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A complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.
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U.S. foreign policy; defense policy; military history; terrorism and guerrilla warfare.
Max Boot is one of America's leading military historians and foreign-policy analysts. The Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow in National Security Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Boot is also a contributing editor to the Weekly Standard and the Los Angeles Times, and a regular contributor to the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and other publications.
Boot's newest book, Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerrilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present, was released in January 2013 by W.W. Norton & Co./Liveright and immediately became a New York Times Bestseller. It was acclaimed as "enormous, brilliant, and important" (Michael Korda, the Daily Beast) and "thoughtful, smart, fluent, with an eye for the good story" (Michael Mazower, New York Times Book Review, front page). John Nagl wrote in the Wall Street Journal that "Mr. Boot's impressive work of military history is destined to be the classic account of what may be the oldest as well as the hardest form of war."
His previous book, War Made New: Technology, Warfare, and the Course of History, 1500 to Today (Gotham Books, 2006), has been hailed as a "magisterial survey of technology and war" by the New York Times and "brilliantly crafted history" by the Wall Street Journal.
Boot's first book of military history, The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power (Basic Books) was selected as one of the best books of 2002 by numerous newspapers, won the 2003 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation as the best nonfiction book pertaining to Marine Corps history, and has been placed on Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy professional reading lists. More than 150,000 copies of his books are in print.
He is now writing two books for Norton/Liveright: a biography of Ronald Reagan and a biography of General Edward Lansdale, the legendary Cold War counterinsurgent.
Boot has served as an adviser to U.S. commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was also a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign in 2007–2008 and a defense policy adviser to Mitt Romney's campaign in 2011–2012.
Boot is a frequent public speaker and guest on radio and television news programs, both at home and abroad. He has lectured on behalf of the U.S. State Department and at many military institutions, including the Army, Navy, and Air War Colleges, the Australian Defense College, the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare School, and West Point.
In 2004, he was named by the World Affairs Councils of America as one of "the 500 most influential people in the United States in the field of foreign policy." In 2007, he won the Eric Breindel Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism, given annually to a writer who exhibits "love of country and its democratic institutions" and "bears witness to the evils of totalitarianism."
Before joining the Council in 2002, Boot spent eight years as a writer and editor at the Wall Street Journal, the last five years as op-ed editor. From 1992 to 1994 he was an editor and writer at the Christian Science Monitor.
Boot holds a bachelor's degree in history, with high honors, from the University of California, Berkeley (1991), and a master's degree in history from Yale University (1992). He was born in Russia, grew up in Los Angeles, and now lives in the New York area. He has three children: Victoria, Abigail, and William.
The legendary Edward Lansdale, a covert operative so influential that he was said to be the model for Graham Greene's The Quiet American and for one of the main characters in The Ugly American, remains, even four decades after the conclusion of the Vietnam War, one of the most fascinating, mysterious�and misunderstood�figures in post-1945 American foreign policy. A former advertising man, he was a master of psychological and political warfare and one of the most influential military advisers of the twentieth century, second only to "Lawrence of Arabia." In the Philippines and South Vietnam in the 1950s, he pioneered the kind of "population-centric counterinsurgency" strategy that has since been implemented from Afghanistan to Iraq. Based on access to his personal letters and to newly declassified documents seen by no previous scholar, I am writing a book that sheds fresh light not only on Lansdale but on the Vietnam War in which he was such a pivotal figure. The Road Not Taken will conclude with "Lansdale's Lessons" for the United States as it seeks to advise and influence allies in the developing world as Lansdale once did so skillfully.
This project is made possible in part through the �support of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.�
Ronald Reagan was one of the most successful and influential presidents of the twentieth century. Despite his many accomplishments there is no comprehensive biography of him currently available�nothing like what Robert Dallek has done for John F. Kennedy, David McCullough for Harry Truman or Ron Chernow for George Washington. The aim of my research is to produce such a work�an objective biography that examines Reagan's entire life to better understand his achievements and shortcomings. It will no longer do to dismiss Reagan, as Clark Clifford once did, as an "amiable dunce." He was clearly much more than that, yet he was not easy to understand because he was a bundle of contradictions. Affable to all, he had few if any real friends. Reagan had strong convictions but lacked intellectual depth or curiosity. He could be stubborn to the point of distraction, but he was usually willing to compromise and settle to get a deal done. He could make tough policy decisions when they were needed, but he found it impossible to fire anyone. My research will grapple with these and other paradoxes to produce the most comprehensive, fair, and readable account yet penned of Reagan's life based on archival work and interviews with those who knew him best.
This project is made possible in part through the �support of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.�
History has not ended and the tide of war has not receded. Indeed in such places as Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China, the United States faces pressing threats to its national security which demand a response from Washington. As a regular contributor to Commentary's blog and to numerous print publications (including the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Weekly Standard), as well as a regular public speaker and guest on radio and TV programs, I provide timely analysis of these and other pressing national security issues. My focus is primarily but not exclusively on the U.S. armed forces whose operations I study during regular trips "down range" to places such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Besides commenting upon, and analyzing, U.S. military operations, I try to place them in a broader framework of geopolitical events and American grand strategy to produce recommendations of value to policymakers.
A complete global history of guerrilla uprisings through the ages.
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Max Boot argues that U.S. troops can win in Afghanistan, but the major battleground is in Washington.
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Max Boot says the end of the U.S. military mission in Iraq is not a triumph but a defeat for the United States.
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Max Boot argues that Iran is unmistakably behind the plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador.
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Max Boot says the United States should not let fear of reaction deter it from dealing with the menace Pakistan poses.
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Max Boot says the initial U.S. victory in Afghanistan has been undone by complacency.
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Max Boot says the death of Anwar al-Awlaki is a fleeting victory without stability in Yemen.
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Max Boot says Senate opposition to a U.S. ambassador to Syria is understandable but misguided.
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Max Boot states that an American drawdown in both Iraq and Afghanistan makes continued war—and with it the possibility of a catastrophic American defeat—more likely by emboldening our enemies and disheartening our friends.
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Max Boot says that in retiring, Defense Secretary Robert Gates speaks his mind as few Washington officials ever have.
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In his testimony before the House Armed Services Committee, Max Boot argues that the impact of budget cuts has the potential to devastate our armed forces and do more damage to their fighting capacity than any other external foe.
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Max Boot says that while Qaddafi has fallen in Libya, it is too soon to tell whether Operation Unified Protector is a success.
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Which policies have worked and which ones need work ten years after the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history? CFR experts examine ten issues that have preoccupied U.S. planners.
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A near absence of terrorist incidents in the United States since 9/11 points to the success of the Bush administration's counterterrorism measures that once stirred controversy but now have bipartisan acceptance, writes CFR's Max Boot
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Max Boot says the fall of Muammar al-Qaddafi will create a dangerous situation in Libya, and NATO and the UN will likely have to send economic aid and peacekeeping troops.
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Max Boot says the best way to honor U.S. special forces is not to make them win wars on their own.
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Max Boot argues that the glow of the bin Laden raid may blind the United States to other terrorist threats.
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Max Boot says early release for political killers is dangerously common.
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Max Boot reviews The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It by Robert A. Pape and James K. Feldman.
Max Boot says recognizing the provisional government is important progress in Lybia, but it's time to deal with the Gadhafi regime.
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Max Boot says preparedness of the U.S. military cannot be sacrificed for a federal budget deal.
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This series focuses on issues, primarily military, that affect American national security. The series begins withan early focus on the war on Iraq, and later roundtables examine issues relating to the transformation of the American armed forces to cope with warfare in the information age.
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Max Boot discusses�Obama's efforts to reach out to Iranians over negotiations on 'Hannity.'
Tim Arango of the New York Times recounts the impact of Max Boot's Foreign Affairs article to soldiers at Camp Taji, Iraq.
Washington simply doesn�t have the luxury of simply avoiding long wars against brutal insurgencies. Instead, it needs to figure out how to fight them better, argues Max Boot, Jeane Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs. Boot recently sat down with Gideon Rose to discuss how.
U.S. officials continue to pressure Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down. Max Boot from the Council on Foreign Relations joins to discuss.
Unconventional wars are our most pressing national security concern. They're also the most ancient form of war in the world. Max Boot on the lessons of insurgency we seem unable to learn.
In the new book�Invisible Armies, author Max Boot traces the role of guerrilla warfare through history, starting in the Roman Empire all the way up to Afghanistan. He tells Steve Inskeep the American Revolution was the turning point in guerrilla warfare.
Max Boot is featured as CNN's Fareed Zakaria leads a conversation looking back at whether the war in Iraq was worth it.
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Max Boot discusses�Obama's efforts to reach out to Iranians over negotiations on 'Hannity.'
Washington simply doesn�t have the luxury of simply avoiding long wars against brutal insurgencies. Instead, it needs to figure out how to fight them better, argues Max Boot, Jeane Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, in the latest edition of Foreign Affairs. Boot recently sat down with Gideon Rose to discuss how.
U.S. officials continue to pressure Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to step down. Max Boot from the Council on Foreign Relations joins to discuss.
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The UNCW Athletic Hall of Fame was created In conjunction with UNCW's 50th anniversary celebration in 1998 to honor former student-athletes, coaches, administrators and benefactors who have contributed to the department's success.
The charter induction of the UNCW Athletic Hall of Fame took place on Saturday, May 9, 1998, with the induction of six members: athletic director/coach William J. Brooks, men's basketball player Gene Bogash, women's swimmer Janet Johnson, men's swimmer Sam O'Leary, benefactor Raiford G. Trask and baseball player Carl Willis.
Inductions take place every two years on campus and a total of 44 individuals have been honored in 10 ceremonies, including the most recent affair on Feb. 22, 2014.
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OK, that's a first. I'm quite surprised by this.
Phoronix: NVIDIA Helping Nouveau With Video Decoding
While it isn't in the form of any complete documentation, a NVIDIA engineer has begun answering questions by the open-source Nouveau driver developers about video decoding with their H.264 engine...
OK, that's a first. I'm quite surprised by this.
It's about damn time nVidia actually contributed to nouveau.
The first result: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mes...f56a44dd8d5cc6
I think it's hilarious that some people have started believing that Nvidia "has finally caught up with AMD". I mean, it is by all means very commendable that Nvidia stopped completely ignoring Noveau, but please don't compare their "here, have a magic register value" once in a month to AMD which fully employs engineers working on Mesa/Gallium3D.


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hello everyone,
my names connor and im a photographer from monmouth county nj.
im trying to get my name out there and be noticed by people so heres my website.
Nice stuff Connor! Best of luck
Some good shots in the mix there Conner. Ihave a suggestion for you though. Get your sensor cleaned as soon as you can. You have quite a few sesor blobs, most noticeable in the blue sky part of some of your shots. My 30D is notorious for getting spots on it. I clean it and then a couple weeks later there are more. My 7D stays spotless, mostly due to the fact I don't cahange the lens on it very often. I am in no way picking on your photography it is decent. As a pohotog myself I just look at pics a little difrently than others. Keep up the good shooting.
awesome photos man! the website looks really professional too! the only thing i would critique (if you want an honest opinion) is your "about" section. all the info is great but it doesn't come off sounding very professional. i have a lot of friends who are trying to make a living off of their art (photography, music, graphic design, etc) and the biggest obstacle they run into is being taken seriously because of their age. i'm not sure what your goals are with photography but you definitely have some talent...if i were you i would take a look at other photographers websites to see how they put together their bio. sad to say, image is almost more important than substance in the art world. i know you didn't ask for my opinion, but there it is!
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Hiroki Kuroda entered Friday night as one of the hottest pitchers in baseball, but as many pitchers before him have found out, Fenway Park can bring any hot streak to an end.
Kuroda watched his New York Yankees teammates stake him to a five-run lead before he took the mound, but he gave it all back in the bottom of the first, surrendering five runs before he recorded his third out.
"I got run support in the first inning, but I couldn't hold onto the lead," Kuroda said through his interpreter. "I just didn't do my job tonight. You have to hold onto the lead, or else the momentum is going to shift their way, and I just couldn't do that."
Kuroda, who was 5-1 with a 1.65 ERA in his previous seven starts, allowed a run in the second to make it a 6-6 game, but he and Josh Beckett carried the tie score into the fifth. Boston scored another run in the fifth to take a 7-6 lead, and Kuroda was able to get two outs in the sixth before manager Joe Girardi turned the game over to the Yankees' bullpen. New York wound up escaping with a 10-8 win over the Red Sox.
"As a starter, you want to go deeper in the game," Kuroda said. "Five innings is not enough as a starter. In the whole outing today, I didn't have most of my pitches."
Kuroda's final line saw him charged with seven runs (six earned) on 10 hits and one walk, striking out three in 5 2/3 innings. He finishes the season's first half 8-7 with a 3.50 ERA.
"I didn't think he had his good sinker, and I didn't think he had his good split," Girardi said. "I thought his stuff was a little flat tonight for whatever reason. But the bats picked him up tonight. You have those starts like that."


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Cleveland and the gang visit their rival high school in Goochland
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Escape from Goochland
Cleveland and the gang visit their rival high school in Goochland
Menace II Secret Society
Cleveland confronts now super-famous rapper Kenny West
A General Thanksgiving
Holt has the blues over Thanksgiving
Turkey Pot Die
Cleveland takes a reluctant Cleveland, Jr. to a turkey farm
A Vas Deferens Between Men & Women
Donna reveals that she wants another baby
Tis the Cleveland to Be Sorry
Cleveland discovers the food served at the homeless shelter is better than his
Hustle N Bros
Cleveland is furious when Donna's ex-husband shows up again
Wide World of Cleveland
The Brown-Tubbs family travels the world in a hilarious series of segments
Here Comes the Bribe
Donna drags Cleveland to marriage counseling
When a Man (or a Freight Train) Loves His Cookie
Cleveland's mom, Cookie runs away with George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars
Cleveland takes an offer from his boss to quit his job with six months pay
Pins, Spins and Fins...
Rallo thinks he's a stud bowler when he keeps scoring strikes
A Rodent Like This
Donna discovers a rat loose in the house
The Hangover Part Tubbs
Donna runs for the school board.
California Dreamin' (All the Cleves Are Brown)
The Browns pack their bags and move to Los Angeles.
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When Arianna The Bear is rude to Donna, Cleveland defends her honor.
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Cleveland feels bad for Dr. Fist because he has no friends.
Squirt's Honor
Donna forces Rallo to sign up for Stoolbend's version of the Boy Scouts.
Grave Danger
Rallo heads to East Stoolbend to stay at Robert's apartment for the weekend.
Of Lice & Men
Rallo must chop off his beloved afro after a lice outbreak at school.
Mr. & Mrs. Brown
Rallo steals a candy bar from a park vendor.
Crazy Train
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It's nice to hear that we can (finally) use managed C++ with linux.
However this is just coming from a conference talk. No download button - no certainty that it will actually ever be open sourced. I wonder how production stable that thing will be.
Furthermore the only link on their blog post is a recruting advertisement.
Hope the opensource community will see the compiler soon.


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Ohio State running back Carlos Hyde (34) is tackled by Michigan defensive back Raymon Taylor (6) during the second half of an NCAA college football game in Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday, Nov. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) / AP
ANN ARBOR, MICH. — It took every bit of a powerhouse performance from the Ohio State ground game to squeeze out a breathtaking win at Ann Arbor on Saturday.
Running back Carlos Hyde set a school record by muscling for 226 yards against Michigan, and quarterback Braxton Miller ripped off 153 more to help the third-ranked Buckeyes survive a 42-41 thriller against their ancient rival.
�It starts and finishes with the offensive line, and right in between are two guys carrying it very well,� OSU coach Urban Meyer said. �I know Boston College has a great back (Andre Williams) but if there�s a draft, I�ve got my guy.�
Hyde pushed past Beanie Wells� record of 222 yards at Ann Arbor in 2007, and fueled Ohio State (12-0 overall, 8-0 in the Big Ten) to an eye-popping, 393 yards rushing.
�I knew it would be a tough game, it wasn�t going to be easy,� Hyde said. �It�s the greatest rivalry in football, of course it�s not going to be easy.�
Miller was erratic throwing the ball, 6-of-15 for 133 yards, a pair of touchdowns and an interception. But he also unleashed numerous nifty runs, including scoring dashes of 52, 21 and 3 yards.
�Things happen out there and you�ve got to stay patient and not get too excited,� Miller said. �I�m just happy to see us celebrate a win on my 21st birthday.�
The third-ranked Buckeyes were in a situation where any punt or turnover caused concern with the Wolverines scoring at will.
In fact, Hyde�s fumble in the fourth quarter at the OSU 41, set up a tying Michigan touchdown and the frantic finish.
�I was disappointed with the fumble,� Meyer said. �I told him he was getting a little loose with it. He pulled through a tackle, pulled through a tackle, and they did a good job of pulling it away from him.�
But Hyde redeemed himself, scoring the go-ahead TD on OSU�s final possession. The successful PAT was the difference in the game.
�My mindset was coach is going to put the ball in my hands (again), don�t fumble,� Hyde said.
One of the reasons Hoke went for two at the end of the game was the Wolverines (7-5, 3-5) simply couldn�t stop Ohio State.
�Give their offensive line credit, we got mashed in there a little bit. We�ve got to do a better job getting off blocks,� Hoke said. �You know the skilled athlete you�re getting with Braxton � and Carlos Hyde is a real back.�
The result extends Ohio State�s school-record winning streak to 24 games and gives the Buckeyes positive momentum going into Saturday�s Big Ten championship game against Michigan State at Indianapolis.
Meanwhile, the Wolverines, who won their first 19 home games under Hoke, have now dropped two straight in The Big House.
Still, the Michigan boss was pleased with his team�s effort against such a high-powered offense and such highly-favored foe.
�I said we�ve got to play our best football and take the game into the fourth quarter,� Hoke said. �Our kids played awfully hard the entire day, and in the fourth quarter even better.
�I think there�s a lot of positives from (our) player�s standpoint and how they did. Maybe they learned a little bit about themselves.�


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The great outdoors presents a different listening environment than your typical room. Inside your home, there are walls to reinforce low-frequency response and reflect and contain sound. Outside, of course, it's wide open, and there's usually much more background noise — wind, traffic, barking dogs, and even crickets. Below, we'll discuss a few things to take into consideration when shopping for outdoor speakers. [Shop for outdoor speakers.]
Can they stand up to the elements?
It's important to consider the durability of a pair of outdoor speakers. All of the outdoor speakers we carry are weather resistant, but some are rigorously tested under extreme environmental conditions. Most manufacturers recommend placing or mounting them in a protected location under cover for best results and a longer life. Beneath a porch roof or an eave works well.
Some models, however, are built extra tough for placement in exposed outdoor locations. To be sure you're getting speakers that can handle a direct assault from the elements, check our detailed product information on or give us a call.
Placement tips
Here are a few placement tips that should increase the performance of any outdoor speaker you buy:
- The higher you mount your speakers, the greater the sound projection, and the farther away you will get good sound. However, you generally don't want to place them more than about ten feet high, or else you'll get thin sound.
- Set your speakers approximately 12 feet from the listening area and 8-10 feet apart from each other for the best stereo imaging.
- Placing your speakers near a wall or other solid surface improves bass output.
- Alternate between left- and right-channel speakers if mounting more than one pair on the same wall. This ensures stereo sound no matter where you are on your patio or deck.
- Similarly, if mounting four speakers on a square deck with one in each corner, mount the two left-channel speakers in opposite corners and the two right-channel speakers in opposite corners. You basically want the speakers to alternate between left and right channels no matter how you look at the square, for good stereo sound in any location.
- If you have a long, rectangular patio, you can get good results by mounting three speakers along one of the long sides and one speaker on one of the short sides.
- If it's necessary to mount one or both speakers in an exposed location, make sure you choose speakers that are rated for extreme conditions. Also, when mounting the speakers, tilt the speakers so the cones face slightly down for drainage.
- If you find that you don't have sufficient sound coverage, it's better to add more speakers instead of more volume. For example, if you can't hear the speakers attached to the outside wall of your house at your pool, you'd want to add more speakers closer to the pool. The alternative, simply turning up the volume to your existing speakers, could cause them to be much too loud for people sitting on your deck.
Place outdoor speakers 12 feet from your listening area for the best stereo imaging. If you have a large area to cover, it's better to add more speakers than to crank up the volume. This ensures a consistent volume level no matter where you go.
Remember, these are just guidelines — there's no need to be exact. Aesthetics are important too, so if a speaker looks better in a certain location, don't be afraid to put it there.
Experiment with placement before permanently mounting the speakers. Place the speakers in a likely location, and walk around to determine how well the sound travels throughout the listening area. Once you're satisfied, it's time to mount the speakers.
Like a lot of bass?
To keep a warm, full-bodied sound, choose outdoor speakers with good low-frequency response (60Hz or below) that produce enough bass for a satisfying listening experience. You may also want to consider an outdoor subwoofer for additional low-end punch.
Mounting your outdoor speakers
After determining the ideal spot for your speakers (hopefully with some overhead protection from the elements), it's time to mount them. Most of the outdoor speakers we carry include mounting brackets, and you'll want to follow the included instructions to make sure they're properly secured.
We've found that it is best to mount your speakers to a solid wood or masonry surface. We do not recommend attaching your speakers directly to aluminum or cedar sidings; they may not be strong enough to support the weight of your speakers.
For a closer look at mounting outdoor speakers, check out our Outdoor Speakers Installation Video.
Speaker wire
You will need to run speaker wire through your walls to get the sound from your stereo to your outdoor speakers. Here are a few recommendations for running wire to your outdoor speakers that should simplify the installation process and save you maintenance time down the road:
- Speaker wire should be run through your walls and not sent out through a door or window jamb, as it is possible to crimp the cable and cause a short.
- Determine the cable's path, especially wall entry and exit points, and measure the path as precisely as you can. Add 10-15% of that length to your total measurement to give you some play when you install the cables.
- Decide on the gauge of wire you will use. You can typically use 16 gauge wire for runs of 80 feet or less. Use 14 gauge wire for runs of up to 200 feet.
- Consider how four conductor speaker wire could cut down on the number of runs you'll have to make. For instance you could make two runs of regular wire to power each speaker in a pair. If you use four conductor wire you will have only one run, since the wire jacket contains two pairs of wire.
- We recommend that you use speaker cable that complies with the national electrical code for in-wall installation. These types of wire come with a smooth casing that makes it easy to run through walls and other tight places. Plus, the casing stands up well against climate changes. Look for cable labeled CL2 or CL3.
- When running speaker wire underground, use wire rated for direct burial. It's specifically designed to handle underground temperature and moisture conditions.
- It's a good idea to run underground wire through PVC conduit, even when using direct-burial wire. Since it can be hard to remember exactly where you buried the wire, this will prevent you from cutting through it with a shovel or other gardening tool at some point down the road.
- Bring the speaker cable through the exterior wall very close to each speaker location. The less speaker wire you use outside your house, the better.
- No matter where your speaker wire will exit your house, the hole will need to be sealed with silicone or another appropriate sealant for insulation and as an insect barrier.
- If you run underground cable to a "planter" or "rock" speaker, you may want to coil up a few extra feet of wire and place it directly under the speaker. This way, you'll have some extra wire if you decide to move the speaker later on, and won't need to redo the entire underground run.
- If your speakers have binding posts that accept spade connectors, pins or banana plugs, we recommend them over bare wire connections. You'll find that Crutchfield has a good selection of high-quality speaker cable connectors.
Powering outdoor speakers
One common way of powering outdoor speakers is the use of a multi-zone receiver. This type of receiver lets you send audio signals from different sources to separate rooms. So you can listen to music favorites at your cookout without interrupting the kids' cartoons on the TV inside. Most multi-zone home receivers can power outdoor speakers while providing surround sound on your main system. Others require the use of a separate amplifier to power your second pair of speakers. See our receiver FAQ for more information.
Other ideas
We recommend installing separate volume controls for each pair of speakers. This will allow you to control the volume of each pair independently. You may want to install a volume control even if you only have one pair of outdoor speakers, so you won't need to run inside the house every time you want to adjust the volume. Make sure you choose weatherproof volume controls since, like outdoor speakers, they're designed to handle the elements.
If you need further assistance designing an outdoor speaker system, contact our A/V Design Group. They offer personalized assistance to help you build a system that's right for you.


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AL West leaders have won six straight; White Sox to start Rienzo
The A's will wrap up a 10-game homestand at the Coliseum on Wednesday with a matinee matchup against the White Sox featuring a pair of young hurlers.
Oakland lefty Tommy Milone, coming off his best outing of the season, will be opposed by White Sox right-hander Andre Rienzo for the three-game series finale.
Milone was brilliant in his last appearance on the mound, permitting the Nationals just two hits over eight scoreless innings and striking out seven along the way.
"I think you can make the argument that's the best I've seen him throw," said catcher Derek Norris. "He was very, very good.
"I don't think he missed a location. He was fantastic. You can't really say enough about the great job he did. He mixed speeds well, he worked quick, he got ahead, he stayed ahead. That was the biggest part about his success."
The lefty had allowed 10 earned runs in his previous 10 2/3 innings, but exited with eight completed innings for the first time since July 5, 2013, using a season-high 108 pitches. It was just the third time in his career he made it at least eight innings without giving up any runs.
Milone is 1-0 with a 1.93 ERA in two starts in Oakland compared with 0-3 with a 6.23 ERA in four starts on the road. Against Chicago, he's 1-0 with a 0.60 ERA in two career starts.
In contrast, Rienzo has never faced the A's, who have outscored their opponents 39-8 during a season-high six-game winning streak. But he's been doing his homework.
"I know they've got a tough team," said Rienzo. "It's a team where you want to pitch to contact. I'm just trying to do that so if they get a hit, they get a hit. If not, then I'll get an out. Something I'm working with [pitching coach] Don Cooper on is trying to pitch to contact. I'm not trying to change anything, just going to do what I have to do and make it happen."
It will mark Rienzo's sixth appearance of the season and his fifth start. He's 3-0 with a 4.76 ERA over his first four, most recently getting a win over the D-backs after allowing three runs on four hits with two walks and three strikeouts over 5 2/3 innings.
White Sox: Abreu may rest Wednesday
Home run leader Jose Abreu could sit out Wednesday's series finale against the A's as he tries to rest his left ankle, which has been giving him problems since Spring Training.
The problem flared up again Thursday in a contest against the Cubs, and manager Robin Ventura has used Abreu as a designated hitter in the five games since.
On Monday, Abreu left his mark during a ninth-inning rally when he belted a home run to right field, showing off his opposite-field power.
"That's just part of his makeup and how he goes about practicing and playing," Ventura said. "He can pull it, he can hit it the other way. You see him swing a lot, so it's not like he's taking a lot of pitches. He's trying to do some damage when he goes up there."
A's: Melvin sticking with closer committee
Oakland's closer situation remains unsettled, with manager Bob Melvin saying Tuesday he's not yet ready to stray from a matchup-driven closer-by-committee approach.
The A's had hoped Jim Johnson would be back in the ninth inning on a full-time basis by now, after he lost the closer's job less than two weeks into the season, but the right-hander has allowed six runs in his last four outings -- a stretch that follows 10 consecutive scoreless appearances.
"You're always searching for the best fit, to where you feel like you have someone that's going to be the guy that closes games for you, so that everybody leading up to that has an understanding of when guys are going to pitch," said Melvin. "We're just not there yet, unfortunately.
"Jim has really made some big strides for us, but we're just not all the way there with him yet. So it's still going to probably be a matchup-type situation."
Worth noting
• A's third baseman Josh Donaldson leads the American League in go-ahead RBIs (10) and home runs with runners on base (7).
• Lefty reliever Sean Doolittle has not walked a batter in 20 innings and has a streak of 32 consecutive innings without a walk dating back to last year.
• The White Sox lead the Majors with 38 runs in the ninth inning. Oakland is next in line with 23.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Just in case you didn't know, there's an open bug for a year now, only on Black Editions, and only on China-assembled ones:
Hmm, it's good to see the progress. But apparently you need really recent code. On the SuSE installation (just got to openSuSE 13.1) I am supervising there are still problems with the free driver stack and an A6 5400K. Glitches and graphic deformations, garbage from time to time on the screen. And the SW components aren't that old. (Kernel 3.11.something, Mesa 9.2.2 and so on). (I should have installed Gentoo on it anyway, but then installation takes much longer and I can't come over to that box so often for regular syncing and updating.) Fglrx worked "fine" besides giving me a black screen on any real console (ctrl-alt-Fx). It is a bit sad since I had hoped for 8 months since the last SuSE that I could use the free driver stack now. But no, it is still haunted by bugs.
Just in case you didn't know, there's an open bug for a year now, only on Black Editions, and only on China-assembled ones:
It's diffused in Germany and ass. in Malaysia but the bug looks interesting. These desktop artifacts are quite a nuisance.
Thanks for the link.
I would have prefered no overclocking.
- As you said, it may not be possible on all hardware.
- Its not representative of the out-of-the-box performance of the hardware that most users will experiment.
- It may require a different cooling solution than the one provided by AMD in order to keep the noise down (though arguably the same can be said of my non-overclocked i3 )
- Different processors will (AFAIK) have different overclocking possibilities, so its not certain that everyone will be able to overclock this processor to 4.7*GHz.
- Overclocking will cause the processor to consume more power and the fan to spin faster which I dont like; I prefer to undervolt my processors and keep them at their normal frequency.
Now if GPUs are overclocking themselves out of the box, then maybe its what should be benchmarked But the results will change according to the case ventilation and ambiant temperature and length of the test fun.
Both current CPUs and GPUs do it (the "turbo" mode). You're also correct that it affects benchmarking results, and many sites wondered what to do with that.
Some planned to only benchmark with that disabled; but that has two problems 1) not all cards let you disable it 2) then it's not what most users will see.


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A retarded Red Sox fan.
Look at that guy with the Jason Giambi porn mustache who is wearing the dirty ass Red Sox hat and the Red Sox champions shirt that has sweat stains all over it. That guy is a total Clarke! Gross.
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2 Σεπτέμβριος 2008
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is an amazing Man who loves his family above himself. He is intelligent and inquisitive. He loves to work with his hands and is able to fix anything. He is fiercely loyal and upholds the ideals of truth and justice. He will always fight for the underdog and will help all those who stand in need. He loves to laugh. He is witty, and has a way of finding joy in all the little things. He is very practical with a streak of imagination and child like wonder that twinkles in his eyes. He is an amazing lover and will always take care of the woman he is with, taking time and making her know that she is the most beautiful girl in the world.Clarke is the man every man wants to be like and every woman wants to be with.
You are so lucky to have a man like Clarke..He is a Dream.I thought they only were like that in the movies.
από Sparkles Harvey
4 Φεβρουάριος 2010
This word is derived from the ancient Egyptian hieroglyph meaning to love, or love physically. Men named Clarke are typically studs and have gargantuan trouser snakes. Women with the name Clarke are notoriously good slam pieces and should be hunted down and smashed as often as possible. It is always recommended to wear a rubber when engaging a Clarke because you can't be sure who else has been there.
Dude 1: "Bro, I met this Clarke the other day at the laundry mat and loaned her 25 cents. She was so grate she jumped my bones right there."
Dude2: "NO WAY!!!!"
Dude 1: "Yeah man, those tile floores are a killer on your knees."
Dude2: "NO WAY!!!!"
Dude 1: "Yeah man, those tile floores are a killer on your knees."
από The Glad Pirate Named Roger
13 Ιανουάριος 2011
An english name meaning a teacher or consultant, derived from the egyptian hieroglyphic meaning to love. It was first intended as a male name, but now is being used more frequently as female. A girl named Clarke is a loyal friend, who will protect those she loves at any cost. Other common characterisitics include humor, spontaneity, competitiveness, and hard-working. The most common hair and eye color for women named Clarke are blonde hair and brown eyes. The most common medical traits found in those named Clarke can include: anxiety, ADD, ADHD, diabetes, depression and breast cancer.
"Look at that girl over there!"
"Which one?"
"The blonde one. She looks like such a Clarke!"
"Which one?"
"The blonde one. She looks like such a Clarke!"
από tmont21
17 Σεπτέμβριος 2011
Josh: "Since splitting with Callum, all she does all day is stay at home, eating ice cream and watching re-runs of 'Lost'. She's getting quite clarke."
από cummings2k10
8 Ιούλιος 2010
A large red ogre known in Irish folklore to eat human excrement and steal young boys in the cold nights of the Irish winters.
Newt Gingrich is a clarke.
The disgusting clarke sneaks into the childs room.
Most republicans are clarkes.
The disgusting clarke sneaks into the childs room.
Most republicans are clarkes.
από Mmm
4 Μάιος 2012
turning off an xbox 360 while in the middle of a game.
riding a mongoose on halo 3
coming in right after someone kills another person on halo 3 and killing them as a cheap shot.
riding a mongoose on halo 3
coming in right after someone kills another person on halo 3 and killing them as a cheap shot.
HEY! you just pulled a Clarke!!"
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Multiple endocrine neoplasia, type II (MEN II) is an inherited disorder in which one or more of the endocrine glands are overactive or form a tumor. Endocrine glands most commonly involved include:
See also: MEN I
Sipple syndrome; MEN II
The cause of MEN II is a defect in a gene called RET. This defect causes many tumors to appear in the same person, but not necessarily at the same time. The adrenal tumor is called a pheochromocytoma, and the thyroid tumor is a medullary carcinoma of the thyroid.
The tumors involve multiple parts of the thyroid gland or more than one of the parathyroid and adrenal glands. Tumors in the thyroid, adrenal, or parathyroid glands may occur years apart.
The disorder may occur at any age, and affects men and women equally. The main risk factor is a family history of MEN II.
There are two subtypes of MEN II -- MEN IIa and IIb. MEN IIb is less common.
The symptoms may vary. However, they are similar to those of:
To diagnose this condition, the health care provider looks for a mutation in the RET gene. This can be done with a blood test. Additional tests are done to determine which hormones are being overproduced.
A physical examination may reveal:
Imaging tests used to identify tumors may include:
Blood tests are used to evaluate the function of each endocrine gland. The following tests may be performed:
Other tests or procedures that may be done include:
Pheochromocytoma is usually not cancerous (benign). Medullary carcinoma of the thyroid is a very aggressive and potentially fatal cancer. However, early diagnosis and surgery can often lead to a cure.
Call your health care provider if you notice symptoms of MEN II or if someone in your family receives such a diagnosis.
The spread of cancerous cells is a possible complication.
Surgery is needed to remove pheochromocytoma.
For medullary carcinoma of the thyroid, the thyroid gland and surrounding lymph nodes must be totally removed. Thyroid hormone replacement therapy is given after surgery.
If a child is known to carry the RET gene mutation, surgery to remove the thyroid before it becomes cancerous is considered. This should be discussed with a physician who is very familiar with this condition. It would be done at an early age (before age 5) in people with known MEN IIa, and before age 6 months in people with MEN IIb.
Screening close relatives of people with MEN II may lead to early detection of the syndrome and related cancers.
Kronenberg HM. Plyglandular disorders. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007: chap 250.
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this command can be added to crontab so as to execute a nightly backup of directories and store only the 10 last backup files.
credit shall fall to this for non-gzipped version:
Its possible to user a simple regex to extract de username from the finger command.
The final echo its optional, just for remove the initial space
Caution: distructive overwrite of filenames
Useful for concatenating pdfs in date order using pdftk
Applies 'docker rm' to all container IDs that appear in 'docker ps -a' but not in 'docker ps' - i.e. the ones that are not running.
accomplishes the same thing without unzipping the whole file, and while i have never seen a log.tar.gz file that was a binary, i will concede that it might happen, so add the -a in there:
zgrep -ia "string" log.tar.gz
it's still shorter/easier to type...
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Finally... This is one of my biggest annoyances with Ubuntu! Part of the reasons that I usually run the developer releases is because of it having the newer version.
Phoronix: Ubuntu To Pull In New Versions Of Firefox
Ubuntu's longstanding policy of not pulling in new major versions of packages into their stable repositories is facing a slight change. Canonical along with the Ubuntu development community have been making it easier to deploy Mozilla Firefox web-browser updates into existing Ubuntu releases...
Finally... This is one of my biggest annoyances with Ubuntu! Part of the reasons that I usually run the developer releases is because of it having the newer version.
It was about time...
Can this extend to newer versions of other non-critical packages as well, e.g. Pidgin?
Why not do it with all software and stop releasing new versions of Ubuntu each 6 months. Of course kernel updates shouldn't be installed automatically and should be marked as optional.
They could still release a new Ubuntu every year, to update the artwork and other trademark changes.
Does this mean that Lucid will upgrade to Firefox 4.0 when it is released, or wait until Mozilla drops support for the 3.6.x series?
This policy is specific to Firefox at the moment (and also Chromium), due to the way their support models work. There is no need to apply the same policy to other software that doesn't present the same maintenance challenges.
Lucid will get Firefox 4.0 as 3.6.x approaches EOLOriginally Posted by anbog
A short list of packages that are reasonably popular, have a similar maintenance model to Firefox (i.e., upstream "productizes" it), and are not going to prevent you from getting to a working graphical desktop if the upgrade breaks:
*Sun Java (or OpenJDK)
*Thunderbird and Sunbird
*Second Life or Snowglobe
As an added bonus, all of the above have an excellent history of backwards compatibility, if applicable. For instance, every single program that runs on Java 6 will run on Java 7, as a matter of strict operational policy for the Java Community Process. There is virtually zero risk to pushing a new stable version of Java to the repositories. Contrast this with Mono, which breaks things sometimes in favor of API cleanliness -- so we wouldn't as easily be able to ship major updates to MonoDevelop or the Mono core without updating all Mono apps, for example.
Also, these apps generally have self-contained changes that do not require invasive dependency upgrading, except in very rare situations:
*And a bunch of others I can't think of off the top of my head...
If Canonical knows what's good for them, they will allow the Firefox example to set an operational precedent, and consider some of these other apps as candidates for major version SRUs. If they take the conservative route, though, they will continue to waste everyone's time and defeat the value of the LTS release.
On the topic of the LTS releases, I actually think the most valuable place to bring new major productized application releases is into the LTS. For people who only install LTS releases (enterprises), the datedness of the Ubuntu 8.04 application stack by the time Lucid was ready made 8.04 virtually useless. But there was absolutely nothing preventing the venerable old Hardy 2.6.24 kernel and aging userspace stack from running OpenOffice.org 3.1, or Firefox 3.6.
The folks who maintain backwards compatibility with old userspaces between releases spanning several years deserve a lot of credit, because they essentially make it possible for users who require stability to also benefit from new feature developments in applications. And let's face it, features in apps are where the real value is for most users, not in performance optimizations like KSM and CFQ.
An Ubuntu LTS release that keeps its top-of-the-line apps updated is very competitive with Windows. After all, folks running Windows XP in 2009 are using a decade-old kernel and running brand new software on top of it. Imagine if they had to stick with Office 2000 and the rest of the 2001-era Microsoft app stack until Vista came out. That degree of stagnation would have put Microsoft out of business -- and yet we have no problem with that on Linux? C'mon.
I also thought it was a cool idea to not upgrade every 6 months and always have the latest package version, which is why I switched to sidux for my main install.
For the most part, it works as I want, although Debian sid is a bit behind on some key packages (WINE, iceweasel).


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