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3000W Alpine Subwoofer and Enclosure Package
Single 12" SWR-12D4 Subwoofer + Ported Enclosure Custom Black Baffle
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- 12" Dual 4-Ohm Type-R Series Car Subwoofer
- Power Handling:
- Peak: 3000 watts
- RMS: 300-1000 watts
- Recommend power: 400 - 600 watts RMS
- Impedance: Dual 4 ohms
- Kevlar treated pulp cone
- Durable HAMR Santoprene™ surround
- Progressive Conex spider
- Compound Radius Curve pole geometry
- Oversized 2.6", High-Temperature, 4-Layer Dual Voice Coil
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- Frequency response: 26-300 Hz
- Resonance Frequency (Fs): 31Hz
- Top-mount depth: 6-3/8"
- Sensitivity: 84dB
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Belva BBX112BK (BLACK)
1.842 cu ft. Single 12" Ported Car Subwoofer Box Enclosure with Custom Black Baffle
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- 12" Single Ported Subwoofer Enclosure
- Black high gloss front face board
- Covered in black carpet
- Durable 3/4" Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF) construction
- Subwoofer mounting depth: 14.5"
- Subwoofer cutout diameter: 11"
- Total box volume: 1.842 cubic feet
- Dimensions: 16"D x 16"W x 18.75"H
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Port Specifications:
- Rectangular Slot Port
- Number of ports: 1
- Estimated port tuned frequency (fb): 42 Hz
- Port dimensions: 1.5"Width
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Efficiency (1w/1m) is not an accurate indicator of a subwoofer's output capability and should not be used as a comparison to other speakers or subwoofers to determine which one is "louder".
Round/Circle: This is the typical and common subwoofer design. They have a round cone and are a circle in design.
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Ported / Vented - Ported/Vented Enclosures provide an even boomier, louder bass, but less accurate then a small, sealed box. Ported enclosures typically require more airspace per sub and also less power output from an amplifier to perform correctly.
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Spring posts are a hybrid of the two. Instead of using a thread and "screwing" them tight, they use a spring to allow the wire to fit and tighten against the terminal.
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Not sure why this is just coming to light, but it appears there was a serious, measurable spike in traffic to one popular porn site after Alabama lost the Sugar Bowl.
Me, I just had a bourbon.
Not sure why this is just coming to light, but it appears there was a serious, measurable spike in traffic to one popular porn site after Alabama lost the Sugar Bowl.
Me, I just had a bourbon.
Our friends at Talking Points Memo have a great piece up about the history of Juneteenth. Pick up on it.
Apparently, it's illegal to carry cash in the US, and the penalty is the loss of the cash.
Non-insane Texans sent our doofus jackhole of a governor tin foil after his Jade Helm comments.
There exists someone named Tokyo Sexwale who is neither an amorous, Japanese marine mammal nor a character in a Pynchon novel.
He is, of course, now leading a FIFA monitoring committee on Palestine.
Carry on. As best you can, anyway.
You may have heard that Bradley Wiggins set a new record for the Hour last week.
Former recordholder Jens Voigt had this to say:
So, obviously, I'm all over his run at Game of Thrones. Don't miss.
News that the Transportation Security Administration missed a whopping 95% of guns and bombs in recent airport security "red team" tests was justifiably shocking. It's clear that we're not getting value for the $7 billion we're paying the TSA annually.
But there's another conclusion, inescapable and disturbing to many, but good news all around: we don't need $7 billion worth of airport security. These results demonstrate that there isn't much risk of airplane terrorism, and we should ratchet security down to pre-9/11 levels.
We don't need perfect airport security. We just need security that's good enough to dissuade someone from building a plot around evading it. If you're caught with a gun or a bomb, the TSA will detain you and call the FBI. Under those circumstances, even a medium chance of getting caught is enough to dissuade a sane terrorist. A 95% failure rate is too high, but a 20% one isn't.
I added the emphasis. He's absolutely right. Go read the whole thing, but here's a zinger from a few paragraphs in:
The TSA is failing to defend us against the threat of terrorism. The only reason they've been able to get away with the scam for so long is that there isn't much of a threat of terrorism to defend against.
I saw this morning that Christopher Lee, an actor whose 93-year-run included (as pointed out by Scalzi) "stabbing Nazis, making movies, and releasing heavy metal albums in [his] 90s", has died.
That's pretty awful in a passage-of-titans sense, but to have it followed by the news of Ornette Coleman also shuffling off this mortal coil (at an entirely respectable 85) makes for a shitty morning, my friends.
(Both from Sunny Mabrey.)
So Denny Hastert is in trouble. Mostly, my reaction is as you'd expect: depressed amusement at the predictability of a scolding hack getting popped for misconduct like this. But there's more here, and you should delve into it, because what's happening to him is really kind of alarming.
The always-on-point Ken White over at Popehat has written up an examination of the charges against Hastert and how they came to be, and if you're not a little freaked out by the process I don't know what's wrong with you. Basically, the Federal prosecutors can target just about anyone and take them down because of how "creative" they can get with astonishingly broad interpretations of federal law that are generally supported by the courts. Put simply, if they decide they want you, they can get you. After all, you very probably commit Three Felonies A Day (more here); the extremely broad laws and broader interpretations give Federal prosecutors enormous power that is basically unchecked by anyone. "Trust us" is a shitty insurance policy against power of this nature.
Hastert isn't going down for diddling little boys or for bribery. He's not going down for fraud. He's being charged with structuring transactions –his withdrawals were all less than $!0,000 — and for lying to the Feds about the purpose of the cash:
The indictment has mostly inspired chatter about what it doesn't say. Hastert is charged with structuring withdrawals of less than $10,000 (so that they would not be reported to the IRS) so that he could pay off an unidentified person for Hastert's unidentified past misconduct. What past misconduct, or threatened accusation of misconduct, could lead Hastert to pay $3.5 million? The indictment doesn't say, but it has been drafted to imply that the allegation of past misconduct relates to Hastert's job as a teacher and coach in Yorkville, Illinois. Hastert isn't charged with doing anything to the accuser, and the accuser isn't charged with extortion.
We imagine law enforcement operating like we see on TV: someone commits a crime, everyone knows what the crime is, law enforcement reacts by charging them with that crime. But that's not how federal prosecution always works. Particularly with high-profile targets, federal prosecution is often an exercise in searching for a theory to prosecute someone that the feds would like to prosecute. (Emph. added)
The takeaway is simple:
From the citizen's perspective, this situation points to one obvious conclusion: shut up. Never answer a federal agent's questions without a thorough debriefing with a qualified lawyer first.
It may or may not be the case that Hastert did something terrible. In a free society, though, law enforcement must work within limits. If it's the case that he molested boys, but no complaint was made at the time, and the statute of limitations has passed, it may be tempting to endorse the actions of the FBI and the federal prosecutors here, but that's a bad path. The tactics in question are downright scary to me, even when applied to someone like Hastert.
Turns out, the FBI has a secret air force they use to fly around and monitor cell phones.
Without warrants.
Scores of low-flying planes circling American cities are part of a civilian air force operated by the FBI and obscured behind fictitious companies, The Associated Press has learned.
The AP traced at least 50 aircraft back to the FBI, and identified more than 100 flights in 11 states over a 30-day period since late April, orbiting both major cities and rural areas. At least 115 planes, including 90 Cessna aircraft, were mentioned in a federal budget document from 2009.
For decades, the planes have provided support to FBI surveillance operations on the ground. But now the aircraft are equipped with high-tech cameras, and in rare circumstances, technology capable of tracking thousands of cellphones, raising questions about how these surveillance flights affect Americans' privacy.
It gets worse:
Basic aspects of the FBI's program are withheld from the public in censored versions of official reports from the Justice Department's inspector general, and the FBI also has been careful not to reveal its surveillance flights in court documents. The agency will not say how many planes are currently in its fleet.
The planes are equipped with technology that can capture video of unrelated criminal activity on the ground that could be handed over to prosecutions. One of the planes, photographed in flight last week by the AP in northern Virginia, bristled with unusual antennas under its fuselage and a camera on its left side.
Some of the aircraft can also be equipped with technology that can identify thousands of people below through the cellphones they carry, even if they're not making a call or in public. Officials said that practice, which mimics cell towers and gets phones to reveal basic subscriber information, is used in only limited situations.
"These are not your grandparents' surveillance aircraft," said Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union. Stanley said the flights are significant "if the federal government is maintaining a fleet of aircraft whose purpose is to circle over American cities, especially with the technology we know can be attached to those aircraft."
Goodnight, Dune is completely brilliant.
The TSA missed 95% of weapons and explosives in an undercover test.
Over at Rolling Stone, they've got a pretty solid list up. Don't miss it.
Superfan Adam Nedeff has cataloged each of the 500+ moments included in the show-ending montage. Enjoy.
I remember an almost alarming number of these.
Confederate flags were reportedly burned and buried on Monday in several southern states as part of a movement to get rid of the flag and its offensive historical context.
A good start.
These people are fucking criminals, and should be fired, shunned, and jailed.
They are actively seeking out sleeper car passengers on Amtrak to harass, illegally search, and steal from. This is a regular practice.
The tributes are coming fast and furious this week, which makes sense: Letterman's swan song is tonight, easily the biggest talk show event since Carson's retirement over twenty years ago.
Two of the most moving I've seen so far are from other, younger comedians who grew up idolizing Letterman.
The first was from Norm MacDonald, who was on Letterman a couple nights ago to do a final standup set there. He's funny, but he gets real towards then end as he talks about seeing a young Dave as a standup comic when he was a teenager in Toronto.
The second is from Jimmy Kimmel last night, who is no less choked up at the prospect of Letterman's retirement. He talks openly of watching Late Night as a teen, just as everyone in our generation of a certain bent did.
He closes with something kind of awesome: he announced that tonight's show will be a rerun, and that all his viewers should watch Dave's final show instead.
The final bit of Kimmel's tribute includes a segment from early in Dave's career that I remember quite clearly, though my memory doesn't have tracking problems.
Last night, Seth Meyers' show changed its opening to a shot for shot remake of the original Letterman show opening from 1983.
(The exercise also points out just how much Manhattan has changed in 30 years.)
I saw him, once.
It was 27 years ago, when I was a lad of 18. In those days, he'd play with some frequency in a Palmer's Crossing juke joint called the Hi-Hat Club, which was under ordinary circumstances not a place a skinny white kid would likely be welcome. Shootings there weren't unheard of. Only four years later, a policeman would be hailed as a hero for killing a gunman there, which I remember only because the cop was married to a high school acquaintance. PTSD nearly did the cop in, too.
It was that kind of place, except when it wasn't. And one of the times it wasn't was when BB was in town.
Then as now, Mississippi doesn't have a whole lot to be proud of, but music is something we do well, and BB has been a jewel in the Magnolia crown since the 1940s. He toured tirelessly, playing both fancy venues and dodgy clubs like the Hi-Hat (which, violent reputation or no, is also a stop on the Mississippi Blues Trail).
Anyway, so I went out there. I don't remember my mother protesting at all, which is either selective recollection or evidence that she didn't realize exactly where he was playing — and the latter seems really unlikely, because the Hi-Hat wasn't exactly obscure; even going to Palmer's Crossing at night was probably enough to worry some folks. Still, out I went, in a 1971 Chevy pickup.
As I recall, I tried to take my girlfriend, who refused to even ask her parents about going. Her relationship with them was weird, I guess, but she was clearly wrong because after I paid my cover and walked in — past the bar, where they served me a Michelob as quickly as I could ask for one, drinking age notwithstanding — I was immediately hailed by her father. In the absence of anyone else I knew, I sat with him and enjoyed the show in a room that was surprisingly mixed. We were absolutely the minority, but BB was BB, and I guess people who loved the music were welcome regardless of shade.
BB has been old forever. He was 89 when he died, which means he was "only" 62 for this particular gig, not that you could tell — the man knew how to work a crowd even though he played from a chair. He was famous for his guitar's beautiful tone, but let me tell you no recording I've yet heard really captured it like I heard it that night. I was thrilled and a little shocked at how blue his stage patter was, but I suspect he tailored that to the room. At the Hi-Hat, where he'd played for decades, my guess is he probably did a lot less editing than he'd do in fancier clubs.
I've never sought out another set for whatever reason. I've had opportunities, sure, but truth be told my own blues preferences are a little louder and a little later — more Buddy Guy, say. But I'm awful glad I got to see the King, and do so in a small room in a no-shit Mississippi juke joint, illegally drinking beer with my girlfriend's dad, late into a warm Mississippi night in 1988.
Imagine you're a small business owner, and one of your employees ends up needing to be a DEA informant. His handlers entice him to take one of your company trucks, fill it with weed, and haul it back to a place where they can bust the buyers.
Bad shit happens. Your driver is killed, and your truck basically destroyed in a gun battle with Mexican gangsters.
I wouldn't even be blogging this if the next step weren't obvious, but: clearly the DEA is refusing to take responsibility for the truck or the death, and a judge has backed them.
The government argued that it is neither culpable for the damage nor under any obligation to inform the owner of any property that it wishes to use in its operations, because "clandestine."
No statute, regulation, or policy "specifically prescribe[d]" or prohibited the course of action Patty alleges the DEA agents followed. The DEA derives its authority from the Controlled Substances Act, 21 U.S.C. § 801, its implementing regulations, and various executive orders…
In this case, Task Force Officer Villasana submitted a similar declaration. He states that the DEA's decision "to proceed with such an operation is entirely discretionary, and not mandated by any statute, rule, or policy." Whether and how to conduct such an undercover investigation and operation is "necessarily discretionary in nature." Villasana did not try to give advance notice to Patty that the Task Force would be using his truck because of operation's covert nature, the risks of injury and potential for damage if something went wrong, and the uncertainty about whether other individuals (including Patty) could be trusted.
The business owner's attorney summarized it thusly:
A federally deputized corporal from the Houston Police Department decides to pay your small company's driver to drive your truck to the Mexican border, load it up with illegal drugs, and try to catch some bad guys. He knows that the driver is lying to "the owner" – although he doesn't know your name or identity and doesn't bother to find out. The bad guys outwit the cops. Your company's driver is killed. Your truck is riddled with bullet holes.
Query: is our federal government liable to pay for the damages to you and your property?
Answer: Nope.
The DEA and the court have taken the position, apparently, that the government can come and take your stuff, fuck it up, and bear no responsibility afterwards if they say "clandestine operation" enough. You'd think the Takings Clause would have something to say about this, you know?
This story is floating around this week. You ought to look at it, because it's sort of a distillation of know-nothing Republicanism, and it's the rare sort of such example that illustrates how far they are from reality.
The gist: a South Carolina Republican handyman has found himself facing both blindness and financial ruin because of a health problem — and he's blaming the ACA for it.
As the Charlotte Observer explains, Lang is a self-employed handyman who works as a contractor with banks and the federal government to maintain foreclosed properties. He was making a decent living, enough to be the sole breadwinner in the family. As the Observer puts it, Lang "he has never bought insurance. Instead, he says, he prided himself on paying his own medical bills."
All seemed good until this February when a series of headaches led him to the doctor. Tests revealed that Lang had suffered a series of mini-strokes tied to diabetes. [...] He now also has a partially detached retina and eye bleeding tied to his diabetes. The initial medical care for the mini-strokes ran to almost $10,000 and burned through his savings. And now he can't work because of his eye issue and can't afford the surgery that would save his eyesight and also allowing him to continue working.
More from the Charlotte Observer story:
That's when he turned to the Affordable Care Act exchange. Lang learned two things: First, 2015 enrollment had closed earlier that month. And second, because his income has dried up, he earns too little to get a federal subsidy to buy a private policy.
Lang, a Republican, says he knew the act required him to get coverage, but he chose not to do so. But he thought help would be available in an emergency. He and his wife blame President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats for passing a complex and flawed bill.
"(My husband) should be at the front of the line, because he doesn't work and because he has medical issues," Mary Lang said last week. "We call it the Not Fair Health Care Act."
Anyone who's remotely familiar with insurance knows there's no system that lets people skip payments while they're healthy and cash in when they get sick. Public systems tax everyone. Private ones rely on the premiums of the well to cover the costs of those who are ailing.
And Democrats might point out that the ACA was designed to provide Medicaid coverage for people whose income falls below the poverty line. The federal government pays 100 percent of the ACA expansion to cover low-income, able-bodied adults, but 21 Republican-led states, including North Carolina and South Carolina, declined to participate. Emph added.
Lang's position is utter bullshit on its face, but I'm not here to point and laugh. The good news is that many donors have stepped forward to help him out, despite the fact that this shitstorm is of his own making.
The bigger issue here is that the conservative media, which we may safely assume Lang consumed voraciously given his positions, was so foursquare against the ACA (and, really, any health care law, and anything espoused by Obama) that he came away from the public debate thinking his path was a safe and rational one. That's completely fucking criminal.
The right wing media worked themselves into a goddamn frenzy about the ACA and spouted such amazing fountains of bullshit that people still think death panels are a risk. In deciding to become the propaganda arm of the GOP, though, these people abandoned their public mission: inform and protect the public with information. In their rush to deny the President and his party a victory, they refused to engage the bill on its merits and instead obfuscated any real points with hyperbole and outright lies while fueling the idea that having insurance isn't even necessarily something you want.
The saying points out that everyone is entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. The story of Luis Lang is an example of what happens when knowable facts make clear the opinions you've held are bankrupt. Sure, it's partially on him for not doing his own research, but Americans have traditionally been able to trust "news" organizations not to lie to them. That you and I know this is no longer true is probably cold comfort to someone like Lang.
How is this not just straight up highway robbery?
The agents found nothing in Rivers's belongings that indicated that he was involved with the drug trade: no drugs, no guns. They didn't arrest him or charge him with a crime. But they took his cash anyway, every last cent, under the authority of the Justice Department's civil asset forfeiture program.
There is no presumption of innocence under civil asset forfeiture laws. Rather, law enforcement officers only need to have a suspicion — in practice, often a vague one – that a person is involved with illegal activity in order to seize their property. On the highway, for instance, police may cite things like tinted windows, air fresheners or trash in the car, according to a Washington Post investigation last year.
Once property has been seized, the burden of proof falls on the defendant to get it back — even if the cops ultimately never charge them with a crime. "We don't have to prove that the person is guilty," an Albuquerque DEA agent told the Journal. "It's that the money is presumed to be guilty."
This means that the DEA can basically steal any cash they ever find, and the onus is on their victims to prove the money was legitimately theirs. Because the DEA overwhelmingly target young, poorer people, they rarely have the means to contest the seizures.
Frankly, I'd like to see a RICO action against the DEA generally. Maybe not everyone there is actively involved in these sorts of thefts, but by working they they enable what has become a fundamentally criminal enterprise — and by getting paid, they receive benefits at least in part because of these crimes.
A couple years ago, when United ruined Continental and ended the carrier's relationship with Amex, I picked up a fancy United-branded Chase Visa in order to retain some status with United. I don't fly much anymore, and when I do I prefer Southwest, but carrying the card gets me into the club if I need it, and just having it makes me the equivalent of their lowest elite flier tier (which is something my Amex Platinum didn't do).
Anyway, so, fancy Visa. When I got it, I was stunned at how oddly heavy it was. I assumed they used some denser plastic for it and didn't really give it any thought beyond that. And since I mostly just have the card for travel, I don't pull it out of my wallet much, and so the oddness was mostly forgotten.
Yesterday I got a replacement card in the mail, as the initial one had expired (without me noticing, actually). The new one is just as heavy, which renewed my curiosity a little — but not nearly as much as what came next.
I pulled out the heavy scissors to destroy the old card, as you do, and found the card basically un-cuttable. The scissors had no shot at all. In retrospect, I'm super glad I wasn't downstairs in my office, where I would have blithely dropped the old card into my shredder and probably ruined it in the process. I didn't really even get very far doing the bend-it-back-and-forth thing.
What did Chase use to make this demon card? Well, the scissors WERE game enough to scratch it deeply, and this is what I found when I pulled on the top layer:
The damn thing is heavy because it's made of metal with a thin layer of plastic on either side. WTF?
I'm sure I've done this before, but it's a cover worth noting.
Now that we got gone for good
Writhing under your riding hood
Tell your gra'ma and your mama too
It's true, true, true, true
Hilary Hahn playing Partita No. 2 for Violin in Dm, BWV 1004: 1. Allemande:
Oh my sweet lord yes.
(Via @DavidSMacLean over on the Twitters.)
Idris Elba has broken a land speed record in a Bentley.
I'm having a hard time unpacking the sheer weapons-grade awesome here.
h/t: My Attorney
A brilliant TBT from the Onion: McDonald's Drops 'Hammurderer' Character From Advertising:
Responding to widespread public outrage, McDonald's executives defended the coloring book as "not nearly as violent or socially irresponsible as it has been made out to be, given that the Mayor's head is, in fact, a giant and conceivably edible cheeseburger."
Read the whole thing; they finish strong.
Updated: Link fixed. Thanks, Gar!
The NYT has a nice interview piece up about Dave's impending retirement (on May 20).
He sounds remarkably unguarded and open, vs. all prior interviews with him I've read. I rarely watch anymore, but I'll definitely miss him.
First time back out with the Ride Formerly Known As West End (Reform Congregation), and lookie here:
IOW, I rode that segment faster tonight than I did in September, when I was at nearly peak form. Flatline speed is there, it's just the explosive acceleration I have trouble with. I'm pretty amazed, and very pleased.
From the SSM arguments yesterday:
Scalia wondered aloud about ministers being required to marry same-sex couples. "I don't see how you could possibly allow that minister to say, I will only marry a man and a woman," Scalia said. "I will not marry two men. … I don't see any answer to that. I really don't."
Because, you see, we don't already live in a world where ministers routinely refuse to perform weddings that do not accord with their faith. Most famously, the Roman Catholic Church won't marry you if you've been married before and haven't paid them for an annulment. You're still free to marry civilly, of course.
Scalia knows this, and is lying when he suggests he doesn't, and is doing so to bolster his bigotry. Slacktivist has more.
Antonin Scalia is also fully aware of the Roman Catholic Church's teaching and practice on divorce and remarriage. He is fully, completely aware that any Catholic with a valid civil divorce has every legal, civil and constitutional right to remarry. And he is fully, completely aware that this has never in any way, shape or form ever meant that a Catholic priest could be legally compelled to consecrate such a wedding.
Justice Scalia knows this. Everyone knows this.
And yet, today, Justice Scalia chose to pretend he doesn't know this.
As they say, "Christ, what an asshole."
He's introduced a bill to reauthorize the PATRIOT act.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced a bill Tuesday night that would reauthorize a controversial surveillance authority of the Patriot Act until 2020, a push that comes just as a group of bipartisan lawmakers is preparing a last-minute push to rein in the government's mass-spying powers.
A McConnell aide said the majority leader is beginning a process to put the bill on the Senate calendar but said that the chamber will not take the measure up this week. That process, known as Rule 14, would bypass the traditional committee process. Senate Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr is a cosponsor.
Under the bill, Section 215 of the post-9/11 Patriot Act would be extended until December 31, 2020. The core provision, which the National Security Agency uses to justify its bulk collection of U.S. phone records, is currently due to expire on June 1.
The bill appears to be an attempt to thwart efforts to rein in the National Security Agency's expansive surveillance powers, which came under intense scrutiny nearly two years ago after the disclosures spurred by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. A bipartisan group of lawmakers were expected to reintroduce on Wednesday a comprehensive surveillance-reform bill that would have effectively ended the NSA's dragnet of Americans' call data.
What a jackass.
Yesterday, Mrs Heathen and I were on deck for our usual Sunday "Violence, Boobs, and Food" party over at Chez Kirst, in which we eat and then watch Game of Thrones.
I'd spied this recipe in Garden & Gun earlier in the week, so we set about preparing it.
While it takes a while to actually cook (~4 hours), the prep time is almost unfeasibly short. I think we may have spent 30 minutes doing, no kidding. In retrospect, I think I'd:
It probably wouldn't hurt any to throw some spicier peppers into the sauce as well. There's effectively no heat involved as written.
The yield on a 5.25 pound bone-in leg was pretty huge. Five adults and two kids ate, and we have enough left over that I just sent Erin a joking meal plan for the week that had lamb in every slot. HIGHLY recommended.
I'm SUPER behind on shit I meant to share with you, but: This post from early March on Mefi points us to a really amazing multimedia presentation called Scaled in Miles. Just click through, choose Interactive, and enjoy.
"Hey, let's put a red-hot sphere of nickel on a jawbreaker and see what happens!"
It is, of course, but one episode in a series; other "victims" include gasoline, a watermelon, a ribeye, and fireworks. Bookmarked, obviously.
"Hey, let's put a red-hot sphere of nickel on a jawbreaker and see what happens!"
It is, of course, but one episode in a series; other "victims" include gasoline, a watermelon, a ribeye, and fireworks. Bookmarked, obviously.
These scientists accidentally filmed a sperm whale investigating their remote camera rig, and became VERY excited.
The TSA destroyed Cory Doctorow's suitcase because it looked like it might be locked.
The TSA cannot be held responsible for the destruction, though, because terrorism. Accountability is anathema to this organization; just look at the distance they went to keep their serial gropers from being prosecuted.
It's an upgrade year in the Heathen Office, and so I recently ordered a new laptop from Apple. What I didn't buy is their new super-sexy 2-pound MacBook, but I admit I was very tempted.
If your use case runs to web, email, and Office apps, though, and you don't mind the unusual port configuration, it may well be the laptop for you. Anandtech has a long review of the new machine. I've seen them in person, and while they're not as shockingly small as the original Air was, it's a pretty damn svelte computer. The keyboard feels fine (but unusual), and the display is shockingly good.
At this point, the lower end (well, non-Pro) laptops at Apple come in two flavors: the now-venerable Air platform (in 11″ and 13″ varieties), and the new Retina Macbook. Assuming you want 8GB of RAM (and you do) plus at least 256GB of storage (and you do), the pricing looks like this:
So which one do you buy if you don't need the Pro?
It's not a simple answer. The Air models still come with a "normal" complement of ports, and are technically faster, but are saddled with the non-Retina display. You probably think, as I once did, that the display isn't that big of a deal, but once you see a Retina screen it's super hard to go back. Trust me.
Also, the speed thing isn't a slam dunk for the Airs, owing to the novel characteristics of the new Intel chip in the Retina model. Basically, it can "sprint" for short bursts very well, so it punches above its weight in situations where that's indicated. If your workload includes long, computationally intense tasks (e.g., video rendering, or gaming), the Retina model will fall behind the Airs, but this does not describe most people.
That leaves the port situation. Having a single port (plus headphones) allowed Apple to make this thing way, way thinner than they would have been able to otherwise, but this has costs. First and foremost is that you'll need an adapter to plug in so much as a thumb drive, since the port is the new USB-C, not the regular USB you're familiar with. This port type is absolutely NOT proprietary to Apple, and we'll start seeing it in normal peripherals very, very soon now — every manufacturer will want to support it, for the same reasons Apple used it: it can simplify design dramatically.
In real terms, though, buying a Retina Macbook now means you need at least one and probably more adapters. Apple sells three:
Realistically, there's no way you can use the new Retina Macbook without dropping coin for at least one of these, and probably two of them — the simple USB one, plus the multiport one of your choice. That's not a HUGE deal, but it matters.
For me, if I were in a mode to buy a web/email/Office computer, I think I'd probably bite the bullet and get a Retina, but if goofy ports scare you, getting a Macbook Air at this point is still a defensible move. If you're more mobile and spend less time at a desk plugging things in, the Retina starts to look even better, though.
Apparently, in 1991, Sizzler decided to wrap themselves in a freedom blanket with a four minute video explaining how awesome and freedom-loving their restaurant is.
Indiana has, of course, hired a PR firm to try to repair the damage they did to their state's image with their bigotry bill.
How about, you know, something substantive and real instead?
There is little I can add to this bit, from my friend Mike:
[L]et me now say that the book is entertaining, and yet transcends entertainment, in the way that most people's attempts to understand themselves are able to do. It's funny, but with only a couple of moments that made me laugh out loud—but those were really good: Louis C.K.'s comments on how to approach visiting Amsterdam, and his brother's description of a scene in The Phantom Menace that continues to make me laugh just thinking about it.
(No, this is not cheating.)
No, I'm not late to the party; this is a re-read. Frankly, I almost never do this, but I was so underwhelmed by The Goldfinch that I bought a new copy of History — a fancier, literary edition, compared with my falling-apart paperback from 20+ years ago — to bask in what I remembered as her best work.
I did this with some trepidation, obviously. Often we go back to works we though amazing, only to discover our tastes have changed, or that we remembered it better than it actually was, or some combination thereof. I'm happy to report that I wasn't disappointed here, though — frankly, the book is probably better than I remembered it. I'm certainly better educated at 45 than I was at 22, so more of her classical references landed with me the second time around.
This isn't to say it's not a LITTLE precious. The book does a sometimes-delicate, sometimes-clumsy dance between being timeless and being rooted quite seriously in its era. Her cadre of isolated classics students dress and act as though they could belong to any decade back to the Jazz age, or even the Victorian era, but for occasional references to cars or planes or politics. Their instructor is similarly unmoored in time, in a way that I think academics might envy.
Tartt's recurring themes and traits are of course here: envy of easy privilege, wastrel figures with big trust funds and family money, an uneasy orbit of New York and wealth, all seen from an outsider who is from the hinterlands and cursed with an inconvenient poverty. Richard is very, very like The Goldfinch's Theo in all these ways (and, we wonder, not unlike Tartt herself, who left her native Mississippi to attend Bennington, the school that is the transparent inspiration for History's Hampden).
The prose here is a bit overwritten, but not in a clangy way, and we would do well to remember how young Tartt was when she wrote it. It's not really a problem. And you're made of wood if her descriptions of ur-collegiate Hampden don't make you nostalgic for your own college years even if you went somewhere not comprised entirely of northeastern university stereotypes.
The story itself has stood up well. It's not a whodunnit at all; the murder is front and center from page one. The story is how they GET to the murder itself, and remains solidly captivating the whole time. As with my first run through this book, I read it nearly compulsively and finished it in about two days.
I'm rambling, but the point here is that it's still a solid book well worth your time. I kind of sorry she didn't get better notice for this one, because I see it as a superior work to Goldfinch despite the latter's prizewinning resume.
As previously noted, today is the 150th anniversary of the surrender of the treasonous Lee at Appomattox. Raise a glass to the Union, to the destruction of the Confederacy and its preservation of slavery, and to the brave troops who helped put down the rebellion.
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I made this recipe a few months ago and it was delicious. I used cherry tomatoes instead of plums and baked the fish (did not dredge in flour) topped with the sauce in the oven for about 20 minutes or so. Served with rice and salad. Perfect quick dinner!flag if inappropriate
This was actually the first time I've cooked fish so I was a bit apprehensive at first but this recipe did not disappoint. I followed the directions verbatim and my dinner guests loved it. I'll definitly be making this again.flag if inappropriate
I made this recipe as written except I used whole wheat flour. Everyone loved it, both my teenagers and husband who normally does not like halibut. Its a keeper. Should work well with all types of fish.flag if inappropriate
Made exact to recipe except I used vegetable oil instead of olive oil because all I had on hand was extra virgin which tends to burn easily. Very tasty and I loved the sauce which is very versatile and could be used with just about anything. I would give this 3.5 stars if I could.flag if inappropriate
I was pleasantly surprised by this quick and easy recipe - it was really tasty! I had to replace clam juice w/ chicken broth, and the olives with a Tbsp of TJ's tapenade. I did not use wine - Sauce tasted plenty good w/out addition of broth or wine, but I added a smidgen of chicken broth at the end to release the "fond and cooked down the sauce. I doubled the amount of capers and pepper due to personal preference and it worked well!flag if inappropriate
This receipe was fast, easy and delicous. Even my 8 year old loved it! I did not have all the ingredients on hand so I substituted broth for the clam juice and canned diced tomatoes for the fresh ones. Also I omitted the crushed red pepper and basil because I did not have those items on hand either. The recipe was still delicious and presented beautifully. I can not wait to make it again using all the ingredients listed.flag if inappropriate
Made as written except for substituting broth for clam juice. Easy and very tasty. Enjoyed by all, even the children.flag if inappropriate
Wow! My husband loves good food and although he never complains I know when he really loves a recipe. He loves this one! I forgot the basil so put a tsp dried thyme in place of it. Forgot the capers, too, but I know adding them will just add more flavor next time. This one is a keeper!flag if inappropriate
Great recipe! I used onions instead of shallots and skipped the clam juice since I didn't have it on hand and it was still delicious. I paired this with Israeli couscous with toasted pine nuts (another epicurious recipe) and it was a hit--even my picky 5 and 3 year old children gobbled it up.flag if inappropriate
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He joined Councilmen Peter Vallone Jr. (D-Astoria), Eric Gioia (D-Sunnyside) and Christine Quinn (D-Manhattan) during a town hall meeting in which they blasted the Bloomberg administration for "shortchanging" private school children two years ago by sharply reducing the number of nurses in their schools.
The so-called "equity" formula aimed to balance the number of nurses at public and private schools by mandating that all schools have one nurse per 775 students.
Before the change, non-public schools had more nurses. Because they are generally smaller than public schools, now they have less, said Michael Pizzingrillo, associate superintendent for Program Management for Catholic Schools of Brooklyn and Queens.
"We get them rarely. We get them sporadically," Pizzingrillo said. "We don't know when they're coming."
The proposed bill, which the Council should vote on in September, would provide a nurse for every school that has at least 200 students. It would also require an additional nurse for every school with more than 750 students.
During a Council Health Committee hearing June 2, city health officials said the bill would require hiring 1,000 more nurses, doubling the current $60 million cost of nursing services.
It would be money well spent, Miller said.
"It's simply unconscionable to make parents in hundreds of schools worry that their children might not get treatment for potentially fatal illnesses like an asthma attack because they don't have access to a school nurse," the speaker said.
Vallone and Gioia agreed.
Vallone said non-public schools were being unjustly punished at the expense of the innocent.
"The administration took nurses away from our most precious, our most vulnerable part of our population: our children," Vallone said.
Gioia likened the "equity" formula to the plot of a popular science fiction story in which a totalitarian regime forced equality on the masses by demanding that the beautiful wear masks and the strong weigh themselves down with ballast. The administration, he said, has metaphorically done the same thing to non-public schools by forcing them to have the same number of nurses as public schools.
"Who would ever think to do something like that in the real world?" he asked. "Who would think to do that in New York City?"
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Report: Decreasing Supply Of Sacramento Area Homes For SaleTuesday, October 13, 2015
New data suggest it's a seller's market in Sacramento area real estate right now. A new housing report from TrendGraphix finds the inventory of homes for sale in the third-quarter was down 11 percent from a year ago.
RealtyTrac: Banks Repossess More California Homes In JulyThursday, August 20, 2015
New data from research firm RealtyTrac shows banks repossessed 3,000 California properties in July. That's up by 12 percent from June and it's a 23 percent increase from a year ago.
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Report: Renting More Affordable Than BuyingThursday, July 09, 2015
A new housing report from research firm RealtyTrac finds both Sacramento and San Joaquin counties, as well as Reno, switched from more affordable buyer markets in 2014 to more affordable renter markets in 2015.
Sacramento Region New Home Sales In May Best Since 2008Wednesday, June 10, 2015
A report shows new homes sales in the Sacramento region have reached another milestone in May.
Report: Home Appreciation Still FlatMonday, June 01, 2015
The Sacramento-Arden-Roseville area ranks 13th in the U.S. on a new list of the highest performing housing markets. Truckee-based research firm Clear Capital today released its latest data through May 2015.
Report: Yolo County Homes Selling Above Market ValueThursday, May 28, 2015
Research firm RealtyTrac says home sellers in Yolo County are getting more than market value on their properties.
Strong April New Home Sales In Sacramento RegionTuesday, May 12, 2015
A report on new home sales from a Roseville building industry group shows April was another strong month. It's the third consecutive month where the number of sales have been the highest in seven years in the Sacramento region.
Report: New Home Sales At Seven Year HighMonday, April 13, 2015
Sales of newly-constructed homes in the Sacramento area have reached a seven-year high, according to new data out Monday.
Affordable Housing Could Affect Larger MarketMonday, March 30, 2015
Some elected Democrats in California are pushing for the creation of a new revenue stream to pay for affordable housing projects in the state. And how those projects get built may affect the broader housing market.
Folsom City Council Considers Increase In Construction FeeTuesday, March 24, 2015
Several homebuilding groups plan to attend a Folsom City Council meeting Tuesday, to voice their concerns about a proposal to increase construction fees to fund parks.
Lack Of Coastal Housing Driving All Prices UpTuesday, March 17, 2015
California has fallen dramatically behind the amount of housing it needs to keep up with supply. But a new report out today says building more won't be easy.
Report: Fewer California Homes Being FlippedFriday, February 27, 2015
Research firm RealtyTrac's latest figures out today show fewer California homes are being flipped.
Slight Jump In Median Home Prices In Sacramento CountyThursday, February 19, 2015
The number of homes sold in the Sacramento County region went down slightly from January 2014 to last month.
Report: Stockton, Modesto Post Highest Distressed Home SalesWednesday, December 31, 2014
Research firm RealtyTrac released November housing data today - and there were mixed results for the San Joaquin Valley.
Assessed Property Value Takes Big Jump In Sacramento RegionTuesday, October 21, 2014
An increase in Sacramento and statewide property values may be another indication the California economic recovery is continuing.
Home Sales Surge In California And In Sacramento RegionTuesday, October 14, 2014
Home sales in the eight-county Sacramento region increased in September compared to the year before and average sales prices went up too.
California Home Foreclosures Increase In AugustThursday, September 11, 2014
A real estate tracking firm says U.S. home foreclosures increased in August but the yearly trend continued to decline.
Report: Bank Repos Increase In JulyThursday, August 14, 2014
A research firm says banks repossessed more California homes in July compared to a year ago.
RealtyTrac: Sacramento County Homes More Affordable Compared To Other RegionsThursday, August 07, 2014
Buying homes in some counties across the U.S. takes a higher percentage of monthly income, but not in Sacramento.
San Joaquin County Home Values And Property Taxes JumpMonday, July 21, 2014
Homeowners in San Joaquin County saw a healthy jump in their home values but that will mean paying higher property taxes.
Report: Banks Ramp Up Home RepossessionsThursday, July 17, 2014
New real estate data released today show a mixed picture of foreclosure activity in California.
Report: All Cash Home Purchases DecliningWednesday, July 09, 2014
New statistics debunk the popular axiom that "cash is king" in the Sacramento area real estate market.
Report: Fewer Distressed Homes For Sale, More High End Homes SellingTuesday, June 24, 2014
Home sales in California are down from a year ago by double-digits, according to new data.
Home Prices Spike In Tahoe, Truckee, and Reno RegionWednesday, April 16, 2014
A shortage of homes for sale around Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Reno and Sparks is pushing up prices by double and even triple digits.
RealtyTrac: Home Sales Continue 7-Month Decline In FebruaryThursday, March 27, 2014
If you're in the market to buy your first home in California, one real estate analyst says "be patient."
RealtyTrac: California Has Fewer Zombie Foreclosures Than U.S.Thursday, March 13, 2014
New data show California's home foreclosure starts are down again, after rising in January.
Report: Investors Buying Fewer HomesThursday, February 27, 2014
New data show property values in the Sacramento area continue to climb. Analysts say it's making the market less attractive to institutional investors.
RealtyTrac: Foreclosure Starts Rebound In JanuaryThursday, February 13, 2014
New data out today show a major upswing in the number of California homes entering the foreclosure process.
Foreclosures Drop In Sacramento, StocktonThursday, January 16, 2014
The latest foreclosure numbers show steep and nearly identical decreases for Sacramento and Stockton compared to last year.
Lake Tahoe Home Sales RiseWednesday, January 08, 2014
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but the only thing that fixed it was turning off Akismet.
It is sporadic - seems to depend on the content rather than IP address. So if I enter a boring comment by user test, at email@example.com with comment test, that will trigger the problem. Long interesting comments with unusual names usually won't, but enough people have reported having problems, that it needs to be fixed.
So are there any good alternatives to Akismet?
I was looking for wp-spamfree, but apparently WordPress disabled it this week.
If preferable, I'd avoid captchas, and go for pattern matching like Akismet or WP-spamfree, but I'm open to the best suggestion.


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Investigators are trying to sort out what happened in the July 6th crash of Asiana Airlines Flight 214 in San Francisco. But one thing the accident — which has so far led to the death of three Chinese teenagers and injured more than 180 — has made too clear is that racist views about Asians remain entrenched in U.S. society.
1. Comments about Asians as "bad drivers"
Just after the Asiana Airlines flight crash-landed, some thought it a fitting moment to resurrect an outdated stereotype about Asians as bad drivers."Of course the Korean plane crashed. Asians can't drive, what makes them think they can fly a plane?" was one comment reported on the Tumblr Public Shaming.
2. References to Asians' appearance
Among the responses collected on Public Shaming were some that resuscitated yet another ugly stereotype about Asians' physiology: "Dayum asians cant drive… nd now they cant fly???bf*ckin chinks! Open ur eyes mof*ckers!" Another individual perpetuated the same ignorance by writing that the airplane "probably had an Asian pilot and that he was squinting so much he couldn't see the runway."
3. Chicago newspaper mocks Asian accents
The Chicago Sun-Times found itself at the center of a controversy after publishing the headline "Fright 214″ for a story about the Asiana crash. The wording "'perpetuated the oft-used stereotype of an Asian accent," says the Asian American Journalists Association. While Chicago paper's editor apologized for offending anybody, he still noted that it simply hadn't occurred to them "that the play on words could be construed as offensive."
4. Racist names for pilots
Asiana Airlines threatened to sue Fox News affiliate KTVU after one of its announcers read out racist Asian names for the pilots. The names were provided to KTVU by a summer intern from the National Transportation Safety Board; he or she is no longer with the agency.
Simply reading the names (which included "Sum Ting Wong," "Ho Lee Fuk," and "Bang Ding Ow") out loud would have alerted (you hope) KTVU that the names were a prank of the most juvenile sort. A person with knowledge of Asian culture and language would have recognized that "Sum" and "Bang" are not surnames in Mandarin or Korean (and they would have detected the stereotype of an Asian accent in the Chicago Sun-Times' headline). KTVU's racist faux points to the need for more instruction about Asian names, languages and culture.
5. Assumptions about South Korea's "hierarchical" culture "blamed" for the crash
After the airplane crashed in San Francisco, a few U.S. news outlets rushed to assume that "South Korea's hierarchical culture might have played a role in the accident" as Paul Cheung and Bobby Caina Calvan write on Poynter.org. CNN, CNBC, the Washington Post and The Times were among those who reviewed previous crashes of South Korean planes and then specifically asked if "the country's strictly hierarchical corporate culture inhibited a trainee pilot from questioning his trainer," the Los Angeles Times says.
As one person wrote on the web, "it is too early in the investigation to blame South Korean culture, before even the black box data analysis has come out."
Just days before the Asiana crash, the American Society of News Editors released its newsroom census. Minority employees now make up 12.37 percent of all newsroom employees, a figure that is slightly up from last year and certainly a trend in the right direction, as the responses to the Asiana Airlines crash very much reveal.
Having more diversity in newsrooms could very likely have prevented not only KTVU's serious misstep but led news outlets to realize when they were reinforcing long-outdated racist attitudes. With the U.S. on its way to becoming a true multiethnic society, the need for a greater minority presence in newsrooms is imperative, to provide thoughtful, informed coverage about events here in the U.S. and around the world.
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Personally,I really think this is being blown out of proportion to take focus from the right coast to the left coast. I live in the South Bay, and my first thought upon hearing of the crash, was,we're going to have another story of heroism when a plane that large crashes and there are only 2 (later 3) fatalities.As for 12% minorities in Newsrooms,please check the figures in the Bay area. I think it's more like 50%. You must be adding Iowa in there .San Francisco-we have the largest China town.We have Latino Mayors,Mayors from India, Gay Pride parades, and the rest of the country making fun of us. But one thing we don't have is a lack of minorities.
It only shows how stupid they are.
This was a tragedy! Lives were lost, families are in mourning.
How would you feel if someone you knew was on that plane?
There are too many stupid racists in the USA, just realise why there are 20% good there are maybe 80 % nuts & biased.
Discriminatory statements negatively reflect upon the people who speak them. Inability to accept differences in others is associated with ignorant, uneducated & classless people. Their remarks do not warrant our attention and are not worthy of our time
Gee, I don't believe I've ever heard of reactions similar to that referring to US crashes. It just goes to show how bigoted some sectors of our population have become. That goes for any race in the US one can name. The country is badly divided along religious and racial lines now, far worse than the highly touted Race Relations of the late 60s and 70s. It is so nice to live among people as I do here who value an individual for their actions not how they look.
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They did not! It was NOT meant that way. People who saw that were looking for trouble.
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Ventura's Doherty doesn't appear to fit the mold of the county's best pitchers
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Dennis Doherty doesn't appear to fit the mold of being one of Ventura County's best pitchers.
There isn't a 90 mph fastball in his arsenal. The Ventura High pitcher makes no attempt to overpower opposing hitters.
"I have confidence in my defense, so I let them do the work," said the left-hander. "All I do is get outs."
That mind-set served Doherty well as he left six runners in scoring position as visiting Ventura defeated Buena 5-1 on Tuesday afternoon.
Doherty pitched a three-hitter, did not allow an earned run and lowered his ERA to 0.90.
The two teams switched places atop the Channel League. Ventura improved to 4-7 overall and 2-1. Buena drops to 6-5, 2-2.
Overcoming injuries that have bothered him over the past year, Doherty has become the Cougars' ace, recording three of Ventura's four wins.
"We've just tried to get him strong enough to throw 80 to 90 pitches a game," said Ventura coach Paul Togneri. "He's done that the last two games. He does a great job of getting people to hit balls on the ground or pop it up."
Except for three two-base errors — neither causing any damage — the Ventura defense stood its ground. Right fielder Blake Turner prevented a potential extra-base hit with a diving catch.
"He made us look foolish," said Buena coach Anthony Espitia.
Buena tested Doherty early by putting four runners in scoring position in the first three innings, scoring once on an RBI single by Mike Abeloe, who has all three of the Bulldogs' hits. Doherty needed 53 pitches to get into the fourth.
"I really had to dig deep to get past that point," said Doherty.
Ventura's offense had troubles of its own.
The Cougars left 13 runners stranded, including seven in the first four innings in a 1-1 game.
Buena starting pitcher Scott Zeman was up to the task with a gutty performance of his own until the fifth when Ventura scored on a bases-loaded walk to Nico Castro — one of four free passes he would receive in the game — and a wild pitch.
"Buena left six runners in scoring position?" asked Togneri. "We left 106!"
Ventura added two unearned runs in the sixth.
"We have to do a better job with runners on base," said Togneri. Ventura was 1 for 15 with runners in scoring position.
Ventura managed just seven hits against Buena, but was helped by 10 walks.
"You can't expect to win when you give up 10 walks," said Espitia. "It puts our defense to sleep."
Buena was 1 for 6 with runners at either second or third.
"It's hard when only one guy is getting all the hits," said Espitia.
The loss won't hurt Buena too much in a balanced five-team Channel League race.
"You just hate to lose to your crosstown rival," said Espitia. "But we have them two more times."
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