text: Front Back Photos (3) Videos (7) View larger JVC KW-NT700 Navigation receiver Item #: 105KWNT700 5 Reviews This item is no longer available. Original Price: $749.99 Shop all In-dash GPS Navigation Need help? 1.888.955.6000 Email Chat Ask an expert advisor No pressure, no commission — just lots of good advice from our highly trained staff. Overview Reviews Details Accessories Articles & Videos by Zak Billmeier Speedy navigation with a fantastic screen When you're on the road, especially in unfamiliar places, you can't afford to wait while your in-dash navigation system "thinks" about how to get somewhere. JVC has more than doubled the speed of last year's models (which were already among the fastest on the market), meaning when you tap the KW-NT700's 7" touchscreen for directions, you'll have them in time for the upcoming turn. And it's not just the navigation that's nice and snappy — you can blaze your way through iPhone® apps and your music library, too. Throw in built-in Bluetooth®, and you've got one very capable road trip copilot. An iPhone lover's dream Plug in your iPhone via USB, and you've got a world of options at your fingertips. With the help of apps, you can stream your Pandora® Internet radio stations and see album art and station info on the 7" screen. You can also access hundreds of radio stations on iHeartRadio. Pass by something cool, but no time to stop? Your passenger can grab your iPhone and add points of interest to your in-dash navigation system. Enhanced display makes your navigation more effective JVC's 7" monitor is sharper than ever, and it doesn't just make the maps look better — you'll get some useful features, too. Junction View shows you a realistic depiction of an upcoming exit, complete with lane guides. The Picture In Picture view lets you see the big picture, plus a close-up detail. And 3D Landmarks help you get around a city with confidence. Map text and texture come in crisp, clean, and easy to read, and you can tilt the screen two ways to avoid glare. Spectacular sound quality You'll get the tools you need to achieve great sound with the KW-NT700. It starts with Time Alignment, which adjusts the timing of each speaker so that all the sound reaches your ears at the same time, creating the illusion that you are sitting in the center and not the the driver's seat. Then you can fine-tune with a robust 13-band equalizer and a sophisticated (but easy to use) crossover network. Bluetooth note: Use of this receiver's Bluetooth features will depend upon your phone's Bluetooth capabilities. Learn more in our article explaining Bluetooth profiles. Want to keep your steering wheel controls? In most vehicles, you can use an adapter to connect your vehicle's steering wheel controls to this JVC stereo. Connect a few wires, then program the adapter for your particular car and the KW-NT700, and you'll retain the convenience of your steering wheel controls. Check the "Accessories" tab for compatible adapters. Product Highlights:General features:navigation receiver with AM/FM tunerbuilt-in amplifier (20 watts RMS CEA-2006/50 peak x 4 channels)7" color touchscreen with two-way tiltbuilt-in Bluetooth for hands-free calling and music streamingcompatible with iHeartRadio and Pandora iPhone appsAudio/video features:iPod control: JVC's KS-U49 cable required for full access to all audio/video content and featuresplays CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVDs, DVD-Rs, DVD-RWs (including discs loaded with MP3/WMA files)24-bit digital-to-analog converter13-band iEQ and time alignmentNavigation features:maps of Canada, Puerto Rico, and the entire United Statesbuilt-in flash memory for navigation, updates made using an SD cardadd your own points-of-interest from Google Maps using your iPhoneExpandability:compatible with: satellite radio tuner, rear-view camerainputs: rear-panel A/V and USB inputs, SD-card slotoutputs: video output, 6-channel preamp outputs (2.5-volt front, rear, subwoofer)Other features and specs:compatible with most factory steering wheel audio controls (adapter required)CEA-2006 compliant amplifierwarranty: 1 yearOur 60-day money-back guarantee Why install a car stereo with built-in GPS? Imagine taking a trip as your car's receiver gives you directions, finds the best restaurant for dinner, and plays movies for your back seat denizens. Navigation receivers cover all the bases, with GPS guidance, DVD playback, and a host of other useful features. You can search through millions of points of interest to locate gas stations, restaurants, museums, and other interesting spots, wherever you are. Most receivers offer Bluetooth capability for hands-free calling, along with the ability to search through your iPod playlists with touchscreen controls. JVC KW-NT700 Reviews Average Customer Review: 5 reviews Review this product Submit a review and then enter to win a $350 rewards card Filter by rating: 5 Star: (0) 4 Star: (0) 3 Star: (0) 2 Star: (0) 1 Star: (0) Review this product: Thanks for taking the time to share your experiences about this product. Please be sure to focus your comments on the product itself. Read our Review Guidelines for more information. 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Enter the URL of your YouTube™ video review or product demonstration. e.g., "http://www.youtube.com/v/o79TWHh598U" 500 characters left Pros 500 characters left Cons * Agree to Terms By checking this box you agree your review becomes the property of Crutchfield, that you are over 18 years of age, that you own or have owned this product, and that you are located within the United States or its territories. Please see our Review Guidelines for more information. We reserve the right (but are not obligated to) review all submissions and edit or remove any review in any manner which we deem necessary. Your review should be posted within seven days. Worth the Money Written By Covey, Hanover,Pa on Friday, November 23, 2012 After spending hours looking at all the choices for a radio for my car i opted for this one. I love this radio. The radio it replaced was an Alpine and it was a nightmare to set-up the bluetooth for the phone ( took me about a half hour to finally get it to work). The JVC took me 30 seconds to set my phone and my wifes phone up in the car ( i never even attempted to try on the alpine) The user interface on this radio is easy and self explanetory i havent had to open the manual up yet. I like the navigation, there all a little different and take some getting used to but thats all of them. The installation was time consuming but with all the info. Crutchfield provides it wasnt difficult. The sound is awesome, my wife swears that i replaced the speakers ( infintiy reference 7's,Kicker Comp VR's) but i didnt . you can really taylor your sound with this unit to how ever you want your music to sound. I spent hours adjusting my Alpine, the JVC I spent about 10 minutes and it still sounds better. My stereo system is all powered with amplifiers(3) so i cant speak for the internal amp. The display is spot on for brightness in the day and night. if you spend some time in the settings you can adjust alot of functions of the radio, but isnt nessacary to do. The processor boots fast. I cant say enough good about this radio, i havent found any negatives yet Pros: Great sound, easy to use and set-up fast boot up Cons: haven't found any Was this review helpful? Yes No Easy to Install and works great Written By Carl, Wichita on Friday, October 05, 2012 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) I love the deck. Have had it installed for 2 weeks. Have not had any problems with it. Great screen, very good video playback. Works well with my phone. Installation was a breeze with the instructions supplied. Installed this with a 4 Polk speakers and an Sound Ordinance powered sub and it sounds great. Deep bass, great high end. Glad I made the purchase Pros: Great Screen, intuitive controls, great menu features to control sound and video. Cons: no remote control for back seat passengers Was this review helpful? Yes No Almost Perfect Nav Receiver Written By Kaos1829, New Philly, Pa on Monday, October 01, 2012 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) After doing extensive research on all in-dash navigation receivers out there I decided to buy the JVC KW-NT700 for my Nissan Titan. This is the first step in the build of my system for the truck. I chose this receiver mainly because of the audio control options. This receiver is a beast when it comes to being able to fine tune the sound of your music; 13 band EQ and crossovers front/rear/subwoofer. I still have all the stock speakers from the Rockford Fosgate premium sound system installed in my truck and this receiver woke them up. It is literally a night and day difference in sound quality and overall volume compared to the stock receiver. So many sound options and they all are worthwhile and useful. The navigation works like a charm and is simple to use. I love the fact that the map updates for the unit are free via a download from the JVC website. All you need to do is download the update to an SD card and put it in the receiver. Very Impressed by that. The iPod interface on the receiver is spot on! If you have an apple tv the menu is more or less identical to that. Superb! The SD card is great! You just need to make sure you have the files in the correct format. iPhone integration is flawless as well! Pandora works like a champ! Bluetooth operations work great as well even for streaming music. Sirius XM works decent. I would have liked to see user set presets on the now playing screen, instead you must navigate to another screen to see your preset channels. Pros: Simple to use menu navigation, 13 band EQ, crossovers front/rear/subwoofer, free map updates, beautiful display, super fast boot time, 32 GB SD card, Ability to view AV while nag screen is up, ability to customize the button illumination color to match other interior lighting, contacts in phone download automatically to receiver. Cons: If you hook up a USB hub to the receiver your devices will not charge while plugged in, the sound volume is not very even across the different inputs. This is really the only reason that I marked this receiver other than 5 stars. I called Crutchfield about the issue and they had me a new receiver two days later to try out. It did not fix the issue but I think it might be the factory installed amplifier causing this issue. I will update more as I upgrade to components and 4 channel amp. 3 out of 3 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes No Not The Best For Rear Entertainment Written By 2012DodgeRam, Omaha, NE on Wednesday, September 19, 2012 Crutchfield Customer Review (What's this?) Overall this is a decent receiver. It boots fast, the Nav unit is decent, and the bluetooth works great. One huge downside though is that it doesn't have audio outputs to go with the video. I bought this with the intentions of adding dual screens in the rear with headphones for the kids. The video out works great, but I am still stuck listening to the movie they watch because there is no audio out. For a unit that is nearly a grand, I can't believe it doesn't have a simple audio out or dual zone capability. The menus are also very difficult to navigate. Having came from a JVC KW-NT3HD prior to this unit, the navigation between the Nav, Audio, and system settings is difficult. Additionally the remote that is advertised as working with this product does not work. It is listed in the details section as being compatible with the radio, but after purchasing the remote; it does not work. Pros: Fast Boot Time, Decent Nav, Good Bluetooth, iPhone integration, Cons: No Dual Zone \ Audio Output to go along with video out, Menus are difficult to navigate 1 out of 1 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes No JVC KW-NT700 Written By Anonymous, USA on Tuesday, September 04, 2012 Overall a decent in dash navigation unit, but it does have its drawbacks. I would really rate it more like 3.5 stars at the very most. First of all, the NT700 does boot very quickly. In less time than it will take you to pull out of the garage it will be ready to play music or initialize navigation. The audio section offers an especially wide variety of settings and control over the sound quality of the unit. The navigation function appears to be quite accurate and also loads destination data very quickly, but the way that the characters are "blacked out" while using the search function takes some getting used to. That particular "feature" does make it a little easier to locate destinations within the database - provided that whatever you are looking for is in fact included in said database. If not, you are limited to zooming in & out while tapping the touchscreen in order to get close to where you want to go, or using direct coordinates. The primary reason I chose this unit is because it can play audio files directly from a 32 Gb SDHC card that is loaded into the deck behind the touch screen, and it can process the most folders and files of just about any double-din on the market. This is indeed the case, however, the file playback features leave a lot to be desired. For example, there is no direct alpha-numeric search function for content stored on either SD or USB memory devices. In order to find anything you must scroll through your folders manually each time. Pros: Fast software performance. Cons: Clumsy, limited, non-intuitive interface with outboard mass storage devices. 3 out of 3 people found this helpful Was this review helpful? Yes No Hands-on research Features and specs chart | What's in the box? | In-depth notes What's in the box? Download owner's manual Double-DIN navigation receiver with integrated 7" touchscreen monitor (15-amp fuse inserted in chasis) Sleeve (installed) Trim ring (installed) Wiring harness AV/preamp harness Magnetic GPS antenna (with attached 16.5' cable terminated by a proprietary connector) Microphone with integrated bracketed (attached 12' cable terminated by a right-angle male 3.5mm connector) Two-side tape 8 Pan head ISO-mount machine screws (M5 x 8mm) 8 Flat head ISO-mount machine screws (M5 x 6mm) Red wire splice tap (18-22 gauge) 2 Radio removal tools Instructions (Eng/Fre/Spa) Installation/Connection Manual (Eng/Fre/Spa) US warranty information Canada warranty information Product Registration Card/Questionnaire "Caution" note (taped to wiring harness) Features and Specs General CEA-2006 Compliant Yes RMS Power Output 20 watts Peak Output 50 watts RMS Power Bandwidth 20-20kHz Preamp Outputs 6-channel Sub Preamp Outputs Yes Switchable Rear Preamp Outputs No Video Screen Yes Preamp Voltage 2.5 volts Display Color Key Button Color Variable EQ Bands 13 Wireless Remote Optional Steering Wheel Control Compatible Adapter required Parts Warranty 1 Year Labor Warranty 1 Year Expandability AUX Input No Audio/video Input Rear USB Input Rear Memory Card Slot USB/SD memory Bluetooth Compatible Built-in Satellite Radio Ready SiriusXM HD Radio No Navigation Optional iPod Compatibility Full size Classic/5Gen Nano Nano7/Nano6/Nano5/Nano4/Nano3/ Touch Touch5/Touch4/Touch3/Touch2/To Mini --- iPhone Phone5/Phone4S/Phone4/Phone3GS Tuner FM Sensitivity 8.3 dBf European Tuning No Seek/Scan Seek Radio Data System Yes Product Research Touchscreen Display Onboard Navigation Built-in Bluetooth AM/FM + SiriusXM Ready DVD/CD Playback USB Port/SD-Card Slot iPod/Android/Blackberry Connectivity Audio Section AV Connections Remote Control Touchscreen Display Motorized Touchscreen Display: The JVC KW-NT700 features a motorized 7" TFT Active Matrix, 16:9 touchscreen monitor. The screen has a resolution of 800 (H) x 480 (V) x RGB with 1,152,000 total pixels. The touchscreen LCD serves as a video monitor, system information display and touchscreen control panel. The monitor electronically slides down for loading or ejecting a disc. Reverse Tilt Monitor: The Reverse Tilt Monitor not only allows the bottom of the monitor to be tilted upward at five different positions, but also enables the top of the monitor to be tilted outward to eliminate reflected glare. Ultras-Fast Start-Up Time: The JVC KW-NT700 has an ultra-fast start up time of approximately 9.4 seconds from Off to the Map screen or an audio/video source screen. Hard-Key Controls w/ Variable Button Illumination: In addition to the head unit's touchscreen monitor, the KW-NT700 features hard-key controls along the bottom edge of the screen. The hard-key controls provide Power, Source, Eject, Volume, Menu, Map, and AV functions. The JVC KW-NT700 allows you to adjust the unit's hard-key button illumination. It offers 7 color presets (Blue, Aqua, Green, Yellow, Pink, Red, and Purple) for the hard-key button illumination. Additionally, there is a user preset, allowing you to individually adjust the intensity of Red, Green, and Blue from 0 to 31. There is also a "Scan" setting which scans through all of the 7 available preset colors continuously. Split Screen View: The KW-NT700's screen views can be easily toggled from one to another simply be touching the screen or appropriate button. The Split Screen View mode divides the screen into two screens, with navigation on the left and a control window on the right. With this Picture-in-Picture type function the head unit can now display the navigation and source screens (or rear-view camera) simultaneously. Quick Menu: The Quick Menu is user-changeable and can be assigned a set of frequently used features for quicker, easier access. Up to 6 Quick Menu short-cuts can be assigned. The Quick Menu can be accessed from the head unit's navigation Map screen. Display Adjustment: You can adjust the contrast, color, tint, and detail level during video playback. Selectable Aspect Modes: You can choose from four aspect modes for the in-dash display: Regular: For 4:3 source material, 4:3 and 16:9 pictures display with black bars on either side (16:9 images are compressed). Full: Expands 4:3 pictures horizontally to fill the entire width of the screen, distorting the picture slightly but retaining full image height. Auto: The correct aspect mode is automatically chosen based on the incoming signal. Adjustable Dimmer: When 12 volts is applied to the illumination lead (orange/white) and the dimmer is set to Auto, the display will dim automatically when you turn on your vehicle's exterior or interior lights. The dimmer can also be set to Off (normal brightness at all times), or On (display is always dimmed). You can also manually adjust the display brightness for Day & Nighttime driving. Parking Brake Detection: To prevent the displaying of video while the vehicle is in motion, the light-green parking brake wire (within 22-pin harness) must be connected to your vehicle's parking brake detection circuit. While the vehicle is in motion (parking brake off), you can still view many of the other display and menu functions. Note: When driving at a speed greater than 3 miles-per-hour, some menu screens are not available. Security Lock: You may program the unit with a 4 digit security code. Once the unit has been programmed with a security code, the code must be entered to use the unit after it has been turned off. 2-DIN Chassis: The JVC KW-NT700 has a 2-DIN chassis (also known as Double DIN), and will fit in many vehicles with a large dash opening. The unit can be ISO-mounted using factory brackets, or Euro-mounted using the supplied mounting sleeve. As always, please consult Crutchfield's Outfit My Car to verify fit with your vehicle. Onboard Navigation Built-In Navigation (powered by NAVTEQ): The JVC KW-NT700 features a built-in GPS Navigation system with maps of the United States (including Hawaii and Alaska), Canada, and Puerto Rico; powered by NAVTEQ Maps. All map data is stored on the unit's 8GB SSD (sold state drive). The unit's 3-sensor navigation system helps to pinpoint your vehicle's current location. Once a destination is set, the unit provides turn-by-turn voice & visual guidance through your vehicle's speakers and the unit's display monitor; using NAVTEQ navigation software. Note: Car navigation maps are frequently updated. While this database was judged to be as accurate as possible at the time of its release, a map database can never be 100% accurate. Road information that is maintained in the map databases, such as turn restrictions or road names may change over time. Map Updates:Map updates via an SD/SDHC memory card can be purchased at the online NAVTEQ store. 3-Sensor Navigation: The JVC KW-NT700 is equipped with a high-sensitivity WAAS capable GPS receiver (SiRFstarIII), Speed Pulse wire, and Gyro sensor to calculate your vehicle's current location. GPS Antenna: The KW-NT700 comes supplied with a GPS antenna that features a magnetic base and an attached 16.5' cable terminated by a proprietary plug which connects to GPS-ANT input on the back of the head unit. The unit also comes supplied with a two-side self-adhesive pad if you are having trouble finding a flat metal surface to mount the antenna. The GPS antenna can be mounted inside the vehicle (on the dash) or outside the vehicle (on the roof or trunk). The GPS antenna measures 1.3125" (w) x 0.5625" (h) x 1.4375" (d). On-Screen Map: As you travel, the KW-NT700 guides you to your destination with voice prompts, arrows on the map, and on-screen directions. At the bottom of the screen is your current street, while the top of the screen shows your next street; the upper-left corner indicates the distance to your next maneuver. Your route is marked with a light-blue line, while your vehicle is marked by a red arrow (or car) on the screen, and checkered flag marks your destination. A magnified view of the map is displayed when approaching your next turn. When you reach an area approximately within 90' around the destination/via point, the navigation system considers you to have reached your destination/via point. If you depart from the original route, the navigation system recalculates the route and provides new directions. You can adjust the following map settings. 2D/3D Maps: You can changes the perspective of the map from 2D North-Up (displays the map in 2 dimensions with North at the top), 2D Heading-Up (displays the map in 2 dimensions with your direction of travel at the top of the screen), 3D Map (displays the map in 3 dimensions with your direction of travel at the top of screen). Map Views: You can zoom in and out of the map screen, as well as scroll the map screen left/right or up/down. You can also rotate a 3D map screen 360-degrees. Night Map Mode: Night Map Mode dims the map display when driving at night. You can turn this feature On/Off or set to Auto so the map display dims when you turn on your vehicle's headlights (the unit's illumination control lead connect is required for Auto mode). Note: An AV Control Bar is displayed on the map screen, so you can still perform AV source operations even while navigating. 3D Landmarks: The KW-NT700's navigation map features three-dimensional buildings to provide you with a better perspective of your surroundings. With 3D Landmarks, you can see representations of prominent buildings in many cities. Voice Guidance (with Text-to Speech): When you approach a turn, the KW-NT700 guides you with voice guidance (Text-to-Speech) through your vehicle's front speakers and visual indications on the KW-NT700's screen. The unit offers 3 voice guidance languages including English, Spanish and French; with adjustable volume (0-20). Note: You can continue to listen to your music source while navigating. The KW-NT700 will mute the music source, when there is a text-to-speech voice prompt. Once the voice prompt has ended, your music volume will automatically raise to previous setting. Lane Assist w/ Junction View: The Lane Assist function guides you to the appropriate lane you should be in for upcoming junctions and interchanges, while Junction View displays a realistic view of upcoming road details facilitating a safer navigation experience. Destination Search: The JVC KW-NT700 offers the following Destination Search functions: Destination Search Description Browse Map Select a point on the map for your destination by touching the screen. Home Register one point as your home address. Address Search by address using the unit's on-screen keyboard. Favorites Register 300 of your favorite points so you can easily navigate to them from anywhere at any time. Previous Search from the history of previous destinations and via points from the last 50 points. 8,000,000 POIs (from NAVTEQ) Name Search for points-of-interest by specific name using the on-screen keyboard. Category Search by the following POI categories - Gas Station, Parking, Restaurant, Coffee/Deserts, Finance, Shopping, Service, Entertainment, Recreation, Hotel/Accommodation, Travel, Medical, Community, or Automotive. Vicinity Search for POIs around the following places - your current position, your destination, or your via point(s). Phone Number Search a destination by entering its telephone number using the unit's on-screen keypad. Coordinates Search by entering the latitude and longitude. Note: Moving at a specific speed (3+ MPH) engages safety measures in the navigation system to encourage safe driving. Only instantly accessible points-of-interest and simple menu systems are accessible, unless the car is stopped. Otherwise, an address cannot be entered (the keyboard is disabled). The vehicle must be stopped and the parking brake will need to be engaged to enable these functions. Routing Preferences: You can select how the unit will calculate your route by adjusting the following settings: Route Priority: You can select the unit to either calculate the fastest timed route or shortest distant route. Route Avoidance: You can select to use or avoid the following types of roads; Freeway, Toll Road, or Ferry. Via Points: After selecting your destination, you can select up to four places (via points) to stop by along your route. Adjusting Vehicle Position: If you find your current position is displayed incorrectly on the map, you can adjust your vehicle's position/location. Speed Alert: The system sounds an alarm when you surpass the speed limit of the current road by a set value. You can choose for the unit to alert you when you are 3, 6, 10, 15, or 20 miles over the speed limit. Simulate: You can simulate a desired route to confirm what your trip will look like. Built-in Bluetooth Bluetooth Technology: The JVC KW-NT700 features built-in 2.4GHz Bluetooth technology (version 2.1+EDR). The KW-NT700's built-in Bluetooth technology promotes safe driving habits by allowing you to have a hands-free conversation while driving, without the need to hold a phone to your ear. Your Bluetooth enabled phone can be kept in your purse, pocket, or glovebox; while you communicate through the JVC navigation receiver. The head unit also support Bluetooth audio streaming from your Bluetooth enabled smartphone or digital audio player. Bluetooth Profiles: In order to use Bluetooth wireless technology, your phone must also be Bluetooth compatible and be able to interpret certain profiles. This unit is compatible with the following Bluetooth Profiles: Hands-Free Communication: HFP (Hands Free Profile), OPP (Object Push Profile), PBAB (Phone Book Access Profile). Audio Streaming: A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile), AVRCP (Audio/Video Remote Control Profile). Pairing: Your Bluetooth enabled mobile phone or digital audio player must be paired with KW-NT700 before hands-free & wireless operation. You can register up to five Bluetooth enabled devices with the JVC head unit. You can keep two phones connected at all times (only one can be used during a call). Due to the differences in Bluetooth technology, some Bluetooth enabled devices may be incompatible, function improperly, or may not support all features when used with the JVC head unit. See JVC's Bluetooth compatibility chart for a complete list of compatible Bluetooth enabled devices. External Microphone: The JVC KW-NT700 includes an external microphone to carry on your side of your phone conversation and voice command dialing. The external wired microphone offers improved audio quality versus an integrated microphone, so you can be heard easier over noisy traffic and road noise. You can adjust the level of the microphone without affecting the other sources. The external microphone features an attached 12' cable terminated by a right-angle 3.5mm connector which plugs into the mic input on the rear-panel of the head unit. The microphone offers an integrated mounting bracket which can be clipped to your vehicle's sun-visor or taped to your dash. The external microphone measures 0.525" (diameter) x 1.485" (depth). This unit does not offer an integrated front-panel microphone. Bluetooth Hands-Free Communication: The head unit supports Bluetooth hands-free communication for your Bluetooth enabled mobile phone. The touchscreen controls of the KW-NT700 can be used to dial a number, answer an in-coming call, or end a call. The unit also features an external microphone (featuring adjustable gain), so you can carry on your side of the conversation while listening to the caller through your vehicles speakers (front or all). During a conversation, you can switch between the Private Mode (talking directly on your cell phone) and the Hands Free Mode. Answering a Call: When a call comes in, a ring-tone will be heard through your vehicle's speaker and the caller's name or phone number will be displayed on the head unit's touchscreen monitor. You can answer the call from the head unit's touchscreen, or setup the head unit to automatically answer the incoming call within 5 seconds. Dialing a Number: Using the KW-NT700, you can dial a phone number in one of the following ways: Entering a Phone Number: Allows you to directly dial a phone number up to 32 digits from the head unit's touchscreen. Speed (Preset) Dialing: Allows you to register up to 6 phone numbers for quick dialing. The preset numbers can be accessed from the head unit's touchscreen. Phone Book: You can download phone book data from your cell phone to the KW-NT700, so you can then dial by using the downloaded phone book numbers. Up to 5,000 numbers can be stored for each registered cell phone. Each number can be up to 32 digits long and each name can be up to 50 characters long. You can do an alphabetical search (A-Z) to find your desired contact. Call Log: The Call Log is a list of calls that have originated from and were received by this unit that you can dial. You can select Outgoing, Incoming, or Missed calls (up to 50 each). Note: While your vehicle is moving over 3mph, some Bluetooth hands-free communication functions are disable for safety reasons. The keys associated with the disabled functions become ineffective if touched. Wireless Audio Streaming: The JVC KW-NT700 also supports wireless audio playback (AD2P) and control (AVRCP) of a Bluetooth enabled audio player or smartphone. The KW-NT700 will be able to control basic playback functions of your Bluetooth device's stored music; such as Play/Pause, Skip Next/Previous, and Fast Forward/Rewind. The head unit will also display your stored music's song information; such as Song and Album title. The KW-NT700 also supports audio streaming of select music apps from your Bluetooth enabled smartphone, but without control or metadata. You will continue to use your Bluetooth enabled smartphone to view and control streaming music apps. When an incoming call or outgoing call is in progress from your Bluetooth enabled mobile phone, audio streaming will be paused so you can take your call. Once the call is finished, your streaming music will resume. AM/FM + SiriusXM Ready AM/FM Tuner: The JVC KW-NT700 features a built-in AM/FM tuner with manual, seek, and preset tuning. RDS: The Radio Data System (RDS) feature displays radio broadcast information such as artist, title, and album when listening to compatible AM/FM stations, Preset Tuning: You can store a total of 18 FM stations presets and 6 AM station presets. The radio allows you to set your AM/FM stations manually or automatically. IF Filter: You can also switch the tuner's IF filter to Wide or Auto to increase/decrease the sensitivity. SiriusXM Ready: The JVC KW-NT700 comes ready for SiriusXM programming with access to XM & Sirius Satellite Radio stations. Thanks to its proprietary SiriusXM Connect port, you can add the optional SXV200V1 SiriusXM Connect tuner and receive more than 150 channels of exclusive programming directly from SiriusXM, via the "SiriusXM All Access" package (subscription required). Visit SiriusXM.com for a complete list of subscription options & channel guide. Additional features of the SXV200 SiriusXM Connect tuner include: Channel list displays a list of all available channels Category Search searches for channels in a certain category Displayed Information such as Channel Name, Artist Name, & Song Title can be viewed on the head unit's LCD Up to 18 SiriusXM Satellite Radio station presets Channels containing unsuitable content for children can be blocked Note: A separate SiriusXM Satellite Radio subscription is required (operates on the XM Network). If you already have a Sirius Satellite Radio subscription, this radio cannot be added as a discounted second unit. If you have an existing XM Satellite Radio subscription, you can add this unit as a discounted second unit. DVD/CD Playback Compatible Discs: The JVC KW-NT700 supports playback of DVD-Video, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, CD-Audio, CD-Text, CD-R/RW discs. The touchscreen monitor electronically slides down for loading and ejecting discs. Compressed Music Playback: The KW-NT700 can play AAC (32-320 kbps), MP3 (bitrate: 32-320 kbps), WMA (bitrate: 32-320 kbps), WAV (bitrate: 16 bit) audio files recorded onto DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, and CD-R/RW discs. AAC, MP3, WMA, and WAV files must be formatted in ISO 9660 level or level 2, Romeo, or Joliet. The head unit can recognize a total of 5,000 files and 250 folders (a maximum of 999 files per folder). This unit will recognize a total of 25 characters for file/folder names. The KW-NT700 can display ID3 Tags (ver. 1.0/1.1/2.2/2.3/2.4) for MP3 files, as well as WAV/WMA Tag information. Playback & Search Functions: The KW-NT700 offers the following playback & search functions for DVD/CD playback; Folder/File Search, Play/Pause, Fast Forward/Reverse, Next/Previous Track, Random (all/disc), and Repeat (track/chapter/folder). DVD Touchscreen Control: During DVD playback, you can control certain operations simply by touching an area of the screen. The touchscreen has 3 functions areas. You can touch the left of the screen to start the current chapter over, or the right of the screen to skip to the next chapter. Pressing the middle of the screen activates the DVD playback on-screen buttons. Disc Resume: If you change the source, playback also stops (without ejecting the disc). Next time you select CD for the playback source, the disc will start from where it has been stopped previously. Mounting: For proper disc playback you must install the unit within 30-degrees of horizontal. USB Port/SD-Card Slot USB Port: The JVC KW-NT700 features a rear-panel USB (type-A) port on a 38" pigtail to connect your USB device. For the unit to recognize your USB device, it must be specified as a mass storage class device. Up to 4 USB devices can be connected to the head unit's USB port via a USB hub (sold separately). USB portable audio players that can be charged via USB will be charged when plugged into the navigation receiver's USB port (5V/1A), and the vehicle's ignition switch is set to ACC or On. SD-Card Slot: The JVC KW-NT700 is equipped with a front-panel SD-card slot hidden behind the unit's motorized slid-down touchscreen monitor. The unit supports SD (up to 2GB) and SDHC (up to 32GB) memory cards. Compatible Media Files: The head unit supports audio and video playback from USB mass storage class devices and SD/SDHC memory cards formatted in FAT 12/16/32. The KW-NT700 can recognize a total of 9,999 folders with a maximum of 999 files per folder (per USB device or SD card). Music Files: The KW-NT700 supports AAC (bitrate: 32-320 kbps), MP3 (bitrate: 32-320 kbps), WMA (bitrate: 32-320 kbps), WAV (bitrate: 16 bit), FLAC (bitrate: 16 bit) audio files stored on a USB msc device or SD/SDHC memory card. The KW-NT700 can also display ID3 Tags (ver. 1.0/1.1/2.2/2.3/2.4) for MP3 files, as well as WAV/WMA Tag information and iTunes m4a metadata. Video Files: The KW-NT700 supports MPEG4 (picture size 720x480; 30fps), AVC H2.64, (picture size: 720x480; 30fps), and WMV (picture size: 720x480: 30fps) video files stored on a USB msc device or SD/SDHC memory card. Playback Controls: You can control basic playback functions; such as Folder/File Search, Play/Pause, Fast Forward/Reverse, Next/Previous Track, Random (folder), and Repeat (track/folder). iPod/Android/BlackBerry Connectivity iPod/iPhone Connectivity: The JVC KW-NT700 supports audio/video playback from select Apple iPods & iPhones. The JVC KW-NT700's rear-panel USB (type-A) port and rear-panel 3.5mm iPod Video input allow you to connect your Apple iPod/iPhone using the JVC KS-U49 iPod cable (105KSU49, sold separately). Video can only be displayed while the vehicle is in park. If you only want to playback audio from your iPod or iPhone, you can simply connect it to the KW-NT700's rear-panel USB port using either the USB/iPod dock cable that came with your iPod/iPhone or PIE's iPod Direct Connect Cable (469USBIPH, sold separately). Note: If you have an iPod nano (7th gen), iPod touch (5th gen), or iPhone 5; use the Lighting-to-USB cable that came with your Apple device to connect to the head unit. These Apple devices only support audio playback (no video output). iPod/iPhone DAC Bypass: Because the JVC KW-NT700 uses its USB connection for audio & control transfer, your iPod/iPhone's stored music is loaded instantly to the head unit and sound quality is maximized through the head unit's 24-bit D/A converter, allowing for a Signal-to-Noise ratio up to 100dB. iPod/iPhone Control: You can choose to control your iPod/iPhone from the JVC head unit or from your iPod/iPhone's touchscreen or clickwheel. The KW-NT700 offers 3 control modes - Head Unit, iPod, and External. Head Unit: From the head unit's front-panel controls you can search for music by Playlist, Artist, Album, Song, Podcast, Genre, Composer, and Audiobook. You can search video by Playlist, Movies, Music Videos, TV Shows, Video Podcasts, Rentals, and iTunesU. Once a Playlist or Category is selected, the content is listed in alphabetical order. The KW-NT700 also supports Repeat (file/all) and Random (album/all) playback functions of your iPod/iPhone. iPod: You can choose to navigate your iPod or iPhone's stored music and videos from its clickwheel or touchscreen, like you are accustomed to during normal usage. External (App Mode): External Mode lets you enjoy audio/video content from downloaded Apps (such as Netflix, or YouTube, etc..) streamed to your Apple iPhone, on the KW-NT700 (using the JVC KSU-49 cable; sold separately). Video can only be output from the iPhone 4/4S. This mode offers no control of your iPhone. You will continue to use your iPhone's touchscreen to navigate your Apps. The External Mode's video function can only be accessed when the vehicle is in park and the hand-brake is fully engaged. Audio content from select music apps (such as Last.fm or Rhapsody) can also be enjoyed from any iPhone. Note: Access to your iPhone's downloaded application will depend on the availability of a cellular and/or WiFi network for purposes of allowing your iPhone to connect to the Internet. Pandora App: The Pandora App (free) lets you play music from the Pandora music service through the JVC KW-NT700 using your connected Apple iPhone, via the USB/iPod connector cable (included with your iPhone) or the JVC KSU-49 cable (sold separately). The JVC KW-NT700 provides control over the Pandora music service and displays Artist, Album, and Song information. You can select Pandora stations from your station list; you can sort the station list by date or A-Z. You can also skip song tracks within a station. In addition, you can also give songs a thumbs up/down and bookmark songs/artists. To access Pandora you must have an Apple iPhone (iOS3 or later) with the latest version of the Pandora application from Apple's iTunes App Store. Your iPhone will need an active Data Plan account with connection to the Internet via 3G, EDGE, or WiFi. You will also need a Pandora music service account. Note: Access to the Pandora service will depend on the availability of a cellular and/or WiFi network for purposes of allowing your iPhone to connect to the Internet. Pandora is not supported in Canada and only available in the United States. iHeartRadio Link for JVC: The iHeartRadio Link for JVC (free app) is an Apple iPhone application that delivers access to over 750 Clear Channel local radio stations in both AM and FM, as well as commercial-free and artist-programmed channels. The free iHeartRadio Link app lets you play music from the iHeartRadio music service through the JVC KW-NT700 using your connected Apple iPhone, via the USB/iPod connector cable (included with your iPhone) or the JVC KSU-49 cable (sold separately). All stations are streamed in high-quality AAC format. The JVC KW-NT700 will display song & artist information, as well as Album Art. You can select available stations from the unit's on-screen station list, which includes - Favorites (up to 100), Featured, Local Stations, All Cities, National Stations, Genres, and Personalities. You an also have the head unit randomly select stations for you. iHeartRadio even provides "tag" information for each song, so you can transfer "tag" information to your connected iPhone and purchase your "tagged" songs later from the online iTunes store. Note: To access iHeartRadio you must have an Apple iPhone (iOS 4.2 or later) with the latest version of the iHeartRadio Link application from Apple's iTunes App Store. Your iPhone will need an active Data Plan account with connection to the Internet via 3G, EDGE, or WiFi. NaviBridge for iPhone: NaviBridge is a free iTunes application that allows you to remotely control the JVC navigation head unit by setting a destination from your USB connected iPhone. You can set a destination from your iPhone's Google Map screen, or select one from your iPhone's stored Contacts or Bookmarks (up to 100). NaviBridge is compatible with the iPhone 3G/3GS/4/4S (running iOS ver. 4.3 or later). iPod/iPhone Display: The KW-NT700 will display your iPod/iPhone's music file information of your stored music, regardless of control mode. The head unit will display Track number, Elapsed playing time, Artist name, Song/Album title, and Album Art. Pandora and iHeartRadio song/artist information will also be displayed. Other downloaded music apps will not display on the unit's LCD monitor. iPod Charging: The head unit's USB connection provides 1A of current to power and charge your connected iPod/iPhone when your vehicle's ignition switch is set to the 'ACC' or 'On' position. This unit does not charge the iPad. If your iPod/iPhone has no initial battery charge, then the unit will not recognize it. iPod/iPhone Compatibility Chart: The JVC KW-NT700 is "Made for iPod/iPhone" compatible and supports the following iPod/iPhone model features when using the JVC KSU-49 cable (as of 10/16/2012): iPod/iPhone Model Generation Tested Version Media Type Control Type Display Type Apps Charge Audio Video Head Unit iPod App Mode Album Art Song/Artist Text Track Info NaviBridge iHeartRadio Pandora dock connector 3rd N/A N N N N N N N N N N N N clickwheel color 4th N/A N N N N N N N N N N N N mini 1st N/A N N N N N N N N N N N N 2nd N/A N N N N N N N N N N N N video 5th 1.3 Y Y Y N N Y Y Y N N N Y classic 80GB 1.1.2 Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y 120GB 2.0.1 Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y 160GB 2.0.4 Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y nano 1st 1.3.1 Y N Y N N Y Y Y N N N Y 2nd 1.1.3 Y N Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y 3rd 1.1.3 Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y 4th 1.0.4 Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y 5th 1.0.2 Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y 6th 1.1 PC Y N Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y 7th 1.2 Y N Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y touch 1st 2.2.1 Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y 2nd 4.2.1 Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y 3rd 5.1.1 Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y 4th 6.0 Y Y Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y 5th 6.0 Y N Y Y N Y Y Y N N N Y iPhone 2G 3.1.3 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N N Y Y 3G 4.2.1 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 3GS 5.1.1 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 4 6.0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 4S 6.0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 5 6.0 Y Y Y Y Audio only Y Y Y N Y Y Y iPad 1 6.0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N 2 6.0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N 2 6.0 Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y N Note: Apple iPod/iPhone software updates may change functionality results. If you download a newer software version, you may need to reset the head unit and your iPod/iPhone to regain functionality. If this doesn't work, you may need to wait until a newer software update is available. Drive Change Mode (for Android/BlackBerry): The JVC KW-NT700's USB port supports playback from Android & BlackBerry smartphones (via USB mass storage mode). JVC's Drive Change Mode lets you connect your Android or BlackBerry smartphone (that uses an external memory card) directly to the head unit, via USB. Drive Change Mode will let you switch between your Android or BlackBerry smartphone's internal and external memory (such as microSD Card), so you can listen to music stored on either memory. You'll continue to be able control basic playback functions; such as folder/file search, play/pause, and skip next/previous; regardless of memory type. Audio Section 24 Bit D/A Converter: The JVC KW-NT700 utilizes a 24-bit digital to analog converter for superior sound quality. MOSFET Amplifier: The KW-NT700 is equipped with a MOSFET amplifier. Compared to conventional power supplies, the MOSFET amplification circuit is smaller and more efficient, and it delivers increased power with less distortion and absolutely zero on/off switching noise. More power means louder and cleaner music at higher volumes because you're not pushing the limits of the amplification circuit. CEA2006 Compliant: The power specifications for the KW-NT700 are compliant with the CEA2006 Mobile Amplifier Power Testing and Measurement standards from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). These standards were developed as a way to equitably compare power specs from model to model and between manufacturers. The power output specs for the KW-NT700 are as follows: CEA2006 Specs: 20 watts RMS x 4 channels (at 4 ohms, 20Hz-20kHz, 1% THD-N) Maximum Power Output: 50 watts x 4 channels (200 total watts) Amplifier Gain Control: When you are using the KW-NT700 with factory speakers (or those rated to less than 50 watts peak), the Amplifier Gain Control can limit the amount of power being sent to those speakers. When the Amp Gain Control is set to low, the volume control ranges from 0 (minimum) to 30 (maximum). When using speakers rated higher than 50 watts peak, you can set the Amp Gain Control to high, and the volume control will range from 0 to 50. The internal amp can also be turned off when all the speakers are powered by outboard amplifiers. Volume Adjust: The input level of each source (other than FM) is adjustable relative to the FM radio volume, so there isn't a significant volume difference when changing sources. Each source is individually adjustable from -5 to +5. 2.5V/6CH Preamp Output: The KW-NT700 is equipped with three pair of 2.5V preamp outputs (Front/Rear/Subwoofer). The front & rear preamp outputs offer balance/fade control and are designed to hookup to a full-range 4-channel amplifier. The subwoofer preamp output is non-fading and designed to hookup to a mono-block subwoofer amplifier. You can adjust the head unit's subwoofer level between -50 and +10. Digital Crossover Network: The KW-NT700 features a variable high pass crossover for the front & rear speakers, as well as a low pass crossover for the subwoofer. Front: Frequency (Through, 30/40/50/60/70/80/90/100/120/150/180/220/250Hz), Slope (-6/-12/-18/-24dB), Gain (-8 to 0dB), Tweeter Level (-8 to 0dB) Rear: Frequency (Through, 30/40/50/60/70/80/90/100/120/150/180/220/250Hz), Slope (-6/-12/-18/-24dB), Gain (-8 to 0dB) Subwoofer: Frequency (Through, 30/40/50/60/70/80/90/100/120/150/180/220/250Hz), Slope (-6/-12/-18/-24dB), Gain (-8 to 0dB), Phase (Normal/Reverse) Equalizer: The JVC KW-NT700 provides both a Preset EQ for quick musical adjustment and 13-Band EQ for more advanced customization. Preset EQ: Choose from Flat, Dynamic, Bass Boost, Natural, Vocal Boost, Vibrant, or User 1/2/3/4. 13-Band EQ: Each user mode lets you adjust the head unit's 13-band equalizer; 62.5Hz, 100Hz, 250Hz, 400Hz, 630Hz, 1kHz, 1.6kHz, 2.5kHz, 4kHz, 6.3kHz, 10kHz, and 16kHz (+/- 9dB). Source Link EQ: This feature allows you to store EQ settings for each source (Disc, AM/FM, AV-IN, USB, iPod, Bluetooth, iHeart Radio, and Pandora). DSP Control: The JVC KW-NT700's Digital Sound Processor (DSP) offers various vehicle, audio, and driver settings to improve the sound in your car, truck, SUV, or van. Vehicle Criteria: You are able select the type of vehicle, your seated position, and speaker distance to better quality your vehicle's sound. Vehicle Type: can choose what type of vehicle you have; Compact, Full-size Car, Wagon, Minivan, SUV, or Van (full-size) Seated Position: for a better sound-stage you can select your optimal listening position; choose from All, Front Left, Front Right or Front Time Alignment: manually fine tune the sound stage by selecting the distance for each individual speaker in the vehicle compared to your listening position; select between 1.6-16.4' for the Left Front Speaker, Right Front Speaker, Left Rear Speaker, Right Rear Speaker, and Subwoofer Speaker Settings: You can set the size and location of your vehicle's speakers. Front: Size (OEM, 3.5", 4", 5", 5.25", 6.5", 6.75", 7", 4x6", 5x7", 6x8", 6x9", 7x10"); Location (Door, On Dash, Under Dash), Tweeter (None, Small, Medium, Large) Rear: Size (None, OEM, 3.5", 4", 5", 5.25", 6.5", 6.75", 7", 4x6", 5x7", 6x8", 6x9", 7x10"); Location (Rear Deck, Door) Subwoofer: Size (None, 6.5", 8", 10", 12", 15") Sound Enhancements: The head unit provides further audio enhancement for better sound in your vehicle. Space Enhancer: set the Space Enhancer to Small, Large, or Off. Each setting value indicates the soundscape level Sound Stage Elevation: creates an affect of hearing the sound from a higher place than the actual position of your vehicle's speakers Loud (Loudness): boosts low and high frequencies to produce a well-balanced sound at a low volume level Bass Boost: four-step Bass Boost (Off/1/2/3) to enhance your music's lower frequencies Compressed Music Enhancers: The head unit offers several audio adjustments dedicated to enhance the sound quality of your compressed digital music. Audio Contrast: sharpens vague sound to make the audio more realistic; effective for compressed music data D.T. Expander (Digital Track Expander): reproduces the natural sound of digital audio sources by restoring data that was lost and waves that were changed during audio compression to their original states; effective for compressed music data Driver Sound Improvements: The KW-NT700 features various audio settings to help improve your driving and audio experience. Start Up Sound Level: starts the head unit with a volume lower than when the system was turned off; you can then manually turn it up back to the previous level Road Noise Compensation: increases the volume of little sound that can be easily washed out by road noise and boosts the bass Adaptive Volume: automatically increases the volume level (both for Navigation and audio/video) as the car speeds up; you must connect the unit's Speed Signal wire (pink/gray) to your vehicle's speed sensor wire Reverse Audio Reduction: attenuates the receiver's AV sound when you shift your vehicle into reverse, so you can concentrate more on backing up your vehicle safely Dynamic Range Compression: The dynamic range can be adjusted by selecting either Normal, Wide or Dialog. Dialog makes the total sound volume become larger as compared with Wide and Normal, allowing you to listen to the movie's dialogue more clearly. This is effective only on Dolby Digital software. Key-Touch Tone: The in-dash head unit provides an audible beep to confirm button operation. This function can be turned On or Off. AV Connections Audio/Video Input: The rear-panel audio/video input consists of left and right RCA audio jacks and an RCA composite video jack, allowing you to connect external equipment to this head unit. The audio/video input can be set to one of the following modes. AV: Choose when connecting an audio/video component. Audio: Choose when connecting an audio component. Off: Select when no component is connected. Camera In: The rear-panel Camera input consists of a composite video connector which allows you to connect an optional rear-view camera (105KVCM10, sold separately). The unit features a reverse gear signal wire (purple/white wire within 22-pin harness), that when connected to your vehicle's reverse light circuit, will automatically switch the KW-NT700's display to the rear-view camera input. Automatic video switching takes approximately 1.2 seconds. Note: Audio from your music source will continue playing, while the back-up camera is displayed. Video Output: The rear-panel Video Output consists of a composite video jack that allows you to connect an optional external monitor. You can watch the same video source that is being played on the DVD receiver on your connected external monitor. You can choose one of the following monitor types for the output to the external monitor(s): 16:9: Select this when the aspect ratio of your monitor is 16:9. 4:3 Letter Box: Select this when the aspect ratio of your monitor is 4:3, when viewing a widescreen picture black bars appear on the top and bottom of the screen. 4:3 Pan Scan: Select this when the aspect ratio of your monitor is 4:3, when viewing a widescreen picture, the black bars do not appear; however, the left and right edges of the picture will not be shown on screen. Remote Control Steering Wheel Remote Compatibility: The head unit features an OEM steering wheel remote control input wire (blue/yellow) within the included wiring harness that lets you keep your vehicle's factory radio steering wheel remote controls when used with an optional steering wheel audio control adapter (sold separately). Please consult Crutchfield's Outfit My Car to see if your vehicle is compatible. Our Product Research Team At Crutchfield, you'll get detailed, accurate information that's hard to find elsewhere. That's because we have our own in-house Product Research team. They verify what's in the box, check the owner's manual, and record dimensions, features and specs. We stay on top of new products and technologies to help people make informed choices. Sorry, the JVC KW-NT700 is no longer available. Looking for a similar item? Shop all In-dash GPS Navigation Or, you can still... 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The University of South Florida's Division of Vascular Surgery, originally founded in 1981 by William Blackshear, assumed its modern form in the early 1990s with the arrival of Dennis Bandyk as Division Director. I had the honor of taking over this role in 2011, and since that time we have grown steadily and continued to spread our influence throughout the Tampa Bay region. As of summer 2014 our group includes ten surgeons practicing at five hospitals, and we expect continued growth throughout this decade.
Our group is a leader in several areas, notably including complex aortic surgery (including fenestrated and snorkeled endovascular repair), management of infected grafts, pioneering work on the role of noninvasive laboratory examination, treatment of complex problems after AV access, and treatment of thoracic outlet syndrome. We have an extremely busy carotid stenting practice and focus as well on complex limb salvage. We currently practice at five hospitals, see patients at three locations, and are about to staff an AV access endovascular center. Our group perform over 2,000 cases yearly, and our residents' case experience is among the highest in the nation.
We have a very active research program, which includes a didactic teaching syllabus during each academic year on the process of academics. We are engaged in 10 clinical trials at this point, and can offer enrollment to patients with thoracic and abdominal aortic aneurysms, claudication and limb threat, venous ulceration, thoracic outlet syndrome, and simulation and case specific preoperative rehearsal.
We are also active in the major vascular trial examining the benefit of autologous stem cell therapy for patients with non-reconstructable vascular disease.
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USF Vascular Surgery
We hope you will find this website useful, whether a patient, prospective trainee, friend, or otherwise interested in what we have to offer. Welcome to the division of vascular surgery!
Perhaps our greatest strength is education. We have an unusually active training program. While we worked with non-accredited fellows throughout the 1980s, our formal fellowship started in 1990. We have graduated 23 fellows to date, who are engaged in both clinical and academic practice (with one Division Chief among our alumnae). We were one of the first five 0+5 programs, starting our first intern in 2006, and as of now have graduated two such trainees, both pursuing academic careers. We added a second 0+5 slot beginning July of 2013, which includes a full research year.
A very significant asset for us is the Center for Advanced Learning and Simulation (CAMLS), a 90,000 ft.² freestanding medical education and simulation facility in downtown Tampa created and owned fully by USF. This facility allows us to train our own students and trainees from all over the world in what is absolutely the finest such facility in the world, performing as much learning as possible before seeing real patients. We have a very high volume of both endovascular and open procedures and faculty uniformly interested in education and learners alike, and for all of these reasons we consider ourselves to be one of the premier vascular surgical educational programs worldwide.
We hope you will find this website useful, whether a patient, prospective trainee, friend, or otherwise interested in what we have to offer.

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Designing Cartels: How Industry Insiders Cut Out Competition
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This report examines titling laws, little-known regulations that require people practicing certain professions to gain government permission to use a specific title, such as "interior designer," to describe their work. Although titling laws receive little attention from the political, policy or research communities, they often represent the first step toward a better-known regulation—occupational licensing, which limits who may practice a trade. In theory, occupational regulations—including titling and licensing laws—are designed to protect the safety and economic interests of consumers. But critics charge they are often nothing but anti-competitive barriers that only benefit those already practicing.
Twenty-two states have some kind of titling law for interior designers, and four states and the District of Columbia also require aspiring designers to acquire government licenses to practice. For decades, powerful factions within the interior design industry have lobbied for legislatures to impose increasingly stringent regulations, arguing that interior design requires a minimum amount of education, experience and examination, codified by the government, to ensure public health, safety and welfare.
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Chin Chin was a three-piece group from Biel, Switzerland, that first came together in 1982 around the lineup of guitarist Karin, bassist Esther, and drummer Marie-Anne. Their first release was the "We Don't Wanna Be Prisoners" 7″ in 1984, which they followed a year later with Sound of the Westway, on which today's Track of the Day can be found. The record came out amid a broader resurgence of DIY pop, taking place particularly in the UK with what would become the C86 scene, and the group got some attention from NME journalist Everett True that they then seemed to parlay into solid touring work for a few years, most notably with C86 alums The Shop Assistants. Still, Sound of the Westway was Chin Chin's only album release.
Sound of the Westway was out of print for quite some time after its 1985 release, but in 2010 it saw reissue through Slumberland and Mississippi Records—so you should be able to track it down on LP without too much trouble. All said, if you're a fan of the period, it's a record worth familiarizing yourself with.


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Now that we have a place for new members to introduce themselves, I thought it might be cool for us "old" members to have a thread to introduce ourselves too! How about also posting a picture of ourselves. I would never know half of you guys if we bumped into each other out elk hunting! At a later date, you can always come back and edit your pic and introduction if ya want too.
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Statistics About Brain Tumors
Some people use statistical reports to try to figure out their chance of getting cancer or of being cured. Remember that statistics show what happens with large groups of people. Because no 2 people are alike, statistics can't be used to know or predict what will happen to you.
According to the National Cancer Institute:
Approximately 23,000 people in the U.S. will be diagnosed with malignant tumors of the brain or spinal cord during 2013.
Approximately 14,000 people in the U.S. will die from brain tumors in 2013.
Additionally, the American Cancer Society reports the following about brain and nervous system tumors:
Brain tumors can develop at any age.
Cancerous brain and spinal cord tumors are the second most common cancers (after leukemia) affecting children. They make up about 5 percent of all cancerous childhood tumors. However, childhood cancers are rare, and represent less than 1 percent of all new cancer diagnoses.
The outlook varies according to the type and location of the tumor, but about 3 out of 4 patients with childhood brain tumors (all types) survive longer than 5 years.
In addition, metastatic brain tumors, or cancers that originated elsewhere and spread to the brain, are about 10 times more common than primary brain cancers. There are about 100,000 to 170,000 new cases of brain metastases each year in the United States.


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FFRF fights back against SCOTUS prayer ruling
"If the Supreme Court won't uphold the Constitution, it's up to us — it's up to you" is the Freedom From Religion Foundation's homily in response to the high court's May 5 ruling approving sectarian prayer at official government meetings. The ruling is a personal blow to the stature and rights of U.S. nonbelievers and non-Christians, as well as to secular government.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Town of Greece v. Galloway that governments can not only host prayers, those prayers can be pervasively sectarian: "To hold that invocations must be nonsectarian would force the legislatures that sponsor prayers and the courts that are asked to decide these cases to act as supervisors and censors of religious speech." First Amendment champion Ellery Schempp, FFRF Lifetime Member from Massachusetts, who began the protest that led to a landmark 1963 U.S. Supreme Court ruling against recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools, emailed on the day of the ruling: "FFRF is vital after the awful Greece decision. This is why we need FFRF!"
FFRF, the nation's largest association of freethinkers, with more than 20,000 atheist and agnostic members nationwide, has responded to the hostile court ruling by announcing a "Nothing Fails Like Prayer Award."
The award will be given to citizens who succeed in delivering secular "invocations" at government meetings. The individual judged to give the "best" secular invocation will be invited to open FFRF's annual convention with said "invocation," receiving an all-expenses-paid trip to FFRF's 37th annual convention at the Los Angeles Biltmore and an honorarium of $500.
Linda Stephens, the atheist plaintiff in the Greece challenge brought by Americans United for Separation of Church and State, is a longtime member of FFRF, who became a Lifetime Member following the ruling. Both she and co-plaintiff Susan Galloway will be named Freethinkers of the Year and accept the award at FFRF's convention Oct. 24-26. (See more, back page.)
Justice Anthony Kennedy, considered the "swing vote," not only voted in lockstep with his four ultra-conservative Catholic brethren but wrote the Greece ruling.
"Once again, the lopsided conservative majority has proudly announced that it is on the wrong side of history," commented FFRF Co-President Dan Barker, quipping about Kennedy: "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."
The one silver lining in Kennedy's decision was this reference: "The town at no point excluded or denied an opportunity to a would-be prayer giver. Its leaders maintained that a minister or layperson of any persuasion, including an atheist, could give the invocation."
"Freethinkers: It's time to crash the party, to ask for equal time to give our own atheist homilies and freethought invocations at local board meetings," said Annie Laurie Gaylor, who, with Anne Nicol Gaylor, cofounded FFRF in the late 1970s to successfully protest prayers at their local governmental meetings.
Already, a member of FFRF in Greece has received permission to give an atheist homily before the city meeting in July.
Government prayer remains one of the most common complaints FFRF receives from its members and members of the public.
Gaylor noted that despite the approval of sectarian governmental prayer by five Supreme Court justices, government bodies are not required to open with prayer. "We'd like to see secular citizens flood government meetings with secular invocations that illustrate why government prayers are unnecessary, ineffective, divisive, embarrassing and exclusionary of the 20-30 percent of the U.S. population today that identifies as nonreligious, as well as of other non-Christians," Gaylor said.
FFRF Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel, who suggested the award, notes that many of our nation's most influential founders opposed governmental exercises of religion, including revolutionary Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, who refused in his two terms to issue days of prayer, and James Madison, fourth president and primary architect of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Secular invocations for the contest could be sincere and eloquent, such as state Rep. Juan Mendez's invocation before the Arizona House last year, for which he won FFRF's Emperor Has No Clothes Award. You may wish to "invoke"secular "founding fathers," your own life philosophy or take a more facetious route (think Flying Spaghetti Monster). The goal is to represent the nonreligious point of view and show that government bodies have no need of a prayer to imagined gods, or religion or superstition, to govern. The answers won't come from above and government needs to be guided by reason.
"Government officials need to get off their knees and get to work," said Barker, adding, "Be a Paine in the government's Mass."
FFRF plans to make the contest an annual event until the Greece decision is overturned. All eligible secular invokers will receive a certificate suitable for framing, and FFRF will post the invocation on its website.
Read full contest rules at:
For "inspiration," download a free copy of Barker's songs "Get Off Your Knees and Get to Work" (from FFRF CD, "Adrift on a Star") and "Nothing Fails Like Prayer" (from FFRF CD, "Beware of Dogma") at FFRF's website (select CD, then scroll play list to find free downloads): ffrf.org/shop/music/.
Read various early May FFRF blogs about the ruling, at ffrf.org/news/blog/.
FFRF's solid court victory ends prayer in Pismo Beach, Calif.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has ended all prayer before the city council in Pismo Beach, Calif., with a settlement reached April 15. That victory has become all the sweeter following the Supreme Court's unfortunate May 5 decision "blessing" sectarian governmental prayer. (See related story, this page.)
FFRF's victory will hold, since the lawsuit was brought in state court and did not invoke federal law.
Following the filing of the lawsuit, the Pismo Beach City Council, which had dug in its heels after locals complained about its prayer practice, surprised observers by totally capitulating to FFRF requests. The council voted to stop all prayers at official meetings and to abolish a city chaplain position that had anointed a Pentecostal preacher to intone long sermons to begin meetings.
FFRF and Dr. Sari Dworkin, a Pismo Beach resident and FFRF member, sued the city Nov. 1, 2013, in Superior Court in San Luis Obispo, alleging the official prayers and chaplaincy violated the California Constitution.
Before each council meeting, city Chaplain Paul Jones or one of his religious substitutes delivered a Christian prayer. Prayers often included egregious factual mistakes, including manufactured theocratic quotes attributed to America's founders. Jones' prayers pressured citizens to live a Christian or biblical lifestyle, to vote for "righteous" leaders and make decisions that "honor" his god.
The city agreed to pay the plaintiffs nominal damages and attorney fees totaling about $47,500 and to end the practice of praying at meetings and abolish the chaplain position. The settlement carries the force of law and will be accompanied by a court order.
"This is a significant victory that FFRF intends to build on," said FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor.
Pismo Beach established an official city chaplaincy in 2005 and appointed Jones to the post. He's affiliated with the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, which emphasizes "speaking in tongues."
Jones delivered 112 of the 126 prayers scheduled by the council between Jan. 1, 2008, and Oct. 15, 2013. All but one of the 126 prayers was addressed to the Christian god.
FFRF warmly thanks local plaintiff Sari Dworkin, litigation attorney Pamela Koslyn and FFRF Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel, who built the solid case. Seidel transcribed many of the prayers and joked that such work was "cruel and inhumane" for an atheist attorney. Atheists United of San Luis Obispo and its members helped initiate the lawsuit.
FFRF will receive $27,000 for Seidel's services and plans to recycle the fees to go after other California governmental prayer.
Use FFRF images in social media to protest Hobby Lobby decision
The Freedom From Religion Foundation's talented graphic design intern, Sam Erickson, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has designed a number of images for FFRF members to utilize in protesting the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling. Some of them are already up on FFRF's Facebook page and Twitter account.
Sam is also president of UW-Madison's Atheists, Humanists & Agnostics campus group.
Please feel free to use the images in educating about the harm of the court's decision. FFRF has taken the lead in calling for the repeal of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), the basis for the ruling that puts the religious beliefs of corporate employers over the conscience and rights of women workers to choose their own forms of birth control.
Read FFRF's press release, action alert and blog for more background, as well as FFRF's amicus brief, written by Marci Hamilton, to the Supreme Court asking it to overturn RFRA.
FFRF's full-page ad in New York Times to protest Hobby Lobby ruling
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A full-page ad in The New York Times protesting the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling June 30 is being sponsored by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, a national state/church watchdog representing over 20,000 nonbelieving members. It's expected to run in the front news section Thursday, July 3.
Featuring an arresting portrait of birth control pioneer Margaret Sanger, whose motto was "No Gods — No Masters," the ad criticizes the "all-male, all-Roman Catholic majority" on the Supreme Court for putting "religious wrongs over women's rights."
FFRF had previously submitted a friend of the court brief written by noted First Amendment scholar Marci Hamilton, urging the Supreme Court to declare the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) unconstitutional. Christian entrepreneurs running large chains challenged the contraceptive mandate of the Affordable Care Act, contending their corporate "religious rights" were violated under RFRA if their women employees chose forms of contraception the company owners disapproved of because of their religion.
"Allowing employers to decide what kind of birth control an employee can use is not, as the Supreme Court ruled, an 'exercise of religion.' It is an exercise of tyranny. Employers should have no right to impose their religious beliefs upon workers," reads the ad.
"Dogma should not trump our civil liberties."
FFRF has taken the lead in calling for the repeal of RFRA.
"None of our civil rights, established after decades and decades of struggle and education, will be safe until RFRA is overturned," commented Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF co-president. She called the Supreme Court decision "outrageous and untenable."
View the ad here.
Time to revolt against theocrats, repeal RFRA
"By enacting RFRA, Congress went far beyond what this Court has held is constitutionally required." — Justice Samuel Alito
It was all over by page 2 of the Supreme Court's decision yesterday favoring the fundamentalist Christian owner of Hobby Lobby Stores and the Mennonite owner of Conestoga Wood Specialties.
Justice Samuel Alito, joined by his ultra-conservative, Roman Catholic brethren, actually wrote these jaw-dropping words:
"[W]e must decide whether the challenged HHS regulations substantially burden the exercise of religion, and we hold that they do. The owners of the businesses have religious objections to abortion, and according to their religious beliefs the four contraceptive methods at issue are abortifacients. If the owners comply with the HHS mandate, they believe they will be facilitating abortions."
These fanatical businessmen believe some forms of the birth control pill and IUD are abortifacients (substances inducing miscarriage), despite the science, the reality, the amicus brief of the College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and 21 other medical professional groups thoroughly debunking this misrepresentation.
Steeped in Catholic disapproval of contraception, much less abortion, Alito and his four brethren probably also prefer to make believe that an IUD is an abortifacient. But even if Alito didn't agree with the plaintiffs, he ruled that what matters is not reality, but whether a religious person "believes" even in the face of reality that a fiction is a fact.
The decision was decided on the basis of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, passed in 1993, which held that the federal government is prohibited from taking any substantial action that "substantially burdens the exercise of religion," unless it's the least restrictive means of serving a "compelling government interest." RFRA actually refers to "persons" in the law, but under the Citizens United line of "reasoning," for-profit corporations are now people, and seemingly have religious feelings to offend.
Alito warns that if the corporations flouted the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate, they could "pay a very heavy price, as much as $1.3 million per day, or about $475 million per year, in the case of one of the companies. If these consequences do not amount to a substantial burden, it is hard to see what would," he adds.
Yet he gives no truck to the fact that, for instance, Hobby Lobby did not seek a "grandfather clause" for its health care coverage, as was its right as a company that was offering coverage prior to the AFA. Clearly, they blew it, but Alito won't admit this.
He also gives short shrift to the argument of his "sisters" on the Supreme Court — Ginsburg, Kagan and Sotomayor — who pointed out during oral arguments that if the companies didn't want to comply with the law, they could forgo providing health care benefits and instead pay the appropriate tax (erroneously referred to by the companies' attorneys as a "penalty").
Alito even admits in his decision that perhaps this would cost the companies less money than providing health care. But he claims that Health and Human Services didn't mention this in its briefings, so the court's not allowed to take that into account.
Most damning, Alito admits: "As we have seen, RFRA was designed to provide very broad protection for religious liberty. By enacting RFRA, Congress went far beyond what this Court has held is constitutionally required."
Even Alito admits RFRA goes "far beyond" what is required. The Freedom From Religion Foundation so far is the only group actively sounding the alarm about RFRA. Our brief, written by distinguished attorney Marci Hamilton, was the only amicus brief submitted before the high court stating the obvious: that Hobby Lobby is relying on a statute enacted by Congress that' unconstitutional.
While clearly this Supreme Court isn't going to overturn RFRA, Alito's own words should give Congress impetus to repeal a law that is being used to deny true religious liberty in the name of phony religious liberty. Excessive "liberty" is otherwise known as "license" — or religious privilege.
Lost in the meaningless verbiage of Alito's ruling is the decision's human toll. He and his Catholic cohorts may care about ova, but the rest of us care about real women. We thought the battle to access at least contraception was largely won by the late 1960s (even though many teenagers, and women in rural counties served only by Catholic hospitals and clinics, are still fighting for this right). But fundamentalists and conservative Catholics are working in concert now, not only seeking to overturn Roe v. Wade (1973), but apparently Griswold v. Connecticut (1965).
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's dissent gets real. "It bears note in this regard that the cost of an IUD is nearly equivalent to a month's full-time pay for workers earning the minimum wage."
When women cannot control if and when they become pregnant, how many pregnancies they carry, they can ultimately control very little about their lives. It's no coincidence that women reentered the workforce in huge numbers during the second wave of the feminist movement after the birth control pill had been introduced and Comstockian laws declaring contraceptives to be "indecent articles" were overturned, leading to routine access to contraception as part of good medicine.
The backlash against contraceptive access is part of the same old song and dance led by patriarchal religions worldwide: kinder, kirche, küche. Keep women barefoot and pregnant. Control the means of reproduction and you control women, as Gloria Steinem has oft stated.
The high court has ruled that contraception — the right to plan families and avert unwanted pregnancies — is not necessary for women's health. One in four U.S. women died due to pregnancy or childbirth in the 19th century. It is a lie for the Supreme Court to aver that birth control is not preventive medicine. The court is practicing reckless medicine without a license.
We cannot let a male, Catholic, ultra-conservative majority on the court turn the clock back a century. Join FFRF in working now for the most practical remedy for this pernicious decision — the repeal by Congress of RFRA.
None of our civil and human rights, established after decades and decades of struggle and education, will be safe from the reach of religious bigots until RFRA is overturned.
Photo: Christopher Johnson, "A Better Life: 100 Atheists"
Marci Hamilton, FFRF Amicus Brief, Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby
Ask Congress to counter Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby ruling
Today, in a heated 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court held that for-profit corporations can exercise their so-called religious conscience in order to restrict employees' access to contraceptives. The ruling in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., absurdly holds that the contraceptive coverage granted by the Affordable Care Act creates a "significant burden" on a corporation's free exercise of religion.
How could this be? This Alice in Wonderland ruling is based not on the Constitution, but on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), a statute. This statute was adopted by Congress and must be repealed by Congress.
The main justification for this decision is the Supreme Court's holding that RFRA protects Hobby Lobby from the generally applicable rules of the Affordable Care Act.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation's amicus brief by noted state-church attorney Marci A. Hamilton (joined by groups advocating for the rights of victims of religious abuse), was the only brief before the Supreme Court that argued that RFRA is unconstitutional. Our important brief points out that RFRA "accords religious believers extreme religious liberty rights that yield a political and fiscal windfall in violation of the clearest commands of the Establishment Clause."
A public outcry is in order. FFRF needs your help to tell Congress that RFRA is a bad law that must be repealed.
Today's decision is both dangerous and unprecedented. During oral arguments, counsel for the government, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, noted that a decision in favor of Hobby Lobby would be "the first time under the Free Exercise Clause or under RFRA in which [the Supreme Court] or any court has held that an employer . . . may be granted an exemption that extinguishes statutorily guaranteed benefits of fundamental importance."
Today's ruling ignored the rights and needs of thousands of female Hobby Lobby employees, and millions of women nationwide who work at for-profit corporations. Women workers must not be at the mercy of employers who happen to be religious fanatics who want to intrude into private reproductive decisions that are none of their business. Rather than protecting women workers' right to health care and women's freedom of conscience, the Court has turned its back on them in the name of "religious liberty." This is untenable.
This damaging decision opens the floodgates for corporations, interested only in increasing their bottom line, to claim religious objections to a variety of generally applicable laws. The Court arbitrarily claims its decision would not necessarily allow a corporation to claim a similar religious objection to blood transfusions, vaccines, or mental health services, or create a religious right to discriminate on the basis of sex, sexual orientation or race. But very obviously, the ruling creates mischievous precedent that will haunt the next generation of litigation.
Please immediately call, email and write:
Demand that your representatives in Congress uphold women's rights over religious wrongs, and restore some semblance of fairness to our corporate system, by repealing RFRA now.
Use your own words if possible, or cut and paste any of the wording below. Always identify yourself as a constituent. (Also see FFRF's statement on the Hobby Lobby ruling for more arguments.)
I am writing as your constituent to urge you to take action in the wake of the Supreme Court's unprecedented decision in Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. Please take action to repeal the misguided Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which has been used to decide that a corporation trumps the civil and reproductive rights of women workers to choose their own form of contraception.
I'm dismayed and frightened by the implications of this decision, which puts the personal religious views of corporate executives above the rights of tens of thousands of employees. Corporations are not people and a corporation cannot practice religion. Yet the Supreme Court has ruled that the access to contraceptive coverage granted by the Affordable Care Act creates a significant burden on a corporation's free exercise of religion. The decision is completely divorced from reality!
The main justification for this outlandish decision is the Supreme Court's holding that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) protects Hobby Lobby from the generally applicable rules of the Affordable Care Act. Regardless of Congress's original intent, RFRA has become an untenable law. It carves out vast exceptions to neutral laws that only certain religious sects can claim. In the corporate context, this provides an unfair competitive advantage to any corporation willing to claim that it has a religious objection to a regulation.
Employers should not have a right to deny fundamental rights to employees in the name of "religious liberty." Please introduce or sign onto a bill to repeal RFRA immediately.
Religion mustn't trump civil rights
Today marks a turning point in the struggle to uphold the First Amendment to our Constitution. FFRF needs your help more than ever. This is a call to you, and to ask you to reach out to those you know. Please forward this email and encourage others to join us.
Freethought Radio - June 14, 2014 Broadcast
Sharing the Crank Mail
Some suggested destinations for freethinkers besides the ever-popular hell and Honduras (murder capital of the world) come via the crank mail, printed as received.
ten commandments: ten commandments is every americans rite if you want to change the laws in your state that's fine stay out of our business in north Idaho we love god here if you choose to walk in darkness that's your choice but here we will fight you tooth and nail to keep our rites as americans stay out of our business here believe if you want a war on this matter we will stay the fuck out of our business go worship the devil and keep working for satin. — tom johnson, coer d alene, idaho
Walker's religious tweet: Wow, have you two lunatics become unhinged! Wanna take me up on a public challenge to either of you, Barker or Gaylord, for a debate on the Bill of Rights, Constitution and Declaration of Independence? Say YES (which I would crave) and I'll dissect and dismantle your horribly flawed constitutional views. The ball is in your court. Game? — Ned Kareiva
Hello Dan: You sir are a problem. Look at today's society and ask yourself, is it better now with the FFRF crapping in everyone's cereal or was it better in earlier times say before the late 1960's. Check the statistics on out of wedlock child birth, abortions (hell, half the black pregnancies were aborted in NYC, Eugenicists will celebrate that little number). Let me be clear, I am an extremely poor example of a Christian, but for fucks sake, you guys are doing more damage to society than the Scott Walkers of the world. But, maybe that is what you want. Have a nice day. — Mike Williams, Blossom, Texas
Gideon Bible removal: Prior to sending this, I have prayed and claimed that the supernatural presence of God move through this email to everyone in your organization, and that everyone in your organization be saved. Every knee will bow, every tongue confess. — Terri McMahan
10 Commandments in park: Take your heathen bullshit out of my state and go corrupt shitconsin you wannabe Nazi pigs. — Jake Rogers, Sandpoint, Idaho
Police chief's prayer walks: If you want to be a none believer, be one. Don't interfear with others freedom of religon. We dont bother you athiest's even if you're gonna burn, it's you're choice. Don't try to take the rest of the world with you, go burn by yourself and mind your business. That is one of the biggest problem's today...Minority's trying to make majority's bow down to there stupid want's and demand's. Mind your own fucking business. — Richard Lovelace, Crane Hill, Ala.
Atheists and the Bible: You will never convince me to your viewpoint, because at one time I "was" you. You have no idea how wonderful the freeing from self becomes once you trust in Jesus Christ and His sacrifice and shedding of blood on the cross just for you! — A. Barry Hess
Freedom OF Religion: This country was founded on "FREEDOM OF RELIGION". My ancestors had to leave Europe because they were Lutheran Ministers and were threatened with death. Many of the early European immigrants got along quite well with the Native Americans and provided much mutual support. Sadly, Atheists and Atheistic Agnostics now want to force us out of OUR country. I say OUR country because my religious ancestors founded it. Hitler was only two month short of world domination and the execution of all Jews. Some of the Jewish in the 1930's could run to the U.S. for safety. But if FFRF gets the IRS and the Justice Dept. to persecute us and force religious groups out of the U.S., like Hitler did to Europe in the 1930's and 40's, WHERE ARE WE TO GO? — Burns Searfoss, Colorado Springs
You Suck: Crawl back under your rocks and STFU! — Jimmy Door, Wisconsin
Comment's on Hannity: I would like to respond to your assertion that most free societies were free from religion? How did that work in Russia? China? Burma? Honduras, Venezuela? Nepal? North Korea? Vietnam? Cambodia? Laos? What happened to Christians in Hungary, Poland, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Czech? What about Georgia? Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia. They were free of religion weren't they? — Charles Kunold, California
I have a Challenge: Apparently, you folks have allot social & legal clout. Why don't you go after the Evangelists that are transplanting approx.1000 middle east refugees into Appleton & other Wisconsin cities; and other states. You worry about our tax dollars spent in the name of religion!! The estimated End cost is 750Grand to a million a person. This is really imposing religion on the general populace at our expense. — Axel Roberts, Menasha, Wis.
Freedom From Religion Foundation: I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU ONE THING! HOW DOES IT FEEL....TO BE THE ASS-HOLES OF AMERICA? — Stan Knowles, North Carolina
Freedom of Speech: No where in the Constitution does it talk about seperation of Church and State. That came about from a letter from Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine or vice versa. Atheism is a religion itself and u can't even see it. You believe in God. You have to believe in something to deny it's existence. By the way, God loves u and their is nothing u can do about it. — Robert Jacquart
Praying for you: I PRAY IN JESUS' NAME THAT HE WILL TOUCH EACH MEMBER OF YOUR GROUP. I WILL HELP FIGHT IN BRINGING BACK PRAYER IN SCHOOLS, AND CHRIST IS THE THE REASON FOR EVERY SEASON. I KNOW WHERE I AM GOING TO SPEND ETERNITY. DO YOU? — Lynne Carroll, Toledo, Ohio
Gov. Walker: I read your letter in response to Gov. Walker's tweet and I just wanted to tell you, Aw, get to your fainting couch, Myrtle, and stop blighting the public sphere with your presence. I would also suggest that your co-presidents do not operate any motor vehicles, as the grotesque lack of perspective they demonstrated in that letter means that they would pose a serious collision threat to both themselves and other drivers. — Karl Collins, New York
stay out of our religion!!! GOOD GRIEVE GIVE ME A BRAKE !! WHEN WILL YOU STOP WHEN THERE IS NO RELIGION LEFT AND WE ARE ALL ATHEIST!! YOU REALLY PISS ME OFF WITH PUSHING YOU LEFT WING AGENDA ON US!! JUST SHUT UP!! — Mieke Sijen, Long Beach, Calif.
The Bible: It is a love letter from God to us. Why would you want to deprive people of that! By the way...ALL your efforts are in vain. You can TRY to remove Him but He is God and on the last page of the book you so despise guess what? He wins! You are on a path strait to hell. — Julie Fincham, North Port, Florida
The bible: Who is forcing you to practice any type of religion ,you must believe you came from a monkey lie Obama right.? you have no power whatsoever to lengthen your stupid life or create anything as god can you can't turn the day into night or stop a hurricane let alone create one. I'd like to meet you in person bitch. — Samuel Ruiz, San angelo, Texas
U.S. Air Force Academy: If we erase all religion, then isn't atheism the de facto religion? So in fact, you are supporting the idea of a state sponsored religion. How the communists and fascist would love your organization. — Mark Lutz, Sanford, S.C.
Pope in Green Bay: The mayor has every right to invite whom he pleases, just as the ludicrous president obama does. You want some atheist to visit the mayor? Set it up you imbeciles. — David Woehning


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