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- 1 pound Semi-Sweet Chocolate
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By tradition, Kurfuerstendamm, together with the adjacent street, Tauentzienstraße, is considered the main shopping route in Berlin. One can buy anything here, from gastronomic specialties to clothing and electronic devices. All trade centers of the German capital feature a great choice of popular brands, generous bargain sales and high quality of goods.
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For today on thru Friday night...it will be the surface low over southern Colorado along with the frontal boundary draped over the area...that will place the key roles for the wx over the region. The low over Colorado is expected to shift eastward along the boundary during the day today shifting east of the CWA late tonight into Friday. As the low moves east the front will meander northward into the CWA splitting the area along the I-70 corridor. Temps are going to be warm enough initially for much of the CWA to allow for rainshowers to develop. By the afternoon hrs with the low over western Kansas...instability N and E of the low will trigger some isolated t-storms. Best chances will occur over eastern zones where SPC currently has portions of the east in Marginal Risk for severe wx. As the day progresses this afternoon...winds will begin to shift on the backside of the low...allowing for colder air to infiltrate the CWA...giving the area a change over to a rw/sw mix and eventually sw as the evening hrs come about. Latest model guidance has increased the amount of qpf for much of the northern CWA during this timeframe and with decent CAA into the area...have increased snow totals. Primary focus for accum will remain north of I-70 especially near the KS/NE border where 1-2" is possible...down to 0.5" or less the further south you go. Snow will taper off from west to east during the day Friday before ending. By Friday night on thru Saturday night high pressure returns over the area for dry conditions. Other concerns for the Thursday to Friday night period will be Fire Wx and strong winds. First off...south of the frontal boundary thru the day...region will remain mostly dry with lower RH readings versus northern locales. Thinking the placement of the front will allow for the southern tier to remain under Red Flag conditions so have continued warning...but have dropped the Fire Weather Watch for the next tier of counties along I-70. These areas may briefly hit criteria but not for the 3- hr expected period for a warning. Strong wind conditions will also ensue with the passage of this system and across the CWA Friday on the backside of the exiting low. Looking for gusts into the 30-40mph range with some locally higher amounts near 45 mph possible. Overall for temps...the CWA for today will see a north to south orientation for highs and will be dependent on where the front sets up...but upper 30s to near 40F up north to transition to low 60s south is the best bet at this time. Cold air in place for Friday with highs only in the upper 20s north to the mid 30s south...but by Saturday...much of the CWA will trend upward into mostly the lower to mid 40s. Overnight lows will mainly range in the teens to low 20s at best. With these cold temps at night...and the expected winds...wind chill readings could drop into the single numbers above zero for Thursday/Friday nights. .LONG TERM...(Sunday through Thursday) Issued at 227 AM MST Thu Feb 23 2017 The pattern for the extended period looks to be mostly dry with closer to normal temperatures. High pressure will be the main influencing factor expect for Tuesday. On Tuesday there is a slight chance of showers due to a possible frontal system impacting the High plains. The models indicating a frontal system developing over the Texas panhandle and moving northeast over the High Plains. This system should stay mostly to the east of western Kansas however... if the track is more westward from what the current models are showing... then we will see a greater chance of precipitation. 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Join Mike Quick, Jimmy Cavallo and their guests as they talk boys basketball, boys lacrosse, girls lacrosse and football.
May 14, 2012: Watch as MSG Varsity's Sean Keenan and James Crepea join Keith Irizarry on the Long Island desk to break down the boys lacrosse playoffs.
Joe Lombardi joins Shawna Ryan on the desk to talk Connecticut boys lacrosse. (5/14/12)
Highlights from HS SportsDesk (5/14/12)
May 14, 2012: Watch as West Islip's Head Boys Lacrosse Coach Scott Craig calls into the Long Island desk to talk to Keith Irizarry about achieving the 400 win milestone and evaluating the season so far.
Today's High Five Play of the day features Wilton boys lacrosse. (5/14/12)
Boys lacrosse highlights from HS SportsDesk (5/14/12)
Gregg Sarra and Carl Reuter break down the Long Island Championship games and discuss the Nassau County Awards Dinner.
Gregg Sarra and Carl Reuter discuss the fall's top student athletes, while Andy Slawson stops in to discuss Long Island wrestling.
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We have lots of friends who have had babies recently, and quite a few of them live nearby. Some of us get together monthly or so for a play date. Here are some pics from back in January–they all look so much bigger already!
It was pretty funny that day because Joel had all the lenses except one, which was one we usually use at weddings to get candid shots of people from far away, so I had to stand clear across the room to get any pics!
K is below with our good friend, Laura, who's a lactation consultant and post-partum doula. Other friends here are Gina, Leah and Angela.


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Lot 1214: BANQUE RUSSE DU COMMERCE ET DE L'INDUSTRIE
Auction No.57 of Antique Stocks & Bonds
by Boone Shares - The Scripophily Center
29 October 2016
Brussels, BelgiumLive Auction
Past Lot
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Description: 1910 ST.PETERSBURG. 1 Action de 250 Rbls. brown, black. #20000. No 9492. Large vignettes of Mercury, and a goddess with a gear-wheel. Text in Russian and French. The company capital at this time amounted to 20 million roubles.
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|Medium Bodied
These are good everyday mild to medium cigars. Their construction is pretty consistent. I like the naturally sweet Ecuadorian Sumatra wrap. They are not very complex...just a straight forward decent smoke if one likes Nicaraguan cigars.
By Carl on Aug 12, 2014
good inexpensive smoke
By Briggs on Jun 5, 2014
Inexpensive cigar with medium flavor. I like Robusto better but 852 is a great fishing/dog walking cigar.
By Briggs on Sep 17, 2014
I enjoyed this cigar. It's basically a good for the price, big, time killing porch smoking cigar. From a company that makes good cigars, Oliva.
By Eric on Apr 6, 2015
This is my everyday Cigar because it is the best tasting, best smoking cigar at twice the price. Beats every other cigar out there at the $4 price point and can be had for $1.80 a stick.
By Gary on Feb 13, 2015
A very good cigar. The construction and burn not as consistant as the more expensive Olivas.
By David on Mar 5, 2015
My go to cigar for years!
By Carl on Jun 11, 2015
I am retired and can't justify the price of highly rated cigars anymore. I have smoked Flor de Oliva cigars for many years and enjoy them as much or even more than most others regardless of price. Rarely, one may be packed too tight or a little loose as compared to the pricier Olivas, but overall, they are very good.
By David on Sep 3, 2015
Great smoke, My favorite cigar
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A great cigar if you're looking for medium body and flavor with a touch of sweetness without complexity. Very consistent burn and draw along with reasonable price makes this a great value.
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› short form of had not:
If you hadn't told him he would never have known.
More examples
- She was disappointed that they hadn't phoned.
- Four years after he left college he still hadn't found a job.
- The examiners failed him because he hadn't answered enough questions.
- She looked as though she hadn't slept all night.
- I'd have drowned if he hadn't been there to pull me out of the river.


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Microwave Hawaiian Pralines
|Butterscotch pudding and pie filling mix
|3 Ounce (1 package)
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Packed brown sugar
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs)
|Evaporated milk
|5 1⁄3 Can (53.33 oz) (1 can)
|2 Tablespoon
|Macadamia nuts
|1 1⁄2 Cup (24 tbs), coarsely chopped
1)Take a mixing bowl, mix the sugars,milk,butter and pudding mix. Blend well.
2)Now cook in ROAST(7) for 12 minutes and stir often,till mixture reaches soft ball stage.
3)Now add the nuts.Beat well for 2 minutes.
4)Take a cookie sheet and line with wax paper,and drop tablespoons on it.
5)Keep standing till firm.Cut and store.
6)Wrap candy in sweet wrappers and serve in a candy jar.
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 5205 Calories from Fat 2493
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 291 g447.6%
Saturated Fat 109.1 g545.3%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 502.9 mg167.6%
Sodium 3059.4 mg127.5%
Total Carbohydrates 572 g190.8%
Dietary Fiber 17.3 g69.2%
Sugars 534 g
Protein 119 g238.5%
Vitamin A 85.5% Vitamin C 51.9%
Calcium 422% Iron 61.8%
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Serena Williams is Fed Up With Your Sexist Questions (at Glamour, of all places).
Microsoft: Still failing
I'm installing Project, after having installed Office. I got this error. How on earth is this even a thing that you let happen?
I mean, seriously. I'm a giant nerd with 25 years of experience, and I can barely parse what the hell they're talking about. How exactly is a normal human supposed to respond to this?
Jesus X. Christ.
Six years ago, Colorado started giving out free long-acting birth control. You'll never guess what happened next.
WALSENBURG, Colo. — Over the past six years, Colorado has conducted one of the largest experiments with long-acting birth control. If teenagers and poor women were offered free intrauterine devices and implants that prevent pregnancy for years, state officials asked, would those women choose them?
They did in a big way, and the results were startling. The birthrate among teenagers across the state plunged by 40 percent from 2009 to 2013, while their rate of abortions fell by 42 percent, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. There was a similar decline in births for another group particularly vulnerable to unplanned pregnancies: unmarried women under 25 who have not finished high school.
Turns out, to reduce both abortion and unwanted pregnancies, the best approach is unfettered access to birth control. How about that? Approaches like this don't just make fiscal sense — obviously, it's cheaper to provide low-income people with birth control than it is to cover an unplanned pregnancy and all that follows — but also empower women. It's a giant win across the board.
Consequently, it should not surprise you that the Colorado GOP is opposed to this program and has fought to kill it or undermine it on completely specious grounds.
Given that the program has had an enormous effect on reducing abortion in Colorado, you'd think that anyone with a pro-life mindset would embrace it. Color me utterly shocked that this hasn't happened! I mean, it's almost like abortion isn't the point for these people, isn't it?
Ancestry.com is a spammer.
That's what I'm forced to conclude after realizing, months after cancelling my subscription, that they were still emailing me.
I clicked the "manage email" link at the bottom of their latest message, even though I was pretty sure I'd already unsubscribed and turned all the emails off. There, I discovered this — note the part I've boxed in red:
Sure, I unchecked all those boxes weeks ago, but that wasn't enough to stop the email. For that, you have to CALL.
Ancestry's plan is to make it hard to get off their spam list; most people won't bother with the phone, so Ancestry can disingenuously believe they still want to get their babble. It makes you wonder how many folks just gave up and set up filters in Gmail or whatever to automatically delete anything from their domain!
That's shady as fuck. I cancelled my subscription with them when I realized I just didn't have time to use it — and at $30 a month, I wasn't going to just let it ride. I had intended to back, but now I really don't think I want to do business with these people.
Dept. of Shit I Meant To Post Last Week
Dogs Raise Firework Threat Level to 'Gray':
The Department of Canine Security has raised the firework advisory level from "Gray" to "Gray" following credible evidence of human-made explosive devices used to celebrate something called "America." There is a severe risk of deafening explosions, which have previously resulted in frightened puppies and fingerless masters. Wiener dogs should practice special caution, as the most commonly served food at "America" parties is Dachshund-shaped sandwiches.
So what exactly is this "America"? Masters seem to complain about it all year long and then, for some inexplicable reason, they celebrate it for a day by drinking countless cans of smelly, magical dizzy juice. Dogs have reported their masters guzzling this foul-tasting potion on other occasions such as "Christmas," "Cinco de Mayo" and "I got fired today."
The Department of Canine Security urges dogs to remain on high alert and employ the tactic of See Something, Say Something. Remember to bark upon spotting anything suspicious; e.g. firecrackers, sparklers, Roman candles, cats, squirrels, mail carriers, shadows, reflections, other dogs on TV, etc.
"When would that be?" "Oh, around 2011."
Mark Hamill, on TV in the late 1970s.
In case you forgot: David Foster Wallace could write the HELL out of a review
This piece, from the New York Observer in 1997, completely obliterates John Updike's Toward the End of Time.
A sample:
Mailer, Updike, Roth — the Great Male Narcissists* who've dominated postwar realist fiction are now in their senescence, and it must seem to them no coincidence that the prospect of their own deaths appears backlit by the approaching millennium and on-line predictions of the death of the novel as we know it. When a solipsist dies, after all, everything goes with him. And no U.S. novelist has mapped the solipsist's terrain better than John Updike, whose rise in the 60s and 70s established him as both chronicler and voice of probably the single most self-absorbed generation since Louis XIV.
And the conclusion:
Maybe the only thing the reader ends up appreciating about [protagonist] Ben Turnbull is that he's such a broad caricature of an Updike protagonist that he helps us figure out what's been so unpleasant and frustrating about this gifted author's recent characters. It's not that Turnbull is stupid — he can quote Kierkegaard and Pascal on angst and allude to the deaths of Schubert and Mozart and distinguish between a sinistrorse and a dextrorse Polygonum vine, etc. It's that he persists in the bizarre adolescent idea that getting to have sex with whomever one wants whenever one wants is a cure for ontological despair. And so, it appears, does Mr. Updike — he makes it plain that he views the narrator's impotence as catastrophic, as the ultimate symbol of death itself, and he clearly wants us to mourn it as much as Turnbull does. I'm not especially offended by this attitude; I mostly just don't get it. Erect or flaccid, Ben Turnbull's unhappiness is obvious right from the book's first page. But it never once occurs to him that the reason he's so unhappy is that he's an asshole.
Among the many proofs available regarding the fundamental capriciousness of the universe is that we're left with only three (ish) novels from Wallace, and something like an order of magnitude more books from Updike.
"He was basically a circus bear riding a unicycle."
Peter Sagan may not be in yellow anymore, but he remains a rock star of cycling.
It's the fucking rooster that kills me.
This is best possible cover of Evanescence's "Bring Me To Life", and possibly the finest thing on the Internet to exist ever.
What a time to be alive.
Got stung by the unwanted Win10 upgrade? Maybe you should sue.
This woman did, and MSFT folded to the tune of TEN GRAND.
Are evangelicals REALLY this easy to dupe?
Donald Trump is reportedly now an evangelical Christian, or so says noted evangelical liar James Dobson.
HOWTO: Impress a judge
Well, maybe you can learn via counterexample, at least.
Honestly, I think sometimes Republicans actively seek the most ignorant thing they can say.
"Democrats are in a perplexing position. On the one hand, they're trying to appeal to the gay community, but, on the other hand, they're trying to also appeal to the Muslim community, which, if it had its way, would kill every homosexual in the United States of America," Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said on a radio show Thursday.
The logic that Dems favor Muslims/terrorists over gays is coming down from the very top of the GOP 2016 ticket. Donald Trump, in his first major speech after the weekend's tragedy suggested that Hillary Clinton "can never claim to be a friend of the gay community."
"She can't have it both ways," Trump said. "She can't claim to be supportive of these communities while trying to increase the number of people coming in who want to oppress them."
More at Talking Points Memo.
You people are falling down on your jobs
None of you have given me the LEGO Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS, though I understand the reason may be that it's only marginally less expensive, relatively speaking, than the actual car it represents.
Still: Very cool. 2,704 pieces!
The bar that used to be my living room
Venerable Montrose tavern Cecil's Pub — where I spent a nontrivial part of the 90s, and met people who became lifelong friends — is up for sale after 26 years.
It was always a good place back then (and, I'm sure, now). The bartenders learned your name quickly, and became friends; one of them even became a pretend white supremacist on TV, much to our shared glee. Sometimes, celebs drifted through — I literally bumpted into Tim Robbins at the bar one night ("who the hell is this tall motherfucker in my way ZOMG I LOVED THE PLAYER"). The bar survived the early gentrification of the area, and even a fire (which, I'm sure, was probably the only way to clean the carpets at that point).
The Chron has a nice feature about it, and reminds us that it was featured in Dave Attell's Insomniac back in 2001, the entirety of which is on YouTube so you can see pre-fire Cecil's.
Owner Kimberly Blythe is selling to retire (and good for her), but hopes someone will take over. Even though I never go there anymore, I hope so, too.
The 4K Restoration We All Really Needed
Highlander is now 30 years old, which just kills me. Forget the sequels and the TV show; the original film is a lovely gem of urban fantasy. Aren't you glad it's getting a new 4K theater run and updated DVD/Blu-Ray options?
Here's the 4K trailer. Enjoy. UK release early next month; no set date for US, but you know it's coming.
Who wants to go for a drive?
While my beast is, um, on ice, I'll make do with this awesome video.
(For the uninitiated, a 718RS60 looks like this from the outside.)
Dept. of Updates, Comic Shop Division
Right, so, there have been some Developments.
When I posted my previous entry about Bedrock, I also tweeted it at them hoping to get some kind of reaction. Sure enough, a couple days later, I got a message on Facebook from the manager of the Washington Avenue store. To call it an abject apology would be to understate things by several orders of magnitude. John Scalzi has, somewhat famously, attempted to quantify what makes a good apology, and the Bedrock manager hit all the right notes.
In part:
I made a mistake, plain and simple. There is no store policy or company policy about having a phone number for having a box, it is just a requirement that I prefer we have. I like being able to reach people directly concerning any issues with the box. I set your form off to the side, again my decision, making a terrible assumption about when you would next be in the store. I incorrectly assumed you would be in the next week or the week after, I would then get the phone number and then enter the information in our system and get everything started. This, obviously, did not happen. I read your review on your blog and your anger is well justified. I should have reached out to you via email. Especially considering I deemed the phone number so important, but, in all honesty, did not even consider that. Again, this is all my fault and my responsibility, not an indictment of Bedrock City comics.
He doesn't stutter or prevaricate; he takes full responsibility, and then comes the kicker: if I'd give them another shot, they'll supply any issues I missed on their dime, even if they have to go to other dealers to do it.
Yeah, I can do that.
I had a bit of business travel last week, but yesterday Mrs Heathen and I went into Bedrock again and met with this manager. We gathered what they had of my pulls in house, plus another trade or two, and took inventory of what I needed that they didn't have yet. Turns out I haven't missed many issues after all, which is nice. Nicer still, the missing ones are from big-print-run Marvel books, so finding them will be trivial for Bedrock. (I should have them later this week, actually.) We started over, more or less, and I left there feeling good about the shop and about Eric the manager in particular, which is a long way from where I was on May 25. He didn't have to reach out to me at all; that took actual guts and integrity, and he deserves praise for having the stones to do it. Moreover, they certainly didn't have to comp my entire pile yesterday, which rang to the tune of $40 or $50. But they did, to make up for the hassle, and that's how you recover when you fuck up.
That's the lesson here, really. Every business will make mistakes, even good ones run with the best of intentions. The trick is all in how you recover, and Bedrock (and Eric) nailed the recovery in a way that's really only happened to me one other time.
Nearly two decades ago, something similar happened to me with a car detailing shop: they lost my car key, and since it was a Porsche I'd bought used, it was the only one I had. Before I could even say a word, though, they were outlining how they'd fix it. Obviously, they'd pay for my replacement key. But also I'd have the use of the owner's truck for the duration. They'd guard my car — it couldn't be moved or locked without the key — until a key showed up from Porsche America, which turned out to be about 72 hours. And after it was all over, they'd clean up the various rock dings on the front air dam of the car for free, which I never would've done because it was about $500 worth of work. Ask me now: have I ever used another detailing shop? Nope.
It's early yet, but right about now my bet's that I'll be buying comics at Bedrock for a long time, too.
Why are comics shops in trouble?
It's not so much online, or other demands on our attention. It's because of gatekeeping behavior, I'm sure in part, but in my personal experience, the biggest single reason?
They are bad at their jobs.
Let me explain.
Comics are a periodical medium; it used to be they were tied to months in the calendar, but that's not universally true anymore; new issues just come out when they come out. People keep up by dealing with a local comic shop and setting up what's called a "pull list." You go in, fill out a form with some contact data, and make a list of the titles you want "pulled" for you when they come out. Then, you go to the store at your leisure to pick up your accumulated comics.
Big fans who read many titles do this every Wednesday, which is traditionally when new comics come out (you may have seen DC fans in your life talking about buying a highly-anticipated comic at midnight last night, i.e. on the first moments of Wednesday; it's also been a plot point in Big Bang Theory more than once). People like me who read fewer titles probably go in once a month, or even every couple of months, but the principle is the same.
For years I had a pull list at Nan's Comics and Games. I finally quit when, for the umpteenth time, they just skipped a couple of my issues. This is a "you had one job" kind of situation, right? If I have The Avengers on my list, I expect to get every issue. If I travel a bunch and don't come in for 6 or 8 weeks, the point of the pull list is that I don't miss anything. Nan's couldn't be bothered to actually do my pulls reliably, and so I just quit reading monthlies because it was too much trouble.
Back in early April, though, I was tempted back by some really great writing by folks like Kelly Sue DeConnick, Matt Fraction, and others, plus the Ta-Nehisi Coates-penned revival of Black Panther. Returning to Nan's was out of the question, but there's a much shinier and newer shop — a branch of Bedrock City, which has several locations in Houston — up on Washington Avenue. It's actually next door to my doctor, even (which is convenient for him, since he's a big nerd too).
I went in and picked 5 or 6 titles, and then filled out their pull-list paperwork. They had my name, my email, my physical address, and I even provided a credit card number after we discussed the fact that I might not drop by for a month or so at a time. "If we have your card, we'll just charge you for them after a month or two, and nobody worries about it." Fine by me! Let's do this! I had the guy review the paperwork to ensure all was squared away — this turns out to be important — and left looking forward to my comics.
I got busy. I ride a lot, and work's been crazy. I was driving by Bedrock today, though, and — fueled by the knowledge that Black Panther #2 had just come out; n.b. I bought the first one when I was in there in January or February, so this is what "monthly" looks like for some titles — I stopped by to pick up my comics. I was even a little excited!
The girl at the desk, though, killed that with a quickness. "We don't have a pull list for Farmer," she said after checking the computer.
"I'm pretty sure you do."
She poked around a bit, opened a drawer, and pulled my form out of some kind of dead letter file. On the front was a PostIt saying that, because they didn't have my phone number, they couldn't set up the pull.
Mind you, they reviewed my paperwork back in April, and pronounced it find. Plus, my email address was RIGHT THERE ON THE FORM, in the box marked "email," so it's not like they couldn't reach me. Even if they were dead set on having the phone number for the pull (which the guy in January didn't care about), you'd think they could've reached out by email to get the phone number. These are people who, presumably, also care about comics, and understand that missing issues isn't cool.
Apparently not. By now, I've missed at least one issue of everything on my list other than Panther, which (as I said) just came out.
I bought that, and only that, and told them not to bother with the pull after all.
Fuck you, Bedrock. I'll buy the rest of the Panther issues somewhere else when they come out. The other titles I'll get digitally, or buy the trade paperbacks when they come out. From AMAZON.
Why are comics shops in trouble? Shit like this right here, boyo. Shit like this right here.
(For the record, the girl behind the counter seemed to understand this was bullshit, but made clear the decision to behave this way wasn't hers.)
HOWTO: Stealthily Market to Gays and Lesbians in the Early 1990s
This fascinating story details how, in the early 90s, Subaru (a) realized that their cars were surprisingly popular among a certain demographic and then (b) began explicitly marketing to that demographic, but without other groups really noticing.
What worked were winks and nudges. One ad campaign showed Subaru cars that had license plates that said "Xena LVR" (a reference to Xena: Warrior Princess, a TV show whose female protagonists seemed to be lovers) or "P-TOWN" (a moniker for Provincetown, Massachusetts, a popular LGBT vacation spot). Many ads had taglines with double meanings. "Get Out. And Stay Out" could refer to exploring the outdoors in a Subaru—or coming out as gay. "It's Not a Choice. It's the Way We're Built" could refer to all Subarus coming with all-wheel-drive—or LGBT identity.
Check out the graphics — some of the stuff you'd noticed today (the rainbow flag sticker, e.g.), but plenty of it is very, very subtle. It's like the evangelical dog-whistling that Bush and Cruz (& etc) have used, except not awful and evil.
Also, this bit makes me smile:
In response to the ads, Subaru received letters from a grassroots group that accused the carmaker of promoting homosexuality. Everyone who penned a letter said they'd never buy a Subaru again.
But the marketing team quickly discovered that none of the people threatening a boycott had ever bought a Subaru. Some of them had even misspelled "Subaru."
Hey kids! Local boy done good! Again!
"I'm gonna be honest with ya. I'd go buy another bag of pretzels."
One of my favorite sketches ever is from a super obscure place: something called The New Show, which ran for a grand total of 9 episodes in 1984.
Produced by SNL founder and emperor Lorne Michaels, the show really only existed because of what we might call The Michaels Hiatus Period in SNL history. Sure, he founded the show in 1975, and ran it through 1980, but after 5 years he felt the need to seek out other opportunities. He left the show to Jean Doumanian, who was replaced after a single season by Dick Ebersol (who's more of note for his role with NBC Sports, but whatever).
Anyway, so, Michaels is off doing other things after 1980. Late in his hiatus — he took SNL back in 1985 — Michaels was back with another sketch show. This one was entirely pre-taped, and had no shortage of serious talent, but for whatever reason it failed utterly.
I remember watching it, but hand to God the only bit I can say I truly remember is this: Roy's Food Repair, featuring John Candy, Paul Simon, and Dave Thomas (among others). It's the absurdity and the delivery that still kill, 32 years later.
They're only trying to help
Moose discover wind chimes. Moose like wind chimes.
Dept. of Completely AMAZING Obliviousness
Seen today, on my neighborhood's Facebook group, where someone is actually upset that their new tax appraisal is more than 10% higher than last year (i.e., the homestead limit) because they added a pool, a two car garage, and an elevator.
In the future, you can watch your home burn down from anywhere in the world!
A Fort McMurray family had a Canary system, apparently, and so they were able to watch their home burn down in real time on their phones. The fire comes in through the window at the left.
There's audio. You can hear the glass breaking, and, eventually (but far too late), the smoke detectors going off around the time visibility becomes 0. The video continues after you have no more meaningful visuals, but given that audio continues the whole time I'm not sure if this is because the smoke was too thick, or because the video element perished ahead of the rest of the device.
In any case: Eeek.
Are you guys watching The Americans?
You love it? Yeah? Well, have I got a story for you. Turns out, the whole thing is based on truth — including the idea that the kids wouldn't even know their parents' real identities. Tim and Alex Foley were caught completely by surprised when, in 2010, the FBI raided their home and took their parents away in handcuffs. (It was the same operation that netted Anna Chapman, as it happens.)
Born in Canada to "illegal" agents just like Paige and Henry on the FX show, they eventually naturalized as American citizens living in Cambridge. Both citizenships have been rescinded thanks to their parents' clandestine careers, so the only passports they hold are Russian — i.e., a country to which neither have a real connection.
[Via MeFi.)
Friendly reminder: Cops can steal your cash for no reason. You probably can't get it back.
An Arkansas court has ruled that the $20K taken from him during a traffic stop — during which he was not even ticketed, let alone arrested, charged, or convicted of a crime — will not be returned.
Back in July 2013, Guillermo Espinoza was travelling with his girlfriend to Texas, when they were pulled over by the Arkansas State Police. During the stop, a drug dog alerted to a computer bag. Inside, police found $19,894 in cash, which they promptly seized. No contraband was found during the stop.
Although prosecutors in Hot Spring County never charged Espinoza with a crime, they filed a complaint to forfeit his cash in civil court. Espinoza challenged the forfeiture, arguing that "the stop, search and seizure by law enforcement officers was unreasonable, unlawful and unconstitutional" and violated the Fourth Amendment. He also submitted paychecks and tax filings to show that his seized cash was "lawful earnings," and not drug money. "The state should not be permitted to profit from its own wrongdoing," he added.
The courts disagreed, because (presumably) they prefer not to give up money once they have it, especially when the victim in this case of literal highway robbery lacks the resources to force true accountability.
HOWTO: Extort Prisoners and Their Families, and Make Everyone Else Pay For It
Step one is to establish extortionate long distance rates as the only possible way to talk to inmates. In the world you and I live in, long distance costs are effectively zero; not so for prisoners, where $14 a minute isn't unheard of.
These rates are decided by legal limits, not actual costs; prison phone providers have repeatedly gone to court to prevent the FCC from imposing rate caps here; those suits are ongoing — but the cap is still a very high 11 cents per minute.
Step two? Eliminate actual visits in favor of video calls with absurdly high per-minute charges.
Travis County ended all in-person visitations in May 2013, leaving video visitation as the exclusive method for people on the outside to communicate with the incarcerated. But Travis County is only on the leading edge of a new technological trend that threatens to abolish in-person visitation across the country. Over 600 prisons in 46 states have some sort of video visitation system, and every year, more of those facilities do away with in-person visitation.
For the families of the 2.3 million incarcerated Americans nationwide, crippling costs are part and parcel of supporting a loved one in jail. A sweeping survey of families by the Ella Baker Center showed that more than 1 in 3 families goes into debt just to cover the costs of keeping in touch with their loved one. Of everyone pouring money into those systems, 87% are women.
These fees are the linchpin in an elaborate racket between telecommunications providers, prisons and local governments. The business model for the three major prison telecoms is built around long-term contracts that establish them as the sole provider in a given county or state. In order to win these contracts, the major companies promise each county or state "site commissions" — a euphemism for kickbacks. These deals are lucrative: In Los Angeles County, for example, it brings in a baseline, contractual guarantee of $15 million a year. In some counties, this money trickles back down to the prisons.
Both of these plans make it much, much more difficult for those inside to maintain relationships and connections with friends and family outside — which is absolutely counterproductive. Having an active, non-felon support network upon parole or release has been shown over and over to keep people from ending up back behind bars.
The minute you set up a system where people can literally get rich in the prison industry, you have fucked up, because rapacious soulless assholes will have absolutely zero problem screwing these people over. Repeatedly. The end result is a net higher cost to society, because the worse we make prison, the higher the recidivism rates go — which means we all end up paying Big Prison more money to house more prisoners for more years.
Prison operations companies and those that feed at the same trough see this as a feature, not a bug.
Dept. of You Have Got To Be Shitting Me.
Throughout most of the Sandusky scandal, Joe Paterno claimed that he was unaware that his assistant coach was sexually abusing children; 2012′s Freeh Report showed that Paterno was aware of a 1998 incident and told Sandusky he could keep coaching. Today's opinion from Judge Glazer—relying on sworn deposition from numerous witnesses—holds that Paterno knew about Sandusky's behavior much earlier.
From the decision:
Sandusky was employed by PSU as an Assistant Football Coach and Assistant Professor of Physical Education from 1969 until his retirement in 1999.1 PMA claims Sandusky committed several acts of molestation early in his career at PSU: in 1976, a child allegedly reported to PSU's Head Football Coach Joseph Paterno, that he (the child) was sexually molested by Sandusky; in 1987, a PSU Assistant Coach is alleged to have witnessed inappropriate contact between Sandusky and a child at a PSU facility; in 1988, another PSU Assistant Coach reportedly witnessed sexual contact between Sandusky and a child; and also in 1988, a child's report of his molestation by Sandusky was allegedly referred to PSU's Athletic Director.
BigFootball is a cancer.
"I'm John Laurens in the place to be!"
A few fine quotes about Hamiltons' pal John Laurens:
[Laurens] became close friends with his fellow aides-de-camp, Alexander Hamilton and the General Marquis de Lafayette. He showed reckless courage at the battles of Brandywine, Germantown in which he was wounded, and Monmouth, where his horse was shot out from under him. After the battle of Brandywine, Lafayette observed that, "It was not his fault that he was not killed or wounded … he did every thing that was necessary to procure one or the other."
Unfortunately, his luck ran out at the 1782 Battle of the Combahee River in South Carolina, when he was only 27. Washington said
In a word, he had not a fault that I ever could discover, unless intrepidity bordering upon rashness could come under that denomination; and to this he was excited by the purest motives.
And, of course, from Hamilton himself:
I feel the deepest affliction at the news we have just received at the loss of our dear and inestimable friend Laurens. His career of virtue is at end. How strangely are human affairs conducted, that so many excellent qualities could not ensure a more happy fate! The world will feel the loss of a man who has left few like him behind; and America, of a citizen whose heart realized that patriotism of which others only talk. I feel the loss of a friend whom I truly and most tenderly loved, and one of a very small number.
John Laurens is buried in land that is now a Trappist monastery (Mepkin Abbey) in Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
(Laurens was the only of Hamilton's crowd to die before he did. Hercules Mulligan died in his eighties, and is buried at Trinity Church, which is also where you'll find Hamilton's tomb. Lafayette died at 76; he's interred in Paris, covered in small part by soil brought over from Bunker Hill. An American flag always flies over his grave.)
My Macbook Pro is cool, but this is epic
Who else remembers the Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh, released to mark the company's 20th birthday in 1997? (See also Wikipedia.)
N.B. that this computer is now 20 years old, but somehow manages not to look terribly dated. Amazing.
(More Mac nostalgia in this MeFi thread, if you're into it.)
Fiber is fine, but I'm holding out for PorkNet
The future is now: Scientists wireless transmit high speed data through pork loin.
The ongoing collapse of the justice facade
We're systematically making the justice system increasingly unfair to those least able to fight back: the poor.
The situation in South Dakota highlights the insanity of this. South Dakota charges a defendant $92 an hour for his public defender, owed no matter the outcome of the case. If a public defender spends 10 hours proving that her client is innocent, the defendant still owes the lawyer $920, even though he committed no crime and his arrest was a mistake.
Failure to pay is a crime. Someone who qualifies as indigent may be acquitted, only to be convicted of being too poor to pay for the legal services the Constitution requires the state to provide.
My superpower is Excel combined with an unseemly attachment to numbers.
When I was first riding pretty seriously as an adult, back in 2014, I tried to keep up a hundred-miles-per-week goal, and I tracked it in Excel.
Obviously, that 2014 sheet is kind of depressing now, since it shows me doing exactly that for weeks on endf — rom June until the week I got hurt in November, and then a loooong sequence of zero mile weeks starts up.
When I started riding again, after rehab in spring of last year, I started a new sheet. I was weak, obviously, and was turning in at best one or two rides a week for a long time. My first ride in that sheet was in the week ending 3/29/15, but I didn't get over 70 miles in a week until June, and I didn't top 100 again until the week ending July 19, when I rode my first significant distance post-injury at the Katy Flatland ride. I skipped the century in favor of the "metric century," i.e. 100 kilometers, or 62 miles. So that week's a bit of a holiday for me.
In all, I had 15 weeks at 100 miles or better in 2015. I finished up with a shade under 2,800 miles for the year, which I'm kind of proud of given the slow start and the fact that I missed the entire first quarter.
I'm back in the thick of it now. My goal is still 100 a week, but now I have a long term goal, too: I want 5,000 miles in 2016. I'm on track for it, too — slightly ahead, even. For the year, I'm at 1,714 miles, with an average of about 97 per week.
Anyway, it occurred to me to check what my actual mileage and average was since that Katy ride last summer, and now i know: In the 42 weeks since then, I've ridden 3,806 miles, averaging about 90.6 per week.
I'll take it.
"Hey, I think Prince wants you."
Liz Meriwether recounts how Prince came to be a part of New Girl. Make time.
Sometimes it snows in April.
D'Angelo with two excellent backing singers, last night on Fallon:
As predicted: More law enforcement overreach
The illegally collected NSA eavesdropping data will soon be used for normal policing despite earlier assurances that the information was being collected only for "national security" reasons in "terrorism" cases.
As wise people have been pointing out since, well, 12 September 2001:
It's all another sobering reminder that any powers we grant to the federal government for the purpose of national security will inevitably be used just about everywhere else. And extraordinary powers we grant government in wartime rarely go away once the war is over. And, of course, the nifty thing for government agencies about a "war on terrorism" is that it's a war that will never formally end.
What's a 100 Year Flood, anyway?
You probably don't know, so read this.
Here's an unusual sentence
"Hey, did you ever here that song Prince wrote for Kenny Rogers?
How to operate your frog.
HOWTO: Explain 1986 to Snake People
Well, I'd start with this set of photos in the Atlantic…
Forget EGOT. The new hotness is MacPEGOT.
What's EGOT? It's when you've won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. That's a rarefied group — think Richard Rodgers, or Rita Moreno, or Audrey Hepburn, or Mel Brooks.
What's a MacPEGOT? It's an EGOT winner who's also bagged the MacArthur and the Pulitzer, and Lin-Manuel Miranda is well on his way.
Miranda won two Tonys in 2008, for his first musical In the Heights.
He picked up his first Grammy the next year, for the show's soundtrack album, and then got another this year, for the soundtrack to Hamilton.
He wrote a song (with Tom Kitt) for the Tony Awards in 2014, and won an Emmy for it.
And, of course, this year he's picked up the MacArthur and the Pulitzer.
Turns out, the only one he doesn't have is an Oscar. But he's doing the music for an upcoming Disney animated feature ("Moana"), and a filmed adaptation of Hamilton seems inevitable, so…
Oh, we should probably mention that "MacPEGOT" isn't actually a thing yet, because no one's done it. (Only Richard Rodgers and Marvin Hamlisch have added the Pulitzer to their EGOT.)
(There's obviously a Wikipedia page about the EGOT, which helpfully includes lists of folks with 3 of the 4 EGOT awards.)
Dept. of Turnabout-Is-Fair-Play
You may or may not be aware of the fact that Antoine Fuqua is remaking the 1960 classic The Magnificient Seven; he's pulled together a hell of a cast for this retread — Denzel, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, D'Onofrio — but at the end of the day it still makes me ask "um, why?"
However, in discussion of this on Facebook, something actually interesting cropped up. I'm assuming anyone reading this is aware that the original Magnificent Seven was itself a US retelling of Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai. Remakes are one thing, but cross-cultural adaptations can actually be interesting.
Such adaptations are mostly east to west, at least heretofore, but turns out, Japanese cinema can do it, too. In 2013, they made an adaptation of Eastwood's 1992 Oscar-winner. Ken Watanabe stars; it's also called Unforgiven, at least in English (in Japan, it's apparently "Yurusarezaru Mono").
Here's the trailer:
I think I need to see this.
I feel kind bad for the robot.
So, I did a thing again.
In cycling, we talk about the "century" ride, which is 100 miles. The first day of the MS150 has three starting points, so you can choose your own level of difficulty. If you start in Waller, you do 75 miles. If you start in Katy, it's 85. And if you start at Tully Stadium on the west side of Houston proper, your first day is a century.
When I did my first MS150 in 2013, that's where I started, and on that day I notched my first century since the Reagan administration. I rode from there in 2014, too, on my second MS; here's the summary of that ride:
My time two years ago was better than my time in 2013, but not substantially so. After that ride, I got much more serious about cycling. I started going to regular rides with people who'd kick my ass, and I got strong enough to hang with them. I lost more weight. I even bought a fancy new bicycle to facilitate go-fast behavior. I averaged in excess of 100 miles per week for most of the year.
Then, of course, there was the crash. In November of 2014, I had a little mishap that resulted in pretty serious broken bone, surgery, two hospital stays, and the inability to walk for three months. I was off the bike for six months, and I was weak as hell when I got back on it.
But I kept at it.
And here we are. Yesterday, I rode my first century since day one of the 2014 MS150.
I'm still not a speed demon, but I'm pretty damn happy about turning in a post-injury time over an hour faster than my 2014 effort. I'm not super excited about yesterday's performance; I didn't feel particularly strong, and felt like I was capable of better — maybe it was nutrition, or a failure to taper properly; I dunno. But I'm happy about the trendline. And I couldn't possibly be more thankful for the people who helped me get here: Erin, first and foremost; my team at Karbach Brewing; and my friends from my Tuesday/Thursday rides.
Now: when's the next ride?
(PS: If you'd like, it's still possible to donate to the 2016 MS150; this is my fundraising link — I'd be much obliged!)
"You won't accept that Governor Bryant has signed into law something that privileges our insecurity and punishes your bodies. And that hurts our feelings."
Kiese Laymon is really, really, really on fire here.


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Statistically, LeBron James had no peer this season. So it comes as no surprise that James will be named 2011-12's MVP.
James averaged 27.1 points, 7.9 rebounds, 6.2 assists and 1.9 steals on 53.1 percent shooting in 2011-12.
Bottle up all his box score stats into one round figure and we find he posted a player efficiency rating (PER) of 30.8 this season.
No one came within three points of his PER. Chris Paul registered a 27.1 PER this season, but came in second by a wide margin.
If you need further evidence that LeBron was in a class of his own this season, take a look at the visualization below, which displays each player's PER by minutes played.
An MVP season, indeed.


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New Year's Cake
|1⁄2 Pound
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|Baking soda
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|3 Cup (48 tbs)
|Lemon juice
|Chopped nuts
|1 Tablespoon
|Baking powder
|2 Teaspoon
|1 Tablespoon
Cream butter and sugar together until light.
Add flour and stir until mixture is mealy.
Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
Stir baking powder into milk and stir milk into the egg mixture.
Mix soda and lemon juice and stir in.
Mix well.
Pour barter into a greased layer cake pan 10 inches in diameter and 2 inches deep.
Bake in a moderate 350 degree oven for 20 minutes.
Sprinkle with nuts and sugar and continue baking for 20 to 30 minutes longer or until cake tests done.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 3716 Calories from Fat 2056
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 233 g358%
Saturated Fat 131.9 g659.6%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 1779.1 mg593%
Sodium 2069.3 mg86.2%
Total Carbohydrates 323 g107.7%
Dietary Fiber 11.3 g45.3%
Sugars 31.6 g
Protein 89 g178%
Vitamin A 147.3% Vitamin C 22.2%
Calcium 128.5% Iron 134.1%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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Arizona Cardinals
Updated Jan 11, 2013 - 7:04 pm
Cardinals lose defensive backs coach Townsend to Mississippi State
The Arizona Cardinals will have at least one more position to fill on their coaching staff.
Deshea Townsend, who just finished his second season as the team's assistant defensive backs coach, is leaving to be the defensive backs coach at Mississippi.
He tweeted the news, more or less, Friday.
Go Dawgs!!!! It's Official!!!
— Deshea Townsend (@desheatownsend) January 11, 2013
Townsend was added to the Arizona staff shortly after defensive coordinator Ray Horton was hired. While some may view his defection as a sign Horton is not going to replace Ken Whisenhunt as head coach, it could just be a chance for Townsend to progress in his career as a coach.
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