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I'm holding off to a three or four day cycle. I would love to call every day, as I am almost three hours away from his hospital, but I don't want to be a pest or intrude on their friend, who is three states away from his home, and never has met me. I also want all of us to be lifting our prayers up, and to be respectful to Maron and his wife, and not passing out too much personal information or wrong information. I'll call again tomorrow, and let Maron know through the extended grapevine that a lot of folks care about him, are praying for him and his healthy return!

Matthews, why don't you hold off and come to our tube gathering in November in St. Louis. We will have about twenty people to bend your ear, about a third of them have extra tube amps to sell, and three or four will be featured at the house. Talk to the owners, listen to a variety of amps on Klipsch, Altec, and other speakers, and see what you like. It is a lot easier talking face to face than posting on the web, where you may or may not convince yourself the right path for your needs. Come hold thirty amps. www.audiocircle.com/index.php?board=70 tube amp small balls gathering Nov 7 and 8 here is one wall...

Someone is listening.... Maron has been taken off the propofal, is out from the medical coma, and is slowly being weened off the respirator. One they pull the trach, he will be able to talk in a few days. He is alert and the elevator is going to the top floor, he recognizes everyone, and he is slowly getting feisty again. apparently, he likes being turned more by blonde nurses. He will need another quad bypass, but that will be down the road, after he goes through rehab and regains needed strength and weight. For an old man, he is quite resilient. His next six months are going to be spent in hospital, rehab, drs appts, and hospital again.

His wife has not left his side at the hospital, and I only have their new house phone number, not their cell phone. I'll post any new info when I can reach their caretaker friend, who is up from Texas to help. The medical literature for survival rates for octogenarians with a history of multiple bypass who have successive serial massive heart attacks followed by medical induced comas indicates a very small chance of success. The window of opportunity is at two to four weeks, where the patient has had a chance to repair/regain cardiopulmonary function while not losing other critical functions, or getting bed sores. Thanks for your prayers, it is the only thing we all can do at this time.

Maron had a heart attack last Saturday, and then another one while he was in the hospital. They have had him in a medically induced coma for the past week. Please pray for him in his hours of darkness, that he can come back and lovingly skewer all of us once again. He is one of the last gray haired eminences with ties to all of PWK's wrecking crew of tin foil hat experimenters.

Funky, get in touch with Romy. He will know someone.

Yes, maybe not that chicken wire. My chicken wire on the shorthorn is more respectable.

Those are the original badges.

You still got a great deal.

OK Maynard, I was just confused why you would bring NPs and PAs into a discussion about eye care and Opthas vs Optos. They are two completely different and unconnected types of medical care.

Maynard, having two brothers, a father, and three first cousins that are medical doctors, a sister that is a pharmacist, a wife that is a BSN RN with three certs and an advanced practice Masters, a cousin that is a PhD nurse anesthetist, a five first cousins that are degreed RN nurses, I will say that your view is prejudiced in the overall spectrum of health care. For your specific situation I do agree, but eye surgeries are a miniscule tip of the medical care iceberg. For folks who are not totally conversant with NPs and PAs, a PA cannot see a patient without having their attending IN THE SAME BUILDING, for consultation when needed. They cannot write scripts. In Missouri, a NP can see patients, proscribe scripts, and diagnose patients on an independent basis, provided their attending is within a 50 mile radius for consultation. There is a marked difference between an advanced practice nurse and a PA. For most people, a nurse held them in their first minute of life, and if they are lucky, a nurse will be holding their hand amongst family members in their last minute of life. At hospitals, nurses bathe their patients, shampoo their hair, give haircuts, trim finger and toenails, bring ice for their patients' drinks, wake them up, tuck them in, feed them meals, check their vitals, round many times a day, administer their meds, keep them comfortable, converse with them and lend an ear when no one is around, and provide the healing touch when needed. Please don't dishonor the nursing profession by saying you would never accept care from their most highly trained of advanced practice nurses. They deserve more respect than you are giving.

Maynard, if you would never accept care from a NP or PA, then why are you accepting care from a nurse? How about if you fall over with a heart attack, and I come wandering past you, freshly minted first responder. Should I zap you, or do you want to wait for a cardiologist?

Mark, you two should stop in for a visit at the museum..

Maynard, I sold him these amps; they are indeed only power amps, and quite nice. They sounded incredible on RCA LC1As!

Zim, what is Tim looking for pricewise for the 1900s?

See a vet today? Buy him a dessert or a coffee or juice. He will appreciate it beyond words.

Kraft accepts the Pats punishment, possibly to have goodell recuse himself from arbitrating Brady's case.

Bill's music teacher was Mrs. Klipsch.

Jeff refuses to be a boxed product, which has hurt him immensely over the years amongst consumers, but made into one of the gods among guitar players.

A million for the Pats is chump change. Like all pro teams, they want to be right on the fine edge of gamesmanship vs flagrant cheating. And when they can get away with the occasional cheat, Belichek and company have little problem with winking. This is the second time they have been caught out on the wrong side of the fine edge in the playoffs. This one is a very small cheat, and one they did not need to do to win, but they did it because their team culture is to grab whatever edge they can, so they did.It is a shame, because they had a superior team, and they did not need to act like cheating chumps. Then they deny, then they cover up, and now they lawyer up. Papa's got a brand new bag(of footballs)

Interesting. I have not kept up with all the investigations and such because we are talking about letting air out of footballs. That would make it the one millionth most important thing in my life. It seems the league will spend a million dollars investigating air in footballs, to find one locker room attendant who texted another locker attendant about an alleged conversation with Brady, and THAT is the big "smoking gun." That is NOT "preponderance of the evidence" in my court room. Someone should be investigating why it took the NFL over a million dollars to investigate one guy apparently deflating footballs! Would you have any concern that Patriot employees were filmed removing their game balls from the secured cage and tampering with them? You obviously are not concerned that said employees texted about tampering with said game balls. Would you have any less concern if the NFL paid me only $300 to arrive at the same conclusion, in my cheap Mexican jalopy driveby investigation? I do know that these game balls get used, and used hard. The NFL decided to run with twelve balls for each team to ensure that balls of a required pressure would be available for the entire game, and in the event of inclement weather, that balls could be removed from service without creating a shortage. If you purchased four new tires from Firestone, and on the first day they were on your truck, you went out and drove the truck to the local Starbucks, and found out all four were down 3 psi below spec, you would be raising holy hell with the dealer. Brady and the Pats knew where he wanted his ball inflated to, and they got them there by hook and by crook. Now they are going to pay.

It is now an arbitration case for Brady, but the fine and the lost draft picks stick for the Patriots. Ironically, if Brady fessed up, he would have gotten a game or two at worst. By trying to hornswaggle everyone and acting the wrong martyr, he screwed himself and his team, badly. The Pats also refused to cooperate when all the league wanted was to make it go away, before the Super Bowl. The only time lower pressure balls help is in the rain or bitterly cold weather, and Brady didn't see either on the way to the championship.

The Pats cheated by videotaping the Rams SuperBowl walkthrough, which surfaced when their video dude was busted for illegally taping the Jets practice, for which they were fined half a mil and lost a draft pick. This is the reason for the enhanced fine, as this is their second, but really their third cheating violation. The smoking gun on this one is their equipment guys texting back and forth about the deflating of the balls. Hand in the cookie jar, et al.

Grade and high schools, for the most part, teach to a body of facts and usage that reward memorization and regurgitation. Most college experiences and majors further distill this paradigm to a single subset of knowledge. What we create are a strong minority of didacts, who believe they are better than the B and C students. Most didacts are then stunned when they see the lesser students pass them in the fast lane of life.

Steve, don't let a bad, unrestored Dynaco tube amp forever remove consideration for tubes. I have had incredible tube amps, and I have had lousy tube amps. They are not all equal.