font - especially if it plops, satisfyingly, like a fantasy Jordan dunk – you would be plain wrong to glance over what is happening here. It will appeal to those of you drunk on the joys of Tune-Yards, it will ring McFerrin bells in the heads of those who like their vocals polyphonically looped into something woozily other, AND it will vex those who think songs like The Beatles' 'Blackbird' should not be messed with, like, ever."
7. Ozzy Osbourne - 'Crazy Train'
So, this is another remastered slash remixed version of a popular song. Naturally, it was also reworked to be the theme tune to 'The Osbournes'. Christ that seems like a long time ago. Anyway, read our verdict of the reissues here.
8. Death Cab For Cutie - 'You Are A Tourist'
Who are the band with the biggest disparity in "band name quality" and "music quality"? These guys have to be close because, let's be frank, they have an unfathomably terrible band name. Their new record, Codes and Keys came out on May 30 and here is our review of it. S'alright.
9. Patrick Wolf - 'The Magic Position'
OK, hardly one of Patrick Wolf's most recent tracks, but certainly one of his best. We picked the man's brains in an interview which went live this week.
10. The Antlers - 'Every Night My Teeth Are Falling Out'
Our editor has almost nailed his colours to the mast for The Antlers' new record, and there were a couple of articles on them to read this week. The first was an interview and the second was the announcement of some November tour dates.
11. Lady Gaga - 'Born This Way'
Speaking of our editor, he also dusted off his typewriter and reviewed the new Lady Gaga record. It's definitely a tract on a lot of things that is worth reading, which you can do so here.
12. Gil Scott-Heron - 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised'
This is definitely last but by no means least. At all. Gil Scott-Heron unfortunately died last week, a great man he was. Tributes compiled here.
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What We Do
Fields of Friends, Inc. is a nonprofit organization which buddies high school athletes with physically and intellectually challenged special needs participants for a one day skills building baseball camp. The goals of this program are to promote acceptance and inclusion for all members of society, eliminate the bullying and exclusion of those least able to defend themselves, improve the health and fitness of those with disabilities, and provide young mentors an outlet to give back to their community while developing mentoring skills.
Changing Lives
Providing opportunities for persons with special needs to experience health, fitness, and acceptance through sports mentoring and skills programming.
Fields of Friends, Inc. programming provide sport specific clinics that pair mentoring high school student athletes and community volunteers as buddies for people with physical impairments and/or intellectual challenges to enable the special needs participants to build skills for success in sports, health, fitness, and education. The program encourages new "participant" special needs athletes to try a sport or fitness activity, and provides seasoned "volunteers" athletes the opportunity to further develop their skills in that sport thus giving each participant and volunteer athlete continued opportunities to develop a love of physical fitness and a healthy lifestyle. The participants demonstrate confidence and courage as the experience success with the assistance, tutelage, and encouragement from their buddies. Everyone involved has the opportunity to have fun and make new friends while demonstrating to peers, families, and the community that with understanding and support, we can embrace similarities rather than differences and given the opportunity.
Through the unique experience student athletes, youth volunteers, and community volunteers are equipped with the tools to develop leadership, communication and mentoring skills, share their sports knowledge and techniques, and empower diverse groups of young people to create more inclusive communities where all people are treated with respect and understanding. The program strives to instill the ideas of good sportsmanship, honesty, courage, loyalty, and respect in every person involved in the program.
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