NoFakie
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Definitely! They did it without warning too, so I never got my 100 bottles in. The Hoegaarden is definitely hitting the spot though.
I didn't notice before but Seiyu also do "milk chocolate honeycomb bites", which are basically cinder toffee like a Crunchie, only in big nugget form with more surface area and therefore more chocolate. I went in the last time determined to resist the very tempting and entirely yummy fruit'n'nut chocolate but came away with them instead.
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Mercedes (since around the Cretaceous period), BMW, Audi, Porsche and Maserati all produce diesel engine sports cars.
In the case of Maserati, the engine was co-developed with Ferrari.
For sure, there are loads of great diesel motors. Its just conspiracy theory to say they beat gasoline engines on every metric and being held back by regulation or somesuch.
The poor performance of gasoline engines at low revs can be avoided by a hybrid setup where minimal loads are handled by running at a higher, minimum-for-efficiency level of 1000-1500 revs, dumping any excess power into a battery, and then turning the engine off and using the power in the battery. That's basically how the Toyota system works. The engine is only on during warming up, acceleration, and going uphill.
You can get the clean diesel X Trail now for about 1.2 million yen second hand. It should do about 14-15 off diesel, so under 10 yen a km, making it one of the cheapest 4wd cars to run. That will beat a lot of 4wd kei cars, and an X Trail is much bigger than them.
Great car SnowJunky. Looks wicked!
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As for Ebola, there is a well-advertised yakiniku source in Japan made by Ebara, so whenever I hear the name of the disease, I start thinking "Mmm, niku!".
Ebara's yakitori sauce is pretty good too. The pre-skewered yakitori from Costco is actually really juicy, and with the sauce is the match for most izakaya.
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I quite like the overflow on a cheese toastie. It goes kind of crunchy.
I only ever eat them when the wife's old dear comes and buys a full length Japanese loaf, which is like four or five of them square ones joined together. I then have toasties every day for a week! We've got a slicer so I normally do the bread about 10mm like British sliced bread.
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I usually buy cheaper beer, but among ji-biru, Captain Crow from Toumi, Nagano is my new favourite. Its super florally citrusy hoppy, a long way away from mainstream Japanese beer.
Seiyu currently have Hoegaarten for 215 yen, so the same price as Yebisu. The Spitfire round here has shrunk to 330ml bottles though.
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Gareth Bale wins Welsh player award for record fourth time
Other eligible players were.... well, actually, there weren't any!
Which must mean Giggs or the man mountain that was Nev Southall didn't win it four times. They must spread the love.
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Well, for starters, there is more energy in diesel than in gasoline. About 15% more for the same volume, which is the measure by which fuel is sold. If its cheaper, it's usually because of taxation (to make transportation and buses cheaper), not because of worth or the yield you get from crude. As a simple fuel, diesel is a more valuable product.
Regarding sports cars, Ferrari, McLaren, and Porsche have all just built petrol electric hybrids. They could have built diesels had they wanted to.
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Australia must be really bad if its cheaper to buy non-British gear from the UK!
Getting back to big cars but they use so much fuel that what may seem like little differences in economy add up to a lot. The difference between 5 and 6 mightn't sound like much but its 20% and that's 20% of a lot. The difference in cost is 100,000 yen every 20,000km, assuming 160 yen to the liter.
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From Spring 2015 the new Shinkansen line from Nagano to Itogawa will stop at Shi-Myokokogan. This will get you to Myoko ski areas before 9.30am from Tokyo.
Shame it starts from the 15th of March when the best part of the season and incidentally,also that line's highest revenue producing period is over.
I wouldn't be so sure that skiers will be massive users of the line. I reckon the busiest time for it will be whenever old dears in Tokyo think is a good time to go to Kanazawa. For overseas skiers flying into Narita, direct bus or shared taxi will be more convenient.
fwiw, the one-way price from Omiya to Kanazawa was announced the other day as about 14,500 yen, which is apparently cheaper than the plane. Myoko and Nozawa are about half way, so maybe that much for a return.
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Chelsea win 2-0 using the exact same sucker-punch tactics as when they won at Liverpool last year. At least then gerrard gifted them a lead. A couple of very lucky arsenal players today, should have been a red for at least welbeck.
At Liverpool last year, I thought Chelsea looked disinterested, even in getting a draw. It felt more like a Liverpool non-performance than any tactical masterclass from Mourinho. After the game, he tried to make out that the "we only care about the CL next Wednesday" approach going into it was just a ruse that Liverpool had fallen for, but to me that seemed like he was just bigging himself up again. They played like they weren't even going to counter attack.
The 15 minute delay just meant I fell asleep during the first half, so no comments about yesterday's game.
Another Jeckyl and Hyde win for Man U but a win's a win. Top drawer stuff from De Gea. A bit disappointing from Everton, esp. first half where they put little pressure on the ball. Everton have become kind of the poster boy for second tier clubs in the league, so I'd like to see them do well, just to show that its good to have ambition and it still can be done.
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When the sun is out, solar creates power when it's needed most, during the day when industrial and commercial uses are going. I think demand peaks about 5pm when residential also comes into play.
The problem is that you can go for days without generating very much, so it all has to be backed up with fossil fuel based power plants that can follow load, i.e., can be easily turned on and off with 100% reliability.
Japan has some storage in the form of hydro plants that can be run backwards to pump water uphill, though the classic usage is to pump water using unneeded overnight power from nuke plants and to release it during the demand peak the following day. Storing solar power generated during peak demand for use during cloudy weather in a day or two's time is much more difficult.
Ideally with renewables, you mega diversify them so you wouldn't be massively dependent on the sun or the wind. You'd have both, plus geothermal, plus tidal. And some high voltage lines over to China and import their solar from the Ghobi or wherever its more reliable. The more diverse your sources, the less storage you'll need.
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Thanks for the battery info. Sounds good. Ours arrived at the shop early this week, but my missus had second thoughts so we're just getting the 6 now. So back to waiting again. We're getting the fast discount thing though, so downgrading from the 6 plus and the discount mean about 20,000 yens less. So long as we stay with au, the dribble discount on the phone means that its 600 a month for two years for the phone (15,000 total), but 33,000 back for the old one, 10,000 extra in discount, a 3,000 yen coupon for no particular reason and some photo viewer/TV thing thrown in for good measure (nearly 50,000 total plus gizmo). So we're thirty odd thousand up for getting a new phone, albeit we have to stay with au for the dribble discount. Our current Iphone 5 is unusable on the cheapo au network provider (mineo), but if our new phone works okay in two years' time, I guess we'll ditch au there and then. Assuming they don't have some other "you can have this, and this, and this!" campaign again.
Apple made the bezel on the Ipad Air much smaller, so its something they know about. I think they have a patent for putting the fingerprint scanner under the screen, so that might come in sometime. It would make the space for the screen much bigger.
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They've bought some defenders and they won't gel straight away.
First thing for them is to get Sturridge back. I think he's been a big miss.
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Its too big to carry for sports and you'll look a bit of a berk making phone calls with it. For web and videos though, a big screen is great.
Mine's an Android phone but it shows the improvement Apple could make in screen size if they made those stupid bezels smaller. My screen is only 10% smaller than the 6 plus but phone is almost the same size as the 6. The 6 in particular has a large amount of wasted space, about a third of the face area. If the test of a good design is "would people buy it if it ran Android?" I think the answer would almost certainly be no. Conversely people buy MacBooks and run windows on them. That's because they are a really good design.
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I've only seen photos people have put on Facebook, but it looks pretty good above Tsugaike and Happo at the moment.
In our garden, the first one to turn, our nishigiki (burning bush), is its normal fiery red. Some of the sakura and dogwood trees around Hakuba have already turned and look the same as any other year.
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(paintings by Chad McGail I saw in an exhibition once)
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Bad miss by Balotelli cost them there. Gerrard scoring might actually do the same in the longer term, because he's not really the defensive midfielder they need.
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fwiw, Edward Snowden himself was a big libertarian at the time he made the revelations. He was a right winger, not some "pinko liberal" or whatever label Fox News etc. would like to pin on him.
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That's right, but its actually pretty good!
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It was all a fiendish plan to get my mitts on his D800 and Holy Trinity lenses.
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Only Wenger has had longer!
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The only trick will be finding someone we haven't already given weapons and training to.
Send Tony Blair!
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I recommended Ontake to muika a few weeks ago as an autumn leaves spot
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I think Keano is good value. The comments today about Robbie Savage's answerphone and Sunderland running out to "Dancing Queen" were hilarious.
fwiw I think the Irish FA and Mick McCarthy got much worse from him than Manchester United.