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I test $13k Nordsot Valhalla speaker cables against my $39 specials. Are high end cables worth the cost? [...] The post Speaker Cables DO Make A Difference…BUT! first appeared on Steve Huff Hi-Fi and Photo.

Anybody want to ride their bicycle from the Twin Cities to Duluth? Let’s go! It’s about 170 miles from Minneapolis proper to the lift bridge. It’s real flat. Mostly bike path, but a couple stretches of road. A reasonable rider can do this in about 13-15 hours. Come on… do it! This is what I typed into the “About” section of a Facebook event called “Bike to Duluth!” in hopes …

Google’s recent release of NotebookLM has stirred up quite a buzz, particularly its podcast feature. At first glance, it might not seem revolutionary—after all, we’ve had AI tools that can engage with uploaded documents for a while now. And it does not require much fancy prompting to create a dialogue which then be converted into […]

Kimberly Ann Miletta certainly found a way to profit from publishing. As president of Phoenix Books of Beverly Hills, Ms. Miletta embezzled $1.3 million from the company and from the owner’s personal bank account. From 2013 to 2018 Miletta used her company credit card, which she alone controlled, to make personal purchases, including spa treatments, clothing, veterinary bills, and designer handbags. She would then pay the credit card out of …

Blue Origin is set to debuts its second human-rated suborbital tourism vehicle – named RSS Kármán line. An uncrewed verification flight window opens on Monday, October 7 at 8:00 a.m. Central Daylight Time. New Shepard (NS-27) will fly 12 payloads—five on the booster and seven inside the crew capsule. The vehicle is designed to enable […]

October 4, 2024 Have you started autumn shopping? I’m NOT buying anything this fall – I don’t have enough space in my closet for what I already own! These closets are not working out as I had dreamed… But let’s see how our heroines are doing – they always inspire me! We are inspired by the above painting, although it isn’t working out as I had envisioned – it turns …

We always standby our recommendation of anything that Pop Filter puts together, and today you can stream Ray and Lorraine’s, the group’s new record. I’ve been fortunate enough to have a listen to the record ahead of time, and if I picked a must recommend track, I’d go with “Documentary Footage;” it captures the rawness of a group, while still

[The ethics of zoos are difficult, but disguising one animal as another is pretty clearly wrong.] One Foot Tsunami’s oeuvre is such that when a zoo is caught attempting to pass off a dog as a panda, as happened again last month, I hear about it from readers. But rather than link to many similar stories, let’s look at a recap of many instances of duplicitous zoos, courtesy of the …

Introducing: The dark navy Donegal Friday, October 4th 2024Tags: CoatsPermanent styleprivate white VC Share Share this post Subscribe 32 Comments ||- Begin Content -|| For our new iteration of the Donegal coat, I wanted to create a version that was the easiest possible colour, weight and pattern to wear. Readers ask so much about versatility - about having one good coat - so I knew making something that could be …

This is my first time participating in a IndieWeb Carnival. I had seen this name floating around before, but I have never participated. After reading both Manuel Moreale’s and Jan-Luka’s posts, I got interested, especially due to the topic: multilingualism in a global web. This month’s edition is hosted by ZinRicky. As you probably know, I was born and raised in Portugal. Therefore, I grew up speaking Portuguese and that’s …

lingthusiasm:Bonus 92: Xenolinguistics 👽 | LingthusiasmSomeday, we might make contact with intelligent life beyond our planet. In that case, linguists want to be PREPARED. Enter the excitingly named field of Xenolinguistics!In this bonus episode, Gretchen and Lauren get enthusiastic about how linguists might go about communicating with aliens. Drawing on highlights of the academic book “Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language”, we talk about how we’d actually go about …

An unusual sight in North Carolina’s Hurricane Helene devastated areas are volunteer mule teams. With hundreds of miles of roads washed out and no guarantee of helicopter LZs in some places, folks like the Mountain Mule Packer Ranch are stepping up. Via Mountain Mule Packer Ranch Via Mountain Mule Packer Ranch The MMPR gang, based in Ulna, NC, are pros. They specialize in offering mule packing classes to military customers, …

Memo to self: do not be afraid to revisit ‘difficult’ books. Not only are they truly wonderful to read, you’ll also see so much more in them than the first time round! Yes, I’ve been re-reading Virginia Woolf, a long time favourite author, and the title I went back to was one which I really can’t be sure when I last read. It could, in fact, be decades, and it’s …

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