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Velodyne SPL-800 Ultra review
The power behind this sub belies its cute size
The pinnacle of the revamped DD range is built for the biggest rooms
Velodyne's sporty subwoofer knows how to dominate a room
While the idea of see-through speakers has been done before (usually bespoke for trade shows), only Velodyne has had the audacity to make a complete production item – an Acrylic version of the smallest (10in) of its Digital Drive (DD) subs. The result is probably the coolest AV product I have ever seen.
The Microvee is an aluminium extrusion with holes in the sides - covered with grilles - a black back plate and a neat cloth cover over the front. Remove the cover and you'll find a 6.5in driver, actually no bigger than the paired ones that live in the reference Acoustic Energy Veritas floorstanders which I use for fronts.
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The Founding Fathers of the United States were those political leaders who participated in the American revolutionary war. The Founding Fathers are quoted by Americans all across the political spectrum, because the opinions of 18th century slave-owners are central to modern American politics.
George Washington
George Washington was the first among equals when it came to the Founding Fathers of the United States. The first President of the USA, you can find the man's image today on the American dollar bill and the quarter-dollar coin. He never told a lie and fought fiercely for his country (actually, for both of them - he fought as a British Officer against the French and the Indians before fighting for the rebels against British Officers). He abhorred injustice, always ensuring that his slaves were treated tolerably well on his plantation at Mount Vernon, Virginia. And he got along well with others. Everybody (on his own side of the Atlantic, at least) liked him; Americans elected him to the post of President on two separate occasions, and begged him to stay on for a third (he declined, either afraid of being made into a king, or aware of what lay ahead).
George Washington grew up in the colonies (Virginia, to be exact), a child of a privileged and prominent landholding family, but he still knew how to relate to people and was a natural-born leader. He shunned things that were overly English, declining to obtain an education in England; at the same time, however, he embraced the best of the British way of life, even going so far as to accept a commission in the British Army. Until it became time to mow them down. Indeed, throughout his life, George Washington did a variety of incredible things like lead armies, chop down cherry trees, sleep, and wear wooden false teeth. During that time he said some interesting things.
Washington on character
- "I cannot tell a lie because otherwise my nose grows long and sprouts leaves."
- "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder, and there is no woman born yet who does."
- "Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected, excepting where loose women are concerned."
- "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. It will not, however, set you free. Whoever tells you that is a liar."
Washington on government
- "God Save the King... er, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America."
- "That's Mister President to you."
- "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. No, really."
- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are like my teeth - made of wood."
- "Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe. It will be called the "European Union," and it will suck. Big time."
- "After myself and my pillar, the administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government."
- "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But don't tell that to Abraham Lincoln."
- "The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. Well, not for the actual slaves - their lot is fixed."
Washington on war
- "These are the times that try men's souls. The women be dammed."
- "Discipline is the soul of an army; corporal punishment, its body."
- "To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace, so I'm not really sure at all how we won the War of Colonial Aggression."
- "War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will. And what is it good for? Absolutely nothing, uhhh."
- "When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen. The draft is therefore unconstitutional."
Washington on other stuff
- "Martha, pray tell where is the wood polish? I have to brush my teeth."
- "It is better to be alone than in bad company, and it is better to listen to Metallica than Bad Company."
- "Be courteous to all, but intimate with few - Hey, I'm talking to you, Benjamin; stay away from my wife."
- "Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow my wife without asking first."
- "I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the freedom of my slaves as soon as I am dead and gone."
- "My final and dying wish is never to be depicted on currency of any manner. Such monarchical foolish has no place in a republic."
Thomas Jefferson
Quoting Thomas Jefferson is generally a good idea. Virtually any article, paper, essay, column or argument that begins with, or even contains, a Jefferson quote thereby gains heft. As you become more proficient at it, you will eventually overuse the word "freedom" until it loses all meaning.
Jefferson on Freedom
- "The Tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is best planted in indirect sunlight. Ideally soil should be slightly alkaline, but it has been known to flourish at a lower pH. Water regularly, but do not over water, as the roots are very vulnerable to fungal infection."
- "All a tyranny needs to succeed are some cool uniforms."
- "I have sworn, upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. So have my slaves."
- "Tyranny, war, and over-bearing government are all quite bad. Therefore, I shall take a huge sum of taxpayers' money, and give it all to Napoleon."
- "That we hold these truths to be self evident...all men are created equal, except the dark-skinned ones we own outright."
- "I would rather have newspapers without a government than newspapers without Krazy Kat."
Benjamin Franklin
Considered to be perhaps the most erudite and wise of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin is quoted constantly by U.S. historians, political scientists, and professional wrestling impresarios. The inability to stop quoting Benjamin Franklin (the psychological disorder called benjivitis) has inevitably led to an enormous number of false quotes, some of which are completely indistinguishable from the actual words of wisdom uttered by the famous statesman, journalist, entrepreneur, inventor, and exotic dancer.
Franklin on People
- "John Adams? I remember him not. Samuel Adams I'm quite familiar with."
- "People who are wrapped up in themselves have small packages."
- "Dishonesty is the second-best policy."
- "Those who are feared are also hated. Eh, did I just say 'hated'? I meant to say 'smarter than you.'"
- "He that lieth down with dogs is a sick puppy."
- "There are two kinds of women, wives and whores. And there really isn't that much difference between them."
- "A man who loves himself will have no children"
Franklin on his inventions
- "God is proof that Beer happies us and wants us to be love."
- "Beer is proof that God wants us to be inotoxicated."
Franklin on economics
- "An investment in knowledge is the least interesting."
- "A billion-dollar bill saved is a billion-dollar bill earned."
- "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound, which in turn is worth two hundred forty pence."
- "To each his own what? Wouldn't it be better if you just gave it all to me?"
- "A penny saved isn't very much."
- "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day, give a man a poisoned fish, feed him for the rest of his life"
Franklin on God
- "God helps those who help themselves to their neighbors' possessions."
- "There is no God, and I am his prophet."
- "It's true that I was never especially religious, but I was never especially sober, either, and nobody seemed to mind."
Franklin on America
- "I believe, with all my heart, that one day, upon this great land, our new nation will rise to such great heights of power and prestige that its leaders won't even have to have working brains for the government to function."
- "I'm proud to be an American. I'm even prouder to have an nine-inch penis, but they wouldn't let me put that in the Declaration of Independence."
Franklin on food
- "Well done is better than medium rare.!"
- "Eat to shit; don't shit to eat. Of course, if you're really stupid, just try to remember not to eat shit."
Franklin on honesty
- "Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that haven't enough wit to make up their own quotes."
- "There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting his hundred-dollar bills."
- "Glass, china, and reputation are all easily cracked, and never well-mended. That super glue stuff they have now works pretty good, though."
- "Tongue-double brings trouble! So, by extension, tongue-quadruple brings double-trouble, and so on, to the point where infinite tongue brings infinite trouble."
Franklin on mistakes
- "Time is an herb that cures all diseases. Hemp is very useful too..."
- "In many cases, neglect kills injuries, whereas revenge only increases them. Luckily, there are plenty of drugs around to make you just not care."
Franklin on life
- "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man get the same amount of sleep as he would have gotten anyways, so why bother?"
- "'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all the hot European aristo-babes who follow after finding out from the first one that you're a total sex mo-sheen."
- "It's easy to see, but hard to foresee. And don't even mention C-plus-plus."
- "There are three things that are extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and knowing oneself. Ehhh, I guess there are actually four things."
Other Founding Fathers
Several more minor characters in the War for American Independence can be used to add salt and/or pepper to modern conversations to which they do not relate. By comparison, the Founding Mothers and Founding Babies are rarely quoted.
- Patrick Henry
- "As for me, give me liberty or give me death. No, never mind. Put that away! I was just kidding!"
- Thomas Paine
- "When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary, while syphilis is."
- General John Stark
- "Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils. Skiing in New Hampshire probably is."


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The Power of Independent Thinking
Can the U.S. Withdraw from Afghanistan and Iraq?
Recorded: Wednesday, December 9, 2009
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Civil strife in Iraq continues and instability may only increase after the January elections. U.S. withdrawal has become an acceptable strategy in Washington, but will it be tenable if violence escalates and Iraq unravels again?
Experts: Ivan Eland, Peter Galbraith, Charles V. PeñaType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Defense and Foreign Policy, Democracy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, Freedom, History (International), Politics, Terrorism and National Crises
Is the U.S. Now Provoking an Arms Race in Space?
Recorded: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty designated space for peaceful purposes as the province of all mankind. Virtually all spacefaring nations now favor a new treaty to accommodate major changes in geopolitics and military technology. The United States, however, has blocked negotiations, citing potential threats to U.S. rights, capabilities, and freedom of action.
Experts: Mike MooreType: Independent Institute EventIssues: Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Defense and Foreign Policy, Diplomacy and Foreign Aid, History (International), History (U.S), Nationalism, Technology, Terrorism and National Crises, Trade


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We weren't just raising the bar, we were pulling it way up. [♪ music ♪] Sotheby's International Realty is the preeminent luxury real estate brand throughout the world. [Wendy Purvey - Chief Marketing Officer, Sotheby's International Realty] We're in over 47 countries, and our role here is to articulate the brand throughout the entire world. [John Passerini - VP, Interactive Marketing, Sotheby's International Realty] Sotheby's International Realty has over 13,000 sales associates in our network. The process of getting marketing materials in the hands of our sales associates was mostly a print medium. We would spend many months putting together the content for the various brochures that they would use and deliver them in beautiful bounded kits. This was a very large expense for us. And more importantly, it is outdated the second that they receive it. We needed to get the information out there in a more digital, more current way. [Purvey] We had a number of companies we were looking at as we made our decision to land on Adobe. There was no other player doing the kinds of things that they're doing. [Christian Russo - Interactive Marketing Media Manager, Sotheby's International Realty] We had about a 2½-month turnaround in order to get 16 folios out by the end of January. My initial reaction honestly was, "There's no way we're going to get this done in 3 months." But amazingly, we pulled it off. [♪ music ♪] [Russo] The title of the app is Anthology: The Collection of an Extraordinary Brand. It really encapsulates everything that Sotheby's International Realty as a brand does from a marketing perspective. [♪ music ♪] [Passerini] I think Adobe has thought through how to adopt the Adobe DPS platform to a large corporate environment like ours. There's a lot of great things that lended itself to our setup here. We have graphic designers who are all very familiar with Adobe tools already— InDesign. So the graphics team took all the beautiful content that we had and took it to another level with the app. Our team here is now enabled to push updates out to everybody in our network at a whim, whenever we think we need it. [Russo] One of the key features to DPS is the share function. Our agents sometimes like to leave takeaways. Instead of leaving a print version right there, they can just shoot them an email and then share one individual chapter to them. When we first launched the app, we wanted to make sure people were actually using it. The best way that we did that was basically just go in and take a look at the analytics on a daily basis. It's really enabled us to figure out precisely what's working well and refine and move on. The fact that we have been selling real estate as a direct result of this product, that's a return on your investment. One of our broker/owners was invited to go on a listing appointment to present what he can offer very quickly without having anything on him. He shows up, asks them, "Can I connect to your movie theater room?" So he puts on the big screen and launches the Anthology app and takes them through the journey. By the time he was done, he was just about walking out the door, they say he got the deal. [♪ music ♪] We always need to innovate and stay ahead. And by adopting this app, the Adobe DPS, to the real estate industry, we're the only company that can say that. It's really a differentiator. [Purvey] We as a company need to keep raising the bar. That's easy to do when you have partners like Adobe and products that we know we can continue to enhance. [Adobe]
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Worked for me but the opponent cannot give up.
Refreshed cache, Changed file incase fm cards not included
Won one game normally got an underdog win
Other game opponent gave up turn 12 no underdog win.
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Renee`s Classic design, in her patina glaze, invokes anearlier, perhaps more peaceful time, for the joyous and mystical ceremony of Havdallah. (plate is 10`` in diameter and kiddush cup stands 6`` high). The Vichinsky`s handcrafted Judaic ceremonial objects feature an uncluttered design which reflects their concern for balancing form with function. Their work has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, and in the permanent collection of the Wolfson Museum in Jerusalem.


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A Shilo woman is $100,000 richer thanks to a lucky Western 649 ticket.
Kim Derkson won the prize in the Dec. 12 draw. It was the Extra add-on game that made her ticket the winner.
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A thundershower Sunday afternoon
Though a small amount of rooftop snow can act as an insulator during cold winter months, an excessive amount can cause structural damage to your home.
These tools, tips and essential winter kit items could help save your life if you're ever stranded in a blizzard.
Is there a way to prepare and protect your family from power outages? The best way to protect your family is to do some planning now.
Who says building a house can't be a fun and easy project? Renovate Your World's team of building experts tackles the time-honored tradition of holiday decorating by building a gingerbread house.
By adding a layer of electric or hydronic heat, you can keep both your home toasty and your driveway snow-free.
Proper pruning and protection of shrubs and trees will help them survive the winter months, and will lead to healthy growth come spring.
Whether you're shoring up a shore house, battening down the hatches at your cabin, there are a few must-do steps to take that will help ensure your spring or summer return is not met with disaster.
Every winter, we encounter storms that surprise everyone with their duration and ferocity. And yet, every year people fail to take the proper steps to ensure that their family stays warm.
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noblelance wrote:Question can I buy Gran with a Gift Card like a Visa one? Cause I don't have a real credit card but I do have one of those so I was curious.
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Tonight Fort Carson has taken over the case of Montrell Mayo.
He's accused of killing his girlfriend on Valentine's Day.
Kimberly walker's body was found days later at the Crowne Plaza in Colorado Springs.
An autopsy showed she had been strangled to death.
Both Mayo and Walker are soldiers, so Fort Carson will try the case.
If Mayo is found guilty he could spend the rest of his life in prison.
The Fort Carson soldier suspected in a slaying at a hotel has returned to Colorado Springs.
Sgt. Montrell Mayo, a supply specialist with the 759th Military Police Battalion, turned himself in to investigators in Greenville, North Carolina on Feb. 17 just hours after the body of his girlfriend was discovered in one of the rooms at the Crowne Plaza.
Investigators believe Cpl. Kimberly Walker was killed a few days before her body was found. An autopsy revealed she was strangled to death.
Records show Mayo is being held at the CJC without bond. His attorney made an appearance on his behalf in a video advisement Friday.
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The Department has received at least three complaints from victims who have reported receiving calls from people claiming to be DBPR employees from the "Fraud Unit." The victims have already lost money as the result of potential timeshare resale fraud and the callers are asking for cash in order to obtain full repayment for the victims. The Department does not have a "Fraud Unit" and has confirmed that the phone calls are in no way connected with the Department or its regulatory authority.
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Dammit to hell.
I'm driving home from work a night or two ago, and as the miles tick by, I'm composing, in my head of course, a most perfect post. It's my first in a while — I've just been too busy to write, and too tired, from all the news that has swamped my team in recent weeks. I'm sure you know what all that is, so I won't reiterate it here.
It's a damn good post, and I am excited about it. But once I arrive on the homefront, the 45 things I need to do before I can take some time for myself get in the way, and by the time I'm done, I really am too damn tired to write.
Curse me for not dictating it while I was driving, because now I've forgotten the whole thing. Except for the first word.
It's a word I use most often to indict my utter disgust at something. And that's just not very helpful — I'm pretty damn disgusted right now, and nothing is standing out as the thing that disgusted me enough that night to want to write it all out.
It could be anything. My colleagues, for example, did a good job of disgusting me last week with their handling of Helen Thomas's unfortunate choice of words and her subsequent and sudden retirement. "Get the hell out of the Middle East" just isn't a very wise thing to say to Israel, although I can certainly understand the sentiment. But my god, you'd have thought my colleagues had heard her add "and throw them into the ovens" at the end. They reminded me of nothing so much as Donald Sutherland in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers," hissing at pointing at those who aren't like them.
Even the liberals. But then, they had no choice. Daring to criticize the Israelis is suicide in this country. If they hadn't en masse joined in the hissing and pointing, they'd have been the ones hissed and pointed at, labeled anti-Semites no better than the Nazis.
See, in this country, calling someone a Nazi is OK, unless, of course, he or she really is one.
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Take Glenn Beck, for example, who disgusts me pretty much every time he opens his mouth. He has a long history of labeling people he doesn't agree with Nazis and fascists, right up until he promotes an actual fascist Nazi-sympathizer on his show, which apparently as AOK at Faux News.
I'm pretty sure my disgust wasn't triggered by Yuma, Arizona, Mayor Al Krieger, because I just found out about him tonight. But it coulda been. Al, back on Memorial Day, delivered a speech praising the U.S. military for things like the invasion of Normandy, and then said
I cannot believe that a bunch of lacy-drawered, limp-wristed people could do what those men have done in the past.
He later defended those remarks, saying he was pretty sure that George Washington and Abraham Lincoln woulda said the same thing. And that his remarks came from the heart.
No, Al, they didn't. They came from pure, unmitigated ignorance. Nobody asked Al if he really believed that no gay soldiers stormed the beach that day in France, or, as certainly happened, whether any lost their lives there defending their country. And nobody, of course, followed up with "Are you really that stupid?"
Apparently, he is. At least the religionists have something of an excuse for their ridiculous bigotry. Ignorance is never an excuse. It's just ignorance. And, like most conservative ignorance like this, it's willful.
Then there's the fucking oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Any part of that might have been what triggered my disgust — John Boehner insisting that the taxpayers should pay for the clean-up, BP's utter incompetence, Obama's pansy-assed response, Bobby Jindal, CNN's inability to talk with anybody about the disaster except Billy Nungesser, James Carville and Mary Matalin, oiled birds, the ever-increasing flow estimates, British politicians whining that we Yanks are being mean to BP, Michael Bloomberg saying it's not BP executives fault. Oh wait, that last one was just today.
How about Democrats voting with Alaska's Lisa Mikulski to strip the Environmental Protection Agency of its ability to regulate greenhouse gases because, apparently, the highly politicized, partisan Congress without a scientist among them could do it better? Thankfully, that vote failed. For now.
Yeah, that's pretty disgusting. But so is the unemployment rate. And the lack of prospects to see it drop anytime soon. And Congress' (and the administration's) complete unwillingness to do anything about it. Instead, our elected officials and their appointed advisers would rather fret over the non-issue of the deficit.
People, the deficit don't mean shit. Most of the money we owe we owe to ourselves. Nothing but some serious deficit spending is going to get people back to work. And if we don't get people back to work soon, the deficit isn't going to matter at all, under any circumstances. It's a bullshit issue, and there again are my colleagues, playing politics like the politicians.
But unemployment doesn't affect the rich. In fact, they're happy about it because their labor costs are down and they can pocket more money. What is gonna happen, and real soon if something doesn't give, is that we're going to be plunged back into the late 19th century, with a permanent underclass that can't find work. The Victorian era. Robber barons. Rampant disease. Good times. Can't wait.
Anything could have triggered my disgust that night. I just can't remember what it was. Guess it doesn't really matter, though. I've probably become a member of the new permanently disgusted class.