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I have never been a fan of the AARP, especially regarding many misleading advertisements for their Medicare supplement and advantage plans. I'll never forget that at 50, they wanted me to believe I was of "retirement" age. Unfortunately, I was unable to do so financially for 15 additional years.
The AARP is a marketing firm and they make lot of money, selling lots of things, to lots of people.
But that is what they are and in our beloved free market country, it's OK; let the buyer beware. The AARP does have some excellent programs as part of their offerings, and one I have always liked was "The Magazine AARP." It contains well-written, concise, interesting articles appearing in each issue that are helpful to the reader.
One of those articles appeared on page 66 of the October/November issue, entitled "Medicare Myths: Get the Facts." If you've read it, you need not go further in my column. But I'm betting that most people have not, so I am going to paraphrase their facts related to 11 Medicare myths.
Let's first determine what a myth really is.
Webster gives several definitions, but the pertinent one here is "an unfounded or false notion." In the case of Obamacare, the myths are fictitious statements made by many federal and state politicians, so-called leaders of our country, to get themselves or members of their political party - elected. Many Americans accept these mythological statements as correct. Because they affect health, many patients (we are all patients) have been scared to death by what they've heard on the talk shows, speeches, even so-called news programs. So the AARP Magazine article helps dispell the fiction with answers to worried questioners.
1. Does the Affordable Care Act (ACA) cut Medicare so bad, we won't be able to get quality health care? In fact, the law prohibits cuts to guaranteed Medicare benefits. It will reduce many unreasonable payments to certain providers, tax high-premium insurance plans, cut down on waste and fraud among others. It emphasizes preventive health and coordinate care between all providers and closes the absurd Plan D prescription donut hole.
2. Will ACA end Medicare Advantage plans? The simple answer is no. The complex answer is, in my opinion, there is absolutely no advantage to Medicare Advantage plans. There are several major disadvantages that private insurance companies don't talk about, a subject for a future column.
3. Will I wait longer to see my physician or be able to see the doctor at all? Nothing will change and choices could even be greater. As far as waiting time is concerned, ACA has nothing to do with that. A well-managed office works mostly on time - period.
4. Do you need more insurance if you have Medicare? This is not what is mandated. You could have only Medicare and that's it. But don't be foolish with your health - you do need Plan D and some form of affordable supplemental insurance.
5. What about the raids on Medicare of $716 billion? This is the biggest myth of them all. There is a reduction that will come re: provider payments and over-payments to private insurance. There will be huge savings by closing the "donut hole." The average Medicare recipient benefits are unchanged.
6. Is this law going to bankrupt America? Nonpartisan entities say just the opposite. It will reduce the nations deficit. But, and it is a big but, uncontrolled health care spending could bankrupt us and that's why we need major reforms that Obamacare does not provide.
7. Does ACA automatically drive up premiums? Because younger people will have to purchase health insurance, insured people will no longer have to subsidize them, especially for ER charges. Further the law forces insurance companies to spend 80-85 per cent of revenue on medical costs and that's a big and important change not often discussed. The Part B provisions and payment formulas did not change the unfortunate, out-dated provider payments. That is where reform is most important. Providers could see a 30 percent reduction in payments, but that doesn't have anything to do with ACA and Congress has not and will not allow that to occur.
8. What if I can't afford to purchase health insurance? There are provisions for the so-called working poor who will be exempt from any tax penalty. If you still don't purchase insurance, the tax penalty will be phased over seven years. Unlike the myths you heard in the campaigns, there is no prosecution provision or property liens.
9. What about small businesses who won't provide insurance for their employees and will have to pay big fines? First, the mandate only applies to businesses with more than 50 employees. Second, there are all sorts of tax and business credits available for small businesses. Larger companies will be fined significantly for not providing insurance. Will we eventually see higher prices for goods and services? Probably. But most larger companies have provided health insurance for decades. In many cases that is why people work, especially second household earners, because their actual salaries can be ridiculously low for the times.
10. Is the ACA just the beginning of universal health care insurance where government bureaucrats run the show? Just the opposite. The estimate is 50-60 percent of people will continue to be covered by employers. People who purchase their own, will buy private insurance. It is universal in one way however, it makes insurance accessible to most Americans. I think that's wonderful.
11. If your state does not set up an exchange, you can't get health coverage? Well you can count out South Carolina when it comes to an insurance exchange. But the law requires the feds to set up the exchange if a state declines. So you will be able to get health coverage. How and when I have no idea and I think there are legitimate concerns about this provision.
I hope this is of help to some of you. It has been quite a year in the health care world and next year will be even more intriguing.
Happy holidays to all. I will be taking two weeks off and resume my column the first Wednesday in January.
Columnist Mike Silver lives in Pinecrest and may be reached by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling 843-815-3894.


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CBS' "Under the Dome" took the top spot in Monday prime-time ratings, which helped the network win the night.
The show, based on the Stephen King novel about a small town trapped under a mysterious dome, drew 10.8 million viewers, up less than 1% from last week, and held steady with a 2.7 rating in the adult 18-49 demographic, according to preliminary numbers from Nielsen. A rating in the 18-49 demographic translates to 1.3 million viewers.
An average 6.7 million viewers tuned in to CBS on Monday night, besting the other networks overall and in the 18-49 category.
"The Bachelorette" on ABC came in second with 6.9 million viewers and a 1.9 in adults 18-49, helping the network score an average 5.7 million watchers for the night. "Mistress" slipped from last week to 3.8 million.
NBC's "Siberia," which airs against "Under the Dome," attracted just 2.4 million viewers and also fell from the previous week. The network's obstacle course competition "American Ninja Warrior" increased its viewership 10% to 5.4 million.
Survival show "Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls" dipped 7% from its premiere last week to score 3.7 million viewers.
Fox was in all repeats.
CW's "iHeartRadio Pool Party," featuring Ke$ha and Pitbull, squeaked out 732,000 viewers.
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If you've ever lusted after a hand built bike but couldn't afford it, this might be the bike for you. Soulcraft has taken out the custom sizing part of custom bikes and creates a more affordable option. If you fit one of the 3 stock sizes of the Tradesman, you could save yourself some money with this bike.
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I'd been on Match for a while and was on my last week of the subscription; I vowed to wink at 10 more people before I gave up. It was John's first week on Match and he emailed me very soon after I winked at him. Seriously I believe now when people say "they knew this person was the one." We met up for coffee on an awful, snowy night in Denver and really clicked… he followed up that night which I really liked. No games. From that day on we talked multiple times a day and hung out whenever our schedules allowed. It was just so easy and everything felt so right. We discovered we have one friend in common but would never have met if not for Match. Our love of travel, things to do and where we want to go in life just complimented each other so well. Right before our two-year anniversary John proposed! We plan to get married in Cozumel, Mexico at a resort we stayed at shortly after starting to date and are sooo excited!
What made you try online dating?
I traveled three weeks a month and found whenever I was home I was seeing the same people and doing the same things. I needed to do more "research" since I hadn't dated anyone in a while. My intentions for Match was to figure out what worked for me or not… and in the end I found my husband!
What was your first date?
We met at a Starbucks for coffee. There was a huge snowstorm and he was sick and we almost canceled… I'm sure glad we didn't!


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Snowden Says NSA Employees 'Routinely' Passed Around Naked Photos That Had Been Intercepted
from the because-of-course-they-would dept
Keith Alexander insisted that the NSA had "100% audibility" of the actions of their employees and they made sure that no one abused their powers:
"The assumption is our people are just out there wheeling and dealing. Nothing could be further from the truth. We have tremendous oversight over these programs. We can audit the actions of our people 100%, and we do that," he said.Of course, that doesn't explain why so many of the "LOVINT" cases only came out after people self-confessed many years later, rather than through any audits.
Addressing the Black Hat convention in Las Vegas, an annual gathering for the information security industry, he gave a personal example: "I have four daughters. Can I go and intercept their emails? No. The technical limitations are in there." Should anyone in the NSA try to circumvent that, in defiance of policy, they would be held accountable, he said: "There is 100% audibility."
Meanwhile, in the latest Ed Snowden interview (done with the Guardian's Alan Rusbridger), Snowden reveals that NSA employees routinely would share naked photos that had been intercepted:
"You've got young enlisted guys, 18 to 22 years old," Snowden said. "They've suddenly been thrust into a position of extraordinary responsibility where they now have access to all of your private records. In the course of their daily work they stumble across something that is completely unrelated to their work in any sort of necessary sense. For example, an intimate nude photo of someone in a sexually compromising position. But they're extremely attractive.Of course, none of this is really that new. Way back in 2008, you may recall, that it was revealed that NSA analysts were listening in on pillow talk phone calls between Americans overseas and loved ones back home... and sharing those recordings around the office:
"So what do they do? They turn around in their chair and show their co-worker. The co-worker says: 'Hey that's great. Send that to Bill down the way.' And then Bill sends it to George and George sends it to Tom. And sooner or later this person's whole life has been seen by all of these other people. It's never reported. Nobody ever knows about it because the auditing of these systems is incredibly weak. The fact that your private images, records of your private lives, records of your intimate moments have been taken from your private communications stream from the intended recipient and given to the government without any specific authorization without any specific need is itself a violation of your rights. Why is that in a government database?"
Then Alan Rusbridger, The Guardian's editor-in-chief, asked: "You saw instances of that happening?"
"Yeah," Snowden responded.
"It's routine enough, depending on the company that you keep, it could be more or less frequent. These are seen as the fringe benefits of surveillance positions."
Not only were calls between Americans listened to and recorded on a regular basis, the "good parts" (i.e., phone sex) were sent around to other operators to listen to as well. One of the operators said that on a regular basis messages would be sent around with messages like: "Hey, check this out. There's good phone sex or there's some pillow talk, pull up this call, it's really funny, go check it out."That was revealed years before Snowden even worked for the NSA. It would appear that little has changed.


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What is "comfort food"? Food that is familiar, almost too filling, with no exotic ingredients. This is the food served at The Corner Pug. It's not perfect, but it's food I'll never say no to.
THE VIBE: It's all big rooms, dark wood, wall paneling and pressed-tin ceilings. The walls are all mirrors, beer ads and pug dogs. Lots and lots of pugs. It's cozy. It would be cozier if the service wasn't so pokey.
THE FOOD: We were a party of nine, and our orders were varied. Two guys who ordered chicken pot pie were happiest with their food; it was the winner of the bunch, and was so filling neither could finish it. Coming in second, only because only one person ordered it, was the Reuben, which was fat and juicy, on thick, toasty bread.
My husband ordered the Pug's signature macaroni and cheese, made with cheddar, gruyere and Swiss. Was it our imagination, or is this dish smaller than it used to be? That isn't necessarily a bad thing, because as is, it was rich and cheesy and just filling enough. I ordered the French dip, which has been my favorite in past visits, and it was exactly as I remembered: meaty and tasty but soggy on the bottom roll. (The sogginess has never stopped me from ordering it, but it would taste better without it.)
One of us ordered the seared salmon sandwich, and only ate the meat and not the roll, because the meat was filling enough. The two who ordered the meat loaf both agreed that it could have used more spice. One brought hers home for someone else to eat. The other ate all of his. The last diner said her clam chowder was well spiced and clammy but too thin, and her tossed salad was good but not great.
All our fries were too cold. The garlic bread with the mac and cheese was cold, too. This probably had something to do with the slow service. And why was one person who ordered a salad offered a half-dozen dressing choices, but another only two?
THE BILL: At lunchtime, appetizers — wings, homemade potato chips, calamari, rings, mussels, crab cakes, garlic bread, soups, salads, etc. — range from $3.59 to $9.99. Burgers and sandwiches, which include Reubens, steak wraps, French dip, portabella and salmon, come with fries and range from $7.99 to $10.99. Plated lunches, which include a roasted veggie plate, meat loaf, an omelet, fajitas, fish and chips and a plowman's lunch, range from $7.99 to $11.99. There are desserts, but as I said, this food is almost too fililng. You won't want dessert.
THE PARTICULARS: Open for lunch Monday to Saturday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., for brunch Sunday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., for dinner Monday to Thursday 3 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday 3 to 11 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Late night hours on Thursday 10 to 11 p.m., Saturday 11 p.m. to midnight, Sunday 9 to 10 p.m.
THE VERDICT: I'd eat here any day, but next time I will send the fries back if the order takes too long to deliver.


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Nystrom deserves 2nd term in Norwich
With the exception of a promise to work full-time in the job, Democratic challenger and current City Council Alderwoman Deberey Hinchey has failed to define how her administration and policy priorities would differ from those of Norwich Mayor Peter Nystrom, the incumbent Republican seeking a second four-year term.
The voting records of the two candidates are largely the same on major policy issues. Though directly elected by the voters, Mayor Nystrom has the same voting power on the seven-person council as Alderwoman Hinchey - one vote. The Norwich Charter places the focus of the mayor's office on economic development, but it otherwise remains a politically weak position, with chief executive authority still resting with a city manager appointed by the council.
If there is a case to be made that Mayor Nystrom is falling short in his economic development responsibility, Alderwoman Hinchey is not making it. Both agree that the Norwich Community Development Corp. should continue to play a vital role in driving economic development. They appear to be united in their assessment that the $3.4 million downtown revitalization incentive program got off to a slow start - voters approved the spending in 2010 - but has improved and holds out great promise to drive revitalization.
This circles back to the challenger's contention that her ability to be in the office full-time during the day, available to those interested in doing business, would make her a better mayor. She has not offered any examples, however, in which Mayor Nystrom's decision to carry out the job as described by charter - part-time - has cost the city development opportunities.
In essence she asks voters to penalize Mayor Nystrom because he cannot support a family on the $45,000 salary the city provides, but must keep his job as a UPS driver. Alderwoman Hinchey's philosophy would rule out as mayor anyone without the financial security to get by on its part-time salary.
Add in all the meetings, the appearances at various functions, and the homework and Mayor Nystrom is working full-time for Norwich citizens, or close to it. He, however, does have to work around his other full-time job.
Should Norwich have a strong, full-time mayor? That is perhaps a debate for another day, but it is not the issue in this election.
Mayor Nystrom is doing a credible job in difficult circumstances. When he was elected in November 2009, the nation was only just beginning to move out of the Great Recession. It has been a slow recovery in Connecticut, slower still in this region. Compounding the challenge for Norwich has been the downsizing at the two tribal casinos, which had a disproportionate impact on the city because many casino employees (and ex-employees) live there.
Despite this, under Mayor Nystrom's leadership the city has maintained a healthy tax base and seen some modest business growth. Downtown will remain a major challenge no matter who wins.
Though fiscally conservative, Mayor Nystrom is no ideologue. His moderate approach is why, as a Republican, he has managed to win elections in this Democratic city - as a council alderman, state representative and mayor.
He recognizes the importance of education and the diminishing returns that result from balancing budgets by sacrificing school quality. Mayor Nystrom is a proponent of community policing and, in cooperation with the council, has worked within budget constraints to maintain a human services safety net.
Mayor Nystrom has shown strong leadership of late in challenging state Department of Correction policies that have led to the housing, in Norwich neighborhoods, of ex-convicts with histories of sexual assaults, after their discharge from a transitional release program in Montville.
Also in the race is Libertarian William Russell. Mr. Russell is politically inexperienced, not well informed on the nuances of governing, and his libertarian ethos is a poor fit for this urban center.
The Day endorses Peter Nystrom for re-election as mayor of Norwich.
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Lombardo's interpretation of the great poem has become a staple in university classrooms and retains its intended conversational tone. Houstonians soon will experience this contemporary yet classic translation when Lombardo reads Homer's "Iliad" at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 22 at the University of Houston's Moores Opera House.
Lombardo, University of Kansas professor of classics, designs his translations to be read orally much like they were composed in ancient Greek. Using conversational English, his version of this Homer's epic is now considered an American literary institution.
The "Iliad" focuses on the Trojan War and the many valiant heroes and mythological gods involved with its outcome.
This event is free and open to the public. It is produced by The Honors College and supported by the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni Association of Greater Houston.
For additional details on this event, visit The Honors College Web site at http://www.thehonorscollege.com or call 713-743-3714.
|Stanley Lombardo reads Homer's "Iliad."
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With so much attention focused on the future of the estate tax rate and exemption levels, it is easy to forget about other tools to save on taxes while passing on assets.
With so much attention focused on the future of the estate tax rate and exemption levels, it is easy to forget about other tools to save on taxes while passing on assets.
Perhaps the most easily understood is the "annual gift tax exclusion." The exclusion is a very helpful way to transfer property tax-free, and it will remain in effect regardless of what Congress does for 2013.
The exclusion exists above and beyond the estate tax exemption. It allows each taxpayer to give up to $13,000 per year to anyone tax-free. Because the exemption applies to individuals, couples have two bites at the apple and are able to transfer $26,000 yearly to each individual they choose. The annual gift exclusion will jump to $14,000 on Jan. 1.
Considering the uncertainty of the federal estate tax next year, it may be helpful to use the annual gift exclusion now to transfer assets beyond the reach of taxes at death. This is especially true in states like New York with state estate tax exemption levels below the federal rate. In New York, even if one currently has an estate below the federal exemption level ($5.12 million per individual), their estate will incur a state tax so long as it is above the state exemption level ($1 million).
This annual gift exclusion is just one of several ways to pass on assets tax-free, regardless of what happens to the federal estate tax. For example, the annual gift exclusion does not apply to tuition and medical care paid for another person if the money is provided directly to the provider (instead of to the individual benefitting).
Gifts also can be made to a special fund known as a "529 education savings account." The account is used for education funds for others, such as children or grandchildren. However, unlike other gifts, the person who creates the account is able to withdraw the original gift amount if necessary without incurring a penalty. This means that the account truly offers little risk, because the gift can be made with applicable tax benefits while the funds can be "taken back" down the road if some situations arise and the money is needed.
However, if you ever apply for Medicaid to pay for nursing home costs, the money you have in the 529 account is considered an asset.
If you're also interested in protecting your assets from nursing home costs, it's important to know how gifting affects your eligibility for Medicaid to pay for long-term care costs. If you gave any gifts in the past five years, including the IRS allowed annual exclusion amounts, you still must report to Medicaid the total amount of the gifts, which then results in a penalty period during which you are not eligible for Medicaid. A better option may be to make those gifts through a Medicaid asset protection trust, or MAPT.
Bonnie Kraham is an attorney practicing elder law estate planning with Ettinger Law Firm, 75 Crystal Run Road, Town of Wallkill. She can be reached at 692-8700, ext. 119 or at email@example.com. This column is intended to provide general information, not legal advice.


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It is less inconceivable than it may seem to some that, circumstances aiding, Milton might have taken to teaching as a regular profession. For he liked domineering, and he was passionately fond of study in almost any form. But deities other than Pallas found other things for him to do. He struck, not as a soldier, but as a controversialist, into the combat for which he had long been preparing, with the treatise
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before much more than a year had passed since his return, in 1641. It was in less than a year after the actual opening of the struggle that he married. Of the series of pamphlets dealing with matters ecclesiastical, political and conjugal which now began, notice will be taken in the proper place: the marriage must come here.
In what has usually been written of this thrice unfortunate adventuretragical in all its aspects if tragicomical in somethere has, perhaps, been a little unfairness to Milton: there has certainly been much to his wife. The main lines of fact are remorselessly clear: the necessary elucidations of detail are almost wholly wanting. In June, 1643, John Milton married Mary Powell, the eldest daughter of an Oxfordshire gentleman, whose family were neighbours to the Miltons and who had had with them both friendship and business relations. She was seventeen. He brought her home in June; she went back, at her familys request, but with his consent, in July, and refused to come to him at Michaelmas as had been arranged. For two years, he saw nothing of her. These are the bare facts, and almost all the facts certainly known, though there are a few slight, and, in some cases, doubtful,
On such a brief, an advocate may say almost what he pleases. What may fairly be said for and against Milton will come presently: what has been said against his wife may almost rouse indignation and certainly justify contempt. We have been told that she was a dull and common girl, of which there is just as much and just as little evidence as that she was as wise as Diotima and as queenly as Helen; that she had flirted with royalist officers from Oxford (no evidence again); finally, that there is no evidence that she was handsome. As for this last, from passage after passage in the poems it is almost inconceivable that Milton should have been attracted by any one who was not good-looking.
Whether, however, she was pretty, or whether she was plain, the reasons of her leaving her husband are not hard to guess. For the fact is that Miltons attitude to women is peculiar and not wholly pleasant. It is not merely, as is often said, that he disdained them and held the doctrine of their subjectionthere s example for t, as Malvolio says of the same subject in another connection. It is not merely that he was unreasonable in his expectations of themthere s much more example for that. It is that, as was often the case with him, he was utterly unpractical, and his theoretical notions were a conglomerateand not a happy one. Mark Pattisonan interesting witness, some of whose other expressions have just been citedchose Adams ecstatic description of Eve to Raphael as Miltons real mind on the subject. He forgot that we must take with it the angels prompt, severe and (if one may say such things of angels) hopelessly coarse snub and rebuke. The fact seems to be that Miltonas elsewhere, sharply opposed to Shakespeare, and here almost as sharply opposed to Danteblended an excessive and eclectic draft on books and on fancy with an insufficient experience of life. He accepted the common disdainful estimate of the ancients; the very peculiar, but by no means wholly disdainful, estimate of the Hebrews; and he tried to blend both with something of the sensuous passion of the Middle Ages and the renascence, stripping from this the transcendental element which had been infused in the Middle Ages by Mariolatry and chivalry, in the renascence by a sort of poetical convention. An Aspasia-Hypatia-Lucretia-Griselda, with any naughtiness in the first left out and certain points in Solomons pattern woman added, might have met Miltons views. But this blend has not been commonly quoted in the marriage market. His friend Marvell, in a passage of rare poetic beauty, described his love as begotten by Despair upon Impossibility. Miltons seems to have been begotten upon another kind of Impossibility by Unreasonable Expectation. The exact circumstances of his first marriage we shall never know; those of his second take it out of argument; his third seems to have been simply the investing of a
with permanent rank extraordinary and plenipotentiary. But passage after passage in his works remains to speak; and the terrible anecdote of his obliging his daughters, and elaborately teaching them, to read to him languages which they did not understand, remains for comment. The taste of the seventeenth century in torture was not only, as was said of the knowledge of Sam Weller in another matter, extensive and peculiar, but, as was said of the emperor Frederick II in the same, humorous and lingering. But it rarely can have gone further than this.
Once more, the remarkable blends of Miltons character which are important to the comprehension of his work require notice. His immediate conduct seems to have been perfectly correcthe repeatedly solicited her to return, until (according to a perhaps not quite trustworthy account) his requests were not only disregarded but rejected with contempt.
But, thenceforward, he allowed his self-centredness, his curious anarchism and his entirely unpractical temper to carry him off in a quite different direction. Indissolubility of marriage, except for positive unfaithfulness, was inconvenient to John Milton; John Milton was not a person to console himself illicity; therefore, indissolubility of marriage must go. The series of divorce pamphlets, accordingly, followed; and, having proved to his own satisfaction that he was entitled to marry again, he sought the hand of a certain Miss Davis, whom some have identified (quite gratuitously) with the virtuous young lady of
Sonnel IX.
She, at any rate, had virtue and common sense enough to decline an arrangement of elective affinity.
In any one else than Milton, the proposal would have argued little virtue; in any virtuous person, it could but argue no common sense. And, indeed, the absence of that contemned property is conspicuous everywhere in these unfortunate transactions. Milton was not only (in the straight vernacular) making an utter fool of himselfaggravating the ridicule of a situation the distress of which arises in part from the very fact that it is ridiculousbut, just after he had come forward as a public man, he was playing into the hands of his enemies, and scandalising his friends. There was no point on which the more moderate and clear-sighted of the puritan party can have been more sensitive than this. The very word divorcethanks to Henry VIII and some of the German reforming princesmade the ears of better protestants burn; and, from the days of the lampoons on Luthers marriage to those of the Family of Love, licensed libertinage had been one of the reproaches most constantly cast in the teeth of hot gospellers. Next to nothing seems to be known of Miss Davis except that she had good looks (as we could guess) and good wits (which is evident). But it was certainly thanks to her, and to times revenges, that the situation (after Milton had made himself at once a stumblingblock
and a laughing-stock for two years) was at last saved, before anything irreparable had happened. The ruin of the royal cause carried the Powell family with it; and, with more common sense than magnanimity, they resolved to throw themselves on Miltons mercy. A sort of ambush was laidand reason coincides with romance in suggesting that the famous forgiveness scene of
Paradise Lost
had been actually rehearsed on this occasion. At any rate, Miltonwho, on his side, had very much more magnanimity than common sensetook his wife back in the summer of 1645; and, when Oxford fell, a year later, received her whole family into his new house in Barbican. Of the rest, we know nothing except the birth of three childrendaughterswho appear later. At the birth of a fourth, in 1652, Mary died, not yet twentyseven. Otherwise, there is no record of her married life. Milton is not in the least likely to have visited her early fractiousness by any petty persecution: he is as little likely to have killed her with kindness. The whole thing was a mistakea common one, no doubt; but, somehow, the pity of it remains rather specially.
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. It may be observed that these overtures, if made, dispose almost finally of what has been called by an advocate of Milton the horrible suggestion, based on a written date, that the first divorce pamphlet was actually composed before Mary left him. In that case he would have been an utter hypocrite in his requests to her to come back; and it has been said that hypocrisy and Milton are simply two incompossible ideas, to use Sir W. Hamiltons useful word.
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. Miltonist was actually used in print as a synonym for an opponent of the sacredness of marriage.
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By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 31 Aug 2009
I have been asked how (and why) researchers categorise visitors. Well, here's some of the ways they do that (and a little speculation as to why they do that)!
Here's some ways visitors have been categorised as reported in George Hein's 1998 book Learning in the Museum (London: Routledge):
Higgins (1884)
Wolf & Tymitz (1978)
Falk (1982)
Bicknell & Mann (1993)
Veron & Lavasseur (1989)
I always remember George MacDonald (formerly of the CMA and Museum Victoria) who called visitors 'streakers, strollers and students' which I quite like as it explains different visiting patterns really well I think.
John Falk, in his 2006 Curator article An Identity-Centred Approach to Understanding Museum Learning (pp151-166), classified visitors as:
Visit because of curiosity and/or general interest in discovering more about content area of institution
Described themselves as curious people
Satisfying needs and desires of someone they cared about (other than themselves)
Strong knowledge and interest in content areas
Specific agendas for visit
Collect an experience to say they've 'been there done that'
Visit to reflect, rejuvenate, just 'bask in the wonder of the place'
In my own thesis The Interrelationships Between Adult Museum Visitors' Learning Identities and their Museum Experiences, I found that there were three roles played by visitors during a visit: the 'visit manager' by directing and organising; the 'museum expert' in explaining, clarifying and correcting; and the 'learning-facilitator' through questioning, linking, reminiscing and wondering. These roles were interchangeable, occurred simultaneously and were dependent on both the social context of the visit and the group composition, particularly the ages of any accompanying children.
So, my view is that we like categorising visitors because it makes our lives easier and also that is the nature of museum work - to classify and explain. However, we need to remember that these are only an indication of the nature of visitors and that human nature is ever-changing and ever-fluid (and often inexplicable).


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Attorney: New audio reveals pause in gunfire when Michael Brown shot
(CNN) -- Could a newly released audio provide more clues on what led up to Michael Brown's shooting death?
The FBI has questioned a man who says he recorded audio of gunfire at the time Brown was shot by Ferguson police on August 9, the man's attorney told CNN.
In the recording, a quick series of shots can be heard, followed by a pause and then another quick succession of shots.
Forensic audio expert Paul Ginsberg analyzed the recording and said he detected at least 10 gunshots -- a cluster of six, followed by four.
"I was very concerned about that pause ... because it's not just the number of gunshots, it's how they're fired," the man's attorney, Lopa Blumenthal, told CNN's Don Lemon. "And that has a huge relevance on how this case might finally end up."
The man, who asked that his identity not be revealed, lives near the site of the shooting and was close enough to have heard the gunshots, his attorney said.
He was speaking to a friend on a video chat service and happened to be recording the conversation at the same time Brown was shot, Blumenthal said.
The attorney said she learned of the man's recording late last week from a mutual friend.
"I had to get his consent before I could reach out to the FBI," Blumenthal said.
CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the tape and has asked the FBI for confirmation of their interview with the man who made the recording.
The meaning of the pause
It's difficult to prove from the audio why the pause took place or whose narrative it supports.
Attorney Chris Chestnut said he was surprised by the gap in shots.
"It's the pause that gives most concern in a police shooting, especially with an unarmed victim, because at this point Mr. Brown is defenseless -- he has no weapon," said Chestnut, who represented the family of Jonathan Ferrell.
Like Brown, Ferrell was an unarmed African-American man who was shot and killed by a white police officer.
But if the gunfire heard on the audio is indeed from the Brown incident, the pause doesn't automatically suggest wrongful intent by the officer.
"To be fair, there could be other explanations for that pause," said attorney Van Jones, co-host of CNN's Crossfire. "Maybe the officer will say, 'Well I fired, and he kept advancing, so I fired again.'"
Witnesses and a friend of Officer Darren Wilson have given conflicting accounts of what led up to Brown's death.
Dorian Johnson, a friend of Brown's who was walking with him at the time of the shooting, said the officer shot Brown once by the police car and again as he ran away.
According to Johnson, Brown was struck in the back and then turned around and put his arms up as the officer kept shooting.
But a friend of Wilson said Brown mocked the officer and charged at him before the shooting began.
An autopsy showed that all the entry wounds were in the front of Brown's body.
Key witness speaks out
Ferguson police said Brown allegedly robbed a convenience store shortly before the shooting.
And reports that his friend Johnson had a criminal record that including lying to police has put Johnson's credibility in question.
In 2011, Johnson was arrested and accused of theft and lying to police about his first name, age and address.
Johnson said Monday night he doesn't understand why some are questioning his credibility.
"I see they bring up my past, my history, but it's not like it's a long rap sheet," Johnson told Lemon/ "This one incident shouldn't make me a bad person."
The-CNN-Wire: By Holly Yan. CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin, Tina Burnside, Julian Cummings and Greg Botelho contributed to this report.
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To start, let's cover a few luxury items making their way through many new vehicles. One is infotainment, which is quickly becoming more and more common throughout the industry. That includes pickups, which are now commonly available with such systems. In fact, among large trucks, only the Nissan Titan doesn't offer a modern infotainment system. Even the Titan, however, is still available with an auxiliary music connection and a navigation system.
But some trucks take infotainment to a whole new level. The Ford F-150's MyFord Touch system, for instance, offers apps and a huge in-dash touchscreen. That's also true of the MyLink system in GM's Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra. And while the RAM's Uconnect system boasts Wi-Fi capabilities, you can use the Toyota Tundra's Entune system to buy movie tickets and book restaurant reservations.
If you're not into gadgets, modern trucks still offer a long list of high-end equipment you might enjoy. For example, several pickups -- including the GMC Sierra Denali -- boast heated and cooled front seats. Other models, such as the Ford F-150 Platinum, include standard backup sensors and a reversing camera. For those who tow, imagine how easy it would be to hook up a trailer when a camera is helping guide you into place.
As pickups are also increasingly used as family vehicles, manufacturers are adding a growing number of safety features. Four-wheel anti-lock disc brakes are now commonly standard in many of today's trucks. So are front side airbags and even side curtain airbags, which protect all occupants in a potentially dangerous side impact.
Some of today's most advanced safety technology is also reaching pickups. Examples include forward collision alert systems, which alert drivers to an impending impact, and lane departure warning systems, which send a chime or vibrate the driver's seat if the truck starts to drift from its lane.
But pickup luxury features aren't all about gadgets, comfort or safety. Some items are just plain cool.
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We also think you'll find that modern luxury trucks make good use of exterior chrome. For those into big trucks and SUVs, it's hard not to find the huge chrome grille and wheels of a GMC Sierra Denali to be pretty cool. And we think the F-150 Platinum's power running boards are a neat feature, too.
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By Kshama Rao
OK, so how is Kal Ho Na Ho, written and produced by Karan Johar and directed by one-time assistant to Johar and Aditya Chopra, Nikhil Advani? It's good. It's certainly better than Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham. It has plenty of touching moments, a generous dose of humour (and most of the time it's at the expense of other people, spoofs of other films, fat people, eccentricities of certain communities etc etc), stunning cinematography (New York has never looked so awesome, George Bush is going to love it), great performances and good music. In short, it has all the sugarcoated ingredients of a typical Karan Johar film -despite all the cliches - suited largely for the palate of an NRI audience.About the story: Naina (Preity Zinta) is a simple, bespectacled girl who leads a fairly boring life. In fact, she claims she leads a sad life. Why? Her mother Jennifer (Jaya Bachchan) runs a hotel, which is incurring losses. She has a younger brother who loves basketball but is physically disabled, a younger sister Gia adopted by her mother and the root cause of all problems according to her dadi (Sushma Seth), who in turn sings songs with two of her girlfriends in a bid to hook the neighbourhood old man (Dara Singh). Naina's father committed suicide and till half an hour before the film ends, we don't know why? She has a friend though, Rohit (Saif Ali Khan, doing his comic, Dil Chahta Hai number), with whom she attends her evening business management classes and who also thinks Naina can never be happy. But there is one man, Aman Mathur (Shah Rukh Khan) who turns up one fine sunny morning to change Naina's life. He's the neighbourhood oldie's nephew and has come to stay there with his mother (Reema Lagoo). Right from scene one of Aman's entry, Naina's life changes for the better. Aman befriends one and all but Naina of course thinks he interferes too much in her personal life. From getting himself invited for a dinner at Naina's house to addressing her mother as "Jenny", from helping her kid brother to play basketball to getting Naina drunk and 'disco' in a skimpy top, Aman makes Naina's life go topsy-turvy. He makes her to learn to smile, laugh and accept her life with all its follies. Naturally, the girl had to fall in love with Aman. But Rohit also has suddenly discovered he is in love with Naina. Who gets the girl? OK, as we said earlier Kal Ho Na Ho is a complete entertainer but we do have a few bones to pick! For one we fail to understand why it was necessary to have New York as the backdrop. We mean, Naina could be one of the Bombay girls. Don't we have single mothers, sadder daughters in Bombay or for that matter in any other part of the country? But then, we think we know the answer. New York lends itself to great visuals, you can also have the Patels and the Punjabis settled there love your movie with funny tributes to their communities through song and dance. You can also have 'gay' jokes, which would be more acceptable to the overseas audience. So on and so forth.Also, even after the film has gotten over, we are left with the feeling that Rohit is still not convinced about having had to marry Naina. We mean it's a little too much to marry a girl who you know is never going to get over her first love who she's even found out had sacrificed his feelings for her!Last but not the least, Jennifer's very, with-it, progressive woman stance looks out of sync when she weeps in the church saying, "My husband was not bad, he just made a small mistake" which is by the way fathering an illegitimate child!On the plus points is the music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. Hummable! Director Nikhil Advani leaves his individual style of shot taking and handling certain key sequences with the requisite amount of candor and sensitivity. The way the film is edited is refreshing and over all it's a paisa vasool film largely for its key players. A jeans-clad Jaya B is as usual great as Naina's silent supporter who flares up occasionally. Saif as Rohit is expectedly good though we wish his character had evolved into a more sensitive, serious being. For instance, the audience hooted when a grey-at-the-sides Rohit appears in the '20 years later' climax scene. Like he says to Naina in one scene, "Tum mujhe kabhi seriously nahin leti". Exactly, Saif's problem. Preity comes into her own as Naina. She fits the character perfectly, making it strong and vulnerable in right measures. And above all, it's Shah Rukh Khan who gobbles down everyone in sight with his near-perfect performance. Charming and truly sexy, SRK's spirited performance really leaves you both smiling and misty-eyed!


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15 ways to avoid losing money
1. Wrong Broker : A lot of forex brokers are horrible; get a good one. Read forums and chats in several different places to get an unbiased opinion.
2. Trading During Off Hours Bank FX traders, option traders, and hedge funds have a huge advantage during off hours; they can push the currencies around when no volume is going through and the end game is new traders get fleeced trying to trade signals. There is only one signal during off hours it is better to stay out.
3. Trading Against Prevailing Trend There is a huge difference between buying cheaply on the way down and buying cheaply. What was a low price quickly becomes a high price when you 're trading against the trend.
4. Picking Tops and Bottoms - Looking for bargains works well at the supermarket but not trading foreign exchange; try to trade in the direction the price is going and your results will improve.
5. Not Trading Around s Time : Most of the big moves occur around news time. The volume is high and the moves are real; there is no better time to trade fundamentally or technically than when news is released; this is when the real money adjusts their positions and as a result the prices changes reflect serious currency flow (compared to quiet times when bank traders rule the market with their customer order flow).
6. Ignore Technical Conditions : Determining whether the market is over-extended long or over-extended short is a key determinant of near-time price action. Spike moves often occur when the market is all one way.
7. Lack of Confidence Confidence only comes from successful trading. If you lose money early in your trading career it's very difficult to gain true confidence; the trick is don't go off half-cocked; learn the business before you trade.
8. Being Too Smart : The most successful traders I know are high school ****uates. They keep it simple and dont look beyond the obvious; their results are excellent.
9. Stop Losses : Putting tight stop losses with retail brokers is a recipe for disaster. When you put on a trade, commit to a reasonable stop loss limit that allows your trade a fair chance to develop.
10. Relying on Others : Real traders play a lone hand; they make their own decisions and dont rely on others to make their trading decisions for them; there is no halfway; either trade for yourself or have someone else trade for you.
11. Too Many Charity Trades : When you make money on a well thought-out trade, dont give back half on a whim; invest your profits from good trades on the next good trade
12. Too Much Detail : If you are trading more than 2 indicators, then you need to clean house. Having many indicators stifles trading and finds reasons not to trade. A setup and a trigger is all you need.
13.Overconfidence : Trading is not easy; statistics show a 95% failure rate. If your doing well dont take your success for granted; always be on the lookout for ways to improve what you 're doing.
14. Knowledge Deficiency: Most new forex traders do not take the time to learn what drives currency rates (primarily fundamentals). When some news or a statement is due out, they close out their positions and sit out the best trading opportunities; they are taught to only trade after the market calms down. So essentially they miss the whole move and then trade the random noise that follows a fundamental price move. Just think for a moment about technically trading the aftermath of a price move; there is no potential.
15. Rumors : Rumors are rumors almost 100% of the time; think about where in the motion you heard the rumor. If EUR/USD is up 50 points in last 15 minutes and the rumor is dollar negative, well then you missed it. Whenever you trade, determine where in the motion you are entering.
Hope its will help all of you..
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Thanks for wonderful tips mate
I agree, all of these are top tips, thanks
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Very valuable and interesting post Jack.
Thanks for sharing.
It is a very nice and useful post about how we can avoid to loose money in Forex. You should choose your broker with very care and intelligent way because there are many scam brokers in the market.
Very helpful tips,thanks for sharing.
The tips are great, nice of you to share them with us!
Thanks for the tips. I am new to forex trading and one thing I am very afraid of is losing money
Hi Jack,
Thanks for the tips, really great for beginners.
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five years, just like that. there are differences, yes, but the big one: I did not have to pay a nine year-old ezra to sit still in the booth. I did not have to ply him with money. progress, people.
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Which bike will be remembered as king of the two-strokes? Is it the giant-killing Yamaha RD350LC, made from 1980 to 1986; or perhaps the GT750 Suzuki water-cooled triple, a touring bike made from 1971 to 1977.
Some still heap praises on the audacious and exciting Kawasaki H2 Mach IV 750, sold from 1972 through 1975. Stock standard, this rice burner did sub 12-second runs in the quarter mile.
But in New Zealand there's another contender, a bike probably few people will even be aware of. The Yamaha AG 100 farm bike has been imported largely unchanged since 1973 (when Norman Kirk was prime minister).
Not flashy like the others, it was designed for just one thing: hard work on New Zealand farms.
And no other - large or small - has been continuously imported as long. The AG 100 is still very much alive and still respected for its light weight, simplicity, strength and low cost. The one pictured, belonging to Yamaha Motor New Zealand, even has a name. "Old Mate" is a 1988 'Old Mate' has done a genuine 195,000km.
AG 100 which has done a genuine 194,500km. The late Bob Gyton racked up this enormous mileage. In the quieter times of the farming year, Bob would take off on motorbike jaunts from his property, north of Wellington, to the deep reaches of the South Island.
Today the machine gets used for display purposes only, and the Yamaha people barely let it out of their sight.
The day the music died
The year was 1973. Armed with brand new motorcycle licences, three Spotswood College fifth formers rode their two-strokes down to the New Plymouth waterfront.
David Cooper had a 50cc FS1 Yamaha, I had my old Suzuki A 100cc and Raymond Leong rode a new Suzuki T 90, actually a twin-cylinder 90cc. This bike came with a handbook with a photo of the Hamamatsu plant, and a foreword thanking Ray for his choice.
We were impressed. And, in what must rate as one of the happiest afternoons of my life, we raced and scrambled till it was time to go home for tea. Ah, those were the days.
Two-stroke road and trail bikes may be largely extinct, but they're affectionately remembered.
They provided the wheels for first dates, first jobs, first everything ... my generation grew up with those cheap, instant-power-delivering, low-maintenance two-cycle engines
that ran on the smell of an oily rag.
Today, aside from a couple of farm bikes and a few motocross models, the Japanese
manufacturers have abandoned them.
Vespa, once famous for its two-stroke engines, now produces only one such engine. The PX 150, fitted with a catalytic converter enabling it to meet European emission standards, is still made, but how much longer is anyone's guess.
KTM and some other companies make two-stroke off-roaders and Taiwan makes two-stroke scooters for export (Taiwan bans their use in its own country). Boutique models persist, of course, and Peugeot a four-stroke scooter manufacturer sensibly retains powerful two-stroke 50cc scooters.
It's nothing compared to the days when two-strokes from 50cc to 750cc ruled road and race track.
Once any kid with an after-school job could easily afford a two-stroke. They blew a little blue smoke, went ''ding, ding, ding'' when you throttled off and lacked any significant engine braking. But with only three moving parts inside the engine (crankshaft, connecting rod and piston), there was little to go wrong.
If they wanted to, the boffins could deliver us a new-age version of, say, the old RD 350 LC, a bike still matching the performance of almost anything else on the road and yet with vastly fewer engine components to make outperforming the rest for sustainability. But with electric and hybrid technologies just around the corner, manufacturers seem to
have bigger fish to fry.
To celebrate 40 years of service to Kiwi farmers Yamaha NZ has three Yamaha NXA01 speakers (above), valued at $150, to give away. To be in the draw to win one of them, email the name of the Prime Minister in office when the AG 100 was first imported to New Zealand. Email your entry, including your name, address and contact number to firstname.lastname@example.com by December 14.


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Sob, Sob!
That's how I finished this brief announcement. "Sob, Sob" was a character that Jof invented in his teens. He was a gifted cartoonist. He was a gifted film-maker, artist, human being and games programmer as well and, although I never heard him, I'm sure he was a gifted DJ too. Jof excelled at everything he did, apart perhaps from his inability to deal with most human beings face to face. Don't get me wrong, he was funny as hell and his friends loved him to bits, but human contact was a much bigger struggle for him than anything else. Particularly with women. But I knew him in his 20s mainly, so maybe that track record improved.
Which brings us back to Sob, Sob! We'd known each other quite a while before he started to show me his 'other' artwork, away from games. Sob, sob would go through life with the best of hopes and intentions but life would turn back on him and the final frame would just feature him saying 'Sob, sob'. Pure Joffa. Laughing at emotions and melancholia (he was a Widnes lad, after all) but being painfully aware of them. He always cared much more about films and art than he did about games, but games gave him an immediate outlet for his artistic bent and, better still, he turned out to be a top, top technician.
He never sucked up, never made 'the right move' and never attempted to grab the limelight when I knew him. He was anti-fame and virtually anti-recognition, which is why he originally wasn't held in the same regard as people like the teams at Ultimate, Imagine, the Matthew Smith's et. al. His games were appreciated by kids in bedrooms, though, and when those kids revisited their youthful years on forums at WOS, (where he used another old alias of frobush), he discovered that actually people did love him and his work and I think (mainly judging from his postings) he enjoyed the appreciation more than I ever remember him enjoying the original experience of being a games programmer. I'm so glad that he found that appreciation in the end. He always knew he was good, but to be loved by people who would accept his eccentricities was a different thing altogether.
Ah, eccentricities! Many of the tributes have mentioned him being as daft as a brush. There's no question that he had an enormous internal world of imagination and feelings, but I also remember him as being incredibly down to earth and although we'd have a brilliant laugh and he loved the absurd, he wasn't quite as crazy as he seemed from some of the WOS forum postings. But Jof's big thing was that he was always just having a laugh anyway. He was, but that was often to cover up a pretty deep and emotional guy. I think he liked to play up to being a little crazy. But, as many forum posters have recognised, everything was just a big piss-take with Jof. That was his form of anarchy.
I suppose by some standard definition of these things, we lost touch. Actually, we didn't and we'd have the occasional burst of contact, a couple of days mail flurry or a long phone call and everything would instantly feel the same as the old days, but we hadn't spent much time together for a long time. Therein lies the dilemma. My guilt is nothing compared to the pain he obviously went through recently and his family are going through now but I remember him in happier times and wish I'd done more to make him happier later on. I was delighted when we discussed him getting into DJ-ing and partying because I knew he'd have a great time, open up to other people a lot more and it might make him happier. Actually, I remember seeing him in that time and he did seem a lot happier and had changed and I was reassured. But he deserved better from me.
When I saw last year's Byte Back conference being organised, I stuck it in my diary. I was going to turn up and surprise him and was really looking forward to it. Then, sigh, sh*t happened and I couldn't go. I wish I had now, or checked the forums in May or June and could have seen him again.
Joff achieved so much in his life, regardless of whether he thought he had. He did certain things with a Spectrum that others hadn't yet (although he did *not* write Ping Pong! Just the music! He'd appreciate that comment and the music was the best bit, of course ), he followed his own path even though that might have made his life more difficult but, most of all, he cared about things. He cared about art, politics, people, the planet, music, .... this could go on forever. But beneath that painfully shy exterior lay a deep personality and that's why he found his home in forums, where he could communicate with people on a deep/shallow level who wouldn't take things at face value.
Ultimately, I could write for days and weeks and still not do him justice. I could write 50 different tributes (and I'm not kidding). All I know is that the world is a worse place for Joffa not being in it. Mine certainly is. He changed my view of the world, was the best of mates and as a confirmed atheist I hope I'm wrong but relieved that he won't be in any pain any more.
But that's just my view and my heart goes out to others who will be devastated to not be around him any more. He loved his family and we talked about them a lot. He was just a normal working class lad from Widnes who got to play around with things and be creative. That view might be out of fashion, but I don't give a shit and neither did Joff.
A class act, Jof. But at least you knew I thought that. Will f*cking miss you loads, mate, knowing we'll never speak again.
Sob, sob ... forever.
P.S. If the spelling and variation of Jonathan Smith's names is a distraction then tough. I could never work it out and he changed it constantly. Love, Bernie Dugggs.
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Shanghai GRAND SLAM | 30 April - 5 May 2013
Shanghai, China, May 4, 2013 – Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson of the United States won an entertaining blocking battle against Brazil's Pedro Solberg Salgado/Bruno Oscar Schmidt in the final to claim their first FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour title together at the Shanghai Grand Slam here Saturday afternoon.
Playing in only their second tournament together, Gibb/Patterson held off Bruno/Pedro 21-16, 9-21 and 15-9 in 43minutes to finish with a perfect 7-0 win-loss record in Shanghai.
Trailing by one set, Pedro/Bruno fought back strongly with improved defense in the second set for an amazing 14-4 lead on back of four blocking points from Pedro and never looked back.
It was hotly contested early in the third set before the Americans ran off six points in a row thanks to three straight stuffs by Gibb to make it 14-7. The Brazilian tandem withstood two match points, only to find Gibb convert on the third with his fifth block point in the set against Pedro.
"Beyond excited! Amazing match! It was very windy so it was very hard to do anything, serve, side out, pass, set, so it was pretty much a survival match. Whoever can survive, who is going to win, " said Patterson after taking his first FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour/Open gold medal. "It's a match of big runs and we ended up getting the last big run, I think that's a big deal. In the first game we had a big run, and in the second game they had a big run. We were just taking turns and whoever survived the wind was going to win. Gibb did a couple of big blocks and I had a couple of digs in the end and that was the difference and it was crazy. "
"This is only my second year playing in the World Tour and I have been prepared for things like this for a long time, " he added.
Pedro/Bruno, who had defeated Ricardo Alex Costa Santos and Alvaro Morais Filho in an all-Brazilian semifinal to reach the final, were a little bit disappointed with their silver medal finish.
"We're a little bit upset, we expected to play better today, but we didn't play our best. We had a lot of up and downs, " said Pedro, who was playing with Bruno in their second event together. "Actually in this tournament we had a lot of up and downs, but still in the end we were good. But this game was our first bad tie break in the tournament and they deserved the win. Congratulations to them. "
"For sure we would like to be here with the gold medal, but for sure it's a good start. They played better, even in these crazy winds," said Bruno.
Earlier on Saturday, Ricardo/Alvaro eased past Poland's dark horses Michal Kadziola/Jakub Szalankiewicz 2-0 (21-12, 21-10) for their first medal together.
"It's my first podium finish of FIVB. We are doing very good," said Alvaro. "Before this tournaments we had only one tournament to play in Brazil and we did not play very well. Ricardo and I are very much motivated and he is helping me a lot and I am learning too much from him."
Alvaro admitted he was under pressure to be the partner of the renowned Ricardo, but he was confident in himself and the "father and son" combination.
"At the beginning I was under a lot of pressure, everybody knows him and with all the partners he played he got too many good results. With me it can not be different," he said. "I am too young, and I have to play a lot of tournaments to get experience. I think at the beginning I was anxious and nervous, but I am doing well, doing my job."
The $220,000 Shanghai Grand Slam, the first of a FIVB-record 10 Grand Slam events on the 2013 FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour calendar, will conclude on Sunday with the women's semifinals and finals.
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AS A FRESHMAN IN 2013: Appeared in two matches for the Broncos, playing in one set against Cal State Northridge (Aug. 30) and one set against UCLA (Sep. 5).
HIGH SCHOOL: 2011 San Diego CIF Division 1 Champions ... 2012 San Diego CIF Division 1 Champions ... 2012 Las Vegas Durango Classic HS VB tournament Champions ... 2009-2012 Palomar League Champions ... First team All-San Diego North County ... Second team All-CIF ... 2010-2012 Union Tribune San Diego All Academic Team ... 2012 Durango Classic All-Tournament Team ... Hit .875 in CIF Championship Match ... 2013 San Diego County Senior High School All-Star Team ... 2010 California Challenge All-Tournament Team ... played at Encinitas Wave Volleyball Club for 9 years ... three Bronze medals at the Junior Nationals ... two 5th place finishes at Junior Nationals ... one 7th place finish at Junior Nationals.
PERSONAL: Daughter of Tim and Patty ... has no siblings, but has a dog named Cookie ... her major is currently undecided, but her career goals include Entrepreneurship / Business ... her cousin Tim Karson Inbody was the captain of the men's soccer team at Stanford ... dad played football and baseball at SDSU ... Military Outreach Ministry Volunteer ...ASB Senior Class Vice President ... outside of volleyball she enjoys swimming, camping, vacationing, surfing, hiking, playing cards, sudoku, solitaire and baking ... studying in the Leavey School of Business.


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text: Thanks all for your help. I put in an order for an SSB Electronics SP-2000 yesterday. BTW, I did notice that the HF-BERG preamps can't handle as much power. Thanks, Tim K6TW -----Original Message----- From: Stefan Wagener [mailto:wageners at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 2:11 PM To: Burns Fisher Cc: amsat-bb at amsat.org Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Which preamp to buy for 2m? One of the best SSB alternatives is actually the preamps from HF-Berg in Germany! http://hf-berg.de/HFC/preisliste_amateurfunk.htm You can contact them directly and they will ship it to you. The price for their 2m preamp with VOX and protective housing is currently Euro 154. That's what you more or less will pay once they deduct the local sales tax because you buy from the US and add shipping cost. Don't worry about the website being in German they are very good in getting back to you in English and their shipping is quick and reliable and they take PayPal. Hope this helps, Stefan On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Burns Fisher <burns at fisher.cc> wrote: > First, my sincere apologies...I think I managed to resend the entire digest > to the list. I HATE it when people do that but now I know how easy it is to > do accidentally. Sorry. > > ---- > > Now to what I was going to say: I have the SSB SP-2000 and I'm also very > happy with it. It seems to do auto RF switching well down to under 2 > watts. (Some auto-switching are only spec'ed to switch down to 8 or 10W). > It also bypasses itself if you just cut the power (to be expected, I > guess). I'm using it with a second power feedline (which you can connect > with a PL259) since I don't happen to have 13.8V phantom power available. > On the other hand, it is about the most expensive 2m preamp you can find :-( > > Where to get it in the US? ssbusa.com appears to be a distributer. No one > answered the phone, and they never returned my call. Another vendor (take > it from whence it came) said they were phasing out. But in any case, Array > Solutions was very helpful and fast and sent me my SP-2000 in a very short > time. As I recall I had to talk to them on the phone since they did not > have the SSB stuff fully integrated into their web site yet, but it was > worthwhile. Array Solutions also advertises in QST :-) > > Burns, W2BFJ > > > > > >> Message: 14 >> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 10:19:24 -0400 >> From: "Stephen E. Belter" <seb at wintek.com> >> To: Tim Goodrich <tim at timgoodrich.net>, "amsat-bb at amsat.org" >> <amsat-bb at amsat.org> >> Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: Which preamp to buy for 2m? >> Message-ID: >> <51668A33220E754EABE6583357ECEE2D79CD61B2 at Exchange.wintek.local> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >> >> Tim, >> >> I own SSB preamps, the SP-2000 (2 meter) and SP-7000 (70 cm). They have >> worked very well for me, both on my Icom IC-821 (powered by the radio) and >> with my FUNcube Dongle (powered with an external bias-T from ARR). The SSB >> preamps have helical filters on the front end which should help in your Los >> Angeles RF environment. >> >> You have at least four sources for the SSB preamp: >> >> 1. Direct from SSB in Germany, www.ssb.de >> >> 2. From SSB-Electronics USA, www.ssbusa.com >> >> 3. From Array Solutions, www.arraysolutions.com >> >> 4. From Universal Radio, www.universal-radio.com >> >> 73, Steve N9IP >> -- >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org [mailto:amsat-bb-bounces at amsat.org] On >> Behalf Of Tim Goodrich >> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 2:04 AM >> To: amsat-bb at amsat.org >> Subject: [amsat-bb] Which preamp to buy for 2m? >> >> Hi all, >> >> I just got a M2 2M4 and 420-50-11 to mount on my az/el rotor and go with my >> 736R. As I'm hoping to potentially work some EME with the big guns when >> conditions are just right, I'm wondering if anyone can provide advice on >> which preamp to get for 2m. I live in the Los Angeles metro area, so lots of >> noise/QRM, and also would like something to take advantage of the 736's >> preamp switch/voltage over coax option. In other words, something that >> doesn't require any complicated power/switching controls, if possible. >> >> >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tim >> >> K6TW >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Sent via AMSAT-BB at amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. > Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! > Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb >